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|Date de publication
|25 nov. 1980
|Date de dépôt
|20 mars 1979
|Date de priorité
|10 juil. 1978
|Numéro de publication
|Risuke Nakajima, Yoshio Takei, Shoroku Kawauchi, Tetsuo Fujita
|Cessionnaire d'origine
|Hanshin Engineering Co., Ltd.
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The present invention relates to underwater aerators for dissolving oxygen into organic waste water with high efficiencies.
With aerators, it is essential to fully dissolve oxygen into waste water in a tank and to circulate the waste water through the interior of the tank.
Aerators of the mechanical type or air diffusion type have heretofore been used for purifying organic waste waters. Mechanical aerators comprise a drive unit adapted to be positioned above the level of waste water in a purifying tank and an agitator coupled to the drive unit for agitating the waste water at an upper portion of the tank to cause the water to contact air over an increased area by scattering drops of water, thus permitting an increased amount of oxygen to dissolve into the water for aeration. Since the aerator is adapted only for this mode of operation, it is unable to circulate the waste water through the purifying tank, almost failing to aerate the water near the bottom and corners of the tank. Accordingly the purifying tank, if useful, must have a small depth but a large open area, which imposes serious limitations on the installation of the apparatus. Additionally the drive unit disposed above the water level produces a noise and disturbs the environment. In a very cold climate or during winter, the surface of the waste water will freeze. The aerator is then unusable unless the ice is broken, and spattered drops of water will freeze as on the drive unit, rendering the apparatus inoperable for subsequent treatment.
With aerators of the air diffusion type, air is merely supplied to an air diffuser tube provided on the bottom of a waste water purifying tank and therefore will not give off a disturbing noise. However the operation in which the waste water must be agitated and circulated with the air forced out from the diffuser tube requires an air supply unit of large capacity for discharging air at very high pressure. Moreover there is the need to use a purifying tank of large open area to cause the waste water to contact air over an increased area. The aerator nevertheless is unable to fully agitate the waste water despite the use of such large air supply unit and purifying tank; with an insufficient amount of oxygen dissolved into the waste water, the aeration efficiency achieved is low. The aerator has another drawback in that while it is out of operation, suspended solids in the water frequently clog up the air diffuser tube, and extreme difficulties are encountered in remedying this problem and maintaining the apparatus in a proper condition.
The main object of the present invention is to provide an aerator which includes an air diffuser operable in a manner to be free of clogging and in which the air bubbles sent out from the diffuser can be further divided to permit waste water to contact air over an increased area and can also be made to circulate along with the waste water so as to contact the water for an increased period of time. The aerator is adapted for installation on the bottom of a waste water purifying tank and thereby rendered operable free of noise or even when the waste water is covered with a frozen surface.
Another object of the invention is to provide an aerator of the type described above which can be readily submerged or raised from the bottom of the purifying tank by a float attached to the aerator.
FIG. 1 is a front view, partly in section on the right-hand side, showing an underwater aerator embodying the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevation in section showing a waste water purifying tank with the aerator installed therein;
FIG. 3 is a front view, partly in section on the right-hand side, showing the aerator equipped with a float; and
FIG. 4 is a front view, partly in section on the right-hand side, showing the aerator equipped with an air supply unit.
The underwater aerator of this invention comprises a drive unit A, an agitator-pump unit B coupled to the drive unit A, an air diffuser unit C disposed under the agitator-pump unit B and coupled to the drive unit A, water guide ducts D provided above the agitator-pump unit B in communication therewith and an air supply unit F for supplying air to the air diffuser C.
FIG. 1 shows an embodiment in which the air supply unit F is disposed outside a waste water purifying tank J. The drive unit A comprises a prime mover 1, such as a motor, water-tightly housed in a case 3 provided with heat dissipating fins 4 on its outer periphery or with a water conduit (not shown) incorporated therein. The prime mover 1 has an output shaft 1' coupled to a reduction mechanism 2. The prime mover 1 is electrically connected to a power supply and control unit H disposed at a specified location outside the purifying tank J.
The agitator-pump unit B comprises a propeller 6 mounted on the output shaft 5 of the reduction mechanism 2.
The air diffuser C comprises an air diffuser rotor 7 resembling a cylindrical box and connected at its center top portion to the output shaft 5. The diffuser rotor 7 has a peripheral wall formed with a large number of small perforations 8 and is loosely connected at its bottom center portion to one end of an air supply conduit E.
Each of the water guide ducts D comprises an inner plate 9 positioned closer to the case 3, an outer plate 10 spaced apart from the case 3 and side plates 11 each interconnecting the opposed ends of the plates 9 and 10 on opposite sides. Both the plates 9 and 10 are upwardly and outwardly inclined. The water guide ducts are interconnected into an annular arrangement surrounding the case 3 concentrically therewith.
The air supply conduit E is a flexible tube and keeps the air diffuser C in communication with the air supply unit F comprising an air compressor and a valve.
The underwater aerator of the above structure is intended for the purification of household waste water and industrial waste water to be discharged into the sea, a river, a pond, a swamp or a sewer. The aerator is supported on a base 14 of concrete, metal or like suitable material by vertical legs 15 spaced apart to provide a space for permitting the flow of waste water, whereby the aerator is prevented from coming out of balance and falling when placed in a pond or the like in order to fulfil the contemplated object.
The underwater aerator described above will operate in the following manner.
The power supply and control unit H is operated first to start the prime mover 1, which in turn rotates the propeller 6 to raise the waste water from the bottom of the purifying tank J into the water guide ducts D. The water introduced into the ducts D is run off in a slightly upward direction as indicated by an arrow a.
The air supply unit F is subsequently actuated to introduce air into the air diffuser rotor 7 by way of the air supply conduit E. After filling the interior space of the rotor 7, the air is injected into the purifying tank J via the small air perforations 8.
Since the rotor 7 continues to rotate at all times, the air is forced out from the perforations 8 in the form of minute bubbles. The propeller 6 of the agitator-pump unit B functions to introduce the bubbles into the water guide ducts D along with the waste water while dividing them into still smaller bubbles. The air bubbles discharged from the water guide ducts D in the direction of the arrow a remain in contact with the water for a prolonged period of time to permit oxygen to dissolve into the water while circulating and thereafter escape into the atmosphere from the surface of the water. Some minute air bubbles will not rise to the surface, but will flow with the water along the corner and bottom of the tank J and are drawn into the aerator by the propeller 6, thus allowing oxygen to dissolve into the water also at the corner and bottom portions of the tank J. In this way, the waste water in the purifying tank J can be aerated effectively. However the propeller, which is driven at a relatively low speed, will not break down sludge and like solids. At portions other than the path of circulation of the water, the waste water is stirred by the rise of air bubbles and the secondary flow of water produced by the circulating flow.
FIG. 3 shows another embodiment which comprises the aerator of FIG. 1 and an annular raising and submerging unit G provided around the aerator. The raising and submerging unit G comprises an annular box-shaped float 12 provided around the water guide ducts D and having an air port 13' formed in its outer wall and water ports 13 formed in its bottom wall. The air port 13' is adapted for communication with the atmosphere and the air supply unit F by a flexible air conduit E' and a valve.
When the valve is operated to fill the interior of the float 12 with air by way of the air conduit E' and air port 13', thereby forcing out water from the float 12 into the tank J via the water ports 13, the increased buoyancy given to the float 12 raises the aerator.
Further, when the valve is operated to bring the interior of the float 12 into communication with the atmosphere through the air port 13' and air conduit E', the air in the float 12 is run off into the atmosphere by the water pressure, permitting water to fill up the interior of the float 12 via the water ports 13 and reducing the buoyancy of the float 12. The aerator therefore sinks.
FIG. 4 shows another embodiment in which the air supply unit F is attached directly to the aerator main body immediately above the drive unit A. Stated more specifically, fixedly mounted on the top of the drive unit A is a casing 16 into which the output shaft 1' of the prime mover 1 extends. Vanes 17 arranged at specified spacing are attached to the output shaft 1', while stationary vanes 18 are attached to the inner wall of the casing 16 so as to be interposed between the vanes 17. The casing 16 is in communication with an air intake pipe K open to the atmosphere and with the air supply conduit E communicating with the air diffuser rotor 7. The remote end of the air intake pipe K is positioned above the level of waste water. The air drawn in through the air intake pipe K is fed to the air supply conduit E to introduce a sufficient amount of air into the diffuser rotor 7 against the water pressure. As shown in FIG. 4, the air supply conduit E is provided with a check valve 19 which prevents the flow of water into the air supply unit F while the unit F is held out of operation.
A turboblower, volume-type blower or the like is of course usable in place of the turbine-type air supply unit described.
When the prime mover 1 of this embodiment is energized by operating the power supply and control unit H, the prime mover rotates the propeller 6 to introduce the waste water into the water guide ducts D and, at the same time, drives the air supply unit F to supply air into the diffuser rotor 7.
The underwater aerator of this invention described above achieves an oxygen dissolving efficiency of 3 kg/KW vs. 2 kg/KW attained by a mechanical aerator and an air supply of 35 to 45% in comparison with 5 to 7% afforded by an aerator of the air diffusion type, hence outstanding results.
Typical examples are given below.
Waste water resulting from the processing of various marine products at a rate of 400 m3 /day was led into a purifying tank, 19.5 m in diameter and 1.0 m in depth, equipped with an aerator of this invention with an air supply rate of 18 Nm3 (18 m3 at 0° C., 1 atm) per minute. The aerator was operated for 20 hours, and the water was thereafter run off for 4 hours. The treatment was carried out at an atmospheric temperature of -10° C. to -15° C. and a water temperature of 2° C. with MLSS (activated sludge in suspension) within the tank at 3,000 ppm.
The waste water was purified with a reduction in B.O.D. (biochemical oxygen demand) of 3,000 ppm to 70 ppm. The treatment raised the water temperature to 10° C. and resulted in D.O. (dissolved oxygen) concentration of 2.5 ppm, with a power consumption of 53 KW/hr.
For the same treatment, a mechanical aerator required the use of a purifying tank having a reduced depth and an open area of at least 750 m2 and entailed a power consumption of 65 KW/hr. Owing to the low atmospheric temperature, the aerator iced up and was difficult to operate smoothly.
An aerator of the air diffusion type was used with the same purifying tank as used for the mechanical aerator, necessitating a power consumption of 110 KW/hr, and hence was extremely uneconomical.
Waste water from an ion exchange unit for sugar refining was collected at a rate of 2,000 m3 /day in a purifying tank, 65 m×95 m×4.1 m (depth), equipped with five aerators of this invention with a total air supply rate of 105 Nm3 /min. The aerators were continuously operated for 24 hours. The treatment was conducted at an atmospheric temperature of -25° C. when lowest or -15° C. on the average and with a snowfall of 1.5 m and MLSS within the tank at 3,000 ppm.
The treatment produced a reduction in B.O.D. of 1,800 ppm to 40 ppm, raised the water temperature to 10° C., resulted in a D.O. concentration of 3.5 ppm and entailed a power consumption of 250 KW/hr.
Mechanical aerators were not usable because the waste water was frozen over the surface.
The use of aerators of the air diffusion type needed a power consumption of 515 KW/hr and was found economically unjustifiable.
Waste water containing animal wastes from a swinery was collected at a rate of 30 to 40 m3 /day in a purifying tank, 5 m×10 m×4 m (depth), equipped with an aerator of this invention with an air supply of 2 Nm3 /min. The aerator was continuously operated at an atmospheric temperature of -10° C. with a snowfall of 2 m. MLSS within the tank was 3,760 ppm.
The treatment resulted in a reduction in B.O.D. of 3,600 ppm to 60 ppm and a reduction in SS (suspended solids) concentration of 2,800 ppm to 42 ppm, raised the water temperature to 8.1° C. and required a power consumption of 6 KW/hr.
Mechanical aerators were found difficult to use because of icing due to the low water temperature and low atmospheric temperature.
The use of an aerator of the air diffusion type entailed a power consumption of 11.7 KW/hr and was clogged up. The operation therefore involved extreme difficulties.
The underwater aerator of this invention has the following advantages:
(1) Since the air bubbles produced by the diffuser are further finely divided and thereafter circulated through the interior of the purifying tank as entrained in the flow of water, the waste water can be completely aerated even at the corner and bottom portions of the tank.
(2) The diffuser rotor, which rotates at all times with a relatively lower pressure produced outside the rotor, permits an air supply unit of lower capacity to effect satisfactory air supply and renders the small air perforations free of any clogging.
(3) The aerator, which is installable underwater, can be used for aeration at any time even when the purifying tank is covered with a frozen surface in cold climates.
(4) The underwater aerator, when placed in a bottom portion of a deep purifying tank, holds the circulating water in contact with air bubbles for a prolonged period of time and achieves a greatly improved aeration efficiency. Thus waste waters can be fully aerated even with use of a tank having a small open area when the space available is limited as in urban areas.
(5) Since the waste water is agitated for circulation at all times by the apparatus in the water, the dissipation of heat taking place over the surface of the water is less than otherwise. With heat of oxidation biologically produced, the water in the tank can be maintained at a higher temperature against freezing.
(6) When equipped with the raising and submerging unit described, the aerator will spontaneously sink and settle on the bottom of the tank under gravity, whereas the submerged apparatus can be easily raised by supplying air to the float. The aerator is therefore extremely easy to install, raise or shift.
(7) When the air supply unit is mounted directly on the drive unit, the air supply conduit needed can be materially shortened.
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|24 juin 1975
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|18 nov. 1975
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|22 févr. 1974
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|30 aoűt 1977
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|15 juil. 1977
|13 févr. 1979
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|8 mai 1907
|4 janv. 1908
|Titre non disponible
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|15 avr. 1976
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|Classification internationale
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|Classification européenne


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Gloria in Excelsis (common base VAS)
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the problem with low feedback amplifier is the current circulation of IPS
to enhance this flow is sufficient to convert the VAS with common base:)
Now you can dramatically reduce the negative feedback
and have a thicker sound and airy at the same time;)
Thicker sound and airy... What does that even mean? :confused:
10 mA into each stage
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I think that increasing the current that circulates in the IPS can increase the bass reproduction
consequently it is possible to reduce the negative feedback and thus obtain greater expansion of the high tones
the common base solution allows you to adjust the (same) operating point independently
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This recipe was generously sent in by a fellow viewer, Stephanie Ziegler. This is a fantastic sweet potato casserole.
Burbank's Sweet Potato Casserole
Yield: 8 servings.
Burbanks Sweet Potato Casserole
This makes a great addition to any meal!
- 3 cups cooked mashed sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 stick margarine, melted
- 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 1/3 stick margarine
Mix first eight ingredients together and place in 9x9 glass pan. Mix remaining ingredients and spread on top of potato mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, or until heated through. Recipe may be doubled. Enjoy!Print Recipe
i was wondering if anyone has burbanks 911sauce recipe or know where i can purchase anything similar to it?
the only difference between Burbank's and La Comedia's sweet potato casserole is 1C mashed sweet potato? That would make Burbank's a casserole with a tad more structure because of the potato to egg ratio. I think I will make Burbank's instead for Christmas dinner.


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Jim Slater shares his latest views on asset allocation, investing criteria, gold and oil at the Growth Company Investor Show
Jim Slater's Zulu Principle books were some of the first books I read about investing before I joined the City as a young broker and so it was with great pleasure that I listened closely to his views on the market at the very enjoyable Growth Company Investor Show yesterday afternoon at the Barbican.
The background on Slater, if you don't know his story, is very colourful. He was a corporate raider building up Slater Walker through the 60's and early '70s in swashbuckling style and setting the mould for Jimmy Goldsmith who replaced him when it all went a bit wrong - the Bank of England having to step in to prevent it's collapse during a banking crisis. He reinvented himself as a successful children's author, broadsheet columnist and highly successful investing guru publishing the Zulu Principle and founding Company REFS.
He has further built his fortune by practicing what he preaches through growth company investing and latterly investing in resources.
What follows are my notes from his presentation:
Outlook & Asset Allocation
He foresees 2 contrasting possiblities in terms of the economy and macro environment:
- In the Dark Room - This scenario involves deleveraging of banks, overcapacity, banks not lending, underfunded pensions, sovereign debt in doubt, US states in deficit, bleak deflationary output, US on point of no return - all pretty grim stuff really.
- In the Light Room (or the Quantitative Easing room!) - He likens it to being a heroin addict. You can't take the patient off the drug. The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve are talking of more Quantitative Easing. It makes cash a terrible investment but leads to potentially hyperinflation.
So, based on that, his preferred asset allocation is to hedge your bets and prepare for either or both scenarios at the same time:
- 25% in Cash,
- 30% in small cap growth shares,
- 30% in gold shares,
- 5-10% in oil,
- 5-10% in agriculture.
Growth Shares
Slater still insists that you should pick under researched niche small cap shares where reratings and takeovers are more likely. He gave the statistic that the average micro cap share has beaten the market by 10 to 1 since 1940.
Zulu Principle Criteria
Obviously he still bangs the table about the Zulu Principle System that he is renowned for and advocates his Company REFS product. …
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Nice to hear Jim Slater is still going strong, thank you Edward. In the 70s we were building the Esher bypass which went close to his home. He came into the office to complain about the noise of a dewatering pump close to his house which was running 24/7 and keeping him awake at nights. A friend of mine, who was the earthworks foreman, went straight out and built a thick walled enclosure for the offending pump out of bales of hay. Jim turned up the next day and presented him with a crate of whisky - so, a nice bloke IMO, as complainants rarely said thanks when you dealt with a complaint in those days (mind you we did have debris punching holes in the roofs of every one of a row of seventeen houses in one notorious cutting blast in Yorkshire, so perhaps some complaints were less forgiveable)
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The share price of IDH was around 900p at the time of this article, peaked at 1196 in July 2011, it's now 320.
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"Getting attention for your brand (personal or company) is easier than ever thanks to the ole' interweb but doing it with "zing" is still key to building a following. Learn and ask question from the people who have built brands and careers by doing it with "zing"."
CC Chapman, Partner, Advance Guard
Saul Colt, Head of Magic, Freshbooks
Dave Delaney, Blogger
Loic Le Meur, Founder & CEO, Seesmic
Chris Brogan, Pirate, New Marketing Labs
Colt: Building your brand is that much easier now. People will learn more about you than they will from your resume.
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[Pause for horsing around by panelists]
Question: How do you balance?
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Chapman: I started out blogging. I just started reading and treated it as my own personal journal. Whatever you're passionate about, just go with it.
Delaney: Twitter is a great way to build a brand and interact with your audience.
Loic: Answer every single piece of feedback, especially when it's negative.
Delaney: I won't answer all feedback about our products.
Colt: I'm of the belief that you should answer everything, except when it's super super negative, you can never get rid of all the negativity, and at some point you need to figure out when you should just opt out of a conversation.
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Question: How far do you do in helping companies figure out their plan? Do you Tweet for them?
Brogan: Hell no.
Chapman: Kick the person out of the nest, they have to learn to do it on their own. Teach them, and then hold their hand at first.
Delaney: Don't drive the car.
Question: Where do you focus your energies if you're supposed to handle all the social media "stuff" for a brand?
Colt: figure out what one is the most successful, and spend 80% of your time on that platform.
Question: Would you launch generally or go in stealth mode? When you go with a name, should you go with the Double "O"…. Google, Yahoo….?
Loic: Launch as soon as you can, and be open, build it and share it in public.
Question: What do you think about the fact that social media might not be for everyone?
Colt: Social media is a tool.
Brogan: Do you have to use social media all the time? Hell no. Where's your customer, and where's the needle moving? Does something happen when you do it?
Question: What about using social media to brand locally?
Delaney: Getting everyone together around a small event is a good way of solidifying a social media strategy.
Brogan: It's cheap and free, you just need sweat equity. BrightKite is great for location-based. If in your area, there aren't enough people online, it might not be the right thing for you. But there are a lot of opportunities, you can do a lot of the smaller cafe-style conversations, just a few people.
Chapman: Facebook allows you to do targetted ads by location. Get people aware of you, and it's true word-of-mouth.
Delaney: You could set up a search on Twitter or whatever for your town. When people mention it, just say something back to them.
Question: What about rebranding?
Colt: You still have to worry about your product. You're empowering people to tell everyone they know about your product, so if it's bad, it spreads three times quicker than if it's great. Be careful then with things like WOM.
Brogan: It's a question you have to ask internally: how much do you want it to suck? And how much do you want people to know that it sucks?
Colt: There's something to be said about a brand that says that they know it stinks and that they're working on it. People really like that.
Loic: Lack of transparency is very passe.
Audience: Have the lawyers reference the case of Tylenol, the effects of addressing it or you're not addressing it.
Loic: I make a point of never saying that my competitors suck.
Question: A lot of brands don't disclose who's Tweeting on behalf of them. Is there a best practice there?
Colt: I think it's really important. People want to be dealing with people, not brands.
Chapman: What happens when someone leaves though? That's a hard thing to do.
Colt: You can have several people though.
Chapman: How do you handle when those personalities leave?
[UPDATE: Check out Andy Sernovitz's recent case study on Freshbooks and word-of-mouth (WOM).]
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The main reasons to choose donor sperm are:
Severe male factor infertility
Although IVF with Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) lets us work with severely low sperm counts and/or quality, and with men who need surgical sperm retrieval for severe male factor including total obstruction (blockage in transport or storage including vasectomy patients or after failed vasectomy reversal), donor sperm remains a viable option as it is less expensive and usually easier. We can assess each couple's unique situation and give you appropriate choices.
Single women
We have successfully treated single women with the same care that we extend to couples – if you have decided not to wait any longer to have a baby, we support you! Although women using effective birth control or not currently in a relationship are not technically "infertile", we will offer appropriate testing for you to optimize the chances of success, including assessing your ovarian reserve (egg supply). Most women choose anonymous donors (see below). We assure you total discretion – not even your Ob/Gyn has to know any information unless you choose to disclose it.
Same-sex couples
For women with a female partner, donor sperm can be used for IUI procedures just as for single women, and if you need In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) this can also be performed with donor sperm. We are sensitive to your unique needs – we have successfully used known donors, for example if one partner has a brother who is willing to donate sperm to fertilize the other partner's eggs, it can satisfy both partners' desire to have a biologically related child. Anonymous donors are another option – you can choose a donor with similar physical characteristics (ethnicity, hair color, eye color) to you, or not – the possibilities are as diverse as the couples we serve.
For men with a male partner, we can use your sperm with an egg donor and gestational carrier. We have both fresh egg donors and frozen donor eggs available, giving you access to a wide range of reproductive options.
IUI increases the number of sperm reaching the fallopian tubes
The IUI procedure
The IUI process involves washing and processing the sperm to enrich the sperm sample so that it takes up a small volume and contains more healthy, moving sperm and less dead sperm or immotile sperm (non-swimmers). Donor sperm is usually processed before it is frozen in vials in medium, and the frozen vials are then stored in liquid nitrogen. Once the sperm specimen is thawed and ready we can inject it into the woman's uterus in a simple 5 minute office procedure. We perform a speculum exam just like a Pap smear visit, use a fine catheter to inject the sperm into the inside of the uterus, then remove the speculum and let you lay down for 10-15 minutes while the sperm are moving to the fallopian tubes. For most women the procedure is painless or accompanied by no more than mild cramping.
Why choose IUI treatment at Overlake Reproductive Health?
First, we will measure the donor sperm sample's sperm count and motility accurately with every IUI attempt – so that we can identify donors whose sperm is not ideal for IUI treatments.
Second, we are the first clinic in the USA, and the only clinic in the Pacific Northwest, to use Electronic Security Tagging to track the sperm sample through the andrology lab where the sperm sample is prepared, to the clinic where we perform the insemination, so that we minimize the chance that you don't receive the right sperm!
Electronic Security Tag reader – so you know it's the right sperm sample
Of course we still write your name and the donor's ID number on all of the containers, but this is an extra layer of security that we have provided for all our IUI patients since 2007.
Third, we offer unique financial options, including discounted package prices or credit towards IVF:
First in the Pacific Northwest with Peace of Mind IUI multi-cycle discount programs, or get credit towards IVF if you need it
We are pleased to be the first clinic in the Pacific Northwest to make IUI treatment more accessible, with two new programs. The first is the Peace of Mind multi-cycle IUI discount program where you can prepay for three cycles of IUI treatment at a substantial discount. The second program, for couples who want to try to get pregnant with IUI before moving on to IVF if needed, gives you a credit towards IVF if the IUI treatment doesn't result in a pregnancy. More details on the Peace of Mind IUI credit program.
Anonymous donors and known donors
Most people use an anonymous sperm donor. This safeguards your identity – you will never meet or know the exact identity of your donor, nor will the donor be able to contact you in the future, unless you choose to initiate contact, subject to the policies of the sperm bank concerned. We work with several of America's leading commercial sperm banks to offer you a full range of donors, including California Cryobank and Fairfax Cryobank. Their websites allow you to browse potential donors, and Fairfax even offers face-recognition based matching.
We also work with the locally based Seattle Sperm Bank USA, who specializes in "open identity donation", where donors have agreed to at least one contact with any children born through use of their sperm, at the child's request upon reaching the age of 18.
We can also work with known sperm donors, such as a friend or a family member who is willing to donate sperm. You will need a legal agreement with the donor, and we can recommend legal practitioners who are experienced in this area.
How is donor sperm tested to prevent transmission of infectious diseases?
Commercial sperm banks and infertility clinics are regulated by the US Government's Food and Drug Administration or FDA (we realize that sperm isn't a food or a drug but the FDA regulates everything from medical devices such as pacemakers to organ transplants). The FDA is concerned with preventing transmission of infectious diseases with donor sperm – including the most important potential risks, Viral Hepatitis (Hepatitis B and C) and HIV. All commercial sperm banks test the sperm donor for infectious diseases according to the FDA rules, then freeze and quarantine sperm samples for at least six months, then retest the donor for infectious diseases to make sure that the donor has not "seroconverted" to Hepatitis or HIV positive. Only after passing initial and repeat infectious disease testing can the sperm samples be released for treatment. Many sperm banks retest the donors at intervals if they continue to donate, and some exceed the FDA requirements with additional testing. All this ensures that the risk of acquiring a disease from donor sperm is minimized, and we have never had a case of transmission of an infectious disease by donor sperm at Overlake Reproductive Health.
For known sperm donors, we apply the same standards (testing, quarantine, and retesting after 6 months) as we expect from commercial sperm banks – if you have a known donor in mind, we are happy to see him first to get started on this process even before we meet you to plan your treatment.


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 26, 2012--HeartFlow, Inc. announced today that data from the company's landmark prospective, international Determination of Fractional Flow Reserve by Anatomic Computed Tomographic Angiography (DeFACTO) study was presented today by principal investigator James K. Min, M.D., director of Cardiac Imaging Research at the Department of Medicine, Imaging and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, in a hotline session at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich, and simultaneously published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study results demonstrate that, when compared to standard coronary CT angiography (CT) alone, HeartFlow's computed fractional flow reserve (FFR CT ) coupled with coronary CT angiography provides a more accurate determination of which patients' arterial blockages require invasive evaluation.
The study assessed the ability of FFR CT to identify flow-restricting lesions versus CT alone, by comparing the results to invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR), which is recognized by the European Society of Cardiology as the gold standard for determining which arterial blockages require treatment. 1,2 FFR CT provided a nearly 20 percent improvement in the ability to identify flow-restricting arterial blockages over the use of CT alone using an area under the curve (AUC or Receiver Operating Characteristics) analysis (AUC 0.81 vs. 0.68, p=0.0002). AUC is a robust measure of diagnostic test reliability and accuracy. The per-patient sensitivity and specificity of FFR CT were also higher than CT alone.
The improvement in diagnostic performance was even greater in arterial blockages of intermediate severity. In this set of patients, there was more than a two-fold increase in test sensitivity, from 37 to 82 percent, with no loss of specificity. In these patients, the AUC improved from 0.53 for CT alone to 0.80 for FFR CT (p=0.0002).
"One of the central challenges in taking care of patients with coronary artery disease is knowing which patients need further invasive evaluation for determining the need for coronary revascularization. The results of the DeFACTO trial clearly demonstrate that when added to coronary CT angiographic findings, FFR CT provides essential physiologic information as to which specific arterial blockages truly restrict blood flow to the heart and heighten patient risk. This is an exciting step forward for cardiology that could significantly improve how we guide patients towards the most effective and efficient care," said Dr. Min. "Further, our findings suggest that FFR CT could be particularly useful for evaluating patients with arterial blockages of an intermediate severity, which often are the most difficult to assess non-invasively. This is a large group of patients that is unfortunately often prone to frequent misdiagnosis." "We are very pleased with the results of DeFACTO, which suggest that FFR CT coupled with CT could be poised to become the new standard for non-invasive cardiac testing. It offers the promise of a single standardized test to determine whether patients have coronary artery disease that needs further evaluation or therapy," said John H. Stevens, M.D., chairman and CEO of HeartFlow. "This technology holds the potential to substantially improve the ability of physicians to accurately determine which patients need and do not need coronary angiography and intervention, resulting in better patient outcomes and reduced costs." DeFACTO enrolled 252 stable patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) at 17 centers in five countries. All patients underwent CT, invasive coronary angiography (ICA), invasive FFR and subsequent FFR CT analysis. This study evaluated the first-generation of HeartFlow's software technology and there will likely be continued improvement in accuracy in the future. These results also expand upon the findings of the DISCOVER-FLOW study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in November 2011. 3–5 Recent analysis of the potential positive impact of FFR CT on healthcare costs and patient outcomes was presented by Mark A. Hlatky, M.D., professor of Health Policy and Research at Stanford University, California, USA at the Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. In his presentation, Dr. Hlatky noted that a strategy of using CCTA with FFR CT to guide selection of patients for invasive evaluation and PCI "might reduce costs and improve clinical outcomes compared to current treatment pathways." The simulation model presented at SCCT showed per-patient savings of more than $3,000 when compared to the conventional angiography based treatment strategy. 6 HeartFlow technology is designed to provide physicians non-invasively computed FFR (FFR CT ) values at every point along the coronary tree. Until now, FFR measurements could only be measured invasively during coronary angiography with a pressure-sensing guidewire.
Studies have shown that treatment guided by invasively measured FFR has better clinical outcomes, including a 34 percent reduced risk of death or major cardiac event, and significantly lower healthcare costs. 7–10 Other currently available non-invasive diagnostic tests, such as CT, provide anatomic information but do not provide lesion-specific data, and therefore have marginal diagnostic accuracy compared to the invasive FFR gold standard. 11–13 Each year, more than 15 million Americans seek care for symptoms of heart disease. A study published in March 2010 in The New England Journal of Medicine found that in nearly 400,000 patients with suspected coronary artery disease undergoing elective invasive angiographic procedures, 62 percent had no obstructive coronary artery blockage. 14 The authors of the study noted that current modalities for identifying which patients should undergo elective invasive coronary angiography to diagnose coronary artery disease have limitations, and that better methods are needed for patient risk stratification.
About HeartFlow's FFR CT Technology HeartFlow's technology is a web-based service that enables the determination of non-invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR CT ). Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in CT medical imaging and computational science, the company's technology creates patient-specific 3D computational models of the aorta, heart, and coronary artery tree. Using a high-powered supercomputer, proprietary blood flow equations are applied to the 3D data which allows calculation of point specific FFR CT measurements throughout the coronary tree. 3–5 To view a simulation of coronary blood flow using HeartFlow technology, visit www.heartflow.com.
About HeartFlow, Inc. HeartFlow, Inc., based in Redwood City, Calif., is pioneering technology designed to help physicians noninvasively diagnose coronary artery disease, improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs. For more information visit www.heartflow.com.
1. Wijns W, Kolh P, Danchin N, et al. Guidelines on myocardial revascularization: The Task Force on Myocardial Revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Eur. Heart J. 2010;31(20):2501–2555. 2. Kushner FG, Hand M, Smith SC Jr, et al. 2009 focused updates: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with STelevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2004 guideline and 2007 focused update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI guidelines on percutaneous coronary intervention (updating the 2005 guideline and 2007 focused update) a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2009;54(23):2205–2241. 3. Koo B-K, Erglis A, Doh J-H, et al. Diagnosis of Ischemia-Causing Coronary Stenoses by Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve Computed From Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiograms: Results From the Prospective Multicenter DISCOVER-FLOW (Diagnosis of Ischemia-Causing Stenoses Obtained Via Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve) Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;58(19):1989–1997. 4. Min JK, Koo B-K, Erglis A, et al. Usefulness of Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve Computed from Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiograms for Intermediate Stenoses Confirmed by Quantitative Coronary Angiography. The American journal of cardiology. 2012. Available at:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22749390. Accessed July 24, 2012. 5. Min JK, Koo B-K, Erglis A, et al. Effect of image quality on diagnostic accuracy of noninvasive fractional flow reserve: Results from the prospective multicenter international DISCOVER-FLOW study. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2012;6(3):191–199. 6. Saxena A, Min JK, Koo B-K, et al. Projected Costs and Consequences of CT-Determined Fractional Flow Reserve (FFRCT). Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 2012;6(4S):S2. 7. Tonino PAL, De Bruyne B, Pijls NHJ, et al. Fractional flow reserve versus angiography for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention. N. Engl. J. Med. 2009;360(3):213–224. 8. Pijls NHJ, van Schaardenburgh P, Manoharan G, et al. Percutaneous coronary intervention of functionally nonsignificant stenosis: 5-year follow-up of the DEFER Study. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2007;49(21):2105–2111. 9. Pijls NHJ, Fearon WF, Tonino PAL, et al. Fractional flow reserve versus angiography for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: 2-year follow-up of the FAME (Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation) study. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2010;56(3):177–184. 10. Fearon WF, Bornschein B, Tonino PAL, et al. Economic evaluation of fractional flow reserve-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with multivessel disease. Circulation. 2010;122(24):2545–2550. 11. Meijboom WB, Van Mieghem CAG, van Pelt N, et al. Comprehensive assessment of coronary artery stenoses: computed tomography coronary angiography versus conventional coronary angiography and correlation with fractional flow reserve in patients with stable angina. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2008;52(8):636–643. 12. Melikian N, De Bondt P, Tonino P, et al. Fractional flow reserve and myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with angiographic multivessel coronary artery disease. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2010;3(3):307–314. 13. Jung PH, Rieber J, Störk S, et al. Effect of contrast application on interpretability and diagnostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with intermediate coronary lesions: comparison with myocardial fractional flow reserve. Eur. Heart J. 2008;29(20):2536–2543. 14. Patel MR, Peterson ED, Dai D, et al. Low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography. N. Engl. J. Med. 2010;362(10):886–895.CONTACT: for HeartFlow, Inc.
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String Cheese Incident | 1st Bank Center | 12/31/2013 | Review
In 2012 String Cheese Incident threw their first ever New Years Eve Celebration in Colorado. It was a grand event that left Colorado fans hopeful for another hometown showdown.
In 2012 String Cheese Incident threw their first ever New Years Eve Celebration in Colorado. It was a grand event that left Colorado fans hopeful for another hometown showdown.
Rowdy, raucous, and filled to the brim. That's how Lawrence, KS rings in a new year. Split Lip Rayfield killed it with a sold-out show at The Bottleneck for New Year's Eve joined by Granny Tweed and The Sunflower Colonels. With plenty of champagne to go around and barely any standing room, navigating this crowd was a task in and of itsel
The String Cheese Incident celebrated its 20th anniversary as a Boulder band during a three-day New Year's Eve run at the 1st Bank Center. Out of all the big name jambands that got their start in the '80s and '90s, I can say with certitude that SCI has evolved the most from its incipient incarnation. On its first night, it opened with a Sgt.
New Year's Eve 2013 was going to be a special night for the Colorado jamband scene before any notes were even played. String Cheese Incident was about to tie a bow on their 20th anniversary as a Boulder band. Yonder Mountain String Band would soon cap off their 15th year as a Nederland quartet. And for a certain faction of music lovers, recreational marijuana would become legal to purchase at the stroke of midnight.
Last September a devastating "100 Year Flood" about fifty years overdue devastated parts of Colorado, in particular Boulder County. The historic town of Lyons, a beautiful gateway town to Rocky Mountain National Park and precious wilderness was affected worse than most. The St. Vrain River and other waterways turned the town into a riverbed, destroying and displacing many homes and lives. One of the worst hits was the Planet Bluegrass Ranch. Festivarians celebrated their 41st Rockygrass Festival last summer a little over a month later the property was underwater.
Colorado's String Cheese Incident is one of the few touring bands that draws so many loyal followers regardless of how rarely they actually perform. Cheese was touring over a hundred days a year in the early 2000s, as nationally traveled as any, with trips to the Caribbean, Costa Rica, and Mexico sprinkled in. As the guys grew up, their families and different musical ambitions made rigorous touring less possible.
How often is it that you are lucky enough to witness a brand new group of already legendary powerhouse musicians premier before a live audience? Maybe some are more fortunate than I, but last Friday at the Boulder Theatre was a first for me. Boulder audiences were fortunate enough to catch the premier performance of a brand new folk rock/Americana "super-group" Hardworking Americans.
When bands do five-night runs, the first night is usually expected to be, more or less, the warm-up night. Yonder Mountain String Band had no such things in mind as they laid down a blistering show to a packed Boulder Theater on Friday night that set the bar pretty high for the remaining four nights.
Here we have—singer-songwriter Todd Snider (usually a solo fellow) and bassist Dave Schools (Widespread Panic) leading the charge, Neal Casal (guitarist for Ryan Adams, Chris Robinson); Chad Staehly (of Great American Taxi) on keys, and King Lincoln drummer Duane Trucks (nephew of Butch Trucks, who worked the set for the Allman Brothers, if you want a reach of a tie-in)—the Hard Working Americans. It's a solid crew.
If part of your plan for Warren Haynes' 25th Christmas Jam was to get in town early to have a leisurely night Thursday at the Asheville Music Hall, Roosevelt Collier and Friends threw a pleasant kink in the plans. Kinks usually get a bad rap but in this case, this evening's kink was very kind. The Asheville Music Hall is right in the same area as all your favorite Asheville entertainment establishments at 31 Patton Avenue. If you have yet to visit Asheville, you will find the 'Strangers stopping strangers, just to shake their hand." f


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Disagreements About Stimulus Embroil G.O.P.
By JACKIE CALMES and ROBERT PEAR
Published: February 23, 2009
Republican governors split sharply during the weekend over how to respond to the economic crisis, a debate whose outcome will go a long way toward shaping how the national party redefines itself in the wake of its election defeats of recent years.
The divisions were evident at the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association here as the Republicans differed both in their approaches to their own states' budget shortfalls and in their attitudes toward President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package.
Some party leaders said Republicans should compromise with the Democratic president and move to the political center to attract independents' votes. A small but vocal group of conservative governors countered that the party instead must rebuild by standing against new spending and taxes to regain the trust of conservative voters.
''There's a tug of war right now within the party as to where we go next,'' Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, one of the conservative Republican leaders, said in an interview. ''I am in the camp that says we go back to basics. There are other folks who say something a little different. The answer will be determined in this tug of war.''
Among those tugging opposite him is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, who only last week concluded a battle to close his state's $42 billion budget deficit over the opposition of Republican state lawmakers who opposed tax increases in the compromise. While Mr. Schwarzenegger was in Washington for the governor's meeting, a petition condemning him circulated back home at the California Republican Party convention.
Those Republicans ''were not in touch with what the majority of people want to do in California,'' Mr. Schwarzenegger said Sunday on the ABC program ''This Week.'' ''And the same is nationwide.''
Unfazed by the attacks from Republicans, Mr. Schwarzenegger said he would try again to win health insurance coverage for all Californians, though it would require new taxes.
''Even though it is against your principles or philosophy,'' he said he believed that officeholders should be doing ''what the people want you to do rather than getting stuck in your ideology.''
Most of the Republican governors joined the Democrats in Washington for the annual winter meeting, while several appeared on the Sunday television talk shows. Mr. Obama welcomed the governors for dinner at the White House on Sunday evening and will meet with them on Monday.
The Republican governors' divide reflects their party's erosion to a mostly regional party that is based in the conservative South, after heavy election losses in the Northeast, Midwest and West. And with the party leaderless after losing control of both the White House and Congress in the past two election cycles, the split is colored by early maneuvering for conservatives' support among potential aspirants for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.
Several governors, nearly all of them Southerners known to have national ambitions, have been withering in their criticism of Mr. Obama's stimulus plan, which received only 3 of 219 Republicans' votes in Congress. The harshest critics include Mr. Sanford and Govs. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Haley Barbour of Mississippi, the national chairman of the party in the 1990s, Rick Perry of Texas, and Sarah Palin of Alaska, the party's 2008 vice-presidential nominee.
After initially saying they might reject any federal aid, several conservative governors said in interviews over the weekend that they were likely to reject only the money for expanded unemployment compensation because of federal strings that could require them to provide relief to part-time workers who lose jobs as well as to full-time workers. Many other states already provide such aid.
''Now is the time, and it's a great opportunity for Republican governors and other leaders to offer conservative-based solutions to the problems,'' Mr. Jindal said on ''Meet the Press'' on NBC. He announced on Friday that he would reject the $100 million for unemployment compensation in the estimated $4 billion for Louisiana.
Mr. Jindal, the national party's choice to deliver the Republican response to Mr. Obama's address to Congress on Tuesday night, previewed his message, saying: ''We need to work with the president every chance we can. But on principle -- when we disagree with him -- we should be unafraid to stand up on principle and to point out our alternative solutions.''
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida also appeared on ''Meet the Press'' and immediately rejected Mr. Jindal's approach.
''There is a national leader, his name is President Obama,'' said Mr. Crist, who campaigned for the stimulus package in his state with Mr. Obama.
''I think we do need to be bipartisan,'' he added. ''We need to be, in fact, nonpartisan.''
Mr. Crist took issue with some of the Republican governors' criticism of the unemployment compensation. ''In the past five weeks, I've visited six unemployment offices throughout Florida,'' he said. ''I look into the eyes of these people, and I understand that the challenges are serious that they're having to deal with, and I want to do everything I can to help them.''
In a separate interview, Mr. Crist said, ''I am not here to judge'' the governors who opposed the stimulus bill. But pointing out that he and Mr. Schwarzenegger supported it, he said, ''Maybe it's a result of being from larger states.'' Their two states also supported Mr. Obama last November, while the critics' states did not.
Of the 22 Republican governors, most have not been publicly critical of the stimulus measure. ''I want this president to succeed because I want America to succeed,'' Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana said in an interview. ''There will be plenty of time for alternatives later.''
Four Republicans, including Mr. Crist and Mr. Schwarzenegger, openly supported the Obama plan. The governors' association earlier this month endorsed it in a letter co-signed by its Democratic chairman, Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania, and the Republican vice chairman, Gov. Jim Douglas of Vermont. The Southerners led the opposition.
''The last time Republicans made a comeback, it was led by Republican governors,'' Mr. Barbour, of Mississippi, said in an interview, referring to the mid-1990s when Republicans captured control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in 40 years.
''Now we have to take that same approach, take our values and principles,'' he said, and ''tie them to the new issue set that we have to deal with'' amid the recession.
Among those taking something of a Republican middle ground was Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, another potential 2012 prospect. He emphasized in an interview that the party needs to attract women, Hispanics, younger voters and independents to recover.
''The Republican Party is going to have to adhere to its principles, because they are foundational and they are important. But they need to be presented in a hopeful, optimistic, up-tempo, modern, practical way, and that's not what we have been doing recently,'' Mr. Pawlenty said.
''We've become too petty and angry in many aspects,'' he said. ''That's unappealing to swing voters.''
PHOTOS: Mark Sanford (PHOTOGRAPH BY MARY ANN CHASTAIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS); Arnold Schwarzenneger (PHOTOGRAPH BY LAUREN BURKE/ABC NEWS) (pg.A14)


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Host City of 2016 Republican National Convention Could Be Announced This Morning
Organizers could winnow the list down to two from the four cities still in the running: Dallas, Denver, Cleveland, Kansas City. Or they could simply choose one. Will it be Dallas? Unless easily accessible weed is a factor, I like our chances. While we're waiting, here is a snapshot of what happened, at least in one segment of our world, when the 1984 RNC came to town, courtesy of Jeff Liles.
UPDATE: As our own Glenn Hunter notes in the comments, Denver's 9NEWS is reporting that it will either be Dallas and Denver, or Dallas will be named outright. The Denver bid is trying to keep pace with Dallas' fund-raising muscle.


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"Good morning, that's a nice Tnetennba"
After some research, it appears that it's not actually a word at all! Been looking all week and can't find a real reference to it other than what people have made up.
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A word whose function is purely to attract traffic to a website; a gratuitously used keyword whose presence is aimed at attracting the search engines attention and improving the website's placement in search results.
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After taking two conference losses to BOLD and Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City last week, the Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta varsity volleyball team bounced back to sweep Lac qui Parle Valley Thursday at home.
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The Tigers were shut down in three by visiting BOLD Tuesday, Sept. 14.
Erin Schieler had 10 kills and three ace blocks to lead the Tigers. Kelsey Loew had two ace blocks.
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After four evenly played sets, the Tigers dropped the deciding set 15-7 at A-C-GC Thursday, Sept. 16.
Schieler had 24 kills to lead the Tigers.
Dani Schultz served three aces and Mackenzie Weatherly recorded two. Weatherly also put up 20 assists, while Haley Scheldorf recorded 16.
Roske and Schultz led the defense with 43 and 34 digs, respectively.
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Schieler delivered 14 kills in 23 errorless attacks and also had 10 ace blocks to lead the Tigers.
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Following the global trend in using private sector participation in infrastructure financing and development, the Philippines has largely utilized privatization as a major approach to the development of infrastructure, particularly in power, water, transport, and telecommunications sectors. To provide a legal framework for private sector participation in infrastructure projects, Congress passed the build-operate-transfer (BOT) law, as amended, to expand the scope of private sector involvement in infrastructure provision. Regulatory reform has accompanied the effort to ensure operational efficiency and competitive provision. This paper intends to review and evaluate the regulatory framework that has been established or suggested for the Philippines, focusing on the power and telecommunications sectors. This study will primarily evaluate the existing regulatory framework. It aims to identify issues and gaps, paying particular attention on the competition-related provisions as well as the institutional capacities of regulatory institutions.
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The act of making substitutions or team changes is commonplace during a game of netball and if you're a player, coach, or umpire, it is important to understand the reasons for why this happens and how to do it correctly when required.
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Systematic review of clinical trials supports homeopathy in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
A well-conducted systematic review from a research team in the USA has scrutinised randomised placebo-controlled trials (RCTs) of homeopathy in psychiatric conditions.
RCTs were included if they met 7 criteria and were assessed for possible bias using the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) 50 guidelines. Identified studies were grouped into anxiety or stress, sleep or circadian rhythm complaints, premenstrual problems, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, mild traumatic brian injury, and functional somatic syndromes. Twenty-five eligible studies were identified; study quality according to SIGN 50 criteria varied, with 6 assessed as good with respect to minimizing bias, 9 as fair, and 10 as poor. Outcome was unrelated to SIGN quality.
In the category of functional somatic syndromes 5 of the 6 studies provided some evidence for efficacy in either fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. The low placebo response (4%–15%) and modestly consistent rates of response to homeopathy (26%–50%) in these disorders and the larger sample size of over 200 patients may have yielded more precise estimates than in the other categories. Findings for other conditions were mixed and inconclusive. There was no evidence of publication bias.
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I loved the article, "A World Ablaze With Divine Mercy" (April 15). I love the Divine Mercy devotions and I have been watching them spread for a while. The article is well written, it's informative and it is inspiring. I posted it on my site after my own short introduction.
Thank you! And by the way, here in the Bay Area, we have annual Divine Mercy conferences, which are always a wonderful moment to "re-boot" our spiritual lives. I'll always remember the first one I attended, at the Cathedral, right here in San Francisco, where hundreds of people spent an hour in adoration with Father Stan Fortuna leading us in the Divine Mercy chaplet. The conference hall was drenched in God's grace.
Michele Szekely
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Regarding "No Deal, Rudy" (March 11):
I read with interest your article on Rudy Giuliani for president and noted the last paragraph:
"The bottom line: Republicans have made inroads into the Catholic vote for years because of the pro-life issue. If they put a pro-abortion politician up for president, the gains they've built for decades will vanish overnight."
I must disagree. Catholics are pathetically pro-choice. Fifty percent does not make for overwhelming support. The Catholic vote put Bill Clinton into the White House twice. When I sit in church I feel ashamed of my religion.
John Valenti
Redmond, Oregon
Editor's note: Be careful what polls you pay attention to. Polls that ask Catholics how often they attend Mass find that Catholics who attend Mass weekly vote in majorities for the pro-life candidate, consistently, nationwide, even in "blue" states. Polls that merely ask respondents what religion they are end up counting as Catholics many people who have rarely, if ever, darkened the door of a Catholic church. It should not surprise us that these people are no different from the non-Catholic population.
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In your March 11 article, "Trillions of Stars But Only One Light" Brother John Raymond reported that recently the first Mass on the continent of Antarctica was celebrated by Father James McCurry. I've been reading the autobiography of Father Theodore Hesburgh, retired president of Notre Dame, and he reported that in the late 1920s he celebrated three Masses at or near the South Pole. Brother John wrote an interesting article about the efforts of priest scientists in the study of astronomy, and the sponsorship of the scientific research by the Catholic Church.
I enjoy reading the Register and think it is one of the best objective sources of news concerning our faith and the Catholic Church.
F. Hohne
Largo, Florida
Confusing Catholics
The front page article, "Bishops Correct Theologian," (April 8) told about so-called American theologian Daniel Maguire who teaches at Marquette University. He said abortion is sometimes the proper choice, and gave as an example a bipolar woman taking lithium who becomes pregnant.
I know a schizophrenic woman taking medication who became pregnant. A Catholic psychiatrist said she could stop her medication during the pregnancy, if she had mental, emotional and spiritual support. I knew several people who would help and support her.
Despite the fact that the baby's biological parents were both mentally ill, a couple was found to adopt the child. Tragically, a hospital social worker talked the woman into having an abortion. She now becomes very agitated and upset if anyone mentions the abortion.
Maguire also said when a pregnant woman has cancer and needs immediate chemotherapy abortion is proper. Since the chemo is intended to kill the cancer cells and not the baby, it would not be considered an abortion if the baby dies.
There are too many self-proclaimed Catholic theologians wreaking havoc by confusing the laity, especially politicians, with their dissent from Church teaching, which dissent is nonsense.
Colleen Reilly
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Fickle World of the Arts
Your interview with Catherine Hicks, "Finding 'Heaven' in Hollywood" (April 15), started me to reflect on the relationship between entertainment media and our faith.
The life of Marylyn Monroe is a poignant tragedy that goes far deeper than the sentimental lyrics of Elton John. Hollywood and the entertainment world create images and legends for the mass culture: They are usually glamorous visions of near-perfect people. Not every image made in Hollywood is bad; some roles have been quite inspiring and even noble.
In the past, our Catholic faith was respected by Hollywood. Inspiring movies were created about St. Bernadette of Lourdes. The self-sacrifice of priests and nuns could be admired in many films. In recent years, virtually every movie that has portrayed a priest, nun or religious person has slanted and distorted the character of our faith.
The world of art routinely degrades and insults the world of the sacred. Few people outside of the Church bother themselves about the "creations" of Our Lord or the Blessed Mother that pass for art in prestigious museums and galleries.
But the world of secular culture can be quite fickle and prone to turn on its own as the political winds flow. Here in New Jersey, recent remarks made by Don Imus have caused quite a stir. Imus said crude and offensive words about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Imus is a "shock-jock." The popular culture created Imus and, until a few days ago, idolized him. His off-color remarks were applauded as the sign of a free thinker, a bold spirit expressing a gutsy independence. I didn't listen to "Imus in the Morning." It's not my type of humor or fun. But I live in Hackensack and I see a building at Hackensack Hospital named after him. It's a children's wing of a huge hospital. Imus probably donated a huge amount of money towards its construction. It represents an admirable act of charity.
The world doesn't seem to remember his charity now, only a few crude words. If anything, Imus' problems teach us that the secular world is a fickle and fragile partner, truly a fair-weather friend.
Matt Terranova
Hackensack, New Jersey
Wisdom Needed
So tragic to read your recent article, "Parents Fight for Rights in Massachusetts" (March 18), on the destruction of the innocence of our children. It's hard to get my mind around how low our culture has sunk. But, it's also in places other than the home that these children's innocence is destroyed.
Just recently, I heard on the news of an education bill that had made it part way through our Kansas Legislature, which simply required that teachers be responsible for what they teach.
It had passed with a margin of 95% of the votes. Before it could move any farther in the approval process, the ACLU (Anti-Christian Lawyers' Union), the NEA (Non-Education Association) and the teachers' unions warned that they would destroy it in the courts as a "book-burning" bill that "took away freedom from the teachers."
So it was dropped. So sad.
Terry Hornback
Wichita, Kansas
Church Instruction Redux
Since more than one reader responding to the Register's "No Deal, Rudy" editorial has written to imply that Catholics are obligated never to cast a vote for a pro-choice candidate under any circumstances, I think it's worth re-visiting our Church's instruction in that regard.
The defense of life from conception to natural death is a non-negotiable principle. The 2002 "Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding Catholics in public life" issued by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith makes this explicit: "Those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a 'grave and clear obligation to oppose' any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them."
The Register is therefore correct to insist that Catholics should be looking for a pro-life candidate for president. The primary process is precisely the time for arguing the urgency of the life issues and persuading fellow citizens to vote with us.
A different question arises if we lose the primary process and both major parties nominate pro-abortion candidates. What is our duty as Catholics in that unfortunate circumstance?
Here, the same document gives us further guidance: "regarding the situation in which it is not possible to overturn or completely repeal a law allowing abortion which is already in force or coming up for a vote, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality."
Extrapolating from the duty of politicians to that of voters, this means that while we can never vote directly against life, where the perfect law or candidate isn't on the ballot, we are permitted to vote to limit harm. Cardinal Ratzinger, in a 2004 memorandum to the U.S. bishops on the worthiness of politicians to receive holy Communion, affirms this: "A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons."
It won't be illegitimate in the scenario described, in other words, to consider what type of judges a president is likely to nominate or how aggressive his support of the abortion agenda is likely to be relative to the other candidate, to try to limit that agenda. The Church's support for life is unswerving, but she does understand that we live in a fallen world.
Rebecca Teti
Hyattsville, Md.


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Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Daniel Ricciardo have become the first Formula 1 stars to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one's head or donating to ALS research. It went viral throughout social media during mid 2014.
Massa was the first of the F1 drivers to accelerate to the challenge, previous to nominating Ricciardo and ex-Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso (who is yet to have completed his effort).
The Australian speedy staged to the plate in front of the Red Bull Energy Station in Belgium GP paddock, taking on three buckets of water before electing Hamilton.
The Brit completed his challenge today following Friday opening practice in front of the Mercedes AMG garage.


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This weekend I will be taking a trip to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. This is my 5th trip to the hospital, and I am absolutely counting down the hours until I get to be there again. Why? That's what most people ask me. Why do you want to go to such a sad place. Now, don't get me wrong – seeing sick kids is VERY sad. HOWEVER – sadness is not what you feel when you walk through the doors of St. Jude.
When families have arrived at the hospital, they have heard the worst imaginable news about the loves of their lives – their children. I cannot imagine the horror of hearing – your child has cancer. And it doesn't look good. I think you need to go somewhere like St. Jude. They usually leave within a few hours of hearing that devastating news, and many have to fly across the country to try to save their kids. By the time they get to Memphis, their heads are racing, their hearts are broken, and they are consumed with worry. Then the wonderful doors of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital open and from that moment on – they hear nothing but hope. We will do everything we can to save your child, you don't have to worry about money, we don't care if no other child has ever lived from this disease before – maybe yours will be the first. Can you even contemplate what these words of endless hope mean to these families, nope. But that's what we're their to see, and it's my goal to make you feel that way as well about this place I believe in with every part of me.
Thanks for taking the ride with us – OFF TO ST. JUDE!!