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The beautiful flowers of the Magnolia tree are some of the first in the garden to lift the veil of winter. Thick and waxy petals form goblets on bare branches and are a breathtaking sight.
Magnolia is a symbol of "something long lasting and held dear within the heart", and makes a beautiful birthday or sympathy gift to let loved ones know you are thinking of them.
If you would like to add on other gift products such as culinary or body care items, candles or soft toys please visit our Add Something Extra collection.
Magnolia Tree Gift - Large
- Suitable for planting throughout NZ in garden settings
- Current Variety: Magnolia Honey Velvet
- Delivered in 18cm square wooden planter gift box
- Tree height including pot 50-60cm
Each Magnolia tree gift comes with full care instructions and your personalised, handwritten gift message entered during the checkout process.
If you would like to add on other gift products please visit our Add Something Extra collection.
Order before 2:30pm for same day dispatch from our offices or select the date for delivery at checkout.For standard delivery time frames around NZ please see our Delivery Information page.
Bay (Laurus Nobilis / Large Planter Gifts)
The Bay tree is an evergreen highly valued for its aromatic leaves used extensively in culinary dishes for seasoning. Slow growing (10-20cm per year) it can eventually reach heights of 5+ meters however can easily be trimmed every summer to be kept small for container gardening.
Grows up to 5m+, can be pruned to keep smaller and works well for topiary
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden, tolerates coastal conditions, likes warm areas.
Camellia (Early Pearly - Singles / Culinary / Body Care)
Camellia 'Early Pearly' produces good-sized, white flowers during mid March to early June. Slow growing, upright to spreading shrub or small tree with age. Oval, glossy leaves and profuse winter to spring blooming flowers in milder climates.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Our large planter Camellias come in a range of colours, we always hand pick the best across our range to send for you - if you are looking for a specific colour please call 0800 87 33 44 prior to ordering.
Cranberry (Tazi Berry)Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs and trailing vines. The flowers are dark pink with a very distinctive petal. Pollinated by bees, Cranberry fruit is often larger than the leaves on the plant itself. Initially the fruit is white but it will turn deep red with ripening. Edible with an acidic taste.
Grows up to 1m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Feijoa (Sellowiana / Unique)The Feijoa is an evergreen shrub which originates from South America. It is both a useful landscape ornamental plant with its showy flowers against its grey/green foliage and provides fantastic fruit for eating. All Tree Gift Feijoa Tres are self fertile.
Grows up to 3m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden settings..
Kowhai (Dragon's Gold and Microphylla in Winter)
Kowhai is famous for its beautiful brilliant yellow racemes of nectar-rich flowers, which appear in early spring. They are a favourite food for NZ native birds such as the Tui and Wood Pigeon. Kowhai is an evergreen variety producing greenish yellow leaves over a long period from winter until mid spring.
Dragons Gold - Grows up to 2m - Suitable for container & Garden
Microphytlla - Grows 6-8m over life span
Lemon (Meyer / Yen Ben)
Lemons are one of the easiest and most reliable fruiting trees for NZ gardens. The clean, dark green foliage forms a medium sized plant with waxy white fragrant flowers which appear in spring, summer and autumn.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Lime (Tahitian / Bearss)
Lime trees are vigorous trees with bold dark green leaves which are slightly serrated at the edges. The fruit are small to medium in size, with thin skin turning a pale yellow at maturity. The Lime's flesh is wonderfully juicy and is without seed. Fruit ripens in winter and is a fabulous addition to any garden. Tree Gifts NZ sends both Tahitian and Bearss Lime dependent on season.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Magnolia (Figo Port Wine and Little Gem seasonally)
Magnolias are evergreen and one of the first trees to lift the veil of winter, their fresh and vibrant flowers gracing bare branches in spring. Flowering early in the season, with their thick, waxy petals forming goblets on bare branches, a mature magnolia in full bloom is a breathtaking sight. Other varieties such as Mixed Up Miss and Yunnanesis are often available in our large planter tree gift boxes throughout the year when available - they will be listed by their name on the product page when purchasing if available.
Grows 5m +
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in garden settings.
Mexican Orange Blossom (Choiysa Ternata)
Over spring and into summer the evergreen Mexican Orange Blossom makes a beautiful show. It is a shrub from the temperate areas of Mexico with glossy dark green leaves and clusters of white flowers that have the fragrance of orange.
Grows up to 1.5m, can be pruned to keep smaller
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Olive (Olea & El Greco seasonally )
To be admired for its soft grey-green foliage, blending well with other colours in the garden. The attractive smooth grey trunks and branches take on a gnarled, twisted look when this tree reaches maturity. The Olive is not only grown for its beauty but also for its very distinctive culinary fruit and oil. Olive trees prefer full sun and do not tolerate cold winters or having "wet feet".
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting throughout NZ in both container or garden
Mandarin (Clementine)
Mandarin trees thrive in warmer weather and dislike frosts. Along with the delicious and generous fruit that orange trees provide, their fragrant blooms are intoxicating. Varieties change throughout the season.
Grows up to 1.5m
Suitable for planting in warmer areas of NZ in both container or garden
Pohutukawa (Metrosiderous Mistral & Maori Princess)
Please note: Pohutukawa are currently unavailable due to the airborne disease "Myrtle Rust", many NZ nurseries are no longer growing or releasing due to this disease.
The magnificent NZ native Pohutukawa is also fondly known to many as NZ's own Christmas Tree, due to making a beautiful showing of red flowers in the December - January period. With dark bold grey leaves and bright crimson flowers the Pohutukawa in full bloom is a sight to behold.
Grows up to 10m+
Suitable for coastal regions of NZ in the North Island or top of the South Island.
Suitable for large gardens - please check the local area suitability prior to ordering.
Tea Tree (Leptospermum Scoparium) - NZ Native Manuka & Kanuka
Originating in New Zealand the Tea Tree is a compact shrub with an abundance of double pink or white flowers with tiny grey-green leaves. Growing quickly it enjoys partial to full sun in a range of soils from acid to neutral.
Growing up to 3m
Suitable for planting throughout New Zealand in both container and garden
Trees may vary in size from those pictured on our website due to the growing nature of the trees within the seasons. Rest assured, we will always select the very best tree for your gift from our nursery..
There are delays across NZ due to couriers experiencing higher demand as we head towards Christmas (we are now in "Peak Season"). At this time of year we cannot guarantee a delivery date, regardless of that entered in your cart, where time allows we will send early to try to get as close as possible to your selected date.
We will always end a courier tracking number to you on dispatch so that you can watch your parcel in transit and follow up directly with the courier. Please expect delays and be patient with NZ's hard working courier drivers.
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|Last Day for Ordering 18 December 2020
If you are ordering non perishables, such as Seed Bomb Gifts or Artwork, and they are coming to yourself, we will dispatch immediately to you. It is better for it to be with you and out of the courier network at this time than be waiting on a parcel to arrive during peak season.
If you are ordering trees for gifting "on" Christmas Day - you will need to remove the tree from its gift box and care for it, it is very straight forward and does not require a lot of effort - please click here for information on how to do so.
Tree Gifts will be closed from 21 December until 18 January 2021.
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Delivery including all external packaging starts from $6.50 NZ wide for our smallest gift items and increases by weight / dimensions to $12.50 for our large trees. We do not charge extra for rural delivery. For volume orders price is calculated by weight and location at checkout.
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The couriers do not have the ability to deliver at a specific time or call ahead to make sure someone is home. They will however leave the parcel in a safe place at the property, we recommend sending to a work address should leaving the parcel at a residential property not be safe or if the courier would have trouble accessing the property (ie: Apartment / Dog / Code Controlled Gated Communities).
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We will always send you a courier tracking number on dispatch so you can view your gift whilst in transit and out for delivery. Should your gift not arrive when you would expect it to (given the standard time frames above), please do email and we can follow up the courier for you during office hours (Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5pm). We cannot follow up with the courier on weekends.
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Utah State University's Old Lyric Repertory Company presents James and the Giant Peach as part of the 2013 summer season, opening July 10 at the Caine Lyric Theatre in downtown Logan.
"This show is part of the Lyric season because it's one that everybody can relate to," said Dennis Hassan, artistic director of the OLRC and professor in the Caine College of the Arts. "Audience members will cheer James, the underdog, on as he overcomes his situation through magic, teamwork and imagination."
Whizzpopping wonder and fruit-filled fun abound in the stage adaption of Roald Dahl's greatest adventure. Meet James, a lonely young boy who is forced to work like a slave for the most revolting aunts in England. One day a mystical old man gives him a bag of magic, and when he accidentally spills it near the old peach tree, the most incredible things happen.
"James and the Giant Peach is a wonderful opportunity for families to spend time together and share a great experience," said Hassan.
Showcased in the production are young actors who are participating in OLRC's Intern and Apprentice Program, supported by a grant from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation. The program provides a hands-on theater experience working side by side with the professional OLRC staff.
For James and the Giant Peach, a family ticket special is available. With the purchase of one adult ticket to the show, kids get in for 50 percent off. The show opens July 10 and runs on selected dates through Aug. 8. A complete OLRC summer schedule is available online.
The OLRC 2013 season also features Nunsense, The Odd Couple, The Drowsy Chaperone and The Woman in Black. This season marks the centennial anniversary of the Caine Lyric Theatre and the OLRC will celebrate with a performance July 29.
For more information and tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office located in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 435-797-8022 or go to the college's Production Services website. The box office is open from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Caine Lyric Theatre (28. W. Center Street, Logan) Monday through Friday 1-4 p.m. and one hour prior to curtain on show nights.
Related links:
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TL4197 : March East Signal Box
taken 10 years ago, near to March, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain
The Norwich to Peterborough railway line is a well used passenger and freight railway, the Norwich-Ely part opened in 1845. It is split into two sections, the Breckland line runs from Ely to Norwich and the other is Ely to Peterborough. The railway has gone through many changes since opening like station, siding, branch and signal box closures. In 2011/12 the next big change is due. Currently only the Wymondham to Norwich section has been 'modernised' with colour lights. Steam age semaphores, signal boxes and hand operated crossings are common on this line. It was only recently in April 2009 that telegraphing was removed. In 2011/12 the Ely to Norwich section will be fully modernised. Each signal box will be replaced by a cabin which receives instructions/signals by fibre optics or by radio (GSM-R) from the controlling signal box (Cambridge). The improvements will allow for 100mph running on some sections. Most hand operated level crossings will have automatic barriers (full length), radar pods are being used to monitor the crossings for obstructions.
At Wymondham the Norwich-end ground frame and siding connections will be removed, thankfully the Mid Norfolk connection and former sidings will stay. Crossover trackwork will be removed at Shippea Hill station and Lakenheath, Eccles Road station will keep its crossover.
With these changes it was only right to record them.
Starting at Wymondham, the signal box has changed little since it was built. It was recently repainted in Great Eastern Railway colours like the rest of the line.
TG1100 : Wymondham South Junction Signal Box
Next along and only a few miles away is the charming station at Spooner Row, still fully controlled by tall semaphores.
TM0997 : Spooner Row Signal Box
Next along is the large station at Attleborough.
TM0595 : Attleborough station
Eccles road is reached with its impressive signal box and crossing.
TM0190 : Eccles Road Station - the signal box
Harling road is next along, very similar to Eccles road
TL9787 : Harling Road Level Crossing and Signal Box
The next along is the large station at Thetford, originally destined to be bypassed but thankfully the railway curved into Thetford.
TL8683 : Thetford Signal Box
Another large signal box is reached at Brandon, also the original Norwich to Brandon railway passes onto the Eastern Counties Brandon to Cambridge line. The lines opened on the same day.
TL7887 : Brandon signal box
Near the famous nature reserve and airbase is Lakenheath box next to the hand crossing and station.
TL7286 : Lakenheath Signal Box
Shippea hill is next, this isolated station is one of my favourites.
TL6484 : Shippea Hill Railway Station, Cambridgeshire
The signal boxes around Ely were sadly demolished in the early 1990s. Next, we move onto the Ely to Peterborough line. As far as I know this line is safe for now.
Manea is the first box, alongside in a siding is an old southern brake van.
TL4791 : Manea Signal Box
March is reached next, this area had three signal boxes, south, east and north.
TL4297 : Level Crossing East of March TL4197 : March East Signal Box
Turves/Three Horse Shoes Signal Box is next along, this box and the derelict signal box next to it was the site of an agricultural branch closed many years ago.
TL3396 : Three Horse Shoes signal box
TL3396 : Three Horse Shoes Junction Signal Box
Not far from Turves is the last station before Peterborough, Whittlesea.
This box was green until a line wide signal box repaint.
TL2796 : Whittlesea Signal Box
TL2796 : Whittlesea Signal Box
Lastly the Kings Dyke box is reached, near the brickworks.
TL2497 : Kings Dyke Level Crossing
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- TL4197, 119 images (more nearby )
- Photographer
- Ashley Dace (find more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Wednesday, 23 June, 2010
- Category
- Railway signal box (more nearby)
- Subject Location
OSGB36: TL 419 978 [100m precision]
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New Kids on the Block to release new album, planning summer tour
Group will headline tour featuring 98 Degrees, Boyz II Men
It's news that will have NKOTB fans screaming.
New Kids on the Block revealed plans of a 2013 summer headlining tour Tuesday with 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men.
The tour kicks off on Friday, May 31st at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. and will also include a shot at TD Garden on Sunday, June 2.
The hometown hotties also announced plans for new music. The group will release brand new album "10" on April 2nd, with their first single available on iTunes January 28th.
"Ladies, we're coming for you," said NKOTB member Donnie Wahlberg. "This is going to be the craziest year yet … We can't wait to give fans 'The Package!'"
"We are really excited to get back on the road together and tour with our friends in NKOTB and Boyz II Men. Looking forward to playing our hits and trying out some of our new tracks too," said 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey.


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Saw this at Victory Girls. It is short, to the point, and written in the spirit of the Founders! If we only had political leaders with this Marine's character and sense of duty.
Her gun ban legislation has made one person in particular so concerned that he, as an active duty Marine, decided to come out of the shadows and go public with his feelings. His name is Corporal Joshua Boston and he wrote a very polite but direct letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein regarding her gun ban legislation. You can read it below.
CNN's iReport letter from Cpl Joshua Boston to Senator Dianne Feinstein:
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government's right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma'am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
God bless this man.


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Every one in a fortunately rare while, Mother Nature dishes up a very unpleasant surprise. We also get reminded that Mother Nature has been happily handling cyanide forever with some success. In this case the right combination of stressors triggered a cyanide rich meal for the cattle.
A bit of research may police up plausible warnings or even a plausible test rig. We sort of need to know even when the risk is only border line anyway. The problem likely goes away in time when it does arise, thus a test prevents another source of stress.
In the event the press got excited because it looked to be an opportunity to bash GM plants again.
The Curious Case of the Poisoned Cows
By Deborah Blum
June 29, 2012
On a bright morning in early June, a
rancher named Jerry Abel turned his
small herd of cattle out to graze. The 18 cows moved hungrily into that field
of fresh grass. Within a few hours, only three were still alive. Texas
Abel's 80 acre ranch sits just a little east of
and the story was strange enough that
on Sunday a local CBS affiliate picked it up. "There was nothing you could do,"
Abel told
KEYE about his desperate efforts to save the animals. "Obviously, they
were dying." Austin
The television reporter apparently saw the evil hand of science at work in the episode, at least that was definitely the message in the story: "Genetically modified grass linked to cattle deaths." Alternatively, she just didn't do her homework because the grass in question – Tifton 85 - is not a GM product. It's a decades old hybrid grass developed by
agricultural scientists as
a high-protein, easily digestible forage. Georgia
The CBS story was immediately circulated – and by circulated, I mean embraced – by anti-GM activists and bloggers. I wrote a summary of this for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker earlier this week which detailed both the activist enthusiasm for the story (one suggested that GM grass was practically producing chemical warfare agents) and the rapid corrective response from science writers who knew what "hybrid" actually meant. The you-got-this-wrong message was so strong that CBS News corrected the story within a day.
But my point here is not to review the media issue but to take a look at the Sherlockian mystery of how a pasture full of a well-known hybrid grass could suddenly turn so murderous. And I'll give away part of the solution by reminding you of something we tend to forget in our obsession with the risks of synthetic chemistry and genetic engineering. What the
cow story reminds
us – or should – is that naturally occurring chemistry can be just as wicked as
anything we dream up in a laboratory. Texas
There's no debate over the poison that killed Mr. Abel's cows. Hydrogen cyanide was found both in the cow's bodies and in the grass itself. The veterinarian who autopsied the animals, called it prussic acid poisoning. Prussic acid is an old-time term for hydrogen cyanide (derived from hydrocyanic acid), dating back to some 18th century chemistry experiments in which a deep blue pigment used by artists, called Prussian Blue , was mixed with acid to generate the poison.
The foundation of any cyanide is a a cyano group – basically a carbon atom tripled bonded to a nitrogen atom (with the chemical symbol CN). Cyanides are natural joiners, attaching to other chemicals with enthusiasm. Thus we have the gases hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and cyanogen chloride (CNCl) and the salts – sodium cyanide (NaCN), potassium cyanide (KCN). All are acutely poisonous. And while I earlier mocked the anti-GM activist comparing
grass to chemical
weaponry, both hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen chloride do have military
designations. The military symbol for hydrogen cyanide is AK. Texas
But don't let that fool you into thinking that cyanides are a human invention. They aren't. We just capitalized on an invention of nature itself, a chemistry shared by numerous plant species including some grasses. Why? Most scientists believe that plants developed this chemistry as a way of fending off predators, from insects to grazers. The plants store cyanides in an inactive form but they can release them under threat or stress.
The stored forms of cyanide in plants are called cyanogenic glycosides. Basically this tells us that the cyanide is bound to – neatly locked up by – sugars in the plant. Under stress, though, the cyanide-sugar bond can break and the poison can be released. How many plant species hold this potential?Thousands. After the
cattle story appeared, the scientist and blogger Mary Mangan sent
me a link to a 1998 article in the journal Phytochemistry titled "Why Are So Many Food Plants
Cyanogenic"? Texas
The paper's author, David A. Jones, points out that "There are now sufficient examples of plant defense by cyanogenesis for us to conclude that cyanogenesis is an important system of chemical defense in plants." He then reviews an astonishing variety of food plants that contain these precursor poisons, including wheat, barley, oats, rye, French beans, kidney beans, lima beans, apples, peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, almonds, Macadamia nuts, quince, papaya, passion fruit, bamboo shoots, cassava root, taro root and more.
As Jones notes, in most cases we are eating plants in which the cyanides remain locked up by the surrounding sugars. Or they are found in parts of the fruit, say, that we normally don't eat – the seeds of the apple, the pit of the peach. And we usually eat them in a small enough amount (dose) and at a gradual enough rate that our own metabolic enzymes can break them down into a relatively harmless state. I say relatively because there are some instances of harm from what Jones calls "chronic cyanide poisoning of humans", but these tend to occur in high risk groups. People with sickle cell diseases, tobacco smokers, people with Leber's disease (an inherited degeneration of the optic nerve) seems less able to detoxify cyanogenic compounds. As one example of this, Jones cites a number of Leber's patients who went blind due to the cyanogens found in apple cider.
None of this, you've probably noted, involves people or animals suddenly dropping dead of cyanide poisoning. Most of that of course, is because we're still talking about consumption of those sugar-bound poison molecules. But what if the plant is an unhappy plant? What if it's suffering from sustained, damaging stress? And what if, under that stress, the glycosides unravel and release pure hydrogen cyanide?
As we all know,
is in the midst of a sustained and destructive drought. And as it turns out,
there's quite a bit of research showing that forage grasses can become
surprisingly poisonous when they are stressed by heat and drought. To that end,
I refer you to this article from the Texas titled, "Managing Forages to
Minimize Prussic Acid Poisoning." Or "Livestock and Prussic Acid
Poisoning" from University
of Wyoming .
Or "Preventing
Prussic Acid Poisoning of Livestock" from Ohio
State University . And as
it also turns out, the Tifton 85 grass in Mr. Abel's field is a hybrid
of Bermuda grass and star grass. And star grass is one
of those cyanogenic plant species we've just been discussing. Oregon State
All of which suggests that Mr Abel's cows were caught in a lethal interaction between some very old and very well known plant chemistry and an entrenched period of hot, dry weather. As you've noticed, this doesn't solve for the entire mystery. Why this field and not other
fields planted with Tifton 85? One
possibility is suggested by an investigation
by Natural News, which points out that heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers
can influence the cyanogenic process. Natural News, of course, is firmly in the
anti-GM camp but even it concluded that "there appears to be no GMO, no secret
experiments, no conspiracy." Texas
There's a hint of disappointment in that line. But there shouldn't be. Because this piece of scientific detective work leads us to a point that – as I said earlier – we too often forget: that we live in a chemical word, amazing, complicated, ingenious, and occasionally wonderfully, startlingly, and terrifyingly lethal.


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Intelligent Transport Systems
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have the potential to revolutionize mobility, changing everything from the way we move and communicate to how we design transport legislation and regulate vehicles. UNECE, as the only United Nations body dedicated to inland transport, offers a unique platform for shaping the legal framework and ensuring the safe introduction of future technologies. Since 2004, the UNECE Transport Division has led the discussion on ITS and in 2012 it formulated a Road Map for promoting ITS.
Areas of work
Automated driving
More information on Automated Driving is available on this page
Upcoming Events
Not anymore displayed on this page. Please refer to www.unece.org/trans


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Sodium thiopental
|1:1 mixture (racemate)
|Systematic (IUPAC) name
|(RS)-[5-ethyl-4,6-dioxo-5-(pentan-2-yl)-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidin-2-yl]sulfanide sodium
|Clinical data
|Oral, intravenous
|Pharmacokinetic data
|5.5[1]-26 hours[2]
71-73-8 7px (sodium salt)
76-75-5 (free acid)
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Sodium thiopental, also known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories), thiopental, thiopentone, or Trapanal (also a trademark), is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anesthetic that is an analogue of thiobarbital. Sodium thiopental is a core medicine in the World Health Organization's "Essential Drugs List", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic healthcare system.[3] It was previously the first of three drugs administered during most lethal injections in the United States, but the U.S. manufacturer Hospira stopped manufacturing the drug and the EU banned the export of the drug for this purpose.[4]
Sodium thiopental is an ultra-short-acting barbiturate and has been used commonly in the induction phase of general anesthesia. Its use has been largely replaced with that of propofol.[citation needed] Following intravenous injection, the drug rapidly reaches the brain and causes unconsciousness within 30–45 seconds. At one minute, the drug attains a peak concentration of about 60% of the total dose in the brain. Thereafter, the drug distributes to the rest of the body, and in about 5–10 minutes the concentration is low enough in the brain such that consciousness returns.[citation needed]
A normal dose of sodium thiopental (usually 4–6 mg/kg) given to a pregnant woman for operative delivery (caesarian section) rapidly makes her unconscious, but the baby in her uterus remains conscious. However, larger or repeated doses can depress the baby.[citation needed]
Sodium thiopental is not used to maintain anesthesia in surgical procedures because, in infusion, it displays zero-order elimination kinetics, leading to a long period before consciousness is regained. Instead, anesthesia is usually maintained with an inhaled anesthetic (gas) agent. Inhaled anesthetics are eliminated relatively quickly, so that stopping the inhaled anesthetic will allow rapid return of consciousness. Sodium thiopental would have to be given in large amounts to maintain an anesthetic plane, and because of its 11.5–26 hour half-life, consciousness would take a long time to return.[5]
In veterinary medicine, sodium thiopental is used to induce anesthesia in animals. Since it is redistributed to fat, certain lean breeds of dogs such as sight hounds will have prolonged recoveries from sodium thiopental due to their lack of body fat and their lean body mass. Conversely, obese animals will have rapid recoveries, but it will be some time[vague] before it is entirely removed (metabolized) from their bodies. Sodium thiopental is always administered intravenously, as it can be fairly irritating; severe tissue necrosis and sloughing can occur if it is injected incorrectly into the tissue around a vein.[citation needed]
Medically induced coma
In addition to anesthesia induction, sodium thiopental was historically used to induce medical comas.[6] It has now been superseded by drugs such as propofol because their effects wear off more quickly than thiopental. However, extended use of propofol risks the onset of propofol infusion syndrome.
Patients with brain swelling, causing elevation of the intracranial pressure, either secondary to trauma or following surgery, may benefit from this drug. Sodium thiopental, and the barbiturate class of drugs, decrease neuronal activity and therefore decrease the production of osmotically active metabolites, which in turn decreases swelling. Patients with significant swelling have improved outcomes following the induction of coma. Reportedly, thiopental has been shown to be superior to pentobarbital in reducing intracranial pressure.This phenomenon is also termed as Reverse steal Effect.[7]
Status epilepticus
In refractory status epilepticus, that is, status epilepticus that does not resolve with both benzodiazepines and anti-epileptic drugs, thiopental can be used as a third-line treatment. For this purpose, it can only be administered on an intensive care unit, as the required dose can lead to profound cardiorespiratory depression. The dose is titrated to a burst suppression pattern on the electroencephalogram.[8]
Sodium thiopental is used intravenously for the purposes of euthanasia. In both Belgium and the Netherlands, where active euthanasia is allowed by law, the standard protocol recommends sodium thiopental as the ideal agent to induce coma, followed by pancuronium bromide.[9]
Intravenous administration is the most reliable and rapid way to accomplish euthanasia. A coma is first induced by intravenous administration of 20 mg/kg thiopental sodium (Nesdonal) in a small volume (10 ml physiological saline). Then, a triple dose of a non-depolarizing skeletal muscle relaxant is given, such as 20 mg pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) or 20 mg vecuronium bromide (Norcuron). The muscle relaxant should be given intravenously to ensure optimal availability but pancuronium bromide may be administered intramuscularly at an increased dosage level of 40 mg.[9]
Lethal injection
Along with pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, thiopental is used in 34 states of the U.S. to execute prisoners by lethal injection. A very large dose is given to ensure rapid loss of consciousness. Although death usually occurs within ten minutes of the beginning of the injection process, some have been known to take longer.[10] The use of sodium thiopental in execution protocols was challenged in court after a study in the medical journal The Lancet reported autopsies of executed inmates showed the level of thiopental in their bloodstream was insufficient to cause unconsciousness.
On December 8, 2009, the State of Ohio became the first to use a single dose of sodium thiopental for its capital execution, following the failed use of the standard three-drug cocktail during a recent execution, due to inability to locate suitable veins. Kenneth Biros was executed using the single-drug method.[11]
The state of Washington is now the second state in the U.S. to use the single-dose sodium thiopental injections for death penalty executions. On September 10, 2010, Cal Coburn Brown was executed. This was the first execution in the state to use a single dose, single drug injection. His death was pronounced approximately one and a half minutes after the intravenous administration of five grams of the drug.[12]
After its use for execution of Jeffrey Landrigan in the U.S., the UK introduced a ban on the export of sodium thiopental in December 2010,[13] after it was established that no European supplies to the U.S. were being used for any other purpose.[14] The restrictions were based on "the European Union Torture Regulation (including licensing of drugs used in execution by lethal injection)".[15] From 21 December 2011 the European Union extended trade restrictions to prevent the export of certain medicinal products for capital punishment, stating that "the Union disapproves of capital punishment in all circumstances and works towards its universal abolition".[16]
Truth serum
Thiopental (Pentothal) is still used in some places as a truth serum to weaken the resolve of the subject and make them more compliant to pressure.[17] The barbiturates as a class decrease higher cortical brain functioning. Some psychiatrists hypothesize that because lying is more complex than telling the truth, suppression of the higher cortical functions may lead to the uncovering of the truth. The drug tends to make subjects loquacious and cooperative with interrogators; however, the reliability of confessions made under thiopental is questionable.[18] Sodium thiopental is featured as a truth serum in several Hollywood films, in comics and other literature, and even in popular music.[19]
Psychiatrists have used thiopental to desensitize patients with phobias,[20] and to "facilitate the recall of painful repressed memories."[21] One psychiatrist who worked with thiopental is the Dutch Professor Jan Bastiaans, who used this procedure to help relieve trauma in surviving victims of the Holocaust.[22]
Mechanism of action
Sodium thiopental is a member of the barbiturate class of drugs, which are relatively non-selective compounds that bind to an entire superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels, of which the GABAA receptor channel is one of several representatives. This superfamily of ion channels includes the neuronal nAChR channel, the 5HT3R channel, the GlyR channel and others. Surprisingly, while GABAA receptor currents are increased by barbiturates (and other general anesthetics), ligand-gated ion channels that are predominantly permeable for cationic ions are blocked by these compounds. For example, neuronal nAChR channels are blocked by clinically relevant anesthetic concentrations of both sodium thiopental and pentobarbital.[23] Such findings implicate (non-GABA-ergic) ligand-gated ion channels, e.g. the neuronal nAChR channel, in mediating some of the (side) effects of barbiturates.[24] The GABAA receptor is an inhibitory channel that decreases neuronal activity, and barbiturates enhance the inhibitory action of the GABAA receptor.[25]
Following a shortage that led a court to delay an execution in California, a company spokesman for Hospira, the sole American manufacturer of the drug, objected to the use of thiopental in lethal injection. "Hospira manufactures this product because it improves or saves lives, and the company markets it solely for use as indicated on the product labeling. The drug is not indicated for capital punishment, and Hospira does not support its use in this procedure."[26] On January 21, 2011, the company announced that it would stop production of sodium thiopental from its plant in Italy because it could not guarantee Italian authorities that the drug would not be used in executions. Italy was the only viable place where the company could produce sodium thiopental, leaving the United States without a supplier.[27]
Thiopental rapidly and easily crosses the blood brain barrier as it is a lipophilic molecule. As with all lipid-soluble anaesthetic drugs, the short duration of action of sodium thiopental is due almost entirely to its redistribution away from central circulation towards muscle and fat tissue, due to its very high fat:water partition coefficient (aprx 10), leading to sequestration in fat tissue. Once redistributed, the free fraction in the blood is metabolized in the liver. Sodium thiopental is mainly metabolized to pentobarbital,[28] 5-ethyl-5-(1'-methyl-3'-hydroxybutyl)-2-thiobarbituric acid, and 5-ethyl-5-(1'-methyl-3'-carboxypropyl)-2-thiobarbituric acid.[29]
The usual dose range for induction of anesthesia using thiopental is from 3 to 7 mg/kg; however, there are many factors that can alter this. Premedication with sedatives such as benzodiazepines or clonidine will reduce requirements, as do specific disease states and other patient factors. Among patient factors are: age, sex, and lean body mass. Specific disease conditions that can alter the dose requirements of thiopentone and for that matter any other intravenous anaesthetic are: hypovolemia, burns, azotemia, hepatic failure, hypoproteinemia, etc.[citation needed]
Side effects
As with nearly all anesthetic drugs, thiopental causes cardiovascular and respiratory depression resulting in hypotension, apnea and airway obstruction. For these reasons, only suitably trained medical personnel should give thiopental in an environment suitably equipped to deal with these effects. Side effects include headache, agitated emergence, prolonged somnolence, and nausea. Intravenous administration of sodium thiopental is followed instantly by an odor and/or taste sensation, sometimes described as being similar to rotting onions, or to garlic. The hangover from the side effects may last up to 36 hours.
Although individual molecules of thiopental contain one sulfur atom, it is not a sulfonamide, and does not show allergic reactions of sulfa/sulpha drugs.
Thiopental should be used with caution in cases of liver disease, Addison's disease, myxedema, severe heart disease, severe hypotension, a severe breathing disorder, or a family history of porphyria.[30][31]
Co-administration of pentoxifylline and thiopental causes death by acute pulmonary edema in rats. This pulmonary edema was not mediated by cardiac failure or by pulmonary hypertension but was due to increased pulmonary vascular permeability.[32]
Sodium thiopental was discovered in the early 1930s by Ernest H. Volwiler and Donalee L. Tabern, working for Abbott Laboratories. It was first used in human beings on March 8, 1934, by Dr. Ralph M. Waters[33] in an investigation of its properties, which were short-term anesthesia and surprisingly little analgesia.[34] Three months later,[35] Dr. John S. Lundy started a clinical trial of thiopental at the Mayo Clinic at the request of Abbott.[36] Abbott continued to make the drug until 2004, when it spun off its hospital-products division as Hospira.
Thiopental is famously associated with a number of anesthetic deaths in victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor. These deaths, relatively soon after the drug's introduction, were said to be due to excessive doses given to shocked trauma patients. However, recent evidence available through freedom of information legislation was reviewed in the British Journal of Anaesthesia,[37] which has suggested that this story was grossly exaggerated. Of the 344 wounded that were admitted to the Tripler Army Hospital only 13 did not survive and it is unlikely that thiopentone overdose was responsible for more than a few of these.
Thiopental is still rarely used as a recreational drug, usually stolen from veterinarians or other legitimate users of the drug; however, more common sedatives such as benzodiazepines are usually preferred as recreational drugs, and abuse of thiopental tends to be uncommon and opportunistic.[citation needed]
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| 6.5°C Belfast
At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor's mobile phone number.
It came after a man, responding to publicity about the death, told police he had seen the actor at the New York apartment building where they were arrested on Tuesday. He said he believed that is where the 46-year-old got the heroin.
In searches of two flats in the building, police found hundreds of packets of the drug in one, according to a criminal complaint.
Prosecutors declined to pursue charges against one person, saying there was no evidence he had control of the drugs or the flat, a nd two others were charged only with possessing cocaine.
Only one, jazz musician Robert Vineberg, was facing a charge of heroin possession with intent to sell.
Lawyers for the three people charged denied their clients had any role in Philip's death and suggested they were being swept up in the attention surrounding it.
"This case and the charges against Mr. Vineberg have absolutely nothing to do with the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. ... We're hoping the (district attorney) will not use Mr Vineberg as a scapegoat," said his lawyer, Edward Kratt.
The arrests came two days into the high-profile case, with all three people charged indicted within a day of their arrests and being held without bail.
The two charged with cocaine possession are Juliana Luchkiw and Max Rosenblum, a couple who are neighbours of Vineberg's.
"She's not a drug dealer. She's a college student," said Ms Luchkiw's lawyer, Stephen Turano. Mr Rosenblum's lawyer, Daniel Hochheiser, said his client "has nothing to do with Philip Seymour Hoffman".
The couple had two bags of cocaine, while investigators found about 300 packets of heroin, a bag of cocaine and about 1,200 dollars (£736) in cash in Mr Vineberg's flat, according to criminal complaints.
Investigators have determined that the Capote star made six ATM transactions for a total of 1,200 dollars (£740) inside a supermarket near his home the day before his death.
They are examining a computer and two iPads found at the scene and recovered syringes, a charred spoon and various prescription medications, including a blood pressure drug and a muscle relaxant.
Officers are waiting for a cause of death for the Oscar-winning actor from the medical examiner's office, which has said that more tests were needed.
He was found dead on Sunday with a needle in his arm, and tests found heroin in samples from at least 50 packets in his apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
A private funeral for relatives and close friends is set for Friday, and a larger memorial service will be held later this month, his publicist Karen Samfilippo said.
On Wednesday night, Broadway theatres dimmed their lights in memory of the Tony Award-nominated actor, and members of the theatre community held a candlelight vigil for him.
"Courage was his forte, always," said playwright and actor Eric Bogosian.
"In this world of creative enterprise, it is ultimately up to the artists to decide how high a bar he or she will set for themselves. Phil set his bar on the highest rung, on a rung above the highest rung."
Philip earned a Tony Award nomination each time he appeared on Broadway. He made his debut there in Sam Shepard's True West in 2000 and followed it up three years later with Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night with Brian Dennehy and Vanessa Redgrave.
In 2012, he played a powerful Willy Loman in Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller opposite Andrew Garfield and under the direction of Mike Nichols.


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As an independent wood specialist, I'm spending the day sat at my computer, finalising the text for the waterlogged wood assessment report for the timbers excavated from the Late Bronze Age pile dwelling at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, UK. The excavations at Must Farm and in the surrounding landscape over the last ten years have been truly astonishing, turning up the remains of nine Bronze Age log boats, and – most recently – a breathtakingly well-preserved settlement, built on piles above a river channel. Must Farm is one of those archaeological sites that presents a tangible snapshot of how past lives were lived, beautifully preserved in the anaerobic conditions of the river muds.
Overhead view of the excavation (Courtesy of CAU)
The document I'm working on needs to outline all the waterlogged wood that was excavated and recorded on site, assess its significance as an archaeological assemblage and lay out the case for the analysis that could be carried out. I'm dealing with remains of the wooden structures that once stood at the site, the tools and wooden artefacts that they used in and around their homes, even the woodchips that resulted from building the settlement. All the different material types – pottery, metalwork, bone, textiles, and many others – will have a specialist assessment which will be brought together to produce an overarching document summarising all the discoveries made at the site. The archaeological contractor (Cambridge Archaeological Unit) will then work with Historic England and the developer (Forterra) to decide how to move the project forward into the analysis and publication phase.
Although we're not carrying out any detailed analysis at the assessment stage, it's already proving to be a fascinating process. The spatial information is starting to be pulled together in GIS, so we can now 'see' a lot of the settlement's wooden structure on the computer screen. This is essential as it's a really big assemblage, with about 5000 pieces of wood recorded. I've been working closely with Iona Robinson Zeki, one of the site supervisors. Although I was on site a lot, it's not the same as being there every day and it's that fine-grained knowledge of the excavation which is now helping to bring the construction of the settlement into sharp focus.
Some of the plan data for Roundhouse 1 (Courtesy of CAU)
We spent a lot of time as a team, talking in the trenches about how the roundhouses were built and, although there's still a lot we don't know, it's great to see some of our ideas and theories down in black and white on the page (well, screen).
Key Structural elements of Roundhouse 1 (Courtesy of CAU)
There are around 170 wooden artefacts which Vicki Herring, CAU's fantastic illustrator, has drawn. As the artefacts are now all in conservation at York Archaeological Trust, the illustrations are proving an essential resource while pulling together a catalogue of the material.
Wooden beater (Courtesy of Vicki Herring / CAU)
I'm really looking forward to reading the full assessment document and beginning to see all the different strands of evidence come together. Then it will be time to crack on with the analysis, and really get to grips with what the wooden remains can tell us about the lives of the people who lived in this settlement 3000 years ago.


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Razorbacks Break Road Losing Streak, Beat Auburn
Hogs Overcome Seven-Point Halfway Deficit To Beat Tigers
Rickey Scott scored 22 points and Arkansas picked up its first road win in nine tries this season, beating Auburn 77-71 on Saturday.
Mardracus Wade added 18 points for the Razorbacks (18-11, 6-8 Southeastern Conference), who trailed by as many as 17 points in the first half. B.J. Young and Brandon Mitchell each scored 10.
Allen Payne and Frankie Sullivan each had 15 points for Auburn (14-14, 4-10). Kenny Gabriel scored 14 points and Rob Chubb added 11.
The Tigers shot 54.2 percent (13 of 24) from the line -- a deficiency that was costly down the stretch after Arkansas retook the lead late.
Auburn played without guards Varez Ward and Chris Denson, the team's third and fourth leading scorers.
Ward and Denson, who injured his knee against Florida on Tuesday, were both not on the bench for the game. Tigers coach Tony Barbee said after the game both players are suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules.
After trailing by double figures for most of the first half, Arkansas cut the Auburn lead to 41-37 on a 3-pointer from Wade with 19:41 left to play.
The Tigers responded with eight straight points over the next 1:54, pulling ahead with a 49-37 advantage on a Chubb runner in the lane with 17:20 left.
Arkansas answered right back with a 16-5 run, closing the gap to 54-53 at the 11:31 mark on a jumper by Julysses Nobles, his first basket of the game.
Nobles struck again, from 3-point range, to give Arkansas the lead at 63-62 with 5:52 to go. It was the Razorbacks' first lead since 5-4 at the 18:35 mark of the first half.
The teams traded the lead four times over the next four minutes, until Young hit a runner in the lane to put Arkansas up 71-70 with 2:05 remaining. Young, who scored 52 points in the two previous games, was quiet for most of the game until scoring six straight points to vault Arkansas into the lead.
Auburn had four chances from the free throw line to cut into the Razorbacks lead down the stretch but hit only one, and Arkansas closed out the game.
Auburn spread the ball around early, with all five of its starters hitting a shot in the first 3:52.
Gabriel scored five straight points -- on a deep 3-pointer and a breakaway layup off a turnover -- to polish off a 19-4 run over 5:21 that built the Tigers' lead to 21-9 with 12:14 left in the first half.
The Tigers hit 14 of their first 20 shots, including 5-of-8 from beyond the arc, extending their lead to 35-18 on a Sullivan layup at the 6:55 mark before Arkansas could start cutting into the deficit.
The Razorbacks closed the half on a 16-6 run, with 14 of their 16 points coming from Scott or Wade, to go into the break trailing 41-34. Scott scored 18 in the first half on 7-of-9 shooting, and Wade added 10.
Sullivan and Gabriel each had 10 in the first half for the Tigers.


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It's Time To Talk!
In life we prepare for everything… college, marriage, children, and retirement. Despite the conversations we have for these important milestones, rarely do we have conversations about how we want to be cared for at the end of our lives.
Talking is the single most important thing that you can do to prepare for the death of someone you love. While difficult, the end of life can be amazingly rich. Talking about this time makes a rich ending more likely. Often such conversations are avoided out of an understandable desire to spare each other's feelings. They need not be.
Your local non-profit Visiting Nurse Associations and Home Health and Hospice agencies have prepared helpful materials and resources to help you start the conversation with your loved ones.


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RBAC for the Prometheus Operator involves two parts, RBAC rules for the Operator itself and RBAC rules for the Prometheus Pods themselves created by the Operator as Prometheus requires access to the Kubernetes API for target and Alertmanager discovery.
In order for the Prometheus Operator to work in an RBAC based authorization environment, a
ClusterRole with access to all the resources the Operator requires for the Kubernetes API needs to be created. This section is intended to describe, why the specified rules are required.
Here is a ready to use manifest of a
ClusterRole that can be used to start the Prometheus Operator:
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRole
name: prometheus-operator
- apiGroups:
- extensions
- thirdpartyresources
- "*"
- apiGroups:
- apiextensions.k8s.io
- customresourcedefinitions
- "*"
- apiGroups:
- monitoring.coreos.com
- alertmanagers
- prometheuses
- servicemonitors
- "*"
- apiGroups:
- apps
- statefulsets
verbs: ["*"]
- apiGroups: [""]
- configmaps
- secrets
verbs: ["*"]
- apiGroups: [""]
- pods
verbs: ["list", "delete"]
- apiGroups: [""]
- services
- endpoints
verbs: ["get", "create", "update"]
- apiGroups: [""]
- nodes
verbs: ["list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: [""]
- namespaces
verbs: ["list"]
Note: A cluster admin is required to create this
ClusterRoleand create a
RoleBindingto the
ServiceAccountused by the Prometheus Operator
Pod. The
ServiceAccountused by the Prometheus Operator
Podcan be specified in the
Deploymentobject used to deploy it.
When the Prometheus Operator boots up for the first time it registers the
thirdpartyresources it uses, therefore the
create action on those is required.
As the Prometheus Operator works extensively with the
thirdpartyresources it registers, it requires all actions on those objects. Those are:
Alertmanager and Prometheus clusters are created using
statefulsets therefore all changes to an Alertmanager or Prometheus object result in a change to the
statefulsets, which means all actions must be permitted.
Additionally as the Prometheus Operator takes care of generating configurations for Prometheus to run, it requires all actions on
When the Prometheus Operator performs version migrations from one version of Prometheus or Alertmanager to the other it needs to
pods running an old version and
delete those.
The Prometheus Operator reconciles
services called
prometheus-operated and
alertmanager-operated, which are used as governing
Services for the
StatefulSets. To perform this reconciliation
As the kubelet is currently not self-hosted, the Prometheus Operator has a feature to synchronize the IPs of the kubelets into an
Endpoints object, which requires access to
list and
watch of
nodes (kubelets) and
create and
update for
The Prometheus server itself accesses the Kubernetes API to discover targets and Alertmanagers. Therefore a separate
ClusterRole for those Prometheus servers needs to exist.
As Prometheus does not modify any Objects in the Kubernetes API, but just reads them it simply requires the
list, and
watch actions. As Prometheus can also be used to scrape metrics from the Kubernetes apiserver, it also requires access to the
/metrics/ endpoint of it.
In addition to the resources Prometheus itself needs to access, the Prometheus side-car needs to be able to
get configmaps to be able to pull in rule files from configmap objects.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRole
name: prometheus
- apiGroups: [""]
- nodes
- services
- endpoints
- pods
verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
- apiGroups: [""]
- configmaps
verbs: ["get"]
- nonResourceURLs: ["/metrics"]
verbs: ["get"]
Note: A cluster admin is required to create this
ClusterRoleand create a
RoleBindingto the
ServiceAccountused by the Prometheus
Pods. The
ServiceAccountused by the Prometheus
Pods can be specified in the
To demonstrate how to use a
ClusterRole with a
ClusterRoleBinding and a
ServiceAccount here an example. It is assumed, that both of the
ClusterRoles described above are already created.
Say the Prometheus Operator shall be deployed in the
default namespace. First a
ServiceAccount needs to be setup.
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
name: prometheus-operator
Note that the
ServiceAccountName also has to actually be used in the
PodTemplate of the
Deployment of the Prometheus Operator.
And then a
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
name: prometheus-operator
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: prometheus-operator
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: prometheus-operator
namespace: default
Because the
Pod that the Prometheus Operator is running in uses the
ServiceAccount named
prometheus-operator and the
RoleBinding associates it with the
ClusterRole named
prometheus-operator it now has permission to access all the resources as described above.
When creating
Prometheus objects the procedure is similar. It starts with a
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
name: prometheus
And then because the
ClusterRole named
prometheus, as described above, is likely to be used multiple times, a
ClusterRoleBinding instead of a
RoleBinding is used.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
name: prometheus
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: prometheus
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: prometheus
namespace: default
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Stage Details for 2007 Amgen Tour of California Announced
Courtesy GolinHarris
Specific route and race details for the 2007 Amgen Tour of California, a Tour de France style cycling road race in which 16 of the worlds top professional cycling teams will compete along a demanding 650-mile course from San Francisco to Long Beach, Calif. February 18-25 were revealed today by AEG, promoters/presenters of the second year event.
Building on the inaugural stage race that attracted 1.3 million spectators, the 2007 Amgen Tour of California is one of the most anticipated professional cycling races in the U.S. and will feature an even longer, more challenging route. A national television partnership with VERSUS (formerly OLN) to bring daily race coverage to fans throughout the country also was announced.
Over eight days, the race will visit 12 host cities for official stage starts and finishes, with communities along the route getting the chance to see firsthand a lineup of some of the best and most recognizable teams in the world, which already includes Discovery Pro Cycling Team, Team CSC and Predictor-Lotto. Host cities for the eight stages include: San Francisco, Sausalito, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose, Seaside, San Luis Obispo, Solvang, Santa Barbara, Santa Clarita and Long Beach.
"California's varied landscape makes for challenging geographical features, and we designed the 2007 route to include some the most picturesque and demanding terrain in the state," said Shawn Hunter, president of AEG Sports, presenters of the race. "The striking scenery resulting in a truly challenging level of difficulty along the route will ensure an exciting race for riders and spectators alike."
Fans throughout the nation will have the opportunity to enjoy all of the excitement and suspense of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California with nightly recaps on VERSUS, which joins the race as the official television partner. Available in more than 70 million homes, VERSUS, which has provided live coverage of The Tour de France since 2001, is widely considered Americas home of professional cycling. Totaling 14 hours of action-packed programming, same-day coverage will air on VERSUS each of the eight days of the stage race at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT (most weekday nights) with live and recap coverage on weekends.
"We deliver the best, most comprehensive cycling coverage to our viewers, and the Amgen Tour of California is a compelling addition to our cycling line-up and a great way to kick off the 2007 cycling season on VERSUS, said Marc Fein, senior vice president of programming and production. Its a great television event because, in addition to showcasing intense competition between some of the best cyclists in the world, California provides a beautiful backdrop for all of the action.
Highlights of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California race route include:
Prologue: San Francisco (Sunday, Feb. 18 )
At 1 p.m., riders will kick off the 2007 Amgen Tour of California with a short, but intense Prologue, sponsored by Union Bank of California, through the streets of San Francisco. Starting by the Ferry Building at Pier 1, the cyclists will ride 1.9-mile individual time trials along the Embarcardero, making the sharp left onto Bay Street and then up the tight, steep climb through Telegraph Hill to the finish at Coit Tower.
Stage 1: Sausalito to Santa Rosa (Monday, Feb. 19 )
Starting on the northern side of the San Francisco Bay, Stage 1 will cover almost 100 miles from Sausalito to Santa Rosa. The stage, sponsored by Herbalife, begins with a climb from Mill Valley up to Mt. Tamalpais State Park before turning toward Muir Beach. The route mirrors that of 2006 all the way to Valley Ford, but where the riders headed east to Santa Rosa, the 2007 route will continue north to Bodega Bay and turn onto Coleman Valley Road, a landmark climb in Northern California. Then, spectators can watch the stage win unfold as the field heads downhill from Occidental for three finishing circuit laps in downtown Santa Rosa. In 2006, Santa Rosa set the mark for one of the most enthusiastic and largest crowds of the entire Amgen Tour of California.
Stage 2: Santa Rosa to Sacramento (Tuesday, Feb. 20)
A scenic start through several Sonoma County wineries will quickly turn into one of the most significant climbs of the race as the peloton heads east en route to Sacramento. Twelve miles from the start, Trinity Road's vertical climbs and treacherous decent into the wineries of Napa Valley will make it one of the most difficult climbs of the entire race. Continuing east past Lake Berryessa, the peloton will head through Davis, recently named the best cycling town in the U.S. by Bicycle Magazine. With a quick turn to the north, the route will follow the Sacramento River to the well-known Tower Bridge and on to the Capitol Mall. The stage concludes with three circuits through downtown, finishing on the front step of California's Capitol Building, a perfect viewing location.
Stage 3: Stockton to San Jose (Wednesday, Feb. 21)
After a neutral start with parade laps through Stockton's revitalized downtown area, the peloton will head west through California's farm lands. After passing through Tracy, the riders will encounter a climb new to this year's race, Patterson Pass. After passing through the city of Livermore, The route then connects to the familiar roads of the 2006 Stage 2 route on Calaveras Road. This long, constant grade leads to the most difficult climb of the race, the Category One (highest ranked in order of difficulty) Sierra Road climb in San Jose. After completing this KOM (King of the Mountain) competition, the peloton will finish the 94.6-mile course in front of San Jose City Hall.
Stage 4: Seaside to San Luis Obispo (Thursday, Feb. 22 )
The remarkable views of stage four will make it a favorite for riders and spectators alike. Beginning in Seaside with a short neutral lap and traveling along a similar route to last year's Stage 4, the peloton will head south on scenic Highway 1 where the mountains and redwood forests flank the Pacific Ocean. At more than 130 miles and with three KOMs, this is the longest stage of the race and will test the riders on consistently hilly and technical terrain. The six-hour day will take the riders through Big Sur and by Hearst Castle before shifting inland toward the finish at the intersection of Osos and Monterey in San Luis Obispo.
Stage 5: Solvang Individual Time Trial (Friday, Feb. 23 )
The quaint Danish village of Solvang hosts some of the ProTour teams for training camps as well as some of the largest cycling events in the U.S. At only 14.5-miles, and with the start and finish located only two blocks apart, Stage 5 is an ideal location for spectators to view the race. The route will highlight some of the most beautiful areas and towns of Central California, winding through quaint towns, vineyards, farms, and one short but steep climb. This year's shorter, flatter and faster time trial will create a challenging test for the riders.
Stage 6: Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita (Saturday, Feb. 24)
This could be the pivotal stage for the 2007 Amgen Tour of California. This is one of the longest stages at 105 miles, and it is heavy on climbs with four KOMs, two Sprints and a demanding finishing circuit in Santa Clarita. With the individual time trial late in the tour, there could be several riders separated by just a few seconds. After a start in view of the Santa Barbara shoreline, this stage, sponsored by Health Net, will be the last chance for a solid favorite to emerge before the circuit race finale in Long Beach. Once the peloton hits Highway 150, the racers will face two KOMs before passing Lake Casitas and riding into the scenic town of Ojai for the first Sprint of the day. The third KOM will be just a few miles outside Ojai, and then the course will head downhill into Santa Paula for the second Sprint of the day among fragrant citrus groves. The ominous Balcom Canyon will be the final climb of the day, where in 2006, nearly 10,000 fans formed a narrow corridor for the riders. The cyclists will end the day with three circuits in Santa Clarita that finish at McBean Parkway at the Valencia Town Center.
Stage 7: Long Beach Circuit Race (Sunday, Feb. 25)
Stage 7 is flat, fast, and will be a favorite with spectators, featuring a lot of sprint action as the cyclists race in 10 laps around a circuit course in downtown Long Beach. Sponsored by Amgen, the stage includes part of the famous Long Beach Grand Prix course used for CART race cars, meaning a legacy of roads that are wide and fast. Views of San Pedro Bay and the Pacific Ocean will be visible for the entire course, with a backdrop of the famed Queen Mary in the bay. Organizers expect a hard sprint to the finish; as with all the Grand Tours of Europe, winning the final stage of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California is a prize coveted by the riders.
For complete downloadable course maps and detailed stage information, please visit the press room at www.amgentourofcalifornia.com.
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Barron's Buzz: World's Best CEOs
Who made the list of the Barron's top CEOs? Who is no longer on it? Jack Hough joins The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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One of the main problems you will face when shopping for natural beauty and skin care products is determining which products are truly natural. There are literally thousands of products on the market these days claiming to be "natural." But just because a product has the word "natural" on the label doesn't necessarily mean its ingredients are 100% natural and free from synthetics.
It can be quite a challenge to figure out the real composition of the product, even if you are fairly well versed in reading product label jargon.
Unless you are familiar with the scientific names of every single ingredient, it can be quite tricky to figure out which ingredients are synthetic and which are natural. Some manufacturers use different names for the same or similar ingredients. And when it comes to natural ingredients, some use the common name, while others use the scientific names for plant extracts, so you might not even recognize a natural ingredient when you see it. (Helpful Tip: Look for the words "extract" or "oil" following the long scientific name – these will be natural plant extracts.)
Some manufacturers (Burt's Bees, for example) may list the percentage of natural ingredients right on the label, which makes it a lot easier to judge. But most don't, and even those that do don't necessarily include this information on all of their products.
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So what is a health-conscious shopper to do?
There are a number of databases where you can find information on both man-made chemicals and plant extracts., If you are prepared to put in some time, you can find these online or at your local library. It can be a time-consuming process, at first, to look up every single ingredient you run across that you don't recognize, but as you become familiar with the terminology, you will start to recognize certain prefixes and words that occur as components of other chemical names. Then when you see a variation of these you will at least know whether they are synthetic or natural.
You can also find databases on cosmetic safety, and natural product rating websites are becoming easier to find these days as natural beauty and person care products become more popular and mainstream.
With a little research and a keen eye, you can begin to differentiate for yourself which products are truly natural, and which ones are deceptively using the "natural" label, while still including potentially harmful synthetic chemicals in their formulations.
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You ever tried running a global car company? Shit's expensive, man. There's no way you can build every car on its own dedicated platform if you expect to have a diverse lineup. It costs way too much to do that. This is why platform sharing exists.
But some platforms get spread around way too much, and in some cases, last decades longer than they probably should. Then again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
That's our question for the day: What's the most prostituted car platform ever?
I nominate the venerable GM B-Body platform. It was invented by several prominent Old Testament figures and lasted all the way into the late 1990s, spawning approximately four million different car models along the way, if my math is correct. (Okay, I'm exaggerating. It was closer to three million.)
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Major stock indexes dipped Tuesday as weak readings on consumer confidence gave investors little reason to extend the recent rally.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 43.90 points to close at 13,197.73, a loss of 0.3 percent. Bank of America fell 3.3 percent, the biggest drop in the Dow, after an analyst downgraded the stock.
Major indexes opened higher, then pulled back after 10 a.m., when the Conference Board said its index of consumer confidence slipped in March. Higher gas prices offset the surging stock market. Around the same time, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia reported that a measure of regional manufacturing plunged this month.
Other indexes edged lower. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 3.99 points to 1,412.52. The Nasdaq composite fell 2.22 points to 3,120.35.
More than four stocks fell for every three that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volume was well below average at 3.4 billion.
The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq are up more than 1 percent for the week. The S&P 500 has already gained 12.3 percent to start the year. That three-month surge easily beats the 8 percent return most fund managers hope to make in a whole year. The Nasdaq is up even more for the year, 19.8 percent.
Brian Gendreau, market strategist at Cetera Financial, said the stock market still has room to go higher even after such a strong start. Companies in the S&P 500 index are trading for around 13 times their expected earnings over the next year, below the average of 14.6 times over the past decade. And there's plenty of cash still tucked away in the Treasury market.
"Compared to bonds, stocks remain very attractive," Gendreau said. "That doesn't tell you if we'll get a move in a week or a month from now, but it does tell you that there's a lot of pent-up demand."
Earnings from Lennar Corp. pulled housing stocks up. The country's third-largest builder reported quarterly profits that beat analysts' estimates by delivering more houses and pulling in more orders. Lennar rose 4.7 percent, the best gain in the S&P 500 index. PulteGroup rose 3.6 percent, D.R. Horton 2.8 percent.
The economic reports on consumer confidence and regional manufacturing helped push up prices in the U.S. government debt market, where traders park funds when the economy looks sluggish. The 10-year Treasury note rose 53 cents for every $100 invested. The yield fell to 2.18 percent from 2.26 percent late Monday.
Demand for Treasurys has pulled yields down from highs reached last week. The yield on the 10-year note touched 2.4 percent last Tuesday, the highest yield since October.
Natural gas prices fell again Tuesday on rising supplies and warmer winter weather. Natural gas futures fell 1.8 cents to $2.21 per 1,000 cubic feet. That's near a 10-year low and half of what natural gas fetched back in July.
Any money that consumers are saving on natural gas could wind up in the gasoline tank. The national average for regular gasoline in the U.S. is $3.90 per gallon. It's risen 62 cents since Jan. 1.
Among stocks making big moves:
— Walgreen Co. rose 1.2 percent. The drugstore chain posted a drop in quarterly earnings but the results still topped analysts' expectations.
— Apollo Group Inc. fell 8.5 percent, the biggest drop in the S&P 500. The for-profit education company reported a profit in the most recent quarter but issued a dim forecast. Apollo expects fewer students to enroll in the coming quarter.
— Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc. leapt 7.8 percent on news that Bausch & Lomb plans to buy the drug maker for roughly $500 million in cash. Ista gets most of its revenue from Bromday, an eye drop for patients recovering from cataract surgery. Bausch & Lomb plans to pay $9.10 per share for Ista, a 72-cent premium over Monday's closing price. Bausch & Lomb is privately held.