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USB-C to Gigabit Network Adapter with Extra USB 3.0 Port - Black
Use the USB Type-C port on your laptop to add a Gigabit Ethernet port and a USB 3.1 Gen 1 (type-A) port
Product ID: US1GC301AU
- Add a Gigabit Ethernet network connection to your computer through a USB Type-C port
- Works with the newest MacBook, Chromebook Pixel™and other laptop and desktop computers with a USB-C port
- Thunderbolt 3 port compatible
- Add a USB Type-A port to your computer for connecting an additional peripheral device
- Native driver support in Chrome OS™ and Windows® 8.1 for easy set-up
- Supports Mac OS 10.10 with driver installation
- Powered directly from the USB port
- Compact, lightweight design for maximum portability
- Supports 10/100/1000 Mbps auto-detection
- IEEE 802.3, 802.3u and 802.3ab compatible
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging support
- Built-in Checksum and Large Send Offload
- Up to 4K Jumbo Frame support
- Wake-On-LAN support
- IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet support
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Now, you can easily connect to a Gigabit network through the USB-C™ or Thunderbolt™ 3 port on your laptop or desktop computer, and add connectivity for an additional USB (Type-A) peripheral device. It's a great companion for your MacBook, Chromebook Pixel™, Dell™ XPS 12, Dell Latitude 12 7000 Series 2-in-1 or other devices.
Powerful Gigabit Network Connections
The USB-C network adapter supports full Gigabit bandwidth by harnessing the performance of USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gbps). You can quickly access very large files over the network at Gigabit speed.
Native Driver Support Makes Installation Easy
Get up and running quickly. Simply plug the adapter into the USB Type-C™ port on your laptop and connect to your network. The network adapter chipset provides native driver support in Chrome OS™ and Windows® 8.1, and supports Mac OSX (10.10) with driver installation.
Trouble-Free Connections Through USB-Type-C
The USB-C connector is smaller and easier to use than previous USB connectors. It's a reversible plug so you can connect to your devices with either side facing up, without frustration or the risk of port damage.
With a compact design, this USB-C network adapter is as portable as your laptop, perfect for ultra-portable devices that have a USB-C port, such as the MacBook and Chromebook Pixel™. The network adapter is bus-powered which makes it easy to connect when you're on the go.
Additional Connectivity With an Extra USB 3.1 Port
Some computers with USB Type-C only offer one port for external connectivity. This Ethernet adapter features a built-in USB Type-A port, giving you the freedom to attach an additional peripheral device, such as a USB mouse.
The US1GC301AU is backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support.
- Add Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to your MacBook, Chromebook Pixel, Dell XPS 12 or Dell Latitude 12 7000 Series 2-in-1
- Turn your USB-C port into a Gigabit LAN RJ45 port
- Add an extra USB peripheral along with your network adapter
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Technical Specifications
|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Bus Type
|USB 3.1 Gen 1
|Chipset ID
|Industry Standards
|IEEE 802.3, 802.3u and 802.3ab
|RJ45 (Gigabit Ethernet)
|USB Pass-Through
|Auto MDIX
|Compatible Networks
|10/100/1000 Mbps
|Full Duplex Support
|Jumbo Frame Support
|4K max.
|Maximum Data Transfer Rate
|5 Gbps (USB 3.1 Gen 1)
|Type and Rate
|USB 3.1 Gen 1 - 5 Gbit/s
|Connector Type(s)
|1 - USB Type-C (24 pin) USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Male
|External Ports
|1 - USB 3.1 USB Type-A (9 pin, Gen 1, 5 Gbps) Female
|1 - RJ-45 Latching Female
|OS Compatibility
|Windows® XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Windows Server® 2003, 2008 R2, 2012
Mac OS® 10.6 to 10.15 VLAN tagging is currently not supported in Mac OS
Linux Kernel 2.6.25 to 4.11.x LTS Versions only
|LED Indicators
|1 - Green: 10/100 Link/Activity
|1 - Amber: Gigabit Link/Activity
|Power Source
|Operating Temperature
|0°C to 50°C (32°F to 122°F)
|Storage Temperature
|-10°C to 60°C (14°F to 140°F)
|Physical Characteristics
|Cable Length
|20.3 cm [8 in]
|Form Factor
|Attached Cable
|Product Height
|1.7 cm [0.7 in]
|Product Length
|27.5 cm [10.8 in]
|Product Width
|3.5 cm [1.4 in]
|Weight of Product
|38 g [1.3 oz]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|30 mm [1.2 in]
|Package Length
|17 cm [6.7 in]
|Package Width
|14.3 cm [5.6 in]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|92 g [3.2 oz]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - USB-C to GbE Network Adapter
Windows Server® 2003, 2008 R2, 2012
Mac OS® 10.6 to 10.15 VLAN tagging is currently not supported in Mac OS
Linux Kernel 2.6.25 to 4.11.x LTS Versions only
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Product Support
- [ASIX88179] Windows USB Network Adapter.zip Version: 188.8.131.52
- Windows_Release_Notes.txt
- [ASIX88179] Mac USB Network Adapter.zip Version: 2.14 and 2.16
- Mac_Release_Notes.txt
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Before You Buy
USB-C is a type of USB connector that is capable of supporting the following:
- Data transfer speeds up to 10Gbps, if you use USB 3.1.
- Bi-directional power delivery up to 100W, if both the USB host connection and the device support it.
- Alternate modes, which deliver different types of data at different speeds. For example, DisplayPort Alternate Mode (DP Alt Mode).
If using Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C, the connection is capable of additional features. For example, Thunderbolt 3 is capable of 40Gbps of total bandwidth. For more information, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/faq/thunderbolt-3-port-capabilities.
Not all USB-C ports or devices are capable of supporting all of the features listed above, or all of the features at the maximum capabilities. If you require a specific USB-C feature, your USB host connection, cables, and device must all support the feature that you require. For more information about whether your components support specific USB-C features, refer to the information provided by the manufacturers.
Starting in High Sierra 10.13, macOS enforces stricter security policies than previous revisions. As a result of these changes, software packages, like those used in this installation, will need to be allowed within the macOS Security and Privacy settings, immediately after the software has been installed, in order for the device to operate.
To allow the software, follow these steps after you've completed installation on your Mac:
- Open System Preferences.
- Open Security & Privacy.
- Click the Allow button near the bottom of the General tab.
Note: The option to allow the software will be available within the Security & Privacy settings for 30 minutes. If the software is not allowed within that time frame, the software must be reinstalled in order for macOS to grant the opportunity to allow it again.
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StarTech.com does not support a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) as this requires third-party software. However, our devices can be used as long as the following conditions are met:
- The BIOS must support PXE.
- The BIOS must see the card.
- The environment must have drivers for the chipset used in the card.
- If using a USB networking card, the environment must have support for USB devices as well.
To confirm that the Mac OS detects your USB device, complete the following:
- Click the Apple icon.
- Click About This Mac.
- Click More Info or System Report.
- Under the appropriate heading, confirm that your USB device is listed and that there isn't an error. For example, a network card would be under Ethernet Cards.
You may need to refresh the System Information page after you plug in your device. To do so, press Command + R with the System Information page open.
Your USB device is listed according to the name of the chipset. To determine the name of the chipset of your USB device, navigate to www.StarTech.com and look on the Technical Specifications tab for your product.
When you troubleshoot issues with a network adapter, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
- Ethernet cables
- Network devices
- Computer system
To test your setup components, try the following:
- Use the Ethernet cables, network devices, and computer system in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
- Use different Ethernet cables, network devices, and a different computer system in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test your cables, it is recommended that you do the following:
- Test each cable individually.
- Use short cables when you are testing.
When you test the Ethernet cables, network devices, and computer system, it is recommended that you do the following:
- In Device Manager, check under Network Adapters. To open Device Manager, press the Windows key + R, type devmgmt.msc, and press Enter.
- If you are using a USB network adapter and you do not see the network adapter listed in Device Manager, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/support/faqs/technical-support?topic=expansion-cards#usb-cannot-detect-windows.
- If you are using a PCI/PCIe network adapter and you do not see the network adapter listed in Device Manager, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/support/faqs/technical-support?topic=expansion-cards#pci-pcie-cannot-boot-os-or-detect-windows.
- If you are using a CardBus/ExpressCard adapter and you do not see the network adapter listed in Device Manager, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/support/faqs/technical-support?topic=expansion-cards#cb-ec-cannot-detect-windows.
- If the device is listed with an error, follow the instructions on the product page to reinstall the drivers.
- Check to see if your network devices (for example, a network switch, router, and so on) use compatible protocols (for example, 10/100, Gigabit, and so on).
- Make sure that the link LEDs on the adapter are illuminated when it is plugged into a network device. If the link LEDs are illuminated, it means that a good electrical connection exists between the devices.
- If you use a wall jack with an Ethernet cable, make sure that the jack is patched in properly.
If the USB device does not work after your computer has been in extended hibernation, it is likely that Windows has automatically turned off the USB Root hub to save power.
The steps below outline how to configure the USB root hub to stay on during hibernation, to prevent this from happening.
Windows 10 / 8
- On your keyboard, press the Windows key + X and select Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound, then click Power Options.
- Click Change plan settings for the plan you want to change.
- Click Change advanced power settings.
- Click the plus sign (+) next to "USB settings" and "USB selective suspend setting" to expand the options and change the setting to Disabled.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Windows 7 / Vista
- Click the Start button and select Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound, then click Power Options.
- Click Change plan settings for the plan you want to change.
- Click Change advanced power settings.
- Click the plus sign (+) next to "USB settings" and "USB selective suspend setting" to expand the options and change the setting to Disabled.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Windows XP
- On your desktop, right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties.
- Click the Device Manager tab.
- Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers by clicking the arrow to the left of it.
- Right-click the first USB Root Hub device and select Properties.
- Click the Power Management tab.
- Clear the box next to Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
- Repeat steps 4-7 for any remaining devices in the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section with "Root Hub" in the name.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Your laptop might not support Power Delivery or might have specific charging requirements. For example, if your laptop requires exactly 60W of power and an adapter consumes some of the 60W, your laptop might not recognize that it is getting enough power.
For more information about Power Delivery, refer to the manufacturer of your hardware.
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- If product has an exposed circuit board, do not touch the product under power.
- If Class 1 Laser Product. Laser radiation is present when the system is open.
- Wiring terminations should not be made with the product and/or electric lines under power.
- Product installation and/or mounting should be completed by a certified professional as per the local safety and building code guidelines.
- Cables (including power and charging cables) should be placed and routed to avoid creating electric, tripping or safety hazards.
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The Harwood Union community is invited to meet the finalist for the school's new principal, Adam Rosen, at a public meeting on January 17 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Rosen will be visiting Harwood all day on January 17 and will be meeting with the Harwood community that evening in the Harwood auditorium.
The school board will interview Rosen on January 18 and reach a decision at that time.
Rosen lives in Montpelier and has been the principal at Rumney Memorial School since 2006. He has a wide range of experience in education including classroom teacher in several different subjects, college instructor, assistant director of Headstart, program director at the VT Center for the Book, child development specialist at UVM, SAT instructor, and program director at Burlington Children's Space.
He earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin Colleges and an MA in educational leadership from Woodbury Institute. He received the Governor's Prevention Award for his work with Boot Camp for Dads and served on the board of directors for Washington Central Friends of Education.
Last May, following the resignation of former principal Duane Pierson, Harwood Union High School began a principal search that did not yield a final candidate. Last fall Harwood instituted a 12-member search committee to find a new principal for the 2012-13 school year. The committee consists of Steve Sands, Dale Smeltzer and Chris Koliba, board members; Wendy Gilbert, Carol Gargon, Brian Wagner and Lisa Atwood, Harwood staff members; Brigid Scheffert, Washington West superintendent; Sheila Rivers, director of curriculum and assessment; Melissa Shea and David Goodman, community members; and Rachel Zacharias, student.
Harwood received 41 applications for the vacancy and, after going through a collaborative process, chose Adam Rosen as the finalist.

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She sat there in shock. Then, the tears started falling.
Believe it or not, 17-year-old Melanie Oudin is the toast of the town at the U.S. Open.
Gritting her way through a shaky third set, the 70th-ranked player from Marietta, Ga., pulled off her second upset of the Open on Saturday, defeating a more-seasoned, more-famous, more-moneyed opponent — 29th-seeded Maria Sharapova, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.
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"I don't even know what to say right now," Oudin said, choking back tears in her postmatch interview in Arthur Ashe Stadium. "Thank you so much for cheering for me."
Sharapova, who has won this tournament once, usually gets those cheers. But on this cloudless day in Queens, the fans were rooting for a new potential queen — the one who stamped the word "Believe" on her shoes, but probably didn't see this coming so soon.
"My goal was to make the top 50," she said. "But if I keep playing like this, who knows? Hopefully, I can get as high as anything."
She added this upset to one over No. 4 Elena Dementieva in the second round and a win over former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic earlier this year at Wimbledon.
Her confidence is growing as quickly as her resume, and suddenly, it does seem like anything is possible.
Her fourth-round match is against No. 13 Nadia Petrova of Russia, though there's a sense she may have already knocked out the two toughest players on her side of the draw in Dementieva and Sharapova. No. 5 Jankovic is also gone, along with No. 11 Ana Ivanovic. No. 1 Dinara Safina is still there, but she has been playing poorly so far.
The Williams sisters are on the other side of the draw and it may not be too early to dream about the third-best American, Oudin, going against one of the two best for the U.S. title.
"I've always been so competitive," Oudin said. "I go out there and fight as hard as I can. I have 'Believe' on my shoes. That's what I did today. I ended up winning and I'm just so happy."
In men's play, No. 1 Roger Federer extended his winning streak to 37 at the U.S. Open, overcoming some shaky play throughout for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over No. 31 Lleyton Hewitt.
It was Federer's 14th straight victory over Hewitt, a former No. 1 who won the U.S. Open in 2001.
"I just had to believe that I could still turn this around," Federer said. "And with the great streak I have against him, I knew that if I could get back into the match then I could get back on a roll, because I've done it so many times against him."
Oudin and Sharapova followed Federer onto the show court but Sharapova did not put on a headliner's performance.
She served 21 double-faults — the equivalent of five-plus games — committed 63 unforced errors and clearly hasn't rounded fully into form after nearly 10 months off with a shoulder injury that forced her to miss the trip to Flushing Meadows last year.
Sharapova and Oudin traded three breaks each through the first four games of the third set, then Oudin got a fourth break to go ahead 5-4. She responded by holding serve, closing the match with a crosscourt winner off a short counterpunch from Sharapova.
Oudin dropped her racket and choked back tears, shook hands with Sharapova and walked to her chair, shaking, clearly having trouble believing what had taken place.
But, yes, that happened.
"I just kept fighting as hard as I could, tried as hard as I could," she said. "I just can't even believe it."


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The poll by the consulting firm Blessing White reports that 56 percent of workers say they seldom or never share their career plans with their employers.
Look at two decades of erosion of job security, layoffs, early retirements and corporate restructurings done for the needs and whims of employers and you wonder how anyone could be surprised.
The workplace is not as friendly as it once was, and workers - who have been told they must take control of their careers - are not as likely to trust companies to serve their best interests.
Blessing White chief executive Christopher Rice notes that the reluctance of individuals to share their career plans with employers handicaps the attempts of companies to develop workers.
"Companies devote considerable resources to career development, but if the great majority of employees won't share their goals one wonders how effective such programs can be," Rice said.
The actions of companies have shown workers that they have to trust themselves, not their employers when it comes to getting ahead.
Everyone has a story of betrayal by their employer at one time or another and most of us have several.
My first one happened when I was a young newspaper reporter on my first job. I had worked at that job for 6 1/2 years, paying for my college education while holding down a full-time job.
I graduated from college and decided it was time to move on. Because it was my first job, I needed references of people I worked with. I went to the managing editor, the same person who had hired me and gave me plenty of opportunities to develop my talent.
I told him I had applied for another job on the other side of the country and that there was interest and he would be called for a recommendation.
The next day the managing editor called a staff meeting, announcing that I was leaving the newspaper and he was taking the opportunity to move people into other jobs. As a result of his realignment, I was demoted.
The managing editor made a capricious and mean-spirited decision without regard to my interests or the loyalty I had demonstrated to the company. I was penalized because I was trying to land a better job.
The Blessing White survey shows that older workers are less likely to share career plans than are younger workers. Seventy-four percent of workers 65 and older won't do that.
The reason should be obvious to all of us. How many older workers do you know who have lost their jobs because of cutbacks or inducements to take early retirement? How many older workers are desperately clinging to their jobs because they know they might never get another one? Or, simply glance at the unemployment rate for workers over the age of 50 and you'll see the reason behind this.
There is no reason to be surprised by this. Workers are acting just as they were taught to act.


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A tidbit from an interesting (read: transit-friendly) article in Slate:
You think the government is wasting a few billion a year on mass-transit subsidies. But what about the huge subsidies for cars and trucks?
What hasn't been acknowledged is that the automobile is supported by a government subsidy that dwarfs anything provided to mass transit. How big is the subsidy? By my (admittedly extremely crude) calculations, it could total nearly $100 billion per year.
Can I get an amen?
There's more to it, of course–but that's what the link is for.


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04 October 2012 - Chicago, Stamford, CT (USA) and Lucca (Italia)
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It's always amazing to look back at how terribly simple things once were. These pop-up books, for example, are intricately layered to show the various organs in a human body. Doctors would use 'em for practice surgery runs. [Laughing Squid]
It's such simple technology—if I can even call it that—that it's incredible that people used these materials to learn about our body and cut with confidence. I especially love how the video uses scalpels to flip each page. The books are part of the Animated Anatomies exhibition at the Duke University Perkins Library through July 17, 2011. Some of these anatomical pop-up books go back to the 16th century.


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Once again, I would like to take advantage of the large number of knowledgable category theorists on this site for a question I have about category-theoretic aspects of a fundamental logic concept.
My question is whether the ultraproduct construction is fundamentally a category-theoretic concept.
The ultraproduct/ultrapower construction of Łos is used pervasively in logic, particularly in model theory and also in set theory, where nearly all of the larger large cardinal axioms can be formulated in terms of the existence of certain kinds of ultrapowers of the universe.
My question is, is the ultraproduct fundamentally a category-theoretic construction, in the sense that it is characterized by some natural category-theoretic universal property? How about the special case of ultrapowers?
I would be very interested, if there were a natural universal characterization in terms of the usual Hom sets for these first order structures, namely, first order elementary embeddings and/or homomorphisms. (Needless to say, I would be much less interested in a characterization that amounted merely to a translation of the Łos construction or of Łos's theorem into category-theoretic language.)
Background. Suppose we have a collection of structures Mi for i in J, all of the same first order type (e.g. groups, partial orders, graphs, fields, whatever), and U is an ultrafilter on the index set J. This means that U is a nonempty collection of nonempty subsets of J, containing every set or its complement, and closed under intersection and superset. The ultraproduct ΠMi /U consists of equivalence classes [f]U, where f is a function with domain J, with f(i) in Mi, and f ∼Ug iff {i in J | f(i)=g(i)} in U. One imposes structure on the ultraproduct by saying that a relation holds in the product, if it holds on a set in U, and similarly for functions. Łos's theorem then states that the ultraproduct satisfies a first order formula φ([f]u) if and only if {i in J | Mi satisfies φ(f(i))} is in U. That is, truth in the ultraproduct amounts to truth on a U-large set of coordinates. The special case when all Mi are the same model M, we arrive at the ultrapower MJ /U. In this case, there is a natural map from M into MJ /U, defined by x maps to [cx]U, where cx is the constant function with value x. It is easy to see that this map is an elementary embedding from M into the ultrapower.
This question is a more focused instance of a probably-too-general question I asked here, and I may have several more in the future.


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How One Woman's Dramatic Recovery Led to the Fibromyalgia Recovery Foundation
"You can get your life back!"
Lorna Searle tells a local television audience that she is now free from the pain and fatigue of fibromyalgia. KRDO-TV newsman Zack Thaxton (center) gets the encouraging story in office of Dr. George Juetersonke, D.O., a Director of the Fibromyalgia Assistance Foundation.
"After years of chronic pain and chronic fatigue, Dr. St. Amand's simple solution made me well. My life had been reduced to hurting, taking pills and trying to sleep. Nothing worked. Then the inexpensive Guaifenesin Protocol got rid of the pain and the fatigue. After more than 10 years of being sidelined, I can ride a bike again, play golf, swim, jog, even ride a horse. No more wheel chairs when I go through airports!"
Following nine months of faithfully following Dr. Paul St. Amand's guaifenesin program, Mrs. Searle was pain free and rapidly getting her energy back. But she soon discovered that many thousands of men and women are still unaware of this effective and affordable treatment. An over the counter, non-invasive, relatively inexpensive pill called guaifenesin is the key. It can take from a few months to a year or more---but it works.
Thrilled to "have her life back," to be able to have a social life again, to play with her grand children, enjoy travel and recreation, she has accepted the challenge of sharing the welcome news with others. "Yes," she declares, "you can regain the life you thought had been taken from you forever!"
In 2003, with her "new lease on life," Lorna began to host a support group to help others conquer fibromyalgia. Those who were helped told others. Soon the phone calls and emails from the local community and across the country confirmed a general lack of information and encouragement available to those battling this disastrous disease. In most cases, their family doctors and even various specialists had lacked an answer. The hunger for news of something that could get these people "out from under" fibromyalgia was overwhelming!
Lorna's heart went out to these hurting individuals. Some were just youngsters---struggling in school, others in middle age were courageously battling pain and fatigue while working every day . . . some enduring their sunset years in pain and growing despair.
What could be done to help them succeed as she had? With a few friends from her support group who had by then vanquished the pain and fatigue—and with the invaluable support of Dr. Paul St. Amand and Dr. George Juetersonke---she created the Fibromyalgia Recovery Foundation.
Dedicated to helping others---through information, encouragement and mentoring---the Foundation is a nonprofit organization supported entirely through contributions. Informational literature and Dr. St. Amand's DVDs are provided Free. (Tax deductible contributions to the Foundation, to help cover the costs, are welcome but strictly voluntary.)
While guaifenesin is available over the counter, the treatment protocol should be undertaken under the care of a knowledgeable doctor who can direct and monitor the dosage and track your progress. Daily dosage varies with each individual and certain drugs and personal care products containing salicylates will block the effectiveness of guaifenesin. (Products made from plants and flowers must be avoided.) The treatment plan is simple---but it is neither easy nor quick. That is why it is very helpful to have both a doctor and some sort of support system to help you stay with the protocol and succeed.
It is important to note that there are two types of guaifenesin available for purchase. As described by Dr. St. Amand, "Fast acting (FA) guaifenesin provides too short duration of effect to be used exclusive of longer-acting medication. Long-acting guaifenesin MAY face some destruction in the intestinal tract before being totally absorbed. Therefore, once we get beyond 1200 or 1800 mg of longer-acting drug, we add short acting not more longer acting. The combination is highly effective with quick impact added to around-the-clock protection."
Fast acting (FA) guaifenesin, should ONLY be used in conjunction with long acting (LA), also known as extended release guaifenesin. Fast acting guaifenesin should, according to Dr. St. Amand, ONLY be added to guaifenesin protocol, when the daily intake of LA, long acting, guaifenesin, is at least 1200-1800 milligrams.
Only long acting/extended release guaifenesin will stay in your bloodstream long enough to enable the effects of guaifenesin.
Foundation staff and volunteers are available to offer helpful information and encouragement . . . over the months that it takes to recover from the debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia. "The good news," according to Lorna, "is that everyone I know of who has faithfully followed the protocol has gotten well!"
All of our staff members and volunteers have successfully followed the guaifenesin treatment protocol themselves. They know what it's like to have fibromyalgia. Each one has gone through the hopelessness, self-doubting, the well intended but usually useless advice of friends, family and uninformed physicians. They have heard the hurtful suggestion that perhaps "it's all in your head." And they are available to offer you the benefit of their firsthand experience as well as information compiled by the most knowledgeable fibromyalgia doctors in the country. On the practical side, they can help you find salicylate-free products (like shampoo, toothpaste and soaps) that won't neutralize the guaifenesin and delay your recovery.
Their time is free. The literature and DVDs are free. If you can't find or afford the guaifenesin, we may be able to provide an initial supply of that, as well. Free.
If you research the many companies and organizations that promise a "cure" for fibromyalgia, you will notice that most of them have some sort of products to sell. The Fibromyalgia Recovery Foundation was created to assist hurting people—not to sell them something. If you or someone you know is suffering from the classic symptoms of fibromyalgia (which can include depression, memory loss or "fibro fog," as well as chronic pain and fatigue) we can assist you in locating a knowledgeable physician who will be able to diagnose fibromyalgia and guide your implementation of the guaifenesin therapy. Visit our website at www.fibrohelp.net or contact us at:


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The National Weather Service says the 8.25 inches of rain that fell in May was the highest total for the month since records started being kept in 1871.
Thousands of gravely ill cancer patients each year seek "compassionate use" access to treatments that are not yet on the market but have shown some promise in early testing and aren't available to them through a study.
Two people were also stabbed to death, bringing the total number of homicides over the weekend to 10. In a Monday morning press conference, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson called the violence "despicable."
The 5,000-square-foot public library will house multimedia collections, have community programs, a children's area and offer space for reading and studying.
"There Is Greatness In Me" is the defining song in this riveting musical that releases the full "greatness" in its lead character by way of an electrifying performance by veteran Chicago actress Barbara E. Robertson.
Watch the June 3, 2019 full episode of "Chicago Tonight."
Miguel del Valle, a former Illinois state senator, will serve as the president of the Chicago Board of Education. Mayor Lightfoot announced his appointment and six others Monday morning.
Former Ph.D. student accused in kidnapping, death of missing Illinois scholar
One prospective juror in the high-profile case said she'd have difficulty sentencing someone to death because "God doesn't want us to take revenge."
There were emotional floor debates and the passage of a slew of bills as the spring session wrapped up. Just how does all this capitol action affect Chicago and the surrounding areas? Two state lawmakers weigh in.
Illinois could become a very different state, thanks to a bunch of measures legislators approved over the weekend. Here's a rundown of budget bills and the new public works program.


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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to consider dismissing free-speech claims against two Secret Service agents for their role in a 2004 protest in Oregon against President George W. Bush.
The justices said Tuesday they will review a federal appeals court ruling that allowed a lawsuit against the agents to go forward. The lawsuit claims the two agents violated anti-Bush protesters' free-speech rights by having police move them farther away from where the president was eating dinner than some pro-Bush demonstrators.
Dave Fidanque (fi-DANG'-kee), executive director of the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the protesters are still waiting for their chance to argue the lawsuit. All the court rulings to this point have been on legal issues, not whether the protesters were treated fairly.
"Here we are nine years after the original events in the case, and we're still at home plate," he said.
The Supreme Court ruling will not affect claims against local police, Fidanque said.
Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie said the agency had no comment.
Bush had given a speech at the Jackson County Expo in Central Point and was spending the night at the Jacksonville Inn in Jacksonville, a historic gold mining town.
The lawsuit claims that when Secret Service agents ordered police to clear the streets around a patio where the president was having dinner, the agents violated the First Amendment rights of anti-Bush demonstrators, while leaving alone pro-Bush demonstrators who were standing a couple of blocks away.
The Obama administration is defending the agents' actions and says that agents who make on-the-spot decisions about the president's security should be shielded from liability.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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This is a simple LED-illuminated tactile button with a red cap. It's just like a basic tactile button, but it lights up red! So now you can get visual feedback, or light up your project. These have a 12mm body and are rated for 50mA. They don't easily fit into a breadboard, but check below for a breakout board. We also have these in a a variety of colors, check below to see the others.
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Here is the video of 'Faithfully', from Journey's set at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Viña del Mar, Chile on 2/21/08. As you may have heard, Arnel Pineda is the new Journey frontman.
(I thought this was the opening song but it's actually in the middle of the set. You can see the full show, from YouTube here.)


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Paramedics from the New Orleans Emergency Medical Services darted into Quicky's convenience store to help a man who appeared to be having a heart attack. While they were working to save the man's life a Quicky's employee quickly attached a parking boot to their ambulance.
Not expecting to be booted, the paramedics drove off towards the hospital only to hear a loud noise as the boot destroyed the ambulance's left-front tire. In defense of Quicky's, the paramedics didn't even buy a cup of coffee and the sign outside the store clearly says parking is "for customers only."
The medics had to wait for another ambulance to transfer the patient to the hospital. (Hat tip to Jane!)
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text: Everyone knows that playing starcraft against some map hack bastard sucks. Anyway Im thinking about making a game to play online or on a network, the way I plan to do it is everyones computer sends the current stats (hp, x y positions, etc...) of their character to a central server thing, that then sends it all back to the other players connected. Im thinking this will probably be pretty effecient because all that is being sent is like 50 bytes per frame by each player, but it probably will also be pretty easy to create various types of hacks because everything is handled by the user's local computer. Anyone have any ideas how I can keep data transfer to a minimum but still prevent hacks.


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The new 2010 Jaguar XJ Luxury Sports Saloon Platinum Concept Car celebrates Jaguar's 75th Anniversary, and highlights the uniqueness of the XJ. Jaguar design team has created the Jaguar Luxury Sports Saloon XJ75 Platinum Concept, a one-of-a-kind design project on display at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance Concept Car Lawn.
2010 Jaguar Cars XJ75 Platinum Concept Car Luxury Sports SalonThe XJ75 Platinum Concept Car is the company's first demonstration of the design customisation potential of the striking new XJ luxury salon, emphasising the Jaguar's dramatic interior and exterior styling themes. "The XJ Luxury Sports Saloon is thoroughly modern, and captures the innovative and daring character that our founder Sir William Lyons built into every Jaguar. And the design team clearly had some fun making their first one-of-a-kind XJ design concept car in that spirit."
The XJ75 Luxury Sports Saloon Platinum Concept centre console houses a bespoke clock developed and designed in partnership with the Bremont Watch Company.
An independent British company, Bremont creates beautifully engineered and designed mechanical watches hand assembled in Switzerland.
2010 Jaguar Cars XJ75 Platinum Concept Car Luxury Sports Salon"From a pure design perspective, the XJ75 Luxury Sports Saloon Platinum Concept is foremost about emphasising the striking proportion and presence of the new XJ, with a distilled black and white theme, which conjures up the sense of precious platinum," said Jaguar XJ Chief Designer Giles Taylor. "At the same time, the pure sporting character of XJ is brought to the fore by keeping the car's clean graphic approach and further lowering its stance."
Dominated by striking white and black contrast precious metals platinum theme suggests, the Jaguar XJ75 Platinum Concept is a high-performance 470-hp supercharged engine 2011 Jaguar XJL with new ground-hugging front, rear and rocker panel is fitted.
Performance on the XJ75 Platinum Concept is derived from its 5.0-litre Supercharged direct-injection V8 with 470 horsepower and 424 lb.-ft of torque. Entertainment is provided by a 1,200-watt Bowers & Wilkins surround sound system with 20 speakers powered through 15 channels and state-of-the-art sound processing technology.
This XJ75 Platinum Concept Car was designed to both celebrate the marque's past and acknowledge the increasingly personal nature of today's luxury cars.


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By Jim Harris
Robert Finch, who turns a very youthful 79 in April, attended the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), and upon graduation, became a teacher there. He later became Chairman of the arts department at Haverford College, retiring in 1988.
His lovely Germantown home is full of his work, always changing, always new. Whenever he asks me what I think of a new piece (we are neighbors), I panic and tell him that that I know nothing about art. "Oh sure you do," he replies in a reassuring, unassuming way that I would not expect from someone so accomplished or so connected to academia.
Thus emboldened, I offer a few bumbling impressions, hoping not to say anything insane or offensive, and I'm flattered when he actually seems to value my opinion — a tribute to his skill as a teacher and ambassador for art.
My only faux pas occurred when I asked him to "stand in front of that picture" for a photo. "Don't call it a picture," he said. "Call it a 'painting' or a 'piece,' but it's not a picture." It all became clearer to me when he explained his philosophy.
"I teach a 'Basic Drawing' class at the Main Line Center for the Arts," he said. "To tell you the truth, I've never been able to figure out what 'basic drawing' is, but I tell my students, 'Leave your intellect outside and come in with your feelings and emotions.'
"There is no one way to draw, only YOUR way. You have to figure out who you really are through your drawing. Artists need to find out where they fit in, and how they can personalize these traditions that they are carrying on. It's not just about reproducing images with accuracy. Henri Matisse said, 'Accuracy is not truth.' Emotion carries the truth."
Finch pointed to one of his paintings, "Indera", of a reclining woman, seen from above. "Try to see the figure as a symbol of a female form rather than as a living, breathing person," he said, "and experience the shapes in the most direct way."
I asked him, "If it's not a real person, then where does it come from? How do you begin?"
"I make drawings first, formed out of my intentions," he said. "I don't know where they come from. In my work as an artist, I always picture myself as if in a groove, or a 'favorable furrow.' I roll out of bed and into the studio. I've had many moments of pure joy there.
"A lot of my students are adults who gave up drawing when they started having families, and now they want to reconnect with their art. I consider myself very lucky to have had a wife (Sue Finch) who has allowed me to pursue my art all these years."
"Behind every great man …" I began. "Yes, and I am indeed a very great man," he chimed in, laughing.
An exhibit of Robert Finch's work will be opening at the Nichols Berg Gallery in Chestnut Hill on April 1. The show will have about 20 paintings and 25 drawings (and no "pictures"), including a series of "automatic" drawings (i.e. "done without a lot of thought"). "It's a retrospective," Finch says, "including pieces from all parts of my career.
"The owners of the gallery, Scott Nichols and Steven Berg, are exceptionally fine people. Just what the industry needs. They came to my house and picked out what they liked. They 'take in' their artists, and keep them on display. They're very nice and kind. One of their artist clients, Harry Hasheian, brings cookies to every opening."
A quick perusal of Mr. Finch's works on his website, http://www.robertfinchart.com, suggests that many of his paintings and drawings are portraits, and many of them nudes. I asked him if painting nudes had ever presented any particular problems.
"Once, a good friend of mine asked me to paint his wife nude. I found that a bit awkward," he said. I asked Robert if his friend was pleased with the results. "Oh yes," he said, "but they got divorced," adding quickly, "It had nothing to do with the painting."
"Another time," he went on, "I lent a "rear view" drawing of a nude to the Philadelphia Art Alliance. A member, who happened to be an attorney, came in and said, 'I want that drawing out of here. It's obscene!' Well I don't think it's obscene; it's erotic. All nudes are erotic. As a matter of fact, that drawing will be in my upcoming show, and I'm not worried at all. Well, maybe a little bit."
Stop by and see for yourself. The exhibition runs from April 1 through 30 at The Nichols Berg Gallery, 8611 Germantown Ave. For more information, call 206-380-4070 or visit www.nicholsbergart.com.


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In 2000 and 2001, I visited Brainerd on my trips to Minnesota. I was stunned to learn that there was no tombstone for my great-grandmother Amarilla. She was buried in the plot with George Angus Barclay, their son George Alexander Barclay, and the first baby of daughter Grace and husband R.S. McDonald.
The large tombstone, in the photo below, that I am standing by is for George Barclay. To the front left is the smaller Civil War foot stone. The tombstone to the right is for little baby George Alexander. It has the lamb on the top. There was no stone for Amarilla. I checked with the Evergreen Cemetery Office, who are very helpful, to confirm that she was buried there. They have a diary of the dead at their website: http://www.brainerd.net/~evergreencem/dotd.html
I set about getting a tombstone for my great-grandmother and by the next visit in 2001 it was in place. Nothing fancy just a stone that gave her information. Her tombstone is in the forefront of the picture below. Much better, only problem is it reads as her birth year 1859, it should be 1858. Darn! I don't understand how that happened but apparently it is not unusual for mistakes to be made on tombstones. Sigh! I do have my records and the paperwork asking me to check the information. The form says 1859, but I did not make note of any changes so I could not go back and complain to the company who did the stone. So my advice, if you create a stone for an ancestor keep careful notes. It is not easy to do it from afar.
In the following picture you can see the new tombstone in the foreground.
We visited again in 2007 before heading up to Pine River. At least great grandma has recognition now.
Find A Grave has memorials to the Barclay's with information, links, tombstones and more. The people who had created the memorials where kind to transfer the management to me and in some cases added new information. The memorials continue to evolve as I add links and information.


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A recent ASIL Insight deals with certain burning critiques and the controversy surrounding the American unilateral action of killing Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil. Many, such as former Pak President Musharraf, claim that keeping Pakistan in the dark about this action, by the US Navy SEALs, was a violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
Elaborating the "Unwilling or Unable" Test, the Insight states:
"If the territorial state is either unwilling or unable, it is reasonable for the victim state to consider its own use of force in the territorial state to be necessary and lawful (assuming the force is proportional and timely). If the territorial state is both willing and able, the victim state's use of force would be unlawful."
This seems to be the justification that is attributed to the US action as being a legitimate act in accordance with international law of 'self-defense'.
This test, in reality, can lead to many unilateral interventions that may be undesirable. First, it has to be restricted to only use against the international 'Legal War against Terror', that too after satisfying the proportionality test. If it is used in every situation, unrestrained use will only lead to chaos. Second, unilateral actions which may threaten to or actually violate international legal norms has opened a can of worms and any such actions in the future may lead to tense and sour diplomatic ties between nations where peace is generally hard to come by. For example, Israel & Palestine, Pakistan and India.
The USA has set a perilous precedent with Osama, much to the detriment of relations in the fragile international societal fabric.
Some other authors (here, here, here, here, and here) have received enthusiastic responses to their diverse opinions on the issue of the legality of the US Operation in Pakistan. The legality or illegality of the killing of Osama bin Laden has led to a variety of opinion on the webspace. See here, here, here (Foreign Policy), and here.
What about the documents and possible clinching information that was ostensibly scoured out of bin Laden's hideout? Emerging reports at BBC and CNN suggest that al-Qaeda was planning more attacks on the United States territory to debilitate the transport and rail systems in major metropolises. The necessary argument follows from this newly discovered data is that the killing of Laden was 'pre-emptive'. The looming question remains: has this reduced the terror threats that many nations today face?
Meanwhile, the killing has drawn mixed responses from various Islamic states, many criticizing the American action. Many call Laden a martyr, a man who stood up for the Jihadi cause to eliminate radicalism from the world. Not shocking considering the usual anti-West sentiment that is apparent in those countries. This reaction which was expected, justifies why Laden's body was buried in the sea.
It looks like Osama's death has raised many questions rather than put an end to them.


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Chicken Enchilada Soup
My favorite chicken enchiladas are a combination of diced chicken, sour cream, cheese and spinach, all wrapped in a flour tortilla and baked. While the combination is quite delicious, its preparation can be time consuming.
Heat butter, margarine or olive oil in a Dutch oven. Add chicken and sauté 3 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 3 minutes more, until chicken is nearly done. Add diced green chilies and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Stir in sour cream, chili cheese dip, and chopped spinach. Simmer 5 to 10 minutes, but do not boil or it may curdle. Ladle into bowls and top each serving with some of the shredded cheese.


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Jeremy Redleaf is an actor and voice artist who voices Gonnigan on the "Abby's Flying Fairy School" segments of Sesame Street. He previously dubbed the lead character Khan Kluay in The Blue Elephant, an animated feature released under the Jim Henson Company Discoveries banner.
Redleaf's credits include appearances on the TV series 3 lbs and Saturday Night Live, as well as the online Onion News Network, plus an assortment of commercials (on and off camera).
Redleaf created the website Odd Job Nation, as a resource to post and find unusual jobs, which also spotlights a webseries of the same name starring Redleaf.


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Jake Owen to Perform at 2013 Orange Bowl
Jake Owen is set to kick off 2013 on a high note and doing what he does best, which is take the stage and perform. The singer and brand new father -- daughter Pearl was born on Thanksgiving Day -- will headline the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl.
Owen will provide the entertainment as the halftime headliner on Tuesday, Jan. 1 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens in his home state of Florida. The Northern Illinois Huskies will take on the Florida State Seminoles in what is sure to be a thrilling matchup.
Country fans will probably love the halftime show as much as the happenings unfolding on the field during the course of the game.
The game kicks off at 7:30PM CT on ESPN so be sure and set yourself a reminder so you can tune in and take in the Owen performance.
It's a big gig for Owen, so something tells us he may not be partying too, too hard the night before and therefore nursing a hangover the next day. Whatever the case, we're sure he will turn in a killer performance, since that's what he always does.
It's also worth noting that his holidays as of late have been busy affairs. With Pearl making her grand entrance on Turkey Day and now a halftime performance on New Year's Day, Owen is on the go when most people are taking time off.


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Is it possible to highlight the record in the tracking history log that was the first to trigger a fence alert, or for that matter a speeding alert, or even a battery alert.
Would be nice to see different colors for each, eg, Use green for the fence trigger record, since the fence has a green line around it. It would be nice to see the actual point on the map in he same color, perhaps even blink? This will make it easier to find this entry in the history log, and on the map. even though it is still numbered and can be cross referenced with the item on the map to the list number entry of the tracking log history.
Just an idea....
Highlight Record that Triggered Fence
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Thanks for sharing the ideas! I agree this would be great improvement on usability. Will keep it on enhancement list. For now, you can click the "Alert" menu and it has a link to maps where the alert happened.
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Guildford/Munich 9 December 2013 - Capture Power Limited, the consortium of Alstom, Drax and BOC, today welcomed the UK Government's announcement that it has been awarded a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for its planned, state-of-the-art carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project – the White Rose CCS Project. The FEED contract also includes the planned development of a carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation and storage solution – the Yorkshire Humber CCS Trunkline – to be undertaken by National Grid Carbon Limited.
The award of the contract marks a major next step in the UK CCS Commercialisation Programme. The FEED study is a two year programme of detailed engineering, planning and financial work to finalise and de-risk all aspects of the proposal ahead of taking the final investment decision, and proceeding thereafter to financial close and the commencement of construction. During FEED, Capture Power, together with National Grid Carbon, will continue to work with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) with a view to concluding a Project Contract for the construction and operation of the full chain CCS project.
Commenting on the announcement, Leigh Hackett, General Manager, Capture Power, said: "We are delighted that our project has been awarded a FEED contract under the CCS Commercialisation Programme. The White Rose CCS Project has great potential to demonstrate oxyfuel combustion CCS technology which will benefit other projects in the UK and overseas. It also highlights the strategic strength of the Yorkshire and Humber region as a hub for CCS, driving the formation of a cluster for CO2 transportation and storage."
Peter Boreham, National Grid's Director of European Business Development, said: "We are pleased with the announcement of funding from DECC today and to be part of the White Rose CCS Project. For National Grid Carbon, this means we can continue to move forward with the development of a Humber CCS cluster that could transport carbon dioxide from the Yorkshire and Humberside area to offshore storage."
Energy Secretary, Edward Davey said: "The White Rose project, with National Grid's CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, really offers the potential to kick start CCS in the region, creating up to 2,000 green jobs. Yorkshire is ideally suited to the development of CCS with lots of large emitters and significant storage space offshore. It's great to be able to take it to the next stage with funding for the study."
Located on land adjacent to the existing Drax Power Station, near Selby in North Yorkshire, the proposed 426MW (gross) CCS power plant will burn coal with the added ability to co-fire sustainable biomass and meet the equivalent power needs of over 630,000 homes. Fully equipped with CCS technology from the outset, 90% of all the CO2 produced by the plant will be captured and transported by pipeline for permanent storage deep beneath the North Sea seabed.
Notes to editors
Details of the White Rose CCS Project can be found at a new website: https://www.globalccsinstitute.com/projects/white-rose-ccs-project
Alstom, Drax and BOC are the project co-developers. The three partners have formed a company called Capture Power Limited that would be responsible for the development, implementation and operation of the proposed new plant. As a part of this cooperation, Alstom would have responsibility for construction and Drax for operation and maintenance of the power plant including the CO2 capture facilities. BOC would have responsibility for construction, and operation and maintenance of the air separation unit that provides oxygen for the operation of the oxyfuel combustion capture plant.
In an associated project National Grid Carbon would construct and operate a large capacity CO2 transportation pipeline and permanent undersea storage facilities in the North Sea.
In addition to participating in the UK CCS funding competition, and progressing its ongoing discussions with the commercial funding community, the project is also concurrently seeking funding from the European NER 300 programme and will be dependent on a successful outcome of these funding processes as well as a successful outcome of negotiations with the Government to establish appropriate market mechanisms to incentivise low-carbon technologies and provide support to the project.
At a national level the White Rose CCS Project will contribute to a range of potential benefits:
Demonstrating oxyfuel combustion CCS technology as a cost effective and viable low-carbon technology.
Reducing CO2 emissions in order to meet future environmental legislation and combat climate change.
Improving the UK's security of electricity supply by providing a new, flexible and reliable coal-based, low-carbon electricity generation option.
Generating enough low-carbon electricity to supply the energy needs of the equivalent of over 630,000 households.
Acting as an anchor project for the development of the Yorkshire Humber CCS Trunkline, a CO2 transportation and storage network, in the UK's most energy intensive region thereby facilitating decarbonisation and attracting new investment.
Local benefits of the proposal include:
An expected average of 1,000 new construction jobs over the three-year plant development period at the Drax site. In addition, the proposed Yorkshire Humber CCS Trunkline is expected to create 954 construction jobs.
At least 60 operational jobs at the new plant as well as additional indirect supply and maintenance posts. In addition, the proposed Yorkshire Humber CCS Trunkline is expected to create 37 operational jobs.
Increased turnover for local businesses during the construction and operational periods.
About BOC
BOC is a member of The Linde Group. An industrial, medical and special gases provider, the company supplies compressed and bulk gases, chemicals and equipment and is pioneering healthcare innovations and clean energy technologies including carbon capture and storage. For more than a century the company's gases and expertise have contributed to advances in many areas of everyday life, and industries including steelmaking, refining, chemical processing, environmental protection, wastewater treatment, welding and cutting, food processing and distribution, glass production, electronics and health care. For more information visit: www.BOConline.co.uk
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OK, the FO took over a floundering franchise in 2008. They scuttled it about as completely as a club has ever been sunk and vowed to refloat the ship with home grown Buccos.
The first wave has arrived - Andrew McCutchen and Neal Walker, thanks to Dave Littlefield and company, along with Pedro Alvarez and Jose Tabata, brought in by Neal Huntington. In fact, just about the whole team belongs to the new order.
The last soldiers standing from the Littlefield era are McCutch, Walker, Steve Pearce, Dewey and Paul Maholm at the MLB level, and the remaining prospects from his days are Brad Lincoln, Starling Marte, Rudy Owens, Ramon Aguero and Diego Moreno. And they're shopping Maholm and Doumit.
Huntington and Frank Coonelly have virtually complete ownership over this team's on-field product. Their players, sold to us as the future of the franchise, are beginning to take the field and have an impact. But no franchise is entirely self-sustaining; free agents and trades are needed to fill in the gaps. Can the FO take that next step?
They went into the season knowing what they needed: more starting pitching, a couple of bullpen arms, an upgrade at short and a right handed stick for 1B/RF. The winter meetings are usually the catalyst to jump-start the deals. What has it brought Pittsburgh?
Let's start with the pitching. Basically, Pittsburgh has traded Zach Duke for Kevin Correia. Correia may be a bit of an upgrade, but it's still replacing one #4 pitcher with another, and no one's sure what the PETCO effect for Correia may be.
Scott Olsen was brought in to join the cage match for the fifth spot; we guess that would be the reason they have interest in Kenshin Kawakami.
If they do deal Maholm without getting an equal or better pitcher back, the rotation will actually be downgraded, not improved. Guys like Olsen and Kawakami don't build trade depth as much as organizational depth. And Pittsburgh already has its share of back end pitchers.
The bullpen, after being dismantled at the deadline, bounced back after a reconfiguration. Joel Hanrahan, Evan Meek and Chris Resop seem like solid building blocks. So far, all the FO has done is bring in Fernando Nieve, a long relief type. Traditionally, the bullpen slots are filled later in the off season.
But all the omens point toward Pittsburgh moving Hanrahan. Other teams have interest in him, the Pirates have been sniffing around closer types like Kevin Gregg, and he's entering arbitration this year, 'nuff said.
In fact, while all the attention has been on Maholm and Doumit being dangled as trade bait, if the Pirates are to make a big move this off season, it will almost certainly involve Hanny.
With JR gone, the FO was on a mission to improve shortstop, manned by the human roller coaster Ronny Cedeno. There wasn't much available, and the Bucs let Jason Bartlett and JJ Hardy go; both were traded for a pair of relievers. In their defense, the Twins, as we understand, wanted Hanrahan for Hardy, and that would involve some additional talent from the Twin Cities that apparently wasn't forthcoming.
Still, even Cesar Izturis was signed; there's not much left but all glove and no bat Brendan Ryan and graybeard Edgar Renteria. It's a huge disappointment that the best they could do was come up with a Rule 5 SS, Josh Rodriguez, to do battle with Pedro Ciriaco for the back-up spot. Maybe that shows how thin the ice is that Cedeno is skating on.
Other back-ups the Pirates have kicked the tires on are Bill Hall and Alfredo Amezaga.
The first base/corner OF logjam was barely nudged when the FO dumped Lastings Milledge for Matt Diaz. Diaz has more power and is a wash defensively, which is being damned with faint praise, but is still a platoon guy statistically despite Huntington's full-time babble.
Ah, but platooning with who? Until and unless Doumit is traded, he'll be Diaz's partner in the pasture. If he goes, the LH job will likely go to John Bowker. If Jeff Clement outduels Bowker in the spring, then JC will go to first to split time with Pearce while Jones goes to the outfield, unless Andy Marte wins a roster spot. Clear as mud, hey?
Anyway, here's the point. This is the fourth year of the "plan" as envisioned by Huntington and Coonelly. They took over a 2007 team that won 68 games and had a 15 year losing streak. Last season, the team won 57 games and the streak reached eighteen years.
OK, we understand that it's always darkest before dawn, yada yada. We also understand that the Pirates refused to bid on or deal for any player with full time potential that could join the lineup and make the Pirates a better team than they were last year.
The Pirates are nine weeks away from the pitchers and catchers reporting to Bradenton. There's a lot of work to do, and the FO sure hasn't done theirs yet. We'll see what Maholm, Doumit and Hanrahan will fetch them in the market, but it won't be enough to get to 82 wins in the near future.
The Bucs will be better; the young players have some experience under their belt, and Clint Hurdle will probably use his pieces better with a platoon system. But 2010's holes are still 2011's holes; the brass has just played around with the fringes of the roster.
With the money that was supposed to be burning a hole in their pocket, this quiet hot stove season has been especially mystifying. And for those who have raised the specter of Bob Nutting's short pockets, well, this off-season has done nothing to dispel their fears.
Let's hope there's a boffo finale planned by the management between now and camp.
"Somehow we have developed this large contingent of know-it-all baseball fans who bay like wounded coyotes at any mention of wins, losses, RBI or batting average. I never know whether I should blame myself for this or not.." (Bill James)
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The Plan...
Posted by Ron Ieraci at 2:52 PM
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2 comments:
- WilliamJPellas said...
Doumit and Hanrahan to the Red Sox or the Rays ought to get us a considerable return. Particularly the Rays, who aren't going to re-sign their closer.
- December 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- Ron Ieraci said...
Yah, Wil, the Rays have an overload of starters and we have an extra back-end bullpen guy. Seems like a match in the making.
- December 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM
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NEW YORK, NY - March 13, 2013 � Baruch College graduate students finished in the top 6 in the nation during the 7th Annual Health Administration Case Competition held on February 28, in Birmingham, Ala., beating out several other well-renowned universities and colleges. The Baruch team included third-year students from the MBA in Healthcare Administration Program in the Zicklin School of Business - Steve Palatucci of Hoboken (team captain), Jahnhoy Smith of Brooklyn, and Nicole DeGroat of White Plains.
The University of Alabama Birmingham Health System has sponsored the Health Administration Case Competition since 2007. The competition provides students with the opportunity to present their recommendations to a national panel of judges. It is designed to be a capstone experience that tests each team's analytic, teamwork, communication and presentation skills.
This year, 32 teams from national universities and colleges competed. Steve, Jahnhoy and Nicole each spent between 125-150 hours analyzing the case brief that was delivered to teams four weeks before the competition. The 2013 case challenged teams with developing several urgent care centers in Middle, Tenn., as part of the TriStar Health System. Each team had to develop a 20-minute pitch using PowerPoint to present their strategic approaches to achieving each of the case's articulated deliverables.
Steve said he and his teammates, who all work full-time, were able to effectively collaborate by utilizing each other's areas of expertise and strengths. Steve is a business analyst at Memorial Sloan-Kettering; Jahnhoy is a Medicare operations manager with the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation/MetroPlus Health Plan; and Nicole is a grants specialist at Montefiore Medical Center.
"I was honored to represent Baruch," Nicole said. "I am very proud of my team as we were recognized by our peers and so many illustrious industry members for the work we put in and the quality of our ideas."
"Each of us possess different backgrounds and expertise, but were able to combine our unique strengths to our advantage," Steve said. "Given the complexity and level of research needed for the case, managing our time was the primary challenge, but I think we worked very well as a team. We had the perfect balance of expertise and were able to create innovative, viable recommendations for TriStar."
For the case competition, Jahnhoy developed a marketing plan and applied his expertise in Medicare/Medicaid programs. Nicole developed a sophisticated methodology for establishing urgent care centers, and Steve created a financial and operational plan, providing projections for the cost of staffing, equipment and other essentials business variables. The team's analysis examined demographics in Middle, Tenn., including economic conditions, local competitors, population growth, insurance payor mix, and marketing opportunities.
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By Marc Livitz: Nonito Donaire and Vic Darchinyan have taken separate paths over the last few years that have ultimately led them to the same destination. Six years have gone by since "The Filipino Flash" Donaire delivered a crushing counter left hook which tagged "The Raging Bull" Darchinyan squarely across the face and gave the boxing world a knockout to remember. The California fighter (by way of the Philippines) was thereafter catapulted into the pugilistic spotlight. He had moved down to the flyweight division for the chance to capture the IBF title and he did so in such resounding fashion that he stuck around for a bit. Not only did he defend the crown three times before he moved back up to super flyweight, but he also went on to win a world titles at bantamweight and super bantamweight. His resume includes wins over Hernan Marquez, Fernando Montiel, Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr., Toshiaki Nishioka and Jorge Arce. Up through December of last year, Donaire (31-2, 20 KO's) was among the upper ranks of many "pound for pound" lists. Then along came an evening last spring at New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall. Nonito was befuddled and a bit out of sorts, it seemed when he faced former amateur legend Guillermo Rigondeaux and consequently, he was handed his first loss in over twelve years.
Vic Darchinyan (39-5-1, 28 KO's) was back in the ring three months after his knockout loss to Donaire and since then, he has compiled an impressive record of his own. His summer 2008 knockout victory over Dmitry Kirillov put a super flyweight title in his possession and thereafter, he pulled off an impressive double over popular Mexican fighters, Cristian Mijares and Jorge Arce. In the mix, he did lose to some top names such as Joseph Agbeko, Abner Mares and Anselmo Moreno. Nevertheless, he has always been eager to gain the chance for a rematch with Nonito Donaire. Just like "The Filipino Flash", he's fought once in 2013 and the 37 year old native of Armenia will get just the opportunity for which he's yearned this coming Saturday evening in Corpus Christi, Texas. The long awaited rematch will find itself somewhat sandwiched within an evening of great bouts scheduled to take place at the American Bank Center in the coastal Texas city.
The tripleheader card will be televised in the United States on HBO's Boxing After Dark (9:30 PM ET/PT) and on either side of the Donaire/Darchinyan grudge rematch will be a WBO light middleweight title contest between undefeated fighters Vanes Martirosyan (33-0-1, 21 KO's) and Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade (19-0, 13 KO's), as well as the evening's main event. That particular contest will feature Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KO's) and Roman "Rocky" Martinez (27-1-2, 16 KO's) in a scheduled twelve round bout for the WBO super featherweight belt. Stay connected to SecondsOut.com for tomorrow's report on the Garcia vs. Martinez media call, as well as live reports from Corpus Christi later in the week.
Conference Call Highlights Listed Below.
Bob Arum, CEO of Top Rank Promotions: "This should be a great fight. It's just one of three special fights that HBO will be bringing to the public. It's a tribute to HBO. They've had a run of great fights and that will continue this Saturday. One great fight after another and we have another one this Saturday. I know Nonito and Vic will be performing at the highest level."
Opening Statements, Vic Darchinyan: "I've been waiting for this fight for a long time. I've trained very hard for this fight and I'm well prepared. I want to show it all in the ring. It's not just power, but speed. It doesn't matter how old I am. I know there's not too many fighters at my age, but still there's (Sergio) Martinez, (Juan Manuel) Marquez and (Bernard) Hopkins. I'm sure Nonito is prepared, too and that I'll see the best of him."
Opening Statements, Nonito Donaire: "I'm very prepared and I know that Vic is a dangerous opponent. Like he said, age doesn't matter when you have power. Everyone's been very supportive. We're going to bring it all for the fans on Saturday."
Donaire on the 2007 fight: "To me, I don't look back to our last fight. I'm just looking forward and we've both grown so much. In terms of style and power, so much has changed. I can't look too much at our 2007 fight. It's still a good reference to how his style will be. Everyone has habits and habits die hard."
Darchinyan on the same: "He caught me in 2007 and I'd never been hit like that. If I had ever been able to recover better in that fight from that knockdown, then maybe it would have been different. I have the experience and power now. "
Nonito on reuniting with his father and his desire to return to the ring: "I'm getting back to the old me and the smarter me. We're not going in there to just brawl. He's mostly helping with the mitts and he's working well with everyone. Things happen for a reason in life. When I became a father, I realized that my dad had always been there for me. The motivation has definitely come back. The Darchinyan fight had always been hanging there and a lot of people wanted a rematch."
"I realized that this is where I want to be. After the (Jorge) Arce fight, I was pretty much done, but after the loss, I wanted to keep going."
Vic on finally getting a rematch and if he's being overlooked: "Yes, I think he's doing that. In his loss, (to Rigondeaux) he was exposed. He had such a good year before that, but inside of me, I know why he wanted this. I will stop him this time. It's not about him. It's about me. I've prepared mentally and I know what he plans to do. I'm ready to demolish him. I'll prove to the world that I'm the better fighter."
"I'll look to expose him, too and show that he can be beaten. He won't have an excuse for this fight. I wanted to unify my titles after I lost to Nonito. I'm happy to be fighting him again. We'll show it all in the ring and I'm very motivated. I can't wait anymore."
Donaire's thoughts about the rematch: "I don't care who it is. I'll fight whoever is in front of me. I just have to adjust to whatever is needed. It could be anybody and not just Vic. We're just trying to bring that youth mentality back and so I'm ready. I know he's worked hard and put the dedication to it. I don't need to talk about it. I knew one way or another that this would happen and I'll do my talking in the ring."
"Raging Bull" Darchinyan on his 2007 knockout loss to Donaire: "Before that fight, I had six defenses of my IBF title. Many of them were knockouts. I was always using my power and not my skill. Everyone knows that I'm a slow starter. In my mind, I was trying to figure him out. I didn't see the left hook coming and then I was on the floor. I jumped up straight away and I wanted to keep going. I'll just be smarter this time. I'm a different fighter now and I have more patience. The idea is to fight like a champion and get him to fight my game. Rigo (Rigondeaux) showed his skill and exposed Nonito. Love me or hate me, my style is my style. I'll show it all in the ring."
"Filipino Flash Donaire on his shoulder injury: "I had two tears in my right shoulder and I had surgery two weeks after the Rigondeaux fight. I had some problems with my left shoulder, but that one is fine now. We're confident with both hands and we can pull the trigger as well. I just had to recall how I made myself into a world champion. "
Bob Arum on Saturday's card and the future: "We believe that there's huge talent in the featherweight division. On this card, we'll have a WBA featherweight world championship fight between Nicholas Walters of Jamaica and Alberto Garza from Mexico. The winner from that fight will go into the mix. We can look forward to some great featherweight matches next year."
Nonito on fighting as a featherweight and his famous 2007 punch: "It was set up perfectly and we landed it. I feel good at this weight class. I'm actually training for the fight and not to lose weight. We're looking for the same outcome and we're working hard for it. Whatever style he brings will be the one we work with. That fight put my name on the map, so to speak. It jumpstarted my career and before that, I wasn't even known in the Philippines. "
Frank Espinoza, trainer of Vic Darchinyan: "He knows that this is his last shot at redemption. He brings a lot of experience and aggression. He'll be a true warrior in the ring and give it his all on Saturday night. I haven't seen him so motivated in quite a long time."
Robert Garcia, trainer of Nonito Donaire: "We had an awesome training camp in Oxnard (California). His dad is the one who made him and I was glad to have him with us."
Closing Statements, Vic Darchinyan: "Everyone knows how much I want this fight. I've been waiting for six years and I'm looking forward to fighting many more after this."
Closing Statements, Nonito Donaire: "I'm very excited for this one and it's going to be a hell of a fight. We'll have our hands popping in the fight and that's the way it has to be."
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