WASHINGTON, DC, December 15, 2011 (ENS) – Four research projects to advance hydrogen storage technologies for fuel cell electric vehicles have beeen chosen for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Fuel cells have the potential to replace the internal combustion engine in vehicles. But to replace gasoline as a fuel, hydrogen must be safely and densely stored, yet easily accessed. Limited by materials unable to serve both goals, hydrogen storage technology has lagged behind other clean energy candidates.
To overcome these barriers, the agency will distribute more than $7 million to two national laboratories, a university and an independent research lab, which are in turn contributing a total of $2 million to cover project costs.
The projects focus on lowering the cost of compressed hydrogen storage systems and developing advanced materials for hydrogen storage that will enable more efficient storage of the gas at lower pressures than current compressed hydrogen tanks.
Compressed hydrogen storage provides a near-term pathway to commercialization, and reducing the costs of compressed tank systems will accelerate their market availability and adoption, agency officials said.
"Targeted investments in cutting-edge hydrogen storage technologies will spur American ingenuity, accelerate breakthroughs, and increase our competitiveness in the global clean energy economy," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
These three-year projects in California, Washington, and Oregon are being funded to help U.S. automakers bring more fuel cell electric vehicles into the mainstream market.
"As we focus on energy security, strengthening our portfolio to include domestically-produced hydrogen and American-made fuel cells for transportation and energy storage applications will create new jobs and reduce carbon pollution," said Chu.
Hydrogen is an obvious alternative to hydrocarbon fuels, such as petrol. It has many potential uses, is safe to manufacture, and is environmentally friendly.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Richland, Washington – Up to $2.1 million DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, Lincoln Composites, Toray Carbon Fibers America, Inc. and AOC Inc., will use a coordinated approach to reduce the costs associated with compressed hydrogen storage systems. The project will focus on improving carbon fiber composite materials and the design and manufacture of hydrogen storage tanks to lower the cost of manufacturing high-pressure hydrogen storage vessels by more than a third relative to current projections.
HRL Laboratories, LLC – Malibu, California – Up to $1.2 million HRL Laboratories will investigate an innovative approach to hydrogen storage using engineered liquids that can efficiently absorb and release hydrogen gas. Liquids confined in porous structures have been shown to absorb more gas and could create sites for hydrogen molecules that did not exist in the bulk liquid alone. HRL will use this concept to develop composite materials capable of dissolving up to 50 times greater quantities of hydrogen than in the bulk liquid, with the goal of enabling high density, compact hydrogen storage.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Berkeley, California – Up to $2.1 million DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, partnering with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and General Motors, will use a theory-guided approach to synthesize novel materials with high hydrogen adsorption capacities. The team will develop and test "metal-organic framework" materials that have surfaces allowing high density of hydrogen, as well as materials with pores engineered to enable hydrogen storage at near-ambient temperatures.
University of Oregon – Eugene, Oregon – Up to $2.0 million The University of Oregon, along with the University of Alabama, DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Protonex Technology Corporation, will develop and test promising new materials for hydrogen storage. The proposed chemical hydrogen storage materials could enable liquid refueling, and regeneration of the hydrogen storage material, within temperature and pressure ranges suitable for both onboard mobile and stationary fuel cell applications.
The Energy Department says innovations achieved through these projects will address technical barriers to storing hydrogen onboard fuel cell electric vehicles.
On December 6, the department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy launched a comprehensive hydrogen storage materials database to collect and disseminate materials data and accelerate advanced materials research and development.
As a free access resource for the research and development community, the new database will accelerate the development of advanced hydrogen storage materials by consolidating the technical knowledge-base, including hundreds of material property listings and references, in a single location.
On December 13 at 11:00 am EST, the Energy Department is offering a webinar to demonstrate the functionality of the database covering topics such as accessing and extracting data, submitting new material property data for inclusion, and performing organized searches. The real-time walkthrough of the database will provide an opportunity for user questions and feedback.


MLB fans longing for faster games would have detested these matchups.
Think three-and-a-half hours is too much time watching men throw balls and swing bats? That's a sprint compared to the longest bouts in league history, all of which lasted more than six hours before declaring a winner.
Few followers would welcome the 2017 World Baseball Classic's procedure of starting frames from the 11th onward with runners on base. Yet the following list of longest games—determined by time, not innings played—provide sample studies of what the tournament hoped to avoid when establishing the controversial rule.
With no limit to how many innings two sides can play before breaking a stalemate, these contests all at least doubled the standard nine-inning affair. Mercifully, after hours testing even a diehard baseball fan's will, they finally ended.
Aside from avoiding last place in the American League East, neither the Washington Senators nor Cleveland Indians had anything at stake during the dog days of 1971's season. So both sides probably weren't jazzed to face each other in a meaningless doubleheader.
Instead of getting home early after a brisk one-hour, 54-minute affair in the first game, they played 16-plus innings of a contest that was completed six days later at a different location.
Cleveland jumped to a 5-2 lead with four seventh-inning runs, but Washington stormed back with a three-run ninth. Neither team could find the scoreboard, prompting the game to pause and resume at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium—it started in Cleveland—on Sept. 20, when the Senators scored three runs in the 20th to secure a grueling victory.
The Houston Astros and San Diego Padres combined for 31 hits and 13 walks on Aug. 15, 1980, but just four of those baserunners crossed home plate.
San Diego and Houston stranded 21 and 13 runners, respectively, during a six-hour, 17-minute contest featuring 15 consecutive scoreless innings. With the help of two Padres errors, the Astros broke the drought in the 20th.
Joe Morgan, owner of a .392 career on-base percentage, went 1-for-9 atop the Astros order. Nevertheless, they escaped with a triumph after receiving 9.2 combined scoreless frames from Frank LaCorte and Dave Smith.
Before winning their third championship in five years, the San Francisco Giants outlasted the Washington Nationals in MLB's longest postseason game ever.
Neither squad could muster any offense in the National League Division Series' second game. After San Francisco tied it at one during the ninth, the squads traded zeroes for eight innings.
Bryce Harper (0-for-7, two strikeouts) was one of seven starters to not record a hit.
Right around midnight, Brandon Belt ended a game that started at 5:38 p.m. local time with a solo shot off Tanner Roark, a starter pressed into emergency relief duty. Yusmeiro Petit held down the fort for San Francisco, limiting Washington to one hit over six sensational innings from the bullpen.
New York Mets fans who feel the franchise is out to make their lives miserable will see their frequent appearance among the longest games as a metaphor for their suffering. Their first of four inclusions is also their second 20-inning game this decade.
On June 8, 2013, Citi Field was treated to a marquee pitcher's duel of Jose Fernandez vs. Matt Harvey. Both phenoms delivered, yielding one run apiece, but the bout later turned into another stingy showdown between Kevin Slowey and Shaun Marcum.
Entering in the 13th, Slowey struck out eight over seven scoreless frames. Marcum, who started against the Marlins eight days earlier, threw a game-high 105 pitches. After matching zeroes with Slowey for seven innings, he relinquished a trio of singles leading the Marlins to a 2-1 victory.
According to FanGraphs, nobody has thrown more innings than Mark Buehrle over the last 20 years (3,283.1). Unfortunately for the Toronto Blue Jays, the durable veteran lasted just 3.1 frames against the Detroit Tigers in a 19-inning affair.
Detroit pegged the southpaw with three first-inning runs, but its offense stalled after gaining an early 5-0 edge. Seven different Toronto relievers, led by six frames from Chad Jenkins, recorded 47 outs without surrendering a run.
Hitless in nine prior plate appearances, Jose Bautista produced a walk-off single off Rick Porcello—whose now-Boston Red Sox teammate David Price started for Detroit—in the 19th. Despite the middling score, the offensive juggernauts combined for 39 hits.
The Senators had a long 1967. Of their 18 extra-inning games, five veered into the 16th or beyond. A 20-inning, five-hour and 40-minute game didn't even the top the list, as they also went 22 innings, six hours and 38 minutes.
Right before a seventh-inning stretch that wouldn't even mark the one-third point, the Chicago White Sox erased a 4-1 deficit. They looked poised to steal a victory when Don Buford hit an RBI single in the 10th, but Washington's Jim King again evened the score with a sacrifice fly.
They stayed even at five until the bottom of the 22nd, when Paul Casanova charmed D.C. Stadium attendees with a walk-off single that sent everyone home.
The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have one of sports' longest rivalries, and that's not just in terms of years spent as direct competitors.
Both teams have featured high-powered, yet patient offenses throughout their 21st century feud, making them prime candidates for lengthy matchups. When down 3-0 in 2004 American League Championship Series, the Red Sox started their historic comeback by winning consecutive games each lasting over five hours.
This early-April 2015 meeting had less at stake, but both teams plundered their charged bullpens for a total of 17 pitchers.
The game didn't stop after nine, and neither did the scoring. Boston struck in the 16th and 18th frames, but New York countered its run both times. In the 19th, Mookie Betts gave Boston its third lead in four frames with a sacrifice fly. This time, the American League East foes did not answer back.
If ever planning to watch the Mets play the St. Louis Cardinals, get some rest first.
The two National League squads orchestrated two of baseball's eight longest games ever. This doesn't include a 2015 matchup that spanned 18 innings and compelled an exhausted Keith Hernandez to ask for whiskey in the broadcast booth.
Perhaps the former first baseman's two old teams simply want fans to experience the art of Hernandez's disgusted sighing through an unforgiving baseball game that refuses to end. By the 15th inning, Mets fans were rooting for him to escape purgatory more than a Mets win.
On April 17, 2010, it took 20 innings and nearly seven hours in a game that was scoreless through 18. Both sides went a combined 1-for-25 with runners in scoring position.
When the Mets finally crossed home plate in both the 19th and 20th innings, it was against Joe Mather, a position player pressed into pitching. As punishment for squandering 18 innings of shutdown ball and blowing a save, Francisco Rodriguez was credited with a win.
In the thick of a heated AL wild-card race, neither the Baltimore Orioles nor Tampa Bay Rays could afford a loss on Sept. 20, 2013. Their battle for a pivotal win lasted until roughly 2 a.m. local time in an 18-inning marathon.
Both bullpens were already worn down from a long season, so the AL East clubs exploited expanded September rosters and used 21 total pitchers. Rookie Jake Odorizzi auditioned for a 2014 rotation role by throwing 3.2 scoreless innings from Tampa Bay's bullpen.
A dozen Rays hitters collectively went 2-for-36 in the Nos. 3-7 spots, but leadoff hitter David DeJesus saved one of his four hits for a walk-off single off Bud Norris, a starter called upon with no other fresh relievers available.
"Long. Devastating, obviously," Orioles third baseman Manny Machado told Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun after the loss. "Would have been much better if we would have came out with the win. But they came [out] on top."
While the Orioles fell from the playoff hunt, the Rays beat the Texas Rangers in a tiebreaker game and eliminated the Indians in the AL Wild Card Game. They eventually ran out of steam against the Red Sox in the American League Division Series, but they wouldn't have lasted that long without preserving a long, long Friday night.
And now for the seven-hour grinds, both a treat and exasperating challenge to the most avid baseball fans.
The Yankees and Tigers spent all of their offensive capital early on June 24, 1962. After three innings, the Bronx Bombers held a 7-6 lead, which Detroit erased in the sixth before 15 innings of goose eggs.
With the game tied in the seventh, New York pulled Mickey Mantle for defensive reinforcements. This would seem like a rueful decision, knowing seven plate appearances went to three substantially inferior hitters, but it created an opportunity for the unlikeliest of heroes.
Jack Reed, a seldom-used player who retired a .233/.308/.326 hitter, belted the first and only home run of his three-year career.
Despite starter Bob Turley recording one out, the Yankees won a 22-inning contest with 13.1 combined scoreless frames from Tex Clevenger and Jim Bouton.
In terms of innings, only one game—a 26-inning 1920 contest between the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves lasting a crisp three hours and 50 minutes—went longer than this 25-inning soiree between the Cardinals and Mets.
A 25-inning contest today would be lucky to end in under nine hours. Luckily, this 1974 matchup happened in a time of fewer pitching changes and commercial obligations. It flew by in just seven hours and four minutes.
Starter Jerry Koosman went nine innings, but that didn't spare the Mets bullpen from a long day. While Jerry Cram posted goose eggs for eight innings for the Mets, Cardinals reliever Claude Osteen one-upped him with 9.1 innings without yielding a run.
They went a cumulative 4-for-33 with runners in scoring position, stranding 45 runners on base. Following 15 scoreless innings, it took a bizarre finish for St. Louis to salvage a win.
Bake McBride opened the 25th with a leadoff single. He then scored all the way from first on a failed pickoff attempt, which feels like a fittingly sloppy way to end a game after seven hours.
Featuring the tried-and-true formula of a long extra-inning trudge, both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies bullpens bailed out some lackluster starters.
Then again, the Arizona Diamondbacks could have saved a few hours and nine innings by preserving a 6-1 lead. Instead, Joe Thatcher coughed up two runs in the eighth before Heath Bell allowed another two. From there, the door shut on scoring.
A game with 28 walks and 41 stranded runners ended when the Phillies sent outfielder Casper Wells to the mound. The Diamondbacks tagged him for five runs, ending the summer slog at 2:12 a.m.
It's always fun seeing a position player pitch, but how about a pitcher playing a position?
After riding defending NL Cy Young winner Orel Hershiser for seven shutout innings from the bullpen, the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled their ace before the 21st. With L.A. already having used eight hurlers, Jeff Hamilton took the mound after going 3-for-9 with a walk at third base.
Eddie Murray moved across the diamond to man the hot corner. Entering the game at first base? Fernando Valenzuela, who was unavailable to pitch after starting the previous day.
A third baseman pitching and a pitcher fielding at first base worked fine for one frame, but the Astros attacked Hamilton for a winning run in the 22nd. An assortment of six relievers kept Los Angeles off the scoreboard for 17 innings.
On May 31, 1964, the Giants and Mets cruised through the opening slate of their doubleheader with a two-and-a-half-hour game. Little did they know, an encore nearly five hours longer awaited.
The second game persisted for 23 innings when the Giants squandered an early 6-1 lead. They regained the advantage with a triple, double and single from Jim Davenport, Del Crandall and Jesus Alou, respectively, for two runs.
After pitching two innings earlier in the day, Tom Sturdivant returned for 2.2 more. Yet that pales in comparison to the turnaround from Larry Bearnarth, who authored seven scoreless frames after previously tossing two in the opening contest.
Juan Marichal, meanwhile, spared San Francisco's bullpen with a complete-game win in the first contest. Another Hall of Famer, Gaylord Perry, later saved the Giants with 10 spotless frames in relief.
Only one game in MLB history lagged through an entire average workday or recommended night's sleep.
The contest between the White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers went so long that play paused with a 3-3 score after 17 innings. The suspension does not factor into the game time of eight hours and six minutes.
This lengthy matchup's relief hero, Juan Agosto, silenced Milwaukee's bats for seven innings. Yet an even more draining assignment went to Carlton Fisk, who caught all 25 frames for Chicago.
It could have been avoided if Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers converted the save. He instead forfeited a two-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, eventually costing Milwaukee a victory.
When Harold Baines ended the longest game ever with a 25th-inning walk-off homer, Tom Seaver notched the win. Then everyone finally went home and earned some much-needed sleep.
Note: All game information courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com unless otherwise noted.


After circulating online both ahead of the midterm elections and after them, bogus claims of voter fraud spread to the president's Twitter feed, despite having no basis in reality.
Hashtags like #StopTheSteal and #VoterFraud2018 were part of what seems to be a coordinated push by conspiracy-oriented Twitter accounts to spread bad information and amplify certain conversations. They were also themes on Instagram and Facebook as officials rushed to recount votes in races in Florida and are still counting ballots in Arizona and Georgia.
Since Thursday, Trump sent seven tweets about the election, baselessly making claims like, "Trying to STEAL two big elections in Florida!" and "Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they 'found' many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes." Although most of his tweets focused on Broward County in Florida, they echoed the conspiratorial thinking of falsehoods that spread online.
So far, Florida delivered the most stinging rebuke to Trump's claims when a judge rejected Republican Gov. Rick Scott's request to have state and local police oversee ballots and election equipment. The judge said Scott and his Senate campaign did not present any evidence of fraud or misconduct.
The Arizona secretary of state also published a blog post explaining why it takes so long to count ballots in response to questions.
Thomas Hicks, the commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission, said he had been to several states. "I have not seen widespread voter fraud," he told BuzzFeed News.
Department of Homeland Security officials told the media on Election Day that while it was unlikely foreign hackers could affect the election, they were worried that a foreign propaganda effort, particularly from Russia, could undermine Americans' faith in their elections. And after the votes were cast, senior officials privately expressed relief, grateful that they'd maintained trust from both parties.
But, when asked about Trump's tweets, the agency referred BuzzFeed News' request for comment to the Department of Justice. Neither the DOJ nor FBI responded to questions from BuzzFeed News.
The National Association of Secretaries of State declined to comment, referring instead to the individual states. Requests and phone calls seeking comment from the secretaries of state in Arizona and Florida also went unanswered. A spokesperson for Georgia's secretary of state said she will provide comment on Nov. 13, after the office reopens from the Veterans Day holiday.
Statistically, voter fraud rarely happens. In a review of a collection of studies dating back to 2009, New York University's Brennan Center for Justice concludes that "a look at the facts makes clear fraud is vanishingly rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to that necessary to 'rig' an election." A 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office echoed that.
"It is quite simply not based in reality," said Sean Morales-Doyle, a counsel on the democracy program at the Brennan Center. "There are extremely rare instances of this kind of thing happening. It's more likely that people are stricken by lightning than if they impersonate someone at the polls."
Morales-Doyle said "voter fraud" has become a catch-all term, but what it really means is someone impersonating someone else at the polls.
"I think unfortunately the rhetoric around voter fraud is a very powerful narrative that a lot of people listen to and dive into," he said. Morales-Doyle also thinks that confusion about how elections work could be a contributing factor to the voter fraud narrative.
Tweets and posts about voter suppression during the midterms focused on faulty voting machines and tampering with ballots. Many were videos taken out of context and later debunked by election officials. Years-old conspiracies about George Soros also came into play, dreaming up a false link between the Hungarian American billionaire and a company that sells voting machines.
Another popular conspiracy was a crossover between scare tactics surrounding the migrant caravan that's currently hundreds of miles away from the US and baseless claims that buses were bringing illegal immigrants to voting stations so they could cast ballots for the Democrats. Prominent Twitter users propagated that claim during the midterms.
Even after Election Day came and went, false voter fraud claims were not put to rest. Instead, the hashtag #StopTheSteal began spreading. Accounts used it to, without evidence, say ballots were being altered or destroyed in key states.
One early claim using that hashtag tweeted a screenshot of a story headlined, "Broward County elections supervisor illegally destroyed ballots, judge rules." Without the context, it's easy to think the headline is about the midterms, but it's not. The story has to do with ballots from a 2016 congressional race that were the subject of a lawsuit.
After the midterms, images of trucks became the subject of online conversations. Videos spread across platforms with captions like, "Fraudulent ballots in three trucks pulled up." The videos made no effort to provide any kind of evidence for the outlandish claims but nonetheless stirred up suspicion and anger among social media users who saw them.
Researchers Zach Verdin, Brett Horvath, and Alicia Serrani have been tracking Twitter conversations about voter fraud and recently published a report on the topic. They found evidence of coordinated activity on Twitter to spread narratives about voter fraud, including the above tweet about illegally destroyed ballots and Beto O'Rourke bringing buses "full of illegals" to the polls.
The report was produced by a volunteer network of technologists, artists, and academics, including the San Diego Supercomputing Center's Data Science Hub at University of California San Diego and IV.ai. The project was organized by Guardians.ai.
"The group of accounts that we show in our report are highly active in spreading the #StopTheSteal hashtag," said Verdin, one of the researchers. He said they observed the hashtag initially being used by those who oppose Trump talking about voter suppression; then it was taken over by those who support Trump as they tweeted about voter fraud.
"There is evidence of a coordinated attempt to 'flip' the #StopTheSteal hashtag so that it can be used as a rallying cry to make claims about voter fraud in Florida and Georgia," Verdin said.
In their research, the team looked at a sample 200 accounts and over 140 million tweets. They stressed that these are not uniformly bots or trolls, and that real people get caught up in them too.
A couple of months ago they began thinking about midterms and the themes they thought would come up. They saw a spiking pattern of voter fraud mentions, which they describe as a "heartbeat." Verdin said there was a similar spike leading up to the 2016 elections. Donald Trump also made outlandish claims about voter fraud without any evidence during his presidential campaign.
While we did see some malicious activity, it was nothing out of the ordinary—we took action at speed & scale. It was generally sharing of low volume & low reach voter suppressive content. Importantly—based on our initial review—the vast majority appeared to be of domestic origin.
This post has been updated to include a comment from EAC Commissioner Thomas Hicks and Sean Morales-Doyle, a counsel on the democracy program at the Brennan Center.


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Bassetlaw: inside the constituency with the biggest swing of the general election
As the Labour heartland turned blue for the first time in 84 years, The Face headed to Retford and Worksop to find out why.
"This is the most important election of the human race — you have to vote Corbyn" — Vivienne Westwood
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Is boxing "sportswashing" Saudi Arabia's many human rights abuses?
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Episode 102 – Networking in 2019!
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Big Guns Dominate Spectrum Auction
News Analysis Light Reading 9/19/2006
Six weeks after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began auctioning off a huge new batch of wireless spectrum, T-Mobile US Inc. , Verizon Wireless , and a consortium of Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) and leading cable operators have emerged as the biggest winners.
Cingular Wireless and MetroPCS Inc. (NYSE: PCS) also scored highly in the FCC's 66th wireless spectrum auction, which sold off a total of 1,087 radio spectrum licenses to 104 bidders. The auction, which closed after 161 rounds of bidding Monday, raised nearly $13.9 billion for the U.S. Treasury. The Commission will hold onto another 35 licenses that attracted no bidders and put them up for sale at another time.
In a statement issued late yesterday, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin referred to the spectrum sale as "the biggest, most successful wireless auction in the Commission's history." He said he was "particularly pleased" that small businesses won more than half of the licenses.
Despite Martin's emphasis on the smaller winners, it was the big guys who spent the most and took home the most sought-after spectrum in the auction.
T-Mobile USA -- which desperately needed fresh spectrum to upgrade its network to 3G services and compete against larger wireless rivals Verizon Wireless, Cingular, and Sprint -- captured 120 geographic licenses in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, mainly scoring in the cellular market area. The company ended up shelling out nearly $4.2 billion for the licenses, more than $1.4 billion higher than the second biggest spender, Verizon Wireless. While that seems like a massive outlay, some analysts thought T-Mobile would bid as high as $6 billion to get the new spectrum it needs. (See T-Mobile Bids $4.2B and T-Mobile, Cable MSOs May Spend on Spectrum.)
T-Mobile said its new U.S. licenses cover such major markets as New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The carrier, owned by Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT), also picked up licenses for Miami, Detroit, Houston, Boston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, and Cleveland, among other large metro areas.
Verizon Wireless, jointly owned by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD), spent slightly more than $2.8 billion for just 13 wireless licenses. But several of the "regional economic area" licenses cover large swaths of the nation, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, and Mississippi Valley areas, as well as Honolulu.
Verizon spokesman Jeffery Nelson says the bidders are in a 10-day post-auction quiet period, and so declined comment.
The Sprint/MSO consortium -- a group that includes cable companies Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), Cox Communications Inc. , Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC), and Bright House Networks -- pledged nearly $2.4 billion for 137 licenses, the second highest amount won by one bidder.
The consortium, which bid under the name SpectrumCo, focused on gaining licenses in the major markets of its four MSO partners, including New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas for Time Warner; Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington/Baltimore, and Miami for Comcast; Phoenix, Las Vegas, and northern Virginia for Cox; and Tampa and Orlando for Bright House.
The consortium has been working on the potential of combined cable and wireless services since late 2005, and, using Sprint's nationwide cellular network, the four MSOs are currently preparing to launch some limited mobile multimedia services later this year. (See Cable Firms, Sprint In FMC Deal.)
Now market analysts say the Sprint/MSO alliance has tentatively assembled more than enough 15-year licenses to compete nationally in the wireless space with Verizon, Cingular, and T-Mobile. They also note that SpectrumCo could always pick up more markets by striking deals with other winning bidders now that the auction has finally closed.
"I think [Sprint and the MSOs] have to be thrilled with what they're coming away with," says Sharon Armbrust, a senior analyst with Kagan Research LLC . "They've got probably two-thirds of the country with the major markets."
Other cable-backed players also grabbed significant slices of the new wireless spectrum.
For example, CableOne , a large MSO owned by the Washington Post Co., placed the top bids for 30 metro or regional market licenses, the eighth biggest haul in terms of license numbers. But CableOne, which mainly serves smaller markets, only needed to bid $22.1 million to snap up that spectrum.
Dallas-based MetroPCS paid almost $1.4 billion for 13 licenses, including wireless coverage of New York, Detroit, Dallas, and Las Vegas. The operator, which provides wireless service to roughly 2 million people today, also won the licensing rights to such large regional areas as the Northeast and the West.
Cingular Wireless, co-owned by AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE: BLS), bid $1.3 billion for 48 new licenses. Cingular, the biggest U.S. wireless provider by subscribers, gained licenses for such large markets as Los Angeles, Boston, Washington/Baltimore, Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Minneapolis, and Kansas City, among others.
The company that secured the greatest number of licenses, with 154, is AWS Wireless . But It spent just $116 million, as it mainly snapped up spectrum in much smaller metro areas than the large wireless and cable companies.
— Mark Sullivan, Reporter, Light Reading, and Alan Breznick, Site Editor, Cable Digital News
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Bourgas Airport with new partners and destinations in 2019
Last year, the airports in Varna and Bourgas welcomed 5.5 million passengers and more than 38,000 flights to 103 airlines. The growth of Fraport Bulgaria airports (concessionaire of our two biggest sea airports) was 13% and for the last 3 years the traffic of both airports increased by 50% to 60%.
In 2018 at Varna Airport, most passengers arrived from Germany (596,930), Bulgaria (287,458), Russia (226,608), Poland (193,337), Great Britain (151,626). Followed by Israel (110 226), Austria (107 822), Turkey (84 311), the Czech Republic (66 228) and Belgium (59 979). For those departing from Varna, leading destinations were Sofia, Moscow, London, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
The new destinations last year were 6 and the new airlines 10. The development will continue this year after Wizz Air announced in December that it was based on a second airplane in the sea capital. As a result, the low-cost airline will update the frequency of some of its eight current destinations, and from July will add 6 new ones: Paris, Liverpool, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin.
Another good news for 2019 comes from the Polish national airline LOT, which starts on June 9 to offer regular flights between Varna and Warsaw. The service will be made once a week, on Sundays.
Although seasonality is a challenge for the concessionaire at sea airports, Fraport has achieved growth outside the season in Bourgas last year. For example, Burgas Airport marked a passenger growth of 102% in October, 17% in November and 14% in December, compared with 2017 years.
In 2018 at the airport in Bourgas the most passengers arrived from Russia (567 213), Great Britain (513 974), Germany (500 213), Poland (461 836), Czech Republic (276 642), Israel (145 557) Slovakia (114 920), Norway (71 976), Belarus (67 691) and Denmark (51 351). For those departing from Bourgas, leading destinations were Moscow, London, Prague, Tel Aviv and Katowice.
The new destinations last year were 14 and the new airlines-10. Additional destinations are also expected in 2019. The low-cost British airline Jet2.com, for example, announced that in May 2019 Burgas will connect nine airports in the UK: Belfast International , Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, London Stansted, Manchester and Newcastle.
The development of the Black Sea airports will continue with new investments by Fraport Bulgaria in 2019. The project for the expansion and rehabilitation of the platform for aircraft. In the second half of this year, the design of a new Fire Safety Service building will begin as well as the rehabilitation project on the taxiway "Eco". Both projects are expected to be deployed in 2020-2021.
Also, in 2019 on the territory of Bourgas Airport will continue the implementation of the projects related to the expansion and rehabilitation of the platform, expansion of the passenger terminal as well as the construction of the second extension of the parking zone.
"We continue to invest to ensure the best conditions not only for all carriers but also for airport visitors.In 2018, we have made efforts to improve the stay and satisfaction of passengers and offer an even greater variety of services. Like example, the only official stores of Victoria Secret. We will continue to work in the same direction in 2019, "said the executive director of the concession firm, Ulrich Heppe.
During the first 12 years of the concession, the "Fraport Bulgaria" has invested 390 million leva. As a result, Black Sea airports boast that meet the highest European safety standards according to EASA - European Aviation Safety Agency. The Agency standardizes activities of airports in the areas of safety and resource efficiency.
Transfer Bulgaria Group offers transfers from Burgas to Sunny Beach and other resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast at preferential rates for travelers with Thomas Cook, Jet2.com and all British tour operators.


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Jagan Mohan Reddy's Visit to Tirupati Has Sparked a Controversy in Andhra Pradesh
by POWER NEWS TEAM September 24, 2020 September 24, 2020
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister JaganmohanReddy'S visit to Tirupati temple on Wednesday was engulfed in controversies as protests began across the state when Jaganmohan Reddy visited the temple. Activists of Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party and Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) demonstrated protests in all the cities of the state.
TDP activists were angered by Jaganmohan Reddy's opposition to not declaring his faith in God. The TDP demanded Chief Minister Jagan carry out the temple tradition.
It is to be noted that before the entry of non-Hindus in Tirupati temple, one has to declare faith in God. In 2009, former President Abdul Kalam had also expressed his faith in God before visiting the Tirupati temple. Because of Jaganmohan Reddy being a Christian, the TDP also demanded him to show his faith in God. However, bypassing the demand of TDP and BJP, Jaganmohan Reddy visited Tirupati temple.
It is also reported that Jagan is facing strong hostility from the TDP and BJP as there have been incidents of attacks in several temples of Andhra Pradesh in the last few months. The opposition alleges that Jaganmohan Reddy's government was silent during the attack on the temple. However, Jagan Mohan Reddy appeared in Tirupati temple with full faith despite antagonism from the opposition.
TDP workers have launched state-wide protests against "anti-Hindu" Reddy.
"Ever since he took over as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, more than 80 temples have been destroyed in the past 15 months. To date, not a single miscreant has been arrested. Now, his decision of not signing the faith declaration form brazenly violates the tradition of the Tirumala Tirupati temple," said TDP spokesperson Pattabhi Ram Kommareddy.
Earlier on Wednesday, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Reddy discussed issues related to the development of the state with the Home Minister during his visit to Delhi. after the Chief Minister reached Delhi, the two met for about an hour on Tuesday evening. During this time the issue of Central Fund was also discussed.
According to the law of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the state is eligible for central funds. Reddy told Shah that Andhra Pradesh had suffered a lot since its partition, which led to the birth of the Telangana state – while the coronavirus epidemic has proved to be a double whammy.
Reddy, told the Home Minister that the state was struggling with a shortage of funds and sought central assistance to deal with the crisis. The Chief Minister also discussed issues related to women's safety initiative, direction and abolition of the Legislative Council. After concluding his Delhi tour by Wednesday afternoon, Reddy left for Renigunta near Tirupati from Delhi. He will then leave for Tirumala temple by road.
Jagan Mohan Reddy met Union Water Power Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday and invited him to visit the Polavaram project. The Chief Minister requested Shekhawat to release Rs 4,000 crore as a reimbursement payable to the state as part of the Polavaram project.
He also requested the Union Minister to expedite the rehabilitation assistance in the Polavaram project. Reddy met Shekhawat before meeting Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed irrigation projects in the South Indian state.
Shekhawat promised Reddy to cooperate in completing the Polavaram project by 2021. During the meeting with Shekhawat, Reddy was accompanied by Rajya Sabha member Vijay Sai Reddy and others.
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Maria Manuela Goyanes is pushing Woolly to become an artistic standard bearer for the #MeToo, anti-racist era. It's making some people uncomfortable.
Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Hamilton, Howard University | 1 week ago
You never see her, and rarely hear about her. But there are signs that may change. Trying to understand the President's quietest child.
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12 great feature stories published in Washingtonian this year that are worth another read
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Reston was the most inclusive town ever built. But more than 50 years later, the liberal enclave is whiter, older, and richer than its founder ever intended. Now it's locked in a battle for its soul. And golf.
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'American Idol' Winner Noah Thompson To Release Fan-Favorite Countrified Rihanna Cover
Boot Kickin' Mayhem July 15, 2022
Noah Thompson is set to release his countrified rendition of Rihanna's chart-topping hit, "Stay," later this month.
The American Idol winner took to social media on Friday afternoon (July 15) to reveal the exciting news with fans.
"'Stay' out July 29th," Thompson wrote alongside a snippet of the recorded cover. "Link in bio to pre-save and pre-add. #stay"
The father of one also shared a snippet of the professionally recorded cover, which found the rising star putting his signature country vocals on full display to a countrified instrumental of the Rihanna track.
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Noah Thompson First Performed The Cover On Idol During The Showstopper Round
During the Showstopper Round on American Idol, Thompson performed the Rihanna hit and had Idol judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie raving over his "magic" vocals.
At the time, Bryan admitted that he thought Thompson's song choice was a bit "wild," but Thompson explained that the song reminded him of home as it's a tune he would always sing with his girlfriend. The 20-year-old singer also added that his choice to sing the Rihanna tune "shows them what else I could do."
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His performance earned a standing ovation and praise from Bryan, Perry and Richie, who were swooning over his vocal abilities.
"I really want to applaud you on your song choices," Bryan told Thompson at the time. "You got a magic quality going on in your voice, and what I told somebody, I said I'd love to have ten minutes with you just to really fine tune to where you have that magic from the top to the end of the song. If you could figure out how to really hold that because no one is expecting what's about to come out of your mouth when you start singing and that's what the crowd did when you were out there, they went 'holy crap, this is awesome.' So you got to really use that in your favor and you got to really get there quick."
Thompson's cover of Rihanna's "Stay" during the Idol Showstopper Round ultimately earned him a spot in the Top 24, which then led him to win Season 20 of the show.
Additionally, Thompson is currently working on new music and has been writing songs.
"It's definitely something that I'm looking forward to doing now that I have the time because I'm not working an 80-hour job every week anymore. I can finally sit down and try to write some songs," the singer told Music Mayhem, before revealing, "Being on that show has definitely helped me become a better writer. It's given me something to say."
Thompson's rendition of Rihanna's "Stay" is available to pre-save/preorder HERE now.
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ZeroZero initially started as one pizzeria in Lisbon's bustling centre but soon expanded to other locations in Portugal's capital. The ZeroZero brand, of the Multifood group, is not merely just another pizzeria – its menu was prepared to the last detail: the cheeses, the delicatessen items, the wines and the proseccos are all obtained from leading Italian producers and, in most cases, bear the PDO seal (protected designation of origin). The 00 flour is the basis for delicious crispy pizzas, made in a wood-fired oven, that conjure the intense genuine flavours of traditional Italian cuisine. ZeroZero also serves the freshest pastas, the creamiest risotto and the indispensable traditional desserts. The restaurants stand out for their organic decoration, abundant in wood and plants, and patios which are a refuge from Lisbon's hustle and bustle.


'Tis the season for shopping online. I am penning this on Cyber Monday when shoppers are expected to spend over $3 billion. While I love to shop and do it from the comfort of my cozy office, online shopping is not without its perils. The most obvious is that we don't want to overspend and blow our budget, but that is an article for another day. Read on for the latest phishing scams, online shopping tips and some rules to live by when shopping anytime.
First, if you don't know what phishing is, pay attention. If you think your parents or loved ones don't know what phishing is, give them a quick tutorial. Phishing scams are attempts by scammers to trick you into giving out personal information such as your bank account numbers, passwords and credit card numbers. Phishing has become increasingly prevalent and just this weekend my husband was phished via email. Luckily he's smart (and cute) and knew better.
Fake Purchase Invoices: You receive an email from a retailer that you never heard of. It asks you to click on the link to "track your purchase" or "verify your address." These links may be malicious and could contain malware. Don't click, block the sender and delete the email.
Shipping Status Notifications: Along the same lines as the fake purchase invoice, one popular phishing scam is an email asking you to click on the link to confirm or track your order. Do not click on the link. First, confirm that you actually placed an order. Then, instead, go to the shipping provider's website (UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc.) and type in your tracking number to access tracking information.
Email Deals: Not all discount and sales emails are legitimate. Look for unexpected deals of product promotions from retailers you've never shopped or heard of.
Holiday E-Cards and Party Invites: Make sure you recognize the sender before clicking on the e-card/invite. Look out for emails that ask you to download attachments or plug-ins as these may contain malicious software.
Pay More Attention to Email Links and URLs: Always hover over links on webpages and emails to verify the sender and website. Recently, someone created an email address using my mother's name and sent it to her contacts (God only knows how many times my mother has been phished—she clicks on everything). Pay attention not only to the name on the email but also hover over and look at the actual email address—especially if the email seems strange to you.
These are tips to use year-round but be particularly vigilant around the holidays!
Look for signs that your information is secure when making online purchases.
Shop well-known retailers that you know and trust. I am not saying to only shop on Amazon, but be careful of following links to retailers that you have never heard of. In addition, be aware of deals that are just too good to be true—especially if they are a random retailer. They probably are.
Create strong passwords by including a combination of numbers, symbols and upper and lower case letters.
Instead of fake news, be wary of fake surveys. Surveys received via email with promises of money or gift cards in exchange for completing the survey can be a scam. These surveys will often ask for personal information which is what the attackers are seeking.
Monitor your bank accounts and your credit cards at least three times a week. If you are shopping online, you should be checking your accounts at the end of each day.
Consider some kind of credit monitor. Put alerts on your credit cards and opt in for text messages of purchases over a certain amount of money. If you haven't done so already, sign up for a service like Life Lock that alerts you when someone opens a credit card in your name. These small steps can protect you in the event of identity theft of phishing.
The rule of thumb when shopping is to be vigilant. If you feel uncomfortable or one of the voices in your head is saying "hey girlfriend, this makes me feel weird", listen to her. And please pass this along to friends and family—especially if you have older folks in your life who aren't as savvy as you. And happy shopping!
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Finally, the woman sought dental treatment at another dentist who found that a piece of dental instrument was left in the tooth canal. The area was covered with a filling, which was inadequately completed. A small piece of the instrument had come off during the procedure and remained inside, causing the continued pain. The woman states that she suffered not only physical pain, but also emotional distress due to the mistake. While the mistake should not have happened, the dentist failed to properly diagnose the source of the woman's pain and was negligent in his mistreatment, according to the lawsuit.
Dentists are held to the same professional standards as physicians and other medical professionals. They are expected to have the knowledge, training, and experience necessary to properly diagnose and treat patients. When a dentist fails to do so, the result may be medical malpractice. In this situation, the woman tried to get the dentist to resolve the pain and fix the problem, yet it went on for many months. Even after repeatedly telling the dentist about the pain, nothing was done. In fact, the dentist continually told the woman that the pain would go away.
The woman in this case has filed a lawsuit naming two dentists who both work at the same dental practice. Damages from this incident include money for dental and medical expenses, compensation for pain and suffering, and other damages that typically include legal fees. When a dental or medical procedure goes wrong and someone is injured, the victim is entitled to recover money for expenses caused by the injury. In this case, the woman had severe pain for a year and required dental surgery to remove the foreign object and perform the dental work again. If you suffered a severe injury because of the negligence of a dentist, you need to seek legal assistance. Contact Levin & Perconti for a free consultation today.


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Incredible Loyal Dog Stories
All dogs have the capacity to be loyal because it is their nature, but some of them are exceptionally faithful and devoted to their owners. Like good friends who stay by your side when you need them, these dogs are more than man's best friends. These extraordinary dogs show incredible loyalty that made them notable to be featured in headlines:
1. Hachiko
Most probably the most famous loyal dog, Hachiko and his story were known through books, word of mouth, and the tear-jerking 2009 film Hachi: A Dog's Tale, starring Richard Gere. If that movie didn't make you cry or at least shed a tear, then we don't know what will.
In a nutshell, Hachiko was an Akita dog born in 1923 and was owned by a university professor named Hidesaburō Ueno. Hachiko and Ueno developed a daily routine: Hachiko would accompany his owner to the Shibuya train station, return home on his own, and then leave again to the station to greet Ueno after his commute back home. However, the professor suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1925 while giving a lecture, and died without ever returning to the station where Hachiko was waiting. For the next nine years, nine months and fifteen days, Hachiko continued to wait for Ueno's return at the station at the precise time when the train was due to arrive. Hachiko's presence at the station earned him unfriendly reactions from commuters and workers at the station, but when an article about him was published in 1932, people started showing concern for the dog. They brought him treats and fed him to nourish him.
Hachiko died in 1935 and was diagnosed with a filaria infection and terminal cancer. After his death, his remains were placed beside his master's.
2. Capitan
When Miguel Guzman of Argentina died in 2006, their family dog – a German Shepherd named Capitan – ran away from home. The family frantically searched for him but they cannot him anywhere. When they decided to go to the cemetery to visit Miguel's grave, they were surprised to see Capitan sitting on top of his master's grave. Since the family had never taken the dog there, they wondered about how could it possibly happen.
Miguel's wife Veronica and his son Damian repeatedly tried to take Capitan home with them for six years after Miguel's death, but the faithful dog always turned back and returned to the cemetery. As of 2015, it was reported that Capitan still guarded the grave and the family didn't bother taking him home anymore, understanding the dog's immense faithfulness to his master.
3. Tommy
Tommy, a then-stray German Shepherd, was adopted by a lady named Maria Margherita Lochi. When Margherita passed away at age 57, her dog followed her coffin and was present at her funeral. Since then, Tommy went to the church every day and sat by the altar silently. He didn't bark while inside the church, so the priest let him stay there until mass finishes. People also gave him food and water to drink in order to stay well. Tommy also eventually died in 2014 after battling an illness.
4. Fido
Fido was two years old when he was found injured by brick kiln worker Carlo Soriani in Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy. Soriani and his wife nursed the dog back to health and named him "Fido," which means "faithful one" in Latin. He grew up to be true to his name.
Like Hachiko, Fido always accompanied his master to the bus stop each working day, and meet him there upon his return. In 1943 during World War II, Borgo San Lorenzo was subject to an aerial bombing raid, and Soriano was one of the casualties. That day, Fido went back home alone from the bus stop, but from that day on, he visited the bus stop for the next 14 years, still hoping in vain to see his master. He actually died at the bus stop while still waiting for Soriani.
News of Fido's loyalty quickly spread, and the Comune of Borgo San Lorenzo eventually commissioned a sculptor to build a monument for Fido. It was placed in Borgo San Lorenzo's Piazza Dante. The dog's remains are buried beside his master's.
5. Dasher
Learning that your two-year-old toddler is missing can bring any mother to a full panic mode. Bianca Chapman raised the alarm after finding out that her kid named Dante and her German Shepherd named Dasher disappeared from her front garden in Victoria, Australia, on one evening. More than a hundred police, firefighters and volunteers searched the woodland for the missing pair, following a pair of small feet and paw prints. When the police heard a loud cry in knee-high scrub, they found Dante with the dog. Dasher has stood loyally by the toddler's side as they got lost through the bushes. The family was so thankful that Dante was with the German Shepherd.
6. Dorado
When the World Trade Center was highjacked, a blind computer technician Omar Eduardo Rivera was on the 71st floor. Because of his disability, he brought his guard dog Dorado, a Labrador Retriever, to the office. The dog was lying under his desk that time when Rivera decided to free him so that he may survive. He said he was hoping that Dorado would quickly run down the stairs and get to safety, but he was surprised when he felt a familiar, fuzzy nudge from knee high. Dorado guided his master down 70 floors and out into the street. While on the way down, one co-worker helped the dog in guiding Rivera downstairs. Not long after they reach the safe ground, the tower collapsed. Rivera says he owes his life to his best friend and companion Dorado.


Started the week with my first ever trip to urgent care for the possibility of strep throat. I was right and I got hooked up with a z pack and orders to sleep. It has cleared now but I was pretty miserable. I barely ate all weekend and actually lost a pound of Saturday. I couldn't swallow and the achy feelings are brutal on a preggo body.
33 weeks and I can still rock pushups…granted I can't go down as far but HAZA!
Had my first ever WagonWheel courtesy of the Higgys up north. Needless to say, I have one in my purse for emergencies.
I hooked up with Ilana at MommyShorts.com this week for a double guest post about toddler dinners. I give 10 tips for getting your toddler to eat over at her place and a weekly sample at Babble. Go check em out.
While I was sick, Kevin gets the award for rockstar dad and husband. He dismantled the crib and moved it and rebuilt it, went to Lowes for supplies for new window cornices, cleaned all the bathrooms, washed every linen on the 2nd floor, vacuumed massive amounts of dog hair, mowed the grass, washed both cars, washed the dog and still wrestled with the boy. He was rewarded with me not nagging about watching NBA all week.
Toddler bed transition has been awesome. He took his first sleep at nap on Saturday and slept for 3.5 hours. He was so excited. Runs upstairs each night to get in his "big boy bed". He loves getting tucked in and being read to. Hooray!
He has mastered potty training so much so that he is now potty training his best friend. Josh was refusing the teacher's asking to potty. Landon asked "Joshy you come potty with me?" and so they do. They travel together and rock pottying. 2 peas in a pod, those 2. Josh had a rad week in big boy underpants too!
We had a rough day this week that started when he noted he was "tired" on the way home. If he realizes it, we are screwed. So.much.screaming. Time out. Crying. Oy. He actually ate decent and then we asked if he just wanted to go to bed, and he said yes. He went to bed 30 minutes early and slept like a log. He woke up like an angel. I say this because I don't believe in keeping a kid up to solve sleep problems. If he naps 4 hours, he still goes to bed on time. Kids know what they need and I think we ignore them some time thinking we have it figured out.
Nursery is almost complete. Just need to move the futon out and the chair in. Getting Pottery Barn mini chairs from Laura for each. Now to wash the massive amounts of clothes. The dryer sounds like a popcorn machine.
He has enjoyed quite a few stretches this week where I can feel hands in my thighs and feet in my lungs. Oh the joys of having no torso.
Enjoyed a car ride with just mommy on her sick day with all the windows down.
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We treat essentially any type of patient, you're never too old, nor too young to be adjusted. Most sports injuries can be rehabilitated very successfully under conservative management. Many conditions that require drugs to mask symptoms can also be treated very successfully under chiropractic care. If however, Dr. Paton feels that the patient may be better served by another form of healthcare, he will refer that patient down the proper medical or physical therapy or massage therapy channel.
Patients of any age. Our youngest patient was a few hours old and our oldest patient was 89. A patient being a few hours old may be a surprise to some, however the birth process can be very traumatic and corrections must be made as quickly as possible. The correction, or adjustment is so light that it is accomplished with the doctor's fingertips. There is no twisting or turning ever done on a newborn's spine. So many of my patients knew that I have treated so many babies, that they've referred their friends' and families' with babies. I've helped many babies who were diagnosed with various conditions, namely colic. Like all the rest of us, a baby's spine can hurt too, and their only way to let us know that something is wrong is to scream uncontrollably. Often times it's the mom who brings the baby in, and often times they're apprehensive and reluctant because they didn't know how safe chiropractic was. However, by the second or third visit, the dad then comes in to say things like "thanks - this is the first time in a while that I've had a good night sleep, please keep doing whatever you're doing". The best part about babies is that the correction is usually made within one or two adjustments - that's it!
For any other problems you may have and aren't sure if chiropractic can help, just give us a call!


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Comments sought for impact on marine mammals by proposed geophysical survey in SE Asia
Of concern to many in this part of the world is proposal to NMFS (US) to 'take' marine mammals in SE Asia during a geophysical survey by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Many international NGOs, researchers, and other organisations have voiced their concerns over this. Our colleauges at Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association and FormosaCetus Research and Conservation Group have. We urge all to voice their concerns by sending their comments to Michael Payne, Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of Protected Resources, [United States] National Marine Fisheries Service. Details below.
Comments sought for impact on mm by proposed geophysical survey in SE Asia
Many if you may not have time to read the details of a proposal to NMFS (US) to 'take' marine mammals in SE Asia during a geophysical survey by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University). Pasted below is a summary of the proposed survey but the US Federal Register notice is also attached for anyone desiring more details. You can also find the notice and additional documents related to this activity at the following NMFS web-pages:
Federal Register notice: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/fr/fr73-78294.pdf
Application: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/taiger_iha.pdf
EA: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/taiger_ea.pdf
Local and international marine mammal scientists, conservationists, eco-tour operators and other interested parties were recently made aware of this notice in the US Federal Register and are very concerned about the impacts of this geophysical survey on marine mammals in SE Asia where several highly endangered and sensitive cetaceans are found. The region already suffers from many threats at levels that are unknown in many developed countries, including the US. Furthermore, the understanding of marine mammal biology in this region is greatly inadequate.
Once such a survey is permitted in one region where marine mammals are poorly understood (and with no evidence demonstrating it is safe to these animals), it is likely to be allowed in other regions that are similarly deficient of information about marine mammals. Marine mammal biologists have worked hard to avoid research that is destructive and even mildly intrusive to their subjects. These efforts could be wasted if other fields of research are allowed to harm these animals without the same level of care about the impacts of their activities and adequate consultation with marine mammal experts in the region. The impacts of seismic surveys do not seem to be limited to marine mammals. Other marine life including sea turtles and fish are also likely to be affected if adequate precautions are not taken.
I would encourage anyone with concerns about or expertise in the potential impacts of the proposed geophysical survey in SE Asian waters on local marine mammals to send their comments and concerns to:
Michael Payne, Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910–3225. The mailbox address for providing email comments is:
PR1.0648 XL89@noaa.gov
michael.payne@noaa.gov.
Comments sent via email including all attachments, must not exceed a 10–megabyte file size.
Note: The deadline for comments is 21 January (an extension for the commenting period has been requested but it is unknown yet if the request will be granted).
John Y. Wang, Ph.D.
FormosaCetus Research and Conservation Group
Trent University (Adjunct Professor)
George Mason University (Affiliate Professor)
Incidental Takes of Marine Mammals During Specified Activities; Marine Geophysical Survey in Southeast Asia, March–July 2009
US NMFS received an application from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, L-DEO (a part of Columbia University), for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to conducting a geophysical seismic survey in SE Asia between 21 March and 14 July 2009 to better understand mountain building processes but information gained from the surveys will allegedly also increase understanding of the nature of earthquakes.
The 71.5m long R/V Marcus G. Langseth will be towing a large 36-airgun array (6,600 in3; the nominal source level is 265 dB re 1μPam, peak-to-peak) through 15,902km of track lines in waters that are bounded by 17o30' and 26oN and 113o30' and 126oE covering all waters of and surrounding Taiwan (from 25 to 6,585m of water depth). From March 21 to April 19, the Langseth will be operating airguns in the South China Sea. From April 20 to June 7, the Langseth will be operating in the Luzon Strait and Philippine Sea and from June 21 to July 14, the Langseth will be surveying the waters immediately around Taiwan. It will be operating in the EEZs of China, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines as well as adjacent high seas. The nearest approach to land masses will be within 1km of Taiwan's coastline, within 10km of China's coastline, within 16km from the Ryuku Islands and 32km from Luzon (but will be within 8km of some of the Babuyan and Batanes islands).
According to NMFS, to avoid permanent physiological damage, cetaceans should not be exposed to received pulsed underwater noise levels of 180 dB re 1μPam (rms) or more. This would be 'Level A Harassment' whereas received levels above 160 but lower than 180 dB re 1μPam (rms) would be considered 'Level B Harassment'. The predictions of where 180 dB re 1μPam (rms) will be received vary between 710m and 3,694m from the source (36-airgun array) depending on the depth at which the array will be towed and the depth of water (the deeper tow depth and over shallower water, the farther the distance will be). For the 160 dB re 1μPam (rms) level, the distances varied from 4,670 to 8,000m from source.
There are many species of concern in this region including: the western gray whale, N. Pacific right whale, blue whale, humpback whale, sperm whale, beaked whales, the ETS population of Sousa chinensis and others. The first two species have not been observed in the waters around Taiwan. However, at least the gray whale is suspected of passing through some of these waters during migration to and from their summer wintering grounds in Russian waters and a yet unknown wintering ground(s) in the South China Sea. A small population of humpback whales winter in the waters of the Babuyan Islands in the northern Philippines and they pass through Taiwanese waters during their migrations. Both Taiwan and the Philippines appear to have fairly high numbers of beaked whales (including the very rare Longman's and ginkgo-toothed beaked whales) as evidenced by strandings and some recent sighting records (much of this information is unpublished). The ETS Sousa chinensis population was recently listed as Critically Endangered in the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, numbers less than 100 individuals (possibly fewer than 70 individuals based on recent preliminary photo-ID mark-recapture analysis), has been shown to be distinct from adjacent provisional populations in Chinese waters and is found in a very restricted and more or less linear distribution along the coastal waters of western Taiwan (spanning a distance of <200km and from the shoreline to at least 3km from shore, with a proposed 5km offshore boundary for major habitat designation having recently been approved by the newly established Eastern Taiwan Strait Sousa Technical Advisory Working Group).
The proposed geophysical surveys will pass through waters in which these species are found. One of our greatest concerns is that the Langseth will also operate the airguns in and adjacent to the known distribution of the ETS Sousa with the predicted received levels exceeding 180 dB re 1μPam (rms), which will likely result in permanent damage to the auditory system even if the proposed mitigation measures are implemented fully – i.e., staying outside of 2km from the shoreline, the predicted received levels will far exceed 180 dB re 1μPam (rms) in all waters where the ETS Sousa reside. Furthermore, throughout the ETS Sousa distribution, there is no sizable area where animals can find shelter acoustically from any loud energy source. Finally, the proposed seismic surveys are during a period when calving appears to peak for this population. Given the small population size of the ETS Sousa, even a minimal 'take' will result in a heavy impact on the survival of this critically endangered population.
The survey track lines to within 1 km from shore of Taiwan will also bring the Langseth over or very close to the continental shelf edge along more or less the entire east and large parts of the north and south coasts of Taiwan (there is a very narrow continental shelf along these coasts). The shelf edge is a structure that concentrates marine mammals in eastern Taiwan, where one of the fastest growing cetacean-based eco-tourism industries in the world has developed since the late 1990s. Off SW Taiwan, the waters in and around a deep trough/canyon that leads to an important upwelling area have also been reported to support many cetaceans but cetacean research is limited here. Off NE Taiwan, another important upwelling area, resulting from a steep change in the ocean floor bathymetry is an important fishing ground and where cetaceans appear to congregate in large numbers (as evidenced by past captures before legal protection). Many beaked whale strandings have been reported from Taiwan, including those from several recent unusual stranding events involving multiple species that are generally considered rare. Taiwan meets the criteria as a "key area" for beaked whales (as defined by MacLeod and Mitchell, 2006). The proposed survey in the spring is also the season when most calving occurs so females that are accompanied by their highly vulnerable neonates also become vulnerable to threats as well. Taiwan and its adjacent waters have a high diversity of marine mammals with known records of about 35 species from Taiwanese waters alone.
Finally, all cetaceans are fully protected legally in at least some of these countries/regions/political entities/economies/etc. and some have been given the highest and strictest level of legal protection.
URGENT: Sign-on today to a letter of concern regarding LDEO seismic surveys in SE Asia (FR 78294)
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Q: Prove $T: X =C^1[0,1] \rightarrow \mathbb R: Tf=\int_{0}^{1} f(t) dt$ is continuous
Let $X(C^1[0,1],\lvert\lvert.\rvert\rvert)$  with the norm $\lvert\lvert f\rvert\rvert=\lvert
f(0)\rvert+\sup_{t\in[0,1]}\lvert f'(t)\rvert$

To prove the continuity of the operator I proved it's bounded.
$|Tf|=|\int_{0}^{1} f(t) dt|\le \int_{0}^{1} |f(t)| dt\le \sup_{t \in [0,1]}|f(t)|$
so is bounded and then continuous?
May I ask how to calculate $\lvert\lvert T\rvert\rvert$?
Thank you in advance!

A: From the context, I assume $Tf=\int_0^1f(t)dt$.
A linear functional is continuous $\iff$ $\sup_{||f||=1}|Tf|\leq C$.
Furthermore, we define $||T||=\sup_{||f||=1}|Tf|$.
For the continuity, we you have already done some work. Just note that
$$
|f(t)|=|\int_0^t f'(s)ds+f(0)| \leq |f(0)|+\sup_{t \in [0,1]}|f'(t)|
$$
and therefore, $\sup_{t \in [0,1]}|f(t)| \leq ||f||$.
Combining with your estimate, we have:
$$
\sup_{||f||=1}|Tf|\leq ||f||\leq 1
$$
This estimate is sharp. Indeed, consider the function $f(x)=1$. Then
$$
T(f)=1=||f||
$$
and as a result, this functions attains the surpremum.

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What is Physical Therapy Billing Software?
After you document the services provided for a patient, the billing software can obtain the charges from your documentation, generate the correct billing code, and produce a bill for that patient. Depending on the software, you may have the option to submit charges 'in house' or outsource the billing to be handled by the billing software team.
Does the company have dedicated support specialists available to call if you need to make a correction or file an appeal from insurance companies? Don't underestimate the value of a good support team – keep this in mind when deciding between options.
Many Physical Therapy EMRs include a billing software component, which makes life really easy in terms of documentation and billing. However, if you choose to use a separate PT billing software, make sure it can integrate with your documentation, scheduling software, and other clinic servicing programs you use. It sounds painfully basic, but specifically ask if the software is compatible with your current system.
The first question most clinic owners ask is: How Much Does PT Billing Software Cost? It's very common to find pricing models based on percent of revenue collection. Expect to pay between 6% and 12% of your monthly revenue collected if using an outsourced PT billing collection service. If you decide to process collections in house, the software may only charge a monthly fee to use the software; however, you'll still need to consider the cost of paying internal staff to manage your billing.
You can't manage it if you don't measure it. A good therapy billing software will provide reports such as patient cancellation/no show rates, full financial reports (receivables, claim status, etc), claim status report, and productivity measures. The right reports can help make your clinic even more efficient. Just be careful not run down a rabbit trail of reports – find the ones that contribute to the bottom line and make them your focus.
Now that you know what to look for in a therapy billing software, take a look at the detailed reviews of these Therapy EMR software and billing services. Read the reviews and add your own if you have used one of these providers.
"Fast and Easy Daily Notes"
"Cuts note writing in half"
WebPT has over 40,000 members and is one of the fastest growing medical records companies in the U.S. A leader in EMR, billing, and practice management solutions, WebPT is known for its customer service and intuitive cloud based software designed for physical, occupational, and Speech therapists. Over 7,000 clinics use WebPT, which boasts an impressive retention rate of 99.6%. The cloud-based system allows clinics of any size to have anytime access to their medical records from any web-enabled platform.
WebPT's cloud based therapy software saves clinics the cost of third party IT support, expensive server management, and technology overhead. The WebPT platform integrates documentation, scheduling, managerial reporting, and therapy billing. The platform was built by PTs for PTs, which is why the streamlined workflow helps to improve efficiency and profitability in the clinic.
Custom reporting allows for managers, owners, and therapists to track measures such as productivity, patient cancellations and no-shows, referrals, and claim submission status. WebPT offers billing support that helps to reduce claim errors, speed up claim submission, and maximize your clinic's revenue.
WebPT is known for being user-friendly, affordable, and a leader in mobile platforms. Therapists who use WebPT can focus on patient care knowing that the documentation and billing details are fully supported by an state of the art EMR.
"Simple to Learn and Use"
"Reports can be improved upon"
"Waiting for customer service follow up"
"Excessive features and occasional bugs"
"Focus on patients, not paperwork." Specifically built for small practices, Kareo is used by physicians, therapists, and clinics who want an all in one solution that is seamless. From scheduling and billing to notes and charges, Kareo provides an intuitive interface that is easy to use and implement in any clinic.
Kareo has no contracts and no set-up fee, which makes it one of the most flexible options available today.
For physical therapists, Kareo integrates with WebPT as a Certified Billing Partner. This means that if you use Kareo for a billing service, it can easily become integrated into the WebPT EMR, giving your practice the best of both worlds.
The Premier EMR for Therapy. Known for its comprehensive management solutions for therapists, Casamba integrates documentation, scheduling, billing, and financial reporting into a seamless system specifically designed for therapists.
In over 7500 facilities, Casamba is a leader in therapy software for both small and large practices. Casamba includes multiple outcome measure libraries, dashboard and analytics reports, as well as custom interfaces to suit outpatient, home health, skilled nursing, and other facilities.
I found all documentation (evals, session notes, discharges) to be extremely difficult with Casamba and took 2-3x longer than other medical record software I've used in the past. Casamba has very poor UI/UX, is full of bugs, crashes often and creates extra work for therapists. Avoid.
This software is full of glitches. They keep coming out with update that make the program worse. The problem is it looks good and you don't find out how unfriendly it is to the user until they are so wrapped into you business that it would take a fortune to untangle yourself. Casamba is absolutely the worst software out there!!!!!
"Feature Rich, Yet Affordable" TheraBill excels as a company that provides electronic documentation, scheduling, and insurance claims within one package. The cloud based software allows you to manage your practice anywhere you can get an internet connection.
From secured faxing to patient invoicing and reminders, TheraBill boasts a hefty list of features that are tailored to the needs of real therapists. With integrated billing and scheduling, there's no need to create a superbill anymore. Scheduled sessions are entered into the schedule, documented, and are made available for billing immediately.
TheraBill offers a 30 day free trial to explore all the features they provide. With flexible pricing plans, you can start for as little as $50 a month.
ClinicSource is a cloud based therapy practice management system with integrated EMR software, making it an all in one solution for therapists and clinic owners. With ready to use templates for SOAP notes, treatment plans, patient goals, and evaluation forms, therapists can focus on treating and use the streamlined software to handle billing, scheduling, and reporting.
One unique features of ClinicSource is the ability to scan and upload and patient file for evaluation, treatment and other records. Once uploaded, anyone can view the attached documents.
ClinicSource provides a free demo and a 30-day free trial. With multiple pricing packages, ClinicSource ranges from $79 a month and up based on the number of users in the system.


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Woman injured after accident in Sanilac County
Whitney Bryan
Sanilac Central Dispatch received a call regarding an accident involving two vehicles on May 16.
Officials said two vehicles collided at the intersection of S. Sandusky and Miller Roads causing a personal injury accident.
According to Sgt. Matt Armstrong, the investigation determined a 2011 Chevrolet Impala - driven by an 87-year-old from Marlette - was traveling westbound on E. Miller Road, east of S. Sandusky Road when she failed to stop.
The Impala was then struck by a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado traveling southbound. Officials said that car was occupied by a 66-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman, both from Marlette.
According to officials, the 87-year-old was not wearing a seatbelt. The passengers in the Silverado were wearing seatbelts. Officials said that airbags were deployed in both vehicles.
All three people were taken to McKenzie Hospital. The 87-year-old was later transported to Saginaw Covenant for further treatment.
Officials do not believe alcohol or drugs were a factor in this accident.
Their names are being withheld pending the investigation.
Copyright 2019 WNEM (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.
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Video content is taking over the world, or so we're told. Text is old-school — video stands out and people share it. So who needs to learn to write?
If you think the future of communications is video, you're way off.
Here are five reasons why, for nearly every communication you're planning, text is better than video.
How long does it take to figure out what's in a 5-minute video?
Sure, you can scrub it back and forth with your mouse, but you're not really going to find out why it's important to you.
A well-designed piece of text content — whether it's an email, a blog post, an article, or a white paper — reveals its structure. It has headings, bullets, quotes, links, and graphics. You can find the part you're interested in and skip the rest — or skip the whole thing if you quickly figure out it's worthless. Try that with a piece of video.
You can put keywords in a video. But text has the keywords already there. People will search for it using terms you didn't even realize were important when you wrote them.
Raise your hand if you've become annoyed when visiting a news site and hearing video autoplay.
Most of us work quietly in offices. We want to consume content when we choose to view it — not when it chooses to interrupt us.
You can consume text without headphones and with the sound off. That's useful in a world where we share space.
How do you create text? In your email program? In Microsoft Word? In Google Docs? In Facebook? There are a thousand ways, because everything includes a text editor.
If someone sends you text, you can copy it, paste it, edit it, or comment on it. It's infinitely malleable.
It's easy to turn bad text into good text by editing.
While it's easy to create crappy video, it's not easy to fix it. Good video is far more expensive and time-consuming to create than good text.
I can still read text that somebody wrote in 1971 and get something out of it. There are some new words now, but the punctuation, the headings, and the way we communicate ideas remain pretty much the same as they were.
Text isn't the least common denominator — it's more like the lifeblood of communication. Even now, in the video era, it's the one medium everyone can count on.
When virtual reality and branching video and interactive experiences catch on — along with who knows what that's up next — we'll still have text.
Coders document their work in text. Chatbots use it, too. Writing text and getting information from it is going to be a core skill for workers in 2050 as it is now. Count on it.
That's not better, it's just louder and more interruptive.
If your objective is to actually communicate, learn to write better. Video has its uses. But if you can't write well, there's a ceiling on your future success.
I am much more inclined to read (or scan) a news article than listen to a news article in video. Video takes too long. Also people get self indulgent in video, drag it out longer than need.
The one exception is when the video shows something with visceral impact, such as a war situation.
The other exception is anything at all by Jordan Peterson!
Many news site videos force-play an advertisement before the main article. This also wastes time. I can read much faster than I can watch a video. When I want news, I prefer to read it. When I want to learn how to do something, watching a video is a faster teacher than the amount of words necessary to accurately describe the task. Each communication style has its advantages.
Totally agree. Who has time these days I cannot imagine.
Josh, this post is really encouraging to me. I've often thought I'm in the uber-minority because I prefer text to video – especially because I can read it on the go. Great affirmation with excellent, practical reasons why text has so much value. Thank you!
Lord, yes. Thank you. About once a month someone will call me and say, "We need more videos on our website." I'll pull up the stats on the videos already there and reveal the limited number of hits for each one currently on the site. Then I'll remind the person that their budget had better be in the $6,000 to $10,000 range to produce the 5-minute video they want. Then I ask them the "why, who and what" questions to hear their reasons for why video would be better than text and photos. Most of the time they realize that what they really need is something text driven. But it won't prevent them from asking again in about a month.
I'm going to email a link to this blog post to all of my clients now.
Most of this is very strong, but video is increasingly searchable as easily as text; it's easy for major video platforms to take a transcript and scan it. Additionally, video contains far more data that can be searched and indexed – every object, element of a scene, every face etc. I love reading text (like your blog), but the search-ability is no longer such a valid critique. A picture is worth the proverbial thousand words, and a video is typically shot at least 30 images per second.
I think what you say will be true, but it is not quite true yet. A Google search does not know what's in the transcript or whether there is an image of Matt Damon in the video. Yet.
I would suggest a sixth reason is that people tend to waffle more in a video than they do with the written word, which is a time-waster for me.


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