Is Your Medical Education Strategy Costing You Valuable Engagement with HCPs?
Discover the Secrets to Building a Medical Communications Strategy That Will Build Brand Equity!
As a marketing or medical affairs executive in the pharmaceutical industry, your key role is to ensure medical professionals are aware of your products and how they can improve treatment outcomes. The chances are your focus up to now has been on traditional sales and marketing techniques – however, as the pharmaceutical industry changes, we are seeing greater emphasis on medical communication.
There is increasing demand for higher standards of clinical efficacy and safety. Now you have to show your how your product will make healthcare delivery more efficient and effective. The way we engage healthcare professionals is changing too. The way ahead is to align information about your products with a wider-ranging communication strategy. One that improves clinical knowledge, grows brand equity and improves how your company is perceived.
Even without seeing your overall communications plan I'm pretty sure I could predict its basic outline. You'll have a solid base of conventional marketing, and probably a medical education program too. Medical communications are the new frontier in the pharmaceutical sector, and no doubt you've rightly decided you need a presence in that field.
Medical education can be easy to do, but the problem is that it can be difficult to do properly. You might be putting the right resources into it and basing your campaigns on the best information available, but if it isn't properly coordinated with the rest of your organisation it won't achieve the results you're looking for.
In this book I explore the most common issues businesses experience as they move into medical communications – and the strategy errors that can turn your education campaigns from an asset to a liability. I've seen med ed go well, and I've seen it fail. Getting the strategy right isn't a nice-to-have; it's essential.
I decided to write this book to help the industry that's been so good to me over the years. I've spent more than two decades working in pharmaceuticals, and I'm excited about sharing my experience to help you to develop a successful campaign.
Louis Reginato is Australia's Trusted Medical Communication Strategist to the Pharmaceutical Industry. With over 25 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and a solid track record in communications, Louis has worked in marketing, public relations, and education roles at every level. Now he's decided to reveal the secrets of how to build brand equity and enhance corporate reputation in today's pharmaceutical market.
Thanks to his diverse experience in the industry, Louis has a deep understanding of what medical professionals need to know about your products – and how to engage them so they're receptive to that information.
If you're a senior marketing or medical affairs executive with a pharma company, it's your responsibility to make sure clinicians know how your products can help them deliver the best possible health outcomes. When it comes to developing your medical communications plan you can't afford to be without this remarkable book that exposes both the pitfalls and opportunities in medical education.


There are always consequences when engaging with the enemy. And when Bill Nye "The Science Guy" agreed to debate evolution vs. creationism with Creation Museum founder Ken Ham last month, he was considered to have won the debate, but he also brought a financial windfall to the museum that Ham describes — of course — as "a miracle."
"It was a challenging time, one that on a human level required a miracle to overcome," Ham added. "And God in His providence supplied our needs."
"If he builds that ark, it's my strong opinion, it's bad for the commonwealth of Kentucky and bad for scientists based in Kentucky and bad for the U.S.," Nye said. "And I'm not joking, bad for the world."


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Call to challenge the Electoral College count has split Senate Republicans
Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY
The divide within the Republican Party over the results of the 2020 presidential election deepened last week as a dozen GOP senators declared they will join their House colleagues in objecting to the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win when Congress meets in a joint session Wednesday.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah – the party's presidential nominee just eight years ago – sharply denounced the growing movement to challenge the election outcome on Saturday as an "egregious ploy" after a group led by Sen. Ted Cruz issued a joint statement saying they would not vote to certify the election until President Donald Trump's discredited claims of widespread voter fraud are investigated further.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was the first senator to announce plans to object to the electoral vote count. He received swift criticism from senior Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D. McConnell had warned Senate Republicans not to join the call to vote against certifying the Electoral College result, reportedly telling his colleagues it "isn't in the best interest of everybody."
McConnell is concerned that forcing a vote on Biden's win will leave Republicans, especially those soon up for reelection, in a position where they would have to go on record as either trying to overturn a legitimate election or defying Trump. And many conservatives are concerned that claiming the election is rigged could hurt Republican turnout in the two Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the Senate.
But such strategic concerns have not deterred Trump's congressional supporters from echoing the president's unsubstantiated claims the election was rigged. They also have been unfazed by the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security's inability to find any evidence of serious fraud and the fact that Trump's legal challenges to the election have consistently been thrown out of court.
"I find it unfathomable that anyone would acquiesce to election theft and voter fraud because they lack the courage to take a difficult vote on the House or Senate floor," Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., told Politico. "Last time I checked, that's why we were elected to Congress."
Brooks is leading the effort to vote against the certification of electoral votes and overturn the election in the House. Two Republican House members told CNN that at least 140 House Republicans are expected to object to the certification of the vote.
When Hawley announced his decision to object in a Dec. 30 statement, he cited state officials' decisions to expand absentee voting in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. "I cannot vote to certify the electoral college results on January 6 without raising the fact that some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election laws," he wrote.
Hawley said Congress should "investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has so far failed to act."
Cruz, R-Texas, and 10 other senators, including Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Mike Braun, R-Ind., announced in a joint statement Saturday that they would join Hawley's effort to stop the certification of the election results.
The senators cited "unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law and other voter irregularities" as their reasoning, though they did not cite any evidence to support the allegations. Instead, they argued Trump's allegations should be explored because the president and his allies have cast so much doubt on the process.
"Whether or not our elected officials or journalists believe it, that deep distrust of our democratic processes will not magically disappear. It should concern us all. And it poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations," they wrote.
Attorney General Barr: No reason to name special counsels to investigate Hunter Biden or election fraud
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, meets with incoming GOP senators for the 116th Congress on Nov. 14, 2018.
Following Hawley's lead, the senators said they "intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite)" unless an "emergency 10-day audit is completed."
Their objections are unlikely to overturn the results, because majorities in both the House and Senate would have to agree to exclude them.
Before announcing his intention to challenge the vote in the joint statement, Braun called the objection a "protest vote only, because there's, in my opinion, zero chance anything can come from it."
Thune agreed with Braun's assessment, saying, "In the end, I don't think it changes anything." And he downplayed the seriousness of his colleagues' effort, saying, "with a few exceptions obviously," Republicans are not "anxious to do this."
"Now that we're locked into doing it, we'll give air to the objections and people can have their day in court, and we'll hear everybody out and then we'll vote," Thune told The Hill.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said: "My colleagues will have the opportunity to make this case, and I will listen closely. But they have a high bar to clear."
Other Republicans were more vocal about the potential consequences of challenging the election.
"The 2020 election is over," a bipartisan group of 10 senators declared in a joint statement Sunday. "All challenges through recounts and appeals have been exhausted. At this point, further attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election are contrary to the clearly expressed will of the American people and only serve to undermine Americans' confidence in the already determined election results."
The group, comprised of Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Mark Warner, D-Va., Bill Cassidy, R-La., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Angus King, I-Maine, Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the "voters have spoken" and "Congress must now fulfill its responsibility to certify the election results."
And Republican Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Richard Shelby of Alabama told reporters on Sunday they would not support an effort to object to the electoral count.
"I think it's a solemn responsibility to accept these electoral college votes that have been certified by governors, secretaries of states all across the country," Capito said. "I just think this is an ill-fated journey."
On Saturday, Romney denounced the "egregious ploy to reject electors," saying it "may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic."
"The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it. More Americans participated in this election than ever before, and they made their choice," he said. "Trump's lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed."
He said the argument that a congressional commission could put doubts about the election to rest is "nonsense."
"The American people wisely place greater trust in the federal courts where judges serve for life. Members of Congress who would substitute their own partisan judgement for that of the courts do not enhance public trust, they imperil it," Romney wrote.
Murkowski and Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania also released statements Saturday declaring they would affirm the 2020 presidential election results Wednesday.
Toomey called out Hawley and Cruz in his statement, saying their effort undermines the "right of the people to elect their own leaders."
"The senators justify their intent by observing that there have been many allegations of fraud. But allegations of fraud by a losing campaign cannot justify overturning an election," Toomey said. "They fail to acknowledge that these allegations have been adjudicated in courtrooms across America and were found to be unsupported by evidence. President Trump's own Attorney General, Bill Barr, stated 'we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.'"
More: A dozen Republican senators plan to object to certification of Biden's election win over Trump
Taking a less direct route, Murkowski urged her colleagues to recognize that "the courts and state legislatures have all honored their duty to hear legal allegations and have found nothing to warrant overturning the results" and to "join me in maintaining confidence in the Electoral College and our elections so that we ensure we have the continued trust of the American people."
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., shared a scathing Facebook post in response to Hawley last week, explaining why he won't join in objecting to the election results.
Sasse said Trump and his allies were "playing with fire" and now "calling on federal officeholders to invalidate millions and millions of votes" after unsuccessfully calling on judges to do so.
"Let's be clear what is happening here: We have a bunch of ambitious politicians who think there's a quick way to tap into the president's populist base without doing any real, long-term damage," Sasse said. "But they're wrong – and this issue is bigger than anyone's personal ambitions. Adults don't point a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government."
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., another critic of the planned objection, called the effort a "grifting scam" on CNN's "State of the Union."
The challenge is just the latest attempt by some Republicans to try to overturn the election.
Last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and several other Republicans filed a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence in an attempt to give him the authority in Wednesday's joint session to overturn the election results. A judge tossed out the lawsuit.
Last month, more than 120 House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, sought to challenge the election through another lawsuit. They joined a brief in support of a Texas lawsuit that attempted to invalidate millions of votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – all states Biden won.
The Supreme Court eventually denied the lawsuit, stating in a brief order that Texas hadn't "demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections."
The Republican lawmakers' efforts to flip the election have left their party's 2012 nominee flabbergasted.
"I could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the world," Romney said Saturday. "Has ambition so eclipsed principle?"
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Republican divide deepens over Trump's challenge to 2020 election
One of former President Donald Trump's last acts in office was issuing a directive extending free Secret Service protection to his four adult children and two of their spouses for the next six months, three people with knowledge of the matter told The Washington Post.It's not just his adult children benefiting — Trump also directed that former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien continue to receive Secret Service protection for six months, two people familiar with the matter told the Post. This 24-hour security, funded by taxpayer money, is expected to cost millions.Under federal law, only Trump, former first lady Melania Trump, and their 14-year-old son, Barron, are entitled to Secret Service protection now that they have left the White House; while Donald and Melania can receive protection for the rest of their lives, Barron is only entitled to it up until his 16th birthday.The Post notes that presidents have the ability to order Secret Service protection for anyone they want, but it is extremely unusual for an outgoing president to order this type of security for their children who are well into adulthood. It is also unclear if there is precedent for ordering security for former aides. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush requested security extensions for their daughters, who were in college when their presidencies ended. Once former President Barack Obama was out of office, his daughters — one in high school, the other on a gap year from college — received a short extension of security.During Trump's presidency, his adult children took more than 4,500 trips, including vacations and business travel for the Trump Organization, the Post reports. Taxpayers paid millions of dollars for Secret Service agents to accompany them on those jaunts.More stories from theweek.com Biden removes Trump's Diet Coke button from the Oval Office 7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's White House exit Biden's team reportedly realized after inauguration that Trump really had no vaccine distribution plan
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Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the Army's deputy chief of staff for operations and training — and brother to disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — did participate in a critical Jan. 6 meeting to discuss deploying the National Guard to the besieged Capitol, The Washington Post reports. The Army had denied several times that Flynn was involved in the conference call at the Pentagon with Washington, D.C., officials and Capitol Police, the Post notes, but both Flynn and the Pentagon confirmed his presence on Wednesday.During the tense meeting, D.C. officials and the Capitol Police chief had pleaded for the National Guard to help protect and clear the Capitol of violent rioters pushing to keep former President Donald Trump in office, but the Pentagon officials had stalled, worrying about the "optics" of having the National Guard at the Capitol. Charles Flynn told the Post he had "entered the room after the call began and departed prior to the call ending as I believed a decision was imminent" from Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy "and I needed to be in my office to assist in executing the decision." The National Guard arrived at the Capitol three hours after the call.It made sense for Flynn to be in the meeting, given his position, but "the episode highlights the challenge for the Army in having an influential senior officer whose brother has become a central figure in QAnon, the extreme ideology that alleges Trump was waging a battle with Satan-worshiping Democrats who traffic children," the Post reports. Flynn had also urged Trump to declare martial law and was involved in the Jan. 6 events."Charlie Flynn is an officer of an incredibly high integrity," McCarthy told the Post on Jan. 12, eight days before he left office Wednesday. "This guy has given a lot to this country. It is incredibly awkward for this officer every day for what is going on with him and his brother, but he puts his head down in, and he is locked in to serve the Constitution."More stories from theweek.com Biden removes Trump's Diet Coke button from the Oval Office 7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's White House exit Biden's team reportedly realized after inauguration that Trump really had no vaccine distribution plan
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Dunkin' Donuts glazed donut breakfast sandwich.
Fast food breakfast offerings have exploded in recent years with chains competing fiercely for your morning dollar.
But recent weeks have brought some especially enticing offerings to Chicago.
While the whole country got McDonald's egg white sandwiches earlier this year, only Chicago and Fort Meyers got the experimental Dunkin' Dog this week for a limited time.
Chicago was also chosen as one of the early sites for the roll out of Starbucks new upscale pastries from San Francisco based La Boulange. The Chicago Tribune reports that they will include chocolate croissants, lemon loaves and chewy chocolate meringues.
We couldn't yet try the fancy new Starbucks offerings but we did stop in Dunkin' Donuts this morning to try the Dunkin' Dog ($1) as well as the glazed donut breakfast sandwich which came to town last month.
The dogs are two cheesy Ekrich sausage links wrapped in a soft, slightly sweet dough. Not much bigger than a wiener wrap, it delivers a good chew and nice smoky finish for a mere 180 calories — that is if you eat just one.
The glazed doughnut breakfast sandwich, however, is kind of a wreck. Its sweetness plays nicely off the salty bacon, but the split doughnut falls apart in your hands and turns them into a sticky mess. Don't even think about driving while you're eating this.
Once we get our hands on the new Starbucks La Boulange pastries, set to launch August 20, we will discuss them on the Morning Shift. But in the meantime, tell us about your favorite grab and go breakfast in Chicago.
I'll start: It's the rich and buttery Fritz Pastry ham and cheese croissant ($2.95) and a Metropolis iced coffee sold together at Dollop Coffee.
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Ted Horn drove his T.H.E. Special to victory in the 100 mile AAA Championship race on the 1 & 1/16 mile Arlington Downs dirt track in Dallas, Texas. Jack McGrath made his champ car debut.
Spider Webb won the AAA Sprint Car race at the Salem Speedway, Salem, IN. ____________________
Mike Nazaruk won the AAA Sprint car feature at the Dayton Speedway,Dayton, OH ____________________
Eddie Sachs won the AAA Sprint car feature at the Fort Wayne Speedway,Fort Wayne, IN
Wally Campbell won the AAA Eastern Sprint car feature at the Williams Grove Speedway,Mechanicsburg, PA
Bobby Grim won the IMCA Sprint car feature at the Salem Speedway,Salem, IN ____________________
Fred Frame... Died ... AAA driver from the 1920's and 1930's. Ran the Indy 500 8 times and won in 1932. ____________________
Fred Lorenzen led the final 332 laps to win the NASCAR Grand National 'Virginia 500' at Martinsville Speedway. It was Lorenzen's 4th straight win at Martinsville. A late charge by Marvin Panch fell 2 car lengths short. The story of the race was the incredible charge by Junior Johnson. Johnson was leading when he blew a tire and lost a lap & a half in the pits. Johnson put on a stunning charge to regain the lead in just 32 laps. On lap 178, Johnson held a 17 second lead when the left front wheel collapsed. After again losing time in the pits, Johnson began another charge, working his way to 3rd before another blown tire sent his Ford into the wall on lap 258.
Jim McElreath won the rain shortened USAC Championship race on the 1 mile paved Trenton Speedway in Trenton, NJ. The race was halted after 87 of the 100 laps.
Jimmy Davies won the USAC Midget feature at the Orange Show Speedway, San Bernadino,CA ____________________
Larry Dickson drove to victory in the USAC Sprint Car feature over Lee Kunzman, Karl Busson, Merle Bettenhausen and Bruce Walkup, on the 1/2 dirt oval at the Reading Fairgrounds in Reading, Pennsylvania. ____________________
Mike Mosley drove the A.J. Watson Eagle to his first career USAC Indy Car win, taking the 200 mile race on the 1.5 mile paved "peanut" shaped Trenton Speedway in Trenton, NJ. Bobby Unser won the pole at a record 155.579 mph and led lap 1 before brother Al took over. Bobby immediately began falling back with handling problems and Al's hopes for his 4th straight Indy Car soon ended with a burned piston on lap 5. Al's retirement put the McNamara-Ford of Mario Andretti into first. Andretti led until the turbocharger failed on lap 34, moving Mosley out front. Mosley pulled away handily, lapping the field. Lloyd Ruby, running a lap down in 2nd, crashed after clipping rookie Don Brown while trying to lap him in the dogleg on lap 108. Anticipating the restart, Mosley hit the wall, spun and was hit by new 2nd place man Steve Krisiloff. Mosley nearly stalled, but recovered and drove into the pits for a quick check while Krisiloff was eliminated. With Krisiloff out, B. Unser was back to 2nd. Mosley struggled for almost a lap to find high gear following the stop, but finally got back up to speed. B. Unser's motor finally gave up with 3 laps to go and Mosley cruised across the line 3 laps ahead of runner-up Wally Dallenbach's Kuzma-Ford. Stock Car star LeeRoy Yarbrough, replacing the injured Swede Savage in Dan Gurney's All-American Racers Eagle, finished 3rd and B. Unser still completed enough laps to wind up 4th.
Lee Kunzman won the USAC Midget feature at the Queen City Speedway, Cincinnati,OH ____________________
William Gardner... Died ... AAA driver from the 1920's and 1930's. ____________________
Darrell Waltrip won the NASCAR GN 'Virginia 500' on the .525 mile paved Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. Waltrip's DiGard Chevrolet finished a lap ahead of Cale Yarborough in the Junior Johnson Chevrolet. ____________________
Darrell Waltrip won the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Martinsville, North Carolina. ____________________
Dave Peperak drove to victory in the Don Branson/Jud Larson Memorial USAC Sprint Car feature, over Larry Gates, Tom Bigelow, Jack Hewitt and Sheldon Kinser at the Eldora Speedway in Rossburg,OH
Barry Camp won the Super Sprint Car feature over Allen Klinger, Gary Krout, Jan Opperman and Maynard Yingst, at the Selinsgrove Speedway, Selinsgrove,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Sammy Swindell, in the # 1n Nance house car, won the World of Outlaws Sprint Car feature over Doug Wolfgang, Lee Osborne, Fred Linder and Bobby Marshall, at the Paragon Speedway, Paragon,IN
Fred Harbach, the "Flying Dutchman", won the NASCAR Winston Racing Series Modified feature at the Islip Speedway, Islip, NY. ( Click here for the race report. )
Craig VonDohren won the Pro-Sportsman feature at the Grandview Speedway, Bechtelsville, PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Keith Kauffman won the Super Sprint Car race at the Port Royal Speedway, Port Royal,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
George Ferguson Jr won the Super Sprint Car race at the Lincoln Speedway, Abbottstown,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Brett Hearn won the Modified Stock Car race at the Orange County Fair Speedway, Middletown, NY. ( Click here for the race report. )
Charlie Kremer Jr won the Modified Stock Car race at the Wall Stadium, Belmar, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Jimmy Horton won the Modified Stock Car race at the Bridgeport Speedway, Bridgeport, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Johnny Murphy won the Super Sportsman race at the Silver Spring Speedway, Mechanicsburg,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Paul Lotier won the Sportsman Stock Car race at the Bridgeport Speedway, Bridgeport, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Mike Petruska won the Eastern States 75 lap Sportsman Championship Stock Car race at the Orange County Fair Speedway, Middletown, NY. ( Click here for the race report. )
Richie Evans won the 150 lap NASCAR National Championship Modified Stock Car race at the Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, VA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Tom Hager won the Modified Stock Car race at the Flemington Speedway, Flemington, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Don Kreitz Jr won the Modified Stock Car race at the U.S. 13 Speedway, Delmar, DE. ( Click here for the race report. ) ____________________
Harry Gant wins the Virginia National Bank 500 over Butch Lindley at the Martinsville Speedway , Martinsville, VA. ____________________
Mike Perrotte won the Stock Car race at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, NY. ( Click here for the race report. )
Doug Walcott and Pete Brittainwon the twin 35-lap Modified races at the Wall Stadium in Wall Township, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Ken Hamilton won the USAC Supermodified race at the Mesa Marin Raceway in Bakersfield, CA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Andy Hillenburg won the Sprint Car race at the Bloomington Speedway in Bloomington, IN. Jeff Gordon set fast time, won the dash and flipped in the feature.( Click here for the race report. )
Brett Hearn won the Schaefer Light Eastern States 200 Modified Stock Car race at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, NY. ( Click here for the race report. )
Steve Kinser won the World of Outlaws Sprint Car race at the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, IA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Doug Hoffman won the Miller American Tri-Track 100 Modified Stock Car race at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, NY. ( Click here for the race report. )
Rick Ungar won the USAC Sprint Car feature at the Eldora Speedway in Rossburg,OH. ( Click here for the race report. )
Joe Shear won the ARTGO Late Model Stock Car race at the Grundy County Speedway in Morris,IL. ( Click here for the race report. )
Dan Dietrich won the Super Sprint Car feature over Joey Allen, Steve Smith, Steve Siegel and Frankie Kerr, at the Lincoln Speedway, Hanover,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Bobby Allen won the All Star Super Sprint Car feature over Doug Wolfgang, Fred Rahmer, Paul Lotier and Joe Gaerte, at the Port Royal Speedway, Port Royal,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Andy Hillenburg won the Champ Dirt Car race at the Tulsa Speedway in Tulsa, OK. ( Click here for the race report. )
Sleepy Tripp drove to victory over P.J. Jones in the USAC Midget feature and Larry Derwin won the USAC TQ Midget feature at the Ventura Raceway, Ventura,CA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Brad Noffsinger won the CRA Sprint Car race at the Ascot Park, Gardena,CA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Mark Fluery won the Modified Stock Car feature over John Hewitt, John Flach, Ken Tremont and Eddie Marshall, at the Lebanon Valley Speedway, West Lebanon, NY.
Tim Leiphart won the Super Sportsman feature at the Silver Spring Speedway, Mechanicsburg,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Chuck Ward won the Sprint Car race at the Selinsgrove Speedway, Selinsgrove,PA. ( Click here for the race report. )
Dave Wenger won the Sportsman-Modified race at the Grandview Speedway, Bechtelsville,PA. ( Click here for the race report. ) ____________________
Jimmy Sills drove to victory over Robby Flock, Robbie Stanley, Joe Gaerte and Sleepy Tripp in the USAC Midget feature and Marc Hart won the USAC TQ Midget feature at the Ventura Raceway, Ventura,CA ____________________
Rusty Wallace wins the Hanes 500 over Davey Allison at the Martinsville Speedway , Martinsville, VA. ____________________
Dale Earnhardt wins the DieHard 500 over Dale Jarrett at the Talladega Superspeedway , Talladega, AL. ____________________
Jeff Gordon wins the Aaron's 499 over Dale Earnhardt Jr. at the Talladega Superspeedway , Talladega, AL. ____________________


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Q: Add invisible route to Durandal project Using the ASP.Net Durandal template in Visual Studio.  I added the following to the main.js:
router.mapNav('clients');
router.mapNav('client/:id');

These links then both work but I don't want client to be available in the navigation, if I remove that line then the link no longer works.  Is there an easy way to set it to be invisible or have I entered my routes in the wrong place?

A: If you're using Durandal 2.0, you can specify more options for the router navigation, and it looks something like this:
//Durandal 2.0
router.map([
    { route: 'clients', title:'clients', moduleId: 'viewmodels/clients', nav: true},
    { route: 'client/:id', title:'client', moduleId: 'viewmodels/client', nav: false }
]).buildNavigationModel();

If you're using Durandal 1.x, I strongly recommend upgrading to 2.0.  There are multiple bug fixes as well as some important architectural changes that will make your life easier in the long run.
if that's not an option, there's a way in Durandal 1.x to prevent the route from appearing in the navigation as well:
//Durandal 1.x
router.mapRoute({ url: 'clients', name: 'clients', moduleId: 'viewmodels/clients', visible: true });
router.mapRoute({ url: 'client/:id', name: 'client', moduleId: 'viewmodels/client', visible: false });

With Durandal 1.x, you'll need to inspect the visible property of each route before adding it to a menu collection.  With 2.0, the buildNavigationModel function will do this automatically.

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Name: Shannon King
Education: Marshall University, Bachelor of Science, Business Administration (1997), Master of Science, Safety Management (1998).
Profession: Amerisure Insurance, senior loss control consultant.
Job description: A resident of Chester, Va., Shannon performs loss control surveys of property and casualty exposures. He also performs accident investigations and policyholder-based consultative services, including evaluations of risk management programs and safety procedures.
Childhood hero: Several individuals in the community such as Donald Crawford and Bill Butter and school teachers such as Mike Baumann (shop class) and Greg Tankersley (science) from Lincoln Jr. High. "They all took the time to talk to me as a young man about self respect, the rewards from having an education, following through with the choices I made, how to work as a team player and most importantly, actively listening to me when I had questions in general."
Family inspiration: Grandmother. "Her wisdom, strength, patience, love and faith."
Personal quote: "The act of giving oneself is the most selfless thing you can do."
Name: Chris Layne
Education: United States Air Force (1992-2002), University of La Verne (Calif.), Bachelor of Arts, Business, (2002); Averett University (Va.), Master of Business Administration (2005).
Profession: Senior vice president, commercial banker, First Citizens Bank.
Job description: A resident of Richmond, Va., Chris helps provide companies with various types of financial solutions. He primarily helps companies in the small to middle markets with funding for things such as business expansion, business acquisitions, equipment financing, commercial real estate acquisitions as well as working capital needs.
Childhood influence: Cousin Jonathan. "He always took time to sit down with me and explain the importance of education and how that that would open doors for me as I went through school and became an adult."
Family inspiration: Mom. "As a young teenager, I watched my mother raise me and my brother while working and going to school to create a better life for us. Her hard work and determination inspired me to want to do great things with my life and helped to instill the strong work ethic I have today."
Personal quote: "Always lead by example and inspire others to be great."
TEAM KRL would like to thank God and applaud all those who have supported the B4 program. Stay blessed.
Name: Duane Rankin
Education: Marshall University, Bachelor of Arts, Journalism (1995)
Profession: Phoenix Suns Insider, Arizona Republic
Job description: A resident of Phoenix,Arizona., Duane covers the Phoenix Suns and NBA and produces videos. In his 20-plus year career, Rankin has written stories about LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Devin Booker, Nick Saban, Dabo Swinney, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady and Cam Newton. Rankin recently wrote a.story about a fan being banned from attending Utah Jazz games for using unnecessary language towards Russell Westbrook.
Childhood influence: Older brother Greg. "Not only did he look out for me when I was young, he showed me by example how to be responsible and genuine."
Family inspiration: Mom. "Her amazing spirit, unyielding faith and pure love for family are values I pride myself on living by. She takes on challenges and prevails."
Personal quote: "People only kill your dreams if you allow them to take ownership of them by discouraging you from pursuing what you want to achieve in life."
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At least 222 deaths have been reported in Indonesia on Sunday after a tsunami struck the Sunda Strait without warning, the latest disaster to befall a Pacific nation repeatedly stricken this year.
As of late Sunday, Indonesian government officials reported more than 843 injured and 28 still missing.
The cause remains unclear, but 1-meter high waves took coastal residents by surprise on Saturday evening without earthquake tremors that typically presage tsunamis — or any official warnings.
Indonesian officials downplayed the possibility that the nearby Krakatoa volcano, which has been erupting since June, caused the tsunami. Instead, experts said an undersea landslide may have generated massive waves without warning.
Over 500 buildings were destroyed or heavily damaged as waves poured in from the Sunda Strait, which separates Indonesia's two most populated islands, Java and Sumatra.
"Data collection is still ongoing. It's likely that the number of victims and damages will rise," said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's national disaster agency.
Beaches in the strait were reported heavily hit in places such as Pandeglang Regency, where 33 were reportedly killed, and Anyer and Tanjung Lesung beaches. At least nine hotels and dozens of restaurants and food stalls were badly damaged.
Government officials are warning tourists against visiting beaches along the strait.
Oystein Lund Andersen, a Norwegian witness who was on a family trip on the coast of the Anyer beach, wrote on Facebook that he was on a family trip when he saw the incoming wave. "Next wave entered the hotel area where I was staying and downed cars on the road behind it. Managed to evacuate with my family to higher ground through forest paths and villages, where we are taken care of by the locals. Were unharmed, thankfully," he wrote.
In a statement, Indonesian President Joko Widodo sent his condolences to those affected and said he dispatched emergency responders. Officials said heavy rescue equipment and emergency soup kitchens have been prepared. Oxfam said it was also dispatching help to the region.
Indonesia's volcanology and geology disaster mitigation center said there was an eruption of the Krakatoa on Saturday night. Although there was a "300 to 1500 meter" ash cloud reported above the crater's peak, the center said, it was unclear whether the tsunami was directly caused by the eruption.
Igan Sutawijaya, a volcano and geological disaster expert, said the Sunda Strait is a disaster-prone area but the waves may not be directly linked to an eruption.
Saturday's tsunami followed a string of disasters in Indonesia. Earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed homes, killed and displaced thousands in areas such as the Lombok island in July and the Central Sulawesi city of Palu in September.
Indonesia sits on the seismically active "ring of fire" in the Pacific Ocean.
The Child of Krakatoa, an island that emerged in the 1920s after the 1883 volcanic eruptions of the Krakatoa, hosts one of Indonesia's most active eruption sites.


There have been a number of reviews for the Galaxy Note around the web already, but few reviews in English about the Japanese model available from Docomo thus far.
1. SIM and Unlocking? Yes, Docomo will unlock it for you - but the range of frequencies is limited. Specifically, it won't work with eMobile SIMs.
The device supports only the small Micro-SIM cards (same size as those the iPhone 4 and up take), but it won't take a Docomo FOMA SIM even if you cut it.
2. What about WiFi Only use? It works fine with WiFi only. There is no booby-trap to prevent its use without an active SIM card. (Obviously you won't be able to make phone calls without using a VOIP app like 050+ or Skype, though).
Nothing special to see here. The photos it takes look great on the screen, but that's because the screen is small compared to a computer. This can't touch Sony's cameras.
There is a low res. front-facing camera for video chat.
4. Saifu Keitai/Felica/Mobile Suica? In a word - No. This phone has the International NFC standard instead. Amusingly, you can use it to READ your Suica cards to check the balance, etc., but you can't use it to pay for anything. The Japanese market of the Note II has upgraded to Felica instead, though.
5. 1seg (Japanese Digital TV) - This phone does have 1seg! And it works great. 1Seg is starting to shows its age though on this giant screen. There is no NOTTV support. You can of course run TV apps like UNEXT that use the data connection, though, and I highly recommend this phone if you are a fan of watching TV on the train. Annoyingly, Hulu Japan does not yet support this phone.
6. Screen - Well it's big. It's also got very good color. In fact, despite the fact that the camera quality is not stellar, it's very fun to go around taking photos with this "phone". What it doesn't have? No veil view (privacy screen), and no 3D or anything like that. It's justa big huge juicy screen.
7. The stylus - This probably depends on the person, but I find it very useful. If you bring the stylus close to the screen, a mouse cursor will (or can be set to) show. When you touch, it will "click", basically the same as touching with your finder. Some apps recognize the pen specially, or have pressure sensitivity. The stylus itself is a little too small and thin, and is easy to lose if you are not religious about stashing it back in the device when you're done using it. A new stylus will set you back about 2000 yen, so be careful! I suppose that's why the Note II has a feature to let you know when the Pen gets too far.
2. Amazingly long battery life, despite the screen size.
4. A new take on the Stylus idea.
3. There could be more apps taking advantage of the stylus and more built-in handwriting recognition software. (especially for Japanese).
Basically, Samsung has brought back the organizer idea. With the combination of the large screen and the stylus, you can effectively use both their note apps and things like their version of Google Calendar. I see this as going far for business use. In a way, I feel like I am holding a fancy new model of the Sharp Zaurus.
Their replace-the-back flip cover is an interesting idea (though it is difficult to open with one hand).
Although some people might like the "pure" android experience, included software is an important part of the experience on the Galaxy note.
Samsung includes different notepad packages: S Note and S Memo.
S Note is the more sophisticated of the two, with the ability to record audio, convert hand-drawn shapes into perfect ones, etc.
Swype Japanese - Lets you type Japanese, Korean, or Engilsh by "swyping" (Japanese uses Romaji style input).
Skype is a very good choice for English and other similar writing systems, but ATOK (which most of the Japanese manufacturers) would have been better for Japanese.
That said, you can install Google Japanese Input for free, which is competitive with ATOK.
Samsung Keyboard Japanese - This includes integration with Mazec (A handwriting input method system).
Mazec is a separate system that can be purchased separately on Android Market, but really makes more sense with a larger screen and stylus.
There is a Japanese-English dictionary included, but nowhere near the level of those included by the Japanese makers like Sharp, etc. (Such as Genius, Wisdom, etc.).
There are some places where you can see the difference between Japanese and Korean design. One of the biggest annoyances to my personally is that the volume control and power button are on opposite sides of the screen at about the same height. As a result, when you grab the unit with one hand to try to change the volume (while watching movie, etc.), you will often turn off the screen unless you are very careful.
The volume button is also entirely too easy to press by accident in general, so we often find ourselves turning the volume up or down by accident.
In fact, it's honestly difficult to use the unit much at all with one hand. If you like to pull your phone out of your pocked, unlock it, and tap around with a single hand, you'll find that difficult, even if you have relatively large hands. Unlike the iPad, this doesn't require two hands to hold, so you can easily hold it with one hand while you work it with the other - but using it with one hand is difficult and awkward at best. There are some one-hand mode settings which shrink the keyboard and put it on the left or right side of the screen, etc. - but these make the keyboard smaller than it has to be when you can use both hands.
This could be a positive or a negative, but Samsung's icons are a bit too cartoonish. We would prefer the stock android ones.
Handwriting input is an awesome idea as long as it works well, but it would be nice if it could be used by default in some apps (like s-note), and use the regular keyboard instead for others (like SMS).
As with all Samsung handsets, they decided to put the back button on the right and the menu button on the left. (The opposite of Sony, etc.). This by itself is annoying, but to add insult to injust, the buttons are completely invisible when the backlight is off. They are easy to hit by accident, and less than easy to hit on purpose. Either way, we often find ourselves hitting the wrong one! More to the point - Why are there buttons at all? Android 4.0 (which this phone ships with) is supposed to use on-screen buttons.
Whether you want this as your primary phone or not is debatable. Everyone who has said it would be difficult or silly to hold up to your ear was wrong, however. It works just fine as a phone. It might be bigger than you want to carry in your jeans every day, though. As something to add to your laptop bag, brief case, or purse, it won't be noticeably larger than any other phone. In fact, it's pretty thin.
If you want a phone with a big screen to watch 1seg TV or movies, this is a good bet. If you want something to use as a organizer, this is also a good choice. For taking notes it seems ideal, but realistically a small laptop (with a keyboard) would be much more productive in places where you can use it.
More than this particular "phone", I applaud Samsung's efforts to be creative and push boundaries. It must have worked for them, because the Note II was just announced. It has more fancy tricks with the stylus, and is more localized, both in hardware and software (Saifu Keitai and apparently Better Japanese input). They've also improved the stylus lag time, made it more comfortable, and harder to lose.
By the time you read this, the Note II will be available from Docomo in retail shops, so I recommend that if you want to use it as a phone on the Docomo network, you buy the Note II. If you want to use it with no network or via WiFi, you can probably buy the Note I used at retail shops like Janpara and Sofmap very inexpensively right now.
One last note, Docomo has announced that Android 4.1 will be made available for the Note 1, so anyone who was worried about that probably doesn't need to be.


Bacardi's latest TV advertising campaign made its debut during the half-time break in the Live UEFA Champions League quarter-final, watched by over 7m viewers.
The advert 'Island' shows friends coming together to build a 'Bacardi Island' where they enjoy Bacardi drinks and embrace the rum's Latin spirit. Featured across all TV channels, including On Demand, this 30 second advert kick-starts the rum's largest media investment that will see a continuous media presence for the brand throughout 2010.
The new heavy weight campaign is part of a £20m marketing spend in the UK to secure maximum impact with consumers and recruit an additional 250,000 LDA-29 year-old monthly drinkers into Bacardi Superior rum.


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"Told from a child's point of view, this moving picture book focuses on a monumental moment in the civil rights movement: the Children's Crusade of 1963. Thousands of African-American children and teens marched through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to end segregation and to inspire change and hope for the future. Full color"
"Much of the text will provoke questions and important conversations between children and adult readers. The experiences of segregation are sensitively depicted...A highly readable historical account which deserves a place on picture book and nonfiction shelves alike.- School Library Journal, starred review
"This remarkable story remains relevant today as young readers think about their roles in the ongoing struggle for justice. Teachers who use this book might scaffold it with additional resources that teach about the intensive planning and organization that went into this and other activist campaigns." -- Booklist
"The art throughout is a vibrant representation of the determination and courage of the civil rights movement. A nuanced account that could inspire the youngest readers to make a big difference." -- Horn Book- publisher
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The GR thematic team contributes to the LRD objectives through facilitating access to both traditional and improved agrobiodiversity. The Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT) is the genebank for the Pacific region. It houses a globally unique collection of taro, conserving diversity for present and future generations. The CePaCT also plays a key role in ensuring that the countries of the Pacific have access not only to traditional diversity but also to improved crops, which can be crucial in the management of pests and diseases, and in securing food production within a changing climate. Crop diversity can also assist countries in taking advantage of market opportunities.
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Partners meet in Papua New Guinea to secure the Pacific coconut genebank threatened by Bogia Coconut
More than 27 participants from international and regional institutes and four Pacific countries participated in two workshops, from 24 to 29 April 2015, in Madang and Port Moresby, to develop plans to assist in securing the threatened international coconut collection of the South Pacific, which is held at the Stewart Research Station in Madang, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The threat comes from the Bogia Coconut Syndrome (BCS) disease complex, which is caused by a phytoplasma that not only affects coconuts but also banana and betel nuts. The disease is affecting these crops in farmers' fields located approximately 15 kilometres from the field collection at the Stewart Research Station, which is host to the International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific under the management of the Cocoa Coconut Institute Limited (CCIL).
As one of the five International Coconut Genebanks under the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network (COGENT), the genebank holds 55 accessions of coconut varieties – these were acquired mainly from PNG and the rest were exotic varieties from other countries. PNG is the host country for the South Pacific collection under the tripartite agreement (Article 15) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), along with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and Bioversity International as host of COGENT.
Globally, coconut genebanks are facing a number of threats, which include pests and diseases, droughts, environmental disasters, land use changes and human encroachment. Some of the existing international – and many national – collections have also faced threats, which have required appropriate remedial actions to save them from complete loss. Coconut is not like other crops that can be stored for long periods through seeds; for example, storing rice seeds in a genebank. Conservation of coconut is currently only possible with live trees in fields, however the results of recent developments in modern biotechnology methods on coconut cryopreservation using embryos and pollens look promising.
The two workshops enabled key participants to share their experiences and thoughts, and to contribute to the roadmap in support of PNG and the coconut community.
The workshop held in Madang was opened by Acting Administrator of Madang Provincial Administration, Mr Peter ToRot, who said: "I must thank the international community for the concerted effort to mobilise resources for holding these meetings. About 70 per cent of people in Madang, with a population of 493,906, depend on coconut for food and income generation."
Dr Paula Bramel, Deputy Executive Director, of the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT), based in Germany, led the meeting. "The overall purpose of the two workshops is to develop a plan for securing the diversity of the International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific in a safe place identified by PNG. The key partners of the coconut community are here to contribute to the roadmap and support Kokonas Indastri Koporesen and CCI in their planning for the relocation of the collection to Punipuni, once it has passed screening tests in a quarantine site on Misima Island in Milne Bay Province. Discussion will also include safety duplication in Samoa and Fiji."
PNG Secretary for the Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Dr Vele Ila'ava, attended the Port Moresby workshop and expressed support for the preventive work: "The Bogia disease is lethal and has potential to affect the lucrative oil palm industry, which earns PNG two billion kina (approximately USD 740 million) a year. Bogia disease also affects other food and cash crops such as banana and betel nuts (areca). The department supports the deliberations and appreciates the support of the global community."
COGENT Secretary and Coordinator, Dr Alexia Prades, expressed her appreciation to all partners present: "COGENT supports the outcome of the meetings and is willing to play an effective role with PNG hosting the international coconut genebank for South Pacific, global and regional partners, to address key concerns from all of the 39 COGENT coconut producing countries' members."
Mr Uron Salum, Executive Director of the Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC), indicated that "APCC is willing to work with PNG and partners on a way forward. APCC will also propose a meeting towards the end of the year to further materialise safety duplication to future hosts of the international genebank, Fiji and Samoa. Apart from conservation, product development is crucial in the Asia-Pacific region and APCC will facilitate such collaboration amongst Asia-Pacific coconut communities wherever permissible between countries and institutes."
The Philippines, one of the leading coconut growing nations, was also invited, and Mr Ramon Rivera, Division Chief (III) of the Zamboanga Research Centre from the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), shared his expertise on coconut genebank management, varietal improvement and development. "Philippines, through PCA, is very keen to collaborate with the South Pacific countries on disease containment, coconut research and product development through APCC, COGENT and SPC under bilateral agreements," he said.
The threat of BCS to infect other important industrial crops, such as banana, areca and oil palm, is also a serious concern for Samoa and Fiji, future hosts of the international genebank.
Misa Konelio, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Samoas Ministry of Agriculture, visited Madang: "The impact of Bogia disease on coconuts and other crops is very serious. I thank our government for their support to host and transform the national coconut genebank to the next level to become an international genebank using clean material from other countries."
"Witnessing the severity of the Bogia disease affecting coconuts in Madang is a big concern for the region, and we need to act now," elaborated Dr Apaitia Macanawai, Acting Director of Research for Fiji's Ministry of Agriculture.
Other Pacific Scientists that attended the meeting included Dr Roger Malapa from Vanuatu Agricultural Research Training Centre, Tony Gunua, Plant Pathologist, and Valerie Saena Tuia, Genetic Resources Coordinator from SPC, Fiji. They contributed to the logistics and roadmap from the perspective of biosecurity for safe relocation to a new site, including policies for exchange and review of alternative methods for preserving coconut using embryo culture and cryopreservation based on recent studies in Australia, India and Philippines.
Dr James Kaiulo, Managing Director of Kokonas Indastri Koporesen (KIK), in closing the workshop, said: "It was an invaluable learning experience, as expertise in the areas of biosecurity, breeding and conservation contributed to laying the foundations for the roadmap for addressing the Bogia Coconut Syndrome in relation to the transfer of the South Pacific Coconut Genebank to a safer location in Milne Bay Province in PNG. KIK will work closely with all the partners in finalising the roadmap with budget estimates in order to secure funding for the transfer of the genebank."
Partners that supported the emergency response to pest and disease outbreaks in PNG include Global Crop Diversity Trust, SPC, APCC, Bioversity International, CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement), COGENT, PCA, and scientific and technical institutions in PNG. The workshops were funded by the Australia Centre for International Agricultural Research and organised by the GCDT in collaboration with the KIK, CCI, University of Queensland, SPC, and COGENT.
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Photos by SPC (V. S. Tuia):
1. Participants from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Germany and France - visiting the international coconut genebank for the South Pacific in Madang.
2. Decapitated coconut palms infected by Bogia phytoplasm spreading to bananas and betel nut (areca).


Budget & Asset Management has been charged with the responsibility of maintaining the Physical Facilities Inventory for OSU-Stillwater and the OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa. Budget & Asset Management has close-knit working relationships with the Facilities Management's Geospatial Systems and the office of Risk & Property Management. Budget & Asset Management, Geospatial Systems, and Risk & Property Management provide data and information that allow university administrators to make informed decisions regarding current and potential use of campus space and future needs.
Budget & Asset Management collects, maintains, and analyzes information about university space use through the Physical Facilities Inventory. Instructions, definitions, and schedules are provided through the Space Management page. With a computer-aided facility management system called Archibus, Budget & Asset Management, Geospatial Systems maintain information in Building, Room, Room Percentages, and other supporting tables. The data in these tables provide information to analyze current use of space and can be used in a needs model developed by the Association for Learning Environments formerly known as the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI). This model is a systematic process to assess the adequacy of existing space and future needs.
Geospatial Systems maintains CAD drawings of all buildings. Since the installation of Archibus in October 1999, over 100 buildings have been remeasured, redrawn, and linked to the rooms inventory. This linkage allows floor plans to be displayed and printed that have been color coded and/or cross-hatched to show room use by department, by room type, or by program (function). Archibus also provides a summary of square footage by any of these categories. Geospatial Systems maintains a website for viewing interactive campus maps, floor plans for campus buildings, and other facilities information at http://www.geosys.okstate.edu.
Risk & Property Management maintains information on buildings, acreages, leases, and insurance on all university assets. This office also oversees the accounting and financial reporting for capital projects of the university.


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Wednesday, 29 Sep 2010 ( #481 )
The forklift market is looking for greener power sources but as Forkliftaction.com News reporter Christine Cranney discovers, it may be a while before fuel cell forklifts replace battery-powered ones.
Martin Sinz, director of product management for Exide Technologies, the UK's largest motive battery provider, says the forklift market is increasingly focused on "green energy, energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction" but maintains that the humble lead-acid forklift battery is still relevant.
Exide is one of the largest recyclers of lead-acid batteries.
Exide has operations in over 80 countries and claims it is one of the world's largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. It provides batteries for the transportation and industrial markets including agricultural, marine and automotive applications, telecommunications systems and railroads. Net sales for the year ended 31 March 2010 were about USD2.69 billion, with 35% of revenue from the industrial segment.
"Motive power batteries with a high current capability in charging as well as during discharge, without compromising life expectancy, are the key for economic and environmental-friendly electric forklifts," Sinz says.
He thinks that lead-acid batteries, with their weight contributing significantly to the counterbalance forklift's design - and their reliability, are the best power source for materials handling equipment. In the medium- to long-term, forklift users can look to lithium-ion batteries for "an even more economic solution". The batteries' low weight offer more freedom for forklift designers.
Bill Goodwin, Jungheinrich UK Ltd's sales director, agrees with Sinz. While he thinks that hydrogen power could become a viable option one day, he does not expect to see a significant number of forklifts in Europe powered by it for at least 10 years. "Going forward, in the short term, lithium-ion batteries will be available with the benefits of rapid charging, long running times and compact dimensions."
Lithium-ion vs Lead-acid
Compared to conventional lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion power has some environmental and operational advantages. It produces zero emissions and no harmful materials are used in the battery. The technology does not use restricted pollutants like cadmium, lead, mercury or sulphuric acid. Also, it has twice the life and can store three times the energy of a lead-acid battery. They are also said to be far more energy-efficient when charging and releasing power.
Charging a lithium-ion battery is quick, enabling longer operational hours, making opearations more flexible, reducing the need for additional batteries. The size of the batteries can also be reduced significantly to allow flexible forklift design. During charging and discharging, there is less energy loss and less energy is needed to fully charge the battery.
According to Jungheinrich's research, lithium-ion batteries, with their operational and environmental benefits, are a very efficient power source for most forklift users who run a five- to six-day shift.
"We are actively working on the development of this technology and, indeed, it featured in the concept truck that formed the centrepiece of our stand at the 2008 materials handling exhibition in Hannover," Goodwin says.
Exide is also working on developing lithium-ion batteries as a stand-alone solution or as a hybrid solution, combined with other electrochemical storage solutions like lead-acid batteries.
Sinz says a hybrid battery system combining "a reliable energy source like lead-acid and a high-power source like lithium-ion" provides the best of both worlds.
However, he maintains that lead-acid batteries are still currently the most economical forklift power source and because of its good recyclability, "the best environmental energy storage solution".
Fuel cell sceptic
Crown and Raymond are among forklift manufacturers leading the industry in evaluating hydrogen fuel cells for their individual products (Forkliftaction.com News #448) (Forkliftaction.com News #453). European forklift manufacturer Jungheinrich has doubts about the technology as a power source for forklifts in the near future.
Jungheinrich's Goodwin says while efforts by forklift manufacturers investigating the viability of hydrogen power have thrown up "some very encouraging results", closer analysis of the assumptions that support claims being made for the power raises question marks over its suitability to power materials handling fleets.
He explains that while hydrogen is the most abundant fuel on the planet, it has to be produced as compressed gas or cooled to a liquid form to be usable. "These processes involve the use of other sources of energy and, at the moment, the sources tend to be limited to a choice between traditional fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewable sources like wind, solar and bio-mass.
"It is widely accepted that hydrogen will only become truly attractive as a fuel once it can be produced in a way that causes zero, or minimal, greenhouse gas emissions and, of course, at a cheaper price than traditional fuels. That scenario remains some years in the future," Goodwin adds.
A mobile refuelling station that is used for cars and forklifts.
As for the infrastructure to distribute hydrogen, Goodwin says there is currently only about 1,000km of hydrogen piping in the whole of Europe. As a result, hydrogen is largely transported by road, using tankers that consume energy and are polluting.
The automotive industry's enthusiasm for hydrogen has been impacted by the lack of distribution infrastructure.
"Car manufacturers are unwilling to produce vehicles without an in-place fueling infrastructure and fuel producers are unwilling to build that infrastructure without some certainty that vehicles requiring those fuels will be in operation."
As a forklift fuel, there are claims that hydrogen has benefits over traditional forklift power sources and new power sources like methanol, lithium-ion and hybrid trucks. Popular arguments in favour of hydrogen include increased productivity and lower running costs.
Goodwin argues that hydrogen's advocates claim that refueling a hydrogen-powered forklift takes about three minutes, while electric trucks are said to take 20 minutes to charge. He says Jungheinrich's electric forklifts take about 10 minutes to charge and the use of AC power extends the time between charges.
He adds that modern AC-powered machines and forklifts powered by today's lead-acid battery technology have no voltage drop problems. Hydrogen proponents like to point out that hydrogen-powered forklifts do not experience voltage drop towards the end of a shift.
He is also sceptical about cost benefits claimed for hydrogen. Jungheinrich's research indicates that to install the necesary fuel cell and charging and storage facilities to operate a fleet of 200 forklifts on hydrogen would require a capital investment at least 50% higher than if traditional fuels are used.
Goodwin points out that the technology is also not readily available although the use of hydrogen has been investigated for about 20 years.
"There have been many false dawns in the fuel cell and hydrogen sector perhaps due to the eagerness of researchers and politicians to find solutions to the very pressing challenges of energy security and climate change."
He says that "extensive and vigorous research" is needed to resolve key issues like energy and cost-efficient mass hydrogen production, site supply problems and secure storage of hydrogen.
"So the lead-acid battery currently remains the industry standard forklift power source," Goodwin concludes.
Jungheinrich engineers are working on alternative power sources that include methanol to fuel internal combustion engines. The technology to run engines on methanol is not new and has been used by the US motor racing community for some years. The forklift manufacturer is currently testing a range of tow tractors that run on the fuel. It says a prototype methanol-powered forklift is not far away.
Alternative to Hydrogen
Methanol, a liquid alcohol fuel mainly produced from natural gas, can use conventional storage, distribution and transport infrastructures with minimal modification, while motors running on it can achieve high thermal efficiencies and high performance levels. This makes methanol a good option for fueling internal combustion engines or, for one company, a good ingredient for a fuel cell system.
The OorjaPac is Oorja Protonics' on-board battery charger that uses a methanol-based fuel cell system.
Sarah Johnson, Oorja Protonics' sales and business development manager, thinks that the future for battery power lies in fuel cells as on-board battery chargers "so downtime for battery change and for all charging is eliminated", resulting in improved productivity levels.
In 2007, Oorja Protonics launched the OorjaPac, an on-board battery charging system that uses a methanol-based fuel cell system. An OorjaPac continuously keeps a battery 30% to 80% charged without surge loading or the need to switch batteries. The system operates on direct liquid methanol fuel and emits clean water and minimal carbon dioxide. The Model H OorjaPac system can be refueled in less than a minute.
Oorja CEO Sanjiv Malhotra says the OorjaPac is more cost-efficient than hydrogen-based fuel cell systems as hydrogen systems require special fuelling equipment to handle pressurised hydrogen. The systems cost in the range of USD1 million. He says fuelling for alchohol-based fuel cells is safe and easy, using a simple tote dispensing system that costs less than USD10 million. The patent-protected OorjaPac can power Class 2-3 forklifts for two eight-hour shifts on five gallons (151l) of alcohol.
Last year, Super Store Industries Inc ordered over 35 OorjaPac systems for its Yale and Barrett walkie materials handling equipment in a freezer unit at the dairy product processor's California facility. The company's vice president of warehousing and transportation,Pete Blasquez, says the on-board battery charger impressed with its "productivity, safety and environmental benefits and cost savings".
Oorja currently supplies liquid fuel cells as on-board battery chargers to companies like Nissan North America, Unified Grocers, Super Store Industries, US Foodservice, Goldsen State Foods and Martin Brower. MHD Green Energy Solutions distributes Oorja's on-board charging system in North America.


Karen is often found afield with a camera in hand. Yet recent storms brought down more trees than she could possibly photograph. They lay strewn like fallen giants on the paths and roadways of Bidwell Park; they crushed the roofs of houses and thrust up great slabs of sidewalk. While Karen couldn't record it all, she managed nonetheless to capture images enough to show the inexorable and sudden force of wind and rushing water.
There's no point in arguing with the weather; you'll find it totally indifferent to your wishes and preferences. The rain does not rain for our sakes nor cease for our sakes. Nor do trees germinate or grow or topple and die because of any concern for our wellbeing. Nature is its own life and force over which we have no control but can only endure and at best admire. But it is possible to tamper with mechanisms that influence the weather, which we humans have done and for which we are now reaping the consequences. In a series of storms such as those of these past days, we get a small sense of what nature is capable of, and a measure of how little recourse we have to ward off the very forces we have set in motion.
Look at these photographs with an eye of consequence, and know that these images are but a fraction of what might be in store for us. Natural forces are both wondrous and threatening. What Karen has shown through the lenses of her camera these past days, awakens us to a humility and reverence for the forces of nature, and turns us toward an essential harmonization with our native surroundings that constitutes our only true life on this planet.
An English Walnut Street Tree tumbled over barely missing 2 houses but pulled the sidewalk up about 3 feet.
This Valley Oak clipped the roof of 2 houses when it fell on 8th St. Valley Oaks don't like a lot of summertime irrigation.
Fortunately, when this oak fell it didn't damage Sycamore Pool.
Valley Oak on the north side of Caper Acres.
Chico Creek over flows Sycamore Pool at One Mile, Bidwell Park.
One Mile/Sycamore Pool, looking east. Note the life guard stands and the pool ladders.
Lower Bidwell Park next to the freeway.
Sandbags to keep the creek from flooding houses on the south side of Chico Creek, lower Bidwell Park.
Five Mile Recreation and picnic area.
The flood gates at Five Mile. A large log washed down from up-stream bangs into the gates.
Chico Creek looking east as seen from the flood gate levee at Five Mile, Bidwell Park.
Sacramento River as seen from River Rd. Note there isn't any bank visible.


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Q: How do I speed up transistor switching in low side power switch? I am working on a project and want to drive a motor with a 12V PWM signal (Motor connected to 12V and the Motor- net on the diagram).
The circuit below is an idea I have, however after I built it, it turns out it has quite a slow turn on and turn of time. What are some methods of speeding that up?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

Edit 1: Adding scope plots of input and output as requested.
Plot 1 - Between R31 and U4

Plot 2 - Probe at "Motor-"

Edit 2: Adding schematic of circuit to the right (Current sensing).

A: The slowly ramping voltage is what I suspect will happen when the MOSFET is turned off - when you deactivate the MOSFET the motor momentarily turns into a generator. Normally, with an inductive load you will get a back-emf that forward biases the protection diode but you also have a snubber that can do the same thing but somewhere between the snubber and the motor acting as a generator when the MOSFET turns off I suspect you get this effect.
I suggest you try and model the situation.

A: While you do not make clear what the voltage of the PWM is, The voltage on R21 should be half the supply voltage. this will remove the influence of any capacitance at the inputs from slowing down the transition,
Next up, would be loose R32, the whole point of U4 is to slam that mosfet on and off as fast as possible, that resistor is preventing it, with a normal op amp it would be recommended, but this device is intended to deal with capacitive loads.

A: At first, before I get to the main point: According to the data sheet, the FAN3100 is not a comparator. The inputs are logic inputs. So, the 3.3V at R21 to the IN+-Pin seems to be all right and should not effect the switching speed.
My suspicion is, that the switching time is slow, because the gate charge does not get reloaded fast enough because the current is to low.
The driver applies 12V to the gate with a driving capability of up to 3A. The 22Ohm resistor R32 limits this to about 0.5A. Imagine the gate as a capacitor, that must be charged from 0V (off state) to 12V (on state). R32 and the gate capacitance (3247pF according to the data sheet) form a shunted capacitor. You can calculate the pulse response with the usual formulas.
As a result, I would change R32 to 4.7Ohms (resulting in 2.55A driven into the gate) and increase the bulk capacitor C10 to a value of 10µF to 47µF. The current pulse to reload the gate, comes almost entirely from this capacitor. It must provide the 2.5A that are driven into the gate. A ceramic capacitor does not work as C10, it must be a bulk polarized electrolytic or tantalum capacitor. Chose the lowest ESR you can get or place two capacitors in parallel instead of only one C10. Having to much capacitance at this point does not do any harm. The capacitors should be placed as close to the driver IC as possible.
Be also aware that ceramic capacitors show a DC-bias effect. So C1 on your circuit must be chosen accordingly. Many types of ceramic capacitors have only 10% of the original capacitance at voltages of 12V and above which makes them practically inoperative.
Some additional point to think about: Do you really need such a big fat FET? Its capacitance is quit high, which slows down the switching time. Its rise and fall times are also rather slow. So, choosing a 'smaller' FET with less driving capability and therefore less gate capacitance and faster rise and fall times, should also help to increase the switching speed. I cannot imagine, that you really need 110A in your application.
Rather lengthy answer, I apologize, but I hope it will help. Good luck and all the best!


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