Transport Minister Norman Baker announced that, whilst the Planning Inspectorate panel appointed to consider the application for the development had recommended granting consent, he wished to receive further evidence relating to ecological compensation measures and the protection of a local rail line.
Baker asked for further information on these two issues to be supplied by 25 September.
Should it get the green light the park is to cover 906 acres, providing 1,279 metres of quayside facilities purpose built for the manufacture, assembly and installation of offshore renewable technologies. It is expected to create 4,000 local jobs and establish the Humber area as a "world-class centre for the renewable energy industries", according to Able UK.
Neil Etherington, Able UK group development director, said: "It is obviously good news that the panel which carried out the very detailed and complex examination of our application recommended granting consent. It's also good news that in today's announcement Ministers do recognise the regeneration and economic benefits for both the local area and the wider development of the offshore renewable energy industry."
"At the same time it has to be said that a further delay in a decision is disappointing."
Baker's report stated that the government recognised that "facilitating the regeneration and economic development of the area around the project, and supporting the development of the offshore renewable energy industry are matters of substantial public benefit" but that it realised that the project "would be likely to have a number of adverse environmental impacts, especially in relation to the ecologically-sensitive Humber estuary."
Renewable UK's deputy chief executive, Maf Smith, said: "Today's announcement marks an important step forward in the development of the UK's offshore wind manufacturing sector. This project demonstrates the massive scale of the opportunity we have to revitalise coastal areas around the country, creating tens of thousands of green-collar jobs by focusing specifically on marine renewables."
Etherington added: "We will be taking immediate steps to address the issues raised in the government's announcement today."
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2013年8月29日 星期四
2013年8月27日 星期二
Putting It All
Clare Donohue spent her teenage years growing up in the Catskill Mountains hamlet of Roscoe where water was central to the area’s way of life. Her family often fished at a nearby reservoir and so many fly fishers liked to visit the spot where two pristine rivers converged that Roscoe dubbed itself “Trout Town USA.”
“When you walked into the house,” Donohue recalled, “the first thing you did was go to the sink and fill a glass of water. It was so delicious.”
Donohue, 52, runs a small business and has lived in New York City for the past 30 years. When she learned from friends three years ago that 85 well sites had been leased for future drilling for natural gas in a village close to Roscoe, she was concerned. She watched Gasland, Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated documentary, and later joined friends at a West Village community board meeting. There, officials from Spectra Energy sought to mollify local concerns about an underground natural gas pipeline that the company was bringing into the neighborhood.
“I just sat there unbelieving, because everybody was just calm and polite and they were all asking questions like whether the cement in the sidewalk would be put back the way it was, things that I thought were totally irrelevant in terms of the disaster that was being described. And I kept thinking, ’What is wrong here? Why aren’t people screaming?’”
Donohue has been raising her voice ever since as a co-founder of the Sane Energy Project, which she helped start with a dozen other activists to fight the Spectra pipeline. The group’s focus has since broadened as they confront a growing web of projects that could drive a surge in New York City’s use of natural gas obtained by fracking. In addition to Spectra, a second pipeline is slated to enter via the Rockaways and go up Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue. There is also a deep water liquefied natural gas import terminal proposed for off the coast of Long Island.
New Yorkers currently consume 1.3 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas. And these new infrastructure projects would increase that by between 16 and 30 percent, according to a study commissioned by the mayor’s office.
“It is a strategy to hook the city on fracked gas,” said Occupy the Pipeline activist Patrick Robbins.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, requires injecting millions of gallons of water laced with an array of toxic chemicals deep into the earth to cause fissures that allow drillers to tap previously unreachable deposits of natural gas. The technology has been blamed for poisoning underground drinking water supplies in areas near well sites.
Large parts of central and southern New York State sit atop the Marcellus Shale, a geological formation that is believed to contain large reserves of natural gas. While activists have won a moratorium against fracking in New York and are fighting for a full ban, Pennsylvania landowners have seen a fracking boom in the past decade, especially as smaller operators have been gobbled up by transnational companies. These corporations, owning large acreage and seeking fast profits, drive the push for increased drilling.
While natural gas is heralded as a cleaner-burning “bridge fuel” to a renewable energy future, it is in fact a potent greenhouse gas. When released directly into the atmosphere, it traps 72 times more heat than carbon dioxide and remains 25 times as powerful as carbon dioxide after a century in the air.
Creating a New Market
With natural gas prices at a low and billions of dollars sunk into drill sites, the natural gas industry is looking for a way to increase demand, boost profits and garner more financial backers. Through that lens, New York City, a huge energy consumer, presents a golden opportunity.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2011 mandate to convert the boilers in New York City buildings to the “cleanest fuels” has set the stage for skyrocketing demand as many buildings switch to natural gas systems. The new heating oil regulations will ban the two dirtiest heating fuels available: Number 6 and Number 4. These heavy fuels create fine soot, known as particulate matter, which is highly polluting. Soot exacerbates asthma, irritates lungs and increases the risk of heart attacks and premature death.
The regulations will require New Yorkers to instead heat their buildings with either ultra-low sulfur Number 2 oil, biodiesel, natural gas or steam, according to PlaNYC.
The trouble, Donohue said, is that natural gas also produces particulate matter and at a higher rate than Number 2. In comparison, biofuel produces zero emissions and zero particulate matter. And while converting an average New York City building to biodiesel and Number 2 oil costs about $10,000 to $30,000, natural gas conversions can start at $500,000, a cost often transferred from landlord to tenant through rent hikes.
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“When you walked into the house,” Donohue recalled, “the first thing you did was go to the sink and fill a glass of water. It was so delicious.”
Donohue, 52, runs a small business and has lived in New York City for the past 30 years. When she learned from friends three years ago that 85 well sites had been leased for future drilling for natural gas in a village close to Roscoe, she was concerned. She watched Gasland, Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated documentary, and later joined friends at a West Village community board meeting. There, officials from Spectra Energy sought to mollify local concerns about an underground natural gas pipeline that the company was bringing into the neighborhood.
“I just sat there unbelieving, because everybody was just calm and polite and they were all asking questions like whether the cement in the sidewalk would be put back the way it was, things that I thought were totally irrelevant in terms of the disaster that was being described. And I kept thinking, ’What is wrong here? Why aren’t people screaming?’”
Donohue has been raising her voice ever since as a co-founder of the Sane Energy Project, which she helped start with a dozen other activists to fight the Spectra pipeline. The group’s focus has since broadened as they confront a growing web of projects that could drive a surge in New York City’s use of natural gas obtained by fracking. In addition to Spectra, a second pipeline is slated to enter via the Rockaways and go up Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue. There is also a deep water liquefied natural gas import terminal proposed for off the coast of Long Island.
New Yorkers currently consume 1.3 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas. And these new infrastructure projects would increase that by between 16 and 30 percent, according to a study commissioned by the mayor’s office.
“It is a strategy to hook the city on fracked gas,” said Occupy the Pipeline activist Patrick Robbins.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, requires injecting millions of gallons of water laced with an array of toxic chemicals deep into the earth to cause fissures that allow drillers to tap previously unreachable deposits of natural gas. The technology has been blamed for poisoning underground drinking water supplies in areas near well sites.
Large parts of central and southern New York State sit atop the Marcellus Shale, a geological formation that is believed to contain large reserves of natural gas. While activists have won a moratorium against fracking in New York and are fighting for a full ban, Pennsylvania landowners have seen a fracking boom in the past decade, especially as smaller operators have been gobbled up by transnational companies. These corporations, owning large acreage and seeking fast profits, drive the push for increased drilling.
While natural gas is heralded as a cleaner-burning “bridge fuel” to a renewable energy future, it is in fact a potent greenhouse gas. When released directly into the atmosphere, it traps 72 times more heat than carbon dioxide and remains 25 times as powerful as carbon dioxide after a century in the air.
Creating a New Market
With natural gas prices at a low and billions of dollars sunk into drill sites, the natural gas industry is looking for a way to increase demand, boost profits and garner more financial backers. Through that lens, New York City, a huge energy consumer, presents a golden opportunity.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2011 mandate to convert the boilers in New York City buildings to the “cleanest fuels” has set the stage for skyrocketing demand as many buildings switch to natural gas systems. The new heating oil regulations will ban the two dirtiest heating fuels available: Number 6 and Number 4. These heavy fuels create fine soot, known as particulate matter, which is highly polluting. Soot exacerbates asthma, irritates lungs and increases the risk of heart attacks and premature death.
The regulations will require New Yorkers to instead heat their buildings with either ultra-low sulfur Number 2 oil, biodiesel, natural gas or steam, according to PlaNYC.
The trouble, Donohue said, is that natural gas also produces particulate matter and at a higher rate than Number 2. In comparison, biofuel produces zero emissions and zero particulate matter. And while converting an average New York City building to biodiesel and Number 2 oil costs about $10,000 to $30,000, natural gas conversions can start at $500,000, a cost often transferred from landlord to tenant through rent hikes.
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2013年8月20日 星期二
wind energy for $18 million
Bay City will purchase a chunk of its electric power from a Gratiot County wind-turbine farm.
The Bay City Commission on Monday, Aug. 19, voted 7-2 to buy $18 million in electricity generated by the Beebe Community Wind Farm near Ithaca during the next 20 years.
Bay City Electric, Light & Power must comply with a state mandate to provide at least 10 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2015. The utility has 20,200 customers.
Phil Newton, the city’s electric utility director, has called the contract and its accompanying price a good deal because the cost is lower than he’s seen from other wind developers.
Other communities have already purchased Beebe’s wind farm energy include Holland. The West Michigan community joined four other member utilities of the Michigan Public Power Agency earlier this year in purchasing 26.4 megawatts of power from Beebe.
Bay City’s agreement would be to purchase 4.8 megawatts through the MPPA, a supply agency the city and other smaller municipalities belong to as a group. The initial year will cost Bay City about $45 a megawatt hour, for a total of $700,000.
Commissioners Elizabeth Peters and Chad Sibley protested the length of the agreement. Peters wanted to see an opt-out clause in the contract.
“Energy prices are going to go down,” Sibley said. “At this point, locking (the city) into a 20-year commitment might not be in our best interest."
Newton previously said Bay City's 2013 average cost to purchase power was $59 a megawatt hour. Landfill gases run at $85 a megawatt hour and coal-based power costs the city about $54 per megawatt hour, he said.
The cost of the wind-turbine energy increases during the contract’s 20-year term, rising to about $72 per megawatt hour in the final year.
Workers at Siemens Energy, a plant in Hutchinson, will build portions of wind turbines for a project in the northwest United States.
Siemens has an order from Portland General Electric company, a public utility in Oregon.
Hutchinson workers will build the nacelles and hubs for 116 wind turbines. Crews will start installing the wind turbines in 2014. Once the project is completed, it's expected to generate enough power for 84,000 households.Read the full story at scfwindturbine.com!
The Bay City Commission on Monday, Aug. 19, voted 7-2 to buy $18 million in electricity generated by the Beebe Community Wind Farm near Ithaca during the next 20 years.
Bay City Electric, Light & Power must comply with a state mandate to provide at least 10 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2015. The utility has 20,200 customers.
Phil Newton, the city’s electric utility director, has called the contract and its accompanying price a good deal because the cost is lower than he’s seen from other wind developers.
Other communities have already purchased Beebe’s wind farm energy include Holland. The West Michigan community joined four other member utilities of the Michigan Public Power Agency earlier this year in purchasing 26.4 megawatts of power from Beebe.
Bay City’s agreement would be to purchase 4.8 megawatts through the MPPA, a supply agency the city and other smaller municipalities belong to as a group. The initial year will cost Bay City about $45 a megawatt hour, for a total of $700,000.
Commissioners Elizabeth Peters and Chad Sibley protested the length of the agreement. Peters wanted to see an opt-out clause in the contract.
“Energy prices are going to go down,” Sibley said. “At this point, locking (the city) into a 20-year commitment might not be in our best interest."
Newton previously said Bay City's 2013 average cost to purchase power was $59 a megawatt hour. Landfill gases run at $85 a megawatt hour and coal-based power costs the city about $54 per megawatt hour, he said.
The cost of the wind-turbine energy increases during the contract’s 20-year term, rising to about $72 per megawatt hour in the final year.
Workers at Siemens Energy, a plant in Hutchinson, will build portions of wind turbines for a project in the northwest United States.
Siemens has an order from Portland General Electric company, a public utility in Oregon.
Hutchinson workers will build the nacelles and hubs for 116 wind turbines. Crews will start installing the wind turbines in 2014. Once the project is completed, it's expected to generate enough power for 84,000 households.Read the full story at scfwindturbine.com!
2013年8月16日 星期五
Sharpsville considers wind farm
Wind farm opponents want the town of Sharpsville in northwestern Tipton County to create a 2-mile zoning buffer around the city limits.
Supporters of the Tipton County Citizens for Responsible Development approached the Sharpsville Town Council with the proposal. Sharpsville currently has no jurisdiction on zoning matters beyond the town boundary.
Sharpsville is located near the proposed Prairie Breeze Wind Farm, which has obtained a conditional use permit from the Tipton County Board of Zoning Appeals.
Wind farm developer juwi Wind has voluntarily moved the nearest proposed wind turbine between three-quarters of a mile and one mile from Sharpsville and the Prairie Acres subdivision.
Since the Prairie Breeze Wind Farm has already received approval, a 2-mile zoning buffer would not impact the project.
Rob Rupe, president of the town council, said the idea was previously discussed during the planning stage for the U.S. 31 bypass around Kokomo, but no action was taken.
“We can have a 2-mile zoning area,” he said. “We’re researching the steps needed to get the zoning jurisdiction.”
Steve Edson, Tipton County planning director, said it would be a lengthy process for the town council to create the zoning buffer. Sharpsville would have to develop a comprehensive plan, appoint a plan commission and a board of zoning appeals.
The Tipton County Board of Commissioners would have to approve the creation of any zoning jurisdiction around Sharpsville.
Emily West, spokeswoman for the CRD, said the group doesn’t want wind turbines located next to anyone’s residence.
“Everyone needs a 2-mile protection around their homes,” she said. “We understand Sharpsville’s desire to have room for the town to grow.”
West said the group believes in equal protection for all property owners regardless of where they’re located in Tipton County.
At the Aug. 5 meeting of the Howard County Commissioners, the town of Converse said it too was considering a 2-mile zoning jurisdiction around the town.
Converse, which straddles the Miami and Grant county line, is in the proximity of the proposed second phase of the Wildcat Wind Farm being developed by E.ON Climate & Renewables in Howard County.
E.ON has not applied for improvement location permits for the placement of wind turbines.
Converse is in the process of amending its comprehensive plan and already has a plan commission and board of zoning appeals.
Glass and metal are well established, well researched packaging materials. With the tremendous global success of PET bottles, themes like barrier effect have emerged. Much innovative research is being carried out to develop ever more effective barrier layers.
This is an important theme, because PET is becoming more and more popular and is increasingly being used in the filling of alcoholic drinks like beer, wine and spirits. Even the beer keg market is now opening up to the use of PET.
PET kegs allow drinks companies to deliver drinks anywhere in the world at a fraction of the previous cost, opening up new market opportunities. These lightweight kegs come in 15, 20 and 30 litre capacities for drinks including beer, cider and wine, and are also available in preforms, which can be distributed, blown and filled locally.
Petainer, which works with customers including Carlsberg, says its PET kegs cost less than 10% of the price of the alternative steel keg, and offer many other major cost, environmental and quality benefits too.
With the general tendency towards smaller and lighter-weight pack sizes and the increasing problem of theft of the traditional stainless-steel kegs (because of its valuable raw material), lightweight disposable beer barrels are now attractive.
Recently the first PET bevcan also came out on the market, but at this stage it is only available for aerosols. Perhaps the PET bevcan will already have made its mark on the beverages market in time for Drinktec 2013?
Another world first is a cardboard can in which for the first time carbonated beverages can be filled into cardboard material. Cellulose-based packaging for non-carbonated drinks has been on the market for some time, but this is a brand new development for carbonated beverages. Further news on this front may well be available at the show.
Read the full story at scfwindturbine.com web! If you love wind power generators, welcome to contact us!
Supporters of the Tipton County Citizens for Responsible Development approached the Sharpsville Town Council with the proposal. Sharpsville currently has no jurisdiction on zoning matters beyond the town boundary.
Sharpsville is located near the proposed Prairie Breeze Wind Farm, which has obtained a conditional use permit from the Tipton County Board of Zoning Appeals.
Wind farm developer juwi Wind has voluntarily moved the nearest proposed wind turbine between three-quarters of a mile and one mile from Sharpsville and the Prairie Acres subdivision.
Since the Prairie Breeze Wind Farm has already received approval, a 2-mile zoning buffer would not impact the project.
Rob Rupe, president of the town council, said the idea was previously discussed during the planning stage for the U.S. 31 bypass around Kokomo, but no action was taken.
“We can have a 2-mile zoning area,” he said. “We’re researching the steps needed to get the zoning jurisdiction.”
Steve Edson, Tipton County planning director, said it would be a lengthy process for the town council to create the zoning buffer. Sharpsville would have to develop a comprehensive plan, appoint a plan commission and a board of zoning appeals.
The Tipton County Board of Commissioners would have to approve the creation of any zoning jurisdiction around Sharpsville.
Emily West, spokeswoman for the CRD, said the group doesn’t want wind turbines located next to anyone’s residence.
“Everyone needs a 2-mile protection around their homes,” she said. “We understand Sharpsville’s desire to have room for the town to grow.”
West said the group believes in equal protection for all property owners regardless of where they’re located in Tipton County.
At the Aug. 5 meeting of the Howard County Commissioners, the town of Converse said it too was considering a 2-mile zoning jurisdiction around the town.
Converse, which straddles the Miami and Grant county line, is in the proximity of the proposed second phase of the Wildcat Wind Farm being developed by E.ON Climate & Renewables in Howard County.
E.ON has not applied for improvement location permits for the placement of wind turbines.
Converse is in the process of amending its comprehensive plan and already has a plan commission and board of zoning appeals.
Glass and metal are well established, well researched packaging materials. With the tremendous global success of PET bottles, themes like barrier effect have emerged. Much innovative research is being carried out to develop ever more effective barrier layers.
This is an important theme, because PET is becoming more and more popular and is increasingly being used in the filling of alcoholic drinks like beer, wine and spirits. Even the beer keg market is now opening up to the use of PET.
PET kegs allow drinks companies to deliver drinks anywhere in the world at a fraction of the previous cost, opening up new market opportunities. These lightweight kegs come in 15, 20 and 30 litre capacities for drinks including beer, cider and wine, and are also available in preforms, which can be distributed, blown and filled locally.
Petainer, which works with customers including Carlsberg, says its PET kegs cost less than 10% of the price of the alternative steel keg, and offer many other major cost, environmental and quality benefits too.
With the general tendency towards smaller and lighter-weight pack sizes and the increasing problem of theft of the traditional stainless-steel kegs (because of its valuable raw material), lightweight disposable beer barrels are now attractive.
Recently the first PET bevcan also came out on the market, but at this stage it is only available for aerosols. Perhaps the PET bevcan will already have made its mark on the beverages market in time for Drinktec 2013?
Another world first is a cardboard can in which for the first time carbonated beverages can be filled into cardboard material. Cellulose-based packaging for non-carbonated drinks has been on the market for some time, but this is a brand new development for carbonated beverages. Further news on this front may well be available at the show.
Read the full story at scfwindturbine.com web! If you love wind power generators, welcome to contact us!
2013年2月19日 星期二
Kotchman sidelined after popup machine mishap
In hindsight, Casey Kotchman probably should have just let the machine crash to the ground. If he had, he may have reduced the damage incurred by his freakish injury that occurred on Monday at Marlins camp.
Kotchman sliced his left ring finger when he ran into the machine that was flinging infield popups. By clutching the machine to prevent it from falling, the veteran first baseman may have caused more damage.
On Monday, he received four stitches on his ring finger, as well as scraped his left middle finger. Both fingers were taped on Tuesday.
"He's going to be out a few days," manager Mike Redmond said. "I guess we list him as day to day, but he's got some stitches. We'll let that thing heal up. Hopefully, it won't be too long."
Kotchman joked about the bizarre circumstances that led to the injury.
"It's probably not every day where you get your hand caught in a pitching machine, on a pop fly," he said.
Teammate Greg Dobbs interjected that Kotchman should have let the machine topple over.
"I'm trying to be a gentleman to the machine, and not throw it down to the ground," Kotchman replied.
Until the stitches are removed, it is unclear how much time he will miss.
"I just got some stitches in it, and we'll see how it feels," Kotchman said Tuesday morning. "I think the tentative plan is to let it calm down for now, and see how it progresses."
Kotchman signed a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training on Feb. 15, the first day of full-squad workouts. He was brought in to provide depth at first base.
"When I hit the pitching machine, I grabbed it," Kotchman said. "When I grabbed it, the wheel was kind of cutting my finger. I guess, instead of hitting it over, I held onto it, and kind of picked it up, and it just kept slicing.
"I didn't even realize it was bleeding at first. When I walked back to first base, I was, like, 'Ok, it is bleeding.' "
One reason the Marlins signed Kotchman is because Logan Morrison's status for Opening Day remains in question.
Former Marlins manager Jack McKeon, who remains a special adviser in the organization, made his first appearance in Spring Training.
McKeon, who makes Elon, N.C., home, typically visits Spring Training camp for a couple of weeks.
The 82-year-old, of course, managed the franchise to the 2003 World Series championship.
Current Miami manager Mike Redmond was part of that team, and he played two seasons for McKeon.
Early Tuesday, McKeon walked into Redmond's office and proclaimed: "I'm reporting for duty."
McKeon was supportive of the Marlins hiring Redmond, who replaced Ozzie Guillen.
Redmond finds a benefit to having McKeon, and his 60-plus years of professional experience, around the youthful team. Redmond noted that as a manager, McKeon had loyalty to his players.
"He played those guys. He stuck with them," Redmond said. "It didn't matter if you were struggling, and you were 0-for-20, he'd run you out there. He'd keep running you out there until you figured it out.
"At the same time, too, he was able to get the bench guys all on board with what we were trying to do. He made everybody accountable. Everybody was accountable for their job, and their role on the team. And it worked. He had a lot of success."
Kotchman sliced his left ring finger when he ran into the machine that was flinging infield popups. By clutching the machine to prevent it from falling, the veteran first baseman may have caused more damage.
On Monday, he received four stitches on his ring finger, as well as scraped his left middle finger. Both fingers were taped on Tuesday.
"He's going to be out a few days," manager Mike Redmond said. "I guess we list him as day to day, but he's got some stitches. We'll let that thing heal up. Hopefully, it won't be too long."
Kotchman joked about the bizarre circumstances that led to the injury.
"It's probably not every day where you get your hand caught in a pitching machine, on a pop fly," he said.
Teammate Greg Dobbs interjected that Kotchman should have let the machine topple over.
"I'm trying to be a gentleman to the machine, and not throw it down to the ground," Kotchman replied.
Until the stitches are removed, it is unclear how much time he will miss.
"I just got some stitches in it, and we'll see how it feels," Kotchman said Tuesday morning. "I think the tentative plan is to let it calm down for now, and see how it progresses."
Kotchman signed a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training on Feb. 15, the first day of full-squad workouts. He was brought in to provide depth at first base.
"When I hit the pitching machine, I grabbed it," Kotchman said. "When I grabbed it, the wheel was kind of cutting my finger. I guess, instead of hitting it over, I held onto it, and kind of picked it up, and it just kept slicing.
"I didn't even realize it was bleeding at first. When I walked back to first base, I was, like, 'Ok, it is bleeding.' "
One reason the Marlins signed Kotchman is because Logan Morrison's status for Opening Day remains in question.
Former Marlins manager Jack McKeon, who remains a special adviser in the organization, made his first appearance in Spring Training.
McKeon, who makes Elon, N.C., home, typically visits Spring Training camp for a couple of weeks.
The 82-year-old, of course, managed the franchise to the 2003 World Series championship.
Current Miami manager Mike Redmond was part of that team, and he played two seasons for McKeon.
Early Tuesday, McKeon walked into Redmond's office and proclaimed: "I'm reporting for duty."
McKeon was supportive of the Marlins hiring Redmond, who replaced Ozzie Guillen.
Redmond finds a benefit to having McKeon, and his 60-plus years of professional experience, around the youthful team. Redmond noted that as a manager, McKeon had loyalty to his players.
"He played those guys. He stuck with them," Redmond said. "It didn't matter if you were struggling, and you were 0-for-20, he'd run you out there. He'd keep running you out there until you figured it out.
"At the same time, too, he was able to get the bench guys all on board with what we were trying to do. He made everybody accountable. Everybody was accountable for their job, and their role on the team. And it worked. He had a lot of success."
2012年11月18日 星期日
Corps seeks smaller portable anesthesia machine
With an eye on lightening the load for its field medical teams, the Marine Corps wants to find a tough, portable system to administer anesthesia in austere expeditionary environments.
Anesthesia is used to induce unconsciousness and alleviate pain so medical procedures can be performed.
Marine Corps Systems Command wants a “field ruggedized and modernized” anesthesia machine that weighs less than 10 pounds and is compact, about the size of a cube that fits on your hand, according to a Nov. 4 request for information from the defense industry. It would replace the older, heavier and bulkier draw-over vaporizers, or DOVs, now used by the services.
Officials at MARSYSCOM and the Naval Medical and Health research centers want to find out what kinds of devices companies have on the market and may consider similar products.
“There are some portable systems available on the market, but most are still very large and heavy, and not ruggedized. These same systems typically have to operate with dedicated ventilators and support equipment,” Marine officials said in a written response to questions from Marine Corps Times. DOV machines used in field hospitals can weigh as much as 200 pounds.
Navy and Marine officials want a device that’s easily carried and can be used by units, such as shock trauma platoons, that operate closer to frontline units but farther from supporting commands and field hospitals.
The DOV systems, developed in the 1940s, are outdated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration no longer approves them for use and has restricted their use in training.
“The only unit cleared for marketing in the United States went out of production ... in about 2007,” said Shoshona Pilip-Florea, a Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery spokeswoman in Falls Church, Va. “Since then, the DoD has been going to extraordinary efforts to keep the existing units serviceable.”
Anesthesia machines also are used to deliver painkillers. So getting an effective replacement also will help frontline medical teams aid the wounded and support “Marine Corps initiatives to provide pain management to injured war fighters as soon as possible following injury,” Pilip-Florea said.
MARSYSCOM officials are confident a smaller, lighter and compact system can be effective. The Marine Corps will seek FDA approval for the replacement system, and it could be adopted by all the services as “the Army and the Air Force have expressed interest in the technology.”
East Midlands Trains, the train operator running trains directly linking Nottingham and London, is planning on installing a ticket collection machine at NTU’s city campus early next year.
The machine, which will initially be placed on the Lower Newton-Arkwright floor (Near the Sandwich Bar) will allow students to print tickets that are pre-booked and paid for by credit card. This will provide students with quicker and more efficient journeys by train, as they no longer have to face the long queues at Nottingham station for a ticket which have increased since redevelopment work at the station closed the original ticket hall in October 2012.
Anesthesia is used to induce unconsciousness and alleviate pain so medical procedures can be performed.
Marine Corps Systems Command wants a “field ruggedized and modernized” anesthesia machine that weighs less than 10 pounds and is compact, about the size of a cube that fits on your hand, according to a Nov. 4 request for information from the defense industry. It would replace the older, heavier and bulkier draw-over vaporizers, or DOVs, now used by the services.
Officials at MARSYSCOM and the Naval Medical and Health research centers want to find out what kinds of devices companies have on the market and may consider similar products.
“There are some portable systems available on the market, but most are still very large and heavy, and not ruggedized. These same systems typically have to operate with dedicated ventilators and support equipment,” Marine officials said in a written response to questions from Marine Corps Times. DOV machines used in field hospitals can weigh as much as 200 pounds.
Navy and Marine officials want a device that’s easily carried and can be used by units, such as shock trauma platoons, that operate closer to frontline units but farther from supporting commands and field hospitals.
The DOV systems, developed in the 1940s, are outdated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration no longer approves them for use and has restricted their use in training.
“The only unit cleared for marketing in the United States went out of production ... in about 2007,” said Shoshona Pilip-Florea, a Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery spokeswoman in Falls Church, Va. “Since then, the DoD has been going to extraordinary efforts to keep the existing units serviceable.”
Anesthesia machines also are used to deliver painkillers. So getting an effective replacement also will help frontline medical teams aid the wounded and support “Marine Corps initiatives to provide pain management to injured war fighters as soon as possible following injury,” Pilip-Florea said.
MARSYSCOM officials are confident a smaller, lighter and compact system can be effective. The Marine Corps will seek FDA approval for the replacement system, and it could be adopted by all the services as “the Army and the Air Force have expressed interest in the technology.”
East Midlands Trains, the train operator running trains directly linking Nottingham and London, is planning on installing a ticket collection machine at NTU’s city campus early next year.
The machine, which will initially be placed on the Lower Newton-Arkwright floor (Near the Sandwich Bar) will allow students to print tickets that are pre-booked and paid for by credit card. This will provide students with quicker and more efficient journeys by train, as they no longer have to face the long queues at Nottingham station for a ticket which have increased since redevelopment work at the station closed the original ticket hall in October 2012.
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