| Energy farms are increasingly dotting Kansas' landscape
LINCOLN — Ironworker Ernest Small secured the last of 270 wrist-sized bolts steadying the three blades of a modern-day sentinel of the plains. Operators of an enormous crane had already created a turbine tower at the Smoky Hills Wind Farm by stacking four hollow steel tubes, each smaller than the latter, onto a 50-foot square concrete foundation tucked underground. The crane operator then placed the nacelle — a fancy name for the Greyhound bus-sized unit containing a gear box, low- and high-speed shaft, generator, controller and brake — atop the tower 250 feet above a beautiful slice of prairie landscape. .
Horsemen talk about boycott
The nucleus of you would go hungry or start getting out of the business," Luchento said. Cat Manzi, one of the track's leading drivers, said the sentiment is that such risk is necessary. "Take a look around. We're dead men walking," Manzi said. Freehold Raceway officials this week said the track will slash its purses for the second time in two months, blaming poor business and the lack of the promised purse supplements. The track also recently cut four jobs from its administrative departments. The Meadowlands is expected to announce purse cuts as well. New Jersey's three major racetracks are largely struggling to make ends meet. Freehold Raceway first cut the amount of purse money it pays out last month, reducing it by 7 percent. Monmouth Park where thoroughbred racing is currently on a seasonal break saw drop-offs in several business categories in 2007.
Top Sports Scientists To Speak At WINTEC
Dr. Kevin Tipton, senior lecturer in Exercise Metabolism in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at The University of Birmingham is to speak at Wintec's School of Sport & Exercise Science at the Avalon Drive Campus in Hamilton on Monday 12, November 2007 12:00 - 2:00pm. The presentation is free to those in the industry and to the public. Formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, his research focuses on exercise, nutrition and muscle metabolism in humans with emphasis on protein nutrition and metabolism. .
Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel's New Treatment Guidelines Via ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2007 Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel (PCP) -- a group of leading national pain management physicians from the United States and abroad -- has updated their intraspinal pain treatment guidelines and recommendations. The findings were released this month in Neuromodulation, a neurology and pain publication for physicians. The panel of pain experts revised the guidelines used to determine treatment via intraspinal infusion for patients suffering from severe chronic pain. The updated algorithm includes PRIALT (Elan Corp.) as a first-line alternative for intraspinal infusion to the opioids morphine and hydromorphone "We did an extensive review of the literature that has been performed and the consensus was the data was very supportive that PRIALT should be considered a first line drug -- one of the first lines for intraspinal infusion you would use for a patient with chronic, severe or moderate pain," said Timothy Deer, MD of the Center for Pain Relief in Charleston, W.V.
Evolutionists At War Over Altruism’s Origins
An intellectual war of words has broken out between two of the world's leading evolutionists. Oxford University's Richard Dawkins and Harvard's Edward Wilson have gone head to head over the evolution of altruism in the animal kingdom, and whether it can have come about as a result of something called group selection.The subject matter of their dispute is social insects, particularly ants, which display a supreme form of altruism in that sterile workers lay down their lives for the benefit of their fertile colleagues in the colony. Conventional Darwinian theory could not really explain why one individual should sacrifice its own life, and its precious genes, for the benefit of another individual, unless it could be viewed in terms of group selection, when indi-viduals do it for the benefit of the colony or the species.
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