| Vivarium Lighting: A Joint Venture Karen Murphy, LC, IALD, April 2007
Is the lighting in your animal facility functioning the way you want it to? Was the system well thought out when it was originally designed? Has it been evaluated recently? The lighting industry is constantly changing and bringing new products to market. With so many new products available, there may be an easy way to remedy existing shortcomings, or to improve the lighting system flexibility. The best lighting schemes are developed when the husbandry staff and an experienced lighting designer with a thorough understanding of animal facilities work together as a team. This is important. A lighting designer who is familiar with vivaria will know what questions to ask. By asking questions, the lighting designer should not only discover how your facility is currently operating, but also discover any existing difficulties you are experiencing, or plans you have for the future.
Worcester Sharks Defeat Lowell Devils 3-2 in OT - AHL
MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - WORCESTER, Mass. - Graham Mink lit the lamp in overtime to propel the Worcester Sharks (41-28-3-8) to a 3-2 victory over the Lowell Devils (38-30-6-6) Sunday evening at the DCU Center in the Devils Inaugural Season finale. Neither team got on the board in a first period that featured three penalties called, two of which were against the Devils. Frank Doyle got the start in net, his 50th appearance of the season, and he turned aside all nine Sharks shots. Dmitri Patzold made 10 saves in net for Worcester. The second period appeared to be headed in the same direction, scoreless through nearly three quarters of the period. A flurry of goals, three in the span of less than two minutes, put the Sharks in front 2-1 after two periods.
CHC is fined $8K for waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sanctioned the Commonwealth Health Center with an $8,000 fine as part of a recent settlement over federal waste violations.In addition to the fine, EPA said that CHC will now fund an environmental project valued at $17,000 for a mercury thermometer exchange program.Under the program, the hospital will purchase mercury-free thermometers, provide information to clinics and households in the CNMI about the mercury exchange program, and make mercury-free thermometers available at no cost to residents.Public Health Secretary Joseph Kevin P. Villagomez said the infraction was discovered following inspections conducted several years ago. "When we came into office in 2006, we decided to have a direct communication with EPA and work toward a resolution. The entire fine was much higher but we were able to show commitment to improving things environmentally around CHC," Villagomez said.EPA inspectors had cited the hospital for failing to properly label containers holding waste florescent lamps containing mercury; properly dispose of the lamps; and respond to an EPA request for information.
Attic Salt for April 22, 2007
Along with feeling that our troops should come home, gasoline prices fall and there be affordable medical care for all of us, I feel the urgent need for silliness. Much of what I read in the newspaper, see on television and hear on radio strikes me as stupid, beyond my control, things that happen over and over that are reported as new. I crave whimsy. I need stories, pictures, street scenes, art that require of me nothing more than a laugh or a shake of the head. Stupid is pitiable, but it can hurt people. I want silliness, mental graffiti that takes me out of myself, then erases itself. I often go to my garden to shed the skin of deadening routine. In my garden, silliness abounds as plastic propellers that spin in the wind, concrete frogs inspired by Rodin’s "The Thinker" and a collection of castoff chairs liberated from trash piles to support tomatoes and eggplants.
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