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Overripe cucumbers are those left on the vine too long, causing the seeds to increase in size and develop a smooth, yellowing skin. If you have ever come across one of these large cucumbers, you may have wondered what you can do with it. Try canning it into large pickle chunks for enjoyment during the winter months. Canning pickles is not as difficult as it sounds, and makes for a fun project for the whole family.
Things You'll Need
- 6 quart-sized jars
- Canning lids
- Canning rings
- 8 pounds fresh cucumbers
- 4 cups water
- 4 cups white vinegar
- 1/2 cup pickling salt
- 3 tbsp. pickling spices
- Fresh dill
- Canning tongs
Wash the jars in a dishwasher set to the sanitize cycle, or boil them in water for 10 minutes. Remove the jars from water and let them dry.
Fill the canner about three-quarters full of water and heat on high to start boiling. A large canner takes up to 20 minutes to come to a full boil.
Wash the cucumbers with water to remove dirt. Cut the cucumbers in quarters lengthwise and remove the large seeded area from the middle. Cut the cucumber strips into 1-inch long chunks.
Combine the water, white vinegar, pickling salt and pickling spice in a large kettle to make the brine. Heat the mixture to a simmer while stirring well to dissolve the salt. Simmer the brine for 15 minutes.
Place a head of dill and a garlic clove in the bottom of each canning jar. Pack the cucumber chunks into the jar as tightly as possible, leaving 1/2 inch of space at the top of the jar.
Pour the pickle brine into each jar, stopping 1/2 inch from the top of the jar.
Boil the jar lids for two minutes in a small saucepan filled with water to soften the rubber. Place a lid on each jar and secure tightly with a jar ring.
Put the jars into the canner once the water comes to a rolling boil. Set the jars in the tray and slowly lower it into the water using jar tongs.
Process the jars for 10 minutes if under an altitude of 1,000 feet, or 15 minutes for altitudes over 1,000 feet.
Remove the jars from the canner and place them on a towel to cool. Check that each jar sealed after cooling by pressing on the lid to make sure they pulled down. Place unsealed jars in the refrigerator.
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The import tonnage for finished steel totalled 2.082 million net tons in July this year.
SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that steel import permit applications for the month of July this year totalled 2.461 million net tons. The figures, based on Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) by the U.S Commerce Department, suggest 12.9% dip from 2.826 million permit tons recorded in June this year.
The import tonnage for finished steel totalled 2.082 million net tons in July this year, significantly down by 5.5%, compared to preliminary imports total of 2.204 million net tons in June. The finished steel import market share was estimated at 23% during the month, said AISI press release.
The steel imports totalled 19.230 million net tons during the initial seven-month period of the year. This is inclusive of July SIMA permits and June preliminary imports. Meantime, the finished steel imports totalled 15.510 million net tons during Jan-July ‘22. The total and finished steel imports surged higher by 9.1% and 30.0% respectively from the corresponding seven-month period in 2021.
The finished steel import with largest increase in July permits, compared to June preliminary imports, includes wire rods and black plates, which were up by 48% and 42% respectively. The products with significant year-to-date increases, compared with the same seven-month period in 2021, include wire rods and oil country goods, which were up by 81% and 62% respectively.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Really enjoyed my day off today, and looking forward to the other one tomorrow. Need to sit down and play Fallout 3 for about 5 hours (that would clock me in at about 50 hours total) and I still don't think I scratched the surface. I'm going to try to see Sherlock Holmes, or Avatar tomorrow to kick off the year right.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
"Gertrude proudly display's her new DSi XL. She says that she couldn't have bought it on her fixed income, if not for the AARP coupon, and of course her Hoveround!"
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Let's start with PC games. I picked up Trine when it hit retail back in early September. I'd heard about it back when it was released on Steam in early July when various podcast were praising it. It was slated to be on PSN, and the 360 marketplace as well, but the PSN date kept getting pushed back further, and further while the 360 disappeared all together. Trine is a platform/adventure game with physics where you control one of three characters the Thief, Knight, or Wizard switching at will to overcome enemies and obstacles in the levels. It has since finally come out on PSN, but plays extremely well on the PC with my 360 wired controller, and looks gorgeous.
The other PC title I grabbed was Torchlight a Diablo clone, not at all surprising since it comes from the designers behind Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Fate, and Mythos. If you take the play style of Diablo, follow the graphic style of WoW, add a pet and you have Torchlight. It's amazing how much it feels like Diablo while playing I even think the music sounds similar while wandering around in the mine. The developers are supposedly now working on an MMO version of Torchlight that is supposed to be done in 24 months.
Console wise I finally opened Fallout 3 about 3 weeks ago, and started playing only to throw away the first 4 hours of play to start over the next day. I am probably now about 12 hours in and haven't even made it out of the first town you come to outside the vault. I'm enjoying the 'atmosphere' a lot more than I did in Oblivion so I think that's why its more approachable. I also picked up Midnight Club L.A. complete edition because I really wanted to drive a Dodge Charger/Challenger around, but they are high dollar cars in game, and me and racing games don't mesh well.
I also picked up a couple demos Left 4 Dead 2 on 360 which I've already played through at a show a couple months ago. It's L4D with new people and some new enemies. I'm not all that enamored with it, but that could be because I picked up the first one and still have only 1 chapter completed. I'll take this opportunity to say Co-op sucks, I don't like pick up groups (you never can guarantee a good experience) and everyone else on my friends list isn't playing anymore. This is probably why most of my MMO gaming was always solo too, and why I won't be picking up Borderlands because I've heard single player is pretty dull.
I also grabbed the God of War III demo, and Bayonetta demo for the PS3 system. GoW III is actually pretty cool even though I haven't played any of the others in the series. I have pre-ordered the God of War 1 & 2 collection for the PS3 both games upgraded to 720p on one blu-ray so I'm hoping I like them. Bayonetta is pretty neat it's just that I've never been a fan of the Devil May Cry gameplay style so I don't think I'll be getting this one either.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 comes out next Tuesday so I won't be playing much at all except that if it follows CoD 4 lead.
Black Friday is creeping up on us, and some of the ads have already leaked. K-mart has a few good games for $20 off, and a few $8.99 blu-rays. Wal-mart already has an ad posted for Saturday Nov. 7 only including a 360 arcade for $199.99 and you get a $100 gift card with purchase. That's a pretty good deal if your in the market for a newer version of the console, or a Christmas gift. I'll keep tabs on the Black Friday deals, although last year Amazon price matched all of the blu-ray/game sales so I didn't have to fight the crowds, hopefully they do the same this year.
Friday, October 02, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
There has also been changes in the 360 camp (maybe Microsoft's fortune teller was predicting Sony's future) the Elite model has been repackaged, dropping the included HDMI cable. The current thought/speculation flowing through the Internet is the Pro (60GB unit) will be discontinued, and the Elite will drop to $299.99. Hmmm... $299.99 for a 360 w/120GB drive or a PS3 w/120GB drive for $299.99, I think even I can tell the future. :)
Well the summer doldrums on the video game front are finally drawing to close (unless your a big fan of sports games), the kids have gone back to school, and the AAA titles are on the horizon again! There has been a demo of Batman Arkham Asylum on the PS3 kiosk around town for at least the last 3-4 months, but is was only a playable "challenge map", pitting Batman against waves of enemies. I will be the first to admit the graphics were impressive, but the beat-em up style would get old really quick. Luckily for me, when I got back from hellish road trip 2009© a new demo had graced the PlayStation Network, and 360 Marketplace. I was concerned that it would be the same kiosk demo, but was informed it was actually a game play level and worth checking out. I've stated it before, a game demo can swing my opinion on game 180° or cement my devotion (Bioshock...) more than anything else. I've played through the demo 3-4 times now, and while I still fell the combat is 'button mashy' the game looks great, and there is enough stealth/puzzle (they call it detective mode) game play to satisfy me. I went out and pre-ordered the game after deliberating over which version to get for a couple hours (360 achievement's FTW), so next Tuesday!
The Batman:AA demo kinda overshadowed the other release I was looking forward to, Wolfenstein came out this week for 360/PS3. It was weird that Batman:AA was 2 weeks out yet reviews were already all over the web, Wolfenstein was a week earlier, but no reviews could be found. They started hitting Tuesday morning, and weren't great... 73 from Game Informer, and 75 from IGN, with the current metacritic score sitting at 78. I enjoy the mythos of the series, so I picked it up anyway, having played the original Wolfenstein 3-D on PC ages ago, and the more recent Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Xbox. I'm only about an hour and half in and the first thing this game reminded me of was Prey on the 360, an eerie feeling of déjà vu, not that I mind because I really enjoyed Prey though. My only worry so far is at that 1 hr 1/2 mark it shows my overall progress at 17% complete meaning it may only be 6-7 hours long, but there are 'collectible' items to replay the levels for so that may keep me going.
More demos are flowing now also, Lost Planet 2 co-op demo level from E3, Mini Ninjas, and Dirt 2 are currently downloading to my 360 so impressions coming later. The new NXE dashboard update has hit also with
overpriced classic 360 'Games on Demand', avatar marketplace, and some Netflix enhancements. 'Games on Demand' lets you download full Xbox 360 games to your hard drive ranging in price from $19.99-$29.99, I'm of the opinion that these are a little high considering most of them can be bought brick & mortar for the same price. Not to mention you could pick up a used copy for even less, get a printed manual, case, and disc that you could resell down the road when you beat the game, or what if you don't like it? Remember this clause (There are no refunds for this item.) on every piece of download content from the marketplace?
The avatar marketplace lets you accessorize, and dress your avatar (for a price). They include themed shops (Bioshock 2, Assassins Creed 2, Halo ODST, etc) where you can buy toys, t-shirts, outfits, and more. The lower end stuff (t-shirts, hats) run 80 MS points ($1.00), the accessories and outfits can run up to 400 MS points ($5.00). I had a friend buy the Star Wars lightsaber, and was cracking up listening to the last episode of ListenUp! where they spent 5 minutes wondering who would buy this stuff (the light saber specifically) even though I did purchase a t-shirt for $1.00. I've been giving him a hard time since last week so why stop now?
On the positive side they have also stated that games can have unlockable avatar clothes, and items. I think this could be extremely cool, buy Game XYZ beat a certain level and you get a Game XYZ t-shirt for your avatar. The only game known so far to do this will be the Xbox Live arcade 'Splosion Man and only after an upcoming update. It seems like they are tied to achievements so if you've already finished the game (and got those achievements) you will get them when the update hits.
I dropped my Netflix account a while back so I don't know about the enhancements included. I noticed today though someone on my friends list today was watching a movie, and instead of the red Netflix box, it showed they were watching Grosse Point Blank (excellent choice!).
Lastly, I had been contemplating for a month getting an Ipod Touch 2G (retiring my 30GB Zune). I had been reading about the Ipod generations on various web sites, and forums, and came to the conclusion that I would better off waiting until September when hopefully/maybe Apple announces the third gen Touch (equivalent to the IPhone 3GS - the phone of course). Then Microsoft sends me the announcement about the upcoming ZuneHD with HD video (720p) playback to a TV/Monitor, and probably the biggest draw to me HD Radio. Decisions, Decisions...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
It wasn't all bad the first night we stopped in Hays, KS. found they didn't have any rooms so we drove on to Wakeeney. The second day we made it to Rawlins, Wyoming (which in my mind was probably the high point). Rawlins is home to the Wyoming Frontier Prison, which we toured the next morning. The prison has a interesting history, and I found they had made a horror/thiller movie there Prison in 1988. I've been looking for a copy ever since we left, and it's never been put on DVD here (the guide informed us that the movie pretty much tanked), so I'm going to have to import a copy from Europe to see it. The third day we finally made it to Ogden, Utah. Notes of interest the first leg, Wyoming is a very desolate place, Kansas may be flat but at least there are fields, plains, trees, a varied color palate. Wyoming is brown, sure every once in a while there will be a
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Houston trip went well, no bad chalupas this time around. We ended up stopping in Shreveport, Louisiana one night. Not long enough to really do anything, but long enough I can say I've been in Louisiana now. I bought a GPS unit off eBay a while back, and used it for most of the trip (comparing it to Mom & Dad's AAA route info), and found it to work pretty well. I'm technically never "lost" because it knows where I am, and it's only mislead me once (and that was in Kansas City a couple of months ago).
E3 (Electronics Entertainment Expo) was held the first week of June this year, and was back closer to the spectacle of older E3's. I went in 2004, and 2005 and contemplated going back this year, but didn't know what to expect this time. There wasn't all that many ground breaking announcements, as some had already 'leaked' (PSP Go), and others were companies trying to copy Wii's motion control (Xbox Natal, and Sony's 'magic wand'). Out of everything announced the game that has me hyped the most is Scribblenauts for the DS. This game sounds phenomenal, your given a puzzle, and to solve it you write in any word, then that object drops into the world. Check out videos for it as it's kind of hard to explain, but it looks like so much fun.
Monday, April 20, 2009
I found that we were going by another Fry's so we had to schedule a stop at the Dallas location. This one has a "cattle farm" motif with a herd of steers outside and wooden fence rows, with cows and cowboys inside. They were running a special on the 360 HD DVD add-on $39.99 plus Bourne Identity, and Bourne Supremecy (as well as the King Kong packaged inside. I didn't find anything that my HD DVD collection needed as I've gotten spoiled with the Dillon's finds a couple months ago, and the 7-8 I picked up at Fry's in San Diego. I did find a couple sale Blu-rays that I grabbed, and Eternal Sonata for the 360 for $20.00.
This year the hotel is a stones throw from Relient Stadium, and the Astrodome.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
We picked up the puppy on March 1, 2009 as he would be 6 weeks old on the 4th of March. My daughter decided on the runt of the litter, he was all black except for a solitary white stripe down his chest, I joked that he looked like a backwards skunk. He was part terrier, jack russell terrier, and chihuahua and a little smaller than a cantaloupe when we brought him home. My daughter named him J.R. short for jack rabbit, because when he would play he would 'hop' around rather than walking.
Here it is five and half weeks later, and J.R. is no longer with us. I came home this afternoon and my daughter said that he had a seizure, when I came in my wife was on the phone with the vet. She took him to the vet only to find that he had fluid on the brain that wasn't draining right, I guess a birth defect that happens in chihuahua's from time to time. She called and said the vet gave him some medicine to ease any pain he was in, but there wasn't anything that could be done. She asked if I wanted her to bring him home for the night to say goodbye, but I couldn't bear to think about it.
Rest in piece J.R. born January 21, 2009 passed away April 9,2009. We only knew you for a short while, but hope you know how much fun and happiness you brought into our lives. We will miss you.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
(Note: I started writing this up before the Oscars aired Sunday 2/22, but finished it Tuesday night so I know the outcome.)
This year there were 5 nominated live action shorts, 5 animated shorts, and 4 short documentaries. Four out of the five live action shorts this year were 'downers' so my pick will be the only one that wasn't bleak "Grisen (The Pig)" A man in for 'butt' surgery finds solace in a simple painting of a pig on his hospital room wall. My second choice would have to be "Manon on the Asphalt" a young woman takes off on her bicycle and gets hit by a car, then thinks about what will happen to her friends, and family. The winner though was "Spielzeugland (Toyland)" a holocaust drama focusing on a mother, her son, and their Jewish neighbors who were going to have to go faraway to 'toyland'. Ick.
The animated shorts were a happier mix, although I had already seen "Presto" the Pixar short was paired with "Wall-E" during it's theatrical (and DVD) release and was just what you expect from Pixar. My favorite though was "Oktapodi" the mis-adventures of a male and female octopus, followed by "This Way Up" the mis-adventures of father and son pallbearers trying to get the deceased to graveyard. While definitely not politically correct (I'm sure there was something offensive to everyone) it was entertaining. The winner however was "Le Maison en Petits Cubes" a old man reminisces about his past, and would have been the very last pick on my list. I don't like the watercolor/painting art style they employed nor the subject. :(
The short documentary field is never one of my favorites, overall I'm not a fan of documentaries, but I can handle the short subject ones most of the time. This year there wasn't really any standouts here. My pick would probably be "Smile Pinki" (if I had to choose) doctors in India performing free operations on children with cleft lip deformity. I guess the second pick would be "The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306" a look at Martin Luther King's assassination. Whoo! I got one right. The Oscar went to "Smile Pinki".
The shorts this year, while mostly entertaining, didn't seem to have a lot of zing or pizazz. I may be getting jaded setting through them for the last 10 years (my first trip to the library was 1999 I believe), but there's always hope for next year. :) <RANT ON> Nitpick time... This was my first experience with the Warren Old-town theater, I was impressed by the seating and the amount of leg room in each row, although I soon realized that was for the serving staff to get around. OK, now I realize I was there for 5 hours (way longer than the average movie running time), but once they started serving it was a never ending parade of servers coming around with their little glowing pads taking orders, and then a few minutes later delivering the food/drinks. I don't know about most of you, but I go to theater to watch the movie (you know on the screen), not the dorks milling throughout the auditorium. Get your lazy ass out of the chair walk to the concession stand, and buy your popcorn, drinks and candy. You do realize it's a movie, right? Your supposed to go eat your meals before or after the show, if you can't wait that long for a hamburger you have other problems too. I'm assuming it's this way at every show there so I can easily cross that theater off my attendance list. Luckily I've yet to run into this at the 13Th Avenue Warren, but I also don't pay extra to sit in the balcony. <RANT OFF>
It seems as though the speculation was correct, Major Nelson posted this morning that the Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition 360 console was coming out day and date (March 13) with the game. This 'elite' model will be red (like the controller that came out for the holidays last year) in color, include all the normal items (120GB/Headset/Composite/Component/HDMI cables) plus the RE5 game, download code for a RE5 theme, and a download code for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Considering SSFIITHDR sells for 1200 ms points ($15.00), and RE5 is $60.00 that means your actually paying $325.00 for the system (minus another $3.12 if the theme is one of the newer 'premium' 250 ms point ones), not too bad. I'm really pondering the notion of 'upgrading' to one, not that I need too, but I figure its just a mater of time before my refurb eventually fails. This would get me the newest Jasper chip set (supposedly), an HDMI port, the LE color, and I was planning to get RE5 anyway. Hmmm...
I tried the Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. demo a while back, and was actually surprised how much I liked it. The graphics were beautiful as the two training missions in the demo take place in Rio De Janeiro complete with the Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado Mountain. Jet fighter games aren't one of my preferences, but I was pleased to find how easy it controlled, I didn't crash every 5 seconds, and I was able to pull off some cool looking moves. This seems to be exactly what other people don't like about the game though, on one of the podcast I listen to they seemed to dislike it because it didn't feel like a flight simulation, and it wasn't 'realistic' at all. To each his own.
Friday, January 30, 2009
I talked a friend into watching My Bloody Valentine 3D yesterday at the Warren. I was a fan of the 1981 original, and had been reading about the new version for a while. I read a couple good reviews, and have listened to a couple podcast talk positively about the new 3D version of the film, so that peaked my interest. You have to understand the last 3D films I saw were during the 1979-1984 3D fad, the likes of Friday the 13th Part 3, Jaws 3-D, Andy Warhol's Frankenstien, and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. The 2 screen Fox-Garvey theater downtown was host to all the 3D shows at the time, not to mention the 'Chop-Chop' weekends as we liked to call them when they would show 2-3 martial arts movies.
I haven't kept up on advances in 3D technology lately as I haven't seen any of the recent releases which was re-ignited by Polar Express 3D's IMAX release back in 2004. There has been a couple other animated features released in 3D, but last summer's Journey to the Center of the Earth and now My Bloody Valentine 3D are the first full length non-animated features shot in RealD Cinema. You get a set of heavy duty plastic 3D glasses to view the feature with, which were large enough to fit over eye glasses, and look like polarized sun glasses there was the faint Red/Blue tint that was noticeable when looking at the 3D glasses. Overall I didn't find them too uncomfortable, although the main feature only ran 101 minutes.
The coming soon trailers ran, then we instructed to 'Put on your 3D glasses now' screen which proceeded the Dolby Digital 3D trailer (which was freaking amazing in it's own right), then the non-3D THX trailer leading into the feature. This movie starts off with what has to be the most bloody 10 minute 'prologue' ever, if you think the first 5 minutes of Ghost Ship were gory, you haven't seen anything. Sure the film makers took every opportunity to shove something in your face, but I was really impressed at how much the rest of the movie was three dimensional, seriously, it was like looking through a window at the action taking place whether they were aerial shots of scenery, interiors of buildings, or the cramped mine tunnels. A very gory slasher flick, neatly wrapped up at the end, and open to a sequel (duh.). ***1/2
It's been quite a while since I saw the original, I don't know if it's aged well, but I will always remember it being an above average slasher flick. Lionsgate just recently put out an uncut remastered DVD of the original, I guess there were numerous cuts to original to get down to an R rating, and until recently was the only way you could see it. I need to go back and revisit the original to see how closely the remake followed the story, if at all.
The Resident Evil 5 demo finally made it to the US if you missed the Japanese release a while back. I tried it again, and still didn't make it past the chainsaw guy :( without dying. I'm still not sold on the co-op aspect as I probably won't be playing with another person, and I'm not sure how good the AI will be. Kane and Lynch supposedly sucked balls if you were not playing with a human co-op player as the AI would do stupid things during the course of the game.
The F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origins demo (single-player) was up last week also so I tried it out. It reminded me of what I liked about the first one, the opponent AI where they'll come in a room, flank you and take up positions behind cover. I haven't finished the first F.E.A.R. so I don't think I'll grab this at launch but I may pick it up down the road.
Friday, January 16, 2009
While I'm not a big CC shopper, I'm sad to see that this leaves Best Buy as the only electronics/computer specialty retailer in the area. CC usually had some good 'door buster sales' to get you in the door, although I can't say I bought anything over the advertised specials usually. The silver lining is maybe the local store will have a decent 'going out of business' sale, and I can pick up some cheap games/blu-rays. :)
Last week Ziff Davis sold the 1Up Network to UGO where they promptly canceled the 1Up family of podcast (1Up Yours, Legendary Thread, Lan Party, etc.), and stopped publication of EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) magazine. I'll be hunting for some new podcast now to fill the void left on my Zune with something new, some of the 1Up people landed at Eat-Sleep-Play.com and have started the RebelFM podcast so I'll start there.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
I liked Kevin James in King of Queens, although I wouldn't say it was a series I watched regularly I would catch new episodes every once in a while (plus syndicated showings). Thirty minutes in I was thinking that so far the only redeeming quality was the 80's soundtrack, but then it took an upward climb and finished out decent enough. The story revolves around Paul Blart (Kevin James) a mild-mannered security guard who has a crush on the new kiosk operator Amy, and a 'Black Friday' heist that naturally Paul has to come to the rescue and save 'his' mall. Why this movie didn't release in November is one of those great life mysteries, I'm guessing because the 'Black Friday' part isn't really pushed to the forefront. Overall enjoyable and funnier than I expected although the first 30 minutes is kinda slow once the heist kicks in it's pretty good.
I finally started playing Fable II the other day, when I seen the Knothole Island content was I out I figured it was time to give a whirl. I'm not too far in yet trying to go through good, but every once in a while I'll fire off a spell in town by accident. :( I don't how much that effects my good/evil standing, but hopefully it's not too harsh.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
First off Happy New Year! everybody. I know it's been a while since my last post, but the Christmas holidays seemed more chaotic than last year. Finally, that rush is over and I've got some time to unwind again (yeah!).
I gave up on WoW last year. I bought the expansion pack in November and played pretty heavy, but towards the end of December I realized I had played 1 day that month. I know part of it was work just not having time to play, but that one time I did login there wasn't anything I wanted to do. I made it a little over 2 years starting just before the launch of Burning Crusade, and shutting off my account December 25th (I guess my Christmas present to myself).
I got really into Animal Crossing City Folk in December. The Wii version is almost identical to the DS game (in fact you can transfer your DS game to the Wii) with additional shops in the city, holidays are back, and you can use the Wii mic (if you bought it) to talk to other people playing (that also bought it).
Listening to a couple podcast peaked my interest in Valkyrie Chronicles for the PS3, so I gave the demo a shot (which I had downloaded a while back but never played), and found it really good. It's a weird strategy/RPG/action hybrid that was originally slated to be a Xbox 360 title, but supposedly SEGA thought that it would be better received by Japanese gamers, and since the 360 isn't all that successful in Japan they switched it to a PS3 exclusive. I finally tracked down a used copy right after Christmas but haven't had a chance to play yet (hopefully later today).
I finally got around to opening my copy of Little Big Planet last night, and played the first couple of levels (seem to be the same ones from the beta). I unlocked my first "trophies" last night on the PS3 thanks to LBP, one in game (placing a sticker), and the other for dressing my sackboy (red boxers, and a pumpkin head).
Did you get hit with the Zunepocalypse yesterday? If you had a 30GB Zune and turned it on after midnight December 31st you probably did. I knew my battery was almost dead so I plugged it into the computer before leaving the house yesterday, when I got home I wondered why it was sitting on the loading screen showing the logo and progress bar. I frantically tried resetting it, but couldn't get it to respond to anything. So I started searching on the net only to find it was happening on a global scale users everywhere were reporting the same problem. It turns out that evidently some bad code for how the Zune handles leap year was to blame, Microsoft finally issued a release saying that if you just let the battery drain, and plug it back in after midnight on January 1st all would be okay. I'm happy to report that indeed seems to be the case as my Zune is charging comfortably right next to me. :)
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Fresh corn salad makes a delicious side dish for almost any Summer meal. Our Spicy Chili Lime seasoning gives a real ZING!
- 4 cobs of corn, in husk (Alternatively, you could use frozen or canned corn kernels.)
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 purple onion, finely diced
- 2 green onions or garlic scapes, finely sliced
- 2 tbsp. Urban Accents Spicy Chili Lime Corn on the Cob Seasoning Blend
- juice of one lime
- 2 tbsp. olive oIl
- If using fresh corn, leave the corn in the husk, stack in microwave, and cook on high for 2 minutes per cob. This steams the corn perfectly in the husk. Let cool, remove husk and silk, and carefully slice off kernels.
- Add kernels and remaining ingredients to a large bowl and gently toss to combine. Add more seasoning to taste.
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Keep moving. TSA Pre ® saves you time and stress. With a 5 year, $85 membership, you can speed through security and don’t need to remove your: shoes, laptops, liquids, belts and light jackets. TSA uses unpredictable security. Trusted Travelers - PreCheck at JFK - 1At around 5:00 AM TSA P-C is very conjested 2From past flts. in the AM, TSA sometimes does "random" extra security: pat downs, puffer machines 3on 2/6.
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When arriving at JFK or any US airport on an international flight that didn't have pre-clearance, I know that you have to clear immigration, collect your bags, clear customs, re-drop bags, change terminals by AirTrain if needed, and. annette--Unfortunately airlines have to participate for you to use TSA pre-check. So, just because you are a "known traveler", be it from TSA Pre-Check status or Global Entry status--if the airline doesn't participate, neither do you. Contact public affairs. Identification Learn about ID requirements. TSA Pre ® Apply for TSA Pre ® TWIC® Apply for a TWIC® card. HAZMAT Apply for a hazardous materials endorsement. A - Z Index DHS FOIA Industry Metrics.
2016/05/21 · There are over 160 airports that offer TSA PreCheck, although some of them only offer it during peak travel times. Check the TSA PreCheck Airport and Airlines interactive map to see if the airport you're departing from offers TSA PreCheck. to see if the airport you're departing from offers TSA PreCheck. 2019/10/29 · Use code FORBES2M for a 2-month free trial. What it does: CLEAR addresses a slightly different problem than TSA PreCheck. Instead of attempting to. 2016/07/11 · TSA PreCheck. JFK has a TSA PreCheck Enrollment Center in Terminal 4, on level 4, so if you’re traveling through the airport, you can arrange your enrollment meeting. Global Entry Program For expedited clearance of passengers, there are Global Entry kiosks at JFK for passengers who have been approved.
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This is my attempt for this morning. I love the challenge of painting from a model in a limited amount of time. After everyone left, or rather after I had lunch, I wiped off the face and simplified it.
Please click here to view more information.
My website: http://claudiahammer.com
My email: firstname.lastname@example.org
My DPW gallery: http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Artists/chammer-209
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11-14-2008, 09:07 AM #21
- Join Date
- Jan 2007
When ready for shutdown, the levers are brought to idle, and then you pull up on the idle cutoff levers, located under the lever knobs. Then the levers are brought back to Cutoff and they shut down.
Thanks for the clarification,
11-14-2008, 10:04 AM #22
Right on with your statements- the start system for the LJ45/40 is Auto. The only thing you do after pushing the levers to idle is to press the Start button- it's all handled from there automatically. You dont even have to have the APU running, that's really only needed if the aircraft has been sitting overnight in a very cold environment, and then you might want an APU on just to warm the cabin up anyhow.
Thanks for your help in getting Scott back on the right path.Eric Tomlin-
Learjet 45 Builder
11-14-2008, 08:16 PM #23
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This week has been a strange week. The days have sort of mingled together. The hubby has been at home so we have both been out of routine but it has been nice and a bit of down time was needed. But from Thursday my work head was back on and looking towards the future.
This week has seen a lot of cooking, a coffee date, time with the hubby and a day out in London!
Here is my week in pictures..
Saturday 12th March 2016
I feel honoured to have been approached by the Children's Food Trust and asked to promote their Big Cookathon that is being run on 22nd April until 25th April. The Big Cookathon is being run to promote more families to cook from scratch at home. I made the vegetarian dish on Saturday and will be writing more about it next week.
Sunday 13th March 2016
The only pictures that I took on Sunday were of review products. These delicious raw bites from Bioglan will be on my shopping list from now on!
Monday 14th March 2016
Since my depression got bad a few weeks ago I have not been following my slimming world plan 100%. At the moment I feel that my mental well being is more important that if I am slim or not. Now I am feeling more balanced on my new medication I am starting to rethink my eating plan.
Tuesday 15th March 2016
On Tuesday morning after we had taken the kids to school the hubby and I enjoyed a coffee date. It was lovely to sit, just the two of us, and enjoy a coffee in peace. I have enjoyed having the hubby at home this week, I just wish it was under different circumstances.
Finally it feels like spring has arrived! The hubby spent the morning in the garden while I caught up with some work and emails. We had a lovely walk home with the twins and dogs from school.
Thursday 17th March 2016
Thursday was all about London! I travelled down to London to meet with the lovely Carnival Families team and bloggers for afternoon Pret-a-Portea at The Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge. When I arrive at Hyde Park I had some time to spare so I took a walk down to Buckingham Palace. I will be telling you all about the amazing afternoon tea next week.
Friday 18th March 2016
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Window casting set brings a traditional and vintage look
Pre-primed in white makes it adherent to paint and faux finish
Each side of the set offers a neat finish
out of 12 reviews
100% recommend this product
Showing 1-10 of 12 reviews
Apr 1, 2021
Used this kit to frame a bathroom mirror and results...
Used this kit to frame a bathroom mirror and results were great
Apr 12, 2021
Great product, looks elegant
I've used these to finish off two bathroom mirrors. I glued and painted them and they are attached to teh wall around the mirrors with velcro - each cleaning. I am now finished four dining room windows and will do the same for the rest of the house. The only thing yo really need is a good saw for cutting 45s. I picked up a used Skill flooring saw cheap, and it is perfect.
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BEST BABY GOODS STORE Minneapolis 2002 - Peapods Natural Toys and Baby Care
Natural parents have found allies in the proprietors of Peapods. Inside this earthy little storefront, kids and the grownups who love them will find an endless supply of creative, imaginative, and earth-friendly delights. Wooden animals, rag dolls, finger puppets, and organic child- and baby-care products have been gathered from artisans as far away as Germany, and as nearby as the basement shop. Peapods focuses on toys and books that encourage simple, imaginative play, such as an irresistibly charming, wooden Camelot play set. And the store is mother-owned, so you're likely to be waited on by someone who, besides having a child in tow, will have done her own reliable and reasonable market research.
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LAUNCH OF THE NEW APE IN MEXICO
MARKETING OF THE NEW THREE-WHEEL VEHICLES DUE TO BEGIN BY THE END OF THE YEAR ALSO IN PERU, COLOMBIA, GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS
Milan, 10 October 2016 – As part of its plans to expand and strengthen its operations on markets in South America, the Piaggio Group said it had begun marketing the Ape, its well-known three-wheel vehicle, in Mexico.
“The Ape is already available in some South American countries,” said Piaggio Group Chairman and CEO Roberto Colaninno, “but, in part thanks to its commercial vehicles, in the past few years the Group's growth plans in the region have been developed from a long-term perspective, rather than in connection with individual business opportunities. Today we have the support of reliable leading local partners, who are well-established on the market and have an extensive distribution and service network.”
In Mexico, the Ape has been launched in the new Ape City and Ape Romanza passenger models. By the end of 2016 the Group also plans to begin marketing in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras, where previous models of the Ape are already available and with versions for goods transport or that can be adapted for used as mobile shops.
In South America the Ape is widely used for taxi services to link suburbs with city centres, filling needs not covered by local public transport services.
Over the years, the Ape has also fuelled the development of a small business network based on mobile shops (mainly selling street food, a trend that is also growing fast in Europe), or small hauliers using the Ape Cargo.
The South American market for three-wheel commercial vehicles, considering the countries in which Piaggio is present, ships approximately 35,000 units a year, with volume growth of 52% in the last 6 years.
In the commercial vehicles segment, in the first half of 2016 the Piaggio Group reported worldwide sales of 94,700 vehicles (94,000 in the first half of 2015) for net sales of 199.1 million euro (197.6 million euro in the first half of 2015). The figure includes spares and accessories, where sales totalled 22.4 million euro (+14.9% from 19.5 million euro in the first half of 2015). Piaggio is the leader on the Indian market in the cargo segment, with a share of 52.8%.
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People who read Sauk Valley Media’s recent story about a local drainage district likely came away with two reactions.
The first reaction: Admiration for Denise Doss, the only active member of the three-member Montmorency and Coloma Drainage District 5 board. Doss, working about 20 hours a month as an unpaid commissioner, has shouldered the responsibility for spending tax dollars to hire contractors to keep the drainage ditch clear.
Doss’ selflessness and dedication ensure that owners of more than 500 properties have proper drainage, a service that proved vital when heavy rains fell in April.
The second reaction: Frustration that Illinois continues to unnecessarily disperse the responsibility for providing necessary services among 6,994 local taxing districts – the most in the nation. Many of those taxing bodies, such as drainage districts, operate under the radar with little public scrutiny and have trouble getting local citizens to serve.
The case of the Montmorency and Coloma Drainage District 5 is extreme. Doss became involved because her father was a longtime board member, but he’s ill now. The second board member has stepped aside. So this local unit of government and the drainage services it provides are basically left up to one person.
As Doss remarked, “There are supposed to be three people on the ditch commission. Now, it’s kind of me.”
Hers is a thankless job, indeed.
Think of it. An entire unit of government operated by one person.
Only in Illinois – the local government capital of the nation – would such a situation be tolerated as acceptable.
Isn’t there a better way to ensure that people in Montmorency and Coloma townships have proper drainage for farm fields and during heavy rains?
We’ve asked a similar question regarding township government in our continuing series, “Townships: Under the Radar.” Townships make up 1,432 of the 6,994 local units of government in Illinois; 85 counties have township government, but 17 don’t.
When they were created in the 1850s, townships made sense. It was a time when travel was slow and difficult, much of the state was not developed, and government services had to be brought out to the people.
But in the 21st century, those circumstances no longer apply. Mechanized agriculture reduced farm jobs in rural areas; many families moved elsewhere. Transportation is much better. While townships continue to maintain roads, assess property, and provide assistance to the poor, some have trouble getting people to serve, except for positions that pay well.
Our reaction to townships is similar to our reaction to the drainage district that serves Montmorency and Coloma.
We admire people who dedicate themselves to providing the services.
We are frustrated that a modern system to provide those services has not been adopted.
A better way, we believe, would be to examine how Illinois’ non-township counties provide the basic services of townships (through a mixture of county offices and road districts), and consider adopting those efficiencies.
When times change, the effectiveness and efficiency of government should be reviewed, and the question should be asked, Is there a better way?
For drainage districts and townships, there must be.
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One of the first questions that I get from a new client moving to the cloud is what organizational changes it will likely go through. Although clients want to adopt cloud computing as disruptive technology, they don’t want to disrupt their roles in the organization.
But you can’t really disrupt your technology without disrupting your work—and some of the people who do that work.
That disruption can take two forms: job change and job loss. People fear both, and they rightfully fear job loss. As a study by the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, 85 percent of the 5.6 million jobs lost in the United States from 2000 to 2010 were attributable to technological change, largely automation.
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Happy Monday, y’all! Is it Summertime where you are because it’s kinda Summertime here in Eastern North Carolina! This tart is perfect for your ladies brunch or easy Sunday morning family eating! It’s also so visually appealing that I couldn’t wait long to share it with my family so I could hear their “oh my” & “gorgeous”! Let me start out by apologizing that I didn’t document every moment of creating this delicious vegetarian’s dream! With the issues my back has been giving me for a solid month+ now it’s been difficult to even get in the kitchen so my time is minimized. I so wanted to share this with you though because it’s easy & beautiful and so good!
I love recipes that aren’t complicated with steps & processes & this is all of that. There is no pre-steps aside from thawing the puff pastry. The puff pastry delivers a crunch that you really appreciate because it’s covered in ricotta cheese creamy dreamy land! I’ve heard so many people complain about the lack of flavor in asparagus & their dislike for it. (Isn’t that sad?!) I promise the flavor in this will enlighten even the harshest critic of fresh veggies!
You will need:
- 9/13 pan with some sort of sides.
- rolling pin or something that works good as one (Non Stick Spray can works)
- Parchment Paper (Do not skip this!)
- small bowl for mixing cheeses
Cast of characters:
- 1 Sheet of Puff Pastry- Thawed
- 1 Cup of skim ricotta cheese
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/3 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- 1/3 cup chopped chives or green onions
- juice from 1/2 a lemon
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced shallots
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (more to taste)
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper (more or less to taste)
- 1 pound of asparagus -bottoms trimmed
- flour on hand for rolling the puff pastry into size
Once your puff pastry has thawed (around 30-40 minutes sitting at room temperature) you want to coat your counter with flour and your rolling pin. GENTLY roll it out to fit into a 9/13 rectangle pan. It’s essentially needing to be stretched to size & you need not worry if it’s not perfect. Try to fold each edge slightly to form a sort of wall for your filling & to pretty it up a bit.
Line your baking sheet with parchment paper and transfer the puff pastry into the pan. Using a fork poke several holes in the pastry & then Bake for 10 minutes in preheated 400 degree oven to set the crust.
While this is baking mix in all other ingredients with the exception of shallots. Spread this yummy delicious genius combination of cheeses onto the crust & using a offset spatula or regular knife spread it evenly as you can.
Layer the shallots all over the cheeses; Feel free to add more if you are a fan of onions like myself. Finish by layering asparagus on top & if you want sprinkle a little more cheese on top.
Bake at 400 for 30-35 minutes and get excited because this is going to be great!
Just look at it; I had to taste it before I thought about taking the picture hence why you seem some serious unevenness and jagged edges but,such is life.
We ate this by itself because it was just my Mom and me but, it could’ve fed four people if need be. It would be great served with Chicken if you so choose or steak even but, I love it just as it is. Serve it hot & enjoy this meatless goodness my friends!
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. UPDATE from GJPD: The Grand Junction Police Department responded to a motor vehicle crash at 8:28 p.m. at 7th Street and North Avenue.
A 66-year-old woman was driving a Kia Sorento traveling North on 7th Street and a Dodge Neon operated by a 30-year-old male was traveling West on North Avenue. When the driver of the Sorento turned from 7th Street, on the North side of the median, and went the wrong way into Westbound traffic on North Avenue, the two vehicles collided head on.
The Sorento careened off of the Neon and struck a parked Hyundai Fit, occupied by a 32-year-old female, parked on the West side of 729 North Avenue, knocking the parked car into the building at that location. The driver of the Kia Sorento was transported to the hospital to be checked for injuries, which appear to be minor at this time.
There were no injuries to the occupant of the Neon or to the occupant of the parked Hyundai. The driver of the Sorento was charged with reckless driving and DUI.
No further information is available at this time.
A three car collision causing part of North Avenue to shut down West of 7th Street Saturday evening sends one woman to the hospital.
Around 8:30 p.m. Saturday night on North Avenue near the Dairy Queen, three cars were involved in the accident. At least two vehicles ended up in the restaurant parking lot. One of them going into the side of the T-Mobile Cellular Phone building.
One woman was transported to the hospital.
The accident is under investigation and we will continue to update the story as the information becomes available.
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The Savior of Sobibor
October 14 marks the 70th anniversary of the escape from Sobibor, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland where an estimated 250,000 Jews were murdered. Today, Sobibor stands as a painful symbol of what happens when the world fails to exert moral leadership and to hold accountable those dictators who use poisonous gas to kill innocent people, whether it be Zyklon B in a gas chamber in eastern Poland or sarin on the streets of Syria.
By the summer of l942, the Allies and most of the world knew that the Nazis were gassing Jews in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Holocaust historians like Martin Gilbert have described in careful detail who knew what and when. The London Daily Telegraph, for example, published in mid-1942 a two-part article based on eyewitness accounts about the Nazi slaughter of Jews. And Dr. Gerhard Riegner, director of the Jewish World Congress in Switzerland, sent an urgent cable to London, Washington, and New York.
Riegner warned the Allies that Berlin had a plan to exterminate all Jews in countries occupied or controlled by Germany. But Washington didn’t believe Riegner. Labeling his cable as “utterly fantastic,” it suppressed the message.
Soon after the Riegner cable, Richard Lichtheim, a Zionist leader in Geneva, wrote a report that reached both London and Washington. He told world leaders that nearly three million Polish Jews had already been murdered, as well as a majority of Latvian, Serbian, Slovak, Dutch, and French Jews. Washington found the Lichtheim report both convincing and disturbing—for a pragmatic reason. It feared that news of a Final Solution would distract the Allies into wasting “a disproportionate amount of time dealing with wailing Jews.”
Then there was Jan Karski, a lieutenant in the Polish underground army whom Jews had smuggled into both the Warsaw ghetto and a temporary camp for Jews destined for the gas chambers. Karski would one day detail his experiences in his book, Story of a Secret State.
A volunteer emissary from Polish Jews to the Allies, Karski delivered a powerful message to world leaders in London, New York, and Washington, including British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He not only described the heart-wrenching atrocities he had witnessed, he also warned that trains continued to transport Jews to the death camps almost daily.
Karski also delivered to the Allies a list of requests from Polish Jews. The first was to bomb German cities in reprisal for the continued murder of Jews, then to drop leaflets telling the Germans why the bombs were falling. The Allies rejected the request because it involved killing civilians.
Next, Polish Jews demanded that the Allies and neutral nations welcome the Jews who had managed to escape the Nazi net. For the most part, the world turned a deaf ear. As Anthony Eden put it: the best way for the Allies to help Jews was “to win the war.”
Polish Jews directed their next two requests to their government-in-exile. They demanded that the underground Home Army punish—as a deterrent—Poles who blackmailed, denounced, and murdered Jews. Eleven Poles were eventually tried and executed. But by that time, 90 percent of Polish Jews were already dead.
As requested, Karski also reported to the Polish government-in-exile that the Warsaw ghetto was poised to rise up against the SS, the Gestapo, and their foreign collaborators. The ghetto fighters desperately needed weapons. The Home Army eventually gave them twenty guns.
Finally, Polish Jews asked the Allies to ransom Jews from Berlin. The Allies rejected that request, arguing that if they did so, the ransom money would fund the killing of even more Allied soldiers.
Having rejected every recommendation, the Allies had only one option left—issue a strong condemnation of Hitler, the Nazis, and the Final Solution. On December 17, l942, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, among other nations, signed a strongly worded United Nations declaration “against the bestial policy of cold blooded extermination.”
The international media jumped on the story. The death camp transports kept on rolling.
Early in l944, the international Jewish community also requested specific action. It was too late to save millions, it argued, but there was still time to save thousands. It asked the Allies to bomb Auschwitz. The Allies rejected the request, arguing that to do so would be a death sentence for prisoners still alive there.
If the Allies were unwilling to bomb the camp, the Jewish community asked, would they at least bomb the railroads leading to Auschwitz? Washington in particular opposed that suggestion, arguing that it was irrelevant to the national interest, impractical, and would ultimately be ineffective. Instead of using bombs, Washington promised to punish Nazi war criminals after the war.
It wasn’t just the Allies who failed to exercise moral leadership while six million Jews died. The pope and the Vatican remained publicly silent. Although the Allies exerted pressure on Pope Pius XII to cosign the U.N. declaration, he chose not to. Jewish and world leaders privately asked him to excommunicate Hitler, but he declined to do so. And when they pleaded with him to condemn Hitler and the Nazis by name, he spoke eloquently about the dignity of man, freedom of religion, and the sanctity of life. (The defenders of Pope Pius XII argue that he worked diplomatically to save the lives of thousands of Jews.)
By the summer of l943, the 600 Sobibor prisoners knew they were both doomed and forgotten by a world that chose to ignore their plight. Belzec and Treblinka were already closed and their few remaining prisoners murdered. Sobibor was next. Trapped behind barbed wire and surrounded by guns and minefields, only luck or a miracle could save them.
The miracle’s name was Sasha Pechersky.
A Russian Jewish lieutenant in the Red Army, Pechersky arrived at Sobibor on September 23, l943, with eighty fellow Russian Jewish soldiers. They were all supposed to go to the gas chambers at Treblinka, but that camp had already closed. Pechersky was a soldier who had never found a camp he couldn’t escape from. He devised a daring escape plan with the camp’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Leon Feldhendler, and a handful of savvy prisoners.
On the afternoon of October 14, 1943, the Sobibor Jews let out a mighty shout and charged the fences. Their victory was bittersweet. Three hundred died during and after the escape. Three hundred made it to the nearest woods. Only fifty survived the war.
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Reaction to John Roberts' Chief Justice Nomination
Senator Edward Kennedy responds to President Bush's elevation of John Roberts nomination from Justice to Chief Justice(received by e-mail):
.....Only 17 Americans have held this position since the birth of our country. The Chief Justice is the most important judge in the country, with even more responsibility for the protection of the rights and freedoms of all Americans. Thus John Roberts bears a heavier burden when he comes before the Senate. The Chief Justice must be committed to moving America forward toward equality, opportunity and fairness for all Americans.
Our review of even the limited available parts of his record has raised serious concerns about his role in the early 1980's in seeking to weaken voting rights, roll back women's rights, and impede our progress toward a more equal nation. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, which were due to begin this week, were the opportunity for the Senate and the American people to hear from John Roberts about those extreme views and explain his position on these and many other vital issues facing the country.
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Chosen Foods Showcases New Infused Avocado Oil Sprays In Nine Delicious Flavors At Expo West 2019
Avocado-Centric Brand Will Exhibit New Product Extension at Renowned Trade Show
Chosen Foods creates products to support clean eating that are developed around the health and benefits of avocados, exemplified by the brand's nine new infused flavors for its signature Avocado Oil Sprays. The Infused line-up combines pure avocado oil with herbs, spices, peppers, citrus, bulbs and roots. Each infusion offers a unique flavor profile with a core of 100 percent pure, certified non-GMO avocado oil. The new roster of Infused Avocado Oil Sprays include savory flavors such as Garlic, Chipotle, Citrus Pepper, Chili-Lime Ginger, Lemon Dill, Italian Herb and sweet varieties including Spiced Chai, Simply Cinnamon, and Warm Gingerbread. As the healthy, delicious, and easy-to-use choice for everyday cooking and baking, infused sprays can also be used to prepare your pan, baking dish, or mug for pancakes, pastries, cookies, custards, and fortified coffees.
Continuing its mission to create accessible and real food with the base of its signature avocado hero ingredient, Chosen Foods will soon be launching a new line extension to its salad dressings with five Goddess dressing flavors and is also expanding beyond the pantry with the addition of guacamole to its avocado-inspired product line. Attendees will be invited to experience a sneak peek of these products, which will launch in retail later this year.
"As we continue to grow and create innovative products, our mission at Chosen Foods' will always remain focused on supporting true nourishment through the rediscovery and accessibility of real food," said CEO of Chosen Foods Gabriel Perez Krieb. "We are beyond excited to return to Expo West this year to showcase our new Infused Avocado Oil Sprays and to offer our avocado-obsessed and health-conscious community a new and delightful cooking experience."
The Natural Products Expo West will be held from March 5 – 9, 2019, at Anaheim Convention Center, located at 800 W. Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA 92802. For more information on Chosen Foods, please visit www.chosenfoods.com. For more information on the trade show, please visit www.expowest.com.
About Chosen Foods
Chosen Foods is all in on the avocado and was founded on the belief that food should nourish and sustain our bodies, our lives and our communities. Developing food items with avocado oil as its hero ingredient, the company has produced more than 350 million avocados from its groves in Mexico. Headquartered in San Diego, the avocado-centric company launched its well-known avocado oil in 2013 and continues its mission to be organic when possible and provide consumers with healthy yet delightful food. From dressings and marinades to mayonnaise and oil sprays, the Southern California brand focuses on creating great tasting and accessible condiments to elevate cooking to be clean and pure. Chosen Foods is an active supporter of the non-GMO movement, and boasts the Non-GMO Project seal of approval on all its products. Additionally, Chosen Foods builds collaborative partnerships with organizations that take a community-wide, sustainable approach to alleviating hunger. More information about Chosen Foods can be found at www.chosenfoods.com.
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How to Trade Halvings Options Markets Show Less Enthusiasm on BTC Halving Five interesting facts that you need to know about.
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In response to the recent HMRC consultation on A new incentive for charitable legacies, the ICAEW has suggested a way to encourage people to leave a bigger proportion of their estates to charity. We believe this would work better than the proposals in the consultation and would be more likely to achieve the government’s objective of increasing charitable legacies.
Under the ICAEW’s proposal, instead of a reduced, ie 36%, IHT rate on the value of the net estate, IHT would continue to be chargeable at the standard rate of 40% but then would be reduced by a tax credit equal to 10% of the proposed reduced rate, ie 3.6%, applied to the chargeable estate before deducting the charitable legacy. In terms of the effective rate of tax, this would be more progressive than the condoc proposals and thereby provide a greater incentive to make charitable legacies of more than the minimum required to qualify.
The ICAEW' s response includes tables and a graph comparing the two methods and a description of the methodology. The figures demonstrate that for charitable legacies of more than 10%, the proposed tax credit route costs the beneficiaries less than the reduced IHT route.
For the purpose of this relief, such charitable legacies should be expressed in wills as pecuniary legacies, and the wills should give personal representatives the right to appropriate assets in satisfaction of the legacy. If the wills do not possess an express power of appropriation there is a statutory power set out in s41(1) Administration of Estates Act 1925.
The charity should be obliged to provide a receipt to the estate administrators who would forward it to HMRC, whereupon HMRC allow the relief.
Estate planning and will drafting is a long term project. Rather than creating a regime and then tweaking it annually as happens in too many parts of the tax system, it is essential to get this right first time.
It will also be important that the rules are sufficiently straightforward to be understood by the average personal representative. In this regard it should be borne in mind that many estates are administered by non-professionals. The guidance will need to be written with this in mind, as well as being able to be understood by the layman in the street who has sufficient assets to come within the class of people eligible to benefit from the new regime.
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How To Root ASUS H012 Fonepad 7 FE170CG Kitkat [PC] -
The Asus Fonepad 7 FE170CG is driven by a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z2520 dual-core CPU and PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU coupled with 1 GB of memory. The internal storage has 4 GB capacity but supports micro SD expansion up to 64 GB. The FE170CG supports dual sim (dual standby), GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and HSPA+ connectivity. The powerhouse is a large 3,950 mAh battery, enough juice to propel the device for hours of usage on 3G. The major drawback of the FE170CG is the low-resolution 7.0-inch WSVGA (1024 x 600) LCD screen, the 2.0 MP rear shooter and the 0.3 MP front facing camera but with a price tag like that, I’m sure you can live with it
ASUS Android Version 4.4.2 is very hard to root, lucky for others who were able to root using rootzenfone but I was able to root using the method of Eko Sunaryo on youtube and Alden Roi who gave her tutorial on Android Meister. I combined these 2 procedures in rooting this device. This procedure is very long and intended for beginners and I made it step by step procedure.
I Firmware Checking And Downloading
Firmware download can be found here: ASUS download page or from mediafire mirror here
1. Check your firmware code from settings\software information\Build number. Check the code if WW, TW, JP, TR or CN. Mine is WW so I download the (2014/09/15) update which is "WW_V10.32.1.33.1" and not the latest (2015/02/17) update which is "Version WW_V188.8.131.52". The firmware you download must be the same code in your fonepad.
2. Make a new folder ASUS FEROOT in C Drive in your PC. Copy the firmware you downloaded to this folder. Extract It and you will get "UL_....user.zip"
3. Extract the UL_...user.zip. After extracting, rename the file UL_...user.zip to K012_sdupdate.zip
4. Copy the files fastboot.img, boot.img and splashscreen.img to folder ASUS FEROOT. The purpose of these files is to change the bootloader
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1. Download the FE170CG-Root.zip form Download Section
2. Copy the file to folder ASUS FEROOT & extract it.
3. Open folder adb & copy all its contents except boot.img (Important) to folder ASUS FEROOT.
4. Double click adb_setup_1.3.exe and install in your PC.
5. Open folder intelandroiddrvsetup1.1.5 & install IntelAndroidDrvSetup1.1.5.exe
6. Copy RootGenius.exe, Superuser.apk and Superuser Folder to ASUS FEROOT Folder.
Important: Folder ASUS FEROOT in your PC must contain the following files in order to perform adb and fastboot commands:
2. AdbWin Api.dll
9. Superuser Folder
III Setting Up The Fonepad
1. Go to Settings - Developer options of your fonepad and tick USB debugging
2. Go to Settings - Security, Tick Unknown Sources
3. Settings - Wifi - Forget Network, Bluetooth Off
4. Settings - More - Mobile Network - Data Enabled Off ( No Check)
5. Quick Settings Airplane Mod On, GPS Off, Autosync Off
IV Downgrading Fonepad's Firmware Or Software Using ADB And Fasboot Commands
1. Connect your Fonepad to PC using USB cable
2. Right click Computer, Click Manage, Double Click Device Manager
3. Click triangle of Android Device and if you see ASUS Android Composite ADB Interface then you are ready to root your device
4. Copy the file K012_sdupdate.zip to MicroSD of your Fonepad & not to Internal Memory (Very Important!)
5. Click the circle (start) window logo located at the down-left of your screen and type cmd and enter. You will be in Windows Command Prompt
6. Change Directory by typing cd C:\ASUS FEROOT and enter
7. Type adb devices and enter and tick your fonepad to accept commands from PC. You will see your adb device number.
8. Type adb reboot-bootloader and press enter. You will see your bootloader in your fonepad. Method is better than using the Press Power & Volume Up Method.
9. Type fastboot devices and enter to check for fastboot device number
10. Type fastboot flash fastboot fastboot.img and enter
11. Type fastboot flash boot boot.img and enter
12. Type fastboot flash splashscreen splashscreen.img and enter
13. Type fastboot erase cache and enter
14. Type fastboot reboot-bootloader and enter. (You will see a different bootloader compared to bootloader of 4.4.2)
15. Fonepad still connected to PC. Using volume keys go to SD Update & press power button. Your fonepad will install the firmware you downloaded. Wait for it to finish. Will boot itself automatically. Now you have a new firmware
16. Fill up the ASUS Log In. Don't unplug the USB Cable.
17. Repeat Procedure III From 1-5 - Very Important!
V Rooting The Fonepad 7
1. With the USB still connected again I repeat to make sure USB Debugging On and strictly follow the steps of III (1-5).
2. Go to PC, ASUS FEROOT Folder & right click RootGenius.exe as Administrator
3. Right click Superuser Folder from ASUS FEROOT and click copy
4. Pres Ctrl-Alt-Del and click Taskbar
5. Look for shuame and right click and click location
6. Delete Superuser Folder from shuame and right click and paste Superuser Folder
7. Click Root from Root Genius and wait for it to finish. Lucky if you can do it once only.
8. If not successful on first attempt, don't unplug the cable, repeat steps 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
9. Do this until root successful
10. If successful, check folder of Fonepad if Superuser is present and click it.
11. If not present, copy Superuser.apk to MicroSD and install
12. Download RootChecker from Playstore to check if rooted
VI Removing The Live Demo Problem Which Is Irritating
1. Install RootExplorer from Playstore or from any download site.
2. Open RootExplorer and click to grant access permanently from Superuser
3. Go to system\app. Click RW to change to RO
4. Look for all ASUS Live Demo.apk and rename all the 4 files by changing apk to old and adding old to other files. Don't delete, maybe you need the files someday.
5. Reboot your fonepad and Unplug the USB Cable
Congratulations you have rooted your device and no more Live Demo Problem. Just Share this post if i helped you. Although this procedure is long but it is the safest way.
Confirmed via: XDA forum
Credit: "How to Root ASUS FONEPAD 7 FE170CG Using PC" by Alden Roi, AndroidMeister, "Flash Firmware ASUS Fonepad 7 FE170CG (K012)" by Eko Sunaryo, YouTube
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Stormberg Elangeni Safaris has entered into a partnership with Zambeze Delta Safaris and now offers a full bag of hunting in areas 11, 12 and 14 which are part of the Marromeu complex and borders the mighty Zambezi River. These areas offer classic safaris of a bygone era. The Zambeze Delta was once the hunting grounds of the famous elephant hunter, Harry Manners. These early Nimrods referred to this area as the Garden of Eden.
When hunting here, you will be transported back into the past as you experience this vast wilderness, which was once famed as part of Africa’s greatest hunting grounds. The spectrum and quality of wildlife is quite remarkable. Here you will hunt a diverse habitat, which extends from swamp to vast grassland floodplains into palm savannahs and thick forest.
This diversity offers a broad-spectrum of game. Species that may be hunted include the following: Buffalo, Sable Antelope, Hippo, Crocodile, Chobe Bushbuck, Nyala, Common Reedbuck, Oribi, Livingstone’s Suni, Red Duiker, Blue Duiker, Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest, Warthog, Yellow Baboon, Waterbuck, Bushpig, Leopard, Lion, Zebra, Nyasa Wildebeest and Elephant
The Zambezi Delta is located in the central part of Mozambique, which is situated in the South East of Africa and is a one hour charter from the city of Beira on the East Coast. Beira is easy to get to as it is a simple one and a half hour flight from Johannesburg.
There are four camps and accommodation varies from East African style tented camps to thatched rondavels, all with en-suite bathrooms.
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2023-09-27T21:13:36Z
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In keeping with the recent spate of gloom-and-doom forecasts for both print media and old-school PR practitioners, only 49% of today’s professional communicators say they think press releases are “as useful as ever,” according to recent poll of corporate communicators conducted by Ragan Communications and PollStream.
The poll also found that another 33% of the the 401 respondents see press releases as “a necessary evil that won’t go away soon,” in large part because of disclosure rules for public companies set forth by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Releases Lose out to Social Media
One of the main reasons for the decline of the press release is the recent explosion of the use of social media in public relations and the perception that releases are less relevant in those venues. A majority (64%) of respondents who issue releases say they target them most often to print outlets, while 23% send them to online news and financial sites.
The poll also found that many PR pros often forego writing a release unless it’s for a specific reason or if they aren’t confident they can reach their audience any other way.
Nearly half (45%) don’t see releases as relevant as they once were because of the growth of social media and the ability to target reporters and editors in more personalized, direct ways. At the same time nearly one-fourth each blame the waning interest in the press releases on the demand for a more trustworthy and/or engaging information source (23%) and the decline of the newspaper and magazine industry (24%).
Are Releases Dying?
In an article entitled “Don’t trash press releases yet,” Ragan.com’s Lindsey Miller sheds light on why some communicators in the survey chalk the release’s demise to shrinking news sources. “As news sources become more obviously biased and decrease in size and content, publics are turning to other sources of information,” she quoted one respondent as saying, adding that another blamed companies themselves for the declining quality of the releases. “Companies have become too self-protecting in their releases. Everything has been tossed into the legal CYA blender, and what comes back is bland and over-processed.”
Miller noted that corporate communicators are increasingly using social media as a way to get around “canned” information, and to personalize, target and reach reporters who are increasing busy with more beats and less likely to read the proliferation of releases that cross their desks everyday.
About the survey: The survey is part of the POLL-arized series of polls about corporate communication that is the result of a partnership between Pollstream and with Ragan.com.
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Ann Arbor teacher experiences first day of school from different perspective
Ryan Bruder had a couple butterflies in his stomach this morning when he walked into Ann Arbor's Allen Elementary School.
But they didn’t last long for the first-year teacher.
“I’m excited,” said Bruder, who graduated from the University of Michigan in the spring. “I’ve always loved the first day of school.”
Bruder, son of Bach Elementary School Principal Shelly Bruder, got to experience that first day of school from a different perspective today.
Around 8:30 this morning, Bruder was puttering around his classroom waiting for students to arrive.
Piles of notebooks were neatly stacked at each student’s place. Name tags were lined up on a table next to a scavenger hunt sheet that students would soon be using to get to know their classroom.
The entire room was decorated with fish - paper ones hanging from the ceiling and live ones swimming in a tank in the corner.
Even the various mottos scattered around the classroom - “Mr. Bruder’s class is oceans of fun" - were beach themed.
“I’ve been living here” for the last couple of weeks, Bruder said. He said his mom came over from Bach to help him put the finishing touches on it.
As the bell rang to signal the start of school, Bruder moved toward the door. He shook hands with each of the 22 students and lots of parents.
As the students worked on their scavenger hunt - discovering things like where the pencil sharpener is - Bruder wandered about, asking and answering questions.
He joked with students, telling one who asked for the answer to a question on the scavenger hunt, “Sure. Let’s start the year off right. I’ll give you all the answers all year long.” That drew a laugh from the student.
Bruder said he was excited to spend the day with the students.
“I can’t wait to get to know them and to help them learn.”
David Jesse covers K-12 education for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or at 734-623-2534.
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Neck & Spine Lecture Series - The Straight Talk from Our Experts
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There’s no one “silver bullet” for back and neck pain. The straight talk from specialists is that chronic problems can be as complex and unique as our own spines. Several successful treatments and procedures are available – and that’s good news! Could one help you? Find out from Sarasota Memorial’s experts.
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The first openly-gay woman to lead a legislative chamber and three female African-American lawmakers are among those nominated for EMILY’s List’s second annual Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award.
The award, which six women in total are nominated for this year, “celebrates an extraordinary woman serving in state or local office,” according to an EMILY’s List press release. “The councilwomen, state legislators, and mayors doing critical work at the local level today are our future senators, governors, and presidents, and these six women leaders are already well on their way,” said Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY’s List.
The inaugural honoree in 2014 was Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams. Abrams is the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African-American to lead in the Georgia House of Representatives.
“Look I’ve been a minority for a really long time and I’m really good at it,” Abrams said when she accepted her award last year. She went on to rile up the crowd about women’s empowerment, “I’m tired of being first. I want to be last. I want to be the last … I want to be the last woman, I want to be the very last woman that has to explain to Republicans that my body is not a place for experimental social policy.”
2015 is already a landmark year for women in politics – for the first time in history there are over 100 women in Congress, and a potential Democratic candidate for president who seems so confident in her chances that she may be delaying her campaign launch to the last minute. But as political junkies know, much of the real progress is made at the state and local level – the Rising Star Award nominations draw attention to fresh faces who might otherwise fly under the radar.
Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek has served in the Oregon House of Representatives for close to 10 years. She was nominated Speaker of the House for the 2013 legislative session, making her the first ever lesbian to lead a legislative chamber in the U.S.
Ayanna Pressley is the first woman of color to be elected to the Boston City Council in its over 100-year history and now chairs a standing committee – The Committee on Women and Healthy Communities.
New York Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages made history as the first person of Haitian descent to be elected to the New York State Assembly. Coming into office soon after Hurricane Sandy hit the state, Solages’ first order of business was to help her community recover from the effects of the storm.
Charlene Herring, now a Virginia Delegate, was homeless as a teenager. She overcame her hardships, pursued a career in policy, and is now the Minority Whip in the Virginia House, as well as the Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia and the first ever African-American to lead a major political party in the state.Betsy Hodges went up against 34 other candidates in the 2013 mayoral election in Minneapolis, Minn. Now in the second year of her mayorship, Hodges has prioritized improving police-community relations in the city.
Cristina Garcia was a math teacher until she was elected to the California State Assembly in 2012. Just over two short years later, not only has Christina risen to join her party’s leadership team in the Assembly, she actively recruits other women to run for office.
All six of these women have already made history in their own right, but EMILY’s List, a Political Action Committee that aims to “elect pro-choice Democratic women to office,” is making the statement that they have much more to give to U.S. politics.
Although the recipient of the award will ultimately be determined by the PAC, the public is invited to give their input into the selection process through an online voting feature.
The award will be given out by former Rep. Gabby Giffords on March 3 at a gala put on by the organization. Potential 2016 contender Hillary Clinton will also be honored at the March gala, where she will receive the “2015 We Are EMILY Award.”
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Senior Case Manager
I have been with the Firm for 26 years - all of that time within the Residential Property team.
I specialise in high net worth sales and acquisitions, either directly for private individuals or via onshore/offshore trust structures. I also act for financial institutions that are market leaders in high value onshore/offshore sterling/foreign currency lending. I focus on both the London and South East Markets.
What Is The Most Rewarding Aspect Of Your Role?
I really enjoy the marketing side of my role - visiting prospective clients and bringing them onboard to show that the service and knowledge that Irwin Mitchell offers in the very best out there. I like to make sure that every client knows there is always someone at Irwin Mitchell who can advise them - even if that person is not always me.
I also take pride in delivering what I say I will deliver. Quite often I'm working to very tight deadlines - and the sense of achievement when that deadline is met is immensely satisfying.
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I like going out for meals, going to the theatre and the cinema, spending quality time with my family and getting away to the sunshine at my villa in Spain.
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The ordinary detritus of the news was swept away as the world watched in astonishment and, thanksgiving. Man was reminded of the great things he is capable of in a crisis: individual spirit and mutual cooperation, self-discipline and solidarity, organization and daring, charity for others and the highest demands on one's self, faith and forbearance, pride and humility, patience and endurance, thought and action, all bound up together. And once again the world was reminded, as it isn't nearly often enough:
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!
It may be whole days before the usual backbiting, finger pointing and second-guessing begin. It would be another monumental achievement if it never did. What a wonder it would be if, not only in crisis but in the course of human events, man remembered what he is capable of, and, remembering, raised his expectations of himself. And proceeded to live up to them, to exceed them. As did these miners. And their families. And all those technicians and advisers from around the world.
An audience of millions followed this human -- and humane -- story. First with trepidation, then celebration. And always with fascination. And with that secret weapon in every crisis, personal prayer. For once mankind was united in faith, hope and charity.
Yes, let us celebrate. For to celebrate triumphs is to assure that there will be more of them. In celebrating this one, let us rehearse all the qualities, the virtues and strengths, that made it possible. And so perpetuate them. There is indeed something wondrous about the stars in the night sky. If we would but remember to look up.
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Despite a torrent of deceptive push polls showing that Americans are agog over amnesty, politicians in both parties understand Americans are overwhelmingly against their amnesty agenda.
After all, 67% of blue state voters in Oregon rejected an effort to grant drivers licenses to illegal aliens, even though proponents of the ballot measure outspent opponents by 10-1. Accordingly, all of their amnesty bills will be couched in faux border security parlance, much like they did with the Gang of 8 bill in 2013.
The latest Trojan Horse for amnesty is the “McCaul border bill,” which is authored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and pushed emphatically by GOP leadership. They even put out a slick 3-minute documentary style video to promote it.
Before delving into the details of the bill (H.R. 399), it’s important to ponder the following questions: why would Republicans introduce new border security bench marks and expect the president to implement them at a time when he has nullified our current laws? Why not focus exclusively on cutting off funding for agencies until he agrees to implement the laws on the books, as House conservatives pushed for last week?
The answer is as simple as it is insidious.
For the past two years, GOP leaders have carefully limited their criticism of the Gang of 8 amnesty bill to the “comprehensive” nature of the bill. They incessantly speak of a “step-by-step” approach. Why? They merely plan to implement the broad goals of the bill – phony, notional, and unverifiable border security measures years down the road, massive expansion of record high legal immigration, and immediate amnesty for illegals – through a “piecemeal” approach instead of in one bill. Their displeasure is nothing more than theatre to create confusion and prey on the naivety of the public in order to pass amnesty.
Enter the McCaul border bill, and their plan becomes even clearer.
The McCaul border bill is ostensibly a cut and paste version of the border security portions of the Gang of 8 amnesty bill, with a few more mandates and a 5-7 year window of implementation instead of 10 years. After much criticism last year of McCaul’s first attempt to garner support for this bill, they tightened up some of the language to ensure that, for the most part, it doesn’t weaken current law. But the fundamental flaw of the Gang of 8 bill still applies, given that leadership plans to couple this with other immigration bills while Obama is still in office.
In terms of the specifics of the bill, here are the fundamental flaws:
This might have been a solid bill 20 years ago – without the wealth of history to draw upon which has shown us how waivers, discretion, stonewalling, and downright malfeasance has precluded the actual implementation of border security. But as all of us have learned since 1986, this is not a legislative problem, it is an executive problem; and in the case of Obama – it’s a constitutional crisis. Until Congress uses the power of the purse, must-pass bills, and the confirmation process of political appointees to leverage against Obama’s disregard for our laws, it is worthless to pass more border bills echoing current law or previous laws that have been ignored.
So what should Republicans do?
If they decide to pass this deeply flawed bill, the least they can do is promise no discussion of any amnesty bill for another 5-7 years – the period through which we will determine whether the border and visa systems are secured and operational.
Other than holding Obama accountable for violating current law, Republicans should address weaknesses and loopholes in current law, such as repealing the Visa Waiver Program, and closing the loopholes for refugee, asylum, and parole, as is done in the Aderholt bill.
Aside from that, Republicans should focus on loopholes in national security, interior enforcement, and access to welfare benefits/tax credits to illegals. Any bill addressing metrics for the border itself and apprehensions is useless because control over our border and sovereignty is not a statutory problem; it’s an abuse of power problem.
It’s understandable for McCaul to seek some relevance in this debate as Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. But none of the laws within his jurisdiction need to be fixed; they need to be enforced. The aforementioned ideas addressing statutory loopholes would be dealt with in the Judiciary Committee.
This bill would be satisfactory – no runs, no hits, no errors – if it was not being used as a Trojan Horse for amnesty. But if they plan to pass an accompanying amnesty, which by all indications seems to be the plan, this bill is woefully inadequate and would result in more ‘amnesty now, promises of enforcement later.’ Also, the entire structure and focus of the bill – vague bench marks and broad goal posts on the already ambiguous goal of border security – is written in a way that will allow the Senate to easily water it down.
Daniel Horowitz is a senior editor of Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @RMConservative.
Congress owes it to the states to protect them from a lawless judiciary.
Cruz: Bowing at the Altar of Political Correctness Won’t Defeat Terrorism. Here’s What Will.
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NOLAF Puts FU Back in Fun For Tostitos
Sort of like the spiraling, out of control political correctness movement that has eradicated all manner of fun from the world, this work for Tostitos by Mekanism and Element79 goes all out to make sure fun is a thing of the past. Seminars help workers "manage" the urge to have fun. The NOLAF organization is all about ending laughter and this work does it, thankfully, with dry, quirky humor. Of special not is the segment on "virus videos" which "put the FU back in fun."
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ANZ Home Hints Illustration Series
Deliver illustrations to compliment ANZ Buy Ready Campaign. The challenge is to entice Facebook and other social media users by providing checklist and hints when doing inspections prior to buying a house. Keeping it inline with ANZ Buy Ready Campaign messages to drive conversions in the buy-ready landing page. My role in this project is to illustrate the concept by collaborating with the Art Directors and the digital creative team at Digital Arts Network.
Illustration series with tongue-in-cheek humour to entertain Facebook users. The illustration drives more traffic and conversions to ANZ Buy Ready Landing page.
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Barreworks is proud to support a variety of organizations & charities working hard to create positive change in our community. One of our favourite ways to give back, is through our Raise the Barre Charity Classes. These classes are just $10, with 50% of all proceeds going directly to our charity of the month.
Join us in sweating it out for a good cause!
For February 2017, we’ve partnered with Dancing With Parkinson's Canada – a dance and movement program for adults living with Parkinson’s disease.
How Dancing With Parkinson's raises the barre: they provide a high-quality, positive, safe, artistic and sustainable dance wellness intervention that brings participants out of isolation and into a community where they experience a measure of relief from their debilitating disease. They provide a supportive setting where people with PD can reclaim their humanity and dignity through the joy of moving their bodies to music.
It is such a joy to witness the freedom of movement the dancers are able to achieve through their weekly practice and we have the utmost respect for their courage to try new things and participate in what can often feel like a daunting task. Check out this feature on the CBC! They were recently featured in light of new research on how dancing can improve movement control.
To learn more, please visit their website and check out their social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
You're also welcome to donate online, by clicking here.
Help us support Dancing with Parkinson's by attending one of our Raise the Barre Charity Classes, this February 2017!
Sign-up for class today!
See you at the barre!
xo Team Barreworks
*Note: if you take a Raise the Barre charity class as your first class, you are still eligible for our New Client specials – see desk staff for details!
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Fill in the form below to make your online donation. If you prefer to send a check, please make it payable to Voices for Earth Justice and mail it to 15894 Greydale Street, Detroit, MI 48223. Thank you!
Voices for Earth Justice is a 501c3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Your gift is tax deductible!
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November 13 and November 17, 2001 Meeting Notes
On Tuesday, we were testing a couple minor modifications to
the flight control software that should make it a little easier to manage the
throttle. I reduced the turnaround
delay for the motor drive from 100 msec to 50 msec, and implemented a scaled
remapping of the throttle to ball valve position.
We did a quick hop for checkout, then loaded up for a full
length run. Shortly after liftoff, a
plume of peroxide started escaping from one of the engines. I set it down, and in the process of venting
of the rest of the peroxide, one of the other engines started doing it.
We knew pretty quickly what happened the four attitude
engines arent completely interchangeable with the tops, and two of them were
misaligned enough that we couldnt get one of the bolts in it. The O-ring had blown out at the point of the
We drilled the bolt holes in the tops out slightly oversize,
which allows them to fit in any orientation, and we also replaced the rubber
O-rings, which got very hard after firing, with high temperature silcone
Since we were taking the engines apart, this was also a
perfect time to test the chem.-etched injector spreading plates that ERPS had
made up for us. The micro-perf sheets
that we had been clamping at the tops of the motors was 7% open area, which was
quite a bit too much to provide enough pressure drop for smooth engine
operation. The ERPS plates are thicker,
and have far fewer holes in them.
We couldnt get test stand data because of a problem with my
new laptop, but we ran it once for a basic check, and it seemed to run well.
By Saturday, I had addressed the test stand issue, but Im
not real happy with it. Microsoft
changed the behavior of the serial DTR line with windows ME, where previously
it was off when not in use, but now it stays on from the time you boot. Our test stand electronics use the DTR line
to trigger the test valve, so as soon as it was hooked up, the valve would stay
open. In looking around online, several
other devices, like radio push-to-talk triggers, are also having problems with
this. Microsoft apparently has a fix
for it, but you need to sign up for a support contract to get it. For whatever reason, the couple fix programs
I downloaded online only temporarily cleared DTR for me, so I had to try and
work something out myself. I eventually
found an awful rain dance that does solve it run a little program that
clears DTR and spins in place, run the test stand program, which will fail with
a sharing violation trying to get the serial port, the ctrl-C break out of the
stub program, and DTR will stay off for the rest of the session. Blech.
We had a couple issues getting the runs working properly on
the test stand, but when we finally got it all worked out, the small engine
spreading plate turned out to be undersized enough to cut the output from 60
pounds to 30 pounds of thrust, and the big engine had a bit too much injector
area, because the thrust still tracked the pressure blowdown directly, instead
of falling off with the square root of pressure, as usually happens with
sufficient choking. However, both
engines are operating smoothly, so this seems to be a pretty good
combination. We were having some
solenoid trouble on the test stand, so the small engine thrust may not be
correct. In any case, we dont mind
losing thrust on the attitude engines, because we still have an excess of
The Doppler radar speed sensor that we had been waiting for
showed up on Friday, and I was all set to push really hard to try and get
auto-hover and auto-land operational for Saturday, but it turns out that the
sensor only returns the absolute value of speed, not including the
direction. That makes it useless for
our purposes, but I am hoping the company (GMH Engineering) can modify one for
We did a couple test flights, and everything worked fine
with the control changes, but it is still harder to smoothly fly and land with
the throttled central engine than when we were using the attitude engines for
throttling. I am hoping that computer
control will work all that out when we get a speed sensor.
We did have some link quality problems with the 802.11b link
between the laptop and the flight computer, so I moved a little closer outside
to get it to clear up. I have ordered
two full-watt units from Esteem , which should give us several miles of range,
even with omni antennas.
Bob brought the new dual tank frame over so we could adjusted
the seat position for proper balance.
Our new tanks should be here soon, so we will probably be flying this
vehicle relatively soon.
Mark Henry, the ex-propulsion lead for Beal Aerospace
stopped by on Saturday to talk with us, and we got a lot of good tips and
information from him. A few notes:
He favors a special silver plating process on stainless
screens, including the samarium nitrate coating that some literature had
reported as unnecessary. He said they
could get effectively unlimited catalyst life, and 40 msec startup times. Apparently the difference between pure
silver screens, which we found to not work very well, and the special plating
process is quite profound. We are going
to buy some packs from him to experiment with.
Anti-channel rings should be fairly thick, and made out of
the same material as the motor casing so that they expand with the case, rather
than the pack.
Silica-phenolic ablative nozzles were heavy, but very easy
to make and work with. Carbon-phenolic
nozzles lasted less than 20 seconds with peroxide engines.
He was fairly down on hypergolic miscible fuel peroxide
combinations, mentioning the sever motors that have been blown up in
experimenting with that.
If you are setting up a really large-scale concentrator, 90%
peroxide comes out to only about $0.50 a pound.
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I just don't think you understand what I tried to say or how I tried to say it, kinda hard to understand you attacking me for taking up for those that criticize games and in return are picked on by people who think they should just shut up, kiss *** and not voice their opinions. Which is what we have here in a way. I don't think I offended anyone on ZAM by saying that I've seen people that I refer to as "idiots" lash out at people who simply ask devs of games to add patches for simple things such as walk or holster. Yet you keep threatening me, sigh. I've posted on Zam for years, and have seen many more heated posts than the ones I make. I think you took offense to me calling them idiots. I'm sure people who post more get more lenience, I've seen people get called worse on this very board, but your attacking me for defending honest gamers. First time for everything I guess.
If you can't make your point without ad hominem attacks, you can't make your point.
You can state and defend a position without attacking the people who disagree with you. Use facts, not insults. Talk about the product and not the people.
For myself, I'm extremely critical of most new games. But I try never to be unfair about it, and I never go after the people who disagree with me or my positions.
If you want to be critical of something and have anyone take you seriously, you have to do so without making it personal.
I've posted on Zam for years
Not saying you're lying or anything, but this seems like an odd claim with the facts at hand. Edited, Jan 26th 2013 11:20pm by Callinon
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First Dog Bo Obama took center stage as Michelle Obama was about to read Christmas stories at a local children's hospital.
In the video below, Obama sits down with her book in hand, but before she can start reading, Bo, a medium-sized black Portuguese water dog plopped himself on her lap
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Later, I visit Las Pallas. Mari Solari, the owner of this hard-to-find store, has for 40 years dedicated her life to the promotion of Peruvian folk art. She travels to the remotest parts of the country to add to her remarkable stock. Her personal collection in the republican-era house where she has her shop includes a huge array of traditional weavings, magic charms and amulets, and ceremonial drinking vessels. Mari is happy to show the various rooms where these objects reside, beautifully displayed and guarded by a rare Peruvian hairless dog whose pedigree goes back to before the time of the Incas. More often than not I go home with amulets, carved gourds, retablos from Ayacucho, and carved candles. I have given amulets to friends in New York, and some of them have worked wonders, producing boyfriends and odd kinds of favors.
A little farther on is the shop where Ester Ventura sells intriguing gold and silver jewelry that incorporates seeds, weavings, seashells, coral, and pre-Columbian fragments. Her tiny space inside a small red house seems a jewel in itself. Later, a friend introduces me to a young designer named Claudia Stern; she makes the most unusual necklaces, bracelets, and rings from velvet-covered wire twisted in strange shapes and dyed an amazing array of colors, which she sells at a nearby shop of her own.
The magnificent recently restored mansion of Don Pedro de Osma y Pardo is yet another place to see a rich variety of art and artifacts. Built around 1900, the house was once a stage for the grand lives of Peru's aristocrats. Don Pedro's family came here during the time of the Spanish viceroyalty in 1801 and, like so many others at the time, made a fortune in mining. Intellectually curious, Don Pedro assembled a collection of more than 5,000 objects, ranging from paintings from the Cuzco school to elaborate silver and furniture. One of my favorite pieces is an anonymous 17th-century Cuzco painting called Virgin Sewing; it depicts a child dressed as a nusta, an Incan princess, wearing earrings, bracelets, and a garland of roses. This small painting is an exquisite example of the blending of European and indigenous culture.
Don Pedro's home has been left very much the same as it was when he lived there. Endless corridors lead to large, somber rooms with stained-glass windows and inlaid floors. I envision the portly gentleman making his way from the drafty house and across the formal gardens to the dining pavilion and entertaining his guests with French wines and French cuisine. Only recently have affluent Peruvians decided that it is fashionable to serve Peruvian food. Indeed, in New York I long for the kind of food that can be prepared only in Peru. I cook it at home for my friends when I can find the right kind of peppers, very fresh fish, tender summer corn. My favorite dish is made from yellow potatoes puréed with lime juice, spicy peppers, and a touch of olive oil, layered like a cake with crabmeat, avocados, and mayonnaise—a sort of Peruvian version of shepherd's pie.
Peruvian gastronomy can trace its roots back 2,000 years. The Chimú and Paracas peoples were great gourmets. The importance of food to these cultures is evident in their pottery and weavings, which feature images of fruits and vegetables and the bounty of the Pacific Ocean. Peru's biodiversity makes for an impressive range of ingredients. When the conquistadores arrived in the 16th century, they brought their own cuisine, with its Moorish and Roman influences, as well as citrus, grapes, pork, almonds, and much more. Peru, in turn, introduced to the world potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes. Later, in the 19th and 20th centuries, Peruvian cookery incorporated an influx of Japanese, French, Italian, and Chinese elements. Young chefs now train abroad and are taking their national cuisine to new heights. There are several restaurants in Lima that could easily hold their own among New York City's best.
One of these is Astrid y Gaston, in my opinion Lima's finest restaurant, set in an elegant house with polished wood floors and walls painted in a pleasing light palette. The tables are placed well apart, a welcome change from the confinement of New York's noisy dining rooms. Here, with my family, on the last night of my visit, I have a meal fit for the gods: sea urchins, taken from the Pacific the very same day, and chupe, a Peruvian chowder made with crab, yellow potatoes, and lima beans. My brother has a fish stew baked with herbs in a clay pot and accompanied by a purée of sweet potatoes. We also order duck, one of Peru's great delicacies, in a confit served over rice. As the grand resolution of our meal, we enjoy a cherimoya dessert that comes in three layers, each using the fruit in a different way.
When I arrive at the airport later that night, I find it bursting with people. Planes are going to unexpected places—a nonstop to Atlanta, three other flights to New York, Paris, Rio. I think of the first time I left Lima for New York, in 1960. The interamericano Panagra flight was the only one to the United States that day. Flying then was so exotic—when we landed I was given a certificate verifying that I had crossed the equator. Now, the world seems a smaller place, and Lima is closer than ever.
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The Wall Street Journal headline reads “More Risky Loans Allowed.” It is a non subtle “shot” at Washington for eliminating the risk retention provision, once a primary component of the Dodd-Frank Act, forcing mortgage lenders to retain, at least, a small percentage of every mortgage sold into the secondary market. The focus was to effectively prevent another housing bubble, replete with its unfortunate “boom and bust” features.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, in its attempts to expand credit and lending, supports lowering down payment minimums back to three percent. Late October 2014 also saw the Federal Reserve (and other regulators) approve rules that permit private mortgage-backed securities with no down payments of any level. Dissenters note that bureaucrats should never be allowed to dictate terms of private contracts of any type.
New Congress Reforms?
Since the midterm elections are now a fait accompli, it appears the new Congress is charged with creating significant reforms in the housing market financing arena. Until or unless that happens, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) will still dominate the housing finance market, as they have in the past.
The original Dodd-Frank Act (2010) referenced “qualified mortgages,” as those eligible for sale or securitization in the government related mortgage financing market. Qualified mortgage sales included a provision that forced lenders to retain a percentage, originally at least five percent, of the mortgages they sold.
The theory: Instead of selling 100 percent of their mortgages, leaving zero risk for banks and other direct lenders, they would retain some risk of default, unlike the unbridled lending in the residential market during the first decade of the 21st century. After passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the common phrase became “everyone has skin in the game,” noting that all participants had some risk for losses.
Skin in the Game—Or Not?
The Wall Street Journal calls the new rules, the “no skins game,” since borrowers need not have any deposit and lenders need not retain risk. The regulators continued to use the phrase “risk retention rules,” even as they waived the original minimum retained ownership regulations.
When the new Congress debates mortgage reforms, it will face mounting pressure to eliminate the no risk modification before a new housing bubble rears its dangerous head. Reforms that stimulate safer lending are welcome; another housing bubble and the inevitable meltdown that follows are not.
Another “feature” of the new rules may be even more damaging to the business community. Regulators mandated lender risk retention for “leveraged loans.” This financing involves bank loans to companies already carrying heavy debt loads.However, regulators placed the five percent risk retention rule on the buyers, not sellers, of these contracts.
Opponents rail that there is neither logic nor accountability on the banks or lenders making these risky loans.
Whatever the regulators’ motivation, an unintended consequence may potentially surface. This initiative may well discourage lending to commercial organizations. Should investors rebel at the percentage of leveraged loans in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), the market for loan purchases may dry up. Lenders would then be forced to keep business loans in their portfolio, while assuming all of the risk of default. Since the Fed has now ceased its massive investment in mortgage securities and CLOs, the potential problem could quickly escalate. With low credit spreads already squeezing profit margins, adding further risk to questionable loan packages could turn off the secondary market faucet. Christopher Dodd (Senate Banking Committee) and Barney Frank (House Financial Services Committee) had envisioned a much different outcome for their Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Intended to consolidate regulatory agencies, better safeguard financial markets and create tools for managing financial crises. The Dodd-Frank Act objectives appear to be sidestepped in the latest regulatory action.
Profitability and Asset Preservation
Although profitability remains a primary goal of banking institutions, the lessons learned during the housing and mortgage crisis taught many about the equal importance of asset protection. It appears that, before the housing bubble burst, even experienced lenders may have downplayed the asset preservation factor. The recent regulator actions may give Congress stronger incentives to modify, if not rewrite, the Dodd-Frank Act, including addressing the repeal of the well-intentioned “risk retention” provisions. While some of those new to the banking industry may welcome the lack of “risk retention” regulations, seasoned bankers who lived through the Great Recession understand the major role asset preservation plays in keeping financial institutions strong, stable and viable.
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Playing The Waiting Game
No, this isn't just a myth invented by men -- sex might actually help to kick start your labour. Semen is a potent source of prostaglandins, which encourages the cervix to soften and open. Not only that, the hormone oxytocin, which is released by your body when you orgasm, may also encourage your labour to begin.
Don't worry if you are feeling too uncomfortable or exhausted to even entertain the idea of a night of passion, semen can also be collected in a diaphragm or condom and held against the cervix for a similar result.
Castor oil is a powerful laxative that triggers contractions by irritating the bowel and may induce labour in up to 57% of women. However, the diarrhoea and vomiting that are likely side effects make this induction method very unadvisable.
This traditional Chinese method involves inserting extremely fine needles into specific areas. The acupuncture needles are thought to stimulate energy within the body, and some studies have suggested this method may be an effective way of inducing labour. Always visit a train professional if you would like to try this technique.
Nipple stimulation is an age-old method of natural induction. The oxytocin produced by nipple stimulation may cause labour to begin in women whose cervix has already begun to soften. To perform this technique, press your palm against your areola and move it in a firm, but gentle circular motion. Only massage one breast at a time, stimulating the nipple for 15 minutes and then moving on to the other breast. Repeat the process three times each day and stop as soon as contractions are three minutes apart or more than one minute in length.
Walking and movement can increase the amount of pressure placed on the cervix by the baby's head and can help to get it into the right position for labour. Bouncing on a birth ball may also encourage your baby to engage, which could help your labour to begin sooner.
The two most common remedies are Pulsatilla and Caulophyllum. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of homeopathy may encourage labour to begin for some women, although this has not yet been supported by research.
Important note – always consult your midwife or doctor before attempting any natural induction techniques. You should also wait until you have reached your due date before trying to induce your labour.
More labor-inducing ideas
Accupressure for labor induction
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Concealed Weapon Policy
MEYER THEATRE CONCEALED WEAPONS/FIREARMS POLICY
Effective November 1, 2011
To ensure a safe venue for all, PMI Entertainment Group (management company of the Meyer Theatre) prohibits the possession or carrying of any concealed weapons/firearms in any PMI owned, leased, or otherwise occupied venue.
Only qualified personnel (law enforcement personnel) who are expressly authorized to carry weapons may do so.
Concealed weapons/firearms are not permitted on any PMI Entertainment Group owned, leased, or otherwise occupied venue.
Any person who suspects that an individual on PMI managed property possesses or is carrying a concealed weapon/firearm, should contact the following: If this is during an event, contact the Manager on Duty, PMI Security or a Brown County Deputy if on staff that will assess the situation and take appropriate action.
If this occurs during normal work hours an employee should immediately contact their supervisor and/or a member of PMI Management who will assess the situation and take appropriate action.
PMI/Meyer personnel should make NO effort to restrain anyone suspected of possessing or carrying a weapon. Those found to be in violation of this policy will first be escorted from the venue by appropriate PMI personnel who may include the following: Security staff, Manager on Duty or PMI Management personnel and asked to return the weapon/firearm to their vehicle and potentially be turned over to law enforcement authorities.
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Adventures with sticks and string.
Best wishes from all of us at WendyKnits for a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2004!
Mmmmmmmm, tequila! Yanno, the only thing better is champagne. And you have the PERFECT excuse. Happy New Year, you inspiration, you!
Best wishes for a yarn-filled, knitting filled New Year!!! You are truly a knitting inspiration to the likes of us that are in the process of casting on while you whip out yet another creation. Kudos to you, Wendy! I nominate you for “Knitter of the Year”–2004. Thanks for a blog that’s fun to read, inoffensive, and inspiring. Your blog truly is a class act. Bravo!
Happy New Year !
Peace Prosperity and Perfect Health to you (with extra snuggles on top for Lucy Lu)! Happy Knitterific New Year!
Have a safe, happy and knit filled year Wendy! Keep those needles clacking!
Happy New Year Wendy! Thanks for a great year, keeping us entertained, engaged, and excited about knitting. In this year you inspired me to felt and knit socks all for the first time, and to keep at my fair isle as it improves all the time.
Here’s to a great 2004 for you, Lucy, Ian, and everyone else you love.
Happy new year Wendy! May this new year bring you many new projects to knit and may you inspire us to knit our best from watching you. 🙂
Happy New Year to you and Lucy!
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First, let me set the scene, it’s a Thursday night, almost home from work and E yells, ‘Can we go to Denny’s mommy, PLEEEAASE???!!!’ I groan, but at the same time I realize I am pretty hungry and I’m not excited about going home and rummaging up something for dinner, which she will inevitably reject anyways, in favor of some random junk food she happens to I-Spy in the kitchen.
So, I switch my left turn signal to the right and have to navigate from the turn lane, at the red light, across two other lanes and onto the road directly across from ours, where Denny’s sits on the corner like a shining beacon saying ‘E, come in, tell mommy to come in, you’re hungry and you know she’s hungry. Just ask, you know she’ll give in…tell mommy you want Denny’s!’
So, in we go, we are seated in a booth among a myriad of other folks who, like us, didn’t want to cook or had a hankering for a ‘Grand Slam’ or ‘Eggs Over My Hammy’ and a hot cup of coffee in the cutest diner- style mugs that I threaten to take every time I’m there. We go through the same routine as every other visit, the seemingly eternal debate over what she is going to eat, and she decides on spaghetti and a salad.
The waitress comes to tell us she will be back in just a minute to take our order, no big deal, we’re not in a hurry. Almost immediately another waitress comes over to take our order, she’s a familiar face and must work the shifts when we are usually there, since we have her almost every time we’ve been there since Christmas Day (yes, we stopped and had Denny’s at the end of a very long Christmas Day, sue me.)
She takes our order and the first waitress comes back and I tell her someone already got us. We both look confusedly at each other, then her face changes to irritation bordering on anger and we both realize what has happened. We have been poached. Having never been a waitress I don’t have a personal experience with this, but many of my friends have been there, done that, and I know enough that table poaching is grounds for war.
Luckily for my nosy self, we are seated almost directly behind the waiter’s station and I can overhear what’s going on. It seems that this is not the first time that this has occurred. The poacher arrives in the station, unaware that she has been caught and is about to be prosecuted in the court of the table rotation law. The scene unfolds relatively tame, much to my disappointment, and it appears that all is right in the wait staff world.
However, I then realize that, in fact, it is not, and the down low dirt is about to begin. Clearly table wars are now in full effect and I see that the poaching has now turned into a battle, nay, a war of who is taking what tables, the well-worn dry erase diagram of server rotation cast out like a used napkin. Its server pandemonium. So, I sit and watch the three servers of the area, and they are trying to decide who they are going to serve and when. All the while maintaining smiling faces and cheery demeanor with the patrons, all the better to disguise the behind-the-scenes treachery.
Most of the servers are relatively young, to look at them I would guess my age, mid 30’s, or younger, but one is clearly older, maybe 50’s or so. She clearly runs circles around her younger co-workers and has been in this game awhile. It’s not her first rodeo. I watch her, with her elbow brace on her left arm, which is also her tray arm, taking orders, laughing with the diners, explaining the menu choices to some elderly folks, and I hear her telling one young couple she has been there for 32 years. She knows the menus inside and out and could probably recite them, word for word, if need be.
This woman is a loyal employee, loyal to the point of an elbow brace, most likely perpetually sore feet and aching back, calloused fingers from holding hot plates and scorching coffee mugs and the knowledge that this is it for her. She most likely has no other job experience and is older (not a dig or a bad thing but we all know the stigma of hiring older folks. They become Wal-Mart greeters checking your receipt to make sure you paid for that case of water on the bottom of your cart and passing out stickers to people returning an ill-fitting shirt or a toy their heathen kid broke within 5 minutes of unboxing).
Denny’s must pay pretty good and be at least a decent place to work, which one would not think to be the case, else-wise why would she still be here, after 32 years of changing menus, remodels, ‘regulars’ who come and sadly go, kids making messes on the floors that parents simply leave along with a 5% tip.
Something has kept her here this long, whether something in the restaurant chain itself or something within her, maybe a feeling that this was all she was meant to do with only her high school education and no time or money to attempt a college degree and to do what? Going out into the world of unknowns, working for some other company and some other boss, still not feeling any more fulfilled than she did as a server.
And so, she stays, day after day taking order after order, hoping her charisma has paid off enough to at least pay off in 15%, even better someone leaving $3 on just a cup of coffee with a few refills. Counting out the ones, few fives, and handfuls of change in her apron at the end of a long shift.
I feel for her and I see me in her. Working 8 years for the same company now, in a different position but making the same money (albeit for, in some ways, and easier job), hoping for a good yearly evaluation so I can get that almighty eight cent raise, which may as well be eight pennies in a sock, swung deftly at my face. A slap in the face. Eight measly cents for putting my all into my job, for caring about my charges when their own families do not, for comforting them, loving them as I do my own family (full disclosure, some of them mean more to me than my own family, but don’t tell them).
But unlike my Denny’s friend, I am only 34. I have plenty of time before I am officially a ‘lifer’ at my job. The question is, will I take the leap? Will I use the talents and gifts I was assigned to me at birth to do something greater with my life? Do I have time I can dedicate to what I want to do, requiring online classes and assignments, in between work and my single momdom? Can I scrape together the money I need to even take the classes? It’s a decision between just doing it, jumping in with both feet and trying, at least TRYING to do something different, something I WANT to do not something I merely deign to do.
I want to do something where I make more than a piddly few cents above minimum wage with the promise of that yearly slap in the face of eight pennies in a sock, at the end of the day not even enough to buy lunch. Will I ever just switch turn signals and cross those lanes of life, moving at the speed of light, and go for it? Who knows, life tends to take those turns in a split second and once you start into the turn you have to commit and do the damn thing, before life hits you and figures, it has no insurance.
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A friend of mine just took this photo and shared some interesting info about this specific brand of CFL bulb. CFL stands for “Compact Flourescent Light”.
Here is her story:
Here is a picture of a CFL light bulb from my bathroom. I turned it on the other day and then smelled smoke after a few minutes. Four inch flames were spewing out of the side of the ballast like a blow torch! I immediately turned off the lights. But I’m sure it would have caused a fire if I was not right there. Imagine if the kids had left the lights on as usual when they were not in the room.
I took the bulb to the Fire Department to report the incident. The Fireman wasn’t at all surprised and said that it was not an uncommon occurrence. Apparently, sometimes when the bulb burns out there is a chance that the ballast can start a fire. He told me that the Fire Marshall had issued reports about the dangers of these bulbs.
Upon doing some Internet research, it seems that bulbs made by “Globe” in China seem to have the lion’s share of problems. Lots of fires have been blamed on misuse of CFL bulbs, like using them in recessed lighting, pot lights, dimmers or in track lighting. Mine was installed in a normal light socket.
I bought these at Wal-Mart. I will be removing all the Globe bulbs from my house. CFL bulbs are a great energy saver but make sure you buy a name brand like Sylvania , Phillips or GE and not the “Globe “ones from China ..
Thanks to Maureen for her story! So keep in mind that CFL bulbs in specific are not bad or dangerous, but this particular brand is. Also, to keep fire risks down, be sure to turn off all lights, outlets and appliances when you are not at home.
Also for energy savings, consider installing timers on bathroom fans, timers on lamps and other lights in the house, and also use programmable thermostats, and schedule your computers to turn off at night. The savings will be noticable, will reduce fire risks, and prolong the life of your computers and fixtures.
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A Dozen Ways To Vote
It’s Easy to Vote in Nova Scotia Provincial Elections.
Under the Elections Act, there are a dozen ways to vote in Nova Scotia provincial elections and options for how and when you may vote. For example, during an election, you may vote on any day of the week except Sundays and the Monday before election day.
Here are the many different ways of voting.
1. Vote at Your Polling Station on Election Day
Most voters will vote on election day, always a Tuesday, from 8 am to 8 pm. There are three ways to find out where your polling station is:
- check the Voter Information Card you receive in the mail,
- enter your postal code or address in the Where Do I Vote? application on Elections Nova Scotia’s website at Where do I Vote?
- phone Elections Nova Scotia toll free at 1 800 565 1504 or TTY 1 866 774 7074
Polling locations will have level access for wheelchairs, and tools and services to assist those who have vision or hearing difficulties. If you have a disability and need assistance in voting, check with your returning office ahead of time to make arrangements. In the rare event that your assigned polling location does not have the facilities you need, they will transfer you to one that does.
2. Vote at an Advance Poll
For those who wish to vote early, Elections Nova Scotia sets aside seven days of advance polls. You may vote at any advance poll in the province. The advance polls are open on Saturday to Saturday (closed Sunday) immediately before election day, from 9am to 6pm (open until 8pm on Thursday and Friday).
To find out where your advance poll is in your electoral district, check the Voter Information Card you receive in the mail, visit the Elections Nova Scotia website or contact us by phone.
3. Vote at Your Returning Office
You can vote at the returning office in your electoral district from 9 am to 6 pm every day except Sundays up to and including election day. Open the Thursday and Friday night before election day until 8pm.
4. Vote at any Returning Office in Nova Scotia
You can vote at any returning office in the province from 9 am to 6pm every day except Sundays up to and including the Saturday before election day. Open the Thursday and Friday night before election day until 8pm.
5. Vote at Home
If you cannot get to your polling station or a returning office you may vote by write-in ballot by obtaining and completing an application after an election has been called. Once your application is approved, you will be given a write-in ballot. Call your returning office or Elections Nova Scotia for assistance.
If you feel you need help applying for a write-in ballot, there are two options open to you:
- Ask a neighbour, family member, care giver or friend to act as your agent in applying for and voting by write-in ballot; or
- Make an appointment through your local returning office for a write-in ballot team to visit your home and assist you with voting by write-in ballot.
6. Vote in Residential Centres
All returning officers make arrangements for visits on election day to seniors’ residences, long-term care facilities and other institutions with ten or more resident electors.
If you live in a residential centre with fewer than ten residents, your local returning officer will make arrangements with the administrator for a team to visit the facility to assist you to vote by Write-in Ballot before election day.
Contact the administrator of your facility for more information on the date and time.
7. Vote when you live at a Shelter
If you are temporarily staying in shelter and need the protection of anonymity, contact Elections Nova Scotia or your local returning office for assistance. You will be able to vote with the assistance of a write-In ballot coordinator team and your name and location will be held in confidence.
If you are homeless with no permanent residence, the Elections Act provides that the place where you sleep at registration time – a shelter, hostel or other place that provides food, lodging or social services – may be considered your residence. When an election is called, returning officers will contact the administrators of shelters to inform residents that, if they wish to vote, they may use the shelter as their “place of residence” if they are otherwise qualified as electors. A poster at the shelter will have the location of the appropriate polling locations. When registering to vote, you will be required to complete an application to be added to the list of electors and will be asked for identification with your name and signature.
8. Vote by Mail Outside Nova Scotia
Eligible Nova Scotia electors who are living temporarily outside Nova Scotia are able to vote by mail from outside the province. After an election has been called, visit the Elections Nova Scotia website or contact us by phone for an application to vote by write-in ballot. Don’t wait to initiate this process because the last day to apply for a write-in ballot by mail or courier is ten days before election day. To be counted, your completed ballot must be received at your local returning office by close of polls (8 pm) on election day.
9. Vote at University or Community College
If you are a post-secondary student, like other Nova Scotia voters you are entitled to vote in the electoral district in which your principal residence is located. Since many college and university students have two residences - one when at school, and one when not at school - students must choose one or the other as principal residence for the purposes of Nova Scotia elections. You can then vote on election day, at the advance polls, at any Returning Office, or by mail as described above. Visit the Elections Nova Scotia website or contact us by phone for more details.
10. Vote in Hospital
If you are temporarily in hospital during a Nova Scotia election, you can vote by write-in ballot. Write-in ballot teams will visit hospitals on designated days between 10 am and 7 pm during the week before election day. Check with the hospital staff for the dates and times of visits to the hospital.
11. Military Electors Posted Outside Nova Scotia
Qualified Nova Scotia electors, who are away on duty aboard ship, at a Canadian Forces base in Canada, or serving out of country when a provincial election is called, may vote by write-in ballot. Although the time lines for voting are tight, plans are in place to assist serving members in meeting them.
During a provincial general election, Elections Nova Scotia will contact the Judge Advocate General’s office which will send a message to all units of the Canadian Forces to inform them of the election, the eligibility requirements for voting, and the process for applying to vote by write-in ballot.
During a by-election, Elections Nova Scotia advertises within the province to alert friends and relatives to advise eligible members of the Canadian Forces to apply for a write-in ballot after an election is called and the key dates for applying and returning their ballot.
For voting purposes, if the serving member of the Canadian Forces has lived in Nova Scotia at least six months and intends to return at the end of their duty, their residence is their current Nova Scotia address or failing that, the place they declared in their Canadian Forces Statement of Ordinary Residence. The mailing address for the purpose of receiving a write-in ballot kit is the address of the ship or base where the elector is posted.
12. Incarcerated Nova Scotia electors Inside and Outside Nova Scotia
Immediately following the election call, Elections Nova Scotia provides liaison officers at each provincial and federal correctional facility with brochures and write-In ballot application forms to distribute to eligible electors held in the facility.
Elections Nova Scotia receives and reviews the application forms to determine whether the elector is qualified to vote and to confirm the elector’s electoral district. If approval criteria are met, Elections Nova Scotia will issue a write-in ballot kit for each approved elector and arrange expedient delivery to the correctional facility liaison officer in the correctional facility where the elector resides.
The elector will vote using the write-in ballot and the liaison officer will return the ballot to Elections Nova Scotia. Once received, the ballot is sent to the appropriate returning office where it will be counted on election day.
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TC Men’s and Women’s Wear on Jobs Lane had a bit of an incident on August 21. A white man described to be between the ages of 35 and 40 years old, walked into the store and then proceeded to expose himself to one of the sales clerks and then left!
Are you freaking kidding me?
Police are asking anyone with information to call Detective Bernard J. Bobinski at 631-283-0083 ext. 247, or the detective division at 631-283-0056.
Above is a picture of the guy released by police. Anybody know who he is? Call them up!
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Something big and bad hit Tianjin, China and not sure it was merely an explosion of onsite material.
Take a look at this picture showing damage to the local Tianjin port area:
Now look at this pic at the WTC, the result of the Israeli masterminded 9/11 attack on the USA:
China is sending in a team of chemical and NUCLEAR experts to the scene.
The explosions were so large, they were seen by satellites in space.
Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in past history
This blog says it has something to do with that witch, HRM Hillary.
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"We're Going to be Friends" by Jack White
"We're Going to Be Friends" is one of The White Stripes most enduring and loved songs. With the help of illustrator Elinor Blake (aka April March), the perennial favorite feels right at home on the page as a children's book. Coming this November, children, adults, and you, too, can join Suzy Lee as she goes to school with her books and pens, looks for bugs, shows and tells, and finds a friend.
WE’RE GOING TO BE FRIENDS is a new children’s book based on one of the most loved and recognizable songs by The White Stripes.
WE’RE GOING TO BE FRIENDS is the first book by twelve-time Grammy winning musician, actor, and producer Jack White.
Illustrator ELINOR BLAKE was an animator for The Ren and Stimpy Show, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and more. As a musician, ELINOR BLAKE is known as singer APRIL MARCH, whose song "Chick Habit" was featured in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Death Proof.
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7 Memoirs For When Life is Murky
It seems a lot of people I’ve talked to lately aren’t where they want to be. They’re waiting. They’re grieving. They’re fading. They’re doubting. They’re caught between where God has promised to lead them and where he has them for now, and it’s hard, brutally hard. They ask me what they should do and I tell them all the same thing: Trust, obey, and do the next thing, all the while remembering that God writes straight with crooked lines. Then I point them to one of these memoirs and say, “See.”
If life has you in the weeds today, or any day to come, may these pages remind you that there is something strong and worthy and intended for good in every messy, meandering story. Even yours.
And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering by Kate Merrick
For years Kate Merrick was known simply as “Daisy’s mom.” But there was nothing simple about the crooked path she began walking in 2009 when her 5-year old daughter was diagnosed with a Wilm’s tumor. In the excruciating aftermath of Daisy’s cancer and death, Kate struggled to find a way to live fully, faithfully and joyfully amid overwhelming pain. And Still She Laughs is Kate’s gorgeous, gutsy, sassy account of how she found hope, humor and wholeness in the wreckage. Pick it up immediately, especially if life has you in a grief tailspin. First, though, note this disclaimer from Kate:
“I’ve been notified that some readers have put the book down sometime in the first two chapters because it’s so sad. Well, friends, there can’t be true happy without some terrible sad. ‘Though sorrow may last through the night (or the first two chapters), joy comes in the morning.’ If you can get through the first 2 chapters, you’ll find encouragement, sass, sunshine, TMI, and all kinds of other things that will make you glad you pressed on! Plus, there’s a poop story involving a pair of corduroy pants :) You’re welcome.”
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
If you like memoirs that read like fiction, this one will take you for a ride. In it we meet Susannah Cahalan, a New York Post reporter who literally loses her mind and undergoes $1 million in tests before anyone can diagnose what happened. As if that weren’t enough, Susannah remembers nothing when she recovers. Brain on Fire is what she discovers about her “month of madness” by reviewing her medical records, watching hospital security videotapes of herself, and interviewing friends, family, and her medical team. Crazy, I tell you. And such a good read.
“Sometimes, just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.”
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
I put off reading this for forever because I was afraid of it. It’s written in free verse, so I assumed I either wouldn’t like it or wouldn’t understand it. Wrong! Two pages into Jaqueline’s reflections on growing up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, and I was cursing myself for waiting so long to pick it up. Brown Girl Dreaming is easily the most beautifully penned memoir I’ve ever read. Every page is a gift and marvel. Truly.
“The empty swing set reminds us of this—that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.”
Every Bitter Thing is Sweet by Sara Hagerty
If the bitterness of any kind of loss is a fresh taste on your tongue these days, then this memoir might be the palate cleanse you’re thirsting for. From allowing God to turn the bitterness of unmet desire into new flavors of joy, to finding His nearness when life breaks, Sara leads the way through her own story of spiritual and physical barrenness.
“Every dark place has its redemption in Him.”
Hope Heals by Katherine and Jay Wolf
Hope Heals is Katherine and Jay Wolf’s remarkable retelling of Katherine’s recovery from a massive brain stem stroke. It’s a story of irreparable loss, unrelenting love and the God who entered into both.
“Over the past seven years of this saga, I have learned to do many things well—to wait well, suffer well, cope well, persevere well, and even to lose well. Our culture tells us to succeed, be beautiful, avoid pain, and be happy. What if everything important in our lives is actually the opposite? Maybe it takes life being undeniably terrible before we can truly recognize its undeniable splendor.”
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
This is a fascinating, moving read for entrepreneurs, leaders and anyone who has ever owned a calling (or a pair of Nikes). If chasing a dream or building a business has you one bad day away from calling it quits, Phil’s story will keep you running. Bonus: If you have a Nike-wearing tween or teen in your life (or one whose English teacher is requiring more non-fiction reading this school year), point them in the direction of this version adapted for young readers. Mine inhaled it.
“We wanted, as all great businesses do, to create, to contribute, and we dared to say so aloud. When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the whole grand human drama. More than simply alive, you’re helping others to live more fully, and if that’s business, all right, call me a
businessman. Maybe it will grow on me.” -Phil Knight
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
All I can say is that this one gives me chills and pause every time I recommend it. One day neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi was treating the dying. The next day he was a patient struggling to live with stage IV lung cancer. In the midst of it all, he started writing this book. “When Breath Becomes Air,” his publisher says, “is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.” Know this: The epilogue by his wife will annihilate your tear ducts. Brace your nasal passages, too. You’ve been warned.
“This was the life he was given, and this is what he made of it.”
Author: Kristen Lunceford | www.kristenlunceford.com | @kristenlunceford
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It’s amazing how
people will get over a damn map.
The link above goes to a poll and an article about whether or not Google Maps and other online mapping services are good or evil because of what they can enable folks to do.
On one side is a group that says the things are the devil because they can allow child predators to find kids without all that pesky driving around. On the other is the company behind a site that allows people to find child predators…yes, you guessed it, without all that pesky driving around.
It seems the aim is to get people feeling strongly one way or the other about what really is a stupid question when you think about it. From the sensationalistic title of the piece (Are Google Maps good or evil?) to the wording of the press releases, everybody from the journalist on down is trying to create an issue where none exists. Maps are neither good or evil. People are the problem. A steak knife is meant to cut up yummy food, but in the wrong hands, it’s evil. Same with a map. the service itself is fine, the issue is how its customers choose to use it. We don’t want molesters getting their hands on our kids, but we don’t want guys like
running around killing people like
either. Neither side is 100% right, and I wish that they and the media would stop trying to scare people and go back to reporting on facts.
Thankfully though with more than 2200 votes cast, the mission to frighten seems to be a failure. the neither option is crushing the competition. It’s nice to see people not falling for something so dumb now and then.
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How is UNCG? (self.gso)
submitted 2 years ago by Xxcoolhandxx
I have been accepted to the universities I applied for and UNCG was one of them and UNCG is more on the lines my first choice but I want to hear what you guys think about the school or what you have heard about it!
[–]PutMeInTheGameCoach[M] 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago (0 children)
OP, please PM me. I was a high school student in Greensboro, and I am a freshman in CS now. I was so torn on where I wanted to go to school, so I met with two professors from the CS department at UNCG and talked with them about university computer science, decisions, that sort of thing. I think that the people below are somewhat right; UNCG is not well-known for its CS program, but that doesn't mean it isn't good. I can give you more details in a PM, and even set you up with some profs there.
[–]Garignak 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago (0 children)
I read that you said you wanted to do Computer Science, the question is what do you think you would like to do with that? Do you want to be a programmer or something? How are your math skills and critical thinking skills? Do you just want to do something with computers?
UNCG has an excellent Business School and in that they have ISOM(Information Systems Operations Management), which gives you more options of careers afterwards, focuses on business and computers, great networking options at least if you try. If you want to learn programming languages you can do that on your own time (which I normally suggest doing anyway) there are so many languages, protocols, devices, software, etc... that you should try to think of what you want to do.
Where are you coming from (city, state)? How far do you want to be away from home?
I personally think it was a great university and the Bryan School of Business and Economics was awesome as well. I graduated from there a couple years ago and had such a great time there.
In all things, go visit/tour the school. Most high schools allow for a day of absence if you are visiting colleges. You will not know if you like it unless you see it.
[–]Bert_Nernie 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago (1 child)
Comp Sci is not very special at UNCG, but that is not a reason to pass on UNCG. I think the school is great. It is very liberal and diverse, which I like. I also love not having a football team or good basketball team because it means less moronic jocks and frat boys. These could be positives or negatives, so you should take a visit and spend some time on campus. My best advice is remember that your not just going to school. Where you go to college is where you live for four years. Make sure like the city and people, not just a class.
[–]Xxcoolhandxx[S] 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Ok thank you and I agree I'm also looking at that aspect
[–]aleatoricisms 2 points3 points4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
The campus itself is super laid back, mostly because as Bert_Nernie said, there isn't a football team and sports aren't huge. One of my favorite things about UNCG is that all of the advisers, professors, etc that I've talked to truly care about getting you a great education in the way that's best for you. It's a very friendly campus, but you do have to reach out to clubs and organizations in order to get involved.
What other schools are you looking at?
[–]Xxcoolhandxx[S] 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
Just ECU, I'm not a big college person I've always wanted to do military but recently the thought of going to college to me has felt like the way for me to go
[–]rezza676 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (1 child)
there's always ROTC if you wanna give it a try. I loved the program, but a broken shoulder (rock climbing accident) took me out of it. You take the course at NC A&T across town; speak to an adviser for more info.
Sorry had to sleep, that's what I was looking at also and hoping I can still do it
[–]kmc_citr 2 points3 points4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
I'm a recent transfer student to UNCG. I have found the school to be really accommodating and welcoming to all types of students, which makes for a diverse community. I love it, and I hope you do too if you end up here :) Also, consider posting to /r/UNCG.
Alright thank you
[–]johnnydirnt 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (9 children)
What are you interested in?
[–]Xxcoolhandxx[S] 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (8 children)
[–]phinnaeus7308 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (4 children)
I just graduated from ASU doing Computer Science. They have a great program there but honestly I don't have many good things to say about App or Boone in general. I would look into NC State.
[–]Xxcoolhandxx[S] 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
Well sadly I don't have the grades to get into NC state :( I never really took honors courses until my junior year :/
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[–]XStraightEdgeX 2 points3 points4 points 2 years ago (0 children)
I think it might be time we stop called UNCG a "commuter college." It may have once been. It's not anymore.
[–]MT_work 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Do this. UNCG has a decent Comp Sci program, but NC State is the best program locally.
[–]johnnydirnt 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (1 child)
They're mostly known for their arts programs. I've heard nothing about your intended major, but hey! That means I've heard nothing bad about their program either.
Ok thank you for your honesty! :)
[–]Stormageddon222 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Like another comment said, comp sci is nothing special at UNCG. I did physics for my undergrad and since it's in the same building I've met many of the comp sci students and had classes with them occasionally too. For the most part they're a good group of guys (with the rare girl thrown in), though most of them do fit into the socially dysfunctional nerd stereotype.
With physics, I also went trough a program that the school isn't really known for, bit I still got a lot out of it, because the faculty was great.
I liked being at UNCG. It's a really laid back culture and there's usually stuff to do for any sort of interest you have, but you may need a car or take public transit to get there.
[–]thatpoliscinerd 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (1 child)
I see that everyone is already saying most of what I want to say, but I'll throw my two cents in anyway. I graduated from UNCG in 2006, and I really loved it. It's a pretty big university, but most of my professors did a great job of providing one on one attention for any students that sought it. I was in Political Science (username, duh), and even though I graduated almost seven years ago and have gone to law school in the meantime, I keep in touch with several of my UNCG professors, and they have been more proactive through the years in helping me find work than my law school has.
Having said that, while UNCG is not known for it's CS program, I knew several people in that program when I was an undergrad, and they all really enjoyed it. Furthermore, although I know the job market was different 6-7 years ago, none of them had any trouble finding jobs locally upon graduation. I really enjoyed my time there, and honestly, my only regret about attending UNCG is that there isn't a football program.
Thank you and in all honesty I love football as much as the other guy but when it comes to college football I could really care less in all honesty
[–]robot_steve 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago* (0 children)
I graduated from the ISOM program and I liked it a lot and got a good experience out of it. It's focused on computers and Information Systems and their practical application in business without the heavy math requirements of a CS degree. I should add that I was a CS major before, went into IT for several years, went back to school and was accepted to UNCG with the intention of finishing my CS degree. Looking at my options I discovered the ISOM program was closer to what I actually did when I was in IT (and more closely matched my ideal career path) and I wouldn't have to take 4 different calculus courses and a theoretical math elective (which may be useful depending on what field you're focused on but not for me) in addition to the math courses I had already taken.
I'd suggest ISOM (Infomation Systems and Operations Management) if you are looking for an IT career that isn't as a developer. For instance system administration, network security, project management, database admin, network admin, systems architect, etc. Plus it gives you some business background, that's very useful.
The CS program is good if you want to be a programmer, and really like math. It's more theory and very low level study of computer systems and less practical application. It's still a very versatile degree to have, but like I said, its more if you want to be a programmer or at the system design/architecture level.
I'm a sys admin and I write code now, in fact, I write web applications, android apps in Java and Python, not to mention lots of scripts etc, in variety of other languages. So having an ISOM degree by no means keeps you from doing that either. They'll give you the basic underpinnings of computer programming if you have zero experience, but you're better off learning new languages anyway in your own time that's focused on what you want to do. If you want a career in IT you need to be an autodidact anyway as any college will only teach you so much.
Just something to consider if you do end up landing on UNCG.
[–]johnnydirnt 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (3 children)
A bonus for UNCG: Humans vs Zombies
What's that o.0
a two week long game of tag with nerf guns essentially...
Sounds fuckin amazing
[–]buffalowings12 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
UNCG is great. I transferred from UNCW and I honestly like UNCG better. Very good school that is actually quite large but never seems overwhelming.
I have a friend in the CS program and he has no complaints and already got a internship at RF Micro.
[–]Chadwich 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Graduated from UNCG. Great Arts/Music programs.
The area is also nice. Downtown isn't far away, there are a lot of decent bars and reasonably priced restaurants.
[–]tehkyle5k -1 points0 points1 point 2 years ago (0 children)
The only bad thing about UNCG for me was that a lot of students treat it as a suitcase campus. Get in with the HvZ crowd and you'll be just fine on weekends though.
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Looks junky all around me, but that's what writing books is all about.
Hello! Welcome to Ray Dixon Dot Com!
How about this? A webpage by an individual who has no agenda, no politics, no friendly persuasion or dogma that is designed to be of help and assistance to those who luckily land on the URL.
As a retired educator, I enjoy learning and experimenting with things that are computer related. Occasionally, my e-mail has been hacked, my website has been crashed but we just keep changing passwords, updating and staying at it longer than our internet opponents do. So, bear with us, as our sole purpose being here is to provide some friendly information for family, friends and acquaintances. Consider yourself one of them, and just enjoy our listings and just click away to your heart's delight.
Thanks for the visit, and as in a national forest, just leave the place as clean as you find it.
Try my links as they are for general information. Any link that does not work, I'd appreciate you letting me know.
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It is said that "Behind every successful man is a wife." Well, behind every successful ministry is a "Prayer Warrior".
If you would like to commit to praying for Vets With A Mission, Chuck and Joette, the Vietnamese people and for VWAM's humanitarian programs and projects; and you are ready to "Pray the price" so that VWAM doesn't have to "Pay the price," then send a request to be added to the VWAM Prayer Team.
Send an email to VWAM's Prayer Coordinator, Dr. James L. Simmons, D.of Min, at either
Also, if you would like to have a copy of Brother Jim's daily devotional, "This is the Day: A Daily Devotional," make sure you ask him about that!
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The One with 5 Weirdly Cool Pecan Oil Uses
You may be thinking "Pecan what?". Trust me, you aren't the only one whose curiosity is aroused with the concept. Just like olive oil and avocado oil have been long used in cooking for ages, other nut oils are quickly gaining in popularity, but for far many more uses than traditional culinary practices.
Quick Pecan Oil Facts:
- Pecan oil is made from extracting the natural essential oils held by the pecan. Oils can be cold- or hot-pressed. Cold-pressed is thought to be superior when partaking for health benefits since the oil is extracted at the minimum temperature possible to avoid changing the natural integrity of the oil.
- Pecan oil contains 50% percent less saturated fats than does olive oil.
- Pecan oil's smoke-ability point (the temperature at which oil begins to break down and burn) is 470*F, 145 degrees higher than olive oil and butter.
- Of all the tree nut oils being produced today, pecan oil ranks #1 for antioxidant content.
Now that we know more about it, let's dive in to the many diversified uses for pecan oil that you might be surprised to know.
1. Cooking and Baking
Well, duh! No surprises on this one. Because it is so versatile, feel free to use pecan oil in any of your favorite recipes. From fruit muffins, to salad dressings to frying meat, enjoy the added health benefits and enriched flavor of choosing pecan oil.
2. Leather Treatment
Have a favorite pair of leather shoes that are looking a little worse for wear? Freshen them up by applying a layer of pecan oil to the leather surface. Not only will the pecan oil even out the leather color, but it will also condition the leather to help your favorite shoes go the extra mile, literally.
3. Carrier Oil
Maybe you are into the essential oil lifestyle and maybe you aren't. But if you are, you will be excited to know that pecan oil makes a perfect carrier oil for your other essential oils. Because it is light and practically odorless, you can rest assured that pecan oil will do the job for you in your wellness journey.
4. Joint Liniment
Here's a fun fact: your skin absorbs around 60% of the substances it comes into contact with. That's HUGE! So if you suffer from chronic achy joints, this might just be your thing. Rub a generous amount of pecan oil over a particularly tender joint such as your knee, shoulder, hip or ankle, and message until absorbed. Do this regularly to build lubrication and enjoy relief from your joint soreness.
5. Skin Moisturizer
For similar reasons as the previous, pecan oil makes an excellent moisturizer. Being naturally hypoallergenic and raw, you can be confident that your skin is getting only good out of this oil. If you suffer from dry skin in the winter or are just always looking for a great way to naturally moisturize, you won't be disappointed by pecan oil.
Now that we cleared the air on what pecan oil is, it's many benefits and the ways it can help make your life easier, I hope you feel more comfortable with the idea of utilizing some.
You can find pecan oil in our online store and by visiting us at our retail location.
As always, if you have any questions, you know we are always here for you, so ask away! Also, if you like our content, please consider sharing it with friends and/or family. We appreciate you for reading!
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Thanks to his role as Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Robert Downey Jr. has become one of the most famous men in the world. His position atop the Hollywood heap has been hard-won and is based on three decades of great performances.
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After a handful of bit parts, Robert Downey Jr. landed his breakout role in 1987 with this dark drama based on the Bret Easton Ellis (“American Psycho”) novel of the same name. Downey Jr. plays a wealthy college kid whose drug addiction has taken over his life, destroying the people around him in the process.
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Downey is astounding as the late silent film star Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough’s biographical drama. Released in 1992, Downey doesn’t just play Chaplin — he completely transforms into the icon, giving viewers a window into the life of a man most only know through silent pictures.
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Oliver Stone takes on the media’s obsession with violence in this satirical and wildly violent love story about a spree-killing couple, played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. Robert Downey Jr. co-stars as a television journalist who capitalizes on the couple’s crimes to score big ratings. The decision to make the character Australian was Downey’s idea, and it was a great one.
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Fig, Arugula, Heirloom Tomato Salad
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- 8 ounces of arugula
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Patent application title: LUBRICATION OIL COMPOSITIONS
Hari Babu Sunkara (Hockessin, DE, US)
E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
IPC8 Class: AC10M12970FI
Class name: Organic -c(=o)o- compound specified compound wherein the single bonded oxygen is bonded oxygen is bonded directly to an additional carbon, which carbon may be single bonded to any atom but may be multiple bonded only to carbon (i.e., specified carboxylic acid ester) chalcogen attached indirectly to the -c(=o)o-group by nonionic bonding (e.g., pentaerythritol monooleate, etc.)
Publication date: 2009-02-26
Patent application number: 20090054284
This invention relates to lubrication oil compositions comprising (i) an
acid ester (monoester and/or diester) of polytrimethylene ether glycol;
and (ii) a vegetable oil lubricant.
1. A lubrication oil composition comprising: a base stock comprising an
acid ester of a polytrimethylene ether glycol that is a fluid at ambient
temperature, and a vegetable oil-based lubricant.
2. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, further comprising one or more lube oil additives, wherein the amount of the base fluid stock in the lubrication oil composition is about 50 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition.
3. The lubrication oil composition of claim 2, wherein the amount of the base fluid stock in the lubrication oil composition is about 75 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition.
4. The lubrication oil composition of claim 3, wherein the amount of base fluid stock in the lubrication oil composition is about 95 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition.
5. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the base fluid stock further comprises a polytrimethylene ether glycol that is fluid at ambient temperature.
6. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the base fluid stock consists essentially of the acid ester of the polytrimethylene ether glycol and the vegetable oil-based lubricant.
7. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the base fluid stock consists essentially of the acid ester of the polytrimethylene glycol, the polytrimethylene ether glycol and the vegetable oil-based lubricant.
8. The lubrication oil composition of claim 5, wherein the weight ratio of the polytrimethylene ether glycol/acid ester of the polytrimethylene ether glycol in the base fluid stock is 1:1 or greater.
9. The lubrication oil composition of claim 5, wherein the weight ratio of the acid ester of the polytrimethylene ether glycol/polytrimethylene ether glycol in the base fluid stock is 1:1 or greater.
10. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the acid ester of the polytrimethylene ether glycol comprises from about 50 to 100 wt % diester, and from 0 to about 50 wt % monoester, based on the weight of the acid ester.
11. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the acid ester of the polytrimethylene ether glycol is an acid ester of a monocarboxylic acid and/or equivalent.
12. The lubrication oil composition of claim 11, wherein the monocarboxylic acid has the formula R--COOH, wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic organic moiety containing from 6 to 40 carbon atoms.
13. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the acid ester of the polytrimethylene glycol comprises one or more compounds of the formula (I): ##STR00002## wherein Q represents the residue of a polytrimethylene ether glycol after abstraction of the hydroxyl groups, R2 is H or R3CO, and each of R1 and R3 is individually a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic, saturated aliphatic, unsaturated aliphatic or cycloaliphatic organic group, containing from 6 to 40 carbon atoms.
14. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the acid ester has a number average molecular weight based on a polytrimethylene ether glycol having a number average molecular weight of at least about 250 to less than about 10000.
15. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the acid ester is prepared from biologically produced 1,3-propane diol.
16. The lubrication oil of claim 5 wherein the polytrimethylene ether glycol has a number average molecular weight of at least about 250 to less than about 10000.
17. The lubrication oil of claim 1, wherein from 99% to 100% of repeating units in the polytrimethylene ether glycol are trimethylene ether units.
18. The lubrication oil of any of claim 1, wherein the polytrimethylene glycol comprises trimethylene ether units and a lesser amount of other polyoxyalkylene ether repeat units.
19. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the polytrimethylene ether glycol is prepared from biologically produced 1,3-propanediol.
20. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, further comprising a lube oil additive comprising at least one selected from: ashless dispersants, metal detergents, viscosity modifiers, anti-wear agents, antioxidants, friction modifiers, pour point depressants, anti-foaming agents, corrosion inhibitors, demulsifiers, and rust inhibitors.
21. The lubrication oil composition of claim 20, wherein the lube oil additive is at least 50% miscible in the base fluid stock.
22. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein said lube oil composition is a substantially uniform mixture, with substantially no settling or phase separation, of the components.
23. The lubrication oil composition of claim 1, wherein the base fluid stock comprises greater than 50 wt % of the vegetable oil-based lubricant.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is related to commonly owned U.S. application Ser. No. 11/593,954, filed Nov. 7, 2006, entitled "POLYTRIMETHYLENE ETHER GLYCOL ESTERS"; commonly owned U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/957,728, filed concurrently herewith, entitled "LUBRICATION OIL COMPOSITIONS"; commonly owned U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/957,725, filed concurrently herewith, entitled "LUBRICATION OIL COMPOSITIONS"; and commonly owned U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/957,716, filed concurrently herewith, entitled "LUBRICATION OIL COMPOSITIONS".
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates compositions comprising (i) an acid ester (monoester and/or diester) of polytrimethylene ether glycol; and (ii) a vegetable oil lubricant. The invention also relates to the use of such compositions as lubrication oils.
Certain mono- and diesters of polytrimethylene ether glycol ("PO3G esters") have properties that make them useful in a variety of fields, including as lubricants, as disclosed in commonly owned U.S. application Ser. No. 11/593,954, filed Nov. 7, 2006, entitled "POLYTRIMETHYLENE ETHER GLYCOL ESTERS".
The present invention is directed to specific lubricant compositions based on combinations of such PO3G esters with vegetable oil lubricants.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In one embodiment, the present invention relates to the use of mixtures of one or more PO3G esters and one or more vegetable oil-based lubricants, optionally along with one or more polytrimethylene ether glycols ("PO3Gs") and one or more additives, as a lubrication oils. The present invention thus provides a lubrication oil composition comprising a base fluid stock comprising: (i) a PO3G ester fluid (an ester of a poly-trimethylene ether glycol that is a fluid at ambient temperature); and (ii) a vegetable oil-based lubricant.
When the PO3G ester (and PO3G when utilized) is based on biologically produced 1,3-propanediol, lubricant compositions with a very high renewable content can be provided.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. In case of conflict, the present specification, including definitions, will control.
Except where expressly noted, trademarks are shown in upper case.
Unless stated otherwise, all percentages, parts, ratios, etc., are by weight.
When an amount, concentration, or other value or parameter is given as either a range, preferred range or a list of upper preferable values and lower preferable values, this is to be understood as specifically disclosing all ranges formed from any pair of any upper range limit or preferred value and any lower range limit or preferred value, regardless of whether ranges are separately disclosed. Where a range of numerical values is recited herein, unless otherwise stated, the range is intended to include the endpoints thereof, and all integers and fractions within the range. It is not intended that the scope of the invention be limited to the specific values recited when defining a range.
When the term "about" is used in describing a value or an end-point of a range, the disclosure should be understood to include the specific value or end-point referred to.
As used herein, the terms "comprises," "comprising," "includes," "including," "has," "having" or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Further, unless expressly stated to the contrary, "or" refers to an inclusive or and not to an exclusive or. For example, a condition A or B is satisfied by any one of the following: A is true (or present) and B is false (or not present), A is false (or not present) and B is true (or present), and both A and B are true (or present).
Use of "a" or "an" are employed to describe elements and components of the invention. This is done merely for convenience and to give a general sense of the invention. This description should be read to include one or at least one and the singular also includes the plural unless it is obvious that it is meant otherwise.
The materials, methods, and examples herein are illustrative only and, except as specifically stated, are not intended to be limiting. Although methods and materials similar or equivalent to those described herein can be used in the practice or testing of the present invention, suitable methods and materials are described herein.
Base Fluid Stock
As indicated above, the base fluid stock for use in the lubrication oil compositions of the present invention comprises a PO3G ester that is a fluid at ambient temperature (25° C.), in combination with a vegetable oil-based lubricant. The base fluid stock may also comprise PO3G that is preferably fluid at ambient temperature (25° C.), and/or other synthetic fluid co-lubricants.
Vegetable oil-based lubricants suitable for use in the present invention are generally derived from plants and are generally composed of triglycerides. Normally, these are liquid at room temperature. Although many different parts of plants may yield oil, in actual practice oil is generally extracted primarily from the seeds of oilseed plants. These oils include both edible and inedible oils, and include, for example, high oleic sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, castor oil and the like, as well as modified oils such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,583,302 (fatty acid esters) and 1. Malchev, "Plant-Oil-Based Lubricants" (available from the Department of Plant Agriculture, Ontario Agriculture College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road W., Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1).
Synthetic fluid co-lubricants (other than the PO3G and PO3G esters) include lubricating oils such as hydrocarbon oils such as polybutylenes, polypropylenes, propylene-isobutylene copolymers; polyoxyalkylene glycol polymers (other than PO3G) and their derivatives such as ethylene oxide and propylene oxide copolymers; and esters of dicarboxylic acids with a variety of alcohols such as dibutyl adipate, di(2-ethylhexyl)sebacate, di-hexyl fumarate, dioctyl sebacate, diisoctyl azelate, diisodecyl azelate, dioctyl phthalate, didecyl phthalate, and the 2-ethylhexyl diester of linoleic acid dimer.
In one embodiment, the base stock comprises a predominant amount PO3G ester (or mixture with PO3G) (greater than 50 wt % based on the weight of the base stock). In some embodiments, the base stock can comprise the PO3G ester (or mixture) in an amount of about 66 wt % or greater, or about 75 wt % or greater, or about 90 wt % or greater, or about 95 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the base fluid stock.
In anther embodiment, the base stock comprises a predominant amount of the vegetable oil-based lubricant (greater than 50 wt % based on the weight of the base stock). In some embodiments, the base stock can comprise the vegetable oil-based lubricant in an amount of about 66 wt % or greater, or about 75 wt % or greater, or about 90 wt % or greater, or about 95 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the base fluid stock.
In one embodiment, the weight ratio of PO3G/PO3G ester in the base fluid stock is greater than 1:1 (the PO3G being the predominant component), or about 1.5:1 or greater, or about 2:1 or greater, or about 5:1 or greater, or about 20:1 or greater. Also, the weight ratio is preferably about 25:1 or less, or about 20:1 or less, or about 10:1 or less.
In another embodiment, the weight ratio of PO3G ester/PO3G in the base fluid stock is greater than 1:1 (the PO3G ester being the predominant component), or about 1.5:1 or greater, or about 2:1 or greater, or about 5:1 or greater, or about 20:1 or greater. Also, the weight ratio is preferably about 25:1 or less, or about 20:1 or less, or about 10:1 or less.
In yet another embodiment, the weight ratio of PO3G/PO3G ester in the base fluid stock is about 1:1 (approximately equivalent weight amounts of the two components).
The lubrication oil composition preferably comprises the base oil stock in an amount of about 50 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition. In various embodiments, the lubrication oil can comprise the base stock in an amount of about 75 wt % or greater, or about 90 wt % or greater, or about 95 wt % or greater, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition.
Mono- and Diesters of Polytrimethylene Ether Glycol
In some embodiments, the PO3G esters comprise one or more compounds of the formula (I):
wherein Q represents the residue of a polytrimethylene ether glycol after abstraction of the hydroxyl groups, R2 is H or R3CO, and each of R1 and R3 is individually a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic, saturated aliphatic, unsaturated aliphatic or cycloaliphatic organic group, containing 4 to 40 carbon atoms, preferably at least 6 carbon atoms, more preferably at least 8 carbon atoms. In some embodiments each of R1 and R3 has 20 carbon atoms or fewer, and in some embodiments 10 carbon atoms or fewer. In some preferred embodiments, each of R1 and R3 has 8 carbon atoms.
PO3G esters are preferably prepared by polycondensation of hydroxyl groups-containing monomers (monomers containing 2 or more hydroxyl groups) predominantly comprising 1,3-propanediol to form a PO3G (as disclosed in further detail below), followed by esterification with a monocarboxylic acid (or equivalent), as disclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 11/593,954, filed Nov. 7, 2006, entitled "POLY-TRIMETHYLENE ETHER GLYCOL ESTERS".
The PO3G ester thus prepared is a composition preferably comprising from about 50 to 100 wt %, more preferably from about 75 to 100 wt %, diester and from 0 to about 50 wt %, more preferably from 0 to about 25 wt %, monoester, based on the total weight of the esters. Preferably the mono- and diesters are esters of 2-ethylhexanoic acid.
The PO3G used for preparing the ester need not be the same as the PO3G cocomponent of the base fluid stock.
Polytrimethylene Ether Glycol (PO3G)
PO3G for the purposes of the present invention is an oligomeric or polymeric ether glycol in which at least 50% of the repeating units are trimethylene ether units. More preferably from about 75% to 100%, still more preferably from about 90% to 100%, and even more preferably from about 99% to 100%, of the repeating units are trimethylene ether units.
PO3G is preferably prepared by polycondensation of monomers comprising 1,3-propanediol, preferably in the presence of an acid catalyst, thus resulting in polymers or copolymers containing --(CH2CH2CH2O)-- linkage (e.g., trimethylene ether repeating units). As indicated above, at least 50% of the repeating units are trimethylene ether units.
When a sulfur-based acid catalyst is utilized (such as sulfuric acid) to prepare the PO3G, the resulting product preferably contains less than about 20 ppm, more preferably less than about 10 ppm, of sulfur.
In addition to the trimethylene ether units, lesser amounts of other units, such as other polyalkylene ether repeating units, may be present. In the context of this disclosure, the term "polytrimethylene ether glycol" encompasses PO3G made from essentially pure 1,3-propanediol, as well as those oligomers and polymers (including those described below) containing up to about 50% by weight of comonomers.
The 1,3-propanediol employed for preparing the PO3G may be obtained by any of the various well known chemical routes or by biochemical transformation routes. Preferred routes are described in, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,015,789, U.S. Pat. No. 5,276,201, U.S. Pat. No. 5,284,979, U.S. Pat. No. 5,334,778, U.S. Pat. No. 5,364,984, U.S. Pat. No. 5,364,987, U.S. Pat. No. 5,633,362, U.S. Pat. No. 5,686,276, U.S. Pat. No. 5,821,092, U.S. Pat. No. 5,962,745, U.S. Pat. No. 6,140,543, U.S. Pat. No. 6,232,511, U.S. Pat. No. 6,235,948, U.S. Pat. No. 6,277,289, U.S. Pat. No. 6,297,408, U.S. Pat. No. 6,331,264, U.S. Pat. No. 6,342,646, U.S. Pat. No. 7,038,092, U.S. Pat. No. 7,084,311, U.S. Pat. No. 7,098,368, U.S. Pat. No. 7,009,082 and US20050069997A1.
Preferably, the 1,3-propanediol is obtained biochemically from a renewable source ("biologically-derived" 1,3-propanediol).
A particularly preferred source of 1,3-propanediol is via a fermentation process using a renewable biological source. As an illustrative example of a starting material from a renewable source, biochemical routes to 1,3-propanediol (PDO) have been described that utilize feedstocks produced from biological and renewable resources such as corn feed stock. For example, bacterial strains able to convert glycerol into 1,3-propanediol are found in the species Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Clostridium, and Lactobacillus. The technique is disclosed in several publications, including U.S. Pat. No. 5,633,362, U.S. Pat. No. 5,686,276 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,821,092. U.S. Pat. No. 5,821,092 discloses, inter alia, a process for the biological production of 1,3-propanediol from glycerol using recombinant organisms. The process incorporates E. coli bacteria, transformed with a heterologous pdu diol dehydratase gene, having specificity for 1,2-propanediol. The transformed E. coli is grown in the presence of glycerol as a carbon source and 1,3-propanediol is isolated from the growth media. Since both bacteria and yeasts can convert glucose (e.g., corn sugar) or other carbohydrates to glycerol, the processes disclosed in these publications provide a rapid, inexpensive and environmentally responsible source of 1,3-propanediol monomer.
The biologically-derived 1,3-propanediol, such as produced by the processes described and referenced above, contains carbon from the atmospheric carbon dioxide incorporated by plants, which compose the feedstock for the production of the 1,3-propanediol. In this way, the biologically-derived 1,3-propanediol preferred for use in the context of the present invention contains only renewable carbon, and not fossil fuel-based or petroleum-based carbon. The PO3G and esters thereon utilizing the biologically-derived 1,3-propanediol, therefore, have less impact on the environment as the 1,3-propanediol used in the compositions does not deplete diminishing fossil fuels and, upon degradation, releases carbon back to the atmosphere for use by plants once again. Thus, the compositions of the present invention can be characterized as more natural and having less environmental impact than similar compositions comprising petroleum based glycols.
The biologically-derived 1,3-propanediol, PO3G and PO3G esters, may be distinguished from similar compounds produced from a petrochemical source or from fossil fuel carbon by dual carbon-isotopic finger printing. This method usefully distinguishes chemically-identical materials, and apportions carbon in the copolymer by source (and possibly year) of growth of the biospheric (plant) component. The isotopes, 14C and 13C, bring complementary information to this problem. The radiocarbon dating isotope (14C), with its nuclear half life of 5730 years, clearly allows one to apportion specimen carbon between fossil ("dead") and biospheric ("alive") feedstocks (Currie, L. A. "Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Particles," Characterization of Environmental Particles, J. Buffle and H. P. van Leeuwen, Eds., 1 of Vol. I of the IUPAC Environmental Analytical Chemistry Series (Lewis Publishers, Inc) (1992) 3-74). The basic assumption in radiocarbon dating is that the constancy of 14C concentration in the atmosphere leads to the constancy of 14C in living organisms. When dealing with an isolated sample, the age of a sample can be deduced approximately by the relationship:
wherein t=age, 5730 years is the half-life of radiocarbon, and A and A0 are the specific 14C activity of the sample and of the modern standard, respectively (Hsieh, Y., Soil Sci. Soc. Am J., 56, 460, (1992)). However, because of atmospheric nuclear testing since 1950 and the burning of fossil fuel since 1850, 14C has acquired a second, geochemical time characteristic. Its concentration in atmospheric CO2, and hence in the living biosphere, approximately doubled at the peak of nuclear testing, in the mid-1960s. It has since been gradually returning to the steady-state cosmogenic (atmospheric) baseline isotope rate (14C/12C) of ca. 1.2×10-12, with an approximate relaxation "half-life" of 7-10 years. (This latter half-life must not be taken literally; rather, one must use the detailed atmospheric nuclear input/decay function to trace the variation of atmospheric and biospheric 14C since the onset of the nuclear age.) It is this latter biospheric 14C time characteristic that holds out the promise of annual dating of recent biospheric carbon. 14C can be measured by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), with results given in units of "fraction of modern carbon" (fM). fM is defined by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) 4990B and 4990C, known as oxalic acids standards HOxI and HOxII, respectively. The fundamental definition relates to 0.95 times the 14C/12C isotope ratio HOxI (referenced to AD 1950). This is roughly equivalent to decay-corrected pre-Industrial Revolution wood. For the current living biosphere (plant material), fM≈1.1.
The stable carbon isotope ratio (13C/12C) provides a complementary route to source discrimination and apportionment. The 13C/12C ratio in a given biosourced material is a consequence of the 13C/12C ratio in atmospheric carbon dioxide at the time the carbon dioxide is fixed and also reflects the precise metabolic pathway. Regional variations also occur. Petroleum, C3 plants (the broadleaf), C4 plants (the grasses), and marine carbonates all show significant differences in 13C/12C and the corresponding δ13C values. Furthermore, lipid matter of C3 and C4 plants analyze differently than materials derived from the carbohydrate components of the same plants as a consequence of the metabolic pathway. Within the precision of measurement, 13C shows large variations due to isotopic fractionation effects, the most significant of which for the instant invention is the photosynthetic mechanism. The major cause of differences in the carbon isotope ratio in plants is closely associated with differences in the pathway of photosynthetic carbon metabolism in the plants, particularly the reaction occurring during the primary carboxylation, i.e., the initial fixation of atmospheric CO2. Two large classes of vegetation are those that incorporate the "C3" (or Calvin-Benson) photosynthetic cycle and those that incorporate the "C4" (or Hatch-Slack) photosynthetic cycle. C3 plants, such as hardwoods and conifers, are dominant in the temperate climate zones. In C3 plants, the primary CO2 fixation or carboxylation reaction involves the enzyme ribulose-1,5-diphosphate carboxylase and the first stable product is a 3-carbon compound. C4 plants, on the other hand, include such plants as tropical grasses, corn and sugar cane. In C4 plants, an additional carboxylation reaction involving another enzyme, phosphenol-pyruvate carboxylase, is the primary carboxylation reaction. The first stable carbon compound is a 4-carbon acid, which is subsequently decarboxylated. The CO2 thus released is refixed by the C3 cycle.
Both C4 and C3 plants exhibit a range of 13C/12C isotopic ratios, but typical values are ca. -10 to -14 per mil (C4) and -21 to -26 per mil (C3) (Weber et al., J. Agric. Food Chem., 45, 2942 (1997)). Coal and petroleum fall generally in this latter range. The 13C measurement scale was originally defined by a zero set by pee dee belemnite (PDB) limestone, where values are given in parts per thousand deviations from this material. The "δ13C" values are in parts per thousand (per mil), abbreviated %, and are calculated as follows:
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Since the PDB reference material (RM) has been exhausted, a series of alternative RMs have been developed in cooperation with the IAEA, USGS, NIST, and other selected international isotope laboratories. Notations for the per mil deviations from PDB is δ13C. Measurements are made on CO2 by high precision stable ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) on molecular ions of masses 44, 45 and 46.
Biologically-derived 1,3-propanediol, and compositions comprising biologically-derived 1,3-propanediol, therefore, may be completely distinguished from their petrochemical derived counterparts on the basis of 14C (fM) and dual carbon-isotopic fingerprinting, indicating new compositions of matter. The ability to distinguish these products is beneficial in tracking these materials in commerce. For example, products comprising both "new" and "old" carbon isotope profiles may be distinguished from products made only of "old" materials. Hence, the instant materials may be followed in commerce on the basis of their unique profile and for the purposes of defining competition, for determining shelf life, and especially for assessing environmental impact.
Preferably the 1,3-propanediol used as the reactant or as a component of the reactant will have a purity of greater than about 99%, and more preferably greater than about 99.9%, by weight as determined by gas chromatographic analysis. Particularly preferred are the purified 1,3-propanediols as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,038,092, U.S. Pat. No. 7,098,368, U.S. Pat. No. 7,084,311 and US20050069997A1, as well as PO3G made therefrom as disclosed in US20050020805A1.
The purified 1,3-propanediol preferably has the following characteristics:
(1) an ultraviolet absorption at 220 nm of less than about 0.200, and at 250 nm of less than about 0.075, and at 275 nm of less than about 0.075; and/or
(2) a composition having L*a*b* "b*" color value of less than about 0.15 (ASTM D6290), and an absorbance at 270 nm of less than about 0.075; and/or
(3) a peroxide composition of less than about 10 ppm; and/or
(4) a concentration of total organic impurities (organic compounds other than 1,3-propanediol) of less than about 400 ppm, more preferably less than about 300 ppm, and still more preferably less than about 150 ppm, as measured by gas chromatography.
The starting material for making PO3G will depend on the desired PO3G, availability of starting materials, catalysts, equipment, etc., and comprises "1,3-propanediol reactant." By "1,3-propanediol reactant" is meant 1,3-propanediol, and oligomers and prepolymers of 1,3-propanediol preferably having a degree of polymerization of 2 to 9, and mixtures thereof. In some instances, it may be desirable to use up to 10% or more of low molecular weight oligomers where they are available. Thus, preferably the starting material comprises 1,3-propanediol and the dimer and trimer thereof. A particularly preferred starting material is comprised of about 90% by weight or more 1,3-propanediol, and more preferably 99% by weight or more 1,3-propanediol, based on the weight of the 1,3-propanediol reactant.
PO3G can be made via a number of processes known in the art, such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,977,291 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,720,459. The preferred processes are as set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 7,074,969, U.S. Pat. No. 7,157,607, U.S. Pat. No. 7,161,045 and U.S. Pat. No. 7,164,046.
As indicated above, PO3G may contain lesser amounts of other polyalkylene ether repeating units in addition to the trimethylene ether units. The monomers for use in preparing polytrimethylene ether glycol can, therefore, contain up to 50% by weight (preferably about 20 wt % or less, more preferably about 10 wt % or less, and still more preferably about 2 wt % or less), of comonomer polyols in addition to the 1,3-propanediol reactant. Comonomer polyols that are suitable for use in the process include aliphatic diols, for example, ethylene glycol, 1,6-hexanediol, 1,7-heptanediol, 1,8-octanediol, 1,9-nonanediol, 1,10-decanediol, 1,12-dodecanediol, 3,3,4,4,5,5-hexafluro-1,5-pentanediol, 2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5-octafluoro-1,6-hexanediol, and 3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10-hexadecafluoro-1,12-dodecanediol; cycloaliphatic diols, for example, 1,4-cyclohexanediol, 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol and isosorbide; and polyhydroxy compounds, for example, glycerol, trimethylolpropane, and pentaerythritol. A preferred group of comonomer diols is selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, 2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol, 2,2-diethyl-1,3-propanediol, 2-ethyl-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol, C6-C10 diols (such as 1,6-hexanediol, 1,8-octanediol and 1,10-decanediol) and isosorbide, and mixtures thereof. A particularly preferred diol other than 1,3-propanediol is ethylene glycol, and C6-C10 diols can be particularly useful as well.
One preferred PO3G containing comonomers is poly(trimethylene-ethylene ether) glycol such as described in US20040030095A1. Preferred poly(trimethylene-ethylene ether) glycols are prepared by acid catalyzed polycondensation of from 50 to about 99 mole % (preferably from about 60 to about 98 mole %, and more preferably from about 70 to about 98 mole %) 1,3-propanediol and up to 50 to about 1 mole % (preferably from about 40 to about 2 mole %, and more preferably from about 30 to about 2 mole %) ethylene glycol.
Preferably, the PO3G after purification has essentially no acid catalyst end groups, but may contain very low levels of unsaturated end groups, predominately allyl end groups, in the range of from about 0.003 to about 0.03 meq/g. Such a PO3G can be considered to comprise (consist essentially of) the compounds having the following formulae (II) and (III):
wherein m is in a range such that the Mn (number average molecular weight) is within the range of from about 200 to about 10000, with compounds of formula (III) being present in an amount such that the allyl end groups (preferably all unsaturation ends or end groups) are present in the range of from about 0.003 to about 0.03 meq/g.
The preferred PO3G for use in the invention has an Mn (number average molecular weight) of at least about 250, more preferably at least about 500, and still more preferably at least about 1000. The Mn is preferably less than about 10000, more preferably less than about 5000, and still more preferably less than about 2500. Blends of PO3Gs can also be used. For example, the PO3G can comprise a blend of a higher and a lower molecular weight PO3G, preferably wherein the higher molecular weight PO3G has a number average molecular weight of from about 1000 to about 5000, and the lower molecular weight PO3G has a number average molecular weight of from about 200 to about 950. The Mn of the blended PO3G will preferably still be in the ranges mentioned above.
PO3G preferred for use herein is typically polydisperse having a polydispersity (i.e. Mw/Mn) of preferably from about 1.0 to about 2.2, more preferably from about 1.2 to about 2.2, and still more preferably from about 1.5 to about 2.1. The polydispersity can be adjusted by using blends of PO3G.
PO3G for use in the present invention preferably has a color value of less than about 100 APHA, and more preferably less than about 50 APHA, and a viscosity which is preferably greater than the viscosity of the PO3G ester. A preferred viscosity is about 100 cS or greater at 40° C.
Acid and Equivalents
The esterification of the PO3G is carried out by reaction with an acid and/or equivalent, preferably a monocarboxylic acid and/or equivalent.
By "monocarboxylic acid equivalent" is meant compounds that perform substantially like monocarboxylic acids in reaction with polymeric glycols and diols, as would be generally recognized by a person of ordinary skill in the relevant art. Monocarboxylic acid equivalents for the purpose of the present invention include, for example, esters of monocarboxylic acids, and ester-forming derivatives such as acid halides (e.g., acid chlorides) and anhydrides.
Preferably, a monocarboxylic acid is used having the formula R--COOH, wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic organic moiety containing from 6 to 40 carbon atoms.
Mixtures of different monocarboxylic acids and/or equivalents are also suitable.
As indicated above, the monocarboxylic acid (or equivalent) can be aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic. In this regard, "aromatic" monocarboxylic acids are monocarboxylic acids in which a carboxyl group is attached to a carbon atom in a benzene ring system such as those mentioned below. "Aliphatic" monocarboxylic acids are monocarboxylic acids in which a carboxyl group is attached to a fully saturated carbon atom or to a carbon atom which is part of an olefinic double bond. If the carbon atom is in a ring, the equivalent is "cycloaliphatic."
The monocarboxylic acid (or equivalent) can contain any substituent groups or combinations thereof (such as functional groups like amide, amine, carbonyl, halide, hydroxyl, etc.), so long as the substituent groups do not interfere with the esterification reaction or adversely affect the properties of the resulting ester product.
The monocarboxylic acids and equivalents can be from any source, but preferably are derived from natural sources or are bio-derived.
The following acids and their derivatives are specifically preferred: lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, benzoic, caprylic, erucic, palmitoleic, pentadecanoic, heptadecanoic, nonadecanoic, linoleic, arachidonic, oleic, valeric, caproic, capric and 2-ethylhexanoic acids, and mixtures thereof. Particularly preferred acids or derivatives thereof are 2-ethylhexanoic acid, benzoic acid, stearic acid, lauric acid and oleic acid.
For preparation of the esters, the PO3G can be contacted, preferably in the presence of an inert gas, with the monocarboxylic acid(s) at temperatures ranging from about 100° C. to about 275° C., preferably from about 125° C. to about 250° C. The process can be carried out at atmospheric pressure or under vacuum. During the contacting water is formed is formed and can be removed in the inert gas stream or under vacuum to drive the reaction to completion.
To facilitate the reaction of PO3G with carboxylic acid an esterfication catalyst is generally used, preferably a mineral acid catalyst. Examples of mineral acid catalysts include but are not restricted to sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, hydriodic acid, and heterogeneous catalysts such as zeolites, heteropolyacid, amberlyst, and ion exchange resin. Preferred esterification acid catalysts are selected from the group consisting of sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid and hydroiodic acid. A particularly preferred mineral acid catalyst is sulfuric acid.
The amount of catalyst used can be from about 0.01 wt % to about 10 wt % of the reaction mixture, preferably from 0.1 wt % to about 5 wt %, and more preferably from about 0.2 wt % to about 2 wt %, of the reaction mixture.
Any ratio of carboxylic acid, or derivatives thereof, to glycol hydroxyl groups can be used. The preferred ratio of acid to hydroxyl groups is from about 3:1 to about 1:2, where the ratio can be adjusted to shift the ratio of monoester to diester in the product. Generally to favor production of diesters slightly more than a 1:1 ratio is used. To favor production of monoesters, a 0.5:1 ratio or less of acid to hydroxyl is used.
A preferred method for esterification comprises polycondensing 1,3-propanediol reactant to polytrimethylene ether glycol using a mineral acid catalyst, then adding carboxylic acid and carrying out the esterification without isolating and purifying the PO3G. In this method, the etherification or polycondensation of 1,3-propanediol reactant to form polytrimethylene ether glycol is carried out using an acid catalyst as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,977,291 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,720,459. The etherification reaction may also be carried out using a polycondensation catalyst that contains both an acid and a base as described in JP2004-182974A. The polycondensation or etherification reaction is continued until desired molecular weight is reached, and then the calculated amount of monocarboxylic acid is added to the reaction mixture. The reaction is continued while the water byproduct is removed. At this stage both esterification and etherification reactions occur simultaneously. Thus, in this preferred esterification method the acid catalyst used for polycondensation of diol is also used for esterification. If necessary additional esterification catalyst can be added at the esterification stage.
In this procedure, the viscosity (molecular weight) of the resulting product is controlled by the point at which the carboxylic acid is added.
In an alternative procedure, the esterification reaction can be carried out on purified PO3G by addition of an esterification catalyst and carboxylic acid followed by heating and removal of water. In this procedure, viscosity of the resulting product is predominantly a function of the molecular weight of the PO3G utilized.
Regardless of which esterification procedure is followed, after the esterification step any by products are removed, and then the catalyst residues remaining from polycondensation and/or esterification are removed in order to obtain an ester product that is stable, particularly at high temperatures. This may be accomplished by hydrolysis of the crude ester product by treatment with water at about 80° C. to about 100° C. for a time sufficient to hydrolyze any residual acid esters derived from the catalyst without impacting significantly the carboxylic acid esters. The time required can vary from about 1 to about 8 hours. If the hydrolysis is carried out under pressure, higher temperatures and correspondingly shorter times are possible. At this point the product may contain diesters, monoesters, or a combination of diesters and monoesters, and small amounts of acid catalyst, unreacted carboxylic acid and diol depending on the reaction conditions. The hydrolyzed polymer is further purified to remove water, acid catalyst and unreacted carboxylic acid by the known conventional techniques such as water washings, base neutralization, filtration and/or distillation. Unreacted diol and acid catalyst can, for example, be removed by washing with deionized water. Unreacted carboxylic acid also can be removed, for example, by washing with deionized water or aqueous base solutions, or by vacuum stripping.
Hydrolysis is generally followed by one or more water washing steps to remove acid catalyst, and drying, preferably under vacuum, to obtain the ester product. The water washing also serves to remove unreacted diol. Any unreacted monocarboxylic acid present may also be removed in the water washing, but may also be removed by washing with aqueous base or by vacuum stripping.
If desired, the product can be fractionated further to isolate low molecular weight esters by a fractional distillation under reduced pressure.
Proton NMR and wavelength X-ray fluorescence spectroscopic methods can be used to identify and quantify any residual catalyst (such as sulfur) present in the polymer. The proton NMR can, for example, identify the sulfate ester groups present in the polymer chain, and wavelength x-ray fluorescence method can determine the total sulfur (inorganic and organic sulfur) present in the polymer. The esters made from the process described above are substantially sulfur free and thus useful for high temperature applications.
Preferably, the PO3G esters after purification have essentially no acid catalyst end groups, but may contain very low levels of unsaturated end groups, predominately allyl end groups, in the range of from about 0.003 to about 0.03 meq/g. Such PO3G ester can be considered to comprise or consist essentially of the compounds having the following formulae (IV) and (V):
wherein R2 is H or R3C(O); each of R1 and R3 is individually a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic, saturated aliphatic, unsaturated aliphatic, or cycloaliphatic organic group containing from 6 to 40 carbon atoms; m is in a range such that the Mn is within the range of from about 200 to about 3000; and with compounds of formula (III) being present in an amount such that the allyl end groups (preferably all unsaturation ends or end groups) are present in the range of from about 0.003 to about 0.03 meq/g.
Preferably, the PO3G ester has a viscosity which is less than the viscosity of PO3G (when utilized). Preferred viscosities of PO3G esters range from about 20 cS to about 150 cS at 40° C., and more preferably are about 100 cS or less.
Other preferred properties of the PO3G esters can be determined based upon the preferences stated above for PO3G in and of itself. For example, preferred molecular weights and polydispersities are based on the preferred molecular weights and polydispersities of the PO3G component of the ester.
Synthetic lube oil compositions in accordance with the present invention comprise a mixture of the base stock and one or more additives, where each additive is employed for the purpose of improving the performance and properties of the base stock in its intended application, e.g., as a hydraulic fluid, a gear oil, a brake fluid, a compressor lubricant, a textile and calender lubricant, a metalworking fluid, a refrigeration lubricant, a two-cycle engine lubricant and/or crankcase lubricant.
The additives can generally be added in amounts based on the type of additive and desired level of additive effect, which can generally be determined by those skilled in the relevant art.
Preferably the additives are miscible in either or both of the PO3G and PO3G esters. Generally, this means that the additives used will be water miscible at least to some extent when miscible in the glycols, and will be oil miscible at least to some extent when miscible in the esters.
Preferably, the lube oil additive(s) comprise at least one of ashless dispersant, metal detergent, viscosity modifier, anti-wear agent, antioxidant, friction modifier, pour point depressant, anti-foaming agent, corrosion inhibitor, demulsifier, rust inhibitor and mixtures thereof.
When the lube oil composition is used as a refrigeration lubricant, the lube oil additive(s) preferably comprise at least one of extreme pressure and antiwear additive, oxidation and thermal stability improver, corrosion inhibitor, viscosity index improver, pour point depressant, floc point depressant, detergent, anti-foaming agent, viscosity adjuster and mixtures thereof.
It is intended to be within the scope of the present invention to use any one or more of the specified additives alone or in combination with one or more of the remaining specified additives. It is also within the scope of the present invention to use more than one of any specified additive, e.g., one or more friction modifiers, either alone or in combination of one or more of the other specified additives, e.g., in combination with one or more corrosion inhibitors.
The individual additives may be incorporated into a base stock in any convenient way. Thus, each of the components can be added directly to the base stock by dispersing or dissolving it in the base stock at the desired level of concentration. Such blending may occur at ambient temperature or at an elevated temperature.
Alternatively, all or some of the additives can be blended into a concentrate or additive package that is subsequently blended into base stock to make finished lubricant. The concentrate will typically be formulated to contain the additive(s) in proper amounts to provide the desired concentration in the formulation when the concentrate is combined with a predetermined amount of base lubricant.
Non-limiting, illustrative examples of various additives follow.
The ashless dispersant comprises polymeric hydrocarbon backbone having functional groups that are capable of associating with particles to be dispersed. Typically, the dispersants comprise amine, alcohol, amide and/or ester polar moieties attached to the polymer backbone often via a bridging group. The ashless dispersant may be, for example, selected from salts, esters, amino-esters, amides, imides and oxazolines of long chain hydrocarbon substituted mono- and dicarboxylic acids and/or their anhydrides, thiocarboxylate derivatives of long chain hydrocarbons, long chain aliphatic hydrocarbons having a polyamine attached directly thereto, and Mannich condensation products formed by condensing a long chain substituted phenol with formaldehyde and polyalkylene polyamine.
The viscosity modifier (VM) functions to impart high and low temperature operability to a lubricating oil. The VM used may have that sole function, or may be multifunctional.
Multifunctional viscosity modifiers that also function as dispersants are also known. Illustrative viscosity modifiers are polyisobutylene, copolymers of ethylene and propylene and higher alpha-olefins, polymethacrylates, polyalkylmethacrylates, methacrylate copolymers, copolymers of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and a vinyl compound, inter polymers of styrene and acrylic esters, and partially hydrogenated co-polymers of styrene/isoprene, styrene/butadiene, and isoprene/butadiene, as well as the partially hydrogenated homopolymers of butadiene and isoprene and isoprene/divinylbenzene.
Metal-containing or ash-forming detergents function both as detergents to reduce or remove deposits and as acid neutralizers or rust inhibitors, thereby reducing wear and corrosion and extending engine life. Detergents generally comprise a polar head with long hydrophobic tail, with the polar head comprising a metal salt of an acid organic compound. The salts may contain a substantially stoichiometric amount of the metal in which they are usually described as normal or neutral salts, and would typically have a total base number (TBN), as may be measured by ASTM D-2896 of from 0 to about 80. It is possible to include large amounts of a metal base by reacting an excess of a metal compound such as an oxide or hydroxide with an acid gas such as carbon dioxide. The resulting overbased detergent comprises neutralized detergent as the outer layer of a metal base (e.g., carbonate) micelle. Such overbased detergents may have a TBN of about 150 or greater, and typically from about 250 to about 450 or more.
Illustrative detergents include neutral and overbased sulfonates, phenates, sulfurized phenates, thiophosphonates, salicylates, and naphthenates and other oil-soluble carboxylates of a metal, particularly the alkali or alkaline earth metals, e.g., sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium, and magnesium. The most commonly used metals are calcium and magnesium, which may both be present in detergents used in a lubricant, and mixtures of calcium and/or magnesium with sodium. Particularly convenient metal detergents are neutral and overbased calcium sulfonates having TBN of from about 20 to about 450, and neutral and overbased calcium phenates and sulfurized phenates having TBN of from about 50 to about 450.
Dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphate metal salts are frequently used as anti-wear and antioxidant agents. The metal may be an alkali or alkaline earth metal, or aluminum, lead, tin, molybdenum, manganese, nickel or copper. The zinc salts are most commonly used in lubricating oil in amounts of from about 0.1 to about 10 wt %, preferably from about 0.2 to about 2 wt %, based upon the total weight of the lubricating oil composition. They may be prepared in accordance with known techniques by first forming a dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphoric acid (DDPA), usually by reaction of one or more alcohol or a phenol with P2S5 and then neutralizing the formed DDPA with a zinc compound. For example, a dithiophosphoric acid may be made by reacting mixtures of primary and secondary alcohols. Alternatively, multiple dithiophosphoric acids can be prepared where the hydrocarbyl groups on one are entirely secondary in character and the hydrocarbyl groups on the others are entirely primary in character. To make the zinc salt any basic or neutral zinc compound could be used but the oxides, hydroxides and carbonates are most generally employed. Commercial additives frequently contain an excess of zinc due to use of an excess of the basic zinc compound in the neutralization reaction.
In one embodiment, however, the lube oil compositions are preferably substantially zinc free.
Oxidation inhibitors or antioxidants reduce the tendency of base stocks to deteriorate in service which deterioration can be evidenced by the products of oxidation such as sludge and varnish-like deposits on the metal surfaces and by viscosity growth. Such oxidation inhibitors include hindered phenols, alkaline earth metal salts of alkylphenolthioesters having preferably C5 to C12 alkyl side chains, calcium nonylphenol sulfide, ashless oil soluble phenates and sulfurized phenates, phosphosulfurized or sulfurized hydrocarbons, phosphorous esters, metal thiocarbamates, oil-soluble copper compounds as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,867,890, and molybdenum containing compounds.
Friction modifiers may be included to improve fuel economy. Oil-soluble alkoxylated mono- and di-amines are well known to improve boundary layer lubrication. The amines may be used as such or in the form of an adduct or reaction product with a boron compound such as boric oxide, boron halide, metaborate, boric acid or a mono-, di- or tri-alkyl borate.
Other friction modifiers are known. Among these are esters formed by reacting carboxylic acids and anhydrides with alkanols. Other conventional friction modifiers generally consist of a polar terminal group (e.g. carboxyl or hydroxyl) covalently bonded to an oleophilic hydrocarbon chain. Esters of carboxylic acids and anhydrides with alkanols are described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,702,850. An example of another conventional friction modifier is organo-metallic molybdenum.
Illustrative rust inhibitors are selected from the group of nonionic polyoxyalkylene polyols and esters thereof, polyoxyalkylene phenols, and anionic alkyl sulfonic acids.
Copper and lead bearing corrosion inhibitors may also be used. Typically such compounds are the thiadiazole polysulfides containing from 5 to 50 carbon atoms, their derivatives and polymers thereof. Other additives are the thio- and polythio- sulfenamides of thiadiazoles such as those described in UK1560830. Benzotriazole derivatives also fall within this class of additives.
An illustrative example of demulsifying component is described in EP-A-0330522. It is obtained by reacting an alkylene oxide with an adduct obtained by reacting a bis-epoxide with a polyhydric alcohol.
Pour point depressants, otherwise known as lube oil improvers, lower the minimum temperature at which the fluid will flow or can be poured. Such additives are well known. Typical of those additives which improve the low temperature fluidity of the fluid are C8 and C18 dialkyl fumarate/vinyl acetate copolymers, polyalkylmethacrylates and the like. In view of the low pour points of the lube oil compositions of the present invention, it is possible to formulate a lube oil composition which is free of pour point depressant. However, there may be applications where it is desirable to further depress the already low pour point.
Foam control can be provided by many compounds including an antifoamant of the polysiloxane type, for example, silicone oil or polydimethyl siloxane.
Some of the above-mentioned additives can provide a multiplicity of effects; thus, for example, a single additive may act as a dispersant-oxidation inhibitor. This approach is well known and does not require further elaboration.
Illustrative, non-limiting examples of additives specific to use in compression refrigeration systems follow.
Illustrative extreme pressure and antiwear additives include phosphates, phosphate esters (bicresyl phosphate), phosphites, thiophosphates (zinc diorganodithiophosphates) chlorinated waxes, sulfurized fats and olefins, organic lead compounds, fatty acids, molybdenum complexes, halogen substituted organosilicon compounds, borates, organic esters, halogen substituted phosphorous compounds, sulfurized Diels Alder adducts, organic sulfides, compounds containing chlorine and sulfur, metal salts of organic acids.
Illustrative oxidation and thermal stability improvers include sterically hindered phenols (BHT), aromatic amines, dithiophosphates, phosphites, sulfides and metal salts of dithio acids.
Illustrative corrosion inhibitors include organic acids, organic amines, organic phosphates, organic alcohols, metal sulfonates and organic phosphites.
Viscosity index is the measure of the change in viscosity with temperature, and a high number suggests that the change in viscosity with temperature is minimal. In view of the high viscosity index of the lube oil compositions of the present invention, it is possible to formulate a lube oil composition which is free of viscosity index improver. However, there may be applications where it is desirable to further improve viscosity index. Illustrative viscosity index improvers include polyisobutylene, polymethacrylate and polyalkylstyrenes.
Illustrative pour point and or floc point depressants include polymethacrylate ethylene--vinyl acetate copolymers, succinamic acid--olefin copolymers, ethylene--alpha olefin copolymers and Friedel-Crafts condensation products of wax with napthalene or phenols.
Illustrative detergents include sulfonates, long-chain alkyl substituted aromatic sulfonic acids, phosphonates, thiophosphonates, phenolates, metal salts of alkyl phenols, alkyl sulfides, alkylphenol--aldehyde condensation products, metal salts of substituted salicylates, N-substituted oligomers or polymers from the reaction products of unsaturated anhydrides and amines and co-polymers which incorporate polyester linkages such as vinyl acetate-maleic anhydride co-polymers.
Illustrative anti-foaming agents are silicone polymers.
Illustrative viscosity adjusters include polyisobutylene, polymethacrylates, polyalkylstyrenes, naphthenic oils, alkylbenzene oils, paraffinic oils, polyesters, polyvinylchloride and polyphosphates.
In the present invention, the lube oil additive(s) should be at least partially (greater than about 50% by weight) miscible in the base stock. Generally, this means that the additives used will be soluble in esters and vegetable oils at least to some extent, and preferably to a substantial extent.
The lube oil composition should thus preferably be a substantially uniform mixture, with substantially no settling or phase separation of components.
The lubrication oil composition preferably comprises the additives in an amount of less than 50 wt %, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition. In various embodiments, the lubrication oil can comprise the additives in an amount of about 25 wt % or less, or about 10 wt % or less, or about 5 wt % or less, based on the total weight of the lubrication oil composition.
All parts, percentages, etc., are by weight unless otherwise indicated.
The number-average molecular weights (Mn) of polyether glycol and polyether glycol ester were determined either by analyzing end-groups using NMR spectroscopic methods or by titration of hydroxyl groups.
ASTM method D445-83 and ASTM method D792-91 were used to determine the kinematic viscosity and density of the polymer, respectively.
The properties of various base stock fluids used to blend are shown in the following table. The viscosity indices of polytrimethylene glycol polymers are significantly higher than the Vegetable oil base stock.
TABLE-US-00001 DB ® Poly(trimethylene- Polytrimethylene Castor Polytrimethylene ethylene ether ether glycol 2- Property Oil ether glycol glycol hexanoate Number average 1026 1245 1150 510 molecular weight Density @ 40° C. 0.9627 1.0164 1.0315 0.9575 Viscosity @ 40° C., 245 320 211 23.2 cP Viscosity @ 18.1 47.1 32.2 5.07 100° C., cP Viscosity Index 87 216 204 177
The following Table indicates the properties of the blend compositions made according to Examples 1-5, illustrating embodiments of the various base stock fluids of the present invention.
TABLE-US-00002 Example 4 Example 5 33/33/33 33/33/33 Blend of Blend of Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 castor castor 50/50 Blend 50/50 blend 50/50 blend oil/PO3G oil/PO3G of Castor oil of castor oil of castor oil homopolymer/ copolymer/ and PO3G and PO3G and PO3G PO3G PO3G homopolymer copolymer ester ester ester Density @ 0.9891 0.9883 0.951 0.9714 0.9757 40° C. Viscosity @ 257 195 59 107 88.6 40° C., cP Viscosity @ 29.7 23.6 8.4 15.7 13.3 100° C., cP Viscosity Index 161 157 127 166 161
A lubrication composition was prepared by adding the following additives to the blend composition of Example 4.
TABLE-US-00003 Blend of base fluids 97.3% IRGALUBE ® TPPT 0.40% VANLUBE ® 7723 0.30% VANLUBE ® 887E 0.20% PANA 0.40% VANLUBE ® RD 0.80% IRGALUBE ® 349 0.40% CUVAN ® 826 0.10%
Patent applications by Hari Babu Sunkara, Hockessin, DE US
Patent applications by E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Patent applications in class Chalcogen attached indirectly to the -C(=O)O-group by nonionic bonding (e.g., pentaerythritol monooleate, etc.)
Patent applications in all subclasses Chalcogen attached indirectly to the -C(=O)O-group by nonionic bonding (e.g., pentaerythritol monooleate, etc.)
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Clue: Jacques's farewell
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Corporations, children and responsibility
Companies can be more alert on how various aspects of their operations impact children, writes Rajni Bakshi.
Corporations are now among the most powerful entities on earth. Children are the world's most vulnerable people. In what ways can corporations play a role in making the world safer and better for children?
This question was addressed at a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility hosted by the NGO Child Rights and You (CRY) in Mumbai last week. Discussions opened by taking stock of the grim global reality.
For instance, the World Economic Forum's recently released Global Risks Report 2013 has shown that "the world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges". The report puts wealth gaps and severe income disparity at the top of its list of concerns. This is followed by -- unsustainable government debt, rising green house gas emissions and socio-economic trends which are derailing efforts to tackle climate change.
What the world economy is going through is not just a recession, said John Elkington in his keynote address at the conference. "Capitalism is going through a periodic rebooting process" according to Elkington, who is the British activist and entrepreneur who coined the term Triple Bottom Line and is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability related issues.
In 2015 the Millennium Development Goals, mandated by the United Nations, will be phased out. International negotiations are now on to decide what will replace the MDG and the focus is shifting from poverty to more wide ranging sustainable development goals. This is an opportunity to put children at the heart of both planning by governments and strategies by companies.
One way of moving in this direction, Elkington argued, is to challenge the idea made famous by the American economist Milton Friedman that those who challenge the free market lack faith in freedom itself. This is untrue, Elkington pointed out, because there is no really free market anywhere.
Similarly, Harsh Mariwala, chairman and MD of Marico, challenged the old free-market orthodoxy which claimed that "the business of business is business". Instead, Mariwala said: "The business of business is more than business. We must find win-win-win solutions".
For example, the several tragedies of shootings at schools and colleges in the US, several pension funds and institutional investors, notably Cerberus Capital Management and CalSTRS are putting pressure on retailers who sell weapons. The International Integrated Reporting Council has come up with a six dimensional version of capitalism. The conventional 3D version was about three kinds of assets financial, manufactured and human. The 6D model includes three more assets - Intellectual, Natural and Social.
The Breakthrough Capitalism Forum, held in London in May 2012, is another signal of change. At this forum representatives of leading global businesses explored and debated the pervasive view that the problems of the world economy are a consequence of systemic failures not just some cyclical dip. The term "Breakthrough Capitalism" now applies to efforts by investors, entrepreneurs & policy-makers to jointly drive creative solutions that deliver system-level change.
Likewise, Michael Porter's articulation of the concept of Shared Value is attracting more and more support. This concept essentially depends on fostering trust among stakeholders. The question is how to build trust?
There are no easy answers to this question but there is an increasing number of inspiring examples of companies that are aiming for a higher and higher degree of social and environmental responsibility.
For instance, Interface – an American company that makes flooring, has set itself the goal of having a zero ecological footprint by the year 2020. By creating closed loops of recycled materials this company has already managed to reduce its footprint very substantially. Elkington's view is that the future belongs to such "Zeronauts".
Similarly, Greenpeace's Detox Campaign is gathering support. This campaign, which was launched in 2011, aims to expose the direct links between global clothing brands, their suppliers and toxic water pollution around the world. The campaign includes extensive testing of branded garments for traces of hazardous chemicals.
This has led to various reports which Greenpeace says have "exposed the toxic truth behind our clothes." The call for pollution free fashion has already won support from some of the leading fashion designers, models and bloggers - who have signed the Detox Fashion Manifesto.
Some of the world's major apparel and footwear brands and retailers now host an entire website dedicated to Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals. The objective of this network, says the website, is "to lead the apparel and footwear industry towards zero discharge of hazardous chemicals for all products across all pathways in our supply chains by 2020."
It is widely accepted now that any responsible company must ensure that there is no child labour employed in any part of its supply chain. But, as the discussions at the CRY conclave highlighted, the agenda of making child rights a reality requires action on many more fronts.
This can include efforts by companies to be more alert on how various aspects of their operations impact children. Thus all efforts to enhance the positive social and environmental impact of a company eventually improve the quality of life of children in different socio-economic groups. Many companies are also encouraging their employees to be more involved in social initiatives aimed at improving the lives of children.
It is in this context that the Child Rights Champion Awards, established by CRY this year, are vitally significant. These awards aim to honor those companies that are integrating child rights into both their business model and their social responsibility programs.
CRY's CSR conclave on January 11th ended with an awards ceremony where Hindustan Petroleum won the Golden Award while Procter and Gamble got the Silver Award, Aviva Life Insurance got the Bronze Award and GenPact India was given the special jury award.
It is now more widely acknowledged that business is a key element in search for solutions. As Elkington pointed out there are powerful imperatives taking us in this direction: "We are herd animals. The World Economic Forum risk report is giving a signal that herd has to move towards sustainability."
DISCLOSURE: The author is a trustee of CRY.
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|Posted by John Mangels on January 14, 2013 at 8:25 PM||comments (0)|
The January flute circle was well attended - 13 players and 4 visitors. This includes 2 new people who are taking their first class.
Bob reviewed a new sound system being offered by the Oregon Flute Store (www.oregonflutestore.com). This is the Mini-FX Sound System and is a competitor to the Vortex system. Bob gave it a good reivew but he did say that the volume of the speakers was OK if playing for yourself or in a relatively small room, but the volume was not high enough if playing for a large group. This is a similar complaint with the Vortex. He also said that it could not play a backing track from something like an ipod. Also a similar complaint with teh Vortex. Bob said he is in contact withteh manufacturer to see if together they could come up with a recommended fix.
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The Zion Flute Circle was published.
This websiite is intended to be a dynamic document, containing information about our group, and NA flutes in general. The site will evolve as everyone gets used to using the various features.
Anyone interested in flutes can become a website member. This allows you to participate in the various forums, which I hope will become a active part of the site. They can alos submit photos to the photos page.
Flute Circle members can also have their own "web page" where they can submit iformation to be added, such as examples of their music, items they may have for sale (CD's), and otehr items of interest to the flute community.
We will discuss the site at our next flute circle on January 12th.
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from Latin laurus "laurel tree"
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Knock Down Rebuilds Vs Renovations
Knock Down Rebuilds Vs Renovations – The Pros and Cons for Each
If you are one of many homeowners who love your neighbourhood but not the house you live in, you will be facing the renovate or knock down dilemma.
You will find yourself asking: do I undertake a major renovation to add to my existing space? Or do I start from scratch, knock down my house and build my dream home in my favourite location?
While there is no one-size-fits-all answer, we explore each approach to help you make a well-informed decision about which will work best for you.
A Knockdown and Rebuild: is it Even an Option for Your Home?
Some people aren’t as lucky to have the option to knock down their existing property and rebuild. Many factors surround whether this option is feasible for your circumstance. The following is what you will need to consider possible for a knockdown to happen:
- Is your current home subject to council planning regulations? It is important to investigate whether your home faces demolition restrictions or major design limitations, like heritage listings for example, which would prevent a complete knockdown.
- What is the size, scope, and budget of your renovation? If you’re only looking at a new room or two, then a rebuild isn’t suitable for such a small-scale project. However, if you are pondering a large-scale renovation, with a budget into the hundreds of thousands, a home rebuild is a viable option.
- What is the current condition of your home? Especially when it comes to renovations, it is important to consider the current state of your home. Structural issues, the orientation of the building, and problems such as rising damp, or termites, all need to be evaluated professionally before making a decision.
Knock Down, Build Anew
The Housing Industry of Australia says about a third of all new detached houses are now knock down rebuilds. That’s because demolishing your existing home and building a new one has many advantages. They are:
- Every design choice is completely yours: From the orientation of the house to the layout, design, and styling, the chance to create your dream home is highly appealing and effortlessly obtainable.
- Maximised for modern living: It’s easy to incorporate modern essentials, such as seamless indoor/outdoor living, energy efficiency, and technological connectivity, to a brand new home, rather than trying to integrate them into an existing build.
- Minimal maintenance: A new home is simpler and highly cost-effective to maintain than an older one, with areas such as heating and cooling proving far more economical in a new home.
- Complete cost control: A new home can often be cheaper than a renovation, without any of those nasty surprises, like unsafe wiring that requires complete replacement, rotting timber, or even termites in the foundations. When you rebuild, you can be assured with our fixed pricing and no hidden extras promise those nasty cost additions won’t be an issue for you.
Why Knock Down Rebuild Homes Might not be for You
If you love the character of your existing house and you’re prepared to work with the quirks and challenges of an older home, a knockdown might not be your best option. However, we recommend you investigate the challenges before making your decision, as to avoid a forced knockdown in the future.
Ripe for Renovation
Are you considering a renovation to your home, rather than a knockdown? A renovation might be an appropriate option, especially if your home fits into the following:
- It’s a character home in a character street: If you fell in love with the style, story, and history of your home, and there is market demand for its heritage, then a sympathetic renovation may be a better choice.
- You’re starting with a strong structure: A renovation could prove an option for you if the overall condition of your home is sound. This is true for a well-placed orientation, too.
- You want to stage the project: Many homeowners choose to renovate because they can complete the project over several years, allowing them to stagger the costs and balance any major life events, like births or trips overseas, into the process.
Why a Renovation Might Not be for You
Cost blow-out is the biggest disadvantage to a renovation, especially with any unexpected issues that come about from the existing structure. It is this unpredictability which makes it difficult to secure a fixed-term contract. Compromising on your dream home is the other major downside of a renovation; your design choices can be easily compromised when you have to consider the existing structure and its limitations.
Finding a Knockdown Specialist
It’s important to find a specialist builder with proven project experience. G.J. Gardner Homes has years of knock down experience and we take care of everything, all with the complete confidence of a fixed term contract.
Get in touch today and see how we can build you your dream house in your dream neighbourhood!
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The Problem with Supply and Demand
If you want cheering crowds, don't bother to study economics. It will only hold you back. Tell people what they want to hear-- and they don't want to hear about supply and demand.
No, supply and demand is not too "complex." It is just not very emotionally satisfying.
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Success In Selling -- It's Inside YouEver wonder what makes a salesperson successful? Great communication skills? Great products? Great company behind the products? Hard work?
Yeah, all those things contribute to a successful sales career. But I believe the consistently successful salesperson is someone who understands himself and attempts to understand others. In the marketplace, those "others" are prospects and customers.
If you can do that, the understanding thing, you can be a successful salesperson even with a mediocre product, a marginal company, and less than spectacular communication skills.
Can't do without the hard work, though. I know a lot of successful salespeople, but I don't know any lazy ones.
Don't Let Your Ego Get In The Way
The key to knowing yourself lies in the ability to manage your ego. This means you can look inside and identify your weaknesses, then have the inner strength to defy your ego (which is telling you there's nothing wrong with you) and fix those weaknesses.
Knowing your customers begins to happen when you are able to suppress your ego (which wants to tell everyone everything you know), and allow the prospect or customer to tell you what they know, and what they need, first.
You've heard me say this before: You don't have the information that will make you successful, your customer does. The best ego food is success, which is served up when you are LISTENING, NOT TALKING to your customers.
The Realm of Consciousness
There are two levels of consciousness and two levels of unconsciousness which have been identified. I don't mean physically conscious or unconscious. I'm talking professionally conscious or unconscious.
Understanding these levels actually works for all of life's endeavors, but for the purpose of this discussion, I want to focus on them as they apply to salesmanship.
See if you can find yourself somewhere in the four levels. And just to take a little bit of pressure off of your ego, keep in mind that even the most professional, and the most successful salespeople have been all of these at one time or another. The important question is where are you right now?
1. Unconscious Incompetent, aka, DK2 (don't know, squared)
This person doesn't know that he doesn't know. A DK2 is totally clueless about his inability, and likely is quite blissful about it.
At different times in our lives we have all been DK2s. When you are learning something new, or when you find yourself in a new setting, you haven't yet learned the rules and protocols and, for a little while (hopefully), you don't know that you don't know. If you hear someone say, "Poor thing" or, "We can't take him anywhere", and you find out they are talking about you, you probably just did something that was DK2.
Professionally speaking, DK2 is a terminal condition for salespeople. "But", you are asking, with voice trembling, "If I don't know that I don't know, how do I cure myself of this malady?"
Answer: Mathematics. Doing the math on the sales numbers for a DK2 doesn't take very long because DK2s don't sell much. When the multiplier is 6% commission, and the multiplicand is a goose egg, the product of this calculation is also zip. If your sales commissions can be done while driving and talking on a cell phone to your mother, you might be a DK2. If you are working hard but success is not happening, and you don't know why, you might be a DK2.
"Oh, please! Stop me before I DK2 again," you plead. Don't fret. Help is available. Read on.
2. Unconscious Competent
When this person makes something happen he doesn't know why. Sometimes we call him gifted, or a natural talent. Sometimes we think he's just lucky. And for those of us who feel we have to work hard for everything, an Unconscious Competent can also be pretty annoying.
But don't be too quick to envy the Unconscious Competent. Remember, if you don't know how you got somewhere, that's another definition for lost. Talent, charm, and luck are handy when the market's good and things are going well. But when the market softens, the salespeople who last, including the talented, the charming, and the lucky, are the ones who have learned and practiced the fundamentals of professional selling.
Any kind of unconsciousness, competent or incompetent, is dangerous.
3. Conscious Incompetent
This person is incapable and he knows it. If you are looking for a salesperson to train, this is the profile to look for. No ego about what he thinks he knows. No preconceived notions. No resistance to your methods and strategies. A Conscious Incompetent can be an amorphous block of salesmanship clay waiting for the master sculptor of salespeople, the sales manager.
But be careful. Sometimes the Conscious Incompetent wallows in his condition as an excuse for non-performance. Conscious Incompetence should be a temporary condition on the way to a transition to the ultimate level of consciousness.
Any kind of lasting incompetence, conscious or unconscious, is professionally terminal.
4. Conscious Competent
This is the level of consciousness you want to attain. This person gets the job done and knows why.
You can't be a competent salesperson until you to have learned the fundamentals of professional selling. The conscious part comes when you can identify what happened when you succeed, and more importantly, are fully aware and take ownership of what happened when you fail.
To become a Conscious Competent you have to be able to take a good look at yourself and do something called Self Analysis. Self Analysis is when you are conscious of, and think about what you do well and capitalize on it, and are conscious of, and think about what you don't do well and improve, or minimize it.
After every sales call, good or otherwise, a Conscious Competent replays the whole conversation in his mind:
"Darn, I missed a buying signal when she asked me about our delivery schedule. I won't do that again."
"Boy, I really hit pay dirt with that probe about their expansion plans. I think he now sees me as contributor to their expansion effort."
Self Analysis is not easy for many of us because in order to do it, we have to be able to manage our ego. Ego gets in the way of Self Analysis when it tells us we are successful because we are so smart. Ego also tells us it isn't our fault when we are unsuccessful, which turns a healthy Self Analysis opportunity into a whining pity party. Ego is where Self Analysis goes to die.
It's true that having a high IQ can contribute to your success, but that kind of thinking won't help you improve. Conscious Competent salespeople put their faith in the fundamentals, and blend in their smarts as a kind of secret weapon.
Remember, sometimes your brain can fail you, but the fundamentals will NEVER fail you. Conscious Competents know this.
Conscious Competents Don't Fear Failure
Try as they might, Conscious Competents know they won't get every sale. The reason they don't fear failure is because they know they have the fundamental selling tools to fix what went wrong and be better prepared for the next selling opportunity.
It's this willingness to analyze both success AND failure that makes a Conscious Competents the most consistently successful of all salespeople.
You have to Plan To Be Conscious
Unless your last sales call was so bad that you've now decided to become a backhoe operator, you're going to make another call soon. Which means that every post-call analysis is also a pre-call analysis.
Being conscious should be part of your selling plan of action. You're not doing Self Analysis because you like beating yourself up. You're doing it so that you will be better on the next call. So, after you have spent time analyzing your previous performance, focus this critique on your next call. Imagine how you will present yourself. Practice out loud the way you want to improve yourself. Plan to be conscious.
Competence is not some professional designation like a B.S. degree, CPA, or M.D., where once you have it, it's yours forever. Conscious Competence is more like a golf swing or a tennis backhand: You have to work on it all the time to maintain proficiency. And remember, you have to work on both components. You have to plan to be conscious, and work hard on maintaining professional competence.
Write this on a rock... A Conscious Competent is always aware of his strengths and weaknesses. A true professional never stops trying to improve. When you become a Conscious Competent Professional Salesperson success will come and play in your back yard.
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Solder Flux Pen #951
Solder Flux Pen #951 from Cyclone FPV
I have selected a new soldering flux pen that I will be using in all of my builds now and I am going to start offering it to my customers as well. I am very excited to make this a more affordable option for all of you and I hope you will enjoy the quality and durability that comes with this soldering flux pen.
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The Department of Style is a field guide to the timeless, the adventurous, and the enthusiastic. We celebrate craft. We explore tradition. We find the creative imaginations that take classic forms and make them their own.
It is about understanding that in life, doing something right takes time, skill, and effort. But therein lies the joy. Finding people who still do things that way and telling their stories is the original Departmental mandate.
The Department’s scope of subjects is just as broad as our interest in people. Within the Department you will find stories about suits and shoes, sandwiches and stews, vintage vehicles, pottery and painting, architecture, cycling, snooker, and surfing; whatever we find intriguing.
People everywhere respond when they see something planned with skill and care, and finished to have both beauty and function. From a 1941 Ford truck, to an English leather shoulder bag, to a Moog synthesizer: We believe that good design has wide appeal.
The Department celebrates the necktie that takes a chance. It will chronicle careening around India in a Tuk Tuk. It is about the scarf that makes a stranger smile, the meal that challenges the palate and the passion to restore a vintage aircraft. It is the hammered strength of a Japanese knife, the exuberance of a tropical fabric, and the wisdom of a lifetime of experience. It is the urge to learn to ride the steep boards of a velodrome.
The Department of Style welcomes people who are following their hearts, pursuing their aspirations and making their dreams come true.
The people whose stories we tell are able to lead these lives because they have decided to, and then worked towards their goals. They may not be rich, but they are clever, creative, and astute.
If you have come this far, you are probably one of us. We hope that you will see something of your own interests and attitudes in the stories we tell and the people we profile. And we want you to join in the exchange of ideas.
The Department is with you as a companion in the pursuit of style in all its various forms.
It is not effortless. But it looks like it is.
All the content on this site was produced by us at The Department. That includes all the video, all the photos, and all the writing. All the music was either produced by us our used with permission from the artists. Please don’t use any of our content without our permission.
Feel free to get in touch with us.
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Today over at the Classy Cards 'n Such Blog, my first ever card created for the Design Team is featured.
It wasn't used on the blog that first week, and that was before I knew all the where-fore's and how-to's of Design Team work. It was saved, and used today as a fill-in between our weekly challenges. You can check the blog for the steps on how I put this card together and the supplies I used, just by clicking on the link above.
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
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Exclusive song premiere: Despite Exile - Oscillate
Despite Exile have released a new song titled 'Oscillate', which we are exclusively premiering in cooperation with Team All About The Music. Listen to the track below. More videos are available on Despite Exile's YouTube channel, and some tracks off their 2010 EP 'Scarlet Reverie' are available for streaming on their Facebook page.
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2013 Aristotle Award
[Note: The following is the presentation of the 2013 Aristotle Award by Larry Sumney, SRC President and CEO, at TECHCON 2013.]
The Call for Nominations for the Aristotle Award begins as follows:
“A primary goal of SRC is to produce advanced degree students with the capability to work effectively in the semiconductor industry. The Aristotle Award … recognizes SRC-supported faculty whose deep commitment to the educational experience of SRC students has had a profound and continuing impact on their professional performance and, consequently, a significant impact for members over a long period of time. The Aristotle Award is intended to acknowledge outstanding teaching in its broadest sense, emphasizing student advising and teaching during the research project thereby contributing to the maturation of the student.”
The Aristotle Award was authorized by the SRC Board of Directors in 1995 to recognize professors who best contribute to the development of the industry’s most valuable resource, its human resource. The list of winners of the Aristotle speaks volumes about the quality of SRC researchers and the high standard set for SRC students. The awards have been made to some of the most exemplary university faculty in this country, and this year’s award continues that tradition. Professor James Harris of Stanford University is eminently qualified to receive the 2013 Aristotle Award.
Following his dozen years as a researcher at Rockwell, he has produced 116 PhD’s, working in many diverse areas. Of his PhDs, 64 work in the semiconductor industry (including 7 at Intel, 5 at IBM, 3 at Applied Materials, plus over 20 at start-up companies). Several have started their own companies based on the technology they themselves developed with the roots of this technology going back to their time and experiences in the Harris group. He has also mentored a large group of postdocs, who have gone on to industrial or academic careers. Jim’s academic descendants include over 36 professors now at top domestic and foreign universities; MIT, Illinois, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Oxford, Seoul National, Delft, KAIST and Humboldt, to name just a few. Many of those professors have become SRC funded researchers.
Jim has a gentle, but very deliberate style of mentoring and is known to those in his group as “the Coach”. He supervises graduate students and postdocs from multiple departments – Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Physics, and Materials Science. It is this diversity of backgrounds that is the platform for a collaborative and inventive atmosphere of student learning and student responsibility.
Jim’s group structure emphasizes hands-on experience by allowing the students and postdocs to have the unique opportunity to take charge of a piece of lab equipment, ranging from the key molecular beam epitaxy system to photolithography. By owning a piece of equipment they are each responsible for its maintenance and repair along with the training of the next generation of students on its use and care. This hands-on learning approach gives students invaluable experience in fabrication equipment, making key lab improvements, and confidence to tackle any technical obstacle they might encounter.
Jim’s extensive industry connections have allowed him to create opportunities for students to interact with people from industry and research institutions and begin to build a network that will benefit them in both their professional and academic careers. Virtually all of his students receive multiple offers and are heavily recruited.
Jim is known to say that you “never truly escape” from his group. Many of his former students sought his counsel during the telecom bust when they found themselves suddenly unemployed. They returned to visit their “Coach” for a pep talk and to seek his counsel on where to look for jobs. He dedicated much effort going through his enormous list of contacts to help his former students find new positions. This is what separates Jim from just another thesis advisor; he is truly invested in his students and is their advisor for life.
Professor Harris, we applaud you for 30 years of dedication to teaching, advising and mentoring students and it is with great pleasure that I present you with the 2013 Aristotle Award on behalf of SRC and SRC members.
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Writer, naturalist, and lifelong cowboy Dayton O. Hyde describes the changes he discovered in the American West after his return from the European combat theater following World War II: The cowboys who once worked the ranches had found better pay in airplane factories, and whether they were migrating to cities or retiring, the oral history of ranch life was disappearing. As a ranch hand who’d made his way to Berkeley for an English degree, Hyde decided it was his job to document the lore of the cowboys, writing the first of over 20 books of nonfiction and fiction about cowboy life. Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde documents a number of pivotal moments in which Hyde receives and accepts urgent calls to heroism, the most significant of which was the establishment of the 12,000-acre Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in South Dakota. Following mass roundups of wild horses by the state, Hyde found half-starved animals crowded into pens waiting for sale or slaughter. He put up $20,000 to free them and embarked on a bureaucratic odyssey for a permanent wildlife reserve. Director Suzanne Mitchell captures gorgeous images, including golden-hour shots of the preserve’s galloping herds, blizzards sweeping across the hills and blanketing the horses, while Dayton describes in voiceover how horses love the falling snow, climbing hills to stand in it while “lesser animals” retreat. Mitchell interviews Hyde’s family, including adult children and his first wife, with whom he split after their 22-year-old daughter was thrown from a horse and killed. Through photos and family lore, but mostly through Dayton’s own eloquence, Mitchell assembles a biographical portrait that’s inspiring in the best possible way.
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When you lie or flutter, your hands become moist with sweat. This kit detects the slight change of electric resistance at this situation by the analog meter.
Power Source: Dry cell battery, 006P(9V) x 1pc (sold separately)
Power Consumption: Approx. 2-4.2mA
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With tougher math requirements looming for high school students, Pinellas school officials decided to raise the bar this year and enroll twice as many eighth-graders in Algebra I.
The strategy may pay off in the long run. But in the short term, ouch.
Eighth-grade math scores tanked in Pinellas this year, part of a broader drop in that subject, according to Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results released Monday.
"It was a disappointment, but not a surprise," said Bill Corbett, principal of Morgan Fitzgerald Middle, which recorded an 8 percentage point drop.
The number of eighth-graders scoring at grade level or above fell from 67 percent to 59 percent. And no school was immune. Every one of the district's 19 traditional middle schools saw a decline, from 1 percentage point dips at Clearwater Fundamental and Thurgood Marshall Fundamental to a 20 percentage point plunge at Pinellas Park Middle.
The district got tagged by a triple whammy. More kids. Two sets of material. A harder test.
Not only did Pinellas funnel thousands of additional middle school kids into Algebra I — a class many of the them would have taken in high school — but those kids also had to master (or remember) more general math skills measured by the FCAT.
To top it off, the math FCAT was new this year in most grades, and more rigorous.
"It's going to take time for our teachers to make sure that they're delivering everything our kids need to be tested on," said associate superintendent Bill Lawrence.
Monday's FCAT release brought sobering news beyond eighth grade.
While reading scores stayed roughly the same and science scores rose modestly in middle and high schools, the percentage of students scoring at grade level or above in math fell in six of seven grades tested.
"Obviously an area that we have a lot of work to do," Lawrence said.
The state results included scores for reading in grades 4-10; for math in grades 4-8 and 10; and for the science test, which is given in grades 5, 8 and 11.
Because the reading and math tests were new — and based on tougher standards — it's hard to compare how students did this year vs. last. The state used a statistical method that it likened to grading on a curve.
The percentage of students statewide who scored in each of the five achievement levels are the same as last year. But the percentage at the district and school levels varied.
The comparison is valid, Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith said in a conference call. "I don't think there's any excuse for poor performance because of the process we're going through right now."
The results come as Florida's testing regimen is in transition.
Most of the reading and math tests this year were new versions, dubbed FCAT 2.0. The ninth-grade math test was dropped as students began taking an end-of-course exam in Algebra I. The 10th-grade math test was used for the last time.
Pinellas was anticipating other changes when it ramped up Algebra I in middle school. Chief among them: new graduation requirements that will make Algebra II a must-pass for students entering ninth grade in 2012.
The result: The number of middle school students taking Algebra I rose from 3,529 last year to 7,391 this year.
The shift proved challenging for students and teachers.
Many eighth-graders had to take two exams: the Algebra I end of course exam and the FCAT, which tested students on topics they learned two to three years ago.
"Teachers should have been making sure they were teaching both things," said Corbett at Morgan Fitzgerald. "I'm not sure we gave them the level of support they need."
"If you don't use it, you lose it," said Debbie Georgia, a math teacher at Tyrone Middle, referring to students. "There is rigor in the courses but the testing hasn't caught up.
Times correspondent Sylvia Lim contributed to this report. Ron Matus can be reached at email@example.com or (727) 893-8873.
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Find the top rated birding trails in Baker City, whether you're looking for an easy short birding trail or a long birding trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a birding trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
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By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter
These tough economic times are hitting everyone, even former reality stars.
Coupons in hand, the 36-year-old mother of eight hit up Target and Bed, Bath and Beyond to pick up cart loads of stuff for her family.
Since the end of her TLC reality show Kate Plus 8 she has said that she worries about the future finances of the family she heads up as a single mom without a job.
“The scary reality is, 12-hour nursing shifts every day wouldn’t let me continue to provide well for eight kids, essentially on my own,” Kate said about returning to her previous nursing career. “When you think about it that way, it gets really scary.”
Well hopefully she’s saving enough using those coupons to help feed her eight children!
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I'll show you how to do this one….
……..and how to do an awesome journal page using your practice copy from the first project.
So this variation of my self portrait lesson was done with grade 4.
We put a bit of a math spin on it, discussing fractions when drawing the proportions of the face. We also did patterns for the background.
- we used 12"x12" hardboards for our backgrounds, you could use paper or cardboard
- acrylic paint
- good quality drawing paper
- pencil and white drawing erasers (Staedtler or triangular drafting erasers). I have a class set that travels with me and I tell the kids don't use your pink erasers or the one on the end of your pencil.
- coloured pencils or pencil crayons
- fine sharpies
- printmaking shapes, I use cut up pool noodles and these foam blocks I got from the Dollar Store (circles, triangles, squares, etc.), recycled corks from wine bottles, little cups
- scissors and glue
- Mod Podge or Duraclear for sealing, optional
Self Portrait Board:
Now I do self portraits a lot so I have a full class set of mirrors. I got mine at the Dollar Store. I added some hockey tape to any that did not seem too sturdy. Kids can be a bit rough with them.
They are a worthwhile investment for any school as each class can do several portrait drawing projects throughout the year.
We start off doing a practice portrait using regular copier paper. We go step by step as a class.
The hardest part is getting the kids to sketch lightly until they are ready to commit.
My directions for drawing a face can be found HERE and depending on the age of the students I'll also give them a handout or have large step by step pictures up on the board.
When the practice drawing is done I give them a piece of good quality drawing paper.
For this variation I had them do the face shape, ears, neck and shoulders, and outline of the hair.
They then used some flesh tone acrylic paint and painted in the face, ears, and neck.
I keep 3 main colours of skin tone premixed. (light, medium, and dark). The kids can usually find a good match but we can alter if we need too.
Let face dry.
While the face is drying paint the 12"x12" hardboard or background a solid colour.
Your face should be dry now. Using a light hand with the pencil sketch in the rest of the proportions.
Add the eyes, nose and mouth.
When the features are drawn in pencil we added some white paint with a tiny brush for the eyeball.
Now add colour and shading with your coloured pencils.
Your background board will be dry now. We added patterns to ours and I'll describe how we did this when we do the art journal page.
Cut out your portrait and glue on top of your background.
Art Journal Page:
This is a great project if your students are really self conscious about their drawings. By painting it a different colour, almost like a fauvist portrait, it helps them loosen up a bit. They won't expect it to be perfect.
Take your practice drawing. This is one of my student's.
Go over the outline with a black sharpie.
Squeeze a little acrylic or tempera onto your palette.
Add water to make it inky.
Paint over your drawing.
Paint in the whites of the eyes.
Add detail and shading with your coloured pencils.
Paint a background colour on to your art journal page.
Now add some prints. I'm using sequin waste paper, cut up pool noodles, corks, little cups, etc.
For the first project the Grade 4's chose 2 shapes and then made repeating patterns on their backgrounds.
While the paint is out do the opposite page so you have a background ready to go for next time.
I used the leftover blue paint as the main colour.
Add some stamps.
And then I added this ADMIT ONE ticket.
That's it, you just completed 2 great projects.
Take care everyone.
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Dress up your Holidays with a dash of dental humor! Our Halloween dental shirts are the perfect choice for dental hygiene staff , dental students, and dentists looking to add a touch of spooky fun to their work attire. Featuring dental-themed graphics and HalloThanksmas design, these shirts allow you to showcase your passion for dental care while embracing the Holiday spirit. Whether you’re working in the office or handing out treats, these shirts are a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday and spread smiles along the way. Make your Halloween both toothy and spooky with our dental-themed shirts!
This classic UNISEX jersey short sleeve tee fits like a well-loved favorite. Our designs are printed DTG (direct to garment) on high-quality Bella + Canvas brand tees. These t-shirts have-ribbed knit collars to bolster shaping. The shoulders have taping for better fit over time. Dual side seams hold the garment’s shape for longer.
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Prince William Leaving Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Job
Prince William ready for a job change. The heir to the British throne, 30, has submitted his formal notice with the Search and Rescue Force at Royal Air Force Valley in Anglesey, Wales, a military source confirms exclusively to Us Weekly. The helicopter pilot's current tour with the RAF concludes this summer.
"William is ready to take on new challenges - as a royal and within the armed forces," the insider explains. Indeed, come July, William and pregnant wife Kate Middleton will take on the biggest new challenge of all: Parenthood!
The source adds that William "will be making an announcement within the next month and leave RAF Valley around the time of the birth."
"The decision as to what the Duke will do once his current tour with the Search and Rescue Force comes to an end in late summer is still with the Duke himself," William's press officer explained to Us when asked about the royal's career plans. (It was announced on Tuesday, March 26 that Britain's search-and-rescue helicopter service is set to be privatized, after being operated by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force for more than 50 years. Texas-based firm Bristow scored the winning bid to operate Britain's "SAR" going forward.)
This week, William and Kate, 31, are spending some "time together" at their Anglesey cottage, another source tells Us. It's actually the Duchess of Cambridge's first stay in Anglesey since she became pregnant late last year. "She is feeling great at the moment," the source adds.
Until now, Kate and William have endured a modified long distance scenario during the pregnancy -- with the Duchess staying behind at their Kensington Palace residence in London. "William wishes he could be there with Kate more, but it's not possible every day," a royal source says. "They make it work as best they can."
During William's absences, the mom-to-be has been tending to her charity engagements and patronages -- and honing her Photoshop skills. "She has been working away on a photo project that she's not telling anyone about yet," the source says.
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Calyceraceae, family of small and economically unimportant dicotyledonous flowering plants containing six genera (Boöpis, Calycera, Acicarpha, Acarpha, Gamocarpha, and Moschopsis) with 60 species distributed in Central and South America. One species (Acicarpha tribuloides) occurs as a roadside weed in Florida.
Plants of this group are small herbs, occasionally somewhat woody near the base, with alternating leaves and with flowers in dense heads surrounded by a series of small, green, leaflike bracts (an involucre). The flowers are bisexual or separately male and female, have an inferior, one-chambered ovary (i.e., with the other floral parts arising at the upper end of the female structure), and have a four- to six-part, sometimes leafy, calyx (fused sepals) and a tubular or more open corolla (fused petals) of four to six lobes. The anthers (male pollen-producing structures) number four to six and arise from near the mouth of the corolla in positions alternating with the corolla lobes.
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I have to confess, I’ve been spending a lot of time on twitter this week. I’ve been watching, in real time, the struggle of US journalists who suddenly found themselves in an alternative reality and were scrambling to figure out how to respond.
I have been watching people move through the stages of grief as they face the possibility they are about to lose everything they took for granted. First denial – it can’t be that bad, I’m sure it will all settle down. Then the second stage, anger – we’re going to march! We will resist!
I have laughed out loud at the Badlands National Parks Service as they defied their social media executive gag order to tweet things like this:
But this isn’t a death so much as a revolution in consciousness. We’ll be talking about the changing concept of death in the next few weeks.
Here’s a fun fact, the asteroid Atlantis is currently making a channel with the planet of authoritarianism, Saturn. (Saturn in 11.2 and Atlantis in 56.1) You probably know Atlantis as the city that sank below the sea.
But more importantly for our purposes today, it was part of a story written by Plato about his ideal state “The Republic” being set upon by another power (think evil empire). Yes this may be sounding strangely familiar to Star Wars fans!
Atlantis was a prosperous place, but they were greedy and expansionist, militaristic and agressive. Despite Atlantis having overtaken many other nations, The Republic was able to repel their attack so successfully that Atlantis fell out of favor with the gods and sank into the Atlantic Ocean.
When I read this, back in September as I was researching the 2017 transits, I was taken by the idea of the USA , aka The Republic, finally overthrowing authoritarianism where so many other countries have failed to do so. Some of you will roll your eyes at this, I can see you doing it! 🙂 .
Another version is that the US is Atlantis, expansionary, militaristic, and they are about to submerge. Look, see how I did alternative facts just there!
But seriously, this is a fascinating array of symbolism which is affecting our geopolitics right now, especially as Saturn nears the Galactic Centre.
The reason I chose the first version – where the USA is The Republic overcoming evil – is that it fits better with the overal transit picture, which is massive global change triggered by the country of revolution – USA. In the US Human Design chart, their Uranus activation reads:
You have the initiative. Your own inner motivation and enthusiasm can become a magnetic, creative force and bring you what you seek. Even if it’s hard to imagine how success could be possible, there’s no need to doubt yourself. The very fact that you imagine the possibility gives it the space and energy to grow. Your willingness is at the centre, both gathering your own strengths and resources and also inspiring a response in others.
A great example of this is Madeleine Albright’s call for everyone to register as muslim in response to the executive’s proposed ban on muslim immigration and threatened deportations. Perhaps we are seeing right here the destruction of the consciousness which created all that neo-liberal plundering, all that authoritarian control. There is a rich symbolism in the Atlantean story, no matter how you choose to read it.
Country charts are incredibly fascinating, but let’s move along.
This week we have been discovering what’s important. The Sun in Gate 41 bought some hard choices. What do I need to sacrifice in order to hold onto what is essential? What new influences are stirring me to collective action?
Life is removing your comfort zone and replacing it with the possibility of living in a creative universe of uncertainty and wonder.
January’s New Moon tomorrow brings a shift in energies. We become sensitive to the process. We begin to sense the emergent potential. We are moved to take more responsibility for what is coming into being. We take action to get clear of old patterns and beliefs that could pull us back. We start out in a new direction, even though we may feel limited in our influence.
Members of MyDivine.Design can click the image to access interactive chart
Right now, its as if life is giving us the opportunity of a promotion. The trick here is that it doesn’t feel like anything you’ve known before. That’s because it’s a quantum leap out of your old life. It will feel uncertain, it will feel unformed, it will feel as if you are creating it rather than it being handed to you, it will feel unsure. You cannot know if it will succeed.
Notice I said the opportunity of a promotion.
This comes from Jupiter and Pluto. Jupiter says look at this wonderful thing I have for you! And when you reach for it, Jupiter morphs into Saturn and says but you have to work to make the best of it!
Pluto joins in the chorus, things will never be the same again. YOU will never be the same again!
On the New Moon, the Sun is in Gate 19, bringing up all our survival fears whilst demanding we step into the pathway of a personal and collective revolution. It’s a tough juggling act, to balance the fear and the excitement!
My favourite thing here is Damocles in the adjoining gate. Here is a trigger to you claiming the power of your own truth. It is you, not the authoritarians, who create your own truth. It is you who create your world and no-one has more power to do so than you.
If you’ve coached with me, you probably know this story. I remember years ago, my partner and I went away camping for a few days. It was wickedly hot and there were horrendous winds blowing but we found a lovely protected spot by a waterhole and stayed a few days. On the way home we drove down the mountain for a swim in the ocean and then meandered up the coast till we got home. We arrived to wailing and keening. Our friends had thought us lost to terrible bushfires that had been all around us. We were safe and oblivious. It was a very powerful message to me about staying in my own reality.
The asteroid Isis is also in Gate 19 line 1. Expect a lot of talk about terrorism this week, but I don’t see anything suggesting actual violence. I suspect this will be more about teasing out the rhetoric, which can do as much harm as the actions of terrorists.
The really fabulous thing about Isis is that she was one of the major goddess figures, and in astrology represents finding the missing piece of our capacity to create and manifest. That feels better than worrying about terrorism!
The Earth is in the Gate of Retreat, so you may feel like taking a few quiet days to yourself. Gate 33 is all about making a strategic withdrawal from what may harm you. It is better to bide your time before you take action from a better more conscious place, rather than get pulled back into acting from old energies.
Focus your sensitivity on the subtle emergent potential, an inkling of connection with powerful incoming feminine energies. What can you do to channel more of it into your life, and into the collective?
And I will leave you with the ever wonderful Abraham, talking politics.
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The Subaru brand manufactures cars and SUVs with all-wheel-drive powertrains and available turbochargers, which facilitate sharp performance, while still remaining discreet and versatile enough to serve as reliable family cars. In fact, Subaru vehicles boast some of the industry’s best crash test scores.
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New York Breaks – Beyond the Musical
However popular a Broadway Musical might be, New York Breaks have so much more to offer than just high kicking chorus lines, drama queens and show-stopping production numbers. So we have a series of themed New York City breaks to get your imagination going.
Of course New York has its fair share of romantic locations – check out our 3 day 2 night breaks including a romantic dinner cruises down the Hudson River. Entertainment highlights to your New York break include Sex and the City tours, VIP entrance at the famous Ha New York Comedy Club or what about a private personal shopping tour or a more general private tour if the shops are too tempting!
And just when you thought you had seen enough why not top ofgf the whole trip with a Helicopter flight over this unforgettable city.
Then we have cultural breaks including the world famous Museum of Modern Art which is among the best sights of the City – the building itself is a piece of modern art and the permanent collection is really varied (from paintings to industrial design) but can still be covered in a single visit.
New York is also a super place to bring the family: a new experience is never more accutely enjoyed than through the eyes of your own children.
New York Hotels
From the Affinia Manhatten to the Waldorf Astoria, we offer a range of 22 New York Hotels. The list features well known brands and not so well known hidden gems – all specially chosen for a short New York City Break.
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