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Today is the day. Four years. If my grief were a high school student, it would have received it's diploma. For the past few weeks I've been trying to figure out how to put my thoughts into words. When my father's illness progressed, I made the decision to chronicle my process and blogging my way through has been very healing.
Reflecting on my fourth year without my father has been bittersweet. There is a feeling of both guilt and relief when you get through another year feeling a little less worse than the year before. At different times over the past few years I'd wished I just never knew him, because through the fog of grief it seems like a less painful option than accepting the loss. Don't get me wrong, it still gets me. The grief monster still lurks in the shadows. Oh.... sometimes it gets me BAD. Every time I see a father/daughter dance at a wedding or overhear a laugh or sound that reminds me of him, my heart breaks with a true and deep ache that I don't think will ever go away. Four years later, I've learned to live with the ache.
I will be forever grateful that I had my dad for 26 years. He was one-of-a-kind and the best father I could have ever hoped for. He may have been the gambler, but when he and my mother adopted me and took my colic-y infant self home from the hospital I was the one that won the lottery. I'm forever a daddy's girl. I still miss him so much- and that will never change.
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Waste to Worth home | More proceedings….
The home screen of the Manure Calculator app.
Technology is driving many exciting possibilities in agriculture. The increase in use of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices is changing the way people consume information and interact with each other. One exciting opportunity is to utilize smartphone apps to make farm record keeping easier. With that in mind, two apps were created for livestock and poultry farms, "Manure Calculator" and "Manure Monitor".
Why Create Apps for Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship?
Concerns about the digital divide and access to technology often mean that educators try to ensure educational materials are available in paper or other common formats. The creation of apps seems like a tool that would be available only to a select group. The reality is that mobile technologies are leapfrogging the traditional use of computers or laptops and many are gaining access to digital information through mobile devices of their own or those accessed through an adviser or educator. We believe that mobile apps have potential to actually increase the reach of credible, research-based information to audiences that may be underserved through traditional educational outreach.
One of the problems with record-keeping is that these are seen as an 'add-on' or additional chore beyond what a farmer would normally do. Incorporating records or planning processes into mobile devices can lower this inconvenience factor since users usually keep their mobile devices with them all the time and are comfortable using them.
Last, but not least, farmers are becoming more aware of the need to communicate their actions and stewardship ethics to audiences not familiar with agriculture. Social media, blogs, and crowdsourcing sites (like Reddit or Wikipedia) make it more possible than ever for farmers to interact with people that have questions or are skeptical about certain farming practices. Keeping records or developing plans on a mobile device makes it easier to share actions and activities and potentially counteract negative or misleading information that is circulated through the same media.
Home screen for the Manure Monitor app.
What Did We Do?
"Manure Calculator" has three sections. 1) calculate the amount of manure spread (calibrate your spreader) 2) calculate the amount of nutrients applied by using either your own manure test or using book values and 3) calculate the economic value of that manure. The app keeps a history of past entries and allows the user to email a single entry or an entire history to themselves for record keeping purposes. The value section was based on an existing spreadsheet from the University of Nebraska. The book values section was based on the ASABE 384.2 Manure Production and Characteristics standard.
The apps can be accessed by searching for "Manure Calculator" or "Manure Monitor" in your app store or using the links below:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/manure-calculator/id564930746?ls=1&mt=8
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movecreative.manurecalculatorandroid&hl=en
"Manure Monitor" is a utility that includes a farm emergency plan (for manure spills). The plan is updated by one person and everyone else can "sync" with that plan from their own devices. Other aspects of the app do not sync, but include carcass disposal, rainfall records, liquid manure storage levels, and others.
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movecreative.feedlotandroid&hl=en
Future Plans
We believe that two of the concerns for app development are:
1) The cost to develop apps. When looking at such a specific topic as manure management or environmental records, the cost is usually the first question asked by other educators or agency staff and it can be substantial. Our plan is to make this app code available to others that would like to customize or build on the app for their clientele (specific species or specific state). This will hopefully lower the cost of development for others AND lead to app versions that are more useful to farmers. It is also important to recognize that creating both of these apps was actually less expensive than funds needed to develop some of the traditional educational modules in this same project.
2) Integration into software. We believe apps can be even more useful if they provide a simple way to enter data into software being used for comprehensive planning or record keeping procedures. Software companies interested in integrating these apps into data entry will be welcomed.
Jill Heemstra, University of Nebraska email@example.com
This program originated thanks to funding from the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) under award #2009-49400-05871. This project is a joint effort between University of Nebraska, Montana State University, Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center and the National Young Farmers Educational Association (NYFEA).
App developer: Jeff Abele from Move Creative http://movecreative.com
We would like to thank the following people for their feedback and reviews of the apps:
Leslie Johnson, Charles Shapiro, William Kranz, Larry Howard, and Rick Koelsch, University of Nebraska; Mark Risse and Melony Wilson, University of Georgia; Laura Pepple, University of Illinois; Amanda Douridas, Ohio State University; Thomas Bass, Montana; Saqib Mukhtar, Texas AgriLife Extension; Rhonda Miller, Utah State University; and many others.
The authors are solely responsible for the content of these proceedings. The technical information does not necessarily reflect the official position of the sponsoring agencies or institutions represented by planning committee members, and inclusion and distribution herein does not constitute an endorsement of views expressed by the same. Printed materials included herein are not refereed publications. Citations should appear as follows. EXAMPLE: Authors. 2013. Title of presentation. Waste to Worth: Spreading Science and Solutions. Denver, CO. April 1-5, 2013. URL of this page. Accessed on: today's date.


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Plastic Processing Equipment
The family of polymers is extraordinarily large and varied. There are, however, some fairly broad and basic approaches that can be followed when designing or fabricating a product out of polymers or, more commonly, polymers compounded with other ingredients. The type of fabrication process to be adopted depends on the properties and characteristics of the polymer and on the shape and form of the final product.
In the broad classification of plastics there are two generally accepted categories: thermoplastic resins and thermosetting resins.
Thermoplastic resins consist of long polymer molecules, each of which may or may not have side chains or groups. The side chains or groups, if present, are not linked to other polymer molecules (i.e., are not cross-linked). Thermoplastic resins, usually obtained as a granular polymer, can therefore be repeatedly melted or solidified by heating or cooling. Heat softens or melts the material so that it can be formed; subsequent cooling then hardens or solidifies the material in the given shape. No chemical change usually takes place during this shaping process.
In thermosetting resins the reactive groups of the molecules from cross-links between the molecules during the fabrication process. The cross-linked or "cured" material cannot be softened by heating.
Thermoset materials are usually supplied as a partially polymerized molding compound or as a liquid monomer–polymer mixture. In this uncured condition they can be shaped with or without pressure and polymerized to the cured state with chemicals or heat.
With the progress of technology the demarcation between thermoplastic and thermoset processing has become less distinct. For thermosets processes have been developed which make use of the economic processing characteristics or thermoplastics. For example, cross-linked polyethylene wire coating is made by extruding the thermoplastic polyethylene, which is then cross-linked (either chemically or by irradiation) to form what is actually a thermoset material that cannot be melted again by heating.
More recently, modified machinery and molding compositions have become available to provide the economics of thermoplastic processing to thermosetting materials. Injection molding of phenolics and other thermosetting materials are such examples. Nevertheless, it is still a widespread practice in industry to distinguish between thermoplastic and thermosetting resins.
Compression and transfer molding are the most common methods of processing thermosetting plastics. For thermoplastics, the more important processing techniques are extrusion, injection, blow molding, and calendaring; other processes are thermoforming, slush molding, and spinning.
Tooling for plastics processing defines the shape of the part. It falls into two major categories, molds and dies. A mold is used to form a complete three-dimensional plastic part. The plastics processes that use molds are compression molding, injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, and reaction injection molding (RIM). A die, on the other hand, is used to form two of the three dimensions of a plastic part. The third dimension, usually thickness or length, is controlled by other process variables.
The plastics processes that use dies are extrusion and thermoforming. Many plastics processes do not differentiate between the terms mold and die. Molds, however, are the most predominant form of plastics tooling.
Types of Molds for Plastic Processing Equipment
The basic types of mold, regardless of whether they are compression, injection, transfer, or even blow molds, are usually classified by the type and number of cavities they have. For example, Figure below illustrates three mold types: (a) single-cavity, (b) dedicated multiple-cavity, and (c) family multiple cavity.
Single-cavity mold represents one of the simplest mold concepts. This design lends itself to low-volume production and to large plastic part designs. The multiple-cavity molds may be of two types. A dedicated multiple-cavity mold has cavities that produce the same part. This type of mold is very popular because it is easy to balance the plastic flow and establish a controlled process. In a family multiple-cavity mold , each cavity may produce a different part. Historically, family mold designs were avoided because of difficulty in filling uniformly; however, recent advances in mold making and gating technology make family molds appealing. This is the case especially when a processor has a multiple-part assembly and would like to keep inventories balanced.
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Types of Dies for Plastic Processing Equipment
Within the plastics industry, the term die is most often applied to the processes of extrusion (see EXTRUSION). Extrusion dies may be categorized by the type of product being produced (e.g., film, sheet, profile, or coextrusion), but they all have some common features as described below.
1. Steel. The extrusion process being continuous, both erosion and corrosion are significant factors.
Hence the dies must be made of a high-quality tool steel, hardened so that the areas that contact the plastic material do not erode. Additionally, many dies have a dense, hard chrome plating in the area where plastic melt contacts the die.
2. Heaters. Extrusion dies are to be heated in order to maintain a melt flow condition for the plastic material. Most of the heaters are cartridge-type elements that slip fit into the die at particular locations. In addition to the heaters, the dies have to accommodate temperature sensors, such as thermocouples.
3. Melt Pressure. Many sophisticated dies are equipped with sensors that monitor melt pressure. This allows the processor to better monitor ad control the process.
4. Parting Line. Large extrusion dies must be able to separate at the melt flow line for easier fabrication and maintenance. Smaller extrusion dies may not have a parting area, because they can be constructed in one piece.
5. Die Swell Compensation. The polymer melt swells when it exits the die, as explained previously.
This die swell is a function of the type of plastic material, the melt temperature, the melt pressure, and the die configuration. The die must be compensated for die swell so that the extruded part has the corrected shape and dimensions. Molds and dies for different fabrication processes will be
described later in more detail when the processes are discussed in coming posts on our site.
This concludes our informative post on Plastic Processing Equipment and you should have a clear idea about it by now. If you have any doubts then read the post again. In case of more queries, contact me and I will answer you as ASAP. Also, feel free to add comments below to get answers quickly and help others. For more informative posts on Plastic Injection Mold Design, be sure to bookmark this page and check back regularly.
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The news peg for the item was a letter written by Norman Lamb MP (Liberal Democrat), Coalition Minister of State for Care and Support, and sent to the chief executives of all the acute hospital trusts in England. He wrote it with Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, and it was the politest of polite letters.
Ungratefully, I was horrified by this. Huh! I thought, who the hell thinks they have any jurisdiction about who stays with whom when they are dying? I checked it out with Maggie Stobbart Rowlands who is the lead nurse of the Gold Standards Framework (leading providers of end-of-life training) and she was pretty surprised as well. It's not just a phrase in a letter, however, it's a proper 'aspiration' in the PM's 2020 Challenge on Dementia (page 37). In fact, the PM is making an important point: currently there is a real problem around dying. Only today (8th April 2015) there was an article in the Nursing Times which said that "only around half of nurses and other frontline clinicians delivering care for people with terminal illnesses believe that patient's needs are being adequately met." And dementia IS a terminal illness – as Maggie Stobbart Rowlands pointed out to care home managers at a recent Gold Standards Framework conference.
So that was nice (it was, honestly) but John's Campaign is for the RIGHT of carers to remain with a person with dementia if they are admitted to hospital. It's also for the RIGHT of that person to have their carer with them. It's a human right, just as it is for children to be accompanied by their parents. And, so far, the only politician who has nailed his colours to the mast of entitlement is Andy Burnham of the Labour Party, the most recent shadow Secretary of State for Health. He is committed, he says, to the idea of "Whole Person Care". Much of that personal commitment stems from the moment he discovered he, even as a health minister, was unable to make it possible for his dying sister-in-law to return home to die with her children around her. So, if elected, he pledges that he will revise the NHS constitution to make it a RIGHT for people to remain together with those they love.
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Social Innovation for Sustainable Arctic Resource Development (SISARD)
SISARD 2018 Proposal Final Version (November 2018)
Initial Subproject Draft Descriptions (November 2018)
Detailed Description of SISARD (2018)
SISARD Summary 2018
Knowledge Mobilization/Sharing Plan SISARD 2018
This project builds on the growing body of social science and humanities research dealing with extractive industry impacts in the Arctic by focusing on how communities can best ensure that any short-term benefits of extractive resource development can be transformed into long-term sustainable activities. It builds on the successes of our existing network of partners and academics created around the theme of the northern social economy (SERNNoCa 2006-2011) and which later focused on extractive resource development (ReSDA 2011 – 2018). These networks produced a large number of academic publications as well as practical outcomes and networking opportunities for northerners. Although much was learned from this work, there are many more issues of social, economic, cultural and environmental significance that require research. Our northern partners still struggle with many complex questions about the sustainability of their communities and economies.
The proposed project would address these gaps and questions through the lens of social innovation. For our purposes, social innovation is seen as a process of developing new social practices to better meet human needs that are currently being unmet with an emphasis on empowering communities. It is an extension of terms such as social economy and social enterprise. Recent research has pointed to the usefulness of this concept for regional and community development.
Over the past year, the research team has met with territorial and regional Aboriginal governments, concerned communities and research institutes and colleges in northern Canada. These partners, along with many researchers in a range of disciplines, have developed a series of research questions which fall along four (4) main challenge areas:
- managing impacts on northern communities;
- food security, subsistence, and culture;
- enhancing community well-being; and
- building capacity and diversifying the economy.
Draft – Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) Network Research Agreement for the proposed SISARD project.
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Underlapping toes usually involve the fourth and fifth toes. (A special form of underlapping toes is called congenital curly toes). The cause of underlapping toes is unknown. It is speculated that they may be caused by an imbalance in muscle strength of the small muscles of the foot. If deformed toes are flexible, a simple release of the tendon in the bottom of the toe will allow for them to straighten. If the deformity is rigid, surgery may be needed to remove a small portion of the bone in the toe.


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Hollyweerd feat. Grip Plyaz – She's So ATL
May 25th, 2009 by Larry
Hollyweerd teams up with Grip Plyaz on a new track that reference's life in Atlanta. This seems to be a winning formula for Grip, as we recently heard him crush the track on DJ Smile's Atlanta Bitch.
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Quote; Thomas Jefferson
"I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs". - Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
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Gulliver is the main protagonist in the story, Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver is a man who loves the ocean and all the adventure it brings. Gulliver ends up on four separate occasions lost at sea (capsizing, mutiny, stranded, etc..) where he washes up on unknown islands and meeting new cultures. Gulliver has a family back home in England and constantly leaves them. On the last adventure he plans to never go home.
Gulliver fancies himself an above average human being, but as the book progresses he finds out that that doesn't mean anything if one is morally corrupt. Each new society teaches him something new until he realizes humans are, by nature, flawed. This knowledge really ends up messing with him when he is forcibly returned home from his last adventure.
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Release peaceful protesters
Several human rights organizations including Civil Rights Defenders condemn the recent arrests of peaceful demonstrators in Belarus. We call upon the Belarusian authorities to immediately release all protesters from prisons and respect the right to freedom of assembly to all its citizens.
In the past several months, the dissenting civil activists have been organizing silent protests to protest peacefully against the increasingly repressive Belarusian government. Since 15 June 2011, at least 1730 people were arrested during peaceful demonstrations across the country. On 6 July 2011, more than 400 participants of silent protesters, including at least 28 journalists, were arrested all over the country.
Harsh treatment of peaceful protesters and dispersal of demonstrations are clear violations of the right to freedom of assembly. The right of peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Belarus is a party. The right to peaceful assembly is also established in Article 35 of the Belarusian Constitution.
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March 13, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 4 Ohio State men's gymnastics team hosts No. 1 Oklahoma and Temple Saturday at St. John Arena at 4 p.m. in its last home meet of the season. The Buckeyes will honor seniors Will Jeffreys, Brandän Jones, Misha Koudinov, Michael Newburger and Nick Tagliaferro in a ceremony prior to the meet.
Admission to the meet is free, and live results can be found on the men's gymnastics schedule page at OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Fans can also follow the team on Twitter (@OhioState_MGYM) for live updates.
Ohio State posted its second-highest team score this season March 8 at Burnham Pavilion in Palo Alto, Calif., earning an overall score of 442.40 en route to a second-place finish against No. 2 Stanford, No. 10 California and Arizona State.
Two Buckeyes claimed individual event titles at the quad meet. Junior Danny Steiner won floor exercise with a season-high 15.35 and Newburger claimed his third individual event title this season on pommel horse with a 15.70.
In addition, Ohio State posted a season best score of 74.05 on floor exercise and a program best score of 74.25 on pommel horse to win both team events.
Oklahoma comes into St. John Arena Saturday ranked No. 1 in the nation in the latest GymInfo poll with a four score average of 443.283.
The Sooners rank within the Top 5 on all six events. The team is No. 1 on floor exercise (75.983) and rings (74.833), No. 2 on pommel horse (73.383) and No. 4 on vault (73.683), parallel bars (72.667) and high bar (72.467).
Individually, Oklahoma holds No. 1 rankings on floor exercise and rings as junior Alec Robin claims the top spot on floor exercise with an average score of 15.467 and junior Michael Squires claims the top spot on rings with an average score of 15.983.
Additionally, junior Sergey Resnick ranks No. 3 on parallel bars (15.117) and No. 4 on pommel horse (14.917), while freshman Colin Van Wicklen ranks No. 5 on floor exercise (15.217) and senior Stanton Rehkemper ranks No. 5 on high bar (15.017). The Sooners are led by junior Danny Berardini in the all-around as he holds the No. 8 spot with an average score of 84.033.
The Buckeyes rank No. 4 in the nation in the most recent GymInfo poll with a four score average of 439.750. Ohio State ranks No. 1 on pommel horse (73.417) and high bar (73.200), No. 3 on vault (73.700) and parallel bars (72.917), No. 7 on rings (73.450) and No. 10 on floor exercise (72.283).
Individually, eight Buckeyes are ranked within the Top 20 on all six events.
Newburger continues to pace the team on pommel horse, holding the No. 1 spot on the event (15.483). Behind Newburger, freshman Sean Melton holds the No. 4 ranking (14.917), sophomore Jake Martin ranks No. 11 (14.700) and freshman Jake Dastrup rounds out the top Buckeyes with a No. 16 ranking (14.617).
On rings, junior Drew Moling comes in at No. 5 (15.400), while Martin paves the way for the Buckeyes on vault, as he is currently No. 2 on the event (15.133). Following Martin, Dastrup ranks No. 12 (14.867) and freshman Logan Melander ranks No. 16 (14.817).
On parallel bars, Melton ranks No. 4 (15.050) while senior Misha Koudinov ranks No. 12 (14.800) and Dastrup ranks No. 18 (14.717).
Four Buckeyes currently hold rankings on high bar. Martin paves the way at No. 5 (15.000), while sophomore Alex Johnson ranks No. 4 (14.967), Melton ranks No. 9 (14.817), and junior Alex Nork ranks No. 13 (14.700).
The Buckeyes have collected four Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honors and three Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors this year, earning seven out of a possible 18 Big Ten Gymnast and Freshman of the Week awards throughout the 2014 season.
Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 20) – Michael Newburger
Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 3) – Jake Martin
Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 17) – Jake Martin
Big Ten Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 24) – Sean Melton
Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Feb.17) – Sean Melton
Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Feb. 24) – Sean Melton
Big Ten Freshman of the Week (March 10) – Sean Melton
Three Buckeyes have also earned Division I CGA (College Gymnastics Association) Gymnast of the Week Awards this season.
CGA Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 23) – Michael Newburger
CGA Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 16) – Jake Martin
CGA Gymnast of the Week (Feb. 27) – Sean Melton
Newburger became the 12th Buckeye in 16 years to be named a Nissen-Emery Finalist when the College Gymnastics Association announced the final candidates Wednesday.
Four Buckeyes have won the esteemed award, including Mike Racanelli in 1990, Kip Simons in 1994, Blaine Wilson in 1997 and Jamie Natalie in 2001. Since the award inception in 1966, only Oklahoma and Penn State have had more gymnasts garner the recognition with seven and six wins, respectively.
The winner will be announced at the University of Michigan during the CGA Awards Banquet which is being held at the Jack Roth Stadium Club on Wednesday, April 9, at 8 p.m. EST, in Ann Arbor, Mich., the site for this year's NCAA Championships.
Through the last day of February, six gymnasts were allowed to perform on each event with the top five scores counting toward the team score. As of Saturday, March 1, only five gymnasts are allowed to perform on each event with all five scores counting toward the overall team score.
Melton was named to the U.S. Senior Men's National Team at the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Cup. The freshman makes his second appearance on the team, as he was also a member of the U.S. Senior National Team in 2013. Melton joins former Buckeye Brandon Wynn in representing the Ohio State program.
In addition, Dastrup and classmate Andrew Rickly represent Ohio State as current members of the U.S. Junior Men's National Team.
Newburger has collected three event titles on pommel horse this season, bringing his career total to eight. The Austin, Texas, native earned his first title at the Windy City Invitational with an NCAA record 16.250, his second title against the Illini with a 16.200 and his third title against Stanford with a 15.700. The defending national champion on pommel horse, Newburger is the only gymnast in the past three years to score a 16.000 or above on pommel horse in NCAA competition, and currently ranks No. 1 on the event for the eighth consecutive week with a three score average of 15.483.
Two Buckeyes set or tied NCAA records at the 2014 Windy City Invitational. Newburger scored a career-high and Ohio State record 16.250 on pommel horse to earn the all-time best record on the event while junior Larry Mayer tied the all-time best record on vault with his career-high and Ohio State record score of 15.800.The previous NCAA record on pommel horse (16.00) was set by Daniel Ribeiro (Illinois) in 2009, while Mayer is now tied for the NCAA record on vault with Jake Dalton (Oklahoma), who originally set the current record in 2011.
The Buckeyes have a bye week before opening the postseason at the 2014 Big Ten Championships March 28-29 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb. The team and all-around competition will be held Friday while the individual event championships will take place Saturday. Competition is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET Friday and 5 p.m. ET Saturday.


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Brasseurs a la Maison, the largest homebrew club in Baton Rouge, is hosting their 3rd annual Iron Brewer event Saturday at Tin Roof Brewing. The event is a fundraiser for the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, and promises to be bigger and better than ever. The inaugural event in 2013 took place on a Friday night, and the 10 teams that participated poured all their beer in less than an hour and a half, while collecting over 1,300 pounds of food for the food bank.
In 2014, the event moved to a Saturday afternoon, more teams were involved, and each team doubled the amount of beer they brewed from the previous year. The result was a more laid back afternoon of tasting beers, and nearly 2,200 pounds of food was collected for the food bank.
Naturally, year 3 brings more teams, more beer, and hopefully, more food for the food bank. The 2015 event will see teams from all corners of the state (two teams are coming all the way from Shreveport!), and there will be over 300 gallons of homebrew served.
But what is Iron Brewer, you may ask? Well, each team was assigned a specific Louisiana grown ingredient, and told to brew a beer that prominently features that ingredient. Some of the ingredients used were coffee, molasses, peaches, satsumas, sweet potatoes, rice, pecans, strawberries, local honey, and even oysters! My team was assigned pecans, and we decided to brew a pecan strong ale called The Wrath of Pecan. The beer is dark brown to ruby in color, very malty, and the pecans come through in both the aroma and flavor. Did I mention it's 9% ABV? Our team went even further by aging 5 gallons of our beer on bourbon soaked pecans, which gives it a liquid praline character.
The event is free to the public, and runs from 1 until 4pm Saturday afternoon at Tin Roof Brewing. We ask that all attendees bring a non-perishable food item donation, which will allow them to vote on their favorite beer (which will no doubt be The Wrath of Pecan) for club bragging rights. But ultimately, this event is about collecting food and raising money for the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, and what better way to do it than by spending a beautiful Saturday afternoon outdoors tasting some of the fantastic creations by the homebrewers in our state?
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I added 109 Pleasantview Street, Roslindale to the MLS last night. You can click this link in order to view the listing. I decided not to add any interior photographs at this time because the seller has stuff in there, it's nice stuff but I find that I just end up mostly looking at people's stuff when I'm scanning the MLS and I'm afraid that buyers will do the same so getting buyers in there to actually look at Pleasantview Street and not Pleasantview Street's stuff is what I'm aiming at. Pleasantview Street is in nice condition because it was just built in 2003 and the seller has taken care of it so come take a look at the property at this Sunday's open house which is scheduled between 12 PM and 2 PM or set up an appointment anytime after that. The seller is requesting a twenty-four hour notice for viewings so that she has can get her house in order.
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(I thoroughly enjoyed Get Low which featured both Robert Duvall and Lucas Black and now they're both featured in this inspirational film.)
(I thoroughly enjoyed Get Low which featured both Robert Duvall and Lucas Black and now they're both featured in this inspirational film.)
"When Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black) has a catastrophic meltdown at a mini tour golf tournament, he is left broken and bitter. He is at the end of his rope. Embarrassed, he drives off from the tournament down the back roads of Texas and begins to analyze the destruction he is so desperate to leave behind. It is apparent that this is a defining moment in Luke's life. His golf game is in turmoil and as a result, his relationship with his caddy/father is seemingly strained beyond repair. It seems as if Luke's life is spinning out of control and he doesn't know how to stop it.
Just when he thought it couldn't get any worse, Luke soon wrecks his car at a fork in the road and finds himself stuck in a small town called Utopia, Texas….far from home.
Dazed and despaired, it is here in Utopia that Luke meets a man who will change his golf game and his life forever…Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). Johnny asks Luke to stay for seven days and embark on a journey that he will not soon forget.
Over the next week while he is stranded in Utopia, Luke learns more about golf, life and faith than he ever bargained for.
(Shown on right: Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Deborah Ann Woll, Melissa Leo)
Utopia is indeed a place of mythical proportion. But make no mistake about it….Utopia, Texas is real and its teachings are profound and everlasting. Join Luke on his journey in Utopia as he discovers his purpose through actions such as fly fishing, painting and flying planes. Follow him as he explores relationship with the likes of Sarah Hawkins (Deborah Ann Woll), Lily (Melissa Leo), Jake (Brian Geraghty) and Mabel (Kathy Baker). The lessons of Johnny Crawford and the values of Utopia, Texas effect Luke in a way he never thought possible.
Only in Utopia can you enter one day with the weight of the world on your shoulders and leave a week later ready to conquer life. Only in Utopia can you find love and your sense of purpose all over again. Johnny is no ordinary teacher and this is no ordinary town."
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Wear reducer
An improved ammunition propellant composition and method for reducing gun mber wear, erosion, flash and cook-off through use of an additive comprising a mixture of a super water absorbent starch modified polyacrylonitrile which has been subjected to alkaline saponification and water. The wear reducing additive is preferably formed into sheets which can be used with propellants selected from the group consisting of bagged propelling charges and cartridge cased propellants.
Latest The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Patents:
This invention relates to a novel chemical additive and method for use in an ammunition propellant system for reducing gun barrel thermal erosion, smoke and flash.
Gun barrel erosion has long been a problem with high flame temperature ammunition propellants and has become more difficult to solve as rates of fire are increased. Extended range requirements mandate the use of larger charges and higher flame temperature propellants. The combination of these conditions results in extreme conditions of gun barrel wear. Theoretically, gun barrel wear can be reduced by protecting the interior surface of the gun barrel against erosive action of the hot propellant gases. It is necessary to use inexpensive chemical additives to reduce gun barrel wear since tremendous quantities of artillery and tank ammunition propelling charges are manufactured for ordnance use.
Various materials have previously been suggested as wear reducing additives. In U.S. Pat. No. 3,148,620, Jacobson et al. disclosed a cartridge with a propellant charge and single projectile having a wear reducing additive comprising a layer of paraffin carrier material disposed around the charges having finely divided titanium dioxide in an amount to produce a temperature resistant barrel "protection" upon firing. Picard teaches that wear and erosion of gun members can be reduced when silicates (U.S. Pat. No. 3,392,669) and inorganic additive consisting of silica dioxide, magnesium oxide or mixtures thereof in the form of natural talc (U.S. Pat. No. 3,392,670) are added, respectively, to propellant systems.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,362,328, Katz discloses that fibers of polyester, acrylic, silk, wool, glass and asbestos in a wax dispersion containing calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, a calcium sulfate and titanium dioxide mixture, and a mixture of calcium carbonate and titanium dioxide can be applied to sheets in a propellant system to reduce wear and erosion.
The prior art methods of reducing wear all relate to the use of inorganic active ingredients which are costly, not readily available and which affect propellant performance. The instant invention relates to the use of an inexpensive and readily available organic material, i.e., a starch modified copolymer which has the ability to absorb many times its own weight in water with or without glycol, to reduce wear of gun members coming into contact with hot gases generated by propellant ignition.
The invention relates to an improved propellant system and method having a propellant charge and an additive for reducing gun member erosion and wear wherein the additive comprises a mixture of a starch-acrylonitrile copolymer which has been subjected to alkaline saponification to allow for absorption of large amounts of water. Upon propellant ignition, the additive mixture produces a laminar coolant layer on the surfaces of the gun members to thereby protect the members against wear while reducing smoke and muzzle flash.
It is a principal object of this invention to provide an economical chemical additive for use in propellant systems which will reduce wear and erosion in weapon members subjected to hot gases formed by propellant ignition.
It is another object of this invention to provide a method for reducing gun member erosion and wear through use of an additive comprising water and a starch-acrylonitrile copolymer which has been subjected to alkaline saponification to allow absorption of large amounts of water while maintaining geometric integrity.
It is a further object of this invention to provide bagged propelling charges and cartridges having economical and readily available chemical additives which produce a laminar cooling layer on the surface of gun members to protect them against wear upon ignition of the propellant.
It is a still further object of this invention to provide a propellant system having a wear reducing additive comprising sheets of a super water absorbent starch-acrylonitrile copolymer and water, which can be handled and assembled with a bagged propelling charge or within a cartridge case.
These and other objects of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a front elevation view, partly broken away, of a cartridge embodying an additive of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view of the unfolded sheet utilized in the cartridge of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a side view of a bagged propelling charge of separate loaded ammunition with the additive sheet.
The cartridge case shown in FIG. 1 is one embodiment of the invention having a metal case 10, a propellant charge 12 comprised of a suitable propellant selected for the particular ammunition, and a projectile 14. Within the case 10 and in close contact with the inner surface thereof is an envelope of plastic film 16, e.g., polyethylene, which acts as a moisture barrier and contains a sheet of the "super-slurper" starch-modified pplyacrylonitrile copolymer of this invention containing an absorbed water and glycol mixture.
FIG. 3 is a simplified representation of a conventional bagged propellant charge illustrating another embodiment of the invention. A polyethylene film envelope 20 containing a sheet of the "super-slurper" of this invention, which has absorbed thereon a water-glycol mixture, is placed around the conventional propellant charge, not shown, and within the propellant charge lacing jacket 18. The specific propellant charge components used are not critical to the invention and are, therefore, not shown in detail. In operation, the super-slurper sheets are simply placed within the lacking jacket, thus eliminating the costly and time-consuming prior art practice of sewing sheets of inorganic additive to the inside surface of the lacing jacket.
The present invention is based upon the discovery that by absorbing large amounts of water in starch-acrylonitrile copolymers, which have been subjected to alkaline saponification, as an additive a laminar coolant layer is produced on the gum member surfaces to be protected against wear. The additive has been found to be most efficient in greatly reducing gun barrel wear, smoke and flash upon ignition of the propellant.
The starch-acrylonitrile copolymers used in the propellant and method of this invention are prepared in accordance with the method disclosed in the U.S. Pat. No. 3,935,099 to Weaver et al. and U.S. Pat. No. 4,045,387 to Fanta et al. in which the method of making the copolymer a super-absorber of water, i.e., a "super-slurper" is disclosed.
The ability of the super-slurpers to absorb large amounts of water and maintain their geometric integrity allows sheets of super-slurper to be produced containing 10% or less of copolymer and 90% or more of water or water with ethylene glycol, to prevent freezing of water at low temperatures. These sheets can be handled and assembled with either a cartridge case or a bagged propelling charge.
The super-slurpers are inexpensive and readily obtainable materials which, when allowed to absorb up to 900 times their weight in water, or a water and glycol mixture, and then placed within a cartridge case, propellant container or propellant bagged charge, will reduce gun barrel erosion to a remarkably large degree upon ammunition firing. The glycol in the water-glycol mixture serves as an antifreeze and enhances the anti-erosion effect of the water.
The problems of flash suppression, cook off and erosion have previously been attacked by attempts to reduce the temperature in the firing cycle of all ordnance applications. Water by virtue of its low cost, general availability and uniquely high heat capacity, and heat of vaporization is a very attractive coolant, particularly in view of its non-toxic nature and its thermal stability up to very high temperatures. Previous attempts to use water as a flash suppressant by injection into the combustion gases of propellants have been theoretically successful, but clearly impractical from an operational point of view. The super-slurpers have been found to hold and retain large quantities of water, especially for high temperature short-time thermal environments, in the form of an essentially "solid water" which does not evaporate. When exposed to high temperatures, the high heat of vaporization of the water is available to absorb substantial amounts of heat, thus creating the desired cooling effect. The vaporization temperature of water is sufficiently low (100.degree. C.) to prevent cook off of ammunition rounds. As an additional feature, the super absorbers can be made in various physical forms, such as sheets and film, fiber and powders, while retaining their physical forms after water absorption.
The following examples are meant to be illustrative of the novel propellant additive and method of this invention and are not intended to be limiting upon the scope of the invention.
10 ounces (283.5 gr.) of starch modified polyacrylonitrile in sheet form prepared as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,045,387 and 3,935,099, were treated with water by spraying the polymer until 10 oz. (283.5 gr.) water were absorbed. The water-containing sheet was put in the extended configuration into a polyethylene envelope. The polyethylene was heat-sealed on all four sides.
Five ounces (141.75 gr.) of starch-modified polyacrylonitrile prepared as described in patents (Example 1) were treated with water by spraying a sheet of super-slurper until 15 oz. (425.25 gr.) of water were absorbed. The water containing sheet was placed in the extended form in a polyethylene envelope which was heat-sealed on all four sides.
Two ounces (56.7 gr.) of super-slurper prepared as described above were treated with a water/glycol mixture (80:20 ratio) by spraying a sheet of super-slurper until 18 oz. (510.3 gr.) of the mixture were absorbed. The wet sheet was placed in the extended form in a polyethylene envelope which was heat-sealed on all four sides.
Four ounces (113.4 gr.) of super-slurper were treated with 26 oz. (737.1 gr.) of water by spraying a sheet of super-slurper with water until all the water was absorbed. The wet sheet was placed in the extended form in an envelope of polyvinylidene-chloride film which was heat-sealed on all four sides.
The sheets prepared according to the above examples in envelopes are ready for use in cartridge cases or in separate loaded propelling charges. The weight of the super-slurper and water or water/glycol mixture is adjusted for the caliber of the ammunition.
In testing the effectiveness of our inexpensive and readily available additives, Zone 8 bagged charges for the 155 mm Howitzer were prepared with sheets of super-slurper in a polyethylene envelope, as shown, for example, in FIG. 3. This charge, known by the military designation M203, was fired in the gun, both with and without super-slurper sheets. The test data results show that a standard M203 charge which includes a TiO.sub.2 / wax additive caused wear of 11 microinches (2.79.times.10.sup.-4 mm) after five shots, while the M203 incorporating the super-slurper caused wear of only 3 microinches (0.127.times.10.sup.-4 mm) after five shots.
A summary of test data for M203 propelling charge (Zone 8) in M199 gun tube of a standard M198 Howitzer containing the super-slurper containing liner of this invention, as compared to other conventional liners is shown in the table below.
______________________________________ M203 Propelling Charge (Zone 8) in M199 Gun Tube, Reporting Average of Five Shots Fired Pressure Velocity Wear-Fixed Sensor Liner (psi) (fps) (microinches) ______________________________________ Standard 44,000 2683 2 (.0847 .times. 10.sup.-4 mm) (17.5 oz. TiO.sub.2 /wax) (3,093.2 (818 (.482 kg.) kg/cm.sup.2) m/sec) Super-slurper 45,600 2715 nil 19.5 oz. - 80/20 (3,205.7 (828 water/glycol and kg/cm.sup.2) m/sec) slurper total wt. (.539 kg.) 17.5 oz. Talc/wax 44,000 2672 3 (0.127 .times. 10.sup.-4 mm) (.482 kg.) (3,093.2 (814 kg/cm.sup.2) m/sec) No liner leading edge of sensor melted ______________________________________
The liner sheets prepared from super-slurpers in envelopes in accordance with this invention can readily be used in cartridge cases or in separate loaded propelling charges. Thus artillery ammunition of the fixed, semifixed, separated or separate-loading types may be used with the super-slurper of the invention.
The ratio of super-slurper to water or super-slurper to water/glycol mixture can be varied within the skill of one in the art depending upon the weight of propellant charge used which is, in turn, determined by the caliber of ammunition and the required ballistic performance. In practice, as shown by the examples above for the conventional propellant charges, the ratio of copolymer to water may be varied within the range of from 1:1 to 1:9. The sheets of this super-slurper can be made of various thickness, as desired, though a thickness of less than 0.005 in. (0.127 mm) thickness is preferred for optimum wear reduction.
The super water absorbers of this invention are stable during long time storage at temperatures from -65.degree. F. to 165.degree. F. (-53.8.degree. to 73.9.degree. C.) and relative humidities from 20% to 100% without changing water content or deteriorating chemically, particularly in proximity to nitroglycerin containing propellants.
The propellant composition, ammunition and the method of preparing the liner for use in the bagged propellant charge or cartridge case of this invention are conventional in the art and are not considered a critical part of this invention. Thus, the novel propellant additive of this invention can be used with any ammunition propellant to reduce wear and erosion in gun members.
The invention has succeeded in providing an additive for use in propellant systems wherein gun members coming into contact with hot gases produced by ignition of the propellant are protected against wear and erosion by the formation of cooler layers of gas adjacent to the gun member. The additives are inexpensive, readily prepared through commercially known processes and, most importantly, do not adversely affect ballistic performance of weapons employing the ammunition additive.
Applicants having disclosed their invention, obvious modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the munitions art. Applicants therefore desire to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.
1. A method for reducing gun member thermal erosion and wear through use of coolant additive with a propellant charge for reducing propellant flame temperature comprising the steps of preparing a sheet comprising a highly water adsorbent starch-acrylonitrile copolymer which has been subjected to alkaline saponification and a major amount of absorbed water; and disposing said sheet around the ammunition propellant charge to reduce erosion by formation of a laminar cooling layer of gas adjacent to the gun member upon firing of said charge.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the water absorbed within said sheet contains ethylene glycol antifreeze to prevent freezing of the water at low temperature.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the coolant additive sheet is disposed around said propellant charge within a conventional cartridge case.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the coolant additive sheet is disposed around said propellant charge within a propellant bagged charge.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the additive sheet consists essentially of no more than 10% by weight copolymer and the balance absorbed water.
Referenced Cited
Patent History
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 10, 1982
Date of Patent: Aug 2, 1983
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, DC)
Inventors: Sydney Axelrod (New York, NY), Walter Brenner (Teaneck, NJ), Barry A. Rugg (New York, NY)
Primary Examiner: Leland A. Sebastian
Attorneys: Robert P. Gibson, Anthony T. Lane, A. Victor Erkkila
Application Number: 6/356,880
International Classification: F42B 3102;


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Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews
In a previous post, I opined on the virtues of having every code change be reviewed before it gets deployed to production. That was almost two years ago... (more)
The operation queue: A content editing pattern for JavaScript
I recently gave a tech talk for the Khan Academy dev team describing the latest iteration of our infrastructure for saving edits from our content editors to the server... (more)
Reinventing the wheel: A new content store for Khan Academy
Over the past two years, I've been working largely behind the scenes at Khan Academy on the infrastructure the content team uses to upload and publish content (videos, exercises, articles, and interactive programs) to the site... (more)
Implementation: A new content store for Khan Academy
This article provides more implementation details for our versioned content store. To see the motivating challenges and overall design for building a versioned content store in App Engine, see the companion blog post. (more)
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This past Friday, I shipped about a month's worth of extensive refactoring to the content editing infrastructure of the site. As with many refactoring projects, the best possible outcome would have been that no one would notice I'd done anything... (more)
Going Back to Work
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David's work with minimal duo (then maximal funky band) Essendon Airport has been documented on Chapter's reissue of 1979 EP Sonic Investigations Of the Trivial and 1981 album Palimpsest. Now Chapter is embarking on a series of reissues of David's acclaimed solo works, beginning with 1979's minimal synth classic 50 Synthisizer Greats.


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Boat Trip to Vienna
I have been to Vienna several times in the past few years. It's very close to Bratislava, so we somehow take it for granted that one of the most beautiful cities in Europe is "just around the corner". We've gone there for Christmas markets, shopping or to the airport, but to be honest, I never actually really explored the city. We always came for fleeting visits, often in an incredibly cold winter weather and there was never enough time to see much. This Summer, however, Peter and I decided to change it.
I've always wanted to try a boat ride on the Danube, but since we're not really tourists in Bratislava, there never seemed to be much purpose. When we got a chance to try the fast hydrofoil express boat from Bratislava to Vienna, however, we thought: this was it. Our perfect excuse to play tourists for a day. We booked our tickets (you need to do that in advance, since the boat if often full, especially during the weekends), parked our car in the city port downtown (free parking for a day, yay) and boarded the little speedboat. I'll give you a little tip – if you decide to book the ride, make sure you arrive as soon as you can, since the seats aren't reserved and run in the style "first one get the best". The spectacular journey on the Danube took us about an hour and a half and we saw places we never knew existed before – fishermen's cottages by the river, castles from down below, lush woods and lovely villages… Until we arrived in Vienna.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'd never been to Schonbrunn before, even though Vienna is so close. I knew about it, but somehow we never came to the city in a nice weather, so we didn't bother. This time the weather was perfect, sunny and hot and after walking the streets of the old town we took the underground to Schonbrunn castle. It took our breath away. The castle grounds are HUGE, green, colorfull and totally amazing. We walked up the hill opposite the castle and took a break on a green lawn, surrounded by tourists from all over the world, enjoying the sun just as we did.
We also visited the Museum Quartier with all the exciting museums and galleries we still have to visit and realised, during the long walks in the old town, that the main topic of our trip would probably be HORSES. They were everywhere – live ones, statues, big, small, made of metal and stone, Vienna obviously looves horses! So after about 6000 of them, a coffee in the busy center, break by the Schonbrunn castle and MUMOK museum, we slowly made our way back to the pier, where our boat awaited us. One of those perfect Summer days.
Btw, my outfit for the trip was absolutely comfy – I chose my loose boho pants with baroque print from F&F, a simple white top and some chunky accessories. I carried a bigger bag, although I prefer small cross-body ones for walking, because I needed to carry more things… All day I felt like I'm in my pyjamas, which suited me just fine 🙂
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At the beginning of the 20th century many parts of the Pacific Northwest were still, by our standards, still wild and unsettled. Across the Puget Sound from Seattle, a few small settlements had begun but with no ferry service across the water to the bigger towns, life was extremely challenging.
But in 1910, a woman calling herself "Doctor" Linda Hazzard founded a wellness retreat in the wilds of Olalla, Washington and began treating patients with her so-called "Fasting Cure." She then proceeded to systematically starve her patients to death whilst maneuvering herself into sole executor-ship of their estates.
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Starvation Wilderness Heights
Dr. Hazzard's retreat, called Wilderness Heights, was one of many alternative medicine establishments that were so popular with the wealthy and restless at the end of the Victorian era and it promised relief for a myriad of imagined ills.
Starvation Heights, a non-fiction work about the sensational trial from Western Washington that gripped the attention of the world, tells the story of Dora and Claire Williamson. Wealthy heiresses from England, Dora and Claire arrived at Wilderness Heights excited about the latest fad cure.
the infamous "doctor" herself
Unfortunately for the Williamson sisters, one of them would wind up dead of starvation and the other barely escaped with her life. "Dr." Hazzard would eventually be convicted of the murder of Claire Williamson, although how many patients she actually killed may be as high as forty or more.
While this book is centered around some fascinating local Western Washington history and lore, the delivery was so disjointed that it distracted from the subject. While the subject of Linda Hazzard and her "Starvation Heights" spa in Olalla, Washington at the turn of the century is riveting material for locals like myself, the author and editors left much to be desired.
Claire and Dora with a friend before their "treatment"
Dora after her "treatment"
The book relies far too heavily on quoted legal correspondence, almost as if the author was trying to flesh out a much shorter book. A good half of the book could have been cut to it's great benefit. Often times, the author will drop a historical tidbit, but leave out it's explanation, driving us to Google too many times to count.
Unless you are well-versed in Washington State history and must read everything ever printed on the subject, I'd recommend you skip this entirely. Instead, google old newspaper articles on Linda Hazzard and you'll find a better historical picture of the event and likely come away more satisfied.
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When outsiders visit Silicon Valley, the first thing they often notice is the food: Cafeterias brimming with free gourmet meals and snacks offered to employees of Google Inc and other technology firms. But not all is as it seems in the buffet line. There is growing controversy among tax experts about how to treat these coveted freebies. The Internal Revenue Service also has been focusing on the topic, according to attorneys who practice in the area, examining whether the free food is a fringe benefit on which employees should pay additional tax.
Tax rules around fringe benefits are complex, but in general they categorize meals regularly provided by an employer as a taxable perk, similar to personal use of a company car. That leads several tax experts to wonder if some companies providing free food may be skirting the rules...
...Technically, any unpaid back taxes would be owed by individual employees. In practice, tax lawyers say, the IRS tries to dun the employer for failing to withhold taxes on the meals' collective value.
Yahoo Inc. instituted free meals last year, after new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer took charge. On an investor conference call soon after, the former Google executive twice mentioned the perk in the context of recruiting, at one point saying free food was among the cultural changes intended to make "Yahoo the absolute best place to work. And if you're that, I think attracting talent comes reasonably easily." A Yahoo spokeswoman said in a statement, "We cover all related expenses." She declined to elaborate on how the company handles the tax treatment of its free meals.I haven't heard about any pharma companies offering free food in the cafeterias (my brief experience being that you had relatively reasonable (subsidized, I assume) prices, but you still had to pay for your own food.)
This is the sort of thing that marks an expanding industry, one that is competing for workers -- as opposed to one that is shrinking in fits and starts.


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Uh, yeah...This is indeed the state of modern public education. Ironically it is the "standards" that have so mutilated the quality of education. Often times a teacher's creativity is squelched by having to adhere to the almighty standards. This begins in preschool. Let us not only weep, but pray for the future...
Oh...hey, where did that soapbox come from??? Sorry folks!
I think those mutant starfish looking things are suppose to be hibiscus flowers...
I'm also scared that they couldn't even get graders correct. I assume it should be that anyway instead of 6th Grades.
One of the best haiku I have ever read. I would love it on a cake.
scary cupcake cake
ugly airbrush, mithspelled words
hope the cake tastes good
;) Wendy
Just have to say I love your posts! Funnier every day,
Maybe this decorator charges by the letter, and although the kids collected dimes to pay for the cake they still came up a few letters short???
Wow- poor spelling, not very attractive beach, and what on earth is with the two ginormous flowers? Oh, wait- this must the the alien planet that the teacher is wishing her students were on! What other explanation is there? Where else can you find flowers floating on sand that are the size of palm trees? I keep looking back at the picture, expecting the flowers to have grown even more until they take over the cake!
Carrie B.
You know, besides the spelling errors, this is a fairly well executed cupcake-cake.
Ah, Penis Palms. Brings back such memories of middle school.....
Maybe it was written by one of the fifth graders...
It used to make me shudder to read the handouts and flyers my kids would bring home from grade school. The grammar and syntax and punctuation errors were abundant, the wrong words that spell checker couldn't catch were many.
Happily, the number of such errors decreased when they progressed to middle and high school.
The island of wrecked cakes....
i love it! my friend just e-mailed me your blog link and it felt nice to just sit back and have a good laugh this morning. as a mother of two - most of my laughs are at myself as i realize my total inability at doing anything right... but these posts help me realize there are people out there worse than me. and that just makes me smile. :)
As a sixth grade teacher, I love this cake! It really reflects a teacher's state of mind on that last day of school.
To think what kind of an education those poor sixth graders went through if their teacher (for I assume authorities ordered this cake) can't even spell 'Farewell' right, or do something if the cake decorator mis-spells it...
Apparently, it was the last grade that the decorator made it through.
Is this the latest trend in cakes - to put a bunch of cupcakes together and frost them as if it were a cake? A way to heap even MORE frosting on a small portion of cake? I haven't seen this in person, and wondered if it was a regional thing.
Is this a cake you give to someone when their 6th grade education is somehow revoked?
Or does it mean "Congratulations, now you're smart enough never to work for these cheap idiots!"?
The cake is messed up because the cake shop owner would rather have an automatically opening and closing trunk in his new Mercedes than pay for cake decorators who can actually spell.
OMG - as a comment to your entire blog, I'll tell you I haven't been laughing this hard for quite a while. Hilarious! Thank you for some great entertainment - if I remember I'll let people know about you on my own blog! :)
On the plus side, it's a very pretty cake! And hey, teaching opportunity!
"Write down your corrections for the text on this cake. Whoever fixes all mistakes first gets the first piece."
Yikes! As a teacher, it would take all of my power not to correct the cake somehow...
Oh, I like the idea of a "teaching opportunity" !!! That is a great idea. Wish I had thought of that when I misspelled stuff on the marquee when my boys were in elementary. I wrote: "Congrations Spelling Bee Champ, Stephen A."
Oh my, this is all just too funny! I love it!
It could be the grammar question of the day... fix this sentence...
They still let people bring sweets into school? Last I checked, they were banned at my old elementary and middle schools. I'm for it, but I would miss the occasional cupcake in the kid's shoes.
OMG. The future of our country. LOL !!!!!!!!!!
At first I thought it said "Farvel" and what the heck are those green thingies springing up at the base of the penis-palm trees?
Never mind. I like the sky and sand effect.
I think this is one of the scariest cakes you've had.. a vision of the future - be afraid - be very afraid!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Actually it's not a badly-executed cake. The airbrushing and palm trees are decent. Yellow should've been used under the brown to get a more sandy effect, and the mutant hibiscus should've been a different color (hot pink, for instance), but other than that...
Ye Gods. How do people get away with such basic spelling mistakes? Doesn't a manager notice these things before a cake is given to a customer?
Re the "cupcake cake" -- it's a fairly new trend, the premise being that it's easier for everyone to get his/her own cupcake rather than wrestle with knives and uneven slices. This particular design is one of the nicer ones I've seen.
YOu are a gifted writer by far- let me know if you publish any books (not even about cakewrecks). You are sooooo funny! Keep it up! (My favorite entry is the dirt/grave cake story).
I feel sorry for the parents of the children who got the cupcakes directly underneath the flowers. That is A LOT of sugar!
found your site by chance. hilarious. but isn't it DISCRETION, not DESCRETION?
This is the best blog in the world ever. Actually, it might be the best THING in the world ever. My stomach hurts from laughing. Thank you so much for existing.
It took me a minute to figure out where I'd even USED the word "discretion" - lol. You of course are correct, sir: good catch. Thanks!
Just discovered this site the other night and I still have not stopped laughing. I sent it on to my family and friends. Keep up the fantastic work!
Cupcakes and cupcake cakes are the new "hot" cake--they're in every food magazine now! I got two last year for my DH's birthday (we are sans a "real" bakery here). They were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Spiderman themed, haha--when I went to pick it up, the decorator was like, "Are these for your son?"...and I was like, "No, my 25 year old husband..." :p
Not only is this an annoying cupcake cake, and a mis-spelled/improper grammar cake - it's a bad color cake, and an over-zealous airbrusher cake! I think this would be called a quad-fecta, yes?
I make this cake at work!
Of course, I am also capable of spelling basic words, like "farewell."
And yes, I do make the large mutant flowers on it (in yellow), because that's the design template the company gives us to follow. Unless the customer specifies, that's what's in the picture and that's what we have to make.
This post reminded me of this site.
Did the cake decorator give you a spelling lesson? :p Just kidding! Love the blog, keep it up!!!
your haiku is flippin hysterical!
I think the cake decorator needs to repeat the 6th grade until they can spell.
So the fact that I had to read it three times before I realized the mistakes says a little too much about me, doesn't it? So funny.
Your haiku is actually pretty wonderful.
Do the students get extra credit if they point out the mistake?
I'm hungry...I'd settle for a farewel cupcake!
Another FHOTDer - and I'm already hooked! Great stuff!
JOSI - no, no - you're SMARTER for having a brain that automatically corrected what your eyes saw.....stick with that story! LOL!
I just don't get the idea behind making cupcakes look like a giant cake. I'd much rather bake one large cake (and wash one single pan) than have to bake with a bunch of little cupcakes (and wash numerous muffin tins).
Sly - I *THINK* it's to make cutting the cake easier. Basically, we're all supposedly so lazy, we just want to pull the cake apart, forget having to bust out the knife! LOL!
Have to comment on the "topper"... You did post a work in progress which is not cake btw but polymer clay. It is not life-size but only 12" tall and it was for a sweet 16 birthday. If you'd like to see the finished product on the cake go to http://www.weddingsculptures.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=83&Itemid=2 or http://www.flickr.com/photos/elizabethbonura/2557536664/in/set-72157602286723682/
~Elizabeth (yes, I did sculpt both of the portraits... out of CLAY) htp://www.weddingsculptures.com
This is what you present to the kids as proof that you need to stay in school. If you drop out.. you could end up doing something like this!
Hey, that cake was at our church! You can see it here: http://sandyssayings.typepad.com/sandys_sayings/2008/05/another-cake-is.html#comments
Oh my gosh, I actually LAUGHED at that one! Not that the other cake wrecks aren't funny, but that was the first one scrolling down your first page that make me emit vocalizations. LOL!
I love the way things work.