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The 9th match-day of the 2012-2013 Liga BBVA has been completed and it has been another terrific week packed with outstanding goals. Currently Barcelona and Atletico both have 25 points from 9 games, but Barcelona have a superior points-difference and thus top the league. Lionel Messi leads the race for the Pichichi with 13 goals
The 7th match-day of the 2012/2013 La Liga season has been played and currently it is Barcelona and Atletico that top the log with 19 points from a possible 21 each. Falcao, Messi and Cristiano are tied as the top goal scorers with 8 goals each. I will do my usual rundown of the 5
Another weekend of La Liga action has passed and after 4 match-days it is Barcelona that is sitting on the top of the log with 12 points after winning every one of their 4 matches. A lot has happened in this weeks matches and I will be doing a quick analysis of my top 4

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Despite our World Cup joy, French rugby outjumps Irish in financial line-out
The economics of rugby will favour the French when the World Cup ends
We may have pulverised Pape and Co in the Millennium Stadium last weekend, but Irish rugby squad members know their French rivals are in a different league when it comes to one aspect of the game - the money stakes.
Seven of the nine highest-paid rugby players in the world now play in the French league. With pay packets dwarfing what Irish clubs, such as Leinster and Munster, can offer, cash-rich French clubs are mauling their rivals both off and on the pitch by luring the world's elite players to France's Top 14, the world's richest rugby union league.
Backed by multi-millionaire owners, such as Toulon tycoon Mourad Boudjellal and Paris-based Racing Metro 92's Jacky Lorenzetti, one of country's richest men, the French league is luxuriating in the wealth of benefactors and a €60m TV rights deal.
With such riches on offer, it's no surprise that Irish rugby legends Johnny Sexton and, assuming he recovers from injury, Paul O'Connell have had their heads turned by French clubs.
Uncertainty over the future of some of Ireland's frontline players has been a concern for some time as French clubs outmuscle rivals with their financial might.
Toulon, the French league's biggest spender, has upped its expenditure from €18m a year to a whopping €35m, with players' wages accounting for around €10m of this outlay.
Many of its 41-strong squad - who on average earn a salary of €243,000, not including earnings from sponsorship, endorsements and image rights - are senior internationals, many of whom are currently playing for their national teams at the World Cup.
Pay records are being smashed throughout the sport and Irish rugby is battling to keep up.
History will be made in world rugby next month when New Zealand star Dan Carter - who replaces Johnny Sexton - is unveiled as the first player to break the €1m-a-year barrier when he arrives at Racing 92.
Although all French clubs must operate a €10m salary cap, clever accountants can find ways of getting around it. Carter's €1.3m salary, for example, will be around €500,000 in wages but the All-Black fly-half will receive a similar sum for his image rights including an estimated €300,000 from the operating company of Arena 92, Racing Metro's new home from 2016.
Corporate scrums in the boardroom are not uncommon as rival teams fight to secure the best players.
Johnny Sexton, who is ranked in the top five of the world's best-paid rugby players, signed with Leinster for an estimated €650,000 a year, but only after protracted negotiations.
His signature was finally secured after the intervention of billionaire Denis O'Brien, who stepped in and pledged to top-up the outhalf's IRFU wages. Without such a benefactor, it is likely that Sexton would be back playing in Paris.
The French connection looms large over contract negotiations involving Irish stars.
Sexton's Leinster team-mate Jamie Heaslip spurned Toulon's advances but only after Bank of Ireland came on board with a deal to bring his total pay package to €600,000. Heaslip is now a brand ambassador for the bank. Ireland flanker Sean O'Brien also resisted a big money move.
But Ireland legend Paul O'Connell couldn't resist the lure of the Gallic giants. He has agreed a €600,000-per-season deal in a two-year move to Toulon.
The reason France is proving such a draw for our top players is simple economics: a player at the elite end of the sport who earns €300,000 a year can expect to earn another €200,000 on top of that if he joins a top French club.
An added attraction is that if a player sees out four or five years at a club in France, when he retires, he is entitled to having a percentage of his salary paid for the following two years. The French call this chomage.
In contrast, the IRFU controls the purse strings for the Irish provinces, who must work with more modest salary budgets.
However, like everything in sport nowadays, TV rights deals are what drive rugby's growth and drive the pay gap between Irish and French players.
France's top tier of 14 professional teams share the spoils of a €60m French TV rights deal, whereas English rugby's top flight must share a smaller windfall of €38m per year (€152m over four years) among 12 teams from a Premiership Rugby deal with BT Sport. And the four Irish provinces must share the spoils of a €10m-a-year deal secured by RaboDirect Pro 12 unions.
But one of the biggest pay gaps in sport is between football and rugby. Football is king and rugby has some catching up to do.
The English Premier League's latest deal with Sky and BT, for instance, is worth an eye-watering €2.3bn (£1.71bn), which is shared among 20 teams. And football stars such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo earn about €120m per year between them.
On this comparison, Ireland's highest-paid rugby player, Johnny Sexton, would need to keep playing for 60 years to make what Ronaldo does in just 12 months.
But the good news for Ireland's top players is that a new survey reveals how the salaries of Rugby World Cup stars compare favourably with City financiers.
According to experts at Emolument.com, a salary-benchmarking website, the world's top rugby players still have the edge over most bankers, with hedge fund traders earning just €172,000 and asset-management directors earning €160,000.
In fact, even top tennis players crush their banking counterparts in the salary stakes.
The highest-paid tennis player in 2014, Roger Federer, earned £36m, while the highest-paid banker, Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein, earned £14.8m, which would only rank him fifth in a highest-paid tennis players' list, between Maria Sharapova and Li Na.
Alice Leguay, a salary-benchmarking analyst at Emolument.com said that although rugby stars may not be the world's biggest earners, they win the popularity poll hands down.
"Bankers are in the spotlight nearly as much as sports stars and both often incur negative coverage, with doping and tax evasion for some and greed and tax evasion for others," she said.
"But the public has a soft spot for high-earning athletes whose gruelling training and exacting skills have earned them their good fortune, while bankers are seen as undeserving of their high pay."
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Sep 24, 1991
|Filing date
|May 1, 1990
|Priority date
|Mar 5, 1987
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Tibor Alpar, Janos Gyorvari, Erno Schmidt
|Original Assignee
|Fakombinat Szombathely
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (11), Referenced by (58), Classifications (30), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 407,430, filed Sept. 14, 1989, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,927,573, which was a division of application Ser. No. 186,426, filed Apr. 26, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,917,987.
The invention relates to a process for the production of bodies, especially building units from afterhardening materials containing hydraulic binder, particularly cement as setting agent.
Such building unit production methods are known, at which hardening of the cement-set moulded material is accelerated by injection of CO2 gas into the raw mixture (e.g. U.S. Pat. No. 4,093,690. These methods are based on carbonation, i.e. a process when the large amount of Ca(OH)2 compound present in the cement mortar quickly changes over to limestone upon the effect of CO2 gas. The limestone molecules being formed during this process, become so tightly bonded to each other that the product, e.g. building panel may reach even 35-50% of its 28-day-strength in 5-30 minutes, though hydration of the binding material, e.g. cement has not even begun.
The carbonation takes places generally in a closed space containing the raw mixture to be set with cement by producing differential pressure, then a pressure exceeding the atmospheric one is brought about with the injection of CO2 gas, as a result of which the CO2 gas may penetrate into the pores of the raw mixture and chemical reaction takes place. The raw mixture is filled into a mould determining the shape of the product to be produced and compacted, then placed into a closed space together with, or removed from the mould. These methods, however, are fairly costly, because the closed spaces require careful sealing to be realized with difficulty and at high cost. Apart from this, the alternating use of vacuum and high pressure is lengthy, thus, the techologies allowing only a step by step production carried out with several operations (filling into the mould and compacting; filling and discharging the carbonation space; carbonation) take fairly long time.
A building unit production technology combined with carbonation is described in the Hungarian patent specification No. 189.455 where elastic fibrous material as additive is used for the preparation of the cement-set raw mixture, and there is utilized the characteristic feature of this mixture for more or less elastic reversion after compaction, thus, its volume expands when the compressive force is stopped during the setting time of the hydraulic binding material, i.e. cement. The raw mixture placed between two press-plates is compressed in a greater degree in the vicinity along their flanges than the rest of the mixture--either by using a thicker part along the flanges of the press-plate or by applying a locally greater amount of raw mixture--thus, a strip of higher density, consequently of lower gas permeability is formed at the flanges, than within. This strip of higher density along the flanges functions as a seal, and prevents the CO2 gas injected for carbonation from escaping from the mixture on the sides. Although this method is more favourable than the former ones its drawback resides firstly in its periodicity, thus in its relatively low productivity and in the fact that a solid end-product can be produced only from mixtures containing elastic fibrous material.
The invention aims at providing a process for the production of bodies, particularly building units from an afterhardening material by accelerating the setting with carbonation, which partly allows a continuous production thereby considerably improving the productivity and economic efficiency, and partly it is not restricted to the use of afterhardening mixtures prepared with an elastic fibrous additive as a starting material (to be moulded), whereby it substantially extends the choice of products to be economically produced with carbonation.
The invention is based on the recognition that when the afterhardening material is passed through a moulding space open at both ends, and escape of the CO2 gas is prevented by a continuous mechanical compaction of the raw mixture in the vicinity of the point of inlet and by reducing the pressure of the CO2 gas to a minimum--in the given case to the atmospheric pressure--in the vicinity of the point of outlet, and the CO2 gas is injected between these two points into the mould space evenly distributed along the mould face(s), however under a pressure reduced from the inlet towards the outlet, the production may be made continuous, and the product emerging from the mould space will appear in a solid, moulded state as a result of carbonation taking place in the mould space.
On the basis of this recognition, the problem was solved by a process according to the invention, in the course of which the still not hardened mixture is admitted into the mould, where carbonation reaction is brought about by injection of CO2 gas into the mixture, and thereby the mixture is hardened, said process comprising the steps of pressing the afterhardening mixture continuously through the mould space open at both ends, while CO2 gas is injected into the material under pressure reducing from inlet port of the material toward the outlet port of the hardened body, and creating a quasi gastight layer from the afterhardening material with mechanical compaction in this mould space in the vicinity of the inlet port and bringing about a quasi-gastight condition between this layer and the mould surfaces, and in the vicinity of the outlet port injecting as much amount of CO2 gas into the mould space as necessary for the complete, or essentially complete chemical reaction of carbonation. The afterhardening material is stamped-pressed into the mould space preferably with a reciprocating device.
Expediently, the CO2 gas is injected into the mould space through at least one of the confining surfaces under pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure; and when passed through the afterhardening material the gas of reduced pressure and quantity is discharged from the mould space through at least another mould face, and/or vacuum is applied to at least one face of the mould space, and this way the CO2 gas is made flown through the material, or its flow is intensified.
According to another advantegeous feature of the invention, in a zone following the compacted layer of material in the vicinity of the inlet port, CO2 gas at a pressure of suitably 3-6 bar is injected into the pores of the mixture then--looking in the direction of the material's movement--in a second zone, where the instantaneous explosion-like reaction of carbonation takes place, CO2 gas under a lower pressure of e.g. 2-3 bar is injected into the material, the quantity of which is essentially the same as that of the CO2 gas consumed by the reaction, whereby the carbonation reaction is continued, then in a third zone CO2 gas under even lower pressure of e.g. 1-2 bar is injected into the mould space, whereby essentially full completion of the carbonation reaction is realized. A further embodiment of the process is characterized by creating a balancing zone in the mould space situated directly behind the outlet port of the material hardened by carbonation, where the gas outflow is checked, and in the zone(s) behind the balancing zone, gas is injected as a function of the quantity of the outflowing amount and/or pressure of the gas. It is generally advisable to cut to size--suitably by sawing--the carbonation-hardened body leaving the mould space, and to inject the CO2 gas into the mould space with a gas mixture, containing suitably at least 30% of CO2 gas.
It may be advisable to inject the CO2 gas into the raw mixture prior to feeding it into the mould. The setting process can be accelerated by this carbonation pretreatment.
The apparatus according to the invention contains a mould, a CO2 gas-source, e.g. gas bottle and openings e.g. holes in at least one wall of the mould, suitable for injection of CO2 gas into the mould space, the pressure of which exceeds the atmospheric pressure, and this apparatus is characterized in that the mould has an inlet port for feeding in the raw afterhardening mixture and an outlet port for discharging the body hardened by carbonation; a press mechanism situated in front of the inlet port for pressing the raw afterhardening mixture into the mould space, and moving the afterhardening mixture and the body hardened therefrom by carbonation through the mould space; and the holes leading into this mould space and used for injection of the CO2 gas are divided into separate hole groups communicating with devices suitable for injecting CO2 gas, at pressures to be separately controlled for each zone. It is expedient when at least one wall of the mould is provided with holes for outlet of the CO2 gas remaining--in given case--after the completed chemical reaction of carbonation, which holes are expediently communicating with pipes connecting the CO2 gas source, e.g. gas bottle with the mould plate containing the holes for injecting CO2 gas into the mould space.
An embodiment of the apparatus is characterized by having a forward pipe for feeding the CO2 gas into the mould space and a return pipe for feeding back into the forward pipe the CO2 gas remaining--in a given case--after the completed carbonation reaction; a gas pump being connected to the forward pipe into which also the return pipe is leading, and--in up-stream direction of the gas flow--a pipe containing shut-off means, leading out of the CO2 gas supply source, e.g. gas bottle being joint to the return pipe before the pump, and the forward pipe being interconnected through leg pipes containing valves with separate hole groups on the gas inlet side, while leg pipes containing similarly valves and leading from the hole groups into the return pipe are provided for discharging the gas remaining--in a given case--after the completed carbonation reaction. A vaccuum pump can be inserted into the return pipe.
According to a further feature of the invention the hole groups on both the gas inlet side and the remaining gas outlet side is leading into separate closed chambers fitted expediently gastight to the outer face of the mould plates. Furthermore it may be of advantage, when the hole groups are leading from--e.g. meandering--ducts running inside the mould plates into the mould space, each duct communicating with one of the leg pipes emerging from the forward pipe or with one of the leg pipes leading into the return pipe.
According to another embodiment of the apparatus given by way of example, a device, e.g. a saw suitable for cutting up the carbonation-hardened body emerging from the mould space is arranged behind the outlet port of the mould.
According to another arrangement of the invention, chambers covering at least one of the hole groups are fitted to the outer side of the mould plates in the vicinity behind the outlet port of the mould, and gas outlet stubs containing control valves are leading out of the chambers.
A further embodiment of the apparatus is characterized by providing a press mechanism with a reciprocating beater, e.g. a piston, the cross sectional shape and size of which are the same or essentially the same as those of the mould's inlet port. In this case it is expedient, when the position of the mould and the path of the piston are vertical, the piston is fitted between guide rails, the guide rails are the covered by a bell-shaped protective cover, the lower flange of which is running in the vicinity of the lower edge of the guide rails and a gap is provided for between said lower flange and the guide rails; and the actuating mechanism together with the protective cover is situated in a hopper serving for feeding the raw afterhardening mixture into the mould, the hopper leading into the upper end of the mould space.
The invention will be described below in further details on the basis of the attached drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of the apparatus by way of example, some of its structural details, graphs in connection with the exemplified process variants furthermore some of the building units producible with the method according to the invention, as follows:
FIG. 1 is a schematic vertical cross section of the apparatus;
FIG. 2 a horizontal section along line A--A according to FIG. 1;
FIG. 3a an embodiment of one of the mould plates drawn to a larger scale, showing the sectional view along line B--B according to FIG. 3;
FIG. 3b a view from the direction of arrow C, marked in FIG. 3a;
FIG. 4 a graph illustrating the change of the pressure and the body's density within the mixture as a function of the time, taking place during compression of the afterhardening mixture prepared with nonelastic additive;
FIG. 5 a characteristic curve related to the afterhardening mixture, same as the one shown in FIG. 4, but prepared with elastic additive;
FIG. 6 a set of curves formed by the curves as shown in FIG. 4, illustrating the result of quickly repetetive compression processes;
FIG. 7 a set of curves different from the one shown in FIG. 6 in that it is formed by the curves shown in FIG. 5;
FIG. 8 a diagram showing the gas pressure, path and time;
FIGS. 9a-9f building units of different cross sectional shapes prepared with the method according to the invention, to illustrate the extensive applicability of the invention;
FIG. 10 a production model of the building unit shown in FIG. 9f produced with carbonation method according to the invention.
The apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 contains a mould designated as a wholewith 1, a hopper 2 and a press mechanism 3 which in the present embodiment,comprises a piston 8 moving up and down as indicated by the double arrow b,having an expanding neck-part, an actuating mechanism (not shown), and vertical guide rails 9 on both sides of the piston 8 for guiding it while moving up and down.
The mould space 5 of the mould 1 is confined by vertical mould plates 4a, 4b of width s (FIG. 2) situated at a distance a from each other (FIG. 1) and by similarly vertical, narrow walls (not shown) perpendicular to the mould plates; the apparatus according to FIGS. 1 and 2 is namely used for the production of building panels 22 of thickness a, whose width perpendicular to the plane of the drawing (FIG. 1) is determined by the width of the mould plates 4a, 4b measured in the same direction (value s in FIG. 2), whereas their other dimension, e.g. the length in the plane ofthe drawing (FIG. 1) may optionally be selected between practical limits. The mould 1 is open on its top and bottom; the inlet port of the mould is marked with reference number 6, and its outlet port with 7. The hopper 2 (feed hopper) is leading into the upper open end of the mould 1, and the piston 8 in the hopper fits into the inlet port 6 of the mould 1, i.e.: its cross sectional shape and size are essentially identical with, suitably somewhat smaller than those of the inlet port 6.
A bell-shaped protective cover 10 with its open end 10a turned down is arranged in the hopper 2 above the mould 1, which covers the guide rails 9and whose lower flange is running in the vicinity of the lower ends of the vertical guide rails 9. The protective cover 10 is situated at a distance from the inner surface of the hopper 2 as well as from the outer surfaces of the guide rails 9, and its outer surface is suitably curved thereby facilitating downward movement of the raw mixture admitted in the direction of arrows c toward the inlet port 6 in the hopper 2.
The apparatus includes a gas tank 14 shown in FIG. 1, containing CO2 gas at a pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure, said gas tank being connected through an intermediate pipe 15 fitted with a shut-off means 15ato the return pipe 18 leading to the circulating gas pump 16. From the gas pump 16 a forward pipe 17 is leading out from which leg pipes 17a-17c are branching off fitted with valves 17a'-17c'. The leg pipes 17a-17c are leading into distribution chambers 23-25 situated along the mould plate 4babove each other, one of their confining faces being formed by the outer side of the mould plate itself, and the chambers 23-25 are separated from each other by--expediently gastight--sealings 31. A further chamber 26 is arranged below the chamber 25, being separated from this latter similarly by sealing 31, and having a deaerating and gas pressure compensation stub leading out therefrom and fitted with valve 21a.
Four chambers are adjoining also the outer surface of the mould plate 4a marked--going downwards from the top--with reference numbers 27-30. Leg pipes 18a-18c are leading out from the chambers 27-29, a manometer 19 and one of the valves 18a'-18c' being built in each of the leg pipes. The leg pipes 18a-18c are connected to said return pipe 18 in which a vacuum pump 32 is inserted. A deaeration and gas pressure compensation stub 20 fitted with valve 20a (control valve) is leading out of the lowest chamber 30. The chambers 27-30 are also separated from one another by sealings 31.
Holes 12 are passing through the mould plates 4a, 4b as clearly shown in FIG. 2, while the same holes are illustrated with dotted lines in FIG. 1. Thus, the holes 12 establish gas passage connection between the mould space 5 and the chambers 23-26 and chambers 27-30, respectively (only chamber 23 is shown in FIG. 2).
The mould 1 is divided into technological zones designated--going downwardsfrom the top--by I-IV, each comprising a pair of chambers 23, 27; 24, 28;, 25, 29; and 26, 30; the function of these zones will be described further in the part dealing with operation of the apparatus.
The gas can be injected into the mould space 5 not only as shown in FIGS. 1and 2 but also with the structural solution shown in FIGS. 3a, 3b. In this case, the mould plates 4a, 4b contain a duct system formed according to the said technological zones I-IV. The uppermost zone I has two, and each of the zones II-IV has one meandering hole group 11 for transmitting the gas, whose holes 12 are leading out similarly from a meandering gas distributing duct 13, and which are running in the interior of the mould plate 4b. (For the sake of better overview, only four holes 12 leading into the mould space 5 are shown in FIG. 3a.) Each gas distribution duct 13 has an inlet stub 32 connected to one of the leg pipes 17a . . . 17n (in the present example to leg pipe 17a according to FIG. 3a) leading out of the forward pipe 17. Naturally, valves 17a'-17n'are installed in each leg pipe to adjust independently the gas pressure of CO2 flowing out of each hole group 11. Duct and hole systems identical to those in FIGS. 3a, 3b, are to be provided for in the mould plate 4a, where the return pipe 18 for each hole group is connected to the leg pipes 18a-18n.
The chambers 23-26 and 27-30 in FIGS. 1 and 2, as well as the hole groups 11 connected to independent gas pipes according to FIGS. 3a, 3b offer the possibility to inject the CO2 gas into the mould space 5 in the locally determined zones under different pressures.
Production of the building panel with the apparatus according to FIGS. 1 and 2 (as well as FIGS. 3a, 3b) is carried out as follows:
The afterhardening raw mixture containing cement as binding material is fedinto the hopper 2 at a steady rate and continuously according to arrows c shown in FIG. 1. The afterhardening material passes downwards to the inletport 6 of the mould 1. The piston 8 is kept in reciprocating motion as indicated by the double arrow b. The piston 8 performs about 15-300, mainly 100-150 compression steps per minute, i.e. the up-and-down motion of the piston is variable--depending on the building unit to be produced and/or on the basic material--within wide limits and it may also be very fast. The cover 10 prevents the raw mixture from passing to the upper end of the guide rails 9, which would cause troubles in or inhibiting the run of the piston 8 pressing the afterhardening material from the hopper 2 in between the mould plates 4a, 4b, i.e. into the mould space 5. As a result of this pressing in, density of the raw mixture increases--due to the relaxation--to the multiple of the value preceding its compression. Part--quantities of the material in proportion with the stroke of the piston 8 fill up the mould space 5, and the carbonated cement-set materialtreated with CO2 gas (or with the CO2 component of a gas mixture)while passing through, leaves the outlet port 7 of the mould 1 in a hardened condition continuously.
The above production technology to be described subsequently in detail including its phases is enabled by the factors as follows:
the cement-set raw mixture--prepared practically by any additive--is alwaysof a porous texture. Extent of the porosity depends on the measure of additive components of the mixture (e.g. size of grain and/or fibre) and on the compression. Porosity means that the mixture is permeable to gas and this feature has an important role in the carbonation, because the CO2 gas can only be injected in a gas-permeable composition of materials;
the highest internal pressure (stress) in the mixture arises in the vicinity of the inlet port 6 of the mould 1, dropping as continuously going downwards in the mould space 5. As a result of the said maximum internal pressure, the material will become quasi gastight to such an extent, that the CO2 gas injected into the mould space 5 can not escape from the mould through the inlet port 6. In other words: the gastight condition of the product is ensured by its still unhardened, but already compacted material.
Returning to the description of operation of the apparatus according to FIG. 1, the material passed downwards by the piston 8 through the mould space 5 is treated in the technological zones I-IV, the carbonation takingplace mainly in zones I-III.
By stamping in the material in the uppermost part of the zone I in the vicinity of the inlet port 6, a quasi gastight condition is brought about in the material--as referred to above--i.e. mechanically by utilizing alsothe relaxation force of the compressed material, the CO2 gas injected into the material in the mould space 5 is prevented from escaping through the chamber 23 and the holes 12 (see also FIG. 2). (Since both the feedingof the raw mixture and stamping-pressing are continuous, the quasi gastightcore is constantly present in the upper part of the mould during the whole process of production, by way of continuous reproduction). Effect of the mechanical compaction (though at a downwardly decreaseing extent) extends to the whole zone I, the value of the relaxation force is high, thus, a fairly high gas pressure and/or the use of vacuum from the wall 4b of the mould are required for injecting the CO2 gas into the pores of the raw mixture; so to say the CO2 gas has to be pressed into the pores of the mixture. The required gas pressure, e.g. 6 bar can be set with the valve 17a' (FIG. 1). The efficiency of injecting the CO2 gas into themixture can be improved by using the vacuum pump 32; in this case the valve18a' is open. The pressure conditions of the gas flowing through can be controlled with the manometer 19 built into the leg pipe 18a, and the valves 17a', 18a' are adjustable as necessary. By use of a vacuum of e.g. 0.5 bar a differential pressure is brought about on the inner faces of themould plates 4a, 4b, whereby the transversal gas flow from the mould plate 4b towards the mould plate 4a will obviously become more intensive, and the pores of the mixture will evenly be filled with CO2 gas in the whole cross section.
The pores of the mixture in zone I will be filled up with CO2 gas, while the unnecessary gas of lower pressure (e.g. 3 bar) entering the chamber 27 through the holes 12 of the mould plate 4b returns through the leg pipe 18a and the return pipe 18 into the gas cycle. Directions of the gas flow through the pipes shown in FIG. 1 are marked with arrows, while path of the gas passing from the leg pipe 17a into the chamber 23 in FIG. 2 is marked by arrow e, and the path of the gas flowing through the holes 12 into the mould space 5 is marked by arrow f. The same marks e and f were used in FIGS. 3a and 3b accordingly. It is noted that the gas injection method according to FIGS. 3a, 3b offers the possibility that it is sufficient to inject gas under a lower pressure, e.g. 5 bar into the mould space 5 through the second hole group 11 from above (FIGS. 3A, 3B) in the lower range of zone I, where the compacting effect of the piston 8 is less effective and the material has a less density (the internal stressof the compacted mixture--as referred to--is at a maximum on the upper end of the zone I, then it gradually drops when going downwards; in this case,the pressure of the remaining discharge gas is about 2-3 bar. In any case, the pressure of the CO2 gas injected into the zone I has to be selected so as to prevent it from escaping through the compacted layer of material situated above the zone I in the vicinity of the inlet port 6 of the mould 1. Since a quasi gastight condition exists also between the inner faces of the mould plates 4a, 4b and the mixture, the CO2 gas can not escape from the mould space 5 along the mould plates either. Injecting the gas into the zone I under two different pressures has the further advantage that the low-pressure gas cannot flow from below upwardsto the inlet port 6, because this is prevented by the higher pressure gas forcing the low pressure gas towards the opposite mould plate 4a, i.e. to a transversal passage through the mixture.
The chemical reaction between the CO2 gas and the cement--i.e. the carbonation--just begins in zone I, but it takes place explosion-like (instantaneous reaction) in zone II. The chemical reaction consumes the CO2 injected into the zone I, the pressure drops, and vacuum would develop in the material unless the CO2 is replaced. Therefore, continuing the injection of CO2 into the zone II through the leg pipe17b and the chamber 24, the CO2 gas consumed in the zone I during the chemical reaction, is replaced. In zone II, the CO2 gas is injected under a lower pressure still exceeding the atmospheric one e.g. at 4 bar (it is unnecessary to press the gas under into the pores of the mixture, at a higher pressure), which flowing through the material, passes into thechamber 28 under a pressure not more than about 2 bar and returns to the gas cycle through the leg pipe 18b and the return pipe 18. By correct adjustment of the valve 18b', vacuum can be applied also in the zone II, but this is not essential.
Hardening of the mixture begins at a lesser extent already in zone I, whilein the zone II its intensity completely stops the relaxation force. Thus, the building panel 22 (FIG. 1) in state of hardening is capable to pass downwards in the mould 1 unobstructed and continuously, the material is not pressed against the walls of the mould as in the upper part of the zone I (where the compressive force produced by the piston 8 forces downwards the still unhardened raw mixture). As a result of the chemical reaction of carbonation, vacuum will develop in the material.
The pressure of the CO2 gas injected into the zone III is further reduced, gas at a pressure of e.g. 1 bar is fed thereto. The carbonation process in this zone is practically completed. The amount of the gas admitted to the zone III shall cover the still missing gas required for the whole carbonation reaction. This way, the detrimental loss of CO2 --adversely influencing the economic efficiency of the process--can be prevented at the lower end of the mould space 5, i.e. at the outlet port 7, where the compressed, already carbonated partly hardened material passes into the open air, merely by bringing about appropriate pressure conditions in the zone III, in other words: here is fed only a minimum amount (pressure) of the CO2 gas. The pressure of the remaining CO2 gas flowing into the chamber 29 (if no vacuum exists) is not muchlower than the pressure of the admitted gas, e.g. 0.8-0.9 bar. Thus the carbonation reaction is safely completed. It is noted, that a vacuum of e.g. 0.5 bar can be brought about with the pump 32 also in the zones II and III in order to intensify the transversal gas flow in the chambers 28,
Zone IV is a balancing zone where no CO2 gas is fed to, here practically no chemical reaction takes place. Into the chambers 27 and 30 the CO2 gas flowing eventually hereto along the mould plates 4a, 4b flows outwards from within, the amount and pressure of which were selectedin the zone III so as to be sufficient for completing the carbonation reaction. If the pressure of gas was correctly selected in the zone III, the gas should just blow out through the control valves 20a, 21a. Thus, with the aid of these control valves 20a, 21a the pressure of the CO2gas can be balanced in the zone IV. Consequently the production technology does not entail any overconsumption of CO2, because practically no perceptible amount of gas escape either on the top or the bottom of the mould 1, which is a significant factor for the economic efficiency.
If, however not pure CO2 gas but a gas mixture was used for the carbonation that contains CO2 only in part (e.g 30%), the neutral gascomponent(s) is (are) not used up for the carbonation reaction, and in thiscase the amount of gas (air) emitted through the control valves 20a, 21a may also be fairly large, and in this case the valves 20a, 21a function asair vent.
Although the individual phases of the carbonation process are realized separately from one another in space and time, the whole process of production is continuous, since the material to be moulded and hardened tobuilding panel passes through the mould space 5 continuously. The building panel 22 discharged continuously in infinite length through the outlet port 7 is cut to size by the transversal saw 21 its operation being synchronized with the pressing rate, thus, there are obtained partially hardened building panels--having e.g. a strength representing about 30% ofthe 28-day-strength which can be further cured--by any known method--by artificial ageing of by allowing to stand.
Cross section of the building panel 22 produced with the apparatus according to FIGS. 1 and 2, is shown in FIG. 9a but it is easily conceivable that with the aid of the process and apparatus according to the invention, any optional cross section of the building units can be produced--within practical limits--by an appropriate selection of the cross sectional shape of the mould space and the piston. Cross section of the building unit 30 according to FIG. 9b is wedge-shaped, while the building unit 31 shown in FIG. 9c is of wavy-sgape. A trapezoid building unit 32 is shown in FIG. 9d. In fact, the production of a hollow building unit is also possible with the aid of the invention. The element 33 shown in FIG. 9e has an annular cross section whose circular hole is marked withreference number 33a. The rectangular building unit shown in FIG. 9f has two cavities 34a and 34b. Naturally the production of hollow building units requires a suitable mould to form the cavities; the construction of the mould structure for the building element according to FIG. 9f is shownin FIG. 10. Ducts and holes are formed in the outer mould frame 34 as well as in the walls of the hollow internal mould cores 36, 37 (the cavities are marked with reference numbers 36a and 37a)--similarly as shown in FIGS. 3a, 3b--for injection of the CO2 gas, or for putting it throughthe material passing through the mould. A possible way of having the gas flown is shown in FIG. 1 by arrows, but for the better overview, illustration of the ducts and holes is omitted.
Moreover, the amount of CO2 gas required for carbonation is always proportionate to the quantity of cement used according to the given formula, making out about 8-10 mass % thereof. The gas mixture used for carbonation--if not pure CO2 is used--should contain expediently at least 30% of CO2.
The invention is described in further details by way of examples as follows:
20 mm thick, 60�100 cm building panels are produced with the process according to the invention using the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. Composition of the raw afterhardening mixture to be moulded by pressing and treated with carbonation is the following:
______________________________________cement 42 mass %caustic lime 2 mass %quartzsand 42 mass %water 14 mass %______________________________________
FIG. 4 illustrates the trend of the internal stress (pressure) P and the density Ro as a function of the time consequent upon compression in the mixture not containing elastic (organic) additive-component. In the initial phase of the pressing process both the internal stress and the density are rapidly increasing, but after a short time, increase of the density slows down, the curve Ro is nearly parallel to the axis of time (it hardly approches to the latter) while the internal stress P upon reaching a maximum, remains essentially constant for a short time, then itrapidly drops. The internal stress at the intersection M of the curves P and Ro is only as high, at which the density Ro of the mixture practically would not change even if the compressive force was stopped. (Moreover, the pressure and density of all those afterhardening mixtures are characterized by curves similar to the graph in FIG. 4, the moisture content of which is at most 50% and their additives are inorganic, rigid materials e.g. sandy gravel, gravel, siliceous earth, fibreglass etc.).
The pressure conditions--i.e. trend of the internal stresses--as a functionof the time, arising while pressing in the mixture described in this example, with the reciprocating piston 8 of the apparatus as shown in FIGS. 1-3, are illustrated with the set of curves according to FIG. 6. Each curve P represents the internal stress-influence line of the compression performed with each piston stroke. FIG. 6. clearly shows that in the uppermost layer of the mixture in the mould space 5 (FIG. 1) alwaysthe same--and maximum--internal stress prevails, and it exists continuously, because the upper horizontal parts of the curves P (see alsoFIG. 4) are practically passing into one another. Thus, as a result of the mechanical pressing process in this upper layer of the material, the quasigastight condition is ensured until the piston 8 of the apparatus stamps the mixture into the mould 1.
The CO2 gas is injected into the material being present in the mould 1and moving downwards in zones I-III under the following pressure:
______________________________________Zone I: entry 6 bar exit barZone II: entry 2 bar exit 1 barZone III: entry 0.4 bar exit 0 bar______________________________________
The gas incidentally flowing down from zone III along the inner faces of the mould plates is emitted in the balancing zone IV; the amount of gas may be only at minimum.
The material passes through the mould space 5 continuously at a rate of 1.0m/sec.
The gas pressure, path and time diagram in FIG. 8-where v is the velocity of the material moving down in the mould, Ro is the density of the afterhardening mixture, and d is the thickness of the produced building panel--proves that the material passes through zone I--where the pressure of CO2 gas is at the maximum (6 bar)--in about two minutes, whereas its passage through the zones II and III takes barely one minute, while the gas pressure gradually drops to zero, and the gas do not has any overpressure in zone IV. The curve in FIG. 8 represents the internal relaxation force proportional to the compressive force produced by the piston, in other words, the intensity of the force required for compactionand passing on the material to be pressed is always proportional to the relaxation force affecting the sides of the mould.
The bending strength of the material leaving through the outlet port 7 of the mould 1 is about 35 kp/cm2 (about 30% of the final, 28-day-strength), and its density is 1250 kg/m3. The panel material continuously leaving the mould is cut according to the planned size with acutting disc. The panels partly hardened by carbonation are stored standingon their edge.
14 mm thick, 163�1250�4000 mm hollow building units are produced with the process according to the invention using the apparatus as shown in FIGS. 1-3. Composition of the raw afterhardening mixture to beshaped by pressing and treated by carbonation is the following:
______________________________________cement 58 mass %waterglass 1 mass %woodshavings 1 mass %water 24 mass %caustic lime 3 mass %______________________________________
FIG. 5 illustrates the trend of internal stress (pressure) P and density Ro as a function of the time consequent upon compression of such mixture--not containing any elastic (organic) additive-component. (Similarcurves are obtained if instead of woodshavings other elastic, organic additive-components, e.g. cellulose, vegetable fibres, vegetable scrapings, synthetic fibers, etc., or a mixture containing their optional combination are used for preparation of the mixture.) In this case, the internal stress P--upon reaching a maximum value and when the corresponding horizontal or essentially horizontal curve-section is longerthan the corresponding part of curve P in FIG. 4--drops only at a slow rate, maintaining the compressive force over a longer time is required to keep the density Ro on a constant value. When the compressive force is stopped (before hardening of the material) the internal stress existingin the mixture would result in a decrease of the density, because the material would spring back (relaxation effect).
If the raw mixture of above composition was pressed into the mould 1 with the reciprocating piston 8 of the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the pressure conditions according to FIG. 7 develop in the mixture. The horizontal section of the internal stress-influence lines P corresponding to each piston stroke in this case, too will pass continuously into one another, i.e. always the same, maximum stress will prevail in the mixture in the vicinity of the inlet port 6 of the mould space 5 until the material is continuously stamped by the piston 8 into the mould 1. This way, due to the mechanical compaction, the quasi gastight condition is ensured during the process of production.
Pressure of the gas injected into and emerging from the zones I-III is the same as the one shown in Example 1 and also the gas pressure, path and time diagram is similar to that of FIG. 8, however, the volume weight and strength of the end-product--consequent upon the difference appearing in the additive--are lower.
The main advantage of the invention is that it enables continuously the large-scale production of building units, the strength of which, when discharged from the mould, is at least 30% of the final (28-day) strength,thus, their production is extremely efficient and economical. A further advantage is the simplicity of the apparatus according to the invention, consequently its cost of investment is relatively low, and it is suitable for the production of units from a raw mixture containing either elastic (fibrous), or solid granular additive.
Naturally, the invention is not limited to the above described examples of the process and to the illustrated and explained embodiments of the apparatus, but it can be realized in many ways within the protective scopedefined by the claims. The mould should not necessarily be of an upright position, the building units may be produced also in an inclined or even in a horizontal mould. The process can be realized according to several formulae different from those described in the examples. The method of passing the gas through the material in motion is realizable in many ways different from the one described in the foregoing deviation from those described above is conceivable according to several other aspects, withoutoverstepping the protective scope defined by the claims.
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The game play is a little different in the Philippines than say, in Thailand. Utilizing quick, easy pick up lines and video chat will move you through the preliminary process faster. Use your playful Western charm, don't be too sexually forward and you will end up getting laid with ease. Let's discuss your game plan for picking up Filipina girls through FC.Sign Up Now
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A series of adverts and posters used across Scotland and aimed at attracting more and more people to discover the Gaelic language in them. If you've read an advert you're already one step closer to discovering your Gaelic side.
An sluagh - Crowd
Neach-gleidhidh - Goalkeeper
Spot Peanais - Penalty Spot
Cluicheadair - Player
An Lìon - Net
WAG - Wives and girlfriends
Taigh Mòr - Villa
Rionnag Pop - Star
Leabaidh-ghrèine - Sunbed
Deochan - Refreshments
Amar-snĂ mh - Pool
Paparazzi - Paparazzi
A' Ghrian - Sun
Port-adhair - Airport
Staidhre - Stairs
Plèana - Aircraft
Raon-laighe - Runway
Ping pong player - Ping pong player
Ròpa - Rope
Faoileag - Seagull
Acair - Anchor
BĂ ta - Boat
A' Mhuir - Sea
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Rays fall but Ramos provides much-needed relief
Rays fall but Ramos provides much-needed relief
The loss handed the Rays their first of the year against the Mariners and snapped a nine-game winning streak against the Mariners, their second-longest winning streak ever against an opponent and longest ever against the Mariners.
Heading into Sunday's rubber match of the three-game series, the Rays are now 49-46 on the season.
After playing 14 innings Friday night, the last thing the Rays needed Saturday night was a short outing by their starting pitcher. The residual effect of the extra-inning affair came in the scarcity of relievers available for duty as six different relievers absorbed 6 1/3 innings.
To combat the deficit, left-hander Cesar Ramos got recalled from Triple-A Durham, and that proved to be a good thing because starter Alex Cobb lasted just two innings after suffering a lower-right leg contusion after getting hit by a drive off the bat of Ichiro Suzuki.
"When I was on the ground all I thought about was going back out there and throwing some innings up there," Cobb said.
Ramos took over for Cobb with the Rays trailing 2-0 and proceeded to cobble together four scoreless innings in dominating fashion, holding the Mariners to two hits while striking out six.
"Unbelievable," said Joel Peralta of Ramos' effort. "We needed somebody to pick us up after Cobb, and the way he did it was amazing."
Ramos got a call informing him that he would be flying to Tampa at 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
"We brought Cesar up specifically for an event like today," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "He was great. That was as good as I've ever seen him pitch. ... He had a really good poise about himself tonight, too. ... Cesar permitted us to have a chance to win that game tonight."
Ramos entered the game understanding the precarious situation in which the Rays' staff found itself.
"That's why I was like, go out there and let her go," Ramos said. "See how long you can go, and luckily I was able to cover four innings and keep us in the ballgame."
Burke Badenhop pitched a scoreless seventh to keep the game within reach for the offense, which Mariners starter Jason Vargas had stymied through six innings before showing life in the seventh.
Desmond Jennings singled to open the seventh, then Jose Lobaton dropped a Texas Leaguer into right field that Jennings immediately recognized as a hit. The Rays speedster made the turn around second and headed into third standing up. Ichiro Suzuki's wild throw to third allowed Jennings to score on the play to cut the lead to 2-1.
Suzuki's error also allowed Lobaton to reach second representing the tying run. Sean Rodriguez sacrificed him to third, but that's where Lobaton remained. B.J. Upton popped out and Carlos Pena struck out to end the inning.
"We've got a runner at second base, one run in, nobody out," Maddon said. "Rodriguez really good bunt, excellent bunt, moves up the runner. That's a moment where you've really got to tie it up and move it on from there. ... We just can't let those opportunities slip away. That's the difference of being five games over and three games over."
Mariners manager Eric Wedge credited Vargas for being most responsible for Saturday night's win since the state of the Mariners' pitching mirrored the Rays' after Friday night's marathon.
"It starts with Jason Vargas," Wedge said. "Everybody knew what our situation was. To know that as a starting pitcher and have the heartbeat that he did and get us deep in the ballgame like that, it starts with him. He didn't have the command that he normally does, but he didn't give in to it either in a tight ballgame like that."
The Rays' bullpen has posted a 1.96 ERA during the homestand with 46 strikeouts against only nine walks in nine games. And over the past three games, the Rays bullpen has not allowed a run in 16 1/3 innings.
Tough luck for Ramos came in the fact that he was optioned back to Durham after the game.
"If Cesar was not here tonight, it would have really been awful to try and piece that together tonight," Maddon said. "As it went along, it would have been nearly impossible. We could have done it, but we would have been in really bad shape for tomorrow. ... He gave us a solid chance to win tonight's game and then he saved everybody else -- outstanding job."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Racers begin conference play against SEMO
Story by Kelsey Randolph, Sports editor
Racer Volleyball racked up three wins at the Winthrop Invitational in Rock Hill, South Carolina last weekend to improve to 8-1 as the Racers prepare to open conference play Friday.
Despite a winning weekend, Head Coach David Schwepker said there are a lot of inconsistencies he hopes can be worked out. One of those inconsistencies was lack of communication against Davidson College on Friday, Sept. 18.
"Friday night's match was not good and not a good Murray State play," Schwepker said. "We were doing things a lazy team would do, we were not playing with urgency – we were playing like people owe us wins. I'm always happy with a win but sometimes we have to come back."
The Racers swept Davidson with a back and forth play before a few kills by senior outside hitter and defensive specialist, Taylor Olden and senior middle blocker Alyssa Lelm taking the second set from 16-20 and eventually taking the set.
Schwepker said it took the team a few tries to figure out working together was the key. It began to work in the third set against Davidson when the team brought the score from 8 to 18 only allowing the Wildcats to score 11 points for the set.
The second day went smoother, said Schwepker.
"We had a discussion and then Saturday morning was better and that afternoon it was like the team I know," Schwepker said. "It was how we played in urgency and I'm trying to get them to understand. No matter where you are ranked or what you are as far as I know you have to play."
Capping their preseason play, the Racers took on Winthrop in four sets, 25-19, 19-25, 25-23 and 25-21. Junior outside hitter, Scottie Ingram led the team with 16 kills and a .297 attack percentage with Olden adding 15 kills, Lelm putting 14 and redshirt junior rightside Kristen Besselsen adding 11 kills. In the second match of the day against Western Virginia, the team took four sets to pull out a win. Again Ingram led the team with a season high 21 kills with a .372 attack percentage. Lelm added 11 kills and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
"It was a great team win," Lelm said. "Friday was rough but we pulled out the win. Saturday we turned it around. There is only room for improvement. My whole goal is to maintain the best we can be. If we fall we realize it and we pick each other up and if one person has a bad game you know we have five other people on the court who can do the same thing as her and get it done."
Lelm has recorded 738 kills over her career and has played in all sets of her 2013 and 2014 career. She is one of two Racers to appear in all 32 matches last season and is the only one to start in all matches, Lelm has played in 320 sets over her career. Last season she was fourth on the team with 225 kills and led the Racers with a .326 attack percentage.
"It is about everyone around you," Schwepker said. "Alyssa couldn't have been MVP had people not passed well. She couldn't have done it if she didn't have that support. She needed that stuff around her. It really is because of everyone else and is a team effort."
The Racers open conference play against Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau, 4-9 in preseason play, at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The Racers travel to Martin, Tennessee, on Saturday to face UT Martin and then to Richmond, Kentucky, on Oct. 3 to face Eastern Kentucky.
Murray State will have its first home game 7 p.m. Oct. 7 against Austin Peay State in Racer Arena.
Both Schwepker and Lelm said their goal for the season is, to win the OVC regular season and take their second straight championship title.
"If you are supposed to win and you are ranked high, it means nothing because the team on Friday night doesn't care about our success thus far." Schwepker said. "But at this point if we do everything we are supposed to be doing and focus on the matches at hand – not what we've done- then at the end we can look at it and then we can be excited but if we want to get to that point we got to take care of each match."


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I love Jazz, and I generally don't enjoy Jazz clubs. The typical combination of cave-like ambiance and mandatory drinks is irritating. The Jazz gallery offers a great mix of emerging and established artists, in a simple, pleasant environment that lets the audience focus on the music. More clubs should be like this.
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Los Angeles, Feb. 1 (Reuters): Miss USA Tara Conner, who hung on to her title last month by agreeing to go into rehab, has admitted she used cocaine and says she has struggled with alcoholism since she was a teenager.
The beauty queen, who denied last month that she had problems with alcohol or drugs, spoke openly about both issues in her first interview since ending a 31-day stint in rehab.
I have done cocaine, yeah, Conner said, in an excerpt aired yesterday on NBC televisions Today show.
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I hope your New Year was fun and you have some wonderful Goals for 2015. I plan on focusing on my home based business, being a better Wife and Mom, and giving more in the community and working on growing my faith even stronger.
I wanted to write this post and reflect on last year and look at some of my most popular posts of 2014.
Being a Boy Mom was one of those posts where I poured my heart out and really shared my feelings about being a Mom to Three boys. I have resolutions to be a better Mom and I found some articles that I would like to share with you that are really powerful to me and I feel like can really help me stick to my resolution. The first one is from Hands Free Mama and the article is called, The Important thing about Yelling. It is a really good read. Another one is, To Build (or break) a Child's Spirit (also from Hands Free Mama).
Another popular post that I published last year was, Strong Inside and Out. This is also a great post to re-read because it is cold and flu season and I share ways that I keep my family healthy.
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Thank you so much for popping in to say hello! First of all my prayers go out to all those who suffered damages and in some cases even lost loved ones during Friday's tornado outbreaks. My family and I spent some tense moments in our basement that evening as multiple tornadoes were spotted in the area. It was the most terrifying experience I have ever gone through. The noise, the dark, the quiet was nothing short of amazing!
During this time we were awaiting the birth of puppies. Our basement is made up of two areas, a bonus/family room and a garage which we have converted into kennels for our brood. Dakota was so pitiful that night. I went out to check on her and she was literally shaking. Keep in mind that this big ball of fur came home with us at a tender 6 weeks of age. The first time we took her out in the yard to conduct her business, she promptly ran over to the fence and barked ferociously at the neighbor's massive bull! She has absolutely no fear. But things were very different Friday night. (Who says animals can't sense danger?) So I promptly climbed into her birthing pen and plopped on the floor. Dakota placed her head in my lap and I petted and comforted her as much as she did me. When the horrible sounds died off, my step son advised we could return upstairs and we were so thankful to see zero damage! Other area counties were not so fortunate... West Liberty where I took classes while in college was nearly destroyed... areas of Kenton County where I have friends and former co-workers was hard hit as well...
What struck me as I cradled Dakota's head Friday night? She put her trust in me to make everything alright. She settled down and drifted off to sleep even as the wind, rain and hail roared around us. And so it is with our Savior, if we truly put our trust in him and recognize the Light... we can have peace... Blessings...
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I created the base for this card using a Cricut cartridge cut at 4.25 inches. I then layered Cheery Lynn Design's Italian Flourish Die in white. The designer paper is called Blue Lace Column and was cut with a Spellbinder die and split in half. The Shabby Tea Room challenge asked participants to use a distressed element. For this project I selected a torn box lid which I cut with Spellbinders' Standard Circle Large dies and inked with distress ink. The sentiment is from the recent Our Daily Bread Designs release, The Light of Life.
Stamps - ODBD - The Light of Life
Ink - Close To My Heart - Outdoor Denim
Paper - Recollections, Colorbok, K & Co. - Blue Lace Column
Dies - Spellbinders - Classic Scalloped Rectangles Large, Classic Rectangles Large, Standard Circles Large; Cheery Lynn Designs - Italian Flourish
Electronic Die - Cricut - Ribbons & Rosettes - pg. 55 Rhinestone/Medallion Shadow (4.25 inches)
Accessories - Pearls - Recollections; Lace - Offray; Paper Punch - MS Crafts; Mulberry Roses
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MOJO230, TSTR103 ~ Your Light
4 comments:
- Rosemary said...
absolutely gorgeous, lori!! you always do the most amazing job with the mojo sketches! so thankful that you and your family made it through the tornados with no damage! hugs!
- March 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM
- SnowflakeDreams1 said...
Your card is so very gorgeous. I'm so glad that you and your family were kept safe and out of harms reach. I pray for all those that were not as fotunate as you and your family. Hugs, Velma
- March 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM
- Cheryl said...
Beautiful card - glad to hear you and your family are safe!
- March 4, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- Tam said...
Glad you're okay!
This card made me think of the beach!
- March 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM
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