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When studying a chemical reaction, it is important to consider not only the chemical properties of the reactants, but also the conditions under which the reaction occurs, the mechanism by which it takes place, the rate at which it occurs, and the equilibrium toward which it proceeds. According to the law of mass action, the rate of a chemical reaction at a constant temperature depends only on the concentrations of the substances that influence the rate. The substances that influence the rate of reaction are usually one or more of the reactants, but can occasionally be a product. Another influence on the rate of reaction can be a catalyst that does not appear in the balanced overall chemical equation. The rate law can only be experimentally determined and can be used to predict the relationship between the rate of a reaction and the concentrations of reactants.
How fast a reaction occurs depends on the reaction mechanism, the step-by-step molecular pathway leading from the reaction to products. Chemical kinetics is concerned with how rates of chemical reactions are measured, how they can be predicted, and how reaction rate data is used to deduce probable reactions. The reaction rate or speed refers to something that happens in a unit of time. Consider that you are driving, and you want to know the distance from point A to point B, the distance from the points is the product of time x rate. Just think of it as the distance (concentration) is equal to the product of speed in M/sec and time(sec, min, and hour).
The rate itself is defined as the change in concentration of a reactant or product per unit of time. If A is a reactant and C a product, the rate might be expressed as:
In other words, the reaction rate is the change in concentration of reactant A or product C, over the change in time. This is an average rate of change and the minus sign is used to express the rate in terms of a reactant concentration. The reason for this is that by the conservation of mass, the rate of generation of product C must be equal to the rate of consumption of reactant A.
One may also wish to consider the instantaneous rate by taking the limit of the average rate as delta t approaches 0. This will give the instantaneous rate as:
Now the reaction rate is expressed as a derivative of the concentration of reactant A or product C, with respect to time, t.
Consider a reaction 2A + B -> C, in which one mole of C is produced from every 2 moles of A and one mole of B. The rate of this reaction may be described in terms of either the disappearance of reactants over time, or the appearance of products over time:
rate = (decrease in concentration of reactions)/(time) = (increase in concentration of products)/time
Because the concentration of a reactant decreases during the reaction, a minus sign is placed before a rate that is expressed in terms of reactants. For the reaction above, the rate of reaction with respect to A is -Δ[A]/Δt, with respect to B is -Δ[B]/Δt, and with respect to C is Δ[C]/Δt. In this particular reaction, the three rates are not equal. According to the stoichiometry of the reaction, A is used up twice as fast as B, and A is consumed twice as fast as C is produced. To show a standard rate of reaction in which the rates with respect to all substances are equal, the rate for each substance should be divided by its stoichiometric coefficient.
Rate = -(1/2)(Δ[A]/Δt) = -Δ[B]/Δt = Δ[C]/Δt
Rate (as well as the Rate Law) is expressed in the units of molarity per second.
For nearly all forward, irreversible reactions, the rate is proportional to the product of the concentrations of the reactants, each raised to some power. For the general reaction:
aA + bB → cC + dD
The rate is proportional to [A]m[B]n that is:
rate = k[A]m[B]n
This expression is the rate law for the general reaction above, where k is the rate constant. Multiplying the units of k by the concentration factors raised to the appropriate powers give the rate in units of concentration/time.
The dependence of the rate of reaction on the concentrations can often be expressed as a direct proportionality in which the concentrations may appear to be the zero, first, or second power. The power to which the concentration of a substance appears in the rate law is the order of the reaction with respect to that substance. In the reaction above the order of reaction is:
m + n
The order of the chemical equation can only be determined by experiment. In other words, one cannot determine what m and n are by just looking at a balanced chemical equation; m and n must be determined by the use of data. The overall order of a reaction is the sum of the orders with respect to the sum of the exponents. Furthermore, the order of a reaction is stated with respect to a named substance in the reaction. The exponents in the rate law are not equal to the stoichiometric coefficients unless the reaction actually occurs via a single step mechanism. However, the exponents are equal to the stoichiometric coefficients of the rate-determining step. In general, the rate law can calculate the rate of reaction from known concentrations for reactants and derive an equation that expresses a reactant as a function of time.
The proportionality factor, k, called the rate constant is a constant at a fixed temperature. Nonetheless, the rate constant varies with temperature. There are dimensions to k and can be determined with simple dimensional analysis of the particular rate law. The units should be expressed when the k-values are tabulated. The higher the k value, the faster the reaction proceeds.
The values of k, x, and y in the rate law equation (r =[A]m[B]n) must be determined experimentally for a given reaction at a given temperature. The rate is usually measured as a function of the initial concentrations of the reactants, A and B.
Example |
Example: Given the data below, find the rate law for the following reaction at 300K.
Trial | [A]initial (M) | [B]initial (M) | rinitial (M/sec) |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | 1 | 2 | 8.1 |
3 | 2 | 2 | 15.9 |
Solution: First, look for two trials in which the concentrations of all but one of the substances are held constant.
a. In trials 1 and 2, the concentration of A is kept constant while the concentration of B is doubled. The rate increases by a factor of approximately 4. Write down the rate expression of the two trials.
Trial 1: r1 = k[A]x[B]y = k(1.00)x(1.00)y
Trial 2: r2 = k[A]x[B]y = k(1.00)x(2.00)y
Divide the second equation by the first which yields:
4 = (2.00)y
y = 2
b. In trials 2 and 3, the concentration of B is kept constant while the concentration of A is doubled; the rate is increased by a factor of approximately 2. The rate expressions of the two trails are:
Trial 2: r2 = k[A]x[B]y = k(1.00)x(2.00)y
Trial 3: r3 = k[A]x[B]y = k(2.00)x(1.00)y
Divide the second equation by the third which yields:
2 = (2.00)x
x = 1
So r = k[A][B]2
The order of the reaction with respect to A is 1 and with respect to B is 2; the overall reaction order is:
1 + 2 = 3
To calculate k, substitute the values from any one of the above trials into the rate law:
2.0 M/sec = k(1.00 M)(1.00M)2
k = 2.0 M-2 sec-1
Therefore the rate law is r =2.0[A][B]2
Chemical reactions are often classified on the basis of kinetics as zero-order, first-order, second-order, mixed order, or higher-order reactions. The general reaction aA + bB → cC + dD will be used in the discussion next.
First lets note what each of these orders means in terms of initial rate of reaction effect:
A zero-order reaction has a constant rate, which is independent of the reactant's concentrations. Thus the rate law is:
rate = k = constant
where k has the units of M(sec-1). In other words, a zero-order reaction has a rate law in which the sum of the exponents is equal to zero. An increase in temperature or a decrease in in temperature is the only factor that can change the rate of a zero-order reaction. In addition, a reaction is zero order if concentration data are plotted versus time and the result is a straight line. The slope of this resulting line is the negative of the zero order rate constant k.
At times, chemists and researchers are also concerned with the relationship between the concentration of a reactant and time. Such expression is called the integrated rate law in which the equation expresses the concentration of a reactant as a function of time (remember, each order of reaction has its own unique integrated rate law). The integrated rate law of a zero-order reaction is:
[At] = -kt + [A0] (See page on zero-order reactions to see how this is derived)
Notice, however, that this model cannot be entirely accurate since this equation predicts negative concentrations at sufficiently large times. In other words, if one were to graph the concentration of A as a function of time, at some point, the line will cross below 0. This is of course, physically impossible since concentrations cannot be negative. Nevertheless, this model is a sufficient model for ranges of time where concentration is predicted as greater than zero.
The half life (t1/2) of a reaction is the time needed for the concentration of the radioactive substance to decrease to one-half of its original value. The half-life of a zero-order reaction can be derived as follows:
Given a reaction involving reactant A and from the definition of a half-life, we know that t1/2 is the time it takes for half of the initial concentration of reactant A to react. So we can now substitute new conditions into the integrated rate law form to obtain:
We now solve for t1/2 to obtain the following:
A first-order reaction has a rate proportional to the concentration of one reactant.
rate = k[A] or rate = k[B]
First-order rate constants have units of sec-1. In other words, a first-order reaction has a rate law in which the sum of the exponents is equal to 1.
The integrated rate law of a first-order reactions is:
ln[A]t = -kt + ln[A]0
ln([A]t/[A]0) = -kt
Moreover, a first-order reaction can be determined by plotting a graph of ln[A] vs. time t and a straight line is produced with a negative slope of k.
The classic example of a first-order reaction is the process of radioactive decay. The concentration of radioactive substance A at any time t an be expressed mathematically as:
[At] = [A0]e-kt
where [A0] = initial concentration of A
[At] = concentration of A at time t
k = rate constant
t = elapsed time
The half-life of a first order reaction can be calculated in a similar fashion as with the half-life of the zero order reaction and one would obtain the following:
where k is the first order rate constant. Notice that the half-life associated with the first-order reaction is the only case where half-life is independent of concentration of a reactant or product. In other words, [A] does not appear in the half-life formula above.
A second-order reaction has a rate proportional to the product of the concentration of two reactants, or to the square of the concentration of a single reactant. For example:
rate = k[A]2
rate = k[B]2
rate = k[A][B]
are all second-order reactions. Therefore, a second-order reaction has rate law in which the sum of the exponents are equal to 2.
The integrated rate law of a second-order reaction is as follows:
(See page on second-order reactions to see how this is derived)
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The half-life of a second-order reaction is:
In the laboratory, one may collect a sample of data consisting of measured concentrations of a certain reactant A at different times. This sample data may look like the following (Sample data obtain from ChemElements Post-Laboratory Exercises):
Time (min) | Concentration (M) |
0 | 0.906 |
0.9184 | 0.8739 |
9.0875 | 0.5622 |
11.2485 | 0.5156 |
17.5255 | 0.3718 |
23.9993 | 0.2702 |
27.7949 | 0.2238 |
31.9783 | 0.1761 |
35.2118 | 0.1495 |
42.973 | 0.1029 |
46.6555 | 0.086 |
50.3922 | 0.0697 |
55.4747 | 0.0546 |
61.827 | 0.0393 |
65.6603 | 0.0324 |
70.0939 | 0.026 |
One can then plot [A] versus time, ln[A] versus time, and 1/[A] versus time to see which plot yields a straight line. The reaction order will then be the order associated with the plot that gives a straight line. While it may seem that doing this seems tedious and difficult, the process becomes quite simple with the use of Excel, or any other similar program.
By utilizing the formula capabilities of Excel, we can obtain two more data tables of ln[A] vs. time and 1/[A] vs. time very easily.
Time (min) | ln([A]) |
0 | |
0.9184 | -0.085122253 |
9.0875 | 2.206899843 |
11.2485 | 2.420234786 |
17.5255 | 2.863656963 |
23.9993 | 3.178024663 |
27.7949 | 3.324852551 |
31.9783 | 3.465057548 |
35.2118 | 3.561381254 |
42.973 | 3.760572012 |
46.6555 | 3.84279082 |
50.3922 | 3.919836401 |
55.4747 | 4.015927061 |
61.827 | 4.124340162 |
65.6603 | 4.184494481 |
70.0939 | 4.249835772 |
Time (min) | 1/[A] |
0 | |
0.9184 | 1.088850174 |
9.0875 | 0.110041265 |
11.2485 | 0.088900742 |
17.5255 | 0.057059713 |
23.9993 | 0.041667882 |
27.7949 | 0.035977823 |
31.9783 | 0.031271206 |
35.2118 | 0.028399571 |
42.973 | 0.023270426 |
46.6555 | 0.0214337 |
50.3922 | 0.019844341 |
55.4747 | 0.018026235 |
61.827 | 0.016174163 |
65.6603 | 0.015229903 |
70.0939 | 0.014266577 |
We now plot the three data sets to get
We can see clearly that the graph of ln[A] vs time is a straight line. Therefore the reaction associated with the given data is a first order reaction.
Additional Problems:
1. In a third-order reaction involving two reactants and two products, doubling the concentration of the first reaction causes the rate to increase by a factor of 2. If the concentration of the second reactant is cut in half, the rate of this reaction will be?
Solution: The rate is directly proportional to the concentration of the first reactant. When the concentration of the reactant doubles, the rate also doubles. Because the reaction is third-order, the sum of the exponents in the rate law must be equal to 3. Therefore, the rate law is defined as follows: rate - k[A][B]2. Reactant A has no exponent because its concentration is directly proportional to the rate. For this reason, the concentration of reactant B must be squared in order to write a law that represents a third-order reaction. when the concentration of reactant B is multiplied by 1/2, the rate will be multiplied by 1/4. Therefore, the rate of reaction will decrease by a factor of 4.
2. A certain chemical reaction follows the rate law, rate = k[NO][Cl2]. Which of the following statements describe the kinetics of this reaction:
3. The data in the following table is collected for the combustion of the theoretical compound XH4:
What is the rate law for the reaction described?
Trial | XH4 (initial) | O2 (initial) | Rate |
1 | .6 | .6 | 12.4 |
2 | .6 | 2.4 | 49.9 |
3 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 198.3 |
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Another great place to visit while camping around Boston, MA is definitively the Boston Children's Museum and let your little ones go crazy around the three floors of this museum. I remember going on a trip to Boston with a friend while being in University. We had visited the Computer Museum, which is now closed, at that same place where now stand the Boston Children's Museum.
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The Boston Children's Museum is one of the best children's museums I have seen so far. To be honest, it is my favorite… I wish the one we have in town would be that good and that fun. Ours is simply different with a trip around the world.
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I worked at World Travel Holdings full-time for less than a year
Pros – opportunities for advancement are promising, starting pay is great for entry level employees with no formal education, incentives are available, hires and promotes from within the company
Cons – the scheduling system is really bad, management only wants a warm body answering phones and making sales, they don't care about your life outside of the office, team leads are poorly trained if at all (often times they go on power trips), if you aren't a top seller in the first 3 months team leads do whatever it takes to get you out of there
Advice to Senior Management – spend more time on training everyone, staff, and management, it will make a huge difference in long run
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
I have been working at World Travel Holdings full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Virtual positions available, no commuting or clothing expense
Cons – Constant pressure from team leads who are never available to help you. Travel pros and CS reps work very hard while the team leads find pictures and cartoons to put in emails. Ever changing goals can make you crazy especially during very busy times. Days off are scarce. They expect you to experience cruises but don't give you enough time off to go. Schedules change every 12 weeks and are assigned by performance. Family vs work balance is poor. The only thing important is company needs. Do something wrong and you become a target. Very high turnover.
Advice to Senior Management – Take a good look at lower and mid management.
I worked at World Travel Holdings full-time for more than a year
Pros – work at home. computer provided. paid training.
Cons – strict guidelines. not much support from management.
Advice to Senior Management – WTH is an ok place to work. It does offer great pay for an at-home job, though. They are very strict on their policies. You do something wrong, you're fired without much time or help to correct what you were doing wrong. Also, schedules change a regular basis and they do not care what's going on in your life. They will schedule you whenever they feel like it. They make you fill out an availability form, but they don't usually stick to that. You have a 2nd job, oh well. You're in college, oh well. It is an ok place to work at, like I said, however don't screw up because they are very unforgiving.
My advice to upper management is to be more forgiving on the first offense for something. We are human beings and sometimes life stuff happens.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
I worked at World Travel Holdings
Pros – Great benefits, worked with great people. Luncheons from sales executives every month at least, Good location. Good training.
Cons – Cons would be the way that the managers kept track of calls coming in, in relation to the customer service versus sales. It was rare that a person wanted to add on to an already booked reservation. New inbound calls were expected to be sold on that call due to price changes. Don't take too many breaks, if you are sick try to be there anyway, while the managers understood people do get sick after a while they will start targeting anyone that would take advantage of sick time or other time off.
Advice to Senior Management – Not every position is about sales. Customer service is very valuable as well, with that being said there was no room for improvement for sales when all the calls are for customer service.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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I have been working at World Travel Holdings
Pros – Best reason to work here is because you want to work from home, your an excellent salesperson and or you want discounts on cruises.
Cons – It's funny I read this site before I took this job and I thought man this job could mean some opportunity for growth, money and benefits. I've always loved travel so it seemed like a great fit. Well let me tell you there where 25+ people in my training class and now there's about 8-10 left with 6 of them telling me personally how upset they are with this job. Take this job if you are already a salesperson and your able to sell anyone on anything,, don't take this job if you think your going to be trained on how to sell. You will be very disappointed with your pay check. Here's what they don't tell you in the interview or in training....your making usually about usually 10% of 10% of the total. Sometimes that's as little as $9, many times your not making anything at all except your hourly wage, which is $8. Let's face it people now a days want to book things online, so they call to get answers to questions than leave and book it themselves. Which not only do you not make money but you don't meet your conversion percentage. Oh, I almost forgot about the forced Overtime, that's makes for very unhappy employees. It's great working from home but you can make more at burger king flipping burgers with less stress. Why am I still here? Because I like working from home :)
Advice to Senior Management – Start telling new hires what its really like to work here! Stop sugar coding the job. Only a very small percentage of people are making the money you post in the job description. Just like only a very tiny number of rooms/sailings actually go for the prices you post online. Another crappy part of the job, explaining to people that what the see online isn't the actual cost...kinda makes it hard to sell something when people don't trust us.
I have been working at World Travel Holdings
Pros – great fellow employee, work from home
Cons – They do not work with your schedule for any reason, not school, not another job, not family. Everything is done by what they feel they need.
Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your smaller employees, they make the company and will probably be your boss one day.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
I have been working at World Travel Holdings
Pros – Work your own hours. You can earn an unlimited income however it dies take a while to build up
your sales.
Cons – The management is ok. If you do not work you do not make any money. If you have a reservation to cancel they will take the commission out of your next pay check.
Advice to Senior Management – Be much more helpful to people who are having a difficult time making sales rather than gushing over the people that are making sales. Everyone wants to be successful.
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I have been working at World Travel Holdings
Pros – To have a job, do a couple of ship tours, eat the food on tours.....thats the only perk you'll recieve.
Cons – Alot of micro managing and ass kissing, they treat you like a race horse!!! the scheduling sucks and changes every three months.
Advice to Senior Management – They dont pay well, the more you know about selling cruises and learn the ships. They force you to change your banding to get more commission, this is done when its the busy periods so you can think your making more money!!!....They are nothing but Hustlers!!
I have been working at World Travel Holdings
Pros – World Travel Holdings offer a decent benefit package especially decent considering today's economy. The people that work for this company are like one big family and look out for each other. I do like how instead of having to pass a customer from one department to the next we can assist a customer with Sales and Service; although, specializing in service can be lost if you are too busy trying to sell.
Cons – Senior management and supervisors (not all) but quite a few should be become actors and actresses. Maybe if they actually worked and supported their teams with feedback good or bad it would help to develop skills and motivate their employees. Also, senior members ask for feedback regarding systems and ways the company may improve the overall customer experience, it goes in one ear and out the other. Why waste employee's time asking for their feedback if they are not going to use it or at least give updates on what we've requested? There are too many members of management not working and getting paid for it.
Advice to Senior Management – Stop allowing some employees to get away with calling out all the time or coming in late all the time. It is completely and utterly shocking how someone that can never show up on time and always calls out for any excuse major or minor can be considered top three ranking on a team. Something is not right with that picture. The quality of some employees work is being overlooked because members of management are too busy showboating and pretending to work. Management, please pay better attention to your team members by reviewing their work and providing feedback. Also, tighten the reins when it comes to consistently being tardy and calling out. These actions take a toll on the rest of the team. Try actually listening to the feedback we give about the current systems and how they might be improved and please do not lose focus on specializing in quality service to our customers.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
I worked at World Travel Holdings
Pros – The new management (taking company from World Travel Holdings from National Leisure Group) is very strong. There are good guys at the helm (finally).
Cons – Benefits are not great. Health insurance costs a lot - they spend money on things like pet insurance ad legal insurance instead of offering better quality health care for lower premiums.
Advice to Senior Management – Invest in a better benefits package.
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Herlihy will discuss practical concerns, such as how to select a university and how to find housing in another country, as well as academic issues that sometimes arise while studying abroad, from differences in teaching styles to differences in the class schedule. He will also talk about the process of learning and applying a second language, as well as ways in which living in a new culture can affect people – from their meals to their work schedules to their social lives.
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Herlihy accepted a full-time position at Morningside College in the fall, returning after he served as a visiting instructor at the college in the fall of 2006. He holds a bachelor's degree from Boston College and a master's degree from La Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He has completed the coursework for a doctorate from La Universidad Pompeu Fabra, and he is now working on his dissertation. Herlihy has spent a total of six years in Spanish-speaking countries since 1999.


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The LEGO house built by James May for his BBC program Toy Stories was recently demolished after nobody stepped forward to buy and preserve the plastic abode. I would have, but I don't have the money. Or pants (pants? where I'm going I don't need pants). I'm going back to the past! Anyway, this is a little gallery of the demolition. Allegedly the blocks (which were actually donated by LEGO) are going to be used for charity builds in the future. So yeah, that's a silver lining. But not a silver panty liner! Which, haha, HORF HORF HORF HORF HORF.
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One of the things that's helped me from not getting too trapped in our cultural models is that I do travel a great deal in other cultures. And in other cultures I'm always surprised at how different the feelings are that are generated around variables. Like in India when I went there last time, two years ago, one of my lovely old friends up in a village in the mountains, said to me 'Ram Dass, you're looking so old.' He said 'You're so grey.' Now, at first my reaction to that was my Western cultural reaction of 'Oh god – that's terrible', but then when I quieted down, I heard the tone with which he was saying it. He was saying it with great respect and delight. Like I had now become one of the elders in the society and he was saying 'Wow, you've done it, you've grown old, how great.'
And what I have found is that after I live in places like Guatemala, or Malaysia or Thailand or Burma or Italy or France or Spain or Polynesia, where there are extended families, where everybody has natural roles within the structure and where old people are part of the families and the old and the young are wise fools together and the whole thing is quite built in. Then you come back to this culture where you have quote 'an aging problem'. And I realized we are gathered here because of our cultural pathology. That were it not for that we wouldn't need this so much because in many cultures this was all built in, in a natural way and in our zeal to be independent, we have thrown away the baby with the bath a little bit. And we've ended up where we have alienated ourselves across generations instead of embracing ourselves across generations. Creating these kinds of supportive communities where the roles of elders are obvious and clear.
In our society of course, where technology moves so fast we get outdated, so that the question of what wisdom elders have that is useful. I mean I'm only at WordPerfect 5.0 (Laughter) and I realize now that I already cant talk the language of my friend's twelve-year-old son and you know I moved from a typewriter to a computer and I kept saying to myself, old dogs can learn new tricks, old dogs can learn new tricks, old dogs can learn new tricks, and I'd put it over my computer, but I don't know how many more old tricks I'm going to learn and I may just decide to be out-dated.
I think that we have to recognize that we are living in a system that has gotten out of balance in which the zeal for independence and individuality has left us alienated from the structures not only of family and community but from nature. In ways that Zalman talks about from recognizing our identity as part of biotic communities in parts all of which give an intuitive innate meaning to aging and they give you a feeling of the appropriateness of the place. Most of us live in urban areas where we are living almost totally surrounded by the projections of the human mind. And very rarely are we living so close to nature and earth that we are experiencing in our blood and our being the cycles of cold and warm, of leaves falling, of the feelings of nature, of death, of birth, of aging.
And it's a harsh reality at one level and it's the horrible beauty of the wisdom of nature that we often have shielded ourselves from and in that shielding we have lost something. Because we've been afraid to look at the nature of aging and death. Robert Kassebaum says 'the limitations and distortions of our core vision of what it means to be a person in our culture, becomes starkly evident in old age. If to be an old person is to suffer abandonment, disappointment and humiliation, this is not a geriatric problem. It is the disproof of our whole shaky pudding, technology, science and all. If our old people are empty – our vision of life is empty.'
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Brewers go with 1B/LF LaPorta.
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The Nationals selected my guy Ross Detwiler right before the Brewers with the #6 pick, so there's no telling if they would have gone with him if he fell one more spot. Daniel Moskos went 4th to the Pirates while Matt Wieters went 5th to the Orioles. Pretty much all the guys I wanted went before the Crew picked.
Except, of course, Jason Heyward. He fell all the way to #14, where the Braves took him. He's got to have more upside than LaPorta, but I think I have an idea about what the Brew Crew might be doing here.
I was just musing this morning that the team needs another impact bat in the lineup. Prince Fielder is putting up MVP numbers and Ryan Braun might insert himself into the ROY race pretty quickly here. Corey Hart is finally being given a chance and is showing what he can do. Still, our offense lags significantly at times and I can't help but think ahead to what we'll do with LF next season. (I'd trade for Adam Dunn, but I'm sure his .250-ish AVG and 150+ SO will blind Doug Melvin).
Matt LaPorta figures to move quickly through the minors given that he's got 4 years of college ball under his belt, and is already 22 (older than ¡Gallardo!). Maybe the Brewers believe he can play LF well enough to solve that problem as early as next year. He played 6 games there as a freshman at UF, but as a senior this past year, he played only 1B and DH. Either way, I'm guessing we might see him in the Show when the rosters expand in September.
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I guess I didn't see It sounds like LaPorta will give left field a try as soon as he starts his pro career. That could be great, giving the lineup yet another big bat in another couple of years...or it could mean we'll have a Ryan Howard/Ryan Shealy like trading chip to support the 2008 pennant run.As was the case with Rabbi Braun, if LaPorta needs time to work on defense as he transitions to the outfield, it'll probably happen at Hunstville or Nashville. All the same, though, I'd hope that one of the main reasons the Brewers went with LaPorta is because they think he'll contribute sooner than in "another couple of years." One thing is for sure: his power is serious. A run down of his senior season at UF shows that he controlled the plate well to boot. 55 BB against 16 SO, a .582 OBP and .817 SLG. In short, a beast-like season. He might have been a stretch pick, maybe to save money (he'll still get >$2million), maybe so that the team sees results ASAP. If the LF experiment is anything of a success, and he adds 20-30 homers as early as next year, Brewers fans will end up liking this pick quite a bit. A lot depends on the next year and a half, which is actually a lot shorter of an appraisal time than most draft picks. With Detwiler, Moustakas, Wieters, and Moskos all gone by #7, I can't say that I mind this pick at all. Jason Heyward would have been a bit more interesting, but at least they didn't take Jarrod Parker (who will now turn out to be the next Jake Peavy, I'm sure).


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May 26, 2010 4:19 amMARBLE CITY, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say an employee performing maintenance on a machine at a limeplant has been killed. Sequoyah County Sheriff Ron Lockhart says his office received a call about 4 p.m. Monday of an industrial accident at the U.S. Lime & Minerals Inc. in Marble City.
Congress Prepares To Quadruple Oil Taxes
May 25, 2010 5:04 am | by Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to the massive BP oil spill, Congress is getting ready to quadruple — to 32 cents a barrel — a tax on oil used to help finance cleanups. The increase would raise nearly $11 billion over the next decade. The tax is levied on oil produced in the U.
Toyota Halts Lexus Sales, Waits For Replacement Parts
May 25, 2010 4:58 am | by Dan Strumpf, AP Auto WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. has stopped sales of the Lexus LS sedan for about three weeks while it works to get parts to dealers to fix a problem with the vehicle's steering system, a spokesman said Monday. Toyota on Friday recalled about 3,800 2009 and 2010 LS 460 and LS 600h sedans in the U.
Electric Boat To Add 450 Jobs, Invest $55 Million
May 25, 2010 4:51 amNORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — Officials with submarine maker Electric Boat say the company will add 450 jobs at its Rhode Island facility over the next five years, and spend more than $55 million on new infrastructure as part of the expansion of the Virginia-class nuclear submarine program. Electric Boat president John Casey said Monday that this year alone the General Dynamics Corp.
BP Responsible For Exxon Valdez Disaster, Too
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GE To Build First Freshwater Wind Farm Near Cleveland
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Supervisor Hid Child Laborers In Facility Basement
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China Promises Currency Reform, More U.S. Imports
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Professor: Engineers Aren't What They Used To Be
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Oil Boom Manufacturing Experiencing Unfortunate Boom
May 24, 2010 4:40 am | by Kevin SpearsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Nearly a mile of newly made oil-containment boom, which provides a final and desperate line of defense against an enormous slick in the Gulf of Mexico, gets trucked out of a small factory in Cape Canaveral each day. "We're maxed out," said Sean Geary, sales manager at American Boom & Barrier Corp.
Marble Manufacturer Fires Up Furnace For The Last Time
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For dinner I made Pineapple Teriyaki Chicken, Rice, and Green Beans using Clear American water to create each dish.
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I made a sauce of 1/3 Cup Soy Sauce, 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar, and 1 Cup of Pineapple Coconut water. Mix all those items together, pour into a zip close bag, add chicken, and place in fridge for at least 30 minutes, longer if possible.
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I just used brown minute rice and replaced the water with Mandarine Orange Sparkling Water.
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I steamed my fresh green beans in Fuji Apple Pear water. I just added some water to my green beans and covered to steam until done.
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Sue Broxholm's connecting flight back home is delayed, and her airline eventually asks her to pay an extra $462 to continue her journey. Is that right? And if not, should it give her a refund?
Q: A few months ago I purchased tickets to Lilongwe, Malawi, for church missionary work through a full-service travel agency. I had two sets of round-trip tickets: One from San Francisco to Cairo by way of Paris on Delta Air Lines and Air France/KLM and one from Cairo to Lilongwe by way of Nairobi on Kenya Airways. Kenya Airways, Delta and Air France/KLM are all alliance partners.
On my return trip, my Kenya Airways flight from Lilongwe arrived late in Nairobi and, even though my connecting flight to Cairo was still at the gate, I was not allowed to board. A Kenya Airways service representative informed me that the next flight out was the following day at the same time. Kenya Airways put me up in a hotel for the night and told me that they had made arrangements for all of my connecting flights to be changed to one day later.
I was given something called a "Ticket Reconciliation Needed" form and was told there would be no extra charge, since all of the airlines were in the same alliance. But the next day, when I tried to check in for my flight in Cairo, an Air France/KLM representative told me they would not honor the Ticket Reconciliation that Kenya Airways issued. They insisted that I pay an additional $462 to take the flight.
I have been back and forth since then with all of the airlines, and the best they can offer is a $100 coupon toward a new trip. These changes have cost me a total of $538, when you factor in the hotel accommodations. We have exhausted all resources and hope that you can persuade the airlines to reimburse me for the additional expenses I incurred in order to get on the plane, as well as the extra cost in hotel expense due to the one day delay. -- Sue Broxholm, San Francisco
A: Something wasn't right with your tickets. If your reservations had been connected, then you would have been able to continue your flight without being charged more by Air France.
You made your reservations through a full-service travel agency, which should have known that. But when you mentioned that you had two separate sets of tickets, I thought something might not be right.
When I checked with Air France and KLM (they are owned by the same company), it found that the reservations weren't connected. In other words, Air France/KLM and Delta wouldn't know that you missed your Kenya Airways flight. Being in the same alliance doesn't count; you need to have the same alphanumeric record locator for your entire itinerary, and only then is everything connected.
Normally, a problem like this can be avoided by using a professional travel agent. But even agents can make mistakes, and yours either couldn't or wouldn't link all of the flights on your reservation. That made a resolution difficult.
Your story underscores the importance of having a connected reservation. Simply booking tickets through alliance partners is not enough. Their systems aren't sophisticated enough to know if you are the person making or missing a connecting flight without a common reservation code.
Air France didn't have to help you, but given the humanitarian nature of your trip, it decided to refund your change fee and hotel bill.
(Christopher Elliott is the author of "Scammed: How to Save Your Money and Find Better Service in a World of Schemes, Swindles, and Shady Deals" (Wiley). He's also the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine and the co-founder of the Consumer Travel Alliance, a nonprofit organization that advocates for travelers. Read more tips on his blog, elliott.org or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Christopher Elliott receives a great deal of reader mail, and though he answers them as quickly as possible, your story may not be published for several months because of a backlog of cases.)
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Killersup never made on of these,and the thought never occured to him.Hi AG! Killersup is a new user here and he was wondering how things worked around here?
Posted Sep 13, '12 at 8:11am
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Well welcome newbie! I hope you enjoy AG...as for how things work around here...you will just have to find out for yourself ;)
Hopefully you stick around and we start to see you more often...who knows maybe one day you will reach the number of posts I have now!
Posted Sep 13, '12 at 6:08pm
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who knows maybe one day you will reach the number of posts I have now!
You realize that he has more posts than you do.
Welcome to AG (kinda).
Posted Sep 13, '12 at 6:57pm
That's the joke...he was pretending he was new and I responded in similar fashion
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I like moneh
Posted Sep 14, '12 at 6:30am
what is wrong with you?Like,seriously.You have been here long enough to know not to do that kind of thing.
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Yes we all do but thats not the topic here.
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The 50 percent increase was likely to draw fire from Republicans on the campaign trail who want to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and who reject the penalty as a government intrusion into the lives of individuals.
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CBO, which issued its last forecast in April 2010, also attributed the larger number of people facing penalties to a bleaker economic picture that will mean higher unemployment and lower wages and salaries.
There are now 49 million people without health insurance in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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the penalty tax increases to $695 or2.5% of income in 2016. again this is capped buti don't know what that is.
the interesting thing about the penalty tax is that although the IRS is supposed to collect it, Congress did not make it a crime, if you don't pay it. that's right. you cannot be put in jail if you don't buy insurance and don't pay the penalty. the IRS can still try to collect the penalty tax but there limist built into the law as to how far they can go. the IRS cannot use tax liens or leveys against property to collect the tax. all they can do is issue colection letters and if people fail to pay up , they can be sued for the $95 penalty tax.
I guess what people have to calculate is whether it is cheaper to buy insurance or pay the tax and buy insurance after they get sick. remember no one can be refused insurance for a pre existing condition, even if it is cancer or a broken leg.
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You could always get some stainless steel mesh/screen and make him a cage, using the base of the rat cage or something. Heck, you could go CraigsList hunting for old used cages just to get a cheap base!
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I used to run a ferret rescue (and although this cage wasn't available when I ran the rescue)- I still have several ferrets and this is the BEST cage out there. I haven't seen the critter version- but since it should be identical to the ferret version- I'd go with it. Easy to clean, hang things from, easy to access- LOVE this cage. Kinda pricey compaired with other small animal cages, but definitely the best. IMHO
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I will say I love the design of em'... very cool cages. Still wishing I had avoided the whole cage fiasco by buying these instead. Long story.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 10:18 AM
Posted 27 December 2009 - 10:44 AM
This is the flight cage i keep handy in case of emergencies i can shove them in and run out the door..
This is the rabbit cage i use for Lexi. She likes to climb but she falls a lot so i wanted something with width instead of height..
She's sharing it for a green cheek at the moment and i don't think the bar spacing is too wide for him.
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This is really amazing! She is so cute! you did so well on her expression! AWESOME. faveeeee
luv how lukas sticking out her tongue its sooo silly :p shes cute here, looks like shes bout 2 throw da snowball- lovely hair/fav