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Active Delivery Month:
The quoted delivery month on the most
frequently traded futures contract on a
futures exchange. Spot
prices will be derived from the contract price for
the active delivery month.
Ask: Lowest price at which
a dealer is willing to sell
a commodity or security (alternative term
to offer).
Assay: Test of precious
metal purity or fineness.
Assay mark: The stamp placed by an
assayer on a precious metal product as a
guarantee of its fineness.
Assay office: An organisation setting and
monitoring the fineness of precious
metals in a particular country
Backwardation: Market scenario when
the spot price of
a commodity is higher than the forward
price. In the precious metal markets this
is the result of the monetary interest rate being less than
the precious metal lease rate.
Price: See Johnson Matthey Base
Bear: A dealer who
expects the value of a commodity, security, currency
or market sector to fall.
Bear market: A market in which prices are
falling or are expected to
fall. Dealers are more likely to be
sellers than buyers in a bear market.
Bear position: A position taken by
a dealer in a bear market,
involving selling commodities, securities or currency
without owning them. See also short
Bid Price: The highest price at which
a dealer is willing
to buy commodities, securities or currency.
Bid - Offer/Ask spread: the difference
between the price at which a dealer is willing to buy
(Bid) and sell (Offer/Ask)
a commodity, security or currency. The Bid will
be the lower of the two prices and
the offer price the higher.
Bull: An investor who expects the value
of a commodity, security, currency or market sector
to rise.
Bull position: When
a dealer buys a commodity,
security or currency without making a corresponding sale. See
also long position.
Bull market: A market in which prices are
rising or are expected to rise. In a bull market it is more likely
that dealers will be buyers than sellers.
Bullion: Precious
metals such as platinum, palladium, gold and silver in
bulk form, i.e. in the form of bars, ingots
or plate rather than in
coin, grain or sponge.
Buying forward:
Buying commodities, securities or currency at a
specified price for delivery at a future date.
Closing Price: The price at the end of
the day's trading on a commodity market or stock
Commodity: A physical substance traded on
a commodity market. Examples of hard commodities include
platinum, copper and oil, whereas soft commodities include grain,
cotton and rubber.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(CFTC): The United States Government's regulatory
body for US future markets.
Contango: Market scenario when
the forward price of
a commodity is higher than the spot
price. In the precious metal markets
this is the result of monetary interest rates being greater
than precious metal lease rates.
Dealer: An individual or organisation
that buys and sells products.
Delivery date: The day in the month
that commodities on a futures
contract have to be delivered.
Delivery month: The month in
which commodities on a futures
contract have to be delivered. See Active
Delivery Month.
Fineness: The proportion
of precious metal in a product or alloy
typically expressed as parts in 1,000.
Forward price: The fixed price at which a
specified amount of a commodity, currency or
security is to be delivered on a fixed date in the future.
Futures contract: An agreement to buy or
sell a fixed quantity of a specified commodity,
currency or security for delivery at a fixed date in the future at
a fixed price. Futures contracts are standardised agreements
traded on futures exchanges.
Grain: Granules of metal usually
derived from melting sponge and pouring the
molten metal into water.
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Illiquidity: Illiquid markets are typified by
low levels of trading, with little underlying stock readily
available. Buying and selling can cause exaggerated price
Ingot: A form of metal bar, often a
preferred form for delivery. Derived from casting into a
simple shape for hot working or remelting.
International Precious
Metals Institute (IPMI): An international
association of producers, refiners, fabricators, scientists, users,
financial institutions, merchants, private and public sector
groups, and the general precious metals community formed to provide
a forum for the exchange of information and
Johnson Matthey Base
Price: The Johnson Matthey Base Price is the
company's quoted selling price for platinum group
metals set by our trading desks in the USA, Hong Kong and
London, based on market offer prices. The price
is for metal in sponge form, ex-JM refinery, and
is normally available to our customers for several hours following
the setting - an advantage not offered by any other price setting
or fixing. The Johnson Matthey Base Price is set 5 times a
day Monday to Friday; for the Asia time zone, at 08:30
and 14:00 Hong Kong time; for the Europe time zone, at 08:00 London
time and for the USA time zone, at 09:30 and 15:00 Eastern Standard
Time. If markets move sharply higher or lower between these times,
prices may be adjusted accordingly. Johnson Matthey Base prices are
also published in Platt's Metals Week, Metal
Bulletin and American Metals
Liquidity: Liquid markets are typified by
high levels of trading, with underlying stock readily available and
buying and selling causing minimal price fluctuations.
Lease rate: See precious metal
lease rate.
swap: The dealer practice of
exchanging a quantity of metal in one location for an equal
quantity of metal in an alternative location held by
another dealer. Location swaps help to
reduce shipping costs and can reduce manufacturing lead
London Platinum &
Palladium Market (LPPM) Fixings: The London
Platinum & Palladium Market (LPPM) Fixing (Pt and Pd only) -
sometimes referred to as the London Fix - is a snapshot of the
price taken each day at 09:45 (am fix) and 14:00 (pm fix) London
time. It serves as a reference point and is published widely. The
fix is a bid price loco Zurich plate - a price which the members of
the LPPM would have been prepared to pay for platinum and palladium
in the form of plate or ingot,
deposited in a Zurich vault. Customers can instruct dealers to
purchase metal at the fix price prior to the fix but they will
incur charges for brokerage, conversion and transportation. Again
payment is generally due within two days and of course buyers do
not have the benefit of knowing what the price is before they
purchase. Prices have been known to move considerably between
Long position: (i) Position on
a futures exchange where a dealer is a net
holder of contracts, i.e. contracts bought outweighs contracts
sold. (ii) The position of owning a commodity or
Long liquidation: Reducing the amount of
a commodity, security or contracts held.
York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX): The largest
physical commodity exchange in the world. Futures contracts
are traded on the Exchange in an anonymous, open, and competitive
auction, based on open outcry. The exchange acts as the
counterparty on every trade, clearing (matching) orders amongst the
members. The Exchange's platinum contract is the longest
continuously traded precious metals contract in the world's
marketplace, first traded in 1956.
Offer price: Lowest price at which
a dealer is willing to sell a commodity or
security (alternative term to ask).
Open interest: The number of open or
outstanding contracts on a futures exchange for
which the holders are still obligated to the futures
exchange concerned. No offsetting sale or purchase has
yet been made against it. Open interest is used as an indicator of
the level of commercial activity in a particular futures
Open position: A long or short trading
position that is not yet closed. In either case the dealer
remains vulnerable to fluctuations until the position is
Plate: bullion form of metal.
Platinum Group Elements/Platinum Group Metals
(pge/pgm): The six metallic elements platinum, palladium,
rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium.
Precious Metals: The six platinum group
metals, gold and silver.
Precious Metal lease rate: An interest
rate charged for borrowing precious metal.
Rally: A considerable rise in the value
of a commodity, security or market after a
Short selling: (i) A strategy in which a
speculator sells a commodity or security that he
or she does not own in order to profit from a falling market.
The speculator will borrow the commodity or
security from a third party and then immediately sell on to the
buyer. At a later date, the speculator must make good on the loan
by buying back the commodity or security from
the market to close the position. If the value of
the commodity or security has fallen during this
period the speculator's profit will be the difference between his
original sale price and the buyback price (minus interest charges
and fees). However, if the market moves against the
speculator there is the potential for limitless losses. (ii)
Selling a futures contract.
Short covering: The act of buying back
a commodity, security or opposing futures contract to
close out a short position.
Short position: Position resulting from
a short selling strategy.
Sponge: A powdered form of a
pgm. Commonly, the form required for manufacture of many
pgm-based chemicals and catalysts.
Spot market: A market in
which commodities are bought and sold for cash
and immediate delivery.
Spot month: The nearest delivery
month on a futures contract.
Spot price: The delivery price of
a commodity being traded on a spot
Spot purchasing: Purchasing
a commodity in the spot
market for immediate payment and delivery (typically two
working days).
Spread: The difference between the
current bid and offer (ask)
prices for a commodity or security.
Square position: A trading condition in
which a dealer has neither a long position nor a
short position.
Tokyo Commodity
Exchange (TOCOM): The
Japanese futures exchange, which has offered
platinum contracts since 1984 and palladium contracts since
1992. Unlike NYMEX, trading of these contracts
is conducted electronically and not by open outcry. TOCOM
trading also differs in that the exchange does not act as the
counterparty for all members through the clearing process.
Trade date: The date on which a
trade is executed for a specified value date.
Trading volume: (i)The total number of
contracts traded in a set period of time on a futures
exchange. (ii) The amount of a
physical commodity, security or currency traded in a
particular market or during a set period of time.
Troy ounce: The traditional unit of
weight for precious metals. One troy ounce =
31.1034807grams; 32.150746568 troy oz = 1 kilogram.
Value date: The date on which
a commodity is delivered to an account and
usually when payment is due (unless other payment date arrangements
are made between the relevant parties).
Volume: see trading volume.
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why aren't you posting, MM? :( sniff
the newest news says there are going to be packages starting May 28th so it will most likely be opening then.
My only chance of going to this within the next 20 years is that contest to go to the opening anyway. Unless my class wins that, I'll have to wait through college, then get a job, then save up enough money for a trip to Florida. So basically, I'm praying for a miracle. ;)
Huff, your FB doesn't have an "Add as friend" button, so I just poked you instead. ;)
Evening all!
Just got home from Xanadu. It was okay, but definitely wouldn't get a top recommendation from me. First of all, it was the shortest show I have ever seen – only 90 minutes!! If it hadn't been part of my subscription, I would have been seriously annoyed (actually, I just double-checked and the pricing is a little bit lower than most shows, so I guess it's not so bad). The cast was great – all had very strong voices – and the show had some funny moments. But I was clearly missing something, because there were a lot of moments that had the rest of the audience in hysterics, and I just didn't get why. I'm thinking maybe it's because I haven't seen the movie? Anyway, overall, it wasn't a horrible way to spend an hour and a half, but I wouldn't bother to see it again. (I may watch the movie at some point, though, just to compare.)
Okay, back to work I go. I have my first large assignment due on Tuesday, and I'm trying to get my portion done in time to meet with my partner this weekend so all we have to do then is clean up the formatting and standardize our sections to make everything flow as one document.
Man it has been so long I feel like a random.
I don't really care at all about the topic of this poll, it's a bit boring.. I won't be able to go this year anyway. I think I put the latest one(yeah I already forgot what it was).
Congrats Deanie on being first!
HW I was wondering who that was…. LOL!!! poke!!
BWJen good luck on your assignment. I have to admit I've only heard of Xanadu in the poem, and i don't recall it being funny. Glad the cast was good tho!!
Adella you're not a random!!
I bet MM fell asleep. Hmmmmm….
Hiiii Bufflehug!!!
Hi PBB! Oooh you're post #100!
I forgot I posted here… :/
Huff, are you on the new site yet??
Whoa, we made 100 posts already??
PBB tsk tsk ;)
HW no, I thought I would see if people migrated back.. plus I'm going to get scarce again soon enough… O.o … is everyone over there, though?
Pretty much everyone, yeah
Scarce buggles.. :(
Come to the dark side!
We have smileys!!!!!
Really awesome smileys…
And Darth Vader…
Yeah, sorry PBB… scarce…. :S
oooooooh smileys! Hmmmm that is tempting…
eep Vader!!!!!!
We also have cool colors and siggys…
cOlOrFUl FONTsS!!
What the heck happened to my caps?!
What the heck happened to my caps?!
LOLOL, here, have some dittany. And you might want to fix that Shift button… ;) (At the other site, that would've made a cool winking smiley dude)
woahhhhhhhh PBB… twitchy shift key? ;)
are you trying to get me over to the other site? All this talk of colors, smileys, siggys…
And the avatars are bigger than they are here on the poll….
Apparantly it IS twitchy….
Thanks for the dittany, Hermy!
O.o I'm actually going to bed… yawny!!!!! Maybe some other time ;)
goooooodnight PBB and HW!

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A new version of the authority bill is expected to pass the House Finance Committee Wednesday morning and could face a vote by the full House as early as Thursday.
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"We came very close, but unfortunately it didn't work," said Ned Curran, a Charlotte businessman who acted as a behind-the-scenes mediator.
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The city, which has run Charlotte Douglas International Airport for more than 70 years, has fought an authority since legislation was introduced earlier this year. After an authority bill passed the Senate, it slowed in the House. Nudged by McCrory and Tillis, GOP lawmakers proposed a joint study. They said all governance options were on the table.
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O, the drama of it all. Give the "drama queen" in your life a cake that says, "hey, look at me." After all, who can ignore the purple bow festooned with purple pom-poms with silver sparkle? Not to mention the little mirrors, which she can use to make sure she's the center of attention. She's earned this cake (if not an Oscar).
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The skirl of the pipes... the mighty strength of the athletes... the leaping grace of the dancers... the Wisconsin Highland Games are back, Labor Day Weekend in Waukesha!
It's a weekend of affordable Celtic fun for the entire family, with a convenient location right near the interstate, plenty of easy parking, and kids 12 and under get in free.
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In early April 2014, Polish writer and painter Grzegorz Wróblewski gave readings from his book Kopenhaga (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press, 2013) at Columbia University, Cambridge Public Library, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The following interview took place in Providence on April 7. It was transcribed and translated by Piotr Gwiazda.
"Poetry has enemies," Maxim Amelin once told us, "both internal and external." Among the latter he cited "philologists and historians of literature," a deliberately provocative stance considering that Amelin, trained as a philologist, mines word roots and literary history for poems.[1]
My inspiration for this interview emerged from a sense that something is missing from conversations about sound and poetry. Sound is not necessarily music. Joshua Liebowitz and angela rawlings (a.rawlings) are two artists I see as deeply engaged with the materiality of sound, and yet their work is extremely different. Joshua's work uses technology to build and alter sound-structures, while, in angela's performance-based work, I hear voice and breath sounding the limits of the body.
I first met Tony Trigilio when we read together at the Sunday Salon, at Black Rock Pub in Chicago. The reading was held on a November evening after tornados had swept through the state. I bring this up because Trigilio's White Noise, a pseudo-Flarf response to DeLillo's White Noise, transforms the language of search engines — like the kinds we were obsessively checking that afternoon for information about storm systems and tornados — into the language of poetry.
This interview took place on November 28, 2010, at Trevor Joyce's house off Shandon Street, Cork. The weather was bitter, and Joyce was fatigued, having stood outside hours the previous day at an antistate/anti-IMF protest he had organized in the city to coincide with the national protests in Dublin. With thanks to Trevor Joyce, Lee Jenkins, and Justin Katko. — Niamh O'Mahony
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By the way, is the Lens Exchange worth getting? It's not in the sale, but I was considering it for a while. Don't know if I want to lug the 70-200 on my belt tho'
It works as advertised for mid-air lens changes. I wouldn't wear it on a regular belt with a 70-200/2.8-size lens, but it's fine on my Lowepro Deluxe Technical Belt. It doesn't have as much padding as a regular lens case for that size lens, but it's smaller, too.
I've been thinking of getting a second one, as I've been using the one I have primarily for my RRS PG-02 LLR gimbal head.
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App in production to promote Adirondacks
ALBANY — An app is in the works to promote recreational offerings in the Adirondacks.
Named a regional priority project by the North Country Regional Economic Development Council, it will include a concise inventory of places to play around the Adirondack region, to be made available through a comprehensive web portal and travel app.
It will launch at the peak of ski season in 2014, a press release said.
The app will be created by the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages, in partnership with the Capital Region's Center for Economic Growth, the Mohawk Valley's Central Adirondack Partnership for the 21st Century and the Adirondack Regional Tourism Council, covering the region officially designated for the I Love NY Tourism Campaign.
The project will directly support key aspects of the strategic plans developed by the Capital Region, Mohawk Valley and North Country Regional Economic Development Councils, contributing to investment, sustainability and revitalization within those regions.
Funding comes from a Regional Economic Development Council Market NY grant from Empire State Development and the Center for Economic Growth.
"This project symbolizes the great strides our state has made in cross-regional collaboration," said F. Michael Tucker, president and CEO of the Center for Economic Growth.
"Members of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Economic Development Councils from the Capital Region, Mohawk Valley and North Country were eager to partner on this project as a means to leverage the park's recreational assets to promote economic development."
The project's main goals are to provide a format for Adirondack Park communities to connect their recreation, lodging, dining and other assets to a large audience, "while providing the user a fantastic experience that inspires travel to the Adirondacks and acts as a resource while visiting," the release said.
The web portal will be accessible via a platform on the adaptive website, Adirondack Regional Tourism Council's VisitAdirondacks.com. The Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages' enhanced recreation app will be available for download on Android and iPhone.
Lake Placid-based digital marketing agency Adworkshop is overseeing the extensive data collection and mapping, development and design on behalf of the partnering organizations.
While visiting the region, a traveler be able to use the app — even if data and WiFi are unavailable — to find lodging, dining, attractions and other information near their current location.
"When complete, the Adirondack Park Recreation Web Portal will provide easily accessible trip-planning data for residents inside and outside the park, promoting the Adirondacks as an unparalleled recreation destination and bringing exposure to lesser-known assets in the park," said Saranac Lake native Kimberly Finnigan, the project manager and attorney at Cooper Erving & Savage LLP.


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TOLEDO (AP) - Police say a northwest Ohio man hit a gas station clerk in the head with a Bible numerous times forcing the employee back into the store and then demanded cash.
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Board trims redistricting options to two, for now
And then there were two. Probably.
The Henrico County School Board earlier this month eliminated from consideration one of three redistricting options created by a committee of citizens for the new Kaechele Elementary School in Short Pump. The board agreed that Option 3 (Revised Option F) would have too significant a domino effect, shifting too many students at other elementary schools and potentially costing the system Title I funding at Ridge Elementary School.
But the board also directed the school system's planning staff members to review the two remaining plans and consider tweaking them or creating a hybrid option of those two if possible. The board is scheduled to hold a public hearing to receive more feedback from the community during its Dec. 6 meeting at Hermitage High School, beginning at 6 p.m.
During its Nov. 8 work session, the board heard from its redistricting committee, which met 11 times during a two-month period to create the three options and also presented drafts during two public meetings to receive citizen feedback.
The majority of committee members favored Option 2 (Revised Option E), which would move about 36 percent more students than Option 1 (Revised Option A) among the affected elementary schools but would present the best set of compromises to all involved communities, according to redistricting committee vice chairwoman Alice Ann Howard. That map also would do the best job creating boundaries by major roads and geographical landmarks and would not change middle or high school feeder patterns.
Option 1 would provide the best enrollment balance across all elementary schools affected by the redistricting and would ensure that none of those schools were over capacity through 2016, redistricting committee chairman Bill Panak said. But it also would require a few irregular boundaries and would mean that not every community would receive a preferred option. It also would change feeder patterns for 333 students.
In addition to setting boundaries for Kaechele Elementary, the committee was tasked with providing relief for other nearby schools forecasted to exceed their capacity soon and to provide relief for those at or above 95 percent capacity currently. The committee considered the boundaries of 12 elementary schools when creating its maps.
Several School Board members expressed a desire to use West Broad Street as a dividing line between elementary school zones – ensuring that schools north of the road drew only from communities to the north, while schools to the south drew only from the south. Committee members said they had the same desires but were unable to make them a reality without involving even more schools in the process.
"We ran out of room," Howard said of the committee's attempts to use the road as a north-south boundary.
Still, School Board Chairwoman Diana Winston directed planning staff members to take another look and determine if that goal still might be accomplished.
Howard conceded that all three options underutilized Three Chopt Elementary, which is comfortably under capacity. But, she said, moving other students into the school's zone would have required shifting boundaries of schools beyond the 12 originally under consideration.
Map 3 would have moved 160 low-income students from Ridge Elementary to Pinchbeck, likely threatening Ridge's designation as a Title I school. Title I is a federal designation that provides extra funding to schools with a certain percentage of low-income students. Ridge would fall below that threshold with the move, while Pinchbeck would not quite reach it even with the addition of those students, Deputy Superintendent Pat Kinlaw said.
Once the board adopts new boundaries, rising fourth- and fifth-graders at any of the affected schools will be able to remain at their current schools if they choose. Students who move to the district to begin fourth or fifth grade, however, must attend the school designated by the new boundaries.
Author, child abuse survivor to speak at Henrico event
To help celebrate twenty years of service to advocating for abused and neglected children in Henrico County, Henrico Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (CASA) will host an evening with bestselling author K.L. Randis on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Belmont Recreation Center in Lakeside.
Randis is best known for her bestselling novel, Spilled Milk, which tells her painful – but ultimately triumphant – personal story of abuse and of child abuse prevention. The book is her first novel.
Philippines ambassador to the US visits Filipino Festival in Henrico
The Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. attended the Ninth Annual Filipino Festival at Our Lady of Lourdes Church earlier this month. Cuisia (pictured above with festival performers) was welcomed by County Manager John Vithoulkas and Brookland District Supervisor Dick Glover (below) at the church, which is located in Lakeside.
While enjoying some of the cultural performances at the festival, the ambassador and his wife had a private lunch with Vithoulkas, Glover, Eldon Burton (an outreach representative from U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner's Office) and Father James Begley, the pastor of OLL. > Read more.
Dragon boats invade the James
Hundreds of spectators filled the banks of the James River to watch two dozen teams of competitors in the Walgreen's Richmond International Dragon Boat Festival at Rocketts Landing Aug. 2. The event included a number of races, as well as several cultural performances. The sport is billed as the fastest growing water sport in the world.(Photo by Roger Walk for the Henrico Citizen) > Read more.
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'Planes' sequel crashes
'Fire and Rescue' proves too predictable, boring
Planes: Fire and Rescue opens with a dedication to the hero firefighters of the world. It's an admirable notion, and it makes sense, given that this is a film about planes that fight fires.
But here it might be a little out of place, as Planes: Fire and Rescue has a few things on its mind besides supporting the men and women who routinely throw themselves into burning buildings.
Like money. Lots and lots of money – into the 11-figures-and-counting range. In case you weren't aware, 2006's Cars was the biggest moneymaker Disney had in decades – not because of how much green the film printed at the box office, but because a combination of toys, games and snack foods stamped with the Cars seal of approval routinely pulls in tens of billions of dollars per year. > Read more.
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This weekend in Henrico, you can learn about fall herbs or mad science. Enjoy some laughs from West End Comedy or Three-Penny Theatre's production of "The Rivah Home Companion." For music lovers, Jennifer Nettles is in concert tonight and the fifth annual GWAR-B-Q takes place tomorrow at Hadad's Lake. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Menéame, Baidu, StumbleUpon, and Facebook See Big Sharing IncreasesWednesday, August 25th, 2010
(Originally posted on the AddThis blog.)
With AddThis, we're always keeping a keen eye on our data to see how people are sharing content online. It is fascinating to see different services rise and fall over time.
Over the last couple of days, we looked at sharing data from the last 3 months and saw a few services that saw significant increases:
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Because dealing with PRs is forever one of the most contentious issues in blogging, I though I'd put my spin on things. A lot of more established bloggers forget that, once upon a time, starting to get emails from PRs is actually a nice thing – it shows that, somehow or another, you've been recognised as having a voice and implies you're doing something right.
Well, as Taking Back Sunday once sung, don't let it go to your head. I've seen a ton of girls who've been blogging for about six weeks and get this idea in her head that Chanel should be sending them an umbrella as soon as there's a cloud in the sky, and that Oliver Peoples' PR department should be sending free sunglasses the second that cloud disappears. To those girls, I would say this -
1) They don't know you exist.
2) They don't care you exist.
Fluffy Fashion Beans (or whatever that, no doubt, derivative and cliched blog name is) only has 4 GFC readers and its author only has 104 Twitter followers, and you have to do a hell of a lot more than that before the superbrands come knocking at your virtual door.
PR is a business. Unless sending you a gift is going to result in at least two sales, there isn't any point in doing it. Shocking though this may be to some bloggers, brand PRs aren't there just to help people get a new wardrobe for free. Yes, it's frustrating that some bloggers are like 'LOOK AT THIS OUTFIT MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF GIFTED STUFF, LOL', but if you're that bothered about lining your pockets with free stuff, you should probably reconsider why you started blogging in the first place.
All too often I see bloggers bitching about PRs on Twitter, sometimes even namechecking the brands and individuals involved. On a scale of 1 to HORRIBLE IDEA, this is about an 8. (Well, except for the one by this blogger, because it made me laugh endlessly.) Yes, PRs can sometimes be massively annoying. Like sending you emails that start 'dear blogger' and end with 'when can I expect this to go live?'. But just as you wouldn't (I assume…) spit in a snooty shop assistant's face, you shouldn't email a PR with a massive rant. Why?
1) There's a person at the other end, one who probably hates their day job (I'm assuming again) as much as you do. Imagine how soul sucking it must be to spend all day forwarding 'press' releases about stuff even they're not excited about.
2) They talk. I'm friends with enough PR peeps (hell, even my dad is one of them) to know that they're not exactly a quiet bunch. They sometimes make ME seem like a mute. They also, just like bloggers do, have a bit of a pack mentality. Mess with one of them, and it's taken as an insult by all of them. Tread with care.
A while back I heard a story (from a PR…of course) about a blogger who's pretty well known. She started firing off these snotty emails to PRs saying how lame their events were and asking to be taken off their lists, she had a semi-public spat with a paper who supposedly 'implied' that she lied about her stats and she now insists on being called a journalist, not a blogger. Even though the main place she does her 'journalism' is a…err, blog.
Seriously, I thought this trite sense of self importance was reserved for characters in Gossip Girl. I had my photo taken by a magazine once, does that make me a model? I cooked some spaghetti last night, I'm only responding to chef now. One day I'd like to have a regular column in a fashion magazine or something, but even then I doubt I'd insist that people refer to me as a journalist – I'm officially, and you can quote me on this, ok being referred to as a blogger. You only have to look at the comments on just about any article about fashion bloggers to realise that it's this perceived attitude problem that turns the general public, as well as a lot of PRs, against fashion bloggers. Don't give them any more ammo.
So, yes, it may be annoying when a PR emails you something starting 'dear blogger' or expects you to post about some fairly mundane product or invites you to an event that doesn't even have a free bar (shock horror). But remember, there are newbies out there just wishing for emails like that to start arriving.


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14 Jun 2012
Playbill.com has learned that the June 25-29 private workshop cast will include Nadia Dajani (Off-Broadway's Sophistry and Boys and Girls), David Josefsberg (Broadway's The Wedding Singer, Off-Broadway's Rated P for Parenthood) , Anne L. Nathan (the indelible Czech mother in Broadway's Once), Robert Petkoff (Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof and currently Anything Goes) and Donna Vivino (Wicked, Hairspray).
Gordon Greenberg (Band Geeks!, Working) will direct, Josh Rhodes will choreograph and Vadim Feichtner is musical director.
Stars of David, which has a Tony Award-winning commercial producer attached to a possible New York future, is a musical stage adaptation by Aaron Harnick of Abigail Pogrebin's acclaimed book "Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish."
With a book by Busch (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife), "the interviews will be transformed into songs" by composers and lyricists including William Finn (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, Or Change), Richard Maltby & David Shire (Closer Than Ever), Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Marilyn & Alan Bergman ("Yentl"), Amanda Green (High Fidelity), Nathan Tysen & Chris Miller (The Burnt Part Boys), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly's Last Jam) and others.
Stars of David received a staged reading as part of PTC's two-week festival of new work, PTC@PLAY, which featured readings of new work from 13 writers and composers from around the country.
Sara Garonzik, PTC's producing artistic director, said in a statement, "The timing seems very right for Stars of David, which is reflective of the ongoing cultural conversation around faith and its role in contemporary life."
Stars of David joins the previously announced Seminar by Theresa Rebeck and The Mountaintop by Katori Hall comprising PTC's 2012-13 season. A fourth play will be announced shortly.


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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) -- Break out the golf clubs. Despite a drastic cool down this week, winter is over in the Adirondack Mountains.
The ski season ended Sunday at Whiteface Mountain after several trails and base depth were lost last week when temperatures soared into the high 70s.
The warm spell also helped Mirror Lake set a record for its earliest ice-out. That happened Friday, breaking the previous mark of March 27, 1946 by four days. Lake Placid lake matched that on Monday, shattering the previous record of March 30, 1946.
Lake Placid Club Resort also did something it rarely does at this time of year. It opened a golf course to members last week. All courses in the village are free of snow and should open in the coming weeks.


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This past Saturday a couple members of IDEA's management team attended PR Advanced: Unleash Our Generation, the 6th annual regional conference hosted by Boston University (BU) Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). The conference focused on the merging of new media with traditional public relations in an effort to design the ideal PR model. After all, as BU professor Steve Quigley pointed out during his "warm-up" speech, "this is the most exciting time in the history of the public relations industry!"
Though the business of public relations is in indeed classified as its own industry, the various skills are transferrable and applicable to any industry. As members of the IDEA management team, we were naturally taking every bit of advice from the conference and relating it to how it might benefit student entrepreneurs. Since startups in particular don't always have the means to hire public relations agencies, they are often on their own when it comes to generating the essential good PR for their new businesses.
Thus, we have compiled a list of key takeaways from each area of the conference that every young entrepreneur should know:
Keynote Speaker
- BU's Dean of Students, Kenn Elmore told attendees that no matter your industry, you need to be "eloquent, hip, bold, and persistent." People want to know what you think of the world, what you're reading and listening to, and how effectively you can tell your story. In order to be interesting, likeable, and relatable, you have to know about culture, fashion, and lifestyle. "It isn't frivolous stuff. It's how culture pushes itself forward," he said. New social media is the perfect platform to share these ideas with the world and let them get to know you as cultured individuals.
New Media Panel
- Anne Weiskopf of Rip Off The Roof Consulting discussed the idea that in today's society, new capital "is about the power of knowledge sharing, not hoarding. This is not understood by all but if you get it, it becomes intuitive."
- Weiskopf also mused that Gen-Y finds and trusts information from blogs and YouTube as their two primary sources, while Gen-X goes to newspapers and company websites first.
- Patrick Foster of USA Today put the importance of social media in perspective when he said, "They're going to have a conversation about you, do you want to be a part of it or not?"
Personal Branding Panel (featuring the Twitter stars of Boston)
- Joselin Mane (@BostonTweetUp) discussed the importance of getting out from behind your social media channels and actually meeting people. "You can't hide behind tech," he said. "You need to have both an online presence and a physical presence."
- As if speaking directly to student entrepreneurs, Joselin said that "paying it forward has a lot of advantages. Promote yourself by promoting others."
- "Be the person you want to follow [on Twitter.]"
- "The people you become associated with add credibility to what you do," said Joselin.
- To gain followers, Tom O'Keefe (@BostonTweet) advised individuals to "know your market and audience, and provide good content for them."
- "Don't make your tweets 140 characters. If you want re-tweets, people need space to write their own thoughts," said O'Keefe.
Start-Up Panel
- Kris Ruby, President and Founder of Ruby Media Group, said, "Your team is your best asset. Find a good team of people and mentors."
- Liz Ricketts of AFUTU Project added, "Never think of it as yours; it is your team's too. The moment you claim it as your own is the moment you start facing issues."
- David Yarus, Senior Leader at Mr. Youth, suggested trying to work your team's personal interests and passions into the business somehow.
- Liz Ricketts stressed the importance of broadening your scope before focusing on one key issue.
- Kris Ruby mentioned that young entrepreneurs should always consider barter deals. "Ask yourself, 'Is there any way that I can get something I need by helping someone else?'"
- Branson Skinner of AFUTU Projects advised startups to "set your own bar and meet it before you try to gain clients."
Interactive Career Panel
- "You need to combine your 'work' and 'play' personalities to really succeed and love your job." – Mike DiSalvo, Account Executive at Ogilvy PR
- DiSalvo also advised individuals to "learn how to write in both the voice of your company and in a way that makes the company or brand stand out."
- Brandi Boatner, Strategic Communications Professional at IBM, stressed that "networking is capitalizing on weak ties and understanding what that means."
- "Be the person who follows up. You'll get that connection." – Chelsea Alexander, Associate Brand and Consumer Marketing at Burson-Marsteller
The conference featured an entire day of breakout sessions, lunch, a career fair, and lots of opportunities for networking. Throughout the course of the day, we learned that there is actually no ideal PR model—only great PR ideas to be implemented.
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Remember when you could open the Sunday newspaper and find a coupon for $2 off a box of Tide detergent? Coupons like that are getting harder and harder to find, but there are still ways to save without them.
Shoppers Using Fewer Coupons
If you find yourself using fewer coupons, you're not alone. The number of coupons used in 2012 dropped 17 percent from the year before, according to an industry group.
Savvy shopper and blogger Megan Fenno, says the Sunday offerings are slim.
"They are a little sparse in the newspaper these days, and they are not as high value," Fenno said.
However, she says you can still save big if you:
-Make a list and don't add to it in the store. -Buy laundry detergent at big box stores, not the grocery store, where it is typically more expensive. -Stock up when your favorites are on sale. "If I see shaving cream, and it's on sale, I always buy more," Fenno explained. "Make sure you buy enough to cover until it's on sale again to hold you over." Result: She doesn't even miss clipping coupons.
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From the doesn't that stink file comes all the reasons the couponing craze has been waning. -Coupon values are getting smaller -Coupon doubling is disappearing -Most coupons are for new or unpopular items, instead of products everyone wants, like Tide and Cheerios. Finally, stores are limiting the number of coupons you can use per trip, as a result of all the extreme couponing shows on TV where shoppers clear out the shelves of discounted products. Bottom Line
Plan your grocery trip in advance and take advantage of sales. You may not miss all those coupons from 10 years ago.
That way you don't waste your money.
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A shooting in north Nashville Thursday night critically injured a man.
Police said the man was shot on Nocturne Drive around 7 p.m.
The shot man managed to get in his car and drove a mile to house in Woodale Lane. Medics took him to Vanderbilt Medical Center where he is in critical condition.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A 53-year-old motorist was hospitalized Friday with multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by another motorist in San Diego's Skyline neighborhood, police said.
The shooting in the 100 block of Woodman Street was reported at 10:09 p.m. Thursday, according to San Diego police Officer Dino Delimitros.
The victim was driving southbound on Woodman Street near Skyline Drive when a newer-model black SUV pulled up beside the victim's vehicle, Delimitros said in a statement.
The driver of the SUV fired several shots, striking the victim three times, Delimitros said, noting none of the wounds were considered life-threatening. The shooter then drove off.
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Richard and Cynthia Eddy and Gary and Linda Kohlhepp are pleased to announce the engagement of their children, Matt Eddy and Lauren Kohlhepp.
Matt and Lauren are graduates of Ledyard High School.
Matt graduated from The University of New Hampshire with a civil engineering degree. He is employed at Electric Boat as a shipyard supervisor.
Lauren graduated from Boston College and is currently attending Yale University to obtain her master's degree in nursing. She is employed at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the emergency room as a registered nurse.
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Chapter 1: CharmanderAttachment 82870
The capturing and training of pokemon was outlawed the moment they came into our world. All pokemon were to be turned over to the police, but I was never one for following rules.
Amidst the rain was a pokeball for me. Everyone had gotten a single pokeball from the sky. Within the first hour many had already broken theirs, but I still had mine when I found that misfortunate pokemon.
The rain was strong and the trees were few and far between. I saw the Charmander cowering beneath one of them. It was shielding the flame on its tail, which was weak and steaming.
I slowly walked over to it, surprised when it cowered away from me. I wondered if someone had mistreated it. I stripped off my backpack and reached inside for my bag of strawberries. Its nostrils flared at the scent of the fruit. I carefully handed them to it. The Charmander immediately shred the bag and engulfed the berries.
"Do you need help?" I asked it. It didn't respond but the answer was clear. I pulled off my jacket and held it over the Charmander. "My house isn't far from here. I have a nice fireplace that you can curl up next to if you'd like."
"Char!" The pokemon replied excitedly. It began to walk and I kept the jacket over it. I was freezing without my jacket, but at least the pokemon was safe from the rain.
In a of couple minutes we arrived at my house. When I opened the front door Charmander bolted inside. Curled up next to the fire, its tail burned brighter. I sat down next to it. It looked so peaceful and it radiated warmth.
"Hey, Tren, open up!" someone called from the front door. It was Lenden. What did he want? Charmander glanced over, then gazed back at the fireplace.
There was a good chance Lenden had caught a pokemon, and was here to see if I still had my pokeball. If he found Charmander I wasn't sure what he'd do to it. He wasn't the nicest of people.
I took the pokeball out of my backpack. It was time.
Lenden banged on the door. "I said open up, Tren! I know you're in there."
I stood, took a deep breath and threw the ball. With surprising speed, Charmander saw the ball and rolled out of the way. The ball bounced off the floor and rolled over to the fireplace. I moved to grab it. Charmander opened its mouth and a stream of fire burst out, blocking my path to the pokeball.
That's when Lenden broke down the door. "There you are," he said, grinning. A Drowzee walked in behind him. He did have a pokemon after all.
I turned to Charmander. "Go!" I whispered. "Get out of here."
Charmander looked between me and Lenden. It grabbed my coat and wrapped it around itself. I could see the material darken where the flame of his tail was. He jumped through the window, disappearing into the night.
"And who was that?" Lenden asked in a pseudo-pleasant voice.
"What are you talking about?" I asked innocently.
"Well, there's a big hole in your window. I'm assuming you haven't taken up the hobby of breaking windows."
"Cut the crap, get out of my house before I call the police and report you and your pokemon."
He made a tsk sound and stepped toward me. "Now that hardly seems necessary. Besides, I see you still have your pokeball. Are you going to give that to them while you're at it?"
I stepped between him and my pokeball.
"My patience wears thin," he sighed. "Drowzee, if you please."
Drowzee raised his three fingered hand. It began to shimmer and the pokeball rose from the ground. It flew around me and into Lenden's hand.
"Give that back!" I yelled. I ran at him.
"Confusion," Lenden said firmly.
My vision spun and I tripped, hitting the floor hard. I struggled to my knees.
"Drowzee, hypnosis."
I felt my muscles growing weak. My vision began to blur. I tried as hard as I could to stay awake but before long I collapsed to the floor and fell asleep.


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Will "ensure that at least one of the members of the Natural Resources Board comes from an agricultural background."
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Waupun-area dairy farmer fills the bill
Updated: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 | By James B. Nelson
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, among other things, sets the rules for the state's all important deer season. During the 2010 campaign, Gov. Scott Walker was critical of the state's deer management practices, an area of ongoing controversy that pits the interests of drivers, homeowners, farmers and others against those of hunters.
Farmers are among those with a keen concern because of serious crop damage the animals can cause. Ag interests are also concerned about conservation matters, groundwater protection and other issues.
As a candidate, Walker promised to give farmers a greater say in DNR matters. Walker pledged he would "ensure that at least one of the members of the Natural Resources Board comes from an agricultural background."
On May 1, 2011, he made three appointments to the DNR board, including William Bruins, a Waupun-area dairy farmer. Bruins is general manager of Homeland Dairy, a family run operation that milks 600 cows and has 1,300 acres of cropland.
In addition, Bruins is state president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, the state's largest farm organization.
Bruins' term on the DNR board expires in 2017. His appointment by Walker is a Promise Kept.
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Marilouise Michel, professor of theatre at Clarion University, presented a drama master class at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference Nov. 7 New Orleans. Honors students from around the country participated in the master class which focused on scene study and character development and a showcase of their work on the last day of the conference. She also attended the ceremony honoring music professor Dr. Brent Register's Nov. 9 induction into the NCHC Fellows.
Dr. Kevan M. Yenerall, professor of political science at Clarion University, presented "Hungry for Action: Exposing Students to the Political World in Experiential Seminars" at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association Nov. 14-17 in Philadelphia. Fellow participants included Dr. Scott McLean of Quinnipiac University, Kimberly Adams of East Stroudsburg University, and Eugene Alpert, senior vice president of the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.
Dr. Kevan M. Yenerall, professor of political science at Clarion University, presented "Politics and Popular Culture: Citizenship, Satire and Social Change," Nov. 7 at Juniata College. The multimedia presentation examined the ways in which film and television can encourage critical thinking, serve as a springboard for civic engagement, and potentially bring about social change. The event was open to the entire Juniata campus and community.
Sandy Chen, assistant professor of library science and serials and electronic resources librarian at Clarion University, presented at the Conference on Library and Information Society, held May 20-21 at Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan. She shared a presentation on "Resource Description and Access for the Digital World" with Taiwanese librarians, library science faculty and students. The presentation can be seen at http://libguides.clarion.edu/content.php?pid=406087.
Dr. Philip Terman, professor of English at Clarion University, has had several poems published recently. "The Shank Bone," "The Jewish Russion Woman Poet Termanowsky," "Raccoon," and "That Lightness" were published in "The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry," Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. His poem, "River of Many Names," was published in "Written on Water: Writings About the Allegheny River," Mayapple Press, 2013.
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|Jennings school board receives standing ovation
|Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:31 PM
FORT JENNINGS — A standing ovation was given the Fort Jennings Board of Education during the meeting on Monday night in honor of School Board Appreciation Month.
In a written quote, the administration, staff, teachers and students expressed their appreciation for each board member's dedication and commitment of time, guidance and support. Elementary Principal Kathleen Verhoff stood and applauded the panel for their outstanding achievements.
The board approved the Alternative Tax Budget with board member Deb Calvelage explaining the budget.
"The Alternative Tax Budget is a 5-year forecast for gas expenditures," Calvelage said. "It will change with gas usage."
In financial business, High School Principal Nicholas Langhals reviewed bus repair expenses paid for in December.
"We are right on track with previous year's budget," Langhals verified.
In other financial news, the board accepted a variety of donations: $165 from poster boards donated by Drew Fields; $500 to the Elementary Activities Fund for COSI expenses; $250 to the Art Department and $250 to the band, all from the Fort Jennings Boosters; and the donation of a Sousaphone, valued at $1,100, from Dennis and Virginia Calvelage.
Langhals reported Race to the Top is continuing as planned and they are looking at in-depth teacher evaluations.
In addition, the band is planning upcoming fundraising events to help with the cost of the band trip to Disney.
Citing a shorter Christmas break, good weather and strong student attendance, Verhoff announced that the school year is halfway complete.
The school board also held its yearly reorganizational meeting, electing Karl Schimmoeller as president and Cliff Wieging as vice president. Schimmoeller proceeded to appoint the following committees; Legislative Liaison for OSBA Network — Schimmoeller and Wieging; Building — Aaron Ricker; Negotiations — Wieging and Schimmoeller; Small School District Advisory Committee Delegate — Ricker; Small School District Advisory Committee Alternate — Schimmoeller; Audit Committee — Calvelage and Don Good; and Student Achievement Liaison — Calvelage.


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I found a suggestion which is written in Nokia Known Issues document is very dangerous. You will find there, if you want easy way how to play camera click sound you can use calss CAknKeySoundSystem:
CAknKeySoundSystem* iSoundPlayer;
iSoundPlayer = (STATIC_CAST(CAknAppUi*,CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi()))->KeySounds();
iSoundPlayer->AddAppSoundInfoListL( R_CAMERA_SNAP_SOUND );
iSoundPlayer->PlaySound( KSnapSoundId );
I found every call to AddAppSoundInfoListL (every start of your application) will add somewhere to Key Sound Stack information from R_CAMERA_SNAP_SOUND and allocates memory. It will be still allocates if you close your app. If you will run it about 20 times, you will get "YourApp: Memory Full. Close some applications and try again" message.
So, what is the correct solution?
If you will check aknsoundsystem.h file, you will find some functions which are not well documented. I though void PushContextL(R_CAMERA_SNAP_SOUND) should be the best, then Play and of course PopContext. But using this I was unable to play a camera click sound (or any other wav defined in your ressource file).
My solution is:
// init new instance
iSoundPlayer = CAknKeySoundSystem::NewL(0);
// add sound info (f.e in constructor)
iSoundPlayer->AddAppSoundInfoListL( R_CAMERA_SNAP_SOUND );
// play camera sound
iSoundPlayer->PlaySound( KSnapSoundId );
// in destructor
delete iSoundPlayer;
If you don't use LockContext and ReleaseContext memory will be still allocated after delete iSoundPlayer too!!!
If anybody knows better solution how to do it using CAknKeySoundSystem (not using media player), please put your code here.


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PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Riverfront Museum opened its latest addition, the Object Theatre, over the weekend.
The theatre features an 11 minute show displaying the history of innovations in Peoria from the first settlement to the 20th century.
Various objects are lit up throughout the narration of the movie, giving the film a more engaging feel.
"It is a show, like a movie, but there's more going on because of the lights hitting the objects, so the objects are really the actors of the show," said Peoria Riverfront Museum Curator Elizabeth Bloodworth.
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Electrolysis question
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First of all sorry if this gets long winded but I want to cover all the bases. My son's and I have been experimenting with a tank and using information off this forum as a guide. Started out on a small scale with a 2 gallon plastic tote and a 1 x 12 inch stainless steel pipe for a anode. Added some baking soda (about a 1/2 cup) and tried a small part off a four wheeler we are redoing and left in overnight. Not much happened so we put the rest of the box of baking soda in and immediately the water bubbled like crazy and a couple of hours later the part was done. Took the air gun to it and the paint and rust blew right off and got it dried immediately with no flash rust. We had some bigger parts to do so sliced a 55 plastic barrel in half (horizonially) and I got a piece of 1/16 thick stainless steel and had it bent with a bottom and two sides. Filled the tank close to the top with water and got a 4 pound box of TSP. Started with about half the box of TSP and it worked fairly good but not the results we expected. Added the rest of the TSP and worked better but not like the baking soda did. A couple of questions are does baking soda work better than TSP? It seems the baking soda mixed with the water and stayed mixed but the TSP separated and layed in the bottom and had to be mixed all the time. Does the TSP separated like that? Does the TSP and baking soda over time loose it's strength and the tank needs to be drained and add fresh again? One last question is a concern about using stainless steel. Some research on other web sites claim stainless steel in a electrolysis tank produces a by product that is known to cause cancer. Does anyone have any knowledge on this? Once again thanks for all your help.
Most use washing soda in their electrolysis tanks. Here is a link to a thread that discusses the stainless steel anode issue.
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I have always used regular old baking soda, and have been very pleased with the results. You have to be a little careful how much you use so as not to overload your charger, I try not to go over 6-8 amps. If you get too much just add more water and let it overflow untill it's diluted down a little. I have switched to stainless from re-bars....you don't have to clean the rust off them so often. I also keep everything outside just in case of fumes, etc. Sure beats other stripping methods I've tried! Roger B.
Dennis I made a bigger tank yesterday myself and i took the TSP and desoved it first or you can buy liquid TSP .
Take a little time to play,you don't grow old as fast that way.
Dennis, it doesn't really lose strength but the solution does become contaminated over time. I've seen some pretty nasty looking tanks working quite well.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!
I had my cancer long before I started using stainless in the tank and continue to do so. It works very well but don't drink the electrolyte.
If we could make a list of all the things that are NOT suspected of causing cancer, it would be a very short one. Chicken Little would have all of us simply sitting on our duffs!
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Didn't see this thread until this morning.
Baking Soda hmmmm... never used that. It is chemically different from Washing Soda, and TSP.
To echo BD.. as far as I know, TSP will not lose it's effectiveness. There is a point of saturation where adding more TSP will do actually nothing, but as far as the TSP separating, I have not seen this.
If the bottom of your tank becomes too full of sediment, then by draining out the sediment itself, and then topping up and adding a tad more TSP should be sufficient. That is one of the side benefits of adding the ball valve and drain system to my tank that I discoverd. I do not have to drain the whole tank, just the sediment, and that is the first thing to occur when the valve is opened. I end up losing about 3 or 4 gallons of the solution, 95% or so of the sediment and then I just top up the solution..
Also, be aware of substitute TSP solutions.. these contain NO Phosphate, so I am not sure how that could possibly aid in electrolysis. I think it is the reaction of the Phosphate and electrical charge in conjunction with the sodium (salt) that produces the effect... I don't use it. Another point to be aware, is that if you use pre-mixed TSP then you are going to end up paying a lot more than you would for the powerdered or concentrated TSP. Some of these preparations are household ready.. as a 4-1 or 8-1 mix.. this dilutes it a lot, requiring 4 to 8 times as much of the pre-mixed stuff in a large tank and I would still be leery of the efficacy of the solution.
There comes a point when it starts being rocket science and is no longer useful. Sticking to the basics is a pretty safe bet. As far as they type electrode to use.. your choice.. use what is handy, cheap, and readily available to you. In the case of Stainless.. for me it is not cost effective.. as SS is very, very expensive and something I will not sacrifice. I do not have tons of SS plated items around, so I pretty much stick with re-bar as I have access to all I want for pretty much Zero dollars... My BIL builds re-bar cages for form work in signs.. lots of extras...
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I have used TSP in fairly low concentrations with OK results. I haven't tried much higher concentrations to see what happened, but small concentration changes I have tried didn't seem to change anything.
There is a product called "TSP substitute", typically "TSP substitute". It is an "environmentally friendly" cleaner (no phosphates). I would guess it doesn't work very well and your experience makes me wonder if that is what you tried.
George, Like I said just covering all the bases especially with my son's working on these projects. We take safety very serious on all our projects. I agree 100% George that at times it seems like the clean country air we breath now a days can cause cancer. Using stainless steel is nothing compared to what we pop in the microwave for quick meal instead of a home cooked meal. Looking at the ingredients on those packages for God sakes will give you cancer and then we eat it. We use rubber gloves handling the parts and cleaning the stainless steel, which by the way cleans up really quick. going to try reversing the polarity next time. Like you pointed out where does one draw the line? We use dust mask when we grind with the disk or bench grinder but I'm sure that some dust gets into our bodies. Enough said thanks for your input.
I probably need to try TSP or Washing Soda some time to compare with the Baking Soda......but so far all I can say is it gets the paint off and I assume it's pretty enviromentally friendly. I have a couple of 55 gal plastic drums, one verticle and the other horiz. Each probably holds 45 + gallons of water. 2 boxes of soda, (1 # box's), is about all it takes to get 3-4 amps flowing, little more for more amps, faster cleaning. Doesn't degrade over time.....water just gets gunked up but still works. It's great not to have to use rubber gloves, masks, resperators, etc. as with regular strippers....plus it's plenty cheap ! Roger B.
Washing soda is dirt cheap if you can find it. More than 3# is $2.36 at the Stop and Shop by my house, strange because it is a very small store. Possibly the rich guys servants like it or something??
It is also a good cleaner and degreaser. Look for the yellow box on a high or low shelf in the laundry section.
George is probably right... it could even be worse running the rebar through the wire wheel occasionally in the back yard than to use stainless.... but I did give up the stainless I had (it does work great) after reading about it.
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Wow, what a response with information that is priceless. So much has been learned that I should of posted my questions before I started our tank. Looks like I got the cart in front of the horse. I will try the washing soda next or make sure I got the right TSP. Anything else I missed or some other information that anyone forgot. Thanks a million to everyone.
If I remember my high school chemistry from 1950 correctly the primary cleaning is done by ion exhange according to the current carried. Pretty much the opposite from electro plating. The main thing for anything added is to make the solution electrically conductive... and most any base, acid, or salt will do that, since they all ionize. The secondary thing is the cleaning power of the agent. That's why TSP and washing soda work well.
With the different actions in mind, maybe they could be accomplished separately by two different additives? In varying proportions? IE: salt and detergent? Lye and soap? There's room for imaginitive experimentation.
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I use 1 pound of Soda wash for 35 gal barrel- and it works great, actutually the only problem I have with the soda wash is my wife keeps taking it for the laundry, she says its works better than the oxi-stuff on clothes..
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