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The legendary Howard Hughes had many personas...record-setting aviator, motion picture producer, billionaire tycoon...yachting enthusiast? Thats right, according to John Bermingham, New York antiques dealer and current owner of Eleanor", a 1939 Trumpy motoryacht which belonged to Hughes in the 1950s and kept at his ready in Miami, Florida for entertaining friends and clients.
The yacht was known as Vita" when Hughes owned her and has had several name changes since, but besides the name, little else about "Eleanor" is different from the day she was launched in Camden, New Jersey over 64 years ago. The 71 yacht is one of only 15 or so Trumpy motor yachts in existence from before World War II, and certainly one of the most faithfully maintained and restored, according to Bermingham. The staterooms have even retained their original twin-bunk arrangement and original mahogany furniture so often removed in remodeling projects. Its a throwback to more modest times... before mega-yachts and fiberglass". The interior of the saloon" or deck-house is paneled in richly varnished mahogany, mounted with German-silver fittings shaped like seashells which pivot to allow a brass crank to roll each window up and down.
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A boat like this is not left to any boatyard to restore, which is why Bermingham has made the trip to Riviera Beach for Eleanors" annual haul and refit. There is only one firm I would trust with a project like this", says Bermingham, and that is Moores Marine in Riviera Beach. They are the Trumpy specialists." Plans for "Eleanor" include the usual maintenance on the wood hull as well as special attention to the brightwork throughout the boat. With the success of the movie 'The Aviator, I want her to look her best this year"," says Bermingham. I expect she will get more than the usual amount of attention, especially if she goes to the Palm Beach Boat Show in March".
Owners of boats such as this know the importance of regular maintenance, since the smallest problem can quickly grow to monumental proportions if left unchecked. Every year one or two of these 'old ladies gets chopped up in a yard due to neglect" says Bermingham. Its very sad and completely preventable." Weve benefited by the maintenance done by previous owners and expect to pass 'Eleanor' along to the next owner in better shape than we found her with the help of Jim Moores. Its like a sacred responsibility."
Little is known about the years which Hughes owned this antique gem. According to the book Trumpy" by Robert Tolf, Hughes saw a listing for the vessel in a trade publication and purchased her immediately. The extent of his personal usage is not completely known due to the mysterious nature of the man, but at least one instance of Hughes traveling on board can be confirmed by Trumpy historian Jerry Foster who was in Ft. Lauderdale when Hughes took possession of the yacht.
Foster has kept track of every known Trumpy yacht for the last thirty or more years and has a special affinity for the boat builder John Trumpy, whose name was synonymous with the finest craftsmanship available in its day. The presidential yacht Sequoia" was built by Trumpy, as were yachts owned by other celebrities such as Josephine Baker and John Wayne.
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Day 1 brought us an extremely low result for Dan Uggla, nettng the dumb Marlins only Omar Infante and Mike Dunn. Atlanta performed highway robbery here, selling high on Infante and buying (miraculously) low on Uggla. This is not how you do good business. I know its only for one year of Uggla, but c'mon.
The Marlins did spend money though, signing their biggest free agent since Carlos Delgado, inking catcher John Buck to a 3 year, $18MM deal.
The Rockies released Manny Corpas.
The Diamondbacks shocked everyone by being up front about their wanting to listen to offers for their franchise player, Justin Upton. One exec noted Logan Morrison & Ricky Nolasco would get it done. How about Chris Carter and Trevor Cahill?
Less shocking: Boston announced they were willing to trade Marco Scutaro
Boston's largest offer to Adrian Beltre? 4 years, $52MM. Are you in favor of Beane beating that?
The Tigers showed that teams still massively overvalue relievers, signing Joaquin Benoit to a 3 year $16.5MM deal, ouch. If the Tigers are serious about spending this offseason, this is not the way to start.
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Setting Yearly Goals
Have you ever set a big goal for yourself but ended up feeling unmotivated and stuck as time went by?
My hand is up. It happened to me in the past and I've seen it happen to many others too.
When we set a big goal, we're often too quick to pursue it, not considering the already overloaded schedule we routinely have, the sacrifices we might have to make, and the elements that already work well in our lives.
Often, we just need to pause for a while, re-affirm our commitment, adjust our routines and lay some groundwork to carry us forward into our journey.
I'm currently at this stage and I felt compelled to share my thoughts and findings here.
Identifying Your Options
Deciding on a yearly goal is not always easy, especially when there are several directions to go in, that all feel important.
I usually brainstorm on paper and force myself to generate a certain number of ideas. If I'm stuck, I use a few questions to get me thinking. I find myself a quiet place with minimal distractions and each time I get an idea, I jot it down.
This usually works without fail.
Here are some questions that helped me to get started (More questions can be found within my free eBook, "Design Your Dream Year"):
- What are the biggest, most exciting dreams I want to manifest into my life?
- What is my ultimate destination? What is the vision I have for my life?
- What am I passionate about? What am I most excited in life?
- If anything was possible, what is the first change I would start to make?
- What area of my life can be upgraded and would make the biggest difference?
- For my life to be perfect, what would have to change?
- What do I really, really want…?
Evaluating Your Options
My second step, which is often the hardest one to make, is evaluating which option may provide the most optimal path for the year. Some people use a long drawn-out analysis process to make a decision, but I find it too tedious. I prefer to rely on my gut instinct and trust my intuition to guide me.
What I usually do, is simply think about which one of the items on my list would radically transform my life and give me the most benefits. I then write down the deepest reasons I can fathom why I want to bring this into reality.
If I don't feel aligned with that reason, I keep revisiting until I feel a strong emotional resonance with it.
After going through this process this year, I decided that my primary goal would be to grow and diversify my financial wealth. A few people might mistakenly identify wealth with money but my intentions are far different from just making more money.
Clarifying Your Goal
Clarifying your yearly goal is fundamental to maintain motivation and to make sure your goal has enough emotional appeal to strike your inner desire.
It makes it easier to know when you've reached your goal and when it's time to stop. Without clear goals, you can wander aimlessly and most likely end up losing interest or becoming distracted.
By "clarifying your goal" I mean asking yourself a few basic questions about your new direction. Such as:
- What exactly do you want to accomplish?
- What are the biggest rewards from pursing your goal?
- What is at stake if you don't achieve it?
- Would working toward your goal bring you satisfaction?
- How important is it for you to achieve your goal?
You've probably heard the acronym "SMART goal" before. (SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time based). I usually use this approach when I set smaller goals later in the process, but I find it too rigid and uninspiring at this point.
I find that this method puts the concept of goal setting and dream attainment in a linear framework that works only on the left side of the brain.
As an alternative, I clarify my chosen goal by being specific about what the goal means to me and by considering the major rewards along the journey. When goals are both extremely significant and rewarding, they create a greater impact on our minds and provide a long lasting source of energy.
A more "Right Brain" tool that can be effectively used for identifying rewards (and obstacles) is drawing a consequence map diagram. You start with your goal as a center node and draw it in the middle. You then brainstorm different kinds of consequences and draw them in subsequent nodes. That's pretty much it.
I personally find Consequence Mapping extremely useful for big decisions that contain a lot of uncertainty.
Below is an example of a consequence map for my decision to participate in an Ironman triathlon race.
The result of this year's consequence mapping is to focus on creation and diversification of wealth.
A diversified and sustainable source of wealth means more options, which ultimately lead to greater freedom and independence. The ability to fly across the world whenever I want, visit the people I love, go on exciting adventures, help people in third world countries and hire assistance when I need it, has a strong appeal to both me and my partner.
My focus in the next 12 months will be to build and grow assets. To be more specific, I intend to further my financial and entrepreneurial skills, contribute more value within my business, experiment with new financial instruments, and strengthen new and existing business relationships.
If you're also considering a financial goal this year, I highly encourage you to think beyond money and strive to build assets instead. Money is only an idea, a number on a computer screen, something that can lose its value over night.
A better focus would be on assets such as your skills, knowledge base, start-up business, and investments.
Laying the groundwork
Once you've made a decision on which goal to pursue, your first instinct may be to tackle your goal right away.
This can work well with smaller and lower risk goals, but large goals by their very nature, often need some more groundwork.
- How much time or resources you have available for your goal?
- Would you need to acquire new skills or knowledge?
- How would you find motivation and discipline when you most need it?
- Do you have the right people or support group around you to succeed?
This year I allocated a whole month to laying the groundwork needed for my goal.
I went on an information diet to amp up my productivity and focus. I unsubscribed from all my daily emails, Facebook groups and mailing lists (I now only follow those who contribute directly to my journey), and I gave up on some freelance work to free up even more time.
On the technical side, I acquired a second dedicated server for the sites with the highest traffic to allow further growth. I redesigned and restructured vital sites and eliminated those that were not geared for growth.
Perhaps most importantly, I improved the operational side of the business by empowering a few freelancers who work on routine projects for me.
To "sharpen my saw" in the goal attainment arena, I flew to Las Vegas and participated in a 3 days workshop by Steve Pavlina. Beside some new skills and techniques I acquired, the workshop was an excellent opportunity to meet new people and refresh my energy.
At Pavlina's workshop I also made plans for forming Mastermind groups with people who share the exact same purpose. As a group, we'll share ideas, best practices and action plans on a regular basis. The group will hold me accountable to my specific monthly projects.
Whatever groundwork you need to make, whether it's within yourself or with others, I highly recommend you take the time and do the work.
Planning Your Goal
While working in the corporate world I've noticed how frequently top managers focus on the immediate task in front of them, rather than plan ahead. They mistakenly regarded being busy as being effective.
My belief is that your commitment to your goal is represented in your planning. More specifically, it is represented in your well-intentioned schedule and your newly planned action steps.
The most effective way I know to tackle a big goal is to break it down into more manageable steps. Smaller projects are less scary and when you see that you are taking small steps forward, you will tend to stay motivated.
Setting intermediate goals will also help you mark your progress along the trail. Achieving these benchmark goals means you'll have frequent victories and build your momentum with each one you complete.
A goal to start making money online, for example, can be broken into several sub goals such as building a blog, create an information product, increase your following, build an affiliate network, etc.
Each sub goal can be broken down further into action steps. Building a new blog, for example, can be divided into a number of action steps such as structuring your initial content, creating screen layouts, building a sitemap, register a Feedburner account, etc.
One important thing that I also recommend in my ebook is to try focusing on one project at a time. Most goal methods do not work because we try to change everything all at once. It's indeed tempting, but in my experience that translates into mediocre outcomes. When you try to take on many goals at once, you simply spread your energy and focus thin.
So, with that in mind, I decided to focus my energy on creating and promoting a quality information product in an area of high demand and a topic for which I have relative expertise.
I will dedicate the next month for this project. Future wealth creation projects will vary and include topics such as building and marketing an iPhone App or experimenting with FX market investments. For now, the focus is on the online arena.
Supporting Your Goal
One step that is almost always ignored and yet has a tremendous impact on whether or not you'll achieve your goal, is forming supporting habits.
You can harness your willpower each time you start a task, but if you do it too often, you'll eventually burn out and revert back to the same behavioral patterns.
Not surprisingly, it has been reported that 95 percent of people who try to lose weight on a diet regain it. Self control is a limited resource and needs to be treated as such.
This is where habits come in.
Habits help us to continue working on our goals even when we are not motivated. They allow us to transition through our day on autopilot and conserve our limited energy.
By harnessing the more primitive part of the brain in which habits are formed, you'll have the opportunity to make lasting changes.
This year, in order to decide what supporting habits I want to adopt, I reviewed past goals and examined what worked well. In addition, I also examined missed goals and figured what habits didn't work quite right for me.
Based on my findings I decided to commit to three main habits, and in addition I decided that I will abide by them for the next 365 days straight.
1. Wealth creation work on daily basis – At least 1 hour a day.
2. Non stop outsource – When completed work is received, new work will be immediately outsourced.
3. 365 days of exercising – At least 20min a day, (I'm on day 30, so far so good)
If you're interested in forming habits this year, take a look at the last step in my e-book, and decide what works best for you.
For better or for worse, we are creatures of habits. Take advantage of it.
Taking action
None of the information in this post really matters without you taking action. In future, I might share some thoughts about ways to take action but in the mean time I encourage you to:
1. Choose a goal that you aim to achieve within 30 days.
2. Determine how you will know that you've achieved your goal.
3. Brainstorm what resources you'll need to achieve it.
Feel free to share your action plan with me to build accountability. You can post to the comment section of this Blog post or simply contact me directly. I read and answer to every enquiry coming my way.
Final words
We often expect too much too soon and then get discouraged when results don't come right away. Commitment does not mean rushing toward your goal, but rather, taking ample time to figure out a plan, build supporting rituals and lay the groundwork that is so needed in order to achieve your goal.
Live out the dream!
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Great post Tal. Beautiful progression. I think the step that has been the biggest challenge for me previously has been 'laying the groundwork'. With the buzz that new goals create, I previously haven't stoped to consider all the consequences that my goals will bring (postive and negative), and instead rush in. Until we are fully aware of the consequences, their is a chance that our goals will be un-aligned with the rest of our life.
As an example from my recent 5 goal analysis which I did through a variety of NLP timeline exercises, I identified that one of the consequences of achieving my goal might be the negative impact this intense focus has on my relationship. In order to move forward with my goal I had to be open to the possability that succeeding with my goal might alos mean failing with my relationship. If I didn't go through this process, and gain internal ecology, then it's possible that I might have sabotaged myself from achieiving the goal at some point.
Thanks for sharing Mathew & great points. This year, my partner and I had lengthy conversations to get aligned and establish support for each other's goals. Frustration can easily manifests itself otherwise
Excellent writing. My disfunction of ADHD inhibits a number of important areas in my brain from cooperating. or as some might call "playing nice in the brain-box".
I've read books, watched videos, and even attended a very well laid out course wiyh author and PhD, Heidi Grant Halvorson.
As of late, I hired a coach to ride herd on me,but it seems my brain is somewhat like a cat, and has it's own mind (yep, a mind, within a mind). Cats are spooky creatures, and so is my brain sometimes.
If you are not familiar with her, I believe you can listen to an archive of her talk on the Harvard Business Review site. Or, better yet, buy her book. She bases her writings on her research and study findings, of which, some are quite different than what we assume to be correct, because we've heard it over-and-over.
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This past Monday night (Jan. 27, 2014) on Raw, Brock Lesnar interrupted the tag team championship match between current titleholders, the New Age Outlaws, and former champions turned challengers, Cody Rhodes & Goldust. He laid out the Rhodes brothers and, in turn, cost them their rematch at the team who took the
gold copper at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view (PPV) in Pittsburgh the night before.
Lesnar was "fined" by his actions, by the way.
As for the Rhodes crew, they'll get another shot at Road Dogg Jesse James and Bad Ass Billy Gunn this coming Monday night in Omaha, as announced by Triple H during his weekly sit-down with Michael Cole:
"Absolutely (a rematch will happen). I know it's just one week removed from that beating but they will absolutely get their opportunity. Goldust and Cody Rhodes will challenge the WWE tag team champions, the New Age Outlaws, this Monday on Raw. And just to make sure everything is above board and they get their fair opportunity this time, it will be contested inside of a steel cage."
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By Geoff Smith on March 21st, 2011
Although he still may be struggling to find his stroke on the links, Tiger Woods might be hitting his stride in the dating world.
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According to the Daily Mail, Woods has been seen running around Florida with a 22-year-old college student and amateur golfer.
The girl, named Alyse Lahti Johnston, is purportedly a student at Northwood University, an Ohio-based university with a satellite campus in Florida.
The two have reportedly been seeing each other for a few months, and have been spotted on Woods� yacht.
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Johnston�s stepfather, Alastair Johnston, is a member of the board at IMG, a sports agency group that Woods is represented by.
Woods and Johnston met when Johnston decided to hire a coach to help her prepare for the LPGA tour. It was this coach that introduced the two.
The potential seriousness of the relationship is in question, however, as RadarOnline reported that Johnston has texted a close friend of hers and said that Johnston is just enjoying the fun.
Seriously....22 years old.
I don't know if its a good idea to date the step-daughter of a member of the board for the sports agency that represents you.
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I just got one out of a new club they just bought in Hamilton called "Glendale"
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Anyone on here have a Clublink membership?
I just got one out of a new club they just bought in Hamilton called "Glendale"
I wanted to get a clublink membership but I just can't get out golfing enough in a season to justify it....I'll make up for it when I retire
i got a really good deal cuz they just bought a new course in hamilton, and when they do this they put on huge sales.
too bad tho on your part, milton has some amazing courses in the area. one day one day
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Anyone on here have a Clublink membership?
I just got one out of a new club they just bought in Hamilton called "Glendale"
I was going to look into one, been golfing a couple times in the last few months and it's rekindled my love for it (I hadn't played once in 2-3 years).
What kinda deal did you get?
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Damn, that's going to be wicked! It's funny, I actually played Pebble Beach a couple weeks ago and I was surprised at how well I remembered the course just from played Tiger Woods Golf. It was a pretty cool feeling! (Although playing that course in general is a pretty good feeling!!!)
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The PGA Tour is considering a change to the end of its season in which players who don't make the FedEx Cup playoffs would compete for their cards in a series of tournaments against top Nationwide Tour players.
PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw says the policy board has given preliminary approval, although a number of steps remain. The tour informed the players by memo Monday.
Another change being contemplated is Q-school at the end of the year providing access only to the Nationwide Tour.
The Nationwide Tour is looking for an umbrella sponsor of the developmental circuit. Nationwide's contract expires after 2012.
The first thing they need to change is the FedEx Cup Point system.
Points should be awarded for your position at the end of each round plus points for things like fairways hit, birdies, eagles, greens in regulation, etc
There was some great golfed played today at the Masters.
Jason Day shot a bogey free, -8 round while Tiger went -7 in his last 11 holes. Amazing!
Should be an interesting weekend!
Poor Weir...finishing 2nd last.
I enjoyed the golf today....I don't see Rory giving up the lead now.
It's gonna be a great day watching the Masters!
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By RICK HAYES
An act of vandalism at the District 80 Primary Center has been turned over to the Mt. Vernon Police Department for further investigation.
"We had a comment spray-painted in red on the front of the Primary Center building," confirmed Superintendent Mike Green. "We contacted the Mt. Vernon Police Department and they're investigating it. All of the students and staff are safe."
Green said the message covered about a 10- to 12-foot section on the brick walls of the Primary Center. He added the message was discovered by Assistant Principal Ellen Gibbs about 7:45 a.m. Thursday, who then contacted Principal Shannon Marler and Green, who were at the Muni-West Building with about 22 teachers who were being recognized by the Chamber of Commerce.
"We're concerned about the message and we are working cooperatively with the Mt. Vernon Police Department to try to find out who did it," Green said, adding the message was not racial in nature, and appeared to be directed toward staff and administration.
District 80 maintenance personnel cleaned up some of the spray paint, but the district enlisted the services of Rodney King of Hydro-Mole in Mt. Vernon to remove all of the graffiti.
"My maintenance guys got most of it done, but he (King) donated his services to do the rest of it," said Maintenance Supervisor Greg Livers. "That was very nice of him to donate his time and equipment."
Green added, "He just wanted to help the school out. He was disappointed, like me, that it happened. He did an outstanding job of removing the paint."


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19 Oct 11
Late in the afternoon of 17 October, the Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate's embankments gave way to the northern flood water run-off looding the industrial estate. Nava Nakorn estate is near Khlong Chiang Rak and houses 227 manufacturing plants.
Investment in the estate is valued at more than 100 billion baht. It has been reported that 100% of the estate is swamped. In today's Bangkok Post, First Army commander Udomdej Seetabutr, who inspected the industrial park, said 10% of the manufacturing plants in the estate were under more than two metres of water and severely damaged; the extent of damage to the remaining plants is being assessed.
However, the race is on to defend Bangkok itself especially in the eastern part of the capital. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is speeding up reinforcement of flood barriers in the Sai Mai district. According to day's Bangkok Post, Sai Mai has become a strategic battleground as failure to stop flooding there could see some northern and eastern districts close to inner Bangkok such as Don Muang, Bang Khen, Bang Kapi and Min Buri under water and inflict damage to the capital.
Let us hope that this battle is won and Bangkok is spared the worst of the flooding. However, we will keep you updated if the situation changes.
Cunningham Lindsey have now established a flood hotline, so please don't hesitate to call the hotline if you and your clients require our assistance +66 844 992081.


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I just wanted to take a moment this morning to offer my heartfelt congratulations to my Los Angeles Laker fan friends and other Los Angeles residents. I know how difficult it must have been to have been out of serious title contention for two years. Moreover I know that living in Los Angeles, with its mercurial weather, lack of diversity, and limited cultural options, only exacerbated the misery of following a team that was just competitive. News of the Dwight Howard trade assures me that, in the near term, your untimely deaths from excessive comfort have been prevented.
If you're curious, Sacramento's off-season has also been constructive. If reading Shakespeare's tragedies in the hopes of finding an inventive way to overthrow current ownership qualifies as constructive. In any case, denizens of Weird-O-Wood, I'm sorry to disturb you, I realize you have a busy day of Honus Wanger baseball card baths and ignoring Audrina Partridge (because you're selective about which reality TV stars you turn down). Congratulations again.
And Philadelphia, what will Andrew Bynum be like in a Sixers jersey? Like Elton Brand. But hungrier. As in physically hungrier. As in he's asking right now if you're finished with that shoofly pie.


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Johansson Launches Official Website
Published March 11, 2009 12:00
One of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's newest Top 100 players, Mathilde Johansson, recently launched her official website, giving her growing number of fans a place to go for a personal angle on how her career in the world of women's tennis is shaping up.
Johansson cracked the world's Top 100 last summer and after reaching her first two quarterfinals on the Tour recently - at the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas in Bogotá and the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL presented by HSBC in Acapulco, both on her favorite surface, red clay - she reached her current and career-high ranking of No.64.
The 23-year-old Johansson, who has played tennis since she was seven years old, was born in Sweden but lives in and plays for France. She welcomes visitors with a song in the background from famous Armenian-French singer Charles Aznavour, then includes information on her career, her schedule for this year, results and some up-to-date videos (including her famous youtube training session, which has had nearly 10,000 hits in little over two months).
"I'm very excited to have my own official website now, where I can keep my fans informed of where I am and what I'm doing during the season," Johansson said. "People from around the world can blog me, join my new fan club and soon go to my own store on the site, in French and English."
Johansson turned professional in 2000 and until now has won all of her titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, seven in singles and one in doubles. She has been making some major waves on the Tour over the last year or two however, to the point where she is now on the verge of breaking into the world's Top 50.
Visit Mathilde Johansson's official website at www.mathilde-johansson.com.


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The Greatest (POWER) Hour Ever!! – The Real Cool Club – S03E07Aug 04
Oh dear, what did we do? No really, what in the name of Walter Cronkite's ghost made us think that a POWER HOUR would be a good idea?!?!?
Oh, that's right we LOVE you the loyal viewers of THE REAL COOL CLUB!!! THAT'S why we did it.
And boy, we regret this more than that one time we < censored >.
Prunes, beer, sardines, pepperoncinis, pork rinds, gum and animal cookies all ended up in a goopey mess in our toilets the next morning. Watch the origin story of all this food as we take on AUDIENCE CHOICE POWER HOUR.
If you laugh at any of us during this show, know there is a special place for you in the 19th circle of hell, right next to people who punch kittens, steal candy from little kids on Halloween, and the producers of Jersey Shore.
We talk about all the cool news items of late, including cool trips to space, duct tape costumes, MTV turning 30 and so much more.
We get a long over due visit from Chunkstradamus who tells us (in a slightly drunk way) all the things that shall come in the near future.
We pick winners for our PhotoChop Shop and our July YouTube comment winner who all won some sweet Jinx.com codes. So make sure to tell everyone you know to Subscribe to our YouTube channel and go leave some comments.
We're serious, if you laugh at us during this episode…shame on you. Or shame on us. We still don't know.
PhotoChop Shop for 8.2.11Aug 01
For this week's PhotoChop Shop we're going to give you full licence to do whatever you want. If you missed it we are doing a POWER HOUR this week on the show.
In honor of probably not being able to see straight by the time we get around to choosing a winner of the PhotoChop Shop, go out there find pictures of Ethan Newberry, Lindsay Harbert, Scott Moore, Brian Gramo, and Andrew Seely and chop the hell out of them. Be creative. Use power hour in there. We don't care. Just make them awesome.
When you are done, make sure to post them to TheStream.tv's facebook wall and tag The Real Cool Club.
You could win a token for the xbox 360 drawing at the end of August or you could walk away with some sweet stuff from Jinx.com
Get Choppin.
The "Power Hour" Returns on 8/2/11 LIVE 8p pst on thestream.tvAug 01
You've been waiting to find out what all this P.H. stuff was about and here you go.
Well boys and girls you heard it here first. Or maybe you heard it on twitter first. Or maybe you heard it on facebook first. Well one way or another you heard it, or you just may be deaf (we like the deaf!), but we have something to tell you.
YOU. Yes YOU. We mean YOU. Get to decide live on Tuesday's show on August 2nd what we will be consuming during the Power Hour.
If you live under a rock and have no idea what the POWER HOUR is, then it goes like this, every minute for 60 whole minutes. Each of us will consume something every minute. Sometimes it a shot of beer every 60 seconds. Sometimes it's a chicken nugget (See The Game Show episode). Sometimes it's things we don't want to even talk about.
Make sure to tune in and see what happens. We'll show you some items and then we'll ask you to decide which ones of them we'll have to endure 60 times for the BEST POWER HOUR EVER!! Tell your friends. Tell your dog. Tell the paramedics. Please tell the paramedics.
And don't forget to get your PhotoChop Shops in see this post for more details. You could win an xbox 360 and/or some sweet gear from Jinx.com
Sean Becker aka The Vajazzler – The Real Cool Club – S03E06Jul 28
Ladies and Gentlemen we present to you our archived episode featuring the man, the myth, the guy Sean Becker (http://twitter.com/seanbecker). Also check out the kickstarter page for season 2 of the Jeff Lewis 5 minute Comedy Hour.
In the episode we tell you all the news, and tell you if it's cool or uncool. We bring back your favorite new segment Lindsay Lingo, where Lindsay has to define terms that revolve around Comic Con. We sent ChatHole A-Hole Scott Moore and producer Andrew Seely to Comic Con and they share some of what they saw (you can also find more of their videos on our youtube page).
We announce the winners of our PhotoChop Shop for this week and award a token for an xbox360 giveaway and both the winner and runner up get $15 toward threads from Jinx.com.
PhotoChop Shop Contest – 7/26/11 – Sean BeckerJul 25
How would you like to win a brand spanking new Xbox360 with kinect? Well, we have one to giveaway. Well sorta. You can win a token to be in a drawing for a new Xbox, the drawing is this friday during the All New Game Show. The odds are great.
Also like we did last week. The winner of the PhotoChop Shop will win a token for the Xbox AND will win $15 worth of stuff from Jinx.com. Our runner up will also receive $15 worth of stuff from Jinx.com. We're all about giving stuff away here on The Real Cool Club.
Get Choppin. Sean Becker will be on the show LIVE to judge your entries and pick a winner and a runner up.
To enter, post your picture to TheStream.tv's facebook page and be sure to tag The Real Cool Club!
Don't forget about our comment contest too, we'll pick a winner from comments on our YouTube videos from this month, so go leave a comment and we'll randomly pick a winner, you'll get $30 towards Jinx.com stuff.
Make sure to turn in an entry and watch LIVE on Tuesday July 26th at 8p pst.


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Sebastian's ring
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actual puppy sebastian stan
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-sits on and clings- hi bby
*clings back* hey you…
I'll remember you though
I remember everyone that leaves
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Feel free to send an ask for my Skype if you want to stay in touch, but I will rarely be on here. I have to get my life together and my confidence back, I am truly starting to be scared by how I feel because I have nearly no hope at all and I usually do. Never have I been this dark.
Plus it is…
So I'm alive. More or less. Just went through a really really rough few weeks. Long story.
Anyway during that time I had a lot of trouble coming back here. And for a good week and a half, almost two weeks or more, I couldn't and didn't at all. Not even to look at anything. It all hurt too much.
And because of things that happened I was tempted to just not come back at all. However, I have made more good friends than not on here so I'm going to try and focus on that instead. But here's the deal. Jazara is moving and getting and almost complete reboot apart from a few select relations and rps (to whom I will inform individually).
In a way I feel like it's a cop out since I don't know what to do in some verses and things, but I figure maybe just starting over is better if everyone is willing to try again. And I really hope you all forgive me, but if you can't just please leave. I hate to be cold like that but I have to be since I can't please everyone like I try to and I can't keep worrying about what your reactions will be. If you have something you want to say them by all means please do, otherwise it's been fun guys.
Anyway, depending on how things go with certain people as I discuss verses that will determine what ones will be available after the reboot. Most au's will stay and a few of her lovers but yeah. And I am not going to post a link here until it's completely finished, and I'm ready to open her back to everyone again. Which may not be for a few more weeks. Rules will be increased unfortunately and I won't be able to take as many rps and partners and it will take longer to become a steady partner with me probably too since I don't want to be hurt again or hurt anyone again.
So I rambled a bit, oh well. In short she's getting a blog move and reboot before rping with start again. Since I want to focus on my art more too.
Love you guys and hope to still talk to most of you soon.
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Nobody hurts my friends, man. I'll destroy 'em.
If this post doesn't get 5OO notes three months from now, my account will be deactivated and you know what happens next….
Feel free to send an ask for my Skype if you want to stay in touch, but I will rarely be on here. I have to get my life together and my confidence back, I am truly starting to be scared by how I feel because I have nearly no hope at all and I usually do. Never have I been this dark.
Plus it is…
100 photos of Odette Annable (26-29/100)
"Your mind only has an ability to enhance your thoughts, but don't underestimate strength. Reality and dreams are two different things, nightmares are torturous things but the more you rely on them, you have more time to think ahead and plan out what might or might not happen."
"Is it truly possible to not rely or focus on them, when they are always there? Always reminded in a way even if you choose not to. Though… I begin to question now just how you understand this so well. And why it has become so easy to speak about this to you…"


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Everyone knows owner Lisa Luby Ryan's politics are a bit right of center, but her aesthetic is normally as neutral as Switzerland. So imagine our delight when we walked in the newly unveiled space and noted all the color. Candy-colored lamps! Bright fabric on the chairs! Vivid paintings by Judy Hintz Cox hanging on the walls! It's all tastefully done, of course, and don't worry if you're a purist—there's still plenty of ivory, alabaster, cream, and oatmeal.
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Editor's Note
ABA Journal takes home hardware in journalism contest
Posted Jul 30, 2013 9:27 AM CDT
By Molly McDonough
The ABA Journal congratulates its staff and contributors for several awards in the national and regional business-to-business journalism contest sponsored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors.
Winning a national award for best blog was the ABA Journal's business of law blog, The New Normal, authored by Paul Lippe, of Legal OnRamp, and Patrick Lamb, a founding partner of Valorem, and their guests.
Regional honors went to several magazine reporters and artists.
ABA Journal business of law reporter Rachel Zahorsky and Indiana University Professor Bill Henderson took a silver award for their January 2012 Paradigm Shift installment, "The Law School Bubble."
Lorelei Laird, a freelance writer for the ABA Journal, won a silver award for her September 2012 article, "Pricing Amy."
In the art categories, Brenan Sharp, a senior designer and visual Web editor for the ABA Journal, took gold awards for his print design of the December 2012 layout for "King Coal's Violent Reign":
ABA Journal Design Director Bob Fernandez won gold awards for front cover illustrations for the February 2012 cover "Patriots Debate" and in collaboration with Eric Drooker for the August 2012 cover, "12 for the Stage." Fernandez also won a bronze award for the computer-generated cover design of the May 2012 cover, "SUED."
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Photo Feature: Salt Lake City Supercross 2011
Published May 5th, 2011
Ryan Villopoto wins Salt Lake City Supercross and extends his lead to 9 points over Chad Reed, who finished 2nd. Ryan Dungey finished 3rd and is now 12 points behind, while James Stewart crashed twice and falls 24 points behind. The top four riders will battle for the 2011 Supercross championship in the final round this weekend in Las Vegas! Check out more photos from Salt Lake City…
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The Gazzetta dello Sport commented on the latest transfer situation surrounding Inter.
"The wings and central midfield are the latest areas to be filled," reported the paper. "This will necessitate (Inter) selling to raise cash. Besides Schelotto (there's Chievo) and Silvestre (he may end up at Genoa, but not right away), to leave are also Kuzmanovic and Longo. For the Serbian there is the interest of West Ham, but they have yet to make an official offer, while Inter denies any contact with Malaga."
Inter is holding out for an offer above €5m-€6m for Kuzmanovic, while GdS also reports that "half of Serie A wants Longo," and for the young Italian forward, a loan to one of such teams is highly likely. Until more funds are raised from a possible sale to Thohir, players must be sold for high quality players to arrive.
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Challenging Bill McKibben and the Green Establishment: The Environmental Case for Fossil Fuels
I'm debating Bill McKibben this November on the environmental impact of fossil fuels. Here is a preview.
99.9% of discussion of fossil fuels and our environment ignores the single most important fact about fossil fuels and our environment: fossil fuels have made our environment amazingly good.
The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not "CO2" or "climate" or "temperature." It's "development."
Every region of the world, in its undeveloped state, is full of deadly environmental hazards such as indoor air pollution, bacteria-filled water, excessive cold, excessive heat, lack of rainfall, too much rainfall, powerful storms, disease-carrying insects, lack of sanitation, disease-carrying crops and animals, etc.
And yet some nations, such as the US, have the best air, water, indoor temperature, crops, sanitation, water supplies, storm-protection, disease-prevention, sanitation, and overall environmental quality in human history–while others are plagued by heat waves, cold snaps, drought, storms, crop failures, malaria and dozens of other dread diseases, filth, dung-burning fires, lack of clean drinking water.
The reason for this is development–the improvement of nature to meet human needs. Development means water purification systems, irrigation, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, genetically-improved crops, dams, sea walls, heating, air conditioning, sturdy homes, drained swamps, central power stations, vaccination, pharmaceuticals, and so on.
Every aspect of development has one common requirement: cheap, plentiful, reliable energy. And we would not have cheap, plentiful, reliable energy without the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuels have transformed hazardous natural environments the world over into healthy human environments–environments that include an unprecedented ability to explore and safely enjoy nature.
Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.
And when you hear heartbreaking stories of children with diseases that we once had but no longer do–malaria, tuberculosis, even the plague–you should commit yourself to bringing about a world that produces more energy. Much more energy–at today's global level of energy production, only 2.5 billion people out of 7 billion could use as much energy as Europeans do.
Energy Poverty, not CO2, Is the Problem
But to listen to the environmental establishment, the cause of the problems of the bad environments is not the blatant deficiency in energy and development. The alleged problem is the energy that makes development possible: the 85% of energy production that comes from fossil fuels. Generating power from fossil fuels increases the trace percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere. (Revealingly, "environmentalists" find reasons to oppose the other, CO2-free, sources of practical power, nuclear and hydroelectric.) That CO2 is, amazingly, the villain in all our environmental ills.
That the good environments exist is an inconvenient truth. If acknowledged, one could not pretend that the environmental problems of North Mexico vs. the environmental health of South Texas were caused by today's climate.
Consider this highlight clip from Bill McKibben, "the nation's leading environmentalist" according to The Boston Globe, in which he blames certain increases in malaria, dengue fever, cholera, and salmonella on CO2-induced climate change.
What about a lack of development, of proper sanitation, and, above all, of the wonderful synthetic malaria-killer that is DDT? More broadly, what about a lack of the cheap, reliable fossil fuel energy that has underlain all of Western industrial and technological development?
It doesn't even get a mention–let alone the starring role it deserves in any discussion of improving our environment.
Unfortunately, it rarely gets a mention by the other side, either. Advocates and producers of fossil fuels have largely failed to make the environmental case for fossil fuels, and thus ceded the environmental high ground to McKibben and the rest of the catastrophic global warming movement.
McKibben's Challenge to the Fossil-Fuel Industry
This concession reached a gory climax in July, when McKibben published the article "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," in which he called for a movement to condemn and dismantle the fossil fuel industry. He called the fossil fuel industry "Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization." "[W]e need," he has said in his popular book Eaarth (the extra "a" represents a damaged planet) "to cut our fossil fuel use by a factor of twenty over the next few decades."
The article was a sensation. It received 120,000 "Likes" on Facebook–which an exultant Center for American Progress blogger described as "monster social media numbers of the kind usually reserved for pieces on HuffPost about Kim Kardashian in a bikini." And it was celebrated by citizens and intellectual elites alike.
McKibben had declared the fossil fuel industry to be immoral, an environmental menace–he had declared open war on the fossil fuel industry–the war was celebrated by the media–and yet the industry was silent. Keep in mind McKibben is no piker–this is a man who in 2009 organized 5200 simultaneous protests for 350.org.
… and My Challenge to McKibben
Someone needed to say something. And not just on a corner of the Internet the environmental establishment could evade, but somewhere that the truth could not be ignored–a public debate, recorded for posterity and promoted around the world.
So I challenged McKibben to a public debate. I stated my reasons on YouTube, and I offered McKibben $10,000 and a venue at Duke University (thanks to the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace). To his credit, he quickly accepted.
Thus, on November 5, at Duke University, McKibben will be arguing that "fossil fuels are a risk to the planet." I will be arguing that "fossil fuels improve the planet."
This is the first debate ever where a world-class environmentalist will be challenged by the powerful environmental case for fossil fuels. It is an opportunity to show the world how the truth about fossil fuels stacks up against the best the other side has to offer.
But this opportunity will only exist to the extent we can marshal the resources to get the word out.
Please help promote this debate–especially if you are in the free-market energy community or fossil fuel industry. Our official website is www.fossilfueldebate.com, and you can also visit our Facebook page. For more info on how to get involved, you can reach me at email@example.com.
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- 1 rbradley { 09.28.12 at 7:42 am }
You speak of oil, gas, and coal, and you might also talk more explicitly about a major product from the same–electricity.
I like Erich Zimmermann's characterization of electricity as creating the Second Industrial Revolution: http://www.masterresource.org/2011/05/electricity-master-master-resource/
- 2 SOYLENT GREEN { 09.28.12 at 9:44 am }
What are the odds that someone will offer Weepy Bill more than $10,000 to have a last minute scheduling conflict?
- 3 Jon Boone { 09.28.12 at 10:35 am }
Electricity, responsible for about 40% of our energy use, also makes possible the Digital Revolution. And it will undergird the coming revolution wrought by quantum computing. We really ain't seen nothing yet.
Since energy is omnipresent and cannot be created or destroyed, humanity's ability to locate discreet, highly dense amounts of it to fuel machines that convert it to controllable power is the essence of our modernity. For it allows us economies of scale to coordinate convergent activity in time and space, which is what modern hospitals, transportation systems, and protected ecosystems really represent. Why, horror of horrors, the NFL and MLB, not to mention the NBA, couldn't exist without machines converting high energy densities into modern power. (To say nothing of Pixar….)
The overarching goal, in terms of economic efficiency and improved ecosystems, should be developing machinery that runs on the densest energies, producing the most power in the smallest space at a scale affordable by all consistent with the most informed notions of public health. McKibbon will likely argue the public health angle, which you should rather easily expose as nonsense, on balance.
That McKibben and his ilk oppose ALL the machinery run by high density energy sources–nuclear, oil, gasoline, natural gas, and coal, along with reservoirs of impounded water–suggests that they reject modernity, and all of its manifold benefits. McKibben's evident desire to "return" to a state of nature–an acadian ideal–that never really existed typifies much that is wrong with contemporary environmentalism. It relies upon sloganeering, sophistry, and sentimentalism, too blithely unaware of its sanctimony, its unscience, and its complicity in contributing to the very "problems" it opposes.
- 4 Saint { 09.28.12 at 10:48 am }
Ask McKibbon if he has any idea what the whale population might look like today if not for kerosene. Or what forests might look like. Fossils fuels have been a boon to the environment.
- 5 rbradley { 09.28.12 at 11:27 am }
Or the horse population given the agriculture required to feed them.
- 6 Marlo Lewis { 09.28.12 at 11:59 am }
Alex, an exciting prospect — a debate featuring a genuine clash of visions. Anticipate McKibben relying heavily on the "evidence" of catastrophes that haven't happened yet!
- 7 GuarionexSandoval { 09.28.12 at 10:16 pm }
I think what most people miss when they talk about "our environment" is that the natural environment is not the human environment. There is almost nothing in the human environment that exists in the natural environment except as substrate for the inventiveness of the human mind. And almost any human, dropped "au naturale" into the natural environment, would quickly perish unless specially trained. Furthermore, as Alex points out, the degree to which humans are able to move more deeply into the human environment is the degree to which they will be healthier, happier, richer, and longer-lived. And the degree to which they are able to move more deeply into this human territory depends on the degree to which they have energy to create that world. When there was only muscle power or limited wind and water power, life was short and hard. Thanks to the inventiveness of the human mind in understanding the natural world and figuring out ways to tap, create, and control sources of energy, we have a truly spectacular life in a world of our own design.
- 8 Ray { 09.29.12 at 3:10 pm }
McKibben lives in some sort of environmentalist fantasy land. I don't believe for an instant he would like to live without plentiful cheap energy. When I was a child my father was a field superindtendent for an oil company. We lived out by the oil field at the end of the electric line. We had an outdoor toilet, an outdoor manual water pump, a coal stove, and an ice box. We had electric lights and also kerosene lamps for when the electricity went out. If you wanted a hot bath you had to heat the water on the coal stove. You washed clothes in a tub with a rubboard.
When we moved into town I was thrilled. We had an electric refrigerator, indoor plumbing and a hot water heater. I was in heaven, no more hauling coal or pumping water. When the environmentalists rhapsodize about getting back to nature, I just laugh at their ignorance. Let them try it and see how they like it.
- 9 The Environmental Case for Fossil Fuels | EPA Abuse { 09.29.12 at 6:36 pm }
[...] Read more at Master Resource. By Alex Epstein. [...]
- 10 rbradley { 10.02.12 at 9:54 am }
This McKibben quote on Rachel Carson caught my eye: "She was the very first person to knock some of the shine off modernity."
- Quoted in Eliza Griswold, "The Wild Life of 'Silent Spring'," New York Times Magazine, p. 41.
- 11 Robert Hargraves { 10.11.12 at 5:56 am }
You are right that energy poverty keeps civilization in poor countries environmentally unhealthy; electricity is needed for sanitation, water purification, transportation, refrigeration of food, etc. Even Jeffrey Sachs agrees that inexpensive energy technologies are needed in the developing countries. But the best answer for the future really is advanced nuclear power, without the pollution from coal plants. THORIUM: energy cheaper than coal, is described at http://www.thoriumenergycheaperthancoal.com
- 12 ilma630 { 10.18.12 at 7:44 am }
Alex, go for it! I repeatedly challenge what BmK tweets, but never get a response. His continued alarmism and hatred of conventional fuels (which keeps him in a comfortable, clean and healthy lifestyle, with all modern conveniences) is so overtly hypocritical, it's unbelievable.
I heard him speak in person in Cambridge, UK, and what he said then was just unbelievable.
The while premise of 350 ppm of CO2 is entirely mistaken and unachievable. He is the classic fool who thinks man can control nature. His talk is available here http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Multimedia.php?Mode=Add&ItemID=Item_Multimedia_441&width=720&height=460 and the Q&A session following here http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Multimedia.php?Mode=Add&ItemID=Item_Multimedia_460&width=720&height=460
When Bill speaks, pick him up on anything he tries to use as example and ask for evidence, pick him up on any future projections, and his use of "could" and "might", as this is all conjecture based on models and unsubstantiated linking of events to man's CO2 emissions. Don't let him fob you off, and make him answer hard questions of fact.
Also, remind him that if he claims to be a Christian, why does he 'deny' God's good gift of oil, coal, gas, and so deny and reject God himself. These energy sources are part of God's creation, the very thing he called "good", so he's completely confused there too! Aks him too why he supports the environmentalist concept of "man is a cancer on Earth" when the Christian message is that man is held in higher regard than Earth, and the death and resurrection of Jesus was to save man, not destroy him. The welfare of man is the Christian's prime concern, Earth is secondary (although not unimportant, and still requires wise stewardship).
BmK and his cohorts have long played dirty in their CAGW advocacy and alarmism, so it's time to call him to account.
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The debate has been held and has received good attention.
This from Andrew Revkin of the NYT:
"Watch this video [http://www.livestream.com/windrose/video?clipId=pla_e2f0a23d-0911-474f-affb-03cfb7350a60&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb}of this week's Duke University debate between carbon campaigner Bill McKibben and carbon defender Alex Epstein to see how this plays out.
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Joséphin Péladan: Occultism, Catholicism, and Science in the Fin de Siècle
Joséphin Péladan considered scientific materialism to be the primary cause of the decadence of French culture. He believed it fostered the democratization and secularization of society and the taste for naturalism in the arts, all of which he abhorred. With his Rosicrucian philosophy of occult science, formulated in his critical writings and promulgated in his artistic salons, he offered the alternative of a hierarchic and traditional ideology that he hoped would restore French culture to what he believed was its ideal, Catholic, and pre-Republican state.
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#2: For very polar compounds, use
#3: Use Gas Chromatography (GC).
#4: If all else fails, remove a sample of your reaction mixture and take an NMR.
Problem: My reaction is in a high boiling solvent (DMF, Pyridine, DMSO, Amine solvents) and TLC just looks like a huge smear.
Solutions: Spot the plate as usual and then put it in a flask under high vacuum for a few minutes, and then run it, OR use TLC tip #1.
Problem: My reactant and my product have very similar Rfs. I can't really tell what is happening. How do I know when the reaction is complete?
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#2: Try changing solvent systems.
Tip: There are three classes of solvent systems for chromatography that give distinctly different results. They are:
Polar/ hydrocarbon systems (ethyl acetate/hexane; ether/petroleum ether)
Polar/ dichloromethane systems (ether/dichloromethane;ethyl acetate/dichloromethane; methanol/ dichloromethane
Polar/benzene systems (ether/benzene; ethyl acetate/benzene)
#3: Try staining with anisaldehyde. Compounds are different (bright) colors. Sometimes color differences are also visible with molybdenum stains.
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Using a square silica plate, spot the sample in one corner.
Run the plate in one direction (all components of the sample will appear in a vertical line of spots).
Turn the plate 90 degrees (your "line of spots" should be at the bottom) and run the plate again.
If the sample is stable to silica, all spots will appear on the diagonal. If a compound is decomposing, it will appear below the diagonal.
Problem: My compound is unstable on silica. How can I monitor the reaction accurately?
Solution: Try TLC tip #2, 3 or 4.
Problem: I don't want to expose my reaction to air- how do I get a TLC sample without opening the reaction vessel?
Solution: Set up your reaction flask such that it has a septum and is not under strong positive pressure of an inert gas. Thread a capillary spotter into a 20 gauge disposable needle, and put the needle into the septum. Use the spotter to get your sample, reinstall your inert gas, and remove the needle. This procedure involves minimal exposure to air.
Problem: When I dip my capillary into my reaction to take a TLC, the reaction mixture clogs the pipette and I can't spot it onto a plate. How do I TLC a heterogeneous or viscous reaction mixture?
Solution: TLC tip #1.
Problem: My reaction looks streaky on TLC.
Explanations and Solutions: This could mean a number of things.
Massive decomposition. However, don't assume this just because your TLC is streaky.
One of the reagents streaks: try TLC Tip #1.
Your product is intact, but unstable to silica. Try a 2D TLC (above).
Your solvent is interfering with the TLC. See the first problem on this page.
Problem: My compounds are very polar and stay on the baseline. I can't see what is happening during the reaction.
Solutions: Try the solvent system described in TLC Tip #2, or use reverse phase silica gel plates.
Problem: The TLC of my product mixture changed after work-up!
Explanation/Solution #1: Your product may not tolerate exposure to acid, base, air, water, etc, and a reaction is occurring during workup. You can test small samples of your reaction mixture before you quench it to figure out what causes the problem, which may allow you to prevent the reaction.
Explanation/Solution #2: An unknown contaminant may have entered your material at some point. Purify and see if things improve.
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DPS troopers say 22 year old Daniel Roerick was driving at a high rate of speed on Indiana when he ran a stop sign at Woodrow Road, around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
The car flew about 100 feet and turned in midair. It landed sideways and then rolled several times into a field, where it hit a tree.
Roerick's passenger, 26 year old Lauren Hopper, was ejected from the vehicle. She was flown to UMC with life-threatening injuries.
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