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An improved method of making a high precision trough shaped parabolic reflector apparatus is described. A smooth surfaced sheet of flexible material is bent and formed over a convex mold comprising a number of precision shaped parabolic arcs mounted to a base. Means are provided for clamping the flexible sheet of material and drawing it into close conformity with the convex mold. The backside or convex side of the sheet of material is then cemented to a support framework comprising a number of approximately parabolic, but not necessarily precision formed web or rib members which are joined together by a torsion tube or similar structural stiffening means. The type of cement utilized accurately fills any discontinuities and/or inaccuracies in the arcuate shape of the approximately parabolic ribs so that the ribs and the flexible sheet are bonded rigidly together as a unit without distortion or strain on the sheet. The approximately parabolic, but non-precision ribs and stiffening means thereafter serve to maitain the sheet of flexible material in a highly accurate and precision parabolic contour produced by the precision parabolic mold.
1. A method of making trough-shaped high precision parabolic reflectors, comprising the steps of:
bending a sheet of inelastic flexible material over a precision parabolically contoured trough-shaped rigid, convex mold fixture;
forcing said sheet of material into continuous and intimate contact with said mold fixture to tension said sheet of inelastic flexible material at the edges thereof which are parallel to the focal axis of said mold fixture, thereby conforming said sheet into a high precision parbolically curved trough-shape;
centering a plurality of spaced apart, non-precision, reinforcing ribs to the convex surface of said flexible material with a flowable and hard-curable cement while it is so bent and forced into high precision conformality with said mold fixture, said ribs being affixed perpendicularly to said focal axis of said parabolic trough and perpendicularly to said convex surface at regular intervals along the axis of said trough shape;
curing said cement whereby the intersticies between said non-precision support ribs and the back surface of said precision formed sheet of flexible material are intimately bonded together and completely filled by the said hard-curable cement so that even, strong and continuous contact is achieved;
removing the resulting parabolic trough-shaped sheet, maintained in high precision configuration by said reinforcing ribs, from said mold fixture; and
providing the concave precision curved parabolic surface of said sheet with light reflective capability, thus completing the formation of said high precision parabolically curved trough-shaped reflector.
2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein said flexible material is aluminum and said light reflective capability of said concave precision curved parabolic surface is polished aluminum.
3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein said concave precision curved parabolic sheet is provided with light capability by depositing reflective material thereon by vacuum deposition.
4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein said concave precision curved parabolic sheet is provided with light capability by depositing stick on adhesive backed reflective material thereon.
5. The method as described in claim 1 further comprising a step of;
joining said plurality of said reinforcing ribs together by a stiffening member affixed thereto, said stiffening member being generally parallel with said focal axis of said parabolic surface.
6. The method as described in claim 1 further comprising a step of:
joining said plurality of said reinforcing ribs together by a stiffening member affixed thereto, said stiffening member comprising a flexible sheet secured to the convex surface of each said rib, whereby to form an internally rib reinforced structure or composite shell.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 904,226, filed May 8, 1978, now abandoned, which in turn is a division of application Ser. No. 747,334, filed Dec. 3, 1976, now abandoned.
This invention relates to solar collector apparatus in general and to parabolic trough shaped reflecting concentrators in particular. It relates specifically to a method of forming precision shaped parabolic trough reflectors.
Since at least 1882, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 257,580 issued to Ditzler, parabolic trough shaped reflectors have been utilized to track the diurnal movements of the sun to focus the image of the sun upon a collection tube set at the focal point along the axis of focus for such a reflector. Since this early date, many attempts have been made to provide parabolic trough shaped concentrators for solar energy and all have met with a greater or lesser degree of success. Of course, one of the primary objects of the early art, which is continued forward to the present day, is the requirement that the collector be as faithfully parabolic as is possible or obtainable since slight inaccuracies of curvature will move the location of the focal point or axis off line, thus greatly reducing or eliminating the efficacy of such collectors. A second problem inherent in the prior art is the structural stability of the parabolic surface. Ideally, it would be desirable that the parabolic surface be formed or hewn from a solid block of material so that temperature variations, etc., would be uniformly compensated for and the line of focus for the trough shaped collector will remain unchanged.
In practice, the prior art has utilized structural frameworks with necessary stiffeners and arcuate ribs instead of the massive, expensive and unwieldy solid blocks of material. For example, the Podolny patent. U.S. Pat. No. 3,070,703, shows a solar power plant in which parabolic trough shaped collectors utilize a structural frame and stiffeners to support parabolically curved reflecting surface. U.S. Pat. No. 2,141,330 also shows a parabolic trough shaped collector formed of a framework intended to maintain the structural uniformity and integrity of the resultant concentrator.
Such structures require numerous, highly accurate parabolic arcuate support ribs which are expensive to make and which must be precise since the resulting form of the trough collector depends entirely upon the arcuate shape of the parabolic structural ribs. Some prior art devices have even resorted to adjustment screws or tensioning means to vary the parabolic surface for focusing reasons. A structure of this type is shown in British Pat. Specification No. 485,390 of May 19, 1938, in which an assembled structure of carefully machined ribs forms a concave mold to which a sheet of reflector material is permanently attached by fasteners. Much of the precision is lost because of eventual racking of the necessarily loose fit of bolt and rivets in drilled holes.
An attempt to alleviate the expense and difficulty of forming parabolic trough collectors utilizing a framework with numerous high precision parabolic ribs is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,959,056 in which a method of forming parabolic panels using honeycomb panels, foamed plastic, glass fibers, and impregnating resin is shown in which a continuous trough can be continuously molded to any length desired. Very expensive and complex equipment is required for such a forming technique and the resulting parabolic surface of the trough shaped collector may be subject to thermal distortion or other mechanical difficulties because of the nature of the materials utilized.
Another approach to reducing the cost of making reflectors has been to substantially sacrifice the degree of precision used in manufacture by using simplified molds on which the reflector's parabolic face is formed. Erdman, et al, U.S. Pat. No. 3,855,027, uses an air-inflated mold of flexible material on which a sheet of fiber reinforced polyester resin is fabricated by conventional spray lay-up technique. This sheet is then rendered suitably stiff and rigid by incorporating reinforcing ribbing in a second layer consisting of foamed polyurethane, followed by a third layer of spray lay-up fiber reinforced polyester. Even though the structure may retain reasonable rigidity in use, the vital precision required in the reflector surface can be no greater than that of the low pressure "balloon" on which it was formed (Column 4, lines 10-15) and this is given as a surface accuracy of 0.060 inches rms, Column 3, line 43. A similar technique is used by Chandler, U.S. Pat. No. 3,655,472, in which air pressure inflates an aluminum foil, which becomes the finished surface after layers of fiber reinforced resins are applied, again by spray lay-up. In view of the well known shrinkage characteristics of polymerization of resins during hardening, it is obvious that precision must be lost when this warping reaction is resisted only by an air inflated elastic substrate.
Nelson, U.S. Pat. No. 4,115,177, utilizes a rigid permanent mold, instead of air pressure, on which to fabricate a parabolic shaped sheet made by applying several layers of spray lay-up fiber reinforced thermosetting plastic, and finally vacuum depositing aluminum to form the reflector surface.
Some approaches have been made to improve the precision, yet retain the use of low cost molding, by substituting foamed polyurethane or the like for the air-inflated membrane as the form. Taplin, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,264,392 uses such a form, but in a male-female die forming technique. Schlager, U.S. Pat. No. 3,654,012, applies a heat softened sheet of plastic over a preformed mold of foamed polystyrene, actually melting the surface of the foamed plastic to create a bond with the sheet. Obviously these methods preclude any degree of precision, first because it is not possible to precision form foamed plastic, and second because heating and melting of the formed plastic alters the original contours.
In light of the foregoing difficulties mentioned with regard to the prior art, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved method of forming precision parabolic reflector surfaces of the trough type for use as solar energy concentrators or collectors.
The foregoing and still other unmentioned objects of the present invention are met by providing a precision convex parabolic mold over which may be formed a sheet of flexible smooth surfaced material. Many materials such as glass fiber reinforced epoxy panels, bonded wood chip particle board, metal sheets, or any other flexible and hard surfaced material may be used. The material is capable of being formed at least on one axis of bending and is stiff enough in the opposite axis, transverse thereto to provide some structural rigidity. The flexible sheet of material is tensioned by clamps to accurately conform to the contours of the precision parabolic mold. A supporting framework comprising a number of approximately parabolic, by non-precision, support ribs joined together by a torque resisting tube or other similar stiffener is then rigidly bonded, by a flowable hardening cement, to the convex back surface of the trough shaped collector sheet while it is in place over the precision mold. When the cement has hardened, the interstacies between the non-precision support ribs and the back surface of the precision formed sheet of flexible material are intimately bonded together and filled by the flowable hardening cement so that even, strong and continuous contact is achieved. The restraining clamps holding the flexible sheet to the precision mold may then be released and the sheet will be faithfully maintained in its formed curvature by the support ribs and framework. The flowable hardening bonding cement maintains precision contact between the non-precision ribs and the precision arcuate surface produced by bending the sheet over the mold.
FIG. 1 illustrates an overall view of a typical parabolic trough collector of the general type intended in the present invention.
FIG. 2A illustrates a backside, or convex side, of the structure of the preferred embodiment constructed according to the techniques of the preferred method of the invention.
FIG. 2B illustrates an end elevation view of the structure shown in FIG. 2A.
FIG. 2C illustrates an end elevation view of an alternative structure shown in FIG. 2A.
FIG. 3 illustrates the preferred embodiment of a precision parabolic mold utilized in the preferred fabrication technique.
FIG. 4 illustrates the preferred method of forming precision parabolic reflectors according to the present invention.
The parabolic solar concentrator has a number of physical attributes which contribute to the total error in focusing the solar radiation beam on the collector/target, such as:
1. Surface irregularities in the reflective material.
2. Small surface distortions, such as local fastener pull.
3. Contour errors.
4. Longitudinal straightness errors.
5. Static longitudinal twist in the structure.
6. Wind and position induced surface distortions.
7. Coupling back-lash between the tracking controller and the reflector.
8. Cumulative coupling back-lash and torgue tube wind-up errors in multiple satellite concentrators which are driven by connecting torque tubes to the master concentrator.
9. Dead band in the two direction tracking controller.
10. Sun geometry image.
The design allocation of the maximum target error band to the various attributes is a cost benefit exercise which dramatically affects the feasibility of certain concentrator arrangements and the cost of the system.
The theoretical maximum efficiency attainable by solar collectors is in excess of 90%. The maximum efficiency attained in practice, requiring extremely high and costly precision, is 86%. The method and apparatus of the present invention attains 84% efficiency without recourse to expensive machining. Accordingly, as used herein, the term "high precision" is understood to embody tolerances exemplified by the following:
Longitudinal bow--0.040" in 16'
Longitudinal twist--15 minutes in 16'
Contour error--0.015" max.
Fastener/glue shrink pull--0.003" max.
Local longitudinal surface
errors--0.003" max.
Local radius surface errors--0.001"/inch
One skilled in the art and familiar with machining practices would readily recognize that such tolerances would ordinarily require unusually high precision in fabrication techniques.
The preferred method of forming precision parabolic collectors of the trough style will be described together with a preferred embodiment of the resulting apparatus. It should be clearly understood at the outset, however, that the specific embodiment disclosed is capable of many variations conventionally and otherwise which will be apparent to those of skill in the art and it is therefore not intended that the invention be in any way limited by the specifics of the preferred embodiment described.
The preferred embodiment and the preferred method of making the precision parabolic reflectors of the present invention will be described with reference to the aforementioned several figures of the drawing.
Proceeding now to a detailed description of the preferred embodiment and method of making precision parabolic trough shaped collectors or concentrators, reference will be had to FIG. 1 in which a typical trough shaped parabolic solar concentrator is illustrated.
Parabolic reflector 1 comprises a precision formed parabolic reflecting surface 2 elongated in the direction of its focal axis to form a trough. The rays of the sun are caused to focus and form an image of the sun along the collector tube 3 which is generally a high temperature, high pressure resistant material for conducting the flow of a primary collection liquid as is well known in the art. Typical inlet means 5 and outlet means 6 are provided to the collection tube 4 as shown, but the details of the apparatus for providing a flow of fluid through the collection zone in collection tube 3, being well known in the art, are omitted for the sake of brevity. The trough shaped collector 1 is generally provided with means for tracking the sun about an axis 4 and sometimes two axes of tracking freedom may be provided if desired as is also well known in the art. With this brief overview of the intended resultant structure, reference will be had to FIG. 2A.
In FIG. 2A, the schematic structure of the preferred embodiment of the collector formed according to the present method is shown in which the backside (convex side) of the precision parabolic surface 2 is shown supported by a series of generally parabolic support ribs 7 which are rigidly joined together by a steel torque resisting tube 8. An edge reinforcement strip and clamping means 14 are affixed to edges of the flexible sheet of material which forms the precision parabolic surface 2. Strips 14 may be wood or metal as desired and may be bonded, screwed, or nailed to the flexible sheet of material 2. The purpose of edge reinforcing strips 14 will appear below.
Turning to FIG. 2B, an end elevation view of the structure shown in FIG. 2A is illustrated, In FIG. 2B, it may be clearly seen that the reinforcing and support webs or ribs 7 are in approximately continuous contact with the back surface of the precision parabolic surface 2 which is formed of a sheet of flexible material in a manner to be shown below. The steel reinforcing torque tube 8 is rigidly bonded to all of the various support ribs or webs 7 to take up longitudinal torsional variations which would tend to distort the curvature of the reflector surface 2.
In the preferred embodiment, the flexible sheet of material used to form the reflector surface 2 is a sheet of bonded and compressed wood fiber of the type generally known under the trade name tempered Masonite. However, other suitable materials would be flexible steel or aluminum sheets, plastic or glass fiber and resin impregnated material in sheet form, plywood or other generally flexible not hard sheet material which is bendable in at least one axis of bending and relatively impervious to the elements. The reinforcing ribs 7 are preferably resin bonded particle board of 3/4 or 5/8 inch thickness or plywood with the marine environment grade bonding glue utilized in their construction. Such materials are utilized for their temperature stability, resistance to moisture and low cost and weight. Steel torque tube 8 is a 2 to 4 inch diameter steel well casing or similar steel or high strength tube of the thin-walled type, and it is bonded to the ribs 7 by a polyester resin or epoxy resin cement in the preferred embodiment and may also be mechanically fastened to the ribs. The reflector surface is formed on the concave side of sheet 2 by utilizing thin aluminized polyester polyamide, or similar sheets commercially available and well known in the art which have an adhesive backing or which may be cemented in place to faithfully duplicate the precision parabolic shape of the surface 2 and to reflect the sun toward the focal point as shown in FIG. 1. Such details, being well known in the art, will not be described further.
FIG. 2C shows an alternate preferred embodiment of the bracing means wherein the torque tube 8 is omitted and instead a flexible sheet 17 of bendable material, such as Masonite or sheet aluminum, is secured to the convex surface of rib 7, as by bonding or fasteners, whereby to form an internally rib reinforced structure or composite shell.
Turning to FIG. 3, the preferred precision mold utilized in the technique of the present invention is illustrated in schematic form. A rigid base framework 9 of the preferred type is constructed of 6" welded structural steel channel, but heavy timbers may be utilized. In the preferred embodiment, this base was formed of 6" structural channel heavily braced and cross-braced and rigidly welded at all joints and at the corners. Base 9 is precision levelled and rigidly mounted to the floor or similar stable platform so that a true plane for the edges of the trough will be created. To this rigid base 9 are rigidly mounted a number of precision formed arcuate rib panels 10 made of 3/4 inch resin bonded particle board or plywood braced and maintained in vertical orientation with respect to the base 9. The individual precision parabolic ribs 10 are joined together by spacers 11 made of dimensional 2�6 inch lumber and the entire assembly is rigidly bonded and screwed together in the preferred embodiment to provide a rigid and stable mold surface as defined by the outline of the arcuate ribs 10. Steel, aluminum or other durable materials would serve equally well in the making of a mold. This convex mold is utilized as a stretcher frame for forming the flexible sheet 2 as will be described below.
Turning to FIG. 4, the mold of FIG. 3 is shown in the end elevational view so that the end of base 9 and the end-most precision parabolic rib 10 are visible. A clamp device is shown comprising an angle iron bracket 12 rigidly affixed on each side of base 9 which has a hole through which a threaded screw 13 can slide freely. Each threaded screw 13 engages with a threaded nut backing up against the surface of the edge reinforcing stringer 14 illustrated and described with relation to FIG. 2a. Stringer 14 is, as noted earlier, bonded and screwed to the edge of the flexible sheet 2. Individual clamp means 12, 13 and 14 with the cooperating nut, shown in the enlarged small view, are located every 4 inches (more or less) along the entire length of the trough shaped panel 2 so that uniform and exact bending tension can be produced in sheet 2 to draw it into intimate conformity with the precision formed parabolic ribs 10. Camming action clamps, screw clamps or any of a variety of clamps readily available could be thus used. Once sheet 2 has been drawn into intimate and exact conformity to the shape of the precision ribs 10, the support framework comprising numerous support ribs 7 to be bonded and bolted to the steel torque tube 8 and described previously with relation to FIGS. 2a and 2b, can be brought into position as shown and bonded, using a relatively thick layer of cement, such as epoxy or polyester resin in the preferred embodiment, to the back or convex surface of sheet 2. The entire resulting assembly may be left for the cement to cure. It should be pointed out and emphasized that the reinforcing ribs (or webs) 7 need not be of a precision parabolic shape and, indeed, it is a major object of the present invention to avoid the necessity of having precision cutting and forming operations beyond those necessary to construct the initial precision mold. To that end, an exaggerated rough under surface of the rib 7 is illustrated as rough surface 15 for each rib 7. Numerous intersticies and arcuate discrepancies are shown in exaggerated form, but are filled with a flowable and hardenable epoxy or polyester cement illustrated as cement filler 16 so that the resultant bond between ribs 7 of the non-precision, approximately parabolic shape and the back or convex surface of the parabolic form of sheet 2 is achieved. The cement or bonding agent 16 that is used to attach the ribs 7 to the back side of the parabolic sheet 2 is preferably of a type that does not, upon hardening or setting, draw or otherwise distort the precision concave face of the sheet 2. The resulting webs (ribs 7) approximate constant beams in their deflection characteristic so that the stresses in the flexible sheet are approximately equally distributed. When cement 16 has cured, the intimate and continuous bond between the roughly parabolic shape of rib 7 and the precision parabolic shape of the back surface of sheet 2 is achieved and the precision surface of sheet 2 is maintained accurately and faithfully upon the release of the clamping means 12, 13 and 14. The finished form may then be supplied with polished aluminum sheets on the reflecting side of precision form trough sheet 2 or, as described previously, a flexible aluminized plastic sheet may be adhered to the curved surface to form a reflective trough concentrator. If desired, the overall resulting structure may be supplied with an overcoat of clear epoxy or similar sealer to seal out moisture and airborn foreign materials. However, it will, of course, be understood by one skilled in the art that the reflective, concave parabolic base of sheet 2 may be inherent in the sheet itself, such as when using a sheet 2 of aluminum or other polished reflective metal, or the reflective material may be deposited on the sheet by the well known vacuum depositing technique or by stick on adhesive backed high reflective material such as 3M-5400 reflective material.
As will be immediately appreciated by those of skill in the art, the present method for forming precision parabolic trough reflectors may be easily practiced without resort to expensive operations such as precision forming of structural reinforcing ribs or precision molding of rigid or plastic materials (such as solid metal sheets bent to retain the parabolic shape) and a simple, unified and highly precision final form with high structural integrity and resistance to deformation can be achieved. Low cost materials and techniques are utilized throughout and panels of the desired trough shape may be formed of varying lengths from a few feet to as long as desired.
The precision arcuate mold ribs 10 were traced from a precision pattern full scale on 5/8 or 3/4 inch thickness particle board and all ribs cut. A pattern following router following a precision steel pattern is preferred. Another method is to simultaneously cut all of the ribs from a stack of rough formed pieces using a band saw with final precision sanding to achieve true conformity to the exact parabolic curvature desired. Utilized as they are, these ribs 10 are not subject to wear or deterioration and may be used indefinitely once they have been mounted to the base 9 as shown. If desired, steel mold pieces for the ultimate in durability could be used. Other molding techniques, such as the well-known glass fiber and resin lay-up or spraying techniques, require continuous surface precision molds which are expensive to produce initially and require continual refinishing or resurfacing due to deterioration in the surface after repeated use and are thus of lesser utility that the preferred method described. Another obviously equivalent molding technique would be to use a concave precision mold structure (the converse of FIG. 3) and to push the flexible sheet into tight conformity with the mold ribs. However, this technique would make the attachment of the support framework and arcuate ribs more difficult and the details of the mold to allow such application steps would be much more complex.
As noted earlier, the reinforcing support ribs 7 of the framework which support the formed panel sheet 2 need not be precision formed but may be rough cut to the approximate outline desired. This leaves to the flowable and hardening bonding cement the task of producing a uniform and true conformance between the back surface of the precision formed panel 2 and the non-uniform, non-precision formed undersurface of the arcuate ribs 7. This greatly reduces the cost and complexity in forming the collector apparatus since none of the assembly techniques or elements need be precision operations once the precision mold has been made. Yet the resulting parabolic trough shaped concentrator is a highly precision surface which faithfully mirrors the desired accurate parabolic form to provide the superior results known in the art to be achievable in the art with this type of collector.
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|Its about time someone stood up for Wax jackets
|by veepee (Member 10294016) on 20-Nov-2014
A practical attire for this climate and far more in keeping with the environment than the gaudy range of anoraks and chav suits.
|by redneck rampage (Member 10241019) on 16-Nov-2014
To Staveley for a bite to eat at Wilf`s cafe. Too many toffee nosed plummy accents for my liking, it must be a place Lancashire people avoid. Back yam through Windermere (village) that has a plethora of supermarkets now. We are still waiting for a decision on the brewery supermarket. Pathetic.
|by veepee (Member 10294016) on 7-Nov-2014
Has anyone here ever visited S Wales? Can anyone give me any advice as to what to expect. Are the locals friendly, do they speak English and what is the currency? Also, do I need visa?
|bang bang bang bang bang
|by redneck rampage (Member 10241019) on 6-Nov-2014
If there is a more moronic way to waste money than that to which we were treated last night I would like to know what it is.
|site compromised?
|by redneck rampage (Member 10241019) on 29-Oct-2014
Keep getting some god awful russian cartoon porn clicking my desktop link to here, anyone else?
|Pete Winston accused of ripping charity banner down
|by WayneRoss (Member 10250384) on 28-Oct-2014
Whats all this about Peter Winstan supposedly admitting ripping down a charity banner for a do at the sports club raising money for disabled kids?! Apparently he told the organisers it's against some sort of byelaw, but what's it got to do with him? He took it down to the tip. The banner cost the family organising it £50, they can't get it back now
|market day
|by redneck rampage (Member 10241019) on 24-Oct-2014
Quote. Had a ride up to Kendal to see how busy, or otherwise, their shopping centre is. They have a proliferation ( good word?) of Charity Shops and lots of empty units. Their Open Market is as dire as ours here in Ulverston, so something MUST be done to counteract such decline.Unquote.
This is a quote off ralphies blog. The question I ask is must it? people vote with their feet, no one uses
the open market and the stalls don`t come any more. Or is it really that simple? is it a consequence of parking restrictions or parking charges or something else?... more >>
|by veepee (Member 10294016) on 19-Oct-2014
Quite be-fitting to this day of the week I woke up this morning to find that I actually know Jack Shit after all!
|Shops which don't deserve your custom..
|by veepee (Member 10294016) on 11-Oct-2014
Let me start the ball rolling with Fulwood Convenience Store, 214 Watling St Rd. Preston - a popular area for parking on match days. Park outside, go in, buy produce, come out, go into the Chinese next door, come back to your car and lo and behold A PARKING TICKET for £50. Nice way to treat customers. Use it at your peril!
|Village Idiot Required
|by veepee (Member 10294016) on 10-Oct-2014
I wonder how many people would apply for the job if the position ever became advertised?
|john barrow cottage
|by redneck rampage (Member 10241019) on 9-Oct-2014
Sell it, with the proviso that the buyer returns it to a dwelling. A blue plaque on the wall is all it needs.
|Lightburn Teacher
|by Scum (Member 10233909) on 7-Oct-2014
Can't remember the name of a teacher at Lightburn, late 60s. Fat little cunt with a big beer belly, glasses, tash and curly grey hair. Who the fuck was he, names on tip of me tongue.
|by Canal Dweller (Member 10295701) on 6-Oct-2014
Just heard to blokes in suits saying If it gets built it's going to be a M&S Food store. That's why Robinsons didn't name who it was. Makes Bloody Booths look cheap that place.
|by zap (Member 10216554) on 5-Oct-2014
Just returned from a local hostelry where most of the under 25s were eating like disabled pigs.seems to be an overwhelming desire to hold the fork a l'americain whilst trying to shovel into ever open gob with knife. Fuckin elbows armpits and food everywhere. The manners of arabs goats......
|is this dellow??
|by ulverstonian (Member 10191731) on 2-Oct-2014
Cumbria police concerned for missing man, 70
Last updated at 22:20, Thursday, 02 October 2014
ULVERSTON and South Lakes police are concerned for the welfare of a missing 70-year-
old man.... more >>
Police have not disclosed the man's name, but described him as white, 5ft 8ins tall, of medium to stocky build, with balding grey hair and a grey beard.
He has a tanned complexion, brown eyes and wears spectacles.
He was last seen late on Wednesday night and was wearing a brown tweed jacket, a dark brown rain coat, a red and white checked shirt, dark trousers and black leather shoes
Police said they are looking for a silver Skoda Fabia, with the registration plate KR53 WNF, in connection with the man.
They are asking any B&Bs, hotels, public houses and residents in particularly rural areas to check their car parks and surrounding areas.
Anyone who sees the man is asked to call Cumbria Police on 101 and quote log no.0242 of 2 October.
|Rotten apples...
|by WiseOldDave (Member 10213768) on 27-Sep-2014
I could hardly contain myself as I arose this sunny morn! I harried to festoon myself in all manner of varieties of good English apples and hot footed to the village, thereto to conjoin in the festivities and celebrations of our glorious fruit! Fully expecting duck appling, toffee apples, dwile flonking, wassailing, Morris men and much much more, I was sorely aggrieved on my arrival at the Market
square.....fuck all! Nothing, zilch, nada!!...Devastatingly disappointed! Was it a secret? Known only to KUS and their acolytes?... more >>
|Man the barricades ......
|by early doors (Member 10235862) on 26-Sep-2014
........Sainsburys are coming to Ulverston by stealth. They are not allowed to build a store but the sneaky bastards are bringing stuff in by the vanload. All you need to do is order on-line ! Can't wait to see one of their vans delivering to a certain address in Fountain St. !!!
|by Cloud (Member 10266536) on 21-Sep-2014
There it goes again! Shut and open, shut and open, shut and open
Will anyone who actually knows how to run a pub eventually own it, I wonder? (More likely it'll get knocked down)
To be fair, the tenants usually care and try their best, but it sounds like the company that owns it are complete numptys and won't suppo
rt it.... more >>
Had to laugh at their Facebook post though - upon closing their final "Fuck You" was to slate the entire Croftlands community for not supporting it. Because we all have a DUTY to support it, no matter how shit it is!
|by early doors (Member 10235862) on 15-Sep-2014
Greggs - the home of greasy pasties - have rejigged their 'store' and put in seats and tables . Where's KUS when you need them ? this will lead to closure of at least one of the special town's caffs won't it ? No wait a minute ,the average Greggs customer wouldn't eat at a table init ?
|Special Ale
|by veepee (Member 10294016) on 14-Sep-2014
Does anyone know if I can still get a pint of special 'effin' ale in town? When last in the Brads many years ago a bloke asked me if I'd spilt his effin pint. I always thought that I might return to try one someday.
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November 26, 2014
A local New York Giants player says winning the Super Bowl is something you can only dream of.
Rich Seubert was welcomed home to Rozellville today with the unveiling of 4 signs that will be placed on the outskirts of town. They say Rozellville is the proud home of the NFL player and Super Bowl Champion.
Seubert said, "People told me I was too small. That I wouldn't pick it up. If you stop believing if you stop trying you wont do it, but if you keep on going and give it all anything is possible. Just look at myself - who would've thought that a little kid from Rozellville, WI would've won the Super Bowl."
Now that Seubert has achieved one of the biggest accomplishments, he's working on raising $1 million to be donated in the name of his grandmother for hear research to the Marshfield Clinic.
His says his grandmother has been an inspiration to him, especially since she received a heart transplant 20 years ago. Celine Seubert says even though he is a big football star, "He is still just Richie."
One event is the Rich Seubert Celebrity Trap Shoot, Saturday April 5, at Eau Claire Rod and Gun Club, Eau Claire. He says he plans on bring some of his teammates from the New York Giants to help out.
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Managing Technology Change:
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T-AIMD-96-25: Published: Dec 7, 1995. Publicly Released: Dec 7, 1995.
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GAO discussed how the U.S. Senate can make the best use of information technology to further its mission. GAO noted that: (1) although the Senate is unique, it could learn from other organizations' information technology experiences; (2) the Senate has opportunities to improve its services to constituents, public accessibility, legislative processes, and committee and office operations; (3) a strategic information management process is necessary for information technology to achieve performance improvements; and (4) the Senate must develop an organizational strategy to achieve meaningful improvements in its operations and outcomes and identify information management practices that promote the efficient use of information resources.
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Cloud Computing:Additional Opportunities and Savings Need to Be PursuedGAO-14-753: Published: Sep 25, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 25, 2014.
Data Center Consolidation:Reporting Can Be Improved to Reflect Substantial Planned SavingsGAO-14-713: Published: Sep 25, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 25, 2014.
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Federal Software Licenses:Most Agencies Have Reported Planned Actions to Address Our Prior Recommendations on Software License ManagementGAO-14-835R: Published: Sep 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2014.
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Information Technology:Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve Efficiency and EffectivenessGAO-14-671T: Published: Jun 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 10, 2014.
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Federal Software Licenses:Better Management Needed to Achieve Significant Savings Government-WideGAO-14-413: Published: May 22, 2014. Publicly Released: May 22, 2014.
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Information Technology:Implementing Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve the Management of InvestmentsGAO-14-596T: Published: May 8, 2014. Publicly Released: May 8, 2014.
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Former Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer retired at 32 to live in Idaho and play handball, and years later, he's seen attending his school's football game. Plummer was rooting on his Sun Devils this past weekend looking worse for wear. Jake the Snake was an ASU legend, and probably felt pretty high about being there.-TO
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Lorin Maazel conducts Verdi and Puccini at La Scala
In the mid-1980s (just before the Riccardo Muti era began), Lorin Maazel often ruled the conductor's roost at La Scala.
After the horrors of Jagoš Marković's production of Le Nozze di Figaro in Belgrade, I was apprehensive lest Nabucco in Serbia's second city of Novi Sad on 27th October would be transplanted from 6th century BC Babylon to post-Saddam Hussein Tikrit or some bombed-out kibbutz in Beersheba.
First Toronto, then Houston and now San Francisco, the third stop of a new production of Puccini's La bohème by Canadian born, British nurtured theater director John Caird.
Every once in a while Los Angeles Opera presents an important recital in the three thousand seat Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
This third revival of Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore needed a bit of a pep up to get moving but once it had been given a shot of 'medicinal' tincture things spiced up nicely.
Founded in 1996, Samling describes itself as a charity which 'inspires musical excellence in young people'.
The good news is that you don't have to go all the way to Pesaro for great Rossini.
Maître à danser: William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican, London, presented a defining moment in Rameau performance practice, choreographed with a team of dancers.
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In the mid-1980s (just before the Riccardo Muti era began), Lorin Maazel often ruled the conductor's roost at La Scala.
His meticulous technique produces a big, smooth sound, with the occasional odd tempo or excessively highlighted detail to keep things interesting, or at least mildy so. At home in the opera house, he manages to maintain his conductor's profile and yet support the singers. Your reviewer couldn't begin to define Maazel's interpretation of Verdi's Aida or Puccini's Madama Butterfly, but both scores are exceedingly well-played in these performances, which return to the DVD format on the ArtHaus Musik label.
The two productions do make for an interesting contrast. Luca Ronconi directed the 1986 Aida, which boasts gi-normous sets by Mauro Pagano and costumes (also gi-normous in the case of Luciano Pavarotti's Radames) by Vera Marzot. With all the subtlety of a Cecil B. De Mille technicolor spectacular, the essentially intimate story of love and betrayal that Verdi and librettist Anotnio Ghislanzoni conceived gets rolled over and squashed flat by ambulatory monuments and acres of fake stone and boulders (which also produce much audible stage noise whem moved). The Madama Butterfly, also from 1986, goes for a restrained approach, employing an authentic Japanese aesthetic of spare beauty. In the opening supers, dressed as Ninjas, construct the home Pinkerton and Cio-cio-san will briefly share; the wide space and raked rock garden effect of act one even suggest a precursor to Robert Wilson's production, many years in the future. This handsome authenticity springs from the work of director Keita Asari and set designer Ichiro Takada, with costumes by the renowned Hanae Mori. Their staging manages an effective balance between stylization and realism, until the final image, an audacious but not entirely effective switch to a purely decorative portrayal - Butterfly's suicide consists of her opening a white fan which turns blood-red, as supers unroll a red cloth beneath her.
Fans of grand opera spectacle can revel in the tacky pleasures of the Ronconi Aida, as cans fans of, frankly, tackiness. The ballets will provoke tittering in many, whether due to the female acolytes of Ptah appearing in blue caftans and turbans for a sort of morning stretching exercise, or the mostly nude bevy of pre-pubescent youth who bathe, for no clear reason, in the apartment of Amneris. Then there is the monumental splendor of Pavarotti as Radames, especially impressive as he stands astride a wheeled platform for the triumphal march, pulled by a very hard-working group of supers. Director Ronconi seems to have spent most of his time managing the movements of the singers so that they don't get lost in the crowds or squashed by some errant, enormous prop. As Aida, Maria Chiara spends most of the performance with her arms awkwardly outstretched beseechingly. Ghena Dimitrova couldn't be a more nefarious Amneris if she had a thin moustache scribbled on her upper lip. And Pavarotti is Pavarotti. The La Scala audience eats all this up, and why shouldn't they, as the singing of the principals actually has much to offer. Pavarotti sings a beautiful Radames, lighter than many of his predecessors in the role but authoritative enough. Of course, some viewers may be distracted not only by his girth but also by his fascinating eyebrows, one of which continually rides higher than the other. Maria Chiara's soprano may lack an individual profile, but she gives a strong, consistent reading of a difficult role. With her Afro and numerous jangly bracelets, she looks as if she is hosting a 1980s Halloween party - "Walk Like an Egyptian." Although Dimitrova doesn't sing with any more subtlety than she acts, when it comes to her big scene in act four, she delivers some excitement. The lower voices provide firm support, with Paata Burchuladze, near the beginning of his career, quite strong as the King, and Juan Pons an unlikely but impressive father to Chiara's Aida. The great Nicolai Ghiaurov takes on Ramfis, and his voice shows his veteran status in ways both commendable (technique) and not so commendable (tone).
As a piece of dramatic music theater, Asari's Madama Butterfly has it all over the Ronconi Aida. The portrayals are sharper, the visual element fresher, the impact stronger. The singing, however, doesn't quite reach the same high level. A specialist of those years as Cio-Cio-san, Yasuko Hayashi has a surprisingly strong voice, though far from a beautiful one. She is a Butterfly who actually does better in the big moments at the end of the opera than she does with "Un bel di." There isn't much chemistry between her and her Pinkerton, Peter Dvorsky. He has a beefy sound, which is good enough for the strutting peacock of his early scenes, though not as pleasant in the long love duet or "Addio, fiorito asil." Giorgio Zancanaro is a negligible Sharpless, while the effectiveness of an Asian Suzuki (a fine Hak-Nam Kim) is somewhat dimmed by having Italians play Goro and Yamadori (respectively, Ernesto Gavazzi and Arturo Testa).
The Aida set comes with a lugubrious "Making of" documentary, with a smattering of interesting background spread thin among 45 minutes of talking heads limiting themselves to mostly predictable and/or inane comments. It might have been nice to have some more information on the Asari/Takada/Mori Butterfly, but none is provided. Fans of Maazel, or mid-1980s La Scala productions, will enjoy the Aida, while the Butterfly can stand on its own, if without any claims to vocal splendors.
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This Post WWII stone house was hand-hewn by its original owner who spent 10 years digging through the rocks on the property's quarry. Updated at the beginning of 2014, this working farm is within a half-day's journey to numerous Upper Cumberland attractions, trails, and waterfalls. If guests prefer access to the urban, a Nashville, Knoxville or Chattanooga trip is with an hour-half journey. Numerous golf courses are a stone's throw as well. Guests are welcome to walk the trails on the property or cycle down Brotherton Mountain.
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149 years ago — or, perhaps more appropriately, seven score and nine years ago today — President Abraham Lincoln dedicated the Soldiers' National Cemetery in a speech that has since become known as the Gettysburg Address. Though Lincoln did not headline the dedication of Gettysburg, his brief remarks were so beautifully stated that the event's featured speaker, celebrated orator Edward Everett, wrote Lincoln the following day and said, "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Lincoln's speech, which commemorates the Civil War's casualties and defends the justness of their cause, is now commonly held up as one of the greatest speeches in the English language. Here, listen to the Gettysburg Address, recited by Americans including Ken Burns, Sam Waterston, Matthew Broderick, and Medal of Honor recipient Paul. W. Bucha:
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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