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Retrofit insulation in attic slanted roof section with no soffit vents
I have an 1850s 1 and 1/2 story New England farm house. The upstairs bedrooms all have a partially slanted ceiling that is uninsulated. There are no soffit vents and I want to just fill the whole slanted part with insulation. Will that be a problem? Also I did lay in loose cellulose insulation on the flat part of the attic on top of plastic sheeting. Was that wrong to put the plastic down first?
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1. What is your location or climate?
2. It is possible to insulate a sloped ceiling without providing a vent channel. This is best done with closed-cell spray polyurethane foam, however.
3. Remember to put enough insulation in your ceiling to meet minimum code requirements. This varies according to your local code and your climate zone. Some rafters aren't deep enough to accommodate enough insulation, so other approaches may be necessary.
4. The answer to your question about the polyethylene vapor barrier depends on your climate. In most cases, however, as long as you live in a climate with a significant heating season, flat attic insulation installed over poly should not be a problem. It's important, however, to address air leaks through your ceiling.
Posted May 31, 2010 7:58 AM ET
Most cellulose manufacturers advise against using a poly vapor barrier with cellulose and some will void their warranty if it's used.
Cellulose works best when it can breathe, since it's excellent at absorbing and releasing excess humidity. A major drawback to poly in the attic flat is that, in the event of a roof leak, the water would pool on the plastic, soaking the cellulose and framing, and delaying evidence of the leak until possible moisture damage is done.
Posted May 31, 2010 10:44 AM ET
I am in Maine, that is a good point on the water/cellulose thing. I had a new roof put on 5 years ago, tore off old wood shingle roofing (original?) with 2 layers of asphalt, I should have insulated then but didn't think of it ! Nor did the roofer. He had to put on 3/4plywood over the old roof planks because it was funky in sections, all the joists were good.
Posted May 31, 2010 12:10 PM ET
I had a new roof put on 5 years ago...I should have insulated then but didn't think of it ! Nor did the roofer.
This is a good example of the problem of specialization in the building trades (as in most things). A specialist roofer may be able to replace a roof more quickly and perhaps at less cost than a generalist builder, but if the big picture isn't considered then the job becomes "penny wise but pound foolish".
Posted May 31, 2010 2:29 PM ET
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"If every time someone was accused and there were allegations, [if] they were required to stop their life, that wouldn't be a good thing. That could be their choice, but they shouldn't be forced to [stop]."
Stern, in New York attending the league's rookie transition program, told the newspaper that the Bryant case "certainly hasn't escaped our notice, is what I would say," but that for the NBA, "our preparations are purely [administrative], having to do with security and public relations, communications access. Everything else is business as usual.
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"While many of my pro friends are eternally grateful for their careers and for these generous invites, some of the shows are taking advantage of creators — ALL levels of creators — and not following through with what's promised," Murphy wrote. "Believe me, I love traveling and I want to visit all my readers in every country I can, but there's nothing worse than getting to the 'convention reserved' hotel room and finding out you wasted your money staying in some foreign ghetto."
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Virtually bug-free e-mail services are available actually from several places. Many of these service providers are big names, known by many, especially Internet users. The difference between the different e-mail providers lies in several things. These differences include but are not limited to plenty storage space, effective spam filtering, a fast user-friendly interface, desktop e-mail program access and much more.
Currently in the United States and the rest of the world, the best offer for free e-mail comes from Gmail. Gmail is part of the Google business enterprise (the search engine most of us know) and offers the most features and storage space for their users for free. With virtually unlimited storage capacity for e-mails, a user never has to delete any e-mails of the server and can collect all the messages. Gmail offers a simple user-friendly interface, which also includes an excellent search function that lets a user find messages instantly and precisely. Another great feature of gmail is the POP and IMAP access features. This gives the user the possibility to download the e-mail from the server with any e-mail program that the user generally would use. The program can then also automatically download the e-mails into the program ready for the user to read. Gmail is funded by displaying advertising next to the e-mails read.
Next on the worldwide list would be GMX, a German provider that offers many of the features gmail offers, but with limited storage space. This program also has the POP feature and can therefore be used in conjunction with any of the common available PC e-mail programs. Right after gmail it is one of the most reliable e-mail services, but unfortunately they discontinued the English user face and only offer a German version now.
Thereafter on the top free e-mail services providers is AIM Mail. It is the free web-based service from AOL. Like gmail it offers virtually unlimited online storage, excellent spam protection and a simple, easy to use interface. Unfortunately, AIM Mail lacks proper productivity, such things as labels, smart folders and message threading is not available. AIM Mail also offers a very functional POP and IMAP access.
Yahoo! Mail would be the next e-mail service that should be mentioned on the list of the top virtually bug-free services on the Internet. Yahoo also offers virtually unlimited storage space for e-mails and a few other nice features, such as Short message services for texting to friends and family, instant-messaging features for the internet and up to date news feeds. What Yahoo! mail lacks is a really good spam filter. It offers a spam filter, but it is not effective enough. Also nice to have would be labeling options as well as smart folders. The Yahoo! Interface is just as easy and user-friendly as the other providers and fairly reliable.
To complete the list we need to mention the following three services, Inbox.com, FastMail and Hotmail. Inbox.com offers e-mail users 5 GB of free space to store e-mail online. Despite the limited space, this service is outstanding due to its high-speed accessibility. Web access and POP access are very fast and even the search functions are faster than with most other services on the market. The drawbacks of Inbox.com are the missing IMAP access, only POP is provided and the organizing of mail is slightly unorganized due to missing smartfolder technology.
FastMail on the other hand offers users only IMAP. It has many useful features and has one of the best web-based e-mail interfaces. It also generally displays fewer ads then the other services do.
And lastly, Live Hotmail should be mentioned here, since most PC users that have a Windows based operating system will have heard of hotmail. This program offers 5 GB of storage for e-mails online. It has a fast search option, a solid security feature and the interface is as easy as the ones users are used to on their desktop. Even though security is great, the spam filter is not quite as effective as some of the other e-mail providers. Also missing with this provider is the POP and IMAP access as well as smartfolders and other great e-mail organizing features.
Definition of copyright infringement Protect Yourself: Know the Definition of Copyright Infringement As you?re creating something, you may wonder what copyright infringement actually is. It?s necessary, if you?re creating a work ? albeit written, musical, videos, software or some other form ? that you know the definition of copyright infringement. This issue is very complicated, and not very easily spelled out in plain English, so please make sure that if you?re ever unsure to contact a copyright lawyer immediately to ensure you?re using copyrights in a legal method appropriate to the medium. As I mentioned earlier, a definition of copyright infringement is difficult, at best. Copyright infringement is defined by the jurisdiction ? the United States of America has different copyright laws than the United Kingdom, or Australia, or Russia, or even China. Because of this fact, you should first, before anything else, check the laws in your jurisdiction (country, city & province) before using something that isn?t in the public domain. For our definition of copyright infringement, the public domain is a place where works are that aren?t copyright-able. Works that aren?t copyright-able include ideas, works that aren?t eligible (150 years-old documents, or older ? think Beethoven and Frankenstein), data that isn?t categorized in a creative way (this could be a database, such as a phone book or other publicly-accessible data), or items that the owners have specified creative commons copyrights. As you can see, copyright law is rather complicated. Wikipedia.org gives us the definition of copyright infringement as: ?Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is protected by intellectual property rights law particularly the copyright in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. The slang term bootleg (derived from the use of the shank of a boot for the purposes of smuggling) is often used to describe illicitly copied material.? Our definition of copyright infringement includes the works of creative commons. Creative commons is an organization that allows for the copyright author to determine the uses available for people who want to use their works ? for such items as for audio, images, video, text, educational materials, and software. It allows for the copyright owner to allow people to use their works for non-commercial, commercial, no derivatives, share alike, or just by giving attribution. Creative Commons is a license granted by the copyright holder, and can be used in both online (electronic internet) works and offline works. There are many places you can go to get a definition of copyright infringement. The most reliable definition of copyright infringement would be from your local copyright lawyer ? they will know exactly what in your jurisdiction is legal or not, and how you can use other peoples? works or protect your own. The real definition of copyright infringement comes from your jurisdictions statutes. In the United States of America, our jurisdiction?s copyright laws are contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, §501 - §513. You can also find a definition of copyright infringement through such organizations such as the European Union or World Trade Organizations. While s legal country or organizational definition of copyright infringement is hard for the layperson to understand, a copyright lawyer will help you to figure out what it is that your work needs to be protected against copyright infringement, or to protect yourself if you intend to use the work of another writer, director, or musician. Web Hosting - Why Backups Are Essential One thing most web site owners have little time for is... anything! Anything other than focusing on their site content and the business or service it supports and the information it provides, that is. That means that administration often suffers, as it frequently must. There's only so much time in the day. But the one thing that you should never let slide are backups. They are like insurance. You rarely need it (you hope), but when you do you need it very badly. Performing regular backups - and testing them - doesn't have to be a nightmare. A little bit of forethought and effort and they can be automated to a high degree. And, they should be tested from time to time. Even when a backup appears to have gone without a hitch, the only way to know whether it's of any value is to attempt to restore the information. If it can't be restored, the backup is worthless. Even when the web hosting company provides the service, there is still some planning involved for the site owner. Hosting companies often rely on one or both of two methods. They backup everything (called a full backup), then backup anything which has changed since the last full backup (called an incremental backup). Of special interest are any configuration files that have been tailored. If you've modified the default installation of a software package, you want to be able to recapture or reproduce those changes without starting from scratch. Network configuration files, modifications to basic HTML files, CSS style sheets and others fall into the same category. If you have XML files, databases, spreadsheets or other files that carry product or subscriber information - about items purchased, for example, or people who signed up for a newsletter - those should get special attention, too. That's the lifeblood of your business or service. Lose them and you must start over. That can break your site permanently. It should go without saying that all HTML and related web site files that comprise visible pages should be backed up regularly. It isn't necessary to record every trivial change, but you can tailor backup software to exclude files or folders. Usually they're so small it isn't worth the trouble. But in some cases those small changes can add up in scenarios where there are many thousands of them. Here again, the backups are worthless if they can't be used. Even if the hosting company charges for doing so, it's worthwhile to test once or twice a year at least to ensure the data can be restored. That's especially true of database backups, which often involve special software and routines. Database files have a special structure and the information is related in certain ways that require backups be done differently. Developing a backup strategy can be straightforward. Start simply and review your plan from time to time, modifying it as your site changes and grows. But don't neglect the subject entirely. The day will come when a hard drive fails, or you get hacked or attacked by a virus, or you accidentally delete something important. When that day comes, the few minutes or hours you spent developing and executing a backup plan will have saved you days or weeks of effort. Ghost Writer: Who Uses Them and Why (ghost writer) A ghost writer is someone who is hired to write for another person under their name. In most cases ghostwriters do the work while the hiring person gets the credit. The use of a ghost writer is huge business. People in virtually every aspect of life could use a ghost writer. A ghost writer will need the ability to become the person they are writing for. The writer has to be able to use their mannerisms, their words, and their way of speaking. The writing must read like they are coming from the person themselves. Being a ghost writer means that you give absolutely all rights to the credited author. You will need to decide if it is worth it for someone else to take credit for your work. There will be confidentiality clauses in your ghost writing contracts. They will state something to the effect of legal action will be against you if the writing is reproduced by you in any way shape or form. There are many reasons why a person would use a ghost writer. Celebrities and public figures use ghost writers to write their biographies and memoirs. Ghost writers are hired to make celebrities sound as interesting and compelling as possible. Their purpose is to pen the stories into best selling books. Motivational speakers may use ghost writers to write self help books. Just because they are great speakers does not mean they can pen the words on paper. Or they just may simply not have the time. There are many types of ghost writing opportunities available. Non fiction writing would be your biographies, autobiographies, how to books, and memoirs. A ghost writer?s role in non fiction could range from the very minimal to the most complex. They may be given an almost complete manuscript and asked to add some finishing touches. Or they may have to start at the bottom collecting research and following the project through until publication. Accomplished fiction writers may use ghost writers to carry on a series of books after the author has passed or to carry out the series while they work on new ventures. The Author may have an established pen name that they use a ghost writer for while they write under the real name. Ghost writers are often used for scripts and screen plays. They are hired to finish and polish the writings of the authors. High school and college students will hire ghost writers to write their entrance essays, thesis, and term papers. Although this may seem unethical, it is legal. The writing and selling of the paper is perfectly legal. It is when the student turns the paper in as his or her own writing that it turns into an illegal action. The political venue for ghost writers is to correspond to the letters that they receive. Official will review the letters before being sent. A political speech writer is often considered a ghost writer. But others will argue this since it is public knowledge that political officials do not write their own speeches. In order to succeed as a ghost writer you must have excellent writing skills and often be able to take on the personality of the credited author. 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Expression of cytochromes P450 and glutathione S-transferases in human prostate, and the potential for activation of heterocyclic amine carcinogens via acetyl-coA-, PAPS- and ATP-dependent pathways
Article first published online: 4 MAY 2005
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21152
Copyright © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Di Paolo, O. A., Teitel, C. H., Nowell, S., Coles, B. F. and Kadlubar, F. F. (2005), Expression of cytochromes P450 and glutathione S-transferases in human prostate, and the potential for activation of heterocyclic amine carcinogens via acetyl-coA-, PAPS- and ATP-dependent pathways. Int. J. Cancer, 117: 8–13. doi: 10.1002/ijc.21152
Publication History
- Issue published online: 2 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 4 MAY 2005
- Manuscript Accepted: 4 FEB 2005
- Manuscript Received: 22 OCT 2004
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- U.S. National Cancer Institute
- National Center for Toxicological Research
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- N-acetyltransferase;
- carcinogen;
- cytochrome P450;
- DNA-adducts;
- glutathione S-transferase;
- heterocyclic amines;
- metabolism;
- PhIP;
- prostate
Dietary factors appear to be involved in the high incidence of prostate cancer in "Westernized" countries, implicating dietary carcinogens such as heterocyclic amines (HAs) in the initiation of prostate carcinogenesis. We examined 24 human prostate samples with respect to their potential for activation and detoxification of HAs and the presence of DNA adducts formed in vivo. Cytochromes P450 1B1, 3A4 and 3A5 were expressed at low levels (<0.1–6.2 pmol/mg microsomal protein). N-Acetyltransferase (NAT) activities, using p-aminobenzoic acid (NAT1) and sulfamethazine (NAT2) as substrates, were <5–5,500 and <5–43 pmol/min/mg cytosolic protein, respectively. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) P1, M2 and M3 were expressed at 0.038–1.284, 0.005–0.126 and 0.010–0.270 μg/mg cytosolic protein, respectively; GSTM1 was expressed in all GSTM1-positive samples (0.012–0.291 μg/mg cytosolic protein); and GSTA1 was expressed at low levels (<0.01–0.11 μg/mg cytosolic protein). Binding of N-hydroxy-PhIP to DNA in vitro occurred primarily by an AcCoA-dependent process (<1–54 pmol/mg/DNA), PAPS- and ATP-dependent binding being <1–7 pmol/mg DNA. In vivo, putative PhIP- or 4-aminobiphenyl-DNA adducts were found in 4 samples (0.4–0.8 adducts/108 bases); putative hydrophobic adducts were found in 6 samples (8–64 adducts/108 bases). Thus, the prostate appears to have low potential for N-hydroxylation of HAs but greater potential for activation of N-hydroxy HAs to genotoxic N-acetoxy esters. The prostate has potential for GSTP1-dependent detoxification of ATP-activated N-hydroxy-PhIP but little potential for detoxification of N-acetoxy-PhIP by GSTA1. However, there were no significant correlations between expression/activities and DNA adducts formed in vitro or in vivo, DNA adducts in vivo possibly reflecting carcinogen exposure. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


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For nine months it had been in obvious distress; in just the previous three days its shares had fallen $30. A billionaire from outside the place - the sort of investor who has the power to know as much as it is possible for an investor to know about a Wall Street firm - was long of the stock at $107 a share.
Three days earlier, on theStreet.com, Jim Cramer listed Bear Stearns common stock as a "buy" at $62. On his CNBC programme that day, he showed his viewers a chart of Bear Stearns' stock price and hollered: "Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out of Bear."
Over that weekend - days when the markets were closed and there was no material news about the company - Bear Stearns was believed to be worth $2 a share, so long as the Federal Reserve assumed the downside risk of almost $30 billion of its mortgage securities.
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon obviously thought it was worth more than that, or he wouldn't have bought it. How much more is hard to say but the number now being floated, $10 a share, appears to sound about right even to the sellers.
TheStreet.com quickly removed Cramer's 11 March "buy" recommendation from its page devoted to Bear Stearns. And Cramer went back on CNBC to explain that he never intended for anyone to go and actually buy shares in Bear Stearns - only that, if they happen to bank with Bear Stearns, they shouldn't worry about losing their money (a public service to all those viewers of Cramer's Mad Money TV show who use Bear Stearns as a bank).
All of this raises an obvious question: if the market got the value of Bear Stearns so wrong, how can it possibly believe it knows even the approximate value of any Wall Street firm? And if it doesn't, how can any responsible investor buy shares in a big Wall Street firm? At what point does the purchase of such shares cease to be intelligent investing, and become the crudest sort of gambling?
There is, of course, a reason that the market doesn't understand Wall Street firms: the people who run Wall Street firms, and who convey news of their inner workings to the outside world, don't understand them either.
Jimmy Cayne plays bridge and Stan O'Neal golfs while their firms collapse, not because they don't care that their firms are collapsing, but because they don't know their firms are collapsing. Across Wall Street, CEOs have made this little leap of faith about the manner in which their traders are making money, because they don't fully understand what their traders are doing.
Late last November, in a superb account of the fall of Citigroup chief executive Charles Prince, Carol Loomis of Fortune magazine revealed that Prince resigned after he was informed of the consequences of liquidity puts - options that allowed buyers of complex and presumably safe mortgage securities to hand them back to Citi-group at par if they became hard to finance.
Liquidity puts were about to make Citigroup the new owner of $25 billion of crappy mortgage securities at par, cost Prince his job, and put the company into the hands of Robert Rubin.
Rubin is an extremely smart man with keen instincts of self-preservation, and he sat closer to Prince than anyone else at Citigroup. Rubin said he had never heard of liquidity puts.
To both their investors and their bosses, Wall Street firms have become shockingly opaque. But the problem isn't new. It dates back at least to the early 1980s when one firm, Salomon Brothers, suddenly began to make more money than all the other firms combined. (Look at the numbers: They're incredible.)
The profits came from financial innovation - mainly in mortgage securities and interest-rate arbitrage. But its CEO, John Gutfreund, had only a vague idea what the bright young things dreaming up clever new securities were doing. Some of it was very smart, some of it was not so smart, but all of it was beyond his capacity to understand.
Ever since then, when extremely smart people have found extremely complicated ways to make huge sums of money, the typical Wall Street boss has seldom bothered to fully understand the matter, to challenge, question and argue. This isn't because Wall Street CEOs are lazy, or stupid. It's because they are trapped. A Wall Street CEO can't interfere with the new new thing on Wall Street because the new new thing is the profit centre, and the people who create it are mobile.
Anything he does to slow them down increases the risk that his most lucrative employees will quit and join another big firm, or start their own hedge fund. He isn't a boss in the conventional sense. He's a hostage of his cleverest employees. At this point you have to at least wonder if Wall Street firms should be public companies. Their complexity renders them inherently opaque. Investors are right now waking up to this fact: They will demand to be paid for opacity, and also for volatility.
The firms have been revealed to be so treacherous in bad times that the only way they survive as public companies is to make outrageously huge sums in good times. That is, as public companies, to be economically viable they are likely to be socially problematic. If they aren't about to go under, they are making so much money that everyone else hates them. Something is about to give.
Michael Lewis is the author of Liar's Poker and The Blind Side, What Wall Street's CEOs Don't Know Can Kill You. This article appears courtesy of Bloomberg News.
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In her native England, singer-songwriter Laura Marling, who just turned 21 in February, has often been described as an old soul, wise beyond her years. Her work is indeed preternaturally mature in its worldview and self-assured in its execution, but -- as her third album and Ribbon Music debut attests -- it's equally informed by a youthful sort of fearlessness. On A Creature I Don't Know, Marling is forthright about her emotions, frank about her desires, and she's not above having a bit of fun before the going gets too rocky. For example, the album's final track, "All My Rage," has a purposely misleading title: it's an exorcism, a celebration, dancing away accumulated trouble on the disc's liveliest arrangement, a disarmingly upbeat climax to an engrossingly candid journey
While so many artists of any age attempt to locate their inner child, Marling, with a sometime steely gaze, measures the prerogatives of youth against the looming realities of adulthood â€" the spectre of mortality, the betrayals of love, the balm of sex, the yearning for companionship, the need for independence. Of late, England has produced some impressively sophisticated young pop artists like Adele, James Blake and the XX, but the folk-oriented Marling remains in a class of her own. As the Times Of London recently posited, "Who else is making music as ambitious, as haunting, as centuries-straddling, as thought-provoking and artistically tenacious as this? And the answer is: nobody. No, really. Not a soul."
At 24, Willy Mason already sounds like a withered man. Accompanied by a musical-saw player and members of his family on stage. Mason has recorded for the label owned by indie-rock icon Conor Oberst - Team Love. It's a perfect fit, given that his songs recall the downer jams of Neil Young and Bright Eyes. Growing up on the folk music of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, Mason writes music with hints of both, but he modernizes it with elements of '90s rock.
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'Pissed beyond belief': Ribeiro's wife unhappy as husband gets set to enter free agency
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'He's our backbone': Rangers' Lundqvist perfect in Game 7 victory over Capitals
May 14, 2013, 12:09 AM EST
That's 120 minutes of shutout hockey.
Caps' Backstrom: We need to learn how to play in the playoffs
May 13, 2013, 11:51 PM EST
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Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf suffered a lower-body injury and won't return to Saturday's game against the Phoenix Coyotes.
Update: Getzlaf's X-ray came up negative and the Ducks say that he's day-to-day. That being said, he might not play on Sunday just to play it safe, the OC Register's Eric Stephens reports.
The team announced he's being held out of the rest of that contest for "precautionary reasons." Various observers believe that Getzlaf, 28, suffered the injury blocking a shot.
Getzlaf is on the best point-per-game pace (1.21, based on 52 points in 43 games played before tonight) of his NHL career as he gears up for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Assuming this injury isn't a big problem, of course.
Goalie nods: Blues go with Elliott after odd incident in Vancouver
Mar 5, 2015, 2:12 PM EST
News and notes from around the crease…
Edler, Burrows, and Kassian expected back for Canucks, who 'better be' ready for Coyotes
Mar 5, 2015, 2:05 PM EST
"We only have 19 games left and we have to be winning and getting points."
Coyotes co-owner thinks 'a real championship team' could emerge in 2-3 years
Mar 5, 2015, 1:30 PM EST
Aggressive timeline.
With Giordano, Glencross gone, Flames name Hudler and Wideman alternate captains
Mar 5, 2015, 1:20 PM EST
Calgary takes on Boston tonight at TD Garden.
Video: Zidlicky's first goal with Detroit gives Red Wings OT win over Rangers
Mar 4, 2015, 11:06 PM EST
What better way to make an impression on new teammates.


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Frank Taylor works as a senior front-end developer at Tahzoo, a customer experience agency offering research and content strategy solutions to Fortune 500 companies. In his role, Taylor says, "I work with both internal and external customers to provide front-end architectural guidance on SDL [Simple DirectMedia Layer, a cross-platform software development library]."
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Several scholarly publishing houses have confirmed that they are backing a comprehensive model for the world of individual, institutional, and 'big deal' customers. The Customer Insight Framework, published by data integration firm DataSalon, has been endorsed by the American Institute of Physics, BMJ Group, IOP Publishing, Oxford University Press, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The framework presents a concise set of 12 guiding principles designed to define a shared roadmap towards the end goal of a complete and fully-integrated customer view. According to DataSalon, such a model provides a foundation for sales and marketing activities, including effective up-selling and cross-selling, targeted campaigns to drive renewals, article submissions and email signups, and accurate analysis of market shareand key prospects.


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UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world
This Feb. 20, 2008 photo provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows insects for sale at a market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday, May 13, 2013, hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets. A 200-page report, released at a news conference at the U.N. agency's Rome headquarters, says 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diets with insects, which are high in protein and minerals, and have environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Arnold Van Huis, FAO, ho)


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US 4115355 A Abstract A phenol derivative of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R and R' are a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and X and Y, which may be identical or different, each represent a cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl group. The above phenol derivatives are useful as additives for inhibiting the deterioration of various degradable substances such as polymeric substances, or oily substances.
Claims(8) 1. A stabilized composition of a degradable oily or polymeric substance comprising an oily or polymeric degradable substance and an amount effective for inhibiting the deterioration of the degradable substance of 2,2'-methylene-bis(4-methyl-cyclopentyl phenol) as an active ingredient.
2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the active ingredient is 2,2'-methylene bis(4-methyl-6-cyclopentyl phenol).
3. The composition of claim 1 wherein the amount of the active ingredient is from 0.005 to 5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the degradable substance.
4. The composition of claim 1 wherein the amount of the active ingredient is from 0.01 to 2 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the degradable substance.
5. The composition of claim 2 wherein the amount of the active ingredient is from 0.005 to 5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the degradable substance.
6. The composition of claim 2 wherein the amount of the active ingredient is from 0.01 to 2 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the degradable substance.
7. 2,2'-Methylene-bis(4-methyl-cyclopentyl phenol).
8. 2,2'-Methylene-bis(4-methyl-6 -cyclopentyl phenol).
Description This invention relates to novel phenol derivatives, and more specifically, to novel phenol derivatives useful as additives for inhibiting the deterioration of various degradable substances such as polymeric substances (e.g., plastics or rubbers), or oily substances (e.g., lubricating oils or heat transfer media). Generally, polymeric substances such as plastic or rubbers degraded by the action of oxygen, ozone, or light during processing or storage whereby they are colored, become opaque, and undergo surface cracking or deterioration in physical properties such as tensile strength. In order to prevent such undesirable degradation, various agents for inhibiting degradation have been developed. In particular, amino compounds, phenol compounds, sulfide compounds and phosphite compounds are generally used as anti-oxidants. The amine compounds have superior property of inhibiting degradation, but since they are susceptible to staining, they cannot be used in those fields which must avoid coloration. In these fields, therefore, the phenolic compounds or sulfide compounds such as 2,6-ditertiary butyl-p-cresol, 2,2'-methylene bis(4-methyl-6-tertiary butylphenol) or 4,4-thiobis(6-tertiary butyl-3-methylphenol) are usually employed as anit-oxidants. These compounds, however, do not possess sufficient ability to inhibit degradation, and suffer from the defect that when polymeric substances containing these compounds are exposed to heat for long periods of time, they are either colored or gelled. In the present application, the terms "degradation" and "deterioration" are used interchangeably. It is an object of this invention to provide novel compounds which possess better ability to inhibit degradation than the conventional phenolic anti-oxidants, and are not susceptible to staining. Another object of this invention is to provide a novel anti-degradative agent comprising the above compound as an active ingredient. Other objects of this invention will become apparent from the following description. We have found that phenol derivatives of the general formula ##STR2## wherein R and R' are a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and X and Y, which may be identical or different, each represent a cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl group, meet these objects. Specific examples of the phenol derivatives of general formula [I] are 2,2'-methylene bis(6-cyclopentylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-cyclopentylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-methyl-6-cyclopentylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-methyl-6-cyclohexylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-ethyl-6-cyclopentylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-methyl-6-cyclopentylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-cyclopentyl-6-methylphenol), 2,2'-methylene bis(4-cyclohexyl-6-methylphenol) and 2,2'-methylene bis(4-cyclopentyl-6-butylphenol). Degradation of degradative substances can be effectively inhibited by adding one or more of these phenol derivatives in an amount of 0.005 to 5 parts, preferably 0.01 to 2 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the degradable substances. For example, when the degradable substance is a natural or synthetic rubber, gel formation ascribable to oxygen and/or heat can be inhibited. When the degradable substance is a plastic article, such as polyethylene or polypropylene, an oily product such as a lubricating oil or heat transfer medium, its degradation by oxygen and/or light can be inhibited. Among the phenol derivatives expressed by formula [I], compounds in which R and R' are both methyl groups, i.e., cresol derivatives, especially p-cresol, possess the ability to inhibit degradation. In general, among the phenol derivatives of formula [I], compounds in which X and Y are both cyclopentyl groups, particularly, compounds having cyclopentyl groups adjacent to the OH group, have especially superior properties. Also, the phenol derivatives of formula [I] should preferably be those in which the methylene bond between the two benzene nuclei exits via carbon atoms that are each adjacent to a carbon atom having the OH group. That is, the phenol derivatives of formula [I] should preferably have a 2,2'-type methylene bond. Procedures of adding the phenol derivatives to degradable substances and their amounts to be added are the same as those employed in the prior art, and if desired, known anti-oxidants, ultraviolet absorbers, and color inhibitors, etc. can also be used together with these phenol derivatives. The phenol derivatives of formula [I] can be easily prepared by reacting at least one of a compound of the following formula ##STR3## wherein R" is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and Z represents a cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl group, with formaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst such as hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid or boron trifluoride. The reaction usually ends in 0.5 to 100 hours at 0� to 200� C. Since the reaction is performed stoichiometrically, about 0.5 mole of formaldehyde is ordinarily used per mole of the compound of formula [II]. In some cases, about 0.2 to 2 moles of formaldehyde can be used per mol of the compound of formula [II]. Preferred species of the compound of formula [II] are those in which cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl and hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl are bonded at the ortho-, meta- or para-position to the hydroxyl group. Specific examples include 2-cyclopentyl phenol, 2-cyclohexyl phenol, 2-methyl-6-cyclopentyl phenol, 2-methyl-6-cyclohexyl phenol, 3-methyl-6-cyclopentyl phenol, 2-cyclopentyl-4-methyl phenol, 2-cyclohexyl-4-methyl phenol, 2-cyclopentyl-4-ethyl phenol, and 2-cyclopentyl-4-butyl phenol. The phenol derivatives of this invention differ from the conventional anti-oxidants in that two cycloaliphatic groups (X and Y) are contained. Because of this, they have very good ability to inhibit degradation. For example, the phenol derivatives of this invention have far superior ability to inhibit degradation then 2,6-ditertiary butyl-p-cresol which has been widely used as an anti-oxidant, and better ability to inhibit degradation than 2,2-methylene bis(4-methyl-6-tertiary butyl phenol) which has similar structure to the phenol derivatives. The phenol derivatives of this invention can find utility not only as agents for inhibiting deterioration, especially anti-oxidants, but also as polymerization inhibitors. The following non-limitative Examples specifically illustrate the present invention. In all of the Examples, the parts indicated are by weight. To a 500 ml flask were introduced 87 g of 2-cyclopentyl-4-methylphenol and 25.5 g of para-formaldehyde that was dissolved in 80 ml of ethanol, followed by the addition of a solution of 4 g of dry hydrogen chloride in 20 ml of ethanol at 70� C. over a period of 10 minutes. Thereafter, the reaction was conducted at 70� C. for 48 hours with stirring. The reaction solvent was then distilled off, and the precipitated white substance was taken by filtration, and washed with water and further with n-heptane. The so obtained white crystalline compound exhibited a melting point of 104.4� C. The infrared-ray absorption specturm of the compound showed an absorption at 3480 cm-1 indicating the presence of hydroxyl groups, and showed absorption near 1740 cm-1 and 860 cm-1 indicating that the compound is a 1,2,3,5-nuclear-substituted product. Analysis of the compound by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum showed that it is 2,2'-methylene-bis(4-methyl-6-cyclopentyl phenol). 0.02 Part by weight, 0.1 part by weight and 0.5 part by weight of the 2,2'-methylene-bis(4-methyl-6-cyclopentyl phenol) (MMC) obtained in Example 1 were each added as an additive for inhibiting deterioration, to 100 parts by weight of a styrene-butadiene rubber (combined styrene 23.5%) that had been masticated beforehand with a three-inch roll. The mixtures were each kneaded several times to obtain test rubbers. The test rubbers were subjected to a treatment of heat deterioration by leaving them in a Geer's oven heated at 100� C. for certain periods of time (6 hours and 16 hours), and the gel content of each of the specimens was measured. Measurement of the gel content was performed by placing 0.2 g of a rubber in a cage made of a 80-mesh stainless steel gauze, and immersing the cage in 100 ml of toluene for 24 hours to examine the amount of gel remaining in the cage. Coloration of the rubbers after the treatment of heat deterioration was also examined. Also, as controls, 2,6-ditertiary-butyl-4-methyl phenol (BHT) that is usually used as a phenolic-type deterioration inhibitor and 2,2'-methylene-bis(4-methyl-6-tertiary-butyl phenol) (MMT) having a structure resembling that of the additive for inhibiting the deterioration of the present invention, were measured for their properties in the same manner as that of the present invention. The results were as shown in Table 1. Table 1__________________________________________________________________________Heating Amount Presenttime added invention Control(at 100� C.) (% by wt.) MMC BHT MMT No addition__________________________________________________________________________ 6.5% 12.5% 0.02 (Pale yellow) Not measured (Yellow) 4.0 42.0 6.0 45% 6 Hours 0.1 (Yellow) (Yellow) (Brown) (Yellow) 1.5 5.0 3.0 0.5 (Pale brown) (Dense yellow) (Reddish yellow) 15 26.0 0.02 (Yellow) Not measured (Dense yellow) 9.5 71.0 18.0 6616 Hours 0.1 (Yellow) (Pale brown) (Reddish brown) (Pale brown) 8.0 40.0 15.0 0.5 (Brown) (Pale brown) (Dense reddish brown)__________________________________________________________________________ The styrene-butadiene rubbers to which was added the additive for inhibiting deterioration of the present invention formed the gel in small amounts even after they were left to stand in the Geer's oven heated at 100� C. for 16 hours. The gel, on the other hand, was formed in large amounts by the rubbers to which was added 2,6-ditertiary-butyl-4-methyl phenol (that has been widely recommended as a non-staining deterioration inhibitor) after the rubbers were deteriorated by the heat treatment for 6 hours. The 2,2'-methylene-bis(4-methyl-6-tertiary-butyl phenol) having a structure similar to the deterioration inhibitor of the present invention exhibits better properties than BHT but forms a gel in larger amounts than the deterioration inhibitor of the present invention. As for the coloration after the heat deterioration treatment, the MMT developed coloration markedly, whereas the additive for inhibiting the deterioration of the present invention developed coloration to a degree nearly equal to that of BHT. From these results, it is seen that the additive for inhibiting the deterioration of the present invention gives excellent properties for preventing rubbers from being deteriorated. The 2,2'-methylene-bis(4-methyl-6-cyclopentyl phenol) obtained in Example 1 was added in an amount of 0.3% by weight to 100 parts by weight of high-density polyethylene (density 0.957 g/cm3, melt index 0.8 g/10 min.), and each of the mixtures was then kneaded with a roll. The kneading was performed at 155� C. for the polyethylene, and at 170� C. for the polypropylene. After the kneading, the mixtures were each formed into a sheet of a thickness of 0.3 mm by means of a press, and cut into pieces of a size of 40 mm � 100 mm. The so obtained samples were then measured for their oxygen absorption amount at 150� C. in order to examine the time required for 1 g of the resin to absorb 2 cc of oxygen. The results were as shown in Table 2 below. Table 2______________________________________ Additive for inhibiting deteriorationResin MMC BHT______________________________________Polyethylene 350 min. 200 min.Polypropylene 520 min. 190 min.______________________________________ The above results indicate that the additive for inhibiting the deterioration of the present invention gives superior effects of preventing the deterioration of plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene. Patent Citations
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ATE Insurance Premium Not Recoverable Legal Expenses
After the event (ATE) insurance is a type of policy taken out after a dispute has arisen to protect against the risk of having to pay the opponent's legal costs if you lose. The UK Supreme Court has held in McGraddie v McGraddie that an ATE insurance premium is not a recoverable cost by the successful party in Scottish proceedings.
You Put It There In The First Place!
Have you ever stood on an upturned plug? I have. At least three times, from memory. It is a combination of the most irritating and uncomfortable injury I have ever sustained. Each time, I found myself grabbing my foot, hopping around like a kangaroo and screaming "WHO PUT THAT THERE?!"
This may seem like a completely unreasonable response to (a) not watching my step and (b) neglecting to wear anything on my feet, but I would not be the first to lay the blame for my injuries on the person who brought the offending product into my personal space.
Scottish Courts: Changes on the Way
The Lord President of the Court of Session, Lord Gill, yesterday announced a timetable for implementation of various parts of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014:
From September 2015
- A new personal injury court with Scotland-wide jurisdiction will be established in Edinburgh.
- The threshold for raising cases in the Court of Session will increase from £5,000 to £100,000
- A new Sheriff Appeal Court will be created to deal with appeals from sheriffs. The court will have nationwide jurisdiction (rather than the present appeals to
Obesity And Disability - European Court Decision
The European Court has now delivered its judgement in the case of Kaltoft v The Ministry of Billund. The Court follows the opinion of the Advocate General which we previously highlighted in an earlier blog in July.
Courting Controversy: The Passing Of The Courts Reform Act
Today, the Scottish Parliament is expected to pass the Courts Reform Act. This piece of legislation will have a profound impact on litigation in Scotland: there will be a significant transfer of business from the Court of Session, the superior court, to the sheriff courts. The Scottish Government's intention is that the Court of Session will (mostly) be left to deal with cases worth over £100,000.
Governing Law And The Case Of The Disappearing £45 Million Funding Deficit
The case of Briggs & Ors v Gleeds (Head Office) & Ors, is a salutary lesson on taking care to comply with the required formalities when executing deeds.
Around thirty deeds dated between 1993 and 2006, which were intended to amend the pension scheme documentation, were found to be invalid because the signatures of the partners in the employing partnership had not been witnessed.


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Football: Galway v Down in the Allianz League on Sunday 8th March in Páirc Esler, Newry at 2.00pm
Round 3 Allianz League Galway v Laois Re-fixture Sunday 22nd March at Tuam 2:00pm
All tickets purchased for the initial date are valid for this fixture. Should you be unable to attend and wish to request a refund you have 10
working days to do so. Please send your unused ticket/s by registered post to: Tickets.ie, P.O. Box 10763 Dublin 1 We apologise for any
inconvenience caused.Please note that refunds will not be able to be processed for items post marked after the 13th March 2015.
Hurling: Galway v Kilkenny in the Allianz League on Sunday 8th March in Pearse Stadium at 2.00pm
Pearse Stadium Notice
AIB All Ireland Senior Hurling Club Championship Finals
Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) v Kilmallock (Limerick), Croke Park, 2.00pm (Live on TG4)
AIB All Ireland Senior Football Club Championship Final
Corofin (Galway) v Slaughtneil (Derry), Croke Park, 4.00pm (Live on TG4)
NUIG Connacht Post Primary Schools Senior B (Keith Hayes Cup) Championship Final
Friday 6th March in Ballinasloe at 6.45pm Referee: Sean Moran
Calasanctius College Oranmore v St. Joseph's (The Bish)
NUIG Connacht Post Primary Senior A (John Ryan Cup) Championship Final
Saturday 7th March in Kenny Park, Athenry at 3:00pm. Referee: Tom Connor
Presentation Athenry v St. Bridgets, Loughrea
NUIG Connacht Post Primary Schools Senior C (Barry Burke Cup) Championship Final
Ballyhaunis Community School 1-8 Mercy College Woodford 0-9
Saturday 28th February All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship TBC
Galway 3-6 Waterford 1-5
Sunday 1st March All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Final
Mullagh 0-7 Oulart-The-Ballagh 3-13
Saturday 7th March All-Ireland Senior B Schools Camogie Final TBC
Holy Rosary Mountbellew vs Gorey Community School
Sunday 8th March National Intermediate Camogie League
Galway vs Westmeath
Saturday 14th March All-Ireland Junior A Schools Camogie Final
Presentation College Athenry vs Loreto College, Kilkenny
Sunday 15th March at Tuam Stadium 2.00pm
TESCO Homegrown NFL Division 1 Galway v Kerry
Video: 2015 GAA Eithad World Games
From South Africa to Argentina, New York to Dubai, the 2015 GAA Eithad World Games will bring together lovers of Gaelic games from across the globe to compete in the first ever event of its kind. -
Leinster U21: Kildare too good for Offaly
Kildare became the final team to secure their place in the Leinster U21 semi-final line up tonight when a devastating first half performance ensured that they were able to avenge last year's defeat to neighbours Offaly. -
All-Ireland club football final to begin at 4pm
The throw-in time for the AIB GAA Football All Ireland Senior Club Championship Final between Slaughtneil and Corofin on March 17 has been moved back very slightly, from 3.45pm to 4pm. -
Preview: Leinster U21 - Offaly v Kildare
The final EirGrid Leinster U21 Football Championship quarter-final takes place on Thursday night, with Offaly taking on Kildare in Portlaoise. -
Central Hearings Committee Press Release
A press release from the Central Hearings Committee. -
Video: Business Forum at GAA World Games
HH Sheikh Nayhan bin Mubarak al Nayhan addressed a Business Forum on Thursday ahead of the first ever GAA World Games in Abu Dhabi on March 6/7. -
Andrew Shore returns to Wexford team
Wexford boss Liam Dunne has included Andrew Shore in his side to face Limerick in Division IB of the Allianz Hurling League this Sunday. -
Previews: Masita Post Primary School Championships
With the provincial honours all but decided and spring in its infancy, the Masita GAA All-Ireland Post Primary Schools series once more swings back into town this weekend. -
Cork's Mark Collins wants some home comfort
Cork midfielder Mark Collins says it's vital that the Rebels win their home games in Division I of the Allianz Football League this season, as their four away games are all long trips to Ulster opposition. -
My Club and I: Séamus Hickey - Murroe Boher
In this week's My Club and I, we speak to Limerick hurler Séamus Hickey about his club Murroe Boher.