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Big-box retailer IKEA will convert its full lighting range to LED, selling only LED bulbs and LED lamps by 2016. The company also is changing more than one million light sources inside the IKEA stores to LED and other more efficient lighting.
IKEA isn't the first retailer to highlight energy-saving lightbulbs. In 2007, Wal-Mart announced it would sell private label CFLs under its Great Value brand label.
IKEA definitely has some educating to do when it comes to letting Americans know about the benefits of LEDs. According to Wakefield Research, only 27 percent of Americans know that LED bulbs last 20 years, and 34 percent of Americans don't know that LED bulbs use less energy.
An IKEA Global Study found:
- Slightly less than one-half of Americans (43 percent) have at least one LED bulb in their house, compared to China (80 percent), Russia (65 percent) and Sweden (61 percent).
- Only one-third (34 percent) of Americans say LED lights provide similar lighting quality to incandescent bulbs. That's compared to China (77 percent) and Russia (61 percent).
- More than half (52 percent) of Americans have seen an increase in their home electric bill over the last 12-24 months.
- 69 percent of Americans say that lighting accounts for up to 40 percent of their electric bill.
- When told of LED savings, 86 percent of Americans say they're interested in switching.
The IKEA global survey was conducted by YouGov among 6,000 consumers in China, Russia, Germany, UK, the United States and Sweden in July 2012.
IKEA's LED initiative follows past IKEA US sustainability actions such as the phase-out of plastic bags in 2007 and incandescent bulbs in 2010.
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Brooke Runnette has been named president of National Geographic Television (NGT). The announcement came Monday from John Fahey, National Geographic Society chairman and CEO, to whom Runnette will report.
She succeeds Maryanne Culpepper, whose departure was announced earlier this year.
Runnette joined Nat Geo earlier this month from Discovery where she was executive producer and director of development for specials, including Discovery's popular Shark Week franchise. She will transition over the next month from her current position as vice president, development and special projects, at Nat Geo into the role at NGT.
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"I am beyond excited at this incredible opportunity," said Runnette. "The power of the National Geographic brand is unparalleled, and I look forward to working with the team at NGT in producing relevant, entertaining and powerful programming that becomes part of the television zeitgeist."
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hi violet experts, can anyone help with this?
I havent been able to find violet plants in the nursery (I used to have it in my garden but lost it years ago) and have wanted to replace it for ages. I bought seeds (queen charlotte, alba and sulphurea) and am trying to grow them that way.
after much searching for info there is something I'm confused about. most of the sites say to grow in punnets for a few weeks, then refridgerate for varying lengths of time then take them out for germination, but I've also read that they should be taken out of the fridge after they start to germinate.
I'm confused which is correct? If I remove them after a couple of months in there to a warmer spot, are they likely to germinate? or do I need to keep checking them for signs while still in the fridge?
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The best way to make seeds germinate is the one working (just kidding), I heard about so many ones.
Anyway, definitively hard to say...I tried different ways, and the best one working here is the following one:
I mixe up good compost and sand, put the seeds, make so that the ground is always wet and wait wait wait wait. I let nature do its job and do it during the fall so that the cold during winter make its job on seeds. Most of the time it works, sometimes it does NOT.
This spring have been the luckiest of my live concerning violets seeds but some have been very very disappointing. That's live :-)
All the best - Thierry :-)
Yes, a cold period is needed however it depends on the kind of violets. I guess using the fridge is a good idea...but I don't know how and how long :-(
It's really difficult to give good advices because making seeds germinate is very random, there's no miraculous formula, unfortunately.
Is zone 11 a tropical climate ? If so...I'm afraid nothing will come, not only need violets' seeds some cold to germinate but so they do to bloom :-/
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Thierry :-)
thanks thierry, my climate is mediterranean and my winters are cool but my area is coastal and flat so it's pretty much frost free. The seeds Im growing are viola odorata. thanks for your help though, I guess there's no sure way and I'll just experiment and see if it works. :)


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Demo Script Table-Valued Parameters Lab version: 1.0.0 Last updated: 12/1/2011 CONTENTS OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Key Messages ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Key Technologies ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Time Estimates ......................................................................................................................................... 3 SETUP AND CONFIGURATION .................................................................................................................. 4 Task 1 – Running the Configuration Wizard ......................................................................................... 4 OPENING STATEMENT............................................................................................................................... 6 STEP-BY-STEP WALKTHROUGH .............................................................................................................. 7 Segment #1 – Using Table-Valued Parameters ....................................................................................... 7 SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Overview This document provides setup documentation, step-by-step instructions, and a written script for demonstrating table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008. Key Messages 1. Table-valued parameters are an efficient mechanism that allows you to send a batch of data in a single round trip. You can use table- valued parameters to send multiple rows of data to a Transact-SQL statement or a routine, such as a stored procedure or function, without creating a temporary table or many parameters. 2. Table-valued parameters are similar to parameter arrays in OLE DB and ODBC, but offer more flexibility and closer integration with Transact-SQL and can participate in set-based operations. 3. Table -valued parameters are strongly typed. 4. Table-valued parameters must be passed as input READONLY parameters to Transact-SQL routines. You cannot perform DML operations such as UPDATE, DELETE or INSERT on a table-valued parameter in the body of a routine. Key Technologies This demo uses the following technologies: 1. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (or higher) Time Estimates Estimated time for setting up and configuring the demo: 0 min Estimated time to complete the demo: 10 min Setup and Configuration System Requirements Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (or higher) Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio After completing the demo, you can run the Cleanup.cmd script to revert any changes made to your system. If you intend to present other demos in the training kit, avoid running this script until you have completed them (the script will drop the SQLTrainingKitDB database used elsewhere in the training kit). Task 1 – Running the Configuration Wizard The following steps describe how to run the Configuration Wizard tool included with the demo to verify that all the prerequisites are properly installed. 1. Browse to the setup folder in the Source folder of this demo, and run the Setup.cmd script. This script will launch the Configuration Wizard for the demo. The Configuration Wizard is designed to check your computer to ensure that it is properly configured with all of the dependencies needed to run the demo. 2. Click through the steps in the Configuration Wizard to get to the Detecting Required Software step; a scan of prerequisites will be performed on your computer. If you do not have the necessary dependencies, install them using the links provided by the tool and rescan your computer. Figure 1 Dependencies check completed successfully 3. Once the required software is properly installed click Next to configure your computer for this demo. A script will be executed to create the server alias ('SQLServerTrainingKitAlias') used in this demo to establish a connection with the database. Figure 2 Configuration Wizard tasks Opening Statement In this demo, I will describe the use of table-valued parameters, which is a feature introduced in SQL Server 2008 to solve the problem of sending multiple rows of data to a stored procedure or function. This requirement is relatively common in database applications and the canonical example of this is orders and line items, where you have one order that contains N line items. N is variable and can be very large. How do you pass this information efficiently to a stored procedure? One database round trip per line item, which is how applications traditionally tackled this in the past, can slow things down. One approach taken by some applications using SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to get around this issue is to compose the order and line items into XML format. The application passes this information as an XML data type in SQL Server 2005 or as a large text field in SQL Server 2000 and then, inside a stored procedure, SQL Server decomposes the XML into relational rowsets using built-in functions. This method works but is not optimal, as XML composition and decomposition takes time. Table-valued parameters are intended to solve this problem. Even though table variables are not new to SQL Server, SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to use them as strongly typed parameters to stored procedures and functions. I will now show you how you can use this feature. Step-by-Step Walkthrough This demo is composed of the following segments: 1. Using Table-Valued Parameters Note: The SQL statements shown in the Action column provide the necessary context for a demo step. The SQL demo script file in the code folder may contain additional statements, where appropriate, to verify the existence and conditionally create required database objects. These statements have been omitted in the document for simplicity. Segment #1 – Using Table-Valued Parameters Action Script Screenshot 1. In SQL Server Management I will now demonstrate the use of Studio, open the table-valued parameters. To do this, I TableValuedParameters.sql file will create a new database named located under the code folder in the SqlTrainingKitDB, which we will use Source folder of this demo. for the remainder of this demo. 2. Select the CREATE DATABASE statement and click Execute ( ) to create the SqlTrainingKitDB database. 3. Select the USE statement and click Execute ( ) to use the new SqlTrainingKitDB database. T-SQL CREATE DATABASE SqlTrainingKitDB GO USE SqlTrainingKitDB GO 4. Select both CREATE TABLE First, I will create an order table and a statements and click Execute ( ) to line item table, named TVPOrder and create the TVPOrder and TVPItem TVPItem respectively. You would tables. typically find similar tables in any application that manages orders. T-SQL CREATE TABLE dbo.TVPOrder ( CustCode varchar(5), OrdNo int identity, OrdDate datetime ) GO CREATE TABLE dbo.TVPItem ( OrdNo int, ProdCode int, Qty int ) GO 5. Select the first CREATE I will now show you how applications PROCEDURE statement and click traditionally handled this in previous Execute ( ) to create the versions of SQL Server. TVPOrderInsert stored procedure. To do this, we will create a stored 6. Select the second CREATE procedure named TVPOrderInsert PROCEDURE statement and click that inserts order information into the Execute ( ) to create the orders table. This procedure receives TVPItemInsert stored procedure. a customer code as a parameter. It inserts a new row into the orders T-SQL table and returns - as output CREATE PROCEDURE parameters - the inserted order dbo.TVPOrderInsert number and the order date. ( @CustCode varchar(5), In addition, we will create another @OrdNo integer output, stored procedure named @OrdDate datetime output) TVPOrderInsert that inserts a line AS item for an order. Notice that you need to call this procedure once for SET @OrdDate = GETDATE(); each line item in the order. INSERT INTO dbo.TVPOrder (OrdDate, CustCode) VALUES (@OrdDate, @CustCode); SELECT @OrdNo = SCOPE_IDENTITY() GO CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.TVPItemInsert ( @OrdNo integer, @ProdCode integer, @Qty integer) AS INSERT INTO dbo.TVPItem (OrdNo, ProdCode, Qty) VALUES (@OrdNo, @ProdCode, @Qty) GO 7. Select the DECLARE, EXEC, and Inserting a new order that contains SELECT statements and click three line items requires several Execute ( ) to insert an order steps. First, you need to call containing three line items into the TVPOrderInsert to insert the order database. Show the tables content. row. Then, you need to make three calls to TVPItemInsert to insert each T-SQL line item. DECLARE @ordno int; DECLARE @orddate datetime; Even though this approach succeeds and is the way that an application EXEC dbo.TVPOrderInsert 'ALFKI', might have handled this task using @ordno output, @orddate output previous versions of SQL Server, notice that it requires four database EXEC dbo.TVPItemInsert @ordno, round trips to fulfill the objective. 111, 1 EXEC dbo.TVPItemInsert @ordno, 222, 2 EXEC dbo.TVPItemInsert @ordno, 333, 3 GO SELECT * FROM dbo.TVPOrder; SELECT * FROM dbo.TVPItem; GO 8. Select the CREATE TYPE statement I will now show you how you can and click Execute ( ) to create the significantly optimize this process by TVPParam user-defined table type. using table-valued parameters. T-SQL First, we need to create a new user- IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sys.table_types defined table type. Table types WHERE name = 'TVPParam' AND represent the definition of a table schema_id = 1) = 0 structure that you can use to declare table-valued parameters for stored CREATE TYPE dbo.TVPParam AS procedures and functions or to TABLE(ProdCode integer, Qty declare table variables. We will create integer) a new table type named TVPParam GO with two columns: a product code and a quantity, and we will use it to store line items. 9. Highlight each line of the Next, we need to restructure our TVPOrderEntry procedure as you previous order entry mechanism by describe it. replacing the TVPOrderInsert and TVPItemInsert stored procedures with 10. Select the CREATE PROCEDURE a single stored procedure named TVPOrderEntry. statement and click Execute ( ) to create the TVPOrderEntry stored procedure. Notice that the TVPOrderEntry procedure receives a table-valued T-SQL parameter named Items that has a CREATE PROCEDURE TVPParam data type, which is the dbo.TVPOrderEntry table type that we defined previously. ( In addition, the procedure defines this @CustCode varchar(5), parameter as read-only. This is required for table-valued parameters. @Items TVPParam READONLY, @OrdNo integer output, @OrdDate datetime output) In its body, the stored procedure AS inserts a new row into the order table. Next, it determines the order number SET @OrdDate = GETDATE(); of the newly inserted order by retrieving the current scope identity. INSERT INTO TVPOrder (OrdDate, Finally, it inserts the order's line items CustCode) by selecting all the rows from the VALUES (@OrdDate, @CustCode); table-valued parameter. SELECT @OrdNo = We will now create the stored SCOPE_IDENTITY(); procedure and test it. INSERT INTO TVPItem (OrdNo, ProdCode, Qty) SELECT @OrdNo, ProdCode, Qty FROM @Items GO 11. Select the DECLARE, INSERT To do this, we need to declare a table INTO, and EXEC statements and variable that has a TVPParam data click Execute ( ) to insert an order type. containing three line items into the database. Next, we insert three rows that T-SQL contain the line items of the order into this table. Notice that we are using DECLARE @ordno int; the new Transact-SQL row DECLARE @orddate datetime; constructor feature to insert all three DECLARE @t TVPParam ; rows in a single statement. INSERT INTO @t VALUES(444, 4), (555,5), (666,6); Finally, we call the TVPOrderEntry EXEC dbo.TVPOrderEntry 'BEAUC', stored procedure passing in a @t, @ordno output, @orddate customer code and the table variable output; that contains the order's line items. GO Notice that by using this procedure, we can insert the order and its line items in a single round trip. 12. Highlight both SELECT statements and click Execute ( ) to display the contents of the TVPOrder and We can now retrieve the contents of TVPItem tables. the TVPOrder and TVPItem tables and see that the stored procedure T-SQL has successfully inserted the order SELECT * FROM dbo.TVPOrder; and its line items. SELECT * FROM dbo.TVPItem; GO It is important to remember that table- valued parameters are materialized in tempdb. You must consider this if you are going to send large amounts of information. 13. Highlight both SELECT statements We can examine the contents of the and click Execute ( ) to show the sys.types table. This table contains a content of the sys.types and row for each system and user-defined sys.table_types tables. type. We can see our TVPParam user-defined table type included in T-SQL this list. SELECT * FROM sys.types GO Similarly, we can view metadata for SELECT * FROM sys.table_types the user-defined table types only by GO querying the sys.table_types table and you can see the TVPParam type here as well. 14. Scroll to the row containing the TVPParam user-defined table type definition and highlight the is_table_type column. 15. Select the CREATE FUNCTION You can use table-valued parameters statement and click Execute ( ) to in functions too. I will show you an create the TVPFunction function. example that uses a very simple function that receives a table-valued T-SQL parameter and returns the count of CREATE FUNCTION TVPFunction (@t rows that it contains. AS dbo.TVPParam READONLY) RETURNS int To use this function, we need to AS declare a table variable using our BEGIN TVPParam table data type. First, we RETURN (SELECT count(1) FROM call our function passing in the table @t) variable. Notice that because we END have not inserted any rows into the table, the function returns a count of GO zero. 16. Highlight the DECLARE, INSERT, and SELECT statements and click Execute ( ) to show the number of Next, we insert a couple of rows into rows in the table-variable. the table using row constructors and call the function again. You can see T-SQL that it now returns a count of two. DECLARE @t AS dbo.TVPParam SELECT dbo.TVPFunction(@t) INSERT INTO @t VALUES (1,1),(2,2) SELECT dbo.TVPFunction(@t) GO 17. Highlight the DECLARE, EXEC, Finally, notice that the store and SELECT statements and click procedure still works if we do not Execute ( ) to show the number of specify the table-valued parameter. rows in the table-variable. By querying the contents of the tables, we can see that a record is T-SQL inserted in the TVPOrder table, but DECLARE @ordno int; no line item is inserted in the DECLARE @orddate datetime; TVPItem table. EXEC dbo.TVPOrderEntry 'BFLKU',@OrdNo = @ordno output, @Orddate=@orddate output; SELECT * FROM dbo.TVPOrder; SELECT * FROM dbo.TVPItem; Summary In this demo, you have seen how to use table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 to send multiple rows of data to Transact-SQL statements or routines, without creating temporary tables or additional parameters. You have learnt how to declare user-defined table types and use them to define strongly typed table variables, and how to pass these table variables as parameters to stored procedures and functions. You were able to compare alternative approaches and see how table-valued parameters provide and efficient solution that minimizes the number of round trips required to send multiple rows of data.
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March 9, 2010 - 10:32 AMContinental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers.
CEO Jeff Smisek says that the airline will cancel flights that might be delayed three hours.
Under a federal rule taking effect next month, airlines can be fined up to $27,500 per passenger if planes are delayed three hours and passengers can't get off.
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Sept. 1, 1970 w. J. SIEGEL THERMAL TOOL Filed June 2, 1967 United States Patent 3,526,750 THERMAL TOOL William J. Siege], 814 E. Franklin Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 20901 Filed June 2, 1967, Ser. No. 643,123 Int. Cl. Hb 3/00 US. Cl. 219-233 6 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The device of the present invention is an electrically heated tool which may be used for both soldering and thermal parting, and is characterized by a specially shaped hairpin loop working tip. The tip is a thinned down flat blade-like member, the flat of the blade being at an angle to the plane of the hairpin loop as a whole.
The present invention relates to a thermal tool which may be employed as an electric hot knife or as a soldering tool.
Both soldering guns and electric hot knives have been formed with a working tip in the shape of a hairpin loop heated by electric-a1 resistance. Normally the looped end is of greatly reduced cross-section relative to the leg end of the tip which is what causes the looped end to resistance heat on passage of current. The increased electrical resistance of the looped end relative to the leg portions concentrates the heating effect at the looped end, although often the leg portions do resistance heat somewhat. Despite this overall similarity, the details of construction at the looped end sharply differentiate the electric hot knife from the soldering tool. The knife is provided with a cutting edge of some sharpness while the soldering tool is provided with a tip-end structure adapted to hold a glob of solder. No such incompatibility exists in the present thermal tool. The looped end of the hairpin loop may be employed for either soldering or thermal parting, i.e., cutting.
The object of this invention is to provide a thermal tool either for soldering or for thermal parting characterized by considerable sensitivity.
According to the present invention the heating tip of the hairpin loop is of a special shape wherein the leg portions are relatively thick, so much so that they resistance heat very little. The looped end, on the other hand, is thinned down to where it may be termed a blade and the flat of the blade is angularly offset from the plane of the hairpin loop as a whole. The entire blade portion of the heating tip is relatively resilient and thereby provides spring resistance to any force applied at the blade portion of the hairpin loop. Thus, regardless of whether the blade is used for thermal parting or for soldering, the angular offset thereof from the plane of the hairpin tip as a whole generates a force which causes a spring-like deflection of the blade portion. Thus, the operator can develop a tactile feel for the tool, and adjust his touch to the give (of the spring-like blade portion) of the tool.
Relatively sharpened edges on the blade permit cutting, as with any thermal parting knife. Yet the flate of the blade portion serves well to support a glob of solder or to hold down and reflow the solder of a lap joint, allowing the tool to be employed for soldering purposes. In soldering use, the fiat of the blade will heat the joint during soldering, and afterward can act as a heat sink while the solder cools.
The detailed structure of the present tool and the operational advantages thereof may best be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 diagrammatically represents the tool as a whole;
FIG. 2 is a section taken along line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged side view showing the front end of the tool and illustrating the deflection of the blade portion;
FIGS. 4 and 5 diagrammatically illustrate preferred modes of heating tip.
Referring now to FIG. 1, it may be seen that the tool 10 comprises a pencil grip member 12 with power leads 14 emerging from the rear thereof and a heating tip 16 detachably mounted at the front end thereof by an appropriate quick-release friction connection (FIG. 2) of gripping members 18 which frictionally engage stepdown rear end portions 20 of the legs of heating tip 16 and which maintain a good electrical connection between tip 16 and with the terminus of power lead 14. The main exposed portion 22 of the legs of tip 16 are of increased diameter relative to rear ends 20 to provide a shoulder or stop element against insertion of tip 16 too deeply into pencil grip 12. The shoulder may be omitted altogether or replaced by a non-conductor support block disposed between the leg portions 22 (not shown). Leg portions 22 ofier a large (relatively) low resistance path for the electric current, thereby minimizing resistance heating of the legs 22.
The looped end 24 of tip member 16 is a blade with relatively sharpened front and rear edges 28 and 26 and a blade flat 30 whose plane (insofar as it has a definable plane) is angularly offset from the plane in which parallel leg portions 20 and 22 lie. One mode of such offset is illustrated best in FIG. 3 wherein an actual bend is provided at the fiat blade portion 30. The angular offset of blade 30 can be obtained also by trimming away metal at an angle. Thus, FIG. 5 illustrates an instance where the entire blade portion 30 amounts to a cutaway, done at about 45 to the plane of the leg portions 20 and 22. FIG. 4 shows the bent blade structure illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2, 3. The blade edges 28, 26 are sharpened, but only in a relative sense. As knife edges go, they are quite dull and without a true cutting edge. The edges 26, 28 effect thermal parting rather than cutting.
Considering the thermal tool as an entity, it may be seen that provision of readily replaceable tips (through the quick-release friction coupling) allows the user to substitute readily whatever tip may be best suited for the immediate need. The tool cools quickly so tip replacement is not time consuming. The tool is expressly adapted for close careful work which may be either soldering or thermal parting as necessary during the course of repairing solid state circuitry. In particular, the present thermal tool has been found highly advantageous for Work on printed circuit boards where intense heat must be applied only to pinpoint areas. For such close Work the tactile feel of the tool has proven to be of considerable benefit. In addition, the different angles provided by a complete set of heating tips (e.g. the diverse tips of FIGS. 4 5) permit a skilled operator to work on what normally are inaccessible locations of a circuit board without ruining the circuit as a whole.
While the foregoing description of this invention has been in terms of specific preferred modes such variations therefrom as will suggest themselves to workers in the art are contemplated as falling within the scope of the annexed claims.
What is claimed is:
1. A sensitive thermal tool comprising a pencil grip, power leads at the rear of said grip, and a quick-release removable resistance heated tip member at the front of said grip, said tip member further comprising a hairpin loop with leg end portions of the loop extending rearwardly into said grip and into electrical contact with said power leads and with a front looped end formed as a thinned down resilient flat blade, the forward end of said blade including the blade flat thereof being disposed in a plane and said plane being angularly offset relative to the plane in which the remainder of said hairpin loop tip member lies.
2. The tool of claim 1 wherein said resilient flat blade has relatively sharpened front and rear edges.
3. A quick-release tip member for thermal tools comprising a hairpin loop, the leg end portions of which are relatively thick and cylindrical, the looped front end thereof being a thinned down resilient flat blade, the forward end of said blade including the blade flat thereof being disposed in a plane and said plane being angularly offset relative to the plane in which the remainder of said hairpin loop tip member lies.
4. The tip member of claim 3 wherein the edges of said blade are relatively sharpened.
5. The tip member of claim 3 wherein the blade member lies generally within the planar confines of the hairpin loop as a whole but the forward end flat blade portion thereof is angled thereto at about 45.
6. The tip member of claim 3 wherein the rearmost portions of the leg end portions are of reduced diameter relative to the balance of said leg end portions forming thereby a shoulder stop limit on the extent which the leg end portions may be inserted into a thermal tool.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,834,555 12/1931 Tittle 30-140 2,101,913 12/1937 Meyer 2l9233 2,310,844 2/1943 Draeger 219233 X 2,701,835 2/1955 Anton 219235 X 3,234,356 2/1966 Babb 219233 2,012,938 9/1935 Beuoy 219--233 FOREIGN PATENTS 564,175 10/1923 France.
832,358 6/1938 France. 1,315,489 12/1962 France.
272,606 3/ 1930 Italy.
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For front loading washers, ALWAYS wipe out the boot and leave the door OPEN so that it will dry out after each use. If you close the door, it will form a tight seal. All that moisture/water left in the machine/boot is a perfect breeding ground for mold/mildew.
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just leave the door open and always dry out the boot and remove the soap dispenser after the last wash load of the day. never leave wet things in the washer overnight. it's not rocket science to keep a front loader from smelling.
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I tried everything to get rid of my washer stink, Nothing worked until I tried one cup of bleach and one cup of Cascade dishwasher detergent. Use the hottest, longest cycle. It works great and I've been stink free for about three years now.
I always leave the door open and I haven't had to repeat the cleaning process.
I always leave the door partly open and the detergent drawer open to dry out.
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I currently have 3 FL washers, 14 years old, 10 years old, and 5 years old respectively. Never had an issue with odor in them. And all of these FLs are in Florida. If I'm not home, the spaces are minimally air conditioned.
I'm with the others -- leave the door ajar when you're not using it. I also don't use fabric softener.
Not sure how relevant the latter is, but I know I've seen mold/mildew growing in fabric softener dispensers in other washers, so I throw this out there. Makes some sense -- fabric softener is basically animal fat. Plenty of nutrients there and it's often added during the last rinse to a washer, so it's left in the drum.


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Since I am cruising for the first time for my 30th, I thought it would be kinda fun to do a door decoration. It would make a great souvenier, I think, and a great memory. I thought about doing something like "For my next 30yrs, I should......" and have a marker hanging for people to sign and give their advice. Yes, I am sure I am opening myself up to rude remarks however those I can cover up when I come up with a photo or something.
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I actually think this is a great idea, but like you mentioned, you could get a few you'd rather not, but mostly it should be very interesting and fun too, so go for it!
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We didnt pay for the Birthday package for my dads 50th birthday we just decorated it our selfs. With your door decorated your new friends can find which room is yours very easily!
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Hello typophile! This is a somewhat personal question for you all. It is the typography equivalent of asking an older brother how to kiss girls, so if you're in the mood to open up perhaps this will sate that.
Out of curiosity: what brings you to buying a typeface? As in: at what point are you pulling out the credit card to enter it into the necessary fields? Particularly something that would be considered pricey for us who aren't on the end of our salary spectrums.
Recently, my design work has all but stagnated and I've been biting at the heel to purchase a typeface. I could use a bigger library to bolster my work. I think it's only natural—typefaces to graphic designers are like paints to a painter (or brushes, perhaps?) But you see: I consider myself an extremely frugal person and the idea of purchasing a typeface hits me hard. Yes, I know I spent lots of money for other IP—such as the Creative Suite—but I've never purchased a typeface and am quite afraid that once I do it will sit there unused and unloved for all eternity. Or perhaps I am simply worried it will become useless the moment I realize no client wants it.
So I'm just interested in your consumer process when it comes to type: is there a tipping point? Are you impulse buyers or is every font purchased a carefully budgeted and planned experience?
This is a really interesting question.
I buy two types of faces: workhorse fonts that I know I will use a lot, and specific one-purpose fonts for a specific project. In theory, I don't anticipate using the latter group ever again after the project is complete, although of course I always do.
I, too, am also very frugal. I rarely buy fonts at all. I have, in fact, very few good ones. Typefaces are very expensive, especially for a freelancer, as they have to come out of my profit. So I have to choose very carefully.
With general-purpose serifed text faces, I want, when possible, to purchase the whole family: Roman and italic in all optical sizes. (I almost never need bold or any weight other than regular, and I never need condensed or expanded versions. But if you're going to buy that much of the family, it's usually cost effective to get the whole thing. And sometimes the weights come in handy.) So every couple of years I will buy a new text family. And then I will basically use it all the time for a few years, until I really know it in and out, before getting another one. I stuck with Minion for three or four years; it was one of my first. It took me a long time to get bored with it. I don't usually buy text faces for specific projects, both because of the cost and also because at this point I probably own something that works.
Display faces are usually much less expensive, and I buy them more on a whim. Recently I bought two Laura Worthington faces just for fun, because they looked like they'd be a lot of fun to play with and they were very affordable.
So, to answer, at what point do I know I'm buying a typeface....
For a text family, I have to fall in love with it, and stay in love with it for a long time before I buy it. I admired Brioso Pro from afar for years before I finally ended up with two or three simultaneous projects where I knew it was perfect for all of them, and then I really had an impetus to buy it. I guess, I need to know in every case what I'll be using the font for, but if it's a text family = expensive, it usually takes a lot longer for me to get around to buying it. There are still plenty of text faces — Dolly, Quadraat, Seria, Rialto — that I think are beautiful and would love to have, but I know I'm not going to get them until I really have a project that needs them.
Does this help?
EDIT: You know, my advice to you might be to just go find a font you like, one that's not too expensive, and just buy it. Play with it. Don't worry if you have a use for it. It might be fun to just jump in.
EDIT again: I don't have an older brother, so I missed out on the kissing talk.
Can't help you. I just make the stuff - I never touch it. :-)
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Moreover I would say I'm an impulse buyer but mostly only get a few single fonts if the family is big and expensive. This turned out to be the most practical way over the years for you can build up a reasonable palette which works great for jobbing type kind of jobs and in case you want to use the typeface for complex design work you can get more weights and styles as you need them. This is specially handy with type foundries who offer an obliging update policy where your earlier purchase is credited when you license the whole family later, e.g. Process Type Foundry.
Wanted to thank everyone for their contributions!
For a text family, I have to fall in love with it, and stay in love with it for a long time before I buy it.
I believe that the price for a single weight is reasonable on average. The issue always becomes buying the entire family. I think we as a society are built up to believe that one we buy one thing, we should make it perfect by accessorizing and that's where I can see some of the difficulties. I can't just live with a single weight, because what good would a single weight do?
EDIT again: I don't have an older brother, so I missed out on the kissing talk.
I did too ;-)
Simply wanted to say that Ernestine is gorgeous. I couldn't afford it, even with the sale, but I will say that I was on fontshop's website and my mouth dropped when I first laid eyes on it.
Also, thank you Indra for sharing your writing; very enlightening.
Thanks for the compliment (although of course Nina deserves the lion's share).
I never thought of it as an issue of impulse vs. careful planning.
If there was a typeface that I thought would enable me to create an appropriate setting for a particular job, then I bought it.
The operative word being "create", because you don't know what kind of results working with a particular type will produce until you try, you only have a vague and unrealized idea.
You have to choose something you feel an affinity for, which suggests it might help you materialize an idea or effect you're working towards, which you feel will flesh out the design brief in a way that your bundled fonts won't.
So there is a trade-off between the possibility that the type you license may not work out for you or the client, vs. the possibility that if you don't try working with new tools, you will, as you suspect, stagnate.
You have to choose something you feel an affinity for, which suggests it might help you materialize an idea or effect you're working towards, which you feel will flesh out the design brief in a way that your bundled fonts won't.
Ahh, Nick my mother said the exact same thing when I consulted her on this issue. She is a small business owner and understands putting down the money for something that furthers the business as a necessity. If you need it: pay first, ask questions later.
But you must understand that I am caught in between that world and another. This other world is the philosophy of producing something very great from very little; that whole "humble roots" spiel, if you will. As an example, a typeface I've lusted for is over at vllg. It is a workhorse serif and I think to myself, whilst looking at the price tag: "Maybe I'm being irresponsible and maybe I can do everything I need to do with Minion and Century. Maybe my inability to produce a creative solution is my own problem and not a lack of assets."
Ultimately, however, I think as a young designer I still am learning that this profession requires we put money into it at various points. Some do it frequently while others do it infrequently. Eventually I'll find my sweet spot.
In the mean time, however, I've since purchased Gibson from Canada Type. My experience with it has been delightful, so that's a good start.


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