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He's always had a reputation for hating reality TV, but it turns out Kanye West appeared on a pilot for his travel agent back in 2010.
The "Love Lockdown" rapper made a cameo on Brett Grolsch's series, though the show never actually got picked up by a network.
Giving their little lady a fancy fete for her 1st birthday, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West hosted a backyard shindig for North West over the weekend.
Named "Kidchella," the soiree had all the trappings of a celebrity celebration including a bouncy house, teepees, a Ferris wheel and Yeezus shirts for all the children.
Following a busy weekend celebrating their daughter North's first birthday, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West treated themselves to a quiet dinner date at Craig's Restaurant in West Hollywood last night (June 22).
He stirred the pot while speaking at the 2014 Cannes Lions Festival this week after his remarks about famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, and now it looks like Kanye West is backtracking on his negative comments.
He's always interesting and usually pretty thought-provoking, and Kanye West definitely made an impression at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity today (June 17).
The "Gold Digger" rapper showed up in Cannes, France and discussed some beef he's had with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz regarding his wedding with Kim Kardashian last month.
While she definitely wears the pants in her household, Kris Jenner also understands the value of a strong and loving dad.
For Father's Day yesterday (June 15), the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" mastermind posted a series of photos and messages via Instagram to honor the men in her life.
It's hard to believe it's been a whole year since Kim Kardashian gave birth to her daughter North West, and over the weekend she posted a super-cute pic of her little girl and proud papa Kanye West via Instagram.
They really are the picture perfect family and Kim Kardashian offered photographic proof of her crew's camera cuteness from her stash of wedding shots.


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That's a patently idiotic comment. They reduce your ability to take damage, so they will then reduce the damage? This hasn't been the pattern in a year straight. They are constantly making the borg weapons stronger every update. The shield sapper sucks out 10k shields (10k each face, 40k total) in mere seconds, and borg encounters are ludicrously buffed every patch. The aggro is insanely badly programmed, and massive borg cubes run across maps faster than evasive maneuvers to track down somebody they barely saw on sensors.
Then look at all the BS with paid console on NPC ships wiping out players in 1 shot repeatedly. Then look at the BS in no-win with no ramping up of difficulty, just instant 1-shot deaths and a solid wall of impossibility, rather than a ramping up gradually making it harder and harder.
Nothing in this game for a year straight suggests they are putting logical thought into it. There is no excuse. Not even small team numbers. There is no excuse for how they run things. They can't even keep track of unintentional bugs. They say "we made no changes, so this isn't a bug" despite massive reports of said bug.

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Acetyl-L-Carnitine and Nerve Pain
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Any nutrient that helps stressed nerves this much is a gift.
Study Title:Neuroprotective effects of acetyl-L-carnitine on neuropathic pain and apoptosis: A role for the nicotinic receptor
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Several pathologies related to nervous tissue alterations are characterized by a chronic pain syndrome defined by persistent or paroxysmal pain independent or dependent on a stimulus. Pathophysiological mechanisms related to neuropathic disease are associated with mitochondrial dysfunctions that lead to an activation of the apoptotic cascade. In a model of peripheral neuropathy obtained by the loose ligation of the rat sciatic nerve, acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALCAR; 100 mg/kg intraperitoneally [i.p.] twice daily for 14 days) was able to reduce hyperalgesia and apoptosis. In the present study, different mechanisms for the analgesic and the antineuropathic effect of ALCAR are described. The muscarinic blocker atropine (5 mg/kg i.p.) injected simultaneously with ALCAR did not antagonize the ALCAR antihyperalgesic effect on the paw-pressure test but significantly reduced the analgesic effect of ALCAR. Conversely, the antineuropathic effect of ALCAR was prevented by cotreatment with the nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine (2 mg/kg i.p. twice daily for 14 days). A pharmacological silencing of the nicotinic receptors significantly reduced the X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein-related protective effect of ALCAR on the apoptosis induced by ligation of the sciatic nerve. Taken together, these data highlight the relevance of nicotinic modulation in neuropathy treatment.
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Di Cesare Mannelli L, Ghelardini C, Calvani M, Nicolai R, Mosconi L, Toscano A, Pacini A, Bartolini A. Neuroprotective effects of acetyl-L-carnitine on neuropathic pain and apoptosis: A role for the nicotinic receptor J Neurosci Res. 2008 August E pub ahead of print.
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I have just been corresponding with dear, dear Freya from Rekjavik about Sålty's headstone.
As widow-in-chief Freya has firm views on type sizes. Her own name is to be in 60 point gold-leaf Plantaganet Cherokee, she says, while the others are to be listed in descending order of importance, all the way down to Esperanta, who is to be in 6 point Curlz MT. 233 more words


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Weeping Youpon problem
I am hoping someone might give some suggestions as to what is going on with my mature/large Weeping Youpon. This is the first spring that it is showing some kind of damage. The damage is not located all over the tree, but appears in sections. My guess is that the damage will cover the tree if left untreated.
The damage is to clusters of berries, clusters that form a kind of balled area of dark -- grey/black. It reminds me of honey-dew, but I'm thinking it isn't honey-dew because the darkened areas are confined to clusters of berries. It reminds me of a fungus because if I look close enough, there will be some white between a berry or more in the cluster.
This tree is the private residence of a beautiful singing Mocking Bird and his mate.
Just after noticing the damage (yesterday) I decided to prune all the damaged fruit and the Mrs. Mockingbird shouted me out of there.
Please help.
If you haven't tossed out all you pruned you might want to take one , run it under a shower of water (to make sure it isn't bird poop) and then cut open the gray area and look for insect eggs.
I have 4 mature weeping yaupons and just went to check for what you described.
Truly,fully berried in late fall, all I could spot were 4 individual berries left now in spring. The birds,especially robins, usually have eaten all berries over the winter. Fortunately nothing in the way of damage.
If you have a healthy yard and lots of native spiders, they tend to keep insects in control (except for bagworms).
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The 2015-16 Presser Undergraduate Scholar Has Been Announced!
Brendon Wilkins [music education (flute), jazz studies (saxophone)] has been selected as the 2015-16 Presser Undergraduate Scholar for the UNT College of Music. Brendon's major professors are Mary Karen Clardy for flute and Brad Leali for saxophone (Alex Fraile, applied instruction). He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key, and Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies. He was 1st place winner in the 2014 scholarship competition of NANM (National Association of Negro Musicians) at the local and regional levels, and he won 3rd Place in the final round of competition in Los Angeles. Brendon won the DMTA 2015 Woodwind Young Artist Competition and will compete at the state level in Houston in June. Brendon is currently in the Five O'clock Lab Band as lead alto sax.
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Saturday, March 7, 2015
New Publication: There Is No Need to Talk about This: Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio
In the book, There Is No Need to Talk about This readers are given a glimpse into my therapy practice. The poems embrace the painful aspects of my clients' lives, the breakthroughs and struggles my clients experience. The text explores mental illness, trauma, abuse, autism, and depression and how art and play therapy can help clients move into wholeness. My hope is that this book will resonate with anyone who works with children and youth and that it may inform practice as well.
The book is published by Sense Publishers and may be ordered online at: Sense Publishers.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Grand Theft Brain Development and Art Therapy
It has long been known that whatever we focus on, repeat day after day and habitually do creates more of the same thoughts, beliefs and patterns in the brain. The brain wraps itself around whatever our strongest focus is. Norman Doidge in How the Brain Heals Itself, writes about competitive plasticity and the brains ability to rewire itself.
The good news in this is that we can change our brain by exposing it to what we need or want it to believe or perceive in the process healing. It also confirms that doing activities like showing up to meditate and doing the practice, even when it seems hopeless and unfruitful, still helps rewire the brain and deepen and strengthen the networks in the brain that will allow better and more focused meditation in the future. So practice does pay off.
I work with children who habitually wrap their brain around video games such as "Call of Duty" and "Grand Theft Auto." That is the realty that is being reinforced and absorbed by their brains. These types of games normalize the violence and abuse that some of these children have lived through and help program the children to display behaviours that support violence.
I have also witnessed children who have come from abusive homes and foster homes who have been moved to nurturing and safe foster homes whom have changed so dramatically that I can hardly believe it. Their brains rewire to the new environment and as a result the child looks cared for, act like they matter, develop empathy, and start to like themselves.
I also feel that in coming to Art Therapy and being exposed to the arts, they get another healthy piece of reality in learning that they are creative and they can create. I do therapy with my clients, but if I only did art, that alone would expand and heal the children whom I work with brain networks. It opens out a whole new world to explore for some of my clients who have never picked up a paint brush, touched clay or made a toy from scratch.
Brain research is fascinating and confirms for me that I picked the right profession.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Some Surprises are not Good
|A child's drawing of how she feels when she is surprised.
So, it is any wonder that small and large surprises, moves or changes would trigger traumatic memories or fears?
Even those of us who have not moved seven or eight times in our lifetime, find moving traumatic or at least tough. Having your own space, room, or home helps create the environment within a sense of grounding and belonging can take root and grow. Always moving, means that space has to be nurtured inside oneself. It is hard to trust others or the world if it cannot also be grown outside oneself. And it cannot be grown at all if the body is constant flight-or-fight response.
When any unexpected event happens, we all experience levels varying levels of fear, surprise, or shock. The children I work with have had their fight-or-flight response activated so many times that it becomes a habitual state to live in one or the other. A startle response which is a brief mental and physiological state of surprise or not knowing in response to a small surprise or change, moves quickly into high end flight reaction (dissociation) or fight (aggression). Moving to a new classroom, new bedroom, having a new eating place at the dinner table, etc. all trigger the trauma response without the child knowing why. But it is our responsibility as adults to know why and to create the safety and containment that child in our care needs.
When the rules of reality dictating everyday life are always changing, as where you live, who you call Mom, and what the day to day rules are, how can a child achieve self-regulation?
So if a foster child is in your classroom, home, or therapy room understand why surprises are not always good for this child. Routine is important, change is frightening and needs to be clearly explained. Being consistent with your child makes them feel safe and wanted. Watch your child for signs of activation; raised eyebrows, wrinkles in forehead, dilated pupils, dropped jaw, darting eyes, shallow breathing, tightening in the upper body, or a darting or running response. These involuntary bodily responses often displayed for a fraction of a second may be followed by confusion, fear, or anger.
Explain to them what is happening and why. Offer them ways to de-escalate as, to do some deep breathing, drink a glass of water, do some movement or release the energy in a way that works for the child. Later doing art expressing feelings would be a good idea. When children regain control and body awareness, then they are not triggered by small changes that remind them unconsciously or consciously if the big life changes that they have experienced. The fear, anger and frustration that the child now feels transforms into grounded awareness and self-regulation. The flight or fight response decreases and the child can move safety and confidently through the world.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Is All Art Therapeutic?
Is all art therapeutic?
This is another question that people continually ask me. If creating art is not an activity that slows down your mind, causes you joy, allows you to lose track of time, or makes you feel settled and grounded, then no it's not therapeutic for you. Art making is only therapeutic if it brings you into a more aware awakened state, calming down your nervous system and making you feel positive emotions. Any activity that activates positive neurons and allows you to relax is therapeutic. That could be fishing, cooking, gardening, writing, or making art.
I have worked with clients who feel stress when they try to do art. It is not a fun, relaxing, centering activity for them at all. So, it is not therapeutic at all.
But, for some people using their hands has a calming effect. Women and men throughout time have knitted, sewed, painted, practiced pottery and have found that it benefited their overall health and well being.Kelly Lambert, author of Lifting Depression writes that:
"… when you knit a sweater or plant a garden, when you prepare a meal or simply repair a lamp, you are bathing your brain in feel-good chemicals and creating a kind of mental vitamin."
Creating helps you feel productive and achieve mastery. By focusing your cognitive and emotional energies on accomplishing making something by hand it becomes a wonderful use for our neural networks as research has repeatedly proven.
Learning new crafts and art processes results in improvements in cognitive functioning and enhances brain plasticity. Because the brain is designed to actively respond to novelty and external enriched environments, it is forced to grow new cells and those cells are forced to make new connections. In making art, we use all our sensory organs.
This month in the studio we have been playing with knitting.
French Knitting.
Circle looms provide easy way for children to create toques.
Knitting with thick bamboo needles.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
FAQ About Art Therapy
How do you stay healthy when you are dealing with trauma and heart breaking stories all day?
I am asked this question frequently. The short answer: I am doing what I am passionate about and what I think matters. However, the long answer is that I work at it. Ken Wilber wrote a book called Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening that suggested the need for having a spiritual, emotional, physical and cognitive practice to maintain balance and growth. I have been doing that for years. I am a regular runner, which helps with releasing stress, frustration and keeps me physically and mentally fit. I meditate which is important to help me grow spiritually and keeps me from over identifying with my small self. I am constantly taking courses and reading which keeps me mentally sharp and I practice Focusing weekly to help me stay healthy emotionally. When I am overwhelmed by the system, the world, or my clients I have a partner who is willing to listen to me and I have a wonderful two year old Granddaughter to play with when I want to feel better about humanity.
I have to be diligent to not hold on to the sadness and pain that is involved in my work. I struggle with feeling that things are not getting better in the world for women and children so I watch what I listen to outside of work hours. I can't listen to the news, watch discouraging movies and/or go out with people to complain about the state of the world. This is not putting my head in the sand, I just need to be careful to balance what I see, hear and read so that I don't become discouraged.
What do you do to keep healthy?
One of the art activities that we have been doing in the studio lately is mask making. Children learn about identity and self expression when they engage in making a mask. They express feelings through their art, develop critical-thinking skills, and learn that there is more then one right answer or way of creating something. Art making builds confidence and helps children feel happy.
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Send a soldier a holiday greeting
The American Red Cross is hoping to send some holiday cheer to troops around the globe with the held of LOU residents. Holiday cards can be mailed to Holiday Mail for Heroes, P.O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456. For more information or to plan a group card singing event, call 236-1282. (November 30, 2011, Page 2)
Property tax statements on the way
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Be a Santa to a senior
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Shoppers buy local on Black Friday
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Keep your home safe during holidays
By taking a few extra steps this holiday season when traveling away from home to visit loved ones during the holidays, there's a better chance everything will still be as you left it when you return. Home burglaries climb during the holiday season. Read today's EAGLE for some tips on keeping your home safe. (November 24, 2011, Page 1A)
Square turns festive Friday
The Oxford Downtown Council is hoping to kick off Christmas with some old and new traditions this year, including Oxford's first official Christmas tree lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday. (November 24, 2011, Page 1A)
Travel safe over busy holiday
Local law enforcement agencies will be stepping up enforcement over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. (November 23, 2011, Page 1A)
OPD investigated robbery
The Oxford Police Department is still searching for the man who robbed Cash Advance on Monday afternoon. The suspect fled the scene with an unknown amount of cash. No one was injured and no weapon was presented, only implied. (November 22, 2011, Page 2)
Final home football game keeps law enforcement busy
While the Ole Miss Rebels didn't have much success in its game against LSU Saturday, local law enforcement officers were successful in rounding up those who stepped out of the legal bounds of the community. (November 22, 2011, Page 2)
Community invited to Thanksgiving feast
St. John Evangelist Catholic Church is offering a free Thanksgiving meal at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. (November 22, 2011, Page 1)


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Electric Worry
"This song is one part cover song, one part original. Half of each verse is taken from Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Fred's Worried Life Blues." The rest is our own concoction. When we wrote the upbeat part of the song, I couldn't hear the typical blues sentiment. Instead, it kind of became a motivational speaker slapping himself out of a stupor. The chorus "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Vamanos! Vamanos!" has nothing to do with guns. It got its start long ago when Tim, and I can't recall why, said, "Vamanos! Bang! Bang!" Add a bit of John Lee Hooker and there you go. The ripping harp solo is none other that Five Horse Johnson"s Eric Oblander."
Well you made me weep and you made me moan
When you caused me to leave, child, my happy home.
But someday, baby, you ain't gonna worry my life anymore.
I get satisfaction everywhere I go.
Where I lay my head - that's where I call home.
Whether barren pines, or the mission stare,
Take tomorrow's collar and give 'em back the glare.
Bang, bang, bang, bang! Vamanos, vamanos.
Bang, bang, bang! Vamanos, vamanos.
You told everybody in the neighborhood
what a dirty mistreater. That I was no good.
But someday, baby, you ain't gonna worry my life anymore.
Doctor or lawyer, I'll never be.
Life of a drifter - only life for me,
You can have your riches, all the gold you saved.
Cause' ain't room for one thing in everybody's grave.
Bang, bang, bang, bang! Vamanos, vamanos!
Bang, bang, bang! Vamanos, vamanos!
If I had money, like Henry Ford,
Lord, I'd have me a woman, yeah on every road.
But Someday, baby, you ain't gonna worry my life any more.
Invocation of the dummies, requiem for a head,
Cash in at the corner, piles of street cred.
I get satisfaction everywhere I go.
One day baby you'll worry me no more.
Bang, bang, bang, bang! Vamanos, vamanos!
Bang, bang, bang! Vamanos, vamanos!
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I would look into your water softner. Did they test the water for you and recommend what it would take to really soften it? I had an etching problem and read up all I could about it. Once they are etched, it's over for that glass. I got new glasses and started using Cascade complete and plenty of rinse stuff. I try to avoid the lemon versions. I cut down on the amount of detergent I was using. I ran vinegar through the dishwasher every month. Seemed to help.
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Good Tuesday morning. I have a clean and simple springy bird card to share with you today. I had the white decorative layer cut on my desk from from the weekend and decided no matter what I was going to use it for something. I finally decided to cut a frame out of it and use it to frame the bird and branch image. I guess the eyelet and the bird are sort of a miss match but I still like the way it turned out.
I colored the bird, branch and leaves with various Copic markers. I'm not sure I have ever seen a bird quite the color of this one but it is what it is. LOL! After getting the whole image colored I had a hard time figuring out what color paper to frame it with. I finally decided on this blue and if you put a gun to my head I can't tell you the brand or color. I think Stampin' Up! but I've had it so long I'm not sure. I formed several small yellow flower and attached to the branches with glossy accents.
I assembled the double matted frame, attached a piece of white cardstock on the back with mounting tape and attached the whole thing to the card base. I attached the bird in the scene with mounting tape. I like the yellow flowers in contrast with the blue and green of the bird.
I appreciate you coming by and I hope you have a wonderful day.
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Good Monday morning. I have a fun scene to share with you today with a little girl sitting on a park bench and we can assume she is feeding the ducks. The scene was made using the new Impression Obsession Farm Girl set, Bench, the tree from the Reading Tree set, Clouds, Grass Border, Small Grass Border, Tiny Flowers, Leaves and Stems and Small Bird set.
I colored girl, the ducks and the tree with Copic markers. I paper pieced the dress with designer paper, hand cut a little white collar and added a white ribbon sash. I formed all the tiny flowers with my stylus and molding pad and attached them to the stems with glossy accents.
I created a double matted frame, attached layers of water and grass to the back of the frame with ATG adhesive and then attached the frame to the designer paper card base with strips of mounting tape. I attached the bench in between the grass layers with mounting tape and attached the little girl to the bench with mounting tape. I tucked some sprigs of grass in between the layers of water to soften and tucked the stems of flowers around the bench and in between the grass attached with glossy accents. I attached the tree and clouds in the background with mounting tape. I attached the ducks in the grass and in between the layers of water with glue dots.
The little girl in the set is made in a standing position but I thought she looked perfect sitting on the bench with her ducks.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a great week.
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Good Sunday morning. I have a bridal card to share with you today that would be so perfect to attach to a shower gift. It was made with the new Impression Obsession Gown set and paired with the Ornate Rectangle Frame, Spiral Flowers Large set, Leaf Cluster, Tiny Flowers and Leaves and Stems. It seems I can't stop using the Bazzill Sour Grape and Easter Grass color combination. I had the lavender rose left over from another project and decided it would be perfect to use for the bouquet.
I cut the dress once using plain white cardstock to use as a base for two additional layers cut using vellum. I used scalloped scissors to cut the center out of one of the vellum layers to create a decorative element and dimension for the skirt of the dress. I crimped both vellum dresses, attached them together at the waist with double stick tape and then attach both layers to the dress base with double stick tape. I attached the dresses together at the waist as I knew the tape would show through the vellum but would be covered up with the bouquet.
I colored the bride using several shades of Copic markers. I added some detail in her hair and a thin eyebrow using a brown distress marker. I attached the bride to the dress with glossy accents. I created the bouquet with the rolled rose, leaves, stems and tiny flowers. I cut the ribbon from the gown set and attached to the back of the bouquet with glossy accents. I attached the bouquet to the dress with glossy accents. I added tiny pearls to the dress for a touch of glam. The bride's neck got bent by accident so I ended up adding a single tiny pearl to cover it. I added two tiny leaves to her hair and then added three tiny flowers made using formed 1/8" punched circles for the finishing touch.
Here's a closer view of the bride. I wish the crimped pattern of the dress showed up better in the pictures.
I attached the frame to the card base with mounting tape and then attached the bride over the opening of the frame with mounting tape. I thought she would look so pretty standing in the lavender frame.
Have you seen the Impression Obsession Wedding Icons set, Wedding Cake set. and the Bride and Groom set? What a great grouping of dies for wedding and shower cards.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday.
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Good Saturday morning. I have a colorful butterfly garden card to share with you today. I love the beautiful Beau Jardin designer paper in the background that sets the stage for all the butterflies and flowers. The butterflies were made using the Impression Obsession Medium Butterflies set, the flowers are from the Spring Wreath set and the garden fence and grass was made using the Large Fence, Grass Border and Small Grass Border.
I attached the grass border to the front of the fence with glossy accents. I applied double stick tape to the bottom and sides of the fence and attached it to the back of the frame. I attached thin strips of mounting tape to the back of the frame and attached it to the card base. I lightly sponged distress inks with a mini applicator on the butterflies and flowers to add a bit of depth. The flowers were formed with my stylus and molding pad, assembled with glossy accents.
The flowers were attached to the grass border with glossy accents. The butterflies were attached to the fence and card base with glossy accents and the wings were bent up and secured in place with rolled up glue dots. Tiny pearls were added to the center of each butterfly and clear Wink of Stella was lightly applied to all the flowers and butterflies to add a bit of sparkle.
Here's a side view to show all the pretty sparkle from the Wink of Stella.
I'm so happy you came by today and I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday.
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Google loses appeal in Street View snooping case
A federal appeals court said Google wrongly collected people's personal correspondence and online activities through their Wi-Fi systems as it drove down their streets with car cameras shooting photos for its Street View mapping project.
The ruling that the practice violates wiretap laws sends a warning to other companies seeking to suck up vast amounts of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi signals.
"The payload data transmitted over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks that was captured by Google included emails, usernames, passwords, images, and documents," wrote the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco in a report released Tuesday.
Google had argued that their activities were exempt from the wiretap law because data transmitted over a Wi-Fi network is a "radio communication" and is "readily accessible to the public."
Not so, wrote the judges, agreeing with an earlier federal judge's ruling.
"Even if it is commonplace for members of the general public to connect to a neighbour's unencrypted Wi-Fi network, members of the general public do not typically mistakenly intercept, store, and decode data transmitted by other devices on the network," they said.
Google's Street View cars can be spotted with pole mounted cameras on their roofs, photographing along roadways the world over. The photos then show up on Google's popular Street View map option, where viewers can virtually scroll along a street past homes, cars and shops, all captured in photographs.
But unbeknownst to passers-by, those cameras weren't just making photos. They were also collecting detailed information transmitted over Wi-Fi networks they passed through.
Privacy experts and industry watchers said this was the first time an appeals court has ruled that it's illegal for a company to sniff out and collect private information from the Wi-Fi networks that provide Internet service to people at home. Google is also the first publically known company to try.
"This appeals court decision is a tremendous victory for privacy rights. It means Google can't suck up private communications from people's Wi-Fi networks and claim their Wi-Spying was exempt from federal wiretap laws," said John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's privacy project director. "Because Google's Wi-Spy activity was so extensive, the potential damages could amount to billions of dollars."
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of Electronic Privacy Information Center, called it "a landmark decision for Internet privacy."
"The court made clear that the federal privacy law applies to residential Wi-Fi networks," he said. "Users should be protected when a company tries to capture data that travels between their laptop and their printer in their home.
A Google spokesperson said Tuesday that attorneys for the Internet giant are "disappointed in the 9th Circuit's decision and are considering our next steps."
Attorney Elizabeth Cabraser, representing a class action of plaintiffs who say their privacy was invaded by Google said Tuesday they look forward to resuming their case now that a federal appeals court has ruled in their favour.
Google has apologized for the snooping, which it says took place between 2008 and March 2010. It promised to stop collecting the data and said the practice, conducted in more than 30 countries, was inadvertent but not illegal.
Earlier this year Google settled a 37-state lawsuit for $7 million after attorney generals sued over what they said was an invasion of privacy for the data collection.
The practice was discovered by a German data protection commissioner in 2010. A few months later, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told conference goers the firm had made a mistake.
"In short, let me just say that we screwed up," he said at the time.
Google says it has disabled the equipment that was collecting the data, and agreed to destroy the information as soon as possible. The company is currently obliged to hold it, unused, because of ongoing litigation.
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March 31, 1970 H. s. SPACIL 3,503,809
ELECTRICAL DEVICE INCLUDING NICKEL-CONTAINING STABILIZED ZIRCONIA ELECTRODE Filed Nov. 2. 1967 Fig. 0
lnven for Henry 5. Spaci/ His Afforney.
United States Patent US. Cl. 13686 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Electrode-electrolyte construction for a high temperature electrical device, such as a fuel cell, is described wherein a porous layer containing a mixture of nickel or cobalt particles providing a continuous electrical path in the porous layer and small particles of stabilized zirconia present as a discontinuous phase is firmly bonded to a substrate of stabilized zirconia. The structural interrelationship of the particles in the porous layer wherein the metallic component is the major constituent is responsible for the capability of this particular electrode construction to remain porous during operation at high temperatures for extended periods of time.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser, No. 407,641 filed Oct. 30, 1964, now abandoned.
This invention has particular applicability to high temperature electrical devices operated at temperatures over about 600 C. and up to about 1200 C., such as fuel cells, oxygen sensors and oxygen generating equipment. Those devices of prime interest in the practice of this invention employ stabilized zirconia as the electrolyte, electrodes (fuel and oxygen being supplied to the respective electrodes in the case of fuel cell operation) and electrical leads connected to the respective electrodes. By way of example only the description herein will be directed to fuel cell operation.
These fuel cells, such as are shown in US. Letters Patent 3,138,487 and 3,138,490 assigned to the assignee of the instant application generate low voltagedirect current power on a continuous basis, have application in various chemical process industries, such as in the manufacture of aluminum and in the electro-refining of copper. In addition, the cells can be employed to operate direct current motors.
One of the serious problems faced by the art in the construction of high temperature fuel cell electrodes has been the need to develop a porous, adherent metallic electrode that will remain porous and adherent during operation at high temperatures for extended periods of time. Ordinarily, under the influence of high temperatures (during operation of the device) migration of atomic size defects occurs in such electrodes producing a temperature-dependent sintering action, which in turn causes collapse and densification of the metal particle arrangement responsible for the porous nature of the electrode.
It has been discovered that by increasing the viscosity of the metallic phase under operating conditions, a stiffening thereof is promoted and resistance of the metallic phase to collapse is substantially increased. Anode construction incorporating this mechanism employs a mixture of metal particles selected from the group consisting of nickel and cobalt and particles of stabilized zirconia, the metal particles (a) being large compared to the zirconia particles, (b) constituting over volume percent of the anode and (c) directly contacting adjacent metal particles but leaving three dimensional open paths M ICC through the anode with the smaller zirconia particles intimately dispersed as a discontinuous phase between metal particles.
Likewise, it has been discoverd that although nickel oxide-zirconia mixtures meeting the above criteria do not satisfactorily adhere to a stabilized zirconia substrate, lithiated nickel oxide-zirconia mixtures are very adherent to such substrates. Subsequent reduction to produce a nickel-zirconia mixture does not disturb the adherence to the substrate. In the case of cobalt, however, the lithium addition was not required to insure the development of satisfactory lasting adherence between a cobalt oxidezirconia mixture and the stabilized zirconia substrate by the method described herein.
It is, therefore, a prime object of this invention to provide means incorporated in the electrode construction of a zirconia electrolyte-porous electrode composite to markedly increase the capability of the electrode to retain its porosity at high temperatures.
It is another object of this invention to enable the adherence of a nickel-zirconia deposit to a stabilized zirconia substrate.
These and various other objects, features, and advantages of the invention will be better understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a sectional View of a composite article embodying my invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a modified composite article;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of another modified composite article;
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a high temperature fuel cell embodying the composite article of my invention; and
FIG. 5 is a sectional view through the metal particlezirconia particle anode schematically showing the general manner of particle disposition according to this invention.
In FIG. 1 of the drawing, a composite article is shown generally at 10 which comprises a tubular member 11 of solid stabilized zirconia, and an adherent porous layer 12 on the exterior surface thereof. Layer 12 consists essentially of greater than 50 volume percent of cobalt or nickel particles sintered together with the balance of the volume consisting of an intimate dispersion of very small particles of stabilized zirconia present as a discontinuous phase as is shown schematically in FIG. 5. These volume percentages exclude the porosity of the layer, the connected void content of which may range from 5-30% by volume of the layer.
In FIG. 2 of the drawing, there is shown a modified composite article comprising a container 13 consisting of an adherent porous layer 14 on the exterior surface of stabilized zirconia substrate 15, which layer 14 is of the same material as layer 12 in FIG. 1.
In FIG. 3 of the drawing, there is shown another modified composite article comprising a plate 16 of stabilized zirconia, and an adherent porous layer 17 on one surface thereof, which layer 17 is of the same material as layer 12 in FIG. 1.
In FIG. 4 of the drawing, there is shown a device 18, which may be used, for example, as a high temperature fuel cell. Device 18 embodies the composite article 10 of FIG. 1, which comprises a hollow tubular member 11 of solid stabilized zirconia and porous metal-sintered zirconia layer 12 described hereinabove as the electrolyte and anode, respectively, to which has been added the cathode layer 19 (which may, for example, be of lithiated nickel oxide, or zirconia-silver) on the interior surface of electrolyte 11. It is contemplated that various cathode materials may be employed and the particular material or construction of the cathode forms no part of this improvement. A conduit 20 surrounds and is spaced from anode 12 to provide annular chamber 21.
The location of electrodes 12 and 19 could be interchanged with porous anode 12 being in contact with the interior surface of member 11 and cathode 19 being in contact with the exterior surface of member 11. A lead wire 22 of nickel is attached to layer 12 (the anode), while a lead 23 of some oxidation-resistant metal or alloy is attached to cathode 19. The free ends of leads 22 and 23 would be connected to an electrical load, such as an electric motor for operation thereof by the cell. Conduit 24 is provided for conducting a gaseous oxidant containing molecular oxygen to cathode 19 from a source (not shown). Air and oxygen are examples of typical gaseous oxidants. Conduit 24 communicates with the volume de fined by cathode 19. An outlet line 25 communicates with the opposite end of the same volume. A fuel gas, such as hydrogen or carbon monoxide is conducted from a fuel gas source (not shown) into and through annular chamber 21 defined by conduit 20 and porous anode 12. The efiluent material, which forms during operation of the cell, is exhausted from the far end of chamber 21 after passage over the outer surface of porous anode 12.
Solid stabilized zirconia is a compound with a cubic crystal structure consisting of zirconia to which has been added calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, yttrium oxide, ytterbium oxide, or a mixture of rare earth oxides. For example, a preferred solid zirconia member employed as an electrolyte is stabilized with 11 molecular percent calcium oxide. Other stabilized zirconias, which may also be employed as solid electrolytes are discussed in Oxide Ceramics by Ryshkewitch, Academic Press, 1960, particularly on pages 354, 364 and 376 thereof.
Zirconia may be purchased commercially already stabilized or in a relatively pure state for stabilization (conversion from monoclinic zirconia to cubic zirconia) by the user. Typical analyses of the pre-stabilized and unstabilized zirconias used in the production of this invention are set forth below:
Pre-stabilized Unstabilized 0. ll 0. l
*Traces of HfOz.
It has been found that the metal (cobalt or nickel) stabilized zirconia porous layer described herein is an electronic conductor which is a very satisfactory anode material, when applied over a substrate of stabilized zirconia serving as the electrolyte. These materials bond well together and are electrically and mechanically com patible whether or not the dispersed stabilized zirconia phase in the anode is, or is not, the same as the stabilized zirconia electrolyte. This electrolyte and this electrode constitute a desirable electrode-electrolyte composite body.
In the preparation of the composite article shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 in the drawing, the solid stabilized zirconia member may be prepared directly from the commercially available pre-stabilized zirconia or from the unstabilized zirconia powder to which has been added calcium oxide (about 11 molecular percent) or other stabilizing agent. The material is formed into a hollow tubular member, a container or a flat plate shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.
A preferred method of forming a porous anode layer consisting of greater than 50 volume percent nickel particles with the balance being an intimate dispersion of a stabilized zirconia as a discontinuous phase, is to initially mix lithium carbonate and nickel oxide in proportions to give ten atomic percent lithium in the metal species (the total of the lithium atoms plus the total of the nickel atoms), and grind the lithium carbonate and nickel oxide in an inert vehicle such as ethanol. The resulting mixture is then dried and calcined in air at 1500 C. for 30 minutes. The calcined oxide shows a black color typical of metal-excess (non-stoichiometric) semiconducting compositions based on nickel oxide. The resulting oxide is then crushed, ground, and passed through a 325 mesh screen. The resulting lithiated nickel oxide powder is mixed with an aqueous slurry of stabilized zirconia of the same type as the zirconia electrolyte in a 4:1 ratio by weight. The particle size of this stabilized zirconia should be less than 10 microns, which is considerably smaller than most of the 325 mesh (about 45 microns) particles of lithiated nickel oxide. The aqueous slurry of stabilized zirconia can be the so-called slip used for fabrication of commercial zirconia bodies by slip casting. This 4:1 proportion will provide a material consisting of 70 volume percent of nickel (after most of the lithium is driven off as LiOH and the nickel oxide has been reduced to nickel) and the balance is the fine highly dispersed zirconia. The viscosity of the slurry is adjusted by changing its water content.
The slurry is then painted onto the outer surface of a solid stabilized zirconia member such as the hollow tubular member shown in FIG. 1 of the drawing. An assem-- bly of the solid stabilized zirconia tubular member with the slurry painted thereon is then dried by infrared heating to remove moisture. The assembly is then fired in air at 1550 C. for forty-five minutes, cooled and reheated in hydrogen to 1050 C. over a period of about one hour to convert the lithiated nickel oxide to nickel (most of the lithium is driven off by this treatment leaving a layer consisting predominately of nickel containing the dispersed zirconia phase).
The initial air firing of the assembly causes the lithiated nickel oxide to bond to the stabilized zirconia electrolyte and to sinter into a rather dense, strong layer containing an intimate dispersion of zirconia as a discontinuous phase therein. The subsequent firing of the assembly in hydrogen during which water vapor is formed and driven off produces a layer of porous nickel and some small amount of lithium containing an intimate dispersion of stabilized zirconia. The porosity results from the volumetric decrease of each individual particle associated with the removal of oxygen by the hydrogen. The relationship of these materials after sintering is shown in FIG. 5 wherein the metal particles 26 (cobalt or nickel) are shown as a continuous phase with connected three dimensional open paths interconnecting through the mass of contacting particles 26 extending from interface 27, where the metal-zirconia layer is bonded to the zirconia substrate to the outer surface 28. The smaller dispersed stabilized zirconia particles 29 are out of contact with each other and remain trapped by the larger metal particles retaining the spacing between metal particles during high temperature operation.
In the case of nickel the metal-zirconia layer becomes [bonded to the stabilized zirconia substrate through the creation of a graded seal of nickel oxide-zirconium oxide, which appears to form when the lithiated nickel oxide is fired on a stabilized zirconia member. This graded seal remains as a transition layer of varying composition extending from the zirconia substrate to the lithiated nickel oxide or, as occurs later nickel, particles.
In the case of either metal (nickel or cobalt) the resultant porous metal layer containing an intimate dispersion of finely divided stabilized zirconia is electronically conductive and adheres well to the solid stabilized zirconia member to provide a composite article. No reliance is placed upon semiconductivity in this electrode construction and the electrical behavior of the nickel is not affected in any way by the escape of lithium atoms from the system during the reduction Step and/or during operation.
The same method may be employed with the zirconia members in FIGS. 2 and 3 of the drawing. Either the interior or exterior surface of the container in FIG. 2 or the plate in FIG. 3 is provided with a porous layer of nickel or cobalt containing stabilized zirconia.
In accordance with the above method of forming a porous electrode layer consisting of more than 50 volume percent nickel with the balance being an intimate dispersion of zirconia particles, the nickel metal must be produced by reduction of lithiated nickel oxide. When lithiated nickel oxide is reduced to nickel metal in accordance with the method described, the resultant porous nickel layer is an electronic conductor. If the above method is practiced by mixing similar volume percentages of nickel powder and zirconia and sintering the mixture, the layer produced has been found not to be an electronic conductor. Cobalt, on the contrary, does not have to be introduced in the lithiated state in the formation of cobaltzirconia layers by this general method.
By densifying and bonding the initial layer to the zirconia electrolyte substrate by sintering a pressure step is eliminated during the 'sintering step. This facilitates formation of the anode layer in various configurations.
A similar method may be employed for the preparation of a porous cobalt anode except that the lithium component need not be employed. Thus, cobalt oxide (1-10 microns in size) is sintered in air at about 1720 C. for about one hour. The resulting material is crushed and passed through a 325 mesh screen, the maximum particle size of the sintered material passing through the screen being about 45 microns. The resulting screened (325 mesh) sintered cobalt oxide is mixed in an aqueous slurry of stabilized zirconia (about 1-2 micron size) in 70% 30% proportions (by volume), respectively. A small amount of Carbowax is added and the slurry is applied to the zirconia electrolyte surface. The layer is then sintered in a slightly oxidizing atmosphere (argon plus 2% CO at 1300 C. for about 1 hour and then cooled. Subsequent reheating in hydrogen at 10501200 C. for about one hour converts the cobalt oxide to cobalt particles in contact with adjacent cobalt particles having interspersed therethrough the collapse-resisting small zirconia particles as a discontinuous phase.
In FIG. 4 of the drawing, a hollow tubular member 11 of solid stabilized zirconia with a porous layer 12 thereon of nickel or cobalt containing an intimate dispersion of solid stabilized zirconia (as shown in FIGS. 1 and of the drawing as composite article is prepared as a composite article in accordance with the above method. Other methods, such as deposition by either plasma spraying or flame spraying, may also be used for preparation of the article in part or in whole. The composite article which is a unitary electrode-electrolyte body is combined with other elements to form a fuel cell 18. An inlet line 24 is provided to communicate with the volume defined by the cathode 19 and to supply an oxidant, such as oxygen, thereto. A fuel gas such as hydrogen or carbon monoxide is supplied to chamber 21 and anode 12 via conduit 20. The oxidation products are removed from chamber 21 via conduit 25. A lead 22 of nickel is attached to anode 12 while a lead 23 of an oxidation-resistant metal or alloy is attached to cathode 19, the free ends of the leads being connected to apparatus (not shown) to be operated by power generated by fuel cell 18.
In the operation of the device 18 shown in FIG. 4 as a fuel cell, heat, such as waste heat, is supplied from a source (not shown) to raise the temperature of electrolyte 11, anode 12 and cathode 19 to a temperature in the range of 800 C. to 1200 C. The cathode 19 is then saturated with oxygen (or a source of oxygen) which is supplied through inlet line 24. The reaction at the cathode-electrolyte interface is as follows:
The oxygen ion moves through electrolyte 11 to the anodeelectrolyte interface 27 to combine with either hydrogen in accordance with reaction (2) or to combine with carbon monoxide in accordance with reaction (3) The electrons, which are given up at anode 12 are conducted through lead 22 to apparatus (not shown) for use as electrical power and the oxygen at the cathode 19 combines with electrons returning from the apparatus. The water vapor or carbon dioxide which is generated at anode 12 is released to the atmosphere through outlet line 25.
Composite articles, which are unitary electrode-electrolyte bodies, have been made in accordance with the present invention. Each of these electrode-electrolyte bodies comprised a solid stabilized zirconia substrate with an adherent porous layer thereon, which layer consisted of about 70 volume percent metal particles with the balance being particles of stabilized zirconia dispersed therethrough. The porous layer was prepared either in accordance with the method set forth above or by codepositing metal oxide particles and stabilized zirconia particles by plasma spraying. A number of these composite articles, which are identified by cell numbers 14 in Table I were tested to determine their effectiveness in high temperature fuel cells of which employed in addition a cathode, an oxidant containing molecular oxygen, and a fuel gas of line hydrogen. Each cell was operated at the temperature indicated for several days. Electrical leads were connected to both electrodes and the power generated by the cell was dissipated in a simple decade resistor. Each cell was heated to its operating temperature in a resistance furnace. Cells 1 and 2 employed a lithiated nickel oxide cathode, while cells 3 and 4 were provided with praseodymium cobaltate cathodes as described in U.S. patent application S.N. 645,288Mitoif, filed June 12, 1967 and assigned to the assignee of the instant application.
TABLE I Cell Anode Temp., Load Current density No. Metal C. voltage (v.) (ma/cmfl) While other modifications of this invention and variations of method which may be employed within the scope of the invention have not been described, the invention is intended to include such as may be embraced Within the following claims.
What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. In an electrical device for operation at temperatures in excess of about 600 C., said device comprising a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer separated by and adhered to a layer of stabilized zirconia, the improvement comprising the first electrode layer having as the major constituent thereof by volume a metal selected from the group consisting of nickel and cobalt and the balance consisting essentially of stabilized zirconia, the metal being present in the form of sintered particles disposed as a continuous phase with three-dimensionel paths extending through said first electrode layer and the zirconia in said first electrode layer being present as particles dispersed among the metal particles as a discontinuance phase, whereby said first electrode layer is able to resist collapse of said three dimensionel paths by temperature dependent sintering.
2. The improvement in electrode construction substantially as recited in claim 1 wherein the stabilized zirconia particles dispersed among the metal particles are less than 10 microns in size and the metal particles range in size up to about 45 microns.
3. The improvement in electrode construction substantially as recited in claim 1 wherein the open void content provided by the connected three-dimensional paths ranges from about 5 to about 30 percent of the total volume of the first electrode.
4. The improvement in electrode construction substantially as recited in claim 1 wherein the electrical device is a fuel cell, the first electrode is the anode and the metal particles are nickel.
8 5. The improvement in electrode construction substantially as recited in claim 4 wherein the first electrode layer is adhered to the layer of stabilized zirconia by a graded seal bond.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,300,344 1/1967 Bray et a1. 136-86 3,404,039 10/1968 Mitofi 13686 3,416,967 12/1968 White 136-86 ALLEN B. CURTIS, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 204195
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