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All murders begin as mysteries. In the aftermath of a killing, especially one to which there are no surviving witnesses, there's often very little to go on: the brutal fact of a dead body, a dark sense of violence and terror hanging in the air, and the scattered details of a crime scene that will hopefully add up to a lead. Gradually, investigators make their way, figuring out who did it, and where, and when, and how. They may even have a theory about why.
Every so often during the five years that Tim Cole worked on the Heather Rich case, he would leave the courthouse in the evening after the North Texas sky had grown dark and drive to the Belknap Creek bridge, just south of the Oklahoma border. The winding stretch of blacktop that led there eventually came to an end, giving way to a dirt road. Cole, the district attorney of Montague County, would follow the road north as it meandered toward the Red River, until he reached a backwater creek. He might spend an hour out there, standing on the old cement bridge, without seeing a single pair of headlights cut through the darkness. Cole prepared for the trials of Heather's killers this way, turning over the details of the case as he stared down at the murky, slow-moving water where her body had been found.
Heather was from Waurika, Oklahoma, a town of 2,064 people that sits twelve miles north of the Red River, along what was once the Chisholm Trail. A pretty high school cheerleader, she was just sixteen—a year younger than Cole's own daughter—when she was killed, on October 3, 1996. The killers were three teenage boys, including the captain of Waurika High School's football team, who had engaged in a night of heavy drinking and sex before Heather was shot in the head. Long before "Steubenville" and "rape culture" became buzzwords on social media and 24-hour cable news shows, Waurika found itself at the center of a now-familiar conversation about lost values and teenage dissolution. Where were the parents? How had something this horrendous happened in such a small, tight-knit community?
Two of the teenagers who were charged with Heather's murder, Curtis Gambill and Josh Bagwell, were bad kids as far as Cole was concerned. Curtis had a criminal record and a violent history and had been briefly committed to a mental hospital. Josh too had had brushes with the law. Except for an initial, misleading account of the crime that Curtis gave to the Texas Rangers, neither one had cooperated with the investigation or expressed any remorse. But the DA puzzled over how Randy Wood—the soft-spoken, well-regarded captain of the Waurika Eagles—had gotten mixed up in such an appalling crime. Cole had made a name for himself securing the harshest penalties a jury would hand out, but he was flummoxed by what to do with Randy. Cole knew that the seventeen-year-old had never been in trouble before, and he believed Randy was being truthful when he told investigators that he had never intended for Heather, who was a friend, to be killed that night.
To win convictions against the other two teenagers, Cole needed Randy to testify for the state and describe what he had seen take place on the Belknap Creek bridge. Before entering into any kind of agreement with him, though, Cole wanted to verify that the boy had been candid with investigators. One afternoon following his arrest, Randy was transported from his jail cell to the office of a respected polygraph examiner in Dallas, where he underwent a lie detector test. Randy told the examiner that it was Curtis who had shot Heather on the bridge, and that afterward, Josh and Randy had thrown her body into Belknap Creek. The results showed no deception.
The fact that Randy had not actually fired the gun, Cole knew, did not help the boy's case. Under Texas law, all three teenagers—not just the gunman—were considered equally responsible for Heather's murder. So Cole offered Randy a deal: in exchange for his testimony, he could plead guilty to murder, making himself eligible for parole in thirty years. (If he went to trial and was convicted of capital murder, he would receive an automatic life sentence and not be considered for parole for at least forty years.) Randy took the deal, and as Cole prepared to bring the two other teenagers to trial, he and his investigator began to visit Randy in jail, to glean more information before he testified for the prosecution.
Cole tried to establish a rapport with the teenager who sat across from him in the sheriff's private office, studying the floor. Upon learning that Randy liked cheeseburgers, Cole began bringing lunch from a nearby burger stand. Once, with his investigator at the wheel, Cole took Randy, who remained in shackles, for a drive around the county so that he could glimpse the outdoors. They discussed Randy's hard-luck upbringing and the things they shared in common, having grown up playing football in small towns on opposite sides of the river. Mostly, they talked about the case. Randy did not deny his role in the crime or make excuses for what he had done; he said only that he had not known how to stop what was happening when they reached the bridge. He had been afraid of Curtis, who wielded the shotgun. Each time Cole visited, Randy told the DA that he was haunted by his failure to stop Heather's murder.
Then, two days before he was set to testify in Josh's trial, Randy backed out of the deal, saying he could not plead guilty to something he did not do. Cole was devastated, certain that Josh would avoid punishment. The next day, however, Randy explained that he still wanted to testify, without the protection of a deal. By taking the stand with no agreement in place, Randy would be incriminating himself under oath while awaiting his own capital murder trial. Over the frantic protests of his attorney, the boy did just that, recounting to jurors what he had seen that night. Cole was dumbfounded. If Randy understood that he had doomed himself to a future trial at which there would be no presumption of innocence, he didn't seem to care; he said he wanted everyone to know that he was speaking the truth—something he felt he owed Heather and her family. It was the legal equivalent, Cole remarked, of committing suicide in the courtroom.
Randy Wood, who is 34, at the James V. Allred Unit in January 2014.
With Randy's testimony, Cole was able to secure a capital murder conviction and a life sentence for Josh. By then, Curtis had pleaded out, earning himself a life sentence as well. When Randy turned down another plea bargain before his own trial, again refusing to say that he had killed Heather, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. He had forced Cole's hand. The DA prosecuted Randy for capital murder and asked a jury to find him guilty. He was convicted and handed an automatic life sentence.
Randy at the same facility in 2002.
Years later, long after Cole had boxed up his case files and stowed them in the attic of the Montague County courthouse, he would find himself thinking about Randy. Cole had not lost sight of the horror of Heather's murder or of Randy's own culpability; he would never forget the awful details he had recounted to jurors during Randy's trial. But the prosecutor was moved by the knowledge that the teenager had tried—too late—to make things right. Seventeen was an awfully young age to be given up on, Cole thought, and he wondered sometimes if Randy was not deserving of mercy.
Last summer, Cole was sitting at his desk, surrounded by the files of other felony cases he needed to attend to, when he began to do some quick calculations. He was startled to realize that Randy was 34 years old. The teenager he remembered had spent half his life in prison. Cole began to wonder: What would the right punishment have been for Randy? What number of years would have accounted for the dreadfulness of what he did, while also considering the good? And then another thought hit him: What would it be like to sit and talk with Randy again?
Heather had slipped out her bedroom window shortly before midnight on October 2, 1996, having made plans to meet up with Josh. It was their first date. Josh was a senior at Waurika High School and came from a wealthy family who owned land along the river. His mother, who was divorced, was an attorney in Lawton, an hour's drive away, and his grandparents, whom he lived with, exerted little control over him. He had a predilection for sports cars and assault rifles, both of which he owned, and he bristled at authority. (Once, after he was arrested for drunk driving, he scuffled with police officers, yelling, "I want my f—ing attorney!") Heather, a sophomore, was elated that he had said she could ride on the back of his Dodge Stealth in the homecoming parade later that month.
Heather in a 1996 school photo.
In a time when teenagers were not ceaselessly interconnected by texting and Twitter and Instagram, Heather was rarely content to stay at home. Sometimes she would climb out her window to smoke a cigarette or catch a ride and cruise all three blocks of Waurika's mostly shuttered main drag. Three years earlier, her home life had been plunged into chaos when her father, Duane, an electrician for a utility company, was horribly burned on the job after a transformer blew up. To support the family, her mother, Gail, had purchased the local Subway franchise and worked constantly to make ends meet. Heather put in long hours at the family business and helped care for her father during her mother's absences. She began acting out in self-destructive ways that fall, discreetly cutting herself with a razor blade. Less than a week before she sneaked out to meet Josh, she was suspended from school for three days after she was caught drinking while leading cheers at a Waurika Eagles football game.
When Josh was late to pick her up that night—the plan had been for him to wait by the church near her house at midnight—she decided to strike out on her own, walking nearly a mile down Waurika's darkened streets to the travel trailer behind his house, where he had mentioned that he and some friends would be hanging out. No one was there, but she decided to wait.
When Josh arrived at the trailer, he was accompanied by two friends of his, Curtis and Randy. The boys had spent the evening draining a bottle of whiskey. Besides football, there was little else to do in Waurika. There was no movie theater or coffee shop or public park, only a Sonic in Comanche, seventeen miles away. On weekends, teenagers drove the back roads out to Lake Waurika or headed into the country to pasture parties, where methamphetamine—the cheap, homemade speed that was becoming popular in North Texas and southern Oklahoma—was passed around as often as marijuana. Heather had smoked pot before, and she had tried meth that fall, but despite her best efforts, she was not much of a partier; a few beers left her unsteady on her feet.
At the trailer, Curtis, Josh, and Randy began working their way through a case of beer. It was a Wednesday night, and there was school in the morning, but none of them much seemed to care. Their plan, if they even had one, was to drink themselves into oblivion.
Randy was already halfway there. For him, the evening was not unlike many others. He often had the dazed look of a kid in his own world. Randy had first smoked pot in the third grade, after stealing it from his mother, Kathy, who was an avid partier. He was fourteen, he remembered, when he got high with her for the first time. One night during his junior year of high school, he had come home to find Kathy and her dealer sitting beside a mound of meth on the kitchen table; he recalled his mother instructing him to take some and leave. Kathy did not know who his father was, and she had moved him all over Oklahoma when he was a kid, so much so that he had attended three different schools during the fifth grade alone. Funny and easygoing, Randy was universally liked wherever he went, but no matter how many times he started over, he had never been able to leave his drinking and drug use behind. Only one adult—a high school history teacher who took him aside his freshman year—had ever warned him to slow down.
Of the three boys who were at the trailer that night, Heather knew Randy best. They had dated before, although things had never gotten serious. She had brought him with her to First Assembly of God Church and helped him with his homework, which he struggled with. He had ferried her around Waurika in his grandmother's old brown Cadillac Fleetwood, the only car his family owned. Once, after driving Heather to an orthodontist appointment in Duncan, half an hour away, he had let her take the wheel of the Cadillac for a heart-stopping ride along the shoulder of U.S. 81. That was as exciting as things ever got. There had never been much of a spark between them, just a comfortable friendship. Not long after the start of school that fall, he had broken things off after hearing that she had gone skinny-dipping at a coed pool party without him.
The outlier that night was Curtis. The wiry nineteen-year-old did not attend Waurika High, and Heather had never met him before. He was from Terral, a tiny town south of Waurika on the cusp of the river, and he was a drinking and hunting buddy of Josh's. Randy had met him one summer when they both worked in the watermelon fields, loading ripe fruit into the backs of semi-trailers. On their lunch breaks, they had gotten high together, but Randy had seen little of him since. Randy knew nothing about Curtis's past—how he had spent years in juvenile detention centers and had broken out of each one. How he had brought an unloaded gun to school and threatened to kill his teachers. How he was eventually kicked out for terrorizing other students. How he was rumored to have slaughtered neighbors' livestock. How he had once boasted that his fantasy was to kidnap and rape a girl, then "blow her head off." All those details would emerge later, during the investigation. That night, Randy just thought he was someone to get wasted with.
Kelly Siegler, a 21-year veteran of the Harris County district attorney's office, was as dogged and passionate about her job as any prosecutor in recent memory, securing convictions in all 68 of the murder cases she took to trial.
In retrospect, when Rick Perry began wearing those hipster glasses with the plastic frames last year, it may have been a sign that the governor's highbrow makeover had begun. That, at least, was one way to interpret his attendance at this year's World Economic Forum conference in Davos, a tiny resort town in Switzerland. The annual meeting is an exclusive, invitation-only confab of the world's political and economic elite. The official purpose is for attendees to talk about global trends and how they, as the world's power brokers, might best respond to the same. But Davos is also schmooze city for the presidents and CEOs who usually attend. Perry was the only United States governor in attendance, though not the only American politician; an album of photos on his public Facebook page showed him hobnobbing with a number of congressional representatives, including Kay Granger and Jeb Hensarling, both Republicans from Texas. Still, Perry seemed tickled by the chance to talk up the state, and his tenure at its helm, in front of an influential international audience.
And in light of Perry's public remarks, during a panel discussion of the global "drugs dilemma", I'd say he acquitted himself pretty well. A number of news outlets reported, with some surprise, that the governor of Texas had come out in favor of marijuana decriminalization. The reason people were surprised was that Perry has always opposed legalization of marijuana (or any other drug). They shouldn't have been that surprised, though, because the governor also has a long record of supporting alternative approaches to the "war on drugs", and that's basically what he called for at Davos. From Jonathan Tilove's summary, at the Austin American-Statesman:
Nelson Mandela once said that "no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails," and that "a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." If Mandela is right—and he was certainly someone in a position to know—then the judgments one can make against Harris County are fairly unkind.
On April 21, 1993, the El Paso police picked up a seventeen-year-old boy named David Rangel and questioned him about a double murder that had occurred the night before. Detective Al Marquez and a second officer browbeat Rangel for hours, telling him—falsely—that others had already implicated him and that he would get life and be raped in prison if he didn't cooperate.


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To introduce alternative cement structure for rock armours To stop rock blasting for coast conservation To restore Bio-diversity and natural balance around coastal areas as well as inland rocky mountain areas To create employment opportunities
Title: Introduction of environmentally friendly solution for Coast conservation: Alternative man made structure for rock armours and boulders By C.P. Gunasena, Department of Agric. Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Mapalana, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka. Objectives: 1. To introduce alternative cement structure for rock armours 2. To stop rock blasting for coast conservation 3. To restore Bio-diversity and natural balance around coastal areas as well as inland rocky mountain areas 4. To create employment opportunities Naturally there is a balance between land, shore and sea. This balance can be seen very clearly where bays are located. A bay has a specific shape that can be illustrated as half circle or half of a ellipse. There is a big impact on coastal areas by water pressure and momentum due to under currents. Due to this pressure and under currents huge amount of energy brings by waves from the sea to the shore. On the other hand there is a big resistance to coastal erosion from the land side. Due to ultimate balance of these two phenomena a bay evolves. Figure - 1 The occurrence of this balance is illustrated in (Figure -1). At certain bays there are some naturally built rocky structures, which helps to reduce energy, which carries by the waves. Figure - 2 Naturally balanced sea beach is illustrated in (Figure - 2). Rocky structures can be seen in the shallow waters. These structures help to reduce the horizontal component of the energy, which brings by the waves. These rocky structures are little bit inclined and inclined surface is faced to the sea. Waves that are coming from the deep sea climb these surfaces and reduce their horizontal component of the energy. This prevents the erosion of the land side. This is the natural phenomenon and it occurs, where these inclined rocky structures present in the shallow waters. The shape of these structures was identified and according to that, shape of the artificial structure was designed. Figure - 3 When there is no such rocky structures, sea beach get eroded and it shows in the (Figure - 3). Eroded surface can be more than two to three meters in height. Due to the erosion coconut plantation is also get damaged in some areas of the island. In order to prevent this types of erosion, certain measures have been taken by the coast conservation department. Offshore breakwaters and revetments can be constructed to safeguard the coastal belt. Figure - 4 Figure - 5 A revetment constructed at a roadside is shows in (Figure - 4). Wave comes from the sea directly hit this structure and it climbs upward. Some occasion seawater flows in to the road. Return flow (R.F) the downward movement of the wave generates much higher energy, which course scouring at the bottom of the structure and revetment will collapse. A breakwater constructed at offshore is illustrated in the (Figure - 5). In the deep sea huge amount of energy brings by sea waves. These waves directly hit these breakwaters and without proceeding towards the shore, it gets reflected backwards. This reflected energy goes some other place and course erosion. It is obvious that these two methods are at the extremes, when compare to the natural phenomenon. Proposed structure is illustrated in the (Figure - 6) Figure - 6 By observing parameters of natural phenomenon this cement structure has been formulated (Figure -6). Dimensions are not defined. These dimensions have to be adjusted where it is necessary. These structures can be stacked together as a natural coral reef at a desirable height. It will behave as a natural coral reef and protect our coastal environment. By using these structures we can re built our nature which is already destroyed by sand mining and coral mining. In this method no huge structures are constructed at off shore or any other placeless of the profile of the sea. Waves are allowed to develop naturally and allow reaching the shore. Energy reduction happens at near shore. As it happen naturally it happens with these structures too. Sand trapping from return flow will also occur naturally. Horizontal component of the force or energy of the waves, which comes from the sea directly, strike the inclined surface of the structure. (Figure - 6). Then the force, speed and the energy gets reduced due to the collision with the inclined surface of the structure and waves are allowed to proceed to the shore. This minimizes the energy of the return flow and it helps to reduce the scouring of the bottom of the structure. When offshore breakwaters, revetments, groins are concern, due to height of these structures scouring is obvious at the bottom. There is no mechanism to trap sand particles, which are carried by the return flow of seawater (Figure -5). By putting off shore breakwaters, groins, and other artificial huge structures, neighboring areas will bet eroded due to reflecting waves form these structures. Placing these cement structures in front of these eroding areas, sea erosion can be prevented. Neighboring areas will not get eroded. Energy reduction will happen in an ordinary way. It also helps to trap sand particles by preventing along shore and across shore sand movements. Automatically natural balance of the beach will be restored. Structure arrangement is illustrated in (Figure - 7) Figure -7 Discussion Geographical stability of hill country in Sri Lnaka depends on huge Rocky Mountains. These rocky mountains are being blasted for rock armours to prevent coastal erosion. This can be a course for earth slips. We save our coastal belt by destroying our rocky environment. This type of man made cement structures could be a good solution to conserve our environment. Hazardous wastes, which are discarded by the factories, can be used to make these structures. It helps to minimize environmental pollution. Since there is no higher level designing in constructing these concert blocks, these can be constructed by village masons. It will be an added advantage for the unemployment.
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New OpenGL management in FuntooFuntoo is switching to an improved system for managing multiple OpenGL providers (Mesa/Xorg, AMD and nVidia). The update may involve blockers and file collisions.
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# emerge net-analyzer/macchanger
to change an address you must completely disconnect from all networks on the interface
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# macchanger -l
Generate a Random Address
# macchanger -r wlan0
Generate a Random Ending
# macchanger -re wlan0
Manually Assign an Address
# macchanger -m 11:22:33:44:55:66 wlan0
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Dear Wendy, We highly appreciate your loyalty and yours comments published on TripAdvisor regarding your stay at our hotel Lopesan Baobab We are glad to hear that you enjoyed one more time your stay with us and we appreciate the nice words that you have posted. We are paying special attention to the service level in our hotel and we... More
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Really cozy atmosphere. All the pools and sunbeds are spread out between vegetation and palm trees and hide the fact that the hotel can house a lot of attendances. Certainly a hotel for the families of all ages. But also for the ones that want some romantic quiet time. The area around the hotel is really nice with clean high... More
It waa a very nice stay at the hotel. I had the ceapest room but that was already very impressive for me. Big and nice decorated. The pool area is very big and is a very nice constructed. I had breakfast buffet and dinner buffet. The variety and quality of food was very good. Especially when you arrive in the... More
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AU 16S United States Patent [1 1 Yurko et al.
[ 1 FREE FLOWING NONIONIC SURFACTANTS [75] Inventors: Joseph A. Yurko, Bayonne;
Pallassana Ramachandran, Robinsville; Bao-Ding Cheng, Highland Park; Robert E. Dickson, Bellemead, all of NJ.
[73] Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company, New
York, N.Y.
[ 1 Notice: The portion of the term of this patent subsequent to Oct. 30, 1990, has been disclaimed.
[22] Filed: Feb. 26, 1973 [21] Appl. No.: 335,873
Related US. Application Data [63] Continuation-impart of Ser. No. 114,073, Feb. 9,
1971, Pat. No. 3,769,222.
[52] US. Cl. 252/89; 252/99; 252/D1G. l
[51] Int. Cl. CllD 1/72; Cl 1D 11/00 [58] Field of Search 252/89, 99, 135, 546, DIG. l
{56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,337,463 8/1967 Schmolka 252/89 3,562,171 2/1971 Guida 252/186 2/ l 972 Muller 252/404 *Oct. 28, 1975 3,666,670 5/1972 Gilbert et a1 252/160 3,769,222 10/1973 Yurko et al...... 252/89 FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 918,499 2/1963 United Kingdom 252/89 709,515 5/1954 United Kingdom 252/89 3 807,640 1/1959 United Kingdom 252/89 511,415 3/1955 Canada 252/89 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Schue, Detergents and Specialties," 6, No. 3, pp. CT 18, 21, 22 & 24 (March 1969).
[57] ABSTRACT A method for converting liquid nonionic surfactants to dry free flowing form is disclosed. The new method includes the mixing of the liquid nonionic material with specific particulate carrier materials in amounts L varying from 30 to 85 percent. Suitable carrier materig als include compounds having functional properties in detergent formulations. The free flowing nonionic surfactant-carrier pre-mix is very suitable for postaddition to spray dried detergent formulations in order to increase their content of nonionic surfactant.
4 Claims, No Drawings FREE FLOWING NONIONIC SURFACTANTS Related Applications This application is a continuation-in-part of copending application Ser. No. 1 14,073 filed Feb. 9, 197] and entitled Free Flowing Nonionic Surfactants, and now US. Pat. No. 3,769,222 issued Oct. 30, 1973.
The invention pertains to heavy duty particulated detergent formulations that include anionic, cationic, or nonionic surface active agents and detergent builders. More specifically the invention provides heavy duty detergents having a relatively high content of nonionic surface active agent.
The most commonly used surface active agents in heavy duty detergent formulations are anionic compounds having detersive properties. Typical of these anionic compounds are the higher alkyl mononuclear aromatic sulfonates such as the higher alkyl benzene sulfonates. These synthetic detergents are very effective in removing dirt from textile fabrics when utilized in conjunction with phosphate builders which function to soften the water being used and to provide detersive action. However, considerable controversy exist today as to the efficacy of utilizing phosphate compounds in detergent formulations due to their alleged causation of the eutrophication process in lakes, rivers and streams. Although the eutrophication process, wherein an excessive growth of plant life is promulgated in natural water bodies, is not completely understood, it is alleged that the phosphate compounds present in detergent containing waste water are a prime factor in promoting this phenomenon.
Although nonionic surfactants are not as effective as anionic surfactants in the presence of large amounts of phosphate builders, it has been discovered that when the phosphate content of a detergent formulation is substantially reduced, the nonionic surfactants appear to provide detergency properties that are superior to anionics in the same reduced phosphate content formulation. Apparently the detersive effectiveness of nonionic surfactants is affected much less by water hardness than that of the commonly used anionic surfactants. In the event that phosphate builders are totally or partially removed from detergents, the incorporation of greater and greater amounts of nonionic surfactants into detergent formulations will become very desirable.
At present, small amounts of nonionic surfactants are added to detergent formulations, primarily to reduce the amount of foam generated during the washing cycle. The most commonly used nonionic surfactants are long carbon chain alcohols ethoxylated with ethylene oxide. Typically, the nonionic ethoxamer used has a 12 to 18 carbon atom alkyl chain and an average of about to 19 ethylene oxide units. The range of ethylene oxide content that provides the greatest detergency in slurry before spray drying, a significant air pollution problem is encountered. This problem, known in the industry as pluming", is manifested as a dense black smoke being discharged from the spray tower.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a method for converting liquid nonionic surfactants to dry free flowing particulate form so that they may be post added to spray dried detergent formulations and thereby significantly increase the nonionic surfactant content of the final detergent product. The maximization of the nonionic surfactant content of the i post addable free flowing powder and the selection of particularly suitable carriers for the nonionic materials are important further objectives of the invention.
The present invention provides a method for obtaining free flowing particulate materials having a nonionic jv surfactant content of up to about 85% by weight, and
preferably above 30% by weight, and most preferably, between 62 and 85% by weight. The new materials are i very suitable for post addition to spray dried detergent powders in order to substantiallyraise the nonionic surfactant content of the finished detergent product. ln 1.- order to achieve an optimum post additive mixture for spray dried detergent fomulations, it is desirable to maximize the loading of nonionic surfactant on the chosen carrier and also to choose carriers that contribute to the efficacy of the detergent product. The inven- I tion provides a specific carrier materials for nonionic surfactants that are capable of high nonionic loadings; some of which also contribute functional characteristics to the detergent formulation.
In accordance with the invention, it has been found that particulate silica substances in general, and microsized silicon dioxide particles in particular, are capable of carrying a high loading (about 85% by weight) of nonionic surfactant without losing their free flowing characteristics. Pursuant to this aspect of the invention, a method for preparing free flowing particulate premix, including a high loading, preferably from 62 to about; 85% by weight, most preferably about 65 to by weight, of liquid nonionic surface active agent and microsized silica particles is provided. The premix is particulary suitable for addition to a detergent powder formed by spray drying a detergent slurry according to well known procedures, to produce a final formulation 3 having a desirably high content of nonionic surface active agent. The premix is advantageously produced by mixing the nonionic with a sufficient amount of microsized silica particles to result in a free flowing powder.; The amount of microsized silica particles used to solid-i ify the nonionic into free flowing form is above 5% by. weight of the mixture, usually between more than about 5% by weight up to about 38%, preferably about 25%, by weight.
Since microsized silicon particles are used as an anti caking agent in some detergent formulations, its use as a liquid nonionic carrier provides anti-caking properties as well as higher nonionic content to the detergent formulation it is ultimately combined with. Further the aforementioned silica substances, when added to a mixf ture of nonionic surfactant and other carriers, in accorf dance with the invention, substantially increases thq' maximum nonionic loading of the resulting post addable, free flowing mix. f
Other desirable carriers for liquid nonionic surfactants are substances having building properties in the detergent formulations. in view of the desirability of reducing, and if possible eliminating, the phosphate con? tent of detergent formulations, the use of other builder: in conjunction with a higher concentration of nonioni surfactant is advantageous. In this regard it has been found that certain non-phosphate detergent builder! are suitable carriers for liquid nonionic surfactants Representative of these builder-carrier substances are the sodium salts of nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA). sodium carbonate and sodium citrate. Loadings of up to about 50% by weight of nonionic surfactant have been obtained with these builder-carriers either individually or in combination with each other in multi-component systems. The nonionic loading of these builder-carriers can be increased to over about 60 weight percent by adding a small amount, typically about 5 percent by weight, of a silica substance, preferably microsized silicon dioxide particles to the blend. Although pyrogenic microsized silicon dioxide particles are preferred in the practice of the invention other microsized silicon dioxide particles such as silica gel and diatomaceous silica have given satisfactory results.
in further accordance with the invention, certain peroxygen bleaching agents have been found to be suitable carriers for nonionic surfactants while still retaining their free flowing properties. Peroxygen bleaching agents are advantageous carriers for liquid nonionic surfactants when it is also desirable to include a bleaching component in the final formulation. This is particularly so when only one post addition operation can be performed since both post additives can be added simultaneously in accordance with this aspect of the invention.
in the following examples maximum loadings of liquid nonionic surfactant were applied to various particulate carriers. The maximum loading was determined by adding increasing amounts of nonionic to a given amount of carrier until the resulting mixture could not be solidified into a free flowing powder. In examples 1-14 the nonionic surfactant utilized was an ethoxylated long chain alcohol having a chain of 12 to 16 carbon atoms and to l2 ethylene oxide units. A suitable ethoxamer is available from the Shell Chemical Company under the trademark NEODOL 45-11. NEODOL 45-11, according to its manufacturer, is a 14 to 15 carbon chain ethoxylated fatty alcohol having an average of l l ethylene oxide units. The microzied silica particulate material used is available under the trademark CabO-Sil, grade EH-S from the Cabot Company. Cab- 'O-Sil is a sub-microscopic particle size silica prepared by vapor phase hydrolysis of silicon tetrachloride at l 100C. All experimental runs were made at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Other suitable microsized silica materials are available under the following trademarks: silica aerogel available from the Monsanto Chemical Company, Quso which is a precipitated silica which has a surface area of about 325 square meters per square meters per gram and Syloid 244, which is a low density gel available from W. R. Grace Company.
Example 1 Fifty grams of molten nonionic surfactant was heated to slightly above room temperature until clear appearance and then sprayed onto 10 grams of colloidal pyrogenie silicon dioxide. The resulting mixture was a free flowing powder having a nonionic loading of 83.3% by weight. The following techniques were used.
I. The liquid nonionic was sprayed onto a laboratory dish containing the silicon dioxide carrier and mixed with a spatula to produce a free flowing powder.
method can be post added to spray dried detergent powders or, detergent builders and other detergent in gredients can be added to the nonionic powder to produce a finished detergent formulation.
An example of the latter procedure is to first prepare a free flowing powder consisting of 250.0 grams of a liquid nonionic surfactant and 50.0 grams of silicon dioxide carrier (83.3 weight percent nonionic). To this blend 100.0 grams of sodium salts of (NTA) and 100.0 grams of sodium citrate when added and blended to produce a finished deterent formulation having the following approximate composition:
nonionic surfactant silicon dioxide sodium salt of NTA sodium citrate 50 weight percent 10 weight percent 20 weight percent 20 weight percent This later formula can be utilized as a detergent itself or as an additive to other detergent systems.
Example 2 The liquid nonionic surfactant was slowly added to a laboratory mortar containing any one or a combination of the following inorganic particulate materials: sodium carbonate, clays (such as bentonite and zeolite), diatomaccous earth (Celite Filteraid available from Johns- Manville Company) or aluminum oxide. Upon blending the liquid nonionic and the inorganic particulate material with a pestle, partial solidification of the mixture occurs. Upon setting at room temperature for about one hour a free flowing powder is obtained.
Using the foregoing method, liquid nonionic loadings as high as by weight can be obtained without impairing the flowability of the resulting solid particulate material.
Example 3 Example 4 From 50 to 80 weight percent of the liquid nonionic surfactant was blended with a mixture of 15 to 45 weight percent of an organic nitrogenous compound chosen from the group consisting of melamine, glycine and iminodiacetic acid and from to 50 percent by weight of any one or a mixture of the inorganic carriers of Example 2. Upon mixing, partial solidification occurs. The addition of at least percent by weight of colloidal pyrogenic silicon dioxide and subsequent thorough blending results in solidification of the mixture. The solidified mixture can be broken up into a free flowing, non-caking powder. The following free flowing powder compositions have been obtained by the foregoing method:
(I) nonionic 63.6 weight percent melamine 18.1 SiO, l8.3
(2) nonionic 70 weight percent sodium salt of glycine or imino- 20 diacetic acid SiO, l0
(3) nonionic 80 weight percent sodium salt of 3 glycine or iminodiacetic acid bentonite 7 SiO, l0
(4) nonionlc 80 weight percent sodium salt of glycine or iminodiacetic acid SiO l0 (5) nonionic 80 weight percent sodium salt of 3 glycine or iminodiacetic acid SiO, l5
Example 5 The procedures and compositions of Example 4 were followed except that a non-nitrogenous organic material chosen from the group consisting of sodium glycolate, glycolic acid, sorbitol, and potassium sodium tartrate, was substituted for the nitrogen containing organic compounds. The following free flowing powder formulations were obtained by the foregoing method:
( l nonionic 50 weight percent bentonite 30 sodium glycolate l0 SiO, l0
(2) nonionic 60 weight percent zeolite l3 sodium glycolate l0 (3) nonionic 66.6 weight percent potassium sodium l6.8 tartrate SiO, 16.6
(4) nonionic 50 weight percent sorbitol 24 SiO, 26
(5) nonionic 70 weight percent glycolic acid l0 SiO,
(6) nonionic 80 weight percent sodium glycolate 8 bentonite 2 SiO, l0
(7) nonionic 70 weight percent sodium glycolate 20 '0, l0
(8) nonionic 70 weight percent sodium glycolate l0 aluminum oxide l0 SiO,
Example 6 The liquid nonionic surfactant was mixed with trisodium nitrilotriacetate and sodium citrate-2H,O. Partial solidification occurred on mixing. Pyrogenic silicon dioxide was then added and thoroughly mixed with the partially solidified mass. Full solidification of the mixture occurred. The resulting solid was then broken up into a free flowing, non-caking powder. The following composition has been obtained by the foregoing method:
nonionic surfactant 56.6 weight percent sodium salt of NTA l3.0 sodium citrate 13.0 SiO, 17.4
The resulting free flowing powder is very suitable for post addition to a spray dried detergent powder. Similar free flowing powder can be obtained without the addition of SiO, by reducing the nonionic content to about 30 percent by weight.
Example 7 nonionic surfactant 60.0 weight percent sodium salt of NTA l5.0 sodium carbonate l5.0 SiO, 10.0
The resulting free flowing powder is very suitable for post addition to a spray dried detergent powder.
Example 8 35 weight percent of liquid nonionic surfactant is blended together with 65 weight percent sodium perborate monohydrate. The resulting mixture is a free flowing powder suitable for post addition to spray dried detergent formulations.
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Attempts to use sodium perborate tetrahydrate as a i carrier for the liquid nonionic yielded a tacky non-1 flowable powder with a nonionic liquid content of about 20 percent by weight.
Example 9 A free flowing particulate material having a nonionic 7 surface active agent content of 68% by weight can be prepared by the following procedure: 68 grams of Neov dol 45-11 was heated to slightly above room temperature until molten and clear in appearance. The molen i nonionic surface active agent was slowly added to 32 grams of Cab-O-Sil EI-l-S, a micro-sized silica powder, and the combination was mixed by mechanical stirring for about 5 minutes. The resulting product is a free flowing powder.
Example l The procedure of Example 9 can be repeated using 62 grams of Neodol 45-1l and 38 grams of Cab-O-Sil EH-S to produce a free flowing powder having a nonionic loading of 62% by weight.
Example II The procedure of Example 9 is repeated using 75 grams of Neodol 45-1l and 25 grams of Cab-O-Sil EH- to produce a free flowing powder having a nonionic loading of 75% by weight.
The free flowing products produced by Examples 9-ll are ideally suitable for post addition to a detergent powder made by spray drying a detergent slurry according to well known procedures in the detergent art. Final detergent formulations produced by combining spray dried detergents with the free flowing particulate pre-mixes of the invention can comprise from about 10 to about 50% of the post-added premix component to provide a wide range of nonionic content depending on the nonionic loading of the premix and the requirements of the particular application.
Example I2 320 grams of a particulate silica material sold under the trademark Santocel, which is a silica aerogel, was
' introduced into a Hobart mixer. The stirrer was turned on (low speed) and 680 grams ofa nonionic surface active agent (Neodol 45-11) in molten form was slowly poured onto the silica material over a period of about 2 minutes. Sirring was continued for another 5 minutes at low speed. The resulting product was a free flowing particulate material having a nonionic loading of 68% by weight.
Example 13 The procedure of Example 12 was repeated using a particulate silica material available under the trademark Quso. Quso is a precipitated silica having a surface area of 325 m'lgram and a 5% water content. The resulting product was a free flowing particulate material having a nonionic loading of 68% by weight.
Example 14 The procedure of Example 12 was repeated using a particulate silica material available under the trademark Syloid 244. Syloid 244 is a low density silica gel. The resulting product is a free flowing particulate material having a nonionic loading of 68% by weight.
Runs similar to Examples l-l4 can be made using liquid nonionic surfactants having a longer alkyl chain than Neodol 45-ll, i.e. 16-18 carbon atoms, and a higher ethylene oxide content, i.e. an average of 19 ethylene oxide units. A suitable liquid nonionic meeting these requirements is available from the Continental Oil Company under the trademark Alfonic 1618-78. It was found that, Alfonic l6l8-78 can be solidified with less effort, i.e. in less time, than Neodol 45-11 and to approximately the same loadings.
Functional carriers that can be heavily loaded with nonionic surfactants and still remain free flowing, noncaking powders were found to include pyrogenic silicon dioxide, which functions as an anti-caking agent in the final formulation, and various detergent builders such as NTA, sodium carbonate and sodium citrate.
When it is desired to incorporate a peroxygen bleach component into the detergent formulation, in addition to a nonionic surfactant component, it has been found that sodium perborate monohydrate is a surprisingly 'dTc'an'ie'r for the nonionic component since both can thereby be added in one post addition operation. Further, the addition of a small amount of pyrogenic silicon dioxide to mixtures of liquid nonionic surfactant and carrier material have been found to significantly increase the nonionic loadings of the post addable mixture while still retaining the necessary free flowing characteristics.
Although phosphate detergent builders have also been found to be very suitable carriers for liquid nonionic surfactants, their use is not preferred at this time because of the alleged contribution of phosphates to the eutrophication process in natural bodies of water. However, in reduced phosphate content detergent formulations, all or part of the phosphate builder can be added to the formulation subsequent to spray drying as a carrier for nonionic surfactants. In this regard, it has been found that phosphate builders, such as the sodium tripolyphosphate can be loaded with up to about 30 percent by weight liquid nonionic surfactant while still retaining free flowing properties. In accordance with the invention the nonionic loading on phosphate carriers can be increased to about 50 percent by weight by adding about 5 percent by weight of a microsized silica substance to the nonionic-carrier mixture before final setting.
By providing a commercially feasible method for post adding liquid nonionic surfactants to spray dried detergent formulations, the invention represents a significant step towards the substantial reduction of phosphate builders from detergent formulations without a significant decrease in cleaning efficacy.
Although the foregoing specific embodiments are presently preferred, they should not be considered as limiting the invention. Accordingly reference should be made to the following claims to determine the full scope of the invention.
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1. 1n the method of preparing a heavy duty detergent which includes the step of spray drying a detergent slurry to form a dry, free flowing powder, the improvement comprising adding to said spray dried powder a free flowing premix consisting of from 62 to 85 percent by weight of a liquid nonionic surface active agent chosen from the group consisting of ethoxylated alcohols having a 12 to 18 carbon atom chain and an average of from 10 to 19 ethylene oxide units and at least 5% by weight of microsized silica particles, said premix being prepared by mixing said liquid nonionic with a sufficient quantity of silica particles to fully solidify said liquid nonionic.
2. The improved method of claim 1, wherein said premix contains from about 65 to about by weight of said nonionic.
3. The improved method of claim 1, wherein said micro-sized silica particles are chosen from the group consisting of silica gels, silica aerogels, precipitated silicas and pyrogenic silicas.
4. The free flowing particulate product produced by the method of claim 1.
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Enterprise architects need to be salesmen, getting out of their offices and proselytizing to program managers about how the discipline of enterprise architecture can enable their agencies' missions, experts said last week during FCW Events' Enterprise Architecture conference.
During an unusually spirited town hall meeting, enterprise architects complained that agency program managers don't fully understand or appreciate the need for an enterprise architecture.
The conference's resonating theme was the need for expert salesmanship by government architects.
Leaders must market enterprise architecture to the parts of the agency that are battling business problems, said Beryl Bellman, academic director of the FEAC Institute, which offers enterprise architecture certification and training programs.
Marketing enterprise architecture is a science and an art, Bellman said. It demands analysis of an organization's culture and social networking.
Felix Rausch, the institute's executive director, said enterprise architecture is not a new discipline. It's a proven method of reinventing an organization from the inside — it just has a new name, he said. Enterprise architecture "is a 21st-century way to get your arms around complexity."
Information technology professionals who can make a case for enterprise architecture must leave the office, said Richard Burk, the Office of Management and Budget's chief enterprise architect. They should show agency managers — in understandable terms — how architecture can solve business problems, he said.
Charles Havekost, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services and a panelist at the conference, said he advised enterprise architecture leaders to write and rehearse a two-minute speech to deliver when they meet with senior agency executives.
"If you have two minutes with the head of your organization, what would you say, and what would you want to have that person remember about what you had to say?" Havekost asked. "You have to practice that story. You're not going to be able to walk up to somebody and tell them what enterprise architecture means and what the value proposition is in the business area."
Havekost said enterprise architects should always carry a laminated card with hints that help them make sure they cover all of the vital benefits within the two minutes they might have with a senior executive.
A Government Accountability Office report released last week highlights the importance of leadership in expanding enterprise architecture. The GAO report recognized enterprise architecture's challenges, which include parochialism within organizations and cultural resistance.
Program managers often fail to understand enterprise architecture or recognize its benefits, which include better information sharing, consolidation of duplicative systems, reduced costs and greater productivity. Those managers often have inadequate resources to implement enterprise architecture, according to the report. But effective leaders can address most of those challenges, GAO wrote.
GAO also warned that attempts to modernize business systems without a guiding architecture result in duplicative systems that are poorly integrated, costly to maintain and ineffective in meeting mission goals.
It also reported that enterprise architecture programs in the federal government range from immature programs to more mature programs. Most programs fall between the two extremes.
"Collectively, the majority of these architecture efforts can be viewed as a work in progress, with much remaining to be accomplished before the federal government as a whole fully realizes their transformational value," the report states.
Richard Burk, the Office of Management and Budget's chief enterprise architect, has a tip for people trying to convince agency managers that enterprise architecture has value: Don't talk about enterprise architecture.
"You start solving business problems, and you won't have to explain the value" of enterprise architecture, Burk told an audience of the practice's proponents last week at FCW Events' Enterprise Architecture Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C.
"Get out of your office, stop drawing [Microsoft] Visio diagrams," Burk said. "Go over and talk to the business people." By that, he added, he doesn't mean the IT wannabes but the managers who will be held accountable if a program falters.
"If you start understanding them and their business, you won't have to explain the value anymore," he said. "You're going to start to understand it from their perspective, and you're going to use this tool to help them solve their problem."
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