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US 5478541 A Resumen The present invention provides a method for separately removing mercaptans and hydrogen sulfide from a hydrocarbon gas stream by passing the gas through a bed which includes iron oxide which catalyzes the formation of disulfides and trisulfides from mercaptans and also reacts with at least part of the hydrogen sulfide to form acid-stable solids; causing the di- and trisulfides to exit the bed in the gas phase; and removing and recovering the di- and trisulfides by adsorption or condensation. Any remaining hydrogen sulfide may be scavenged from the gas stream by passage through a bed containing iron oxide similar to that used first above. If the gas stream contains substantial amounts of hydrocarbon aerosols, they should be filtered out in advance of the bed.
Reclamaciones(6) 1. A process for removing mercaptans and at least a portion of the hydrogen sulfide from a hydrocarbon gas stream, comprising the steps of:
a. providing a bed containing moistened particles supporting a particulate form of iron oxide composed of a crystalline phase of Fe3 O4 together with an amorphous Fe2 O3 moiety having a surface area of at least 4.0 m2 /g, b. passing the gas stream into and through the bed, and in so doing, converting the mercaptans to gaseous disulfides and trisulfides, and reacting at least part of any hydrogen sulfide to solid products which remain in the bed, c. causing the gas stream to exit from the bed while the disulfides and trisulfides remain in substantially gaseous phase, and d. removing the disulfides and trisulfides from the gas stream. 2. The process defined in claim 1, further comprising the subsequent step of
recycling the gas stream from which disulfides and trisulfides have been removed back through steps a and b of claim 1. 3. The process defined in claim 1, wherein step d comprises
adsorbing the disulfides and trisulfides onto a bed of activated carbon from which the disulfides and trisulfides can be subsequently recovered by desorption. 4. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the step involving removing the disulfides and trisulfides from the gas stream comprises
passing the gas stream into a bed of activated carbon, adsorbing substantially all of the disulfides and trisulfides onto the the activated carbon while passing substantially all of the hydrogen sulfide remaining in the gas stream through such bed, and regenerating the activated carbon and recovering the adsorbed disulfides and trisulfides. 5. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the step involving removing the disulfides and trisulfides from the gas stream comprises
causing the disulfides and trisulfides in the gas stream to condense to form a liquid while permitting substantially all hydrogen sulfide remaining in the gas stream to remain in gaseous phase. 6. The process for removing mercaptans and at least a portion of the hydrogen sulfide from a hydrocarbon gas stream which includes some liquid or aerosol hydrocarbons, comprising the process as defined in claim 1, together with the preliminary step of filtering from the gas stream such liquid or aerosol hydrocarbons.
Descripción The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/187,146, filed Jan. 27, 1994 and duly allowed; to be abandoned. The present invention teaches how to remove mercaptans from hydrocarbon gas streams also containing hydrogen sulfide with subsequent recovery of disulfides and trisulfides. Reduced sulfur compounds are often found in gas streams associated with petroleum storage and transfer facilities, sewage treatment plants and pulp and paper mills. Among the most common of these compounds are hydrogen sulfide, which has the odor of rotten eggs and is toxic and corrosive; and mercaptans, especially methyl and ethyl mercaptans, which have very pungent and undesirable odors. It is desirable to remove these compounds prior to further processing or transporting to prevent atmospheric pollution and to protect workers and equipment. Most methods for removing reduced sulfur compounds are primarily directed at hydrogen sulfide, and some of the most widely used hydrogen sulfide removal processes, such as amine scrubbing, are not particularly efficient in removing mercaptans. Mercaptan removal processes shown in the prior art either oxidize mercaptans to disulfides or to sulfur dioxide as the first step in a Clause sulfur recovery process (U.S. Pat. No. 4,422,958), or to sulfates or sulfonates (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,552,734 and 4,552,735), or absorb them onto such adsorbents as treated activated carbon (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,256,728 or 4,072,480). Mercaptan oxidation to disulfides is well known, but is usually carried out by contacting the mercaptan-containing gas stream with an oxidation catalyst and an oxidation agent such as oxygen in an aqueous alkaline solution. Variations of such catalysts are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,244,643 (sulfonated metal phthalocyanine), 4,491,563 (nickel oxide with oxide of a rare earth metal), 4,311,680 (oxides of iron, chromium, cobalt, lead, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, copper, vanadium zinc, tungsten or antimony), or 2,966,453 (porphyrin). Application of these processes to many industrial situations has involved difficult problems in practice. For example, since it is often desirable to remove both hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans from gas streams, it would be advantageous to be able to remove both by using only one type of reactant or catalytic agent. Often, however, the known mercaptan removal processes remove hydrogen sulfide inefficiently or not at all. Additionally, since most mercaptan conversion catalysts which are used in dry beds are supported on inert particulate materials, it is important to keep their surfaces unfouled. However, condensation of the higher-boiling disulfides formed from mercaptans can coat such particulates, thus reducing their activity and their capacity for removing both mercaptans and hydrogen sulfide. Finally, it has been difficult to recover pure streams of disulfides in prior art methods without extensive processing. (See, for example, Mercaptan removal rate exceeds 99% at Canadian gas plant, by B. Judd, Oil & Journal, p. 81-83 (Aug. 16, 1993). Disulfides formed when mercaptans are oxidized in aqueous alkaline solution have higher affinity for an organic phase and can be extracted from the aqueous phase by a hydrocarbon, but handling of the separate liquid phase and recovery of relatively pure disulfides from the aqueous/organic mixture requires much additional equipment. Thus, a method to separately remove hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans, from a gas stream by using only a single type of reactive or catalytic agent which allowed for the recovery of economically valuable disulfides and minimized the fouling of the reactive or catalytic agent would be very advantageous. These advantages and others are provided by the process of the present invention which separately removes mercaptans and at least part of any hydrogen sulfide from a hydrocarbon gas stream by: providing a bed containing moistened particles including iron oxide of the type which is not only reactive to hydrogen sulfide but which also catalyzes the formation of disulfides and trisulfides from mercaptans; passing the gas stream into and through the bed, and in so doing, converting the mercaptans to disulfides and trisulfides and reacting at least part of any hydrogen sulfide to solid products which remain in the bed; causing the gas stream to exit from the bed while the disulfides and trisulfides remain therein in substantially gaseous phase; and removing the disulfides and trisulfides from the gas stream. For gases in which the content of hydrogen sulfide is higher than the content of mercaptans, an additional step may be added to scavenge the hydrogen sulfide. The added step includes passing the gas stream from which disulfides and trisulfides have been removed through means to scavenge remaining hydrogen sulfide therefrom. This step may simply be a repetition of the first two steps described above which involve providing a bed containing moistened particles including iron oxide and passing the gas stream therethrough to remove remaining hydrogen sulfide. If the gas stream contains substantial amounts of hydrocarbon aerosol or liquid hydrocarbons, a suitable filter should be imposed in the stream in advance of the bed. Gases containing mercaptans and various levels of hydrogen sulfide may be the low molecular weight hydrocarbons such as methane, ethane and propane. Such gases may also contain oxygen, nitrogen and other compounds. Depending on the source of the gas, hydrogen sulfide may be present at levels higher or lower than the mercaptans. Gases escaping from crude oil loading or transfer facilities (especially when the oil has been previously treated by one of the common sulfur removal processes) often contain five or six times as much mercaptans as hydrogen sulfide, with mercaptan levels of up to 700 ppm. being common. In the process of the present invention, a gas stream containing mercaptans and hydrogen sulfide is first contacted with a reactive iron oxide of the type which (a) reacts with hydrogen sulfide to form products which are environmentally stable, and (b) also catalyzes the formation of disulfides and trisulfides from volatile mercaptans, specifically methyl and ethyl mercaptan. Since it is desirable to minimize the pressure drop when gas is pumped through beds of the iron oxide material, the iron oxide should preferably be in particulate form and supported on larger particles of a rigid inert mineral material. We have found the iron oxide which was disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,246,244 to be preferred, especially when supported on sized particles of calcined montmorillonite clay. That oxide, whose particles are composed of a crystalline phase of Fe3 O4, together with an amorphous Fe2 O3 moiety, has a surface area of at least 4.0 m2 /g. It is available commercially, in a preparation having about 20 lb. of iron oxide per cubic foot of inert support material, as SULFATREAT, available from Gas Sweetener Associates, St. Louis, Mo. As the gas passes through the bed under conditions which will be defined below, the iron oxide catalyzes the conversion of mercaptans, especially methyl and ethyl mercaptan, to disulfides and trisulfides which pass out of the bed substantially quantitatively in the gas phase. Such disulfides and trisulfides formed from methyl and ethyl mercaptans are typically dimethyl disulfide, ethyl-methyl disulfide, diethyl disulfide, and analogous alkyl trisulfides (hereinafter referred to collectively as "di- and trisulfides" or "disulfides and trisulfides"). Presumably, other volatile alkyl and aryl mercaptans would be similarly converted. While this reaction is taking place, the iron oxide also reacts with hydrogen sulfide to form products which are stable under environmental conditions. As described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,246,244 to one of the present inventors, such products are typically FeS2, S°, Fe3 O4, and other acid-stable, non-FeS iron sulfide species. Thus, while the iron oxide catalyzes the formation of di- and trisulfides from mercaptans, it is also being consumed by reacting with hydrogen sulfide. The rate of conversion of mercaptans to di- and trisulfides appears to be substantially the same as the reaction of iron oxide with hydrogen sulfide. Thus, when hydrogen sulfide is present at lower concentrations than mercaptans, a bed designed to completely transform mercaptans to di- and trisulfides will also substantially remove hydrogen sulfide from the gas stream. Conversely, if hydrogen sulfide is present in higher concentrations than mercaptans, a bed designed to completely convert the mercaptans may permit some unreacted hydrogen sulfide to pass through the bed. We have learned that it is very important to operate the first bed (which converts mercaptans to di- and trisulfides) under conditions which allow substantially all of the di- and trisulfides to exit the bed in the gas phase. This prevents di- and trisulfides from condensing on and coating or otherwise fouling, the supported iron oxides and thereby maintains their capacity or effectiveness. Maintaining the di- and trisulfides in the gas phase also allows their removal from the gas stream separately from the removal of hydrogen sulfide. It is also important to operate the bed in downflow mode to minimize the accumulation of liquid in the bed. Further, the gas stream should preferably not include substantial quantities of hydrocarbon aerosols or liquid hydrocarbons; their presence may create a catalytic reaction with the reaction products previously generated, which may cause the generation of excessive temperatures. Installation of a suitable filter in the gas supply line in advance of the reactor bed will overcome this problem. Suitable filters may be obtained from several sources throughout the United States, for example the Ultisep brand coalescing filter, obtainable from Porous Media Co. of St. Paul, Minn. The following tests have been run to determine conditions which give the desired result for operation of the conversion bed. A standard feed gas was prepared for use in all tests with a composition given below: ______________________________________Component Concentration (vol. %)______________________________________Carbon dioxide 4.97%Nitrogen 54.9Oxygen 1.52Methane 34.18Ethane 0.89Propane 1.44Butane 1.65Pentane 0.39Hexane 0.04Heptanes+ 0.02______________________________________ Before feeding the gas to a bed, it was saturated with water at 20° C., with sulfur compounds added to this gas. The feed gas at 112 KPa, with sulfur compounds added in levels shown below, was fed at 0.030 SCF/min. and 18° C. to a 0.906" ID column of 2' height packed with SULFATREAT. Superficial gas velocity was 6.7 ft./min. After reaching stable operating conditions, composition of the inlet and outlet gas (given as 20 ppm. by volume) was as shown: ______________________________________Gas ComponentsConcentration Inlet Concentration Outlet______________________________________hydrogen sulfide 47 8methyl mercaptan 865 260ethyl mercaptan 619 155dimethyl disulfide 57 169methyl-ethyl 90 420disulfidediethyl disulfide 82 515dimethyl trisulfide 41 49methyl-ethyl 62 83trisulfidediethyl trisulfide 37 79______________________________________ Summarizing, hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan levels were reduced with a concomitant increase in levels of di- and trisulfides; however, a significant amount of sulfur products did not leave the bed with the gas stream, but remained in the bed. A column of 0.906" ID and 2' in height was packed with SULFATREAT. Standard feed gas having the composition given in Example 1, and containing sulfur compounds in levels shown below, was fed into the top of the column at 15° C. and 15 KPa pressure at a flow rate of 0.00473 SCF/min., resulting in a superficial gas velocity of 1.06 ft./min. After reaching stable operating conditions, composition of the inlet and outlet gas (given as ppm. by volume) was as shown: ______________________________________Gas Component Inlet Concentration Outlet Concentration______________________________________hydrogen sulfide 152 1methyl mercaptan 438 1ethyl mercaptan 276 1dimethyl disulfide 12.6 57methyl-ethyl 2.2 134disulfidediethyl disulfide 33.7 189dimethyl trisulfide 37.7 202methyl-ethyl 17.9 388trisulfidediethyl trisulfide 9.4 227______________________________________ During the run there was negligible accumulation of sulfur in the column and substantially all of the mercaptans were converted to di- and trisulfides which exited the column in the gas phase. It is obvious that many variables affect the performance characteristics of the first bed; with temperature, pressure, gas composition, gas velocity, residence time in the bed, type of bed packing, and reactivity of the iron oxide being some of the more obvious. While we cannot predict a priori which combination of these variables will provide the desired result of substantially total conversion of mercaptans with substantially all of the di- and trisulfides exiting the bed in the gas phase, Example 2 shows that simple variations in testing will readily provide workable proportions and conditions to accomplish this result. Following the conversion step, the di- and trisulfides are removed from the gas stream by methods well known in the art. For example, the di- and trisulfides may either be condensed and recovered as a substantially pure liquid stream, or adsorbed onto a solid adsorbent, preferably activated carbon. If activated carbon is used, the di- and trisulfides may be recovered and the activated carbon regenerated by well known techniques such as steam stripping or by extraction with a solvent with a high affinity for the di- and trisulfide oils. Recovered di- and trisulfides may be sold or may be added back to a liquid hydrocarbon as desired. Since the affinity of activated carbon for di- and trisulfides is very high, gas velocities in a carbon bed may be much higher than those in an iron oxide bed. Thus, a carbon column may be of smaller diameter than the mercaptan converting bed needed for a given gas stream. If a significant amount of hydrogen sulfide remains in the gas stream exiting the conversion step, it may still be possible to use activated carbon for di- and trisulfide removal since the affinity of activated carbon for di- and trisulfides is greater than for hydrogen sulfide. In this case, however, the carbon column must be designed to adsorb all of the di- and trisulfides while passing through substantially all of the hydrogen sulfide. Alternatively, preferential condensation of the di- and trisulfides without condensing hydrogen sulfide could accomplish the same separation. Selection of a condenser is easily done by one skilled in the art since the boiling points of the di- and trisulfides (109.7° C. for dimethyl disulfide, and 154° C. for diethyl disulfide) are significantly higher than that of hydrogen sulfide (-60.7° C.). The condenser design may be any conventional type such as shell-and-tube, plate-type, or flash chiller type. The di- and trisulfides may even be condensed by direct contact with a stream of liquid such as a hydrocarbon liquid. When hydrogen sulfide remains in the gas after the conversion and di- and trisulfide removal steps, it may be scavenged by passing the gas stream through a final iron oxide bed. The iron oxide used in the final bed may be the same as is used in the bed for the conversion step, preferably as in the SULFATREAT material described above. Alternatively, any adsorbent or reactant which removes hydrogen sulfide from a gas stream could be used. The present invention permits users to purchase and stock only one type of agent which cannot only catalyze the conversion of mercaptans but can also react with hydrogen sulfide to form environmentally stable end products. Previously, it was not known how to carry out separate removal of hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans with use of a single reactive/catalytic agent. Additionally, the process of the present invention permits the recovery of di- and trisulfides in a relatively pure and separate stream without extensive further processing. The recovered di- and trisulfide oils may then be sold, added back to a liquid hydrocarbon stream or disposed of as most advantageous. Finally, by causing the di- and trisulfides to pass through the mercaptan converting bed in gaseous form, coating of the bed particles is reduced and the reactive capacity of the iron oxide is extended. As various modifications may be made in the procedures herein described and illustrated without departing from the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the foregoing description shall be taken as illustrative rather than limiting. Citas de patentes
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Bagchi, Biman (1987) Fractional Viscosity Dependence of Relaxation Rates and Non-Steady-State Dynamics in Barrierless Reactions in Solution. In: Chemical Physics Letters, 138 (4). pp. 315-320.
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A finite decay model of barrierless electronic relaxation in solution is studied both analytically and numerically. The fractional viscosity $(\eta)$ dependence of the rate $(k\propto \eta^{-\alpha} with 1 > \alpha > 0)$ is shown to be strongly correlated with non-steady-state dynamics on the reaction potential surface. We also find that the exponent \alpha may depend strongly on the wavelength of the exciting light.
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Dr. Bill Lumsden's latest creation is based on an old recipe.
Lumsden, director of distilling and whisky creation for the Scottish distiller Glenmorangie, has just announced the launch of Finealta, the latest expression in the Private Edition line. Finealta -- actually pronounced fin-altah -- is the Scots Gaelic word for elegant.
It is a recreation of a Glenmorangie recipe dating to 1903, uncovered in the distillery archives. It is a recipe that was served in the early 1900s at the American Bar of The Savoy, London's most prestigious hotel.
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AUSTIN — Texas must defend a prolific up-tempo offense when the Longhorns face No. 10 Oregon in the Alamo Bowl in coach Mack Brown's farewell.
They have experience after playing Baylor in their last game.
The Ducks (10-2) average 46.8 points and 573 yards, which both rank in the top three in the country. Texas (8-4) held the Bears, the nation's highest-scoring team, to three first-half points Dec. 7 in what was essentially a Big 12 title game. But Baylor scored 17 in the third quarter and went on to win 30-10.
Oregon's Marcus Mariota has been one of the nation's most efficient quarterbacks, completing 63.1 percent of his passes, throwing for 30 touchdowns with four interceptions, and running for 582 yards and nine more scores.
Baylor's Bryce Petty is the only QB with fewer interceptions (2) among those with at least 30 touchdown passes. Facing a quarterback like Petty, who also has 11 touchdowns rushing, helped prepare Texas for Monday's matchup with Mariota.
"It's crazy that we're about to play the same team, almost," said junior defensive end Cedric Reed. "Those are two quarterbacks that have been in the Heisman running this year. They're smart quarterbacks. The offense runs through them."
Texas' best chance at slowing Oregon may be running the ball to keep the offense on the sideline, as Arizona and Stanford did in the Ducks' only two losses.
Tyler Gaffney ran for 157 of the Cardinal's 274 yards on 45 carries in a 26-20 win that ended Oregon's perfect season Nov. 7. Two weeks later, the Wildcats' Ka'Deem Carey ran 48 times for 206 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-16 trouncing. Oregon had the ball for fewer than a combined 42 minutes in those two defeats.
"You can see that teams that have had success against and beat Oregon are teams that have taken pride in a power running game," senior guard Mason Walters said. "Playing Oregon, if you don't get pumped up and find a reason to go fight and have it be something that brings out the competitor in you, you can get embarrassed."
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Matthew Good performing acoustically in Fredericton, NB.
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Birth name | Matthew Frederick Robert Good |
Born | Burnaby, British Columbia |
June 29, 1971
Origin | Coquitlam, British Columbia |
Genres | Rock, alternative rock, acoustic |
Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, bass, percussion |
Years active | 1991–present |
Labels | Warner Music Canada, Universal Music Canada, Darktown, A&M, Atlantic |
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Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971) is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002. Other band members included drummer Ian Browne, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Genn, and original bassist Geoff Lloyd, later replaced by Rich Priske. In the years since the Matthew Good Band's disbanding, Good has pursued a solo career and established himself as a political and mental health activist.
Matthew Good Band[edit]
Good's early career in music involved a variety of folk demos and a stint as the lead singer of a folk band, the Rodchester Kings. Matthew Good and guitarist Simon Woodcock were discovered at an open mic at Simon Fraser University by manager Brent Christensen. Early Rodchester Kings demos were recorded at Fragrant Time Records in Burnaby by Greg Wasmuth and Steven Codling.
From 1992 to 1993, Good recorded short demo tapes called "Left of Normal", "Broken", and "Euphony", which featured acoustic songs like "Mercy Misses You", "Heather's Like Sunday", and the title track "Euphony". In 1994, he won a prize from 99.3 The Fox's Seeds competition, an annual competition of local Vancouver-based bands. The prize included recording time at a local studio/recording school, where, in September 1994, Good, along with band members Steve Codling, Judy Renouf, Eran Vooys, and Ariel Watson, recorded "15 hours on a September Thursday". This demo tape included songs like "Second Sun", "The Ocean", and "Last of the Ghetto Astronauts". In December 1994, the band signed a publishing deal with EMI Publishing.
In March 1995, the original band went on tour across Canada. Upon return, the band split up and Matt started over with a new group of musicians.
Last of the Ghetto Astronauts[edit]
In mid-1995, they released their debut full-length album, Last of the Ghetto Astronauts. Although initially popular only in the Vancouver area, the album began to catch on across Canada in 1996, with the singles "Alabama Motel Room", "Symbolistic White Walls", and "Haven't Slept in Years" becoming significant hits on radio and MuchMusic. Last of the Ghetto Astronauts, made on a budget of roughly five thousand Canadian dollars, eventually set the mark as the highest selling independent label release by a Canadian artist.
The band's 1997 album Underdogs spawned the hit singles "Everything Is Automatic", "Indestructible" and "Apparitions", the latter of which remains the band's most successful single. Good's political outspokenness and brash confidence were unusual in the Canadian rock scene of the 1990s, and he was soon recognized as much for his seemingly difficult disposition as for his musical talent. As a nod to his reputation, merchandise with the phrase "I Hear Matt Good Is a Real Asshole" was sold at MGB shows. He also maintained a subversive image, sometimes posing for publicity photos in a gorilla mask.
Beautiful Midnight[edit]
Beautiful Midnight, which saw the departure of Lloyd and the joining of Rich Priske as the new bassist, followed in 1999 and became hugely successful via the singles "Hello Time Bomb", "Strange Days", and "Load Me Up". The album skyrocketed the band's celebrity status and earned them two Juno Awards in 2000, for Best Group and Best Rock Album.
The Audio of Being/break-up[edit]
After touring Beautiful Midnight for nearly two years, the band set to work on The Audio of Being. The album's creation came during a difficult emotional period for Good. While he struggled to deal with the band's success, he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes lesions to form in the lungs, prompting him to temporarily quit smoking.[1] Following throat surgery to remove a nodule from a vocal cord, Good holed up for three weeks in a hotel in Whistler to work on songs. Good later wrote that he spent much of the time "trying to keep down food supplement bars, trying to forget the growing tension within the band, the high expectations of needing to produce 'hit songs' (whatever they are these days), throwing up, and trying to find some semblance of direction in my personal life."
The band entered the studio in late 2000 to record the material. The sessions saw a great deal of intra-band turmoil, with Dave Genn quitting the band before the album was complete. He returned a few days later, however, only to quit permanently not long after the album's release in October 2001. Following Genn's departure, Good dissolved the band in 2002.
Solo career[edit]
Avalanche (2003)[edit]
Good released his solo debut, Avalanche, in 2003. The album featured major stylistic differences from those recorded with the previous band, and featured the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on several tracks, including the first two singles, "Weapon" and "In a World Called Catastrophe". Good recorded the album with long-time MGB producer Warne Livesey, who earned a Juno nomination for the effort.
Good and co-director Ante Kovac were also nominated for a Juno Award for Best Video of the Year for "Weapon". Despite winning three Junos total, Good has not accepted any of the three Juno Awards he has won. He later criticized the awards several years later in 2009 for not promoting Canadian music at the grassroots level, saying "When it ... isn't kind of this weekend when the Canadian music industry pretends that it's ... not just marketing warehouses for the United States, then sure, I'll be a part of it."[2] Kovac received the award alone on stage. In a later commentary, Good related that Kovac's first edit of the video was far too standard, with gratuitous and generic fades. After firing Kovac, Good flew to Toronto and worked with video editor Jay Deschamps. Deschamps to re-craft the footage. While working on the edit, Good began to experiment with overlaying text and adding still frames and stock photos to help deliver the message. Good noted that he felt that the video was his favourite from his catalogue.
White Light Rock and Roll Review (2004)[edit]
Good's second solo album, the politically charged White Light Rock & Roll Review, was released June 15, 2004. Video singles included "Alert Status Red" and "It's Been a While Since I Was Your Man". For the album, Good elected to take a stripped-down approach. Rather than record each instrument separately, Good and his new band (which consisted of himself, former MGB bassist Rich Priske, guitarist Christian Thor Valdson and drummer Patrick Steward) recorded the songs as a unit, with Good adding vocals and additional guitar parts later. Good later noted that he loved the freedom of being able to write a song, enter the studio, and have a recording completed almost immediately, rather than having to deal with the sometimes arduous process of recording layers and layers of music for a single song.
Good encountered controversy with the video for "Alert Status Red". Initially, the video was intended to be a concept piece, directed by Good. However, upon entering the editing stage, he realized he hadn't shot enough footage to make his concept work. He opted to turn all of the footage over to Kyle Davison, who directed the video for "In a World Called Catastrophe", to see if anything could be made out of it. Davison came up with his own concept, edited it together, and sent the finished product to Good. Good approved of the video, and made it available for download on his website. Good, however, was unaware that Davison had utilized several short clips of surveillance footage of the Columbine High School shootings in the piece. Upon hearing about the clips from individuals who felt the use was insensitive, Good pulled the video from his website. After watching it again, he decided to enlist the opinions of others, including MuchMusic, to see if they had any objections. Most felt it was reasonable, granted that the use wasn't exploitative and helped to support the message of the video, a message that they believed was decidedly relevant. Good agreed. He then returned the video to his website and expressed his support for the work of his co-director.
In a Coma (2005)[edit]
In March 2005, Good brought in Ryan Dahle and Meegee Bradfield of Limblifter to join his band (replacing Valdson and Priske). Good noted that he was concerned his previous line-up had run its course creatively, and that, as a solo artist, he was graced with the freedom to change direction by involving different musicians. He hoped that Dahle and Bradfield might be able to lend a new perspective to familiar material. In April, the lineup entered the studio and recorded two tracks for the Matthew Good best-of, "Big City Life" and "Oh Be Joyful". However, when Good undertook a brief tour of Ontario in July 2005, he was rejoined by Priske and Valdson.
A compilation of Good's work with the Matthew Good Band as well as his solo material was released in September 2005, titled In a Coma: Matthew Good 1995–2005. The first single from the album, "Oh Be Joyful", was released at the end of July.
Good took particular care in the production of the expanded deluxe edition of In a Coma, which included an additional CD and a DVD. In April 2005, Good entered the studio and recorded nine songs from his catalog, reworked and performed acoustically. As a nod to fans who were unable to find them, the CD also included all of the tracks from the out-of-print EPs Lo-Fi B-Sides and Loser Anthems. The DVD featured the complete library of Good's music videos, including a new video for "While We Were Hunting Rabbits" from Avalanche developed by animation students at Sheridan College.
Following the release of In a Coma, Good began demoing songs for a new album. While promoting In a Coma, Good noted that he might use the release of the compilation to mark the end of the first era of his career, where he could then move on to write "weirder" music. In December 2005, Good previewed a demo called "Black Helicopter", which he recorded at home using GarageBand on an Apple Power Mac G5.
In March 2006, Good embarked on a solo acoustic tour of Canada, which featured smaller crowds and more intimate settings. Good spent several weeks leading up to the tour reworking many of his older songs to fit a solo acoustic format, including rarities such as "Fated" and "Life Beyond the Minimum Safe Distance". He was joined on tour by opening act Melissa McClelland, with whom he played a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" at the end of his solo performances.
Hospital Music (2007)[edit]
In the aftermath of divorcing his wife, developing an addiction to Ativan and being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Good channeled the emotional turmoil into his next album, 2007's Hospital Music.[3] The album was the first self-produced effort of his career and was written during his recovery from overdosing on Ativan and a stay in the psychiatric ward.[3] Hospital Music included thinly veiled allusions to his divorce ("I Am Not Safer Than a Bank" and "She's in It for the Money") as well as darker subjects, such as Good's close friend Rod Bruno (who appears on guitar, bass and vocals throughout the record) losing his father to cancer ("99% of Us Is Failure"). The album also featured two cover songs, a radically reworked version of the Dead Kennedys' "Moon Over Marin" and Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End". The album's first single "Born Losers" was also a success, peaking at #27 on the Canadian Hot 100.
Hospital Music was additionally influenced by Good's proximity to Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, just blocks away from his Gastown loft.[3] The opening sound bites in both "Girl Wedged Under the Front of a Firebird" and album-opener "Champions of Nothing" feature men narrating snippets of their experience from the impoverished neighbourhood.[3]
Hospital Music debuted at the top of the Canadian albums chart, Good's first number one album since Beautiful Midnight.[4] The album also marked the end of his recording and publishing contracts.[5]
In support of Hospital Music, Good embarked on a brief solo tour of the United States in March 2008, and began a full-band tour of Canada in May.
Live at Massey Hall (2008)[edit]
Live at Massey Hall is the first live release of Matthew Good's career. Recorded at Toronto's landmark Massey Hall in May 2008, it is an unaltered recording of that night's performance.
Vancouver (2009)[edit]
In July 2008, Good announced he had begun working on his fourth solo album to be titled Vancouver.[6] After entering the studio in early 2009 to record Vancouver, Good confirmed that he had re-signed with Universal Music Canada and the new album would not be an indie release. The album was released on October 6, 2009. For about a month prior to its release, the album was made available on his website for free streaming, stating a desire to make his music as accessible as possible.[7] The first single from the album is "Last Parade."
Vancouver was a reflection of Good's experiences and opinions of his hometown. "It's kind of like the way we were, the way we are – that kind of thing," Good has explained, referring to a sense of the city's "depletion", mostly in regards to the situation in the Downtown Eastside.[8] The album also continued to explore Good's personal life, including his mental illness. He later described the recording of Hospital Music and Vancouver as having together "closed chapters" regarding his personal life, allowing him to focus his energy on a stylistically different project for his next album.[9]
Nominated for "Rock Album of the Year" at the 2011 Juno Awards, Vancouver beat out Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones (Cancer Bats), Fino + Bleed (Die Mannequin), Life Turns Electric (Finger Eleven) and Population Declining (Hail the Villain), marking the second time Good won the award. He first won the category with the Matthew Good Band in 2000 with Beautiful Midnight.
A Canadian tour in support of Vancouver was announced in September 2009 and ran from October 3 to December 19. Joining Good and his band as a supporting act was fellow Vancouver-based group Mother Mother.[10] The following year, he toured the United States from March 8, 2010, to April 4.
Lights of Endangered Species (2011)[edit]
Good entered the studio on October 19, 2010, to record his fifth album as a solo artist, Lights of Endangered Species. He again worked with producer Warne Livesey, marking the sixth album Warne has produced with Good.[11] Good and Warne's Facebook wall postings stated tracking was completed November 20, while mixing of the record was completed on December 11. The album was mastered in England during the first half of 2011 and was subsequently released on May 31. The track listing was released in the members section of matthewgood.org on January 13, 2011. The first single from the album, "In a Place of Lesser Men", was released on March 21 via Soundcloud.
Arrows of Desire (2013)[edit]
On November 5, 2012, Matt announced via Facebook[12] that he had entered the studio to begin recording his sixth solo studio album. The album, titled Arrows of Desire, was released on September 24, 2013.[13] The album's first single, Had It Coming, was released on May 28, 2013.[14] The album's audio was released to be streamed in Canada and Europe, as a promotion leading up to the album's release (September 17–24).[15]
Apart from his music career, Good has also been a writer and blogger. From late 1997 through the end of 2000, Good published a series of monthly "manifestos" on the band's website. Many of those were later compiled and released in his debut book At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say, published in 2001 by Insomniac Press (ISBN 1-894663-08-X).
Throughout his life, Good has found a passion for politics and history. He once commented that he would have become a history teacher had he not found success as a musician. In recent years, he has made his political views far more public, and has used his website to express his opinions about the Canadian government, the effects of the United States' foreign policy, and world crises like the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Good has also been heavily involved with Amnesty International, bringing Amnesty representatives on the road with him during his 2004 tour and offering a limited-edition soccer jersey on his website with proceeds going to Amnesty.
In 2008, Good created a new website entitled Dear San Diego, on which he writes fictional journal entries. In an interview, Good said regarding his writing: "It comes from the need inside of me to make fun of people. And my need to make fun of myself. I like writing things that are both intelligent and subversive. There's so much for me to write about – society has become so absolutely ridiculous."[16]
Good's blogs are 'tweeted' to over 5000 followers. Until recently Good made a practice of return following all Twitter followers but recently has found that reading so much content from these followers has left him with no other option but to unfollow all but a few.[17]
While Good has been credited with coining the phrase first world problems, it is actually an inaccuracy, as G.K. Payne used the phrase in a book in the late 1970s.
Personal life[edit]
Good, whose family background is English,[18] was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, and grew up in Coquitlam – both suburbs of Vancouver. After living in various parts of Vancouver for the majority of his career, Good moved to Maple Ridge around the time of Vancouver's 2009 release.[8]
Good has been affected by ongoing bouts of mania and anxiety throughout his career, many of which he credited to the stresses of popularity.[3] He recalls regularly passing out and vomiting during the time of The Audio of Being's recording in 2001.[18] Behind the scenes of Good's 2005 release of In a Coma and his subsequent touring, Good's ongoing mental health concerns escalated, particularly following the unexpected separation from his first wife,[3] Jennifer,[18] in February 2006. In early 2006, prior to a solo acoustic tour of Canada, Good was prescribed Ativan to help counter his anxiety. During a stop in Kingston, Ontario, Good was rushed to the hospital following an adverse reaction to the Ativan. The last two shows of the tour were cancelled for what Good later explained was a "nervous breakdown".[19]
The following summer, Good planned to spend several months in Europe to write a book. However, just a few days into the trip, Good found himself overwhelmed emotionally, experiencing what he described as the "absolute worst manic episode" while visiting friends in Bristol.[20] He returned to Vancouver, moving into his parents' home. While there, Good began to find himself with an increasing dependence on Ativan. One night, Good was discovered unconscious and rushed to the hospital, having taken upwards of forty Ativan tablets and suffering an overdose. During a brief stay in the hospital's psychiatric ward, to which he willfully committed himself,[3] Good was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[21] The genetic illness was traced back to his mother's side.[20] Recalling past events and stages throughout his life, he has described the diagnosis as a relief, adding "it was like finding the final pieces of the puzzle."[20] Good wrote much of the material for his 2007 release, Hospital Music during his recovery.[3]
Matthew Good Band discography[edit]
- Last of the Ghetto Astronauts (1995)
- Underdogs (1997)
- Beautiful Midnight (1999)
- The Audio of Being (2001)
Solo discography[edit]
- Avalanche (2003)
- White Light Rock & Roll Review (2004)
- In a Coma: 1995–2005 (2005)
- Hospital Music (2007)
- Live at Massey Hall (2008)
- Vancouver (2009)
- Lights of Endangered Species (2011)
- Old Fighters (2013)
- Arrows of Desire (2013)
Awards won[edit]
- Rock Album of the Year, Vancouver, 2011 Juno Awards (Solo career)
- Video of the Year, Weapon, 2002 Juno Awards (Solo career)
- Best Rock Album of the Year, Beautiful Midnight, 2000 Juno Awards (with Matthew Good Band)
- Best Group of the Year, Matthew Good Band, 2000 Juno Awards (with Matthew Good Band)
Good has refused to accept any of his awards for personal reasons.
See also[edit]
- ^ Tour Queries on Flickr – Photo Sharing![dead link]
- ^ "Matthew Good calls Junos pointless". Winnipeg Sun. March 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-05.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Dark times inspired Matthew Good's Hospital Music". Georgia Strait. September 20, 2007. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ Williams, John. "Matthew Good has great chart debut". JAM! Showbiz. August 2007.
- ^ Good, Matthew. "An Actual Entry About Music". MatthewGood.org. March 6, 2007.
- ^ Good, Matthew. "Music – I Do That Too". MatthewGood.org. July 19, 2008.
- ^ "Matthew Good Wants To Be Like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails". ChartAttack. October 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ a b "Matthew Good says goodbye to Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. October 7, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ Marchand, Francois (May 29, 2011). "Matthew Good looks back 14 years with Lights of Endangered Species". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
- ^ "Mother Mother Announce Canadian Tour With Good". Exclaim!. September 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ http://www.facebook.com/matthewgoodmusic?ref=stream
- ^ http://www.wnd.com/markets/news/read/23933735/matthew_good_to_release_new_album_/
- ^ "Matthew Good to release 'Arrows of Desire' September 24, "Had It Coming" available on May 28". FrostByte Media Inc. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ http://matthewgood.org/news/2013/9/17/arrows-of-desire-full-album-stream
- ^ "Matthew Good interview". Voxonline.com. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ a b c "Maturing Matthew Good's a nice guy after all". Georgia Strait. September 22, 2005. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ Good, Matthew. "Hospital Music". MatthewGood.org. April 22, 2007.
- ^ a b c "Musician tells his story of mental illness at Whitby event". Metroland Media Group. October 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ Good. April 22, 2007.
Further reading[edit]
- Good, Matthew (2001). At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say. Insomniac Press. ISBN 1-894663-08-X.
External links[edit]
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Reggie Wayne Appreciation Thread
69 catches for 931 and going HAM on everyone while about to turn 34.
Went to Miami but he'll always be a Louisiana boy at heart. |
Those are crazy numbers after only 9 weeks with a rookie QB. Although a very good one.
And yes Wayne is a HOF WR. Not first ballot but he is HOF worthy.
Reggie has been amazing this season. The separation at 34 is incredible but his best trait are his hands of glue. The drop last night on a well-thrown pass by Luck was the first easy drop I have seen him make this year. This season will help as well as it will show he can excel without Peyton.
yes there are a lot of deserving receivers who havent gotten into the HOF yet, so Reggie could have to wait his turn, but a couple more good years and he has a good shot
Two things,
One. If he has two more seasons like the one he is having right now. He is lock. Two. Is it me or is there is way too much Reggie Wayne in the Pro Football forum right now? |
Better than Marvin.
I remember just last season everyone was calling Wayne overrated and nowhere near HoF caliber. Now he's a sure fire HoF receiver and better than Harrison. Statistcially there really is no comparison, Harrison had a better career, easily. Wayne is having a spectacular year, best of his career (on this pace).....but it would be the 3rd best of Harrison's career. And' that's just yards, Harrison kills Wayne in TD's.
This thread is dumb. It is now about Josh Freeman.
This thread is now over rated and will never be a top 10 thread.
Have ridden Reggie Wayne this year so far.....just traded him straight up for Julio Jones this week, keeper league.
Love Wayne, but my biggest memory of him was this poorly run slant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8dprRGiM14 |
They were running this play over and over and over again with a lot success throughout that season. And that was a perfect situation for that route. Porter just made a great read and stepped in front. |
Wayne: 17 games, 83 catches, 1128 yards, 9 TDs Harrison: 16 games, 65 catches, 833 yards, 2 TDs Considering that Wayne has now evolved into an incredibly physical chain mover who blocks his ass off in the run game and is having his best season at 33 with a rookie QB, and it's not even close to me now. |
Obviously Wayne's production in the playoffs completely overshadows Harrison's, however bear in mind that during Harrison's prime Manning sucked throughout the playoffs. People openly questioned his ability in the clutch. By the time Manning became a good playoff QB Harrison was at the end of his career and Wayne was in his prime |
16 games is a full season's sample size worth of games. We're talking a difference of about 300 yards and 7 TDs. :shrug:
To be fair, the entire Colts team didn't play up to it's potential sometimes in the early to mid 2000's.
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- 02-26-13, 02:57 PM Thread Author #1
Why no firm dates yet set for US launch. Its killing to stock and hurting sales & credibility
I know its not the company's fault other than to say that the company should not be launching new products in NY when they dont even know if they can sell any of the products in the US. Until they are able to stop the bashing from people in the US and be able to sell the product in the US they should trade their stock on the London Stock Exchange as the US market are Apple lovers to the core. All these delays are killing the stock and hurting potential sales because the moronic bashers will just keep putting out negative stories on the product and go against anything that is positive. I have never seen so much negativity towards any company before. The Z10 is a superior phone yet its not being given any love in the country where its stock trades.
Somebody tell the CEO to move its public listing to London where they think for themselves and dont hate anything that is not American. Otherwise lets get these phones selling in the US. Its already one month -
you might wanna read this.. was a good read and gave a plausible explanation as to why the us are still waiting for the z10...and you might wanna change your thread title.. its not hurting sales in all the countries it is available,, and its not hurting sales in us as its not available yet...
BlackBerry Z10 On Verizon - Business Insider - 02-26-13, 03:16 PM #3
The shares trade in Toronto as well. But yeah moving the listing to London will certainly solve all of BBRYs problems and drive sales and probably increase battery life and make the browser run even faster and increase the number of BBM contacts in your phone and .....
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www.austriker.vsco.co - 02-26-13, 04:42 PM #7
Nothing is confirmed until you see them in the stores.
Thorsten Heins, like Mike and Jim before him, is enamoured with all things of the US. The primary BlackBerry 10 Reveal Event in New York City, NY, US, was an error in judgement but the C-level Crew in Waterloo will never admit their folly. The global launch should have been in Waterloo, ON, or perhaps at the TSX in Toronto, ON. We knew there was trouble brewing in with the wireless carriers by early Autumn 2012 when Heins announced the latest, at the time, delay (cough, cough) I mean carrier relations negotiations. It is as though BlackBerry wants to fail.
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Never heard the term crapware, I usually hear people call it Bloatware.
It has been my assumption, and it seems to be proving true, that an agreement was/is in place between VZW and BlackBerry, based on several factors. The main one being the extra complications of testing the CDMA version. VZW doesn't want to be "penalized" by its BB faithful customers who jump ship for other carriers who release the Z10 before them.
When VZW says that BlackBerry dictates when a phone gets released, its because that's the agreement VZW probably made. That BB had to hold other carriers to a date when they could release in the US, because VZW have the disadvantage of using/testing a CDMA device, but the obvious advantage of having the biggest customer base, to make such a deal. (complete speculation)
It doesn't explain why T-Mo said it was going to try and beat VZW to market in a public statement however.
As far as bloatware, the carriers could have been using the Dev Alphas to develop that.Personal - AT&T Lumia 920 WP 8.1
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This should be no surprise for any US carrier. Almost every phone that is due to come out never has a solid release date until about a week or less before the release. As a Verizon customer I have just grown enough patience to wait it out every time.
Why no firm dates yet set for US launch. Its killing to stock and hurting sales & credibility
As much as I want a new Q10 device like yesterday, I just have to think that there is a method to the madness and Thor and Co know just what they are doing.
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you want to know the exact reason? because the carriers need time to make crapware apps so that they could extract more money of the innocent.
BlackBerry Z10 On Verizon - Business Insider - 02-26-13, 06:20 PM #14
Or that they are trying to get some of the more serious bugs out and better have new firmware on these.
No - that's why BlackBerry isn't pushing the carriers either.
The Business Insider article is closer to being right, the US carriers have probably been adding their bloatware and blocking Bridge/tethering functions. As from CB postings, many American consumers have bought the Z10 from Canada and it seems to be working fine on the US carriers.
Why no firm dates yet set for US launch. Its killing to stock and hurting sales & credibility
These phones have been in U.S carrier hands for some time now and the bloatware has been finished for likely many months.
It hasn't launched yet because of a few missing key apps. Anyone wanna bet that some big name apps get announced along with the U.S launch?
Sent from using TapatalkI waited...It launched...Im still waiting... - 02-27-13, 03:29 AM #20
I do not think that carriers like AT&T are going to make a big deal of the Z10 release. Unless they think that it will drastically increase their customer base they will continue to push iPhones and Android. Carriers are into making money and the hardware they sell is only a tool to sell their services. It has been many, many years since AT&T has pushed Blackberry. Time will tell
and it was / is a tool to broaden their brand reception. If not, people will forget their "service" very soon, from a technical point of view, handsets only have to signal if you have network or not (and if you are roaming) but no brandname of any provider required...
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02-27-13, 06:13 AM #23Why no firm dates yet set for US launch. Its killing to stock and hurting sales & credibility
Didn't anyone see the FFC cleared the last bb10 phone just yesterday. This alone would of held things up in the US.
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BlackBerry Was,,.... - 02-27-13, 06:44 AM #24IPod Touch,
IPhone4, IPhone4S, IPad2,16GB Playbook,32GB Playbook,Blackberry 9800 Torch,Blackberry Z10,BlackBerry Q10, BlackBerry Passport, Samsung Galaxy Note 8' Tablet - 02-27-13, 07:09 AM #25
But I thought it was all the carrier's fault.
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Republican Law, 1770-1830
Chancellor's Chair Lecture by Christopher Tomlins
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Prof. Tomlins is a legal historian with wide-ranging interests who has taught at universities across the globe. He joined the UCI Law faculty after 17 years as a Research Professor on the faculty of the American Bar Foundation. He has degrees from Oxford University and the University of Sussex, and a PhD in History from The Johns Hopkins University. He has written or edited six books, most notably Freedom Bound, recipient of the prestigious Bancroft Prize awarded each year by Columbia University to the best books in American history.
His lecture addressed the expressive legalism of the American Revolution and explained how it turned into a legal culture that ceased to stand in imaginative solidarity with "the people themselves." Republican law lived in a contradiction between a revolutionary people imbued with law as imaginative possibility, and a constituted polity whose law defined the limits of imaginative political action. As the republic matured, the tension between its two formative revolutions became ever more apparent and eventually contributed their mite to the great unraveling that would end in another civil war.


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Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (Fri-Sat)
Firstly, the usual weekly leader board snapshot...
Congratulations to Peter as always for his monster contributions. Mehmet still out in front for new articles over the last month.
As usual, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.
Carsten Siemens has taken first place this week, with an eye watering 220 revisions over 175 articles! Great work yet again Carsten!!
Payman Biukaghazadeh is second, with 96 revisions over 79 articles! Lovin your work Payman!
Mehmet PARLAKYİĞİT is this week's third amazing person, with 80 revisions over 39 articles. Thank you Mehmet!
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#1 - Carsten Siemens with 175 articles.
#2 - Payman Biukaghazadeh with 79 articles
#3 - Mehmet PARLAKYİĞİT with 39 articles
The article most updated this week is Wiki: Test Issues, a new contribution by Richard Mueller. This is another fascinating insight into the workings of the wiki. Richard and I are members of the TechNet Wiki Community Council, and this is a great example of the work we do, and how seriously we take your feedback. Great work Richard!
This week's largest document to get some attention is Available Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Plugin Messages, originally copied in by Jamie Miley and recently tweaked by Payman Biukaghazadeh. This is so long it nearly broke by crawler.
However, a note to our most competent wiki tweakers, the table did not copy in properly, and the last column is obscured on IE, FireFox and Chrome.
I am very pleased to find that for a second week running, the article to receive the most revisions this week is mine - TechNet Guru Contributions - May by me!. With 11 revisions this week, down from a feverish 57 last week.
This is of course because submissions are now closed for May. We've had some great contributions in all categories and we thank everyone for participating. A new page has gone up for June and we will have the votes in from all the judges by the end of the week for May and hopefully have the results next weekend.
Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was to Small Basic: Difference Between Local and Remote by Nonki Takahashi.
His addition, was a new fact - Mouse.IsRightButtonDown is always "False" because of Silverlight popup.
Great to see Nonki still working this article, and adding as he grows the knows himself. Thanks Nonki, your work is applauded.
We thank you all and always, for making the wiki a better place to be :)
Best regards,Pete Laker


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REFLECTIONS:THE HUMAN SIDE OF OPTOMETRY Calls of Thanks One brief exam leads to a lasting memory. BY JEANNENE L. DIETER, O.D.
One day, Mr. Ellis Johnson rolled into my office outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. And I do mean "rolled." An elderly wheelchair-bound double amputee, Mr. Johnson had lost his legs some years earlier to complications from diabetes. He said he was having trouble seeing and asked if I could help.
I wasn't busy and did the exam on the spot. Mr. Johnson didn't have Medicare or Medicaid coverage. He had Veterans Administration benefits but there was no facility nearby. I said we'd worry about the bill later.
My exam revealed reduced vision from proliferative diabetic retinopathy, which required urgent treatment. I explained my findings to Mr. Johnson and told him that eyeglasses wouldn't help his condition, but I offered him counseling and education.
I also found an ophthalmologist who would treat him promptly and work out a payment plan. I waived my own fee.
I discovered that the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center would treat him free of charge if needed, so I arranged transportation for the 1-hour drive to the center. Mr. Johnson was grateful and appreciative.
Every so often, I got reports from Wake Forest saying that they had treated and stabilized Mr. Johnson in hopes of preserving his remaining vision. But I never examined Mr. Johnson again.
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I did continue to hear from him, though. He'd phone me after his Wake Forest visits to tell me how much he liked his doctors and how grateful he was for my care and referral.
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He'd call on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Year's and more. If the holiday fell on a weekend, I'd get his call before the end of office hours on Friday. On Mother's Day, I told him I wasn't a mother, but he said he just wanted to thank me and wish me a great day.
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Who Owns Your Intranet?
As companies march ahead with efforts to link employees through internal Web sites, they are learning a key design principle: If you want your intranet to take off, then take a hands-off approach. The case for intranet democracy.
Corporate intranets are becoming vital parts of most businesses. And that leaves top managers itching to put someone — or some department — in complete control of these hot properties. After all, the finance team "owns" bookkeeping, and the marketing team "owns" advertising. So shouldn't the IT department "own" the intranet? Or should it be the folks in human resources, legal affairs, or public relations who triumph? Shouldn't some small group of specialists decide how an intranet operates and what users can and can't do?
Maybe the right answer is no. In a world full of turf battles, it takes real courage to stand up and say, "Our intranet doesn't need an owner. It belongs to all of us — and to none of us." Fortunately, that freewheeling approach is picking up surprising support from managers, consultants, and intranet users.
"I don't believe that there should be a single owner of our intranet," declares Phil Sandoz, head of intranet services at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., an exploration-and-production company in Houston. His team keeps the company's intranet infrastructure running. Otherwise, its style is strictly hands-off. "We don't want to police everything that goes on the site," says Sandoz. "Employees here do their own policing."
So what happens if a company disperses control of its intranet? Letting go, it turns out, enables the intranet to fulfill many roles at once. For top executives, it can be a powerful tool for communicating with rank-and-file workers. For rank-and-file workers, it can be an efficient way to handle benefits, taxes, and the like. And for all of the managers and skilled professionals in between, it can be a device for breaking free of hierarchy and stirring up ideas. By serving all of those functions, the intranet can do more than just solve specific problems; it can nurture the entire corporate culture.
That's a lot more appealing than a situation in which users' needs constantly take a backseat to other priorities. If overseers have too firm a hand, they will draft rules that can make it harder for people to create new pages, post new content, and generate new ideas in concert with colleagues. The result: The site will become tightly controlled and essentially lifeless.
Eric Hards has seen that dynamic firsthand. He is the senior Web designer for the intranet at Lockheed Martin's systems-integration facility in Owego, New York. Every day, employees come to the site looking for information about medical benefits, salary-savings plans such as 401(k)s, and other HR matters. When they go to the HR section of the company's intranet, however, they are met with four choices that can be real puzzlers: "Education & Resource Development," "Human Resources," "Site Administration," and "Other Related Links."
Those labels match the way that the facility's HR department is set up. But users needed something that they could understand. "HR is one of our 10 most visited areas, but the most common complaint was 'I can't find what I want,' " Hards says. So he designed a parallel system in which employees can look up a phrase like "salary-savings plan" and be whisked away to relevant intranet pages.
For Hards, creating a second pathway into Lockheed Martin's online HR services was simply good site management. "I'm a big believer in redundancy," he says. "You need to give users as many ways as possible to find something." Even so, his alternative route now attracts more traffic than the official channel to the site. And it's a nifty reminder that using guerrilla tactics can sometimes be the best way to help intranet users.
It's hardly surprising that such an approach would take hold at Lockheed Martin. During World War II and then during the Cold War, Lockheed was famous for its skunk-works operation — a remote outpost in the eastern-California desert where engineers designed and built advanced military aircraft. Far from headquarters and largely free of bureaucracy, engineers simply did their thing.
Keeping authority figures at bay is especially crucial when it comes to building communities where like-minded people can exchange ideas, even if they are thousands of miles apart. "To make that work, you need a community leader, and it has to be someone on the front lines," says Richard McDermott, a consultant in Boulder, Colorado who has worked with Hewlett-Packard, Shell Oil, and other companies. "It can't be a corporate person, or the whole dialogue will dry up."
Schlumberger Ltd., an oil-field-services and IT company based in New York and Paris, has taken that principle a step further. Three years ago, its CEO and chairman, Euan Baird, authorized the creation of Eureka, an intranet-based grouping that brings together technical experts from around the world. "At the time, he was fairly disillusioned with the management of technical people," recalls Henry Edmundson, director of the technical communities at Schlumberger. "He wanted to have a community that was as self-governing as possible."
The result is a loose but fast-growing association that now numbers some 5,500 people. At last count, Eureka encompassed 19 different communities, with discussion topics ranging from physics to geomatics (the science of applied geography). "It's fairly chaotic, and that's good," says Edmundson. "You can't force these things. People will use groups the way they want to — or they won't use them at all."
Eureka can help a Schlumberger engineer in Vietnam who wants to know how to do geophysical interpretation in granite. "It's a real freak of nature to find oil in granite," Edmundson explains. "Perhaps the only major places where that occurs are Vietnam and Libya. But put out a query to the reservoir-interpretation community, and someone who worked in Libya a few years ago — who might be anywhere on the globe now — can reply with some answers."
The chairman's original mandate has had a powerful effect, says Edmundson. "There's been a message to management that says, 'Don't mess with this. Don't tell people what groups they have to belong to, or how they should use the groups.' Our technical population is our most vital asset, and past programs have failed because they were too top-down. So we went for a bottom-up approach."
Managing an intranet, it turns out, is an organic process — one that revolves less around owning a patch of online real estate than around carefully tending what grows there. At Anadarko Petroleum, the IT department has standardized certain formal elements of each intranet page: where the tool bar goes, how users are guided back to the company's home page. At the same time, says Phil Sandoz, Anadarko's frontline employees call the shots with respect to creating actual content.
"Think of it this way," says Sandoz. "Our IT team maintains the trunk of the tree. But each department is in charge of maintaining its own branch."
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I am not a hardcore, experienced player. This playthrough is about having fun and enjoying the game. Join me in my adventures and I'll share what I know on the way! I've also added my own feature to the videos that can involve you if you want to! Current Schedule •TERA (whenever I can atm) ♦LATEST VIDEO♦ This is a speedthrough-packed episode as I lost most of the footage the first time I recorded. Yaaay! XP Video Archive FAQ Video (There is a bonus bloopers video!) Ep.8 - Sheep Aren't Good Teachers Ep.9 - Faeries, Faeries Everwhere (What happened to the line spacing here?! XD) Follow me on Twitter or Facebook (links on my youtube page) to get updates and of course if you enjoy the series, subscribe to me on Youtube so you know when the next episode is out! Thank you for your time! <3 |
Nice videos, always good to see people making gaming videos, regardless of the game. I plan to make some TERA videos sometime soon myself. |
Thank you! :D Sometimes I think there aren't enough MMORPG videos out there in terms of Let's Plays. And it's been super fun to make as well. Good luck with your videos! What kind do you have in mind? :3 (Teehee, that rhymed. 8D) |
Originally posted by Sheepington Mine will mostly just be videos regarding endgame, 3v3 PvP Arena and some of the harder dungeons. |
Great job & off to a good start! I enjoyed your dialog, it was entertaining and informative. Don't sell yourself short with your experience, at least you get it and dodge in this game. I recently watched a live Tera feed with a so called experienced gamer who reviews for this site and it was ridiculous to watch. He flew around clicking on quests bulldozing into piles of mobs never blocking once as a lancer at about ½ health, sad way to show off a game to new players. |
Thank you so much for the helpful feedback! I dislike it when people do that too, especially about picking up quests, since sometimes the dialogue explains why you're doing whatever task it is etc. And then people who don't read it are like "I don't know what I'm doing! :(" My usual response is "Ffffuuu! It said right there!" (Although if I'm partying with other people, I am guilty of doing this myself sometimes... XD) I've been trying to read out what I think is relevant but I don't want to spend the entire episode reading. XD Glad I was entertaining though! That's what I'm aiming for in the end. :3 |
Hi Sheepington! (or should that be Baaa! I saw a link to your videos on a Tera fan forum and watched them, they are quirky, enjoyable and a lot of fun to listen to as well! I look forward to the next one and will subscribe right now on Youtube... I have one main elin sorcerer (L35) and a human female archer alt, so i am very new to the game as well. Thanks for the vids so far and good luck and best wishes! Cheers form the land down under (which is not good for lag sometimes, haha!) gab4moi |
Teehee! Thanks very much! :3 Glad you're enjoying it so far and thanks for the sub! I usually pick a magical class in these kinda games so I'm surprised at myself that I haven't given it a try yet! How are you finding the sorc class? :D And that's a shame with the lag! At least the game is usually quite good at prioritising battle, even if you do have to spend 10mins trying to pick up loot lol. D: Thanks again for such a nice comment! <3 |
My mmo experience is pretty much the original Guildwars and up to mid level Age of Conan so the sorcerer early/mid stages has been interesting. I find the dodging timing a bit dodgy with big leaping bams, get aquashed a bit, but overall it is addictive and fun, particularly in pugs, which I have found to be very friendly and helpful in the main, and have a heap of friends from there. I believe that at a few levels higher some major spells kick in, and man, pretty much self manageing to now, becomes much more critical. Not sure how I'll go with endgame enchanting and grind, my current guild seems dead in the water so I may need to find an Oceanic one that fits my playtimes, although that is erratic at best due to insomniac manic playstyle! I am what is I think termed an 'elder gamer' so some of the global chat is amusing and sometimes less than edifying, although I must admit to joining the occasional elin movie title lunacy, usually at around 3am local time, haha... Looking forward to Ep 4! |
Hey guys, Episode 4 is out! (Edited into the original post). But here's the picture that went with the video! :3 It's only lineart due to time restrictions this week, however I will be colouring it and trying to fix up a few mistakes later on and possibly adding a bg. It's Sheepiffles in Spring-time wear that I designed myself! c: |
Hey! Just saw this on the K TERA, maybe we will get it here too? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5uV2-HAmg then Sheepiffles could have her own sheepy pet! |
If this doesn't happen I am going to be so heartbroken. I hope you realise the emotional responsibility you are carrying now. ;P (Thanks for sharing though! I really hope it does come over to our side, that'd be really cool!) |
Hey guys, no video until the 23rd of this month! Super sorry about this! >n< I briefly explain why here: clicky! (Also for obvious reasons I won't be able to colour the previous picture until a similar time too). |
Hey guys! I'm back from my holiday... guess who managed to have the only missing luggage out of all the passengers from two flights?! I must be so lucky. :'D Thankfully it's not completely lost and they're sending it to me tomorrow so I should still be able to upload the next episode but it might just be a little bit later in the day. You guys should follow me on facebook/twitter to know when these amazing things happen! 8D |
Hey guys! Sorry for the delay in TERA videos. I've got a new video up today but it's something a little different! Don't worry, I'm still making TERA videos and I should be back on schedule now (a video up every Tuesday and Friday). Hope you still enjoy this until Ep.7 is up! :3 |
Yay! |
Hello everyone! I had some irl troubles last week, so there was a Happy Wheels ep instead of the TERA one on Friday. I'll do my best to keep things on schedule. As always, follow me on facebook or twitter to know when these things happen. :3
Hey everyone, I'm finally back with Ep.9 of TERA! Uploaded instead of Happy Wheels for a double TERA week to make up for the absence.
I've been going through unhappy times that I'm doing my best to push through (even though life is like "Lolno, have some more bad news. You're welcome!") and I'm doing my best to keep on top of things. Sorry I've been bad with keeping on schedule but thanks so much to the people who've been understanding. I really appreciate it and it helps me get through. c: <3 |