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Effect of the filler characteristics on the miscibility of styrene-butadiene rubber and nitrile-butadiene rubber blends.
Polymeric blends are a new kind of materials prepared by mixing two or more components with different characteristics in order to increase the resistance to chemicals and the mechanical and thermal properties by synergetic effects. Because polymers with different polarity such as styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and nitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) are incompatible, fillers with specific physical and chemical properties which reduce the interfacial tension and the domain size can be used as compatibilizers in order to obtained miscible blends (1). The ability of a filler to act as a compatibilizer is due to the strong adsorption of polymer on the filler's surface (2), (3), decreasing its mobility and thus preventing phase separation. Lipatov provides a thorough discussion of the therc considerations related to the increase in the system stability by introducing active fillers (4).
NBR is a polar elastomer, which has high resistance to non-polar substances such as hydrocarbons and oils; it also has a high modulus and abrasion resistance, but it is expensive. On the other hand, SBR is less expensive, has higher resilience and it is resistant to aqueous solutions, thus being more appropriate for many applications.
Fillers with small particles and with high aspect ratio such as carbon nanotubes, silica nanoparticles, and layer silicates show a better dispersion and significant increase in mechanical properties, even at low loadings (5). The chemical surface of the filler determines the type of interaction between polymer and filler. It is possible to promote van der Waals, polar (hydrogen bonding, electron donor-acceptor, and acid-base) or covalent interactions by grafting functional groups onto the filler, which are able to interact with the polymers and also to reduce the agglomeration caused by filler-filler interactions (6).
Precipitated silicas have been extensively used as fillers; however, they present very poor performance compared to carbon black, due to the fact that they do not interact with elastomers of low polarity such as butadiene rubber and styrene-co-butadiene rubber because they are relatively polar and have a low surface area. The use of siliceous materials such as mesoporous silicas offers a prominent alternative, since, besides their high surface area (higher than 600 [m.sup.2]/g), they have lower polarity because of their lower silanos content and organized mesoporous structure where the polymer chains can be trapped (7).
In this work, we study the miscibility of SBR + NBR blends reinforced with mesoporous silica. The polymer-filler interactions are determined by the amount of rubber bound, which is a measure of the insoluble polymer in a good solvent (8), by changes in [T.sub.g] and by mechanical measurements. The composition of the bound rubber is analyzed to determine which polymer presents stronger interactions with the filler. The results are compared with those obtained by using commercial precipitated silica.
Sodium silicate solution (technical grade, weight % Si[O.sub.2]: 27, [Na.sub.2]O: 11.9), Sodium hydroxide (analytical grade), zinc oxide, and stearic acid (technical grade) were supplied by Aldrich. Hydrochloric acid (analytical grade) was from Merck. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTMABr), from Across was used as a cationic surfactant. Precipitated silica Rubbersil RS-200 was from Degussa. SBR 1502 with 23.55 wt% styrene ([M.sub.w] = 3.26 X [10.sup.5] Da, PD = 3.4, Polysar), NBR with 33 wt% Acrylonitrile ([M.sub.w] = 2.45 X [10.sup.5] Da, PD = 3.5, Krynac 3345, Bayer), and vulcanization additives, 2,2,4-trimethyl-1, 2-hydroquinoline (agerite resin D), zinc diethyl dithiocarbamate (ZDEC), and N-cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulphenamide commercial grade were supplied by Monsanto.
Mesoporous Silica Preparation
The mesoporous silica MCM-41 was synthesized as reported elsewhere (9). The reagent molar ratio was 1Si[O.sub.2], 4.32CTABr, 5.95Na[O.sub.2], 6.1HCl, 343.2[H.sub.2]O. In a typical synthesis 9.6 g of CTAMBr were dissolved in 141.6 mL of NaOH 0.60 M, followed by the slow addition of 24 g of sodium silicate. A clear solution was obtained and kept under stirring for 30 min, then 96 mL of HCI 2M were added quickly. The reaction gel was kept for 24 h under stirring at room temperature, and then the silica was recovered by filtration, washed, and dried at 60[degrees]C. Finally, it was calcined at 540[degrees]C. for 3 h to eliminate the surfactant and to generate the porosity.
Blend Preparation
The SBR + NBR blends were mixed together on a two-roll open mill at room temperature and then the filler and the vulcanization additives were incorporated in the following order: the filler was added first, second the zinc oxide (ZnO) as sulfur activator, stearic acid as surfactant to avoid chemisorption of the ZnO, and the 2,2,4-tri-methyl- 1,2-hydroquinoline (agerite resin D) as antioxidant and finally 1.5 phr of sulfur and the zinc diethyl dithiocarbamate (ZDEC) and N-cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulphenamide (CBS) as vulcanization agents.
The samples are named as follows: "S #_# M," where the first and second number stands for SBR and silica content, respectively, and M means blend with mesoporous silica.
Unvulcanized blends, without any additive, were annealed at 150[degrees]C under pressure (3000 psi) during 15 min and thin films were obtained for the analyses.
Vulcanization. Table 1 shows the composition of the vulcanized samples. The samples were vulcanized at 150[degrees]C and 3000 psi. The vulcanization times were measured by DSC.
TABLE 1. Blend composition in phr. S0 S25 S50 S75 S100 SBR 0 25 50 75 100 NBR 100 75 50 75 0 Silica 60 60 60 60 60 Zinc oxide 5 5 5 5 5 Stearic acid 1 1 1 1 1 Agerite Resin D (a) 2 2 2 2 2 CBS (b) 2 2 2 2 2 ZDEC (c) 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 (a) 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-hydroquinoline. (b) N-cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulphenamide. (c) Zinc diethyl dithiocarbamate.
Material Characterization
The pore size distribution, surface area, and pore volume of the fillers were determined by nitrogen adsorption isotherms by using an ASAP 2010 Micromeritis equipment.
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The silica powder and the polymer films were directly analyzed in a JEOL JSM 5800 using the back scattered electron mode.
X-ray Diffractometry. X-ray diffractometry results were obtained with a Rigaku Miniflex X-ray spectrometer.
Thermogravimetric Analyses (TGA). All the analyses were done under air atmosphere, heating from room temperature to 800[degrees]C at 10[degrees]C/min in a Q500 TA Instruments thermogravimetric analyzer.
Bound Rubber Determination. Approximately 200 mg of small pieces of blend film was introduced into a stainless steel mesh and immersed in 30 mL of toluene during 5 days. Thereafter the material was washed thoroughly with acetone to remove toluene residuals and dried at 60[degrees]C by 24 h.
The bound rubber content in wt% was calculated as follows:
%BR = %[R.sub.nonsoluble-fraction]/%[Silica.sub.nonsoluble-fraction]/%[R.sub.in-blend]/%[Silica.sub.in-blend] (1)
where %[R.sub.nonsoluble-fraction] and %[Silica.sub.nonsoluble-fraction] are the rubber and residual silica wt%, respectively, in the extracted samples obtained by TGA. During milling, some rubber and silica can be lost, therefore the actual rubber and silica wt%, %[R.sub.in-blend] and %[Silica.sub.in-blend], in the initial blend, are also determined by TGA.
SBR and NBR composition of the bound rubber: Standards with different SBR + NBR ratios were prepared and the infrared spectra were collected in a Perkin-Elmer Spectrometer, model Spectrum One. The NBR percentage in the extracted fraction was calculated from a calibration curve prepared using the absorbance at 2236 [cm.sup.-1] corresponding to the stretching vibration of C [equivalent to] N of the nitrile rubber. The NBR wt% in BR is calculated as shown in Eq. 2, where A is de absorbance at 2236 [cm.sup.-1].
%NBR = %NB[R.sub.in-blend] - [(100 - %BR) x (A/0.607)]/%BR (2)
The SBR wt% was calculated by subtracting the NBR wt% from the total bound rubber percentage.
Gel Permeation Chromatography Analysis. A calibration plot using polystyrene standards was made with a HPLC Waters chromatograph equipped with a refraction index detector and a Styragel column HT6E. The molecular weight of the initial SBR and NBR samples and the extracted and nonextracted rubber from the blends (SO_60M and S100_60M) dissolved in THF was determined.
Modulated Temperature Differential Scanning Calorimetry (MTDSC). The samples were analyzed in a Thermal Analyzer Q100 system from TA instruments. Approximately 12 mg of pulverized filled blend without vulcanization additives were annealed at 150[degrees]C for 15 min in a compression molding machine at 20.7 MPa. First the thermal history was erased by heating at 30[degrees]C/min up to 150[degrees]C, and then the samples were cooled to--80[degree]C at 30[degrees]C/min. The thermograms were collected at 3[degrees]C/min and the temperature was modulated at [+ or -] 1.00[degrees]C every 60 s.
Tensile Test. V-type test probes of vulcanized blends were analyzed in a tensile machine MTS TEST/5, according to the ASTM D638 procedure, strain speed 50 mm/min, at room temperature 25[degrees]C.
Characterization of Silica
According to Fig. 1, the mesoporous MCM-41 silica synthesized is composed of small ~ 100 nm size spheroid particles and few agglomerates. The precipitated silica presents loose nonregular shape agglomerates.
The nitrogen adsorption isotherms are shown in Fig. 2. The mesoporous MCM-41 silica presents a type IV isotherm, which is characteristic for mesoporous materials (9). Precipitated silica presents a type II isotherm, which is typical of nonporous materials.
The mesoporous silica exhibits a BET surface area, average pore diameter, and pore volume of 843.5 [m.sup.2]/g, 2.7 nm, 0.54 [cm.sup.3]/g, respectively. The precipitated silica has a BET surface area of 170.5 [m.sup.2]/g and smaller pore volume.
Figure 3 shows the X-ray diffractogram for the mesoporous silica, which exhibits an organized hexagonal pore array corresponding to MCM-41 type material in agreement with that reported by Beck et al. (10).
Characterization of Blends
SEM Analysis. The silica shows better dispersion in NBR than in SBR. For all SBR + NBR blends, the silica dispersion is better when the NBR content increases. The silica does not disperse in matrices of low polarity like SBR, but the more polar nitrile groups of NBR are able to interact with the silanol groups of silica, probably through hydrogen bonds and acid-base interactions, whereby NBR wraps around the silica thus diminishing its surface tension and improving its dispersion in SBR. Figure 4 shows the SEM images for a blend constituting only of SBR and a blend containing NBR 25 phr, both filled with 60 phr of mesoporous silica, indicating the dispersion effect caused by the presence of NBR rubber.
Composition of Bound Rubber. Polymer chains, interacting directly with the filler, are insoluble in a good solvent. It is important to know the composition of the bound rubber since it allows determining which polymer presents stronger interactions with the filler. Table 2 shows the results obtained for composition as explained in the experimental section. Figure 5 shows as illustration the intensity of the infrared bands due to the nitrile absorption in the extracted rubber for the samples S75_60M and S50_60M.
TABLE 2. Bound rubber content in the blends. Sample %BR (a) %NBR (b) S0_65 24 S0_60M 27 S25_60 20 82 S25_60M 22 86 S50_60 18 66 S50_60M 20 69 S75_60 20 32 S75_60M 22 35 S100_60 19 S100_60M 24 (a) Bound rubber content. (b) NBR content in bound rubber.
It can be concluded for all blends, that the relative wt% of NBR with respect to wt% of SBR is higher in the bound rubber than in the initial nonextracted blend. The is due to the stronger interaction between the--C [equivalent to] N of NBR and silanol groups, which favors the wrapping of filler particles by NBR chains. According to Lipatov et al. (4), in our case, there is a competition between the two polymers for the filler surface, but rather the NBR-silica shows better interaction and it is the most stable system from the thermodynamic point of view, and thus more negative free energy change is expected for it.
Bound rubber is higher for blends prepared with mesoporous silicas than for those prepared with mesoporous silicas than for those prepared with precipitated silica, indicating better rubber-silica interactions due to the highest surface area as well as penetration of the polymer chains into the mesopores.
Molecular Weight Determination. Table 3 shows the molecular weight for the initial SBR, initial NBR and for the extracted and nonextracted rubber (bound rubber) present in SBR + NBR + mesoporous silica blends.
TABLE 3. Molecular weight for the polymers and its different fractions. Sample [M.sub.w] [M.sub.w]/[M.sub.n] (X [10.sup.5] Da) Pristine NBR 2.47 3.5 S0_60M extracted rubber 2.37 3.0 S 0_60M bound rubber 2.32 3.1 Pristine SBR 3.26 3.4 S 100_60M extracted rubber 3.39 2.9 S 100_60M bound rubber 1.29 3.4
For the NBR-mesoporous silica blends, there is no significant difference in the molecular weight of the extracted rubber, the bound rubber, and the initial NBR. This result leads us to conclude that every NBR chain interacts in the same way with silica, independently of its size. This means that the forces of enthalpy are able to overcome the entropy barrier imposed by the conformational changes generated by the interaction between polymeric chains silica surface.
For an SBR-mesoporous silica blend (S100_60M), the extracted rubber is composed of the largest chains and the bound rubber of the shortest ones. Short chains can easily change their conformation, but in the case of large polymer chains, the enthalpy forces are not sufficient to overcome the energy barrier required to rearrange them when they are anchored to the solid.
Modulated Temperature Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Blend Characterization. The glass transition temperature ([T.sub.g]) of the blends depends on the filler-polymer interaction and the cohesive forces between the polymer chains. High intermolecular polymer-polymer interaction provides a high immobility of the bulk polymer generating, as a consequence, a decrease in the mobility of the unbound chains and therefore a large change in the glass transition temperature. This is not the case for elastomers.
The results obtained for unfilled and filled rubber blends are shown in Table 4. A reinforced polymer blend has a thermal behavior different from an unfilled blend. A slight increase in [T.sub.g], for both SBR and NBR can be observed, in almost all blends, corresponding to these unbound polymer phases, which indicate weak polymer-polymer cohesive interactions such as van der Waals forces (11). On the other hand, the bound polymer chains do not present [T.sub.g] signals.
TABLE 4. Glass transition temperatures determined by DSC. Sample [T.sub.g] SBR ([degrees]C) [T.sub.g] NBR ([degrees]C) S0 - 34 S0_60 - 33 S0_60M - 33 S25_0 - 55 - 33 S25_60 - 55 - 33 S25-60M - 55 - 33 S50 - 55 - 33 S50_60 - 54 - 32 S50_60M - 54 - 33 S75_0 - 55 - 33 S75_60 - 54 - 32 S75-60M - 54 S100_0 - 56 S100_60 - 54 S100_60 - 54
Chains bonded in a supramolecular structure do not present glass transition at the same temperature as free chains (4). This is the case for NBR in the blend S75_60M, for which its [T.sub.g] disappears because of its high interaction with the filler, which is corroborated by its high content in bound rubber and its significant participation in the interphase. The blend S25_60M, although it showed higher bound rubber content, presents glass transition for SBR since it is not completely involved in the interphase (9.7 wt% of SBR is free according with Table 5).
TABLE 5. Interphase composition for the filled blends. Polymer at interphase Polymer at filler interphase Sample F % Total % SBR % NBR % BR %SBR % NBR S25_0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 S25_60 0.8 16.3 0.8 15.3 20.2 3.6 16.6 S25-60M 0.6 37.1 7.3 30.3 22.3 3.1 19.2 S50 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 S50_60 0.7 32.4 17.9 14.7 18.1 5.6 12.5 S50_60M 0.6 41.6 14.6 26.5 20.3 6.9 13.3 S75_0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0. 0 S75_60 0.8 23.2 22.9 1.2 20.3 13.7 6.6 S75-60M 0.5 49.5 22.0 25.0 22.2 14.3 7.9 Interphase SBR + NBR Sample % SBR % NBR S25_0 0 0 S25_60 -2.8 -1.3 S25-60M 4.2 11.1 S50 0 0 S50_60 12.3 2.2 S50_60M 7.7 13.2 S75_0 0 0 S75_60 9.2 -5.4 S75-60M 7.7 17.1
Figure 6 shows the reversible thermal behavior of bound rubber for blend S75_60M, where no transitions are observed in the temperature range where free polymer presents them. However, after silica removal, the polymers recover their mobility and glass and melting transitions are observed at the same temperature as nonfilled polymer.
Miscibility of Rubber Blends. Hourston offers a complete discussion on the use of MTDSC for the characterization of immiscible polymer blends. The change of [C.sub.p] at each [T.sub.g] may be related to the amount of polymer able to suffer that transition (12), (13). Figure 7B shows the [C.sub.p] derivative with respect to temperature, from which [DELTA][C.sub.p] for each polymer is calculated by integration of its corresponding peak. For an immiscible blend, the total change in heat capacity can be obtained as the algebraic sum of the heat capacity changes for each polymer at its respective [T.sub.g] as follows (14):
[DELTA][C.sub.P] = [w.sub.1][DELTA][C.sub.P1] + [w.sub.2][DELTA][C.sub.P2] (3)
where w is the weight fraction and subscripts 1 and 2 refer to each component.
When the system is partly miscible, we have:
[DELTA][C.sub.P] = [w.sub.1][DELTA][C.sub.P1] + [w.sub.2][DELTA][C.sub.P2] + [DELTA][C.sub.Pint]. (4)
The content of each component at the interphase w is calculated as:
[w.sub.i-interphase] = [w.sub.i] - [DELTA][C.sub.Piblend]/[DELTA][C.sub.Pi], (5)
where [DELTA][C.sub.Piblend] and [DELTA][C.sub.pi] refer to the component i in the blend and before mixing, respectively.
The weight fraction F of nonengaged polymer at any interphase, which can be calculated as shown below, is associated with the miscibility. For instance, when F is 1, no interface exists.
F = [([DELTA][C.sub.P1] + [DELTA][C.sub.p2])/([w.sub.1][DELTA][C.sub.P1blend] + [w.sub.2][DELTA][C.sub.P2blend])]. (6)
In Table 5, it is observed that for all unfilled rubber blends, the F values are ~ 1, which indicates that no interphases are present. For the filled blends, F is smaller than 1, therefore some polymer fraction is present at the interphase. To make the calculation of F, the [C.sub.p] is normalized with respect to the polymer weight in the blends.
In the filled rubber blends two interphases are identified: one of polymer-filler (bound rubber) and the other of SBR + NBR. In these interphases, the total polymer is calculated as (1 - F) X 100 and the amount of each rubber by using Eq. 4. The content of each polymer in the bound rubber is calculated by using the data in Table 1 and the following equation:
%[NBR.sub.at-filler] = %[[[NBR.sub.BR] x %BR]/100] and %[SBR.sub.at-filler] = [[(100 - %[NBR.sub.BR]) x %BR]/100], (7)
%[NBR.sub.at filler] and %[SBR.sub.at filler] are the wt% of each rubber at the interphase with the filler, %BR and %[NBR.sub.BR] are the percent of bound rubber and the percent of NBR in the bound rubber, respectively.
Finally, the composition of the interphase SBR + NBR is calculated considering the difference between the amounts of each rubber in the total polymer in the interphases and in the bound rubber.
The blends reinforced with mesoporous silica show the highest rubber content at the SBR + NBR interphase, indicating that the high surface area of the filler plays an important role in improving the system compatibility. According to this result, it can be deduced that the interphase SBR + NBR is preferentially located around the bound rubber that covers the filler particles, and therefore filler with high surface area promotes interphase stability by decreasing the mobility of the rubber chains preventing their phase separation.
Figure 7 shows the reversible heat flow signal as a function of temperature for the blends containing 50 phr of each polymer. For the unfilled blend and for the blend filled with silica RS-200 an endothermic transition was observed. This corresponds to the melting of the crystalline fraction of the butadiene component in both elastomers. The nonreversible heat flow (not shown) also exhibits an exothermic peak around 0[degrees]C, which is due to the butadiene crystallization; but for the blend prepared with mesoporous silica, this phenomenon is not detected, since the polymer chains can penetrate into the silica pores, avoiding their crystallization, as discussed elsewhere (15).
The NBR has a higher tendency to be incorporated in the bound rubber due to the strong interaction between its polar segments having--C[equivalent to] groups and the silica. The presence of SBR in the SBR + NBR interphase is due to the interaction of its chains with the nonpolar tails of the NBR chains. Figure 8 illustrates the possible interphases found in SBR + NBR blends reinforced with mesoporous silica.
The MTDSC results shown in Table 5 are in concordance with the values obtained by infrared for the bound rubber. The negative polymer amounts at the SBR + NBR interphase for the S25_60 and S75_60 blends, indicate that this method is less sensitive to low amounts of interphase as is the case for these blends prepared with precipitated silica.
Mechanical Properties. According to Table 6 the filled SBR + NBR blends have higher strength at break than each filled elastomer independently, indicating that the compatibility between the polymers is improved with the filler content, producing a synergy of this property. Also it is seen in this table that those blends prepared with mesoporous silica exhibit the highest values.
TABLE 6. Mechanical properties of the blends. Strength at break (MPa) %Strain at break Sample Value [SIGMA] Value [SIGMA] S0_60 1.29 0.08 535 30 So_60M 1.56 0.07 585 9 S25_60 1.41 0.04 595 14 S25_60M 1.66 0.02 557 31 S50_60 1.35 0.09 567 40 S50-60M 1.52 0.09 462 28 S75_60 1.34 0.11 255 29 S75_60M 1.64 0.10 244 16 S100_60 1.22 0.11 472 18 S100_60M 1.47 0.08 597 12
The NBR presents better interaction with silica than does SBR, due to the high chemical affinity between the nitrile and silanol groups. The silica is better dispersed in the blends containing NBR than in SBR alone. The interaction of SBR with silica fillers is given by the penetration effect of short chains inside of their pores.
A greater improvement in the miscibility of SBR + NBR blends is attained by reinforcement with mesoporous silica than with precipitated silica. This is due to the larger surface area and organized porous structure of the former, which allows a better filler + polymer interaction and a higher strength at break for the silica + rubber blends.
We are grateful to the Colciencias (Colombia) to the program "Apoyo a la comunidad cientifica Nacional a traves de las becas para estudios doctorales".
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Correspondence to: B.L. Lopez: e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contract grant sponsor: University of Antioquia.
DOI 10.1002/pen.21126
Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). [C] 2008 Society of Plastics Engineers
Leon D. Perez, Ligia Sierra, Betty L. Lopez
Grupo Ciencia de los Materiales, Universidad de Antioquia, Sede de Investigation Universitaria Medellin, Colombia
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May 21 – Paris Saint-Germain have made a new move to exploit the presence of Swedish superstar Zlatan Ibrahimović in their squad, agreeing a one-year regional sponsorship deal with Billys, a Swedish-produced pizza snack.
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Presidential race rumours: Figo and van Praag set to throw in the towel
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May 20 - Michael van Praag and Luis Figo are reportedly set to withdraw from the FIFA presidential race, leaving Asia's outgoing FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan to go head-to-head with Sepp Blatter next week.
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Blatter walks Israeli-Palestinian tightrope with new 'message' for Ramallah meeting
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May 20 - Sepp Blatter remains optimistic, after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that he can find a solution to the Palestinian bid to ban Israel from world football that threatens to overshadow his re-election bid at next week's FIFA Congress in Zurich.
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Italian women's cup final off after lesbian comment angers players
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 14:09
May 20 - Italy's women's cup final has been cancelled as a result of the alleged description of female players as a "bunch of lesbians" by the president of the Italian Amateur Football Association (LND), Felice Belloli (pictured).
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Italian anti-Mafia unit swoops to arrest 50 suspected of match-fixing
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May 20 - More than 50 people including coaches, directors and players, have been arrested as part of a massive match-fixing crackdown in Italy.
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Mihir Bose: Can British managers ever hope to manage a big club?
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Talk of West Ham turning to Rafa Benitez in place of Sam Allardyce raises the question: what about British managers? If even a club like West Ham thinks foreign what hope is there for Britons who dream of managing the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal or Manchester City? And that this is a question being asked in a season where British managers have made quite a mark shows the problem for the native born.
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2026 World Cup bid rules set to pave way for Americas and Africa only
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 10:38
By Andrew Warshaw
May 20 - FIFA will agree the bidding regulations for the 2026 World Cup next week with Europe and Asia almost certain to be excluded.
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Sprint cross line for fifth Gold Cup sponsorship
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 12:59
May 20 - Sprint has renewed its CONCACAF Gold Cup sponsorship as official US wireless provider. This is Sprint's fifth consecutive Gold Cup, the first being in 2007.
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Benfica lands Emirates in three year shirt deal
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:51
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May 20 - Under a year since Emirates became the official airline of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, a three-year shirt sponsorship deal has been agreed between the two parties, whereby Fly Emirates will be displayed on the team jersey until the end of the 2017/18 season.
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Dinamo Bucharest push 30,000-seat stadium plan for Euro 2020
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 12:06
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May 20 - Elisabeta Lipa, the chief executive of Dinamo Bucharest, has unveiled plans to demolish its Stefan cel Mare stadium and build a new sports facility with a total capacity of 30,000.
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Juve vs Lazio cup final in TV first with Ultra-HD format
Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 11:09
May 20 – Italy are making TV production history with the first broadcast of a football match in the new 4K Ultra-HD format. The Juventus versus Lazio TIM Cup Final at Rome's Stadio Olimpico tonight, will be the first to offer broadcasters a live feed in the fledgling TV format.
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May 19 - With a raft of clubs struggling to comply, UEFA have agreed to relax the rules on financial fair play that were introduced in 2011 to curb overspending, but which have led to the widely anticipated threat of legal challenges.
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Because of this, access to the upper Coeur d'Alene Public Library and City Hall parking lot will be from the Eight Street entrance only. The intersection is expected be closed for about three weeks.
Drivers can reach City Hall and the library by following a detour south from Sherman Avenue. The library wants to remind visitors that the parking in the upper lot is limited to two hours. There is additional street parking as well as in the lower lot by turning west at Young Avenue off of Eighth.
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About the time of his father's death, Cavendish began to work closely with Charles Blagden, an association that helped Blagden enter fully into London's scientific society. In return, Blagden helped to keep the world at a distance from Cavendish. Cavendish published no books and few papers, but he achieved much. Several areas of research, including mechanics, optics, and magnetism, feature extensively in his manuscripts, but they scarcely feature in his published work.
His first publication (1766) was a combination of three short chemistry papers on "factitious airs," or gases produced in the laboratory. He produced "inflammable air" (hydrogen) by dissolving metals in acids and "fixed air" (carbon dioxide) by dissolving alkalis in acids, and he collected these and other gases in bottles inverted over water or mercury. He then measured their solubility in water and their specific gravity and noted their combustibility. Cavendish was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal for this paper. Gas chemistry was of increasing importance in the latter half of the 18th century and became crucial for Frenchman Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's reform of chemistry, generally known as the chemical revolution.
In 1783 Cavendish published a paper on eudiometry (the measurement of the goodness of gases for breathing). He described a new eudiometer of his own invention, with which he achieved the best results to date, using what in other hands had been the inexact method of measuring gases by weighing them. He next published a paper on the production of water by burning inflammable air (that is, hydrogen) in dephlogisticated air (now known to be oxygen), the latter a constituent of atmospheric air. (See phlogiston.) Cavendish concluded that dephlogisticated air was dephlogisticated water and that hydrogen was either pure phlogiston or phlogisticated water. He reported these findings to Joseph Priestley, an English clergyman and scientist, no later than March 1783, but did not publish them until the following year. The Scottish inventor James Watt published a paper on the composition of water in 1783; Cavendish had performed the experiments first but published second. Controversy about priority ensued. In 1785 Cavendish carried out an investigation of the composition of common (i.e., atmospheric) air, obtaining, as usual, impressively accurate results. He observed that, when he had determined the amounts of phlogisticated air (nitrogen) and dephlogisticated air (oxygen), there remained a volume of gas amounting to 1/120 of the original volume of common air.
In the 1890s, two British physicists, William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh, realized that their newly discovered inert gas, argon, was responsible for Cavendish's problematic residue; he had not made an error. What he had done was perform rigorous quantitative experiments, using standardized instruments and methods, aimed at reproducible results; taken the mean of the result of several experiments; and identified and allowed for sources of error. The balance that he used, made by a craftsman named Harrison, was the first of the splendid precision balances of the 18th century, and as good as Lavoisier's (which has been estimated to measure one part in 400,000). Cavendish worked with his instrument makers, generally improving existing instruments rather than inventing wholly new ones.
Cavendish, as indicated above, used the language of the old phlogiston theory in chemistry. In 1787 he became one of the earliest outside France to convert to the new antiphlogistic theory of Lavoisier, though he remained skeptical about the nomenclature of the new theory. He also objected to Lavoisier's identification of heat as having a material or elementary basis. Working within the framework of Newtonian mechanism, Cavendish had tackled the problem of the nature of heat in the 1760s, explaining heat as the result of the motion of matter. In 1783 he published a paper on the temperature at which mercury freezes and in that paper made use of the idea of latent heat, although he did not use the term because he believed that it implied acceptance of a material theory of heat. He made his objections explicit in his 1784 paper on air. He went on to develop a general theory of heat, and the manuscript of that theory has been persuasively dated to the late 1780s. His theory was at once mathematical and mechanical; it contained the principle of the conservation of heat (later understood as an instance of conservation of energy) and even contained the concept (although not the label) of the mechanical equivalent of heat.


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BOSTON -- Once upon a time, before multiple surgeries on his arm and back, Eric Gagne was the most dominating closer in baseball, going 84 consecutive save situations and more than a year without blowing one. Then again, once upon a time, Creed was a popular rock band, too.
When the Red Sox traded for Gagne at the deadline, they had visions of a devastating 1-2 punch with Gagne setting up closer Jonathan Papelbon. It didn't quite work out that way. Gagne went 2-2 with a 6.75 ...
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A subsect of Dawoodi Bohras known as 'Atba-e-Malak Badar', which parted ways from its parent group, way back in 1891, is perhaps the smallest community in the country with a head count of not more than 300 members.
The Mahdi Bagh Colony in the north eastern part on the city outskirts houses majority of this community members, who speak in Gujarati, recite Quran in Arabic and are well versed in Urdu, Hindi and English. They are quite familiar with local languages and are Muslims belonging to the Shia sect.
The community, with around 250 members in Nagpur, also has its presence in Ujjain, Vishakhapatnam and Hyderabad with a few families settled in these cities.
"Apart from this, some families are in Gulf region (Sharjah and UAE), United States, Australia and Europe. Its a close knit community. Mumbai and Pune too have a few families which takes the global count to 800-odd members," secretary of Managing Committee of Mahdi Bagh Institution (HQ), Mehmood Ali said.
In a nut shell, the colony is the finest example of unique and successful experiment of community living, earning it sobriquets like 'A Walled City', 'A Patch of Paradise' 'Shantiniketan of Nagpur' and 'Heaven on Earth', he said.
The Colony has independent homes for each family besides tombs of religious leaders, a mosque, a library and office of its spiritual head and a small museum displaying the memorabilia connected to former heads and preachers.
The dwelling resembles a bird sanctuary where green trees rise above buildings and chirping birds ring against the calm atmosphere, where residents look forward to a peaceful co-existence with fellow community members.
Syed Ameeruddin Malak Saheb is the spiritual leader of the community. Only strange and new thing about the community is unlike Christians and Hindus, they are not baptised on birth. But on attaining the puberty, the kids are administered an oath in which they accept the philosophy and concept of the community to become its members.
Also, many features associated with the community make it unique. There is no crime in the community and no dowry is either given or taken in any marriage.
"Another interesting part is that there is no practice of inter-faith or inter-religion marriages in this community," former journalist and HoD, Mass Communication at Nagpur University, Moiz Haque said.
Barring four or five boys, who married girls from outside the community (but only to Muslims) all have tied the knot within their sect, Haque, who also belongs to this sect, said.
Many dignitaries including BJP President Nitin Gadkari, Annie Beasant, former Vice-President M Hidayatullah, Swami Chinmayananda besides Bollywood celebrities likem Saira Banu, Dilip Kumar, Mohammad Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Hemant Kumar and Dr Jamshed Irani have visited the colony.
Cricket skippers Mushtaque Ali, Sunil Gavaskar and Mohammad Azharhuddin were also among other distinguished visitors to the place.


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Space shuttle tires took a lot of pressure. From orbit to landing, the shuttle tires weathered temperature changes of up to 170 degrees Fahrenheit and a drop in altitude of over 200 miles in less than an hour. Altitude and temperature shifts bring changes in air pressure, which could have caused tires to leak or burst if they weren't designed to meet the challenge.
Like tires on most aircraft, space shuttle tires were filled with nitrogen. Nitrogen works better during altitude and temperature changes than air, which is made up of 21% oxygen. Nitrogen also resists fire. And since its molecules are bigger than oxygen's, nitrogen leaks out from tires more slowly, which is a big plus in the vacuum of space.
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BBC 2's series, 'The Bible's Buried Secrets', offers intriguing thoughts, but perhaps not as controversial as some of the promotional material would have it, says Alison Jasper. The world of biblical scholarship is broad and hospitable to different interpretations. And arguably, it is the essentially unanswerable but fertile questions that remain the Bible's real buried treasure.
Questioning the coherence of the newly-initiated World Interfaith Harmony Week, Michael Marten says that if neither 'faith' nor 'religion' really serve as useful comparative or relational concepts, it is perhaps intellectually more honest, and practically more fruitful, to abandon the pretence of 'interfaith' dialogue in favour of simple 'interhuman' dialogue.
A clearer conception of what is meant by Christian prayer is needed, says Kat Neumann, if are to find in it an adequate, sensible yet sensitive response to a situation like the earthquake in Japan.
Academics at Stirling University took part in 'teach-ins' yesterday, to coincide with national protests and strikes over controversial pension plan changes.
Academics at the University of Stirling, and the beliefs and values think-tank Ekklesia, have teamed up to promote a new research agenda and blog entitled Critical Religion, which aims to put hot topics under a careful spotlight.
With the 'Critical Religion' agenda and blog, says Michael Marten, the intention is to question the category of 'religion' - but then, rather than just holding it to suspicion, or blame, or discredit, or incredulity – a growing tendency among certain public intellectuals, even if against the tide of global demographics – to examine the issues involved from a positive critical standpoint.
Sensible discussion about the role of different beliefs in the public square is frequently skewed by the reluctance or inability of the more ideologically-driven participants to listen properly to what is actually being said.
There is little if anything that is straightforward or indeed 'natural' about the body, says Alison Jasper. It is a cultural canvas constructed through metaphors and a physical one preyed on by the idea that 'more surgery will make me better somehow'.
The assumption that there is some essential distinction between 'religious' and 'non-religious' domains – which is still today a globalising discourse – is an ideological construct which takes on an appearance of naturalness and inevitability, says Timothy Fitzgerald. When such generalised assumptions are taken into the field of international relations they cause further difficulties.


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DNA-testing for BRCA1/2 prior to genetic counselling in patients with breast cancer: design of an intervention study, DNA-direct
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2 Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:12 doi:10.1186/1472-6874-12-12Published: 8 May 2012
Current practice for patients with breast cancer referred for genetic counseling, includes face-to-face consultations with a genetic counselor prior to and following DNA-testing. This is based on guidelines regarding Huntington's disease in anticipation of high psychosocial impact of DNA-testing for mutations in BRCA1/2 genes. The initial consultation covers generic information regarding hereditary breast cancer and the (im)possibilities of DNA-testing, prior to such testing. Patients with breast cancer may see this information as irrelevant or unnecessary because individual genetic advice depends on DNA-test results. Also, verbal information is not always remembered well by patients. A different format for this information prior to DNA-testing is possible: replacing initial face-to-face genetic counseling (DNA-intake procedure) by telephone, written and digital information sent to patients' homes (DNA-direct procedure).
In this intervention study, 150 patients with breast cancer referred to the department of Clinical Genetics of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre are given the choice between two procedures, DNA-direct (intervention group) or DNA-intake (usual care, control group). During a triage telephone call, patients are excluded if they have problems with Dutch text, family communication, or of psychological or psychiatric nature. Primary outcome measures are satisfaction and psychological distress. Secondary outcome measures are determinants for the participant's choice of procedure, waiting and processing times, and family characteristics. Data are collected by self-report questionnaires at baseline and following completion of genetic counseling. A minority of participants will receive an invitation for a 30 min semi-structured telephone interview, e.g. confirmed carriers of a BRCA1/2 mutation, and those who report problems with the procedure.
This study compares current practice of an intake consultation (DNA-intake) to a home informational package of telephone, written and digital information (DNA-direct) prior to DNA-testing in patients with breast cancer. The aim is to determine whether DNA-direct is an acceptable procedure for BRCA1/2 testing, in order to provide customized care to patients with breast cancer, cutting down on the period of uncertainty during this diagnostic process.
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It's ten days til Christmas and I STILL don't have all my shopping done.
And I know that is normal for some people… In fact, my husband is of the breed that doesn't begin shopping until the week of…
But I personally like to feel prepared. And with SO many stinkin kids and other people to shop for, I have to!
But this year has been tough! The kids are getting older and their interests are changing.
I also told them that they really will only get 1 toy that they really want.
I'm happy with this rule for lots of reasons, but the one negative side is that I feel the pressure to get exactly the right thing.
So I have been asking them lately what they want and I have gotten some really funny responses.
My conversation with the little guy above went like like this.
I picked him up and put him in 'Santa's' (unfortunately soft) lap.
Me: Hey buddy! What do YOU want for Christmas this year?
Atti: Oh, Mommy, I want a Ninja Tettle.
Me: Ohhhh, a Ninja Turtle, huh?
Atti: Yes!
Me: Well, which one do you want?
Atti: I want Michaelangelo!
Me: (getting excited about my intel) Oh, great! Is that the orange one?
Atti: (stops what he is doing to look up at me… giggles.) Um, no, Mommy…. He's gween.
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World Cup new boy Keith Earls today insisted Ireland's backline are ready to explode into life when they face Russia in Rotorua on Sunday.
On their day the Irish threequarters can be as dangerous as any in the game, but they have yet to set the tournament alight here.
Heavy rain put a dent in ambitions against the United States, while the pack did such a comprehensive job in crushing Australia that there was little need to involve the backs.
But Earls (right) has revealed they are hoping to become more involved against Russia.
"It's fair to say we haven't seen the best of us and that's down to conditions and playing the right territory on the pitch," said Munster back Earls, playing in his first World Cup.
"Against America the weather wasn't great and it wasn't a day for flashing the ball around, so we kept it quite tight.
"Even then we managed to break out a couple of times.
"Against Australia there wasn't a need to throw it around the backs because the forwards were playing so well. You'll see a lot more from our backline, hopefully starting from this weekend.
"If we get good weather hopefully we'll spread the ball around."
Winger Tommy Bowe suffered a bump on his calf against Australia and will undergo a scan today.
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Awile back my bike was only running on one cylnder. I found the plug wire had been burned back so I stripped it back and everything was fine for awhile. This happened several times before niether cylnder would fire. I replaced the ignition coil and it was fine again for about 2 weeks. Before I try to replace the coil again I was wondering if something else could be causing the problem with the ignition coil
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On my 2nd HD7 since Thursday, first had data issues, but the 2nd is exhibiting screen tearing on the Start Screen (and the Apps List) similar to you moving the TV ariel is the best way to describe it. The 1st one did the same thing but along with the data
issue I put it down to a faulty handset. I have had to reboot the phone to fix. Strangely it did not appear to affect the Lock screen
My HTC Magic and Nexus One had issues, damn even my Pre but none of them needed a reboot after 2 days due to display corruption.
Now is this due to Software (which I would like to think) or a hardware issue which I doubt as the Lock screen was not affected. I don't want a phone I need to reboot every couple of days, I left that behind with WinMo 6.X.
I know its a new OS but atleast it needs to be stable.
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Delayed parking consultation is costing us business says Plymouth yacht club
Posted: March 05, 2014|
A WATERFRONT business says it has already lost custom due to proposals to introduce new parking fees.
Royal Corinthian Yacht Club on the Hoe said a five-month wait to hear whether the changes would go ahead had already lost them bookings.
Plymouth City Council's proposals which went out for consultation in October, would see yacht club customers and members having to pay to park on Madeira Road up until 10pm rather than 6pm - an additional four hours of charges.
Rather than take the risk of extra outgoings, amatuer photography group Club Focus has moved its meetings to the Future Inn in Derriford instead.
Andy Thomas, general manager of the yacht club, said: "Having the possible parking changes hanging over us means groups have cancelled bookings.
"We had the photography group leave because they were quite sure they would have to pay more. They have jumped the gun and gone to a city hotel where there's free parking.
"The threat hanging over us creates uncertainty. We would say to the council, please come to the conclusion that these proposals are not good for local businesses."
Mr Thomas said he had received calls from nervous members who are worried about the extra expense they may incur when the sailing season begins in April. Currently, yachters can stay and socialise after 6pm without the fear of parking charges or penalties.
"That will certainly impinge on whether people want to come and sail here anymore." said Mr Thomas.
Richard Thomas, a member of Club Focus, said that while the group's photo opportunities were not as good at Derriford, their new arrangement would protect them from potential parking charge hikes.
Waterfront Partnership manager Sarah O'Leary said she had also lobbied the council over the issue.
"We would stand by our lobby and continue to impress that any increase in on-street parking would effect the evening economy for our venues across the area," she explained.
As previously reported in The Herald, business figures and the leader of the opposition on the council have spoken out against delays to the consultation, saying the lack of communication meant businesses have not been able to prepare for the changes.
Cllr Mark Coker, transport representative for the council, said results would be ready for publication in the coming weeks.
He said: "The results of the consultation have been finalised and detailed consideration is currently taking place."
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Dishcrawl debuts March 6 with four-restaurant event
A company new to Milwaukee is applying the pub-crawl concept to restaurants. Dishcrawl's inaugural outing will take place March 6 downtown.
Dishcrawl will stop in at four restaurants — kept secret until the first is revealed to participants 48 hours before the event — to sample the food and meet either the chefs or the owners. The restaurants will be within walking distance. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
MSO Pops revels in Great American Songbook
Infectious isn't always a bad thing.
Leaving Uihlein Hall after Friday evening's Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Pops performance, I stopped counting the number of people who were quietly, or not so quietly, humming strains of the show's encore, the Gershwin brothers' "I Got Rhythm." »Read Full Article(5)
Windfall Theatre struggles to find 'A Time to Live'
There's nothing that terrifies us more or gets talked about less than what it means to die - or the related prospect of soldiering on when those dearest to us are gone.
That's the subject of Howard Goldstein's "A Time to Live," now receiving its world premiere courtesy of Windfall Theatre - an intrepid company that consistently stages plays involving those thorny subjects that matter most. "Time" opened Friday under Carol Zippel's direction. »Read Full Article(2)
Gary Allan show lacks distinctive voice
Gary Allan put on a pretty good show Friday night at the Eagles Ballroom in The Rave.
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Spotlight on the Foundry - 1/25/2013
This week's spotlighted mission is "Spectres, Episode Six" by HippieJohn. Read more to learn about this incredible player-made mission.
This mission was also the winning mission from Foundry Challenge #5!
Click here to read more.
Congratulations and thank you for your continued contributions to the community!
Congrats, Hippie!
BF, any word on rewards? It seems like it has been two months since they were on and off tribble. That's some bug.
Brandon =/\=
Grats hippie!
5 out of 5 stars, 50 dilith, that's all I had. ;)
1) Very good story. Nice closure to the Featured Episode arc.
2) Fantastic use of the TOS set-pieces.
3) Mini-Accolade system = great.
4) Grammar was a bit rough in spots, and I spotted some typos. If they let you open it up again and edit, shoot me a private message here I'll help you fix it up.
Will play it again, for sure. Nice, simple and a decent story to boot.
Keep up the good work!
Righteous, man. Righteous. I look forward to checking it out.
It's not that excessive, long grind missions shouldn't give any rewards or qualify for the Inv. Off. Rep., but I simply want two different lists. I don't want to have a list cluttered with this stupid kill mission when I am actually searching for "real" foundry missions.
I'm dreaming again. I know Cryptic has been talking about such a feature for over a year now. The only thing delivered on time are lock boxes.
Cracking mission, very clever and well written.
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Album Rating: 4.0production on here is abysmal to me. the allmusic review of this album goes on about how perfect the production is so i'm not sure what i'm hearing. maybe i have a dodgy copy, even though i DLed it legally. Seriously it's so tinny and thin throughout. The drum cymbols sound sparkly and horrible like a 64 kb/s rip or something.
The production on Red Hands is awesome dude!
Digging: Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Album Rating: 5.0I think you may have a bad copy. The production is really dense on this album, but not bad.
Album Rating: 1.54.2 average for this shit? Get the fuck out
Album Rating: 4.0seems about right
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Album Rating: 4.5Fuck you, this shit is gold
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Album Rating: 5.0gtfo trebor, album is huge.
Album Rating: 4.5the production on drums is pretty horrible but when it comes to songwriting this is just amazing
Digging: Steve Von Till - A Life Unto Itself
Album Rating: 5.0Act IV plz thank u.
Album Rating: 4.5Act IV >>> Migrant
i promise
Album Rating: 4.0Damn Where The Road Parts is amazing. Really stands out as the best song to me. Really got my attention when I listened to it.
Album Rating: 4.5what a well crafted set of albums
Album Rating: 4.0Whole album is thoroughly great but seriously, where the road parts is unreal.
Album Rating: 5.0Act IV plz thank u. [2]
Migrant was aight but by a fair bit the worst thing he's done
Also, Red Hands >>>>
Album Rating: 4.0Nice to see you love this Rowan
Album Rating: 5.0Of course I do dude Casey is a fucking beast vocalist
The Receiving End of Sirens were better though
Album Rating: 4.0What albums that on? Where the Road Parts tops everything on here by a mile and The Oracles is fuckin sweet.
Album Rating: 5.0No The Receiving End of Sirens is a band haha, Casey's band before he started the Dear Hunter
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Congratulations to Taylor Swift! The singer/songwriter just won Entertainer Of The Year for the second year in a row at the Academy Of Country Music (ACM) Awards! Here's what Taylor had to say about her accomplishment:
Oh what a night….. (thank you, thank you, thank you!!!)
Congrats again Taylor! Maybe you'll win for the third time in a row next year!


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Cobra Starship and Icona Pop Have 'Never Been In Love': VIDEO
Alternative band Cobra Starship - whom you may remember did the closing credits to Snakes on a Plane with the awesomely cheesy "Bring It!" - have just released the music video for their new song "Never Been In Love", featuring Icona Pop. The bouncy piano-centric tune is party-friendly and is fertile for some dance club remixing.
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The Rajasthan High Court declared the Vidhyarthi Mitra Scheme illegal, saying the Rajasthan Subordinate Service Rules and Panchayati Raj Rules do not provide for appointment of such 'Mitra'.
The court also said that regular appointments should be made for these posts. In its decision, the court said the decision on the appeal pending in the main bench will also be applicable to the petitioners.
The single bench of Justice Manish Bhandari passed the order, rejecting the petition by Mahendra Singh and other three dozen petitions.
Notably, in the Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court had already held this scheme as illegal on October 21.
In the petition, it was said the petitioners have been employed as Vidhyarthi Mitra on contract for the last five years and the contract ends in April 2014.
Due to the appointment of permanent candidates, the contractual employees are being removed.
Meanwhile, the state government also informed the court that there was no provision of the appointment of Vidhyarthi Mitra in the rules and the main bench has already held the scheme as illegal. On this, the court ordered to implement the decision of the main bench and held the scheme as illegal.
SC appoints observer for RCA elections:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed Justice NM Kasliwal as the principal observer of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections. The court also appointed Justice SP Pathak as the election observer for the said elections of the cricketing body.
It allowed the observers to change the dates of the said elections if they deem fit.
A division bench of the High Court comprising Justice Anil R Dabe and Justice Deepak Mishra passed the order on a petition by Kishore Rungta on Wednesday.
The Rajasthan Cricket Association informed the court that as it has already appointed Justice Pathak as the observer there is no need to appoint another one. On this, the court said since Justice Kasliwal has already acted as an observer earlier, he has been appointed as the chief observer.


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no, there is not. but there are different international organizations who work that out on a case by case basis. often the who is als involved: http://www.who.int/en/
There is no specific international organization that resolve patent issues on medicines between two nations but there is an international body that help resolve intellectual property issues between two countries in general.
The WIPO(World Intellectual Property Organization) is a specialized agencies put up be the United Nations that support and encourage creativity, intellectual property protection and innovation around the world, specifically in United Nations member countries.
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Alumna Leaves Historic $1 Million Gift to UWRF
AUG. 29, 2007-- Through an historic donation, an alumna of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls who carved out a career in public service after graduating in 1938 has ensured that generations of future students will have access to an education.
A $1 million bequest--the largest gift in the 133-year history of UWRF--representing the estate of River Falls native Lucile Spriggs will be dedicated exclusively to leadership scholarships, according to Chancellor Don Betz.
The chancellor said the commitment was a testimonial to Spriggs's numerous leadership roles at the institution during her academic career, and meshes with a university priority.
"Developing leadership skills in our students has been a core value of UW-River Falls since its founding. We encourage students to explore these opportunities throughout their academic career with the hope that the experience will inspire lifelong contributions to society after they graduate.
" Lucile Spriggs was a model for others during her time on campus. The quality of those relationships here inspired her to make a life-long commitment to others in her professional life, and then to provide a definitive perpetual gift to UW-River Falls so that students can pursue similar dreams.
"In her exceptional manner, Lucile Spriggs has modeled the way for all of us to impact the future for many years to come. We honor her memory and her powerful example."
The scholarship fund will be named the R.E. Spriggs Family Memorial Scholarship, created in memory of Lucile Spriggs's parents, Roy and Maude Spriggs.
Each year $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to students who excel academically and show substantial leadership activities. Throughout their academic careers, the recipients will be provided special leadership development opportunities.
The scholarship will strengthen financial help available to major segments of the student body, including transfer students, non-traditional students over the age of 25, as well as freshmen.
UWRF provides numerous leadership development opportunities for students through over 150 students organizations, and participation in civic engagement and service-learning community projects. It will soon launch an inclusive comprehensive leadership development program to develop awareness, knowledge, and skills in the areas of the individual, group, and society that will produce committed leaders with an informed global perspective.
Lucile Spriggs graduated with degrees in social studies and English and worked in social services at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Minneapolis. At River Falls Teacher College she was the epitome of a student engaged fully in her classes and campus life. She was an honors student throughout her career, and wrote for the campus newspaper, acted with the student drama club, played in the Symphony Orchestra, was a member of the tennis team and an officer in the YWCA campus chapter.
UWRF Foundation President Nancy Devine said the gift, which will be administered by the Foundation, ensures that financial support will be available to students who are exemplary leaders, whether on campus or through providing community or civic service.
"At UW-River Falls, we have the perfect campus atmosphere for students to develop their strengths as leaders, with the purpose of them bringing these skills to their profession and to society.
"Developing 'leadership' is so interwoven into in our institutional life that we have identified it as one of four crucial values, with sustainability, globalization, and inclusiveness, to be embodied as a priority in our strategic plan, 'Living the Promise.'
"We know that Lucile Spriggs would be pleased that as a result of her endowment, she leaves behind a legacy of encouraging and preparing future leaders."
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Product DescriptionThe Kenda Nevegal UST tire has tall knobs designed to penetrate and hold on loose terrain. Perfect for loose or wet conditions.
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Date Reviewed: November 10, 2014
Strengths: Excellent traction
Weaknesses: Heavy
High rolling resistance
Bottom Line:
This tire has great traction in a wide range of conditions, and that is a great quality to have as an all-mountain rider. While the tread life is shorter than some other tires I've used, it has held up well. I haven't lost any lugs. I have had no flats and never lost a stitch of air until recently; I must have run over a cactus or something that has caused a slow leak between the treads. I have run without sealant.
I found this tire to be heavy and has a lot of rolling resistance. Going tubeless is supposed to improve these qualities but I don't think I've gotten that. Next I'm going to try a tubeless ready tire that is lighter than the Nevegal UST and hopefully lower rolling resistance.
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Price Paid: $38.00
Purchased At: Performance Bike
Bike Setup: All Mountain full suspension
Date Reviewed: September 21, 2012
Strengths: Strong, good traction, don't leak
Weaknesses: Heavy, slow, noisy
Bottom Line:
Date Reviewed: August 9, 2012
Strengths: Grippy, strong
Weaknesses: Heavy
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 years
Price Paid: $35.00
Purchased At: Jenson USA
Similar Products Used: Panaracer dart and smoke.
Bike Setup: Specialized Stumpjumper FSR.
Date Reviewed: July 17, 2012
Strengths: Grippy, inexpensive, seated up well on my Mavic XM819. Do not wear particularly quickly on rear
Weaknesses: Burped with lateral hits at 23 PSI to 30 PSI, weeping of Slime in certain spots, sidewalls a bit thin for a UST tire compared to other (WTP, Conti) UST tires I have used.
Bottom Line:
For most riding this tire does just fine, however, I ran into an issue with small burps when going up rock ledges (perpendicular to my tire).
I would not burp when cornering, whipping through a rock garden, etc but I would burp and spew some sealant consistently on these ledges and I have not had this happen with any other UST tire.
I tried modulating pressure from 23 PSI to 30 PSI and no change. Does not happen with other UST tires on the same trails.
I'm about 200 lbs geared up and I don't ride in an overly aggressive fashion. The only thing I can think of is that sidewall at 2.1 is not stout enough to resist these hits.
I had no problems with bouncing around in rough stuff as far as feeling the side knobs pinging off of rocks. Also had several spots where liquid was seeping through the tread from the Slime I had in the tire.
The traditional knock on Nevegals is rolling resistance and I'm fine with some rolling resistance when the trade-off is grip and I wasn't disappointed with these tires in that respect.
For the cost and grippiness I would say that these are worth using/trying.
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Price Paid: $33.00
Purchased At: Jenson
Similar Products Used: WTB Prowler MX 2.3 UST, Kenda Excavator 2.1 UST, Conti Trail King 2.2 UST Black Chili
Bike Setup: Kona Dawg, SRAM drivetrain/grip shift, SLX crank, Hope hubs, Mavic XM819, Manitou Minute, Fox Float R
Date Reviewed: October 6, 2011
Strengths: rolls faster that the set I replaces, with better traction and a solid feeling.
Weaknesses: I have 26 x 2.35 fr and back. They are UST's but i am using a heavier duty tube instead of sealant. It seems heavier over-all but rides like it's light as a feather
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $38.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: High Rollers LUST UST's, regular Nevegal's, Holy Rollers, and a few others. Texas Hill Country is tough on tires
Bike Setup: 2007 Santa Cruz Blur X9, crossmax disc, ruined bottom bracket that makes a lot of noise
Date Reviewed: February 11, 2011
Strengths: Using this as my rear tire and it grabs pretty darn good on all the loose stuff in southern NM. The sidewall has been impervious to the sharp rocks so far, and I've run it with Stan's in it with no problem. It rolls pretty fast, faster than the Velociraptor did.
Weaknesses: Durability. I've got less than a dozen rides on it, and the center knobs are pretty beat up - but then, I am a 230 pound guy riding over nasty rocks in the desert, so I don't expect tires to last TOO long, just wish this one was lasting a little longer.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $40.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: WTB Velociraptor(pleas please please WTB, make a UST version of this tire!)
Bike Setup: Trek 6500
Date Reviewed: January 6, 2011
Weaknesses: ALERT !!! Do not purchase these tires if you intend on using any type of sealent.I have had 3 tires fail in the last 9 months. I contacted Kenda about the problem and they were cocky about their product and did nothing to try and help me out.
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Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid: $40.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: Various
Bike Setup: XC
Date Reviewed: October 4, 2010
Strengths: Great tire but only lasted one ride because I used Stan's sealant. Kenda won't stand behind the tire and you can run a not seald tire in the dezert and expect to ride for any period of time. I would have had 6 flats if it wasn't for Stan's in these tires but then two weeks later the tires came part.
Weaknesses: Not sealable
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $100.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: Geax, Tioga, Specialized
Bike Setup: Doesn't really matter.
Date Reviewed: September 17, 2010
Nice tire if you don't need to put a sealant in it - but then again where would you ride then?
Inside blisters and de-laminates after 20 or so rides when running them with tire sealant
Bottom Line:
If you ride trails where you need tire sealant (IMHO its needed as much as air) then DO NOT BUY THESE!
Tires got some terrific mountain bike mag award and they can free with the new rims I purchased so it sounded like a win win. NOT
After about 20 rides my rear tire blistered out and was un-usable. Pulled it apart and it looked like it de-laminated on the inside letting air inbetween the two layers.
After another 20 rides it happen to the front tire.
Of course Kenda says dont run them with tire sealant - Sure I also wont put air in them.
Went to Panaracer FireXCPros and am running tire sealant with no problems so far.
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Purchased At: BlueskyCycling.com
Similar Products Used: Panaracer FireXCPro UST
Bike Setup:
2005 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp
Date Reviewed: August 28, 2010
Strengths: Great tire for wet tracks. It is good for dry hard pack. The heavy side walls can take a lot of abuse.
Weaknesses: Tire is a bit heavy.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Tested or demo'ed only
Price Paid: $43.00
Similar Products Used: Going through all the Kenda's
Bike Setup: Zaskar carbon
Date Reviewed: March 8, 2010
Strengths: Fame, looks, grip when new.
Weaknesses: Worse traction after half life span.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $80.00
Purchased At: iBikes
Similar Products Used: Maxxis Advantage, Bontrager Jones
Bike Setup: Trek Fuel EX 2008
Date Reviewed: January 25, 2010
Strengths: Easy to mount
Weaknesses: Heavy, Lots of rolling resistance, questionable traction
Bottom Line:
Boy was I wrong. Buyer beware, this is a totally different tire! On my very first ride I thought I was dragging a boat anchor. These beasts are ridiculously heavy (much more than the standard tire + tube). Once the trails got sandy I had to pedal out of the saddle just to maintain speed! At first I thought I had a brake rotor dragging or I was geared wrong.
I only have about 30 miles on them so they arent totally scrubbed in, but traction is pretty limited considering how well the regular Nevegal's bite. I spin out over any rooty climb. Maybe this will improve once they wear a little. Too bad I wont find out.
I ended up putting my worn out Nevegal DTC's back on the bike until I can afford another brand of tires.
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $35.00
Purchased At: Jenson
Similar Products Used: Std Nevegal, Karma, Panaracer Fire XC, Minions
Bike Setup: 6" AM bike
Date Reviewed: June 28, 2009
Strengths: Fair weights and very beefy sidewalls (almost as thick as DH casings). Very easy install/inflation on UST rims.
Weaknesses: Claimed weight is about 100g south of reality on both the 2.1 and 2.35.
DTC just plain sucks except does roll faster than Stick-E.
Bottom Line:
It all depend on where you're riding. For me these suck. Anything other than sticky tread for 51 weeks out of 52 is no good where I live (wet and truly technical knarl).
These are decent all around tires and I would imagine would be a very good all rounder in dryer regions.
If Kenda eased up a bit on the sidewall thickness and made these in Stick-E to keep these around 1000g for the UST 2.35 then I might give them another go.
They can be had cheap, which definitely ups the value score.
DTC wears just as fast as Stick-E out back. I'll take the traction of Stick-E over (and the bit of added rolling resistance) over DTC for the PNW.
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Price Paid: $30.00
Purchased At: pinkbike
Similar Products Used: Other tires, but specifically every other iteration of Nevegals.
Bike Setup: Lighter 6x6 thru axles both ends...north shore xc. Rims are 819's.
Date Reviewed: February 25, 2009
Strengths: Never-failing traction on Rock, Rock over dirt, loose dirt, loose dirt over Rock, etc. I never tried this tire for anything but dry Texas trails and it never let me down. I've run this thing over some very ungroomed trails and never worried about traction at all.
Majorly strong sidewalls and knobs that don't break off.
Weaknesses: She ain't lite!
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $20.00
Purchased At: Angle Fire,NM
Similar Products Used: Probably 45-50 different types of tires.
Bike Setup: 5 inch AM bike. I run this up front on Mavic CrossMax ST/UST with Stans. I weight about 160-165 and run the pressure at 24psi. As with most tires, they work better with lower pressures, but I've tried 22-32psi. I've never run them with a tube.
Date Reviewed: January 27, 2009
Strengths: Seals up instantly, phenomenal traction cornering and braking, stable, predictable, durable.
Weaknesses: none so far
Bottom Line:
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Price Paid: $60.00
Purchased At: Las Vegas Cyclery
Similar Products Used: Panaracer smoke/ dart WTB velocipaptors
Bike Setup: GT LTS
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Nevegal SCT vs UST
I have 26" UST rims on my bike and have been using the Nevegal UST tires for about 1000 miles now. I keep my tire pressure between about 27-30psi. The tires have been amazing with zero problems but the back tire especially is starting to get pretty worn and it's about time for a change. Anyway... ... Read More »
Kenda Nevegal 2.35 non-ust with stans?
Will it seal up on my 26" Bontrager tubeless ready Rythym Comp? anyone had luck with this? I don't want to void the tire warranty if I don't have to, know what I mean?Read More »
2.35 Rampage or Nevegal UST
I know I should have posted this in the Wheels and Tires forum but I prefer local opinions. I need a new set of tires for my Reign. I am leaning towards the Rampage non UST over the Nevegals UST. They will be mounted on Mavic Crossmax Tubeless wheels. Both tires cost them same and are in my price ... Read More »
UST Nevegal/ Sealant Dilemma
So, I received an email about 21% off at green tire bikes the other day and decided to replace my front wheel as it is absolutely shot. I've decided to build up a wheel and in the end decided to give this tubeless setup a try and see what all the hype is about. Which leads me to the point of this ... Read More »
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Nazy Curtis's custom real hair wig system is branded as quality, I can vouch for her when it comes to designing custom wigs, because she is a breast cancer survivor and battled alopecia herself and created her own line of wigs and now is here to share it with the world. If you're going through alopecia, trichotillomania, or facing chemotherapy / cancer hair loss, you're not alone."
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Nazy Curtis is an award-winning, European trained hair stylist and salon owner of d'Orsay [doorsay] – the Art of Hair in Newport Beach where she services a diverse client base. Included are those who are suffering hair loss for medical reasons. In this area, Nazy has personal experience. Order her book "No One Could Tell" today.
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Hair Loss Support GroupOnce, every other month, Newport Hair Loss Center hosts a free support group meeting for those living with hair loss.
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Alopecia is a mysterious disorder that causes hair to fall out in patches or all over the scalp. It is a disorder that little is known..
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