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James I. Lewis,┬Ā 82, Punxsutawney, died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, at DuBois Regional Medical Center.
He was born Nov. 14, 1928, in Punxsutawney, a son of the late John and May (Airgood) Lewis.
He was a member of the U.S. Army and served during the Korean Conflict.
Mr. Lewis owned a convenience store in Cloe in the late ŌĆś60s and early ŌĆś70s.
His hobbies were fishing and hunting.
Surviving relatives include a brother, Garland Lewis and wife Maria; a sister, Donna May Wells; and nieces and nephews.
Frances V. Pape Stojek, 83, DuBois, died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, at Christ the King Manor, DuBois.
She was born Dec. 22, 1927, in Punxsutawney, a daughter of the late Louis and Anna (Galletta) Pape.
Sept. 16, 1948, she married Albert "Snuffy" Stojek, who preceded her in death May 29, 1970.
Mrs. Stojek graduated from SS. Cosmas and Damian High School in Punxsutawney in 1946.
She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Reynoldsville and a former member of S.S. Cosmas and Damian Church in Punxsutawney and St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in DuBois.
Anthony Test, 89, Punxsutawney, died Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, at UMPC-Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.
He was born June 25, 1922, in Punxsutawney, a son of the late John P. and Frances (DelPrincipe) Test.
April 24, 1948, he married Grace E. (Motter) Test, who survives, of Punxsutawney.
Mr. Test was the former owner of the Matterhorn Co. in Punxsutawney.
A veteran of WWII, he served in the U.S. Army as a private first class. He was also a member of the American Legion.
Mr. Test was a member of SS. Cosmas and Damian Roman Catholic Church, Punxsutawney.
Ruby Elaine Bowser, 90, Treasure Lake, DuBois, formerly of Big Run, died Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, at DuBois Regional Medical Center.
She was born April 8, 1921, in Vandergrift, a daughter of the late Earl and Melda (Blystone) Stouffer.
Aug. 17, 1940, she married Arnold Bowser, who preceded her in death Dec. 29, 1982.
Mrs. Bowser attended the First Baptist Church in DuBois, and previously, the First Christian Church when she lived in Big Run.
Punxsy's Shaina Reddinger and Anna Monyak (shown here), pictured during a Sept. 1 home match against Bradford, participated in the individual singles district championships Wednesday in DuBois. Reddinger defeated Clearfield's Yashuasui Patel 6-1, 6-0, in the first round before falling to DuBois' Jenna Kirk, 1-6, 0-6, in the second round. Monyak also won her first round match over Clearfield's Jennifer Grenus, 6-0, 6-0, before being eliminated by DuBois' Jenny Reese, 3-6, 3-6, in the second round.
BROOKVILLE ŌĆö Punxsy running back Perry Arrington led his team to victory as he scored two touchdowns, including a 96-yard interception return with 30 seconds left in the game, and the Chucks' ninth-grade squad beat the Brookville Raiders, 12-0 Wednesday night on Brookville's home field.
"(Perry) has had some big plays this year," Punxsy head coach Jason Grusky said following the game. "He's been a leader, and we expect big plays from him, and he delivered again today as he has most of the year."
Today marks the beginning of a very important season to me: Hockey season.
Although, I will admit that last week's chilly temperatures and rain/snowy mix came a little too early, it's never too early for hockey season to begin.
Hockey is a special sport for me as I grew up playing the indoor version on roller skates.
Yes, I said roller skates, not those silly in-lines that came along much later, but good old-fashioned roller skates.
The majority of my free time, and the majority of my parents' vacation funds, was poured into this hobby.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö Prior to TuesdayŌĆÖs Public Safety Committee meeting, members of Punxsutawney Borough Council were given a tour of the Elk Run Volunteer Fire CompanyŌĆÖs new fire engine that was delivered last week.
The bright yellow and white engine was delivered last Thursday from the Ferrara Fire Apparatus Company in Louisiana, and has already been tested.
Firefighters have also received training sessions on the new apparatus.
BROOKVILLE ŌĆö If you want to vote in the Nov. 8 general election, but youŌĆÖre not currently registered, you have only until Tuesday to do so.
In order to vote in any election, you must first be a registered voter. If youŌĆÖre not, you need to register by Tuesday, according to Karen Lupone, chief clerk for Jefferson County.
How do you know if you need to register?
Lupone said if you are a first-time voter, have recently moved to a different area or changed your name, you may need to register ŌĆö or re-register ŌĆö to vote.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö Tuesday, Punxsutawney Borough CouncilŌĆÖs Public Safety Committee received requests for two separate nights of trick-or-treating, one from East End residents and another from the Punxsutawney Fire Department.
Jaime Sherry, of Highland Avenue, requested council approve a request from East End residents to hold its own separate trick-or-treat from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29.
Sherry said people in that area of town do a lot of extra things that make the event better on Saturday than during the week.


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The Most Ancient Object in the Universe
January 29, 2011
This video is a zoom into the Hubble Space Telescope infrared Ultra Deep Field, first taken in 2009. It is a very small patch of sky in the southern constellation Fornax. The zoom centers on the farthest identified object in the field. The object, possibly a galaxy, looks red because its light has been stretched by the expansion of the universe. credit: NASA
Topics: Technology Internet, Physical cosmology, Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Fornax, Hubble Deep Field, Hubble's law, Universe, Constellations, Ursa Major constellation, Galaxy, Milky Way

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Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Thomas Hardy poems. This is a select list of the best famous Thomas Hardy poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Thomas Hardy poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of Thomas Hardy poems.
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I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fevourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"
Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.
But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?
And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?"--
"O didn't you know I'd been ruined?" said she.
--"You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,
Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;
And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!"--
"Yes: that's how we dress when we're ruined," said she.
--"At home in the barton you said 'thee' and 'thou,'
And 'thik oon,' and 'theäs oon,' and 't'other'; but now
Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny!"--
"Some polish is gained with one's ruin," said she.
--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak
But now I'm bewitched by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!"--
"We never do work when we're ruined," said she.
--"You used to call home-life a hag-ridden dream,
And you'd sigh, and you'd sock; but at present you seem
To know not of megrims or melancho-ly!"--
"True. One's pretty lively when ruined," said she.
"--I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!"--
"My dear--a raw country girl, such as you be,
Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined," said she.
More great poems below...
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
Saying that now you are not as you were
When you had changed from the one who was all to me,
But as at first, when our day was fair.
Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,
Standing as when I drew near to the town
Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!
Or is it only the breeze in its listlessness
Travelling across the wet mead to me here,
You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness,
Heard no more again far or near?
Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward,
And the woman calling.
Said he: "You saw the Master clear;
By Rushy Pond alone he sat,
Serene and silent as a seer,
in tweedy coat and seedy hat.
you tell me you did not intrude,
(Although his book was in your hand,)
Upon his melancholy mood . . .
I do not understand.
"You did not tell him: 'I have come
From o'er the sea to speak to you.'
You did not dare, your lips were dumb . . .
You thought a little zephyr blew
From Rushy Pond a touch of him
You'll cherish to your dying day,
Perhaps with tears your eyes were dim . . .
And then - you went away.
"And down the years you will proclaim:
'O call me dullard, dub me dunce!
But let this be my meed of fame:
I looked on Thomas Hardy once.
Aye, by a stile I stood a span
And with these eyes did plainly see
A little, shrinking, shabby man . . .
But Oh a god to me!'"
Said I: "'Tis true, I scarce dared look,
yet he would have been kind, I'm sure;
But though I clutched his precious book
I feared to beg his signature.
Ah yes, my friend, I merit mirth.
You're bold, you have the right to laugh,
And if Christ came again to earth
You'd cadge his autograph."
Behold! I'm old; my hair is white;
My eighty years are in the offing,
And sitting by the fire to-night
I sip a grog to ease my coughing.
It's true I'm raucous as a rook,
But feeling bibulously "bardy,"
These lines I'm scribbling in a book:
The verse complete of Thomas Hardy.
Although to-day he's read by few,
Him have I loved beyond all measure;
So here to-night I riffle through
His pages with the oldtime pleasure;
And with this book upon my knee,
(To-day so woefully neglected)
I muse and think how soon I'll be
Myself among the Great Rejected.
Yet as these lines with zest I write,
Although the hour for me is tardy,
I think: "Of all the world to-night
'Tis I alone am reading Hardy";
And now to me he seems so nigh
I feel I commune with his spirit,
And as none love him more than I,
Thereby I gain a modest merit.
Oh Brother Thomas, glad I'll be,
Though all the world may pass unheeding,
If some greybeard con over me,
As I to-night your rhymes are reading;
Saying: "Old Bastard, you and I
By sin are knit in mind and body. . . ."
So ere to hit the hay I hie
Your ghost I'll toast in midnight toddy.
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure loving kindness' sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.
You love me not,
And love alone can lend you loyalty;
--I know and knew it. But, unto the store
Of human deeds divine in all but name,
Was it not worth a little hour or more
To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came
To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be
You love me not.
I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.
The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance -- that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die
(A Reminiscence, 1893)
She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress,
And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
Within the hansom's dry recess,
Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless
We sat on, snug and warm.
Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,
And the glass that had screened our forms before
Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:
I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more.
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.
I shot him dead because--
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although
He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like--just as I--
Was out of work--had sold his traps--
No other reason why.
Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.
(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic")
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls--grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?". . .
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister mate
For her--so gaily great--
A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate.
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
Alien they seemed to be:
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history.
Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one August event,
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
"Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one? -- planting rue?"
-- "No: yesterday he went to wed
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
'It cannot hurt her now,' he said,
'That I should not be true.'"
"Then who is digging on my grave,
My nearest dearest kin?"
-- "Ah, no: they sit and think, 'What use!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Death's gin.'"
"But someone digs upon my grave?
My enemy? -- prodding sly?"
-- "Nay: when she heard you had passed the Gate
That shuts on all flesh soon or late,
She thought you no more worth her hate,
And cares not where you lie.
"Then, who is digging on my grave?
Say -- since I have not guessed!"
-- "O it is I, my mistress dear,
Your little dog , who still lives near,
And much I hope my movements here
Have not disturbed your rest?"
"Ah yes! You dig upon my grave...
Why flashed it not to me
That one true heart was left behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal among human kind
A dog's fidelity!"
"Mistress, I dug upon your grave
To bury a bone, in case
I should be hungry near this spot
When passing on my daily trot.
I am sorry, but I quite forgot
It was your resting place."
O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough -
Light in their loving as soldiers can be -
First to risk choosing them, leave alone losing them
Now, in far battle, beyond the South Sea! . . .
- Rain came down drenchingly; but we unblenchingly
Trudged on beside them through mirk and through mire,
They stepping steadily--only too readily! -
Scarce as if stepping brought parting-time nigher.
Great guns were gleaming there, living things seeming there,
Cloaked in their tar-cloths, upmouthed to the night;
Wheels wet and yellow from axle to felloe,
Throats blank of sound, but prophetic to sight.
Gas-glimmers drearily, blearily, eerily
Lit our pale faces outstretched for one kiss,
While we stood prest to them, with a last quest to them
Not to court perils that honour could miss.
Sharp were those sighs of ours, blinded these eyes of ours,
When at last moved away under the arch
All we loved. Aid for them each woman prayed for them,
Treading back slowly the track of their march.
Someone said: "Nevermore will they come: evermore
Are they now lost to us." O it was wrong!
Though may be hard their ways, some Hand will guard their ways,
Bear them through safely, in brief time or long.
- Yet, voices haunting us, daunting us, taunting us,
Hint in the night-time when life beats are low
Other and graver things . . . Hold we to braver things,
Wait we, in trust, what Time's fulness shall show.
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined -- just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around:
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.
Young Hodge the drummer never knew --
Fresh from his Wessex home --
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to nightly view
Strange stars amid the gloam.
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
Here we broached the Christmas barrel,
Pushed up the charred log-ends;
Here we sang the Christmas carol,
And called in friends.
Time has tired me since we met here
When the folk now dead were young,
And the viands were outset here
And quaint songs sung.
And the worm has bored the viol
That used to lead the tune,
Rust eaten out the dial
That struck night's noon.
Now no Christmas brings in neighbours,
And the New Year comes unlit;
Where we sang the mole now labours,
And spiders knit.
Yet at midnight if here walking,
When the moon sheets wall and tree,
I see forms of old time talking,
Who smile on me.
That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement-day
And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,
The worm drew back into the mounds,
The glebe cow drooled. Till God cried, "No;
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be:
"All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christés sake
Than you who are helpless in such matters.
"That this is not the judgment-hour
For some of them's a blessed thing,
For if it were they'd have to scour
Hell's floor for so much threatening. . . .
"Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need)."
So down we lay again. "I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,"
Said one, "than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!"
And many a skeleton shook his head.
"Instead of preaching forty year,"
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
"I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer."
Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.
There trudges one to a merry-making
With sturdy swing,
On whom the rain comes down.
To fetch the saving medicament
Is another bent,
On whom the rain comes down.
One slowly drives his herd to the stall
Ere ill befall,
On whom the rain comes down.
This bears his missives of life and death
With quickening breath,
On whom the rain comes down.
One watches for signals of wreck or war
From the hill afar,
On whom the rain comes down.
No care if he gain a shelter or none,
Unhired moves on,
On whom the rain comes down.
And another knows nought of its chilling fall
Upon him aat all,
On whom the rain comes down.
WE stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod,
--They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles solved years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro--
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing....
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow's dawn,
And calmly, as if indifferent quite,
You would close your term here, up and be gone
Where I could not follow
With wing of swallow
To gain one glimpse of you ever anon!
Never to bid good-bye
Or lip me the softest call,
Or utter a wish for a word, while I
Saw morning harden upon the wall,
Unmoved, unknowing
That your great going
Had place that moment, and altered all.
Why do you make me leave the house
And think for a breath it is you I see
At the end of the alley of bending boughs
Where so often at dusk you used to be;
Till in darkening dankness
The yawning blankness
Of the perspective sickens me!
You were she who abode
By those red-veined rocks far West,
You were the swan-necked one who rode
Along the beetling Beeny Crest,
And, reining nigh me,
Would muse and eye me,
While Life unrolled us its very best.
Why, then, latterly did we not speak,
Did we not think of those days long dead,
And ere your vanishing strive to seek
That time's renewal? We might have said,
"In this bright spring weather
We'll visit together
Those places that once we visited."
Well, well! All's past amend,
Unchangeable. It must go.
I seem but a dead man held on end
To sink down soon. . . . O you could not know
That such swift fleeing
No soul foreseeing--
Not even I--would undo me so!
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
"Come; see the oxen kneel,
"In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,"
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
A shaded lamp and a waving blind,
And the beat of a clock from a distant floor:
On this scene enter--winged, horned, and spined -
A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore;
While 'mid my page there idly stands
A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands . . .
Thus meet we five, in this still place,
At this point of time, at this point in space.
- My guests parade my new-penned ink,
Or bang at the lamp-glass, whirl, and sink.
"God's humblest, they!" I muse. Yet why?
They know Earth-secrets that know not I.
THEY bear him to his resting-place--
In slow procession sweeping by;
I follow at a stranger's space;
His kindred they, his sweetheart I.
Unchanged my gown of garish dye,
Though sable-sad is their attire;
But they stand round with griefless eye,
Whilst my regret consumes like fire!
That mirror
Which makes of men a transparency,
Who holds that mirror
And bids us such a breast-bare spectacle see
Of you and me?
That mirror
Whose magic penetrates like a dart,
Who lifts that mirror
And throws our mind back on us, and our heart,
until we start?
That mirror
Works well in these night hours of ache;
Why in that mirror
Are tincts we never see ourselves once take
When the world is awake?
That mirror
Can test each mortal when unaware;
Yea, that strange mirror
May catch his last thoughts, whole life foul or fair,
Glassing it -- where?
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay,
And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings,
Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,
"He was a man who used to notice such things"?
If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight
Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
"To him this must have been a familiar sight."
If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,
One may say, "He strove that such innocent creatures should
come to no harm,
But he could do little for them; and now he is gone."
If, when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at
the door,
Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees,
Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
"He was one who had an eye for such mysteries"?
And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom,
And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in its outrollings,
Till they rise again, as they were a new bell's boom,
"He hears it not now, but used to notice such things?"
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls -- grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" ...
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister mate
For her -- so gaily great --
A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
Alien they seemed to be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history,
Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one august event,
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.


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The Native American Siwanoy or Sinanoy were a band of Algonquian-speaking people, the Wappinger, in what is now the New York City area. By the mid-17th century, when their territory became hotly contested between Dutch and English colonial interests, the Siwanoy were settled along the East River and Long Island Sound between Hell Gate and Norwalk, Connecticut, a territory that included eastern parts of what became the Bronx and Westchester County in New York and southwestern Fairfield County in Connecticut.
The first European settler to the territory was Jonas Bronck, who had arrived in New Netherland in 1639, and negotiated the purchase of 254 acres of land along the Harlem River in what is today's Mott Haven.
They are known for their massacre of Anne Hutchinson and her family during Kieft's War in 1643. In August 1643, a group of Siwanoy led by the sachem Wampage massacred Hutchinson's household of 16 people near Split Rock, an ancient landmark. The only survivor was Hutchinson's nine-year-old daughter, Susanna, who may have been spared because of her red hair. The attack was in revenge for New Netherland governor Willem Kieft's February massacres of Wappinger refugees from Wecquaesgeek at Corlaer's Hook and Pavonia. Like thousands of American Indians and numerous colonists, Hutchinson became caught up in the bloody reprisals which characterized the two year conflict. The Siwanoy attack killed Hutchinson, six of her children, and nine others.[1]
On June 27, 1654, Thomas Pell, a Connecticut physician, obtained title to a large amount of Siwanoy territory in New York through a treaty with a number of sachems, including Wampage. This included the Pelham Islands and parts of the mainland Bronx and coastal Westchester. New Netherland authorities did not recognize his title. They accused the New Englanders of continued encroachment upon Dutch territory. Pell's coup turned out to be decisive in New York history. A militia of his colonists from Minneford Island (present-day City Island) supported the English naval invasion force that conquered New Amsterdam in 1664.
See also[edit]
- Wappinger
- Lenape
- Hackensack
- Mahackemo
- Metoac
- Anne Hutchinson an English dissenter murdered by the Siwanoy in the year 1643.
- ^ p. 160 of: Shorto, Russell (2004). The Island at the Center of the World. New York: Doubleday/Vintage. p. 384. ISBN 1-4000-7867-9.


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The Sleep Center at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus receives national accreditation
American Academy of Sleep Medicine endorses center following onsite review
HOUSTON, Jan. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The Sleep Center at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus is excited to announce it is now accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) following an in-depth application process and onsite review late last year. For more information about The Sleep Center at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus watch this video.
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To achieve AASM accreditation, a sleep center must demonstrate a commitment to providing quality diagnostic services and long-term management of sleep patients. The center must also meet or exceed all standards for professional health care which address core areas such as personnel, facility and equipment, policies and procedures, data acquisition, patient care, and quality assurance. In addition, the sleep center's goals must be clearly stated and include plans for positively affecting the quality of medical care in the community it serves.
"It is an honor to be recognized with this esteemed endorsement," said Dr. Daniel Glaze, chief of Texas Children's Sleep Center and professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. "This accreditation further demonstrates our team's commitment to providing the best possible care for patients with sleep disorders."
The Sleep Center at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with sleep disorders, including difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, narcolepsy, sleep apnea and other disruptive sleeping behaviors like sleepwalking, night terrors and repetitive leg movements. The team also conducts pre-surgery observation of patients scheduled for tonsillectomies.
The Sleep Center at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus is now among the more than 2,500 sleep centers that have received accreditation, including Texas Children's Sleep Center located in the Medical Center and Texas Children's Cy-Fair Health Center.
For more information on the AASM, visit www.aasmnet.org.
About Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital, a not-for-profit organization, is committed to creating a community of healthy children through excellence in patient care, education and research. Consistently ranked among the top children's hospitals in the nation, Texas Children's has recognized Centers of Excellence in multiple pediatric subspecialties including the Cancer and Heart Centers, and operates the largest primary pediatric care network in the country. Texas Children's has completed a $1.5 billion expansion, which includes the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; and Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston. For more information on Texas Childrens' other healthcare services such as Children MRI, go to http://www.texaschildrens.org/Locate/Departments-and-Services/Radiology/Services/MRI/. Get the latest news from Texas Children's by visiting the online newsroom and on Twitter at twitter.com/texaschildrens.
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MANILA, Philippines — University of the East escaped University of the Philippines, 76-73, Wednesday and thwarted the Maroons' bid to dodge a winless season in the UAAP men's basketball tournament.
The Red Warriors concluded their campaign in season 76 with a 7-7 card, as center Charles Mammie scored 21 and hauled down 18 rebounds while Lord Casajeros notched a career-best 17 points on his last game in the UAAP.
Down four, 68-72, with exactly two minutes to play, UE snatched the game back with an 8-1 blast and kept UP on a losing track — 21 straight to be exact — dating back to August 2012.
It was another miserable 0-14 outing for the Maroons, replicating their 2007 and 2010 seasons.
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US Appeals Court's decision favors left behind children
Antonio's US citizen brother filed an immigrant petition for him years ago. Antonio is married and had three minor children when the petition was filed. After years of waiting, visas finally became available for them. Antonio, his wife and two minor children got their immigrant visas. However, their eldest child Isabel, had already turned 23 and was left behind.
This meant that if Antonio filed a new petition for her, it would take 10 or more years for her to join her family in the US.
But thanks to a new Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision entitled De Osorio v Mayorkas, Isabel can now immediately come to the United States.
Under this decision, the old priority date for the petition filed by Antonio's brother for him over ten years ago can be utilized for Antonio's new petition for Isabel for which a visa is instantly available.
This is excellent news for thousands of children of immigrants who were left behind because they over aged – turned 21 that is. The decision also applies to certain other types of petitions where the children of the main beneficiary have over aged.
Let's say that the petition for Antonio was filed by his father instead of his brother, can the old priority date in the petition filed by his father for him be also used in his new petition for Isabel? Absolutely. Again, this means Isabel can immediately migrate to the US instead of waiting for years.
Unless the government files an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and assuming the Supreme Court accepts the appeal – the De Osorio decision remains final.
The basis for the decision is the Plain language in the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) which states that an over aged left behind child can retain the original priority date in his or new classification. The government had repeatedly argued before this decision that the language and the intention of Congress were unclear.
Not anymore. The Ninth Circuit has decided that the language in the statute was plain and clear enough.
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|Property type
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|3 - 4 nights
We have just completed an extensive remodel with a new kitchen, new bed/bath, new living/dining/lounge, new pool/spa and all new outdoor living areas. All new marble terrazzo floors and a Mid-Century Modern design. The perfect blend of indoor/outdoor Palm Springs living!
The house was just hand selected to be included in the new 'Luxury Rentals' from Home Away website! 'Every property on the site is thoroughly screened by travel experts at Andrew Harper who use a 75-point checklist to make sure it meets a certain standard of excellence. So you know you're looking at the very best.'
Please note: This is a high end private home in a residential neighborhood and is not available for parties, events or weddings. As per Palm Springs city law outside amplified music is not allowed at any time.
665 Camino Norte, Palm Springs, CA is a large luxury estate with 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, pool/spa, mountain views, huge indoor/outdoor living areas and all the modern comforts and conveniences. This newly remodeled 4,600 sqft home is walled and gated for secluded privacy and located in the Las Palmas neighborhood, often referred to as "the Beverly Hills of Palm Springs". We are dog friendly and within walking distance to downtown coffee shops, restaurants and much more. The house can sleep up to 16 and is the perfect retreat to enjoy with friends and family.
You enter the property thru a walled and gated entry for complete privacy. Passing by lush plantings and a water feature you enter thru turquoise double doors into the main living area with 20' vaulted and beamed ceilings. Marble terrazzo floors lead to a huge sunken living room, dining/lounge area and a newly remodeled open kitchen. Glass sliding doors run the length of the rooms leading onto the large covered patio, outdoor kitchen and pool/spa area all with mountain views.
The living room features two 9' extra deep sofas perfect for curling up and relaxing with cocktails or enjoying a movie with the family on the 70" 1080p LED HDTV. Open the glass sliding doors to the covered patio to enjoy the mountain views and true indoor/outdoor living.
A few steps up from the living room you enter the dining/lounge area featuring an 18 foot banquette with dining for up to 20 people. Overhead are 3 sputnik chandeliers to set the perfect mid-century tone while hanging out in the lounge area enjoying conversation.
An 11' marble penninsula with seating for 4 or more opens into the newly remodeled kitchen from the lounge. Brand new high gloss cabinets, marble counters, sinks, faucets, appliances…you name it, its new and we've probably got it! A true gourmet kitchen that makes preparing meals a joy. Pass thru windows to the full outdoor kitchen and grill complete the experience.
The living room, dining/lounge area and kitchen are open and flow onto to each other allowing complete interaction with friends and family no matter where you are. You can be in the kitchen preparing meals and still interact with your guests and family in the living room or lounge. True open concept living at its very best.
Entering the outdoor entertainment areas the first thing you'll notice is the spectacular mountain views from everywhere in the pool and outdoor areas. A fully walled and hedged perimeter gives you complete privacy making you feel like there is no one else around.
Slide open the glass panel doors to merge the indoor and outdoor lifestyle. A fully covered patio wraps the entire back of the house. The covered upper terrace features an outdoor dining area for 16+, multiple lounge/seating areas and a full outdoor kitchen with bar. A few steps down is raised terrace with fire-pit overlooking the pool/spa area below…and of course the gorgeous mountain views no matter where you are!
A large open stairway leads to the pool/spa area. A brand new 48' saltwater pool features a stunning mountain view, a hand plastered ultra smooth finish, 3 fountain jets, built-in seating, tanning shelf and a lap lane! The perfect place to relax and enjoy, or get in a few laps in the morning.
On the far side of the pool are 2 queen-size outdoor lounge beds. Multiple chaise lounges with umbrellas, and a poolside dining areas surround the pool. The perfect place to curl up for an afternoon nap, read a book, watch the kids play in the pool or to get some sun. And let's not forget the brand new 8 person fully tiled spa tucked into the corner under the palm trees! It's like having your own private resort; you'll never want to leave!
Outdoor plugs and WIFI are available so bring your iPad or laptop if you need to catch up with the rest of the world. Built-in outdoor heater and a fire-pit keep the things toasty in the evenings if it gets chilly.
We know you like your high tech entertainment and goodies as much as we do, and here are just some of the features we've got for you. 70" LED 1080p HDTV in the living room, LED HDTVS in all 6 bedrooms and the kitchen. DISH whole house HD DVR including HBO, THX 5.1 Surround Sound, Blu-Ray/DVD/CD. Internet Connected TV with FREE house accounts for Pandora, Netflix, YouTube and more. Google Chromecast input for your Android device or laptop along with an HDMI input for your game system (you may need your own device adapter). Apple TV with iTunes Airplay (sit by the pool and wirelessly playback your iTunes movies or music on a PC or Apple device). Hidden color-changing LED mood lighting with remote control. Huge library of DVDs and Blu-rays available.
Super-fast WIFI with outdoor extenders will easily handle large parties and allow you to connect anywhere on the property. Video Doorbell and security system. State-of-the-art NEST 4 zone heating and cooling system. Wireless phone system with intercom and unlimited U.S.A long distance, iPhone chargers and docks in every bedroom. Built-in USB wall-chargers in main areas, bring your own adapter.
Brand new and fully remodeled! Stunning gourmet main kitchen features Italian Carrara marble counters, island and bar. White and grey high gloss kitchen cabinets. 6 Burner Viking gas range. Bosch in-wall oven + microwave. 48' Kitchenaid built-in Fridge/Freezer. 3 sinks with Hansgrohe faucets. Dual dishwashers, trash compactor, separate ice maker, beverage center, and secondary 30" all fridge. Fully stocked cookware, bake ware, cutlery, dinnerware, blenders and small appliances ...you name it and we've probably got it! And if we don't please let us know!
The new outdoor kitchen features Italian Carrara marble counters and bar with stainless cabinets. 42" built-in gas grill, stainless fridge and dishwasher, sink with garbage disposal. Fully stocked outdoor dishes, glasses and bar-ware. Pass thru windows from the main kitchen makes cooking and clean-up a breeze!
The first 4 bedrooms are located in the east wing of the house. The master suite is huge, almost 400 square feet of space to relax and enjoy; it includes two king size beds, gas fireplace, huge bathroom with dual sinks, huge oval bath tub and a seating area with views of the pool and mountains. Bedrooms 2 and 3 feature queen size beds, while bedroom 4 has two queen size beds. Each of the bedrooms has their own private bathroom, private outdoor space, HDTV, 100% cotton sheets, iPhone/iPod docking and more.
The 5th and 6th bedrooms are in the West wing of the house, and can be closed off for additional privacy. Bedroom 5 has two twin beds with private bath and no direct pool access, perfect for small children. Bedroom 6 features spectacular mountain views from the king size bed and private patio. A gas fireplace with marble surround and a private marble bathroom with huge Jacuzzi tub makes for a cozy and sexy retreat.
All bedrooms feature 1080p LED HDTV's, high thread count 100% cotton sheets, iPhone chargers and docks. Super-fast whole house WIFI allows you to connect anywhere on the property.
The house features 7 bathrooms, so there is never a wait to shower! And to make sure there is plenty of hot water we've installed two large capacity hot water heaters! Each bedroom has its own private bath featuring new fixtures, toilets and tile. Clean, fresh and convenient! Bath 6 (bedroom 6) is brand new and features Italian Carrara marble floors/walls and a huge 42"x72" Jacuzzi tub! Bath 7, in the common area, is also brand new with floor to ceiling Carrara marble and a large walk-in (no threshold) shower perfect for guests with mobility issues. Bath 3 also features a no threshold shower for guests with limited mobility.
A brand new laundry area features 2 large capacity washers and 2 large capacity dryers. You'll never have to worry about waiting for a load of laundry to finish! 100% Turkish terry cotton bath and pool towels are provided, with extras to spare. You won't run out of towels!
Please Note:
No Smoking in house.
Dog(s) must be pre-approved.
House is not child proof; the pool is not separated from the house – not recommended for children under 8
Overnight guests limit = 16. Daytime guests limit = 24.
Check-in 2pm-5pm, Check-out no later 10am. Early check-in, late check-out may be available for an additional fee.
For monthly or multiple week rates please inquire.
Rates do not include $395.00 cleaning fee, optional pool heat $69/day, $500 refundable damage/noise deposit, $89 PDP and 11.5% Palm Springs City tax. Any commercial photography or filming requires pre-approval and additional fees.
Palm Springs TOT #4004
At the end of February, I brought 15 girlfriends to Palm Springs to celebrate my 40th birthday. We could not have found a better house. Not a single detail could have been better. To start with, Scott (the property manager) was so friendly and attentive. He helped me find a chef, answered a ton a detailed questions about the property and even let us in a few hours early. When my mom and I arrived with a car load of groceries, Scott ran right out and helped to unload everything for us. He was available our entire stay and we never had any questions about the house.
The layout of the house was great. While everyone shared rooms, they all had their own bathrooms and there was plenty of quiet space to get away from one another. The kitchen accommodated a chef each night and a bartender outside. We even had a formal sit down dinner for 16. Each day we all gathered by the 85 degree (perfect) pool. Then by evening we gathered by the bar and fire pit, then inside to listed to music and hang out.
The neighborhood and views were also awesome. We loved looking at the mountains and enjoyed walking into town for shopping. As each guest walked in, they gasped at how wonderful the house was. I have already recommended it to a few more groups. I'm just looking for another excuse to go back!
Wow, what an amazing house and neighborhood! Much bigger in real life then we expected, and laid out perfectly for enjoying friends and family. The main living space and kitchen are one HUGE open concept space which we loved. The kitchen had literally anything and everything we needed to do large dinners and a small cocktail party for local friends. The outdoor living space and pool where almost even better than the inside of the house. In other rentals we've stayed at the outdoor space is almost an after thought, with not a lot of effort or furniture. With this house the outdoor space was an extension of the indoor space and created true outdoor living! There was two outdoor dining areas, multiple lounge areas, a gorgeous fire-pit lounge, pool/spa and outdoor kitchen with bar. This is by far the best rental we've ever stayed at in Palm Springs!
And to top it off Scott the property manager was great! We've had to deal with rental agencies with previous rentals and it was like pulling teeth to get info and help when needed. Scott on the other hand spent time walking us thru the property and explaining everything to us. And when we had a question or needed to find a stand mixer, he was just a text or phone call away. He's a true gem!
We rented this house for my 50th birthday. I had 14 girlfriends in for Modernism week. The house is so great you never want to leave!! The first day we just hung around by the pool and relaxed. We had to force ourselves to leave. Highly recommend and will be staying here again. Scott the property manager is awesome!!
This home was great. So well furnished, so well stocked. There wasn't anything we really needed while we were. There was a problem with the gate but the property manager had a fix that made us absolutely happy. We come every year, and even looked around at other homes for our next visit. We stay for a month every year. We thought me might not need as much space. Problem is, after spending a month in this home, there wasn't another one that compared and we're spoiled. The home is huge with tons of community space but still has all the private spaces you need for group travel. Our kids and grand kids came and everyone had their own rooms, beds, patios, privacy. The home is just so suitable to any kind of group! Scott, the manager, was great to deal with. Quick with responses, recommendations, solutions. He didn't hover, which we liked. But, he never made us feel neglected or unappreciated. He get's a five-star review, too.
I rented this house for my 40th birthday party and it was so much more than I could have possibly dreamed of.
The house was well stocked we were never in need of anything and if we did the property manager was amazing and easily accessible.
My friends and I had the best time- by far the best birthday ever. Everyone left relaxed and happy.
I personally didn't want to leave. Like ever.
I can't wait for a reason to go back- I'd do it in a heartbeat. Who's turning 40 next?
The house will forever be in my dreams.
We just finished our annual company retreat at this house and it is our new FAVE!!! Open, modern and perfect for a large group! The property manager was extremely nice and accommodating. There is plenty of room to spread out. The outdoor areas are amazing. Highly recommend this house!
|Rental Period
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|Additional Nights
|Weekend Night
|Event Price
Summer Season
1 Jun 2015 - 31 Oct 2015
3 night minimum stay
for 3 nights
My Standard Rate
3 night minimum stay
for 3 nights
|$395.00 + Tax
|Refundable Damage Deposit
|Pool Heat (optional)
|Property Damage Protection
|Tax Rate
For monthly or multiple week rates please inquire.
Pool Heat, optional: $69/daily (it is a big pool!)
$500 Refundable Damage/Noise deposit taken 15 days prior to check-in
$89 PDP policy
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Powder coatings market: less waste, no VOCs, improved durability and more color options make powder a viable alternative to liquid coatings for a wide variety of applications.
"We have had two pretty lean years in terms of growth: 2000 was a record year, 2001 we were down by about 11.5 percent and 2002 we were up slightly," Greg Bocchi, executive director, The Powder Coating Institute, said about the status of the North American market. "The market is extremely competitive. There has been significant price erosion for both raw materials and powder coatings."
However, the outlook for next year is not quite as dismal, Mr. Bocchi said. "We are seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel," said Mr. Bocchi. "I am hoping to see growth in the 2.5% range in the pounds of powder sold in North America in 2003."
Powder Vs. Liquid
Although powder coatings represents just seven percent of the worldwide coatings market, by most industry estimates this $3.6 billion industry has been quite successful in replacing liquid coatings in a number of key markets including appliances, wood and metal coatings. And the good news, there is still room for growth. Powder coatings currently dominate the architectural metal finish market in Europe, but have yet to completely replace liquid coatings in the same market in North America.
"Powder coatings are dominating the architectural metal finish market in Europe, where they account for approaching 80% of all finishes used, and where they have virtually totally replaced wet paint," said Richard J. Higgins, manager human resource and communications, Akzo Nobel Powder Coatings Ltd., worldwide powder group. Dr. Higgins noted that the same trend is developing in Asia, particularly China, where powder is the preferred finish for architectural aluminum. "In the U.S., wet paint is still a dominant finish, but as the wet paint plants mature and the pressure on VOCs continues to grow, powder will eventually win out," Dr. Higgins predicted.
"I think that the powder coating market has been very successful in its efforts to convert liquid to powder," said Larry Bauer, marketing manager, DuPont Powder Coatings. "I believe that the conversions have now matured and levelled off due to our economic situation. Not as many manufacturers and applicators have capital to invest in the conversion process."
According to Mr. Bocchi, powder coatings dominate the North American appliance market using 14% of total powder produced.
"The domestic appliance market--refrigeration, washers, dryers, cookers, microwaves, heating, air conditioning-has long been highly substituted by powder coatings and that is pretty much the case across all regions of the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, although coil coating, and more recently plastics, also have a significant share," said Dr. Higgins.
According to Dr. Higgins, metal furniture is another market that powder dominates. "Asia Pacific is a vast supply source for Europe and the U.S. and virtually all of the metal furniture coming from that region is powder coated," he said.
Powder coatings are also now being widely used in the IT industry. "Computer server cabinets is one of the more recent markets to move away from wet paint to powder coatings," said Dr. Higgins. "Most of the large IT OEMs now specify powders for their decorative finishes on their larger metal components."
Growth in Automotive, Wood
Although widely used in automotive components, powder must still compete with wet spray and electro-paint processes and has yet to make a significant mark on the automotive clearcoat market. According to industry experts, this potential market is huge, but large-scale conversion would require additional improvements in powder's performance.
"Powder continues to grow in the automotive market and general industrial markets," said Kevin Biller, vice president general manager, Jamestown Powder Coatings. "We still await the day that powder will conquer the auto clearcoat market. At this time only BMW in Germany and Mercedes are using powder clear topcoats."
"In automotive components, powder plays an important part, but other finishes like wet spray and electro-paint, are also important," said Dr. Higgins. "In wood finishing, powder has yet to make significant inroads, although new generation powder have begun to be adopted on MDF and other wood composites for furniture applications."
The development of low temperature and UV-cured products continues to increase powder's use on wood, medium density fiberboards and other" heat sensitive substrates such as plastics. According to Mr. Bocchi, there has been a lot of R&D activity in the area of powder coating heat sensitive substrates. "Coatings are being cured below 220[degrees]F without compromising durability or quality," he said. (For a look at the latest powder coatings products, see sidebar on p. 32)
The Environmental Factor
The environmental advantages of powder coatings are well known-no VOCs and any excess or overspray can be reused, reducing both waste and cost.
"This is one of the most common reasons for conversion, where the fact that powder is free from solvents means that local authority or governmental targets related clean-air acts can be permanently met by a coatings applicator using powder," said Dr, Higgins.
Environmental regulations that continue to restrict VOCs will certainly lead more companies to switch from liquid to powder. "Environmental regulations continue to force companies to reduce VOC emissions," said Gregory Stanek, business manager, marketing development, powder coatings, BASF. "Many of these companies are choosing powder coatings to replace VOC-containing liquid coatings."
"Environmental regulations have helped and continue to augment the growth of the powder coatings industry," agreed Mr. Biller. "It mainly impacts the pocketbook of the coatings user in hazardous waste costs and abatement technologies. Powder avoids these."
A powder operation presents a cleaner working environment, according to Dr. Higgins. "Powder is used straight from the box, there is no mixing or pre-preparation," he said. "There are no issues to deal with related to solvents, like sate storage or special fire insurances."
"You can recycle and reuse the powder so you have much less waste, along with no VOCs to deal with," said Mr. Bocchi. "There are less volatiles coming from the oven during the curing process. It's also easier to use; it's a much neater and cleaner operation."
Environmental factors are certainly important, but the bottom line is cost and efficiency. Powder coatings meet both these needs.
"The industry has recognized and still supports the reduction of VOCs, but trends in the late 90s and early 2000s are have been around energy reduction and improved application efficiency, which translates into cost effective finishing," said M. Reginald Horne, vice president and business director, Rohm and Haas Powder Coatings.
According to Mr. Bauer, the cost of conversion from liquid to powder is lower now than in previous years and transfer efficiency can increase from 30% for liquid to 90% or higher for powder coatings. Another advantage is hazardous waste reduction. Waste disposal costs can be lowered dramatically, up to 80%, he said.
"A one-coat thermosetting powder applied in one step on an automated powder application line, in which any over-spray powder is collected for recycle and reuse, will give very high application efficiencies and low applied cost," said Dr. Higgins. "Also, automation is easy, and therefore labor cost can be low."
Improved Appearance and Performance
R&D efforts in powder coatings have been focused on improving appearance and performance. Color options in powder are virtually limitless, and multicolor powders, such as hammer tones, gold, silver and distressed looks, are available to many markets.
"As is the general trend in coatings as a whole, powder is also seeing a surge in the use of metallics and other special effect finishes, said Dr. Higgins. "Powder is much more capable of responding to that trend than it was 10 years ago, and therefore in areas of growth like auto alloy wheels, where silver metallics dominate, powder is getting the lion's share of growth in coatings use in that area." Dr. Higgins said developments in Interpon Express and Express Line mixing technologies and the interpon AS application stabilizing technologies have had an important impact in ensuring that "powder can deliver not only the decorative but also the process economic requirements of that market."
According to Mr. Bocchi, "the biggest growth area for powder coatings is clearcoats" for the automotive market, however companies are looking to improve clear powder performance elsewhere. "Better clearcoats are being developed for use on solid brass products such as doorknobs, hinges, lamps and plumbing fixtures. Powder is also being used as a replacement for chrome and brass plating."
H.B. Fuller has focused its efforts on improving the performance of metallic powder coatings so that they are easier to apply, developing new trendy metallic colors that the market was incapable of delivering a few years ago and improving the appearance of metallics in terms of color uniformity and glossiness. "Essentially, we are closing the gap between liquid and powder performance," said Tony Khosla, division marketing manager H.B. Fuller, global coatings division.
R&D efforts focused on powder coatings for heat sensitive substrates continues, as do products for other materials. According to Mr. Billet, new areas of development for powders include improved application to non-conductive substrates, low temperature cure, automotive clearcoats and powder for containers.
"We continue to invest in new technologies to access a broader share of the market," said Mr. Horne. "Lower temperature cures, thinner films, and brighter metallic effects are but a few examples of research thrusts that will drive additional conversion."
Market Consolidation
As the powder coatings market continues to make advances in performance and gain acceptance into a variety of new markets, the business side has experienced significant changes as well. The powder coatings market has experienced quite a bit of consolidations in the past year. Ferro, one of the top suppliers of powder coatings, was acquired by two other market leaders. The 2002 acquisition of Ferro Corporation's European division by Rohm and Haas and its Americas and Asia Pacific divisions by Akzo Nobel added considerably to the two companies' already impressive portfolios.
The acquisition by Rohm and Haas added four operating sites for a total of seven. Rohm and Haas is also building an additional site in China, which should be completed by early 2004.
Akzo Nobel has integrated Ferro's U.S operations into International Paint Inc. The Korean operations is known as LG Lucoat Powder Coatings Ltd, a ,IV with LG Chemicals, and the PRC operations have been integrated into Akzo's existing JV with Chang Cheng Securities, Akzo Nobel Chang Cheng (Ningbo) Coatings Ltd.
Ferro wasn't Akzo Nobel's only powder purchase in 2002. The company bought a 50% stake in leading Mexican powder producer INDA, to form a new JV company, Akzo Nobel INDA.
Akzo Nobel is continuing to branch out with new facilities in Turkey and Vietnam, as well.
"Our new Turkish powder operation which started a little over a year ago is now operating very successfully at Izmire," said Dr. Higgins. "We formally opened a new powder factory in He Chi Minh City during 2003, and have successfully switched the servicing of all our Vietnamese customers from that facility during the year."
John Deere Equipment Coated with Powder from Becker Powder Coatings
John Deere, a worldwide producer of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, has made an important investment over the last two years to transform its painting process, replacing a 2.K polyurethane wet paint process with a high durability polyester paint. Becker Poudre (Becker Powder Coatings) supplies powder paints to the John Deere factory in Arc les Gray, near Dijon, France. The site manufacturers round balers, mower conditioners, rectangular balers, grass pickups for self-propelled forage harvesters and front load balers for tractors for John Deere.
The powder coatings technology has been authorized by the main John Deere laboratories and meets the JDM Fll class 4-5 specifications. Beaker Poudre supplies TGIC-free and heavy metal-free powder paints. A long-term agreement is being signed by both partners for the period 2003-2005 for the complete supply of powder paint and also 2K polyurethane wet paint at the subcontractors.
2001 Global Thermosetting Powder Coatings Market Asia 43% Rest of World 8% Europe 23% North America 26% Note: Table made from pie chart. Source: Irfab Chemical Consultants
RELATED ARTICLE: New powder coating products.
Powder coating manufacturers have launched a variety of new powder products, with a focus on low temperature curable products, improved durability and more styling options.
DuPont Powder Coatings low energy products are formulated in TGIC-polyester, thermoset powder coating systems that are able to cure at 300[degrees]F/149[degrees]C (substrate temperature) for 10 minutes. This new line offers the same smoothness, weathering and durability as regular cure products, but allows considerable energy savings due to lower oven temperatures.
These coatings can be ordered in any color and gloss ranges from 70 units and higher and exhibit excellent : physical properties, according to the company. Typical uses include playground equipment, garden implements, outdoor furniture, LP storage tanks, castings, scuba diving tanks, ornamental iron railings and air conditioner grills.
DuPont reports that companies using these low energy products can expect an energy savings of, on average, a 25% reduction of BTUs compared to products with typical cure parameters.
Akzo Nobel has launched four new coatings to' its global powder business line.
Interpon D300 Fluoromax is a new-generation extremely durable powder finish for architectural metal for use in building construction. Used to coat components such as windows, doors, curtain wall, paneling, louvers and other parts, it uses a new fluorocarbon polymer film-former, developed specifically for this product according to Akzo Nobel,
Interpon PZ 770 is an active anti-corrosion powder primer for use on steelwork, used as a viable alternative to galvanizing offering substantial advantages in smoothness of finish and ease of use, according to the company. It is overcoated with a number of Akzo Nobel's exterior grade powder finishes to form a complete protective system.
Also new to Akzo Nobel's stable, are Interpon APP 120 another new active anti-corrosion primer, but that does not contain zinc for its active anti-corrosion mechanism and Inter AB, an anti-bacteriological finish for application to sensitive areas such as microwave interiors and other food-contact areas. It can also be used on components in sensitive applications involving health and hygiene issues.
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Shonali Muthalaly and Priyadarshini Paitandy join clubbers and party goers to find this city never sleeps
Can Chennai rock all night? Undoubtedly. After all this is the city of beach house parties: midnight swimming pool plunges, drinking games on the terrace and dancing till dawn. This is the city that embraced ECR's rain dances, between moonlit beach volley ball, splashing in the surf and lip syncing to Bon Jovi's 'It's my life' on the dance floor.
This is where the party revival is happening: after years of Cinderella deadlines, we're out to prove we've not turned into a city of pumpkins. Which brings us to the big question. Chennai can party all night. But can we?
It's an admittedly unusual assignment. Follow the clubbers, the dancers, the party girls. For a change we're not worrying about running out of ink, paper or batteries on our voice recorders. We prepare for the night carefully, bringing out the big guns. Our highest stilettos, our most sparkly dresses and — of course — long staying deep red lipstick. It's Friday. We're out to prove that this city can party all night. And we intend to do it in style.
The newly opened Ramada
Chennai Egmore
Oh dear. A guest list. And a line of shuffling people. In front a stern woman with a clipboard takes down names and numbers. It feels more like gym class than a glamorous fashion show. Inside, it's bright and breezy on the terrace. Girls in high heels walk gingerly between the wooden board flooring, holding in their stomachs for the benefit of their little dresses. Between it all fashion designer Karun Raman stands, welcoming guests in a chic skinny white shirt. We air-kiss our way around the room and then finally settle under the massive speakers. Waiters with spiky hair come by with steamy cheese balls, crisp prawn varuval and plump chicken tikka. The music is thumping so loudly we can barely hear ourselves think. We resort to smsing each other to communicate. We're deconstructing outfits, and it requires concentration. The show finally begins at 10 p.m.: fashionably late. As Rochelle Rao, Femina Miss India International 2012, sashays down the runway, we slither out.
Taj Club House
We tear in excitedly to find ourselves in a practically empty room. Bouncing up and down on the plush couches, we order beetroot-clove-whiskey cocktails and look around. This is perplexing. Where is everyone? From all accounts, Blend heaves with people on Friday night. However, right now the only customers are a clutch of geeky boys drinking juice and watching Fashion TV. The guest DG looks like he's having a good time though, on his obligatory Apple computer. Vijay Chawla, popular resident DJ (referred to as 'Chocolate Chawla' by his legion of female admirers), comes by to say hello. In a lame attempt to save face, we snigger about how quiet it is, and are told we're ridiculously early. Apparently, the 'action' only starts well past 11.30 p.m. Feeling like total bumpkins we sadly eat a plate of addictively spicy baby corn, while Chawla and Executive Chef Siddique watch us sympathetically. Ah well. We have places to go.
Madras Pub -
It's opening night. Shutter bugs and red carpets? Hardly. It's fairly dodgy outside, and the club is set on a quiet dark lane. This does not look promising. Climbing a steep flight of stairs, we find ourselves nose to nose with a beefy bouncer in a tight black T-shirt. Cue: Smile, flutter eyelashes. Getting into clubs is an art form. He looks us up and down, then pushes open the doors. Neon lights, staggering people and men with mops scurrying around. We navigate through couples entangled together, sad drunken men and teeny boppers head banging on the dance floor. They've been slammed by crowds, and its happy chaos. Manager Arasu, formerly with Zara, looks equally delighted with both his new portfolio, and shiny suit. He dances over, carrying caipirinhas, spilling generous amounts along the way. (That explains the men with mops.) We bump into Rina Raymond, Chennai's ultimate party girl. Listening to our schedule, she shakes her head in disapproval. "No No. First Zara, then come here. Blend is next, and finally Dublin because that's open till morning." At least it's not too late to mend our ways. We make plans to meet in Dublin later.
But first, we need to rest our feet. (High heels are torturous.) Mathsya's the city's favourite late night dosa haunt, bringing together an unlikely assortment of people: doctors, DJs, chefs and police officers — all settling down for a relaxed late night snack after their night shifts. Owner Ram Bhat always knows what's happening in the city, because so many of the parties end with Udupi dosas. "We had a big crowd from the fashion show earlier," he says, as we settle down with their trademark fluffy cheese toast, ginger-slathered aasai dosais and masala chai. By the time our tea arrives, the bustling restaurant is quiet. The staff pull down the shutters. "We close earlier to keep out the drunk people," smiles Bhat. "So where next?" We smile triumphantly. We finally know the 'cool' answer to this. "Dublin. We're going dancing."
We don't expect quite so much sweat. Stylishly entering the Park Sheraton lobby, we smile like Miss World contestants. It's all golden light and perfume, till we clip down the corridor and see The Queue. Central Station at peak hour pales in comparison. The line of impatient clubbers, push, poke and pull in their desperation to get past the bouncers. We try being polite. Till a sweaty man with a scraggly ponytail shoves us against the wall. Fortunately the manager spots us. (There are admittedly some perks to being a journalist!). We're in. The energy is infectious. A two-level dance floor, pulsating with people. Girls with glow-in-the-dark bangles and boys in grungy T-shirts.
The dance floor is a great leveller. Everyone's grooving to the music, moving together. The crowd parts to make room for us. As the DJ starts playing 'Don't you worry Child' (Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin), we lift our arms in the air, singing along with everyone. By 3 a.m. we're knackered. Our mascara's running, and the long-lasting lipstick's long gone. As we hobble out of Dublin, a surge of people enter, dressed to the hilt, and ready to party.
Bah. We'll never win. Well. At least the city keeps going.
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Third quarter earnings season was a good one, unfortunately we
may not be able to say the same about the fourth quarter. We
got off to a very weak start, and while the last week was better,
it just pushed the season from being very poor to mediocre at
best. So far 183, or 36.6% of the S&P 500 firms have
reported. However, assuming that all the remaining firms
report exactly in line with expectations, then 50.2% of all
earnings are in.
Normally, when all is said and done, the median surprise runs
about 3.00% and the ratio about 3.0. So far, the median is at
1.87% and the ratio is 1.81. While we don't have the drama of
multi-billion dollar bank losses, this is the weakest start to an
earnings season since the depths of the Great
Recession. In most recent quarters we have started out
of the gate much faster than this, only to fade towards these
Total net income for the 183 that have reported is 7.08% above a
year ago. That is a big improvement over the negative 3.79% a
week ago when just 70 firms had reported. It is still less
than half the 14.82% growth rate that the same 183 firms reported
in the third quarter. The picture is just a little bit better if we
take the Financials out of the picture. Without them,
the year-over-year rise in net income is 11.84%, down from 16.1%
growth in the third quarter.
The bar is also set low for the remaining 317 firms, and
significantly lower than the results we have seen so far.
They are expected to see year-over-year growth of just 1.93%.
If we exclude the Financial sector, earnings are expected to be
2.02% below last year's. That is far below the 15.99% total
and 19.16% ex-Financial growth those 317 reported in the third
quarter. In other words, we have started out weak, and it is
expected to get worse.
Revenue growth has held up better, with the 183 reporting 6.05%
growth. Most of the revenue weakness though has come from the
financials. If we exclude the Financials that have reported,
revenue is up 9.05% year over year. The 317 are expected to
see revenue growth to slow to 3.08% in total and 7.56% excluding
the Financials. In the third quarter, the 317 reported
revenue growth of 13.16% in total and 14.18% excluding the
Net Margin Expansion Ending
With revenue growth slowing but holding up better than net
income growth, it means that the net margin expansion game is
coming to an end. It has been a very big part of the
spectacular earnings growth that we have seen coming out of the
Great Recession. For the 183, net margins have come in at
11.32%, up from 11.21% a year ago, but down from 11.82% in
the third quarter. For the 317, margins are expected to be
much lower, but they are lower margin businesses to begin
with. They, however, are also expected to fall, dropping to
7.42% from 7.51% last year, and well below the 7.78% in the third
Excluding Financials the picture is even worse, with net margins
of just 6.90% expected, down from 7.57% a year ago and 7.96% in the
third quarter. While in an absolute sense, those are still
very healthy net margins -- much higher than the average of the
last 50 years or so -- they are no longer expanding. Then
again, it was unrealistic to expect that they would always
rise. It does mean that earnings growth is going to be harder
to come by going forward.
On an annual basis, net margins continue to march northward, but
we are beginning to see cracks there as well. In 2008,
overall net margins were just 5.88%, rising to 6.27% in 2009.
They hit 8.51% in 2010 and are expected to continue climbing to
9.04% in 2011 and 9.26% in 2012. The pattern is a bit
different, particularly during the recession, if the Financials are
excluded, as margins fell from 7.78% in 2008 to 6.93% in 2009, but
have started a robust recovery and rose to 8.12% in 2010.
They are expected to rise to 8.67% in 2011. However, they are
expected to drop to and 8.62% in 2012.
Full-Year Expectations Healthy
Total net income in 2010 rose to $789.0 billion in 2010, up from
$538.6 billion in 2009. The expectations for the full year
are very healthy. In 2011, the total net income for the
S&P 500 should be $894.6 billion, or increases of 46.5% and
13.4%, respectively. The expectation is for 2012 to have
total net income come close to $1 Trillion mark to $983.0 Billion,
for growth of 10.1%. Consider those earnings relative to
nominal GDP. If we use the middle of the year GDP level,
S&P 500 net income has climbed from 3.89% in 2009 to 5.45% in
2010, and assuming that the 2011 expectations are on target, 6.01%
in 2011.
Of course, the S&P 500 earns a lot of its income abroad, and
there are a lot more than 500 companies in the U.S. so to some
extent that is an apples-to-oranges comparison. It is
somewhat ironic that the growth in earnings was robust when the
economy was anemic, but now that the economy seems to be picking
up, earnings growth is slowing down dramatically. Europe,
however, is falling back into recession, and even if the Euro does
not totally fall apart, it is likely to be a deep and nasty
one. The BRICs have also all shown signs of slower -- but
still robust by developed country standards -- growth.
A much broader measure of (domestic only) corporate profits
tracked by the government rose to 9.92% of GDP in the third
quarter. Since 1959 (when the data starts), that measure has
averaged 5.99% of GDP. It is still not a record, though; that
was set in the third quarter of 2006 at 10.29% of GDP.
Meanwhile, wages fell to a record low of just 43.75% of GDP, while
the average since 1959 is 48.42% of GDP.
Higher profits are great for the stock market, but ultimately
companies need customers, and their customers need to have income
(or borrowing capacity). Thus there has to be a very real
question about the sustainability of these great earnings. I
don't think it is wise to assume that corporate profits will
continue to take an ever larger share of the economic pie.
The "EPS" for the S&P 500 is expected to be over the $100
"per share" level for the first time at $103.73 in
2012. That is up from $56.83 for 2009, $83.23 for 2010,
and $94.38 for 2011. In an environment where the 10-year
T-note is yielding 1.90%, a P/E of 15.8x based on 2010 and 14.0x
based on 2011 earnings looks attractive. The P/E based on
2012 earnings is just 12.7x.
Estimate Revisions Picking Up
Estimate revisions activity is past its seasonal low, and rising
very fast. In previous earnings seasons, we have
generally seen a bounce in the revisions ratio, as the analysts
have reacted to better than expected earnings and the outlooks on
the conference calls. So far there is no evidence of that
happening. The revisions ratio for FY1, which is mostly 2011
earnings now, stands at 0.50, or two cuts for every
The cuts are very widespread, with only a single sector,
Transports, seeing more increases than cuts. Eight of the
sectors, including big ones like Energy, Health Care, and Utilities
are seeing more than twice as many cuts as increases. The
picture for FY2 ( mostly 2012) is only slightly better, with a
revisions ratio of just 0.61. Only three sectors, Transports,
Construction and Business Service are seeing more increases than
cuts. The widespread cuts are also confirmed by the ratio of
firms with rising mean estimates to falling mean estimates, which
now stand at 0.52 and 0.59, respectively.
Relative to recent quarters, we are off to an exceptionally weak
start, but we are still seeing more positive than negative
surprises. We did get some very big and significant positive
surprises in the last week, most notably
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). As the earnings season has progressed, things have been
getting a bit better, but only moved the season from being very
poor, to Mediocre at best. This is happening when the
bar is set at its lowest point in a very long time. For the
remaining firms, the bar is also set low, however given the results
so far, that really does not provide any assurance that they will
be able to clear it.
The market has been off to a very strong start of the year,
despite the weak early results. Valuations are still
compelling, if somewhat less so than a few months ago.
However, if the results do not improve, it strikes me as likely
that we will at least pause for a while.
The upcoming week will be a busy one, with 99 S&P 500 firms
scheduled to report. Thus by next week, we will be well past
the halfway point in terms of the number of reports. We are
already past it based on the total earnings for the quarter.
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