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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and informative book!
This is a series of very fun and light-hearted lessons on business and life in general. The format of "cat lessons" is an analogy for how to think more proactively about your work and personal life.
This book provides down-to-earth guidelines for thinking more like an entrepreneur. I really got a lot out of the "cats-can."
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Published on May 26 2000
2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Paper--Cute, but Shallow
This book was a disappointment to me. It was recommended by a friend when I expressed intrigue with books that mixed illustrations and stories to communicate management messages (a la Who Moved My Cheese).
The author is a PhD-level, highly experienced consultant . . . with a couple of cats. From her biography in the book, I'd expect something strong. I'd describe the...
Published on Jan. 31 2002 by Roger E. Herman
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2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Paper--Cute, but Shallow,
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This book was a disappointment to me. It was recommended by a friend when I expressed intrigue with books that mixed illustrations and stories to communicate management messages (a la Who Moved My Cheese).
The author is a PhD-level, highly experienced consultant . . . with a couple of cats. From her biography in the book, I'd expect something strong. I'd describe the book more as "cute" or "artsy," rather than having strong content.
Hessler-Key suggests that we can learn from cats, applying their behaviors to better manage our own. Her thirteen messages are couched in short descriptive pieces from or about her cat. The advice is succinct at the end of each of the one-page lessons. Here are the messages: Pick a business or career that lets you express your talents. Done only that and do it well. Constantly look for ways to full your customers needs. Gauge your distance, position yourself, and leap. Follow your instincts. Clean out the old and begin again. Observe your environment closely and with detachment. Meander and Explore. Catnap occasionally-dream. Walk away from opportunities that don't meet your standards. Be independent, but don't isolate yourself. Pick your priority; be relentless. Life Balance. Find your place in the sun, relax and enjoy life.
A 14-page workbook section follows, asking a number of questions around each of the thirteen themes. This feature could make the book a worthwhile tool for workshops, though my personal concern is that there is not enough meat and seriousness in the book's content to inspire effective responses without the author or a colleague serving as a facilitator.
I'm not sure that today's reader is in the same space that this book occupies. It seems to fluffy and light to be taken seriously, even though the messages are valid. It's not up to what I'd like to see from this author and not what I'm accustomed to seeing from Berrett-Kohler.
1.0 out of 5 stars If I was a cat, I'd stick this book in my litter tray.,
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Sorry, but I really feel potential customers should be aware of HOW LITTLE WRITING THERE IS IN THIS BOOK. The pictures are fine (they make up over half the book) but I was really hoping for more than a short paragraph of "inspirational prose" or so per double page. The idea is that a cat unconsciously does a lot of things which the business-person would be wise to emulate eg. "groom those that groom you", "sit in the window and watch". And that's it! That's the sizzle AND the sausage. What I imagined was that that catchy feline-related idea might be fleshed out a bit - by some evidence from the real world, for example? But no - sob! It's all about cats and ... cats. I'm obviously not really the target audience for this book - and I'm sure other people will enjoy it, if they know what they're getting into. But is there really anyone immersed in business who doesn't have a grasp of the basic concepts this book brings up?
3.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Effort!,
Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
When an author such as entrepreneur Mary Hessler-Key shares her byline with a feline, you know what kind of book you've got. Yes, Hessler-Key has written a cute book, but it does have some sound advice, inspired - she says - by her cats. She noticed that Sheba and Jasper possessed qualities that every entrepreneur could use, and then captured their lessons, which are appealingly illustrated here. Before you write this off as a little ball of fluff, look at the thought-provoking questions that accompany her cat-inspired tips. You can read the book in no time and devote as much effort as you want to the intriguing questions, which will tell you more about yourself than you might think. We [...] categorically recommend this book to anyone - entrepreneur or not - whose life could benefit from considering a cat's worldview, including being curious, acting instinctively, grooming carefully, hunting persistently and keeping a watchful eye on both the mice and the dogs.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and informative book!,
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This is a series of very fun and light-hearted lessons on business and life in general. The format of "cat lessons" is an analogy for how to think more proactively about your work and personal life.
This book provides down-to-earth guidelines for thinking more like an entrepreneur. I really got a lot out of the "cats-can."
Whether you're a cat lover or not, you'll be inspired by Jazzie the cat! It's nice to read a business book that is not boring and can be read in an hour. I received this as a gift, and plan to give it to my friends and business associates.
4.0 out of 5 stars Cute approach that makes you stop and think...,
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Mary Hessler has done a superb job of highlighting the key fundamentals that make an entrepreneur successsful. The cat anology will delight feline lovers everywhere but the important point is that you can be of a 'Scat, Cat!' mentality and still find useful ideas in this book. So often we read about sound concepts and tune out thinking, "I know...I know...I know." The author's ingenious use of attaching the basics to an analogy with a new twist opens the imagination for more serious thinking about entrepreneurial life.
4.0 out of 5 stars Creative Approach to Entrepreneurial Issues,
Deb Soule Esposito (Florida) - See all my reviews
An innovative and fun approach to addressing issues often faced by new entrepreneurs. The challenges to "clean your litter box" and be "purrsistent" are fundamental to success. You don't get lost in buzz words and honestly using the Cats-Can workbook at the end will give you a good start on your journey.
4.0 out of 5 stars easy reading, excellent "feline" analogy focuses on life....,
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Cat lover or not, you'll relate to this cute and light-hearted read about thoughts on what "to do" about your life's business. Had hoped for more explaination on subjects needing further details but, good start in the right direction for anyone needing a little "push".
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Between Halloween and Christmas there is a holiday that can often be pushed to the side: Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving unfortunately gets overlooked; ridiculous Halloween costumes and haunted houses dive immediately into the madness of last-minute Christmas gift searches and tree decorating. Although Thanksgiving is the middle child of the holiday season, it's always important to stop for a moment and be grateful for family, friends, and the life we've been given.
Dinner is the signature event for the Thanksgiving holiday. This is when we come together and forget about the stresses of the outside world and focus on one another. A warm and inviting setting is ideal to make your company feel welcome at your table.
Placemats, runners, and tablecloths serve as the foundation of your Thanksgiving tablescape. My personal favorite is the table runner. As a messy eater, I find myself feeling overwhelmingly guilty when spilling something on someone's placemat or tablecloth. Runners flow and break up the monochromatic color of the table without chopping it up, as with placemats, while still showing the detail of your dining table. However, if you decide on using placemats or a tablecloth, acrylic fabrics like Sunbrella is ideal because they are water and stain-resistant. Placemats and tablecloths are ideal for protecting your beautiful dining table, especially when children are involved.
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ERIE, Pa. - Acting United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today, May 11, 2010, that Kyle W. Kerr of Centerville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal counterfeiting laws.
The one-count indictment named Kerr, age 36, as the sole defendant.
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Aaron Cooper... To be the best you have to beat the best. Taking 15'000 fans to the states does not make you a champion. Ward might have fought the majority of his fights in California....however, in the one fight that mattered outside of California/Nottingham at the Boardwalk, Ward did the business. Bigging Cleverly up to be something to get excited about is stupid, you can see already he is not going to be one of the greats. When he comes up against someone of a similar calibre he will get found. Froch for sure would do a job on him and then where would that leave him?
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I respect Glenn's opinion as a former world champion. I think if Froch has any guts he will take on Cleverly at the end of the year cause Cleverly is fighting Kolavev but I think Froch needs a good domestic dust up and Cleverly in my opinion is the right choice these two will give you a tearup, on Afolabi I think he should look to sign with one of the British promoters cause K2 just handle the Klitschkos and either Frank Warren or Eddie Hearn can give him exposure over here and make him champion.
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Yes Froch has fought just over half of his fights in Nottingham but Andre Ward has fought the majority of his fights in California..his home state. Froch is also a 3 time world champion and lost to one of the p4p best so how did he get found out? Hatton is just about the only guy who could bring 15000 fans with him to the US AND oh he has only lost to a former p4p king and probably the best boxer in the last 15 years..James Gilbert you are clueless!
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Cleverly is another one who only fights in his comfort zone, wrapped up in cotton wool, fighting domestic Joey's. As soon as he steps out of that comfort zone he will get found out. Just like Froch did the first time he fought Kessler and a second time when he got schooled by Ward. Cleverly is a good fighter but he is never going to be a true boxing champion. Froch fought in front of 9/10 thousand in Nottingham for the majority of his career. In my opinion, the equivalent of Man Utd playing at home every game for a full season. Cleverly will get found out on the big stage just like Froch, Naseem and Hatton.
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Early indications are that he'll retain defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli, and he's already agreed to hire his offensive coordinator. Aaron Kromer, the offensive line coach and interim head coach four six games last season for the New Orleans Saints, will be the Bears offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, a league source said.
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"Bringing the talented teams from Related Designs into the fold at Ubisoft is a mutually beneficial evolution of the relationship that we've had with this great studio for the past six years," said Odile Limpach, managing director at Ubisoft's Blue Byte studio (also in Germany). Ubisoft's Blue Byte (The Settlers) was handling publishing duties on the Anno series since Anno 1404 in 2009 C.E.
SAN FRANCISCO - April 11, 2013 - Today, Ubisoft announced the acquisition of Related Designs, a leading German development studio for PC strategy games, including the critically-acclaimed AnnoTM franchise. Ubisoft previously owned 29.95 percent of the company and is acquiring the remaining 70.05 percent in a cash transaction.
Established in 1995, Related Designs is a highly accomplished studio known for creating the award-winning PC titles Anno 1701TM, Anno 1404TM, Anno 2070® as well as real-time strategy games such as No Man´s Land and Castle Strike. As part of Ubisoft, Related Designs' experienced 65-person staff will continue development of the browser-based free-to-play MMO game Might & Magic® Heroes® Online, and will work on future titles in partnership with Blue Byte, a Ubisoft studio.
"Bringing the talented teams from Related Designs into the fold at Ubisoft is a mutually beneficial evolution of the relationship that we've had with this great studio for the past six years," said Odile Limpach, managing director at Ubisoft's Blue Byte studio. "This extremely fruitful cooperation can now advance thanks to the joint teams of Blue Byte and Related Designs more easily sharing experiences and resources. Together we will continue developing awesome games, including Might and Magic Heroes Online, which we hope will become a leading free-to-play title for Ubisoft."
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Breastfeeding can be challenging, so I suppose that it has made me feel more "insecure" at times (although I don't know that I would choose that word). We introduced solids at 6 months and took a very laid-back approach to it - really only as a exploratory supplement to bfing. From 6 - 7.5 months, she only had one solids meal a day, and especially in the early time, we would often skip a day or even two. We tried BLW exclusively at the beginning, but actually had some very scary choking moments and my husband was too freaked out to continue at that early stage. I think that she was slow to lose her tongue-thrust reflex. So we did purees (sometimes just spooning the puree onto her placemat so that she could feed herself) and I kept checking in with soft finger foods. By 8 months or so, she was very into feeding herself and wasn't interested in the spoon. She is now 11 months. I prefer finger food/BLW because I like to have her hang out in her highchair while I cook or have a meal myself, and not be constantly trying to spoon food. BLW is great for lazy moms like myself. ;-)
Bfing has been great, but I had a difficult start, and then had supply issues when she started sleeping through the night at 8 months (since resolved). I also work part time and I find pumping stressful. But I've met each challenge so far. While wonder what it would be like to leave the house for a day and not have to pump, I have no interest in weaning right now when she would still have to be on formula. Bfing is easier in many ways and I enjoy the bonding and coziness.
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Surviving the telecom onslaught
It used to be so simple. If you wanted telephone service, you bought it from the telephone company. If you wanted cable television, you bought it from the cable company. There wasn't much to think about, because you really didn't have a choice.
Those days are only a memory for the old-timers of telecommunications' days before the 1984 breakup of what used to known as Ma Bell. Today, you can buy telephone service from the cable company, television from the phone company, and high-speed Internet service from both. Throw in premium cable, pay per view, digital cable, high-definition television, wireless phones, wireless Internet and you've got plenty of choices —— and plenty of confusion.
Telecommunications companies like SBC, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Verizon Inc. say they'll make it simple once again. They'll offer everything you need in one bundle. One set of services, one bill and one point of contact. This year, they've become especially active in promoting bundling, bombarding customers with fliers and telephone solicitations to sign up.
So there you are, the local customer, flipping through solicitation offers and trying to make sense of all of this. Should you buy a bundle, hoping to save a bundle? Or should you telecom-shop a la carte?
You'll certainly get a lot of spin and dazzling offers. Before you jump on in, think about what you really need and want, and don't jump at the first offer you get. There'll be many more.
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Michael Shames, executive director of San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action Network, isn't a fan of any of the bundled offerings. While stopping short of outright rejection, Shames said buyers should realistically assess what they're really going to use before they sign up.
"You're probably not going to use everything that's included in a bundle," and that wastes money, Shames said. He advises people to shop around from all sellers for what they need.
Another reason to be wary of bundled services is that users may find unexpected difficulties switching from the bundled Internet service to another provider. If you use the e-mail address provided with your account, then switching will require you to notify all your contacts of the new address. Generally speaking, you're not going to be allowed to forward mail from a closed account, he said, although Cox is an exception, providing forwarding services for a small fee.
To avoid being trapped, Shames recommends getting an individual e-mail address through another Internet service provider. For example, personal addresses can be had from a new Internet "domain" called .name, which is meant for persons the way .com is generally intended for businesses or .edu for educational institutions. An address in this format, such as firstname.lastname@example.com , can be had for a few dollars a month from an Internet service provider.
(Transferring phone numbers is not an issue. Since last year, companies have been required by law to transfer phone numbers to new providers.)
That said, Shames said bundles can be a good deal for heavy users of telecom services. If your household watches TV constantly, is on the Internet a lot and lives on the telephone, then bundles can save money.


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FBI says paying for your morning coffee with cash a potential terrorist activity, urges coffee shop owners to report cash-paying customers to authorities
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone — these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And the agency is now distributing a new series of flyers as part of its new "Communities Against Terrorism" (CAT) program that urges shop owners and others to report such "suspicious" activity to authorities.
"The Communities Against Terrorism program is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance through the SLATT Program to provide law enforcement agencies with a tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism," writes SLATT.org, the program of the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance that is promoting the program, on its website. "To assist law enforcement in the outreach effort, templates of flyers containing potential indicators have been created for distribution to specific industries" (https://www.slatt.org/CAT).
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By Jonathan Turley
Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for undermining due process. Other countries have been condemned for the use of secret evidence and torture.
Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own — the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act , signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?
While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don't operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian. Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack… Continue reading
Justices Find that Spied-On Telephone Customers Have the Right to Sue
Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF.org
San Francisco – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked the government's attempt to bury the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) lawsuit against the government's illegal mass surveillance program, returning Jewel v. NSA to the District Court for the next step.
The court found that Jewel had alleged sufficient specifics about the warrantless wiretapping program to proceed. Justices rejected the government's argument that the allegations about the well-known spying program and the evidence of the Folsom Street facility in San Francisco were too speculative.
"Since the dragnet spying program first came to light, we have been fighting for the chance to have a court determine whether it is legal," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Today, the Ninth Circuit has given us that chance, and we look forward to proving the program is an unconstitutional and illegal violation of the rights of millions of ordinary Americans."
Also today, the court upheld the dismissal of EFF's other case aimed at ending the illegal spying, Hepting v. AT&T, which was the first lawsuit against a telecom over its participation in the dragnet domestic wiretapping. The court found that the so-called "retroactive immunity" passed by Congress to stop telecommunications customers from suing the companies is constitutional, in part because the claims remained against the government in Jewel v. NSA.
"By passing the retroactive immunity for the telecoms' complicity in the warrantless wiretapping program, Congress abdicated its duty… Continue reading
By Charlie Savage
November 29, 2011
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Defying the Obama administration's threat of a veto, the Senate on Tuesday voted to increase the role of the military in imprisoning suspected members of Al Qaeda and its allies — including people arrested inside the United States.
By a vote of 61 to 37, the Senate turned back an effort to strip a major military bill of a set of disputed provisions affecting the handling of terrorism cases. While the legislation still has several steps to go, the vote makes it likely that Congress will eventually send to President Obama's desk a bill that contains detainee-related provisions his national-security team has said are unacceptable.
The most disputed provision would require the government to place into military custody any suspected member of Al Qaeda or one of its allies connected to a plot against the United States or its allies. The provision would exempt American citizens, but would otherwise extend to arrests on United States soil. The executive branch could issue a waiver and keep such a prisoner in the civilian system.
In recent days, several top national security officials — including the secretary of defense, Leon E. Panetta; the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper; and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, have voiced opposition to the proposal, as have several former counterterrorism officials from the Bush administration.
But among Republican senators, there was nearly unanimous support for keeping the detainee… Continue reading
By Ray McGovern
Exclusive: Though the 9/11 attacks occurred more than a decade ago, Congress continues to exploit them to pass evermore draconian laws on "terrorism," with the Senate now empowering the military to arrest people on U.S. soil and hold them without trial, a serious threat to American liberties, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
Ambiguous but alarming new wording, which is tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and was just passed by the Senate, is reminiscent of the "extraordinary measures" introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933.
And the relative lack of reaction so far calls to mind the oddly calm indifference with which most Germans watched the erosion of the rights that had been guaranteed by their own Constitution. As one German writer observed, "With sheepish submissiveness we watched it unfold, as if from a box at the theater."
The writer was Sebastian Haffner (real name Raimond Pretzel), a young German lawyer worried at what he saw in 1933 in Berlin, but helpless to stop it since, as he put it, the German people "collectively and limply collapsed, yielded and capitulated."
"The result of this millionfold nervous breakdown," wrote Haffner at the time, "is the unified nation, ready for anything, that is today the nightmare of the rest of the world." Not a happy analogy.
The Senate bill, in effect, revokes an 1878 law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which banned the Army from domestic law enforcement after the military had… Continue reading
Levin-McCain bill would create a presidential dictatorship. Where is the outrage?
by Justin Raimondo
Buried in the annual defense appropriations bill is a provision that would give the President the power to use the military to intern anyone — including American citizens — indefinitely, and hold them without charges or trial, anywhere in the world, including on American soil . The provision essentially repeals the longstanding Posse Comitatus Act , which prevents the military from engaging in law enforcement on US territory — the greatest fear of the Founders. Approved by a Senate subcommittee in secret hearings, the provisions open the road to a military dictatorship in this country — and for that we can thank Senators Carl Levin and John McCain , who introduced the measure. Both the FBI and the Pentagon came out against the Levin-McCain monstrosity, and Senator Mark Udall (D-Colorado) introduced an amendment striking the provision: the amendment was defeated in the Senate, 37-61 .
The mind reels. As the ACLU's Chris Anders
puts it :
"I know it sounds incredible. New powers to use the military worldwide, even within the United States? Hasn't anyone told the Senate that Osama bin Laden is dead, that the president is pulling all of the combat troops out of Iraq and trying to figure out how to get combat troops out of Afghanistan too? And American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged… Continue reading
November 29, 2011
Steven Aftergood
Secrecy News Blog
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board that was supposed to provide independent oversight of U.S. counterterrorism policies remains dormant and out of service because its members have still not been named and confirmed.
In a report that was newly updated this month, the Congressional Research Service traced the origins of the Board from a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission through its initial establishment as a White House agency to its reconstitution as an independent agency chartered by statute in 2007.
The Board was assigned two overriding missions: It was supposed to "analyze and review actions the executive branch takes to protect the Nation from terrorism, ensuring that the need for such actions is balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties"; and to "ensure that liberty concerns are appropriately considered in the development and implementation of laws, regulations, and policies related to efforts to protect the Nation against terrorism."
So had the Board been functional, it might have been a valuable participant in current deliberations over military detention authority, for example. It might also have conducted investigative oversight into any number of other counterterrorism policies, as mandated by law. But for all practical purposes, there is no Board.
Last January, President Obama named Elisebeth C. Cook and James X. Dempsey to serve on the Board. The Senate has not acted on their nomination. Even if they had been confirmed, however, they would not have constituted a quorum. Thus,… Continue reading
Red Dirt Report, editor
OKLAHOMA CITY — Ten years after 9/11 and 16 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, it appears the federal government continues to view some Americans who embrace their First Amendment rights — press and speech, primarily — as a danger to the State, and as a result they are listing certain investigative websites as extremist and a terroristic threat to the "homeland."
One, labeled as "extremist" and therefore a threat to the U.S. Government, includes a well-known site, once operated by a truth-seeking Oklahoma state legislator, working to expose anomalies related to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — OKCbombing.net . A link to the document can be seen here .
This shocking designation is indeed troubling, particularly to the local documentary film production company Free Mind Films , which is also releasing an explosive documentary about the Oklahoma City bombing, A Noble Lie.
OKCbombing.net was formerly operated by State Rep. Charles Key (R-Oklahoma City), as a site to inform the public about reams of information discovered by the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, much of it originally ignored by the same federal agencies who now list the site as a threat to the homeland. As for Rep. Key, he concluded his role in the OBIC in approximately 2002 and Free Mind Films is now paying for access and domain rights to… Continue reading
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) When I read a story yesterday about an 89-year-old woman being water-boarded by nursing home staff over an argument about ice cream, I knew something terrible was amiss across the American landscape. Spontaneous acts of tyranny have been cropping up lately like cancer tumors: a food tyrant in Nevada raids a farm picnic and orders everyone to destroy their food ( http://www.naturalnews.com/034125_f… ); student protesters in California get pepper-sprayed by thuggish cops who clearly enjoy causing pain and suffering ( http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_ne… ); and now nursing home staffers torture their own resident using techniques borrowed from Guantánamo Bay ( http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11… ). I watched all this with a sense of sadness and disgrace for the human race. And then a realization hit me like a sledgehammer…
And On a Related Theme…
Chancellor Katehi's impressive learning skills
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
The UC-Davis Chancellor responsible for the pepper-spraying of her students, Linda Katehi, today went on Good Morning America and explained why she should not resign or otherwise be held accountable: "we really need to start the healing process and move forward." On a radio program in the afternoon, she expanded on this view by saying: "We need to move on." So apparently — yet again — the only way everyone can begin to "heal" and "move forward" is if everyone agrees that those in power with the greatest responsibility be fully shielded from any consequences and that… Continue reading
Critics say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting
vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots
by Paul Harris
16 November 2011
Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned
Critics say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots
David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For a young, black American boy with a father in jail, trouble was everywhere.
Williams also made bad choices. He ended up going to jail for dealing drugs. When he came out in 2007 he tried to go straight, but money was tight and his brother, Lord, needed cash for a liver transplant. Life is hard in Newburgh if you are poor, have a drug rap and need cash quickly.
His aunt, Alicia McWilliams, was honest about the tough streets her nephew was dealing with. "Newburgh is a hard place," she said. So it was perhaps no surprise that in May, 2009, David Williams was arrested again and hit with a 25-year jail sentence. But it was not for drugs offences. Or any other common crime. Instead Williams and three other struggling local men beset by drug, criminal and mental health issues were convicted of an Islamic terrorist plot to blow up Jewish synagogues and shoot down… Continue reading
From EndoftheAmericanDream.com at Lewrockwell.com
If you live in the United States today, you need to understand that your privacy is being constantly eroded. Our world is going crazy, government paranoia is off the charts and law enforcement authorities have become absolutely obsessed with watching us, listening to us, tracking us, recording us, compiling information on all of us and getting us all to spy on one another. If you doubt that we are rapidly getting to the point where the government will monitor every breath you take and every move you make, just read the rest of this article. The truth is that the government is watching you more closely than ever, and they are spending billions upon billions of dollars to enhance their surveillance capabilities even further. If our society stays on this current path, we will eventually have zero privacy left. At this point, it is not too hard to imagine a society where we will not be able to say anything, buy anything, sell anything, assemble with others or even leave our homes without government permission. We truly are descending into a dystopian nightmare and the American people had better wake up.
Sadly, most people living in the United States and in Europe do not realize what is happening. Most of them think that everything is just fine. The "Big Brother control grid" that is being constructed all over the western world squeezes all of us just a little bit tighter every single day, and most people… Continue reading
By Olivia Katrandjian
October 29, 2011
Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old two-tour Iraq veteran whose skull was fractured by a rubber bullet or tear gas canister fired by police during an Occupy Oakland protest, has become a symbol for the Oakland, Calif., protests and put a spotlight on veterans' solidarity with the Occupy movement.
Olsen had joined joined the Occupy Oakland protest after work Tuesday, before clashes broke out between demonstrators and police trying to evict them from a city plaza. Videos of Olsen posted on YouTube show him standing still in a space between police a protesters when he was hit in the head by something and fell to the ground.
When fellow demonstrators tried to come to Olsen's aid, a tear gas canister exploded in their midst, driving them away from the injured man.
"He joined the military to fight for people's rights, and that's not what he found himself doing in Iraq. And so he came home and started fighting for people's rights here and for his brothers and sisters who were still deployed," said Iraq veteran Aaron Hughes, the central and team leader of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
"There is a massive disconnect between the larger society and U.S. service members. Right now we have high unemployment, homeless and suicide rates among veterans. Scott is just one example of hundreds and thousands of service members who are tired of the rhetoric and want real substantive change," said Hughes, who said he returned to Iraq as a civilian after his tour to fight for peace.…Continue reading
by Justin Berton, Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writers
SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle online)
Photo (left): Jay Finneburgh / AP — Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen lays on the ground bleeding from a head wound after being struck by a projectile during an Occupy Wall Street protest in Oakland, Calif. Olsen suffered a fractured skull while marching with other protesters attempting to reestablish a presence in the area of the disbanded camp, said Dottie Guy, of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Police Chief Howard Jordan says an internal review board and local prosecutors have been asked to determine if officers on the scene used excessive force.
OAKLAND — Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, stood calmly in front of a police line as tear gas canisters that officers shot into the Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night whizzed past his head.
"He was standing perfectly still, provoking no one," said Raleigh Latham, an Oakland filmmaker shooting footage of the confrontation between police and hundreds of protesters at 14th Street and Broadway. "If something didn't hit him directly in the face, then it went off close to his head and knocked him down."
The something was a projectile that apparently came from police lines, fractured Olsen's skull and put him in Highland General Hospital. Doctors upgraded his condition Thursday from critical to fair, and said they expect him to make a full recovery.
His parents flew in from Wisconsin and spent Thursday at his bedside.… Continue reading
By AL BAKER
October 18, 2011
Photo: Ozier Muhammad/the New York Times
A New York police commander who pepper-sprayed protesters during the opening days of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last month faces an internal disciplinary charge that could cost him 10 vacation days, the police said Tuesday.
The commander, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, has been given a so-called command discipline, according to a law enforcement official. Officials said investigators found that the inspector ran afoul of Police Department rules for the use of the spray. The department's patrol guide, its policy manual, says pepper spray should be used primarily to control a suspect who is resisting arrest, or for protection; it does allow for its use in "disorder control," but only by officers with special training.
The Internal Affairs Bureau reviewed the episode and found that Inspector Bologna "used pepper spray outside departmental guidelines," said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman. He declined to elaborate.
The inspector can accept the charge and plead guilty, or he can opt for a departmental trial. Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly is the ultimate arbiter of punishment in such matters and has wide leeway in his decisions.
Inspector Bologna's actions on Sept. 24, when he sprayed several penned-in women, were captured on video and spread widely on the Internet. It became a defining moment in the protests.
Four days later, Mr. Kelly said the Internal Affairs Bureau would look into the inspector's actions. At the same time, the Manhattan… Continue reading
Interview with Chris Hedges conducted at OWS
From YouTube user OccupyTVNY.org
October 19, 2011
Chris Hedges recently gave an inspiring and very heartfelt interview on #OWS during the Times Square protest action. Be sure to watch the last minute, beautiful.
By Richard Perez-Pena
October 7, 2011
New York Times
A report on terrorism prosecutions written by scholars at New York University's School of Law has set off an ugly fight, pitting the school against former Mayor Edward I. Koch and Representative Peter T. King in what one side calls a question of intellectual freedom, and the other says is a matter of intellectual honesty.
The report, focusing on three high-profile cases, accuses law enforcement agencies of luring young Muslim men into violent plots and makes broad assertions that the government stigmatizes Muslims. The charge is nothing new; defendants in many terrorism trials in the past decade have alleged entrapment, but juries have rejected that defense.
The report, "Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the 'Homegrown Threat' in the United States," was published in May but did not draw much notice until recently, when some prominent alumni of the law school brought it to the attention of Mr. Koch, a 1948 graduate.
Mr. Koch called on the school's dean, Richard L. Revesz, to disavow the report and distribute a rebuttal that Mr. King — the Long Island Republican who has presided over contentious hearings on domestic terrorist threats — wrote at Mr. Koch's urging. When the dean did not agree, the former mayor decided to take the conflict public, potentially giving the report a wider audience than it had gained on its own.
The fight illustrates how differently the political and academic worlds can view the same dispute, and how the same information… Continue reading
September 24~October 1, 2011
American Library Association
Banned Books Week (BBW)
is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
Intellectual freedom–the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular–provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged–and possibly banned or restricted–if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.
Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free… Continue reading


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Lord's Set To Host Fifth World Cup Final
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has proposed Lord's as the host venue for the final of the 2019 World Cup, which would be a record fifth time the showpiece event is held at the ground.
17 December 2014
ICC Board Approves Major Changes
The ICC has approved major changes to its governance, competition and financial structures following a board meeting in Singapore.
8 February 2014
Worth The Wait As India Crowned Champions
A vocal Edgbaston crowd made up overwhelmingly of Indian fans were made to wait by the Birmingham weather but finally got the result they craved as their side prevailed by five runs in a thrilling ICC Champions Trophy final. It was after 8.30 local time when James Tredwell, with six needed, swung wildly at Ravichandran Ashwin to spark Indian celebrations. England had thrown away their chance, collapsing in their pursuit of India.s 129 for seven.
23 June 2013
India Swing Their Way Into Champions Trophy Final
India's apparently seamless path towards winning the ICC Champions Trophy continued as they made the most of the conditions to thrash Sri Lanka in the second semi-final in Cardiff. They won an important toss, restricted their familiar foes to 181 for eight as the ball swung dramatically, and then knocked off the runs in just 35 overs to book their place in Sunday's final.
20 June 2013
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India take on Sri Lanka in Cardiff with England awaiting the winners in Sunday's ICC Champions Trophy 2013 semi-final at Edgbaston. The two sides are no strangers to each other, having contested the 2011 World Cup final, which India won on home soil, while India hold the upper hand having won their previous four meetings in England and Wales.
19 June 2013
England Ease Through To Champions Trophy Final
England booked their place in the ICC Champions Trophy final by demolishing an outclassed South Africa at The Oval. James Anderson did the early damage, with James Tredwell and then Stuart Broad taking over as South Africa were bowled out for 175. Jonathan Trott then led England's successful run chase and finished unbeaten on 82 as they won with 75 balls to spare.
19 June 2013
Sri Lanka Reach Semis By Beating Australia
Sri Lanka produced an efficient performance to beat Australia by 20 runs and book themselves an ICC Champions Trophy 2013 semi-final against India. Set 254 to win, Australia needed to get the runs within 29.1 overs to stay in the tournament and they gave game chase but lost too many wickets along the way and were eventually dismissed for 233.
17 June 2013
South Africa Take Calm Approach To Semi-Final
South Africa qualified for the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 following a dramatic tie against West Indies in Cardiff and they are now 'minding their own business' as they prepare for their semi-final. Fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who has taken four wickets in the tournament so far, says that the squad are doing their best to approach the match at The Oval as any other game.
17 June 2013
England Hold Off New Zealand To Reach Semi-Finals
Alastair Cook hit 64 in 47 balls and James Anderson took three wickets as England beat New Zealand by 10 runs to book their place in the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals. England were bowled out for 169 in a delayed, rain-reduced match and then had to survive a late rally by New Zealand, who closed on 159 for eight.
16 June 2013
Comment - Rain, Controversy Marring Great Tournament
Last week I wrote about teams filling holes (effectively or not) as the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 got underway. This week the tournament has excited and frustrated in equal measure.
16 June 2013
Anderson Replaces Elliott In New Zealand Squad
New Zealand have replaced Grant Elliott with Corey Anderson in their ICC Champions Trophy 2013 squad after Elliott suffered a calf injury. Anderson, who has played three Twenty20 Internationals, will make his One-Day International debut against England after the International Cricket Council (ICC) approved the change.
16 June 2013
Indian Excellence Rewarded In Spite Of Rain
India went into this match against Pakistan knowing that they would top Group B whatever happened, but they were made to work hard by the English weather in Birmingham to maintain their 100 per cent winning record. Despite a disciplined bowling and fielding display they looked like being thwarted by the day's fourth rain interruption, which arrived with them on 63 for one in the 12th over of their run chase. However, the rain relented just in time and they cantered home.
15 June 2013
West Indies Fined For Slow Over-Rate During Tie
Following the tie with South Africa that knocked them out of the ICC Champions Trophy, West Indies' miserable day got worse when they were fined for maintaining a slow over-rate. They were deemed to be one over short of their target at the end of South Africa's innngs of 230 for six in 31 overs during a rain-affected match.
15 June 2013
Dramatic Tie Puts South Africa Through, West Indies Depart
West Indies were left to rue the extraordinarily bad timing of Kieron Pollard losing his wicket as they ended up sharing a Duckworth/Lewis method tie which knocked them out of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013. Chasing 231 to win in 31 overs, and with his side just ahead on the Duckworth/Lewis method, Pollard was caught by Dale Steyn off Ryan McLaren, leaving the scores effectively level when the players left the field moments later.
14 June 2013
Sangakkara And Kulasekara Star In Sri Lanka Win
Kumar Sangakkara hit an unbeaten century, while Nuwan Kulasekara provided some late sparkle, as Sri Lanka kept their hopes alive in the ICC Champions Trophy with a seven-wicket victory over the hosts under The Oval floodlights. Ravi Bopara had earlier hauled England up to 293 for seven at the end of an innings which had followed a similar path to the one against Australia.
13 June 2013
More Of The Same Required - AB De Villiers
South Africa captain AB de Villiers says he hopes his team can produce another performance like the one they produced against Pakistan and reach the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013. Needing to win to give themselves a realistic chance of staying in the competition, they defended 234 for nine by bowling out Pakistan for 167 to claim a 67-run victory.
13 June 2013
Warner Fined For Attacking Joe Root
Today we have England v Sri Lanka in the #ct13 - a win for England puts them into the semi-finals. Do you think they can do it? #cricket
13 June 2013
Australia And New Zealand Suffer Edgbaston Washout
The ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Group A match between Australia and New Zealand at Edgbaston was abandoned due to rain with New Zealand on 51 for two chasing a target of 244. Mitchell McClenaghan took four wickets for the second match in a row to restrict Australia to 243 for eight but the match was in the balance when New Zealand lost two early wickets.
12 June 2013
Steyn Likely To Return
South Africa's hopes of reaching the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 semi-finals got a confidence boost with news that Dale Steyn took a positive step towards recovery. Steyn bowled at full match intensity during South Africa's training session in Cardiff today (12th June). He's been recovering from a side strain which has kept him out of the campaign so far.
12 June 2013
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Aphids and Tomato Fruit Borer
Seasonal occurrence of aphids and tomato fruit borer on different tomato cultivars
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Aphids and Tomato Fruit BorerTomato is an important vegetable grown all over the world because of its dietary, nutritional and medicinal values. It is damaged by a variety of insect pests especially tomato aphids and tomato fruif borer which are considered as limiting factor in the production of this vegetable. The work presented in the book was focused on the seasonal occurrence of aphid and tomato fruit borer on different cultivar of tomato and to find out the host plant resistance in relation to abiotic factors such as maximum temperature, minimum temperature, relative humidity and rainfall on different cultivars of tomato viz., Raja, Nagra-1077, Red hero hybrid and Rao phego against tomato aphids and tomato fruit borer.
- Verlag: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
- 2012
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- Ausstattung/Bilder: 84 S. 220 mm
- Seitenzahl: 84
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
- Gewicht: 142g
- Best.Nr.: 35367680
Ameer Hamza received his MPhil in Agri. Entomology from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, in 2011. Dr. Waseem Akram is an associate Professor of Agri. Entomology in the same university. Hafiz Azhar Ali Khan is a PhD scholar in the department of Entomology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
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I COPOLYMER ELASTOMER 0F VINYLIDENEF'LUORIDE AND HEXAFLUOROPROPENE Filed April 29. 1957 'INVENTOR DEAN R. REXFORD BY w g ATTORNEY ilnited dtates Free 3,051,677 COPQLYMER ELASTOMER F VINYLIDENE- FLUORIDE AND I EXAFLUORQPROPENE Dean R. Rexford, Wilmington, DeL, assignor to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Del., a
corporation of Delaware Filed Apr. 29, 1957, Ser. No. 655,856 11 Claims. (Cl. 260-296) is a polymer of tetrailuoroethylene, shows good stability and exceptional resistance to attack by chemical agents. This product, however, is not considered as an elastomer, since it does not have characteristic elastomeric properties. Other fluorine-containing polymeric compounds, such as the copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropene, have been disclosed, but, again, these prodnets are not considered to he elastomers, tending more to be hard, brittle resins.
More recently there has been disclosed in Rubber Age, vol. 76 (January 1955), on pages 543-550, a new copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and chlorotrifluoroethylene which has elastomeric properties and can be compounded and cured to produce a relatively thermal stable product which has good chemical resistance. This product, however, has a thermal stability of only up to around 400 F., and even when the product is held at this temperature for any length of time it loses its tensile strength and becomes or little value.
It is an object of the present invention to produce a new and improved elastomer which has excellent thermal stability at temperatures exceeding 400 F. and Which also exhibits excellent resistance to chemical attack. It is a further object of the invention to provide an elastomer which has good thermal stability and shows good resistance to chemical attack which can be worked on conventional rubber equipment and which can be readily and economically manufactured. It is a still further object of the invention to provide a process for preparing homogeneous copolymers of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropene having highly desirable properties.
The copolymers of the present invention are prepared by a process which results in elastomeric compositions containing from 70% to 30% by weight of vinylidene fluoride units and from 30% to 70% by weight of hexafluoropropene units. When the copolymer contains less than 30% of hexafluoropropene units it tends to become non-elastic. When the polymerization of the two monomers is carried out by the batch process, an excess of the hexafluoropropene is employed over that present in the resulting polymer, so that ordinarily in the batch process from 60 to 15 parts by weight of vinylidene fluoride will be copolymerized with from 40 to 85 parts by weight of hexafluoropropene to give products containing from 30% to 70% copolymerized hexalluoropropene. Since hexafluoropropene does not homopolymerize under the conditions described herein, the use of amounts of hexafluoropropene in excess of 85% by weight in a batch process does not produce copolymers containing more than 70% by weight of copolymerized hexafluoropropene. In the continuous process, the copolymerization will be carried out employing substantially the same amounts of the monomers desired in the final copolymer.
The polymerization is preferably carried out at temperatures of about C. to C., where the reaction is rapid. At temperatures below 80 C. a very low rate of conversion results. The process may be carried out at temperatures above 120 C., but at such temperatures the process is less economical.
The polymerization is preferably carried out in a stainless steel pressure reactor or other type of equipment which will not be reacted upon during the process, such as an enamel-lined pressure vessel, etc. In the batch process the vessel is flushed free from oxygen with a gas such as nitrogen, then it is charged with deoxygenated water and the polymerization initiator. After closing and evacuating the vessel, it is then charged with the gaseous reactants and heated to a reaction temperature of from 80 to 120 C. under agitation. When the reaction is completed, the mass is cooled to room temperature and any unreacted gas removed. The partially coagulated copolymer is then completely coagulated with acids or salts in the customary manner, and is discharged from the reactor.
The copolymers of the present invention are preferably prepared by a continuous process wherein the monomers are continuously fed into the reaction vessel in the proportion desired in the ultimate copolymer, the reaction being carried out under constant conditions such as pressure, temperature, rate of conversion, and constant ratio of catalyst to total monomers fed. In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of the present specification, a schematic representation of how the continuous process may be carried out is given.
As illustrated in the drawing, hexafluoropropene is metered from cylinder 1 and vinylidene fluoride is metered from cylinder 2 into line 3, and the mixture passes into compressor 4 where it is pumped into reaction vessel 5. Simultaneously, a solution of the polymerization initiator and dispersant in tank 6 is pumped by pump 7 into reaction vessel 5. The reaction vessel 5 is preferably filled completely with liquid. Cylinder 8 contains nitrogen or other inert gas and this gas applies pressure to a pressure control valve 9. When the internal pressure in reaction vessel 5 exceeds the applied pressure on valve 9, valve 9 functions to permit the copolymer emulsion to escape irom the reaction vessel into receiver 10 from which the latex is removed and coagulated for further processing.
In carrying out the process, it is necessary to have present a polymerization initiator. A well known class of polymerization initiators which may be used are those containing the peroxy linkage, as for example, the acyl peroxides, e.g. dibenzoyl peroxide, benzoylacetyl peroxide, diacetyl peroxide; the dialkyl peroxides, as for example diethyl peroxide and ditertiary butyl peroxide; hydrogen peroxide; salts of true non-metallic peracids as, for example, ammonium persulfate,, potassium persulfate and sodium persulfate. The preferred initiator is a salt of a peracid; ammonium persulfate being most preferred because of its low cost. The preferred amount of initiator used is normally not less than about 0.001% but generally not more than about 5% based on the total weight of the monomers. Preferably a quantity of initiator between 0.001% and 2% is preferred. Catalyst activators such as sodium bisulfite and butters such as sodium phosphate may also be used in the polymerization system.
If it is desired to obtain the elastomer in the form of a latex, a dispersant may be incorporated into the aqueous solution to form a homogeneous latex of the polymer,
. which can be readily pumped from the vessel for further processing. The dispersant should preferably be a salt of a fluoro acid such as the ammonium salt of omega-hydroperfluoroheptanoic acid or ammonium perfluorooctanoate, or other types of dispersing agents which do not readily react with fluorine-containing compounds such as Chlorendic Acid, a hexachloroendomethylenetetrahydrophthalic acid. Usually it is desired to use a small amount of the ammonium salt of the fluoro acid even when other dispersing agents are employed. The dispersing agents should be employed in from about 0.01% to about 0.2% of the weight of the water used in the reaction. After coagulating, filtering and washing with water, the product is dried and is ready for subsequent compounding and curing.
In the batch process a conversion of up to about 90% of the monomers to the copolymer is obtained. When the reaction is carried out batch-wise with a gaseous reactant mixture comprising about 60% by weight vinylidene fluoride and about 40% by weight hexafluoropropene, the elastomeric copolymer will contain approximately 70% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 30% by weight of hexafluoropropene. On the other hand, when the gaseous reactant mixture is approximately 85% of hexafluoropropene and of vinylidene fluoride, then the elastomeric copolymer obtained will contain about 70% by Weight of hexafluoropropene units and about by weight of vinylidene fluoride units. It is of course to be understood that copolymers having intermediate amounts of the reactant units can be obtained by the batch process by Varying the ratios of gaseous reactants within the range indicated above.
In the continuous process, it is necessary to control the following features:
A. MONOMER FEED The hexafluoropropene and vinylidene fluoride must be fed into the reactor so that the composition of their mixture is a value ranging from 30 to 70 weight percent of hexafiuoropropene monomer and 70 to 30 weight percent of vinylidene fluoride monomer. In addition to this concentration range, it is necessary to maintain a constant ratio of the monomers to each other at the concentration chosen. That is, having once selected a mixture of monomers, for example, hexafluoropropene and vinylidene fluoride, that mixture must be maintained in that ratio to obtain a polymer with consistent properties. If the ratio is changed during the continuous process, the product polymer will have physical properties somewhat different from those obtained when a different ratio is used.
B. THE TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE The pressure at which the reaction is carried out will normally be selected from about 250 to 1500 p.s.i.g. and the temperature of the reaction will be from about C. to C. Temperatures and pressures below these ranges are impractical because of extremely low rateof polymerization. Higher temperatures and pressures are considered economically undesirable.
C. CONSTANT CONVERSION REQUIREMENTS D. CATALYST CONCENTRATION The amount of the polymerization initiator will normally be between 0.001% and 2% on the weight of the monomers, and when a concentration is chosen that concentration must be maintained constant during the operation of the process. Unless this is done, the elastomeric 3 product will not have uniform properties due to variations in molecular weight. Expressed another Way, the polymer will be heterogeneous in contrast to the homogeneous polymer that is desired. It is essential that the ratio of catalyst :to the total monomers in the feed be kept constant; i.e., after a catalyst concentration within the above limits is selected and a selection of monomer ratio to each other is made, these ratios must remain constant or again the homogeneity of the polymer will be affected and the physical properties of the copolymer will be impaired.
It is preferred to carry out the process with the reactor entirely filled with the emulsion, since varying levels (or volumes) of liquid in the reactor will cause the end product to vary. By using a constantlevel reactor, however, constant conditions are readily maintained which aid in yielding a copolymer of uniform properties. A dispersant is used to ensure a uniform emulsion in the reaction vessel.
Ihe elastomeric copolymers obtained from the reaction of this invention are elastomeric in nature, but can be further treated to produce elastomers of exceptionally good physical and chemical properties. This subsequent treatment is a curing process which probably causes cross-links to be established throughout the copolymer.
Curing and compounding of polymers is well known in the art and can conventionally be carried out by the usual methods for this type of polymer. Particularly useful in curing the copolymers of this invention are the peroxides, specifically benzoyl peroxide, or polyamines such as trietnylene tetramine, hexamethylene diamine, hexamethylene tetramine, hexamethylenediaminecarbamate,
1,3 -diaminocyclohexane, bis 4-aminocyclohexyl) methane,
and the like. Also useful is a cure obtained with ionizing irradiation, either beta or gamma rays, as obtained from high intensity cobalt-60 or by high energy electrons obtained from a Van der Graaf accelerator. When using peroxides, improved results are obtained by adding free radical acceptors such as N,N-m-phenylenebis-malein1ide or methylene-bis-acrylamide. These materials are also useful in combination with high energy radiation. After curing either by peroxide compounding and heat treatment or by irradiation or other method, an elastomer is obtained which is insoluble in ketonic, ester, hydrocarbon and halogenated hydrocarbon solvents, which is resistant to concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids and is stable at temperatures above 400 F. A particularly satisfactory cure can be obtained by a combination of irradiation as above mentioned, followed by a heat treatment as more particularly exemplified hereinafter.
The elastomeric copolymer of this invention can be used in the manufacture of films, foils, tapes, fibers and articles of any desired shape, and can be used as coatings for wires, fabrics, ceramics, etc., and for the impregnation of felt which may be made from various fibers since the products can be extruded and molded under pressure. Ordinarily these copolymers are preferably extruded at temperatures not substantially higher than F., although this temperature will vary depending upon the particular constitution of the copolymer.
The following examples are given to illustrate the preferred methods of carrying out the preparation of these new copolymers. The parts used, unless otherwise designated, are by weight.
Example 1 is cooled to -80 C. and purged of oxygen by three alternate cycles of producing a vacuum in the vessel and then pressunng with oxygen-free nitrogen. The nitrogen is then removed, and, while the system is under reduced pressure, 35 parts each of gaseous hexafluoropropene and vinylidene fluoride is bled into the pressure vessel. The system is agitated and the temperature inside the reaction chamber raised to 100 C. over a 15 minute period. The autogenous pressure is observed to increase to about 700 p.s.i.g., which drops to 300 p.s.i.g. after two hours. After an additional heating period of 12 hours to ensure that the reaction is completed, the reaction mass is allowed to cool to room temperature and the pressure chamber vented to the atmosphere. The partially coagulated latex product is removed and coagulation completed by the addition of a small amount of dilute hydrochloric acid. The coagulated crumb is washed thoroughly with water and rolled on a hot rubber mill at about 140 C. to obtain 63 parts (90% conversion) of an off-white elastomer in rolled sheet form. Analysis of this elastomer for carbon, hydrogen and fluorine by combustion analysis indicates that the product copolymer contains about 45% hexafluoropropene and about 55% vinylidene fluoride by weight.
Example 2 When 0.01 part of the ammonium salt of omega-hydroperfluor'oheptanoic acid is added to the reaction kettle charge of Example 1, the product obtained after reaction is entirely dispersed throughout the aqueous system. The product is coagulated by the addition of sodium chloride, filtered, washed and dried on a rubber mill. A product substantially identical to that of Example 1 is obtained.
Example 4 The elastomer of Example 1 is compounded at 25 C. on a rubber mill to contain the following ingredients:
Parts Copolymer 100 Benzoyl peroxide 3 Zinc oxide 5 Dibasic lead phosphite 5 The compounded stock is cured by pressing in a mold for one hour at 120 to 150 C. and baked for an additional 16 hours at 100 to 150 C. The resulting vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene elastomer thus obtained is extremely tough and has the following physical properties:
After 72 Properties at 170 F. Initial hrs. at
Tensile at break, p.s.i 1 710 1, 490 Elongation at break, percent 625 615 Modulus-300% elongation, p.s.i 500 420 Hardness (Shore A) 58 Permanent Set (ASTMD412511 (11)), percent.-. 35 31 Example 5 The copolymer of Example 1 is compounded at 25 C. on a rubber millto contain:
Parts Copolymer 100 Benzoyl peroxide 3 Zinc oxide 5 Precipitated silica 20 Available as Hi-Sil 202 from Columbia-Southern Chemical Corp.
6 The stock is cured at C. for one hour and baked at from 120 to C. for 16 hours. The vinylidene fluoridehexafluoropropene elastomer thus obtained shows good tensile strength, as exemplified in the following table:
Temperature of Water 25 C 70 0. 100 C Tensile at break, p.s.i. 1, 850 1, 050 Elongation at break, percent 490 500 Modulus300% p.s.i 800 475 Example 6 The copolymer obtained in Example 1, subjected to the action of 10 roentgens obtained as mono-energetic electrons of 2 mev. from a Van der Graaf accelerator, is converted to a tough elastomer which closely resembles the product obtained by heat curing stock compounded with benzoyl peroxide.
' Example 7 Example 8 To a conditioned stainless steel polymerization vessel is added a solution of 1.04 parts of ammonium persulfate, 0.2 part of sodium bisulfite, 2.1 parts of disodiumhydrogen phosphate heptahydrate and 0.5 part of ammonium perfluorooctanoate in parts of deoxygenated water. Then 200 parts of a mixture of 85% by weight hexafluoropropylene and 15% by weight vinylidene fluoride are introduced into the vessel. The mixture is heated with agitation to 100 C., the pressure falling from 900 p.s.i. to 550 p.s.i. in 45 minutes, at which point the reaction is complete. The latex produced in this manner is coagulated with sodium chloride and the coagulant washed and dried to yield 58 parts of polymer. Ele-. mental analysis showed the composition of the polymer to be approximately 69% by weight hexafluoropropylene and 31% by weight vinylidene fluoride. It is a white, tough elastomeric material.
Example 9 The elastomer obtained in Example 8 is compounded on a rubber mill at about 40 C. to contain the following ingredients Par-ts Copolymer 100 Zinc oxide 5 Hi-Sil 202 silica (see Ex. 5) 17.5 LM-3 silicone oil 2.5
LM-3 silicone oil is a low molecular weight silicone oil.
Example 10 The elastomer of Example 8 is compounded on a rub- I LM-3 silicone oil ber mill at about 40 C. to contain the following ingredients:
Parts Copolymer 100 Hi-Sil 200 silica (see Ex. 17.5 LM-3 silicone oil 2.5 Zinc oxide 5 'Dibasic lead phosphite 5 Triethylene tetrarnine 1.0 Sulfur 1.0
LM3 silicone oil is a low moleeulai' weight silicone oil.
The compounded stock is molded at 150 C. to 200 C. for from 60 to 120 minutes and then after-cured at 200 C. for from 12 to 24 hours. A tough, snappy elastomer is obtained having the thermal properties of that described in Example 5.
Example 11 Employing equipment such as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, hexafluoropropylene is passed at a rate of 2 pounds per hour and vinylidene fluoride at 3 pounds per hour into a one gallon stainless steel reactor 5, which is maintained at 100 C. and operated at 900 p.s.i. pressure. Simultaneously, an initiator-dispersant solution made up of:
13 5 parts of ammonium persulfate 27 parts of sodium bisulfite V 284 parts of disodium hydrogen phosphate 30 parts of ammonium perfluorooctanoate 21,000 parts of deoxygenated water Example 12 Following the details of Example 11, and using the same initiator-dispersant solution, the following operating conditions are used:
The polymer is obtained at a conversion of over 95% and is isolated by coagulating latex with sodium chloride. Analysis shows composition to be 60% by weight hexafluoropropylene40% by weight vinylidene fluoride.
Example 3 The elastomer obtained in Example 11 is compounded on a rubber mill at from to 50 C. to contain the following ingredients:
Parts Polymer 100 Zinc oxide 7 5 Silica 17.5 2.5 2.0
Benzoyl peroxide The compounded polymer is pressed into slabs and cal properties illustrate the very desirable properties of the elastomer made by the continuous process:
Yerzley resilience (25 C.) percent 52 Permanent set at break do 10 Tensile strength p.s.i 2500 Elongation at break percent 600 TR 10 1 C -18 Brittle point C 43 TR-lt) values are obtained according to ASIM designation D1329-54T.
Example 14 The elastomer as obtained in Example 11 is compounded on a rubber mill at 25 to C. to contain the following ingredients:
Parts Polymer 100 Zinc oxide 10 Dibasic lead phosphite 10 Hi-Sil 202 silica 16 LM3 silicone oil 4 Hexamethylenediamine carbamate 2 The compounded polymer is press-cured for 30 minutes at 275 F and then oven cured as follows:
The same polymer, when aged at 550 F. for as long as 72 hours, has substantially the same elastic properties.
When MT carbon black is substituted in the above example for the silica and silicone oil combination, substantially the same good elastomeric properties are obtained. As pointed out above, other curing agents may of course be substituted for that specifically used in the examples.
The elastomers of the present invention may be compounded in th usual manner employed in the compounding of elastomers generally, where additives are generally incorporated on the standard rubber processing equipment. Fillers, softening agents, reenforcing agents such as furnace blacks, and silicas of various types including Estersils (esterified silica) may be incorporated therein.
I claim:
1. An elastic copolymer of about 70% to 30% by Weight of vinylidene fluoride and from about 30% to 70% by weight of hexafluoropropene.
2. An elastic copolymer consisting of 60% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 40% by Weight of hexafluoropropene.
3. A process for preparing an elastic polymer which comprises reacting from 60 to 15 parts by weight of vinylidene fluoride with from 40 to parts by weight of hexafluoropropene at temperatures of from 80 to C. under autogenous pressure and in the presence of a polymerization initiator.
4. A process forpreparing an elastic polymer which comprises reacting from 60 to 15 parts by weight of 9 vinylidene fiuoride with from 40 to 85 parts by weight of hexafiuoropropene at temperatures of from 80 to 120 C. under autogenous pressure and in the presence of a salt of a true non-metallic peracid as a polymerization initiator.
5. A continuous process for preparing an elastic copolymer of vinylidenefluoride and hexafluoropropene, which comprises feeding the monomers at a constant ratio between 70:30 and 30:70 by weight into a constant volume of aqueous initiator dispersant solution while maintaining a constant temperature of the solution at from 80 to 120 C. and a constant pressure of from 250 to 1500 pounds per square inch gauge, while maintaining a constant ratio of the initiator present in the solution to the total monomers fed.
6. A novel amorphous elastomeric copolymer consisting essentially of hexafiuoropropene and vinylidenefluoride in copolymerized form and in which the hexafluoropropene is present in an amount between about and about 49 mol percent.
7. A novel amorphous elastomeric copolymer consistin g essentially of hexafluoropropene and vinylidenefluoride in copolymerized form and in which the hexafluoropropene is present in amount between about 15 and about 30 mol percent.
8. A novel amorphous elastomeric copolymer consisting essentially of hexafluoropropene and vinylidenefiuoride in copolymerized form and in which the hexafiuoropropene is present in an amount of about 15 mol percent.
9. A novel amorphous elastomeric copolymer consisting essentially of hexafluoropropene and vinylidenefluoride in copolymerized form and in which the hexafluoropropene is present in an amount of about mol percent.
10. A process which comprises copolymerizing a monomer feed mixture consisting essentially of hexafluoropropene and vinylidenefluoride in Which the hexafluoropropene is present in the monomer feed mixture in an amount between about 23 and about 39 mol percent at a temperature of between about C. and about C. in the presence of a free radical-forming polymerization promoter to produce a copolymer consisting essentially of hexafiuoropropene and vinylidenefiuoride.
11. An aqueous latex of a copolymer of claim 1.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,547,815 Leendert Apr. 5, 1951 2,549,935 Sauer Apr. 24, 1951 2,689,241 Dittman Sept. 14, 1954 2,705,706 Dittman et a1 Apr. 5, 1955
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