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The .Gif No.347 – Woodcut Timelapse, Endless Caterpillar & Zen SnakeFriday, 19 September 2014
Walking The SnakeTuesday, 26 March 2013
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Meanwhile At The Pea Hen ZooTuesday, 12 February 2013
[Found here.]
Training Your BoaThursday, 24 February 2011
There's way too much carotene in this snake's diet, so the responsible reptile raiser rewards it for successfully using the boa litter box in the closet with a cucumber instead. It'll regain its natural color in a week or so.
[Found here.]
Snake CalculationWednesday, 26 May 2010
I never take a challenge sitting down, so when Steamboat McGoo spotted a black racer on his chimney and asked for estimates on its length, how could I refuse? After all, my ancestors specialized in reptilian length prognostication.
S. McGoo rewarded me with the honor of posting my snake calculations DIRECTLY UNDER HIS BANNER HEADER. (Click on the image unadulterated big to make it.)
Such an honor bestowed requires reciprocity, so I've added Aaardvarks & Asshats to our glorious blogroll. You goo, McGo!
More Great Gift Ideas (and some are Assorted!)Sunday, 6 September 2009
Wow. I've been looking for a dozen assorted Inflatable Snake Swords for years, if only to have a crazy sword fight. If you swing one ISS and miss, the snakehead homes in on and bites your enemy right in the crackerbockles before deflating. Ouch. Crazy.
On the other hand, these Light-Up Expando Swords come with a built-in choking hazard. Swing one at your enemy and it breaks up into little weaponettes that fly screaming right down his/her/its throat. These weapons of mass illumination go for $14.99/dozen, so maybe they're better for self defense after all, but they're definitely not assorted.
Foam Swords + Duct Tape are an entirely different class of weaponry, to be covered in a future post. Meanwhile, don't mess with ANYONE who displays little cows with crescent moons on his/her foam sword sheath. These people are dangerous, and THEY play for keeps.


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There are two sayings in the English language that was used at tonight's dinner table:
"If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem"
"You lose the right to complain if you refuse to help improve the situation"
(I have really strange dinner table conversations in my family, i know)
I suppose the truth of both should be taken with a grain of salt; they certainly don't apply in all situations, and using them to make generalizations is risky business. But when taken into perspective within a particular context, they do help you understand your position in the scheme of things. At best, putting yourself as the subject in both leads to self-enlightenment, at worst, it will at least cause you pause.
Personally, i can't stand people who complain, even when they have cause to do so, because more often than not, these are the people who do the least to improve matters. The people who do the most to solve a problem are those who identify the issue quickly and, instead of complaining, bitching and whining, make the best of the situation and, when they can, do their utmost to help.
As a case in point, Malaysian politics are full of people who complain but have no idea how to make things better. In fact, their so-called solutions to contemporary issues are so stupid, it can only make things worse. By all means, ask for reasons, ask to understand, and criticise constructively. But please don't complain.

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By COLLEEN MCCARTHY
The Starkville School District may have two top jobs to fill in the coming weeks.
The district, which is in the process of searching for a new superintendent, may also lose Walter Gonsoulin, one of the district's assistant superintendents. Gonsoulin is one of the top two contenders for a superintendent position for the Lafayette Parish School System in Louisiana.
By mid-December, Gonsoulin will know if he has the job, but it will leave him with a tough choice to make.
He has applied for the superintendent position for SSD, as well. However, the SSD school board has yet to even begin interviewing candidates for the position. If he gets the job in Lafayette, Gonsoulin will have to decide whether to take it or hold out for the superintendent spot here in Starkville.
"I'm going to have to make a tough decision," he said. "Initially, to be perfectly honest, I didn't want Starkville to be my first superintendent job that I applied for. I wanted the experience of interviewing and competing at that level."
He will have an interview with the Mississippi School Board Association for the position next Wednesday. Once MSBA completes the interviews of all 23 applicants, it will compile a report for the school board, whose members will then decide which of the applicants they would like to interview.
At the November school board meeting, board President Keith Coble said MSBA could not give him a firm timeline on when the board would receive that report. As the holidays grow closer, it is likely the board may not be able to set up interviews until after the new year.
Gonsoulin said he still feels like he has a lot to offer the district and would love to serve as superintendent.
"Starkville is home for me. I love the community. I love the people I work for," he said. "I think the school district is really headed in the right direction, and I've been a part of that for the last four years. I would like to continue to have vision and show leadership within the district."


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This chile was named after the city of Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico, where it is no longer commercially grown.
This chile pepper is a pod type of Capsicum annuum. Jalapeños usually grow from 2 ½ to 3 feet tall. Jalapeños have a compact single stem or upright, multibranched, spreading habit. The leaves are light to dark green and measure about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. The flower corollas are white with no spots. The pods, which are conical and cylindrical, are pendant and measure about 2 to 3 inches long and 1 inch wide. They are green (occasionally sunlight will cause purpling), maturing to red, and measure between 2,500 and 10,000 Scoville Units. The brown streaks, or "corking" on the pods are desirable in Mexico but not so in the U.S.
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In Mexico, commercial cultivation measures approximately 40,000 acres in three main agricultural zones: the Lower Palaloapan River Valley in the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca, northern Veracruz, and the area around Delicias, Chihuahua. The later region grows the American jalapeños, which are processed and exported into the U.S. Approximately 60% of the Mexican jalapeño crop used for processing, 20% for fresh consumption, and 20% in production of chipotle chiles, smoked jalapeños.
In the United States, approximately 5,500 acres is under cultivation, with Texas the leading state for jalapeño production, followed by New Mexico. Home gardeners should remember that the U.S. varieties of jalapeños flourish better in semi-arid climates--ones with dry air combined with irrigation. If planted in hot and humid zones in the U.S. during the summer, the yield of such jalapeños decreases and so Mexican varieties should be grown. The growing period is 70 to 80 days, and the yield is about 25 to 35 pods per plant.
Recommended Mexican varieties are 'Típico' and 'Peludo'; recommended U.S. varieties are 'Early Jalapeño' (hot) and 'TAM Jalapeño' (mild).
Jalapeños are one of the most famous chile peppers. They are instantly recognizable and a considerable mythology has sprung up about them, particularly in Texas. The impetus for the popularity of jalapeños starts from a combination of their unique taste, their heat, and their continued use as a snack food.
In 1956, Newsweek magazine published a story on a pepper-eating contest held in the Bayou Teche country of Louisiana, near the home of the famous Tabasco sauce. The article rated the jalapeño as "the hottest pepper known," more fiery than the "green tabasco" or "red cayenne." Thus the Tex-Mex chile was launched as the perfectly pungent pepper for jalapeño-eating contests, which have proliferated all over the country.
Many jalapeños are used straight out of the garden in salsas. Others are pickled in escabeche and sold to restaurants and food services for sale in their salad bars. Jalapeños are processed as "nacho slices," and "nacho rings" that are served over nachos, one of the most popular snack foods in arenas and ball parks. Jalapeños are commonly used in commercial salsas and picante sauces, which process a large percentage of the imports from Mexico.
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At some level Max Sculley's 2012 book YOGA, TAI-CHI, REIKI reads like the early stages of an apocalyptic, end of the world, clash of civilizations sci-fi novel. A radically insecure, increasingly unChristian West is not defending itself against pagan ideas flowing from India, China and Japan. Modern post-Christians have hearts void of but longing for the true God. Enter spirituality, New Age, yoga, taichi and reiki to fill the post-Christian vacuum.
-- From India comes Hinduism as manifested in three main forms of Yoga: hathi, raja and kundalini. It is the snake goddess Kali versus Jesus. It is slow deep breathing and altered states of consciousness. It is worship of an impersonal god Brahman and impersonal forces called prana, chi (qi) or ki. It is driving out the awe and worship of a personal Holy Trinity, whose second person, the Word, was made flesh in Jesus.
-- China gives us kungfu and its instrument the martial art tai chi, both associated with qigong, the philosophy of taoism in pursuit of unity with chi, the divine force that drives the universe and flows ever more strongly within the trained human body. Practice faithfully the external postures and "walks" of tai chi and you will almost automatically find God. This is not, of course, what Christianity teaches: yes, prepare through Spiritual Excersises for highly desirable mystical union with God. But only God can, as a freely given gift that you cannot control, unite you with Him mystically.
-- Dating only from its discovery in Japan in 1899 by Dr Mikao Usui, reiki (ki is Japanese for Chinese chi/qi) is a benevolent healing art. Energy passes through the body of a healer into a person to be healed, usually in association with hand movements of the healer. "Reiki provides healing power to all on demand. By contrast, the Christian charismatic gift of healing is bestowed only on some members of the community" and must be prayed for (Ch 10, p. 142).
The author, Max Sculley, is an Australian raised in Sydney in New South Wales. He is a long-time lay member of the Roman Catholic religious teaching institute of St John Baptist de la Salle, in the USA commonly called The Christian Brothers. The like-minded Foreword to YOGA, TAI-CHI, REIKI, penned more than a year and a half before the book was published, is by Sydney's Auxiliary Bishop Julian Porteous (see his blog at http://bishopjulianporteous.com/ ). Both Brother Sculley and Bishop Porteous are experienced spiritual counselors. Both grew concerned while counseling troubled practitioners of taichi, etc., about only dimly perceived dangers to Christian faith and living embedded in the non-Christian origins and world views of yoga, taichi and reiki. Hence the Foreward and this book.
In his tightly reasoned 4 1/2 page Foreword, the bishop stands back from making detailed descriptions of the physical dimensions and movements of the three arts and focuses on their non-Christian origins, asserting that the three come embedded in both theological and philosophical origins and world-views from which they cannot be disentangled, no matter how much teachers claim to do so. Some excerpts from the Foreword:
-- "using the techniques lead many into a new spiritual world. ... The techniques ... engage a person in entering into an altered state of consciousness ... This is where the danger lies" (p. 2)
-- "they are a Trojan horse for dangerous spiritual infiltration ... a person can unwittingly be exposed to demonic powers ... worshipping a false God" (p. 2).
-- "advocates of these practices ... want to lead people to the truth as they see it. ... This worldview is at odds with Christian faith and belief. The divine, as they see it, is an impersonal force -- and not the personal God revealed in Christianity" (p. 3).
In 12 chapters Max Sculley's book treats in succession yoga, taichi, reiki and "New Age" practices and beliefs. It concludes with endnotes and also with a 24-page alphabetic glossary of such terms as astral travel, ASC (altered states of consciousness), bliss (Hinduism), Brahman, Centering Prayer (C.P.), channeling, chi (qi, ki), demonisation, External Chi Healing, karma, kundalini, mantra, martial arts, New Age, OM (AUM), prana, reincarnation, Taoism, Wu Chi (the Tao), Zen and many more. YOGA, TAI-CHI, REIKI does not present a separate bibliography. But its text, arguments and counter-arguments are well documented within the endnotes.There are also helpful black and white drawings of external postures within the three Asian practices.
Brother Sculley, apparently without having spent much or any time himself studying the three disciplines with a master, shows considerable familiarity from reading and from accounts to him by troubled practitioners who seek his counsel, with details of the physical postures and movements of yoga, taichi and reiki. He detects a few suspicious commonalities among the practices, starting with deliberately slowed breathing, acceptance of oriental theories of anatomy and health and in some cases of underlying philosophies and world views.
Max Sculley warns strongly against deliberate, conscious efforts to alter ordinary consciousness (he exempts sleep, daydreaming and such ordinary shifts in consciousness). He argues that deliberate purely human search for God by voiding consciousness and leaving a vacuum at the center of personality invites spirits other than the true God to take possession of that emptiness. He contrasts the three Oriental techniques with varieties of prayer and meditation long developed within Christianity, citing John Cassian, Mother Teresa and two recent popes. There is danger in the exotic Oriental disciplines that practitioners will devalue disciplined logical thinking, weaken their will power and become dangerously quietist and passive, unable to defend themselves against anti-Christian spiritual powers.
Belief in chi (qi) or prana entails belief that the supreme god is impersonal, without mind and will. This is inimical to biblical and historical Jewish and Christian belief in a personal, loving all powerful true God.
Brother Max Sculley devotes perhaps 20% of his text to concrete examples from his own personal counseling experience and from important literature of bad things that have happened to certain practitioners of yoga, taichi and reiki. I reckon that it would take me at least a year to read, digest and evaluate his numerous printed sources.
I have found YOGA, TAI-CHI, REIKI a useful, instructive introductory tour d'horizon of three Eastern disciplines rapidly spreading in Australia, the USA and throughout what used to be called Christendom. I myself have had lessons in all three disciplines studied, was generally familiar with their historical and spiritual origins, but have learned much new or more detailed from this short book. I particularly value the many written sources embedded in the endnotes, including John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Deepak Chopra, Mother Teresa, Cathechism of the Catholic Church, Thomas Merton, Basil Pennington, John Cassian, Saint Teresa of Avila, Laurette Willis, Mircea Eliade and many many others with widely differing viewpoints.
Some might scoff at Brother Max Sculley as yet another overwrought prophetess Cassandra warning of dangers that no one else perceives or believes. Yet one thing is worth remembering: what King Priam's daughter Cassandra warned against in the Greek myth was the Trojan Horse as instrument of the destruction of Troy! The Bible warns believers against efforts to communicate with the dead, seek preternatural powers apart from God and other practices which Bishop Porteous and Brother Max Sculley find inextricably, willy nilly, bound up with mere external practice of yoga, tai chi and reiki. They just might be right. Fire is a useful tool of human civilization. But it is also dangerous to play with fire.
Bottom line: I recommend that you read YOGA, TAI-CHI, REIKI with an open, enquiring mind. Weigh the arguments behind the deliberately alarming theses of Bishop Porteous and Brother Sculley. Read some of the book's sources for yourself. Debate views pro and cons with friends and colleagues. Regard this book as a timely, good but far from perfect "first word," with "the last word" not yet written.
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Neurology, Psychiatry Grand RoundsEvent Details: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., September 29
The department of neurology and psychiatry will host separate Grand Rounds sessions from 8-9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in two locations.
The Neurology session,"From Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Mutations to Peripheral Neuropathies: A Flying Perspective," will be presented by Albena Jordanova, Ph.D. in Lecture Hall 1 in Schwitalla Hall. (Entrance is only through the Learning Resource Center).
Jordanova, of Bulgaria, is a professor in molecular neuroscience at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and professor in human molecular genetics at the Sofia Medical University, Bulgaria. Her Ph.D. research was focused on molecular characterization of spinal muscular atrophy and cystic fibrosis in the Bulgarian population.
She did postdocs at the Sofia Medical University in the National Genetics Laboratory of Bulgaria, and at the University of Antwerp in the Department of Christine Van Broeckhoven, studying inherited peripheral neuropathies. Since 2011, she has been a group leader at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium.
Her research focuses on the identification and characterization of genes and pathways implicated in neurological disorders, such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, using genetic and functional genomics approaches in human and Drosophila. Her special interest is biosampling and studying patients from inbred populations (e.g. the European Roma/Gypsies) as a way to discover novel genetic entities, to perform genotype-phenotype correlations and to unravel the genetic architecture of complex neurological conditions.
Jordanova is a pioneer in exploring the molecular mechanisms of peripheral neurodegeneration caused by defects in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. She is a holder of the Research Excellence Award of the Sofia Medical University and the "Woman in Science" award of the Bulgarian Ministry of Science and Education
The Psychiatry session, "Sex, Lies and Treatment Compliance," will be given by Melanie McKean, D.O., Ph.D. in Classroom A in Monteleone Hall. (Entrance is from the Chaddock parking lot in the rear of the building.)
McKean is an instructor of psychiatry in the department of neurology and psychiatry at Saint Louis University. She completed a combined internal medicine/psychiatry residency program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Ill.
Prior to her training at Rush, she received a bachelor of science in biology at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., followed by dual medical-graduate training at Oklahoma State University-Center for Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Tulsa, Okla. Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled "Differential Gene Expression in Women with and without Endometriosis."
McKean's clinical and research interests include women's health and psychiatry, with a preventative medicine focus. She will be developing a women's health program at SLU to provide multidisciplinary care to women in all phases of life, including preconception counseling, antepartum and postpartum mental health care, as well as treatment of reproductive dysfunction, chronic pelvic pain, and pelvic floor dysfunction and associated psychiatric comorbidities.


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A real heat bath today with a big drop in humidity by tomorrow
HEAT ADVISORY from Noon until 8PM for Metro Region east Route 15: High heat combined with the high levels of humidity and it will feel like it's 100° to 105°.
Today: Clouds Mix with Sun, High Heat and Humidity, Few PM Storms
Highs: 97-101 | Feels Like: 100°-105°
Overnight: Partly Cloudy, Warm & Muggy
Lows: 70s | Wind: West 5-10
Tomorrow: Partly Cloudy, Warm, Bec. Less Humid, Stray PM Storms
Highs: 89-94 | Wind: NW 10
Midwest storms held together long enough to affect the region overnight. Not everyone got the rain, but those that got hit also had some severe weather. This morning we have lingering clouds but they should break up by mid-day. It does appear this will be the hottest day of the week with highs near the century mark. Combine this with the high levels of humidity and it will feel like it's 100° to 105°. Therefore, a Heat Advisory is in effect from Noon until 8PM. A couple of storms are possible with a passing front later in the day, but expect them to be few and far between. Drier air begins to slide in tonight with a noticeable change in the air by tomorrow.
The front will hang up south of the area tomorrow and although humidity will be noticeably lower, the temperatures will remain above average around 90s degrees. A passing t-shower is also still possible into the afternoon hours. By Thursday, cooler air will settle in and make for a spectacular end of the week with highs in the mid 80s, low humidity and lots of sunshine. Right now the weekend looks good. Have a great day!


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Night Photography
Finding your way in the dark
Night photographers have one big thing in common: a true love of the dark. Rather than looking at night photography as an extension of daytime shooting with added complications, they embrace the unique challenges of nocturnal photography for the tremendous wealth of creative opportunities it offers. That's just what this book does. But if the idea of setting out into the deep, dark night with just your camera (and maybe a cup of coffee) gets your creative juices flowing, dive right in. Lance Keimig, one of the premier experts on night photography, has put together a comprehensive reference that will show you ways to capture images you never thought possible. If you have some experience with photography and have always wanted to try shooting at night, you'll learn the basics for film or digital shooting. If you're already a seasoned pro, you'll learn to use sophisticated techniques such as light painting and drawing, stacking images to create long star trails, and more. A chapter on the history of night photography describes the materials and processes that made night photography possible, and introduces the photographers who have defined night photography as an artistic medium. A chapter on how to use popular software packages such as Lightroom and Photoshop specifically with night time shots shows you how to make the final adjustments to your nocturnal creations. In this book you'll find history, theory, and lots of practical instruction on technique, all illustrated with clear, concise examples, diagrams and charts that reinforce the text, and inspiring color and black and white images from the author and other luminaries in the field, including Scott Martin, Dan Burkholder, Tom Paiva, Troy Paiva, Christian Waeber, Jens Warnecke and Cenci Goepel, with Foreword by Steve Harper.
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Lance has been photographing primarily at night for more than 20 years. He is a successful commercial photographer and currently teaches night photography at the New England School of Photography. He has also taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at The Photo Resource Center at Boston University. He teaches workshops around the world and regularly lectures at camera club meetings. He has curated several successful night photography exhibits and his own works are displayed in public and private collections worldwide.
"Lance Keimig, a commercial photographer and teacher of night photography at the New England School of Photography, with over twenty years of experience in this field, is changing the attitude toward night photography. His book, Night Photography: Finding Your Way in the Dark (copyright 2010), provides you with all you need to go from the uninformed, haphazard shot in the dark to an informed and systematic approach… BOOK PROS: one-of-a-kind source book for night photography; well written and easy to read; both film and digital shooting covered; many example photos; advice from multiple expert night photographers including their color and black and white examples.. I believe this book will be to night photography what Light: Science and Magic is to lighting and Digital Exposure Handbook is to exposure, the go-to source for information."--PhotoFidelity.com
Foreword: Steve Harper
Introduction: Why Night Photography?
Chapter 1: The History of Night Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital
Chapter 2: Night Photography Equipment
Guest section- access, security, and trespassing- Troy Paiva
Chapter 3: Basic concepts of Night Photography
Chapter 4: Film Based Night Photography
Guest section- large format color film, Tom Paiva
Chapter 5: Digital Night Photography
Guest section- What If It Moves?, Christian Waeber
Chapter 6: The Digital Darkroom for Night Photography
Chapter 7: High Dynamic Range Imaging
Guest section- Manual Layer Blending in Photoshop, Christian Waeber
Guest section- HDR and tone mapping, Dan Burkholder
Chapter 8: Moonlight, Star Trails, the Natural Environment
Chapter 9: Light Painting
Guest section- All That Shines, Cenci and Jens
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Take a good look at the Neil Drysdale-trained Union Avenue in today's seventh race at Hollywood Park.
He didn't close a lick last time, but I think this spot suits him just fine. The more-than-capable David Flores rides and he's a nice 6-1 on the morning line.
One thought on "Drysdale at a price"
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The single most important reminder the North Dakota Game and Fish Department will issue to recreationists this summer is to be alert and safe near water.
Boat and water safety coordinator Nancy Boldt said safety on the water begins with wearing a personal flotation device.
тАЬFailure to wear a personal floatation device is the main reason people lose their lives in water recreation accidents,тАЭ Boldt said.
North Dakota anglers are reminded they can fish for free June 7-8.
That is the weekend North Dakota residents may fish without a license. All other fishing regulations apply.
Refer to the 2014-16 North Dakota Fishing Guide for season information.
North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists said despite colder-than-average winter temperatures, not many lakes experienced a fish kill.
Fisheries management section leader Scott Gangl said biologists investigated winterkills at 11 lakes so far this spring, with only a few considered significant enough to affect the quality of fishing this spring.
Lakes that appear to have suffered a significant kill include Leland Dam (McKenzie County), Island Lake (Rolette County) and the State Fair Pond (Ward County).
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department reminds anglers and others taking carp and other nongame fish that a license is required, and hook-and-line, archery equipment and spears are the only legal methods of take. Snagging nongame fish is illegal.
In addition, enforcement chief Robert Timian said anglers must properly dispose of the fish. тАЬLeaving dead fish on the shoreline or in the water is considered a littering violation,тАЭ Timian said.
North Dakota deer hunters are reminded the deadline for submitting applications for the 2014 gun season is June 4. Hunters are encouraged to apply online at the State Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov.
The deadline applies to muzzleloader, regular gun, gratis and nonresident landowner, and youth antlered mule deer applications (specifically for antlered mule deer in units 3B1, 3B2, and 4A-4F).
The State Game and Fish Department is lifting the Tuesday-Wednesday camping restriction on many wildlife management areas in the western and central part of the state for the week of Memorial Day, May 26-30.
This same waiver will allow camping on those WMAs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during all state-recognized holiday weeks throughout the year, including 4th of July week (June 30-July 4), and Labor Day (Sept. 1-5).
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State Game and Fish Department ANS Coordinator Fred Ryckman said there are more than 400 recreational fishing waters across the state, making it imperative for watercraft owners to obey regulations.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department announced today that the state's 2014 regular paddlefish snagging season will close at 10 p.m. Central Daylight Time, Sunday, May 18, to protect the population level of the fish. However, snaggers are reminded that Sunday is a snag-and-release only day.
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Ronald Reagan idealized the close-knit American family but was himself an untraditional patriarch who headed a famously splintered brood.
During his years in public office, his children conducted family feuds in public, at times openly defied his values and rarely gathered for public or private functions. Before reconciling in Reagan's twilight years, they sometimes used press interviews or books to communicate with one another.
Divorced and remarried, Reagan is survived by three children: Michael, adopted by Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman; and Davis and Ronald Prescott Reagan, his children with second wife Nancy Reagan (née Davis), the former actress and future first lady. Daughter Maureen, born to Reagan and Wyman, died in 2001of malignant melanoma.
Children of Hollywood before their father entered politics, they struggled for attention like many celebrity offspring. They also treasured private moments spent with him — especially on the family ranch near Malibu, where he taught them to swim and ride. They have described him as genuinely kind and an exceptional storyteller. Maureen, who enjoyed the closest relationship with their father, said she always remembered him as the hero of her childhood — "this gorgeous, bronze Adonis." Michael called him "damn near perfect."
At the same time, Reagan displayed an emotional detachment so severe that the children later said they felt invisible or diminished even when he was around. Once Reagan failed to recognize Michael after giving the commencement speech at his graduation from an Arizona boarding school. "My name is Ronald Reagan," he said to his son. "What's yours?"
In 1998, Ron, known as the favored child, told a PBS interviewer he had never had a real conversation with his father. In some respects, he said, the frustration felt by each of the children to their father's increasing obliviousness after the 1994 onset of Alzheimer's disease was nothing new. "[We] banged our head against the wall — you know, 'Why can't we get any closer? Why can't there be more of a rapport?' But after you accept that there just isn't going to be [one], then you make your peace with that
Some have attributed Reagan's remoteness to his father's alcoholism or to his seemingly exclusive relationship with his wife Nancy.
Michael, in a 1988 memoir, wrote that he spent his childhood seeking affection. He complained that he and Maureen were raised by nannies and maids; after their parents divorced, they were sent to boarding school — Maureen at age 7, Michael at age 5.
It was only when Michael was 14 and returned to live with his father that the children from his second marriage learned they had half-siblings from his first. "Patti was introduced to us siblings on a need-to-know basis," Maureen wrote in her memoir. Because their parents had only gotten as far as to tell Patti about Michael, Maureen had to break the news that they were sisters. Maureen recalled that Patti, then 7, ran crying from the room.
A New York Times article in 1980 noted that while the parents were inseparable, the family seldom gathered and the children were left to go their own ways "except when called upon to make a formal public appearance."
Sometimes, outsiders reportedly informed the Reagans about major events in their children's lives. In 1980, reporters told them, for instance, that Ron had married his live-in girlfriend, Doria Palmieri; a friend and a Secret Service agent served as witnesses. They learned about their daughter Patti's 1986 thinly veiled novel based on their lives through an item in Time magazine.
Though many of their troubles, resentments and disappointments may have been no different from those of any family who has struggled through modern issues, their stories played out on a larger stage to a national audience. Considering her movie star parents and access to the White House, Maureen harbored no illusions they were like other families. "What's normal for me," she told an audience in 1981, "isn't the same as what's normal for you."
As the children fought to establish their own identities, family secrets spilled into the public spotlight.
In his 1988 autobiography, Michael disclosed that he had been sexually abused in 1953 by a camp counselor he had regarded as a father figure. He informed his father just before the book was published. "Dad went pale and put his arm around me," he said later.
Missteps along the way
When he was grown, Michael floundered as he sought work in acting, speedboat racing and sales. In 1981, Michael used his father's name in a letter soliciting potential customers from an Air Force contractor for his airplane parts company. Reagan told him, "Don't write any more letters like that." Later, Michael resigned his position.
Michael was also accused and cleared of kleptomania as well as stock fraud.
In 1983, Michael criticized Nancy Reagan to magazine and television reporters for spending more time with her foster grandparent program than with his children. He said he had not been invited to the White House.


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Because the United States economy is driven by perhaps the best example of a consumer-based society and a capital-driven citizenry, it is important to understand and interpret what role the US government plays in the operations of our economy. Historically, the degree to which the government has played a role in the economic structure of the country has defined the large differences in the outlook and well-being of the citizens of the United States. Whether this meant the institution of greater social programs and economic safety-nets under FDR's "New Deal," or the lessening of governmental influence in the capitalist days of Reaganomics, the role of the US government in the acquisition and redistribution of money in society is central to understanding the relationship between resources and the citizenry.
Though the United States has been the world's foremost economic power for the last fifty years, it is not without difficulty that the earning potential of such a vast landmass (and disparate groupings of people) is converted into basic services such as universal healthcare or education systems. Though individual Americans normally pay out a large portion of their earnings in income tax, because the government is such a vast, complex system, it is extremely difficult for tax revenues to be converted easily into social services -- social services being, presumably, what taxes are for.
The government, as a bureaucracy, naturally needs some of that money just to stay up and running as well. However, the ways in which particular governments go about spending American tax dollars is most illustrative of what the government's role in our economy is. At every election campaign we see the differing opinions on what this role should be, usually with one party advocating less taxes and hence less government spending, and the opposing party proposing higher taxes in favor of distributing money through sound governmental planning.
What this all means for the economy and the government is that they are both dependent upon one another. Along with a lessening of governmental involvement in social services, comes a more privatized, individuated society with lesser social responsibility. However, with increased taxes or more governmental control over certain aspects of social services, comes greater difficulty in how to properly distribute the funds from coffers.
But in the end it is the growth of the economy that is most often on the minds of Americans. Is the economy strong and getting stronger? There are, of course, differing philosophies on how to best create a successful economy as well. Some believe that less taxation from the government will increase individual buying power and thus cause business profits to rise. Others believe that the types of benefits that the government ought to use American tax dollars to fund are essential to forming a strong, stable economy with less likelihood of overproduction or collapse.
Both systems of thought produce certain effects on not only the economy, but the mindset of American citizens. Just which system is better in the long run is for the fortune tellers to find out, but it seems certain that the future of the United States' economic prosperity will be contingent on the degree to which its enormous government plays a role.


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Wheros New Net
A play by Albert Belz
Directed by Sam Scott
Featuring an adaptation of short stories by Witi Ihimaera
at Downstage Theatre, Wellington
From 26 Aug 2009 to 29 Aug 2009
[2 hrs 15 mins, incl. interval]
Reviewed by John Smythe, 27 Aug 2009
Inspired by Witi Ihimaera's short stories - mostly but not limited to A New Net Goes Fishing (Heinemann 1977) - playwright Albert Belz has moved the unifying context on from urban to intercontinental drift. Or rather he has compared and contrasted the two by virtue of a diary (or is it?) being read by Whero, a young Māori singer adrift in London. It is her having missed her father's unveiling back home that provokes her sudden interest in his - and her own - past. .
Kotare, her father, moved from the East Coast to Auckland with his girlfriend Anahera and their baby daughter, Whero, after the meat works closed down in his home town. Clearly something remains un-confronted and unresolved in the father-daughter relationship ...
Inexorably the carefully crafted revelations distil Whero's and Kotare's states of being, capturing an essence of mental and emotional dislocation that all of us can relate to at some level. To explain it all more clearly here would be to spoil the dramatic impact, so I shall be circumspect.
The Māori proverb - Ka pu te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi - translates as: The old net is cast aside, the new net goes fishing; A new generation takes place of the old. The specific question this play asks is, will Whero's 'new net' - this new life she aspires to - sustain or submerge her true self?
Bree Peters vacillates with great distinction between Whero's feisty adventurer and lost soul abroad, hitting each emotional mark with a trueness that is all the more appreciated in retrospect. As with many elements of the play itself, any questions that arise regarding the credibility or rationality of her behaviour are dramatically answered in the final phase.
To the role of the East-London rocker Red, Whero's stroppy, demanding, controlling and emotionally immature partner in performance and life, Natalie Medlock brings the same semi-articulate vocal and physical qualities she paraded most recently in A Song for the Ugly Kids. [Spoiler warning] This may have been legitimate if it were not for the fact that she has to ring true as a manifestation of Whero's alternative self. When we've seen it all before elsewhere, her credibility as Whero's self-created alter ego is subverted. [ends]
The gay couple in the flat below are Tupo, a Māori New Zealander who makes promotional videos, and Dermot from Ireland, who runs a bar and acts as manager for Whero (and Red). It is Dermot, superbly rendered by Wesley Dowdell, who - when not attending to his own concerns back home concerning a family bible lost in a fire - looks out for Whero in ways that may or may not be in her best interests: we are left to be the judges of that.
Blair Strang's Tupo is sublime, totally at home in the big wide world, happily basking in his simple pleasures and mainstream tastes. The only thing that reminds us he's Māori is when he tries to teach Dermot - they are both pissed and stoned - the Ka Mate haka: "slapping your thighs and skiing, skiing ..." A stand-out scene of poignant comedy.
"I am not a Kiwi," Whero tells Petera, the remote relation who turns up in London (early in the play), presumably expecting food and shelter. "I'm an Aucklander." But he's just there to bring her the diary her father bequeathed her. Jarod Rawiri* nails this elusive character with just the right balance of certainty and mystery.
As manifested through her increasingly obsessive reading of the diary, the progress of Whero's parents' relationship, from the East Coast to Auckland, is played out in a series of scenes that are strongly redolent of - but not directly adapted from - Ihimaera's stories.
Tainui Tukiwaho* finds a full range of emotional states in Kotare's story while Kura Forrester responds, true to each moment, as the increasingly necessary stabilising force. In a neatly drawn cameo, Wesley Dowdell doubles as their Auckland landlord. The memorable fullness of the Kotare /Anahera story, as sketched in a few well-wrought scenes, is another testament to the skills that have created this script and production.
With subtle lighting by Jeremy Ferns and an evocative music and sound design by Tama Waipara, Tracey Collins' ingeniously conceived set, of two low rock walls dividing ocean and sky from land and floorboards, allows director Sam Scott to bring a fluid flow to the action. Jessika Verryt's costume designs are also spot on.
My only concern is with the theatrical weakness of the musical performances that book-end the play. Amplification of guitars and voices is clearly needed. The more confident and alive Whero is when she escapes into her performing persona, the better the whole story will work.
That said, in Whero's New Net, the Massive Company has landed yet another fresh, nutritious and deeply entertaining contribution to the Kiwi theatre banquet. It plays briefly in each town on its tour: don't miss it.
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*In some towns on the tour, Rawiri will play Kotare and Tukiwaho will play Petera.
For more production details, click on the title above. Go to Home page to see other Reviews, recent Comments and Forum postings (under Chat Back), and News.
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Laurie Atkinson [Reproduced with permission of Fairfax Media] (The Dominion Post);
Lynn Freeman (Capital Times);
Nik Smythe
Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald);
Renee Liang (The Lumiere Reader);
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FROM: Kathy Cloninger, National CEO, GSUSA
RE: Fundraising for Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts
The outpouring of support for the people of Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake last week has been remarkable, and Girl Scouts across the country have pitched in to help in many different ways. We know, however, that after natural disasters like these, sending funds is often the best way to help. Given the catastrophic events in Haiti, the Executive Committee unanimously adopted, and the National Board this morning ratified, the following:
THAT the Executive Committee of Girl Scouts of the USA's National Board of Directors, on the National Board's behalf, adopts a special rule of order to allow girl members to engage in activities, which may include the direct solicitation of money, from January 14 through September 8, 2010, to support emergency relief for the January 12 earthquake disaster in Haiti. Monies raised shall be contributed only to organizations on the approved list of agencies; additions to the list shall be approved by the National President and CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA.
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A process for preparing a storage-stable and free-flowing concentrated water-based liquid detergent containing 15 to 35% by weight of anionic surfactant, 20 to 35% by weight of nonionic surfactant, and from 5 to 20% by weight of alcohol. A dilute sodium hydroxide solution is heated to 70° to 85° C. to which is added a fatty acid and the alcohol. The mixture is stirred at 350 to 500 r.p.m. for 3 to 10 minutes. The anionic surfactant and nonionic surfactant are added to the mixture and stirred at 150 to 350 r.p.m.
1. The process of preparing a concentrated water-based liquid detergent consisting essentially of from 15 to 35% by weight of anionic surfactant, from 20 to 35% by weight of ethoxylated fatty alcohol, optionally from 1 to 5% by weight of alkyl glucoside, and from 5 to 20% by weight of a monohydric and polyhydric alcohol having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, comprising heating a dilute sodium hydroxide solution to 70° to 85° C. and adding a soap-forming amount of fatty acid and said polyhydric alcohol to said solution, mixing the resultant mixture at from 350 to 500 r.p.m. for about 3 to 10 minutes, heating said anionic surfactant other than alkanesulfonates, said ethoxylated fatty alcohol and said alkyl glucoside, if present, to 65° to 90° C. and adding them to the resultant mixture, mixing the resultant mixture at from 150 to 300 r.p.m., and then adding said monohydric alcohol to said mixture at a temperature ranging from 40° to 55° C.
2. A process as in claim 1 wherein said ethoxylated fatty alcohol comprises an adduct of 1 to 10 moles of ethylene oxide with primary C12 --C18 fatty alcohols.
3. A process as in claim 1 wherein said anionic surfactant is selected from the group consisting of fatty alkyl sulfates, alkane sulfonates, and soaps.
4. A process as in claim 1 wherein said monohydric alcohol is selected from the group consisting of ethanol, propanel, and minutes thereof, and said polyhydric alcohol is selected from the group consisting of 1,2-propane diol, glycerol, and mixtures thereof.
5. A process as in claim 1 wherein said liquid detergent contains 20 to 50% by weight of water, based on the weight of said liquid detergent.
6. A process as in claim 1 wherein said liquid detergent has a pH from 7 to 10.5.
7. A process as in claim 1 wherein said liquid detergent has a viscosity of below 1,000 mPas measured at 20° C. with a Brookfield viscosimeter, spindle no. 1, at 20 r.p.m.
8. A process as in claim 1 wherein said monohydric alcohol is ethanol.
9. A process as in claim 1 including cooling said mixture to room temperature, and adding thereto an enzyme, dye and fragrance.
This invention relates to a homogeneous, concentrated water-based liquid detergent, to a process for its production and to its use for the manual and machine washing of fabrics.
Water-based liquid detergents which contain a mixture of anionic and typical nonionic surfactants and in which the nonionic surfactant content, based on the liquid detergent as a whole, is 20% by weight or more, generally lack homogeneity to the extent that the liquid detergent undergoes phase separation, for example separation into two clear liquid phases or the flocculation of a solid. This phase separation either occurs directly during production, during storage for several weeks (inadequate stability in storage) or on dilution with water. Another disadvantage is that liquid detergents of this type often show such high viscosities that they can no longer flow without the application of external shear forces.
It has now been found that it is possible to produce concentrated water-based liquid detergents containing at least 20% by weight of nonionic surfactants which do not have any of the disadvantages mentioned above.
In a first embodiment, therefore, the present invention relates to a concentrated water-based liquid detergent containing 30 to 60% by weight of anionic and nonionic surfactants, with the proviso that the nonionic surfactant content of the detergent is 20 to 35% by weight, based on the detergent as a whole, and the detergent contains monohydric and/or polyhydric alcohols containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms in quantities of 5 to 20% by weight, based on the detergent as a whole, as organic solvents and flows under the sole effect of gravity without any need for other shear forces to be applied.
The concentrated water-based liquid detergents preferably contain at least 35% by weight and more preferably between 40 and 60% by weight and, with particular advantage, between 45 and 58% by weight of surfactants. The detergents are homogeneous, stable in storage (stability test over at least 3 months both at room temperature and at extremely low temperatures of 5° C. and 40° C.) and do not undergo phase separation, even on dilution with water. They may be used manually and in machines either in concentrated form or, if required by the consumer, in dilute form. Thus, the consumer may either use the concentrated detergent directly in a quantity smaller than the quantity required in the case of commercial non-concentrated liquid detergents or, alternatively, may transfer the concentrated detergent to a bottle of larger volume, for example with twice the volume, fill up the bottle with water to the required dilution of the detergent and use the now dilute detergent, which is also stable in storage, in the quantities in which conventional, non-concentrated water-based liquid detergents are normally used. The liquid concentrates are preferably mixed with water in a ratio of 1:2 to 1:1. In machine washing, the concentrated liquid detergent is dispensed either via the dispensing compartment of the washing machine or via a commercial, external dispenser, for example in the form of a dispensing ball.
The nonionic surfactant content of the detergent is preferably 22 to 32% by weight and more preferably 25 to 30% by weight. The nonionic surfactants used are preferably adducts of on average 1 to 10 moles of ethylene oxide with primary C12-18 fatty alcohols and mixtures thereof, such as coconut oil fatty alcohol, tallow fatty alcohol or oleyl alcohol, or with primary alcohols (oxoalcohols) methyl-branched in the 2-position. Particularly suitable adducts are C12-14 alcohols . 3 EO or 4 EO, C13-15 alcohols . 3, 5 or 7 EO, C12-18 alcohols . 3, 5 or 7 EO and mixtures thereof, such as mixtures of C12-14 alcohol . 3 EO and C12-18 alcohol . 5 EO. The concentrated liquid detergents preferably contain 21 to 30% by weight and, more particularly, 22 to 28% by weight of ethoxylated nonionic surfactants. The detergents preferably contain as further nonionic surfactants alkyl glucosides corresponding to the general formula RO(G)x, where R is a primary linear or 2-methyl-branched aliphatic radical containing 8 to 22 and preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms and G stands for a glucose unit. The degree of oligomerization x, which indicates the distribution of monoglucosides and oligoglucosides, is a number of 1 to 10 and preferably a number of 1.2 to 1.4. The concentrated water-based liquid detergents may preferably contain 1 to 5% by weight of alkyl glucoside.
Suitable anionic surfactants are the known sulfates, sulfonates and soaps. The anionic surfactant content of the detergents is preferably 15 to 35% by weight and more preferably 18 to 31% by weight. Preferred anionic surfactants are fatty alkyl sulfates, alkanesulfonates, saturated and/or unsaturated soaps and, in particular, mixtures thereof, such as mixtures of fatty alkyl sulfate and soap, mixtures of alkanesulfonate and soap and mixtures fatty alkyl sulfate, alkanesulfonate and soap.
Suitable fatty alkyl sulfates are the sulfuric acid monoesters of C12-18 fatty alcohols, such as lauryl, myristyl or cetyl alcohol, and the fatty alcohol mixtures obtained from coconut oil, palm oil and palm kernel oil and also tallow which may additionally contain unsaturated alcohols, for example oleyl alcohol. Mixtures in which 50 to 70% by weight of the alkyl radicals contain 12 carbon atoms, 18 to 30% by weight 14 carbon atoms, 5 to 15% by weight 16 carbon atoms, less than 3% by weight 10 carbon atoms and less than 10% by weight 18 carbon atoms are preferably used. The fatty alkyl sulfate content of the detergents is preferably 2 to 10% by weight and more preferably 2 to 5% by weight.
The readily biodegradable alkanesulfonates are obtained from C12-18 alkanes, for example by sulfochlorination or sulfoxidation and subsequent hydrolysis or neutralization. The sulfonate group is statistically distributed over the carbon chain as a whole, the secondary alkanesulfonates predominating. The concentrated water-based liquid detergents preferably contain 8 to 20% by weight and more preferably 10 to 16% by weight of alkanesulfonate.
Other suitable anionic surfactants are in particular soaps, preferably in quantities of 8 to 20% by weight and more preferably in quantities of 10 to 18% by weight. Suitable saturated fatty acid soaps are, for example, the salts of lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid or stearic acid and, in particular, soap mixtures derived from natural fatty acids, for example coconut oil, palm kernel oil or tallow fatty acids. Soap mixtures of which 50 to 100% by weight consist of saturated C12-18 fatty acid soaps and 0 to 50% by weight of oleic acid soap are particularly preferred.
The anionic surfactants may be present in the form of their sodium, potassium or ammonium salts and in form of soluble salts of organic bases, such as mono-, di- or triethanolamine. The anionic surfactants are preferably present in the form of their sodium salts and/or potassium salts, preferably their sodium salts.
The concentrated and homogeneous liquid detergents contain water and monohydric and/or polyhydric alcohols preferably containing 2 to 4 carbon atoms as solvents. Preferred alcohols are ethanol, propanol, 1,2-propanediol, glycerol or mixtures thereof. The detergents preferably contain 20 to 50% by weight, more preferably 25 to 45% by weight and, with particular advantage, 28 to 40% by weight of water. The monohydric and/or polyhydric alcohol content of the detergents is preferably 5 to 17% by weight. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the detergents contain 7 to 15% by weight of a mixture of ethanol and glycerol in any ratio.
The pH value of the concentrated detergents according to the invention is generally in the range from 7 to 10.5, preferably in the range from 7 to 9.5 and more preferably in the range from 7 to 8.5. Relatively high pH values, for example above 9, may be adjusted by the use of small quantities of sodium hydroxide or alkaline salts, such as sodium carbonate or sodium silicate. The liquid detergents are clear and are flowable and can be poured under the sole effect of gravity without any need for other shear forces to be applied. Their viscosity is generally below 1,000 mPas (Brookfield viscosimeter, spindle 1, 20 revolutions per minute, 20° C.). The viscosity of the detergents is preferably in the range from 150 to 900 mPas and more preferably in the range from 150 to 500 mPas.
The detergents are preferably free from water-soluble and water-insoluble builders. In a particularly preferred embodiment, they do not contain the (co)polymeric polycarboxylates known as co-builders, for example homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid or maleic acid.
In addition to the ingredients mentioned above, however, the detergents may contain known additives of the type typically used in detergents, for example salts of citric acid, salts of polyphosphonic acids, optical brighteners, enzymes, enzyme stabilizers, small quantities of neutral filling salts and also dyes and fragrances, opacifiers and pearlescers.
Preferred salts of polyphosphonic acids optionally present are the neutrally reacting sodium salts of, for example, 1-hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonate and diethylenetriamine pentamethylene phosphonate which are used in quantities of 0.1 to 1.5% by weight. The total phosphorus content of the detergents is preferably less than 0.5% by weight.
Suitable enzymes are those from the class of proteases, lipases, amylases, cellulases and mixtures thereof. The enzyme content may be from 0.2 to 2% by weight.
In addition to the monohydric and polyhydric alcohols, the detergents may contain other enzyme stabilizers. For example, sodium formate may be used in a quantity of 0.5 to 1% by weight. Proteases stabilized with soluble calcium salts (calcium content preferably about 1.2% by weight, based on the enzyme) may also be used. However, it is of particular advantage to use boron compounds, for example boric acid, boron oxide, borax and other alkali metal borates, such as salts of orthoboric acid (H3 BO3), metaboric acid (HBO2) and pyroboric acid (tetraboric acid H2 B4 O7).
Where the detergents are used in washing machines, it can be of advantage to add typical foam inhibitors. Suitable non-surface-active foam inhibitors are, for example, organopolysiloxanes and mixtures thereof with microfine, optionally silanized silica and also paraffins, waxes, microcrystalline waxes and mixtures thereof with silanized silica. Mixtures of various foam inhibitors, for example of silicones, paraffins or waxes, may also be used with advantage.
In one preferred embodiment, the detergents contain 2 to 8% by weight of fatty alkyl sulfate, 12 to 18% by weight of soaps consisting of the salt of oleic acid, the salt of saturated C12-16 fatty acids or mixtures thereof in a ratio by weight of oleate to saturated soap of 2:1 to 1:2, 21 to 30% by weight of ethoxylated fatty alcohol, 1 to 5% by weight of fatty alkyl glucoside, 8 to 12% by weight of ethanol and/or glycerol, 0.5 to 1% by weight of protease and 0.2 to 1% by weight of citric acid salt (based on the free acid).
In another preferred embodiment, the detergents contain 2 to 5% by weight of fatty alkyl sulfate, 8 to 16% by weight of alkanesulfonate, 10 to 17% by weight of saturated soap or a soap mixture of saturated and unsaturated fatty acid soaps, 22 to 28% by weight of ethoxylated fatty alcohols, 1 to 5% by weight of fatty alkyl glucoside, 10 to 15% by weight of ethanol and/or glycerol and other additives, more particularly enzymes, salts of citric acid, dyes and fragrances, pearlescers and optionally up to 1% by weight of phosphonate.
In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for the production of the concentrated water-based liquid detergent in which soap and the polyhydric alcohol optionally present, more particularly glycerol, are added to a heated, dilute sodium hydroxide solution, which has preferably been heated to 70° to 85° C., and intensively mixed for about 3 to 10 minutes at a high rotational speed of the stirrer, more particularly at 350 to 500 revolutions per minute (r.p.m.). The other ingredients are then added at a slower rotational speed of the stirrer, preferably at 150 to at most 300 r.p.m. The remaining surfactants except for the alkanesulfonate optionally present are added at the same time in preheated, liquid, molten or solvent form, preferably in a form heated to between 65° and 90° C. and more particularly to between 75° and 85° C. Intensive stirring of the mixture is continued. Ethanol is preferably added at a temperature of 40° to 55° C. and more preferably at a temperature of 48° to 55° C. After further cooling to room temperature, the remaining ingredients, more particularly the temperature-sensitive ingredients, for example enzyme, dyes and fragrances, are added.
The liquid detergents D1 and D2 according to the invention had the following composition (in % by weight):
______________________________________ D1 D2______________________________________C12-14 Fatty alkyl sulfate, sodium 5.0 2.0saltAlkane sulfonate, sodium salt (100% -- 12.0active substance; used as HostapurSAS 93, a product of Hoechst, Fed.Republic of Germany)Lauric acid 8.0 7.0Oleic acid 6.0 7.0C12-18 Fatty alcohol with on average 27.0 25.07 EOC12-14 Alkyl glycoside with x = 1.4 3.0 3.0Sodium hydroxide 2.2 2.2Ethanol 5.0 7.0Glycerol 5.0 5.0Citric acid 0.5 0.5Protease 0.8 0.8Amylase 0.08 0.08Water, dyes and fragrances, Balance to 100%pearlescers by weightpH 7.9 8.1______________________________________
The detergents were produced by initially heating a mixture of demineralized water and sodium hydroxide to 80° C. This was followed by addition and neutralization of the fatty acids and by addition of the glycerol. The mixture was stirred for 5 minutes at 400 r.p.m. and then at 200 r.p.m. The other ingredients, more particularly the citric acid and the pearlescer, were then added. Before any other components were added, the mixture was stirred until a homogeneous mixture was obtained. The fatty alkyl sulfate, the alkyl glucoside and the ethoxylated fatty alcohol were then successively added in a form heated to 80° C. By contrast, the alkanesulfonate was added in a non-preheated form. After cooling to 50° C., ethanol was added. After further cooling to room temperature, the enzymes and also the dyes and fragrances were added.
The homogeneous detergents D1 and D2 according to the invention were stable in storage for 3 months both at room temperature and at 5° C. and 40° C. (stability test terminated after 3 months). The viscosity (Brookfield viscosimeter, 20° C., spindle 1, 20 r.p.m.) was 330 mPas for D1 and 160 mPas for D2. The detergents could be diluted with water in any ratio without any phase separation occurring over a period of 4 weeks (stability test terminated after 4 weeks).
Comparison tests with D1, in which the surfactants were added in cold, non-preheated form and/or the ethanol was added at room temperature, produced either inhomogeneous products or could no longer be made up as liquid detergents because the viscosity of the mixture increased to such an extent that it could not flow without the application of shear forces (paste formation).
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He undertook various musical studies at Stuttgart with Speidel and with Lebert and Pruckner. He studied composition at Franfort with Dr Hauff, and after staying there for six months moved on to Florence, Italy, where he studied singing with Vanuccini. Study in operatic composition followed, first with Richard Genée, in Vienna, and then with Léo Delibes, in Paris.
De Koven returned to the US in 1882 to live in Chicago, Illinois, and later lived in New York. He was able to find scope for his wide musical knowledge as a critic with Chicago's Evening Post, Harper's Weekly and New York's World. Many of his songs became popular, especially "Oh, Promise Me", which was one of the biggest song successes of its time. His comic operas were popular, and as a composer of works of this description De Koven, like Victor Herbert, become famous throughout the country. His greatest successes include Robin Hood, produced in Chicago, 1890, and in London, 1891, Rob Roy, produced in Detroit, 1894, The Mandarin, produced in Cleveland, Ohio in 1896 and The Highwayman (1898). Harry B. Smith wrote many of the libretti for his operettas. His opera The Canterbury Pilgrims premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1917.
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RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Even though most of us associate skin cancer with tanning-bed addictions and the pursuit of a summer glow among teens and younger women, it's actually middle-aged white men who make up 50 percent of all melanoma-related deaths in the U.S. "Young women are more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma, and at ages 40 and 50, [diagnosis for women and men] starts to equalize. But after age 50, the disease is much more common in men," says Alan Geller, MPH, RN, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and author of two studies published in the April issue of the Archives of Dermatology that called attention to this disturbing trend. "What we're even more concerned about is that when you look at men who are diagnosed compared with women, men tend to do worse."
THE DETAILS: Geller and his colleagues surveyed men between 40 and 88 years old who had been recently diagnosed with melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. After asking the men questions about how their tumors were discovered, about their awareness of the disease, and how frequently they were examined (either by themselves or a doctor), researchers found that less than 20 percent were aware of the warning signs and less than 50 percent did self-examinations. The experts also found that the men who were more educated about the disease had thinner tumors, meaning that the disease had been detected in its earliest stages. Geller notes that early detection can lead to a 5-year survival rate of almost 100 percent. In a separate survey, he found that men whose tumors had been detected by a physician (rather than by themselves or a significant other) were also thinner and therefore more easily treatable.
WHAT IT MEANS: Be pushy when it comes to asking your doctor for skin examinations. "The squeaky wheel gets the oil," he says. adding that it doesn't necessarily mean making an appointment with a dermatologist. Geller points to studies that show men who were diagnosed with melanoma had actually visited a doctor at least once in the year prior to diagnosis. Simply asking their family doctor for a full-body skin exam could have lead to earlier detection, he says.
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Originally from British Columbia, Dr. Snobelen took his BA and MA in history at the University of Victoria and his MPhil and PhD in history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge. From 1999 to 2001 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He came to King's College in 2001. Some of his courses are cross-listed with Early Modern Studies, Contemporary Studies, History and Religious Studies; he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of History (Graduate Studies) at Dalhousie University. In 1998, Dr. Snobelen helped found the Newton Project, a Cambridge-based endeavour to transcribe and publish Isaac Newton's lesser-known manuscripts. He is a member of the editorial board of the UK organization, and is the director of the Newton Project Canada, which is based at the University of King's College. In 2002, Dr. Snobelen was awarded the John Templeton Foundation Science and Religion Course Award for his two courses, Science and Religion: Historical Perspectives and Science and Religion: Contemporary Perspectives. During the 2007/2008 academic year, he was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria.
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