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A sorption liner (100) has a sorbent material coating (150) on an inside surface (106). Sample components are adsorbed on the coating (150), the liner (100) is attached to an analytical device, such as a gas chromatograph, and the components desorbed.
1. A method for the extraction and desorption of at least one analyte in
a liquid phase analyte-bearing sample, said method comprising:
providing a gas chromatograph injection port liner sized to be encapsulated within an injection port housing of a gas chromatograph, said injection port housing having a septum at its first end and a column at its second end, said injection port liner sized to fit within said injection port housing and to provide fluid communication between said septum and said column and having length of substantially the entire length of said injection port housing, said gas chromatograph injection port liner having a passageway therethrough, said gas chromatograph injection port liner having an interior surface defining said passageway;
coating said interior surface of said gas chromatograph injection port liner with a sorptive coating, said sorptive coating selected to partition said at least one analyte from said liquid phase analyte-bearing sample;
injecting said liquid phase analyte-bearing sample into said passageway of said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner;
sorptively extracting said at least one analyte from said liquid phase analyte-bearing sample, leaving a liquid phase remaining analyte-bearing sample;
removing said liquid phase remaining analyte bearing sample from said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner;
installing said gas chromatograph injection port liner entirely within said injection port housing of said gas chromatograph;
desorbing said at least one analyte from said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner; and
introducing said desorbed at least one analyte into said gas chromatograph.
2. The method of
(a) an immobilized polysiloxane polymer, having two attached functional groups, wherein the first attached functional group is selected from the group consisting of: alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkylaryl, alkenylaryl, alkynylaryl, haloalkyl, and haloaryl, and the second attached functional group is selected from the group consisting of: alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkylaryl, alkenylaryl, alkynylaryl, haloalkyl, and haloaryl;
(b) a porous layer;
(c) other immobilized polymers above their glass transition temperature;
(d) an immobilized porous polymer;
(e) a sol gel; and
(f) an immobilized adsorbent.
3. The method of
said injection step includes connecting said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner to a vessel;
said vessel containing said liquid phase analyte-bearing sample; and
said removing step includes separating said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner from said vessel.
4. A method for the extraction and desorption of at least one analyte in a liquid phase analyte-bearing sample for use with a heated gas chromatograph, said chromatograph including an injection port housing, said injection port housing having a septum at its first end and a column at its second end, said method comprising:
providing a gas chromatograph injection port liner sized to be encapsulated within said injection port housing of said heated gas chromatograph as a gas chromatograph injection port liner and to provide fluid communication between said septum and said column and having length of substantially the entire length of said injection port housing,
coating an interior surface of said gas chromatograph injection port liner with a sorptive coating;
injecting said liquid phase analyte-bearing sample into said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner;
sorptively extracting said at least one analyte from said liquid phase analyte-bearing sample, leaving a liquid phase remaining analyte-bearing sample;
removing said liquid phase remaining analyte bearing sample from said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner;
installing said gas chromatograph injection port liner entirely within said injection port housing of said gas chromatograph;
increasing the temperature of injection port housing by heating from said heated gas chromatograph until said at least one analyte is desorbed from said coated gas chromatograph injection port liner; and
introducing said desorbed at least one analyte into said gas chromatograph.
5. The method of
This application is a continuation-in-part under to U.S. application Ser. No. 10/663,955, "Direct Vial Surface Sorbent Micro Extraction Device and Method," filed on Sep. 16, 2003 by Robert Wohleb now U.S. Pat. No. 7,087,437.
Not Applicable.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the extraction and collection of one or more analytes by a sorption process. Specifically, this invention relates to a device and method for performing extraction and desorption on an analyte-bearing sample.
2. Description of the Related Art
To prepare samples for chemical analysis, often analytes, or the compound of interest, must be separated from a sample matrix, such as water, soil or animal tissue, and presented in a form suitable for a particular piece of analytical equipment, such as a gas or liquid chromatograph. There are various extraction methods known and used to collect and prepare samples for such chemical analysis. These methods include liquid/liquid extraction, solid phase extraction, solid phase microextraction and stir-bar sorptive extraction. The new trend in the industry is toward simplified sample preparation that results in reduced waste and pollutants.
Liquid/liquid extraction partitions an analyte between two immiscible phases, such as an organic solvent and an aqueous phase. When an aqueous phase contains the analyte, the analyte is extracted into the immiscible organic solvent by placing the two phases into contact. Extraction is further enhanced by mixing. A relatively large volume of solvent (typically greater than 100 mL) is necessary to carry out the extraction. Partitioning of a compound between the solution solvent and extractant solvent is governed by the distribution constant, K, and the phase ratio, r. An example of such an extraction would be EPA test method SW846 3510 which specifies that one liter of aqueous sample should be serially extracted with 350 mL of methylene chloride. When the entire procedure is considered, a total of 500 mL of solvent is used for each sample. The solvent extract must be evaporated to reduce its volume to between 1 and 2 mL for placement into an autosampler vial prior to analysis.
Solid phase extraction (SPE) is often used to extract a sample prior to analysis by chromatography. SPE uses silica particles with an organic layer covalently attached to the surface of the particles. The silica particles are packed into a tube or disc, such as a polyethylene syringe barrel. The sample is then prepared and an analyte extracted by passing the sample through the solid sorbent. The analyte is then desorbed from the SPE media by solvent extraction. An example of such an extraction is EPA test method SW846 3535 which utilizes one liter of sample but requires approximately 50 mL of solvents. The solvent extract must be evaporated to reduce its volume to between 1 and 2 mL for placement into an autosampler vial prior to analysis.
It is known in the art to use a sorbent to extract an analyte from a solution. The analyte is later extracted from the sorbent by thermal desorption or by back extracting with a small amount of organic solvent. Sorption materials are usually homogenous, non-porous materials that are above their glass transition point (Tg) and in which the analyte can dissolve. The sample may be removed for analysis by thermal desorption or solvent extraction.
Stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) is used primarily for direct mode sampling. SBSE utilizes a thick sorbent coating on a magnetic bar stirrer that stirs the sample for a predetermined amount of time during which time the analyte partitions between the stir-bar sorbent and the sample. After extraction, the stir-bar is removed and the analyte is thermally desorbed to the injection port of a gas chromatograph.
Examples of the prior art follow:
U.S. Pat. No. 5,391,298 issued to Pieper et al. on Feb. 21, 1995 discloses an apparatus that can be used to perform a solid phase extraction under pressurized conditions. The apparatus includes a pressurizable housing with an inlet tube that can communicate with a pump, which feeds a liquid to the housing under positive pressure. A disk assembly includes fluid-permeable, porous sheets on opposite sides of an SPE membrane.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,691,206, issued to Pawliszyn on Nov. 25, 1997 discloses a device for carrying out solid phase microextraction. The device is a fiber, solid or hollow, contained in a syringe. The syringe has a barrel, a plunger slidable within the barrel and a hollow needle extending from the end of the barrel opposite the plunger. The needle contains the fiber. When the plunger is depressed, the fiber extends beyond a free end of the needle find when the plunger is in a withdrawn position the fiber is located within the needle. To collect a sample, the needle is inserted through a septum in a bottle containing the sample and the fiber is extended into the sample. After a predetermined amount of time, the fiber is returned to the needle and the syringe is withdrawn from the bottle. The sample is analyzed by inserting the needle through a septum in a gas injection port of a gas chromatograph and extending the fiber.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,565,622, issued to Murphy on Oct. 15, 1996 discloses a simplified method for solid phase extraction of components of interest from a sample. A syringe is used in which the inner surface of the cannula or needle is at least partially coated with a stationary phase such that aspirating the sample into the needle results in adsorption of the components of interest into the stationary phase. Aspiration of a solvent may be employed for removing the components of interest from the stationary phase for direct injection into a chromatographic instrument, or the components of interest may be removed by thermal desorption, wherein the needle is placed in the injection port of the chromatographic instrument and heated.
U.S. Pat. Application Pub. Ser. No. US 2002/0105923, applied for by Malik, published on Oct. 17, 2002 discloses a method of preconcentrating trace analytes by extracting polar and non-polar analytes through a sol-gel coating. The sol-gel coating is either disposed on the inner surface of the capillary tube or disposed within the tube as a monolithic bed.
U.S. Pat. Application Pub. Ser. No. US 2002/0098594 A1, applied for by Sandra et al., published on Jul. 25, 2002, discloses a method and collector for solid-phase microextraction and analysis. A collector, which contains the sorption phase, is generally a magnetic stir bar, or a glass rod encased by a hose. The collector is brought into contact with a substance for sufficient time and then is subjected to a solid-phase microextraction apparatus. The apparatus comprises a desorption tube that is adjoined to the collector. The apparatus is connected to an analysis device, like a gas chromatograph, and a carrier gas flows through the desorption tube. Substances attached to the collector are desorbed and are passed to the analysis device by the carrier gas. Thus, in order to perform extraction and desorption of an analyte, Sandra et. al. requires excessive equipment and steps.
Canadian Pat. No. 2,280,418, issued to Forsyth on Feb. 12, 2001, discloses a technique for carrying out solid phase microextraction of analytes contained within a liquid, solid or other material. A fiber assembly is mounted in the headspace of a gas-tight container. A coating is applied to the fiber assembly based on selectivity of the coating towards at least one analyte present in the sample. The fiber assembly is exposed either in direct contact with the sample, or indirectly through contact with the gas present in the headspace of the container. After exposure, the analyte-containing fiber is then desorbed so the desired analyte can be analyzed. There are two alternatives for desorption under Forsyth. The coating must be removed from the fiber through solvent swell. Once the coating has been removed, the coating is placed in an autosampler vial containing a portion of solvent. The coating is suspended in the solvent, which can result in contamination and interference with the autosampler. Additionally, while this method reduces the amount of solvent necessary in the prior art, this method still requires a greater amount of solvent than the present invention. Alternatively, the coating can be left on the fiber and the fiber can be placed in the autosampler vial with a portion of solvent. However, this method still presents problems with autosampler contamination and operation.
An article entitled, "Headspace Sorptive Extraction (HSSE)" was published on an unspecified date by Tienpont, B. et al. at http://www.richrom.com/assets/CD23PDF/d43.pdf. The article discloses a glass rod support coated with a sorptive coating and suspended in the headspace of a closed container, which contains the analyte-bearing sample. The glass rod remains suspended above the analyte-bearing sample until equilibrium is reached. The glass rod is then removed from the closed container and undergoes thermal desorption.
It would be an improvement to the art to have a device where the extraction and desorption may be performed without the need of extraneous equipment.
The present invention comprises a device and method for extracting analytes from an analyte-bearing sample. Accordingly, the objects of my invention are to provide, inter alia, a single step solid phase extraction system that:
This invention is a tube with an internal sorptive coating, wherein a steady flow of analyte-bearing sample traverses the internal passageway defined by the internal sorptive coating. Upon exposure to the coating, the desired analytes are extracted from the sample. After an amount of time, equilibrium is reached and extraction is complete. The coated tube is then removed and connected to an analytical device for desorption and analysis.
Referring to
When the volume of analyte-bearing sample 250 is greater than the internal volume of tubular member 100, analyte-bearing sample 250 will be continuously fed through tubular member 100 from an outside source (not shown).
In both active and passive extraction, the rate of fluid flow can effect the extraction of analytes. In order to achieve reproducible results, a constant flow rate is necessary. The shape of the liner, including length, inside diameter, and irregularity, has an effect on optimum fluid flow rate, which can be determined experimentally.
Assembly 300 and alternative assembly 310 are not practicable when analyte-bearing sample 250 has a volume less than or equal to the internal volume of tubular member 100. Instead, the full volume of analyte-bearing sample 250 is retained within tubular member 100. As depicted in
Once tubular member 100 has adsorbed at least one analyte, tubular member 100 is connected to an analytical device. Referring to
In the preferred embodiment, the sorptive coating 150 is a hydrophobic coating, such as an immobilized polysiloxane, for example polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which contains only methyl functional groups. The name "siloxane" is based on the Si—O—Si unit and has found acceptance in scientific nomenclature. Polysiloxanes are polymers with repeating siloxane units. Each repeating siloxane unit contains two functional groups attached (e.g. dimethyl) which may, or may not, be of the same type of functional group. A functional group is an atom or combination of atoms which gives a polymer its distinctive and characteristic chemistry. A polysiloxane of 50 repeating units would therefore have 100 methyl groups, whereas a siloxane unit with two different types of groups such as phenymethyl would have 50 of each "type" in the polysiloxane.
It is known in the art that immobilized polysiloxanes that contain other types of functional groups, may be used as sorbents. These include immobilized polysiloxanes containing phenyl or trifluoropropyl functional groups. Examples of these polysiloxanes include diphenylsiloxane-dimethylsiloxane copolymers and trifluoropropylmethylsiloxanes. For more selective sorption applications the immobilized polysiloxane may contain other types of functional groups including alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkylaryl, alkenylaryl, alkynylaryl, haloalkyl or haloaryl. A polysiloxane may contain said types of functional groups in any combination. The selection of the type of functional groups permits the partitioning of a particular analyte or analyes from the sample The polysiloxane coating may be a polymer, a copolymer or a combination of polymers.
Alternatively, sorptive coating 150 may be (1) a porous layer, such as a derivatized etched surface, (2) other immobilized polymers that are above their glass transition temperatures such as poly butadiene, (3) an immobilized porous polymer, such as divinylbenzene, ethyleneglycoldimethacrylate, and copolymers of divinylbenzene and ethyleneglycoldimethacrylate, polyethyleneimine, acrylonitrile, n-vinyl-2-pyrollidinone or 4-vinyl-pyridine, (4) a sol gel or (5) an immobilized adsorbent such as graphatized carbon black. Sorptive coating 150 may be any one of the coatings described or a combination of two or more of the alternative coatings. The selection of the coating or coatings by one skilled in the art is dependent upon the analyte or analytes to be partitioned from sample.
The foregoing disclosure and description of the invention is illustrative and explanatory thereof. Various changes in the details of the illustrated construction may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention. The present invention should only be limited by the following claims and their legal equivalents.
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10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain
What exactly goes on in our brains?
Here are the ten most mysterious puzzles of the mind.
What exactly goes on in our brains?
Here are the ten most mysterious puzzles of the mind.
by Jeremy Griffith
crossposted from AmericanMillenniumOnline.com
Glenn Beck and Company have been talking at length recently about the dangerous takeover of our education system by Progressive educators, specifically through the programs C-Scope and Common Core. But the Progressives have been slowly taking over the education system for years and their main weapon in this takeover has always been to teach their brand of Progressive science and get our children to disregard the Bible as a quaint, outdated myth.
Andrew Breitbart, the famous Blogger and media personality and visionary, God Bless his soul, said that politics is downstream from culture. He is absolutely right and that is why we are losing today's youth at the ballot box. The Progressives are effectively using media, entertainment and education to shape the minds of our kids which is why when they get to be the age to vote, they make the wrong choices, choosing goofy liberals like Barack Obama over sane alternatives. Those politicians are depicted as hip and with it, while in the meantime, conservatives are thought of and projected as backwards, Bible believing throwbacks.
The problem with this picture the youth has of our world is that it is based on a lie, and a clever one, taught to them at a very young age, in our Progressive public schools. The main weapon of this indoctrination has always been, the theory of Evolution. Only when we delve into the details of this flawed theory and method of education can we expose the problems and outright lies being taught. If we don't confront our education system with this systemic lie, we will never reclaim our kids or our future.
Here are a couple of lies and myths that are being taught in school as fact.
"Science shows that life began through purely natural means, without the help of a mythical, all powerful being."
This is a lie, science has shown no such thing and when you delve into the facts, you find there are more problems with the evolutionary theory than there is with a Biblical view of Creation.
Here is one way that evolutionists like to demonstrate their theory as fact.
"The geological column and the paleontological record shows that life evolved on this planet over billions of years."
That claim is false. The geological column is a model that shows the rock layers of the Earth from the deepest to the shallowest in the order of what they are thought to appear. These layers of Earth also have dates associated with them showing the best guess of scientists when these rock layers were formed from an evolutionary standpoint. The paleontological record is the record of fossils of extinct species in these rock layers that further validates the dating methods of evolutionary scientists. It shows the natural progression from simple life forms at the beginning, to more complex forms higher up.
The problem with this model is that it appears nowhere in nature. In actual fact, these rock layers are often found in much different order based on geographic location and indeed are folded together with rock layers that should have been formed billions of years later.
The fossil record to is a problem too. Often you find very simple life forms that are supposedly billions of years old at the same depth or higher than more recent fossils. My favorite fossil is a set of very human looking foot prints in the same soil as set of ancient dinosaur prints.
Scientists teach our students that the Earth has no special place in the universe and that life that created itself from nothing and started here, could very easily start very easily elsewhere. This is called the Copernicus Principle and it is the basis of much of what is taught in science instruction today. The problem with this principle is that it is mischaracterized and misconstrued to the point that the original meaning of this principle has been lost.
Nicolas Copernicus was an early scientist living in the 16th century that claimed that the Earth is not central in our solar system, that it in fact orbits the sun along with the other planets. This of course is correct and the common view of today. But the theory has been twisted beyond its original intent to say that there is nothing special about Earth and its location, that if evolution is true there should be thousands maybe millions of Earthlike planets out there, and they're cropping up all the time as the universe evolves. This theory has been espoused by many great scientists, chief among them the late great Carl Sagan.
But when we observe the universe with our own eyes we see the opposite is true. The Earth occupies a habitability zone that is perfect and critically important to create and sustain life. It is so unique indeed that we have never found anything like it after all our years looking through the telescope. The universe is so vast that even if there were other inhabitable worlds, we could never reach them even if we achieved light speed. So the fact is the Earth IS unique and special, just like the Bible says it is.
Evolutionists have gone far out of their way to prove their theory as fact that they have even committed fraud to do so. So called ape-man links have repeatedly been exposed to be outright frauds; and sketches of the fetuses of different lifeforms when compared to humans have been doctored to show a relationship that doesn't actually exist. Movies like Inherit The Wind are created to falsely show the victory of this brand of science over religion changes the facts so grossly as to lie about the actual outcome of the famous Scopes monkey trial and all of the important details of the case. (Watch this humorous and short video on a fictional debate between an evolutionist and creationist on the movie Inherit The Wind. )
The left's position in schools when it comes to science instruction is so shaky that school boards won't tolerate even the mention of creation science theory for fear that they will lose the near perfect strangle hold on our kids, and they are right. If the children are presented an idea that differs from what they are being instructed, they might, horror of horrors, start thinking for themselves and questioning things they are taught. That's too dangerous for a Progressive to tolerate, so they bombard school districts with lawsuit after lawsuit until they get their way.
If we are going to win back the culture, we can't cede this battle to the Progressives. Science is fun and important but it doesn't answer any of the really interesting questions, who are we and where do we come from? Where are we going, is there life after death? Are we more important than the animals or are we just animals ourselves with no real purpose? These are the questions our children are struggling with, whether they are equipped in our schools to handle them or not. The outcome is obvious. A child trained that he is accountable for his very soul to an Almighty God who created him and everything else is far less likely to shoot up a classroom of sixth graders than a boy who is taught he is an animal and there is no real purpose to this life. This is the real battle we are facing, not gay marriage or gun control, but the purpose for life and higher meaning. Can we really just let it slide and let the Progressives win? I think not.
Either the Bible is true or it isn't. I think the next generation, with proper instruction on how to think for themselves, are smart enough to figure that out for themselves. What harm can there be in teaching the Christian axiom, "do onto others as you would have done to you?" There is danger in the other worldview, we've seen it at places like Sandy Hook.
Watch The Privileged Planet on DVD for more information on the special place your world has in our solar system.
Check out this interesting article on the age of the sun at Creation.com
Just last year Obama was telling America how "green" energy technology was the guaranteed pathway to energy security and independence:
"The future is here. We are poised to transform the ways we power our homes and our cars and our businesses".
He said America risked falling behind the rest of the world in the design, production and implementation of renewable or "green" technology. The nation he most often cited as the example for America's green energy development to follow was Spain.
Spain announced on April 7, 2012 that they would halt all new renewable energy and co-generation projects. Spain's unemployment is running at more than 24%. Every job created in Spain's "green" energy sector cost 2.2 private sector jobs.
As recently as January, Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was making the campaign promise that he would not raise taxes. This week he admitted that there would be a new Spanish VAT hike ranging between 18% and 21% and that budgets for local communities would have to be slashed.
"I said I would lower taxes and I am actually raising them. Circumstances change and I have to adapt to them. The excesses of the past are being paid for right now" Rajoy said.
Thousands of people joined in a protest and marched in Madrid to support miners, who have been fighting against major cuts to industry subsidies. Protesters supporting the miners threw objects at riot police, including fireworks, bottles and stones. Police officers charged demonstrators and fired rubber bullets. Five people were arrested and three people suffered minor injuries.
That is Obama's grand vision for America?
Since Obama took office in January 2009, five million "green" jobs were promised, and as of 2010 225,000 had been created. 80% of the green loans, loan guarantees, and grants given out by Department of Energy went to Obama backers:
•SunPower, after receiving $1.5 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.
•First Solar, after receiving $1.46 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.
•Solyndra, after receiving $535 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Ener1, after receiving $118.5 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Evergreen Solar, after receiving millions of dollars from the state of Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•SpectraWatt, backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Beacon Power, after receiving $43 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Abound Solar, after receiving $400 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Amonix, after receiving $5.9 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Babcock & Brown (an Australian company), after receiving $178 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•A123 Systems, after receiving $279 million from DOE, shipped some bad batteries and is barely operating. It cut jobs.
•Solar Trust for America, after receiving a $2.1-billion loan guarantee from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Nevada Geothermal, after receiving $98.5 million from DOE, warns of potential defaults in new SEC filings.
That is only a partial list.
If this all sounds eerily familiar, it should.
Especially the part about how an elected politician is breaking a campaign promise to not raise taxes. Obama said he would lower taxes and is actually raising them. He will claim that circumstances change and American have to adapt to them.
One similarity is inescapable. The excesses of the past are going to have to be paid. Thanks to the failed presidency of Obama, those excesses have grown disproportionately larger.
Israel issued warnings over security problems with Egypt. Militants from the Sinai Peninsula crossed over into southern Israel Monday and fired on a border security fence, killing one Israeli. The IDF moved tanks and other armed forces to the Israel-Egypt border in response to the attack. Egypt is on the offensive against Israel.
Egypt's presidential election results lean towards victory for Mohammed Morsi, the radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Thanks at least in part to vocal White House support for the "Arab Spring", which ushered the Muslim Brotherhood to Egypt's presidency, Egypt is now likely to be more inclined towards acting offensively towards Israel.
Russia's General Staff announced Russian Black Sea fleet warships may head for Syria, saying: "The Mediterranean Sea is a zone of the Black Sea Fleet responsibility. Hence, warships may go there in the case it is necessary to protect the Russian logistics base in Tartous, Syria". Several warships, including large landing ships are ready for deployment. Russia supports Syria, an active agent for radical Ismanists in Iran, who also just happen to support the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Russia exerts new influence in the Middle East while Russia's President Vladimir Putin plays the White House like a fiddle.
The Euro survived over the weekend after a close call in Greek elections. Early market euphoria on Monday diminished when persistent uncertainty over the situation in Spain, Italy and other eurozone countries resurfaced. Despite Greece's election result easing fears that the single currency will disintegrate, indications that Greece will run out of money in mid-July stalled initial market optimism. Multiple countries in Europe are now in economic decline after decades of following Socialist policies.
In France, Socialist President Francois Hollande was given a mandate to follow through with his tax-and-spend agenda when France's Socialists won control of parliament on Sunday. Hollande now has the majority he needs to combat France's debt crisis by following the very formula that created a debt crisis in France, Greece, Spain, Italy and the rest of the eurozone.
Meanwhile, in an address to the UN sustainability conference in Rio, Great Britain's Prince Charles issued warnings about climate change. In a pre-recorded speech the Prince declared: "Catastrophic consequences of carrying on with 'business-as-usual' are bearing down on us faster than we think, already dragging many millions more people into poverty and dangerously weakening global food, water and energy security for the future". The Prince then went on to say: "We do not have nearly enough knowledge on which to base the decisions that will be the best for the long term." So, which is it? Either "we do not have nearly enough knowledge on which to base the decisions that will be the best for the long term" or we know enough to say "many millions more people" have to worry about poverty, food, water and energy security. You can't have it both ways, "your majesty".
In America, Al Gore cashed in on the hysteria he and his fellow climate change propagandists created when New York city Comptroller John Liu OK'd a $16.56 million contract with Generation Investment Management, the former vice president's environmentally friendly investment firm. Generation Investment Management will help manage New York City pension funds to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Given the track record of green energy capital investments, New York City pension funds are going to be another candidate for a taxpayer funded federal bailout. As with any investment management company, Generation Investment Management will earn their fees no matter what happens to the funds they invest. Apparently it pays to be a global warming alarmist. Perhaps Prince Charles fears the British Monarchy faces pending austerity measures and is just trying to get on the global warming gravy train.
Over the past three and a half years while current world events were taking shape, the White House has been spending money it does not have ala Socialist Europe. All the while enacting another big government socialist "entitlement" program to "nudge" Americans towards European style government dependency.
They championed bureaucratic violations of the free exercise of religion, using the presidential bully pulpit and complicit media lapdogs to convince uninformed voters that it was really a Republican attack on women's healthcare.
Drones and unmanned airplanes began spying on private property in America's heartland to ensure American Citizens are complicit with stifling new draconian EPA regulations. An EPA that is now attempting to redefine ditches as bodies of water in order to grant itself additional regulatory power.
Exceeding the Oval Office's Constitutional and statutory authority to give work visas to a hand picked group of illegal aliens was deemed more important than creating a business friendly, jobs creating economic environment for American Citizens and legal immigrants.
This coming from an administration that pledged in 2008 that it would cut the federal deficit in half by the end of its first term. Instead, the size of the federal government, federal spending and the deficit are all at record high levels. The U.S. national debt has increased by over $5 trillion in less than four years, and after surviving WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, the economic disaster that was Jimmy Carter's presidency and the global financial crash of 2008, the United States of America's credit rating has been downgraded.
Insinuating his name into the online biographies of former Presidents and releasing a photo-montage of himself in his "private moments" became priorities, as did attending a record number of fund raising events and playing 100 rounds (and counting) of golf. Never mind that David Axelrod, his 2012 re-election campaign chief, called former President George W. Bush "out of touch" for playing golf while the country struggled with a bad economy.
That's what his deep-pocketed out of touch with reality millionaire and billionaire Hollywood elite friends expect from their "cool" friend in the White House. To be truly "cool", one must be seen as being above it all.
America and the world will be better off once the current Chief Executive of the United States begins spending his days playing golf full time as a former government employee.
God Save the Queen.
Jonathan Karl, Richard Coolidge, Gregory Lemos and Sherisse Pham, part of the collective, useful spokes-tools employed by ABC News and the "progressive" Party Pravda's online misinformation outlet known as Yahoo News are at it again.
To begin with, this "progressive" misinformation's "headline" is pure, pre-fabricated nonsense that reads:
"Top conservative says read my lips: Don't sign 'no new tax' pledge".
This "headline" is garbage.
First of all, save for his consistently patriotic support for the United States military and for American troops, Senator Lindsey Graham is about as moderate as Republicans come. Some Conservatives might characterize him as a "progressive" Republican. Even more may openly label him a RINO. The thought of his being a "top conservative" comes from the minds of institutionalized "progressive" leftists, not reality. Secondly, not once in the interview does Graham ever utter the words "read my lips". Again, readers are witnessing fabricated "progressive" wishful fiction, not fact. Furthermore, never did he say "don't sign the 'no new tax' pledge. Not even once. Not ever.
The entire headline is a total lie. It's a complete falsehood. The "news" presented in this "headline" is "progressive" fabrication that goes light years beyond the outer limits of "spin".
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What Graham did say is that he is willing to be flexible on applying one fourth of revenue collected by the IRS through elimination of tax loopholes and subsidies towards reducing the nations nearly $16 trillion in debt. The other three fourths would continue to follow the No New Tax Pledge's formula for applying such revenues solely towards tax cuts. For Graham to accept this compromise, Democrats would be required to respond in kind to work in a bipartisan fashion towards reducing the national debt via "entitlement" program reforms.
That such inaccurate "reporting" could be considered, even for a fleeting moment, as real journalism, that these liars are actually getting paid to propagandize pure fiction as fact shows how low are today's standards for journalistic integrity. This "headline" is going to give a large number of low-information, "sound bite news voters" a completely incorrect image of reality. It's not even close to being true. All visible evidence points to clear intent to mislead misinform and indoctrinate masses of online readers.
How about giving this story a more objective headline, a headline that reflects the truth while accurately respects the content of the story? One more like: Graham Willing to Discuss Tax, Entitlement Compromise.
How difficult was that?
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PAPERCUT SOFTWARE PTY LTD PaperCut NG – Monitor Module Quick Start Guide Introduction The PaperCut NG Monitor Module (PC-MM) allows PaperCut NG to integrate with the Monitor Supervisor system to retrieve account balance information and record print activity. The PC-MM uses the Monitor Accounting Popup DLL to communicate with the Monitor Supervisor server. The PC-MM runs as a separate service to the PaperCut NG application allowing it to be hosted on a separate machine or platform. PaperCut recommends running the PC- MM on the Monitor Supervisor server if possible. The PC-MM listens on port 9199 for connections from the PaperCut NG application server. It is recommended that the firewalls/switches are configured to only allow connections to this port from the server running PaperCut NG. The communication used between these components is a lightweight XMLRPC protocol. This has a number of important advantages over traditional RPC technologies: 1. Firewall friendly – only one port (9199) needs to be opened between PCNG and the Monitor Module. 2. Resilient to network issues – Once network issues are resolved communication will restart seamlessly without needing to restart either server. 3. Lightweight – Only a minimal amount of data is sent across the network so it can be used on slower connections Requirements • PaperCut NG version 7.0 (or greater) • PaperCut NG Monitor Module • Monitor Accounting Popup DLL. Recommended version: 220.127.116.111 (or greater). • Monitor Supervisor POS Version 220.127.116.115 (or greater) • PaperCut NG Monitor Module will require a Supervisor NET GWY SETUP license Installation 1. Install PaperCut NG on the print server. Detailed instructions for setting up PaperCut NG can be found in the user manual. 2. Before setting up the Monitor Module, check that the PaperCut NG server is monitoring printing correctly. • Navigate to the "Printers" section and check that the printers hosted on this machine are listed • Perform a test print, and then check that the print job was logged correctly. The print logs can be viewed in Printers ->Print Log tab. 3. Install Monitor Supervisor and import user accounts as per Monitor instructions. • The usernames should imported as uppercase within Supervisor. • The Monitor Module requires a Supervisor NET GWY SETUP license • Supervisor Net Primary accounts MUST have 'Multiple Sessions' enabled. Using the Monitor Import File Formatter (MIFF) create a Primary import (transaction type 31) for all primary numbers. On the fifth screen of the MIFF wizard choose the 'Data Formats' TAB, from the left pain highlight 'Allow Multiple Sessions' and set a 'Constant Value' of N in the tuning area. Complete the wizard and import records into monitor using the Automatic Timed Import (ATI) service. The import will append the setting 'Allow Multiple Sessions' and will not alter the balance or other details on the Full Details screen within Administrator, however backup Primary.dat before importing. 4. Install the Monitor Accounting Popup DLL on the server that will host the PaperCut Monitor Module. The recommended install location for the DLL is: D:\Program Files\Monitor Business Machines\SupervisorNet\bin. The Monitor Module will automatically search for the DLL in this and other default locations. If the DLL is not installed in a standard location, the DLL path will need to be manually configured in the server.properties file after installation. 5. Setup the MBMAccountingPopup.ini as per the Monitor installation instructions. It is important to ensure that the server connection settings are correct to allow the PaperCut Monitor Module to communicate with the Supervisor system. The following settings should also be changed: • SearchIndex=3 - tells the DLL to perform user lookup by username • UsePrinterName=1 – allows PaperCut to control the disbursement that is charged. If this is set to 0, then the default disbursement setup in the INI file will always be used. NOTE: The PaperCut Monitor Module currently always charges the "PRINTS" disbursement for printing and "ADD VALUE" for adjustments and refunds. • MBMAccounting.ini 'Naming Service' must be the IP address of the monitor server. This also requires the 'Naming Publishing Method' is set to 'IP Address' from the Supervisor Net Administrator software | Server Settings | Core Server Settings TAB. 6. Install the PaperCut NG Monitor Module by running the setup wizard. At completion of the wizard the Monitor Module service will be started automatically. 7. Verify that the Monitor Module has started correctly by opening the log file [installdir]\Logs\server.log file. This can be opened by selecting the "Open Log File" option in the start menu (Programs->PaperCut NG Monitor Module). If the server has started successfully an entry like the following will be displayed: 2005-12-13 15:49:05,538 INFO XMLRPCServer:67 - RPC server started on port 9199. 8. If this entry does not appear and the only that appears is like the following, then this indicates that the INI file connection settings are incorrect, which could cause the Monitor Module to stop working or crash. 2005-12-13 17:11:00,554 INFO ... - Loading Monitor DLL and authenticating to Monitor server ... The server will try to restart automatically in the case of crash, however if the cause of the problem is incorrect configuration this will need to be fixed first and then the Monitor Module will need to be restarted. 9. The Monitor Module requires a Supervisor primary account that has full access to all secondary accounts. If "PERMIT" is not being used this can be any user in the system. By default the module is configured to use the "Default Test Account". To use a different primary account: • Open the module's [installdir]\server.properties file • Modify the monitor.full-secondary-access.username value to be the username of the primary account that has full access to all secondary account. NOTE: The name is case-sensitive, and must match the ID field in Supervisor exactly. • Restart the Monitor Module, using the "Stop/Start Monitor Module" start menu items. 10. If the Monitor Module service has started correctly, then PaperCut NG should be configured to connect to the Monitor Module service to retrieve account balances. To do this: • Login to PaperCut NG • Navigate to "Options->Advanced Options" • Under "External Account Source", click the "Go to external account source setup" option • Enable the external account source by checking the option and setting the server name and port of where the Monitor Module is running. If the Monitor Module is running on the same machine as PaperCut then the default settings can be used. • Click "Apply". If the PaperCut can establish a connection to the Monitor Module a success message will be displayed (as shown below). • 11. If an error message is displayed. Ensure that the Monitor Module is running and the connection settings are configured correctly. Verifying the Integration This section describes some test to validate that the Monitor integration is working correctly. 1. Check that user balances are retrieved from Supervisor, and that print jobs can be charged to users. • Navigate to the "Users" section within PaperCut • Find a user that exists within Supervisor, and click the link to go to the user details page. (For simplicity, choose a user that is not configured to be prompted for a Secondary). At this point PaperCut will synchronise the user's account balance with Supervisor, if this is successful the user's balance will be updated to match Supervisor. You should also see an "[external balance change]" transaction in the user's Transaction History. • Perform a balance adjustment on this user by modifying their credit on the User details screen. The credit adjustment should now be reflected in Supervisor. • As a user that exists in Supervisor (and is not configured to be prompted for a Secondary), try performing a print to one of the printers monitored by PaperCut. Check that the print job has been logged in PaperCut, and then check that an equivalent transaction has been recorded in Supervisor. 2. Test that PaperCut NG works with Monitor Secondary accounts: • In Supervisor, edit a user so that "Account Held" is set to "Secondary" and the "Prompt for Secondary" option is enabled. • In PaperCut NG, navigate to the "User" section and select the user that was just modified in Supervisor • Verify that the "Account Selection" options for the user are set to "Show the account selection popup" and that "Allow user to charge to shared accounts (with a PIN)" is enabled. • As the user from above, log into a machine and run the PaperCut client software. On the PaperCut server this can be run from the start menu (Programs->PaperCut NG->Client). If on another machine it can be run directly from a share on the server (\\server\PCClient\pc-client.exe). • Print a document as this user. • The client will popup requesting the account to charge. • Select "Charge to account with PIN", and enter the Supervisor secondary number to charge (See screenshot below). If a matching secondary number is found, the print job will allowed to print and that account will be charged. • In PaperCut, go to the "Accounts" section and verify that PaperCut created a matching "Shared Account" for this Secondary. (See screen shot) • In Supervisor, verify that the print job was allocated to the Secondary account.
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Around the same time, the education ministry decided to restructure its payroll services unit. All this as thousands of errors have continued to cause school staff to miss out on wages, fortnight after fortnight.
Omnishambles is a neologism coined by the writers of BBC political satire The Thick of It to describe a situation shambolic from every possible angle.
Here it crossed over from fiction to reality some time in 2012, when Ministry of Education officials decided to blithely press on with the chaotic payroll system despite a catalogue of errors and missed deadlines that would have sent most private-sector businesses hurtling into their lawyer's office, screeching breach of contract.
The roots of the problem go back to 2005, when a deal was struck with Talent2 to replace the ageing Datacom payroll system. Both sides hopelessly underestimated the complexity of the system. Teachers were used to a more flexible system; Novopay didn't have the capacity for this.
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University in the UK is rapidly catching up with the US in terms of cost, I was amoung the first year of students who had to pay but it was only at £1000 per year. If I were to do my 5 year Masters in Computer Systems Engineering again now it would cost about £7000 for each of the 5 years (let's say $60000ish). They aren't typical loans however, government provided they charge a very low interest rate and are only paid back once you earn over a certain amount and increase in proportion to your salary. They do however survive bankruptcy and HMRC aren't known for writing debts off easily if you try skipping abroad etc...
Excluding doctors or vets it's unusual to spend more than 3 years doing an undergraduate degree at university in the UK, very unusual doing more than 4 years for a Masters. I elected to do a foundation year of extra mathematics and goffing off with jet engines... as you do.
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You've just introduced the hammer to the nail.
I think IT/Programming as an Engineer discipline also faces a challenge that no other ever has (or at least a greater scale of problem) and that's a matured Business Administration field that has well developed strategies for keeping costs down and aggressively turning new technology into commoditized blobs. I suspect the golden age of computing has already been and gone with the dawn of the Internet. No more glory days of the railways and locomotives, we've headed straight into the grind of delivering a commuter service of ever increasing efficiency and decreasing costs.
I don't fear that as such but worry that it's going to slow or even distort the maturing process. There's a host of new technologies (secured BGP, IPv6, DNS-SEC, DANE, HTML5 etc) which are crawling along in implementation because the benefits to end users aren't easily marketable or just opaque to managers who are "Professional" managers rather than capable leaders from our own field.
There was an article in The Register the other day about how the large players (Google, Amazon etc...) pursuit of horizontal scalability and vertical integration had effectively caused a skills shortage in "pure" Systems Administration. Couple those factors to aggressive out sourcing in IT and you end up with such a small field of experience that it causes a drought of innovation.
It's something like Building Architects and Civil Engineering, because their so out sourced and "small pool practices" they may churn out beautiful designs but there's no true revolution in construction industry practices. Why are robots not building houses to order, all the components (bricks, girders, windows) are fairly standardised, the requirements are well defined etc. Why isn't urban street furniture standardised so that instead of re-tarmacing or repaving a road or pavement a new "top" is dropped in to cover up the utility pipes and cables kept tidily arranged below?
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Change happens, and for those of us who work with technology for a living it is the only constant. Change is a process and in and of itself is not a bad thing when it offers improvement. Unfortunately the change that has been offered negatively impacts the look, interface and most importantly the functionality of Slashdot.
Many people have had trouble reverting back to the classic interface. The new interface simply does not offer the functionality of the old. Things like statistics, comments and layout are very difficult to find. You have a community that lives and breathes data and want to know their data. How is my comment ranked, how many people responded – it's really all about the dialogue. Can I get the information that I want in a readily digestible format?
As you're well aware the new site does not offer the very thing that people come here for. This in and of itself is not why your community has organized a boycott of Beta. The boycott was originated because the new version will be implemented whether the community wants it or not.
I want to explain why this change has gone down people's throats about as well as Windows 8's Metro interface. The reason has absolutely nothing to do with the interface and everything to do with the perception that the editors and management of Slashdot appear to have.
The message that has been consistently handed down is that we are "your audience". We are not your "your audience" we are your product. People do not come to Slashdot for the news stories, there are untold other sites that provide those as well as professional and original writing about them. People come here for the community of insiders from across the industry.
Please respect the community and stop what you're doing. You have commented that you don't want to maintain two code bases. Your community works in the industry and understands this, which leads many to suggest you abandon the new code base entirely so that you are only maintaining once code base. Tell us what your trying to accomplish and I would imagine that a wide range of experts would be more than willing to help you meet your goals.
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They should take this site and give it a new name. Or get Malda to let them use "Chips & Dips".
Leave everything else intact, archives, user ID database, everything except the name.
Then use the Beta code and start a new site and give it the slashdot.org name, and they can have what they want without the embarrassment of having the current userbase escape from the basement or the attic and offend the sensibilities of the yuppies or hipsters or metrosexuals or whoever it is that they really want for an "audience".
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I am a lifeguard at a pool and wear the suit daily. I like the coverage and the style. I usually wear pants in a size 2 or 4 but ended up getting the bottoms in a large and they fit. A medium might have been okay, but I definitely would not have fit into a small. I will be happy if it gets me through the summer season.
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Karen A.
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on 5/31/2013
The bottoms are great...I wear a Size 6 - 8 pants so I ordered these in a large and they fit perfect....
definitely go a size up
from New Rochelle, NY
on 7/12/2010
Nice bottom overall but fit entirely too small. I'm usually an x-small in everything and purchased both the bottom and top in x-small. The top fits fine but the bottom was way too small. I could barely get it on. It comes with a drawstring on the inside so no need to worry about it being too big around the waste. The entire bottom was too small though so i advise you go up a size.
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from Omaha, Nebraska
on 6/27/2010
A company that realizes that we don't live in a one size fits all society---------finally!! You truly represent what customer service is all about, allowing cutomers to choose one size for the top and another for the bottoms. Fits perfectly and I feel confident that it will stay in place when I have to make a "save" at the pool. Thanks a million!!
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from No Where
on 6/25/2010
These bottoms are awesome for swimming. They stay on great when I am diving and everything. They do have a drawstring so you can tighten them as well. They do fit a little small so I would suggest going up a size.
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from Atlanta GA
on 5/26/2015
I have two daughters that lifeguard and this suite fits well and the color holds up pretty well.
Weird fit
from Ohio
on 8/3/2014
These bottoms fit okay, but are very high on the waist. Coworkers commented on the weird fit
Nice bottoms
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from Kansas
on 7/28/2014
No complaints. Bottoms don't ride up.
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from Mobile, AL
on 4/23/2014
Medium fits like a regular small.Large fits like a regular medium.I had to buy one of each to verify.
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from Killeen, TX
on 8/5/2013
Not worth the money
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Nancy M.
from New Philadelphia, PA
on 7/30/2013
Fits well and washes well
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from Rochester, NY
on 2/19/2013
I teach swimming at a local YMCA. I was looking for a modest two piece suit to use in the pool. This looked great in the pictures, but did not fit me like the model in the picture. The bottoms on this suit are far from modest. I will now use the suit to ride my jet ski with water shorts over the top. I was disappointed in the low cut, high leg rise in the bottoms. I am older, so I don't need something made for teens.
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from ohio
on 1/31/2013
waaaayyyy toooo smallll...I ordered a medium and I am a size 6
This is alright.
from Lincoln, NE
on 7/29/2012
I usually wear smalls in clothes, but i had to get a large to fit into this. After a few uses this summer, it fits, but it is baggy on the fabric outside.
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Patrice D.
from Hixson, TN
on 5/29/2012
Sent it back. The sizes are way too small.
from Statesboro, GA
on 5/17/2012
Ran much smaller than anticipated. Would order 1 size up than what you normally wear. I liked the cut and feel that if I can get the sizing correct, it will be comfortable to wear.
Great quality
from Iowa
on 5/8/2012
Order a size bigger. These run small. Love it though.
Extremely small
Momma Lifeguard
from Easton, MD
on 4/27/2012
I ordered size up but the large was no where near a large. Maybe a child's large, definetely not an adult large.
WAAAY to small
Jean L.
from Sioux City, IA
on 4/24/2012
Make sure you order it 1-2 sizes bigger than you wear. This item was way to small. My daughter ordered a medium, she weighs 110 pounds and is a small build. She usually wears a small. She should have ordered a large or X-lg.
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Casey M O.
from Sarona , WI
on 3/28/2012
I love the dolphin tops...the bottoms were way too small and felt like a diaper. Not sure if I'm just awkwardly shaped but the dolphin bottoms went too high up my back. I would order different bottoms


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Hello Hardware. Just reading up on the drug, I agree that a gradual, easing up, taper be done. You might ask your mothers doctor or pharmacist how to go about this. I'm no doctor but I'd not suddenly stop the drug. I wonder if its helped her? Is that the reason shes wanting to stop taking the aricept? Best wishes,
We were told that drug delays the short term memory loss, but that mother will catch up to where she would be if had not taken drug. I think that is about where she is at as she has no short term memory. Thanks You for yoyur help.
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