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Re "Utilities already regulated under cap and trade urge Brown to hold fast" (The Buzz, July 18): Utilities urge going forward immediately with carbon tax on motor fuels. Reason: the utility sector already shoulders the responsibilities and costs of reducing greenhouse gas.
Electric rates in California are set by the Public Utilities Commission to ensure that monopoly utilities are guaranteed a return. The PUC's tiered consumer rate structure soaks the rich.
A carbon tax on motor fuels will hit everybody in the pocket. It will be interesting to see how popular AB 32 will be when everyone is participating. Cap-and-trade at retail will not disadvantage one petroleum company relative to the others. It's an even playing field.
The broad manufacturing sector will, however, be significantly disadvantaged relative to competitors in other states and countries. Adios, high-paying jobs. Why not create an energy rebate system whereby California manufacturers purchases at the same rate as, e.g., Texas?
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Barring an appeal, nearly half a million Indians — including an estimated 50,000 in Oklahoma — could begin receiving $1,000 checks within three to four months, according to one of the attorneys for the Indians.
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan's approval of the settlement came after a daylong hearing in a packed courtroom, in which he listened to about a dozen opponents of the settlement.
"The process has gone on long enough," Hogan said, after summing up the bitter legal struggles between the government and Indians since the case was filed here in 1996.
On one of the controversial issues surrounding the settlement, Hogan awarded $99 million in legal fees to the Indians' attorneys.
The amount was less than the $223 million the attorneys said they could be entitled to, but almost twice as much as the Obama administration wanted paid to the opposing legal team.
Some members of Congress and the National Congress of American Indians also wanted the fees capped at $50 million.
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Hogan also awarded $2 million to Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the case, who has been present at most of the trials and other major events in the historic case, including hearings on Capitol Hill. Hogan said Cobell had accomplished more for American Indians "than anyone I can think of in recent history."
Cobell, who has been ill and wasn't able to attend the hearing on Monday, spoke to the judge on a speaker phone from her home in Montana, saying the settlement was supported by a vast majority of account holders.
"The terms of settlement bring a measure of justice to some of the most vulnerable people in this country," she said. "The settlement isn't perfect. I do not think it compensates for all the losses sustained, but I do think it is fair and reasonable."
Congress approved the settlement late last year, and it was signed by President Barack Obama, whose administration jump-started negotiations when it appeared the case could go on for several more years.
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Boston Herald All-Scholastic quarterback Nick Peabody (seen on the left in action against Everett in the Division 1A Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium) of Barnstable announced earlier today through his twitter feed that he would attend Princeton in the fall.
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You could Use the code Below on both the On Focus and Leaving Focus event handlers :-
You could extend from the TextBox class, and play around with the SelectionChanged event.
Most of the time, changing default behaviour of controls is a bad idea. The user could experience it as unexpected behaviour, which is bad. In your case, if you manage to create such textbox, the user could select text in multiple textboxes at te same time, since the selection doesn't hide.
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A method for the separation of magnesium-bearing ore particles containing an exposed magnesian-rich mineral on the surface from the lean ore particles containing a lesser surface area of the exposed magnesian mineral which comprises conditioning the ore with a coupling agent of hydroxyquinoline; irradiating the conditioned ore to excite and induce fluorescence; and separating the magnesian-rich mineral from the lean ore particles by detecting the difference of the fluorescence intensity.
1. A process for separation of magnesium-rich first ore particles containing an exposed magnesian mineral on the surface of said magnesium-rich ore particles from magnesium lean second ore particles containing a lesser surface area of said exposed magnesian mineral on its surface than the first ore particles, said process comprising the steps of:
a. conditioning particulate ore comprising said magnesium-rich ore particles and said magnesium lean ore particles with a conditioning agent comprising at least one hydroxyquinoline which by irradiation with electromagnetic radiation can be induced to fluoresce at at least one particular wavelength when combined with said magnesian mineral on the surface of said ore particles and which causes said magnesium lean ore particles after said conditioning and upon said irradiation to fluoresce at a substantially lower intensity or not at all at said particular wavelength than the intensity of said fluorescence of said irradiated, conditioned, magnesium-rich ore particles;
b. after said conditioning, irradiating said magnesium-rich and said lean ore particles with electromagnetic radiation to produce sufficient fluorescence of said conditioned and irradiated magnesium-rich ore particles to enable the difference in fluorescent intensity between said irradiated, conditioned magnesium rich ore particles and the irradiated, conditioned magnesium lean ore particles to be detected;
c. detecting the fluorescent intensity of said irradiated, conditioned ore particles; and,
d. separating said magnesium-rich ore particles from said lean ore particles based on the detected differences in fluorescent intensity of said conditioned, irradiated ore particles.
2. The process of claim 1 wherein said hydroxyquinoline comprises 8-hydroxyquinoline.
3. A process as in claim 2, in which the ore particles are coated in a degree dependent upon the grade of the ore and in which coated gangue particles and lesser coated lower grade ore particles are distinguished and separated from substantially uncoated higher grade ore particles.
4. The process of claim 1 wherein said conditioning agent comprises an aqueous solution of an ammonium or alkali metal salt of 8-hydroxyquinoline.
5. The process of claim 4 wherein said salt comprises the sodium salt of 8-hydroxyquinoline.
6. A process for separating magnesium-rich ore particles having a surface containing an exposed magnesian mineral from a particulate ore containing said magnesium-rich ore particles and lean ore particles having substantially less surface containing said exposed magnesian mineral, said process comprising:
(a) conditioning said particulate ore with an aqueous solution of a detectable marking agent comprising 8-hydroxyquinoline or an alkali metal salt thereof, to produce a conditioned particulate ore;
(b) passing said conditioned, particulate ore in free-fall through a detector zone wherein the detectable making agent is induced to fluoresce by irradiation with electromagnetic radiation;
(c) detecting the intensity of fluorescence of each free-falling particle; and,
(d) deflecting, from its free-fall path, a free-falling, magnesium-rich ore particle exhibiting a fluorescence of an intensity higher than a chosen intensity with a directed fluid stream that impinges on said free-falling magnesium-rich ore particle which is detected as exhibiting said fluorescence of an intensity higher than said chosen intensity.
7. The process of claim 6 wherein said conditioning includes contacting the particulate ore with said aqueous solution and then rinsing the contacted particles to remove excess marking agent.
The application is related to U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,356,211; 3,472,375; 3,722,676; 4,169,045; 4,207,175; 4,208,272; 4,208,273; 4,235,708; and 4,241,102; and to the following commonly owned, copending U.S. applications: Ser. No. 897,946 filed Apr. 19, 1978 (now abandoned); Ser. No. 36,637 filed May 7, 1979, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,326,950; Ser. No. 45,185 filed June 4, 1979; Ser. No. 203,738 filed Nov. 3, 1980, now abandoned; Ser. No. 220,656 filed Dec. 29, 1980, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,352,731; PCT application No. 80/01618 filed Dec. 5, 1980; and to the following three applications, which were filed on the same day as this application, Ser. No. 270,729 of DiGiacomo and White, Park and McKinley, titled "Process for Sorting Limonitic from Non-Limonitic Ores"; Ser. No. 270,732 of DiGiacomo, titled "Process Using Detectable Marking Compounds to Sort Particles" and Ser. No. 270,728 of DiGiacomo and White, titled "Process for Beneficiation of Particulate Ores Containing A Silver-Bearing Mineral" and PCT Application No. 80/01618 filed Dec. 5, 1980.
The above referenced patents and applications disclose apparatus, materials and techniques which are useful in the concentration of various minerals and which can be used in practice of the present invention.
The present invention relates to a method for the separation of magnesium-bearing minerals from ores. More particularly, it relates to a method for separating such magnesium-bearing minerals such as magnesite, brucite, talc and the like from gangue minerals such as quartz, feldspar, calcite, gypsum and others.
As used herein the term "gangue" is relative; that is, in some cases the desired product may be the gangue and the magnesium-bearing compound can be the waste or "discard" fraction. In other cases, the gangue may be further processed (as by the processes in the previously referenced patents and applications) to separate or concentrate a desired component of the gangue.
It is also to be understood that the term "separation" includes concentration, as by separating lower magnesium-content mineral particles as "gangue" from desired higher magnesium-concentration mineral particles. It is also to be understood that the process of the present invention involves differences between surface properties of ore particles, that is, if a given ore particle has a given total surface area of which half is a magnesium-bearing mineral, it will be coated to the same extent as a particle of twice that total area of which only a quarter of its surface area is a magnesium-bearing mineral. Of course, the total mass of each such particle will be greatly different and this factor plus the difference in total surface can be used to effectively separate the two particles, if desired, as will be discussed hereinafter in connection with the apparatus of U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,472,375 and 3,722,676. Other apparatus which can be used for such separations is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,975,310 to Buchot.
Magnesium minerals are mined for use in making such products as magnesium metal, refractories, porcelains, and medicinals. Among the principal ores are magnesite (MgCO3) and brucite Mg(OH)2 ! which are mined and processed by flotation and other physical separation techniques. Other ores, such as talc and chrysotile, are mined and hand-graded to get sufficient purity for commercial use.
In one aspect, the invention involves a process for separation of magnesium-rich ore particles containing an exposed magnesian mineral on the surface from lean ore particles containing a lesser surface area of the exposed magnesian mineral. One embodiment of this process comprises the steps of:
a. conditioning a particulate ore comprising magnesium-rich ore particles and magnesium-lean ore particles with a conditioning agent comprising at least one hydroxyquinoline which by irradiation with electromagnetic radiation can be induced to fluoresce at at least one particular wavelength when combined with the magnesian mineral on the surface of the ore particle and which causes the magnesium-lean ore particles after said conditioning and upon irradiation to fluoresce at a substantially lower intensity or not at all at the particular wavelength than the intensity of fluorescence of the irradiated, conditioned, magnesium-rich ore particles;
b. after said conditioning, irradiating the conditioned ore with electromagnetic radiation to produce sufficient fluorescence of the conditioned magnesium-rich ore particles to enable the difference in fluorescent intensity between the irradiated, conditioned magnesium-rich ore particles and the irradiated conditioned lean ore particles to be detected;
c. detecting the fluorescent intensity of the irradiated, conditioned ore particles; and,
d. separating said magnesium-rich ore particles from the lean ore particles based on the detected differences in fluorescent intensity of said conditioned, irradiated ore particles.
The invention can involve a method of separating a magnesian mineral from its gangue by conditioning, i.e. contacting, it in particulate form with a reagent which renders the surface of the magnesium-containing portion of the mineral fluorescent while leaving the remaining portion of the surface non-fluorescent or, if it is naturally fluorescent, at least non-fluorescent in the wavelength where the treated magnesium compound fluoresces. The reagent selected is one of the family of compounds called the hydroxy quinolines. The compound of common commercial availability in this group is 8-hydroxyquinoline, which can be used in an aqueous solution and, more preferably, in an alkaline aqueous solution. The magnesium salt of 8-hydroxyquinoline, which is insoluble in water, is fluorescent upon excitation with ultraviolet radiation. It apparently forms a coating on the surface of the magnesian compounds in the mineral. The magnesian mineral can be separated from its uncoated (or lesser coated) gangue due to this induced fluorescence. Prior to treatment (i.e. conditioning) with the hydroxyquinoline, the ore is crushed to a size to give sufficient liberation of the magnesian mineral after treatment with the reagent solution, the ore is exposed to radiation to induce fluorescence and separated, preferably in a sorting apparatus, such as those of U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,472,375 and 3,722,676, which can detect the fluorescent particles and physically remove them from the gangue. The sorting apparatus can be set to separate particles which possess a higher or lower intensity corresponding to the magnesium content of the rock. In this way, recovery and purity can be controlled.
The practice of the process of this invention involves the separation of a magnesian mineral from an ore containing the desired mineral and other, usually unwanted, minerals, called gangue. Examples of such, but by no means all, magnesian minerals include magnesite (MgCO3), brucite Mg(OH)2 !, periclase (MgO), dolomite CaMg(CO3)2 ! and talc Mg3 Si4 O10 (OH)2 !. The ore to be separated is conditioned with a coupling agent which will adhere to the magnesian mineral but will not coat the gangue. Such a coupling agent can be found in the hydroxyquinoline family of compounds, some of which are available commercially. For example, 8-hydroxyquinoline is used as a precipitant for various di- and trivalent cations. The magnesium salt of this compound has been found to be highly fluorescent when excited with ultra-violet light. When a magnesian mineral is conditioned with this reagent, a magnesium 8-hydroxyquinolinate probably forms on the surface of the mineral and is rendered fluorescent by exposure to electromagnetic radiation, such as ultraviolet light. The magnesian mineral particles can then be separated from the substantially non-coated gangue particles by eye or an optical detection apparatus.
The process of the present invention is based upon the differences in surface chemical properties of the material present in the ore. Due to these differences, there can be utilized a coupling agent that will substantially-selectively coat only the magnesian mineral present.
The term "substantially-selectively coat" is used herein to mean that the magnesian mineral, which is to be separated, is coated to a sufficiently greater extent than the remainder of the components of the ore, such that separation can be made based on the difference in the degree of coating.
By proper selection of the coupling agent, the desirable magnesian mineral can be separated from the undesirable refuse. Surface chemical properties are relatively more consistent than other properties such as color, reflectance, or conductivity. By the same token, separation of materials based upon the surface chemical properties is usually more consistent than techniques based upon the above other properties.
Following coating of an ore particle mixture with the coupling agent, the ore particle can be radiated with electromagnetic radiation to cause the coating to fluoresce on the magnesian mineral while the noncoated material does not substantially fluoresce, thereby enabling the particles to be separated by differences in fluorescence.
Generally, fluorescence refers to the property of absorbing radiation at one particular wavelength and simultaneously reemitting light of a different wavelength, so long as the stimulus is active. It is intended in the present method to use the term "fluorescence" to indicate that property of absorbing radiation at one particular wavelength and re-emitting it at a different wavelength, whether or not visible, during exposure to an active stimulus, or after exposure, or during both these time periods. Thus, fluorescence is used generically herein to include fluorescence and phosphorescence, and envisions the emission of electromagnetic waves whether or not within the visible spectrum.
Electromagnetic radiation generally refers to the emission of energy waves of all the various wavelengths encompassed by the entire electromagnetic spectrum. It is intended in the present method to use the term "electromagnetic radiation" to indicate any and all stimuli that will excite and induce fluorescence of the fluorescent agent. Thus, electromagnetic radiation is used generically herein to include electromagnetic radiation and envisions other stimuli that will excite and induce fluorescence of a fluorescent agent.
The method of this invention is practiced in regard to an ore particle mixture containing a desired magnesian mineral by conditioning the ore particles, usually following a sizing step, with a coupling agent that selectively adheres to a magnesian compound in the mineral. The coupling agents that are selective for the magnesian mineral are members of a family of compounds called the hydroxyquinolines such as 8-hydroxyquinoline.
Generally, in practicing the present method, the ore containing the magnesium-bearing mineral is first subjected to a crushing step. The ore is crushed to substantially physical separate the magnesium mineral from the refuse present. Crushing increases the surface area of the particles and further provides a greater surface and reactive sites for the coating of the particles by the coupling agent. In this crushing step, the ore, as mined, is typically crushed to a particle size from about 1/4 to about 8 inches (that is, by the usual measurement techniques using standard screens). It is preferred to crush the ore in particle sizes of from about 1/2 to 3 inches. Particles of less than 1/4 inch and greater than 8 inches can be used in the the practice of the method of this invention. However, the coating and separation of ore particles less than 1/4 inch is less economically attractive and ore particles of greater than 8 inches entrain sufficiently greater amounts of impurities, so as to make the separation process less efficient. Usually the crushing will be followed by a sizing step. Following the crushing and sizing processes, the ore can be washed and deslimed to remove soluble impurities and surface fines on the particles.
After the crushing, sizing and desliming (or washing) steps, the ore is conditioned with a coupling agent of the hydroxyquinoline family, preferably 8-hydroxyquinoline and derivatives thereof, most preferred, 8-hydroxyquinoline because it is commercially available. The formula for 8-hydroxyquinoline is ##STR1## and it can be used in neutral or basic medium. However, it is preferable to use a basic solution, since it is more soluble in basic solution. It has lower solubility in neutral solution, and in acid solutions, the magnesium complex, if formed, is not fluorescent. Other members of the hydroxyquinoline family which are water-soluble can be applied in a similar manner. Members which are more soluble in organic solvents can be applied as a solution in such a solvent.
The hydroxyquinoline family is exemplified by the following list (which is not exclusive):
4-Hydroxyquinoline trihydrate(4-quinolinol)
4-Hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid (kynurenic acid)
8-Hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide(8-quinoline N-oxide)
To condition the ore, the coupling agent in solution is mixed with the ore. Many methods can be employed to contact the coupling agent solution with the ore. Such methods include, but are not limited to, spraying the solution onto the particles, passing the particles through a solution bath, and the like (e.g., see Ser. No. 897,946, now abandoned and, preferably Ser. No. 45,186, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,241,102). It is preferred to spray the preferred to spray the solution on the ore particles. Such a spraying operation can consist of spraying the ore particles as they pass on a belt on shaker bed (e.g., Ser. No. 45,186, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,241,102). Due to the surface properties of the magnesium compound in the magnesian mineral, the coupling agent selectively adheres to the surface of the magnesian mineral, and said mineral will have a coating capable of fluorescing, which allows the magnesian mineral to be separated from the lesser coated or substantially non-coated refuse present in the ore.
Following the conditioning of the ore, the ore is exposed to electromagnetic radiation to cause the coating on the magnesian mineral particles to fluoresce. The coated fluorescing particles can be separated from the lesser fluorescing or substantially non-fluorescing particles by many different means, such as by hand or by an optical sorting device, such as the apparatus taught by Matthews in U.S. Pat. No. 3,472,375 or that by Buchot et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 3,795,310.
In the Matthews apparatus, a free-falling mixture of potentially fluorescent ore particles passes in front of a row of detectors, while being illuminated with electromagnetic radiation. Each detector, by proper attenuation, is capable of distinguishing between fluorescence or non-fluorescence or between degrees of fluorescence. Each detector, in turn, controls one flowing fluid stream selectively directed transverse to the path of the falling particle, the fluid stream being permitted to impinge only on the properly emitting ore particles. The directed fluid stream deflects the ore particles into a divergent path by which they are separted from the undesired ore particles. Such an apparatus is capable of detecting and separating the coupling agent coated particles from the non-coated particles. As an alternative to free-fall, the ore particles can be separated while being transported on a moving conveyor, such as a belt or screen.
The invention is further illustrated by the following examples, which are not intended to be limiting.
A synthetic sample of magnesite, calcite and siliceous rock was formulated containing 26.8% magnesite, 30.4% calcite and 42.8% siliceous rock in particles of about 1 inch to 3 inch screen size. After washing, the material was conditioned with a 0.1% solution of 8-hydroxyquinoline in water, as the sodium salt. After conditioning, the material was rinsed and passed through an irradiation device to induce fluorescence. A visible difference between magnesium rich ore particles and magnesium lean ore particles was detected during irradiation which permitted hand sorting of the particles.
Hand sorting of the conditioned, fluorescing particles produced the fractions shown below in weight %:
______________________________________FRACTION % Separation % Magnesite % Distribution*______________________________________Eject 25.1 88.0 82.3Reject 74.9 6.3 17.7Head (Feed) 100.0 26.8 100.0______________________________________ *"Distribution" is weight % of total magnesite in original sample.
By "eject" is meant that in a Mathews-type separator, the particle would be deflected (or ejected) from its free-fall path.
A similar synthetic sample of particles comprising 38.8% magnesite, 41.8% limestone, and 19.4% siliceous rock was treated as in Example 1.
Hand sorting the conditioned, fluorescing particles gave the following result:
______________________________________FRACTION % Separation % Magnesite % Dist.______________________________________Eject 41.8 79.0 85Reject 58.2 10.0 15Head 100.0 38.8 100.0______________________________________
A batch of particulate rock containing 59.3% talc was conditioned with 0.1% 8-hydroxyquinoline solution, rinsed and induced to fluoresce, as in Example 1. Hand sorting the conditioned, fluorescing products gave the following result:
______________________________________FRACTION % Separation % Talc % Dist.______________________________________Eject 62.0 85.7 89.7Reject 38.0 17.6 11.3Head 100.0 59.3 100.0______________________________________
A talc ore from Montana was crushed to 1" to 4", treated with 8-hydroxyquinoline (0.1%) and processed in a pilot plant fluorescent separator (as in the patents to Mathews). Five runs were made with the following results in weight %:
______________________________________% FRACTION % TALC % DOLOMITERUN # Eject Reject Eject Reject Eject Reject______________________________________1 42.5 57.5 63 25 37 752 17.3 82.7 86 25 39 613 62.9 37.1 61 13 39 874 26.1 73.9 89 37 11 635 69.2 30.8 54 19 46 81______________________________________
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Lorenzo, who suffered a broken collarbone at Assen in June, twice underwent surgery following his initial heavy crash in the Netherlands and a subsequent accident in Germany two weeks later.
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Lorenzo halted leader Marc Marquez's four-race winning streak when he triumphed at Silverstone a fortnight ago, but he is still 39 points adrift of his rookie compatriot in the riders' standings with six races remaining.
Having seen title rivals Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa both struck down by injuries this season, Marquez himself dislocated his shoulder at Silverstone but the 20-year-old was confident it would not hamper him at Misano.
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With each day bringing news of fresh disasters – environmental, economic and geo-political – the premise of City of Ember seems less fanciful and more futuristic.
Adapting Jeanne DuPrau's critically praised young adult novel of 2003, director Gil Kenan (Monster House) and screenwriter Caroline Thompson (Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands) have fashioned a film about a post-apocalyptic underground city that is tinged with an appropriate degree of realism.
The teenage protagonists of City of Ember, Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway) and Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan from Atonement) are not such far-fetched characters. Their parents' and grandparents' generations are living in Ember in blind faith that the lights will stay on as long as they're alive. Doon and Lina would like to imagine a future beyond Ember.
The Builders created Ember when the world ended and all turned to darkness. The underground city is home to the last remnants of humankind. In a box entrusted to the mayor are the secret instructions for what to do after 200 years when the huge generator that keeps the lights on in Ember is bound to fail.
But the box has been lost. It is 241; there are daily blackouts and food is running out. The corrupt mayor of Ember (Bill Murray) has a survival plan for himself. (Mayor Cole is one of Murray's supremely ironic performances.) As the pipes are bursting and the lights fading, he announces to the citizenry "not just an answer, but a solution": a special task force.
Doon decides to take matters into his own hands. On assignment day, when youngsters pull job descriptions out of a hat, he traded his messenger job for Lina's pipe works assignment.
He goes hunting for an entrance to the generator and finds evidence that the people are being robbed of their food stores. When Lina discovers a mysterious box with some tattered instructions inside, they join up to find an exit out of Ember.
An A-list cast, all of them acting in a very stylized fashion, brings Thompson's no-nonsense script to life with some amusing touches. Tim Robbins plays Doon's father, a hare-brained, slightly mad inventor who has given up hope for a fix for Ember.
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Our location guide for Cervera de la Marenda provides some basic essentials for the more adventurous visitor. A simple location map is provided but also a detailed topography map that shows the location of the nearest places where you can surf, ski or mountain climb (if they are close by). Of course some of these will be at long distances from Cervera de la Marenda and those far flung spots are provided on the 'nearest' tables. If you are traveling to other cities or towns near Cervera de la Marenda you will also find weather forecasts for those locations below.
Cervera de la Marenda Location Map (Département des Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France)
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|Light rain (total 4mm), mostly falling on Tue night
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|Light rain (total 3mm), mostly falling on Sun morning
|Light rain (total 2mm), mostly falling on Wed night
|Light rain (total 6mm), mostly falling on Mon night
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|Vallter 2000 (Spain)
|69 km WSW
|Second closest ski resort2
|Vall de Nuria (Spain)
|79 km WSW
|Third closest ski resort3
|Formigueres (France)
|82 km WSW
|Fourth closest ski resort4
|Bolquere Pyrenees 2000 (France)
|83 km WSW
|Fifth closest ski resort5
|Les Angles (France)
|84 km WSW
Mountains close to Cervera de la Marenda:
|Closest mountain peak1
|Albera Massif (France)
|13 km SW
|Second closest mountain peak2
|Puig Neulos (France)
|13 km SW
|Third closest mountain peak3
|Mare de Deu del Mont (France)
|44 km SSW
|Fourth closest mountain peak4
|Puig de Bassegoda (France)
|45 km SW
|Fifth closest mountain peak5
|Montgri Massif (Spain)
|51 km S
Surf Beaches close to Cervera de la Marenda:
|Closest surf break1
|Collioure (France)
|1 km W
|Second closest surf break2
|Le Racou (France)
|4 km W
|Third closest surf break3
|Banyuls (France)
|5 km SSE
|Fourth closest surf break4
|Argelès-Sur-Mer (France)
|6 km WNW
|Fifth closest surf break5
|St Cyprien (France)
|13 km NW
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Glenn Beck conspiracy theory: A Saudi national was involved in the Boston Marathon attack, Glenn Beck alleges. US officials reject the notion and dismiss the 'evidence' as so much bureaucratic paperwork.
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Glenn Beck has spent lots of time in recent days alleging that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by a conspiracy that revolved around a shadowy Saudi national questioned by police in a Boston hospital in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.
OK, is he just winging it here, or does the ex-Fox, now-independent radio and Internet video host have any real evidence for this charge?
He says he does, unsurprisingly. On his show Wednesday morning Mr. Beck produced a document that he claimed is an official US "event report" showing that the Saudi in question is a bad, bad man who was on a no-fly list and already subject to visa revocation.
What he didn't mention is that Fox News reporter Bret Baier has already looked into this whole alleged Saudi conspiracy, including the document Beck deemed so revealing, and concluded that there was no there there, to paraphrase writer Gertrude Stein's jibe about Oakland.
It's "false and misleading" to use the internal document on the Saudi's immigration status as evidence of the man's involvement in the bombings, according to US officials quoted by Mr. Baier in a Fox video blog on April 23.
"The FBI says the Saudi [in question] was just a victim of the terrorist attack," said Baier.
OK, let's rewind a bit to clarify this, shall we?
In the immediate aftermath of the Boston tragedy, many media outlets reported that law enforcement officials were interrogating an injured Saudi man who had been seen running from the site of the bombs. Authorities that evening searched his residence in suburban Revere.
Officials later reported that this Saudi was a student and an innocent spectator who had been injured by the blasts and was trying to escape along with many other people on the Marathon route.
Although the man's name has been reported by some media outlets, Decoder won't be using it, so as to not further publicize the identity of someone police say did nothing wrong.
Since then Glenn Beck has continued to link the Saudi to the bombing and to terrorism in general. He has charged that the man was in the US on a student visa that had expired and that he will be deported by US immigration for security reasons. He has gone so far as to speculate that a Saudi national may have been an Al Qaeda control agent who recruited the Tsarnaev brothers to carry out the Boston attacks.
Then on Wednesday Beck dropped his other shoe, revealing what he said was important new evidence in the case.
Beck said he had received a document he called a 212 3(B) report, named after its reference in the Patriot Act. The document said that a Saudi national with the same name as the person questioned in the hours after the bombing is an "exact match" to someone on a no-fly list and that derogatory information on him is "sufficient to request visa revocation."
A copy of the alleged document posted online by Beck's web site The Blaze also noted that the person in question "has One (1) prior event," though there was no indication what, or how serious, that event was.
Wow, I mean, this does not look good, does it? Twitter has exploded with comments about how important this is, and how it presages the exposure of the conspiracy, which probably involves everyone up to the level of the Oval Office, and perhaps beyond.
But Bret Baier had this piece of paper already. On Tuesday, he talked with US officials about it, and got a different story.
First off, Baier said the wording of the paper was indeed somewhat dire.
"Anyone looking at this would say this is a bad guy, this means they had a lot of stuff on this guy," he said.
But officials told him it was simply an automatic piece of customs paperwork triggered when police went to question the Saudi in the hours after the bombing.
To make sure he did not somehow get on an airplane before they could talk to him, they put him on a no-fly list. That automatically meant he was subject to visa revocation. The other language, including the reference to an "event," followed from that.
"Also keep in mind, it's just … a customs and border control document…. It's not indicative of any investigative information," said Baier.
After the FBI determined the man had no connection to the Boston crime, it took several days for the bureaucracy to scrub him out of its system. That is why the document existed for a short period of time, and why it shows evidence of officials trying to change it. But anyone searching the system for his name on the Sunday prior to the bombing would have found nothing, reported Baier, because no US government agency was looking for him.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano referred to all this obliquely in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R) of Iowa asked her, "With regard to the Saudi student, was he on a watch list?"
The Homeland Security Secretary replied that the Saudi in question had not been on a watch list prior to the bombings and was never really a person of interest in the case.
"Because he was being interviewed, he was at that point put on a watch list," Napolitano added. "And then when it was quickly determined he had nothing to do with the bombing, the watch listing status was removed."
As if all this weren't complicated enough, a number of news outlets have reported that there is a second Saudi man in Boston, unrelated to the student, who was taken into custody when he showed up at a port to retrieve a package, and a routine check showed he had overstayed his visa.
That's the Saudi who is subject to deportation. The student who was caught in the bomb blast is not.
Of course, it's easy to point out that all this is based on the word of US officials, and that they're eager to cover up the conspiracy, since it makes them look bad, or they are part of it, or something like that.
But that's why conspiracy theories persist: it's easy to dream them up, and hard to disprove them, especially to believers.


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If you played in Kasparov vs the world or Karpov vs the world, your number is 5.
7: PrawnEatsPrawn -> Kacparov ->> Short ->>> Kholmov ->>>> Botvinnik ->>>>> Michell ->>>>>> Owen ->>>>>>> Morphy.
[EDIT: Oh yeah. I did play the world's side against Carlsen, so maybe I can crank the number down a notch.]
5, via Nigel Short.
I have a Morphy Number of 4.
Morphy-Henry Bird-Jacques Mieses-Leonard Barden-Me.
I also have a dog called Morphy.
My sister met the entire Russian team in 1973 when they were in Bath at the hotel where she was working, and Botvinnik was on that team (also Tal, Smyslov, Petrosian and Spassky!) so it's me -- sister -- Botvinnik -- Michell -- Owen -- Morphy, so 6. But if it's a question of playing then the chain's a bit longer.
Six degrees of Paul Morphy?
I wonder what Kevin Bacon's Morhphy number is.
Well, maybe its a little unique for me. Im not a professional or even master, my rating just around 2000+, and chess is my hobby. My key link to this Morphy number is a FIDE Master, Arnold Huhndorf from German, so lets see
I played Huhndorf at FICS
Huhndorf played Lev Gutman at 2010 Bad Woerishofen German
Gutman played Samuel Reshevksy at 1982 Beersheba
Reshevksy played Emanuel Lasker at 1936 Nottingham
E.Lasker played Henry Bird at 1899 London
Finally, Bird played Morphy at 1858 London, sources:chess tempo
So i have Morphy number 6. But maybe anyone can search the better number for me!
In FICS Arnold Huhndorf has an account named "Telamon".
Mine's 6 if you count Simul-play. Played the late Bob McGregor who was notorious for his Damiano shenanigans against Fischer (Morphy # of 4) in a simul.
I've drawn John Donaldson who drew Karpov who beat Smyslov who beat Euwe who beat Lasker who beat James McConnell who beat Paul Morphy.That's 7 without a loss.
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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are so used to being treated like royalty in LA, they expected the same kind of treatment while doing promos in New York for 'The Hills' wrap party. Fortunately, New Yorkers know better than that.
After the wrap party the entire cast went over to NYC Hotspot Butter. Lauren Conrad and the crew arrived first and were quickly escorted to their table. But when Speidi arrived, they were flat out denied entrance. "They were not allowed in," a spy told Page Six.
"Heidi starting crying and making a scene at the rope and eventually gets let in. Butter didn't even want them there. They are such jokes," the source added.
Heidi was apparently in such a bad mood after being denied that they only stayed for an hour. Let's get a trend going, if you're an NYC club promoter, you should just start denying them for the fun of it. It's sad that they really do get treated like royalty here in LA. But then again, so do most reality show stars.


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