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Cranberry Vinaigrette
The bright flavors of this vinaigrette really make a salad POP. Because it is a puree, I like to spread the vinaigrette on the bottom of a platter, arrange my salad ingredients on top of it and then dress the top of the ingredients very simply with really good extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt. That way, the leaves do not become soggy and overdressed.
- Prep Time : 10 min
- Ready Time : 10 min
For the Cranberries
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1 1/2 cups of cranberries
For the cranberry Vinaigrette
- 1 cup cooked cranberries
- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked pepper
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 2 tablespoons toasted walnut oil (or canola oil if there is a nut allergy)
For the Salad
- 6 cups baby spinach or favorite salad green
- Poached pears, sliced
- Pickled shallots, sliced
For the Cranberries
1 In a saucepan, combine water and sugar, stirring to dissolve sugar.
2 Bring to boil; add cranberries, reduce heat to medium-low. Cook until skins pop. To gel sauce, cool completely at room temperature, refrigerate until firm.
Makes 2 1/4 cups.
For the dressing: Mix all ingredients together and keep in a sealable jar until ready to use.
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Be careful about hand inspections. There are horror stories of dimbulb inspecters removing film from cassettes or opening cameras containing film. Remember we are now dealing with the digital mindset to which the concept of film is totally alien.
Be careful about hand inspections. There are horror stories of dimbulb inspecters removing film from cassettes or opening cameras containing film. Remember we are now dealing with the digital mindset to which the concept of film is totally alien.
All airports I have been to in Australia (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns, Gold Coast) have hand checked for me, some more difficult than others to ask for it.
Small risk is not no risk. If they didn't damage then an unlimited number of passes would not affect film.
I prefer to ask when I can and have time to do so to minimise the number of passes. I just tell them I stake my living on this/professional use, and that no, a single pass isn't going to hurt, but it's already had multiple passes, and that I prefer to be safe than sorry with my work, and ask if they could kindly do an explosives swab instead of an xray.
There are also lead lined carry on bags that will attenuate (but not block) the X-Ray scans, so that the level is quite reduced and they can boost the image digitally after the pass.
I second that! The airport environment has close to zero tolerance now in terms of what people are carrying, and where and how people try to smuggle-in contraband, and rolls of film have been on the radar for a while now. If Customs want to unravel a roll of film, there is nothing stopping them (least of all you!) the law is on their side and they are entitled to be very thorough if they have the slightest suspicion. Just put everything on the counter as directed and in through x-ray: keeping things nice, pleasant, civilised and orderly will make everybody's day; the reverse having you shunted off for an intricate interview in a back room (and yet more things pulled apart). All this is because at some stage idiots have smuggled in drugs in otherwise innocuous-looking rolls of film (opening the canisters, removing the film spool, stuffing in e.g. heroin or ice). It is through the refined detective work of Customs that we don't have a great deal of illicit stuff getting through the border, and their methods and detections are always being fine-tuned.
I had a few screeners try to unroll exposed 120 and 220 films before, and there is always one that wants to pull out on the leader of a 35mm cassette. A few have asked to unwrap and remove the foil from 120/220 films that were unexposed to check. When going someplace that you know they will not care for hand inspections you can pick up a few of the thick xray bags. I have a big Domke one that is like 10lbs, and another smaller japanese type thats a bit smaller but can easily hold a 10 roll brick. Dont get the thinner plastic roll up pouches unless you plan on bagging film in those, and then into the thicker type bags. They work really well, when they made me pass film through with it instead of giving me hand inspection, it showed up as a huge black space on the monitor. At JFK they didnt care and said the machine was film safe and let it pass, at Shanghai coming back they freaked and had 4-5 people come over, and ultimately gave me the hand inspection I asked for.
Can I add the Fuji 800Z to the list? I was a little afraid of this one, but it turned out just fine.
It's always best to get a hand inspection to avoid the X-rays no matter how X-ray safe they say their machine is because of the cumulative effects of multiple passes, but if the screeners deny you you are better off having the lead bags that nothing at all. Most people in these positions are apathetic to your reasoning about protecting your film.
But what keeps them, after seeing that black brick at their monitor, from opening the bag, pouring out the films and having them run through the X-ray scanner?


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Royal used to say in the much loved British sitcom The Royal Family.....''My Arse''!!! Australia together with Canada, two countries with no history of Antisemitism (& virtually the only countries with growing jewish populations) are also Israel's staunchest supporters...the only vibes i get from Oz are mostly pro-Israel ones from her jewish & non jewish citizens. COMPARE THIS with the situation in the UK where the climate is far more anti zionist amongst polititians, students & a bigger proportion of British Jews as well. The defeat for Ronnie Fraser (jewish maths lecturer) in his antisemitism High Court case against the UCU as reported in the Jewish Chronicle this week is an appauling microcosm of what i am referring to.
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Bring your fierce side to light on Halloween when you dress in the Warrior Woman Black Adult Women's Costume. This powerful black dress features a skull belt detail, complete with arm cuffs and a cape with an attached fur collar. Men will kneel at your feet!
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|120.5 x 67 x 11 mm
|FM Radio
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|Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
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Capacitive with multi-touch
The HD2 is the one of the few WinMo phones that has a capacitive display that can follow multi-touch gestures.The only other device to be able to do that was from HTC only, its predessor – the HD.
After competing over megapixel counts and internal memory, the latest trend in the cellphone world is the size of the touchscreen. And that is the first thing that hits you about HTC's latest WinMo child. Bordering a smartphone and an Internet tablet, the highlight of the HD2 is its massive 4.3 inch capacitive display. Now normally, anything that gets close to the four inch figure starts becoming both a pain to the hands and the pockets. And this is where we must commend HTC's design team, because in spite of its masive footprint (it stands over 12cm tall!), the HD2 is very comfortable to use and lug.
HTC's Sense UI
The HD2 is also special as it is the first Windows Mobile smartphone to be embedded with HTC's Sense user interface,which we first saw on the Android-based Hero. HTC is famous (read infamous,if you work for a certain company in Redmond) for tweaking operating systems – be it Android or WinMo – to the extent that they bear little semblance to their original selves.And the HD2 is easily the pinnacle of that effort as HTC has virtually overhauled Windows Mobile. The Sense UI coupled with TouchFlo 3D homescreen is so deep-rooted that there is no option to turn it off and go back to default Windows Mobile UI. Officially, Windows Mobile does not support multi-touch,yet ,but the HD2 does in the browser,media gallery and even Google Maps! And of course, it uses Opera Mobile as its default browser instead of Internet Explorer (more winces from Redmond, we bet, but consumers will be cheering).
The result of all this customisation is a brilliant user interface.Coupled with Qualcomm's 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, the interface is snappy (pun intended. Snap-dragon, geddit?) and things work as they should. The device didn't freeze even once and neither did it show any signs of slowing down despite of heavy multi-tasking (five -six apps running simultaniously).
What's dissapointing on the HD2 is the absence of apps on Microsoft's application store that it calls Market Place. At the moment, there are less than 500 apps in the store and only a minority of them are free. Compare this with Apple's App store with over 140,000 apps, many of them being free and over 10,000 on Android's Market, with again no shortage of freebies, Yeah, the hardware rocks, but it is a pity seeing it backed up by so few apps. We mean, take the apps out of the iPhone and HTC Hero and what are ye left with?
App trouble
HTC, on its part, has pre-installed a number of apps and has even embedded a few into its UI. like the Sense UI on the Hero, even the HD2 combines your online social networks with your phonebook. Then there is a very basic dedicated Twitter client. One o the pre-installed apps that we would like to highlight is the 'Wi-Fi Router' that converts the data connection from your carrier into a Wi-Fi hotspot to which other devices can latch on – very handy, especially if you have got lots of bandwidth to play with. We had a blast using it to get our iPod Touch online.
While HTC has done everything it could and then some more to make WinMo look classy, the only place where the HD2 falters is the lack of applications on Microsoft's Marketplace fo mobile.
Battery Performance
Another point where the HD2 falters is its battery life, which is comparable to that of the iPhone 3G (not the iPhone 3GS, mind you). After charging the battery in the morning ,we had to plug is again for charging early in the evening. We got about 15 hours of battery life with about an hour of calls and about two hours of Web browsing and Tweeting. The 4.3 inch display is the culprit here, we suspect. Its 5.0 megapixel camera is one of the few dissappointments on the device, with its result being nothing worth writing home about.
Final Verdict
Retailing at about $500 (without contracts), the HD2 from HTC is the best WinMO smartphone that money can buy at the moment. But that doesn't stop us from thinking that it would have done so much more had it been running Android. But that ain't gonna stop us from kneeling to new WinMo king!


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Venus Williams advances to Wimbledon third round with 7-6 (4), 6-1 win over Kurumi Nara
Five-time champion Venus Williams overcame a slow start to beat Japan's Kurumi Nara 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Wednesday to reach the third round at Wimbledon.
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Serena Williams lost in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday. Older sister Venus Williams also was eliminated in the second round.
Venus and Serena Williams win Olympic doubles titleComment
Venus and Serena Williams won the women's doubles title at the Olympics Sunday, with Serena adding to the singles gold she won on Centre Court at Wimbledon a day earlier.
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Serena Williams says altering her diet in support of big sister Venus hasn't been much of a hardship.
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While the Northeast continues to deal with flooding from the aftermath of Irene, parts of the Southwest continue to deal with wildfires. Also, Venus Williams' tennis future is cloudy, as she bolts from the U.S. Open.
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Venus and Serena Williams are hosting a tennis clinic for Washington kids, followed by a gala affair at night.
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The family and friends of the 26 people killed a year ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, held a candlelight vigil Thursday night in Washington.
The family and friends of the 26 people killed a year ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, held a candlelight vigil Thursday night in Washington.
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Christmas is a time to be with family. But what happens when you can't be with loved ones?
Familiar and highly popular screen characters mark their return to theaters this weekend,
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This time of year, with all the present buying, snow shoveling and family visiting, rarely do we have a moment to really think through that year-end bonus we hope is coming. But there are some important things you should know about your bonus—before you rely on it to cover the cost of all the gifts you just bought.
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After a yearly increase in usage of 17,000 percent, "selfie" was crowned 2013's Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries, following last year's winner "gif" and beating out the Miley Cyrus-endorsed "twerk," among others.
Americans may not be working harder than ever, but it sure seems like we are working more than ever.
Thanksgiving, which we've been celebrating in America for centuries now, is a time of family, food and, especially, tradition. Even so, many of the stories we take as gospel about this wonderful holiday—wonderful if you're not endlessly bickering with your relatives, that is—aren't true at all. Myth, legend and wishful thinking play into a lot of the misconceptions surrounding Turkey Day.
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Easy Baked Chicken Kiev
|Whole chicken breasts
|4 Pound, boned, split, and skinned (4 In Number)
|Grated parmesan cheese
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Fine dry bread crumbs
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Oregano leaves
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Garlic salt
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|4 Tablespoon, softened
|Chopped parsley
|1 Tablespoon
|Jack cheese
|4 Ounce, cut into 8 strips (Each 1/2 Inch Thick And 1 1/2 Inches Long)
|5 Tablespoon, melted
Place chicken breasts, one at a time, between 2 sheets of wax paper or plastic wrap.
With flat side of a mallet, gently pound breasts until each is about 1/4 inch thick; set aside.
In a rimmed plate or pie pan, combine bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoon of the oregano, garlic salt, and pepper; set aside.
In a small bowl, stir together the 4 tablespoons softened butter, parsley, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon oregano.
Spread about 1/2, tablespoon of the herb-butter mixture across each breast about an inch from lower edge; lay a strip of jack cheese over butter mixture.
Fold lower edge of breast over filling then fold in sides and roll up to enclose filling (photo 2).
Dip each bundle in the melted butter and drain briefly; then roll in bread crumb mixture until evenly coated (photo 3).
Place bundles, seam side down, without touching, in a 9 by 13-inch baking pan.
Drizzle with any remaining butter.
Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or until next day.
Bake, uncovered, in a preheated 425° oven for 20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink when lightly slashed (cut just a small slash so filling doesn't ooze out)


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The campus' rich academic portfolio includes 80 undergraduate degrees, 50 graduate and professional schools and over 20 online bachelor's and graduate degrees.
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Comedy Central comedian Gabriel Iglesias, known to millions of fans as the "fluffy" comic in a Hawaiian shirt, has announced his 2010 tour, "Comedy Central Live: Gabriel Iglesias The Fluffy Shop." The Live Nation produced tour kicks off on January 14th with a 50 date trek across North America. Tickets go on sale beginning November 7th at LiveNation.com with a fan club presale beginning November 4th.
Iglesias's high-octane show is a mixture of storytelling, parodies, characters and sound effects that bring all his personal issues to life, with a clean, animated comedy style that has earned national crossover appeal. Iglesias has appeared on such shows as "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," HBO's "Comedy Minutes," NBC's "Showtime at the Apollo," ABC's "My Wife And Kids," Showtime's original series "Resurrection Blvd," VH1's "I Love the 80s," BET's "Comic View" and numerous performances on the popular Galavision show "Que Locos."
Comedy Central will air the world premiere of Iglesias's one-hour stand-up special, "Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat…I'm Fluffy" on Sunday, November 8 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. On Tuesday, November 10, "Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat…I'm Fluffy" stand-up special will be released nationally on DVD by Comedy Central Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment and download-to-own including iTunes (pre-order Tuesday, October 27) and Amazon Video On Demand. In addition, the special will be available in standard and high definition versions on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Zune and Playstation Store.
For additional information on Iglesias and a full tour schedule, please visit fluffyguy.com and LiveNation.com. To join the Gabriel Iglesias fan club, add him as a friend at Myspace.com/fluffyguy.
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A system, method and apparatus for handling hazardous materials, including liquid and solid materials, includes as a central feature the encapsulation of materials into spherical capsules. The capsules, which may be in one preferred embodiment about 12 inches to 17 inches in diameter, may be formed of two connected hemispheres or as an integral ball with a fill opening. Once filled and sealed, the spherical balls are nearly indestructible (although incineratable) and a very high percentage of the balls will survive even in a collision of a vehicle carrying them. The system of the invention preferably includes a color coding scheme directly on the capsules for identifying the materials in the capsules both generally, with a background color, and more specifically, with one or more color bands. In one preferred embodiment the spherical balls, when filled with hazardous materials, have a specific gravity less than 1.0 so that they will float.
1. A system for containment, storage and transport of hazardous materials, comprising,
a plurality of substantially rigid spherical capsules, each having filling means for receiving hazardous material,
material loading means for handling a quantity of hazardous material, for filling a plurality of the spherical capsules with the material, and for sealing the capsules closed,
and visual identifying means on the surface of each capsule for indicating the type of material carried in the capsule.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual identifying means comprises, on each capsule, a background color indicating generically a type of material contained in the capsule and at least one color band different from the background color indicating more specifically the contents of the capsule.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the spherical capsules are formed of polyvinyl chloride.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the spherical capsules are formed from one of the following: polyvinyl chloride, Teflon, Kynar, Dynel and Orlon.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the material loading means includes weight control means for filling each spherical capsule with hazardous material only to the extent that the filled, sealed capsule has a specific gravity less than 1.0.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the visual identifying means comprises, on each capsule, a background color indicating generically a type of material contained in the capsule and at least one color band different from the background color indicating more specifically the contents of the capsule.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the spherical capsules are all of substantially uniform size, the size being up to about seventeen inches outside diameter.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the spherical capsules have a size in the range of about six inches to thirty inches outside diameter.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the capsules have a size in the range of about twelve inches to seventeen inches outside diameter.
10. The system of claim 1, further including specific batch identifying means comprising a machine-readable code on each individual spherical capsule.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the spherical capsules are incineratable along with the material contained.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein each capsule has means for substantially preventing re-use after the material has been emptied from the capsule.
13. A method for containing, storing, transporting and handling of hazardous materials, comprising,
feeding a quantity of hazardous material comprising liquid material, solid material or a combination of liquids and solids, to a material loading machine,
with the material loading machine, filling a large plurality of spherical capsules with the hazardous material, and hermetically sealing each capsule upon filling, and
transporting the filled, sealed spherical capsules as a fluid-like mass of the capsules, in a transporting vehicle, to a selected destination.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of filling the spherical capsules comprises assembling a pair of generally hemispherical halves together with the hazardous material contained therein.
15. The method of claim 13, wherein the spherical capsules are of a diameter between about twelve inches and seventeen inches.
16. The method of claim 13, including filling each spherical capsule with material only to the extent that the filled and sealed capsule has a specific gravity less than 1.0 whereby the capsules will float in water.
17. The method of claim 13, further including identifying generally the contents of each filled capsule using a visually identifiable color.
18. The method of claim 17, further including identifying the contents of each capsule more specifically by using at least one color band of a different color from the background color.
19. The method of claim 16, further including transporting some of the filled spherical capsules through a pipeline within which liquid flows.
20. The method of claim 13, wherein the hazardous material comprises waste material, wherein the spherical capsules are incineratable, and wherein the method includes disposing of the capsules along with the hazardous waste by incinerating the capsules and waste together.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein each spherical capsule includes a means for substantially preventing re-use of the capsule.
22. The method of claim 20, wherein the incineratable spherical capsules are formed of polyvinyl chloride.
23. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of filling and sealing the capsules comprises forming a permanent seal such that the spherical capsules cannot be opened without destruction.
24. The method of claim 13, wherein all spherical capsules are of substantially the same size.
25. The method of claim 13, wherein the spherical capsules are non-biodegradable.
26. The method of claim 25, wherein the spherical capsules are incineratable.
27. The method of claim 13, further including transporting a plurality of the filled spherical capsules using an egg carton-type pallet capable of use with a forklift.
28. The method of claim 13, further including applying identifying indicia to each filled capsule to identify generally the type of hazardous material, and including providing public service vehicles with neutralizing substances contained in openable capsules having a similar identifying indicia, whereby in the event any of the filled capsules is accidentally broken and opened and spills hazardous material, the hazardous material can be neutralized by public service employees carrying capsules with counteracting, neutralizing substances at the site of the spill.
29. The method of claim 13, further including providing a plurality of neutralizing capsules carrying chemicals which will neutralize or reduce the hazardous effect of materials carried in said spherical capsules when mixed with said materials, the neutralizing capsules carrying different chemicals for different purposes; providing coding on both the hazardous material containing spherical capsules and on the neutralizing capsules which will enable public officials to identify the appropriate neutralizing capsules in the event of an accident involving the hazardous material containing capsules; and storing the neutralizing capsules in appropriate places for use by public officials in the event of an accident.
30. A container carrying hazardous waste, comprising,
a substantially spherical capsule formed of incineratable plastic material,
hazardous waste material contained in the spherical capsule, the walls of the capsule contacting the waste material being non-reactive with and not attackable by the particular waste material,
and fill means for permitting the introduction of the hazardous waste material into the capsule, the fill means and the capsule being closed and hermetically sealed substantially permanently,
whereby the plastic spherical capsule may be disposed of together with the hazardous waste in a high temperature incinerator.
31. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein the spherical capsule is filled with the waste material only to the extent that the specific gravity of the filled capsule is less than 1.0, whereby the filled, sealed capsule with hazardous waste will float on water.
32. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein the capsule is formed of polyvinyl chloride.
33. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein the fill means comprises the capsule being formed of a pair of hemispherical halves assembled and sealed together to contain the waste material.
34. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein the fill means comprises a sealable opening on one position on the otherwise integral spherical capsule.
35. A container carrying hazardous material, comprising,
a substantially spherical capsule formed of plastic material,
hazardous material contained in the spherical capsule, the hazardous material comprising material whose chemical makeup is inherently capable of causing harm if coming into contact with living beings, or which is liable if spilled or released to be inadvertently combined with other substances to form a hazardous material,
the walls of the capsule contacting the material being non-reactive with and not attackable by the particular material,
and fill means for permitting the introduction of the hazardous material into the capsule, the fill means and the capsule being closed and hermetically sealed.
36. A container according to claim 35, further including means for substantially preventing re-use of the capsule.
37. A container according to claim 36, wherein the re-use preventing means comprises said fill means having permanent sealing means for preventing opening of the capsule without destruction.
The invention relates generally to the handling of hazardous wastes and other hazardous materials. More specifically the invention is concerned with a new form of container for hazardous materials, as well as a system for handling, storing and transporting the hazardous material using containers in accordance with the invention.
The handling, storage and transport of hazardous materials, and particularly of hazardous wastes, has become a problem of major proportions. With regard to hazardous waste, the standard and in most instances the required form of containment has been the 55-gallon steel drum. These drums are biodegradable themselves, but this causes obvious problems in that the drums rust and decompose at dump sites and consequently leak hazardous, poisonous and carcinogenic compounds into the earth and the ground water supply.
In transportation of hazardous materials using the 55-gallon steel drums, the drums are easily ruptured if an accident occurs. A high impact against a gang of the drums in a truck accident, for example, can cause a sort of "domino effect" wherein sufficient impact is transferred to a great number of drums to rupture them. This is due to the basic cylindrical shape of the drum as well its relatively thin-walled construction, as relates to the bulk of its contents.
Another hazard occurs when the full drums are stacked, which they frequently are because their shape clearly lends itself to stacking. In many instances the drums have been stacked eight or nine tiers high. These drums often leak, with the leaking chemicals flowing down to mix with other leaking chemicals from other drums below. In this situation, even if the individual chemicals were not in themselves particularly hazardous, an unknown and hazardous combination can result.
Cylindrical drums are inherently reusable, even if not intended to be. Unwitting re-use with an incompatible chemical can cause an explosion or the creation of a dangerous, explosive, poisonous or otherwise hazardous combination. The inherent re-usability of cylindrical drums is a significant disadvantage.
When filled, cylindrical drums can be extremely heavy. A filled drum lying horizontally and leaking from one end can require six or seven men to right it, in order to patch the leak. An upright drum leaking from the side cannot be dropped over to the horizontal position for patching because this could cause the ends to fail.
In the disposal of hazardous waste materials, a large proportion of liquid and solid hazardous wastes cannot be neutralized by any practical method other than high temperature incineration. However, there have been only a handful of incinerators of this type to serve very large geographical areas, resulting in the need for extensive long-distance transportation of hazardous wastes. Since this transportation has been drum-based, the potential for severe accidents and even disasters has been quite high.
Cylindrical drums with explosive materials have been known to ignite and shoot through a building roof in the manner of a rocket. Explosive material can dry and harden from the outside in toward the center of the drum, leaving a hollow core which can act as a rocket nozzle.
There have been temporary storage containers known as "bladder bags", such as for containment of oil gathered from a spill or for some hazardous materials. However, these very flexible and relatively weak-walled bladder bags would not be suitable for the purposes of the present invention.
It is an object of the present invention to overcome these problems and to provide a safe and convenient system for handling, storing and transporting hazardous materials.
The present invention presents a new approach to containment, storage, handling and transportation of hazardous materials.
In preferred embodiments of the invention hazardous materials are loaded into spherical capsules, by a suitable filling means. The spherical capsules are of such material, wall thickness and diameter as to be substantially rigid. In preferred embodiments, the capsules when filled have the ability to withstand a reasonable drop test without rupture (for example, 20 to 40 feet, but varying depending on intended use and intended means of conveyance). Further, the preferred capsules have the ability to be contained in a mass at least 12 to 20 feet deep or even deeper in some circumstances, without any risk of fracture.
In one preferred embodiment each capsule has a visual identifying means on its surface for indicating the type of material contained in the capsule. This may comprise a background color on the capsule, to indicate generically a type of material in the capsule (such as acid, base, corrosive, flammable, etc.), and one or more color bands different from the background color, to indicate more specifically the material in the particular capsule. There may further be applied to each capsule a unique machine readable code such as a bar code. There may also be included on the capsule or a closure an automatic visual indicator such as a pH color indicator device.
In one aspect of the invention, the capsules, whether filled with liquid or solid material (or a mix of both), are filled only to the extent that their overall specific gravity is less than 1.0. Thus, the capsules or balls will float if dislodged from a vehicle or marine vessel and into water. They can easily be recovered from the surface of the water, making land to sea transfer feasible and safe (as for transfer to a marine vessel for offshore incineration). Further, these filled capsules can be transported by pipeline, in a liquid stream.
In one preferred embodiment the spherical capsules are of a diameter in the range of twelve inches to seventeen inches. More broadly, it is preferable that the size be in the range of about six inches to thirty inches, with size being a function of practical concerns such as specific gravity of the product to be carried and the transportation system being considered, as well as optimal wall thickness for the particular application. Economics of size and wall thickness play an important part. For any one handling system, the spherical balls should be generally the same size, although ball size in the system can be deliberately varied to some extent to facilitate sorting of different contents, for example. They may be formed, for example, of polyvinyl chloride with a wall thickness commensurate with the size of the capsule within this range. Teflon, Viton, Kynar, Dynel, Orlon, Noryl, ceramic or other materials which are relatively inert to a wide variety of substances (or to a specific substance) may be employed, depending on application and economics. For example, for a seventeen inch sphere the wall thickness may be from about 1/64 inch to two inches, depending on material, application and economics. In any event, it is preferred that the capsule material be nonbiodegradable (as that term is generally understood, meaning within decades or centuries) and also incineratable, such that the spherical container may be incinerated along with the contained hazardous waste.
The capsules may be formed as a pair of hemispheres which are secured and sealed together in the filling process. As an alternative, they may be integral except for a fill opening having a high-integrity seal. The capsules or capsule portions may be formed by rotational molding or blow molding, for example. They can also be formed of plastic-impregnated fabric, e.g. PVC impregnated fabric.
In another aspect of the invention, the filled spherical capsules form a part of a wide-ranging system wherein the colors on the balls or capsules not only identify generically and specifically the material in the capsule, but also provide a quick identifier for neutralizing or otherwise rendering harmless the contained material in the event of a rupture or spill. With a certain background color (e.g. red) universally identifying a particular hazardous material generically, such as acids, public officials such as state police and fire officials can carry in their vehicles a counteracting material of the same color, e.g. an alkaline material. The neutralizing capsules are also clearly identified as carrying the neutralizing agent rather than the hazardous material itself, and they are openable by the public official or capable of fracture in a certain way so as to quickly deliver the neutralizer onto the spilled hazardous material.
An important advantage of the invention is that the spherical capsules, in expanded use, become a recognizable symbol to the public, just as the skull-and-crossbones have come to symbolize poisons. The sphere symbol in an appropriate color can be printed on the sides of containers of consumer products which can ultimately become hazardous wastes (e.g. chlorine, brake fluid, pesticides, paint thinners, solvents), or on specialized transportation vehicles.
The system of the invention therefore presents an entirely new theory and approach to the problem of hazardous material handling and transport, an approach which results in a clear increase in safety over the use of drums and other containers, with far fewer leaks and spills. The spheres are inherently non-stackable in the manner of cylindrical drums. Instead, when a large mass of the filled balls are confined to a space such as a space within a warehouse or a high-sided truck bed, the spherical balls act to some extent as a fluid, specifically a liquid, settling into a pattern in the manner of lead shot or other spherical articles. Pressure is exerted on each ball at many points, rather than in the form of a single columnar axial force as in the case of stacked cylindrical drums. The spheres have a great resistance to crushing forces, and when the forces are spread out at many points in this way, the effective resistance is even greater.
With the system of the invention, based on the spherical containment capsules, a series of diverse, difficult to handle materials may all be put into respective capsules. With proper surface identification on the capsules the diverse hazardous materials can easily be handled with the capsules intermingled and transported as a single fluid mass.
Because the capsules are spherical and because they act together as a fluid mass, certain safety advantages result. For example, the balls cannot be fork lifted, nor can they be stacked, without an appropriate support structure. Unlike the drums which are inherently stackable (relying successively on their own structural strength for stacking) and fork-liftable, the spheres must be contained in some containment structure in order to be stacked or lifted. Appropriate containers (such as rectangular bins) will be dedicated to these purposes.
If an accident occurs during transport of the mass of filled capsules, a strong impact applied to the mass will have a very different effect than is the case with cylindrical drums. The mass of balls when impacted tends to spread in nearly every direction. This is particularly true in the case of an open-topped transport vehicle wherein the chances of the entire mass being crushed are minimal, and the balls have an opportunity to fly out in many directions. In such an accident a very high percentage of the spherical capsules will remain intact. No crushing impact loading is transferred to any ball or group of balls as in the case of drums, but such impact tends to be dispersed in all directions. Thus, in a closed truck or railroad car which is subjected to impact, even if the balls cannot escape, the force is spread to virtually all of the balls in the manner of a hydraulic cylinder, and pressure is dispersed so as to lower pressure on each ball. If the truck or other container is open or bursts or is not full, the balls are forced into other areas and even less force or pressure results on each ball.
Further, the capsules, each with specific gravity less than 1.0, can be transported through a pipe or canal by means of flowing water. They can be pushed by air through the pipeline or conduit or simply carried by the flowing water or other liquid. In contrast to drums, the balls can be transported by gravity or by an auger.
By the visual identifying scheme of the invention, the burning of the filled capsules at a high temperature incinerator can be better controlled. Different hazardous wastes require different burn temperatures, different amounts of oxygen, etc. for the most efficient burn. With each capsule bearing a visual identifier, preferably color, the temperature and other burn makeup can be adjusted when a stream of balls of one color shifts to a stream of another color.
Still further, simple signs can be used on transport vehicles, in storage areas and at incinerators to indicate the type of capsules that can be accepted and those which cannot, by color.
In another aspect of the invention, the spherical capsules are deliberately made non-reusable, to prevent the possibility of their carrying unidentified substances or being host to dangerous combinations unwittingly made. There has been enacted "cradle to grave" legislation which gives the creator of any hazardous material responsibility and liability for the material until such time as the material is certified as having been converted to a non-hazardous material or destroyed. With the container capsules of the invention being non-reusable, a system of accountability for contained materials can be established. Legislation can be enacted to require identifying marking on the exterior of all filled capsules, and to require certification (and consequent release of liability) when the filled capsule is destroyed or when it is emptied and the contents are converted to non-hazardous substances.
It is apparent that the spherical capsule hazardous material containers of the invention are fully applicable to the conventional system of transportation of hazardous materials, including rail, marine and road vehicles. Although there is a slight loss of transporting volume as compared to cylinders (essentially two-thirds of a storage volume is filled versus approximately 79% with drums), this is well compensated for by the increase in integrity and safety and the reduction of other costs. For example, overpack drums used for containment of leaking 55-gallon drums are quite costly, not to mention liability for drum spills and polluting leaks and the dump charges for acceptance of drums with unknown contents.
It is therefore among the objects of the present invention to provide and establish a unique and very different approach to the problem of containment, storage, handling, transportation and disposal of hazardous materials, in a system which is intrinsically much safer as well as more economical when all factors are considered. These and other objects, advantages and features of the invention will be apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments, considered along with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an exploded view showing a spherical capsule in accordance with the invention, formed of a pair of generally hemispherical components to be secured and sealed together upon filling.
FIG. 2 is a view showing a similar spherical capsule, but formed substantially integrally with a sealable fill opening.
FIG. 3 is another view showing a spherical capsule of the invention, partially cut away to show hazardous materials contained inside the capsule.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view indicating somewhat schematically the machine filling of capsules with hazardous materials.
FIG. 5 is a view in perspective showing a series of spherical containment capsules according to the invention, each with a specific background color and a set of color bands different from the background color for indicating generally and more specifically the contents in the filled capsules.
FIG. 6 is an elevation view showing a transport vehicle for carrying the filled spherical capsules containing hazardous material. A portion of the vehicle is cut away to show the mass of capsules inside.
FIG. 7 is a schematic view in perspective, illustrating the feeding of a stream of filled spherical capsules into a high-temperature incinerator, in accordance with the system and principles of the invention.
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an overall system in accordance with the invention, involving encapsulation, storage and handling, transportation, incineration and tracking of hazardous materials.
In the drawings, FIG. 1 shows a spherical capsule container 10 in accordance with the invention, for containing liquid, solid or even gaseous hazardous materials. The container 10 of FIG. 1 is shown in two halves or hemispheres 12a and 12b, to be closed and hermetically sealed together upon filling of the capsule with hazardous material. In one preferred embodiment the closure and sealing of the hemispheres together is permanent and irreversible except on destruction of the capsule, and this is particularly applicable when the capsule contains hazardous waste to be incinerated, stored for a long period or otherwise disposed of. In another embodiment, the two hemispheres may be hermetically sealed together, but in a way such that the capsule is again openable by some means, whether that means be mechanical or chemical or by application of heat.
FIG. 2 shows a different embodiment of a spherical capsule in accordance with the invention. In this embodiment the spherical ball container 14 is essentially integrally formed but with a fill aperture 16 capable of forming a high integrity, hermetic seal. The fill opening 16 may comprise a threaded hole with a threaded plug 18 as shown, with both components preferably made of a high strength plastic such as polyvinyl chloride. Upon closure and sealing the plug 18 may be bonded into the threaded hole using a PVC cement (or a fusing solvent with many plastics), to form a substantially permanent closure.
If the hazardous material contained in the capsule 14 is not waste material but a material to be dispensed from the capsule, the plug 18 may be sealed in such a way that it can be reopened. However, in one aspect of a system in accordance with the invention the capsules are deliberately made non-reusable, for accountability and safety reasons. Thus, the plug or closure may be removable to dispense the product but in such a way as to render the capsule non-reusable. The plug itself may be non-removable, requiring another opening to be made to remove product.
FIG. 3 shows a spherical capsule 20 partially cut away to show contents 22 comprising hazardous material. FIG. 3 illustrates that in a preferred embodiment the spherical container 20 is not completely filled with the material 22, but includes a space 24 sufficient that the overall filled and sealed container will have a weight which is less than that of an equal volume of water, i.e. its specific gravity is less than 1.0. The space 24 may be filled with a foam 26 which is non-reactive with the hazardous material 22, to prevent excessive sloshing movement of the hazardous material within the container during transport. Alternatively, this purpose can be addressed with another material or with suitable baffling in the capsule.
As mentioned above, with a specific gravity less than 1.0 the filled container will float on liquid, making the capsules easily retrievable if in water and making them transportable via a liquid-bearing pipeline.
FIG. 4 schematically indicates a machine or apparatus 28 for receiving hazardous materials from any of several sources and filling the spherical capsules 30 with the material. In FIG. 4 a conveyor 32 is shown delivering solid hazardous material 34 into a hopper 36 of the filling apparatus, and a drum 38 is shown delivering liquid into the hopper. The figure is not intended to indicate that both hazardous waste materials would be loaded into the hopper and the machine together, although this could be the case provided the combination is not reactive in a deleterious way, including during incineration if the materials are hazardous wastes. FIG. 4 merely shows that different sources and types of hazardous materials may be loaded into the hopper for filling of the capsules 30 by the machine.
As also illustrated in FIG. 4, the filled capsules 30 are dispensed from the machine in closed, hermetically sealed configuration and they act somewhat as a fluid-like mass when collected in a container 40. They tend to seek a common surface level in the manner of a liquid, and they tend to exert pressures in horizontal directions as well as vertical, in the manner of a liquid. Also, although not shown in the schematic view of FIG. 4, the filled balls 30 when confined as a fluid mass tend to settle into an ordered pattern somewhat like a crystalline structure, with each ball in the mass contacted by a number of surrounding balls from generally all directions.
The specific manner in which the filling machine 28 fills the spherical capsules 30 with solid or liquid hazardous material can take several forms. As explained previously, the capsules can be assembled from a pair of halves or hemispheres (FIG. 1) or can be filled via a closable opening (FIG. 2). The manner in which the machine operates is well within the ordinary skill of the package and container filling field and does not in itself form a specific part of the invention.
FIG. 5 illustrates an important aspect of the present invention, i.e. the inclusion of one or more visual identifying features on each filled spherical capsule 30. In a preferred embodiment, as discussed above, a background color 42 generally identifies the type of substance carried in the container, with different background colors 42a, 42b and 42c shown in FIG. 5. These might identify, for example, corrosives in general, acid materials in general, and alkaline materials in general.
As also discussed previously, each capsule 30 includes a further, specific identifying feature which may be one or more color bands generally identified as 44. FIG. 5 shows each capsule or ball 30 as having three color bands 44 in different combinations. Thus, if the capsule 30a on the left in FIG. 5, for example, contains nitric acid, 30% concentration, the background color 42a might indicate an acid, while the combination of color bands 44 can indicate the acid type and concentration. However, this is merely an example, and the background color and color bands can be used in a number of different ways to provide information about the contents. For example, the background color could indicate the degree of hazard of the particular contents, rather than the general type of chemical contained.
FIG. 5 also shows that a machine readable code 46 such as a bar code can be imprinted on each of the spherical capsules 30. This can be a unique symbol for each sphere or the same symbol can be used for all identically-filled capsules. Bar code reading beams, each generating a plurality of scan lines, can be located at several positions in the path of travel of the spherical capsules 30 in the handling or travel toward incineration of the capsules, so that each capsule is automatically read and identified during the process.
FIG. 6 shows a transport vehicle 48 carrying hazardous materials contained in the sealed spherical capsules 30 of the invention. In FIG. 6 the vehicle, a semi-trailer truck, is shown with a side partially cut away to reveal a mass of the spherical containers 30. As discussed above, the spherical capsules 30 act in some ways as a liquid poured into a container such as the truck 48. They form generally a surface level 50 indicated in FIG. 6. If subjected to a strong impact in an accident, the spheres would tend to spray outwardly omnidirectionally, generally in the manner a liquid would react. Similarly, the mass of containers 30 can tend to surge forward on sudden deceleration, and it is therefore preferable that some form of cover, such as a flexible cover, be included on the top of the truck 48.
FIG. 6 also shows a symbol 52 which may be a part of the handling, storage and transportation system of the invention. The symbol 52 signifies that hazardous materials are being transported and represents the spherical capsules 30 of the invention.
FIG. 7 shows schematically the feeding of filled hazardous waste capsules 30 into a hopper 54 of a high-temperature hazardous waste incinerator 56. The capsules 30 are incinerated along with the hazardous waste which they contain, and as discussed above, the material of the capsules 30 is selected so as to be incineratable, with PVC being an example of a material useful for handling most chemicals.
As also discussed above, the operating parameters of the high temperature incinerator 56 can be adjusted based on the identity of the hazardous waste being conveyed into the hopper 54. The background color can indicate generally the type of material flowing as a stream into the incinerator at any given time. When the background color changes, i.e. the stream of waste material changes to a different type, the operating parameters of the incinerator can be adjusted accordingly.
As discussed above relative to FIG. 5, if bar codes 46 or other machine readable codes are included on each spherical capsule 30, these can be machine-read automatically as the spheres travel in a single-file stream toward the incinerator 56. The operating parameters of the incinerator can then be changed automatically, based on information looked up automatically from a computer database regarding the contents represented by each bar code symbol read.
FIG. 8 is a simplified system diagram, a form of system flow chart indicating the various aspects and progression of features of the present invention. The flow chart of FIG. 8 is schematic and indicates the encapsulation of hazardous materials and wastes into the capsules and through storage and handling, transportation, separation and incineration steps.
FIG. 8 shows encapsulation 60 of commercial chemicals 62 as well as hazardous wastes 64. The figure indicates input of stabilization and neutralization for the chemicals, as well as identification which may be through color coded bands as discussed above. Further, the schematic diagram shows registration 66 of all hazardous material containing capsules 30. Data readers are shown at 68 for tracking the chemicals, from the time they are handled at the encapsulation step 60 through the ultimate destination and disposition of the chemicals, as indicated at 70 in the drawing.
Following encapsulation, with the related steps as discussed, the drawing indicates storage and handling 72, with inventory again taken at 74 as part of the tracking process. The schematic diagram then illustrates that the capsules may undergo transportation 76, as by pipeline 78, truck or rail 80, or air or sea 82. Cargo manifests are indicated at 84, emanating from the transportation operation and forming a part of the tracking process. One of the inputs to the transportation of the capsules is a preferred feature of the invention wherein neutralizing capsules 86 preferably are made available for neutralizing any chemicals which have been spilled by accident. These neutralizing capsules, preferably color coded to indicate to officials which capsules are appropriate for particular color-coded hazardous materials capsules 30, may be carried by public officials in public vehicles.
At the destination 70 as shown in the flow chart, liability release 88 is obtained, if the capsules have been fully tracked and registered, with inventories and cargo manifests matching at all points.
At the destination 70, the capsules can be separated as generally shown at 90, with the color guided input stream permitting separation of the capsules into those carrying hazardous wastes, to be incinerated at 92, and those carrying useful commercial chemicals, indicated in a flow at 94 to a use point 96. The diagram also indicates at 98 that empty capsules from which commercial chemicals have been removed may be incinerated for disposal.
The above described preferred embodiments are intended to illustrate the principles of the invention, but not to limit its scope. Other embodiments and variations to these preferred embodiments will be apparent to those skilled in the art and may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.
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On Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall, you'll see the U.S. Olympic team that hopes to defend its 2000 gold medal. There will be six Olympians who've won at least one NCAA title: Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Tamika Catchings, Ruth Riley, Sheryl Swoopes and Diana Taurasi.
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