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Anybody out there got any ideas on how to bleed the ff front brake let us know ASAP. Por Favor. Si vous Plait. Puhlease.
pressure from the top or vacuum from the bottom, in the automotive world we used to use a pressure bleeder that clamped over the top of the master cylinder and fed pressurized fluid down thru the system, nowadays they use a vacuum pump attached to the low side bleeder valve and pull the fluid down thru. you could improvise vacuum off the blue rhino and just use a long hose from an intake vacuum port to the bottom bleeder, open the valve, feed fluid from the top and run the rhino and use a long clear line so you can see the fluid when it pulls into the line. damn I wish i was there to help!
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The Crimea (and beyond)
When the Russians more or less militarily annexed the Crimea a couple of days ago , it was pretty obvious the West wasn't going to go to war over it, any previously mumbled promises to Ukraine that implied we might aside. It's still obvious, not that avoiding a war is a bad thing and all.
Who can blame Europe for not wanting another war? They've hosted so many, and I'm reliably told if you wander about you can still find nostalgic bits of wreckage to prove it. There are parts left over from wars everywhere. Castles, forts, the Kaiser Wilhelm church (what's left of it) in Berlin. Graves….lots and lots of graves. Graves of local men, and graves of men who came from across the world, and graves of civilians.
In January of this year, in Euskirchen Germany, a bulldozer operator was killed by a bomb from WWII, and it's not uncommon for unexploded ordnance to be found, some dating back to the big fandango they held 100 years ago this year. The Europeans have done a super job of cleaning up the place, and I'm 100% certain they aren't interested in having to do it again anytime soon.
This is why, no one, not even the allegedly crazy Russians, really wants to die for real-estate to get it back into Russia. Maybe some Ukrainians are willing to die out of pride for Ukraine, but the Russians prefer it be done with the bare minimum of shooting, explosions and death. Even 'crazy' 'evil' people understand that upsets folks, and the shooting, explosions and death get out of control, and pretty soon it's happening everywhere in sight. The Russians don't want a war either, but they're not averse to picking up (re-acquiring) some real-estate on the cheap.
For my entire life we, Americans, helped keep the Russians from taking over the joint by being in places they wanted to be before they could be there. Kudos to NATO and all for asking us to stay. But everybody knew when we parked Americans in their path all across Europe and the Russians did drive tanks through Fulda Gap…if they did it over American bodies; America was likely to take a war-like exception to it. Geo-politics and military science is brutally practical about things like that, and the Russians understood. America was across the ocean and much harder for Soviet tank division to blitzkrieg than a quick push to the east bank of the Rhine. We made it difficult for them by being where they wanted to be in ways that only war, or government over throw, could clear us out of. We stood in Western Europe and they stood in Eastern Europe and we glared at each other. The Europeans understood where the fight was going to happen if it happened. If some were nicer to the Soviets (now the Russians) than we liked, it was probably out of practicality. At times they glared at both us and the Russians.
The 'other' people further east, in the Russian zone, just had to live with the Russians because clearing them out would wreck the joint, and everybody knew that too. They didn't glare at anybody because they didn't dare. Then the Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc collapsed, they became Russians again and Ukrainians and Latvians and Estonians and Lithuanians and Moldovans and Serbs and you get the idea.
The Europeans don't want a war, the Russians don't want a war, we don't want a war. Having so much experience in wars, and cleaning up after wars, one can understand the reluctance to do the centennial anniversary reenactment of 1914 this year with live rounds.
Still, Russian occupation of the Crimea should never have happened if the West was sincere about helping the Ukrainians keep their lands (especially after the Russians vs Georgia take-down in 2008). I have mixed emotions about our policing the world, and our commitments to far flung places. But our word has to mean something too, and if we bother to give it, we ought to keep it. Not keeping it leads to where we are, drawing red lines and erasing them just as quickly, making threats on an international basis and then barring a couple people from Disney World to show how much we mean it. There's a whole set of posts that could be written on why we let down our guard in Europe. A quick hit list, military use fatigue, the cost, the simple hope that the not Soviet Russians weren't going to start up the 'let's take over a country' club again, resurgent Russian pride, feckless American policy, and a new world order.
The biggest one we hear about is this inane belief in some new order that has taken hold. A magic set of rules for countries came into being when we hit the millennium. Who knew? It's not clear, to me anyway, why that is, must be a side effect of climate change or something because I don't recall any burning bushes or Jewish prophets with stone tablets making the news recently. I do know our Secretary of State thinks they exist ( I mentioned feckless American policy); Angela Merkel seems to think they exist. But maybe no one forwarded the memos to Vladimir Putin, because all in all he seems pretty proud of using the old rules, and so are his constituents.
No, there is no magic set of new rules. I can't even say it would be nice, because not only is it not real, it's not even clearly laid out what it means internationally. Furthermore the old rules still work and still apply. Power and vacuums of power. In fact these new rules already seem remarkably ineffective against people who still use the old rules. As a result there aren't any new magic formulas or methods for getting the Russians to give Crimea back now either. They certainly aren't going to do it because we in the West tell each other that Russia is naked in the eyes of the world. They aren't going to do it no matter how many times some idiot calls them 'evil'. They aren't going to do it because they suddenly understand they're violating the 21st century rules.
Just because the West doesn't want to apply power doesn't mean the Russians can't and won't. When a country can take over a chunk of another country in a week, there really isn't much threats that will take months to show effect are going to do to stop them. Done deals. Because people don't want to wait that long for results (especially the Ukrainians in this case), and life, and business, and in Europe's case, the need to heat their houses, goes on.
If the West is serious, and worried about the Russians moving into Kiev, park 'non-threatening' NATO forces in Kiev. Not just visiting, full time. Park a 'non-threatening' contingent of ground troops in Estonia (note the date of that article, last year…). See if the other Baltic countries would like to have permanent physical NATO contingents with troops who are not local. Go beyond 'air policing'. Put the equivalent of a guard contingent on the equivalent of the Rhine bridges before the Russians do the equivalent of occupying the Rhineland.
And hit our own damn power reset button. Drill like hell for natural gas and oil here in the US and export it to Europe to cut their dependence on Russia. The Russians will understand, they'll bitch, but they'll stop because they really don't want the same war we don't want. There can't be a whole lot in Estonia the Russians want to die for.
Project POWER back into the vacuum we've created before Putin again proves the old rules, the same ones Hitler used so well, still work just fine. Do it before Chamberlain calls to say he wants his 'new' rules back.
Not gonna happen, I realize. We have 'smart' diplomacy now, we lead from behind. We're going to jaw about the new international rules the millennium brought us, and threaten the Russians with our economic power even while we struggle to keep that power turned on for ourselves.
As usual, Obama tries to pass the buck
President Pass-the-Buck is at it again. This time he wanders out of the country to do it. In Stockholm he tells the world:
"My credibility's not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line, and America and Congress' credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important," Mr. Obama said, referring to international laws against the use of chemical weapons.
America and Congress is it? Is it America and Congress who shot their mouth off? Nope. It was Mr. Obama. It is indeed his credibility (what's left of it) that's on the line. And, as I pointed out yesterday about how he was going to try to find someone or something to blame all this on, this is simply him validating my point.
He shoots his mouth off, he then goes to Congress and now it's Congress whose credibility is on the line? I don't think so.
Oh, and apparently, the crediblity of Congress (and one supposes America) is only on the line if they vote "no". And if they do, who cares, he doesn't need them anyhow:
President Barack Obama said he retains the right to order strikes against Syria even if Congress doesn't authorize them, but he is seeking approval from U.S. lawmakers because he thinks it will strengthen America's response.
*cough* BS *cough* This weasel we've elected president, who is so far in over his head he doesn't know which way is up, is looking for political cover – period. He's only going to Congress to strengthen his hand, even as pathetically weak as it is. The "I/me" president has put himself out on a limb and sawed it most of the way through. Now he just want's some one to share it with him (and as usual Lindsey McCain – er, John McCain and Lindsey Graham are amenable to the idea).
This is raw politics at its worse. Obama goes out of the country to take a swing at Congress and the American people after finally asking for their approval.
This is what some of you elected.
Will Obama go "solo" on Syria?
The likely answer is "yes" since it appears the administration is of the opinion that if it doesn't act, it will appear weak and ineffective (yes, France has said it too will strike, but in essence this will still be mostly a solo venture in the region's eyes). Demagoguery and ego have combined to get us to this point. However, the question remains how effective any strike on Syria will be in reality if it is, as the President has said, short, limited and tailored (just muscular enough not to be mocked).
After leaking the proposed plan all over the place it is unsurprising that what most of us knew would happen has begun to happen in Syria:
In recent days, U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon have watched with alarm as Mr. Assad has taken advantage of the Western deliberations to spread out his forces, complicating U.S. planning for strikes.
"We know [Assad] has been dispersing assets," said a senior U.S. official briefed on the intelligence.
U.S. officials said Mr. Assad has moved assets such as military helicopters and artillery pieces around the country, forcing a U.S. recalibration of the possible military response.
If Mr. Obama sticks with what originally was a finite set of prospective military and intelligence targets, officials said, then cruise-missile strikes would cause less damage than originally intended because at least some of the targets have been taken out of the line of fire.
Officials said Mr. Obama could adjust to Mr. Assad's tactics by expanding the number of strikes to hit more targets, but doing so could increase the risk that U.S. cruise missiles will cause unintended damage, including civilian casualties, officials said.
Another senior official said the dispersal of Mr. Assad's military assets was "certainly detrimental" to target planning.
Funny how that works, isn't it?
Meanwhile, US military officers have deep concerns over a strike on Syria:
The recently retired head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. James Mattis, said last month at a security conference that the United States has "no moral obligation to do the impossible" in Syria. "If Americans take ownership of this, this is going to be a full-throated, very, very serious war," said Mattis, who as Centcom chief oversaw planning for a range of U.S. military responses in Syria.
The potential consequences of a U.S. strike include a retaliatory attack by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah — which supports Assad — on Israel, as well as cyberattacks on U.S. targets and infrastructure, U.S. military officials said.
And it also stirs the possibility of terror attacks on US embassies, interests abroad and even the homeland. Gen. Mattis is correct. If the US strikes Syria, then the US takes ownership of this war. By that I mean if Assad then uses chemical weapons again, we're in a position of having no choice but to address their use again.
Marine Lt. Col. Gordon Miller, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, warned this week of "potentially devastating consequences, including a fresh round of chemical weapons attacks and a military response by Israel."
"If President Asadwere to absorb the strikes and use chemical weapons again, this would be a significant blow to the United States' credibility and it would be compelled to escalate the assault on Syria to achieve the original objectives," Miller wrote in a commentary for the think tank.
An acceptable risk?
Even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (a highly political job) has tried to warn the administration off of this path:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned in great detail about the risks and pitfalls of U.S. military intervention in Syria.
"As we weigh our options, we should be able to conclude with some confidence that use of force will move us toward the intended outcome," Dempsey wrote last month in a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee. "Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next. Deeper involvement is hard to avoid."
Dempsey has not spoken publicly about the administration's planned strike on Syria, and it is unclear to what extent his position shifted after last week's alleged chemical weapons attack. Dempsey said this month in an interview with ABC News that the lessons of Iraq weigh heavily on his calculations regarding Syria.
"It has branded in me the idea that the use of military power must be part of an overall strategic solution that includes international partners and a whole of government," he said in the Aug. 4 interview. "The application of force rarely produces and, in fact, maybe never produces the outcome we seek."
But the application of force seems to be the only tool in the Obama bag at the moment. And Dempsey is correct. It isn't particularly difficult for the US to reach out and swat someone. But what is and always has been difficult is to predict what will follow such an application of force. The law of unintended consequences has a terrible history of rearing its ugly head each and every time force is applied in this manner.
As for the critical question, the question that all military operational planners ask first and then tailor a plan to achieve … well there is no obvious answer. That's likely because the administration hasn't an answer and has provided no guidance to those planning this misadventure:
"What is the political end state we're trying to achieve?" said a retired senior officer involved in Middle East operational planning who said his concerns are widely shared by active-duty military leaders. "I don't know what it is. We say it's not regime change. If it's punishment, there are other ways to punish." The former senior officer said that those who are expressing alarm at the risks inherent in the plan "are not being heard other than in a pro-forma manner."
Going through the motions of "listening to all sides" when, in fact, the decision to act militarily has been decided. It is down to how big or how small the strike will be. And, as we see above, Assad is doing everything he can to make Obama's deliberations and decision making as difficult as he can.
UK and France backing away from Syria strike?
The shaky coalition of Western nations promising to strike Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons is getting even shakier. In the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron is reconsidering:
David Cameron backed down and agreed to delay a military attack on Syria following a growing revolt over the UK's rushed response to the crisis on Wednesday night.
The Prime Minister has now said he will wait for a report by United Nations weapons inspectors before seeking the approval of MPs for "direct British involvement" in the Syrian intervention.
Oh look … Cameron plans on getting the approval of Parliament before committing British troops to war.
That's because opposition British politicians apparently play hardball while ours … well they talk and complain a lot:
Senior sources had previously suggested that Britain would take part in strikes as soon as this weekend which meant an emergency recall of Parliament was necessary on Thursday.
However, following Labour threatening not to support the action and senior military figures expressing concerns over the wisdom of the mission, the Prime Minister on Wednesday night agreed to put British involvement on hold.
The climbdown is likely to be seen as an embarrassment for Mr Cameron as he was determined to play a leading role in British military strikes, which had been expected this weekend.
France too is showing signs of waffling:
French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that Syria needed a political solution, but that could only happen if the international community could halt killings like last week's chemical attack and better support the opposition.
Hollande sounded a more cautious note than earlier in the week, when he said France stood ready to punish those behind the apparent poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in Damascus.
He indicated that France was looking to Gulf Arab countries to step up their military support to the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, after Paris said this week it would do so.
Not exactly the saber rattling that was going on a few days ago. It appears a "political solution" may be code words for "yeah, we're climbing down too."
Don't expect a climbdown here. At least not anytime soon. Not only has President Obama said he doesn't need Congress's approval, he's also decided he doesn't need to inform the American people of his decision via a televised Oval Office announcement. However he would like the cover of a coalition (my, the shadenfreude here is delicious, isn't it?).
If one had to guess, however, any strike this week would be sans the British and the French. And that may be enough to delay an American strike (don't forget, President Obama claims he hasn't made a decision yet).
Meanwhile in the Med, tensions spiral up as Russia decides to flex a little naval muscle in the area:
Russia will "over the next few days" be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean as the West prepares for possible strikes against Syria, the Interfax news agency said on Thursday.
"The well-known situation shaping up in the eastern Mediterranean called for certain corrections to the make-up of the naval forces," a source in the Russian General Staff told Interfax.
Interesting. And, if the strikes don't happen now, who will claim to have helped call the coalition's bluff?
As with most things concerning foreign affairs that this administration involves itself, this is turning into a debacle of major proportion.
Stay tuned.
An attack destined to fail
One of the first things any military commander must do is define the mission clearly and succinctly. It must have a goal and that goal must be achievable with the assets the commander is willing or able to commit to the mission.
What it shouldn't be is some nebulous one-over-the-world hand wave of a mission driven by politics and open to interpretation. Unfortunately, it appears that's precisely the type mission the Obama administration is ginning up for Syria according to the NY Times:
President Obama is considering military action against Syria that is intended to "deter and degrade" President Bashar al-Assad's government's ability to launch chemical weapons, but is not aimed at ousting Mr. Assad from power or forcing him to the negotiating table, administration officials said Tuesday.
"Deter and degrade" are open to interpretation and Syria could and likely would initiate another chemical attack after the US attacks just to point out that they're neither deterred or degraded.
Here's the problem:
The strikes would instead be aimed at military units that have carried out chemical attacks, the headquarters overseeing the effort and the rockets and artillery that have launched the attacks, according to the options being reviewed within the administration.
An American official said that the initial target lists included fewer than 50 sites, including air bases where Syria's Russian-made attack helicopters are deployed. The list includes command and control centers as well as a variety of conventional military targets.
A) We've told them where we'll strike. Since it is a limited strike and it is going to be against specific units, Syria has the option of dispersing them, an option I'm sure they'll take. They'll also likely disperse them in to highly populated urban areas where they can.
B) We've told them what we're going to strike. Since they have thousands of artillery pieces capable of firing chemical shells, it is unlikely a limited strike is going to even seriously dent that capability. Moving artillery into the cities would likely deter the US more than the US would deter Syria. Helicopters can be moved as well. They don't need long runways. Other aircraft will be dispersed And finally, command and control are easily moved and dispersed.
C) We've told them how we're going to strike. It is clear that if an attack does happen it is not something that is supported by the majority of the American people for various reasons. Couple that with a seemingly risk averse commander and you can pretty well define how this will happen – missiles. Specifically Tomahawk missiles. Given our history of their use, you can pretty much guess at what and where they'll be aimed.
D) We've pretty well told them it won't be much of a strike.
Perhaps two to three missiles would be aimed at each site, a far more limited unleashing of American military power than past air campaigns over Kosovo or Libya.
Well even the administration knows this is a recipe for failure so they immediately engage is a classic attempt to lower expectations:
Some of the targets would be "dual use" systems, like artillery that is capable of firing chemical weapons as well as conventional rounds. Taking out those artillery batteries would degrade to some extent the government's conventional force — but would hardly cripple Mr. Assad's sizable military infrastructure and forces unless the air campaign went on for days or even weeks.
The goal of the operation is "not about regime change," a State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, said Tuesday. Seeking to reassure the public that the United States would not be drawn into a civil war in the Middle East, and perhaps to lower expectations of what the attack might accomplish, Obama administration officials acknowledged that their action would not accomplish Mr. Obama's repeated demand that Mr. Assad step down.
And what would we accomplish? Well likely the opposite of what we hoped would happen – deterrence and degradation. Assad would be invited to prove the US wasn't successful in either by doing what? Using chemical weapons once again. His reasoning would be that since he's being accused of doing so, and supposedly punished for doing so, there's no reason not to do it again.
Then what?
How bad do you have to be NOT to be hired?
I wondered, when Barack Obama was re-elected, how bad you had to be to be fired. Apparently worse than Obama, if that's possible.
Now, with the confirmation of Chuck Hagel – another politician who has never run a large or complex organization and who was abysmal in his confirmation hearings – I have to wonder how bad you have to be NOT to be hired.
Apparently, worse than Chuck Hagel, if that's possible:
Republicans siding with Democrats, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Chuck Hagel as President Obama's secretary of defense, a nomination that drew strong opposition within the Republican former senator's own party, with some troubled by past statements on Israel and Iran.
GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mike Johanns, (Nebr.) and Richard Shelby (Ala.) supported Hagel in the 58-41 vote. No Democrats opposed him.
Again, let down by the GOP (the 'good old boy club' just couldn't say no to a former member).
Anyone seeing a pattern here?
Benghazi bottom line
Two things we now know the President didn't do. First from CBS:
CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).
"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."
The second from a former SEAL officer who knows the protocol necessary to launch a rescue from outside Libya:
No administration wants to stumble into a war because a jet jockey in hot pursuit (or a mixed-up SEAL squad in a rubber boat) strays into hostile territory. Because of this, only the president can give the order for our military to cross a nation's border without that nation's permission. For the Osama bin Laden mission, President Obama granted CBA for our forces to enter Pakistani airspace.
On the other side of the CBA coin: in order to prevent a military rescue in Benghazi, all the POTUS has to do is not grant cross-border authority. If he does not, the entire rescue mission (already in progress) must stop in its tracks.
So, bottom line – He didn't convene the CSG which would have been the lead agency to coordinate an attempted rescue from outside the country and he apparently never gave the CBA (which only he can issue) necessary to do so.
Or, in other words, he lied about doing everything necessary to save and protect the lives of those in combat in Libya.
Finally, the cover-up and attempting to deflect the blame:
Leon Panetta is falling on his sword for President Obama with his absurd-on-its-face, "the U.S. military doesn't do risky things"-defense of his shameful no-rescue policy. Panetta is utterly destroying his reputation. General Dempsey joins Panetta on the same sword with his tacit agreement by silence. But why? How far does loyalty extend when it comes to covering up gross dereliction of duty by the president?
Great question. Don't expect an answer anytime soon.
Benghazi: Cowardice and incompetence
A deadly combination. If this election is about "trust" as Obama likes to say, then I trust him about as far as I could throw him.
This lady does about as good a job as you'll see laying it all out:
Interesting footnote and something the Obama campaign has apparently forgotten:
A strikingly similar story from across the pond proves that honesty in the wake of terrorist attacks matters to voters.
On March 11, 2004, an al-Qaida terrorist cell bombed the commuter train system in Madrid, Spain. Nearly 200 people were killed.
The attack came just three days before Spain's prime ministerial election. At the time, incumbent Jose Maria Aznar was enjoying a small lead in the polls. But the attack changed everything — and Aznar ended up losing to challenger Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero by five points.
Today, the consensus is that Aznar lost the election because of his mishandling and misrepresentation of the Madrid bombings. Aznar and his party claimed the bombings were the work of a Basque separatist organization, despite evidence to the contrary. The theory is that because Spain had recently entered the Iraq War — something that was unpopular with the Spanish electorate at the time — Aznar believed that admitting al-Qaida was behind the attack would damage his re-election chances.
The parallel between the Madrid bombings and the Benghazi attack is obvious. Like the Madrid bombings, the Benghazi attack happened in the midst of a heated campaign season and was followed by confusion, false assertions, and — worse — misrepresentations by the very political leaders asking for the electorate's trust.
At the very least, the Obama administration bungled its response to the Benghazi attack. And the more information about the attack that surfaces, the worse President Obama looks.
Indeed. Keep this alive, because it illustrates explicitly why Obama is not someone this country can trust.
Benghazi – OK, this is serious and it's bad
Leon Panetta wants to dismiss all of this as "Monday morning quarterbacking". I beg to differ.
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials — who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
If true, and there is a shred of evidence to support this, this is malfeasance of the worst type. You have an ambassador in danger in an unsecured location that is basically indefensible and is calling for help and those who could help are told to "stand down?"
Of course two of the former SEALs disregarded that order and went.
But according to Fox it wasn't just the CIA Annex that was told to "stand down". The CIA Annex then came under attack:
At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound.
The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.
So we have a 4 hour gun battle going on at an obviously sensitive installation, we have drones on site, F/A 18s an hour away, a C-130 Spectre gun ship about an hour and a half away and they're denied support?
A Special Operations team, or CIF which stands for Commanders in Extremis Force, operating in Central Europe had been moved to Sigonella, Italy, but they never told to deploy. In fact, a Pentagon official says there were never any requests to deploy assets from outside the country. A second force that specializes in counterterrorism rescues was on hand at Sigonella, according to senior military and intelligence sources. According to those sources, they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours. They were the same distance to Benghazi as those that were sent from Tripoli. Spectre gunships are commonly used by the Special Operations community to provide close air support.
According to sources on the ground during the attack, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.
Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.
"There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here," Panetta said Thursday. "But the basic principle here … is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on."
Let's try this again … you had your people under attack, you had drones on site, you had a spec ops guy on the roof lasing the mortar team and Panetta claims they "didn't know what was going on?"
That says a hell of a lot more about Panetta and Obama than anyone else. Anyone worth their salt goes for over kill, not "wait and see" in a situation like that. Situations like this are why you have contingency plans and units designated as Quick Reaction Forces (QRF). You can always recall your forces. And, if you give even a stinking whit about force protection you go in and secure the area and personnel who were under attack anyway.
That should be SOP and, as you can tell, they had the forces available to do that. Panetta is full of exactly what Obama accused Romney of.
This is a farce. A deadly farce that was mishandled from the get go.
U.S. officials argue that there was a period of several hours when the fighting stopped before the mortars were fired at the annex, leading officials to believe the attack was over.
Anyone know what this is considered in the military? A groundless assumption. We don't operate off groundless assumptions. We react and do what is necessary based on reality and in order to secure our personnel and facilities. And, what "U.S. officials" are arguing is a steaming pile of BS and anyone with an ounce of sense knows that.
And what did their utter and incomprehensible incompetence cause? Death. Death to OUR people, that's what:
Tyrone Woods was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was sent in from Tripoli as part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case officers and provides countersurveillance and surveillance protection. They were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the consulate began — a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations. Four mortars were fired at the annex. The first one struck outside the annex. Three more hit the annex.
But you know, the Prez was late for a date in Las Vegas, so … no time for that sort of nonsense.
Obama's Navy: Ignorance or intent?
A little more on the abject ignorance Obama displayed concerning the Navy. Or was it, instead, the usual attempt to have it both ways? You know, talk about how everything is under control while in reality it is spinning out of control? Or, as we've warned many times, don't believe a thing the man says, look at what he does.
The Obama administration's neglect of the Navy can be typified by the early retirement of the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and its plans to decommission other naval assets. In August of this year, I outlined on NRO why the Enterprise should remain in service, but the Big E is only the most prominent asset slated for premature retirement. The administration also plans to decommission and scrap six Ticonderoga-class cruisers, although the vessels have as many as 15 years of service life left (even without further overhauls). Maintaining freedom of the seas requires hulls in the water — and the Navy hasn't even started building the replacements for these cruisers. At present, all we have is a design study called CGX, which may or may not enter production.
Got that? 6 Ticonderoga-class cruisers being decommissioned, all with at least 15 years service life left. These are the cruisers, as mentioned yesterday, which protect those things we have called aircraft carriers.
Here's another report that makes it clear that the administration's plan is, in fact, leaving the carrier strike groups even more vulnerable than they are now:
As noted at the Navy-oriented Information Dissemination blog, when the proposed cuts were first outlined in late 2011, the decommissioning plan will take out of service cruisers that can be upgraded with the ballistic missile defense (BMD) package – now a core capability for the Navy – while keeping five cruisers that cannot receive the BMD upgrade.
Emphasis mine. That borders on criminal. After bloviating about technology and capability, his plan is to reduce both.
Meanwhile, here's the stark reality of the situation the Obama administration has created:
His administration, in an effort to cut costs, proposed the retirement of the USS Enterprise (which his allies in Congress passed in 2009) and the six cruisers. Numerous crises are heating up around the world, as recent events show, but there is no indication that Obama has reconsidered these retirement plans. Certainly, it would not be hard to halt the retirements, and extenuating circumstances clearly warrant a supplemental appropriations bill. None of our carriers or submarines — no matter how high-tech they are — are capable of covering the Persian Gulf and South China Sea at the same time, or the Mediterranean Sea and the Korean Peninsula simultaneously.
Or, said a much simpler way, and despite Obama's ignorant claims, we don't have enough ships to cover all the contingencies that his failed foreign policy has helped foment. Technology still can't have you in two places at once.
Instead, we have a Commander-in-Chief who apparently thinks those things we call aircraft carriers are like magic unicorns. You kind of wave one toward a crisis and everything works out. He has no concept of force protection. He has no idea how a carrier strike group operates. He just knows we have these things called aircraft carriers and they're apparently magic because, you know, we have this "technology" and we're much more "capable" than when it was all about horses and bayonets. Or something.
Yet in 2010, the Navy could only fulfill 53% of the requirements for presence and missions levied by the combatant commanders (e.g., CENTCOM, PACOM). Cutting this Navy will reduce further its ability to fill warfighter requirements.
This guy is dangerous, folks. His ignorance is both appalling and frightening.
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Mercurial is more! It is very easy to use. I used CVS then Subversion, I tried Git and then I was impressed. Now I am much more impressed. Now I know Mercurial… and my life will become easier… ;)
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Had opportunity to win tickets at Rivercity Beemer club party and saw the flick last month... Yes to many of the above comments about not being how I would have shot it, but, given they had to stick to a budget, they did quite a variety without leaving CA.
I was, at the time, on a photo shoot for the BLM near Barstow at El Mirage Dry Lake and started recognizing scenery in the film. Contacted the producers and, indeed, they shot at El Mirage Dry Lake, including most of the TRAILER! \\
To me the film rates right up there in the category of "no bad sex" and is certain to bring many new families and riders into the fold... much needed in this industry/sport.
If you ever bet the chance to fisit El Mirage Dry Lake, or many of the other CA OHV parks, you will see HUNDREDS of peeps out for the weekend camping with 2,2 and 4-wheel enthusiasts from age 4-90... The little ones are the greatest fun... I met families where Mom, Uncle and two sons were allsuited up in all the gear and taking the woops at full tile... Some families had toddlers and had set up a perimeter of safety cones to manage some traffic control and let the kids learn to ride in a great environment...
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2. Pour the brandy in the stew pan, heat for a few seconds and set aflame, standing well back. As soon as flames have died, add the red wine and the green pepper. Heat over medium heat while stirring. Pour in the cream a little at a time and stir the sauce occasionally.
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Posted: 08/25/2009 - The Colorado Rockies have placed center fielder Dexter Fowler on the 15-day disabled list with a deep bone bruise on his right knee and recalled Eric Young Jr. from Triple-A Colorado Springs to play for the same team his father did.
Updated: 08/25/2009 - The New England Patriots have traded offensive lineman Russ Hochstein to the Denver Broncos for an undisclosed draft choice.
Updated: 08/25/2009 - Ryan Spilborghs hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 14th inning, giving the Colorado Rockies a come-from-behind 6-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night.
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Posted: 08/23/2009 - The Colorado Rockies signed free agent right-handed pitcher Russ Ortiz today and assigned him to the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. The Colorado Rockies signed free agent right-handed pitcher Russ Ortiz today and assigned him to the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. The 11-year Major League veteran made is Sky Sox debut on Sunday as well tossing 4.0 innings in relief and giving up one run on three hits while walking two and striking out three.
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This specification is concerned with a hair colorant composition in which the dyestuffs are basic dyes. The composition is made high foaming by the incorporation of an anionic:cationic detergent complex. A typical example of such a composition has the following formulation:
% by weight______________________________________Basic dyestuff 2.8Potassium laurate 2.3Lauryl trimethyl ammonium 5.4bromideTargitol NP 35 (a nonionic 6.0surfactant)Isopropanol 10.0Thickener 3.2Water to 100______________________________________
Such a composition when formulated as described has been found to give high foaming with good intensity dyeing even in the darker shades, even dyeing and good coverage of hair containing as much as 15 to 25% grey.
1. An aqueous high foaming composition for dyeing hair comprising:
(i) a sufficient amount of a basic dyestuff to impart color to said hair;
(ii) from about 1 to about 10% by weight of an anionic-cationic detergent complex having a molar ratio of anionic to cationic detergent of from about 65:35 to about 35:65;
(iii) from about 2 to about 8% by weight of a nonionic surfactant; and
(iv) from about 1 to about 10% by weight of isopropanol.
2. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the anionic component of the complex is selected from the group consisting of a sodium soap, a potassium soap, an alkylsulphate, and an alkaryl sulphonate.
3. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the cationic component of the complex is selected from the group consisting of a C8 -C18 alkyltrimethyl ammonium salt, a diquaternary amine salt, an ethoxylated quaternary ammonium salt and an alkylpyridinium chloride.
4. A composition according to claim 1 additionally comprising an aerosol propellant.
This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 419,557, filed Nov. 28, 1973, now abandoned, which in turn is a continuation of application Ser. No. 195,012, filed Nov. 2, 1971, also abandoned.
This invention relates to compositions for dyeing keratinous fibres and more particularly to hair colorants.
Semi-permanent colorants which are removed over a period of a few weeks by normal regular shampooing are now quite popular. Factors contributing to this popularity are that the colorants are formulated as "one pack" systems and are thus simple to apply and that a detergent is normally included in the composition, giving a foaming product similar to a conventional shampoo.
A disadvantage of this colorant system is that till now it has not been possible to achieve satisfactory products which will impart darker shades such as dark brown and black to the hair.
For many years it has been realized that a wide range of shades can be obtained by the deposition of cationic or basic dyestuffs onto the hair. However, it has been suggested that basic dyes can produce uneven dyeing of the hair (see J.Soc.Cos.Chem. 20, 595-602).
One of the difficulties in formulating shampoos containing cationic materials is that, in general, cationic materials are incompatible in solution with anionic detergents but that the presence of anionic detergents is necessary to provide the large amounts of lather which the consumer expects of a shampoo system. Various attempts at avoiding the problem set by the general incompatibility of cationic dyestuffs and anionic detergents have beem made. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 2,763,269 (Rayette Inc.) describes compositions including basic dyes in combination with nonionic surfactants. However, we have found that colorants employing nonionic surfactants as the sole detergent-active compound of the shampoo base do not give a sufficiently large volume of foam to satisfy the modern consumer. In another proposal, described in British Pat. Specification No. 986,712 (Cheseborough-Pond's Inc.), basic dyes are combined with amphoteric surfactants. Although this system gives an adequate foam volume we have found that, generally, basic dyes are unstable in an amphoteric medium. This instability results in fading of the colors of the dyes which not only produces an overall lowering in intensity but, in a blend of dyestuffs, can change the color of the dyeing composition and give off-shades.
We have now discovered, surprisingly, that basic dyestuffs are compatible in solution with high-foaming anionic-cationic detergent complexes, e.g. of the types described in British Pat. Specification No. 1,050,791, and that a composition comparing a combination of a basic dyestuff and an anionic-cationic detergent complex is stable, capable of providing a satisfactory volume of foam and effective to an unexpected degree, not only in coloring virgin hair, but also in providing level dyeing on hair that has been permanently waved and in covering the greyed hair containing 15-25% of grey.
Accordingly, the present invention provides a high foaming composition for dyeing keratinous fibres comprising a solution of an anionic-cationic detergent complex and a basic dyestuff.
By the term "a high foaming composition" is meant a composition which, when dissolved in hard tap water to provide a solution containing shampoo in an amount of 5% weight by volume, produces a specific volume of foam of at least 8 cc/gm as determined in a modification of the "Mixmaster" test described by J. M. Bromley in J.Soc.Cos.Chem. 15, 631-639 (1964). The modification referred to is that we have diluted our detergent solution to 10% and we have operated at room temperature.
The following table illustrates the specific foam volume obtained from 5% by weight active solutions in tap water (pH 7) of various anionic-cationic detergent complex systems containing detergents in various molar ratios, 10% by weight of isopropanol and Maxilon Blue GRL 500% at a level of 0.4% by weight. It can be seen that for the system potassium soap-trimethyl alkyl ammonium salt, a great improvement in foam volume is obtained by the use of the detergent complex over the use of either of its components alone. For example, the foam volume of 5.9 cc/gm for the C12 soap alone indicates that the foam collapses in tap water.
Table 1______________________________________Effect of molar ratio (based on soap + fatty acid) on foam volumealkyl chain length ofanionic : cationicpotassium : trimethyl Foam volume at different molar ratios alkyl anionic : cationic (cc/gm)soap : ammonium salts 100:0 60:40 50:50 40:60 0:100______________________________________ C8 : C12 -- 12.6 11.1 12.3 5.7C8 : C16 -- 8.7 11.3 11.4 7.5C9 : C12 -- 13.2 13.1 12.9 5.7C10 : C10 6.3 11.2 12.6 12.1 --C10 : C12 6.3 13.5 13.3 12.5 5.7C12 : C12 5.9 13.4 12.6 12.3 5.7______________________________________
The 5% by weight concentration of the solution of detergents and detergent complexes used in the Mixmaster test described above was chosen since 5% is about the optimum concentration of these ingredients in a hair colorant/shampoo system, although a range of from about 1 to about 10% is acceptable.
Table 1 shows that the greatest foam volumes were obtained at detergent molar ratios of 50:50 and 60:40 anionic:cationic and it is preferred that these ratios are used in the compositions of the invention although ratios of from about 63:35 to about 35:65 anionic:cationic can be tolerated without much disadvantage.
Typical of the anionic-cationic complexes which can be used in the compositions of the invention are those formed between anionic detergents such as sodium and potassium soaps, especially those having chain lengths of from C8 -C12 such as potassium laurate and potassium decanoate, alkyl and alkaryl sulphates and sulphonates such as sodium lauryl sulphate and sodium dodecyl benzene sulphonate, and tricarboxylic acid detergents. Cationic detergents can be chosen from, for example, C8 -C18 alkyltrimethylammonium salts such as cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, lauryltrimethyl ammonium bromide and Arquad 12 (Trade Mark, a C12 quaternary ammonium salt manufactured by Armour Hess Limited); diquaternary amine salts such as Duoquad T (Trade Mark, a diquaternary ammonium salt), derived from a long-chain aliphatic diamine and manufactured by Armour Hess Chemicals Limited and having the structure ##STR1## wherein R represents the long-chain aliphatic radical derived from tallow which is composed of approximately the following carbon chain lengths, C16 :29%, C18 (sat.):23%; C18 (unsat.):47% alkylpyridinium chlorides such as lauryl pyridinium chloride and ethoxylated quaternary ammonium salts.
The basic dyestuffs which are preferred in the compositions of this invention generally belong to the thiazole, acridine, polymethine, azine, triphenylmethane, oxazine, thiazine or anthraquinone types.
Specific examples of some dyestuffs which have been found to give acceptable coloration areas follow. These are identified by their trade names, and the color group to which they belong to the Color Index, published by the Society of Dyers and Colourists, Bradford, England, together with the Color Index Number where one has been allotted.
______________________________________ ColorTrade Name Color Group Index No.______________________________________Astra Blue 3R Basic Blue 52 --Astrazon Yellow GRL Basic Yellow 29 --Astrazon Golden Yellow GL Basic Yellow 28 --Astrazon Red BL Basic Red 45 --Astrazon Red RL Basic Red 25 --Astrazon Red GTL Basic Red 18 --Astrazon Blue B Basic Blue 5 42140Astrazon Blue FRR Basic Blue 69 42025Astrazon Blue G -- --Basacryl Yellow 3RL Basic Orange 40 --Basacryl Yellow 5GL Basic Yellow 24 --Basacryl Red FB -- --Basacryl Red FL Basic Red 50 --Basacryl Red GL Basic Red 29 --Basacryl Red XBL Basic Red 51 --Deorlene Fast Yellow 7GL Basic Yellow 21 --Deorlene Orange 2GL Basic Orange 43 --Deorlene Fast Red 1GL Basic Red 54 --Deorlene Fast Blue BL Basic Blue 22 --Deorlene Blue BL -- --Deorlene Blue 5G Basic Blue 3 51005Deorlene Blue BR Basic Blue 49 --Diacryl Supra Brilliant Red 2G Basic Red 61 --Diacryl Brilliant Red 2G-F Basic Red 27 --Diacryl Brilliant Blue 2E Basic Blue 85 --Enchrysine GGNX Basic Yellow 9 46040Maxilon Blue GRL Basic Blue 41 --Safranine TN125 Basic Red 2 50240Sevron Brilliant Red B Basic Red 15 --Sevron Red L Basic Red 17 --Sevron Blue 5G Basic Blue 4 51004Sevron Blue 4B -- --Thioflavine TCN Basic Yellow 1 49005Methylene Blue Basic Blue 9 52015Victoria Blue R Basic Blue 11 44040Victoria Blue FBR Basic Blue 55 --______________________________________
Thioflavine TCN and dyes sold under the Trade Mark "Sevron" are available from E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. Wilmington, Del. USA. Dyes sold under the trade Victoria and the Trade Mark "Basacryl" are available from Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik A.G., Ludwigshafen a Rhein, Germany. Dyes sold under the Trade Marks "Aztrazone," "Astrazon" and "Astra" are available from Farbenfabriken Bayer A.G., Leverkusen, Germany. Dyes sold under the Trade Marks "Maxilon" and "Deorlene" are available from Ciba-Geigy Limited, Basle, Switzerland. Safranine TN125 is available from Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, Dyestuffs Division, Manchester, England.
In general, it can be said that those colorant compositions which dye blonde Italian "Blue String" hair at a liquor ratio of 2:1 (dye solution to hair (w/w)) to give an L value of about 45 or lower are preferred compositions according to the invention. It will be understood that even though certain dyestuffs, particularly the yellow-colored ones, are incapable by themselves of producing hair having an L value of about 45 or less, they may be blended with other more intense dyes to produce a brown or black colorant which can meet the intensity requirement.
As mentioned above we have discovered that in certain circumstances the L value produced by a dye dissolved in an anionic-cationic detergent complex solution can be lower than that produced by a dye dissolved in a solution containing uncomplexed anionic or cationic detergents. The following table shows this effect demonstrated by the L values of three different dyestuffs dissolved at a level of 1%, both in a C12 potassium soap --C12 quaternary ammonium salt complex solution and in solutions of the components of the complex.
The intensity of the coloration produced by the dyestuff is measured in terms of the L co-ordinate value of the Adams Chromatic Value System as described in "Colour in Business, Science and Industry," by Judd & Wyszecki published by J. Wiley & Sons (1963). Spectral reflectance curves are measured on a Bausch and Lomb Spectronic 505 Ultraviolet spectrometer on chopped hair (in order to eliminate the specular components). The white reference substandard used is a clean titanium dioxide surface. L a b values are calculated using the C.I.F. 10� observer and C.I.E. Standard Illuminant C. Hair switches are made from Italian "Blue String" virgin blonde hair which is dyed at room temperature at a 2:1 liquor ratio (dye:hair w/w) for 20 minutes.
It should be noted that all solutions contained 8% by weight of isopropanol, since we have observed that the decrement in the L value of the dyestuff in the presence of the anionic-cationic detergent complex is reduced the greater the concentration in the solution of isopropanol.
Table 2______________________________________Dyestuff L An. L50/50 L Cat.______________________________________Deorlene Fast Red 2GL 30 38.2 41Sevron Brilliant Red B 48.4 39.0 42Deorlene Fast Blue BL 51.5 45.5 48.3______________________________________
That this unexpected effect is observable in a variety of detergent complexes is demonstrated in the following table, which shows the L value of a 1% solution of Deorlene Red 2GL in various detergents and detergent complexes. In most cases either isopropanol or the nonionic detergent Antarox CO 630 (Trade Mark), a nonylphenyl condensate with polyoxyethylene having an average molar concentration of 9 ethylene oxide units, manufactured by the GAF Corporation, was added to effect complete solution.
Table 3__________________________________________________________________________ Lauryl pyridiniumArquad 12 Duoquad T chlorideLAn. L50/50 LCat. LAn. L50/50 LCat. LAn. L50/50 LCat.__________________________________________________________________________Potassiumlaurate 39 38.2 41 39 35.3 38.4 39 36.8 45Sodiumdodecyl- -- -- -- 59.9 44 46.9 -- -- --benzenesulphonateLaurylpolyglycol 31 43 44 57 47 48.3 -- -- --sulpho-succinate__________________________________________________________________________
It can be seen that in some instances very pronounced reductions in L value (increase in dyeing intensity) are achieved by using the 50/50 anionic-cationic detergent complex. Good results are achieved in this respect when the composition comprises a solution of one or more approximately equimolar anionic-cationic detergent complexes selected from complexes formed between a soap of a C8 -C12 fatty acid, e.g. potassium laurate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate and Condanol (Trade Mark), lauryl polyglycol sulphosuccinate manufactured by Dutton and Reinisch on the one hand and Arquad 12 (Trade Mark). Douquad T (Trade Mark), a di-quaternary ammonium salt derived from a long-chain aliphatic diamine and manufactured by Armour Heiss Chemicals Limited, cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide and lauryl pyridinium chloride on the other and a dye selected from Deorlene Red 2GL, Sevron Brilliant Red B, Deorlene Fast Blue BL, Sevron Blue 5G, Basacryl Yellow 3RL, Deorlene Yellow 7GL and mixtures thereof.
We have found that some of the basic dyestuffs are insufficiently soluble in solutions of the anionic-cationic detergent complexes and so we have found it necessary to add a solvent such as isopropanol to ensure dissolution. Our compositions can include as much as 25% of isopropanol. The preferred range is from about 1 to about 10%.
We have also discovered that the hair-cleaning effect of the shampoo/colorant composition is improved by the addition of a nonionic surfactant to the anionic-cationic detergent solution.
Accordingly, the present invention further provides a high foaming composition for dyeing keratinous fibres comprising a solution of an anionic-cationic complex, a nonionic surfactant and a basic dyestuff.
A typical example of such a nonionic surfactant is the octyl phenol ethylene oxide condensate having an average molar concentration of 11 ethylene oxide units known as Nonidet P80 (Trade Mark, Shell Chemicals Ltd). The compositions may contain up to 20% of the nonionic surfactant, although normally not more than 15% will be used, and from 2 to 8% is preferred. The nonionic surfactant has also been found to increase the solubility of the basic dyes in the detergent solutions.
The formulations illustrated in the following Examples 1 and 2 were prepared by the following procedure. The dyes were dissolved in 50 g of water using rapid stirring, and the pH of the resulting solution was adjusted with dilute acetic acid or potassium hydroxide solution to 5.8. The surface-active agents were dissolved in the remainder of the water with very slow stirring in order to avoid aeration. Isopropanol was added and then the pH of the solution was adjusted using the same reagents to 6.4. The thickener was then added to the dye solution, using very fast stirring and slow addition of the powder in order to prevent the formation of lumps. The stirring was continued until the mixture was very thick and smooth. The detergent solution was then added dropwise to the thickened dye solution, slow stirring being maintained until all the solution had been added. The pH of the resulting solution was about 6 and the viscosity after standing was between 2,000 and 8,000 cps.
______________________________________ % by weight______________________________________Maxilon Blue GRL (500%) 0.3 gBasacryl Red FB 1.0 gDeorlene Yellow 7GL 1.2 gDeorlene Orange 2GL 0.3 gPotassium laurate 2.3 g 0.552:1.000 molar ratioLauryl trimethyl ammonium bromide 5.4 gTergitol NP 35 6.0 gIsopropanol 10.0 gCarboxymethyl cellulose thickener 3.2 gWater to 100 g______________________________________
Tergitol NP 35 (Trade Mark), a nonyl-phenol condensate with polyoxyethylene having an average molar concentration of 15 ethylene oxide units, is a nonionic surfactant manufactured by the Union Carbide Corporation.
______________________________________ % by weight______________________________________Maxilon Blue GRL (500%) 0.2 gBasacryl Red FB 1.0 gDeorlene Yellow 7GL 1.2 gDeorlene Orange 2GL 0.3 gPotassium laurate 2.25 g 0.828:1.000 molar ratioLauryl trimethyl ammonium bromide 3.5 gNonidet P80 8.0 gIsopropanol 10.0 gCarboxymethyl cellulose thickener 2.8 gWater to 100 g______________________________________
This is an Example of an aerosol hair colorant composition in accordance with the invention.
______________________________________ % by weight______________________________________Maxilon Blue GRL 0.4 gDeorlene Yellow 7GL 2.0 gBasacryl Red FB 1.0 gBasacryl Red GL 1.0 gPotassium laurate 2.3 gLauryl trimethyl ammonium bromide 3.5 gTergitol NP35 6.0 gIsopropanol 10.0 gPropellant 12 (dichlorodifluoromethane) 6.0 gPropellant 114 (Sym-dichlorotetrafluoroethane) 6.0 gWater to 100.0 g______________________________________
We have found compositions such as these to give high foaming, high intensity dyeing and good cleaning of the hair.
Additionally these high foaming compositions have been found to be stable on storage and to give level dyeing of hair that has been permanent-waved.
It is to be understood that although it is preferred that the high foaming compositions of the present invention should be formulated as fairly viscous creams which are of a suitable consistency for dispensing from collapsible tubes, other forms of compositions are not excluded from the invention. In particular, as illustrated above, the compositions may be prepared in aerosol form.
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