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More help is on the way for several horses who were rescued after being neglected by their owner.
Schone's Friendship Farm in Milan, Illinois held a drive-in movie fundraiser on Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 to collect donations for the seven horses they've been taking care of since October 5th, 2012.
The horses were discovered several hundred pounds underweight and suffering from skin conditions. For more on information, click here.
Staff from Schone's say the horses are getting much better and the donations from tonight's free event were greatly appreciated.


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Famous for traditional English pub food as well as Indian curry. Live sports are broadcasted throughout the day.
Happyum 密蜜飲
Happyum helps you discover amazing happy hour deals in Hong Kong. From specials on cocktails, spirits, and
beer to discounts on food and appetizers.
發掘全香港的 Happy Hour 優惠.
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Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival
You are here
Join Us!
This Festival will be non-competitive in nature, offering positive, learning-based experiences for young jazz ensembles
It is my pleasure to announce that the 42nd annual Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival will be held on the UMD campus, Friday and Saturday, March 6th and 7th, 2015.
$200 registration fee for each ensemble
Friday, March 6th
Born in Urbana Illinois and raised in Los Altos, California, Harrell studied music composition at Stanford University. After playing with Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, he moved to NY in the early 1970s to join the quintet of Horace Silver, with whom he made fivealbums. He's been based in NY since but is often on the road, performing to audiences world-wide. His musical associations includethose with Sam Jones (with whom he co-led a big band in the late 70s), Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Charlie Haden, ArtFarmer, Joe Lovano, Jane Monheit, Kathleen Battle, and Sheila Jordan, Philip Catherine, and Jim Hall. Over the course of his career, he's led his own trios, quartets, quintets, big bands, chamber orchestras and ensembles.
Harrell all but transcends musical labels. He's a jazz trumpeter known for his burnished tone and lyrical improvisational style but hismusic runs the gamut from the modal and melodic to uncommon modernisms that sonically broach the film soundtrack and/or theavant-garde. Never content to stay the course, he continues to explore and expand his musical vision with each new project. Colors of a Dream is in fact one of three projects he recorded in 2013, along with yet-to-be-released albums, Trip (with Mark Turner, Ugonna Okegwo and Adam Cruz) and First Impressions, a chamber ensemble recording for which he wrote arrangements of works by Debussy and Ravel. For almost 50 years, he has steadily created new music, building a formidable body of work. Harrell's discography is a mile long; he's made over 270 recordings, won Down Beat and JazzTimes polls many times over and has been nominated for numerousGrammy awards. His compositions are much in demand; among the many artists who've recorded or performed his work include CarlosSantana, Cold Blood, Azteca, Vince Guaraldi, Hank Jones, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Kenny Werner, TheVanguard Jazz Orchestra, Danish Radio Big Band, Germany's WDR Big Band, Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Amsterdam's Metropole Jazz Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lorraine and Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Saturday, March 7th
Paul McKee, newly appointed Associate Professor of Jazz Trombone and Arranging/Composition at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received a BME from the University of Northern Iowa and an MM in Composition form the University of Texas at Austin. In 1984 he joined Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and appeared on several Grammy-nominated recordings. Over the years Paul has served on the jazz faculty at schools including DePaul University, Youngstown State University, Northern Illinois University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Florida State University. Paul maintains a busy schedule as a clinician and guest artist, and his arrangements and compositions have been performed and recorded by professional and academic jazz ensembles worldwide. His recording Gallery was released to critical acclaim and features performances by Carl Fontana, Bobby Shew, Tim Ries and Ron Stout. Paul recently appeared on the recording Back When It Was Fun with 7 on 7, a group comprised of musician/educators from colleges across the nation. Additional recent recordings include big band projects by Dan Gailey (University of Kansas) and Steve Owen (University of Oregon). Paul is a clinician for the Conn-Selmer company and plays King trombones exclusively.
**Tickets to the Friday evening concert are very limited. There are 150 tickets that will be held for jazz festival groups until February 1st. These tickets must be purchased through the UMD Box Office 218.726.8877 or online here.
Friday, March 6, 2015 | 7:30 pm
Tom Harrell Trio
Weber Music Hall
Ticket price: Adults $20 | Senior Adults (62+) $15 | Students $5
Saturday, March 7th, | 5 pm
Paul McKee, UMD Jazz, and the UMD Jazz Festival All Stars
Marshall Performing Arts Center
Ticket price: Adults $15 | Senior Adults (62+) $10 | Students $7 | UMD Student $5
The Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival will also include:
Performances by UMD Jazz Ensembles
40 minutes of individualized time for your ensemble. Most ensembles perform for about twenty minutes and are then critiqued by two clinicians for another twenty minutes.
Adjudicators. Including leading jazz educators from colleges across the country to adjudicate and clinic your ensembles and directors. Recent Adjudicators have included: Billy Taylor, Gene Aitken (UNC), Bob Kase (UWSP), Tom Matta (DePaul University), Bob Kleinschmidt (Tiffin University), John Salerno (UWGB), Terry Vermillion (St. Cloud State) and many others.
Non-competitive atmosphere. This positive, learning-oriented approach has become a hallmark of the Head of the Lakes Festival. No trophies or defeats, just jazz music, hard work, and fun!
Clinics. Numerous clinics will be given by the guest artists, UMD jazz faculty and by our adjudicators, all of whom are recognized leaders in their fields.
Scholarships. The chance for instrumentalists to audition for a scholarship to attend the University of Minnesota Duluth as a music major!!
Prizes. Performance certificates and prizes will be awarded to individuals who offer outstanding performances during the day.
Please register online OR print and complete the reservation form and return it with payment by the February 1st deadline so that we can hold a spot for your ensemble(s) at this year's festival. The fee for participants will be $200.00 per ensemble. We will fill performance spots on a first come, first serve basis so get your reservation form in early. Upon receipt of your registration fee, we will contact you regarding group hotel rates and other information.
I look forward to seeing you this year, and to hearing your ensembles perform. If you have any questions regarding the festival, please feel free to contact me at 218.726.6327, or by email at email@example.com.
Ryan Frane
Director of Jazz Studies
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Spruced Up for the Holidays
- by Joni Evans
- on Nov, 22, 2010
- 85 Comments
- E-mail alerts
Welcome to our new platform. Some of you may not even notice the difference (after all our hard work!) but we think it's snazzy: simpler and more streamlined. Happily, we've found a way to transfer all pre-existing wOw accounts and passwords, so no heavy lifting on your end. If you have a moment, tell us what you think.
xoxo JONI
85 comments so far.
Also – no longer receiving email notifications that someone has replied to a comment. I don't see anything in the profile settings to enable this. Nor to enable email alerts for articles, postings, etc.
Community Manager says:
Hi Lila – The email notifications to follow an author or topic was something specific to the old system. We are looking at how to implement such a feature on the new platform. The email on new comments added to an article you have posted is in testing.
Lizzie R. says:
Back again……. What has happened to subjects that just appeared today, like Margo's mother's portrait.? I replied to it, and now see it has disappeared, as have others that disappear, yet some old subjects are still here. This is getting so confusing, as it is almost a waste of time to reply if the entire subject is disappearing. in a short time.
Community Manager says:
Hi Lizzie – nothing was removed today. On the homepage, in the top section with the feature there are left and right arrows along with tabs at the bottom for you to navigate the featured items. "A Night to Remember" is there which is the article you are referring to.
Briana Baran says:
Well, apparently I am in China, as I am being informed that my country is verbotten. Or perhaps it is Texas. It took some negotiating to get back into the site, but then, I am a sneaky little beast.
I am very distressed to have lost my old postings. I have many saved, as an insurance against the moderator's unfortunate habit of disappearing my comments because of my recalcitrant subversiveness and refusal to play well with others. But others, some that were written at a critical time in my life, that helped to bring me out of a well of silence that had held me for over a decade, are lost, apparently forever, as are others that, in going back to them, I simply could not believe that I had written. I do not plan or edit my comments, nor do I know their precise origins…and they are not replicable.
I think that the powers that be at WoW did us more than a disservice in unilaterally deleting all of our words and thoughts. This was almost an act of cruelty and abuse, certainly thoughtless, closing on malicious. When it is said that WoW is changing direction, I have to wonder why the obliteration of years of contribution was considered a good, and perhaps necessary thing. To ensure that no one is influenced by the ideas of the past? Wipe the slate clean? Discourage certain inconvenient patterns of thought? Encourage certain members with a lot of keyboard and intellectual time invested to go elsewhere?
Because I am like a few of the others. If I wanted vapid, vacuous articles on how to make my assumed to be sagging, and disreputable breasts perfect (because they are the most important item in my sexual inventory), or how to improve the LBD (which I can't even wear), or how to apply the new neutral make-up (blech)…in other words, how to conform and lose myself and not look OLD, I could go to hundreds of other ridiculous, empty sites. I don't want to look at Auschwitz victim-like celebutards or drawings of coat hanger-collections in unwearable fashions, or hear about how wonderful said dingbat celebutards are. I want something suitable to evolved women, mature women, thinking, intelligent, creative women…which is what WoW purported to be.
I would love an explanation. It is not lost on me that 52 comments are listed…but only a fraction of those seem to be visible. Let this one remain so.
phyllis Doyle Pepe says:
Briana: I am grateful that I am not alone (see my post above) in my anger and dismay at our lost postings––it feels somehow like a thievery. I cannot believe that this insensitivity wouldn't have been squelched by someone or at least some person thinking they should notify us ahead of time. The value of our voices seems not to have figured in their brand new "sleek format." I, too, am waiting for an explanation.
Briana Baran says:
Phyllis, consider the use of the word "unfortunately" in the comment from the Community Manager is explaining the disappearance of two years worth of thought and effort. "Unfortunately" these were lost. "Unfortunately" this was an "all or nothing" situation.
If so, than why not all? What was to be gained by deleting all of that input? Why is the transference from the old to the new system so primitive that it requires hand cutting and pasting (hand? As in manual?) from the old site to the new? Was the system and the new site set up by basement techies of less than professional status? I have considerable access to professional insight on migrating old data and information to new formats (via R., who does it professionally as part of his job description), and after much debate about spousal input, I finally queried him on the subject. I will give you the socially acceptable version of his answer:
I am bemused. We are not getting anything but vague answers as to the reasons for the erasure of so much time and effort. It has not been explained to us why we were not warned that the entire archived, and even more recent content of WoW…both articles and comments in our profiles, was going to be eradicated. Nor, despite our obvious distress, have we even received a wan and insincere apology.
We are getting distant early warnings of the winds of change on WoW…but no real indication of what those change winds might bring. It reminds me of Sarah Palin's endorsers' repeated cries of, "Just wait and see in 2012!"…all hot air, but nothing for it to push.
So, to the staff of WoW, I directly ask the question: What is really going on…and will it be worth my time to stay? Please don't insult my intelligence with some ludicrous nonsense such as, "Only you can make that decision", as I cannot do so without some honest and realistic information. Was the decision to permanently delete virtually the entire old site's wealth of insight, conversation and thought a deliberate move to both encourage some members to leave, and a new and very different demographic to take their place? And is the new site's direction going to be so vapid, commonplace and anti-intellectual that it is not worth the time of mature, evolved, thinking women to continue visiting the site (with the exception of Margo, Mr. Wow and Liz Smith)?
Do tell…
Community Manager says:
All of the comments are showing. In fact, only 1 comment has been removed from this discussion because it was a duplicate posting. Otherwise, they are all showing.
phyllis Doyle Pepe says:
This response is for the comments on this thread, I gather, and is not addressing our lost postings–-our profiles.
Community Manager says:
Briana Baran says:
Community Manager: I would not have asked if there was not an issue. At the time of my query, I counted 21 comments when the article showed over fifty. At present, all of the comments are being displayed. This has also been an issue in the case of other articles.
Given the considerable number of glitches and inconsistencies on the site since the inglorious revolution, one would think that the staff would have a little faith in the honesty of a member reporting a problem. I may be a recalcitrant and subversive beastie, but I am not given to lying.
Also, I have noticed that numerous articles are listed in the various Categories…but vanishingly few can be accessed. I suppose that I am imagining this as well.
Community Manager says:
Briana, I don't recall saying that you were fibbing. Any comments made we take note and put through testing to try and reproduce the issue. We will look into the articles/category issue as well.
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend free from work and full of family and friends.
Paul Smith says:
The old format was fine. The content could use a serious boost. You lost a provocative writer. Get another.
Vicki Sarris says:
The user interface is very intuitive – took just a few minutes to create an account and load info. So glad to be a part of this new community for women. Nicely done.
Vicki Sarris says:
PS Women on the Web is my favorite "one stop spot" for news, info and online engagement and interaction. Really love it! Thank you.
Rho says:
Well, what do you know? This is the first time clicking on the original link I saved worked. Thanks for that. I do miss my welcome, but guess you can't have everything.
Are we still getting replies to our posts? I had one, but did not see it in my email.
Community Manager says:
Hi Rho, we're looking at some possible solutions for email alerts on comments and authors.
Rho says:
Thank you. But something funny happened just now. I had to log in again, would not accept my new password, it accepted the old one.
kermie says:
CM–I liked and used the Preview feature before Submit. I edited down my responses that way. I sincerely hope you will bring that back. We really need italics and bold or else people will be shouting in all caps. No one wants that.
I see our avatars are back. Thank you. Sorry you had to work all weekend. I hope you had a good holiday.
Community Manager says:
I have 'preview' on my list as well. As for bold and italics, that is further down the list but nonetheless, on the list.
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!
Lizzie R. says:
My Avatar isn't back..
kermie says:
Lizzie–I have a MAC and I tried about five times over the weekend to get my avatar back. I did it, physically, on MY end. Maybe WoW is capable of reinstating the avatars; I don't know. Good luck!
Community Manager says:
Hi Lizzie – we didn't migrate avatars over, just usernames, first, last and passwords so you wouldn't have to re-register or do a password reset.
Dianne Lopp says:
What about all the previous postings of writers on Wowowow? Google news says Liz Smith wrote a tribute to Norris Mailer— I can't access it and I can't access her older columns.
Community Manager says:
Hi Dianne – on http://www.wowowow.com/ in the top section where you see the features rotating through (left/right arrows on the sides and tabs below the large photo) are you seeing the tab for "Remembering Norris Church Mailer"? This is by Margo Howard. We didn't bring all of the content over from the prior site, just a few select articles.
Liz Smith can be found http://wowowow.wpengine.com/author/liz-smith/ – we had columnists listed on the prior site making it easier to find contributors such as Liz.
Deeliteful says:
In the top section, the features do not rotate and arrows do not work for me. I can only read the one topic shown. Each time I try to read another, bottom left indicates "done with error on page"
Community Manager says:
Interesting – what browser are you using? e.g. Internet Explorer 7.
Mickey Marsh says:
No trouble logging in. Missed you though on Wed!!
Lizzie R. says:
It's getting much better, but this is so teeny tiny it's really difficult to see your typos, of which I make many. Could it possibly be made larger for those of us visually compromised?
CM, leaving this comment here in case you miss it on Mr. Wow's article: still getting a trickle of spam through the spam-pipe (though the flood is much reduced, ah, relief!).
Two points: we apparently still need a "report" button, and your Contact Us has a problem – I tried to email this in, but the CAPTCHA filter does not recognize what I type. Tried reloading five or six times and am certain I am matching the CAPTCHA, but no luck.
Community Manager says:
Yes, we look at all new comments a few times a day and remove such comments (which is now done) so even if you see the comment first, it will get removed over the course of the day.
We are also aware of the CAPTCHA on the Contact Us and are working on fixing it.
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- Amor a primera visa
- (2013)
Runtime: 111 min
Rating: 6.0
Status: Released
Tagline: Nosotros guapeishon y very very hot.
"Amor a primera visa" is a new comedy and romance movie by Pedro Pablo Ibarra that was released in 2013.
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
Best actors like Jaime Camil, Laura Ramsey, Omar Chaparro and Renata Ybarra starred in Amor a primera visa.
|Cast ❖
Jaime Camil
|as Alejandro
Laura Ramsey
|as Rachel
Omar Chaparro
|as Canicas
Renata Ybarra
|as Maria


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Orange Walnut Quinoa with Chickpeas and Mint
Created By Rebecca Katz - Culinary translator
This flavorful Mediterranean inspired salad is high in protein and with 1.6 grams of heart-healthy omega-3s per serving, making it's the perfect side or a meal all by itself.
For the Toasted Walnuts with Coriander and Cumin:
- 1/2 cup chopped California walnuts
- 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Remaining ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups quinoa
- 2 1/2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin eee
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup cooked chickpeas, or canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans), drained
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint
- 2 scallions, finely chopped (both green and white parts)
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon finely grated orange zest
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. To prepare the walnuts, toss them in a small bowl with the olive oil, coriander and cumin. Spread in a pan and bake about 10 minutes, until the walnuts are aromatic and slightly browned. Cool to room temperature.
- If you have purchased quinoa from a bulk bin, rinse it with cold water and drain well. It is not necessary to rinse boxed quinoa if it says "prewashed."
- In a medium saucepan bring 2 1/2 cups water and the salt to a boil. Add the quinoa and return to a boil, stirring frequently. Reduce the heat and cover the pan. Simmer 15 - 20 minutes, until the liquid is absorbed and the quinoa is tender. Remove from heat, add the cumin, coriander and cinnamon, then stir and fluff with a fork to combine. Spread the quinoa on a platter or shallow pan to cool, stirring it occasionally with a fork.
- Transfer the quinoa to a large bowl and add the chickpeas, mint, scallions, orange juice, olive oil, lemon juice and orange zest. Stir and toss to combine, then top with the seasoned walnuts.


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We found a link to this on, of all places, Marginal Revolution—hardly a lefty site!—in a list of "Assorted Links" under the title "How is the Massachusetts health care plan working out?" The headline of the original link is a little misleading, since it suggests that (a majority of?) doctors in Massachusetts favor single-payer, but the report is really about Mass. docs who are members of Physicians for a National Health Program. But polls have shown that a majority of doctors in the United States favor single-payer, so I wouldn't be surprised if a majority in Mass. did too (especially given some of the snags of the new Mass. "universal" system).
Meanwhile, in today's New York Times there's an article about closed-door sessions with the ailing Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy to hammer out a consensus about what kind of health care reform congressional Democrats and the Obama administration should go for. "Lobbyists for a wide range of interest groups—some of which were involved in defeating national health legislation in 1993-4—are meeting with the staff of Mr. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, in a search for common ground." Lots of mention of insurance industry and big pharma lobbyists; no mention whatsoever of single-payer as an option. Forcing people to purchase insurance from private insurers is these folks' idea of universal health care. Similarly, Wednesday's Times reported that Kathleen Sibelius, governor of Kansas, is a leading candidate to be O.'s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. The article quotes an insurance industry lobbyist as saying that she'd be a great pick: "Karen M. Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, said Ms. Sebelius would be 'a very smart choice' for health secretary."
Check out this article we ran last year on the high costs of the current system, many of which would remain under a compulsory "universal" system of the sort O. seems to be moving toward. And our March/April issue will include an article on management costs and how single-payer does better.
Now here's that piece on the Mass. PNHP doctors:
Massachusetts doctors say single-payer or bust
By Sarah Arnquist
Massachusetts members of the Physicians for a National Health Program released a report today faulting the state's experiment with health reform for failing to achieve universal coverage, being too expensive and draining funds away from safety-net providers.
The doctors' punch line is that the reform has given private insurance companies more business and power without eliminating vast administrative waste. In fact, it says, the "Connector" in charge of administering the reform adds about 5 percent more in administrative expenses.
In summary, nothing less than single-payer national health reform will work, according to authors Drs. Rachel Nardin, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, all professors at Harvard Medical School.
The report criticizes the Urban Institute's largely favorable report that found only 2.6 percent of Massachusetts' residents were uninsured in mid-2008 because it failed to sufficiently reach non-English speakers in its survey.
Reports in Health Affairs this winter also found significant positive support for the reform among employers and the public. There was little evidence of crowd-out.
The PNHP doctors' report says health plans people are forced to buy are not affordable and often skimp, making the mandate that individuals buy them regressive. And moreover, it says, peoples' experiences have shown that insurance does not guarantee access to care. The Boston Globe chronicled the long wait for primary care last September.
A final criticism the 19-page report offers is that the reform is financially unsustainable, as it does "nothing about a major driver of high health care costs, the overuse of high-technology care such as CT scanners and surgeries, and the underdevelopment of primary care."
Last winter, Himmelstein spoke about health reform to students at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. I asked him if single-payer advocates would work against any national reform effort that wasn't single-payer, as the single-payer camp did in California.
Himmelstein said that if the reform plan looked like the Massachusett's reform he probably would prefer the status quo. He believes the reform has made most vulnerable patients in Massachusetts worse off.
It looks like health reform is going to be a battle on the Left and Right.


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So we guess winning both actress Oscars doesn't come with a cash prize. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal, Nikki Finke, and the L.A. Times reported that the Weinstein Company has hired financial adviser Miller Buckfire & Co. to "help restructure its debt and raise money to cover its operating costs." In a statement released to all three, TWC says, "As a matter of practice we have always worked with financial institutions to explore our options with respect to equity and possible investments and it is something we will continue to do." As Finke's source notes, though: "You don't hire Miller Buckfire to raise money. You hire Miller Buckfire because they are one of the top restructuring experts in the country. They currently represent several top institutions going through bankruptcy." Admittedly, we know nothing about finance, but we bet if Harvey can move enough debt around to get the company past Nine's release this fall and through to next February, he should be able to unload some Academy Awards on Cash 4 Gold, at least.
Weinstein Co. Hires Firm to Explore Restructuring [WSJ]
Weinstein Co. hires consulting firm to restructure its debt and raise funds [LAT]
The Weinstein Company To Restructure [DHD]


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Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology
Director of the Institute for Research and Technology Transfer
Voice: 631-420-2243
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Research Engineer and Technical Specialist
Voice: 631-420-2243
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Board of Directors
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President, Farmingdale State College
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Dean, School of Engineering Technologies
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Macola Becomes Exact Software
Exact Software, a Dutch-based provider of integrated accounting, payroll,
customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and
business process management (BPM) software solutions, and a division of
Exact Holding N.V. (EURONEXT: EXACT) continues to expand its products' footprints and operations worldwide, lately with a particular emphasis on the expansion in North America. Two thousand and three was indeed a busy and transitional year for the vendor with the acquisitions of certain resellers, the subsequent openings of new US offices, and a launch of new products to the market.
Still, after nearly two decades of prominence, mainly within the mid-market of financial and accounting, HRM, project management, and logistics administration solutions with its flagship
Exact Globe 2000 back-office product, Exact begun making big strides in the early 2000s to extend its reach into North America and into the manufacturing segments. It turned into a full-fledged comprehensive e-business software provider for SMEs. The first major step in that direction was the 2001acquisition of former
Macola Technologies Inc., which almost instantly made Exact a $200 million (USD) player in the mid-market enterprise applications segment. While not really a household name in North America before the Macola acquisition, Exact has always been a force to reckon with in the lower end of the ERP mid-market in Europe, and occasionally, to a degree, elsewhere in the world.
Consequently, Exact's experience with Macola has so far been a case of a successful merger and assimilation effort. While many competitors have been experiencing largely flat or declining revenues and scaled-back research and development efforts, Exact has gone in the opposite direction, particularly in North America. Despite the tough economic climate, the company has since closed a number of deals partly because it is a bigger organization with broader geographic sales and support coverage. A weaker demand for enterprise applications worldwide has also been compensated by an increase in add-on, up- and cross-sales revenue from customers who have migrated to Exact Globe 2000 and Macola ES, and by brand new users of
e-Synergy. For additional information on e-Synergy, see
Part One.
Therefore in 2002, what used to be Macola adopted the name
Exact Software North America, and contributed approximately 58 million to the top line (total revenue) in fiscal 2002, compared to less than $40 million (USD) prior the acquisition in 2001. With the subsequent
Kewill acquisition as well as with relatively recent acquisitions of four best performing resellers, Exact Software has meanwhile opened several additional regional offices for local sales and support for all its products throughout the US. In North America, Exact now boasts more than 11,000 customers (almost exclusively within manufacturing), 11 offices, and over 130 channel partners.(For information on the Kewill acquisition, see
Is Enterprise Market Consolidating? Exactly!).
Moreover, the combined entity has meanwhile offered an expanded solution footprint with the relatively recently unveiled extended-ERP suite dubbed
Macola ES. The product is the next-generation successor of the Progression Series ERP product, which, via the integration with e-Synergy has meanwhile rendered many third-party products superfluous due to the natively provided HRM and CRM functionality
inter alia. The suite leverages virtually all the Progression Series' functionality with certain advanced scheduling enhancements in manufacturing or multicurrency financial management consolidation and reporting capabilities and it has support for several languages; however, in particular it has enhanced user-friendliness, and built-in, native workflow and BPM capability. For example, the inherited e-HRM module tracks applicants, delegates tasks, counts absences and expenses, links to payroll, and so on.
Further, e-Synergy's document management capability allows for employees' resumes and skill-sets to be stored, which eliminates traditional dreaded shuffling through stacks of paper for HR administrators. Also, while Progression Series has had built-in job tracking and project accounting capabilities, such as setting up a project job, budgeting against it, and tracking transactions versus the budget, the Macola ES/e-Synergy combination offers a far better project oversight that includes scheduling, document management, and workflow tracking. This has brought about new opportunities for targeting contractors and service firms whose project accounting needs are related to tracking expenses for non-construction projects.
This is Part Four of a six-part note.
Parts One and Two detailed the event summary.
Part Three began a discussion of the market impact.
Part Five will continue to discuss the market impact.
Part Six will cover challenges and make user recommendations.
Single Product Strategy
Lately, Exact has been focusing its research and development efforts on a "single product" strategy that leverages the previously mentioned One-X architecture framework.
One-X refers to the single database (i.e., SQL Server) and transaction table between Exact Globe 2000's or Macola ES's respective back-office products, which each have the e-Synergy front-office and BPM product. Both product combinations should provide customers with full integration of back- and front-office solutions, albeit with different focus and strengths and in different markets the
Exact Globe 2000 and e-Synergy combination targeting non-manufacturing markets outside North America, and Macola ES and e-Synergy targeting inside. The idea is to eventually converge these three product lines to possibly create a unified global product in the future. Meanwhile, new versions of all acquired product lines have been developed on the same architecture, which should ensure long-term economies of scale, product integration of acquired brands, and product continuity for customers. To that end, Exact is using a common object repository to simplify development across its products, so that Globe 2000 and Macola ES could "borrow" modules from each other accordingly.
Therefore, in the near future, Exact will have another potential strength against most of its competitors: its eventual global nature. Unlike Sage/Best Software and MBS's forays, the advanced convergence of Exact Globe and Macola ES with e-Synergy could produce a single product line that operates on an international basis, whereas the others would still have multiple product lines stemming from acquisitions that they have attempted to paste together from around the world; however, these product lines are not able to work with one another. For example, Sage and MBS are not exactly uniformly global companies as their product offerings differ for different markets. Also, these vendors are still in a quandary about which of their numerous ERP products to integrate to their CRM counterpart —
SalesLogix or Microsoft CRM, respectively. Also, not many customers can integrate the
UK Sage product lines (e.g. Line 500) with the US Best Software counterparts (e.g.,
MAS 500), and the same holding for MBS' Great Plains, Solomon, Axapta, and
Navision product lines. While these vendors could contend that separate products in separate countries is necessary to provide a best-of-breed localized approach, such a response might be perceived as a lame excuse resulting from a market share increase opportunity buying binge.
In any case, the corporate Exact's contribution to the matrimony between itself and Macola was the above-mentioned
e-Synergy, a suite of diverse web-based solutions, such as CRM, HRM, professional service automation (PSA), project management, and extensive workflow management functionality. Although it admittedly is not as deep as some of the individual, best-of-breed CRM, HRM, PSA, or BPM products in the market, it offers most of the nifty functionality a small or medium enterprise may need without the superfluous integration headaches. Owing to its inherent workflow as an applications glue, e-Synergy furthermore often becomes bigger than the sum of its parts, since, by being able to manage the customer's web site and by including the buy side and the sell side of e-business, document management, and logistics functionality, it borders on the capabilities of still evolving
knowledge management (KM) and BPM systems. The successful and quick integration of e-Synergy with former Macola's back-office solution to deliver Macola ES was impressive delivering more information to the desktop and across the enterprise and catering for better management of customer service for an organization.
One might even say that e-Synergy was a virtue of necessity because it was originally developed by Exact to give its globally dispersed offices better collaborate- and share-information in near real-time. Therefore, Exact has established a global infrastructure and network of offices offering direct support, sales, and services with the aim of providing customers a consistent level of service. This was effectuated by ensuring that all employees within the Exact's international organization utilize e-Synergy both as an internal automation and information system for monitoring these customers and for sharing real-time information about each of these multinationals. By further increasing its global network, its standard front- and back-office solutions and a real-time infrastructure, Exact has bolstered its position for acquiring multinational organizations as customers and for creating further opportunities for cross-selling to affiliates of these organizations in other countries. This approach has reportedly allowed Exact to build up a central knowledge base of potential international customers and their subsidiary networks. Currently, Exact International supports more than 8,000 international companies.
Giving an Edge to Its ERP Product Lines
Once the proof of concept had been made, Exact realized that the technology could provide an edge to its ERP product lines, Exact Globe 2000 and Macola ES, in extending the user enterprise's reach beyond the traditional, selected few power users within financial or manufacturing departments. As said earlier, e-Synergy automates a gamut of activities like document management; employee and customer relations; project management; workflow management; financial consolidation and roll-up; and supplier and partner portals. The web-based system can also be synchronized with third-party ERP solutions particularly targeting MBS Great Plains users that do not have a single database architecture, but instead use batch transfers that replicate data between e-Synergy and ERP product's databases.
Exact Software claims that it recently surpassed one hundred customers who have deployed e-Synergy in North America. The adoption of this sort of new breed of enterprise system with native BPM functionality might lead to new efficiencies for early adopter enterprises. Typically, traditional enterprise systems touch only about 25 percent of an organization, while the bundled tools offered by e-Synergy could virtually extend to every employee, bringing all employees into the process and tying them more closely to the company's business goals. In addition to catering to the core processes for service or manufacturing oriented organizations, there has long been a gap of uncovered remaining workplace processes within an organization. Namely, this gap surrounds IT-supported process optimization which include some of the following: organization of internal meetings; taking and distributing meeting minutes and managing all ensuing tasks; the management of internal orders for indirect goods and staples; the management and reconciliation of staff vacation plans, etc. One reason why these have largely remained untackled is that they have not been recognized as revenue generators. They are more cost generating processes that could accumulate to a substantial cost earmark per year.
Also, by tackling the automation of these tasks, e-Synergy represents a broad suite of products, which may still only be a figment of its direct competitors' imagination. Rather than being a typical enterprise application that "crunches" transactions using a relational database, e-Synergy goes a mile further to support longstanding processes within and outside an enterprise that entail real-time collaboration and document management. Therefore, the suite may indicate the emergence of a new category of software that tackles enterprise relationship management, groupware and workplace collaboration management, and so on. Some leading analysts have named this nascent category as smart enterprise suite (SES).
This is owing to the fact that XML and related internet standards have lately made the unstructured data environment semi-structured and more agreeable to IT support, since document management and
enterprise content management (ECM) systems can nowadays store and retrieve unstructured data. Other technologies that should be credited for the emergence of like enterprise systems are portals, search engines, and categorization systems that retrieve any given information, and integrated report generators that view and report any data from structured and unstructured data sources. Look for Exact Software forays in directions that enable e-Synergy to launch any related application (native and third-party ones) based on a selected information object, and to launch defined business processes (workflows) across multiple systems.
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All children deserve a bright future, and investing in our students early is essential to setting them on the path for success in kindergarten and beyond.
We all share in the responsibility of being good stewards of our children's future opportunities, and Oregon is making some fundamental changes to help ensure our students have the strong start they need for school success.
We know that every child enters Kindergarten at a different stage in learning and development. Some children have mastered letters but have a hard time with numbers. Some are able to communicate ideas and needs, but have difficulty following directions. This is completely normal and expected.
The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment was created to get a clearer picture of early learning experiences across the state, and to add to the information teachers and schools acquire in order to better understand the needs of their students related to social-emotional development, self-regulation, and early literacy and math skills.
In addition, we know that there remains a great deal of inequity in the types of experiences children have before entering school. The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment is essential to understanding, and ultimately closing, the divide for our most underserved and disadvantaged early learners.
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Why does Oregon need the Kindergarten Assessment?
We have a responsibility be good stewards of our children's futures. When we invest early in a child's life with rich experiences to develop the child's heart and mind, the child is better able to give back to the community later in life. Children currently enter kindergarten having had a wide variety of early childhood experiences. The Kindergarten Assessment sheds light on these differences and allows us to better target resources for families and children where they are most needed. It also gives schools additional information that can inform how they invest their limited resources in students.
How will this assessment be used?
The Kindergarten Assessment is not a pass or fail test of kids or of families; it is a tool for determining how Oregon is doing as a state in supporting children and families before they enter school. The Kindergarten Assessment will provide invaluable information about: whether our public investments are improving the school readiness of Oregon's children; how extensive the opportunity gaps are between groups of children; and whether Oregon is succeeding in closing those gaps.
What does the assessment measure?
The Kindergarten Assessment focuses on areas that research has demonstrated are strongly linked to 3rd grade reading and future academic success: self-regulation, interpersonal skills, early literacy and early math. The self-regulation and interpersonal skills are measured through a survey based on teacher observation of the student during regular classroom activities and routines. The teacher captures their observations by responding to questions about a child's skills, such as whether or not the child always follows instructions. For the early literacy and math measures, an educator meets with the child one-on-one and asks the child to complete tasks such as identify letters or counting the number of objects in a picture.
How was the assessment selected?
The Kindergarten Assessment was adopted by the Early Learning Council in 2012 following recommendations from the Kindergarten Assessment Workgroup. The Workgroup was composed of kindergarten teachers, early educators, and district assessment coordinators. The Workgroup also contracted with early childhood researchers to ensure that assessments were age-appropriate, valid and reliable. An Interpretative Panel made up of researcher, educators, and community members reviews the results of the assessment and provides recommendations for improvements to both the assessment and the way the results are shown.
What does the first set of assessment data tell us?
The Kindergarten Assessment shows that different populations of children are arriving at kindergarten with different levels of exposure to early literacy and early math. The measures of self-regulation and interpersonal skills revealed that significant numbers of children are arriving without some of the basic social-emotional resources needed for success in school. This is the first time social-emotional skills have been assessed statewide.
Who administers the assessment?
The assessment is administered through educators in local schools and overseen by the Oregon Department of Education. In 2013, over 95% of all entering kindergarteners participated in the assessment, providing an unprecedented snapshot of the state of early learning in Oregon.
What is the current state of early learning?
We know that there are a range of early childhood experiences and we have a long way to go to overcome significant inequities. By highlighting gaps in student knowledge and skill – and gaps between student subgroups and communities – the assessment results provide direction and urgency for early action. In addition, results provide a baseline for tracking trends over time, measuring progress, and ultimately providing better tools to support the success of young children and their families.
Is this too early to be testing children?
The Kindergarten Assessment is not what is typically thought of as a "test." The child-friendly assessment is a combination of teacher observations and simple questions that help identify some early literacy and math skills, how a children approach learning, their ability to follow directions, and how they interact with other students. Children are never asked to write down responses during any portion of the assessment.
Does the assessment give an accurate picture of a child's abilities?
The Kindergarten Assessment provides a snapshot of progress in acquiring some of the knowledge and skills that have been shown to be correlated to later success in school. The assessment components have been documented by researchers to be reliable and valid for this purpose. No assessment can give a complete picture of a child's ability, but it can give a snapshot at one point in time.
It is important to remember that kindergarten assessment is not new. Most, if not all, of Oregon elementary schools have used some form of assessment in the past for entering kindergartners. However, the lack of a common, statewide assessment has made it impossible to get a meaningful understanding of the overall school readiness of incoming students, limiting the state's ability to make informed decisions about early learning investments and programs.
What has changed as a result of the assessment?
The Kindergarten Assessment has raised awareness of early childhood learning and development and the connection to later learning. The results of the assessment are inspiring conversations about how to better serve families and children before they enter kindergarten. The assessment results are also informing state-level resource allocation and bringing greater focus on underserved communities. This is the first time that the Oregon Department of Education has administered a statewide assessment that also looks at non-academic skills such as self-regulation and approaches to learning.
Does the Kindergarten Assessment make the transition to school more difficult?
Most kindergarten teachers use assessments at the beginning of the school year to understand and plan for the needs of their individual students. While the transition to kindergarten can be difficult for children and families, knowing the needs of individual children is essential to making the transition a successful one. Educators are trained to conduct the assessment in an appropriate manner and are equipped with resources to accommodate the individual needs of students. The Kindergarten Assessment is not high stakes or high pressure, but it does have the potential to elevate the importance of early learning and add urgency to addressing the inequities our youngest Oregonians face.
Is the assessment consistent with accepted views of preschool curriculum?
Each domain measured by the Kindergarten Assessment (early literacy, early math, self-regulation and interpersonal skills) can be found in Oregon's Early Learning Standards. These are the same standards that are used in Head Start classrooms and many preschools across the state.
The state is committed to age-appropriate teaching and learning practices. For example, research shows that letter recognition at kindergarten entry is an important predictor of later success, but we also know that young children don't learn letters best by being drilled on letters; they learn them by experiencing literacy rich environments.
Can a child fail the assessment?
No. Children cannot pass or fail the assessment, this is purely a check in on the skills and knowledge acquired before entering school. All children who have met the age requirement are entitled to attend kindergarten, this assessment in no way impacts a child's ability to begin kindergarten.
How many letters are "ready" children expected to name?
There is no expectation that any child be able to name all letters and letter sounds in the time allotted for the literacy assessment. The short, timed assessment gives a snapshot of a child's comfort with letter recognition. It is not intended to provide a complete picture of a child's letter knowledge.
How does this assessment help address inequities in our community?
The Kindergarten Assessment will help us better identify inequities in order to direct resources and support to underserved communities. The allocation of additional resources and support is intended to help close the opportunity gaps that exist between communities.
How has the assessment been improved to address English Language Learners?
As additional years of data are collected, the assessment will be adjusted to make improvements in the assessment itself as well as the collection and presentation of data. An interpretive panel made up of educators and researchers reviewed the results of the first year of the assessment and recommended a number of adjustments.
Resources are available to help educators make decisions about appropriate assessment of English Language Learners. For example, directions can be interpreted into a student's first language.
Spanish-speaking kindergarteners make up the vast majority of kindergartens who are English Language Learners in Oregon. Beginning in 2014-15, students whose first language is Spanish will also participate in an early Spanish literacy assessment of Spanish letter names. By assessing in both languages, educators will have information on Spanish-speaking English Language Learners' early literacy skills in both English and Spanish.
How can families help prepare their child for kindergarten?
Preparing a child for success in school and in life begins even before he or she is born. From the first weeks, talking to a child and playing age-appropriate games can instill a love of learning and build important early social and emotional skills. Check out "Love. Talk. Play." or Getting School Ready! for suggestions.
Will teachers this year receive student level data shortly after completion of the assessment?
Yes. This year districts will have the option to request a preliminary literacy and math report immediately after the district has completed the literacy and math assessments.
How can schools and teachers use the assessment information?
The statewide Kindergarten Assessment data is a snapshot of a particular student at a particular time, and the assessment focuses on only a portion of the skills that students bring to kindergarten. As such, it should be supplemented with other information to provide a more complete picture of each child.
Data from the student roster report can be used to:
- Contribute to overall understanding of individual student growth during the first half of the school year;
- Provide supports, resources and interventions for students who are not demonstrating sufficient academic growth;
- Communicate with students' parents/families about the growth that they have demonstrated to this point in the school year and how families might support student learning and development at home;
- Discuss patterns in school- and classroom-level data; and
- Initiate outreach to families and local early learning and child development programs to help them guide student learning before students start kindergarten.
Additional Materials
Read Portland State University's Kindergarten Assessment Pilot Process Evaluation report.
Regularly check out the Department of Education's Kindergarten Assessment Resource Page, with the latest updates on trainings and information.
Watch the K-3 Formative Assessment Consortium Webinar, December 20, 2013.
Comments from Bill Stewart, Gladstone School District
A Research Perspective on Oregon's Kindergarten Assessment
Oregon's KRA an Important Beginning by Swati Adarkar, Children's Institute


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The Minnesota Wild struggled to score when it needed to again before falling to the Detroit Red Wings 5-3 Friday at Joe Louis Arena.
The Wild had opportunities to take control of the game early and get back into the game late, but were unable to get closer than down by two goals in the second half of the game.
The fireworks began in the second period when the Red Wings took a 2-0 lead within the first minute.
The Wild (2-2-0) finally got on the board with the help of a two-man advantage two minutes and 49 seconds into the middle stanza. Zach Parise received a pass from Ryan Suter at the bottom of the circles for a quick shot into the open net behind Jimmy Howard.
The Wild tied the game three and a half minutes later when Tom Gilbert ripped a wrist shot past Howard. Mikael Granlund and Jonas Brodin recorded their first NHL assists on the play. Brodin kept the puck in the zone and chipped it down to Granlund in the corner. Granlund moved out of the corner and fed a pass up the slot to Gilbert.
Parise scored his second goal of the game and third of the season by sending the puck to the front of the net. His pass attempt from behind the net hit the backside of the Red Wings' defender and tucked inside the post.
The Wild had several chances and dominated the first period with an 11-6 shots on goal advantage. However, by the time the game ended, the Red Wings flipped the script and held a 21-15 advantage over the second and third periods.
Pavel Datsyuk had a hand in each of the Red Wings' last three goals. He scored the eventual game-winner late in the second with a wrist shot through a screen. That goal came sandwiched between two beautiful passes that set up the third and fifth Red Wings' goals.
The game lacked a good pace or flow in the first and second periods due mainly to questionable officiating. There were 12 minor penalties between the two teams, but most of them were ticky-tack, needlessly called infractions.
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No. 3 – Henrik Zetterberg. The Red Wings forward scored a goal and added two assists.
No. 2 – Valterri Filppula. The Red Wings forward recorded three assists.
No. 1 – Pavel Datsyuk. The Red Wings forward recorded the eventual game-winning goal and two assists.
Minnesota 0 2 1 – 3
Detroit 0 4 1 – 5
First Period – None. Penalties – Lashoff, Det (tripping), 3:28; Datsyuk, Det (hooking), 7:31; Clutterbuck, Min (hooking), 10:06; Stoner, Min (hooking), 10:36; Cleary, Det (interference), 13:16; Gilbert, Min (cross checking), 19:07.
Second Period – 1, Detroit, Brunner 2 (Zetterberg, Kronwall), :13 (pp). 2, Detroit, Bertuzzi 1 (Filpulla, Smith), :55. 3, Minnesota, Parise 2 (Suter, Koivu) 2:49 (pp). 4, Minnesota, Gilbert 1 (Granlund, Brodin), 6:29. 5, Detroit, Zetterberg 1 (Datsyuk, Filpulla), 12:56. 6, Detroit, Datsyuk 2 (Kronwall, Franzen), 17:24 (pp). Penalties – Helm, Det (interference), 1:04; Kronwall, Det (hooking), 1:25; Kindl, Det (inteference), 4:27; Kronwall, Det (hooking), 10:39; Koivu, Min (hooking), 16:58; Brodin, Min (holding), 18:11.
Third Period – 7, Detroit, Bertuzzi 2 (Datsyuk, Filpulla) 4:18. 8, Minnesota, Parise 3 (Koivu, Gilbert), 10:18. Penalties – Falk, Min, major (fighting), 8:47; Abdelkader, Det, major (fighting), 8:47; Cleary, Det (holding), 11:58.
Shots on goal – Minnesota 11-10-5 26. Detroit 6-11-10 27.
Goalies – Minnesota, Harding (22-27). Detroit, Howard (23-26). A – 20,066. Referees – Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen – Andy McElman, Jean Morin.


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WASHINGTON, April 6, 2006 Afghan and coalition forces killed one insurgent yesterday in combat in the Deh Rawod district of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. Elsewhere, U.S. officials announced that Afghan aviators are ready to begin flying missions.
While conducting a combined security patrol, Afghan National Army and coalition elements engaged four Taliban insurgents with small-arms fire, killing one, and then called for close-air support. Coalition aircraft responded and dropped two joint direct-attack munitions -- 2,000-pound guided bombs. No battle-damage assessment was available; there were no Afghan or coalition casualties in the engagement, U.S. officials said.
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I 7 Claims. (Cl. 106-86) This invention relates to the formation of porous structures of hydraulic cements, such as Portland cement, and similar materials, and provides a novel process by which structurally sound lightweight bodies may be made.
Numerous hydraulic cements have long been used for building purposes, and are particularly well-suited where structures to be subjected to compressive loads are desired. A disadvantage of materials of this type, however, is their heaviness and also the fact that they are not particularly good thermal insulators.
'The present invention provides porous structures of hydraulic cements which have been found to possess high compressive strength but at a great reduction in weight. Such structures are accordingly far easier to handle, impart leser'bearing loads on the supporting material which permits heavier or larger loading from other sources, and also possess quite good thermal insulation characteristics. I
In general, the structures of this invention are formed by tglding and mixing water-insolublegqueous gel pellets with a plastic wafer-containin hydraulic cement composition, and thereafier casting the mixture to the desired form and permitting the composition to harden and the gel water to evaporate from the pellets. The pellets should of course, be sufficiently durable mechanically to permit the necessary mixing, but numerous gel materials having these characteristics are well-known in the art. The proportion of pellets 'to the cement composition will of course, depend on the porosity desired, but in any case, sufficient cement composition to serve as a binder and provide a structural bond for the structure should be present. Inasmuch as these factors will be subject to considerable variation depending on the particular characteristics desired and the particular cement to be used, and are also well within the known concepts in this field, no detailed discussion of them is necessary for a full understanding and appreciation of this invention.
Suitable hydraulic cement compositions include Portland cement; hydraulic lime cements and mortars; gypsum cements suc as p as er 0 arrs, eene s cement (also known as flooring cement or tiling plaster), Parian cement, Martins cements; magnesium oxychloride or Sorel cement; magnesia cement; magnesium sulfate cement; Pozzuolana cement; slag cements; stabilized soils; and other cements which are hardenable plastic aqueous compositions. Cements of this type are generally characterized by the fact that the strength of them is not. seriously affected by the presence of water. Such cements are well-known by the term hydraulic cement which is used herein and in the appended claims to refer to cements of this type.
The formation of the cement for use in this invention is in accordance with well-known conventional techniques, and will accordingly include water and also aggregate filler materials commonly employed, such as sand, gravel, cinders, vermiculite, sawdust, wood shavings and the like. It is im e invention, however, that the cement cgmpsition be nuxed up with the reauisitewater W- tion an mixing 1n of the pellets the cement will be of maximum fluidity. The mixing in of the pellets may then proceed with greatest ease and with minimum breakage of pellets. The mixing of the pellets with the dry cement mixture prior to the addition of water should be 3,027,266 Patented Mar. 27, 1962 2 avoided, since breakage and dehydration of the pellets, along with localized wetting of the cement mixture from the gel water removed from the pellets is likely to result. In addition to the hydraulic cements, porous ceice . ramic structures may be formed in accordance with this invention by the addition of the gel pellets to the wet clay from which bricks are made. The molded structures are permitted to dry thoroughly and are then fired in the usual manner.
The gel llets may be formed of any of numerous materials wEich form aqueous gels, and are preferably formed of those substances which form mechanically rigid or durable gels which are able to withstand-the mixing with the cement or clay without breaking up. Preferred gels are formed of a gel-forming substance which is subsequently treated to harden the pellets. Examples of suitable aqueous gel-forming materials are alginates e.g. sodium alarm-51mm water solub ellulose deriyatives, e.g. earboxymethyl cellu ose, methyl cellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose; agar agar; gelatine, starch and its oi pructs; casein derivatives e.g. alkali caseinates; glutenates and its degradation products; hide or bone glue; gums such as arabic and karaya; water glass; polyvinyl alcohol; and clays such as china clay.
Among those mentioned, the preferred gel-forming substances are cellulose derivatives, the degradation products of starch, and alginates.
Cellulose derivatives such as carboxy methyl cellulose will generally readily form viscous solutions and jellies containing extremely high amounts of water and will also be quite cohesive. Hard durable pellets may accordingly be formed of them.
Other suitable materials are the casein and gluten derivatives, sodium casein sulfate. and sodium gluten sulfate described in Industrialand Engineering Chemistry, vol. 36, p. 1149. These can conveniently be formed cheaply from defatted soya flour or peanut flour.
In forming the pellets a convenient technique consists in fonm'ng a viscous solution or suspension of the gelforming substance and water in proportions suitable for gel formation, and then separating appropriately sized masses of the solution and causing them to harden. Conveniently, the solution or suspension of gel forming material is broken up or subdivided into pellet size in a hardening bath in which the hard pellets are formed.
, The pellets may be used immediately after their formation, but frequently it is preferable to dry the pellets for storage or shipment and then to immerse them in water to swell them just prior to their use. By this technique, pellets may be economically formed at any convenient central location and shipped at minimum expense to the sites where they are to be used. 4
Drying of the pellets is most conveniently accomplished by extracting the water with a water-miscible liquid, such as methanol, ethanol, isopropanal, acetone or similar materials, and then evaporate the volatile liquid from the pellets.
To assist the swelling of dried pellets, swelling aids may be added either to the pellets or to the water with which they are swelled. Swelling aids may also be added to the pellets for softening the gel because gels that are too hard are apt to lose water. Suitable swelling aids include generally organic bases such as quaternary ammonium bases, amines such as triethanolamine, ammonia, pyridine, guanidine and formamide. Swelling agents of 'this type are effective with both cellulose derivatives and alginates.
Dried pellets are conveniently formed during the manufacture of the gel-forming material, particularly where a final concentration of the gel-forming material is appropriate to pellet formation. A quantity of it may readily be formed into pellets and then dried to be used subsequently, as by swelling them and combining them with cement, clay or gypsum composition.
This invention is further described below with reference to presently preferred embodiments selected for purposes of illustration. Reference is made to the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows schematically suitable apparatus for forming gel pellets,
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a pellet-forming extrusion head, and
FIG. 3 is an alternative pellet-forming apparatus.
The pellets are most conveniently formed by first forming a gel-forming solution or suspension, and then subdividing the mass of liquid into pellet-size particles in the presence of a hardening bath. Suitable apparatus, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, utilizes an extrusion head 5 having for its upper surface a foraminous plate-28. The top surface of the plate 28 is wiped by brushes or blades 24 and 25 such that when the gel-forming solution or suspension is forced from the head through the plate 28, the wiping of the brushes 24 and 25 divides the exuding streams into pellet-sized particles.
The brushes 24 and 25 are carried on a shaft 6 mounted for rotation by a pulley 7 and belt 30 in bearings 22 and 23, and are urged by springs 26 and 27 into close contact with the foraminous plate 28.
The extrusion head 5 and associate brushes or blades 24 and 25 are mounted in a tank 4 in which the hardening bath is contained, so that the pellets from the extrusion head 5 are formed in the presence of the hardening bath. A screen 29 submerged near the top of the bath level in the tank 4 permits the formation of pellets :ftlfiuoyant materials by holding them submerged in the In the illustrated embodiment the extrusion head 5 may be fed either from a pneumatic reservoir 8, which connccts through a valved conduit 20, or from a cylinder 1 provided with a piston 2, which connects through a valved conduit 21. The pneumatic reservoir 8 is provided with an inlet 9 fitted with a tight cover 10, by which a charge of gel-forming suspensions or'solution may be introduced, and connects with a gas pressure line 11 through a control valve 19 by which gas pressure may be applied to the gel-forming liquid and delivered to the extrusion head.
If desired, however, the gel-forming liquid maybefed to the extrusion head 5 from the cylinder 1 by applying force to the piston 2.
The pellets that are formed are collected in the hardening bath, and are then drained through a valve 48 to a screen 12 which in turn drains to a collecting vessel 13 through a valve 18. A conduit 15 from the bottom of the collecting vessel 13 permits return of the hardening bath after the pellets have been screened out, conveniently by applying gas pressure to the vessel 13 through a conduit 14 which connects with the vessel 13 through a control valve 17.
In FIG. 3 is shown an embodiment of an extrusion head which employs staionary brushes 38 and 39 which wipe the formainous cylindrical walls 37 of a rotating extrusion head 35, carried by a hollow shaft 33 to which the gel-forming liquid is fed, as by a conduit 44 connecting through a sealing box 43. The shaft 33 is carried by bearings 30 and 31 and is driven through a pulley 32 which is engaged by a drive belt 46. The tank 34 for the hardening bath surrounds the extrusion head and carries the brushes 38 and 39 on threaded shafts 40 and 41 carried by nuts 42 and 43 by which the position of the brushes may be adjusted. A screen 47 across the top of the tank 34 may be provided to hold buoyant pellets submerged in the hardening bath. I
The formation of typical pellets is described in detail in the following examples.
addition to the cement.
as Laminaria digetala, Laminaria hyperborea or other seaweed containing alginic acid, are washed three times'for thirty minutes in 0.1 N HCl at a temperature of about 40 C., and are then washed for thirty minutes in fresh running water. The alginic acid in the washed seaweed is now determined in well known manner, and to neutralize this and bring the same into solution, an equivalent quantity of sodium carbonate is added in form of an aqueous solution, preferably one of concentration to form 1.5% solution of sodium alginate.
The viscous alginate solution is then formed into pellets as by means of the apparatus described above, in the presence of a hardening bath consisting, for instance, of a 1 percent aqueous calcium chloride solution. The pellets are then separated from the bath for subsequent addition to the cement composition.
If desired, pellets formed of alginatcs and the like, can be further hardened for instance, by treating them with basic beryllium and chromium salts and formaldehyde as described in U.S. Patent No. 2,409,319. Or they may be added with the product of condensation of formalin and urea, formalin and melamine, and so on.
Example 5 kilograms of carboxy methyl cellulose, such as the Dutch product designated A.K.U.-CMC, Type HC, is dissolved in gallons of water to which are added 3 grams of copper sulfate in 1 liter of water. The solution is thoroughly mixed and is then formed into pellets in the' presence of a hardening bath consisting of a 2% aqueous solution of alum.
Example 3 33 kilograms of fish or fish refuse, e.g. heads, tails, entrails and so on, in the fresh wet condition, are dissolved by stirring them in 17 liters of an alkaline solution containing 1 kilogram of sodium hydroxide. After stirring for about 2 hours at a temperature of 40-50 C., the fish is dissolved, and the solution is strained to remove bones and other undissolved matter, and is then acidified by the addition of dilute sulfuric acid to adjust the pH to between about 5.2 and 7. liters of an aqueous 1.5 percent sodium alginate solution is then added to the fish solution, and the mixture is whipped to a froth having a total volume of about 400 liters. To this is added, 10 grams of copper sulfate dissolved in a liter of water. The froth is then formed into pellets in a hardening bath consisting of an aqueous 2 percent calcium chloride solution, conveniently by means of the apparatus described above. The pellets are allowed to harden in the bath and are then separated for subsequent Example 10 kilograms of potato starch are dispersed in 100 liters of a solution containing 20 grams of calcined sodium carbonate and 30 grams of hydrogen peroxide, and the solution is then heated, conveniently by introducing live steam, to a temperature of about 90 C. where it is held for about hour during which the solution is continuously stirred. This treatment results in a viscous solution of a degraded starch which is then permitted to cool to about 40 C. at which time a solution consisting of 3 kilograms of sodium alignate dissolved. in 62 gallons of water is added, together with 5 grams of copper sulfate dissolved in 1 liter of water. The solution is then formed into gel pellets in a hardening bath consisting convenient- 1y of a 2 percent aqueous solution of calcium chloride, for instance, in the manner and by the apparatus described above. After the pellets have hardened in the bath, they are removed for addition to the cement.
Example Dry pellets of alginates are conveniently formed in the manner outlined in Example 1 by including in the gel-forming composition, .005 percent based on the weight of solids, of tetraethyl ammonium hydroxide to facilitate swelling of the pellets after they have been dried. The pellets are formed in the manner described in Example 1 and are then dehydrated by first extracting the water from them by denatured ethanol and then drying them in air. The dried pellets may readily be rewet, for instance by immersing 7 kilograms of dry pellets in 425 liters of water to which has been added .01 percent of tetra ethyl ammonium hydroxide. After about 4 hours, the pellets will have absorbed about 400 liters of water, and may be separated from the remaining water and incorporated as the pore-forming aggregate.
Example 6 The same procedure as described in Example 5 is carried out except that the original gel-forming solution has added to it, 3 percent based on the weight of solids of triethanol amine instead of tetra ethyl ammonium hydroxide. The dry pellets which result are conveniently swollen by adding 7 kilograms of them to 425 liters of water to which has been added 10 kilograms of triethanol amine. The pellets when swollen will have absorbed about 400 liters of water.
Example 7 Dried pellets of carboxy methyl cellulose may be formed I from the gel-forming composition described in Example 2, preferably by incorporating in the composition, a swelling agent such as 3 percent based on the weight of solids of tri-ethanol amine. \After the pellets have been formed, they are first extracted of water in a water-miscible organic solvent which is then dried from the pellets. The dried pellets are conveniently swollen by immersing them in the ratio of 7 kilograms of pellets to 425 liters of water to which has been added 7 liters of triethanol amine. When swollen, the pellets will have absorbed about 400 liters of water.
As a hardening bath, a solution of a soluble salt of iron or zinc may be used in place of the calcium or aluminum salts of the preceding examples.
Any of the pellets described above may conveniently be incorporated into a hydraulic cement composition or into plastic ceramic-forming compositions as pore-forming aggregates. Dried pellets may also be added to hydraulic cements to which an excess of water has been added along with a small amount of a swelling agent, to swell in situ. When this is done, it is generally desirable that the pellets swell as quickly as possible, and for this purpose, it is generally advantageous that the dried pellets be ground rather finely. It has been found for instance, that dried calcium alignate pellets, formed for instance by immersing sodium alignate gel pellets formed by the procedure described in Example 1 in a calcium chloride solution until the sodium is replaced by calcium, having when dry, a mesh size of about 30 per square centimeter will require about 4 hours to swell. The same pellets when ground to a mesh size of 900 meshes per square centimeter may be swollen with 100 .times their own weight of water in about 3 minutes.
A typical procedure for forming a porous Portland cement composition consists in first mixing 50 kilograms of Portland cement and 150 kilograms of sand with suficient water to form a plastic hydraulic cement composition. When this has been formed, 200 liters of wet gel pellets are added and mixed in and the cement composition thus formed is cast in the usual manner.
Similarly good results are obtained by mixing 50 kilograms of Portland cement with 200 liters of fermented sawdust to which is aded sufficient water to form the plastic hydraulic cement composition. 200 liters of wet gel pellets may then be added and mixed in to produce a pore-forming Portland cement composition.
In any case, it will be advantageous to mix the hydraulic cement composition thoroughly before the pellets are added and to utilize no more mixing action than is necessary after the pellets have been added. When using an ordinary concrete mixture, it is preferable to run the mixture as slowly as possible, generally at about onehalf the ordinary speed.
Another suitable technique consists in utilizing rotating inclined pipes carrying longitudinal internal lift bars by introducing the premixed hydraulic cement and the pellets into the upper part of the pipes to be mixed as they progress downwardly through them. A mild, yet adequate, mixing action has been found to result.
A porous structure is formed in the practice of this invention by the gel pellets which remain within the wet hardening hydraulic cement as discrete pieces about which the cement hardens. The pellets thus serve to support the walls of the pores during the hardening of the cement, and after the cement has hardened the pellets dry out through the evaporation of the gel water and the actual voids which constitute the pores are formed.
The structures formed in the practice of this invention are strong yet of greatly reduced weight and are particularly useful in numerous types of building work where weight is to be kept at a minimum. Although the inven tion has been described with reference to preferred embodiments which are illustrative of it, it is contemplated that various modifications will occur to those skilled in the art, and that such may be made without departing from the scope of this invention. This application is a continuation-in-part of application Serial No. 609,343, filed September 6, 1956, which in turn was a continuationin-part of application Serial No. 410,159, filed February 15, 1954, both now abandoned.
Having thus disclosed this invention and described in detail preferred embodiments of it, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:
1. The method of making porous structures comprising mixing a plastic water-containing hydraulic cement with solid mechanically durable pellets consisting essentially of an aqueous mechanically rigid gel capable of being dried to particles of reduced dimensions, thereby distributing said pellets within said cement as discrete solid pieces defining pores within a structural bond of cement, forming said mixture, and permitting the cement to harden and the gel water to evaporate from said pellets, whereby a porous structure is formed.
2. A porous structure-forming composition comprising a mixture of a plastic water-containing hydraulic cement and solid mechanically durable pellets consisting essentially of an aqueous mechanically rigid gel capable of being dried to particles of reduced dimensions, said pellets being distributed within said cement as discrete solid pieces defining pores within a structural bond of cement.
3. The method of making porous structures comprising combining substantially dry particles of a gel forming material with water to cause said material to swell and form solid mechanically durable pellets consisting essentially of an aqueous mechanically rigid gel capable of being dried to particles of reduced dimensions, mixing said pellets with a plastic water containing hydraulic cement, thereby distributing said pellets within said cement as discrete solid pieces defining pores within a structural bond of cement, forming said mixture, and permitting the cement to harden and the gel water to evaporate, whereby a porous structure is formed.
4. The method defined by claim 1 wherein the hydraulic cement includes Portland cement, sand and water.
5. The composition defined by claim 2 in which the hydraulic cement includes Portland cement, sand and water.
6. The method defined by claim 1 wherein the hydraulic cement is a gypsum cement.
7 7. The composition defined by claim 2 in which the hydraulic cement is a gypsum cement.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Pond June 23, 1936 Scripture Aug. 15, 1939 Baty et al. J. Sept. 14, 1943 Lea July 21, 1953 Vickers May 22, 1956 Smidth July 24, 1956 Veatch June 25, 1957 FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain Jan. 19, 1939
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NEMCC GOLF CARDS EIGHTH PLACE FINISH IN SEASON-OPENING MATCHFebruary 6, 2013
Booneville, Miss., --Northeast Mississippi Community College men's golf program kicked off the spring sports season with a consistent showing in the first Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) tour stop of the year.
Northeast, under the direction of first-year head coach Nick Coln, shot back-to-back 348s for a two-day 696 at the Diamondhead Country Club's Pine Course in Bay St. Louis.
Northeast finished eighth in the tournament against fellow MACJC opponents.Host Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College rallied on the second day to claim the first tour stop of the year. Mississippi Gulf Coast improved 11 strokes from day one to day two (316-305) in claiming a three-stroke win over Copiah-Lincoln which finished with a two-day 624 (314-310).
Northeast trailed Jones County Junior College and finished ahead of Hinds and Holmes community colleges by 24 and 41 strokes, respectively.Sophomore Ty Lindsey of Baldwyn led the way for the Tigers with a two-day 168 and finished tied for twenty-second overall.
Jordan Wilson improved on the second day to finish in a tie for twenty-ninth overall after a two-stroke improvement on day two (87-85) for a two-day 172.Freshman Jay Swinney of Booneville finished in a tie for thirty-eighth overall with a two-day 179 (89-90) while Payton Dunlap of New Albany was just three behind Swinney with a 182 two-day total (87-95).
Corinth's Blake Farris wrapped up the scoring for the Tigers with a two-day 186 and improved two spots on the second day with a forty-eighth place finish with a six-stroke improvement 186 (96-90).Following the season-opening event, Northeast will now wait a month before stepping on the course at Eagle Ridge Golf Club on March 2-3 before embarking on a one-day stop at Wolf Hollow Golf Course in Wesson on March 17.
Northeast's stop at Wolf Hollow will be a long day for the Tigers as the one-day stop will see the Tiger linksters play a 36-hole one-day affair.Coln's crew returns to north Mississippi for its fourth tour stop of the year when the Tigers make the short trek over to Southaven and Olive Branch on March 25-26.
On March 25, the Tigers will play an 18-hole affair at the North Creek Golf Club before heading over to Wedgewood Golf Course in Olive Branch on March 26 to wrap up the two-day event.Northeast's fifth Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) tour stop of the year will see the Tigers stay above the Interstate 20 corridor as Coln and company head to East Mississippi for two days on the Mississippi State University Golf Course in Starkville April 7-8.
Following its tour stop on April 7-8, the Tigers will have a week to prepare for the MACJC State Tournament hosted by Jones County Junior College.This year's state tournament is slated for April 14-15 at Dixie Golf Course in Laurel with the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIII Tournament following the next week on the Azaleas Golf Course at the Dancing Rabbit Golf Club in Philadelphia.