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DALLAS, Texas Dallas police say 10 people have been hurt in a wreck when a suspected drunken driver allegedly ran a red light and his pickup truck hit an SUV.
Police say the accident early Monday injured six children and three adults in the SUV. Police say several youngsters were ejected from the vehicle.
Investigators say the truck driver was also hurt in the accident at an intersection.
All of the injured have been transported to Dallas hospitals. Further details on their conditions weren't immediately available.
Police say the truck driver could face a variety of charges.,
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Bluegill & Crappie
Most people don't realize it, but Lake Eries south shore harbors and marshes are really good for both bluegills and crappies in the fall, through the ice and in the spring.
What is a Bluegill?
Bluegill, also known as Bream, inhabit virtually all lakes, rivers, and streams in the Lake Erie Region. These fish are typical around 6"-10" long, and although colors vary, all Bluegill have a black spot on their ear flap.
What is a Crappie?
Black Crappie, native to western Lake Erie as well as other Ohio streams and rivers, prefer clear water with little vegetation. They are identifiable by the seven to eight spines on their dorsal fin.
Fishing for Bluegill & Crappie
We all know about booming populations of Lake Eries walleye, smallmouths, perch, steelhead, and more. Guess what? Bluegill and Crappie seem to be on the rise as well. The panfish attack is on from Sandusky, Ohio, to Erie, Pennsylvania, to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie's southern harbors.
Starting in the fall the bluegill and crappie move from the main lake the harbors and marshlands to feed and spawn. Both white and black crappie and multiple species of bluegill inhabit these waters sometime between September and the end of May. Anglers can fish for crappie and bluegill with the ultra light fishing rod of your choice, 4 6lb test line and a multitude of baits including jigs, spoons, small crankbaits, live bait and more. Bluegill and crappie can also be fished through the ice in these areas with ultra-light rods with minnows and jigs.
Where to Find Bluegill & Crappie
Lake Erie provides bluegill and crappie anglers tremendous opportunity for bank fishing or those with small boats. The key to catching bluegill and crappie is structure and there are countless empty boat slips, break-walls, piers and backwater marsh systems on Lake Erie!
Cooking Bluegill & Crappie
Panfish can be cooked a number of ways, including pan sauteed, broiled, baked, fried, and grilled. Panfish is a delicate fish and care should be taken not to overcook the fish. Cook it just until the fillets flake when touched with a fork.
What Anglers Are Catching
Anglers fishing Lake Erie for bluegill and crappie will more than likely see a mixed bag that makes up their catch. Sometimes you catch white crappie, black crappie, bluegill and sunfish sometimes all the same and sometimes a mixed bag. The size of the fish varies as the smaller fish in-habit these areas first and then the bigger fish move in. You can expect to see bluegill up to 8-inches and good numbers of 15- and 16-inch crappie with the average size near 11-inches. In fact, the Ohio record crappie was caught in the Vermilion River, a Lake Erie Tributary.
Limits - 2010
Michigan - Bag limit of 25 fish in combination. No size limit, No closed season.
Ohio No size limit, No closed season.
Pennsylvania - Bag limit of 50 in combination. No size limit, No closed season.
New York - Bag limit of 50 in combination. No size limit, No closed season.
Ontario Bag limit for crappie is 30 per person with a sportsman license and 10 per person with a conservation license. Bag limit for bluegill is 100 per person with a sportsman license and 50 per person with a conservation license. No size limit, No closed season.
Anglers are reminded that fishing conditions on Lake Erie can change hourly and adjustments are often necessary to improve success. Anglers should take into account such factors as water temperature, cloud cover, water clarity, boat traffic, wave action, structure and the amount of baitfish in the area. Anglers are also reminded to carefully monitor Lake Erie weather and to seek safe harbor before storms approach.
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Dance School Trips to Lake Garda
40 students and 4 staff
Indulge in the magical location of Lake Garda and take advantage of its close proximity to a number of influential cities. Embark on a series of excellent dance workshops and enhance your learning through visiting Venice, where you'll have the opportunity to take part in a Mask-Decorating workshop and soak up the city's history and beauty. Groups can also enjoy the ancient city of Verona, famous for Romeo and Juliet and the ancient Arena, still showing opera in the summer months.
Request a specific style of dance to specialise in during your stay: from Hip-Hop to Jazz, our skilled tutors offer a range of styles aiming to challenge the dancer's typical process - enhancing their performance and encouraging creativity.
Dance in Lake Garda
Our experienced and professional dance practitioners will deliver 90 minute training sessions in dedicated studios, generating positive learning outcomes through challenging the performer's process, enhancing and encouraging creativity, competence, critical understanding and evaluation.
Tailored dance sessions and specialist workshops are designed to meet each group's individual needs. Teachers can specify desired aims and objectives by liaising with our Performing Arts Consultant prior to departure.
Adaptable to each group's needs, specialisations are available in many styles of dance, including:
- Contemporary and Choreography
- Street Dance, Hip-Hop
- Breakdance
- Jazz, Street Jazz
- Commercial
- Fusion
- Capoeira
- Dance for film
- Other styles available on request
Sample Itinerary
40 students and 4 staff
Our friendly team can offer expert advice to help you plan a bespoke itinerary tailored to your learning objectives - The price featured is based on the itinerary shown below.
Read more about our prices.
We recommend the itinerary below for your dance group.
- Coach pick up from school and travel to Dover
- Ferry crossing & overnight travel
- Coach travel
- Arrive in resort and check-in
- Evening at leisure
- Workshops 1 & 2
- Workshop 3
- Lakeside town visit
- Pizza evening (at supplement)
- Full day excursion to Venice*
- Workshops 4 & 5
- Excursion to Verona
- Disco (at supplement)
- Check-out
- Depart resort
- Overnight travel
- Ferry crossing
- Arrive at school
*Venice visits – all groups are subject to a local Tourist Tax, currently 270€ per coach (tbc for 2015.) This is payable in resort. Further terms and conditions apply, please enquire for more details.
During their stay, your students can expect:
- 5 x 90 minute sessions
- A choice of specialisations*, tailored to each individual group
*Specialisations ideally require all five sessions to allow a full development of the theme.
40 students and 4 staff
Hotel San Vito
- Great facilities
- Ideal for groups
Hotel San Vito has been a resounding hit with new groups and experienced Party Leaders alike. The hotel is ideal for school groups, offering excellent food and a warm family welcome.
Location: In Negrar, a short coach ride from the lake or nearby Verona
Facilities: The hotel offers 114 rooms, plus a recreation area and garden
Accommodation: All rooms feature en-suite facilities
Meals: On site restaurant
Hotel Centro Turistico Gardesano
-Recommended for Sports Groups
- Outdoor pool
- Ideal for groups
This hotel is ideal for school groups.
Location: Busselengo in Lake Garda. 2.5hrs from Milan airports, 30 minutes from Verona
Facilities: The hotel has an on-site swimming pool, restaurant and bar/lounge
Accommodation: All rooms feature en-suite facilities
Meals: Buffet style meals
Quick Tip: This is just a small sample of possible accommodations available. Please contact us for more information!
40 students and 4 staff
Subject Specific Excursions
Verona Opera (Jul-Aug)
In the early years of last century, the famous tenor from Verona, Giovanni Zenatello, sang an opera aria in the Arena for few friends who had gathered there by chance. They soon realized how good the acoustic was and decided to use it to perform a real opera. Between July and August you and your students could watch a spectacular opera staged within this 2000 year old Roman Amphitheatre.
Lake Garda boat trip
Take a boat trip around Lake Garda and explore this magnificent work of nature. The tour starts at one of the lake's idylic resorts and takes you on a leisurely cruise with spectacular scenery.
Malcesine Cable Car
For an outstanding view over Lake Garda there is nothing to beat a ride on the Malcesine cableway, which rises to 1,600m in just ten minutes and reaches an altitude of 1760m at the top of Monte Baldo. On a clear day you can see the whole of the lake, from Riva to Peschiera del Garda; a truly breathtaking panorama.
Quick Tip: If you have an excursion in mind which you don't see listed, please get in touch anyway as we may still arrange it for you!
Learning Outcomes
40 students and 4 staff
Recognising the varied and valuable role that dance plays in the lives of young people, we encourage students to become responsible, reflective and successful performers.
In-line with National Curriculum Key Concepts and Processes, our programmes encourage performers to:
- Explore and communicate ideas, concepts and emotions
- Advance their composition skills – choreography, sequencing, dynamics
- Develop greater body and spatial awareness
- Fine tune core skills, including - balance, alignment, shape and strength
- Improve the clarity, fluency and phrasing of movement
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In 1977, long before most of today's college students were born, Old Dominion University President Alfred Rollins declared in an address to the faculty that too many ODU graduates were unable to write clearly and correctly.
So the university was going to do something about it, Rollins said. Henceforth, no one would graduate without passing a writing proficiency exam.
For generations of ODU students, the Exit Examination of Writing Proficiency has been a constant of college life. For years, the three-hour writing test was believed to be the only one of its kind among Virginia public colleges and universities.
The university wore it as a badge of honor. A later president, James Koch, called the exam "our academic equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval."


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14-0-0, AFC East Division · 1972 NFL Season Summary
SRS: Total 11.0, Offense: 4.5, Defense: 6.5, SoS: -4.3, avg is 0.0.
Scored 385 points (27.5/g), 1st of 26 in the NFL. Allowed 171 points (12.2/g), 1st.
Differential of 214 points (15.3/g), 1st. Expected W-L: 12.2-1.8.
Don Shula (14-0-0)
Offensive Coordinator: Howard Schnellenberger
Defensive Coordinator: Bill Arnsparger
Stadium: Orange Bowl
Training Camp: St. Thomas University (Miami Gardens, Florida)
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Summary: Pyrethrin is a natural organic compound that is contained in the seed cases of African Chrysanthemums. Pyrethrum is grown commercially to produce Pyrethrin for use in insecticides.
Pyrethrin is a great pesticide because it is one of the safest for humans to use and can even be used indoors and around food. However, you should still use caution to not ingest it or get it in your eyes or on your skin because it can cause skin rashes and some respiratory problems in humans. Read warning labels on any product containing pyrethrin or any other insecticide.
Pyrethrin products available for purchase include Pyganic Pro, a liquid product, PCO Fogger, an aerosol product, Tri-Die, an aerosol dust, 565 Plus XLO, another aerosol mixture and Drione, a dust material.
Pyrethrin is a natural organic compound that is contained in the seed cases of an African Chrysanthemum called Pyrethrum. Pyrethrum is grown commercially to produce Pyrethrin for use in insecticides. A viscous liquid, it is one of the
least poisonous insecticides for mammals and birds, but it is dangerous to fish. Although testing has not been done on humans, tests on animals do not show significant signs of pyrethrins causing cancer or birth defects. As in all pesticides, there are web sites that will disagree with these findings.
Pyrethrin works by inhibiting the nervous system of insects. It does not affect nervous systems in the same way as the more toxic organophosphates or carbonate insecticides. Piperonyl butoxide, a synergist, is often used in combination with Pyrethrin, making the mixture more effective by not allowing the insect's system to detoxify the Pyrethrin.
Pyrethrin is quickly broken down in the bodies of mammals. It also breaks down when exposed to sunlight or water. When Pyrethrin is applied to the soil for treatment against ants or termites for example, it sticks to the soil and does not spread. That is good for the environment because it won't translocate to streams and lakes where it could contaminate a water supply. When applied to the soil the top layer breaks down quickly, but has a soil half life of 12 days. When applied in non-lethal doses to insects it acts as a repellent, but is not necessarily a killing agent.
Pyrethrin can be found in aerosol foggers, human head lice treatments and pet flea sprays. It is commonly found in brand name products you can purchase off your grocery store shelves like Raid, Hot Shot and Cutter. It is effective in killing all kinds of insects like fleas, bees, wasps, ants, cockroaches, and beetles and is a good extermination tool to fight bedbugs, ticks, mosquitoes and other bloodsuckers.
As with all chemicals and insecticides, carefully follow the directions for use on the label. It is, after all, a killing agent not an after-shower body spray.
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I'm in Central Pennsylvania and like everyone else, have recently been swarmed with brown marmorated stink bugs. I've been finding these bugs in my house all winter and it is now late February and I'm still seeing them. I've read about how Pyrethrin is safe for indoors and I plan to use it as such. I believe they entered my exhaust ducts (bath, kitchen, etc...) and have hidden in the ducts all winter. I plan on turning on the exhaust fans and misting Pyrethin into the ducts. What do you think?
Thanks for your time.
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I was reading your article. I have a bed bug issue and have been fighting for 6 mos. now! I had an exterminator in and he did 2 full treatments and then quit on me. With each treatment I just got Mauled that night, as if it just displaced them but not crippling or killing them. Since then I have bought Cycmic, Tempo, Temprid, Alpine, Phantom, Drione dust.. Nothing stops them! It's upsetting.. Do you know what can be purchase that will work? I have bought all the chemicals you can find in a general hardware store also.. I really need something that has mega residual as I have looked but then are well hidden. I've resorted to just vacumming and 91% alcohol bommings but obviously no residual with that..
Please advise.
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Simon Property Group (SPG) continues to deliver better-than-expected results on solid rent growth and improving occupancy rates.
Management recently raised its guidance for 2012, prompting analysts to revise their estimates higher.
Simon Property Group is the largest real estate company in the world. It owns or has an interest in 337 retail real estate properties in North America and Asia comprising 244 million square feet. The REIT is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and has a market cap of $47 billion.
First Quarter Results
Simon Property Group delivered impressive first quarter results on April 27. Funds from operation (FFO) came in at $1.82, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 9%. It was a 13% increase over the same quarter last year. Revenue rose 10% to $1.119 billion, ahead of the consensus of $1.072 billion. The average rent per square foot rose 4.4% to $39.87 while the occupancy rate simultaneously improved 60 basis points to 93.6%. Operating income increased 14% as the company leveraged its fixed expenses.
Guidance Raised
Given Simon Property Group's strong first quarter results and management's outlook for the remainder of 2012, the company raised its FFO guidance to a range of $7.50-$7.60.
This prompted analysts to revise the estimates higher too, sending the stock to a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stock. As you can see in the Price & Consensus chart below, consensus estimates have made a steady march higher over the last several months:
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 is now $7.59, within guidance, and representing 10% growth over 2011 FFO. The 2013 consensus estimate is currently $8.04, corresponding with 6% growth.
Dividend Raised
Simon Property Group also recently announced another dividend increase, from $0.95 to $1.00 per share. This marked the company's third consecutive quarterly increase. It currently yields a solid 2.6%.
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Shares of SPG trade at 20 times 12-month forward FFO, above the industry median of 15x. But this premium seems justified considering the company's above average growth.
With strong earnings momentum, solid growth projections and a 2.6% yield, Simon Property Group offers investors a lot to like.
Todd Bunton is the growth & income stock strategist for Zacks Investment Research and editor of the Income Plus Investor service.


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Mr. John Donald Rader, age 85, of Johnson City, passed away Thursday, September 22, 2011, at his residence after an extended illness.
Mr. Rader was a native of Greene County, Tennessee, and the son of John Marcus Rader and Bess Wygal Rader.
Mr. Rader was an Army veteran of WWII and served in the European Theater of Operations
After WWII he attended Tusculum College and afterwards spent most of his career in management at the Belk Company.
Mr. Rader was preceded in death by both his parents and three brothers: Harold Rader, Carl Rader and Wiley Rader, who was lost in WWII.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Virgie Phillips Rader; one daughter, Dr. Barbara Rader-Bare and husband, Ralph Bare, of Greensboro, NC; one son, John M. Rader, of Greenville, SC; and two grandchildren, Brandon Rader and Erica Rader, of the home, Greenville, SC. Lastly, a special niece, Libby Hatcher, of Erwin, Tennessee.
The Rader family would like to express their thanks to the VA at Mountain Home and Hospice for their loving care.
A private service will be at a later date.
Serving the family of Mr. John Donald Rader is Snyder's Funeral Home of Gray, TN.


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Farnborough International Airshow 2010 —Â In todayâs military conflicts, science and technology often play a vital role in transforming an innovative idea into a practical advantage for the soldier. BAE Systems is seeking to do just that with its new Ultra Lightweight Warrior (ULW) system of innovative body armor, which offers dramatic weight savings and mission-critical options to international militaries.
âThe success of any military operation depends heavily on personnel equipment that offers both protection and power to the individual userâ
With applications for land, air and naval forces, BAE Systems is displaying ULW at the Farnborough International Air Show 19-26 July 2010.
âThe success of any military operation depends heavily on personnel equipment that offers both protection and power to the individual user,â said Joe Coltman, vice president with BAE Systemsâ Personnel Protection Systems business. âWith ULW, weâre not only significantly lightening the soldierâs loadâby up to 35 percent*âwith new, lighter weight body armor plates, helmet, vest/soft body armor and load carrying equipment, but our new Integrated Power System (IPS) provides the soldier with a conformable, rechargeable power supply that offers weight savings not previously thought possible in a number of potential design configurations.â
Since real life combat lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan helped to shape the development of ULW and IPS, BAE Systems knew that for a typical three-day mission, a soldier may have to carry as many as 300 AA batteries in their pack, translating into more than 16 lbs in batteries alone. With IPS, because the system is rechargeable and designed using a unique configuration of power cells, the system delivers the same power for the same length of time, while weighing just 12 lbs. Depending on the mission requirement, the weight savings with IPS can be even more dramatic.
âOur ULW power system is completely customizable, and even though the system weâre displaying at Farnborough is configured to conform to and be worn around U.S. standard issue body armor, IPS can be resized to suit virtually any militaryâs requirements and specifications,â added Coltman. âEssentially, we can align and stack these power cells into any body armor or tactical vest configuration, including front, back and side armor plates.â
Another unique feature is that even if one power cell is disabled, the others will continue to provide power to the soldier. Whatâs more, soldiers will no longer have to guess how much power is left in their batteries since IPS includes a power meter that tracks energy usage. When the system does need to be recharged, a soldier can easily do so by simply connecting the IPS charger unit into a standard outlet, or by using an adaptor cable to charge the system through a military vehicle, just as you would a cell phone in your car. The system is fully charged in just one and one half hours.
IPS also comes equipped with a custom device adaptor, which provides the soldier with the ability to power a number of portable electronic devices, such as radios, GPS devices, AA chargers, MP3 players and laptops.
ULW is currently scheduled for rigorous field trials in the United States and elsewhere.
*When measured against comparable equipment
BAE Systems is a leading provider of soldier protective and load carriage equipment in the United States, producing a significant portion of the nationâs body armor, tactical vests, combat helmets and load carrying systems. Not only is the company focused on the design, development and production of leading edge survivability products, its integration of advanced materials into manufacturing, rigorous product testing, and field trials support the companyâs focus on the men and women who serve in the armed forces.
About BAE Systems
BAE Systems is a global defense, security and aerospace company with approximately 107,000 employees worldwide. The Company delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. In 2009 BAE Systems reported sales of £22.4 billion (US$ 36.2 billion).
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A stray female that he named Sochi passed away before getting to the U.S. for medical treatment, the silver medallist's friend Robin Macdonald announced on Twitter.
"No words can explain what has happened here, good bye little guy, we will miss you," along with a pic of him holding Sochi.
Macdonald, who'd stayed behind in Russia to finalize the paperwork for the mama dog and four pups that Kenworthy, 22, found on the streets of Sochi, explained in another Tweet that she died after authorities "refused to let me bring her to get treatment."
Macdonald and the remaining dogs – Jake, Rosa, Mishka, Mom and Stryder – set off for Denver on Tuesday.
Kenworthy said on Today last month that he planned to keep two of the puppies himself and another would go to his brother and his fiancé, and the mom would be adopted by Kenworthy's mother.
No words can explain what has happened here, good bye little guy, we will miss you.
Heading home on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/uAm8Naj2E0— Robin Macdonald (@robindmacdonald) March 9, 2014
One last family nap before the big move to a new life. Bye @Sochi2014 @HumaneSociety @aeroflot @guskenworthy pic.twitter.com/4Rq9T7as20— Robin Macdonald (@robindmacdonald) March 11, 2014
Good thing that Jake has VIP status or this would not have been possible this morning What a boss! Thanks @aeroflot pic.twitter.com/FfOjT6WqR5— Robin Macdonald (@robindmacdonald) March 12, 2014


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Eating Out
What/where to eat in London?
I'll be in London for a couple of days at the beginning of February and I'd like to try something authentically English, or at least be able to have something memorable. I'm down for a restaurant, shop, bar/pub, or a market. Any suggestions on what to see or do for the two days I have in London are also appreciated. Thanks friends!
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the size of the partitions was dictated by the windows, this is something to take into account when deciding on a base vehicle,my second project "RUBYCON" is based on a van, so the internal partitions are factored around the fittings.
So, the start, once the layout of the van had been decided, it's time to insulate, on a minibus / crewbus only the panels below the windows can be insulated along with the doors and roof, some might say "but whats the point, the windows are not double glazed",but when curtains are fitted, it does make a difference.
The choice of insulation is simple, rockwool loft insulation, expanded polystyrene or foam. the last two are messy so i used loft insulation.itchy but cheap. for the roof i chose a foil bubble wrap sandwich used for insulating behind radiators, i also used it for the thin "window" panels in the back doors.
My larger van based camper "Rubycon"will also have rockwool and foil insulation.
floor insulation is a matter of choice, in Ruby i fitted carpet over the top of the standard wooden floor, as there is a small air gap under the floor and with the carpet ontop, cold has not been an issue, With Rubycon, i will fit parket flooring underlay , then the wooden floor and possibly cork tiles on top, this will provide plenty of insulation.
Many converters advocate fitting the wiring before the side panels go on, i choose to use available channels such as where the van sides meet the roof, this allows easy access and the opportunity to modify at a later date.
However, wiring for ceiling fitted lights will need fitting before the roof panels go up.
In Ruby i used 12v flourescent lighting, but Rubycon will be fitted with led lighting throughout.
led's use less power than normal or flourescent lights, handy if you rely on batteries for power.
Both of my vans are battery only as i dont intend using too many campsites for 240v hook up.
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for Ruby, i used a 25ltr water container fitted between the fridge and cupboard, this was a tenner or so from ebay, it feeds a whale hand pump tap also from ebay.the sink is a converted serving container from a canteen, it is fitted with a plug and drains via a pipe through the floor.
In Rubycon, i have a 90ltr water tank that will feed via an electric pump all the taps and water heater, (all from ebay).grey water will drain into a tank fitted externally under the floor, and emptied through a tap and pipe.
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We recently examined a customer's system to try to speed up an ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) process for a big data set into a sort of datamart or DW. What we typically do is ask customers to run the process in question, and then examine what's happening. In this case, the (very large, powerful) database server was almost completely idle, with virtually no I/O activity or CPU usage. So we looked at the server where the ETL process was running. It was running at 25% CPU usage and was writing some files to disk, but not waiting on I/O.
What's going on here? Where's the bottleneck? The process is slow, and neither machine is really doing much work. Why?
Maybe you guessed the network. Nope, not the network either. There was plenty of spare network capacity.
If I told you the ETL machine was using exactly 25% of its CPU capacity, would you guess that it had 4 CPU cores and one of them was running at 100% usage? This is what was happening. The ETL app was single-threaded and CPU-bound.
Of course, we measured the entire process, so we could say authoritatively what was going on. But this problem actually took only a few minutes to diagnose. The point here is to look beyond the database server for what seems to be a database problem. This is why we call ourselves "full-stack performance tuning experts." We try not to have tunnel vision. This reminds me of another problem I helped debug a few weeks ago — a really slow website was due to a curl call that was hidden in the code, and timing out because of DNS issues.
One of the best things you can do to improve your performance is build profiling into your application, or run the application under a profiler (Google for "profiling <language>") and find the places where it consumes the most time. It's especially valuable to profile "external resource calls" such as calls to the database, web services, and so on. These approaches can make it much easier to find the slow parts.
We devoted part of a chapter to profiling in our book. We explain a lot of useful techniques to help you build "light-weight" profiling into the application from the start (a very smart thing to do).
Sometimes our clients believe they already know the source of the problem, but they can't prove it. They ask us to either prove them right or show them the real problem. The way we do this is to prefer measurements to guesses.
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A low-molecular-weight copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene with units of perfluoro alkyl vinyl ethers having a melt index of ≧30 suitable as a mixing component with a higher-molecular-weight copolymer of the same monomers for producing moldings in injection molding or by extrusion.
1. A shaped article comprising a mixture of thermoplastic PFA fluoropolymers consisting essentially of units of tetrafluoroethylene, from 0.5 to 10 mol % of units of one or more perfluoro alkyl vinyl ethers having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the perfluoroalkyl radical and up to about 5 mol % of other fluoromonomers not containing hydrogen, the mixture comprising:
at least 10% by weight of the mixture and not more than 90% by weight of the mixture of at least one component A) with a melt flow index (MFIA)≧30 g/10 min. and
not more than 90% by weight of the mixture and at least 10% by weight of the mixture of at least one component B) with a melt flow index (MFIB)≦15 g/10 min.,
the components being selected in such a way that the ratio of MFIA to MFIB is in the range from 80 to 2500.
2. A shaped article according to
3. A process for making a shaped article comprising
i) providing a mixture of thermoplastic PFA fluoropolymers consisting essentially of units of tetrafluoroethylene, from 0.5 to 10 mol % of units of one or more perfluoro alkyl vinyl ethers having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the perfluoroalkyl radical and up to about 5 mol % of other fluoromonomers not containing hydrogen, the mixture comprising:
at least 10% by weight of the mixture and not more than 90% by weight of the mixture of at least one component A) with a melt flow index (MFIA)≧30 g/10 min. and
not more than 90% by weight of the mixture and at least 10% by weight of the mixture of at least one component B) with a melt flow index (MFIB)≦15 g/10 min.,
the components being selected in such a way that the ratio of MFIA to MFIB is in the range from 80 to 2500; and
ii) forming a desired shape from the mixture.
4. A process according to
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/058,537 filed Apr. 10, 1998, now pending, which claims priority from German Patent Application No. 198 05 832.2, filed Feb. 13, 1998.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to thermoplastic polymers having tetrafluoroethylene units and perfluoro alkyl vinyl ether units, mixtures of such polymers that contain low molecular weight and high molecular weight components, and to processes and articles that employ such polymers.
2. Background
Copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene (TFEs below) and perfluoro alkyl vinyl ethers having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety (PAVEs below), in particular perfluoro n-propyl vinyl ether (PPVEs below) have been known for a long time. Such copolymers are commercially available under the designation "PFA". At a PAVE copolymer content of about 2% by weight and greater, these partially crystalline copolymers have excellent technical performance, for example exceptional chemical stability, combined with high service temperatures. They can be processed from the melt as thermoplastics, for example by compression molding, extruding or injection molding. Preferred applications are, inter alia, extruded pipes, tubes and cable sheathing. Processing from the melt takes place at temperatures of from 350 up to 450° C. Under these conditions, both thermal and mechanical degradation occur.
The thermal degradation takes place predominantly via the thermally unstable end groups formed in the polymerization, i.e. from the end of the chain. The mechanism of this degradation is described in more detail in "Modern Fluoropolymers", John Wiley & Sons, 1997, K. Hintzer and G. Löhr, Melt Processable Tetrafluoroethylene-Perfluoropropylvinyl Ether Copolymers (PFA), page 223. The degradation can be substantially suppressed by converting the thermally unstable end groups into stable CF3 end groups by postfluorination, as described, for example in U.S. Pat. No. 4,743,658 and DE-C-19 01 872.
Corrosive gases arise during the thermal degradation, and these considerably impair the quality of the final product by metal contamination or bubble formation, and can corrode tooling and processing machinery, The effect naturally increases with falling molecular weight (lower melt viscosity).
The mechanical degradation during processing takes place through chain breakage, recognizable by the increase of the melt flow index (MFI). It increases as extrusion speed (shear rate) rises. The resultant lowering of molecular weight considerably worsens the mechanical properties, in particular the flexural fatigue strength and other long-term properties, such as long-term failure (stress crack resistance). Keeping the mechanical degradation within acceptable limits places corresponding limitations on processing conditions. This applies in particular to the extrusion speed for pipes, tubes and cable sheathing. At higher extrusion speeds, melt fracture (shark skin) also occurs, as with all thermoplastics. Although it is possible to implement higher extrusion speeds without melt fracture by lowering the molecular weight (higher MFI values), such products do not have adequate mechanical properties. For this reason, PFA products with an MFI value >15 are currently not on the market.
It is known from WO-A-97/07147 that a marked rise in the extrusion rate is possible, while avoiding melt fracture and with retention of the mechanical properties, with partially crystalline copolymers which consist essentially of TFE and at least 3% by weight of perfluoro ethyl vinyl ether and which have a melt viscosity of not more than 25×103 Pas at 372° C., with the proviso that the melt viscosity may exceed this value if the content of the ether mentioned exceeds 10% by weight. The perfluoro ethyl vinyl ether is, however, difficult to obtain, and therefore all of the marketed products contain PPVE, which is easily obtainable industrially and is also preferred for the present invention.
A PFA has now been found which has good melt processability and which contains at least one high-molecular-weight PFA with an MFI≦15, preferably from 0.01 to 15, and at least one low-molecular-weight PFA with MFI≧30. The mixtures of the invention are particularly useful in applications where chemical resistance and high temperature resistance are important.
The invention therefore relates to mixtures of thermoplastic fluoropolymers essentially comprising units of TFE and subordinate amounts of units of one or more PAVEs having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety and a total concentration of from 0.5 to 10 mol %, the mixture comprising A) at least one low molecular weight component with an MFIA≧30 and B) at least one high molecular weight component with an MFIB≦15. These components are selected in such a way that the ratio of the MFIA of component A) to the MFIB of component B) is in the range from 80 to 2500, preferably in the range of from 240 to 750.
"Essentially comprising units of TFE and of a PAVE" means that small amounts, up to about 5 mol %, of other fluoromonomers not containing hydrogen, such as hexafluoropropene or chlorotrifluoroethylene, are not to be excluded. The composition of the copolymer of the two components may differ within the limits mentioned above.
The mixing ratio of high- and low-molecular-weight components may vary within wide limits and can be determined for the desired application by means of simple preliminary experiments. The ratio is generally from 10:90 to 90:10, preferably in the range from 25:75 to 75:25 parts by weight and in particular from 60:40 to 40:60 parts by weight.
The invention also relates to a novel low-molecular-weight PFA with an MFI≧30, preferably ≧120 with preference from 120 to 1000, in particular from 120 to 700, especially from 200 to 600.
Another aspect of the invention relates to mixtures of the novel low-molecular-weight PFA(s) mentioned with the high-molecular-weight PFA(s) mentioned above, the MFI ratio mentioned above corresponding approximately to a molecular weight ratio of the high-molecular-weight to the low-molecular-weight component(s) ≧3.5, preferably from 3.5 to 10, in particular from 3.5 to 7.
The MFI gives the amount of a melt in grams per 10 min which is extruded from a holding cylinder through a die by the action of a piston loaded with weights. The dimensions of the die, the piston, the holding cylinder and the weights are standardized (DIN 53735, ASTM D-1238). All of the MFIs mentioned here have been measured with a die of diameter 2.1 mm and length 8 mm using a superimposed weight of 5 kg and a temperature of 372° C. The values 0.01 and 1000 are practically the limiting values of this measurement method.
For very high MFI values, therefore, it is expedient to reduce the superimposed weight to values down to 0.5 kg, and for very small MFI values to increase it to values up to 20 kg. The MFI values determined in this way are recalculated for a superimposed weight of 5 kg.
The present invention further provides a process for making a shaped article from the mixtures of the invention. This process involves providing the mixture, extruding, compression molding, or injection molding the mixture, and preferably, cooling the mixture to provide a self-supporting shaped article.
Still further the present invention provides shaped articles comprising the mixture. Examples of such articles include molded or extruded goods such as films, pellets, wire and cable insulation, tubes and pipes, containers, vessel liners, and the like.
The novel mixtures may be prepared in a conventional manner, i.e. for example by mixing the pulverulent products, mixing dispersions of the components, or by conducting the polymerization in an appropriate manner ("step polymerization") with controlled use of initiator and chain transfer agent, such as short-chain alkanes and haloalkanes, and also hydrogen. An advantageous procedure here is as follows: at the start of the polymerization, for a low desired MFI, relatively little initiator and relatively little chain transfer agent are metered in. These polymerization conditions are changed at the desired juncture in the polymerization, depending on the type of composition by weight to be achieved, for example after 50% of the TFE addition, by metering in further initiator and chain transfer agent, so that the polymer produced as the polymerization continues has the desired high MFI. The desired high MFI may also be created by increasing the temperature during the polymerization. The advantage of this preparation process is that a "perfect" mixture of the two components is created in situ.
Preference is given to mixing dispersions of the components and working up the mixture in a manner known per se (U.S. Pat. No. 4,262,101) or advantageously by mechanical precipitation using a homogenizer, followed by agglomeration by petroleum fractions. After subsequent drying, the product is subjected to melt granulation.
Because the two components have very different MFI values, homogeneous mixtures of powders or of melt granules down to the micro range can be produced only with equipment which is relatively highly elaborate. However, homogeneous mixtures are essential for achieving excellent performance.
Compared with a PFA having comparable MFI, the novel mixtures are distinguished by considerably increased extrusion speed without melt fracture. However, as shown by MFI determination before and after processing, this is not at the cost of significantly increased degradation.
The novel mixtures have a noticeably increased zero-shear viscosity and a lower complex viscosity at higher shear rates, compared with a commercially available polymer component with identical MFI.
The PFA with MFI≧30 differs from the hitherto conventional grades of PFA in its low molecular weight. It therefore has a relatively large number of labile end groups, which limit the thermal stability of the material. For relatively stringent requirements therefore it is expedient to convert the unstable end groups to stable end groups in a manner known per se by reaction with elemental fluorine (GB A 1 210 794, EP-A-0 150 953 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,743,658). It is expedient here to dilute the fluorine with an inert gas and to use this mixture to treat the dry polymer or polymer mixture. The toxic fluorine is then removed by flushing with inert gas. This same process may be used to post fluorinate the mixtures of the invention.
The success of the postfluorination is checked by IR-spectroscopic determination of the residual carboxyl and/or carbonyl fluoride end groups, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,743,658. However, complete fluorination of the end groups is not necessary. Reduction of the thermally unstable end groups (COOH+COF) to from 10 to 15 end groups/106 carbon atoms is sufficient to achieve the desired improvements in properties. This significantly shortens the reaction time and therefore makes the postfluorination more cost-effective.
The novel PFA mixture postfluorinated in this way shows no discoloration, even at 450° C. It therefore permits higher processing temperatures and thus a rise in the throughputs in the extrusion of tubes and of sheathing for wires and cables, and also in injection molding. A further advantage of the increased high-temperature resistance is that when production failures occur, the novel PFA mixture remains for a longer residence time at high temperatures without degradation and thus there is no discoloration or bubble formation at elevated temperature and no corrosion of the processing machinery or of the substrates which come into contact with the polymer mixture.
The preferred process for preparing the novel mixtures consists in blending the two components as dispersions, agglomerating these, drying and melt granulation followed by water-treatment (DE-A-195 47 909) of the granules obtained from the melt and, if desired, postfluorination of the same.
The novel mixtures are advantageously suitable for producing thin-walled articles by extrusion or extrusion blow molding and injection molding. The higher processing speeds which are possible here do not have to be obtained at the cost of impairment of properties; on the contrary, the products obtained surprisingly have increased stiffness (increased modulus of elasticity) and yield stress, i.e. the novel mixtures can resist higher mechanical stresses in particular applications, since an increased yield stress means an enlargement of the elastic range of these materials. This makes it possible to create moldings with longer service lives, and this in turn permits the use of tubes with thinner walls.
The polymerization may be carried out by known processes of aqueous free-radical emulsion polymerization (U.S. Pat. No. 3,635,926, U.S. Pat. No. 4,262,101), or in a non-aqueous phase (U.S. Pat. No. 3,642,742).
The perfluoro propyl vinyl ether content is determined by IR spectroscopy (U.S. Pat. No. 4,029,868).
EP-B-362 868 has already disclosed mixtures of fluoropolymers, including investigation of high-molecular-weight and low-molecular-weight PFA grades. The low-molecular-weight component here is defined by a melt viscosity at 380° C. of from 5000 to 280,000 Poise, corresponding to an MFI at 372° C. of from 80 to 1.6. It is expressly mentioned here that a melt viscosity of less than 5000 Poise (MFI>80) leads to poor mechanical properties of the mixture. In the mixture described as example in EP-B-362 868, column 4, the mean molecular weights of the PFA grades used differ only slightly, to be specific approximately only by a factor of 1.5, corresponding to the melt viscosities of 8.1×104 and 1.9×104 Poise, respectively. Such materials are particularly suitable for thick-walled extruded articles, such as pipes.
The invention is described in more detail in the following examples. Percentage and ratio data are based on weight unless otherwise stated. Degradation behavior is assessed using the ratio of MFI after and before processing.
25 1 of demineralized water and 122 g of ammonium perfluorooctanoate in the form of a 30% strength solution are placed in a polymerization reactor having a total volume of 40 1 and provided with an impeller stirrer. After the reactor has been sealed, atmospheric oxygen is removed by alternate evacuation and flushing with nitrogen, and the vessel is heated to 60° C. 46 g of methylene chloride and 0.180 kg of PPVE are pumped in. The stirrer is set at 240 rpm. TFE is then introduced until the total pressure has reached 13.0 bar. The polymerization is initiated by pumping in 6.6 g of ammonium persulfate (APS below), dissolved in 100 ml of demineralized water. As soon as the pressure begins to fall, further TFE and PPVE are supplemented via the gas phase in accordance with the target ratio of PPVE (kg)/TFE (kg) of 0.042, in such a way that the total pressure of 13.0 bar is maintained. The heat liberated is dissipated by cooling the vessel wall, and in this way the temperature of 60° C. is held constant. After a total of 7.2 kg of TFE has been fed into the reactor, the monomer feed is interrupted, the pressure in the reactor is released and the reactor is flushed several times with N2.
The resultant amount of 31.5 kg of polymer dispersion with a solids content of 22.8% is discharged from the bottom of the reactor. After the dispersion has been transferred into a 180 1 stirring vessel, its volume is increased to 100 1 with demineralized water and it is mixed with 200 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid and stirred until the solid has separated from the aqueous phase. The flocculant powder precipitated after stirring is granulated with 6.9 1 of a petroleum fraction, the petroleum fraction is driven off using steam, and the granules are then washed six times by vigorous and thorough stirring with 100 1 of demineralized water on each occasion. The moist powder is dried for 12 hours at 260° C. in a drying cabinet under nitrogen. This gives 7.1 kg of a low molecular weight bipolymer according to the invention which has a PPVE content of 3.9% and an MFI of 40.
A PFA mixture according to the invention having an MFI of 2.3 is prepared from a 50/50 mixture composed of a dispersion of the material from Example 1 and a dispersion of a PFA having an MFI of 0.5. The ratio of MFIA to MFIB is 80.
In preparing the PFA having an MFI of 0.5, the procedure is as in Example 1, but 6.7 g of methylene chloride and 1.8 g of APS are pumped in, giving a bipolymer which has 3.9% of PPVE and an MFI of 0.5.
The dispersion mixture is worked up as in Example 1. This gives a bipolymer which has a PPVE content of 3.9% and an MFI of 2.3. After melt granulation, the MFI rises to 2.4.
The PFA mixture of Example 2 is compared with a commercially available PFA having an MFI of 2 in the extrusion of a tube having an external diameter of 28.3 mm and an internal diameter of 27.7 mm.
The results are shown in the following table, the meanings of abbreviations being
PFA2: Commercially available product with an MFI of 2
TS: Ultimate tensile strength N/mm2
EB: Elongation at break %
Y: Yield stress N/mm2 (in each case in accordance with DIN 53455/ASTM D 1708, measured in longitudinal and transverse direction on tes specimens stamped out from the tube).
Therefore whereas the commercially available product PFA2 permits only a maximum throughput of 13.5 kg/h, the mixture of Example 2 allows a throughput of 20 kg/h, without adverse effects on the quality of the tube. The MFI change shows that the commercially available product, even at a low throughput of 8 kg/h, is degraded to about the same extent as the novel material from Example 2 at a throughput of 20 kg/h.
The yield stress of the novel material is increased. This means that the final article has a higher dimensional stability and/or stiffness.
The tubes extruded with the mixture of Example 2 prepared according to the invention also show, compared with the commercially available PFA2 material, increased cold bursting strength.
Using the mixture of Example 2 prepared according to the invention and the commercially available PFA2 material, and under the same conditions, pipes of 1 mm wall thickness and 10 mm diameter were extruded and their cold bursting strength determined.
The test took place on a bursting strength test apparatus (in-house construction), in which a firmly secured plastic pipe was filled with water and placed under pressure using a pneumatic pump. The pressure test is regarded as having been passed if the pipe survives without damage after pressure has been maintained for 6 min at a test pressure dependent on the dimensions of the pipe. After this test has been carried out, the test pressure is raised by 2 bar/min until the pipe bursts, in order to determine the residual bursting strength.
The specified test pressure for pipes of this size is 22 bar.
The PFA mixture of Example 2 is processed to give a pressed sheet, and long-term failure is determined on specimens of this pressed sheet. The PFA2 defined in Example 3 served as comparison. Whereas the mean value of the times to failure for PFA2 is 194 h, after 793 h only two of three specimens of the mixture of Example 2 had failed.
The tests were long-term tensile creep tests based on the specification of the Deutscher Verband für Schweisstechnik [German Association for Welding Technology], DVS 2203, Part 4, on notched specimens. The specimens were compression-molded plates of 5 mm thickness. The force applied was 4 N/mm2. The medium used is demineralized water containing 2% of non-ionic surfactant (ARKOPAL® N 100). The tests are carried out at a temperature of 80° C. In each case, the measurements are carried out on three identical test specimens. This test method, and therefore also the results, permit correlation with DIN 8075 measurements of the effects of long-term internal hydrostatic pressure on pipes.
The procedure of Example 1 is followed, but 200 g of methylene chloride and 20 g of APS are pumped in, resulting in a low molecular weight bipolymer according to the invention having a PPVE content of 4% and an MFI of 500.
A PFA mixture according to the invention having an MFI of 9.8 is prepared as agglomerate from a 50/50 mixture composed of a dispersion of the material from Example 5 and a dispersion of a PFA with an MFI of 1.6. The ratio of MFIA to MFIB is 312.5.
In preparing the PFA with the MFI of 1.6, the procedure is as in Example 1, but 19 g of methylene chloride and 2 g of APS are pumped in, giving a bipolymer which has 4.2% of PPVE and an MFI of 1.6.
The dispersion mixture is worked up as in Example 1. This gives a bipolymer which has a PPVE content of 4.1 mol % and an MFI of 9.8.
The PFA mixture of Example 6 (MFI 9.8) is compared with commercially available products in pellet form having an MFI of 10 (for example PFA10) in the injection molding of specimens. For this the materials are firstly converted into melt pellets, the MFI changing as shown in the table.
Modulus of elasticity and yield stress are measured on dumbbell specimens (DIN 53455, Test specimen No. 3) by the DIN 53457 measurement method. The novel material shows lower degradation, higher modulus of elasticity and higher yield stress, without change in mechanical properties, such as TS and EB.
The improved flowability of the novel mixture is also apparent in the injection molding of spirals. The greater the length of the injected spiral, the better the flow performance. The degradation occurring in this procedure can be assessed from the MFI ratio.
Compared with standard material, the PFA mixture of Example 6 shows markedly better flowability with the same degradation and a lower tendency to delaminate when lower temperatures and higher injection rates are used.
The PFA mixture of Example 6 is converted into melt pellets which show an MFI of 11. 1.5 kg of this mixture is melted in the melt container in a convection heating cabinet at 370° C. for 5 h, and injection molded within a period of 4 min into a mold, likewise heated to 370° C. and having complicated injection geometry. The shape to be encapsulated is that of a magnetic coupling. After cooling for 30 min with water, the molded specimen has no defects, in particular neither gas inclusions nor any discoloration. The MFI of the molding is 11.3. In contrast, a standard PFA with MFI 10 or 15 showed delaminations in the molding, making the component unusable.
125 kg of PFA mixture from Example 6 are placed in a 300 1 tumbler dryer. During heating to 220° C., atmospheric oxygen and moisture are removed by alternate evacuation and flushing with nitrogen. The reactor is then filled with an F2/N2 mixture containing 10% of F2. The reaction proceeds for 5 hours, and after each hour the F2/N2 mixture is renewed. During cooling from 220° C. to room temperature, unreacted fluorine in removed by alternate evacuation and flushing with N2. The resultant product has only about 15 remaining COOH end groups, corresponding to about 10% of the thermally unstable end groups initially present.
The resultant product was injection molded essentially as described in Example 7. It is apparent during this that the postfluorinated PFA mixture of Example 9 can withstand higher thermal stresses.
The procedure (i.e. the preparation of the polymerization reactor) the polymerization conditions, and the work-up) of Example 1 is followed. However, for preparing a novel mixture by step polymerization, at the start of the polymerization 7 g of methylene chloride and 2 g of APS are added. Following 50% of the amount of TFE to be run in, 35 g of methylene chloride and 10 g of APS are metered in. This gives a bipolymer having a PPVE content of 3.9% and an MFI of 2.1.
The first part of the polymerization gives a PFA having an MFI of 0.3. The MFI created in the second step is calculated from the MFI of 2.1 of the end product via the following equation:
The MFI is therefore 75. The ratio of MFIA to MFIB is 250.
The PFA mixture of the invention created in this step polymerization was compared with a standard material PFA2 in a high-pressure capillary rheometer, in relation to the shear rate at which melt fracture occurs.
Compared with the commercially available material PFA2, the shear rate at which melt fracture just becomes visible is increased by a factor of 2 in the material of Example 10.
The procedure (i.e., the preparation of the polymerization reactor, the polymerization conditions, and the work-up) of Example 1 is followed. However, for preparing a novel mixture by step polymerization, at the start of the polymerization 3 g of methylene chloride and 2 g of APS are added. Following the addition of 30% of the amount of TFE to be run in, 100 g of methylene chloride and 10 g of APS are metered in. This gives a bipolymer having a PPVE content of 3.9% and an MFI of 2.6, and a swell index of 1.54. The swell index is defined by the following formula: [DE/DD−1]100, where DE is the diameter of the extrudate and DD the diameter of the die.
The first part of the polymerization gives a PFA having an MFI of 0.1. An MFI of 130 created in the second stage is calculated from the MFI of 2.6 of the end product, using the equation given in Example 10. The ratio of MFIA to MFIB is 1300.
The material was processed on a continuous extrusion blow molding plant to give 1 1 volumetric flasks and compared with a commercially available product having MFI=2 and a swell index of 1.1. High swell indices are particularly advantageous for this processing technology.
Using the novel material, in contrast to the commercially available product, it was possible continuously to produce, without scrap, 1 1 volumetric flasks with uniform wall thickness and wall thickness distribution. Using the commercially available product, this is successful only with volumetric flasks having a volume of up to 100 ml.
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Given that track record, Ford believes that Szeles never should have been granted a license to work as an investigator. According to the state's guidelines, licenses can be revoked if the applicant has committed "assault, battery, or kidnapping, or using force or violence on any person, without proper justification" or for "dishonesty, fraud or deceit." Ford says he forwarded this information to the Department for Consumer Affairs and that the agency is investigating Szeles; the agency refused to comment for this story—or confirm the existence of an investigation.
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On Feb. 23, Ford filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against Alternate Defense Services and supervisor Matherly, alleging he was being discriminated against because of his race. "Plaintiff has been denied appointment to specific criminal cases involving pro per defendants," the lawsuit states. "Explicit requests for Plaintiff's appointment by 14 pro per defendants have been denied. During that same period, another less-experienced panel investigator [Szeles] . . . has been awarded and continues to be awarded all pro per cases. This practice continues even though that other investigator is under investigation by the Department of Consumer Affairs."
In response to a Public Records Act request, the Orange County Superior Court's media liaison, Carole Levitzky, provided the Weekly with a list showing that in 2008 and 2009, Szeles handled 98 cases for Alternate Defense Services—roughly the rate of one new client per week, a tremendous case load for a single investigator. According to the county controller, Szeles earned $200,816.84 in 2008 and 2009.
"There are literally hundreds of licensed investigators in Orange County who would love to be on the list, if there were one," said one private investigator with more than 25 years of experience who also serves as an executive for a major professional association. (He asked to not be identified by name because it could compromise his ability to get work.) "The county needs to put out a request for proposal so everyone has a fair chance to get on the panel. There is no way you can have a legitimate, fair, unbiased system with nobody on a list and one man getting all the work—and it's impossible for one man to do all that work."
Because of Ford's lawsuit, neither Goethals nor Matherly were made available for interviews, and neither responded to written questions the Weekly submitted to Levitzky.
The pro per defendants themselves were far more eager to talk. In a series of interviews both by telephone and at the Men's Jail, four of them complained about the work Szeles had done in their cases. "Pro pers have no constitutional rights," complained McKenna. "All this is straight-out fraud. I was framed, and Szeles says he won't investigate this. I've been in this county jail for three and a half years now with no investigation, and they are just trying to wait me out, make me take a public defender and give up my pro per rights. They are using straight-up fraud against me."
Ramirez has pleaded guilty to robbing the Bank of America on Sept. 23, 2008. He claims that after Szeles tried to blackmail him with the handwriting samples, he filed a motion to meet privately with Goethals so he could tell him what happened. But Goethals insisted on having Szeles attend the hearing. "This was supposed to be confidential," Ramirez says. "I stood up and pleaded the Fifth." A few weeks later, Ramirez gave up his pro per status. "I just knew I couldn't get a fair trial with Szeles as my investigator," he explains.
Ramirez's new attorney told him that even if his co-defendant, Dempsey, took the stand and told the jury Ramirez had nothing to do with the crime, his past criminal record could be used against him. He's scheduled to receive his formal sentence of seven years on March 15. "My attorney told me that this was the best deal I was going to get," Ramirez says. He thought about going before a jury, but he figured that in Orange County, a Latino former gangbanger with a lengthy prison record would never get a fair shake.
"I didn't want to go to prison for 23 years," he concludes. "The only reason I took this deal is out of fear."
Editorial intern Sandeep Abraham provided research assistance for this story.
This article appeared in print as "The Bad Detective: Some hapless OC Jail inmates are feeling burned by their own PI."
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Individuals, who have completed a high school diploma or G.E.D., interested in enrolling in a course or courses through the Day Division who have not been admitted to Framingham State University (through the Office of Undergraduate Admissions) as a matriculated Day Division student may do so by requesting "Special Student" status.
A "Special Student" is a non-matriculated student. As a non-matriculated student:
- You have the opportunity to enroll in courses on a SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS through the Course Add/Drop process.
- Because you are not in a degree program at Framingham State University, you will not be assigned an advisor.
- You are not eligible for Financial Aid.
- You are not eligible for any payment program. You are required to pay in full as part of the special student application and registration (through the Course Add/Drop process occuring the first six (6) days of the semester).
- Special Student application and registration is a Day Division procedure. (Another registration option is to take courses offered through the Department Continuing Education - all inquiries may be made at the Student Services Center, MCarthy Campus Center, Room 515).
- Special Student status is limited to two (2) semesters (consecutive or otherwise).
- Students who were suspended from Framingham State University may NOT attend as Special Students unless written approval from the Dean of Undergraduate Students is obtained.
The following directions explain the required forms:
- A completed Special Student Application Form
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If enrolling in 3 courses:
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1. Special Student Application Form:
This form requires biographical information and the number of courses you are interested in taking. The form must be completed by you and signed by the Registrar (or designee) before speaking with a Student Accounts representative to pay for the course(s).
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2. Tuition Residency Form:
This form is for the purpose of determining eligibility for in-state tuition rates. The Tuition Residency Form must be completed and submitted to the Office of the Registrar before paying for the course(s) else you will be charged the out-of-state tuition rate.
3. Course Add/Drop Form:
The first day of classes is also the beginning of the Course Add/Drop period. Course Add/Drop Forms may be obtained from the Office of the University Registrar (McCarthy Campus Center, Room 515) on the first day of classes (not before). The Course Add/Drop Form must be filled out by you and signed by the instructor(s) of the course(s) you wish to take. When you are filling out the Course Add/Drop form, please list your student id number in the box identified as "STUDENT ID#". In the other boxes provided, clearly print your name (Last, First, Middle Initial), print "NON" as the major, and "Fall" & the year or "Spring" & the year for the semester. On the right half of the form marked "PERMISSION TO ADD A COURSE," you will need to print the course subject code, number, and the course section followed by the course title for the course you are intending to add. Note: All Day Division courses have a section begining with a numeric. If you do not include the section information, the form will not be accepted by the Office of the University Registrar. On the blank line above the words "PROFESSOR'S SIGNATURE" is the area that the course instructor will need to sign if she or he is allowing you into the course.
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All 11 students enrolled in the 99-hour Pharmacy Technician Training course at Carroll Community College successfully completed the course July 29, 2008. Ten of the students passed their national certification exam by the end of their training.
National certification qualifies the technicians to register with the State of Maryland as certified pharmacy technicians and practice in the state. All pharmacy technicians in Maryland must be registered with the state in order to practice.
Pharmacy technicians are in high demand. According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics the need for pharmacy techs is expected to grow much faster than average through 2014. Pharmacy technicians work in hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted-living facilities as well as retail or mail-order pharmacies.
The next Pharmacy Technician course begins Tuesday, Oct. 7 at Carroll Community College. To register, call the Continuing Education Office at 410-386-8100 or visit the college web site at www.carrollcc.edu.


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Galileo: Applications for agriculture
Traditionally, precision agriculture has been characterised by significant equipment investment and costs related to usage. Nowadays, with more than half of satellite navigation-enabled tractors equipped with EGNOS, the affordable precision solution EGNOS offers is already used in the precision agriculture sector.
This market is growing steadily with more than 90% of satellite navigation-enabled tractors to be equipped with this type of technology by 2020 (meaning global annual shipments of circa 500 000 units).
The benefits brought by EGNOS are manifold:
- Used for low-value crop cultivation and low-accuracy operations, it allows automatic steering guidance even in bad weather conditions and therefore reduces overlaps and driver's fatigue.
- Combined with a satellite image analysis, the one meter accuracy provided by EGNOS allows an optimised variable rate application of fertilisers and herbicides and thus help protect the environment against chemicals' over-application.
- When equipped with an EGNOS-enabled helmet, individual livestock may be tracked and confined to a limited area. This "virtual fencing" brings more flexibility in the design and modification of this area and reduces fence's costs of maintenance.
- Food traceability is also enhanced with the addition of timing and location of harvest period through a unique land parcel identification, into the automated registration of products.
- EGNOS may also be used for the management and control of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). With its enhanced accuracy, the farmer can be confident in his fields' measurement when applying for a CAP aid or for mapping and updating fields' boundaries. The same for the CAP inspectors when carrying out on-the-spot checks to control the applications registered.
In this context, the European Commission acts in order to raise the awareness of precision agriculture stakeholders about EGNOS and Galileo advantages. It also works on optimised CAP rules to make use of EGNOS capabilities.


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Andrew Breitbart's death is all about me!
- (Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore)
Do you remember how, in middle school or perhaps high school, when someone at your school died, suddenly everyone was good friends with the deceased, which of course was impossible, but hey, you were all young and didn't want to be excluded from anything, especially not a public mourning, and so all anyone could talk about was the time they first met this dead student, the last words they shared, or how they loved how this person used to do this or that funny, crazy, or nice thing? Adults do this, too.
Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger, died at 43 today. But all that matters, apparently, is whether or not you met him.
"Last summer I was still fairly new to Washington, D.C., but it's when I met Andrew Breitbart," recalls Eddie Scarry, the FishbowlDC contributor, in the Blaze. "It was at the book launch party for his new book 'Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World.'" The point of this post, "Brief encounter with Breitbart," seems to be merely that Breitbart signed Scarry's copy of the book with the encouraging words, "Eddie, fight the man!"
Scarry's editor at FishbowlDC, who shall remain nameless (I took a vow), writes in the lede of her remembrance, "I never wanted to write one of those stories where I relay my experiences about someone who suddenly dies." Then she disgorges more than 1,000 words about her "friendship" with him — they met at CPAC, less than a month ago — and offers such epiphanies as, "You don't have to agree with everything a person says or does to respect and admire their success or be open to their ideas."
Quin Hillyer's "On Breitbart," over at the American Spectator's website, opens promisingly: "I won't pretend to have been good friends with Andrew Breitbart." Phew. But then he continues, "I met him just twice, in passing, and corresponded or spoke to him on the phone just a few other times." These are critical details when writing about the death of someone you barely knew.
"Memories are the way we keep people alive, and my early reaction to this grief is that my memories of Andrew will flee if I don't immediately freeze them," writes Mediaite's Tommy Christopher. But can't he just freeze these words in a Moleskin or something? Then we'd be spared stories about how he heard the news over Gchat, and about the last time they (literally) ran into each other: "I can't remember exactly what he said, just that he spoke my name when he recognized me. I really wish I had paid closer attention, and that empty space in my memory is a chilling reminder that you're never guaranteed a next word."
Don't beat yourself up over it, Tommy.
Not everyone's first-person remembrances have been flimsy and unilluminating. Tucker Carlson spoke with Fox News about Breitbart's wicked sense of humor, and wrote that his friend was "utterly ballsy." And Matt Drudge, another close friend, wrote atop the Drudge Report, "I still see him in my mind's eye in Venice Beach, the sunny day I met him. He was in his mid 20's. It was all there."
Do the math: That was about two decades ago, not a few weeks or months. Maybe that's why Drudge didn't even feel the need to state that Breitbart was his friend.
Can't express how sad I am to hear about the passing of my friend Andrew Breitbart. His beautiful family is in my thoughts.— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) March 1, 2012
I'm in shock. I can't believe Andrew Breitbart is dead. He was so full of life and dynamic. He was a friend.— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) March 1, 2012
In shock over Breitbart's passing. Just saw him at CPAC. Deep condolences to his family and friends. @NolteNC @danaloesch— AnnekeE.Green (@AnnekeEGreen) March 1, 2012


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Kuechly Earns FWAA All-America Honors
Dec. 10, 2011
Boston College junior linebacker Luke Kuechly was one of five repeat selections on the 68th Football Writers Association of America All-America Team, which was unveiled today.
This marks the second All-America honor for Kuechly this week; he was named to the Walter Camp All-America Team this past Thursday.
The FWAA All-America Team, the second longest continuously-published team, has been a staple of college football scene since 1944. The FWAA has only selected a first-team All-America squad in each season since 1950.
In addition to Kuechly, the repeat honorees included two receivers, Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon and Oklahoma's Ryan Broyles. Alabama defensive back Mark Barron was honored in 2010, and Kicker Quinn Sharp from Oklahoma State made the team last season as a punter.
Overall, eight of the 11 Division I Bowl Subdivision Conferences were represented on the team. The Big Ten had four players and the ACC two. Conference USA, the Mountain West, the Pac-12 and the WAC were each represented by one player.


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Weather: Rainy
Listening To: Far East Movement Featuring Snoop Dog- O.M.G (If I Was You)
To everyone who celebrates it, a Merry Christmas, and to those who don't, happy holidays :D It seems to be (Apart from New Year, that is) the only holiday in the world where a majority of countries celebrate it :P
Here's this year's Christmas decor for Mid Valley Megamall :) There was a Santa Claus in the middle there as I was taking this photo, hence the amount of people XD It's quite pretty, too bad I was at the second top floor while taking this photo- it's not that very clear ;(
This is for Tropicana City Mall, taken after closing hours when dearest Louis and me were waiting to watch a movie there- dearest brought me to watch Tangled and it was awesome :D It has been so long since our last late night movie date!
This year I'll be attending Christmas mass with dearest and his parents later, and tomorrow afternoon will be having Christmas lunch with them as well as my Mum and little brother. This is the first time I'll be celebrating Christmas with dearest and his parents, as last year they were still in Sibu, Sarawak :)
Also, Mum was ill, and dearest's mother made tong yuen for us instead for the Winter Solstice Festival last Wednesday! It was quite yummy- though I personally don't take much of it… but it's a once a year treat and part of our Chinese culture and tradition so yeah :P
The normal tong yuen :3 I think I don't really like tong yuen because of the ginger-based soup (I dislike ginger) and the stickiness of the glutinous balls… but this was all right. Just nice :D
Bigger tong yuen with peanut filling :9 I like this one more, but it's stickier D:


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Below is the poem entitled Confessions In Her Confidence - which was written by poet
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I know where she prays within the necessity of nightfall
inside the Poets' Pantheon, an isolated Idol
they all came, close as envy can to care,
flowers and jewels from all the conquered territories
laid quietly at her toes,
Marco Polo would recognize her as exotic medicine
travel for centuries to have a single dose,
break your heart as a spoil of war that words could justify,
Leonardo slave to invent new paints for her grin of grace,
Janis Joplin shake out lyrics of how nobody could deny her dreams
without consequence of catastrophe,
demolish you with an ever deepening desire,
she needed a man that could hold the heights of her heaven,
a man capable not of sacrafice for a taste of her starlight
but one offering partnership in the placement of orgasm's origin
giving forbidden sensation to her solar system,
so accustom to receiving love from the enamoured
amour as a dialect was nearly extinct in her essence,
a Goddess so tired of inspiring, so exhausted, almost bled out,
an Olympiean she wanted, an equal for Eternity,
soon worship would do no more for her,
she needed a man willing to receive her sacrafice,
able to take on her needs,
oh the beauties she may lay in his arms -
J.A.B. This poem has been made for Poet Destroyer's
100 % Nature Contest - 2013