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Time for our second Stop-Motion Film Night. Roll up. Settle down with the popcorn, the pick 'n' mix or the pack of cold beers. Let the cinema curtains crank open in the dark. The first Stop-Motion Film Night was a somewhat creepy affair, so for this second instalment I tried to find some light-hearted videos for your delectation. For the most part, I failed. Let's face it, antique toys and taxidermied beasts lurching into animated life are always going to tingle the spine. But here's a short film that raises a smile and leaves your vertebrae untickled. It reminds me, particularly when the hole opens up in the floor and the girl dives in, of Lewis Carroll: "Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth." Alice's Adventures In Wonderland bring us to Jan Švankmajer, and at once the creepiness kicks in. The compiler of this video has set it to a track by Múm, a perfect choice to keep some of Švankmajer's darkness at bay, but there's nothing any accompaniment can do about the goggle-eyed bone monsters the white rabbit summons. Let's go back, way back. The grain of old film. The earnest faces of actors long passed. These things do more for my sense of wonder than all the sophistications of modern cinema. Something in the long focus and the time taken and the stiff playfulness. Below is Dreams of Toyland, stop-motion from over a hundred years ago. Bear with the serious boy in the tricorn as he and his mother labour through the introductory live action scene. Enjoy what follows and choose something slow and careful to listen to as you watch it. Josh T Pearson's Country Dumb will see you through most of the film, and leave you quiet for the disturbing finale. Come the 3.30 mark, watch the shadows cast by the sun on the streets of toyland, a hint of the long hours devoted to the stop-motion. To finish on the light-hearted note we started on, here's Gulp by Sumo Science at Aardman, but not before some Ernest Hemingway to set the scene. This is the largest stop-motion ever, and come the end of the film there's a link to a making of featurette. As well as giving you an even greater sense of the scale of the set, it will give you some sand sculpting tips you can put to good use next time you're at the seaside. Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is, he thought. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely. Perhaps he is too wise to jump. He could ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush. But perhaps he has been hooked many times before and he … Read More
Stop-Motion Film Night
Inspired by the new Grandchildren.tv video for Fleet Foxes, and by the way people enjoyed the stop-motion clips at the end of my post about Scrapefoot, I thought it would be fun to start a Stop-Motion Film Night, an occasional series of clips and films from this most painstaking and enchanting school of effects and animation. I can't pretend to be an expert on this, I just love digging up moving pictures and bits of old puppetry. Anything I do know comes straight out of Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton's A Century of Model Animation, which is a fine and fully illustrated history of the technique. The Shrine / An Argument from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo. I find there's something eerie about films from eighty or ninety years ago. Perhaps it's the probability that all of the actors have passed away and we're watching a cast of ghosts. Perhaps it's just the flicker and the grain, and the sense it gives of another era, a bygone worldview. This film, The Haunted House, is already a centenarian. Since it's silent and we live in an audio visual age, you need something to listen to alongside it. I recommend the new track from Birdengine. Hit play on both of these in quick succession. The music will finish just around the part where the house starts swaying and is put into the devil's sack, but such tragic endings require solemn silence. Lotte Reiniger made a series of silhouette animations based on Grimms' fairy tales, which the BFI has uploaded to Dailymotion. Her biography's worth checking out. She and her husband did all they could to escape Germany when the Nazis took power, but were forced back to Berlin with the advent of World War Two. They survived, thank goodness, but it would be interesting to investigate how her experiences affected her work on the Grimms' stories. Here's Sleeping Beauty, which is my favourite because of the cook and the thieving kitchen boy. This next is a clip from The Great Rupert, which you can watch in its entirety here (with the caveat that it's about an hour and a half, and the best bit happens in the first three minutes). It's a film about a squirrel who can dance a highland jig. Apparently, the effects were so convincing in their day that cinema-goers thought they were watching a trained animal. In truth, of course, it was stop-motion. A reanimated squirrel dancing with the charming-but-creepy strut you would expect of a taxidermist's creation. If you watch the whole film be warned that there are hardly any other dances with squirrels. I guess that just goes to show what an effort it was to shoot the brief material that was included. The Great Rupert reminded me of something far more recent. The video to Radiohead's There There, which apparently was inspired by everyone's stop-motion hero, Bagpuss. I can easily picture T. G. Rupert living among those roots and branches, or dancing his jig at that wedding … Read More
Happy Birthday Ray Harryhausen
Many happy returns to Ray Harryhausen, who turns 90 today. I'm a massive fan of his. I remember that as a child I used to sit with my dad on the floor and watch Sinbad movies in which all manner of monsters came to life. CGI was already establishing itself at the time, with Jurassic Park and the like hitting the cinemas, so Harryhausen's stuff already had an antique sense to it that made it all the more special. There's something enchanting about the movement of stop motion animation. It's slightly too jerky to be real, and I think it's that characteristic that's meant it's aged so well. In other words, it's art. It's the painstaking frame-by-frame repositioning of puppets. It's even, in a way, a bit like writing, in that it involves a huge amount of patience and stage-by-stage detail that you hope will end up looking seamless and spontaneous and fluid. This clip from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad always creeped me out when I was little (and still does). When you catch a glimpse of the dancer's face it's simultaenously aghast and grotesque. This clip has been edited a bit because in the original there are some close-ups of the dancer's face, performed just for those shots by an actress. This clip has also been chopped short: notice how at the end the dancer's tail gropes up towards her throat…


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By Don Wilkinson
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Guess what? Another bubble may be coming your way with even more serious consequences for conservative investors. It's bonds.
If you were around 10 years ago, you must remember the biggest bubble burst in U.S. stock market history. That was the technology craze, with highflying tech stocks selling in excess of 100 times earnings. After it was over, most of the highfliers declined in equity value of 80 percent or more.
Guess what? Another bubble may be coming your way with even more serious consequences for conservative investors. It's bonds. Bonds are the safe and secure investment investors have been accumulating for decades to warn off the ups and downs of the equity market. Today, in essence, bonds may have reached the end of a 30-year era.
For now, we are talking about U.S. Treasury bonds — routinely the most popular investment vehicle in the bond family among investors. As investors became disenchanted with the stock market, they began pouring money into government bond funds and other fixed income vehicles. In fact, the Investment Company Institute reports that from January 2008 through June 2010, outflows from stocks totaled $232 billion, while bond funds increased capital inflows to $559 billion.
It appears that unlike the bubble of 2000, when investors were too jubilant, investors today are overly pessimistic because of our economy's shortcomings.
So much so that lately, the appeal of bonds has been so strong that the yield on Treasury inflation protected securities fell below 1 percent and remains so today. Bonds are selling at 100 times their predicted payout, give or take. Sound familiar? The same occurred a decade ago when tech stocks sold at 100 times earnings.
Further, the Fed recently announced a second round of long-term Treasury bond purchases in the neighbor of $600 billion, referred to as QE2.
"The Fed announcement will likely signify the end of a great 30-year bull market in bonds," wrote Bill Gross, PIMCO's founder, managing director and co-CIO, in a November commentary release.
Gross said the Fed purchase appears as an attempt to boost bond prices. Value reaches a limit.
"Ultimately, the market then offers near 0 percent returns and a picking of the creditor's pocket via inflation and negative real interest rates," Gross said.
And rising interest rates are what bond owners don't want, because existing bonds become more valuable if interest rates fall. If an investor holds a $1,000 bond yielding 6 percent when new bonds pay just 3.45 percent, his bond is going to be worth a great deal more if it's sold. When interest rates start to rise on new bonds, the market value of existing bonds falls.
When the yield on the two-year Treasury bond recently fell to 0.7 percent, the thinking seemed to be bonds were too expensive, and other projected factors like rising interest rates and inflation made investors wary of bonds for the first time in 30 years. But experts' prediction of a bid to sell off didn't happen — at least not yet. During recent weeks, bonds seemed more attractive due to the crises in the Middle East and North Africa. Rising oil prices have contributed to the possibility of another dip in the economy. This would be a boon on what bond buyers are looking for: slow or declining growth and with it, reduced inflation.
So what to do? High quality long-term bonds are most likely to get hurt when rates rise. In fact, there is a very good chance that this will happen.
As mentioned, many investors keep bonds in portfolios to hedge against stock declines. In fact, many people follow the 60/40 rule of investing.
A better way is to secure tactical managers to replace your bonds. These managers have the ability to be investment flexible during tough market conditions. If conditions warrant, these managers will go to cash or less sensitive loss fixed income vehicles. They also look for opportunity sectors during falling dollar conditions. They can put a portion of your client's portfolio into precious metals, commodities and/or energy, boosting returns.
The combination of traditional strategic managers combined with short-term tactical managers is a better way to go in 2011 than the old way of a 60 percent investment in stocks and 40 percent in bonds.
Bill Gross of PIMCO announced that his $237 billion Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund, had deleted all U.S. government securities on March 9. Short interest in long-dated bond exchange-traded funds has ballooned since the beginning of 2011. These moves signify interest rates might rise soon, lowering the value of existing longer-term bonds.
Still, we have low interest rates, level inflation and climbing high oil prices denting growth. So it's a crap shoot for bonds now. Nevertheless, the bond bears are out and becoming bolder.
My advice is, why take a chance with your clients' money? The combination of long-term strategic managers combined with short-term tactical managers is a better way to go in 2011 than the old way of a 60 percent investment in stocks and 40 percent in bonds. Do yourself and your clients a favor and get them out of bonds.

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The silky waves of mist caress
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and all the memories of past
within, in silent tenderness.
It's been a long time since in-here
the last steps left as gift their sound,
and on the stony steps around
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against the future and the past,
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KERSEY - The Fox Township Supervisors were divided as far as discussion went on a draft ordinance for a township savings plan. During their regular meeting held Wednesday evening, the board voted to revisit the savings plan closer to budget time in the fall.
Supervisor Dave Mattiuz undertook the task of overseeing the creation of the savings plan, and following several changes to the document said he was happy with the final product on Wednesday.
Around 200 area youth between the ages of five and 14 participated in Inner Park Day at Memorial Park on Wednesday. According to Memorial Park recreation director Denny Posteraro, the turnout was a new record for the event, which has been held off and on since the 1970s.
Posteraro noted that attendance typically averages around 125, and the previous largest group record was close to 170.
"You're always impressed when the numbers go up, and we know that there are a lot of other things going on," Posteraro said.
Food, friends and music are just the tip of what's in store at the St. Marys Area Chamber of Commerce's first annual Clam and Kielbasa Bake being held Sunday, Aug. 7 from 1-8 p.m. at the St. Marys Sportsmen's Club.
The Elk County Board of Commissioners held their regular meeting yesterday morning to approve a variety of topics.
First on the agenda, the commissioners approved the use of the courthouse lawn on July 15 and 22 by the Elk County Council of the Arts for their Summer Concert Series.
The commissioners voted to approve a license agreement made effective as of June 30, 2010, by and between West Penn Power Company and Elk County.
Commissioner June H. Sorg noted the agreement is for an outdoor classroom.
The federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will try to recover about $93,000 by auctioning off the vacant Shady Point Restaurant at 623 N. Fraley St. in Kane.
The public auction is set for Wednesday, July 27 at 11:30 a.m. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. The minimum bid to be accepted is $70,000, according to a legal notice announcing the auction.
Prospective bidders are invited to "drive by" the closed restaurant building on North Fraley Street (Route 6) in Kane. Interior inspections are not available at this time, but may be offered in the future, according to a legal notice.
A sizable crowd gathered on the grounds of the St. Marys Golf Club on Saturday as they awaited the annual firework display. The ideal summer weather made for a clear night to view the fireworks from throughout the city. The display is part of the annual St. Marys Area Chamber of Commerce Independence Day Celebration.
A great crowd was on hand for the 4th of July celebration in Fox Township held on Sunday, July 3. There were many activities and all types of entertainment. Area youngsters entertained the crowd prior to the fireworks on Sunday evening; "Uncle Sam" could be seen making his way around the Fox Township Community Park interacting with revelers; and train rides proved popular with individuals of all ages who turned out to join in the celebration.
RIDGWAY - The Elk County Tea Party hosted its Freedom Rally yesterday morning to a large audience on the steps of the Elk County Courthouse.
Among the many guest speakers were U.S. Representative Glenn 'GT' Thompson (PA-5) and State Rep. Matt Gabler (R-Clearfield/Elk).
With increased construction zones in the area and holiday traffic on the rise for the Fourth of July, Pa. State Police officials are hoping for a safe weekend.
"We see an increase in traffic during pretty much any holiday," said Trooper Bruce Morris of the Ridgway-based state police. "The most significant one, believe it or not, is Thanksgiving, as we see an increase in DUIs along that time as well. You have college kids coming back on a break, you have hunters coming in for the deer season, so that's usually the biggest one out of all of them.
Americans lighting up sparklers and enjoying their own backyard fireworks displays in conjunction with this year's Fourth of July national celebration may be relieved to know that even though the use of these products has increased dramatically over the past 35 years, they are the safest they've been since such information has been regularly tracked.


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WARRENSBURG - Several pending retirements, approved Aug. 9 by the Warrensburg Central School Board are likely to accomplish two aims - benefit the retirees while offering savings to taxpayers, school officials said.
The following retirement notices were accepted by the board: School District Treasurer Valerie Smith has opted to take the board's offer of an early retirement, effective Aug. 7, based on an enhanced state-sponsored incentive. Retirements were also approved for business office secretary Hilda Vroman effective Aug. 31, head mechanic Dana Robichaud effective Aug. 27, and elementary teacher Trudi Egan effective July 15. The board also rescinded prior retirements for three teachers under the standard retirement arrangement and approved their retirement under the state option, for Robert Brown, Nancy Hill, Gerald Howe. The dual action allowed the three teachers to be credited with three additional years of service which boosts their retirement income, WCS superintendent of schools Tim Lawson said Monday.
The positions of Valerie Smith and Hilda Vroman will be filled as administrative assistant positions and will be filled from Warren County's civil service list of eligible applicants, he said. The salaries or Smith and Vroman's replacements will be in the $30,000 range, a decrease of about half from the current $60,000 range. The teaching positions of Howe, Hill and Brown will not be filled, Lawson said, and their duties reassigned to other teachers. Egan's teaching position will be replaced for the 2010-2011 school year. Jennifer Nissan and Janet Cousineau were both hired to fill elementary teacher assistant posts as of Sept. 1.
Robichaud's duties in supervising the school's transportation will be reassigned within the bus garage staff, reaping a savings of 10,000 to $12,000, Lawson said.
Total savings to the taxpayers on the personnel changes represent more than $80,000 in salaries, officials said.
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Red River Commodities, a Fargo, North Dakota based company, has operated a bird seed plant in Lubbock since 1995. And currently, with the partnership of Lubbock Economic Development Alliance and South Plains Workforce, a second division of the company has opened on the South Plains. SunGold Foods has brought its most state of the art technology to Lubbock in the form of a consumer-based sunflower seed processing plant.
"SunGold Foods is a processing facility that will take in-shell sunflower seeds, roast it, salt it, flavor it, package it for various customers, and then distribute it for direct consumer use," Bob Majkrzak said.
The snack foods produced at SunGold Foods will be available to consumers throughout the United States as well as international markets. Bob Majkrzak, President and CEO of Red River Commodities, said that they contract sunflower crops with several area and regional producers, as well as other farmers throughout the entire southern growing region, ranging from Kansas to Texas. "When we contract with those farmers, we have them grow a specific, high-grade seed for us," Majkrzak said. "And that is what we bring into our processing facilities, clean them, sort them, and get them prepared so that they can go into snack food companies like SunGold Foods."
Lubbock's central location and major interstate access makes it ideal for state-wide transport, which will bring sunflowers to the local plant from more than five states.
"We consider the southern growing region starting from kind of the Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado area down into Texas. It just so happens that Lubbock, as far as we're concerned, is right in the heart of what we refer to as our southern growing region. In Texas, we'll grow sunflowers from the Rio Grande Valley all the way up to the Lubbock area," Majkrzak said.
SunGold Foods has implemented the most up to date technology into their plant, including temperature and roasting control, moisture and salt content control, and of course, the highest standards in food safety. The plant also adds stability to the agriculture infrastructure that completes the food production circle.
"The new plant here gives stability to that crop," Majkrzak said. "I think a lot of times farmers will look at it to see if it's a specialty crop and if the crop is going to stick around. By making an investment into specialized planting and specialized harvest equipment, etc, will I have a market year after year? What this really does is proves that there's stability to this market place. I think growers will certainly look at that as a positive attribute."
Red River Commodities and SunGold Foods maintains that their relationships with ag producers are the priority for delivering the highest quality end product possible.
"On the human food side of it, because it is extremely particular, what the farmer grows in his field, the farmer really can see ends up in that package," Majkrzak said. "So the quality that he produced is exactly the quality that is represented in our final product."
SunGold Foods made an initial total capital investment of $11.5 million to open the state of the art plant. This operation will facilitate 40 new jobs upon opening, and is projected to add an additional 65 jobs over the next five years totaling $3.3 million in new salaries and an annual economic impact of $17.5 million.
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A process is disclosed for enhancing the production of light olefins using a catalyst with small pores. The catalyst comprises a molecular sieve having 10 membered rings with channels of limited length. The molecular sieve has a high silica to alumina ratio and has pores sized to limit production of aromatics in the cracking process.
1. A process for selective catalytic cracking of naphtha to ethylene and propylene comprising contacting a naphtha feedstock with a catalyst at reaction conditions to produce ethylene and propylene, the catalyst comprising a molecular sieve having non-intersecting 10 membered ring channels with a dimension from about 0.1 micrometers to about 0.3 micrometers in the channel direction, and having a silicon, to aluminum atomic ratio from about 20 to about 200, wherein the 10 membered rings form elliptical pores with pore index between about 22 Å2 and about 30 Å2 and having a pore mouth, a pore interior and a surface external to the pore.
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The present invention relates to a process for the production of light olefins from a naphtha feed stream. This invention also relates to an improved zeolite used in the process for producing light olefins.
Ethylene and propylene, light olefin hydrocarbons with two or three atoms per molecule, respectively, are important chemicals for use in the production of other useful materials, such as polyethylene and polypropylene. Polyethylene and polypropylene are two of the most common plastics found in use today and have a wide variety of uses for both as a material fabrication and as a material for packaging. Other uses for ethylene and propylene include the production of vinyl chloride, ethylene oxide, ethylbenzene and alcohol. Steam cracking or pyrolysis of hydrocarbons produces essentially all of the ethylene and propylene. Hydrocarbons used as feedstock for light olefin production include natural gas, petroleum liquids, and carbonaceous materials including coal, recycled plastics or any organic material.
An ethylene plant is a very complex combination of reaction and gas recovery systems. The feedstock is charged to a cracking zone in the presence of steam at effective thermal conditions to produce a pyrolysis reactor effluent gas mixture. The pyrolysis reactor effluent gas mixture is stabilized and separated into purified components through a sequence of cryogenic and conventional fractionation steps. A typical ethylene separation section of an ethylene plant containing both cryogenic and conventional fractionation steps to recover an ethylene product with a purity exceeding 99.5% ethylene is described in an article by V. Kaiser and M. Picciotti, entitled, "Better Ethylene Separation Unit." The article appeared in HYDROCARBON PROCESSING MAGAZINE, November 1988, pages 57-61 and is hereby incorporated by reference.
Methods are known for increasing the conversion of portions of the products of the ethylene production from a zeolitic cracking process to produce more ethylene and propylene by a disproportionation or metathesis of olefins. Such processes are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,026,935 and 5,026,936 wherein a metathesis reaction step is employed in combination with a catalytic cracking step to produce more ethylene and propylene by the metathesis of C4 and heavier molecules. The catalytic cracking step employs a zeolitic catalyst to convert a hydrocarbon stream having 4 or more carbon atoms per molecule to produce olefins having fewer carbon atoms per molecule. The hydrocarbon feedstream to the zeolitic catalyst typically contains a mixture of 40 to 95 wt-% paraffins having 4 or more carbon atoms per molecule and 5 to 60 wt-% olefins having 4 or more carbon atoms per molecule. In U.S. Pat. No. 5,043,522, it is disclosed that the preferred catalyst for such a zeolitic cracking process is an acid zeolite, examples includes several of the ZSM-type zeolites or the borosilicates. Of the ZSM-type zeolites, ZSM-5 was preferred. It was disclosed that other zeolites containing materials which could be used in the cracking process to produce ethylene and propylene included zeolite A, zeolite X, zeolite Y, zeolite ZK-5, zeolite ZK4, synthetic mordenite, dealuminized mordenite, as well as naturally occurring zeolites including chabazite, faujasite, mordenite, and the like. Zeolites which were ion-exchanged to replace alkali metal present in the zeolite were preferred. Preferred cation exchange cations were hydrogen, ammonium, rare earth metals and mixtures thereof.
European Patent No. 109,059B1 discloses a process for the conversion of a feedstream containing olefins having 4 to 12 carbon atoms per molecule into propylene by contacting the feedstream with a ZSM-5 or a ZSM-11 zeolite having a silica to alumina atomic ratio less than or equal to 300 at a temperature from 400 to 600° C. The ZSM-5 or ZSM-11 zeolite is exchanged with a hydrogen or an ammonium cation. The reference also discloses that, although the conversion to propylene is enhanced by the recycle of any olefins with less than 4 carbon atoms per molecule, paraffins which do not react tend to build up in the recycle stream. The reference provides an additional oligomerization step wherein the olefins having 4 carbon atoms are oligomerized to facilitate the removal of paraffins such as butane and particularly isobutane which are difficult to separate from C4 olefins by conventional fractionation. In a related European Patent 109060B1, a process is disclosed for the conversion of butenes to propylene. The process comprises contacting butenes with a zeolitic compound selected from the group consisting of silicalites, boralites, chromosilicates and those zeolites ZSM-5 and ZSM-11 in which the mole ratio of silica to alumina is greater than or equal to 350. The conversion is carried out at a temperature from 500 to 600° C. and at a space velocity of from 5 to 200 kg/hr of butenes per kg of pure zeolitic compound. The European Patent 109060B1 discloses the use of silicalite-1 in an ion-exchanged, impregnated, or co-precipitated form with a modifying element selected from the group consisting of chromium, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium.
Molecular sieves such as the microporous crystalline zeolite and non-zeolitic catalysts, particularly silicoaluminophosphates (SAPO), are known to promote the conversion of oxygenates to ethylene and propylene mixtures. Numerous patents describe this process for various types of these catalysts: U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,928,483, 4,025,575, 4,252,479 (Chang et al.); 4,496,786 (Santilli et al.); 4,547,616 (Avidan et al.); 4,677,243 (Kaiser); 4,843,183 (Inui); 4,499,314 (Seddon et al.); 4,447,669 (Harmon et al.); 5,095,163 (Barger); 5,191,141 (Barger); 5,126,308 (Barger); 4,973,792 (Lewis); and 4,861,938 (Lewis).
Generally, the heavier olefins having six or more carbon atoms per molecule which are produced in commercial ethylene plants are useful for the production of aromatic hydrocarbons. Portions of the olefin product include olefins with four carbon atoms per molecule. This portion includes both mono-olefins and di-olefins and some paraffins, including butane and iso-butane. Because the portion with four carbon atoms per molecule is generally less valuable and requires significant processing to separate di-olefins from the mono-olefins, processes are sought to improve the utilization of this portion of the ethylene plant product and enhancing the overall yield of ethylene and propylene.
As the economy grows and expands, the demand for light olefins will increase. Because of the limited availability and production of light olefins from current methods, new methods are desired for increasing yields from existing sources of hydrocarbons.
The present invention is a process for catalytic cracking of naphtha to ethylene and propylene. In one embodiment, the process comprises contacting a naphtha feedstock with a catalyst under reaction conditions. The catalyst comprises a molecular sieve having substantially non-intersecting 10 membered ring channels with a dimension in the range from about 0.1 micrometers to about 0.3 micrometers in the channel direction. The 10 membered ring channels form elliptical pores with a pore index from about 22 Å2 to about 30 Å2. The catalyst further comprises a composition with a silicon to aluminum ratio from about 20 to 200.
In another embodiment, the invention is a process for catalytic cracking of naphtha to ethylene and propylene. The process comprises contacting a layered catalyst with a naphtha feedstock. The layered catalyst is a molecular sieve with an inner structure having 8 or 10 membered rings, and an outer structure having 10 membered rings.
In another embodiment, the invention is a zeolite for selectively producing ethylene and propylene. The zeolite is a crystal having substantially non-intersecting channels where the crystal has a dimension between 0.1 micrometers and 0.3 micrometers along the direction of the channels. The channels are elliptically shaped pores with a pore index from about 22 Å2 to about 30 Å2. The zeolite has a silicon to aluminum ratio from between 20 and 200 and is characterized by hydrothermal stability up to about 700° C.
In another embodiment, the zeolite further comprises a material wherein there is a gradient of aluminum in the pores. The aluminum has a decreasing concentration in the direction from the pore mouth to the pore interior.
Other objects, advantages and applications of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art after a detailed description of the invention.
One embodiment of the invention is a process for selective catalytic cracking of naphtha to ethylene and propylene. The process comprises contacting a naphtha feedstock with a catalyst and operating the process at reaction conditions.
A necessary feature of the process is the catalyst. The catalyst used is a molecular sieve having pores made of 10 membered rings and having channels with a length between about 0.1 micrometers to about 0.3 micrometers. Additionally, the catalyst has a specifically distributed acid site density in the pores and can be characterized by a silicon to aluminum (Si:Al) atomic ratio from about 20 to about 200. This is equivalent to a silica to alumina (SiO2:Al2O3) ratio from about 40 to about 400. It is important to prevent reaction of ethylene and propylene to side products, which requires a sufficiently low density of acid sites within the active region of the molecular sieve pores. By using a molecular sieve with a relatively high silica:alumina ratio the acid sites are sufficiently spaced.
Optimal catalytic cracking of naphtha to produce ethylene and propylene requires zeolites having pores of sufficient size to admit molecules from the naphtha feed while not too large to promote the formation of aromatics or hydrogen transfer reactions with large transition states. Without being bound by any theory, it is believed that the pores have a generally elliptical shape and have a pore index from about 22 Å2 to about 30 Å2 allowing access of naphtha molecules into the pores. The pore index as used herein is defined as the product of the two principal diameters of a pore having an elliptically shaped cross-section. The elliptical pores can also be circular wherein the pore index is equal to the square of the diameter of a circular pore.
Examples of zeolites and their pore indexes are listed in Table 1, as found in the Atlas of Zeolite Framework Types published by the International Zeolite Association. The Atlas of Zeolite Framework Types is published on the Internet at (visited Aug. 22, 2002) <http://www.iza-structure.org/databases/> and is from Ch. Baerlocher, W. M. Meier and D. H. Olson, "Atlas of Zeolite Framework Types", 5th ed. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001.
A preferred zeolite is a ferrierite. Ferrierite is a two-dimensional channel zeolite structure with 8 and 10 member ring channels. The 10 member channels have an approximately ellipsoid cross section with two diameters defining the ellipsoid of 5.4 Å and 4.2 Å. The ferrierite 10 member rings have substantially non-intersecting channels.
The synthesis of zeolites of the present invention can be formed by hydrothermal crystallization from a reaction mixture containing the desired amounts of silica and alumina and a templating agent. Zeolitic synthesis processes are known in the art, and can be found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,554,143; 4,440,871; 4,853,197; 4,793,984; 4,752,651 and 4,310,440, all of which are incorporated by reference.
An advantage of this process with these zeolites is control over the propylene to ethylene ratio. This process produces a higher ratio of propylene to ethylene and can achieve a ratio of greater than 0.9. Another advantage to the present invention is operation of the process at lower temperatures. The process is operated at about 150° C. to 200° C. lower than conventional steam cracking processes of temperatures around 850° C. This can result in considerable energy savings during operation. There will also be a saving in the cost of equipment of the reactor because of simplification of the metallurgical requirements.
In a second embodiment, the invention is a process for selective catalytic cracking of naphtha to ethylene and propylene. The process comprises contacting a naphtha feedstock with a catalyst and operating the process at reaction conditions. The catalyst uses a molecular sieve made of a layered material comprising at least two layers of zeolite. The layered zeolite includes at least two layers wherein there is at least one inner zeolite layer and at least one outer zeolite layer. The inner zeolite layer has a first structure and includes pores made of 8 membered rings, 10 membered rings, or a mixture of 8 and 10 membered rings. The outer zeolite layer has a second structure and includes pores made of 10 membered rings, wherein the pores of the outer layer overlay the pores of the inner layer.
The inner layer is a zeolite with pores small enough to suppress the formation of aromatics. Examples of such zeolites include, but are not limited to, wenkite, chabazite, dachiardite, erionite, zeolite A, ZK-4, epistilbite, laumontite, wienebeneite, EU-1, UZM-5, UZM-9 and UZM-12. Combinations of zeolites can also be used to form an interior layer, or a plurality of interior layers with one or more of the structures listed. The outer layer is a zeolite with pores large enough to admit the diffusion of naphthenes and isoparaffins that are present in crackable hydrocarbon feedstocks. Examples of such zeolites include, but are not limited to, ferrierite, ZSM-22, ZSM-23, ZSM-50, ZSM-57, ZSM-11, ZSM-5, NU-87 and clinoptilolite. Combinations of zeolites can also be used to form an outer layer, or a plurality of outer layers with one or more of the structures listed.
The resulting layered catalyst is an improved catalyst relative to each of the individual catalysts used for synthesizing the layered catalyst. The improved catalyst will yield higher amounts of ethylene and propylene from a hydrocarbon feedstock because the larger outer pores allow larger hydrocarbon molecules to get in and to get activated. As the molecules diffuse into the smaller pores, the smaller pores restrict the amount of aromatic formation favoring the conversion to light olefins because of the restrictive pore size in the inner layers.
The inner layer, or layers, has a dimension from about 0.1 micrometers to about 5 micrometers, with a preferred dimension of 0.1 micrometers to 0.5 micrometers. This dimension is the thickness of the layers if the layers are grown over an inert core, or the effective diameter of a catalyst particle grown. By effective diameter is meant, for non-spherical shapes, the diameter that the shaped particle would have if it were molded into a sphere. In a preferred embodiment, the dried shaped particles are substantially spherical in shape.
The outer layer, or layers, has a dimension from about 0.1 micrometers to about 1 micrometer, with a preferred dimension from 0.1 micrometers to 0.2 micrometers. The overall dimension of the catalyst particles is preferably in the range of 0.1 micrometers to 5 micrometers with a more preferred range of 0.5 micrometers to 2 micrometers.
In an alternate embodiment, the layered zeolite has an inert inner core. This embodiment comprises an inert inner core and at least one layer of an aluminum containing zeolite on top of the inert core. An inert core as used herein is any material that is unreactive for the present application, and includes cores made of a material that is not accessible to the hydrocarbons with respect to the materials acidity. The inaccessibility can be due to the lack of pores, pores that are to small to admit the hydrocarbons, or a core that has a layer of an inert and impermeable material between the inner core and the zeolite. This allows for the zeolite to be increased in size while maintaining a high surface to volume ratio of the active catalyst region. This embodiment also provides for short active regions accessible to naphtha molecules and limiting the residence times of naphtha molecules in catalytically active regions. This embodiment provides larger crystals that are equivalent to smaller or very thin crystals of zeolite as regards the catalytic performance, such as when the use of larger crystals is necessary and smaller crystals are not practical for hydrocarbon cracking processes. This embodiment, as it can provide a thin reaction zone, can produce higher yields of ethylene and propylene while limiting the amount of ethylene and propylene further reacting to other undesired products. This embodiment also helps to overcome problems associated with limitations associated with intraparticle diffusion.
An optional aspect of the process is using a zeolite with an aluminum concentration decreasing as one moves down a pore from the mouth of the pore to the interior of the pore.
Another optional aspect of this process is using a zeolite wherein the crystal 10, as shown in
The naphtha components react with acid sites within the pores and create light hydrocarbons, specifically ethylene and propylene. The acid sites within the pores are sufficiently spaced and have decreasing concentration when one travels from the pore mouth to the interior of the pore. The spacing and decreasing concentration of acid sites inhibits the continuation of reaction to prevent the formation of undesirable products, such as aromatics or subsequent reacting of the ethylene or propylene produced. The spacing and decreasing concentration as well as the pore size and shape of the pores also prevents the formation of aromatics. By using a zeolite with a relatively small pore size also prevents the formation of aromatics in the pores.
An embodiment of this invention is a zeolite structure with unique aluminum distribution and crystal dimensions. A zeolite comprising a crystal having substantially non-intersecting channels is grown. The channels are made of 10 membered rings and the crystal size is limited to less than 0.5 micrometers in the direction of the 10 membered ring channels. A preferred crystal dimension is in the range from about 0.1 micrometers to about 0.3 micrometers.
An aspect of the invention is the residence time of the hydrocarbon to be reacted in the catalyst pores. Using a catalyst with a relatively short channel length of less than 0.3 micrometers limits the residence time of the hydrocarbon in the pores. The desired morphology of the catalyst is for a relatively short channel length of the pores. The preferred pore channel length is from about 0.1 micrometers to about 0.3 micrometers. The morphology limits the residence time of hydrocarbons within the pore channels. The morphology can be studied with electron microscopy.
A preferred zeolite can be found in a modified ferrierite. In ferrierite, the only channels available for bulky reactant molecules in the feed are the 10 membered ring channels. Smaller 8 membered ring channels do not allow access to bulky reactant molecules such as isoalkanes and naphthenes, but do provide access for movement of small product molecules such as ethylene and propylene. The 10 membered ring channels form elliptically shaped pores wherein the elliptical pores have a pore index from about 22 Å2 to about 30 Å2. The zeolite is characterized by a silica:alumina ratio from about 40 to about 400, and further characterized in that the zeolite crystal is hydrothermally stable to about 690° C. The hydrothermal stability is important as the process is carried out at a temperature from about 550° C. to about 700° C., with a preferred range from about 600° C. to about 675° C. The process also includes carrying out catalyst regeneration at a temperature of about 15° C. to 25° C. higher that the inlet reaction temperature. A ferrierite zeolite with the desired properties was tested under severe steaming conditions. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of the zeolite before and after the severe steaming procedure indicated an effective amount of the framework alumina remained intact, as shown in FIG. 6.
Pore diameter can be controlled by the introduction of non-framework species, for example, by cation exchange. Examples of species for use in cation exchange include, but are not limited to, transition metals, non-framework aluminum, potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, strontuim, phosphorus, and mixtures thereof.
An alternate embodiment of a zeolite of the present invention is a layered zeolite. The layered zeolite is characterized by an inner structure having pores small enough to suppress aromatic formation from ethylene and propylene, and an outer layer having larger pores for admitting naphthenes and iso-paraffins. The inner layers have pores made from a zeolitic material having large 8 membered rings or small 10 membered rings. A thin outer layer is then grown epitaxially over the inner layer, where the outer layer has larger 10 membered rings.
Without being bound to a particular theory, it is believed that control of the Al content and its uniform distribution over the potential sites is important to maximizing the activity, selectivity, and stability of molecular sieve for use in the production of light olefins from naphtha.
Preferably, the zeolites include the following additional constraints. During reaction with hydrocarbon feed, channels can be partially or totally blocked as a result of deposition of coke molecules. Blockage can also result from deposition of other molecules such as non-framework aluminum. Partial or complete blockage of a channel will make a portion or all of the channel ineffective for continuing cracking reactions. It is important, therefore, that the channels have a small dimension, while at the same time the catalyst particles must be above a minimum size so as not to be carried out of the reactor with a stream of products.
One method of making these zeolites includes initially growing crystals with an aluminum free material to provide inert inner cores. The inert cores are used as seeds over which an aluminum containing zeolite is grown epitaxially until an outer layer having a desired thickness is achieved. A desired outer layer thickness is in the range from about 0.1 micrometers to about 0.5 micrometers. The outer surface external to the pores is further processed to neutralize the aluminum on the outer surface. One manner of neutralizing this outer surface is to further grow epitaxially a thin layer of aluminum free material.
The process of the invention comprises contacting a naphtha feedstream, in gaseous form, with any of the above described catalysts. The contacting of the naphtha with the catalyst occurs, for example, in a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) type reactor. The process entails feeding the hot catalyst and the vaporized, preheated naphtha into a reactor vessel, wherein the catalyst mixes with the gas and is entrained with the gas, and the gas-catalyst mixture reacts under operating conditions producing a product gas and used catalyst. The product gas and used catalyst exit the reactor where the used catalyst is disentrained from the product gas, leaving a product gas stream and a catalyst stream. Some of the catalyst is then sent to a regenerator where carbon deposits are substantially removed. The choice of reactor can be any fluidized type of reactor for intimately mixing the naphtha feedstream with the catalyst. Reactors of this type are well known to those skilled in the art. A fluidized reactor usable in this invention is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,183,699, which is incorporated by reference.
Alternate feedstocks that are crackable to ethylene and propylene include gas oil, vacuum gas oil, and Fischer-Tropsch wax. Preferably, the feedstock has been processed to remove aromatics. An optional configuration in the present invention includes a hydrocarbon separation unit, for processing the product gas stream. The product gas stream is separated into an ethylene product stream, a propylene product stream, and a plurality of recycle streams. The recycle streams are optionally further separated into an ethane stream, a propane stream, a butane and butene stream, and a non-aromatic naphtha liquids stream. The recycle streams are directed back to the reactor and are optionally, directed into the reactor at a single location, at different locations, or even directed to different reactors arrayed in a parallel configuration.
The aspect of using different reactors in a parallel configuration allows for varying control over the temperatures and pressures for the different individual reactors. The different reactors allows for different temperatures of the individual reactors, different operating pressures, and different residence times. The use of different reactors, optionally, allows for the use of different modified catalysts for use with different feedstocks. In the option of using different catalysts, different catalyst regeneration units are also used for regenerating individual types of catalysts directed to the different reactors.
One aspect of the process operating conditions is the temperature at which the reaction is carried out. The reactions can be carried out between a temperature of about 550° C. to about 700° C. A preferred temperature for operating the process is to be in the range from about 600° C. to about 675° C. with a more preferred operating temperature of about 650° C. to about 670° C.
Another aspect of the process is operating the reaction at an elevated pressure. A preferred operating pressure is in the range from about 101 kPa (0 psig) to about 3550 kPa (500 psig). A more preferred operating pressure is from about 135 kPa (5 psig) to about 450 kPa (50 psig).
Another aspect of the process is the optional further addition of a steam diluent, wherein the steam diluent is injected into the mixture at a rate of up to five times the hydrocarbon ratio on a volume, or mole, basis in the gas phase. The performance can be enhanced by lowering the partial pressure of the hydrocarbons. Adding a diluent, such as steam or an inert gas, lowers the partial pressure while maintaining the operating temperature and pressure of the system.
When the process is carried out in a batch process, the contact time varies from about 0.1 seconds to about 5 hours and preferably from about 0.1 seconds to about 0.1 hour. The longer contact times are used at lower temperatures while shorter times are used at higher temperatures, assuming all other process variables are equal. Further, when the process is carried out in a continuous mode, the weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) based on the total feed (including any diluents) can vary from about 5 hr−1 to about 200 hr−1 and preferably from about 10 hr−1 to about 100 hr−1. As is understood in the art, the weight hourly space velocity is the weight flow of the feed divided by the catalyst weight.
Results from runs with the modified zeolites demonstrate the increased conversion. Of note is the increased ratio of propylene to ethylene produced in the conversions. The results of naphtha cracking using several modified zeolites of the present invention are shown in Table 2. The results are for a single pass of naphtha with zeolites in a microactivity test unit. The naphtha is a full boiling naphtha in the C5 to C11 range containing about 87% paraffins and naphthenes and about 13% aromatics. The reaction conditions were an inlet temperature of 665° C., reactor pressure of about 150 kPa (7 psig), and a WHSV of about 19 during injection. All of the zeolites were comprised of 80% zeolite and 20% binder. Of note, are the ratios of propylene to ethylene in the tests. The ratio of propylene to ethylene ranged from 0.76 to 1.18. This exhibits the desired ability to increase the propylene yield during the production of ethylene and propylene. In addition, recycling the C2 and heavier hydrocarbons will increase the yield of ethylene and propylene from the naphtha feedstock.
Tables 2a and 2b show the yields of several templated zeolites having the desired properties and several zeolites having undesired properties. The main feature screened shows that zeolites having high pore size indices, or ring sizes larger than 10 membered rings, have a low selectivity for ethylene and propylene, and therefore are unsuitable for this process.
Table 3 shows molecular sieves when prepared to produce the desired properties relative to pore size, pore channel length, and acid site density provides good selectivity and conversion of naphtha to propylene and ethylene. This is further illustrated in
Table 4 further lists a comparison of two aspects of the invention showing a comparison of the results of tests using a low ratio ferrierite, a high ratio ferrierite and a ferrierite with a small crystalline size. The tests were run in a microreactor with an inlet feed temperature of 665° C., other operating conditions were as described above. A comparison of the low ratio ferrierite with the high ratio ferrierite shows significant improvement in the conversion of the naphtha feed. In addition, a comparison of the low ratio ferrierite with relatively large crystallite size of 1-2 micrometers, with a low ratio ferrierite having a small crystallite size of 0.2 micrometers demonstrates significant improvement in the conversion of the naphtha feed with decrease in crystal size. These are further demonstrations of the importance of the silicon to aluminum atomic ratio and the control of the size of channels within the crystal through the sizing of the catalyst crystals.
Without being bound by any theory, it is believed that the improvement in ethylene and propylene production results from the combined characteristics of the molecular sieves defined in this invention. The pore must be of sufficient size to permit entry by larger hydrocarbons, particularly isoparaffins and naphthenes. At the same time the pores must be sufficiently small to inhibit the production of aromatic compounds within the pores but not limit the cracking to lower molecular weight olefins. The acid sites need sufficient spacing, or low enough alumina density, to limit undesirable reactions of ethylene and propylene, and to minimize the removal of Al from the framework under calcination, reaction and regeneration conditions. The residence time within the pores is an additional factor controlling the production of ethylene and propylene, and one which is controlled by limiting the length of the pore channels.
While the invention has been described with what are presently considered the preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included with the scope of the appended claims.
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Says who longtime? you. POINT OF ORDER!! POINT OF ORDER!!
It says it happened on Sunday. Why is this just being let out now? How come I as a parent in this community have not been notified by the school system.
If Kleem does not win the primary Tuesday, maybe Parma can hire Safety Director Adams. With all of his experience in East Cleveland as a chief and then appointee under Mayor Eric Brwer I think he would be valuable over there. At this point in Berea, I think Parma culd definitely see an increase in population from disgruntled Bereans moving out if Cyril gets reelected. There has been alot of chatter about doing a recall of Cyril Kleem if reelected, but who is going to spearhead that project? The "Kleem Team" has almost a cult like following, but from what I hear the following has disintegrated in recent months. I can only imagine what the Kleems are thinking right now. Just what will Cyril Kleem do if he loses? Who will hire him? If you google his name as an employer you will most certainly find many indiscrepancies in his background, including but not limited to character defects and unethical behaviors. If Degeeter wins in Parma and Kleem loses in Berea, look for Kleem to be employed in Parma. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT PARMA!!
Diane is Norma Kleem. Her life long friend told me it definitely was her. That was before her lifelong friend told me she just could not vote for her brother Cyril, due to the lies and scandal. Why she must accuse evryone on here of being someone. Norma, I wish you would accept the fact that tons of Berea residents are in the know about the stalking and they are all aware of the cover up and the polically motivated protection of "Mayor" if that is what you want to call him. Desperation? You have been desperate the entire time on this blog.
Deleted comment. I wrote yesterday that Purchase Order from the city of Berea RGO62196 for the Board of Control meeting this week Monday April 25, 2011 shows that there was a DEPOSIT of $5000 made for the postage for the newsletters. That is a deposit, then there is the printing and the payment of the former news sun editor. QUIT DELETING FACTS YOU PAID OFF JERKS! OUR MAYOR LIED TO THE PUBLIC AGAIN AT THE DEBATE. QUIT PROTECTING HIM DUMOUND.
I actually called my friend last wednesday night when the paper hit the stands. I told him I thought people were using false names and one was VERY similar to his own. He called the editor and told her he thought this was odd, no phone call back. I cannot find a William Lilly that is registered to vote in Berea or any address. More bizarro Berea behaviors.
Yes Norma, seriously that is exactly what is being implied and yes I personally believe that Cyril would have been charged like any other person had he not been an elected official. Suck it up you're a big girl. BTW lay off the tanning bed, you are wrinkling and a little orangish in color.
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Update: For anyone still harboring doubts about the existence of a cozy relationship between Berea's incumbent mayor and the News Sun, a visit to bereaohio.com ("official website for the city of Berea, Ohio") just might prove instructive.
At the bottom of the home page, a javascript widget has been inserted — one that scrolls blurbs from the "Berea [sic] News Sun."
Not uncoincidentally, it seems to me, most of the electronic posts that were streaming this morning (4/26/11) were written in support of the mayor's reelection bid.
At the time I first examined the site, there were, also, a couple of other posts: one of them a letter in support of a former political adversary of the mayor (a person who is now running for a different office).
The inclusion of that post, possibly, amounted to an attempt to demonstrate "fairness" — and shield the mayor against potential charges of impropriety.
I am not familiar enough with Ohio laws to opine about the legality of this latest act by a politician currently in the midst of — if the distribution of lawn signs around town is any indication — an uphill fight for reelection.
But it sure looks bad.
Recall that the News Sun recently endorsed Berea's sitting mayor for reelection (and that, during the last election cycle, not only endorsed his candidacy — it sold him FRONT PAGE ad space, as well). So giving that same publication (one very friendly to him) space at the city's website seems suspect.
The mayor can claim, I suppose, that including content from the local newspaper constitutes a form of "public service." But I wonder: If the News Sun had endorsed his political opponent — and if the majority of blurbs now streaming electronically from the newspaper argued against his reelection — would he be singing the same tune?
(Note: As I was composing this addendum to my original post, new content was inserted into the News Sun's feed at the City of Berea's website. A post supportive of the mayor's reelection bid remained. But several others were replaced by routine news items.)
Fine comments by another disenchanted Berean.
Again longtimeberearesident is spewing heresay, not facts and thus in turn not answering another lie by the mayor and his cohorts about the faulty amounts he stated at the debate. Kleem said the newsletter costs $2500 monthly, not factual. LIES! LIES! LIES! Sick of being lied to by my leader.
Momentum? Do foreclosed homes with Cyril Kleem Team signs count for momentum? I do not believe there are voters in the dark houses diane.
The talk about the browns leaving Berea to build a $400-500 million facility is just intriquing. Mayor Kleem Team stated at the debate he wanted to build the Browns a new facility to keep them in Berea and use their current facility for our rec/senior/court/city building I heard. Now diane and all her cohorts have stated umpteen times how Brown will bankrupt the city if elected. Funny how Cyril stated he would give them what they want, and we the taxpayers would go bankrupt trting to pay his tab for the new building. I think what diane was trying to say was "CYRIL KLEEM WILL BANKRUPT THE CITY AND HE IS ALREADY WELL ON HIS WAY!" Between his fairytale Browns facility, the pending lawsuit for wrongful termination and whatever else he may "remember" cognitively, I think if Cybil Trazy Kleem is the mayor for four more years, we are all in big trouble. JAMES BROWN IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR AN HONEST MAYOR AND JO HAMRICK WILL BE A GREAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR BEREA!! VOTE FOR BROWN/HAMRICK MAY 3rd...VOTE! VOTE! VOTE FOR HONESTY, TRUTHFULNESS and INTEGRITY. VOTE FOR BROWN TO BE OUR NEXT MAYOR.
Diane the little boy stomping would be Cyril. The charges were not filed because the prosecutors at Masons office did not want to go there. THAT is in the reports sister, if you read them. Cyril is a mayor. Don't you think that the connections prevented the nasty from happening.
You say this is a set up, a set up of what? That's right we the taxpaying citizens forced Cyril to go looking for Stackhouse on Christmas night, we made him drive a Berea truck, we then forced him to LIE to every Berea resident, then we told him to enter the Stackhouse house in Berea on Cranston, then we told him to lie about all of it to the media, we also asked him to release him "trazidone" induced suicidal letter about lupus. I do not know one person that believes this B S besides you and the other Cybil cronies around town, and those are very few these days diane. I know plenty of people with lupus, fibromyalgia and chronic fatique syndrome. They are not having memory issues, being put in mental wards, being identified as an intruder/burglar, taking trucks etc. etc. So diane why don't you go knock on some doors in Berea to help your candidate try to regain this seat. Cuz sister, I do not think voters are dumb.
I wonder if Ann Heyward is related to Carol Heyward, who was Norma Kleems attorney for the stalking issue she filed in Cuyahoga County Court. It is amazing how all of these people stick together. They must be related.
Oh yeah now we can all listen to diane, value and bereaboy talk about how great he is. PD goes Brown, Sun goes Kleem Team. Interesting. I want to move. If Team Kleem wins, I'm outta here.
Oh I guess the City Club owns us all trixi. The Plain Dealer endorsed Russo, Dimora. LOL. The Plain Dealer endorsed Cyril. So what? The Kleem Team is so angry that poor little lovesick Cyril didn't get endorsed. HOW DARE THEY NOT ENDORSE CYRIL! Then to say Cyril has alot of support from well respected people. Who? Andy Fay who chose politics over his own daughter? Who else? The EDUCATED people? It does not take a genius to figure out a person especially when that person is elected to be MY leader and goes into a woman's home looking for God knows what. Our city is in ruins right now. To even say Cyril did a great job makes me want to puke in my mouth. What has he even done? Finished the Front St. bridge that should have been done under Biddlecombe? Trupo? Give me a break. Give it up. Cyril Kleem should resign. We should demand it. Let him move far away after Melissa sells her two homes so they can take over and ruin another city. Thank you.
Well maggie the dog, I guess we are not talking about the same men. Look at where two master degrees got The Kleem Team. Trucks, women, police, sheriffs, media, bad bad bad for our city.
The dots are connecting finally! The residents of Berea have found redemption. Mr. Brown will make a fine mayor and I know that he is a family man, not a chaser of tail. The residents along with the employees will be able to go to work feeling comfortable which will aid them in doing their work. If Kleem was ethical and had integrity he would have never dragged all of us through this spectacle. There was a letter in todays paper about splashing mud all over the city. I believe Mr. Lovell, that only trucks that drive through dirty places splash mud my dear. I personally resent how the Sun News attacks only certain individuals. Congrats to Mr. Brown and I hope for the city's sake, that voters make the right choices this year.
How does this so called mayor remember any of these issues? He has cognitive memory loss, depression and has been suicidal. The State of the City is awesome!!! Let's hear it for Cyril Kleem.
So the mayor is not even at work, "I'll be back to work in a few weeks." Now he is seeking another term? If he canot make it through this first term, why should we give another? I would like to believe that Berea voters have now learned their lesson about Cyril


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2009 Improving the quality of life for servicemembers and their families stationed in the South Korea is a top priority, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea said this week.
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"We are working very hard to make sure that the facilities, the services, the schools, the medical capability that we have in the Republic of Korea is top-notch, which it is today," Sharp said. "We are working towards being able to have all of our servicemembers come to Korea for two- and three-year tours and bring their families instead of one year at a time unaccompanied."
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has approved extended tour lengths last year, paving the way to allow servicemembers' families to accompany them with command sponsorship. Extending tour lengths while increasing command sponsorship opportunities reduces stress levels not only for servicemembers, but also for their families, Sharp said.
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OK, I'm excited...
I have a new website, I have a nice mic setup here at my computer, I have a Skype account, I have live streaming configured,tested, and good to go. So how about a live DC talk show? What would we talk about? How would it be scheduled? Who needs to be involved?
I just have a couple of requirements for now:
--cursing IS allowed, this is not for kids
--Opinions are welcome, passionate statements are welcome...you can be offensive with your positions, but no personal attacks or unreasonable anger
--Be willing to LISTEN to different and offensive opinions without harming yourself psychologically
--be funny if you can be, everyone loves a good laugh
As you can see, I want this to be about honesty, not about how smart we are. What's REALLY on our minds?
I remember we tried a podcast years ago, but this should be better since it's live and interactive...and I'll be playing devil's advocate most of the time. Nothing personal, but my goal will be to try to provoke you (in a nice, funny way hopefully...I will have to learn this "skill", so I'll probably go too far sometimes).