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Polymers and copolymers of conjugated dienes and aromatic vinyl compound which have a carboxyl end group and are present as salts, the salts containing metal cations or metal cation complexes which are bivalent or polyvallent and also a process for preparing such salts of polymers which contain carboxyl end groups and their use for modifying thermoplastic materials or as vulcanizable materials.
1. A polymer of a conjugated diene or copolymer of a conjugated diene and an aromatic vinyl compound having a carboxyl end group, the said polymer or copolymer being present as a salt of the formula
[R--Ya --X.sup.⊖ ]n [M]n⊕
M is a metal cation or a metal cation complex and
X is a grouping of the formula ##STR4## where R' is a divalent organic radical, Y is an alkylene oxide unit and
R is a polymer of a conjugated diene or a copolymer of a conjugated diene and an aromatic vinyl compound,
n is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 and
a is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10.
2. A polymer as claimed in claim 1, wherein M is Al+++, Mg++, Ca++, Ba++, Sr++, Zn++, Ni++, Zr++ or Cd++.
3. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein M is an oxo or hydroxo cation complex of Al, Mg or Zn.
4. A polymer as defined in claim 1, wherein R' is --CH2 --CH2 --, --CH═CH--, --CH2 --CH2 --CH2 -- ##STR5## which radicals can in turn be substituted by short alkyl chains (C1 -C3) and/or halogen.
The present invention relates to rubberlike polymers of conjugated dienes which have carboxyl end groups and are present as salts, the salts containing metal cations or metal cation complexes which carry no fewer than two positive charges. The polymers of the conjugated dienes can be present as homopolymers of the conjugated dienes or as copolymers thereof in which the comonomer is another conjugated diene or an aromatic vinyl compound.
Polymers and copolymers of conjugated dienes and/or aromatic vinyl compounds, for example block polymers of dienes and styrene, which are obtained using a lithiohydrocarbon and have carboxyl end groups are known. German Laid-Open Application DOS No. 2,723,905, for instance, discloses obtaining these compounds by subjecting first styrene and then a styrene/isoprene mixture to polymerization and then a reacting the block polymer first with an alkylene oxide, for example ethylene oxide, and subsequently subjecting the reaction product to a further reaction with a cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid, affording polymers which, in addition to a carboxyl end group, have a reactive, polymerizable double bond at the end of the chain. The polymerizable polymers obtained by this process are mixed with free-radical polymerizable monomers and polymerized in the presence of free-radical producers to form graft copolymers. Said German Laid-Open Application DOS 2,723,905 gives no indication of any further reaction of the carboxyl group at the end of the chain.
Japanese Patent JA No. 56/118,405 discloses reacting a block polymer of a diene (for example butadiene) and an aromatic vinyl compound (for example styrene) with unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or dicarboxylic acid derivative to form a carboxyl-containing block polymer. The block polymer is prepared by anionic solution polymerization of a diene/aromatic vinyl compound mixture using a lithioalkyl as initiator. The isolation of the block polymer is followed in a separate step at high temperatures (190° to 210° C.) in an extruder by the reaction of the block polymer with the unsaturated dicarboxylic acid compound to form a carboxyl-containing block polymer. The carboxyl-containing block polymer is subsequently treated in solution with a monovalent metal compound (for example an alkali metal alcoholate or alkali metal hydroxide) and converted into an ionically crosslinked block polymer. Ionically cross-linked block polymers, compared with uncrosslinked block polymers, have a higher mechanical strength and a lower permanent extensibility. Ionically crosslinked block polymers are used as thermoplastic elastomers if they contain little aromatic vinyl compound or as thermoplastic molding materials if the aromatic vinyl compound content is high.
It is an object of the present invention to improve the mechanical and processing properties of rubberlike polymers based on diene polymers or copolymers with aromatic vinyl compounds. Rubberlike polymers based on diene polymers or copolymers frequently have the disadvantage that they undergo cold flow. Rubberlike polymers therefore become tacky and bake together on prolonged storage. By increasing the molecular weight it is possible to reduce cold flow, but the disadvantage is then that the rubberlike polymers have increasingly poor processing properties.
We have now found that this object is achieved with polymers of conjugated dienes having carboxyl end groups, which are present as salts of the general formula
[R-Ya -X.sup.⊖ ]n [M]n⊕
M is a metal cation or a metal cation complex and
X is a grouping of the general formula ##STR1## where R' is a divalent organic radical, Y is an alkylene oxide unit and R is a polymer of a conjugated diene, n can be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 and a can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10.
The present invention further relates to a process for preparing a polymer of a conjugated diene by anionic polymerization thereof, reacting the resulting polymer with an alkylene oxide and a cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride, the reaction product obtained being used together with a metal alcoholate, metal alkyl, metal halide, metal oxide or metal hydroxide, and removing excess dicarboxylic anhydride or masking it by derivatization.
The present invention also relates to the use of such a polymer for modifying thermoplastic materials and to the use as vulcanizable materials.
Further objects of the invention are evident from the following description.
The inventive salts of the polymers of conjugated dienes and of the copolymers of conjugated dienes with one another and/or with aromatic vinyl compounds which have carboxyl end groups have excellent mechanical properties combined with very good processing properties. In particular, the inventive compounds, compared with polymers of the same composition and the same molecular weight, have a much reduced cold flow tendency combined with almost unchanged high fluency.
In the salts of the general formula given above, M is a metal cation or a metal cation complex. The cations and the cation complexes have no fewer than two positive charges. In the formula, the number n can, in addition to 2, be 3 or 4. Preference is given to metal cations, such as Al+++, Mg++, Zn++, Ni++, Zr++ or Cd++. However, it is also possible to use cation complexes, for example those which contain a plurality of metal cations. A suitable structure is for example:
[Me--O--[--Me(OR2 ")--O--]r--Me]4+
where Me is Al+++ or Cr+++, r is an integer of from 0 to 20, preferably from 0 to 10, and R" is hydrogen or a short-chain alkyl.
In the general formula, X is a grouping of the general formula ##STR2## where R' is a divalent organic radical. Such groupings are the result of reacting a diene polymer obtained by anionic polymerization with lithioalkyl catalysis with cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride. Suitable cyclic dicarboxylic anhydrides, which ultimately give the radical of the general grouping, are aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic dicarboxylic anhydrides. Preference is given to the groupings which are derived from maleic acid, succinic acid, phthalic acid, glutaric acid or 1,8-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, R' is --CH2 --CH2 --, --CH═CH--, --CH2 --CH2 --CH2 -- or ##STR3##
Y is an alkylene oxide grouping. Preference is given to those groupings which are obtained from ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or styrene oxide. However, the invention also encompasses those salts where X is directly connected to R. In the general formula, as stated above, n is 2 or 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10, preferably 3 or 4, and a can be 0 or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10, preferably 1, 2, 3 or 4.
R is a radical of a conjugated diene polymer obtained by the action of a lithioalkyl on the starting monomers. The conjugated dienes can be polymerized on their own. Examples of conjugated dienes which can be incorporated into the polymers as copolymerized units are butadiene, isoprene or 2,3-dimethylbutadiene. Particular preference is given to butadiene or isoprene.
However, R can also be the radical of a copolymer. Starting materials for this type of polymer are, in addition to the dienes, aromatic monovinyl monomers, such as styrene, styrenes with side chain alkylation, such as α-methylstyrene, and ring-substituted styrenes, such as vinyltoluene or ethylvinylbenzene. The aromatic monovinyl monomers can also be used in mixtures. However, preference is given to styrene on its own.
Random copolymers of dienes and aromatic monovinyl compounds are obtained when mixtures of, for example, styrene and butadiene are polymerized for example in the presence of esters such as tetrahydrofuran. The glass transition point of these polymers is below 0° C., preferably below -15° C. The polymer unit R can also be constituted in such a way that some or all of the olefinic double bonds which stem from the diene units are hydrogenated.
The carboxyl-containing polymer salts according to the invention are used as rubbers or vulcanizable materials. The polymer unit R contains more than 50% by weight, preferably from 70 to 100% by weight, of a copolymerized diene. The remainder to 100% is accounted for by the copolymerized aromatic monovinyl compounds in R.
The polymer radical R has a molecular weight within the range from 5000 to 500,000, preferably within the range from 10,000 to 250,000.
Y is an alkylene oxide unit, preferably based on ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or styrene oxide. a can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10, preferably 1, 2, 3 or 4. These alkylene oxide units Y are obtained by reacting the still live polymer from the lithioalkyl polymerization with an alkylene oxide. Preferably the reaction is effected in a ratio of 1 mole of alkylene oxide per mole of the live polymer.
X has the general formula indicated above, and is incorporated by reacting the reaction product of the live polymer based on alkylene oxide with a cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride.
A preferred process for preparing the conjugated diene polymer is the anionic polymerization of the diene and reacting the resulting polymer with an alkylene oxide and then with a cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride. The resulting polymer, which contains carboxyl end groups, is subsequently reacted with a metal alcoholate or with a metal alkyl. This reaction with a metal alcoholate can be effected in such a way that the number of carboxyl-containing polymer radicals m is equal to the number of charges on the metal cation or metal cation complex n. However, it is also possible, as indicated above, to select the ratios in such a way that m is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10, n being 2, 3 or even 4. The reaction of metal alcoholates with carboxylic acids is known. It is described for example in Kirk-Othmer "Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology", 2nd edition, volume 1, pages 832 to 851.
However, the carboxyl-containing polymer can also be made to react with a metal alkyl, for example triethylaluminum, tritertiarybutylaluminum, diethylzinc and the like. The polyvalent cation can also be added in the form of an oxide or hydroxide, for example as ZnO. To obtain good properties, excess dicarboxylic anhydride must be masked by derivatization or removed, for example by reacting the dicarboxylic anhydride with a metal hydroxide (for example NaOH) to give the corresponding salt or with a metal alcoholate to give the corresponding salt of the half-ester of the dicarboxylic acid. Another possibility is to remove the dicarboxylic anhydride at high temperatures under reduced pressure by means of a high-boiling entrainer.
The novel salts of the carboxyl-containing polymers can be used for modifying thermoplastic materials or as vulcanizable materials.
A 5-liter stainless steel standard kettle is charged under nitrogen with purified and dried cyclohexane as solvent, followed by the corresponding amount of destabilized diene or destabilized monomer mixture. Destabilization is obtained by treating butadiene with n-butyllithium and distilling at -5° C.; an isoprene is freed from stabilizer by distillation over a column packed with Al2 O3. The reaction mixture is then heated to 40° C., and polymerization is started by adding a calculated amount of initiator (sec.-butyllithium). By maintaining an internal temperature of 65°-70° C., complete polymerization is obtained in 3 hours; the reaction mixture is then cooled down to 40° C., and the alkylene oxide, dissolved in 50 ml of cyclohexane, is added to the live polymer solution in order to convert the carbanion into the corresponding polymeric alcoholate anion; complete conversion requires 1 hour of stirring. The cyclic dicarboxylic anhydride is then added, which is followed by a further hour of stirring at 40° C. to form the polymeric half-ester of the dicarboxylic acid in the form of the lithium salt, with which the polyvalent cation is reacted directly.
The polyvalent cation is dissolved in the form of an alcoholate or metal alkyl in toluene, THF or any other inert hydrocarbon solvent and added to the polymeric half-ester. The molar ratio of polymeric half-ester:cation is from 1:1 to 1:10. The viscosity of the polymer solution immediately increases considerably on addition of the polyvalent cation. To eliminate excess alkyl or alkoxy groups from the cation and to convert the polyvalent cation into the corresponding oxo or hydroxo complex, water can be added in an equimolar amount or in excess to the polymer solution. Before the product is worked up, 0.5% by weight of phenolic stabilizer, based on the polymer, is added. A viscous polymer solution is then precipitated by pouring into isopropanol, and the precipitate is washed twice with isopropanol and dried overnight at 90° C. under nitrogen in a vacuum drying cabinet.
For details of the individual examples, see table below.
TABLE 1__________________________________________________________________________ VNCyclo- before afterExamplehexane BuLi Diene Alkylene oxide Anhydride Me compound addition ofNo. [ml] [mmol] Type [g] Type [mmol] Type [mmol] Variant Type [mmol] cation__________________________________________________________________________1 3,000 6.3 Bu 500 EO 12.0 MA 12.0 3 Al Iso- 6.0 123 208 propylat2 3,000 8.5 Bu 500 PO 12.0 SA 16.0 -- Al Iso- 17.0 95 153 propylat3 3,000 10.0 I 500 EO 20.0 MA 20.0 -- Zn Iso- 20.0 84 137 propylat4 3,000 8.5 I 500 Stryene 9.0 SA 17.0 -- Zn Iso- 17.0 97 154 oxide propylat5 3,000 7.2 Bu 500 EO 8.0 Itaconie 15.0 -- Zn Iso- 15.0 108 177 anhydride propylat6 3,000 7.7 Bu 250 EO 8.5 SA 16.0 -- Zn Iso- 17.0 104 169 I 250 propylat7 3,000 7.2 Bu 450 EO 8.0 PA 14.0 -- Al Iso- 15.0 110 178 S 50 propylat__________________________________________________________________________ BuLi: sec. butyllithium; Bu: butadiene; I: isoprene; S: styrene; EO: ethylene oxide; PO: propylene oxide; PA: phthalic anhydride; MA: maleic anhydride; SA: succinic anhydride; VN: viscosity number measured at 25° C. in toluene (0.5 g of polymer in 120 ml of toluene) in accordance with DIN 51,562
This Example demonstrates the reduction in cold flow obtained in the case of polybutadiene by the process according to the invention by converting the carboxyl end group into the aluminum salt.
A polymer solution as prepared in Example 2 was divided into 2 portions. Portion 1 is precipitated with isopropanol without pretreatment and worked up to the polymer. Portion 2 is treated before the workup with 9 mmol each of aluminum ethylate. The polymer is molded into balls each of 20 g in weight which are placed on glass plates. The area covered as the balls melt at room temperature is determined as a function of time.
TABLE______________________________________Determination of the cold flow of polybutadieneVN toluene Starting polymer Polymer Al isopropylatecold flow 95.3 154after minutes area in cm2 area in cm2______________________________________ 0 8 7.115 23.7 8.060 26.4 9.0300 52.8 15.91440 69.4 28.35760 78.5 28.5______________________________________
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The Westin Hotel Mina Seyahi is a top family-friendly hotel offering a brilliant combination of 5 star luxury with its own private beach. Rooms are spacious with large marble bathrooms, and ones with a sea-view look out over the Palm Jumeirah and the hotel's manicured gardens and pools. The hotel operates a super-efficient concierge service from a Bedoin tent in the lobby, which is on hand to help you plan your perfect holiday in Dubai. The Westin is a favourite with Emirati high society and is an extremely popular place to meet for tea and evening drinks. The Arabian influence is felt from the moment you arrive, and are greeted with a delicious local drink of chilled apple juice with cinnamon and juicy fresh dates.
All bedrooms are spacious with large beds, bathrooms and all the facilities you might need to hand, including large televisions, Nespresso coffee machines and a small terrace with a table and chairs. There is an excellent choice of restaurants on site with Spice Emporium Thai restaurant a must for its delicious, authentic food and fun atmosphere, complete with authentic Thai dancing every night. The menu offers a wide selection of dishes which diners choose to share between the table, and then the portion size is adapted accordingly. The Thai coconut soup and Beef red curry are superb. Breakfast is a very extravagant affair with practically every type of International cuisine you can think of available for guests to enjoy and is served buffet style. There is an emphasis on superfoods, and the fresh, super-healthy juices are a definitely worth trying.
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Posted by Anonymous on 06/15/2014
I have grown up in Delaware County my entire life and know this restaurant very well and have frequent it every couple months for years! My daughter and I came in for breakfast on Father's Day and received the worst service I have ever received anywhere! The wait staff never approached us to make sure we were okay, they gave us orange juice and then left us to sit there for 50 minutes for pancakes! I have worked in customer service for well over 16 years and never would I allow that to happen to anyone. Their excuse was there was a big table ahead of us! Really? This is what you do! You plan to be busy on Father's Day for breakfast! Or just a simple follow up to make sure we where okay would have been nice! I had to stop a waitress and ask! The food is good and I will miss the milkshakes but after today it will be along before we return if ever! There are plenty of other places to eat in Delco
Posted by dairy cottage lover!! on 04/07/2010
i love a good malted milkshake and dairy cottage has just that. great food and even better service.
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Hi! Everybody It's me Jasmine Ali's daughter! You guys are the best! Keep working! Have Fun! From, Jasmine
Posted by Anonymous on 05/21/2008
I must disagree with the previous comment. i am a frequent customer of the dairy cottage and each and every visit, I am greeted with a friendly hello and outstanding service. Their hoagies are top-notch and talk about a mouth watering cheesesteak. Whether im eating in or taking out, I can't help but to order myself one of those delicious sundaes or delectable milkshakes.
Posted by Long time Dairy Cottage fan on 04/02/2008
When I picked up my order, the server [drop]ped the Regular hoagie out of the bag and to the ground. The Kaiser tuna sandwiches were wrong. One sandwich had two tops and the other sandwich had two bottoms. Sandwiches were not cut. Service was subpar and food was not good.
Posted by CMDR. Harmon Rabb on 06/06/2007
I was @ the Dairy Cottage just this past Monday the 4th w/my sister and my daughter. We had the baked Ziti and Chicken Cordon Bleu Panini, and my sister having shared her dinner w/my daughter, we had a great time. Our server was happy, and very welcoming and she was such a joy. Service was prompt, and we had no problems. Food was brought out together if not by a minute or 2 of each other and we had no complaints. They didn't mind my daughter being hyper and she made the waitresses laugh and smile and thought we had a small spill, it was cool as I had felt bad and was helping to clean it up. No worries was the answer I got from my server, so I'd go there again, just because of the good way they handled things depite me having a small child w/me.
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The food was great and so was the price. Problem was they did not bring everyone's food out together so some of our party had nothing to eat while others did.


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Walker & Son opens its doors once again
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It was the end of an era when famous Leicester pie shop Walker & Son closed its doors 18 months ago.
So it was no surprise to see dozens of long-standing customers joining a huge queue in the street outside when the city centre store re-opened in Cheapside this morning.
Visitors said they were delighted to see the shop serving its award-winning pies and sausages once again.
Judith Truslove, of Western Park, said she had missed the shop.
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"I love Walkers, I love the sausages and pork pies," she said. "We always had their pork pies at Christmas. They've just got a taste that's different to any other pie, they're lovely. I'm so pleased they're back."
Brian Chambers, 80, of Oadby, said: "I haven't had a good sausage since they closed. They've just got a lovely seasoning and a taste of their own - the other sausages you buy today, there's nothing in them.
"I was sorry when the shop closed. I've been coming down every week since they said it was re-opening to see if it was ready."
John Stokes, 77, of Leicester's West End, was enjoying a pork pie sample in store. "This is lovely - just the same as they were before," he said."
Brenda O'Callaghan and her daughter, Sarah Guest, were picking up pork pies, chutneys and sauces.
Brenda, 69, of Glenfield, said: "I'm hoping that soon they'll be bringing back the pork dripping that they used to sell years ago. My mum's 92 and she loves it."
Sarah, 43, of Leicester's Stadium Estate, said: "My daughter, Hannah, works here, so we've come to support her. We love the pies the pastry is lovely.
"It's nice that they sell all these other things as well - bread and cookies and sauces. The shop looks great."
Walker & Son began in Leicester in 1824 and continued under different companies until it closed last year.
Former workers Frances Mathers and Doreen Cooper returned today to see the new-look store.
Frances, 74, of Thurmaston, worked there for 35 years after starting in 1969.
"There was sawdust on the floor when I was here - we didn't wash it in those days, we'd just spread the sawdust at the end of the day and put more down in the morning.
"We went through two refurbishments when we were here."
Doreen, 74, of Glenfield, said: "I was a supervisor. I started in 1968 and was here for 30 years. It's changed completely but it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
"We had some really good times here."
The store was officially opened by Leicester City legend Steve Walsh.
"I can eat what I want now I've finished playing football so my wife definitely knows where to come to get our pies now," he said. "They'd sometimes shout 'Who ate all the pies?' at me from the terraces, so it's quite a fitting connection that I'm here."
A 'flash-mob' of musical theatre students from Leicester College also helped with the opening, singing their way from the Clock Tower to the store to raise interest.
Student Ella Wheway, 18, of Market Harborough, said: "We all got a pie but I haven't eaten mine yet - I'm taking it home to share."
Jessica Billing, 17 of Markfield, said: "We worked really hard on the performance and I'm quite surprised so many people turned up to watch us. It was a fantastic experience for me as I had never performed in a flash-mob before. We even got to keep our pork pies, which I'll probably give to my mum."
Conor Izzard, 17, of Groby, said: "It was a brilliant and a fantastic experience. We all worked extremely hard and have been rehearsing for weeks on this. The support we had from the general public was also brilliant.
"I'm saving my pie for later as it's too big for me to eat by myself."
Walker & Son managing director Peter Quinn said he was pleased with the opening day.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross men's tennis team earned its second win in three matches against Union, picking up a 6-1 win at the Holy Cross Tennis Courts. With the final result, the Crusaders go to a record of 4-14 on the overall season while the Dutchmen combine for a record of 1-5.
The Crusaders won two out of the three doubles matches to take the doubles point early. The No. 1 tandem of senior Matt Wierzel (Garden City, N.Y.) and freshman Ryan Sullivan (Medfield, Mass.) won big, 8-1, while the No. 3 duo of freshmen Connor McCann (Centerville, Mass.) and Chris Brosnan (Garden City, N.Y.) also won, 9-7.
Holy Cross then swept the top four singles spots as Wierzel, junior Chris Das (Melrose, Mass.), Sullivan and Brosnan all won in straight sets. Sophomore Scot Brownell (Plymouth, Mass.) finished the day with a win at No. 6 singles, 5-7, 6-1, 10-7. With the fifth singles win on the day, the Crusaders took home the 6-1 victory.
The Crusaders continue their home stand on Tuesday, April 12 against Springfield. Matches are set to begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Holy Cross Tennis Courts in Worcester, Mass.
1. Matt Wierzel/Ryan Sullivan (HC) def. Dan Nault/Shaun Champaneria (UNION), 8-1
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3. Connor McCann/Chris Brosnan (HC) def. Matt Goodnow/Alex Katz (UNION), 9-7
1. Wierzel (HC) def. Nault (UNION), 6-2, 6-2
2. Das (HC) def. Champaneria (UNION), 6-1, 6-4
3. Sullivan (HC) def. Kurtz, 6-1, 6-0
4. Brosnan (HC) def. Goodnow (UNION), 6-4, 6-3
5. Kanner (UNION) def. McCann (HC), 6-8, 6-2, 11-9
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Membership Card - 'Clensky Prukaz', Technical Workers Union, Issued to Bretislav Lukes, Czechoslovakia, 1948 Reg. No: HT 8037
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- Union membership card Clensky Prukaz for technical workers, issued to Bretislav Lukes in 1948. Born 12 January 1922 in Stankou in Czechoslovakia, Bretislav claims to have worked for the Germans during the war in Junkers aircraft factory. He migrated to Australia in 1950 after spending time in an IRO camp following World War Two. Sent to Bonegilla upon arrival, Bretislav completed his compulsory employment at Australian Iron and Steel at Port Kembla, probably on the Snowy Hydro-electric Scheme. When his two year labour contract was completed he moved to Melbourne where he lived for the rest of his life, although he did return to Czechoslovakia and other parts of Europe to visit friends and family.
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- Small cream card, black printed and typed text and signature in red ink; reverse side series of dates 1948-1967 with red stamp on 1948
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- Donation from Peter Schafer, 2004
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Weber, Laurence Jefferson, 1954-
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- found: His L.A. Pub. Library since 1872, 1981: t.p. (Jeff Weber) p. ix (Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, booksellers, and president, the John D. Bruckman Rare Book Committee)
- found: Fore-edge paintings at Syracuse University, 1993: t.p. (Jeff Weber)
- found: OCLC, Nov. 29, 2006 (hdg.: Weber, Jeff; Weber, L. Jefferson; usage: Jeff Weber; L. Jefferson Weber)
- found: Email from author, Nov. 15, 2006 (This is best to differentiate me from others: Weber, Laurence Jefferson, 1954-)
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Our Cabaña was already full of life before the break of dawn ready to kick off the day.
The morning started with the official opening ceremony of the YWWF 2011. Everybody was wearing their national uniform, so colorful and special. It was a very unique experience knowing that the other three World Centres were also doing the same thing.
As we sang the World Song, passing the light and sharing our dreams of the future we all got the feeling of being a part of a worldwide network of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting.
The rest of the day we learned about the history of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting and leadership skills. Furthermore we got to know each other through the patrol system.
Before we went to bed, we had a lovely Salsa time.
Hasta Mañana !
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Holaaaa a todas desde Nuestro Chalet.....un beso gigante....especialmente para Maria Jose Proanho de Ecuador Ö
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I'm with CMS and we have "small problem" only. NEWS TIME - FROZEN PLATFORM 10-15 minutes. I hope I'll change soon (Rob+MBT).
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I'm with CMS and we have "small problem" only. NEWS TIME - FROZEN PLATFORM 10-15 minutes. I hope I'll change soon (Rob+MBT).
Thank you for being there dear Felix, Rob and Marko
I voted yes, but it was actually a rather "gray" area.
The problem was that CMSForex has a very timely system when you're running demos, but their "live" system is HORRIBLE! My "demo" trades would consistently take just a few seconds to fill, but the "live" trades would take sometimes 10-12 seconds! It was totally unpredictable. I'd miss most of the quick moves that would go 50 or more pips in a few seconds.
I filed a complaint, and of course someone "investigated" it. His response was that they don't promise timely trades. Period.
If I were a paranoid person, I'd swear they were monitoring my actions. I noticed that after most of these quick swings, the chart would turn around and recover most of its movement by at least 50%. After I noticed this happen enough times, I waited to place an order until the spike was over and it started to retract, THEN place the order. Each time I did this, it somehow MAGICALLY turned around and started heading the other way!
This was painful to watch. I got closed out on a margin call - about 10 pips before it really DID peak and then turn around and retrace 150 pips. If I could have held out for those 10 more pips, I would have made a decent 20 pip profit instead of losing 120 pips or so.
At that moment, I suddenly understood what it meant to have enough available funds in the account to handle 20-30 times your trades.
Got me twice Once they changed my leverage on me with out telling me
from 200:1 to 100:1 costing me about 250,000 had open 280 standard lots.
They did not credit my account.
Second time got me for about 110,000 gbp/usd broke out and my trade at
that point was up about 20,000 when I tried to close the position. Clicked
the button many many times and they kept giving me requotes. Even tried to put in and order 20 pips ahead and got the same requotes or order error.
Called the deal desk and was told that they didn't have any one there that could close any trades. The next day after looking at the log I had hit my button 37 times to close and of those times only once did the price change for a legitimate requote.
They did not credit my account.
Lucky they were not in arms reach of me.
Bad things happen for a lot less money.
And I would have felt a lot better if they would have used a gun.
I've been working with FXCM for almost a year without complains, but last week I was stopped out in two (Long) trades at 2.0410 GBP/USD at 16:05 EST time. My price charts only reached 2.0430 at that moment so I really don't know what to think. I'm waiting for a response from FXCM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If some knows what to do in this case please let me know.
I started Forex by taking a local course and the course providers arranged an account for me with a Swiss Broker - FXCSC (Foreign Exchange Clearing & Settlement Co.) I demoed with them for several months and then prior to funding my account I emailed several times asking for some policy clarifications. Funny thing was I kept getting responses in perfect English - not what I expected from Switzerland. Their site stated they had been in business for 27 years but a Google search showed absolutely nothing. On their website they had a links page which listed several Swiss governing bodies suggesting that they were members. I contacted the 3 organizations and was told FXCSC weren't members in any of them. So I dug a little deeper and found the broker address was in a Swiss building that provided "virtual offices". I emailed them and asked why they were in a virtual office building and to advise me what governing bodies they were members of. They replied that they weren't members with anyone but that they had made an application with one, and that it didn't matter because they were transfering all their accounts to their parent company. I emailed 3 times asking who and where that parent company was and never received a reply. Even though I had opened an account I never did fund it. From further research I think the parent company may be FXLQ (Forex Liquidity LLC) and they may have been pulling back funds to the US to meet the higher NFA requirements. Last week I noticed the FXCSC website was and continues to be "Under Construction". So even though I wasn't ripped off financially, I was certainly mislead.
I did have a problem with forex-swiss, they stole my money, they take my stops when the market no was at that levels, they take 5, 10, 30 seconds to fill your order at different price that you ask. At the end, i leave my account without activity for a couple off month with usd$18.xx of balance, and some day i did logged in to see it and it appear in cero, with a fee of USD$18.xx for close the account. They stole from my account USD$2.000.oo.
Dear Desertrat your post is shocking, that is exactly what's happening to me with CMSFX!
So far I have been ok with InterbankFX. Although I only have a small account and I am just a little fart of a blip on their radar. My suggestion, research the hell out of the broker you are about to give your money to. If they promise stuff to good to be true or spreads that are to good to believeâ¦run. I really appreciate all you bastards and will do what I can if called upon to get a bastards money back for I to am a bastard. Research people... you are about to give your money into someone elseâs hands and out of yours. Know who you are giving your money to.
I have over 100K at 1world and they took it away from me. They claim that I took advantage of them and claim they have the right to remove/reverse trades.
I am not the only one they have scammed. If you would go over to GMT forum, many members got money locked away in there as well.
I have filed a complaint with NFA but it appears that NFA is nothing more a "shoulder to cry on".
I really like to see a government agency to police Brokers and penalize them for any wrongdoings. As is, NFA is useless. I hope that what we have here would eventually snowball into a force that will effectively patrol the brokers.
I would have to say that misleading contracts are the main reasons that a lot of people feel they have been burnt
[Me being one of many to have made that very mistake!]
I also beleive that there is unknown amount of brokers that mislead clients
purposely. With this in mind READ you contracts with great care if you can't understand it I would keep shopping untill I found a Brokers contract that is at the very least within your scope of knowledge:
Because if it looks & walks like a duck quacks like a duck it must be a DUCK !


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I think SOME of his drumming was brilliant, yet other were completely boring.
I mean, the entire album of Discipline was perfect, but listen Neil and Jack and Me off of Beat, I mean really Bill? Is that the only thing you could come up with?
Also I wouldn't say King Crimson was ever really "Metal" Happy with What you Have was extremely heavy as was Level Five, but none of their stuff can be accurately described by that term. As far as them re-doing a lot of their songs (electric-Elektrik, fractured-Frakctured) I see your point, but I respectively disagree, especially on the matter of Larks Tongue(which I would love to see a part 26 btw:) Lark's part III and Part IV were more of a continuation than a rendition. And Elektrik and Frakctured are some of my favorite KC material, where as the originals weren't and aren't.
Naw, Bill could have done anything with
Neal and Jack and Me
. He hardly needed to prove that he was imaginative or had the chops to do all sorts of things with that tune.
He simply took a back seat because it was one of Adrian B's pop numbers and he let AB hold the floor because BB's more musician than show pony. He was perfect in his punchiness with Tony Levin. On the same album he carves it up on
and his work on
Waiting Man
is special.
I know what you mean about "metal". Agree that KC aren't a metal band, but their sound and tritones were metal in quite a few songs.
I thought
was great - until it broke into the metal section at the end (no one's going to argue that the ending isn't brutal metal). It just sounded tacked on to me.
did nothin for me, I'm afraid. Just more noisy uglies from the house of Fripp. Okay, I'm being glib :) Nothing wrong with revisiting earlier ideas and refining them (as in
) - I just wish he wouldn't do it with his noisy uglies hehe
Just like to shine a light on the forgotten man, Pat Mastelotto. He's a tremendous drummer. The tracks where his drumming really do it for me are
ConstruKction of Light
... the synth drums in that one are incredible. If a new KC came up with music more in that ilk I'd be keen!
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If everything else went south, you could count on your home equity as a source of retirement funding. Of course, the crash of 2008 dashed that long-held myth.
But what has happened in recent years with home prices rebounding and the stock market in bull mode since 2009? Is the nest egg syndrome back?
For most, the news isn't all that promising since home prices haven't recovered to 2007 levels and far too many households have avoided stocks.
Despite the run-up in home equity and stocks, more than half of Americans will not be able to maintain their standard of living in retirement, according to a recent study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Why the recent stock/housing rebound didn't help Americans is an example of pure wealth inequality: "The more robust growth in stocks mainly benefits the top third of households," the study's authors concluded.
If you've fallen behind on your retirement goals, how do you catch up? Here are some suggestions:
* Simply add more stocks to your overall portfolio. According to statistics compiled by Prof. Robert Shiller, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics, stocks have averaged an 8.8% annual return from 1871 through 2012; 6.5% when adjusted for inflation. That's far exceeded the return for home prices, which have barely kept up with inflation over that period.
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Although these funds trade as stocks and are volatile, the yields are generous because they represent rental income that's passed along to investors. The iShares Real Estate 50 ETF (FTY) owns the 50-largest U.S. REITs and yields nearly 4 percent.
The key to defeating the nest egg syndrome is to reap inflation-beating returns from a variety of investments. Even with the housing market bouncing back, it's still not enough to provide a foundation for a sound retirement.
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Charles Town, Parx, Beulah cancel due to weather
Charles Town canceled Tuesday night's nine-race card due to snow but said it plans to resume racing Wednesday night.
Charles Town said it would remain open for simulcasting Tuesday. The West Virginia track had received almost two inches of snow by late Tuesday morning, and another one to three inches was expected during the afternoon, according to The Weather Channel.
First post for Wednesday's nine-race card is 7:15 p.m.
** Parx canceled for the second straight day on Tuesday due to the affects of the storm. Parx is scheduled to resume racing on Saturday.
** Beulah Park attempted to race Tuesday but canceled its last three races due to thawing track conditions.
n the last race run, the fifth, Shoe Freak Marlene was on the lead when he broke down in the stretch. Jockey Rodrigo Vergara jumped off Shoe Freak Marlene and missed being struck by any of the trailing horses. Vergara was taken to Mt. Carmel Hospital in Columbus for an injured elbow.
Racing at Beulah is scheduled to resume Saturday afternoon.
- additional reporting by John McDulin
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Unfortunately not much has changed but a lot has happened. Finding Peace with Pain is still my goal....I just keep getting new pains and there has been nothing peaceful about it. Since 2010 I have bunion surgery on my right foot (Nov 2011). As the metatarsial beside the bunion was fractured they has to secure it with 3 pins along the top of my foot. This adventure took me to a hospital bed in my living room for 6 weeks with no walking on it for the entire 6 weeks. I have a 7yr old and a 4 yr old. It was hard on everyone... Last week I got 2 pins removed surgically and today I go get the stitches out. Yeah! This whole ordeal has strained my already bad back into hell.
I am going to a private clinic today to get 4 medial branch nerve root blocks. These are diagnostic needles only right now. I've had one already.It turns out my low back MRI was 5 yrs old so they redid it and found that I had Bastrup's Disease. Go figure, never heard of it. It is also referred to as the "Kissing Spine" disease. It explains the increase in pain over the last 3 years (since I broke my foot).
I'll let you know how it goes - I failed the last injection criteria because I didn't get off the bed feeling fantastic....It did take my pain down eventually to about a 2-3 but it took a couple of hours to recover from the trauma of the painful needles (for me, stubbing my toe makes my whole body hurt for 20 mins) he was not satisfied.
Also last week I had a cystoscopy under anesthetic as I have a fistual in my urethra into my vagina. Yeah nice eh? I don't know what that brought up yet but I guess I'll get the news today or tomorrow. They are worried as I have constant blood in my urine and just one kidney left - they dont want to mess around. I also have a prolapse in my vagina from the scar tissue still there from my eptopic uretor from birth. ARGGGG. I am seeing a vagina physiotherapist - who knew they even had that?
Anyway, I still have the Chiari Malformation 6mm that everyone is ignoring and this is my main reason for writing into this group. I need some support with this. I can get into more detail if anyone is interested in my discussion and wants to dialogue with me.
So, 2 years have passed and the chronic pain is still the same we've tried different meds but I still suffer as I know so many of you do. I am sorry for that but comforted by it also.
I am off to start my day with my dad driving me around to hospitals and doctors.....he is such a good man. I wish my husband was in the drivers seat but i've learned that will never happen., Yet another whole issue I still need support with.
Whew, I do not know how many will be glad I am back, just still complaining and keeping on. I look forward to making some contacts back that I had and get some new ones. We really can help each other - I believe that so bear with me.
Lisa (mscrazypain)View Thread
I do take comfort knowing there are other people who feel this way although I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
I hope you are having a nice , comfortable (at least) day.
take care.
LisaView Thread
I'm sure I will find a less strong drug that can help with the pain and still allow me to function normally. I never meant to imply that I didn't take responsibility for my own actions. My hope was that I would find a doctor who would be as interested as I am about getting a good fit with my med and my lifestyle. I am certainly not passing the buck. My doctor just does what he knows how to do to shut me up. I know I am accountable for my actions. I thought you might understand the way I feel mixed up about what pain is which.......is it my chiari malformation, degenerative discs, failed back surgery, etc giving me pain or is it normal to have this withdrawl headache and aching while reducing the meds? I guess I just want an expert that can coach me so I know I am not doing more harm than I need to. I do not need anything to harder that it needs to be.
Thanks for raising the subject about weaning yourself off meds that got me to thinking about it again. The whole family guilt is just a fact of life that I thought you might relate to. I don't pretend to think they know what it is like for chronic pain sufferers - they just love me and they are worried about me (as I am ) It hurts me to know I am hurting them unintentionally thats all......
I hope you are well.View Thread
I too have been on opiates now for a few years. I have a number of factors contributing to my back/leg pain and the progress is slow. I am looking for solutions and seekingout a doctor who can help me. More importantly I think I need to get off the oxycodone and oxycontin. I would feel better emotionally but I do not have a pain doc to change my drugs. My family doc just keeps writing the scripts despite my plea for something else. He said if they are working don't mess with it. They do make me functional and I cannot go without them but this cannot be the only way to live. Maybe it is the pressure I feel from my family about being addicted. Even if I could say I was on something lighter or with a different name I would feel less bad about myself. What is a comparable drug that may not be so mentally harsh? I keep having to take more after a while and I am really afraid. Is the increase in pain (when I do not take it( just due to the withdrawl symptoms? Maybe I should go to detox? Wow how I got myself here I do not know. I have just been trying my best to be a wife, mother, teacher etc....and in doing so I reached for whatever could help me get through the day with the amount of pain I am in.
Any suggestions now I would appreciate.
I am sorry to hear about your family emergency. I know that things in life can build up and make coping much harder. You just do what keeps you comfortable while this passes. Good luck.
LisaView Thread
It has been suggested that I go to medical genetics to really understand my body better. I have been in touch with The Chiari Institute in New York to get another opinion about the thethered cord idea. I am also going to the UBC Badder Clinic and the Spinal Cord Clinic at VGH.
I had an ultrasound which showed parapelvic cysts in my solitary right kidney. What does this mean?
Thanks again.
LisaView Thread
Thanks, good idea about the New York idea. I am just so desperate sometimes I feel like I would do anything.
No I do not have Spina Bifida. I missed the full blown disease in the womb by minutes. I have been told that Chiari and Tethered cords go along with Spina Bifida but to a great degree. I am lucky I didn't get the rest of the symptoms that go along with it.
I have been referred to the Spinal Cord Clinic in Van so you are right.......I will get a second opinion from them and compare it to the docs in New York before I do anything. It is just the wait that scares me. My life has been on hold now for about 1 yr. Unable to work, or live comfortably. If I have to wait another year I will go crazy. I hope you are feeling well today.
Take Care,
LisaView Thread
It is hard for family to see us suffering and they want to help us be strong by motivating us to get on with life. I too hear things like "there is always someone worse off than you....and if you were a horse they would have shot you a long time ago..." Funny -it is not.
I did not know until I started writing on this site how sad and torn up I feel sometimes. I do not feel like that all the time. I am just thankful that there is this place for me that is safe to vent. I try to protect the people that love me. I do not know about you but there major tragedy is what this has done to my marriage. I get so angry that he cannot give me what I need when I need it but it is so complex that he has just shut down. Unless he can step up to the plate and be there for me I am not sure I can take it. That is not fair to him but him pulling away just adds to my stress and makes me feel more isolated. HE is supposed to be my best friend and the one I am supposed to lean on and he aviods me like the plague. I don't blame him I am not very attractive when I am so pathetic. I just want to get better and start being a wife that I can be proud of - right now I am not and it rips me up. He deserves better and so do I. We are so far apart tight now it adds to the hurt.
Again, sorry about the negativity just unloading I guess. It is fear based thinking I know that. I think I need to reread a book called A Return to LOve by Marrianne Williamson. It has gotten me through times like these before. I recommend it.
I hope you have a nice weekend. Take good care.
I think dwelling on your pain (or at least thinking about it) is more healthy that denying it or hiding it cause then we find unhealthy ways to mask it or ignore it that can cause worse living conditions (drugs, gambling, etc..). Dealing with up front and giving it the respect it deserves is a way of sizing it up and dealing with it on your terms not the other way around. I applaud you for your bravery. I myself and glad to hear that you are open about it not running the other way with your head in the sand. Facing it head on and dissecting it is one way to divide and conquer it. Or in our cases at least, finding peace with it. (hence my screen name).....
Hey, there is another web site I have seen that I will send you the link for. It is really good. It is out of the UK but it is called something like conquer pain.....?
I'll be thinking of you.
LisaView Thread
I am glad to hear your visit with the doc was ok. At least there is one less thing to worry about. Do the bumps hurt? Do you see a rheumatologist because you have arthritis already? I am not quite sure what your pain is like that you have to manage....if I recall it is fibromyalsia right? Sorry I can't remember if you have already shared....I get a little caught up in my own stuff.
I haven't seen a rhumetologist yet. I would like to. The private pain doc however did refer me to the UBC bladder clinic to see if my bladder issues are neurological. He also referred me to the Spinal Cord Clinic in Vancouver to a doc that he thinks will be able to help me if indeed it is tethered cord. At least that is some movement in the right direction and it is through the public system so it won't be 600 dollars an hour. It is just going to be a year away....
I hope you have a nice relaxing weekend. It might even be sunny up here in Vancouver this weekend. I always feel a bit better when the sun is shining. I have had 3 of the worse days in a while. My son has t-ball today and hubby is working so I am going to have to suck it up.Take good care. Talk again soon.
LisaView Thread
I hope your pain management regime is working for you.
Today I got a referral to the Vancouver Spinal cord clinic in Vancouver.....the problem is that it is a years waitlist I can't wait that long - I will need a cane or a wheelchair soon. I too go to physio weekly and I walk daily for 1 hour. I guess we all just do our best but I hate being at the mercy of people I don't know or who don't know me. On paper I look like a drug seeking hypocondriac and I have so much self doubt.
I will keep trying however. Ifeel sorry for my family and ashamed that I can't just put mind over matter.
Take good care.View Thread
Hello, I have been diagnosed with a chiari malformation where my cerebellum is 4mm into my spinal column. I have congenital abnormalities in 5 major systems that we have only found out after years of suffering before I have been validated medically. I have had low back pain, leg pain and headaches my whole life but it is unmanageable now.
The Chiari institute in New York has researched a lot of related conditions with Chiari and have found a large number of people have chronic lumbar pain and/or fibromyalgia type pain. I have had information recently that a tethered cord could be the cause of all my strange symptoms my whole life. The traditional definition and measurements of a tethered cord seem to have been altered a bit but it has been proven that Chiari and Tethered cords do go together in spina bifida patients. If they are not treated in childhod the symptoms can go on uner the radar until patients are debilated.
The theory behind this tethered cord is something I want to trust and believe but it would help if I had your expertise check the research and see if it is for real.
I am so desperate that I would do almost anything for relief but I know I can't just keep throwing money at this problem and expect that it will go away. The
Doctors and their research seem reputable enough but they are also the ones getting the money for the surgery to cut it. If you dont mind seeing his video on the website www.chiariinstitute.com I would really appreciate it. I have all the bladder, bowel, back pain, leg pain, numb soles and toes of my feet and no releif from the aching (even lying down.,....it is just always nagging and aching below my belly button. My pain is worse and recreated when I am constipated.
I have a few complications for such an easy diagnosis. I have had a lumbar fusion that has never stopped the hurt and I have degenerative disc disease confirmed. I am 40 and my symptoms have gotten unbareable mostly in the last 3-5 years....even more rapid deterioration in the last 6 months. I am unable to work or be reliable/ healthy / strong enough to be alone with my 2 young adopted boys at times.
Help. Please. No one can tell me why this is happening or help me deal with it. Altough this all sounds too good to be true I do not want to be an idiot just believing every sales man that selling something. If there is something about the TCS then I will explore it. Coming from Canada it will be expensive and I have been throwing a lot of money at this for years.
Welcome and thanks. sorry about the length.....View Thread
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What were the eye-rolling duds of 2011 so far in this great genre?
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Thanks to Chris Cole at the Drone Wars UK website for providing The DEW Line with the most detailed stats we've seen so far about the Royal Air Force's use of armed Reapers in Afghanistan over the last half-decade. Here's a Crown Copyright image showing one of the type on the ground at Kandahar airfield, with a combat load of two Paveway-series precision-guided bombs and four Hellfire missiles.
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A Tale of Two Toussaints: A Catholic Legacy of Haiti
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Review of The Church Ascending by Dr. Diane Moczar
A New Title for a First Book: Review of The Church Ascending by Dr. Diane Moczar. Sophia Press, 2014 This is not a new book by this talented author, but a reprint of her first book, What Every Catholic Wants to Know, originally published in 2006. That work, under the old title, is now out of print. The Church Ascending is Dr. Moczar's first effort … More →
A Review of 'The Church Under Attack'
My favorite popular Catholic historian has done it again! How does she do it? Dr. Diane Moczar seems to have a gift not only for digging up and remembering thousands of details of Catholic history throughout the ages, but she writes with a flair that grabs our interest from the very first words of her book, The Church Under Attack: Five Hundred Years That Split … More →
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The Journey of Joseph Pearce
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'Yo, La Reina': Queen Of Half The Globe
Isabel, or Ysabel, as was the proper spelling during her own time, was an amazing woman. She has been called by many titles: First Lady of the Renaissance, The Godmother of the Americas, The Last Crusader, The Catholic Queen (an official title given to her by the reigning Pope, along with her husband, Fernando, as the "Catholic King"). Dr. Warren H. Carroll, a recent biographer … More →
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Neither Communism Nor Capitalism — a Christian Society
Review of Solzhenitzyn, A Soul in Exile, by Joseph Pearce. Ignatius Press, 2012. Having recently been in a Russian kind of mood after my review of Dr. Warren Carroll's 1917, Red Banners, White Mantle, when I saw this book in my favorite bookstore (at Saint Benedict Center, naturally), I eagerly picked it up and quickly became absorbed in it. Considering the fact that in between … More →
An Army for Our Lady: the Legion of Mary
Army? Why, one may ask, do we use military terms for anything associated with our gentle Queen, like army and legion? Military terms are not new in the Church. Indeed, as children in Catholic school, did we not learn to call the Church on earth "The Church Militant" to distinguish living Catholics still struggling to earn salvation from the "Church Suffering" in Purgatory and the … More →
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A Convergence of World-Shaking Events
Review of 1917: Red Banners, White Mantle by Warren H. Carroll (1981) Christendom Press. Every once in awhile a book will come into one's hands that is impossible to put down, ends too soon, and begs to be read again and again. This little book, at 131 pages (although the print is rather small) is such a one. It is well footnoted and a riveting … More →
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Seven Charming and Sweet Stories of Saint Luke
Review of Seven Stories for Christmas (e-book) by Henry von Blumenthal. Being a retired librarian of a "certain" age, I have resisted e-books because I love the feel of a real book in my hands. Here I reveal, however, that I am happy to have been persuaded to read this lovely and charming little e-book available from Amazon.com for $2.99. It is only fifty-seven pages … More →
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The Priest, the Sister, the Statue — and a Louisiana Connection
Catholics know and love Our Lady of Fatima. We are familiar with the miraculous happenings of 1917 when Our Blessed Lady appeared to the three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal. We know the promises of Our Lady, we know the prayers that she taught the children, Lucia, Jacinta and little Francisco. We know of the great "Miracle of the Sun" … More →
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