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Come on - be a man and shake the canister while you're using it to keep the fuel blended. Sorry - couldn't resist...
"Now, when you have a mixture of propane and n-butane, you don't have two boiling points, you have only one and it will lie between the two temperature given above, depending on the ratio of the two components of the liquid. Specifically, it depends on the molar weighted fraction."I don't mean to be too blunt, but this is completely wrong. You do indeed have two very different boiling points. That is the very basic premise of refining oil. If a variety of combined hydrocarbons had a singular boiling point, the entire distillation process would not function and you would never have the two separate products in the first place.. No amount of mixing will ever change the boiling point of either component. They will always work off of their own unique curve.
So Jesse, you are saying that crude oil can be heated to the boiling point of some particular chemical, octane say, and then that chemical and no others will boil off?How do you think mixtures of chemicals such as naptha are produced?By mixing together all the constituent chemicals after they have been separated?
If you use a propane/butane mixture at high temperatures like 50 F or whatever, will it maintain the propane/butane ratio more than if you use it close to 30 F?The "accepted wisdom" is the opposite - if you use it close to minimum temp then most of the propane will be used up first so you're stuck with just butane which then doesn't work so good.If the percent propane drops as you use it regardless of temperature, then the only thing that will work is to use a full canister if you're close to the minimum temperature.
"...Now, when you have a mixture of propane and n-butane, you don't have two boiling points, you have only one and it will lie between the two temperature given above, depending on the ratio of the two components of the liquid. Specifically, it depends on the molar weighted fraction."Sorry, I still don't see it except as a special case, ie eutectic. This defines the composition of the gas ratio's in a two part mixture at any given temperture/pressure and can be calculated. In a closed system, NONE of the components actually boils, soo, I do understand what you are trying to say. But, this contradicts what you stated earlier:"The vapour pressure vs temperature of butane is a smooth curve, 0C just happens to be 1013mB. Similar smooth curve for propane, just higher pressure at any given temperature. For any blend of propane/butane, the partial pressure of each component is the same smooth curve of the pure companent just reduced by its mole weighted fraction. The net result is that the ratio of the two partial pressures is almost independent of temperature, meaning that the ratio of propane/butane in the gas mixture is almost independent of temperature.The ratio of propane/butane in the gas state depends on the ratio of propane/butane in the liquid state (vapour pressure), but NOT on temperature.So, if the GAS is say 50% propane at 10C, it will still be 50% propane at -10C"Temperature and pressure are HIGHLY and DIRECTLY related, not independent of eachother. To say that the composition of the gas in the canister is the same at 10C and -10C is incorrect. The pressure exerted on the can, from each component, can be calculated for each temp. However you are correct in that the propane will burn first, but not exclusivlely, in most canisters. Above the boiling point of the n-butane, it will add a considerable portion to any flame. But they will still form a balance at any given pressure (or temperature if you prefer, nearly indistinguishable.) However, below the boiling point of n-butane, it will add only a small amount to the flame. This assumes a wide open jet, of course, as in Bob's case...not enough to burn. " A new canister with 30% propane and 70% n-butane as liquid will have around 65% propane in the gas mixture, regardless of the temperature."This is incorrect. At temps below the boiling point of n-butane, we might see a lot more propane. At temps above that we might see a lot less, since there WILL be a difference between raw vapour pressure at -10C and raw vapour pressure at 10C for n-butane. (Since propane is always assumed to be at or above the boiling point, I am ignoring that and calling it a one. We just add a bit of pressure to a highly compressible gas/or vapour pressure if you prefer to look at it that way.)Again, temperature and pressure are related. The molar fraction of vapour pressure will only change slightly for propane. Burn it at those two temps, I will garantee you that in the lower temp case the propane will be the primary component and the canister will burn normally at the higher temp. The open valve, of course, reverts the system to a more STP like system, I sort of doubt there is ever any actual boiling inside the cannister, though.
Ok, here are some figures.1) At 10C, the vapour pressure of pure propane is 6350mB, n-butane is 1480mB.Assume a new canister with 30% propane, 70% n-butane by weight ie. in liquid form.The mole fraction of the liquid propane is 36% (propane molar weight is 44, butane is 58). With this mixture, the vapour pressure of the propane is 0.36 x 6350 = 2290mB, the butane is 950mB, add then together to get a total pressure of 3240mB.The mole fraction of propane in the gas phase is 2290/3240 = 71% and the fraction by weight is 65%.2) Now repeat at -10C.The vapour pressure of pure propane is now 3450mB, n-butane is 700mB.Assuming the same 30% propane, 70% n-butane by weight so the mole fraction of the liquid propane is still 36%. The vapour pressure of the propane is now 0.36 x 3450 = 1240mB, the butane is 440mB, add then together to get a total pressure of 1680mB.Note that the individual vapour pressures and the total pressure are all around half what they were at 10C.The mole fraction of propane in the gas phase is now 1240/1680 = 74% and the fraction by weight is 68%.At -10C the total pressure in the canister is 52% of what it was at 10C, but the fraction of propane in the gas phase has only changed from 65% to 68%I rest my case.
Stuart is right. All un-named persons arguing with him are less right (they are getting some things correct, but not everything).I'll try in a separate post to explain the concepts. I thought Stuart did a good job, but then I've had rather a lot of classes and work experience in this area and he's speaking my language, (give or take the British spellings).Not to be annoyingly pedantic, but like when my MD wife's medical opinion differs from some poster's, maybe it's helpful to state quals: BS Chem Eng, UC Berkeley; 23 years of professional engineering on scores of Chevron, Shell and Tesoro facilities including a dozen refineries.
As Roger listed:Options (which may be all used together):* use a canister which is labelled 'isobutane/propane'* use an inverted canister stove, with the canister inverted* put the canister in a dish of luke-warm water* put a windshield around the stove so the canister gets warm to the touch (but NOT 'hot')and of course:* subscribe to BPL and read our many comprehensive technical articles on all aspects of this subject.which I would modify:- Pretty darn hot water is also fine. In my BPing hot tub, I have to immerse the propane tank in the hot tub, 40C/104F which isn't even a hot day in Phoenix and their propane tanks don't go *boom*. All the factory-filled canisters are good to at least 140F and so are mine, unless I've consciously opted to overfill them for some reason (and then I mark them very clearly).and to which I would add:- a metal heat conductor to conduct heat from the flame to the canister. Someone suggested copper wire and while that is compact, easily formed, and absorbs heat nicely from the flame, its round cross-section doesn't contact the canister very well. I'd suggest a strip of aluminum (Ohhh!, we could argue about how to pronounce that!), about stop-sign gauge, 10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, hammered to curvative of the canister. Secure it with nylon thread or a hose clamp. If you want to deal with sticky white goo, get a little heat-sink compound and put it between the canister and your aluminum bar.- a wider pot (better yet, painted black) will radiant more heat downwards and help keep the canister at temperature. Alas, like many of these hints, it mostly heats the TOP of the canister and therefore inefficiently heats the liquid fuel itself.
I've done the strip of aluminum which works. Just use 18 gauge galvanized wire, through holes in aluminum strip, bent to the right length so it holds the strip tight to the canister.But someone had a better idea, which they got from some book, which I tried - 1.5 foot length of copper or aluminum wire - solid core - maybe #16 or #18. Wrap it around canister once and then up into flame.
OK. I give up. Believe what you will...I believe in distilation, myself.
+1 to another discussion of Boyle's Law on BPL.
First off, why does it SEEM like propane boils off first ONLY at cold temps? Because at >50F, you don't miss the propane. More of its mole fraction (and weight fraction) boil off regardless of ambient temperature, but you don't have a problem maintaining a vapor pressure of the remaining mix of fuel if the liquid fuel stays above about 30F.Therefore, if your mental model is of discrete boiling points (all propane boils and then butane starts or no butane boiling below 0C), that model seems to be confirmed by lousy performance below 0C and okay performance above 10C.Now, onto a parallel example that hopefully you have experience with: flambe'ing brandied pears or plantains in a fry pan. You've got a hot pan. You add some brandy. Enough alcohol vaporizes that you can light the vapors on fire and bring a flaming pan to the table and impress your dinner guests. It isn't ONLY ethanol boiling off, but water was too. You can see this in how little liquid remains (brandy is only 40% alcohol, most of it is water). And, even though a lot of alcohol and water have boiled off, some of each still remain. You can still taste alcohol in the dessert, despite what we say to rationalize serving it to children.A more controlled, instrumented, parallel example: My uncle owned a distillery, making European-style brandies from fruit wines (plum, peach, apricot and, once, an ill-advised experiment with kiwi fruit). The wine is put into a "distillation column" in ChemE speak also called a "retort" by chemists and a "reflux column" by winemakers. As heat is applied, an ever changing mix of water vapor and alcohol vapors (with various flavor elements and oddball aldehydes and ketones) boils off. At first, the vapors coming off are relatively high in alcohol because (1) alcohol is more volatile and (2) there is a decent mole fraction of alcohol in the liquid (10-15%). As the distillation progresses, the temperature of the boiling liquid increases as the mole fraction of alcohol decreases. Just by looking at a thermometer, the distiller can know precisely what "proof" is coming off at the moment. There's water coming off at all times - you never get 100% alcohol. There's alcohol coming off at all times, too, but in ever-decreasing amounts. He'd cut off the distillation while there was still more alcohol in the vapors than in the original wine because he wanted to avoid some higher-boiling, bitter flavor compounds, but that doesn't effect us with our stoves.The bit to focus on in this example is that as a larger fraction of the more volatile component (alcohol/propane) boils off, less remains in the liquid phase. When the liquid phase contains less of the volatile component, the temperature needed to boil the liquid mixture rises. This is bad in cold weather operation.
"another discussion of Boyle's Law on BPL"Bruce, what did Boyle have for a base weight?--B.G.--
Rather than try to explain the chemistry (again) in a single paragraph, can I refer everyone to our full-length technical article (by Stuart and myself) on the subject?Temperature Effects on Gas CanisterI believe that what I wrote in this thread was completely consistent with what the article says.CheersPS: and what's the matter with distilling Kiwi fruit? Enquiring minds want to know.
Roger, the explanation by you and Stuart make it sound like a university physics lecture. David's explanation makes it sound like something he could not admit to until after the Statute of Limitations had run out.--B.G.--
Roger: I find no fault or errors in your post or the full-length article and I, personally, appreciated all the details and data in the article. I was trying to give a real-world example that people might be able to relate to because it seems some folks got the overview of distillation without spending two semesters modelling it in detail. The overview being close to this: the most volatile component boils off before the next most volatile component boils off. That overview explains many distillation processes adequately (fractionating air, for instance) or even refining petroleum **as long as you don't get deeply into the details or purity of products**.In practice, those tall columns in oil refineries are used to give a better separation between fractions (remember our canisters are but one stage compared to scores in a distillation column) and even those tall columns don't achieve perfect separations or "cuts" between fractions. The heavier fractions within gasoline are also the lighter fractions of diesels (hydrocarbons with 11 to 15 carbons, for instance). And so on, through various fuel oils and on through the asphalt fraction. Think of a bell-shaped distribution that has a certain midpoint, but a wide range of individual chemicals of wide-ranging boiling points. But an overview of "first fuel gases boil off, and then gasoline, then diesel, etc" is accurate so far as it goes. All of which, I know you know, Roger but I include it here for others.He never let anyone try the Kiwi fruit brandy, so it must have been pretty bad. Are orange-flavored liquors fermented from orange juice, or just flavored with oranges? I can imagine the highly acidic juice and/or some of the volatile elements causing a disagreeable taste in the wine/brandy. Are there wines made from kiwi juice? I'll ask my winemaker friend up here next time I see him.
"David's explanation makes it sound like something he could not admit to until after the Statute of Limitations had run out."Must be a "Breaking Bad" reference : )
"Are there wines made from kiwi juice? I'll ask my winemaker friend up here next time I see him."Yes, kiwifruit wine has been made in New Zealand for quite some time, for at least 30 years, but it's not that common. I tried some a long time ago and didn't like it. Life's too short to drink bad wine.
Thank you, David. This was exactly what I was driving at. BTW, I worked in Chemical Engineering for over ten years at a large university, though we changed the department name several years ago.
So, uh, like what brand of like fuel should I totally use without issues with boiling off or loosing elasiticity or whatever you guys were like talking about? I guess the Coleman canisters are like, "not amazing"?
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Business School student leads NSW delegation to UN Youth conference
02 Jul 2012
A United Nations youth conference to be held in Melbourne later this month, will "show kids that they can make a difference" says the leader of the New South Wales delegation, University of Sydney Business School student, Karen Chau.
The theme for Australia's largest annual residential youth gathering this year will be 'striving for justice' and organisers say it will tackle the challenges of opening young minds to the way that justice underpins their everyday lives.
More than 100 mainly senior high school students from across Australia as well as New Zealand, Japan and Tonga will take part in what is formally known as the UN Youth Australia National Conference.
The week-long program, described by organisers as "academically stimulating and experientially rich", will canvas such themes as global justice, corporate social responsibility and human rights.
Conference excursions will include visits to social enterprise and non-government organisations operating in Melbourne.
The leader of the NSW delegation, Karen Chau, is being sponsored to the conference by the Business School where she is studying for a Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies) degree.
"The UN Youth National Conference is a fantastic and valuable educational opportunity for students," Karen said. "Importantly, it allows young people to learn from each other."
"The University of Sydney Business School believes that Conferences like this one, provide delegates with a tremendous opportunity to learn and to share their views in a positive way," said Nigel Smith who manages the School's Student and Academic Services.
UN Youth Australia encourages young people to work towards a greater understanding of global issues and seeks to educate them on the United Nations' structure, functions and future.
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Heavy gunfire is being heard in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square as pro-democracy demonstrators continue to defy curfew in the Egyptian capital.
Ambulances were seen heading to the area on Thursday morning and at least two fatalities were reported.
Protesters from the pro-democracy and pro-government camps fought pitched battles on Wednesday in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak for the past nine days.
At least three people were reported to have died and more than 1,500 others injured in those clashes, according to officials and doctors quoted by the Reuters news agency.
An Al Jazeera correspondent, reporting from just outside Tahrir Square late on Wednesday night, said dozens of pro-Mubarak supporters erected barricades on either side of a road, trapping the pro-democracy supporters. They were gathering stones, breaking streetlights and using balaclavas to cover their faces, apparently in preparation for a fresh standoff with the pro-democracy crowd.
Our correspondent said local residents thought the men preparing for the standoff were police officers but the claim could not be independently confirmed.
Just hours earlier, an Al Jazeera online producer reporting from near Tahrir Square said: "Someone - a few people actually - were dropping homemade bombs into the square from the buildings surrounding it."
Gunshots were also regularly ringing out of the square.
Army standing byWitnesses said the military allowed thousands of pro-Mubarak supporters, armed with sticks and knives, to enter the square. Opposition groups said Mubarak had sent in thugs to suppress anti-government protests.
One of our correspondents said the army seemed to be standing by and facilitating the clashes.
Though initially put on the backfoot by the sudden attack, determined anti-government protesters looked to be winning the battle against Mubarak supporters.
Witnesses also said that pro-Mubarak supporters were dragging away protesters they had managed to grab and handing them over to security forces.
Salma Eltarzi, an anti-government protester, told Al Jazeera there were hundreds of wounded people. "There are no ambulances in sight, and all we are using is Dettol," she said. "We are all so scared."Aisha Hussein, a nurse, said dozens of people were being treated at a makeshift clinic in a mosque near the square.She described a scene of "absolute mayhem", as protesters first began to flood into the clinic.
"People are coming in with multiple wounds. All kinds of contusions. We had one guy who needed stitches in two places on his face. Some have broken bones."
Mustafa Hussein, a physician who was treating the injured at a makeshift hospital near Tahrir Square, told Al Jazeera that most of the injured protesters "coming in today are suffering from head injuries resulting from rocks being thrown at them". Meanwhile, another Al Jazeera correspondent said men on horseback and camels ploughed into the crowds as army personnel stood by.
At least six riders were dragged from their beasts, beaten with sticks by the protesters and taken away with blood streaming down their faces.One of them was dragged away unconscious, with large blood stains on the ground at the site of the clash.The worst of the fighting was just outside the world famous Egyptian Museum, which was targeted by looters last week.
Concrete blocks
Al Jazeera's correspondent said a group of pro-government protesters took over army vehicles. They also took control of a nearby building and used the rooftop to throw concrete blocks, stones, and other objects.Soldiers surrounding the square took cover from flying stones, and the windows of at least one army vehicle were broken. Some troops stood on tanks and appealed for calm but did not otherwise intervene.
Many of the pro-Mubarak supporters raised slogans like "Thirty Years of Stability, Nine Days of Anarchy".
Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton, also in Cairo, said that security guards have also been seen amongst the pro-Mubarak supporters, and it may be a precursor to the feared riot police arriving on the scene.Dutton added that a journalist with the Al-Arabiya channel was stabbed during the clashes.
Fighting took place around army tanks deployed around the square, with stones bouncing off the armoured vehicles.
Several groups were involved in fist fights, and some were using clubs. The opposition also said many among the pro-Mubarak crowd were policemen in plain clothes.
"Members of security forces dressed in plain clothes and a number of thugs have stormed Tahrir Square," three opposition groups said in a statement.Mohamed ElBaradei, a prominent opposition figure, accused Mubarak of resorting to scare tactics. Opposition groups have reportedly also seized police identification cards amongst the pro-Mubarak demonstrators.
"I'm extremely concerned, I mean this is yet another symptom, or another indication, of a criminal regime using criminal acts," ElBaradei said.
"My fear is that it will turn into a bloodbath," he added, calling the pro-Mubarak supporters a "bunch of thugs".ElBaradei has also urged the army to intervene."I ask the army to intervene to protect Egyptian lives," he told Al Jazeera, adding he said it should intervene "today" and not remain neutral.Determined protesters
Despite the clashes, anti-government protesters seeking Mubarak's immediate resignation said they would not give up until Mubarak steps down.
Khalil, in his 60s and holding a stick, blamed Mubarak supporters and undercover security for the clashes.
"But we will not leave," he told Reuters. "Everybody stay put."
Mohammed el-Belgaty, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, told Al Jazeera the "peaceful demonstrations in Tahrir Square have been turned into chaos".
"The speech delivered by President Mubarak was very provocative as he used very sentimental words."Since morning, hundreds of these paid thugs started to demonstrate pretending to be supporting the President. Now they came to charge inside Tahrir Square armed with batons, sticks and some knives.
"Mubarak is asking the people to choose between him or chaos."Ahead of Wednesday's clashes, supporters of the president staged a number of rallies around Cairo, saying Mubarak represented stability amid growing insecurity, and calling those who want his departure "traitors.""Yes to Mubarak, to protect stability," read one banner in a crowd of 500 gathered near state television headquarters, about 1km from Tahrir Square.A witness said organisers were paying people $17, to take part in the pro-Mubarak rally, a claim that could not be confirmed.Other pro-Mubarak demonstrations occurred in the Mohandeseen district, as well as near Ramses Square.
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Not once but twice does the Cold War espionage docudrama Farewell show Ronald Reagan (Fred Ward) watching The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Both times, he's watching Lee Marvin's titular baddie get shot, but a more sledgehammer-to-head clip would be the film's famous suggestion to "print the legend." It's advice Farewell heeds well, at least when it comes to its tragic, victimized hero.
Sergei Gregoriev (Serbian director Emir Kusturica) is a KGB officer in 1981 Russia, disenchanted with Communism and a winsome Francophile thanks to a long-ago stint in Paris. Making friends with French businessman Pierre Froment (Guillaume Canet, another director and occasional thespian), Gregoriev starts slipping him highly sensitive information, which makes its way to DST French Intelligence and eventually the Reagan White House.
In the film's (perhaps hyperbolic) estimation, this incident, not widely known until recently, was a key part of the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., and Gregoriev was a martyr who only wanted a better life for his Western-obsessed son and who felt terrible about having a mistress. The real-life man the character is based on wasn't quite so cuddly: He tried to kill said mistress, and did kill a militiaman who witnessed said attempted murder. But Farewell scrubs Gregoriev clean, with Kusturica playing him with the kind of haunted gravitas that telegraphs the horrid fate to come. (Kustirica's calm screen presence both here and in Patrice Leconte's The Widow of Saint-Pierre is the opposite of the manic films he directs, including the great Underground.)
Sanitized though it is, Farewell has an attractive restraint, bordering on dispassion, that makes for compelling viewing. Director Christian Carion takes the greatest pleasure in crafting an alterna-world spy movie that depicts, of course, how spies really work. Our double agents aren't boozing Bonds but average Joes; our globe-trotting locations aren't scenic hot spots but drab Moscow locales.
Farewell moves at the funereal pace of Kusturica's doomed apostate, coming alive only when Western music suddenly intrudes into the soundtrack; the film's high mark is a brief scene with Gregoriev's son rocking out to a smuggled Queen tape on a smuggled Walkman, in thrall to American excess.
The chief drawback is Gregoriev's French, allegedly tortured accomplice, a blank cypher whose disapproving wife (Alexandra Maria Lara) is no more than a mere nag and who never sufficiently conveys the thrills and terror of being a nobody helping to erode a major world power. With his character at least, the filmmakers neglected to print the legend.
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everytime i try i get this message:
HTTP 404 - File not found We're sorry, the page you are looking for is no longer available or the site you came from has an invalid link in their database.
Any help?
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[Edited by PWizard, 7/23/2013 6:47:17 PM]
And i had deactivated my AV/Firewall.
I will try again later. I am not whinning. I am just confused :/
[Edited by dust942, 7/24/2013 2:55:15 PM]And no AVG. Kaspersky IS2013 XP/ and tried from another pc (windows 7 with pure -kaspersky)
[Edited by dust942, 7/24/2013 2:56:30 PM]I tried after posting the last message to the forum to return with the upper game title link to the trainer page and i was able to download the trainer! So its ok but i really think that its a problem (maybe) from server side.
Firefox (last version) and with AV on.
Just informing. either way. Lets Expand some Empires
And really thank you Ceallaach for sharing your ''magic''
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they say you shud uninstall AV and firewall, DO NOT EVER DO THAT, its not what the problem is, i use this trainer and i got AV and firewall running and the trainer work fine, you may have some other crap on your pc that prevent you from downloading this trainer
Just because your AV doesn't have a problem with downloading the trainers or using them doesn't mean other peoples wont.
AVs with realtime scanning or those that monitor browser activity can interfere with websites/downloading if they consider them to be a threat.
Disabling such options should help, if it doesn't then said persons AV probably sucks and they should get a different one.


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53-year-old Robert Dellinger hid his face while returning home from jail after his family posted $250,000 cash bail to free him. Dellinger, a former Fortune 500 executive, is charged with killing a couple and their unborn child.
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — An Albuquerque woman who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge in a fatal collision in January with a cyclist has been sentenced to 90 days home arrest.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Carol Svinarich apologized to 55-year-old cyclist Scott "Dwane" Lane's widow at a sentencing hearing Friday, but Lane's widow says the apology was a ploy to get a less severe sentence.
Svinarich was ordered to pay a $300 fine and $17,560 restitution to the family for medical and other costs.
She had pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of careless driving.
Svinarich also will be required to wear an ankle bracelet that can sense alcohol from perspiration during her home arrest.
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I'd like to get 100 sheets in ISO 400 and 200 sheets in ISO 100 in 5x7 and 4x5, then 20-ish rolls of ISO 400 and 10 of ISO 100 in 120. It would cost right around $600 for Arista EDU Ultra. Totals: 600 sheets of film and 30 rolls, totaling 960 shots. That would take me through at least six projects I'd think, four in large format and at least two in 120. So it would likely last the year or more.
I'll likely buy one of each of the large format, and ten of the ISO 400 120. It'll take it down to a number my husband won't gripe about, plus it'll allow me to rethink what films I want to use for the next projects. It should get me through the three that I have in mind right now.


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US Boycotts UN Debate on Israeli Settlements
Officials 'Troubled' That Topic Is Even Up for Discussion
The Obama Administration is annoyed that the UN Human Rights Council is planning to debate the issue of settlements in the occupied West Bank and their impact on Palestinians in the ever-shrinking non-settlement portion of the occupied territory so soon ahead of his visit to Israel.
The White House has repeatedly promised that the Palestinian issue will not be brought up during Obama's visit to Israel, the first of his presidency, and the focus is expected to be purely on which upcoming wars, if any, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can talk President Obama into joining.
The US has announced that it will boycott the UN debate on the settlements, and also said it was "extremely troubling" that the council would even hold a hearing, saying it proved "bias" against Israel.
The debate will center on a January report which termed Israel's decisions to expand settlements in the area as "creeping annexation." Building settlements in occupied territory is illegal under international law.
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Look.., USA government or Israeli government.., what's different.., they are partner if not partners. But wait until Obama gets back home.., you will see more war.., as promised.., is going to be messy.., said by Obama.
Conclusion: the Obama administration supports the Israeli squatters in the Left Bank and East Jerusalem who annex and steal land and property. What else can anyone conclude from Obama's words and actions, even if he and his administration are too cowardly to say so? In fact the whole US establishment (starting with Congress) thinks the same: Israel from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean. But they're too conniving and false to say so. What to do with the Palestinians, though?
I find it utterly disgusting that the Palestinian issue will not be brought up during Obama's visit. It proves he is not interested in peace.
Itis a pity he has some african blood but a war criminal like all "Presidents before him.
"They hate us fro our freedom"
It isn't the meeting that proves the bias, although if you look at the disproportionate targeting of Israel, the previous conduct of UNHRC committees and the countries presiding over it then….
Irrespective of that, the report itself is a sham. Politically, historically, legally. http://jcpa.org/article/biased-prejudiced-and-unp…
The only sham here is Zack.
You hasbara isn't wanted here Zack. Move along…
You have been raised to be a racist boor.
>> Irrespective of that, the report itself is a sham.
Yeah right, because it ignores all those settlements the Palestinians are building right? Oh wait…
BTW. Point 2 from your hasbra link questions the notion that "from the outset, based on a premise that considers Israel's settlement policy to be illegal. "
This has already been established by the ICJ and even the US State Department.
Listen Zack, a word for the wise; immaterial how much bull biscuits you and other hasbara megaphone operatives have to throw, the shi**y little state will ceae to exist as you know it now or even altogether and nobody in this universe will shed a tear.
I see some of your correspondents are using a word you may not be familiar with, and I'm here to help. So …
"Hasbara: A word which constitutes a confession that the person using it hasn't the slightest idea what he's talking about and is resolutely determined not to let facts get in the way of a good fun tarring and feathering."
Quentin you are almost there….
There is no peace plan. Its all a big sham, a con, a lie. They are just buying time until the Israelis steal all of the land.
The Palestinians will be ran into Jordan and ironically Syria.
The goal is "Greater Israel" which is twice the size of current Israel.
>> I see some of your correspondents are using a word you may not be familiar wit
I see that the hasbarats are doing what they do best, making up their own factoids on the fly – as they do with everything else.
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Justin Bieber's Hamster Dies
As predicted by the celebrity-policing California Hamster Association, the furry friend Justin Bieber handed off to a fan during a concert did not last too long in her care. Tori McClure shared news of Pac the hamster's demise on Twitter, stirring up a storm of 140-character compassion from Beliebers who apparently found their 19-year-old idol's decision to take a rodent onto an arena stage with him then hand it off to a screaming stranger in the crowd to have been an act of selfless kindness. The hamster association, on the other hand, spoke out against Bieber at the time, blasting him as a callous pet owner.
"They say PAC probably won't make it much longer. He's like an old man. My feelings couldn't be more hurt ):," wrote McClure on Tuesday. "But they also said 'on the bright side he got to live a healthy lavish life of a popstar, not many hamsters coulda been the Biebs' #feelings." Um, yeah. Pac was probably the president of the Hamster Bieber Fan Club at Petco before Justin bought him. Oy.
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Due to work reasons I am only able to make a trip to Cambodia during August. I was wondering what the weather is like then and how torrential the rain will be. I've read reports ranging from "it's the best time of year. discount hostels/tours, less tourists, and the best time to see Ankor dust free and lush with green vegetation."
to "Leeches in puddles, downpour with no visibility, roads destroyed."
I expect variation depending on the weather. I will be only traveling on the main road from Phnom Pehn to Siem Reap (and of course to Ankor).
Any Ankor photos/advice for August?
Also, what is Sambor Prei Kuk like, worth a visit?
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The interview, which comes from the Silicon Valley Historical Association, was first spotted by The Loop after YouTube channel EverySteveJobsVideo uploaded the video on Tuesday.
As seen above, Jobs realized even in 1994 that his actions and innovations were fleeting at best in the fast moving field technology.
Jobs likened his contribution as a layer of sediment in a growing mountain. From someone standing on the surface, it's impossible to see and appreciate every individual layer, except for "that rare geologist." It seems that Jobs viewed his legacy as part of a larger collective building toward a higher goal, not a single product or innovation.


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$104.99 - $359.99
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Pros: Awesome-tasting coffee; Easy to use, sort of.
Cons: Too many fiddly bits to clean; "Are the Jerries bombing my kitchen?"
I'm somewhat of a coffee aficionado, I'll admit it. I can totally appreciate the difference between Sumatran and Colombian coffee. I have an old hand-cranked burr grinder and a French coffee press, and I can turn out a phenomenal cup of coffee when the mood strikes.
But on the average Tuesday morning, I just don't have time for that nonsense. I throw Folgers in the Mr. Coffee, douse it with cream and sugar, and off I go. I'd really like to have a fresh-ground mug of coffee...but that extra bit of sleep-time is precious to me.
Reason and purchase
So, when my wife came back from a visit to my dad's house, and raved about his coffee pot, I listened. Seemed he had a pot that ground the beans and dispensed them right at the time of brewing, and it also seemed that the coffee was magically delicious...or at least she said so.
So, the summer passed, and every morning as I yucked through my Folger's the thought of a grind'n brew pot stayed in the back of my head. Then through a combination of coupons and sales, my wife came home with a Cuisinart DGB-550 coffee maker that she'd gotten for half-price...in the neighborhood of $60. Not too bad, especially since our current pot had been on life support for a month or so.
The DGB-550 has a grinder in its top half -- not a fancy burr grinder but the standard whirling-blades type of grinder. It has a 12-cup glass carafe, and your choice of eternal mesh filter, or paper basket-style. There is a clock, and a programmable bit to start coffee in the morning, and another one to keep the stuff hot for however long you need, from zero minutes to four hours. There's a water filter the size of two pieces of gum, as well.
Using this pot is relatively straightforward, except where it isn't. I'll explain. Basically, you put beans in the grinder, water in the reservoir, a filter in the basket, and you hit "go." Specifically, you open the top, remove the grinder, remove the top half of the grinder, put beans in, and reassemble all of that. You then pour water in the top. Okay, you can close the top. Now you pull out the basket. Wait, you push a button hiding flush on the left side, and the basket springs out at you and whips around a corner. You then remove the basket...then the basket lid, and you put in a filter, replace the lid, replace the assembly in its carrier, and rotate-then-push the whole shebang back in until it clicks into place.
Then press the start button.
Then you take cover, because an air-raid siren goes off in your kitchen. I'm not kidding, it's that loud. If you program this thing to start at 6:30am, you're waking up at 6:30am. The actual grind only takes a few seconds, but then I think that the pot uses the whirling blades to blow the ground beans up and over a ledge and into the basket. Whatever, it emits a rising howl that lasts seemingly forever before it winds down.
Then the pot brews the coffee as any other pot would, and it beeps a few times when done.
After brewing, drinking, going to work and coming home again, one comes to the best part of the experience: cleanup. This coffee maker needs to be cleaned out after every pot -- something I generally did before, so not a big deal. Or at least, not a big deal with the old pot. That one had, let's see, the carafe, the carafe lid, and the basket. That's three parts to clean. The DGB-550 has seven. Yes, seven. The carafe, the carafe lid, the basket, the basket lid, the filter (if you use the mesh forever-filter), the grinder cup and the grinder cup lid.
I'll bet you're thinking "yeah, sure, the manual says to clean it, but forget that, I never cleaned my old pot, and it made the coffee taste better." First of all, that's gross -- mold doesn't taste better. Second of all, one look inside this pot after brewing will tell you otherwise. As other reviewers have said, the steam from brewing condenses inside the grinding cup, and turns the leftover coffee powder into a mush caked on the moving parts. On the good side, all of these pieces can be chucked into the dishwasher.
What's more, the manual specifically cautions against letting water get into the grinder motor...but the high point of the coffee maker where steam naturally collects and condenses is in the clear dome over the grinder.
After all of the foregoing, you might wonder if any of it is worthwhile. I say it is, because the coffee that comes out of the DGB-550 is really good. The beans are ground to the exact coarseness that is needed for this pot, and with a consistency that I can never achieve with my hand grinder. Also, in about the same time as it takes to make Folger's, this pot makes fresh-ground premium coffee -- and it makes it piping hot. In fact, it cools down to optimum drinking temperature about halfway to work, and I have a 20-mile drive. I've been using this coffee maker daily for about three weeks, and I haven't had a bad pot of coffee yet.
So overall, I would say this: If you're fine drinking Maxwell House or gas station coffee, or if you like to let your pot go unwashed until the glass carafe is black, this coffee maker might not be for you.
If you value the taste of a cup of fresh-ground, fresh-brewed coffee in the morning, and you are a tad-bit obsessive-compulsive about cleaning your coffee pot, and you can get a good deal on it, this pot is for you.


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If you run a business, you run an operation. Even a one man band has a set of business processes that he uses: a way of contacting customers, a method for handling invoices or a mechanism for producing quotes. Wherever there is an organisation their are processes and it follows that wherever there are processes there are things that could be made to work better.
To do this you need the help of a Process Ninja; a person who appears in your business, removes all your organisational pain, makes things operate like clockwork then vanishes. A true hero, a guy who is to geekdom what Superman is to clean living.
They are hard men to track down, but they have five rules they live by. If you follow their principles you too can improve your organisation:
1. Find inner clarity
All processes do things, they have a purpose, a raison d'être. That might be to mend broken arms or to let people know how much tax they owe.
But people are rarely clear what that purpose is:
- Are they trying to solve a customer query or cross sell a product?
- Are they trying to make cars or keep a factory running efficiently?
- Are they trying to train people in sales or sell more?
Because they are not crystal clear what their purpose is then their processes will become confused, convoluted slow and expensive. A Ninja will clarify what that purpose is and design the processes around it.
2. Strike at the gaps
We can all optimise and improve performance; that is no great skill, the problem is that we optimise around the wrong thing, we optimise around ourselves.
- We build "centres of excellence"
- We engage in internal turf wars
- We stock pile to make ourselves look efficient
It is in our nature to improve our own position and performance but that isn't process improvement. People who point optimise around themselves only mess up the process for everyone else. To be a Ninja look at the hand-offs between people and departments. Optimise around your purpose. Work on the gaps.
3. Drink tea
We love to get into a good fight. How often have you…
- Become involved in some internal slagging match?
- Copied your boss in on a reply all e-mail?
- Concluded that everybody outside your department is an idiot?
I do it all the time. I am so good at it that I once received the feedback that I "use e-mail like a machine gun". It might have made me feel better, I might even have won the battle but I only make any progress when I sit down and talk to my customers and understand them. Ninjas talk and listen to people. This is always best done over a cup of tea.
4. Expect the worst
Processes rely on people to work them, often technically skilled people.
- People who can understand the legalities of insurance policies
- People who know how to spot a heart attack
- People who can fix your PC from the end of a phone 5,000 miles away
You can make a choice when relying on other people, either: expect them to do the right thing at the right time all of the time, or expect them to make mistakes, they are human. We all pride ourselves on employing the best, most gifted capable people in the world. We might even be right, but there is a reason why Steve Jobs died a very very rich man.
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It wasn't because the iPhone is tricky to use.
A Ninja realises people are not infallible so spends time making processes simple.
5. Do the unexpected
Anybody with any sense will tell you to manage the people
- Give them SMART objectives
- Hold them accountable
- Incentivise them
What a Ninja knows is that the minute you start to "performance manage" your people is the minute you start to drive a whole host of defensive and unhelpful behaviours. People will start to lie, cheat and deceive to cover up the issues that are outside their control. Nobody operates in a vacuum. Processes and people are inextricably interlinked. So manage the process.
Identify failures then fix them, and provide the right tools, and train your staff, but most of all learn from them.
Ninjas improve the process, they don't blame the people.
The biggest secret of all
What a process Ninja really knows is that process improvement isn't about tools or techniques or data or charts. Process improvement is simply about people. If you help your people to improve their processes rather than creating division and blame then you will succeed and your staff will thank you for it.
They might even buy you a mask.
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West Seattle businesses: Happy anniversary, Wyatt's JewelersApril 26, 2014 at 12:51 pm | In West Seattle businesses, West Seattle news | 5 Comments
Big smile from Wyatt's Jewelers (WSB sponsors) co-proprietor Kirk Keppler – the shop is celebrating its anniversary today, and you get the gift – an open house with the only storewide sale of the year at Wyatt's (up to 60 percent off). Stop by any time before 6 pm, in the heart of Westwood Village.
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Congratulations, Kirk and Joni! :)
Comment by Karin — 4:24 pm April 26, 2014 #
Nice job kirk
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Happy Anniversary!!!
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Congrats Kirk and Joni, and by the way Kirk you look amazing!!
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Congratulations to Wyatt's. My husband and I bought our wedding bands there nearly four years ago and it was a great experience.
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Builder sentiment up but what happens after Apr. 30th?
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With just weeks away from the expiration of the home buying tax credit, the April NAHB homebuilder sentiment index was 3 pts better than expected at 19 and up 4 pts from March. It's at the highest level since Sept. Most of the gain was led by the Present condition component which rose 5 pts. Future expectations were up just 1 pt and likely reflects the uncertainty of what will happen to demand when the tax credit expires. Prospective Buyers Traffic rose 4 pts to 14 with gains in the South and Midwest. The Northeast was flat and the West saw a decline of 2 pts.
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Before, during and after the May 2011 election, the Conservatives promised to maintain or increase support to the CBC, claiming falsely that funding to our national public broadcaster had never been higher.
This was a deception. CBC funding has never been lower.
Then, at the first opportunity Harper broke his promise and slashed funding to our CBC. The cuts announced in the 2012 Budget took full effect only on April 1, 2014.
With the next federal election just around the corner, please help FRIENDS to hold Harper to account for his surreptitious attack on Canadian public broadcasting!
Please sign the petition and share it far and wide.
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Oh My Tech: Extending the range of your wireless network
I have a house where the people at one end don't get a very good WiFi signal from my router. I put in another router, set it up as an access point, and gave it the same SSID as the original so users could access it from the other end of the house. If people get on the network for the first time at the other end of the house, it works just fine. However, if they move from one end to the other, their computer never switches to the more powerful access point/router. That means their signal gets very weak, and my network gives them no advantage. Is there a way to make this work better? Clayton Johnson.
For a lot of people who are in big homes (unlike me!), it sounds like a great idea to set up two routers so that you can extend the wireless range of the network from one end of the house to the other. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to watch "Modern Family" on one side of the house and then walk to the other with your laptop without interrupting the video stream?
Unfortunately, the way Clayton describes how he tried to do it is not the way to go about it.
The problem is when you are connected wirelessly to the Internet, say with a laptop or mobile phone, that device stays connected to that first router until it loses the signal completely when you get too far from it. So, the way Clayton has it set up, it won't connect to the router on the other side of the house until it completely loses the signal from the first router.
There's a couple of ways to approach this. First, you can buy a router with better range.
I've had really good luck with Netgear routers. Like most, they support dual-band frequencies so your router can work without getting interference from other appliances such as cordless phones. But it also boasts superior range, which I've found to be true after testing five routers from other brands. By now, I'm sure companies such as Belkin, Linksys and D-Link offer good range for wireless connectivity.
The second solution is to get a WiFi range extender. It's a box you set up in your home away from the router. It then boosts the wireless signal from your router to dead spots in your home. Netgear even sells a version that kind of looks like one of those AC-powered air fresheners that you just plug into a power outlet.
Range extenders can run from $50 to $70, which is on average the same price as if not cheaper than a second router.
It takes trial and error to find the sweet spot. Distinctive factors in each person's house, such as what walls are in the way and which other electrical devices are nearby that can cause interference, can affect the speed of your router.
My suggestion is to take the time to test several models in your home to find the best one. Just make sure you purchase them from a store that has a good return policy.
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