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I'm thinking of quickly putting together a family trip to Europe in late December or the first week of January (kids are 14 and 19). Any suggestions of the best places to visit that time of year? Also, any recommendations for nice places to stay would be so appreciated! My husband and I have been to Florence, Venice, and we were in Paris a really long time ago. Thanks for any recommendations!
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How long do you plan to stay? Are you looking for one destination or do you want to visit all of the places you have taged?
With the understanding that it will be cold and the days will be short, the further south you go, the better. And in winter, cities are best as they provide lots of indoor activities.
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We are thinking about staying about a week. We could stay one place, or visit a couple of places--open to ideas. I don't really want to spend a lot of time traveling once we get there. Thanks so much!
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lacohn - Rome.
a perfect place for a winter trip with kids of that age - we went there with ours when they were about the age your kids are now and they loved it. so much to do, rain, snow or shine, and you could do a day trip to somewhere like Orvieto if you got bored. [you won't, but it does make an interesting change and is worth going to for the duomo alone]
we rented an apartment and DS, then 15, loved going out in the mornings to get our cornetti [how he did it I've no idea as he had no italian at all] we did all the famous sights plus lots of others, we shopped, ate, had our favourite gelateria where we rubbed shoulders with the local police [never saw them pay for their gelati] and generally had a great time.
have a great trip!
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If you're planning on traveling during the Christmas holiday season, 24 December-6 January, you'll find many restaurants closed in most of France, including Paris, and throughout Spain. You'll need to plan ahead if you want to dine on Christmas Day and New Year's Day (lunch or dinner).
On the good side you'll find that cities and villages in France, Spain and Italy generally go all out to celebrate the holidays, the 12 days of Christmas; city lights, concerts and other musical events, passion plays, live crèches and don't forget Three Kings Day celebration on 6 January, Epiphany.
Also, winter sales begin on 7 January in France and Spain.
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I second Rome. A couple of years ago, my niece went between Christmas and New Years and had lovely weather the entire time. Of course you can't count on the weather year ro year but you have a better chance in Rome than many place. And, if it is not pleasant, there is lots to do inside.
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Why does everyone assume you want somewhere with the warmest weather? Perhaps you do, but there are many wonderful winter resorts in the Alps where it will feel much more like Christmas, with lots to do even if you don't ski.
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With one week, I would definitely stick with just one place and explore that city, with a daytrip our two. I'd have to throw my hat in the ring for Rome as well. Our absolute favorite city and so much to do there. You could do a daytrip to Ostia Antica and Orvieto (as previous poster mentioned). Even possible to do a daytrip to Florence (train is only 1.5 hrs).
My second recommendation would be Barcelona - a lot to do there, with amazing architecture, museums and incredible food! Daytrips to Girona or Montserrat (though not sure what would be like at that time of year).
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Agree that Rome could be great for a week, Paris would be my second choice especially if it is the week of Christmas. We were there over Christmas two years ago and it was a great way to spend Christmas. We had little trouble with restaurant closures and only Christmas Eve and through the afterrnoon on Christmas Day
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For southern Europe options I vote 1 for Barcelona, but LOVE Rome as well. Barcelona has heaps to offer kids and young people as well as their parents.
London is also a city with many great offerings for all ages.
Having said that, I am planning a Christmas time trip for 2013 or 2014 to Switzerland or Austria to play in the snow etc. But then I live in the north of Australia so I'd rather experience a "real" winter and a Christmas like we see on Christmas cards and in movies.
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Wow, thank you all so much!! Rome would be great, since we have never been there! I would love to visit Barcelona, and Paris is my favorite place on earth. I guess I need to figure it out, but Rome will be definite! Maybe we will just stay there the whole time, and take the day trips you recommend.
You all are so helpful, and I so appreciate your advice!
Now, it's time to search for a place to stay!
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Then, during the lecture portion of the class, Chef made the most disgusting, crude, embarrassing sex joke during class. Maybe the culinary industry accepts this type of behavior because it's male-dominated? Maybe I'm just so used to the way things are run at Disney, where you show respect for everyone at every level, even in culinary?
Whatever. On to baking! You can prepare a pie in about 1 – 1.5 hours from scratch. But, you cannot cook, cool and serve it in less than 4 or 5, which is what Chef was pushing for – he likes to cut class early each week. (which is another issue all together).
And the vanilla beans. I asked if I could use 2 vanilla beans for the pie recipe. Chef handed me what looked like vanilla beans, smelled like vanilla beans, but felt like two dead wooden branches. They were hard as a rock; petrified. I tried reconstituting in hot water – it started to work, but was taking too long. Chef's assistant suggested we wrap in wet paper towel and microwave for 10 seconds. The beans turned to dust. Poof! Worthless.
It took my group about 45 minutes to prepare the apple pie – this included dough and filling – which I thought was pretty good. Despite the speed, I was feeling a little disgruntled about how the night was going; the dirty jokes, the change in plans, cutting class early, the crappy vanilla beans, were all adding up to a whole lot of grumpy. I wasn't very patient, but was trying hard to be a good instructor to R and TR. I think I failed miserably and made sure I thanked them both at the end of class. Not only for doing a great job, but for not kicking my butt for being so impatient.
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3. According to Shaw, what can people do to get rid of their low-class accents?
4. Which comment does Shaw make about the realism in his play?
5. What is the strange man (Higgins) doing behind the pillar?
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2. How does Higgins feel about women?
3. Why, according to Shaw, is it important that people be trained scientifically to lose their accents, rather than simply learning by imitation?
4. Why does Liza's father come to see Higgins?
5. What bet does Pickering make with Higgins? Why does Higgins accept?
6. How are Clara and her mother different?
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|Jan 5, 1993
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|Mar 22, 1991
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|Mar 30, 1990
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|Franz Brogli, Guido Kalin
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|Ciba-Geigy Corporation
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (3), Classifications (9), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of hydroxyphenylpropionates.
Hydroxyphenylpropionates are normally prepared by the "Michael addition " of a phenol and an alkyl acrylate in the presence of a basic catalyst, as disclosed, for example, in DE-A 3 390 557. The adducts, viz. hydroxyphenylpropionates, can then be freed from by-products by crystallisation or, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,330,859 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,354,250, by distillation.
The hydroxyphenylpropionates so obtained are important intermediates for the preparation of antioxidants for synthetic polymers, especially for the polyolefins described in the above publications. By altering the molecular weight of the ester group it is possible to meet specific requirements which are made of an antioxidant, for example low volatility. This alteration can be effected directly by the synthesis or also indirectly, for example by transesterifying an already prepared hydroxyphenylpropionate.
It is now been found that the above Michael addition proceeds markedly better by carrying out the reaction of phenol and alkyl acrylate in the presence of a mixture of a sodium phenolate and a potassium phenolate.
Accordingly, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of formula ##STR2## by reacting compounds of formula
with compounds of formula ##STR3## wherein R1 to R3 are each independently of the other alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R4 is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, in the presence of a base, and isolating the compounds of formula (1), which process comprises carrying out the reaction of a compound of formula (2) with a compound of formula (3) in the presence of a mixture of the compounds of formulae ##STR4## wherein R1 and R2 have the given meanings.
In the compounds of formals (1), the substituents R1, R2 and R3 are each independently of one another alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, typically methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl and tert-butyl. R4 can have the meanings of R1, R2 and R3 and may also additionally be hydrogen.
In the process of this invention, the bases employed are mixtures of the compounds of formulae (4a) and 4b). These bases are obtained by reacting the appropriate phenols of formula (3 ) with those bases which a re able to convert phenols into phenolates. Mention may be made in this connection, for example, of sodium and potassium methanolate, sodium and potassium tert-butylate and sodium and potassium amide and, more particularly, sodium and potassium hydroxide. Attention is drawn to the fact that, in the process of this invention, the eligible bases may additionally contain traces of these strong bases. The sodium and potassium salts of the compounds of formula (1) and of the starting compound of formula (3) are also bases whose presence facilitates the reaction.
The preparation of the mixture of bases usually comprises fusing a compound of formula (3) in a stirred reactor, in an inert gas atmosphere, and adding to the melt a molar excess of base in the form of an aqueous solution of, for example, sodium and potassium hydroxide. Water is then removed from the reaction mixture under reduced pressure to give a virtually non-aqueous suspension of the base in the phenol of formula (3).
The reaction of this suspension with the alkyl acrylate of formula (3) can subsequently be carried out in the same stirred reactor. As required, portion of the suspension may be added as catalyst to another batch for the preparation of the compounds of formula (1).
The molar ratio of the compound of formula (4a) to the compound of formula (4b) in the reaction mixture is preferably 0.05:1 to 20:1. The molar ratio of the compounds of formulae (4a) and (4b) to the phenol of formula (3) is conveniently 0.001 to 0.15. The alkyl acrylate of formula (2 ) is preferably used in a molar excess of up to 100%, based on the compound of formula (3). A temperature range of 90� to 150� C. has been found particularly suitable for carrying out the reaction. The pressure in the reactor is preferably 0 to 4 bar.
The process of this invention is particularly suitable for preparing a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 and R2 are tert-butyl, R3 is methyl and R4 is hydrogen. The process is carried out using a 5 to 40% molar excess of methyl acrylate, based on the phenol of formula (3), in the temperature range form 100� to 120� C. and under a pressure of 0 to 2 bar. The compounds of formulae (4a) and (4b) are present in the mixture of bases comprising said compounds in the molar ratios of 1:0.2 to 1:10 (compound of formula (4a) to compound of formula (4b)). The molar ratio of base (compounds of formulae (4a) and (4b)) to phenol of formula (3) is 0.005 to 0.1.
The compounds of formula (1) can be isolated in a manner known per se, for example by crystallisation or distillation under reduced pressure or by rectification, as described in Swiss patent application No. 1058/90-0.
In a preferred embodiment of the process, the base is precipitated with a carboxylic acid, preferably with formic or acetic acid, after the reaction and before the isolation of the compound of formula (1), and the salt is collected by filtration, also as described in Swiss patent application No. 1058/90-0.
The substantial shortening of the reaction time of the Michael addition carried out in the process of this invention results in markedly shorter sojourn times in the reactor and hence in lower periodic costs, especially when the reaction is carried out on an industrial scale.
The invention is illustrated by the following non-limitative Example in which, unless otherwise stated, percentage are by weight. The same applies to the remainder of the description and the claims.
A 2 liter jacketed flask with anchor stirrer is charged at 40� C. with 600 g of fused 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol. After blanketing with nitrogen, the contents of the flask are heated to 100� C. Then 6.5 g of aqueous potassium hydroxide (50%) and 2.3 g of aqueous sodium hydroxide (50%) are added to the reaction mixture and water is removed at 100� C. over 1 hour under a pressure of 20 mbar. The pressure is then reduced with nitrogen. Subsequently 325 g of methyl acrylate are added dropwise over 2 hours at 115� C. and the reaction is allowed to continue until a clear solution forms. The pressure in the reactor is slowly reduced to 10 mbar and excess methyl acrylate is removed at a final temperature of 115� C. After reducing the pressure with nitrogen, the base is neutralised with 9.8 g of formic acid (100%) and the precipitate is isolated by filtration. The yield of methyl 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-1-propionate is found to be 93.6% by liquid chromatography after a total reaction time of 2.5 hours in the reaction mass.
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|Sep 20, 1977
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|Esters and amides of trisubstituted hydroxyphenylalkanoic acids
|May 3, 1976
|Jun 6, 1978
|Ciba-Geigy Corporation
|Trisubstituted hydroxyphenylalkanoic acid ester and amide stabilized compositions
|Apr 22, 1977
|Jul 18, 1978
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|Bis-piperazides of trisubstituted hydroxyphenylalkanoic acids
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|Preparation of tetrakis [3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxy phenyl) propionyl oxymethyl] methane
|Oct 27, 2004
|Sep 6, 2007
|Hill Jonathan S
|Preparation of Tetrakis [3-(3,5-DI-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxy Phenyl) Propionyl Oxymethyl] Methane
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|European Classification
|Jul 20, 1992
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Selfies & Six Packs: Introducing The Spornosexual
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Move over, metrosexuals. There's a new male species in town, and he's called "the spornosexual." According to Mark Simpson, the journalist who coined the term "metrosexual" two decades ago, the spornosexual is a beefier, hypersexualized version of its urbane counterpart.
"With their painstakingly pumped and chiseled bodies, muscle-enhancing tattoos, piercings, adorable beards and plunging necklines, it's eye-catchingly clear that second-generation metrosexuality is less about clothes than it was for the first," Simpson writes in London's Daily Telegraph. "Eagerly self-objectifying, second generation metrosexuality is totally tarty."
Simpson posits that spornosexuals are a new breed obsessed with sport and porn — the kind of man who prefers to be desired for what he looks like, rather than what's inside. "Their own bodies...have become the ultimate accessories," Simpson adds. To better put the spornosexual into context, we've compiled a short list of men who fit Simpson's criteria: Colin Kaepernick, Christiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, and Drake.
Now, if you'll excuse us, this writer has an appointment with some dumbbells. (The Washington Post)
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The final judgments aren't yet in on Bill English's sixth Budget, but he is already eyeing another three - and will start planning his seventh in a few weeks.
Labour Party leader David Cunliffe joked yesterday that the best thing about the Budget was that it would be English's last.
Whether the man from Dipton gets to drawl through the 2015 version depends on the outcome of the September 20 election - though he says he is up for another three.
But with two terms as finance minister under his belt and success in returning the Budget to a surplus, he is already being ranked up there with the country's most accomplished finance ministers of recent times.
Where Budgets were once a one-year event, they are now rolling four-year efforts.
"We'd expect . . . the first discussion about the 2015 Budget in the next few weeks," he said yesterday after another round of media calls explaining and defending his Budget.
Part of his success he puts at the feet of his team, including those public servants who, despite being squeezed by the Key Government, adapted quickly from the big-spending years before 2008 to the tighter times since the global crisis. They had delivered on English's state sector mantra: "More for less."
Helping sell the new direction was Prime Minister John Key, who English once said jumped from cloud to cloud, leaving him to grind away in the engine room.
He has since settled on a more diplomatic version of their roles, saying Key goes about his work "with his signature confidence".
Donal Curtin, a former BNZ economist and expert adviser to Parliament's finance and expenditure committee, said English was the latest in a string of highly competent finance ministers that the country had been lucky to have.
All had contributed to fixing up the legacy of big deficits and structural imbalances left over from the Muldoon years.
All have also faced a major challenge. For Sir Michael Cullen it was the "tech-wreck" and the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Bill Birch faced the Asian financial crisis, Ruth Richardson a bad recession, and Sir Roger Douglas the 1987 sharemarket crash. But English had faced "the mother of them all", Curtin said.
The global financial crisis was the worst economic meltdown in living memory.
"The 1987 crash was a a blip on the charts by comparison."
On top of that, the Christchurch earthquakes dealt a massive hit to the government books. "The mythical observer arriving from Mars who saw the accounts in balance after two thumping great shocks like that - you'd have to say someone had navigated pretty smoothly through that."
Curtin said: "In the pantheon of recent ministers he's a conscientious and hard-working minister."
Nor could he recall any of English's Budgets being "a real turkey that laid an egg".
He points to the high level of trust in National's economic management in the latest stuff.co.nz/Ipsos poll as testament to English's achievement.
Wellington economist Brian Easton, who like Curtin has observed decades of Budgets, also stressed how lucky New Zealand had been with recent finance ministers. But while he described English as "perfectly competent", he is also strongly critical of some aspects of his stewardship.
In particular, the 2009 personal tax cuts were put in place under pressure from within National and were too big. English had been trying to pull the accounts back into balance for the following five years, Easton said.
Easton also believed the squeeze on the public sector and deregulation had created stresses that would only emerge when something went wrong - "and goes wrong big".
He pointed to past examples such as the Cave Creek platform collapse, safety failures at the Pike River Mine, leaky homes, design faults with the CTV building, recent deaths in the forestry sector and the collapse of finance companies.
Easton said a close relationship between the prime minister and the finance minister was crucial at the heart of a good government.
Helen Clark and Cullen, and Jim Bolger and Birch worked very well together.
Sir Robert Muldoon, who was prime minister and finance minister, "worked shoulder to shoulder with himself"'.
But problems blew up when splits opened up between David Lange and Douglas, and Bolger and Richardson.
English was probably getting the same advice as Cullen did from officials to run a big surplus, Easton said, and Key seemed to wrongfoot him by talking about a tax cut ahead of the Budget.
To Easton's mind, Key is "one of the flakier prime ministers" and "is not quite as solidly behind Bill English".
On current polling, though, it is odds on Key will form a government after the September election and will again turn to English as his finance supremo.
That will give English the opportunity to build on his legacy with a seventh Budget and another surplus, some time next May. If so, it will be a familiar routine for the father of six.
On Budget day a lunch with wife Mary, their families and friends in his room is squeezed between a press call at the Budget lock-up and his speech just after 2pm. (English jokes that having a bunch of friends around helps fill Parliament's public gallery with allies.)
After more media calls it is back to the caucus room for a meal with his fellow MPs and then on to celebratory drinks in his office.
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There's no time like the first time: Mo's perspective
I woke up early this morning and was partially dressed for the gym before I realized that I was supposed to get bloodwork at the RE's office to confirm my ovulation.
I had completely forgotten.
What a difference a year makes. A little over a year ago, Will and I were anxiously preoccupied with every detail of our first (and we were certain, last) IVF cycle. A little over a year ago, we were breathless with anticipation, buoyed with hope and confidence that scientific technology would make conception a breeze. A little over a year ago, there is no chance I would have "forgotten" to go in for a blood draw.
I realized after we posted last night that yesterday marked the one year anniversary of our entire world coming apart. Nov. 9, 2007 was the date of my D&C that marked the abrupt end of our first pregnancy. It is hard now to imagine the naivete, the head-over-heels eagerness we felt during that pregnancy. Our RE had warned us repeatedly "Don't get excited yet" so many times that I began asking at each ultrasound "Can we get excited now?" Finally he said yes and sent us off to the OB. We were flying high, filled with a sense of certainty that all would go as it should. That world came crashing down when the OB was unable to find the heartbeat and told us that the baby had died. It ushered in a new era in our relationship. One that left me weeping - big gasping animal-like sobs - for the next few weeks and that left Will also grieving, albeit more quietly, and unsure how to calm or comfort his sudden wreck of a wife.
It is striking to realize the vast emotional distance traveled between a year ago and today. Will and I are chastened, forever changed by our experience. Although I can't predict how I will react should I find myself pregnant again in the future, I know that our excitement will be greatly tempered by a visceral understanding of all that can go wrong, of the thousand treacherous miles that lay between conception and holding an actual live baby in our arms.
So I sat this morning in the RE's waiting area, a long rectangular room filled with well-heeled women that always reminds me of some kind of female airplane terminal, shaking my head that I had changed so much in a year.
And then I started wondering, could there be some upsides to this new way of being? Maybe it's not so bad that I "forgot" my blood draw, only remembering it as an afterthought this morning. I DID get there after all. And it's certainly easier on my nerves that I'm feeling more detached. We are having trouble with our insurance and it is unclear how long the pre-authorization process will take so that I can get the lupron I expect to start injecting on Wednesday. Is this causing me the faintest whiff of anxiety? Not really. I am just barely walking myself through the motions of following up - again - with the RE's insurance specialist. I figure something will work out. Or not.
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