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WATFORD, England -- For the third time this year, the New Orleans Saints are in training camp, or at least a training-camp setting.
Although it's a continent away, this one's not all that much different than Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., where the Saints held their regular training camp, or downtown Indianapolis, where the team moved for a week when a hurricane was threatening New Orleans early in the season.
The Grove, the five-star resort where the Saints are staying, is about 20 miles outside of London. The road into the hotel is surrounded by farmland with lots of cows and sheep.
"You've got to kind of want to find it, first off,'' coach Sean Payton said. "It's out there in the country. That's a good thing, though.''
The Grove (you can get a look at it here) is an 18th century castle with gardens, a world-class spa and a championship golf course that Tiger Woods once played. The Grove also has undergone a bunch of enhancements just to get ready for the Saints.
The hotel's main ballroom has been converted into a locker room. The ballroom floor has been turned into a weight room and the floor was reinforced to support the weights. A huge freezer was brought in to hold the 200 pounds of ice (for those who haven't been to England, ice is a bit of a luxury here) that's used daily to treat injuries.
Gatorade, another item that's not common in England, is all over The Grove. Gatorade machines were brought in and installed near the players' rooms. The resort also has altered its "football pitch," which means soccer field. A goal post was brought in from the United States and the field now has the markings of an American football field.
"So much goes into this from a logistics standpoint of moving everything, computers, phones and video,'' Payton said. "There are a lot of challenges that are involved. But the people here have been very accommodating and very welcoming."
With the coaching staff, front office and support staff, the Saints have a party of about 100 people and that's created a challenge for The Grove's three restaurants. The grocery order for this week included 1,899 prime beef burgers, 984 extra-large eggs, 450 pints of milk and 900 chickens. The head chef also had to track down 20 litres of A1 steak sauce, which were brought in from the American Embassy.


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Posted on 02/13/2011 10:00:14 AM PST by Leisler
May 2009. Back then there were 3,010 retirees earning $100,000 or more annually from CalSTRS. Earlier this month, the foundation obtained updated data from CalSTRS and the number has grown to 5,308 (5,309 if you count one woman earning $99,998.88). Thats a 76 percent increase. In less than two years. And thats not all. The foundation, run by President Marcia Fritz, also requested a list of CalSTRS retirees earning $75,000 or more annually. Guess how many CalSTRS pensioners are earning between $75,000 and $99,999.99. 19,503. Combined youre looking at 24,811 retired California teachers earning more than $75,000.
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I think some of these teachers are gettign out while the gettin' is good
The curious thing is that they all think this game will just continue on with no stopping. The day will come when a vast amount of their expected pension is chopped off and reality will come quickly to a group of folks with serious bills to pay.
I'm a teacher, and I actually worked one year in the Golden Wasteland before running out there screaming.
I fully expect my pension to be looted by the same government that is supposed to protect and honor it. My wife and I are setting aside our own nest egg with that in mind. Frankly, I also expect my district to come up to me one day and tell me that there's good news and bad news: the good news is that you still have a job, but the bad news is that you're getting a 30 percent pay cut. We ready for that, too.
If by some miracle Pres. Palin, or Bachman, or West manage to straighten out affairs before the collapse, we're still ready. I don't think the cleanup crew will come in soon enough, though.
Location, location, location.
My daughter teaches in a more conservative part of the country and she's conservative too. Her salary after 10 years of teaching and a masters degree is $42,000.
I don't begrudge some teachers making a nice retirement, the problem is that the funds were not set aside during the teacher's earning years. So the public has to pick up the tab via taxation. CalSTRS made risky bets in the stock market and at times even had workers defer their payments into their own plan (when the stock market was going crazy). When the market corrected itself the pension plan went under water. But all plans did not fail in the same way. Some managers did not have all investments in the market— they diversified and did well for their clients.
We have a great need today for programs to start paying for themselves. A pension system like a 401 K plan does this. Social security does not. Teachers retirement systems allow teachers to opt out of social security and save on their own. It is the fault of the managers of these investments that they were not more conservative.
This becomes the left's battle cry when we talk about privatizing the social systems called entitlements. They say we did not manage our pension fund well, so it is dangerous to place the retirement of everyone in the hands of non-government advisors.
I, on the other hand, managed to build my retirement without the government's help. It can be done.
Paying people more in retirement than double the average salary is pure thievery and immoral. The taxes required to fund this insanity are only going up and destroying the nation.
Civil unions raping the tax payers.
It would be one thing if these teachers actually earned their pensions but their work product has resulted in dropping literacy rates.
You would not pay a plumber who does not fix your leak, why pay these teachers if they can't teach?
If you have not already done so, request a rollover of your Cal pension into a personal IRA. There will be no tax consequences for doing this, and you can pick safe conservative investments (based on your age for example) and keep the State of California from sharing your pension funds with their other clients. I did this when I left teaching, it will take some work and paperwork because they are not really interested in you doing this, but they will eventually send your money directly to your IRA account.
Thanks for the tip. We do have one year down there mouldering, and rolling it over into our personal retirement sounds good. We appreciate the tip. If you're ever in this section of Alaska, we'll put a moose steak on the barbecue.
Your point is well taken, but all teachers are not bad or lazy— but the system does not encourage the cream of the crop to go into or stay in teaching positions. Hence my other profession as an Engineer.
However, I agree with you. The pension is the topic here, but the level of integrity and skill in the teaching profession is not where it could be if teachers were allowed (and required) to contract with their districts every few years — and the pay set by the skill and work ethic demonstrated. I am talking about doing away with "tenure".
People who realize how the system really works should be voting to change it. Why should a salary be equal for everyone with the same seniority? Why should it be so difficult to fire a teacher that it is almost never done?
And why, when a family has a choice between good and bad schools nearby should the bad school be left open?
BTW, I realize there are other factors — that the teacher's union uses to hide behind — like parents and kids who do not care (or are not mature enough) to care. But the public can do something about the teachers. I do not know what a conservative can do to assist a failing parent. There has to be a limit to the power of government.
I will visit Alaska one day. I have tried several times to get up the courage to RV up north. (Not enough dents in the trailer so far.)
But I do want to leave this nutty state— even if I am tied here by family and business.
I drove up camping out of a cap in a slant 6 Dodge shortbed. Easy. It's even easier now as it is all paved, vs good gravel back then. At the time I saw two old fatty biker couple on a Harley hard tail. Now those were some hard people. My advice? Little 4 cylinder SW. Sleep in the back, coolers, cook stove, treat your self to a room and a shower once a week. You'll fit right in, in the high fashion culture of Alaska.
The tick is bigger than the cow. The cow is on it's knees, white, foaming at the mouth. The tick is pissed they blood isn't flowing like it used to, so it is borrowing in deeper looking for sustenance.
Me? I don't pay unless the tick makes me, somehow. I consider it my patriotic, moral, ethical duty to deny collaboration with the enemy, i.e. other Americans.
It's the mandates from state houses and DC that has destroyed the teaching experience that I enjoyed as a student many years ago...
Russian tanks were five miles out side of Berlin and Hitler was telling Germans to keep fighting. Meanwhile staff were tossing their uniforms and heading for lock boxes in Switzerland.
Old story.
Don't trust the Dems, RINO's.
Especially don't trust me. I don't trust me and I live with me. Honest, trust me. :)
there was an article just before the 2008 crash,
stating that the only people buying houses in orange county
were the rich, foreigners, and california union members.
Try running a small business and having the state employee antifundamentalist tell you you have to hire his friend/wife/retired state environmentalist to review, inspect, defend, report on bla, bla, bla that they all ginned up to keep them in work in the state and like lawyers afterwards, employed with their pensions defending/interpreting what they wrote when they were in.
And write them checks.
Then do this with OSHA, IRS, Federal/State/County/Town like mafia coming around finding this or that in 'non compliance'.
So not only do you not like your work, your business anymore, but you get to go bankrupt with zip, nada, zero.
"I dont begrudge some teachers making a nice retirement, the problem is that the funds were not set aside during the teachers earning years."
The fact of the matter is that a teacher's salary could not possibly fund this sort of retirement. A six figure pension off a teacher's salary? What in the wolrd? Some people are obviously unshamely living high on the hog.
One's retirement should be entirely of one's own doing. The entire concept of a pension is, in my opinion, absurd. It's an unfunded mandate with an expectation of success that is simply speculation.
And to do it with taxpayer's funding is even more unjust and frankly egregious.
In my suburban Houston district, first year teachers with a Bachelor's degree get $46,500. Yes, this is in Texas, where unions are weak and the cost of living is pretty low compared to other parts of the country.
The public employee vampires stike again.
Our son runs a business my wife and I started 50 years ago and he spends more time on paperwork in one day than I spent on all the monthly reports and let's not talk about the check he writes to all the alphabet agencies while Calif pumps out 1,100 new bills a year...
I know with increasing med costs, dollar devaluation, and everything going up; it will never be enough but at least you know that it's not costing the school district.
Ya know, I think the Repubs in legislature got that one right in retrospect. If they had done the same in Calif years back, they wouldn't be facing the problems they now are. What do you think about TRS?
Minus 42 here this morn, but the cold weather is on it's way out. I'm seeing lynx on my trails every time I go out riding the skandic and the sun is so nice, life is good. I'm already thinking about planting tatoes, at least 400 lb of golds. I get these carrots from Stokes, (Magnums) in pellet form; best carrots I've ever grown up here. I usually plant 20K and then all the Indians & friends get all they want. Around 18 bucks for 10K seed. Everybody who has tried the seed likes how well they do; check those magnums out.
Thanks for the tips on the carrots. We've just run out this weekend after cleaning out the root cellar.
Lowest this morning was -43.9 degrees, but the sun is finally to the point where it warms the air inside the house. Wish I could get out more often myself, but I'm taking this master's degree course that has evaporated most of my free time.
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Absolutely ridiculous.
That is an outrageous sum of money.
No wonder states are going broke.
It's time to outlaw labor unions for public employees.
If these teachers were retiring from private business they would expect no more than 1/4 to 1/2 of their annual salaries upon retirement.
Major corporations usually pay something on the order of 1.25% (or less) of the annual salary per year of service. At that rate, someone retiring after 20 years would receive and annual retirement of 25% of their annual salary. With the same multiplier it takes 40 years of service to hit 50%.
How much are these teachers making per year?
And how many years are they putting in to get $75K to $100K?
It would be interesting to hear your gardening experiences. Have you ever posted on the weekly garden threads?
Fact is they are sucking down on the teachers' pension fund ~ not that any of them are now or have been teachers.
I read through some of the comments at the article, with teachers trying to defend these pensions. One teacher cannot accept the fact that ALL of this is taxpayer money because she is insistent that SHE paid into (8%) every year for 31 years. She absolutely cannot understand that HER salary came from taxpayers to begin with.
And she's a teacher!
That helps understand why kids graduate without basic skills and abilities.
We camped like that when I was younger, but the wife wants the rolling house.
I can't be sure what you mean, but teaching requirements work best if they are local and if there is competition. The politics of the situation is a giant conflict of interest where the teachers become the best organized campaign force and always support the board member most in tune with the union.
The result is a board that is beholding to the teachers, not the administration. Salaries are set, retirement programs are approved, and the taxpayer looks on from a position outside of the process. In a few districts, the people take back their authority but state and federal programs are in force and they dictate much of what the local districts can do.
Teachers have less in the way of options to express their individuality and students have to study more basics, but part of the problem is the teacher who "turns off" a student somewhere in the academic journey. These teachers do this by not being interested in what they are doing, not working hard enough at planning and presentation, and often not knowning enough about the subject themselves. The other part of the problem is that learning is not supported in the student's life because of a variety of reasons depending on the family. These reasons are cultural and social. Parents do not demand that their kids learn and learn well. It is not politic to be that type of "tiger mom" parent. Kids believe they can learn and text their friends at the same time when we know they can't even drive a car and text. A lot of kids sucumb to peer pressure to play more and study less and parents watch this and believe that social interaction is on a par with learning.
What will we do?
I understand your position, but a pension is simply one of the ways that a firm compensates the employee — and it compensates the long term employee better than salary. I only find fault with pensions that are not paid for by the firm out of current year profits. (Essentially your pension providing job has to be mathematical and determine how much money must be set aside each year from profits to provide the stream of pension payouts for the employee during the lifetime of the retiree. No problem so far. But public pensions took the easy way. The decided that future tax payers could handle the pension payouts. This is theft.
Most companies have moved away from the defined pension program in favor of letting the employee save from their own earnings. In this case the employer pays the pension money out to the employee each year and it is up to the employee to save rather than buy that new motor boat or car. Too many people do not set money aside for themselves. However again, the public employee — funded by the tax payer — should not have a right to dip into a future employee's pay to fund their pension. These pensions, that are "under water" need to declare bankruptcy and settle. Anything else is theft.
So having defined the terms I can say that I agree completely with you as far as public pensions are concerned. But if they did them correctly, instead of mismanaging them completely there would be no issue.
My problem with central planning societies in general is that they don't follow the rules and ethics of true businesses and inevitably end up stealing from someone (our kids) to pay for their mistakes.
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The thread you linked is actually for a different theme and so it isn't applicable.
I believe your issue stems from some customization with the css. What might help is removing the small slider completely with:
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Just add that to your Quick CSS in the Style tab of the theme options.
Hi Devin,
Thank you, worked like a charm.
The content is up against the left edge of the container, leaving quite a bit of white space on the right, is there something I can add to the CSS to get the content a little more centered?
Hi kitticraft,
Try to add the following code in your Quick CSS:
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Horror master James Herbert serves up a blend of faerie, supernatural chills, eroticism, and identity quest in Once...--a fairy tale with a darker side.
Thom Kindred suffers a stroke and returns to his childhood home to heal. Castle Bracken seems like a pastoral paradise, but almost immediately, Thom begins to experience strange things, both beautiful and frightening. Soon, he finds himself the inexplicable target of hostile magic, even as he begins to recover his childhood ability to perceive the creatures of faerie that inhabit the land. As he struggles to heal, Thom finds himself at the center of a cataclysmic struggle between good and evil that demands all his physical and spiritual strength to survive.
Herbert's fans may find this story, with its bare-bones plot and extended descriptions of the faerie world, slower-moving and more predictable than his more energetic works Others and The Fog). Explicit sex and scenes of Herbert's trademark disturbing horror (including every arachnophobe's nightmare) make this a fairy tale strictly for adults. --Roz Genessee
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Pastoral fantasy and graphic grue congeal immiscibly in this peculiar fairy tale from British horror laureate Herbert (Others). Set on the grounds of Castle Bracken, a verdant woodland estate with a shady history, it follows the trials of Thom Kindred, who returns there to recover from a stroke. Thom's mother worked for Sir Russell Bleeth, the estate's owner, and the grounds hold fond memories of years spent with his mum before she inexplicably abandoned him. No sooner is Thom comfy in the natural surroundings than he is subjected to seemingly unnatural experiences: displays of multicolored lights in the foliage, an encounter with an ethereal young maiden in the woods and increasingly persistent advances by a Wiccan nursemaid. In time, Thom discovers that the estate is a refuge for the faerie folk, whose blood he shares, and that he'll play a pivotal role in saving them from an occult menace that's already infiltrated Castle Bracken. Herbert does nothing original with this familiar fantasy theme of the individual who discovers his faerie heritage. Rather, he dwells at tedious length on the society of the faeriefolkis, indulging in twee descriptions of their world and endowing some with proper names that are titles of his previous books spelled backwards. Prolonged erotic interludes, spliced in to alert readers that this is a fairy tale for adults, do little to relieve the monotony. Only in the final moments, when Thom battles a series of viscerally horrific assaults, does the book show a glimmer of the vitality and drive characteristic of Herbert's best fiction.
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The intertwining world of fairies and humans may not be the most original theme for a fantasy novel. Indeed I was reminded of Graham Joyce's memorable "The Tooth Fairy" on several occasions. Herbert however, uses his not inconsiderable talents as master of the macabre, to make "Once" something special. The deeply erotic prose punctuated suddenly and shockingly with moments of the grossest horror, creates a profoundly unsettling atmosphere, which remains with the reader long after the final page has been turned. And I turned the 470 odd pages in a remarkably short time, the tension at the end of each chapter making this the most moorish, unputdownable book I have read for several months.
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I found that this book kept me interested but wasn't great. It was certainly unsettling in parts, but not nearly as scary as The Dark, The Survivor and his classics. Read morePublished on Aug. 20 2003 by Timothy A. Buchanan
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7 Apr. 2006World War Three
The fiendish Slitheen have been unmasked as the ones who crashed the spaceship into London as part of a ruse to trigger World War Three. But how can The Doctor save the planet when he's trapped inside a locked room?
14 Apr. 2006Dalek
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21 Apr. 2006The Long Game
The Doctor and Rose arrive in the year 200,000 to see The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. But something has gone wrong - someone is holding back the development of mankind. Who could have done this? And why?
28 Apr. 2006Father's Day
All of her life, Rose's mother told how great a man her father Pete was. He was killed by a hit and run driver when Rose was just a baby and among her many regrets was that her father died alone, just lying on the street. Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to that day. Rather than just be with him when he dies, she actually saves him and later admits that this was her plan all along. She soon realizes that her parents' marriage was not exactly the golden relationship she had claimed it to be. Far worse however, is that by saving her father, Rose has created a tear ...
5 May 2006The Empty Child
Rose and the Doctor find themselves in 1941 London when the TARDIS receives an emergency signal from another time-traveling vehicle. While the Doctor tries to determine where the object may have landed, Rose goes off in search of a child she can hear calling for help. When she gets herself into a precarious situation, she's rescued by the rather handsome RAF Captain Jack Harkness, who owns a time machine of his own. The Doctor meanwhile meets Nancy who has an interesting way of arranging meals for homeless children. They are also being chased by the child Rose heard ...
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Stopping off in present-day Cardiff to recharge the TARDIS, The Doctor, Rose and Jack encounter an old foe in the midst of hatching a scheme that could destroy the entire planet.
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9 Jun. 2006The Parting of the Ways
The Dalek fleet is poised to destroy the Earth and only The Doctor, Rose, Jack and a band of television producers can stop them.
29 Sep. 2006The Christmas Invasion
It's Christmas Eve, but this is to be a far from silent night - the cruel Sycorax have come to Earth to enslave mankind and, as ever, only The Doctor can stop them. Unfortunately, he's lying in a coma in Jackie's home...
29 Sep. 2006New Earth
As Rose Tyler embarks upon her first big TARDIS adventure with the newly-regenerated Doctor, they discover a sinister hospital run by strange cat people and run in to two old acquaintances, The Face of Boe and Cassandra.
6 Oct. 2006Tooth and Claw
The Doctor and Rose are transported to 19th Century Scotland, where they meet Queen Victoria, and try to protect her from a ravenous werewolf and a band of assassinating warrior-monks
13 Oct. 2006School Reunion
The Krillitanes - aliens with a mix-and-match physiology - are trying to crack the 'God-Maker', a paradigm to give them ultimate power. They are using children as a computer, and only the Doctor and Rose, re-united with Sarah Jane Smith and K9 can prevent them from becoming masters of time and space.
20 Oct. 2006The Girl in the Fireplace
The Doctor, Mickey and Rose land on a spaceship in the 51st century only to find 18th century Versailles on board, the time of Madame De Pompadour! To find out what's going on the Doctor must enter Versailles and save Madame De Popmpadour but it turns into an emotional roller coaster for the Doctor.
27 Oct. 2006Rise of the Cybermen
Upon landing on an alternate version of the Earth, The Doctor, Rose and Mickey learn that Peter Tyler is apparently alive and well. Lurking in the shadows are creatures made to destroy - one of The Doctor's greatest fears have come true...the Cybermen are reborn.
3 Nov. 2006The Age of Steel
Lumic's army of cybermen is on the rise, and with more and more people being converted by the hour, time is of the essence. The gang are reduced to fugitives as they roam the streets of parallel London trying to rid the earth of cybermen.
10 Nov. 2006The Idiot's Lantern
In 1950s London, the police are hunting down strange, mute creatures. The people of Britain gather around their new-fangled "tele-vision" sets to celebrate the new Queen's coronation - but is something affecting the signal?
17 Nov. 2006The Impossible Planet
The TARDIS lands on an alien planet shrouded in a darkness that even the Doctor can't figure out. And what is lurking at the bottom of The Satan Pit?
1 Dec. 2006The Satan Pit
As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core, as the Pit beckons. With the planet threatening to fall into the black hole, the Doctor must make the ultimate sacrifice.
8 Dec. 2006Love & Monsters
A run in with the Doctor at a young age leads Elton to a group who's studying him, they become friends and have a laugh until Victor Kennedy arrives. Suddenly everything becomes more serious then people start disappearing from the group. Can the Doctor save Elton and explain his past before he's absorbed by the Absorbaloff
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Why is the air conditioning being cut off
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Dec 6, 1977
|Filing date
|Dec 1, 1976
|Priority date
|Jul 2, 1975
|Publication number
|Robert K. Finn, Alex L. Tannahill, Joseph E. Laptewicz, Jr.
|Original Assignee
|Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (10), Classifications (25)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a division of application Ser. No. 592,603 filed July 2, 1975, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,016,865, which in turn is a division of application Ser. No. 523,559 filed Nov. 14, 1974, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,932,218 which in turn is a division of Ser. No. 364,559, filed May 29, 1973, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,923,782.
The present invention relates to the production of biopolymers and more especially to the preparation of polysaccharides by fermentation using methanol as the sole source of assimilable carbon. The invention also relates to the use of these biopolymers as drag reducing agents, as thickening agents, emulsifiers, soil suspending agents, flocculants or deflocculants, etc.
Biopolymers have recently been the subject of increased research studies because of the interesting properties exhibited by such polymers and the various applications suggested by these properties. The polysaccharides which have been studied most are those produced by fermentation utilizing bacteria of the genus Xanthomonas which generally utilize carbohydrates as the source of assimilable carbon in a culture medium. These biopolymers act as versatile thickening agents for aqueous acids, alkalis and brines, and are good suspending agents for solids-in-water and oil-in-water dispersions, and act also as excellent rheology control agents. Thus, the xanthan gums find application in oil well drilling mud systems, as additives for secondary recovery of petroleum by water flooding, and as stabilizers, emulsifiers and thickeners in food products.
In view of economic considerations, however, it would be more desirable to employ petrochemicals as the source of assimilable carbon in fermentation systems rather than carbohydrates. Of petrochemicals, methane or methanol would be the most economical. Some studies have been made on bacteria utilizing these compounds as a carbon source. For example, Leadbetter and Foster (Archiv fur Mikrobiologie, 30, 91-118, 1958) isolated and grew several cultures of pseudomonads in a mineral salts medium with methane as the sole source of carbon and energy. Harrington and Kallio (Can. J. Microbiol., 6, 1-7, 1960) have published work on the oxidation of methanol by Pseudomonas methanica. But despite the numerous studies on the specific activities of methane- and methanol-utilizing bacteria and theorization as to the metabolic pathways, very little work has been conducted regarding characterization of the biopolymers formed or in investigating the properties and utilities of these products resulting from fermentation in culture media containing methane or methanol.
One factor prompting investigation of the properties of the biopolymers according to the present invention is that inexpensive conventional polymeric materials utilized in dilute aqueous solutions to produce a drag-reducing effect, such as polyethylene oxides and polyacrylamides, suffer from certain drawbacks. For example, these polymers are relatively unstable to salt and acid or alkaline conditions, and they tend to breakdown in molecular weight during flow as a result of turbulent conditions and moderate shearing forces. These disadvantageous factors are also present in many of the polymeric thickening agents presently being employed in drilling muds and flooding agents for secondary recovery of oil in the petroleum industry.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for the production of heteropolysaccharides through the fermentation of bacteria in a culture medium utilizing methanol as the sole source of carbon.
It is another object of this invention to provide a new polysaccharide having desirable properties.
Still another object of the invention resides in the production of an improved drag-reducing agent for use in dilute aqueous systems.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide an improved thickening agent suitable for use in foods, cosmetics, paints, drilling muds, and especially in flooding composition utilized in the secondary recovery of underground petroleum deposits.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a polysaccharide displaying improved properties for use as an emulsifier, a flocculent or deflocculent and a soil suspending agent.
In accomplishing the foregoing objects, there has been provided according to the present invention a method for producing a heteropolysaccharide by fermentation which comprises culturing a heteropolysaccharide-producing strain of a microorganism of the genus Methylomonas on a culture medium containing methanol as the sole source of assimilable carbon. The crude, cell-free polysaccharide, as precipitated by acetone from the fermentation broth, contains from about 60 to 90% by weight organic matter and from about 10 to 40% ash. Most of the latter consists of phosphates (15 to 25%) and cations (5 to 25%). The constituent sugars of the polymer are glucose (10 to 30%), galactose (3 to 15%) and mannose (3 to 15%) and the polymer contains a significant amount of pyruvic acid (5 to 35%). The crude polymer is negatively charged and a 1% solution has a viscosity of 300-400 centipoise (Brookfield viscometer at 30 rpm). Fermentation is carried out at a pH between about 6.0 and 7.8 and preferably within the range of 6.2 to 7.5, and at a temperature between 25� C. and 33� C. The heteropolysaccharide produced by this process exhibits excellent thickening and drag-reducing properties when employed in dilute aqueous solutions and is particularly stable to salts, acids, bases and to mechanical shear forces. The polymer finds many uses not only as a drag-reducing agent, but also as a thickening agent in foods, cosmetics, paints, drilling muds, and especially in flooding compositions utilized for the secondary recovery of underground petroleum deposits.
FIG. 1 is a graphical plot of viscosity correlated with the weight percent of biopolymer in aqueous solution;
FIG. 2 illustrates graphically the relationship between the viscosity of an aqueous solution of polymer and both salt concentration and pH;
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the drag-reducing properties of the biopolymers of the invention in relation to their concentration in aqueous solution; triangles represent a crude polymer containing cells, circles represent a membrane-filtered, cell-free solution.
FIG. 4 is a graphical plot of viscosity in relation to shear rate.
The microorganisms employed in accordance with the present invention are of the type isolated by Tannahill and Finn from soil samples ("Fermentation Process Based on Methanol", Paper presented to the 160th National ACS Meeting, Chicago, Sept. 7, 1970). A specimen of this particular isolate has been deposited with the Northern Regional Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Peoria, Illinois, and is identified by the number NRRL B-5695. A sample of this microorganism can be obtained from the aforementioned Research Laboratory. (The deposit was made with the understanding that all restrictions on the availability to the public being irrevocably removed upon the granting of a patent.) Its mycological characteristics are presented in detail below:
A. Morphological observations
1. Salts-methanol (3% methanol) agar slant, 24 hours, vegitative cells, straight rods, 0.2-0.4 � 1.0-2.0 microns, singly or in pairs, motile by single polar flagellum, no spore formation, gram negative.
B. Cultural characteristics
1. Salts-methanol (3% methanol) agar colonies - 2 days, moderate to abundant growth, circular, pulvinate, smooth, glistening, entire, mucoid, yellow, medium unchanged.
2. Salts-methanol (3% methanol) agar streak - 2 days, moderate to abundant growth, filiform, smooth, glistening, bright yellow, butyrous to mucoid, medium unchanged.
3. Pigment does not diffuse into the medium.
C. Physiological characteristics
1. Relation to free oxygen: strictly aerobic, pellicle formed in broth tubes, surface growth in agar stabs.
2. Temperature: optimum growth temperature, 28�-30� C.; growth at 10� C.; no growth at 35� C.
3. pH for growth: optimum pH, 6.7 to 7.2; pH limits for growth 6.0 to 7.8.
4. Catalase: positive (method of Skerman).
5. Gelatine hydrolysis: weakly positive after 24 hours (key gelatin strips).
6. Oxidase: positive (Key oxidase test tablets).
7. Pectinesterase: positive (method of McComb).
8. Nitrate reductase: positive (method of Skerman).
9. Growth in presence of 1% sodium chloride, but no growth with 2% sodium chloride.
10. Utilization of other carbon sources: no growth was detected utilizing methane, formaldehyde, formamide, formate, ethanol, methylamine, glycine, DL-serine, succinate, D-glucose, fructose, glycerin or oxalate after a period of 48 hours had elapsed.
11. Litmus milk: no reaction.
12. No growth on nutrient agar, but no inhibition of growth if methanol added to the nutrient agar.
13. Absorption spectrum of the carotinoid pigment is similar to that of Psuedomonas methanica.
14. Yeast extracts and other vitamin mixtures do not stimulate growth.
15. Ammonium salts, nitrates, or urea serve as nitrogen sources. Other organic nitrogen sources can probably be used also.
D. Source: soil
E. Cell free extracts contained little HDP activity, but contained appreciable HPS activity according to the method of Kemp and Quayle. This suggests metabolism of methanol by the allulose pathway rather than the serine pathway.
The isolate of Tannahill and Finn exhibits certain similarities to the strain identified as Pseudomonas methanica by Dworkin and Foster (J. Bact., 72, 646, 1956) but it is noted that differences exist: the isolate is not as phosphate sensitive, grows within a much narrower pH range, does not grow on methane, and is more stable, i.e. does not exhibit the color variability reported for the known organism. No pink or colorless variants of the isolate have been noted.
On the basis of the foregoing, it is concluded that the microorganism of Tannahill and Finn belongs to the genus Methylomonas, which has been defined by Ribbons et al (Annual Review of Microbiology, vol. 24, pp. 135-158, 1970) as follows:
1. Obligate methylotroph;
2. motile with polar flagellation;
3. rod shaped; and
4. forming only immature cyst.
The present organism, since it does not fall within any previously described species, has been designated as Methylomonas mucosa.
The broth medium utilized for growth of the microorganism consists of the following:
______________________________________Material Grams per Liter______________________________________KH2 PO4 3.75Na2 HPO4 2.50(NH4)2 SO4 2.00MgSO4 . 7H2 O 0.40Ca(NO3)2 . 4H2 O 0.025FeSO4 . 7H2 O 0.005ZnSO4 . H2 O 0.005______________________________________
This corresponds to the "minimal salts" formulations, except that in the preferred embodiment a slightly higher concentration of calcium ions is employed because it has been found that an increase in calcium ions stimulates growth. Ammonium sulfate was the nitrogen source used for most of the work with this organism; however, it is also possible to utilize sodium nitrate and likewise obtain excellent growth. It was found that the organism can tolerate a methanol concentration of up to about 7.0% by volume. The optimum growth occurred, however, with methanol concentrations between about 0.5 and 5.0% by volume, whereas the most preferred concentration is between about 2.0 and 3.0%. Similarly, it was determined that the pH value of the medium greatly effected growth, with no growth taking place below a pH of 5.7 to above a pH of 8.0. Accordingly, a pH range of from about 6.0 to about 7.8 is suitable for growth of this microorganism, although a reasonable growth rate occurs only within the range of about 6.2 to about 7.5. Optimal growth takes place at a pH of approximately 7.0.
The cultivation procedure involves adding the salts to water in the above listed order followed by pasteurization or autoclaving if desired. It is not absolutely essential that the culture medium be sterilized prior to introduction of the microorganism since the organism is able to grow at such high methanol levels that there is not much competition from other organisms. This is a distinct advantage as regards several of the particular use applications for which these microorganisms are especially suited. Moreover, the property makes it possible to operate the fermentation process as a continuous process. Methanol is then added to the salt solution at approximately room temperature. When solid media is desired to carry the organism, 1.75% Bacto Agar may be added to the salts before pasteurization or autoclaving. Growth is carried out preferably at about 30� C. in a shaker-incubator (controlled environmental incubator shaker, New Brunswick Scientific Company, Incorporated) utilizing one liter shaker flasks filled with from about 200 to 400 milliliters of broth. Growth times are normally from about 48 to 96 hours. After this period a highly viscous slime has been produced in the culture broth.
Recovery of the fermentation produce may be accomplished in conventional ways utilizing acetone, methanol, propanol, quaternary ammonium salts, etc. as precipitants. Use of acetone has proven to be most appropriate according to the present invention. Accordingly, the broth culture can be first centrifuged for a period of from 10 to 20 minutes to remove some of the bacterial cells, and the clarified, slightly yellow supernatant decanted from the centrifuge to leave a cell pellet behind. To this supernatant is added from 1.2 to 2.0 parts by volume of acetone, preferably 1.5 parts, per part of supernatant, and the mixture is well mixed. The biopolymer is obtained as a light-colored cottony precipitate. It is then drained, placed into from 2 to 3 parts of fresh acetone to remove as much water as possible, and finally dried at room or elevated temperature to give a dry, powdery product. The average yield of polymer after 48 hours, based on methanol used is about 40 percent. About 20 to 25% of the methanol is converted to cell mass.
To determine the chemical identity of the biopolymer, a variety of tests were performed. By running a UV spectrum (Perkin Elmer No. 202 Spectrophotometer) on the cell-free sample, it is determined that the biopolymer contains no protein or nucleic acids since there are no peaks at 280nm or 260nm. The tests for polybeta-hydroxybutyric acid is negative (method of Law and Slepecky). The iodine test (method of Daniel and Neal) indicates that the polymer is not starch or glycogen, whereas an ash test discloses that 39.4% of the crude polymer is inorganic. An infra-red spectrum suggests the presence of phosphate groups, carboxyl groups and possibly amine groups among the sugar molecules. The anthrone method for total carboxydrate shows the polymer to contain from 18 to 22% carbohydrate, and the Nelson method indicates a content of reducing substances of 20%. Finally, all of the polymer is precipitated from solution by the addition of a cationic detergent, cetyl trimethylammonium bromide. A table summarizing these results is presented below.
TABLE 1______________________________________Assay Result______________________________________(1) UV Spectrum No protein or nucleic acids(2) Polybeta- Negative testhydroxybutericacid(3) Iodine test Not starch or glycogen(4) Ash test 39.4% inorganic content(5) IR spectrum Presence of phosphate, carboxyl and amine groups suggested(6) Anthrone test 18 to 22% carboyhydrate (based on glucose); cationic detergent polymer is negatively charged and precipitates completely______________________________________
An elemental analysis performed on the biopolymer, twice reprecipitated, gives the following results:
TABLE 2______________________________________Element Per Cent By Weight______________________________________P 6.24Ca 0.144K 12.00Mg 0.600Na 3.500N 2.00 Concentration ppmZn 356.0Mn 9.6Fe 77.6Cu 15.2B 5.6Al 135.2______________________________________
After acid hydrolysis, gas chromatographic analysis of the constituent sugars showed the following molar ratios: glycose 9 - 10; galactose 5 - 6; mannose 4 - 5.
Some of the physical properties of the biopolymer were studied, for example, solutions of the polymer were measured for viscosity at 25� C. under a variety of conditions. The measurements of viscosity were made with a Brookfield viscometer at 30 r.p.m. in all cases. A curve showing viscosity (in centipoise) as a function of weight percent polymer is presented in FIG. 1.
The intrinsic viscosity of the polymer in five percent sodium chloride was 14.8 deciliters per gram, which indicates a fibrous rather than globular macromolecule of molecular weight in the range one to five million. The effect of sodium chloride concentration on the viscosity of a solution of polymer was tested by adding dry sodium chloride to a 1% solution of redissolved acetone-precipitated polymer. The curve in FIG. 2 illustrates that the viscosity was stable over a wide range of salt concentrations, a factor of significant importance in certain of the utility applications contemplated for the present biopolymer. Also, in FIG. 2 is shown the effect of pH on solution viscosity. These data were obtained by the addition of potassium hydroxide or sulfuric acid to adjust the pH of 1.0% solutions of polymer in water. It can be seen that the viscosity rose from pH 7.0 to a maximum at pH 4.0, then declined as the pH was lowered further. The viscosity gradually declined as the pH was raised above 7.0. The addition of 10% sulfuric acid did not hydrolyze the polymer in solution whereas the addition of 10% potassium hydroxide did.
The biopolymer according to the present invention were found to produce a very interesting drag reduction phenomenon. Drag reduction experiments were conducted on solutions of the biopolymer utilizing the technique described by Rodriguez in Engineering Education (to be published, 1973). The parameters adopted for the apparatus were as follows: reservoir height = 4 feet, horizontal tube diameter = 0.29 cm., length of horizontal tube = 59 cm., vertical distance of effluent point to measuring point = 6 inches. In FIG. 3 is illustrated the reduction in the friction factor of the polymeric solution as a function of weight percent cell-free polymer at 30� C. Experiments were also conducted to verify the fact that the drag reduction occurred due to a true solution of polymer and not due to particulates.
The biopolymer according to the present invention was found to be comparable in its drag reducing capability to the more conventionally employed polyethylene oxide and polyacrylamide polymers and also to other organic materials displaying drag-reducing properties, such as carrageenan. Because of the cheapness and ready availability of methanol, which constitutes the sole source of carbon for the present biopolymers, there results a significant economic advantage to utilizing the polymers of the present invention as drag-reducing agents as well as in other utilities. Moreover, whereas polyethylene oxide is subject to breakdown in molecular weight during flow due to turbulent conditions and therefore tends to degrade after one or two passes through a pipe flow system, the biopolymers of the present invention have been found to be highly resistant to such shear degradation. Thus, a solution of the present polymer was passed through the test apparatus 15 times and no degradation was observed. Exposure of a drag-reducing solution of the instant polymer in a Waring blender for a period of 2 minutes degraded the biopolymer, as would be expected, and the reduction in the solution's friction factor was decreased significantly. FIG. 4 illustrates the non-Newtonian property illustrated by a solution (10 gm/l.) of the crude polymer.
The biopolymers of the invention have been found to be particularly useful in several types of applications. For example, as a result of their exhibition of drag-reducing properties in dilute aqueous solutions, they are particularly suited for use in fire fighting equipment to enable propulsion of a stream of water over longer distances, for addition to storm sewer systems in periods of heavy water loads, for application to nautical vessels to assist in increasing speed through the water, for improvement of the operation of papermaking processes and for use in general in recirculating aqueous systems. Typically, the polymers are employed in an aqueous solution in a concentration of from about 0.02 to about 0.20 grams per liter.
The biopolymers of the present invention are also useful as thickening agents. In addition to finding utility as thickeners in conventional applications such as in foods, cosmetics, paints and the like, the present biopolymers have proved to be particularly well suited for various drilling field applications in the petroleum industry. For example, an excellent drilling mud is obtained when the mucopolysaccharide is employed as a thickener in an amount of from about 0.05 to about 3.0 percent by weight of the composition. Moreover, because the biopolymers of the present invention are anionic polymers and because they maintain their viscosity in the presence of sodium chloride, they are particularly well suited for use in flooding compositions employed in the secondary recovery of petroleum products in subterranean cavities. Also, because the fermentation process utilized in the preparation of these biopolymers employs only an aqueous solution of inorganic salts plus methanol, it is relatively insensitive to the competition of other microorganisms, and further, because methanol concentrations can be made as high as 3-5% at which level most other organisms are inhibited, the present polymers lend themselves ideally to preparation directly in the drilling field, a location which is also typically close to an inexpensive supply of methanol. A typical flooding composition may contain between about 0.01 percent and about 1.0 percent by weight of the heteropolysaccharide of the invention. The polysaccharides of the present invention are employed in accordance with conventional principles, and for further information regarding the use of biopolymers in the aforementioned utilities, reference may be had to U.S. Pat. No. 3,020,207, No. 3,243,000 and No. 3,406,114. The present biopolymer is also useful as an emulsifier, flocculent or deflocculent, and as a soil suspending agent.
The following examples are included to more clearly illustrate the invention, it being understood that the same are merely intended to be illustrative and not in any sense limitative.
350 milliliters of a culture broth having the following composition are sterilized for 20 minutes at 120� C.:
______________________________________Material Grams Per Liter______________________________________KH2 PO4 3.75Na2 HPO4 2.50(NH4)2 SO4 2.00MgSO4 . 7H2 O 0.40Ca(NO3)2 . 4H2 O 0.025FeSO4 . 7H2 O 0.005ZnSO4 . H2 O 0.005______________________________________
The above was mixed with 3% by volume of methanol, inoculated with the strain Methylomonas mucosa and was cultivated with shaking at 30� C. for 72 hours. The pH is metered constantly and appropriate amounts of KOH or H2 SO4 are added to maintain the pH at 7.0.
At the end of the fermentation time, the broth culture is centrifuged at 20,000 g. for 15 minutes to remove some of the bacterial cells. Then acetone is added in an amount of 1.5 volumes per volume of broth supernatant obtained by decanting the clear, slightly yellow liquid from the centrifuge tube, leaving the cell pellet behind. The acetone-broth combination is mixed well and cell-free polymer is recovered as a light-colored cottony precipitate. The polymer is drained, then placed into 2 parts of fresh acetone to remove as much water as possible, and is finally dried at room temperature for 24 hours. 3.2 grams of the crude solid polymer are obtained having an analysis as follows:
1. Organic matter 62.6%
a. glucose 10.7%
b. mannose 4.1%
c. galactose 5.2%
pyruvic acid 16.0%
e. unidentifiables 26.6%
2. Inorganic matter 37.4%
a. phosphates 19.1%
b. cations 18.3%
The dispersant action of the biopolymer is demonstrated in a test wherein 0.2 gms ZnO powder suspended in 250 ml of distilled water was allowed to settle in a graduated cylinder. After 30 minutes the upper layer (5 ml sample) was tested for light transmission (Bausch and Lomb, Spectronic 20 meter).
______________________________________ Optical Density Reading______________________________________No addition of biopolymer 0.24With 1 part biopolymer per 100 0.28parts ZnOWith 2 parts biopolymer per 100 0.40parts ZnO______________________________________
While the present invention has been described hereinabove with reference to several specific embodiments thereof, it is readily apparent that minor modifications, alterations and substitutions may be made in the processes of preparing and using the subject heteropolysaccharide polymer without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, it is intended that the invention be limited only by the scope of the claims appended hereto.
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|Jul 6, 1961
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|Western Co Of North America
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|Nov 30, 1966
|Dec 3, 1968
|United States Steel Corp
|Method of flocculating solids
|Dec 8, 1967
|Jul 14, 1970
|Shell Oil Co
|Process for facilitating pipeline flow of highly viscous liquids
|Oct 8, 1969
|Jul 25, 1972
|Shell Oil Co
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|Mar 2, 1970
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|J Patton
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|Publication date
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|Nov 20, 1984
|Lever Brothers Company
|Detergent composition containing a microbial heteropolysaccharide stabilizing agent
|Mar 16, 1983
|May 21, 1985
|Colgate-Palmolive Company
|Non-antimicrobial deodorant cleansing composition
|Dec 19, 1983
|Jul 29, 1986
|University Of South Alabama
|Inhibition of inorganic or biological CaCO3 deposition by synthetic polysaccharide derivatives
|Jan 30, 1986
|Nov 29, 1988
|The Procter & Gamble Company
|Shampoo compositions containing nonvolatile silicone and xanthan gum
|Sep 27, 1985
|Dec 27, 1988
|Petroleum Fermentations N.V.
|Bioemulsifier-stabilized hydrocarbosols
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|Apr 18, 1989
|Petroleum Fermentations N. V.
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|Feb 27, 1990
|Jul 16, 1991
|Kao Corporation
|Detergent composition containing polianthes L-derived acidic heteropolysaccharide
|May 1, 1990
|Apr 12, 1994
|The Procter & Gamble Company
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|May 23, 1995
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|Pre-atomized fuels and process for producing same
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|Mar 3, 1982
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|U.S. Classification
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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