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Thank you for visiting our website! I hope that you find it to be a helpful resource and I'm so glad you made your way to this blog. A year ago I took on a new role at CEE as the Assistant Head of School after directing our Lower Elementary Programs for the previous five years. In my capacity as Assistant Head I also oversee grades 4-6, and my blog entries from 7/2015 on reflect that work. You can still find posts from my time as Lower Elementary Director on this blog as well. I look forward to my continued work with our outstanding faculty and staff, dedicated board and administrative team, and, within the Upper Elementary division, 180 of the most amazing children you will ever meet! I will use this space to highlight their good work, to reflect on teaching and learning, and to pose questions aimed at helping me to improve the experience of all of our students.
Marybeth HeydAssistant Head of School
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I'm hoping that having the theme song from Rent stuck in your head will distract you from the fact that for me, the answer is clearly not "In well-timed blog entries!"
This has been a year like no other at CEE, and yet it has been my goal all year for it to be business as usual for our students. With countless celebrations of our 75th anniversary, a head search and appointment of our fabulous new leader, Mark Brooks, and the launch of our master plan and campus renovation/expansion, it hasn't been easy. But just as in any other year, we had ups and downs, teaching and learning, laughter and tears, and thousands of special moments to remember. Some were captured here as part of our 75 Acts of Kindness efforts. Others were memorialized in a beautiful 75th anniversary magazine, which reported on the many events and celebrations honoring our school and our leader, Reveta Bowers. And of course countless more live on in the stories our students will tell their cousins, grandparents and camp friends this summer when recapping their Kindergarten, 3rd grade, or 6th grade year.
Blogging most definitely took a backseat this year as these other opportunities to reflect and rejoice took precedence. But I am excited to return to this space this summer, with so much change and transition to process. There are, and will always be, wonderful stories to share about what's going on at CEE!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Our family celebration fills me with indescribable happiness, and after reading this article, I understand why.
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving!
This past week, CEE devoted time over the course of three days to giving our elementary teachers an intensive professional development experience here on campus. With a team of substitute teachers lined up for multiple days, we brought in an outside literacy consultant who spent a full day with our K/1, 2/3, and 4/5/6 teaching teams.
Teachers, learning specialists, and administrators engaged in rich professional dialogue about readers and writers and how they interact with the literacy curriculum through interactive writing and responding to text, and with one another in literature circles and guided reading groups. We discussed fluency, comprehension, and reading for meaning, and marveled at the power of reading rich texts aloud to students no matter how old they are or how well they can read on their own. The time allowed for cross-grade level conversations and important glimpses into the teaching and learning going on school-wide.
So what is the answer? How is reading words different than reading language? The ultimate answer that we came to as a group is that reading is the construction of meaning. All of pieces that go into reading puzzle are ultimately to help children construct meeting from the printed world around them.
We are in the beginning stages of our admissions season here at CEE, with open house presentations, tours by our wonderful parent docents, and Kindergarten coffees filling up our calendar. One of my favorite parts of being involved in the admissions process is hearing the kinds of questions parents have about our school, our teachers, and our philosophy and approach. I am always fascinated by the questions people have during interviews; they reveal so much about what is important to them and I know that my answers may sway them in one direction or another, so I try to be extra-thoughtful when I respond.
"How innovative are you?" is a question we may be asked by a prospective parent - it is after all a buzz word in education at the moment. Insert just about any adjective in lieu of innovative, and you'd have an interesting list of questions. How academic are we? How play-based are we? How progressive are we? For me, these questions conjure up competition, ranking, and a fixed mindset. If a prospective family asks this kind of question during the admissions process, it is easy for us to give an answer like "very," or "not at all," more or less ending the conversation.
"How are you innovative?" is another kind of question, one that implies a growth mindset, flexibility, and possibility. When asked how we are innovative (or academic, or play-based, or progressive), anyone in our community should be able to give examples, and talk, to take it even further, about why we are innovative. By shifting words around, we move from a simple answer to a complex conversation - which is what the admissions process should be about.
Making the right decision about where to send your child to school is not a simple choice, it is a complex process, and we honor that by engaging in thoughtful dialogue with our prospective families. It is a role that I cherish and I look forward to an admissions season full of interesting conversations and insightful questions. I'm grateful to have had the chance to hear Tiffany Hendryx speak at the ERB conference a few weeks ago - her work around helping schools tell their innovation (and other!) stories was a huge source of inspiration.
Another acceptable answer: There is a lot going on at CEE these days!
The shot of our sixth graders in front of the Washington monument should speak for itself. We had an action-packed and exciting 4 days taking our 58 oldest students to our nation's capital during the first week of October. The kids were curious, thoughtful, energetic and engaged as we took it all in: Smithsonians, monuments, the Capitol Building, the Holocaust Museum, the Newseum and more. Much gratitude to our three 6th grade teachers, along with Deedie, Gabby, and Matt, for their tireless efforts to guide and supervise this unforgettable trip.
The middle photo is from our most recent shared professional development experience here at school. We spent the morning with improv expert and trainer, Laura Derry, who opened up our minds to the improv tenet of "Yes, and" as opposed to "Yes, but." With exercises that forced us to listen actively and to embrace vulnerability, Laura invited us to think about our workplace culture and the culture of our classrooms. Through laughter and flexibility, we all challenged ourselves to the openness and unconditionally support needed to make improv (and arguably, a healthy work environment) successful.
And finally, the last picture is of our 4th graders engaged in "silent dialogue." After reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Cant Stop Talking, one of our faculty summer books, teachers are looking at ways to engage all kinds of learners without relying solely on students raising their hands to answer questions verbally. These students, who were coming up with an entire class constitution and agreed-upon norms for class government without saying a word, were deeply absorbed in the task and engaged not only with the learning but with each other.
Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult, posed this question to a group of parents, educators, and mental health professionals last week at Beit T'Shuvah in Los Angeles. Having read the book over the summer, I was eager to spend time in Julie's presence, hearing her stories directly and reflecting further on the issues of overparenting and its effects on our children. I cringed at this question and at so much of what she had to say, acknowledging my own struggle to model the kind of parenting I intellectually understand and value, but that I find so difficult to undertake given where (and when) my husband and I are raising our children.
Julie is a dynamic and passionate speaker whose work as a freshman dean at Stanford University gives her a unique perspective on what we in primary and secondary education might think of as the "end result" - bright and successful young people who have gained admission to a prestigious university and should be poised and ready to take on its challenges. But she has found so many of these bright and successful young people to be increasingly anxious, unsure of themselves, helpless even; they lack the self-efficacy, agency, and contingency that are so critical to human development and particularly to this phase of growth and change. That made her worry, and the result is quite literally the book - which I cannot recommend highly enough.
Addressing a diverse crowd in a sacred space (Beit T'Shuvah is both an addiction treatment center and a Jewish congregation), Julie did not hold back with her direct challenges and responses to some tough questions. She spoke of admissions candidates at Stanford being more interesting on paper than they were in person: kids who were able to say what they had done in their quest for a coveted spot, but not why. She warned well-meaning parents that in engineering the failure out of our children's lives, we are taking away their greatest teacher. And she asked the question that I started this post with - a pointed reminder that has stuck with me for the past week.
How to Raise an Adult has been getting wonderful press, along with The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey (which I'm currently reading). The two authors were recently featured in a fabulous NPR story about what they are calling an "overparenting crisis." My challenge therefore is not a lack of information but finding ways to gently guide parents towards it. Recommending these two books is certainly one of them, but I know that as an elementary school administrator, the work that lies ahead of me will be creating and supporting systems and an educational program that foster the self-efficacy, agency, and contingency Julie emphasizes. And this will require me to pivot, to step back, to move away from the "checklisted childhood." I will need to accept the vulnerability that comes with this choice, which I make among my fellow parents in a community that cares so passionately about our kids.
This is the question I asked the upper elementary division faculty to consider as we gathered for the first time. Teachers returned on Monday for a week of preparation and planning before students arrive next Tuesday. With the idea that good schools are defined by the relationships between the teachers who work there in mind, I wanted us to be thinking of those relationships as we set collaborative professional learning goals. After reflecting on all of the changes and transitions that lie ahead for us this year, teachers met in a variety of groups - teaching teams, grade level teams, curricular teams - to answer that question: how do they want to spend their time together this year? Do they want to celebrate? Reflect? Evaluate student work? Explore? Ask more questions? Their responses will help me plan our meeting and professional development times so that they are efficient, productive, and meaningful - and I know that I will be held to a greater level of accountability for having approached the planning this way. The hope of course is that every meeting, every chance to learn as a group, will elevate the teaching of everyone involved. In our quest for a professional culture of inquiry, this opening gathering felt like a good first step! I'm grateful to be surrounded by such passionate educators who also happen to really care for each other.
I would invite classrooms, families, and other teams to consider this question as we begin what is sure to be a very exciting year at CEE.
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I had the opportunity to experience a week of fantastic professional development in New York City with one of our second grade teachers this summer. Betsy and I attended the Institute on the Teaching of Writing at Teachers College along with 1200 other educators from around the world. Even though we spent our days in separate sessions, she and I would walk the 40 blocks back to our hotel in the afternoon talking a mile a minute about writing, teaching, learning, and our students. I am enormously grateful to have had the chance to spend this week with Betsy and am eager to regroup with her and our other teachers who had attended the institute once the school year starts.
I had time to reflect during the week about my own experience learning to write, my "writing life," and how I see myself as a writer today. We all agree on the importance of our kids writing well and seeing themselves as writers. However, it is a subject in which teachers don't always feel confident and well-equipped, and in which administrators (myself included) need help in order to adequately support said teachers. One way to do so is certainly to learn alongside them, as I had the privilege of doing at TC. There is no substitute for experiencing the same training from the same experts when it comes to sharing that sense of inspiration and wonder along with a promise of accountability. That said, I was struck by another kind of network of teacher support that existed not only in the moment but long after the institute ended, and that for me included teachers who were all the way back in Los Angeles.
I'm talking of course about the virtual network of social media, and in particular Twitter. #TCRWP (Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, who ran the Institute) dominated my Twitter feed for the week, and I found myself connecting in a very different way with people who were sitting in the same room as me, hearing the same powerful words from the same eloquent speakers. 1200 participants and a non-stop week of learning means that there is very little time for processing information with the stranger next to you who might be from thousands of miles away. But to read about how a keynote might have impacted a fellow participant, or to see an piece of research posted that directly supports something someone learned in a small group session was certainly the next best thing. It was the first time that I really used Twitter in this way, and I was surprised at how much it shaped my experience. I also felt a funny sort of sense of responsibility to the teachers back at school who I knew were following my tweets, and I wrote them in a way that I hoped would give them tiny glimpses of what it was like to be there in person. During a week that invited me to look at my own writing for insight into the teaching of writing, it was a metacognitive experience that I tremendously valued.
Below are a few of the top tweets of the week, along with a brief explanation/interpretation. If I've done a good job, maybe you too will feel like you were there in the Big Apple with Betsy and me!
"Kids need teachers who teach them writing, not who act as their editors." This was a reminder from Carl Anderson, an expert practitioner in the teaching of writing whose specialty is conferring with students. (The question above - "What are you working on as a writer?" - comes from his suggestions for how to start a conversation with a student about his or her writing) He had us all think back to our "writing teachers," who most likely took our pieces and marked them up with red pen. Truly teaching writing is not editing our kids' work for them - it is much harder, much more authentic, and requires us to know them much better.
"Revision is living in the company of your topic." This was a quote from Lucy Calkins, who is the writing guru behind the whole Project at Teachers College. She talked about revision as really allowing yourself to be immersed in your topic, whether it's everything you know about soccer or your baby brother's bathtime, and reading your writing again, having decided, "This time when I read my work I'm going to look for this."
"When you read your piece, read it like it's gold." I loved this reminder, again from Lucy Calkins. Chances are, if children read their writing aloud as if they really like it, treasure it almost, then they will deepen their connection to that writing and be more invested in it.
This wasn't a tweet per se but I really hooked into this idea as a parent: that I can help my kid become a better writer by orally rehearsing storytelling with her. So much of what makes up good writing is good storytelling, and kids don't need to know how to write a single word in order to tell stories well. Eventually, that ability really lifts the level of writing - and it feels good that there is something fun and seemingly organic-feeling that parents can do to support their kids in this area.
"Off you go!" Lucy Calkins encourages us to send kids off to write using those words, and they are powerful, conveying encouragement with high expectations, and excitement about the task at hand. Exactly how we hope our kids feel as they set out to become writers!
That's my high school locker combination.
Whether it's because I still have dreams that I can't open my locker or because of some strange neural pathways that have been formed in my brain, more than 20 years after graduating from high school, I still know it by heart. However, that does not, as I learned last week, make me in any way able to teach the seemingly simple skill of using a combination lock. Allow me to explain...
The second to last day of school at CEE includes a special ritual called Step-Up Day. Students in grades K-5 spend the final hour of the day visiting the classrooms they'll join in the fall. It's a way to end the year with a little hint of what's to come next, and teachers enjoy the opportunity to meet their new students. I spent some time visiting 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms during Step-Up Day and witnessed everything from cozy gatherings to dance parties:
You may notice that the bottom right picture contains students who seem a little older than 8 or 9, and you're right. My final visit on Step-Up Day was to the 4th floor of Building C, where our rising 6th graders were meeting their new teachers and asking a ton of questions about next year. I spent some time listening to the discussion, because I will be learning alongside them in the fall as I transition to my new role overseeing the Upper Elementary Division. As much as I was learning about the curriculum and expecations from the students and the teachers, it became clear that the biggest step of all was about to take place outside the classroom, in the long 6th grade hallway.
Students watched a riveting YouTube video about opening a locker, reviewed the steps several times with the teachers, and were released to the hall where each locker had a Post-It revealing its combination. And what followed was an excellent reminder about teaching and learning, and how some things never get any easier.
The notions of clockwise and counterclockwise became more relevant than ever in this situation. Precision is key when you're opening a locker; there is no autocorrect that will fill in the number you intended to land on. I saw kids using their right hand to turn the dial to the right, and switch hands to use their left hand to turn it to the left, an interesting (if ineffective) technique. I saw kids for whom things tend to come easily grow unbelievably frustrated, and I saw others whose faces could only be described as ecstatic at the sight of an open locker door. And for me, teaching skills that I drew on to try and help were not always, well, helpful - especially when it became clear after several tries that one student had the wrong combination written on the locker he was trying to open.
The whole scene just reminded me that even though these are our oldest elementary students, about to embark on an academically rigorous and incredibly busy year, they are still kids. I'm not saying that my (hopefully appropriate) anxiety about working with older students was suddenly erased, but it was certainly a good reality check - for me and for them. I have joked with parents that first graders will tell you the hardest thing about leaving Kindergarten is having to climb a big flight of stairs to get to their classrooms. For now, I'd love to think that the kids in the class of 2016 think that the hardest thing about 6th grade will be opening their lockers.
The other thing that never gets any easier is saying goodbye. It has been a year of celebrating the seven members of our faculty and staff who are retiring, and on the last day of school the celebrations drew to an emotional end. It has become customary for administrators to honor retirees at our end-of-the-year luncheon with parting words and a gift, and retirees in turn share their thoughts as they prepare to start the next phase of their lives. I was so touched by the goodbyes from our "Magnificent Seven," and am grateful to each and every one of them.
Here's to you, Helen, Lisa, Marcella, Keven, Marcia, Faige, and Lois.
Well they were right!The Story Pirates came to CEE earlier this month, and we couldn't have been happier about their takeover of our Community Center.
The Story Pirates are a traveling band of actors who read countless stories submitted by kids from across the country and turn these tales into musical skits which they perform as a troupe. Our 3rd and 4th graders wrote stories for them to consider and they selected four to produce and perform at an assembly of K-4th grade students.
Here are our proud resident authors with the actors who brought their pieces to life:
Harry (4AB), Ellie (3AB), Daylin (3CD) and Lucas (4CD) wrote stories that ranged from an epic tale of a century-long war to a vignette about friendship, math, and gymnastics. Characters included a cheese-obsessed mummy, a New York City cab driver, and many others - and every story was accompanied by costumes, music, and plenty of jokes. These students had no idea their stories would be performed until the actors announced each act, and the combination of pride, shock, and curiosity were evident on each of their faces as their names were called out. It was so special for their classmates and our younger students to share in their delight, along with their families, who had been invited to join in the fun!
The Story Pirates ended the show by inviting every child who had submitted a story to stand and take a bow - acknowledging their hard work and hopefully inspiring them and their younger peers to truly see themselves as writers. We start talking as early as Kindergarten in Writing Workshop about writing for an audience, and I can't imagine a more amazing example of that than what these our student-authors experienced.
The Story Pirates returned each original story with a handwritten note giving the author authentic praise and constructive criticism -
In reading these thoughtful notes, any trace of disappointment about their story not being performed disappeared from our kids' faces. They truly appreciated the time and the feedback, which they know are part of the writing process.
We can't wait to welcome the Story Pirates back soon!
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Clearly the street is expecting dismal results this quarter and only the companies can prove them wrong. BHI, HAL, SLB are all down so it's not RES's performance problem.
"At the end of the day if you really want to make money on the stock market you've got to be willing to bet on a stock that seems out of favor with the market. "
Two comments.
First, investing statistics disprove this statement, with a very high probability. Stocks that outperform tend to continue to outperform, and the opposite is also true.
As to RES, I had made a bubdle on BAS, sold well over 30, bought back heavy at 19, thot I was in for another ride, and it's been dead money for a long time.
BAS has a lot of similarities to RES. Bot oil svcs, both have good EPS and rev, both seem very cheap, and neither moving an inch.
Yes, Indeed. what i see distressful and contradictory is that in the last 6 months :oil has gone up 20% and gas has gone down 60%. That trend i think will be short lived.
My thinking is that the selloff is overdone--the market tends to over-correct on both the upside and downside--and that RPC has been driven down to ridiculously low levels for no especially good reason.
Whatever happens it almost certainly isn't going out of business, and it could rocket up 30% or more even moderately good news.
At the end of the day if you really want to make money on the stock market you've got to be willing to bet on a stock that seems out of favor with the market.
Insider-shorts were indeed right during the first 5 months on record as shown by net trades favor of dispposal (in fact all of them)side at prices much higher than 15p/s.
Nevertheless their last call in march (adquisitions) came catastrofically wrong and too early as prices keept sliding under 15 p/s .
Hope i made my point clearer.Sorry the clumsy spelling...its jettisome time here.lol
Inside-shorts were indeed right with 5 months of dispposals of RES shares at prices much higher than 15 p/s.Nevertheless their last call in march catastrofically wrong as historical prices show.IMAO.
I gave a third look at the res stadistics and i could see: 1- short shares increased from last month though not in a worrisome amounth.2-Insiders were dispossing(selling) stocks prior to march ,lasts trades were only purchases and i am talking at a price of 15,+ per stock,after that price went were it is now.So in a sense i believe insiders were overrun by a deppresed market.
But their judgement somehow make them believe the stock was oversold at 15,+.
if that is so,then this has become a very interesting stock.
Any additional comment welcome.Thks.
I appreciate your response.
First i aggree with you that this could be a good value stock.
As you clearly state your two main worries.% insider ownership and high short ratio.
I can only add that some very witty big name investors W.Buffet-P.Lynch
have state that high insider ownership is desirable,nevertheless i dont know what is the ideal %.I tried a small chinese stock with very high insider ownership and Shazzammmm..my money disappeared.
On the contrary i tried MT an indian megacomp based in Luxemburg ,high insider ownership and i was rewarded.So you are right ,the question is "who"do u put your money with.
As for the high short ratio,i have the impression that the whole sector (small players) might have been affected due their exposure to nat-gas(not quite sure).
Now what i see interesting is that certainly i see your point ,hight short ratio together with high ownership and i would add that the short ratio increased from last month...mmmm what do insiders know ??big question.but indeed more research to be done at this point.
Best .
Yes, I understand RES not a producer. I was thinking the cheaper NG gets, the fewer wells that are operating, therefore, the reduced need for services.
On the surface, RES appears to be a good opportunity but this stock has been in steady decline since last Summer and that troubles me. I see some solid fundamentals here and a PEGY ratio of a great value play. Plus this is one of the few small-caps that offer a dividend at a decent payout ratio -- and a decent one at that.
I'm trying to understand why this is not a $20 stock right now. Why haven't more institutions piled on this thing? The 70% insider ownership bothers me and as does the 28% short position. Why are so many traders trying to short this thing? That's awfully high.
2011 10-k should be coming out sometime next week. I'll go over that, should be very informative.
I'm sorry to say it but I think this is going even lower than I was thinking. There are no short shares available and with any major market correction and a drop in oil and gold, I'm thinking $7.50 to 8 is looking possible. I'm out until some positive signs for this sector arise, which doesn't seem likely very soon. Sorry longs but it looks like dead money right now.IMO
I am new in this stock but this is my point:
We can see that..but WHY is this sector taking a beating? Oil is still at 105 $ wich is outstanding .
The only reason i see is Natural Gas slump..What could other reason involved ???


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|17 Mar 1970
|Filing date
|22 Sep 1967
|Priority date
|22 Sep 1967
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|Philip F Catalano, Edward D Higgins, Ernest W De Witt
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|Continental Can Co
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|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (16), Classifications (12)
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March 17, 1970 5w. DE win ETAL. 3,501,062
. POWDER DISPENSING DEVICE Filed Sept. 22, 1967 v I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTORS EIZNEST W. DeWlTT,
EDWARD D. MSG-INS &\ Pl-HLlP F. CATALANO 3 MATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,501,062 POWDER DISPENSING DEVICE Ernest W. De Witt, Chicago, Edward D. Higgins, Palos Heights, and Philip F. Catalano, Chicago, Ill., assignors to Continental Can Company, Inc., New York, N.Y., a
corporation of New York Filed Sept. 22, 1967, Ser. No. 669,897 Int. Cl. B67d /64, 5/54; B65g 3/12 U.S. Cl. 222--161 5 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to the field of coating wherein a spray nozzle is utilized to deposit a film of coating material upon an article. More particularly, the apparatus has special utility in coating the side-stripe seams of cans, or containers, wherein it is desirable to protect the seam area and beautify the finished container.
In the prior art, it has been generally the practice to coat side seam areas of containers with liquid lacquer carried in a suitable solvent. After application, the solvent evaporates and contaminates the surrounding atmosphere. The present invention is part of a system which avoids the use of solvents thereby avoiding the need for solvents and avoiding the contamination inherent in the prior art.
SUMMARY The present apparatus provides for continuously dispensing small quantities of dry resin powder for side-striping application. The powder dispenser consists basically of an aspirator assembly and a closed tank or reservoir wherein the powder is fluidized. The fluidized powder is accelerated through the aspirator and up a central spouting tube which terminates above the powder level and below the reservoir outlet. Since a positive pressure exists within the closed reservoir, the fluidized powder is continuously ejected to the outlet and into a small delivery tube which may be approximately Me" in inside diameter. The rate of powder flow is controlled by the internal pressure in the reservoir and by air flow at the opening of the aspirator assembly.
It is an object of this invention to dispense finely divided powders into a gaseous medium transport through narrow conduits or ducts.
A further feature of this invention is the provision of control over the quantity of powder aspirated into small diameter tubing.
Another, and perhaps the salient feature of this invention, is the provision of means for completely stopping the flow of powder without interrupting the gaseous fiow through the small ducts thereby avoiding clogging of the ducts during intermittent use.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the powder dispensing device and shows the device as being resiliently mounted upon supporting rails in order to allow the unit to vibrate in response to the input of the vibrator motor which is shown as being attached to a central chamber portion of the dispensing device.
FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along line 22 of FIGURE 1 and shows additional details of 3,501,062 Patented Mar. 17, 1970 the mounting means and also the interior of the upper funnel portion of the chamber.
FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line 33 of FIGURE 1 and shows a resilient grommet for dampening vibrations.
FIGURE 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 4-4 of FIGURE 1 and shows the interior of the powder dispensing device.
FIGURE 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 5-5 of FIGURE 4 and shows the interior arrangement of the lower chamber member.
FIGURE 6 is an enlarged sectional view, taken on line 66 of FIGURE 4, and shows the aspirating structure and apparatus for varying the powder-inlet passageway which leads to the exit port of the powder dispensing device.
FIGURE 7 is an enlarged sectional view of the aspirator tip.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT As is best shown in FIGURES 1 and 4, a powder dispensing device, generally indicated by the numeral 10, includes a center housing 12, an upper funnel section 14 and a lower funnel section 16. Suitable gaskets 18 and bolt means 20 provide a hermetic seal between the center housing 12 and the upper and lower funnel sections 14 and 16.
A fluidizing section, generally indicated by the numeral 22, includes a lower chamber member 23 which is con nected to the lower funnel section 16 by a flexible hose member 24. A support collar 26 is hermetically sealed to the lower funnel section 16 and suitable hose clamps 28 tightly seal the hose member 24 to the support collar 26 and lower chamber member 23.
As is best shown in FIGURES 1-3, the powder dispensing device 10 is preferably provided with a flange 30 which is attached to a support plate 30A which is resilient- 1y mounted upon a pair of support channels 32 by a series of flexible grommets 34 and bolt means 36. A vibrator 3'8 (commercially available as Vibco #US is fixedly secured to the center housing 12 by a suitable support plate 40, bracket 41 and bolt means 42. The purpose and function of vibrator 38 will be described later in further detail.
As is best shown in FIGURE 4, upper funnel section 14 is provided with a cap member 44 and tube 46. It is to be understood that the tube 46 provides an exit port from the powder dispensing device 10 and leads to suitable nozzles (not shown) which direct a powder spray upon that portion of an article which is being coated.
Drectly below the cap member 44 and tube 46, a hollow feed tube or spouting tube 48 is adjustably mounted within the powder dispensing device 10 by means of a plurality of support rods 50 and thumb screws 52, it being preferred that a collar 54 and setscrew 56 be provided above the upper support rods 50.
As is best shown in FIGURES 4 and 6, an aspirator tube 53 is mounted in alignment with hollow feed tube 48 and is adjustably mounted for sliding movement within a hollow stem member 60. Stem member 60 is internally threaded at its lowermost end and is provided with a tube fitting 62, packing 63 and adjustable nut 64 to provide a seal which can be adjusted to permit sliding movement of aspirator tube 58, which movement may be produced by fluid motor 66 and conventional clamp means 67. Hollow stem member 60 is fixedly secured to lower chamber member 23 by cap 68 and conventional capscrews 69.
A porous block 70 is seated upon a shoulder within lower chamber member 23 and secured thereto by suitable adhesives or the like. Porous block 70 is positioned so as to provide a plenum chamber 72 which is provided ith a flow of air, or other fluid, through an inlet port 72 means of a pump 74. A second flow of air, or other lid, is directed through aspirator tube 58 by means of a Imp 76.
As is best shown in FIGURES 6 and 7, aspirator tube i is provided with an aspirator tip 78 which is disposed ithin a cavity 80 formed in the uppermost end portion stem member 60. Hollow feed tube 48 has its lowerost portion disposed within cavity 80 and is provided ith a metering collar 82 which is adjustably mounted I means of set screw 84. The spacings between hollow ed tube 48, aspirator tube 58 and stem member 60 'ov de an adjustable gap or passageway, generally incated by the numeral 86, which can be adjusted in two fferent ways. First, gap 86 can be adjusted by movably )sitioning metering collar 82 along hollow feed tube 48, ereby varying the gap between collar 82 and hollow 2m member 60. Second, gap 86 can be adjusted, and at nes completely closed, by loosening the adjustable nut l and moving aspirator tube 58 relative to hollow feed be 48. As is apparent from FIGURE 7, aspirator tip i has a tapered portion 88 which cooperates with the wermost end portion of hollow feed tube 48 to provide sealing fit whereby adjustable gap 86 is completely shut f without interrupting the flow of air from pump 76 rough aspirator tube 58, through hollow feed tube 48, 1d through the exit port at tube 46. This feature of the vention allows the apparatus to purge the feed line to re nozzle (not shown) so that, when the system is being tut down, powder in the feed line does not settle and tuse blockage of the same.
As is shown by the broken line 90, in FIGURE 4, a lpply of finely divided powder is placed within center Jusing 12 and is supported therein by lower funnel secan 16. One known type of powder suitable for use with re Present apparatus is the powder which is commercialavailable as Armstrong Powder E7100; of course, other 'pes of powder, or toner, are commercially available 1d suitable for use. As is well known, such powders :adily become packed and take on the nature of a solid; 1e purpose of lower funnel section 16 is to cause the awder to pack about feed tube 48 and prevent a large lass of the powder from falling on to porous block 70 nd possibly clogging the gap or passageway 86.
During operation of the powder dispensing device 10, ibrator 38 causes a small portion of powder to gravitate nd feed downwardly toward fluidizing section 22. A ow of air from pump 74, into plenum chamber 72, passes trough porous block 70 and fluidizes the powder therebove such that the powder is aspirated, by the air flow trough the aspirator tip 78, through the gap 86 and rto the hollow feed tube or spouting tube 48. As is shown r FIGURE 4, the powder exits from tube 48, in the form f a'fountain, just below cap member 44 and tube 46. he dispensing device constitutes a pressure vessel such rat the air, or other gas, from pumps 74 and 76 create a ositive pressure therein and causes a flow of powder to Kit from the dispensing device 10 and become entrained l the feed lines which lead to nozzles (not shown). Deending upon the demand for powder, vibrator 38 can be antinuously, or intermittently, operated to cause addional powder to fall from lower funnel section 16 to- 'ard porous block 70.
It is easily understandable that if the flow of aspirating ir is discontinued, powder in the various tubes and feed nes would quickly come to rest and cause blockage of 1e apparatus. In order to prevent such undesirable reilts, aspirator tube 58 and aspirator tip 78 are moved :lative to feed tube 48 such that tapered portion 88 seats 'ithin the lowermost portion of feed tube 48 thereby pre- :nting additional powder from entering the feed lines 'ithout interrupting the flow of air from pump 76. Thus, 1e feed lines to the nozzles. which lines may be 10 to 1) feet long, can be completely cleared of powder,
As previously pointed out, the present invention is particularly useful for coating side seam areas of welded containers. When being used in such an environment, it has been found that tube 46, and the feed lines (not shown) should have dimensions approximately on the order of an outside diameter of 4;" and an inside diameter of approximately If the tubing is much larger, it becomes extremely difiicult to keep from greatly exceeding the maximum desired output of powder. Upon testing of the present apparatus, it was noted that there is a need to very accurately adjust the gap 86 through which the powder is aspirated. The necessary adjustment means has been provided by locating aspirator tip 78 within cavity 80 and providing metering collar 82 to prevent choking of the aspirator means with excessive quantities of powder.
While preferred forms and arrangement of parts have been shown in illustrating the invention, it is to be clearly understood that various changes in details and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
What is claimed is:
1. A powder dispensing device including a chamber for storing a quantity of powder particles, an exit port in said chamber, a hollow feed tube mounted in said chamber and having one end thereof located adjacent said exit port, an aspirator tube located adjacent the other end of said hollow feed tube, means for directing a flow of fluid through said aspirator tube into said hollow feed tube and through said exit port for causing powder particles to be drawn into said feed tube and forced through said exit port, a hollow stem mounted adjacent said other end of said hollow feed tube and surrounding said aspirator tube, a passageway formed between said hollow stem and said hollow feed tube, means for adjusting the size of said passageway including adjustable collar means mounted on said hollow feed tube adjacent said other end, and means for providing relative movement between said hollow feed tube and said aspirator tube for closing said passageway and shutting off flow of powdered particles through said exit port while maintaining said flow of fluid through said exit port.
2. A powder dispensing device including a chamber for storing a quantity of powder particles, an exit port in said chamber, a hollow feed tube mounted in said chamber and having one end thereof located adjacent said exit port, an aspirator tube located adjacent the other end of said hollow feed tube, means for directing a flow of fluid through said aspirator tube into said hollow feed tube and through said exit port for causing powder particles to be drawn into said feed tube and forced through said exit port, a hollow stem mounted adjacent said other end of said hollow feed tube and surrounding said aspirator tube, a passageway formed between said hollow stem and said hollow feed tube, and means for adjusting the size of said passageway including motor means for causing relative movement between said aspirator tube and said hollow stem.
3. A powder dispensing device including a chamber for storing a quantity of powder particles, an exit port in said chamber, a hollow feed tube mounted in said chamber and having one end thereof located adjacent said exit port and slightly spaced therefrom, an aspirator tube located adjacent the other end of said hollow feed tube, and means for directing a flow of fluid through said aspirator tube into said hollow feed tube and through said exit port for causing powder particles to be drawn into said feed tube and forced through said exit port, a porous block mounted adjacent a lowermost end of said chamber, and means for forcing a flow of gas through said porous block for fluidizing said powder particles adjacent said other end of said hollow feed tube.
4. A powder dispensing device as in claim 3 including vibrator means attached to said chamber for causing said powder particles to gravitate toward said porous block.
5. A powder dispensing device including a chamber for storing a quantity of powder particles, an exit port in said chamber, a hollow feed tube mounted in said chamher and having one end thereof located adjacent said exit port, an aspirator tube located adjacent the other end of said hollow feed tube, means for directing a flow of fluid through said aspirator tube into said hollow feed tube and through said exit port for causing powder particles to be drawn into said feed tube and forced through said exit port, a lower chamber member, means for mounting said aspirator tube in said lower chamber member, and flexible means connected between said chamber and said lower chamber member.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,029,718 5/1912 Rohrbacher 222 193 2,123,537 7/1938 Mart 222-193 FOREIGN PATENTS France.
France. Switzerland.
SAMUEL F. COLEMAN, Primary Examiner H. S. LANE, Assistant Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R.
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To Live Another Day
Episode Fifty-Two: Show Me How To Care
Lina's not so merry band of travelers was fully aware of the lovers' spat, or perhaps ex-lovers' spat, between Xellos and Filia. The same fact applied to the majority of the inn's current guests, yet the shouting had been so fierce that they dared not complain. At least the quarreling couple had quieted by now. While Filia enjoyed her stolen ice-cream on a rooftop somewhere in town, Xellos proceeded with his investigation. Sure, why not? He had already dragged his stubborn pride through the mud and danced a stupid little dance on top of it. So why shouldn't he ask all sorts of mortifying questions for the sake of survival?
Besides, he was Xellos; it took a lot to embarrass him. The part that really bothered him was how exposed he had been lately. It wasn't like back when they infiltrated that all female kingdom. He didn't have a big problem with parading around in a pretty dress, because back then he was still the trickster who was somewhat in control of the situation behind the scenes.
Okay, no more hesitation, Xellos knocked on Gourry's door. The sleepy blond opened it and blinked in surprised confusion. After a few more seconds of trying to figure out why Xellos was visiting him so late and failing miserably to do so, Gourry finally settled for voicing a simple, "hi."
"Hi," Xellos replied with a painted cheerful smile that was only all too fake. "Can I talk to you?"
"You already are," Gourry pointed out. He did have times when he came up with smart observations. They were very rare times that came once upon a blue moon.
"True," Xellos agreed without losing his grin. "I mean that I want to ask you something, not out in the hall."
"Okay, come in then." Gourry stepped aside, allowing Xellos passage into his room. "So what did you want to ask?" He curiously inquired.
Xellos figured that he might as well be direct. "How does one go about falling in love?"
Gourry tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Don't you already know that from experience with Filia?"
"Apparently not," Xellos admitted, "and I'm afraid I've heard nothing but bad things about the guidebooks they have available in libraries and cheesy bookshops." He was back into trickster mode with his usual abundant cheer and sarcastic remarks. He needed some familiarity in his own behavior if he was going to keep his sanity while facing all these insane hardships.
"Oh well, let's see," Gourry looked like he was thinking really hard, his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth in deep concentration. "You're in love when you want to be with someone, a lot. The one you love is like a part of your life that you would miss too much to let go of."
Did Xellos miss Filia? It was a bit soon to tell, he had seen her not too long ago. He did occasionally get a whim to visit her for no reason other than to annoy her in the past, but that certainly couldn't have been akin to love, not back then anyway, it was more like entertainment. As for something more recent, he had come up with a plan to continue seeing Filia even after he obtained his cure. Maybe that counted for something. "I see," it had taken Gourry a lot of effort just to come up with that reply, so Xellos decided not to push the poor guy into working too hard, least his single lonely brain cell die out on him. "Thanks for the information," Xellos smiled cheerfully like he used to do as a monster and let himself out of the room.
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Xellos then proceeded to knock on Lina's door and wait. He knocked again until the door was finally opened by a furious redhead. "This better be important!" She growled dangerously.
"Hello to you too, Lina," Xellos smiled, though he knew he better stop pushing his luck. "I wanted to ask for your insight about something."
"Something that couldn't wait until morning?" Lina demanded angrily.
Xellos ignored the complaint and continued. "How does one go about falling in love?"
"Excuse me? Why are you asking me such a thing?" Lina blushed, her face becoming as red as her hair.
"You're in love with your boyfriend, aren't you?" Xellos teased. "Oh, sorry, I meant to say that you're in love with your fiance. Lina Inverse loves Gourry Gabriev," Xellos couldn't help it, Lina was too much fun to tease sometimes.
"Go take out your heartbreak on someone else!" Lina shouted loudly, then slammed the door closed and locked it. Xellos was left standing in the hallway amused by her reaction, but knowing he just wasted his opportunity to get more information.
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Next in the agenda was visiting Zelgadis for more information on the same subject. Xellos knew that Zelgadis wouldn't be eager to talk to him, let alone in the middle of the night, but he would try anyway. Thus Xellos knocked on Zelgadis' door. Zelgadis opened the door with a noticeable red tint on his face, "Ame... Xellos?" The red color in Zelgadis' face went from representing infatuation to representing anger. "What are you doing here?"
Xellos found that maintaining his cheerful expression had become a little easier for the time in which he could witness Zelgadis' embarrassment with mocking eyes. "Why were you expecting Amelia here in the middle of the night?"
Blushing even more deeply, Zelgadis growled threateningly, "none of your business!"
"I'm sure it's not," Xellos grinned teasingly. "I don't want to end up playing the third wheel if she does come, which I honestly doubt will happen in spite of all your mischievous wishful thinking, so-"
"It's not like that!" Zelgadis snapped.
"Temper, temper, I just wanted to ask you a quick question, then I'll leave you to your much needed rest. You're so very grouchy right now," Xellos shook his index finger at Zelgadis, who was quite tempted to rip it off.
The chimera glared in a no nonsense sort of way, "ask your question and leave."
Again, Xellos tried to seek more information about the same matter. "How does one go about falling in love?"
"What?" Zelgadis snapped in annoyance. "What kind of a question is that?" He soon came up with a theory fueled by his lingering discomfort in his appearance, which Amelia was slowly healing. "Are you trying to tell me that no one could love a hideous freak like me?"
Xellos had to wonder where did Zelgadis get all that. The chimera had issues. Then again, Xellos was a mocking trickster, except this time he wasn't even trying. "That's not what I said."
"But you were thinking it!" Zelgadis yelled.
"No, I wasn't," Xellos pointed out as a matter of fact.
"Yes you were and I don't care!" Zelgadis shouted at the top of his lungs. "I don't care what you say, Amelia said I was cool, she accepts me as I am and I... I love Amelia!"
From Amelia's room, the princess loudly declared at the top of her lungs, "I love you too, Zelgadis!" The inn was feeling very much like a soap opera to those unfortunate enough to be stuck spending the night there. Zelgadis' blush deepened as he spaced out for a few seconds, then realized Xellos was staring at him and promptly closed the door on his face.
The randomness didn't end there, as Gourry suddenly called out from within his room, "I love you Lina!"
"What?" Lina exclaimed from her own room.
"I said I love you Lina!" Gourry repeated.
"Did you eat a poisonous octopus again? Why do I have to pay for the inn?" Lina argued loudly.
"I'm not speaking octopice, I really do love you!" Gourry replied, yelling to be heard from his room.
"Why are you yelling that out, you jellyfish brain?" Lina argued in the same shouting fashion that was keeping the whole inn awake.
"Because Zelgadis and Amelia did," Gourry explained. "Isn't that part of the game?"
"We're not playing any games! Those two were just being annoyingly random!" Lina yelled in exasperation. "Go to sleep, Gourry!" A few seconds of blissful silence passed before Lina added with a red face that the whole gang could clearly imagine, "I love you too!"
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The last person that Xellos had left to interrogate was Amelia, the ally of justice. Xellos knocked on her room and watched as she opened the door as if she was expecting him. "Come in, Mr. Xellos."
Xellos stepped inside wondering how Amelia had concluded that he would be coming by. "Was I expected?"
"Sort of," Amelia motioned towards the table where there was a large bowl of cookie dough and a pile of books. "Actually, I was expecting Filia. I picked out a few chick novels for us to read and got some cookie dough so that I could properly console her. I guess I'll console you instead. It must be hard going through difficulties in your love life while everyone else is so in love!"
"Maybe coming here was a bad idea," Xellos theorized.
"Poor Mr. Xellos!" Amelia dramatized with big shiny eyes. "I feel so sorry for you even if this whole painful break up was very likely all your fault!" She placed her hand on her forehead as she threw her head back dramatically.
"Coming here was definitely a bad idea," Xellos concluded.
"Don't be afraid to cry on a friend's shoulder! I'm here for you!" Amelia insisted.
"You know what?" Xellos tried to talk some sense into the imaginative hyper princess. "I feel better already just knowing I have the support of such a good friend. In fact I feel well enough to go get some sleep right now." Xellos picked up the cookie dough and took it with him. There was no sense in letting Amelia's kindness go to waste. "I'll see everyone in the morning and I'll be ready to face a brand new day and all that stuff."
"That's the spirit Mr. Xellos!" Amelia cheered with unnecessary loudness as Xellos made a hasty retreat. At least he got some cookie dough out of his otherwise unsuccessful venture. "Oh, wait Mr. Xellos!" She called out as he reached the door. "Before you leave there's something else I have to say." Taking a deep breath, Amelia dramatically confessed, "I lost the game."
"You did?" Well, that was random, but then again, Amelia was a very random girl. Even if Xellos knew it, her comment still felt like it came out of no where.
"Yes, when Mr. Gourry said 'the game', even if he wasn't talking about that game, it made me think of the game," the Seyruun princess explained.
"I see, that game." The game was something invented by humans. The goal of the game was to not think about the game itself. Ironically, trying to avoid thinking about something, often leads to thinking about it, hence the challenge. Some claim that everyone in the world is constantly playing the game, while others say that only those who know the rules of the game are playing the game. When one thinks about the game, that person must announce to someone else that they lost the game. The game would go on for all of eternity, for as long as a living creature still exists, some would say. Others claim that one day the Lord of Nightmares will publicly announce that the game is up and that will finally be the end of it. Then Xellos realized something, he was thinking about the game too. "I lost the game," he admitted before finally retreating, this time without any further interruptions.
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The next day, the group got up bright and early with a chorus of yawns. They checked out of the inn among the glares of other sleepless guests, had some breakfast and left town. Filia was still giving Xellos the silent treatment and refused to look at him, while Xellos had made little progress in devising a strategy to ensure his survival. It looked as if the trip would be quiet and tense, yet uneventful. That perception changed when two fully transformed golden dragons landed on the path in front of Lina and company.
"Filia Ul Copt," one of the dragons on the path spoke harshly, his voice full of bitter anger. They were both clearly warriors, more ferocious than most golden dragons. "When you left the golden dragons we cut all ties with you and left you for dead. However, the stain you have placed upon the golden dragon name is too great! How dare you spread the word that the priest of Beast Master is under our protection during his inexplicable time of weakness?"
"Yeah, how dare you?" The second dragon appeared to be even more ferocious than the first with bulging muscles well marked under his golden scales. Unfortunately, he didn't appear to have the brains to match his brawn.
"That's a lie!" Filia yelled bitterly. "I hate that piece of raw garbage! Besides, the whole misunderstanding started because he disguised himself as a golden dragon. I had nothing to do with it!"
"Silence traitor!" The leader of the two dragon warriors roared.
"Yeah, shut up you!" His muscular comrade added.
"We will clean the name of the golden dragons by destroying the beast priest!" The smarter of the two declared, though given his intended goal, one would have to question his intellect.
"We sure will, you just watch!" The other dragon emphasized.
Seeing that this argument would be pointless, Lina quickly devised a plan. She really didn't need the golden dragons making her bodyguard job more difficult than it was. Besides, what if they showed up while she was visiting her family? Luna wasn't supposed to know she was playing bodyguard for a monster! "Excuse me! Can I point something out?"
"Lina Inverse," the smarter dragon warrior recognized her with disdain. "If you wish to defend the traitor, don't bother wasting your breath!"
"Yeah, don't bother!" The muscle-head dragon echoed.
"Actually, I have an interesting piece of information for you." Cue some exaggerated melodrama from Lina. "We're all this horrible monster's hostages! His lack of power is all a lie. Xellos is stronger than ever, he's just hiding his power. Oh please mighty golden dragons, save us from annihilation! Though you might get annihilated yourselves in the process of our rescue, I know you'll be willing to make that noble sacrifice."
Xellos tried to look as confident as he always was as a monster, hiding his frustration well. He began a quiet inaudible chant. "Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the stream of time is where your power grows."
Amelia realized what Lina's plan was as well. If the golden dragons thought Xellos was as powerful as ever, they wouldn't dare go after him. "It's terrible, Xellos is too strong for us, but you might stand a chance, with an army or two... maybe." She glanced at Zelgadis to play along.
Xellos continued his quiet chant while the others distracted the dragons. "I pledge myself to conquer all the foes who stand, before the mighty gift bestowed in my unworthy hands."
Though Zelgadis wasn't particularly fond of Xellos, since Amelia was asking him to play along, he did. "There was that incident in the War of the Monster's Fall, but I'm sure the dragon race has learned from it and has much better battle tactics now, please save us!"
Xellos was almost ready to cast the spell. "Let the fools who stand before me be destroyed, by the power you and I possess."
Gourry wasn't sure what was going on, but that was normal for him. "We're Xellos' hostages? I thought he-" Before Gourry could mess up the act, Lina and Amelia, who were standing in front of Xellos, jumped to the left and right of him, allowing him a clear path to his target. Amelia and Zelgadis Ray Winged themselves away, taking along the distraught Filia. In the opposite direction, Lina casted Ray Wing as well, taking Gourry to safety with her.
"Dragon Slave!" The massive explosion of Xellos' spell left a large crater on the ground, filled with the ashes of what once was a very buff golden dragon.
The other golden dragon just barely survived, since he wasn't the primary target. He would be the messenger who lived to warn the golden dragons that Xellos was too strong to pick a fight with. The charred injured golden dragon, got up with some difficulty and a look of horror. "Lina Inverse, you and your perverse companions are on your own. You got what you deserved for siding with that monster. Miss Ul Copt, it still stands that you are not recognized as a golden dragon and I'm sure you will never again be a citizen of our race. None of you are worthy of being rescued by the golden dragons!" With that final declaration, the injured dragon warrior flew away as fast as he could.
Once the danger of being caught in the blast from the Dragon Slave had passed, the group rejoined Xellos in the middle of the path. There was something that the cursed monster turned human thought was peculiar about what that so called golden dragon warrior had said. "Filia, why did he say you're not a golden dragon?"
"Because I'm not, but what's it to you?" Filia exploded in anger. "It's not like you care about me! Why would it matter to you that I got kicked out of my own race after the Darkstar incident? I don't need my golden dragon citizenship anyway." She had lost her health plan along with her golden dragon citizenship, but she no longer needed to fill up a yearly income tax form for the golden dragons, so it all worked out in the end. Golden dragon tax rates were killer, how else would they afford all those fancy temples after human slavery was outlawed? Filia knew that managing her shop would be a lot more difficult if she was still a golden dragon citizen.
"You're not a golden dragon," Xellos repeated. Sure, she was of the golden dragon species, but not officially recognized as one of their own by her race. There was the loophole. His cure was the willing kiss of a golden dragon and since Filia wasn't legally a golden dragon, she didn't count as a golden dragon for the curse. Stupid picky curse.
Filia decided that she wouldn't dignify Xellos with any more words and set out ahead of the group. Gourry was looking around confused. "Are we really hostages? Because I don't feel like a hostage."
"No, Gourry, we're not hostages, that was just an act, but it's over now," Lina explained.
"Really?" Gourry blinked in his usual clueless fashion. "That's too bad, if I knew we were supposed to be acting I would have put up a really good hostage act!" Oh well, maybe next time he could participate.
Amelia looked at Filia as she wordlessly moved forward. One way or another she would help Xellos and Filia fix their problems and get together again. She didn't know how, but she would accomplish it. She would have to be sneaky about it, given how stubborn those two were. Perhaps she should let their anger cool off before making a move. The right moment to interfere would eventually present itself. Amelia was sure that she would know it when she saw it.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I don't own Slayers. The title of this chapter is from Sweet Kiwi by Maroon 5. I must confess that when I was writing this I lost the game. ; Sevichan drew another fanart based on this story, golden dragon Xellos! You'll find it in my Deviant Art favorites.
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Poor Xellos ask around about love XD
I do not think that because esplulsa philia was not worth as a dragon, but at least it will not think the curse with her. are just curious to see philia jealous when inizieràa find another golden dragon XD
Amelia vai and we all do with you their love bloom! * __ *
I do not think that because esplulsa philia was not worth as a dragon, but at least it will not think the curse with her. are just curious to see philia jealous when inizieràa find another golden dragon XD
Amelia vai and we all do with you their love bloom! * __ *
I don't think Xellos can find another dragon like Filia, she's special. XD
already but I was curious to see Philia jealous for once, even if the target is always better to mistreat Xellos.
Xellos sits in a corner to make circles on the ground with a finger ..
Xellos sits in a corner to make circles on the ground with a finger ..
she might get jealous but from a very unexpected person... that will come later though.
lol that's a funny image XD
lol that's a funny image XD
I think
I am mad now
I think
I am mad now
....so it was that the reason?....because she is not a true one?...It can't be that,. It's silly . LOL.
that curse can't be that complex......or yes? LOL
Oh well, Im feeling really sad for xellos...and filia well too sigh both stubborn idiots. I was mentaly sayign, now here he was so it wasn't that you didn 't love me? you love me and it was because that stupid dragon thing? but...nghhh dammed....>.<
let's see what happens...puff
that curse can't be that complex......or yes? LOL
Oh well, Im feeling really sad for xellos...and filia well too sigh both stubborn idiots. I was mentaly sayign, now here he was so it wasn't that you didn 't love me? you love me and it was because that stupid dragon thing? but...nghhh dammed....>.<
let's see what happens...puff
I do not think that is the reason .. I think Xellos pendìsava the curse too.
I look forward to coming out next * __ * it's great to find a new one every night you Mikaristar great!!
I look forward to coming out next * __ * it's great to find a new one every night you Mikaristar great!!
you'll have time to guess since it won't be fully explained for a few chapters but lots of hints are coming ^^
agree we have to keep waiting to read and imagine XD
at least I still have written chapters I wrote ahead to post before I run out and have to start posting as I write. XD
wow how did you come afinora chapters to write?
when I started posting this I would write a chapter almost every day but I would only post new chapters every 5 days so I got ahead. Now I'm posting every day and sometimes I take 2 or even 3 days to write a chapter as the plot becomes complex, so I'm quickly catching up with my "reserve".
Umm yeah. god, she is great, making the unexpected and throw to hell all my theories lol.
I can't really comment without spoilers so... I'll leave the doubts floating around. It'll all make sense eventually...


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I love responsive theme as far I have used it, but I'm having trouble setting up a page where posts from all selected categories are displayed fully. I have tried using Posts for Page Plugin which collects all posts from the selected category, but the posts that are displayed are not fully display, they come with read more... and are like summaries which is not what I want.
Which is the best way to have 2 separate pages(that isn't home page), where each page collects different posts under it and are fully showed?