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Ectomycorrhizal associations can have positive, negative or neutral effects on plant water relations (Sands & Theodorou, 1978; Dixon et al., 1980; Coleman et al., 1990). Sands & Theodorou (1978) found no difference in transpiration rates between inoculated and uninoculated plants, but leaf water potential was more negative and hydraulic resistance was higher in the inoculated plants. Water uptake by ectomycorrhizal mycelium strands has been demonstrated (Duddrige et al., 1980), but the mechanism of water transport in ectomycorrhizal roots remains to be examined. Coleman et al. (1990) reported that root hydraulic conductivity of ectomycorrhizal plants increased due to an increase of phosphorus level. Altered plant morphological characteristics, specifically root : shoot ratio, were also proposed to be responsible for the mycorrhizal effect on plant water flux (Anderson et al., 1988) and root hydraulic conductivity was related to a reduced root : shoot ratio in mycorrhizal plants (Dixon et al., 1980). Other studies with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi suggested that the water extraction and transport by plant roots could be enhanced by mycorrhizae due to high transpirational demand (Kothari et al., 1990; Koide, 1993).
Radial water transport in roots occurs via apoplastic and cell-to-cell pathways (Steudle & Peterson, 1998). A recent discovery of water channels and subsequent reports that root water channels may play an important role in regulating plant water flow (Chrispeels & Maurel, 1994; Daniels et al., 1994; Wan & Zwiazek, 1999; Kamaluddin & Zwiazek, 2001) have challenged traditional views of water transport. In our previous studies (Wan & Zwiazek, 1999; Wan et al., 1999; Kamaluddin & Zwiazek, 2001; Wan et al., 2001), we showed a link between root metabolism and root water flow, largely through the effects on water channel proteins. Similarly, N and P deprivation has been shown to affect water channel activity and reduce root hydraulic conductivity (Carvajal et al., 1996; Clarkson et al., 2000). Therefore, it is possible that the increases in root water flow observed in mycorrhizal plants could be due to nutritional or metabolic effects of these associations on the activity of root water channels.
In the present study, we investigated to what extent water channel transport is responsible for the observed increase in root water flow of ectomycorrhizal plants. We studied the hypothesis that the increase in hydraulic conductivity is due to changes in root water channel transport that is altered by fungal associations with roots. Therefore, we used different temperatures and HgCl2 to study the kinetics of water transport in ectomycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal roots of American elm (Ulmus americana) to examine the contribution of water channel transport to root hydraulic conductance.

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Skip to comments.Were children smarter a century ago?
Posted on 07/31/2013 5:25:21 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Test for eighth graders in Kentucky dated 1912 ignites debate over kids' intelligence today
A general examination to test eighth grade students in Kentucky's Bullitt County school system in 1912 has stumped some adults and ignited a debate over the intelligence of children today.
The arithmetic, geography, civil government, physiology, grammar and history questions range from 'What is a personal pronoun?' to 'Who first discovered Lawrence River?' and 'Define Cerebrum'.
Posted on Lew Rockwell, the type-written test has promoted some adults to try and answer the questions, and caused some parents to critique the U.S. school system.
'I performed poorly,' wrote Jezebel's Laura Beck. 'But to be fair/excuse my stupidity, some of the answers, especially history, are very different now that we know more of the truth.'
Some questions are specific to Bullitt County, such as 'name five county officers in your region,' while other aspects of the test are antique.
But many parents argue that the children in 1912 who took such tests were no smarter than the children of today.
One commenter noted: 'Most of these questions are memorization-based. They prompt memorized answers with specific words that would have been used in classes back then.
'There are very little critical thinking questions or any other questions that require more than rote memorization to complete.'
Another woman, under the name of Leah Jaclyn, agreed, writing: 'Often people who think our kids are dumb fail to realise that rote memorisation is a skill that is not often required anymore.'
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Could you pass this test? A general examination to test eighth grade students in Kentucky's Bullitt County school system in 1912 has stumped some adults and ignited a debate over the intelligence of children today
More parts of the test at the source. Also, more excuses from today's educators.
I wouldn't have passed the spelling test, especially with words like "eneeavor."
Today's educators denounce "rote memorization" as a skill.
It's a required basis for the rest of learning. It's part of the "grammar" stage of learning, on which being able to think logically and discuss logically.
Of course, those last two stages would be detrimental to the communist movement, so knock the foundations out before anyone gets started on that "logic" nonsense.
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I had to look up "kalsomining".
Wrong question.
"Are schools much, much worse than a century ago?"
Were children smarter? Unlikely. However, those who reached 8th grade had been taught what they needed to pass this test over the prior 8 years. If they didn't pass - and it would be interesting to see the pass rate - they were done with formal schooling and went to work.
Were children smarter a century ago?
No. They just weren't as dumb—which has to do with the information they are given to work with.
Dear Lord, please guide our course.
A century ago, children were taught the moral and critical thinking skills they needed for life. Now, they are taught there is no moral authority and to think what the group is told to think, that is facts by consensus.
Just watch Jay Leno's Jaywalking routine for proof of the moron eruption in an "enlightened" stronghold like LA.
Rote memorization? I challenge the person making that statement to answer the math questions with partial fractions.
Sure, it's not the way these things are taught now, but, it can be done and the question was designed that way.
Rote memorization...of your own name, birthday, address and phone number. No, we can't have that.
I used to have my multiplication tables (through 12) memorized to the point that a teacher could stop the class, propose a multiplication problem, and I wouldn't need to write or think. It was automatic.
Same went for spelling tests and vocabulary.
Rote memorization was the cornerstone of my upbringing and my education, and it's still the cornerstone of education in countries like India and China where they are kicking our collective scholastic asses across the globe.
This country is lost.
There is a base of facts. Understanding, "what is a fact, what is not" is the core of what should be taught if one is teaching critical thinking.
That's NOT what this teacher is talking about. To her - 'critical thinking' amounts to moral relativism, being taught to challenge the morals of their parents, church, etc. (but never to challenge the teacher or society that their ideas might be wrong). It is exactly as posted before that principles are stripped away to be replaced with questioning.
Too many people understanding "what is fact and what is not" would be highly detrimental to the leftist cause.
My kids had a 4th grade teacher in CA (in the late '60s and early '70s) who used to teach the times tables by memory. BUT the parents of the kids in her classes were sworn to secrecy about the practice because she swore that she would be fired if the administration found out what she was doing.
She was about 5 years from retirement.
Hence why I teach it to my students in my second class of the term. :)
Have you ever seen a parent in a store on one knee lecturing his/her 2 year old about "why it's not okay to pillage the aisles"? The attempt to reason with the unreasoning, where basic cognitive functions aren't in place yet reeks of overreach and a failure to understand what the mind is/is not capable of performing at the different stages of development. It's the same idea with education. Somehow libs got it in their heads that children 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, are reasoning creatures and need to be "taught" using more advanced methods to address their "innate higher learning abilities."
Truth is, education today fails to lay the proper foundation for learning and, thus, doom their young charges to a lifetime of either a) head scratching or b) smugness about why things they don't know/can't do are unimportant.
To answer the question simply, no I dont think children were smarter a century ago. They just knew more.
My 11 year old cousin was "reasoned with" by my aunt from a very young age.
He's the most petulant, rude, disrespectful, ignorant little shit I've ever met, and my aunt wonders where she went wrong.
They were certainly better educated, no question.
But, then, hey, we have to bolster the self-esteem of our young morons as they destroy society all around us.
Intelligence is not the difference. Discipline is the difference. Teachers weren't paid to babysit and propagandize back then; they were paid to teach.
They were also better disciplined. They didn't dare back talk the teacher.
View it and weep (or laugh):
Students Sign Petition to Legalize "4th Trimester" Abortions
In honor of the Kermit Gosnell / Wendy Davis wing of the Democrat Party, the Media Research Centers Dan Joseph went to one of those bastions of Obamas low-information voters, the college campus, to ask students to sign a petition legalizing "4th trimester" abortions. Sadly, the results are predictable.
The main issue would be understanding how many feet in a yard or mile and how much a cord was but I would have known how to get the answers to all of these by the time I finished sixth grade.
However, it doesn't mean the kids are dumber... these questions do not reflect the standards required of 8th grade students. I'm sure the 8th graders from that day would struggle with some of the concepts that are taught today.
Students can't learn what they aren't taught.
I start every class with a short "math fact" drill. I think it's important that students can perform basic operations with simple numbers quickly and accurately. I also teach using calculators... but as a convenience, not as an crutch. We don't use calculators when we couldn't do the same problem without one.
I know some teachers believe a calculator should never be used. I'm not one of them; we live in a world where technology is widely available, and students need to use it responsibly.
'But to be fair/excuse my stupidity, some of the answers, especially history, are very different now that we know more of the truth.'
Does that mean that now history has been changed to reflect the truth as the teachers see fit?
Not having to memorize times tables/ core curriculum:
For the moment, well look at the third factor, because of the other seemingly endless debate (in addition to calculators): times tables memorization. Were going to try to end this silly debate once and for all (ha!). There is sufficient rationale for knowing ones times tables: even at the highest levels of mathematics, there comes a time that two numbers must be multiplied. But beyond its obvious utility, there is greater depth to the times tables than just memorization. There are important patterns inherent in the times tables that can lead to a deeper understanding of the nature of numbers and ultimately, lead to more profound problem solving and abstract abilities. The times tables can play a central role in fostering some fairly advanced mathematical thinking, even in elementary school Once again, there are problems with the Common Core starting at the very beginning of its treatment of a topic: how it introduces the concept. CCSSI begins a piecemeal approach to multiplication in 2.OA.4:
Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
Without saying as much, this is repeated addition. Certainly thats how one begins, but then what? Following CCSSI, students will spend an entire summer after second grade thinking that 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 20, and so what? It is both ridiculous and demeaning to leave students hanging with repeated addition as the way to total an array.
Instead, finding the total number of objects in an array by repeated addition should culminate in an introduction to multiplication as a shorthand notation. Theres no rhyme or reason for separating these two concepts.
Yes. That really raised my hackles!
I have to say that I could have answered more of these questions when I was IN the 8th grade (or the 10th grade) than I could now. I can no longer diagram a sentence, for instance, but I was prtty good at it back then.
But, I think this test is a good example of why my late father in law (an orphan) could leave school after 8th grade and become an engineer with G.E. with 17 patents to his name after only a few night school classes.
Also, I dare to surmise that he did not have his time wasted during the school day with "diversity studies", "sec ed", PE, etc. And those kids who did not keep up were passed over and dropped out. A college education was not required for most jobs in those days, so high school was more rigorous.
And even if they did pass, many were done with formal schooling and went to work on their family farms or in their family businesses. And were better educated than many college grads today.
I used to teach adult ed at a community college; helping prepare students for SAT and GED classes. I was shocked at some of the people that had rec'd a HS degree and could hardly read or add.
Excellent example. Good for him.
Obviously I did not learn to type properly. This danged keyboard causes these errors. (Does that sound like Obama?)
sec=sex; prtty=pretty;
I, too, teach (HS English) and am always "amused" by what it is that students don't know (basic facts, basic operations, basic learning components) and then, by what they are asked to do at the secondary level (write research papers, solve complex word problems, evaluate implications in the sciences, etc.) Having not been hard-wired with the basics (through techniques such as rote-learning of multiplication tables, for instance), students are often over-matched in the secondary classroom. Their brains have not acquired the kind of functionality that these early steps of learning provide, thus rendering higher-level critical thinking skills out of reach (in many cases).
The use of technology should serve as a quick route to helping to solve complex math problems—after the basics (adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing) have been mastered. To do otherwise, is to eliminate a necessary step toward higher-level thinking. Same is true of the idea of spell-check in word processing programs.
Thank you for that link!
And people wonder why Indians and Asians, in general, constitute the majority of computer programs both domestically and abroad.
For the record, I learned numbers on an abacus.
I returned to college to finish a biz degree after a 40 year absence, and I could not believe some of the people in my class who also could not read, or add. We all received the same "degree" at the end of the line, however. I got a special award for having the highest grade point in the class, but I did not qualilfy for "summa" or "magna" because most of my credits came from UC Berkeley so they didn't count! LOL.
We had to do a lot of team projects, a very popular type of assignment these days. I think this is supposed to teach work place cooperation. To me it is just a device where the weaker members of the team ride on the coat tails of the stronger members. I always volunteered to prepare the final paper because that was the only way I could be confident that the paper would be formatted, footnoted, and prepared according to the prof's specifications. No point in losing credit for margins that are the wrong width! Use a ruler, FGS.
One day I was typing up a paper for my group, and the work from one of my team members sounded awfully familiar. I looked up the topic in my text book and found that she had COPIED the entire first chapter! I called her up and pointed out that she was plagiarizing the author's work. She said, "No, it's a 'block quote'." I pointed out that block quotes could be 2 or 3 lines, not a whole chapter — that she had to turn it around and put it in her own words. She just said, "Do whatever you want" with it.
I re-wrote her whole section, and we got an A.
BTW, her uncle had formerly been Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools and was an adjunct prof at Marquette U at the time. Oh, and her promise to help me with my statistics course in exchange? All a fake. The course where I saved her (and myself) from a plagiarism charge was her last. She graduated, never to be seen again.
She was attending this private college on a full scholarship and even got extra money for a typist because she was suffering from "carpel tunnel syndrome". Did I mention that she was one of "Holder's people"?
Good point.
Spencerian Handwriting for Rachel Jeantel
Those Sower biographies look really interesting.
WE had a group project in a college class. I was outnumbered by some morons, especially one guy that thought that all he had to do in this world to succeed was throw around fifty dollar words and he became the leader of the group. Ironically the project was to explain some technology and we were taught to always write at 8th to 10th grade level.
I had a high grade point average, so when the professor called me into her office to tell me that our project had earned a D (said she couldn't even understand what the paper was talking about), I just laughed, told her that since the project wouldn't affect my grade that much I just let those people make fools of themselves, and told her that in the real world I would have just fired them. She changed my grade.
Unfortunately, and my University, they believed so strongly in the group project that all members of the group received the same grade, no matter what. I resented that, but I just had to go along.
I found that all of the smarter students resented that form of grading. Our defense was to try to manipulate the system so that we could get assigned with the other smarter students. It didn't always work. Some of the teachers would assign groups according to where you sat in class, some would allow the groups to "self form", some would make assignments alphabetically.
As recently as 45 years ago a small, Christian based, liberal arts college in Florida had an education program based on subject material expertise. If you were going to teach, lets say history, your major was history and you minored in education.
A decade later the priorities were changed - you majored in education and minored, if at all, in the subject you were going to teach.
The fallacy behind this theory was brought home in the mid-1990s when my children were in middle school and high school. I got into a minor contest with one of the teachers who claimed, because she had a degree in education, she could teach anything. Things got ugly when I asked her to teach me thermal dynamics inside a breeder reactor. It wasn't much better when I asked to be taught Mandarin Chinese.
When she tried to hide behind I didn't know what it meant to be a teacher I showed her my Florida State Teacher's License to teach high school history.
Bottom - line: We, the tax payers, have bought into a false theory of education supported by college professors that have no outside, of the classroom, experience. And the ones that are paying for this worship of the false god "PhD" are our children.
So, wow, that happens at college, too? In secondary school, group activities are almost required - and making sure you have the correct mix of low/middle/high achievers in each group. In this way, it is thought, the low-enders will be brought along by the high-achievers.
What a sham! The result is to slow the on-grade-level students down to the level of the languishing ones—the dumbing down of education. And you say this happens at college, too...hmmmmm....
Me and two other people made an A on a finance test and were ostracized by the rest of the class for messing the grading curve for them as they collectively decided that if everyone failed (to learn anything)they could still pass.
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We all like a bit of flattery, even if we know it's not an exact reflection of the truth. Whether the subject is a new hairstyle or an "interesting" piece of DIY, a positive comment always goes down well. And few of us are beyond paying others a false compliment if we think it might benefit our cause.
"You're supplying somebody's basic need when you tell them something that makes their self-esteem grow," says Gary Fitzgibbon, business psychologist and director of Fitzgibbon Associates. "Usually when people are flattered, you've given them a reason to value themselves." And interestingly, he believes such a technique can be useful when applying for a job.
As always, the covering letter is a useful place to start. "Explain that you've been developing your skills and gaining appropriate experience to make your application strong," says Gary. "This makes it obvious that you've made an effort for the firm you're applying to. Go on to compliment the company by adding you're keen to work for a leader in the field, a well respected organisation or a company providing high quality services.
"If you say that you perceive the company to be one that requires a high quality application then you're suggesting the people already employed are themselves high quality. It's really flattering the individual by flattering the company they work for," he says.
And the more you know about an organisation, the more your comments will hit the mark. There's little point in enthusing about a company's fabulous product if they've just sold off the subsidiary that makes it.
Thorough research is the best way to avoid total embarrassment. "The first thing that you have to do is find out what that organisation does, where it does it and how it does it. Just being interested at that kind of level is a form of flattery," says Dr Colin Gill, chief psychologist, at Psychological Solutions.
"The easiest way is via the web. It's also possible to go through cuttings files and look at company reports."
If you're aiming for a management position with a retailer, for example, you could visit one of their outlets and speak to people who actually work for that organisation. "And many large companies have PR departments who are more than happy to send out information to individuals who are interested," he says.
So now you've got the facts, make sure you highlight your endeavours at the interview, says Gary Fitzgibbon. "Say that you've researched a number of employers. Mention you were struck by the emphasis that they [the prospective employer] place on whatever they do well. It doesn't matter what it is. If you suggest the company has come out at the top of your list after you've applied some scrutiny, that will make them feel good."
And even a few throwaway lines could win points. "A very good strategy is to comment on how well organised everything is. Then people feel that all the effort they've put in has all been worth it. Comments about professionalism always go down well," he says.
But finding the most appropriate line can be tricky. "If you went over the top in the interview that wouldn't really work," says Gary. "It has to be a measured response really. If it's a subtle one, it can sound quite convincing."
Colin Gill also recommends punchy phrases that the company staff are likely to identify with. "The most obvious thing to do is think about what this company sees itself as. Most large organisations have some form of mission statement that will give you the key terms and buzz words. For example, many see themselves as thinking or creative. If you apply these it could well be flattering," he says.
But it's here that you need to be a little creative yourself. "Hopefully any bright individual will have a thesaurus and be able to express these ideas in a range of different but related terms," he says. "Terms like innovative, dynamic, cutting edge are all flattering. When asked in interview 'why do you want to work for this organisation,' you can blend these terms into your responses."
Flattery is a real art and knowing when and how to use it will determine it's success or your failure. When applying to companies keep it business related. "And don't overdo it," warns Colin. "Nobody likes anybody who too obviously kisses arse."


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I used the slicer/shredder to shed hard cheese and it was making a lot of noise. Sounded like it was working "too hard" to do it. The cheese was out of the refrigerator per the instructions. I cleaned it up. The shaft that holds the assembly on to the Kitchen Aid mixer interlocks in the back of the blade. This holds the blade on the assembly while it is slicing/shredding. The first blade was a little stiff to remove from the shaft when I finished with the grating of the cheese. Next I wanted to slice some vegetables so I inserted the clean shaft into the assemble and attached the next blade. The vegetables did not slice correctly. I finished after one vegetable. I removed all to clean, but this time the shaft did not come out of the blade. I tried everything I could to remove it. I used my rubber jar opener which got all cut up. Then I tried the pliers to turn it to come off. It is still on there and will be when I return to the store. The mixer is great...just not this attachment.
I love this slicer/shredder it makes so many tasks easier. I will say this though you must follow the instructions, I made the mistake of thinking hey I know what I'm doing. I totally messed things up because I didn't put the mixer on the correct speed, this makes a huge difference. First example I tried to shred onions on speed 2 and end up with mush and very teared eyes. Same thing when I tried to make potato chips used the low speed and the potato's ended up a mess. Also when washing hand wash and dry each cone separately, is you machine wash put them on the top shelf and make sure they fully dry, or they can rust. Also for storage I recommend using food grade mineral oil to lightly coat the cones to prevent rust, as an added bonus you can use this time to remind yourself to treat your wooden cutting boards with the same oil.
I purchased this product to work in conjunction with my kitchen cutter. The kitchen cutter suctions to my counter tops but comes unattached half way through use, making it very difficult to use. This attachment works just as well as my kitchen cutter only better because the mixer is the weight and all of my kitchen cutter blades work with this attachment. This makes wonderful fresh cut shredded potatoes and cheese. I saw another review about cabbage. I have not tried it with this attachment but i know it worked well with the kitchen cutter so i cant imagine it being an issue. I use this on almost a daily basis. Since having this product, i have not used my food processor.
Bought to shred summer squash, returned it hours later. Was shredding some overgrown yellow squash which had somewhat hard skins, and after the first two, the shaft became lodged in the housing and would no longer rotate and could not be removed. I think many of the problems with this attachment start with the fact that the blades are extremely dull. I have butter knives that are sharper. Other people have reported that vegetables are turned to mush rather than sliced -- dull blades. Also, others report stress cracks and broken parts, probably from having to apply more pressure to cut due to the dull blades. This would probably be a decent attachment if the blades were sharp enough to actually cut. I returned mine to Bed, Bath & Beyond, who took it back with no problems and purchased a manual shredder with nice, sharp blades for about $20 less.
Had an older one that worked just fine, but the case got cracked. Ordered a new one, and what a disappointment. The blades are dull and won't cut anything, very cheaply made. Finally gave up and used the old blades to cut carrots. Don't waste your money. Seems Kitchen Aid is going down hill. If I didn't need the case, I would return the product.
I was surprised at the amount of low ratings for this, I've had mine for about a year and tell everyone that it was the best investment! After the mixer, of course :) We buy a lot of hard cheeses like parm and pecorino and blocks of cheddar and similar other cheeses and the grater allows me to grate them in a matter of seconds! I've never had any issues with attaching it or cleaning it. I gave it 4 stars simply because I've never actually used all of the cones, just the small grater one.
works great for salads
Nothing but good things when you use this slicer/shredder accessory. From vegetables to cheese you can't go wrong.
We bought this for ourselves 6 years ago and it's in great condition. We like to grate our own parmesan and cheddar cheese. We grate cabbage and carrots for cole slaw.
It's easy to use and to clean.
We bought our daughter a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas and she asked for the slicer/shredder for her birthday. What a daughter. ;)
Very poor design. The attachment has a piece that is supposed to fit into a notch on the mixer and then a screw to tighten the attachment. I have never been able to push the attachment into the mixer far enough to align the holes to tighten it. That results in the attachment falling off during use, and since I tried to tighten it to prevent that, the plastic on the screw even cracked. Certainly not worth anywhere near the price of this attachment. I only give it two stars because the concept would be great if the product actually worked.
After reading reviews on this product and watching a video on the internet of someone slicing and shredding different items, I decided to purchase the item and see what I thought myself. Like many other reviews, I did not have success with slicing vegetable but I have been happy with how it shreds blocks of cheese (this was my main reason for purchasing). As for the quality of the unit itself, I am not having any issues with it cracking or breaking as other reviews have mentioned. I also have not had any problems with the parts rusting after washing as one review mentioned, but I only hand wash all the parts and make sure to lay them out to completely dry off before storing them. So if you are looking to mostly shred cheese (and like me will not use a hand grater due to a past incident with my finger) I recommend this product.
I just bought this attachment yesterday. I tried to use it today and it turned my cucumbers into mush, I couldn't even use them. The cucumber skin got stuck between the cone and the housing and the parts that did come out were definitely not slices. I tried the thin slices cone and the thick slices cone. All either gave me was a pile of mushed up cucumbers. Huge waste of money.
the device would not shred cabbage. the cutters are really dull and have no bite to them. pushing hard on the cabbage only mushes the output... we tried all cutters without any success from any of them. This will go back with a major complaint attached.
I bought this product to mainly use for shredding although I haven't used it for that purpose yet. I did try slicing carrots and it worked well and quickly. My only complaint is that it was hard to keep the carrots straight once they got shorter. I ended up with longways slices at the end. Other than that it is a nice item, easy to hook up, easy to take apart and easy to clean.
Bought this attachment for my wife approx. 15-20 years ago. I think in that time we've used it MAYBE ten times at MAX---and that was usually for shredding cheeses, and maybe 3 times w/zucchini. After shredding fresh (as in SOFT) PEELED zucchini today, housing cracked in 3 places. Called the 800 number, guy polite but basically "too bad, so sad, only warranted for ONE year". Offered me a replacement housing for like $24.99. I just told him we'd go ahead & use my late Mom's counter box grater in the future, and leave the Kitchenaid for "show & tell" sitting on the cabinet!! I gave it a one star rating, as it wouldn't let me POST unless I put something--would've LIKED to use like a NEGATIVE five!!
The only thing the slicer did was annoy me, and allow me the opportunity to practice my profanity. I tried to slice onions, and celery . . . the only thing it did was mash both. The blades are dull, and turned my veggies into baby-food. I finally quit and pulled out the food processor to finish my recipe.
What I don't need It is well built, rock solid decoration. After I write this review I am taking it back for a refund.
Wish it did what I had hoped . . . it didn't.
(P.S.) I was going to gift this to my Ex-Wife. Then I realized that I don't hate her that much.
I received this as a gift a couple years ago. It has already rusted and the plastic has cracked. We use it maybe once a month to shred cheese and that is about it. For being a Kitchenaid product I was hoping for a better quality. Unfortunate it only has a year warrenty, I would have hoped it would have lasted longer than 1year.
I was very unhappy with this product. The first time it was used andwashed it rusted. This was a gift so it was very disappointing. It also did not perform as expected or advertised.
I couldn't get the parts to connect. Terrible design and no quality check. I would give it zero stars because it never worked.
The shredder turned my Zucchini to a watery mush. I couldn't even use it. For the price I paid I expected a better operating shredder. I have to keep stopping to clean it out. It's hard to use and clean. But i really like the kitchen-aid mixer. But I won't buy anymore attachments.
This does not work well. The "stainless" cones rust. It also doesn't shred or slice cleanly pulverizing and turning whatever you try to put through into mush. I thought this would be great to replace a bunch of different gadgets and appliances that grate, shred and slice but I was so wrong! Besides the poor performance some kind of black grease keeps appearing and gets all over the place, on the food, all over my hands, it's everywhere!!!!


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Now I know this composition looks perfectly fine right now and that's just because the After Effects project can actually find all the external files that are linked to it. But on occasion, you'll open up a project and not be able to see any of the files or some of the files will be missing. And it'll be kind of terrifying because they'll look like color bars. And the first time I ever saw that, I panicked. I don't want you to panic, so just kind of follow with me as I mess this up and then show you how to fix it.
So first thing, with my External_ Files here, I'm just going to open up my Photoshop document and if you right- click on any file, you can always say Reveal in Finder or in Windows Explorer. So when I reveal that, here's my Photoshop document, I'm just going to do something kind of scary, and drag this to the Trash. Do not do this on your system. But when you do that, I can come back in here and then right-click on here and say Reload Footage.
And it's saying it can't be found. And then, these are the color bars that you will see. You can make footage offline, like if this is something you're trying to do, you can right-click on a piece of footage and then say Replace Footage with a Placeholder, and if we just click OK, it'll do kind of the same thing. But basically, any time you run into this problem, you can always re-link the footage. Since I didn't actually move the Illustrator file at all, I should be able to right-click on it and just say Reload Footage and it goes back into the Finder and finds it, but sometimes that doesn't happen.
So if you right-click on it and go to Replace Footage, I can go to File and then navigate to my Footage folder in my exercise files, and under Illustrator here at the top, just to remind myself what it is, it's saying it's the Blades layer of kineteco_02. So let's select kineteco_02 and choose Open, and then it's going to say, okay, is this all layers or can I choose a layer? So select Choose Layer and click and choose Blades.
Now the only other thing you want to look at, is the actual dimensions of the file that you're reconnecting. Now as I look up here in the left side of my Project panel, I can see it's only 281x242 pixels, and I know that I would never create a composition that small, so I'm going to choose Layer Size for my footage dimensions. Now when I click OK, that will be re- linked and it populates just perfectly well. We can do the same exact thing for this Photoshop document, but if I click here and say Replace Footage and go to File, I would obviously need to move that back into my Photoshop folder.
So let me cancel this really quick, and in my Finder I'm going to pop open the Trash and drag my Eco_Shapes layers back up into the Photoshop folder. Now when we jump back into the Project panel, I can right-click and try Reload Footage and--nope, okay, I'm going to have to Replace Footage. I can go to my File Options here and navigate in my Footage folder to the Photoshop folder, choose Eco_Shapes. And unlike the last time when I re- linked, After Effects did find the other missing item.
A lot of times if you have multiple items within one folder that are missing, you can re-link and it will find all of the subsequent files, so you don't necessarily always have to right-click and find those files. Now one last thing, on occasion, when you open After Effects projects, you'll get an error message saying that it can't find certain items. If there are a lot of those items and you have a lot of folder structure in your Project panel, if you click up here and start typing the word missing, any file that's missing will actually popup here in your Project panel.
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We are pleased to present our 118th installment of Sound Advice featuring Claire Darrow Mosier. Claire is the Creative Director of Andre Balazs Properties and splits her time between NYC and Costa Rica. She's pretty excited these days about her baby named Scout and the ice skating rink at The Standard NYC that's about to reopen for the winter.
Sound Advice 118
01. Songs of Blood by Linton Kwesi Johnson
02. Cool Out Son by Junior Murvin
03. Hippoopatamus by Desmond Dekker
04. Too Hot by Prince Buster
05. Revolution by Toots & The Maytals
06. Don't Burn Your Bridges by Susan Cadogan
07. Licking Stick by Desmond Dekker
08. Push Push by The Itals
09. Wah Do Dem by Eek-A-Mouse
10. We Are Not The Same by The Cimarons
11. Under Me Sensi by Barrington Levy
12. Conquering Lion by Yabby You
13. Ali Baba by John Holt
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got into a fight
with all the other houses on the block
would it win?
Does it have the character?
Does it have the heart?
When we are all asleep
and the buildings get together
and share stories
about us living inside them
Does your house use a funny voice
to mimic the way you talk to your dog?
Does your house ever worry
that you are going to leave it
for some bigger better place
closer to the ocean
with a kitchen you can eat in
and floors that look old but aren't?
Would you tell it you were going
or just up and disappear one day?
Pay some men
to gut it
and stow its innards in a truck
leave its closets full of dry cleaning hangers
and pennies you couldn't vacuum out of the carpet corners.
If you're in the Bay Area, go out and support the Luggage Store this Saturday. You buy some great art in the auction, and be witness to an intimate performance by Devendra Banhart.
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The city of San Francisco consumes almost fifty percent of the Fernet Branca imported into the United States, but it's not the kind of thing you drink while buying a Property of Alcatraz sweatshirt, or while fending off West Nile infected seagulls at Fisherman's Wharf, or picking up a Penguin Classic copy of On the Road at City Lights Bookstore. You're supposed to drink it on a Sunday morning at Ocean Beach while illegally fishing for Dungeness Crab with a few old Chinese guys as hungover as you are; on a Saturday afternoon in Dolores Park while trying to ignore the thwack of tennis balls and keeping an eye out for the pot truffle guy; on a Wednesday night while lying in bed and discussing whether Sutro Tower could fall over and pin you to your bed, squirming and bleeding, during a massive earthquake.
It tastes like the poison that the wicked queen used to try and kill Snow White. In San Francisco it's traditional to order it with a ginger ale back but, hell, let your freak flag fly.
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Technological trends in plastics manufacturing are driving the costs of production down. In industrial PET blow molding specifically, two innovative techniques have had major impacts over the last 15 years: "light weighting" the plastic bottles, and recirculating high-pressure compressed air. Both have helped to improve the energy efficiency of PET blow molding by reducing compressed air requirements dramatically.
This northeastern U.S. automotive manufacturing facility spends $269,046 annually on energy to operate their compressed air system. This figure will increase as electric rates are raised from their current average of .019 cents per kWh. The set of projects, in this system assessment, reduce these energy costs by $110,166 or forty percent. Reliability of compressed air quality, however, is the main concern in this plant and the primary focus of this system assessment.
The plant air system consists of eight, single-stage, lubricated, Sullair rotary screw compressors. All units are in good working order. Units 2, 3, 4 and 7 are water-cooled and units 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are air-cooled. The main plant air system has two primary compressed air dryers, a Thompson Gordon model TG 2000 refrigerated dryer, and a Sullair model SAR 1350 heatless desiccant dryer. Both units are working according to their design. The TG 2000 uses approximately 11.2 kW and is a non-cycling type unit, and the SAR 1350 uses approximately 200 cfm of purge air to regenerate the wet tower.
Compressed air is a critical utility widely used throughout the food industry. Being aware of the composition of compressed air used in your plant is key to avoiding product contamination. Your task is to assess the activities and operations that can harm a product, the extent to which a product can be harmed, and how likely it is that product harm will occur. Assessing product contamination is a multi-step process in which you must identify the important risks, prioritize them for management, and take reasonable steps to remove or reduce the chance of harm to the product, and, in particular, serious harm to the consumer.
In the U.S. as an example, the NFPA has taken the view that if your compressor draws in good clean ambient air, the air stays clean through the compressor, is then dried and filtered, when you deliver it to the patient it will be entirely satisfactory. After all, when you went into the hospital that's what you were breathing and when you leave you will breathe it again!
A significant portion of the technology on display used compressed air in some fashion, whether it was for pneumatic controls, generating nitrogen, or blasting plasma. By no means is this article a review of all the compressed-air-using technology at FABTECH 2015. Instead, it offers a glimpse into some of the ways compressed air is used in the metal fabrication and machining industry. It also outlines some of the innovative compressed air technology at the show — from the supply side to the demand side.
Rockline Industries is one of the largest global producers of consumer products, specializing in wet wipes and coffee filters. The company contacted the Arkansas Industrial Energy Clearinghouse after identifying that the compressed air system in their Springdale, Arkansas facility was a potential source of significant savings. Experts from the Clearinghouse then began working with Rockline Industries, representatives of the electric utility, and a local compressed air vendor to perform a complete evaluation of the system.
Compressed air is used in a number of processes in the food industry. It is used as an ingredient in whipped products such as ice cream, to slice or cut soft products and to open packagesbefore filling of product. Currently, food manufacturers are under pressure to validate the safety of all ingredients or processes for regulatory compliance, but unfortunately, there is currently no standard method to evaluate the microbial content of compressed air.
Plastic injection molding is a common process in manufacturing, and it can be used to produce just about anything. To create a part, molten plastic is injected into a hollow mold, where it is formed and cooled before being ejected from the cavity. Plastic injection molders make a seemingly limitless range of products, from fishing tackle boxes and kayak paddles to tooth brushes and miniscule medical devices.
Nuclear power plants produce electricity for people, business and industry. Electricity is produced in a similar fashion as fossil fuel (i.e., coal, oil, etc.) power plants, using steam to drive a turbines which spin an electrical generator, producing the electricity.
The Trinity Mirror Group print works on Oldham is one of the UK's largest newspaper printers. The nine presses in the facility produce around 1million papers every day, including the Independent, the Daily Mirror and a range of local, regional and sports titles. Printing on this scale does not come cheap in energy terms, however. The plant's annual electricity bill is in the order of £1.5millon. With energy prices on the rise, and a strong desire to improve environmental performance and reduce its carbon footprint, the plant's management has recently embarked on a project to cut energy use substantially.
In aerospace manufacturing, tiny details matter most. For instance, if proper torque is not applied to the screws and bolts fastening an aircraft fuselage, catastrophic failures can result. Compressed air is used to power the tools needed to apply that torque, making the compressed air system a critical part of the facility, though it largely stays behind the scene.
A replacement strategy for air compressors and blowers integrated into a system-level approach towards energy efficiency can deliver significant energy savings and optimize equipment performance. At the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority, a blower replacement project yielded annual energy savings of more than 928,000 kWh and $98,000 in energy costs, while improving the reliability of its secondary treatment process. In addition, the agency qualified for important incentives from its electric utility — significantly improving the project economics and resulting in a 2.94-year payback.
Compressed air optimization measures adopted by PTMSB have reduced the consumption of compressed air by 31 percent resulting in savings of about 3,761,000 kWh per year in energy consumption. The monetary savings are MYR 1,090,627 per year ($255,000 USD). The CO2 reduction is estimated at 2,735 ton per year.
Compressed air is a critical utility widely used throughout the food industry. Being aware of the composition of compressed air used in your plant is key to avoiding product contamination. Your task is to assess the activities and operations that can harm a product, the extent to which a product can be harmed, and how likely it is that product harm will occur. Assessing product contamination is a multi-step process in which you must identify the important risks, prioritize them for management, and take reasonable steps to remove or reduce the chance of harm to the product, and, in particular, serious harm to the consumer.
As a result of compressed air awareness training and a focus on energy management, two facilities in different parts of the world have reduced their compressed air demand substantially by removing vortex style cabinet coolers from some of their electrical panels and reworking the cooling systems. These facilities were previously unaware of the high cost of compressed air and how much could be saved if other methods of cooling were used. This article describes some of their efforts in demand reduction.
A trio of stationary compressors produce 630,000 m3/hr of air for the oxygen plant at Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Dominican Republic. The oxygen is used by its autoclave processing facility to treat roughly 24,000 tons per day of refractory ore for the 60/40 joint venture between Barrick and Goldcorp Inc., operated by Barrick as Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation.
In aerospace manufacturing, tiny details matter most. For instance, if proper torque is not applied to the screws and bolts fastening an aircraft fuselage, catastrophic failures can result. Compressed air is used to power the tools needed to apply that torque, making the compressed air system a critical part of the facility, though it largely stays behind the scene.
Compressed Air Best Practices® Magazine spoke with Mark Shedd, Head of Oil-free Air, Aggreko Rental Solutions - There are two distinct compressed air systems in a refinery or petrochemical environment: plant air and instrument air systems. Instrument air systems are almost always 100% oil-free air compressors on both the permanent and temporary systems. The demand for compressed air purity, in instrument air systems, is so high that the permanent install back-up system is usually nitrogen.
Insufficient focus at the design phase will kill a project. In one aerospace project, insufficient detail was paid to the physical size of the air compressor. The compressor didn't fit in the allocated space—requiring the extension of the building, and costing tens of thousands of unbudgeted dollars. That had a significant, negative impact on the project return.
A Canadian chemical plant installed a large heated blower-purge style compressed air dryer, years ago, to condition the instrument air system against freezing temperatures. The dryer selected was oversized for the connected air compressors and had unused on-board energy savings features. A compressed air assessment revealed the site air compressors and compressed air dryers were running inefficiently and causing in-plant pressure problems. Repairs to a compressed air dryer and the replacement of aging air compressors and dryers has reduced compressed air energy costs by 31 percent.
Atlas Copco has a long history serving the Houston-based energy and chemical industries with custom-engineered packages. The objective of this article is to show just a few examples of the custom applications typically engineered and manufactured in the Atlas Copco Houston operation. Opened in 2012, Atlas Copco Houston produces standard compressed air dryers as well as completely engineered air dryers for all markets. The air flow capacity of the dryers, produced at this location, vary from 5 to 12,750 scfm. This capacity range covers heatless, heated purge and blower purge air dryers.
Imagine a dairy farm. Do pictures of idyllic pastures populated by grazing, happy cows come to mind? What about the not-so-idyllic image of farmers milking cows by hand? Modern dairy farms work a little differently. Darigold, a farmer-owned dairy co-op located in the Pacific Northwest, has the happy cows, but production is more sophisticated. The company has eleven state-of-the-art production facilities churning out high-quality dairy products at mind-boggling rates. Milk, for instance, is produced to the tune of 2.6 million gallons per day. To maintain efficient production at scale, Darigold also has an innovative energy management program in place.


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209 – "Sleepover, Gift of the Card"
Written by: Zach Marcus and Brett Varon; Annisa Adjani and Natasha Kline
"When Star gets sent to dentention after a mishap with the school's pet hamster, she meets Janna and other students who got sent to detention. One of the students needs help finding the batteries for his TV remote so he can watch a wrestling competition on TV.; Star and her friends have a sleepover and play a game of "Truth or Punishment"."
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In this episode, we see that Starlight Glimmer has been doing very well with her magic spells and appears to be Twilight's equal in that department as observed in the cold open. However, one area that Starlight is currently lacking is in her friendship lessons. She is a little uneasy about those lessons. So much so, that she is going to attempt to do five at once using magic to impress Twilight while she and Spike are away at Canterlot to present at Celestia's school.
Those friendship tasks are as follows:
- Bake a cake with Pinkie Pie
- Sew with Rarity
- Catalog family photos with Applejack
- Help Fluttershy with her animals
- And "Chillax" with Rainbow Dash
So, she uses a hypnotic spell (I'm not going to use words for the spells here) on the Mane Five to help her with her lessons. As we have learned with attempting to use magic to solve friendship problems (or make them in "Lesson Zero"), it doesn't end well. Especially when turning them into pony versions of Siri and they take your instructions literally.
Twilight and Spike return to the mess and tell Starlight that she was missing the point of the lessons. The emphasis was not on baking an actual cake, but to get to know Pinkie Pie. Starlight is likely not the best at baking, sewing, cataloging, animal care, or "chillaxing"; but the point was to get to know the rest of the Mane Five. Starlight apologizes for her actions and the lessons go off better—especially the "chillaxing" part.
This episode does have some hints of "Lesson Zero," but the point here is that while "Friendship is Magic," magic is not necessarily friendship. Starlight is equaling Twilight in terms of magic, but social skills are clearly lacking. Twilight had some social skills, but they were not geared towards making friends at the beginning. The lesson is a bit repetitive of having magic solve your problems ("Winter Wrap-Up", "Inspiration Manifestation"), but given the context of the story, it still works here.
There are times that we need to occasionally re-learn a lesson. That's for the longtime viewers of the show in particular. So this was a very good episode for the lesson being taught here. It may be a bit repetitive, but some of the best lessons need to be re-learned once in a while.
Pluses and Minuses:
- + Great less about magic can't always solve your problems
- + Relatable conflict with Starlight
- + Comedy
- + Magic practice at the start
- – Not the most original lesson (but still works here)
On a side note: This episode was the last storyboarded by Sabrina Alberghetti. She had been with the show since the beginning and was a popular figure among pony fans. We at Derpy News thank her for all her work on the show and wish her and her husband Andrew (aka MandoPony) the best in the future.
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621 – "Every Little Thing She Does"
Written by: Michael Vogel
"When falling behind on her friendship lessons, Starlight Glimmer attempts to do several lessons at once."
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