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|Publication number
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|Jul 13, 1971
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|Sep 18, 1969
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|Sep 18, 1969
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|John M Questel, William J Yurgen
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|Morgan Adhesives Co
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July 13, 1971 w, J, YURGEN ETAL 3,592,710
METHOD OF' PRODUGING PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES Filed Sept. 18, 1969 WILLIAM JWH'N BYJOHN M. QUESTEL TTYS.
United States Patent 3,592,710 METHOD OF PRODUCING PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES William J. Yurgen and John M. Questel, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, assignors to Morgan Adhesive Company, Stow, County of Summit, Ohio Continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 574,721, Aug. 24, 1966. This application Sept. 18, 1969, Ser.
Int. Cl. B32b 31/00 U.S. Cl. 156-153 16 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This method to make an adhesive comprises blending and grinding a mixture of styrene-butadiene copolymers with a solid tackifying material, feeding the pulverized mixture to an extrusion means, and processing and extruding the mixture to form a film of pressure sensitive adhesive as a viscoelastic fluid under controlled temperature conditions above the melting point of the copolymers.
This is a continuation-in-part of our prior application Ser. No. 574,721, filed Aug. 24, 1966, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to pressure sensitive adhesives, and particularly to a novel and improved method of mixing and forming a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive material which normally would be bonded to and/ or carried by a base sheet.
BACKGROUND F INVENTION Heretofore most pressure sensitive adhesives have been made lby grinding or breaking up the solid ingredients of the adhesive and then dissolving them in a suitable solvent which is next coated onto a substrate by any of several known means. The solvent is subsequently evaporated by heat and a -ilm of adhesive is deposited on the substrate. In other instances, the ground ingredients of the adhesives are mixed or blended, usually with a liquid component being present in the mix. This mixture, or organisol, is then coated onto a substrate by calender rolls. In some instances, the adhesive may then be heated to aid in drying the adhesive mix which is then ready for storage or for use, as desired.
In both of the above-identified methods for forming pressure sensitive adhesive products, certain disadvantages exist in that in the solution casting of the adhesive, the formation of the adhesive requires some appreciable time in dissolving the ingredients, and subsequently the solvent is evaporated and lost. Also, the use of the solvent, which normally is flammable, is a safety hazard. In the calendering operation, the liquid materials added to the adhesive normally detract from the adhesives overall physical properties.
The general object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved method of forming pressure sensitive adhesives by an extrusion action and wherein the components of the adhesives, whether wet or dry, can be blended, and heated above the melting points of some or all of the adhesive components and then be extruded through a forming die to form the desired adhesive layer.
Another object of the invention is to provide a rapid method of compounding, yblending and mixing adhesive forming ingredients and then depositing the mixed and blended adhesive components as a substantially homogeneous sheet or layer onto a desired carrier medium without the use of any carrier or dissolving solvents in the process.
Another object of the invention is to provide a method of forming a new and improved adhesive film that has high rice tack, peel and creep resistant values, which method has a high productivity rate and forms the desired adhesive at low cost by substantially conventional apparatus.
A speciiic object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved method for forming pressure sensitive adhesives from materials, particularly elastomers, that have some degree of thermoplasticity in such elastomers and which method includes extruding the adhesive mixture under temperature controlled conditions.
Another object of the invention is to provide a double faced adhesive laminate by an improved efficient process.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the present invention will be made more apparent as the specification proceeds.
Attention is directed to the accompanying drawing wherein the single figure illustrates in diagrammatic form a fiow sheet illustrating the steps of the method of the invention.
With reference to the details of the structures indicated in the drawing, a plurality of suitable members such as hoppers or equivalent means are indicated at 10, 11 and 12 and such hoppers, or similar units, receive different individual components used in forming the adhesive of the invention therein. These components would all comprise solids, normally, and thus the hopper 10 would receive component A therein, while hopper 11 has component B therein, hopper 12 component C therein, etc. for as many different components as would be required in making up the pressure sensitive adhesive and laminate of the invention. Each of the hopper members or means of the invention has an associated metered feed means indicated by the numbers 13, 14 and 15, respectively, suitably connected thereto whereby the rate of feed and/ or measured quantities of each of the individual components could be either continuously fed from the hoppers, or could be intermittently fed from the hoppers, as desired, and with such metered means or feed members 13 through 15 in turn being connected through suitable pipes or other flow conduits preferably to a common pulverizer means or unit indicated by the numeral 16. In this pulverizer, a conventional mixing, breaking up or blending and initial grinding actions occur on the various dry components fed to the pulverizer 16 whereby when either the batch means fed thereto, or the continued flow of the components to the pulverizer will be such that a suitably blended, ground mixture is fed from the pulverizer 16 through a conventional iiow member and such mixture is then received at the input end of a conventional extruder 17. This extruder 17 is of any desired construction and usually has a temperature control means 18 connected thereto in any suitable manner whereby the temperature of the various components of the extruder can Ibe varied from end to end thereof, as is desired, whereby the extruder or portions thereof can either be cooled, or be heated, and enough different connections can be made from the temperature control means 18 to the extruder so that diiferent temperature zones can be set up therein as is desired. The extruder 18 is adapted to extrude or force the blended adhesive mass therefrom in the form of an adhesive iilm 19, and any conventional cutter, handling means or other members may be connected to and associated with the extruder 17 for processing the adhesive film 19.
In order to build up a useful structure from the adhesive film 19, a suitable backing paper source 20 is provided. This source 20 usually would comprise a roll of suitable backing paper of any conventional type and which feeds a backing sheet, usually paper, 21 from the source or supply means 20, which paper is fed into a conventional or other laminator 22, such as two heated pressure rolls, to which the adhesive film 19 is also introduced. A laminate is formed in the laminator 22 from the backing paper 21,
the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive film 19, and a face paper source 23. Again, this source 23 may comprise a suitable roll of any desired type of paper 24 or equivalent means used in forming a useful laminate, and normally one or both faces of a sheet of the paper 21 and one face of the paper 24 fed from the face paper source 23 would have a layer of conventional silicone or other release material appearing thereover, which layer of release material would be presented to the laminator 22 in a suitable manner for being positioned immediately adjacent and providing a temporary bond to one surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive film 19. The ultimate laminate produced by the laminator 22 is indicated by the number 2S and it can then be passed to any desired roll or storage means 26 whereby the laminate 25 of the invention then can be used at any desired later time in any suitable manner and any required printing operations or other known steps such as cutting or slitting the laminate may be performed thereon to present the laminate 25 in suitable condition for use.
It is a particular feature of the invention that the pressure sensitive adhesive of the invention as embodied in the iilm 19 has improved properties in relation to previous efforts made in providing pressure sensitive adhesives in other manners. In all events, the adhesive of the invention has high tack strength, good peel strength, and very effective, acceptable or strong resistance to creep. Furthermore, the present invention provides this pressure sensitive adhesive at a high productivity rate where the extrusion of the adhesive film is performed under controlled temperature conditions.
It will be appreciated that the pressure sensitive adhesive of the invention can be made having substantially conventional compounding ingredients therein, but with the synthetic rubbers, or elastomers, or equivalent substance used in the practice of the invention being of certain predetermined types, and particularly being elastomers that have a high degree of thermoplasticity therein. The pressure sensitive lm of the invention in eifect is formed from viscoelastic means or substances as they are rubber-like, or elastic in a fluid form under normal room temperatures. The pressure sensitive adhesive ilm 19 also is made from ingredients which will Wet the adhering surfaces at room temperature in contrast to heat sensitive types of adhesive which will not have this characteristic.
These elastomers used to form viscoelastic fluids in the pressure sensitive adhesive must have a high viscosity at room temperature so as to have the desired creep resistance strength. However, the elastomers also must have low viscosities when melted.
In making the adhesives of the invention, it has been found that mixtures of certain percentages by weight of a mono-terminal block stereo-regular solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubbery copolymer with a di-terminal material known as Kraton 101 0r Kraton 11101 made by the Synthetic Rubber Division of Shell Chemical Company of Torrance, Calif., has been found to contain 51.75% trans-1,4; 9.97% vinyl-1,2 and 38.2% cis-1,4 configuration by weight and was found to be useful in the novel process for making adhesives of this invention. Such synthetic rubber, or elastomer is a copolymer, which may be made in accordance lwith the process disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,231,635. Any conjugated diene of 4 to 8 carbon atoms of which butadiene-1,3 is an example of a 4 carbon diene may be copolymerized with a vinyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon in which the vinyl group is attached to a nuclear carbon atom and of which styrene is an example. The styrene-butadiene copolymer may contain about to 15% vinyl, about 30 to 60% cis and about 30 to 60% trans-configuration. These copolymers also have the ability to exhibit both plastic and elastomeric properties, and have two terminal polystyrene blocks in the copolymer molecule.
The adhesive also contains major quantities of a monopoly-styrene terminal block molecule, stereoregular styrene-butadiene copolymer resulting from the solution polymerization of a mixture containing approximately 76.5 parts of butadiene and approximately 23.5 parts of styrene. An example of such mono-terminal block copolymer which has been found useful in the practice of the invention is Solprene 1205 which is a product of Phillips Petroleum Company, Rubber Chemicals Division, Bartlesville, Okla.
The Solprene 1205 has a terminal block of polystyrene present therein and center blocks of polybutadiene and/ or butadiene-styrene copolymer and it contains 57.1% trans- 1,4; 9.38% vinyl-1,2 and 33.55% cis-1,4- configuration by weight. By X-ray diffraction spectrographic analysis, it has been determined that the copolymer referred to hereinbefore has the desired thermoplastic regions and also has elastomeric regions. The polymerization of the monoterminal block copolymer is carried out by the process disclosed in British Pat. No. 888,624, and its formulation is also described therein.
The elastomers used can be ground to line particles and have definite melting points in the range of 140 to 165 due to the presence of polystyrene blocks.
In general, a blend of the styrene-butadiene copolymers referred to is used to make the adhesive by the present invention.
Usually tackifying materials, such as resins, that are compatible with both of the copolymers used in the adhesive, add materially to the desired properties of the resultant adhesive. These resins are believed to be soluble copolymers because of their amorphous properties. Certain rosin acid derivatives may also be used as the tackifying materials and polar type resins are believed to be better in the practice of the invention although some essentially non-polar resins may also be used. It is possible to add more resins by weight and get the desired properties in the adhesive, particularly in the tack thereof, if
the first resin used does not work satisfactorily by itself. In general, any of the common tackiiiers for styrenebutadiene rubbery copolymers would be suitable in practice of the invention.
It will be realized that any desired quantities of any other suitable compounding ingredients may be present in the adhesive, such as antioxidants, antiozonants, ultraviolet light absorbers, plasticizers and fillers may be added, as desired, in accordance with conventional compounding practices in the adhesive industry if such materials can be ground into small particles.
One specific example of a preferred composition for the adhesive to be made by the invention is as follows:
Parts by |Weight Solprene 1205 70 Kraton 101 30 `Pentalyn H Solprene 1205 -50 Kraton 101 10-50 Pentalyn H 50-150 but 50 to 95 parts by Weight Pentalyn H is preferred.
Pentalyn H is a pentaerythritol ester of hydrogenated rosin and is provided by the Hercules Chemical Company. Other resins that have proven satisfactory in the percentages by lweight as indicated hereinabove include any one or more of the following: polyterpene, coumaroneindene, rosin acid, vinyl toluene/alphia methyl styrene, natural fossil, terpene phenolic, hydrocarbon, ester of polymerized rosin, ester of hydroabietyl alcohol, lketone resin, and chlorinated polyphenyl.
The copolymers described have been very effective in the practice of the invention. Other solution polymerized styrene-butadiene copolymers having similar physical characteristics but made with from about 5 to 50 parts by weight of styrene and with from about 90 to 50 parts by weight of butadiene may also be used in making the adhesive.
All of the elastomers used in practice of the invention must be able to be made permanently tacky and be able to be ground to fine particle size.
Usually the adhesive film 19 would have a thickness of from about .001 to about .020 and preferably about .003 to .005". The film lmay be extruded somewhat thicker than its final thickness and to be drawn down to a desired s1ze.
In the extrusion means 17 shown in the drawings, it is important that the temperature therein be properly controlled. Thus, under the extrusion conditions for the present invention, the temperature reached in such extrusion means for the extruded material may be about 400 F. Usually the extrusion screw is cooled and the extrusion die and extruder barrel are heated.
In making an adhesive film from the preferred composition given hereinbefore, the extrusion screw was cooled to about 60 F. and the extrusion die was heated to about 400 F. The extruder barrel is divided into several temperature zones with the input end being heated to appreciably above the melting temperatures of the components of mix and with the barrel discharge end zone being heated to about 350 F. A uniform pressure sensitive adhesive film is formed at an efficient rate of fiow through the extruder. The intimate mixing and blending of the components of the pressure sensitive adhesive film in the extruder partially solubilizes the elastomers present in the tackiiier resin so that the elastomers are present as viscoelastic fluids in the film produced.
A non-Woven fibrous mat, or similar means, such as an open woven fabric, can be laminated with the film 19 by suitable heat and/ or pressurizing means, such as a pair of rolls at the laminator 22, between which the film and the Web or fabric would be introduced. The backing sheets 21 and 24 would also be fed to the laminator 22 which would force the adhesive film 19 into and through the fibrous mat to leave an adhesive layer on both surfaces thereof. A laminate of a unitary construction wherein a double-sided pressure sensitive unit is formed can thus be provided. In forming such unit, the fibrous mat usually would be engaged with the plastic film prior to the engagement of the backing sheets with the film and mat. The film 19 formed by extrusion in accordance with the principles of the invention can also be laminated with a film of a heat sensitive adhesive, if desired. These laminates can be then further processed, stored, or used in any conventional manner. Other suitable materials, as desired, can be laminated with the film 19.
Kraton 101 is now called Kraton 1101.
The invention provides an improved, novel process for making very desirable pressure sensitive adhesives in film form, which adhesives have high tack, peel and creep values, so that the objects of the invention are achieved.
While several complete embodiments of the invention have been disclosed herein, it will be appreciated that modification of these particular embodiments of the invention may be resorted to Without departing from the scope of the invention.
What is claimed is:
1. An improved process for making a pressure sensitive adhesive having high peel and tack strength, high creep resistance, and good shelf life, comprising the steps of mixing about 90 to 50 parts by weight of a mono-termi nal polystyrene block stereo-regular styrene-butadiene elastomer, about to 50` parts by Weight of a di-terminal polystyrene block stereo-regular styrenebutadiene elastomer, and about 50` to 150 parts by Weight of a solid tackifier resin material which is compatible with said elastomers, all of said materials being in the form of small particles,
blending and extruding such materials as a pressure sensitive adhesive film under temperature controlled conditions above the' melting points of said elastomers, and
laminating the pressure sensitive adhesive film to a second sheet or film of material.
2. The process of claim 1 which comprises squeezing the extruded film into and through a second film which comprises non-Woven fabric by the use of heated pressure means.
3. The process of claim 1 which comprises squeezing the extruded into a second sheet which comprises fabric.
4. The process of claim 2 which comprises squeezing the extruded film into a second sheet which comprises fabric.
5. A process as in claim 1 where about 70 parts of the mono-terminal polystyrene block elastomer are present, about 30* parts of the di-terminal polystyrene block elastomer and about parts of the resin are present.
6. A process as in claim 1 where the resin is a pentaerythritol ester of hydrogenated rosin.
7. A process as in claim 1 where the film is extruded at about 400 F.
8. A method of making a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising the steps of grinding and blending a mixture that consists essentially of measured quantities of mono-terminal and diterminal polystyrene block styrene-butadiene copolymers, that can be made permanently tacky, and a solid tackifying material to reduce the particle size thereof,
feeding the pulverized mixture to an extrusion means,
further mixing, blending, grinding and heat the materials by the extrusion means,
extruding a film of pressure sensitive adhesive as a viscoelastic fluid under controlled temperature conditions above the melting point of the copolymers, and laminating the film of pressure sensitive adhesive by pressure with a second sheet or film of material to form a laminate sheet including at least two plies having adjacent surfaces contacting each other.
9. A process of claim 8 which comprises the step of passing the film of pressure sensitive adhesive and the second sheet through a pair of heated rolls to squeeze the film into and through the second sheet, which comprises a non-woven fabric.
10. The process of claim 8 which comprises heating the extruded film while applying pressure thereto to force it into a fabric which is said second sheet.
11. A method of making a pressure sensitive adhesive as in claim 8 including the steps of laminating said film of pressure sensitive adhesive with the second sheet by passing them through a pair of heated rolls, and providing a third sheet adjacent the other surface of said pressure sensitive adhesive film, and passing said third sheet through said rolls with the other sheets to obtain a three ply laminate sheet.
12. A method of making a pressure sensitive adhesive as in claim 8 including the step of drawing said film of pressure sensitive adhesive to a thinner thickness prior to said laminating step.
13. A method of making a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising the steps of forming a mixture that consists essentially of measured quantities of mono-terminal and di-terminal polystyrene block styrene-butadiene copolymers, that can be made permanently tacky, and a solid tackifying material,
heating the mixture to form a Visco-elastic iiuid condition,
extruding the Visco-elastic fiuid under controlled temperature conditions above the melting point of the copolymers to form a film of pressure sensitive adhesive, and
laminating the film of pressure sensitive adhesive by pressure with a second sheet or film of material to form a laminate sheet including at least two plies having adjacent surfaces contacting each other.
14. A process as in claim 13 for the formation of an adhesive product comprising the step of forming said second sheet or lm from a heat sensitive adhesive.
15. The process of claim 13 which comprises the step of using a release coated paper sheet to form said second sheet or film of material and applying the pressure sensitive lm to the release coated surface of the paper.
16. A method of making a pressure sensitive adhesive as in claim 13 including the steps of laminating said iilm of pressure sensitive adhesive with said second sheet by passing them through a pair of heated rolls, and providing a third sheet adjacent the other surface of said pressure sensitive adhesive film, and simultaneously passing said third sheet through said rolls with the other sheets to obtain a three ply laminate sheet at least one of which is a release coated paper sheet having the release coat in contact with said lm of pressure sensitive adhesive.
References Cited BENJAMIN R. PADGETT, Primary -Examiner S. I. LECHERT, I R., Assistant Examiner U.S. C1. X.R.
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|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Hot-melt-coatable adhesives
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|Sep 26, 1995
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
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|Mar 21, 1994
|Jul 23, 1996
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Solventless compounding and coating of non-thermoplastic hydrocarbon elastomers
|May 5, 1995
|Aug 27, 1996
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Solventless compounding and coating of non-thermoplastic hydrocarbon elastomers
|Mar 29, 1995
|Dec 31, 1996
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Method of making double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape
|Sep 26, 1995
|Feb 4, 1997
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape and method of making
|Mar 28, 1997
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|Bourns Multifuse (Hong Kong) Ltd.
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|Dec 22, 2000
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|Jul 21, 1998
|Sep 5, 2000
|3M Innovative Properties Company
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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- Developers are your friends. In this new world, the device manufacturer's development team better be your best friend, or you are missing out. Outside of content differentiation, the experience is paramount. So make the most of it. There is no way your team will be able to know every nuance that the technology manufacturer supports. The great news is that today, most technology companies aren't just willing to help you gain that insight, they need it to survive.
- Don't be a tightwad. So many partners I met with commented that many publishers are not willing to share incredible or exclusive offers in exchange for promotion. Don't be a tightwad! Pre-installs do not guarantee success. You will need to be creative and think out of the box.
- Yes, you need an app. While the HTML5 versus app debate continues, don't get caught in the fray. Build an app that you can use for testing. It will be well worth it within six months of launch.
Well, there you have it. My top five list. What do you think?
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What materials did you use? Cotton Fabrics for Piecing Patchwork, and pillow case. Polyester filling for pillow
What advice would you give someone starting this project? Just cut some extra blocks when you prepare for the quilt and keep it for the pillow. Make a paper pattern with the size and shape your like your finish pillow to have and follow the pattern. You need to reshape the center bottom three and the top center only retouch the bottom seam making 1/2" seams instead from the middle of the geometric figures down. After is right the size free motion quilt it as usual with the same wadding used on the quilt. It was not difficult to get it right. You can do it too. If any questions you welcome to ask me. I highly recommend this kind of pillow shape. There are very comfortable to have it around.
i have been looking to make a comforable pillow for my neck, since my neck surgery i have had touble sleeping due to pain ,do you think this designed shape will help me if i make it a little bigger .thank you
I think that it is worth to try. If you don't want to go with the trouble to make it, just try on one Ushape pillow. It work for me
hi Grooyyiaia ,where can i buy one or a pattern to make one
I used a heart pattern they used for breast amputated women and checked out it is great for the neck. Would not make it too high.
Hi Groovyiaia, Can you please tell me where I can get a pattern of this boomerang pillow. Need pattern to make a pillow for a friend that is in hospital. Thanks - Anna
Thank you - just what I was searching for.
Such a great pillow - I'll keep that in mind! Looks simply great - love the jolly colors. As far as I understood, there is no pattern. I think your explanation is clear. If I look at the center i see the thre middle blocks on top - their layout is different to make a curve. And one row below one has to cut the three pieces as sharp triangles. That is it - isn't it? Thanks so much for the inspiration and sharing :-)


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ANGEL FIRE, N.M. (AP) - The scenery in this northern New Mexico town is a lot prettier than the politics.
Allegations of racism, political retribution and sexual harassment rocked the village government for the last 15 months while a bitter power struggle ensued between the village mayor and former village administrator.
Mayor Barbara Cottam cast the deciding vote in a 3-2 council decision to oust village Administrator David King, a former state treasurer and nephew of former Gov. Bruce King. It was a move some residents view as the breaking point of nearly two years of political upheaval.
King's attorney, J. Edward Hollington, argued that King was a model public servant during his two-year stint in Angel Fire.
Meanwhile, Cottam was accused of racial discrimination by Hispanic village employees in two separate Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints. She was apparently angry because King didn't try to quash the complaints, Hollington said.
The EEOC dismissed one claim against Cottam. But the other complaint, filed by Village Clerk Rayetta LeDoux in April 1998, is pending. LeDoux accused Cottam and the village council of violating her civil rights.
In an unrelated incident, a former village maintenance worker filed an EEOC complaint of sexual harassment against his male supervisor in April. The claim accuses the supervisor of exposing himself to the worker while on the job. The claim is pending.
"They think he (King) should have been persuading these employees not to file claims of discrimination." Hollington said. "You can't dissuade anyone from filing a discrimination claim. They wanted him to violate state and federal laws."
Cottam vigorously denied allegations of racism, but she conceded during an interview last week that Angel Fire has struggled with perceptions of exclusivity. Regrettably, the village has been nicknamed "Anglo Fire" by some outsiders, she said.
Cottam said she judges employees by how well they do their job, and she was shocked by the accusations of racial discrimination.
"It just didn't happen," Cottam said. "I knew there was some turmoil in the office, but it just didn't have anything to do with racial discrimination."
Councilman Chuck Hasford, who supports King and plans to run against Cottam in the mayoral election next March, said Cottam does seem to favor certain employees. But he said her favoritism never seemed motivated by race or ethnicity.
Hasford said King was "doing a nice job" as administrator and was never given an opportunity to correct what some on the council perceived as work deficiencies.
Cottam denied that King was fired simply because of the EEOC complaints. She said King, as village administrator, should have resolved employee discontent in-house but failed to do so. Cottam said King often left town on business without telling anyone and signed contracts without consulting her.
"His main goal seemed to be to not work with me," Cottam said.
But Hasford and Councilman Gary Stansbury said Cottam was the problem, not King.
Bruce Lawrence, a Texan who retired to Angel Fire more than a decade ago, attends each village council meeting. He said the town has a big future and needs to be cohesive.
"This is a nice community," Lawrence said. "We do not need to be at odds."
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Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali burst onto the South African literary scene with the publication of Sounds of a Cowhide Drum in 1971. The book went into six impressions, sold over 13000 copies, and was published in London and New York in the following year. The success of Mtshali's collection of poetry helped pave the way for a new, more militant generation of black poets (Sepamla, Serote, Gwala) and to create an audience for their poetry. Their writing provoked an often heated debate among South African critics and academics over the criteria used to evaluate this poetry. A second collection of Mtshali's poetry, Fireflames, was banned on publication in 1980. After working as an educationist in South Africa in the …
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Learned so much from this and really need to repeat it several times. Really have enjoyed the classes, Roberto. Thanks so much. Still have a few more of the exercises to finish.
Hi Margo, thank yo for the compliments! Try this exercise: draw the schematic head like the one above, with very faint lines then draw over it the features of a person from life or from a photo, this will help you to see if your schematic drawing is correct and to better memorize the basic proportion of the face.
Roberto, thank you so much. That is a great suggestion. I will give that a try.
Roberto, I tried out your suggestion and entered the finished project in Craftsy's My Selfie contest. Also posted the first six stages here on Craftsy under Selfie in Stages. Had a great time doing it. Now I need to get more practice in judging the width to height ratio when looking at a face.


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Yahoo! to Start Providing Customer Support in Arabic, Turkish & 7 More Languages Via IBM Cairo Center
Yahoo! announced today that it will start running its customer base operation for 9 languages via IBM service delivery center in Cairo, Egypt.
These languages are: Arabic Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, and Russian.
After Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob late last year there was fear many employees would be laid off and that the development center would be relocated outside the region.
Since the acquisition insiders have informed us that 60 employees have been fired while Maktoob development center remains in Amman, Jordan. Yahoo's decision to bring the customer support operation of these languages to Egypt will certainly provide jobs for the region although our hope is to see them hire more engineering jobs. Ideally, we want Yahoo to open an R&D center somewhere in the region which would help develop more technical human capital.
This announcement also could suggest that Yahoo may soon launch Arabic versions of their websites and apps especially since Yahoo! has shut down around 27 Maktoob owned sites. Some of these were duplicates to those from Yahoo(USA). Yahoo has emphasized Yahoo brand and logo over the Maktoob brand.
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The coffee chain will soon add pastry case calorie labeling, too.
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One of the principal sponsors at this year's IWA World Water Congress, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction's corporate stand is grand in scale and innovative in design. The stand showcases Doosan's global business portfolio and its leading position in the water industry through an array of visual displays. Real-life plant models help visitors to better understand the ...
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Health care law will cost Erie schools
The Affordable Care Act might change the Erie School District's relationship with its substitutes.
The health-care law changes the definition of a full-time employee, eligible for health benefits, from a person who works 40 or more hours per week to a person who works 30 or more hours per week, district Business Manager Rick D'Andrea said.
That could result in an estimated additional $882,260 in health-care costs per year for the district, D'Andrea said -- a number that has the district considering the possibility of outsourcing substitute services.
The Erie School Board on Wednesday heard a presentation from representatives of Kelly Educational Staffing, the largest provider of substitute staff in the nation.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the district would have to provide health care to 62 additional employees who had previously been ineligible for benefits based on the number of hours they worked per week, at an estimated cost of $882,260, based on current rates.
That would bring the district's total estimated cost for substitute workers to nearly $2.9 million, D'Andrea said.
Kelly could provide those services for an estimated $2.1 million based on current rates, he said, resulting in a net annual savings of about $801,000 for the district.
Patricia Bova, a regional sales manager for Kelly, described the services the company would provide, including screening, recruitment and evaluation of substitutes, and fielded questions from board members during the short presentation.
Substitutes' hours wouldn't be cut because of the Affordable Care Act, she said.
"For us, that's important for continuity in the classroom," she said.
Board President John Harkins said he isn't sure if the board is ready to make such a move, and that the group would continue to investigate cost-saving measures while the district works to craft the 2014-15 budget.
"The status quo is very possible," he said.
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End of Season Celebration At Porto CupecoyApril 21, 2009
As spring arrives and high season comes to a close on Sint Maarten, we have a lot to celebrate at Porto Cupecoy! We have welcomed new homeowners every week, the village space has been leased by great shops and restaurants, the marina flooding is only weeks away, and the resort remains on schedule to open this Fall.
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