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Earthy mushrooms and sweet squash are layered in this tasty fall lasagna. Adding reconstituted dried porcini to the sauce adds an additional layer of flavor.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Calcium
High Fiber
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Low Sodium
Serves 8
Prep Time 55 min
Total Time 120 min.
Step 1
Cook noodles in a large pot of boiling salted water until barely tender (8 minutes for dried, 1 minute for fresh). Drain and rinse under cold water. Spread the noodles on clean kitchen towels, cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
Step 2
Combine sun-dried tomatoes and dried mushrooms in a small bowl. Add boiling water, cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Transfer the tomatoes and mushrooms to a cutting board with a slotted spoon and chop. Strain the soaking liquid through a fine sieve and set aside.
Step 3
Heat 1 cup milk in a saucepan over medium heat until steaming. Meanwhile, put 3 tablespoons flour in a small bowl and gradually whisk in the remaining 1/3 cup milk until smooth; whisk into the hot milk and stir constantly over the heat until the sauce comes to a simmer and thickens. Continue cooking and stirring for 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Whisk in cream cheese, then 2/3 cup mariniar sauce and vinegar. Season the sauce with salt and pepper; set aside.
Step 4
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrot and garlic and sauté until soft, about 2 minutes. Add fresh mushrooms, rosemary and the reserved tomatoes and porcini; cook until the fresh mushrooms are just wilted, about 2 minutes longer. Stir the remaining 1 teaspoon flour into the vegetables. Add the reserved soaking liquid and the remaining 1/3 cup marinara sauce and cook until the mixture thickens, about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and season with salt and pepper.
Step 5
Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Step 6
Smear the bottom of the prepared dish with 1/2 cup of the sauce. Line the bottom with a single layer of noodles. Spread half of the mushroom mixture over the noodles and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of the Parmesan. Add another layer of noodles, arrange butternut squash on top and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread another 1/2 cup sauce over all. Add another layer of noodles, followed by the remaining mushroom mixture; sprinkle with 2 more tablespoons of the Parmesan. Finish with the remaining noodles and sauce. Sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan.
Step 7
Coat a large piece of foil with cooking spray and tightly cover the baking dish. Bake the lasagne for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until lightly browned and bubbling, 10 to 15 minutes more. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
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I corrected a previous post. The increase in cost will be about $24 per 100 frames.
The topbars are not altered any. Having waited so long, it's disappointing. Perhaps Kelley's will offer to plane down topbars for an additional service fee...
With all of the trimming, gluing, stapling, and foundation installation, cutting down Mann Lake's PF-120 frames doesn't sound so bad.
Trying to think inside the box...
I made a large purchase of supplies to build deep narrow brood frames from W. T. Kelley. First of all the minimum order for grooved bottom bars is 100 pieces so I ordered enough frame top and end bars to match quantities. I am a hobbyist with two to four hives so materials for 100 frames is a lot. Total order $125 shipping is additional. Overall, I was not impressed with the frame ends. They were indeed 1-1/4" however they were not evenly trimmed for uniform spacing between frames and several of them even split when inserting the top bars. I do like the the bottom bar joints, they should be strong. Either way I believe the bees will use the frames. I swap out the brood frames with the darkest comb annually so sooner or later this too will pass.
End bar width.JPGFrame spacing.JPGEnd bar split.JPGBottom bar fittment.JPG
I am just wondering if others have tried them out and how their experience has been.
Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end
Wow, that is terrible. It doesn't look like they changed the topbar width either. I can do better than that with a table saw. I voiced my approval initially, but I think I will pass at this time. That's no good at all.
Kelleys always appreciates any feedback we can get to put the product in your hands you can use.
If the end bars are narrowed, the top bars must be correspondingly narrowed so that the critical dimensions at the top of the end bars remain the same (preventing splitting) and the top bars must be separated by the same dimension as they were before.
I bought a batch of foundationless medium frames and trimmed the endbars and found this problem. Kelley's topbars are wide meaning that when you trim the end bars, the top bars get closer together and if they get too close, bees can't squeeze between. For 1 1/4" end bars, the top bar should be no wider than 1" and 7/8" would be better. The two upright parts at the tops of the end bars ought to be at least 1/4" or thicker to prevent splitting.
Most of all, they must be consistent. There is less room for error in narrow frames. Poor ccar2000 is going to have loads of trouble with these inconsistent frames being glued together with propolis and not being the correct center to center dimension leading to comb which is not centered in the frames.
We would appreciate as much feedback as we can get -- Solomon I have forwarded your info onto production and we will have a discussion on a possible change to the top bar allowing for shrinking dimensions on both the end & top bar. Please keep suggestions coming. Thanks!
Ideal would be a top bar of 1" or slightly less. But I shave down regular frames all the time without shaving the top bars. You should (if it's consistent) have 3/16" between the top bars which the bees can get through and since it's how they move from box to box they don't propolize them. I try to leave at least one a little wider in the center (1/4") so the queen can more easily get through. They aren't right. But they aren't terrible. They are better than wider frames.
If you have less than 3/16" they will just propolize them closed.
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I am happy to help. Sorry if I come off critical, I am not trying to be.
Might I suggest that WT Kelley create a complete un-assembled package with the appropriate sized top, side and bottom bars for narrow frame beekeeping. Also since most commercial beekeepers are not narrow frame users maybe these complete packages could be made available containing multiples of 11 ie 11, 22, 33, etc... I think there are a lot of hobbyists out there that just have two to four hives in their yard or somewhere close by.
Thank you for your attention and suggestions regarding this matter.
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I will be thinning mine down on a router and I learned that "Whiteside" bits are nice and http://www.hartvilletool.com/ ships for free. I plan to stop about 1/2" from the end bar location...
Trying to think inside the box...
I will be thinning mine down on a router and I learned that "Whiteside" bits are nice and http://www.hartvilletool.com/ ships for free. I plan to stop about 1/2" from the end bar location...
I find the irregular endbar widths shown in this photo to be unacceptable :
Trying to think inside the box...
I agree with Michael.
I've been cutting down Dadant End bars to 1 1/4" with. It is important that the top bar notch be centered, or the joint is weakened and may split a noted above.
A 1" top bar will allow proper bee space @ 1/4", which is on the narrow end of proper size, imo.
If the frames are made in such a way as not to require any modification or special care, I'll be happy to use them in my brood boxes, and will likely order other things as well when making frame orders.
At present, when I buy cut stock I get it at Dadant as it is local and there is no shipping cost.
But if Kelley were to make foundtionless narrow frames that I can just assemble and use, w/o having to monkey around making mods, with a properly centered top bar, I'd be pleased to pay shipping.
Yes, 1" wide (or slightly less). I've modified about 50 Mann Lake frames. Their top bars are exactly 1", leaving enough space once you trim down the edge pieces.
I've been following this thread with high interest, because it takes too much of my time making my own frames. If I can obtain suitable wooden frames commercially, for a reasonable cost, it would save me having to make my own - giving me more time actually working with bees.
I am presently making my own frames. I prefer the Top Bars to be 7/8" wide (this provides a nice bee space between frames that have 1-1/4" wide End Bars), and I use a router table and bit to create a comb guide profile on the Top Bars between the End Bars, though a grooved Top Bar would be acceptable, and one with a wedge, somewhat less so. My End Bars are 1-1/4" wide, 3/8" thick and the sides are parallel, top to bottom (I find that used correctly fewer bees are guillotined than with the graduated-width End Bars). My Bottom Bars are 1/2" high and 3/4" wide, and sized to fit inside the bottoms of the End Bars, so I can fasten them with horizontal fasteners through the outside bottom edges of the End Bars (I find that this holds the Bottom Bars best from "pull-out"). Some of my Bottom Bars have a reverse of the comb guide that's on the Top Bars, but I haven't observed that this inspires the bees to more regularly fasten their combs there. I believe the 1/2" height helps inspire comb attachment best, especially if there is bee space beneath the Bottom Bars.
Additionally, I find that four wire holes in End Bars for comb support on deep frames is overkill. Two wire holes in each End Bar, either deep or medium are more than sufficient. On deep frames the top and bottom horizontal wire positions are too close to the Top Bar and Bottom Bar, respectively to provide much reinforcement support. At most deep frames could use three horizontal support wires, but the center one should be positioned where it would be in the center of the finished comb, and the other two equidistant from, but closer to the center wire than to either the Top Bar or Bottom Bar.
I would be happy to provide a prototype if you'd like.
Plan JPEG's are available, here.
48 years - 50 hives - TF
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When I made a batch the 7/8" top bar was perfect and a smaller width dado at the top of the end bar helps. The guy with the pics should get a reimbursement, that's just unacceptable stock to work with. If the top bars were thinner his situation wouldn't be AS bad...
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Here is my vision of the most acceptable narrow frame based on everything I'm reading here. A top bar with a width of 15/16", end bars with a width of 1 1/4" at the top, the lower part of the end bars has about 3/16" stock removed on each side to give you about a 1/2" or 9/16" width wood at the point where you attach the bottom bar in the way Joseph Clemens does it by putting the bottom bar on the inside of the end bars and nailing/gluing. I might add that having 1 1/4" end bars and a 15/16" top bar will require about a 3/16" dado cut on each side of the top bar ends for the end bars to slide into, that will leave you with about 1/2" to 9/16" of stock left between the two dado cuts on the top bar which should be plenty strong enough. I hope I described it clearly enough. Is this basically what everyone is looking for? John
I'm okay with the traditional attachment for the bottom bar. I don't believe that needs to be modified at all. Kelley's method is adequate.
Here are some pics of some I just made:
They're a little too large to display here.
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Another year in the almonds, good luck to all. You can keep track of the bloom at the link above.
Another year in the almonds, good luck to all. You can keep track of the bloom at the link above.
I'm scheduling a 4H field trip from the San Francisco Bay Area to see bees working the almonds. What would be the best weekend to see the most activity? I've never seen the almonds myself (despite 35 years of backyard beekeeping) so I'm also trying to find the best locations nearby.
Grandfather's first hive 1936. Dad's first hive 1940.
My first hive 1976. My daughter's first hive 2008.
Trees just starting to bloom. And its going to be cold. I would try in two weeks.
If you'd like you may Pm me. Fairly close to you. Been doing bees in Solano County for 32 years. In 95 our family acquired a place north of 80 between Vacaville and Dixon. We now grow our own almonds and the trees are about ready to burst. We do not grow a lot but surely enough to give a bunch of eager 4H learners a good idea of what happens in the relationship of the "bees and trees." They are just starting to flower. Depending on the weather looks like the 2nd of March will be a good weekend in 2013 to view "optimal" Bloom.
John & Sherri - Thank You for the link!
Suggestion to the 4-H kids to wear mosquito veils, gloves, long sleeves, and long pants at the very least. Have an epi-pen ready just in case (not paranoia - just a "bee"-prepared attitude). Explaining that almonds need honey bees (not much else pollinates almonds), that colonies must be increasing in numbers (brood present) in order to pollinate, and that pollen traps placed a day or two before flowers open really motivates the bees to forage for pollen harder would make the trip a real educational experience. They'd probably love to see a hive opened and operate the smoker! Spotting a queen would be awesome. Hope it goes well!


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Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read
delivering good news a great timing.
thnx man!
looking forward to this game.
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read[ Edited ]
I saw a couple posts which my list of bugs (more or less) included; I'll post it here also.
- Lobby disbands even if 1 or 2 people are still trying to be "found" (This is annoying, since the game will just regroup everyone together again). The worst I've seen was the repeated regrouping of the same people, which happened 3 times. 1 or 2 people would be swapped with other players, which could've gotten a match going in a previous lobby.
- Armor sets have separate animations on the killed player as compared to the body when performing "Brutal Kills". The sleeves of the armor set will be up in the air, while the model's actual arms are lower and protruding out of the sleeves. Sometimes the upper armor DOES disappear, which I am not sure is supposed to happen or not (arm/leg/ armor also disappears SOMETIMES, along with the helmet on certain "Brutal Kill" animations).
- DESERT OF LOST SOULS: The ledge on the Spike Trap (middle of the map, to the LEFT of the Health Vent) is glitched. When hanging off of it, players can only press "Triangle" to pull themselves up, resulting in a power hit. "X" should be the button to pull yourself up. I've seen many players die because of this.
- Homerun Hammer (world weapon Hammer) can be spammed on an enemy player that is against a wall, and there is nothing they can do about it; resulting in death and cheapness. I guess this is more of a balance issue.
- As you mentioned, relics/items/magic continuously display a " ! " (exclamation mark) even when they've been looked at and cannot be upgraded due to character level/other scenarios.
- While in the "Champion" section, sometimes the currently equipped weapon will be placed on the characters back, which displays weird graphical bugs. The sword/hammer will shortly disappear afterwards.
- While fighting 2 enemies (even more, this is just an example), proceed to hit one enemy in the air while the other is on the ground. The "Grapple" notification will appear on the airborne player, but when pressing "R1" to grab the opponent, the chain will usually fly towards to grounded opponent. This results in lost opportunities and stuns, since you will be punished for attempting a "Grapple" on the grounded opponent. Make the game recognize the airborne opponent. Again, this isn't really a glitch, just a suggestion/logical fix.
- DESERT OF LOST SOULS: Within the bottom portion of the map, there are 4 ways to get to the upper portion.. The green chain grab, blue portal, and the 2 buildings on opposite ends which can be climbed. These 2 buildings NEED ATTENTION. They are a safe zone, especially when in the middle area of the wall. If an opponent is on the wall, they CANNOT be hit. Climbing the wall with them and then "hitting them" results in you falling, as well as the enemy, which is not very logical since the enemy is usually ABOVE you and had the head start. This is a very serious problem, as I've experienced Flag bearing players (Capture the Flag) waiting on these buildings and not moving until their Team's Flag has returned. Allow players to punch/kick in the Up, Down, Right and Left directions so that this does not happen. This should result in the enemy falling to the ground. Too often, players will rapidly sprint to these walls. In the early process of climbing, maybe allow players to also "Grapple" (R1) enemies to prevent them from cowardly gaining invincibility while clinging onto these walls.
As for a side note, a Damage Inflicted system should be implemented. Damage done on enemies should be put towards your score, and even more points if you also get the kill. This will help the frustration with stolen kills, because most of the points went to 'you' and very little points went towards the disrespectful teammate who got the ONE death dealing blow. This also helps the usefulness of distractions. When fighting 2 or more enemies, the lone player gains NO score even if they completely drained both of their health. This needs to be thought through.
This type of score system has been mentioned by a few people on this Forum, and it is a brillant idea for God of War: Ascensions MP. If points are being rapidly accumulated due to this new Damage Inflicted score system, then it will result in VERY short matches. This can be solved by raising the Score Goal. Testing is obviously needed if this were to be to be added, so that lengthy or short matches can be avoided.
By the way, the Beta reward is very thoughtful.
Thank you!
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read
Gotta admit, lovin this new game :-) liked god of wars fighting and like the openness of mw3, now they are combined :-) will definitely be getting the whole game when it comes out :-)
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read[ Edited ]
brilliant beta so far and loving the multiplayer (which surprised me alot - as didnt expect much from this).
i never do any preorders for games, but this might have to be the first one!
keep up the good work tank and dev team!
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read
I agree with the points system giving you points when "half" kills.
I've been in a situation of Me v. 2 or 3 and managed to drain most of my enemies life bar and then another guy comes and kills them. I get nothing from them and it's very frustrating.
Also, 300 points for a kill is ok, but I think 800 for a brutal kill is kind of high.
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read[ Edited ]
First time on so im still trying to figure out the forums so ill apologize if this has already been posted...
i would suggest a combat log of sorts indicating how much damage as been recieved/dealt or blocked and by whom. I think it would give us a better understanding of what armor/weapons are working with our build and which arent when equipting our toon and engageing our oppenants. i personally would like to know wither my attacks are landing and for how much dmg and wither i need more physical resist or elemntal and who i do more dmg on and who i am not.. Could help with balancing.
Another suggestion is harmony relics and when its in effect, aside from me using the relic and knowing when it will be on when we capture a flag or get total domination if i dont have it equiped i dont know if someone else does when it gets activated.. perhaps something indicating on the screen saying so and so has activated harmony ..
Maybe also some timers on the left hand side indicating what buffs are on and for how long and also when your power attks will be ready for use again..
Maybe also % numbers on the health and magic bar.. preferrbly magic bar... so we can see how far we are away from 50%..
If there are ways of identifying the above that i may have miss ingame please let me know..
though aside from unlocking relics as u level up what other benefit is there for your toon to continue?
what if at every level or 5 levels or even 10 levels.. there is a stat increase or perhaps you unlock the abilities of another god.. and thier is multiclassing thats another can of worms in itself..
overall the game rocks and in all honesty it is fine without the above i think.. but i would hate to have to create multiple characters to unlock everything vice playing one toon and unlocking everything with him...
Btw the way is thier a running leaderboard anywhere? Thanks ..
Long Live the God Of War..
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read
First time posting on the forum....the game is great! Very nice. I'm hoping there will be more to do when the game gets launched, as I'm tired of Desert and arena fighting at this point. In this context....what we're able to play with in the arena and with the cyclops.... when the spikes come up in the dessert...spikes that are as tall as you, if they're all ready up and you roll (they're really too high for you to touch the points if they're already up and you didn't jump onto them)....you get stabbed.... I don't know if that is intentional.
I'm assuming that a little booklet will be included with the game that tells you how to play the flag game...unless you want people to figure it out as they go.
This one guy in the desert blah blah blah kept jumping over my head and would just start swinging his sword and I couldn't get to him. I tried the grapple hook but it didn't grab him. Maybe I was supposed to ONLY parry? I don't know. I couldn't hit him while he was up there either and it was very disconcerting.
With what we have access in as far as beta goes, I really don't understand the elemental resistance and strength... Pretty much whoever you're up against is just going to pound you to bits with physical assaults, which are superior. Maybe that works out better if you're really doing like teamwork maybe.
So far, it seems that it's all about physical defense and attack power. I don't really see the elemental stuff coming into play enough right now. I played a zeus character up to lvl 15 ............WHICH REMINDS ME: That Zeus electricity power where you die and leave behind an electrical explosion is POINTLESS! Not a single person who killed me was EVER next to me when it went off and took NO DAMAGE. It's a total waste of a power. I don't know if you guys did that on purpose.... it does look dramatic when you die like that though.
ANYWAY all suited up in Zeus gear with the armor and weapon. It's ranged attacks, but they're not ranged enough so that when you get in close you're toast. The best implementation I've seen of that setup is when someone is on like a higher surface in the desert game.....if there's an obstacle and you're having trouble getting to them, they can blast you pretty good with the lightning powers sometimes.
Those HADES looking chains you get in the arena as drop are FANTASTIC! I loved using them.... I felt like I was playing Kratos again! VERY NICE!
I'm playing an Ares character who's level 10 I think... and I've been kicking butt the last two times I played in the arena... and all of a sudden he looks like he's GLOWING in the lobby. Is that done on purpose? Is it because I beat the snot out of everyone?
I thought I would try playing Zeus to start, but unless there's better team work.... ie: Not in what we have access to in the beta, I can't see the pont. Doesn't do enough damage and doesn't have enough defense to be effective....got hit out of spinning that hammer on the block triangle strike too many times.....and the area lightning effect one that's a magic spell is only good if you sneak up on someone..preferably two people fighting each other and you let it loose.....then it's nice. Zeus's powers seem more subterfuge than ranged to me. I'm just saying.
LAST NIGHT when I played I was in the middle of fighting in the desert and my Playstation FROZE. I don't know if it was because of a glitch on my side or on yours, but I just thought I'd throw that out there... never happened before... and of course I don't think I got any xp from the game that I was in as a result... (and I was kicking butt as usual)
I probably won't post anything else on the forum which is why I wrote so much here. With a lvl 10 Ares and lvl 15 Zeus character I'm pretty much done playing as far as I know... unless there's anything else you need.
The game looks great. It's a great testament to the God of War line. I really appreciate the work you guys have put into it. Thank you.
Re: Update From the Dev Team Front-lines - All Read
One thing I have noticed, and this isn't a bug report and whatnot, but I've noticed a lot of people, especially today spamming the hell out of just the specials. Nothing more. Getting you down then spamming them so that you can't get back up to defend yourself, since if I'm not mistaken, you can't block specials and the Escape is only available once in a while. It would just be great if more people used a variety of attacks instead of relying on only one or two. Game is awesome btw, just minor annoyances, though I guess that comes with the multiplayer territory.


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Braved a trip to the shed and measured two of my purchased supers and they are slightly less than 18 1/4. So I'm living with it and didn't know it.
Super dimension for frame rest end to frame rest end is 19 1/8.
So I am pounding my metal frame rest flat so they can be used.


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Chapters 1-3 Summary
Chapter 1
In his earliest memory, Joey (a "gangling, leggy colt . . . not yet six months old") is separated from his mother at a horse sale. He is not sold at once. Finally, a drunken man purchases him for three guineas. Terrified, Joey tries to get away, but he is forcibly restrained and haltered by his new owner and his friends. He is then tied to the back of a cart and taken to a small farm, which is to be his new home.
Joey is left unceremoniously in a stable. His only consolation is that he is housed in a stall next to an old mare named Zoey, who seems kind and sympathetic. After a while, a young boy comes running from the farmhouse with his mother. Albert, who is thirteen, is excited to see the horse his father has brought home. Mother says that Father bought Joey out of spite, to prevent another farmer from getting him, but Albert does not care. He is just happy that Joey is here. He rubs down the colt and brings him food and water. Joey is calmed by the boy's gentle, caring manner. He knows that he has found "a friend for life."
Chapter 2
Albert cares for Joey during the following months, training him to walk and trot on command and to come to the sound of his whistle. For the most part, Father ignores the horse. On Tuesdays, when his father comes home drunk from market, Albert finds some pretext to be with Joey so that his father will leave the colt alone. One Tuesday evening, however, Albert must go down to the village church to ring the bells. While he is away, Father approaches Joey with a whip in his hand; he has made a bet with another farmer that he can have the colt pulling a plow before the end of the week, and he intends to win it. In a panic, Joey lashes out with his hooves, striking Albert's father on the leg. The drunken man leaves angrily and threatens to sell the colt straightaway.
The next morning, Albert sternly reprimands his horse,...
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Chapters 4-6 Summary
Chapter 4
Albert's father takes Joey into the village and sells him for forty pounds to a military officer named Captain Nicholls. Filled with regret, Father begs the captain to make sure that the horse comes to no harm. Before he leaves, he whispers to Joey, "You won't understand and neither will Albert, but unless I sell you, I can't keep up with the mortgage and we'll lose the farm."
Knowing that he is about to be abandoned, Joey becomes frantic, and as gentle hands try unsuccessfully to console him, Albert comes running up. He realizes that his father has sold Joey. Albert asks Captain Nicholls to be allowed to join up, so that he can stay with his horse, but the captain says that he is too young. Captain Nicholls is a kind man, however, and promises that he will take care of the horse personally. As Albert takes leave of Joey, he vows that he will find him again, wherever he may be.
Chapter 5
A hard, heavy-handed man named Corporal Samuel Perkins is given the responsibility of training Joey to be a cavalry mount, an arduous process. Captain Nicholls' frequent visits during these days are the horse's only consolation. The captain, an artist, is working on a painting of Joey to send back to Albert. As he works, he talks about the war; unlike many others who are filled with bravado and optimism when thinking about the conflict, he is acutely aware of the harsh realities of battle.
With less than a week before the regiment will be sent to the front lines, Captain Nicholls admonishes Corporal Perkins to be firm but gentle with Joey and to "look after him as if he were [his] own." Joey settles into his training, and by the time he performs his last maneuvers with Captain Nicholls before the entire regiment, he is able to acquit himself well. During the simulated charge, which is the climax of the demonstration, the captain rides alongside his good friend, Captain...
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Chapters 7-9 Summary
Chapter 7
The next morning, Captain Stewart places Joey under the care of a raw recruit named Trooper Warren. Although the callow youth is not a good horseman, he is kind, "the gentlest of men." The squadron takes part in a few minor skirmishes that autumn, but for the most part, the horses are used for transport rather than cavalry. During the long, grueling marches to which they are assigned, Trooper Warren talks to Joey, telling him that he had been a blacksmith's apprentice before the war and had been forced to join up because someone to whom his father had been indebted had required it.
Winter comes. The horses have little protection from the unrelenting rain, snow, and sleet, but Trooper Warren cares for Joey "with great devotion." Many horses become ill and are carted to the veterinary hospital, never to return, but Joey and Topthorn make it through to the spring. Trooper Warren receives letters from his mother, describing the mundane occurrences of life at home. The young soldier tells Joey about Sally, his girl; when the war is over, he says, he plans to go back and marry her.
One cold night in early spring, the cavalry is sent back to the front. After months of inaction, the soldiers are ebullient, but their mood is quickly tempered when they see the desolation and destruction of the actual battlefield. The squadron passes over trenches and fans out in an echelon in the wilderness of no-man's-land, the vacant area between the opposing armies. As the bugle sounds for the charge, Trooper Warren bravely tells his surging mount, "Do me proud, Joey . . . do me proud."
Chapter 8
As the horses and riders race forward, shells begin to rain down on them. Men and animals fall screaming all around them, but Joey and Topthorn manage, with a few others, to get to the twisted barbed wire at the top of the hill. Some of the horses run right into the wire before they can...
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Chapters 10-12 Summary
Chapter 10
Joey and Topthorn continue transporting the wounded from the front line to the hospital all during that summer and fall. Although their trips back and forth are arduous and often terrifying, for the most part the horses are happy; the soldiers are kind and appreciative toward them. At the end of each day, the little girl, whose name is Emilie, and her grandfather are waiting for them by the stable door. The old man and the child are in charge of caring for the horses when the workday is done, and they perform their tasks with gentleness and devotion. Emilie, "a tiny, frail creature," becomes especially attached to Joey and Topthorn. In the evenings, she leads them about the farm with confidence and talks to them companionably.
The certainty of being with Emilie at the end of each day helps the two horses endure even the most frightful experiences, but one evening, as winter settles in, she is not there to greet them. Her grandfather tearfully tells Joey and Topthorn that the dear child is sick with pneumonia and that the doctor does not know if she will live. Emilie prays each night for her dead father, mother, and brother, all killed in the war. She also prays for her grandfather and the horses; she prays that Joey and Topthorn survive the war and that she will be able to be with them forever.
Snow falls heavily the next day, and the shelling is especially intense. It is Christmas. The wounded men sing slow, mournful carols as they are taken to the hospital. That night, the stars come out, and Emilie's grandfather greets the horses with great relief. Emilie has taken a turn for the better. He gratefully tells them, "All's well . . . all's well."
Chapter 11
In the spring, the war suddenly moves away from the area. As they are not needed to transport men from the front, Topthorn and Joey are left to graze in the meadow most of the time. Emilie is still...
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Chapters 13-15 Summary
Chapter 13
Though his health is permanently compromised that spring, Topthorn somehow manages to survive his illness. Summer brings a respite. There are no battles for the beleaguered horses, and they spend their days grazing idly in the meadow. One day, Topthorn and Joey are put on a detail to pull the ammunition cart up to the artillery lines some miles away. For this assignment, they are placed under the command of a kind old soldier known affectionately as Crazy Old Friedrich.
The work is strenuous, and the horses, who have just begun to regain their strength, are taxed to their physical limit once again. They discover, however, that Friedrich is not crazy at all; he is instead a...
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Chapters 16-18 Summary
Chapter 16
As Joey limps back and forth across no-man's-land in confusion, he hears calls and cheers from men on both sides. Finally, a soldier in a gray uniform boldly climbs out of one of the trenches, waving a white flag above his head. The soldier is a German, and after clipping through the barbed wire, he approaches Joey slowly, calling to him. A few moments later, another man, dressed in khaki, emerges from the trenches on the opposite side; he is British, as adept with horses as is his German counterpart.
The two soldiers face each other, with Joey standing between them. The German, who speaks a little English, suggests that since he has arrived first on the scene, the horse should be...
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Chapters 19-21 Summary
Chapter 19
In time, Joey is well enough to return to war. Albert is always with him now, so he is no longer afraid of the guns. The men talk often about the war; Albert's friend David says that the Germans are "about finished" and that the whole disaster could be over by Christmas. Albert tells Joey about home and about his girl, Maisie Brown, who has eyes "as blue as cornflowers, hair as gold as ripe corn," and who bakes bread "like you've never tasted." Though Maisie had cried when Albert had left, she was the only one who had said that he was right to go and try to find his horse.
One awful day, as the battles are winding down, David is killed by a stray shell. Albert is inconsolable. He...
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DUI suspect arrested twice in 3 days
Published: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:12 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:12 a.m.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A southwest Florida man faces two drunken-driving charges in three day, the second following a crash with a deputy.
The Fort Myers News-Press reports that 29-year-old Elliot Thomas Gamble was arrested on his second DUI charge Monday.
The Lee County sheriff's office says the latest charge came after Gamble rammed into a patrol car. Gamble was arrested on charges of assault on an officer, DUI and criminal mischief.
A sheriff's report says deputies found near-empty bottles of gin and vodka in Gamble's vehicle.
A Lee County corporal says she was at a stop sign Monday when her rear bumper was struck by Gamble's vehicle. She says she exited her patrol car and the car was struck again.
Gamble also was charged with DUI Saturday.
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If we don't sign one it'll be TE.
If a really good talent at Safety was there it would make sense to grab him. Safety might be their biggest need now right behind DE and DT.
Good luck if you are counting Sash and Mundy
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For paint, I like white out. It's fast drying and doesn't anger the bees. Acrylic latex, sold in little bottles at the craft stores works good also, but doesn't last as long on the queen as the white out. Test the acylic out on a few drones first. Some types will anger the bees.
Take a nail the diameter you want the spot on the queen to be. Grind the point off making a slightly convex surface on that end.
Drill a hole in the cap of the paint bottle the same diameter as the nail. Now insert the nail into the lid of the paint bottle, shake the bottle and withdraw the nail. The paint will be scraped off the sides of the nail. Only the tip will have a small amount on it. Gently, touch this to the thorax or abdomen and rotate it slightly. You've got a neat, round spot.
Here's how I grab the queen. Use your dominate hand. Grab the queen by both wings using your index finger and thumb. Her head should be pointed out and the abdomen pointed toward the palm of the hand.
Now, rotate your other hand like you would hold a cup of coffee. Touch the queens legs onto the end of your ring finger. She will grab on. Now gently grasp her thorax with the index and thumb of the same hand. Release her wings.
She can be rotated and moved so that the center of the thorax is available for marking. Put a spot right in the center and
dont' get any on the head, wing joints, antenna or spiral openings. Hold her immobile until the paint is dry. With white out and a few breaths that just a few seconds.
I like this method because her wings and legs are immobilized. She can be repositioned with ease. She is easily directed when released, either back into the hive or a queen cage.
I have injured queens using other methods.
Either by the physical damage to the queen as she struggled or a slip of the paint when she moves.
Practice on some drones first. After you have done it a few dozen times, it will become second nature and takes less than 30 seconds.
Young, newly mated queens are nervous. With some races, marking a newly mating queen will result in her balling and death. I have seen bees kill their own newly marked queen and kick them out the front entrance before the hive was closed up. Be as inobtrusive to the hive as possible,even with the smoker.
They can and will readily fly, so if she's is not caged immediately, direct her back into the same general area of the hive. Point her hear down into the darkness between a couple of frames where she has been laying. If she flys off, stay put for awhile. Most often she will return to the hive. Close the hive up and try another day.
I don't routinely mark queens anymore. I didn't have any evidence that it harmed the queen until my experience with marking the Russians.
Worker bee can be picked up by the wings and put into the cage the same way as the queen is picked up. The easiest workers to pick up are those with their heads in a cell. Just grab their wings, put thier head in the little hole in the queen cage and release them. A fraction of a second later plug the hole with a finger and grab another bee. Watch you don't let the queen out when inserting additional bees.
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Polish tabloid: Is Obama going to sell us out to Russia on missile defense?
posted at 6:42 pm on March 26, 2012 by Allahpundit
Go look at the screenshot and translation at BuzzFeed. I don't get it. Why would Poland be nervous about its western allies leaving it under the thumb of a menacing authoritarian neighbor?
If/when O's reelected (shudder) and gives up eastern European missile defense entirely, I sure hope it's for something tangible in return — Russian concessions on Syria, maybe — and not another sub-moronic "reset" with Putin. The concession he'll probably seek, as Heritage's James Carafano points out, is some sort of reduction in Russia's nuclear arsenal. The One's goal is "nuclear zero," not lots of nukes + lots of defensive measures, so if he has to trade missile defense to shrink the overall global stockpile, hey. I hope it'll comfort the Poles to know that while there's nothing stopping Russia from nuking them except the dubious promise of a NATO retaliation if they do, they might not be nuked quite as much.
In the meantime, Romney and Gingrich are making Obama pay:
"This is no time for our president to be pulling his punches with the American people," Romney said while campaigning in San Diego. "And not telling us what he's intending to do with regards to our missile defense system, with regards to our military might and with regards to our commitment to Israel … I will make it very clear that the relationship we have around the world is one where America will be strong, that America's strength and commitment to our friends and allies will be unshakable and unwavering."
Gingrich called the exchange with Medvedev an "extraordinary moment caught on tape where the president basically said to a Russian leader, 'Please wait until after the election so I can sell out.'
"If you read what he said, it is the most blatant comment about selling out American defenses I think any American president's ever made and I don't see how any American could trust him ever again after that comment," Gingrich said. "I mean, he thinks it's in private and he's saying to the Russians, please quote 'give me some space' so I can be re-elected and then I'll be free to do anything I want to. Well, that just told you how radically left-wing Obama's going to be in the second term."
Is that actually true, though? Daniel Drezner points to Reagan, Dubya, and Bush 43 as examples of presidents who actually drifted more towards the center on foreign policy in their second terms than towards their respective bases. The reason is simple: As time wears on and unforeseen developments happen abroad, presidents become more reactive than proactive. They see what's working and what isn't in their favored approach and adapt, which means inching away from that approach. O, remember, came into office promising he'd talk to anyone without preconditions, but once he realized he couldn't charm Iran into giving up nuclear weapons, it was sanctions and Stuxnet and, maybe soon, war. (Another example is him borrowing heavily from, and even expanding on, Bush's counterterror playbook. You didn't hear him talk much on the trail in '08 about drone strikes on American citizens like Awlaki, huh?) The problem is, from his stalling on entitlement reform to cheap populist panders like "the Buffett Rule" to the transparent charade of pretending he's opposed to gay marriage, every move Obama makes seems calculated to maximize his reelection odds. Whether that's because his top priority is to protect policy initiatives like ObamaCare from early in his term or if he's just so ambitious that winning again means more than anything, I honestly don't know what he'd do if he had a free hand as a lame duck. Would he abandon missile defense? Well … yeah, maybe. Want to chance it?
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DNR collects walleye fingerlings to stock area lakes
Recently the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has been at ponds in the area to collect the product of a collaborative effort between the DNR and Mother Nature — walleye fingerlings.
Today's young walleye netted from the ponds could be tomorrow's catch of the day.
Last spring millions of walleye fry (just-born, mosquito-sized walleye) were released into the small ponds, where Mother Nature's done the work of raising the fish. Now 4-6 inches long, the fish are netted to stock larger lakes.
The process begins in the spring when walleye eggs and sperm are harvested on the Pine River where it enters Upper Whitefish Lake. The eggs are fertilized and brought back to the DNR hatchery in Brainerd. Once hatched, the walleye are immediately brought to lakes to be stocked. Some, though, are brought to ponds to grow for the summer.
One such pond is Lizard Pond, also known as Greenwood Lake, south of Crosslake. The DNR has been granted access from a private landowner to get in and out of the pond. Owen Baird and Andy Wiebusch, both DNR Fisheries specialists, visited the pond Wednesday, Oct. 2, to gather the fingerlings. By ice-in they will have made several trips to the pond to collect young walleye.
On the back of their truck is a giant metal tank holding 300 gallons of water. Weibusch said the tank can hold one pound of fish per gallon of water.
Lizard Pond was stocked with 700,000 fry at the beginning of the summer. Wiebusch said that usually the DNR sees a 10 percent return on that number, so around 70,000 walleye fingerlings will be harvested from Lizard Pond this fall.
"That's just Mother Nature giving them the right food at the right time," Wiebusch said on how many of the fry survive.
Twenty-one nets are placed around the perimeter of Lizard Pond. Similar to minnow nets, they funnel fish into a trap that they can't swim out of. The nets are about 50 feet long. Most ponds have between 12-30 nets set.
Generally the net catches more than just walleye. The majority of the catch is fingerlings, but turtles, water bugs, tadpoles, salamanders, crayfish and other animals also swim into the net and are brought up into the boat. Everything's released, either back into the pond or into a new lake with the walleye.
As they travel the lake pulling up the nets, Wiebusch and Baird take the time to repair any minor damage they discover. Occasionally, they said, a muskrat will become trapped in the nets and chew its way out. Rarely, a mammal or diving bird will be caught in the net and not find a way out, and then drown.
Lizard Pond works well for fingerling raising, Wiebusch said, because it experiences winter kill each year. That means there are no larger fish that would be predators to the young walleye.
After they're pulled from the water, the walleye are put into a trough on the boat and brought back to the landing, where they're weighed.
Ideally, Wiebusch said, there will be 15-35 walleye per pound of fish. This year Lizard Pond is averaging around 25 fingerlings per pound.
The amount of walleye the team will gather in a day is dependent on many factors. The fish really start moving around, Baird and Wiebusch said, when the weather gets cooler or there's a cold wind. The fish are most likely looking for food for the winter, and when they are on the move they swim into the traps.
On Oct. 2, Wiebusch and Baird collected more than 90 pounds of walleye from the 21 nets in Lizard Pond. Not a record day, they said, though they did remark on how a few of the nets had respectable amounts of fingerlings.
They said the Brainerd DNR Fisheries office hopes to gather a total of 8,000 pounds of fingerlings this fall. Last fall ponds yielded around 6,200 pounds. Some lakes in southern Minnesota, especially in farmland area, will produce higher numbers of fish because of nutrient runoff from farms.
Wiebusch and Baird said that while it increases fingerling counts, the runoff is environmentally unhealthy in the overall scope of the lake. In central Minnesota, the lakes may not produce as many fingerlings but they do have better overall health and clarity.
Once on the truck, the walleye are brought to a public access on their new home. A large hose attaches to the tank on the truck, a valve opens and the fish are released to grow into trophy catches and future shore lunches.
The walleye gathered Oct. 2 were put into South Long Lake south of Brainerd. Other area lakes that are being stocked this year include Clear Lake, 59 pounds; Kimball Lake, 74 pounds, Mitchell Lake, 236 pounds; Ossawinnamakee, 450 pounds; Ruth, 400 pounds; and Upper Mission Lake, 512 pounds.
While some residents might not see their favorite lake on that list, many other area lakes are stocked in the spring with walleye fry — sometimes with millions of fish.
Wiebusch said the fingerling netting will continue until ice-in, marking the end of the year's work raising a future generation of walleye. Then the Fisheries department turns to winter work and, eventually, preparations for next year's generation of walleye.
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Had a lie in this morning as we're at sea all day. After a late breakfast we went to the theater to watch Millennium's got talent which was a talent show performed by some of the crew. Then we went back to our cabin to chill and watch a bit of TV until 2pm then back to the theater to see Milos's last talk on the stars. We then had lunch and went up to the top deck to watch the scenery and read our books. It got a bit exciting at one point as someone spotted something in the water which turned out to be a pod of Dolphins and was over pretty quick. At around 7 we passed through the narrowest part of the inside passage which was pretty cool as we could see both sides really close up. The houses on the hillsides were beautiful. Once out of the narrows we went down to the theater to watch tonights show which was the comedian, Don Gavin and the double act, Kimica. We then went back to our cabin for a shower and off to the restaurant for our last dinner. Dinner was very nice but Ann and John had a bit of a short fuse and we managed to upset them somehow, but after a quick bit of defusing it was quickly sorted and forgotten. At around 10 we had to get back to our room to finish packing as our bags needed to be outside our room by 11 or they'd turn into pumpkins probably! We then thought we'd check out the movie, but someone forgot to switch it on so we gave up and went back to our cabin to watch a bit of TV and got off to bed.


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Molecular surprises are sometimes right in front of us, if only we'd do the math
Roald Hoffmann
This is the story of a theoretical result that astonished me. But it shouldn't have.
A chemist for nigh on 50 years, I've had the joy of seeing lots of new molecules in the literature. Let me show you a couple, just so you see what surprises me.
Some new molecules are striking, just because they are extensions of familiar motifs that no one previously thought of changing. Take the "N-confused" porphyrins, compounds with a fitting name that tells us something about our history, expectations, and the nice informality of chemical nomenclature. Porphyrins (first figure, top) are a classic group of molecules in which four so-called pyrrole rings—five-membered rings with four carbons and a nitrogen—face their nitrogens toward an interior void that is often neatly filled by a metal atom, for instance an iron in the heme unit of hemoglobin. In the N-confused porphyrins (first figure, bottom), one pyrrole ring is turned, and a carbon atom faces the center, not a nitrogen atom. It makes a difference, of course. And I'm glad someone thought of ringing the changes on a classic motif. N-confused porphyrins were first reported by two groups in 1994, those of Lechoslaw Latos-Grazynski at the University of Wroclaw in Poland, and of Hiroyuki Furuta of Oita University in Japan.
Some new molecules are simply astounding. We have learned that xenon, a so-called noble gas, is far from inert, forming bonds with halogens, oxygen and carbon. But I never imagined a bond between two relatively unreactive elements, gold (Au) and xenon (Xe), and, to boot, with a pretty naked xenon acting as a ligand—which is usually an ion or a molecule that binds to a central metal atom by donating one of its electron pairs. But that's what Stefan Seidel and Konrad Seppelt of the Free University of Berlin made in 2000 in the square-planar AuXe42+ ion shown in the second figure.
Let me tell you a story here of another molecular surprise that recently came my way. In the process, I was led to reflect again on the relation between stability and existence in chemistry (as I wrote about in "Unstable," American Scientist November–December 1987).
Xiao-Dong Wen, a talented postdoc in the small group that Neil Ashcroft and I have at Cornell University, has been studying benzene under pressure. People have been squeezing benzene between diamond anvils for some years, eventually obtaining some amorphous polymeric material, not terribly well characterized, in which carbon-carbon bonds have formed. We have been (and still are) looking theoretically for a hypothetical metallic benzene, perhaps one in which the scales of mobility of electrons, protons and carbons are separated.
At a certain high pressure, Xiao-Dong found that benzene rearranged spontaneously to not one, but a family of regular two-dimensional polymers of unchanged composition, CH, the same as benzene, C6H6, or (CH)6. But the polymers Xiao-Dong found, unlike benzene, are not aromatic, meaning that they are not especially stabilized (the way that benzene is) by a hexagon of alternating single and double bonds between the carbon atoms. The 2D networks are shown in the third figure; they would today be called graphanes.
The 2010 Nobel Prize in physics was given to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of the University of Manchester in England, for the isolation and characterization of graphene. The sheetlike structure of carbon in graphite has been long known; the honeycomb sheets of carbon are loosely bound to each other by weak intermolecular forces. But it took the courage of a simple physical procedure, drawing a block of purest graphite across a piece of adhesive tape (technically, "exfoliation of pyrolytic graphite"), for Novoselov, Geim and their coworkers to make reproducibly isolable and manipulable multilayer and monolayer sheets of graphene.
Graphane is a single layer of graphene that is hydrogenated, with one hydrogen added per carbon in the graphene layer. If the hydrogens are added regularly above and below the sheet at alternate carbons, one gets what a chemist would call all-chair cyclohexane rings. One can also get a variant with boat cyclohexane rings, as shown in middle of the third figure (at right), as well as a third one, in the bottom of the third figure, whose structure is related to a common motif in hundreds of inorganic compounds (such as BaIn2 or TiNiSi). (A fourth variant, also built from boat-shaped rings, has been added for this online edition [below, left]).
Graphene is real. But has graphane been made? The approach of Daniel C. Elias and his colleagues at the University of Manchester comes closest, but we have no crystal structure, only rough images of the material from transmission electron microscopy. To be sure, there is no shortage of theoretical calculations of graphane.
Xiao-Dong found that over a wide pressure range, all three graphanes were more stable thermodynamically than benzene, per CH. When he showed me his computational results, I immediately said, as all research advisors do, "There's something wrong with your calculations." When he demonstrated to me that his calculations were correct, I sat back for a while and closed my eyes.
As a chemist, I have an intuition honed by 50 years of practice. It's a pressure = 1 atmosphere intuition, of course. Under Neil Ashcroft's tutelage, I have learned recently of the strange world of high pressure.
But a CH hydrocarbon that is more stable than benzene at ambient pressure? Benzene is the prototypical aromatic molecule, the emblem of chemistry. The six-carbon ring is a conserved entity in the chemical universe—one can run a multitude of substitutions on the ring, replacing one hydrogen after another. So from benzene, one can go (and chemists already did in the 19th century) to chlorobenzene (C6H5Cl), to toluene (C6H5CH3), to nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2), to the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT, C6H2(CH3)(NO2)3), to aspirin, mescaline, novocaine, estrone… any of a host of substituted benzenes. All the time, in biological systems as well as the laboratory, the hexagon of carbons remains intact, a testimony to its stability.
Benzene is such a good thing that the literature is in fact full of mostly imagined "aromaticities," supposed harbingers of stability that exist only in the paper-writers' hype-addled minds. But the stability of the parent C6H6 system is sacrosanct. It's hard to argue with it.
Except that benzene is unstable relative to graphane. Our calculations were showing this. And I should have known it.
Let me tell you why I should have known it. The fourth figure (right) imagines a hypothetical formation of graphane from an array of benzenes. In the first step, the benzene molecules are deprived (on paper) of their aromaticity, their bonds localized into the cyclohexatrienes that August Kekulé (a principal founder of the theory of chemical structure in the mid-1800s) struggled with conceptually. How much might this "loss of resonance energy" or "loss of aromaticity" cost? (See the reference to the paper of Shaik and his coworkers for a clear discussion of different definitions of resonance energy.) One estimate is about 270 kilojoules per mole.
In the next step, the "dearomatized' benzenes polymerize into a two-dimensional sheet. In the process six carbon-carbon sigma (σ) bonds (the strongest type of covalent bond) are formed, although there are effectively three per ring, because each new bond is shared by two benzene rings. Three double bonds in each cyclohexatriene are converted to single bonds.
What is the relevant energetics for the second step? The second (π) bond of any double bond is worth less than a single bond. This energy is not a number one can measure directly. One can get an estimate from the heat of reaction of three ethylenes (C2H4) to cyclohexane (C6H12), a process in which three π bonds are converted to three σ bonds. That heat is experimentally –282 kilojoules per mole. Another way to estimate the energy of breaking a π bond is to look at the energy of rotating the two CH2 groups in ethylene 90 degrees out-of-plane, and to compare that to the strength of a C-C σ bond. That would lead to a slightly larger estimate of –315 kilojoules per mole for three bonds.
The sum of the two heats for the processes is +270 –282 (or –315) = –12 (or –45) kilojoules per mole for C6H6. There are all kinds of assumptions being made here, and I've neglected the obvious entropy change in the process, favoring benzene. But the essence staring us in the face, what I should have seen but didn't, is that graphane is more stable than benzene.
That conclusion is what the better calculations give too. The number varies with the quantum-mechanical method used; we get that all-chair graphane is about 90 kilojoules per mole of C6H6 more stable than benzene. I should mention that we were not the first to calculate that graphane is more stable than benzene. That was done by Jorge O. Sofo, Ajay S. Chaudhari and Greg D. Barber of the Pennsylvania State University. Perhaps I was the first to be surprised at the result, with the baggage of chemical experience weighing on me.
If something is thermodynamically stable, one should be able to make it. Yes, but….
What matters in chemistry is not thermodynamic stability, but kinetic persistence. Chemistry is the land of thermodynamically stable or (more interesting) unstable molecules that have high barriers to going to where they (or we) want to go. For example, nearly every molecule in our bodies—with the exception of H2O, CO2, phosphate and some other small ions—is thermodynamically unstable in the presence of oxygen. Were it not for the water in us, and the high barriers to oxidation, we should burn very nicely. Literally, not just with passion.
Another example: Of the four most stable (with respect to separation into atoms) diatomic molecules that are made of identical atoms—N2, C2, P2, O2—only two are available in a bottle at room temperature and pressure. Whereas other diatomics, much less stable to atomization, are there at ambient conditions—F2 and Cl2 for instance.
Additionally, benzene itself has a positive heat of formation from the elements, graphite and diatomic hydrogen. It shows no hint of decomposing to them, of course. The barriers to initiating that decomposition are stupendous.
Graphane is a two-dimensional raft of CHs. Organic chemists, masters of parlaying designed complexity in zero-dimensional molecules into other zero- and one-dimensional molecules, have trouble exercising control in two and three dimensions. There are emerging exceptions, for instance in the self-assembled complexity of metal-organic frameworks.
Graphane is slightly more stable than benzene, but there is no systematic, bond-by-bond route to graphane (nor was there to buckminsterfullerene). Elias and his colleagues, in their approach to perfect graphane, reacted a suspended graphene sheet with a plasma of hydrogen.
The reactions forming graphane from benzene in the fourth figure were a Gedankenexperiment, not a synthetic route. To be sure, they are all "allowed," in the sense that Robert B. Woodward and I delineated some years ago. But entropy factors aside, they are nevertheless certain to have substantial barriers to proceeding—bonds have to be broken partially in the initial stages of the reaction, and that costs energy. So, a Diels-Alder cycloadditions of ethylene and butadiene to cyclohexene, a prototype-allowed reaction, still has an activation energy of 115 kilojoules per mole. The fifth figure shows two allowed fragmentations that are highly exothermic, yet have energy barriers of about 65 kilojoules per mole. Benzenes are very, very unlikely to form graphane in the way the fourth figure shows.
I am sure pure graphanes will be made, in some nonsporting yet reproducible way. I use the plural, because the three structures drawn above are stereoisomers (they differ in the three-dimensional arrangements of their atoms in space) and although not very different in energy, face gigantic barriers to conversion amongst themselves. And, once made, graphanes will not decompose spontaneously to benzene. Even as kinetics is what matters, thermodynamics rules.
I am very grateful to Sason Shaik for correcting some of my thinking, to Jerome Berson for a comment and to Xiao-Dong Wen for his research and illustrations.
©Roald Hoffman
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Obama's healthcare: You can keep the change!
Original post made by Keep the Change, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Jun 17, 2009
Obama wants to have our healthcare like Canada's and England's.
In England anyone over 59 cannot receive heart repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed.
Looks like Obama is sure keeping his word ****CHANGES. We better have our funerals paid up, may be needing it sooner rather than later with no doctors on our side to keep us healthy. What will this world be like in another 20 YEARS WHEN OUR KIDS ARE READY FOR RETIREMENT?
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens.. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited recently by Bloomberg with the following statement.
Bloomberg: Daschle says "health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
We have an election coming up in one year and nine months. We have
the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their lives miserable.
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a resident of Downtown
on Jun 17, 2009 at 11:11 am
This was posted earlier and I thought it interesting.
"I have been following this debate over national healthcare and the more I learn about it the more I do not believe it makes sense and I believe there has to be another motivator going on here. Even though they can walk into any hospital or clinic and not be turned away for care the Obama administration says there are 45,000,000 uninsured and the cost to insure these people runs from 1.7 trillion to 4 trillion. This morning I was watching the sub committee meeting and these numbers came out. Of the supposed 45,000,000 uninsured, 11,300,000 are already eligible under programs already funded, 9,700,000 are illegal aliens, and another 11,000,000 make over $75,000 dollars per year. This means that out of a population of over 300,000,000 people we are going to pay between 1.7 and 4 trillion to insure maybe 14,000,000? The real interesting feature aside from the economics is that the people currently being covered by private insurance will be endangered by the government undercutting pricing and creating a situation where private insurance carriers cannot be competitive."
In addition, I found out that our elected officials in Washington will not be part of this program as they have special insurance and are offered 15 different free plans.
a resident of Foothill Farms
on Jun 17, 2009 at 11:45 am
More right-wing garbage on the TownSquare Forum. Will it ever end?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Jake, Why is it garbage? It's easy to make a statement like that, particularly if you walk away and don't explain it. Is that the left-wing liberal way of doing things? No reason or rational explanation?
a resident of Mohr Elementary School
on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Einstein is a registered user.
Keep the Change,
I do not even respond to any replies unless they are intelligent and thought filled otherwise just a waste of time dealing with someone deficient in knowledge.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:51 pm
The first thing that needs to go is the gold-plated insurance coverage for our federal workers and our "representatives". they should get no better coverage than medi-care, no less, no more. Which "representative" will bring forth this bill? Hint: don't hold your breath that anyone will!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Um, It is well known that when Natasha Richardson came down the hill she said she was okay and denied medical help. The paramedics that were there waiting for her were told to leave...if she and whoever she was with had just let her be examined she likely would have been hospitalized and have been okay. She went back to her hotel room and by the time she got to a local hospital it was too late. Do you really think they don't have helicopters in canada??
I am an RN and worked in the ER for many years. THis happens ALL the time with head injuries in this country. You are fooling yourself if you think it doesn't. Just because this happened in Canada to a celebrity so you heard about it, does not mean this doesn't happen here all the time.
Where did you hear this rubbish, Sean Hannity. I didn't even read the rest of what you wrote, when you start with that ridiculous example of what healthcare is like in canada,. come on. You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
a resident of Dublin
on Jun 17, 2009 at 3:56 pm
All the Repuplicans care about is defeating the Democrates. Their so-call takling points are nothing but hot air. No specifics.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 17, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I AM A CONSERVATIVE! I STAND FOR LOW TAXES, LESS GOVERNMENT, a strong military, right to life, and Christian values that are guaranteed by our constitution.
I have the right to hate my president and spew rhetoric about how awful it having a Democrat president that eats grits.
I have a right to honer and obey my pastor and admire Rush Limbaugh, for his accurate and trustworthy information.
a resident of Jensen Tract
on Jun 20, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Can anyone say that our health care system has improved in the last 30 years? If we continue with this trend we won't be debating whether we want a system like Canada/France/England, but rather how it became like ones in third world countries ...
it amazes me how middle-class folks parrot corporate press releases when it comes to health-care ..
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jun 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
From the original post: "In England anyone over 59 cannot receive heart repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed. "
This sounds too over the top ... that's because it is. Does anyone really believe that people would stand for such a ridiculous rule that would put lives at jeopardy? Hey, I've got some land in Florida to sell you.
I tried searching for this on Google. All I found was information about a ban on drug-coated stents because of cost. This is from back in 2007: Web Link And it looks like the ban was reversed not long after: Web Link
Hey, let's spin this up and make it sound like all stents and heart repairs are being banned in England due to cost because there's an American public out there gullible enough to believe it!
a resident of another community
on Aug 9, 2009 at 7:29 am
Read this, (it's from The Annenberg Political Fact Check which is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania):
Web Link
This debunks every lie in this "right wing forward" email.
a resident of Carlton Oaks
on Aug 9, 2009 at 7:51 am
Keep the change,
To dam bad this forum is anonymous, or we could consider YOU full of BEANS from here on out and IGNORE your Copy and Paste LIES! This does NO ONE any good! You ALSO forgot to credit the source! It seems that time ,time and again, you right wingers are just spreading blaten lies all over gods creation! I thought that integrity was a major conservative value? The TRUTH is:
Daschle didn't say seniors should accept rather that treat conditions that come with age
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Buzz up!ShareThisSome chain e-mails remind us of a bad Three's Company episode. One roommate overhears something a little wrong and leaps to all sorts of misguided conclusions. Hijinks ensue.
The latest chain e-mail sent to us from a reader puts some words into the mouth of former Sen. Tom Daschle that raised our eyebrows. Daschle, you may recall, was once President Barack Obama's choice to be secretary of health and human services. He stepped down from consideration amid revelations about tax problems, but some think his fingerprints can be seen in some of the health provisions in the economic stimulus package signed by the president in February.
According to the e-mail (read the full text here ), Daschle was quoted in a Bloomberg story saying, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
We thought that sounded a bit impolitic, and fairly callous, for a former senator to say, and so we decided to check it out.
As with most e-mail claims, it starts with a grain of something.
Bloomberg did run a story about health provisions in the stimulus package on Feb. 9, 2009, under the headline "Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey." It was a commentary piece written by Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York and an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
McCaughey warned that the stimulus included several troublesome provisions identical to ideas outlined by Daschle in his 2008 book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. Midway through the article, McCaughey includes this paragraph:
"Daschle says health care reform 'will not be pain-free.' Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt."
We contacted McCaughey to see which parts of this were her words and which were Daschle's.
The phrase that health care reform "will not be pain-free" is a direct quote from Daschle, she explained. She said the sentence beginning "Seniors should be more accepting" was her paraphrasing of an argument in Daschle's book in which he quotes David Mechanic, a health care policy expert at Rutgers University, saying, "more and more of what were once seen as social, behavioral, or normative aspects of every day life, or as a normal process of aging, are now framed in a medical context. ... Whether wrinkles, breasts, or buttocks, impotence or social anxieties, or inattention in school, they all have become grist for the medical mill."
We think it's a stretch to summarize Daschle's position as saying that seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. Not treating wrinkles is one thing. Not treating, say, heart disease, is another. But that's fair enough for McCaughey to opine. This is labeled an opinion piece. The point is that these are McCaughey's words, not Daschle's.
The last sentence, "That means the elderly will bear the brunt," was her conclusion, McCaughey said.
McCaughey said she is a meticulous scholar and "I regret any misrepresentations made by others of my work or Mr. Daschle's views."
Our efforts to reach Daschle for comment were not successful.
In the chain e-mail, quote marks are shifted, clouding the issue of who is actually speaking, and the e-mail suggests that Daschle actually said that.
The e-mail begins: "Apparently, seniors are expendable — treating us is not worth the expense (unless you're a congressman!).
a resident of Foothill Farms
on Aug 9, 2009 at 7:52 am
In the chain e-mail, quote marks are shifted, clouding the issue of who is actually speaking, and the e-mail suggests that Daschle actually said that.
The e-mail begins: "Apparently, seniors are expendable — treating us is not worth the expense (unless you're a congressman!).
a resident of Carlton Oaks
on Aug 9, 2009 at 7:55 am
Sorry I though this was posted above.
Political Fact Check
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in a chain e-mail.
a resident of Danville
on Aug 9, 2009 at 8:10 am
Shame on YOU "Keep The Cahnge" for you blatent posting of FALSE information!
"CHANGE" your vaule system!
a resident of Pleasanton Village
on Mar 20, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I advise you all to research this "article", as it's based on a chain e-mail. A quick look online will show the following website:-
Web Link
which completely debunks every claim made in the e-mail, and this is by far not the only one that does so. I have friends in the UK too, and asked them about this. A couple have relatives who received heart bypass surgery in their 70s and 80s. The claims being made about socialised medicine are pretty much all lies perpetuated by the insurance companies who benefit from the misery of their customers, and the ignorant masses who believe this. Do not let your opinions be guided by those so obviously vested interests!
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Thanks for the great photo tutorial. It looks better than what I've seen in some books, which I why I haven't done a QAYG yet.
Thanks for great, easy to understand tutorial, I will definately try this one.
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