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OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA, the oil producer of billionaire Eike Batista, fell to a record after a top-ranked analyst cut the target price for the second time in a month.
OGX, based in Rio de Janeiro, dropped 5.1 percent to 1.48 ais at 12:17 p.m. in Sao Paulo, after earlier declining to 1.44 reais, the lowest since trading started in June 2008. OGX led losses and was the most-traded stock by volume on the benchmark Bovespa index, which declined 1.1 percent.
OGX's recoverable oil assumptions may be lower than expected, Deutsche Bank AG's Marcus Sequeira, the stock's most accurate analyst in a Bloomberg Absolute Return Ranking (OGXP3), said in a note to clients today. The stock, which lost 89 percent in the past 12 months, is at risk of falling further, Sequeira said, after he cut the target price for the company to 80 centavos from 2 reais, having previously cut it on March 4.
"The main change to our numbers is a more conservative recoverable oil assumption," Sequeira wrote. "The possibility of OGX's asset value being lower than its gross debt position of close to $4 billion should not be ignored."
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- The world's first full demonstration of oxyfuel CCS with Vattenfall AB, one of Europe's leading energy companies. Air Products installed its proprietary CO 2 capture, purification, and compression system at Vattenfall's facility in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany, viewed globally as the preeminent CO 2 oxyfuel project.
- In collaboration with the Alberta Energy Research Institute, a study focused on advanced CO 2 capture technology for use with gasification.
- In cooperation with DOE, Air Products designed and constructed a CO 2 purification system in support of oxyfuel technology development at a boiler-simulation facility in Connecticut.
- Air Products demonstrated oxyfuel sour compression technology in work by Imperial College London with flue gas from a 160 kilowatt coal-fired combustion installation at Doosan Babcock's facility in Scotland, as part of the Oxycoal-UK Project.
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today celebrated the successful operation of a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Demonstration Project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1 million barrels of oil to be produced annually from the CO 2 injection. This unprecedented achievement comes by way of an Air Products innovative technology, is the first-of-its-kind operating at such a large scale, and has not been accomplished anywhere else in the United States. Described by the DOE as a milestone in its Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) program, Air Products' carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas recovers and purifies the CO 2, all of which is then transported in its gaseous state by Air Products via a pipeline owned by Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC for injection into the Denbury Onshore operated West Hastings Unit, an enhanced oil recovery project in Texas. "Air Products is very proud to celebrate this Demonstration Project's success. When you define projects that could be a model of sustainability, it doesn't get much better than this effort in taking a vented greenhouse gas and capturing it, cleaning it up, and sequestering it in the process of increasing the output of a valuable domestic natural resource like crude oil," said Jeff Byrne, vice president and general manager – Tonnage Gases at Air Products. "We have worked hard to build our reputation for successfully executing large scale industrial projects and bringing them onstream, on time and budget. We did just that, here at Port Arthur, using a new patent-protected technology that we developed. At the same time, this novel and technology-leading Demonstration Project would not have been achievable without the support and involvement of DOE," he said. Air Products designed, constructed, and is now operating the state-of-the-art system to capture CO 2 from its steam methane reformers (SMR) located within the Valero Port Arthur Refinery. The CO 2 removal technology was retrofitted to the SMRs, which produce hydrogen to assist in the making of cleaner burning transportation fuels by refinery customers on Air Products' Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network. Hydrogen is widely used in petroleum refining processes to remove impurities found in crude oil such as sulfur, olefins and aromatics to meet product fuels specifications. Incidentally, Air Products' Gulf Coast hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network is the world's largest system of its kind. The pipeline stretches from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana. The 600-mile pipeline span is fed by over 20 Air Products' hydrogen production facilities and provides over 1.2 billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day to refinery and petrochemical customers. DOE had previously stated that, "This event marks a milestone in DOE's ICCS program: progressing beyond research and development to a demonstration scale that can be readily replicated and deployed into commercial practice within the industry. Goals of the ICCS program are to mitigate climate change through carbon capture, utilization and storage; create jobs; and position the United States as a world leader in carbon-capture technologies." DOE provided a significant portion of the funding (66%) for the over $400 million project. In June 2010, Air Products was selected to receive $253 million in funding from DOE through the National Energy Technology Laboratory under the ICCS Program, which is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for this project. It later received an additional $30 million from DOE through the ARRA for final engineering, design, construction, and project operation through September 2015. Air Products' project was the only industrial gas company led undertaking selected by DOE, and one of only three projects receiving additional funding towards a commercial demonstration project. The DOE has estimated that Air Products' Port Arthur Project will assist in the recovery of 1.6-3.1 million additional barrels of domestic oil annually. DOE has stated that when an oil well begins "playing out," not enough oil is pumped to make it worthwhile to continue using the well, and the well is closed or "shut-in," even though much of the original oil in the field remains in the formation. Several methods of enhanced oil recovery have been developed to recover this remaining oil, including pumping CO 2 down to the oil reservoir. A primary purpose of the DOE project is, however, the monitoring, verification, and accounting program to ensure that the injected CO 2 remains underground, safely and permanently trapped in the same geologic formation that confined the oil brought to the surface in the demonstration. Air Products has also worked on several carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects around the world for the power market. These projects include:

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Jeffrey I really appreciate you looking into this and resolving the issue – I have to be honest it's really been very personal – it's like being called a thief, and it hurts – however, I want to state that my issue was not with themeforest.net – I understand that if someone reports they immediately take off the market place – I would do the same if I ran the site – then follow up – this goes to prove though that yes, we need to have something maybe a little better in place and I am seriously looking into ways of safeguarding my designs in the future with several ideas (some of which I can't say or they wouldn't work – but some I will share once I try them out for everyone and I invite anyone with ideas to post here as it can all be taken into consideration.
I want to thank several users of the site for their emails today and words of encouragement – it meant a great deal.
I have put on hold 2 templates I was going to submit until I can be sure I have some security measures in place of my own – and hopefully some forthcoming guidelines for authors from Envato.
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As some protection for this kind of stuff, I do the following:
In my photoshop Preferences, I have checked the box that makes sure it keeps a log of EVERYTHING I do (details, and all), so .PSD's are protected .
I once read you can't copyright CSS code, but I always have a big comment block on top and at the bottom of my CSS files, stating I created the file, version, date, and client.
And as I do with CSS , I do with PHP and HTML , I put (small and big) comment blocks in them stating it's mine.
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Synchrotron-based techniques for plant and soil science: opportunities, challenges and future perspectives
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- Lombi, E. & Susini, J. Plant Soil (2009) 320: 1. doi:10.1007/s11104-008-9876-x
Spectroscopic approaches to plant and soil sciences have provided important information for several decades. However, many of these approaches suffered from a number of limitations and drawbacks especially in terms of spatial resolution and requirements for sample preparation. The advent of dedicated synchrotron facilities, that allow the exploitation of the particular qualities of synchrotron radiation as a research tool, has revolutionised the way we approach the investigation of nutrients and contaminants in environmental samples. Various synchrotron-based techniques are currently available that permit such investigations in situ and at the molecular level. The continuous development of these techniques is delivering substantial gains in terms of sensitivity and spatial resolution which allows analyses of diluted samples at the sub-micron scale. This paper aims at providing an introduction to synchrotron radiation and to the fundamentals of some widely used synchrotron-based techniques, in particular X-ray absorption, fluorescence and tomography. Furthermore, examples are provided regarding the applications of synchrotron-based techniques in the field of plant, soil and rhizosphere research. Finally, current limitations and future perspectives of synchrotron techniques are discussed.
KeywordsSynchrotron Plant Rhizosphere Soil
synchrotron radiation
X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy
extended X-ray absorption fine structure
- SR-µCT
X-ray computed μ-tomography


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A soccer-obsessed man from Changsha, China, has reportedly died after staying up for 11 successive nights to watch Euro 2012 matches, The Daily Telegraph says. "According to a report … the 26-year-old was found dead by his mother after his 11-day football-watching marathon, finally expiring after Ireland's 2-0 defeat to Italy on June 18. The time difference between Europe and China means that most of the Euro 2012 matches start at 2:45 a.m. local time, finishing at daybreak. Using a false name to protect the identity of the victim's family, the newspaper said Jiang Xiaoshan had been a member of his university's football team and had enjoyed good health before the tournament."
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This is a discussion on CANADA: NFA article on ATC within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I came across this article in the National Firearms Association publication Canadian Firearms Journal Vol. XVI, No 4. I thought it was a very good ...
I came across this article in the National Firearms Association publication Canadian Firearms Journal Vol. XVI, No 4.
I thought it was a very good article, so I went looking for an online version to copy/paste here.
The original can be found here:
I am going to invite Ms Lightheart to this forum.
The Story of Margo
by Cindy Lightheart, NFA Counselor
U.S. statistics (Canadian statistics unavailable, but probably similar): one in 600 rapists will be caught and convicted. The average for rapists is that an accused rapist has assaulted 17 women before being convicted.
Women want to feel safe, respected, and if necessary, feared! No woman wants to be the next victim!
Some women who have been victimized will talk openly with other women, whether they know one another personally or not. They will often not talk openly to police officers. Some are afraid to be witnesses in court, some are embarrassed to bare personal dramas, there are many reasons for that refusal to cooperate. It is quite common among women who are victims.
This is a true story, detailed in Armed and Female by Paxton Quigley:
Margo Feldman was the eldest of her father's three daughters, and sort of stood in for the son he didn't have. She liked the fact that her father always made her feel as though she was responsible and important.
She wasn't a big fan of guns. She didn't even know that her father owned a gun until the night before her father died--when he asked her to go to his top dresser drawer to bring him a wooden box. He took out a revolver, checked to see that it was unloaded, then handed it to her. He said, "It's yours. going to show you how to use it right now. Always keep it in your dresser drawer. And don't forget what I teach you--it may someday save your life, your mother's or sisters' lives, or your future child's life."
It was many months after Margo's father's death that the assailant broke into her basement apartment. Margo was in the shower at the time, so she didn't hear him break in. It wasn't until she flung open the shower curtain that she saw him. He was a huge guy and he was standing at her bathroom door! And there she was, stark naked, frightened, and trapped!
He tossed a towel to her, and flashed his big knife at her with his other hand. Grinning, he told her to dry herself very slowly. When she was dry, he ordered her to put some perfume on, and shoved her into her bedroom. Once in the bedroom, he sat down on her bed. Flashing his knife at her again, he ordered her to put her sexiest underwear on, to get sexy for him.
Absolutely, there was no question as to what Margo was going to do! Reaching into the drawer, Margo turned to face the man she later described as her would-be rapist, or worse, murderer. She was holding her revolver in her right hand, and a pair of red bikini panties in her left hand.
The sight of her handgun startled him so much that he launched himself backward on the bed, dropped his knife on the floor, and banged his head on the light over the pillows. Controlling her handgun, and now the situation, Margo told the now wimpish coward to keep his right hand on top of his head, reach across his body with his left hand, pick up the phone, and dial 911. And then she ordered him to tell the police the predicament that he was in.
Once the police were on the way, she ordered him to wriggle around, hands on top of his head, until he could lie face down with his face in the pillow. When he complained of not being able to breathe, she told him it would be more difficult breathing through the holes in his back if he tried to get up.
He was still in that position when the police arrived.
Like so many women, Margo was alone at the time of the attack--confined in her apartment and confronted by an unknown violent criminal. No one else was there to help her, nor could there have been.
This man broke into Margo's home. His flashing of his knife at her was a threat and a positive indication that he was definitely capable of vicious violence. His intentions were very clear--he was about to rape her, and God knows how much else he intended to do. He was smug in his certainty that he could dominate and terrify this young woman, and unaware that his next demand would turn the tables in favour of Margo. The turnaround came as a shocking and unpleasant surprise. Once Margo had her gun in her hand, she was not only able to protect her life from criminal violence, she was also able to arrest the would-be rapist and control him from a safe distance until the police arrived.
I invite you to think about what would have happened if she had not had her father's handgun to hold that criminal away from her and at that safe distance. Through it all Margo had the ability to remain level-headed under extreme pressure! And she disproved the old lie that a criminal will take a gun away from a woman and use it on her. Criminals just aren't that brave. This one was scared spitless.
Margo is one of many American women who are alive and unharmed today because American state governments allowed them to possess and even carry a loaded handgun for the purpose of protecting human life from criminal violence.
It is sad but very true that police usually can't get to the scene of a rape until after the crime has been completed and the criminal has left. That's not a swipe at the police; I like and admire police officers. They do the very best they can, but they can't get there any earlier. A woman cannot call the police until her attacker leaves--and then only if she is still alive! So we have a very real need to be able to protect ourselves!
Violent crime used to be something that Canadians talked about. It happened in other countries, particularly the United States. Sadly, that is no longer the situation. Our violent crime rates have topped those of the U.S.--in almost every category. Women are no longer automatically safe just because they live in Canada!
The United States went through their empirical tests of stringent gun control laws between the years 1964 and 1990. The methods of evaluating whether or not laws work as intended are uncertain, especially in the beginning because changes can have surprising effects that are difficult to predict. Analyzing the effects of such trial-and-error efforts could and (and obviously did) take quite a few years. But by the beginning of 1990, when their crime rates continued to skyrocket out of control, many American states had begun to believe that severe gun control laws were not the answer they were seeking.
One of the first states to realize that was influenced by the result of something that happened long before 1990. In Orlando, Florida, in 1966, the rape rate was very high. The police there realized that something more had to be done in the way of protecting women from criminal violence.
It wasn't an intentional test. The frequent rape stories in the media had resulted in private purchases of 200 to 300 guns per week. Editors of the Orlando Sentinel Star went to the chief of police, asking him to stop gun sales to women before the women hurt someone.
The chief replied this what they were doing was legal, but he also was concerned. He asked the paper to tell the women about a free police-taught firearm safety course to be held on the police range the next Sunday. The paper printed the story, and over 2500 women applied by showing up at the police range, carrying every type of firearm--loaded and unloaded--imaginable. No one expected that!
So the police regrouped and scheduled the women into reasonable-sized classes. It worked! The rape rates immediately crashed to near zero, and all violent crime rates fell quickly and steadily, and continued to stay down permanently! No one expected such immediate and positive effects!
Why did it work?
It was not because the women shot anyone. They didn't, and they didn't commit any crimes, either. It worked for the same reason that possession of a handgun works for the police. The women served notice that they could protect themselves, and that scared the criminals off. Handguns are by far the easiest, safest, and most effective tool to use when protecting life from criminal violence.
It worked because normal people, whether police or private law-abiding citizens, have the same set of values, principles, and reasons for actions--they do not shoot others simply because a firearm is available. Also, everyone knows that protecting life from criminal violence has to be provably justifiable in a court of law. That makes good citizens with handgun permits very cautious and careful.
Violent criminals think they are beyond all the rules. Laws mean little to violent criminals. Some criminals are psychopaths, people without a conscience, who don't respect anyone's the right to live in peace. Many of those-- and other criminals--do not fear the police or the justice system. They are dangerous, particularly to women.
Margo did what she had to do. Her only alternative was to submit and suffer through the horrific violation of rape, accept the consequences and aftereffects of rape, and accept the probability of death at the hands of a violent criminal. I am glad she did not have to accept that fate. I am glad he didn't get to give her AIDS, or syphilis, or make her pregnant. glad he didn't kill her.
If ever in Margo's situation, I want a chance. My government protects the criminal, not me.
Even under her frightening circumstances, Margo did not shoot or even harm the violent intruder. She used a practical and effective tool to equalize the disparity of force that initially seemed to be all on his side. Through it all, she remained level-headed under extreme pressure! Margo stopped her criminal, arrested him, and delivered him to the police when they arrived. She saved all of his future victims. Who knows? If he had been successful, and then moved north, I might have become one of his victims! Thanks, Margo!!
But Canadian women are not so lucky, and many of us want to know why. Especially in today's society! Storing a loaded handgun where it is easily accessible--even in a private place inside the home of a single woman--is illegal. Our government's laws would have delivered Margo to him, utterly helpless, because the government told her that her firearm and ammunition would have had to be separated and locked up. Why? To protect the criminal? What about protecting Margo? Isn't she important?
Did you know that you can take your handgun out of storage when you come home, load it, and keep it ready--legally? Yes, that is legal--as long as you put it back into legal storage when you go out again.
Most Canadian women choose to stay quiet about the fact that they own firearms, except while in the company of other legal firearm owners who share the same common interest. Few of us will admit that we will use a firearm to protect human life from criminal violence. And that is a pity--we need to tell the criminal that attacking a woman can ruin his whole day. Canada needs more Margos!
Canadian women are not strangers to firearms. On the contrary, we have many women who legally own and use non-restricted guns for hunting and trapshooting. Many have "restricted handguns" and "prohibited handguns" for target shooting, and there are even some women who are firearms collectors. A few of us even own the even more restricted "prohibited firearms." These are just a few basic examples; there is a lot more going on in the women's firearms community in Canada. The variations are too numerous for me to mention all of them here.
Not one Type 3 Authorization To Carry, (ATC) has been issued to a woman for protection of life from criminal violence since the Liberal Party of Canada took power in the early 1990s. Then the Liberals imposed the defective and evil-smelling C- 68 firearms control system on the people of Canada in 1998!
The Liberal Party of Canada told us that more severe gun control laws would reduce the amount of crime in our country. They lied to us. Even a minimum amount of research would have proved that to be wrong, but they found it easier to lie to us than figure out the right answer to soaring violent crime rates.
Never underestimate the spirit or strength of a woman. Given a fighting chance, women can stand up for justice, and we will fight for what we believe in!
Are you a woman? Do you want to be as powerful as a rapist, able to protect yourself? Then write to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, House of Commons, OTTAWA ON, K1A 0A6 (no stamp required). Tell him you want his bureaucrats to stop refusing to issue the Type 3 ATC you need in order to be able to carry a handgun legally. Your personal letter will be read as the voice of 500 women voters!
Just one woman with a Type 3 ATC can spread a shield of protection over all women--because the criminal does not know which woman has it--and that makes him fear all women.
THINK about it. We should not have to live with fear. Severe gun control laws do not protect us, but they do protect the criminals who prey on women!
I am not a dangerous radical. I believe in the NFA's requirement: to get a Type 3 ATC, a woman should have to demonstrate proficiency with a handgun and knowledge of relevant law equal to that required of a female RCMP constable. No, that's not an impossible requirement. RCMP women meet those tests annually, and pass them easily. So can you!
Cindy Lightheart started shooting handguns and trap in 2003, and is currently a Range Officer and a qualified Instructor for the pistol course.
Nice writeup! Good luck with some changes up there.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Canadian liberal politicians make a show of "caring" about the welfare of the citizens. But their action in disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless against criminals shows the opposite.
Thanks for posting this, Pyro...
I think Ms. Lightheart would make a fine addition to our forum..
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Very good read and very well written!
I hope she spanks those deluded gun haters!
A good read, and one to share with any liberal-gun-hating acquaintances. Seems that none of the anti-gun mob in our country ever look at the effects of the draconian gun-control laws enacted in England, Australia, and Canada - more violent crime, more murders, etc.
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Thanks for the article..And good luck up there.... I have a 17 year old daughter which i plan on getting her a gun on her 18th birthday then a carry permit at 21.. I had her read the article just for insight on awareness...............
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Here's to the Great White North eh!
Grass roots movements can work there as well. Hopefully this article will be a starting point for our friends to the north.
When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.
Excellent write-up. Good luck with that change!
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ITFT / Quick Kill Review"It is enough to note, as we have observed, that the American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon." - Justice Scalia, SCOTUS - DC v Heller - 26 JUN 2008
Maybe some brains will 'thaw' in the far North...
(Personally, I think she should have ended that BG's 'future' career!)
Stay Armed...stay safe!
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Powerful Write-up. I shared the write-up with my wife and 2 daughters.
Thank you for the support! I have heard back from the NFA, and they sent me some more articles to share.
EDIT. just posted several of the others here.
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They are left in full possession of them."
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Grey Goose
Bacardi bought Grey Goose vodka seven years ago and they've never looked back. We had the honour of being the first journalists to visit Picardie and Cognac to see exactly how Grey Goose is made, from wheat grain to finished bottle. We were shown processes not previously seen by anyone outside the brand and now understand why Grey Goose was such a great buy.
To properly understand how the brand came about, it's important to go right back to the beginning - to Sidney Frank himself. His vision for a super premium vodka, his determination to make it in France, and his mission to source the best ingredients and most skilled people laid down the foundations for this brand's success.
Frank was an entrepreneur from a young age. While some kids might have brought home a bit of pocket money from paper rounds or mowing lawns, Frank had bigger ideas. Aged 12-years-old, he built a very long ladder, and charged tourists 10 cents each to climb to the top of a large rock near his house.
Thanks to various other imaginative schemes, Frank raised enough money to go to Brown University, although his funds ran dry after a year (he would later donate $100m to Brown to set up a scholarship scheme to help other students who couldn't afford the fees).
In a Daily Mail interview, Frank announced that the easiest way to make a million dollars is to "marry it rather than earn it". Although this might seem quite cynical coming from a man who was actually rather good at earning millions all by himself, Frank was, in fact, speaking from experience.
While he was at Brown, he proposed to Louise Rosenstiel six times, and eventually persuaded her to marry him. Conveniently, Rosentiel's father happened to be the founder of Schenley Distillers - America's largest distillery at the time - so no longer was Frank a farm boy, but his marriage had propelled him to the high echelons of American society.
After a successful spell in his father-in-law's company, Frank was forced out in 1970, only to spring straight back by launching his own company two years later, called 'Sidney Frank Importing'. Frank's first triumph was with Jägermeister, where he employed the foolproof marketing campaign of shifting liquor by using scantily clad women - 'The Jägerettes'. He toured America, and used his Jägerettes to persuade college boys to switch their shot of choice to Jägermeister. Sales went through the roof.
Frank's next venture was into high-end vodka. Absolut was a pop-culture sensation but selling for a mere $15 per bottle. Frank decided he was going to make the "world's best tasting vodka", and was convinced that people would spend $30 to drink a superior tasting spirit made from the best possible ingredients.
At the time, premium vodka was a groundbreaking concept, but Frank had always thrown caution to the wind, and gone with his gut instinct for what would sell. If that wasn't enough, he decided to shock people even more by producing his vodka in France, despite Poland or Russia being the traditional homeland for
the spirit.
There was logic to Frank's reasoning - France has centuries of spirit making expertise, as well as some of the finest wheat and water in the world. Additionally, Frank clearly understood that you're only as good as the people you hire, and Frank had some good people lined up in France. In particular François Thibault.
Thibault had already produced a range of Cognacs for Frank's importing company, and had been head of the team that was responsible for creating Jacques Cardin. As Maître de Chai, Thibault was fascinated with innovation and experimentation in the world of spirits, and his willingness to push boundaries inspired Frank to approach him to ask whether he could apply his spirit-making expertise to the creation of a super premium vodka. Thibault agreed, and assumed responsibility for every element in the creation of Grey Goose, right from the selection of the highest quality ingredients to the design of the distillation process and the blending of the final spirit.
Thibault continues to work for Grey Goose, and his affection for the product is evident from the stories he tells - like a proud father reminiscing over years of parenting.
"When Sidney was ready to place his first order, he sent over a fax for an order of 30,000 cases," Thibault recalls. "The sales guy thought that it must have been a mistake - he thought that maybe he'd got the decimal point in the wrong place, but Frank said 'I really want 30,000 cases'. The sales guy stuck the fax on the wall of the office, because for several days afterwards, none of us could believe it."
The risk paid off, and Grey Goose flew off the shelves - so much so that in 2004, Bacardi Ltd offered Frank a rumoured $2.4bn for Grey Goose, and he accepted. By the time of his death in 2006, the Connecticut farm boy was living out the American dream - six houses, chefs, Maybachs, Bentleys, and (bizarrely) a private golf team who'd play on demand, taking Frank's advice on which clubs to use.
The name Sidney Frank still commands heartfelt respect in the industry, and will do for a long time. He was a marketing genius - branded a "hero" by Michel Roux, the man behind the Absolut vodka bottle advertising campaign. An enduring successful spirits brand is not just born out of marketing though - the product has to justify and outlast the hype. There's something more that put Grey Goose alongside Bombay Sapphire and Dewars, as brands that have caught Bacardi's eye as a sparkling investment.
What Frank left behind, and what Bacardi Ltd continues to perpetuate, is a modern alcohol masterpiece - one that combines high quality, carefully sourced raw materials and production processes, dictated by Thibault, with a sound commercial nous that's been often imitated, but rarely duplicated.
Deep in 'the breadbasket of France' are the soft winter wheat fields of Picardie. Located in the north of the country, the area is blessed with perfect wheat growing conditions - an ideal combination of temperature, humidity and rich alluvial soil. The wheat used to make Grey Goose is supplied exclusively by three farming cooperatives - one of which Marc Egret belongs to.
A row of children's wellington boots are lined up in the hallway of Egret's house. This is no purpose-built wheat processing unit, but a three-century-old family enterprise. Egret lives in Tupigny - a village with five hundred inhabitants in Picardie. Since he took on the family farm in 2004, it's more than doubled in size to over 2,000 acres, and has become a main supplier of wheat for Grey Goose vodka.
Egret uses hi-tech equipment to keep an eye on the soil, but he still decides when it's time to harvest by biting on a piece of wheat. Despite farming on a large scale, it's clear that he still respects the tried-and-tested methods that have been handed down the generations in this successful farming region.
When we met Egret in November, it was coming to the end of sowing season, and there were just 100 acres to go. It's pretty quiet then until March when he begins an in-depth soil analysis using satellites to create 'soil spreadsheets'. These colour code the soil: red tells Egret that the area is in need of more nitrates, and green tells him that it's doing just fine.
"The soil is just like a person," Egret says. "If you feed it too much, then it bloats and isn't any use, but if you don't feed it enough, then it starves. It's important to keep a healthy balance."
Thankfully, Egret doesn't have too much trouble due to the location of his farm. Northern France has a naturally good 'ratio' between the soil and the climate, which makes it a perfect location for wheat production:
"In Ukraine, the soil's great and there's lots of organic matter in it, but the climate's very changeable," Egret says. "In southern areas like Spain, the climate's consistently good, but the soil's too dry. France has a great balance of good soil and consistent climate which makes it very successful in wheat production," he added.
Standing at the edge of a gigantic field which rolls off into the distance, Egret explains how one square metre of farming land produces enough wheat to make just one bottle of Grey Goose vodka. It's the start of a long and laborious journey which takes Egret's wheat and turns it into a bottle of Grey Goose vodka.
Not far from Egret's farm lies Saint-Quentin, the kind of typical French town you'd expect to see in films such as Amélie or Chocolat - all narrow streets and old brick houses. There's one peculiarity though, and that's the block of chimneys visible in the outskirts, betraying the location of Grey Goose's distillery.
The variety of wheat used to make Grey Goose is Blé Panifiable Supérieur, the same wheat used to make the finest French bread and pastries. This arrives at the distillery in 25-ton lorries where it is checked for quality and moisture content before being stored in a 320 ton silo. Before it can be fermented, the wheat must first be milled into flour.
It is worth remembering that the majority of vodka producers do not actually distil their own base spirit. Many of the makers of even the best-known and most respected vodka brands start by buying in third-party distilled neutral alcohol. Furthermore, those few vodka distillers who do actually distil their own base spirit don't tend to mill their own wheat. Milling the wheat on-site means that Thibault and his team are able to control any damage to the flour and maximise its freshness when fermentation begins.
As with every other aspect of Grey Goose production, the milling process benefits from custom-designed technology. In this case, a series of extraordinary contraptions linked by transparent tubes zig-zag across the ceiling, propelling the grain into different machines on different floors of the multi-story mill building next to the fermentation tanks. It's sieved, the dust is removed and then it's put through a remarkable vibrating machine which removes any stones or other foreign bodies.
Once the wheat has been moistened and rested for 24 hours, it's subjected to the most impressive of all the machines: The Plansichter. Despite sounding like a German S&M club, the purpose of the contraption is actually to grind down and sieve the wheat through four different rollers which get consecutively smaller so that the grain is ground to a fine flour - perfect for maximum fermentation. Water is added to the flour to turn it into a paste, and enzymes are added to the mixture to start breaking down the starch to make sugars.
François Thibault explains how each process has to be individually assessed. "It's not a case of just entering a formula and pressing a button," he says. "The key is to know how to extract the best from the mash. You want to concentrate the flavours you already have and make the most of what's there."
Thibault sees vodka distillation as an art. "If you have a painting with lots of colours on the canvass, then it's not a catastrophe if you get a speck of paint on it. With vodka, it's like having a blank canvas - if you get one tiny speck of paint on it, then you can tell straight away that it's been tarnished.
"The head distiller is like a chef - he needs to know the best ingredients, the right temperatures and the right resting period. It's all down to knowing your ingredients, and understanding how they work." Understandably, when probed for exactly what these "right temperatures" are, Thibault was reticent to divulge the exact process. However, we can tell you that five state-of-the-art continuous column stills are used and that the rectification columns operate under a partial vacuum. And that the mash goes into the first column still at 10% abv and emerges from the third and fourth rectification columns at 96.3% abv.
The rectified high proof wheat spirit is transported the 600 kilometres from the distillery to Gensac, Grey Goose's purpose built blending and bottling plant. Although there have already been more than 500 quality checks between the wheat fields and Gensac, the high proof spirit is checked again on arrival. At this point the vodka is still at 96% abv - the same strength it was transported at, so the next step in the process is to blend with the all important water to reduce it to bottling strength.
The Gensac plant was completed in 2001 - before that, the blending and bottling was handled by Thibault at the H. Mounier's facilities in Cognac. Just as the distillery is strategically sited in the wheat-growing plains of Northern Picardie, the bottling plant is purposefully located in Gensac - in the suburbs of Cognac, a region famed amongst distillers for its soft and slightly sweet spring water. This originates in the North East of Cognac, passing through limestone soil to emerge in the Gensac spring.
"If the water's not perfect, then it will express bad taste from the spirit," says Thibault. "The vodka is 60 per cent water - it's the crucial part. There's even more taste analysis done in the water than in the spirit."
The water Grey Goose uses comes from a well just outside the building. Although the water is very 'pure', excess minerals must be removed so there's no residue and sedimentation present in the finished vodka. No chemicals are used to extract the minerals - instead the water is demineralised by reverse osmosis. This involves it being pumped through tubes at a very high pressure and then being forced through a selective membrane. The larger molecules and ions are unable to pass through the membrane and so are separated from the now demineralised water.
When the molecules of alcohol and water meet, they release energy, which means that the mixture rises 7°C during blending. The blend is left to settle for an hour to allow the spirit and water to coalesce before being agitated and pushed through a particle filter, which helps the two liquids gel. A further filtration through cellulose pads impregnated with activated carbon also enhances the visual 'polish' and the shine of the spirit.
This filtration is relatively light compared to other vodkas and takes place at ambient temperature (not chill filtered) using five micron filter pads. This ensures the taste and character derived from the high quality grain and careful production processes are not stripped out by excessively harsh filtration.
Before being released to the bottling line each batch must be tested in the lab but even high-tech lab equipment can't test taste so each batch is also tasted by a panel, personally trained by François Thibault to detect even slight variations. The panel are drawn from all areas of production and you won't be surprised to learn that they volunteered.
There are two bottling lines at the plant - one for small bottles up to 500ml and the other, a faster line running at 12,000 bottles per hour, for larger ones. Both run daily from 6am to 9pm. Firstly, the bottles are rinsed with Grey Goose vodka, and then the spirit is gravity fed into them. The bottling plant is the final stop of this lengthy journey - a whirring room of bottles being filled every hour and then dispatched to each corner of the world.
40% alc./vol. (80°proof) 700ml bottle retail: £30
The original, unflavoured Grey Goose vodka launched in 1997 (UK 2001). As described previously, this is distilled from wheat grown in Picardie, northern France using a five column distillation process to produce an exceptionally pure distillate. Grey Goose is then blended with demineralised limestone-filtered spring water in the heart of France's cognac region.
Grey Goose does not contain any sugar, flavouring or other additive. It is simply made from fermented wheat which is distilled, hydrated and bottled; its flavour and character is purely derived from the wheat, spring water and these carefully managed processes.
Taste: Crystal clear. A very clean nose with the merest whiff of nuts and fennel over the peppery spirit aromas. (When cold has a fruit aroma of desiccated coconut). The clean palate has grainy cracked pepper mineral notes and faint delicate flavours of aniseed. (Creamy coconut notes emerge with the addition of water). Long, clean, peppered finish with faint aniseed and sweet liquorice. 5/5
40% alc./vol. (80°proof) 700ml bottle retail: £30
Two distinct processes are required to produce the citrus oil extract used in Grey Goose Le Citron. The first is based on the maceration of Menton lemons and the second is based on the extraction of essential oils from lemons grown in Argentina and Brazil.
The Menton lemons are harvested from February to May in the town of Menton on the Côte d'Azur where the micro climate produces exceptionally aromatic lemons. The region celebrates its lemon harvest during its annual lemon festival: 'la Fête du Citron'. This kicks off at the end of February and sees the town filled with fantastical fruit statues and a citrus carnival attracting more than 200,000 people (www.fete-du-citron.com).
The Menton lemons are washed by hand, cut into eight pieces and then macerated for two weeks. The resulting 'juice' has a flavour that is unique to Menton - very floral with a subtle bitterness.
The essential oils are extracted from the lemons harvested in Argentina and Brazil by gently rolling the entire lemon on a metal plate which pierces the fruit, removes the peel and cuts it open. The fruit is then sprayed with cold water to remove the delicate essential oils while still at their freshest.
The essential oils are distilled twice using a vacuum distillation process - at pressures as much as 1,000 times lower than natural atmospheric pressure. This reduces the boiling point so less heat is required thus ensuring the fruits' fresh, natural flavours are retained in the essential oil extract.
The results of the two processes, maceration and oil extraction, are combined to create the flavour profile specified by François Thibault. Initial blending with Grey Goose takes place at the flavour house. Due to the volatility of the lemon oils, a specific filtration process is required to ensure stability. The essential oil is then sent to Grey Goose's facility in Cognac for final blending.
Taste: Crystal clear. Superbly clean, zesty lemon meringue pie nose with subtle eucalyptus aromas. The clean, fresh palate has the zesty lemon with a slight bitter note, as one might expect from fresh lemons. Clean, fresh lemon finish with slightly bitter zest lemony bite. 4.5/5
40% alc./vol. (80°proof) 700ml bottle retail: £30
An orange-flavoured line extension of Grey Goose vodka, launched in the US in 2000 and 2002 in the UK. The clear goose-shaped window on the distinctive frosted bottle magnifies a Paul Cézanne painting of a bowl of oranges printed on the back of the bottle.
Grey Goose L' Orange is flavoured with essential oils extracted from the skin of sweet oranges from Florida, Brazil and New Guinea, where they are harvested year round, according to season, for maximum freshness. The oranges are first lightly compressed to extract the juice and then more firmly crushed to extract the essential oils from the peel. The fruit is then sprayed with cold water to remove the delicate essential oils while they are fresh. After resting for a period, the liquid separates into essential oil at the top and water below. The oil is then siphoned off using a tapping method and filtered.
A flavour house uses a specially-designed column still to distil the filtered oils twice using a vacuum distillation process - at pressures as much as 1,000 times lower than natural atmospheric pressure. This brings the boiling point down to 60°C so avoiding the need to use excessive heat which would affect flavour. The distillation separates the orange oil into its various elements and only 20% of these are selected and blended together to produce the essential oil used to flavour Grey Goose.
Taste: Crystal clear. Floral, clean fresh mandarin zest nose - somewhat akin to a very expensive scented soap or perfume. Clean, elegant palate with zesty satsuma orange flavour and a peppery note of grainy vodka. Orange zest finish with bitter orange notes with freshly grated black pepper. 5/5
40% alc./vol. (80°proof) 700ml bottle retail: £30
Grey Goose La Poire launched in the US on 1st February 2007. The distinctive bottle features an impressionist style painting of yellow pears in front of a blue vase of
white lilies.
The essential oils used to flavour Grey Goose La Poire are made by two separate processes and then elements of the oils produced blended and filtered to make an essential oil. One is a distillate made from William pears from the Anjou region of western France. These are washed, crushed and macerated for two weeks. They are then distilled once in a copper pot still to extract their natural flavours.
Added to this distillate is the essence of pears obtained from concentrated juice. The pears are washed and pressed to extract their juice, which is then concentrated under vacuum. The third element is based on an infusion of William pear.
These three elements are blended together to mimic the taste and freshness of the original fruit. Finally this is blended with Grey Goose vodka by François Thibault and his team.
Taste: Crystal clear. A very attractive nose of green apple skin and just sliced earthy pear skin and overripe pear fruit. Clean palate with crisp but ripe conference pear - more earthy thick skin than flesh and with a touch of lemon zest to keep it fresh. Long clean pear finish with cracked black pepper spirit and the merest hint of bitter almond. 5+/5
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Darjeeling - Khush Alaya a Sterling Holidays Resort
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About the Hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Darjeeling - Khush Alaya a Sterling Holidays Resort in Darjeeling, you'll be minutes from Yiga Choling and close to Batasia Memorial. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Japanese Peace Pagoda and Tiger Hill.
Make yourself at home in one of the 103 guestrooms. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks and complimentary newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take time to pamper yourself with a visit to the full-service spa. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and gift shops/newsstands.
Grab a bite at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Free valet parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Smoke-free property
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Free valet parking
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 103
- Bar/lounge
- Accessible bathroom
- Garden
- Library
- Free self parking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Spa services on site
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Business center
- Fitness facilities
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Children's club
- Free WiFi
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- Cable TV service
- Daily housekeeping
- Separate sitting area
- Television
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- Desk
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Free toiletries
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
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- Private bathroom
- Free bottled water
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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Rollaway bed fee: INR 1000 per stay
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: INR 1750.00
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: INR 750.00 (from 5 to 12 years old)
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: INR 2499.00
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: INR 1200.00 (from 5 to 12 years old)
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A faulty bathroom fan was the cause of an electrical fire that raced through a Salt Lake City apartment complex Saturday morning.
Six residents were evacuated but no injuries were reported, said Salt Lake City Fire spokesman Jasen Asay.
The fire at 2625 E. Stringham Ave. (2280 South) started about 2:25 a.m. in a pipe behind a bathroom wall and damaged two of the apartments. A third unit was damaged when firefighters forced their way in.
"One of the residents heard a crackling noise and went into the bathroom and saw flames," Asay said.
The residents were relocated through help from the American Red Cross. It is unknown if and when they can return to their homes. Officials did not know the dollar amount of the damage to the apartments.


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I've never seen one but, it is not unreasonable to believe some survived the war to go through the refurbishment program. They did sweep up some odds and ends. I have seen a few oddballs processed and branded "24/47" though at the moment I cannot recall specifically what.
I would not believe it based solely on fuzzy pictures though. Got a link or is it a live auction? (You don't want to post links to a live auction. It's a discourtesy and against rules too.) If an auction, you can always ask the seller for clearer pictures.


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When you are a traveler you are going to be putting your car to as much use as you can. When you are on the road for extended periods of time, your vehicle becomes your home. You sit in it for meals, you hide your precious belongings in it, you survive the harsh weather conditions that hit you sometimes by taking shelter in it, and you use it as a bedroom when you can't find lodging for the night. Over time you come to look at it as your home away from home. Now, with so much monetary and sentimental value attached to the old thing, you need to make sure that you protect it from the dangers of the road at all costs. A good tip would be never to leave anything valuable in the car. The truth is no one ever follows this advice. It becomes the de facto hiding place for most of your expensive stuff.
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When parking your car, you might be the type of person to get out and start stashing your valuables in the trunk. This is a very bad idea indeed. When you are pulling into the car park at a hotel or a public lot, you must already have hidden everything you need to. There are two mistakes that you can make. One is leaving these items in plain sight for the world to see. All it takes is one person passing by to glance in and see everything ripe for the taking. By the time you come out, there is a high chance that you will have been robbed blind already. The second mistake is to take your valuables and store them in the trunk after you have parked. If someone sees you acting like you're putting away something valuable, you might even get mugged right there. Take a look at this offer a great parking solutions for your vehicle that can suit your needs.
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Never let your car be parked anywhere that it can't be seen by the main road and passersby. There are too many situations out there where you see a street, and somewhere past an invisible line all the cars that are parked are stolen regularly. These is way to keeping your vehicle safer and make sure you have a look at the sight lines from buildings as well as any police officers or stations nearby.
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Featured News | 4th July 2010
Nottinghamshire spinner Graeme Swann won't feature in England's NatWest Series against Bangladesh after being rested.
Kevin Pietersen has also been left out after suffering a minor thigh strain and there's no place for Ryan Sidebottom. Stuart Broad is the sole Nottinghamshire representative in the England squad and will expect to lead the attack in Thursday's series opener at Trent Bridge.
Swann has carried a heavy workload as England's number one spinner but he will be allowed to represent Notts in two LV= County Championship fixtures ahead of the first npower Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge from Thursday 29th July.
"Graeme Swann has been involved in all forms of the game for some time now and this forthcoming period has been identified as the best opportunity to ensure Graeme has a suitable break ahead of a demanding schedule this summer and during the winter," said National Selector Geoff Miller.
"It's unfortunate that Kevin Pietersen has suffered an injury and although we'll know the full extent in due course it looks like he'll be able to make a full recovery very quickly.
"There was a lot to like about the cricket we played against Australia and the team will be looking to build on this against Bangladesh."
Aside from the addition of Tredwell and Trott and the omission of Pietersen, Swann and Sidebottom, there are no further changes to the squad that beat Australia 3-2 in the recent five-match NatWest Series.
Tickets for Thursday's NatWest Series One Day International at Trent Bridge are on sale from the online ticket office and the ticket hotline (0844 811 8711).
England squad for NatWest Series versus Bangladesh
Andrew Strauss (captain) (Middlesex)
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Ian Bell (Warwickshire)
Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire)
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)
Paul Collingwood (Durham)
Craig Kieswetter (Somerset)
Eoin Morgan (Middlesex)
Ajmal Shahzad (Yorkshire)
James Tredwell (Kent)
Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire)
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Hi, first time poster here. Sonic blue focus s born may 2, recieved may 17th. Love the ride and handling, and no real problems so far, but the Dome lights operation are still a baffling mystery to me. "The dome lamp will turn on when: any door is opened" mine only turns on if the car is on, is this normal? "The remote entry controls are pressed and the ignition is off" This NEVER happens, normal or a glitch? the dash lights do come on, but not the dome lamp. When I use the remote key after car is off a short time the dome lamp sometimes comes on when I open the door but when its been off a while it doesn't. I own a very basic model focus, no light sensors that I know of. I tried to show my dealer what was happening, but since the car was just off a couple minutes, of course the dome lamp came on and they just looked at me like I was crazy. Every night when I use the remote key and enter, dash lights come on but no dome lamp. Is this uhhhh normal?? or a glitch?
I don't know if it applies to the S model, but on my wife's SE there is a little trick to the dome lights that's not covered in the manual. We actually found it out from one of the dealer techs when we were taking delivery and the dome lights didn't work when the doors were opened. He had it fixed in about 60 seconds:
To toggle the dome lights operation on/off (when doors are opened) - with the driver's door open, press and hold the dome light switch on the overhead until the light flashes.
Apparently this sets a software toggle in the Body Control Module, or makes the magic genies happy, or whatever.
Again, I don't know if it applies to S models, or to "Job 2" builds (which yours is, and that's a good thing) but it's worth a try.
Best of luck and congratulations on your new Focus.
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If you're having trouble giving effective consequences to your teen, know that you are not alone. Many parents tell me that nothing seems to work, and that coming up with the right thing for their child can seem like an impossible task. If you're the parent of an adolescent, you may have grounded your child,… Read more »
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How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids: Use These 10 Tips
Calm Parenting—most of us aspire to it, desire it, and even promise ourselves we're going to do it—but it's so difficult to sustain. We know how important it is to parent from our principles rather than from our fears, but despite our best intentions we lose it and end up yelling at those we love… Read more »
Teen Temper Tantrums: 3 Steps to Stop the Screaming
You thought "The Terrible Twos" were bad. Now you're dealing with "The Terrible Thirteens," and it's just as bad, if not worse. When you ask your child to help around the house, inquire about school or say no to something they want to do, your teen explodes. When she was two, she cried, kicked and… Read more »
The Strengths of the Oppositional Defiant Child
Do you have an ODD child or teen who constantly argues and fights your authority, refusing to follow the rules of your home? When the number for his school shows up on your caller identification, do you cringe in fear of what trouble he's in now? When you have an oppositional, defiant child, it's painful… Read more »
Negotiating with Kids: When You Should and Shouldn't
Does it seem like every time you tell your child "No," it turns into a tug-of-war? One mom shared with us recently, "Absolutely everything's an argument with my son. Even the simplest request. He just can't take no for an answer. It's so frustrating!" Many parents find themselves in a negotiation with their children when… Read more »
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Early Morning Blaze in Hamilton
(Hamilton, OH) -- The cause of a fire that badly damaged a house, early Saturday morning, is still unknown.
The blaze was reported around 4 AM, at 920 Sycamore Street, and the first units on the scene reported flames coming from the back of the house, and thick smoke coming from the windows on both the first and second stories.
Firefighters searched neighboring buildings because there was a fear the flames would spread. But, crews kept the fire contained.
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"I don't know how to explain it. Normally, we would not waste a four-goal lead." -- Germany coach Joachim Loew on his team's stunning collapse
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IBO: More Special Need Students Leave Charters Than District Schools
Students who enroll in charter schools for kindergarten are more likely to stay through third grade than students at traditional New York City public schools, according to the Independent Budget Office, with one exception: special education pupils.
The report found a whopping 80 percent of kindergartners with special needs left their charter schools, compared to just about 50 percent of kindergartners with special needs who left traditional schools.
"There is something that's going on," said the report's author Joydeep Roy, an economist at the I.B.O. However, he wasn't able to draw any conclusions and conceded the sample size was very small. Although the study included all students who enrolled in kindergarten at charter schools in the fall of 2008, only 25 of the charter kindergartners were identified as having special needs. Of those students, 20 transferred out of the schools.
The study included thousands of kindergartners at 53 charter schools and 116 traditional public schools in the same geographic vicinity, and tracked them all the way through third grade in the 2011-2012 school year.
It confirms previous data that found charters actually have lower attrition rates than students at traditional public schools, something WNYC reported in 2012. The I.B.O. found 70 percent of students who started kindergarten at the charter schools remained in their schools through third grade, compared with 61 percent of students attending nearby traditional schools.
James Merriman, chief executive officer of the New York City Charter Center, called the report "myth-busting," a reference to critics who claim charters counsel out difficult or low-performing students. Attrition rates for minorities, English Language Learners and students in poverty were lower at charters than at district schools which Merriman called "pretty revelatory."
However, Merriman said, the attrition rate of special education students was an area "where we've long acknowledged we need to do better." He suggested that since half of all kindergartners with special needs leave their district schools, compared to 80 percent of those in the charters, parents are probably still looking for a right fit during that first year of school.
The report confirmed previous studies that found charters have fewer special education students. Less than 1 percent of all charter kindergartners were classified as having disabilities, compared to 7 percent of the district school kindergartners in 2008. But that gap narrowed as the kids got older. By third grade, approximately 13 percent of the charter school students were classified as having disabilities compared to about 19 percent of the traditional school students.
The researchers did find evidence that students who leave charters tend to be lower performing students. But they could not draw any conclusions.
"The leavers from charter schools have lower test scores than the stayers from charter schools," said Roy. He noted that the trend was similar for students leaving traditional public schools. But those who left the charters had even lower scores, particularly in math, than those who left the district schools.
Raymond Domanico, the I.B.O.'s director of education research, acknowledged the new report was dense, and did not offer simple answers. Next up, he said his staff plans to research the geographic trends underpinning school attrition patterns.


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Mr Aqua 6 gallon filter question.
Quick question for all of you.
I'm about to order the Mr Aqua 6 gallon tank, with the idea of turning it into a shrimp tank. I have an Eheim 2213 sitting around and am thinking of using this filter with the tank. My question, is this filter going to be too much on this tank?
Thanks in advance for the responses,
[Edit: Not sure why I started this thread in this section, other than it is going to be a planted tank. Sorry.]
No, it won't be too much. You can throttle it back with the disconnects. A eheim 2211 or 2213 will work.
On the other issue, I would order an Aquatop long before I ordered a Mr. Aqua.
Also, do you have a link to the tank you'd suggest? I'm looking on truaqua and I don't see a tank w/ a similar footprint.
Thanks for the speedy response! I was thinking about ordering the 2211 for the tank but, since I already have the 2213, it'll save me some money.
The quality of the Mr. Aqua tanks is not as good as other brands. The glass is green and the silicone work is not that great. Aquatop has great stuff for the price. I'd do ADA if you are going to keep it small, like a mini m. Or go with Aquatop. Heres a nice option:
If you really want that footprint, then go for it. Just letting you know the tank quality is lower than other options. Some that are cheaper as well.
This thread might interest you:
Hmm, yea.
You've got me second guessing my decision, haha.
What about this tank:
I love my Aquatop, the quality is great. Sadly, if your looking for a long or interesting footprint they don't currently offer such a thing. Get something that you will enjoy or you'll just want it later after buying something else. Between the Mr.Aqua and the ADA you posted I'd go with the ADA for price and quality reasons.
It depends on how much you wanna spend. I bought a 11.4 gallon Mr. Aqua for $45.00 with free shipping, and I am happy with its quality.
Glass clarity isn't bad in my opinion, but of course, it won't be closed to ADA tank. If money isn't an issue, then the decision is real easy to make.
I also like its foot print as 18.9 x 11.8 x 11.8
If you can afford it get an ADA tank, they make a 60F, I believe it is about $120
If you are trying to keep a budget, I would rather skimp on other things and put more into the tank itself. The actual tank makes more of a difference than the filter, lights or other accessories. JMO
Thanks to everyone for the replies.
I ended up ordering the Aquatop 8 gallon.
I was going to w/ the ADA 60-F but the cost of shipping is insanely high, sadly. I couldn't believe it.
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The grip for Yama Arashi is with the thumb inside, although the throw itsself is not defined by the grip, as far as I know at least. Yama Arashi is te waza, I think, kind of an odd throw and not done much nowadays.
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Bring the family to be your teammates as you race through the Seneca Meadows
Wetlands Preserve to find pumpkin treasures! How do you win? Just follow the clues, and find the treasures before the other teams do! Prizes will be awarded to the first
family team to make it to the finish!
Location: Seneca Meadows Wetlands Preserve, Black Brook Road, Seneca Falls
Date: Saturday, October 5th, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Cost: FREE
Program Type: Family