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|4 Ene 1983
|Fecha de presentación
|27 May 1981
|Fecha de prioridad
|27 May 1981
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|Número de publicación
|Ali A. Akhavein, Gavin B. Braithwaite
|Cesionario original
|Ici Americas Inc.
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|Citas de patentes (5), Otras citas (1), Citada por (32), Clasificaciones (8), Eventos legales (5)
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet
The present invention relates to pest controlling active ingredient delivery systems for use with animals. In particular, a sustained release reservoir containing the active ingredient is provided for fast and reliable deployment on an animal identification tag.
Pest controlling agents may be used in association with animal identification tags or other devices attached directly or indirectly to the body of an animal such as a cow. For example, an ear tag for controlling the hog louse is described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,949,708. The tag of U.S. Pat. No. 3,949,708 has a spiked portion to insert through the ear of the animal, a pocket on a flat planar surface and an insecticide-impregnated pad to be inserted into the pocket. However, such tags have disadvantages since their use may require one to discard a non-insecticidal tag already on the animal and the closure means in the pocket to retain the pad may break which would require replacement again of the entire tag.
Other ear tags have insecticide impregnated throughout the body of the tag itself as described in "Tennessee Farm and Home Science", January - March 1978, Progress Report No. 105; in "The Southwestern Entomologist" Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1977 at pages 8-10; and in the "Journal of Economic Entomology" Vol. 63 (1970) pages 1688-1689; Vol. 70 (1977) pages 72-75, Vol. 71 (1978) pages 764-765, and Vol. 72 (1979) page 215.Again however, using such tags may require removing and discarding non-insecticidal tags already on the animal. Further, when impregnated tags lose effectiveness, a completely new tag must be inserted. Other active ingredient-containing devices for animals are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,756,200 and 3,942,480.
An identifying and pest controlling device is provided which may be attached to an animal. The device comprises an identification tag and disposed about a portion of the tag such that it cannot fall off, a reservoir of a pest controlling active ingredient. Further, the reservoir for use as part of the device is an aspect of the present invention.
FIGS. 1 and 2 show the front and reverse sides, respectively of an animal identification tag pest controlling device according to the invention.
FIGS. 3 and 4 depict an active ingredient reservoir which may be used in the invention before and after, respectively, sealing the depository of the active ingredient. This depository was used in the device shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
FIGS. 5 and 6 depict two types of active ingredient reservoir for use in the present invention.
The identification tags adapted to be attached to a portion of an animal may be virtually any animal identification tag used in the art. Examples include tags made of a polymer or metal with or without a pest controlling substance or other active ingredient contained in or on the tag. In general, such tags comprise three attached segments designated as 2, 4 and 6, respectively, in FIG. 1. The first segment 2 has a configuration to allow it to be readily inserted into and pulled through a portion of an animal to retain the tag on the animal. This first segment may have an arrowhead shape so that it can penetrate and exit the skin of an animal, e.g. the ear or the loose skin at the neck. The second tag segment 4 is a neck portion a part of which, after the tag has been inserted, remains within the animal. For the comfort of the animal and ease of application of the tag, the full neck portion will usually be longer than that which is actually necessary to be within the animal. It is at the tag neck portion which protrudes outside of the animal where the reservoir of the invention is most advantageously attached.
The third segment 6 of the animal tag is a relatively rigid and planar portion which may receive indicia or have indicia permanently attached. The third segment should have larger cross-sectional dimensions than the neck so that it cannot be readily pulled through the aperture in the skin of the animal. The third segment may have attached to it an insecticidal device as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,949,708, a ridge to facilitate placing the tag panel in a stencil wheel or other printing device as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,357,122, a hole for placement of a colored button as provided in U.S. Pat. No. 3,512,289 or fringes which the animal could use to flick insects away as in U.S. Pat. No. 3,952,439.
Other animal identification tags to be inserted into the ear as well as tools for the insertion are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,334,434; 3,526,987; 3,552,051; 3,731,414; 3,867,777; 3,896,577; 3,916,904; 3,955,580; 3,979,847; 3,987,570; 4,000,744; and Reissue No. 29,536. Animal tags and tools for their insertion into the brisket, flank or neck skin of an animal are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,675,357 and 3,694,949. The pest controlling devices of the invention would normally be utilized with domestic animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs although they can be used with nondomesticated animals.
In addition to animal tags which are inserted into and through the skin of an animal, the reservoir of the invention may be affixed to identification tags which are attached to the animal by means such as a neck chain or leg band. Additionally, various identification tags are attached to the hair of animals by means of clamping or screwing devices.
The reservoir of the present invention is placed on the animal identification tag by encircling or surrounding a portion of the tag with it before or after the tag is attached to the animal. Thus, if desired the reservoir may be placed on the tag only when pests such as insects are a particular problem such as in the summer. Further, separate reservoirs with different pest controlling active ingredients may be used concurrently or consecutively depending on the particular target pest species to be controlled. This feature of the invention conveys advantages over tags impregnated with active ingredients since impregnated tags may be attached when pest control is not needed and one would not readily interchange tags if a different active ingredient is desirable, especially if for only a short period of time. Since the invention reservoir can be readily attached and detached without piercing the skin of the animal, one may be more likely to only use the active ingredient when necessary, thus minimizing animal contact with potentially hazardous pest controlling ingredients.
The reservoir may be any one of several designs. One arrangement is a thin, flexible tape or strip of a polymeric tape having a depository, e.g. an absorbent fibrous pad of felt or gauze, of the active ingredient attached. Preferably, the depository is smaller than the tape and is thus not completely coextensive with the tape portion. The tape is then bent around a relatively narrow portion of the tag and secured to itself, e.g. by a pressure sensitive adhesive which is then applied or which has been provided as a layer on the tape. Examples of this first arrangement are shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The depository may be placed on either side of the tape although it is preferably placed on the side of the tape which is on the inside when the tape is attached to itself and surrounds a portion of the tag. Placing the depository on the inside allows it to be better protected and permits adjustment of active ingredient release by the number and size of the holes provided in the tape through which the active ingredient migrates. Of course, if the depository itself adjusts outward flow of the active ingredient, e.g. a cotton gauze soaked with active ingredient and coated with a light resinous film, the depository may be placed on the outside of the tape, i.e. the side of the tape not in contact with the tag. In this arrangement, the depository is essentially a wick of an absorbent material such as a natural fiber, e.g. cotton or wool, or a synthetic fiber or foam such as a polyurethane foam. Alternatively, a crushable ampoule within an absorbent fibrous sleeve may be the depository. When such a reservoir is to be deployed, it is attached to the tag and the ampoule of active ingredient is broken and the active ingredient soaks into the sleeve.
Although the reservoir could simply be directly secured only to the tag instead of to itself, this will often present problems since the tag may be coated with grease, oil, animal feed or other foreign substances. Thus, by having the reservoir surround a portion of the tag and secured to itself rather than solely to the tag, clear advantages are obtained. The tag need not be clean or even dry for the reservoir to be securely deployed.
A second arrangement for the reservoir of the invention is a single- or multi-layered polymeric tape, such as shown in FIG. 5, in which an active ingredient is present in one or more solid polymeric layers and gradually migrates to one or both planar surfaces. The tape is bent around a portion of the tag and secured to itself by means such as adhesive, a staple, rivet or other fastener. Alternatively, the tape may be secured to itself without an adhesive or mechanical fastener by providing one end with spikes or flanges and the other with an aperture into which the spiked or flanged end may be inserted without being readily withdrawn, e.g. as shown in FIG. 6.
Materials and methods for their manufacture for the second arrangement of the reservoir of the invention are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,705,938; 3,857,934; 3,864,468; 4,102,991; and 4,160,335 which are hereby incorporated by reference. These patents describe methods of applying to a solid non-porous polymeric substrate sheeting a solid non-porous layer of a polymeric composition containing an active agent capable of migrating from the layer into and thoughout the substrate. The migrating active agent is incorporated in the layer in an amount sufficient to produce an effective level of activity on an exterior surface of the substrate. Polymeric strips containing a pest controlling agent homogenously dispersed throughout at least a portion of the polymeric matrix are available commercially as Vapona pest strips as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,949,708; by a J. W. Gillett in Residue Review Vol. 44, pages 115 and 161 (1972); and in the Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. 63, pages 1688-1689 (1970) and Vol. 69, pages 757-760 (1976).
The pest controlling active ingredient used in the present invention is one which kills, debilitates, repels, sterilizes, mutates or otherwise lessens the annoyance or harmful effects of any living organism associated with an animal. Examples of annoying or harmful living organisms include worms, fungi, bacteria, insects and other lower forms of life. In particular, the pests sought to be controlled by the invention are insects and more particularly flies such as the house fly, face fly, stable fly, horn fly, and ticks which may annoy or spread disease to cattle.
Particular pest controlling active ingredients are vapor-active insecticides or repellents or contact-effective insecticides such as the pyrethroids which include natural and synthetic materials such as pyrethrin, resmethrin, fenvalerate, cyhalothrin, decamethrin, bioresmethrin, permethrin and cypermethrin. Of particular effectiveness are the cyclopropanecarboxylate pyrethroids of the following formula ##STR1## wherein R is 3-phenoxybenzyl for permethrin and R is α-cyano-3-phenoxy-benzyl for cypermethrin. These and other cyclopropanecarboxylate pyrethroids are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,024,163 and 4,178,384. The active ingredient may be used neat, in a solvent or carrier, in the form of a dust or in combination with another active or inert ingredient, e.g. a dye, fragrance or anti-oxidant. Preferably, the active ingredient is a liquid, which includes a gum or semiliquid, and is used neat or highly concentrated to provide the greatest effect with the least inconvenience and weight.
Also part of the present invention is the method of controlling pests such as insects associated with an animal comprising deploying around an animal identification tag directly or indirectly attached to the animal, the pest controlling active ingredient reservoir as described.
FIG. 1 depicts a pest controlling device 8 according to the present invention. The device 8 comprises an animal identification tag 10 having a reservoir 12 of a pest controlling active ingredient surrounding a portion of the tag. The tag comprises a first or head segment 2 which has flanges, spikes, wings or other retaining members which are pliable and deformable to allow the insertion of the head segment into and through the skin of an animal. The second or neck portion 4 of the tag is narrower than both the head and body portions of the tag. The neck portion 4 is long enough to allow a part of it to remain within the skin of the animal, e.g. if the tag is an ear tag, the head portion 2 will protrude from the back of the ear and the body portion 6 from the front of the ear with the neck portion connecting the head and body portions and piercing through the ear. The third or body portion 6 of the tag is relatively rigid and flat with shoulders wider than the neck portion so that the tag remains on the animal after placement. The body portion may be blank for application of any desired indicia by the livestock manager althought the color or even the presence of a tag alone may provide suitable indicia or information for differentiation of the animal. The tag shown in FIG. 1 is provided with indicia 14 by printing, embossing or engraving. The reservoir 12 is an adhesive bandage provided with a gauze containing the active ingredient, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, and is affixed by being wrapped upon itself at the neck portion 4.
FIG. 2 is a view of the reverse side of the device 8 shown in FIG. 1. The reservoir 12 is provided with apertures 16 to allow the active agent to pass from the gauze through to the surface of the reservoir where it is then distributed over the animal. In the course of scratching and licking itself as well as coming into contact with other animals, minute but effective amounts of the active ingredient will rub off from the device and be deposited over the animal.
FIG. 3 depicts a unmounted reservoir 18 of the invention constructed of a thin sheet of flexible polymer provided with a layer of a pressure sensitive adhesive onto which has been placed a depository 20 of the active ingredient, e.g. a cotton gauze soaked in an insecticide. The reservoir is provided with two end tabs 22 to affix the reservoir to itself around the animal tag and a center tab 24 which may be used to protect the depository 20 from moisture, sunlight or other elements which may degrade or dilute the active ingredient. After the active ingredient is in place in depository 20, the center tab 24 may be drawn up by its leading edge 26 and wrapped around the portion of the reservoir on which the depository is carried as shown in FIG. 4. The active ingredient will then migrate through the polymer sheet or through apertures punched in the reservoir to become gradually available on the reverse side of the reservoir shown in FIG. 3. The sustained release of the active ingredient may also be achieved by other means such as covering the depository 20 with a metal foil through which the active ingredient cannot migrate and allowing it to migrate through the polymer sheeting or holes punched therein. Alternatively, after the leading edge 26 has been drawn up and around the reservoir, the active ingredient can simply be allowed to seep out of the depository through the small fissures which will be present at the edges of the tape, e.g. at the joining of the center tab 24 to the reservoir. If the center tab 24 is not present or is shorter than that shown in FIG. 3, holes may be prepunched in the reservoir under the depository 20 to provide a pathway for the active ingredient. Thus, an example of a suitable reservoir for use in the invention is a Band-Aid adhesive bandage onto the gauze portion of which may be deposited an active ingredient.
FIG. 4 depicts the reservoir of FIG. 3 after being readied for deployment. Reservoir 28 of the invention can be secured to an animal tag as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 after the leading edge 26 of the center tab, as shown in FIG. 3, has been drawn up and around the reservoir for protection of the depository. When the reservoir 28 is bent it may be secured by the pressure sensitive adhesive to itself by either bringing an adhesive surface of one end tab into contact with the non-adhesive back of the other end tab, the result being shown in FIG. 1, or the two adhesive faces of the end tabs may be adhered to each other. In the first case, the reservoir may also be adhered to the tag itself since only one adhesive face of an end tab will have been used to secure the reservoir to itself.
FIG. 5 depicts a laminated or single layer solid polymeric strip 30 which is impregnated with an active ingredient and which may be deployed as a reservoir surrounding a portion of an animal tag according to the invention. Such single- or multi-layered strips are set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 3,705,938 as described above.
FIG. 6 shows a self-tieing active ingredient reservoir 32 according to the invention. The reservoir 32 may be of a resilient polymeric material with active ingredient present in a depository which is smaller than the reservoir, as in the depository of FIG. 3, or it may be coextensive with the reservoir, as the reservoir of FIG. 5. In the latter, the active ingredient is homogenously dispersed throughout the polymeric matrix or is present in one or more layers of a laminate and migrates to the reservoir surface to give sustained release of the active ingredient. To deploy the reservoir of FIG. 6, it is bent around a neck portion of an animal tag and one or more of the barbed arrowhead-shaped protuberances 34 are inserted through the aperture 36 to encircle a portion of the animal tag. The shape and number of the arrowhead protuberances 34 may be varied considerably as long as the effect is to allow the reservoir to encircle the animal tag and be secured to itself in view of the fact that one or more parts of the reservoir are pulled through an aperture in the reservoir but cannot be easily pulled back out.
The reservoir of the invention, in addition to being deployed on an animal tag, may be used in association with poultry cages to combat pests such as the Northern fowl mite. In particular, one or more reservoirs may be placed on the bottom or side of a poultry cage and the random motions of the bird about the cage will insure some contact with the reservoir to effect control of the mites. The reservoir may be wrapped around two adjacent grid wires of the cage or it may be attached to a flat and narrow rigid strip of material which can be made of wood, metal, plastic or the like, e.g. a wooden tongue depressor or a large pair of tweezers. The strip with reservoir attached can then be readily inserted into the cage and withdrawn when desired, e.g. when the active ingredient has been depleted or its use is no longer required. When a large pair of tweezers is used, one reservoir can be attached to each tip and the tweezers can be inserted into two cages with the same motion, i.e. one tip into one cage and the other into the adjacent poultry cage, resulting in a significant advantage in time spent by the poultry manager.
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This paper studies recent findings of business and tax administration surveys on the scope and causes of corruption in tax administration in Bulgaria in the context of the theoretical models and empirical tests of corruption and evasion. It is an attempt to shift the current policy focus on sanctions and brakes to positive incentives. It studies the specific demand and supply-side drivers of corruption for the two broad categories of corruption services supplied by the tax administration: those, related to tax evasion and those, related to preferential treatment of taxpayers. On these grounds it draws some policy implications on the opportunities and limitations of the use of incentives, especially wage and bonus incentives in the fight against corruption in tax administration.
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MOG's Monthly Average Users Grow 264% in October 2011
One Month After Launching Facebook Integration MOG Shows Significant Growth Well Beyond That of Other Music Subscription Services
Nov 01, 2011, 16:33 ET from MOG Inc.
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MOG® today announced that its monthly average users have reached 160,000, up 264% for the month of October. This growth follows the launch of MOG's Facebook Integration at the end of September, and is significantly greater than the rate of growth of other music subscription services also integrated with Facebook Platform.
In September, MOG launched a free version of its award-winning, on-demand music service giving music lovers instant access through Facebook to MOG's entire catalog of over 13 million songs, nearly everything you'd find in popular music download stores, making it the easiest way to enjoy music with no installable client application and no credit card needed. The exposure to Facebook's over 800 million active users has spurred huge growth, and if these rates continue, it is projected that MOG could have over two million monthly users by the end of 2011.
"This is the best distribution platform we've ever had," said David Hyman, CEO and Founder of MOG. "Listening to music is a social experience and integrating MOG with Facebook has allowed listeners to share the experience, and our service, with their entire social network. We have a great product and as more and more people continue to discover MOG online, we expect our numbers to continue to grow exponentially."
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Headquartered in Berkeley, California, MOG Inc. investors include Menlo Ventures, Balderton Capital, Simon Equity Partners, Universal Music Group, Sony Music and serial entrepreneur, Scott Jones. Grammy-winning record producer, Rick Rubin, named by Time Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the world," is a member of MOG's Board of Directors.
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It was an offer I couldn't refuse. To announce its 2007 Samuel Adams American Homebrew Challenge, the Boston Beer Co. wanted to send Cigar Aficionado a home brewing kit, complete with equipment needed to make some suds of our own.
A few days later, a box of supplies arrived. The next step was telling my better half that I was turning the apartment into a brewery. The look in her eyes said, "Oh great. There isn't enough beer stocked in the fridge that he has to start making his own."
I also had to deal with something every beer-curious male must inevitably face: coming out of the closet. There's a fine line between being a beer drinker and being a full-on beer geek, and I was walking it. Was I ready to stop living a lie? What would my friends think? Would I be accepted? It is beer after all, right?
After a weekend of personal reflection and pints aplenty, and knowing I had the support and encouragement from friends and colleagues, I decided to go through with it. I was ready to begin a new life as a homebrewer.
Getting Started
Looking back on it now, getting started was the most difficult part of the whole process. I laid out all of the materials -- about two-dozen items -- on my kitchen table and stared blankly. I had attempted just-add-water beer-in-a-bag once in college, but this was a different animal, and it dawned on me that I might be in over my head. It also dawned on me that if I really wanted some beer, why not walk up to the corner store and drop a few bucks on a cold six-pack of my choice?
Not knowing where to start, I researched homebrewing techniques and procedures. I read through Charlie Papazian's Complete Guide to Homebrewing and John Palmer's How to Brew. I watched a DVD called the Art of Homebrewing by Jim Koch, the founder and brewer of Samuel Adams, and scoured the Internet for everything I could on the subject. But I still wasn't sure of myself because I was overloaded with information. Everyone seemed to have differing thoughts and theories on what to do and what not to do, why you should do it, when you should do it and how long you should do it for.
In the end, I realized it was going to be trial by fire. So with bits and pieces from all my research, and some apprehension, I put on my beer apron, cracked a cold one, and set off to make my first ale, remembering Papazian's formula: "Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew."
Brew Day
The advice stressed most was sanitizing the equipment to prevent bacteria from spoiling the beer. That means every piece of equipment that was going to come in contact with the beer -- from the fermenter (a 6-gallon plastic bucket) and the utensils down to the bottles and the bottle caps -- had to be sanitized. This isn't the most enjoyable part of the process to be sure, but knowing it could mean the difference between potable beer and beer you pour down the drain was reason enough to make me take it seriously. To sanitize my equipment, I mixed 1 tablespoon of household bleach in five gallons of boiled water and soaked everything for 20 minutes. When it was time to use a specific item, such as the strainer or the thermometer, I rinsed it in boiled water that had been cooled.
|The wort cooling in the sink
With the sanitation complete, I was ready for the first big step: the boil. I brought 2.5 gallons of spring water to a boil in a lobster pot and added 3.3 pounds of dark malt extract, stirring it continuously until the extract dissolved. I then added 1 pound of Muntor's crushed crystal two-row dried barley malt and 1.5 ounces of Cascade hops pellets. Boiling these ingredients gives the beer its bitterness, flavor and aroma, and allows their proteins to coagulate so they can be strained off later. In brewing terms, this liquid is called the wort.
After boiling the wort for 40 minutes -- stirring it often to avoid scorching -- it was time to add the finishing hops. (The first hops addition is referred to as bittering hops.) I used 1.5 ounces of Fuggles hops pellets. While most of the alpha acids of the bittering hops are boiled off, adding finishing hops late in the boil increases the beer's hop flavor and aroma. At this point, I let the wort boil for 20 more minutes.
With the boil complete, the next step was cooling the wort before adding it to the fermenter. I wanted it 80 degrees and I wanted to do it as quickly as possible to avoid any bacteria from tainting it. To expedite things, I placed the pot in my kitchen sink and filled it with ice and water.
In the meantime, I prepared the most important ingredient: the yeast. Yeast is critical to the fermentation and what it does, in short, is metabolize the sugars that are extracted from the grains during the boil, turning them into alcohol and carbon dioxide. I used dry top-fermenting yeast, used to make ale (as opposed to bottom-fermenting yeast used to make lager) and rehydrated it in one cup of warm, pre-boiled water in a sanitized Mason jar for 15 minutes. I then proofed the yeast to make sure it was alive by adding one teaspoon of honey.
With the wort sufficiently cooled by the ice bath (I used a sanitized thermometer to make sure it was 80 degrees), I added it to the fermenter, which contained 2.5 gallons of pre-boiled spring water added prior to the boil, using a sanitized metal strainer. After letting it settle for 20 minutes, I added the yeast, sealed the fermenter and plugged it with an airlock.
Now it was time to wait and hope that all this work would result in a half way decent beer. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much, but I was feeling more comfortable in my beer apron and in my beer brewing ability.
The Waiting
There are differing opinions about how long the wort should remain in the fermenter. Some say let it rest one week before transferring it to a secondary fermenter, which is called racking. (Racking reduces sediment and allows for a more complete fermentation as it leaves the inactive yeast behind and invigorates the active yeast.) Others say two weeks. Others yet say don't transfer it at all, especially if you're a first time brewer, as the chances of infecting your beer with bacteria is high. Call me a wussy, but I chose the latter.
I let the fermenter sit for exactly three weeks in a shaded area and for the most part kept its temperature between the recommended 70 and 75 degrees. It was the beginning of June, however, so I was naturally worried that the beer might spoil. Temperatures in my apartment rose to 80 degrees on a few occasions, but only for short periods.
As the bottling day approached, one thing occurred to me. I hadn't been saving any bottles. For approximately five gallons of beer I needed 48 bottles. One person suggested going down to the local redemption center. Instead, I bought two cases and challenged myself to systematically drink them. As much as I was enjoying my new identity as a homebrewing beer geek, it was time to re-embrace the beer drinker in me.
Bottling Day
At this stage, the sanitation laws of homebrewing are again of the utmost importance. I boiled several gallons of water, added a tablespoon or so of bleach and let the caps and bottles sit in it for a good 30 minutes. I also sanitized the siphon, which I needed to get the beer from the fermenter to the bottles. On the kitchen floor I laid down several beach towels as I was expecting this step to get messy.
Before bottling, one more step was necessary: adding primer, which gives the beer its carbonation once it's bottled. To do this, I boiled 3/4 cup of priming sugar with 2 cups of water. I let it cool, then gently added it to the fermenter trying my best not to stir up any lingering sediment and let it sit for 30 minutes.
With the bottles, caps and siphon sanitized, I took a deep breath and was off. I began filling the longneck bottles to about an inch from the top. The beer was flowing and plenty of it was spraying on the kitchen floor and on myself (giving my wife another reason to say I smell like a brewery). I filled 30 bottles (I didn't make it through both cases in three days) then capped them. My first homebrew was almost finished.
At this point, I took my first taste. The hoppy aroma was very enticing. It was amber in color and had a cloudy appearance, but tasted flat and thin. There was a hoppy character to it, and the dried malt flavors were obvious. While it looked good and there were some aspects to its taste that gave me hope, I was still wary.
I kept the bottles in a cool, shaded place for one week, when I couldn't resist another taste. This time, the carbonation was better and the conditioning added some body to the beer, but the character was still a bit thin. The flavors were more balanced, however, and my initial concerns were suddenly gone. For the first time, I knew I had a beer that was not only drinkable, but also tasted pretty good. My transformation from beer drinker to full on beer geek was nearly complete.
With the July heat starting to bear down, I decided to move the beer to the refrigerator. I was advised to keep it room temperature for two, but the rising heat forced me to act. A week later, I tried the beer for the third time. A smile came to my face. It was good enough to pass out to a few friends and when I did they agreed that it was indeed beer and, better yet, it was beer you could drink. My hopes were up. Now for the last hurdle.
Judgment Day
Jim Koch has been to the Cigar Aficionado offices several times, but on this occasion I was especially excited and a little nervous too. He arrived to lead us through a tasting of the 2007 bottling of his Sam Adam's Utopias, but before we got into it, I presented him with my homebrew. He was genuinely happy to see that I had attempted what he has been so successful at, and immediately cracked one open. His first impression was encouraging. From the aroma, he was surprised that it was my first homebrew. He noted hops, citrus and a flowery note.
|Jim Koch (left) sharing a bottle of his Utopias with the author/beer geek, who returned the favor with a bottle of his own home brew.
Then came his first sip and it was back down to earth for this homebrewer. It wasn't that it tasted bad, in fact, he said, it tasted very good compared to thousands of homebrews he'd sampled in the past, just that it was lacking carbonation. He questioned if I had properly sealed the caps as he felt gas might have escaped. It should be more carbonated, he said, and suggested that adding an extra teaspoon of priming sugar could help, but most likely it was because I hadn't crimped the bottle caps tight enough.
Damn. I was positive those caps were on as secure as they could be. Oh well, I was happy with the results. Plus, there's Papazian's formula again. "Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew." So I did. My own.
The Aftermath
So am I a certified beer geek now? I don't feel like I am -- at least not completely -- but I am out of the closet, for once you make one homebrew, it's like you're forever painted with that brush. The truth is, I feel liberated. I'm also encouraged. Not one person who drank my beer croaked and no one was forced to bow down to the porcelain god. Even Jim Koch had a few good things to say.
In the end, I don't know when I'll brew my next beer, but I definitely will. In the meantime, I have a new appreciation for beer and the process of brewing those sweet, sweet suds.


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Argumentative papers are sometimes assigned to students at the end of a term or semester to test their research, debate, analytical skills-all of which are needed to compile a well-crafted argumentative paper. As compared to other assignments, the argumentative paper allows a student to showcase key examination techniques as well as demonstrate their overall insight into the best means of pushing and arguing a particular statement or claim. Likewise, satisfying this goal also involves heavy research efforts and a flawless presentation of support evidences.
Some of the key components of
an argumentative paper
are a (1) clear and concise thesis statement,(2) a firm position on an issue, and (3) strong supportive evidences to convince the reader to adopt the position of the author.
Presentation aids such as powerpoint can be very helpful and advantageous to a presenter if implemented properly. The main issues to consider in presenting with this method are
(a) deciding how to use the program as an aid (please see below for details) (b) extracting the necessary points from the paper to present a clear argument (c) and effectively presenting the information onto slides to ensure that the information is easily understood and received by the audience.
So how can I use the powerpoint program in my presentation?
This may seem like a peculiar question, but an important factor that needs to be thoroughly understood by students is that;
when utilizing powerpoint, the slides provided by the program are only meant to aid you in delivering your presentation and should not actually be your presentation.
With that said, the first step to using the program as an aid is to figure out which role the slides will play in your presentation.
Presentation slides may...
Be used to outline the information that you plan to cover in your speech
Highlight major points and provide brief descriptions and examples
Be used as a visual aid by displaying pictures, charts, tables, or graphs to the audience
Combine two or more of the above mentioned uses
In most cases, students will choose # 4, which is to combine between several of the different uses mentioned. This may be optimal in certain situations where the audience can benefit from visual aids as well as brief descriptions and explanations of the points being discussed. And as with any presentation, the characteristics and needs of the audience also need to be taken into consideration when compiling presentation materials.
For review purposes, since the audience is likely to be other students and or professors, the pressing need for note taking, for instance, is not present. Therefore in situations such as this the presenter may find it more beneficial to share very short and brief slides (similar to an outline) along with relevant and useful graphics rather than giving more detailed descriptions of topics found in some educational presentations.
Extraction: Making slides out of your argumentative paper
After organizing your presentation method, to help you identify exactly what information needs to be placed on each slide it may be beneficial to revisit the main the purpose of an argumentative paper. An argumentative paper, more than anything else, seeks to persuade (quite aggressively) the reader into accepting and adapting the position held by the writer. In doing this one of the most powerful weapons the writer has is his or her evidential support (*and due to this the research involved in developing such an essay is extremely important).
So during a presentation, in order to leave your audience positively convinced about your position, each
powerpoint slide
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A sample breakdown of slides for an argumentative paper
*Slide 1:
A comprehensive topic sentence that gives clear and substantial information.
For instance, a sample sentence may be: 'A significant amount of the population is addicted to and dependent upon technological devices such as cell phones and laptop computers.'
*Slide 2:
An impressive statistical figure to support the topic sentence.
*Slide 3:
1-2 lines introducing the first point of the argument.
For instance, an author could write about 'the recent surge of smart phones on the market and its impact on people's daily lives.'
*Slide 4:
Support the first point with a graphic (it could be a picture of a smartphone, or a table showing an increase in android and smartphone sales in the past 3 years)
*Slide 5:
Connect the point made in slide 3 to the overall topic sentence mentioned in slide 1 (in order to show a relationship amongst the ideas.)
*Repeat steps 3-4 as needed making changes to the support evidence that was used for slide 4 as deemed necessary.
Now that you have an idea of what information needs to be extracted for each slide the final and most important aspect of the powerpoint presentation is effectively displaying your notes onto each slide.
Creating slides that are easy to understand and comprehend
Visually appealing slides are a significant part of effectively utilizing the powerpoint program. Cluttered, distracting, and poorly written slides will not only be hard on the reader but may also take away from your research by belittling and trivializing some of the fine conclusions that were gathered. With an argumentative paper especially, presentation is very important. To act as a proper persuasive and convincing tool, an audience should feel that the presenter is qualified and knowledgeable of the topic being discussed-and clean and effective slides will aid in accomplishing this goal.
Some helpful tips for creating powerpoint slides:
Place one idea per slide and avoid writing more than a couple of lines
Use strong contrasting colors that will be easy to read such as blue on white
Aim for consistency when using fonts, colors, and sizes
Avoid distracting templates and graphics
In addition to the above tips, its also worth mentioning that the presenter should prepare other materials to add variety and interest to the presentation such as handouts or physical samples. Likewise, notecards or an outline should also be prepared beforehand to assist in speech-making rather than relying on powerpoint slides for critical information.
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While working in photoshop I often pick up some new tricks each and every time. But then I also have some common "rules" that have proved very helpful time and time again. I would like to share some of them with you:)
Some random but hopefully useful photoshop tips:
*Always use layers, that way you can erase and delate what you aren't happy with. This is especielly important when painting or working with manipulation.
*Make two layers of the same picture. One is your experiment layer, one is the normal one where you do your usual adjustments. On the experiment layer you can go wild and try new things. If you don't like it, erase it, try something else. You will still have your usual layer underneath and untouched. Don't be afraid to try something new, even if it is just in a subtle way. Photoshop offers limitless chances to explore and create.
* SAVE all the time. You never know when your computer will decide to try to haunt your soul.
* The smudge tool can be your best friend and also your worst enemy. It's extremely useful when working with manipulations, it can smooth AND create skin, hair, textures, everything. It can make everything look much more realistic. But when overdone it can look terrible. Just like the blur tool.
* Rotate the canvas (Image, rotate canvas) from time to time. This is the most useful when painting. By rotating everything you're working on you can view it from a completely new perspective.
* Experiment with different textures. A texture can often give a completely different feel to a picture. It can spice up a photograph and add feeling to a manipulation.
* Noisy pictures can take all the focus away from what's important, always reduce the noise if needed but don't overdo it.
* A quick tip to add some drama in your picture and focus to where it belongs is to slightly burn the edges and surrondings of the picture.
* When adding manipulation in your pictures ALWAYS make sure that the elements "fit" including with color tones, light and temperature.
* By having your history pallette open and on the side of your picture it's very quick to go back and forward between steps. I always use this instead of the keyboard, it just feels easier to me.
* Gradients in photoshop seem to be very underrated. They can be used in a very subtle way and often add that extra something to your art.
* When creating light and shadows be VERY careful to not "bleach" your picture or darken it too much in places you don't want it. It needs to keep a harmony and realism and add to your art, not destroy it.
* Investing in one great filter can often be a good idea. And there's thousands of free ones and most shareware offer a trial for you to try out. If you get your hands on a really good filter it can lift your picture to new heights. I will be writing a filter guide as a blog very soon:) I tried out most of the filters on the market, both shareware and freeware.
*Unless you're going for a surrealistic feeling you need to use your effects in a sparse way. Coloring, lightning, filters. If realism is your goal then stick to some subtle corrections. Using the curves only can sometimes be enough. When knowing how to use the curves properly you can create amazing efects with this one tool. Some simple cropping can also be enough to really bring out your picture and the focus of it.
* When resizing something to be smaller you often need to give it some sharpness back.
* "Fade" (edit, fade) is something I use a lot. If I for exemple sharpen my image and then feel like I overdid it I go there and simply bring the effect down. It's quick and easy.
* Experiment with blend modes. Also remember to play with opacity, that way you can create subtle and even multiply effects without overdoing the effect.
* Selective coloring does not have to mean a black and white picture with a few color elements. It can mean that you simply enhance part of the color of the picture and possibly lower the saturation at the rest. Image-adjusments-selective color is very useful for this.
*When retouching a picture, the skin especially, do NOT overdo it. You don't want the plastic hollywood look, and you do not want your models to look like dolls. Work on a new layer so that you can bring in part of your original layer in the end for a realistic effect. I often use a very low strength on the smudge tool and follow the shape of the face as I gently smudge some imperfections away on a different layer. After that I ALWAYS lower the opacity..
* Powerful and expressive eyes can make an entire picture. To simply enhance them with the dodge and burn tools slightly (including whitening the whites in the eyes and darken the pupils) can be enough. Possibly use the sponge tool to add some saturation.
Hope something could be useful! Happy creating!:D
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From: "Patricia Junkin" <>
Subject: Re: Eudo la Zouche
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 13:01:02 -0500
>From: "Chris Phillips" <>
>Subject: Re: Eudo la Zouche
>Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2002, 5:29 AM
> Patricia Junkin wrote:
>> 1264 and 1289 there is a release by Richard le Swein of Swithelund, to
>> Margaret de Ferr[ariis], countess of Derby, Ellen la Zuche, Alexander
> Comyn,
>> earl of Bouchan, and Elizabeth his wife, the heirs of Roger de Quency,
> late
>> earl of Winchester......
> ...
>> 1299 when Milicent dies she is holding land of including a park held of
> John
>> Comyn, earl of Boghan, one of the heirs of Roger de Quyncy.....
> It's interesting to see Millicent holding lands of one of the de Quency
> heirs. These heirs represented the three daughters of Roger de Quency, Earl
> of Winchester (d.1264): Margaret, who married William de Ferrers, Earl of
> Derby, Elizabeth, who married Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and Ellen,
> who married Sir Alan la Zouche.
> So in that first extract, Ellen is the same who married Sir Alan la Zouche,
> the elder brother of Eon/Eudo, according to CP. (I think it must be dated
> before 1280/1, when Margaret died, and presumably after 1270, when Ellen's
> husband Alan died, or else he would be mentioned, as Alexander is.)
> If Millicent had been holding former Quency lands as a tenant of the
> Zouches, I should have thought that was a pretty strong indicator that the
> Eon who married Millicent was a son, not a brother of Alan (and therefore
> that the references in the 1250s and 1260s would be to his uncle, Alan's
> younger brother, as he is identified in one place).
> But I can't work out how Millicent would come to hold de Quency lands as a
> tenant of the Comyns, rather than the Zouches. Maybe it would be worth a
> closer look at how the lands descended - do you have the name of the place
> where they lay?
IN the IPM 1273 of George de Cantilupo, his heirs are: Milsanda the wife of
Eudo la Zuche and Joan de Hastings, w/o Henry Hastings and her son John
[underage]...he held Totnes in Devon by reason of pourparty of the lands &c
which were of William de Brewosa.. Haringworth in Northants. Berewyk in
Somerset....his birth was 1251 and he was born on the death of his
grandfather William.
According to Langston and Buck in Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor
Charlemagne's Descendants, Eudo did not die until 1295 which leaves the
possibility that the 1279 death date ascribed is the death date of Eudo, son
of Roger and Margaret Bisset.
The Inq. of Millicent de Cantilupe de Monte Alto de la Zouche was taken 27
Edw. I (1299) naming her son William, age 22, her heir, with lands in
Beston and
Leteburn and
Mentmore in Bedford; lands in
Feldhamme and Wodehamme, Bucks.
Calstone and Calne in Wilts.;
Ruyton, Bulkynton, Wybytoft, Wolfareshull, including a park held of John
Comyn, earl of Boghan, one of the heirs of Roger de Quyncy in Warwick;
[Sweins may also have had some part in Bulkyngton]
Odecomb in Somerset,
Brnfield [Braunfield] and Little Houghton in N'hants.;
Totnes, Lodeswell, Cornworthy, Dertemere in Devon;
Haryngsworth in Nhants; and,
Thorp Everard, Buscby, Belgrave and lands in Leicester.
Obtained as her pourparty
the manors of Haryngsworth and Bulwick, Northants, Totnes, Devon and
considerable estates in Beds. Som. and Wilts.
In 1304 Roger la Zouch deceased held the manor of Lubbesthorpe of William la
Zouch by the service of the third part of a knight¹s fee; Roger la Zouch,
son and heir of the foresaid Roger was then aged 11 [b. 1268]. IPM 7 Edw I
Father is Roger b. pro. 1240-50 making it impossible for him to be the son
of Eudo and Millicent so how then could he have come to Lubesthorpe. Was he
holding it of William, Eudo's son? If so, why?
Still working on the origins of the land.
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Craig Maclean - his answer to our question as to whether it's noisy in a two man bobsleigh;
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What's the former World Team Sprint gold medallist and Individual Sprint silver medallist doing in a bobsleigh? Read on!
How did you get involved in bobsleighing, Craig?
"Through my agent; the British Bobsleigh Association approached the BBC to do a programme about the sport. There's no funding at all for bobsleighing and unless you're in the forces it's very difficult to get supported as an athlete to do it.
"The idea was to get athletes from other sports into bobsleighs; see how they perform and generate interest. I was in an ideal position where my career was moving to another phase and it didn't matter too much if I picked up an injury."
Was your last race the British Champs?
"No, I rode the World Cup at the end of October. I was happy with my 200 qualifying time but I got relegated in the keirin and cut-up in the sprint - it was a crap way to go out, an anti-climax."
Do you still plan to get involved with the para Olympians?
"That's the plan, but before I can compete at Worlds level with them I have to be out of competition from the GB or an Elite team for a period of 24 months and 36 months before I can compete in the Olympics. I'll be riding the tandem kilo and sprint - I'm looking forward to it."
So you're not going to be a full time bob sleigher for two years?
"No, it was a one off, two week thing, the BBA were very keen for me to come back, but the fact that they aren't funded shows - it's very amateur compared to the way things are at British Cycling.
"I hope to be funded for the next 24 months by British Cycling and even though I'm out of competition, I still have to achieve the target times in training. Jason Queally is in exactly the same situation.":
How many man-bob was it?
"Originally it was to be four-man and I was going to be trained to steer, but the four-man proved too dangerous - it's not that it's harder to steer, it's just that it's much more difficult to correct mistakes. We all had a go at steering, it's good fun and at least you can see where you're going!"
It must be noisy?
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"But it's not new to me, I coached Vicki Pendleton when she won her first World Sprint title."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio- An ex-Marine identified five years after risking his life to save two police officers at the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks says he deserves no special recognition.
"I just feel privileged to have been able to help," Jason Thomas told hundreds of people gathered Wednesday to honor him at the Ohio Supreme Court, where he now works as a security officer. He said many other first- and second-responders at ground zero, including many who lost their lives, were more worthy of being singled out.
Thomas, 32, was living on New York's Long Island at the time of the 2001 attacks. When he heard the news, he skipped his criminal justice class, grabbed his Marine uniform and headed for the twin towers to help.
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My name is Philip and I listen to jam band music. I'd say I'm primarily a Phish fan, though I'm also a big fan of the Grateful Dead and also enjoy other types of jam band music - as well as lots of non-jam band sounds. On top of that, I'm a bit of a hi-fi audio geek and have been interested in high-resolution, high bit-rate music for years now.
With this blog I intend to explore the world of high-resolution music. To start, I'll dig into the FLAC HD downloads of live shows offered by Phish, but I'll also be looking into live recordings on etree.org and looking around for more high-res recordings wherever I can find them, including the wide variety offered by HD Tracks - we're not going to limit things to much.
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The HM-801 tops out at 24-bit/96kHz, which is what the Phish FLAC HD downloads deliver. Compared to the 16-bit/44.1kHz regular FLAC downloads, the FLAC HD files deliver more dynamic range and detail; each instrument retains more of its natural character, making it easier to hear the subtleties of multiple instruments simultaneously. While all music listening benefits from the increased range, in a jamming situation - such as you'll encounter listening to Phish, where the band members are reacting to one another and more than one is improvising at the same time - being able to hear each player as clearly as possible is essential to realizing the essence of the music.
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An Israeli who was touring India with her family was killed Friday afternoon in a car accident in the northern state of Punjab.
Dina Hoshea, 49, of Carmiel, was traveling with her husband and two children, both in their 20s, in a car driven by a local man, which flipped over for reasons as yet unknown. Hoshea's husband and children were taken to a local hospital.
Hoshea was principal of Hashahar, a school in Carmiel for children with learning disabilities. She and her husband, together with their son, flew to India on Thursday to meet up with the elder daughter, who has been traveling in India since October.
Irit Shneor, Israeli consul in New Delhi, spoke to the husband after the accident but he was in shock and unable to provide details about what happened. She arrived at the hospital yesterday morning and is coordinating the transfer of Hoshea's body for burial in Israel with local authorities.
Irit Ron, a guidance counselor at Hashahar, said that she and the faculty at the school were shocked by news of Hoshea's sudden death. Ron said Hoshea was a dedicated principal and an excellent educator who loved her work and was beloved by the entire school.
Meanwhile, a search-and-rescue operation was launched on Friday afternoon for an Israeli man touring Laos whose kayak overturned on the Mekong River. Avner Bardugo, 25, of Ramat Yishai, was with his Israeli traveling companion, who was recovered after their kayak hit a rock and capsized.
Bardugo is a captain in the Israel Air Force. He went on leave for the trip, which began in early July and was scheduled to end six weeks later.
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