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|25 Ene 1983
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|21 Feb 1980
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|10 Mar 1977
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|Thomas Sullivan, James E. Braddock
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This is a continuation-in-part of our application Ser. No. 3,049 filed Jan. 12, 1979, which was itself a contination-in-part of our application Ser. No. 884,270 filed Mar. 7, 1978, and which are both abandoned.
This invention relates to transportation systems in which vehicles travel through tunnels formed by boring in the earth or by cutting trenches in the earth and subsequently covering them, and more especially, though not exclusively, to mass-transmit and other railroad systems; it also relates to electric cables that are designed specifically for use therein.
Large quantities of electric cable are installed in such systems for such purposes as signalling, trackside communication, track-to-train communication (radiating cables), provision of traction current, and auxiliary power circuits for the operation of route switches and other trackside equipment, station lighting, etc. For some of these purposes incombustible cables with compacted mineral insulation could be used, but for most the use of polymeric material in the insulation or jacket or both is a practical necessity. There is always some risk that polymeric materials, even though formulated for enhanced flame retardance, will burn if pre-heated to a high temperature by an external source, such as an external fire, with the risks that: (i) in certain circumstances fire may be transmitted along cable runs through the tunnels to other parts of the system; (ii) dense smoke may be generated; and (iii) since PVC and/or other halogen-containing materials are commonly present toxic and corrosive fumes (such as hydrogen chloride gas and/or hydrochloric acid droplets) may be produced. Obviously these risks must be minimised in the interest of the safety and comfort of passengers and the reliable and uninterrupted operation of the system.
Each of these risks, considered separately, can be avoided or at least contained by conventional formulation techniques, but the requirements are in conflict because most flame-retardant additives that are effective in halogen-free polymers themselves contain halogen and so contribute seriously to the hazard of toxic and corrosive fumes if the cables are burned, and there is a tendency for low-flammibility polymer compositions to smoulder and generate dense smoke when they do burn. Furthermore, improvements in characteristics that reduce fire hazards almost always do so at the expense of the mechanical and/or electrical properties of the composition.
It is an object of the invention to provide a cable for use in transportation systems that is halogen free, has adequate mechanical and electrical properties and combines a high oxygen index (low flammability) with the characteristic of producing, when burned under typical fire conditions, little visible smoke and no major quantity of toxic or corrosive fumes. The tunnels of a transportation system comprise a unique environment for the installation of electric cables, since they are subject neither to the chemical and mechanical effects of soil as are cables buried in the earth, nor to the effects of temperature extremes, sunlight, weather, abrasion or impact generally encountered above ground level. Accordingly they call for cables differently-optimised compared with those for other environments.
Joyce A. North et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 3,922,442 issued Nov. 25, 1975, have described uniinsulation compounds for electric cables based on copolymers of ethylene with vinyl acetate and containing large amounts of hydrated alumina and minor but essential amounts of silane. The experimental basis for North et al.'s teaching appears to be restricted to the use of plastic (non-rubbery) copolymers with either 17 or 28% vinyl acetate and filler levels up to 150 phr (parts per hundred of polymer). Within this range the applicants have no reason to doubt the teaching of North et al.; we have however worked with rubbery polymers with substantially more than 28% vinyl acetate and with higher filler loadings, and have found the teaching of the patent completely inaccurate and misleading in its references to these ranges.
Firstly, we have found that the use of the very expensive silane ingredient is not merely inessential but positively harmful when the polymer contains over 28% vinyl acetate; it has no significant effect on the compatibility of the filler with the polymer or on fire performance, and a marginal improvement in tensile strength of the blend is outweighed by a drastic loss of elongation.
Secondly, we have found that in these rubbery, high vinyl acetate copolymers the particle size of the hydrated alumina filler is critical to obtaining a high loading and a processable mixture, in direct contradiction of the teaching of North et al.
Thirdly, we have found that a loading of 400 phr or more of filler, as proposed by North et al is impossible to achieve by a considerable margin, and that a loading significantly over 150 phr is possible only when the vinyl acetate content of the polymer is well over 28%.
Furthermore we have made two surprising discoveries. Firstly, that by using silane-free high-vinyl acetate copolymer compositions with a controlled high loading of hydrated alumina it is possible to achieve, in a halogen-free low-smoke material with adequate physical properties for transportation cables, an increase in oxygen index that is very large compared with the marginal improvement obtained by North et al. (note that the highest oxygen index achieved by them for a composition of their invention was 28, which failed even to equal their own silane-free comparison example 6 when vulcanised (see tables C and E); the non-standard test with coated wires cannot be compared with standard tests on the composition itself and is not relevant to our purposes). Secondly, we have found that when our material is used for the outer, protective layers of a transportation cable, a significant and surprising improvement in smoke emission characteristics and in some cases in fire survival as well can be obtained by interposing a very thin aromatic polyimide tape layer between two layers of the filled copolymer composition.
In accordance with one aspect of our invention, therefore, an electric cable for use in a transportation system comprises a core comprising at least one polyer-insulated conductor, a bedding layer surrounding said core, an aromatic polyimide tape layer applied closely around said bedding layer, and a jacket applied closely around said tape layer, wherein
(a) both said bedding layer and said jacket are made of a halogen-free, silane-free composition having
an oxygen index of at least 32 and up to about 50;
a tensile strength of at least 2.5 and up to 10 MN/m2 ;
an elongation at break which is at least 200 and for a cured composition up to 500% and for an uncured composition up to 1000%;
a permittivity of about 5.5-6.0;
a power factor of about 2-4%;
a volume resistivity in the region of 1011 ohm m;
and which, if burned, produces little visible smoke and no major amount of toxic or corrosive fumes and comprising by weight
20-35 parts of a rubbery ethylene-vinyl acetae copolymer comprising more than 28% and up to about 45% vinyl acetate;
optionally up to 10 parts of another halogen-free polymer;
52-75 parts of an alumina trihydrate with at least half its weight in particles with a diameter in the range 0.5-3.0 micrometer;
up to 3 parts of a lubricant selected from those fatty acids and salts thereof which are compatible with the composition; and
at least one antioxidant and optionally at least one curing agent in effective amounts not exceeding 4 parts in all; and
said aromatic tape layer comprises at least two superposed tapes.
Preferably this aromatic polyimide tape layer consists of an inner tape helically applied to the bedding layer and an outer tape longitudinally applied to the inner tape.
We have observed that the jacket is liable to adhere to the underlying polyimide tape layer, and suspect that the surprising benefit of the preferred double tape layer defined is due in part to the fact that the outer layer eliminates stress concentrations that would otherwise arise at the joints of a helical tape during the bending inherent in handling and installation of the cable, but whether or not this theory is correct we have found that the preferred tape construction of our invention is significantly better in this respect than a double helical layer with the same bedding and jacket composition.
The invention also includes a transportation system comprising at least one tunnel through which vehicles pass in operation and having electrical cables extending longitudinally through said tunnel, characterised by the fact that at least one of said electric cables comprises a core comprising at least one polymer-insulated conductor, a bedding layer surrounding said core, an aromatic polyimide tape layer applied closely around said bedding layer, and a jacket applied closely around said tape layer, wherein
(a) both said bedding layer and said jacket are made of a halogen-free, silane-free composition having
an oxygen index of at least 32 and up to about 50;
a tensile strength of at least 2.5 and up to 10 MN/m2 ;
an elongation at break which is at least 200 and for a cured composition up to 500% and for an uncured composition up to 1000%;
a permittivity of about 5.5-60;
a power factor of about 2-4%;
a volume resistivity in the region of 1011 ohm m;
and which, if burned, produces little visible smoke and no major amount of toxic or corrosive fumes and comprising by weight
20-35 parts of a rubbery ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer comprising more than 28% and up to about 45% vinyl acetate;
optionally up to 10 parts of another halogen-free polymer;
52-75 parts of an alumina trihydrate with at least half its weight in particles with a diameter in the range 0.5-3.0 micrometer;
up to 3 parts of a lubricant selected from those fatty acids and salts thereof which are compatible with the composition; and
at least one antioxidant and optionally at least one curing agent in effective amounts not exeeding 4 parts in all; and
said aromatic type layer comprises at least two superposed tapes.
Preferably the insulation, like the bedding and the jacket, is of halogen-free material.
If there is more than one conductor one (or exceptionally more than one but not all) of them may be bare.
The insulation is preferably of curable, mineral-filled, plasticised EPR or EPDM composition. Preferably the weight of mineral filler is not in any instance more than 55% of the whole insulating composition. The insulation may alternatively be suitable conventional compositions based on other halogen-free polymers, such as cross-linked polyethylene, silicone rubber or on compatible mixtures of any of these polymers.
In the bedding layer and the jacket, the vinyl acetate content of the copolymer is preferably at least 35%, and a content of 40% is considered best. The optional addition of a small amount of another suitably-chosen halogen-free polymer, such as a selected polyethylene or an EPR or EPDM improves toughness without serious degradation of fire performance. The proportion of the various ingredients, within the ranges defined, will be chosen to obtain the desired balance of properties, depending on the characteristics of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (or of each of the polymers) and the particle size distribution of the hydrated alumina.
Preferably polyimide tapes are those sold by E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. under the trademark "Kapton H", which are understood to consist essentially of the polymeric pyromellitimide of p, p' diamno diphenyl ether. Within the commercially-available range, thickness is not critical; good results have been obtained with tapes about 0.08 mm, 0.05 mm, and 0.03 mm thick.
For some types of cable additional components of a conventional kind, for example wire or tape armour and/or a metal sheath, may be included, for example between the parts of a sub-divided bedding layer and/or between the parts of a sub-divided sheath.
FIG. 1 is a cut-away diagram of one cable construction in accordance with the invention, and
FIG. 2 is a diagram of a mass-transit system that can use the cable of FIG. 1.
The cable of FIG. 1 is a railroad signalling cable with a core 1 made up of any required number of pairs of insulated conductors, a bedding layer 2, a first aromatic polyimide tape 3 applied helically with its edges closely abutted, a second aromatic polyimide tape 4 applied longitudinally with its edges overlapped; anda jacket 5. Further details are given in the Examples below.
The mass-transit system of FIG. 2 comprises a tunnel 6 through which a train 7 or other vehicle runs. The cable of FIG. 1, reference 8, is used to connect signalling equipment 9 to a control center 10. Other cables 11, such as a radiating cable for providing communication between the control center and the vehicle using an antenna coil 12 and transceiver 13 may be present; these are preferably also cables within the scope of this application (though for the radiating cable, the invention of Arthur J. Willis U.S. application Ser. No. 92,641 filed Nov. 8, 1979, can alternatively be used).
The figure illustrates a hazard situation in which a quantity of paper litter 14 has been blown from an underground station platform 15 of the transportation system by the air currents generated by a preceding train, has caught in one of the supports 16 for the cables 8 and has been ignited by the fanning effect of air currents on a smouldering cigarette end carried with it. The resulting small, cool fire presents no primary hazard to the vehicle, but if conventional cables are used there is a risk that the mass-transmit system will be brought to a standstill through failure of signalling and other communications and/or traction current supply due to damage to the cables 8, 11, etc., and that passengers trapped in a stationary vehicle may be exposed to an unpleasant and possibly dangerous level of smoke 17; the smoke would also hamper remedial action by mass-transit personnel. By using the cables of our invention, smoke hazard is reduced to a very low level and in some cases the cable may continue to function until this kind of fire has burned itself out, allowing repair work to be deferred until the mass-transit system is closed down for the right.
A first preferred cable jacketing and bedding compound (compound A) comprises 30% of a 60% ethylene-40% vinyl acetate copolymer (Levapren 400), 62.2% hydrated alumina, 1.89% stearic acid, a curing system comprising 4.44% of a proprietary peroxide masterbatch known as Trigonox X29/40 MB and including minor amounts of a polymer and a filler and 1.0% of an accelerator known as Drimix, which is understood to be triallyl cyanurate, and 0.47% of an antioxidant known as Vulkanox DDA. A second preferred cable jacketing and bedding compound (compound B) comprises 24% of the same 60% ethylene-40% vinyl acetate copolymer, 73% hyrated alumina, 2.5% stearic acid and 0.5% of the same antioxidant. In both cases the hydrated alumina has a mean particle size of 1 micrometer and the following distribution:
below 2 micrometers, 100%
below 1 micrometer, 85%
below 1/2 micrometer, 28%
Properties of this preferred bedding compound are as follows:
(1) halogen-free
(2) oxygen index (ASTM D-2863) about 40 for compound A, 57 for compound B
(3) tensile strength about 5 MN/m2 for compound A and 3.0 MN/m2 for compound B
(4) elongation to break about 350% for compound A, 800% for compound B
(5) permittivity 5.5 for compound A, 5.9 for compound B
(6) power factor 2.0% for compound A, 2.8% for compound B
(7) volume resistivity 3.2×1011 ohm m for compound A, 7.6×1010 ohm m for compound B.
Similar compounds made with a similar hydrated alumina with a mean particle size of 6 micrometers proved very difficult to process and gave completely unsatisfactory physical properties, and attempts to make similar compounds with a similar hydrated alumina of mean particle size 0.5 micrometer were abandoned because they were almost impossible to process on the type of compounding apparatus customarily used in the cable industry.
The properties of Compound A were compared with compounds having 1.5 and 3 parts of vinyl trimethoxy silane added, with the following results:
______________________________________ Elongation at break (%)Silane addition Tensile Strength (100 mm(parts by weight) MN/m.sup.2 sample)______________________________________nil 5.0 3301.5 5.2 903.0 7.2 80______________________________________
Thus very small amounts of silane were shown to have an unacceptable effect on elongation (notwithstanding a small improvement in tensile strength).
The preferred jacketing and bedding compounds were used to make cables as follows:
1. Tinned copper strands each made up of seven 0.30 mm diameter wires are insulated with 0.8 mm radial thickness of a conventional insulating compound and cured, this compound (hereinafter called compound EPR 1) comprising:
______________________________________Ethylene/propylene/diene monomer rubber (EPDM) 30-35%China clay 50%Paraffinic plasticisers 10-15%Curing agents and antioxidants 5%(all percentages are by weight of the compound)______________________________________
Pairs of these insulated conductors are twisted together with a right-hand lay of about 40 mm, and seven such twisted pairs laid up together with a left-hand lay of about 100 mm. An extruded bedding layer with a nominal radial thickness of 1 mm encloses the laid up cores; this bedding layer is of the compound A. Over this bedding is applied a copper tape electrical screen made of two tapes each (nominally) 18 mm wide and 0.08 mm thick, breaking joint with the edges of each tape nominally abutted. A second bedding layer 1.5 mm thick and made of compound A is extruded over the screen.
A heat barrier is next formed by lapping on a "Kapton H" (trademark) polyimide tape 0.08 mm thick and nominally 30 mm wide applied with its edges nominally abutting, and longitudinally applying a further similar tape 55 mm wide longitudinally (about 15% overlap).
An outer sheath of compound A with a radial thickness of 1.0 mm completes the cable, which has a nominal overall diameter of 17.3 mm.
This cable has after curing adequate mechanical properties, excellent low-smoke properties and good fire survival characteristics.
2-3. These are the same as Example 1 except that the Kapton tapes are respectively 0.05 mm and 0.03 mm thick. These cables have only marginally less good smoke and fire-survival characteristics compared with Example 1. 4. The cores of this cable are shielded concentric paris, with a tinned copper inner conductor 1.53 mm in diameter, inner dielectric of cured compound EPR 1 with a radial thickness of 1 mm, outer conductors made of thirty-five 0.3 mm diameter tinned copper wires lapped on with a lay of around 38 mm, outer dielectric also of cured compound EPR 1 and also 1 mm thick, and a braided screen made up of tinned copper wires each 0.15 mm in diameter, applied 16 spindles 4 ends with a lay of 11 mm, two-over-two-under.
Seven such cores are laid-up with one axial core and the remaining six surrounding it and having a right-hand lay of about 230 mm. A bedding of compound A is extruded over the laid-up cores and has a radial thickness of 2.5 mm. Two layers of the same polyimide tapes as in Example 1 (38 mm and 80 mm wide respectively) are applied in the same manner on the bedding, and an outer sheath of compound A, with a radial thickness of 2 mm, completes a cable with an overall diameter of around 30 mm. Relevant properties after curing are similar to Example 1.
5-7. These are substantially identical with Examples 1-3 respectively except that the stranded conductors are replaced by solid tinned-copper wires of 0.85 mm diameter and the radial thickness of the insulation is 0.6 mm.
8-9. These are the same as Examples 1 and 4 respectively except that compound B is used instead of compound A, and is uncured.
10. The conductors, insulation, stranding, bedding and sheathing of this cable are as in Example 1. Two "Kapton H" (trademark) polyimide tapes, 0.08 mm thick and nominally 30 mm wide, are both helically lapped on to the bedding layer, breaking joint. The cable is markedly less good than the cable of Example 1 both as to smoke emission and as to resistance to bending.
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Owner name: BICC GENERAL INDUSTRIAL CABLES LIMITED, UNITED KIN
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"Did you shut the chalet door?"
"Yes, dear."
"Last time it was left open and snow blew in to wet the carpet, remember? And the neighbour's cat got in and frightened the poor gold fish."
" Sorry about that, dear,"said Albert.
While saying that, Mathilde snuggled up a little closer to her dear husband, her arms through his, feeling the cosiness of their thick overcoats. They have walked this way almost daily on their constitutional to their bench at the edge of the pine forest. There the mountains waited for them, always in their splendour any time, day or night. Not that they were out often at night because of the chill, except on midsummer nights.
The couple were soon among the smaller weekday crowds on the main street of Chamonix, the usual happy mixture of touring families and skiers in holiday mood. English and German floated in the air, some loud babbling of Italian too.
A Japanese girl was giving her cutest smile to the digital camera, her head tilting at an intriguing angle. Her two fingers, holding up in a V shape, pointed exactly up to the peak of Mont Blanc, high and aloof behind her, wanting no part in all of this.
"Bonjour, m'sieur-dame," said a passing friend, a bag of groceries in his arm.
"C'est sa fete, aujourd'hui," said Mathilde proudly, tightening her arm.
"Ah oui?, Bonne anniversaire, mon vieux," the man said.
"Merci, Claude," said Albert.
"Nous voila," proclaimed Mathilde, "Be careful, Albert, it looks slippery."
Arms still linked, the couple slowly climbed the many steps up to the restaurant's balcony. Mathilde had reserved their usual table by the sunny window and the view, just in case it was crowded. Just as well, because it was.
But in fact they could have sat on the big terrace and taken in the air today as the midday sun was very warm and its light reflected back from snow all around.
Auguste the waiter gave them a big smile as he took their bulky coats away. Albert struggled a little with his gloves. Their table waited in the sun, brilliantly white with glinting silverware. A single gorgeous dark-red tulip stood in a vase, as requested by Mathilde.
"Thank you, dear, for all this," said Albert quietly, holding both of Mathilde's hands on the tablecloth.
"Thank you for my life," said Mathilde quietly, her eyes averted.
He looked at his life companion. She has aged so well, much better than him. Her hair is now as white as mountain snow but still beautifully wavy and thick. Her all-seeing eyes and all-knowing smile had not changed in all their years together.
"I can see Mont Blanc reflected on your head today, my dear," said Mathilde with a laugh.
"Well, I gave it a special polish today," said Albert. "Mont Blanc is always in my head, so it might as well be on it. Your furniture polish is very good and it smells nice too. Smell."
Mathilde did. "Mon Dieu, you really did use it!"
"It is my special day today. I can do what I like."
"Oh la la! What would that be, I wonder?," giggled Mathilde.
"With some red wine ... you never know what this little old man can get up to al little later."
" I have an idea," smiled Mathilde. "But you know I like what you do."
"Yes, dear, I should know, au nom de Dieu!"
Right on cue, the waiter came back and poured a little dark red wine, the colour of the tulip, into Albert's big glass. He sipped it.
"Oh la la, this is good," said Albert, looking a little nervous.
"Don't worry dear, it's expensive but it's your special day."
Albert glanced up to Mont Blanc. The brilliantly white tooth was even higher today, streaming a trail of blown snow from its peak. The massive range was like a sheer wall of snow, which covered all the lower forested slopes thickly as well.
"C'est magnifique, comme toujours," sighed Albert.
His life with Mathilde fitted that description. Every morning as he woke up, he looked at his wife, contentedly asleep, and thanked God. He never thought he deserved her really.
" Do you remember our last visit to Venice, dear," asked Mathilde.
"Yes, dear, very well."
"Let's go again, this winter. There will be fewer tourists and I so love the winter there."
"You like some funny things, dear," said Albert.
He suddenly wanted to hold her as tightly as possible in his arms. From the top floor of their favourite pensione in Venice overlooking a canal, they had opened the windows wide and the cold dank mist seeped in immediately. They had moved the lounge near the window and now sat together under a thick eider-down bed cover.
They held each other tight and heard the different watery sounds echoing from the canal below. The city was shrouded under a freezing fog and was hushed. They spent the night like that, bodies and minds fusing into one. As the morning sun shone in, they stirred but refused to separate.
"But we need to go to Paris first," said Mathilde. The Centre Pompidou was to hold a retrospective exhibition of Albert's work next month.
"Oh that. What shall we do there this time?," asked Albert.
" Become famous at your exhibition, of course. Then I want to find that little hotel on the Left Bank where we stayed in the attic once. Do you remember?"
"How can I forget?"
"We have some unfinished business there. Ooo you're blushing, Albie,"
"Am I? Wonder why," said Albert with a laugh. His face felt flushed.
It wasn't long ago when they followed Mathilde's idea to turn back the clock 40 years and become a pair of bohemians again, not that they were ever such.
After a cheap set-menu dinner in a bistro crowded with students, who did not notice their existence, and two big carafes, on of house red the other house white, they swayed together on the left bank of the Seine, Albert lugging their weekend pack on his back. They then spotted the room in the attic on top of the hotel through leaves of trees and an ornate lamp post.
Slowly they went in a creaking lift and climbed the last flights of stairs with a struggle. When they had regained their breath while sprawled on the double bed that sagged badly in the middle, Mathilde produced a soiled copy of the Karma Sutra she had just bought from a river bank stall, her cheeky smile very wide.
At her insistence, they opened the window to the warm summer night and took off all their clothes. They spent the memorable weekend naked, trying the various positions as illustrated in the black and white photos in the book, spread open under the bedside lamp.
Albert had never been both so embarrassed and so free. As always, Mathilde has amazed him by being adventurous and bold. Her joie de vivre was being celebrated all that weekend, and Albert did his best to keep up but not nearly matching her.
Albert was sent out only once to buy wine and food. They ate their picnic hungrily while seated naked on the hard wooden floor. Somehow a croissant or two were stale. Once Albert would on principle force himself to eat them but not any more. So they risked exposure by leaning out of the little window to feed the croissants to the pigeons on the roof.
"Oh la la, Mathide. I still can't believe that you made us do that in Paris. I have not been the same since and I wished we had left that book there instead of bringing it home."
"You don't mean that. It is the pride of my library," said Mathilde.
"And a too-much-used book!," sighed Albert.
The birthday lunch was delicious, local pork sausages and sauerkraut complete with his favourite tarte au pomme dessert and coffee. The winter evening was already somber when they walked with arms linked to the bench which looked out to the darkening vista in front of them. They sat close to each other for warmth and marvelled at the snow turning deep orange as the sun set behind them.
"Thank you, dear, for my wonderful day," said Albert quietly, his cheek touching hers. "And for my life."
Mathilde smiled her knowing smile and touched Albert's tears with her fingers. Then she wiped her fingers on her coat, just above her heart.
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Dermot Weld expects to have a better idea of where Unaccompanied stands in the pecking order after she runs in the BHP Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown on 29 January.
The five-year-old mare has really come of age this season, having shown last term that she was among the best around.
She beat subsequent Breeders' Cup Turf winner St Nicholas Abbey on the Flat in April and won the Grade One Istabraq Festival Hurdle last time out.
With Willie Mullins' current champion Hurricane Fly now looking a likely runner, Weld is keen to see how she gets on against one of the best hurdlers of recent times.
"She has come out of her last run very well, but the Irish Champion will be a learning curve for her," said Weld.
"Hurricane Fly will be very hard to beat, but she has won two Grade Ones and I was delighted with the way she won last month.
"She is only five and is still improving. She has strengthened up well this season, so we'll let her take her chance and then we'll see where we'll go with her for the rest of the season."
As well as Hurricane Fly Mullins could run the resurgent Mikael D'Haguenet, So Young, Zaidpour and Thousand Stars.
Possibly the only other trainer with as much strength in depth in the division is Lambourn's Nicky Henderson.
He houses former champion Binocular, the improving Grandouet, Oscar Whisky and Supreme Novices' Hurdle runner-up Spirit Son.
Henderson has entered both Binocular and Spirit Son and says there is a good chance one of them could run.
"We won't rule them in or out. I'll speak to JP (McManus, owner) about Binocular and he has been very well since Kempton. Spirit Son is also very well, but it really depends on what happens over here.
"The ground will be a factor as well, but we may well run one of them. We'll make up our minds a bit closer to the time."
One who needs soft ground to line up is Colm Murphy's admirable mare Voler La Vedette, who looked in great form during her impressive win over Christmas.
"She has come out of her run at Christmas in great shape and I wouldn't be afraid to drop her back in trip, but I'd say she will only run if the ground is soft," said Murphy.
"She has won her Grade One this season which was great and she is settling much better in her races this year."


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Hecking's Wolfsburg ready to 'annoy' Real Madrid
- First-time quarter-finalists Wolfsburg host Real Madrid, in their 33rd such tie
- Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking ready to "annoy" the ten-time winners
- Hecking will not say if defender Naldo will be fit
- Zinédine Zidane's side ended Barcelona's 39-match unbeaten run at the weekend
- Madrid press conference scheduled for 18.30CET
Possible lineups
Wolfsburg: Benaglio; Träsch, Dante, Knoche, Rodriguez; Guilavogui, Gustavo; Schürrle, Arnold (Vieirinha), Draxler; Kruse.
Out: Bendtner (released), Jung (knee), Caligiuri (leg)
Doubtful: Naldo (match fitness), Caligiuri (adductors)
Misses next match if booked: Caligiuri
Real Madrid: Navas, Carvajal, Pepe, Ramos, Marcelo; Kroos, Casemiro, Modric; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo.
Out: Varane (calf)
Doubtful: None
Misses next match if booked: Sergio Ramos, Danilo, Casemiro
Dieter Hecking, Wolfsburg coach
Motivation won't be a problem tomorrow. We have a big chance to perform on a great stage. Nobody thought we could get this far. But in the end I still say: "This must not be the end for us." We will look for our opportunity, even with this draw, and if we beat Real it would be one of the biggest sensations. So this is what we want to begin tomorrow.
Since we were drawn against Real Madrid, we've been really excited. But is it the biggest match in our club's history? I think there have been other great games, though maybe this is the one with the most attention. It is extraordinary for every one of us and we want to demonstrate why we are still in this competition.
Real Madrid have a great squad with top-class players. They are one of the favourites for the title and one of the top clubs in Europe. But we will try to annoy them and I think my team can do that. It won't be enough to just stop Ronaldo.
I don't know right now if Naldo will be able to play. We have to talk to the doctor and also the player. He wants to play, but now it's up to me if I trust him. I don't share the speculation that he will definitely play.
Zinédine Zidane, Real Madrid coach
Press conference scheduled for 18.30CET
Weekend results
Leverkusen 3-0 Wolfsburg (Brandt 27, Hernández 73, Yurchenko 87)
Max Kruse drove into the side-netting before the break and Marcel Schäfer fired straight at Bernd Leno after the interval but eighth-placed Wolfsburg created little else as they went a third consecutive Bundesliga game without a victory. They now sit seven points adrift of Mönchengladbach in fourth.
Barcelona 1-2 Real Madrid (Piqué 56; Benzema 62, Ronaldo 84)
Third-placed Madrid closed the gap on Liga leaders Barça to seven points with a fine away success. Pepe was outjumped by Gerard Piqué for the opener but the equaliser came when Marcelo embarked on a left-wing raid and fed Toni Kroos, whose centre was volleyed in acrobatically by Karim Benzema, his 21st Liga goal this term, matching his career-best tally for Madrid. Gareth Bale had a goal ruled out after heading in a cross from Cristiano Ronaldo, who then shot against the bar prior to Sergio Ramos's red card. However, Ronaldo had the last word for the ten men having been teed up by Bale.
Form guide (all competitions, most recent first)
Wolfsburg: LDLWWW
Real Madrid: WWWWWW
Reporter's view: Paul Bryan (@UEFAcomPaulB)
Dieter Hecking must raise his team's flagging morale as they welcome an on-song Madrid side buoyed by their weekend victory at Camp Nou. If Die Wölfe can rediscover some of their group-stage form, they may just emerge with a fighting chance going into next week's second leg.
Did you know?
This is Wolfsburg's first European Cup quarter-final; Madrid are at this stage for the sixth season running – their last-eight record in this competition stands at W26 L6. Read more in our match background.


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How to get guaranteed and lasting peace....... without weapons!?
Those who still believe in creating peace with arms live in the illusion, that violence is the ultimate means to peace!?. But as we see it only deepens the crisis.... Wake them up from this nightmare!!
Peace in the middle east (or Africa or Greece or...) starts with peace in the minds of those in charge. And THIS PEACE we are able to create with our new insights into the functioning of the collective consciousness in that area of war. There is no need to convince those who create war....We don't want to kill the ennemy, we kill the ENMITY!!! and only then the war will stop. I know, it sounds like magic but it is tested in conflict situations many, many times in the past.
Why this petition and how do we kill the enmity???
Today, every nation is vulnerable. Even the mightiest nations are held hostage by small terrorist groups (11th of september 2001). Conventional military approaches are increasingly powerless to protect a nation against terrorist attack, against new destructive technologies, or against missiles with pinpoint accuracy.
Diplomatic efforts might have effect for a period of time, but when tensions rise hostilities start again as we have seen in the Gaza strip, Lebanon, the Balkan and in Iraq. In a world divided by deep-seated hostilities and regional tensions, negotiated settlements and ceasefires have brought temporary relief, at best!! Paper treaties and negotiations among representatives of warring nations are too fragile a basis for lasting peace.
How, then, can we achieve lasting peace and protect the security, stability, and well-being of every nation? According to recent research, traditional approaches to defense have less effect if they do not address the underlying cause of violence and conflict: they do not relieve the acute political, ethnic, and religious tensions that fuel terrorism and conflict. During the last 25 years, a powerful, innovative approach to peace has been extensively field tested in the Middle East (Lebanon Israel), and throughout the world. A small number of people, compared to the society in which they operate, participated in a collective practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programmes. These groups of several hundred to several thousand trained experts appeared to quickly neutralize acute societal stress in a society of a few millions to several 100s of millions of people.
The result has been dramatic reductions in terrorism, war and other social violence. One example: (see graphic line picture on the left), Lebanon 1983. A war was going on between the Hezbollah and Israel. The graphic line shows that the quality of life in both countries ie. peace negotiations, decrease of victims and of war-activities go up and down with the group size of the TMSidhi practitioners. These findings have been replicated, published in leading academic journals, and endorsed by hundreds of independent scientists and scholars. The efficacy of this approach has now grown beyond question. But because it isn t a sexy approach to "close your eyes to reduce a conflict" politicians and even leaders of nations still like to rely on smart negotiations and the use of high technology weapons to try to establish a democracy. They hold it for the only possible way to establish and maintain peace. This is where you and I may book tangible results in promoting these peace-creating groups!
This group practice of the TM- and TM-Sidhi programmes is a practical approach to world peace, an approach validated by more than 50 replications and 23 studies published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. The most advanced discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, neuroscience, and human consciousness support this approach of using the human consiousness to eliminate stress in the collective consciousness.
- Creation of a fertile environment in which diplomatic and other conventional approaches will carry lasting results
- Creation of a coherent and harmonious national consciousness, strengthening the nation against any potentially disruptive influences from outside or from within
- Creation of a peaceful and cooperative global environment, conducive to the formation of stable governments and the cessation of hostilities in regional hot spots
- The elimination of enmity in a potential adversary, thus preventing the birth of an enemy and the onset of war
- Establishment of lasting peace, security, and economic stability at home, relieving tremendous pressure on governmental departments and institutions charged with public safety and homeland security
H.J. Brik, Holland (email: hein2701(at)hotmail.com)
PS. please don't see my plea as using you as a means to promote a campaign for a "TM-movement" or a "Maharishi Movement". I was a health practitioner with a health spa for a long time and since two years I am a school director. I absolutely don't do this for the money or the honour or whatever. I won't gain a penny out of it and if you won't promote these ideas, it is all right with me, I will remain as happy as I was. I only satisfied my conscience in passing through these ideas to you for I am deeply convinced that they will work. I myself participated in some of these groups and noticed the results.
We the undersigned ask the governments of Israel and Palestine to apply
the method of installing a TMSidhi-peace group to guarantee a lasting peace without weapons.
This method is investgated in 30 experiments worldwide since 1976 and researched in more than 50 scientific reports including peer reviews and articles in science magazins.
With this means in hand we are not allowed to wait. Each human life sacrificed in armed conflict causes distress, hatred and grief which will be carried along many years from now. Peace built by weapons, by negotiations, by concessions, even by treaties always has its negative side-effects. Peace built by people from within (like our TMSidhi group) only has positive effects because it not only enhances the nation but also the individual. If we are able to prevent war deaths (and we are!!!) we should start today.
ALL other efforts made by you, being the government, will succeed more readily and will have more effect when it is backed by a TMSidhi-peace group.
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...Can we have a whip round to get this arsehole bumped off...?
FFS....get rid
...Can we have a whip round to get this arsehole bumped off...?
Agree whole heartedly
The judges in question really are part of the problem in this case. It is very very easy to claim that information regarding terrorism is obtained, even very remotely, by torture and almost impossible to proove its not. This is now the precedence that every terrorist can used to stay in this country whilst suggesting people in this country are killed because they don't march to that individuals doctrine.
The judges will continue to throw out this case because of personal prejudices and a desire to have power and control. Maybe legal challenges against the judges in question for putting the public in harm might be the way to go?
in how much do you want....?
"If i need the Moon, ill bring it down myself"...
im fed up with do gooders telling other countries /people what they cant do , sick of the guilty being protected , get him tae feck i couldnt give a rats arse what anyone does to this scum
judges n lawyers
judges are a bunch of overpaid public school tim nice but dims that dont live in the real world and lawyers are bigger criminal than the crooks they represent in a lot of cases , the justice system sux big boabies
taxpayer over half a million pounds in 'legal aid' already, why can't MI 5 just slot the twat?
Blaming the wrong people
Governments are the ones who pass unnecessarily vague and unenforcable laws in the hope the Judiciary will sort out the details. The Judiciary are only the referees, don't blame them if you don't like the rules of the game, blame the government.
The government keep extradition laws lite to win all sorts of voters; then whinge thet they don't have the powers when they want them. As I've said elsewhere: Democracy - a fucking stupid idea that should be killed off.
every year in mobile surveillance officers, police, equipment, phone taps, vehicles, etc. I heard 3 million a year but I know for sure the figure is in the millions.
We are no longer a sovereign state. We can not decide who comes in and who goes out of our country. Bloody EU.
He committed crimes in other countries. He should be sent there for justice. We'd be really pissed off if we were the country wanting him back for punishment.
EDIT: It's the EU and their lack of democracy that's causing these kind of issues. Wankers who are above our government who tell us what we can and can't do. If we had a vote I think a large proportion of the British population would vote to fuck him off to Jordan. Or strap him to a rocket. Or just pretend he's a Brazilian electrician. Anything. Personally, I'd take him out to the North sea, to the edge of our waters and invite him to take a swim. If he resisted, I'd assist him in taking a swim. With a shotgun.
just pretend he's a Brazilian electrician.......
Phil you've made me cry....
"If i need the Moon, ill bring it down myself"...
very good at making women cry.
You make me laugh....Ive only just stopped laughing... and i'm feeling poorly..... I don't know why you make girls cry because your very funny....
"If i need the Moon, ill bring it down myself"...
I tend to spend dates making a girl laugh. But it doesn't help. Last one decided to go back to her ex.
probably end up with her squirting cunt snot on his face to shut him up.
.....Well done Phil, I'm with aehewitt, had to spit my tea out, i have tears rolling down my face now, Brazilian electrician, well it worked for them then did it not!
in fact I think a good snotting from Jordan would make him run back to t'other Jordan.
do you think that the european court of human rights would class jordan's cunt snot and conversation as torture? I'm sure he'd be sleazing all over her to start with.
**and **
not a single word from the defender of the faith about this scumbag, usually be on defending the poor soul as a misguided poor lamb, swing the bastard from a prominent lampost where he can be viewed by his tax paying minions and any others of his ilk should be treated just as harshly as his henchmen deal with hostages they take in the name of religion.
Well thats it
I`m gonna vote UKIP and BNP Call me a racist if you want but I`m fucking pissed off paying my VERY hard earned money to the tax man to give to scum like quatarda or what ever his bastard name is and his muslim lawyers to lavish n their early retirement funds .Wake up cameron , good people are pissed off having the micky taken out of them.


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Georgia Law ranks high for graduates with judicial clerkships
Georgia Law was recognized as 10th in the nation for the number of its employed 2012 graduates working at judicial clerkships with federal judges in a U.S. News & World Report ranking.
Repository Citation
Office of Communications and Public Relations, "Georgia Law ranks high for graduates with judicial clerkships" (2014). Press Releases. 886.


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Members of the Indian community appear to be targets of an IRS scam.
Gopal Khatri and his wife received the first call at their Herndon, Va., home in late March from a man who claimed to be from the Internal Revenue Service. He told them they owed an unspecified sum in back taxes. The second time they received a call, they were told they would be sued.
But the Khatris didn't fall for it. Instead, they went online and found a blog with entries from numerous other families from around the United States, all with Indian surnames, who reported getting similar calls from the same number. It has a 732 area code, which is in New Jersey.
"These scams grow in frequency right before tax time," said Eric Smith of the IRS.
If you get a suspicious call, the IRS recommends you ask for a call back number and employee badge or identification number and contact the IRS to determine if the caller is indeed an IRS employee.
The Khatris hung up before the caller got into details of how he wanted the money sent. They say one family was instructed to send a money order.
The IRS says the number you can call to verify whether a contact is legitimate is 800-829-1040.


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The wine is flowing, the chips are dipping and the conversation is turning brazenly partisan. And why shouldn't it? This is not some effete soiree that hopes to nudge funds out of its guests for an inoffensive but deserving charity. It's not some wild frat party meant to raise blood-alcohol and designate drivers. No, this is a Howard Dean house party, one of the Dean campaign's unconventional tactics to attract money for the former Vermont governor who is rising to the top of the crowded field of Democratic presidential nominees. This gathering, one of 90 house parties thrown across Texas within the past several days, is being held at the North Dallas home of Ellen Silverman. Her daughter Julie, a pre-med student, has returned from college in Maryland with the idea of drumming up support for Dean among her parents' friends.
"I don't know much about Dean," says guest Chuck Stein, a local accountant. "But I know we need to get rid of Bush. From Iraq to the environment to women's rights, he is a one-man destructive force."
"My guy is Bob Graham [senator from Florida], but he is not taking off," Moe Stein adds. "I think we need someone from the South, but Graham seems charismatically challenged."
"I was hoping Dean would be here," says real estate investor Mike Grossfeld, "but I hear that he is not coming. I'm just excited to be in a roomful of Democrats."
Julie, who bears a passing resemblance to Lisa Loeb, apologizes to the group for any misunderstanding and says that she and co-host Nancy Kasten will instead show a DVD of Dean speaking at another house party.
The concept of house parties is nothing new; candidates in the early stages of an election will stump for practically anyone willing to listen. What Dean seems to be pioneering is the absentee appearance, the guest of honor who makes his presence felt by a conference call or video presentation. "The beauty for the campaign is that he can raise money nonstop," says Glen Maxey, Texas state organizer for the Dean campaign. "Between a rally and a fund-raiser, he may have 30 minutes of travel time. He could be stuck in traffic or the hallway of a hotel, and at the same time he is interacting with people on his cell phone in real time."
But Dean may not be phoning the Silverman household this Wednesday. "It is possible, but the goal for each house party is to raise $5,000," Maxey says. "If you go there and there are only 15 people, you should know the call ain't coming."
As the guests--about 30 Anglos of all ages--settle into the living room to watch the video, Julie tells how she became interested in Dean, a medical doctor by training, after hearing him speak in March at a Washington health-care conference. "He didn't sound like a normal politician. He seemed to be speaking straight from his heart." Others find his stump-style more brusque: He seldom pulls punches or parses words, often growing red-faced while incessantly repeating rhetorical slogans such as "You have the power!" to excite crowds into near rock concert frenzy.
Like many Dean supporters, Julie was a political neophyte who felt inspired enough to get involved. In May she attended a "meet-up," another Dean campaign tactic that relies on the Internet to build its grassroots following. The first meet-ups weren't even connected to the Dean campaign. They arose spontaneously from the Web site www.meetup.com, which organizes real-world "gatherings about anything, anywhere," according to the site, from knitters to cat lovers, anarchists to Young Republicans.
"We have the largest meet-up group in the world with more than 91,400 [currently 97,500] members," says Dori Clark, New Hampshire communications director for the Dean campaign. "It's a great organizing tool. The first Wednesday of every month, small groups get together across the country in, say, a coffeehouse or a restaurant to talk about Howard Dean and ways to help his candidacy."
Groups go online and vote on the location of their next meeting, which in Dallas is often the Lakewood Theater. "We had over 150 people at our last meet-up at the Lakewood, and more than half were first-time attendees," says Tony McMullin, a local Dean activist. "We organized several of the Dallas house parties for last week, but the best part is mingling with other Dean supporters face to face."
The grunt work in a traditional campaign is knocking on doors, manning phone banks, "finding people who think like you do," says Susan Hays, Dallas County Democratic Party chair. "The Internet makes that easy, and Dean is using it in a way that has never been done before." Nowhere is that more evident than in the fund-raising prowess of the Dean campaign, which taps the 330,000 e-mail subscribers to its Web site, www.deanforamerica.com, as though they were part of a PBS pledge drive. The campaign challenges those on its e-mail list to match the money Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney might be raising at some high-dollar Republican fund-raiser. The average contribution is only $66, but givers are encouraged to send fund-raising e-mails for Dean to the people on their own e-mail lists. Through the help of these e-mail blitzes, Dean has raised $7.6 million in the quarter ending in July, leading all other Democratic candidates in contributions.
Dean hasn't phoned yet, and Julie doesn't expect he will. She lowers the lights in the living room and projects the Dean DVD against the wall, enlarged for all to view. It was shot in July at a Dallas house party after Dean spoke to 1,500 perspiring supporters outside City Hall. Standing on the stairway in shirtsleeves, Dean joked with the crowd, many of them gays and lesbians. They were early Dean supporters partly because he signed Vermont's "civil unions" bill, which he sees as an equal rights issue but social conservatives see as the amoral equivalent of gay marriage. Clinton-styled New Democrats, however, see the issue--as well as Dean's early opposition to the Iraq war--as the reason he is unelectable.
But Dean takes those Democrats to task, claiming he is from the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party"; that no Democrat can be elected by being "Bush Lite." He challenges his detractors to look at his five terms as governor and still pin a liberal label on him. He candidly admits that he is pro-choice, pro-gay rights and pro-universal health care. But he is also pro-death penalty (when the victims are cops or kids), anti-gun control (a question of states' rights) and says he has a history of balancing the budget in his state. "So maybe I am liberal, and maybe I am not," he teased. He harped on a "we can do better than Bush" theme and wowed the cheering crowd with his plain talk and clearly articulated stance on the issues.
The Silverman house party animals, however, are a harder sell. As the lights go up, the discussion turns lively when some worry that Dean won't play well in Texas. "How do we make sure Dean isn't going to be another George McGovern?" asks Moe Stein. The discussion veers between those who are interested in supporting the one Democrat who is "electable" and those who feel they should support the "best candidate" for the job. "Do we vote strategically, or do we vote our conscience?" asks a woman sitting on the floor. "I think voting strategically is like trying to time the market."
"We are talking like Bush is this juggernaut who can't lose," argues another man. "Folks, he lost the last election."
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Most like what Dean has to say, finding him a confident, viable contender. But it's six months before the Texas primary, and there is a reluctance to commit to any candidate. "I like him," says Cecilia Boone, "but it's early days." His Internet wizardry is fascinating grassroots stuff, she agrees, "but will he get the kind of commitment and energy that the Republicans get from the religious right?"
Many in the group just appreciate a refreshing evening of political discourse and wonder if they can continue as a meet-up or in some other fashion. Co-host Nancy Kasten volunteers to keep e-mailing the group about other political events, "say, if Senator John Kerry [another Democratic contender] came to town and people wanted to attend a function for him," she says.
That may not be the result the Dean campaign imagined for its house party, yet Julie Silverman seems pleased with the event. "People left happy and informed," she says. "We did raise awareness, even if we didn't raise much money."
At least, not enough to convince Dean to call.


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Getting Rid Of Hangover Headache
Although there is no sure-fire cure for a hangover, the best cure is to give it a good twenty-four hours. During those twenty-four hours there are things you can do for the symptoms -- the headache, nausea, and fatigue -- can be alleviated.
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When confronted with a headache after a night of drinking, an aspirin might just be what the doctor ordered. However, do not take non-aspirin pain relievers that contain acetaminophen. Acetaminophen, when taken with alcohol that is still in your system could be deadly on your liver.
People who drink more than three alcoholic beverages a day may want to consult with a physician to see what pain reliever is right for them. Aspirin is not well tolerated by some people and may cause stomach bleeding.
Preventing Hangovers
There is no need for you to give up alcohol in order to prevent a hangover. New studies are showing that the main cause of a hangover is acute alcohol withdrawal. This is caused by the body accepting the alcohol while it inside of your system then having to do without it when it is burnt up. When the alcohol has left your system the cells go back to normal therefore, you begin to feel a lot better.
Drinking slowly can significantly lower your chances of getting a hangover. The slower you drink, the less alcohol reaches your brain at one time. This way you could actually drink more over time without you having to be carried home.
The body burns alcohol at about an ounce an hour. If you give your body more time to burn the alcohol the less reaches your brain and blood.
According to many experts, one of the best things you can do to prevent a hangover is to drink on a full stomach. Food slows the absorption of alcohol. The more absorption the less that will get to the brain. Although the kind of food you eat does not matter much; a good dinner of meat and potatoes, with some bread will do the trick.
Do not try to out-drink your 200 pound friend when you only weigh 150 pounds.
Drink smart and do not over do it.
Stay away from alcohol with bubbles inside of it.
Champagne contains bubbles which takes the alcohol to your blood faster.
If you must drink champagne drink responsibly.
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If you are looking for a natural pain reliever for your headache, then willow bark is the thing for you. This bark contains a natural form of salicylate, which is the active ingredient in aspirin. It is suggested that you take this in capsule form.
Drink plenty of water. Alcohol depletes the cells of water causing dehydration. Drinking water before you go to bed and when you wake up may help with some of the effects you are feeling due to the dehydration.
B complex vitamins should also be on your hangover remedy list. Drinking depletes the body of these essential vitamins. Studies have shown that when someone is under stress the body turns to its supply of B vitamins. Drinking too much puts the body under stress, which in turns uses up B vitamin supplies.
Replenishing your bodies supply of B vitamins could help lessen the time of your hangover.
You can help the body to burn the alcohol faster by drinking fruit juice. I can hear you now saying "fruit juice?" Yes fruit juice! It contains fructose which aides in the burning of alcohol. Drinking a glass orange juice, or tomato juice will accelerate the burning of the alcohol still in your system that morning.
Drink a cup od coffee. Coffee acts as vasoconstrictor -- which reduces the swelling of the blood vessels that causes your headache. A couple cups of coffee might be all you need to help alleviate some of the symptoms of your hangover especially the headache. However, do not drink too much because you do not want to be hangover with the jitters.
Sometimes just some good old fashioned sleep will do the trick. Get as much rest as you can, and remember not to overdo it. Moderation is the key to everything. Too much water can kill you, so imagine something as toxic as alcohol.
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Here are some drinks to stay away from if you are trying to avoid a hangover. Although all alcoholic beverages if abused would cause a hangover; these are drinks that will sneak up on you if you are not careful:
Champagne and a rum-and-coke. The bubbles in the champagne and the coke speeds the alcohol to the blood stream like a rocket. The liver tries its best to keep up, but eventually gets overwhelmed which sends an explosion of alcohol into the blood stream and to the brain.
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2) Excerpt from article A Few Too Many
As for hangover remedies, they are legion. There are certain unifying themes, however. When you ask people, worldwide, how to deal with a hangover, their first answer is usually the hair of the dog. The old faithful in this category is the Bloody Mary, but books on curing hangovers-I have read three, and that does not exhaust the list-describe more elaborate potions, often said to have been invented in places like Cap d'Antibes by bartenders with names like Jean-Marc.
An English manual, Andrew Irving's "How to Cure a Hangover" (2004), devotes almost a hundred pages to hair-of-the-dog recipes, including the Suffering Bastard (gin, brandy, lime juice, bitters, and ginger ale); the Corpse Reviver (Pernod, champagne, and lemon juice); and the Thomas Abercrombie (two Alka-Seltzers dropped into a double shot of tequila).
Kingsley Amis suggests taking Underberg bitters, a highly alcoholic digestive: "The resulting mild convulsions and cries of shock are well worth witnessing. But thereafter a comforting glow supervenes." Many people, however, simply drink some more of what they had the night before.
My Ukrainian informant described his morning-after protocol for a vodka hangover as follows: "two shots of vodka, then a cigarette, then another shot of vodka." A Japanese source suggested wearing a sake-soaked surgical mask.
Application of the hair of the dog may sound like nothing more than a way of getting yourself drunk enough so that you don't notice you have a hangover, but, according to Wayne Jones, of the Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, the biochemistry is probably more complicated than that.


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Commentary: Let's Really Clean Up Those Numbers--Now
By John A. Byrne
Little noticed in the shock of WorldCom Inc.'s massive accounting fraud is that it came to light only after a review initiated by the company's audit committee. Yes, believe it or not, the directors in the boardroom actually asked their auditors to take another look at the numbers.
Lo and behold, that review led to the largest single restatement ever: a $3.8 billion reduction in previously reported pretax income. Together with Xerox Corp.'s (XRX ) recent concession that it overstated operating earnings by $1.4 billion, these two corporate mea culpas alone nearly match the combined total hit of $5.8 billion from all 463 restatements in 1998, 1999, and 2000.
How much worse can it get? Plenty. It's not that we'll likely see numbers as breathtaking as those at WorldCom or Xerox. But expect a tidal wave of restatements to come in what will surely amount to some sort of accounting catharsis. If ever there was a time for companies to come clean, it's now. Over the years, the quality of financial reporting has varied widely. Some companies did the bare minimum to meet accounting standards. Others were more cautious. To get beyond the current stock-market malaise, companies need to flush out the excesses so investors can regain their confidence in our financial system. It's better to take a hit now than risk dragging this out over the next few years.
Many corporate directors already are beginning to correct for their marginal oversight and governance. Today, it's a rare audit committee that isn't asking tougher questions. Even at Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV ), where Chief Executive James F. Parker boasts that the balance sheet is "so clean that it squeaks," the audit committee is showing "more interest in more details."
Directors are so fearful of their legal liability that many of them are asking auditors for a redo of the previous years' numbers, which will inevitably result in far more restatements. "Every audit committee I know is doing that," says Ralph Larson, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson. "You'd have to be asleep if you're not."
The numbers already show that is exactly what is happening. If restatements continue at the first quarter's pace, they will reach a record 240 this year alone. Until the mid-1980s, it was unusual for financial restatements to top more than half a dozen in any given year. Then, after regularly running about 50 or so a year from the early 1990s, these redos skyrocketed to a high of 204 by 1999. Even so, from 1995 through 2000, restatements accounted for only three-quarters of one percent of the average annual number of reporting companies, according to Financial Executives International.
Yet most observers now agree that in the 1990s the corporate ethos reached a new and dangerous phase: Many executives began to believe that capitalism rewarded the companies that hit their earnings targets, no matter how they did it. For every Enron or WorldCom that went over the line, dozens of other companies took full advantage of flexible accounting rules to report the highest income possible--even when those numbers failed to reflect the company's underlying operating performance.
Besides the additional oversight, there's something else driving the current cleanup. The numbers at WorldCom and Xerox are so large that most restatements--including ones that merely take a more conservative view of the numbers--could very well fall under the radar. "There is so much other bad news out there, it might be a good time to release a restatement," says Min Wu, a PhD candidate in accounting at New York University's Stern School of Business who tracks such corrections. "In good times, one piece of bad news would get you hammered more severely."
Clearly, it's in the interests of boards and management to get the bad news out now. If there is an audit committee that has yet to order another look at the numbers over the last three to five years, shame on it.
Senior Writer Byrne covers management.


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Lloyd and Sadie Thompson of Lake San Marcos celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary March 10.
Lloyd, 95, and Sadie, 90, were married in 1943 in Volga, S.D., before Lloyd left for Europe with the Army Air Forces.
They had three children, Susan, Jim and Jeff, and they have three grandchildren.
Lloyd worked as a retail sales manager with Maytag for 33 years, before retiring and starting a second career in real estate. He retired from that only five years ago.
They moved to Lake San Marcos in 1974. They still live by themselves, with a little in-home assistance.
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What ever happened to….?
Written by Joe Aiello, Posted in General
With Mark's recent Christmas wishlist from the readers in the books, I'd like to ask you "What ever happened to…?" This is by no means an exhaustive list. It is just six random things I was thinking about.
1. Sportsmanship – All we see now in all sports is showboating or trashing your opponent. In the movie Coach Carter, Samuel L. Jackson gets angry at his players for this and asks them why it's not enough to win anymore? Winning is not enough. Now, players need to win AND humiliate their opponent while doing so. It's terrible.
2. Doubleheaders – One of the coolest things is buying a baseball ticket and being able to see two games for the price of one. Now, teams are so concerned about revenue and losing paid attendance and concessions, that they often times clear the stadium after the first game and bring in the new crowd.
3. Tall Socks – Why are there so few ballplayers wearing them? And why are the ones who do wear them considered throwbacks?
4. The Stolen Base – I long for the days where guys like Vince Coleman steal 100 bases in the season. It used to be that if your leadoff hitter got on with a single, there was a threat of him turning it into a triple with his speed and running instincts. Now, we play Dusty ball and have every player fill their shoes with cement before every game. Gotta make sure they don't get any ideas about running.
5. The Scorecard – Does no one keep score anymore? I go to games these days and feel a little weird with my Bob Carpenter scorebook. It got old going to games and being forced to buy a program for $8 just to keep score. What happened to the days when EVERYONE kept score?
6. Pickup Games – When was the last time you drove by a park or baseball field at a school and see it being used for a game of RF is closed 5 on 5 baseball? It just doesn't happen anymore. Now, we have MLB 2006 for the XBOX 360 to teach us all about the baseball fundamentals. So our kids can now hit buttons at the right time, but can't hit a baseball to save their lives. They can turn a double play with the best of them on the PS2, but can't even remember to turn their glove the right way to catch the ball in real life. It's a shame.


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Keith Harper, United States Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - Cherokee Nation citizen Keith Harper was nominated by President Barack Obama as the United States Representative to the United Nation Human Rights Council and was sworn into office June 5, 2014. Harper was among those recognized at the 62nd Cherokee National Holiday by Principal Chief Bill John Baker as a recipient of the Cherokee National Statesmanship Award.
Unable to attend the Holiday because of his duties as Representative, Harper sent a "Thank You" video to the Cherokee Nation. It may be seen on the Cherokee Nation's You Tube channel.
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When Startups Don't Create JobsScott Shane
Myth: The best way to create companies that provide jobs and wealth is to encourage business creation of any kind. Reality: On Dec. 3, President Barack Obama opened his jobs summit. I wasn't invited, but thanks to the power of the Internet, I can contribute anyway. The goal of the summit is to create jobs. Policymakers in the U.S. and around the world know that high- growth startups create a lot of jobs. Therefore, one of the goals of President Obama's team and policymakers everywhere is to figure out how to create more high-growth companies. Unfortunately the basic approach of many policymakers to stimulating such companies is flawed. They think that simply creating more companies regardless of business type creates more high-growth businesses. Some compelling data indicate that it doesn't. Places with the most high-growth companies tend not to be the places with the most new businesses. Consider the example of Silicon Valley, the part of the U.S. thought of as a locus of many high-growth companies. When measured on the rate of per-capita new business formation, the poles of Silicon Valley—the metropolitan areas of San Jose and San Francisco—do not score high. Negative CorrelationExamined more formally, the data indicate that the correlation between the share of high-growth companies and the rate of company formation is actually negative. The places with higher company birth rates have a lower share of high-growth companies. In a study for the U.S. Small Business Administration, academics Zoltan Acs, William Parsons, and Spencer Tracy used data from the American Corporate Statistical Library to measure the Dun & Bradstreet (DNB) company birth rate for all of the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. They also measured the number of "high-impact" firms, companies that at least had doubled their revenues over a four-year period and had what they called an "employment growth quantifier" of more than two. When I compared the different MSAs on the share of companies that met their criteria for high-impact firms with the birth rate of firms, I got a significant negative correlation. In addition, Acs and his colleagues found that most high growth companies are not young companies. They explain in their study: "On average, they are 25 years old…[and] less than 3% of high-impact firms were born in the previous four-year period." If high-growth companies tend to be more mature ventures, then efforts to create more new outfits is unlikely to generate a lot of high-growth companies. Cross-national comparisons also don't show a strong positive relationship between the firm birth rate and the share of high-growth startups. The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) measures firm birth rates, share of high-growth companies, and share of high-growth young companies in its member nations. It calls businesses five years old or younger, with at least 10 employees, and with annualized employment growth in excess of 20% over the three previous years "gazelles." U.S. Gazelle PopulationThe countries that have the highest firm birth rates tend not to have the highest share of gazelle companies and vice-versa. For instance, among the 13 OECD countries where the share of gazelle companies in manufacturing was measured, the U.S. ranked last. It had a small proportion of high-growth young companies in manufacturing. But it ranked a respectable 12th (out of 22 countries) in terms of manufacturing firm birth rate. In contrast, Bulgaria ranked No. 1 (out of 14) in terms of the share of gazelles in services, but it was only 16th out of 22 in firm birth rate in services. Similarly, Canada was ranked third from the lowest in gazelles in services, but sixth in terms of birth rate in services. The ranking of countries on the share of high-growth new firms is also not similar to the ranking of the share of high-growth firms overall, indicating that some nations may have a big share of high-growth companies, but a small share of high-growth new businesses. For instance, Italy ranks No. 2 in terms of the share of high-growth companies in manufacturing, but ranks 10th (out of 13) in terms of the share of high-growth new manufacturing firms. In short, two empirical patterns measured both across countries and within the U.S. indicate that the assumption that more company formation will result in a higher rate of creation of high-growth outfits is flawed. There is little relationship between places with high rates of firm formation and high shares of high-growth companies. Moreover, a large portion of high-growth companies are older ventures.
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text: Frozen warmwater shrimps from China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia and Vietnam does not hurt or threaten the U.S. industry, said the U.S. trade authority in a final ruling Friday.The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) therefore determined to deny a ruling by the Commerce Department on final countervailing duties (CVD) on shrimp imports worth of some 1.9 billion dollar from the five countries. As a result of the commission's negative determinations, no countervailing duty order will be issued on imports of this product.The ITC said in a statement that "a U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam that the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are subsidized."Four of the six-member commission voted in the negative, while two others voted in the affirmative.The U.S. Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries late last year filed a petition to the U.S. trade regulator to seek protection. The Commerce Department then instituted the investigations in January and set final countervailing duties (CVD) on Aug. 12, 2013.Under the Commerce Department's ruling, Chinese exporters that have sold frozen warmwater shrimps in the U.S. market would have to face 5.76 percent in countervailing duties.The ITC revealed that the U.S. industry comprised 48 producers and 2,050 workers. The U.S. shrimp consumption market amounted at 1.3 billion pounds (about 591 million kilograms), with the imports taking up 35.7 percent. Thailand, Indonesia and India were the three largest import sources, and China took the seventh place.


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Oregon Archaeology book wins Oregon Heritage Excellence Award
"Oregon Archaeology," by archaeologists C. Melvin Aikens, Thomas Connolly and Dennis Jenkins, earned a 2013 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award from the Oregon Heritage Commission. The award recognizes the book as a definitive text on Oregon's human history and as an outstanding contribution to the field of archaeology in the state. Congratulations to Mel, Tom, and Dennis! For more information, see: http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2013/5/book-three-university-oregon-archaeologists-lands-state-award


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Florida Supreme Court Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince talked with Stetson Law students about the importance of the judicial system
Florida Supreme Court Justices Fred Lewis, Barbara J. Pariente and Peggy A. Quince spoke with students at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport on March 26 about the role of the judicial system and Florida's merit retention system. All three justices formerly served as chief justices of Florida's highest court. Stetson Law Professor Theresa Radwan moderated a noon-time panel discussion with the three justices.… » Read more


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In this story from over the weekend in the LA Times, we learn that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art yesterday opened an exhibition of Mapplethorpe's X, Y, and Z portfolios. Since the 1989 Washington, D.C. firestorm over Mapplethorpe that kicked off the idiotic Culture Wars, the X portfolio—staged, black-and-white S&M photos—hasn't been seen except once, in Santa Monica, in 1990, Jori Finkel reports.
There may be no public reaction at all to the LACMA show, which runs through March 24. But these things tend to go in unexpected directions. Remember Seattle's connection to Mapplethorpe in the form of a cowardly director? I'm referring to Christina Orr-Cahall, now leading EMP (and I wrote more details about her original decision to pull the entire Mapplethorpe exhibition off the schedule at the Corcoran here).
And recall what happened here at The Stranger in 2009 when we tried to show one of these pictures. This (below) was what we'd intended to do, but no.


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