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A heavy carbonaceous material such as petroleum residuum (1,050 DEG F.+) is converted completely to distillate and gaseous products by an integrated process consisting of a conventional fluid coking reactor, a circulating coke heater, and a gasifier in which the coke formed in the reactor is converted to an H2 and CO rich gas by reaction with steam and an oxygen-containing gas. The process can also be operated by yield a net product of good quality coke.
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United States Patent 3,66 1 ,543
Saxton 1 May 9, 1972 154] FLUID COKING PROCESS 3.542.532 11/1970 Johnson et a1 .208/127 8 et X 2,600,430 6/1952 Rlbletl ..48/206 x PRODUCT ORE 2,605,215 7/1952 Coghlan ..201/1 6 x Inventor: Arthur L. Saxton, Warren Township, NJ.
Assignee: Esso Research and Engineering Company Filed: Nov. 26, 1969 Appl. No.: 880,219
US. CL; ..48/206, 48/63, 23/204 M, 23/212 R, 201/31, 201/44, 208/127 Int. Cl ..Cl0j 3/00,C10b 49/10 FieldoiSearch... ..20l/15,16,14,13,17,31, 201/44; 48/206, 63; 208/127; 23/204 M, 212 R References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2/1955 Keith ..208/127 GAS FRA T GAS 011.
STEAM Primary Examiner-Norman Yudkoff Assistant Examiner-David Edwards Attorney-Pearlman and Stahl and C. D. Stores [5 7] ABSTRACT A heavy carbonaceous material such as petroleum residuum 1,050" F.+) is converted completely to distillate and gaseous products by an integrated process consisting of a conventional fluid coking reactor, a circulating coke heater, and a gasifier in which the coke formed in the reactor is converted to an H and CO rich gas by reaction with steam and an oxygen-containing gas. The process can also be operated by yield a net product of good quality coke.
10 Claims, 1 Drawing Figure 1101' COKE ASH P'ATENTEDHM 9 1972 moSmEGE 5200 w $5 INVENTOR.
ATTORNEY mdbxz kudxmu mun -mum FLUID COKING PROCESS INCORPORATING GASIFICATION OF PRODUCT ORE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In conventional fluid coking, the carbonaceous feed is injected into a bed of fluid coke where it is cracked to vapors and coke. The vapors pass through a cyclone to a scrubber/fractionator where they are fractionated to gas, naphtha and oil products, and a heavy stream which is recycled to the coking reactor. A circulating stream of coke is stripped in the bottom zone of the reactor and transferred to a coke burner where sufficient air is injected for burning part of the coke and heating the remainder sufficiently to satisfy the heat requirements of the coking reactor when the unburned hot coke is recycled thereto. Net coke above that consumed in the burner is withdrawn as product coke.
Unfortunately, the market for this coke has been limited with the result that attempts have been made to increase its value by subsequent treatment such as high temperature calcining and briquetting. Alternatively, the coke can be converted to an H and CO rich gas in a subsequent processing step by reaction with steam and an oxygen-containing gas. None of these subsequent coke processing steps has been found to be economically attractive for general use.
Furthermore, when processing typical petroleum residuum in a conventional fluid coker, the combustion products from the burner have an undesirably high SO content which is an atmospheric pollutant.
The two above problems low market value of the product coke, and atmospheric pollution from the burner have limited the use of fluid coking which is otherwise a superior residuum conversion process.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION ficulties can be overcome and the attractiveness of the basic fluid coking process greatly enhanced by replacing the coke burner used in the normal fluid coking process with an integrated coke heater and gasifier system comprising two fluidized beds of coke separated by a grid or other means, wherein coke is gasified in the lower'zone in'the presence of steam and air or commercially pure oxygen forming hotgases which pass into the upper bed, releasing heat which is transferred to the reactor via a circulating coke stream.'-Altematively, the gases from the gasification zone could'be combined with the circulating coke'from the reactor and conducted through a transfer line into a separator vessel'from which the hot coke circulates back to the reactor to supply its heat requirements. In either case, entrained coke will also pass to the heater'to provide additional heat for the coker-reactor. Air, or other oxygen-containing gas may be added to the heating zone to burn a portion of the CO and hydrogenand thus provide any additional heat which is required to satisfy the coking reactor heat requirement.
The gas product from the heater is rich in H, and CO and is an attractive feed gas for manufacturing a concentrated H stream via the well-known'water-gas-shift reaction, or' for BRIEF REFERENCE TO THE DRAWING The invention will be better understood by reference to the accompanying drawing which shows in diagrammatic form suitable apparatus for carrying out a preferred embodiment of the invention.
PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Referring now to the drawing, a carbonaceous material having a Conradson carbon of about 15 percent, such as heavy residuum boiling l,050 F.+, or a coal charslurry, is passed into coking zone 1 by line 2, manifold 3 and multiple feed nozzles represented by lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 onto a fluidized bed of solids, e.g., coke of 40 to 1,000 microns in size, having an upper level L. A fluidizing gas,e.g., steam, is admitted to the base of the vessel through line 9 in amounts sufficient to obtain superficial fluidizing gas velocities in the range of 0.5 to 4 ft./sec. Coke at a temperature to 300 F. above the coking temperature is admitted to the coker-by line 10 in amounts sufiicient to maintain a coking temperature in the range of 900 to l,200 F. The lower portion of the coker serves as a stripping zone to remove occluded hydrocarbons from the coke. Coke is withdrawn from this stripping zone by line 11 and is circulated to heater l2. Conversion productsare passed through cyclone l3 to remove entrained solids which are returned to the coker through dipleg 14. The vapors leave the cyclone through line 15 and pass into scrubber-fractionator 16 where they are fractionated to gas leaving by line 17 naphtha by line 18 and gas oil by line 19. A heavy stream is removed through line 20, a portion of which is circulated through conventional heat removal exchangers and returned to scrubber as pumparound by line 21; another portion is recycled to the coker by line 22. The small amount of fine solid particles which pass through the reactor cyclone is returned to the coker reactor with this recycle stream.
In heater 12, stripped coke from the reactor (commonly called cold coke) is introduced by line 1 1 to a fluid bed of hot coke having .a level L. The bed is heated by fuel gas passing upward through disc and donut distributor 23 and egg crate baffle 24. Hot coke is removed from the fluidized bed in heater 12 by line 25 and a portion is passed by line 26 to a bed of fluidized coke having a level L in gasifier 27. Another portion is recycled to the coker by line 10 to supply heat thereto. The coke introduced to'the fluidized bed in the gasifier 27 is contacted with steam introduced by line28and air or oxygen by line 29 where the following reactions take place:
When coke is oxidized,the initial product is a mixture of CO and CO as shown inequation "1. At temperatures of 1,600" F.+ in the presence of oxygen, C0 is rapidly oxidized to CO according to equation 2. After oxygen has been exhausted, CO reacts with carbon to form CO. At high temperatures, equilibrium favors drawingequation' 3-to the rightto form CO. Low pressure also favors this'reaction. Reaction 3 is slower'thanreaction 2. Thus,equilibrium would favor very reaction is slightly endothermic and when steam issubstituted for some of the oxygen, the, gasification zone temperature drops at a constant quantity of coke gasified. Finally, water reacts with C0 to produce CO and hydrogen inthe water gas shift represented by equation 5. Most of the sulfur in the coke will be converted to H S with a very small amount of COS being formed.
The gases formed by the above reactions pass upwardly through the gasifier and into, the heater by way of the narrow neck portion 30. Additional air or oxygen may, be admitted to the heater by lines 31 to burn a small portionof these gases .and supply additional heat to the coke in the heater. The gases Mol.% Including Mol.% Excluding ,0 i-i 11,0 as H, 6.5 as 11.0 2.9 co 19.9 20.6 co, 1.9 8.2 N, 61.9 64.4 ms 0.9 i
Net heating value on a dry basis is 84.6 BTU/SCF. When oxygen is used for gasification, a typical composition of the gas Net heating value on dry basis is 224 BTU/SCF. Small quantities of cracked hydrocarbon materials will also be present in the product gases and will increase the heating value of the product gases. The quantity and composition will vary somewhat depending on the coker reactor feed and on reaction and stripping conditions.
Some net product coke may be withdrawn if desired through line 33. Agglomerates of foreign solids, which mayform in some cases, can also be purged via this line through an elutriator from which any included coke can be blown back into the gasifier.
While the process has been described with respect to the circulation of coke as the fluidized medium used in the process, it is to be understood that a captive bed of fluidized inert particles, such as alundum or mullite, may be used in the gasifier 27. This can. be advantageous for systems in which substantial quantities of very fine about p.) particles of foreign solids are released inthe gasifier such that very low velocities would be required in order to maintain a stable fluidized bed. Such a captive bed can be fluidized readily without significant entrainment of the captive bed particles at superficial velocities substantially higher than the entrainment velocity of line particles released from the coke. Such a captive bed provides a well mixed reaction zone in the gasifier in which the carbon can be burned and the foreign solids released without causing severe fluidization problems. Some equilibrium concentration of the fine particles are retained in the gasifier bed, thus providing-sulficientresidence time for complete gasification of the carbon before the bulk of the particles are entrained by the exit gases. The hot gasifier products, including entrained solid particles, pass through a heat exchangebed similar to the bed described in connection with heater 12. In this heat exchange bed the coke from the reactor would be heated as required to satisfy the reactor heat balance. This type of process would be preferable when processing feeds containing much higher solids than are normally present in petroleum residuum, e.g., bitumen from coal, tar sands or shale which may contain -20 percent inert solids. The solids, such as fine sand, metal oxides, or the like, contained in the bitumen are released in the captive bed in the gasifier and being smaller than the coke are more easily entrained out and carried upwardly through the heat exchange bed. These fine particles will also pass through the conventional cyclones in the heater vessel but can be recovered by a downstream electrical precipitator.
EXAMPLE A Kuwait vacuum residuum containing 5.5 wt. percent suifur, boiling l,050 F.+ and having a Conradson carbon of 21.8 is introduced into the fluidized bed of coker 1, operating at 975 F. The coke produced is passed to heater 12 at 950-975 F. and heated with gases from gasifier 27 at 1,800 F. This gas is formed from coke gasified in gasifier 27 by air or oxygen and steam introduced thereinto. The gas leaves the heater at 1,150 F. After transferring heat to the circulating coke. Virtually all solid material is removed from the gas by cyclone 32.
Steam/air rates are controlled to maintain the gasifier bed at a temperature of about 1,800" F. The heater operates at a pressure of 20 psig and the gasifier at 25 psig.
The following data are obtained:
TABLE 1 Operating Conditions and Feed and Product Compositions Coker Feed and Operating Conditions Coker feed Rate 12,000 B/SD Source Kuwait 1050F.+Residuum Con. carbon, wt.% 21.8 Sulfur, wt.% 5.5 Gravity, APl 5.7 Va, ppm 1 13- Ni, ppm 25 Totalash, ppm 252 Operating conditions Reactor temperature, F. 975 Reactor product final cut point, F. 950 Coke circulation rate, tons/min. 15.5 Heater zone temperature, F. l 150 pressure, psig 20 Gasifier zone temperature, F. 1800 pressure, psig 25 Coke composition Gross Oil Net to gasification Hydrogen, wt.% 6.0 14.7 Carbon, wt.% 86.6 77.9 90.1 Sulfur, wt.% 7.4 7.4 7.4 Va, ppm 410. Ni, ppm Total ash, ppm 906 Air/Steam Oxygen/Steam Product gas composition Gasification Gasification Composition, mol.%
100.0 100.0 Fuel gas heating valve (Hi-1V) BTU/SCF (ex. H,S) 150 350 The material balance on the heater gasifier is as follows:
TABLE IL-HEATER-GASIFIER HEAT AND MATERIAL BALANCE Material Balance! (Number for oxygen/steam gasificatlon shown in parenthesis where different from air/steam gaslfication.)
Cold coke Hot coke Air or from Entrained to Steam (oxygen) Steam reactor oil reactor Temp F. 350 353 975 075 l, 150 M#/hr 4(14) 1, S 14. 4 1, 860 6, 030(1,070) ACF/miu Supplemcntary Gasifier Euair (or stage trained oxygen) Gasifier product coke to to upper Product feed gas heater zone gas 'Iemp., F 1,150 1,800 1,800 360 1,150 Mi /hm--- 136(132) (96) =Mol/hr 8,100(3, 917) 1, 630(460) 9, 980(4, 445) MACF/min- 82. 3(39. 9) 83. 7(37. 4)
Heater section heat balance Air/steam Oxygen/steam Heat load:
Heat to circulating coke 130. 0 130. 0 Entrained oil heat of cracking 6. 0 5. 0 Heat to transfer line steam 3. 4 3. 4 Heater heat losses 3. 6 3. 6
Total 142. 0 142.0
Heat supply:
Gas from gasifier 42. 0 20. 1 Entrained coke 28. 6 28.6 Combustion of C0 and H2111 heater.. 7]. 4 93. 4
Total 142. 0 142. 0
It will be appreciated that operating conditions, product gas composition and the overall heat and material can vary substantially from the above data, depending on such variables as the coker reactor feed and the coker product objectives.
The nature and advantages of the present invention having been fully set forth and examples of the same given, what is claimed as new, useful, and unobvious and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:
1. An integrated fluid coking-gasification process which comprises:
treating a carbonaceous material in a low pressure fluid coking zone comprising a fluid bed of particles operating at a temperature between about 900 and about l,200 F. to produce coke and light hydrocarbon material, some of which may adhere to said coke; i a a? heating to a higher temperature said coke in a low pressure heating zone comprising a separate fluid bed of particles;
passing a portion of said heated coke to said fluid coking zone and another portion of said heated coke to a low pressure gasification zone;
contacting said heated coke in said gasifying zone with steam and an oxygen-containing gas to produce a metalrich ash and a gaseous stream containing hydrogen and carbon oxide gases;
passing said ash and gaseous stream to said heating zone to provide a substantial part of the heat required in said heating zone;
recovering said gaseous stream of said heating zone.
2. A process according to claim 1 wherein the pressure in said fluid coking zone, said heating zone and said gasifying zone is less than about 3.0 atmospheres.
3. A process according to claim 1 wherein said gasifying zone comprises a separate bed of fluidized particles.
4. A process according to claim 3 wherein said gaseous stream leaving said gasifying zone passes through a distributing zone before entering said heating zone to provide for more even gas flow in said heating zone, as well as, better fluidizing of said heating zone bed.
5. A process according to claim 4 wherein additional oxygen-containing gases are mixed with said gaseous stream and said mixture passed through said distributing zone and then into said heating zone.
6. A process according to claim 1 wherein said coke produced in said fluid coking zone is passed through a stripping zone and contacted with a stripping gas to remove a major portion of said adhering light hydrocarbon material before said coke is heated in said heating zone.
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When you say a videogame has a "good story", it's always within the confines of a very slim context - sure, Halo has a good story for a videogame, but it's no 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Condemned may tell a fine tale, but it's hardly a Poe-esque piece of horror fiction. Frontlines is on the very highest end of the 'good for a videogame' scale. It spins an intriguing fictional history, drawing on real events and thoughtfully extrapolating the very worst possible outcome from our current oil-related problems to set up a backdrop for a good old war. It may just be an excuse to shoot more poor Russian types right in the stinking face, but it's the first interesting excuse we've had in a while.
With oil rapidly drying up, the world goes into an economic meltdown, supply lines break down, the northern hemisphere takes on an African climate and even the richest nations feed their people from breadlines. With the world desperate to secure the remaining oil reserves, long-time allies China and Russia unite to form the Red Star Alliance, followed soon after by an alliance between Europe and the United States. After a gradual twenty-year-long global collapse, troops are deployed to secure oil fields and the Red Star nations decide they'd quite like those European and American oil fields, too. The rotters. So, the stage is set for the first wave of our war - a slow, ground-based push from Turkmenistan, northwards into Russia and a final mission on Moscow's doorstep.
Every mission offers the freedom to tackle objectives as you please, setting the action in the middle of large battlefields where multiple objectives sit on the frontline; taking an objective pushes the frontline forward, opening up further tasks and more space to play with. Of course, as you drive into enemy territory, enemy forces fight back intelligently, retreating when necessary and fighting to the last man standing when you've forced them back to the very edge of the battlefield. Except… that entire last paragraph is a lie.
Freedom is an illusion. If Frontlines wants you in a tank it'll give you a tank and make the proceeding section impossibly difficult without one; if it wants you to use drones, you'll happen across a box of them and be faced with just the right kind of opposition for your scavenged equipment to deal with. In the dream, Frontlines is Call of Duty 4 with choices to make and multiple paths towards your goal; in reality it funnels you towards specific objectives and offers little more freedom than Halo 3. Sure, it's no COD4 - which is practically a lightgun game in parts - but even when dropped into a large area, your objective is still very clear and the best approach is immediately obvious from all the gear you're given to play about with for the next section.
While the objectives keep shifting and the frontline keeps moving forward, the way the game plays is very similar to any other post-Halo FPS. You'll advance and engage in repeated small skirmishes against entrenched enemies, occasionally picking from several possible routes but ultimately ending up in the same location; you'll use vehicles and a selection of weapons to your advantage and you'll rely upon teammates to cover your back as you assault tough positions. Enemies are just smart enough to occasionally pull back, but for the most part they'll prefer to fling themselves at you, more like skagged-up muggers than professional soldiers, and the only time they present a true threat is when they're tooled up with rockets or entrenched in such numbers that you need to rely on your conveniently-placed gadgetry to get by.
The weapons are lightweight and floaty and enemies soak up bullets like a nuclear-powered Jesse Ventura, making shooting anything or anyone terminally unsatisfying... which should obviously be the death of the game - were it not for the brilliant, brilliant toys.
Yes. Toys. Online, Frontlines' Role system means you can enter the battlefield with deployable weapons, remote drones, EMP weapons or air support; offline, you'll find those same toys littering the battlefield as if some gun-toting Johnny Appleseed had seeded a year's supply of futuristic firepower across the Middle East. Remote-controlled mayhem never gets old, and we don't foresee many players opting for the duller roles. Air strikes are entirely underwhelming and pack all the explosive wallop of a well-shaken can of Coke; the gun emplacements are as powerful as you'd expect and a railgun can rip through a tank faster than any rocket launcher; EMP weapons are, like the air strikes, so unimpressive that you won't even notice you've used one. Still, as guffo as the EMP is, it's an essential piece of kit on the online battlefield.
And it's lucky the online game is so strong since the Campaign is done and dusted in just five hours. And while it's mostly a fun five hours, the lack of any longevity means any blind fool can see Frontlines is built as a multiplayer game. Thanks to the dedicated servers, Frontlines happily chucks 32 players about the place without even a hint of chug-o-vision. All the toys and tools available to you on the offline battlefield immediately make more sense in the online space - you'll level up your character over the course of a game, unlocking three levels of your particular role's ability so the early stages of the battle aren't overwhelmed by every fool dropping an air strike on the battlefield at once.
The evolving frontline does exactly what Kaos promised it would, keeping skirmishes tightly focused and ensuring nobody gets stuck in the middle of nowhere without a clue of what to do. The evolving frontline also means bedroom Rambos can't sneak deep behind enemy lines and capture undefended rear positions, denying us our favorite ultra-cheap Battlefield: Modern Combat tactic. Oh well...
Where most games supplement a solid solo experience with an often slapdash multiplayer game, Frontlines: Fuel of War nails the versus mode and boots the solo campaign forty feet over the goalmouth. Thanks to months and months of play testing, it's the kind of smart and balanced shooter you'd expect from the men who brought the Desert Combat BF1942 mod, and it's leagues ahead of the last Battlefield.
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What do you plan to accomplish in October? Come one, come all! share financial, personal or whatever goals you'd like so we can cheer you on!
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I don't think I have any September goals...at least not any that I would like to remember bc we spent $4600 on our credit card last month!!!!!!!!!!! Yikers! It has car insurance ($1500) but I had no idea it was that bad. So...
1) Keep the CC spending to gas, food and our weekly family meal out.
2) Start bringing breakfast AND lunch to work.
3) Try out some new protein recipes for DS1 (at least 3)
4) Prepare for my 2 interviews as best I can. Make a presentation that will knock their socks OFF~!
Racerchic - September 23rd is a wonderfully fabulous day!!!! You are truly blessed. Congrats again.
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October Goals:
1) Save more
2) Start a Christmas list
3) Cook some budget stretching meals that are also healthy. Explore more veggies for yummy soups.
Do I dare start a "TO DO LIST" for next March????
|Thu, 10-03-2013 - 4:16pm
Here were my September Goals:
September Goals:
1) Save $400. I don't think I can squeek out anymore than that.
2) Watch my money like a hawk. Stop loosing littles bits here and there.
Still need to watch more. Even though I pack my breakfast & lunch, I tend to go to stores to kill time & buy nail polish, makeup ...etc... NEED TO STOP THIS!
3) WATCH MY DIET...after loosing 25 lbs. I get this God aweful report that my cholesterol has sky rocketed !!!!!! I've been eating sooooo much healthier and my rate is over 307?????? Husband dropped by a ton...WHAT!!!!!! Recheck in three months :(
Trying very hard to be a good girl.....the next three months with holidays will be hard. I am keeping my weight off!
4) Continue counting my blessings on getting this Chapter 13 Bankruptcy behind me for good. Have I mentioned that before.......
WEEKS TO GO ....20 ...did I say "TWENTY" .....YEP...ONLY "20" WEEKS to GO!!! .... Balance $10,594.00
BTW....who besides me can believe it's October and fall of the year already...yeepers...where has this year went?
|Thu, 10-03-2013 - 3:08pm
Tracy, I can appreciate your concern. I am not doing anything to lose weight at this point. I am eating when I need to, and doing everything I can to take good care of myself. I know that I need to eat well to make milk, so that is the most important thing right now. I am just trying to eat as healthy as I can. :)
|Thu, 10-03-2013 - 2:15pm
October goals are going to be very difficult for us but should be accomplished so holiday season doesn't put us even further into debt.
1) Pay off school taxes with actual cash and NOT from our line of credit (this will require selling alot of items on ebay and craigslist which we are able to do but I really have to PUSH myself to get it done.
2) Look into getting a credit card solely for our ebay business. Right now, the funds and expenses are intermingled, because we never thought our business would take off so well and so quickly. There's a price to pay for success though and now all our money is mixed up. BAD....
3) continuing with #2, to separate our personal money from our business money
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Wow, can't believe it's October already! Where has the time gone???
September goals were:
Pay of DH's Loan - DONE!
Buy Diaper Bag - DONE! My mom actually funded this and a few nursing bras as her gift for baby, so I got an AMAZING diaper bag, which should stand up for a long time.
Pay $150.00 on CC. This did not happen, but I'm ok with that. I am mildly hopeful that child support will pick up regularly now, and perhaps I will go back to working soon as well. Either or both would make a difference.
Put $200 in saving. Again, this did not happen.
Have a baby! YAY! This has been accomplished! We welcomed Kaeli Gracelyn on September 23rd at 9:35AM. She weighed in at 8 lbs, 3 oz, 21 inches long. She is the spitting image of her 4 year old brother, and an amazingly good baby! We are nursing, and it is going well, so that is a relief. I should know later today if she is gaining weight back, as she dropped quite a bit right away.
On to October Goals!
Pay $125.00 on CC.
Put $200.00 in Savings.
Determine a path for work. Is the old job going to be able to bring me back? Are we shooting for a new job?
Execute path for work.
Continue breastfeeding.
Lose weight. (No specific amount just yet. Waiting for a plateau after having baby.)
Enjoy Birthday, just a little!
My list feels long this month, but I have felt stuck in limbo for so long, between work and the drive to lose weight. Both were hindered, for obvious reasons, by pregnancy. I have about 85 lbs to lose total, but expect some of that to be easy. And work is hard to find when you are as big as a house expecting a new baby! All good things, but I am ready to get down to business now.
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September Goals were:
1. Get DH's child support completely caught up. Got this done!
2. Work on getting the grocery bill and eating out bills down by 10% I still need to evaluate and see, but I do think we brought it down some.
3. NO credit card spending at all. I did put one small thing on it, but made an extra payment on it to make up for it once payday came around.
4. I would like to implement a no spending day for me at least once a week. I have been successful once a week for the entire month.
5. Keep up with ringing my breakfast and lunch to work at least 3-4 days a week. Done
6. Not a financial goal, but I want to start the cross fit class that they offer in the building across the street (for FREE) during lunch time and do it at least 2-3 times a week. Also done, its usually 2 times a week, but I did get 4 days in one week and 3 days in one week.
October Goals:
1. Get ODD's car fixed and look at changing insurance coverages.
2. Put $100 a week into savings envelope towards replacement car in the spring.
3. Get through both parents visit weekend and company beach weekend with minimum extra expenses.
4. Continue one day a week no spending days.
5. Continue ringing my breakfast and lunch to work at least 3-4 days a week.
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Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about the week's news, of course. Maz, hold onto your hat, a shocking scientific discovery from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. According to psychology researchers, humans like what?
MAZ JOBRANI: Humans like what?
SAGAL: Yes. They discovered this scientifically.
JOBRANI: Scientifically, humans like food.
SAGAL: Even more than food.
JOBRANI: Air.
SAGAL: Presumably more than air, because this came in first and second place.
JOBRANI: Sex.
SAGAL: Yes. Not only sex, but booze and sex.
SAGAL: It's been scientifically proven. The psychologists found people like drinking beer and having sex, and also that you can get a research grant for pretty much anything these days.
SAGAL: Researchers had subjects make a list of the best things in life, and participants ranked sex number 1, drinking number 2, and volunteering number 3.
SAGAL: We assume number 4 on the list of favorite things to do was "lying about what number 3 is."
JOBRANI: There was no study.
SAGAL: There was.
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SAGAL: Yeah, that's true.
FELBER: What else are they going to like besides sex and booze? Food should have been up there.
FELBER: I'm older now. Food should make a move.
FELBER: Food.
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I want you to close your eyes and concentrate -- hard -- on what it's like to use your hand to click your computer mouse.
Now, I want you to really click your mouse.
You wouldn't think so, but as the exercise shows, it's often easier to simply do something than to think about doing it. That's one of the brain's many mysteries, as well as one of the challenges facing researchers trying to enable people to control computers using only their thoughts.
The goal of this "brain-computer interface" work is to bring some form of communication to people who are fully conscious but paralyzed on account of disease or spinal-cord injuries.
Laypeople might think that to click a mouse, the brain sends some sort of "click mouse" signal that's easy to detect with medicine's growing arsenal of brain imaging hardware. No such luck. While sensors honed in on the specific part of the brain involved with hand movement will indeed pick up electrical signals, scientists don't yet understand which of those signals are just "noise." Moreover, the next mouse click might produce different signals, in different groups of neurons.
As a result, brain computer control is currently painfully slow. It may take several seconds for patients to move their cursors from one side of a screen to another, though they tend to get better with practice. For paralyzed patients, of course, communication at any speed is welcome.
John P. Donoghue, a Brown University researcher, says the best he expects for the first generation of widely deployed brain-computer control systems is performance a little better than that associated with Parkinson's disease. Dr. Donoghue's work involves tiny sensors that are surgically implanted underneath the scalp. These sensors are presumed to give more precise readings of the brain's electrical activity than the familiar EEG headsets, which fit over the skull like a cap and must deal with the brain's roar of electrical activity.
But Jonathan R. Wolpaw, of the Wadsworth Center in Albany, N.Y., a leader in EEG work, says external devices are getting much better, and are becoming as precise as implants are said to be, but without requiring surgery. That's true, he says, even though EEGs are a more familiar technology, having been around for nearly a century, with none of the futuristic appeal of implants, which are of more recent origin.
The computer control systems of both Prof. Donoghue and Prof. Wolpaw require users to concentrate on a task. Another approach to the problem is to take advantage of the brain's "reflex" actions, those that occur without our conscious knowledge.
For example, neurons in the visual cortex will automatically "fire" at the same rate as something blinking. So Melody Moore Jackson at Georgia Tech University shows patients a keyboard on a screen, each "key" a colored square flashing at a different frequency.
She monitors her patients' brain activity as they concentrate first on one square and then another. The result is that patients can "type" at up to eight characters a minute.
None of these systems has been tested with more than a handful of patients, and widespread availability is years away.
Because of the slow speeds of these brain control systems, they aren't being considered as replacements for the keyboard and mouse used by fully abled people. But other possibilities are being explored. Researchers, for example, are getting better at detecting overall brain states -- such as attention, excitement or anger -- which might one day be useful in the office.
Desney Tan, a Microsoft researcher, describes how an operating system many years hence might use a brain oxygen scanner built into your chair's headrest to glean that, at a given moment, you're completely preoccupied with whatever you're doing. The software might thus hold off on alerting you to a new email, at least until the scanner senses that you again have the mental bandwidth to deal with it.
One group might be ready for brain computer control right now: computer gamers, who tend to match a love of gadgets with abundant disposable income. Companies, including NeuroSky and Emotiv, both of California, expect game controls using their technology will be available next year. The systems will be too slow to control rapid-fire shooter games, but can be used, say the companies, for slower movements, such as checking inventories.
Researchers are skeptical that brain computer control technology has evolved enough to be useful now even in a game, but say they're watching commercial developments with interest.
Dr. Donoghue notes that the ultimate goal is restoring the use of a paralyzed body. If we can reliably detect a "move mouse" brain signal, he says, there's no reason that we shouldn't be able to actually signal the hand to move, which was the brain's intent all along.
In that spirit, he envisions a future system in disabled persons in which scanners pick up brain signals and transmit them over a fiber-optic cable implanted in the person, connecting the brain with a hand or leg. The signal can then be used to trigger the intended muscle movement.
While "mind reading" is part of the standard Orwellian dystopia, the actual technology is still extraordinarily primitive. That's bad news for immobile patients, but should be solace for anyone worried about private thoughts being public.
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He said when the district started the parking lot project, many students parked in no-parking zones. He said if the district had finished the parking lot project all at once, it would have taken another eight weeks.
Residents didn't want to endure the parking problems for too long, Romero said.
A Mora County sheriff's transport officer was found Monday driving drunk in an unmarked sheriff's car on Interstate 25, state police said.
Ramon Montoya, 28, of Sapello, was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated.
His blood-alcohol level was reported at .30, more than three times the state's presumed level of intoxication.
Montoya, who started in July, is on unpaid leave from the Sheriff's Department pending an internal investigation. He is an uncommissioned officer who transports inmates.
Las Vegas resident Robert Jones isn't shy about saying that he grows marijuana plants in his house. His cancer qualifies him as a legal user.
But that apparently doesn't matter to San Miguel County's housing voucher program — known as Section 8.
On Oct. 12, the program's executive director, Gilbert Almanza, informed Jones that he would no longer be getting the Section 8 benefit, effective Nov. 30.
The city of Las Vegas is encouraging children to trick-or-treat on Sunday after all.
Last week, the mayor said the city would ask that kids go trick-or-treating on Saturday.
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"City Hall was bombarded with calls. People said they wanted Sunday. I hadn't heard nice comments about Saturday," the mayor said.
Old Town merchants are still inviting trick-or-treaters to go to their area Friday afternoon.
Patricia Crespin, who calls Las Vegas home, is set to appear on stage for the upcoming "Bless Me, Ultima" show.
Crespin is part of award-winning Vortex Theatre's performance of Rudolfo Anaya's book- turned-into-play. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Highlands University's historic Ilfeld Auditorium.
Retired educator Mel Root is facing state Rep. Richard Vigil, D-Ribera, in the District 70 House race.
Vigil, a bus contractor, has represented the district since 1999 and beat the Republican Root with 70 percent of the vote two years ago.
The heavily Democratic district covers much of San Miguel County, including most of Las Vegas, and a small portion of Torrance County.
The city of Las Vegas is proposing greater controls over the Fiesta Council, a group mired in controversy over the last few months.
Last week, city officials presented a proposed contract between the city and the council that would require the group to provide a 2010 financial report and have the mayor appoint a third of the council's membership.
Ray Finck is a big fan of San Miguel County's plan to build a pedestrian and bike path along Cinder Road.
"This will help me immensely," he said. "I try to use my bicycle anytime I can. I ride my bicycle because it makes me feel better."
Finck's bike was placed in front of a row of shovels stuck in a pile of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the path on Friday.
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Education Bond D is on the statewide ballot Nov. 2, giving New Mexico voters an opportunity to support infrastructure improvements at public colleges and universities throughout the state.
Statewide, Bond D would fund $155.2 million in higher education improvements. In San Miguel County, funding would total $12.1 million, with $7.1 million allocated for Highlands University and $5 million allocated for Luna Community College. More details are online at www.educationinnewmexico.com.
Las Vegas has its divisions, but it generally enjoys "relative harmony," a local historian said at a banquet Friday.
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Lopez, who has a local history program on KFUN every Monday, was the banquet's keynote speaker. The committee honored property owners who have improved their historic buildings in recent times.
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122 residents are foreign born (1.6% Europe, 0.8% Asia).
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $3,649 (0.8%)
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Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (345.6 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
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Latitude: 45.08 N, Longitude: 92.92 W
Area code commonly used in this area: 651
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Population change in the 1990s: +234 (+6.2%).
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On 5/6/1965, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 9.9 miles away from the Grant city center killed 6 people and injured 158 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages.
On 6/4/1958, a category F5 (max. wind speeds 261-318 mph) tornado 31.5 miles away from the city center killed 21 people and injured 74 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages.
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Washington County (12) is near the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 8
Emergencies Declared: 3
Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 5, Storms: 4, Floods: 3, Tornadoes: 3, Wind: 1, Drought: 1, Fire: 1, Hurricane: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
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Ozone [ppb] level in 2010 was 25.9. This is about average. Closest monitor was 3.4 miles away from the city center.
Lead (Pb) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 0.0136. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 8.1 miles away from the city center.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 0.369. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 8.6 miles away from the city center.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 7.13. This is better than average. Closest monitor was 14.2 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 21.3. This is about average. Closest monitor was 7.9 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM2.5) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 10.00. This is about average. Closest monitor was 7.9 miles away from the city center.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2012: 1.0%
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Number of grocery stores: 20
Number of supercenters and club stores: 1
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 5
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 52
Number of full-service restaurants: 136
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9.60% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($54,002 average adjusted gross income)
0.05% of residents moved from foreign countries ($159 average AGI)
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0.05% of residents moved to foreign countries ($358 average AGI)
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Total length: 11 meters (36ft)
Total average daily traffic: 3,650
Total average daily truck traffic: 109
FCC Registered Antenna Towers:2
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers:1
FAA Registered Aircraft:1
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Born on January 16th, 1987, Kiki Romeo spent the first six years of his life in Togo, West Africa. Raised in a single family home Kiki Romeo's mother was adamant about him and his older brother going to church. His first introduction to music Kiki Romeo was drawn to the church choir... See Full BioMore Info
Apr 6
HYPE Magazine & Berzerker Mode Presents Friday Night Ruckus Sponsored By: Eye Kandy Ink.. $50 Tattoo Give Away Friday April 6th, 2012 $5 at the door Performances By : Verbal I Records YOTTI Kiki Romeo Capatil P Big Chuck & Joey Southside Young Dex Team 88 Minegamez Ms. Janese Kayotik Come out and kick it HYPE style.. and lets show em why Nap Town got next BOW!
Nov 16
Come kick it in a laid back and chill atmosphere wit Gorilla Squad, great t live music, partyinwit downtown style!!!! LADIES FREE B4 11pm; $5 all night..$20 VIP!!! ★★★DRINK SPECIALS★★★ PATRON, HENNESSY, GOOSE, REMY and we bring to you da EXCLUSIVE*GORILLA JUICE* °•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•° DJ KAYLO ON DA 1s & 2s spinnin yo favorite hits •°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•° Gorilla Squad will be LIVE!!!!!!" ★L.T.★ ★FIRE SPITTA★ ★KIKI ROMEO★ ★JIT★ 247 SKY BAR!!!!!! DA NEW SPOT TO KICK IT ON A WEDS NIGHT!!! ××××Artists×××× we have 5 slots to rock da stage Are you a star dat needs to get ya name out? Tired of gettin treated like a "local"? You wanna perform on a star quality stage in front of star quality fans? Contact: 317-500-5090..317-693-0818…812-374-7103 or 317-629-7662 to lock yo spot!!! WE DOIN DIS!!!!!!
Jun 8
NapTown presents some of the hottest acts around the town.
May 28
Will perform after 10p.m
May 27
Show will start after midnight
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