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Our weather has continued its pattern of mild days followed by cold, then mild again. The roaring storm we had Sunday afternoon left our landscape awash in colors darkened, intensified by the wetness. Magenta, orange, gold -— shrubbery and faded grasses, sand sodden.
Harriet Bernstein has lost her cat, Tillie. They had been staying at Jenny Allen's house on Lambert's Cove Road while their home, The Red Hat, was being painted. As Harriet was packing up to return home, Tillie disappeared and hasn't been seen since. Harriet said someone on Facebook posted that they may have seen her near Cottle's, but no second sighting. Tillie is a black cat with a white chest and stomach. Last seen, she was wearing a gray flea collar. Please call Harriet at 508-696-7186 if you see Tillie.
Congratulations to Celine Segel, who passed her citizenship test a few weeks ago. Last Tuesday, she and her husband Jay went to Boston for the official ceremony. Celine loaned me the book she used to study for the test. It was interesting to go through it and see if I could have passed it myself, interesting to see the kinds of questions someone is expected to answer. I don't even know if kids study civics in school anymore.
Along those lines, all West Tisbury registered Democrats are invited to a meeting of the Democratic Town Committee this Saturday morning to elect delegates and alternates to the Democratic State Convention in June. Someone will be on hand to register voters. Doors will open at Howes House at 9:30 am. The meeting will begin at 10 am.
At the West Tisbury library this coming week: Friday, Feb. 16, 10:30 am, an Open Chamber Music Rehearsal. Bring your instrument and play or just come to listen. At 3 pm, tweens and teens, ages 10 to 18, are invited to a Henna Workshop with Charlotte Rooney. Sign up at the library to get a free henna tattoo. Saturday, Feb. 17, 3 pm, a Rock Concert for Kids with the Pinkletinks, formerly Jellybone Rivers and the Maniacs of the Heart. Sunday, Feb. 18, 3:30 pm, writer/educator Merissa Nathan Gerson will talk about Judaism: insight into the origin and evolution of the religion, and the contemporary meaning of what it is to be a Jew, both from inside the community and from the outside looking in. Monday, Feb. 19, the library is closed for Presidents' Day. Tuesday, Feb. 20, noon to 1:30 pm, a free drop-in Wellness Clinic.
I was sad to hear that Bob Day died on Jan. 23 in Sarasota, Fla., where he and Barbara moved when they left West Tisbury. Both Bob and Barbara were such a presence here for so many years, active in all aspects political, religious, and social life. The family is planning a celebration of Bob's life at Grace Church this coming July.
Another sad loss for our town was Kevin Hearn, who died on Feb. 3, also in Florida. Although he grew up here, many of us newcomers knew Kevin and his wife Roberta from their wonderful Heather Gardens. He was an avid and skillful fisherman too. There will be a service sometime this spring at Lambert's Cove Cemetery.
My condolences to both families and to all who knew and admired Bob and Kevin.


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It has been a 30 year journey raising money and creating market opportunities for not for profits and social enterprises across the UK and Africa/South America. Yet I am still amazed by the cynical approach to public sector procurement.
One sector that should own the heart of this market place choses to take an ostrich approach to business development.
Year on year the private sector and charities squeeze social enterprises to the margins by securing commissioned contracts for services, colleges do the same where employability or capacity building in communities takes place. So many great projects live off the scraps.
2012 offers more scope for social enterprise to compete effectively on the larger stages, buyers look for the openness and transparency of the social enterprise, the commitment to sustainability, local reinvestment and accountability, plus the fact that more of the funding is spent on the service or product.
Yet time after time, meeting after meeting I still hear SE's complain that procurement doesn't work for them.
Well the challenge this year is grow your market by one contract through open and competitive tendering - go out there and have a go at something you should be doing, if you need help to prepare use events like London Connect or York Connect to meet buyers hear from them why they want to work with SE's, the small investment can create a massive sustainable return.
A contract for an SE in the southwest formerly run by a large charity has been secured, it is what they have been doing as a subcontractor for the last 4 years but now rather than living on a percentage they have all the income for the next 4 years. It works so have a go.
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Yeasted Waffles | Sweet Lavender Ricotta with Cream
Not that long ago I was in the Netherlands with my papa where I had poffertjes for the first time. We had biked from Leiden to Delft, stopping in a small town on the way looking for a bike shop we had heard about. Instead we encountered a poffertjes man, and his giant cast iron poffertjes pan. And I mean GIANT, it's the size of a large kitchen table, filled with perfect shallow pock marks for making perfect tiny pankcakes. Except they aren't pancakes. As the very proud Dutchman lectured us, and several folks who lived in the town confirmed, poffertjes are very special, very dutch, and very not pancakes. Several things set them apart from pancakes. Most important is that it's a yeast batter, next that they are made from a blend of flours (wheat, buckwheat, and rye), last (though certainly most impressive), that very few people own or are skilled enough to use a traditional, enormous, poffertjes pan. The Wikipedia article doesn't seem to do them justice, claiming they are much sweeter than pankcakes (maybe the person who wrote the article hasn't had American pankcakes?), and definitely failing to make them sound impressive by any standards ("Poffertjes are not hard to prepare but a special pan is needed" please!) This person has obviously not watched a true poffertjes man flip hundreds of tiny poffertjes in a matter of seconds while serving and pouring them at an alarming rate. I actually have a pan very similar to poffertjes, and when I get my nerve and flipping speed up to par I hope to do a true poffertjes brunch. Until then, I settled on poffertjes inspired waffles. These yeasted waffles with blended flours are delicious, but nothing like poffertjes. They are incredibly yeasty, crispy, and light, holding up well under any sort of topping. You can even save the batter for up to two weeks, and it only gets better!
Yeasted Waffles
Yeasted Waffles Ingredients:
- 2 1/4 teaspoon of active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 cups of warm milk
- 1 tablespoon of dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 cup of melted cultured butter
- 2 cups of sifted unbleached white flour
- 1 cup of blended flour (buckwheat, oat, pumpernickel, or rye)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Yeasted Waffles Instructions:
- In a large bowl mix the yeast and warm water and set aside while you heat the milk. When the milk is warm but not hot, add it to the yeast mixture with salt and sugar.
- Melt and add butter, then sift in the various flours. My favorite is with 1/2 cup of oat flour and a 1/2 cup of pumpernickel. Mix well and set aside, covered until well risen, though preferably 24-48 hours. The longer you wait, the stronger and sourer the yeast flavor.
- after it is well risen, add the two eggs and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda. turn on the waffle iron and go! With a large waffle iron we used 1 cup per waffle, and made about 6-8 waffles per batch.
Sweet Lavender Ricotta with Cream
I have no idea if there is a precedent or name for making this sort of topping, but I feel as if I've stumbled upon the jack-pot of toppings for hot foods. This topping is thick and lightly sweet like whipped cream, except it doesnt melt. That's right, it doesn't melt. This means you can dish it up and have the same thick incredible texture of fresh whipped cream through the entire hot delicious experience. You can tell I'm a little in love with this. It's also one of those recipes that you pretty much just eyeball. You want to do it all to taste. I used 1.25 lbs of thick strained ricotta and one pint of heavy cream, then a lavender simple syrup I made by boiling 2 tablespoons of lavender in 1/2 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar. I also started off using a hand mixer but quickly abandoned it for a rubber spatula. Basically you want to slowly stir in the cream until it has a thick but soft texture like whipped cream, then add small amounts of a simple syrup until it is the kind of sweet you like. I probably used about a 1/4 cup of simple syrup. And thats it! It only lasts about 4-5 days, and the amount that I made was way way too much, so I definitely recommend cutting down the recipe (and I mean, too much for 13 people!)


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Last summer I went to a party for a friend who was leaving town for a bit. I wasn't planning on staying long. I just wanted to pop by say, "hey" and get home.
I walked in, said my hellos and was handed a beer. As I was catching up with Jess on all the gossip I had missed, this guy in black t-shirt kept interrupting us. I was kind of annoyed, but intrigued by this guy who could hold the attention of an entire room while making fun of himself. He was making jokes and taking the piss out of everyone.
I couldn't stop laughing.
Without even noticing how it happened, he introduced himself, sat down and we suddenly we were bitching about Asian beer. I found out he taught English in China for a year or so, then he owned a bar, then he went sailing. We swapped travel stories for a bit. Then moved on to some more heavy stuff like God and religion. Despite the subject, we kept laughing. I thought he was the funniest, sweetest guy I had met in a long, long time. I couldn't stop staring at his upper arm/chest area. (This is a seriously under-appreciated part of male anatomy.) He apparently also found me hilarious and likable. We talked so long every one else managed to make their way inside. The host had even gone to bed.
Finally I had to go home; it was way too late.
I was shocked he hadn't asked for my number in the three hours we had been cracking each other up. So I told him my name again and asked him to find me. He said he would.
The next day he did.
It's been a year now since that first beer and first laugh. He still makes me laugh every day; and I know a helluva lot more about beer now.


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Carlos Slim Helú is once again the world's richest person, thanks in large part to a sharp increase in telecom giant América Móvil's share price both in U.S. and Mexican markets.
The Mexican tycoon bumped Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates from his perch as the world's richest, a post Gates has held since May 2013.
The move happened on Tuesday when the value of Slim's phone company América Móvil's, his largest holding, rose 1% or $805.6 million, pushing his net worth to Forbes estimate of $79.6 billion, against Gates's estimated $79.1 billion net worth.
América Móvil's stock has been rising since the company announced plans last week to divest some assets to comply with Mexico's new antitrust telecom regulations. It should be noted that the company's shares jumped 10% on the NYSE the day following the breakup announcement.
Currently, Slim's América Móvil controls 70% of the mobile phone market in Mexico, and 80% of landlines.
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Dedicated to Sarah Youssefi
Submitted by Mike
A Letter Of Timeless Love and Compassion.
This is a story of heartfelt sympathy, understanding, frustration and extreme compassion.
It involves an incident, an encounter with Sarah and her grandmother Shirley.
It is centered around Sarah's mother and Shirley's daughter, Melissa, who had contracted stage 4 breast cancer a few months earlier. It took place in the kitchen of Melissa's home after school but before dinner. Melissa was hospitalized at the time undergoing a series of treatments for her serious condition. Everyone at that point was quite stressed out as one might expect.
It was about 5 p.m. Shirley was preparing dinner. Sarah has a medical condition that requires a special diet and they were discussing her evening meal. Something was said that set them both off. An argument ensued. Voices were raised. None of it was important and under most circumstances likely would never have occurred. But these were not normal times. Then the tears came. Each cried uncontrollably. Finally, Sarah ran off to her room still in tears. Shirley tried her best to control her tears by thinking of happier times when in Hawaii, and finally went to Sarah's room. Sarah was 6 years old at the time.
I went into the room having observed this very sensitive outburst. I wanted to be assured in my own mind that the situation had resolved itself. As I knocked and opened the door to Sarah's room, the scene I saw was enough to bring this proverbial old man to tears as well. There they were in each others arms, tears flowing freely. Without words, they were consoling each other in this time of grief. After a few seconds (that seemed like hours), they both in their minds realized that this had to be done, if not now, certainly later.
Again, without words, the tears stopped and Shirley left the bedroom to complete the dinner arrangements. Nothing was said. It was not necessary.
This mental exercise displayed an incredible amount of courage, sensitivity and compassion on the part of someone only 6 years old whose mother was extremely ill. What they did for each other will last for a lifetime. This situation will never be duplicated no matter what the future holds.
As it turned out, Melissa's cancer is in remission and has been for over 7 years. But, Sarah's memory of these early days of concern and care will never be forgotten.
Sarah grew up in those few moments, if only in spirit. She is a wonderful young lady and at 13, shows a maturity that is, I'm certain, due in part to those few minutes many years ago, in the kitchen and bedroom with her equally caring grandmother. A time that none of us will ever forget.
Lovingly yours,
Mike (Paco) Peringer
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Underwriting Takeaways
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If you are wondering if you can get affordable life insurance with bipolar disorder you have come to the right place.
The simple answer is yes it's possible. The more complicated (and honest) answer is "it depends on your particular circumstance". Based on your situation rates can range from standard to a table rating or even a decline.
This article will provide the information you need to know about getting life insurance with bipolar disorder. You will learn what underwriters will want to know about your health, possible ratings and rates.
f you already know more about bipolar disorder than you care to think about or know exactly what you are looking for, you can use the quick navigation tool to skip around.
The reason life insurance underwriters look so closely at every detail of your health is that they are assessing how much risk your health poses to the company's profitability. The simple fact is that if you die too soon, they lose money. They get paid to limit that possibility.
With that simple premise of life insurance company's perspective in mind, it's worth noting that the process of applying for life insurance is virtually the same regardless of yourexisting health condition. So, whether your risk is a previous heart attack or recreational scuba diving the application process is the same.
Life insurance underwriters will generally be concerned with 5 general questions:
While the outline above is general in form , the questions will require specific answers. These answers will be gathered from your application, a telephone interview, the Medical Information Bureau, a Script Check, and an Attending Physicians Statement (APS).
Lets look at the general areas of inquiry one at a time.
Underwriters tend to be more comfortable with making offers when the applicant's condition fits into a common risk factor pattern. If the condition doesn't fit, there as a concern that something else is at play. When this is the case, underwriters will try to allay their fears by taking a harder look at the file.
The known causes and risks for bipolar disorder are listed below:
Risk factors
When underwriting life insurance with bipolar disorder, carriers will want to know the symptoms you had and how long you had them before the diagnosis. There will be a particular emphasis on incidents within the last 2 years.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) lists the following symptoms as the most common:
People having a manic episode may:
People having a depressive episode may:
Life insurance underwriting will need to know your age at the date of you diagnosis and the specialist who made the diagnosis. Diagosis for bipolar disorder is usually after some or all of the following:
Life insurance underwriting will also need to know the dates and dosages of any pharmaceutical medications prescribed. the following is a list of tyhe tyopes of medications most often presribed:
When evaluating life insurance with bipolar disorder applications, underwriting will want to see compliance with prescription medication and any follow up requirements including doctors appointments.
While any application for life insurance will take into consideration your overall health including conditions like high cholesterol and gout, underwriters in bipolar cases will specifically look for certain related conditions.
Below is a list of the related complications and co-occuring conditions:
Co-occurring conditions
With a couple of caveats, the process of obtaining life insurance is essentially the same for everyone regardless of health.
The primary caveats with bipolar disorder are that no exam or so called "non-med" policies will only be available if there are no serious complications, and an attending physician's statement (APS) may be requested depending on the overall health of the applicant.
The APS can slow the process as doctors are in no hurry to respond to requests from life insurance companies. if an APS is requested, the best way to "grease the wheels" is for the applicant to contact the doctors office.
The information that you will be required to provide in order to get the most accurate quote is as follows:
The information that you will be required to provide in order to get the most accurate quote is as follows:
Date of Diagnosis
Age at Diagnosis
Treatments Undergone (was Hospitalization required?)
Dates & Doses of Treatments
Severity of Symptoms (was work missed for more than a month?)
Other Health Issues
Because applications for life insurance with lupus are evaluated on a case by case basis, your story matters. That is to say two people with the same age and condition may get vastly different offers from the same carrier based on age of diagnosis and patient compliance.
Because each case is different, the following pricing scenarios are the best estimates based on experience.
Best Case – If bipolar symptoms are under excellent control with medication and regular follow up and no history of hospitalizations or suicide attempts and excellent health- many cases have a chance for a standard rating. Simply use the quoter on the right for a standard rating.
Mid Case –If your bipolar disorder is under control now but more than 2 years ago you lost considerable work time to the condition or were hospitalized, or have other health issues, you may be looking at a table 2/B to table 8/H rate.
To learn about how table ratings work click here.
* while expensive this may still be a very good outcome for the circumstances
Severe Case – Severe bipolar cases where there is a suicide attempt history or hospitalization and significant lost work time in the last 2 years will be declined .
Decline– For a severe case you may be declined for traditional coverage. If this is the case you may be eligible for a smaller face amount policy. These policies are referred to as Guaranteed issue or simplified issue. These policies are more expensive than traditional insurance and have a 2 year waiting period until the full benefit is available.If you have been declined please contact us.
Now you already understand that your story matters, and that two people in similar situations can get very different offers from the same carrier.
But did you know that different insurance companies will also treat each case differently?
For example SBLI may have more of an appetite for the risk that bipolar disorder presents than say Assurity. In this case the underwriting grade will reflect this increased appetite.
So, if your Agent only represented one carrier and you found out later that that you could have gotten a rate 35% or 45% better, how would you feel?
You'd probably be angry either at the agent or likely both. So it's important that your Agent represent multiple carriers.
Most good independent agents will have access to over 50 carriers. This ensures the best chance at the best rate.
Note that if he doesn't have access to alternatives , he may not be interested in telling you.
Key Take Aways
So, I have been preaching about the importance of using an independent Agent and you may think that sounds a little self serving coming from an independent agent.
You are right, it is. However, it is also the undeniable ( and provable) truth.
Please see the case study below . it will show why it is in your interest to have as many options as possible available when shopping for life insurance with bipolar disorder or any other impairment.
Gender: Female Age: 29
$1000000 20 Year Term
Tobacco: No
Well controlled and followed up bipolar disorder. Diagnosed Age 19
No Other Health Concerns
This looks like a best case scenario that would be either standard or Table 2/B or 4/D depending on the insurers appetite for a bipolar risk. Let's take a look at the rates.
$ 54.09
$ 55.04
$ 54.44
$ 56.32
$ 68.69
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$ 78.62
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$ 89.23
$ 102.99
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This table which shows only a few of the major life insurance companies available illustrates the difference in rates.For standard rates Prudential is 35% more expensive than Banner.
On it's face this seems like a pretty straight forward choice and if underwriting grades between carriers is the same, it really can be that simple. This kind of easy price shopping is particularly useful for younger folks in good health and demonstrates why you want to use an independent Agent.
For people who suffer from bipolar disorder or any other serious diagnosis, it gets much more complicated.
Because life insurers manage their appetite for specific risks by being more lenient or more stringent with underwriting grades, you need to know which company will grade you a standard or table 2 risk and which ons will grade you as table 4-6.
In the case above Prudential (one of the more expensive standard rates) is likely to be the best deal because the more competitively priced carrier will likely rate the risk table 4 while Pru might well go standard.
This is something you can't know by simply looking at the lowest price. In this case using an independent agent could save you 29% (the difference between Prudential @ standard and AIG @ Table 4).
Now that you know the information you will need to receive the most accurate quote possible for life insurance with bipolar disorder, it's time to gather the information and speak to an independent Agent (raising my hand).
We are committed to totally transparent pricing (we'll even share our computer screen with you if you'd like), and making the application process as painless as possible.
Thank you for choosing the Life Insurance Help Desk to research life insurance with bipolar disorder. Should you have any question, plese do not hesitate to give us a call or shoot an email over.
Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, is believed to affect 2.6% of the U.S. population.
Over the years some very famous people have suffered from bipolar disorder. Among the the actresses Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Marilyn Monroe, famed artist Vincent Van Gogh, and Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
Jim Tobin is the owner of Life Insurance Help Desk, a Fairfield County, CT. life insurance agency. You can find him on LinkedIn and Facebook. Over the past 10 years, Jim has used his CFP-financial planning designation to help individuals with their life insurance needs. In addition to working with life insurance clients, Jim teaches ESL classes in his spare time. He resides with his beautiful wife Nicole and the 3 cats that rule their lives..
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15.6: Controlling the Products of Reactions
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Skills to Develop
- To understand different ways to control the products of a reaction.
Whether in the synthetic laboratory or in industrial settings, one of the primary goals of modern chemistry is to control the identity and quantity of the products of chemical reactions. For example, a process aimed at synthesizing ammonia is designed to maximize the amount of ammonia produced using a given amount of energy. Alternatively, other processes may be designed to minimize the creation of undesired products, such as pollutants emitted from an internal combustion engine. To achieve these goals, chemists must consider the competing effects of the reaction conditions that they can control.
One way to obtain a high yield of a desired compound is to make the reaction rate of the desired reaction much faster than the reaction rates of any other possible reactions that might occur in the system. Altering reaction conditions to control reaction rates, thereby obtaining a single product or set of products, is called kinetic control. A second approach, called thermodynamic control, consists of adjusting conditions so that at equilibrium only the desired products are present in significant quantities.
An example of thermodynamic control is the Haber-Bosch processKarl Bosch (1874–1940) was a German chemical engineer who was responsible for designing the process that took advantage of Fritz Haber's discoveries regarding the \(N_2\) + H_2 \rightleftharpoons NH_3\) equilibrium to make ammonia synthesis via this route cost-effective. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931 for his work. The industrial process is called either the Haber process or the Haber-Bosch process. used to synthesize ammonia via the following reaction:
\[N_{2(g)}+3H_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons 2NH_{3(g)} \tag{15.6.1a}\]
\[ΔH_{rxn}=−91.8\; kJ/mol \tag{15.6.1b}\]
Figure 15.6.1: Effect of Temperature and Pressure on the Equilibrium Composition of Two Systems that Originally Contained a 3:1 Mixture of Hydrogen and Nitrogen. At all temperatures, the total pressure in the systems was initially either 4 atm (purple curves) or 200 atm (green curves). Note the dramatic decrease in the proportion of \(NH_3\) at equilibrium at higher temperatures in both cases, as well as the large increase in the proportion of \(NH_3\) at equilibrium at any temperature for the system at higher pressure (green) versus lower pressure (purple). Commercial plants that use the Haber-Bosch process to synthesize ammonia on an industrial scale operate at temperatures of 400°C–530°C (indicated by the darker gray band) and total pressures of 130–330 atm.
Because of the low value of the equilibrium constant at high temperatures (e.g., \(K = 0.039\) at 800 K), there is no way to produce an equilibrium mixture that contains large proportions of ammonia at high temperatures. We can, however, control the temperature and the pressure while using a catalyst to convert a fraction of the \(N_2\) and \(H_2\) in the reaction mixture to \(NH_3\), as is done in the Haber-Bosch process. This process also makes use of the fact that the product—ammonia—is less volatile than the reactants. Because \(NH_3\) is a liquid at room temperature at pressures greater than 10 atm, cooling the reaction mixture causes \(NH_3\) to condense from the vapor as liquid ammonia, which is easily separated from unreacted \(N_2\) and \(H_2\). The unreacted gases are recycled until complete conversion of hydrogen and nitrogen to ammonia is eventually achieved. Figure 15.6.2 is a simplified layout of a Haber-Bosch process plant.
Figure 15.6.2: A Schematic Diagram of an Industrial Plant for the Production of Ammonia via the Haber-Bosch Process. A 3:1 mixture of gaseous \(H_2\) and \(N_2\) is compressed to 130–330 atm, heated to 400°C–530°C, and passed over an \(Fe_2O_3/K_2O\) catalyst, which results in partial conversion to gaseous \(NH_3\). The resulting mixture of gaseous \(NH_3\), \(H_2\), and \(N_2\) is passed through a heat exchanger, which uses the hot gases to prewarm recycled \(N_2\) and \(H_2\), and a condenser to cool the \(NH_3\), giving a liquid that is readily separated from unreacted \(N_2\) and \(H_2\). (Although the normal boiling point of \(NH_3\) is −33°C, the boiling point increases rapidly with increasing pressure, to 20°C at 8.5 atm and 126°C at 100 atm.) The unreacted \(N_2\) and \(H_2\) are recycled to form more \(NH_3\).
The Sohio acrylonitrile process, in which propene and ammonia react with oxygen to form acrylonitrile, is an example of a kinetically controlled reaction:
\[\ce{CH_2=CHCH_{3(g)} + NH_{3(g)} + 3/2 O_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons CH_2=CHC≡N_{(g)} + 3H_2O_{(g)}} \tag{15.6.2}\]
Like most oxidation reactions of organic compounds, this reaction is highly exothermic (ΔH° = −519 kJ/mol) and has a very large equilibrium constant (\(K = 1.2 \times 10^{94}\)). Nonetheless, the reaction shown in Equation 15.6.2 is not the reaction a chemist would expect to occur when propene or ammonia is heated in the presence of oxygen. Competing combustion reactions that produce \(CO_2\) and \(N_2\) from the reactants, such as those shown in Equation 15.6.3 and Equation 15.6.4, are even more exothermic and have even larger equilibrium constants, thereby reducing the yield of the desired product, acrylonitrile:
\[ \ce{CH_2=CHCH_{3(g)} + 9/2 O_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons 3CO_{2(g)} + 3H_2O_{(g)}} \tag{15.6.3a}\]
with \[ΔH^°=−1926.1 \;kJ/mol \tag{15.6.3b}\]
and \[K=4.5 \times 10^{338} \tag{15.6.3c}\]
\[\ce{2NH_{3(g)} + 3 O_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons N_{2(g)} + 6H_2O_(g)} \tag{15.6.4a}\]
with \[ΔH°=−1359.2 \;kJ/mol, \tag{15.6.4c}\]
and \[K=4.4 \times 10^{234} \tag{15.6.4c}\]
In fact, the formation of acrylonitrile in Equation 15.6.2 is accompanied by the release of approximately 760 kJ/mol of heat due to partial combustion of propene during the reaction.
The Sohio process uses a catalyst that selectively accelerates the rate of formation of acrylonitrile without significantly affecting the reaction rates of competing combustion reactions. Consequently, acrylonitrile is formed more rapidly than \(CO_2\) and \(N_2\) under the optimized reaction conditions (approximately 1.5 atm and 450°C). The reaction mixture is rapidly cooled to prevent further oxidation or combustion of acrylonitrile, which is then washed out of the vapor with a liquid water spray. Thus controlling the kinetics of the reaction causes the desired product to be formed under conditions where equilibrium is not established. In industry, this reaction is carried out on an enormous scale. Acrylonitrile is the building block of the polymer called polyacrylonitrile, found in all the products referred to collectively as acrylics, whose wide range of uses includes the synthesis of fibers woven into clothing and carpets.
Controlling the amount of product formed requires that both thermodynamic and kinetic factors be considered.
Example 15.6.1
Recall that methanation is the reaction of hydrogen with carbon monoxide to form methane and water:
\[CO_{(g)} +3H_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons CH_{4(g)}+H_2O_{(g)}\]
This reaction is the reverse of the steam reforming of methane described in Example 14. The reaction is exothermic (ΔH° = −206 kJ/mol), with an equilibrium constant at room temperature of \(K_p = 7.6 \times 10^{24}\). Unfortunately, however, \(CO\) and \(H_2\) do not react at an appreciable rate at room temperature. What conditions would you select to maximize the amount of methane formed per unit time by this reaction?
Given: balanced chemical equation and values of ΔH° and K
Asked for: conditions to maximize yield of product
Consider the effect of changes in temperature and pressure and the addition of an effective catalyst on the reaction rate and equilibrium of the reaction. Determine which combination of reaction conditions will result in the maximum production of methane.
The products are highly favored at equilibrium, but the rate at which equilibrium is reached is too slow to be useful. Reaction rates can often be increased dramatically by increasing the temperature of the reactants. Unfortunately, however, because the reaction is quite exothermic, an increase in temperature will shift the equilibrium to the left, causing more reactants to form and relieving the stress on the system by absorbing the added heat. If we increase the temperature too much, the equilibrium will no longer favor methane formation. (In fact, the equilibrium constant for this reaction is very temperature sensitive, decreasing to only \(1.9 \times 10^{−3}\) at 1000°C.) To increase the reaction rate, we can try to find a catalyst that will operate at lower temperatures where equilibrium favors the formation of products. Higher pressures will also favor the formation of products because 4 mol of gaseous reactant are converted to only 2 mol of gaseous product. Very high pressures should not be needed, however, because the equilibrium constant favors the formation of products. Thus optimal conditions for the reaction include carrying it out at temperatures greater than room temperature (but not too high), adding a catalyst, and using pressures greater than atmospheric pressure.
Industrially, catalytic methanation is typically carried out at pressures of 1–100 atm and temperatures of 250°C–450°C in the presence of a nickel catalyst. (At 425°C°C, \\(K_p\) is \(3.7 \times 10^3\), so the formation of products is still favored.) The synthesis of methane can also be favored by removing either \(H_2O\) or \(CH_4\) from the reaction mixture by condensation as they form.
Exercise 15.6.1
The water–gas shift reaction is as follows:
with \(K_p = 0.106\) and \(ΔH = 41.2\; kJ/mol\) at 700 K. What reaction conditions would you use to maximize the yield of carbon monoxide?
Answer: high temperatures will favor product formation. It should be noted that increased temperatures will also increase the reaction rate to make the reaction faster. Adding a catalyst will also accelerate the reaction, but will no affect the yield of the reaction (only the timescale of reaching equilibrium). Furthermore, changing pressure does not greatly affect the equilibrium since there is no change in the number of gaseous reactants and produced in this specific reaction.
Changing conditions to affect the reaction rates to obtain a single product is called kinetic control of the system. In contrast, thermodynamic control is adjusting the conditions to ensure that only the desired product or products are present in significant concentrations at equilibrium.
Key Takeaway
Both kinetic and thermodynamic factors can be used to control reaction products.
Conceptual Problems
- A reaction mixture will produce either product A or B depending on the reaction pathway. In the absence of a catalyst, product A is formed; in the presence of a catalyst, product B is formed. What conclusions can you draw about the forward and reverse rates of the reaction that produces A versus the reaction that produces B in (a) the absence of a catalyst and (b) the presence of a catalyst?
- Describe how you would design an experiment to determine the equilibrium constant for the synthesis of ammonia: \[N_{2(g)} + 3H_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons 2NH_{3(g)}\] The forward reaction is exothermic (ΔH° = −91.8 kJ). What effect would an increase in temperature have on the equilibrium constant?
- What effect does a catalyst have on each of the following?
- the equilibrium position of a reaction
- the rate at which equilibrium is reached
- the equilibrium constant?
- How can the ratio Q/K be used to determine in which direction a reaction will proceed to reach equilibrium?
- Industrial reactions are frequently run under conditions in which competing reactions can occur. Explain how a catalyst can be used to achieve reaction selectivity. Does the ratio Q/K for the selected reaction change in the presence of a catalyst?
Numerical Problems
- The oxidation of acetylene via \(2C_2H_{2(g)}+5O_{2(g)}\rightleftharpoons 4CO_{2(g)} +2H_2O_{(l)}\) has \(ΔH° = −2600\; kJ\). What strategy would you use with regard to temperature, volume, and pressure to maximize the yield of product?
- The oxidation of carbon monoxide via \(CO_{(g)} + 1/2 O_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons CO_{2(g)}\) has ΔH° = −283 kJ. If you were interested in maximizing the yield of \(CO_2\), what general conditions would you select with regard to temperature, pressure, and volume?
- You are interested in maximizing the product yield of the system: \[2SO_{2(g)}+O_{2(g)} \rightleftharpoons 2SO_{3(g)}\] with \(K = 280\) and \(ΔH° = −158\; kJ\). What general conditions would you select with regard to temperature, pressure, and volume? If \(SO_2\) has an initial concentration of 0.200 M and the amount of \(O_2\) is stoichiometric, what amount of \(SO_3\) is produced at equilibrium?
Numerical Answer
- Use low temperature and high pressure (small volume).


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Frantz nominated for 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year AwardJune 27, 2019Former Bethany College track & field standout Leighanna Frantz has been nominated for the NCAA Women of the Year Award, announced Wednesday afternoon.
Bethany Places 46 on Presidents' Athletic Conference Honor RollJune 19, 2019Bethany College featured 46 student-athletes on the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) 2019 Spring Academic Honor Roll announced the league office.
Bethany Graduates 52 Student-AthletesMay 12, 2019Bethany College celebrated the 179th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. As a part of that merriment, 52 student-athletes received their baccalaureate degrees.
Bethany College Student-Athletes Honored at Annual Bison Awards BanquetMay 01, 2019The Bethany College Student Athlete Advisory Committee hosted their annual Bison Awards Tuesday evening inside Hummel Field House.
Multiple Games PostponedApril 14, 2019Multiple games scheduled to be played on Sunday have been postponed due to rain.
New Faces, Same TraditionMarch 18, 2019For the first time in over 28 years Bethany baseball and softball will have new faces leading the way. Last season softball head coach Jan Forsty announced she was retiring at seasons end after 31 years. In July, Cassie Moore was tabbed head coach for the Bison. Earlier this year baseball coach Rick Carver announced that he was leaving Bethany. Two months later, Bethany named Justin Thomas as the new Bison skipper. Replacing two of the winningest coaches at Bethany wouldn't be an easy task but Coach Moore and Coach Thomas have accepted their new roles and look to continue to build on the traditions set from Forsty and Carver and continue the success on and off the field. Recently I sat down with Coach Moore and Coach Thomas to give Bethanians the opportunity to get to know the both of them in a Q & A session.
Basketball Doubleheader PostponedJanuary 30, 2019Bethany College's men's and women's basketball teams' Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) games at Thiel, scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 30 have been postponed due to the expected low temperatures.
Basketball Games at Thiel Rescheduled for MondayJanuary 30, 2019Bethany College men's and women's basketball games at Thiel College originally scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 30 have been rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 4.
Bethany places 41 on Presidents' Athletic Conference Honor RollJanuary 22, 2019Bethany College featured 41 student-athletes on the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) 2018 Fall Academic Honor Roll announced the league office.
Basketball Schedule ChangeJanuary 17, 2019Men's and Women's basketball games against Geneva originally scheduled for Saturday are now being held tomorrow Jan. 18 at 4 pm and 6 pm.
Bethany Hires Sansom as New Director of Athletic CommunicationsNovember 30, 2018Erikka Sansom, a native of Elmira, New York, has been named the next Director of Athletic Communications at Bethany College.
Worrell Joins Bethany College as Assistant Athletic DirectorOctober 21, 2018Bethany, Wv. (BethanyBison.com) – Bethany College Director of Athletics Steve Thompson announced today the appointment of Mike Worrell as the department's new Assistant Athletic Director.
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International Panel of ICC Umpires
The International Panel of ICC Umpires was established by the ICC in 1994 following trial in 1992/3, to ensure that one neutral umpire would stand in every Test match.[1] It is made up of officials nominated from each of the twelve Test playing cricket boards. From 2002, its role in Tests was largely supplanted by the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires.
Umpires from the International Panel are employed to officiate home One Day international matches, but may also be called upon to aid the Elite Panel in Test matches and overseas ODIs during busy cricketing calendar years.[2][3]
Current panelEdit
As of 31 July 2019[update], the ICC International Panel consisted of:[4]
|Selected Umpires Panel
|Ahmad Shah Pakteen, Ahmad Shah Durrani, Bismallah Jan Shinwari, Izatullah Safi
|Shawn Craig, Paul Wilson, Sam Nogajski, Gerard Abood
|Sharfuddoula, Masudur Rahman, Gazi Sohel, Tanvir Ahmed
|Rob Bailey, Tim Robinson, Alex Wharf
|C. Shamsuddin, Anil Chaudhary, Nitin Menon, Virender Sharma
|Mark Hawthorne, Roland Black, Alan Neill, Paul Reynolds
|New Zealand
|Wayne Knights, Chris Brown, Shaun Haig
|Ahsan Raza, Shozab Raza, Asif Yaqoob, Rashid Riaz
|South Africa
|Shaun George, Adrian Holdstock, Bongani Jele, Allahudien Paleker
|Sri Lanka
|Prageeth Rambukwella, Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Raveendra Wimalasiri, Lyndon Hannibal
|West Indies
|Gregory Brathwaite, Nigel Duguid, Leslie Reifer
|Russell Tiffin, Jeremiah Matibiri, Langton Rusere, Iknow Chabi
Previous panelEdit
The original members of the International Panel in 1994 were:[1]
|Darrel Hair, Steve Randell
|Dickie Bird, Ken Palmer, Nigel Plews, David Shepherd
|VK Ramaswamy, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
|New Zealand
|Brian Aldridge, Steve Dunne
|Khizer Hayat, Mahboob Shah
|South Africa
|Barry Lambson, Karl Liebenberg
|Sri Lanka
|B. C. Cooray, K. T. Francis
|West Indies
|Lloyd Barker, Steve Bucknor
|Kantilal Kanjee, Ian Robinson
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b Cricket: Bird launches initiative, The Independent, 14 January 1994
- ^ ICC – Match Officials Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ International Panel Duties
- ^ "ICC International Panel of Umpires". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 23 July 2019.


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Opinion: Frigon '18 Calls for Greater Dialog Concerning Garthwait Situation
By Luke Frigon, '18
When I first read the news of the now-infamous "Hogan's Heroes" photo, I was astounded. It shook me up to think that a friend I admire and trust as much as Mr. Garthwait could be associated with such seemingly-evil imagery. Reactions to the photo poured in, and we heard and read the words of a campus community struggling to grasp its own history and identity, and the choices that one of its most prominent alumni made in his adolescence. Many have dismissed the photo as indicative of fraternity theme party nonsense, taken out of context and blown out of proportion. Others have asserted that a swastika is an obvious symbol of Nazi hate and should have never had a place on our campus, regardless of its relevance to popular culture at the time. Still others called for further investigation and scrutiny of our campus yearbooks from days gone by, so that we may 'get out in front of this' next time it happens.
To me, though, one topic remained relatively untouched; what are we as a community to do about this? Sure, Garthwait stepped down from the board of trustees, citing his own youthful inadequacies in identifying hate symbols and his recognition of the hatred that those images represent. Sure, President Riggs sent an email promising to "form an advisory group that will be chaired by a trustee and will include representatives from our College community who can bring a variety of perspectives to bear." Sure, op-eds just like this one have filled The Gettysburgian's Facebook feed. But are we actually going to talk about it? Is campus (everyone on campus, not just students) going to engage in a dialogue about the historical prevalence of hate symbols on our campus and in our town? This seems like a great opportunity to dissect some uncomfortable parts of our collective past, and we should strike while the iron is hot.
President Riggs wrote in an email last week that, "The College has taken no action regarding this situation except to communicate about it." If true, that's inexcusable. I am concerned that, given an empty vacuum of dialogue, easy scapegoats will pop up; that campus will seize upon this incident's connection to Greek Life and in doing so blame that section of our community for the behavior of some of its members emeriti. Rather, we must seize upon this opportunity to engage in a constructive (and likely uncomfortable) conversation of our roots as a college. We owe that much to ourselves and those that come after us. I agree with Jay Hauser, who wrote in the Gettysburgian on February 20: "From this incident, we, as a campus, should consider how, without intent to harm, our actions can make othered students feel uncomfortable and unsafe." Granted, I say we need to go a step further (or a step larger, if you will). We need to take stock of ourselves as an institution, and work proactively and unapologetically to ensure that our collective Burgian history is something we've all reckoned with. In doing so, we will not only leave campus a better place for all, but we will hopefully begin on a path of reconciliation with the uglier parts of our College's past. We mustn't be blind to our larger collective history. We must use it as a tool to shape our future as a college, and I hope that the campus community uses this unfortunate incident to do so. The Gettysburg College of the last few weeks is not the Gettysburg College I know and love. We can always be better, and let us utilize this ugly moment to examine and critique our past, but also to inform our future. Go Bullets!


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Bengaluru: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. disrupted the Indian market with its cost-efficient Mi range of phones and has gained handsomely since it introduced them in the country in 2014.
According to International Data Corp., Xiaomi, along with South Korean firm Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, were joint leaders in the Indian smartphone market with each controlling 23.5% market share. Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder, also known as LJ, believes his company needs to forget that they are No.1 in the market even though the company will get the confidence to do "cool" things in India.
In an interview, the 49-year-old Chinese entrepreneur said that his firm has given India priority over its home market China and will build products keeping India in mind first. With a research and development (R&D) centre, coupled with focus on design in India, the company plans to bring around 200 products in India which are not just smartphones. Edited excerpts:
You have become joint No.1 in the Indian market in no time. How do you plan to consolidate your position?
Ranking No.1 to the Indian team is still very crucial and important. Most importantly, it will give a lot of confidence to the India team. Also, China is such a gigantic market and in India, we have proven that Xiaomi products and the model. The next thing that we are to do is that forget ourselves being No.1. We are a start-up. We need to build the coolest products and offer them at a very honest and reasonable price. Then, more Indian customers will like our brand. We will bring them a lot more cool and interesting products. So, we really don't need to worry about how the competitors see us. We just have to keep up to what our fans think about us.
What sort of war chest have you prepared in terms of new products, investments, etc?
We will definitely bring more interesting and high quality products into the Indian market. For example, this pen (shows a pen) costs two US dollars and it is a very smooth writing. Another example is screw drivers… very exquisite. In China, we sell it for 100 RMB. Other competitor products are 10 times worse in quality but three times more expensive. This is the most favoured screw drivers by engineers made by Xiaomi.
So, which of the other products do you plan to bring to India?
That you will find out in the next two months. In China, we have some 200 products. In India, we have some 20 products, which is very few… mainly because we have very few people in India office… only 350. We are growing way too fast.
So, we really need to select the products that Indian consumers will love the most. We believe it will take us 3-4 years to reach to the levels of 200 products, which we could bring in.
So, you are saying that you are constrained by your team strength in India to launch new products?
No it is mainly because of the rapid growth that we have seen. Because, even if we bring them to India, we won't do justice as the customers won't really understand why they are so good. So, our philosophy is all about being focused.
So, quantity is not the most important metric. It is actually every product has to be a best seller.
Most of these products that we are talking about are initially designed for the Chinese environment. So, in the past two years, we have implemented India number one priority strategy at our headquarters. From R&D, design, we have considered a lot of Indian consumer needs.
For example, India's climate is hotter. In China, we have such good products; but when we brought them to India, some users said there are some overheating issues. In the beginning, we were very confused and realised they suffered initially because of India's climate. So, later in India, while selling products, we included a lot of these thermal diffusing components, including the charging cable, which is very good quality in China. In India, some people were complaining that there are some defects with the cable. So, we discovered the reason. Because of India's humidity being higher, when they plug in many, many times, the coating will get eroded. Then we applied thicker coating, including the charger.
Is that something you have planned for other products, which are not in India yet?
We cannot just simply bring them over from China directly. We need to first understand the user's needs and likings. Even we would require some team members to move over to India to build India-specific products… may be we build products that we won't sell in China. That way Indian fans will love us more… We will also set up an R&D centre in Bangalore in future. We will hire more local engineers just to design India products. Next year, you will see India-specific products.
So, they will be more than just smartphones?
What percentage of India revenue comes from smartphones?
We have not disclosed our India revenue because we are right now in 60 countries. We have 12 countries where we are ranked in top five. Of course, India is performing the best of all the countries in terms of shipment and scale of work. Perhaps, by the end of the year, we might disclose that number. So, we have adopted the India No.1 strategy, which includes design, R&D, manufacturing, supply.
So, are you giving India a priority over your home market as well?
Yes. Even the Chinese teams had some opinions as everything was prioritized India. We became No.1 because our company is small, so we focus all our energy on India. That's why we have really supported India on the supply front.
India has seen a data outburst recently. What kind of impact will that have on the smartphone market?
Popularization and adoption of smartphones, 4G data plan coming down will really help us celebrate the mobile internet development in India. It will really help accelerate Indian society's technological innovation of India. It is essentially building a gigantic information infrastructure and highway for India. Because data is so cheap, India pretty much skipped the broadband era. A lot of times, Indian users consumed way more data, compared with Chinese users.
Of course, the Chinese went through the PC internet era before they went to the mobile internet era. Chinese internet has produced companies such as Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. These are all now global juggernauts. So, this popularization will definitely help the whole industry in India. In the next 5-10 years, India will produce 5-10 global internet companies.
This year has been a comeback year for Xiaomi at a global level. What impact has it had on your valuation?
Valuation is not the most important thing. We're one of the very few companies that are willing to build world-class products but offer them at a very reasonable price. Look at Apple and Samsung, their prices keep going up! We're not like them.
In the past two years, when we were doing a restructuring, people think that Xiaomi is no longer doing well. Because we've grown too fast there are many difficulties. From the 10-15 people who started the company to more than 10,000… So in the past two years before this, we have only one aim: strengthen the fundamentals. We don't care about revenue and we didn't pursue growth. It's only at the beginning of this year that we started pursuing growth again.


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In a nutshell, it's the underdeveloped lovechild of New Zealand's Top of the Lake and Denmark/Sweden's The Bridge. The opening theme song is an out-of-place hipster acoustic guitar piece. The visuals are dark, brooding, moody and heavy. The police station is perpetually underlit. With sweeping panoramas of the North Shore – including Squamish and Cleveland Dam, and a port I couldn't identify – as well as close-ups of TransLink buses and East Van housing, Vancouver appears to be a chilly inner city ghetto where bad things happen. Which was perhaps intended, as bad things do indeed take place in the show. Very bad things.
In terms of storytelling, Blood and Water is a classic Chinese family drama dressed as a cop show. This is evident in the detective's – and the storyline's – focus on the social, psychological and interpersonal aspects of the murder case she has been assigned, rather than forensic evidence or any actual facts of the murder.
It is hard not to watch the whole eight-episode season in one go; each of the episodes is barely 20 minutes long and ends abruptly, with no sense of wrapping up. The story pushes onward despite episode breaks, making it feel like one long movie.
I have three main criticisms.
From a purely technical perspective, it's impressive that the show weaves between three languages: Mandarin, English and Cantonese, in that order of dominance. But are the switches as flawless as it appears to the untrained ear? And, more importantly, to what end? In my own family, we speak Cantonese and English – which language we use depends on where we are, what we're saying, and whom we're speaking to. There is a logic to our choice. The language changes in Blood and Water, however, are illogical. A Chinese-speaker, especially one in a multilingual family, will quickly notice this.
For example: In one of the opening scenes in the police station, Anna speaks with Theresa in Canto. As Anna is not a native Canto speaker, their language choice is probably because they don't want the police to understand their conversation. Fine. But they continue to speak stilted Canto with each other in private, despite both being far more fluent in English. (I am not sure whether Theresa's poor Canto is intended or limited by the actor's own ability; we know for sure that Anna is a native Mando speaker, because of her family.)
In another scene where Detective Bradley interrogates Anna, the detective begins in English before switching to Mando, despite her Mando being so awful that she mixes in English words and phrases, leading me to believe that her poor Mando is intentional. But why does she do this? It's not as if Anna doesn't speak English fluently. The detective's choice of Mando despite barely being able to express herself hinders her ability to do her job – a highly unprofessional decision, not to mention a humiliating experience that I can't fathom anyone choosing willingly.
Finally, Charlie speaks to his siblings in heavily accented Mando. They all speak fluent English. Normally, if your accent and language ability are as bad as Charlie's, you would speak in English.
Some of these inconsistencies can be chalked up to the actors' language skills. If the actor's ability doesn't match their character's ability, it sounds bizarre. It's totally normal for Chinese-Canadians to switch between Manto/Canto/Eng, so to a non-Chinese ear, all the changes would seem unproblematic. To a Chinese ear, however, some of the show's choices of when to switch – and to which language – simply doesn't make sense or reflect the reality of multilingual communication. That makes me think that a non-Chinese speaker made these calls.
Which leads me to my next point: some of the characters' behaviour – especially of the parents – are not Chinese at all. Without giving the story away, there are traits like 'losing face' and 'family honour' that are brought up in one scene and then abandoned the next. There are also things that the father does that no wealthy property tycoon would ever do. Also, no Chinese person would ever put rice in the bowls before cooking the vegetables. All leading me to correctly suspect that none of the screenwriters are Chinese.
Inconsistencies aside, we should celebrate the on-screen representation and normalisation of Chinese-Canadians. Not only were most of the characters Chinese(-Canadian), they had depth; they were real people with real problems. They have complicated backstories that are rarely explored on TV in general. This is extremely refreshing – and perhaps the show's most laudable trait. However, what was missing was the placing of these characters in Vancouver, Canada, and the 'Canadian' part of 'Chinese-Canadian'. There were only one or two minor scenes or points that connected this story to Canada. As this is supposed to be about Chinese-Canadians – and not just 'Chinese' – it would've been nice to have… more. I don't necessarily need the family's entire migration story (although it would definitely help place the kids in terms of whether they're first or second generation, and thus their language preferences), but the show is quite bare of Canadian-ness, apart from three rather minor Caucasian characters, the physical location, and the occasional use of English. Does this still count as Chinese-Canadian representation?
Despite my criticisms, Blood and Water is an intriguing whodunnit (or rather, whydunnit) story with advanced visuals both rich and bleak. The acting is average, though some of the blame must be placed on whoever wrote the sometimes awkward dialogue. All in all, a valiant stab at noir and the biggest TV breakthrough for Chinese-Canadians probably ever. In addition, it features a complex and independent female protagonist and passes the Bechdel test. You will definitely enjoy it more if you don't understand Mando or Canto! 7.5/10