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Thanks for featuring my post Ashley, it's an honor to be on Wisebread! Cheers!
Best Money Tips: How to Be a Good Thrift Store Shopper
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some fantastic articles on how to be a good thrift store shopper, stopping the cycle of debt, and holiday gifts that give back.
Top 5 Articles
How to Be a Good Thrift Store Shopper — To be a good thrift store shopper, examine everything in detail before purchasing it. [Generation X Finance]
6 Steps to Help Stop the Cycle of Debt — If you want to stop your cycle of debt, you must change your habits. [PT Money]
7 Holiday Gifts That Give Back — Give a gift that gives back this holiday season by giving a bamboo dog collar. [My Dollar Plan]
Do Freezer Chests Save Money? — When evaluating whether or not a freezer chest is a good idea for you, take into consideration the cost of buying and running the freezer. [Cash Money Life]
10 Powerful Things to Put on Your To-Do List Today — Today, put exercising positivity on your to-do list. [Marc and Angel Hack Life]
Other Essential Reading
Thrifty insurance: How to Save Money on your Car Insurance — To save money on your car insurance, buy a low-risk automobile. [Free Money Wisdom]
What to Do When You Get a Raise — When you get a raise, use it to get rid of your debt. [MoneyCrush]
Tips For Holiday Gifting - Awkward Situations And All — Remember to include a gift receipt with any gift you give this year. [SavvySugar]
Use Less Energy to Automate Yourself to Success More Efficiently — To automate yourself and be more efficient in interviews, do mock interviews to learn what parts of an interview you need to work on. [7Minute Entrepreneur]
Child Behaving Badly? It Could Be What She's Eating — If your child is behaving badly, it could be the added sugar in the foods he or she is eating. [Parenting Squad]
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Career girl talk.
You want to land your dream job, you need the money, or you don’t… but need to keep busy; whatever your reason is to be looking for a job, please pay attention to the following advice:
“It is VERY hard to change a first impression”
Below, I’m going to list some steps to take into consideration when applying to a job that will show your next bosses you are a trusted career girl:
- Are you a jumper? Meaning, do you last less than 1 year on each job? If so, please stick to the job you have now because if your LinkedIn shows a million jobs where you have been 5,8, 10 months, it’s a red flag. We want to hire someone responsible, someone with a track record, someone the company can trust.
- Send a well-written email: I’m so picky about emails! It shows your professionalism and your organizational skills. Please, please, please, if you are writing an email, use the space bar, use the enter key, use commas and so on. Do not write a 30-line paragraph… you are wasting your time.
- Follow-up: ok, you sent in an application and waiting for a reply back. Please follow-up. One week later after you sent the e-mail/application, send a follow-up email and persuade them to give you a chance for a meeting. If there’s no answer, call! Show people you are interested and wanting to work
- Dress appropriately: Dress for the job you want to have. I don’t know if this is so engraved in my head because I went to school for Fashion Management but it’s incredibly true. Do not be slutty, be professional, elegant and do not over-do your make-up. To be a career girl, you must take care of your presentation and posture.
- Write a thank you note: There’s some people that like hand-written notes but, sometimes they might get lost in the mail or they take too long to arrive. So, please send an email. I always did it the night after the interview because you are still fresh in their minds and they will remember you more because you had the initiative to talk to them.
Finding a job is tough, I know, but keep in mind every business is a people business. Maybe you won’t be selling but you always have to sell yourself. Make yourself presentable, likeable and they will remember you but please, I ask you… do not oversell yourself, always be you and you will be the best career girl 🙂0
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Awesome list! Thanks for including us!
Best Money Tips: How to Save Money on a Car
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some awesome articles on how to save money on a car, reasons why you need a financial advisor, and how to save on your electric bill.
Top 5 Articles
How to Save Money on a Car — To save money on a car, never negotiate based on monthly payments. [Financial Highway]
6 Reasons Why You Need a Financial Advisor — It is important to have a financial advisor so you can have someone help you define your savings goals. [Moolanomy]
Save on Your Electric Bill: 5 Tips — Save money on your electric bill by updating your appliances. [Christian PF]
Living well on less: 6 ways to save in retirement — To save money in retirement, try living smaller. [CNNMoney]
6 Ways to Tackle Boring or Irritating Tasks — If you have to do a boring or irritating task, try to find an alternative way to do it. [Dumb Little Man]
Other Essential Reading
Renters' Insurance: What to Get and Where to Start — If you are renting an apartment, consider getting renters' insurance from AAA or Geico. [Currency]
How to Stick to Your Budget Like Glue — To make sure you stick to your budget, be sure to hold yourself accountable. [Planting Dollars]
50 Natural Ways To Boost Your Energy — Want an energy boost? Try listening to some fast beat music or stretching. [Marc and Angel Hack Life]
10 Reasons Burning Bridges is a Waste of Time — Don't burn bridges. It is a waste of time because you won't get any satisfaction out of it. [Time Management Ninja]
Breastfeeding And Boosting Your Milk Supply — Increase your milk supply by drinking water every time you nurse. [Parenting Squad]
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March 2012, 7(1): 43-58. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.43
Differential equation approximations of stochastic network processes: An operator semigroup approach $\mathcal.
Keywords: one-parameter operator semigroup, birth-and-death process, mean field approximation., Dynamic network.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 47D06; Secondary: 60J28, 92A1.
Citation: András Bátkai, Istvan Z. Kiss, Eszter Sikolya, Péter L. Simon. Differential equation approximations of stochastic network processes: An operator semigroup approach. Networks & Heterogeneous Media, 2012, 7 (1) : 43-58. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.43
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A crash between a minivan and a semi-trailer closed a lane of I-894 earlier Wednesdya morning.
A vehicles involved in the crash blocked the left lane of I-894 west at 76th street for about an hour.
The scene was cleared around 8:40 a.m. Authorities have not commented if there were any injuries in the crash.
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WHEN: Thursday, March 29 noon to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Seventh Street and Independence Avenue S.W.
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The National Air and Space Museum will receive a Buzz Lightyear action figure that traveled in space along with educational material related to its mission.
The Buzz Lightyear figure, lightened and sealed by NASA for spaceflight safety and weight concerns, flew into space aboard STS-124 on Discovery, and returned from space aboard STS-128, also aboard Discovery. In the meantime, the figure was used by the astronauts of ISS Expeditions 18, 19 and 20 to perform educational demonstrations—and, occasionally, to have a little fun on the side.
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Rowan County Commissioner Jon Barber prayed as usual, evoking the name of Jesus Christ twice in prayer.
The ACLU gave the commission until March 5 to come up with a new course of action.
However, Katy Parker, ACLU Legal Director, told WBTV the ACLU would likely give the board a few days past the deadline if the issue was discussed during the meeting.
A crowd of folks signed up to speak in support of the commission. An overflowed crowd filled the hallways and sang hymns.
"The ACLU has attempted to intimidate them [commissioners] but they can not issue orders," Resident Larry Wright said.
The Rowan County Commission meetings came under the scrutiny of the American Civil Liberties Union for opening its meetings with sectarian prayer last month.
Parker told WBTV that the organization had received more complaints about the Rowan County Commission meeting prayers than any other in the state. When asked how many complaints, Parker said "four to five."
A majority spoke in support but a few stood firm in their belief that their religious freedom is not a jeopardy. Jim Spiceland told the crowd he was a Christian but warned of a theocracy.
"I believe that the idea that we are threatened is bogus idea. We do believe in separation in church and state of religion and state," Spiceland said.
There were others looking for compromise - asking how to unite the community rather than divide it.
"We all win by instituting a time of solemn silence at the beginning of each meeting that will afford you and others the opportunity to pray according to their own journey of faith," one woman said.
The ACLU says the debate has prompted 15 other local governments to voluntarily change their policies.
Only Rowan County Commissioners are disputing it.
No one from the civil liberties union was at today's meeting but they say they are watching what happens closely.
Mike Meno with the ACLU told WBTV last week, "I hope the commissioners understand the potential consequences of this especially the consequences this could have on taxpayers who they would bring into the situation potentially."
The ACLU would not comment on the what consequences commissioners could face, but the group filed a lawsuit against Forsyth county last Summer in a similar case and won.
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Topic: Why have Eve shoot Bond?
Is it just me that doesn't see why Eve has to shoot Bond?
I get why he has to be shot by Patrice, so they can use the shrapnel to trace him but I don't get why they couldn't just combine the two so Bond only gets shot once.
Him being shot twice and surviving the fall off the bridge is just overly unrealistic in my opinion, I know it's symbolic of Bond surviving against all odds on the screen and everything but they could've still done that if he had only been shot once.
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September 15, 2014
It's been one week since bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Now family and friends have begun to bury those killed in the bombing and its aftermath.
As investigators learn more about the motives and methods of two brothers suspected of terrorizing the city of Boston for much of a week, Bostonians are turning to their faith and each other for strength.
Just yards from where two bombs exploded a week ago, Bostonians reflected Sunday on what they've learned about others and themselves in the wake of the terror.
"People here are resilient," said one Bostonian. "It's a great city. It will never be quite the same but you can't stop."
Investigators are close to wrapping up their examination of the crime scene, and city officials announced a plan to reopen closed streets, homes and businesses in the coming days.
"We hope to get this community back to its people as quickly as possible," promised Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis.
Meanwhile, at a Boston Hospital blanketed by a heavy police presence, investigators have begun getting answers from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the sole surviving suspect.
Federal officials tell NBC News despite a gunshot wound to the throat, possibly from a suicide attempt, Tsarnaev has been able to answer some of investigators questions, mostly by writing.
At this poin, investigators believe Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan acted alone, but they're not sure where the pair got their weapons and bomb components.
They hope a 48-hour period of questioning Tsarnaev without a lawyer present will shed light on much of the plot's details.
There will be a moment of silence in Boston at 2:50 this afternoon, followed by the ringing of church bells, a moment of remembrance for those killed and injured a.
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- 2017 there were 7,697 alcohol-specific deaths (around 12.2 per 100,000 people). This is the highest level since 2008 [14].
- In England, there are an estimated 589,101 dependent drinkers (2016/17) [5], of whom 81.7% are not accessing treatment [6].
- Alcohol misuse is the biggest risk factor for death, ill-health and disability among 15-49 year-olds in the UK, and the fifth biggest risk factor across all ages [1].
- While the price of alcohol has increased by 31% over the last 10 years, it remains 64% more affordable than it was in 1987 [7].
Read all the latest stats about alcohol in the UK.
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The North Carolina House isn't formally working this week, but that's not keeping the Senate from moving what Republican leaders there call a compromise plan on a tax overhaul.
The Senate prepared Tuesday to debate and vote on a package to create one flat personal income tax rate, eliminate the corporate income tax over five years and add more transactions to those subject to sales taxes.
The House and Senate have been working on competing tax plans and have negotiated intensely for a couple of weeks without a breakthrough. Senate leader Phil Berger says the new proposal takes the House position in several areas.
The Senate should finish voting Wednesday then send the package to the House, which isn't taking up legislation until next week.
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- ¾ cup milk of choice (she's used the carton coconut milk and I use vanilla rice milk)
- 1 T apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups cornmeal
- 2 T baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ cup sugar
- one 15-oz can sweet corn, undrained (not unsalted)
- 2 T coconut oil
- ¼ cup applesauce
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Made his last night, and it’s so good! Perfect corn bread texture, and hold together wonderfully! Be sure to let it cool as suggested, the cooler it is the more it holds together. All in all, this will be a staple this fall! Thank you!
Yay! I’m so glad that you enjoyed it. I appreciate you letting me know, Katie!
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When Herb Upton takes his 1931 Chrysler for a spin, he travels on Highland Avenue.
He's lived on Highland Avenue for 37 years and says the leafy shady boulevard is part of the area's charm.
"Oh Absolutely. You think about that every time you drive down Highland Avenue, you have all these great trees. It's part of the ambiance, without a doubt," said Upton.
But, from the city's standpoint, not all the trees are so great. After evaluating the trees, they found a lot of tree troubles in the short stretch between Wrightsboro Road, and Walton Way.
"We determined they would be hazardous. We evaluated all of them, some just need to be pruned, but 9 need to be removed," says City tTraffic engineer Steve Cassell.
But, residents on Highland Avenue didn't know 9 of their trees are on the chopping block.
"Hadn't heard anything about that. There may be reasons for that, but that is kind of a shocker. That is a lot of tree for this area," says Upton.
The trees have a wide variety of ailments: disease, cankers, and white rot, and with all the rain, the dead limbs can become water logged, making them prone to come down and do damage.
"Alot of these are well past their life spans. They're showing signs of it, especially in the structure in the hollow spots. They're eventually going to fall one way or the other. They're dropping limbs, some dead wood on them, so they've served their time," says Cassell.
"Who really took a look at it and did they get the experts? We have a lot of good tree experts in this area," says Upton.
These are city trees on city right-of-way, so the city is potentially liable if they do damage.
The plan is to start chopping the 9 trees down next week at a cost of $13,500.
Roy Simkins, of Augusta's Tree Commission, says if the trees are problems, they need to come down. But, he says the Tree Commission will encourage the city to replace the trees that are coming down.
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The biochemic muscle and motor nerve nutrient, Mag Phos is the biochemic tension, spasm and pain reliever. It supports the function of the musculoskeletal system, nervous system and the heart.
Mag Phos is another of the de-stressing salts, acting primarily on releasing tension in muscles and nerves. It is the salt of motion, and powers up the muscles. Contained in many tissues, it plays an important
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September 14, 2014
Hospital employees received a letter from administration explaining why a lease might be necessary for Bay Medical to survive.
Bay Medical is one of only about 8 public hospitals in Florida that do not receive any tax support, and it writes off about $30 million a year in indigent care, ranking 4th in the state for hospitals it’s size in the level of uncompensated care.
Steve Johnson, Bay Medical CEO, “There are several basic tenants that will make sure are covered in anything that we do. One, jobs for our employees, the pension plan that we've had some questions about that, those are protected, those are well funded.”
The Bay Medical Board of Trustees will have to approve. If members vote yes, public hearings are required then the County Commission will have to.
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What Everyone Is Saying About Research Paper Examples and What You Should be Doing
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Understanding how to interpret body language flirting signals and the way to apply the most suitable tactics and responses to find the desired results won’t just have a huge effect on how successful you’re at flirting but in every area of your life. Put simply, your results are directly your obligation. You ought to be the same manner, wanting to understand the way the outcome is going to be, dependent on knowing what’s down the street.
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As the rain pours down in Sylvania Heights, Cliff Jones tries to keep dry under an oak tree, but some say plenty of other activities take place under the branches, earning the huge oak the nickname of "the dope tree".
Cliff Jones says, “I'd say they full of it, man. This is just a shade tree just like any other tree out there. You can sit up under here and get some shade while it’s hot, it’s summertime, but apparently you can get more than some shade under the tree.”
Authorities say they've investigated more than 400 incidents on the street alone this year, most of them involving drugs. The Sheriff's Office wanted to cut the tree down, but a local tree service recommended some heavy pruning.
Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Rick Hord says, “We believe that they can probably eliminate some areas in the tree that have been used as stash places, hiding places for drugs and eliminate some of the cover and foliage and make the tree less attractive to the criminal element in that area.
Jones has a feeling the pruning is just the beginning. For now, authorities will give the pruning a chance, hoping it will take some of the dope away from “the dope tree”.
Just last week, a Pensacola man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering another man near the tree last.
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Astonishing California bill would shut down free speech, require fact-checkers
By Jon Rappoport, published on 09/April…”
Or: “VACCINES ARE DANGEROUS. Ahem,…”
There needs to be a relentless tsunami of protest in California over this Orwellian bill. I know of a number of Internet news operations in the state. They must jump in and lead the way..
If, 10 or 15 years ago, someone told you a bill like SB1424 was going to come before a state legislature for a vote, you would have thought you were listening to a Hollywood pitch for a sci-fi movie script.
But now it’s real. It’s here. Believe it.
CRUSH
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia police department says its beefed-up presence in Chinatown has contributed to a drop in crime and forged better bonds with the community., says a gang was broken up and that officers and residents now swap cell phone numbers with each other.
The police focus their attention on the heart of Chinatown, the intersection of 7th and H streets NW. Sheldon says police are trying to make the neighborhood a safe place to visit and live.
Would you like to contribute to this story? Join the discussion.
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Just Go — The Story of a Spontaneous Weekend in NYC
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I love Carolina — the beautiful campus, the friendly students, the quirky town. But sometimes it takes a short absence to really appreciate the place you call home. This fall, I took a spontaneous three-day trip to NYC with fellow UNC student Taylor Dodge. As I prepare for a much longer absence — a semester abroad in London — I take a look back.
Up, Up and Away
Taylor bought us stun guns less than 24 hours after we booked a flight to New York City. She said it would make our mothers feel better about us going off by ourselves. I said I hadn’t told my mother yet.
Shortly after making the purchase, Taylor discovered that it was a misdemeanor to carry stun guns in the city and a felony to actually use them on our attackers. So we left our Chapel Hill dorm rooms at 3:45 on a brisk October morning, stun gun-less and hyped on Matt Nathanson’s newest folk/rock album.
The idea of dashing off to New York City on a moment’s notice was only about 72 hours old. “I know this might sound crazy, but if you’re half as crazy as me — and I know you are — then how about NYC this weekend!?” I’d held my breath as I hit SEND.
“YESSSSSS!!!!” from Taylor, just moments later. Followed by, “Meet in my room tonight to get tickets?”
To say that we left for the city to escape our rigorous, soul-sucking university schedules — classwork, jobs, applications, repeat cycle — would only be partly true. To say that we left for one last college hurrah together — Taylor would graduate and I planned to study abroad in the spring — would also only be partly true. To say that as only children, we both yearned for the chance to break away and explore on our own is, again, only partly true.
When I met Taylor two years ago in a creative writing class, I was struck by our similar passion for writing. We both loved to turn from the outside world and create our own — on paper. Often I became stuck in this world, operating through fictional characters instead of becoming one myself.
So, for me at least, a part of the appeal of flying away was just that — I wanted to see just where “away” might take me. As a writer, someone who often escapes within an on-going Word document about people and places that only exist on paper, I was tired of living through my imagination. I was jealous of the shadow of myself that did the crazy things I only dreamed of doing, like caroling in the middle of July and FedExing caramel cakes to friends for her own birthday. When I packed my bags, I left my laptop behind. It was time to find my own story.
From the Back of a Napkin
Eventually, we managed to hail a cab from La Guardia airport. Our Moroccan cabbie spoke with a laugh and a thick accent. We were watching Good Morning America in the backseat, unable to believe we were in the very city where it was being filmed, when we realized that we’d come to New York without even a sketch of an itinerary. For two people with college planners filled to overflowing, the realization was liberating, albeit a little disconcerting.
“Breakfast in Times Square?” Taylor asked, naming the first place that popped into her mind.
By this time, our cabbie had determined from our open back-and-forth and a few sly questions of his own that we didn’t have much experience in the city. We were just two wide-eyed girls studying humanities at The University of North Carolina. Taylor had never even been to New York City before. I’d only traveled there for a long, chaperoned weekend with my high school newspaper staff.
“Can you pull over here?” I asked the cabbie, noticing several quaint little cafes with brightly lit signs promising warm pastries.
He shook his head. “I would, but it’s illegal,” he said. “Cop’d pull me.”
I considered my options. I could pretend he’d pulled the wool over my eyes, but I’d never let one of the characters in my stories do that.
I shook my head. “Just pull over,” I said. I was shocked by the newfound authority in my voice.
After he’d driven us several blocks from any quaint cafe, I managed to convince him to drop us off by the Disney Store and a cluster of theater posters.
“We’re gonna see that this weekend,” Taylor smiled, pointing to the nanny with the “cheery disposition, rosy cheeks” and magical umbrella.
Mary Poppins was the only part of the trip we’d scheduled in advance, buying our Broadway tickets moments after booking our flight and hostel. We’d both agreed that Broadway came first, paying more for our tickets than two nights at the International Hostel combined.
We struggled to remove our bags from the trunk. As we rolled our luggage behind us, we wove ourselves in and out of rushed workers headed to their respective jobs. Although Times Square at 8 in the morning isn’t as busy as I’d remembered it the one late Saturday night I’d spent there before, I could feel the sidewalks filling up even as we walked.
We pranced — rickety luggage and all — through Father Duffy Square, passed the CNN building and approached a crowd clustered around the Good Morning America studios. That’s when we ran almost headlong into the Europa Cafe. The promise of hot tea and chocolate croissants lured us inside.
Pulling off long buttery bands of pastry and sipping spiced teas, we made our first attempt at a plan, brainstorming all the places we wanted to go. Taylor served as scribe. On the back of a napkin, stained with a tea ring:
Times Square (night)
Bus tour
Empire State Building
Ground Zero
Statue of Liberty
Met
Little Italy/ Chinatown
Central Park
91st Street Garden
Broadway
GMA
GW Bridge
“What about Harlem?” I asked with a grin.
Taylor didn’t take the joke. “I promised my mother we wouldn’t get killed,” she said. “I’d like to keep that promise.”
“Stay alive to tell the tales,” I said, smiling. “Still, what a story.”
Taylor raised her eyebrows.
“I’m just kidding,” I said. “Sort of.”
Taylor looked back at the list. “Well, we need about two weeks to do everything,” she laughed. “And we’ve got three days.”
I dusted the flaky crumbs from my hands. “What’s first?” I asked.
View From the Top
A sea of lights greeted us from the 86th floor observatory deck of the Empire State Building. We arrived shortly before sunset, and the dying sun’s rays cast the cityscape in a shadow of watercolors.
As the sun set and lights twinkled on, the Chrysler Building with its beautifully sculpted roof glittering in ever-ascending tiaras caught my eye. I promptly deemed it my favorite building in the city.
“We haven’t been to every building, silly,” Taylor said.
“Not yet,” I winked.
Our conversation died with the dimming sunlight. The city seemed to sparkle to life as more buildings with blue, green and pink spires flickered on. The glowing city demanded our attention and our silence. We circled the observation deck, lingering until all that remained were brightly lit buildings. Then we slowly descended, taking the stairs down the last 10 or so flights to prolong our return to the lowly streets.
Breakfast in Tiffany’s
“Let’s get our croissants to go,” I said suddenly.
We stood in line at Europa Cafe, which had become our go-to breakfast spot. “Let’s have breakfast in Tiffany’s.”
“You mean at Tiffany’s?” Taylor raised her eyebrows.
I shrugged. “Why stand outside the window?”
I’d never particularly adored Holly Golightly anyway, so if I wanted to break out of my own fictional characters, why adapt her?
A long subway ride to 59th St/5th Ave. later, we found ourselves standing in front of the posh granite exterior of the famed jewelry shop. Just like Audrey Hepburn, except that instead of her little black dress and oversized sunglasses, we had practical tennis shoes and jackets to brace ourselves from the brisk morning winds.
We pushed through the grand revolving doors.
“The necklaces are nice,” Taylor said. “But I wanna see the engagement rings.”
We made our way to the back of the room to ask for directions.
“That’s on the second floor,” said the gold-buttoned elevator man.
“You mean there’s multiple floors?” I asked, wide-eyed.
“Why certainly,” he smiled. “There are eight in all.”
He ushered us inside the elevator, where another lady keyed in our request.
Neither Taylor nor I have boyfriends, so we’re not exactly headed toward engagement. But a girl can always dream.
The elevator doors opened, and I made my way half-dazed to the first diamond-filled display counter.
“Let’s find our favorite ones and try them on,” I grinned.
Moments later, my ring finger was heavy with $77,000 worth of carats. I’d chosen a ring encrusted with diamonds leading to a sparkling globe that resembled the crystal ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
Taylor splayed her fingers and observed her own ring — two square diamonds off-setting an even larger one and worth a whopping $117,000 — from a greater distance.
The sales lady talked numbers of carats and gave us great detail on the design of each ring.
“They’re just so pretty,” Taylor giggled.
In and Out
Central Station proved a beautiful building seemingly appreciated by only two gawking girls standing at its center and surrounded by busy travelers shoving past. I marveled at the intricately carved gold partitions and lamps hanging over each stall of the Ticket Vending Machines. The tall arched windows let in warm sunlight from the outside world as people ducked in and out of terminals, going from one place to the next. Never looking up. Never appreciating the transitions.
After all, people don’t come to New York to stand in line or to wait for public transportation. Sure, that’s part of life in any big city, but not the part we’d go home talking about. We’d come to the city for Broadway, the Met and Times Square at midnight. So we, too, hurried out of the terminal, deciding to ponder the midpoints later.
At the Angel’s Feet
“I need to get away from all the buildings,” said Taylor, who’s spent a good part of her life in the rural mountains of North Carolina. Taylor had already announced that she could never see herself living in the city; she’d miss her mountains too much. But never having had mountains, I found city life intoxicating. I wanted to explore the contents of just about every building we encountered.
“I think today would be a good day for Central Park,” Taylor continued.
As someone with parents who own their own landscape design company, I’ve grown up avoiding dirt mounds and prickly bushes. Still, while I didn’t feel like the buildings were closing in around me, I had to admit that a stretch of greenery and a clump of trees sounded pretty good.
Taylor glanced at my short green, yellow and pink polka dotted dress paired with black leggings and tall leather heels. She, too, was dolled up in a gray dress with black belt and boots. We were dressed for our Mary Poppins musical later that night.
“Photo shoot in Central Park?” Taylor grinned.
Reflecting picturesquely in the water below, Bank Rock Bridge made for an idyllic portrait-taking venue. We perched and draped over the intricate wrought iron work and kicked our heels when we thought the camera wasn’t looking. Then we swung around lampposts and scaled rock mounds for full-body shots.
We bought hotdogs and several bags of honey-roasted almonds and cashews and plopped on a bench by Bethesda Fountain to enjoy our lunch. There, we met our match for a model: standing eight feet tall, the bronze angel towered above a cluster of cherubs.
“Now that girl has legs,” Taylor laughed.
Birds flocked atop the angel’s soaring wings and another nestled in her outstretched hand. The water cascaded in gentle streams below her feet, raining over the lowly cherubs and pooling below.
“What a view she has,” I said. “It’s a shame she can’t come down and enjoy it though.”
“One of the many drawbacks of being made of stone,” Taylor quipped.
Tap Dancing on the Rooftops
Even before the curtain had risen, I felt like I was on 17 Cherry Street Lane. Everything from the playlist humming softly in the background to the hushed voices of little girls in velvet dresses and big bows promised more magic to come.
A live musical can’t exactly bring chalk paintings to life or make animated penguins waddle on command. But Mary Poppins could still fly, and Bert even tap-danced — upside down — on the rooftop.
“Childhood played out on stage,” Taylor smiled.
“I jumped in those chalk drawings as many times as Jane and Michael Banks when I was younger, didn’t you?” I ask.
“I dove inside books instead,” Taylor said.
I nodded, turning back to the show. “But no books tonight,” I said. “Tonight we don’t have to borrow magic. We’re making it!”
An Angel in Harlem
“Just think, we’ve made it through the whole trip without any problems,” I said, skipping back to the subway station.
“We’re not home yet,” Taylor said. “So don’t jinx it.”
We dashed onto the train just as the doors were beginning to close, congratulating ourselves on our good luck.
“Twenty minutes ‘til we’re back at the hostel,” I piped.
Half an hour later, the conductor said in an automaton voice: “This train terminates at Harlem-145th Street. All passengers de-board at the next station.”
Wide-eyed, we got off the train.
“We should have thought about reduced train schedules,” Taylor said in a tight voice. At 1:30 a.m., the next train wouldn’t come for another 30 minutes.
A small group of men, probably in their early 20s, were talking gruffly in a tight circle. A papery, sallow-faced woman with clumped, straw hair and blood-shot eyes sat hunched on a nearby bench.
Taylor took a deep breath. “We’ve got a couple of options,” she said, trying to steady her voice. “We can stay here til the next train comes or we can go outside and look for a taxi. I-don’t-want-to-stay-here.” The last part she said quickly, gluing herself to my side.
As we made our way up the stairs, we heard a quick tapping noise and a woman in stilettos, bright pink mini skirt and open-laced top darted past us.
One look around the dimly lit street told us no cabs would be stopping here. Only a McDonalds sign buzzed and blinked overhead; everything else was shuttered and dark. A cluster of men argued in the street, surrounding a lone car with the driver’s door open. We rushed down the stairs as fast as our tightly linked arms would allow us.
In our absence, the station had filled with more people — mostly resembling the circle of men on the street above. But Taylor spotted two men who stood out from the rest. Dressed in brown suits and silk ties, they carried briefcases and spoke as I imagined Langston Hughes might have talked — with distinction and cadence. They were talking about their literature students at NYU. We felt safer just standing by the professors.
“I’m Clarence Scott,” one of the men said, extending his hand.
It was warm and firm, which surprised me. Except that he didn’t have wings and wasn’t made of stone, I’d have thought he were an angel.
We quickly introduced ourselves as college students from North Carolina.
“And what are you doing here?” Clarence asked with a sparkle in his eye. “In the middle of a Harlem subway station at two in the morning?”
He didn’t wait for our reply. “Let’s get you home,” he said, taking a subway map from his jacket pocket.
We named our stop.
“You know what I’ve always loved about subway stations?” Clarence asked, raising his voice slightly as he surveyed the map. “You’re underground — away from the hustle and bustle above you — at a point in transition. You can go anywhere … until you’re stopped.”
Our train approached.
“Of course, in New York, you’re never stopped for long,” he laughed. “Just enough time to ponder the in-betweens.”
In-betweens we’d tried so consciously to avoid, in hopes of finding ourselves in the midst of a good story. And yet —
I turned around, but Clarence was gone. Then we crossed the threshold.
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As early as next week, brand new high-occupancy toll lanes are set to open on a 14-mile stretch on I-495 in Northern Virginia.
Two new lanes each direction will be in operation from near the George Washington Parkway to I-95.
The old lanes will be free, but the new lanes will require a toll to use and only be accessible at certain points that include the beginning and end, plus I-66, I-95, and several new exits being built just for the toll lanes along I-495.
"If you travel on the beltway daily, this is a gamechanger for you," said Pierce Coffee with Transurban, the company that is operating the toll lanes.
Coffee says the new project, called 495 express lanes, will give drivers the option of avoiding rush hour traffic jams in the free lanes. She says drivers will be able to maintain speeds of at least 45 mph in the toll lanes no matter how slow the rest of the traffic is moving.
But in order keep traffic moving that fast, toll lanes will have to be at a price high enough to keep too many drivers from wanting to use the lanes.
Coffey says during rush hour, the average driver will likely pay somewhere between three and six dollars to use the lanes.
Non-rush hour prices are expected to be significantly cheaper.
But the prices aren't set in stone -- if the price has to go higher than six dollars to keep traffic moving in the toll lanes, it will.
"Until we actually put the price on the sign and we see what the driver's reaction is, we won't ultimately know," Coffey said.
Coffey said it's possible the average price could be higher than expected, but it's also possible it could be lower.
One year ago in the metro area of Atlanta, which is very close in size to Washington, toll lanes opened on I-85.
Although some drivers like having the option of paying to drive in less traffic, others have been strongly critical of the lanes.
One of the biggest complaints has been the price, which had steadily risen since the lanes opened. One day in October the price set a record by going above six dollars.
But Coffey says there are major differences between the projects in Northern Virginia and Atlanta that should make things go smoother here.
One major one: in the Atlanta area there is only one toll lane each direction, while on I-495 there will be two.
Coffee says there will be a learning curve with the new lanes. For instance, drivers will have to learn where they can and can't get on them.
There are barriers up to prevent drivers from moving from the regular beltway lanes into the toll lanes.
Tolls will be collected using EZ Pass. Cars with three or more people will be able to use the toll lanes for free, but will need a new device called an EZ Pass Flex to do it.
Transurban recommends drivers check out this website to learn important information about the new toll lanes and EZ Pass Flex.
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As children of God we all experience seasons of waiting.
Maybe it’s waiting for financial provision.
Maybe for a thorn in the flesh to be removed.
Maybe for parenthood, marriage, a longing that has yet to be granted.
Maybe it’s a wayward family member; hoping they turn to the Lord.
Maybe for wisdom.
For restoration.
For pain, sorrow or hurt to fade.
Maybe doubt has settled in – doubt that circumstances have any hope of changing. Life will always be stuck in this pit.
Over the past week I have been looking at this verse:)
When I think of waiting, I think of a doctors office; the line at the grocery store check out; the phone company coming between 12pm-5pm.
Standing still – just waiting.
If you look at the original Hebrew language you find the following for the word “waited”:
waited – H6960 – A primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), that is, collect; (figuratively) to expect: – gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon)
Also, notice the object of the psalmists waiting! It was the Lord Himself.
Seasons of waiting are not times to remain in spiritual idleness. They are for collecting and gathering up the promises of God and binding them in the heart. A time to twist every thought, dream, ambition and desire into line with Gods will.
It’s a time to pray! Cry out to Him! Seek Him in His Word! Let His Truth and His promises wash and cleanse! LOOK and EXPECT that He will provide all needs and fulfill desires in accordance with His will and timing because He is sovereign, He is powerful..
..and He is GOOD.
The result of waiting patiently:
renewed trust..
“he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
..and renewed joy – in Him!
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.“
He is our hope
He is our joy
He is the fulfillment of every longing
He is the reward of our waiting
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)
Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off. (Psalm 37:34)
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. (Titus 2:13)
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Thank you Elisha. Blessings to you 🙂
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Richard is trying to figure out the profound meaning of having the ocean closer to his bed than the bathroom. He’s taking it deep talking about “the soul of man’s desire” and I think that phrase only came out because he’s gone through two limes now on Coronas alone.
“We want conveniences,” he tells me, slapping a mosquito, “just a carefully packaged substitute for what’s real. Modern amenities are such bullshit.” With that, I make it a point to accept any argument that ends with fill-in-the-blank is such bullshit. Well argued, Richard.
He goes on talking “back to nature” and “back to ourselves.” I feel my bare feet on the wind-battered wood looking down to see the sand still wedged between my toes. My skin feels like raw hide and I don’t remember the last time I saw a mirror. Richard sees me looking off and says, “I mean, you get it man, right?” Slap.
I give him a “yeah yeah” or maybe a “the simple life” and I think I threw in a half-mumbled “but Richard, amenities don’t kill people, people kill people.”
We’re sitting at Mateo’s bar and Mateo is flicking wine glasses dry next to the tiki torches. He’s wearing plastic shoes and still has his sunglasses resting atop his head despite the fact it’s nearing one in the morning.
I start ripping the label off my Tecate and Richard sees I’m more in the stars above the roofless bar and less with him. “Hey Mateo,” Richard says. “Whaddya think? Are we digging our souls an early grave?”
“Interesting,” Mateo says, “that given the choice between finding truth and talking about finding truth, most of us prefer the conversation.”
I balled up the Tecate label and wished the long walk home was just a little bit longer.
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By Antony Ingram
It used to be so simple to tell which cars were coupes and which weren't. And not just because the word "Coupe" was emblazoned on your vinyl roof pillars in metallic script.
Generally, if it was a little sleeker than the average car, had only two doors and a proper trunk, you had yourself a coupe.
Now it's much more complicated, with everything from small hatchbacks to prestige four-door sedans given the moniker. Luckily, coupes are also a bit more fuel-efficient than they used to be.
We've selected the five most efficient "coupes" on the market--based on our own simple criteria. If it's relatively compact, looks sportier than your average hatchback or sedan and has fewer than average doors to its name, it's a coupe. Got that? Good.
2013 Honda CR-Z36 mpg city, 39 highway, 37 combined
The first of our hatch-cum-coupes, the CR-Z is about as small as coupes get. It's also about as frugal as they get these days, with a 1.5-liter gasoline engine and mild hybrid drivetrain combining for around 130 horsepower and 37 mpg combined.
That's with the CVT automatic, of course--move to the six-speed manual and you'll have a lot more fun, but economy does drop by 3 mpg combined. If it's style you want though, any CR-Z will do--its striking looks are possibly aided by just how few you see on the roads.
2013 MINI Cooper Coupe29 mpg city, 37 highway, 32 combined
Ah, now MINI's offering even has "Coupe" in the name. And it does have a proper trunk, and a sloping roofline. One that, apparently, is designed to look like a baseball cap worn backwards. Read into that what you will.
Powering the MINI Baseball Coupe is a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engine. Power is just shy of the CR-Z, as is economy--though a few mpg shy of 40 on the highway isn't too bad. Like the CR-Z, it's also a head-turner, while it seats equally few people.
2013 Honda Civic Coupe28 mpg city, 39 highway, 32 combined
Huzzah! An actual coupe. The Civic seems to have been around for as long as the term itself, and it's no longer the ball of fun it once was, but fuel efficiency is still a large part of its repertoire. It matches the smaller CR-Z on highway mileage, but falls a little short in the city, hence its lower combined rating.
Opting for the manual transmission does reduce that by a touch--36 highway and 31 combined, city mileage remaining the same--but any hypermiler worth their salt will claw that back with fancy footwork and skilled shifting. With 140 horsepower it's also one of the more powerful cars here, though power is a relative term in this company.
2013 Hyundai Elantra Coupe28 mpg city, 38 highway, 32 combined
Like the Civic, the Elantra Coupe is an actual, bona-fide coupe. It's also far more stylish than Honda's offering, as is becoming the norm for Korean automakers these days. Even better (for dyed in the wool driving enthusiasts at least), the most efficient Elantra comes standard with a stick-shift.
With a 148-horsepower 1.8-liter under the hood, it also promises the most punch here, while long warranties and plenty of equipment should make it easy to live with on a daily basis.
2013 Hyundai Veloster28 mpg city, 37 highway, 31 combined
Two Hondas and two Hyundais? That's just the way the market is these days. No longer are the days when Ford, GM, Toyota and more all offered inexpensive, light-on-gas coupes. At least the Veloster makes an effort, with its unusual (others may say "stupid") asymmetric door design and squat bulldog stance.
It makes a reasonable effort on gas mileage too. Equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission and the standard 1.6-liter, 138-hp engine, it should do 31 mpg combined. You might even match its 28 mpg city and 37 highway ratings--only a little behind the larger but sleeker Elantra.
This story originally appeared at Green Car Reports
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Leaving a gift in your will or by beneficiary designation
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A bequest is one of the most popular ways to ensure that the American Battlefield Trust can continue our mission for years to come. With a bequest, you retain control of your assets during your lifetime and can change your beneficiaries at any time. You can complete your gift with just a few sentences in your will or trust.
Here are some of the ways that most people leave a gift to the American Battlefield Trust:
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A father arrested last year for DUI outside a south Nashville elementary school was arrested again over the weekend after police say he threw a child's car seat with the child still strapped in it.Joseph Skinner was arrested Sunday night and charged with child endangerment.Police said Skinner, 31, got into an argument with the child's mother and her boyfriend in a parking lot.During the argument, Skinner unbuckled the child's car seat and, with the child still in it, threw it out of the car.Police found the little boy with markings on his back. He was taken to Summit Medical Center where he was treated for injuries to his back.Skinner was booked into the Metro jail on $80,000 bond.He was the only person arrested in connection with the incident.According to police records, Skinner was a passenger in an SUV his wife was driving, along with the baby's mother and her boyfriend.An argument started in the vehicle and Skinner's wife pulled over in the parking lot of a business on Old Hickory Boulevard.That is when police report a physical fight broke out inside the vehicle between the adults. During the fight is when police said Skinner unhooked the baby's car seat and tossed it out of the car into the parking lot.Officers were called to the parking lot by a fight in progress call, but when they arrived Skinner was gone. Metro police arrested him later in a different location.News 2 attempted to contact the baby's mother, but we were unable to reach her by phone."I would be horrified if that happened to my child," mother of a 2-year-old daughter Lauren Smith said. "That just seems like a heartless person to me."Last November, Skinner was arrested outside Tusculum Elementary School after the school's principal saw him staggering around the parking lot.Skinner had just dropped off one of his children at the school.Responding officers found Skinner intoxicated with his two-year-old child in his car.According to arrest records, Skinner told the officers he had taken oxycodone and soma.He was found guilty of DUI with a child and DUI. He also had an outstanding fugitive warrant from Georgia at the time.Skinner is due in court April 17th for his latest arrest.
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Most Popular Classic Car in Your State
September 7, 2018
So you’re a car guy from New York with a love for Corvette’s, but your friend in Florida has a passion for Porsche. Ever wonder if location has anything to do with that? Well, we are here to tell you, it just might! The popularity of collector cars actually changes and fluctuates with each state. Curious as to what collector car is the most popular in your home state? Keep reading below to find out!
- Alabama: 1977 Pontiac Firebird
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Not surprisingly, the most searched car in the nation is the Dodge Charger, which is ranked first in 13 states! After the Dodge Charger, the next most searched cars are the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet Camaro, and Pontiac Firebird. Over the years, these cars have become icons and remain a constant in the collector car community. Were you surprised by your state’s most popular car? Comment below and let us know!
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Theft from a local entity will not be tolerated as proven by Starke Circuit Court Judge Kim Hall after he sentenced Jennie Carter on that charge in court Monday morning.
Carter was the defendant in a bench trial in February where, based on evidence and testimony, Judge Hall found her guilty of stealing $7,748.40 from the Starke County Tourism Commission.
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The AC will be running in most homes across KY on Friday! Daytime highs will climb into the mid and upper 80s. It looks like the humidity levels will slightly go up as well. This will give it that uncomfortable factor that we get around here in the summer. It probably won't be that oppressive, but it will have a little extra sting to it! The good thing about this hot day is the fact that it is only a day! That's it! Just one pretty hot day.
The reason it will be so short is because we have another front ready to move across KY. It comes by late Friday night into Saturday morning. Usually, with a rapid change like this, we see some fireworks. I am not ruling out some stronger storms, but I'm really not feeling them either. It will be one of those days where we need to just pay attention to our weather surroundings.
That's the outlook for Friday. This image below will update as the new data becomes available.
What we have working in our favor is that this system isn't cut-off from the main flow in the atmosphere. It will be quickly forced out of the region by the steering winds above our heads. That means we won't have a long period of continuous rain... not that it even looks like there will be a lot associated with it... just saying!
Here are the fun graphics!
Our in house RPM Model. Highs for Friday!
Our in house RPM Model. What you see below will likely be the daytime highs for Saturday... at midnight!
RPM Saturday Afternoon
WOW!!!! That's a quick drop! I think the RPM might be just a little aggressive for afternoon readings on Saturday... I think we'll hoover in the low to mid 60s. Then Sunday night there could be some issues with areas of frost!.
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ALL ABOUT AUDITIONS
This section is all about unified auditions, held on the first Monday of each camp session. Get answers to your audition questions, fill out your audition form, and use our tools & tips to prepare for the big day. Learn how to choose the perfect monologue for you and get to work using the same tools our actors use during table work: scansion, rhetoric, and word-for-word paraphrasing
I felt a lot better about the audition than I was expecting to — I thought I would be terrible, and then I wasn’t! Part of it was probably the collaborative, more personal nature, rather than just “stand in a line, say your piece, and shut up.” – 2016 Camper
All campers must complete the appropriate audition form before arriving for Orientation.
Get a good night’s sleep after arrival and orientation day, because first thing in the morning of your first full day of camp, we have auditions! You will strut your stuff for the audition committee in the morning, and cast lists should be posted before dinner that same day.
Fill out the appropriate audition form as early as possible.
We will also use the information from these forms and in the audition room to begin making casting decisions for the mid-session Showcase performance.
Choosing and Preparing your Monologue – Tools & Tips
Not sure where to start? Check out Shakespeare’s Monologues, an excellent resource for finding the perfect Shakespearean monologue for you.
Guidelines for choosing your monologue:
Monologues must be from an Early Modern play.
Here, the term “Early Modern” refers to plays written during the period roughly defined as being between 1580-1642. While that period includes Shakespeare and all of his plays, he wasn’t the only playwright of any value producing work during that time. Campers are welcome to choose audition monologues from plays written by any of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson, Thomas Middleton, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, and Philip Massinger (just to name a few).
Monologues may be in either verse or prose, and must be between 10-15 lines long.
The line limit is non-negotiable.
- Is your verse piece 8 lines long?
- Find a new one.
- Is it 20 lines long?
- Cut it down, or find a new one.
- Having a hard time figuring out if your prose monologue meets the length requirements?
- Try setting it as “verse” by inserting line breaks every 10 syllables to get a general idea of the length.
The first step of preparing your monologue for performance is to scan the text. Scansion is the process by which we mark the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse. You will have an opportunity to work with one of our camp counselors to review your scansion before the audition. Scansion is simply a tool to help you get to know your text better.
Verse is a form of writing that transforms words into dramatic poetry. Shakespeare’s verse has a special rhythm called iambic pentameter. An iamb consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. These two beats complete one foot in a line of verse. There are five feet in a regular iambic pentameter line, or ten total syllables.
How to Mark Scansion:
Foot: a vertical line between the feet: |
Unstressed syllable: a curved u-like shape above the unstressed syllable: ˘
Stressed syllable: a small vertical or slanted line above the stressed syllable: /
Caesura: two vertical lines: ||
Caesuras are mid-line breaks which mark the end of a sentence or thought before the end of the line.
Examples:
˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ /
He is | a dream|er; || let | us leave | him: || pass.
˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ /
Shall we| be sun|der’d? || Shall | we part,| sweet girl?
Irregularities:
You may find that some lines scan irregularly. Here are some variations that you might discover:
Trochees: A trochee is a foot composed of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Words like beauty, error, vanish, and even Shakespeare are trochaic because we emphasize the first syllable in those words; BEAUty, ERRor, VANish, SHAKEspeare.
Spondees: A spondee is a foot composed of two stressed syllables. This line from Julius Caesar starts with a spondee: “Hence! Home, you idle creatures get you home.”
Feminine Endings: Lines with feminine endings contain 11 syllables. Hamlet’s famous line, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” has a feminine ending.
Shared lines: Shared lines occur when two or more characters share one line of iambic pentameter. In the following example, Lady Macbeth starts a line, “The sleepy grooms with blood,” and Macbeth completes the line by saying the last four syllables:
Lady Macbeth: They must lie there; go carry them, and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.
Macbeth: I’ll go no more.
Say it out loud:
Practice saying your lines out loud. Read the examples below while over-emphasizing the syllables in capital letters to indicate their “stressed” position.
ToMORrow AND toMORrow AND toMORrow
–Macbeth
With LOVE’S light WINGS did I o’erPERCH these WALLS
–Romeo and Juliet
To BE or NOT to BE that IS the QUESTion
–Hamlet
You BLOCKS, you STONES, you WORSE than SENSEless THINGS
-Julius Caesar
Fun with syllables:
Shakespeare gives us clues to the meaning of lines by placing important syllables in stressed positions. Read the lines above again, but this time only say the stressed syllables. For example, Hamlet’s line would sound like this:
BE NOT BE IS QUEST.
These important syllables not only convey the meaning of Hamlet’s monologue, but they also capture the essence of the whole play: Hamlet’s questions about existence drive his quest for revenge.
Prose
If your character speaks in prose, or without a specific meter, then your first step should be to look for rhetorical devices in your character’s speech. Characters generally speak in prose if they are of a lower status or are in casual situations. You can easily distinguish verse from prose by looking at the beginning of each line; All lines in a verse speech begin with capital letters. Prose speeches continue across the line breaks without capitalizing the first word of each line. Below is an example from Much Ado About Nothing of a prose monologue:
BENEDICK.
R.O.A.D.S. to Rhetoric
While you are working on your audition monologue and on your plays, notice the following rhetorical devices: Repetition, Omission, Addition, Direction, and Substitution. These devices can provide you with character clues, telling you more about the speaker, and they can provide acting cues, indicating how to behave physically or vocally when delivering the lines.
Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively. Shakespeare uses the tools of rhetoric to shape his characters’ thoughts and actions. Some characters are eloquent speakers and can easily win arguments or display their dexterity with words, like King Henry V. Other characters mix up their words or use words inappropriately, such as Dogberry, the clown in Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare intentionally uses rhetoric to create characters’ unique ways of speaking.
Repetition
Repetition gives speech a cadence, a rhythm to follow. Our brains, which are tuned to appreciate harmony, naturally pick up on these patterns, assisting us in synthesizing ideas. Shakespeare frequently uses devices of repetition within the structure of iambic pentameter, which already has a distinct rhythm; layering the rhetorical device on top of the scansion augments the brain’s ability to hear patterns.
Omission
Omission interrupts the normal flow of speech or ideas in some way, by leaving out a component of a sentence or a layer of meaning. This omission requires the brain to try to fill in the gap. You should also consider what omission implies about the listener. Either Shakespeare or the character thinks that his audience (within the play or in the theatre) can fill in the blanks, crediting them with enough intelligence and reasoning to follow along – or, if the gaps are not easily filled, that may be significant; a character may be counting on poor comprehension.
Addition
These rhetorical devices focus on words which are either extraneous or explanatory – they either elaborate unnecessarily on something which is already clear, or they make clear what was previously vague. Many of these devices slow down a speech, drawing out the tempo. They may overlap with devices of repetition.
Direction
Devices of direction change the order in which the words come; they are devices of arrangement and rearrangement, and they can either illuminate or confuse meaning. A device which arranges words more neatly, by highlighting contrast or building to a climactic point, illuminates meaning. A device which rearranges words into a less sensible order, altering normal English syntax, may obfuscate meaning. These devices may also more literally change the direction of the speech – that is, change to whom a character directs a speech.
Substitution
Devices of substitution are when, in one way or another, one word or phrase stands in for something else. This may be purely grammatical, or it may be more conceptual and abstract. Metaphors, malapropisms, and puns all fall into this category.
Notice that these five types of forms are not mutually exclusive. They may overlap and intertwine. A figure of direction may also have repetition within it. You may find omission nested within addition. Some devices straddle the line between one type and another, and there isn’t always a “right answer.” Look to rhetoric for suggestions and clues as a way of opening up the text, not to try and pin it down to any one interpretation or another.
When examining rhetoric within a character’s speech, it’s important to consider both what the author (Shakespeare) is doing and what the character is doing. Examining Shakespeare’s craft is important for appreciation of his skill as a writer, and examining the character is important for performance purposes.
How to find R.O.A.D.S in your monologue:
Look for Repetition, Omission, Addition, Direction, and Substitution in the text of your monologue. Circle, underline, and highlight your findings.
- Notice when your character repeats words or sentence structures. What point are they trying to get across?
- Notice when your character leaves out words or important information. Is the character trying to hide something? Are they forgetful?
- Notice when your character adds extra words to their message. Why are they using flowery language? Who are they trying to impress?
- Notice when your character alters or rearranges the order of their words. Does this arrangement make their speech more clear or muddy? Why might this character re-arrange their word order?
- Notice when your character replaces simple words for complex words, metaphors, or puns. What about this character and their situation might explain their choice to replace simple words for more complex or abstract phrases?
At the American Shakespeare Center, one of the first things the actors do when they receive their scripts is paraphrase their lines word for word. While 98.5% of the words Shakespeare writes into his plays are still in common usage, English is a highly versatile and inventive language, with its multiplicity of word choices for a single meaning, as well as its multiplicity of meanings for a single word. As such, word definitions may have changed over the last 400 years, leaving room for exploration and discovery within each one. Moreover, since Shakespeare used over 30,000 words in his plays, and the average English speaker only uses a vocabulary of about 5,000 – 8,000 words on a regular basis, paraphrasing can help ensure that our campers have made the strongest playing choice when it comes to the meanings of various words.
The benefits of a word for word paraphrase extend beyond word meaning. Syntax and word order inform actors about character options and choices. If a character always chooses a 3 syllable word where a 1 syllable word will do, or mis-orders her words, or never comes to the end of a sentence, paraphrasing can help actors to recognize those traits, providing them with more playing choices.
Following the example below, try to create your own word-for-word paraphrase of your monologue text. Be creative and use words that you think are both fun to say and fit the meaning and moment of the story you are telling. Try different words if you feel stuck. Use a dictionary or thesaurus to help you.
How to paraphrase:
- Replace all verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs even if the words are familiar.
- Try not to change the order of the words.
- You do not need to replace prepositions (in, before, above), pronouns (she, he, we, them), conjunctions (and, so, but), or proper nouns (characters’ names and geographical places).
Example:
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (WKYT) - At long last, Cincinnati's new casino opened its doors.
After two years of construction, the $400 million Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati opened for business Monday night. With fireworks overhead and crowds lined up down the street to get in, it's the last of the Ohio voter-approved casinos to open its doors in less than a year. There is already debate over whether the casino will live up to its promise.
Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky have waited nearly four years for the casino's opening. And while a push for casinos in Kentucky has failed, its neighbor Ohio moved ahead with the promise of entertainment, jobs, and millions in tax revenue.
By the time construction started, there were already questions about the casino's revenue projections. Cincinnati was expecting to get $21 million a year in revenue. Then last month, the city manager said it would be less.
"The updated figures for the city were somewhere in the $15-16 million range. The opening is upon us now, so we won't have to wait long to start to see how it will flow," explained Cincinnati City Commissioner Milton Dohoney.
"You had the governor that came in and took a little bit out. Casinos that are coming in that are further competing for the dollars. That's why the numbers are revised down below what they were in '09," described Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune. He thinks the county will get $5-6 million a year from casino revenues. That is half of the amount voters were told to expect. "All new money is good money for especially us at this time. Now back in '09, we were hoping to get as much as 12 million, but those are estimates. You can never bank on that and anybody that would budget based on estimates should not be in office," said Portune.
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has tried and failed every year since his 2007 election to legalize casinos.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Ghost hunters will be gathering at a Louisville park next month to go on a hunt with a paranormal group.
The event at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park will include a history of the park and a hunt that's led by S.E.R.I.O.U.S. Paranormal starting at 9 p.m.
Visitors to the "Spirits of Sawyer" will get to see how ghost-hunting instruments are used during a tour of historic areas of the park.
Registration is required and participants must be 16 years old or older, or accompanied by a parent.
The fee for the Sept. 13 event is $20 per person.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Lexington artist and master craftsman, Dan Neil Barnes will return to the Living Arts & Science Center to teach a four-week session, Beginning Stained Glass class, beginning October 1, 8, 15 & 22. Registrations for this unique workshop are now open and can be made on-line at.
The workshop will take a small group of students through a step-by-step process to construct a small, stained glass panel. Dan will provide several simple designs to choose from. Students will select colors from the provided glass and learn how to cut the glass, grind the edges, line the edges with copper foil, and to solder the panel. After this project they will be ready to get more creative with design and glass selection.
The workshop is for adults and teens, 16 years of age and up, and will provide all necessary materials and supplies.
Dan Neil Barnes is a multi-award winning artist whose work transcends traditional stained glass art forms. Dan has been awarded top honors and recognition for his stained glass including the following:
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• Juried Exhibitor, American Craft Council, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2012
• Featured Artist, Uroboros Glass Annual International Brochure, Portland, OR, April 2012
• Photograph, American Craft Council Magazine, April 2012
• Exhibitor, Lexington Home and Garden Show - Kentucky Arts Council Architectural Exhibit, Lexington, KY April 2012
• Juried Exhibitor, American Craft Council, Atlanta, March, 2012
• Juried Exhibitor, Kentucky Craft Market - Best of Show, Lexington, KY, March, 2012
Barnes was also recently commissioned to create an art installation in the Owensboro Convention Center set to open in January 2014
Pre-registration for the class is required. Registrations are can be made on-line at. Register early as classes fill quickly. The cost for the class is $140 for members of the LASC and $150 for non-members. The cost includes all materials and supplies.
Other classes for Teens and Adults will take place throughout the Fall. These include:
Clay Play for Adults with Marianne Brown
Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22
Sculpting with Paper with Megan Sauter
Thursdays, Oct. 10, 17, 24
Worm Composting with SeedLeaf
Saturday, Oct. 5
Painting from Photos for Beginners with Patrick Smith
Nov. 5, 12, & 19
Giftable Jewelry with Megan Sauter
Nov. 7, 14, 21
Starting an Art Portfolio with Lennon Michalski
Nov. 9, 16, 23
Enhancing Photos in Photoshop with Maggie Rogers
Nov. 9, 16, 23
Natural Wreaths with Melinda Boyer
Dec. 3
The complete schedule of classes and registration forms are available on the Living Arts & Science Center Web site,.
The Living Arts & Science Center is a not-for-profit organization that provides creative and unique opportunities for exploration and education in the arts and sciences. Art galleries, a science gallery, and arts and science classes and workshops are provided year-round for children and adults of all ages. In addition, the Living Arts and Science Center partners with community agencies and organizations to provide free hands-on arts activities at community events and programs and classes for special needs and at-risk students.
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What Is "The UnderTale Legion"?
UnderTale Legion is a group of mature and professional artisans that thrive to create amazing masterpeices, and bring out what it truly means to become a creator. We help to add diversity of content, as well as show what it takes to become a dedicated blog maker.
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There's a new trend to put a very nice roof over your head and save money.
We are not talking about getting a roommate, renting a room or moving back home with mom and dad -- it's called house sharing and it's a growing trend.
Three baby boomers merged their furniture, their wine glasses, their china and their book collections. They sold their old homes and bought a new house together. They joined two million other Americans over the age of 30 who have a house mate or roommate.
"It made amazing economic sense," said Jean McQuillin, Shared House Owner.
Jean McQuillin, Louise Machinist and Karen Bush are all are divorced, in their early 50's and have professional full time jobs. They met at church and created what they call a "cooperative household."
Each woman has her own bedroom and bathroom but they share the common areas of the house, chores and expenses.
"We are all really busy. We're hardly ever all here at the same time," said Louise Machinist, Shared House Owner.
When the trio is home together, sometimes they throw parties, play games and dote on their shared house cat. Before they moved in, an attorney drew up this legal agreement addressing issues like: how long visitors can stay, what if a house mate wants to sell or leave, and what happens if someone passes away? And they made sure they clicked.
"On some level you have to share values in order to make things work," said Karen Bush, Shared House Owner.
The idea of sharing values, chores, and sometimes even child care is sparking entire co-housing communities across the country. There are now 125 of these special developments. Families buy regular homes which surround a main common house with a common kitchen, a space for the entire community to share.
"Taking the stress off of parents in having to do everything for their kids and not sharing the load is really to me the heart of the American dream," said Rebecca Lane, CoHousing Association of United States.
If you are not interested in a co-housing community, but simply a shared house? Experts suggest creating an agreement on how to share expenses and chores; set boundaries outlining what you can and can't live with; check references of potential house mates; and ask why someone wants to move.
"You need to know that people are solid about paying, that they're going to be a reasonable person to be around," said Annamarie Pluhar, Shared Housing Expert.
Experts also say communication and compromise are key to solving problems. Karen, Jean and Louise love their arrangement.
"You can make something wonderful happen if you can find the right people to do it with," said Louise.
If you're considering someone as a house mate, experts suggest running a credit or even criminal background check on the person.
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Gainesville Police Cpl. Joe Britte said road rage may have sparked a deadly accident early Friday morning on Browns Bridge Road.
"We received a call from 911 that a pick-up truck was aggressively bumping a 2006 Toyota Highlander for reasons unknown, just driving aggressively behind the vehicle," said Britte.
It happened just after midnight west of McEver Road. The couple riding in that Highlander called 911.
Dispatcher: Hall County 911 what's your emergency?
Caller: Yes, we're on Browns Bridge Road heading towards Gainesville. We have got a red truck following us. He's been following us and he keeps turning off his lights on and off. He just hit us! He just hit us!
Dispatcher: OK, are you hurt?
Caller: No, but we're not going to stop. Do not stop. He keeps hitting us! He keeps hitting us!
According to Britte, the driver of a pickup truck, Michael Carl Williams, 48, attempted to pass the couple in that Highlander and then hit an oncoming SUV head-on.
Twenty-year-old Chelsea Gerrish was driving that SUV.
You can hear the crash on the 911 call.
Driver: He's about to hit somebody head-on.
Caller: He just hit somebody head-on. No! No! No!
Dispatcher: Ma'am, ma'am. Calm down.
Driver: He just hit somebody head-on going about 70 miles an hour.
Gerrish and Williams both died in that crash.
"That's a tragic end to this story, now those families are devastated and affected by this," said Britte.
Britte said two female passengers who were riding with Gerrish were taken to the hospital with no life-threatening injuries.
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Superstar Singer/Songwriter/Producer Reaps Nominations In Three Top Categories, Including “Album Of The Year,” “Song Of The Year,” And “Record Of The Year”; The Smeezingtons Nominated For "Producer Of The Year"; New Single, “It Will Rain,” Currently Standing Tall At #1 On iTunes’ “Top Singles” Chart, While Also Hitting Top 3 On Billboard’s “Hot 100”
Elektra recording artist Bruno Mars has scored a stunning six nominations for the upcoming 54th Annual Grammy Awards. 24.
Meanwhile, Mars is riding high with “It Will Rain,” the first single from Summit Entertainment/Chop Shop/Atlantic’s recently released “THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK.” The track is currently #1 on iTunes’ overall “Top Singles” chart, while also standing at #3 on Billboard’s “Hot 100.”
The “It Will Rain” companion video is also proving a sensation, earning over 15 million views and counting via the official Elektra Records YouTube channel,. In addition, the track’s audio version has also blown up on YouTube, receiving over 20 million individual views thus far.
The success of “It Will Rain” marks the 11th top 10 single for Mars, following solo blockbusters like the multi-platinum #1 hits, “Just The Way You Are” and “Grenade” – both featured on 2010’s “DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS” – as well as songs written and co-produced by Mars in his role as one of The Smeezingtons,.
In other news, Mars – who earlier this year took home a “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance” Grammy Award for “Just The Way You Are” – was among the big winners at the recent recently lit up the stage on Fox’s hit singing competition series, The X Factor with a spectacular live rendition of “It Will Rain.” The performance has proven a YouTube favorite, drawing nearly 600,000 views and counting. What’s more, the award-winning superstar has also been seen on recent installments of the nationally syndicated The Ellen DeGeneres Show and PBS’ Sesame Street.
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Amphetamines are a collective group of drugs that include amphetamines and amphetamine derivatives such as dextroamphetamine, levoamphetamine, and methamphetamine. Amphetamines speed up the brain and are highly addictive central nervous system stimulants. The most common types of amphetamines are those legally prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity. Other amphetamines may be used to enhance cognition or performance and many are abused for their euphoric properties.
Types of Amphetamines
Amphetamine is made up of two compounds levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine. The more potent of two is dextroamphetamine and is a common element of ADD, ADHD, and narcolepsy medications. Methamphetamine is a drug produced, illegally, in domestic and foreign labs for recreational use. It is neurotoxic and can cause many health problems including brain damage, chronic psychiatric disorders, and dental problems. Methamphetamine hydrochloride is rarely prescribed because of it health risks, but it is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) under the trade name Desoxyn.
Amphetamine Abuse
Amphetamine abuse can lead to serious health consequences, such as rapid or irregular heartbeats, anxiety, paranoia, mood disturbances, psychosis, overdose, or death. Legitimate prescriptions for amphetamines are often diverted to the street for sale and other amphetamines, such as methamphetamine and MDMA, are produced in clandestine laboratories where there is no monitoring of the chemical makeup or dosage potencies and this increases the risks from abuse. According to the National Institute On Drug Abuse “In studies of chronic methamphetamine users, severe structural and functional changes have been found in areas of the brain associated with emotion and memory, which may account for many of the emotional and cognitive problems observed in these individuals.”
List of Amphetamines
There is a wide variety of legal amphetamines produced under various name brands in the United States. The following is a list of the most common legal drugs containing amphetamines and amphetamine compounds that are prescribed for medicinal treatment purposes:
There are many different amphetamines on the market.
- Adderall
- Adderall XR
- Ritalin
- Ritalin-SR
- Dextrostat
- Dexedrine
- Dexedrine Spansule
- Zenzedi
- Concerta
- ProCentra
- Vyvanse
- Focalin
- Strattera
- Desoxyn
Many amphetamine drugs have their own street names as follows:
- Street amphetamine: uppers, bennies, black beauties, speed, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, wake-ups, and white crosses
- Street dextroamphetamine: dexies
- Street methamphetamine: crank, crystal, crystal meth, meth, go-fast, speed, and zip
- Concentrated methamphetamine hydrochloride: ice, crystal, and glass
- Combinations: Amphetamines and barbiturates: goofballs
- Methamphetamine and heroin: speedballs
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When I came to college, the first thing that I did was get involved. I was involved with the Western Student Association, the Campus Activities Board, and a couple of other registered student organizations. Getting involved in your university is one of the best ways to be successful in college. Also, when you are living in the residence halls, keep your door open so people can visit. It's another way you can make great friends on your floor. When I have free time, I love to go hang out with my friends, watch movies, and go to downtown Kalamazoo and explore!
Hi, my name is Dillon. I am a sophomore at Western Michigan University, double majoring in Organizational Communication and Political Science. I am from Jenison, Michigan where I graduated in 2011 from Jenison High School.
When trying to decide which college to go to I had a big choice to make, like everyone else. Except in my case, my parents were moving to Florida shortly after I went off to whatever college I decided to go to. I had been to Western before for a choir invitational, and really enjoyed the time that I had while visiting campus. I was looking into a college down in Florida initially, but I decided to come to WMU. The reason why was because Western had one of the top programs for psychology, which was my major at the time, and I had a lot of really good friends that were also going to be attending WMU as well. I realized that psychology wasn't my true passion, and then I switched to organizational communication and political science after taking classes in both. I could not be any happier with what I am majoring in now.
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Last month, after six straight recipes failed on me, including two that I trust and bake all the time, I realized I didn’t just have a streak of bad luck… My oven had broken, and I needed a new one. ASAP.
How else would I be able to continue creating new recipes to share with you??
That evening, I called my dad, the king of researching almost every topic under the sun, and we talked about the size, brand, and features of the best ovens for baking. He helped me pick out the exact model that would work best for my recipe testing, so the next day, I drove to Home Depot to pick it out.
However…
After walking around the kitchen appliance section of the store, I couldn’t find it. I checked every oven on the floor, and when I finally asked an employee for help, she pulled up the inventory on a computer screen.
After clicking around for a few moments, she replied that not a single Home Depot in the San Diego area stocked that particular oven model… It was a special order. And the nearest store with it on display was over a hundred miles away.
From the parking lot, I called my mom, who had checked in with me before I left on my oven purchasing adventure. Upon hearing the news, she typed a few things into Google and eventually found a local place in my neighborhood that supposedly featured the exact model I wanted in their showroom.
I quickly drove there, a little hesitant about that coincidence feeling too good to be true, but within ten seconds of walking through the doors, a kind gentleman greeted me and showed me the beautiful convection oven I wanted, prominently on display in the wall of their massive showroom. Within fifteen minutes, I had paid for the oven, signed all of the paperwork, and scheduled its installation for the end of the week.
What a huge relief!!
So when my parents drove down to visit a couple of weekends later, I baked a batch of this Healthy Almond Butter Granola for them as a thank you for helping me find the perfect oven! They’re both trying to cut back on sweets, and since they go through jars of almond butter faster than I can blink, I thought using it in this healthy breakfast granola would be absolutely perfect for them—especially because Dad often eats a bowl of granola right before one of his weekend hikes!
This healthy almond butter granola is full of big crunchy clusters (even though it contains no butter, oil or refined sugar!), all thanks to my secret ingredient and special baking trick. Plus it has just 122 calories in each serving!
And because I can polish off a batch of granola even faster than my parents finish off a jar of almond butter… Maybe I should bake a double batch next time… One for me and one to share!
So let’s go over how to make this healthy almond butter granola!
To make your life as easy as possible, you just need one bowl for this healthy granola recipe. Fewer dishes to wash always make me one happy girl! And in that bowl, you’ll whisk together the secret ingredient…
Egg whites! That’s right. This healthy almond butter granola includes no oil or butter. Instead, the egg whites bind together the rest of the ingredients to create big crunchy clusters. They also give your healthy granola a protein boost!
Now… Let me guess what you’re thinking…
“Amy, are you crazy? Won’t I end up with cooked scrambled-egg-like bits in my granola??”
The answer is no! You don’t end up with bits of cooked egg in your granola. When you add an egg to the cookie dough to make your favorite chocolate chip cookies, you don’t end up with cooked scrambled-egg-like bits in your fully baked cookies, right? The same thing is true here! You’ll thoroughly whisk those egg whites with the other ingredients, so you don’t end up with bits of cooked egg. It just binds together the rest of the ingredients to make big crunchy granola clusters!
And speaking of those other basic ingredients…
You’ll stir in some creamy almond butter next! This is my homemade creamy almond butter recipe. It’s really simple to make! You just need 10 minutes and a blender. That’s it! It turns out so smooth and velvety, and although I may be biased, I think it tastes even better than most store-bought jars.
Tip: If you’re running short on time and prefer to use store-bought creamy almond butter, that’s okay! I won’t hold it against you. Just make sure it’s the natural drippy-style kind that only includes almonds and salt!
Then you’ll stir in a bit of pure maple syrup to sweeten your healthy almond butter granola. No refined granulated sugar here! Remember, you want the pure maple syrup that comes directly from maple trees, not pancake syrup. The only ingredient on the label should be “maple syrup,” and it generally comes in thin glass bottles or squat plastic jugs (like this!).
Time to add the cereals! Yes, plural. You’re using two in your healthy almond butter granola! Those two cereals are old-fashioned rolled oats and crisp brown rice cereal. While you probably predicted the first one, I’m guessing you might think I’ve lost my marbles again for including the second one…
“Really Amy? You’re telling me to make homemade granola with rice krispies???”
Almost! I’m telling you to make healthy homemade granola with rice cereal… Specifically brown rice cereal, like this. Rice krispies cereal contains white rice, granulated sugar, salt, and 11 more ingredients. The brown rice cereal that I use contains organic brown rice, organic brown rice syrup, and salt. Much healthier—and far fewer ingredients!
The oats provide that classic hearty texture to your homemade granola. The brown rice cereal actually helps create an even crunchier texture in your healthy almond butter granola clusters, without using butter or oil. So by using both, you get even more crunchiness for far fewer calories. Healthy, low calorie homemade granola is definitely something I can get behind!
Now that you’ve mixed together your ingredients, it’s time for the special baking trick. I actually picked this up from my friend Phi’s cookbook. It’s totally brilliant, and I’ve been using it to make all of my homemade granola recipes ever since!
Ready?
Instead of using a standard cake pan, you’ll bake your healthy homemade almond butter granola on a jelly roll pan (aka a really big rimmed baking sheet) lined with a silicone baking mat.
Why does this make a difference?
There’s more surface area on the jelly roll pan compared to a standard cake pan. (That’s a fancy way of saying there’s more room for your granola, so you can spread it out in a much thinner layer!)
When your granola mixture is in a thicker layer, it steams and takes longer to bake, so you have to stir it a lot more to ensure it bakes evenly. More steam = a less crunchy texture. More stirring = fewer big clusters. Because you’re moving around the granola a lot more when you stir, it breaks up those clusters into itty bitty pieces, and they don’t turn out as crunchy. Not good.
But if you use a jelly roll pan to make your healthy homemade granola, you only have to stir once or twice. Your granola also bakes faster. So you end up with really big crunchy clusters (because of minimal stirring!) in your healthy almond butter granola, and you don’t have to wait as long to eat it. That’s definitely a win-win in my book!
One last thing! I also added sliced almonds to my batch of healthy homemade almond butter granola. Because they’re so thin, I waited to add them until the last few minutes of baking. If you add them at the beginning, they might burn… But if you wait until the end, you end up with nicely toasted almonds in your healthy homemade almond butter granola. Yum!
Then you’ll let your healthy homemade granola cool completely on the jelly roll pan. This allows the heat from the pan to turn your granola clusters even crunchier… Giving them the absolute perfect texture!
Now all that’s left to do is decide… Will you eat yours with milk? Mixed with Greek yogurt? Or plain, by the handful, straight from the pan? (Hint: There’s no wrong answer!) almond butter granola!
- 2 large egg whites
- 2 tbsp (32g) homemade creamy almond butter
- 3 tbsp (45mL) pure maple syrup
- 2 cups (60g) crisp brown rice cereal
- 1 ½ cups (150g) old-fashioned oats (gluten-free, if necessary)
- 2 tbsp (14g) sliced almonds (see Notes!)
- Preheat the oven to 325°F, and line a large rimmed baking sheet with a silicone baking mat (highly recommended!) or parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the egg whites until the egg whites are broken up and slightly bubbly. Stir in the almond butter until fully incorporated.. Sprinkle the sliced almonds on top.* Bake for an additional 4-7 minutes (for a total of 34-37 minutes), or until the granola is golden and crunchy. Cool the granola completely to room temperature on the pan before transferring to an airtight container.
Honey or agave may be substituted for the pure maple syrup.
Quick cooking oats (also called “instant” or “one-minute” oats) may be substituted for the old-fashioned oats. I don’t recommend substituting steel cut oats.
Regular crisp rice cereal (i.e. Rice Krispies) may be substituted in place of the brown rice cereal.
These are the sliced almonds I used! Only add the sliced almonds to your granola towards the end of baking if they’re “natural” or raw. If you’re using sliced almonds that have already been toasted, they may end up burning in the oven—so add them AFTER the granola has finished baking instead!!)
If your granola turns a really deep dark brown while baking, that’s totally okay! From my granola baking experience, liquid sweeteners (like pure maple syrup!) tend to caramelize and turn a much deeper shade of brown than granulated sweeteners. As long as it isn’t black and burnt, it should be just fine!
{gluten-free, clean eating, low fat}
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You may also like Amy’s other recipes…
♡ Healthy Vanilla Almond Granola
♡ Healthy Maple Pecan Granola
♡ Healthy 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Granola
♡ Healthy 5-Ingredient Trail Mix Granola
♡ Healthy Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Granola
♡ …and the rest of Amy’s healthy granola recipes!
YUM! Confession: I’ve eaten the exact same breakfast EVERY day for months and months now… 2 Van’s GF Original Waffles toasted with nut butter + maybe some sliced strawberries or bananas if I have time. It NEVER gets old for me!! I’ve turned into my father, who eats the exact same breakfast of grapefruit + a bagel + cream cheese EVERY day of his life, to this day! Anyways, I’ve been on an almond butter kick for the last month or so after a few months of PB, so this granola sounds AMAZING. Especially with those crunchy clusters! Yesss! <3
I love the sound of those waffles! Especially with the combo of nut butter + fruit. That must taste amazing — I don’t blame you for eating that every day! And yet another pea moment… I’ve gone through multiple phases of my life where I’ve eaten the same thing for months, if not years!! 😉 I wish I still had some of this granola left over to give you! Is it sweet pea diet approved???
I LOVE this recipe!! I am so happy to find a good and simple granola recipe low in fat and sugars. Can’t wait for more if it.
I’m so glad you enjoyed this granola Brie! That means so much to me — thanks for taking the time to let me know! 🙂
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March 7, 2002
KALAMAZOO -- Don Desmett, director of collections and exhibitions
at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, is the judge for the 2002
Western Michigan University Annual Art Student Exhibition. Judging
takes place Tuesday, March 12.
This year's edition of the annual student exhibition runs
from March 20 to April 2 in the Dalton Center Multimedia Room.
Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Awards Ceremony for the student exhibition is Monday, March
25, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The exhibition
,awards ceremony and reception that follows are free and open
to the public.
Prior to coming to the KIA in 2000, Don Desmett was executive
director of the Art Center of Battle Creek, Mich., as well as
it's main curator for two years. From 1990-98, he was director
and curator of the Tyler Galleries at the Tyler School of Art
of Temple University in Philadelphia. Also, he was art gallery
director at Cleveland State University from 1986 to 1990 and
director of exhibitions at Gallery G in Pittsburgh, 1984-86.
In addition, he has curated exhibitions for the Krannert Art
Museum at the University of Illinois, the William Benton Museum
of Art in Storrs, Conn., the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at
Wichita State University, and the Institute of Contemporary Art
in Philadelphia, among others.
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USDJPY hit a 5-month low at 107.45 following the Fed’s dovish signal. In the near term this could scope for a rebound, in the medium term however there is nothing positive for the asset.
For one, BoJ Governor Kuroda strongly emphasized during his post-meeting press conference today (following the widely anticipated decision to leave policy unchanged) that the central bank “won’t hesitate” to consider further monetary easing if necessary. For two, the risk-on vibe in global stock and commodity markets, inspired by expectations for central bank accommodation, should set the scene for Yen underperformance, as per the usual inverse correlative relationship the Japanese currency has with stock market direction.
From the economic data perspective, US data earlier missed expectations and added further pressure on the US Dollar, with:
- US initial claims falling 6k to 216k in the week ending June 15
- US Q1 current account deficit narrowed to -$130.4 bln from -$143.9 bln in Q4
- US Philly Fed index dropped 16.3 points to 0.3 in June from 16.6 in May. The index was at 20.8 last June. It hit a recent high of 32.3 in May 2018 (the 37.8 from February 2017 was the peak going back to 1993), while February’s -4.1 was a 33-year low.
The current data could add to market expectations for a cut in July, even though the future gauge looked brighter.
Meanwhile, the recent outbreak of cordiality on the US-China trade negotiation front ahead of the G20 summit is also relevant in this regard. USDJPY still maintains its trend support at 107.10-13. However as this is a weak Support, a close below 107.45 would mean that the Next Support comes at April 2018 low value, at 105.64, or even lower at the 105.00 area.
Medium term momentum indicators also present the strong negative sentiment for USDJPY.
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A Chapel Hill woman who was injured in a deadly bus crash in Virginia has been released from a Virginia hospital.
Theresa Watson has been released Sentera Norfolk General Hospital, the hospital said Monday. She is expected to be in a hospital in Chapel Hill.
Her husband, Doval Emmanuel Watson, 58, was killed on the bus when it crashed Friday with six high school students around 7:05 a.m. on U.S. Route 58 in Capron. The bus was on the way to Hampton University for a high school students day.
The driver of the bus, Larry Brocks, 62, of Raleigh, survived and has been charged with reckless driving.
Doval Watson was a former president of the Durham-Chapel Hill chapter of the Hampton University Alumni Association, according to current president Gloria Doyle. She said Watson was also active in the St. Paul AME Church in Chapel Hill.
Four of Watson's six children went to Hampton and he took immense pride in the school in Hampton, Va.
A spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police said the driver lost control of the bus, causing it to run off the road and overturn into a ditch. No other vehicles were involved.
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TV News anchor Saul Cordero appeared to briefly lose his
mind on live TV.
He was wrapping up a news report when he stumbled over a word
and proceeded to let fly with what can only be described as gibberish.
Unfortunately the cameras were still rolling and his gaffe went out to viewers.
The station, taking it all in stride, linked the clip to it's Facebook page and
Friday morning were still hoping visitors would see the clip and
"like" the page.
Host @DavidBegnaud delivers breaking news and today's
trending buzz in 45 seconds.
Source: Ora TV
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Social media can be such a pain in the butt, can’t it? You follow all of these amazing bloggers who have great ideas to implement. Your fellow Christians post images of their gorgeous Bible journaling pages, their cute little Bible notebooks, their completely organized prayer journals or boxes. Everyone seems to have it all together, don’t they?
Everyone but you.
You’re over in your comfy chair, feeling like a complete failure for not even reading your Bible lately. You can’t afford a Bible journal or all the supplies that come along with that hobby. You don’t have any spare notebooks around and if you do, they’re all ratty from the kids playing with them. And a prayer journal just pushes you over the edge. People have prayer journals now?? How do they have time to put together such elaborate Bible reading and prayer tools?? Don’t they have kids to raise and a house to clean?
So you don’t do anything at all. Except feel bad about yourself. You’re not talented, artistic, organized enough to do this.
You let the lack of Bible reading supplies hold you back from reading your Bible.
Girl, it is time to shut off the lies circling your head. Turn them off. Speak life. Stop comparing yourself to your artistic friend. Stop comparing yourself to your rich friend. Stop looking at what you don’t have and focus on what you do have. Which is most likely a Bible. And that is all you need to read your Bible.
You don’t need the fancy notebooks.
You don’t need the fancy Bible study books.
You don’t need fancy pens.
You don’t need washi tape.
You don’t need a prayer journal or a journaling Bible.
And you definitely don’t need the guilt of not having them all.
You need just your Bible.
Don’t let the lack of Bible reading supplies stop you from growing closer to the Lord.
Don’t let the lack of Bible reading supplies stop you from feeling the love of God in your life.
Don’t let comparison steal your joy.
Guess what, I’m not artistic, I don’t have a journaling Bible or a prayer journal and I don’t spend hours a week coloring in my quiet time. I’m a busy mama. I have enough time to read His Word, pray for our day and then I’m off to do all the things. Do I like pretty things in my Bible time? You bet. But if I didn’t have them it shouldn’t stop me from reading the Bible. Neither should you.
Some days, all I have time for is reading the Bible on my phone. And that’s okay. I’m not beating myself for that. God didn’t tell us to have and do all of these extras. Are they fun? Probably. But they are just that: extras. Do them if you the time, the money, the desire but don’t wait to dig into the Word if you don’t have them. God never intended us to get our eyes off the Word and onto all these extras.
Maybe it’s time that you shut off the social media screaming in your ear that you aren’t good enough or rich enough. Maybe it’s time to unfollow some people. Maybe it’s time to quiet the comparison. Maybe it’s time to stop running away from God, maybe it’s simply conviction you are feeling that you aren’t reading the Word and not the comparison. It’s definitely time to start reading the Bible and to stop letting the lack of supplies stop you.
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PALM BEACH, Fla. – A new Harris Interactive poll ranks top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh as the worst news personality in America, with Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and CNN’s Nancy Grace on his heels.
Sean Hannity, Katie Couric and Piers Morgan were next in line among the least favorites, with Barbara Walters, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and Wolf Blitzer rounding out the top 10.
The Harris poll is somewhat at odds with a Wenzel poll last summer in which at the time. .”
Ironically, although Limbaugh tops the worst list in the new Harris poll, he also ranks at No. 9 on the survey’s list of favorite news personalities.
Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, everyone knows that. Now learn details of their romance with Barack Obama in Bernard Goldberg’s, “A Slobbering Love Affair.”
Topping the favorite list is ABC’s Diane Sawyer, CNN’s Anderson Cooper NBC’s Brian Williams. The Wenzel poll last summer found that Americans believed Williams was America’s most influential anchor.
Rounding out the top 10 on the favorite side of the Harris survey are O’Reilly, Walters, George Stephanopoulos, Matt Lauer, Couric, Limbaugh and Hannity.
“Sometimes a news personality is supposed to just provide the news such as the anchors of the three network newscasts and some of the cable shows,” Harris says.
illy because they believe in what he believes in politically. Each of these personalities has a core audience. But each also have those who would never watch them – and most are just fine with that.”
Harris also says much has been made about how certain cable channels and their personalities lean politically.
“Depending on one’s own political inclinations certain personalities are more or less liked,” Harris says. “For Republicans, the top three favorite current affairs personalities are Bill O’Reilly (29 percent), Sean Hannity (25 percent) and Rush Limbaugh (22 percent), while for Democrats and Independents the top three are Diane Sawyer (28 percent and 25 percent, respectively), Anderson Cooper (24 percent and 21 percent) and Brian Williams (24 percent and 20 percent).
“Interestingly, one person is in the least liked top three for all three political parties. For Republicans, the three least liked current affairs personalities are Nancy Grace (25 percent), Rush Limbaugh (24 percent) and Chris Matthews (18 percent). For Democrats, the three news personalities that are the least favorite are Rush Limbaugh (66 percent), Bill O’Reilly (45 percent), and Sean Hannity (23 percent) while for Independents it is Rush Limbaugh (49 percent), Bill O’Reilly (31 percent) and Nancy Grace (25 percent).”
The Harris poll was conducted online within the U.S. between Jan. 16 and Jan. 23, 2012, among 2,016 adults.
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: The Three Tenors […]
Top Ten posts of December 2015
Here are the top ten most viewed posts on andantemoderato.com in December 2015.
Luciano Pavarotti and Vincent Niclo – Funiculì, Funiculà (Chorus: Alexandrov Ensemble)
The Three Tenors –.
Plácido Domingo sings “Amor, vida de mi vida”
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo sings the famous tenor aria (romanza) “Amor, vida de mi vida” from the zarzuela Maravilla. Salzburg, 2007.
Plácido Domingo & José Carreras – Non Ti Scordar di Me (Don’t Forget About Me)
Plácido Domingo & José Carreras sings “Non Ti Scordar di Me (Don’t Forget About Me)”, for a tribute to their friend Luciano Pavarotti. Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eugene Kochn.
“O Sole Mio” from The Three Tenors (1994)
The Three Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras) sing the famous Neapolitan song “‘O Sole Mio”. From the Three Tenors Los Angeles Concert in 1994. This song is not included in the concert DVD.
Medley – Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras (The Three Tenors)).
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It's been quite the journey for Chris Salvi.
Just this month the walk-on Irish football player learned he would be getting a scholarship for his final season at Notre Dame for his tremendous work on special teams.
Salvi is the Rocky Balboa of the football team--overcoming the odds, refusing to go down to live out his dream.
Fitting since Salvi reached the finals of Bengal Bouts Saturday night and his opponent in the 188 pound boxing championship was Adrian "Yo Adrian" Moreno.
This proved to be a slugfest that brought the big crowd at Purcell Pavilion to its feet on numerous occassions. Salvi dominated the first two runs but was lucky to survive in the 3rd round as Moreno mounted a comeback.
At one point, Salvi got a little cocky during the fight with a gesture at Moreno to try and hit home. It was a move straight out of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. Suddenly the crowd turned against Salvi and was backing Moreno the rest of the way.
In the end, a bloodied up Salvi survived to win by split decision. Many of his teammates including Braxston Cave and Mike Golic Jr were on hand to cheer him on. Both were impressed.
Salvi, who has brothers who also compete in Bengals Bouts, said it was a pretty awesome feeling to pick up the victory.
We'll have much more on Salvi's big win Monday on NewsCenter 16 at 6.
Legendary football coach Knute Rockne first organized boxing at Notre Dame in 1920. Yet it is the purpose of raising funds for the Holy Cross Missions in Bangladesh that truly gave the Bengal Bouts its identity in 1931.
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Never thought I would advocate looking to Philadelphia for advice on Pittsburgh, but … they’re doing some interesting work around media collaboration. I would like to see what we can accomplish here if we get different media outlets all pulling in the same direction. My latest column in NEXTpittsburgh.
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Political.
Hi, I don't care who gets elected as long as the quality of my life (pretty low now due to foreclosure, mortgage frud, unemployment) improves. If this sounds selfish of me, I am sorry. I have medical and life conditions that I cannot resolve on my own. I have no helth insurance and I need it badly. Eugenia Renskoff
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Oh, but I do miss Moyers on PBS! This speech is full of great links for additional reading. He pulls together articles reported in our press; these do report these issues and fact, but usually without a framework for readers. No one else in our MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) pulls these various articles and books together for us. Moyers provides the big picture of our economy. And he still has hope that if the people, the little people, fight the difficult fight they just might restore this nation to a true democracy.
However: "We learned long ago that power and privilege never give up anything without a struggle. Money fights hard, and it fights dirty."
THIS IS WHY the Dems lost big: Obama would not join the fight of the little people against the Plutocrats. Worse, he works to protect and grow their Plutonomy. Please, go read!
(Hey! Maybe Brian could bring Moyers on his show???)
Link to a Bill Moyers speech about our current economy and how it affects our democarcy. Excerpt (to see actual paragaph layout, follow the link):
....document published in the spring of 2005 by the Wall Street giant Citigroup, setting forth an “Equity Strategy” under the title (I’m not making this up) “Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer.”
[Note: In case you're skimming this, Citigroup wrote these words, as part of their salespitch to potential investors and to investment analysts. This is not some lefty economist's crtique; this is a bank's proud announcement to the world of the wealthy.] roductivity:
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Ooops. Thankfully, the cheesy music I kept hearing was playing simultaneously from a website open on my laptop . I thought that either B.L. producers or I had gone insane. Mea culpa. Hope these two posts have at least advanced the political discussion.
What's with the cheesy music?
I do love that we've been devaluing the dollar to try to increase exports, all the while badgering the Chinese for "manipulating" their currency. Heh.
Now, here comes QE II. A Hail Mary pass for job growth and improving the economy. But good for banksters no matter what else happens.
But it may allow them to play more speculative games, perhaps in the commodity markets -- and goose prices up even more than the lower value of the dollar will....
Oh, alas, alack. Too bad Obama is such a corporatist lackey.
And way too bad to Repubs get away with labeling him a socialist!! Well, lemon socialist, perhaps fits: Privative profits and socialize losses...for the too big too fail ONLY.
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Again: Indies and Dems both wanted a single-payer plan like Medicare, but with improvements. Both groups polled in the low to mid-60's as positive for that. Repubs not so much, but Obama was not going to get their buy-in until they had such a program. Medicare is a know program, a valued and popular program for which Tea Partiers hold up signs saying "Keep your government hands off my Medicare and Social Security."
By catering to the Big Health Industry Players, Obama told the public they were being sacrificed to the BHIPers' profit levels. By catering to the Big Banksters, Obama told the public they were being sacrificed to the the growth and profits of the financial industry.
And, again, Obama CHOSE to offer a small stimulus, weakened even further by making about 40% of it tax cuts, realized by those with withholding as lower w/holding and slightly, very slightly, higher take-home pay. But...how many people know that?? He also CHOSE for some reason to be pretty quiet about that.
Obama has shot his wad on stimulus, and we've got the Fed trying to do something to stimulate employment by doing the QE II, which is actually a form of trickle down economics: The banksters will have the ability to loan more money, but they also can do anything they want with it -- which may mean some more jobs or may mean more speculative bubbles.
Obama BLEW IT. He blew a historic opportunity to redress some of the growing imbalances of wealth in this nation. He can't even stand firm on dropping the Bush tax cut to the wealthiest. That --and his Cat Food Commission-- will do even worse things to the economic security of most of Americans. He blew the opportunity to cut the Too Big To Fail banks down to manageable size.
So, why vote for Obama and the Dems who can't stand up to him and for the little people? Gone to Corporatism, almost every one.
I take no pleasure in realizing this. Where can someone too liberal for Obama, and now most of the DC Dems, go? Where can the Indies who wanted actual health CARE reform and jobs go? Who wanted to see the beginning of CHANGE in the economic system which now favors the Uberwealthy and the Masters of the Universe (MOTU)?
With due respect to the argument that any Democrat could have been elected post-Bush (which I believe to be accurate), Obama did not have to face this massive disappointment with his governance.
Obama CHOSE to actively promote the welfare and care of banksters and other big businesses. He CHOSE to make small to negligible gestures toward assisting the little people. In full knowledge of the huge and growing foreclosure wave, he CHOSE to offer a deny and delay program called HAMP -- which reality has shown to make life even more difficult for those who tried to keep their homes using it.
(See series at Firedoglake.com -- it's painful to read. People who at least still had their credit ratings were told by banksters to stop making monthly payments, were strung along, then were told they were going to be foreclosed on in a very short time. Oh, and those fraudulent affidavits? Is the Obama administration going after those who lie to the courts the way they go after...whistleblowers, for example?)
He CHOSE to make secret back room deals with Big Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Big Hospital Chains. He did this before he launched his health INSURANCE reform (indeed, did he actually make promises to them prior to running for the Dem nomination??). He CHOSE to string voters along about a barely defined but much hyped "public option" after he'd already made assurances to the Big Health Industry Players there would BE NO PUBLIC OPTION.
If he'd achieved a single payer solution, such as Medicare for All Improved, Obama would be in clover and Dems would have held many of the seats they just los -- even in the bad ecoomy, because he ould have shown he gives a damn about the little people. Independents wanted something like Medicare for All Improved as much as self-identified Democratic voters wanted such a plan. But Obama CHOSE to not only offer a Republican-lite RomneyCare-like plan, created at the Heritage Foundation, but he decided to go against his primary nomination declarations he would not mandate insurance purchases, except for children.
It's one thing to mandate all people pay for Medicare, which is government run and not-for-profit; it's quite another to force people to purchase insurance which goes to the profit bottom lines and huge executive compensation packages of for-profit insurance companies.
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just talk about facts and everything will be OK.
There is no such thing as a "sub-party" the tea lamers are republicans....and a house divided cannot stand. I cannot wait for them to implode!
The producer of this show should be ashamed. Criticizing the BL show is now apparently forbidden. I referred to the 2 guests as "second-raters" for specific reasons and my comment was removed. In the producer's view I gather this is not "civil," "productive," and/or "relevant." Astonishing and disgusting censorship. Needless to say, my days of contributing to WNYC are over.
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all while profits are up!
All the CEO's who hate Obama had to do was NOTHING...don't hire anybody, don't increase staff, and poof, increase in voter anger. Mission accomplished.
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Hmmm...pretty poor economic analyses by the first two posters. Oh yes, they are not so subtly deficit hawks emboldened by control of the House of Reps.
The Fed did not simply "devalue the dollar," but is in the process of purchasing Treasury notes to open up credit markets. The dollar will likely, but not necessarily, will lose value in the GLOBAL market exchange.
@ Chuzzlewit - "Meanwhile, notice" that since the beginning of 2009, the inflation rate went from a little over 2% to just about 1% today, so you're wrong on the overall inflation trend.
As for the price of oil and food, their prices are fluctuating up and down, often dependent on OUTSIDE (viz. global market) limiting factors, such as: cut in production/supply of oil (OPEC determined); harder to tap petroleum reserves (deep water drilling); cut in production/supply of grains (highest priced wheat in years because of Russian heat wave); etc.; etc.
Can't wait to see the miracles that the big govt. GOP (along with co-opted big govt. Tea Partiers) will produce (during the worst US economies in 60 years due to the 40 years of structural problems)!!
Wrong about health care comments.
Health care ctripples budget
Health care cripples young families
Medical product of heatlh care is crippled by failed primary care hat costs the govt 100 -200 buillions dollars a year
To Joe, Re:Healthcare Reform
It's not a matter of poor salesmanship to seniors. The wings of Medicare Advantage have been severely clipped with this plan. Med Ad has been an incredibly popular (but expensive) program that will be all but eliminated with this plan.
Barack Obama won in 2008 because (1) the press decided to canonize him and demonized Hillary; and (2) he was running against the reanimated corpse of Colonel Tigh from "Battlestar Galactica."
Right on, Joe! The Democrats' failure to frame the health care victory was like amateur hour at some Berkshires resort. When will we liberals realize that if you can't effectively frame what you accomplish, it was essentially not exist for the public at large - or it will exist only in the frame that your opposition gives it?
Joe is a Bozo. If you go around explaining Health Care, folks will see that it is going to cost some people more. It's either that or we pay at the emergency room. And some people who have never paid for Health Care before are going to have to pay - they'll get subsidies, but they will have to pay some when before they didn't pay at all. You can always pass bills that everyone likes, and Health Care is one that is best for the country, but not something that you can convince everyone it's in their best interests in the long term. Run from it or lose your next election.
how about some serious analysis:
1. an economy hobbled by GOP obstructionism
2. democratic inability to defend themselves
3. look at the media environment: the right wing rules it!
notice that the blue dogs lost. oh wonder why? well, it's because they have no spine!
Well, Brian and every other media/news person, none of you makes the actual case that to the elderly that Medicare will be cut and possibly disappear by the very people they voted for.
Brian,
I love your show, you are brilliant. But you guys just aren't getting the main underlying point. The ONLY reason, I repeat, the ONLY reason that Obama, a black man, was elected, was that George Bush was the most terrible and destructive president possibly in the history of this country. Obama's election was a national emotional pendulum swing away from Bush. That is the only way a black man could possibly have been elected in this country.
Now, we have the emotional pendulum swinging again, this time away from Obama.
Actually the problem is with the "middle" the "center" the "mediodre" who don't really know what they want and like to accuse everyone else of knowing what they want!!
You are forgetting the Palin-Factor. Maybe if Palin hadn't been on the McCain ticket he would have won.
I gotta say I love the Liberal post-election hand-wringing. Dry those tears, kiddies: these things go in cycles. It's the same country it was two days ago. The party in power always loses some seats in the midterms. Obama will probably coast to reelection in 2012 just like Clinton did in 199_.
Brian-
I remember how you downplayed Barack Obama's victory by pointing out that he won by only a 53-46 margin.
So, you're just being consistent.
Oh, gee, I can't wait for the tedious left wing spin [...].
Perseverating, no doubt, upon Sarah Palin and the tea partiers. Meanwhile, notice the price of gas and food items going up? Want to imagine what will happen if the dollar is replaced as the reserve currency?
Where is Juan Williams when we need him?
Bueller....Bueller?
This is great!
"Wrestling" skits for the intellectually Elite.
Sandwiched between 5 minutes of News on the half hour.
Did anyone notice that the Federal Reserve System is announcing its intention to devale the dollar this week?
I'll bet Andrea and Farai would have something pithy to say about that (if they weren't being constrained by the "Juan Williams" Rule)
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"Based on your university website, you are currently operating a UAS without proper authorization," an excerpt from the letter reads.
At the same time the FAA works to craft its guidelines, drones are getting less expensive and more mainstream. It's opening up some big questions.
"Can journalists use these, and does the First Amendment protect photographing in a public place, above ground level? And there's some really massive questions out there to be answered," Waite says.
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- RESEARCH
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Influence of technological procedures on mechanical properties of bonded joint
Applied Adhesion Science volume 6, Article number: 14 (2018)
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Abstract
It would not be an exaggeration to say that adhesive joints have been an essential part of the construction industry for several decades now. However, a substantial disadvantage of bonded joints are the very strict requirements for adherence to the technological procedures defined by the manufacturers of assembly systems. Even a slight deviation from the recommended application steps can have a significant effect on the integrity of the entire system. In the research, five of the most common types of failure to comply with technological procedures in the realization of facade cladding were selected. The aim of the research project was to determine the extent to which a failure to adhere to technological procedures during facade construction can influence the effectiveness of the bonded joint. In construction practice, it is quite common during the implementation of a project that there are failures to comply with multiple requirements, or deviations from the prescribed procedures. For this reason, not only individual types of failure to comply with technological procedures were tested, but also their combinations. Altogether, 31 combinations of selected types of failure to comply with technological procedures were tested on one type of cladding. The adhesive joint was tested for shear strength and the adhesion of the adhesive to the substrate on a total of 352 samples. The results of the tests clearly confirm the hypothesis that failure to comply with technological procedures has a significant effect on the effectiveness of bonded joints. It is mainly the different combinations of failure to comply with technological procedures where the bonded joint loses effectiveness in the order of tens of percentage points.
Introduction
Facades are a key element in creating modern building designs. Their area is up to ¾ of the total area of the outer surface, and this also largely influences the interior of the building. The choice of the type of sheathing structure is not only dependent on the appearance or requirements of the indoor environment but also on the maintenance, the lifetime of the structure and the assembly technology. Ventilated facades, known as “Cold Facades”, are an appropriate solution. The principle of these structures is based on the airflow in the gap between the outer and inner parts of the sheathing. The exterior cladding makes the visual aspect of the building and protects the structure against climatic influences. The inner part ensures the thermal, acoustic or fire requirements [1].
The first mention of these structures comes from Norway, where these structures were carried out on agricultural buildings some centuries ago [2]. In modern history, ventilated facades had not been used extensively in the US until the early 1950s. The first building with this type of sheathing was built in Pittsburgh in 1953. It was a skyscraper called Regional Enterprise Tower, the design of which was created by the Harrison and Abramovitz studio, and subsequently executed by the George A. Fuller construction company [3]. The principle of ventilated facades then spread around the world.
Anchoring of the exterior cladding of the ventilated facade to the supporting structure is usually done by screws, bolts or rivets. By the end of the twentieth century, thanks to advances in the chemical industry, adhesives began to be used. In the beginning, this was only an alternative solution. Nowadays, it is an established and completely developed anchoring system.
Bonded joints have many advantages over mechanical joints. Key advantages include: the anchoring of the cladding to the supporting structure is not visible; no local tension at the anchorages of the cladding to the supporting substructure; simple assembly; highly resistant to climatic influences and aging; no oxidation spots at the anchorages of the cladding to the supporting substructure; reduction of vibration transfer from the cladding to the supporting substructure; possibility to join various materials [4,5,6].
The large part of the use of bonding also play large-format cladding of irregular shapes that are indispensable for most modern buildings. Their anchoring by mechanical joints would be very complicated and difficult [7]. The ABC Museum in Madrid [8] is one of the significant buildings where the facade cladding is anchored to the supporting structure by bonding. It was a renovation, where the original structure served as a brewery and then it was adapted for the purposes of the museum in 2010. A view of a ‘Bonded Facade’ is shown in Fig. 1.
Although bonding has a long tradition, especially in the engineering industry [9], there is some mistrust of the experts and the general public in this type of joining system in construction. The absence of bonding in technical standards and a number of disadvantages that accompany this system also contribute to the lack of trust. Key disadvantages include: low resistance to high temperatures; poor resistance to dynamic and normal peel stress; cannot be disassembled; influence of climatic conditions during hardening (low temperatures); time needed for the adhesive to harden [4, 6].
Adhesion is a process during which a permanent joint of the same or different materials is created. Adhesive is a substance that allows to create such solid joint. Its properties depend on the adhesion of the adhesive to the bonded materials, as well as on the cohesion of the adhesive itself [4]. The main factors influencing the efficiency and durability of the bonded joint are: technological procedure of the application; thickness of the bonded joint; climatic influences during hardening; temperature of the bonded joint; surface treatment of bonded materials; mechanical, physical and chemical properties of adherends [4, 10].
Manufacturers often state in their technical data sheets that the strength of the bonded joint is guaranteed only on the assumption that the technological procedure will be followed during the installation and subsequent curing of the joint. On the other hand, they fail to mention what will happen if the technological procedure is not followed.
It is very common in practice that the technological procedure of the manufacturer is not fully complied with, even with rigorous inspections and established management system. It may not be neglection on the part of the labourer in particular, but also time reasons when the contractor is pressed for the deadlines for the completion of the construction and subsequent sanctions for failure to meet them.
In practice, the following two situations can occur on site. In the first case, the workers will not follow one of the manufacturer’s recommendations. This is the case, for example, when a bonded joint is carried out and subsequently cures at lower temperatures than what the manufacturer states. In the Czech Republic, this is a very common technological violation because the country is located in a temperate climatic zone, where temperatures in winter range from − 2 to + 2 °C [11]. During this period, work is often not interrupted, which is taken into account in the expected construction dates, and therefore bonding is done also outside recommended temperatures.
In the second case, which is more common, there is a situation where more technological violations of the installation process occur at once. This include, for example, situations when the cladding is bonded to an unclean surface after the open time of the adhesive has expired.
Testing of different surface treatments of bonded surfaces is to some extent very similar to the presented research area. Surface treatment of the bonded surface has a significant effect on the effectiveness of the bonded joint, as reported by many authors [12, 13]. Violation of technological procedures as well as different surface treatments can be combined to achieve better or worse results [14].
The issue of technological indiscipline with the chosen adhesive system was already addressed in 1999 [15]. The authors of the article, Krüger and Schneider, said that technological indiscipline did not affect the strength of the bonded joint. Based on this statement, the pilot project to verify or refute this claim was started, the results of which are presented in this article.
Methods
There are many test procedures and methods for testing bonded joint strength. The most commonly used test methods for determining mechanical properties of joints are tensile strength tests in different directions and stress angles. Since it is not possible to determine all mechanical properties by one test, joints must be tested by combining several tests [16, 17].
The basic mechanical test methods for testing bonded joints include: Cross-Cut Test; Peel Test; Scribe (Scratch) Test; Pull-Off (Tensile) Test; Single-Lap Shear Test; Blister Test; Micro- and Nano- Scale Tensile Testing; Four-Point Bending Test [18].
Within the project, the joints were tested for tensile and shear strength.
The essence of the first test (Tensile Test) was the measurement of the strength that would be able to tear the surface treatments of the given area from the base by vertical pull. The test is defined by the technical standard ČSN 73 2577 [19].
The aim of the second test (Single-Lap Shear Test) was to determine the shear stress of a single lap joint between rigid adherends on which a tensile stress is applied which is parallel to the surface of the bonded joint and the main axis of the test sample. The test is defined by the technical standard ČSN EN 1465 [20].
Selection of material
The choice of materials for testing was based on previous research on which this project is based. These were projects addressing bonded joints in terms of the bonded facades project itself.
Selected materials for the load-bearing structure, the cladding and the adhesive system are the most commonly used combinations of materials on the market. These are materials that are commonly available, their price is acceptable and their lifetime long.
Due to a large number of samples tested, only one cladding material in combination with one load-bearing structure and an adhesive system was tested.
Facade cladding
Ceramic tiles were chosen as a cladding material. It is a very durable material that needs minimal maintenance and naturally resists the effects of climatic influences. Based on the recommendations of the sheathing manufacturers, 9 mm thick tiles were used, which resists damage very well. The basic technical parameters are shown in Table 1.
Load-bearing substructure
For bonded facades supporting structures, either structural timber or aluminium alloys are used. Aluminium was selected for the performed testing. It is a material that is very durable, solid, lightweight, and has long life. The basic technical parameters are shown in Table 2.
Adhesive system
The selection of adhesive was based on previous research, where five adhesive systems for adhesion of ventilated facades were tested in total [23]. Of these five adhesives, an adhesive system which achieved the best results was chosen. It is the SikaTack Panel adhesive system. The adhesive is one-component polyurethane which hardens in the presence of moisture in the air. Its basis is a polymer which is produced by polyaddition of diisocyanates and di- or polyhydric alcohols to form a carbon bond [24].
The chosen adhesive system is the first certified system for bonded facades that was launched approximately 20 years ago [15]. The system consists of an adhesive, a primer and a cleaning agent. The anchoring of the cladding to the supporting structure is shown in Fig. 2. The basic technical parameters of selected adhesive systems are shown in Table 3.
Production of samples
For the determination of the mechanical properties of the bonded joint, six samples (Tensile Test) or five samples (Single-Lap Shear Test) had to be made for each test and technological indiscipline. This number is based on the recommended quantity specified in standards ČSN 73 2577 [19] and ČSN EN 1465 [20]. In total, 352 + 42 (replacement for discarded samples) samples were produced.
Production of samples in accordance with the adhesive manufacturer’s technological procedure (standard)
In order to determine the influence of the technological indiscipline on a bonded joint, it was first necessary to produce one set of samples (standard) where all the technological procedures required by the manufacturer of the adhesive system were followed. These samples were then compared to the samples on which technological indiscipline and their combinations were applied.
Production of samples in contradiction to the adhesive manufacturer’s technological procedure
Technological indiscipline consisted in non-observance of the technological procedure of the given manufacturer [5]. Within the project, the following five types of technological indiscipline were selected: no. 1—curing of the bonded joint at + 1 °C; no. 2—application of a primer on a wet cladding; no. 3—application of the adhesive on a wet primer; no. 4—application of the adhesive on an dirty primer; no. 5—application of the cladding after the expiry of the open time of the adhesive. These five types of technological indiscipline were combined with each other. Their overview is given in Table 4.
In the first group (combination 1st–5th), individual technological indiscipline were not combined. One technological indiscipline was applied to each set of samples (30 for Tensile Test and 25 for shear test).
In the second group (combination 6th–15th), two technological indiscipline were combined. In total, there were 10 combinations (60 or 50 samples according to the used test method).
The third group (combination 16th–25th), included three technological indiscipline applied to one sample. In total, there were 10 combinations (the number of samples was same as in the second group).
The fourth group (combination 26th–30th), included four technological indiscipline applied to one sample. In total, there were five combinations (the number of samples was same as in the first group).
In the last group (combination 31st), all five technological indiscipline were applied to one set of samples (6 or 5 samples according to the given test).
Technological indiscipline no. 1—curing of the bonded joint at + 1 °C
Test samples were inserted into a cooling chamber immediately after they were produced. The temperature inside the chamber was set to + 1 °C. This temperature was chosen on the basis of the average winter temperature in the Czech Republic (min. temperature according to the manufacturer is + 5 °C [5]). Samples were left in this chamber for 23 days. Afterwards, they were taken out and left to be cured under standard conditions for 7 days.
Technological indiscipline no. 2—application of a primer on a wet cladding
The cladding material were placed in a container with water for 24 h. After this time, the plates were removed and the surface was wiped off. Eventually, samples were prepared. Samples cured under standard conditions.
Technological indiscipline no. 3—application of the adhesive on a wet primer
After the primer had been applied to the plate, the adhesive was installed immediately without the required ventilation of the primer (min. drying period according to the manufacturer must be 30 min [5]). Samples cured under standard conditions.
Technological indiscipline no. 4—application of the adhesive on a dirty primer
After the primer had been applied to the plate, and the required ventilation of 30 min, fine dust in the form of sawdust was applied to the primer. Subsequently, the adhesive was applied to the dirty primer and the cladding was bonded. Samples cured under standard conditions.
Technological indiscipline no. 5—application of the cladding after the expiry of the open time of the adhesive
The application of the cladding to the adhesive was carried out after the expiry of the open time of the adhesive, i.e. 35 min (max. open time of the adhesive according to the manufacturer is 20 min [5]). Samples cured under standard conditions.
Production of samples for the Tensile Test—standard (in accordance with the adhesive manufacturer’s technological procedure)
Tensile strength samples consisted of two elements. Of the facing material (ceramic tiles) with a side length of 100 mm and of an aluminium alloy compensating discs with circular cross-sectional diameter of 56 mm and a total area of 2500 mm2 [19].
According to the technological procedure, the bonded surfaces must be treated. First, both surfaces were mechanically cleaned and the aluminium surface roughened and degreased. The cleaning agent was left to ventilate for about 10 min. Subsequently, a primer was applied to the cleaned surfaces, which was allowed to ventilate for 30 min. An adhesive of conical shape was applied to the cleaned surface of the ceramic tile. By pressing the aluminium disc to the adhesive, the required joint was created. The thickness of the joint (3 mm) was ensured by distance pieces.
Sample display is shown in Fig. 3a. In total, 6 samples were made.
Production of samples for the Single-Lap Shear Test—standard (in accordance with the adhesive manufacturer’s technological procedure)
Samples for shear strength determination were made up of two elements measuring 25 × 100 mm. First, the bonded surfaces were treated in the same way as in the previous test. Then, the overlap length (12.5 ± 0.25 mm) was indicated and the adhesive was applied to one plate. By pressing the second plate against it, the desired joint was created. The thickness of the joint (3 mm) was ensured by distance pieces [5, 20]. In total, 5 samples were made. Sample geometry is shown in Fig. 3b.
Test samples were left to be cured in a dry and clean environment at an average air temperature (23 ± 1) °C with relative humidity (50 ± 5) % for 30 days [25].
Testing of specimens
To test the samples, it was necessary to produce moulds for their attachment to the tearing device. For both tests, the moulds consisted of two parts. One part was fastened to the upper fixed jaws of the device and the other to the lower moving jaws of the device. The moulds made it possible to test materials of various thicknesses while maintaining the axial stress as shown in Fig. 4. Testing was carried out on an FP 10/1 tearing device with a maximum force of 10 kN, which allowed to record the displacement achieved in relation to the stress [26].
Loading speed was 5.00 mm/min. The samples were tested to destruction.
Results
A record of the course of the stress was taken from each tested sample. This record contained a set of numbers with a force (N) and displacement (mm). Figures 5 and 6 show the mean values of forces and displacements calculated from six/five samples of one set transferred to the chart. The course of the 0th (standard) combination shows the mean values of samples where the technological procedure of the adhesion manufacturer was followed. The course of the 31st combination shows the mean values of forces and elongations, where all five technological indiscipline were applied. In total, there were 32 sets of samples which were then analyzed and evaluated.
Exclusion of extreme values
In order to exclude extreme values when analyzing the results, some samples were discarded from the analysis after testing.
When testing the tensile strength, sample damage force could not be less than 70% of the average sample force of the set, otherwise the sample was excluded from the analysis [19]. In the case of shear strength testing, repeatability (the difference between two breaking forces of the adhesive sample should not be less than 2.5 times the standard deviation) and reproducibility (the difference between two breaking forces of the adhesive sample should be less than 20% of the arithmetic mean of individual test results) had to be ensured [20].
In order to maintain the recommended minimum number of samples in the set, another sample was produced, which, if the above mentioned requirements were met, was included in the analysis.
Determination of tensile stress
Calculation of tensile and shear strength was taken from the standards ČSN 73 2577 [19] and ČSN EN 1465 [20].
The calculation was made according to (1).
where σ (τ) is tensile strength/shear strength, in N/mm2.
F is the debonding force required, in N, A is the area of the disc (area of overlap) in mm2.
Determination of the failure mode
The method of damage is essential for analyzing the overall bonded joint and finding out the quality of the surface treatment of the bonded materials. A scale of five different methods of breaking bonded joint was taken from the standards ČSN ISO 10365 [27] and ASTM D5573–99 [28].
Main types of failure are: adhesive failure (AF); cohesive failure (CF); adhesive and cohesive failure (A/C − F); thin layer cohesive failure (TLCF); substrate failure (SF).
Adhesion is the force of adhesive strength, i.e. the absorption force at the contact surfaces (Van de Waals forces). The range of these intermolecular forces is substantially lower than the depth of roughness of the machined surfaces. For this reason, the adhesive must penetrate such surface roughness, thereby wetting the whole surface area [29, 30].
Cohesion is the internal strength of the adhesive. It is a sum of all attractive forces (intermolecular forces and polymer molecule bonds), preventing the separation of individual adhesive molecules from each other [29, 30].
Discussion
Only samples after the removal of extreme values were included in the analysis to avoid distortion of the results. Altogether, 352 samples were analyzed. Of these, 42 samples were replaced by new ones. The method of analysis and evaluation of the samples was carried out in accordance with the valid aforementioned standards [19, 20]. The main criteria for evaluation were the strength of the joint, its shift and the manner of damage.
Tensile Test
Comparison of the strengths of bonded assemblies
From the test results shown in Figs. 7 and 8, it is clear that the combinations of technological indiscipline significantly influenced the efficiency of the bonded joint. In the case of the first group (1st to 5th), where the technological indiscipline were applied individually, there was monitored minimal influence. The biggest decrease in strength (by 8%) was observed in the 5th combination which includes only technological indiscipline no. 5. In this case, the cladding was attached after the adhesive time had elapsed. A thin layer with reduced adhesive properties was formed on the surface of the adhesive which prevented good adhesion.
The second group (6th–15th) consisted of 10 combinations, where two technological indiscipline were applied on one sample. The biggest decrease in joint strength was monitored in the 12th combination (by 46%). This was a combination where the primer was applied to a wet cladding. This resulted in uneven application of the primer, and the primer was also poorly adhered to the base. Subsequently, the primer was allowed to dry, i.e. ventilate, for 30 min and the ceramic tile was attached. The bonding was done after the adhesive time had elapsed.
The third group (16th–25th) also consisted of 10 combinations, where three technological indiscipline were applied on one sample. The biggest decrease in joint strength was recorded in the 17th (by 46%) and the 25th (by 49%) combination. As for the 17th combination, the primer was applied to wet material and was then allowed to ventilate for 30 min. The facing was attached after the adhesive time had elapsed. After cleaning, the sample was placed in the cooling chamber (the air temperature inside the chamber was set to + 1 °C). In this case, the joint strength was reduced by 46%. As for the 25th combination, the primer was applied to a wet base and it was then allowed to dry out for 30 min. Dirt (fine dust) was applied to such prepared surface. Finally, the facing was attached after the adhesive time had elapsed. The most considerable decrease in joint strength was in this combination (by 49%).
The fourth group (26th–30th) consisted of 5 combinations, where four technological indiscipline were applied on one sample. The biggest decrease in joint strength was determined for the 28th combination (by 49%). This combination included the same violations as the 25th combination. Additionally, the samples were placed in the cooling chamber as in the case of the 17th combination. It is clear from the results that technological indiscipline no. 1 (curing of the bonded joint at + 1 °C) had no influence. The same results were obtained with both combinations.
The last group, i.e. the 31st combination, included only one set of samples, where all of the categories of technological indiscipline were applied at once. In this case, the joint strength was reduced by 27%.
It could be assumed that the samples on which all the technological indiscipline were applied would show the greatest reduction in joint strength. This assumption has not been fulfilled. In the case of technological indiscipline no. 3, impurity in the form of fine dust was applied to a wet primer. Since the primer was wet, fine particles were absorbed well into it. The dirt did not create a separation layer between the primer and the adhesive.
Comparison of the displacement of test specimens
The adhesive system used is characterized by a very high tensile stress plasticity. When the elastic limit E (approx. 1.2–1.4 MPa) is reached, the force/elongation ratio is multiplied as shown in Fig. 5. For combinations where this limit was not reached, the joint was broken by adhesion, or by a combination of adhesion and cohesion. The total elongation of the joint at its damage (in most cases) was up to 40% of the standard. The smallest elongation of the joint at its damage (15% of the standard, i.e. 1.4 mm) was in the case of the 19th and the 28th combination.
Comparison of the failure modes of bonded assemblies
The damage of the standard sample joint was in all cases due to the cohesion of the adhesive. This verified the compatibility of all tested elements with each other. The measured strength corresponded to about 75% of the joint strength stated in the data sheet.
In the first group of technological indiscipline, the damage of the joint was caused by adhesive cohesion in all cases. In these cases, the maximum force that the adhesive was able to withstand was achieved. This proves that the technological indiscipline had no effect on the strength of the joint. The first damage of the joint related to a technological indiscipline did not occur before the 11th combination. It was a combination where two technological indiscipline were applied. The joints with this combination were broken in two ways. Two samples involved a failure of the adhesive cohesion, while it was a combination of adhesion and cohesion in four samples. The relationship between the mode of failure and the influence of the technological indiscipline is quite obvious.
Where the technological indiscipline had no effect whatsoever, the cohesive failure mode was observed, as shown in Fig. 9a. On the other hand, where the technological indiscipline had some influence, the failure of the joint was either due to adhesion, as shown in Fig. 9b, or a combination of adhesive and cohesive failure. In the case of technological indiscipline that affected joint strength to a lesser extent, the joint was in most cases damaged by the combination of adhesion and cohesion. For example, this included the 13th, the 20th and the 24th combination. For combinations where the technological violations had a significant influence, the joints were broken by adhesion. For example, this included the 12th, the 25th and the 28th combination. The predominant failure mode of tested combinations is shown in Table 5.
Single-Lap Shear Test
Comparison of the strengths of bonded assemblies
The results of the tests in Figs. 10 and 11 show that the percentage reduction in joint strength of the individual combinations partly corresponds to the previous test. As in the previous test, indiscipline which were applied separately, there was no significant reduction in strength. The biggest decrease in strength (by 8%) was observed in the 5th combination which includes only technological indiscipline no. 5. The similar strength decrease percentage was monitored in the previous test as well. The first more significant decrease in strength (by 18%) was recorded in the 11th combination (the second group). A primer was applied to a wet cladding in this combination. The primer was allowed to dry for 30 min and then the dust was applied. Following application steps were already done according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. In this group, the largest decrease was monitored in the 12th combination, as in the previous test (by 31%).
In the third group, the greatest decrease of strength (by 35%) was examined in the 19th combination. Dirt was applied to a wet primer and the cladding was attached immediately after the open adhesive time had elapsed.
In the fourth group, the largest decrease of strength (by 38%) was in the 28th combination, as in the previous test.
The samples on which all the categories of technological indiscipline were applied shown the joint strength reduction by 25%. As with the previous test, this combination did not achieve the greatest reduction in joint strength.
Comparison of the displacement of test specimens
In contrast to the Tensile Test, the ratio between the elongation and the reached force was constant for all combinations as shown in Figs. 10 and 11. For combinations where the force at break was higher, the elongation was higher as well and vice versa. In case of the standard, the elongation was 12.024 mm. As for the 31st combination, where all technological indiscipline were applied, the elongation was 8.625 mm (by 18% less). The smallest elongation was in the case of the 28th combination. This figure was only 7.186 mm (less by 40%).
Comparison of the failure modes of bonded assemblies
The damage of the standard sample joint was in all cases due to the cohesion of the adhesive. This verified the compatibility of all tested elements with each other as in the previous test, as shown in Fig. 12a. The strength corresponded to the data sheet (approx. 99%).
As with the previous test in the first group, all samples (except one sample of the 5th combination) were damaged by the cohesive failure. This showed that the technological indiscipline which were applied separately did not affect the strength of the joint.
In the second group, the first five technological indiscipline did not affect the strength of the joint. Joints were broken by cohesive failure as well. From the 11th combination onward, samples were damaged either by adhesive failure, or a combination of adhesive and cohesive failure. In the case of these five combinations, the technological violation did have an influence.
In the third group, in almost all cases, samples were broken either by adhesion, or a combination of adhesion and cohesion (except for the 16th combination). The way the joint was broken was similar to the second group. In several cases, the sample was damaged by cohesive failure. But it was only one sample in the set.
For the 31st combination, where all of the technological violations were applied on one sample, the joint was broken in case of all samples by the combination of adhesion and cohesion, as can be seen Fig. 12b.
As with the Tensile Test, where the samples were damaged by the cohesive failure, technological indiscipline did not affect the strength of the joint. In case of samples damaged by adhesion, or a combination of adhesion and cohesion, the technological violation had an impact on joint strength.
The mode of how the joints were damaged with the individual combinations of technological indiscipline is shown in Table 6.
Conclusions
The aim of the project was to find out to what extent the technological indiscipline has an impact on the strength of the bonded joint. The results show that the technological indiscipline has both an influence on the strength of the joint itself, but also on the manner of damage (i.e. failure mode). The initial assumption that the technological indiscipline will significantly reduce the strength of the joint is confirmed. When using the selected adhesive system and materials, there will be little reduction in joint strength if the technological indiscipline are applied separately (up to 10%). On the other hand, when more than one technological violation is applied, the strength will be significantly reduced (by up to 50%). The authors of the presented article already tested the influence of the technological indiscipline on the bonded joint, where same adhesive system was applied, in which they came to the comparable conclusions. However, within the previous project only porous materials were tested [31].
It is clear from the results that the combination of Technological Indiscipline no. 2, 4 and 5 had the greatest influence on the strength of the joint. This is a combination of technological violations during which the primer was applied to wet material and then allowed to dry for at least 30 min. Dirt (fine dust) was applied to such treated surface and, when the open time of the adhesive had elapsed, the cladding was attached.
Technological Indiscipline no. 5 (application of the cladding after the expiry of the open time of the adhesive) had the largest impact. On the other hand, Technological Indiscipline no. 1 (curing of samples at low temperature of + 1 °C) had a minimal impact even in combination with other technological indiscipline. In the next research, a lower temperature should be chosen.
The tests have shown that the tested adhesive system achieves more than 50% efficiency in combination with the selected cladding material and the supporting structure despite the non-observance of the technological procedures. Due to the fact that the technological indiscipline was applied completely in contradiction with the adhesive manufacturer’s technological procedure, the reduction in adhesive strength was not so significant (e.g. up to 90%). It can generally be stated that if the technological discipline is violated only during a single operation when carrying out a bonded joint, the impact on the efficiency of the bonded joint will be small. On the other hand, if the technological procedure is violated during multiple operations at once, the technological indiscipline do not add up, but their effects are multiplied (i.e. 1 + 1 = 3).
Nevertheless, it must be pointed out that the facts found do not exclude that the technological violation with the use of another type of cladding, load-bearing structure or adhesive system will not have a greater or lesser impact than in this case.
Moreover, the application of both the primer and the fine dust was done manually. The authors of the article tried to ensure that the individual technological indiscipline were applied to all combinations identically. Unfortunately, the results show that it was not always possible. For this reason, more than 10% of the samples had to be replaced by new ones.
Based on the presented results of this project, there is an effort to develop a methodology for testing technological indiscipline to obtain more accurate results while limiting the production of new samples exhibiting extreme values.
Further research should be directed to testing technological violations in combination with extreme stress. The stress on the bonded joint at temperatures of − 40 °C and + 80 °C might achieve different results, as was previously verified by Banea and da Silva [32]. Since the testing of technological indiscipline was carried out under standard climatic conditions defined by [25], it was not verified what effect the indiscipline would have on the strength of the joint that would have to withstand the impact of these extremes after hardening.
Abbreviations
- US:
United States
- ČSN:
Czech Standard
European Standard
- DIN:
German Institute for Standardization
- no.:
number
- min.:
minimum
- max.:
maximum
- i.e.:
in other words
- ISO:
International Organization for Standardization
- ASTM:
American Society for Testing and Materials
- e.g.:
for example
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Authors’ contributions
PL (First and corresponding author) was responsible for completing article. BN carried out the revision and made relevant changes in the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade and Brno University of Technology.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Availability of data and materials
All relevant data are presented in the manuscript, if needed additional information may be made available upon request.
Funding
This contribution was supported by the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade under the TRIO Program No. FV20606 and Brno University of Technology under Grant No. FAST-S-17-4
- Adhesive
- Aluminum alloy
- Bonded
- Ceramic tile
- Cohesion
- Joint
- Shear
- Stress
- Technological procedures
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Does this unit comes with a milk container?
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SurplusHP wrote:Wow that coffee looks unappetizing. I didn't know it was possible to screw up coffee machine advertising photography.
Looks like they mixed up the beer with the coffee.
Got the F5 last time around Hard to do initial setup, but well worth the effort. One button dispenses a good cup of fresh-ground, HOT, coffee whenever desired.
I've had my Jura super-automatic coffee center for almost ten years. Love it. Totally.
SurplusHP wrote:Wow that coffee looks unappetizing.
Apparently you've never seen an espresso shot as it comes out of the machine - they're milky at first & then the crema rises to the top. These look fairly perfect.
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Just realize although it is totally automatic, you will need to descale it and clean periodically with special tablets and cleaning fluid.
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Best thing to do would be to contact Jura directly. They're the ones that would have parts to send you.
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Device To Allow US Troops To See Through Walls.
The Wired (2/2, Pierce) “Danger Room” blog reported, “Later this year, American troops fighting in Afghanistan will begin to get gadgets designed to peer inside buildings and detect the heartbeat of people buried under rubble.” The TiaLinx Eagle Scanner works “by sending out low-power, wideband radio-frequency signals toward a target, and measuring how the signals bounce back.” Popular Science (2/3, Fox) reports, “By measuring the various densities of the materials its radio waves pass through, these hand-held scanners can look through concrete.” According to the company, “the models deploying with the troops to Afghanistan can see up to 20 feet behind an eight-inch-thick concrete wall, and identify whether or not there are any people on the other side.” It also features a wireless connection, “and send images back to HQ immediately.
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They attended a repatriation training program in which they learned what they should expect upon re-entry. They were warned about the culture shock of returning home, about how colleagues and friends might be different, about how the office environment might have altered, about how much the expatriate experience had changed them and their three children.
Monsanto's program included an opportunity for the Cissells to showcase their new knowledge in a debriefing session. Cissell invited five people to a meeting and shared with them what it was like to have lived abroad—personally and professionally—and what it was like to return home. Nevertheless, he and his family admit there were times when they still felt as if they were in a timewarp. They returned to familiar surroundings in the United States, but they were quite changed.
Luckily, the Cissells were surrounded by people who took an interest and maintained it as the expats transitioned back into American life. Cissell was promoted to the position of director of finance for the Latin America World area. The vast majority of re-entering expatriates don't experience similar HR planning and repatriation programs to help them.
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If any aspect of globalization points out the complexities of international assignments as well as the systemic weakness and lack of planning within the international HR function, it's repatriation. Repatriation is usually overlooked instead of being seen as the final link in an integrated, circular process that connects good selection, cross-cultural preparation, global career management and completion of the international business objective. Indeed, instead of employees coming home to share their global knowledge with others and encourage additional high performers to go the same route, expatriates face an entirely different scenario.
Often when they return home after a stint abroad (during which time they have typically been autonomous, well-compensated and celebrated as a big fish in a little pond), they face an organization that doesn't know what they've done for the past several years, doesn't know how to use their new knowledge and, worse yet, doesn't care. In the worst cases, re-entering employees have to scrounge for jobs, or companies will create stand-by positions which don't use the expat's skills and capabilities and fail to maximize the business investment the company has made. The situation often is exacerbated by downsized and restructured organizations.
Furthermore, the expat has changed dramatically and wants to share his or her experiences. Usually few people are interested. Add to this unrealistic expectations by the expats, their having lost touch with the domestic office's technological and personnel changes, and the enormous family upheaval, and you begin to have an idea of the tremendous challenges awaiting individuals as they re-enter the United States after assignments abroad.
Statistics bring the situation into bold relief: According to the 1994 Global Relocation Trends Survey Report published in January 1995 by the National Foreign Trade Council and global relocation management specialists Windham International, while 75% of the companies surveyed address repatriation (up from 45%), "repatriation services" can range from simply shipping household goods (97%) to homefinding assistance (55%) to career development (33%). The 110 surveyed companies, which employ collectively more than 24,000 expats, said that given the massive 30% increase in the numbers of expatriates going on international assignment, lack of job guarantee is one of the most critical challenges they face.
In research J. Stewart Black and Mark E. Mendenhall cite in their book, Global Assignments: Successfully Expatriating and Repatriating International Managers (by Black, Hal B. Gregersen and Mendenhall, published by Jossey-Bass, 1992), 60% to 70% of repatriating employees didn't know what their positions would be before they returned home. Sixty percent said their organizations were vague about repatriation, about their new roles within the company and about their career progression. Moreover, they felt the firms disregarded their difficulties in adjusting back to life in the United States. When American expats found jobs within their companies, 46% had reduced autonomy and authority. And contrary to the reason that many Americans take international assignments—the idea of advancement—only 11% were promoted. Black and Mendenhall found that 77% of Americans actually took jobs at lower levels than their international assignments.
It's no wonder that 10% of expatriates leave their company within a year after returning home and 14% leave between two and three years, according to the Global Relocation Trends Survey Report. These figures aren't only unfortunate, they reveal poor HR planning and a dramatic loss of talent for the business that sent these individuals.
"I don't think people really understand yet that assignments are a process," says Carol Jones, Monsanto's human resources specialist in international assignments. "They pick it up in the middle. They don't think about why they're sending out the person, what will make that person successful, what they're expecting. They don't realize that successful assignments begin with repatriation planning at the time of expatriation.
In other words, rather than looking at the process in fragmented pieces, assignments have a higher chance at success when the practitioners link the elements together from start to finish. According to Adler, you should be able to see how any one part of the process links with others. The elements of the process include: assessment selection, company orientation, cross-cultural training, dual career support, relocation/move assistance, in-country orientation and support, development, re-entry planning and assistance, repatriation and reintegration.
Understanding international assignments as a process, and realizing that planning helps its success, is critical for human resources professionals. "Clearly the caliber of human resources planning that's done by a company really shows up in the international assignment area," says Eric Campbell, director of global human resources for Avon Products, Inc. "In a company that does excellent HR planning, these types of situations [poor repatriation] don't arise as much. Even though individuals may not be high potentials, if they're considered strong enough for international assignments, the groups that sent them in the first place will be held accountable for their repatriation."
On the other hand, he says, if you're a company that doesn't have an effective HR planning system, these people going on international assignment are essentially taking a leap of faith.
As organizations move into the international arena, human resources staffs will become more adept at recognizing their company's global expansion objectives and plan international assignments more thoroughly. Only then will HR be able to develop company structures and policies that truly support each aspect of an international assignment. Some firms—large and small—are already doing that.
HR planning is key.
Monsanto's repatriation program is a model of HR planning. It was created with the idea that all the pieces of the expatriate process work together. The $7.9 billion agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical company has 30,000 employees with approximately 50 expatriates and 35 international employees working in the United States. International human resources managers get involved in predeparture assessment, cross-cultural counseling, performance management (see October 1994 issue for details) and other administrative aspects of the international assignment.
One of the strongest features of Monsanto's program is that employees and their sending and receiving managers develop an agreement about their understanding of the assignment and how it fits into the company's business objectives. The focus is on why they're sending the assignee to do the job. This not only assures they have the same understanding, but also ensures that they've done serious thinking about the global assignment.
John Amato and Carol Jones, responsible for international assignments, developed the company's repatriation program in the fall of 1992. "We did it because the attrition rate was high," says Jones. "People felt they went out and were expecting career advancement and utilization of their knowledge. When that didn't happen, they would feel dissatisfied."
Now, says Amato, manager of human resources for international assignments, the repatriation piece creates significant movement toward globalization.
"This isn't touchy-feely stuff," he says. "We spent a lot of money to send this person out. By saying, 'Let's tap into them, let's give them a chance to tell others what they've learned,' the organization learns, and they feel valued. They know we appreciate their value, and the company sees a return on investment."
Expatriates who have international experience know the company values their expertise. They meet with cross-cultural trainers during debriefings and showcase their experience with their American peers, subordinates and superiors. "Because folks here know there's a resource they can tap into, it creates opportunities for that person to infuse knowledge back into the domestic organization," says Amato. "That gets you back to the employee's expectations and results in retention. It results in a circle." For example, he says expectation management is to create a clear understanding on the part of the employee about the kind of job they're coming home to. Says Amato: "When you say to an employee, 'we value you and we expect the assignment to develop you. This is a career path move,' that means one thing." On the other hand, if supervisors are clear that the move is a project or technology transfer, expectations of the re-entry job is more likely to be in line with the company's future plans for these employees.
Monsanto's repatriation program focuses on more than just business—it attends to the family's re-entry. Sometimes the difficulty with repatriating has more to do with personal adjustment than with work-related matters. But, the personal matters affect the business.
Which is why Monsanto offers repatriating employees a way to work through personal difficulties. Approximately three months after their return, expats like David Cissell meet for about three hours at work with several colleagues of their choice. The debriefing segment is a conversation aided by a facilitator who has an outline to help the expatriate cover all the important aspects of the repatriation. Says Cissell, "It sounds silly, but it's such a hectic time in the family's life you don't have time to sit down and take stock of what's happening. You're going through the move, transitioning into a new job, a new house, the children may be going to a new school. This is a kind of oasis," he says, "a time to talk and to put your feelings on the table. The counselor (who is a consultant) leads you through and helps you understand what you're experiencing."
The debriefing segment serves several purposes: to allow the employee to share important experiences, to enlighten managers, colleagues and friends about his or her expertise and to share information so that others within the organization can use some of the global knowledge.
Cissell was moving into his current position. He invited his new boss (Monsanto's vice president of Latin America) as well as other colleagues and a friend. "It was pretty powerful," he says. Cissell talked about the business environment and how he saw European culture impacting that. "My boss had not lived internationally, and although he had an appreciation for cultural changes and things that go on as you move people around the world, he said that he had not really thought through some of it." That conversation really helped open up his eyes.
"We're trying to get the expatriates to be the shining stars out there to radiate their light," says Amato. The debriefing helps others who travel overseas and teaches them how to get more knowledge while they're out there. "In that way, repatriation builds on itself."
Returning assignees need to know the next step.
One of the most important questions that anyone can ask an expat is, "What is the next assignment going to be?"—the one after the international assignment, says Avon's Campbell. "The problem is that often the assigning manager doesn't pay attention to what the person is going to be doing next."
The issue becomes particularly important during these days of reengineering and downsizing because often the job this person left has been cut as part of cost-reduction maneuvers. Even though organizations have more difficulty planning far ahead, if companies carefully monitored their expats, they could better prepare for their return.
"Everybody blames this process [poor repatriation] on ineffective career pathing and career planning, which companies have a hard time doing because we're in such a changing environment," says Michael Schell, president of New York-based Windham International. "We can't even tell people who are in the U.S. that if they finish a particular assignment, they'll have a specific job, let alone people who are going on assignment and who will be out of sight."
It's too difficult to do. Therefore, what becomes very important is to watch the performance of the person while on assignment. Then, when there are openings they're qualified for, the employee can be moved into those positions. "That monitoring of career progress doesn't usually take place effectively when people are on expatriate assignment," says Schell. "Therefore, we don't know how well they succeed; how much they fall, or what they can do for us when they come home."
In this complex system, there's a strong relationship between a successful assignment, adequate performance management and good repatriation. Effective HR planning that includes accurate performance evaluation (by someone who understands the assignment and its specific limitations) is one of the underlying requirements for a successful assignment and reintegration into the organization. In addition, employees feel they're being considered and aren't being forgotten while out of the country.
And, companies don't have to be large to have successful expatriate programs. Coherent, Inc., a $200 million Santa Clara, California-based company that makes scientific and medical lasers, has an innovative approach to repatriation. The company has 1,500 employees overall and about 400 in the medical division, with sales and service offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. With only six expatriates and one third-country national (TCN) in the medical division, the department had been handling expatriates on a case-by-case basis until 1994, when they began formalizing their policies.
The company's inventive programs brings people back to the United States on a short-term project before they're repatriated. Employees who are ready to come back to the United States return for a couple of months to do projects that they're very qualified to do. Then, they go back to their host country to wrap things up and then come back full time.
"It allows them to get to know the area, to spend some real time back here instead of just a five-day house-hunting trip, and allows them to get reacquainted with people in the office, the lifestyle and the work style," she says. They're even doing it with a third-country national.
Coherent, Inc. factors in one other critical component—maintaining close contact with the expats. "It's not like they're gone and forgotten," says Chan. They come back on a regular basis a couple of times a year as well as for the annual sales meeting. In addition, during quarterly sales meetings, directors talk about these employees. Their work is visible and talked about.
There are two crucial parts underlying their repatriation policy, says Chan. First, "These people are super-duper employees. Their expertise is needed here, so they're an excellent resource for a project when they're asked to come back and work here." Secondly, when they spend time here, their faces become more familiar to the rest of the employees and it makes the transition into their new role easier when they return."
Chan believes that expatriate assignments are attractive to employees not only because the assignments themselves are good, but because expats know they will be repatriated well. Because excellent employees are sent on international assignment, typically there are jobs awaiting their return.
Coherent, like Monsanto, has strategies in place to make the repatriation process go more smoothly. Furthermore, they only send their best people.
Whether the company is large or small, this is a fundamental contribution to good repatriation. Says Richard P. Randazzo, Asea Brown Boveri, Inc. (ABB's) senior vice president of human resources of the America's region, "The first step to successful repatriation is don't send anybody anyplace that you're not willing to take back. Ninety-nine percent of the repatriation problem—if you have a problem—is caused by sending somebody someplace that you're looking to get rid of."
If they're good, says Randazzo, the sending organization generally starts to make noise about getting them back even before their global assignment is completed. Wherever that next assignment comes, the knowledge they've acquired on their expatriate job is valued. ABB, the $30 billion transnational giant with more than 220,000 employees around the world, designates the sponsoring manager with the responsibility of finding a new position for the international assignee (although it usually falls to the local HR manager). The process starts about six months prior to the conclusion of the expatriate project. First, as the succession-planning process occurs each year, they devote time to talking about expats—who is out, who is coming back and when. In some cases, the individual will send resumes to a select group of HR managers that may have an opportunity for a person with those skills. Or, Randazzo may know of opportunities.
"The rule is that good performers always will find opportunity within the company," says Randazzo. "If somebody is very good, invariably they'll come back in good shape."
Personal difficulties also affect business adjustments.
Even if employees do well in business, some of their trouble readjusting may come from family difficulties. Part of their difficulty in readjusting may be because they've been disconnected from domestic headquarters and left out-of-touch. Consequently, they don't know what to expect upon return.
Intel, the $8 billion-plus computer chip maker located in Santa Clara, California, with almost 30,000 employees, makes a strong effort to keep expats involved in the organization throughout the international assignment. Employees in the company's sites around the world keep in touch frequently via phone, E-mail and video conferencing. They do this as part of their ongoing work assignment, whether they're in California or in Europe. In an effort to keep employees and their families informed—and aware of Intel's business agenda, the company created several books detailing various aspects of the expatriation experience, including information about considering an assignment (for the family as well as employees) and a tool kit for managers regarding selection and preparation. One important component deals with repatriation.
The book details the cycle of re-entry shock and why re-entry may be difficult. It raises questions that people may not think of on their own, such as the letdown that occurs upon return and the life-style/benefits that will change when they go home. It prepares them for feeling alienated and distanced from their friends and colleagues, and addresses the family issues such as children who might have a difficult time fitting in when they go back to school.
"The repatriation piece is probably the most often overlooked part of the assignment," says Sharon Richards, intercultural training program manager, who created the expatriate books and is instrumental in the company's training programs. However thorough the repatriation booklets, Intel's re-entry process begins well before repatriation. "We believe in training because you need to set realistic expectations for the employee and the family. You're going to have a better shot at success." Intel had a large number of people on a project in Ireland. Before their return, the company conducted a road show. They gathered people and had a day-long training session about taxes, relocation, shipping goods. Half the day was spent talking about what it would be like to return home.
One key area that Richards believes is often overlooked is the culture shock expats experience during re-entry. To facilitate the adaptation process, it's critical for expats to know that repatriation is likely to be difficult. "They think, `My friends are there. It shouldn't be any problem at all.' In fact, they're likely to have the initial sense of euphoria they did when they went on assignment, and to enjoy all that they missed when they were gone, but then they will also make comparisons in reverse. They've grown and changed, and they go through an adjustment period similar to the one they experienced when they first went on assignment."
Another important component is putting the assignment into perspective. People are so full with what they want to tell others, that it's overwhelming. They don't anticipate that friends and co-workers may not be interested in their adventures, and may in fact be envious when they try to recap them. "We help expats identify two or three key important things they want to communicate with others," says Richards. "Then, we suggest that they be sensitive to other people. Before launching into a story, ask what has changed in their life and what occurred while the expatriate was gone."
In order to take advantage of the international experience—and to continue to acknowledge the expat's knowledge—Richards has repatriated employees participate in predeparture training and culture-specific training whenever possible. Not only do the expats enjoy it, but their words of wisdom help the prospective international assignee.
Job security brings expatriates full circle.
Beyond the crucial personal aspects of repatriation, Richards acknowledges that having a job upon return is probably one of the most important factors to a successful return. At Intel, she says, they're careful to move people only when they have a specific reason—such as training, a project or a special assignment. Although there are no job guarantees, they make efforts to use the experience of international assignees as much as possible. In addition, because HR planning works in tandem with the business objectives, expats are monitored and performance is managed and appraised.
Indeed, not all organizations today, however, are able to be as sure as they once were about having a job awaiting an employee's return. "There are so many double-edged swords," says Noel A. Kreicker, president and founder of International Orientation Resources. International HR is aware and committed to resolving and supporting the repatriation issues as well as creating supportive programs and clarifying policies. However, in many cases, HR's hands are tied because corporations are still so busy sorting themselves out. Usually, it's the people who are repatriating who have been forgotten. Not only does HR face the task of helping to prepare and maintain the individual on international assignment, it plays an important role in bringing the employee back to the United States and helping the company to capitalize on its investment. "It's one of the most difficult realities now," he says. But no matter how challenging, there are organizations, large and small, that are meeting it. In companies like Monsanto, Intel, Coherent and ABB, people who are selected well, monitored carefully and shown that the company recognizes and values them, feel rewarded, recognized and will continue to make contributions when they return.
Personnel Journal, January 1995, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 28-37.
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People’s Energy and surrounding yourself with the best people
You are the average of five people you spend the most time with, according to Jim Rohn. And we are influenced more by our environment than we think. What kind people you are around with, will make you their average. So, it is very important that you surround yourself with the types of people of you want to become or relate to or look forward to the most.
Energy
I believe that everyone radiates a certain aura, everyone has a positive or negative energy. We may not recognize it but everyone has a certain energy field around them. If you’re in their presence it will affect you. Many a times you meet someone and you feel welcomed by their energy and you are instanly in sync with them and you feel like you have a connection. A persons energy type and level is not constant and changes over the period of days, months and years. In the end, the persons personality and energy are the combination of the person’s past, attitude towards life, upbringing, mindset, personal experiences and the most dominant thoughts. This is the energy of the of the person in general. The daily energy can be somewhat variable and comes with its own reserve, which is filled and drained daily. The daily reserve is filled by doing things which make you happy, which satisfy your inner desires and things which motivate you to achieve your long term goals. Positive and negative people have an instant effect on your daily energy reserve, positive people tend to fill it and negative people tend to drain it in a matter of seconds. I’ve had times when I am feeling good but after only talking to a person with negative energy, they’ve had drained my energy and made me feel terrible. I think its easy to drain someones energy than to build it.
Positive Energy
In my opinion, positive people are kind, loving, happy, nurturing, supportive, forgiving, inspirational , enthusiastic, honest, welcoming, dependable… I can go on forever. In short, these are the kind of people who are welcoming, who make you feel relaxed, who bring the best version out of you, who are there to support you, people who give you hope, people who give you short bursts of positive energy (even, at times when you think all is lost), they mentor you and coach you. These are the people with whom you can resonate. They share their knowledge and experiences, so you may not have to face a hard time as they did. Everybody has negative experiences, but they share only the positives of those experiences or how to deal with them, as they have an overall positive outlook on life. They are givers.
Negative Energy
These are the people who have toxic personalities, they are unkind, unjust, liars, dishonest , hostile, envious, jealous,… people. They feed on your positive energy and they can quickly drain your energy reserves, possibly for a few days. These kind of people make you feel at unease and make you question you life and choices (not in a good way). They take out all of your hope and step on it! They are mostly self-absorbed and narcissists. They make you feel bad for them all the time (its different than empathy) and they are always in a state of self-pity. They are never happy, especially with your achievements, they only criticize(only negative criticism) and pull you down to their level. They focus only on the negatives, as thats the only thing they see. They always complain and are unhappy, they try to find a fault in almost anything. They never share their knowledge, they think that they had to invest so much time and effort acquiring this knowledge, why should it be easily available to others so easily(I’ve had an old friend who showed their true colors whenever I asked for some information/knowledge and they pretended like they had no clue about it, even though they did). They are only takers. In short they are the people who you cannot stand.
Nobody is perfect and some of us will have some overlapping qualities. First of all you should identify what kind of person you are and what you want to become, do you want to help the world and give something back or you just want to take? Then you can identify your circle of friends and adjust it. Just say no to negative people all the time and yes to positive people. Tell me what you guys think?
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Wednesday started cool and sunny. I received a set of boots for Nice (the dog) and a pair of boots for myself thanks to our friend Lisa in Maryland, Bruce who is a Fireman in Ft. Pierce and his father who is retired from the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue, he received them and brought them to me early in the morning. I am always humbled by the good in people I meet. After a few necessary patches on the world an our reboot we made our way into downtown Jacksonville. An off duty policeman and his little daughter found our best route over the St. John's river and I had the pleasure of balancing the world atop the three foot high 'jersey' barrier wall of the Acosta bridge into North Jax'. With the help of the local firemen who found us a safe place to park the van and the help of a sweet woman and her two lovely daughters who brought me home made cookies. I was whisked back to get the van while it was still light.
It rained through the night and is expected to stop and clear out this afternoon. I am about to get on my way heading north on 17 toward Georgia.
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i just saw you outside of uptown market on main street. happy travels and stay warm!
Glad to see that you are still at it. Met you several summers ago on the Pikes Peak trail.
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We've all seen the camaraderie between John McCain and Lindsay Graham and the bromance beween Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama, but now a powerful new pair is emerging: Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
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The two moderate Republican senators from Maine and Alaska, respectively, have become a unified front against some of President Donald Trump's most visible efforts to push hardline policies with no bipartisan support. While their friendship culminated in a dramatic vote to stop the so-called "skinny repeal" of Obamacare late Thursday night, it's been a force to be reckoned with for quite some time.
Earlier this week, Murkowski and Collins were the only two Republicans to defect on a vote to move to debate the repeal of Obamacare, once again forcing Pence to intervene and break a Senate tie. Their opposition came after they and the three other women in the GOP Senate were excluded from a 13-person working group to draft the Better Care Reconciliation Act, also known as Trumpcare. The result was a bill that called for defunding Planned Parenthood and deep cuts to Medicaid, two issues that Sen. Murkowski and Sen. Collins have been consistently critical of.
This tension culminated in a vote on Thursday night that might have been the Republican Senate's last chance to force through a repeal of Obamacare down party lines. After seven years of promising to repeal Obamacare, Republican Senate leaders met on Thursday afternoon to draft a bill that they could send to the House as an effort to get to the next step of the legislative process. Murkowski, Collins and McCain first saw the skinny repeal bill just hours before the vote.
The move was exactly the kind of unprecedented partisan push that Sen. McCain had derided earlier in the week during a now famous speech he gave on the Senate floor in his first public appearance since being diagnosed with brain cancer. At the time, McCain called for a "return to regular order" and bipartisan legislation.
It was also the kind of partisan, hasty process Murkowski and Collins had repeatedly said they would not accept. Not long before the vote, the Congressional Budget Office released its score of the skinny repeal, and it was not good: 16 million people would lose health insurance by 2026 and premiums on the exchanges would go up 20 percent.
All this led to the Hollywood-like tension in the Senate chamber late Thursday night. Vice President Mike Pence drove to the Capitol and did his best to lobby McCain to change his vote, talking to him for more than 20 minutes at one point on the Senate floor. At the same time, Sens. Blunt, Thune and Sullivan were lobbying Murkowski to change her vote. Senator Wicker was debating with Collins. But the two female senators, at times flanking Sen. McCain and also seen laughing and smiling through the drama, stuck together.
At about 1:30 a.m. on Friday morning, after Sen. Murkowski and Sen. Collins had voted "no" on the skinny repeal, the effort to repeal Obamacare took a dramatic blow when Sen. McCain approached the front of the chamber and voted the measure down. The climactic scene ended with an eruption of cheers and applause from the Democratic side of the chamber that was immediately quieted by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
All of this unfolded with Washington D.C. reporters watching from the press gallery and Americans at home watching the live stream on C-SPAN late into the night. And while many of the headlines focus on Sen. McCain, it was the unlikely bond of two senators from Maine and Alaska that truly put a stop to the wild push for a repeal.
The failed vote, which ended 51-49 against, leaves few options for the Republican-led Congress in repealing Obamacare going forward. Instead, it looks as though they will have to work across the aisle and find legislation that can earn 60 votes in the Senate to become law. The Senate is currently made up of 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats.
As the night came to a close, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Schumer both delivered emotional speeches, each getting choked up while they spoke. Sen. McConnell expressed his disappointment but insisted that it was time to "move on" and work with the other side.
"The American people are going to regret that we couldn't find a better way forward," McConnell said. "And as I said, we look forward to our colleagues on the other side suggesting what they have in mind."
As for Murkowski and Collins' stalwart refusal to back down on their votes into the wee hours of the night, a comment once made the former comes to mind. One snowy 2016 day following a blizzard, Murkowski looked award the Senate chamber and saw that only female senators had arrived to work.
"Perhaps it just speaks to the heartiness of women," she told The Washington Post at the time, "that you put on your boots and put your hat on and get out, slog through the mess that is out there."
In June of 2016, the more moderate Sen. Collins was already questioning whether then-candidate Trump could govern. She went as far as openly floating the idea that she might vote for Hillary Clinton. Murkowski, however, did not withdraw her support for Trump until the release of the now infamous Washington Post tapes in which President Trump tacitly admitted to sexually assaulting women.
"I cannot and will not support Donald Trump for president," Sen. Murkowski said in the wake of the tapes. "He has forfeited the right to be our party's nominee."
The pair's first highly publicized stand came in February when Murkowski and Collins announced their opposition to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in back-to-back speeches. Their "no" votes forced the unusual spectacle of Vice President Mike Pence having to break the Senate tie to confirm the controversial nominee. It wouldn't be the last time they forced Pence to get involved, either.
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“At the moment, it would seem that every new brand initiative we read about is promoting a charity link up or association. And when it comes to luxury brands – with long-standing values and quintessential beliefs – it is imperative to think from the inside out about representing core brand beliefs when choosing a partner or cause. It comes down to defining the right route and brand fit with a particular charitable action – rather than just going for a momentary ‘halo’ effect and association….Future luxury will be about many ideals and with a new age of consumerism driven by inventiveness, creativity, discovery and giving back, luxury will need to shift in line with this from being detached and untouchable to finding inspiring ways to explore causes, blend influences and create awareness.”
The idea of a luxury brand embracing a charity is not new, but rather a part time idea for a twice yearly function. Today, with younger luxury consumers the world is a new and more altrustic place. The luxury brand has a duty, indeed, a social responsibility, to take a position on what it chooses to support to its customers. But, its more than just an “idea” to market a product, its a corporate point of view that is becoming a critical part of the DNA of a successful luxury brand.
Many positive initiatives have come out in the past several years, most notably, the GREEN initiatives that are beginning to reach the luxe brand category. LVMH, for example has put its manufacturing on notice by embracing green practices. This has been a “ground breaker” for many storied luxury companies. To continue this trend, local and worldwide events or partnerships with altruistic causes seem to be the last word on new trends in marketing. This has moved the “charity” and “community partnership” into the world of the chic and fabulous. Its a re-brand, if you will, for a typical charity that now hob-nobs with the likes of Prada, Burberry, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, et al. In California, the tradition of being green was always a “cool” way to go, so this idea a bit amusing to the typical Californian used to idea of compost, earth shoes and riding a bicycle to work. But, it is a refreshing change to the perception in the luxury community that “brands that are big consumers” and not sensitive to what the planet really needs. Do we really need another designer bag, or one that is made a green initiative? I think the answer is clear to the fashionistas who can now make a more “informed” purchase in this category and feel good about it. From a corporate level, it makes sense to not only “think green” from the inside-out but also to consider how your gilded footprint really has an impact: on society, on your bottom line, on your client’s perceptions and finally on the planet as a whole. Now, if Chanel could just make a quilted bag out of recycled materials and make that a cool choice, then, we’re on to something!
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A moment of silence, please. The world was forever changed today when terrorists entered an office of a French Magazine that specialized in satirical commentary. The freedom of the press and the death of journalists around the world at the hands of terrorists cannot stand. We are praying for all who died and their families.
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Can this chart predict the sex of your baby?
Have any of you seen this chart going around social media? I’ve noticed it being shared quite a lot lately.
It is claiming that an ultrasound isn’t the only way to be able to tell the sex of your unborn baby, apparently this chart is spookily accurate at predicting the sex of your baby.
In order to work it out you match up your ag at the time of conception and the month in which you conceived and the table should tell you whether you are having a boy or a girl.
Opinions seem to be split on this one, some people are finding it spookily accurate, whilst others are putting it down to pure coincidence. Test it out and let me know what you think!
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Air Menzies International (AMI) has struck a deal with supply chain software and services provider, BluJay Solutions to deploy its software across AMI’s global operations.
The new platform, comprised of BluJay’s Transportation Management, Customs Management, and Control Tower applications, will replace AMI’s current operating systems.
Steven Ritchie, vice president, Information Technology at AMI, says: “This investment is focused on delivering an improved customer experience, providing benefits for AMI, our customers and partners.
“We aim to connect digitally at every step of the supply chain to connect our customers to the right products, services and solutions. In addition to moving our operations to the cloud, we will partner with BluJay to accelerate adoption of technology innovations.”
Jonathan Clark, CEO of AMI says: “We were looking for a digital platform that simplified our processes and made it easier for customers to do business with AMI – from making bookings to gaining visibility on shipments. AMI selected BluJay because of the quality of the products, the quality of their people and the strength of the partnership on offer.”
AMI anticipates that the first branches will start using the new platform in September of 2019, providing customers with the ability to request instant quotations, make online bookings, access digital track and trace, and collaborate via document exchange.
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