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Low cost easy to operate mustard seed oil refineries equipment for sale
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|Raw material:
|crude cooking oil
|mustard seed oil refineries equipment
|Stainless Steel SS304/316
|Oil Production Line
|Chemical oil refining and physical oil refining
|Application range:
|Low consumption
|Power consumption:
|Steam consumption:
|200-300kg per one ton crude oil
|12 Months
Product Description
Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. have engaged in Oil Refinery Equipment and Microwave Equipment since1997 in China,with 20 years` experience and 80 engineers,, scientific research, manufacturing, installation, commissioning.We can provide customers with design and services of 1-2000 tons oil equipment.factory occupied area is over 100,000 square meters,more than 3200 customers all around the world, we greatly hope to have the opportunity to serve you.
Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. has finished hundreds of successful projects over the years: peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, animal oil,grape seed oil, acer truncatum oil, peony seed oil, walnut oil, hemp seed oil, pine oil, tea seed oil, papaya oil, milk thistle seed, and other special type oil.We have independent import and export department. Our equipment has been successfully exported to more than 100 countries: Russia, Australia, India, Afghanistan, Cameroon,and so on.
Low cost easy to operate mustard seed oil refineries equipment for sale
MS Business Scope
1.We undertake pre-treatment, pressing, extraction, oil refining and the auxiliary projects, the services include civil negineering, process design, auto-control, layout plan and the and oils further processing, e.g.soybean phospholipids, proteins, rare and high-value oils. In addition, we undertake process design and construction of feed mill, wheat flour plants.
2. 10-500T/H oil material first cleaning,drying and storage section turn-key project.
3.100-3000 T/D oil pretreatment, shelling and pre-press workshop turnkey project (soybean hot peeling, bean skin crushing; the soybean extrusion, high oil contained pre-press cake extrusion, and high oil contained embryos puffed; of direct puffed).
4.100-3000T/D leaching workshop turnkey project (Towline extractor, Rotocel extractor, loop type extractor, LD separated machine, the full negative pressure evaporation, paraffin wax recovery, leaching workshop degum, phospholipid concentrate).
5.30-1000T/D oil continuous grade two or one physical (chemical) refining production line.
6.20-600T/D Crude palm oil, rice bran oil, corn germ oil dewaxing turn-key project
7.10-200T/D Fatty acid esterification production cooking oil production line.
Mustard seed oil refineries equipment flowchart:
hot water
Crude oilâfilterâmixâreactorâmixâreactorâcentrifugal separationâoil residue
â â
Phosphoric acid â
degumming oilâdryâheatâ â â â
bleaching earthâmixâdecoloringâfilterâdecoloring oilâmixâheat
refined oilâfilterâcoolâdeodorizingâvacuum
Product Description
Refining section:
Dewaxing Section:
Complete Line Assembling :
Main Section Introduction of Mustard seed oil refineries equipment:
(1) Refining section: used to P-acid de-gumming, alkali refining de-acid and water rinsing.
(2) Decoloring section: used to remove off pigments, bleaching oils and grease dehydrate.
(3) Deodorizing section: to remove off the odor components in oil.
(4) Dewax: used to remove off the wax in the oil, in order to get the high quality oil.
(5) Heat-transfer oil stove: supply each device production needing heat energy, temperature reach
above 280°C.
(6) Steam generator: produce the needing steam for de-odoring and distillation.
(7) Vacuum pump: supply needing vacuum for dehydrate, de-color, deodor. Vacuum degree can
reach above 755mm Hg.
(8) Press filter: filter clay, filter out clear oil.
(9) Air compressor: blow dry bleached clay, blow empty the leftover oil in the press filter.
Process specification of Mustard seed oil refineries equipment:
1.The degummed oil firstly enters into the heater to be heated to the appropriate temperature
(110°C), and then goes to the bleaching earth mixing tank.
2.The bleaching earth is delivered from the low bleaching box to the temporary tank by wind.
3.The bleaching earth is added by automatic metering and is interlockingly controlled with the oil.
4.The main function of decoloring process is to remove oil pigment, residual soap and metal
5.Under negative pressure, the mechanical mixing method combined with steam mixing will improve
the decoloring effect.
6.The oil mixed with the bleaching earth overflows into the continuous decolorizer, which is stirred
by non-powered steam.
7.The decolored oil enters into the two alternate leaf filters to be filtered.
8.Then the filtered oil enters the decolored oil storage tank through the security filter.
9.The decolored oil storage tank is designed as the vacuum tank with the nozzle inside, so as to
prevent the decolored oil contacting with the air and influencing its peroxide value and color
Product oil specifications:
The specification of crude oil
Smell and taste
The original smell and taste of crude oil
Moisture and volatile matter (%) â¤
Insoluble impurities (%) â¤
Acid value (mgKOH/g) â¤
Peroxide value (mmol/kg) â¤
The specification of refined oil
Color (Lovibond Cell 133.4mm) â¤
Smell and taste â¤
No smell and good taste
Transparence â¤
Clear and transparent
Moisture and volatile matter (%) â¤
Insoluble impurities (%) â¤
Acid value (mgKOH/g) â¤
Peroxide value (mmol/kg) â¤
Smoke point (°C) â¥
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Facyoty Workshop
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Brief Instructions of Low cost easy to operate mustard seed oil refineries equipment for sale:
low cost easy to operate mustard seed oil refineries equipment for sale is made of stainless steel, after research and development of technical personnel to improve successful general multi-functional food machinery, the roasting machine is designed according to the market need , model fashion luxury, integrating all kinds of nuts type mechanical performance advantages, stable mechanical properties, adopting closed belt transmission, use liquid gas heating type, energy saving, high efficiency, safety, hygiene.
low cost easy to operate mustard seed oil refineries equipment for sale adopts horizontal cylinder, 360 - degree circular mixing roll, automatic cycle stirring, heating and stirring evenly, relative seal, braised fire effect is very good, convenient operating in pan, funnel replenish roasting materials, save time and effort. With functions of automatically be out of the pot, automatic sand and chestnut separation function, operation simple and convenient, quick, and easy to understand, and many other advantages. Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. also offer special formula and technology of making better food color and taste.
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Apparently this picture described more fully in Part 1, deserves yet a third look. Just to be clear, the product on the left labeled OUR's is a competitor's product and the one on the right, labeled Their's, is a product sold by a another vendor who I have the greatest respect for - both his products and his professionalism. He is considered by most in the industry to have the best products available. For that reason, I do not offer the same products he does. If you want the specific product he is selling I recommend you buy his product. It is a 0.25 micron monocrystaline diamond slurry.
The bottle on the right contains 21 carats of monocrystaline diamond. The bottle on the left was determined to only have 3.33 carats. My methods for determining this have been questioned.
The bottle on the right was determined to have 21 carats two ways. The most simple and obvious way was by weighing the carats that were put into the compound before it was formulated. The product is purchased by the carat weight. This of course is so obvious that it shouldn't even be a question - yet some have questioned it. If you want more carats, it costs more. Want less, it costs less. It's just like buying food in a grocery store by the pound. Weak solutions are cheaper and have less particles and therefore abrade less when used for sharpening edges. It is easy to show this. The only exception to this is if the product isn't what you think it is, but is an adulterated formulation. The honest way to sell product is to say how much of it you are selling, not disguise it in rhetoric about needing ideal compound concentrations in your product or a 'weak tea tastes better than strong tea' type of argument.
So what is the 'ideal concentration'? Some vendors are going for lower undisclosed concentrations, some only saying 'heavy' concentrations, some just not saying what their concentrations are at all and some even suggest that it cannot be determined. Surely they know what they are buying when they formulate it or have it formulated for them. If they are not specifying their product concentrations, you are buying an unknown quantity of product. I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is on sale right now that I'm holding in reserve just for you. :) (Or perhaps they formulated it themselves in their kitchen sink or worse?) If they aren't telling you this information, either they don't know it or don't want you to know it.
The vendor on the right side of the picture above specifies his concentrations as 21 carats per 4 oz bottle. My products also have the same concentration..There is a reason for this concentration. My products were tested at various concentrations for a specific purpose - to give my customers a product of the highest quality and at a concentration not so high as to produce particle agglomeration. This applies to any of the particle sizes in the compounds that I sell.
Another way to determine the concentration of a sample is to take a known volume and dehydrate it and weigh the volume before and after dehydration to determine percent by weight loss. Some have mistakenly suggested that this was done by decanting the liquid off the top into a sink and weighing the remainder. Yet, even after saying this wasn't the case, they insist that it was. It's not how I do science. My background includes over 25 years of research, and includes peer reviewed publications in electron microscopy, multiple disciplines of medicine, and computer science. I have also held faculty positions and run several research laboratories. I couldn't imagine doing something so unintelligent.
If a suspension based sample was dehydrated and weighed, perhaps some of the components of the suspension would remain in the sample. Think of this as marbles in syrup. My formulation uses deionized water and is a slurry, so there is no residue that would remain. Think of this as marbles in water. There is a reason I chose a slurry over a suspension which will be explained shortly.
You get an extremely accurate determination using this analysis technique with a slurry. How do I know this? Because if a known amount of carats is put in the sample, this test accurately determines it. It's just that simple. So this is yet a second way to determine that the bottle on the right is correctly specified as having a 21 carats per 4 oz concentration. The sample on the left does contain a "permanent suspension", so perhaps some residue might remain from simple dehydration much like dehydrated syrup would have weight. If this were the case, than it would have OVERESTIMATED the concentration of this product. BUT ...
This was considered in the determination. The testing methodology was done in a lab, not some home brew experiment. This lab does these types of determinations all the time and takes this into account. Diamond can sustain higher heats than suspensions can, so the high heat drying process reduces this artifact to a negligible level. Again if anything this would argue for the product on the left having even LESS carats. Perhaps 3.3 rather than 3.33 - but this is speculation. In short, this testing methodology is very accurate and is routinely used by this lab for testing both slurries and suspensions.
Much has been made of permanent suspensions. A slurry is simply particles floating around, much like the slurry we all use in our sharpening or honing when we use waterstones. These are water based slurries. Therefore it is a wet technique. Sandpaper is a dry technique, usually. Suspensions add additional components to their formulations, hoping to keep the particulates floating in a permanent state rather than settling to the bottom. Using a suspension does help to keep the particulates from settling to the bottom, but this may not be an appropriate solution or answer for all abrasive requirements.
In particular for products used in dry hand or powered situations where the abrasive remains in a relatively fixed position, it is, IMO suboptimal. It is suboptimal, especially so for submicron particulates where the suspensions may actually interfere with the abrasive. I will show this later on in this discussion. For applications requiring continuous streams of abrasives in a liquid environment, it may be more appropriate, but in that instance, the suspension should be a true permanent suspension and / or have arrangements made to keep the particulates evenly distributed at all times - magnetic stirrers, various mixers, etc. This is irrelevant to the sharpening and honing processes used to sharpen edges by hand.
For PRECISE SHARPENING, as opposed to industrial systems using pumped abrasive based liquids for non-sharpening applications but rather part dimensioning applications and surface preparation, what is relevant is disbursing an even coating on a strop. Doing this is largely a matter of technique - NOT keeping the particulates suspended. A perfect permanent suspension does not guarantee uniform dispersion from a spray bottle.
Good technique optimizes uniformity and is far more relevant. Not even the most obsessed user will go to extreme lengths to do more than a visual inspection to set an acceptable level of uniformity of dispersed particulates. A good sharpener / honer can deduce uniformity from the feedback he receives and can adjust his technique - even at particle sizes as fine as 15 nanometers (1.2 million grit). If you haven't been there, it's just theory. I've been there. I'd like to see others join me there in the future.
This brings us to the topic of permanent suspensions. Are there permanent suspensions? Yes, there are suspensions that for all practical purposes are permanent, but yet in some there is settling that takes place. This first picture is an Alumina suspension. I have yet to see settling after several months. Next are two products that claim to be permanent suspensions - the two products that were compared in part one. As you can see this is clearly settling. It is visually obvious to the most untrained eye.
Now, a supposed 'expert' claims, "A permanent suspension may appear to one eyes as being separated or settled out however it is impossible for separation to occur even if one thinks it appears to be." If that were the case, then 1) either these two products are not permanent suspension systems or 2) if the suspension is uniform, then the upper area reveals it to be of extremely weak concentration..
If I were to use these so called permanent solutions, I would most certainly shake them up before use. For hand sharpening or honing applications, it's just not that hard to redistributes the particulates by shaking the bottle gently a couple of times. Trying to believe that these bottles contain a uniform particle distribution that is as uniformly distributed as a freshly shaken slurry strains my sense of credibility. Just shake the bottle. It would be prudent and won't hurt anything .
Here's the truly permanent Alumina slurry:
It is uniform throughout.
Here are the two so called permanent slurries. I see two distinct regions. I can't imagine a reason not to mix it back to a uniform distribution as uniform as a freshly mixed slurry. Just can't.
And the second sample tested in Part 1:
I'll let the reader draw their own conclusions if they think these solutions don't require mixing - just like a slurry. In either case a suspension either must be truly permanent or you should remix before use. Remixing is just not a big deal for honing applications. It is a minor task - nothing more and certainly not a reason to avoid slurries. Application technique is far more important. What's MUCH more important is making sure that the individual particles don't stick together in big lumps. This is called particle agglomeration.
Particle agglomeration is one of the sins of using particulates for sharpening or honing applications. Indeed it is a sin for any type of sharpening application and to be avoided at all costs. Why? Well if two particles each a quarter micron in size stick to each other, they act like a half micron particle (yes, this is simplified, ignoring shape characteristics, etc.). If four particles stick together, it acts like an even coarser particle. This is even a worse problem than particles of random sizes or a very broad distribution in a slurry or suspension. Of course you can have both problems.
Now as the particles get smaller, the suspension can interfere with the particulates. If it is not designed to be used for the intended application, it may contribute to particle agglomeration as you will soon see. Charged particles in solution or ions can greatly contribute to this problem as well. For this reason, charged ions in the slurry solution will cause particle agglomeration and this one reason I specifically use deionized water for the vehicle. The other reason is that when it evaporates, it leaves no residue, as previously discussed.
My preparation is meant to be used as a dry technique, not a wet one. For edge sharpening, a wet technique offers no advantage. I know this from experience, based on years of sharpening.
One of the techniques I use is to take the slurry from flattening a synthetic stone and applying it to paper or balsa and letting it dry, effectively creating sandpaper that has the characteristics of the stone it came from. I have used this technique for coarse 120 grit stones through 30,000 grit stones. Again it is a dry technique. The results after years of use on many synthetic AND natural stones is that the abrasion characteristics are even finer than using the stones that they come from using a wet technique.
For dry techniques, lubricity has NO place in the discussion. The particulates become embedded in the substrate - balsa or paper and the results are excellent. This is the principle employed in platens, where the particles stay in place as the material being abraded is drawn across the bed of particles removing metal in the process. Now when you use a suspension that has been dried, it is only of modest concern for coarse particulates, but as the particulates go down into the submicron range, it becomes a disadvantage, literally gumming up the works, submersing the particulates in 'gunk'. This may be fine in a wet system, but not in a dry system. Simply put, it is the wrong tool for the job.
Is this simply idle speculation on my part or based on hard scientific data? I'll let you decide.
In the first part of this post, the particle size distributions were determined. This was a good first step in preparation for the next part of this post - actually looking at the particles themselves. Direct observation of these particulates is beyond the range of a light microscope. A transmission electron microscope is also the wrong tool for the job. A perfect tool for the job is a scanning electron microscope or SEM, which easily resolves particulates in the nanometer range. A quarter micron or 0.25 microns is a 250 nanometer particle. This will be useful to know when interpreting the following micrographs.
Seven samples were sent to the SEM facility of a major university. The person performing the analysis did not know anything about the samples. They were simply numbered one through seven. Each sample was shaken before extracting the samples that were sent to the lab. The containers were never previously used and specifically used for containing microabrasives. The instructions were to shake each sample and spray small stubs that were inserted into the microscope's chamber, which is a high vacuum environment. A light spray was applied to each stub and the sample was dried in a manner appropriate for placing it in a vacuum environment. The resolution of the scope was calibrated prior to taking the micrographs to assure very accurate measurements. You can see the bar at the bottom of the micrographs with a number next to it indicating a distance, usually in nanometers. Thus if a 1000 nanometer or 1 micron bar is present, a quarter micron particle would be a fourth as long as the bar. These bars are extremely important in evaluating the images and accurately sizing the particles.
So what do you look for? Well, you look at the shapes of the particles. Are they consistent? Are they the right size? Are they cleanly separated from the other particles or stuck together in lumps? If there are lumps how big are the lumps. remember if a lump of particles or an agglomerate is a mass of particles that is 8 microns in size, even if the individual particles are a quarter micron, you are looking at a slurry that will give an 8 micron finish or 2000 grit.
What were the samples?
There was a monocrystaline quarter micron product - the product that appears in the first image in this post.
We will call it sample one. It is a slurry using deionized water.
The second sample is my product - a quarter micron polycrystaline product. Also a deionized water preparation.
The third sample is a 0.3 micron Alumina permanent suspension
The fourth sample is advertised as a quarter micron polycrystaline diamond preparation in a permanent unspecified suspension.
The fifth sample is a water based suspension, also advertised as polycrystaline diamond.
The sixth sample is an oil based suspension, also advertised as polycrystaline diamond.
The seventh sample is eighth micron CBN. It will be shown elsewhere and is not a part of this study.
This is sample one , quarter micron monocrystaline diamond deionized water slurry
The bar at the bottom of the image shows a 500n (nanometer) or half micron 'ruler' bar, magnification at 20,000 x an image number and the voltage of the beam, 15,000 volts. Here we are looking at clearly defined particles of an appropriate size. They are very uniform in size with no agglomeration. Just clean particles. Exactly what we want. It is clearly monocrystaline diamond. It is textbook perfect high quality product.
Next is my product - a quarter micron polycrystaline product in a deionized water slurry:
Note the 333n or third micron bar, slightly different than the previous image. 30,000 x magnification. Again, individual particles of appropriate size, a uniform particle distribution, no particle agglomeration. Clearly polycrystaline diamond. A product I can easily stand behind and feel comfortable putting my name on.
Next is the 0.3 micron Alumina permanent suspension
At the same magnification as the previous image. Particle sizes are appropriate, but with a bit more variation not so tightly controlled and some degree of agglomeration. Individual particles are still clearly recognized
Clearly an alumina suspension.
Next is the Polycrystaline diamond preparation in an unknown suspension. The range of particle sizes required several micrographs at various magnifications.
Note the scale factor of 50 microns! Only 200x magnification. The large structure in the middle that looks like you are looking down the throat of a volcano is more that three barlengths across or 150 microns - not nanometers but microns. To give a comparison a 120 grit glassstone particle has particles of 123 microns, so it is a coarser particle than the particles used in the coarsest stone Shapton makes.! There are other large particles clearly greater than anything you would want in as quarter micron preparation. No particular uniform size just pretty much random debris, not identifiable as being any particular type of abrasive.
Here's a closer look at the same sample
The scale factor is still hugh - 10 microns!. Remember that 1 micron is a tenth the length of the bar and a quarter micron would be 1/40 th the length of the bar. This object is at least 12 bars long or 120 microns, similar in size to the 120+ grit 'volvano' It is a glob of something not clearly identifiable, not at all looking like my polycrystaline diamond preparation. As of yet, no one has identified what the glob is made of.
Let's get closer:
Now we are looking at a 1 micron bar and should be expecting to see particles 1/4 the length of the bar, but instead are presented with a closeup of this blob. Hardly any freestanding particles to be seen. By now you should be reading these yourself pretty well.
Here's one last overview.at 200 microns. This crater valley is strewn with hugh lumps of 'stuff'
Now the other product reviewed in the first part - the one with two humps in the particle distribution This is the water based suspension
At a 1 micron measurement bar, the particles are almost identifiable, but still look stuck together in clumps, with the clumping probably explaining the bimodal distribution. Clearly not ideal but not what I would want to use compared to my product with distinct particulates.
Now the oil based version of this product
At a half micron measurement bar size, we can see than the particle size fills the screen, which is fully compatible with the hugh particles picked up by the particle analyzer data.
It's a lot of information to digest in this posting, so lets summarize what we found out. We began by reviewing my testing methodologies showing that I have very accurately measured carat concentrations. Then we reviewed slurries and suspensions, showing that not all suspensions are the same and that some suspensions should be mixed up before use, just like slurries, but that the application technique to the strop was of far greater importance. While suspensions are most useful at coarser grits, at finer submicron grits, their use, particularly when the product is used in a dry preparation may actually hinder the product's use causing massive clumping and agglomeration. This may or may not be the case for liquid preparations used in abrasive flows, a topic not addressed in this discussion because it is not applicable to sharpening / honing of edges. Then we actually look at the preparations. The slurry preparations showed distinct particulates, while the suspensions showed a very moderate amount of agglomeration when used in a dry state (alumina peparation that showed no evidence of settling) to severe agglomeration, to the point where it was difficult to even recognize the particulates as even being diamond or alumina or something else. There are electron microscopy techniques for performing elemental analysis, such as EELS (Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy), but at this point I, and I hope the reader can clearly see why I consider my products to be of the highest quality available. ALL of my particulate products have undergone this level of testing, assuring my my customes of a most pleasant and rewarding experience. I am serious about providing a quality product specifically designed for producing superior edges and I hope you can see that what goes into my product, including the level of research and the rationale for it's design, is what separates it from it's competition.
Finally, I have to say the most basic statement about my products. They work. My customers love the edges these compounds produce. In the end, that's what matters most to me.
If you have gotten through both postings, I truly commend you and know you are serious about your edges. Thank you for your time reading this.

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'We have a sickness in us'
[Friday, December 14, 2012 15:01]
By Clare Blackburn
The word made me flinch. 'Sickness'. As she spoke, my Tibetan friend gestured towards her chest with a short sharp movement of her hand.
It was winter already, and a small heater was struggling to warm the kitchen. Outside, snow covered the highest peaks of the Himalayan foothills, and tourists and Tibetans wandered the narrow streets of the refugee town bundled up in a motley array of yak-wool rugs, Gortex jackets and traditional padded
. As the town started to empty, travelers in search of warmer destinations and many Tibetans heading south for the Dalai Lama teachings in Karnataka, it was as if a sense of melancholy was settling in with the cold.
'Sickness'. Perhaps the word jarred because it reminded me of the kind of vocabulary the Chinese government might use, its propaganda machine still stuck in the histrionic rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution, the Dalai Lama a 'splittist', 'a jackal in Buddhist monk's robes and an evil spirit with a human face and the heart of a beast.' In the eyes of the regime, the spate of self-immolations across Tibet - 82 men and 12 women as of December 9, 2012, 79 of whom have died – could be seen as desperate acts by 'sick' individuals, suicide a product of personal depression rather than political protest, a contagious virus requiring radical quarantine…
But who was I to guess at the word choice of Chinese leaders? Since the first self-immolation in modern Tibet - in February, 2009, by a young monk, Tapey, from Kirti monastery in the troubled Ngaba prefecture of Sichuan - neither Hu Jintao, the outgoing Communist leader, nor Xi Jinping, his successor, has made a public statement dealing explicitly with the crisis. And, despite the shocking images coming out of Tibet, and the increasing frequency of each new case, the situation seems to have barely registered with global media and governments. In the drama currently unfolding in Tibet, what remains to be seen, therefore, is which speaks louder on the world stage; action, words, or silence itself?
In fact, the tension between silence and speech has always been apparent in China's reactions towards the issue of Tibetan independence. While its leaders are clearly reluctant to be drawn into dialogue, its representatives are often outspoken. In response to a statement on November 2, 2012 by the United Nations' high commissioner Navi Pillay - the first such statement since the occupation of Tibet in 1950 – Heng Lei, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, was reported by Asia Times as turning blame against the Dalai Lama and his supporters in exile, accusing them of 'ugly and evil acts intended to achieve the separatist goal of Tibetan independence.' More recently, on December 6th, state-run newspaper the Gannan Daily reported a new law that anyone inciting others to self-immolate would be prosecuted for "intentional murder" . And, while in November the new General Secretary of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, made waves in his leadership speech with overt references to corruption and the party's 'many pressing problems', he made no mention at all of the unrest in Tibet, describing China as 'a beautiful homeland where all ethnic groups live in harmony.' And yet the new leader hasn't always been so oblique. On July 19, 2011, in a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the so-called 'Peaceful Liberation of Tibet' delivered in front of Lhasa's iconic Potala Palace, Xi Jinping began with another optimistic image, portraying contemporary Tibet as a Socialist idyll:
Today, the ancient city of Lhasa has become a city of flowers. The snow-capped plateau has taken on a new look. The people of all ethnic groups in Tibet are chanting merrily to express their happiness and joy.
He then claimed that the 1950-1951 invasion of Tibet 'opened the path for the one million serfs in Tibet to stand up and become masters of their own fates', reiterating the oft-repeated argument that China 'freed' Tibet from its feudalist past, and finally promised to;
[…] fight against separatist activities by the Dalai group, rely on cadres and people of all ethnic groups, seek long-term policies and take measures that address the root cause, and completely destroy any attempt to undermine stability in Tibet and national unity of the motherland.
'Fight' and 'destroy': hardly the language of reform or reconciliation. It seems that the debate the self-immolators hope to inspire risks being either stifled into silence or drowned out completely by the empty rhetoric of propaganda.
In striking contrast to the bombast of Chinese speech-makers, Students For a Free Tibet and International Tibet Network recently released a YouTube video which parodies the new Chinese leader on the eve of the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. In the footage, a man is shown sporting a giant papier mâché Xi-Jinping head and dancing like a buffoon through the streets of the Tibetan refugee town, Mcleod Ganj, to the Korean hit, Gangnam Style. It's a technique more in tune with the (post-)modern world, and yet the video has only received 39,811 views as of December 5, 2012, whereas any speech by the real Xi Jinping has a guaranteed audience of millions.
Moreover, just as Tibetans have taken to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in order to express their dissent in image and word, so China is evolving its own technological strategies of control. According to Tienchi Martin-Liao, journalist and president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, in the online magazine Sampsonia Way (August 15, 2012):
Big Brother is watching with high-tech equipment. The police [in Lhasa] carry machine guns and truncheons, and in their pocket, a cell phone or iPad. Recently they have taken to carrying fire extinguishers on their backs—not to save lives, but to prevent pictures of the person on fire from being disseminated online. Photos like that damage China's image.
So, while social networking sites have elsewhere been effective tools of revolution, as with the Twitter-led Arab Spring of 2011, the Great Firewall of China is currently stronger than any status update, with advanced internet surveillance, human face recognition technology and, according to the journalist Jonathan Watts (writing in The Guardian back in 2005), well over 30,000 'Internet police' on hand to patrol the web for nascent signs of dissent.
While its play between silence and speech remains ambiguous, China's actions, however, have never left doubt. The repressive crackdowns in the wake of the immolations are nothing new in the troubled history of Chinese relations with Tibet - arbitrary arrests, monastery lockdowns by armed soldiers, martial law, security patrols, 'patriotic re-education' (involving the compulsory denunciation of the Dalai Lama), intense surveillance, the cutting-off of electricity, physical beatings and media blackouts – and, as VOA reported back in October, 2012, these methods have now been joined in Kanlho Prefecture (Chinese: Gannan) by offers of financial reward, roughly $8000 to anyone with information about planned immolations, and $30,000 for 'credible information' about those already committed.
Rather than discourage further self-immolations, these repressive tactics will surely only further deepen the resentment of Tibetans against life under Chinese rule, and therefore keep fuelling the wave of self-immolations.
'We have this sickness inside us.'
Why did I flinch? Wasn't this precisely what I had been thinking earlier that week? Beneath the surface veneer of dharma tourism and 'tashi delek' smiles of the street-sellers, it had struck me that everyone in Mcleod Ganj seemed to be struggling with a personal sense of trauma – from the protest march of schoolchildren in the green and yellow uniform of TCV , to the young political activists educated abroad but returned to India, to the bent figures of the original exiles who had accompanied the 14th Dalai Lama in his escape across the Himalayas in 1959 and who were now eking out an existence on handouts from the Tibetan Government in Exile and foreign sponsors.
My own rose-tinted love affair with all things Tibetan had shifted radically one cold February in 2010. The mountain-top town – emptied of tourists and sunshine – wasn't the Buddhist-Disneyland that I had initially taken it for, but the very real site of makeshift lives in exile, of the realities of existence without passport or identity papers, of people living at a great distance from their true home and families, caught up in a seemingly-impossible quest for belonging. Why then should it always be a question of smiles and welcome? Of course there was suffering, too, and desperation, and struggle. I had just been too high on my own projections to see it. Like many visitors to Mcleod, I had fallen in love with the place, with its prayer-flags and gold-roofed monasteries, and with the Tibetans themselves: the momo sellers, proud smiling women with striped aprons and open faces, the handsome boys with high-cheekbones and flashing eyes, the old men in cowboy boots and shades who walked the khora prayer route through the forest past sacred mani stones and monkeys. None of this had been a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either. Finding out more of the 'reality' had led to a disappointment which now seems shameful in its irrationality. After all, no one had promised me anything, and the illusions had been all my own.
But then, dis-illusionment is vital for any true love to survive. There is no space for fantasy in real understanding and acceptance, and besides, flaws are not a reason to withhold support but even more of a reason to give it. The 'truth' of the Tibetan community is the truth of any group of humans living in a constant state of insecurity and exile, and they have no need of Westerners romanticizing them or harking back to some dreamt-up Hollywood Tibet. Idealized support risks being too easily challenged, so what is needed instead is honesty and an embrace of some of the uglier aspects of life in exile, not in order to condone them, but in order to start from how things are, rather than from how we wish they were.
In any case, that dis-illusionment was shifting now into something else: a mixture of bewilderment and compassion which was impossible to put into words. Sitting opposite my Tibetan friend as she identified the sickness inside her, I could do nothing but nod.
Meanwhile, the Tibetan community grieves in candle-lit processions that take place almost nightly now through the streets of Mcleod, the brightly-coloured Snowlion flag of Tibet barely visible in the darkness, the line of mourners chanting Buddhist prayers to honour the dead. Along the town's two rough roads, with their tangle of water-pipes and tattered electricity lines, past Western restaurants, Kashmiri carpet sellers and Indian beggars, the procession of red-robed monks, locals and the occasional tourist, makes its way down to Tsuglagkhang, the Main Temple complex, where speeches are shouted out in voices cracked with emotion and a makeshift screen flashes images of the immolations into the night.
Not all Tibetans attend, though. One friend explained his absence by saying that, since China regarded such events as inherently 'political', then if any of the Chinese spies rumoured to have infiltrated the community saw him there, it would jeopardize his chances of ever returning home. Others, wild-haired boys on motorbikes, escape the scene altogether, roaring up the mountains, their whoops some faint echo of Tibetan grasslands and that half-forgotten freedom. In any case, on a certain level the Tibetan identity cannot help but be fractured, split between Middle Way moderates and supporters of Rangzen Independence; between the spiritual and political (as if ever such a split could make any sense); between those inside Tibet and those in exile; between Mcleod Ganj and communities scattered around the world; between those fiercely defending their traditions and those emulating a 'Westernness' re-envisaged through an Asian lens; between those with businesses, money and foreign qualifications and those who are living hand-to-mouth, without education or employment. Given these diverse pressures and contexts, the call for commonality becomes even more urgent. There is a Facebook group called 'the tsampa revolution' which attempts to unite the scattered under this simple symbol of shared identity – the roasted barley flour consumed daily by Tibetans- and this togetherness in grief at the vigils is another more painful version of social and political bonding. But who can be expected to live with the intensity of this suffering on a daily basis? And what of the children, the next generation of Tibetans, who are growing up in the midst of this crisis, the images and stories of the suffering so inescapably part of their daily life? It is impossible to judge what degree of commitment is 'enough' and what kind of protest is 'right', and yet the Tibetans themselves must face these questions daily, witnessing the self-immolation of their fellow men and women, and unable as yet to enact the changes that might stop such desperate acts from occurring.
And in the meantime, the rest of the world seems strangely reluctant to take note. The graphic images shown at vigils and online - of Tibetan nomads, nuns and monks, their bodies either ablaze or already blackened, charred and twisted, circled by shocked onlookers - these images are either too graphic for the world to see, or somehow not sufficient. What does the world want? Sanitized suffering, or perhaps a radical escalation into a horror deemed 'worthy' of front-page headlines? What will it take?
But then perhaps silence is precisely what the West has been relying on to justify its non-intervention. China's silence permits the West to mimic it, therefore safeguarding the economic interests that are so reliant on Chinese goodwill. If no explicit statement is made, no explicit response is required and business can continue as usual. As The Telegraph reported on December 2, 2012, leaked documents show that British Prime Minister, David Cameron, banned his ministers from meeting the Dalai Lama during the spiritual leader's recent visit to London, despite His Holiness having stepped down from his political role on March 11, 2011, with leadership of the Tibetan Government in Exile now under Dr. Lobsang Sangay. According to the paper:
The row took place as China was in talks about offering £27 billion, into a fighting fund expected to be used up by the International Monetary Fund to bail out Eurozone economies.
Unfortunately, it's no surprise that a world-leader views human rights as secondary to economic concerns, but it's no less shameful and dishonorable for being predictable. This kind of political self-censorship is a profound act of disrespect to the 94 human beings who have sacrificed themselves precisely in order to gain the world's attention. When a man living in a country which prides itself on its freedom of speech stays silent, then what hope is there for those who have had that right taken from them?
In my friend's little kitchen, it was difficult to piece all the realities that surrounded us into a clear sense of place. The monks' nightly debates from the neighbouring monastery provided the soundtrack to dinnertime, while other nights the frantic drumming and sound-systems of Indian weddings reverberated down the valleys until the early hours. The TV shifted between Indian talent shows, Hollywood movies and His Holiness's teachings down in Mungod, while the table in front of us was cluttered with half-empty bowls of Tibetan noodle soup and plates piled with Indian chapatti, sheaths of papers covered in dense Tibetan calligraphy and an old copy of The Times of India.
'When I think of them, of what they have suffered, I cannot sleep at night,' she said.
And perhaps this sentence goes some way to explaining why so many people avoid looking any closer. In Mcleod itself, there seemed to be various different layers coexisting with little or no communication between them. Many tourists, Indian and foreign, probably have no idea that the short man in the scruffy green jacket who walks the streets shouting hoarse Tibetan into a loud-speaker, is in fact announcing the latest self-immolation, a tragic town crier summoning the community to grieve. There are posters around town of Jamphel Yeshi, the 27-year-old from Tawu who self-immolated in protest against Hu Jintao's visit to New Delhi in March, 2012 - burning limbs in a runner's stride as he sought to extend the impact of his action – and huge banners showing the faces of all those who have died thus far hanging by the temple and in the main square, and yet some passing through claim to know nothing of what is happening. Monkey-barring their way from cappuccino to cappuccino in one of the town's slick new cafés, shopping for singing bowls and spiritual insight, they seem unwilling or unable to engage with the very real business of the suffering around them.
The sickness that my friend talked of, then, is far from being a source of shame, but is rather the natural reaction of a body exposed to so much toxicity and trauma, and subsequently the source of courage and determination for change. According to her, it is the symptom of everything that is wrong in Tibet: the suffering of life under foreign rule; of devout Buddhists who watch as their high lamas are compelled to flee abroad one by one; of nomads forced to abandon the open spaces of their tradition and move into cramped concrete blocks; of students made to study in another language and disavow their own intellectual heritage; of women forced into sterilization and abortion,;of a country losing its very identity through ongoing cultural genocide and a sustained policy of Han Chinese 'population transfer' into Tibetan land; of a people helplessly witnessing the relentless degradation and plunder of their environment through mining and deforestation for the benefit of people who have no idea what is being done 'in their name'. For the Chinese people are not to blame here: many don't even know where Tibet is, never mind the kind of policies which are currently being implemented there. And how can they have a critical opinion on a matter which, like anything polemical in China, is totally excluded from the public arena? Passing through the Kham areas of Sichuan recently, I noted how the radical censorship of the internet, the absurd good-news-only policy of TV channels, and the blocking of social networking sites has created a parallel reality where independent thought and expression is stifled at every juncture.
There are voices inside China which do speak out in support of Tibet, but making yourself heard has a heavy cost in a regime which relies in part upon silence for its stability and strength. Back in March 2008, in the wake of riots in Lhasa on the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising Day, 29 Chinese dissident intellectuals, including the Tibetologist, Wang Lixiong (married to the Tibetan writer and activist Woeser), and Liu Xiaobo (who was to win the Nobel Prize in 2010 for his work on human rights) signed an open letter, a 12-point petition about the Tibetan situation, warning of a growth in 'inter-ethnic animosity' and urging the government to invite independent investigators to witness things for themselves. Both have since been targeted and arrested for their political writings, and Liu Xiaobo is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence, due for release in 2020.
Back in Mcleod, I scanned political blogs, Facebook updates by young Tibetans, photos and videos smuggled out of Tibet, and some of the cursory articles in online foreign newspapers. Too often, a Google search yielded only scarce results, and yet in November alone there were 28 self-immolations. To even begin to understand, we have to want to witness. And this, in the face of state censorship and personal apathy, and our own fear or inability to examine things in their full complexity and depth. While it may seem an impossible task to try and understand what drives a human being to drink petrol, to douse themselves in it, and then set themselves alight, this is precisely what the self-immolators are calling out for us to do, so that we might comprehend the situation that is causing them to take such drastic action, and, comprehending it, demand for it to change.
Of the 94 lay men and women, monks and nuns, who have burnt themselves in opposition to the repressive policies of the Chinese regime, language has been a vital part of their protest. Many shouted out slogans for a Free Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama in the very act of dying, or left written personal statements that clearly spell out their desire for an end to the sustained and systematic destruction of Tibetan human rights, culture, language, and religion.
Tsering Woeser, the Tibetan activist, poet and writer who writes from within China and in Chinese, vowed in a recent blog post to record the final words left behind by self-immolators, in recognition that, in order to be globally perceived as truly political, these events require commentary, ideally from the self-immolators themselves. Actions and words therefore need to work together in order to speak as loudly as possible. To take one example, Lama Sobha, a senior Tibetan monk who self-immolated in the Darlag region of Qinghai on January 8th, 2012, left an audio message that is unambiguous in its call for Tibet to 'unite as one'. As quoted in Woeser's post, Lama Sobha declares that:
I am taking this action neither for myself not to fulfill a personal desire nor to earn an honor. I am sacrificing my body with the firm conviction and a pure heart just as the Buddha bravely gave his body to a hungry tigress. All the Tibetan heroes too have sacrificed their lives with similar principles.
While some foreign observers struggle to reconcile the image of burning bodies with Buddhist principles of non-violence, or to understand this loss of Tibetan lives when the population is already so small, Lama Sobha's words highlight the role of 'sacrifice' in his decision and therefore render these external readings highly problematic. And, as a Tibetan activist put it to me, when the smallest act of political disobedience leads to imprisonment and torture, then perhaps the choice to self-immolate becomes 'easier to understand'.
But that evening in the kitchen, I could find no words of comfort for my friend adequate to her suffering. As a passport-holder from a country which in fact played a fatal role in destabilizing Tibet in the early 20th-century, a Western traveler always on the way to some sort of elsewhere, but in a luxury exile that was freely assumed and which I can choose to end at any moment, what can I say? I cannot claim to understand or explain, all I can present here is my own reaction, my own experience this November in Mcleod Ganj.
Like Woeser's project to collect the last words of every self-immolator, what is needed are individual acts of preservation to counteract the scenes of destruction and loss that are occurring now so frequently. Another such strategy is represented in Tibet by Lhakar, 'a homegrown people's movement' in which;
[…] in spite of China's intensified crackdown, Tibetans have embraced the power of strategic nonviolent resistance. Every Wednesday, a growing number of Tibetans are making special effort to wear traditional clothes, speak Tibetan, eat in Tibetan restaurants and buy from Tibetan-owned businesses.
Action is crucial, there is no doubt about it, but so are words and images and their careful preservation, otherwise so much risks being lost in the flames. So many moments stick in my memory: a photograph of the smiling 18-year-old nun, Tenzin Choedon, who was to burn herself to death shouting political slogans; a Tibetan friend in exile wondering about his sister still inside Tibet and whether she would choose a similar path; the two laughing young children playing with their candles during political speeches at the Temple, too young yet to understand; the plaintive nomad song of a former-political prisoner at a fund-raiser in an Italian restaurant in Mcleod; the image of Jamphel Yeshi, his face contorted with pain; the raw intensity of an old woman shouting her speech at the temple in a thick Amdo accent, barely pausing for breath in her desperate need to be heard; and the noise of the loudspeaker blaring out over the jumbled rooftops and trees of Mcleod, announcing yet another death in Tibet.
The future is radically uncertain for this community, both in Tibet and in exile. As China faces more and more problems of its own – environmental protests by a increasingly-worried and increasingly-vocal middle class, endemic corruption, anti-government riots by Uighurs in Xinjiang, a predicted economic slowdown, rising inflation, wealth gap, rural poverty, growing strikes and worker unrest, to name but some – perhaps things will finally shift. But then, once the Dalai Lama passes away, Tibet will have lost its unifying spiritual leader, its main inspirer of foreign support, and the guarantor of Indian hospitality. What happens next, only time will tell. But in the interim, Tibet continues to burn. In honour of the 94 people who have set themselves on fire in order to draw our attention to the sickness in Tibet, it is vital that we resist China's attempt to hide and silence their acts of courage. And so, while it remains to be seen whether the actions and words of the few can break the inaction and silence of the majority, when people die to be heard, the very least we can do is pay attention.
Clare Blackburn is an English teacher and traveler based in England. Article submitted by the author.
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Jed Lowrie and Stephen Drew could be had, but if the Mets didn't want them before there's no reason to believe their interest would have increased based on their numbers from last season. Both would want multi-year deals and more money than the Mets are willing to spend.
Alexei Ramirez of the White Sox is available and a known commodity. Also known is his declining defensive performance and two years at $10 million each the Mets would pick up. Quite frankly, he's a player on the downward slide, costly, and a player not worth one of their young arms.
While some are more proven than Flores, they all come with risks attached and definitely not worth a Noah Syndergaard or Zack Wheeler.
Given this, and knowing the Mets' history, Flores remains the best option. And, if he doesn't pan out, the Mets can always deal later. The Mets are in position where they should stick with Flores and see what he's all about.


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October 2013 Firing Order - EditorialPosted in News on August 21, 2013
Having just returned from TTC 2013, I got to thinking about the event. If I were competing in Top Truck Challenge, I would do things differently than most of the competitors who show up for the annual competition. Every year I see a lot of the same mistakes made over and over again by the fresh faces. Now, granted, I have only attended the event a half-dozen times, but I have followed it fairly religiously since its inception in 1993. By far, the number one most common mistake I see is competitors showing up with new, untested modifications that they are unfamiliar with. And of those mods, rear steer has to be at the top of the list. What is unfortunate is that we have all seen some competitors use rear steering to a huge advantage when cornering in tight confines or wallowing out of a deep mud hole. However, these are typically the guys who have run rear steer for years and are as used to turning the rear tires with a joystick as they are using the steering wheel, throttle, and brake pedal. You can't just hop in and expect to incorporate the rear steering into your driving technique without hours of experimentation to see how the rest of the vehicle reacts—or doesn't. Interestingly enough, the failing generally comes from when the competitor forgets about the rear steer. For example, I can't even count how many times I have seen competitors accidentally leave the rear wheels turned full lock one way or the other, causing them to blow a corner or flip over in the flat part of the Tank Trap canyon area, which is one of the easiest parts of that particular event.
By far, the number one most common mistake I see is competitors showing up with new, untested modifications that they are unfamiliar with.
I also got to thinking about the spotter/co-driver. I think you almost need to throw that title out the window. The spotter/co-driver becomes more of a winch monkey at TTC. That's really his most important job. He needs to be able to efficiently operate the winch, quickly locate suitable and strategically beneficial winch points, and get the winch hooked up and disconnected fast. He typically needs to be in good shape. As a co-driver, there is a lot of running, rigging, yelling, and more running involved—no time for being winded. I always thought you would have the best TTC winch monkey if you went down to the local high school, grabbed a football player, and taught him how to use a winch. I was wrong.
This year Aaron Fava and his co-driver Spike were the only competitors to finish the Tank Trap within the allotted time, in a Crew Cab pickup no less. They seemed to work together very calmly and extremely efficiently. They communicated via wireless headsets; in fact, many competitors had wireless communication systems this year. After Aaron's run up the Tank Trap, co-driver Spike hardly seemed phased (thanks in part to the fact that Aaron simply drove the massive truck through much of the course without winch assistance). Most co-drivers are about dead long before the half-hour time limit is up. That led me to ask Spike about his background. Apparently, both he and Aaron have Pacific Northwest logging experience. Spike is no longer a logger, but he still works in the forest industry. As part of his job he has to pass what is known as a Pack Test, which he had been training for and passed two weeks prior to TTC. He told me that to pass the test he had to wear a 45-pound vest and travel 3 miles in 45 minutes. It may not seem hard, but I'm pretty sure that would just about wipe me out, as well as most would-be TTC co-drivers.
I've since changed my ideal imaginary TTC winch monkey from a high-school football player to a choker or choke setter from the logging industry. If their job is anything like what I see on the television show "Ax Men," these guys are used to running all over steep, unstable ground and rigging gear in less-than-desirable conditions for eight hours or more at a time. The half an hour needed to complete the Tank Trap would feel like a smoke break.
Ultimately, don't ask me to be your co-driver in Top Truck. Find a logger, unless you plan to simply drive the whole thing without winching. And if that's the case, let your co-driver stay back at camp so he doesn't get poison oak.
Keep an eye out for '13 Top Truck Challenge competitor features and event coverage in the November and December issues.


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The Bucs cemented their lead with two-run innings in the fifth and sixth for a 10-1 advantage.
Hall (4-1) was masterful in picking up his fourth win. After allowing a first inning single and a walk, he retired 15 consecutive batters, not allowing another base runner until the sixth; at one point retiring 15 consecutive Bison batters. Hall scattered six hits and surrender just two earned runs while striking out four in his eight innings of work. Schnelly (2-1) went four innings, giving up six runs (only two earned) on seven hits, taking his first loss of the season.
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I'M GONNA GLOMP YOU FRANTICALLY! I thought you should know *twitches*
I am kinda glad now that I am Cosplaying as Suzaku in his two Knight of the round outfits
How COULD I have forgottennnnn??!!!!! HOWL!!!XD that part just made my heart happy. XDAhhh... the first bishi I have ever seen to throw a fit over his hair and summon the spirits of darkness over it... AWESOME.
^ "He's a boooy, he's a boooy, but his mom won't admit it. He's a boooy, he's a boooy, but if he says he is he gets it!" (Directed to the crushes comment.)(Anyone recognize this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?) Damn, most of my anime crushes have been grown out of. There's a few I still have a fondness for, though. Fakir (Princess Tutu),and Shizu (Kino's Journey). Oddly enough, I've never really had any girl anime crushes. Had great fondness for a lot of hotties, but that's about it.
You know, I used to have this bad habit (and maybe I still do have it) of thinking one character was really cute and just .. something about them, you know? Only to find out in a later episode that it's actually a cross dresser or someone that's been misled into thinking they were a female by a mom that really wanted a daughter. D:WHY?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME? ;_____;
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Gawd, so many Gurren characters! xDDDQuote from: Charlotte90 on July 25, 2010, 01:20:10 amItsuki(The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)Agreed~!
^Why is she wearing a G-string over her clothes?
How COULD I have forgottennnnn??!!!!! HOWL!!!Ahhh... the first bishi I have ever seen to throw a fit over his hair and summon the spirits of darkness over it... AWESOME.
Quote from: kimiski on July 19, 2010, 04:08:27 pmHow COULD I have forgottennnnn??!!!!! HOWL!!!Ahhh... the first bishi I have ever seen to throw a fit over his hair and summon the spirits of darkness over it... AWESOME. I completely forgot about Howl! I fangirl inside every time I hear is english voice.
Anime girls I have a crush on:Rio Kinezono (Burn Up Excess/Burn Up W/Burn Scramble) even though she's a shopping fanatic.The Hanaukyo Triplets-Marron, Melon and Lemon. Obvious reasons. Haruhi Suzumiya-That girl knows how to get a great deal on computers.Ayaka Kisaragi (Phantom Quest Corp)-Because her singing is worse than mine.
The second photo or the first?I don't recognize the second but the first is from Urusei Yatsura.
That sexy bitch right there. I don't care if she's a lesbian. I still have a crush on her.
There's just something about him..can't put my finger on it...
@Dubaby: :'D HIEI YES! ME TOO! I had an obsessive crush on him for such a long time! (Pretty much throughout high school.) I used to cosplay him all the time too. He's very special. ^^As for recent crushes... meh, been the same. Still loving England... and maybe a bit more on France. >//>


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I was just wondering if this site is ever going to be updated, other than the messageboards? I'm not trying to sound rude or anything when I ask.I liked that Berserk world deal that Walter came up with (the characters, places, etc.),
and I'd like to see "true" translations that are easier to get to, and not just links to other sites (I say true because everytime someone quotes anything, Olivier says "bad translation" which tells me that almost everything out there is a bad translation).
I wouldn't mind seeing Saiya's scans put up permanently (sp?) either, but that might be asking too much, since everyone around here hates scans.
I've been very busy in the real world but if you're dying for new content, you could always help with writing it yourself. Your dillema is the exact scenario I was in back on BSOM over 4 years ago. Not enough new content, so I started my own.
Let's say I'd want to redesign your TRANS page, and get permission from the translators here to put their trans. into html. Are you giving me permission to try it?
Speaking of changes, shouldn't the Volume 26 forum be merged with the Assorted Translations forum while replacing it with a Volume 28 forum? Or is that only going to happen when the actual Volume 27 is released?
The 10 chapters thing started after volume 21, and has stayed consistant since.
I'm sorry for interrupting... but it is vol 22
Volume 26 TableI can do 27 like this too if you guys want...Since the board based translations are organized now and usually the most up to date I think that works best for the links.
Anyone else want to try and correct me and look like a dumbass?
I think I'm up for the challenge. J/K
Finished up the work he started and made a spiffy new "Volume X" image. Check it all out here:
P.S The translation of vol 27 is a bit strange... Demon city, Demon emperor, Demon soldier, Demon knight, Demon God...
Actually, nobody translated the title for 231 (in the usual places), so "Demon Emperor" is just an assumption until Olivier or another translator shines his light of truth on the matter. If it is "Demon Emperor" or "Emperor of Terror", I get a cookie.-Griffith
On this page I asked if someone knew the title of this episode, and Mizar answered me that it was "The Emperor of Terror" : 16th & 17th posts


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Well, all the critics against you
But the streets love you
You niggas want word play
But I'm bout bird play
1st of the month
Yeah we call that bird day
(just look at em fly [x2])
You niggas want word play
But I'm bout bird play
3rd the month
Yeah we call that bird day
(just look at em fly [x2])
[Verse 1]
I'm way too intelligent
To play with my intelligence
What you tryna tell me
What i'm saying is not irrelevant
Still represent
Cause ima represent
3 bands for a 9 piece chicken dinner
Young bounce right back like a rubberband
Bought a whip look yall
No hands
Topless stop this
Where's your roof?
All this non sense
There's no you
Married to the game
Yeah we just got a load
Depending on the shipment
We might need a boat
I'm talking big money
Anybody own a bank
Had to switch up the style
They was on to the tank
[Verse 2]
Used to bet on all hip-hop
Young killed hip-hop
Don't you know this dumb nigga still talking crack rocks
Got everybody following him
Does that make him a leader?
Does that mean he needs to get indicted
Just to make you a believer
If that's the case
Then I really do apoligize
That I memorize
That I fantasized
That I visualized
That I strategize
1 false move will get your ass penalized
You can't be serious
What if pac was hearing this
You bullshitting me
I'm sure biggie would agree
If he had to pass the torch
Then that bitch would go to me
Now wouldn't you agree
It doesn't matter how he said it
[Verse 3]
You ever seen a blue rolls
Caught in the black grass
Nigga go broke
And invest in a black mask
He found him a new craft
A round of applause
Congratulate that nigga
Cause when he get rich
You gon hate that nigga
I bet the haters try they best
Try to break that nigga
How fly
How fly
How fly
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Once Keppel Sands (south of Yeppoon) went by the name of The Sandhills. Sandhills along the beach front were about all there was, until a sleepy town amidst the sugar cane plantations started to emerge. That's all changing these days, particularly since real estate started going 'through the roof'.
The majority of the sugar cane plantations have all but gone and a different community has developed, partly due to tourism, a burgeoning real estate market and, one would imagine, the excellent fishing. The town is set on a tidal stretch of water and that makes for good crabbing and fishing.
A 'must visit' is the Joskeleigh South Pacific Museum, which highlights the role played by the Kanakas, brought out by the 'blackbirders' to work the sugar cane fields as indentured labour.
There's a good picnic area by the beach.
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Students participate in a series of activities to discover how astronomers use computers to create images and understand data. No programming experience is required; students will use pencilcode.net to complete such activities as creating a color,... (View More) exploring filters and color-shifting, and creating individual images of star-forming regions. These activities demonstrate a real world application of science, technology and art. (View Less)
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In this activity, students will use a simulator of an orbiting X-ray observatory to observe a supernova remnant, the expanding gas from an exploded star. They will take X-ray spectral data, analyze them, and answer questions based on that data. This... (View More) resource consists of a manual and software for the Introductory Astronomy Lab Exercise, from CLEA (Contemporary Laboratory Experiments in Astronomy). The manual includes introductory activities for students, background information, an instructor's guide, a student handout, an answer key, a software user's guide, and a glossary. The student section of the activity starts on page 13. See Related & Supplemental Resources for a link to download the software. Note: the software is only available for Windows. (View Less)
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Stanford University is confirming this morning that former Raider Chester McGlockton passed away last night at the age of 42.
Early reports suggest McGlockton suffered a heart attack.
McGlockton was a first round pick by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1992 and earned four trips to the Pro Bowl as a defensive lineman. He retired in 2003.
Since 2010, McGlockton had been working at Stanford as a defensive assistant.
"Everyone in the Stanford Football family is deeply saddened by the passing of Chester McGlockton," head coach David Shaw said in a statement. "For the past two seasons, Chester has been a valuable member of our football staff and a wonderful friend to us all."
"The thoughts and prayers of the Raider Nation are with the McGlockton family during this difficult time," Raiders CEO Amy Trask added in a statement from the Raiders.
McGlockton is survived by his wife, Zina, and two children.


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Kenburn Waste Management Limited
Kenburn Waste Management Ltd is a distributor of waste handling machinery and sells both to commercial end users and trade customers.
Kenburn's business is to sell, rent or lease either new or refurbished machines, to provide services such as installation, maintenance and repairs and customer training and to sell consumables associated with this type of equipment such as baling wire.
Kenburn operates towards the premium end of the market, distributing high quality machines manufactured in Europe (2 German suppliers and 1 Danish). Kenburn competes with other high quality suppliers as well as with budget operators who typically supply lower quality equipment sourced from Ireland, Eastern Europe or China.
The machines supplied are predominantly balers and compactors. Balers are generally used to prepare segregated waste streams like cardboard for onward sale to recyclers, rather than paying to have it taken to landfill. Compactors are most often used to increase the amount of general waste which can be fitted into a container, reducing disposal costs by cutting down the number of collections.
Customers buy this type of equipment because it saves them cash. The environmental benefits of recycling are usually secondary considerations.
Kenburn does not supply any waste collection, waste processing or waste disposal services.
Kenburn supplies clients across the UK but not outside. We don't want enquiries from overseas
Kenburn uses the website to attract potential customers that they can convert into sales using a combination of telephone sales and field sales visits. Visitors to the site must be given the maximum opportunity to establish that Kenburn has the right solution for them, and be enticed to contact Kenburn either via the website, or by telephone.
Kenburn wishes to promote all of its offerings as services which can be bought together or separately. For example, maintenance packages and consumables to owners of recycling equipment of any brand, irrespective of where the original equipment was purchased.
Kenburn also wishes to promote its ability to supply equipment on short or long-term rental, lease or purchase. Kenburn can also satisfy customers with limited budgets by supplying used equipment which is refurbished to an exceptionally high standard.
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• Promote Kenburn as a trusted supplier of high quality products and services, not a pile-it-high-sell-it-cheap product vendor.
• Promote Kenburn's range of services (installation, maintenance, repairs, customer training) and stock of consumables (baling wire, baling strapping, compactor sacks and bags).
• Promote Kenburn's flexible purchasing options – sale, rental or lease.
• Promote Kenburn's ability to cater for customers with smaller budgets by supplying high quality refurbished machines.
What Kenburn is looking for from a design is a template that can be applied across the site. It may therefore be useful to submit designs with one image to demonstrate how the homepage would look and another to demonstrate how the template would look with inner page content added to it.
The Kenburn logo and corporate colour should be retained.
Kenburn's accreditations (ISO9001 and Safe Contractor; logos shown below) should be displayed.
Homepages where everything is visible on one page without the visitor having to scroll down are preferred.
The preferred type of layout is shown in schematic at the end of this brief, specifically showing the navigation menus on the left hand side of the homepage.
Pages with lots of text, or which are too busy, are disliked.
Pages that are a riot of different colours are disliked – Kenburn is looking for a classy-looking website which invokes high quality and reliable service.
Some sites that are liked and disliked are as follows:-
http://www.wastemachinery.co.uk Disliked – there is far too much product information; it comes across as a catalogue of cheap products.
http://www.husmann.co.uk This site is awful – we don't want to look anything like this!
http://www.phoenixcomp.co.uk Disliked - this site looks amateurish and poorly laid out.
http://www.riegens.com Liked – this site looks professional.
http://www.okay.co.uk Liked – again this site looks professional, and the homepage is not too busy.
http://www.pakawaste.co.uk The expanding menus on the left of the homepage are good examples of a preferred layout.
http://www.bergmanndirect.co.uk The 3 buttons on the right hand side which visitors can use to call, email or enquire are good features.