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Control of adhesive strength of acrylate polymers containing 1-isobutoxyethyl and isobornyl esters in response to dual stimuli for dismantlable adhesion
- Yusuke Fukamoto1,
- Eriko Sato2Email author,
- Haruyuki Okamura1,
- Hideo Horibe2 and
- Akikazu Matsumoto1Email author
© The Author(s) 2017
- Received: 27 August 2016
- Accepted: 28 January 2017
- Published: 6 February 2017
To develop an adhesion system satisfying both constant adhesion strength during use and quick debonding ability during a dismantling process.
Adhesive properties were investigated for the random and block copolymers consisting of 1-isobutoxyethyl acrylate (iBEA), 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (2EHA), and 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) as the dismantlable pressure-sensitive adhesives in the presence of a photoacid generator in response to dual external stimuli of photoirradiation and post baking.
The use of LED combined with a new photoacid generator SIN-11 was enable us to achieve a rapid dismantling process during UV irradiation within several minutes. The protection of the ester alkyl group in the iBEA repeating unit to give an acrylic acid unit was suppressed by the introduction of isobornyl acrylate (IBoA) as the additional unit into the copolymer of iBEA, 2EHA, and HEA. While IBoA‐containing block copolymer showed a constant adhesive strength during photoirradiation as the single external stimulus, deprotection was immediately induced by the subsequent heating, leading to a significant decrease in the adhesive strength.
The copolymer including the iBEA and IBoA units was revealed to function as the highly sensitive adhesive materials for dual-locked dismantlable adhesion.
- Pressure-sensitive adhesive
- Polyacrylates
- Reactive polymer
- Photoacid generator
- UV irradiation
Dismantlable adhesion systems are smart technology and materials, which satisfy both a sufficient bonding strength during use and a quick debonding process on demand. They have attracted attention because of saving materials and energy in various application fields, such as housing, electronics, medical and dental applications as well as manufacturing processing for industrial parts and machines [1, 2]. For the design of dismantlable adhesive materials, the adhesive property needs to instantaneously change in response to any external stimulus as a trigger for dismantling, for example, heating, UV irradiation, induction heating, electricity, and chemicals [3–15]. A change in the chemical structures of the adhesives by external stimuli was expected to induce a significant change in the adhesive properties. We previously reported a dismantlable adhesive system using degradable polyperoxides as curable and pressure-sensitive adhesives and the control of bonding strength by the radical chain degradation of the polyperoxide adhesives [16–18]. More recently, we developed an advanced system using acrylic polymers containing t-butyl acrylate (tBA) unit in order to overcome the dilemma of reliable adhesion property during use and the subsequent quick debonding [19–24]. The tBA-containing polymers were demonstrated to function as the dismantlable adhesive materials due to a facile transformation to polymers including acrylic acid repeating units, accompanied by the elimination of isobutene gas, under the appropriate photo irradiation conditions followed by postbaking at a desired temperature. It was previously revealed that the tBA-containing block copolymers showed excellent dismantling properties compared with the corresponding random copolymers [19, 22]. The validity of the dual-locked adhesion system in the presence of a photoacid generator (PAG) was also reported. In this system, an acid was formed by the photoreaction of PAG, and then chemically amplified deprotection proceeded during postbaking, in which a large number of repeated chemical reactions were induced by a single photochemical event, resulting in the efficient transformation of protected functional groups.
In order to develop adhesives more sensitive to external stimuli, we investigated the dismantlable adhesion behavior of the acrylic copolymers consisting of 1-isobutoxyethyl acrylate (iBEA), 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (2EHA), and 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) units [25]. Reactive polymers with functional groups protected with vinyl ethers have been synthesized and used for various applications, as reported in the literatures [26–31]. We found that the polymers containing the iBEA units were readily deprotected under single-stimulus conditions, such as hydrolysis without an acidic catalyst or acidolysis at room temperature under photoirradiation in the presence of PAG [25]. The use of the iBEA repeating unit as the reactive groups was suited to the construction of a quick debonding system, but the iBEA-containing copolymers were too reactive against the external stimuli such as heating in water and photoirradiation in the presence of PAG and consequently they were not applied as the dual-locked adhesive polymers. Previously, we reported that the deprotection conditions significantly depended on the stability of the ester groups of the adhesive polymers [19]. For example, the deprotection of the isobornyl ester proceeded under the conditions at a higher temperature for a longer reaction time in the presence of a larger amount of PAG. In this study, we investigated the dismantlable adhesion properties of the acrylic copolymers including an isobornyl acrylate (IBoA) unit in order to modify the responsibility of the iBEA-containing copolymers during a debonding process under the photoirradiation and subsequent heating conditions. We examined the dismantling properties of the random and block copolymers containing the iBEA, 2EHA, and HEA repeating units in the presence or absence of the additional IBoA repeating unit.
Experimental procedures
The 1H NMR spectra were recorded on a JEOL ECX-400 spectrometer using chloroform-d at room temperature. The number- and weight-average molecular weights (M n and M w) were determined by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) in tetrahydrofuran as the eluent at 40 °C using JASCO PU-2086 Plus equipped with UV-2075 Plus and 830-RIS detectors and Shodex A-800P columns. The molecular weights were calibrated with standard polystyrenes. The thermogravimetric (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were performed using Shimadzu DTG-60 and DSC-60, respectively, at a heating rate of 10 °C/min in a nitrogen stream. The 180° peel test was performed using a Shimadzu universal testing machine AGS-X with a 1 kN load cell according to ASTM D3330 at room temperature and a peel rate of 30 mm/min.
2EHA (Nacalai Tesque, Inc., Japan), HEA (Nacalai Tesque, Inc., Japan), and IBoA (Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Japan) were distilled under reduced pressure before use. 2,2′-Azobis(isobutyronitrile) (AIBN) and 2,2′-azobis(4-methoxy-2,4-dimethylvaleronitrile) (AMVN) were purchased from Wako Pure Chemicals Co., Ltd., Japan and recrystallized from methanol. Acrylic acid (Nacalai Tesque, Inc., Japan), isobutyl vinyl ether (Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Japan), 10-campharsulfonic acid (Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Japan), and diphenylditelluride (DPDT, Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Japan) were used as received. Other reagents and solvents were used without further purification. iBEA was synthesized according to the method described in the literature [25]. All copolymers were synthesized by organotellurium mediated radical polymerization (TERP) using binary azo initiators [20, 32]. SIN-11 [33–35] was supplied from Sanbo Chemical Industry, Ltd., Sakai, Japan, and used as received.
Synthesis of iBEA
To acrylic acid (17.98 g) and 10-campharsulfonic acid (6.0 mg) in 100 mL of n-hexane, isobutyl vinyl ether (25.28 g) was dropwise added at 0 °C under an argon atmosphere with stirring. After the addition, the stirring of a reaction mixture was maintained at room temperature for 3 h. Added was a small amount of calcium hydroxide then stirred for 30 min. After filtration, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The obtained crude product was distilled under reduced pressure. The pure iBEA was obtained in 97% yield.
Liquid; 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) δ 6.36 (dd, J = 17.4 and 1.5 Hz, CH 2=CH (trans), 1H), 6.05 (dd, J = 17.4 and 10.5 Hz, CH2=CH, 1H), 5.92 (q, J = 5.4 Hz, OCH(CH3), 1H), 5.78 (dd, J = 10.5 and 1.5 Hz, CH 2=CH (trans), 1H), 3.39 − 3.16 (m, OCH2, 2H), 1.84-1.71 (m, CH2CH(CH3)2, 1H), 1.19 (d, J = 5.4 Hz, OCH(CH 3), 3H), 0.82 (d, J = 6.6 Hz, CH(CH 3)2, 6H).
Synthesis of copolymers
Synthesis of block copolymers by TERP
First-step polymerization
Second-step polymerization
Time (h)
Conversion of iBEA/IBoA (%)
M n/104
M w/M n
Time (h)
Conversion of iBEA/IBoA/2EHA/HEAb (%)
180°peel tests
A SUS430 (150 × 50 × 0.5 mm3) plate was cleaned by ultrasonication in acetone for 15 min, then in 2-propanol for 15 min. The 15 wt% acetone solution of the polymer was applied on a poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) film (50 mm thickness) by a film applicator (200 μm gap). The film was dried in vacuo for 12 h in the dark, and then cut to a 20-mm wide. The film was pressure bonded on a SUS plate using a 2-kg hand roller. After UV irradiation (and the subsequent heating if needed), the 180º peel test was carried out after the specimen was left to stand for over 30 min at room temperature.
UV irradiation
UV irradiation was carried out using an LED lamp HLDL-50UV365-FN (365 nm, CCS Inc., Japan) at room temperature. For the UV irradiation, the test piece was placed at a distance in a range of 5.9–14.5 cm from the LED lamp. For the thermal treatment after the UV irradiation, the test piece was placed in a preheated oven for a determined time.
Results and discussions
Composition and property of random and block copolymers used in this study
Composition in the copolymers (mol%)
IBoA content in the reactive segmenta (mol%)
M n/104
M w/M n
T g (°C)
−54, −18
−57, −18
The T g values of the homopolymers of iBEA, HEA, and IBoA were reported to be −10, −15, and 94 °C, respectively, being much higher than that of the homopolymer of 2EHA (−85 °C) [19, 25]. The T g value was determined to be −19 °C for the random copolymer R1, which consisted of 2EHA unit (53 mol%) as the low T g repeating unit and iBEA (32 mol%) and HEA (15 mol%) units as the moderate T g repeating units. Because the introduction of IBoA into the copolymer increased the T g values of the copolymers, we carefully controlled the copolymer compositions in order to exhibit similar T g values for the copolymers with and without the IBoA unit. For the block copolymers synthesized in this study, the reactive segments showed the constant T g values at −18 °C due to the small contribution of the IBoA unit introduced with an only 5 mol% into the reactive segment, as is shown in Table 2. The T g values of the random copolymer R1 and the hard segment of the block copolymer B1 containing no IBoA unit were similar to each other. The effect of the M n values (14.1 × 104 and 8.8 × 104 for R1 and B1, respectively) should be considered to discuss the T g values of these copolymers. As a result, we successfully prepared three types copolymers containing a segment with T g value. The adhesive segments consisting of 2HEA as the major component exhibited T g values lower than −50 °C for the block copolymers. These T g values were enough for the use as the pressure-sensitive adhesive materials. In this study, the adhesive segment including the mainly 2EHA units was produced during the second-step block copolymerization without isolation of the prepolymers produced during the first-step polymerization of iBEA or a mixture of iBEA and IBoA (See Fig. 1 for the accurate sequence structures of the block copolymers). Therefore, the second adhesive sequences produced during the second-step polymerization were confirmed to include not only the 2EHA and HEA repeating units but also small amounts of iBEA and IBoA repeating units as a result of the participation of the residual monomers after the first-step polymerization. The observation of two T g values for the block copolymers (B1 and B2) undoubtedly indicated the microphase separation structure of the reactive segment produced during the first-step polymerization and the adhesive segment produced during the second-step polymerization.
Change in peel strength of random and block copolymers during photo irradiation using LED lamp
Irradiation conditions
Post baking conditions
Peel strength (N/20 mm)
Relative valuea
Failure mode
Intensity (mW/cm2)
Time (min)
Dose (mJ/cm2)
2.65 ± 0.12
PET interface
0.035 ± 0.012
SUS interface and cohesive (9/1)
3.06 ± 0.06
0.42 ± 0.11
0.042 ± 0.034
PET interface
0.010 ± 0.003
SUS and PET interfaces (5/5)
0.0011 ± 0.00056
SUS and PET interfaces (8/2)
3.80 ± 1.27
SUS interface
3.85 ± 0.06
SUS interface and cohesive (5/5)
2.07 ± 0.16
SUS and PET interfaces (4/6)
0.04 ± 0.008
SUS and PET interfaces (9/1)
0.11 ± 0.01
PET interface
3 min/100 °C
0.079 ± 0.001
PET interface
3 min/100 °C
0.057 ± 0.06
PET interface
It was also found that the failure mode diversely changed depending on the photoirradiation conditions, as shown in Table 3. For the failure mode of the copolymers with different sequence structures, i.e., R1 and B1, the mode for the both copolymers changed depending on the photoirradiation dose as follows: cohesive failure, failure at the PET/adhesive interface, and then failure at the SUS/adhesive and PET/adhesive interfaces. In the case of R1, the failure occurred at the PET interface due to the considerably high cohesive force rather than the PET/adhesive interface interaction. The high molecular weight of R1 was favorable for increasing the cohesive interaction. The cohesive force further increased along with the photoirradiation because of the formation of polar and functional groups as well as the occurrence of cross-linking. The interactions at the SUS/adhesive and PET/adhesive interfaces competed with each other and determined the failure mode, but the both interactions seemed to be weak and finally the isolation of the adhesive layers was often observed. In fact, it was considered that the transesterification and/or esterification of the HEA unit took place with the deprotection of the iBEA unit in the presence of an acid catalyst causing cross-linking [24]. In the previous study, the adhesive layer stuck on the PET film was easily peeled off and consequently the cross-linked adhesive layer was removed from both the SUS and PET without any adhesive deposit [25]. The cross-linking caused by the reactions of the HEA units temporarily increased the modulus of the adhesives. In this study, the SUS or PET interface failure observed after dismantling was accounted for by similar cross-linking and transesterification reactions. The heating process for the dismantling using dual external stimuli led to the interfacial failure between the PET and adhesives because of an increase in the interaction between the SUS surface and the adhesives containing a carboxylic acid. However, it was hard to fully explain the all failure modes of B2 including hydrophobic IBoA, hydrophilic HEA, and reactive iBEA units as well as adhesive 2EHA unit under various irradiation and heating conditions for dismantling, because they kaleidoscopically changed according to the dismantling conditions.
We synthesized the random and block copolymers consisting of iBEA, 2HEA, and HEA repeating units in the absence and presence of IBoA by the TERP method as the living radical polymerization technique, which was valid for the synthesis of high-molecular-weight acrylate polymers including polar and functional groups in the side chain. The adhesion property of the obtained iBEA copolymers were investigated as the dismantlable adhesives responsible to photoirradiation and heating. It was demonstrated that the use of LED combined with a new photoacid generator SIN-11 was enable us to achieve a rapid dismantling process during UV irradiation within several minutes. The introduction of the IBoA unit into the copolymer resulted in the enhanced resistance to photoirradiation, while the subsequent heating at 100 °C for 3 min immediately led to a significant decrease in the adhesion strength. Thus, the copolymer including the iBEA and IBoA units was revealed to successfully function as the highly sensitive adhesive materials for dual-locked dismantlable adhesion.
Authors' contributions
AM and ES designed the study and prepared the manuscript. YF carried out the experiments for polymer synthesis and measurements. HO and HH designed a photo acid generator and the related experiments. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Not applicable.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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This has led to some very interesting circumstances. For instance, as I mentioned above, I generally know how a story will end. That is often one of the first things that comes to mind (and sometimes it's the only thing that comes to mind, and I have no idea how I'm going to get to that ending). However, I have a few stories where I know everything EXCEPT the ending. This is generally because the direction of the plot and the natures of the characters lend themselves to several possibilities of how the story could end, all of which would be equally plausible but of different tones with different reactions from the reader. And so all I can do is write the story and see where it leads me, hoping that something within the writing itself, in the way the characters evolve, or in the ways I do or do not change the plot, lead me to the RIGHT ending for the story.
I have also written myself into a number of corners, especially when I deviate from the plot plan I had originally devised. This can be frustrating, but it can also be fun and even illuminating. It is thrilling when I find ways of working myself out of the corner I've backed myself into, without having to change anything fundamental about what had led me to that point. And it is also thrilling to see how these situations and my working-out of them, changes the plot from then on (or not). However, there are still many times when I've simply had to go back and re-write whole scenes in order to insure that I simply don't end up in that corner to begin with.
In the mean time, pantsers have simply jumped into the writing, and occasionally throw a pitying glance and shake of the head in my direction. "Poor Amanda," they say, "she's spent days, maybe even weeks, planning all this stuff out, only to discover she won't end up following more than half of it. Why doesn't she just quit the foreplay and get down to it?" I'm sure they have a point (though pantsers are in just as much danger of getting stuck as I am), but I'm afraid it's too late for me to change.
There is much more I could say about plotting vs. pantsing, but far wiser bloggers have written on the subject before, and I now defer you to them.
Chuck Wendig's "Pantser versus Plotter: The Hoedown Throwdown Shakedown Takedown" is a fantastic article advocating for plotting in Chuck Wendig's imminently "calm and balanced manner" (or rather, the opposite).
Cid Tyer discusses "The Novel Notebook" – a brainstorming/planning template created by Lynn Viehl.
And here, paranormal romance author Kait Nolan compiles a collection of resources/templates to help in the planning process.
You'll notice that these links tend more toward the plotting side because plotters like to share the methods of planning that they have found to work for them, while pantsers just get to pantsing it.
So, writers, which are you? Plotter or pantser? Or perhaps a little of both?


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Podcast Maker Is Another Mac Tool
While I hope folks will at least give hacking RSS feeds a try, Podcast Maker is another tool for Mac podcast creation. If RSS is giving you fits, Podcast Maker is close to a drag and drop solution. Of course it has a free 30 day evaluation period!
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Mac Podcasting Software
Podcast Maker Is Another Mac Tool
Cindy Chavez for Mayor
Cindy Chavez For Mayor of San Jose
In the coming election I urge my friends and members of the University Community to vote for Cindy Chavez for Mayor of San Jose. In my opinion she has repeatedly proved to be a friend of working people and members of the campus community. She supported us in getting the traffic light at the corner of 9th and San Fernando and I think she will be a great mayor for our city.
Staff union reaches tentative agreement with CSU
Tentative Agreement Reached with CSU - 15% package over three years
E-mail from Union HQ (Posted on union Web Site here) -- The CSUEU bargaining team is pleased to announce that we reached a Tentative Agreement with the CSU late on Friday, October 27. We plan to make the entire tentative agreement after November 8, and ratification packets will be sent to members shortly thereafter.
The short story is that the economic package totals 15% over three years (divided between GSI, SSI, and Market Salary increases) with no take-aways in benefits. The SSI cap will be moved upwards by 5% each year over the next three years, making step increases available to nearly two thousand employees who have been frozen at the top of their SSI maximum range. There will be some parking fee increases on some campuses where employees have not been paying the same fees as students. However, no increases will go into effect on any campus until after parking fees are implemented for faculty. The increase is limited to $3, $6, and $9 respectively over the next three years on affected campuses. On campuses where students pay more than staff, the CSU had been demanding that staff pay increases of $10 per month the first year, $15 per month the second year, and then increases to whatever fees students are paying in the third year. CSUEU was able to hold the CSU to a much more gradual increase. We will also be addressing a few campuses in the first year of the contract after this one.
More information about the Tentative Agreement will be coming soon.
Update from Vera
In the previous version of this post I just posted what I received in an e-mail from headquarters. It seems that may have not been 100 percent accurate. Vera, who is on the negotiating team, sent this out, "We have a "Conceptual Agreement" with the CSU. We have not TA'd the contract as of yet. The bargaining team will meet again up in Sacramento on November 8th to clear up some items still outstanding."
Thanks Vera!
Monday, October 30, 2006
More Clark Hall Safety Concerns
Why do we have to file grievances to get safe working, teaching and learning conditions? Why is safety not just something that happens by default at SJSU? After many complaints I just filed a grievace cosidering what I feel are unsafe conditions in the Academic Success Center in Clark Hall. I am frustrated issues have not been properly addressed by San Jose State University, including the following:
- Lack of visible and appropriate sineage regarding exit routes for emergency egress from the stage area of Clark Hall.
- Lack of training by a knowledgeable party for appropriate emergency evacuation procedures from the Clark Hall, ASC.
- Lack of appropriate sineage for the glass doors in Clark Hall.
- Difficult procedures for unlocking the glass doors in Clark Hall.
I do not understand how this facility was able to be opened without these issues being addressed in the first place.
SJSU J&MC Ad Students GM Competition Finalists
SJSU Advertising Students Named Finalists In Chevy Competition
FROM PRESS RELEASE - Today, three SJSU advertising students will learn if their idea will become the basis for a $2 million Super Bowl commercial. The School of Journalism and Mass Communications team is a finalist in the Chevy Super Bowl College Ad Challenge. The competition asked students nationwide to submit concepts for a 30-second Chevrolet commercial by October 13. SJSU team members Anna Pogosova, LouLou Quintela and Kelly Sherman learned last Tuesday they were among five teams of finalists. All five teams spent the weekend in Detroit refining their concept with assistance from ad agency executives. The teams are now presenting their concepts to Chevrolet executives, who will select a winner by day's end. CBS, the Super Bowl's broadcaster, taped the entire process including the moment SJSU's team was named a finalist, an announcement made on campus during class. The network plans to produce a reality program based on the competition. The SJSU team advisor, Assistant Professor Lilly Buchwitz, also went to Detroit. Other finalists hail from Elon University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Washington University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For more, see: http://www.edventurepartners.com/
Sunday, October 29, 2006
There and back again
I am home from LA
It was a short trip, less than 36 hours total. Some people make trips like this all the time and for them it is routine. For me it was a bit disorienting. I do not like flying in airliners. It is not the flying that bothers me, it is the security. When you fly you agree to submit to it. I do, but I resent it. I feel as though I am a prisoner in some kind of police state. That is the bargain we make in order to fly. Given my druthers, I rather drive if I can. But, this trip I couldn't. It is too bad we could not have had this meeting in Second Life! Considering how much it costs to fly so many folks to attend meetings like this, the economics of virtual meetings in virtual worlds just is inescapable.
Friday, October 27, 2006
From a hotel near LA
I started a new novel today. It is Snow Crash, by Neal Stephensen. This book was the inspiration to a very popular virtual world called Second Life. Snow Crash is in the genre "cyberpunk." Snow Crash happens in a future world where American society is crumbling. The way some lucky folks in Snow Crash escape the spreading societal decay is through a virtual world called "the Metaverse." It is the core idea of this Metaverse that is at the heart and the inspiration of Second Life.
So, I am going to the source code, the Zen of Second Life, by exploring the book that inspired it. That is what I am doing in the middle of autumn in a hotel near LA, as the Santa Ana winds blow outside.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Podcast: Uhrmacher, Kemp, Text 100, Second Life
Podcast: 48:05 duration, 44 MB MP3 - Posted October 25, 2006
Audio, recorded October 24, 2006.
To listen to audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
Kemp-Uhrmacher Skype conversation in and about Second Life
This is the presentation SJSU Educator Jeremy Kemp did last night with Aaron Uhrmacher, Senior Account Executive at Text 100. Kemp was in the class, Uhrmacher was in another part of the country. Despite being thousands of miles apart, they both presented to the class in real time side by side on the screen from within the virtual world called Second Life. The tool Uhrmacher used to talk to the class was Skype. It was a wonderful immersive experience.
Listening Notes
I will be the first to admit, the audio here is lacking in parts. It is much better than the first podcast I did of a Skype conversation. Sometimes I learn as much by what goes wrong as by what goes right. Next time I will have a wireless mic on the speaker. Please, the audio is worth the fuss I think! The presentation was great. Kemp and Uhrmacher were superb. I used Ecamm's Skype Call Recorder to capture the conversation, Quicktime Pro to convert it to WAV, Levelator to bring up the low points and to moderate the peaks and Audacity to do final prep and, with the LAME encoder, to convert it to MP3.
Next Podcast: Student Reaction
In the next podcast we will listen to a conversation by the students about the Second Life Presentation.
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Today I went to San Francisco
Today I went to San Francisco State University
It was a rare clear and warm day in San Francisco. I took photos of University employees who are union members for a project we are working on. On the way home I went south through Daly City on Skyline and stopped where I found a spectacular view of the ocean.
Kemp presented on Second Life
An inspiring presentation by Kemp
If the greatest asset we have at San Jose State University is our people, then Jeremy Kemp is one of SJSU's greatest technology assets. The presentation he did last night with Aaron Uhrmacher, senior account executive at Text 100, was mind blowing. Kemp was in class. Uhrmacher was in another part of the country. They both presented to the class from within the virtual world called Second Life, where they were standing side by side on the screen. It was an immersive experience and I learned a lot from Kemp both about Second Life and about teaching. I captured the audio from the Kemp-Uhrmacher Skype conversation and that will be released as a podcast very soon.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Podcast: Greene on Video
Podcast: 1:09:16 duration, 63.4 MB MP3 - Posted October 23, 2006
Audio, recorded October 17, 2006.
To listen to high quality audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
Steve Greene Talks About Video
Journalism 163 discussion
This is last week's discussion by Journalism Professor Steve Greene about video production. This is the second podcast I produced entirely in Windows on my new MacPro and is the first time I used Levelator, a new tool by Gigavox for adjusting audio levels on Podcasts.
Tuesday's class is not to be missed!
Tuesday's class is not to be missed!
This is a big one folks! Prepare to have your mind bent, prepare for a journey into a new Metaverse! Jeremy Kemp is going to be presenting on Second Life and it is planned that he will be joined by Aaron Uhrmacher. Aaron Uhrmacher is senior account executive at Text 100 the first PR agency to establish a presence in Second Life.
Here is to better days!
A better day than yesterday!
What a weird unplanned weekend. It started Saturday with Madison's birthday. I went for a bike ride later Saturday. Sue and I went to dinner that night. I went for another ride on Sunday and hooked up with some friends in our bike club. When I came home from the ride Sue was working in the yard. I showered, then she showered. My shower was fine, hers ended very badly. She is doing much better this evening. She is still sore, but better. The glass is cleaned up. The bathroom is back together (no more shower doors!) Life goes on. Life is like that, I guess.
After the crash
Susie update
Sue is doing well considering the number of lacerations she had from the broken glass. She is bandaged up. The broken glass is picked up and I am working on fixing the bathroom. I guess that bathroom remodel is going to go higher on our to do list.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Suddenly standing in shattered glass
A glass shower door fell on Sue as she was exiting the shower this afternoon. Suddenly she was standing in a tub of broken glass. I heard it fall and her calling for help. I came in and threw down towels so she could escape. She was cut on her hands and feet and needed to go to the hospital for stitches. She is in bandages. It's a real mess.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Podcast: Students talk about their podcasts
Podcast: 24:32 duration, 22.47 MB MP3 - Posted October 20, 2006
Audio, recorded October 17, 2006.
To listen to high quality audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
Great Ideas for Podcasts!
Journalism 163 Mid-term discussion
Students in Journalism 163 discuss the mid-term assignment, which is to do a podcast. In this in-class conversation they are talking about the ideas they have for their podcasts. The students discuss the format of their podcasts, the subjects of their podcasts and who their audiences are.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Lunch at Mac's Cafe
Camera Phone Post: Lunch at Mac's Cafe
We had a great lunch. It was a lot of fun. I always enjoy having an opportunity to eat here.
I am in training this week
I am in training at Apple
My training continues through the end of the week. This training is on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It is part of the Apple certification track. I applied for, and was funded for, this training through a lottery grant. In my opinion we should be trained on all the software we support. We should not have to apply for training and hope we get funded for it through a lottery grant. As it is now, we staff members still have to provide technical support to faculty and students whether we are funded and are trained or not. I think the cost of not training our support staff is higher than the cost of training them. It is my opinion that trained employees are more productive and more likely to do the job right than employees who are not trained. So, training is good. Some folks say we can't afford training. I say we can't afford the mistakes being untrained leads to.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
I am at Apple
Camera Phone Post: I am at Apple today
This is the think different script. It is on the entry to the training center.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Podcast: JACC sesssion on podcasting
Podcast: 42.54 duration, 39.2 MB MP3 - Posted October 16, 2006
Audio, recorded October 14, 2006.
To listen to high quality audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
My Podcast Session at JACC
This is the session I did at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges Northern California Conference at SJSU on October 14. The topic is Journalism is a Conversation, Podcasting and Journalism. In the audience are students from junior colleges and from SJSU.
Update: Tue Oct 17 06:53:53 PDT 2006
- Here is the PowerPoint that was shown along with the presentation. Note: the videos included in the original version have been removed from this PowerPoint download to simplify download.
- Correction (1) - In the audio you will hear me use the term "horse and buggy" what I meant to say and what was displayed in the PowerPoint was "horseless carriage."
- Correction (2) The person's named in the credits were individuals whose input to me through conversations helped me put together this presentation. They were not involved directly with production of this podcast or the associated PowerPoint.
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RSS for lifelong learning
Today I am going to be presenting in EDIT188
The presentation is on lifelong learning and how RSS and podcasting is a tool for enhancing lifelong learning. The power point is here.
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Blogging from JACC; Lance Williams Keynote
Today is JACC
I am at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges Norcal Convention at SJSU. Right now I am in the Music Building listening to San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lance Williams deliver the keynote. He is talking about the Balco Drug Use coverup story and why we need a Federal Shield law for reporters. The book, Game of Shadows, co-written by Williams and Mark Fainanu-Wada has attracted worldwide attention, and an 18-month prison sentence for the writers for refusing to name confidential sources. His keynote concentrated more on the story than it did on the Shield Law
Friday, October 13, 2006
Podcast Academy
Podcasting at Boston University
This link is to a great set of recordings about podcasting in higher education. I dream that we would do a lot more innovative stuff like this at our university.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Podcast: Conversation with Steve Greene
Podcast: 27:04 duration, 24.7 MB MP3 - Posted October 09, 2006
Raw audio, recorded October 06, 2006.
To listen to high quality audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
After a casual lunch Steve Sloan and Professor Steve Greene discuss "new journalism"
Included in this discussion is the ethics of anonymous blogging as it relates to journalism, objectivity verses transparency and how new journalism may in fact be very much like very old journalism from 100 years ago.
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Heck of a place to park
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Camera Phones for a Safer Campus
Camera Phone Post: Great tool for safer conditions
Unsafe work or study conditions can be documented very easily with camera phones. The problem with just verbally reporting problems is that often by the time the person investigating the issue gets to the scene, the problem has gone away. Some problems are very dependent on specific conditions. Camera phones provide a time stamped record of an unsafe condition, such as the trip hazard shown here.
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Friday, October 06, 2006
Absolute Geek Heaven
This is my first post from the Mac Pro
A couple of days ago my new computer came in. This is the fastest computer I have ever used. It has the equivalent of four Xeon processors. This puppy totally rocks. I am in absolute geek heaven.
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Podcast: Conversation with David Weinberger
Podcast: 33:28 duration, 61.82 MB MP3 - Posted October 04, 2006 Raw audio, recorded October 03, 2006.
To listen to high quality audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
One of the two books for our Journalism 163 class is The Cluetrain Manifesto. David Weinberger is one of the co-authors of Cluetrain along with Chris Locke, Doc Searls, and Rick Levine. In this podcast Weinberger is speaking to our class via Skype. According to Wikipedia, Weinberger is a technologist and commentator, his work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
As per Wikipedia he is a philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Weinberger taught college from 1980-1986, was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976 to 1983. He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high tech companies, and currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is also an avid blogger. He was an advisor to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.
He is currently working on a book dealing with evaluating the authoritativeness (in his term, the "authority") of knowledge sources; among other things, Wikipedia. He speaks a bit about this in this podcast.
I am sorry for the poor audio in this podcast. I did not want to try any untested technology (for me) in class, so this was recorded right off the speakers. All opinions given, as always, are those of the speakers.
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Changes coming to campus e-mail
1. Reduce e-mail domain names
2. Provide a complete and accurate university e-mail directory
3. Provide electronic calendar functions
4. Assure sufficient mailbox size
5. Increase reliability and dependability of the e-mail system
6. Provide Instant Message functions (lesser priority)
This committee is a diverse group representing faculty, staff and students. It is co-chaired by Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno, AVP, Academic Technology and Don Baker, IAVP, University Computing and Telecommunications.
The committee's first action to improve electronic communications will be to issue standardized addresses for the campus that route to your existing mailboxes. Standardized addresses will allow the campus and the public to interact with the university as if it were one entity while minimizing any changes to your existing systems. The standardized address will be treated as your official address and will be published in the ePhoneBook. Timing of the rollout will be sensitive to the needs of the academic and administrative campus members. More details from the implementation team will follow as the rollout approaches.
Current data in the HSJPRD production database (accessed via MySJSU) will be used to determine the affected members of the campus community. Names and current
e-mail addresses will be determined by your preferred name in the database. Please ensure that the database contains your preferred name and current e-mail address.
NOTE: Visit http://my.sjsu.edu to access your personal information by November 10, 2006. Once logged in, navigate to Self Service-Campus Personal Information to view and/or update your information. Contact the CMS Help Desk, firstname.lastname@example.com, for more information or assistance in updating your information.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Campus Movie Fest Wrapping Up
Camera Phone Post: Student Film Makers Race Deadline
Today was the deadline for Campus Movie Fest. This was very cool with two teams from our Journalism 163 class and one involving students from the Help Desk making films. I think this was a wonderful project for our university to get involved in and it has been a lot of fun to watch!
Log on to Monday
Camera Phone Post: Time to log on to a new week
I saw this on a billboard while riding my bike to work. It seemed appropriate for a Monday morning. Even more so, the user name was "Steve".


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Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Dune by Frank Herbert
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
As I told my favorite book blogger The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander were my Harry Potter. Excellent read. Dune is one of the best sci fi books of all time. The series can get a bit weird, but Dune is fantastic.ReplyDelete
:) well I definitely see why you loved them like I did Harry Potter! And I PROMISE, I'll read Dune...at some point.Delete
Can't wait to see what you think of My Heart and Other Black Holes. It is on my TBR too. Who knows when I will get to it though! Happy reading!ReplyDelete
I'm picking it up at the library today! I really hope I like it, too. Thanks for commenting, Grace!Delete
I had very mixed feelings about MH+OBH, so I'll be interested to see what you think of it!
Ahhhh yes, fall is amazing. The second-best season - winter will always be my favorite. (S N O W.)
Some books on my immediate TBR pile are A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury (apparently one of my favorite books ever, Advise and Consent, has a sequel??? In fact, an entire spin-off series??? I am blessed.), The Rose & the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh (I don't like to put off reading sequels too long), and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice. (NOVEMBER 29, AHHHHHH.)
Ellie | On the Other Side of Reality
I really hope I enjoy it, although I'm nervous about how well mental illness is portrayed... And I LOVE snow. Unfortunately, we don't get much where I live. But that's still better than none, right? And I have been in exactly your position of not realizing a book had a sequel before! It's quite frustrating and baffling. I hope you enjoy all of these books, Ellie. Thanks for commenting!Delete
Good luck with your TBR! I never manage to stick to them... I made a spring one this year and... things didn't go exacty as I'd planned! I'm a total mood-reader and it can be a problem sometimes XD. But I'm sure you'll be fine because it looks like you have some awesome books listed here! I'm excited to see your reviews ;-) Happy Autumn, Erin! <3ReplyDelete
I never manage to stick to them, either! But there are some books I really want to push myself to read soon, so I figured posting on them would motivate me a bit. I'm a mood-reader to, so it can be difficult to write a TBR, but I'm hoping I put wide enough a variation. Thanks for commenting and happy Autumn, Rebekah!Delete


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The War on Women found an ally at the Supreme Court last week with two rulings that threaten to deepen gender inequality in the workplace. The Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case is more clearly aimed at women, with its religiously inspired assault on women's contraceptive healthcare access. But it was the ruling on union rights in Harris v. Quinn, which threatens a vital union for public healthcare workers, that may prove even more consequential for the lives of working women.
Washington has for years been paralyzed by the right's anti-abortion agenda and resistant to funding the most basic welfare supports for low-income mothers. Now the Court has expanded the attack on women through legal clampdowns on women's economic and civil rights—attacking reproductive healthcare in one ruling and gutting women's labor power in the other.
Harris centered on Illinois home healthcare workers' ability to collect dues from all workers they represent. Though the issues of "fair share" rules at unionized workplaces related to all public sector unions, Harris hit at the Achilles heel of public labor: the unique situation of home care workers for people with disabilities, working in private homes, but paid by the government. For this hybrid sector, the Court arbitrarily carved out of standard labor law a novel, and sexist, category, termed "partial public employees." Siding with the national Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the decision effectively stripped unions working in the partial public sector of their ability to finance themselves by invalidating "fair share agreements," the practice that allows unions to collect dues from employees of an organized shop.
The target of the suit matters here. In home healthcare and other sectors of domestic work, the jobs have long been dismissed as "women's work," disproportionately done by poor women of color and immigrants. Besieged by the arduous schedules, psychological stress and physical strain of caretaking, homecare providers have the most to gain from unionization. They're also some of the hardest workers to unionize, because the aides serve thousands of people with disabilities and their families, all in diverse households with unique medical needs.
Some labor scholars noted that fair share is not yet completely abolished for all public workers, since the Court did not overturn the key precedent allowing public closed-shop unions, Abood v. Board of Education. And yes, the narrower decision in Harris may for now spare more conventional public sector unions, like direct employees of state agencies. Some actually see Harris as a potential springboard for intensified grassroots organizing strategies to "market" union membership to the rank-and-file.
But Harris may nonetheless inflict major financial damage on an already precarious industry that remains largely atomized, unstable and unorganized. The evisceration of a rare bastion of unionism in domestic work could undermine efforts to organize the many other home attendants, housekeepers, nannies and other marginalized household laborers. Once dues evaporate, organizers may soon become stuck making an increasingly hard sell for an increasingly weak and underfinanced union.
The ruling evokes the problems that hindered organizing back in the 1990s, when SEIU first started reaching out to home health aides in California. The high turnover and poverty wages made it a challenge to persuade workers to invest in any organizing project. But the union combined grassroots outreach with community education to enlist both local officials and consumers behind the union, and Illinois followed in 2003, turning homecare workers into official state employees and weaving together a strong union shop from thousands of individual providers in separate homes.
Unionization paid off once the workers were hooked into the collective bargaining system. According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages jumped by 65 percent over a decade, workers gained health insurance coverage and job training, and recently negotiated to establish a formal grievance procedure. Home healthcare programs in California and Washington have seen similar gains in wages and benefits, which would otherwise be extremely rare in the in-home workforce.
The sector's peculiar blend of public healthcare standards and highly personalized service necessitates this triangular labor structure, explain historians Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein in the The American Prospect. Homecare programs stem from the movement toward community-based "consumer-directed care," rather than institutions, which gives beneficiaries "the power to hire, fire, and supervise their attendants." Yet such a huge system demands central state management, which can efficiently set standards for work duties, wages and benefits. An organized public workforce under a single employer makes everyone happier, say Boris and Klein: "As part of this process, California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Illinois decided that allowing collective bargaining was the best way to maintain an adequate home care workforce, reduce turnover, improve skill, and deliver services efficiently with cost effectiveness."
In other words, this system works. Nicole Woo, director of domestic policy with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), says via e-mail that the Harris case "has brought attention to the importance of unions—especially public sector unions—in helping women workers gain livable wages and benefits in notoriously low-wage occupations…. public sector unions are essential in bolstering the working conditions and quality of service in home care occupations."
According to a CEPR analysis of the "union advantage" and gender inequality, union women are more likely to have decent family leave policies, retirement benefits and wages. Unionized female health aides generally earn wages that are 16 percent higher than that of their non-union counterparts. Meanwhile, though the union workforce is shrinking nationwide, women are becoming the majority and have especially high representation in public service jobs, thanks in large part to the immigration-driven growth in Asian American and Latina workers.
And that brings us back to why Illinois home attendants were a perfect target for the anti-union movement. Union-supported homecare demonstrates how women, "big government" and consumers can effectively work together, so naturally, the right is fighting to destroy this model before it catches on in more states.
Hobby Lobby revealed how companies can lord over working women's reproductive freedom in a deeply inequitable insurance system. Harris struck from another angle—eroding union women's labor power and threatening public health services in the process. Unions are a tool for resistance; although unionization alone won't overcome greed or religious chauvinism in corporations, a strong collective bargaining system would give women a platform to hold bosses accountable and thwart reactionary attacks on health programs for workers and the poor.
In a statement following the Court's decision, Chicago homecare provider Flora Johnson explained why the ruling threatens gender, labor and health justice: "They are trying to divide us and limit our power, but we won't stop standing together for our families and our consumers…. I know from experience that we are stronger together."
The Supreme Court has highlighted the right's hostility to both labor and public health protections. But when women in public service defend their labor rights, they safeguard the welfare of those who receive care as well as those who give it.


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Download here for information on the upcoming 'MY FEELINGS MATTER' Workshop for parents
To find out more about Applying for a school place in Hertfordshire click here you can also use this link to find details about applying for your child's Senior School.
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Starting school at Woolenwick
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Parent communication
While we realise we are a long way from being a paperless school, every little step helps. To this end, we are working with the governors to try and improve our newsletter distribution. Currently our newsletter is distributed every fortnight on a Friday and contains important information about upcoming events and reminders. We would like to reduce the number of newsletters we photocopy and the number the children leave in the cloakroom! We are therefore giving Parents/Carers the option to read the newsletter on line here on the website, or by email.
If you would like to access the newsletters click here
If you would like the newsletters emailed to you, please make sure that the Office have your current email address.
Special letters, such as those which include a permission slip, will still be sent home with every child in the usual way.
If you have any further questions, please call into the school office. The school will provide paper copies of any information currently on the school website if requested at the school office.
Helping with home learning
To find out more about our Curriculum Policies click on the links below
Spelling Addition Division Multiplication Subtraction
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Dinner Money Payments
Our computerised dinner money works in such a way that it credits payments to a child, and then deducts the relevant amount every time the child has a school dinner, thus leaving a current balance. All credits and debits are carried over from year to year, and when your child leaves us any overpayments are paid back to you. Please make cheques out to HCL. You can request a statement from the office at any time to keep track of your payments.
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You can apply for free school meals here http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/edlearn/canhelp/
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Library Books
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Delivering and Collecting Children from School
Please do not park within, or drive onto, the school grounds to drop off your child for reasons of safety. Children should not arrive in the playground before 8.40am, as it is unsupervised until this time.
Playground Equipment
Parents/carers are reminded that, for reasons of safety and insurance, children are NOT allowed to go onto the play equipment before and after school.
School uniform Policy… can be found here You can order online here https://www.mapac.com/education/parents/uniform/woolenwickjuniorschoolsg12nu
Home School agreement can be found here
Learning logs – information for parents/carers click here
FAQ on the costs of trips can be found here
Attendance and Absence
There is a strong relationship between regular attendance at school and children meeting their educational potential. At Woolenwick we aim to work closely with pupils and their parents to ensure that children arrive punctually and attend regularly. Our Pupil Attendance Policy explains all the procedures that we have in place to ensure that our records are accurate. It also sets out how we work with families when problems with attendance and punctuality are identified. If your child is sick or absent you can now use the report an absence facility on the right hand navigation bar. The Attendance Policy for Woolenwick Junior School can be found here
For our Parental guide to drugs click here
Gaming Support for parents and carers
Schools are increasingly reporting the impact video gaming is having on childrens education, achievement, behaviour and sleep. Herts ICT Team participated in the Radio Verulam Parents Show. The programme focused on the need for parental engagement, appropriate boundaries and research about the effects of gaming on behaviour and sleep. This is now available as a podcast and the link can be found here. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-parents-show/id443161154
Online gaming , what parents need to know
New technologies, including gaming, can offer our children many exciting and positive experiences. However schools are increasingly aware of the negative impact that some online gaming is having on the education, achievement, sleep and behaviour of children. To find out more about the online games your children are playing and obtain advice offered to parents/carers based on research, please do listen to the Radio Verulams Parents Show podcast Computer games and your kids.http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-parents-show/id443161154
How can I get involved with the school?
There are a number of opportunities, at different levels and depending upon how much time you have to offer, for parents/carers to become involved in school. However it is important to know that before anyone is allowed to work in school they must have received CRB clearance. This simply involves completing a questionnaire, proving your identity and then forwarded to the Authority to be checked. This is free of charge for volunteers. Please read our visitors policy here School Visitors Policy and Procedures
Reading Buddies
If you can offer just an hour a week you might like to come and listen to some children read. You can either offer your services to your child�s class teacher or join the small army of helpers who listen to just a few selected children to boost their reading.
Helping in the Classroom
If you have a little more time available you might like to work alongside the teacher for a morning or afternoon each week where you will be trained to do lots of tasks which help the teacher and, ultimately, the children.
If you have an interest in books you may wish to help out in the library. Useful websites
Parent View
Parent View gives you the chance to tell us what you think about your child's school.
Parent View asks for your opinion on 12 aspects of your child's school, from the quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour.
DirectGov for parents http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/index.htm
Education SitesDepartment for Education and Science www.dfes.gov.uk/index.htm
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4-in-a-Row, All-in-One-Go! (20) - Break all the plane plates in a single pass in Moving Target Madness.
A Dish's Worst Enemy (20) - Shatter 100 plates in Skeet Shoot.
Accuracy (20) - Throw 20 balls in the distant holes in Wild West Alley Ball Challenge.
Basket Case (20) - Score 15,000 points by popping basket balloons in Hot Air Balloon Show.
Bats n' Pies (20) - Score 5,000 points from hitting Bat Targets during the Pie Dodge Event of Mine Cart Spelunk.
Bird Feeder (20) - Knock down 50 corn stalks in Farm Raising Fury.
Bombs Away (20) - Do not hit any bombs in Planetary Slash n' Defense.
Bouquet Bonanza (20) - Get the Big Flower to appear in Baaa-Loon Pop.
Bow Ow! (20) - Hit the dog 3 times in Bacon and Eggs.
Chug-a-lug (20) - Knock down every mug in the back row throughout a single play session of Sarsaparilla Slide.
Clean as a whistle (20) - Successfully dodge all the pies in a single shooting gallery.
Cloudy Night (20) - In Garden Grow, change the level from day to night.
Crack Shot (20) - Take out the meteor and the UFO with a single rocket in Invasion of the Space Raiders.
Doing the Dishes (20) - Break 25 stick targets in Plate Break.
Double Up (20) - Destroy 20 targets with the Double Points power up in a single shooting gallery.
Dyno-mite! (20) - Destroy 20 targets with the Dynamite power up in a single shooting gallery.
Earning Credit (20) - Watch the credits to completion.
Eggless Victor (20) - Don't catch any eggs in It's an Egg Drop Spring.
Finger Lickin' Good (20) - Don't let any large chicken eggs fall to the ground in Fall-ing Eggs.
Flower Power (20) - Pop every pink flower balloon at least once in Flight of the Balloons.
Fly Me to the Moon (20) - Earn 200,000 points during the UFO event in Rootin' Tootin' Targetin'.
Hack and Slash (20) - Hit a multi-slash asteroid 12 times in Cosmic Slash n' Defense.
High Moo-n (20) - Complete the "Corral 3 Buffalo" objective as the Undertaker's clock reads Noon in Western Showdown.
Hyper Hydra-sis (20) - Shoot the Hydra target 8 times in Dino-Rama.
Laser Blaster (20) - Destroy 20 targets with the Laser power up in a single shooting gallery.
Lead Air Balloon (20) - Pop a hot air balloon in Pop Party.
Master Terraformer (20) - Terraform all terrain at the same time using the TNT Powerup in Terraformal Event.
Mine Alley (20) - Throw 5 Balls into the mineshaft in Creaky Canyon Alley Ball Challenge.
My Hero! (20) - Never miss hooking a sheep in Rescuing Fields of Sheep.
One and Done (20) - Only hit a ball once and then never again in Midnight Breakout.
Partner Up (40) - Play through any booth with a friend in Adventure Mode.
Penguin Pusher (20) - Knock down 50 penguins in Ice-berrrger and Fries.
Pleased Plesiosaurs (20) - Knock down 25 plesiosaurs in The Jurassic Shore.
Pop n' Tops (20) - Pop the tops off of the left and right moons in Launched in Deep Space.
Pretty Red Balloons (20) - Pop 100 balloons in Balloon Blast.
Quick Spotlight (20) - Turn on all of the spotlights in Paratrooper Scooper in less than five seconds.
Rescuing Machine (20) - Rescue more than 25 sheep in Flock of Sheep to Rescue.
Score Abduction (20) - Ring a 5000 point UFO in Space Rescue.
Slow Mo Joe (20) - Destroy 20 targets while using the slow motion power up in a single shooting gallery.
Spread the Love (20) - Destroy 20 targets with the Spread Shot power up in a single shooting gallery.
Streakin' Squeekin' (20) - Hit the 5000 Point Mouse in Hamm and Eggs.
The truck on the Left (20) - Shoot all of the trucks on the left side of the screen in Shoot Camp.
There's Pie in Your Face (20) - Complete all of the Objectives in a shooting gallery without dodging a pie.
They're all mine! (20) - Hit 20 different balls in Block Breakout Assault.
Thunderous Blue (20) - Shoot all of the blue helicopters in Wayward Whirlybirds of Wonderment.
Ticket to Ride (20) - Get the train to come through town in Rootin' Tootin' Shootin'.
Wrecking Crew (20) - Let the town get destroyed in Please Do Feed the Animals.
Zaaaap! (20) - Ring all the lasers in Flying Discs... in space!
Zurg Rush (20) - Shoot Zurg 30 times in Launched In Space.
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The whole company, ladies and gentlemen alike, were in favour of telling stories.
- The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio (translated by G. H. McWilliam)
Every year a large group of musicologists gather for the Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Music, both for the purpose of presenting new finds of their own and to learn of new finds by fellow researchers. This group encompasses both the very seasoned professors and the undergrad neophyte, and the range of subjects being treated is delightfully diverse. This year, for instance, there were papers on topics such as the office for Saint Catherine, the liturgical programme of Reconquista Spain, a song from the Cambridge Songs and late medieval English carols.
Via Boccaccio, from Palazzo Pretorio
The MedRen conference was this year held in the Tuscan town of Certaldo, allegedly the hometown of Giovanni Boccaccio, and my supervisor for my Master's thesis invited me along to participate in a session arranged by one of his colleagues. Naturally, I accepted the offer gladly, and for a few days in the beginning of July I sauntered among musicologists in the medieval old city of Certaldo Alto overlooking the Tuscan denes and hills and soaked up knowledge.
The reason why I - a mere historian - was invited to a conference for musicologists was as follows. For my thesis I had looked at various texts for Edward the Confessor, and in particular a set of liturgical texts contained in a manuscript from the turn of the 14th century which had until then been ignored by scholarship. In the course of my work I managed to date one of these liturgial texts - an hexameter couplet - securely to the timeframe 1161-66, and this was one of the major discoversies of my research. The item in question belonged to the liturgical repertoire of Matins - known as the historia or the part of the liturgy recounting biographical details of the saint - and since the session in Certaldo took the historia as its subject, I was asked to contribute.
The conference lasted four days was comprised of 52 sessions. Each session was about 90 minutes long, and four sessions ran parallel at their alloted hours, with intermingled coffee breaks, lunches, book presentations and concerts. I went to a number of these sessions, but I could only manage two sessions a day since in many cases the papers given dealt with details far too technical for me to grasp or follow at great length. I felt very much like a fish out of water, but then again, that was how evolution started, so I absorbed as much knowledge as I could master and I did indeed learn a great deal. When I was not listening to papers, I walked about the old medieval town in exploration of its museums, churches, streets and gelaterias, or socialised with fellow academics who, like me, had come to present their findings. I met a great number of interesting people, and I almost learned as much from these sociable chats as from the papers themselves, and although I acknowledged the gap between their mastery of the subject and my own feeble clutching at straws, I found it very inspiring to be in the presence of such a great number of brilliant people.
Palazzo Pretorio
Unfortunately, this was the last day of the session, so some people were already leaving town, while others were perhaps drawn more to the parallel sessions. Whatever the reasons, the turnout was not great and I would have liked a more numerous audience. Nonetheless, it was a good and attentive crowd - with the exception of two rude cretins who walked out in the middle of my paper (seriously, you don't do that) - and I very much enjoyed presenting my findings.
The Chiesetta, dedicated to Saints Thomas and Prospero
The conference experience was, in sum, a very encouraging experience, and it reinforced my belief in the necessity of interdisciplinarity in medieval studies, for although I am no musicologist I nonetheless found it extremely rewarding to exchange experiences and knowledge with the brilliant minds in the field of musicology, and I do hope that the musicologists, too, will see the benefits in such an exchange - which I'm confident that they will, because they are brilliant.
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Morning Rituals Which Will Make Your Day More Productive
If you start following these rules, you will feel like you just came back from a long vacation.
Many people work 50-60 hours a week, and if you're working in the office constantly behind a computer, your health will go south very quickly. This kind of lifestyle requires constant eating and sitting for more than 8 hours a day. Luckily for you, we have a few tips on how to start your day perfectly and be more productive than usual.
A 7-minute workout
A simple 7-minute workout in the morning (and we mean 7, not 10) is enough to expel all the harmful remains from the food and drinks you had last night.
Start your day with something green
Breakfast is the most important meal because it prepares your stomach for the rest of the day. Avoid heavy or fried food for breakfast. You can boost your metabolism by a smoothie made of an apple, a banana, an orange, some spinach, cucumber, flax seeds and ice cubes which is an ideal way to start your day.
3 victories a day
Sometimes when your loved ones ask you "How was your day?" you don't have a particular answer. You must ask yourself what you consider success and try to make your day successful. Scientist say that you should pick 3 small successes for the day on which you can work on in order to improve your mood and the will for life.
Gather your strength after lunch
Doctors recommend a 15-minute break after lunch. This means that you should avoid using your phone or PC. Sit on the floor of your room and meditate – this will help you to get rid of problems and bad energy, while relaxing your mind by not thinking about anything.
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Houston, Texas U.S.A. (March 17, 2006): Frontera Resources Corporation (London Stock Exchange, AIM Market – Symbol: FRR), an independent oil & gas exploration and production company, today announces an update on drilling operations as well as the commencement of an extensive 3D seismic survey within its onshore exploration and production license in eastern Georgia known as Block XII.
Taribani Field Unit – Drilling Operations
Since drilling began on February 10, 2006 in the Taribani Field Unit, the Dino #2 well has been successfully drilled and cased to an intermediate depth of 2,373 meters. The Dino #2 well is designed to evaluate multiple horizons within the field, with a primary objective of a final horizontal completion into horizon 15 at a total depth of approximately 2,700 meters.
Operations to drill out from the existing Dino #2 well bore commenced in early February with the opening of a window in the casing of the existing well at a depth of approximately 1,553 meters and continuing to drill to a vertical depth of 2,381 meters. Prior to reaching this depth, extensive coring and logging data was acquired for further evaluation of horizon 9. Although the Dino#2 well has a primary objective of horizon 15, the well was also designed to efficiently capture reservoir data for horizon 9 in order to enhance understanding of this horizon for future drilling in subsequently planned wells.
Drilling has thus far encountered 20 meters of gross pay sands. As expected, the Pliocene age oil bearing reservoir interval, horizon 9, was encountered from 2,300 meters to 2,311 meters. In addition, a previously unmapped oil bearing reservoir interval was encountered above horizon 9 from 2,275 meters to 2,285 meters.
Operations now continue with an objective of drilling ahead to horizon 15 to core and log the pay sands, followed by a final horizontal completion into this horizon at a total depth of approximately 2,700 meters within the next three weeks.
The Taribani Field is a large, undeveloped oil field covering an area of approximately 80 square kilometers with productive horizons situated in Miocene and Pliocene age reservoirs. These reservoirs are situated at depths of between 2,200 meters and 3,500 meters. The independent consulting firm of Netherland, Sewell & Associates has assigned 118 million barrels of P3 reserves from four of twelve identified horizons within the field.
Basin Edge Play Unit – Seismic Operations
Frontera has commenced operations to acquire a new 80 square kilometer 3D seismic survey over its Basin Edge Play Unit's 'C' prospect. Processing and interpretation of approximately 165 kilometers of 2D seismic data that was recently acquired over the 'C' prospect has revealed an independent four-way structural closure of approximately 55 square kilometres in size. As a result, the company has chosen to prioritize and focus on this large prospect within its broader Basin Edge Play Unit that is located in the northeastern portion of Block 12. Acquisition of the new 3D survey is expected to be complete by June and will be followed by a processing and interpretation effort that will be integrated into existing mapping prior to the end of this year. Drilling operations are planned for 2007.
The objective of the new 3D seismic program is to determine the exact lateral and vertical limits of this large structure, evaluate the extensions of fault blocks and fracture systems contained within it, and identify reservoirs on the basis of seismic attributes. Global Geophysical Services, Inc. of Houston, Texas will acquire the survey over this prospect for Frontera.
Frontera also recently acquired approximately 170 kilometers of 2D seismic data acquired over a second prospect within the Basin Edge Play Unit, known as the 'B' prospect. Interpretation of this data is currently underway.
The 'C' and 'B' prospects are two large exploration prospects that Frontera has mapped with Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary age reservoir objectives. Targeted reservoirs are anticipated to be situated at depths of between 2,000 meters and 2,500 meters. The reservoir engineering firm of Netherland, Sewell and Associates, Inc. has assigned unrisked resource potential in excess of 1 billion barrels of recoverable reserve potential to these two exploration prospects.
Steve C. Nicandros, Frontera's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"Subsequent to initial start-up delays that we experienced in the commencement of drilling operations at the Taribani Field Unit, progress has been good. Successfully encountering horizon 9 as predicted was an important validation of our field mapping for this horizon. Moreover, encountering an unexpected and previously unmapped reservoir section above horizon 9 was a welcome bonus. Together with the associated cores and logs that were obtained, this information will be valuable in undertaking future drilling operations to determine the commercial viability of horizon 9. Now that we have successfully set casing below these secondary objectives in the well, drilling operations are continuing toward the well's primary objective of horizon 15.
At our Basin Edge Play Unit, we are very encouraged by what the results from our work to date have revealed. Having now confirmed the existence of such a sizable structure, we are very motivated to aggressively focus on further evaluating the 'C' prospect this year in order to enhance the exploration drilling of this opportunity next year."
About Frontera
Frontera Resources Corporation is an independent Houston, Texas, U.S.A.- based international oil and gas exploration and production company whose strategy is to identify and operate opportunities in emerging markets around the world.
Frontera was admitted to the Alternative Investment Market, operated by the London Stock Exchange, on March 14, 2005.
Frontera has operated in Georgia since 1997 where it holds a 100 per cent working interest in a production sharing agreement with the government of Georgia. This gives Frontera the exclusive right to explore for, develop and produce oil and gas from a 5,060 square kilometer area in eastern Georgia known as Block 12. For more information, please see www.fronteraresources.com.
For more information regarding Global Geophysical Services, Inc., please see www.globalgeophysical.com.
For more information regarding Netherland, Sewell and Associates, please see www.netherlandsewell.com.
This release contains certain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, expectations, beliefs, plans and objectives regarding the potential transactions, potential drilling schedule and ventures discussed in this release, as well as reserves and future production. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are future exploration and development results, availability and performance of needed equipment and personnel, the final results of the processing of seismic data, fluctuations in oil and gas prices, weather conditions, general economic conditions and the political situation in Georgia and neighboring countries. There is no assurance that Frontera's expectations will be realized, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements.
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Justin Bieber will be putting up an electric fence to keep his female fans away after signalling his tween romance with
Selena Gomez is all but over.
The Biebs gave his biggest hint yet amid rumours of a split when he posted a lonely sad looking picture of himself on Instagram captioned 'Lingse' – an anagram for 'single'.
After deleting the telling image, the 18-year-old Baby singer then posted another image of his sad face starring at himself in the mirror and called it 'Just me'.
The whispers have dogged the young lovers ever since the Disney actress was seen crying at a lunch with friends during the summer, when it was alleged she told her pals they had split up.
The 20-year-old Disney actress recently said in an interview how she goes to great lengths to keep in touch with Justin when she is globe-trotting.
The Canadian heartthrob didn't help matters when he started tweeting about his infatuation for 23-year-old Amazing Spider-Man actress Emma Stone.
Later during a trip to Australia Bieber banged on about how many good looking fans he had met.
Trouble in paradise first started bubbling in May when insiders questioned how solid the pair were.
During an interview with Justin Bieber in September, Metro was also banned from asking any questions about her.