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Trees that are adapted to your site should grow well and not have troubles. Trees become infested with insect pests, parasites and diseases when they are in stress and sick. Mother Nature then sends in the clean-up crews. Pests are just doing their jobs - trying to take out the sick, unfit plants. Most plant sickness is environmental - too much water, not enough water, too much fertilizer, wrong kind of fertilizer, toxic chemical pesticides, soil compaction, grade changes, ill-adapted plant variety selection and/or planting too many of the same plants creating monocultures, as was done with American elms in the Northwest and the red oak/live oak communities in certain parts of the South.
The Natural Organic tree health plan is simple. Keep trees in a stress free condition so their immune systems can resist insect pests and diseases. For example, it has been noticed by many farmers and ranchers that oak wilt doesn't bother some trees, especially those that have properly exposed root flares, where synthetic fertilizers and herbicides haven't been used and those where the natural habitat under trees has been maintained. This process is not just good for oak wilt, but for preventing and curing many other tree problems as well. Here is the updated version and how it works:
Sick Tree Treatment
Step 1: Stop Using ALL High Nitrogen Fertilizers and Toxic Chemical Pesticides
Toxic chemical pesticides kill beneficial nematodes, other helpful microbes, good insects, and also control the pest insects poorly. Synthetic fertilizers are unbalanced, harsh salts, and often contaminated and destructive to the chemistry, the physics and the life in the soil. They feed plants poorly and contaminate the environment. They volatize into the air, wash away and leach through the soil into the water system.
Step 2: Remove Excess Soil from the Trunk Flare
A very high percentage of trees are too deep in their containers, have been planted too low or have had fill soil or eroded soil added on top of the trunk flares. Soil or even heavy mulch covering the trunk flares block oxygen, keep bark moist and lead to circling and girdling roots. Ideally, excess soil and circling and girdling roots should be removed before planting. Removing soil from the trunk flares of planted trees should be done professionally with a tool called the Air Spade or Air Knife. Homeowners can do the work by hand with a stiff brush, gentle water and a shop-vac or even a power washer if done very carefully. Vines and ground covers should also be kept off tree trunks and pruned back away from the flares, at least on an annual basis.
Step 3: Aerate the Root Zone Heavily
Don't rip, till or plow the soil. That destroys all the feeder roots. Punch holes (with turning forks, core aerators or agriculture devices such as the Air-Way) heavily throughout the root zone. Liquid injectors or Air Spade type tools can also be used. Start between the drip line and the trunk and go far out beyond the drip line. For normal size residential property, the entire site should be done. Holes 6-8" deep are ideal, but any depth is beneficial.
Step 4: Apply Organic Amendments
Apply zeolite 40-80 lbs. per 1000 sq. ft., greensand at 40-80 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft., lava sand at 80-120 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft., zeolite at 80-120 lbs per 1,000 sq. ft., whole ground cornmeal at 20-30 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft. and dry molasses at 0-20 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft. Cornmeal is a natural disease fighter and molasses is a carbohydrate source to feed the microbes in the soil. The rock materials provide structural improvement and minerals. Finish with a 1" layer of compost followed by a 3" layer of shredded native tree trimmings in bare areas, however do not pile mulch up on the root flare or the trunk. Smaller amounts of these materials can be used where budget restrictions exist. They also can be done at separate times. Also, any rock dust material different than the base rock on the site will help.
Step 5: Spray Trees and Soil
Spray the ground, trunks, limbs, twigs and foliage of trees with the entire Garrett Juice mixture. Do this monthly or more often if possible. For large-scale farms and ranches, a one-time spraying is beneficial if the budget doesn't allow ongoing sprays. Adding garlic oil, or cornmeal juice, or Bio Wash to the spray is also beneficial for disease control while the tree is in trouble. Cornmeal Juice is a natural fungal control that is made by soaking horticultural or whole ground cornmeal in water at 1 cup per 5 gallons of water. Screen out the solids and spray without further dilution. Cornmeal Juice can be mixed with Garrett Juice or any other natural foliar feeding spray. It can also be used as a soil drench for the control of soil borne diseases. Dry granulated garlic can also be used on the soil in the root zone at about 1-2 lbs. per 1000 sq. ft. for additional disease control. Adding Bio Wash to the spray will help protect against insect pests and disease pathogens and encourage plant growth.
*During drought conditions, adding soil moisture is a critical component of the Sick Tree Treatment.
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State officials on Thursday confirmed a record 103.9-million-pound lobster catch in 2011, which helped Maine fishermen bring in nearly 280 million pounds of seafood and bait last year.
For the first time, Maine lobstermen brought in more than 100 million pounds, according to the Bangor Daily News. The total value of the lobster catch was $331.4 million, representing 78% of the total value of all species caught last year. Lobstermen's prices for their catch, however, fell from $3.31 a pound in 2010 to $3.19 a pound last year.
The preliminary figures show fishermen's haul last year was worth more than $425 million, a $30 million drop over 2010. The total catch was 21 million pounds greater than 2010 and is the largest catch since 2006. Landings of Atlantic herring, used for lobster bait, and groundfish rose in 2011, while harvests for shellfish dropped.
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STARKVILLE -- Consistency is the word for Aaron Gordon.
After four matches, Mississippi State University's first-year women's soccer head coach has seen enough positives that give him reason to be optimistic things are moving in the right direction. At the top of the list is the fact MSU has scored 10 goals, the second-highest total in the first four matches of a season dating back to 2005.
On the flip side, Gordon doesn't feel the Bulldogs have maintained their consistency for 90 minutes in all four of the matches. As a result, MSU (2-2) enters its next match at Southeastern Louisiana University at 4 p.m. Friday at .500. With non-conference matches remaining at the University of Southern Mississippi (1 p.m. Sunday) and at home against Furman University (7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 13), and Jackson State University (1 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 15) before the start of the Southeastern Conference portion of the schedule, Gordon hopes to find that consistency on the road.
"We are a team that is just looking for some consistency," Gordon said. "We have had some really high highs. I don't think our lows have been too low. We have had low halves, but we usually have responded in the second half. Unfortunately, sometimes injuries and inexperience leads to low lows, but the silver lining is we always have seemed to respond."
The play of senior Elisabeth Sullivan and freshman Annebel ten Broeke has sparked the offense. Sullivan has five goals and 10 points. She became the program's all-time leading scorer with two goals in a 4-0 victory against Arkansas State University. Ten Broeke, who is from The Netherlands, has provided cohesion in the midfield and has partnered with Sullivan to form a productive tandem. She is second on the team in scoring with two goals and seven points.
Gordon also pointed to the solid play of senior goalkeeper C.J. Winship and freshman Meara Johnson. In fact, Gordon said Wednesday that if the rest of the Bulldogs were playing to the level of the goalkeepers, who are splitting time in matches, the team could be 4-0.
Winship, who was named a team co-captain Wednesday with classmate Morganne Grimes, has made 10 saves in 255 minutes. She had seven saves Sunday in a 2-1 loss to Florid Gulf Coast University in the Embassy Suites Classic. Her performance earned her a spot on the all-tournament team. Johnson has nine saves in 135 minutes She has allowed two of the team's six goals against.
"(Our goalkeepers) have played at a high level, making really good saves," Gordon said. "When you're making big saves, your team is in it all of the time."
If you go inside the numbers, MSU has a 41-29 edge in shots on goal. It also has had eight players start all four matches, which is a sign of stability, especially for a program with 10 freshmen. One of those freshmen, Tiffany Huddleston, of Starkville Academy, has logged 210 minutes, which is second to Darbi Filliben (236) for minutes played from players who haven't started all four matches.
"I think 2-2 right now is fair," Gordon said. "With a little luck, we could be 3-1, but that is soccer."
Gordon said he knew the newcomers to the program were going to have to play key roles. He said the players continue to learn their roles and the Bulldogs' style of play he hopes will help them be more competitive in the SEC. Last year, MSU scored 13 goals in its first four matches en route to a 7-0 start in non-conference play. It tied the University of South Carolina in its league opener and then lost its next seven SEC matches. It failed to qualify for the 10-team SEC tournament in Hoover, Ala. Gordon and his players have set that as a goal for this season.
First, though, comes the remainder of the non-conference season that Gordon hopes will help MSU build momentum for a stretch against some of the nation's top programs in conference. Eight SEC teams are ranked or also receiving votes in this week's NSCAA national poll.
"I think the quality of goals we have scored in terms of buildup or the pas that led up to it, or the series of passes, has been really good," Gordon said. "We just need more of it. We haven't seen enough of it."
Adam Minichino is the Sports Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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Napa Valley, indeed, has terroir. Tasting today, at Stony Hill, and the wines of Nickel and Nickel, along with a few other properties, has me thinking about the territoriality of this place. Much more on that, soon.
Napa Valley has wealth, in money and in workers. As we walked into a man made cave, temperature and humidity controlled by computers, my thoughts ran from the gentrified farmer who made millions in silicon to Raul, Joe and Luisa, who were hurrying to get the vines ready for spring. Later that night in a warmly lit room with sample after sample of wine and food served to us by the children of Raul, Jose and Luisa, I thought about the abundance around us and how it is that we can all but make invisible these souls who toil in the vineyards and serve the food to our tables.
Napa Valley has women of all ages who define a lot more of where this place is going than they get credit for. Strong women with a determination to dig in and be part of the evolution of this place and the world on wine. Exciting time, for the dialogue is more interesting because of this diverse range of personalities who are shaping the future of the wine business. I promise to do a post profiling some of those women, in the very near future.
California and all the Border States are the Ellis Island of the 21st century. People looking to achieve a better life have landed and are here. We cannot isolate them. They are part of the fabric of our future. Many of them are kind, hardworking, decent folk. We demonize those who grow our lettuce, harvest our fruit and clean up after us. This is not the way of the grape. Or good for the future.
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A widow in Florida is convinced her dead husband recently contacted her from beyond the grave.
Sally Colburn was frying up onions and potatoes when she reached into a 10-pound bag of potatoes and pulled out a heart-shaped spud that she claims is a message from her husband Jack who died from lung cancer in May, according to the New York Post.
"I know it was a sign from him," she told The Huffington Post. "I had been missing him. He died on May 13th and I've had that bag of potatoes for 2-and-a-half months. I reached in the bag and it was the very last one."
Jack and Sally Colburn had been married for nearly 50 years when he succumbed to lung cancer.
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"He was from Alabama," she told the Huffington Post. "He was raised on potatoes."
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The East Hampton High School girls swimming team placed third in the league meet at Hauppauge High School Friday, behind Sayville-Bayport-Blue Point and Harborfields, a result with which Bonac's coach, John McGeehan, was not displeased, though absent the diving — an event in which East Hampton does not compete — the girls would have been in first place following the seventh event, the 100-yard freestyle.
In the end, Say-Bay-Blue, which amassed 30 points in diving, was, as aforesaid, the winner, with 288 points; Harborfields was the runner-up, at 277, and East Hampton was third, at 232, ahead of Hauppauge (198), Huntington (188), and West Babylon (77).
McGeehan will take seven competitors to the county meet on Saturday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood — Marina Preiss, Maddie Minetree, Mikayla Mott, Carly Drew, Morgan German, Lilah Minetree, and Laura Gundersen.
On Friday, Preiss, Mott, Drew, and German, who placed third, qualified to swim in the county meet's 200 medley relay with a time of 1 minute and 57.69 seconds. Harborfields won that opening event in 1:57.60.
Maddie Minetree won the league's 200 free in 2:00.69, a time that qualified her for the county meet, and Mott, who placed third in the 200 individual medley in 2:22.15, also qualified for the counties.
Preiss placed second in the 50 free, behind Hauppauge's Alexandra Hemp, in 25.42 seconds, a county qualifying time, and Drew's 1:03.12 in the 100 butterfly, good for third place, put her into the county meet in that event.
Preiss and Maddie Minetree placed one-two in the 100 free, in 54.92 and 56.23. At that point, with seven of the 12 events having been contested, Sayville-Bayport-Blue Point held the lead with 160 points, followed by Harborfields, with 151, and East Hampton, with 133, leading to the conclusion that, if swimming had been the sole criterion, East Hampton would have been in the lead, by three points.
The Bonackers, with Maddie Minetree, German, Drew, and Preiss, were to go on to win the 200 freestyle relay, in 1:44.62, though McGeehan said later in the week that Drew, Maddie Minetree, Preiss, and Mott would do that event in the counties.
In the 500 free, although she was fourth in 5:50.28, Gundersen also became a county qualifier. Swimming a season-best 1:12.92 in the 100 breaststroke, Mott, who was the runner-up by five one-hundredths of a second, qualified too, as did the 400 freestyle relay team of German, Lilah Minetree, Drew, and Maddie Minetree, which placed second in 3:56.70.


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In a panel on "The Future of PaaS in an IaaS World" at Cloud Connect Summit, colocated with UBM Tech's Interop Las Vegas, there was a surprising amount of disagreement on how to define platform-as-a-service as a form of cloud computing. Each member of the panel, which included several well-known cloud spokesmen, had a different definition.
Mark Russinovich, a technical fellow on the Microsoft Azure team, said he sees PaaS as "writing code that is integrated with a runtime environment, as opposed to code that is dropped into a virtual machine that's sitting on a bare-metal server, a legacy kind of server. That's the key differentiator point. The software knows something about the environment it's running in."
Margaret Dawson, HP's cloud evangelist and VP of product management, claimed: "It's really about that full environment for application development all the way through full, lifecycle management, even some of the orchestration stuff. It's about a full environment, not only for development of the application. To me, it adds a layer above IaaS."
Jesse Proudman, founder and CEO of Blue Box Group, a hosting service that, among other things, provides developer services and manages large-scale Ruby applications for customers, said: "For me PaaS is really about the service catalogue -- consumable types of services -- whether it be application delivery or container service. It's that abstraction that delivers the ability to move workloads from cloud to cloud. I think that's one of the most powerful features of PaaS technology in the market today."
[Want to learn more about the debate over the future of PaaS? See Cloud Crossroads: Which Way PaaS?]
Brent Smithurst, VP of product management at ActiveState, supplier of Stackato PaaS software, said Stackato is "a platform-as-a-service based on Cloud Foundry and our primary market is Fortune 500 enterprises who use the platform in-house, on-premises. We've actually tried to get away from calling it PaaS. We really just call it an application platform."
Krishnan Subramanian, director of Red Hat's OpenShift platform strategy, said that, in addition to Linux containerization and open source tools, "I have a simple definition for PaaS. The application scales with the platform. It scales with the infrastructure seamlessly."
So cloud platform-as-a-service, according to the PaaS experts, is a platform where the software knows about its environment in which it's running. It's also full application lifecycle management, from development through deployment and its production life. It's also a catalogue of application services. It's also an "application platform" and it's a platform that can scale with the application seamlessly. Is that clear?
Proudman listened to the definitions and inserted an additional thought: "I really believe PaaS as a technology stack focuses on application delivery; it goes beyond just packaging up applications or services and really needs to provide a full orchestration chain to deliver those applications." This comment makes deployment a more important part of PaaS.
Dawson also added a thought on why she continues to see PaaS as a distinct cloud layer separate from IaaS. "One reason that it doesn't become part of IaaS is you've got to be able to have application portability. If it's just tied to one type of IaaS, then you don't have that portability."
Red Hat's Subramanian, however, disagreed. "I don't think it's just application portability... It's application portability and portability of application environments." That is, all the things that the application needs to run -- its database interface, middleware, and security policies -- need to become
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It seems like a simple enough question - why are some materials transparent while others are opaque? But, as this video from the University of Nottingham's Sixty Symbols project explains, a lot of the most common explanations you get are fundamentally wrong. Watch a professional scientist recoil in horror at the terribleness of internet science, pretend to be a photon, and throw balls around his office, all in the name of explaining the energy gap that makes objects transparent or opaque.
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Texas Sees Little Change Despite Insurance Gains
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — Local health systems across Texas are working to disqualify certain patients who remained enrolled in the taxpayer-funded medical programs instead of getting insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
The hospital districts say that because insurance premiums are more expensive, many people opted to rely on the cheaper public care programs and pay fines for lacking insurance.
Now health systems want to bar those who are eligible for subsidized insurance through the federal marketplace from local programs.
It costs hundreds of millions of dollars annually for local governments to care for the uninsured.
Harris Health System's chief financial officer Mike Norby says the number of uninsured they care for barely dropped in the first round of open enrollment even though they identified some 48,000 patients who were eligible for federal subsidies.
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Positively the most amasing magic effect of it's kind. Magician tells story that the chrome ball is actually a zombie trapped in the shape of a sphere and that he must control it with the cloth he holds (not included). The ball is seen resting on the stand. He holds the two ends of the cloth and brings it in front of the ball. Slowly and unbelievably, the form of the ball rises, taking the cloth with it - it rises up and up until it is clear of the table. It floats so high the magician has to stand on his toes to bring it down! Ball can do this as many times as desired as it's fully under your control. It then peeks over the top of the cloth, then down again, finally coming to rest on its stand. So easy to do, but fascinating to watch. You will even enjoy doing it in front of the mirror. No threads or assistants used. Comes with instructions, zombie ball, stand, and gimmick.
Recommended - Miracle Floating Ball Book (found in the Magic Books & Videos category) - Comes with many different routines and effects you can do with your zombie. Terrific tricks like Vanishing Ball, Balancing Ball on Rope, Color Changing Ball, Your Head Floats - real funny! , plus much more!


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What's the worst thing you could possibly give a 7-year-old girl for Christmas? A lump of coal? Try plastic surgery. Sarah Burge, known as the "Human Barbie" for her plastic surgery-fueled quest to look like the children's toy, deposited with her pinkly-manicured claws a voucher for £7,000 worth of liposuction into her daughter Poppy's stocking this year. And with that, any last shreds of hope that Poppy might escape her childhood with the slightest glimmer of self-esteem no doubt disintegrated.
With this gift of plastic surgery, I can't help but picture Sarah as a rhino charging through her daughter's delicate young psyche. I imagine her trampling the girl's self regard underfoot, spearing through any last vestiges of positive body image that may have been left standing. Surely any hope that the girl will grow up not hating her body, not loathing herself for her every imperfection have been dashed to smithereens.
Oh, but the voucher is for future liposuction, not for now, Sarah protests. It's just like the voucher Poppy got for breast augmentation surgery for her 7th birthday. "I see these vouchers as investing in her future -- like saving money for her education." She claims Poppy asks for plastic surgery "all the time." And where would Poppy get that idea in the first place? How many 7-year-olds even know what plastic surgery is?
This story is so sad, I don't even know where to start. Do I even need to tell you, though? You already know, right? We're all looking at this picture thinking, "Whoa, Barbie Mom is seriously messing with her kid's head. Call social services." We all know that saving for your child's future plastic surgery IS NOT EVEN REMOTELY LIKE saving for her college education. At this point, what Barbie Mom needs to save up for is her daughter's therapy.
I don't know about these parents who go public with their insanity. I mean, should we even be giving Sarah attention right now? Should I even be writing about this? How can I possibly make up for giving Sarah exactly what she's exploiting her child to get? Maybe I can just ask everyone reading this today to think of at least one spectacular mom of a daughter that they know. A mom who is teaching her daughter to love herself, to value her health and her mind. If you know such a mom, please thank her today. And to my mom, if you're reading this, thank you for raising me right.
What do you think Poppy will be like when she grows up?
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Are there comparison photos around here anywhere showing the 6" figure next to the regular (best version of) 3.75" version of the same figure? I'm completely on the fence here and am having a hard time judging the scale and quality of these in terms I know.
I'm still on the fence too... I might pick up a few OT characters, like the main gang, Vader and Fett, and that's it. I have a feeling before long retailers will drop the price to $15 a pop. I can't imagine these staying at $20 when you have $15 Marvel Legends and $15 Mattel/DC's Failure-Of-The-Month Line right next to these.
Not sure where to put this, but has anyone found a place that sells stands for the 6" figures? Thanks!
These stands on Ebay have been working really well for me, for a variety of 6" scale figures.
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We own a vineyards and winery in the very heart of Serbia, a place named after a flower Peony (Latin: Paeonia ). These hilly province of Serbia is well known for its tradition as a place where Serbian Royal Family of Karadjordjevic originally comes from. A Royal Church silhouette was a inspiration for our logo.
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We would like a sophisticated and elegant red wine label that has unique font style and not too many colors (not more then 3) , just basic like black or white or combination of these two and discreet shapes and font. Front label would need to have winery name and type of wine. Since we have 3 different kinds of wine, just design font with words "red wine" and winery name and later we will add the specific kind. Back label will have usual specification and info like origin, type and year of the wine. We hope that the files attached below could provide you some motives and inspiration.


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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V camera
This super-compact camera has a 30x zoom, Wi-Fi, and GPS
- Compact design
- Excellent GPS and Wi-Fi
- Good video, photos in good lighting
- Noisy shots in dim, dark lighting
- Heavy noise reduction past ISO 400
- No RAW photo mode
Bottom Line
If you were looking for a travel-zoom camera in the past, we'd have gone straight to recommending a Panasonic. Sony's new HX50V crams 20 megapixels -- too many, really -- on its tiny sensor, with a 30x zoom lens and all the trimmings you could want. It's a great all-round camera, although it's not made for dim or dark environments.
Price$ 499.00 (AUD)
If you want to buy a camera with a lot of zoom, you don't have a great deal of choice. Most decent super-zoom cameras are big, with bodies that mimic digital SLRs in design and size. Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V (or just 'HX50') is out to challenge that — it's the smallest camera ever to sport a 30x zoom, and it's got plenty else besides.
Sony Cyber-shot HX50: Design and features
When it's turned off, the Cyber-shot HX50 looks, basically, just like any other compact digital camera. It's made for right-handed use, and can be used with the one hand alone.
Front-on, the camera's face is simple enough — there's a big circular array for the collapsing lens, there's a LED to assist autofocus in poor light, and there's a finger-grip. No complicated control dials or buttons to worry about. The top and back of the HX50 is where the action happens.
Viewing the camera from the top down, you'll see from left to right the HX50's manually-triggered pop-up xenon flash, an accessory hot-shoe (more on that later), and the main shooting controls. There are two dials on the top right — one for changing the shooting mode, with various automatic modes as well as the more hands-on P/A/S/M, and a dedicated exposure compensation dial. There's a combination zoom rocker and shutter button, and on/off switch.
The HX50's back has a standard 3-inch LCD screen, which has the same 4:3 aspect ratio as the camera's sensor, so you'll use the whole screen for framing photos. Next to a little thumb-grip is a dedicated movie recording button, which works in any shooting mode. There's also a customisable button, which you can pre-set to any of a huge number of options, next to a dedicated playback button.
Further down the back is a five-way navigation pad that also doubles as a control dial — if you're shooting in a manual mode, this is where you'll change shutter speeds, apertures, and ISO settings, although the whole process is a little finicky. Below the dial is a delete button and quick-menu access, through which you can access the more complicated main menu.
Apart from its massive super-zoom lens, the Cyber-shot HX50V's big selling features are its integrated Wi-Fi chip, and internal GPS sensor and antenna.
The Wi-Fi exists to connect the camera to your smartphone, with a Sony PlayMemories app available for iOS and Android. All you've got to do is hit the Menu button then scroll to the Wi-Fi setting. You can use the PlayMemories app to use your smartphone as a remote viewfinder for the camera, controlling its zoom and focus, changing a few shooting modes and settings, and taking pictures and recording video.
GPS is especially useful in a travel camera; it's good for logging specific landmarks and sights that you've seen on your worldwide travels. We geo-tagged all the photos that we took with the HX50V, and found that the GPS was generally quick to start up, accurate, and didn't seem to have too much of an impact on the camera's battery life — which itself is good.
Sony Cyber-Shot HX50V: Specifications, performance, and picture quality
In our time with it, we found that the HX50 was a quick, but not blazingly fast, camera. It's able to start up or turn off in around two seconds, although a lot of this is spent waiting for the lens to extend or retract. It's quick to confirm focus and can capture a photo with around 0.3 seconds of shutter lag, which is par for the course for most compact cameras. It can capture a burst of 10 full-resolution photos in a second, but otherwise shot-to-shot time is around two seconds.
The Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V has a 20.4-megapixel Exmor-R CMOS sensor accompanying its lens. This is both a good and a bad thing — plenty of megapixels means larger prints, and theoretically more detail, but given that the HX50's imaging sensor is smaller than the finger-nail on your pinky finger, that's just too many pixels in such a compact area.
The up-shot of this is if you're in good light, like outdoors on a sunny day, you're going to get more detail than on a lower-megapixel sensor. The down-side is that in anything other than ideal conditions, images quickly start to show image noise, both graininess and colour speckling, and blurring (from noise reduction fighting those aforementoned image noise effects).
Video handles the noise better than photos, with the HX50 being one of the best non-enthusiast compact cameras we've tried in terms of its video performance. The option to capture footage in 1080p Full HD, at 50 frames per second, is excellent — the resulting video files are smooth and reasonably detailed.
The camera's sensor extends from a native base of ISO 80 up to a maximum of ISO 3200, which is a versatile enough range. Photos do start to show significant image noise above ISO 400 though, so if you're shooting at the longer end of the camera's super-zoom range, or if you're in dim light, you'll start to see quickly-increasing amount of noise as light levels drop.
The lens on the HX50, though, is excellent. In equivalent terms to a full-frame digital SLR, which you'll usually find matched to a 'standard' 24-70mm zoom lens, the HX50 has a lens that's capable of covering the 24-720mm focal lengths. This is a huge distance, and it means the HX50 is incredibly versatile. The camera's lens isn't particularly fast (in terms of brightness) at its maximum or minimum zoom, though, with a maximum aperture of f/3.5-6.3. Optical image stabilisation works very well to control hand-shake even at maximum zoom.
The HX50 is generally quick to focus, and didn't hunt or stutter while we were using it. It's not a great camera for close-up 'macro' photography, though, with a minimum focus distance of around 50mm at the widest focal length.
The Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V's battery is rated for 400 shots, or 200 minutes of movie recording time. This is more than enough for a week's holiday, although a huge advantage comes from the fact that the DSC-HX50V can recharge its battery over any high-current USB connection — so if you've got a laptop with a Fast Charge USB port, or if you're carrying a smartphone and its charger on your holiday, you can use either of these to charge the HX50 through its micro-USB port and not have to worry about an additional box to carry.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V: Conclusion
The HX50 is, as super-zoom cameras go, pretty good. It's got heaps of features built-in, has the ability to take external accessories through its hot-shoe, and the lens itself is great.
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Anyone thinking that Herman Cain may have been wronged by the woman who has stepped forward to discuss their recently ended 13-year affair may want to take a look at the statement released yesterday by Cain's attorney to the local Fox affiliate that broke the story. It is a statement that Cain supporter Erick Erickson fairly characterizes as "the guiltiest-looking no-comment statement in the history of politics" while helpfully emphasizing the "especially hilarious parts":
Mr. Cain has been informed today that your television station plans to broadcast a story this evening in which a female will make an accusation that she engaged in a 13-year long physical relationship with Mr. Cain. This is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace – this is not an accusation of an assault – which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate.
Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public's right to know and the media's right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one's bedroom door.
Mr. Cain has alerted his wife to this new accusation and discussed it with her. He has no obligation to discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media and he will not do so even if his principled position is viewed unfavorably by members of the media.
Erickson comments:
One of two things is true about this statement. Either Mr. Cain and his attorney are basing their views on what is an appropriate subject of media scrutiny for political candidates on the way politics work on another planet (perhaps another galaxy, even), or they are basically trying to telegraph to us that he completely did it. After following Cain's campaign for the last several months, I would say either is equally likely.
Thank you, Mr. Erickson. Unlike some conservatives, you have altered your judgment in conformity with the reality principle. More power to you.
I want to make two simple points. First, in retrospect we can see that Cain is an old-fashioned kind of guy. He doesn't have a high bar for the women he seeks out and he persists in an old-fashioned kind of way when he gets "no" for an answer. Thus the sexual harassment charges. And of course he doesn't always get "no" for an answer. Thus Ginger White and her checkered past.
Second, conservatives who see the hidden hand of the Democratic Party in taking Cain down are deluding themselves. If Democrats had this material in hand ready to use at the most opportune time, wouldn't the most opportune time have been somewhere down the road, after Cain had actually secured the GOP nomination? Whoever unleashed the barrage against Cain has saved the GOP — to use the fashionable liberal adjective — from an unsustainable candidate. And my guess is that there is more ammunition wherever the barrage has come from.
At any rate, that is my assessment. I may be wrong, but I offer it for what it is worth.


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The Airline Screening Playset: Hours of Fun!
After blogging a few weeks ago about the airline screening playset, I went ahead and ordered one.
Each day, I would check my mailbox, eager with excitement about its arrival. Today, it finally arrived. I rushed to open it and began what would be hours of exciting play. Here's what came in the playset:
I was a bit disappointed in the toy's lack of realism. There was only one passenger to be screened. Where were the long lines? The passenger's clothing wasn't removable for strip searching. The passenger's shoes couldn't be removed either. Her luggage fit easily inside the X-ray machine. There were no silly warning signs not to carry guns or bombs onto the plane. And there was no No Fly List or Selectee List included in the playset.
Another oddity was that the toy came with two guns, one for the police officer and one that either belonged to the X-ray screener or the passenger. The luggage actually opened up, and the gun fit inside. I put it through the X-ray machine, and it went through undetected. Perhaps this is where the toy came closest to reality.
The biggest departure from reality was that the passenger had a cheery smile on her face.
To make the toy more realistic, I required the passenger to show her ID, which she didn't have. Indeed, the playset didn't come with an ID card, so it wasn't the passenger's fault. But I had the screener cheerfully deny her the right to board the plane. Ha!
But she still had that silly smile.
I wasn't ready to give up, however, so I decided to have her searched from head to toe with the magnetic wand.
But she still had that smile.
I then knew what I had to do to get that smile off her face — I had the screeners search her luggage by hand and destroy it in the process.
But she was still smiling.
So I created a No Fly List. But there was a problem. The passenger had no name. Nevertheless, I had the screener tell her that she was on the list and that she couldn't fly until she went through the bureaucratic hassle of trying to clear her name from the list. I had the screener tell her that it could take her weeks or months to set things right, and that there was no guarantee that she would ever get off the list unless she knew top officials in the Bush Administration.
But she was still smiling.
What was wrong with this woman? Was she just so happy because it appeared that TSA's security was "really working to protect us"? Apparently so. She just wouldn't stop smiling. So finally, I had the cop shoot her dead.


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Systems Changes to Enhance Freddie Mac Valuation Data Announced in Guide Bulletin
October 8, 2013
In January 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) amendment under Regulation B. The final rule, which is effective on January 18, 2014, requires creditors to provide applicants with free copies of all appraisals and other written property valuations developed in connection with an application for credit.
As part of our ongoing support to help you prepare for the mortgage industry's new rules, Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide) Bulletin 2013-20 announces enhancements to our tools and systems that provide Freddie Mac proprietary property valuation data. These enhancements will help make our valuation data easier for loan applicants and borrowers to understand.
Please review today's Bulletin for details on how we are enhancing Home Value Explorer® (HVE®) data, Loan Prospector®, Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®), and BPOdirect® as summarized below, and for guidance on what supporting text should be provided when you share our valuation data with borrowers or loan applicants.
In addition, the Bulletin announces important changes to mortgage file requirement for Freddie Mac Relief Refinance MortgagesSM and Servicing changes related to property valuation requirements. We are also extending the effective date for the Seller/Servicer fraud-related training requirement for third-party vendors announced in an earlier Bulletin.
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- Using HVE data for loan originations. We are making changes to the way HVE data is displayed and/or adding supporting text to help explain Freddie Mac's HVE data distributed through:
- Loan Prospector
- HVE look-up tool
- Updating requirements for Relief Refinance Mortgages. To provide you more flexibility,we no longer require a defined documentation format for HVE point value estimates for Relief Refinance Mortgages. However, if HVE is used to determine a property's value for a Relief Refinance Mortgage, you must be able to provide the HVE documentation if requested by Freddie Mac.
- Adding supporting text for BPOdirect valuation data. We are updating the BPOdirect screen that returns an HVE point value estimate (also known as "Auto Value") and the broker price opinions (BPO) provided through BPOdirect to include supporting text for use when valuation information is shared with borrowers.
- Providing property valuation information to borrowers. Servicers must provide the borrower with property valuation information and any pertinent notices, as required by all applicable laws, when loss mitigation decisions are made. This requirement applies regardless of whether the Servicer, Freddie Mac or both are making the decision on the workout or relief option. This requirement is effective when you begin providing Freddie Mac valuation information to borrowers to meet CFPB's final rule on the ECOA amendment.
- Revising our property valuation requirements for modifications. Servicers must meet the updated requirements for obtaining property valuations for loan modifications, including those processed under the Home Affordable Modification Program. These revised requirements include, but are not limited to the requirements to obtain the information either through an HVE authorized distributor or BPOdirect, and to use the Auto Value for a property if one is available in BPOdirect. We are also discontinuing the Automated Valuation Model special report currently available on FreddieMac.com. These changes are effective when you begin providing Freddie Mac valuation information to borrowers to meet CFPB's final rule on the ECOA amendment.
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- Review Guide Bulletin 2013-20.
- Visit our webpage, Using Freddie Mac Valuation Data.
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UI: Couple stole electricity for 7 years
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United Illuminating is accusing an Easton couple of stealing its juice in a seven-year campaign that Easton police say bilked the utility out of $42,579.24.
Maria and Marc Pennino bought their colonial, constructed by a builder, on 1.23 acres in the bucolic suburban town on Dec. 2, 2005, for $640,000 with a $315,000 deposit. In a statement to the Easton Police Department, the utility alleges that from Dec. 27, 2005, about three weeks after the purchase, to July 27, 2012, the meters at the home were damaged by pinning them so that they wouldn't register the homeowners' true electric consumption.
Maria Pennino is charged with first-degree larceny and first-degree theft of utilities, which are both felonies. Her husband is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree theft of electrical services. Neither Pennino could be reached. Maria Pennino did not return a message placed to her Facebook account. The Penninos were released from police custody after posting $25,000 bonds. They are slated to be arraigned on Feb. 6 at Superior Court in Bridgeport.
Theft of utilities is the use of power without a contract with the supplier or a partial or total bypass of a meter to make it incapable of measuring utility consumption. An FBI Academy study estimates that about 1 percent of all customers steal from utilities, and the annual losses exceed $3 billion from electricity and natural gas utilities.
On their street, neighbors of the Penninos who profess not to know the couple well say they find it hard to believe the Penninos or anyone else might be capable of diverting $42,579.24 worth of electrical service.
An average UI customer uses about 500 kilowatt hours of electricity. Michael West, a spokesman for UI, says the $42,579.24 represents 222,336 kilowatt hours of electricity, or enough to power about 445 homes for a month.
Doris Crary, a longtime property owner who has a house next door to the Penninos, says she doubts the couple did anything wrong. Crary thinks it's more likely that the utility made an error and is trying to correct it in one move.
"I had given them a plot plan when they first moved in because they were doing work on their property and they didn't know where the property line was," Crary said. "I've been around on the block and this amount they're accusing them of cheating UI out of is just a really high amount of money. It's like $600 a month every month for seven years. It's like lighting your house up with every light on and your house lit up like a Christmas tree every day, every hour. That isn't this house," Crary said. "I think it's just a big mistake. No residential utility customer can use that much electricity."
West, the spokesman for UI, declined to say what techniques the utility employed to determined that it's power was being stolen and that the electricity was being taken by the Easton husband and wife.
"I would be reluctant to go into detail about the tactics and methods we use to prepare our case," said West. "It includes fraud investigators who actively and aggressively pursue all of these cases."


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The last time I went to Chicago I saw Desperately Seeking Susan in the theater, and it was a new release at the time. Also, I was at an age where getting to see Desperately Seeking Susan was the coolest, and I spent my allowance on a bunch of Madonna-inspired rubber and silver bracelets at Contempo Casuals at Water Tower Place, oblivious to the amazing city around me. Luckily this past weekend, I returned to Chicago more mature and appreciative of architecture, and I found myself cruising Trulia for Chicago housing as soon as I had to leave. Here are just a few of the sites that make up the amazing city.
One of the most fun things you can do in Chicago is rent a bike and take it up or down the coast of Lake Michigan; we opted to go North. It was worth the horrendous customer service and outrageous prices at the bike rental place on the Navy Pier.
One of the great things about the architecture of Chicago is all of those little details on the buildings that came before Mies stripped everything down. The detail above is from what is currently a Bloomingdale's Home store, formerly the Medinah Temple, designed by Huehl and Schmid, built in 1912.
While I knew a bit about the 1922 Chicago Tribune building/contest (in architecture school you learn that the second-place entry is the one everyone is still talking about, by Eliel Saarninen). What I didn't realize is that the existing neo-gothic architecture has all of these little fragments from other buildings around the world stuck in it, from castles in England to the Great Wall of China.
Okay, so I was not coordinated enough to ride my bike and snap a picture of 860-880 Lake Shore Drive at the same time, so they are missing from this photo essay, as well as a slew of other iconic buildings. Sorry! Anyway, Marnia City (1959) by a.k.a. the honeycomb buildings, was built by one of Mies' proteges, Bertrand Goldberg.
He also designed the Prentice Women's Hospital, a Brutalist building that is currently in danger of being demolished (last I heard Northwestern University was still pushing to tear it down; sign a petition to help it get landmark status here). This building is a feat of engineering and was one of the first designs to use CAD, which was cutting edge technology at the time. The building was completed in 1975.
I think I like this view of Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park (2004) the best. He sure knows how to make you want to go check out what the rest of it looks like with a big metal tease. Here's what the rest of it looks like.
Obligatory shot of Cloud Gate (2004), a.k.a. "The Bean," by Anish Kapoor.
Last picture I took before I got super tired and picture quality got even worse – Yvonne Domenge Sculpture at Millennium Park.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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Why did I bother to purchase this very old item once owned by someone who may not even be an ancestor? Here's why:
- Mary Weber lived in Lowville, New York when the diary was completed. I consider Lowville my ancestral hometown since my great-grandfather John Ralph Austin was born there in 1896 and his ancestors settled there around 1840.
- Given the commonality of ancestral locations, chances are pretty good that I have some relationship either with Mary Weber or perhaps someone in her diary.
- At the very least, the entries - once transcribed - would give me a better idea of what life was like back in 1869.
- And finally, how could I pass up a chance for such an artifact? While I did have to outbid others, my presumption is that all of us would have wanted to somehow tell Mary Weber's story.
- Transcribing will be very difficult - entries are hard to read, in small print and in pencil. My best bet might be to scan the diary and then use photo editing software to make a negative image and enhance the results.
- The next step is to type the text up probably in Microsoft Word.
- Then I need to select a platform in which to present the text to the rest of the world on the Internet. One option is to use Blogger or WordPress and create a new blog (just what I need, right?) using a diary format, with a post for each day. Perhaps if I start this on January 1, 2010 I can have the posts follow sequentially for 1869.
- Another option is to use one of the newer platforms such Tumblr or Posterous. I like this idea since it would get me to learn a new platform.
- Finally, I could somehow incorporate it into my Lowville Long Ago wiki which is currently offline. One of my genealogy New Year's resolutions is to revive the wiki and make it more robust.
Oh, and by the way, this was just the first Lowville-related item I scored on ebay last week. Next Treasure Chest Thursday I'll post about the 1879 Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Lewis County, NY booklet I purchased!
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Monday March 18, 2019; 10:39 am EDT
For George Phelps, half a century fighting for civil rights
Strolling down memory lane is more than a figure of speech to George Phelps, who can see his new namesake street from his backyard.
At his street-naming ceremony, Mayor Josh Cohen, City Alderwoman Classie Hoyle, County Councilman Chris Trumbauer, Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman and Maryland Sen. John Astle paid their respects.
"I want you to know that I appreciate it from the very depths of my heart," Phelps said.
Phelps, 86, blazed trails in Anne Arundel County. In 1951, he became the county's first African American sheriff's deputy. He in turn deputized 200 more African Americans.
"Twas not by choice, but chance I entered this earthly ground, and can't understand this racial hatred because my skin was brown," said Phelps, who sat amid a gathering of 50 friends and dignitaries as his block of Middle Way was renamed in honor of him and his late wife, Marion.
Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman appointed Phelps as an honorary sheriff deputy forever.
After a decade on the job with the sheriff's department, Phelps organized crowd control when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Washington, D.C., to lead the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Law enforcement is only one part of Phelps' legacy. To secure a better economic status for his fellow African Americans, he and his wife established Opportunities Industrialization Center for Anne Arundel County, the longest-running job-training program in Annapolis.
Phelps also mentored and befriended politicians. Sen. John Astle recalled a key piece of advice.
"If you want to get anywhere in politics in this town, you gotta know George Phelps," Astle says he was told. Astle listened and is now serving his fourth term in the state senate.
County Councilman Chris Trumbauer agrees.
"No matter what time, two doors down from here, there is always a political hub of activity at George's house."
Earlier this year, Phelps was named a Living Landmark for his commitment to Annapolis' cultural heritage.
Now George and Marion Phelps Lane runs from Drew to Vincent Street in Parole.


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I have been commissioned by a client to design and build a 1000litre processor for a specialist purpose. The desired product is glycerol that is very low in FFAs and soaps. The methyl esters will be a saleable byproduct.
The wvo supply is fairly clean , fairly dry oil with minimal fats titrating between 8 amd 12ml KOH
I propose to use a 2 stage process with acid esterification using sulphuric acid followed by base esterification with KOH. In the past when I made my own small scale biodiesel I used the Dkenny method and found it reliable. I see from reading the sticky post above no new recipes have been posted since 2009, is the Dkenny method still the gold standard for this type of processing?
are there any refinements that might be usefull bearing in mind that it is the glycerol we are concentrating on.
The acid esterification stage should dispense with most of the FFas and I thought that perhaps drying between the two stages would avoid any saponification during the second stage.
Perhaps some of you guys who have experience with AE might have some ideas.
I used it for several years with pretty much complete success, the last couple years because of the consistency of my oil supply I just use 1ml/L on the acid stage. If your oil is more or less consistent you should probably be able to settle on a solid recipe also.
My question would be how do you intend to have an end product of glycerol with low soap? Glycerine is soap.
The idea that glycerol and soap are the same thing is commonly held in the biodiesel world but in fact its not true. Glycerol is a polyol made up only of carbon,hydrogen and oxygen. Soaps are metal salts of fatty acids. The metals involved are usually sodium and potassium. Im lucky in this project as we have a pharmaceutical lab and its staff at our disposal. They have analysed numerous samples of glycerol and are able to measure the soap content very accurately. We have found that the samples that performed best in our practical field tests all exhibited low soap content.
Previously in our development of the chainsaw bar oil, soaps and free fatty acids were good for lubrication but in this new product they are undesirable.
So the reason Im looking at AE is that the free fatty acids will be converted into biodiesel and separated from the glycerol. If we were to remove most of the water produced by the acid stage before progressing to the base stage we should be able to reduce saponification, which is a reaction of water oil and sodium or potassium hydroxide.
Hi imakebiodiesel,
It sounds interesting.
How much are you offering per hour for someone to be your consultant?
Glycerine/ Glycerol is an alcohol- propane-1,2,3-triol
Hi John,
I think the soaps formed within a normal 2 stage base process are from saponification as a result of water formed when the methoxide is mixed.
To reduce these to a minimum I would suggest using a methoxide mix as dry as possible, to this end using ASM or drying the methoxide with CaO would probably be advantageous.
I would also suggest that using Sulphuric is complicating things for you.
Why not 'enhance' some glycerol for a pre treatment so that your oil doesn't titrate ie any water from FFA neutralisation has been absorbed by the glycerol and removed.
From testing I have found this leaves the oil at around 3 to 400ppm. Then using a 'dry' methoxide you will produce minimal soap.
fabricator, from some recent (combinations of tests and assumptions) I came up with this.
Glycerol from a 100 litre batch was 16 litres and was composed of;
glycerine 6.2 litres 38.8%
methanol 2.63 litres 16.4%
water 484mls 3%
bio 500mls 3.1%
soap 6.2 litres 38.8%
Those figures are not exceptional, I have found that its rare to have any more than 50% glycerine/ glycerol in raw glycerol from homebrew processors. You are right that the water in methoxide is a major cause of saponification and either drying the methoxide or using asm will solve that problem. Have you any experience using CaO, I can obtain it cheaply but Ive never used it for this.
We will have to use Ae because this process will not yeild any glycerol that we can spare to strip or enhance the feedstock. The glycerol is the primary product. If this project pans out the semi refined glycerol plus additives will be worth about 10 times the value of biodiesel.
Drying the methoxide worked really well with CaO as regards the very low production of potassium soap. During the first aggressive (compressor) water wash the resultant water was barely cloudy, a sign that K soap was minimal.
Big disadvantage was the formation of some Calcium soap which couldn't be washed out of the bio and left it cloudy. The only thing that was any use was oak chips. For this reason I've never tried it since.
The yield was amazing at around 104% You need to use about 1.2 x the weight of K to remove enough water. I mixed it in cubies with the methoxide. Because you can't use the bottom layer (too much excess CaO floating around) you need to mix up more than you need.
The cubies need to settle a couple of days, then they will clear. What you want to see is some unreacted CaO on top of the lower layer of really hard and solid Calcium Hydroxide. This is a sign that all the water has reacted and that there is an excess of CaO.
Keep an accurate record of the ratio as you will need to measure it by volume and from this the weight of K added.
Remember also you can add more virgin methanol to the methoxide, but not K as you will then produce more water.
I know some answers to that question. The Fischer Esterification formula is carboxylic acid (free fatty acids) plus dry alcohol plus catalytic quantity of strong mineral acid plus heat with stirring yeilds normal biodiesel plus water . But reacting triglyceride fatty acids and free fatty acids in the mix by acid esterification produces something else, a brownish organic product that will damage the purity and cash value of the end product glycerine. Making methoxide is not the only water source in this series of reactions, formation of the methyl ester of fatty acids produces about 18 grams per mole of water biproduct per mole of methyl ester formed. The average molecular weight of methyl biodiesel made from corn oil is about 292 grams per mole, with a density of about 0.87 grams per milliliter. The measured volume of methyl ester product can help a lot to determine how much water was produced by the esterification reaction. So after the Fischer esterification water is present, formed that was not present in the starting materials. For best result a minimum of water should be present in the transesterification reaction of methoxide plus triglyceride fatty acid esters to produce methyl biodiesel plus glycerine plus some soap. It hinders soap formation to have very dry starting materials.Its an expensive hassle to vacuum distill out water afer acid esterification, the methanol will also distill out, but leaves a relatively dry liquid for the caustic plus methanol step (transesterification rection). The transesterification reaction does not produce water as a byproduct. So the big thing you said you wanted was pure glycerol as the desired product, so do your acid reaction , dry your product with vacuum distillation, then do your base reaction , separate the glycerine fall out, lower layer from the upper layer methyl biodiesel. Then you have impure glycerine starting liquid material to purify. De-Meth the glycerol. The impurities are the brown crud from acid esterification which is what forms when sulfuric acid adds to one end of a double bond in a fatty acid chain, plus soap. The fatty acid chain is a chain of carbons bonded to each other but each carbon is bonded to one or two hydrogen atoms. There is a concept called electronegativity which is a measur of how strongly the outer electron is pulled towards the nucleus of the atom, which can cause increased volumes of electron density around the atom with the highest electronegativity. But if the difference in electronegativity is small and the same element (hydrogen) surround carbon then there is not an appreciable difference in electron density, so the long tail of fatty acids are non-polar. In solubility considerations like dissolves like. A non polar molecule dissolves a non polar molecule, like gasoline (light fraction) dissolves kerosene (a heavier fraction from petroleum distillation) The two liquids are not the same but both are non-polar so they dissolve in each other. Removing the brown crud (organic sulfite?) and soap in a good enough cost effective manner might be done in two steps, activated charcoal treating warm+time+agitation then removal of all activated charcoal by whatever cost effective means (filtering?). The activated charcoal lets non-polar chemicals absorb or adsorb to its surface, then removal of all activated charcoal. If this is pure enough fine. If you need it purer you can vacuum distil this faily pure glycerine at low pressure. But distilling glycerol is high heat, energy expensive.
Sorry, I forgot to mention some points in my last post. You asked about drying methanol containing liquid with CaO . It's true that CaO + H20 yields Ca2(OH) seeming to react with water removing it from solution to cause dryer starting materials and therefore a more complete faster reaction. But in what I read about "The Imisides Reaction Method" using CaO as one of the present materials during transesterification reaction (base step reaction) is Calcium Soap is one of the products. Calcium soap is know here as ring around the tub here. One calcium atom reacts with two free fatty acid molecules which makes a molecule with two long non-polar fatty acid tails pointing opposite directions from a calcium atom bonded to two organic acids, carboxylic acid groups bonded to the calcium through an oyxgen atom to the carbon chains through two single bonds, plus one oxygen atom bonded to each of the two first carbons in the long carbon chains. That makes a molecule with two long non-polar tails and a center of the molecule with two oyxgen atoms (increased electron densities around the two oxygen atoms). I don't know of anything calcium soap will dissolve in, maybe activated charcoal would stick to it. If you put in a chemical into the reaction and the product calcium soap is not to be in the end product, how are you going to remove it 100% from your biodiesel, the inside of your reaction vessel and maybe from the inside of the boiling pot of your distillation apparatus? Rather than put a chemical in that makes a material that's hard to get out, figure another way to do it. I did an experiment 12/26/16 after Tilly mentioned that common, inexpensive, sodium hydroxide was about 15% water. I put 157.3 grams technical grade sodium hydroxide pellets into a vacuum still. I did not put my expensive $150 ground glass joint mercury thermometer into the still because it might have broken. Here they are difficult to replace. I guessed the setting on heating the heating mantle to be between 200-250 degrees centigrade. I ran the vacuum pump at about 100 millimeters of pressure inside the still. After the still pot heated up the previously solid lye pellets turned into a boiling clear liquid. I distilled off 3.9 grams of water from the technical grade sodium hydroxide via heat and vacuuum distillation. Caustic absorbs, reacts with carbon dioxide from the air which produces a chemical that will not act as catalyst for the base phase of the biodiesel making reaction. A slight reduction in water by mass of something like 2.8% might make a big difference in increase of methoxide concentration and in reduction of soap production via the saponification reaction by removing water from the starting catalyst. Tests would be needed to determine advantage gained by doing that. Maybe better conditions, higher vacuum, higher heat, longer time would improve water removal from inexpensive technical grade catalyst via vaccuum distillation. Removing water under vacuum minimizes carbon dioxide absorption from the air. The viscosity of your distilled pure glycerine product is a function of temperature. A condenser in a glycerine still might need to be 90 degrees celcius so the glycerine would quickly flow out of the condenser into a receiving flask. Increasing vacuum decreases boiling temperature. You might need a good vacuum pump that would pull down to 10 millimeters of pressure to get a satisfactory boiling temperature for the glycerine in the still pot. A 10 millimeter vacuum still would need thick walls to keep from collapsing in, imploding. Glycerine boils very hot under higher pressures. In vacuum stills bumping is an important problem to overcome. If you add boiling stones/chips to a vacuum still before pulling the vacuum then maintain identical pressure while heating to a boil till enough is distiiled, bumping may not occur. Boiling occurs around gas seeds in stones or types of boiling chips. But if the vacuum pressure increases, then drops, then increases, the liquid has forced tiself into the gas seeds inside the stones and boiling would cease, superheating will occur then with some subtle trigger a lot of liquid will vaporize quickly and a lot of the still pot contents will energetically go across the still head in a short period of time. I've run small vacuum stills but a big one, a good one would take a while to learn how to operate. If it's distilled it might be acceptable purity for medical grade.
Another point in preparing optimum purity products is if using distillation as part of the process, then generally if composition of liquid still pot's components is a greater boiling point difference, then better separation might be achieved. One of the impurities in whatever percentage in your glycerine still pot liquid to be distilled would be sodium or potassium soap. The electronegativity of sodium atoms is 0.93 the electronegativity of potassium is 0.82. The electronegativity of oxygen is 3.44. Electronegativity is a relative measure of how strongly the atom pulls the outermost electron towards it. You subtract the higher number from the lower number to see polarity a plus versus minus charge difference that caused polarity of a molecule. A higher electron density difference probably indicates a greater charge separation in the volume around two adjacent atoms. Sodium chloride has an electronegativity of 0.93 for sodium and 3.16 for a chlorine atom, an electronegativity difference of 2.23. A difference of over 1.5 is considered polar, in which the atoms actually separate when dissolved in water, in NaCl actual charged ions individual charged atoms dispersed in water solution. I believe, under 1.5 electronegativity difference the atoms do not separate, ionize when dissolved in a polar liquid like water. THe dry molecule of sodium chloride are attracted (relatively) positive end to relatively negative end, in a three dimensional structure where the molecules are strongly attracted to each other. The melting point of sodium chloride, plain table salt is 801 degrees centigrade and its boiling point is 1431 degrees centigrade because of the electronegativity difference and the strong attraction of negative molecule ends to positive molecule ends. To boil a material the intermolecular force has to be broken and the molecules separate into a gas rather than a liquid or solid. Also generally, the higher the molecular weight, the higher the boiling point. To revove soap more effectively from glycerine during distillation, a higher molecular weight soap is potassium with an atomic mass of 39.09 grams per mole compared to sodium with an atomic weight of 22.98 grams per mole. A mole is a specific number of atoms or molecules that enables measuring masses relative to an equivalent number of different types of atoms or molecules. A mole is 6.02 times ten raised to the twenty third power atoms or molecules. A mole is 6.02 multiplied by 1 followed by twenty three zeros. It's a big number. The 23 is an exponent number on ten. A mole is that many molecules or atoms, comparing mass of equivalent number of atoms or molecules or particles. So a mole of potassium soap weighs more per mole, made with octadecanoate (a specific fatty acid) compared to one mole of sodium octadecanoate (chemical name of a type of soap. In sodium soap a sodium atom is single bonded to an oxygen atom with an electronegativity difference of 2.51 between sodium and oxygen bonded to each other. Potassium soap has an electronegativity difference of 2.63 in the electron bond between a potassium atom and an oxygen atom in the organic acid group on the end of the long chain of carbons. There are other factors, but the greater electron density difference in the bond with the oxygen atom on the end of the chain would make the potassium soap have a higher boiling point that sodium soap, if they would boil without decomposing. So for better purity of product glycerine you might use potassium hydroxide rather than sodium hydroxide in the base part of making biodiesel from triglyceride fatty acid esters (vegetable oil). It might not make a difference though. Lowering the boiling point in distilling glycerine by low vacuum (10 milliliters vacuum?) is also important for purity is glycerine decomposes at 290 degrees centigrade at atmospheric pressure, without boiling, but it boils at 182 degrees centigrade at a vacuum still pressure of 20 milliliters , which can be done. Also soap won't boil into a gas but it will decompose into unwanted impurities that will pass across the still head into the receiving flask of your very pure, distilled glycerine, polluting it with unacceptable chemicals that are pyrolyic breakdown products of soaps.
Thanks to Wesley and Dgs, for all that information, It will take me a while to absorb it all.
Just to give you a bit more background to the project. For confidentiality reasons I cant tell you what the the product is we are trying to produce but we have done a number of preliminary field tests and found that refined pharma grade glycerol with an additive is the perfect product but far too expensive. We have also tested several samples of raw glycerol with the same additive. The worst performing samples all had high levels of FFAs and soap while the best had low levels of FFAs and soaps.
We are looking at two ways to produce Glycerol with low levels of FFAs and soaps.
First, convert WVO using a 2 stage acid base process taking the measures discussed above to eliminate FFAs and soap. This will hopefully produce both suitable glycerol and of course methylyl esters which are very saleable.
Another possible path is to purchase raw glycerol from large biodiesel plants and neutralize it using sulphuric acid ( sometimes called cracking) this separates the raw glycerol into 3 layers of FFAs on top , semi refined glycerol middle and water/ potassium sulphate bottom. I have done several batches of this and it looks promising. Dgs, you told me a while ago you had a contact who had done this on a commercial scale, I would be very interested to contact him with a view to offering him some paid consultancy work.
Hi John,
I pm'd you some time ago with Russells' telephone number. Just tell me if you need me to send the details again.
My client Tony has made contact with Russell and is making an arrangement for us to fly over to Leeds and spend a couple of days possible=y next week, perhaps we could meet up if its not too far from you.
Indeed, that would be nice, Please let me know.
Dgs Im going to be yurs in neck of the woods on Wednesday. Russell is picking us up at the airport and taking us to Halifax to see his equipment. We arrive at 9am and will fly out at 7pm. If you can meet up with us that would be great my mobile number is 00353 86 3169230.
Sorry we didnt manage to meet up yesterday, Russell picked us up from the airport and took us to the fabrication workshop in Halifax, very impressive. We had a great discussion about his system of neutralizing glycerol, we was very generous in imparting valuable information and in the next few weeks Im going to set up a pilot processor to duplicate his method. His method is different from most others because you can monitor the progress of the reaction as it happens and stop at the exact point the neutralization is complete.
We had a look at some of his surplus equipment including a very impressive Alpha Laval centrifuge that Tony may buy for his process.
Many thanks for putting us in touch with him, his advice was invaluable.
No worries John, I'm pleased your meeting went well and hope to meet up with you next time you are over.
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