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|Feb 21, 2006
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|Mar 15, 2000
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|Mar 15, 1999
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|Ulrich Stieler
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|Ulrich Stieler
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The present invention relates to a process for the production of physically foamed injection moulded articles, in particular injection moulded articles with an internal foam structure and a compact closed-pore external skin of the same material as the base body.
The production of foamed plastics, for example, is achieved with the aid of so-called propellants, which expand a plastic, generally thermally softened plastic mass in the desired manner. In this case, the propellants are either generated in situ via chemical reaction of the components (chemical propellants), or compressed fluids, e.g. N2, CO2, are added under pressure to the starting material, in which case a foaming process of the plastic mass caused by the propellant is initiated upon the subsequent drop in pressure of the component mixture to normal pressure.
However, chemical propellants have a series of disadvantages. For instance, for use in foam injection moulding higher temperatures than are actually necessary for softening starting materials may have to be selected in order to reach the ignition point of the propellants, since the temperature at which the reaction of the components generating propellant starts is generally very high. Because of the high temperatures a higher expenditure of energy is necessary during melting of the raw materials. In addition, the cycle or cooling times are increased and a higher cooling power of the cooling plants is necessary. In some circumstances, damage to the raw materials may also occur as a result of the comparatively high temperatures.
Chemical propellants which have not been converted can locate on the surface of the articles obtained and cause yellowing of the articles. Allergic skin reactions may also result upon contact with these articles. Foam articles which have been obtained by means of chemical propellants are not recyclable, or if so only conditionally, since there is the risk that non-ignited propellants can lead to uncontrolled reactions during reuse.
Therefore, physical propellants are preferably used to foam plastics. Physical propellants allow optimum adaptation of the melting temperature to the respectively selected raw material, as a result of which the energy expenditure is reduced, optimum cycle and cooling times are made possible and in addition there is no risk that the raw materials could be detrimentally affected as a result of temperatures which are too high. Moreover, inexpensive gases such as CO2, for example, can be used as physical propellants.
Physical propellants do not remain in the finished foam articles, but diffuse out within a comparatively short time. Therefore, these articles are fully recyclable, since there is no need to fear that propellant residues could lead to uncontrolled reactions.
Various processes are known for the production of articles from foamed plastic with a compact closed external skin and a cellular core cohering with the external skin or edge zone, also referred to as integral foam or structural foam.
For example, in the reaction injection moulding process (RIM), two reactive components are mixed together which harden and foam in the cavity of a mould under reaction. Because of the quicker cooling at the wall of the mould, the reaction mass solidifies more quickly there than in the interior of the mould, and as a result the foaming process ceases earlier there than in the mould interior, and a compact sealed external layer is formed.
As determined by the process, the reactive component mixture must be comparatively liquid in order to guarantee complete filling of the mould before the reaction starts. However, this leads to irregularities on the surface of the formed article as a result of spray over and skin formation, which necessitates expensive finishing for high-grade articles, for which a perfect surface is required.
Moreover, for the RIM process the mould must be treated with a separating agent prior to injection, which on the one hand requires more expenditure in processing and can additionally lead to residues on the finished article which must be removed. The relatively long cycle times are also disadvantageous.
Since foaming in the RIM process is generally conducted chemically, the articles to be obtained are only conditionally recyclable.
Integral foams made of polyurethane to be used as working material primarily in the automobile industry, e.g. for steering wheel casings or gearshift knobs etc., are preferably produced using the RIM process. However, for this field of application the articles must not only have as perfect a surface as possible, but also have pleasant skin feel (tactility).
It has been shown that articles of polyurethane integral foam have only a conditionally acceptable tactility.
It is also known to produce integral foams from thermoplastic urethane or thermoplastic elastomer by means of conventional injection moulding processes. Both chemical and physical propellants can be used in this case. Contrary to the RIM process, which requires special plants, already existing injection moulding plants without expensive refitting can be used for this.
The necessary finishing of the articles obtained is only slight.
DE 196 46 665 A1 describes a process for metering physical propellants, wherein a propellant is added at high pressure to the softened plastic material transported in the consuming device, e.g. an extruder or an RIM machine, and the amount of propellant is regulated with a pressure control valve, which keeps the pressure difference constant via a rigid throttle means by regulating the pressure difference in dependence on the flow of propellant. The extrusion processes described here are continuous processes in which the propellant is continuously added.
A process for the production of multilayered articles with a foamed core and a non-expanded thermoplastic external skin is known from DE 1 778 457, wherein a first propellant-free melt and a second melt containing propellant as well as possibly a third propellant-free melt are firstly prepared and injected one after the other into an appropriate mould, in which case the mould must be maintained at a temperature equal to or higher than the activation temperature of the propellant.
Where physical propellants are used, it is suggested that either the selected temperature of the melt upon leaving the nozzle is so high that, when a mould with constant internal volume is used, the gas formation, and thus the expansion, still occurs below the pressure exerted on the substance in the mould, and when a mould with extendable interior is used, the gas formation, and thus the expansion, occurs by relieving the pressure exerted on the mould interior to expand the mould. There is no mention of the propellant being added directly to the melt flow which flows into the mould, nor of the quantity of propellant apportioned to the melt flow being regulated via the pressure.
An improved process of the aforementioned type is specified in DE 1 948 454, wherein the propellant is injected into the melt flow shortly before entry into the mould and the injection period is continued until the mixture quantity required to form the core has been inserted into the mould. Solvents with a boiling point preferably between 20 and 150� C. are specified as propellants, which are to prevent premature expansion under a corresponding pressure. There is likewise no mention here of a pressure regulation of the added quantity of propellant to the melt.
A process for the production of injection molded articles with foamed core is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,548,776, according to which gaseous or gas-generating chemical propellant is already added to the melt in the extruder, is thoroughly mixed with this and the already foamed melt is then injected into the mold.
In this case, the addition of propellant occurs via a porous insert at the injection point, a supply valve being provided in the feed pipe. This supply valve can be connected to an automatic control device, via which the pressure of the propellant to be fed is adjusted.
The object of the present invention is to provide a process for the production of physically foamed injection moulded articles, with which injection moulded articles with an integral structure, excellent surface characteristics, thus rendering expensive finishing unnecessary, and additionally excellent tactility, can be obtained in a simple manner using conventional injection moulding plants.
The articles produced according to the invention are suitable in particular for fields of application which set high quality requirements for surface structure and for which a pleasant sensory feel is of advantage on skin contact. The automobile industry is given as an example, for which handles, knobs such as gearshift knobs, steering wheel casings etc. of the foamed plastics obtained according to the invention can be used. However, the process according to the invention is in no way restricted to the production of articles for the automobile industry, but is quite generally suitable for the production of any desired foamed injection moulded articles.
For example, mass-produced articles such as closing means for bottle-like containers, e.g. stoppers or corks, may also be advantageously obtained according to this process. Further examples are balls, spheres, fenders, floats etc.
A further field of use is the production of supporting parts, for example, for the aviation or automobile industry, in particular for parts where strength is relevant.
This object is achieved according to the invention by a process for the production of physically foamed injection moulded articles, wherein firstly in a first stage a propellant-free first melt portion is fed into a cavity (initial filling), in a second stage a physical propellant is added at elevated pressure to the following melt portion (propellant injection phase), wherein metering of the physical propellant occurs at least in a pressure regulated manner, wherein the pressure which is exerted on the propellant during the propellant injection phase is greater than the pressure which is exerted on the propellant in the phases between or before or after metered addition, and the expansion of the propellant occurs in the cavity, and possibly in a third stage a propellant-free further melt portion is charged into the cavity.
This process also permits the formation of physically foamed injection moulded articles, the foamed core of which is completely or partially enclosed by a compact closed external skin, which has been produced without the addition of propellants, the core and the external skin being made of the same material.
The present invention additionally relates to a device for the metered addition of propellants under elevated pressure to an expandable melt.
This device can also be advantageously used for the metered addition of compressible propellants.
The propellant-free melt portion firstly fed into the cavity in the first stage forms a compact closed external skin without pores in the finished foamed injection moulded articles.
Any desired fluid which expands upon corresponding pressure relief and foams the melt material in a suitable manner can be used as propellant. Hence, compressible fluids such as gases in liquid or supercritical phase, for example, may be used.
The use of carbon dioxide is recommended because of its ready availability.
A further preferred propellant is water.
The starting material for the melt is not subject to any special restrictions. Any desired thermoplastic melt material which is suitable for injection moulding and can be foamed may be used.
Examples are thermoplastic materials, but also further thermoplastic melts, such as metallic or ceramic melts, for example. Examples of metallic materials include aluminium, magnesium, zinc, tin or even precious metals.
The process according to the invention leads to weight reduction and strength increase in comparison to the corresponding compact articles.
"Pressure regulated" in the sense of the invention means that in the course of the process the pressure exerted on the propellant is varied for metered addition of the propellant.
In this case the pressure exerted on the propellant during the propellant injection phase is greater than the pressure exerted on the propellant in the phases between or before or after metered addition. This means in the case of critical or compressible propellants, for example, that the pressure exerted in the intermediate cycle times is lower than the holding pressure of a pressure relief valve or overflow valve.
Therefore, according to the invention the required proportion of propellant is added to a melt to be foamed at a defined time over a defined period of time under a defined pressure.
The magnitude of the pressure exerted on the propellant during the metered addition is determined in particular in dependence on the required quantity of propellant, the type of article to be produced as well as the selected process parameters.
The present invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the figures on the basis of a preferred embodiment by the example of the addition of a compressible fluid. It goes without saying that the following explanation may also be applied in principle to non-compressible fluids such as water, for example.
After the cavity 1 has been filled with a desired quantity of propellant-free melt 6, the feed pipe 3 for the propellant is opened and the propellant is injected in compressed, preferably liquid, state via the injection point 5. Through contact with the hot melt, the liquid propellant turns to gas and expands under the lower pressure in the cavity.
As a general rule the propellant is still liquid and not gaseous at the injection point 5 itself, and therefore one cannot talk of a "gasification point" in a narrower sense.
The mixture 7 of gaseous propellant and melt flows into the cavity 1 and causes the cavity 1 to fill completely, in which case the propellant-free melt portion 6 which was used for the initial filling comes to rest in the region of the cavity walls and forms the external skin or edge zone of the injection moulded article to be formed.
The cavity 1 can be ready filled as desired and required up to the maximum filling quantity with melt mixed with propellant or, as shown in
After foaming and hardening, the finished injection moulded article, e.g. made of integral foam, is removed from the cavity and the cavity is immediately available again for the next charge.
As shown in
It is essential for execution of the process to prevent premature expansion of the propellant held under pressure. This can be achieved by appropriate insulation of the device and/or maintaining a suitable pressure level.
The metered addition of the propellant is conducted in a time- and pressure-controlled manner for the process according to the invention. Control can be carried out via a device which is also the subject of the invention.
As shown in
During the propellant injection phase, i.e. the phase in which the propellant is added to the melt, in the case of critical propellants, the compressed propellant passes via a pressure relief valve 4 to the injection point 5 and there is added to the melt.
In this case, the dimensions of the pipes, connection pieces and also the parts of the technical control system of the process are such that no premature expansion in volume of the propellant under pressure is possible.
In the case of a sudden increase in volume the aggregate state of the agent can change, i.e. the agent changes into a gas, in which case vaporisation cold is generated, which would in turn block the pipes as a result of "icing".
An increase in temperature on the way to the injection point 5 would also lead to a change in the aggregate state. For prevention, insulation of the heat-carrying elements is recommended.
In order to prevent premature expansion, all feed pipes should be as short as possible. Consequently, the pressure control valve 10 is preferably constructed to be as close as possible to the injection point 5. An improvement to the control characteristics of the control valve is also achieved as a result of the thus shortened feed pipe to the injection point 5.
If critical propellants are used, a pressure relief valve or overflow valve 4 is provided before the injection point 5, this valve ensuring that the pressure in the device does not drop below a specific value, preferably p (crit) at the given temperature, at which the transformation of the propellant into gas would take place. If, for example, carbon dioxide is used as propellant, a pressure of at least 60 bar should be maintained at room temperature in order to keep the carbon dioxide in the device upstream in liquid state.
The pressure relief valve 4 ensures that the propellant remains in compressed state even during outage times of the machine, e.g. in the intermediate cycle times before and after or between the propellant injection phases. A full release of pressure only occurs when the machine or control system is switched off. Several pressure relief valves with "falling" pressure values may also be provided so that a pressure gradient is formed in front of the injection point 5 in the feed pipe section between the pressure control valve 10 and the pressure relief valve 4.
The graph in
Outside of the propellant injection phase, as in the intermediate cycle times, it is sufficient to keep the device at a selected pressure, at which the propellant respectively used remains in compressed, preferably liquid, state (section 20).
During the propellant injection phase (section 22), an elevated pressure is introduced in the feed pipes through the pressure control valve 10 so that the opening pressure (holding pressure) of the relief valve 4 is exceeded and the feed pipe section 3 up to the injection point 5 is quickly filled with liquid medium.
In this case, the pressure increase is proportional to the desired quantity of propellant to be fed to the melt. After time t expires, as soon as the desired quantity of propellant has been added to the melt, the pressure is reduced again to the starting pressure (section 24).
The injection point 5 is preferably configured as a throttle means, e.g. as a defined gap in an injector, a sintered metal injector or a needle valve. According to the invention, a controlled closure mechanism is located at the injection point. The quick pressure increase and the resistance through the injector prevent the propellant from transforming into gas, while the agent flows on from the pressure control valve 10.
The above measures ensure that the transformation of the agent into gas only occurs upon exit from the injector and when in contact with the hot melt, and that the inflowing melt is foamed.
The controlled closure mechanism can be omitted if a pressure relief valve is provided.
After the propellant injection phase has ended, i.e. after the desired quantity of propellant has been added to the melt, the pressure in the feed pipe to the injection point 5 is reduced so that no propellant can flow on. However, in the pipe up to the pressure relief valve 4 the starting pressure remains in order to keep the agent in compressed or liquid state for the next cycle. A virtually pressure-free and thus gaseous state prevails only in the short feed pipe section from the pressure relief valve 4 to the injection point 5 until the next cycle.
It goes without saying that this part of the plant may also be kept under pressure if required by the provision of a suitable closure mechanism which opens again at the beginning of the propellant injection phase as a result of the increasing pressure level.
The pressure control via the pressure control valve can occur automatically by providing pressure measurement points 12, 13, for example, in front of and behind the pressure control valve.
If carbon dioxide is used as propellant, for example, the plant is preferably held at an operating pressure of at least 60 bar at room temperature, so that the CO2 also remains in compressed state during the periods between the propellant injection phases. At the beginning of the propellant injection phase, a desired working pressure of about 200 bar, for example, is built up (section 21) in order to assure an adequate flow of propellant to the melt. After the propellant injection phase 22 has ended, the pressure is reduced again to the desired operating pressure.
The injection point 5 is preferably located in the feeder pipe 3 close to the spray point x. According to a further embodiment, as is shown in
In addition, the build up of a counterpressure can be provided in the cavity 1, such as is also used in conventional injection moulding processes in the so-called gas counterpressure process.
Very short cycle times can be obtained with the process according to the invention. Hence, the process according to the invention is also very well suited to the production of mass-produced articles. The short cycle times are supported by the vaporisation cold resulting upon the transformation of the propellant into gas, and this causes a reduction in the cooling time, and thus also the cycle time.
Should there still be propellant residues present in the pore structure in the core of the article after demoulding, these slowly diffuse out of the article without detriment to its usability or recyclability.
Excellent dimensional stability of the article is achieved as a result of its closed firm external skin. In addition, foamed injection moulded articles which have a homogeneous uniform external skin and excellent tactility can be obtained with the process according to the invention.
The foamed injection moulded articles obtained have an excellent surface quality and do not require any further finishing. It is also of advantage that the cavity does not need to be treated with a separating agent.
The process according to the invention for the pressure-controlled metered addition of physical propellants to an expandable melt can be conducted advantageously with a device comprising a storage means 11, in which the propellant is stored under pressure, a pressure control valve 10 for regulating the propellant pressure and an injection point 5, which is preferably configured as a throttle means, at which the propellant under pressure is added to the melt, wherein the injection point 5 includes a controlled closure mechanism, and in the case of critical propellants at least one pressure relief valve 4 is provided which is positioned downstream of the pressure control valve 10.
Although the above-described process and the device for the pressure-controlled metered addition of propellants under high pressure can be advantageously used for the production of physically foamed injection moulded articles, they are, of course, also suitable for other processes in which propellants are added under high pressure to melts to be expanded.
melt feed
propellant feed pipe
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injection point
propellant-free melt
melt with added propellant
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MORE: Latest Dale Jr. updates With Dale Earnhardt Jr. in recovery mode as he works his way back from battling concussion-like symptoms, the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports driver has a bit of extra time on his hands as he lays low and won't be making a trip to the race track until Watkins Glen, at the earliest. Enter NBA Live. Confessing my addiction to @EASPORTSNBA on my iPad. I'm up at 5:30 cause there's a shooting drill to get done. #LV25 #Hornets #BanksNotOpen — Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) July 25, 2016 5:30 a.m. shooting drills? That's some Kobe-level committment. EA Sports took notice. @EASPORTSNBA I got em all matched up nice, but 2way and Bigs are playing well. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) July 25, 2016 Hey, at least he isn't playing "Pokémon Go." RELATED: Hate it or love it, 'Pokémon Go' is the future
Bobby Pierce making a name for himself at Eldora despite faltering in the end
RELATED: Results " Standings " Updated Chase Grid ROSSBURG, Ohio -- Kyle Larson had never heard of Bobby Pierce until last year's running of this event, when the dirt track standout earned the pole, led 39 laps and finished second. After Wednesday night's Aspen Dental Eldora Dirt Derby Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora Speedway, won by Larson, there's a good chance the Sprint Cup Series driver -- and NASCAR fans in general -- won't be forgetting his name any time soon. Pierce, in just his seventh career truck start, stomped the field to a tune of 102 of 150 laps led, sometimes approaching a full 5-second lead on the half-mile short track. But the 19-year-old had his shifter stuck in fourth gear and was unable to get it unstuck before an impending restart with less than 30 laps to go. The issue relegated him to a disappointing 25th-place finish after wrecking and slowly landing against the inside wall. "Kind of what bit me there was I couldn't get it out of fourth gear on the caution, so I was riding around there just beating it, just trying to get it out," Pierce told NASCAR.com after he was cleared and released from the infield care center. "I was restarting in second or third and I'm sure that's what Larson was doing, too, but on the restart I just couldn't get going. "I got to second (place) and I caught him there and just kind of drove it in a little too hard. Kinda hit the baby powder or whatever it was. The baby powder made it a little slick getting in, and that was all she wrote. Hit the wall, knocked the right rear off the rim." Pierce was unable to get his truck moving after hitting the wall and, despite his pleas to get pushed back on the track, was required to exit his vehicle and make a trip to the care center even though he "only hit the wall going about 1 mile per hour." Even if he'd been able to get it going again, it was unlikely that his team could've fixed the shifter, patched up any body damage and gotten him back out on the track in time to compete for the win. That's just how racing goes, sometimes. "Heck, it's always gotta be something. If you're going to win the race, you've gotta have luck and be good at the same time," said Pierce, whose best CWTS finish of the season came at Kansas (23rd). "Larson had a flat there early on and he charged back through there, but unfortunately our deal was later on so we couldn't come in and get it fixed. Even if it did, I don't think they could've gotten the tranny fixed getting it out of fourth because I tried every single trick in the book to get it out and it just would not go." Pierce said he's planning on running the event again next year, and likely has to be the odds-on favorite at this point, whether or not Larson aims to repeat his win. While no more national series events are on his schedule for the season, Pierce isn't ruling them out for the future. "Heck, the two years I've done (Eldora) have been really good so far," Pierce said. "(MB Motorsports team owner) Mike Mittler has treated me really well so far; planning on doing it again next year. As far as asphalt goes, just gotta find sponsorship if I'm going to do it. "(I'm pursuing more races) a little. Our dirt late model year and the previous years have been so good that even if I don't get sponsorship to try it a couple more times or whatever, then I'll be all right. It's good to run these deals. It's good to run pavement, too, because it makes you a better driver, going back to the late model and trying to pick up sponsorship." People noticed. Some of whom are undoubtedly sponsors. Feel free to do a quick Twitter search. Race fans knew Bobby Pierce was there, and race fans know Bobby Pierce is a driver to watch after these thrilling performances. "Well, hey. If I can't win," he said. "At least I put on a good show, I guess."
Staff picks for GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway
RELATED: See all the cars lined up for Sunday's race Denny Hamlin : If Joe Gibbs Racing can get organized in the same way it did at Daytona in February, the No. 11 could be the winning ticket at Talladega. -- Zack Albert Dale Earnhardt Jr .: Series' best plate racer has had three runner-up finishes this season. He's due. -- Kenny Bruce Jimmie Johnson : This will mark the 10th Talladega race since Johnson last won here and, quite simply, it's time. While his teammates will grab the lion's share of the attention, "Six-Time" will ultimately hold the winner's trophy -- his third. -- Holly Cain Joey Logano : Entering the weekend, I'd already pegged Joey Logano as the favorite -- then he went out and topped final practice. Seemingly due for a win and with a pair of restrictor-plate victories in his back pocket from last year, what more are you looking for? -- Pat DeCola Ryan Blaney : His best Cup finish came in this race last year and Penske, with whom Wood Brothers is affiliated, has taken two of the last three 'Dega races. -- RJ Kraft Dale Earnhardt Jr .: I'm jumping on the Junior bandwagon. He's always the one to beat at the 2.66-mile track and he'll make it difficult for the rest of the field en route to his seventh Cup win here. -- Maggie MacKenzie Brad Keselowski : The 2012 premier series champion spoils the recent Hendrick-JGR show of power, thanks to his own racing ingenuity and plenty of fast Fords with which to partner. -- Brad Norman Brad Keselowski : The Team Penske driver earned his first Cup win in 2009 at Talladega and has won twice more since. Couple that with he and teammate Joey Logano 's history of working closely together on-track -- a crucial element to plate racing -- and 'Dega Victory Lane could be calling Keselowski's name. -- Jessica Ruffin Matt Kenseth : All the bad luck that the No. 20 team has had this year has masked impressive speed. Talladega is about both luck and speed. With the former in hand as shown by his fourth-place qualifying effort, Kenseth is due for a more auspicious turn of his fortune. -- Kathy Sheldon Denny Hamlin : Hamlin saw Victory Lane two years ago at Talladega and with his 2016 Daytona 500 win under his belt, the JGR driver seems ready to dominate another superspeedway this season. -- Taylor Starer Chase Elliott : His dad won here twice and the man who drove the No. 24 before him won here six times. Talladega has been known to produce dramatic moments, so let's root for another one to happen Sunday. -- George Winkler Make your picks in Streak to the Finish !
NASCAR.com's 2016 Daytona 500 predictions
Going into 2016's season opener, members of the NASCAR.com editorial team make predictions for who will head to Victory Lane for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway . Zack Albert Dale Earnhardt Jr .: Restrictor-plate racing is often finicky, but it's hard to go against a proven Daytona-winning driver with a stout car that goes where he points it. Kenny Bruce Dale Earnhardt Jr .: As much as I'd like to see a surprise winner, inside information tells me it's Dale Jr.'s to lose. Holly Cain Denny Hamlin : He is overdue in this race, at a place he races so expertly. Pat DeCola Kyle Busch : 'Rowdy' will start 2016 the way he closed out 2015 -- on top. His dominant showing in the second Can-Am Duel was no fluke, and he'll pick up his second win of Speedweeks on Sunday. RJ Kraft Denny Hamlin : Hard to pick against Dale Jr., but I will. Hamlin has had the speed during Speedweeks, won the Sprint Unlimited and has four straight top-six finishes at Daytona. Hamlin will snap JGR's 23-year drought in the Daytona 500 and give Toyota its first win in the "Great American Race." Maggie MacKenzie Joey Logano : The talk at the track has Dale Jr. and his "Amelia" car winning, but the 2015 Daytona 500 champ shouldn't be forgotten. Logano's been posting top speeds all week as he continues the strong momentum from his dominant '15 season. Brad Norman Joey Logano : "Sliced Bread" becomes the first back-to-back Daytona 500 winner since Sterling Marlin (1994-95), overpowering those Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas and, yes, even race favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr . Jessica Ruffin Dale Earnhardt Jr .: Having won half of the speedway races last season, Junior's always a top pick heading into a plate event. Tack on his Duel win Thursday and his love for his car, and you've got a recipe for Victory Lane. Taylor Starer Kyle Busch : Coming off the high of being the 2015 Sprint Cup Series champion, Kyle Busch is ready to add another accomplishment to his resume: a Daytona 500 win. The Joe Gibbs Racing drivers have all looked strong during Speedweeks, but Busch will be the one who brings Toyota its first "Great American Race" victory. Kathy Sheldon Joey Logano : Amelia's a great car, but the No. 22 almost had something for Dale Jr.'s speedy ride in the Can-Am Duels. Something crazy always happens at Daytona, and the defending winner looks like he can sneak through the trouble spots again. George Winkler Ryan Blaney : Let's pick the Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate to pull off the upset for the Wood Brothers. Fellow Fords in the Team Penske camp can give him the push he needs to make like Trevor Bayne and shock the world.
Fantasy Daytona 500 grand marshal: Who we'd want to give the command
RELATED: Griffey Jr. named grand marshal " John Cena to drive pace car Daytona 500 dignitaries are being named. Ken Griffey Jr. will be the honorary starter. John Cena will drive the pace car. It all got us thinking -- if we could pick anybody in the world, living or dead, to be the grand marshal for the "Great American Race," who would it be? Here are NASCAR.com's staff picks. Pat DeCola Abraham Lincoln -- I'll be honest (you know, like Abe), as cool as Lincoln is, I'm only picking him because I know he knows how to fill time in a pinch. Four score and seven rain delays ago ... RJ Kraft Christopher Walken -- The man has a unique and famous delivery ("More cowbell," anyone?) that is just begging for this spot. He has countless celebrity impersonators from Kevin Spacey to Kevin Pollak to Bradley Cooper but nothing matches the original. Maggie McKenzie Oprah Winfrey -- This one was an obvious choice thanks to her incredible intelligence, powerful presence and, most importantly, that signature voice. And who knows, maybe she'll be the first commander to hand out gifts to the fans of some of her favorite things? Brad Norman Mel Blanc -- The "Man of a Thousand Voices" most famously known as Bugs Bunny also voiced such classic characters as Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Barney Rubble -- he'd put on quite a show ... as many characters. Jessica Ruffin Paul "Bear" Bryant -- What better person to give the command of the "Great American Race" than a man who embodies America's beloved game of college football? Bonus points if the Bear's hat matches Kyle Larson 's plaid paint scheme. Kathy Sheldon James Earl Jones -- He has the best voice in the history of recorded sound. I'm certain he could make it roar across Daytona International Speedway 's 180-acre infield and through the stands. And when Jones gives you a command, you follow it. Taylor Starer Beyoncé -- If you get the opportunity to incorporate Beyoncé into NASCAR, you take it. "Queen B" has got the pipes to take on the Daytona 500 command -- that's for sure -- and while she's there, might as well get her to sing the National Anthem. George Winkler Keith Richards -- Because even if we couldn't understand what he was saying it would be combined with a great guitar riff that would more than salvage the moment. Plus, chances are it would be way cooler than if Paul McCartney did i t . @nascarcasm Sean Penn -- Because then whatever international fugitive he brings with him can give the command along with him and then the authorities can capture him and it'll be a huge story.
H2H: What's on your NASCAR bucket list?
NASCAR fans, check your calendars. Sure, it's hot and humid outside -- it is August, after all -- but this week feels a lot like Christmas, doesn't it? Saturday marks one of the premier days of each year in motorsports -- we'll be runnin' 'em under the lights at Bristol Motor Speedway in the Irwin Tools Night Race (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM). For many, the night race at Bristol is the most-anticipated event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, even ranking ahead of the Daytona 500 . Seeing that race live is something special, something sure to be on every fan's ultimate bucket list. So that has us wondering -- what's on your bucket list? NASCAR.com's Pat DeCola and Jessica Ruffin offer their personal ones, and you should feel free to list your own down in the comments section. DeCola : My NASCAR bucket list? Man, that's a tough one. The sport has so much history at so many different tracks for so many different reasons, it's hard to narrow it down. For starters, I think I'd want to knock the Brickyard 400 at Indy off my list. The Brickyard is arguably the most famous track in the world -- certainly in the United States -- and I have a sneaking feeling the history runs so deep there that you can breathe it in just as easily as the exhaust from 43 cars running around a 2.5-mile rectangle at 200 mph. Indy's an obvious bucket list item. RELATED: Busch wins Indy for third straight victory Ruffin: Stepping on those celebrated bricks and looking up at the famed pagoda is nothing short of a NASCAR dream, Pat . Indy definitely makes my list, too. And while it's much smaller and less glamorous than Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I'm going to throw Martinsville Speedway on my NASCAR bucket list. As the oldest track on the circuit, Martinsville takes you back in time to the roots of racing. All the greats from Fireball Roberts to Junior Johnson to Richard Petty to Dale Earnhardt have wheeled race cars around the paperclip oval. Watching old-school short-track racing from the grandstands -- which all have a spectacular view -- while munching on a legendary Martinsville hot dog is a must-do for any diehard fan. DeCola : Tell me about it. Much to my cholesterol-level's dismay, Martinsville probably makes my bucket list for the hot dog, alone. Continuing down the history trail here, another one any fan would be thrilled to cross off their list is Darlington Raceway, especially for this year's Labor Day Throwback race. Sure, the summer trips to Myrtle Beach are great, but driving along the outside of the landmark track along the way only makes me wish I could be standing in the infield, watching those killer throwback schemes race to take home the biscuit race for one of NASCAR's majors -- the Bojangles' Southern 500 . RELATED: NASCAR.com names NASCAR's Majors Ruffin: This year's throwback schemes at Darlington are going to be incredible -- fans can bet they'll be transported back to another age of racing when they watch Kevin Harvick 's old-school Budweiser scheme turning laps around the speedway Labor Day weekend from the infield. Another place that makes my bucket list possibly for the infield alone is a "Big One" -- good ole Talladega. Located in the heart of Dixie, the larger-than-life tailgating -- which includes everything from mud wrestling to weddings -- and passionate fans make 'Dega a must-stop on the circuit. The racing's pretty awesome, too, with the superspeedway-style drafting, high speeds and crazy, multi-car pile-ups. And if someone like Junior -- the 'Dega fan favorite -- takes the checkered, the contagious post-race excitement is bound to leave you singing "Sweet Home Alabama" all the way home. DeCola : Home, you say, eh? Well, there's no better place to call home than Daytona International Speedway, which may as well consider itself the flagship track of our entire sport. Sure, I've been there before, but guess what -- the annual season-opening Daytona 500 should be on every NASCAR fan's bucket list … every year. One of the most unpredictable, enthralling races of the entire season, there's no reason to "cross it off" if you've been there before. Once is surely not enough. Ruffin: Daytona International Speedway isn't called the World Center of Racing for nothing, that's for certain. It's an iconic track and the Daytona 500 -- NASCAR's Super Bowl -- is the perfect way to open up the NASCAR season. Let's fast forward from the first race to the last race now: The season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. While it's not considered a NASCAR Major in everyone's book (see what we do consider the four NASCAR Majors here ), the final race of the season is a bucket list item simply for the sake of it being the race that ultimately decides the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion. Judging by the exciting, nail-biting atmosphere it created last season with four drivers all vying for the title, Homestead's popularity and hype is bound to increase. Not to mention its located in beautiful south Florida -- so why not make a vacation out of it?
Dillon on Bowman: 'He wrecked me on purpose'
RELATED: Best at-track photos Saturday at New Hampshire LOUDON, N.H. -- Alex Bowman gained a lot of new fans this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway -- but he may have earned an on-track enemy, as well. Bowman, the 23-year-old tapped to replace Dale Earnhardt Jr. (concussion-like symptoms) in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series New Hampshire 301 (1:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), got into an on-track incident with full-time XFINITY Series driver Ty Dillon shortly before the midway point in Saturday's NASCAR XFINITY Series Auto Lotto 200 race. The No. 88 JR Motorsports driver appeared to clip the right rear of Dillon's No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet on the straightaway, sending the title hopeful into the outside wall and out of race contention. Bowman indicated over his team radio that it was not intentional and that his Camaro was battling tight handling, but Dillon wasn't buying it. "Just watching the replay, he wrecked me on purpose," Dillon said in the garage as his No. 3 crew worked to repair his ride. " ... You can ask everybody that was around the 88 today. I'm sure after the race they'll say that he was the toughest one to pass for whatever reason. " ... He felt like he needed to turn me down the straightaway. Obviously I'm not very happy. I'll just try and be the cooler head right now because I'm glad he's still out there on the track and not here (in the garage) with me." Bowman maintained after the race that while he "wasn't really thrilled with how (Dillon) drove (him) prior to the wreck" that "it wasn't, by any means, intentional," but he'll probably wait a bit to offer a face-to-face apology to Dillon. "I'll talk to him, probably let him cool down a little bit," said Bowman, set for his first Sprint Cup Series start of the season on Sunday. "Kid tried to wreck me like four times but he couldn't get it done after that. Probably let him calm down without it turning into just him yelling at me. That's probably what he's going to do. That's probably what I'd do, too. I'd be upset, too. He has every right to be upset. " ... He'll get over it someday." Dillon was able to get back out on the track after the midway mark, but came out more than 50 laps off the pace. He finished 33rd. The championship hopeful came into the race 19 points behind leader Daniel Suarez, in third place. That gap widened to 48 points, just six ahead of second-place finisher Erik Jones . "Pretty upset right now. It's not how you race," Dillon said. "You don't turn me when we're going down the straightaway. I don't know what to say, because I don't have anything good to say, except for I'm glad he's not around right now. "Seemed like (his car) turned pretty good down the straightaway when I was passed him, so maybe he needs to figure out what loose and tight mean. Maybe I can explain it to him."


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Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracyby James O'Keefe
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The controversial and "courageous" (Glenn Beck) James O'Keefe, who Slate.com says "has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist," goes behind the scenes of the 2012 election cycle to reveal how our nation's highest office is won—and lost.
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The controversial and "courageous" (Glenn Beck) James O'Keefe, who Slate.com says "has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist," goes behind the scenes of the 2012 election cycle to reveal how our nation's highest office is won—and lost.
Beginning with his release of video recordings of workers at ACORN offices in 2009, James O'Keefe has been on the front lines of journalism, exposing fraud and corruption at some of our most entrenched institutions, private and government alike. Expecting the 2012 election to be similarly unscrupulous in terms of voter fraud and political manipulation, he has rounded up a team of citizen journalists from his organization, Project Veritas, to investigate and chronicle the events of this critical election cycle.
As fair as we like to think our elections are, they are not. As protected as we like to think is our right to free speech, it is not. As free as we like to think ourselves, we are not. In fact, the nation is being sapped of its democratic vitality by this loose coalition of forces—government, media, political parties—that see themselves as progressive but that conspire to protect the status quo.
O'Keefe shares his team's adventures during this cycle against the backdrop of the larger election story. Starting at the state houses, continuing up through Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice, and ending up at the White House, James O'Keefe provides a hard-hitting look at the unseen action behind the campaigns of our nation's 2012 election process.
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Nineteen eighty-four was not just the year I was born.
On the night of January 17, 2012, Kristen Coolidge1, home from college, talked and joked with her three younger siblings around the kitchen island while their mom, Mary*, prepared dinner nearby. The Coolidges lived in Newmarket, New Hampshire, on a quiet street lined with homes as old and picturesque as their one-hundred-year-old colonial.
Kristen heard the sounds first. Startled, she looked up and listened intently. They were footsteps—urgent, masculine footsteps—several sets of feet. She tracked them around the side of the house. Unaware, Mary labored away at the stove until a sharp rap on the seldom-used back door made her jump. She saw the outlines of three grown men dressed in winter gear and instinctively made her way to the door.
"Don't open it, Mom," whispered twenty-year-old Tim. Mary hesitated. Sensing her hesitance, the man in front flashed a badge. Mary proceeded to the door and opened it just a crack. "Can I help you?"
The lead officer—gruff, officious, his head shaved down to a military trim—wedged his foot in the opening and barged his way through. The two younger men followed, surveying the room. The Coolidges stood frozen. "We're looking for Adam Coolidge," said the lead officer, Mark Myrdeck, a retired police lieutenant now working for the New Hampshire attorney general, Michael Delaney. "We're told he lives here."
I learned about the raid as it happened. Nineteen-year-old Jenna Coolidge had the wherewithal to send me a Facebook message from her cell phone. "Hi James, three men just knocked on the door looking for Adam . . . asking about where he lives."
"What did Adam do?" asked Mary, deeply worried about her twenty-three-year-old son. Myrdeck could not give a direct answer. "We don't know if he has broken any laws. We just need to talk to him." He knew better than this. He brought with him a subpoena for Adam to appear before a criminal grand jury. He placed a dossier on the kitchen counter and left it open just enough so that the Coolidges could see photos of Adam and me.
To make sense of his visit, Myrdeck said something about how Adam disrupted a lot of families that had lost a loved one, making them feel uncomfortable. "My son is just trying to do good for the country," Mary protested, but the men were not listening.
The one person Adam had really made uncomfortable was New Hampshire governor John Lynch. Just six months earlier, a preening Lynch proudly vetoed New Hampshire state bill 129, which would have required voters to show a photo ID. In all his limited wisdom, the governor chastised a heartless legislature for passing a highly "restrictive" voter ID bill "despite any evidence that current law is insufficient protection against voter fraud."
A week earlier, Adam Coolidge and a few others had shown just how pathetically insufficient those protections were. These guys were the Green Berets of citizen journalism, the proud ground troops of Project Veritas, the nonprofit I had launched to revive investigative journalism. They had calmly walked into a half-dozen voting stations during America's most closely watched primary and were handed ballots for seven of the eight dead people whose names they volunteered.
Here we were just one week into our election fraud investigation, and we had already tripped the fascist trigger in the government-media complex. Too many people had too much at stake in a look-the-other-way electoral process to let us attack it with impunity. The harassment of the Coolidges was payback time. Six months later we would essentially be cleared of wrongdoing for our investigative reporting on voter fraud, however reluctantly, by the attorney general of the United States. But the Stasi wannabes of New Hampshire had yet to get that memo.
"She was physically shaking," Kristen said of her mom. "It was not as if they came in during the daytime or came in through the front door. They did to my mom what they hoped to do." T. S. Eliot had it nailed. "This is the way the world ends," he wrote in "The Hollow Men" nearly ninety years ago. "Not with a bang but a whimper." The crimes would be small ones, the persecution petty, the outcry limited to an old colonial in Newmarket, New Hampshire.
I wish I could have been there to help. I wish I could have gone to New Hampshire to oversee the video sting, but I could do neither. I had to direct the operation from the restored carriage house on my family's property in New Jersey. I could not leave the state without permission from, yes, my probation officer. This fellow was assigned to track me for a misdemeanor I did not even commit. That's how special I must have seemed to someone.
I was twenty-seven years old, five years into my self-created career as a citizen journalist, and I had already been arrested, imprisoned, nearly killed during my coerced "community service," commended along with Hannah Giles by the U.S. House of Representatives for exposing ACORN, publicly accused of everything from racism to rape, lauded by the governor of New Jersey for exposing a corrupt union, pursued recklessly on an interstate by a teacher I caught on tape, denounced by Keith Olbermann as the "worst person in the world," applauded for causing major resignations at National Public Radio, sued multiple times, slandered by half the working journalists in America, and finally inspired to expose voter fraud in the heat of a presidential election, which my late mentor Andrew Breitbart described over the phone to me as "the most consequential thing you ever did."
In the course of these short few years, I have received an education that few will receive in a lifetime. Some of what I learned came from books, most usefully Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, Tom Wolfe's Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and everything by G. K. Chesterton. Some I learned from the people who mentored me, chief among them my father, my grandfather, and the uniquely gifted Andrew Breitbart.
Much of what I learned, I learned through the cold, hard knocks of experience. To learn, I have had to sort my way through legal and media swamps into which no one has ventured before. For those who may want to follow, I have edited what I have learned into a set of guidelines, the Veritas rules. The rules are shaped by my larger vision, simply put, to make the world a more virtuous place.
By showing what is true and what is not, journalists can help forge a more ethical and transparent society, one in which people do what is right because they want to, not because they feel compelled to by the government. "A society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man," Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said at his justly famous Harvard address. He was talking about us. In solving human problems, we have become increasingly bureaucratic, technocratic, legalistic. The society we have today does not oppress like Solzhenitsyn's did. It depresses. It demoralizes. It discourages the impulse that motivated Revolutionary War general John Stark to "live free or die."
Years ago, New Hampshire adopted those stirring words as the state motto. Today New Hampshire officials intimidate families like the Coolidges over the exercise of their basic freedoms. Solzhenitsyn saw the change coming. "Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations," he said, "there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses." My colleagues and I had to fight through that paralysis in this, the critical year of the Lord, 2012. There was a lot at stake, and there were only ten months left before the presidential election.
1. Names changed to protect the innocent.
Meet the Author
James E. O'Keefe III gained major national attention for his release of video recordings of workers at ACORN offices in 2009, his arrest in early 2010 at the office of Senator Mary Landrieu, and his release of videos of NPR executives in 2011. In June 2010, O'Keefe formed Project Veritas, an organization with the stated mission to "investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct."
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Breakthrough takes readers through the life of an undercover journalist. It details the effect of the bias of the mainstream media and liberal government officials on O'Keefe, as well as how he has responded to these challenges. In the end, he overcomes these hurdles and learns lessons to maximize his effectiveness. A great read!
James O'Keefe has done an excellent job at exposing governmental/media fraud and they hate him for it. It is a shame that he has been treated so poorly for doing nothing more than ferreting out the cancerous ideologies and the organizations that practice them. If you don't like the media now, read this book and you will absolutely detest the media when you have finished Breakthrough. Not only will you dislike the media, but you may be left with a bitter taste in your mouth for modern academia and the justice system. Keep on fighting the good fight James and we will do out part and tune in.
Folks, pay attention to the cited publishers for any of these books. When you try to look up their offices, why do you end up in a vacant lot? Are any of these books legit independent reports, based upon some kind of fact? Why not? Don't trust any of this, use your heads.
This book revealed an enormous amount of fraud and corruption in many government agencies and taxfunded groups and the lengths those involved will go to suppress this knowledge from the public. Unfortunately most journalists go along to get along and will not buck the status quo. Thank God for someone like James O'Keefe who will not back down and follows through with what he knows is right.
Fast read. Shocking revelations. Reminds me of the feature film "Enemy of the State". Can't wait till Mr O'Keefe writes next book.
A must-read for all Conservatives. This book and the work of Project Veritas proves the collusion of the MSM and the Socialist "Progressives." Just when you thought America was the Land of the Free and people have freedom of speech, Mr. O'Keefe has taught us otherwise. I was surprised how far the anti-journalists are willing to goto suppress the truth in this country! The madness goes all the way to the top. Read this book, it will open your eyes.
A great read. Hard to put down. He dances good too.


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My favorite would be Help! and then A Hard Day's Night and Magical Mystery Tour are tied for second!
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I enjoy the ones I have in this order; A Hard Day's Night, HELP!, Yellow Submarine.
I would love to own Magical Mystery Tour and Let it Be if decent DVD releases were ever available in my lifetime. Watching it on an internet feed really doesn't do it for me.
4 September 2010
A Hard Day's Night is non-stop belly-laughs, and easily the best Beatles movie. Help! is fun, but the plot and the humour are pretty surreal to say the least. Also the leading girl isn't that good-looking either, which I understand to be something that would've enhanced her character.
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Help! would have to be my favorite, followed by Yellow Submarine and A Hard Day's Night. Let It Be was too depressing, and as for Magical Mystery Tour, I saw it when I was really little, and was permanently scarred.
3 November 2010
I just saw Help! for the first time today, and wow... that was a bizarre movie. I'm pretty sure everyone, not just the Beatles, working on that movie was high...
I did enjoy it, though, if mostly because of the music.
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I just saw Help! for the first time today, and wow... that was a bizarre movie. I'm pretty sure everyone, not just the Beatles, working on that movie was high...
I did enjoy it, though, if mostly because of the music.
"I'm pretty sure everyone,not just the Beatles,working on that movie was high..." - Thank you so much for the laugh CranberrySauce,that was the best thing I saw all day 🙂 I agree with you!
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But I love Help! It's by far my favourite Beatles movie. And yes, Cranberry, they were high on marijuana... and you're right, maybe even the crew, haha!
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Help! is my favourite, A Hard Days Night is a close second, because they're both so funny. Then Yellow Submarine, then Magical Mystery Tour, then Let It Be.
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