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|Glenn Knight, Nils Rodeblad
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|Environmental Control Corporation
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This invention relates generally to engine exhaust handling apparatus, and more particularly, to apparatus for noise abatement and catalytic treatment of internal combustion engine exhaust gasses.
In the burning of petroleum fuels in an internal combustion engine, hydrocarbons in the fuel and nitrogen and oxygen from the air used to combust the fuel combine to yield various oxides and nitrides, principally comprising carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and nitric oxide. Waste materials in the fuel, such as sulphur produce other oxides such as sulphur dioxide. Additionally, some of the fuel passes into the exhaust partially combusted or uncombusted.
Some oxides are more harmful to human beings than other oxides. For example carbon dioxide may pose less of a hazard than carbon monoxide. In order to minimize the more harmful emissions, most larger internal combustion engines, particularly those used in automobiles are equipped with exhaust gas catalysts in their exhaust systems ("catalytic converters") to convert less desirable oxides to more desirable oxides.
Automobiles generally have a fair amount of space available for both a catalytic converter and for noise abatement apparatus such as mufflers and resonators to suppress the noise ordinally associated with internal combustion engine operation.
Smaller engines in applications such as lawnmowers are significant generators of pollutants but in the past have seldom if ever been equipped with exhaust treatment apparatus, despite that for their size they often generate proportionately more harmful emissions. Reasons for this may include the lack of expensive and sophisticated engine management systems found in more expensive applications such as automobiles.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an efficient catalytic muffler design which lends itself to compact dimensions so as to be easily accommodated in internal combustion engine applications.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide such a compact catalytic muffler which also has noise attenuation capabilities to obviate the need for a separate muffler.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide a noise abating catalytic muffler design for small engine applications which is simple and comparatively inexpensive to produce and which lends itself readily both to O.E.M. and retrofit applications.
A catalytic muffler having at least one reactor bed, each bed having an array of discreet adjacent flow zones, the flow zones being interconnected by a series of passages for unidirectional flow of a gaseous fluid sequentially through each adjacent zone in turn from an inlet side of each reactor bed to an outlet side of the reactor bed. An inlet fluidly communicates with a first of the flow zones. An outlet fluidly communicates with the last of the flow zones.
The catalytic muffler may include a housing having a partition dividing the housing into a reactor side and a return side. The reactor bed may be housed within the reactor side. The adjacent zones may be defined by wall members extending between the reactor bed, the housing and the partition at the inlet and outlet sides of the bed. The passages may be defined by baffle members in the return side of the housing, the baffle members extending between the partition and the housing. The passages may fluidly communicate with respective of the flow zones through respective apertures extending through the partition.
The catalytic muffler may have two reactor beds spaced apart with inlet sides facing. A single inlet may fluidly communicate with both of the first zones and a respective outlet may fluidly communicate with each of the last zones.
The catalytic muffler may have two reactor beds spaced apart with outlet sides facing. A respective inlet may fluidly communicate with each of the first zones and a single outlet may fluidly communicate with both of the last zones.
A first of the passages may diverge in the flow direction to reduce exhaust gas velocity as it flows therethrough and a last of the passages may converge to increase gas velocity as it flows therethrough.
A last of the apertures before the outlet may include an adjustable flow restrictor for varying flow restriction through the catalytic muffler.
The first passage may diverge by an amount corresponding to an amount by which the last passage converges.
The reactor bed may be made up of two parts, namely an upstream part and a downstream part. The upstream part may bear a reducing catalyst and the downstream part an oxidizing catalyst.
Preferred embodiments of the invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying figures in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view from above of a catalytic muffler according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a reactor side of a catalytic muffler according to the present invention taken from its outlet side and with a top of its housing removed to show its interior configuration;
FIG. 3 is a bottom perspective view of a catalytic muffler according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a return side of a return side of a catalytic muffler according to the present invention with a bottom part of its housing removed to show its interior configuration;
FIG. 5 is a view corresponding to FIG. 2 but taken from the opposite or inlet side;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view from above of an alternate embodiment catalytic muffler according to the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a reactor side of the catalytic muffler FIG. 6 with a top of the housing removed to show its interior configuration;
FIG. 8 is a perspective view from below of the catalytic muffler of FIG. 6;
FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a return side of the catalytic muffler of FIG. 6 with a bottom part of its housing removed to show its interior configuration;
FIG. 10 is a view corresponding to FIG. 7 but taken from the opposite side;
FIG. 11 is a view corresponding to FIG. 7 but illustrating the use of a cylindrical substrate;
FIG. 12 is a perspective view corresponding to FIG. 8 but illustrating the use of a cylindrical substrate;
FIG. 13 is a view corresponding to FIG. 9 but illustrating the use of a cylindrical substrate; and
FIG. 14 is a view corresponding to FIG. 11 but taken from the opposite side.
A catalytic muffler according to the present invention is generally indicated by reference 10 in the accompanying drawings. The catalytic muffler 10 has a generally rectangular housing 12 having a partition 14 dividing the housing 12 into a reactor side 16 and a return side 18.
The reactor side 16 houses at least one reactor bed, however, in a more preferred embodiment it houses a reducing bed 20 and an oxidizing bed 22. The reactor beds 20 and 22 respectively may be a conventional honeycomb ceramic substrate having a plurality of discrete flow passages 24 extending longitudinally therethrough. A catalyst is typically borne by the substrate which, in the case of the oxidizing bed 22 promotes further oxidation of gases passing therethrough, and in the case of the reducing bed 20, provides reduction of gasses passing therethrough. Preferably he reducing bed 20 is located upstream of the oxidizing bed 22.
The oxidizing and reducing beds, 22 and 20 respectively, are divided into an array of discrete adjacent flow zones 30, 32, 34 and 36 by wall members 40 extending between the oxidizing and reducing beds 22 and 20 respectively, the housing 10 and the partition 12. The oxidizing and reducing beds 22 and 20 respectively, each have an inlet side 42 at one end thereof and an outlet side 44 at an opposite end thereof.
The return side of the catalytic muffler 10 is divided by baffle members 48 into a series of adjacent flow passages including an upstream passage 50, a downstream passage 52 and an intermediate passage 54. The upstream passage 50 fluidly communicates with the outlet side 44 of the flow zone 30 which may be considered as the "first" flow zone through an aperture 60. The upstream flow passage 50 also communicates with the inlet side 42 of the adjacent flow zone 32 through an aperture 62 extending through the partition 14. In a similar manner, the intermediate flow passage 54 provides fluid communication between the outlet side 44 of the flow zone 32 and the inlet side 42 of the adjacent flow zone 34 through respective apertures 64 and 66 extending through the partition 14. The downstream flow passage 52 provides fluid communication between the outlet side 44 of the flow zone 34 and the inlet side 42 of the flow zone 36 which may be considered the "last" flow zone through respective apertures 68 and 70 extending through the partition 14.
In other words, gas flow through the catalytic muffler is directed from an inlet 72 into the inlet side 42 of the first flow zone 30, sequentially through the adjacent flow zones 32, 34 and 36 to exit through an outlet 74 fluidly communicating with the outlet side 44 of the last flow zone 36, with gas flow through the reactor beds 20 and 22 being unidirectional, from the inlet side 42 to the outlet side 44.
As can be seen in FIG. 4, a flow restrictor 80 may be provided at the aperture 70 to restrict flow through the catalytic muffler. The flow restrictor 80 may be a disc 82 registering with the aperture 70 and movable toward and away from the aperture 70 by an adjusting screw 84 threadedly engaging the housing, a portion of which is represented by a nut 88 in FIGS. 4 and 5. Turning the restrictor 80 will affect flow resistance through the catalytic muffler 10 to vary flow velocity through various parts of the catalytic muffler 10.
As also illustrated in FIG. 4, the baffle members 48 are configured to cause the upstream passage 50 to diverge in the flow direction, illustrated by arrows 90. The baffle members are further configured to provide a generally constant cross-sectional area in the intermediate passage 54 and to cause the downstream passage 52 to converge in the flow direction 90. It will be appreciated that the gas flow will reduce in velocity and pressure along the upstream passage 50, remain at a generally constant velocity and pressure along the intermediate passage 54 and increase in velocity and pressure along the downstream passage.
It is believed that the above arrangement for varying velocity and pressure has a generally beneficial effect on the performance of the catalytic muffler 10. It is also believed that the temperature profile in the reactor bed (or beds 20 and 22 in the preferred embodiment) arising from sequential unidirectional flow through adjacent zones enhances the degree of catalytic conversion.
Although four adjacent flow zones 30, 32, 34 and 36 are described and illustrated, other numbers may be both possible and desirable depending on design parameters for specific applications. In general it is expected that the degree of conversion will be greater with more zones but that this will also increase flow resistance (assuming a given reactor bed size).
An alternate embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in FIGS. 6 through 10. According to the alternate embodiment, a catalytic muffler is generally indicated by reference 100. The catalytic muffler 100 is in essence a doubling up of the catalytic muffler 10 of the previously described embodiment and has two reactor beds 120 spaced apart with respective inlet sides 142 facing away from each other and respective outlet sides 144 facing toward each other.
The catalytic muffler 100 has a housing 112 as in the previously described embodiment which is partitioned by a partition 114 into a reactor side 116 and a return side 118. Wall members 140 extending between the inlet sides 142 of the reactor beds 120, the partition 114 and the housing 112 and between the outlet sides 142 of the reactor beds 120, the housing 112 and the partition 114 define adjacent flow zones 130, 132 and 134 in each reactor bed 120. Flow zone 130 may be considered a "first" flow zone and flow zone 134 a "last" flow zone based on gas flow direction as indicated by arrows 190.
Baffle members 148 extend between the partition 114 and the housing 112 to define upstream and downstream flow passages, 150 and 152 respectively. The upstream flow passage 150 fluidly communicates at its centre with the outlet side 144 of the first zones 130 through the aperture 160 and with the inlet side 142 of adjacent flow zones 132 through apertures 162.
The downstream flow passage 152 fluidly communicates at opposite ends thereof with the inlet sides 142 of the next adjacent flow zones 134 through apertures 168. The downstream flow passage 152 fluidly communicates with the outlet sides 144 of the last flow zones 136 through a central aperture 170.
Respective inlets 174 fluidly communicate with the inlet sides 142 of the first flow zone 130 through the housing 110. An outlet 172 fluidly communicates with the outlet sides 144 of each of the last flow zones 134. Accordingly exhaust flows unidirectionally from the inlets 174 through each reactor bed 120 from the inlet side 142 to the outlet side 144 in sequence from the first flow zone 130 through adjacent flow zones 132 and finally through the last flow zone 134 and out of the outlets 172.
It will be appreciated that although a single reactor bed 120 has been described, it can in turn be made up of a plurality of beds such as a reducing bed 122 and an oxidizing bed 124.
As in the case of the "single inlet/single outlet" design initially described, the alternate embodiment or "single inlet/double outlet" design may have its baffle members 148 configured to vary the cross sectional area of at least the downstream passage 152. Similarly a restrictor 180 may be mounted over one or more of the apertures, such as the apertures 168 or the aperture 170 to adjust the resistance to flow of the catalytic muffler and to balance the flow through each side.
A feature of the double inlet/single outlet design is that it can be configured to operate in a reverse mode, i.e. single inlet/double outlet. If a single reactor bed 120 is used the reconfiguration would merely require connecting the inlets 174 and outlet 172 in reverse. If a plurality of reactor beds, such as reducing beds 122 and oxidizing beds 124 are provided, reversal of the sequence of the beds may be desirable to best take advantage of exhaust temperature and chemistry.
Although test results have not shown any requirement to add further oxygen, such may be desirable in some applications in which case provision might be made such as an excess air inlet port through the housing 12 or 112 or into the inlet 72 or 174.
FIGS. 11 through 14 illustrate a reactor arrangement which is very similar to that illustrated in FIGS. 6 through 10 and accordingly analogous components are identified with similar reference numerals. The principal difference between the FIGS. 6 through 10 embodiment and the FIGS. 11 through 14 embodiment is the use of cylindrical rather than rectangular substrates in the reactor beds 120. Currently some substrate materials, such as metallic ones are not generally available in a rectangular configuration but rather, are only available in a cylindrical configuration. Accordingly, the reactor beds 120 include a housing having tubular passageways 202 arranged in a parallel side-by-side arrangement between generally rectangular end walls 204 from which the wall members 140 extend. Accordingly the reactor bed 120 in this configuration includes a plurality of individual substrates rather than a single substrate partitioned directly by the wall members 140.
A similar arrangement utilizing cylindrical substrate members may be adapted to the single inlet/single outlet variant catalytic muffler 10 illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 5.
The above description is intended in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. Variations may be apparent to persons skilled in such apparatus without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the claims set out below.
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|International Classification
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|European Classification
|Jun 27, 2001
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Marvin the Martian-talking geek pastiche Norbit (Murphy) is an orphan abandoned on the doorstep of Golden Wonton Restaurant and Orphanage by unkind kindly Asian caricature Mr. Wong (Murphy again), who, in a moment that doesn't feel like a joke but definitely feels full of rage, confesses that he traded his two-year-old daughter for a yak (in another, he reveals his dream to be a whaler, making him more Japanese than Chinese, but hey, a slant's a slant). Not connected to anything like atonement or social/racial satire, Mr. Wong hovers there in the background as occasional wise commentary while Norbit loses his childhood sweetheart Kate (Thandie Newton) and marries the monstrous Rasputia (yes, Murphy). Norbit loathes fat people, Asians, women... Walter Chaw The Other Side of Heaven (2002) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c8582be0970b 2016-06-03T23:01:00-05:00 2016-05-10T17:00:40-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image A Sound A Extras D starring Christopher Gorham, Anne Hathaway, Nathaniel Lees, Joseph Folau written and directed by Mitch Davis by Walter Chaw To call The Other Side of Heaven "appalling" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be. The film positions itself as "based on a true story" and "based on a memoir" without understanding that the two are often mutually exclusive. Then, without apology, it proceeds to manufacture scenes for maximum manipulation, everything from the messianic to the mundane. An opening dance sequence set in a Cleaver American Fifties features more stunt people, professional dancers, and trampolines than Cirque du Soleil, its artificiality setting the tone for the rest of the film, while the scene's conclusion (with the picture's hero trapping the celebrants in a giant dance hall, dooming them to death should a fire break out) serves as a pretty succinct summary of the film's feckless themes and carelessness. RUNNING TIME 113 minutes MPAA PG ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.85:1 (16x9-enhanced) LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 CC Yes SUBTITLES None REGION 1 DISC TYPE DVD-9 STUDIO Disney John Groberg (Christopher Gorham) is a graduate of Brigham Young University sent on his obligatory three-year... Walter Chaw Chasing Liberty (2004) [Widescreen Edition] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c84b5e1e970b 2016-05-25T23:01:00-05:00 2016-04-27T11:04:46-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image A- Sound A Extras C starring Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven, Annabella Sciorra screenplay by Derek Guiley & David Schneiderman directed by Andy Cadiff by Walter Chaw Giving a whole new meaning to the term "Grand Old Party," now that Jenna and Barbara Bush have made being the first daughter delinquent-delightful again after that stick-in-the-mud scholar/ambassador Chelsea (the "Family Values" party has a little 'splainin' to do), gird yourself for no fewer than three films featuring the exploits of the most powerful girl-child in the free world: David Mamet's Spartan, the Katie Holmes starrer First Daughter, and, first out of the block, Andy Cadiff's execrable Chasing Liberty. RUNNING TIME 111 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.35:1 (16x9-enhanced) LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 French DD 5.1 CC Yes SUBTITLES English French Spanish REGION 1 DISC TYPE DVD-9 STUDIO Warner The annual edition of Bad Judgment Theater featuring everyone's favourite holier-than-thou teen Mandy Moore, Chasing Liberty finds Moore, as first daughter Anna, hitching a ride from a stranger, hitching a ride from a trio of unkempt sheep herders, desperately throwing herself at strange men in the hopes of losing her virginity, and generally acting in a way that isn't... Walter Chaw Premonition (2007) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c824683e970b 2016-03-15T23:01:00-05:00 2016-03-15T23:01:00-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** starring Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Peter Stormare screenplay by Bill Kelly directed by Mennan Yapo by Walter Chaw There's a scene in the middle of Mennan Yapo's thunderously bad Premonition where two little moppets do a little "Who Killed Cock Robin?" hopscotch that is meant, I think, to mirror their mother's tripping back and forth through time to before and after her husband's timely/untimely death. See? I get it. Premonition, with its faux-spiritual, quasi-pretentious, Hallmark Hall of Fame-enshrined machinations, not only thinks pretty highly of itself in its Lake House fashion, but also corroborates a whole new genre behind the ample wake generated by newly-solemn Sandra Bullock involving fractured narratives (see also: Crash), often time travel (The Lake House), and pat morals having to do--like the ironic moral to another time travel fable--with being excellent to one another. Not even the sight of a severed head rolling around at a funeral or Peter Stormare as the voice of reason lends the picture the slightest flicker of life. It's less damning than Bullock's primary career as the poor man's Julia Roberts in vaguely misogynistic romantic comedies, I suppose, though the best that could be said about Bullock's... Bill Chambers The Romantics (2010) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b8d1a98357970c 2016-03-08T00:01:00-05:00 2016-03-06T13:27:02-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image C Sound B Extras D starring Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Elijah Wood screenplay by Galt Niederhoffer, based on her novel directed by Galt Niederhoffer by Walter Chaw Though technically correct, I much prefer the term "Romanticists" to "Romantics," but that's a fussy kind of neither here nor there in a film, hyphenate Galt Neiderhoffer's The Romantics, that suffers from nothing like precision, elegance, or, crucially, poetry. It's a nightmare--a handheld, artfully ugly mash-up of Rachel Getting Married and Dead Poets Society that starts with credits in Wes Anderson's favourite font and slogs on through with Lilith Fair/coffee-shop folk and a character played by Katie Holmes who's jealous of a character played by Anna Paquin's boobs. Let's call it a draw, ladies, and discuss instead this variety of faux-prestige romcom, which hijacks Lloyd Dobler's holding of a boombox blaring Peter Gabriel over his head by having frickin' Josh Duhamel hoist an iPhone with Keats's "To a Nightingale" on its screen. It features idiots like dollar-store Cameron Diaz Malin Akerman and an increasingly Gollum-esque Elijah Wood in awkward supporting roles; allows scenarios like the nightmare rehearsal-dinner toast montage; and tasks Candace Bergen's team of handlers and feeders... Walter Chaw The First $20 Million (2002) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c81a60b0970b 2016-02-26T00:01:00-05:00 2016-02-25T16:32:49-05:00 The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest ZERO STARS/**** Image C Sound B- starring Adam Garcia, Rosario Dawson, Jake Busey, Enrico Colantoni screenplay by Jon Favreau and Gary Tieche, based on the novel by Po Bronson directed by Mick Jackson by Walter Chaw Food-obsessed Japanese girl band Cibo Matto plays quietly behind a weird commercial of pastel San Diego Chickens sky-diving within the first five minutes of The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, offering a benighted hope that the film won't suck that is so ephemeral that its inevitable death is less cruel than perverse. Playing like a version of Real Genius that's somehow worse, the idea of a hard-partying geek fraternity involved in changing the world one byte at a time is so disinteresting and bankrupt that its resounding failure isn't nearly as surprising as the twin revelations that the otherwise bright-seeming Jon Favreau co-wrote the screenplay (and appears in a cameo with crap in his mouth), and that this dog pile of a script (based on a novel by Po Bronson) actually found suitors. RUNNING TIME 105 minutes MPAA Not Rated ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.85:1 (16x9-enhanced) 1.33:1 LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 Spanish Dolby Surround CC Yes... Walter Chaw Crossroads (2002) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01bb08b9f792970d 2016-02-15T00:01:00-05:00 2016-02-13T16:36:13-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** starring Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Anson Mount, Taryn Manning screenplay by Shonda Rhimes directed by Tamra Davis by Walter Chaw Crossroads is appalling and noxious. Consider how it maturely teaches that a young girl's choice to lose her virginity should be one based on careful consideration, and then has its heroine bed a tattooed ex-con she met five days previous; this is Smooth Talk without recognition of consequences. It stars Lolita mega-tart Britney Spears in her first movie, and the first scene we share with her is in her bedroom as she jumps up and down on the mattress in teeny underwear, quickly followed by a shot of Ms. Spears in tiny pink Victoria's Secret attire hopping into bed with her dorky lab partner before reconsidering the big leap. We also get shots of Spears in a sleazy Louisiana nightclub, where she finally erases any line left between her act and a strip show, and after that a few weird angles of her posing on the hoods of cars and in motel rooms while clad in towels and bikinis. The only thing separating Crossroads from a Showtime soft porn (it has all the excrescent acting, bad soundtrack, and... Walter Chaw Just Like Heaven (2005) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c811ac17970b 2016-02-06T00:01:00-05:00 2016-02-05T12:26:04-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image A Sound A Extras C starring Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters screenplay by Peter Tolan and Leslie Dixon, based on the novel If Only It Were True by Marc Levy directed by Mark Waters by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. I'm reminded of another magic-realist romantic comedy named after a song: Emile Ardolino's sweet, all-but-forgotten Chances Are, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the reincarnate of a man killed en route to meeting his sweetie Cybill Shepherd. He falls in love with Shepherd's daughter Mary Stuart Masterson, then falls back in love with Shepherd. This is a circuitous, distressingly disinteresting route towards expressing that Mark Waters's Just Like Heaven is not only a movie I really hate, but also a movie that's been done so many times before that instead of needing to follow along with the rigid requirements of the picture, you have time to comb the memory banks for obscure films that are better variations on this theme. (Stuff like Ghost, natch, but even relentlessly creepy garbage like Return to Me (also titled after a song) or Heart Condition or Always--or Truly, Madly, Deeply or The Bishop's Wife. Or the pinnacles of... Walter Chaw When a Stranger Calls (2006) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c80ef0d8970b 2016-02-03T00:01:00-05:00 2016-02-03T00:01:00-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** starring Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty screenplay by Jake Wade Wall, based on the screenplay by Steve Feke and Fred Walton directed by Simon West by Walter Chaw There's nothing patently, obviously offensive about Simon West's abominable remake of the already awful "thriller" When a Stranger Calls: It's neither misogynistic nor racist nor really anything more than exactly what you'd expect from a project like this, dumped as it has been in the wasteland of another early-February. It's so studiedly inoffensive, in fact, that you could take an elderly nun to it and there would be nary a flutter in her rigidly tender sensibilities. It tittles no ates, manufactures no suspense, and no one in a packed audience of four-hundred folks at the preview screening rustled an inch when the cat--not once, but twice--provided the false jump before the "real" one, though I confess the reason for that might be that by the time West and company get around to actually having something happen, most anyone with any kind of sense is asleep or halfway home. I've failed to mention that it's acted by heavy-browed lead Camilla Belle (as babysitter Johnson, Jill Johnson) like a... Walter Chaw Alone in the Dark (2005); Hide and Seek (2005); In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger (2005) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01bb08aba7f9970d 2016-01-28T00:01:00-05:00 2016-01-13T16:33:50-05:00 ALONE IN THE DARK ZERO STARS/**** starring Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner screenplay by Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer directed by Uwe Boll HIDE AND SEEK **/**** starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue screenplay by Ari Schlossberg directed by John Polson by Walter Chaw Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is a "paranormal investigator," which in Uwe Boll's visual vernacular means that he dresses like Highlander Duncan MacLeod and lives in MacLeod's apartment, too. Chip through the film's hard veneer of unsightly stupidity (it looks a lot like a Jess Franco film shot on a smaller budget) and you'll begin to unearth a narrative of sorts concerning an ancient Indian tribe that opened a gateway between the light and dark worlds; most of this is imparted by an interminable opening scrawl that's read aloud because director Uwe Boll, himself illiterate, is sympathetic with his target audience, though we get other clues to a plot from an orphan in flashback who, unlike his twenty peers, escapes possession from, um, some bad thing, and a mad scientist Professor Hudgins (Mathew Walker) and his brilliant (snicker) assistant Aline (Tara Reid) trying to collect a bunch... Bill Chambers Shorts (2009) - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c8073172970b 2016-01-27T00:01:00-05:00 2016-01-13T21:03:28-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image A Sound A Extras D starring Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann, James Spader written and directed by Robert Rodriguez by Walter Chaw George Bernard Shaw posited that one should "make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." Transposed to film, it seems more often than not that when one refers to a "kid's movie," it means that it's a piece of shit no one in their right mind would watch, so: give it to your little ones. Go farther with it and find that said pieces of shit are also above critique for most, defended with the unassailable notion that if their toddlers enjoyed it, then what's the harm? Except that the reason children aren't allowed to make decisions for themselves is because they'd choose to watch stuff like Shorts, Robert Rodriguez joints rolled exclusively for the molly-coddling of his children, who come up with this shit for their rebel-with-a-crew daddy to crank out of his make-hole. RUNNING TIME 89 minutes MPAA PG ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.85:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD English DD 5.1 French DD 5.1 Spanish DD 5.1 SUBTITLES English SDH French Spanish REGION... Walter Chaw Dirty Grandpa (2016) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01bb08b03741970d 2016-01-23T01:18:22-05:00 2016-01-23T01:27:00-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** starring Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Aubrey Plaza, Dermot Mulroney written by John M. Phillips directed by Dan Mazer by Walter Chaw It's one of those boilerplates about an uptight guy on the eve of marrying a harridan taking a road trip with a free spirit to discover that maybe he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life (or the few years until he secures a divorce--the subtext of these things is always curiously traditional) selling out to The Man. Jason (Zac Efron) is that potential sell-out. You can tell because he dresses like the villain from an Eighties college sex comedy, is a corporate lawyer, and is engaged to a materialistic bimbo (Julianne Hough) who will justify his unconscionable hedonism by being a secret slut herself in his absence. The best of these films is its prototype, obviously (Capra's It Happened One Night), but the one I return to most often is Bronwen Hughes's curiously sticky--if only to me--Forces of Nature. The high concept this time around is that De Niro is the free-spirit road-tripper in a role that asks him to, literally at one point, be rapping grandmother Ellen Dow from The Wedding Singer.... Walter Chaw Joy (2015) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b8d1889977970c 2015-12-25T22:09:18-05:00 2015-12-25T22:15:51-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramirez, Bradley Cooper screenplay by David O. Russell directed by David O. Russell by Walter Chaw After demonstrating with his last few movies that he's not Martin Scorsese, David O. Russell has decided to kill two birds with one stone by demonstrating that he is neither Wes nor P.T. Anderson, either. In Joy, he proves that marrying Wes Anderson's whimsical solipsism with P.T. Anderson's Pynchon-esque biographical sketches is an amazingly stupid thing to do--one of those science experiments in '50s B-movies that everyone knows is a bad idea except for the idiot doing the splicing. Yes, Joy is that bad. When it's not being unbearably twee, it's perving on Jennifer Lawrence like von Sternberg on Dietrich. But Joy ain't no Blue Angel, and while I like Lawrence fine, I guess, Russell is sure as hell no von Sternberg. What I'm saying is that Russell is a terrible, glitchy director with a thing for Lawrence that he manifests by shooting her walking towards the camera with sunglasses, without sunglasses, with a wig and without a wig, in slow-motion or at normal speed, in daytime, nighttime; he lights her with the sun, with... Walter Chaw Rails & Ties (2007) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c7f758f7970b 2015-12-09T00:01:00-05:00 2015-12-08T21:52:07-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image B+ Sound B Extras D starring Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer, Marin Hinkle screenplay by Micky Levy directed by Alison Eastwood by Ian Pugh Alison Eastwood's directorial debut makes its first--and, as it turns out, fatal--misstep by taking the wrong page from her father Clint's own career, applying a fundamentally tragic story to the straightforward misery of his winter output, thus bypassing the elegiac poetry of his late fall period. Distant wives dying of cancer, mentally unstable mothers tossing themselves into the paths of moving trains, and no one given the benefit of any examination beyond the prodding reminder that such things happen every day: Rails & Ties is another stultifying entry in the post-Crash, post-Babel cycle of cinema that doesn't want to educate or enlighten you with any perspective about these occurrences or their effect on humanity--it just wants to transform you into an emotional punching bag. RUNNING TIME 101 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.35:1 (16x9-enhanced) LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 CC Yes SUBTITLES English French Spanish REGION 1 DISC TYPE DVD-9 STUDIO Warner Because train engineer Tom Stark (Kevin Bacon) can't cope with the fact that his wife Megan (Marcia Gay Harden) has... Bill Chambers


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Term used for cool, radical.
That car has some 'fresh' wheels.
That hair-do is 'fresh'
That hair-do is 'fresh'
ayon kay FontE ika-05 ng Nobyembre, 2003
This means that the person is still a virgin.
Dude that girl isn't fresh anymore she expired 2 months ago.
ayon kay Alon the Oak Tree ika-24 ng Setyembre, 2006
adjective used to describe young sludes who look hot but are not of legal consenting age. Usually uttered by degen types whilst on the madness hunt.
"Bro, your little sister is frrrresh"
"Dude shes 15"
"Fresh fresh freshaka!" yelled while banging fists on table
"Dude shes 15"
"Fresh fresh freshaka!" yelled while banging fists on table
ayon kay the DEGEN master ika-16 ng Oktubre, 2005
another name for "freshman"
yo fresh, give me your lunch money.
ayon kay joe ika-17 ng Hunyo, 2005
Too cool to be normal. Also meaning you are way beyond the standards of normal kids..
YO man..You are the freshest kid in the school
ayon kay Brian a.k.a. fresh a.k.a killa ika-09 ng Setyembre, 2004
Joshua Jorco Arceo
Joshua Jorco Arceo defines fresh.
ayon kay Kai Rebolledo ika-14 ng Setyembre, 2008
Very select few Girls at Nimitz High.(Houston)
"hey them those F.R.E.S.H. girls.... they fine as hell and they run this whole damn school"
ayon kay Lil C. ika-10 ng Hulyo, 2008


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However, as I progressed through the book, I found myself predicting the ending, what would happen to the characters, et cetera. The journal Mimi is forced to keep is also a big part of the plot, but there is almost journal content in the book.
I did like this book, because while it was predictable, it was enjoyable and I spent the better part of a day engrossed in Mimi's "rise and fall."
I think that the author, Lauren Mechling, did a great job writing this book. I think this because she made it very realistic, it's not just another one of those books when everything turns out perfectly and happy. That is not how things work in real life. And even though the popular group is pretty and rich, they have flaws too. Mimi realizes that even though you are popular you are a real person with real problems. I would recommend this book to middle school students. It is a little inappropriate for younger kids, but it is at a perfect level for middle school. I really enjoyed reading this book, and I hope that other people will too.
MimiDeals with being the new kid at her new school in New York after her parents get divorced and she moves from Texas to live with her father. Follow her on her journey as she gets picked up dropped and picked up by the "A list" girls in the tenth grade.
Like I said, its similar to Gossip Girls, both are great reads for girls in thier mid to upper teens.
Best friend Sam bets Mimi that she can't become friends with the cool Baldwin girls. Mimi accepts Sam's bet, but soon finds out that the cool girls at Baldwin are very different from the blonde all-American types in Texas. At first she is just being friendly to Pia, Jess, Viv, and Lily because of the bet. She soon finds out that these rich, popular girls have secrets and family problems much worse than her own. Mimi eventually feels the bonds of real friendship forming and then the stakes become much higher. Her entire friendship is based on lies and deception. How would she ever face her friends again if they found out?
Lauren Mechling and Laura Moser are the authors of THE RISE AND FALL OF A 10th-GRADE SOCIAL CLIMBER. Lauren grew up in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Harvard College. She writes a column for the New York Sun. Laura grew up in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Amherst College. She is also the author of a biography of Bette Davis. Lauren and Laura became friends 10 years ago when Laura shared her acne medication with Lauren in a restroom. They now live near each other in Brooklyn.
Every teen knows the feeling of wanting to belong and struggling to find their true identity. Thus, readers will quickly identify with Mimi Schulman and the richly drawn characters in THE RISE AND FALL OF A 10th-GRADE SOCIAL CLIMBER.
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A commanding officer from Rock Island was removed from the job after humiliating three reservists in front of other sailors, a Navy report says.
Lt. Cmdr. Jack O'Neill was in charge of Navy Operational Support Center Rock Island until March 19.
An investigative report released Wednesday by Navy Reserve Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., says O'Neill was upset several sailors missed physical training during a drill weekend. He ordered those sailors to perform a body-building exercise in front of others, with each saying "I do what I want" after each repetition.
The report was obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act.
The sailors said they were embarrassed. O'Neill later apologized.
The Navy considers the incident hazing. It happened weeks after a hazing prevention office was created.
Sailors in the command reported the hazing incident after a routine drill the weekend of March 9-10 and an investigation took place.
O'Neill, 42, was reassigned temporarily to the Army Garrison on the Arsenal. Lt. Cmdr. Gregory Cissell has taken command of the support center temporarily.
O'Neill had been in command of the operations support center since July 2011.
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A number of service providers host storage at their own facilities for customers who want to get off the capacity treadmill. Cloud storage offerings include Amazon's Simple Storage Service and Microsoft's Azure Services Platform, which is available as a Community Technology Preview. Google, which already provides storage for applications such as Gmail, is rumored to be preparing an online storage service named GDrive.
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He had his piano adjudication today where he played 2 memorized pieces for a professor of music and then received feedback on his playing, technique, etc. He did fabulous! I am pretty sure the judge wasn't just being easy on him either when he went on about how perfect his playing was, how hard the pieces were for a 9 year old, because the girl before him was not much older than him and he came down on her quite a bit about her timing, the mistakes she made, encouraged her to practice better and not accept and move on when she makes mistakes in her practicing, etc. The only corrections he gave Joseph was to not be shy about his dynamics--make is louds louder and his softs softer Which he does at home, but not always in a performance.
I am so glad because Joseph needs to feel accomplished. He is so smart and talented but is the most scatterbrained and distracted child! So even though he is in a gifted program at school, he constantly feels like he is not good enough because he does his work slowly (he gets it-very well, but has a hard time focusing long enough to get things done a lot). I don't anyone to label him with any ADD type thing, but he honestly could be--though with routines at home, we have been able to overcome a lot of it, its just at school now we are struggling because of how his teacher structures her class. So having these things in piano make him feel like he has accomplished a lot!
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text: Kimberly-Clark Corp. Company Profile (NYSE:KMB) Analyst Ratings Earnings Estimates Dividends Insider Trades Headlines Social Company Profile Chart Analyst Ratings Consensus Ratings for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB) (?) The ratings breakdown includes the most recent rating from each analyst that has rated the stock within the last twelve months. The ratings score is a calculation of the average number of sell, hold, buy and strong buy ratings (0-1.5 = Sell, 1.5-2.5 = Hold, 2.5-3.5 = Buy, >3.5 = Strong Buy). The consensus price target is a mean average of the most recent price target set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months.Ratings Breakdown: 5 Hold Rating(s), 2 Buy Rating(s), 1 Strong Buy Rating(s)Consensus Rating:Buy (Score: 2.50)Consensus Price Target: $133.00 (2.66% upside) Analysts' Ratings History for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB) Show: All Ratings For This Stock Only the Most Recent Rating From Each Brokerage DateFirmActionRatingPrice TargetActions7/27/2016Citigroup Inc.Boost Price TargetNeutral$135.00 -> $139.00 7/26/2016B. RileyReiterated RatingNeutral$124.00 7/24/2016Deutsche Bank AGReiterated RatingHold$130.00 -> $132.00 7/15/2016Goldman Sachs Group Inc.Reiterated RatingConviction-Buy$152.00 -> $156.00 5/2/2016ArgusReiterated RatingHold 3/21/2016Barclays PLCBoost Price TargetOverweight$132.00 -> $149.00 10/23/2015Societe GeneraleUpgradeHold -> Buy$120.80 -> $135.00 10/22/2015Royal Bank Of CanadaBoost Price TargetSector Perform$110.00 -> $114.00 8/26/2015Credit Agricole SALower Price Target$125.00 -> $115.00 7/20/2015Sterne Agee CRTInitiated CoverageNeutral 4/2/2015BMO Capital MarketsDowngradeOutperform -> Market Perform$125.00 -> $112.00 3/24/2015Wells Fargo & Co.UpgradeMarket Perform -> Outperform$120.00 -> $117.00 1/23/2015BTIG ResearchReiterated RatingHold (Data available from 7/30/2014 forward) Earnings Earnings History for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallActions10/24/2016 7/25/2016Q216$1.48$1.53$4.56 billion$4.60 billionViewListen 4/22/2016Q116$1.51$1.53$4.53 billion$4.50 billionViewListen 1/25/2016Q415$1.43$1.42$4.58 billion$4.50 billionViewListen 10/21/2015Q315$1.49$1.51$4.68 billion$4.70 billionViewListen 7/23/2015Q215$1.36$1.41$4.63 billion$4.64 billionViewListen 4/21/2015Q115$1.33$1.42$4.60 billion$4.70 billionViewN/A 1/23/2015Q414$1.38$1.35$4.99 billion$4.80 billionViewN/A 10/21/2014Q314$1.54$1.61$5.36 billion$5.40 billionViewListen 7/22/2014Q214$1.50$1.49$5.32 billion$5.30 billionViewN/A 4/21/2014Q114$1.47$1.48$5.31 billion$5.30 billionViewN/A 1/24/2014Q413$1.39$1.40$5.28 billion$5.31 billionViewN/A 10/22/2013Q313$1.40$1.44$5.23 billion$5.30 billionViewN/A 7/22/2013Q2 2013$1.39$1.36$5.34 billion$5.27 billionViewN/A 4/19/2013Q1 2013$1.33$1.48$5.28 billion$5.32 billionViewN/A 1/25/2013Q4 2012$1.35$1.37$5.19 billion$5.30 billionViewN/A 10/24/2012$1.32$1.34ViewN/A 7/26/2012$1.28$1.30ViewN/A 4/20/2012$1.17$1.24ViewN/A 1/24/2012$1.30$1.28ViewN/A 10/24/2011$1.26$1.26ViewN/A 7/25/2011$1.16$1.18ViewN/A 4/25/2011$1.17$1.09ViewN/A 1/25/2011$1.15$1.20ViewN/A (Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Estimates Earnings Estimates for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB)QuarterNumber of EstimatesLow EstimateHigh EstimateAverage EstimateQ1 20163$1.47$1.53$1.50Q2 20161$1.46$1.46$1.46Q3 20161$1.52$1.52$1.52Q4 20161$1.48$1.48$1.48(Data provided by Zacks Investment Research) Dividends Current Dividend Information for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB)Annual Dividend:$3.68Dividend Yield:2.84%Payout Ratio:68.40% (Based on Trailing 12 Months of Earnings) 60.33% (Based on Current Year Consensus EPS Estimate)56.36% (Based on Next Year Consensus EPS Estimate)Dividend Growth:6.00% (3 Year Average)Dividend History for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB)AnnouncedPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable DateShare5/4/2016quarterly$0.922.89%6/8/20166/10/20167/5/2016 2/11/2016quarterly$0.922.86%3/2/20163/4/20164/4/2016 11/12/2015quarterly$0.883%12/2/201512/4/20151/5/2016 8/3/2015quarterly$0.883.03%9/2/20159/4/201510/2/2015 4/30/2015quarterly$0.883.17%6/3/20156/5/20157/2/2015 2/19/2015quarterly$0.883.17%3/4/20153/6/20154/2/2015 11/13/2014quarterly$0.842.98%12/3/201412/5/20141/5/2015 8/1/2014quarterly$0.843.19%9/3/20149/5/201410/2/2014 5/1/2014quarterly$0.843.03%6/4/20146/6/20147/2/2014 2/25/2014quarterly$0.843.1%3/5/20143/7/20144/2/2014 11/15/2013quarterly$0.813%12/4/201312/6/20131/3/2014 8/1/2013quarterly$0.813.25%9/4/20138/6/201310/2/2013 5/2/2013quarterly$0.813.07%6/5/20136/7/20137/2/2013 2/21/2013quarterly$0.813.43%3/6/20133/8/20134/2/2013 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Insider Trades Insider Trading History for Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB)Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionActions7/26/2016Lizanne C GottungSVPSell6,204$132.17$819,982.68 7/26/2016Thomas J FalkChairmanSell206,445$133.40$27,539,763.00 5/12/2016Sandra MacquillanSVPSell5,080$129.75$659,130.00 5/5/2016Kimberly K UnderhillInsiderSell3,073$127.77$392,637.21 2/25/2016Thomas J MielkeSVPSell10,965$132.71$1,455,165.15 2/22/2016Anthony J PalmerInsiderSell6,524$130.93$854,187.32 2/22/2016Lizanne C GottungSVPSell4,337$132.01$572,527.37 2/22/2016Michael T AzbellVPSell3,402$132.55$450,935.10 1/27/2016Kimberly K. UnderhillinsiderSell9,097$124.94$1,136,579.18 11/19/2015Mark A ButhmanEVPSell5,988$122.00$730,536.00 10/23/2015Lizanne C. GottungSVPSell3,000$120.14$360,420.00 10/22/2015Michael D WhiteDirectorBuy2,100$119.15$250,215.00 10/22/2015Michael T. AzbellVPSell29,403$119.59$3,516,304.77 10/22/2015Thomas J. MielkeSVPSell20,536$120.51$2,474,793.36 5/14/2015Mark A ButhmanEVPSell33,502$111.00$3,718,722.00 5/11/2015Thomas J MielkeSVPSell20,535$110.49$2,268,912.15 5/8/2015Thomas J FalkCEOSell42,708$110.94$4,738,025.52 5/4/2015Kimberly K UnderhillInsiderSell9,306$111.17$1,034,548.02 4/22/2015Anthony J PalmerInsiderSell7,130$112.00$798,560.00 4/22/2015Lizanne C GottungSVPSell5,666$112.85$639,408.10 2/12/2015Mark A ButhmanCFOSell24,489$109.67$2,685,708.63 1/27/2015Thomas J FalkCEOSell156,488$110.20$17,244,977.60 1/26/2015Thomas J FalkCEOSell13,988$110.29$1,542,736.52 11/26/2014Lizanne C GottungSVPSell21,749$113.74$2,473,731.26 11/7/2014Anthony J PalmerInsiderSell8,249$113.20$933,786.80 8/21/2014Thomas J MielkeSVPSell8,249$109.41$902,523.09 4/28/2014Kimberly UnderhillInsiderSell5,864$110.84$649,965.76 4/28/2014Lizanne GottungSVPSell15,493$110.10$1,705,779.30 4/25/2014Joanne BauerInsiderSell5,348$109.00$582,932.00 2/28/2014Mark ButhmanCFOSell6,214$110.35$685,714.90 2/28/2014Robert AbernathyEVPSell9,221$110.00$1,014,310.00 2/25/2014Anthony PalmerInsiderSell10,465$110.67$1,158,161.55 2/18/2014Lizanne GottungSVPSell5,553$108.94$604,943.82 1/30/2014Mark ButhmanCFOSell13,751$108.00$1,485,108.00 1/28/2014Anthony PalmerInsiderSell37,079$108.61$4,027,150.19 1/27/2014Elane StockInsiderSell14,303$107.76$1,541,291.28 11/27/2013Mark ButhmanCFOSell17,590$108.04$1,900,423.60 11/27/2013Robert AbernathyEVPSell13,098$108.00$1,414,584.00 11/21/2013Lizanne GottungSVPSell10,000$107.85$1,078,500.00 11/19/2013Thomas FalkCEOSell235,983$108.34$25,566,398.22 8/23/2013Robert DecherdDirectorBuy2,000$95.75$191,500.00 7/24/2013Thomas J MielkeSVPSell17,989$97.96$1,762,202.44 5/10/2013Lizanne C GottungSVPSell32,762$102.90$3,371,209.80 2/26/2013Thomas J MielkeSVPSell5,366$94.14$505,155.24 11/1/2012Anthony J PalmerCMOSell17,600$83.45$1,468,720.00 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Headlines Latest Headlines for Kimberly-Clark Corp. 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Kimberly-Clark, which makes consumer products including Kleenex and Huggies diapers, fell 1% after reporting ...07/25/16 08:45 AMPisani: Stocks edge lower - 07/25/16 08:30 AMKimberly-Clark (KMB) Q2 Earnings Top on Volume Growth - 07/25/16 07:52 AMMore on Kimberly-Clark's Q2 - 07/25/16 07:50 AMKIMBERLY CLARK CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhib - 07/25/16 07:24 AM[$$] Kimberly-Clark Hurt by Current Rates - 07/25/16 06:49 AMKimberly-Clark (KMB) Beats on Q2 Earnings and Revenue - 07/25/16 06:48 AMKimberly-Clark Announces Second Quarter 2016 Results - [at noodls] - DALLAS, July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) today reported second quarter 2016 results and confirmed its previous guidance for full-year 2016 adjusted earnings per share. ...07/25/16 06:46 AMKimberly-Clark reports better-than-expected Q2 earnings, revenue - 07/25/16 06:43 AMKimberly-Clark beats 2Q profit forecasts - 07/25/16 06:42 AMKimberly-Clark beats by $0.05, beats on revenue - 07/22/16 04:48 PMAnalysts Watch-list Stocks: Dana Holding Corporation (NYSE:DAN) , Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) - Street Updates07/22/16 04:48 PMNielsen N.V. Ordinary Shares (NYSE:NLSN) & Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB) Trader's Round Up - Money News (press release)07/22/16 04:48 PMStock Performance to Track: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) - News Oracle07/22/16 04:48 PMHoward Capital Management buys $11664917 stake in Kimberly Clark Corp (KMB) - TheFounders Daily07/22/16 07:49 AMKimberly-Clark: will tears of sadness turn to joy?07/20/16 09:21 PMINVESTOR ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Reminds Investors of a Class Action Involving Halyard Health, Inc. & Kimberly-Clark Corporation…07/20/16 09:21 PMKimberly-Clark (KMB) Q2 Earnings: What's in the Cards?07/20/16 02:58 PMStock to Track: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) - News Oracle07/20/16 02:58 PMIs Kimberly-Clark Corporation(NYSE: KMB), a large market cap stock a smart buy? - The Daily Leicester07/20/16 07:50 AMEastern Bank buys $15107865 stake in Kimberly Clark Corp (KMB) - TheFounders Daily07/20/16 07:00 AMRoad Trip Puts Long-Lasting Value Of Scott® 1000 Toilet Paper To The Test - [PR Newswire] - Here's the catch: each family only has one roll of America's longest-lasting1 toilet paper, Scott® 1000 to use on their leg of the journey. Along the way each family, ranging from three to seven people, will document their adventure demonstrating the value of Scott® 1000 and how far one roll will take them. Scott® 1000 has 1000 sheets of bath tissue that you can count on to be long-lasting, from a household bathroom to camping on the open road.07/19/16 04:56 PMStock Check-In at the Close: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) - TGP07/19/16 04:56 PMTdam Usa INC Increased Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB) by $8.18 Million as Shares Rose - Consumer Eagle07/19/16 08:43 AMCompelling Social Experiment Tackles Back-To-School Anxiety - [PR Newswire] - DALLAS, July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with researchers at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Kleenex brand conducts a social experiment to equip students with one item less likely to make back-to-school supply lists: empathy. Research suggests that the transition to middle school might be a particularly challenging time. "We asked ourselves, 'What if we could unlock the inner caregiver among those with the toughest exterior – middle schoolers -- by arming them with one simple tool before they set foot in the classroom?'.07/19/16 12:15 AMVenezuela threatens US company reps with jail after closure - 07/18/16 05:01 PMCG Stocks Alerts: Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB), Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL) - share market updates (press release)07/18/16 05:01 PMShares of Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) Rally 0.15% - Trade Calls07/18/16 10:32 AMWho Were the Outliers in the Consumer Space Last Week? - Social About Kimberly-Clark Corp. Kimberly-Clark Corporation is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of a range of products made from natural or synthetic fibers. The Company operates through three segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and K-C Professional. The Company's Personal Care segment offers various solutions and products, such as disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products. The Company's Consumer Tissue segment offers products, such as facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins and related products. The Company's K-C Professional segment offers solutions and supporting products, such as wipers, tissue, towels, apparel, soaps and sanitizers. The Company sells its products under various brands, such as Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Poise, Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve, WypAll, Kimtech and Jackson Safety. Industry, Sector and Symbol: Sector: Consumer Staples Industry: Personal Products Sub-Industry: Household Products Exchange: NYSE Symbol: KMB CUSIP: 49436810 Key Metrics: Previous Close: $129.5550 Day Moving Average: $133.70200 Day Moving Average: $131.19P/E Ratio: 24.02P/E Growth: 3.00Market Cap: $46.59BBeta: 0.32Current Year EPS Consensus Estimate: $6.1 EPSNext Year EPS Consensus Estimate: $6.53 EPS Additional Links: View KMB on Google FinanceView KMB on Yahoo FinanceView KMB's Company Profile on ReutersSearch for Kimberly-Clark Corp. on Google Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB) Chart for Saturday, July, 30, 2016


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Avangate: Shoppers find online services useful, will pay to play
More shoppers are actively surfing the web to find exactly what they want - and they're willing to shop around to get the right price on everything from clothes and electronics to new cars. How are they finding the goods and the prices? Online services.
"Online Services it the next trillion dollar market being accelerated by the explosion of cloud computing and mobility coupled with increased consumer demand to purchase whenever, wherever and however they want," said Carl Theobald, Avangate CEO. "This proliferation of new service offerings is cutting across all industries - from finding a limo driver to accessing business software, to receiving legal advice. In this new world where buyers are in control, the expectations for online service providers to personalize and seamlessly sell, deliver and support have been permanently raised. We call this the New Services Economy."
According to the Avangate report:
• 63% of US adults are already using online services with half saying they pay for the services
• 60% say they'd pay for a service if first offered a free trial
• 50% say they'd pay for online services if they could modify as needed and on the go
But all is not rosy with online services - the report also finds nearly half of consumers are frustrated by a lack of live support for their services while 41% say it's hard to make purchases and one-third (35%) report slow customer service.
This summer Avangate will release their Commerce solution which offers self-service options for A/B testing, cross selling and promotions as well as simplified ordering and call center options to ensure customer service issues are answered promptly.
"This will help companies speed time-to-market, eliminate integration headaches, and rapidly launch new services in 180 countries worldwide without dedicating valuable resources and facing the constraints inherent to in-house, build it yourself from the ground up offerings," said Michael Ni, Avangate CMO and SVP of Marketing and Products.
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