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Make camping a snap with these easy and delicious camping recipes that are perfect for planning meals for camping! Your family will enjoy these recipes for camping which include dutch oven recipes, tin foil dinner recipes, breakfast recipes, and yummy desserts. Enjoy the ease of camp cooking with these simple make ahead meals so you can spend more time with your family! {{wink}}
Camping Recipes
1. Campfire Cones ~ Camping is not complete without s'mores. They go hand in hand. Right?! These cones kick the traditional s'more up a notch. Peanut butter, chopped fruit, mini marshmallows and chocolate chips are added to sugar cones and grilled to perfection. Ooey and gooey!
Meals for Camping
2. Grilled Steak Sandwich ~ This delicious Grilled Steak Sandwich is perfect for camping! Grilled onions, peppers and steak with cheesy perfection in every bite.
3. Grilled Smokies ~ Cooked sausages over an open fire make delicious and easy sandwiches. If you're not a sausage fan you could stick to the basic hot dog.
4. Walking Tacos ~ Make your own Doritos tacos while camping. They're super easy too. Simply add pre-chopped ingredients to a bag of crushed Doritos and eat it from the bag with a fork. Clean up can't get any easier than that.
5. Campfire Mac 'n' Cheese ~ Get your kids involved in making their own individual mac 'n' cheese. They can mix the ingredients and bake it all in an individual pie tin.
6. Pie Iron Pizza ~ Make delicious pizza by using a pie iron, bread, cheese and sauce. It's "sort of like making a grilled cheese sandwich." You could make amazing panini sandwiches too! Yum.
Dutch Oven Recipes
7. Monkey Bread ~ This sweet cinnamon and brown sugar pull-apart bread is perfect for satisfying a family of sweet tooth's. It's like getting the best part of the cinnamon roll, the ooey, gooey middle in every bite.
8. Dutch Oven Cobbler ~ Learn how to make super easy fruit cobbler! It takes less than five minutes to prep and uses only four-five ingredients. You can make any variation cobbler using your desired fruit.
9. Dutch Oven Lasagna ~ This is probably the easiest lasagna recipe you'll ever make. It looks absolutely delicious! You can brown your ground beef before hand and freeze it until you're ready to use it.
10. Cheesy Dutch Oven Potatoes ~ Looking for an easy side dish? You can never go wrong with cheese, bacon and potatoes. Mmm!
Camping Breakfast Recipes
11. Camping Muffins ~ If you have access to an oven or portable Coleman oven then why not indulge in freshly baked muffins for breakfast?! The prep work for these rhubarb muffins is done at home and stored in Ziploc bags. All you will have to do is combine the wet and dry ingredients and bake. Easy peasy!
12. Camping Breakfast Burritos ~ Italian sausage, bell peppers, onion, eggs and cheese wrapped in a tortilla need I say more?! Breakfast burritos are a great option for camping because you can prepare them ahead of time, freeze them and reheat when ready to eat.
13. Sausage, Egg & Potato Breakfast Hash ~ Potatoes and onions are cooked in a foil packet while the sausage is cooked in a dutch oven. It's the perfect stick to your ribs hearty breakfast to keep you going throughout a day of activities.
Tin Foil Dinner Recipes
14. Hobo Burgers & Taters ~ These Hobo foil dinners are a family favorite. They are so simple to make too. You can load these foil packets up in a snap using cubed potatoes, chopped carrots, onions and a hamburger patty. Cook them over a bbq or bury them in the campfire coals (my favorite)!
15. Pork Chop and Pineapple Pie ~ Make ahead these delicious tinfoil dinners. Pork chops are topped with pineapple slices, onion, bell pepper and drizzled with teriyaki sauce. Cooking is a snap when you only have to throw the foil packets on the coals for 15-20 minutes.
16. Potato Boat Dinner ~ Baked potatoes loaded with ham, bacon and cheese. Prepare these tin foil dinners ahead of time for an easy meal.
17. Campfire Chicken Stew ~ Creamy chicken stew packets that you can cook on the grill in about 40 minutes.
Campfire Recipes
18. Tin Foil Banana Boats {Desserts} ~ Although this is traditionally a camping recipe, they are just as easy to make at home in the oven. Kids will love stuffing their own banana with an array of topping, plus its a healthier alternative to easting a heavy baked dessert.
19. Campfire Orange Cinnamon Rolls ~ Who would of thought to bake delectable treats in hollowed out oranges? It's genius. Canned cinnamon rolls are individually baked in oranges, but you could use brownie or cake batter as well.
Camping Checklist
20. Camping Meal Planner {free printable} ~ Plan your meals for your next camping trip easily with this free printable planner. It breaks down the ingredients needed, pans & dishes as well as condiments.
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- 12-05-12, 04:34 PM Thread Author #1
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Hi. I have a Torch 9800 on Telus. I have a valid data plan. My firmware is 6.0 Bundle 3155. I have two email accounts currently on my phone: my work account on BESX, and my personal gmail account. I'm hoping to add a third account, but when I got to setup -> email accounts, the only option I have is for an enterprise account. The account I'm trying to add is pop or imap.
I've attached a couple of screen captures of the screens in question. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. It really shouldn't be this hard.
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I guessing this might have to do with the service books. I would resend them.
- 12-05-12, 07:28 PM Thread Author #3
Thanks I'll give that a try.
- 12-06-12, 08:34 AM Thread Author #4
Unfortunately, resending the service books didn't resolve my issue. I should mention that I administer my company's BESX server (5.0.4) and none of my other blackberry users are having this issue.
- 12-06-12, 02:52 PM Thread Author #5
I spoke with Telus, and they've had multiple reports of this problem on the 9800 after a recent firmware upgrade. I was able to set up my new account using their BIS portal.
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Saturn's orange moon Titan is rich in liquid hydrocarbons according to findings of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Huge deposits are collected in lakes and dunes. Practically speaking, commercialization is decades away and maybe the stuff of the next century. Nonetheless, Saturn's Titan has the potential to become a permanent game changer sooner rather than later.
"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material, it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," says Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."
The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, will perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond Earth by landing in, and floating on, a large methane-ethane sea on this murky and complex moon. The TiME capsule launches circa 2016 and reaches Titan by 2023, by parachuting onto the moon's second-largest northern sea, the Ligeia Mare. For 3 months, the capsule will study the composition and behavior of the sea and its interaction with Titan's weather and climate. TiME also seeks to gather evidence of the complex organic chemistry that may be active on Titan. 1)
A lightning storm has continued unabated on Saturn since mid-January. The lightning flashes are 10,000 times stronger than flashes on Earth according to research team member Georg Fischer, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
If data on the lightening flashes are correct, the vibrational forces from the
lightening would make life on Saturn very tenuous indeed.
Confirmation earlier this year of Titan's hydrocarbon lakes makes the Saturn moon the first place other than Earth where open bodies of liquid have been found. This means that the strength of Titan's magnetic field is constantly changing , leaving its surface more vulnerable to damaging cosmic rays. 2)
Without stable protection from radiation "the existence of life is very unlikely" according to Morente. 3) The presence of crude oil implies that an animal life form existed on that planet, and their bodies decomposed without enough air/gas to decompose properly (as is how the crude oil formed on earth). Titan's water stock is frozen into chunks as hard as granite. 4) If those ice "rocks" melted, the environment could become more hospitable to the building blocks of life. With liquid water, the planet could host the formation of amino acids and full proteins.
Cassini's observations of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have given scientists a glimpse of what Earth might have been like before life evolved. They now believe Titan possesses many parallels to Earth, including channels, dunes, rain, snow, hills, mountains and possibly sporadic volcanic activity.
Icy particles from the surface jets collectively form a huge plume three times taller than the width of Enceladus. The moon's diameter is about 300 miles. It is believed that the plume feeds particles into Saturn's most expansive ring, the E ring. Already in the extended mission, the spacecraft has come as close as 15 miles from the moon surface. 5)
The science goals of space study on Saturn are to understand the sources, as well as the disposition of Saturn's plasma, its acceleration and movement.
The brief reconnaissance encounters of the Pioneer 11 and the two Voyager spacecraft have provided most of our current information about the structure and dynamics of Saturn's magnetosphere.
Details of the magnetosphere are set forth: 6)
Suppose there is a large quantity of natural gas on Titan. How would this natural gas be extracted and transported to the earth? These details will be the subject of scientific inquiry this century and next.
Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) is an innovative technology designed to enable the exploitation of offshore gas resources that would otherwise remain undeveloped. 7 ) Due to environmental or economic factors, it is not yet economically feasible to develop these sources via a land-based LNG operation. 8)
In essence, FLNG is defined as either a ship or barge that can sail or be towed to offshore gas discoveries. The technology can be employed to extract gas, freeze it to a liquefied form or offload the LNG to tankers.
Since all processing is done at the gas field, there is no requirement for long pipelines to shore or compression units to pump the gas to shore.These advantages reduce significantly the environmental footprint anywhere.
In addition, environmental disturbances will be minimized during decommissioning because the facility can easily be disconnected and removed prior to being re-deployed elsewhere. Translating these manufacturing advantages onto Titan, the natural gas could be extracted and refined solely on the planet. The refinery and transport might be done by unmanned robotic vehicles, dirigibles and robots emulating human mechanical capabilities. There are other technological issues to overcome like transporting the FLNG from Titan to the earth or to nearby planets where significant manufacturing or reprocessing can occur.
1) http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/110506.asp
2) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090915-saturn-lightning-storms.html
3) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081028-titan-lightning-life_2.html
4) http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm
5) http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/110506.asp
6) http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMBJCHHZTD_0.html
7) http://www.retailenergy.com/hybrid/Liquified%20Natural%20Gas.htm
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Although the shadow of the World Wars may be overstressed in the film, Marker can sometimes suddenly bring some unexpected lightness to the film bringing her children photo.
It's interesting how a movie made only by stills and voice over (and little music) can be that incisive. Marker is a master at that.
The duration (about 40') is very precise. Before it starts to bore us it ends.
The text is so strong that sometimes you kinda forget that these are not MArker's images. When he talks about the photographer Denise Bellon (all the images of the film are hers) you realize that you were kind of far away in the trip throughout the 20th century that the movie makes us get into, and you look at these images with some distance again.
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Sure, even the great Oprah Winfrey makes mistakes.
A disappointing start to the Oprah Winfrey Network has led to some difficult decisions for the daytime icon, but the choiceshave been even more painful in the pocketbook, as the channel has reportedly lost $330 million since its inception in 2008.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that continued losses, decisions and cancellations by the young channel have piled up to those levels, although Oprah herself has no personal financial stake in the network.
That said, all is not lost for the channel. Ratings are on the upswing, according to the Wall Street Journal, thanks to the likes of "Oprah's Next Chapter."
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Create Webshop Design (Logo, eBay Shop and Online Shop) for Consumer Electronics / SmartHome Site
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Job is to create a CD for a new Online Shop. Design is needed for an online Shop based on the "Plenty Markets" Shop System and for an eBay Shop. Access to a Plentymarkets Development system can be supplied, if needed. Logo Design is part of the Job, so it's all the same look and feel.
The Shop will focus on trading with Consumer Electronic Components (Home Automation components, IP Cameras, Tablet PCs, LED stripes etc.). Shop will be multilingual later on, Englisch and German. Any text relevant to the shop, that _needs_ to be set _as a graphic_ component, can be delivered as English - German translation. In that case, images need to be delivered in both languages.
We are looking for a clean, easy to use layout. The basis for the layout can be seen on [url removed, login to view]
We are open for your ideas, this is a greenfield project for the inspired creative ones. We are open to discuss any suggestions, that will make the shop a success. You may use it as a reference later on.
English Shop Name will be "[url removed, login to view]"
German Shop Name will be "Technik.Einfach.Preiswert."
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When I read that Vera was having a pest problem with her arborvitae, before
looking at the photos, I was thinking that it could possibly be bagworms,
which are a common pest of arborvitae. Have you seen any of these "bags" on your
But, now that I've seen the photos, it does look somewhat like the work of a
caterpillar, but the tent caterpillar problems I had appeared on fruit trees
and a sugar maple in my yard. It didn't appear on any of my arborvitae.
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While Vera and I were out and about yesterday, she was telling me about a
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The Quincy Trojans soccer team won Tuesday's home non-conference game against Redding Christian by a score of 4-1.
The crowd at Tuesday's non-league outing between the Quincy Trojans (Quincy, CA) and the visiting Redding Christian Lion (Palo Cedro, CA), saw Quincy's soccer squad knock off Redding Christian by a count of 4-1.
The Trojans now own a 13-5 record. They put it on the line next when they host Paradise Adventist Academy for a Feather River League outing on Wednesday, October 12. Quincy will meet a Cougars squad coming off a 1-1 non-league Puget Sound Adventist (Kirkland, WA). The Cougars record now stands at 4-7.
With the loss, Redding Christian drops to 4-4 on the season. The Lion host Butte Valley (Dorris, CA) to meet the Bulldogs in a Evergreen League outing on Thursday, October 13. The Bulldogs come into the outing with a record of 0-6. Butte Valley lost 3-0 in their recent league outing against Tulelake (Tulelake, CA)
Quincy came out strong, but early in the first half Redding Christian came out ahead with a 1 - 0 lead. Quincy came back to score 3 more goals in the first half, to go into half time with a healthy lead. The first goal was a pass by Henry Dillingham up the center to Luis who was able to turn and finish into the net. Justin Lusk passed the ball to Dale Morgan who scored the second goal. The third goal was a nice run up the sideline by Erik Schwartz who chipped the ball over the last defender to Luis Rubalcava-Cunan who was wide open and was able to finish strongly. Mid way through the second half Quincy scored off a direct kick when Justin Lusk made a nice pass to Adam Donald who was open to finish for the final goal of the game.
The Redding Christian Lions soccer team won Friday's neutral tournament game against Quincy by a score of 1-0.
The Redding Christian Lions soccer team lost Tuesday's away non-conference game against Quincy by a score of 4-1.
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Access and Orientation
How to travel between Tokyo and Nikko
Nikko is located about 125 kilometers north of Tokyo and makes a good one or two day trip from Tokyo. Nikko is connected with Tokyo by Tobu Railways and Japan Railways (JR):
By Tobu Railways from Asakusa Station
The Tobu terminal station in Tokyo for trains to Nikko is Tobu Asakusa Station, which can be accessed by subway (Ginza and Asakusa Subway Lines).
There are hourly rapid trains between Asakusa and Nikko, which take about two hours and cost 1360 yen one way. In the morning and afternoon, there are also a few limited express trains (all seats reserved), called "Kegon", which only take 105 minutes, but are twice as expensive as the rapid trains.
Tobu is offering various free passes, which include the round trip from Tokyo to Nikko and unlimited use of buses in the Nikko area. The Japan Rail Pass and other JR passes are not valid on these Tobu trains.
By limited express from Shinjuku Station
Direct limited express trains, cooperated by Japan Railways (JR) and Tobu Railways, connect JR Shinjuku Station with Tobu Nikko Station. The one way journey takes two hours and costs 4000 yen. All seats are reserved.
Because the trains between Shinjuku and Nikko partially use the tracks of Tobu Railways, the Japan Rail Pass does not fully cover the expenses of the journey. However, thanks to a special agreement, the JR Tokyo Wide Pass, JR East Nagano Niigata Area Pass, JR East Tohoku Area Pass and JR East South Hokkaido Pass do cover the entire trip.
By Japan Railways (JR)
Take the JR Tohoku Shinkansen (from Tokyo or Ueno Station) to Utsunomiya Station and transfer to the JR Nikko Line. With a good connection at Utsunomiya, the one way trip takes about 100 minutes. Due to its high cost (about 5000 yen one way), this option is attractive to holders of a JR pass.
From Narita Airport
From April through November, there are a small number of direct highway buses between Narita Airport and Nikko, taking about 3.5 hours and costing 4500 yen for the one way trip. Alternatively, take a bus from the airport to JR Utsunomiya Station (about 3 hours, 4000 yen one way, departures every 60-90 minutes) and then the JR Nikko Line to Nikko (45 minutes, 760 yen, 1-2 departures per hour). Otherwise, travel between the airport and Nikko leads via Tokyo.
Between Gunma Prefecture and Nikko
From May through October, there are a small number of buses between Lake Chuzenjiko in Nikko and Kamada near Oze, allowing tourists to enter or leave Nikko through the backdoor and combine Nikko with a visit to Gunma Prefecture. There are two round trips per day taking 90 minutes and costing 2000 yen one way. A 4-day pass is available for 2400 yen. At Kamada it is possible to transfer to a bus to Oze or Numata.
Above fees and schedules are subject to change. For the current yen exchange rate, click here.
All of Nikko's famous shrines and temples are clustered together in one area, about two kilometers from the Tobu and JR Nikko Stations. You can access them by bus (10 minutes, 310 yen one way or 500 yen for a day pass) or on foot in about 30-40 minutes by walking up Nikko's main street.
Two bus lines can be used to access the shrines and temples:
Buses in direction of Lake Chuzenji stop at "Shinkyo" and "Nishisando" bus stops along the way, from where the shrines and temples are a 5-10 minute walk. Furthermore, there is the World Heritage Meguri loop bus, that circles around town every 15 minutes and stops a little bit closer to the shrines and temples. Get off at the "Omotesando" stop for Toshogu and Rinnoji or the "Taiyuinbyo-Futarasanjinja-mae" stop for the Taiyuinbyo and Futarasan Shrine.
Buses connect central Nikko with the Okunikko area, including Lake Chuzenji and Yumoto Onsen in Nikko National Park. A one way trip to Lake Chuzenji takes about 50 minutes and costs 1150 yen; to Yumoto Onsen it takes about 80 minutes and costs 1700 yen. A 2-day pass for unlimited bus rides between Nikko and Lake Chuzenji is available for 2000 yen at Tobu Nikko Station, while a 2-day pass for unlimited rides between Nikko and Yumoto Onsen is available for 3000 yen.
Be aware, that during the autumn leaf season in October, traffic between central Nikko and Okunikko (Lake Chuzenji and Yumoto Onsen) can be very heavy, and buses can incur heavy delays, especially on weekends. If possible, avoid visiting Nikko on weekends and visit during the week.
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The Big Ten spent the better part of the past two months championing a selection committee for college football.
Well, the committee is coming, so who does the Big Ten want to serve on it?
I recently made list of candidates to represent the Big Ten on the committee, but this post is more general in nature. It asks the following: What types of folks would the Big Ten want on the committee? Former coaches? Media types? Athletic directors and other administrators?
After giving the committee's makeup a lot of thought in recent weeks, I don't think including former coaches serves the game or the Big Ten particularly well. Media members shouldn't be covering the teams and then determining who's in and who's out. Let's eliminate them.
The chief concerns about the committee are the potential biases its members have. And while many former coaches are no longer affiliated with specific schools, they seem more likely to favor schools and leagues based on their past. There's too much history with these men. Many of them are regarded as icons in certain communities and regions. Sure, coaches know the game better than anyone, but it doesn't mean they make the most objective and rational choices when it comes to rankings.
Need evidence? Look at the coaches' poll. It's a total joke.
I've enjoyed watching the Big Ten Network's Gerry DiNardo candidly discuss the crazy way coaches vote in the poll -- how they vote for friends and against rivals, how the votes are rarely tied to the quality of the teams. There's very little objectivity there. Would it change with former coaches?
Some leagues are going to want members of the selection committee to go in and fight for its teams. I can think of one specific conference headquartered in Birmingham, Ala. It wouldn't shock me to see SEC folks clamoring for former coaches with famous names like Dooley, Dye and Fulmer to serve on the committee.
The Big Ten should hope for a bit more balance and sensibility with committee members. It should want a committee more closely resembling the NCAA men's basketball tournament selection committee, which includes athletic directors and conference administrators. The committee has true national representation. It's large enough to debate teams, even when folks with ties to schools recuse themselves.
While the selection committee is criticized for favoring major-conference teams over mid-majors, or vice-versa, how often is the group accused of bias for/against one school? Athletic directors and league commissioners have their ties and their relationships, but it's a different deal with coaches. Also, many ADs and league officials have worked at multiple schools and in multiple leagues, which should be a huge priority in determining who serves.
Having former coaches on the committee would be entertaining. But the potential risks are too steep.
Look at the coaches' poll and look at the basketball committee and tell me which one works better. Putting ADs and league administrators at the table best serves the sport -- and the Big Ten.


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Recent college graduate and former Yankee intern Josh Allen, spent last summer as a
sea kayak guide in Maine, and then was accepted into the ski patrol training program at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont. Each week he will take us behind the scenes at one of New England's most popular and busy mountains.
The First Weeks
Walking into the first day of training, I thought, "Surely this will be simple enough." Growing up in New Hampshire, I'd skied just about my whole life, and ski patrollers ski all day, right? It's not like they have a serious job or anything. Even now I catch myself when I tell people that I'm saving the serious jobs for later…
Because now I know better. Ski patrolling is just about as serious as it gets. But it's also incredibly fun — and I'm still just a candidate, affectionately nicknamed Muffin. Yes, Muffin is my nickname because every morning upon arriving at our nearly monthlong "Outdoor Emergency Care" course, I went right to the muffins, of which there happened to be a rather endless supply in the refrigerator. Despite signs that these muffins might be kind of old, I ate one … or two … or maybe three. Old, yes, but they sure were delicious.
But muffins and endless cups of free hot chocolate didn't lead to my passing the OEC exam, or to my CPR certification, or to my knowledge of what an ischial tuberosity is. It came down to really hard work: reading nearly 80 pages of the OEC textbook each night. I've memorized more in the past few weeks than in my last semester of college, and I take that to mean that the course here at Okemo is very, very effective and highly tuned toward success, rather than that I slacked off in college (really, I didn't!).
All six of us patrol candidates were nearly at the breaking point — well, the point at which we were going to burn our books and yell, "Let us be outside!" — when the day of the test arrived. I felt a knot in my stomach, which is located in my upper left quadrant … Anyway, I was nervous, but also ready to put what I'd absorbed against the very best tests that our incredibly devious (and awesome) teachers could throw at us.
First: a written 100-question multiple-choice exam. It went by in a blur. I got 96 out of 100 and felt pretty good.
Second: five practical-skill exam stations. Each station tested a different technique or application of a skill that we'd learned and practiced countless times in class. But now it was serious, or at least it felt like it. And this wasn't even an actual injured person … Luckily — well, actually, I credit our amazing teachers, Jimbo and Tom — I passed the practical exam, along with my five fellow candidates. We were now one step closer to getting on the mountain.
Only one thing remained in our way at that point: We had no snow. Oh, but the snow was coming, not from the sky but from Okemo's snowmaking machines, and the snowmakers who made it all happen.
In the days ahead, I'll be keeping a journal of what I see, what I do, and what I learn about taking care of people on a big and busy mountain. I know no day is quite identical to the next when you're on hard-packed, steep inclines, running through mock assessments of "patients" with nearly every imaginable issue, or maneuvering a loaded toboggan for the first time down a double fall line while still hearing our instructor's last words: "Whatever happens, do NOT let go of that sled!" Each time I take it out, loaded or not, I hear that warning again, and it reminds me how unpredictable but rewarding this job will be.
December 6-10
Natural snow at last! We've had a decent amount of snow on the mountain for the past week and a half, but today was the first real, natural snowfall to occur since we've been training on the slope. It was also very windy at the summit, which made getting off the lift with a toboggan — or what was really just a huge wind-attracting nemesis — rather tricky. In the wind and near-zero temperatures, we were at one point given a very difficult, mind-bending extrication to deal with.
Our teacher, Jimbo, had wedged himself into the woods against a log, requiring us to climb under two huge metal snowmaking pipes and figure out just how the heck to get him safely out of his predicament. After a solid chunk of time, perhaps 45 minutes or so, we were able to successfully bring Jimbo out onto the trail, on a backboard, ready for transport. Although we all preformed well, it demonstrated just how time-consuming and challenging it might be to move someone just 10 feet when he's lodged himself into the woods during a crash. There are no shortcuts when dealing with such situations — only fast, efficient planning and rapid, safe execution. Yep, there's a lot more thought that goes into being a ski patroller than most people (including my former self) think.
Today I found a dummy in the woods. His name: Pat Troller, the cloth dummy that our instructors hide in the woods for candidates like myself to find (or not find). Luckily, I found Pat after nearly skiing by him, and was able to pass the "test."
This happened at the very end of the day, around 4:30 p.m., with the sun's dying light barely illuminating the slope. The woods were darkening by the minute, and it was my first solo sweep run.
Sweep comes at the end of the day, every day, when patrollers spread out across the open terrain and make sure no one is left behind to spend the freezing night on the hill. I saw a glimmer of red off the trail, and at first thought it was a snowmobiler fixing something in the woods. I searched more closely and found Pat, who's stuffed with hay; he'd be so light that he could practically float down the trail. Now I had to make my first radio call ever. I received back several loud congratulations along the lines of "Good job, Muffin!" Nope, I still haven't managed to escape my nickname … nor do I anticipate that happening anytime before the snow melts.
I did my first solo trail opening today on Heaven's Gate, a smooth blue in Okemo's Solitude area. There were a few inches of fresh snow on top of the solid base, and it took all of my willpower (which is sometimes easily broken — by ice cream, for example) to focus on the job, rather than let myself fly down the trail. Nevertheless, while periodically hitting off snow-covered discos (the orange discs that mark hazards) on the side of the trail, I stopped to see a beautiful sight uphill: my tracks standing alone, marking out a curved path through the windswept powder.
As a patroller, I must always do my job first and carve through the snow second — but on certain days, like today, I was just about able to do both at once, and I can't think of many things better than that. Even better, I know that first tracks are basically always going to be mine. So whether we have pouring rain, or a foot of snow, I'll be among the first ones out on the trail, fixing the orange signs, but also exhilarated by the beauty of nature as experienced in solitude.
Riding up the lift this morning was a spectacular experience. Near the summit, the clear air turned into a fine mist of snow, completely obscuring my surroundings. I couldn't even see my hand in front of my face — that's how dense the snowy mist was.
Of course, it was being blown into the air by snowmakers, but even so, it was awesome. Many people look down on "fake" snow, but after skiing on pretty much only manmade snow for the past two weeks, I have to say it works just fine. Okemo now has trails on all four areas open, and that's because of the efforts of the snowmakers and the power of their machines. In less than one week Okemo has nearly doubled its terrain. Sure, Western mountains might get huge snowfalls, but they don't have the ability to produce snow when there's none falling the way we do in the East.
Coming out of the manmade snowy fog, I was greeted by the sun off to my left, and a clear view of the town below, and the endless mountains of Vermont stretching into the distant horizon. Totally unexpected, and completely beautiful. Moments like that, I think, are why people want to work and play outside in the first place. Sure, we expect to have fun and work hard as patrollers, but at the end of the day, or the beginning, sometimes there are moments that outweigh and defy those expectations altogether.


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Braden Currie didn't say the Red Bull Defiance adventure race would be easy. In fact, before the race he said it was "Balls-to-the-wall-effort. Taking the track-running mentality to the adventure racing course!"
Apparently, being prepared is half the battle though, becase Currie and team-mate Dougal Allen put in an impressive performance this past weekend to win the inaugural event in Wanaka, New Zealand. As you can see from the video above, it was no doubt an adventure.
As promised, the course covered 153km of hard, hilly terrain, and open water. Racing the entire time as a team (no switching off), 80 competitors took off from the start-line to test their mettle over seven different stages, and four different sports – including target shooting. With the course clearly marked, it was all about power, speed and endurance, and having the mental fortitude to push all three of those to the limit.
Finishing in just 13 hours, the Currie/Allen team bested the second-place finishers by a full hour, which the hometown heroes were more than pleased about.
It's always pretty cool to win in front of my home crowd, Wanaka is an amazing place.
Behind the first place finishers were hotly contested battles in the Elite Mixed class, where male/female teams were racing together, including adventure racing legends Richard and Elina Ussher and husband and wife team Jackie and Mimi Boisset.
Check out more action clips and a full list of results on the Redbull Defiance website.


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Poetry is easy,
Is that even fair?
You make up a sentence,
And end the line with a nice word.
Try to mix it up a little,
Use words you think are absurd.
Pen down what you can think of,
Even when it's complete crap.
And when you're tired of writing,
Continue after you take a nap.
It's jolly wicked to write,
And try to image something to you folks.
Let me end this weird contruction of brain cells.
Keep living the heavenly jokes.
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|Hans G. Franke, Donald R. Bittner
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This invention relates generally to expanded biodegradable starch containing products with improved resiliency and other properties appropriate for use as packaging materials. The invention includes an improved method for manufacture of such products and improved expanded starch loose fill and sheets.
Light-weight, resilient, compressible and biodegradable materials are presently in high demand for applications in packaging materials. Commonly used polystyrene (Styrofoam™) e.g., ("peanuts"), polypropylene, polyethylene, and other non-biodegradable plastic containing packaging materials are considered detrimental to the environment. The use of such non-biodegradable materials will decrease as government restrictions discourage their use in packaging applications. Biodegradable materials having resiliency, compressibility and bulk density comparable to Styrofoam™ "peanuts" will become increasingly valuable in packaging applications. Biodegradable sheet materials having properties comparable to polypropylene and polyethylene materials will be useful in laminating packaging materials. Starch-based products have been examined for such applications.
Attempts to prepare starch-based products with resiliency and other properties acceptable for packaging materials, particularly for loose fill, have generally focused on chemical or physico-chemical modification of starch or use of expensive high amylose starch to generate expanded starch materials sufficiently resilient for packaging materials. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,673,438, 4,133,784, 4,337,181, and 4,454,268 relate to starch-based products that have been destructurized or gelatinized by heating under pressure in the presence of water. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,863,655, 5,035,930 and 5,043,196 relate to expanded starch materials in which the starch has at least 45% by weight amylose (high amylose materials). Starches in these expanded high amylose compositions have also been modified by reaction with oxiranes (e.g. ethylene oxide) and include the commercially available ECO-FOAM™ in which the starch is modified by reaction with propylene oxide. Expanded packaging materials made from high amylose starch are too expensive for practical commercial use. U.S. Pat. No. 5,087,650 relates to addition of graft polymers to starch to make partially biodegradable products with acceptable elasticity and water stability.
In general, extrusion of non-modified starch without polymeric additives results in brittle (non-resilient) materials that have not been commercially useful for packaging applications.
More recently the following patents related to biodegradable starch products have issued:
U.S. Pat. No. 5,186,990 of Starcevich (Feb. 16, 1993) reports a lightweight biodegradable packaging material produced by extrusion of corn grit mixed with a binding agent (guar gum) and water. Corn grit is said to contain among other components starch (76-80%), water (12.5-14%), protein (6.5-8%) and fat (0.5-1%).
U.S. Pat. No. 5,208,267 of Neumann et al. (May 4, 1993) reports biodegradable, compressible and resilient starch-based packaging fillers with high volumes and low weights. The products are formed by extrusion of a blend of non-modified starch with polyalkylene glycol or certain derivatives thereof (up to 10% by weight) and a bubble-nucleating agent, such as silicon dioxide. The nucleating agent is said to enhance bulk resiliency and uniformity of cell structure of the extruded products. The starch blend is "preconditioned" by steam injection prior to addition to the extruder. Bulk resiliency of the exemplified wheat starch products (shaped as small or large tubes) ranged from a low of 56.8% (0.5% silicon dioxide, small tube) to a high of 69.9% (6.0% PEGC a polyethylene glycol derivative with molecular weight 20,000!, 1.0% silicon dioxide, large tube). Bulk densities for these exemplary products was 1.69 lbs/ft3 and 1.22 lbs/ft3, respectively.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,252,271 of Hyrum (Oct. 12, 1993) reports a biodegradable closed cell light weight packaging material formed by extrusion of a modified starch. Non-modified starch is reacted in an extruder with certain mild acids in the presence of water and a carbonate compound to generate CO2. Resiliency of the product is said to be 60% to 85%, with density less than 0.032 g/cm3.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,314,754 of Knight (May 24, 1994) reports the production of shaped articles from high amylose starch. A hot melt is formed under pressure at elevated temperature from a mixture of high amylosic starch with water and with optional plasticizers and lubricants and extruded to form a shaped article. The hot melt is subjected to atmospheric or subatmospheric pressure just prior to extrusion or to subatmospheric pressure after extrusion to remove water from the hot melt. This first extrudate can then be subject to a second extrusion to form a film or other shaped article. The film produced in the two-step process is said to be highly elastic with elongation before failure from about 80% to 240%.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,866 of Mayer et al. (Jun. 21, 194) reports the production of biodegradable blown films from a blend of unprocessed raw starch and the copolymers polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) or ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVA) and may also include plasticizer and lubricant. For blown films useful ranges of PVA or EVA in the starch blend are said to be 20% to 80% by weight. Starting materials for the blown film are introduced into a twin-screw extruder fitted with a blown film die.
The present invention provides a method for producing an improved high resiliency expanded starch product which comprises extrusion of a starch-containing mixture through an expansion die followed by subjecting the extrudate to pressure perpendicular to the direction of extrusion, for example by use of a rolling device. The rolled extruded strand is then cut to desired length to suit the planned application. Preferably the pressure applied to the hot extrudate strand is sufficient to substantially crush the cells in the extrudate. Surprisingly, crushing the cells of the expanded product significantly improves the resiliency of the product. The preferred method of applying pressure to the extrudate to substantially crush the cells is rolling the extrudate between opposed rollers. The rolled expanded starch product is biodegradable and has high resiliency and other properties attractive for use in packaging materials such as loose fill.
The invention provides improved expanded starch materials having high resiliency for use in packaging applications. These improved starch materials are produced by methods described herein by extrusion combined with a step of crushing substantially all of the cells in the extrudate. The method of this invention can be employed essentially with any starch composition suitable for extrusion. In particular and preferably, the method can be used with starch compositions in which the major ingredient is raw non-modified starch. The method of this invention allows the use of lower levels of plasticizers and humectant in base starch extruder feed than previously known to achieve desired high resiliency properties in the final product.
This invention provides a loose fill expanded starch product with resiliency higher than 50% useful for packaging applications. Loose fill products of this invention have compressibility, flexibility properties comparable to Styrofoam™ loose fill. The methods of this invention are also applied to the manufacture of expanded starch sheet materials. Rolled expanded starch sheets are generally useful in manufacture of laminated materials for packaging applications, such as for manufacture of mailing envelopes and related containers.
In one aspect, the invention provides new resilient expanded starch products. In a second aspect, the invention provides base starch mixtures, extrusion feed mixtures, for production of expanded starch products which contain lower levels of humectants and plasticizers, yet which can be processed into high resiliency (low brittleness) expanded product. In another aspect, the invention provides a new method for manufacture of expanded starch products utilizing a conventional extruder combined with a pressure rolling device. Expanded products can be shaped by the combined effect of extruder die shape and roller configuration. In yet another aspect, the invention provides a new extrusion device in which a conventional extruder is combined with a rolling device which applies pressure to an extrudate perpendicular to the direction of extrusion. The pressure applied being sufficient to substantially crush the cells in the hot extrudate. Additional aspects and features of the invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of the extrusion/rolling/cutting device employed to make the biodegradable resilient starch products of this invention.
FIGS. 2A-2G are illustrations of various roller configurations that can be employed in the methods of this invention. Roller configurations having 2-4 flat or shaped rollers are illustrated. This figure also provides illustrations of several possible shapes for pieces of loose-fill packaging material, including FIG. 8 and omega shapes among others.
The improved process of preparing extruded starch products of this invention is described by reference to the schematic manufacturing extrusion apparatus of FIG. 1. Raw non-modified starch is mixed with any desired additives, for example in an attached mixing chamber (1) and introduced into an extruder (2), preferably a twin screw extruder (shown schematically as 4). The mixture is further mixed and blended, subjected to shearing, increasing temperature and pressure in the extruder to form a plasticized mass which is forced through an expanding die (3).
The shape of the die determines the shape of the extruded strand and die shape is typically chosen to prepare a desired shape of expanded product. The mixture is typically extruded out the die at a pressure of about 700 to 2000 psi and the extrudate is at a temperature of about 120� C. to about 200� C. at extrusion. The extruder is typically heated and can have several zones along its length in which temperature is separately adjustable. A pressure drop occurs outside the extruder and steam emitted from the mixture causes it to expand as it exits the die.
Water can be added to the system during the residence of the base starch mixture in the extruder to adjust the extent of expansion of the product. Lubricant levels in the extrudate can also be adjusted to improve flow through the extruder. Glycerin levels in the extruder can also be adjusted to improve flow or vary properties of the expanded product. There is no requirement to remove water from the base mixture in the extruder prior to extrusion. Specifically there is no requirement to apply subatmospheric pressure to the extrudate or extruded strand to remove water.
The extrudate strand (9) is fed through a rolling device (10) having two or more rollers (11) which apply pressure to the strand substantially perpendicular to the direction of extrusion. The rollers form an opening corresponding to the shape of the desired product. The rollers exert sufficient pressure upon the strand to substantially crush the cells in the strand. The rollers also finalize shaping of the expanded product.
The process step of rolling and application of pressure to the extrudate strand perpendicular to the direction of extrusion is an important improvement in the manufacturing process of this invention which results in significantly improved resiliency (decreased brittleness) of extruded starch products. Rolling also reduces dustiness and chipping of extruded products and increased bulk density. The roller pressure required to achieve substantial cell crushing leading to such improved properties depends on the shape of the extrudate, cell size and bulk density of the extrudate which in turn depends on the composition of the extrudate including the type of starch and water content. The required roller pressure needed to achieve the desired cell crushing is readily determined for a particular starch composition and product shape empirically without expense of undue experimentation. In general, roller pressure for making sheet products will be higher than in making shaped loose fill.
The substantially crushed extrudate is cut into desired lengths by a cutting device, for example with a rotating knife (12) positioned after the rollers. The resulting crushed and cut strands (15) are preferably cured under controlled temperature and humidity conditions. Curing is preferably done between 18�-30� C., preferably 21� C. at humidity ranging from about 40%-80%, preferably 50% for up to 1 or 2 days.
The manufacture of expanded starch loose fill and sheets is typically done in a continuous mode by continuous feed into the extruder, extrusion, rolling and cutting.
A conventional twin screw extruder having feed screws, single lead screws, shear paddles (preferably 3 or more, 3-10 being typical) and mixing paddles (typically 1-5) can be employed in this process. A typical expanding type screw configuration can be used in the twin-screw extruder. Typical residence time of the base mixture (i.e. the starch with any additives) in the extruder is from about 9 to 20 seconds and extrusion occurs at a rate from about 100 to 200 lb/h per die insert.
The size and configuration of the die opening determines the cross-sectional shape of the extrudate strand. A variety of shapes and sizes of final loose fill products can be made. The starch can also be extruded as an expanded sheet to make sheets of cushioning material. Typically product sheets of thickness about 1/10 to 1/4 inch can be made by the extrusion/rolling method. Extruded starch products for loose fill packaging material, for example, can have several cross-sectional shapes, including among others, capital omicron, FIG. 8, short rods, S-shaped, C-shaped, oval, and an omega. The product shape does not significantly effect resiliency of loose fill packing material. Bulk density of loose fill is however dependent upon shape.
The rolling device applies pressure to the extrudate strand perpendicular to the direction of extrusion. The hot extrudate strand can simply be passed through opposed flat rollers (which may distort the shape imposed by the die). Preferably the roller or rollers apply pressure symmetrically to the hot extrudate conforming to the desired product shape. Rollers are made of stainless steel, teflon or a related material that is inert to the extrudate. Rollers are preferably positioned with respect to the extruder die such that the hot extrudate strand can be directly fed into the rollers while the extrudate strand is still hot.
FIGS. 2A-2G illustrate exemplary roller configurations of 1-4 roller combinations. FIG. 2A illustrates the use of two flat rollers (20a and 20b) in combination with a slot-shaped extruder die (3a) for forming the extrudate strand (9a) into expanded starch sheets. FIG. 2B illustrates the use of two opposed rollers (21a and 21b) in combination with die 3b to form FIG. 8 shaped products. The shaped roller configuration 21a and 21b is shown separately FIG. 2C. FIG. 2D illustrates a three-roller configuration (22a, 22b and 22c) to form a triangular-cross section product. The direction of extrusion through the rollers is indicated by the arrow 9c. FIG. 2E illustrates a second three-roller configuration (23a and 23b and 24) to form an omega-shaped product. FIGS. 2F and 2G illustrate two different four roller configurations (25a-d and 26a-d, respectively) that result in products with concave or convex sides. Many other roller configurations containing flat, curved or otherwise shaped rollers can be made to achieved desired product shapes. The directions of extrusion are indicated in FIGS. 2E-2G by arrows labelled 9d-9f. In each of the drawings of FIG. 2 roller spindles and the direction of rotation are indicated.
A rolling step has not previously been applied to the production of expanded starch products. Preferred rollers are spring-loaded and the pressure applied is adjustable. Rolling processes and equipment that is standard in food processing, e.g. processing of doughs, can be readily adapted to use in the manufacturing process of this invention. While rolling is the preferred method for applying pressure to the extruded strand to achieve substantial cell crushing, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that other methods may be applied to achieve the desired result.
Rollers are positioned sufficiently close to the extruder die such that the extrudate remains hot during rolling. For ease of illustration, the roller devices of FIGS. 2A-2G show one set of rollers. Two or more sets of rollers in sequence can be employed in the processing method of this invention. The use of more than one set of rollers may improve efficiency of crushing of cells. For production of starch sheets, in particular, the use of two or more rollers may be required to achieve desired crushing.
The shape of loose fill packaging material affects the interlocking capability of the material. Loose fill shaped so that there is some interlocking between pieces is less readily displaced by jostling and better protects packaged items from impact damage. Loose fill shapes preferred for interlocking capability are those with protrusions or indentations which allow pieces to interlock.
The extrudate of this invention contains raw non-modified starch as the major ingredient (about 70% to about 95% by weight) with added water up to about 30%, minor amounts of additives including lubricant, plasticizer and humectant, nucleating agent and optionally another blowing agent (in addition to water) wherein the additives comprise up to a maximum of 25% by weight of the total weight of the extrudate. Preferred extrudate contains a minimum amount of plasticizers, including polyvinyl alcohol or ethylene vinyl alcohol, to obtain desired resiliency when processed by the improved extrusion/rolling method described herein. In particular, preferred extrudate contains a maximum of 5% by weight of polyvinyl alcohol or ethylene vinyl alcohol.
In preferred embodiments, this invention uses raw, non-modified, non-derivatized starch which is essentially starch as it occurs in nature other than having been physically separated from other plant components. The starch is typically a powder (fine or coarse) or granular. Cornstarch is the preferred starch in this invention, however any type of non-modified starch from wheat, rice, potatoes, tapioca or the like can also be used. The invention does not require the use of high amylose starch to achieve desired high resiliency. The invention does not require the use of derivatized starch, such as starch which has been chemically reacted at the hydroxy groups (e.g. esterified, etherified or phosphorylated). The invention does not require preconditioning of starch by treatment with heat or pressure, gelatinization or destructurization of starch before to addition to the extruder. Nevertheless starch composition with high amylose starch, modified or derivatized starch or starch compositions that are preconditioned, gelatinized or destructurized can be processed by the improved extrusion/rolling process of this invention to provide extruded materials with improved properties for use as packaging materials.
High resiliency expanded starch products of this invention can be prepared with lower levels of plasticizers, particularly polyvinyl alcohol, ethylene vinyl alcohol and related materials than taught in the prior art.
Water in the base starch mixture functions as a blowing or expanding agent. The amount of water in the extrudate is adjusted to maximize expansion of the extruded product while avoiding a soft or runny extrudate. Water can be premixed with or added separately from other base starch mixture ingredients. For example, water can be added and its addition adjusted and control led through inlet ports into the extruder. The amount of water that must be added depends on the moisture content of the raw starch. The total water content of the base starch mixture prior to extrusion is typically between about 6% and 18%.
The pre-mixed base starch mixture (including water, lubricant and any glycerin) can be directly introduced into the extruder or the individual components can be added in any order into the extruder for mixing therein. In a preferred method of addition of the components, water, lubricant and glycerin are added to the remaining ingredient in the extruder through independently adjustable inlets into the extruder.
The base starch mixture of this invention contains minor amounts of humectants, plasticizers, lubricants, nucleating agents and optional blowing agents and agents which function to reduce cell size. Glycerin, related polyols including pentaerythritol, and vegetable oil among others can function in starch extrusion as humectants and lubricants to improve the flow properties of the mixture and provide smooth surfaces for extrusion. Polyvinyl alcohol, ethylene vinyl alcohol and related polymeric polyols can function as plasticizers. Glycerin can also function as a plasticizer. Talc, protein as grain meal, in egg albumin or blood meal or other protein sources, and materials like Hydrocerol™ can function as nucleating agent.
Hydrocerol™ is a combination of encapsulated sodium bicarbonate and citric acid which generates CO2 and sodium citrate. Glycerol monostearate and other glycerol monoesters of fatty acids can function to aid in formation of uniform small cells in the extruded material. Superheated water in the extrudate acts as a blowing agent. The base mixture of this invention can also include additional minor amounts of blowing agents including among others carbonate salts including sodium, potassium and ammonium salts. Any vegetable oils or polyols employed in the base mixture are preferably pumpable. In general the base starch mixture of this invention can contain combinations of one or more humectants, plasticizers, lubricants, nucleating agents and/or blowing agents. The maximum amount of these additives is 25% by weight of the total base starch mixture (including added water). The base starch mixture preferably contains a minimum of these additives needed to attain desired properties of extruded product. The base mixture contains a minimum amount of plasticizer to decrease its cost. The rolling step of this invention allows the use of much lower amounts of plasticizers than are required in prior art processes. The preferred base starch mixture of this invention contains a maximum of 5% by weight of polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene alcohol or related polymeric vinyl alcohols (or mixtures thereof). Preferred base starch mixtures of this invention include those in which the amount of polymeric vinyl alcohol is less than 5% by weight and, specifically, those having less than 2.5% by weight as well as those having less than 1% by weight of polymeric vinyl alcohol. Mixtures of this invention also contain relatively low levels of glycerin or other humectant. Mixtures include those in which glycerin is less than 1.5% and those in which glycerin is less than 0.5%.
For example, the base starch mixture can contain the following ingredients expressed in weight percent: raw unmodified starch (about 70% to about 95%); added water (up to about 30%); vegetable oil (about 0% to about 6%); glycerin (about 0% to about 3%); polyvinyl alcohol (about 0% to a maximum of 5%); proteinaceous grain meal (about 0% to about 5%); glycerol monostearate (about 0% to about 0.5%); additional blowing agent (about 0% to about 0.8%); and talc (about 0% to about 5%) with the provision that the mixture must contain a lubricant, a nucleating agent and some combination of humectant and plasticizer.
The base starch composition of this invention can optionally contain coloring agents, fragrances, bactericides and mold-inhibiting agents.
Resiliency (also called bulk resiliency) is the capability of a material to recover its size and shape, i.e. to recover its original volume, after deformation by a compressive force. Bulk resiliency of a material is assessed as percent recovery of volume by measuring the original volume (as height of a given amount of material in a container) and the volume after about a 30-second recovery from the application of a compressive force. The loose fill products made as described herein will generally have resiliency of 50% or more. Preferred loose fill products will have resiliency over 60%, and more preferred loose fill products will have resiliency of 75% or more. Most preferred loose fill product will have resiliency between about 85% to 95%. In the present invention high resiliency is substantially imparted to shaped expanded products by the physical processing step of rolling the hot extruded product to substantially crush the cells therein. The minor amounts of humectants and plasticizers that are included in the base starch mixture do not in themselves account for the significant improvements in resiliency.
Packaging materials can also be compared and assessed based on their bulk density (weight/unit volume) and bulk compressibility (i.e., the maximum force needed to compress the sample to a preselected % of its original volume, typically to 2/3 of its original volume). Flexibility, the capability to bend without breaking) of loose-fill can be assessed qualitatively by applying hand pressure (squeezing) to the final extruded products to assess how much force can be applied before the extruded product breaks.
Crushed extrudates of this invention have bulk density less than about 2.0 lbs/ft3, but greater than 0.25 lbs/ft3. Typical bulk density for corn starch products of this invention is about 0.5 to 0.8 lbs/ft3. The material as extruded is much lighter than the final product since crushing the cells with the rolling procedure adds bulk density. The expanded starch products have moisture content generally lower than the starch base mixture (e.g., feed material). Typically, the rolled expanded products contain from about 5% to about 9% by weight moisture and more typically from 6% to 7%.
The high resiliency extruded expanded starch products of this invention are useful in applications to shaped articles for packaging materials. In addition to loose fill packaging material, starch sheets for wrapping or other applications can be made by the extrusion/rolling method of this invention. In particular, starch sheets produced by methods herein can be combined with paper and other biodegradable materials to make biodegradable laminated materials, such as mailing envelopes.
The following examples are illustrative of this invention.
A high resiliency (about 85% to about 95%) loose-fill packaging material in the shape of a rod is prepared employing a base mixture having the following components listed as weight %:
______________________________________ weight %______________________________________unmodified corn starch 77.7water 2.8vegetable oil 0.97glycerin 1.6polyvinyl alcohol 4.9corn meal 9.7Myvaplex ™ (monoglyceride of 0.39stearic acid, i.eglycerol monostearate)talc 1.9______________________________________
The corn starch employed had about 22 wt % amylase and about 8% to 15% water by weight. The polyvinyl alcohol used had molecular weight range 200,000 to 300,000.
These ingredients except water, vegetable oil and glycerine were mixed prior to introduction into the extruder. Water, vegetable oil and glycerine were added independently to the extruder through separate inlets. The extruder employed was a Wenger Model TX52 Twin-Screw Extruder (Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. Sabetha Kans.) which was adapted with feed screws, single lead screws, 5 shear paddles, 10 mixing paddles and a 100 mil diameter die insert to produce a rod-shaped extrudate. The extruder barrel had three temperature zones (150 Z6 actual temperature 144� C.!, 90 Z5 actual temperature 139� C.! and 70 Z4 actual temperature not measured!). The screw rpm was 495. The plasticized mass was extruded at a rate of 110 lb/h at 1000 psi and the extrudate was at a temperature of about 175� C. The residence time of the material in the extruder was about 13 seconds.
The extruded material was rolled perpendicular to the direction of extrusion to substantially crush the cells therein. Subsequent to rolling the strand can be cut into small approximately equal-length segments (about 1 inch in length). The expanded, crushed and cut products were cured at 21� C. in a 50% humidity for 24 h. The cured product had excellent resiliency and abrasion resistance.
A base mixture of this invention is introduced into an extruder, such as the Wenger Twin-Screw Extruder described in Example 1 adapted with a flat or slot die to form extruded sheets (from about 1/10-1/4 inch thick). The extruded sheets are rolled by rollers preferably two sets of flat rollers exerting pressure perpendicular to the extrusion direction and perpendicular to the plane of the sheet. The pressure exerted on the sheet was sufficient to crush substantially all of the cells in the sheet. The crushed sheet is collected, if desired, by winding onto a roll and cut along its width to form desired sheet lengths. The crushed sheet material is cured at about room temperature under medium humidity (about 40-60%).
The resulting pliable starch sheet can be directly employed in packaging applications or can be used in laminated packaging products. Laminated packaging products include among other Kraft paper laminated with pliable starch sheet.
Kraft paper is moistened with water, an appropriately sized starch sheet is positioned over the moistened paper and the layered paper and starch sheet are rolled to ensure overall contact and adhesion of the two layers. Additional layers of paper and or starch sheets can be added by similar steps to obtain a multi-layer laminated material. Kraft paper with a single layer (about 1/10-1/4 inch thick) of starch sheet can be used to fabricate padded envelopes or other mailing containers.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that variants, alternatives, substitutes and equivalents of the devices, methods, techniques, expedients, and ingredients specifically described herein may exist and that all such variants, alternative, substitutes and equivalents that can be employed or readily adapted in the methods and compositions of this invention are within the spirit and scope of this invention which is defined by the appended claims.
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|Oct 27, 1992
|Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
|Melt-molded articles and laminates derived therefrom, and their use
|Aug 21, 1992
|Feb 9, 1993
|Kansas State University Research Foundation
|Starch-based, biodegradable packing filler and method of preparing same
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|Feb 16, 1993
|Eagle Scientific Co.
|Biodegradable and water soluble packaging material
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|May 4, 1993
|Univ Kansas State
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|Sep 28, 1993
|Kansas State University Research Foundation
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|Oct 12, 1993
|Bio-Products International
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|May 24, 1994
|Goodman Fielder Wattie Australia Limited
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|Jun 21, 1994
|The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army
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|Jun 27, 1995
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|International Classification
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