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ODESSA, Texas – A former star athlete who posed as a teenager to play high school basketball in West Texas was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after reaching a plea deal, a prosecutor said.
Guerdwich Montimere, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and three counts of tampering with government records, said Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland.
Officials say the naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti had graduated from high school in Florida, where he also played basketball, years before he moved to Odessa and presented himself as a ninth-grader named Jerry Joseph.
Montimere was 21 and 22 when he played one season at Odessa Permian High, the same rabidly competitive school that inspired the book and movie "Friday Night Lights" about high school football. Montimere helped lead the Panthers to the 2010 state playoffs, but the team had to forfeit after his story unraveled.
Montimere was indicted last year on six felony charges, including sexual assault and tampering with government records. His trial was to begin next week in Odessa, and he had faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the original counts. The indictment accused him of identity theft. The sexual assault counts accused him of having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Messages were left with a spokesman for Montimere's attorney Wednesday as well as with his mother, Manikisse Montimere.
Suspicions were raised about Joseph after coaches from Florida at a post-season amateur basketball tournament in Arkansas said they recognized him as Montimere, a 2007 graduate of a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., high school.
Because he was living with Odessa basketball coach Danny Wright and not a parent or guardian, Montimere had to apply to the University Interscholastic League in Austin to play high school basketball. A waiver was granted and he was the star of the team.
Wright, who still calls Montimere by the name Jerry, said he was livid once he learned Joseph wasn't who he said he was.
"I was blindsided," Wright said. "I never saw it coming. I just thought he was a big kid."
Montimere was named the District 2-5A Newcomer of the Year, an honor that was stripped when his deception was exposed. The Panthers also forfeited their 16 wins, although Wright said the "team would have been good with or without Jerry."
Bland noted Montimere will have to register as a sex offender.
"To me, this is justice considering what he did here. This will protect other towns from him doing what he did here," Bland said.
He also said the victim had wanted a plea deal.
"The victim's been through a lot because of the high-profile nature of this case," he said. "And I wanted to save her from going through the ordeal" of a trial.
After the Arkansas tournament, Permian officials had begun receiving anonymous phone calls and emails saying Joseph was really Montimere. Odessa school officials looked into the situation, and Joseph was initially cleared by immigration authorities and allowed to return to the school.
But the investigation continued, and officials eventually confirmed Montimere's identity. School officials said Montimere confessed after he was confronted with the new evidence.
In spite of everything, Montimere still had the support of some Permian teachers, who had planned to be in the courtroom for his trial.
Liz Faught, a substitute at Permian who had Montimere as a student several times, said he was always well-behaved and polite. Although she said she felt a "bit duped" when the truth surfaced, she never lost her compassion for him.
"I know he was doing all of it for himself to be better off," she said. "And that's fine. We all do that. ... I cannot say one bad thing about this kid."


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Objective: SWBAT explain how a novel builds from chapter to chapter, telling how parts of the story relate to the whole novel. SWBAT answer questions after reading referring to the text, and making inferences to support their choices. SWBAT write a summary including the most important events, and characters after listening to a series of chapters.
Big Idea: The journey continues! The students learn and practice skills about understanding how a novel builds, summary writing, and comprehension questions as they read chapters 22-25 in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Thank you for visiting my lesson! This lesson is part of a series of eight lessons my class completed while reading the novel The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Our class reads one extended text, or chapter book, during our shared reading time in each of our six English-Language Arts units. Our district does this to follow the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) Model Content Frameworks, which suggests an extended text for each of the four modules within a school year. Completing this during our shared reading block allows all students, regardless of reading ability, to experience grade level text, practice with the standards, and an overall literary experience as a classroom community.
This book was chosen because it meets the rigor of the Common Core State Standards for third grade at the upper level of our recommended Lexile band, at 700Lexile level. It also is a good mentor text to teach the standards I was asked to teach this particular week within my grade level curriculum RL3.5, and SL3.2, although I've snuck a few more in there, too!
My kids really enjoyed this novel, and many of my higher readers went on to enjoy other novels by Kate DiCamillo, like The Tale of Despereaux, Because of Winn Dixie, Flora & Ulysses, and The Magician's Elephant. Other readers enjoyed her Mercy Watson chapter books. Our shared reading texts often help students find their next book to read for their independent reading time, and reading at home.
I hope you and your class enjoy Edward's journey as much as we did! Bon voyage!
We begin our shared reading lesson at the back carpet area of our classroom under our classroom tree. We often sit here for read-aloud stories, mini-lessons, and other special parts of our day.
Lesson: Throughout the week, I'm delivering lessons to help students understand how a novel builds from one chapter to the next. Yesterday, we left Edward at the top of the mountain at the end of shared reading. I asked the students to explain this part of the novel to me. We discuss the climax and its importance to the novel as a whole. I ask the students why a novel doesn't just end with a climax, and usually has falling action, and a resolution. We have good conversation about understanding the structure and purpose of a novel. (See Resource File: Understanding How a Story Builds Graphic Organizer)
Keeping our standards front and center, I remind students that we're using this graphic organizer to understand the structure of a novel and how it builds from chapter to chapter. (See Resource File: Text Structure Poster CCSS RL3.5)
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Each day, we are listening to an audio recording of the story. The recording was purchased by my school librarian, and is read by Judith Ivey. We are tying the recording in with daily summary writing, to work on standard SL3.2, which asks the students to identify the main ideas and supporting details of a text that's read aloud or presented in diverse media and formats.
Prepare to Listen: I pass out copies of the novel to each student. I give them a minute to browse the pictures and have a short pair-and-share with their neighbors about thoughts and predictions for the conclusion of our novel.
Audio Recording: Today, we'll listen to chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25. I remind students of what my expectations are for following along while listening to an audio recording. I tell students that they should follow along as best as they can, and that I will be holding my copy of the book up, holding my finger where the audio recording is reading. If they get lost all they have to do is look up at me, and I'll be pointing to the location of the audio recording. I ask the students to make sure they are sitting on their bottoms, so we can start. We listen to the audio recording. I stop the recording after each chapter, and ask the students to help me summarize the most important information and events of each chapter. We'll be using this information later during our summary writing lesson.
I ask my students to journey back to their desks to complete our "Day Seven" work in our Edward Tulane packets. (See Resource File: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Packet)
Lesson: Summary Writing
Summarizing Lesson: If you have read days 1-6 you've noticed that I've been following a gradual release of responsibility for summary writing with my students. We are at the point where I am confident that students will be successful with creating their own summary for today's reading on their own. I remind students of our "Summary Writing Tips" and rubric, as well as our Summarizing Poster. I ask them to tell me about summary writing, letting them take the lead, and to see what they know. (See Resource File: Summary Writing Tips and Summarizing Poster)
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Summary Writing: The students begin right away on their summaries. Some students choose to write notes on Post-its first, as we practiced, and others go right to writing their summary. (See Resource File: Day 7 Student Sample)
Questions: After they finish their summaries, students answer the questions for today's reading that follow.
Daily Pair & Share: Each day in this series of lessons, the students complete a short pair-share with their neighbors after listening to the story. These are listed at the bottom of the page for each day. Today's pair and share topic is: "Do you think it was right of Lucius Clark to tell Bryce he could never come back to the doll shop? Why or why not? Why does Bryce want Edward so badly?". Students turn and share for about one minute. We try to incorporate our speaking and listening skills as often as we can. The students learn a lot from one another, and how to actively participate in a conversation about grade level topics.
(See Resource File Included in Section Above: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Packet)
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Review and Predictions
Review: Each day, we review at the end of our shared reading time. I choose a student to read their summary of the day's reading and move Edward along the map on our SMART Notebook file. (See Resource File: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Map Notebook File)
*I've included a video of my students reading their summaries. This video is a compilation of different days while we were reading the story, one summary for each day of reading. Each day, I chose a different students to read their summaries as a review of what we had read in previous days. We always ended with a new summary for the day's reading. (See Resource File: Edward Tulane Summaries)
Predictions: We make predictions for the conclusion of the novel based on what we've read in the text, and using our inferring skills to guess what may happen. (See Resource File: Predictions Poster)
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Let me get this straight: This maniac murdered six people — half of which he killed with a knife. He also injured 13 more people, and a number of those he hit on purpose with his car. And it's all the NRA's fault?
Yes it is, according to people like Dianne Feinstein and others.
These people do not have a serious interest in preventing the recurrence of horrible crimes like this. The NRA does not support guns in the hands of the mentally ill, nor do they serve in state legislatures that make the laws:
Even a diagnosis of serious mental illness, in itself, would not have prevented Rodger from buying a gun under California law, said Lindsay Nichols, staff attorney with the advocacy group Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Instead of taking some responsibility for what can happen under laws they helped write, some legislators would rather just blame a gun rights entity that, as a general rule, supports their political opposition. And politics is what it's all about.
Leave it to the Left to consider more gun control a "common sense" reaction to a mass killing where half the fatalities were caused by knives. How very partisan bureaucracy.
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May 27th, 2014 4:51 pm
The Left is mentally deranged. Michael Savage has it right, liberalism IS a mental disorder and thus Leftists such as Ms. Feinstein have no business owning or carrying firearms of any kind. Doing so would be hypocrisy of the highest order.
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May 27th, 2014 10:26 pm
Gee and which Cali Politician was it that got a concealed weapons permit when they felt their life was in danger. Oh that's right it was DF. The hypocrisy from the left is astounding.
I think liberalism is more than just a mental disorder. I think it is a biological weapon. It turns the weak minded into slaves and makes us Conservatives sick to our stomachs.
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"These people do not have a serious interest in preventing the recurrence of horrible crimes like this."
More than just driving their twisted agenda, deliberately misinterpreting these tragic events does nothing toward an actual, useful level of understanding. 40 years later, we're still ( well, objective observers ) are still trying to understand Charles Manson's 'family'.
Yet before the last gun shell or dagger hits the ground, they're already jumping out in front, driving the narrative without a shred of evidence. It's possible the last, pure, unorchestrated/rehearsed event was the Hollywood Shoot Out.
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A nonprofit advocacy group called Students Matter has filed a lawsuit against the state on behalf of nine students, arguing that teacher tenure—which gives senior educators a contractual right not to be fired without just cause—violates California students' constitutional right to equal protection under the law, because they do not ensure that all children have access to good education, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Tales From The Kidscape– A Class on Writing Young Characters
On Saturday, May 5, I am teaching a course at the amazing Grub Street Writers Conference: The Muse and the Marketplace. I am delighted to be included because this conference is pretty amazing. I like that they have courses in writing craft– hence the "muse", and the business end, as well. If you are in Boston, I strongly encourage you to come by and take a few courses.
My contribution to the festival is a course on writing coming of age stories. When I last checked there were four places left in my class. So, there's still time for you to join in. There are a lot of amazing other classes. And the guest authors are top notch.
Meanwhile, here is the description of my class:
The coming of age story is a mainstay of American fiction. It is full of possibility – so many of the most enduring works of literature – fall into this genre: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Bluest Eye, The Catcher in The Rye, Great Expectations, Black Boy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The popularity of the genre holds fast in both literary and commercial fiction, from Harry Potter to Twilight to Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. All of these stories require the author to authentically recreate the voice of a child. This craft class is not a literature survey, rather it is a discussion of strategies to create young characters that are are both convincing and compelling.
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Yesterday, I read from my new novel, Dear History, at Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. I had butterflies because Dear History is not yet finished and I wasn't quite sure if it was ready for the public. I promised myself after my experiences with Silver Sparrow that I would not show my next work too soon. But part of the Radcliffe Fellowship is that each person should show how she has been using her time here. This year at Radcliffe has been such a a gift, and this seemed like so little to ask. So I did it. And it went so well.
The purpose of this post is not to recount the highlights of the evening, but to give deep thanks not only to Radcliffe, but to the community of writers and readers here in Cambridge who came out in force and cheered me on. It's easy to get so caught up in the drama of your own mind that for start to feel like you're in this writing world all by yourself. Leaving my office at 11pm after completing yet another round of revisions, I felt incredibly isolated and exhausted.
I was right about being exhausted, but not about being alone. More than 100 people showed up to hear the debut of Dear History. In the crowd were new friends, folks who had journeyed from New York, a couple mentors, and friends I just hadn't met yet. The most special guests were a middle school reading group.
Afterwards there was a happy hour and dinner after that. It was lovely. I feel so blessed and lucky.
(In case you're interested, here is an article about the event that ran in the Harvard Gazette.)
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Today is a big day for me. At 4pm, I will read from my novel-in-progress at the Radcliffe Institute, where I am a fellow. My name, translated literally from Swahili, means "she is prepared." I always thought it was a little lackluster and practical– like a pair of low-heeled shoes with arch support and laces. But for this event, I have embodied the spirit of "Tayari." I have worked hard to make this reading and lecture the best it can possibly be. The first challenge was choosing excerpts that worked together and could be expressed by being read aloud. And then I needed to write a narrative sort of putting the work into context explaining why this story, why now. Around 8pm, I did a skpe run through with Lauren Cerand, making sure I had all my bases covered. Then, I rushed back home to set my hair. I went to bed feeling that I had done all I could do.
I woke up this morning and glanced at facebook and I saw the photo that is displayed here. James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry getting their boogie on! I looked at three more friends pages, and there was the photo again. I am taking this as a sign. In all my preparation, I had forgotten the fun.
Look at this picture. James Baldwin, that super serious American genuis looks like he is about to drop it like it's hot. And that is the author of A Raisin in the Sun shaking a tail feather. I imagine myself sitting on the couch sipping club soda, chewing on a pencil, making last second revisions while everybody else is doing the hustle.
Anybody who knows me even a little bit will tell you that I am not a wallflower, but I somehow let my desire to bring my A game almost undermine that same game. Your "A" game is still a game, and games are supposed to be fun. I forgot that if I, as the artist, am not having good time, nobody else will either.
I'm back on track now. Today is going to be an amazing experience. I've been here at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University since September, piecing together this novel. It's my most ambitious work ever. It's very contemporary and sections of it are narrated in the voice of a man. I'm taking on some Big Ideas, but I also want to make sure it pops on the level of old-fashioned plot. I've worked hard on Dear History and I am ready to share. The even is open to the public, so if you're in the area, I'd love to see you.
I know I haven't been the most regular blogger these days, but I promise to report back and let you know how it went.
When It Comes to Writing Time, Sometimes Less Is More
Many of you know that I am spending the year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. It's wonderful here. There are fifty fellows and we are given a full academic year to basically do our thing. My thing, as you can imagine, is researching and writing a new novel. It's called Dear History and it's turning out to have a mind of it's own– but that's a post for another day. This opportunity is what I have always dreamed of. It's a room of my own and more. The perks: Very few real responsibilities. (We go to a couple lectures a week and eat a nice catered lunch.) A large office with natural light. Access to an excellent cappuccino machine. Extra cool colleagues. A monthly stipend.
With all these goodies, you would think I'm over here writing like a mad woman. After all, when I am teaching, don't I whine that I don't have enough time for my own work? How many posts have I written about creative ways to carve out a little time for your novel or other projects? But guess what? I am not yet getting my work done here at Harvard. Why? Because I have too much "free" time.
In my own defense, I arrived here bone-tired after the 48-city Silver Sparrow tour. And moving was no walk in the park. But that's really no excuse.
Here's what happened: I have been sleeping late. Why? Because I have all the time in the world. No reason to pull myself out of bed and be seated at my desk by 6:45am. I have also been experimenting with my hair, pen-palling with half the universe, fooling around on ebay looking for pretty typewriters, etc. And I won't lie– there have been spa days. In short, all this luxury has sort of lulled me into becoming a slacker.
Back when I was teaching, I knew every quiet moment was precious and I took full advantage. I would happily turn down three days at a day spa, for three days at a writing retreat. I stole time to write and did it gladly. (Remind me to tell you the story of how I once wrote a novel on my lunch hour, barricaded in the faculty loo!) But now, quiet moments have become a little ho-hum. I let this pass through my fingers because I know that the next day will bring many more opportunities to write.
Luckily, I am nothing if not self-aware.
Although this seems counter-intuitive, I am making myself write by giving myself less time to write. I am putting myself on a schedule that involves more than just my daily date with the blank page. I joined the gym and signed up (and paid for) three classes a week. I joined the Boston Athenaeum and I will go there twice a week. Then, there are the twice weekly Radcliffe lectures. I'm also making an effort to attend lectures all over the Harvard campus. This week and next, I'm editing a friend's manuscript, eating up more precious time.
I've only been at this a week, but I already feel it working. A couple days ago, while attending a lecture on Romare Bearden, I came up with an idea so strong it wanted to kick it's way out of my head. The next morning, i was in my writing office at 5:30 am, eager to get started.
This is not to say that I wish I had a job in a canning factory or that my writing would benefit from me working the graveyard shift at the local mental hospital. A writer needs time to write, time to think, and a certain amount of leisure. A writing life must also be a life. Not only do my new activities make my writing time more valuable– I'll admit it, there is something particularly sweet when time feels a little stolen– but all the other things I am doing stimulate me and inspire my writing.
I'll report back in a couple weeks, but I think I'm on to something.
Is Fear Keeping You From Doing What You Love? The Typewriter Doctor can Help You With That.
Last week I blogged about my plan to write my new novel on a sixty-year Smith Corona. I bought the machine on Etsy and the ad promised that it "works." Well, it did work, a little bit. It worked enough to type my name, but it wasn't in true working order. The seller thought I just sort of wanted the typewriter as a conversation piece. She didn't understand that I was actually going to use the thing.
Luckily, there is a typewriter hospital here in Cambridge. My trusty assistant, Sarah, gave me a ride to the storefront shop which was crammed with typewriters of varying vintage. The Typewriter Doctor looked very tanned and rested, having just returned from vacation. He opened the case and looked at my machine. "This is a beautiful Pinky," he said. "One of the best ones I've seen." I beamed like a proud mama and no longer felt silly for talking to the thing in baby talk on the ride over. (My assistant is very indulgent.)
When I left the Typewriter Hospital, I realized that the Typewriter Doctor did not mention one time that typewriters are dying out. When asking me if I wanted a two-tone ribbon, he mentioned that mostly teenagers like those. When I was looking at a 1980s IBM Selectric he said, "It's a real workhorse. If you are going to be pounding out a lot of documents, that's what you need."
I had expected him to be like that Maytag Repairman on those old commercials. (Remember, he was depressed and had no customers because Maytag washers never broke down?) Instead he was a jovial and optimistic as the "Geek Squad" computer repair team at Best Buy. If I didn't know better, I would have no idea that the vast majority of printed writing is generated by computers. Further, he didn't charge me a fortune to tune up the machine, as though I was asking for some arcane service. His store isn't a museum.
I couldn't help but wonder if writers have something to learn from him.
I have noticed that writers are always asked about the death of the book, the death of the bookstore. We are told that the Kindle is going to drown us in our bathtubs. How do we feel about the fact that we are all going to starve to death? When I go to a poetry reading, there is often a sense of self- satisfied martyrdom—no one reads poetry, but we write it anyway! And in the literary fiction word, it is often the same vibe—everyone wants to read "street lit" or _________ (fill in the blank with your anxiety of choice). Woe is us. All this genius and nobody cares. Frankly, it's a drag and I don't think it helps anyone get her work done and it certainly does not improve anybody's quality of life. And I can't imagine that it revs up readers.
This is not to say that the Kindle will not drown us in our bathtubs. Maybe it will. Who knows.
I am not saying go into see-no-evil mode. The Typerwriter Doctor is not burying his head in the sand.[video] He has had to adapt with changing times. He used to rent typewriters, but now he repairs them. And he doesn't hate computers– you can like him on facebook, and he keeps a blog— typing the entries and then scanning them.
What I learned at the typewriter hospital is that we don't have to carry that fear of obsolescence around with us, strapped to our backs and we certainly don't have to make it part of our identity. We don't have to announce impending doom everytime we talk about our work. When we create, we don't have to multi task writing with fretting that these these are the endtimes for literature.
Take a lesson from a man who repairs typewriters for a living. He's good at it. And he's enjoying his life and his work.


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In the article "Decision to Ask Congress to Authorize Syria Attack Rejuvenates Legislative Role in War," Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala offers opinion on Obama's possible political motivations in asking for Congressional approval on an attack in Syria.
Excerpt from Congressional Quarterly article by Jonathan Broder:
"Kal Raustiala, a law professor at UCLA and director of the school's Burkle Center for International Relations, said the president could get political cover and possibly a face-saving out of the Syria crisis if Congress votes against authorizing force. Just as British Prime Minister David Cameron bowed to the will of parliament, Obama could do the same, he said."
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Publication number | US2833686 A |
Publication type | Grant |
Publication date | May 6, 1958 |
Filing date | Jun 20, 1955 |
Priority date | Jun 20, 1955 |
Publication number | US 2833686 A, US 2833686A, US-A-2833686, US2833686 A, US2833686A |
Inventors | Wilhelm Sandt Bernd |
Original Assignee | Du Pont |
Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (84), Classifications (8) | |
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet | |
United States Patent O BONDING POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE 'RESINS No Drawing. ApplicationJune 20, 1955 Serial No. 516,790
3 Claims. or. 154-139 This invention relates to an improved procedure for bonding polytetrafiuoroethylene resin to itself and to other substances. This application is a continuation-inpart of U. S. Serial No. 458,250, filed September 24, 1954, now abandoned. w
Ingeneral polytetrafiuoroethylene resins are synthesized in the form of fine particles, and these are fabricated into useful shaped articles by aggregating the particles to obtain a preform, and fusing or .sintering the preform at temperatures above 327 C. to coalesce the aggregated particles into a solid mass. A typical procedure of this kind is disclosed in Brubaker U. S. Patent2,400,099.
The bonding of solid polyetetrafiuoroethylene resin to itself and to other material however has been attended with considerable difficulty, inasmuch as in this form the resin is distinguished by reason of its non-adhesive qualities. It is possible to form bonds which are suitable for some purposes by heating an assembly of the articles to be joined under pressure at temperatures in the range of 327 to 390 C. for considerable lengths of time, or to higher temperatures for somewhat shorter times, particularly if pressure is maintained on the assembly during cooling through 327 C. and cooling is done gradually so as to minimize the chance for bond rupture as a result of unequal contraction of the assembly during this step. At temperatures below 390 C., however, several hours may be required to effect satisfactory bonding, and at higher temperatures the resin tends to adhere to the metals of the pressurizing apparatus.
It has previously been known to bond fused polytetrafluoroethylene resin to itself or to other materials by using a colloidal dispersion of the unsintered resin itself as a bonding agent, see Berry U. S. Patent 2,484,484. It has also been disclosed in Compton et al. U. S. Patent 2,510,078 to accomplish this result by using polytetrafluoroethylene plasticized with a perfiuorocarbon oil as an adhesive. It has further been disclosed in the copending application of Benning and Hill, Serial No. 268,464, filed January 26, 1952, now U. S. Patent 2,720,- 498, to carry out a similar operation'using a telomer of chlorotrifluoroethylene as the plasticizer. None of the aforesaid procedures has been entirely satisfactory however for a variety of purposes, such as fabricating tube, tank, or cylinder linings either because the bonds formed were not strong enough or because they were too pervious, or because the procedure was inconvenient.
More recently it has been disclosed in the copending application of B. W. Sandt and P. J. Wayne, U. S. Serial No. 388,872, filed October 28, 1953, now abandoned,
that strong highly impermeable bonds can be formed bet tween sintered polytetrafluoroethylene .resin surfaces by placing a mixture of polytetrafluoroethylene powder and a high-boiling plasticizer between the surfaces and heating the sandwich so formed at temperatures in the range of 340 to 390 C. until substantially all the plasticizer is removed. This procedure however necessarily involves the use of plasticizers which are relatively expensive and of about 1750 p. s. i. or more.
not readily recoverable. Moreover with heavy pieces, relatively long baking times are sometimes required in order to remove substantially all of the plasticizer and obtain bonds of a strength and permeability comparable to those of the integral pieces from which the composite is formed.
It is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved procedure for adhesively joining solid polytetrafluoroethylene to itself or to other materials. A more specific object is to provide a method of joining sintered polytetralluoroethylene articles to each other by means of strong highly impermeable bonds. Other objects will be apparent hereinafter.
According to the present invention it has been found that the aforesaid objects are achieved by procedures more fully detailed hereinafter which comprise forming an assembly by disposing a resinous copolymer of tetra fiuoroethylene and perfluoropropylene as a bonding agent, between the polytetrafluoroethylene resin surface and the surface to which it is to be bonded, and heating the assembly at temperatures above 327 C.
The resinous tetrafluoroethylene/hexafiuoropropylene copolymers useful in the practice of the-present invention are of the general type described in Sauer U. S. Patent 2,549,935. Ordinarily they contain from about 5 to 50% by weight of combined hexafluoropropylene. They soften at temperatures in the range ofabout 275 to 325 C., and may be molded into articles having tensile strengths They are quite similar to the homopolymers of polytetrafluoroethylene inelectrical properties, chemical resistance, and heat resistance, but difier from it in having a much greater fluidity in the molten state. It is a teaching of the present invention that these copolymers not only can be readily made to adhere to surfacesv of sintered polytetrafiuoroethylene, but also are capable of forming strong substantially impermeable bonds between surfaces at least one of which is polytetrafiuoroethylene resin.
In the practice of the invention the copolymers may be provided in any physical form suitable for disposition between the. polytetrafluoroethylene resin surface and the surface to which it is to be bonded. Thus fluid or semifluid dispersions of copolymer in a volatile or thermally deconrposable'liquid may be used to apply coatings to one or more of the surfaces, powders of copolymers' may be spread over the surfaces, or films of copolymers may be inserted between the surfaces to be bonded. Other physical forms which may be used will be apparent to those skilledin the art.
In disposing the resinous copolymer between the surfaces to be bonded, optimum choice of copolymer form, amount and method of disposition depends upon the circumstances of the particular case. Thus where the surfaces to be joined are smooth and relatively flat, as is preferable, it is ordinarily most convenient vto employ solid molded films of copolymer in elfecting disposition. Where the surface is less regular, it may be advantageous to employ a paste or dispersion of polymer.
After disposing the copolymer over or between the surfaces to be bonded, the surfaces are placed to form an assembly having the copolymer sandwiched intermediate with the surfaces to be bonded and in intimate contact with the said surfaces.
In the fusing step the assembly is heated, preferably under pressure, to a temperature above 327 C., at the bonding interface, preferably in the range of 330 to 390 C. The time required to bring about satisfactory bonding at temperatures above 327 C. is not critical, and strong bonds are formed when the interface reaches a temperature above 327 C.
For maximum impermeability, however, the heating is preferably continued'to maintain the interface at 330- 390 C. forabou t 10 minutes. After the heating is completed, the assembly may be quenched, or cooled gradually. Preferably if pressure is employed, it is maintained during the cooling step.
. i The invention is more particularly described and explained by means of the following examples, which how ever .are not intended to limit its scope. .In the examples all partsand percentages are by weight unless otherwise genated water, 0.1 part of ammonium persulfate and 20 parts of hexafluoropropylene. Thereafter the reactor is simultaneously heated to'7880" C. and pressured with .tetrafluoroethylene to 350400 p. s. i. g., and subsequently agitated for 2 hours at 78-80 C. and 350400 p. s. i. g., pressure being maintained by injection of tetrafluoroethylene. The reactor is then cooled, unreacted gases are bled. off, the residual contents of the reactor. are discharged, ,and the copolymer powder contained therein is filtered off, washed with water, and dried. By this method is obtained 43.1 parts of powder which melts at 285- 290 C., and loses only 1.3% of its weight when heated in an air oven at 380 C. for 24 hours. The powder is compression moldedat 350 C. to a strong tough film 5 to mils thick. Infrared analysis of the film indicates that the polymer contains more than 40% hexafluoropropylene.
An assemblyis formed by evenly disposing an inch long half-inchwide strip of the film between and in intimate contact with the overlapping surfaces of two 2 x 1 x 0.040 strips of polytetrafiuoroethylene shaved tape obtained by the process of Alfthan U. S. Patent 2,406,127, the last-mentioned strips being overlapped to the extent of one-half inch of their length.
The assembly is heated between and in intimate contact with the surfaces of two hot steel plates, under a pressure of about 5 p. s. i. g., during minutes, to a temperature of 1350 C. at the film innerlayer, and allowed to cool under .pressureto below 280 C. The pressure is released andthe assembly is foundto have formed a soundly bonded unitary structure. The structure is not adherent to the steel plates. The bond formed has a shear strength, as determined by pulling the ends of the structure in a tensile tester, of at least 160 p. s. i.,
at which stress the single-thickness sections of the bonded strip elongate and failwithout affecting the double thickness bonded area. The bond has a peel. strength'of 40 to 50 pounds per inch of width.
Incomparisoma bond obtained by an identical pro cedure in which no bonding agent is employed ruptures under ashear stress insufficient to elongate the non-overlapping sections of the bonded strips, and shows a peel strength. of less than 15 pounds per inch of width.
Example 2.-In this example a different copolymer film is used as a bonding agent. Powdered resinous copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and hexafiuoropropylene is prepared in a series of runs similar to that of Example 1 except that the charge contains 10 parts of hexafluoropropylene and amounts of ammonium persulfate in the range of 0.01 to 1.0 part. The .several products consist of 70 to 90% combined tetrafluoroethylene and 30 to 10% combined hexafiuoropropylene as computed from material balances and mass spectrometer analyses of the gas in the reactor at the end of the heating period. The
products melt at temperatures in the range of 310 to 7 are compression molded at 350 C. to strong films 5 to 10 mils thick. A sample of the filmiscut to fit the area formed by a 3-inch diameter disc having a 1-inch diameter hole in 1 its center, and a second Z-inch diameter imperforate disc centered over the said hole, each of the discs being cut from 20 mil thick polytetrafluoroethylene shaved tape obtained as in'Example 1. .The cut film is evenly disposed between the overlapping surfaces to form an assembly. The assembly is bolted between flat steel plates using spring-loaded bolts to apply an even pressure of about 10-20 p. s. i. g. to the compressed surfaces. The compressed assembly is heated in an oven at 350 C. for about 15 minutes'to fuse the polymeric components, and then allowed to cool in air to below 300 C. The pressure is then released and the discs are found to have soundly bonded together to form a unitary structure.
The permeability of the structure thus obtained is determined by placing n-hexane in a metal cup, smearing the edges of the cup with a perfluorolube grease, covering place, placing the cup in inverted position at constant temperature (23.1" C.) for a period of one month, and
periodically determining the loss of Weight. The loss increases gradually during the first few days and thereafter remains constant at about 0.0015 g. per day. By the same test, a sample of the 20 mil thick shaved tape from which the unitary structure is formed shows a constant value of about 0.0018 g. per day. The foregoing permeability values are based upon an exposure area of 7.1 square inches.
Example 3.-Comrnencing with two discs of the kind used in forming the. assembly of Example 2, the larger disc is cut at an angle to its thickness so as to taper one half inch to a feather edge of its inner periphery, and the smaller disc is similarly cut to taper to a feather edge at its outer periphery.
A paste is made by mixing 5 parts of the composite powder of Example 2 and 1 part of cetane. The paste is spread evenly over the tapered surfaces of the two discs, and the discs are conjoined to form a substantially singlethickness assembly. The assembly is bonded and tested by the procedure of Example 2 and found to have a permeability value of 0.0016. g. per day. After testing, the composite disc is again heated to 350 C. and allowed to cool to below 300 C. under pressure as in Example2. Permeability of the composite disc is found to be un affected by this treatment.
Example 4.-The ends of two 3" x 1 x 0.040" strips of shaved tape obtained as in Example 1 are calendered between calender rolls over one inch of their length to a 20 mil thickness. The resulting paddle-shaped strips are trimmed back to 3 x 1" rectangular shape. Using the copolymer film and procedure of Example 2, the thin ends are then bonded together to form a unitary structure. The bond shows no visible imperfections. An attempt to shear the bond by pulling the free ends of the strip apart results in elongation and failure of the strip in a section away from the bond area.
In a similar test in which the bonding agent of the aforesaid Sandt and Wayne application is employed, the bond area exhibits visible imperfections and fails under shear stress.
Example 5.An aqueous dispersion of colloidal copolymer is prepared by a procedure similar to that of Example 2 except that the recipealso contains 0.5 part of ammonium perfiuorocaprylate as a dispersing agent. The product presents the appearance of a clear liquid inasmuch as the colloidal particles of copolymer are colorless and manifest very nearly the same refractive index as water. The dispersion, which contains about 20% solids by weight, is concentrated to about 35% solids by evaporating part of the water at reduced pressure. One part of Methocel cellulose ether per hundred parts of dispersion is added as a thickener.
The thickened dispersion is used to apply a thin coating to the inside of a piece of iron pipe, 1 foot long and of about linch internal diameter. 'The coating is dried to a thin, fairly tough film during two hours at 100200 C. in an air oven.
A polytetrafluoroethylene extruded tube, produced by the process of Llewellyn and Lontz U. S. Patent 2,685,707, having an outside diameter slightly smaller than 1 inch and a wall thicknes of about 60' mils, is inserted inside the pipe so as to fit snugly. The tube extends about 1 inch beyond each end of the pipe. The ends of the resulting assembly are plugged with tapered plugs seating within the pipe and the interior space is pressured with air introduced through an aperture in one of the plugs. Pressure is held at about p. s. i. g. by means of a continuously pressured air line fitted with a relief valve.
The pressured assembly is heated in an air oven during minutes at 350 C., allowed to cool under pressure to below 300 C., and removed from the oven. The
insert is found to be firmly bonded to the pipe. The lined pipe thus obtained is useful in transferring hot corrosive liquids. The protruding ends of the tube may be flared and held against the flared ends of similar lined sections by means of metal back-up rings which are clamped together so as to form a multi-section conduit. Alternatively a gasket of tetraiiuoroethylene may be machined or molded to seat between and conform with the flared ends, and clamped in place as above in order to obtain a multi-section conduit of uniform internal diameter. Where it is not desired to make provision for disassembly, the flared ends may be bonded together, mediately or intermediately by the process of the present invention.
The process of the present invention is effective in bonding polytetrafluoroethylene to itself, to iron, copper, brass, aluminum, silica, glass, clay, and in general to any heat-resistant material of construction. adaptable to the productionof a wide variety of useful products.
For example, the process may advantageeously be used to line tanks with thick sheets of polytetrafluoroethylene. Previously it has been possible to accomplish this either by heating a tank and liner assembly to temperatures above 390 C. and maintaining pressure during heating and cooling as previously mentioned or by a modification of this technique wherein the surface to be lined is preliminarily lined with a thin coating of poly tetrafluoroethylene applied from dispersion, such as the dispersions disclosed'in U. S. Patent 2,681,324. The process of the present invention is superior to these techniques, inter alia, in producing a strong highly impermeable bond in a shorter time and atlower temperature. The process is also adaptable to the production of insulated bolt heads, for example, by inserting the bolt through a perforated disc of polymer and bonding the overlapping edges to an imperforate disc. Such bolts are especially useful in holding tank liners of polytetrafiuoroethylene in place where it is desired to use a removable liner, or Where it is desired to bolt an inlet to a lined tank in place.
The process may also be used in making-parts for electrical or electronic applications. For example, an
The process is ving polytetrafluoroethylene insulated wire on a core of the same resin, inserting the assembly in a shell of the same resin, and heating the whole above 390 C. under pressure. Coils suitable for slightly lower temperature use are made in a similar way in shorter times at lower temperatures by an adaptation of the process of the present invention wherein the interstices in the resincoated wire coil are filled with an extruded beading of copolymer as the winding is applied. Open ends of the final coil may be sealed by bonding discs over the open ends of the coil using the process of the present invention.
Numerous other uses and advantages of the process will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
I claim:
1. A method of forming strong non-porous bonds between two surfaces, at least one of which is of polytetrafluoroethylene resin, which comprises the steps of forming an assembly by disposing between and in intimate contact with said surfaces a resinous copolymer of 5 to 50% by weight of hexafluoropropylene and to 50% by weight of tetrafiuoroethylene, and heating the resulting assembly to a temperature of at least 327 C.
2. A method of forming strong non-porous bonds be-' tween two surfaces, at least one of which is of solid fused polytetrafluoroethylene resin, which comprises the steps of forming an assembly by disposing between and in intimate contact with said surfaces a molded film of a resinous copolymer of 5 to 50% by weight hexafiuoropropylene and 95 to 50% by weight of tetrafiuoroethylene and heating the resulting assembly under pressure to a I temperature of at least 327 C.
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text: What Are Your Thanksgiving Traditions?Thorin Klosowski11/21/12 7:30amFiled to: tell usHolidaysSocialTraditions41EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Whether you realize it or not, you probably have a few Thanksgiving traditions. Perhaps it's hazing the kids by letting them pop open their first package of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, or gathering around the TV for the Thanksgiving Classic. So, we're wondering, what are your Thanksgiving traditions? Advertisement Share your thoughts in the discussion below.Reply41 repliesLeave a reply


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Rixton is gearing to launch the follow-up to breakthrough hit "Me and My Broken Heart."
Those eagerly anticipating new music from Rixton will not have to "Wait" much longer.
Interscope confirmed via its radio playbook that "Wait on Me," the band's next single, will debut on Wednesday, July 23.
The track will function as the follow-up to the UK band's "Me and My Broken Heart," which reached the top 10 at both pop and hot adult contemporary radio and peaked at #14 on the all-encompassing Billboard Hot 100.
Prior to scoring with breakthrough hit "Me and My Broken Heart," Rixton was named one of MTV's Artists to Watch for 2014.


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Craig Moffat County High School students no longer will be able to sleep in on Thursday mornings.
Principal Thom Schnellinger made a report to the Moffat County School Board on Thursday that included reasons for the switch and possible advantages of letting students out early instead of allowing them to come in later on days when teachers get together for collaboration.
"I think there is a good case for developing a consistent morning routine," he said. "It will work well for the school and for the families."
On Thursdays, classes are shortened and the equivalent of one class period is dedicated to teacher collaboration.
The time is important, he said, because teachers need to examine their practices, map curriculum and engage in dialogue about what is working and what isn't.
Last year, however, the collaboration took place in the morning. Students weren't required to be in class until 9 a.m.
However, many students couldn't adhere to the late start schedule.
Schnellinger noted a significant increase in the number of tardy arrivals occurring on late start days.
On one Thursday, 90 students showed up late, which is 14 percent of the student body. On an average day, only one to three percent of students were tardy.
"I think, at home, adults in the family leave for work and there isn't that supervision," Schnellinger said. "Since they already have to come in late, some just lose motivation."
The decision to make the switch involved an informal online poll in which 68 percent of those who answered preferred the early dismissal. Twenty-four percent wanted to stay with the late start.
Schnellinger said the new schedule, which lets students out at 2:50 p.m. instead of 3:40 p.m., will provide more opportunities for catching up on work.
"We will have tutors available," he said. "There will be a math tutor and a general study hall run by paraprofessionals. Also, the library and computer lab will still be open."
Board member Trish Snyder said her two daughters were actually looking forward to the change.
"I know my girls are excited because they will have that time to finish their homework before they go to practice," Snyder said. "That way, they won't have to do it after they get home when they're tired."
Schnellinger said he spoke with coaches about setting up study groups specifically for ineligible athletes to catch up on their work, something that was difficult with the late start because so many students chose to sleep in.
He said it's important to find the balance between the importance of collaboration time and meeting the needs of the students.
The first early release will be Sept. 10.


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(HealthDay)—Anergia, or the lack of energy, is highly prevalent in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), and correlates independently with several factors, including bodily pain and exercise participation, according to a study published in the Nov. 1 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology.
Jonathan A. Shaffer, Ph.D., of Columbia University in New York City, and colleagues conducted a study involving 472 hospitalized patients with ACS enrolled in a prospective cohort study to evaluate the prevalence and clinical and demographic characteristics of anergia.
At least one instance of anergia was reported by 79.9 percent of patients, and 32 percent of patients met the established criteria for anergia. The researchers found that anergia correlated independently with being a woman, being white versus black, having bodily pain, participating in exercise, having current depressive disorder, and having elevated values on the Charlson Comorbidity Index, in a multivariable model.
"In conclusion, anergia is a highly prevalent syndrome in patients with ACS," the authors write. "It is distinct from depression and is associated with modifiable clinical factors such as participation in exercise and bodily pain that may be appropriate targets for intervention."
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Convention Center plans another growth spurt
ANAHEIM – The City Council is moving toward another expansion of the Convention Center, this one calling for adding 200,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space facing Katella Avenue, along with an underground parking structure.
If ultimately approved, construction would begin next summer on the $180 million project, funded by the general fund. Supporters said the expansion is needed to retain existing business while making Anaheim competitive in attracting larger trade shows and conventions.
"This is part of the grand continuum of what Anaheim does," Councilman Jordan Brandman said during a workshop held Tuesday afternoon at City Hall. "I'm ready to pour some concrete and put some steel in the ground."
The proposed project would be built on the site of a parking structure, adjacent to the Convention Center's original futurist-style structure that opened in 1967. The Convention Center has gone through six previous expansions, most recently with a new 100,000-square-foot Grand Hall that opened in January.
The Convention Center has more than 800,000 square feet of exhibit space.
The Convention Center saw 1.1 million visitors attend 229 events during the 2012-13 fiscal year, a 6.4 percent jump from the previous year, city officials said. With the expansion, attendance would increase by 250,000 visitors annually, said Susan Sieger, a market-demand consultant hired by Anaheim.
"It's a no-brainer when you look at the numbers," Councilwoman Gail Eastman said.
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Two days ago news broke that Guillermo del Toro would be directing and executive producing Hitchcockian crime drama "Nutshell Studies" for HBO; now, the Mexican filmmaker is on the verge of closing a deal for another series at FX.
According to Variety, the network is finalizing a deal to develop a TV series based on del Toro's trilogy of vampire novels, "The Strain," "The Fall" and "The Night Eternal," all co-written by Chuck Hogan. "Lost" executive producer and screenwriter Carlton Cuse will serve as showrunner. FX is closing a deal for a pilot order with intentions to fast-track the project to series — Del Toro will direct the pilot, which he'll co-write with Hogan, and they'll aim to shoot in Toronto next fall.
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Variety reports that FX has never ordered a pilot from a pitch before, but obviously the talent involved here is considerable. Del Toro has plans for "The Strain" to be an event series with a set end date.
"The Strain" novels, which were published in 2009, 2010 and 2011, read like del Doro and Hogan wrote them with film or TV in mind. (They've also spawned a series of Dark Horse comics.) They're based around a particular type of vampire biology that's very much unlike the romantic vision of "Twilight" — vampires are parasitic, and vampirism is spread via a capillary worm that introduces an incurable virus to the host. Vampires have a long proboscis stinger they use for feeding, and their facial features, hair, fingernails and genitals atrophy.
Del Toro's explored vampires in film before, offering a reinvention of the idea in his debut "Cronos" and presenting a "Strain"-like vampire-as-virus concept to "Blade II."


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Our wet spring weather has provided perfect growing conditions for grass and weeds throughout Albany. Unfortunately, Albany residents can't rely on the City to do anything about overgrown private properties.
City staff who have handled grass and weed complaints in prior years are also responsible for keeping track of vacant houses and other buildings and making sure they are secure. The increase in vacant homes due to the foreclosure crisis combined with a limited City budget leaves staff unable to investigate complaints of overgrown lawns, weeds, and blackberries on private, occupied property.
But staff can take action when offending vegetation is on City-owned property or in clear vision areas that must be maintained at each access to a public street (such as driveways) and at any property corners next to street or railroad intersections. (Albany Development Code 12.180)
Residents can help out, too. If there is a yard nearby that hasn't been mowed for weeks, reach out. A neighbor who is unable to mow the yard on his or her own might appreciate some help. A little investment of time and caring can pay off in making the entire neighborhood better!


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch)—U.S. stock-index futures fell Monday after the World Bank cut its China growth view and investors fretted over Europe's regional-debt trouble ahead of a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJZ2 fell 44 points, or 0.3%, to 13,492, while those for the Standard & Poor's 500 index US:SPZ2 fell 5.3 points, or 0.4%, to 1,450.20.
Futures for the Nasdaq-100 index US:NDZ2 fell 14.5 points, or 0.5%, to 2,789.75.
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Alcoa kicks off the third-quarter earnings season with its results on Tuesday. J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo are due to report earnings next Friday.
Asia stocks lost ground overnight, led by resource companies, as the World Bank revised lower its forecasts for East Asian economic growth, saying the European crisis is posing a major threat. It cut China's growth forecast, to a projected 7.7% for 2012 from an estimate of 8.2% in May. See: World Bank: Europe crisis poses major Asia threat.
The concerns about a global economic slowdown had the price of oil falling, with crude-oil futures for November delivery CLX2, +0.18% down $1.36 to $88.52 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Wall Street also took a cautious tone ahead of the start of quarterly earnings, with aluminum producer and Dow component Alcoa Inc. AA, +3.16% reporting results for the third quarter after Tuesday's close.
Multinationals including shipper FedEx Corp. FDX, +1.71% and equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. CAT, +1.61% have recently issued profit warnings, citing softness in Europe and China.
Euro-zone finance ministers readied to meet Monday in Luxembourg amid concerns over Greece's next aid payment and whether Spain would request a financial rescue.
There are no U.S. economic reports slated for release Monday with state and federal offices closed for Columbus Day.


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By Chase Parham/Special to the Journal
ATHENS, Ga. – Heading to Georgia's half of the eighth inning, the Ole Miss bullpen was shaping up to be the story of the night.
Twenty-six minutes later, the Bulldogs were done batting and the Rebels' beleaguered relievers remained the focus, but it was in a way that has become all too common for Ole Miss.
Georgia overcame a two-run deficit with a six-run eighth inning to stun the No. 18 Rebels 8-4 on Thursday night in the first game of the three-game series.
Today's first pitch is at 6 p.m.
The Bulldogs (21-13, 6-7 SEC) sent 10 men to the plate in the decisive frame, with Georgia junior Kyle Farmer breaking the 4-4 tie with a double to right-center off Ole Miss closer Brett Huber (1-2).
Farmer's father, Bryan, pitched for the Rebels from 1982-1986 and holds the school record for most career starts with 61. "My grandmother is probably mad at me," he said.
Ole Miss sophomore Aaron Greenwood replaced starter Bobby Wahl with two runners on and one out in the fifth and escaped the jam. He also pitched scoreless sixth and seventh innings but allowed a hit, a walk and threw a wild pitch before Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco went to Huber in the eighth.
It's the third late-inning conference loss for Ole Miss (23-11, 6-7 SEC), as the Rebels were one strike from wins against both Auburn and Alabama on March 18 and March 24, respectively.
"There's enough blame to go around, but when you have six outs remaining, you have to figure out a way to do that," Bianco said. "We were close like the other games, but close doesn't help you."
Georgia starter Michael Palazzone (1-4) worked his second consecutive complete game against Ole Miss. The right-hander beat the Rebels, 8-3, in Oxford last season and was dominant again Thursday, allowing four runs – two earned – and striking out eight with no walks. He entered the game winless with a 5.68 ERA.
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Wahl, less than a week after leaving his previous start with a "dead arm," yielded six hits and two runs in 4.1 innings. He had six strikeouts and one walk.
"I felt all right but couldn't get ahead of guys," Wahl said.
Ole Miss took a 2-0 lead in the third on a Tanner Mathis RBI single and Alex Yarbrough run-scoring double.
After Georgia tied it in the fifth, the Rebels added two unearned runs in the sixth, when Georgia outfielder Conor Welton committed a fielding and throwing error on the same play.
Yarbrough and Auston Bousfield had two hits each for the Rebels.
"We have to figure out how to win," Bianco said. "We have to score more and add on. It's a guy with a five ERA, and we score four runs after they kick a couple balls."
Ole Miss is scheduled to send righty R.J. Hively (3-2, 2.68) against Georgia lefty Alex Wood (4-1, 2.45) tonight.


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Following last year's debate in the New York Senate about whether to legislate permissible levels of self-zombification for city sidewalks, a campaign has been launched by the Australian Traffic Commission to underline the danger of crossing the street with an mp3 player going at full blast. The posters use Apple's own iconic "outline" imagery, but with the decidedly morbid twist of having headphone cords frame a dead body. The pictures, while visually arresting, still may be a little subtle given that their target audience is people who don't look both ways before crossing the street. [Gizmodo]
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