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|Palm Oil
|Cold & Hot Pressing Machine
|Automatic Grade:
|Production Capacity:
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|Jinan,Shandong, China (Mainland)
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|380v/220v,50hz,three phase
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|Engineers available to service machinery overseas
|product name:
|palm oil process plant
|FFB processing plant
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|palm kernel oil yield:
|buisness scrop:
|FFB production,CPO and CPOK oil refinery plant
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LD company mainly engage in oil machinery oil making plant, rice bran oil production line, palm oil production line/palm kernel,palm fruit oil mill making machine, palm oil processing equipment ,palm oil processing machines,pam oil mill, plam oil process plant,palm fractionation,cotton seed protein dephenolization,sunflower seed,rapsseeds,cotton seeds,peanut,soybean oil production line,biodiesel continuous production equipment.
Reception station:
1.The FFB bunch be transported to plant by truck, after be weigLDed by weigLDing bridge, the FFB will be loaded down to FFB Loa
ding Ramp.
2.The iron door of unloading ramp is controlled by hydraulic device, Get the power from Hydraulic pump station.
3.Start on the hydraulic device, iron door be lifted. F
4. FFB will fall down to the Palm Fruit screw conveyor, be transported to pre-treatment plant, to Vertical sterilizer.
Sterilizing process:
1. By Scraper Conveyor, FFB be transported to the top of sterilizing tank. Falling into sterilizing tank from feed inlet.
2.Sterilizing tank: The inside diameter of sterilizing tank is ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ2000mm, length 12500mm, welded up by Q235B material
(Chemical composition:C0.12~0.2%,Si0.12~0.3%,Mm0.3~0.7%,P
3.After FFB be transported into sterilizing tank (202), close the door of sterilizing tank, and open the vent valve behind the tank, then saturated steam,
which pressure is 3bar and temperature is about 130ÃÂÃÂÃÂð4. After all the cooling air have been discharged out,close vent valve, proceed to sterilizing section. Sterilizing time is 55~60minutes.
5. The time of sterilizing is also according the kind of FFB, if the pressure is too high or the time is too long , p
alm fruit will be rot, also Resulting in the loss of oil, high temperature can change palm color.
6. Finish sterilizing process, close the steam valve, open the valve lead to Blow-off/down Silencer, cant open the sterilizing tank door until discharges out all steam and water.
7. Open the sterilizing tank door, sterilized FFB will fall on the FFB Scraper conveyor. Be transported to next station.
Threshing station:
1.The sterilized FFB will be transport to thresher platform by scraper conveyor.
2.We adopt advanced Drum type thresher, insider diameter is ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ1800mm, length is 5000mm.The material of main shaft is #45 steel
(main chemical composition is C0.42~0.50%, Si0.17~0.37%, Mm0.50~0.30%, PÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂä0.035%, SÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂä0.035%, CrÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂä0.25%, NiÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂä0.25%, CuÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂä0.025%).
3.Sterilized FFB be twisted and knocked in thresher. Palm fruit will be separated from empty bunch totally, fall on Fruit Scraper conveyor though fence, the empty bunch will be transported to Bunch Temporary tank by Bunch Scraper conveyor.
Kernel pressing and recovery system:
Waste water pre-treatment
Drawing of FFB processing plant
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Jennifer Nettles Performs Sugarland's 'Tonight' With Contestant J Rome on 'Duets'
"He's got the soul, he's got the voice and he's got the emotion," said Jennifer Nettles of J Rome, her first of two contestants chosen to take the stage with Sugarland's leading lady during tonight's premiere of 'Duets.'
The young hopeful and the dynamic Nettles took the stage first tonight to perform Sugarland's hit 'Tonight,' which appears on the duo's latest release, 'The Incredible Machine.' Their onstage chemistry was undeniable, but how did the performance resonate with the other three judges?
"This guy is really phenomenal," John Legend confessed. "You really look and sound like a star!"
Soul singer Robin Thicke added a similar sentiment. "That's the way to kick off a season of Duets!" said Thicke. A quick-talking Kelly Clarkson also had nothing but praise for the soul performance, proclaiming, "Y'all were great!"
The performance received universal praise despite recent complications, after the young hopeful had his tonsils removed. "I couldn't talk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything," J Rome revealed when asked about the scary ordeal. Judging by tonight's performance, it seems as though he has made a full, healthy recovery.
What did you think about Nettles' and J Rome's performance of 'Tonight'? Let your opinions be heard!
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The last time Johan Santana pitched he told manager Jerry Manuel to leave him alone, that he could go ten innings.
Want to bet there will be a similar conversation tonight?
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Santana admits there's a certain degree of pressure when he takes the mound considering the Mets' lackluster offense.
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Over his last nine starts Santana is 5-1 with a 1.88 ERA. With a little run support he could have 15 victories by now.
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Users of Live Events will be able to design a web page and invitation to an event, choosing from over 100 templates. They can customize further by changing the font and background images and dragging and dropping different components of the site.
According to Microsoft Live Events offers more than some other existing online invitation services, such as the popular Evite.com. Like those services.
Live Events users can choose email addresses of people to invite to their event from an address book they may already have in Hotmail or Messenger. They can also type in email addresses.
One feature that may set Live Events apart from other similar services is the ability for event participants to visit the invitation site after the event to upload photos or videos or comments, said Jay Fluegel, product manager for Windows Live Events.
Then anyone can order prints of the pictures, view slideshows or download the photos to Windows Live Gallery, a beta service that lets users share photos and other content.
The Live Events service, accessed at events.live.com, will begin a gradual rollout across 56 international markets this week.
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In addition, Live Spaces users will see an updated summary of changes their friends have made to their Spaces pages. When a user logs on to their Spaces page, they'll see thumbnails of new photos and snippets of text entries that friends have posted on their own pages. Microsoft also updated permissioning on photo albums so Spaces users can restrict access to their photo albums to a specific list of people.
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Unfortunately, the statistical sledding gets quite a bit tougher from here, since there are no data sources for what actually occurred in private transactions between galleries and collectors, museums, and other buyers. So out comes the back of the envelope for some approximations, assumptions, estimations, and guesses. What if we start with a hypothesis that the private market roughly equals the public market, i.e. that if the public market is $200 million in 2013, the private market will be roughly the same, getting us to a total of $400 million for the entire fine art photography market. The first question is whether this number passes the laugh test in terms of potential credibility. So let's try to test it via breaking the gallery market down a bit.
Let's assume there are four types of galleries, and these galleries are defined not by their programs, their geographies, their longevity, or their general smartness (as we might normally characterize them), but merely by their top line revenue selling photography. These galleries could be photography specialists or broader contemporary art venues, but all we care about is how much photography they sell on an annual basis. This dollar number will include both primary market sales and any secondary market transactions they may be doing in the front or back room (I'll come back to try to break this part down in a moment), as well as whatever photography they sell at art fairs. In this model, a "small" or "emerging" venue sells up to $500K of photography in a year, a "mid-sized" venue sells between $500K and $1M, a "large" venue sells between $1M and $2M, and a "mega" venue sells up to or beyond $5M. I'm not looking for perfection here, but simply a plausible estimate of the buckets.
If we agree on this breakdown, the next question is how many galleries of each type are out there in the world, and what kind of flow through numbers they produce in aggregate. Here's a little spreadsheet table to help guide the discussion:
|Annual Photo Revenue
|$ 500,000
|$ 1,000,000
|$ 2,000,000
|$ 5,000,000
|Number of Galleries
|Total Revenue for Category
|$ 50,000,000
|$ 50,000,000
|$ 50,000,000
|$ 50,000,000
|Overall Total Revenue
|$ 200,000,000
|$ Market Share/Gallery
As you can see, I've plugged in numbers that make my original $200M assumption hold true, but in looking at them, I think they hold up decently well. I think we could argue there are many more than 100 galleries on the low end, but I think that many sell so little photography in terms of raw dollars that they don't move the overall market number much; you've got to sell a lot of prints at $1500 a throw to make the top line worth counting. On the top end, there may indeed be more than 25-35 galleries that are selling multi-millions in photography on an annual basis, but I think it's decently lumpy. If Gursky, Sherman, Wall at el all have shows in the same year, or a handful of million dollar Westons or Stieglitzes show up, we'll get a spike here, but if they are generally spread out, then this model isn't far off I think. I think reasonable, well considered arguments could be made for both larger and smaller numbers that $200M, and since we'll never get the top 200 galleries in the world to tell us their revenue numbers, I look forward to hearing alternate speculation or analysis in the comments area below.
The other number in the table is the market share number by revenue dollars for each gallery type. The reason I calculated this number is that I wanted to see how fragmented the photo market is. The answer is that it is very fragmented, with even the largest players only holding a few percentage points of share; in the markets for other kinds of products, 20, 30, or more percentage points of share for a market leader aren't unheard of. Which brings me to the now infamous "grow or go" effect we are seeing more broadly in the art world, where many galleries are adding spaces, gobbling up artists, and generally trying to get bigger. Part of this is an economies of scale issue in terms of amortizing the fixed costs of the underlying infrastructure of art selling and distribution (both fixed locations and endless fairs), but in many ways, I think this is just a bold market share grab, led by economic might. And as sellable artist names are plucked from the lower tiers, there is the danger of hollowing them out and driving the galleries that once supported them back down to smaller revenue rungs. This is the pressure that many of the mid-sized galleries are feeling now, and unfortunately, it's a result of straightforward competitive forces I'm afraid. Galleries feeling this onslaught need to find creative new ways to handle the pressure (from alternate partnership/support models with artists to different/lower cost distribution/selling options), as this stress isn't going to go away.
So let's assume you are willing to grant me the $200M private/gallery revenue number. The next idea to consider is how much of this is primary market and how much of it is secondary market. I'm defining primary market to mean a sale where an artist (or his/her estate if the artist is no longer living) is the direct consignor, and the revenue is shared between artist and gallery, rather than a secondary market transaction where the artist receives nothing. Another way to ask this question is what is the split between primary and secondary for most galleries. Of course, the answer is all over the map: some do only primary business, while others use a back room secondary business to fund their front room primary efforts. I'm going to timidly put out a number of seventy percent primary (in aggregate across the entire photography market) as an estimate, giving us a primary market size of $140M (the auction market is all secondary except in exceptional cases). It could be as low as half I suppose, but my gut tells me most galleries are still leading with primary sales.
The reason I wanted to know this number is that I think this $140M is the effective "servable" market (at least in 2013) for a contemporary photographer. Any start-up worth investing in understands very clearly how big their target market is and has sliced and diced it with granularity to understand what part of that market they can reasonably hope to take from the existing players. I think artists are a little like individual start-ups; they bring a "product" to market and hope (with the help of their galleries) to sell it to customers who have choices. Like any market, there are both entrenched market leaders and there are upstart attackers hoping to push them aside. And again, it comes back to a market share (or mind share) issue; collectors (and museums and other buyers) are spending $140M a year on fresh to the market photography, and all the artists out there are competing for a share of that pie. Those with big, hairy, audacious goals want to not only crush their competitors, but also grow the total market and create new spaces where they hadn't existed before. I don't get these sense that artists in the photography world are as cut throat as their counterparts in the business world, but in many ways, the substitution trade-off between dollars spent on a Thomas Ruff and those on a new photographer is just as real.
If I was a contemporary photographer, I'd actually want to take these calculations a few steps deeper, and try to subdivide the market further. While a large majority of collectors "buy what they love" and don't necessarily adhere to rigid rules about what they might buy, I think there might be as many as a third who have defined limits of one kind or another. Perhaps they buy landscapes, or abstract photography, or German photography, or work made since 1990, but they don't buy other things for the most part. So if you are a contemporary photographer making portraits, the "buy what you love" types are a target, but the landscape lovers generally aren't. So that $140M quickly gets chopped up into smaller sections, the main body still at least $100M I think, but less than the full total to account for the specialized collectors who don't fit a particular photographer's profile.
All of this statistical musing will seem anathema to many artists, many of whom don't like to think about their art in the context of a "market" or in competition with anyone, and at some level, I agree with that sentiment - it would be nice if art could reliably transcend commerce. But I can tell you that if I was running a photography gallery, I'd be poring over these kinds of numbers, trying to understand how to optimize the math for the good of both the artists in the stable and the gallery itself, especially if I was trying to buck the "grow or go" momentum. Like it or not, big box retailing (AKA the aggregated art fair) and broad franchising (AKA the multiple location mega gallery) make it easier for customers to buy; it's more convenient and it saves time for the consumer/collector. If the one location, tightly focused, artist-centric gallery model is to survive this shift in the competitive landscape, it will need to innovate economically (probably via cooperation with others and the power of the Internet), and this starts by understanding in detail how big your market can be and who your customer really is.


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Author Notes: If the Butter Burger had an Italian cousin….Well, this was dinner tonight. It was pretty darn good. You gotta try burrata. It's really indescribably delicious. Now I'm hooked, thanks to several of you. ;-) I found my burrata at Plum Plum's Cheese Shop in Pound Ridge, NY. You can find my recipe for basil emulsion in the food52 archives. —mrslarkin
Serves: 4
1 1/2
pounds 85% lean ground beef
salt and pepper
large hamburger buns, insides brushed with butter and lightly toasted on the grill
leaves of green leaf lettuce, washed and dried
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Wiedeman had 19 points to go with 11 boards. The 6-foot-8 center blocked a pair of shots while also shooting 9-of-13 from the floor. Sophomore Nate Hamilton (Snellville, Ga.) supplied a spark with a career-high 12 points off the bench, including a pair of threes.
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The first half was a struggle for the Bobcats, as Lander led by as many as 10 points at 25-15 at the 3:23 mark. A runner in the lane by Jared Holmes (Indianapolis) at the halftime buzzer cut the lead to five at 27-22. Holmes finished with eight points.
The Bobcats picked it up in the second half, tying the game on a pair of occasions before taking the lead 38-37 on a Ryan Aquino (Roswell, Ga.) three-pointer with 12:57 left. GC wouldn't let the Bearcats get the advantage back for the remainder of the contest, although the game was tied twice.
Lander had two chances at tying the game late, missing a decent three-point look from the corner with six seconds left, then after the Bobcats couldn't ice the game with a missed free-throw, another off balance three was off the mark as time expired.
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Skip to comments.Columbia SC Weekly Counter-Protest AAR
Posted on 03/29/2006 7:47:16 PM PST by cf_river_rat
I (cf_river_rat) have the privilege of working in South Carolina this week and was honored to be the guest of FReeper flib and her cohort, lurker CCAW, at their weekly vigil countering some aged hippies pathetic attempt at demoralizing Americas brave warriors. These ladies have been countering the sad efforts of the America-hating left in Columbia for the better part of a year now, and their perseverance is exceptional. If only 25% of FReepers could be as doggedly determined as these two!
29 March 2006
It was a beautiful spring evening in central South Carolina as a few dedicated soldier supporters faced off against a handful of misguided military maligners from Women In Black and Carolina Peace Resource Center.
I showed up at the designated parking area just before five oclock, and waited a few minutes for flib to arrive. We unloaded some great signs from her vehicle and headed over to the SC State House. On the one-block hike we displayed our signs and flags, and were greeted with enthusiastic thumbs-up and honks of support from passers-by.
Upon our arrival at the State House I was found the usual suspects eight or nine leftover hippies trying to relive their misspent youth. Predictably, they carried signs bearing the footprint of the great American chicken, Bring Them Home Now, Bush Lied, et al. Just as predictably, there was not one American flag among them.
Within minutes flibs fellow fighter, lurker CCAW, arrived with her two beautiful daughters in tow. We set up on the sidewalk in front of the appeaseniks, effectively blocking their access to any soldiers from nearby Fort Jackson who may be driving by. The honks of support, smiles, waves, and thumbs-up we got from passing motorists was heartwarming.
Soon the very reason we participate in this type of demonstration was made manifest. A US Army buck sergeant in BDUs came over to shake our hands and thank us for being out there to counter the warrior-haters diatribe. I shouted at the motley crew behind us an invitation to come shake this brave young mans hand and thank him for his service. Their only response was to answer We have a PERMIT to be out here! I responded no one has asked you to leave, and thankfully they were quiet once again. They did not avail themselves of the opportunity to come thank the sergeant I was surprised since one of their signs said Support the Troops Bring Them Home Now. I guess that sign was all the support they could muster.
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|flib stands in front of the Hate-America crowd in an effort to diminish their demoralizing effect on our countrys finest
About 5:30 I left flib and CCAW at their post and moved to the other side of the leftists in a flanking maneuver. A fellow crossed the street in front of me and after reading my sign (HONK to Support Iraqi Freedom) he stated Yeah, were sending them to meet allah arent we?. I didnt bother to respond. Now that we had the appeasers flanked the honks were practically continuous, and it was obviously getting on the unwashed peaceniks nerves. As if that wasnt enough, I also shouted over at our adversaries Hey, did you moonbats burn your flag? a couple of times. Those liberals, they have no sense of humor!
Flib walked over to join me and we enjoyed some fellowship for a while, getting acquainted. Eventually the fellow mentioned above came over in an attempt to engage us in dialogue, and he opened the discourse with the statement that he used to be a Republican but was now a liberal. He informed us that he once supported Goldwater and now supports Hillary. Once GOP, now NAACP. Once capitalist, now socialist you get the picture. Anyone who has FReeped will not be surprised to learn that I responded Sir, do you have Alzheimers? He took this pretty well, so I followed it up with With all the respect due someone of your age sir, I must say you have lost your mind!
This gentleman stated that BUSH LIED to us about WMD to lead us into war, to which I responded We all know that the WMDs were removed through Syria while we played cat and mouse through the UN. Well that was it. This man came UNGLUED. He glanced furtively between flib and me saying You stupid F*****S! the he looked straight at me and said Ill kick your @$$ - Ill kick your @$$ so of course I poked my chest out and replied Go ahead. Id like to see you try. He flew us the bird and practically ran across the street as flib and I taunted him with catcalls of Alzheimers and Take your meds!
flib, CCAW, and two of CCAWs lovely daughters
The miserable miscreants broke up their picket promptly at six oclock, so we stayed on a little longer to show support for our troops, and enjoyed the enthusiasm of motorists on the street in front of us. We decided to take a couple of pictures, and one of the Bush bashers offered to take a group photo for us - what a kind gesture! After receiving his assurance that he wouldnt break my camera he took the photo below. After seeing the overwhelming support for our side maybe he decided if he cant beat em hed better join em!
The group photo our new friend took.
On our way back to our vehicles we were approached by a fellow pedestrian who said he was with our soldiers and their mission, and was glad we were there to defend our military. After trading contact info and saying goodbye we split up and headed our separate ways, glad we had been able to encourage at least one soldier, and rattle some leftists cages.
Great job!
Gave me goosebumps!
The only way this could be better is if you offered the moonbats up a big 'ol bucket of KFC ;-)! Great AAR...thanks! Nice signs, too!
I didn't bring anything but a flag this time - flib and CCAW brought the great signs!
The left hates dissent. You've done well! Thanks.
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Uh-oh. Next thing we know you'll be moving here to live. Welcome cf_river_rat!! J
Upchuck I've been spending A LOT of time down here lately and I love SC! Your prediction could come true...
Good job!
You should have said that he obviously used some pretty wicked drugs.
Thank you, all of you who go the extra mile.
If you get a chance to visit Aiken, the most beautiful town in SC :), please do. And let me know so I can buy you lunch.
If you really want to make their heads asplode, next time, just point to that obelisk and flag behind them and remind them forcefully that they're demonstrating in front of the SOUTH CAROLINA CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL! Then just watch 'em scatter like cockroaches when they realize they're within sight range of an eeeeeeeeeeeeevil Confederate Flag! :)
Great job. Makes me wish I was still living down there so I could join you. I used to work just a few blocks from there!
Way to go all!!
Keep raining on their parade.
I believe we are having an impact on their protests.
[Mr] T
Loved the way y'all handled the guy off his meds. Excellent Freep!
Great job folks!
BTW, Go 'COCKS!! Repeat NIT CHAMPS!!!
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From remarks on the floor of the House of Commons, April 28, 1926:
I always try to economize the use of false arguments as much as possible, because a false argument is so often detected, and it always repels any listener who is not already a convinced and enthusiastic partisan.
Maybe a better parallel for our Biden would be one of WSC's descriptions of Stafford Cripps, a far left-leaning Labourite:
Neither of his colleagues can compare with him in the acuteness and energy of mind with which he devotes himself to so many topics injurious to the strength and welfare of the State.
But by far the most apt Churchillism for our slow-Joe is his dismissal of Labour MP Hugh Dalton:
The Hon. Gentleman is trying to win distinction by rudeness.
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Assists Kitchen Manager in food production and operations of the Back-of-the-House using Golden Corral products, recipes, procedures and company systems to ensure that the standards for quality food, recipes, and cleanliness are achieved for our guests. During times when a salaried restaurant manager is not on duty in the restaurant, the KAM assumes the Front-of-the-House and Back-of-the-House management responsibilities.Requirements:
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Emilia Nardi, Tenute Silvio Nardi, Montalcino (Photo ©Tom Hyland)
In my last post, I included comments from five producers about the 2011 growing season and harvest in Italy. This post is a followup, this time with comments from three producers, all from Toscana.
Emilia Nardi – proprietor – Tenute Silvio Nardi, Montalcino
At the end of August, we had a lot of heat; that combined with the Scirocco coming from the south burned a lot of grapes. Thankfully, we have a sorting table, like almost everyone in Montalcino.
The harvest will be a little bit smaller, but as we are in Montalcino, we look to produce wines of the highest quality every year, so we will always sort the grapes to make wines that are outstanding, in my opinion.
Sebastiano Capponi – proprietor – Villa Calcinaia – Greve in Chianti
After mid-August, Tuscany and most of Italy was hit by a very strong heatwave that combined with a lack of water, started to take a toll on the vines.
Merlot as a grape was the one that created more problems due to its early ripening, while with Sangiovese, it really depended on the nature of the soil and the position of the vineyard. Fortunately the night temperatures in September cooled down and the vines benefited from a strong thermal inversion between day and night.
Merlot picking at my estate was the earliest ever (August 30, September 1) and it implied losing 30% of the crop due to dehydration. Sangiovese resisted much better, although there were some younger vines that had to be picked a little earlier.
The musts in general are characterized by a strong sugar content due to the dehydration but they still maintain high acidity due probably to the cold winter and cool weather during spring and early summer.
How to find a balance between the hot elements such as alcohol and the fresh elements such as acidity will be the winemaker's main task in a year like this.
Gianpaolo Paglia – winemaker/proprietor- Poggio Argentiera, Grosseto
The 2011 harvest started two weeks earlier, but it is not going to end two weeks earlier, probably. Some vineyards were negatively affected by a heatwave during the second half of August, but others were not. Who knows why? They simply weren't. It had rained nearly 150 mm in July in two days. That's a lot of water anywhere, but it was really unexpected in the Maremma.
Fermentations are running smoothly, without added yeasts and in most cases, without sulfites.
The wines are very good, relaxed, expressive. There are a couple of Sangiovese that I love and a good amount of outstanding Ciliegiolo from old vines. Grenache (or locally Alicante) has been harvested, but it's too early to judge, but the grapes were beautiful and there is a small amount of very interesting Syrah.


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Accused serial killer Joseph Naso announced Wednesday that he wants a new legal adviser, then complained about courtroom delays on his case.
The 78-year-old murder suspect, appearing for his latest status hearing in Marin Superior Court, confirmed that he has fired "advisory counsel" Bill Fazio after four months. Advisory counsel can provide limited legal guidance but not full-blown representation.
Fazio was the advisory counsel Naso chose after firing Michael Marowitz, whom he hired after deciding he needed legal advice, which was after he waged a protracted and successful legal campaign to represent himself.
Now he wants a court-appointed advisory counsel at county expense, he told Judge Andrew Sweet on Wednesday. Sweet referred Naso to the public defender's office, but reminded Naso that he would eventually have to pay the county if he has the resources.
Naso, a retired commercial photographer, has more than $1 million in assets, authorities said. The public defender's office has already said that Naso is too wealthy to qualify for its services.
"We've been round and round about this," Sweet said.
Naso also complained that, on days he is scheduled to appear in court, he has been kept in a holding cell while Judge Sweet worked through other cases on his docket. Naso said he would be brought down to court for the 9 a.m. calendar, but sometimes his case would not be called for several hours.
"There's something wrong with this court," Naso said.
Sweet noted that Naso had just fired his second advisory counsel since changing his mind about whether he needs legal help.
"In fairness, any delays in these proceedings fall on your shoulders," the judge said.
The trial is set to begin in November. Naso is charged with murdering Roxene Roggasch, 18, dumped outside Fairfax in 1977; Carmen Colon, 22, found near Port Costa in 1978; Pamela Parsons, 38, found in Yuba County in 1993; and Tracy Tafoya, 31, found in Yuba County in 1994.
Investigators said semen on Roggasch's pantyhose matched Naso's DNA profile, and that Roggasch was strangled with panty hose that contained the DNA of Naso's wife. He also had extensive photos of Parsons in his collection, and admitted he dated Tafoya.
Naso was identified as the suspect after a 2010 probation search at his Reno home revealed a vast collection of photographs of dead or unconscious women in various states of undress, incriminating writings, sadistic magazines, and diaries describing sex crimes, investigators said. Authorities are still investigating whether he can be linked to additional homicides.
Naso has pleaded not guilty. He says the photos are his private artwork and that the women are in staged poses.
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unprotected sex during menstruation period (HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES, 2011) (USE TERM "CLEAN" TO DESCRIBE HIV NEGATIVE, 2011)
Jul 21, 2011
I and my wife are clean from HIV and STDs.but one day i had unprotected sex with my wife.my question is,can i possibly infected with HIV?can HIV be created during this activity? because my semen and her menstrual blood mixed together during our sex intercourse.
Response from Dr. Frascino
You are wondering if HIV can be "created" when two HIV-negative folks have unprotected sex??? WOWZA. Were you perchance home-schooled? Excuse me for asking but exactly where have you been for the past 30 years of the AIDS pandemic? No, HIV is not created by having sex, even if your semen mixed with your wife's menstrual blood. HIV is a virus. It can be transmitted from an infected person to an uninfected person via unprotected sex. See below.
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On Oct. 17, 2006, Terry Duffy made an $8 billion purchase. Duffy, executive chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, bought the Chicago Board of Trade. His move made the Merc, as it is called, the world's largest financial exchange, overtaking the New York Stock Exchange. So it is easy to understand why on Oct. 16, Duffy was busy-too busy, it turns out, to attend the monthly meeting to oversee the federal Thrift Savings Plan, of which he is a board member.
It wasn't his first absence.
In their spare time, Duffy and four fellow TSP board members oversee the $200 billion retirement plan. Nearly 4 million people -- federal employees, retirees and members of the uniformed services -- are saving money in the TSP, which functions like a 401(k) with up to 5 percent matching contributions from the government.
Congress created the plan in 1986 as part of the new Federal Employees Retirement System. Until then, employees had received a set pension based on their salary and the number of years they worked under the Civil Service Retirement System.
But CSRS, whose benefits were not portable, locked employees in golden handcuffs. To build their nest eggs, they had to remain employed with the federal government. FERS reduced the amount of pensions, added Social Security benefits to the package and created the TSP, which is portable.
Government automatically contributes 1 percent of employees' pay to the TSP and matches their contributions dollar for dollar up to 3 percent, and 50 cents on the dollar for an additional 2 percent of salary. CSRS employees can participate in the TSP, too, but they don't get matching funds.
As Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., noted during Duffy's May 15, 2003, confirmation hearing: "The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board may be obscure to some, but it is not to the millions of federal retirees and current federal employees who are saving a portion of their earnings in anticipation of retirement."
Duffy responded in kind: "I understand the gravity of the responsibilities that I will be required to fulfill if my nomination is approved. Three million federal employees have invested more than $100 billion to assure a successful and productive retirement."
Four years later, the TSP has more than doubled its worth, but Duffy has been to Washington only four times to oversee it. Since Duffy's 2003 appointment -- he was the last of the five current board members to join -- the board met 42 times through the end of 2006. Twenty-nine of those meetings were face to face; 13 were telephone conferences. Duffy attended 25 of the 42. But for 21 of the 25, he phoned in from Chicago. Minutes from the meetings show that when he did phone in, he remained mostly silent.
Duffy declined to be interviewed for this story, but through a TSP spokesman -- who tracked Duffy down "in a car on his way to an airport somewhere in the world" -- he said, "As far as [my] attendance record, the record is the record."
TSP board members are simultaneously open and elusive. Membership is part time; last year, pay ranged from $4,000 to $22,000, because travel and preparation times varied. Most members are successful businessmen and large political donors. They are both private and public figures. Law requires them to conduct the monthly meetings in public, which they do, but all five board members and the executive director refused requests for interviews about Duffy's record, or the TSP in general.
Former board member Sheryl Marshall, appointed in 2000 by President Clinton, says the meetings are scheduled a year in advance to accommodate schedules. "It's just a responsibility, it's a fiduciary responsibility," Marshall says. "If you're not going to show up, you shouldn't be on the board."
Similarly, Marshall's fellow former board member and Clinton appointee Scott Lukins says, "That's where we did most of our decision-making -- all of it was made at these meetings. . . . You can't be giving your share if you're not attending the meetings."
Luckily for the 3.7 million TSP investors, Duffy's absenteeism is uncommon. By contrast, the other board members have near-perfect attendance records and travel to Washington for most meetings.
Chairman Andrew Saul and member Gordon Whiting live in New York; Alejandro Sanchez is from Florida and Thomas Fink is in Alaska. Saul, Whiting and Sanchez were appointed in 2002; Fink in 2000. They have presided over big changes to the plan -- and some big battles.
High Drama
The new board's very first meeting, in December 2002, was fraught with high drama. The month before, Roger Mehle, the longtime executive director, resigned to return to private law practice. He recommended James Petrick, an attorney and 16-year TSP employee, as his successor.
The previous board approved him for the lifetime appointment. But when the Bush-appointed board convened in Washington that December, Saul, Whiting, Sanchez and Fink forced Petrick to resign.
Their reasoning is not entirely clear. A transcript is among court documents from a lawsuit filed against the board by Mehle and the TSP's original executive director, Frank Cavanaugh, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. According to the transcript, Saul said that shortly after he was confirmed, Petrick called him at his Westchester, N.Y., home and spoke rudely to him, telling him not to talk to TSP staff without Petrick's permission. Saul also said six senior staff members told him they would quit rather than work under Petrick.
Mehle has his own theory. Saul's board hired Gary Amelio, former senior vice president of the retirement division of PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, as executive director. A month after Amelio's arrival, he and the board accepted a $5 million settlement with a contractor to close out the botched modernization of the TSP's computer system.
Under Mehle, who resigned in November 2002, the board had paid Fairfax, Va.-based American Management Systems $36 million for the failed modernization. Mehle and his board sued AMS, beginning a turf battle with the Justice Department over whether the board had standing to sue. Petrick was committed to the lawsuit, but Saul wanted to settle and Amelio agreed.
Whatever the reason, that December, the board handed Petrick a resignation letter and told him to sign it and return to his old job at the TSP or be fired. Petrick had just minutes to decide. He resigned.
Mehle a former Treasury Department assistant secretary under President Ronald Reagan, was chairman of the TSP Board from 1986 to 1994 and stepped down to become executive director. He is passionate about the lawsuit, which essentially alleges that the board violated its fiduciary duty to TSP participants by forcing out Petrick in order to settle the AMS lawsuit.
"[I] regard the things that were done as terribly abusive of the appropriate governance of the organization," Mehle says. He expects the judge to rule this year.
Amelio is now gone -- he left in January for a job as president of retirement services for Ullico Inc. of Washington, which provides insurance and investments for union members. The board selected Gregory Long, who served as the plan's director of product development for a year, as Amelio's replacement.
At his last board meeting, Amelio promised to support his successor. "I'm not going to be filing any fruitless litigation," he says.
In any case, the TSP that faces Long is vastly different from the one Amelio inherited.
Era of Change
Amelio and the board quickly ended the contractor lawsuit and ushered the TSP into an era of change. The biggest development since the plan's inception 20 years ago has been the switch to computerized records, allowing participants to move their investments every day.
After the system went online in mid-2003, Congress ended the two annual TSP open seasons and permitted participants to move their investments among funds at any time. As Saul said in a February 2007 meeting, daily valuation is "the heart of the whole change."
But there's more. The TSP already was the cheapest plan in the country, by a long shot. Last year's annual administrative fee was only $3 for every $10,000 invested, or three basis points. In February, Amelio predicted it soon would drop to one basis point. By contrast, the fee for the least costly 401(k), Vanguard, is 22 basis points.
Federal agencies bear some of the administrative costs. But the cost reduction also is due to the board's aggressive outsourcing of administrative functions. By May 2006, TSP had entirely dropped the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center in New Orleans as its data entry, accounting and call center provider. Instead, it hired contractors SI International of Reston, Va.; Spherix Inc. of Beltsville, Md.; and Switch & Data of Tampa, Fla.
Amelio reduced the operating budget from $101.5 million in fiscal 2004 to $76.8 million in fiscal 2007 by outsourcing and downsizing staff through buyouts.
He also presided over the entry of hundreds of thousands of new participants. The 2001 Defense Authorization Act permitted uniformed members of the military to use the TSP, though by and large they don't get a matching contribution. They also have their own pension system, so a smaller portion of them -- about 500,000 out of 2.5 million, or 20 percent -- contribute to the TSP. Among civil servants in FERS, 85 percent participate, as do about 65 percent of those in CSRS.
In August 2005, TSP officials launched a set of new investment options called life-cycle funds. Celebrated for its simplicity, the TSP had had just five basic options.
The G Fund invests in government securities specially issued to provide a higher return than inflation without any serious risk from market fluctuations. The C Fund invests in common stocks, tracking Standard & Poor's 500 Index of stocks in the largest domestic companies. The S Fund invests in small- and mid-sized domestic companies, following the Dow Jones Wilshire 4500 Index. The F Fund is invested in fixed-income bonds. The I Fund invests in international stocks from Europe, Australia and some Asian countries.
Life-cycle funds are a new, sixth investment option, though they're not actually a new fund. They blend the five basic funds and automatically shift investors' money from a mix of riskier to more conservative investments as participants age.
For example, for a person who plans to retire in 2040, the life-cycle fund will invest 42 percent of funds in common stocks and only 5 percent in the more conservative G Fund. On the other hand, for those headed for retirement in 2010, the life-cycle fund will invest 43 percent in safe government securities and only 27 percent in more volatile common stocks.
Federal employees tend to be conservative investors. Those in FERS put an average of 9.4 percent of salary into the TSP and even those in the older CSRS tuck 9.2 percent into the plan. But they favor low-risk funds. About 44 percent of TSP dollars sit in the G Fund. At the end of 2006, 18 months after their introduction, the life-cycle funds had 433,025 participants and held $17.4 billion, roughly 8 percent of the TSP total.
Power Play
Only Congress can add funds to the plan, but since 1986, lawmakers have done so only at the suggestion of the board. Last year saw a major clash between Congress and the board when more than 200 House members tried to force a Real Estate Investment Trust Fund into the TSP without the board's approval.
They failed when the board ran out the clock on the 109th Congress by hiring an outside consultant to examine the REIT option. Congress couldn't vote to add the fund until the experts had given their verdict. The firm, Ennis Knupp & Associates of Chicago, didn't issue its report until a couple of weeks after the Nov. 7 election.
The Bush-appointed board's assertiveness, revealed in its handling of Petrick, has played out in its aggressive moves to diversify the plan and reduce costs. Amelio, the former executive director, personified this combativeness. At one of his last public appearances with the TSP, while insisting he was leaving for career and financial opportunities, he said: "One of your august members suggested I was getting frustrated with doing battle with the bullies on the Hill. I relish doing battle with bullies, particularly those that have no idea what they're doing."
The "bullies" to whom he referred include Congress members such as Tom Davis, R-Va., ranking member of the House Government Reform Committee; Jon Porter, R-Nev., ranking member of its federal workforce subcommittee; Danny Davis, D-Ill., its chairman; and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Those congressmen -- after intense lobbying by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts -- supported legislation to make a REIT the sixth fund in the TSP.
They argued that REITs, which allow individuals to buy shares in companies that run apartment buildings, shopping centers, offices, hotels and other commercial facilities, are big earners and that federal employees should have the choice, as do many 401(k) participants, to invest in them. REITs also react differently to market forces than do stocks and bonds, providing diversification, which protects assets, the lawmakers argued.
But board members bristled at the attempt to overpower them. They argued that if Congress imposed a REIT fund, then other interest groups would lobby to add funds. A proliferation of funds could raise administrative costs and reduce participation levels, they said.
The battle led to contentious hearings and a heated exchange of letters. So far, no REIT bill has been introduced in the new Congress.
Meanwhile, the board has its own plans. Members are expected to ask the new Congress for more changes, among them, automatic enrollment of all new employees in the TSP and the designation of the life-cycle funds as the default investment for new participants. Saul predicts the plan will grow to $300 billion in three years.


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AW Fall lecture series begins Oct. 24th with Dr. Lisa A. Lindsay
The Atlantic World Program in the Department of History is pleased to present its fall lecture series speaker, Professor Lisa A. Lindsay, Associate Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill. Professor Lindsay will deliver a talk titled "Remembering His Country Marks: A Family History in Africa and America," on Thursday October 24 at 5:30pm in Brewster C103.
Professor Lindsay's research centers on the social history of West Africa and on links between Africa and the Atlantic World. She is the author of two books, Working With Gender, which examines gender and wage labor in Nigeria and Captives as Commodities, which offers a general history of the transatlantic slave trade. Her talk will focus on her current research, a contextualized biography of a South Carolina freedman who in the 1850s migrated to modern-day Nigeria, making trans-Atlantic connections that his descendants and their American relatives maintain to this day.
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STERLING – Joanna Rabadan blossoms in front of a camera.
The click-click of the shutter. The muffled pop of the umbrella lights. The hum of the studio.
None of it intimidates her. It just makes her smile, giggle and jump up and down.
Joanna, 4, the youngest daughter of John and Jessica Rabadan of Sterling, this summer will appear in a print advertisement – a July direct-mail catalog or newspaper insert – for Kohl's department store.
The soon-to-be kindergartner has a promising modeling career – or so the professionals say.
"They said they wanted her back. They didn't even know it was her first time," Jessica said. "The photographer [who did her headshots] said she's such a natural, she should be working."
Joanna, who will be in kindergarten come fall, launched herself into modeling after a beauty pageant. Then 3, she took first place in the Firecracker Princess pageant in Rockford in July.
The contest, put on by Illinois Natural Pageants, does not allow contestants to wear makeup or over-the-top costumes.
"I didn't want anything too 'Toddlers and Tiaras,'" Jessica said in reference to the reality TV show that showcases the competitive, often cutthroat, world of beauty pageants. "I wanted them to see her for her."
Joanna wowed the judges and took home a sparkly crown and a session with a photographer to get headshots. She also was signed by Bravo Talent Management in Chicago and Model and Talent Management in Milwaukee, both of which book children for print and TV commercials, TV shows and movies.
Her parents sent her headshots – a glossy, oversized postcard with a large photo on one side and four smaller photos and her hair color, eye color and measurements on the other side – to talent and modeling agencies in the region.
The bubbly brown-haired, brown-eyed girl soon was recruited to do some work for Kohl's. She and her parents traveled to Wisconsin, where the retailer is based, twice within about a week earlier this month, once for casting and once for shooting.
At the casting, which lasted maybe 10 or 15 minutes, Joanna impressed the photographers. She was natural and produced genuine smiles and other expressions. She was not shy.
"I was surprised, actually," Jessica said of her daughter's ease in the studio. "She surprises me a lot, though. I was such a tomboy growing up. I didn't do nail polish or dresses or all the pink. But she's so girly ... ."
And then, at the shooting, which again lasted only 15 minutes, Joanna, who picked out a colorful sundress and silver sandals, got to work.
"I think they were trying to advertise the shoes," Jessica said. "They had her jumping up and down, running back and forth, looking down at her feet."
At home, Joanna, clad in a pink Disney princesses dress and pink flats, enjoyed showing off her energy Thursday morning. She again jumped up and down, bounded back and forth and swung her long hair around in front of a photographer. She talked about her upcoming vacation and even pulled out her pastel-colored suitcase and fake, pink camera.
Her favorite part of having her picture taken?
"Bouncing up and down," she said.
Joanna was paid $75 for her work with Kohl's. Her parents intend to start a college fund for her. They hope the gigs continue.
And they aren't worried the modeling will interrupt her little-girl life too much.
"We're still sort of freaked out, like 'Wow, she got it!'" Jessica said. "We said even if she doesn't get anything, just being signed by a talent agency ... is enough for us. ...It doesn't come up that often, and she just has fun with it."