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2012 Update
The display is up and running and we hope to see you again this year. This year there are just under 80,000 lights. The lights come on around 5:30 each night and stay on to about 10:00 pm.
Facebook reached 1 billion users over the past weeks. Are you one of them? If so, be sure to "Like" our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/WeBelieveInChristmas and see the most current updates there.
2012, A year of change!
Good morning everyone. We hinted at it last season but we moved this year. We are still in the same area of Northeast San Antonio and only slightly changed from the city of Cibolo to the city of Schertz. We had a new home built right off I-35 and FM-1103. The yard is a little smaller but the house itself works much better for our large family. We just started decorating this week and as usual, we plan on having the display up and running on Thanksgiving night.
What a busy weekend!
This weekend was a busy one at the display. We had visits with Santa both Saturday and Sunday nights. Saturday night was our largest night ever with traffic jams and a huge line of children waiting to see Santa. It was such a busy night that Santa even stayed past his normal 8:30 time to a little after 9:00 on Saturday and almost 9:00 on Sunday.
It was also a great weekend for charitable donations and we are thankful for everyone who has donated. The lady who runs The Forgotten Child charity was elated yesterday when she stopped by to pickup Friday and Saturday night donations. Now we have a whole lot more to get to her today!
The new "Letter's to Santa" program started off kind of slow but our daughter, Noni, took some paper out to a child Saturday night and then EVERYONE wanted to write a letter. Sunday afternoon she made up a custom letter and last night we had clipboards and paper out for anyone to use. Before Saturday night we had about two dozen letters. Saturday night we got 31 and Sunday night another 15! All letters have been scanned and sent to our special North Pole email address so Santa and the Elves have your child's letter but they may not get their reply before our visit, depending on USPS!
If you visited Saturday night, use this link to order pictures from Walgreens.
Sunday night's photos can be found at this link.
Weather permitting, Santa will visit again on the nights of the 23rd, 24th, and 25th from 6:30 to 8:30 each night.
A few pictures from Santa's first visit
Unfortunately Santa wasn't able to land in Cibolo Saturday night because of the rain but he did manage to make it Sunday night. We had somewhere around 30 to 40 children and here are a few pics for you.
Remember all the pictures can be seen on our Facebook page.
Jeff's live TV debut!
This morning Jeff appeared on the FOX San Antonio morning show to talk about the display and the story that aired Friday night on the same channel. It was a great experience and an excellent opportunity to tell people about The Forgotten Child.
Here's the video.
Rain, rain, go away, Santa is supposed to come today!
Rain for us right now is a blessing and a curse. We need the rain but cold and rainy weather prevents Santa from visiting with children. We WILL NOT sacrifice the health of children. Stay tuned to this page or our Facebook page for updates.
On a happy note, we were on San Antonio's Fox 29 news last night! Check out the video here. Jeff will also be appearing on Fox's morning show Monday morning around 9:30.
Looks like we're getting some spam comments on this page. Please be patient as we work to resolve the problem. Thanks. –Michelle
The Lights are On!
Well it's Black Friday and the lights are on as of last night. If you have been to the display before you will see some of the things we used last year but you will also see a lot of new items. One thing we have added is our "Letter's to Santa" mailbox. Children can write a letter to Santa and if a return address is included they will receive a reply from the Big Man himself!
Here are a few things to know about this year.
1. The lights are on by around 6 pm every night and we try to turn them off at 10 pm on School nights.
2. The lights stay on at least through New Year's Eve!
3. The "Letter's to Santa" mailbox is available 24/7 from now till Christmas.
4. Santa will make appearances for photos with your family on Dec 10th, 17th, 24th, and 25th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm each night. We will take a digital photo and upload to Walgreens' website so you can purchase directly from them or of course feel free to bring your own camera.
5. There is no charge for ANYTHING! We do accept donations of new unwrapped toys, new children's clothes, gift cards and monetary donations on behalf of The Forgotten Child charity which assists children in foster care through CPS locally.
6. Feel free to park your car and get out to enjoy the lights up close. Please do not block our neighbors' driveways and be courteous of other visitors.
–Jeff and Michelle, Devin, Noni and Brody
October Update
We are well underway with getting setup for this year and already it seems, sometimes, like we won't get everything done. One thing for sure is it seems like our Facebook page has supplanted this forum as our main conduit of information. I am going to try to change that.
So what has been done already? We have 11 trees decorated in the house. Decorations are going up inside. All the rope light and C-9s have been hung around the second floor roof and today we should get the final box of rope light so we can finish the garage roof. Our chair for Santa is getting a make-over and getting some much needed repairs. A new light fence has been tested and is getting constructed. Noni has lit up two freestanding 11 foot trees. And 19 new mini trees have been built and lit.
This weekend we will start to put up the Mini Mega trees that are in the back of the display and continue working on other projects. We are now on Foursquare and Facebook places so that visitors can check in when they visit the display. If you are on Facebook please consider "liking" our page. As of this morning we have nearly 400 followers on Facebook.
Oh yeah I almost forgot! There are so many new things going on with the display I almost forgot the new Letters to/from Santa program! Kids can write their letters to Santa and drop them off in the specially marked mail box and get a letter back from Santa himself. We are very excited about this new element.


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I am trying to follow the guide for setting up a LAMP server however I cannot install php5-mysql.
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FCC Boss Tired Of Having To Put His iPad Away For Takeoff, Tells FAA To Fix It
from the inter-agency-squabbles deptNumerous people have talked about the ridiculousness of requiring airplane passengers to put away their iPads or other portable devices during takeoff and landing on airplanes. There used to be excuses about how it could impact the equipment in the plane, but no one actually believes that any more. Now, even FCC boss Julius Genachowski is getting impatient with all of this and has asked the FAA to stop procrastinating and start allowing the use of such devices. The letter, of course, was more polite than that, but makes it clear that the FCC is ready to get on with the show and would like the FAA to finally "enable greater use of tablets, e-readers, and other portable devices."
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Why doesn't $\lim\limits_ {n\to \infty}\ (\frac{n+3}{n+4})^n$ equal $1$?
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$$\lim_ {n\to \infty}\ \left(\frac{n}{n+4}+\frac{3}{n+4}\right)^n$$
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i havent been able to close the emulator correctli
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CNBC Digital presents the third in a series of five articles by members of its Financial Advisor Council on worst-case financial scenarios affecting clients in four age brackets: millennials and younger Gen Xers; people in their 40s and 50s; 60-somethings and pre-retirees; and those already in retirement. This week's guest contributor is Sheryl Garrett, founder of the Garrett Planning Network.
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Taiwanese students and expatriates in 49 cities across 21 countries organized rallies timed to coincide with Sunday's demonstration in Taipei, as part of a global networking campaign to support the "Sunflower student movement."
Calling it "24-Hour Relay Across the Globe in Support of Taiwan," the worldwide rallies saw Taiwanese and other participants shouting the same slogans as their counterparts in Taipei: "Protecting Taiwan's Democracy," and "Withdraw the Trade Deal," which gained press coverage and wide circulation among online social media.
Some students held up placards that read: "Taiwan is not for sale," "Transparency, Democracy and National Security for Taiwan" in support of the movement which started with protesters occupying the legislature in Taipei on March 18.
The worldwide networking rally began in Australia and New Zealand on Sunday morning, with events in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and other locations.
The international relay proceeded through the Japanese cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, South Korea's Seoul and Busan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and other Asian countries.
Hong Kong organizers said the protesters received an enthusiastic response, with more than 1,000 people joining the rally.
After some speeches, they marched from Causeway Bay to the Charter Garden next to the Legislative Council building.
As the day progressed, Taiwanese in Europe joined the global effort, with notable rallies in Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, London, Edinburgh, Madrid and Stockholm.
The relay culminated in North America, with US events taking place in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and other cities, as well as Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in Canada.
More than 100 Taiwanese students and Taiwanese-Americans gathered in front of Washington's Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office.
Despite the freezing rain and subzero temperatures, they performed street theater skits, handed out sunflowers to passersby and delivered a petition to the office.
Washington organizer Chao Tse-hua (趙澤華) said he is a student at Pennsylvania State University.
"We drove four hours from Pennsylvania to DC. We just want those students in Taiwan fighting for democracy to know that people abroad support their cause," Chao said.
In New York City's Times Square, about 400 people joined a mass sing-along and conveyed their messages in slogans, while holding sunflowers.
In the UK, more than 300 students and overseas Taiwanese headed to Trafalgar Square in London. They presented musical entertainment to the audience and vocalized their support of the Sunflower movement.
The event in Berlin took place at Alexanderplatz, a public square and transport hub, and was organized by Taiwanese university students.
Calling themselves the "3.30 Berlin Action Group," organizers said more than 300 people joined in their rally, with a series of public discussions and lectures on the cross-strait agreement, the pros and cons of free trade, Taiwan's human rights situation and its democratic governance system.
The largest event in Japan was held at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park, where more than 700 people joined a rally.
Taiwanese students and expatriates in Tokyo were joined by their Japanese friends to call for the withdrawal of the cross-strait pact, shouting slogans in support of the Sunflower movement.


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Every successful real estate transaction at Stewart Title is rooted in collaboration. Yet, what's most important to us are the relationships we share with you. With that being said, it's always nice to be recognized for the work we do.
2014 Forbes 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies in America
Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC) has been recognized by Forbes as one of the 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies in America. The rankings, determined by proprietary ratings provider and investment advisor GMI Ratings, recognize 50 financial and banking companies of more than 8,000 publicly-traded, North American companies analyzed.
Barron's 400 Index for 2013
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Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC) has been recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. Stewart was selected based on an independent audit of 8,000 companies listed on the U.S. stock exchanges.
Stewart Information Services Corporation Named #34 in the Top 100 of the 2010 InformationWeek 500.
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According to Deadline, actor Jennifer Esposito is leaving Blue Bloods because of her celiac disease. Jennifer's doctor is requiring her to work a reduced schedule after she collapsed on the set and that doesn't fit into CBS's plans for her character.
This is CBS's take on the situation, so Jennifer Esposito took to her Twitter account to set the record straight.


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Court says reporter must testify in leak case
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a New York Times journalist must testify in a high-profile government leak case, saying journalists do not have special free speech protections.
The ruling by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for the Obama administration, but it could hurt efforts by Attorney General Eric Holder to improve relations with the media. The Justice Department last week pledged to tighten its criteria for targeting journalists in leak cases.
Two other cases this year sparked a media outcry that the Justice Department had been overzealous in investigating government leaks and had infringed on free speech rights.
Prosecutors sought the testimony of reporter James Risen, author of a book, "State of War," that contained information the government believed was leaked by former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling.
In 2010, Sterling was indicted on 10 charges relating to Risen's book, including unauthorized retention and communication of national defense information.
The following year, Holder authorized the Justice Department to issue a subpoena seeking Risen's testimony. Risen challenged the subpoena, saying he could not be compelled to testify under the First Amendment and federal common law.
A three-judge panel ruled Friday there is no "reporter's privilege" under the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, meaning journalists do not receive special treatment.
"The reporter must appear and give testimony just as every other citizen must," wrote Chief Judge William Traxler. "We are not at liberty to conclude otherwise."
Judge Roger Gregory dissented, pointing out that the law is not clear on the issue. Some courts have found in the past that there are instances in which reporters can invoke a "qualified privilege," which means they can refuse to testify.
"The paramount importance of the free press guaranteed by our Constitution compels me to conclude that the First Amendment encompasses a qualified reporter's privilege," Gregory wrote.
Risen's attorney, Joel Kurtzberg, said he was disappointed with the ruling and that he and his client were "evaluating our next steps." A spokesman said the Justice Department agreed with the decision and was considering how to proceed.
David Anderson, an expert in media law at the University of Texas at Austin, said the ruling was consistent with recent rulings in similar cases, which have indicated "a hardening of the judicial arteries toward the press."
If Risen refuses to testify, he will almost certainly face imprisonment and "had better pack his toothbrush," he said.
Theodore Boutrous, a lawyer in Los Angeles who has represented journalists in similar cases, said the ruling should prompt the Justice Department to back down on its request that Risen testify.
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Various media organizations, including Reuters America LLC, which is owned by Thomson Reuters Corp, joined a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Risen.
Congress is considering a new media shield law, backed by President Barack Obama, that would enshrine legal protections for journalists. The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on the bill next week.
Friday's ruling came one week after the Justice Department issued new guidelines that would curb the ability of prosecutors to seize reporters' records when investigating leaks.
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In another case, the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records as part of a probe into leaks about a 2012 Yemen-based plot to bomb a U.S. airliner. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Additional reporting by Jennifer Saba and David Ingram; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Doina Chiacu)


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Although there is a widespread belief among physicians that the exercise treadmill test (ETT) is not reliable in evaluating the heart health of women, UC Davis researchers have found that the test can accurately predict coronary artery disease in women over the age of 65. They also found that two specific electrocardiogram (EKG) indicators of heart stress during an ETT further enhanced its predictive power.
Published in the December issue of The American Journal of Cardiology, the study can help guide cardiologists in making the treadmill test -- an accessible, economic and easy-to-administer evaluation of patients with heart disease symptoms -- more useful in clinical practice.
"Newer cardiac imaging technologies are more accurate in identifying the presence of heart disease, but those tests are considerably more expensive than ETT and in many cases unnecessary" said Ezra Amsterdam, senior author of the study and UC Davis professor of cardiovascular medicine. "Our study found that the test is a very valuable tool for identifying coronary artery disease in women older than 65, and that it can be used to help select those who may require higher-tech diagnostics."
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The current study analyzed 111 women who had seen their doctors at UC Davis Medical Center because of chest pain and whose exercise treadmill tests were "positive," indicating they should have further cardiovascular testing. Coronary angiography was performed on each patient, and the researchers analyzed how often the results showed definite evidence of arterial narrowing.
They found that overall only half of the women with positive treadmill tests had coronary artery disease as determined by coronary angiography. But when test results were evaluated by age, the predictive value of ETT rose. While the treadmill test predicted arterial disease in only 36 percent of the youngest group (aged 35 to 50 years) of study participants, it successfully identified the condition in 68 percent of those aged 65 years and older, when the prevalence of coronary artery disease rises sharply for women.
The investigators also found that two EKG parameters of heart stress due to poor blood flow -- an ST-segment depression greater than 2.0 mm or ST-segment recovery time longer than three minutes -- added to the diagnostic value of ETT. Longer ST-segment recovery time was in fact the best predictor across all age groups of whether a positive treadmill test result was "true" or "false" and accurately identified coronary artery disease in eight out of 10 women older than 65.
"Our results provide physicians with a way to make an old heart disease screening tool more reliable for women," said Amsterdam. "The study also supports the guidelines of the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, which recommend that exercise treadmill testing should remain the initial test for both women and men who require evaluation for chest pain."
Additional authors of the study were Jeffrey Levisman and Karen Aspry, who conducted the research during their cardiology fellowships at UC Davis. The study received no external funding.
A copy of "Improving the Positive Predictive Value of Exercise Testing in Women for Coronary Artery Disease" can be downloaded at http://www.ajconline.org/


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I need to merge many (MANY) tables in one unique output table by means of the arcpy.Merge_management. Anyway, I'd like to avoid the creation of tons of intermediate files as my script running, having only my final big table rather than a number of "mini-table" for each file I have. I'm converting raster attribute table to table views (by arcpy.TableToTable_conversion), and then using them to run the Merge. How can I avoid having a table for each raster in the intermediate process? Hope someone could help me. I've been reading something about the creation of an InMemoryWorkspace, but I couln'd manage it so far.
Ok, I tried both Your suggestions, but so far I couldn't make it. It seems the Merge function cannot recognize the temporary files as input. Infact, I receive this error: ERROR 000735: Input Datasets: Value is required Failed to execute (Merge) Here is my script (the important part is at the end, I can always avoiding this problem by simply having a lot of files, but I'd prefer to be more "clean"):
#import relevant modules, create geoprocessing dispatch object
import win32com.client, sys, string, os, arcpy
gp = win32com.client.Dispatch("esriGeoprocessing.gpDispatch.1")
# Remember to change this to wherever your files are stored
gp.workspace = 'G:\\Chile_2012\\MODIS10A2.V005\\provvisoria\\ATTRIBUTE_TABLE'
# Remember to change the path to point where you want to store the final tables
out_dir = 'G:\\Chile_2012\\MODIS10A2.V005\\provvisoria\\ATTRIBUTE_TABLE'
rasters = gp.ListRasters("*", "all")
rst = rasters.Next()
while rst:
# Create the new field
gp.AddField_management (rst, "FILENAME", "text", "", "", "50")
# Apply the filename to all entries
gp.CalculateField_management (rst, "FILENAME", '"' + rst + '"')
rst = rasters.Next()
print gp.GetMessages ()
listRaster = arcpy.ListRasters ()
# Create a table view from each raster to be used as input for the next Merge function:
for raster in listRaster:
arcpy.TableToTable_conversion (raster, "in_memory", 'Tab_'+ raster)
listTable = arcpy.ListTables ()
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Shortly after Facebook's stock goes public, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will change his salary to reflect his new found wealth.
The 27-year-old founder of the social-networking company is set to earn upwards of $28 billion when his company goes public later this year.
Wednesday Facebook filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission making its intention to offer an IPO public.
In the filing Facebook revealed that Zuckerberg made a $500,000 salary in 2011 and that this year his compensation will jump to $600,000.
But starting Jan. 1, 2013, Zuckerberg will follow the path of Steve Jobs and Larry Page and reduce his salary to $1 a year.
"In the first quarter of 2012, our compensation committee discussed and approved a request by our CEO to reduce his base salary to $1 per year, effective Jan. 1, 2013," the document says.
Zuckerberg will more than be able to afford the salary reduction. The majority of his wealth is wrapped up in the 28 percent of Facebook that he owns.
The young CEO has also pledged to give away his wealth.


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Although it isn't exactly breaking news, Bunkspeed, a developer of advanced rendering technologies, as we know it, or rather, as we knew it, has a new overseer and brand — SOLIDWORKS Visualization.
SOLIDWORKS Visualization products (note the plural) provide a suite of standalone software tools that combine rendering capabilities with design-oriented features and workflows that "enable easy and fast creation of visual content for designers, engineers, marketing, and other content creators". The last part of that statement always gives me a chuckle — advanced rendering products, even if they're "easy to use" are not necessarily for the faint of heart or those who easily become impatient. Also, "easy to use" does not guarantee professional looking results. For example, remember back several years ago when Encapsulated PostScript arrived one scene. Suddenly, with the opportunity to use dozens of fonts, many "professional-looking" documents looked more like gaudy ransom notes or circus posters.
I'm not saying that with some training and practice, just about anyone could produce good looking photorealistic renderings. I'm just saying that this (like many aspects of technical software) is not always the "professional results out of the box solution" that too many marketing hype types like to push.
SOLIDWORKS 2016 Visualize
Since it's GPU based for ray tracing, you might want to invest in a good graphics card to take advantage of all SOLIDWORKS Visualization packages can do.
As said earlier, and since everybody likes options, SOLIDWORKS Visualize is available as the following two packages:


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All our prints are created using our top of the range, large format, Epson 9600 giclee printer, and printed with genuine Epson photochrome inks to express the most vibrant colour and longevity. They are then protected with extreme UV protective and waterproof spray varnish which gives the print an excellent and most durable finish. This assures your print will remain vibrant for well over 75 years. The 100% cotton canvas is of the finest quality and 340gsm to give you a thick, high quality product.
Our museum-quality heavyweight 340gsm 100% matte cotton canvas is approved to Fine Art Trade Guild standards. Sturdy wooden support frames are made from FSC approved kiln-dried redwood pine, measuring a chunky 38mm deep. Our gallery stretcher bars are made from first quality, kiln-dried pine fir. These premium stretcher bars are hand cut and planed to size, with a rounded back edge designed to ensure that there will be no ghost impressions on the canvas, and also helps prevent canvas cracking.
Each piece of artwork is hand-stretched around the frame and finished on the rear with artists backing tape. The corners of each canvas are professionally trimmed and not folded so there will be no unsightly bulges around the edges.
To complete the process, each piece of artwork is sprayed several times with a Fine Art approved satin varnish, which not only helps to add further protection against light and moisture but also enhances the inks and helps to protect against yellowing and marking.
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Davenport Tractor manufactures parts for the antique John Deere Tractor line. Replacement
parts for Two-Cylinder and New Generation tractors now becomes easier to find
Our location in the Davenport, Iowa area is perfect as a shipping location. Orders
delivered to either coast of the USA are very reasonable
Our replacement Two-Cylinder parts are made and inspected in the Quad
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In the rare chance a return is necessary, our customer service department is sure
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that at a John Deere parts counter.
This water temperature gauge is made in the USA , and is for Dubuque built tractors. The gauge features a genuine glass face and original styling with the "John Deere" name and logos when appropriate.
Our gauges are not the cheap knock offs found at other places, these gauges feature calibrated operation.
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Bmorrison1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 226 diseños de 63 diseñadores freelance.
Southern California Merger: Chaparral Land Co. & GW Realty Co.
Chaparral Land Company, located north of Los Angeles, CA is merging with long time business partner, GW Realty Company located in San Diego, CA. The team specializes in residential land brokerage and needs a logo that portrays their combined wealth of over 50 years of experience, and over $6 billion in successful transactions. The name "Chaparral Land Company" will be used.
*It is important to note that Chaparral Land Company facilitates the marketing, sale, and purchase process of land to homebuilders. Chaparral Land Company does not sell homes, but rather the land that homes, condos, etc. are built on. Additionally, Chaparral Land Company focuses on residential land as opposed to commercial land. Visit the websites if you would like to learn more about the companies:
Chaparral Land Company works primarily with builders, land sellers, property owners, and bankers. The average target market consists primarily of males, ages 30-70, middle to upper-middle class. They also value credibility, success, and integrity.
Seeking a classic, clean, logo that portrays professionalism
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Chaparral Land Company is a very small, hands-on firm hoping to work with a designer to develop a professional and memorable logo. We look forward to your submissions!
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Bürky, Hans (17th/18th century)
Hans Bürky (Burky), from Giebel near Langnau in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, was a preacher of the Mennonite church there. After long evading capture by the government, he was seized in July 1708 by treachery, and taken from his wife and 12 children to the castle of Trachselwald. Here he fell ill, and a few days later was placed in solitary confinement in a dungeon of the tower in Bern for 17 weeks. Then he was transferred to another prison known as the "Insel," and from there was taken to the poorhouse, where he had to work "at the wool" for 35 weeks from 6:00 in the morning until 8:00 at night. On 18 March 1710 he was put on a ship with 56 other Mennonites for deportation to America, but they were released in Nijmegen, Holland. With most of the group he went to Kleve, where they were kindly received and lodged by the Mennonites. They remained here over Sunday; perhaps Bürky conducted the church service (Müller, 272). With Benedikt Brechbill and Melchior Zahler he was invited to Amsterdam by the Mennonites there; here they reported conditions in their Swiss home before the city council and in many conferences. But homesickness soon drew him back to Switzerland to his family in disregard of all requests and warnings. Here he was again captured. His children and the servant Uli Gerber violently resisted his arrest and were consequently sharply punished. After a short imprisonment Hans Bürky was again placed on the Emmentaler, an emigrant boat, for deportation to Holland on 13 July 1711. He was made one of three supervisors on the boat. In Basel he refused to proceed; only the threat of Runkel, the man in charge, to take him in chains induced him to stay; but he escaped at Breisach. It is not known whether he returned to his family. In the Amish division he seems to have played an important role, but no details are known. The name Bürky is common among the Mennonites of the Palatinate and America.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 303.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, Nos. 1262 f., 1302, 1341.
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1972.
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Neff, Christian. "Bürky, Hans (17th/18th century)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 19 Oct 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=B%C3%BCrky,_Hans_(17th/18th_century)&oldid=144908.
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Neff, Christian. (1953). Bürky, Hans (17th/18th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 October 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=B%C3%BCrky,_Hans_(17th/18th_century)&oldid=144908.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 478. All rights reserved.
©1996-2019 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Wedged in a little slice between the railroad tracks and Chatham Street is Newport�s only barbershop.
Wedged in a little slice between the railroad tracks and Chatham Street is Newport�s only barbershop.
It�s simply called The Barber Shop.
Looking at the little whitewashed building from the street one would never figure it to be the museum that it is.
"You don�t know what you�re getting into until you walk in and then it�s almost overwhelming," said owner Marty Shirley.
The walls are covered with antiquated knick-knacks of every variety.
Retired fishing rods and lures, swords, and rusty hand tools share space with toy tractors, cases of old bottles and even album covers from The Beatles.
Marty�s old military school uniform hangs on a hook from a door.
"It still fits too," Shirley said in jest.
The 58-year-old Greenville native was drawn to Newport in 1996 by a local girl.
"This is my little Mayberry of the east," he said.
He�s right to say that, since over on the wall is a respectable collection of memorabilia from "The Andy Griffith Show," including posters, postcards, recordings from Griffith and Jim Neighbors, aka Gomer. There�s even an old 45 rpm single of Griffith�s famous routine "What It Was Was Football" and an autographed picture of the late film and television star.
"I loved Mayberry before and I didn�t have the whole collection, but I had most of it," he said. "So I started putting up Mayberry memorabilia and people would go to Mt Airy to visit and bring me something back so the collection has grown tenfold from when I started off."
The collection started with Shirley�s own stuff then others threw theirs in with it.
"Well, it�s just with my little personal collection, stuff that my wife wouldn�t let me have at home, so I found places to sit it around in here and people just started donating," Shirley said. "A lot of these older guys have things that their family don�t like or don�t want to deal with when something happens to them and they�re afraid that they will be thrown away or garage sold, so they bring it here and find it a home."
It was those same customers and friends who helped Shirley with another collection.
"They decided I needed a hat collection, so I went along with it," he said. "They decided I needed a license tag collection, so I went along with it. And it just keeps growing and growing. If it wasn�t for these windows, I�d have a lot of space."
The hats hang from one corner to the other and across the ceiling. They�re from everywhere.
The license plates take up most of the back wall. They�re from Hawaii to Alaska, and California to New York. He has local ones too. There�s one from 1974 from Bath that says "Oldest Town in the State," and then the 1981 plate from Newport that proclaims "Town with Old Fashioned Courtesy."
Shirley walks the walk when it comes to Newport�s courtesy, honoring all of his oldest customers over the age of 90 with haircuts at no charge.
He greeted one of those old customers at the door last week.
Gardner Martin Kelley has been coming to Shirley for a haircut since he was 95.
"I�m 99 years old. In two months I�ll be 100," said Kelley, a former sea captain. "Marty�s been my friend ever since I started coming here. He keeps me looking good for the ladies. I think he�s a wonderful man."
Shirley�s praise doesn�t stop there.
Randy Hill, of Greenville, had been waiting for his haircut for about half an hour but didn�t mind.
"It�s a wait every time you come in," Hill said. "I�ve been coming to Marty for 15 or 20 years. His dad cut it before when they were down at Bath. I lost him and found him down here and so I�ve been coming down ever since he�s been here. He�s a friend and he cuts a good head of hair."
Joe Buie, of Harkers Island, agreed.
"Well, I�ve had haircuts all over North Carolina and Marty does the best job of anybody I�ve had cut my hair, and besides that, my girlfriend loves it when he cuts it and she defies me to go anywhere else," Buie said.
Besides, if you�re going to have to wait a few minutes, you might as well have something to look at.
"That helps too," Buie said. "Marty�s got a great place. Very seldom will you go into a barber shop that has any kind of atmosphere like right in this place. It�s just amazing. The only thing I can say is he�s been doing something besides cutting hair. He�s been collecting."
Word has gotten out about Shirley�s place, all the way to reality television.
Recently, a television crew hired Shirley and The Barber Shop to do some "on location" footage.
"They were looking for a barber shop scene and someone sent pictures by phone and they said this looked just right," Shirley said.
The Hollywood types swooped in and closed him down for a day, put up lights, rearranged a little bit and said "Action!"
Shirley hired an old barber friend to work at the shop�s rarely used second chair and Shirley pretended to cut the star�s hair.
"All I had to do was cut the boy�s hair that was in the show," Shirley said. "I was all wired up with microphones and everything. It was kind of neat."
Hearing of it, his customers wanted to know so they could tune in, but Shirley said the crew couldn�t say the name of the show.
So everyone should stay tuned for a cameo appearance by Marty and his Little Mayberry of the East barbershop.


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Two adorable West Highland white terrier dogs are recovering after they were found stuffed in a duffel bag and tossed out with the trash in the Bronx.
Animal Care & Control officials say the 2-year-old pups, now named Fred and Ginger, are getting healthier by the day and should be available for adoption in a few weeks.
Authorities say a Bronx resident found the duffel bug with the dogs inside and called police, who called Animal Care & Control. The organization says it is working with police to track down who abandoned the animals and, in the meantime, was working to provide them the best care possible and find them a loving home.
The Westies were very dehydrated, anemic, emaciated and weak to the point that they couldn't do anything but lay on their sides, authorities said. Both also had pressure sores and extremely dirty coats with maggots.
Fred and Ginger have improved dramatically just in the last few days and are able to stand. Animal Care & Control expects that they will recover fully, though they'll need some time to gain back their weight.
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CU Boulder recruits teachers through the Colorado Learning Assistant (LA) program and through the STEP I and STEP II courses of the CU-Teach curriculum (part of the UTeach national replication effort). A critical part of our recruitment, preparation, and retention efforts is the Noyce Fellowship Phase I and Phase II programs, which provide support for LAs and CU-Teach students who have committed to teaching in high needs school districts. Finally, the Master Teacher track of the Noyce program provides crucial support for our Streamline to Mastery induction program5, which seeks to retain teachers while preparing them for leadership positions in their districts and for participating in the national dialog on educational assessment and educational change.
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Australian billionaire James Packer and Macau gambling tycoon Lawrence Ho (何猷龍) are teaming up with the Philippines' richest family to develop a US$1 billion casino in Manila, the Philippine partner said yesterday.
The Belle casino will form part of a huge gambling development, which the government hopes will turn the city into the world's No. 2 gaming destination, ahead of Singapore and Las Vegas, and behind only Macau.
SM Investments Corp, which is controlled by the Henry Sy (施至成) family, told the Philippine Stock Exchange its affiliate, Belle Corp, signed an agreement with Melco Crown Entertainment (MCE) to form a consortium to develop the project.
"Subject to [regulatory] requirements, Belle and MCE plan to create a US$1 billion premiere integrated resort facility and enter into implementing and definitive agreements within the next two months," the disclosure said.
Melco Crown, which operates a Macau casino, confirmed the signing of a consortium agreement on Thursday in a disclosure to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
It said its unit, MPEL Projects, expects to invest up to US$580 million over the course of the project, or more than half its entire cost.
Melco Crown is a joint venture between Melco International Development Ltd of Ho, son of Macau gaming mogul Stanley Ho (何鴻燊), and Packer's Crown Ltd of Australia.
Belle holds one of four licenses handed out by the Philippine government to build a casino worth at least US$1 billion each at a site on Manila Bay called Entertainment City.
Gaming regulator Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) has also granted licenses to Malaysia's Genting Group, Bloomberry Resorts Corp and another casino backed by Japanese gaming equipment supplier Kazuo Okada.
With the completion of the US$4 billion Entertainment City project by 2016, Philippine gaming revenues are expected to draw level with current No. 2 Singapore's revenues of about US$7 billion, PAGCOR chief Cristino Naguiat said in a recent interview.
Asia is poised to eclipse the US as the world's biggest gaming market next year, powered by the region's growing economic prosperity and fondness for gambling, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a report in December.
Gambling revenue in Asia is forecast to more than double from US$34.3 billion in 2010 to US$79.3 billion in 2015, it said.


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Mop and vinegar spray in hand, cleaning up and restoring household order after two Thanksgiving feasts (one with my family, and another with my dh's extended family), a multitude of seasonal reflections tumble out:
Compost bounty. How many times this weekend the compost bowl hand to be taken out. All the chopping and paring. I have recently begun keeping my worm bin indoors, in the laundry room (with great results!) But the magnitude of this weekend's culinary efforts were far too much for my worms and had to go to the big outdoor pile. How can we reduce food waste (use more parts of the plant)? How can we pull even more material out of the landfill system and back into our growing soil?
Laundry. The weekend's table linens now colorfully flutter on the drying rack outdoors. Clothes dryers = power consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, all in the name of "I want it now." In mostly-dry Southern California, a clothes dryer becomes "want" rather than "need."
Sustainable recipes. We're accustomed to certain traditional foods but these aren't necessarily the foods we'll continue to see into the future. True, a woman I met recently was raising two turkeys (one named "Thanksgiving" and the other named "Christmas" -- I'll bet she's feeding just one by now!). Cranberries in So Calif??? Tangy-sweet pomegranates are a more locally-appropriate choice.
A recipe I found online for "stewed pompion" said it dated from the 1600's, at which time the English people apparently called all pumpkins and squash "pompions." I made it this year with butternut squash but it could easily be made with whatever you have around, even a mature Tromboncino squash (a.k.a. Zucchini rampicante). It's an example of a "resilient recipe" -- a new category in my cookbook. I define these as recipes which call for few ingredients, most of which ripen at the same season of year, and most of which can be locally-sourced.
Vigorous vegetables. Tromboncino squash: where do you store the blasted things? They're long and gangly, and require lots of horizontal space. I don't have good answers. But since this (supposedly annual) plant can overwinter here and produces prolifically for many months, we need to learn to work with it. These are problems we need to solve. Chayote: another easy-to-grow, scary-prolific producer, so we have to learn many ways to serve them. I found one recipe in Foods of the Americas, a book from the Smithsonian with recipes inspired by the food of the Native Americans. These aren't the foods of the supermarket system, thus we'll need to search outside the conventional system to find the recipes of our local future.
Cooking methods. Many of the ways we have become used to cooking our food are the techniques of peak-energy-consumption. Roasting: Filling a box with heat for long hours only seems practical if it does dual duty as part of your home heating system too -- for instance in a woodstove. Contemporary ovens, with venting of heat to the outdoors, are probably quite inefficient in this regard. How will we roast turkeys in a leaner-energy future? Long-simmer soups and stocks: These too worked well in the dual purpose fireplaces or heating stoves of old. As we move into a leaner energy future, with few woodstoves (and not much urban firewood to fuel them) how will our cooking methods change and evolve?
Food storage. My 2011 harvest holiday is put to rest, but processing the harvest continues. My sister generously shared many pounds of fruit from her orchard -- limes, pomegranates, persimmons, and avocados. (THANKS SIS!) Time now to squeeze and process the limes -- they will become my entire year's supply of flavorings. Pomegranates taste far better, experience has taught us, when you leave them on the tree until they split. Time now to peel and pick all those little seeds. My sister makes them into a Middle Eastern syrup (because the ethnic cultures know how to do this so well).
Through other ethnic cookbooks such as My Calabria and A Year in the Village of Eternity, I am learning lower-energy food preservation, such as sundried tomato paste. My serrano chili plant is ripening its many fruits to gorgeous red, so it is time to try my hand at threading a chili garland to store them en plein air. Meanwhile it's strawberry guava time too, but we won't be processing those. They're so tasty we're lucky if a single one of them makes it into the kitchen from the garden! I think I'd better go check the laundry now -- the guava is calling.
Joanne Poyourow is active in Transition Los Angeles. Her most recent book is "Economic Resilience: What we can do in our local communities." You can now follow her on Twitter @TLAJoanne


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Executive Summary – College of Education and Human Services
**The below information is from the 2006-2016 UIS Strategic Plan. For information on the current 2018-2028 Strategic Compass, visit https://www.uis.edu/strategiccompass/ **
The College
The College of Education and Human Services (CEHS) consists of five programs including Social Work, Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, Human Services, and Human Development Counseling. Students enrolled in CEHS prepare for professional careers as social workers, teachers, counselors, school administrators, gerontologists, public professionals, and researchers. Programs in the College are closely involved with the regional K-12 school districts, the Applied Study Term (AST), and the Career Development Center (CDC) to ensure that students have realistic career objectives and receive field experience in their chosen professional areas.
The undergraduate Social Work (SWK) Program works closely with a wide variety of human social service agencies. SWK initially received national accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education in summer 2000. The Program was further evaluated in summer 2004 and received reaffirmation for the full eight year cycle until 2012.
The undergraduate Teacher Education Program (TEP) provides elementary and secondary education candidates majoring in other disciplines (e.g. English, history, mathematics, science, social work) the opportunity to complete their required study to become certified and enter the teaching profession. The primary goal of the elementary minor and the secondary minor is to prepare certified teachers who are competent in subject matter and who can teach to the psychological and socio-cultural needs of the individual learner. TEP is accredited by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) with state standards aligned to the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
The graduate Educational Leadership (EDL) Program offers two master's degree options. Candidates may choose between the administrative leadership concentration and the teacher leadership online concentration. Candidates completing the administrative leadership master's degree are prepared to become school principals. Candidates completing the online master's in teacher leadership are prepared to become department chairs, instructional leaders, supervisors, and curriculum directors. EDL is accredited by ISBE with state standards aligned to NCATE.
The graduate Human Services (HMS) Program prepares graduate students for employment in the fastest growing segment of society, including providing direct services to senior centers and nursing homes, administering and evaluating service-delivery systems for the elderly, and assisting legislative bodies that serve older persons. The HMS Program's five areas of concentration are designed to provide advanced professional training for graduate students in child development and welfare, alcohol and substance abuse, family studies, gerontology, and social services administration. The HMS Program has recently applied for accreditation to the Council for Standards in Human Services Education (CSHSE). The alcohol and substance abuse concentration is accredited by the Illinois Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA).
The graduate Human Development Counseling (HDC) Program provides teaching emphasis in community counseling, marriage and family therapy, and school counseling. Community counseling and school counseling are nationally accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The school counseling concentration is also accredited by ISBE with state standards aligned to NCATE.
Faculty use a variety of innovative teaching strategies and technologies in the classroom and apply their research and scholarship to the course work that they teach. Many of the faculty have national and international reputations in their areas of expertise. The 2006 Faculty Professional Performance Reports reveal that the twenty-five FTE faculty presented over 100 professional papers and published over 30 journal articles.
Mission Statement
The College of Education and Human Services prepares future leaders to promote the worth and capacity of all persons to make informed decisions to meet personal and professional goals. The College faculty, staff, and students respect diversity, nurture engaged citizenship, and advocate education, human services, and the welfare of all people.
Vision Statement
By 2016, the College of Education and Human Services, building on existing strengths, is more widely recognized as a provider of outstanding educational opportunities in a committed and caring environment for a diverse group of learners and their communities. Excellent professional development and personal growth is built at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The college enjoys synergistic partnerships within the University, the greater Springfield community, school districts, community colleges, public and private universities, agencies and other governmental entities.
Guiding Values
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With all these vegetable oil and BD soaked paper towels and rags lying around, should I be concerned with spontaneous combustion? I keep them in a closed metal trash can - is that neccessary or even needed?
Spontaneous combustion is rare, but possible. Storage in a closed metal container is the fix, just as you are doing. Oily rags in a hot dry closet are the classic example of a fire waiting to happen.
I don't think anyone has studied spont. comb. as it relates to biodiesel or veggie oil. The flashpoints of biodiesel and veggie oil are both much higher than stinky diesel, and vastly higher than say...gasoline. In theory, BD and wvo should be less problematic than petro derivatives on rags. That's all theory though, so don't bet your house and your life on my random musings.
Good luck, have fun, play safe!
I did a little digging and according to several MSDS sheets (example http://www.cataniausa.com/msds.html ) spontaneous combustion of vegetable oil soaked rags is a real concern.
Storing rags and towels in a tightly closed metal container is the standard advice. Guess it would help if I actually washed these things every once in a while.
No it wouldn't We had this discussion when I first joined and either Dana or Mark said that the washed variety of oil soaked rags was most likely to spontaneiosly combust and was wondering why.
the answer probably is that the washing detergent influences the rate of oxidation even though there is much less oil on the rag.
I put any suspect rags outside... I did check with the firies around here and the only fire they've been to involing oil soaked rags was when they were put in a container containing other strong cleaning chemicals. But yes it is a problem best planned for rather than responded to when it happens...
Do a search of this forum.... many threads on this and some first hand experiences probably
I've already experienced a spontaneous combustion with BD. "I" let my mist wash tank overfill with water and of course the first thing out of the tank was BD. "I" lost less than a gallon. My wife took some of my old t-shirts to clean it up. When she was done she piled the rags outside on a cubee of glycerin still loaded with methanol no less. "I" was not there when all this happened, (she was doing a mist wash and yet, somehow, she says "I" let it overrun),anyway when I came home that evening she told me about it and said it was already cleaned up so I didn't go back to check. The next morning I was in the mule headed back to the lab and I could see smoke. I hightailed back there to find the pile of rags smoldering. I grabbed a stick and started picking the pile apart and slinging the rags onto the gravel. As each rag was exposed to air (when I slung it) they burst into open flameing balls. The top of the little cubee was all melted down and couldn't be more than moments from melting through. There were 3 cubees there that would have burst into flames, probably had just enough volume of fluid to run down the hill to my big shop. The big shop is all metal and concrete but it still would have scorched the metal siding and made a mess. Needless to say, we don't pile rags anymore. We have a burn pile just a little ways from the lab and that is were I leave my garbage until trash day. If it catches on fire in the burn pile then it's no big deal and if it doesn't then the trash man gets it. Even though what could have burned would have been minimal, it still scared me and now I pay a lot more attention. Since I'm in the tree business I have mountains of wood chips and every now and then when everything is just right we get a fire in the wood chip pile. I usually burns itself out pretty quick but it still amazes me that it can catch a fire at all and if you tried to set it on fire you couldn't get it to even smoke good.
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Spontaneous combustion isn't related to flash point, but to oxidation of the oil or biodiesel.
McGuyver's story speaks for itself- be careful, it's a real concern! here in Berkeley I"ve heard of a couple of kitchen accidents involving oily rags or paper towels too. In the woodworking industry there are countless stories about people losing their entire shop and livelihood to fire after someone doesnt' deal with a linseed-oil-soaked rag properly (that's a particularly 'oxidation' prone oil of course)
Kumar at Yokayo Biofuels just posted at biodieselnow that he's had a spontaneous combustion rag accident once- he walked out and a (metal) fuel tank had a black spot on it where a dirty rag once lay.
I've heard that breezes or fans, or the fans on the back of TEFC motors, can all help make this problem worse too. Not sure how accurate that problem is.
I put my oily rags into a bucket with water and glycerine in it (the soap in the glycerol helps begin the process of cleaning them).
Keeping oxygen off of rags and not leaving them out in a crumpled pile is key to preventing this. rag bins are airtight and metal, though I've been told (not sure how accurate this is) that spreading them out on a railing so they can't get too hot while oxidising is the next best thing (of course my bucket of water is even safer but you're not always ready to get rid of the rag at the end of the day)
Strike a match and throw it in.... then the combustion won't be spontaneous .
One of my work colleagues was working, oiling his patio furniture for the summer. At the end of the day, he neatly stacked his oiling rags on a woodden shelf in his garage. The next morning, when he went to get the rags to continue his efforts on the patio furnithre, he found a pile of ash on the garage floor and a hole in the shelving, where the woodden plank used to be.
It is a good thing that he didn't place them on the next shelf, his lawnmower and fuel can were stowed under that shelf.
Did a search on 'spontaneous combustion' and found a few relevant threads, one of which I've resurrected to report a salutory incident.
I pre-treat incoming oil by heat-drying follwed by quiescent settling of fine solids. The 700 litre settling tank is well insultated with raw sheeps wool fleeces encased in reclaimed steel roofing sheet. The filling pump is wired through a float switch to prevent over-filling. This week I disabled the switch for maintenance (BAD MOVE).
Hot oil leaked from the switch aperture and soaked into the wool before dripping out the bottom. Bad enough having to clear up the mess, but worse was the following day when smoke was wafting out from under the lid. Yes, it had spontaneously caught fire and was quickly extinguished - lucky I was around! The wool will now be replaced with mineral fibre.
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I work as a fire investigator. I recently investigated a fire that occurred where the operator of a biodiesel processor used rags to clean waste vegtible oil that had spilled on the processor. The rags were placed in a 5 gallon plastic bucket positioned next to the processor. The rags ignited from spontaeous combustion which ignited the bucket and then extended to the processor.
1. Mineral fiber/glass fiber will not spontaneously combust like wool or cotton, so that is a definite improvement.
2. However, oil soaked fiberglass burns like a wick, a really good wick I might add. So I would still be hesitant to use that kind of insulation around anything oily like wvo or biodiesel. I speak from experience and had to put a small fire out on my old processor that use glass fiber bats for insulation.
3. ALWAYS have a REAL fire extinguisher around, not one of those little dinky pretend things. Three is better. Make sure they are rated for flammable liquids/oily stuff. They cost more, because they work better.
Excellent discussion.
does anyone have a comment on how tightly the rags were packed? is it limited to cloth or does it happen with paper towel/napkins. what about cleaning up with sawdust?
I know my place isn't the cleanest nor the safest so I'm trying evaluate my risk level
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It happened to me 2 weeks ago. I am not sure how to do the link but take a look at my previous post on the fire I had.
There sure are a lot of Bio Plants going up in flames lately!
For sure ... we get the endless threads on them just like this one being dug up about a fire
I havent had a lot to read lately cause it seems it's all about that and I want to read about making BD..
I am all to familiar with the spotaneous combustion. After the towel caught on fire behind my shop I experimented a little..
My rags catch on fire everytime if left in direct sun but none have caught fire inside and its getting to 120F inside the shop right now, but I put a sock filter full of saturated woodchips on top of my fire pile and it never ignited and we are having a heat wave!
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My partner Larry caught a couple pictures of this oil soaked rag going up in flames today. It was on a small trailer we last used for transporting a 300 gallon tote of BD between the shop and his storage tank on the farm. It had been setting in the sun for about 5 days without any rain, and today was by no means a scorcher.
Local weather at the time was: Temp - 78.6 °F Bar - 29.97in Wind East - 5.4mph Humidity - 43%
Rag was terrycloth and we're not sure of the oil content, BD or WVO most likely. It melted a hole in that small cube before he moved it away from the dry leaves [since he had to run to the house to grab the camera] and onto the dirt where it continued to burn up completely.
I had recently told him about the posts on here a few weeks back, he remarked "I've heard of it but never saw it happen" before today that is. Now we are talking of rigging an experiment to try and reproduce these results...
Maybe a web cam experiment.
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so i came home from work today and went down to my processing shead, i smelt a odd smell, smelt like wood and bio burning, when i got their smoke was coming out from all the small cracks i opened the door with the fire extinguisher in hand and a huge smoke cloud came out, I took a look at my wood chip drum and saw smoke rolling from the top, i started by spraying the extinguisher in for a few sec at a time it helped but not enough, so i pulled the drum out side took the top off and almost all the chips were smoldering i covered it with dirt and let it sit a while.
my guess is spontaneous combustion although we have had alot of vandals lately so i wouldnt put it past some kids that have been destroing peoples cars etc..
put a new nice big lock on the door and plan on putting my cameras around the house.
also it was atleast 100*F today so the shead had to be atleast 130*F
I hear bio soaked wood chips are known for their ability to flash off, just add a little time and heat. Luckily they were in a steel drum with lid, probably saved your shop.
So I'm going with the spontaneous combustion again, the strangest of the summer fuel making hazards...
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Does it have to be an organic material to combust? Cotton, wood, etc? My "rags" are Pig Mats; synthetic, highly absorbent industrial mats. That's the only thing I ever let touch spilled oil; I only use my old t-shirt rags to clean grease and motor oil off the trucks and my hands.
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