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Ceramic Tile Clay Body Formulation
An overview of the technical challenges a technician in the tile industry faces in making good tiles from the least expensive materials and process possible.
Glaze and Body Pigments and Stains in the Ceramic Tile Industry
A complete discussion of how ceramic pigments and stains are manufactured and used in the tile industry. It includes theory, types, colors, opacification, processing, particles size, testing information.
Inkjet Decoration of Ceramic Tiles
Theory and description of various ceramic ink and inkjet printing technologies for ceramic tile, the issues technicians and factories face, inket printer product overview.
Monoporosa or Single Fired Wall Tiles
A history, technical description of the process and body and glaze materials overview of the monoporosa single fire glazed wall tile process from the man who invented it.
Organic Matter in Clays: Detailed Overview
A detailed look at what materials contain organics, what its effects are in firing (e.g. black core), what to do to deal with the problem and how to measure the amount of organics in a clay material.
Porcelain Tile, Vitrified or Granito Tile
A technical overview of the bodies, firing, processes and types of porcelain tiles against the backdrop of the historical development of the process since the 1970s.
Soluble Salts in Minerals: Detailed Overview
There are a wide range of soluble materials that can be in clay, this article enumerates them, provides procedures on identifying and measuring them and outlines what to do about the problem.
The Chemistry, Physics and Manufacturing of Glaze Frits
A detailed discussion of the oxides and their purposes, crystallization, phase separation, thermal expansion, solubility, opacity, matteness, batching, melting.
The principles behind formulating a porcelain are quite simple. You just need to know the purpose of each material, a starting recipe and a testing regimen.
Low Fire White Talc Casting Body Recipe
The classic white ball clay talc casting and modelling recipe has been used for many years. It is a dream to use as long as you are aware of the problems and risks.
Stoneware Casting Body Recipes
Some starting recipes for stoneware and porcelain with information on how to adjust and adapt them
Understanding the Terra Cotta Slip Casting Recipes In North America
This article helps you understand a good recipe for a red casting body so that you will have control and adjustability.
An overview of the major types of organic and inorganic binders used in various different ceramic industries.
Deflocculants: A Detailed Overview
A detailed look and what deflocculation is, what the most common types of deflocculants are (there are many) and how they compare in function
Diagnosing a Casting Problem at a Sanitaryware Plant
A company using a rubbery casting slip and depending on outside technical support discovers how simple it is to fix a slip that is drastically wrong using simple testing.
Outdoor Weather Resistant Ceramics
How can you be sure that the porosity of your fired ceramic ware is low enough to prevent freeze-thaw breakdown in the winter?
A little background information about the origin and an explanation of what paper clay is
Rationalizing Conflicting Opinions About Plasticity
How can two potters have completely different opinions about the plasticity and workability characteristics of the same clay body
Guidelines for collecting, reprocessing, testing and adjusting scrap recycle clay in a pottery or ceramics studio or production facility.
The Black Art of Drying Ceramics Without Cracks
Anything ceramic ware can be dried if it is done slowly and evenly enough. To dry faster optimize the body recipe, ware cross section, drying process and develop a good test to rate drying performance.
The Whining Stops Here: A Realistic Look at Clay Bodies
Jonathan Kaplan overviews clay bodies, body materials and body types, how they are formulated and tested, how to protect yourself when buying prepared bodies, how to take responsibility.
Why should potters who make wide platters or plates throw on plaster bats rather than wood or plastic? To avoid drying cracks.
Being able to make good consistent test bars and fire them in a consistent and proper way is a basic requirement of getting valid results for shrinkage and porosity measurement.
Learn to test your clay bodies and recording the results in an organized way and understanding the purpose of each test and how to relate its results to changes that need to be made in process and recipe.
Understanding the Deflocculation Process in Slip Casting
Understanding the magic of deflocculation and how to measure specific gravity and viscosity, and how to interpret the results of these tests to adjust the slip, these are the key to controlling a casting process.
Electric Hobby Kilns: What You Need to Know
Electric hobby kilns are certainly not up to the quality and capability of small industrial electric kilns, but if you are aware of the limitations and take precautions they are workable.
Firing: What Happens to Ceramic Ware in a Firing Kiln
Understanding more about changes are taking place in the ware at each stage of a firing and you can tune the curve and atmosphere to produce better ware
Interpreting how high a kiln fired based on the look of the cones can be a much more complicated matter than it might first appear.
Some Keys to Dealing With Firing Cracks
Ceramic industry can fire much faster and deal with much heavier objects than potters can, how do they do it. The answer is they pay more attention to the basics, it is all common sense and good equipment.
Are You in Control of Your Production Process?
Potters often run operations that are on the edge of control and they tolerate production and ware problems that industry would not. However ethics an honesty with yourself will soon or later demand a better knowledge of process and materials.
Data Will Revolutionize Ceramics
If you are a potter and have gotten away with pushing the limits in your process for many years there will eventually be a day of reconing. It is better to understand why you do things the way you do and be ready to adjust.
Make your own plaster table. One person can pour a 350 lb plaster table in two hours.
If you are a potter you already know much of what is needed to manufacture tile. However there are some things you need to unlearn to make tile well.
A Low Cost Tester of Glaze Melt Fluidity
This device to measure glaze melt fluidity helps you better understand your glazes and materials and solve all sorts of problems.
Reducing the Firing Temperature of a Glaze From Cone 10 to 6
Moving a cone 10 high temperature glaze down to cone 5-6 can require major surgery on the recipe or the transplantation of the color and surface mechanisms into a similar cone 6 base glaze.
Unwanted Crystallization in a Cone 6 Glaze
Someone is having a problem with a cone 6 glaze going glossy and crystallizing, this article rationalizes the problem in terms of chemistry
G1214M Cone 5-7 20x5 Glossy Base Glaze
This is a base transparent glaze recipe developed for cone 6. It is known as the 20x5 or 20 by 5 recipe. It is a simple 5 material at 20% each mix and it makes a good home base from which to rationalize adjustments.
G1214W Cone 6 Transparent Base Glaze
The process we used to improve the 20x5 base cone 6 glaze recipe
G1214Z Cone 6 Matte Base Glaze
This glaze was developed using the 1214W glossy as a starting point. This article overviews the types of matte glazes and rationalizes the method used to make this one.
This is a frit based boron base glaze that is easily adjustable in thermal expansion, a good base for color and a starting point to go on to more specialized glazes.
G1947U/G2571A Cone 10/10R Base Matte/Glossy Glazes
These starting recipes use no frits and work in oxidation/reduction and are inexpensive to make. They can be used as bases for the whole range of typical cone 10 pottery glazes (celadon, tenmoku, oatmeal, white matte, brown crystal).
How INSIGHT Deals With Unity, LOI and Formula Weight
INSIGHT enables you to enter material analyses as recipes as a first step to inserting them into the materials database. Imposing an LOI and understanding how to set unity and its connection for formula weight are important concepts.
Limit Formulas and Target Formulas
Glaze chemistries for each type of glaze have a typical look to them that enables us to spot ones that are non-typical. Limit and target formulas are useful to us if we keep in perspective their proper use.
Fired glazes are composed of oxide building blocks. Each of the oxides contributes different properties to the fired glaze and interacts with others in different ways. Understanding these gives you control.
What is a Mole, Checking Out the Mole
An overview of the meaning of this unit for measuring quantities of molecules by Joseph Herbert and Tom Buck.
Understanding the advantages of disadvantages of stains vs. oxide colors is the key to choosing the best approach
Formulating a Clear Glaze Compatible with Chrome-Tin Stains
In ceramics color is often a matter of chemistry, that is, the host glaze must be compatible and have a sympathetic chemistry for the stain being added. Chrome-tin stains are a classic example.
Getting the Glaze Color You Want: Working With Stains
There are many things to know about to make the best use of stains, but one often ignored aspect is the relationship between glaze color and chemistry. If you want to control color you need to know about stains and chemistry.
Are Your Glazes Food Safe or are They Leachable?
Many potters do not think about leaching, but times are changing. What is the chemistry of stability? There are simple ways to check for leaching, and fix crazing.
Attack on Glass: Corrosion Attack Mechanisms
Max Richens outlines the various mechanisms by which acids and bases can dissolve glass and glazes. He provides some information on stabilizing glazes against attack.
Crazing and Bacteria: Is There a Hazard?
A post to a discussion on the clayart group by Gavin Stairs regarding the food safety of crazed ware.
A step-by-step process to put a liner glaze in a mug that meets in a perfect line with the outside glaze at the rim.
Glazed ware can be a safety hazard to end users because it may leach metals into food and drink, it could harbor bacteria and it could flake of in knife-edged pieces.
Leaching Cone 6 Glaze Case Study
An example of how we can use INSIGHT software to determine of a glaze is likely to leach
A Textbook Cone 6 Matte Glaze With Problems
Glazes must be completely melted to be functional, hard and strong. Many are not. This compares two glazes to make the difference clear.
Alberta Slip, 20 Years of Substitution for Albany Slip
Alberta Slip makes a great base for glazes because not only is it almost a complete glaze by itself but it has low thermal expansion, it works well with frits and slurry properties can be adjusted.
Chemistry vs. Matrix Blending to Create Glazes from Native Materials
Is it better to do trial and error line and matrix blending of materials to formulate your glazes or is it better to use glaze chemistry?
Creating Your Own Budget Glaze
How to take a stockroom full of unused materials and turn them into a good glaze rather than try umpteen online recipes that require buying yet more materials you do not need and do not work.
Formulating Ash and Native-Material Glazes
How to have a volcanic ash analysed and them use ceramic chemistry to create a glaze that contains the maximum possible amount of the ash for the desired effect
This is an overview of the various mechanisms you can employ to make glazes dance with color, crystals, highlights, speckles, rivulets, etc.
Ball Milling Glazes, Bodies, Engobes
Industries ball mill their glazes, engobes and even bodies as standard practice. Yet few potters even have a ball mill or know what one is.
Todd Barson of Ferro Corp. overviews the glaze formulations being using in various ceramics industry sectors. He discusses fast fire, glaze materials, development and trouble shooting.
Cone 6 Floating Blue Glaze Recipe
A discussion by Jonathan Kaplan on dealing the with fickle nature of this glaze
A study of the mechanism behind the color in color red glazes by Karl Platt.
Crystal Glazes: Understanding the Process and Materials
Fara Shimbo's book on crystal glazes is the most understandable and practical we have seen. The book is full of color pictures and test tiles.
Glaze chemistry using a frit of approximate analysis
Many of the best frits do have a published chemistry, or the chemistry is approximate. Can we still use them in glaze chemistry? Yes.
A transcript of a presentation at the 3rd Whitewares conference at Alfred University in the spring of 2000 by Richard Eppler.
Low Budget Testing of the Raw and Fired Properties of a Glaze
There is more to glazes than their visual character, they have other physical properties like hardness, thermal expansion, leachability, chemistry and they exhibit many defects. Here are some simple tests.
Pictures of a ball mill rack that you can make yourself
A standard shape and size of glaze test is important to be able to compare one test with another, especially over time (so that old tests look the same as new ones)
Painting Glazes Rather Than Dipping or Spraying
Potters who are used to dipping and spraying glazes might be surprised to learn how well glazes can paint on if they have enough gum in the recipe.
Vince Pitelka describes his method of preparing a Terra Sigillata slip.
The Right Chemistry for a Cone 6 MgO Matte
The Trials of Being the Only Technical Person in the Club
If you are the only technically oriented person in your company, school or pottery club you will get a charge out of this report from a right-brained potter always fighting to drag others into understanding glazes.
The trade is glaze recipes has spawned generations of potters going up blind alleys trying recipes that don't work and living with ones that are much more trouble than they are worth. It is time to leave this behind and take control.
Understanding Glaze Slurry Properties
It is possible to have a glaze slurry that is a joy to use, but only if you understand the physics of the materials in the glaze recipe.
What Determines a Glaze's Firing Temperature?
By understanding how glazes melt and materials and chemistry interplay to determine behavior and temperature of melting and testing degree of melt you control the melting temperature of your glazes.
Why Textbook Glazes Are So Difficult
The trade is glaze recipes has spawned generations of potters going up blind alleys trying recipes that don't work and living with ones that are much more trouble than they are worth. It is time to leave this behind and take control.
A big secret to getting control of glazes is to begin looking at them as formulas of oxides rather than recipes of materials.
It is better to understand and have control of one good base glaze than be at the mercy of dozens of imported recipes that do not work. There is a lot more to being a good glaze than fired appearance.
At Digitalfire we promote the idea of understanding and formulating your own glazes so you have control rather than relying on suppliers or the trade in glaze recipes.
Glaze Chemistry Basics Formula, Analysis, Mole%, Unity, LOI
Part of changing your viewpoint of glazes, from a collection of materials to a collection of oxides, is learning what a formula and analysis are, how conversion between the two is done and how unity and LOI impact this.
Glaze Recipes: Formulate Your Own Instead
The only way you will ever get the glaze you really need is to formulate your own. The longer you stay on the glaze recipe treadmill the more time you waste.
The Four Levels on Which to View Ceramic Glazes
By knowing which level to view a glaze from you are much better equipped to understand and control it. The levels are process, recipe, material, oxide.
A prayer for potters who wish to continue down the road of text book glaze recipes, never really getting what they want, never getting control.
At Digitalfire we use a Dragon to personify the kinds of thinking that prevent potters, educators and technicians from understanding and therefore controlling their glazes.
Break your addiction to online recipes that don't work. Get control. Learn why glazes fire as they do. Why each material is used. Some chemistry. How to create perfect dipping and drying properties. Be empowered. Adjust recipes with issues rather than sta
First You See It Then You Don't: Raku Glaze Stability
Tom Buck discusses the change in color over time that can happen with some raku glazes
The Majolica Earthenware Process
How to make strong, durable functional ware from red terra cotta odies based on the traditional of majolica.
Creating a Non-Glaze Ceramic Slip or Engobe
It can be difficult to find an engobe that is drying and firing compatible with your body. It is better to understand, formulate and tune your own slip to your own body, glaze and process.
Adjusting Glaze Expansion by Calculation to Solve Shivering
This page demonstrates how you might use INSIGHT software to do calculations that will help you increase the thermal expansion of a glaze while having minimal impact on other properties.
Bringing Out the Big Guns in Craze Control: MgO
MgO is the secret weapon of craze control. If your application can tolerate it you can create a cone 6 base glaze of very low thermal expansion that is very resistant to crazing.
Crazing in Stoneware Glazes: Treating the Causes, Not the Symptoms
Band-aid solutions to crazing are often recommended by authors, but these do not get at the root cause of the problem, a thermal expansion mismatch between glaze and body.
Demonstrating Glaze Fit Issues to Students
Glaze and body can both be adjusted to solve crazing and shivering problems. This describes a simple project to create body glaze combinations guaranteed to craze and shiver to demonstrate the principles involved.
The Effect of Glaze Fit on Fired Ware Strength
The fit between body and glaze is like a marriage, if is is strong the marriage can survive problems. Likewise ceramic ware with well fitting glaze is much stronger than you think it might be, and vice versa.
Understanding Thermal Expansion in Ceramic Glazes
Understanding thermal expansion is the key to dealing with crazing or shivering. There is a rich mans and poor mans way to fit glazes, the latter might be better.
One can look at a ceramic material from a mineral, physical or chemical standpoint. Each viewpoint is appropriate depending on the context, understanding this is a key to exploiting materials properly.
How Alberta Slip was created by analysing and duplicating the physical and chemical properties of Albany Slip
Few people actually understood what AP Green fireclay really was (it is no longer available). By carefully ascertaining its physical properties we were able to formulate a substitute material mix.
How a Material Chemical Analysis is Done
Michael Banks and Stuart Altmann talk about chemical analyses methods and their advantages and disadvantages. Also information on testing labs you can use.
The story of how Ravenscrag Slip was discovered and developed might help you to recognize the potential in clays that you have access to.
How to create a blend of materials to chemically substitute for another (Cornwall Stone is used as an example).
Those Unlabelled Bags and Buckets
Mike Bailey and David Hewitt provide detailed information on how to identify materials from the properties of their powders
Understanding Ceramic Materials
Ceramic materials are not just powders, they have a physical presence that make each unique and amazing. We cannot adequately describe the properties using just numbers, thinking in terms of generic materials is a key.
Joseph Herbert overviews the technical and practical aspects of this interesting group of materials
Having Your Glaze Tested for Metal Release
The materials you use present two hazards you need to think about: Are they poisoning you while working with them? Are they destabilizing your glazes so they dissolve into food and drink?
Toxicity of Firebricks Used in Ovens
Toxicity concerns about the use of firebrick or alumina brick to make ovens used for baking bread
A One-speed Lab or Studio Slurry Mixer
Particle Size Distribution of Ceramic Powders
Understanding the theory behind sieve selection, how to properly sample a powder and how to carry out a particle size distribution test can give you valuable information about a material.
Simple Physical Testing to Compare Clay Materials
Some of the key tests needed to really understand what a clay is and what it can be used for can be done with inexpensive equipment and simple procedures. These practical tests can give you a better picture than a data sheet full of numbers.


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The Houston Dynamo earned a 2-1 win against intra-state rival FC Dallas in the third-place match of the preseason Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic Saturday night at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla.
Houston improved to 1-0-1 in the preseason against MLS opposition. The Dynamo's next preseason action will come in a home scrimmage on Sunday, March 7, as the Dynamo host the Austin Aztex at 1 p.m. at the Carl Lewis Track & Field Complex.
On Saturday, Houston and Dallas -- both of which had been shut out on Thursday -- traded first-half goals. Dallas opened the scoring in the 13th minute when Marvin Chavez stripped the Dynamo back line and raced in alone on Pat Onstad, eventually slotting a pass to David Ferreira for an easy tap-in. Houston came right back in the 16th minute when Jamaican trialist Lovel Palmer let loose with a 35-yard blast that caromed in off the right post after Dallas goalkeeper Dario Sala got a hand to it.
Each team also had a golden chance shortly before halftime. In the 41st minute, the Dynamo's Francisco Navas laid the ball back to Geoff Cameron, and his left-footed cross found Danny Cruz at the far post. Cruz, who hit the post twice on Thursday, bounced a left-footed shot just wide of the far post. Dallas had a chance on a corner kick in the 44th minute on a Dax McCarty corner kick, but an Atiba Harris volley went high.
Cameron and Brian Ching made their first preseason appearances for Houston since Feb. 6, after returning from U.S. national team duty. Brad Davis, who was also with the national team, sat out due to a hamstring injury.
The Dynamo made six changes to start the second half and eventually used nine substitutes. Houston almost took the lead early in the second half when Léandre Griffit floated a back-post shot that Sala tipped off the crossbar and out for a corner kick.
The Dynamo did go on top in the 53rd minute when trialist Navion Boyd reacted first to a Dallas back pass and broke in alone on Sala. Boyd's shot was saved, but Weaver fired the rebound into the net from 20 yards out as Sala scrambled to get back.
Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad had to make one big save to preserve the win, when a cross fell to Dallas midfielder Eric Alexander 15 yards from goal in the 68th minute. Onstad came out and squared up to the shooter, diving to his right to deny Alexander at the near post. The Dynamo hung on from there for the win.
The Dynamo will return to Houston tomorrow and resume training on Monday. The MLS regular season will begin March 27, with the Dynamo playing at FC Dallas, and Houston's home opener is scheduled for Thursday, April 1, against defending MLS Cup champion Real Salt Lake.
FC Dallas
vs. Houston Dynamo
February 27, 2010 -- ESPN Wide World of Sports, Orlando FL
Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic -- Third Place
Scoring Summary:
FCD -- David Ferreira (Marvin Chavez) 13
HOU -- Lovel Palmer (unassisted) 16
HOU -- Cam Weaver (unassisted) 53
FC Dallas -- Dario Sala, Edson Edward (Zach Loyd 58), Steve Purdy, George John, Jair Benitez (Eric Avila 72), Eric Alexander, Dax McCarty (Misho Fahim 83), David Ferreira, Marvin Chavez (Duke Hashimoto 75), Brek Shea (Anthony Wallace 57), Atiba Harris (Jason Yeisley 69).
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Ryan Cochrane (Erik Ustruck 46), Eddie Robinson (Bobby Boswell 46), Mike Chabala (Wade Barrett 46), Danny Cruz (Sammy Appiah 46), Lovel Palmer (Brian Mullan 59), Geoff Cameron (Léandre Griffit 46), Shaun Saiko (Jonathan De León 59), Francisco Navas, Brian Ching (Cam Weaver 46), Navion Boyd (Dominic Oduro 59).
Misconduct Summary:
FCD -- Edson Edward (caution; Reckless Tackle) 42
FCD -- Eric Alexander (caution; Reckless Tackle) 84
Attendance: 1,500
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial

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At each of the City Council's stated meetings, council members introduce bills, most of which will never become laws (for the process by which bills become laws, click here). As a regular feature, Gotham Gazette discusses some of the legislation proposed at each meeting.
Caregiver Status and Discrimination
The city would expand the field of people protected by discrimination on the job under a bill introduced by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Councilmembers Bill de Blasio, David Weprin and Gale Brewer. Intro 565 would prohibit employment discrimination based on a person's status as a caregiver responsible for a child or ill parent. The issue for such caregivers arises at work and when applying for jobs and often concerns such matter as compulsory overtime, schedule flexibility, opportunities to make phone calls and potential for promotion.
Gotbaum's initiative was prompted by a phone call from John Dallas, a New Yorker who cared for his ailing mother for eight years. He contacted the public advocate's office after her came under pressure not to leave work to tend to her and instead to send her to a nursing home.
A report by the Center for Worklife found that 57 percent of working caregivers have had to disrupt their work schedules to provide care. Another report by the Center for Worklife showed that New York is among the states with the most discrimination lawsuits arising from family responsibilities and that the East Coast region has the highest proportion of victories for plaintiffs in these cases. According to a 2004 report by the National Alliance for Caregiving mentioned in the text of the bill, over 20 percent of Americans and nearly two million New Yorkers care for family members or friends. De Blasio asserted that these caregivers need support and should not have to fear losing their jobs to tend to loved ones.
Intro 565 would amend the New York City Human Rights Law, which is among the most comprehensive in the nation, to add caregiver status to the list of traits that employers may not discriminate against. The most recent amendments to the human rights law added protections for partnership status in 2005 and for victims of domestic violence, sex offenses and stalking in 2003.
Currently, the District of Columbia is the only place in the United States to prohibit employment discrimination because of caregiver responsibilities.
Gotbaum also supports the state legislature's Working Families Time to Care Act, which would provide temporary paid leave to an employee to care for a family member.
Enforcing Energy Conservation
The day after Earth Day and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's speech on creating a sustainable New York, Councilmember Dan Garodnick introduced bill 564 to improve the enforcement of the state Energy Conservation Construction Code and to create stricter standards for projects not normally covered by the regulations.
The proposal would require specific and thorough documentation of a building, subsystems (such as lighting and ductwork) and equipment (such as escalators and plumbing) when substantial renovations occur. Currently, state regulations require that buildings undergoing reconstruction that affects more than half the structure comply with the Energy Conservation Code. By July 2008, this bill would extend that requirement to buildings with smaller construction projects and institute basic minimum standards for lighting, windows, heating, air conditioning and ventilation.
Also seeking to reform New York City construction, Bloomberg last week announced plans to reform the city's building codes, which have been described as "Byzantine" and "Talmudic." His proposals would especially apply to new construction projects with regard to safety, conservation and efficiency.
Watercraft Regulations
Councilmembers Lew Fidler and Michael Nelson introduced bill 563 to regulate the sale and use of personal watercraft, primarily jet skis. Current New York State Navigation Law requires riders in personal watercraft to wear life vests, not drive recklessly, stay at least 500 feet from designated bathing areas and not drive in the dark. The law also requires crafts to have proper engine ventilation and be equipped with a horn, hazard light and emergency break latch. The proposal would require buyers of the crafts to be at least 16 years old. For their part, sellers would need to demonstrate the vehicle's safety features and keep the purchasers' information on record. Without the cap and controversy of the pedicab regulations, this bill has received minimal if any coverage in the press.
Apologizing for Slavery
Councilmembers John Liu, Larry Seabrook and Robert Jackson introduced Resolution 824 that expresses "profound regret for slavery and historic wrongs rooted in racial and cultural bias."
Though in the North, New York City had a long history of not only participating in the slave trade and profiting from slave labor, but also of having been reluctant to emancipate slaves.
An inclusive declaration, the resolution states, "African American, Hispanic-American, Asian American and Native American communities continue to suffer from financial and social inequities, patterns of housing segregation, deficiencies in educational resources, and de facto remnants of formerly codified racism."
In discussing the resolution, Jackson emphasized the lingering impacts of slavery on African American New Yorkers, such as high incarceration rates and a lack of access to quality healthcare and education.
Councilmember Albert Vann cited the fact that freed slaves, "never received the 40 acres and a mule that was planned," and added, "I think the least of what we can do is to apologize."
The New York State Legislature also is considering a bill apologizing for slavery. These city and state apologies are relatively uncontroversial, but Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries admits that winning passage of his bill to create a reparations commission would be "tough."
In April, the University of Virginia board passed a resolution apologizing for its use of slave labor. The states of Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland have made similar apologies, and Alabama and Florida are considering such resolutions.
Commemorating Religious Freedom
Councilmember Helen Sears proposed Resolution 825 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance. This was the first exercise of freedom in religion in the United States, as the signers rebuked then governor of New Amsterdam Peter Stuyvesant for banning all religions except the Dutch Reform Church. A ceremony with descendants of the original signers is planned for December 27, 2007.
Street Names Redux
Twenty-nine council members introduced an amended street naming proposal that removed Sonny Carson Avenue from consideration. Bill 556 retained the other 51 thoroughfare recommendations.
Speaker Christine Quinn had called for removing Sonny Carson from the rest of the bill because he was "divisive." No council members commented on the change during the April 24, but two members of the community board that made the initial recommendation to honor Carson described the removal of his avenue designation as "arbitrary and capricious" and are filing a lawsuit."
Carson, a black activist who died in 2002, was heralded by for his civic work in the community and for his efforts against police brutality, but was also convicted of kidnapping in 1974 and was known for making anti-white statements and boycotting Korean groceries.
If Carson does eventually become an Avenue, he would not be the first controversial figure to receive such an honor. Gates Avenue is named after slave owners, and Corbin Avenue initially was named after an anti-Semitic real-estate developer and later renamed for a Revolutionary War heroine with the same surname. And, in another contentious honor, entertainer Al Jolson who frequently performed in blackface, may soon be inducted into the City Council Hall of Fame.
State Legislature
The City Council also proposed two resolutions concurring with a state legislative proposals and one seeking action. Resolution 37 supports a bill which would allow any registered nurse or midwife who is a member of the New York City Employee Retirement System to participate in the age 55 improved benefit plan, a retirement program for people in physically taxing professions.
Resolution 38 calls for the passage of a bill that would enable certain city employees who were laid off, specifically after the 9/11 cleanup, and later rehired to be able to buy back pension credits for the time of their suspension and be treated as continuously employed for the purposes of seniority and promotions.
In Resolution 823, the council urges the legislature to make Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage available to people eligible for social security disability insurance benefits.


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Chronic Hypnotic - FLAVOR DROPS
Chronic Hypnotic is a cognac and passion fruit blend… exotic and delicious!
Size: 12ml
Nicotine: 0mg - Nicotine FREE
Tasty Puff Flavour Drops are flavoured liquid that can be used to add flavor to E-Juice or E-Liquid, The main use for these drops is that they can be vaped when mixed with flavourless E-Juice (Please see Flavourless E-Juice in menu)
The flavor drops must be added to E-Juice to be vaporized.
- When used to flavor your herbs, the Flavoured drops are designed to dry in 3 – 5 minutes therefore they do not make your herb wet. They do not contain nicotine or sweeteners and can't be vaped on their own.
- Flavour Drops may be used on their own and will not need to be added to E-Juice when being used to add flavor to herb, papers, cigars, sisha and water pipes.
- Can be added to E-Juice or E-Liquid to be vaped
- Can be used to flavour dry herb
- Can be used to flavour smoking papers and blunts
- Can be used to flavour cigars
- Can be put into water pipes to add flavour
- Can be used to add flavour to shisha
- Concentrates such as Wax and Oil may be added to the Flavour Drops. The Flavour Drops may then be added to the Flavourless E-Juice to be vaporised.
- A few drops can be added to any food, beverage, humidifier, diffuser, oil, wax, herb, water pipe and vapor pens or mods.
Adding Flavour Drops to E-Juice
Flavour drops must be added to E-Juice to be vaped. Flavour Drops cannot be vaped on their own. Flavour Drops should be added at about a 10% ratio (6 drops per full tank of e-liquid). The Flavour Drops are unsweetened, concentrated, and are food grade.
Add flavour to E-Juice with Flavour Drops
o Fill your Vape tank with a flavourless E-Juice base, you can then add about 6 drops of the Flavour Drops to the E-Juice in the tank.
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HOUSTON -- As the Yankees turn the page from last season's third-place finish in the American League East and start a new hunt for championship No. 28, Brett Gardner was surprised to learn that he is the only holdover from the 2013 Opening Day batting order.
Gardner batted seventh and started in left field in manager Joe Girardi's order on Tuesday. Three hundred sixty-five days ago, he was joined in a lineup by Eduardo Nunez, Robinson Cano, Kevin Youkilis, Vernon Wells, Ben Francisco, Ichiro Suzuki, Jayson Nix and Francisco Cervelli. Only Ichiro and Cervelli remain on the active roster.
"I haven't thought about that, but that's hard to believe," Gardner said. "There has definitely been a lot of turnover. I feel like all the new guys that they always bring in here really get along with everybody. Everybody fits in well together. We've got a great group of guys; I feel good about our team, and it's going to be a good year."
Aside from left-hander CC Sabathia, the Yankees have a completely different defensive alignment; Gardner was playing center field in last year's opener. This marks the first time that the Yankees have had completely different starters at each defensive position from one Opening Day to another since 1946 and '47.
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Awards of Excellence 2008
2008 PMA Awards of Excellence Winners
Higgins-Caditz Design AwardITW CIP California, Santa Fe Springs, CA
Ulbrich Award for Competitive Excellence in Product Development OKAY Industries, Inc., New Britain, CT
SKD Automotive Group Productivity Award
Signature Technologies Process Control Award
Parkview Metal Products Excellence in Quality Award
Pitcher Insurance Agency Safety Award
A.R. Hedberg Training and Education Award (via HPL Stampings, Inc.)
(No winner was selected for the Clips & Clamps Industries Educational Institution Award.)
ITW CIP California
Designing a single-piece automotive door striker, used to secure the occupant door while driving, earned ITW CIP California of Santa Fe Springs the Higgins-Caditz Design Award. The previous design of the door striker, for Ford Motor Co., consisted
Developing this product required a nontraditional approach that allowed ITW CIP to produce varying shapes not previously attainable. Furthermore, the technology has helped customers reduce related field issues such as door-chucking noises and vibration.
Created by the Worcester Pressed Steel Co., Worcester, MA, and sponsored by The Quarterly Club, the Design Award recognizes a manufacturing company for outstanding achievement in developing an innovative product design. As part of its award, ITW CIP California received a $1500 cash prize.
Excellence in Product Development
OKAY Industries, Inc.
Okay Industries, Inc., New Britain, CT, received the Ulbrich Award for Competitive Excellence in Product Development for developing a subassembly for an endoscopy device used in minimally invasive surgeries. The company worked with its customer, a major medical-device manufacturer, to jointly develop the low-cost endoscopy assembly—an articulating tube controlled by guide wires during surgery.
The tube, known as an articulation joint, is a patent-pending stamped stainless-steel link assembly with 28 springs. Okay, which produces metal stampings
Following the joint development effort and prototyping by Okay, the patent-pending manufacturing process was adopted. Here, individual links are stamped and interconnected as a complete set to maintain their locations during weld assembly. After all of the interconnected flat links have been joined via laser-welded springs, the links are separated and the assembled articulation joint is formed into its finished diameter. To reconnect the open ends of each link, a laser operation seam-welds the last row of internal springs across each link from end to end.
Using metal stampings to produce links in place of laser-cut tubing has provided tremendous cost savings for the customer. Additionally, the ability to weld most of the springs in place while the links are in the flat state simplified tooling/welding-fixture design and reduced the project's capital cost. With the automated laser-welding operation and integration of the automated rollforming operation, the customer is ensured that every part will meet print specifications without requiring secondary operations.
Sponsored by Ulbrich Stainless Steels and Special Metals, Inc., North Haven, CT, the Product Development Award acknowledges a manufacturing company that demonstrates outstanding innovation in developing and manufacturing a product that best uses metal in place of a nonmetal competitive material. Along with the award, Okay received a $1500 cash prize, which the company has elected to contribute to the Central Connecticut State University School of Technology.
Excellence in Productivity
E.J. Ajax & Sons, Inc
For taking over complete parts production from a customer and compressing the entire value chain from several weeks to literally hours, E.J. Ajax & Sons, Inc., Fridley, MN, netted the SKD Automotive Group Productivity Award.
The customer, Radius Track, a maker of metal tracks that allow for curved drywall surfaces, initially produced parts inhouse to control quality and protect the proprietary portions of its manufacturing process. Once the company established market demand for the tracks, it contracted with E.J. Ajax, which produces medium- to long-run progressive-die metal stampings, to design tooling and perform stamping operations on the track. E.J. Ajax then would ship the product back to the customer for bending, crimping, packaging and shipping. This process required three to four employees at Radius Track and six operators on six machines at E.J. Ajax, with production from start to finish—including shipment of parts back and forth—taking one month.
Through continuous productivity improvement, E.J. Ajax defined methods to perform crimping, then to produce the entire part and also package and ship directly from its plant.
"A big customer can order 15,000 to 20,000 ft. of track at a time," says Bob Krebsbach, Radius Track president. "Before, the cycle time was longer than the time between the customer's order and the required delivery date. That meant we had to keep expensive inventory on hand. Now, E.J. Ajax doesn't start to make the product until it receives the order. All non-value-added lead time and inventory have been eliminated. Its ability to take over production has enabled Radius Track to manage significant growth without having to worry about supporting customer demand. From a financial standpoint, overall costs are less, and our cash flow is not tied up in storing finished goods."
The E.J. Ajax team tasked with improving the manufacturing process for Radius Track sought to develop a continuous-flow operation that would fit in a designated 60-ft.-wide bay. To limit capital expenditure, Ajax personnel retrofitted two used stamping presses, a coil arbor, feeder, straightener and press brake with new controls and sensors for on-demand inline production. The continuous-flow cell includes feeding, straightening, blanking, 90-deg. forming, crimping, packaging and labeling. The team worked through a total productive maintenance plan for the process, including all machinery and tooling, and determined correct positioning of sensors and operators. Uptime of this continuous-flow cell exceeds 99.8 percent.
Process innovation enabled E.J. Ajax to take over the entire operation from Radius Track while reducing its own production personnel responsible for the work from six to three. A material-handling improvement suggested by one of the E.J. Ajax production-line operators brought the total number of workers required to two.
Sponsored by SKD Automotive Group, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, the Productivity Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a PMA manufacturing member in the development and implementation of programs, processes and use of assets that lead to significant improvements in productivity. Along with the award, E.J. Ajax received a $1500 cash prize, which it donated to Hennepin Technical College Foundation.
Excellence in Process Control
SKD Automotive Group–Brampton Division
SKD Automotive Group-Brampton Division, Ontario, Canada, received the Signature Technologies Process Control Award for employing air sensing to ensure proper fastening of two parts via interference fitting, often referred to as press fitting. SKD supplies metal stampings and modular assembly components to the automotive industry.
Press fitting, a friction-fastening process, applies high pressing force to two parts—one with a slightly different shape than the other across its mating surface. As the parts press together, high friction occurs at areas along the mating surface where the parts "interfere" with each other's space, in effect fastening the parts. Therefore, proper fastening relies on individual parts that possess the correct shape and orientation, resulting in high friction when pressed together. To ensure correct part shape and orientation, SKD employs air-pressure sensing.
The sensing takes place in one of the company's control-arm assembly cells, and enables 100-percent assurance that a ball joint is not misaligned with an extruded hole prior to press fitting. With SKD's setup, circuitry involves regulated incoming air, an airflow switch sensor and I/O control. The airflow sensor detects sufficient air backpressure. As the push-in tooling makes contact with the ball-joint race enclosure, if the ball joint is not properly aligned with the extruded hole, tooling will not seat properly on the enclosure. As a result, air will leak through, the airflow switch will sense no/low backpressure and the press cylinder will not be pressurized to push the ball joint into the hole. The PLC will fault, alerting the operator of a misaligned ball joint.
Overall quality has increased due to this process-control method. Prior to air-pressure sensing, all assemblies had to be 100-percent inspected by an operator for proper insertion depths and any visual damage. These inspections, determined to be only 85 percent effective, resulted in the customer receiving nonconforming assemblies. SKD officials report that since implementing air-pressure sensing, customer complaints regarding insertion depth and retention loads have disappeared.
The Process Control Award, sponsored by Signature Technologies, Oak Point, TX, promotes the application of electronic-analog closed-loop process controls in the metalforming process by recognizing innovative electronic solutions implemented by a North American manufacturing company, which have resulted in significant quality, cost reduction and/ or productivity improvements. In addition to the award, SKD Automotive Group received a $1500 cash prize.
Excellence in Quality
OKAY Industries, Inc.
Okay Industries Inc., New Britain, CT, received the Parkview Metal Products Excellence in Quality Award for its commitment to quality as evidenced through quality practices and results. The company, which produces precision metal stampings and subassemblies for medical, surgical, automotive, defense, aerospace and other specialty industrial markets, lists its priorities as safety first, quality second and productivity third. The result is a strong quality culture, according to company officials.
Okay's management team has developed the company's Prioritized Action Plan for Continuous Improvement (PAPFCI), which is reviewed and approved by the company's outside board of directors. This document clearly defines specific objectives by part number or process and identifies champions responsible for action items. Each quarter, senior staff meets with all managers to review PAPFCI progress. In addition, senior staff meets with department managers weekly to review issues including customer complaints, efficiencies and delivery performance. Okay's president holds a monthly communications meeting as well, reviewing key items with all employees, including monthly quality and delivery performance analysis.
Okay uses an enterprise-management system to help manage data so that empowered employees can make informed decisions to control the company's products and processes. The system also tracks problem controls, broken down into customer complaints, internal audit nonconformances, supplier corrective actions, machine and equipment failure, audit findings, and continual improvements. The corrective-action system automatically sends e-mail reminders to those required to perform each action item.
Problem solving is a team effort at Okay, with 30 employees trained in several problem-solving techniques. Numerous items enhance Okay's preventive-action processes, including the creation of a Process Ready Check Sheet, ensuring that each operation is ready to begin production and requiring a sign off by the manufacturing and quality departments.
Okay also works closely with its suppliers, performing several onsite supplier audits in 2007. Upon recognizing a supplier problem, Okay issues a supplier corrective-action request (SCAR). In 2006, when Okay began the program, the company issued 144 supplier corrective actions. In 2007 the SCAR count had declined by 51 percent. Okay also had three of its key suppliers attend extensive root-cause analysis and problem-solving classes, and the drop in supplier-related issues reveals the success of the partnership.
Okay also participates in second- and third-party assessments. The company was visited by and/or audited by eight customers in 2007, and received successful audits from all. In addition, Okay undergoes biannual ISO/TS assessments. A team of 12 internal auditors perform audits throughout the year, touching on each process and the requirements of TS 16949 and ISO 9000:2000.
The Quality Award, sponsored by Parkview Metal Products, Lake Zurich, IL, recognizes outstanding achievement by a PMA manufacturing member in the development and implementation of a company-wide quality system that effectively uses continuous improvement. Along with recognition in industry publications and at exhibitions, Okay received a $1500 cash prize, which it has pledged to donate to E.C. Goodwin Technical High School in New Britain, CT.
Excellence in Safety
E&E Manufacturing Co., Inc.
E&E Manufacturing Co., Inc., Plymouth, MI, received the Pitcher Insurance Agency Safety Award due to its efforts in making safety an integral part of the company's business plan. Employing more than 300 workers, the company manufactures heavy-gauge stampings, weld nuts, deep-drawn extruded stampings, tapping plates, serrated shims and automotive seating-component assemblies.
At E&E, all safety and health issues are dealt with proactively, with associates actively involved in the company's safety programs. In addition, all associates are eligible for incentives in achieving company expectations toward safety performance.
The company also has developed and maintained a strong working relationship with the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MiOSHA) to help achieve its safety goals. In November 2003, E&E became the first automotive stamping company in the nation to receive OSHA's Star Award, following a rigorous inspection and evaluation process with MiOSHA's Michigan Voluntary Protection Program onsite teams. In 2007 the company was recertified through MiOSHA to maintain its Star Award status. E&E reportedly remains the only automotive metal stamper in the country to have achieved this status.
E&E assesses its safety and health program annually, designing all processes to eliminate potential worksite and ergonomic risks prior to shop-floor implementation. It spent more than $200,000 in 2007 on safety improvements, including implementation of a new product line that included an assembly process addressing guarding issues as well as numerous ergonomic challenges. A cart rotates to the operator and stands at a height of 34 in. to present itself to the operator in an ergonomically effective fashion. In addition, slides prevent the operator from reaching through rack sections.
The company also designed and implemented a downdraft smoke-collection unit for its welding department, and designed self-contained ventilation units that have become an industry standard. E&E also recently implemented a Kevlar-sleeve program to protect workers from lacerations, which led to a 65 percent reduction in forearm lacerations among E&E press operators.
The company's program has yielded impressive results, as reportable injuries have continued to decline over the last nine years and are well below industry averages. E&E has set a goal of zero lost-time injuries for 2008 and a 4.0 recordable injury rate.
The Safety Award, sponsored by Pitcher Insurance Agency, Chicago, IL, acknowledges either an effective comprehensive safety program or a specific innovative idea in the context of an effective safety program. Along with the award, E&E Manufacturing received a $1500 cash prize.
Excellence in Training and Education
2009 Awards—Your Company's Chance to Shine
A prestigious PMA award in design, safety, productivity, product development, quality, process control or education is more than a pat on the back. Distinguish your organization from the competition, recognize employees for a job well done and be promoted at the METALFORM tradeshow, on the PMA website, in news releases, at PMA's Annual Meeting and in the pages of MetalForming magazine.
Does your company measure up and deserve the recognition and all the benefits that winning an award entails? If so, PMA is accepting entries for its 2009 Awards of Excellence in Metalforming. For more information or to enter, contact PMA's Christie Carmigiano at 216/901-8800 ext. 105, email@example.com
Penn United Technologies, Inc.
Penn United Technologies, Inc., Saxonburg, PA, received the A.R. Hedberg Training and Education Award. The company's $1.2 million Learning Institute for the Growth of High Technology (LIGHT) training center is used to train Penn United's more than 650 employees through apprenticeships and National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) credentialing. The facility also will be used to train the company's on-the-job-training trainers, senior trainers and coordinators in on-the-job training techniques.
The institute offers several programs, including one-year certificate programs for carbide finish grinders, carbide preformers and plating technicians. In addition, state-approved apprenticeship programs are offered for tool and die makers (five years), precision grinders (four years), precision machinists (four years), press technicians (two years) and quality assurance technicians (two years).
LIGHT offers 37 courses, with each class normally conducted for 3 hr. Penn United spends approximately $45,000/ month on such training and tracks it as an operating expense. The company also provides registration and testing fees for nationally recognized credentials and certificates.
New hires for machining and grinding positions attend basic training for six weeks, 8 hr./day, to receive initial skills training before being matched to a production position. They are paid their hourly wages while attending this training.
In addition to providing training to Penn United employees, LIGHT has begun expanding its reach. A committee comprised of local manufacturers is being formed to transform LIGHT into a regional nonprofit training center open to all manufacturers.
The Training and Education Award, sponsored by HPL Stampings, Inc., Lake Zurich, IL, in memory of A.R. (Ray) Hedberg, a leader in employee training, recognizes outstanding achievement by a PMA member company in employee technical education through a comprehensive training program. The award includes a $1500 cash prize, which Penn United Technologies has donated to LIGHT, for use in expanding the institute's reach to other manufacturers. MF
See also: Ajax Metal Forming Solutions, LLC, E&E Manufacturing Co., Inc., Penn United Technologies, Inc.
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Top Syria rebel visits fighters in Assad homeland
August 12, 2013
BEIRUT (AP) — The military commander of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group visited rebels in the coastal province that is President Bashar Assad's ancestral homeland following recent opposition advances in the area, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Over the past week, rebel fighters in Latakia province have swept through a string of villages that are populated by members of Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The advances have not shifted the strategic balance in the area, but they did embarrass the regime in a region that has been under tight government control since the Syrian revolt began more than two years ago.
Assad's forces have launched a counteroffensive to try to dislodge the rebels, and activists say fighting is raging over several villages in the mountainous region. In a video posted on the opposition Syrian National Coalition's Facebook page, rebel military chief Gen. Salim Idris walks with a small group of fighters through hilly terrain. Dressed in civilian clothes with a shoulder holster and a pistol, Idris tells them that he visited the front to see the "important achievements and great victories that were made by our brother rebels in the coast."
"We are here to confirm that the command is fully coordinating with the coastal command," he said. Coalition spokeswoman Sarah Karkour said the visit to Latakia took place Sunday. She did not specify whether he went to the newly captured territory.
Idris is the leader of the Coalition's Supreme Military Council, a loose umbrella group of more secular-minded opposition brigades that serves as the main conduit for Western aid to rebels fighting to oust the Assad regime. He has little more than nominal control, however, over the hundreds of rebel factions that make up the constellation of opposition forces on the ground.
The most effective and efficient rebel groups — the Islamic extremist factions — don't even recognize Idris' authority. In recent months, there have been a rising number of clashes between al-Qaida-linked factions and more moderate opposition brigades. The infighting has undermined the opposition's overall effort to topple the Assad regime.
Despite their ideological differences, Islamic extremist groups and more secular-minded rebels also frequently coordinate their efforts when its suits them and there is a mutual benefit. That has been the case in Latakia, activists say, where more moderate rebel groups fighting alongside al-Qaida-linked jihadi factions, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, captured 11 Alawite villages last week.
The offensive forced residents of the villages to flee their homes and left at least 60 civilians dead, activists say. Another 400 civilians, mostly Alawites, are missing and are presumed to be in rebel custody in the area, according to activists who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The gains in Latakia by anti-Assad fighters have provided a small boost to the opposition after weeks of government victories in central Syria and around the capital, Damascus.


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The role of pets in weddings shows just how far the human-animal bond has come
Today, I'm trying to picture my 114-pound Lab as a ring-bearer at a wedding.
Would he trot the ring out to the happy couple or would he swallow the sparkler whole? Would he pant happily during the I-do's, or would he do something, um, disgraceful?
Silly questions, I know. But this scenario illustrates a huge societal change: Pets aren't just for back yards any more.To underscore that, Fetch got a press release from the folks at Camp Bow-Wow, the Boulder based pet services chain.
"With wedding season here, now is the time to finalize your guest list — and decide whether or not you should include your furry friends in your wedding party," a publicist wrote. "To answer the increasing popularity of pet-friendly ceremonies, a variety of businesses, retailers and planners are now offering new products and services to satisfy the demands of pet-lovers everywhere."
For instance, there is MyRegistry.com: "As the perfect all-in-one resource to create personal, running wish lists, MyRegistry.com can help you gather the special items that your dog will need."
Then there's Buttercup's PAW-tisserie: "This New York-based bakery ships nationwide and specializes in freshly baked, all natural and healthy treats for dogs."
And lastly, there's Doggie Clothesline. "If you're looking for pet formal wear, Doggie Clothesline has a variety of dog tuxedos and dresses available, many of which are under $50."
It's no accident that pet businesses have recognized the shift in how humans and animals relate. This year, they are expected to ring cash registers for more than $50 billion.
And that ain't all dog biscuits and kitty litter.
"Now, pets are treated like people, with doggie clothes, dog spas and gourmet food," says Harold Herzog, a professor of anthrozoology at Western Carolina University. "Some have become fashion accessories."
So what has happened since the time when wolves crept closer to the campfires of early man for scraps of food?
Dr. M.A. Crist, clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, explores that question in a new edition of Pet Talk, a regular feature distributed by the university.
The inclusion of pets in many non-traditional activities, such as family ceremonies, photos, trips and gatherings, drives part of the pet industry today, Crist says.
"Many of today's pets are now considered part of the family and are treated as family members," says Crist. "For example, some clients have pet chickens that live in their houses. The chickens wear little pantaloons to catch their droppings in the house so that they do not make a mess."
Crist adds: "The human-animal bond has definitely become stronger and more apparent. Society is experiencing more legal issues with pets such as pets having guardians, becoming heirs to large family fortunes, or becoming disputed over in divorces. People are wanting to make sure their pets are provided for in the event of their deaths, causing the inception of companion animal centers that care for pets when their owners pass away or are no longer able to care for them."
According to Crist, "In the past, most dogs and cats were kept outside on the family farm or ranch. The dogs were sometimes used to help work the cattle or guard the sheep, and the cats were kept around to keep the mice or snake population under control. These working dogs and cats were usually fed table scraps and taken care of in passing when a veterinarian came out on a call to check a farm animal."
As populations changed and urbanization began, dogs and cats started moving into the house, and the human-pet bond thus began to grow and strengthen, Crist adds. Additionally, the bond developed in food and farm animals as well.
"Youth began to get involved in FFA and 4-H programs in schools and became involved in raising and showing sheep, steers, goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits, and other food animals for competition," explains Crist. "Many of these youth enjoyed the companionship of the farm animals that they raised and showed, and then as adults they purchased farm animals to have simply as personal pets."
As people and animals began living together, the bond between them became more emotional. Traditional uses of animals were questioned and modified to satisfy the want of companionship.
"Years before, food animals were raised simply for that- food- and did not have long lives," asserts Crist. "Today, some food animals are kept as pets and will live to be quite old."
So there you have it.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the discharge from a vessel of any agricultural cargo residue material in the form of hold washings shall be governed exclusively by the provisions of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.) that implement Annex V to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.
33 U.S. Code § 1902a. Discharge of agricultural cargo residue
(Pub. L. 107–295, title II, § 204, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2094.)
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The Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 96–478, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2297, as amended, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 1901 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1901 of this title and Tables.
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Crafaik's woe: Bistro owner faces charges
A prominent Bistro owner and former candidate for City Council has been charged with assault following an incident in which he allegedly struck and bit his employer.
According to friends, John Michael Crafaik III, an owner of Michael's Bistro, was considering a career change and had been working for Cool Response Refrigeration, a heating and cooling company owned by Robin Joslin.
"He hadn't worked in the restaurant for a couple of years," says fellow Bistro owner Chuck Adcock.
By mid-October, Crafaik's new job situation had soured. While Joslin declined comment for the story, his complaint in the court file reveals that on October 20 he was waiting at the company's West Main Street warehouse to terminate Crafaik's employment.
"He was told not to enter the building," Joslin wrote. "He pushed me aside. When I stopped him, he threw a cup of coffee in my face and struck me. I held him down while he bit my arm until police arrived."
Following his arrest, Crafaik was charged with assault and battery, a Class 1 misdemeanor punishable by a $2,500 fine and up to 12 months in jail.
Released on $1,500 bond and under a court order to stay away from Joslin's home and office, Crafaik visited Joslin's warehouse, which shares a parking lot with Quality Community Council, a nonprofit agency that employs a witness to the alleged assault. At 5pm on Friday, October 28, according to court records, Crafaik attempted to locate that witness.
On October 31, assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Claude Worrell wrote a letter to General District Court Judge Robert Downer asking him to revoke Crafaik's bond based on that violation. Worrell added that the Quality Council staff described Crafaik as "acting oddly, as if under the influence of some drug."
Among the conditions the court originally placed on his release was that Crafaik enter Williamsburg Place, a substance-abuse rehab center in Williamsburg, and reside with his brother, Christopher Crafaik, upon his release from treatment.
However, Crafaik's lawyer, Fran Lawrence, had successfully appealed the treatment requirement last week, despite Crafaik's four alleged calls to Joslin later on October 20 that violated the conditions of his bond.
On the afternoon of October 31, Crafaik turned himself in and spent Halloween night in the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. On the morning of November 1, an unshaven Crafaik, shackled and accompanied in court by his mother, wife, and brother, agreed to the original bond terms and was to commence treatment immediately upon his release.
The alleged incidents have shocked many of Crafaik's longtime associates who recall a vibrant thinker whose libertarian philosophies of less government motivated his Republican runs for City Council in 1996 and 1998.
"He's one of my best friends," says Bistro partner Adcock, who's worked with Crafaik for a decade and became his business partner five years ago. "He's a great person to deal with. I can't imagine him getting in this kind of situation. It doesn't make sense."
Like Crafaik, Eric Strzepek believes so strongly in libertarian principles that he faced off as an independent against Donal Day, Ed Robb, and the late Emily Couric in the celebrated 1995 race for the Virginia Senate.
Calling Crafaik his "best friend," Strzepek, who has known Crafaik since eighth grade, adds, "He cares a lot about the community. He's done a lot of charitable stuff with the restaurant– stuff he doesn't talk about a lot."
Even the man who was embroiled in intra-party controversy with Crafaik over five years ago finds himself "absolutely shocked" by the current situation.
In March 2000, Dale McGlothlin was chair of the Charlottesville Republican Party until Crafaik and Strzepek rounded up new members and eventually wrested control from him. Following the meeting at which Crafaik's victory was announced, he and McGlothlin dined separately at Mono Loco restaurant on Water Street. What happened next made local news.
According to Tyler Sewell, who was dining with McGlothlin that night, Crafaik approached McGlothlin's table, and an argument ensued. Sewell says Crafaik suddenly screamed at him, "You're my witness," to which Sewell says he responded, "witness to what?"
The next day, Crafaik pressed charges against McGlothlin alleging McGlothlin had struck him during the course of the argument.
"It was irrational behavior then," says McGlothlin, now a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. "Even his girlfriend testified that she saw the whole thing, and nothing happened."
McGlothlin, cleared of all charges, says he chalked it up to "immaturity" and, rather than press charges of his own against Crafaik, decided to "let it go."
Sewell calls Crafaik's political views at the time "extreme," but adds that Crafaik's problems with McGlothlin seemed isolated.
"He was so upset at Dale," says Sewell, "but he seemed like such a nice guy, too."
Crafaik's upcoming trial, initially scheduled for November 28, will likely be postponed so that Crafaik can finish treatment. Worrell declines comment on the ongoing case, but Lawrence says he's "confident the charges will be dismissed."
As for Crafaik's side of the story, Lawrence declines to give specifics, calling the situation a "very personal matter."
"Unfortunately," he adds, "events came at a time when Mr. Crafaik was experiencing other stresses completely unrelated to Mr. Joslin."
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By Anna Fiorentino
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Between finals and writing her honors thesis, Alison Stace-Naughton '11 Th'13 took a crash course in regulatory clearance and intellectual property rights. While she didn't receive course credit, her hard work paid off in other ways.
On June 21 she expects to take home a patent.
The young entrepreneur is now on her way to raising $400,000 to build a medical-grade prototype of her vacuum suction tissue stabilizing device, designed to prevent tissue damage during endoscopic surgery. In April, Stace-Naughton's innovation placed first in the Greener Ventures Entrepreneurship Contest hosted by the Tuck School of Business. A hefty $25,000 in prize money catapulted her ahead in her plan to land the device in operating rooms.
"I thought the contest would be a good experience to practice giving my pitch. Winning came as a complete surprise," says Stace-Naughton, president and manager of Spiral-E Solutions, LLC. "Thayer encouraged me to take charge of this opportunity and to file for the patent. There has been a lot of ifs along the way, but everything has worked out as planned. The company is off the ground and running."
Just 18 months ago, she invented the medical device, which she calls the Spiral-E Solutions Tissue Stabilizer, in her entry-level ENGS 21 class with three other students. Original founders Scott Snyder '00 Th'01, now a Dartmouth engineering Ph.D., Brenna Gibbons '12 and Ihab Basri '13, serve on the board of Spiral-E Solutions, LLC., while Stace-Naughton took a more active role—with guidance from a few key individuals—in establishing the company and achieving proof of concept.
"I couldn't have done any of it without the critical business development advice of Gregg Fairbrothers and Scott Schorer '90 Th'91," says Stace-Naughton.
Schorer, a medical device industry professional, and Fairbrothers, Tuck adjunct professor and founding director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, connected Stace-Naughton with patent lawyers and clinicians at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to perform an in vitro study on a pig stomach.
"Surgical procedures lack appropriate tissue stabilizing platforms, limiting surgeons' ability to effectively hold tissue and close the incision site without complications," she explains. "Our device uses vacuum pressure orders of magnitude to stabilize tissue around an incision and minimize tissue damage from any angle during surgery."
Next, Stace-Naughton plans to reach out to industry players like Johnson & Johnson, land an in vivo study, and finally, move ahead with an exit plan. Never once did she lose sight of her long-term career plans.
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Tasty pickins: Get your own right off the bush
"I'm up to my eyeballs in berries," my friend told me the other day when I called.
I know the feeling. Every time my kids and I go out to a pick-your-own field, we just can't stop. The days afterward are delicious, filled with pies, cobblers, fritters, jam for breakfast, peaches for lunch, or applesauce for dinner until they're all used up.
I'm not complaining– there's nothing like the taste of fresh, ripe fruit that you pick yourself right from the bush or tree. And we couldn't live in a better place for pick-your-own; farms all over the area offer all sorts of fruity options.
Hill Top Berry Farm in Nelson County just started harvesting blackberries, and the crop will last almost all summer long. The great thing about picking berries on this farm is that the bushes are so easy to get to. They grow on trellises, and the paths between them are trimmed and mulched so you can fill your basket or pail (containers are available at the farm, too) with nary a scratch.
Pickers who pass through Crozet on their way back from Nelson can mix their berries with peaches— yum— with a stop at Chiles Orchard. You can pick-your-own or purchase them pre-picked at their produce stand at the side of Jarman's Gap Road. The stand also sells cooking apples, nectarines, summer vegetables from near-by farms, and the best frozen peach yogurt you've ever tasted.
For fruit from the tree that has been treated with kindness instead of a lot of chemicals, call Tina Riley. Her orchard, also in Crozet, uses integrated pest management, which means she uses a minimal amount of pesticide sprays to keep the bugs at bay. Riley offers pick-your-own by appointment only and has seven varieties of peaches now ripe for the picking. Apples will also be available starting in August.
Come September, apples will also be ready to pick at the Carter Mountain Orchard, which also happens to be owned by the Chiles family. In addition to the pick-your-own option, the farm store on the ridge offers an ever-changing variety of pre-picked fruit, seasonal vegetables, gifts, and apple cider donuts to die for.
This is one of those must-do summer activities, especially for little pickers who inevitably end up with more on and in them than in the basket. But that's just the fun of it. And— trust me on this one— you won't find fruit this good in any grocery store.
Hill Top Berry Farm is on Rt. 612 off Rt. 151 in Nelson. Open Wednesday-Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 10am-6pm. 361-1266. Chiles Orchard is on Jarman's Gap Road. Open 9am-6pm, Sundays noon-6pm. 823-1583. Tina Riley's Orchard is on Mint Springs Park Road next to the park. 823-1623. Carter Mountain Orchard is open 9am-6pm daily. Off Rt. 53. 977-1833.


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How is that possible? It's insanely cheap to send spam, that's how. The paper suggests that things like raising the cost of payment processing would have a dramatic effect on spammers' overhead, and would probably be more effective than, say, government intervention. [Journal of Economic Perspectives via Atlantic]


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Graphic designer Jirka Vinse Jonatan Väätäinen has taken it upon himself to transform almost every cartoon Disney princess into flesh-and-blood humans. Or — in the case of Ursula — a flesh-and-blood mollusk sapien.
Thankfully, he didn't decide to illustrated Gadget Mouse — that portrait would've resembled the ending of The Witches. Also, Megara is definitely channeling Liz Lemon's phone sex ad.
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The circumstances that lead us to our cars are sometimes strange, and often unpredictable. Such is the case with Pensacola, Florida's Christopher Strong. Four years ago he was driving his truck when someone decided to turn it into scrap metal by plowing into it. Needing a vehicle, he found a clean 1996 Z28. Eventually, the Camaro left daily driver status and Christopher started working with his father, Robert, to get the ride outfitted for the dragstrip. The LT1 was replaced in favor of a 398ci LS1 Robert had left over from his drag car. Sucking atmosphere through a Holley carb, the LS puts out 700 hp and 490 lb-ft of torque. Backing up the aluminum mill is an ATI TH350 trans, which feeds back to a built 12-bolt. The suspension is augmented with parts from BMR, TRZ, and Strange. The brakes are stock GM. Wheels consist of Weld 15x3.5 and 15x10 rollers wrapped in Mickey Thompson front and sticky Hoosier 275s in the rear.
We found this Camaro tearing it up at the 2013 Holley LS Fest, and Christopher was all smiles since this was the first outing in the F-body with his family.
His best run so far is a 10.49 at 129 mph, and he knows that with some tweaking and tuning there's more in it. He wanted to make sure he passed along his thanks to his family; friends; and wife, Wendy for all their support.


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We don't just take pictures of awesome cosplayers, we talk to them. These people have things to say about what rocks and what doesn't rock about being a great cosplayer.
Sometimes they need to say these things through an Autobot voice filter or using their best Mr. T impression. That's ok. The mic of Kotaku's ace video editor Chris Person picks it all up.
Please enjoy one of our favourite elements of this past weekend's PAX East show: the great cosplayers. And please feel their triumphs and their pain.


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'Woz' gallops in to a horse's rescue
Apple Inc. co-founder's donation saves animal from slaughterhouse
ROTTERDAM JUNCTION — Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak made a surprise visit to a local horse rescue farm on Wednesday morning, and while there he offered praise for — and criticism of — Apple.
Wozniak, the 61-year-old avuncular inventor who built Apple's earliest computers and founded the company with the late Steve Jobs, was in town to visit a horse named Woz — his nickname — in his honor.
The horse, a Belgian crossbreed, was rescued in March by Peaceful Acres Horses Inc. in Pattersonville the day before he was to be sent to a slaughterhouse. Wozniak, an animal lover who said he often speaks to animals and is moved to tears when he watches films in which they suffer, donated money to save Woz.
He said he heard about the horse's fate from John Schieb, who is a friend of the farm's owner. Wozniak met Schieb at a patent office at which Schieb worked in the late 1990s. The two have a mutual interest in animal welfare, and Schieb added Wozniak's name to the Peaceful Acres email list.
The farm, a 156-acre facility in the hills of Pattersonville that saves neglected and malnourished horses, sent out a mass email saying the horse would be killed if money wasn't donated to provide for its care and welfare. Wozniak stepped up, and as a consequence was then invited to visit the horse now known as Woz. Wozniak traveled to Pattersonville on Wednesday morning after a speaking engagement in Buffalo.
Dressed in a black polo shirt, black pants and a pair of rubber, steel-toed boots, Wozniak toured Peaceful Acres for about an hour before he was shuttled to Newark, N.J., for a flight to his Los Gatos, Calif., home.
The man associated more with machines than animals cooed and whispered to his namesake horse for a few minutes when they met. Wozniak said his love of animals was sparked by his first dog, a Siberian husky named Bandit.
After the tete-a-tete, Wozniak briefly spoke about the company he helped found.
Asked about criticism that an Apple conference held on Tuesday offered little excitement and few new developments other than updated MacBook laptops, software upgrades and the construction of a new mapping program, Wozniak said the criticisms are largely unfounded. "People are always going to be disappointed," he said. "I really like the new MacBook."
But he doesn't much like the iPhone 4S Siri voice-recognition application that acts as a personal assistant. Wozniak said he used the program before Apple bought it and found that it became less accurate after the purchase.
"A lot of people say Siri. I say poo-poo," Wozniak said. "I was using it to make reservations long before Apple bought it."
"I would say, 'Siri, what are the five largest lakes in California?' and it would come up, one, two, three, four, five. And I would ask 'What are the prime numbers greater than 87?' and they would come up all in a row. That was pretty incredible," Wozniak said.
He said he told family and friends about Siri and how "This was the future: speaking things in normal ways, feeling like you're talking to a human and how Siri was the greatest program," Wozniak said.
"Then Apple bought Siri," he said. He then paused, lifted his right hand and gave it a big thumbs down.
"'What are the largest lakes in California?' I'd get all these lakefront properties. And I'd say 'What are the prime numbers greater than 87?' And I'd get prime rib," Wozniak said.
"I'm really disappointed, but it's still a market for the future," Wozniak said. "I think voice recognition for all the platforms is going to get better and better and better at putting together complete sentences and phrases. What did a human really mean? Like, if you said 'Five, I mean six.' It will understand a backup, the little faults in our speech that humans understand. It will understand that eventually."
Wozniak also said he is enthusiastic about Apple's new application called Passbook, which can essentially turn a user's iPhone into a digital wallet, storing coupons, store loyalty cards, airport boarding passes and movie tickets.
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You know … to keep from making a complete fool of myself, I have to close my eyes when I'm in a glass-walled elevator. (Of course that's when I'm in a "big city." Here in Spencer County we have mostly grain elevators.)
How far away will the screams be heard from this?
More photos here on our Facebook page. Video next week.