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The very public October 2014 announcement that John Galliano would take the helm of Maison Margiela was one of the few times that Martin Margiela, himself, made headlines in recent years. And even then, of Galliano's appointment, Mr. Margiela simply told sources that he "approved."
[Note: As of October 2017, Galliano has elaborated a bit, saying: The last time we met he said, 'You may not see me ever again.' [That was] just before I joined [Maison Margiela]. I mean, we write each other emails. He's very anonymous. I did invite him to my house for tea. Well, he wanted to meet, and so we met. It was the most amazing, amazing experience ever ... So we had a great time. It was tea; it started at 4 p.m. and I think he left about 10 p.m. It was just amazing. He said: 'Take what you will from the DNA of the house, protect yourself, and make it your own.' A gentleman."]
Fashion fans are well versed in the fact that despite helping to herald a place for Belgium in the hierarchy of high fashion, along with the legendary Antwerp Six, Martin Margiela is hardly as well-known as some of the more public-facing fashion figures. His label certainly is; its archive is one of the more commonly referenced. Look no further than any of Demna Gvasalia's collections for Vetements and you will see direct "inspiration" taken from the work of Margiela. But Mr. Margiela, himself, is, as the New York Times described, "still the most elusive figure in fashion."
Prior to the 1980's, Antwerp was a particularly quiet city in terms of internationally acclaimed fashion. Much has obviously changed since then. While the city is still comparatively small (its current population is roughly only half a million), it is widely considered a breeding ground for otherworldly talent in the realm of fashion, thanks largely to the work of a few pioneers. There are the more famous ones, the Antwerp Six (Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs, and Marina Yee), Raf Simons, and Kris Van Assche.
There are others, like Olivier Rizzo, Willy Vanderperre, and David Vandewal, who operate relatively under the radar in comparison but are nonetheless hugely influential. And then there is Mr. Margiela, now 59 years old. He graduated from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1979. The Antwerp Six members, who were also students of Linda Loppa, followed a year later.
Thanks to his very much under the radar persona (think: refusing to give barely any interviews, staying backstage after showing (skipping the traditional finale bow), and managing to avoid photos for the most part), little is known about Margiela in comparison the majority of designers today (part of this is certainly due to the lack of media attention to emerging design talent in the 80's compared to today or even the 1990's when designers like Tom Ford, Gianni Versace, and Jean Paul Gaultier reigned supreme).
As Eric Wilson wrote in an article for the New York Times in 2008, which included one of the very first photos of Mr. Margiela to ever be published: "An anomaly in an industry that places enormous value on the image and accessibility of its personalities, Mr. Margiela has maintained an astonishing elusiveness."
With this in mind, much has been written about Margiela and his design house; from his time spent at Gaultier's studio in the 1980's prior to the launch of his own label in 1989 and his design signatures (think: masks - yes, they predate the house's recent couture creations; deconstructionist techniques paired with masterful tailoring, "surrealist-utilitarianism," as Sarah Mower called it in 2006, writing for Style.com about the designer's ability to turn otherwise mundane objects, such as furniture for F/W 2006, into garments (more recently, for F/W 2012, this took the form of boleros created from baseball gloves and doorknobs that served as closures on jackets).
Also heavily speculated in print: his alleged succession plan (which reportedly had fellow Belgian designer Raf Simons stepping in for him, an offer Simons declined) and his mysterious exit from his label on the heels of its acquisition by Only The Brave - commonly referred to simply as OTB Group - in 2002.
No specific date (or month even) has been definitively offered in connection with his departure. In fact, not much at all - not surprisingly - has been offered in terms of an explanation. Rumors (and there are many of those surrounding Mr. Margiela) point to anytime between 2002 and sometime in 2009, and suggest that Margiela had a falling out with Renzo Rosso, President of OTB Group, potentially due to Margiela's disapproval of Rosso's marketing of the brand. (This is something then CEO of Margiela, Giovanni Pungetti, denied).
WWD reported on the matter, claiming sources close to Margiela said that he had "poured creative energies into painting and wished to walk away from the fashion business." Speculation as to Margiela's absence from the house intensified on the heels of the March 2009 Fall/Winter shows. Of the MMM collection, Cathy Horyn wrote for the New York Times: "Just about everything at the show tonight — the hokey starlight projections on the ceiling, the empty design techniques, the use of beautiful young models instead of older, interesting-looking chicks — said that Mr. Margiela is no longer involved in his label."
What we know for certain is this: In September 2008, when he was asked if Margiela was leaving the label, Rosso, said: "Never say never, but I cannot imagine. I love him." That March, Pungetti said of Mr. Margiela: "He's still in position." Then, in October 2009, Rosso said in a statement: "Martin has not been there for a long time."
That December, an official statement from Maison Martin Margiela confirmed this, reporting that Martin had left the house and that the current design team would take over artistic direction in lieu of hiring a new head designer. And an article in the New York Times on December 8, 2009 stated: "The avant-garde Belgian designer Martin Margiela has quietly left the fashion house he built — and he will not be replaced at the company, which has been majority owned by the Italian group Diesel since 2002."
Such elusiveness has become part of the Paris-based design house's DNA (so much so that critics have been keen to mention the apparent hypocrisy in the fanfare associated with Galliano's recent appointment announcement). Even without Mr. Margiela's physical presence, the house has maintained (or at least until recently tried very hard to maintain) its air of secrecy. In an interview with fashion journalist Filep Motwary in 2010, the collective "we" of Maison Martin Margiela put it this way: "We do not use any physical image of a designer to promote our work. What our designer looks like has, for us, little or nothing to do with our process."
In another interview, someone from the MMM team, told Interview magazine: "We prefer that people react to a garment through their taste and own personal style and not their impression of the individual or group who created it, as translated and hyped by the press. Unlike actors or singers, we do not need his physical form to express our work. The Maison Martin Margiela should exist independently of who he is, what he looks like, and any answer he, as an individual and member of a team, may have to any question not directly linked to the clothes."
This general tone of secrecy, which the fashion industry seemed to respect for quite some time, was broken with the recent outing of the house's head designer, Matthieu Blazy, this past July. Interesting, of course, were the flurry of emails from Margiela's public relations team that followed, pleading with media outlets to remove their articles on the matter.
An excerpt from one such email reads: "In light of recent rumors regarding individual members of our design team, we ask you to remember that the long-standing communication policy of the Maison has not changed and that Maison Martin Margiela does not communicate on any individual member of its collective, as our work is done by a team and is credited only to this same collective […] This is our official spokespeople policy, and it remains our only comment on this subject." And subsequently thereafter came the appointment of John Galliano.
As creative strategists, Joe McShea and Lucian James, wrote in an op-ed for BOF earlier a in 2014, "Maison Margiela has always known – like Apple – that the value of mystery can create millions of dollars worth of column inches, cult adoration, and free PR. Margiela has proven over the years that anonymity has deep power. Martin Margiela the man was the first to instil the cult of invisibility at the brand, beginning with himself.
In the 1990s, as other designers chose – or were required to embrace – fame, Martin Margiela made a clear statement in the opposite direction." McShea and James seconded this notion in another article of theirs, writing: "An important part of the cult appeal of the brand is based on its erasure of individual identity, and the promotion of the creative collective team."
It seems that Mr. Margiela's insistence on maintaining elusivity was not merely for show, though. Wilson wrote in that same exposing article in 2008, that Margiela avoided the limelight in order to emphasize two key principles: That his "designs, as confounding as they may be, should speak for themselves; and, second, that the work he shows is inherently the product of a collaborative team, not one person."
So, just how appealing is the Margiela brand? It is certainly appealing in theory and to other designers, who consistently look to Margiela's work for inspiration. One example: the shoulder pads that turned up on the Marc Jacobs runway in September 2007, which promoted Suzy Menkes to write a rather scathing review, accusing Jacobs of relying too heavily on the work of Martin Margiela. But what about the bottom line?
According to a December 2009 article in the New York Times, Maison Martin Margiela had an annual revenue predicted to be "€70 million, or about $105 million, for the current financial year from €15 million in 2002." A ten percent rise in revenue was subsequently reported for the house for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, and in a September 2011 interview, Pungetti estimated "€75m in turnover."
Since Mr. Margiela's departure, the brand's revenue has likely only grown, considering an array of more mainstream, cash-friendly endeavors that the house has undertaken, such as the collaboration with H&M in 2012; the rebranding and subsequent push for the house's diffusion line, MM6; a collaboration with NYC-based retailer, Opening Ceremony; the introduction of a number of categories under the MMM name, including fragrances in association with L'Oreal, jewelry and other accessories, and home goods.
It is interesting to ponder what exactly Mr. Margiela, whose first name was somewhat recently been dropped from the house's moniker, thinks of all of the changes the house has undergone, namely, the movement away from the collective design nature of the house, as Galliano has been thrust into the spotlight as the brand's creative director.
While most sources were quick to question the commonalities between showman Galliano and his elusive predecessor on the heels of Galliano's appointment, Cathy Horyn noted the similarity between the two, saying: "I think there is a connection between John and Margiela, actually. You know, Margiela in his prime was great at making a statement about clothes and what they did or didn't do. He was good at staging a show and John is also great at staging a show, so there is a connection there."
It would certainly be interesting to reconcile some of the changes that could certainly appear to clash with the underlying ethos of the house with Mr. Margiela's thoughts, but we will likely have to wait a long time for such insight - if we ever get it at all.


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The Meeting of Styles is an international network of graffiti artists and aficionados that aim to put street art at the forefront of an industry largely dominated by classical and traditional art. This is achieved through international events featuring hundreds of artists who showcase their style to massive audiences. The first Meeting of Styles was held in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2002 and has since launched more than 75 events in sixteen countries across Europe, Russia and North America.
The events have supported hundreds of graffiti and street artists and have attracted more than 150,000 spectators. Houston has been fortunate enough to be included as a Meeting of Styles alumni and has, in the past, hosted artists from France, Brazil, Italy, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chicago, New York, Miami, and the founders from Germany. The art of Meeting of Styles always speaks for itself with murals of the highest caliber, and Meeting of Styles Houston, which is run by PilotFX and Frost MCT, have joined forces with UP Art Studio to help bring awareness to the event.


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"I know Linda Kelly very, very well. She doesn't do anything political." - Governor Tom Corbett (WHTM 11/2/08)
Saturday, November 3, 2012
"I know Linda Kelly very, very well. She doesn't do anything political." - Governor Tom Corbett (WHTM 11/2/08)
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Remember, AG Tom Corbett was running for re-election in 2008 when he got the Sandusky case handed to him.
How much time did he spend raising money and doing political events, while ignoring his 24/7 job as AG?
If he was going up against a very popular figure in Sandusky, why put one person from outside the Child Predator Unit against him?
Has the original excuse about the lack of resources for the Sandusky
case been replaced by a lack of leads to justify more investigators? What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Is their truth to the fact that Corbett disliked Spanier? Why?
Linda Kelly is vulnerable to misconduct. Baldwin had to have announced she was representing Curley and Shultz to the prosecutors and the Grand Jury. There can be no mistake about this.
Looks like the AG threatened Baldwin to testify against her clients. If not, Kelly is in trouble for Baldwin's Grand Jury testimony.
The AG will ignore the law if their actions lead to a conviction.
The case is moving up the food chain. Who will be next?
- November 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Once under oath many at the OAG will not lie for the leadership, Corbett, Kelly, Fina, and Brown will be running for Immunity finish line.
- November 4, 2012 at 11:47 PM
Hey Tommy, were you watching on Tuesday? Sure, your nominee for president lost PA. And the legendary Casey name carried him to reelect. But then the clean sweep--Treasurer McCord wins reelection; DePasquale takes the Auditor General and will be studying your actions; and Kane will now be another watchdog after crushing your hand-picked AG candidate. CRUSHING! Even the inept state Senate Dems picked up 3 seats. Oh Tommy, you're not looking so hot at the mid-point of your disastrous term as Gov.
- November 7, 2012 at 1:09 AM
Interesting that Kane so dominantly led the ticket. Campaigning on investigating the Sandusky investigation, and independent of the Corbett admin., she got far greater percentage of the vote, and way more actually votes than any other statewide candidate, by far.
- November 7, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Wow, a bunch of Republican Patronage Jobs at Ag Office since 1980 is about to end, Treasurer and Auditor General staying on course for Democrats.
The AG Office is about to learn they got their jobs via patronage too, they certainly did not investigate like professionals, and now they will be investigated.
- November 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM
People are putting a lot of faith in Kane to be an activist, courageous and aggressive AG. I'm one of the.
- November 9, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Can you believe the arrogance of Governor Corbett? He now has said in public that Attorney General Kane has to wind up her investigation of his handling pof the Sandusky case no later than mid-April. Actually, he said, it should be done in 2 or 3 weeks. He does think we're iinutes to clear diots.
Hes the one who took 3 years to investigate the House Ds for using state time and resources to do politics, something any high school drop out could have found in 90% of all House and Senate offices, and almost 3 years to charge a pedophile. Of course it appears it took him like 15 minutes to clear the Senate Rs.
- November 9, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Couldnt believe the audacity of Corbett on telling AG-elect Kane how to do her job. Anonymous @ 1:14 said it exactly right.
The last person Kane should be taking advice from is Corbett. What happened to the investigation should go as long as it takes to follow where the evidence leads? ("Bonusgate"--Sound familiar, Tom?) How about 'we needed 3 years to build a solid case'? (Sandusky roaming the streets, while you were "building", Tom)
And now you want to tell Kane how to do the job we elected her to do, when you were clearly so substandard. No thank you, Guv!
- November 9, 2012 at 10:50 PM


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Sutro Baths Engagement |San Fransisco| Jessica & Ian
I have been dying to go to the Sutro Baths in San Fransisco for a while now and when Jessica & Ian said they had been too, it was a no brainer to have their engagement session there! Of course, the one day out of the week, at the exact time we were supposed to start shooting, it rained. But these two were troopers and were completely down for the adventure none the less! #mytypeofcouple. I had so much walking around the coast and sitting amongst the tall grass on the hilltops near by. Jessica and Ian are so vibrant and full of so much love. After our time together, we attended Reality SF church serivce and it was the biggest blessing to do life alongside them. I love the community behind my job and getting to be apart of peoples everyday lives makes my heart so happy. Real talk, If I shoot with you, I really just want to be your best friend. #noshame. I am so excited for their wedding in San Clemente this summer! Enjoy//


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On Being Productive (and Technical Issues)
This morning I woke up ready to get some work done.
I sat down at the computer and plugged in my camera's memory card reader--it's a normal thing and I do it often. But for some reason, nothing went right. I'm really not much of a computer person so it was just the most frustrating thing, to have this little cord that works every other day just up and abandon me. I bundled up and walked to the Target down the street for a new one (did you know that it was 20 degrees and snowy this morning in Minneapolis? Happy April!), only to come home to find that this one isn't working either. In unplugging and re-plugging and uninstalling and downloading the drivers, I found myself in tears. It's sad because in the grand scheme of things, this is So Not A Big Deal. But sometimes you just need to feel pathetic and cry into your almond butter and sliced bananas.
I constantly teeter between feeling really confident in my blogging/business and wondering if I'm wasting everyone's time or not. Like waking up and writing things for this blog is a silly way to spend a day.
When I do have a paying project to share, and things go wrong, I can't figure out if I'm upset because I failed in some way, or because deep down I wonder if anyone will even notice. When I am productive, I've written several blog posts or recipes and taken pictures and there are people out there who perform brain surgery. When I put it into that context, my job often feels more like a "job."
I love this blog, though, because it is such a connecting force in my life, and I get emails from wonderful people and become friends with you guys when I would have never known you in a different world where Twitter didn't exist. So I'll continue, even when I lose it over some photos I can't get off my camera and it makes me feel like the world's biggest narcissist.


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GrossOut – use scary effects to customize your picturePosted in Labels: image editing tools, photo tools
GrossOut is a cool web application. It is a photo editing tool that is not like any other app we have covered here so far. GrossOut enables its users to turn their pictures into gross shots. Before , i used to introduce you to photo tools that only allow you to add embellishing effects but today you will step into the world of ugly art. You will be adding heinous and scary effects such as "crazy eyes, gnawing teeth, eye patches, bat wings, bloody knives and axes, open gash and wounds, masks, and many many more."
Some features of GrossOutHere is a list of the main features that GrossOut offers to its users:
- It is free
- It is easy to use
- It does not require any sign up or registration
- It lets you add scary and heinous effects to your images
- You can upload your own picture or capture one using your webcam
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Colombia demands answers on U.S. spying as Latin America seethes
By Helen Murphy
Wed Jul 10, 2013
(Reuters) – Colombia called for answers from Washington on Wednesday after revelations the United States had spied on the Andean nation, its closest military ally in Latin America, as anger mounted in the region over U.S. intelligence gathering.
Colombia's foreign ministry said it "registered with concern" reports of an "unauthorized data collection program" in a brief statement overnight, and asked that the U.S. government give an account of its actions through its Bogota embassy.
"In rejecting the acts of espionage that violate people's rights to privacy as well as the international conventions on telecommunication, Colombia requests the corresponding explanations from the United States government through its ambassador to Colombia," the foreign ministry said.
A leading Brazilian newspaper reported on Tuesday that the U.S. National Security Agency targeted most Latin American countries with spying programs that monitored Internet traffic, especially in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico.
Other countries around the region have used tougher language in condemning what some have called a violation of their sovereignty and a trampling of individuals' rights to privacy.
"Chile cannot but firmly and categorically condemn spying practices, whatever their origin, nature and objectives," its foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, adding it would seek to verify the allegations.
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St. Louis Blues (22-6-3) at Ottawa Senators (13-15-6)
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At 22-6-3 on the season we know that the St. Louis Blues are one of the NHL's elite clubs. This Blues team is one that doesn't have much to prove in the regular season and with the way they've struggled in the post season the past few years is at the point where they have to step up. After a 5-2 loss to the Ducks in early December the Blues have rolled off three straight victories, and St. Louis is finding the back of the net with regularity. The Blues have always been a club that focuses on defense and limiting their opponents chances but so far this year they have been able to find a good offensive flow as well. Saturday night they rallied from a 3-1 first period deficit in Columbus to beat the Blue Jackets 4-3. Vladimir Tarasenko got the Blues on the board first with his 10th goal of the season and he cut the lead to 3-2 with his second of the night and 11th of the year in the second. In the third period it was Chris Stewart who tied the game with his seventh goal of the season and just 22 seconds into overtime David Backes scored the game winner. Backes has been excellent all season long and should be a huge force for the U.S. Olympic team in February in Sochi. The Blues will look to take advantage of an Ottawa Senators club that has been a huge disappointment so far this season. Ottawa is just 13-15-6 this year and just can't string together wins. The Senators were looking to make it two in a row against the Los Angeles Kings but that dream died quickly when they allowed three first period goals. Joe Corvo and Erik Karlsson scored to cut the deficit to 3-2 but that's as close as Ottawa would get in the 5-2 defeat. Craig Anderson and Robin Lehner haven't been anywhere near as good as the Senators know they can be the Ottawa has more problems than just in goal. There's still time to turn things around but this hockey club has to get moving before it's too late. A matchup with the Blues isn't the greatest way to get things going in the right direction however.


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The International Bar-B-Q Festival is an event held in Owensboro, Kentucky, every second weekend in May[1] since 1979.[2] The festival provides an opportunity for sampling many varieties of barbecued meats, including chicken, mutton, and burgoo.[3] Cooking teams compete for the Governor's Cup, awarded to the team judged to have the best barbecued cuisine.[4] Other attractions include square dancing, musical performances, and arts and crafts.[5] The Kentucky Department of Tourism recently (in 2006) projected an expected attendance of 85,000 for the festival.[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ "International Bar-B-Q Festival". KYFestivals.com. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ Millburg, Steve. "Two Days of Barbecue Heaven". TrailsRUs.com. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ "Barbecue Trail". TrailsRUs.com. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ "One Tank Trip to Festivals Around Kentucky" (DOC). Kentucky Department of Parks. 2005-05-12. Retrieved 2007-03-20.[dead link]
- ^ "Owensboro Sister Cities / Regions - Owensboro Guide". Owensboro Community and Technical College. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ^ "Bar-B-Q Aromas and Music Will Fill the Air at Owensboro Festival". Kentucky Department of Tourism. 2006-05-03. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
External links[edit]
- International Bar-B-Q Festival Home Page
- Commemorative Coca-Cola bottle for 20th anniversary of the festival
- Pictures from the festival featured in Southern Living Magazine
- Festival featured by the Travel Channel
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{Tutorial} Add a Drawstring to any Yoga Waistband!/
***This tutorial features the Aviator Pants by Winter Wear Designs, but can work for any Yoga waist pants.***
Is there anything greater than a yoga waistband? Their comfort cannot be beat! And more importantly: both kids give them two very enthusiastic thumbs up. (Which makes them sewing-mom-gold, amiright?) But there's one problem...
Make that two problems. Two skinny minnies, with their teeny tiny waists, who usually need a size smaller waist band just to keep their clothes over their tooshies!
But smaller waistbands mean more stretching as I sew, and more stretching as I sew means super ugly puckering. What's a girl to do??
Add a casing and a drawstring, that's what! And if this plight sounds familiar, read on dear friends. I've got a tutorial in store for you!
- Cut your yoga waistband, adding 1 inch to the length for extra seam allowance. 'Cause in the next step, we cut that waistband in half length-wise.
- ....Cut that waistband in half length-wise.
- Fold one half of your waistband down, and use a pin to mark the center.
- Mark a button hole 1/4 inch on either side of the center mark. "What size button hole??" you ask? Well that all depends on the size of your waistband. With this 4 inch waistband I marked a 3/4 inch long button hole.
- Unfold the waistband, and interface behind the button hole marks. I didn't, and I got wonky shaped button holes.
- Friends don't let friends button-hole knits without interfacing.
- Add your button holes.
- Mark a channel for your drawstring. The IMPORTANT part here is to add a line of stitching high enough from the bottom of your waistband that the knit will still stretch fully all the way across the front of your garment. I was safe with marking 3/4 up from the bottom of the waistband. My top line of stitching was 1/2 inch away from the fold.
- Sew those casings with a zig zag stitch. They've got to stretch!
- Make two drawstrings. I cut two 1.25 inch strips of fabric, selvage to selvage, and enclosed the raw edges like I was making my own bias tape. (If you're doing the math, you might think two 42 inch drawstrings are a big long for the job... and you'd be right. I cut them to size after I tie them on the wear-er. I'd rather have them too long than too short, yeah??)
- Feed the drawstrings through each channel, and pin the drawstring in place at the side of the waistband.
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I have always enjoyed great bad guys in fantasy and sci-fi; Darth Vader, Sauron, and the demons, Reaper, and Jakara in the Shannara series. The juxtaposition between the good of the main characters and the evil and threat of the enemy serves up the most exciting and sometimes poignant moments in stories.
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E.C. Henke
Nov. 18, 1918
Dear Mr. Cole;
I am not able to write you anything definitely at present. Training School men are given oftimes leaving (sic) if they wish but we have seen us demobilization as yet. (sic) It is likely that the main camp men will be discharged for then may not longer be the need of heavy artillery. (sic)
In our camp the regular routine is being carried on and former attendants say more strictly. The schedule is full from 6:45 to 10:30 with classes and drills. The food is plain but wholesome. The barracks are plainly furnished and heated by coal stoves. The rough work is done by orderlies.
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International Journal of Corrosion
Volume 2013, Article ID 582982, 5 pages
Corrosion and Inhibition Effects of Mild Steel in Hydrochloric Acid Solutions Containing Organophosphonic Acid
1Department of Chemistry, Scope College of Engineering, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462047, India
2Department of Chemistry, Dr. H.S. Gour University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh 470003, India
Received 26 February 2013; Revised 22 June 2013; Accepted 23 July 2013
Academic Editor: Vesna Mišković-Stanković
Copyright © 2013 Manish Gupta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A study has been made on the mechanism of corrosion of mild steel and the effect of nitrilo trimethylene phosphonic (NTMP) acid as a corrosion inhibitor in acidic medium, that is, 10% HC1 using the weight loss method and electrochemical techniques, that is, potentiodynamic and galvanostatic polarization measurements. Although corrosion is a long-time process, but it takes place at a faster rate in the beginning which goes on decreasing with due course of time. The above-mentioned methods of corrosion rate determination furnish an average value for a long-time interval. Looking at the versatility and minimum detection limit of the voltammetric method, the authors have developed a new voltammetric method for the determination of corrosion rate at short-time intervals. The results of corrosion of mild steel in 10% HC1 solution with and without NTMP inhibitor at short-time intervals have been reported. The corrosion inhibition efficiency of NTMP is 93% after 24 h.
1. Introduction
Mild steel is a major material of construction. It is extensively used in chemical and allied industries for handling alkalis, acids, and salt solutions [1]. Hydrochloric (HC1) acid is the solvent most often employed for chemical cleaning. It attacks a wide range of scales [2]. Nitrogen compounds constitute the largest class of inhibitors for hydrochloric acid [3] solution. During the past decade a number of polymers and phosphonates have been used in different inhibitor compositions in aqueous and acid solutions [4]. They form stable complexes and some times act as detergent also. The role of inhibitor is the prevention of the adsorption of aggressive anions and reduction of the dissolution rate of the passivating oxide. In the present paper we have studied the action and effectiveness of nitrilo trimethylene phosphonic acid (NTMP) as inhibitor for corrosion of carbon steel in (10% HCl) acid solution.
Most of the methods are proposed in the field of corrosion rate determination, but they furnish an average value for a long-time interval [5]. Looking at the sensitivity and minimum detection limits [6, 7] of polarographic techniques, that is, direct current polarography (DCP), differential pulse polarography (DPP), and voltammetric, that is, differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetric (DPASV) method has been used to determine the corrosion rates and inhibition efficiency of NTMP of mild steel in 10% HC1 solution at short time intervals. Significantly it has also been possible to determine the corrosion rates simultaneously with respect to Fe(II) and Fe(III) which is not possible using other methods prevalent in the field. Their results have been discussed in the paper.
2. Experimental
2.1. Chemicals and Reagents
All the chemicals used were of anal R/BDH grade. The inhibitor (NTMP, 99.9% pure) was synthesized at the Central Research Institute For Chemistry, Budapest, Hungery. Experiments were carried out in 10% HC1 solution. Mild Steel specimens mm size having composition (C-0.23%, P-0.05%, S-0.055%) were used in experiments. These specimen were polished following the usual procedure [8]. All the measurements were carried out at room temperature 30°C.
2.2. Gravimetric Measurements
After abrasion with 600 grit papers all samples were degreased with acetone, pickled in 15% HC1 solution, washed under running tap water, rinsed in distilled water, dried with acetone, and weighed. The variation of solution corrosiveness and corrosion rate as a function of time was investigated using the planned interval test technique [8]. Three weighed specimens were introduced into the solution. These were removed after various exposure times, giving damage factors referred to as for 22 h, for 3 h, and for 25 h. A fourth specimen () was introduced into the cell for the last period for 3 h. The values of , (measured values) and (calculated from , and ) relate to the same testing period, but under different conditions. This technique is schematically illustrated in Figure 1.
After each experiment, the specimens were cleaned by washing in water and acetone then weighed; from these measurements the corrosion rates were calculated. The methods of evaluating the results and combinations of situations are summarized in Table 1.
2.3. Potentiodynamic Polarization Measurement
The specimen was molded into epoxy resin in order to cover the sides of the rod, while the circular cross section area of the cylinder was exposed to the solution. The specimen was polished and washed with distilled water before the experiment. The potential scan path was 50 mV/5 min. The observed current was plotted against applied potential.
2.4. Galvanostatic Polarization Measurement
The galvanostatic polarization measurements were also made in 10% HC1 solution on 10 cm2 cylindrical surface of the working electrode. Saturated calomel electrode (SCE) was used as a reference electrode. An AJCO Electronics (model VT S5016) attached to a multiplex galvanometer was used for the galvanostatic studies. The polarization currents were measured by using a cycle of 10 s and changing potential by 10 mV. Both anodic and cathodic cycles were used alternately. The corrosion current density was plotted against the applied potential.
2.5. Voltammetric and Polarographic Measurements
An Elico Pulse Polarograph (model CL-90) was used for these studies. A cell consisting of three electrodes, namely, saturated calomel electrode as a reference, a coiled platinum wire as an auxiliary, and a dropping mercury electrode (for DCP and DPP)/glassy carbon fiber electrode (for DPASV) as a working electrode, was used. The test specimens were polished as discussed earlier, and one such specimen was suspended in 10% HCl solution at room temperature (25°C). Nitrogen gas was bubbled throughout the solution through the experiment to avoid the oxidation of dissolved Fe(II) to Fe(III). A definite aliquot of the solution was withdrawn from the test solution at different intervals (5, 10, 20 min, 1, 2, and 24 h), and polarograms and voltammograms were recorded in deaerated 0.1 M ammonium tartrate + 0.001% gelatin at pH . The pH of the test solution was adjusted using ammonia solution. A similar experiment was performed using 170 mg/L NTMP in 10% HC1 solution.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Gravimetric Measurement
The results of weight loss determination by gravimetric are shown as corrosion rates in the presence and absence of NTMP inhibitor in Table 1. The data obtained for the periods and suggest that solution corrosiveness increases in the base solution (10% HCl) while in the presence of NTMP it decreases (). The higher corrosivity of the solution can be attributed to the increase in concentration of iron ions in the solution. This suggests that NTMP molecules reduce the stimulating effect of iron ions. By comparison with the data relating to and it can be concluded that metal corrodibility decreases () as a function of time in the presence of the NTMP. This indicates that the formation of an inhibitor film requires some time; that is, the inhibition process has an induction period. The increased inhibition effect of NTMP may be explained on the argument that nitrogen of NTMP facilitates complex formation between metal ions coming out in the solution with NTMP and also the formation of complexed film at the metal surface.
3.2. Potentiodynamic Polarization Measurements
Figure 2 shows the results of potentiodynamic polarization measurements in the presence and absence of NTMP inhibitor in 10% HC1 solution. The curve clearly shows the cathodic and anodic inhibition properties of inhibitor. It is quite clear from the curves that the corrosion potentials are more positive (anodic) than the rest of potentials. The inhibitor shows a remarked effect in lowering the current. However, in the cathodic region the effect is not significant. Thus it could be conduced that NTMP affects the anodic part of the corrosion process. Thus they work as anodic protector.
3.3. Galvanostatic Polarization Measurement
Figure 3 depicts the galvanostatic polarization curves for the corrosion of mild steel in 10% HC1 solution with and without NTMP inhibitor. It is clear from the figure that both anodic and cathodic currents decrease in the presence of inhibitor. However, the corrosion potentials are shifted to more electropositive values with NTMP inhibitor, but the Tafel slopes of the curves remain almost the same. The shift in corrosion potential with NTMP is +50 mV. Thus, it could be concluded that the film formed by the inhibitor acts through the blocking effect, mainly on the anodic reaction.
3.4. Voltammetric and Polarographic Measurements
Figures 4(a), 4(b), and 4(c) are the direct current polarogram (DCP), differential pulse polarogram (DPP), and differential pulse anodic stripping voltammogram (DPASV) for corrosion sample after 5 min in 0.1 M ammonium tartrate and 0.001% gelatin at pH . The half-wave potential ()/peak potential () values for Fe(II) and Fe(III) are −0.81 V/−0.83 V and −1.23/−1.25 V, respectively, in DCP/DPP mode, and values are −0.4 V and −0.72 V for Fe(II) and Fe(III) in DPASV mode [9]. Figure 5 shows the DPASV curves of corrosion mixtures of mild steel at different time intervals. These curves show that by using voltammetric and polarographic methods, it is possible to analyze the presence of Fe(II) and Fe(III) in the solution, simultaneously. Fe(II) and Fe(III) produce two separate well-defined polarographic peaks in each case. The wave height/peak height for Fe(II) and Fe(III) over the whole of the working concentration range in DCP, DPP, and DPASV modes is proportional to the Fe(II) and Fe(III) concentrations. The corrosion rates at different time intervals with respect to Fe(II) and Fe(III) are summarized in Table 2.
Figure 6 shows the DPASV curves for the corrosion solution to which NTMP (170 mg/L) has been added. A shift in the value for each of the Fe(II) and Fe(III) indicates the M: NTMP complex formation in the solution.
Since the shift in and values of Fe(III) is more than that of Fe(II) in complexed system, it could be concluded that Fe(III) is more reactive in complex formation with NTMP than Fe(II) [10]. The corrosion rates in the presence of NTMP inhibitor have been tabulated in Table 3. A perusal of the data in Tables 1, 2, and 3 clearly shows that the rate of corrosion is very fast in the beginning of the experiment, which goes on decreasing with due course of time. The corrosion inhibition efficiency of NTMP is 55%, 69%, 75%, 81%, and 84% after 5, 10, 20 min, 1, and 2 h, and it becomes 93% after 24 h, respectively.
Thus, the inhibitive efficiency of NTMP (organophosphonic acid) will depend on the structure of the protective inhibitor film formed by the dissolved Fe(II) and Fe(III) species on the metal surface. The NTMP used as an inhibitor for the present study has the following structure:
The nitrogen atom acts as the reaction centre in the complexation reaction with the metal ions.
A comparison of the corrosion rate data as calculated by gravimetric, galvanostatic, potentiodynamic polarization, and voltammetric methods clearly speaks that NTMP is a good inhibitor for corrosion inhibition of mild steel in acidic medium, that is, 10% HC1.
From the above data and ongoing discussion, it could be concluded that polarographic and voltammetric methods give dependable results for corrosion rates with respect to each species appearing in the solution, that is, Fe(II) and Fe(III). It is also clear that the proposed polarographic/voltammetric methods are highly sensitive for corrosion rate determination at short-time intervals and that too with respect to each species present in the solution, which is otherwise not possible using methods prevalent in the field of corrosion rate determination [11, 12] and also in the field of trace analysis, namely, atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS).
Conflict of Interests
The authors, that is, Manish Gupta, Jyotsna Mishra, and K. S. Pitre declare that they do not have any conflict of interests regarding this paper.
The authors are thankful to the M. P. Council of Science and Technology (MPCST) Bhopal, for providing research fellowship.
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Rosanne Short says "Thank you to everyone who called, expressed interest and especially those who donated the bags of dog food" in response to her update post last week regarding puppies that needed a home. The puppies have been accepted into the No More Litters program at the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia. They will receive all shots, be neutered/spayed and chipped, then adopted out by the Humane Society in four weeks. "Thank goodness," said Short, "seven is a lot of puppies!"
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The longest winter ever to have taken place in the history of our souls is stubbornly departing and the first flowers of spring are showing their heads. We spent the winter hatching a gallery and it's about to be born. Please welcome gallery b. into your hearts and minds and the neighborhood - Castine, Maine.
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did they just jump out? o.O
Yeah that's me not having time to even draw sequences. Will be fixed later. :V
Great last few pages… and I hope I right in saying: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Aww thanks so much!
I heard you have BIrthday (or am I too late? Time zones confuse me…)
Anyway HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (even if belated)


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So Mr Malema has decided to part with the Western suit and become the Betty and Joe of the house huh?!
Well good for him, oh and maybe me.
The former ANC firebrand, Mr. Julius Malema: leader of the now in parliament party EFF has actually really succeeded in doing the politically impossible. He is now officially amongst the very few new breed politicians who have kept and remained true to his words- and will. He is, as from today (the twenty first of May 2014) back not only in politics but right into parliament. I mean; life literally stripped the poor fellow naked and almost nameless. Now his got himself a cool party (the red barrettes) a great, comfortable and very warm and sort after government sit that will earn what every man wants most: the ability and opportunity to be heard.
He and his party members have two very full of meaning uniforms. The army (open to interpretation) wares the signature red barrette on a green overall uniform, meaning they are very ready for a long-friendly- political war. And the Member of Parliament ware red overalls, some heavy duty shoes- I would ware gumboots oh and the ladys: they wear good old kitchen servant clothes, complete with a duke and an apron.
All red I tell you.
I cannot help but think the EFF is actually sending a heavier message than 'we are here in parliament to serve the people'. Well…Bettina and Joseph, It is well about time you get into parliament…Do what Betty and Joe do well.
I have been sick the past two months, I am sorry I have not been able to post.
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Our business, Prim'd Marketing, launched last year during the Chinese Year of the Horse. According to the Chinese Calendar this meant making decisive actions in a fast paced year.
The Chinese New Year is today (February 19th) and we are moving into the Year Of The Sheep. What does that mean for you and your business? For Prim'd, we're closing out the fiscal year and starting to think about growth and scalability as we move into our second year of business. With that on my mind, here are some "Year of the Sheep" predictions from the experts, along with my take on what that could for you and your business:
- Success Is In Sight: According to Feng Shui expert Lillian Too of World of Feng Shui, this year will present immense opportunity for everyone "to make money, achieve success and attain goals." Sometimes finding those opportunities means opening yourself up to new ways of thinking — approaching things differently than before, based on informed knowledge from past experiences.
- A Well-Balanced Year: It is "a "well-balanced" year because of the "presence of all five elements – metal, wood, water, fire and earth" according to Too. Having more of a work life balance is something most of us desire. So taking time out to reflect on your business is just as important as being in the day-to-day grind.
- Don't Feel Defeated: "The first half of the new Lunar year will be a time conflict, but it will last for a very short period of time. Things will take a positive turn in the latter part of 2015 and relationships will improve," says Too. Don't let a potential conflict discourage you though — we tend to learn our most important lessons with an element of struggle at the beginning.
- When To Start a New Venture: For those thinking about opening a new business this year, "it will be a good idea to start their venture mid year," says Too. So maybe the planning starts now with launch date of mid-year in mind.
- Co-Operate As A Collective: "A feminine Yin energy will strengthen relations and inspire community-building as a collective," says Molly Hall . I know Jenni and I feel stronger when we are connected with those in our community such as our partners and fellow entrepreneurs in our co-working space.
- Express Your Creative Side: "The year of the sheep is a time for artistic development," says Susan Levitt. It is also a great time to tap into the creative side of your brain by taking peaceful moments to replenish and get into a better headspace.
- Take compassionate Actions: "People will do better when they act assertively instead aggressively," says Lillian Pearl Bridges. Working together rather than against one another will help change things for the better. So if you begin facing difficult situations, try to learn from those uncomfortable business lessons and build them into better strategies going forward.
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Or: All Web is Not Created Equal, have you noticed?
One of the sessions I attended at the AHA this month was Session 151, Social Media and History. It featured one of our JIers, Max Mueller, talking about tensions and complications in the church's "I am a Mormon" campaign, including the fascinating case of one woman whose tattoos were airbrushed out of her profile pic (her profile is now gone, for other reasons). Great talk, by the way, along with several others that reflected on the ethical and methodological problems of using social media as historical sources for researching marginalized groups or threatened voices. In each of the presentations — Max's on constructing Mormon online "diversity," Jessica Lingel's on underground music scenes, Sadaf Jaffer's on online discussion boards for Pakistani atheists, and Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa's on sites made by and about Tibetans — the very existence of the sites to begin with, and especially their continued life on the web, is inherently unstable. It was actually a rather terrifying session, like watching 4 canaries in a coal mine (Hey! There's a pocket of air over here! Oh wait, never mind).
I made a comment to this effect in the session, but wanted to elaborate here to enlarge this point a bit: this is and will be a serious problem for historians of the 21st century. And that is all of us, by default, because we live here and now. The "digital archive" is vast, and welcome, exciting, and appears misleadingly robust – but it is in fact very fragile. What is available to historians relies largely upon on goodwill, technology upgrades, and the market – none of which inspire my confidence as durable forces for the preservation of historical sources. (Betamax, anyone?)
Surprisingly, perhaps the one site that historians and academics love to villify (while using it, of course, on the sly), i.e. Wikipedia, seems to me to have the best model for historical value of them all, because it was built around the ideals of transparency and digital democracy. That doesn't mean you can identify the authors with precision (it's very difficult to do so, in fact), but you can at least see all prior versions at a single click and track changes over time.
By contrast, take — oh, let's say, mormon.org (the public portal) or even lds.org (the member resource), beautifully crafted online environments that represent the church's best practices today and presumably the foundation of its online presence for years to come. Built, I probably do not need to point out, upon very different values. What you can find there is pretty much only what is there now. Things come, go, vanish, launch, in a constant state of (often unannounced) change that nonetheless presents itself as final, unchanging and authoritative. The transition of church curriculum to born-digital creations (the youth lessons, for example) and the ability to continually/instantaneously update materials obviously has massive benefits for a globally-internet-connected worldwide church, but it is a historian's worst nightmare. If you cannot see the "manuscript edits" so to speak, how do you know what changed, when, how and why? And if the old just vanishes from the online environment without a trace, what happens to the possibilities for historical research? Most of what we are all busily creating in this decade has simply been written in the equivalent of vanishing ink.
Of course this is not a problem limited to the study of Mormonism, or religion, or subaltern groups in general. It is a current problem that has no obvious solution in the immediate future. Archivists worry about it a lot. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is one partial attempt, but it archives only a tiny fraction of the ever-growing webiverse, like a space telescope focusing its mighty eye on a single dot in space at a time. I don't have any bright ideas, either, I'm just feelin' the pain of the historians in the 22nd and 23rd centuries. Unless they've figured out time travel by then, of course.


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As the game we love continues to change, so do the teams playing it and for Astralis that day has come.
Following a disappointing start to the second part of the season, the team have agreed to make a change to the roster while we continue to adapt and strive for success.
As many of you know, we made the tough decision to bench Finn 'karrigan' Andersen last week, and bring in 16-year-old Anton 'notaN' Pedersen to play the remaining ESL Pro League Season 4 games, and today we announce his departure.
We have agreed to transfer karrigan, who has been at the helm of the team since its inception in January, to FaZe Clan with immediate effect for an undisclosed fee.
Talking about the transfer, coach Danny 'zonic' Sørensen said: "For a long period of time we've been changing how we play Counter-Strike. In the end we realized it wasn't going to work, the meta has changed and so has the dynamics within our team. Finn wanted to play another style than the rest of the team and I, which in the end led to me benching Finn last week. Finn is a great player, a tactical mastermind, but we just couldn't make it work. I wish him all the best in his coming adventures."
The change has left a hole in the team that has yet to be replaced but Astralis founder and managing director Frederik Byskov will treasure the moments he shared with the memorable in game leader.
He said: "It's never easy to say goodbye to players and thus it is with a heavy heart that we are transferring Finn to FaZe today. In the last two years I've had some amazing experiences with Finn and the team, including winning many events last year, and he has been nothing but a loyal friend and player in that time. I wish Finn nothing but the best in FaZe, and I'm looking forward seeing him at events in the future."
Karrigan who has experienced the the highs and the lows of being part of Astralis is now looking forward to a fresh start.
Talking about his transfer, he said: "Today I'm starting a new chapter in my CS:GO career. I'm changing from Astralis to FaZe after nearly 2 years with the core players from Astralis. It has been an amazing time with many ups and downs, especially in 2015, which was a great year for us. We also took a big decision to start our own organization, which has been a life experience and a very interesting thing to do.
"It's with mixed feelings that I depart from Astralis, but I think it's a fresh start for both parties. I have had many good moments and these are the ones I'm taking with me in the future.The reason for this change is that in the past few months we haven't been performing to our expectations, which led to different discussions on how to approach the tactical aspect of the game. We came to an agreed conclusion that it was for the best that our paths now split up and I wish the best in the future for Astralis. I hope they will find their way back to the top.
"I'm also very happy and honoured to have the opportunity to start another chapter with a brand like FaZe. They have a very unique brand, a big fan base and a very talented team, which I hope I can bring to the top where they belong.I want to thank all the Astralis fans, the players and the hardworking guys behind the team for my time with them."
We would like to thank karrigan for the passion, hard work and leadership he brought to the team and wish him all the best for the future.


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No ADF. No built-in fax.
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The Epson Stylus Photo RX620 can print photos directly from 35-mm slides and film, thanks to a transparency adapter in the scanner cover. That makes it a standalone photo lab, as well as a printer, scanner, and standalone copier. It also offers reasonable performance and good to very good quality.
The Epson Stylus Photo RX620 ($300 street) all but defines a new class of AIO. In addition to working as a printer, scanner, and standalone copier, and also letting you scan to fax if you have a separate modem and fax program, it brings a new function to the table as a standalone photo lab. Call it the first truly photocentric AIO: Not only can it print directly from memory cards and PictBridge cameras, but thanks to a transparency adapter in the scanner cover, it also stands ready to scan and print 35-mm slides. Because it does thisand does it wellwe're awarding it Editors' Choice in the Digital Imaging space.
A little heavy at 28 pounds for an ink jetbased AIO, the RX620 is still reasonably compact at 13.6 by 21.1 by 19.9 inches (HWD). The front panel includes relatively few controls and an easy-to-use color LCD-based menu to control settings and preview imagesnotably scanned slides and filmbefore printing them directly. Setup is standard fare for a USB 2.0 printer, with a separate cartridge for each of the six ink colors: cyan, yellow, magenta, light cyan, light magenta, and black.
Output quality is better than most ink jets overall, but strongest for graphics and photos. The majority of fonts were easily readable at 5 points or smaller, for a text rating at the high end of good. Graphics were very good, with only minor problems. Photos were at the high end of very good, missing out on an excellent rating only because of a slight tint in monochrome photos. For direct printing of photos, both prints and slides yielded photos with good or better quality.
Results on our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software, www.qualitylogic.com) are best described as acceptable. The total time of 26 minutes 46 seconds is significantly slower than the 15:41 total for the similarly priced Canon Pixma MP780 Photo All-in-One, with slower times for each individual test. Likewise, the average time for each 4-by-6 was 1:49 compared with 1:06 for the MP780, and the average for each 8-by-10 was 3:53 compared with 2:36. The MP780 also offers similar quality scores, making it the better choice for basic AIO features. But the MP780 can't scan film or slides.
If that's what you need to do, the Epson RX620 does a great job of turning slides and strips of film into printed photos.
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