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Another reason to love Colourlovers.com..

December 7, 2008

renee-klein1Last night, on our way to Chinatown for our weekly Moo Shu Pork and Pan Fried Noodles with Vegetables, it started to snow.  Snow in New York is one of the most beautiful winter holiday experiences.   I say this because its important to remember the beautiful parts of the holiday season when it typically is one filled with an extraordinary amount of stress.

Anyone who has read this blog knows that in times of severe anxiety, I often go straight to my favorite web site, colourlovers.com.  There is something relaxing, meditative, (sigh)… calming about looking at different color palettes.  I feel like a mushy bowl of jello just thinking about the cute British way they spell color with a “u”.

Which is why I was happy to discover that colourlovers.com has now made the most adorable note cards from its most popular color palettes!  Not only does this website defrazzle my nerves with soothing palettes that settle all firing neurons back into place, but they just solved my gift-giving dilema of unique but inexpensive gifts!  A dozen for me, please!

Yum for the holidays

December 4, 2008

zoe-schaeffer1I know it might be weird to blog about a blog but I am currently fixated on www.chocolateandzucchini.com. It’s created by the most darling Parisian girl, the photos remind me of those in Gourmet and there is an archive of tons of unique recipes. I recently made the “wholesome banana bars” which were scarfed down by family members within just two days.  When the economy is down , you can always be frivolous in the kitchen!  And there are  great  ideas for holiday  dinner parties.

Sex and The City Dreaming…

November 3, 2008

Remember this one episode from Sex and the City – the one where The Russian takes Carrie out on a date to a gallery after hours in the middle of the night?  What a fun date!  I always thought that it would be so much fun gallivanting around a gallery or museum all by myself (with or without a date…).  As of October 24th, my mini fantasy has become a reality – well, almost a reality.  Imagine a bedroom set on top of four revolving glass discs, in a room at the Guggenheim, all for you and your date for one whole night.  As part of the Guggenheim’s Theanyspacewhatever exhibition, this revolving hotel room, designed by Carsten Holler, will be available for guests to stay overnight in, but every night is already SOLD OUT!  What a disappointment!  All is not lost though, becuase Hotel Everland is still on rotation around Europe – currently in Paris, atop the Palais de Tokyo.  Seems like we have a  new generation of “boutique hotels” coming our way…

From the (Moisturized) Intern Desk at Presse….

November 3, 2008

Presseboutique.com finally decided to include skin care products.  It’s not a surprise that Clark’s Botanicals was the first choice to grace our website.  These products are supposed to be “an intensive nutritional supportive skin therapy treatment that revitalizes aging, dry and environmentally stressed-out skin.”  As an intern at Presse, we get to try out these products and see how we like them.  As a skeptic of any kind of new facial products, I really did not know what to expect and was hesitant to try it.  I mean, this coming from a girl who has been using the same skin care products for the past 10 years.  Several times I tried to switch to more well know and luxurious products that shall remain nameless, but each time I was disappointed wiht the results.  So, I was somewhat, dare I say it, scared to try this product.  Despite my fear, I decided to give it a go and chose to try out the Deep Moisture Mask.  The mask goes on for about 15 minutes and washes off with warm water, or it can be used as a moisturizer.  When I opened the jar, the scent of the cream was fresh and very pleasing.  The texture was so soft that I actually got exited to us it.  After 15 minutes, I washed my face and immediately examed the results.  My skin was so elastic and moisturized that I could not stop looking at my face.  I refused to put any foundation or powder on my face for the next two days.  After that, I decided to use it as a mask about one week.  I have found that the more I use it, the plumper my skin gets.  In the world of experimental beauty escapades, I consider this one a true success.  An A+ from this picky and skeptical intern.

October 30, 2008

I like to joke how in another life my job will be a “Personal Shopper for Babies.” (This is after my career in retail and my turn as a Wedding Stylist.) The press release would go something like this: “These days, there is more and more pressure for babies to look good whether it’s at Mommy and Me or at the park. But how are they to find their own style when the market is so overwhelming? That’s where I come in!” So really…..I am just obsessed with all the amazing baby clothes that are out there. Recently, my mom sent me all these sweet cardigans and tie-dyed tees that I wore in the 70s. They were all knitted by grandmas or dunked in dye by my hippie mother. But now, small boutiques are carrying unknown names who spin hand crafted knits and sweet little layering pieces. It’s insane. The baby market is bonkers. I particularly love Mor Mor Rita, Emma & Avery and Marie Chantal (who is rumored to be opening up a store in Beverly Hills!) Shopping for the little one is truly more fun than looking for myself. And in an economy like this…..it’s a dream to have Baby Gap close by.

Crazy Custom Prints

October 18, 2008

Renee and I see as many lines as we possibly can: those with buzz, those we find in magazines, those who come through the doors of Presse. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised, other times, disappointed and occasionally, ecstatic. Here is a young line called Vassilisa which blew me away. All the prints are custom….Very Hermes but with a modern-bohemian-French flair. The scarves are genious: the big ones are so big, they can be tied on like a dress and the small ones, looped around once are truly elegant. Just my scene…..

Je rêve de heels…

October 14, 2008

There are so many fashion subjects I could share with the world everyday, but I have to admit I have a tiny obsession with shoes.  While working last week at Presse Fashion Office, where our bosses regularly do wardrobe consultation and personal shopping for private clients, I was sent to the shoe department at Saks… You have to understand, it is very hard for me to walk through all these masterpieces and not dream about them being in my closet.

I came to think about the transformation from ‘sample shoe’ we see on runways, to actual ‘product shoe’.  So many stars have access to the craziest shoes that we, ordinary mortals, don’t have. Why is that?
Last season Marc Jacobs gave us the ‘reversed heel shoe’ and we (I?) loved it! I want more!!! I want Madonna in gun heels, and Victoria Beckham in boots propped up by air heels!!  Heels need to be more fun.  And after all, if the economy is going down and we cannot spend that much money anymore, then I would rather keep my old jeans, my white cotton t-shirts with holes… and be shoebulous!

Presse Interns Heart Big Necklaces…

October 14, 2008

While I am traditionally more of an ‘earring girl’, the necklaces this season are seriously making me reconsider my jewelry choices.  It all started with my obsession with Marni’s chunky and architectural pieces a year ago. They are the perfect balance of playful colors and artful sophistication. But, oh dear, the necklace craze has only intensified. I’m currently coveting Vera Wang’s hot pink multi-colored glass necklace here at Presse.  And naturally, after the necklace was featured in Vogue my fixation on these bold collar-like necklaces was solidified. Upon attending Vera Wang’s Spring/Summer 2009 fashion show, I am aching for the oversized chain-link crystalline necklaces to come to market. Pair one of these statement-making necklaces with a simple t-shirt and jeans and you strike the perfect balance of effortless chic!

A Few Things…..

October 14, 2008

My mother-in-law just bought be The Sex and the City Movie (Extended Cut, obviously). And upon re-watching (saw it with my BF with whom I spent my 20s in New York) I obsessed over many more outfits that I feel I missed the first time around. Some of my favorites are below but I CANNOT DEAL with the ivory rose bomber jacket. Word on the street is that it was once Dior but re-sewn into a Members Only jacket because it was too hardcore in it’s original state. I seriously do not know how a jacket could be any more sick…..Which leads me to my most recent obsession of a very similar piece I saw in the Koi Suwannagate showroom for Spring ’09. It’s a more wearable version of the jacket I so love but in a cardigan version. I am kind of surprising myself that I am so fixated on clothes right now when I have so much going on in my life to make me HATE them! I guess the love never dies…..

What I like to do when the sky is falling…

October 8, 2008

You know, I hate to be Debbie Downer in times like these, but I can’t help myself.  I plopped down on the couch last night with a big bowl of carbohydrates and a nice rose, and anticipated the presidential debate to send me over the edge.  And it did.

As the co-owner of a start-up business, I can’t say this shaky economy doesn’t make me weak in the knees.  I have never felt faint in my life, but the word queasy has recently been introduced into my daily language.

Which is why I was so over-the-moon this morning when I found out that there is going to be an attempt to make my all-time favorite British fashion comedy Ab Fab into an American series in 2009.  Yes, its true! The networks have successfully figured out how to re-make The Office, and Kath & Kim, if its anything like its Australian counterpart, should be a hit.  So if America can nail my Edina and Patsy, complete with Christian Lacroix and naughty fashion victims, I’ll be happy as a clam.  Even if the sky is falling…


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International Sporting Events - GCSE PE

Examples, advantages & disadvantages

Kate Bancroft

on 15 March 2013

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International Factors World Championships Most sports hold a world championship for their particular event. It is often the international governing body of that sport that organises & runs the event, e.g. FIFA = the Football World Cup Football Rugby
The first Rugby World Cup was in 1987. The
trophy is called the William Webb Ellis Cup,
named after the inventor of the game.
It is held every 4 years, the 2015 tournament
to be played in England. Cricket
The ICC World Cup is competed for as a one day event (rather than 5 day TEST matches), and began in 1975. It is held every 4 years. The 2015 World Cup will be co-hosted by Australia & New Zealand. Athletics
The first World Championship was held in 1991, and is now held every 2 years. This event is for both male & female athletes. Formula One
Formula One racing is an annual championship. It is probably one of the most popular international events and is televised around the world High Profile International Sporting Events Grand Slam Tennis
There are 4 tennis tournaments that make up the tennis 'Grand Slam' - The French Open, the USA Open, the Australian Open & Wimbledon. It is the ultimate goal of any male or female player to win the Grand Slam in one year. These tournaments are televised around the world. SUPERBOWL
The most-watched US TV broadcast of the year and attracts attention from the rest of the world too! Football leagues such as the Premiership & La Liga
are very popular across the world. They are widely publicised & televised, which attracts large worldwide audiences. This leads to increased sponsorship & financial backing One-off Events
Stand alone events such as high profile boxing matches are very popular . They are regularly set-up & promoted and can generate huge profits for promoters, fighters & broadcasters through Pay-per-view. One-off Sporting Events
Stand alone events, such as boxing matches are very popular. They are regularly set-up & promoted as they generate large amounts of profit for promoters, fighters & broadcasters through pay-per-view. THE OLYMPIC GAMES
The Olympic Games are probably the highest profile sporting event that takes place. The ancient games first took part in Greece in 776 BC. However, the modern games were founded by Pierre de Coubertin who set up the IOC (International Olympic Committee), which organised the 1896 modern summer Olympic Games in Athens. 14 nations and 241 athletes competed in 43 events. It was decided that different cities around the world should host the summer olympics every four years, and after lacklustre events in Paris in 1900 (where women were allowed to compete for the first time) and St Louis, USA in 1904, the Olympic Games began to expand. At London 2012, 204 countries sent more than 10,000 athletes to compete in over 300 events. In1921 it was decided that there should be an Olympic Games for winter sports. The first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix, France in 1924 In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, determined to promote the rehabitation of soldiers after World War II, organized a multi-sport event between several hospitals to coincide with the 1948 London Olympics. Guttmann's event, known then as the Stoke Mandeville Games, became an annual sports festival. Over the next twelve years, Guttmann and others continued their efforts to use sports as an avenue to healing. For the 1960 Olympic Games, in Rome, Guttmann brought 400 athletes to compete in the "Parallel Olympics", which became known as the first Paralympics. Since then, the Paralympics have been held in every Olympic year. Since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the host city for the Olympics has also played host to the Paralympics.In 2001 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) signed an agreement guaranteeing that host cities would be contracted to manage both the Olympic and Paralympic Games Berlin 1936
Adolph Hitler ruled Germany at this time & wanted to use the games for propaganda purposes - to promote his racist views about Jewish & black people. The black American athlete Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals to disprove Hitler's theories. Moscow 1980
The Soviet Union ( a united state of many communist countries, including Russia) invaded Afghanistan in 1979. In protest, the USA refused to send a team, and other countries including GB advised competitors not to go. In the end, 52 teams boycotted the event, reducing the standard of the competition 1936 - Berlin
1948 - London
1952 - Helsinki
1956 - Melbourne
1960 - Rome
1964 - Tokyo
1968 - Mexico City
1972 - Munich
1976 - Montreal
1980 - Moscow
1984 - Los Angeles
1988 - Seoul
1992 - Barcelona
1996 - Atlanta
2000 - Sydney
2004 - Athens
2008 - Beijing
2012 - London
2016 - Rio de Janeiro Munich 1972
The Israeli team were subjected to an attack in the Olympic village, by Palestinian terrorists. In the end, 11 hostages, 5 terrorists & a polic officer were killed as the siege was televised around the world. This incident has meant that security issues hav dominated subsequent Olympic games Boycott - not doing something/ not using something as a protest propaganda - a message aimed at influencing the behaviour and/or opinions of a large number of people Apartheid - a policy of separating groups especially because of race or skin colour International Sport as a Political Tool
Some countries use sport as a means of sending a political message. Success at international sport may show the rest of the world that their country/ ways of doing things are superior.

Or the event may be used to get a message across: Montreal 1976
South Africa was banned from taking part due to its apartheid policy. There was a boycott of the games by many African countries & New Zealand, with 30 nations refusing to send teams. The financial cost of staging the event meant that Montreal was still paying off the debt 30 years later. Los Angeles 1984
The Soviet Union & 14 other communist nations boycotted these games in retaliation to the USA boycotting the Moscow games 4 years previously.

This was the first Olympic Games to make a profit, as it started the process of commercialising the games. Sponsors were used, television rights bundled to make the more attractive and the opening ceremony was more spectacular than had been seen before. This made other countries interested in hosting subsequent games due to the commercial opportunities that they were beginning to present. Advantages of Hosting the Olympic Games Sports Tourism Tourists who come to watch the games will spend money on hotels, food, transport and retail outlets. This provides a boost to the economy during the games Hosting a successful games can raise tourism levels for years to come, as it attracts people to visit the places they have seen on TV. The provision of new facilities which can be used after the games.
Regeneration of area - benefits the local community afterwards
 Making a profit through merchandising.
 Increased number of visitors bringing money into the country.
 Raise the profile of the country for attracting future events or by winning more medals.
 Increased nationalism/ feel good factor.
 More employment short-term in construction or long-term in tourism.
 Changed infrastructure improved transport links. Disadvantages of Hosting the Olympic Games A disadvantage of hosting the games could be the possibility that the games are not a success and in fact generate massive debt. As the Montreal Olympics of 1976 proved. The Canadian government are reportedly still paying off the debt 35 years later.
A second disadvantage of hosting the games can be the security impact of terrorism, and the threat it carries. Increased security, searches, man-power, the cost and impact that terrorism can have on the games could run into their millions. Adverse publicity would also impact on the profit margins and the popularity of the local government.
Finally another disadvantage of the Olympic games is the possibility that facilities and regeneration that occurred as a result of the games could become white elephants in the decades to follow. This means facilities that become unused and derelict, a waste of public money if they are not utilised efficiently.
•A cities infrastructure (transport and communication system) must be excellent to cope with the influx of visitors The Jules Rimet Trophy (World Cup) started in 1930 and has been held every four years since. It is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world. An estimated 715 million people watched the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
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Timeline 1914-1945

Major historic events, artistic movements, and American literature of the time period.

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Cleaning an "Oily" Situation

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Riya Tandra

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Cleaning an "Oily" Situation
BY: Riya Tandra, Rina Thaker, Eliana Aerts, & Rankita Sinha
AP Chemistry
Oil Spills
Burning the oil:
If the spill happens out in sea, it can be burned because burning it creates a highly toxic smoke. Cannot be burned near the coastline because it also releases a lot of heat and gases into the atmosphere.
CH4 + 2O2 --> 2H2O + CO2 + energy

Oil Dispersant:
Speeds up the break down of the natural oil components and allow the oil to chemically bond with water. The main problem is the creation of tarballs which float and find their way to the shore. More harmful to coral reefs than the crude oil.

Oil containment/skimming
: If the spill is accessible within a few hours of occurring, large booms can be used to contain it. they are floating stoppers and made of plastic and metal. Once contained, it can be skimmed up. Does not work in adverse weather conditions such as rough seas and high winds.
Our Idea
Tap Water
Five 250 mL beakers
Olive Oil
Polypropylene-PP- Fabric & Plastic
High Density Polyethylene -HDPE- (walmart shopping bag)
Polystyrene-PS- (styrofoam cups)
Low Density Polyethylene -LDPE- (vegetable bag)
Objective: Wanted to find the best recyclable material to use that would absorb the most oil.
Poured 150 mL of tap water in each beaker and added 25 mL of Olive Oil on top of water. This would simulate an oil spill.
Then 1.0 g of each of the four materials was measured out and added in each beaker.
Each beaker was left overnight with a lid on top.
Beaker 1: Polystyrene (1.0 g)
Beaker 2: Polypropylene Fabric (0.9 g)
Beaker 3: Polypropylene (1.1 g)
Beaker 4: High-Density Polyethylene (1.0 g)
Beaker 5: Low- Density Polyethylene (0.97 g)
Results: (after 24 hours)
Took out material from each beaker to measure how much oil/water it absorbed.
Beaker #1-3 weighed between 3.4-3.6 g after 24 hours
Beaker #4 weighed 19.8 g
Beaker #5 weighed 21.2 g
The HDPE and LDPE (beaker #4&5) absorbed the most oil and would be the best materials to use to conduct our research.
Beaker #1
Beaker #2
Beaker #3
Beaker #4
After 24 hours
: Realized LDPE/HDPE were the best materials to use to absorb oil, so different experiments were conducted to maximize efficiency.
Common Methods Used:
Experiment 1:
Dangling LDPE/HDPE over oil to see if the oil would climb up the fibers
Experiment 2
: Placing HDPE/LDPE in a beaker with only olive oil (NO WATER) to see how much oil instead of water would be absorbed.
Experiment 3:
Place a sheet of HDPE and LDPE in a bath of water and oil to simulate a real world situation
: To see if increasing temperature has an effect on the plastics
25 mL of Olive Oil was placed in two beaker with NO WATER
1.01 g of HDPE and 1.0 g of LDPE was cut up and added
After 24 hours: HDPE (19.1 g) and LDPE (20.64 g)
The amount of oil not absorbed for HDPE was 1.8 mL and for LDPE was 1.4 mL
Placed a strip of LDPE and HDPE hanging over the olive oil
Same experiment was set up but 50 mL of oil instead of 25 mL was used.
HDPE (1.0g )
LDPE (1.05 g)
HDPE: 19.6 g
Amount Oil not absorbed:29 mL
LDPE: 25.52 g
Amount of Oil not absorbed: 17 mL
Final Conclusion:
For 25 mL of oil, the HDPE and LDPE were effective in absorbing the oil but for the 50 mL, more of the material may have been needed to use.
Place HDPE and LDPE in boiling water and mineral oil
Remove after 1 minute and place in 25 mL oil and 150 mL water
Mineral Oil:
161 degrees Celsius
1.05 g
Mass after leaving for 24 hours: 3.56 g
Amount of Oil not absorbed: 10 mL
97 degrees Celsius
1.01 g
Mass after leaving for 24 hours: 25.79 g
Amount of Oil not absorbed: 4 mL
Mineral Oil:
144 degrees Celsius
1.02 g
Mass after leaving for 24 hours: 4.27 g
Amount of Oil not absorbed: 20 mL
91 degrees Celsius
0.9 g
Mass after leaving for 24 hours: 23.72 g
Amount of Oil not absorbed: 18 mL
Final Conclusion:
The best results came from HDPE in water
To see if dipping the plastics in acid or base would change absorbency
1 g sheet of each material was placed in a tub containing 900 mL water and 75 mL olive oil
left overnight
Before: 1.0 g
After: 22.3 g

Amount of OIl absorbed: 30 mL
Amount of water absorbed: 225 mL

Before: 1.0 g
After: 42.95 g

Amount of Oil Absorbed: 58 mL
Amount of Water absorbed: 287 mL
Final Conclusion:
Laying the plastics down as a sheet helped increase the amount of oil absorbed
Original Experiment
Final Conclusion:
Although the HCL worked to remove olive oil from water, it altered the pH too much to be safe to use in a real world situation. The NaOH was ineffective in improving the absorbency of the LDPE.
Repeating the experiments which yielded the best results with gasoline
Place 1 g of HDPE and LDPE in 1M HCl and 1M NaOH and let soak overnight
Then transfer into beaker with water and oil
leave overnight
measure mass and record pH after leaving treated plastics in acid/base
pH of tap water was 7.3
27.37 g
amount of oil not absorbed:
1 mL

31.33 g
amount of oil not absorbed:
<1 mL

: 23.60 g
amount of oil not absorbed:
15 mL
: 21.97 g
amount of oil not absorbed:
17 mL

Final Conclusion:
The oil does not climb up plastic and for maximum oil absorption, the plastic must make complete contact with oil.
Improved Experiment Design:
Soaked 1 g HDPE and LDPE in 1M HCl overnight
Washed with water
Let dry for 24 hours
Then placed in oil and water
This was to increase the pH (make it more basic)

16.03 g
amount of oil not absorbed:
8 mL

18.48 g
amount of oil not absorbed:
9 mL

Second Trial of LDPE
Our first trial of LDPE in the water tub was very successful, but there was still about 17mL of olive oil left. To attempt to pick up the remaining oil, we put another 1 g layer of LDPE on the remaining oil and water.
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment especially in marine areas, due to human activity and is a form of pollution.
Oil tankers have equipment faults
From nature and human activities on land (land oil spills)
water sports (boats)
drilling works carried out in sea
Oil can choke and blind the animals when contact is made
Affects the skin and feathers of animals by causing them to loose the ability to thermo regulate and float on water
Parents can't detect the smell of their young causing the young to be abandoned.
When the oil is lost, it affects the amount of oil/petroleum in circulation so more is bought.
Workers who are brought in to clean the spill face problems later in life from the chemicals they come in contact with.
Oil spills are also very expensive to clean up and clean up methods often cause more damage to the environment.
The liquid underneath turned
Final Conclusion:
Although the pH of the liquid was still acidic, we were able to increase it by 1 on the pH scale. The HDPE and LDPE absorbed less.
Beaker with 25 mL of gasoline NO WATER
Trial #1:
Amount not absorbed:
0 mL (beaker was dry)
Mass after
: 4.4 g
Trial #2: (repeated with the same experiment set up)
Amount not absorbed:
1 mL
Mass after:
7.4 g
Realized that the gas was evaporating instead of being absorbed, so experiment design needed to be altered
Trial #3: Sealed with high vacuum gel and para film with watch glass on top to prevent evaporation
Amount not absorbed:
8.9 mL
Mass after:
9.5 g

Trial #1:
amount not absorbed
: 1.1 mL
mass after
: 7.25 g
Trial #2: Sealed with high vacuum gel and para film with watch glass on top to prevent evaporation
amount not absorbed:
11.5 mL
mass after:
8.38 g
Our Motivation
After hearing about the devastating effects of oil spills on the coast across the world, we wanted to see if there was a cheaper, more effective method of cleaning the oil spills up. According to the LA Times, during the oil spill in California that recently occurred, approximately 21,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the pacific Ocean. This caused the deaths of 136 birds and 67 mammals, and our hope in this experiment was to find a better method of cleaning oil spills up that would be healthy for the environment and the animals living in it.

Cost for Implementation
Technically was more expensive to buy gas to "create" oil spill
HDPE and LDPE were from grocery store/vegetable bags
Considering all the plastic wasted annually, it is a great way to clean up oil spills and recycle wastes that would otherwise harm our ecosystem
How much plastic would we need to clean up the California oil spill?
During the California oil spill, approximately 21,000 gallons were leaked into the ocean. In order to clean this spill we would have needed:
1370.431 Kg of LDPE (3021.28 lbs)
3785 Kg of HDPE (8344.49 lbs).
How we can improve our experiment in the future
High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
Thermoplastic made from petroleum
Density is 0.93-0.97 g/cm^3
Little branching
Stronger intermolecular forces and strong tensile strength
Thermoplastic made from monomer ethylene
Density range of 0.91-0.94 g/cm^3
Has more branching than HDPE
Intermolecular forces are weaker and has lower tensile strength
Resilience is higher
Molecules are less tightly packed.
HCl and saltwater
determine the amount of oil the plastic absorbs more specifically
see if the plastic will absorb oil on a larger scale
use actual ocean water on tests for pH
determine how well the plastic cleans up gasoline when it is mixed with water
simulate waves during test
does the shape of the plastic effect performance
will different/stronger acids help the plastic absorb more oil
take more steps to regulate the pH of the water when using acid-treated plastics
see if plastic is as effective when absorbing crude oils
Using Plastics
During our research in how oil spills are treated, we discovered that small spills (such as kitchen spills) can be cleaned up using polypropylene pads. We wondered if this could be used on a larger scale and with heavier oils. We decided to experiment to see what types of plastic could absorb what types of oil. We determined polypropylene, LDPE, HDPE, and polystyrene were the best types of plastic to try. The oils we chose were olive oil and gasoline because that was what was available to us.
Experiment 4:
See if the salt from the ocean water affects results
150 mL water, 25 mL olive oil, 7.5 g of salt water
added plastics, waited overnight to see results
Mass after: 44.89 g
amount of oil not absorbed: 1 mL

Mass after: 23.83 g
amount of oil not absorbed: 4 mL
Salt water with HCl treated plastics
Cut up 1 g of both plastics
soaked in HCl overnight
Rinsed plastics out in water
Placed in olive oil/salt water
pH of salt water:

mass after
: 29.94 g
amount oil not absorbed
: 2 mL

mass after:
5.47 g
amount oil not absorbed:
2 mL
Final Conclusion:
Although the pH was still acidic, the beaker with LDPE had the highest pH of all other HCl experiments we did, indicating the salt water was more resistant to pH changes.
Heating plastics in water for 1 min then placing in gasoline
*The most accurate results came when we tried to reduce the amount of evaporation
Mass after: 18.4 g
Nearly all of the oil was absorbed except for a very light sheen at the surface

Heat water until it begins to boil (100 degrees C)
Place 1 g of HDPE and LDPE in water for 1 minute, then remove
Place in 25 mL gasoline
Leave overnight
mass after: 12.76 g
amount not absorbed: 1.3 mL gas

mass after: 10.47 g
amount not absorbed: 5.8 mL
Treating plastics with HCl
Final Conclusion: The absorbance of the gasoline increase slightly
Mass after: 5.8 g
amount not absorbed: 14 mL

mass after: 19.9 g
amount not absorbed: 10 mL
* The pH could not be measured as the gasoline was too volatile to be removed from the fume hood and would have had to be brought into the classrooms in order to measure the pH.
The mass increased but it did not absorb as much oil as the control trial
Due to the thin structure of the HDPE and LDPE, oil was possibly able to climb up into pores or small openings between the monomer strands in the plastic through means of capillary action and therefore become absorbed. Since the other plastics tested in the beginning were too thick the pores/small openings between strands were probably too small for oil to pass into.
Treating the plastic with oil as well as heating it changed the surface or possibly the structure, thus accounting for the changes in the amounts of oil the plastic was able to absorb.
Treating the plastic with acid, caused the plastic to absorb the acid, and when the plastics were placed in oil, there was a possible reaction between the HCl and oil/gas causing almost all of it to be gone from the beaker.
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Spreading Peace And Global Awareness Through Music By Christina&Lizzy Hinds-Hueglin History History History Underlying causes Current Areas of Concern Current Areas of Concern Current Areas of Concern Current Areas of Concern Current Areas of Concern Current Areas of Concern Global Impacts
Equality Global Impacts
Environment Global Impacts
Poverty Solutions
Inequality Solutions
Environment Solutions Finished The End Music with a message North America:
Protest songs "music with a message" originated from industrial workers of America in 1904.

All folk protest songs of the early 1900's were kept in the Little Red Song Book

Woody Guthrie- started writing his own personal songs of change in 1942, inspired by the Little Red Song Book. Woody Guthrie:
Traveled the country, guitar in hand, playing heartfelt songs about social change to the working class audiences.

His career boosted, by the end he wrote thousands of classical/socialist folk songs - This Land Is Your Land

During Guthrie's illness/death he was visited by an inspired fan named Bob Dylan.

Unlike Guthrie, Dylan wrote songs about current international events such as: the Vietnam war and the Cuban missile crisis. Chain of 60's protest songs:
Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"-Vietnam war

70's and 80's music: rock music
John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance"

1990's to Today
New millennium of music = more diverse topics
Lauryn Hill's "That Thing Doo-Wop" - feminist messages
OutKast's "Bombs Over Baghdad" Reasons why peace and awareness music is made Inequality

Environmental issues

Poverty Inequality America:
Throughout history leading up to today, African Americans and minority ethic groups are being incarcerated unjustly.

1 in every 15 African American / Hispanic men are sentenced to longer jail time compared to 1 in every 106 white men who have done the same crime.

In Canadian history, Aboriginals were forced into abusive Residential schools.
Today, this inequality causes Aboriginal people to be one of the poorest groups in Canada Inequality Africa & Asia:
Gender inequality amongst females
Uganda- girls under 18 years are forced into marriage, 60% living with HIV/Aids

84% drop out of school with little primary education

India- unequal ratio of boys to girls (gender imbalance)
1000 boys - 933 girls. Environmental Issues Deforestation:
Forests world wide are depleting at an unimaginable rate of 100 acres per min.
Impacts include extinction, loss of habitat and release of Green House Gasses. Russia:
Russia's environmental policy states- 16 million hectares of forest lost yearly due to deforestation.
Deforestation rates have risen as a result of extensive logging- raw materials the making of paper. Environmental Issues Hawaii:
Urbanization- leading cause for deforestation in parts of Hawaii.
Companies tear down trees plus natural landscapes to meet the demands of urban population growth:
- expand cities
- towns
- businesses

Agriculture/subsistence farming is main cause for deforestation
Rising population growth=high demand of food
Farmers+families "slash and burn" to provide land space for crops/ food supply Poverty America:
14.5% of US households (49 million Americans) struggle to stay above poverty level.
1 in 6 Americans rely on food stamps/ meal tickets to put food on the table.

Leading reasons include:

Lack of education- high school dropout rate is 3 million/year
Low income- 57% live paycheck to paycheck
Unemployment- 41% are completely unemployed Poverty Canada:
The hidden homeless
450,000 to 900,000 have no place to call home
882,000 depend on food banks monthly

41% of Sub-Saharan Africa lives on less than a dollar a day
700,000 infants will die before their first birthday
800 Million people go hungry every night One Tribe:
Made for the Pepsi Refresh Project

Socially, the song expresses the need for equality among people world wide.

Shares a strong message- as a whole, we are one, each of us are brothers and sisters bonded by the blood of humanity.
One love, One blood, One people, One heart, One beat, We're equal, Connected like the Internet, United that's how we do... Let love and Peace lead you.

Globally, it gives a view of all cultures and races, showing that world peace can be achieved if we just accept each other as One Tribe. Big Yellow Taxi:
Covered by Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton
Environmentally-Outlines the results/impacts of deforestation on both the environment and humankind

"Paved paradise and put up a parking lot...leave me the birds & bees"

Shows us the cost of taking valuables for granted

"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got till it's gone"

Much like deforestation- loss of trees/nature/life; Humanity is quite similar. Socially-Reveals the struggle individuals face.
The raw emotions which
fester when having nothing.

" Caught in the middle, I could cry just a little when I think of letting go".
Goes back to hometown- gives educational supplies to those who can't afford. Playing For Change Foundation Mark Johnson:
Uniting people all over the world through music and inspiration.
Musicians around the world- collaborate on songs with efforts to foster a new understanding of our commonality.
Help communities- provide facilities, supplies,educational programs...ex build music/art schools
Use schools as an instrument to spread equality and eliminate negative stereotypes, creating positive change Jack Johnson

Kokua Hawaii Foundation :
Supports environmental eduaction in both schools/communities of Hawaii.
Mission- provide students with knowledge that will enhance their appreciation for the environment, making them stewards of the earth.

Gives schools finacial assistance needed to bring students outdoors-experience hands on learning about environment. Bob Marley Foundation-"Music gonna teach dem a lesson"

To create and implement programs that empower the oppressed and help eliminate generational poverty.

Provide Education and Training Programs- ex. School of Blind (Ghana)
Food/ Nutrition Programs- Canteens built outside schools (Jamaica and Africa)
Shelter/Protection- Orphanages for neglected children Poverty Don't Forget The Lyrics video
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Archive for the ‘Obscurities’ Category

sev marchal

S.E.V Marchal Ad circa mid-sixties…

The famous French manufacturer of automotive electrical componentry started plying its trade in 1923. The rights to the name, depending upon country, passed to the Valeo Group in 2009. I gather looking at a few online forums the product ‘ain’t what it useter be’.

I just always liked the graphics!…

(Jean Tesseyre)

Competitors in the Formula Junior ‘IV Prix de Paris’ at Montlhery on May 3 1959…

I tripped over these shots researching another topic in the Getty Archive, which is generally superb visually but equally poor in terms of caption accuracy or usefulness. The cars were described as F2 rather than the Formula Junior cars they are, mainly DB Junior Panhard or DB Monomill Panhard, not monopostos familiar to me.

My usual FJ results resource, ‘The F2 Index’ lists first to fourth as Alain Dagan, Dominique Franck, Pierre Mulsant and Philippe Martel, the first three in DB Junior Panhards, the latter in a DB Monomill Panhard. This fantastic resource doesn’t provide race numbers on this occasion though, making the detective work difficult, so all help as to identifying the drivers and cars amongst you French FJ enthusiasts in this race welcome!

The meeting also featured an F2 race, Jack Lewis won it from only three other competitors in a Cooper T45 Climax.

The sports and GT race was better supported with Ferrari 250GT’s dominant; Olivier Gendebien won from Claude Bourillot and Wolfgang Seidel’s similar cars.

The FJ race was 20 laps of the 3.36 Km course, the DB’s achieving some success in 1959 in French races but the front engined chassis, French engined cars were well and truly swamped by Ford engined Coopers and Lotus 18’s in 1960, not to say other quicker front-engined Lolas and Stanguellini’s.

Jean Tesseyre

Tailpiece: FJ placegetters  Dagan, Franck and Mulsant collect their trophies…

Steve McQueen drives an Alfa Duetto as part of a series of track-tests at Riverside on 13 June 1966-published in ‘Sports Illustrated’ magazine’s 8 August 1966 issue…

Its an interesting read in terms of McQueen’s background in cars and motor racing before insurance issues- the studios for whom he worked wanted to protect their asset ended his racing, and his opinions on the eight cars tested.

The ‘roll of honour’ included the Duetto, E Type, Corvette, Ferrari 275GTS, Aston DB6, Benz 230SL, 911 and Cobra 427, a nice day at the Riverside office for Steve!

He rated the Alfa’s brakes, handling, 5 speed gearbox and engine albeit the little car lacked the power McQueen was used to in his daily rides, a Ferrari and Jag XKSS. ‘It is a very forgiving car, very pretty too, the Pininfarina body is swell’ Steve quipped.

Click on this link to read the article, well worth the effort, in full;

James Drake, Bettmann

Tailpiece: More serious 1966 work Steve?…

McQueen leaving the set of ‘Sand Pebbles’, Hong Kong. Is it a racer he is riding back to the hotel or a Cafe Racer, exhaust system looks pretty racey? (Bettmann)

Posted: March 5, 2017 in Fotos, Obscurities

My French speaking friend Jen Bergin tells me the photo depicts a race between a train and a car ‘two American reporters trying to nab a sensational story attempt to catch and overtake an express train in a powerful racing car. They want to arrive before detectives sent on the chase for an escaped gangster’.

There you go, i just like the image!…

L’Illustre was an ‘illustrated little paper, a big weekly for everyone’, the issue is dated 27 November 1922.

L’Illustre, Jennifer Bergin

Some of Ferrucio Lamborghini’s artisans completing the chassis of the prototype Lambo P400 Miura in Sant ‘Agata October 1965…

The car was famously shown as a chassis only, this very one, at the Turin Show in 1965 and was a ‘starlet’ even unclothed. It made its bow ‘dressed’ by Marcello Gandini at Geneva in 1966, only four months later.

Keystone, Klemantaski Collection

Tailpiece: The new Lamborghini factory near Bologna in 1963…

I wonder how much it was? ‘Gotham Ford’ does have a touch of the ‘Batmans’ about it doesn’t it…

Not too many of these GT40 ‘road cars’ were built, maybe one of you knows which chassis this is?

frank gardner

(John Ellacott)

Frank Gardner beside his Jaguar D Type ‘XKD 520’ at Mount Druitt on 23 May 1958, looking fairly relaxed, photographer John Ellacott recalls FG achieved a 14.57 standing quarter mile in the big, powerful car…

Its right at the end of Mount Druitt’s decade long life as a race circuit in Sydney’s western suburbs. FG took FTD in one of the sprint events after the circuit was ‘mortally wounded’ by circuit owner Belf Jones after a spat with its operator the ‘Australian Racing Drivers Club’ in 1958.

mt druitt 1

These wonderful Mount Druitt, 1955 Sydney, New South Wales colour shots (the one above and below) were posted on ‘the Nostalgia Forum’ which, for those of you who haven’t discovered it is something you should do, but be warned you will be lost in interesting motor racing ‘threads’ for years…

Ace researcher/historian and primotipo contributor Stephen Dalton dates the shots as probably the 4 September 1955 meeting with the Healeys’ driven by #93 C Kennedy and #98 K Bennett. In the background Stephen thinks the #53 tail is an important Australian MG Spl, the ex/Dick Cobden/David McKay/Curly Brydon car.

The red car surrounded by mechanics is perhaps the ex Jack Saywell Alfa Romeo P3 then Alvis powered and driven by Gordon Greig. The covered #4 single seater is Stan Coffey’s Cooper Bristol ‘Dowidat Spl’ and #14 Jack Robinson’s Jaguar Special.

mt druitt 2

All ‘The Fun of The Fair’ or ‘Mount Druitt Motor Racing’ as the case may be…

This article was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 14 August 1954, it captures the atmosphere of the place and the day and ignorance of the public of motor racing;

THIRTY thousand picnicking spectators in 8,000 cars make a phenomenon in Australian sport and entertainment at Sydney’s monthly motor races at Mt. Druitt.

Cars park two to four deep the whole length of the two and a quarter miles racing track. Spectators drive between races from one vantage point to another over ‘horror stretches’ in the seemingly endless acres of paddocks around the track.

Vendors sell hot water, hot dogs, all the usual provendor of picnics. Children play rounders or football between races.

By the standards of Britain’s famous Brooklands, the informality is extreme for the spectators, but it is typically Australian; sunshine, open air, gum trees.

The Australian Racing Drivers’ Club, however, applies the strictest international rules of competition to its 12 or 14 race program.

Officials on motor cycles patrol the boundary fences. White uniformed officials with international motor racing flags signal the drivers safely through the races-a blue flag waved – ‘a competitor is trying to overtake you’; a yellow flag waved ‘great danger, be prepared to stop’; yellow, with vertical red stripes-‘take care, oil has been spilt on the track.’

A public address system links the whole of the two and a quarter miles of track with the finishing line.

A truck tows breakdowns off the course, often two at a time, ignominiously, like a defeated bull dragged from the ring.

At the end of the day 8,000 cars crowd the Great Western Highway in a colossal traffic jam, in which the ‘hot rodders,’ after a few imitative accelerations, lose their ardour for speed on frustrating miles of bumper-to bumper driving.

What attracts this crowd to a venue nearly 40 miles from the city is the excitement of speeds up to 140 miles an hour and skid turns on hairpin and right-angle bends. The straight of the bitumen track is a wartime airstrip.

The club conducts events for racing, sports, and stock cars and has 60 to 70 competitors at a meeting.

Most of the competitors are owner-drivers-fanatical seekers of perfection in the assembling and tuning of motors. They acquire a car, according to their means and choice. If it is a stock model they remachine and reassemble parts of the motor, and fit new parts, two carburettors, and a ‘blower’ (a supercharger), which gives the ultimate ‘kick.’

In all types of cars running and maintenance costs are high. A set of tyres is good for only 500 racing miles. A car may run half a mile and burn the top out of a piston. An owner may spend £250 on a new cylinder head and find it does not fit satisfactorily.

Jack Brabham in the Cooper ‘Redex Spl’ Bristol referred to in the text. On the outside is Bill Hudson, Hudson Spl at Mount Druitt in 1955. Jack was later to say he should have taken this highly self developed car to the UK rather than purchase the Cooper Alta he bought in the UK…still it didn’t hold him back in the end! (unattributed)

THE glamour driver of the moment is a 26-year-old motor engineer, Jack Brabham, with his British £4,000 six cylinder Cooper (frame)-Bristol (motor).

He is a former Australian midget car champion, whom some club officials put in ‘world class.’

In the lingo of the fans, he ‘lashes the loud pedal-(accelerator) down to the boards’ and scorns the ‘anchors’ (brakes).

His driving is, indeed, a spectacle as he relentlessly mows down a field, flashes past car after car, and changes gears at 85 to 90 miles an hour.

But the fans are watching a £7,000 Italian Ferrari, with a 12-cylinder two litre engine having a power output of 250 b.h.p. and a top speed around 150 m.p.h. Owner Dick Cobden, a fine driver, has had the car only a few months and is still familiarising himself with its tuning and driving.

The Ferrari is a Grand Prix car, which famous English driver, Peter Whitehead, drove in the Lady Wigram trophy at Christchurch, New Zealand, early this year’.

Dick Cobden’s ex-Whitehead Ferrari 125 at Mount Druitt, date uncertain. (G & L Liebrand Collection)

Circuit Map…

druitt circuit

Mount Druitt Aerodrome, 45 Km west of Sydney was built for the Royal Australian Air Force during World War 2. The facility comprised 2 hangars, workshops and a runway 1,524 metres long and 48 metres wide, perfect as the basis of a racetrack postwar.

The first race meeting was held on October 4 1948 on a short track based on the runway established by the Australian Sporting Car Club.

In 1952 Belf Jones built a full circuit, 2.25 miles long using some adjoining land owned by a Mr McMahon, a Sydney businessman. The circuits’ first meeting was on 30 November 1952 organised by the Australian Racing Drivers Club, the main event, a 50 Mile Handicap won by future Australian champion, David McKay’s MG Spl. (one of the cars obscured in the first photo above).

Over the following 5 years over 25 meetings were run with crowd attendances often over 15,000, given the circuits proximity to Sydney. Mt Druitt’s last meeting was on 10 November 1957.

Commercial agreement for the circuits future use could not be reached between the ARDC and Jones, who did irreparable damage to the circuit; Jones cut a trench around the circuit with a digger!

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Another shot of Frank Gardner’s D Type at Mount Druitt on 23 May 1958. (John Ellacott)

The last hurrah for the venue was a number of sprint meetings run in 1958. Victories resulted for Gardner’s D Type Jag, Arnold Glass’ HWM Jaguar and Len Lukey’s Cooper Bristol.

The ‘NSW Speedway Act’ in 1959 and consequent required investment in the facility to meet new safety standards was the final death-knell for this fondly remembered circuit.

The parts of the track added in 1952 remain but the airstrip section is long gone, the area is now known as the Whalan Reserve, it comprises the Mount Druitt industrial estate and Madong Avenue Primary School.

druitt circuit 2

Current google earth aerial shot of the circuit area. (

The Nostalgia Forum Mount Druitt thread, particularly the contributions of Stephen Dalton and ‘wirra’. Sydney Morning Herald 14 August 1954,

John Ellacott, TR0003, G & L Liebrand Collection

Seasonal Salutations 2016…

Posted: December 24, 2016 in Obscurities

Down to the local scout-hall in your 250 SWB to pick up a tree (unattributed)

Seasonal Saluations to you all wherever you may live…

This world of ours is as nutty as ever. It’s nice to be able to lose yourself in motor racing I figure!

It’s my third Christmas Primotipo greeting, I started this online magazine in mid-2014 when I had lots of time on my hands working in Adelaide. I’ve now a role based in Melbourne but involves regular travel to Sydney and Perth. It makes writing the longer stuff a lot harder, so contributions from anyone who want to write about their passion are invited! You can see how eclectic the content is, so go for it! My email address is

In that regard many thanks to Stephen Dalton, Nigel Tait and Greg Smith for their articles this year. Similarly Peter Brennan and Rodway Wolfe both provide ongoing sources of material for articles, in Rodway’s case we are bit by bit writing the ‘Repco Racing Story’ with Nigel Tait and Michael Gasking’s Collections providing, rich, never published before Repco visual promotional material.

An army of Australian photographers continue to assist by allowing me to use their wonderful work; John Ellacott, Dick Simpson, Rod MacKenzie, Lindsay Ross, Dale Harvey and David Blanch all spring to mind.

My own Van Diemen RF86 Formula Ford ‘freshen’ is nearly complete, i will rejoin the historic FF grids in Oz in 2017. Interesting car, its one of two chassis used by Peter Verheyen to win the Australian FF Championship in 1987

It continues to boggle my mind that although the content is about 40% Australian that 80% of the readership is global, the top 10 countries in order of size Australia, France, US, Germany, UK, Italy, Japan, Holland, Brazil and Spain. An interesting mix!

Most of all, thanks for reading primotipo!

I’ll mainly be posting shorter stuff over the next few weeks, it’s our summer holidays in this part of the world so me ‘an the sabre-toothed-tigress are off to Seminyak, Bali for a couple of weeks.

Stay well, stay safe, may you all enjoy good health and all the luck you deserve in 2017.

Mark Bisset, 24 December 2016

Lane in Fitzroy, Melbourne, not too far from home

(David Van Dal)

Morry Maurice competing in the the ‘Goomalling Speed Classic’ 7 June 1954, HRG 1500. Goomalling, Western Australia…

The two wonderful color photographs in this article are by David Van Dal of Morry Maurice’ HRG 1500 at Goomalling and Narrogin. Both are towns in Western Australia’s wheatbelt around 200km southeast of Perth. The  shot above is quintessential Australian country town, even today. The beautiful blue racing car and upright, stylish driver a contrast to the drab coloured background buildings and gum trees.

‘Round The Houses’ Racing in Western Australia…

WA has a rich history of ‘Round the Houses’ racing, such events were held on street circuits in many country towns there in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s. The first of these was held at Albany in 1936 and planned to emulate the style of racing common in Europe at the time.

The towns of Pingelly, Bunbury, Dowerin, Northam, Goomalling and Narrogin all held meetings with Narrogin hosting the Australian Grand Prix in March 1951. That event held in very hot conditions was watched by 35,000 people a long way from Perth, and won by Warwick Pratley in the Ford V8 powered ‘George Reed Special’.

Maurice at Northam, WA in 1954, HRG 1500. ‘Northam Flying 50’ 19 April 1954 (Ken Devine)

Maurice’ HRG was originally bought to Australia in 1949, it was one of an initial shipment of three chassis imported by Brown and Dureau, the Melbourne based distributors of the marque. The bodies for the cars were built locally. Like so many cars in Australia it was constantly modified in an effort to keep it competitive throughout the 1950’s as technology rapidly advanced. Click on this link for a good summary of the life and times of the 1948 HRG 1500 chassis #174 aka 1958 HRG Buchanan Holden ‘Godfrey Spl’;

Racing at Goomalling took place between 1949 and 1961. It was a prominent motorsport venue in the postwar years, taking over from Dowerin as one of the WA wheatbelt’s motorsport hubs. Motor racing was a reason for creation of the circuit but so was fundraising to pay for a new swimming pool in the town. Its scorching during the long, hot, dry summer months there!

Three racing mad returned servicemen; Milton Royal, Ted Nicholson and Charlie Dent were behind the track, the trio originally formed the Goomalling Sporting Car Club in 1939. That year the club held a small event at the abandoned Goomalling horse racing track before its three founders were called away to fight for their country over the skies of Europe, all were Air Force Officers. It wasn’t until 1949 that motorsport returned to Goomalling, the last ‘in period’ meeting the 1961 ‘Flying Fifty’.

(David van Dal)

Maurice’ HRG 1500 again, this time at Narrogin in ‘The Great Southern Fifty’ meeting on 2 March 1953…

My brother lives in Perth, WA, I spend a lot of time there and in the Margaret River region down south, this topography and soil is so WA. The parched earth, brown grass and green eucalypts are so Oz and WA in particular. I can feel the summer heat just looking at this shot! It looks like an outer suburban street scene, love the ‘International’? truck in the background and cream brick house.

‘Goomalling Classic Racers’ by Graeme Cocks, Ken Devine and Ray Bell on ‘The Nostalgia Forum’, site for all things WA motor racing history, ‘Around The Houses’ by Terry Walker

David van Dal via Ken Devine and ‘Repco 22’ on The Nostalgia Forum for the photos. David Van Dal was a West Australian racer, who between events in his Morgan took some amazing photographs, many in color, so rare for the period and therefore to be savoured for the lifelike time capsules they are.

Tailpiece: Goomalling Speed Classic summary and circuit…

(‘Around The Houses’ Terry Walkers )

Achille Varzi’s Auto Union Type B pitstop during the 26 May Avus-Rennen, Berlin, 1935…

Note the onboard air-jacks, pretty schmick for 1935, I didn’t realise the technology went back that far, I wonder when they were first used in racing? It’s a nice shot also of the swing axle rear suspension, sprung by torsion bars in 1935 rather than the transverse leaf spring of the 1934 Type A.

Varzi was 3rd in his 4.9 litre V16 beastie, the race won by Luigi Fagioli’s Mercedes Benz W25. The race was a Formula Libre event so the German teams turned up with some streamliners including a Mercedes W25 for Hanns Geier, the cockpit cover of which could only be opened from the outside. No doubt Alfred Neubauer was happy to oblige at each pitstop.

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Avus 1935 heat 1 start; #1 Stuck AU Type B 1st from #4 Rosemeyer AU Type A Streamliner DNF, the Mercedes is Fagioli’s W25 2nd, #9 is Nuvolari’s Alfa Bimotore 6th, #20 Farina’s Maserati 4C 5th, #16 Siena’s Maserati 8C DNF (unattributed)

Continuing the themes of commonsense and bravery!, the meeting was also notable for the first ever car race of German ‘bike ace Bernd Rosemeyer. He ‘blagged his way’ into the Auto Union team for whom he raced from then until his untimely death in early 1938 during a brave land speed record Auto Union run. Read anything about this fella and the word brave will be peppered throughout the article.

The car racer novice plonked the notoriously twitchy 375bhp mid-engined Type B on the front row for his heat on the fastest circuit in the world, the AU’s were seeing 326kmh along Avus’ long straights. He punctured a tyre during his 7 lap heat so didn’t make the final which comprised the first 4 placegetters in each of the heats, but he had well and truly ‘arrived’…

Check out Kolumbus F1’s ’35 Avus race report, this being my favourite Pre-War race results site, have a good poke around if you haven’t visited it before;

Kolumbus F1, Ullstein Bild, Zoltan Glass

Auto Union Type A engine and rear suspension (Zoltan Glass)

Tailpiece: Varzi’s Auto Union Type B 4.9 V16 and Rosemeyer’s AU Type A 4.3 V16 in the 1935 Avus paddock…

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Next up from Crate Paper we have the 'Bloom' collection designed by Maggie Holmes which was inspired by her grandmother's flower garden. The idea was to give a garden party feel to any paper project and includes motifs such as romantic roses, colourful birds, swans, washi tape and bunting.

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I came across an article on Forbes discussing comments made by Reebok-CCM hockey with regards to Bauer’s RE-AKT helmet. Apparently the head of Reebok-CCM is not too happy about the claims Bauer has made regarding its helmet. The RE-AKT’s unique selling point has been its ability to reduce the rotational impact forces. Personally, I’m not entirely sure how the helmet does this and questions I sent to Bauer at the launch of the helmet were not answered.

Reebok-CCM’s general manager Phil Dubé says in the story that “The topic of head injuries in hockey is too important and of serious concern to the general public to be subject of confusion in the marketplace regarding product performance.” Dubé continued by stating that “When I visit retailers, the first thing I hear about is the RE-AKT helmet doing something no other helmet does. Some of our helmets are better and superior to that helmet designed for that particular kind of protection. The advertising is misleading consumers and retail customers. The best helmet is the one that fits the best.”

It’s an interesting point, apart from the plug of CCM and Reebok products, as hockey as a whole has been gripped by the concussion epidemic, which has seen players like Marc Savard and Chris Pronger side-lined indefinitely and has ended the careers of the likes of Paul Kariya. I had written about hockey helmets and whether they protect enough at Pucks ATP and as you can see I referenced the RE-AKT helmet there as well. Basically, the RE-AKT is said to protect the brain from excessive intra-cranial movement due to the helmet’s liner.

What makes the story so interesting is that in the American Football market, helmet manufacturer Riddell is currently undergoing litigation for falsely marketing its helmets as having the ability to reduce the risk of concussions by a substantial percentage.

As concussions are considered an epidemic, many helmet manufacturers have now made more of an effort in designs and marketing materials to reduce the risk of concussion. As with any helmet, it should be noted that no helmet is 100% concussion proof. I’m a huge M11 helmet fan now days and I understand that the even though the helmet has undergone a series of impact tests, it won’t guarantee that my brain is 100% safe from concussion. The manufacturer says on its front page that the “M11 is proven to absorb more energy from high impact linear forces than other premium helmets to provide maximum protection”

I wonder how long it will take before one of the helmet manufacturers will be facing a litigation due to false claims of protection. What is important in helmet technologies is that the helmet fits on the head of the player properly. Choosing a helmet should follow the same criteria as choosing skates or other protective equipment.

What I would like to see in the industry is to set standards of head protection and then follow these standards and  that the core elements of head protection are available in each helmet. What we must not fall into is that the concussion epidemic becomes a pure marketing technique for companies. Hockey is a contact sport and unfortunately injuries do happen, regardless of what equipment you use.

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Chemical Preservatives

Kinds of organic acid chemical preservatives
Typically used in foods below pH 5.5
Mode of action: chemical preservatives
Are in both the charged and uncharged form
The charged form can not cross the cell membrane
SO: need to be low pH food. This will assure that the uncharged form is the predominant form
Travels across cell membrane into the cytoplasm of the organism.
Cytoplasm closer to neutral pH
Causes uncharged form to dissociate and become charged form plus a proton
Protons acidify the cytoplasm
Cell spends energy to transport protons out of cell
Loss of ATP for doing cell reactions
Acetic Acid
May be as sodium acetate
Targets bacteria and yeast
Used at concentrations of <0.1 - 0.8%
Used in baked goods, cheese, olives, gravies, causes, meat and poultry
NOTE: due to antimicrobial activity may be sprayed on carcasses to decrease E. coli population.
Lactic Acid
Found in fermented foods
Effects bacteria
Used in concentrations from <0.4 to 2%
Used on meats and as a sanitizer
Propionic Acid
Found in Swiss Cheese
Effects yeast, mold, rope-forming bacteria
Used at concentrations from 0.3% and up
Good for baked products and cheeses
Benzoic Acid
Found naturally in cranberries
Effective against molds
Used at concentrations <0.1%
Foods include jams, jellies, beverages
Sorbic Acid
Found naturally in Rowanberries
Effective against molds and some bacteria
Used at concentrations of 0.1-0.3%
Foods it is used in include baked goods, wine, cheese
Used in the cure for bacon, hams, hotdogs
Contribute to meat flavor and color
Are antimicrobial (esp. Clostridium)
Also serves as antioxidant
Works better in anaerobic setting than aerobic setting
Often utilizes ascorbate (reducing agent which scavenges oxygen)
Government regulations limit it to 156 ppm for most products and 100-120 for bacon
NOTE: Sodium erythorbate works to accelerate cure and it inhibits nitrosamine formation
Parabenzoic Acids
As side chain increases efficacy does too
As side chain increases solubility decreases
Often used in more than one form (i.e. methyl and propyl)
Effective against molds and yeast less so for bacteria
Foods: baked goods, beverages, fruit products, jams, jellies, syrups, salad dressings, wine
Sodium acid pyrophosphate
Tridosium phosphate
Tetrasodium pyrophosphate
More effective against Gram Positive organisms
At 0.5% inhibit some Bacillus and Clostridium species

Activity: Related to ability to chelate metal ions
Includes binding of cations that are essential to proper cell wall formation
Includes sulfur dioxide
Potassium sulfate
Potassium and sodium metabisulfite

Used primarily in fruits and vegetables to control spoilage yeast and molds, acetic acid bacteria and malolactic acid

Used in wine to control natural yeast, spoliage microorganisms as well as preventing post fermentative spoilage (formation of vinegar)

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Further Thoughts on Color Correction in Photoshop

The more I play around with the “Enhance” feature in Adobe Photoshop, the more I question the nature of reality. If a photograph isn’t a perfect visual representation of a moment in time, how can we trust something as subjective as memory?

Sun sets over the cove at Long Gulch on the north side of Lake Roosevelt

Sun sets over the cove at Long Gulch on the north side of Lake Roosevelt

The Man and I watched this sunset, and I’m certain that every moment was dazzling, and that the stones on the lakeshore truly did glow in the golden light of the setting sun. And yet, the original photograph was flatter than memory. Then I messed with the levels in Photoshop; now the stones glow. Still, did they glow to that degree? The sky probably wasn’t quite so blue, and of course the sun was sharper.

Complicating matters, I have long since stopped trusting my own eyes. My vision gets worse every year; I wear prism lenses to correct some of the problem, further distorting my view of reality, even though my brain corrects back to true, most of the time. In addition, I don’t do anything in natural light without polarized lenses, which sharpen everything and amplify colors. The world looks much crisper, and more beautiful, in polarized lenses.

A verdant piece of desert

A verdant piece of desert

This one, obviously, can’t be right. It reminds me of a picture postcard from the ’50s, when, I guess color photography was a novelty and all the colors were boosted into glorious technicolor. The sky is even bluer than in the previous image. This was a fast fix; results would probably be better had I worked on different parts of the image separately: the sky, the saguaros, the rest of the plants, the rocks, the water. At heart, I see with the eyes of a child, and the brighter colors delight me. I’ll take paintbox primaries over reality any day, I guess.

The flower of the saguaro cactus

The flower of the saguaro cactus

This is the most confusing one. I still don’t have a zoom lens for the Canon EOS, and if you know anything about saguaros, you know that getting close to their flowers can be tricky. Most of the flower are on the top of the plant, and a mature saguaro can grow as high as 50 feet, while I myself stand only a touch over 5. We spent days looking for a cactus that was either growing below the ridge, or else had a frostbite damaged arm that hung in my line of sight. No such luck on this trip, and the saguaro only blooms for a short while. I had to resort to the Powershot, which has a great zoom feature, even though the picture quality is of course not as details as with the DSLR.

But here’s the thing: the zoom feature is much better than my eyesight, so good that I have often used it in place of binoculars. It allows me to see things in sharp focus that would otherwise appear as distant blurs. So I couldn’t even tell you what these flowers really looked like because I never really got a good look at them myself. I couldn’t even really see the display since the sun was shining directly on it AND I was wearing polarized lenses. This photo pretty much involved just waving the camera in the general direction of the thing I wanted to shoot and hoping for something to line up.

So, what does the world look like? It’s not exactly what I see with my eyes, even with corrective lenses, and it’s not precisely what the camera returns to me, and it’s definitely not what photos look like after hue and saturation and balance. Every image is filtered these days; everything is Photoshopped. We can’t trust the visual world.

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  1. robyn00dawson

    Lovely pictures and a fascinating subject. How much we can trust what we see? Two people can look at the same thing and see a completely different image. It all blows my mind.

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Playing the Emissions on Shuffle

What do the emission reductions of industrialised nations look like when you count the imports manufactured overseas?

WHO: Glen P. Peters, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway
Jan C. Minx, Department for Sustainable Engineering, and Department for the Economics of Climate Change, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Christopher L. Weberd, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Ottmar Edenhofer, Department for the Economics of Climate Change, Technical University Berlin, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

WHAT: Measuring the transfer of CO2 emissions through international trade

WHEN: 24 May 2011

WHERE: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) vol. 108 no. 21, May 2011

TITLE: Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008 (open access)

These researchers have found a problem with the way we count carbon emissions. When we count them, countries tend to count them for industries that emit within their own territorial borders, which means that emissions in the developing world have kept going up, while emissions in the developed world (or first world) have either flattened or dropped, depending on how much your government likes to admit the reality of climate change.

However, most of the emissions from the developed world are to produce goods for places like North America and Europe. So these researchers wanted to work out exactly how much international trade contributed towards global emissions increasing by 39% from 1990 – 2008. Was the increase in emissions due to development in countries like China, or was it a case of wealthy countries just shuffling their manufacturing emissions to another country and continuing to increase consumption rates?

As you might guess (spoiler alert) it’s the latter. Turns out all we’ve been doing is moving most of our industrial manufacturing emissions to developing countries and importing the products back, allowing everyone to say ‘yay, we reduced emissions!’ while the actual amount of carbon being burned continues to increase.

Growth in emissions transferred around the globe – dumping our responsibility on other countries (from paper)

Growth in emissions transferred around the globe – dumping our responsibility on other countries (from paper)

But don’t take my word for it – what does the paper say?

The researchers took the global economy and broke it down into 113 regions with 95 individual countries and 57 economic sectors. They then looked at all the national and international data they could get on supply chain emissions to produce goods between 1990-2008, as well as doing extra detailed analysis for the years 1997, 2001 and 2004. They called it a Time Series with Trade and it was based on GDP, bilateral trade and emissions statistics (all of which you can generally find at your national statistics office online). The only thing they left out of their analysis was emissions from land use change, because there wasn’t enough data for them to thoroughly analyse it.

They found that global CO2 emissions from exported goods rose from 4.3 Gigatonnes (Gt) in 1990 to 7.8 Gt of CO2 in 2008, with a big increase in the decade up to 2008. Exports have increased their share of global emissions from 20% to 26% and grew on average by 4.3% per year, which was faster than the global population grew (1.4%), faster than total global CO2 emissions grew (2%) and faster than global GDP grew (3.6%).

The only thing that export emissions didn’t grow faster than was the dollar value of all that trade, which increased by 12% each year. So not only are all those new iPhones costing you a lot of money (and making Apple super wealthy), they’re also burning a lot of carbon.

But the thing the paper points out is that international trade has led to simply shifting the location of the emissions, rather than reducing the emissions – shuffling them around the planet to avoid counting them. The researchers estimate that the transfer of emissions from wealthy countries to developing countries has been 17% per year increasing from 0.4 Gt of CO2 in 1990 to 1.6 Gt in 2008.

This is an issue, because it means that all of the countries that signed on to Kyoto to reduce their carbon emissions – most of which promised around 0.7 Gt CO2 reduction per year – have simply shifted those emissions through trade to make them someone else’s problem, while continuing to consume stuff at an ever increasing rate.

More and more stuff (epSos, flickr)

More and more stuff (epSos, flickr)

The researchers point out that while China is currently the world’s largest emitter of carbon emissions, with the USA at number two, if you counted consumption emissions (meaning you made the USA count the emissions for all the stuff they use that’s made in China), they’d swap places and the USA would be the world’s largest emitter.

This makes sense if you think it through – have a look around your house at everything that’s made in China. All of that carbon that China is burning, which is destroying their air quality and polluting their cities and people; all of that is to make stuff for you to consume.

If you count the consumption emissions, the emissions reduction of 3% from the developed world becomes an emissions growth of 11%. Oops. Also, the researchers point out that emissions reductions in wealthy countries are often exceeded by the growth of trade emissions.

Emission reductions vs emissions transferred to developing world. Annex B: developed world, non-Annex B: developing world (from paper)

Emission reductions vs emissions transferred to developing world. Annex B: developed world, non-Annex B: developing world (from paper)

So what does this mean, other than the fact that everyone is trying to avoid having to clean up their own mess?

It means there’s a problem with the way we count emissions from trade vs emissions from consumption. It also means that we’re currently failing to reduce our carbon emissions in any significant way, which puts us on a straight path to 4, 5 or 6oC of global warming, otherwise known as the next mass extinction.

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Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills 24 at mosque

February 2, 2013

A SUICIDE bomber has targeted a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing 24 people and wounding up to 55 as worshippers poured out of weekly prayers, officials say.

The bomber on Friday detonated explosives packed into a motorcycle in a narrow lane containing both the Shi’ite and a Sunni Muslim mosque in the town of Hangu, the latest bloody sectarian attack in a country where such violence is on the rise.

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“See how evil I am? I even kill my own men!” — Casanova Frankenstein, Mystery Men.

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What Jesse said:

Enemy is one of the most anxiety inducing movies I’ve watched all the way through. I can’t remember the last time I was this uncomfortable watching a flick… and still enjoyed it. Oh, yeah, now I remember… “Prisoners“.

Mike’s verdict:

I don’t get it.

I had high expectations for this one. I thought Prisoners was fairly good and figured that if Enemy could maintain the same atmosphere but with a more interesting plot, it would do well too. And in one sense, the movie is quite effective – the atmosphere is tense from beginning to end. Jesse isn’t wrong about the level of anxiety at all. The music and the cinematography work together perfectly to build a tension that stayed just beyond my comfort level without being over the top. The problem is, it’s a trick. The atmosphere is so effectively tense you almost don’t notice that with the exception of a few scenes there’s almost no reason for the tension. Most of the ‘big scenes’ involve characters reacting dramatically – portraying tension – to events that don’t actually warrant the reaction portrayed. The fear is fabricated – I just can’t imagine normal people reacting the way these characters react. Granted, all movies fabricate atmosphere – that’s pretty much the whole point – so I can’t really criticize that too much.

Unfortunately, Enemy has a much bigger issue: it doesn’t make any sense. Are the twins really twins? Are they just two personalities in the same body? Why does twin #2’s wife suggest she knows what’s going on after meeting twin #1? Why is twin #1 willing to comply with twin #2’s demand immediately, without any fight? Why does everyone act like the sudden appearance of a twin means that something terrible is going on? Why is the movie even called ‘enemy’? What is with the damn spiders?? And what was the point of the opening scenes in the creepy club? Basically all the questions you have after watching the trailer are left completely unanswered by the movie. My theory: José Saramago thought that Javier Gullón‘s book would make a fantastic trailer, and then he tried to write a movie around it.

Admittedly, the acting is really good. The characters seem totally irrational, but the actors do an amazing job of portraying them anyway. And I really liked all the little references to Toronto. I tried to find a location inconsistency but there’s wasn’t anything noticeable.

I have to give this one 5/10. Full marks for the artistic parts, but zero marks for the story. If it had wrapped up in a way that explained what was going on, it might have gotten a perfect score.

p.s. This one will probably be watched again just in case it’s a matter of picking up clues, and I’ll reassess the score then – hopefully it doesn’t lose points.

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Requisition Number 16-0028
Post Date 6/7/2016
Title Manufacturing Engineer
City Princeton
State MN
Employment Type Full Time
Work Hours M-F 8a - 5p
Description Job Summary:
Under the direction of the Engineering Manager develop, implement and drive continuous improvement in manufacturing performance using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles in support of USDP’s strategic initiatives and business goals.

Develops, conducts, implements, and measure various internal manufacturing processes and methods to improve operational efficiencies and evaluates and tracks project success.
Requirements Qualification Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions:
• Under the direction of the Engineering Manager develop process and product improvement programs. Facilitate, train and deploy these programs. Includes, but is not limited to:
o Design and improve machine safety
o Design and improve line efficiency
• Lead/facilitate change management activities.
o Acts as change agent to instill Lean culture throughout the organization.
o Executes transition plans from current state to future state.
• Lead projects such as reducing operating costs, improved process control, machine reliability, machine set-up times and introducing new products and processes, and new equipment installations.
• Train and coach USDP personnel in the use of lean manufacturing tools and methodology.
• Assist with developing material specifications and standards to incorporate into Vendor Qualification System.
• Work with the BPI coordinator to manage lean core teams and function as a member of the USDP steering committee.
Additional Responsibilities:
• Work in a safe and courteous manner while abiding by the Company’s safety policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned by manager

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Must have a proven track record of leading and driving change through the use of lean manufacturing tools & six sigma techniques in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong Microsoft office skills.
• Must have AutoCAD skills and Solid Works a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Highly self directed, self motivated and willing to work in a fast paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal communications skills.
• Able to travel as required.
• Highly detail oriented.
• Willing to stay current with Continuous Improvement methodologies.

Minimum Requirements of Education and Experience:
4 year degree in manufacturing, industrial, or related engineering field plus 4+ years related work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Lean and Six sigma certification.

Physical Requirements and Environmental Conditions:
May be required to maneuver and operate production-bottling equipment, which includes labelers, case packers, palletizers, etc. Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, sit for extended periods of time and tolerate 90° heat.
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Ripco Credit Union is committed to improving the financial lives of our members. One way that we show that commitment is to provide scholarships to outstanding high school graduates who plan to continue their education at a two-or-four-year institution of higher learning.

For many years we have provided scholarships to graduating Rhinelander High School Students. As our field of membership has grown to include a significant number of members in Eagle River and Three Lakes, WI, we have added to that program, and for several years have offered scholarships at Northland Pines High School in Eagle River and at Three Lakes High School.

In an effort to be even more inclusive and offer an opportunity to students who do not attend one of those three schools, in 2016 we added a brand new “Field-of-Membership” scholarship.  This scholarship may be offered to a student living within our field of membership (the Wisconsin counties of Oneida, Vilas, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Price or Florence) and graduating from a high school (other than Rhinelander, Eagle River or Three Lakes) or from an alternative educational program that has prepared the student for acceptance into a two-or-four-year institution of higher learning.

For all of our scholarships, the awards are based on Ripco Credit Union membership (the applicant must be a primary Ripco member for at least 90 days prior to the date of application), academic achievement, career and educational goals, extra-curricular activities and community involvement, and a written essay.

Rhinelander, Eagle River and Three Lakes scholarship programs are administered by their respective Guidance Offices, and applications for these awards may be obtained at the schools.  Applicants graduating from another field-of-membership high school or from an alternative program in our field of membership may view and/or print our Field-of-Membership application here.

Each participating high school has established a deadline for application submission.  Field-of-Membership applications must be postmarked no later than March 15, 2017 or must be hand-delivered to either our Rhinelander or Eagle branch during regular business hours no later than March 15, 2017 in order to be eligible for consideration.

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Day 3: Tennessee, Arkansas & TEXAS – oh my!

Finally, we’ve arrived in Texas.  Only a day late so far.  Hoping to devote 3 weeks to TX & then 2 weeks to OK and then scurry back home.  If I get more behind, I’ll lop off El Paso and bits of western TX so that I can give OK a fair chance.  The dogs & I will be doing some AZ & NM next year so I can hopefully finish up TX stuff then.

Some sun today!  Though it sounds like weather will still be iffy here in TX for awhile. Some rain & thunderstorms in the forecast for tomorrow.  Sparkle running fine.  The dogs got lots of exercise here & there.  A church with an enormous bit of land.  And then in North Little Rock, their first bit of swimming in six months.  I thought it might be too cold but they thought it was great fun.

Even though a good percentage of the time was on I-40 and I-30, still managed to get a bunch of shooting in.  Tonight’s batch is Flickr-heavy and blog-light.  I hope you’re following along both simultaneously.  I know it’s a lot to ask!

Let’s get to the photos since I have an early date with a rabbit (that’s the tease to make you come back tomorrow night).  The day began in Jackson, TN — anxious to get going and no time to wait for the right light:

Onward to Memphis for a few more signs:

I assume this bottle used to spin but hard to tell now:

This one’s huge — maybe 15 feet?  Not sure of the age — but it could be 1960s:

Couldn’t resist this photo op.  Downtown Memphis with cars racing around but Nik’s a good little boy and does what mama asks.  For those of you that don’t know, Nik is ball-obsessed so the tennis ball seemed like a good choice.  There were also basketballs, baseballs & others.  The balls were super slick – I guess from other people posing on them — or to discourage that, not sure which.  So Nik had to struggle to stay on this thing.

On to Arkansas.  There was a carefully orchestrated rendez-vous for this photo.  The folks in North Little Rock that are restoring this mug have this it out in Carlisle, at a remote farm, right now. So all the stars had to be in alignment for this mug viewing & shooting.  Anyhow, I thought it would be good to get the shot of me out of the way (always one per big trip).  My shirt makes me look 20 pounds heavier than I am but there you go:

Oh, and if you’re unfamiliar with Frostop, here’s the scoop:

Went a bit out of my way for this one in Arkadelphia and then the sun was all wrong.  Here it is anyway — a great combo of everything:  spinning clock, sunbreakers on the left, granite (I think) tiles on the front — and the deer head.  I peered inside to see if there was more mid-century goodness.  Pretty muddled, but I saw a GIANT real deer head in there.   Eeeek!  Maybe this bank was originally named First Deerhunters of Arkadelphia or some such.

Last one for the night.  This one from Texarkana, TX.  Kinda famous for being the sign NOT to photo.  Seems the owner of the motel FREAKS when people try to shoot it.  I was all prepared & then nothing happened.  Maybe he was running an errand or in the bathroom and not at his post.  Anyhow, this sign has also been messed with a lot lately.  At some point, the Two-State became the Tri-State.  But more recently, the star and arrow removed:
Don’t know if that was to discourage photographers.

Time for some rest.  The Texas marathon begins.

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  1. I’m happy you didn’t get hassled by the Tri-State guy! The sign is good, but not as good with the star and arrow…..

    Happy that Mr. Sun came out for you and the pups today, I can’t wait for tomorrow’s update!

    • I was overly prepared for the Tri-State Maniac. I was FAST but sort of disappointed not to be confronted after all the stories I’d heard. Glad you’re enjoying the show!

  2. You look so happy huggin’ that mug. Which pup did you trust with Dee to take it?

    Can you explain what was displayed on the banks “clock”? Doesn’t look like it’s working? Or was it 8 degrees out? Huh?

    Glad you didn’t tussle with the Tri State idiot . What a shame it lost a lot of it’s charm now, BUT: the PHON & C BL E T still hanging on for at least 5 years!

    Hope you get your SUN Tuesday! Happy shooting.

    • If my dogs could shoot, Grippie would be the one to do it. She’s the genius and takes everything very seriously. Also creative, too, and probably would’ve gotten a more interesting view than the mug’s owner.

      I don’t know what was with the bank clock. It more more like 40 degrees not 8. I did look at it “live” and it was screwed up.

  3. Glad you got to see the big mug in Little Rock – we had planned to make that our AK stop until we read on your blog that it was in storage, so we plowed through that state pretty quickly. We did get a couple of good sign shots in Texarkana – glad we didn’t get chased by anyone – glad you didn’t either!

  4. Hey you are in my neck of the wooded signs! I am in Dallas are you here yet? Call if you want to 214-244-4408. Rainy today but it will get better ina few days.

    • Actually, I was fairly close today but Dallas comes later in the trip. Heading down, jiggedy-jaggedy to Houston and then back up central via San Antonio to Austin & then Dallas. That’s at least a week away. I meet people on trips only very rarely since I shoot every single minute while the sun’s up. Then at night, I have the blog & Flickr & a million emails to deal with. I get about 4 hours sleep while on the road on a good night.

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Monday, November 16, 2015

Chesapeake Sea Monster, a few steps closer!

Here is one view of the Chesapeake Sea Monster (more on Flickr). Tail is dry fit. No transitions on the tail or upper launch lug.  I am deciding on whether she will be gray, as seen on the cone, or white. Decisions, decisions.


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