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Simply give us a call and we will answer any questions you may have about the Trinity Center dumpster rental procedure, allowed materials, size you may need, etc.
Our roll off containers can usually be delivered in Trinity Center the day after you place your order. Make sure to call us early to ensure timely delivery.
If you want to rent a dumpster in Trinity Center, you will find that prices vary greatly from state to state and city to city. One method to get actual estimates for the service you need would be to telephone a local dumpster company and ask about their prices. You may also request a quote online on some sites. These sites may also include complete online service that is always open. On these sites, you can pick, schedule and cover your service whenever it is suitable for you.
Variables which affect the cost of the container include landfill fees (higher in some areas than others) and also the size of the container you choose. You should also consider transportation costs and also the type of debris you'll be setting into your container.
Price quotes for in Trinity Center commonly include the following: the size of the container, the type of debris involved, the base cost for the dumpster, how much weight is included in the quote, a given rental period and delivery and pick-up fees.
Building Dumpster Rental in Trinity Center - Do You Need One?
Although local governments often provide waste disposal services, very few of them will haul away building debris. This makes it important for people to rent dumpsters for them to dispose of waste during construction projects.
The most frequent exception to this rule is when you've got a truck that's large enough to transport all building debris to a landfill or landfill drop off point. In the event you're working on a small bathroom remodeling project, for instance, you may find that you could fit all the debris in a truck bed.
Other than very small jobs, it is suggested that you rent a dumpster in Trinity Center for building jobs.
If you're not sure whether your municipality accepts building debris, contact the city for more information. You'll probably find that you will have to rent a dumpster in Trinity Center. Setting debris outside for garbage removal could possibly result in fines.
A roll off dumpster is delivered to your job place and left there until you want a truck to haul it and your debris away. They usually have open tops and also a door on the front. That makes it simple for workers to load a wide selection of debris into the dumpster.
A front load dumpster has mechanical arms that that lift containers off the ground. The arms tip to pour the debris into the truck's dumpster. It is a useful alternative for companies that amass large amounts of garbage.
While roll off dumpsters are typically left on place, front load dumpsters will come pick up debris on a set program. That makes it possible for sanitation professionals to remove garbage and junk for multiple residences and companies in the area at reasonable prices.
Litter removal vs in Trinity Center - Which is right for you?
When you own a project you're going to undertake at home, you might be wondering if it is better to hire someone to come haul off all your garbage and rubbish for you, or if you need to just rent a dumpster in Trinity Center and load it yourself.
Renting a container is a better solution if you would like the flexibility to load it on your own time and you also do not mind doing it yourself to save on job. Dumpsters also function nicely in the event that you've at least seven cubic yards or more of debris. Roll-offs typically start at 10 cubic yards, thus if you only have 3-4 yards of waste, you're paying for much more dumpster than you want.
Trash or rubbish removal makes more sense in case you would like somebody else to load your old items. In addition, it works nicely if you would like it to be taken away fast so it is out of your own hair or in the event that you simply have a few large things; this is likely cheaper than renting an entire dumpster.
Choosing the best dumpster for your project is an important aspect of in Trinity Center. If you pick a dumpster that's too small, you will not have enough room for your debris and waste, which means you will have to schedule extra trips. If you select one that's too large, you will save time, but you will squander money.
If you call a company in Trinity Center and describe the job for which you want a dumpster, they can urge the finest size. Their years of experience mean that they often get it just about right. A 10-yard dumpster typically functions well for moderate-sized clean-up projects and modest remodeling jobs. A 20-yard dumpster is the best choice for big home clean-up projects and moderate-sized renovation projects, while a 30-yard dumpster has higher walls that are ideal for a home cleanout or remodeling jobs on a big house. 40-yard dumpsters are massively big and are used only on the largest projects like new construction.
What if I need my dumpster in Trinity Center picked up early?
When you make arrangements to rent a dumpster in Trinity Center, part of your rental agreement includes a stated length of time you're allowed to use the container. You normally base this time on the length of time you think your project might take. The larger the project, the more time you'll need the dumpster. Most businesses in Trinity Center give you a rate for a specific amount of days. Should you exceed that quantity of days, you'll pay an extra fee per day. If the project goes more rapidly than expected, perhaps you are finished with the dumpster earlier than you anticipated.
If this is the case, give the dumpster business a call and they'll likely come pick your container up early; this will permit them to rent it to someone else more instantly. You normally will not get a reduction on your rate if you ask for early pickup. Your rental fee includes 7 days (or whatever your term is), whether you use them all or not.
Most businesses in Trinity Center have straightforward policies that will help you realize exactly how much it costs to rent equipment. Following this advice can help you avoid hidden fees when renting a dumpster in Trinity Center.
Many businesses will charge you extra for keeping the dumpster more than concurred. Be sure to plan ahead so you can keep the dumpster for an appropriate amount of time. You also ought to ask about additional fees so that you'll know how much extra days cost.
Does the company charge additional for dropping off or picking up the dumpster? Ask to be sure you have an exact quote.
Do not throw prohibited items into the dumpster. In the event you do, you can face additional fees or fines.
All major credit cards accepted for dumpster rentals in Trinity Center.


The practice of adding 2-stroke oil to diesel is a topic that is enthusiastically discussed and debated by diesel vehicle owners around the world. The consensus of opinion on the ideal blending ratio as per some internet forums is reported to be a 200:1 volume mixture of JASO-FC grade 2-stroke oil in low sulphur diesel. The benefits of this are claimed to be better lubrication of injectors and fuel pumps, improved cetane number resulting in better combustion, and no detrimental effects. As these claims are based on anecdotal evidence, this study aimed to quantify any such effects under scientific laboratory conditions.
The results of the study support a view that the practice of dosing diesel with 2-stroke oil is surprisingly ineffective in terms of lubricity and cetane improvements. Engine performance, fuel consumption and emissions were also unchanged; however the use of 2-stroke oil in diesel is potentially harmful to modern diesel injection equipment. Trace amounts of zinc, an element which is found in most 2-stroke oils, are well known to cause injector nozzle fouling and the study measured high levels of injector fouling when the test engine was running on diesel dosed with 2-stroke oil. While the oil industry may not mind the additional revenue from the sale of 2-stroke oil with each tank of diesel, this study demonstrated that it is not in the best interest of the user to do so.
It is well known that some diesel vehicle owners add 2-stroke oil to their diesel tank when they fill up. This topic is frequently discussed and debated, most notably on internet forums. The consensus is reported to be a 200:1 volume mixture of JASO-FC grade 2-stroke oil in low sulphur diesel. The benefits of this are claimed to be better lubrication of injectors and fuel pumps, improved cetane number resulting in better combustion, and no detrimental effects - based on anecdotal evidence.
The motivation for following this self-medication advice stems from a lingering urban legend that modern, low sulphur diesel has inadequate lubrication capabilities in the high-tech fuel pump and fuel injection hardware. There is also a concern that some suppliers of discount diesel (and others) may stretch their profits by blending illuminating paraffin in to the diesel and it is argued that a small dose of 2-stroke oil will help to compensate for the impaired lubricity caused by any illuminating paraffin dosing.
Superficially, it seems like a reasonable, belt-and-braces approach that is well aligned with the South African tradition of making a plan to get through difficulties. However, if one considers that the competitive automotive and fuel industry has conducted extensive research and agreed on carefully formulated fuel specifications to ensure reliable performance and long engine life, it is a fairly cavalier move on the part of the motorist to just add some extra "stuff" to the fuel in the belief that it will make it even better. This is especially true if one considers that 2-stroke oil is a very light oil that works to lubricate the internals of a 2-stroke engine because it is designed to form a residue that accumulates after the petrol evaporates. This is fundamentally different to the situation inside the diesel injection equipment where the diesel does not evaporate and a 200:1 trace of 2-stroke oil would remain dissolved in the fuel.
Notwithstanding the repeated assurances by the fuel industry that the fuel specifications for low sulphur diesel contain stringent provisions to ensure adequate lubrication for the engine components, the advocates for blending 2-stroke oil in diesel remain unconvinced due to lack of any published technical literature on the topic. Low sulphur diesel is a sensitive topic because there is also a very strong sector demand for even lower levels of sulphur in diesel to enable the introduction of more efficient and cleaner diesel technologies. (Perversely, such technologies would very likely be harmed by the addition of 2-stroke oil, as shown later in this paper).
Sasol has expressed the view that the practice of dosing diesel with 0.5% 2-stroke oil (equivalent to 200:1) is, at best, ineffective in terms of the problems described above, and at worst, it is potentially harmful to modern diesel injection and exhaust after treatment equipment (ie. catalytic converters). This view has elicited the reasonable public request that Sasol should indicate what tests were conducted to provide the basis for their view and this technical publication is intended to address that request.
This section is included in an attempt to provide a brief and simple outline of the underlying technical principles of lubrication and diesel lubricity measurement. This forms the context of the fuel testing that was carried out and provides the basis for conclusions that were inferred.
The lubricity of a liquid can be loosely defined as its ability to prevent wear between moving parts. The manner in which it achieves this ability has two facets. Liquids generally tend to wet a metal surface which means that the liquid is actually adhering to the material surface. The liquid also coheres to itself, so any movement between the moving metal parts causes the liquid to be dragged into the contact area and to get between the two interacting surfaces. In this way, the fluid acts as a lubricant by squeezing itself into the rubbing interface and keeping the two rubbing surfaces apart. This is termed full hydrodynamic lubrication ( Stachowiak, 2005 ) and it relies on there being adequate rubbing speed between the parts to drag in enough liquid. Increasing the load by pressing the rubbing surfaces together has a negative effect – the load tends to squeeze the liquid out. The inter-liquid "cohesion" is a liquid property called viscosity and an increase in viscosity will help to promote full hydrodynamic lubrication, however if the fluid is too viscous to be pulled into the gap, it may hinder lubrication. Mechanical equipment is therefore designed to use a lubricant within a specific viscosity range to ensure adequate lubrication.
When it comes to the diesel injection equipment of modern vehicles, the diesel pump and injectors are internally lubricated by the diesel fuel itself and full hydrodynamic lubrication is the design target. However, at slow engine speeds (like when starting the engine), the fuel lubrication can get a bit marginal. This is where another liquid property becomes critical, the surface-wetting characteristic, which is termed the boundary lubrication condition ( Stachowiak, 2005 ). There are certain types of molecules (polar molecules) ( Stachowiak, 2005 ) that adhere really well to a metal surface and they can be very effective at preventing wear under boundary lubrication conditions. Such molecules are found in trace amounts in crude-oil, but unfortunately, the process of removing sulphur from the diesel also tends to remove the polar molecules. This is how the rumour of low-sulphur diesel having poor lubricity got started, however, it is quite simple to just replace the lost polar molecules by adding a lubricity improver additive (LIA) which is the universal norm for low-sulphur diesel practiced by the oil industry.
The measurement of diesel fuel lubricity was a requisite step in the process of defining a fuel specification that was agreeable to all the industry stakeholders. For this purpose, it was necessary to develop representative test methods and there were two top methods to choose from. The industry was initially divided in opinion as to which methods were most representative and this section will delve a little bit deeper here to understand which method is best for the current topic ( Nikanjam, 1999 ).
The one method was the Scuffing Load Ball-on-Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator (SLBOCLE) (ASTM D6078, 1999). The SLBOCLE test device presses a steel ball bearing against a rotating steel ring that is partially immersed in the lubricating fluid. A load is applied to the ball and it is increased until a specific friction force is exceeded which corresponds to the appearance of a "scuff" mark on the rotating cylinder. The load in grams at which this happens is recorded as the test result. In the United States, the Engine Manufacturer's Association (EMA) guideline recommends a SLBOCLE test result in excess of 3100g as a minimum requirement for an acceptable fuel. Other sources are more conservative at recommending 3500g as an acceptable benchmark. As this test method has never formed part of a formal specification, these indicators can be used as a guideline.
The competing method was the High Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR) (ASTM D6079,1999) which comprises of a steel ball that is pressed against a flat surface with a fixed load of 200g. The ball is then rapidly vibrated back and forth using a 1 mm stroke. After 75 minutes, the flat spot (wear scar) that has been worn on the steel ball is measured with a microscope. The size of the wear scar (in microns) is directly associated with the lubrication qualities of the fuel being tested. There is general agreement based on pump wear testing that if the HFRR wear scar diameter is less than 460 microns, the fuel will perform satisfactorily in an engine. European engine manufacturers and fuel injection pump manufacturers developed a round robin program in an effort to evaluate these two test procedures and they concluded that the HFRR may be a better predictor of fuel lubricity in an engine environment.
In terms of this simplified description of lubrication principles, one can appreciate that the SLBOCLE and HFRR methods do not actually measure the same thing. The SLBOCLE method, starting with a light load applied to the ball, will initially enjoy full hydrodynamic lubrication which will become challenged as the load is increased. The process will transition into boundary lubrication conditions as the load continues to rise and the test will finally end when the limits of boundary lubrication are reached and the ball scuffs the cylinder surface. In the HFRR test, on the other hand, the initial conditions are clearly beyond the boundary lubrication zone because wear always takes place. However, as the flat spot on the ball grows in size, the point is reached where the applied load is spread over a sufficiently large contact rubbing area for boundary lubrication to start to take effect. However, the motion is reciprocating (stop – start - stop), so the worn flat spot will continue to grow until full hydrodynamic lubrication can keep the metal surfaces apart. In simplistic terms, one could say that the SLBOCLE test measures the point at which boundary lubrication fails whereas the HFRR test measures the degree to which full hydrodynamic lubrication is achieved. In effect, therefore, the SLBOCLE test is mostly indicative of the fuel's wall-wetting characteristics and is a relevant test procedure for seizure protection and the presence of polar molecules, while the HFRR test is more indicative of the fuel viscosity and is a relevant test procedure for wear. As the methods measure different lubricating regimes, it is not surprising that there is poor correlation between the methods ( Nikanjam, 1999 . In general most fuels that meet the HFRR specification would also provide sufficient seizure protection, although this is not guaranteed and in order to ensure adequate lubricity it is important to consider both.
For the 2-stroke oil investigation, it was clear that results from both SLBOCLE and the HFRR tests would be required. The first step was to assess whether the trace amount of 2-stroke oil would improve the boundary lubrication situation (i.e. the hypothetical low-sulphur issues) and the second to assess whether it would improve the full hydrodynamic lubrication situation (i.e. low-viscosity IP dosing issues).
Engine tests were conducted at the Sasol Automotive Lab in Cape Town, using accepted industry standard test procedures. The engine used in this case was a 1.6 litre, 4-cylinder turbo-diesel engine with piezo-electric common rail fuel injection from a popular passenger car sold in South Africa.
The results of the various test procedures are given in the sections below with brief descriptions.
The HFRR (High Frequency Reciprocating Rig) was used to measure diesel lubricity by rubbing a steel ball on a plate in a bath of fuel. The ball develops a flat spot over the course of the test which is called the wear scar, the diameter of which is the measure of diesel lubricity. All diesel sold in South Africa must pass this test with a maximum wear scar of 460 microns, which does ensure adequate lubricity for all diesel fuel systems. This is the same specification as applied in Europe and many other parts of the world. The results in Figure 1 represent the fuels tested as per Table 1.
The test method has an uncertainty band indicated by the error bars on the graph. Only differences that exceed these repeatability limits can be considered significant. Results that fall within the repeatability band of the method are considered to be the same. The neat 2-stroke oil itself was also tested and it is interesting to note that the lubricity of the oil is not vastly better than a final market diesel, hence it is not surprising to see no significant difference between the various fuels and those dosed at 200:1 with 2-stroke oil. Liquid fuel properties such as viscosity were identical at a 2-stroke oil dose of 200:1 in the diesels.
Note that by law in South Africa, diesel has to meet SANS 342:2014 lubricity specifications before being sold into to the market. In cases where lubricity does not meet the HFRR specification, a lubricity improver additive will be dosed at the refinery or depot and the bulk fuel tank will be tested for compliance. The refinery diesel results from Figure 1 are not unusual for desulphured diesel which does not contain a lubricity improver additive. The difference between the refinery and market diesel in Figure 1 is indicative of the efficiency of the lubricity improver additive itself and puts the minimal effect of 2-stroke oil into perspective.
The other test method for diesel lubricity used in this study was the SLBOCLE (Scuffing Load Ball-on-Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator). This method measures seizure load. Although it is not written into any legislated specification for diesel, it was used to gain a better understanding on the lubricity effect of 2-stroke oil in diesel. The results are presented in Figure 2 using the same test fuels.
Similar to the HFRR, the method has some degree of uncertainty indicated by the error bars. Neat 2-stroke oil was also tested here and the results are very similar to the HFRR in terms of the negligible lubricity benefit of 2-stroke oil in a diesel fuel system application.
Note that the practise of diluting diesel with illuminating paraffin (IP) is illegal and has a detrimental effect on lubricity. As seen in the results in Figure 1 and Figure 2, 2-stroke oil will not help to bring this into specification; whereas additional lubricity improver additive might be able to. In South African law, IP has to contain a tracer additive which enables easy detection of diesel that contains IP. Results of diesel-IP blends are not published here as this practice should in no way be endorsed by a technical publication, however it can be revealed that the effect of 2-stroke oil was similarly negligible.
According to the Derived Cetane number test method ASTM 6890, fuel samples are ignited in a combustion chamber at elevated temperature and pressure. The ignition delay is measured and correlated to the cetane number scale. The results in Figure 3 represent the relevant fuels tested.
There is no technical reason for trace amounts of a light lubricating oil to materially change the ignition characteristics of diesel. The results follow by indicating negligible differences in cetane number when 2-stroke oil is added to diesel at 200:1. The repeatability of the test method is indicated by the error bars, and results within this repeatability are considered to be the same.
Zinc levels as low as 1pmm in diesel can cause severe injector fouling and such fuels are used for injector fouling engine tests to accelerate fouling for research purposes. Low levels of zinc were measured using the ICP-AES method specifically calibrated for diesel measurements and accurate to 15ppb. Figure 4 indicates the various fuels and 2-stroke oil blends that were tested. Included in this figure is the injector fouling test fuel which is discussed in further detail in Section 5.5.
Zinc content held in solution is strongly dependant on the solvency power of the specific fuel, which is why different fuels can show different zinc contents for the same level of zinc added ( Velaers, 2013 ).
2-stroke petrol engines are associated with excessive exhaust gas emissions and visible blue smoke. In order to quantify the effect of 2-stroke oil on exhaust emissions in a diesel engine, exhaust emission tests were conducted according to the NEDC (New European Drive Cycle) at the Sasol Automotive Lab on a transient engine dynamometer. The engine used was the same 4 Cylinder common rail turbo-diesel as described in Section 4.
Exhaust emissions of the Market Diesel were compared to a 200:1 blend of Market diesel and 2-stroke oil. The test was repeated three times for each fuel and the average results were compared. The results showed that the 2-stroke oil had a negligible effect on all legislated emissions (Carbon Monoxide, Hydrocarbons, Nitrogen Oxides and Particulate Matter (black smoke)). There was also no evidence of any visible smoke. The fuel consumption over the test cycle was also unchanged. This is in-line with expectations as 2-stroke oil is a light oil such as diesel, so small amounts should have no marked effect on emissions from a diesel engine. Any resultant damage to exhaust after treatment systems can however increase emissions.
The Sasol Common Rail Injector Fouling test method is based on a worldwide industry standard test for injector fouling. The development of this test procedure and subsequent results have featured in a number of peer reviewed international publications ( Velaers, 2012/2013 ). In this study fuels were tested without detergency additives or any artificial zinc addition. The same 4 Cylinder common rail turbo-diesel as described in Section 4 was used in this test procedure on a bench dynamometer at the Sasol Automotive Lab.
The engine test was started with new injectors and was run over a very high load test cycle for 16 hours. Every 30 minutes the engine's full power and associated fuel flow was measured at 4400rpm (rated power and maximum rail pressure point of the engine). Any drop in power and fuel flow over the running time of the test indicates that injector fouling is taking place, restricting fuel flow though the injector nozzle holes into the engine.
The EN590 diesel used is the standard reference fuel for this test. This was compared to the same EN590 diesel dosed at 200:1 with 2-stroke oil. Figure 4 shows that the zinc content for this fuel was 0.135ppm, and EN590 diesel contains no zinc. Figure 6 shows the results of the injector fouling test. Regular diesel contains no zinc and causes almost zero flow loss in the test. Injector fouling test fuel, which is artificially dosed to 1ppm zinc as depicted in Figure 4, typically results in around 6% flow loss in the same test. The results show that fuel flow is reduced by 2% over the 16 hour engine test when 2-stroke oil is mixed with diesel.
This also results in an engine power loss of 2%. This result is therefore not surprising as even trace amounts of zinc can cause injector fouling in modern engines ( Leedham, 2004 ).
Injector deposits form gradually over time. If they don't strongly bond to the injector they can break off under the forces of the fuel flow and thermal contraction of the injector. This is why in this test procedure, the engine is stopped and allowed to cool after 8 hours before being restarted. This explains the increase in fuel flow at the 8 hour midpoint in the test. Metal based deposits, such as those caused by zinc, bond very strongly to the injector nozzle and build up continuously. These are permanent and not removed by cold starting. It follows that regular use of 2-stroke oil in diesel could result in substantial injector fouling over the lifetime of a diesel engine. Furthermore, in modern vehicles with exhaust gas after treatment systems, zinc and other metal contaminants collect in the diesel particulate filter (DPF) and do not burn off when re-generated, thus blocking it over time.
2-stroke oil is a product designed very specifically to dissolve homogeneously in petrol and lubricate parts of a 2-stroke engine once the petrol has evaporated off the metal surface. 2-stroke engines are designed to require minimal lubrication though the use of roller bearings on all rotating parts as well as having only one piston ring. The efficacy of this product as a lubricity improver for diesel fuel is extremely limited, and this study proves that it has no measurable effect in terms of improving diesel lubricity. It is however shown that the lubricity of low sulphur refinery diesel can be substantially improved by Lubricity Improver Additives which are specially formulated for use in diesel and on diesel engines. These additives are routinely used by oil companies throughout the world to ensure that diesel complies with the stringent lubricity specifications in each country.
The dilution of diesel with IP, petrol or contamination by water, are risks that all diesel engine operators face. Each one of these aspects can result in the ultimate failure of diesel injectors and fuel pumps. Unfortunately no amount of 2-stroke oil will mitigate the problem if these substances make their way into the diesel tank, and even a lubricity improver additive will be ineffective in the case of petrol and water contamination. The best way to guard against such contamination is to use a reputable brand of fuel from a reputable outlet. In the unlikely case of a fuel related failure, consistent use of the same filling station or brand makes a liability claim against the respective retailer that much easier to prove. Suspected fuel contamination should always be followed up by a fuel sample analysis of a fuel sample taken from the vehicle tank, and not the fuel filter. In the case where expeditions into remote areas are undertaken, it would be more beneficial to fit a higher capacity water trap to the vehicle and to replace the fuel filter more regularly than to invest in 2-stroke oil as a diesel additive.
While this study does show that no detrimental effects on lubricity or exhaust emissions are caused by the addition of 2-stroke oil to diesel, fuel injector fouling is a possible risk. The trace amounts of metals such as zinc found in most lubricating oils, including 2-stroke oil, can cause rapid injector fouling. While some high quality diesel fuels on the market, such as Sasol turbodiesel™ ULS, contain detergency additives that can clean up these sort of deposits, metal contaminants can still be harmful. The diesel particulate filter (DPF) fitted to most modern diesel vehicles is very effective in capturing soot (carbon) which can be readily burnt off (regenerated) when blocked. Other contaminants found in oils, such as zinc, result in ash formation in the DPF which eventually results in a permanent blockage and premature failure of this costly component.
It would therefore be irresponsible to advise or condone the use of 2-stroke oil in diesel and this practice is not recommended.
At a 200:1 volumetric blending ratio, 2-stroke oil has a negligible effect on diesel lubricity.
All diesel fuel sold in South Africa has to meet the SANS 342:2014 lubricity specification to ensure the proper protection of diesel fuel pumps and injector systems.
The low sulphur diesel products sold by Sasol contain lubricity improver additives which are far more effective than 2-stroke oil.
At a 200:1 volumetric blending ratio, 2-stroke oil has a negligible effect on diesel cetane number.
No measurable effect on all other regulated diesel properties was measured at a 200:1 dose of 2-stroke oil in diesel.
2-stroke oil can contain around 16ppm zinc, or higher depending on the formulation and batch.
Trace amounts of zinc in diesel are known to rapidly accelerate injector nozzle deposits.
Engine test results show that a 200:1 blend of 2-stroke oil in diesel results in a 2% loss of engine power in a 16 hour test due to injector fouling, a risk that would apply to any common rail diesel engine, but could also worsen fouling in older engines.
Vehicles fitted with a diesel particulate filter (DPF) in the exhaust system could experience reduced DPF life due to the collection of ash and metal based contaminants in the filter over time with the continued use of 2-stroke oil.
The abovementioned results should hopefully clear up many of the public misconceptions around the use of 2-stroke oil in diesel and highlight why both oil companies & engine manufacturers do not recommend the addition of any after-market additives, ie. 2-stroke oil, to the fuel tank. It is also good advice to use fuels from reputable outlets backed up by the technical support of a competent fuel company to enable the best engine performance and durability.
Sasol Southern Africa Energy is acknowledged for funding this work and for providing the necessary technical research facilities. The author would also like to acknowledge colleagues Andy Yates, Renier Nel and Belinda Harker for their valuable input.
ASTM D6079-11, Standard Test Method for Evaluating Lubricity of Diesel Fuels by the High-Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2011 (first version 1999), www.astm.org.
ASTM D6078-04, Standard Test Method for Evaluating Lubricity of Diesel Fuels by the Scuffing Load Ball-on-Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator (SLBOCLE), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2010 (first version 1999), www.astm.org.
ASTM D6890-13, Standard Test Method for Determination of Ignition Delay and Derived Cetane Number (DCN) of Diesel Fuel Oils by Combustion in a Constant Volume Chamber, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2013 (first version 2003), www.astm.org.
EN590-2010, Automotive fuels - Diesel - Requirements and test methods, European Committee for Standardization, Brussels, 2010.
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Stachowiak GW, Batchelor AW, Engineering Tribology 3rd Edition, 2005, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann.
Velaers A, de Goede S, The Properties and Injector Fouling Performance of Neat GTL and EN590 Diesel Blends in Various Diesel Engines, 2012, SAE Technical Paper 2012-01-1692.
Velaers A, Woolard C, de Goede S, Injector fouling performance and solubility of GTL diesel dosed with zinc, 2013, SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-1697.


A new search for a permanent Cal Poly president begins in the fall after the CSU Board of Trustees decided not to hire two finalists in a search this spring; a third finalist withdrew his name and cited the salary amount as one of his reasons for that decision.
Cal Poly's interim president is expected to receive roughly the same salary as outgoing president Warren Baker, according to Cal State University officials.
The CSU Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the salary for interim president Robert Glidden this afternoon.
Baker earns $328,209 in addition to a $60,000 allowance for housing. Glidden is expected to earn $328,200 after the CSU Board votes, said CSU spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp.
Uhlenkamp said he expects Glidden to use the home on campus for the president. Baker lives in a residence off campus.
Glidden is expected to start his interim position on Aug. 1 after Baker retires as the longest-serving CSU president. Baker began serving as president at Cal Poly in 1979.


Keller Williams Realty of Burbank, Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge are proud to present the 8th annual Thank-A-Soldier Care Box Assembly. As a community, our goal is to collect items to put in care boxes to ship to our brave brothers and sisters currently serving in all of the United States Armed Forces. It's a one day event where the whole community is invited for a BBQ, live entertainment, and the opportunity to participate in this amazing charity. We collect items to place into the care boxes and them ship them overseas just in time for the holidays! It's a wonderful, uplifting event, we encourage everyone in the community to be a part of it! There is no charge to attend the event – we just ask for donations towards the troops wish list!
For more information, please visit www.Thank-A-Soldier.com. We hope to see you there!


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The Delta State Directorate of Transport has observed the re-emergence of the use of motorcycle (Okada) as means of transportation in Asaba, Warri, Effurun and Abraka. This is in spite of the fact that the State Government ban on the use of motorcycle as a means of transportation in these areas is still in force.
For the avoidance of doubt, the State Government had on the 1st of November 2012, placed a ban on the use of motorcycle for private or commercial purposes in the above mentioned towns to check the incidence of crimes, such as, armed robbery, snatching of bags, and trailing of bank customers by hoodlums.
The Directorate has also observed that some of the unlawful riders are Police Officers and other uniformed law enforcement personnel of government who are supposed to ensure that government directives are enforced.
To check the security risk associated with the use of motorcycle or Okada on our roads, residents in Asaba had in a publication, in the Pointer Newspaper of 27th September, 2017, appealed to Government and security agencies to stop the use of motorcycle as means of transportation, especially in the areas where its use has been banned.
In response to the demand of residents in Asaba, the Directorate will soon roll out a taskforce on enforcement as well as commence the confiscation of motorcycles found on restricted areas in Asaba and other areas of the State where the use of motorcycles has been banned.
Accordingly, the Commissioner of Police Delta State is hereby called upon to advice Police Officers and other uniformed law enforcement officers to desist from the use of motorcycles in Asaba, Abraka, Effurun and Warri in line with the ban placed by the Delta State Government.
By this announcement, the Delta State Directorate of Transport has requested the State Police Area Commander in Delta North, Delta South including the Divisional Police Officers in these areas to enforce the ban on the use of motorcycles.
It is stressed that defaulters will be prosecuted to serve as a deterrent.


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The permanent inadequacy of being a woman (of colour)
Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff
Since gal-dem was nominated for two awards last week, I've been suffering from permanent symptoms of inadequacy. The natural reaction to news such as this would be happiness, I assume. But while I couldn't stop grinning after seeing the initial nomination for best online comment site, the second, where I was personally shortlisted for Arts, Culture and Entertainment commentator of the year, left me pinioned. All I could think was that I didn't deserve it, that it could only lead to bad things, that there were so many better writers than me at gal-dem, and, that everyone else around me – despite their praise – must be asking themselves the same question: "How did she do it?"
These are, of course, classic feelings related to "imposter syndrome"*. First documented by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes in the 1970s, who noticed over a two year period of working with over 150 highly successful women that "women find innumerable means of negating any external evidence that contradicts their belief that they are, in reality, unintelligent", it has since been found that imposter syndrome affects just about every demographic you could think of: men, women, adolescents, teachers, professors, students and so on.
'I don't think I have imposter syndrome because I'm black, but it is definitely heightened because I'm aware of how little my social capital is'
But, I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to argue that, at least in the creative industries, the difficulties women of colour face could mean that they are left more vulnerable to imposter syndrome than most. I spoke to two of the essay writers at the launch of bestselling book The Good Immigrant last week, who seemed to be dealing with similar issues. Our very own Liv Little, the editor of gal-dem and basically a superwoman, has spoken to me about how despite being presented with opportunities that she's created, "it's easy to feel like they aren't really for you, or that they somehow shouldn't be happening".
Another hugely successful gal-dem, Paula Akpan (who co-founded the I'm Tired project), says that she sometimes feels undeserving of the exhibitions and workshops she does: "When people thank me for the project I'm just there like, 'I haven't actually done anything'," she says. "I don't think I have imposter syndrome because I'm black, but it is definitely heightened because I'm aware of how little my social capital is as a woman of colour."
Personally, I feel imposter syndrome in most aspects of my life. Sometimes I even feel more satisfaction failing at something, because it proves that my suspicions about my lack of ability were right. This is why, at the end of every football match I used to play on a Sunday during university, I would be far more happy if we lost rather than if we won and, in particular, if I had scored a goal. When we won, I realise now, I worried too much about people's expectations of me. Next time, I told myself, I wouldn't score any goals and they would be disappointed. It was all just a fluke. As my journalism career has progressed, I've experienced similar emotions.
The reality could be that actually, what myself and the other gal-dem have been experiencing isn't just simply imposter syndrome. Because of the tiny role we still play in the mainstream creative industries, our heightened visibility, the intersectionality between race and gender that we embody and the prejudices that we are open to, I don't think I'm paranoid in thinking that the imposter syndrome felt by women of colour is egged on by others who also question our success.
'At the end of every football match I used to play on a Sunday during university, I would be far more happy if we lost rather than if we won'
This is the key difference between the imposter syndrome suffered by women of colour and others: the strong forces telling our subconscious that we are undeserving of success and that we don't belong in the environments we inhabit. We don't see people who look like us, hear accents like ours, or, necessarily, have role models. Our insecurities over our achievements are the effect of people reacting with shock when they realise how well gal-dem is doing, when security guards challenge us in spaces that we have events planned in, when our professionalism is questioned and when, all too often, we're expected to work for free.
Director and screenwriter Ava DuVernay, behind Selma, has acknowleged this too. "I am an anomaly," she said in a recent interview. "I just feel like I have a short window of time. And there's no black-woman Mike Nichols, or Spielberg, or Soderbergh, or Spike, you know what I mean? There is nobody [about whom] I can say, I'm gonna have a career like hers, 'cause it just doesn't exist! Not even a white woman! All I know is right now, the window's open. I'm trying to crawl through it and bring a whole bunch of Negroes and Negresses in with me."
Another problem is that sadly, because of the age we're in, tokenism still exists. As a black journalist, like DuVernay, I'm a physical anomaly. That, coupled with racism in the industry and the fact that my early journalism career has been helped on by diversity schemes, leaves me in a place of genuine, and, I believe, understandable doubt about my own abilities and whether or not journalism is a good fit for my skill-set. Have I, I have to wonder, been fast tracked into this career by well-meaning, fluffy-hearted liberals who want to see someone like me, from a working class, ethnic minority background, succeed?
My Dad was frank when I spoke to him on the phone about the nomination. Although he praised me (and is very proud in general), he did also say: "You could have been nominated because there weren't enough black women on the list." It's true that less than half of the journalists on the Comment Awards shortlist are women, in an industry where we make up 45 percent. I am the only black woman in the shortlist, and it appears there are only two other WoC shortlisted in general (Roula Khalaf and Anjana Ahuja), to seven MoC.
gal-dem, unlike every single other website or publication on the shortlist (with the possible exception of Media Diversified), is completely unfunded, barely a year old, and has no full-time staff. I'm over 20 years younger than Rachel Cooke, and 40 years younger than A.A Gill – the two other journalists shortlisted in my category – and have yet to secure a permanent role at a national newspaper or online outlet.
A cynic would say that I make a good poster child, and gal-dem is a neat fit for an industry that is steadily becoming aware of its problems with diversity. But while I will fight anyone (not really, I'm a pacifist) who insults our magazine because I genuinely believe that gal-dem is deserving of its nomination, it's harder to feel as secure in my own work. As a collective in the main I feel strong and proud. On my own, the idea of ambition and success makes me want to coil away into a shell.
'It's true that the Comment Awards saw 34 shortlist places to men and only 16 to women. I am the only black woman in the shortlist'
There are however, a few things that keep coming back to me. Genuine praise from anonymous Twitter-ers whose bias, strangely, I feel I can measure. A staff member at a magazine who said that gal-dem's first print issue, which was published last week, was the best independent magazine he'd ever read. The conversation I once had with a friend who explained why he thinks that the marginal benefits that "positive action" can bring don't outweigh money and the equivalent advantages of the private schooling system, which educates so many journalists.
So, I suppose I would be lying if I didn't admit that sometimes, despite the imposter syndrome, somewhere just above my belly-button, a tingling of pride sets in. But I'm certainly not expecting to win an award.
*Imposter syndrome does not fit into the clinical criteria for a psychological syndrome
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The Roman Pontiffs on Socialism
A very interesting collection (via Tea at Trianon) of quotations from all the popes from His Holiness Benedict XVI back to Blessed Pius IX on the subject of socialism and how it cannot be reconciled with traditional Christianity. It has become so widespread today, and rather taken for granted, especially in Europe and Latin America, that we can easily forget that not just one pope here or there but every single pope since the time of Karl Marx has consistently condemned socialism and communism as contrary to everything that the Christian religion is about.
Posted by MadMonarchist at 6:23 PM
Labels: Catholic, Catholic Church, Pope, religion, socialism
Indeed. Modernism is what begat not just liberalism, but also Communism and Fascism. All these material ideologies were philosophically paved the way for by the French Revolution.
And before them the American Revolution to a degree, yes?
MadMonarchist February 4, 2011 at 11:59 PM
In a way, yes, but to a much lesser degree than the French Revolution. The American Revolution was actually a war of secession rather than a true revolution. King George III was still King despite losing the war and there was no class struggle (most of the leading revolutionaries were very wealthy men), no social upheaval and there was no effort to totally remake society. In America they simply broke away from the British Empire, even maintaining to a large extent the British system of government but with appointed senators rather than hereditary lords and an elected executive rather than a monarch.
ZAROVE February 5, 2011 at 12:18 AM
The American Revolution was the First in the Modern World, and was built on the original ideas that Drove the French Revolution. I is interesting to note though that other than the Two Thomas's, Jefferson and Paine, America's Founders were rather Antipathetic towards the French Revolution. Perhaps because France had been an ally, or because they were it was far more far reaching in the French Revolution.
Most of America's Fenders weren't terribly hung up on the Ideology, with the Soaring Rhetoric mainly used to Justify the Revolution ad to produce support for it. While they mainly were Republicans, they weren't as openly Hostile towards Monarchy by and large as they were for erecting a new system Which worked toward their advantages and fit their pet theories.
Still, they were Liberals one and all (despite what the TEA Partiers and Glenn Beck prefer to think) and did embrace the ideals. But the True start of this goes back to the English Civil War, Cromwell, and the Roundheads, which produced in the end John Locke.
The real problem is, once you begin down that road toward Egalitarianism and the Rule of the People, then Democracy itself becomes Inevitable, despite how America's Founders wanted to avoid it. If all men are created Equal and all men ought to have the ability to Vote in Elections to set up the Government or to Run for Office, and if you accept that all power is rightly invested in the will of the people as understood by a Majority Vote, Democracy is a matter Of time. And once you have Democracy, and the ideal that all men should; be Equal, its only a short step towards Marxism. Socialism makes perfect sense from a Democratic View, as it assumes the People as a whole have supremacy over the will of any Individual, and the resources of the Individual should be under the guidance of the Will of the People. One you have that, and the idea That its unfair for some people to be disadvantaged, then the use of Public ally collected Money to pay the poor and ill becomes more plausible. This leads inevitably towards Communism, which see's no one as superior to an open else, and no one should have the right to have more than anyone else s its unfair, and goes against The Creed that All Men (Now people) Are Created EQUEL!
Loads of people, especially in America, think of Communism as the Opposite of Democracy, and the very Antithesis of America's Founding Vision. Some even say tat Communism and Monarchism are the same in principle, but they do this without understanding the Theories behind either. But, the Truth is that Communism is a Natural Development, and comes at the end of Democratic Thinking. In that way, Marx, and Lenin for that matter, were right: Communism is the Trust and Highest form of Democracy, and what any Society with Democratic values will endeavour to become.
While this is True, we still today however have Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians who unite Patriotism and Christianity and believe the American Governing Ideal is Divinely rooted in God's Holy Word, the Bible, and Communism, Monarchy, and all others are not looked well upon by God who wants all men to be Free and live in a Republic.
To them, Socialism is opposed to Christianity, but so is Monarchy.
MadMonarchist February 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM
Actually, for many Americans (perhaps even the public moreso than the politicians) it was the fact that the French had been allies that made them opposed to the Revolution. Louis XVI was like a god in America (the people never knowing about his misgivings on supporting them) and when he was killed the public thought it was an unspeakable outrage and viewed the revolutionaries as barbarians -which they were. For men like Washington, it was simply that, in spite of all the rhetoric, they still viewed themselves as English gentlemen and viewing the French as enemies is the most natural thing in the world for any proper Englishman.
It is also often forgotten (though not by you Zarove, I know you're all over this subject) that the American revolutionaries were inspired by the "enlightenment" thinkers of Europe -not the other way around. However, the success of the American colonies was certainly a moral inspiration for the French revolutionaries -no doubt about it. And, as you say, as relatively benign as the American Revolution was, they still had removed the cork from the bottle and allowed the genie to escape.
You are also correct (and a book was written about this some years ago) that 1688 laid the foundation for 1776 but setting the precident that the Crown existed 'by the grace of Parliament' rather than 'by the Grace of God'. Ever since the Prince of Orange became King William III and the succession was altered every successive British monarch has known that Parliament put them where they are and what Parliament can give it can also take away.
Shudder at the thought...
ZAROVE February 5, 2011 at 2:53 AM
Sorry, I study Philosophy, and Psycology, and know this much, that the beelifs we hold to drive us.
The biggest problem today s wthat we have an unquestionable Dogma about Democracy that does trace back to those Thinkers in the Enlightenment, and their beleifs and Ideals go unc hallenged. They are Sefl Evidently True to the majority of Modern persons, even thugh they clealry have flaws.
The French Revolution was mainly responsible for creating the world's first terrorist state. Terrorism in modern form was born during this time, which made Communism and Nazism possible.
You might say the liberal monarchy dated back to the Glorious Revolution, or even the systems of Poland and Sweden.
Notice a pattern in American history since the American Revolution. Any progress towards equality and social justice was always met with fierce resistance: slavery, segregation, even in more recent times with universal healthcare and social security. This is where Europe's monarchies have put the US (and Latin America) to shame.
elena maria vidal February 5, 2011 at 9:07 AM
Thank you for the link!
MadMonarchist February 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Sweden only went to a symbolic monarchy fairly recently and the U.S. (born of the British Empire) would not have been very influenced by the Swedes or Poles. As far as Europe being ahead on the "social justice" curve -I wouldn't consider that anything to crow about. Europe has been ahead in going broke because of those policies.
Sweden developed a political system with an influential Riksdag and cabinet by the 16th century, its first Instrument of Government (written constitution) in 1634, and the Age of Liberty in the 18th century. It gave peasantry representation, something few other countries did.
Social justice, I mean guaranteeing people a decent quality of life and social security. The reason Egypt and Tunisia exploded as such is the failure to provide both, whereas some other Arab states adamantly do better.
MadMonarchist February 6, 2011 at 1:29 AM
And yet Sweden was not completely democratic until the middle of the last century and prior to World War II had a King who still had final say on most important matters.
I hate it to break it to you, but no government of any sort ever has or ever will be able to "guarantee" a good life for every citizen. Greece exploded because government generosity bankrupted the nation and Britain's efforts at "social justice" have put them just behind Greece in the area of debt -it is only the respect the pound sterling still has that has kept people from freaking out over Britain.
It is not a difficult concept to grasp: governments cannot *make* money, they can only move it around, losing some in the process. No government can go on taking money from the productive part of the economy and giving it to the unproductive part indefinitely.
I believe in social benefits but also in personal responsibility. It is one thing to have universal healthcare, but do we expect taxpayers to, for instance, subsidise those like smokers, drug addicts, alcoholics, etc who cannot take care of their own bodies?
And how do you have both? Who is to then decide who lives and who dies? You? Some political pencil-pusher? Drug addicts are breaking the law (at least in most countries) and if it is the taxpayers you're concerned about the smokers and alcoholics pay far more taxes than anyone else, so why then are they denied services after paying the most in?
There's no perfect system. You either have collective responsibility in which everyone is pulled down the lowest common denominator or you have personal responsibility in which case you must be prepared to allow people to suffer for their own choices.
TANAKA8120 March 9, 2011 at 6:26 AM
communism & socialism are the most heinous form of egoism because they hide behind the mask of altruism
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John Clayton Mayer (Bridgeport (Connecticut), 16 oktober 1977) is een Amerikaanse singer-songwriter en gitarist die in Montana woont. Na afbreken van zijn studie op het Berklee College of Music verhuisde hij in 1997 naar Atlanta (Georgia) waar hij zijn talent doorontwikkelde en naam begon te maken. Zijn eerste albums Room for Squares en Heavier Things verkochten goed. In 2003 won hij tijdens de Grammy Awards de prijs voor de "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance" voor "Your Body Is a Wonderland".

Mayer begon zijn carrière voornamelijk met het spelen van akoestische rock, maar schoof langzamerhand naar het bluesgenre. In 2005 speelde hij dan ook met bluesartiesten als B.B. King, Buddy Guy en Eric Clapton. Zijn album Continuum, uitgebracht in oktober 2006, getuigt het meest van zijn liefde voor blues. Tijdens de negenenveertigste editie van de Grammy Awards in 2007 won Mayer de prijs voor "Best Pop Vocal Album" voor Continuum en "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance" voor Waiting on the World to Change. Naast het zingen is de carrière van Mayer inmiddels uitgebreid tot stand-upcomedy, design en schrijven. Zo heeft hij verscheidene stukken geschreven voor Amerikaanse magazines als bijvoorbeeld het blad Esquire.

Biografie

Jeugd
Mayer groeide op vlak bij de stad Fairfield als middelste van drie kinderen met oudere broer Carl en jongere broer Ben. Zijn moeder, Margaret, werkte als lerares Engels en zijn vader, Richard, verdiende de kost als schooldirecteur. De liefde voor muziek begon al op jonge leeftijd. Na het zien van een gitaaroptreden van Michael J. Fox als Marty McFly in Back to the Future raakte hij gefascineerd door het instrument. Naar eigen zeggen was hij een jongen die terughoudend was op school, maar bij vrienden thuis pakte hij af en toe de gitaar. Toen hij dertien jaar oud was, huurde zijn vader een gitaar voor hem en zijn broer. Vanaf januari 1991 kreeg hij op elke maandag gitaarles bij Fairfield's 'Professional Music Center' van gitaardocent El Ferrante. Hij was zo gefascineerd door het instrument, dat zodra hij thuis kwam meteen gitaar ging spelen. Het liefst speelde hij de hele nacht door, maar zijn moeder maakte de regel dat hij om 21:30 moest stoppen.

Nadat Mayer zijn gitaar kreeg, gaf een buurman hem een cassette van de Amerikaanse blueszanger Stevie Ray Vaughan. Door het beluisteren van de cassette ontstond er bij de jonge tiener een grote bewondering voor blues. Na twee jaar oefenen op de gitaar begon Mayer op te treden in bluescafés en andere locaties in de buurt. Hij speelde in een band getiteld Another Roadside Attraction met Sam Morrissey als bas en Alex Wiser als drummer.

Toen Mayer zeventien was, werd hij vanwege een hartritmestoornis een weekend opgenomen in het ziekenhuis. Terugkijkend op het incident, zei Mayer: "That was the moment the songwriter in me was born". Bij thuiskomst van zijn ziekenhuisbezoek schreef hij dan ook direct zijn eerste teksten op papier. Na het afstuderen werkte hij voor vijftien maanden in een benzinestation totdat hij genoeg geld had om zijn eerste echte gitaar te kopen – een Stevie Ray Vaughan signature Stratocaster uit 1996.

Vroege carrière
Toen Mayer 19 was studeerde hij aan de Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Maar na twee semesters verkoos hij al plotseling met de studie te stoppen. Na aansporen van zijn vriend Clay Cook verhuisden de twee naar Atlanta, Georgia, waar zij onder de bandnaam LoFi Mastars optraden in lokale cafés en muziekclubs. De band hield echter niet lang stand, omdat het genre van de band ter discussie stond. John Mayer wenste het genre meer de popkant op te sturen, maar dat viel niet in de smaak bij Cook. De twee wegen raakten gescheiden van elkaar en Mayer begon een solocarrière. Met de hulp van lokale producer Glenn Matullo nam Mayer dan zijn eerste onafhankelijke ep Inside Wants Out op. Het 'album', dat slechts acht nummers bevat en te kort is om de titel album te dragen, is voornamelijk akoestisch begeleid. Zijn eerste commerciële single met de titel "No Such Thing" is dan een feit. Met een hele band, waaronder co-producer David "DeLa'' LaBruyere op de basgitaar, begon Mayer op te treden door Georgia en andere omringende Amerikaanse staten.

Eerste albums
Het talent van Mayer bleef niet onopgemerkt. Na een optreden tijdens het Amerikaanse festival South by Southwest kreeg de Amerikaanse zanger de kans om te tekenen bij de platenmaatschappij Aware Records. Naast het feit dat Mayer mocht optreden tijdens Aware Festival-concerten en dat zijn nummers opgenomen werden in compilaties van Aware, bracht Mayer begin 2001 zijn eerste echte album uit. Het album Room for Squares verscheen echter alleen op het internet. Het album werd geproduceerd door John Alagia. Nadat Aware een deal sloot met Columbia Records besloot Columbia in september 2001 het album te upgraden met het nummer "3x5" en de eerste vier nummers uit Inside Wants out (gemixt) toe te voegen.

Eind 2002 bracht Room for Squares enkele radiohits op, zo als No Such Thing, Your Body Is a Wonderland en uiteindelijk Why Georgia. In 2003 won Mayer een Grammy Award voor "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance" voor Your Body Is a Wonderland. In een speech zei Mayer: "This is very, very fast, and I promise to catch up."

In 2003 bracht Mayer een live-cd en -dvd van een concert in Birmingham (Alabama), onder de naam Any Given Thursday, op de markt. Het concert bevat oorspronkelijk niet opgenomen nummers als "Man on the Side" en "Something's Missing" (samen geschreven met Cook) dat later ook op het album Heavier Things verscheen.

Heavier Things, het tweede album van Mayer, werd uitgebracht in 2003. Het album, dat geproduceerd en gemixt werd door Jack Joseph Puig, werd ontvangen met lovende kritieken en groeide uit tot een commercieel succes. Hoewel het niet zo goed verkocht als Room for Squares, stond het hoog in de Amerikaanse hitlijsten. Met het nummer "Daughters" wist hij zelfs de eerst plek te bemachtigen in de hitlijsten en ontving hij tevens een Grammy voor "Song of the Year" waarmee hij concurrenten als Alicia Keys en Kanye West achter zich wist te laten. Hij droeg zijn prijs op aan zijn grootmoeder, Annie Hoffman, die in mei 2004 overleed. Hij won daarnaast ook de Grammy Award voor "Best Male Pop Vocale Performance".

In 2005 vormde hij tijdelijk een bluestrio in samenwerking met Steve Jordan en Pino Palladino, genaamd 'John Mayer Trio'. In deze formatie toerde hij gedurende 2005 door de Verenigde Staten. In november van datzelfde jaar verscheen het livealbum Try!.

Continuum
Het derde album, getiteld Continuum, werd in de Verenigde Staten op 12 september 2006 uitgebracht en 16 oktober 2006 in Nederland. Het album werd geproduceerd door John Mayer en Steve Jordan. Mayer wilde naar eigen zeggen een album maken waarin popmuziek wordt gecombineerd met het gevoel en geluid van de blues. Het album bevat ook twee nummers die hij eerder opnam met het John Mayer Trio: "Vultures" en "Gravity" waarover hij gezegd heeft dat het het belangrijkste nummer is dat hij ooit heeft geschreven. De eerste single van Continuum was Waiting on the World to Change, die hij op 16 juni 2006 uitbracht. Naast Jordan op drums en Palladino op basgitaar spelen op dit nummer ook 'Ricky Peterson (keyboard) en Roy Hargrove (trompet) mee. Gedurende de zomer en het najaar van 2006 toerde Mayer met Sheryl Crow door de Verenigde Staten en Canada.

Op 7 december 2006 werd Mayer genomineerd voor vijf Grammy Awards voor het jaar 2007, waarvan onder andere de prijs voor Album of the Year. Ook ontving hij met het John Mayer Trio een nominatie voor zijn eerdere album Try!. Mayer won er uiteindelijk twee: "Best Pop Song with Vocal" voor "Waiting on the World to Change" en "Best Pop Album" voor Continuum.

In 2007 bracht Mayer het album Village Sessions uit. Hierop staan zes akoestische nummers die afstammen van het album Continuum en de tournee Try!. Het album werd opgenomen met Jordan en Palladino en Ben Harper, Robbie McIntosh (van The Pretenders) en Ricky Peterson (lid van Mayers toerband en voormalig producent van de Prince-albums). Dat alles in de The Village studio in Los Angeles.

Op 1 juli 2008 bracht Mayer een live-dvd van zijn concert in the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles van december 2007 op de markt. De registratie is verzorgd door Danny Clish. Mayer trad op met een akoestische setting en een setting met het John Mayer Trio, gevolgd door een set met de band van Continuum.

In 2008 werkten hij en andere artiesten uit de Verenigde Staten, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Canada en Zuid-Afrika aan het album Songs for Tibet, een steunbetuiging aan Tibet en dalai lama Tenzin Gyatso. Songs for Tibet verscheen tegelijkertijd met de Olympische Zomerspelen 2008 in de Volksrepubliek China: het album werd op 5 augustus uitgebracht via iTunes en op 12 augustus via muziekwinkels overal ter wereld. Sinds de invasie van Tibet in 1950-1951 bezet China het land met - volgens critici - een wijdverbreide politieke, religieuze en culturele onderdrukking tot gevolg.

Op 7 juli 2009 speelde Mayer het nummer Human Nature op de herdenkingsdienst van Michael Jackson, die op 25 juni 2009 was overleden aan een hartstilstand. Eerder al speelde Mayer een solo op Fall Out Boys cover van Jacksons Beat It.

Battle Studies
Op 17 november 2009 verscheen er een nieuw album van Mayer. Het liedje Who Says werd de eerste single van Battle Studies. Volgens Mayer zouden er veel singles van het album verschijnen, in tegenstelling tot zijn vorige albums.

Voor het schrijven van zijn nieuwe album Battle Studies huurde Mayer een huis in de heuvels van Hollywood in Californië waar hij leefde en werkte gedurende zes maanden. Om zich optimaal te kunnen concentreren en in te leven in het schrijven van nieuwe nummers liet hij het huis ombouwen in een heuse 'muziekstudio'. Over zijn nieuwe locatie zei Mayer op zijn blog: "It's a house in a clandestine location that's being converted into a music studio. No, not a music studio. An entire music experience". Tijdens het schrijven van zijn album hield hij zijn fans op de hoogte door het plaatsen van video's en foto's, aantekeningen en teksten op zijn blog.

Mayer raakte geïnspireerd door de Californische rock/pop uit de jaren 70 en 80, waarvan de invloeden goed zijn terug te horen. Het album, bestaande uit elf nieuwe nummers, heeft een totale luistertijd van 45 minuten.

Born and Raised
Na Battle Studies nam hij een paar jaar rust. "Ik was mijzelf helemaal kwijt", zo vertelde hij in het praatprogramma van Ellen DeGeneres, "Ik zei stomme dingen in interviews en dat wilde ik niet meer". Ook verklaarde hij dat hij een nieuwe start wilde maken en daarom verhuisde naar Montana.
Zijn album Born and Raised zou oorspronkelijk in het najaar van 2011 in de winkels liggen, maar dit werd uitgesteld vanwege een granuloom in zijn keel. Mayer moest met spoed onder het mes maar herstelde snel. Op 27 februari kwam de eerste single van het album Born and Raised uit, genaamd Shadow Days. Het nummer werd een kleine hit in Nederland met een 17de plaats als hoogste notering. Op 18 mei 2012 kwam het album uiteindelijk uit. In totaal zou het 3 weken op 1 staan in de Album Top 100.

Het granuloom in de keel van Mayer keerde ondertussen weer terug, waardoor hij de geplande tournee voor het promoten van zijn nieuwe album moest afzeggen.

Op 16 juni kwam de tweede single van Born and Raised uit, genaamd Queen of California. Het nummer werd echter geen hit en bleef steken in de tipparade. De bijbehorende clip werd uitgebracht op 30 juli.

Op 15 december 2012 verscheen Mayer in het Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey tijdens het optreden van The Rolling Stones in de VS in het kader van hun concerttournee 50 & Counting. Hij speelde samen met de band en met Gary Clark jr. een cover van het nummer I'm Going Down.

Op 18 april 2013 introduceerde Mayer een van zijn grootste muzikale invloeden, de legendarische bluesgitarist Albert King, in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Albert's style is the reason guitar faces were invented," zei hij tijdens zijn speech. Daarna speelde hij samen met Gary Clark Jr. een van Kings bekendste nummers, Born under a Bad Sign.

Paradise Valley
In mei 2013 maakte Mayer bekend een nieuw album uit te brengen in de zomer. Hierover zei hij: "Not a Born and Raised 'plus'... A new group of songs to bring the whole thing up to date with Summer 2013. I have that hunger that always precedes something meaningful." Het kreeg de titel Paradise Valley en kwam uit op 13 augustus 2013. Op 18 juni kwam de eerste single uit genaamd: Paper doll. Dit werd een kleine hit in Nederland.

Net zoals Born and Raised werd het album gemaakt in samenwerking met Don Was.

Tijdens het opnemen van Paradise Valley hield Mayer zijn fans via zijn eigen YouTubekanaal op de hoogte van de ontwikkelingen rondom het nieuwe album. Hij publiceerde wekelijks een video getiteld 'Studio Session', waarin stukken van de nummers die op Paradise Valley kwamen, te horen waren. Ook plaatste hij regelmatig foto's op zijn website. Bij de productie van Born and Raised liet hij weinig van zich horen en publiceerde bijna niets. Paradise Valley stond uiteindelijk 2 weken op nummer 1 genoteerd in Nederland. De kleine hit Paper Doll bleek uiteindelijk ook de enige hit van het album. De single die hier op volgde, Who You Love, bleef namelijk hangen in de tipparade en bereikte de Single Top 100 niet. Het nummer is een duet met Mayer's toenmalige vriendin Katy Perry.

In juli 2013 begon zijn nieuwe wereldtournee. In oktober van dat jaar kwam hij naar Nederland voor drie uitverkochte shows in de Heineken Music Hall en de Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.

Tijdens de presentatie van het programma van Pinkpop 2014 werd bekendgemaakt dat Mayer op zaterdag 7 juni voor de tweede keer op Pinkpop zou staan. Eerder stond hij al in 2010 op Pinkpop. Ook werd er later bekendgemaakt dat hij op 20 juni een concert zou geven in de Ziggo Dome. Dit was binnen enkele minuten uitverkocht. Zijn optreden op Pinkpop kreeg overwegend goede reacties, ondanks dat Mayer voornamelijk minder bekend werk speelde.

Eind mei 2014 bracht hij tijdens zijn tournee door Australië een cover uit van het nummer XO, origineel gezongen door Beyoncé. Dit nummer werd zo goed ontvangen dat het binnen enkele dagen als single werd uitgegeven. Eind juni bereikte het nummer in verschillende landen, waaronder Nederland, de hitlijsten, zoals de 3FM Mega Top 50. Hij speelde dit nummer ook tijdens zijn concert in de Ziggo Dome op 20 juni.

In augustus 2014 bracht hij onder leiding van Eric Clapton, samen met andere grote namen uit de blues muziek zoals Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty en Willie Nelson, een album uit dat diende als eerbetoon aan de in 2013 overleden JJ Cale. Mayer covert op dit album samen met Clapton drie nummers van Cale. Het album kwam in verschillende landen binnen op 1 in de Album Top 100.

In 2015 was Mayer op tournee met de band Dead & Company, een spin-off van de jarenzestigband Grateful Dead. Op Mayers laatste eigen tournee speelde hij vaak covers van deze band, zoals: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad en Friend of the Devil.

The Search for Everything
Op 14 april 2017 bracht Mayer het album The Search for Everything uit. Op 30 januari 2017 kondigde John Mayer de 'The Search for Everything-tour' aan.

Privéleven
Mayer heeft een aantal tatoeages. Zo heeft hij "Home" en "Life" (van een nummer) op de achterkant van respectievelijk zijn linker- en rechterarm, "77" (zijn geboortejaar) op de linkerhelft van zijn borst, en een op een koi-karper lijkend figuur op zijn rechterschouder. Zijn gehele linkerarm is bedekt met een verzameling aan kleine tatoeages die hij in periodes aanvulde, en in april 2008 afmaakte. De verzameling bevat "SRV" (afkorting van zijn idool Stevie Ray Vaughan) op zijn schouder, een verfraaide rechthoek op zijn biceps, een op een draak lijkend figuur op zijn onderarm, en andere variërende bloemenfiguren. In 2003 heeft hij een tatoeage van drie vierkanten op zijn rechterarm laten zetten die hij naar eigen zeggen in de loop der tijd wil laten invullen. In 2009 zijn twee van de vierkanten gevuld.

Naast een verzameling aan tatoeages heeft Mayer ook een collectie aan gitaren. Mayer speelt doorgaans op een Fender Stratocaster en Fender had drie zogenaamde signature model-Stratocasters met Mayers medewerking op de markt. In 2018 bracht Paul Reed Smith een John Mayer Signature gitaar uit. Dit deed in de gitaarwereld veel stof opwaaien omdat het technisch een Stratocaster met kleine uiterlijke aanpassingen is terwijl Paul Reed Smith beroemd is om totaal andere gitaren. Doordat Mayer vaak een Marshall Blues Breaker-overdrivepedaal uit 1991 gebruikt werd dit vrij zeldzame pedaal inneens een populair pedaal.

Mayer is een gepassioneerde verzamelaar van gitaren en had rond 2006 een collectie van meer dan 200 exemplaren. Deze collectie is in 2008 uitgebreid tot meer dan 300 gitaren.

Ook heeft hij een zwak voor horloges, zonnebrillen en sneakers. Hij heeft een verzameling horloges en naar schatting (in 2006) meer dan 200 paar schoenen.

Discografie

Albums

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|align="left"|Inside Wants out||01-01-1999||-||||||
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|align="left"|Room for Squares||05-06-2001||-||||||
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|align="left"|Any Given Thursday||11-02-2003||-|||||| Livealbum
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|align="left"|Heavier Things||09-09-2003||26-03-2005||19||28||
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|align="left"|As/Is||19-10-2004|||||||| Livealbum
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|align="left"|Try!||2005||-|||||| Livealbum
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|align="left"|Continuum||16-10-2006||21-10-2006||12||35||
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|align="left"|Village Sessions||01-12-2006||-||||||
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|align="left"|Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles||27-06-2008||05-07-2008||16||32|| Livealbum
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|align="left"|John Mayer||2009||18-04-2009||77||6|| Verzamelalbum
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|align="left"|Battle Studies||13-11-2009||21-11-2009||1(1wk)||72|| Goud
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|align="left"|Born and Raised||18-05-2012||26-05-2012||1(3wk)||25||
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|align="left"|John Mayer boxset||2013||17-08-2013||63||2|| Verzamelalbum
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|align="left"|Paradise Valley||16-08-2013||24-08-2013||1(2wk)||48||
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|align="left"|The Search for Everything||14-04-2017||22-04-2017||4||126||
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|align="left"|Sob Rock||16-07-2021||24-07-2021||1(1wk)||54||
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|align="left"|Born and Raised||18-05-2012||26-05-2012||30||13||
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|align="left"|Paradise Valley||16-08-2013||24-08-2013||17||11||
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|align="left"|The Search for Everything||14-04-2017||22-04-2017||26||9||
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|align="left"|Sob Rock||16-07-2021||24-07-2021||3||16||
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Singles

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|align="left"|No Such Thing||14-05-2002||-|||||| Nr. 97 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Daughters||24-02-2005||16-04-2005||30||5|| Nr. 29 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Clarity||2005||16-07-2005||tip17||-|| Nr. 80 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Waiting on the World to Change||2006||05-08-2006||tip4||-|| Nr. 55 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Gravity||2006||23-12-2006||tip13||-|| Nr. 66 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Dreaming with a Broken Heart||2007||-|||||| Nr. 96 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Beat It||2008||12-04-2008||tip3||-|| met Fall Out Boy /Nr. 98 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Who Says||2009||07-11-2009||18||7|| Nr. 13 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Heartbreak Warfare||2010||27-02-2010||3||24|| Nr. 6 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Half of My Heart||2010||19-06-2010||15||11|| met Taylor Swift /Nr. 40 in de Single Top 100 / Alarmschijf
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|align="left"|Perfectly Lonely||2010||27-11-2010||9||16|| Nr. 52 in de Single Top 100 / Alarmschijf
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|align="left"|Shadow Days||2012||17-03-2012||17||10|| Nr. 23 in de Single Top 100 / Alarmschijf
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|align="left"|Queen of California||2012||16-06-2012||tip20||-||
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|align="left"|Paper Doll||2013||06-07-2013||30||4|| Nr. 58 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Wildfire||2013||24-08-2013||tip19||-|| Nr. 77 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Who You Love||2013||09-11-2013||tip18||-|| met Katy Perry
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|align="left"|XO||2014||-|||||| Nr. 95 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Love on the Weekend||17-11-2016||26-11-2016||tip2||-|| Nr. 64 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Moving On and Getting Over||2017||-|||||| Nr. 52 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Still Feel Like Your Man||2017||-|||||| Nr. 93 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|In the Blood||2017||20-05-2017||tip2||-||
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|align="left"|New Light||11-05-2018||20-10-2018||29||9|| Nr. 46 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|I Guess I Just Feel Like||2019||02-03-2019||tip2||-||
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|align="left"|Outta My Head||2019||-|||||| met Khalid / Nr. 69 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Carry Me Away||2019||14-09-2019||tip16||-||
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|align="left"|Last Train Home||04-06-2021||19-06-2021||14||18|| Nr. 20* in de Single Top 100 / Alarmschijf
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|align="left"|Shot in the Dark||2021||12-02-2022||tip27*|||| Nr. 68 in de Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Queen of California||2012||11-08-2012||tip94||-||
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|align="left"|Paper Doll||2013||31-08-2013||tip83||-||
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|align="left"|Don't Wait||2014||23-08-2014||tip81||-|| met Eric Clapton
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|align="left"|Still Feel Like Your Man||2017||29-04-2017||tip||-||
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|align="left"|In the Blood||2017||24-06-2017||tip18||-||
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|align="left"|New Light||2018||02-06-2018||tip13||-||
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|align="left"|I Guess I Just Feel Like||2019||23-03-2019||tip||-||
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|align="left"|Outta My Head||2019||13-04-2019||tip||-|| met Khalid
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NPO Radio 2 Top 2000

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|align="left"|Daughters||*||*||*||*||*||*||1890||344||729||884||469||364||378||344||304||523||471||563||603||660||702||700||816||890
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|align="left"|Free Fallin||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||988||986||1010||1074||1220
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|align="left"|Gravity||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||-||-||-||-||635||330||575||453||509||593||655||665||626||687||786
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|align="left"|Half of My Heart(ft. Taylor Swift)||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||811||1327||864||986||1557||1865||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
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|align="left"|Heartbreak Warfare||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||379||612||831||725||1032||1125||1362||1342||1496||1598||1857||1973||-
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|align="left"|In the Blood||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||796||592||607||630||665||823
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|align="left"|Last Train Home||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||1811||960|-
|align="left"|New Light||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||1051||1285||1354||1727
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|align="left"|Perfectly Lonely||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||1617||1202||1805||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
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|align="left"|Shadow Days||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||1865||1852||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
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|align="left"|Slow Dancing in a Burning Room||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||1729||712||574||599||594||619||610||646||637||651
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|align="left"|Stop This Train||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||1998||-||-||-||-
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|align="left"|Waiting on the World to Change||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||-||871||1198||539||824||564||1082||482||978||1103||1248||1407||1410||1519||1885
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|align="left"|Who Says||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||*||-||-||-||-||-||1575||1560'||1852||-||-||-||-||-||-
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Een getal geeft de plaats aan; een '*' dat het nummer niet genoteerd kon zijn, omdat het nog niet was uitgekomen, een '-' dat het nummer niet genoteerd was en een '?' betekent dat de notering nog niet verwerkt is. Een vetgedrukt getal geeft aan dat dit de hoogste notering betreft.

Dvd's

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Quality Manager (m/f) – BayWa r.e.
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That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require certain multinational enterprises to include, within their annual financial reporting, specified information prepared in accordance with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's requirements for Country-by-Country reporting; and for connected purposes.
A letter from Caroline Flint to the UK Chancellor (Finance Minister) is available here. Her press release is below.
A senior MP and Public Accounts Committee member, Caroline Flint, has written to the Chancellor ahead of the Budget to seek his support to tackle corporate financial transparency in the wake of the Google fiasco.
The Government is legislating to require multinationals to report their tax, revenues, profits and assets to HMRC, as part of an international effort by the G20 and OECD countries to stop profit shifting. The MP is seeking to go a step further to ensure this information is published.
The MP welcomed measures for disclosure of financial data to HMRC, which were included in the 2015 Financial Act which the Government has been consulting on. Ms Flint describes the tax avoidance problem as "unfinished business" and urges the Chancellor to back this extra step, which will be presented in a Bill to the Commons the day before his Budget.
The MP has received cross party support for her Ten Minute Rule Bill, the Multinational Enterprises (Financial Transparency) Bill which is tabled the day before the Budget. The MP is hoping the Government will incorporate the measures in their plans but will move amendments to the Finance Bill if they don't.
The Bill has gathered support from MPs including Public Accounts Committee Chair, Meg Hillier, and PAC members including Conservatives Nigel Mills and Anne-Marie Trevelyan. The twelve principal sponsors of the Bill are: Caroline Flint, Meg Hillier, Karin Smyth, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, John Pugh, Nigel Mills, Margaret Hodge, Stephen Kinnock, Catherine McKinnell, Jeremy LeFroy, Phillippa Whitford and Mark Durkan.
To date, ten members of the powerful Commons Public Accounts Committee are supporting the Bill.
The Bill also has the backing of business and tax groups Fair Tax Mark and Tax Justice Network, as well as aid organisations including Oxfam, ActionAid, CAFOD and Christian Aid.


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Purcell Promoted to Chief Strategy and Administration Officer
The Banner Bank board of directors announced today that Cynthia "Cindy" Purcell has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Administration Officer. Previously, she held the position of Executive Vice President, Community Banking and Administration.
"This promotion formally recognizes the expanded role Cindy has taken on over the past 12 months, as well as the ongoing, significant contributions she has made for our clients and our Bank," said Mark Grescovich, Banner Bank CEO. "Her strong leadership capabilities and broad experience bring a unique talent to this expanded role. Cindy's strategic leadership, client-centric approach and deep banking expertise are key to our continued growth and long-term performance—especially as we strive to continually strengthen our client and community relationships."
In her new role, Purcell will lead the execution of the Bank's long-term corporate strategic objectives. For example, in partnership with Peter Conner, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Purcell will focus on the pursuit of consistent and favorable financial results with respect to sales and profitability, as well as mergers and acquisitions. These responsibilities are in addition to her existing leadership of Community (consumer and small business), Digital Strategy and Channels, Residential Lending, Operations, Marketing & Communications, Government Relations, Facilities & Purchasing, and Community Reinvestment.
Purcell is a seasoned banking executive with 42 years of experience. Early in her career, she was Chief Financial Officer of a community bank that later merged into Banner Bank. Since joining Banner, she has held significant leadership roles with expanding responsibilities, including oversight of the Bank's branch network, as well as most operations and administrative functions. Additionally, she has served in numerous state and national industry leadership positions and is a strong advocate of preserving the strength of the banking industry.
"Last year we embarked on a considerable exploration bank-wide to identify and implement innovative ways to continually enhance our overall client experience in our rapidly evolving industry, as well as create more efficient and scalable operations to support our successful relationship-model of banking," Purcell said. "I'm proud of the engagement of our teams and the progress we have made. I am honored to formally take this broader role in leading our teams' strategy development, and more importantly, the achievement of our long-term strategic objectives."
J.D. Power Again Ranks Banner Bank Highest in the Northwest for Retail Customer Satisfaction
Forbes again names Banner Bank one of the World's Best Banks
Banner Ranked Among Top 50 U.S. Public Banks
Forbes Names Banner One of America's 100 Best Banks for Sixth Year
Banner Bank Receives Top CRA Rating from the FDIC
Forbes Again Names Banner One of America's 100 Best Banks


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Golds at Ghent International
Junior Girls Medal at International Regatta
Henley Rowing Club's J18 girls travelled to Ghent, Belgium, for an enjoyable weekend of racing as part of their final preparations before National Schools Regatta at the end of this month. The regatta attracts crews from all over europe as well as being a significant draw for UK and Irish crews. It is held over two days with separate events being held each day.
Competing in the coxless fours event Alicia Redman, Georgia Edwards, Amy Sotnick and Emma Lister had comfortable victories over Irish crews from Cork and Dublin, but a mixed Belgium crew who are part of the Belgium National squad proved too strong for the girls. Whilst in both Saturdays and Sundays events the girls challenged to halfway the strong head wind work in the Belgiums favour who took Gold on both days with the Henley girls picking up the silver medals.
In the Junior quads event Ella Morgan, Lauren Kay, Clare Pearson and Florence Wiggins, faced over 20 crews from all across europe. With large events the crews race heats side by side but the overall winner is based on the faster time from all the heats. On Saturday in their heat the quad had a comfortable victory but had to wait the results of the other heats to know if they had done enough for an outright win. In the end their closest rival SN Perreux of France where some 12 second behind. The girls repeated their victory on Sunday where the races are seeded based on Saturdays results so the fastest crews get to race one another.
The two crews combined to race in Junior eights with cox Freya Reid. On Saturday with opposition from Ireland and Belgium in a straight final the girls took an early lead which they extended to 20secs by the finish. On Sunday the Belgiums put a national squad crew together to give the Henley girls a race. This resulted in a very exciting and tight race. The Belgiums taking an early lead which they extend to 3/4 of a length by half way, but with 500m to go the Henley girls pulled it back and nudged in front. The race was neck and neck up the enclosures but the Belgiums crossed the line first with a final push.
It was good weekend's work for the girls coming home with three gold and three silver medal from six crews, and getting in some much needed multi lane race experience and some tight racing.
Senior Men Medal in U23
The young pair of Leon Redman and Brendan Edwards, both aged 20, competed in the Under 23 pairs event on both days. Saturday saw them win a silver medal finishing behind a strong mixed German crew , both of whom had recently gained representative honours in the German national squad. On Sunday the pair executed their race plan well and were leading at the 1000m mark, showing good speed and technique, but eventually finished in third place behind two mixed German crews. The pair were pleased with Sunday's performance, which gave them a time that would have seen them take third place in the elite pairs event that followed their final. The regatta was their first opportunity to race as a pair since forming their partnership a few weeks ago, and they were particularly encouraged by their improved performance on Sunday where they halved the time gap from 40 seconds to 20 seconds between them and the pair from Frankfurt that won the elite event on both days.
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Henley Masters, Senior and Junior crews were out in force over the weekend and returned with a haul of medals from Reading Town and…


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