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Those Alternative Socialist "Stimulus" Plans
By Rick Wolff (Posted Feb 22, 2009)
Global Economic Crisis, SocialismLatin AmericaCommentary
There are, of course, other ways to "support and stimulate" the declining US economy: those that congressional debaters, presidential advisors, and the dutiful media never discuss. All the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury ever do is justify their functions as lenders and spenders "of last resort" (when the private sector will not). Neither ever mentions that the state could stimulate the economy if it became the employer and producer of last resort (when the private sector lays off and cuts back). The carefully stage-managed passage of Obama's economic policy package avoided any troubling consideration of all the stimulus roads not taken.
The various sorts of more-or-less socialist alternatives are reviving from thirty years of hibernation. They swirl just below the surface of public life: direct products of global capitalism's deepening crisis and the continuing failure of official US policy responses. Soon those alternatives will enter the public consciousness and debate here as they already did in Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. The anti-capitalist demonstrations, general strikes, and new political movements abroad that raise socialist demands there have their impacts here too.
One kind of socialism — that focused on nationalizing formerly private enterprises — has already broken through in the US. The government nationalized some large financial enterprises and public debates weigh more nationalization in finance, in the auto industry, and beyond. The knee-jerk accusation — that such talk is socialistic — no longer stops the debates. Where, we may wonder, will nationalization stop?
Another kind of socialism remains taboo — state hiring of workers for whom no private sector jobs exist. That idea is still unspeakable. The fact that FDR did it in the depths of the Great Depression makes no difference yet. Hiring the unemployed for state jobs would put the money paid for their wages directly into circulation (which is what loans to banks failed to do). It would immediately mean many resumed mortgage payments and many fewer foreclosures.
Growing state employment may confront private capitalist corporations with new competition. Fear of that competition trumps those corporations' desires for the new customers that a state jobs program would provide. So most media keep mum about a mass government jobs program and officials follow suit. However, just as what was unspeakable six months ago — bank nationalization — is being discussed now, the ban on discussing public employment for the privately unemployed may be broken soon.
Then there are socialists for whom nationalization and public employment programs are not enough. Their preferred stimulus program would go beyond lending and spending more and taxing less (policies so far unsuccessful). They want to reorganizeproduction — to change how goods and services get produced — as well as employ more people. The change they favor would establish state enterprises where workers function as their own collective board of directors — rather than having directors be other people accountable to shareholders and/or government officials. They would likewise provide financial incentives for parallel reorganizations in private enterprises. For them, replacing a capitalist organization of production by a socialist one is the best solution for today and for a future freed from capitalism's crisis-prone instability.
For example, they say, had workers been their own directors in the 1970s, they would not have stopped raising workers' real wages while their productivity kept rising. If wages had not stagnated since the 1970s, neither household debt nor corporate profits would have soared to dangerous, unsustainable levels. They link those profits to the stock market bubble that burst in 2000, and they link out-of-control debt plus wild financial industry profits to the real estate bubble that burst in 2007/8. These socialists also argue that enterprises run by their employees would be less likely than capitalist firms to fire workers, foreclose on homes, and move production overseas: actions that today spread and deepen the economic crisis. Lastly, the production reorganization these socialists propose would require workers to become skilled at boards of directors' tasks (deciding what to produce, where, and how; and distributing the profits). They cap their argument by saying that economic democracy on the job is a condition for real (as opposed to merely formal) democracy in politics.
Remarkably, one part of Obama's just-passed stimulus program does combine an immediate crisis response (establishing a new health program that will inject more money into the economy) with reorganizing part of the economy. A new federal research council will get $1.1 billion to "compare drugs, medical devices, surgery, and other ways of treating specific conditions." Beyond stimulating the economy by hiring researchers, buying equipment, etc., the new council also begins to reorganize health care by evaluating and publicly reporting which among competing treatments for a disease is actually the most effective. If allowed to function, this new council will challenge many corporate advertising claims for the medicines, medical devices, etc. that they sell. Independently determining and publicizing the best treatments could lower huge US medical costs for individuals and businesses (which far exceed those in all other advanced industrial economies). Of course, corporations that fear losing sales will likely undermine the new council.
Corporations will also fight efforts by socialists to reorganize production. Capitalist enterprises would be threatened because inside reorganized enterprises — let's call them socialist — worker/directors would create very different working conditions for worker/employees. Because workers in socialist enterprises would be treated differently, they would produce different qualities of output and use the profits of their enterprises in different ways. Suppose capitalist enterprises had to compete on a level playing field with such socialist enterprises. US consumers would then have real choices — for the first time — between goods and services depending on what kind of production organization they emerge from (much as they can now choose depending on where commodities are produced, how organically they are produced, whether they are fair-traded, etc.). US workers would then have real choices — for the first time — between alternative work lives.
In response to today's capitalist crisis, government policy could move in socialist directions toward more nationalization, more public employment, and a socialist reorganization of production. This policy would combine an immediate crisis response with solutions for its longer-run causes and deeper foundations. By avoiding and delaying the public debate over such socialist policy alternatives, the powers that be subject the vast majority to the ever larger social costs of their system's crisis.
Rick Wolff is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and also a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. He is the author of New Departures in Marxian Theory (Routledge, 2006) among many other publications. Be sure to check out Rick Wolff's new documentary film on the current economic crisis, Capitalism Hits the Fan, at www.capitalismhitsthefan.com.
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Here's a Map of the Sanctuary Cities Jeff Sessions Has Threatened with Funding Losses
By Tim Marcin On 3/27/17 at 3:06 PM EDT
Attorney General Jeff Sessions joins White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 27, 2017. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
U.S. Sanctuary Cities Funding 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a press conference Monday that the U.S. government planned actions—most notably the pulling of federal funds—against so-called sanctuary cities and states for undocumented immigrants.
Sessions slammed the cities and states that flout federal orders by refusing to arrest or detain undocumented immigrants. The attorney general was reaffirming a longstanding position for the administration of President Donald Trump. In the news conference, Sessions painted a picture of violent criminals on the loose, stating that "countless Americans would be alive today" if it weren't for sanctuary cities and states.
"Such policies cannot continue," Sessions said. "They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on the streets."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released last week its first Declined Detainer Outcome Report, a new weekly document that outlines which jurisdictions choose not to cooperate with ICE requests. The first Declined Detainer Outcome Report also noted 118 jurisdictions that "have enacted policies which limit cooperation with ICE." In other words, it laid out which jurisdictions it considered to be providing some form of sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. (The list can be found on pages 23-33 on the report.)
There's no standard definition for what makes a city or state a sanctuary, so lists can vary wildly. The Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has slammed for white nationalist ties, has at times listed as many as 300 sanctuary cities.
Sessions noted that moving forward, any city applying for a Department of Justice grant would have to be certified as a non-sanctuary city in order to get funding. The department is scheduled to issue more than $4 billion in grants this year.
"We intend to use all the lawful authorities we have to make sure our state and local officials... are in sync with the federal government," Sessions said.
Check out the map below from Graphiq, which outlines the areas in the U.S. that could be most affected by the pulled funding.
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SES Yields Net Profits in Q1, Launches Share Buyback Program
by admin	| Posted on May 6, 2021
Artist rendition of SES-17. Photo: Thales Alenia Space
SES is launching a 100 million euro ($120.5 million) share buyback program after turning in what it viewed as a stronger-than-expected performance in the first fiscal quarter of 2021.
The operator's biggest wins for the quarter were: a 42% year-over-year increase in adjusted net profits to 75 million euros ($90.3 million); a 7% reduction in recurring operating expenses from the same period in 2020, and $180 million of backlog signed in the quarter for SES-17 and O3b mPOWER.
SES-17 is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2021. SES CEO Steve Collar said he was excited by the level of market interest in O3b mPOWER that the company has been seeing across all verticals.
"These important growth investments allow us to offer a significantly expanded set of low latency products and solutions to the market as the world emerges from the COVID environment and demand for connectivity increases exponentially," said Collar.
SES Video division revenues declined 4.6% year-over-year compared to the same period in 2020. The operator reported that it generated higher revenues across international markets and saw growth in the number of paying consumers subscribing to HD+ in Germany.
SES Networks' Q1 revenue of 173 million euros ($208 million) was flat year-over-year, with growth in government business offset by COVID-related declines in mobility services.
Additionally, Collar said that the operator remains on course with its efforts to clear C-band in the United States for 5G use and hit required milestones for spectrum payouts from the FCC. Collar discussed these efforts in an August 2020 interview with Via Satellite.
"The share buyback program that we are announcing today reflects our confidence in the long-term fundamentals of the business," said Collar. "The current share price does not reflect the underlying value of SES."
Analysts expressed similar sentiments about the value of SES' stock in September, predicting long-term growth opportunities for SES despite COVID-related headwinds in the mobility markets.
The post SES Yields Net Profits in Q1, Launches Share Buyback Program appeared first on Via Satellite.
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Born in Barcelona, Maria Miró is a talented young lyric soprano with a beautiful and distinct voice. She studies at the prestigious Liceu Conservatoire of Barcelona and the Royal Northern College of Music of Manchester.
She attends masterclasses with Montserrat Caballé, Julius Drake, Laura Sarti, Jeanette Favaro-Reuter, Jaume Aragall, Cynthia Sanner, Ana Luisa Chova, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Dalton Baldwin, François Le Roux and Nicolas Krüger; and received advice from Elisabetta Fiorillo, Viorica Cortez, Mariella Devia and Esperanza Melguizo. Se is currently perfecting her technique skills with Deborah Polaski.
Operatic roles to date include: Adele (Il pirata) at Teatro Real (December 2019); Musetta (La Bohème) at Teatre Faràndula in Sabadell (May 2019); Wellgunde (Das Rheingold) at Teatro Real (January 2019); Laurencia in the World Première of the opera Fuenteovejuna at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo (September 2018); Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) at Grand Opéra Avignon (October 2018); Penelope/Lady Rich (Gloriana) at Teatro Real (April 2018); Ines (Il Trovatore) at Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona (July 2017); Clotilde (Norma) at Teatro Massimo of Palermo (February 2017); also Clotilde and Mariana (Das Liebesverbot), Teatro Real of Madrid (2016); Mimì (La Bohème), Celebrate Voice Festival of Salisbury (October 2015); Pisana (I due foscari), conducted by Massimo Zanetti, Liceu of Barcelona (May 2015); Coryphée (Alceste), conducted by Ivor Bolton, Teatro Real (February-March 2014); Esprit (Cendrillon by Massenet), conducted by Andrew Davis, Liceu of Barcelona (December 2013); Maia (L'Atlàntida by Falla), conducted by Josep Pons, Teatre del Liceu (November 2013); cover in rehearsals of Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), conducted by Alejo Pérez and directed by Dmitry Tcherniakov, at Real (March 2013); First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), conducted by Andrea Grant, and Wheel-of-Fortune Woman (A village Romeo and Juliet by Delius), conducted by Rory MacDonald, at the Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland (November 2012); Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), conducted by Jeremy Carnall, at the Dorset Opera Festival (July 2012); Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), conducted by Olaf Storbeck, at the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar, Germany (September 2011); and Vanessa (Vanessa by Barber), conducted by Gareth Jones, at Opera Theatre of the RNCM, Manchester (March 2011), among others.
As a soloist, she performs throughout Spain and the United Kingdom. From 2006 to 2009, she is the soprano of the ensemble Com.Cat Trio, which broadcasted a repertoire of twentieth-century Catalan composers.
In 2019 she debuts at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid in El barberillo de Lavapiés, a production she will repeat in Oviedo that same year, Seville and Valencia, and in 2022 in the revival at the Madrid coliseum.
She recently participates in the world premiere of the opera Tránsito, a production by Teatro Real and Teatro Español that has been carried out at Naves Español Matadero in Madrid, with great critical and public success, as well as in the new production of Die Zauberflöte in Oviedo's operatic season and again at the Teatro Real in Götterdämmerung.
Her latest performances include her debut at the Tenerife Opera singing once more the rol of Laurencia in Fuenteovejuna.
Miró will soon take on new challenges at Teatro Real and Palau de les Arts in Valencia.
Website Maria Miró


Power Play - With just a week to go in the campaign, this general election is closer than any political contest New Zealand has seen for more than a decade.
The 2005 campaign was the last to be this hard to call, as National's Don Brash came within a whisker of ousting the incumbent Prime Minister, Helen Clark.
Political reporters on the campaign trail are constantly exclaiming through their tired fog that no one could have predicted it would be this way just six weeks ago.
Back then Labour was languishing in the mid to low 20s in polling and National was on a cake-walk back into office.
But with the election of Jacinda Ardern as Labour's leader, the opposition's fortunes changed overnight.
Labour has steadily climbed in the RNZ Poll of Polls to the point that it and National are neck and neck with National on 41.9 percent and Labour on 41.6 percent.
Just a week before that Labour was ahead on 41.8 percent with National on 41.1 percent.
In the final week both parties will be looking to take any opportunity to sway wavering voters.
To that end, Jacinda Ardern is working hard to make sure the young and 'youth adjacent' get out to vote, reminding them that with advance voting underway, they can vote anytime between now and the election.
Bill English is taking a more traditional approach, still talking about polling day on 23 September, and appearing surprised when voters told him on Friday that they had already cast their ballot.
As the campaign has intensified, the past weeks have seen National attack Labour's credibility on economic and fiscal matters with a ham-fisted claim that Labour had a $11.7 billion hole in its fiscal plan, which has since been widely debunked by economists.
But Jacinda Ardern's proposal to enact tax changes recommended by a working group in the first term of a Labour government was a weak spot that left her and her party open to accusations of not being upfront with voters.
Labour will be hoping that vulnerability has been removed with its reversion to the former leader Andrew Little's position it would take any planned changes to the electorate in 2020.
Has that change in position deprived National of a rich source of ammunition?
It has not changed its attack advertisements which continue to claim Labour will introduce a capital gains and land tax, as well as its misleading claim Labour would raise income tax.
Expect to hear more from National in the coming week about economic and fiscal credibility.
Bill English will be talking about the choice between what he characterises as National's strong and stable management, and the great unknown that voters could face under Labour.
He says the economy is tracking well under National and there is no need for change.
Jacinda Ardern will be highlighting what she sees as the risk in sticking with the status quo.
She says Labour will be focused on health and housing, arguing there has been so much neglect under National both areas are under significant pressure.
Both leaders will be travelling all over the country in the final week, trying to nail home those messages.
Bill English and Jacinda Ardern will meet for the final televised leaders debate on Wednesday night, but neither will be placing too much stock in that clash as by then they expect many people will have made up their minds.
However based on the tumultuous nature of the campaign, neither leader will have any more clarity about where those votes are going than anyone else does.
Poll of Polls - The lead has flipped with National now fractionally ahead of Labour, although now neither party can govern with just NZ First alone, writes Colin James.
National and Labour want voters to think they're in a "drag race". For those who need a reminder, this is still an MMP election, Brent Edwards writes.
Advance voting is continuing to attract tens of thousands of people to the ballot box.


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Наквасино — название населённых пунктов в России:

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Cancer is caused by quantum biology (random factor) and mutation (as an effect of changing radiation levels at prehistorian Earth (decreasing radiation) as a kind of a "safe mode" mechanism.
"It's MUTATION, Evolution of biology does not function without mutation. Therefore,for the continued fitness of entire species to profit from evolution,some mechanism has to weed out alleles in danger of becoming obsolete. Tragic from a human familial standpoint. But vital in the aegis of whole orders."
Therfore, I agree to the thesis by DuJuan Ross, that cancer is not (caused by) a disease.
>The mutiny-preventive stopgaps and checkpoints serving the integrity of a human cell that must be faithfully photocopied betw. 100 and 120 TRILLION times commands an ineffably crucial task.Rare as nuclear laminopathies occur in live births,still,the photocopyng hardware can and does get missensed sometimes, yes,even after 8,000,001 successful births. Aberrant cells w/ misshapen, herniated nuclei can only replicate non-stop morphologic pathogenesis throughout a body. Defective nuclear mechanics, due to breached scaffolds and faulty membranous anchoring of filament, sets off a chain reaction of senescence-events that range from susceptibility to heat shock, to cardiomyopathy, then to early demise.
.......In Nature, ants and bees commit suicide for the good of their colonies. Likewise, a fundamental feature of organic Life, is the apoptosis of certain cells whose usefulness to the soma ostends to be superfluous at some point. In the early history of cancer treatment, researchers operated under a significant misapprehension: instead of looking for agents that kill dividing cells, they should have been looking for agents that coaxed cell suicide...!
....Now that research is on the right path,results in curing some cancers may improve. Chemotherapy has not been wholly ineffective,mind you!.But its effectiveness was only by accident (It does manage to alleviate short-term agony in some victims of malignancies).
.........Mutation in nature is random,but selection is not. Both are needed for a species to continue to thrive, gene-wise.Mutation in a most important gene in chromosome 17 is the defining feature of a lethal cancer. In some 55% of all human cancers, TP53 is defective. That figure rises to 92% in lung cancers. People born with a defective version of TP53 out of the 2 inherited autosomally, have a 95% chance of getting cancer.
......Now, oncogenes are genes that encourage a cell to grow. For normative expression purposes, it's vital that these genes are switched OFF most of the time.If they become jammed ON, the result can be disastrous. As serum sodium in a cell is the polar opposite cation of a potassium ion, tumor suppressors, coded by TP53, are the opposite of oncogenes.
Whereas oncogenes cause cancer if jammed ON, tumor suppressor genes cause cancer if they are jammed OFF.
----The job gets done by various means, the most prominent way being to arrest a cell at a certain point in the cycle of its division and growth, then 'release it from arrest at a certain checkpoint in the proteomic sytem if all its papers are in order', so to speak. To progress beyond THAT much, ergo, a tumor must contain a cell that has both a jammed-on oncogene and a jammed-off tumor suppressor gene.
Unlikely event, thankfully, but that's not the omega of the affair! To avoid scrutiny and grow uncontrollably, a tumor must now evade an even more stringent checkpoint, manned by a gene that looks for abnormal behavior in a cell membrane and issues a cue to different genes to dismantle that cell from the inside, i.e. commit suicide. This is what TP53 does by coding for the protein p53.
.........One of the primary jamming-on oncogenes --- one that works in concert to promote Farnesyltransferase inhibition so as to normalize nuclei afflicted with progerin -cumulus---- is called RAS. It has 3 variants: H, K and N, each with specific proofreading roles. As oncogenes go, early-on in mammalian evolution, there may only have been one called MYC. Both division and death are triggered by this gene.
..... So, like a government initiative to establish correective checks and balances, a three-branch motif allowed for two more co-equal oncogenes to tether together. The others were BCL-2 and RAS, controlling each other's rampancy and gullibility to false signals from viruses.
RAS, in the aegis of nuclear morphology,signals an enzyme called GGTase1 (geranygeranyl transferase) to buffer the efficacy of zinc mettalloprotease STE-24 and the actual CaaX motif by adding a 20-carbon isoprenoid feature to the tetrapeptide box domain. Mainly, this is to ensure continuous membrane-friendliness of associated protein residues by causing stronger hydrophobicity needed for them to link up.
...........Viruses, however, are notorious for learning from their past insufficiencies! Human papillomavirus,which causes cervical cancer, for example,boasts 2 genes whose job it is to switch off TP53 from making the guardian protein p53. It has also 'learned' to cancel orders for other tumor suppressors that usually come thru in reconnaissance roles.
------Diseases attributed to the mutancy of LMNB-1 and LMNB-2 are only about 3. It works in much the same way as the A laminopathies do,but minus prelamin degradation and fewer prenylated protein truncations distorting its CaaX motif. LMNB-1 is vital for gene transcription and mitosis, and its irregularities are on chromosome 5q23.3 and 5q31.1 where myelodysplasias in the form of Pelger-Huet Anomaly (PHA) is the result of a mislocalized lamin B receptor site.
Cerebellar dysgenesis eventually happens when the myelin sheathing erodes and avails the CNS to unbearable cumulative stress.. More common is the defect,point mutational, due to lamin B-2 disappearance at pos. 13.3 on chromosome 19's short arm. This is where lipdystrophy in the guise of Barraquer-Simons Syndrome causes complete loss of adipose fat in limbs and neck.
More severe still, is adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy, which attacks the CNS in progressive stages after teen years (ADLD). Myelin-loss of the cerebellum at this magnitude may be attributable to the gross overexpression of a B lamin.
There are still many gaps in understanding the pathogenesis of laminopathic diseases. Investigation will improve with the sophistication of an already - superlative toolkit, I believe."
Only a choice number of cells are designated for apoptosis. Apoptosis is as fundamental to organic life as metabolism and cell division. Oncogenes have a small window of regulatory time for catalyzing cell growth. Tumor suppressors use the topoisomerase p-53 to police cells so that oncogenes don't overgrow. But, sometimes p-53 gets tricked and oncogenes keep growing, disobeying commands to kill themselves. This leads to rogue tissue growth."


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AT&T launches API platform to boost innovation and collaboration with mobile app developers
By Telecom Lead Team: Mobile major AT&T has unveiled
new developer initiatives at the sixth annual AT&T Developer Summit. As per
the new program, AT&T will support for the development of HTML5 mobile apps
with add-that-to-my-bill technology that will make it easy for developers to
monetize their applications through the AT&T bill.
AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets Chief Marketing
Officer David Christopher announced the new AT&T API Platform for
frictionless access to APIs, or software programming hooks that allow
developers to easily incorporate AT&T services into their applications.
New tools are expected to help developers create
multi-screen apps, including for AT&T's U-verse TV service.
AT&T announced AT&T Cloud Architect, a
developer-centric cloud platform providing storage and infrastructure
as-a-service.
A new AT&T Application Resource Optimizer tool will
allow developers to create apps that operate more efficiently, reduce data
usage, and save battery life.
AT&T plans to introduce a new AT&T App Store in
HTML5 with a fresh format that will benefit developers and customers –
underscoring AT&T's commitment to HTML5 technology.
"Applications are one of the primary reasons people
buy smartphones and tablets. With that appetite, we need to have the world's
greatest apps. Collaborating with developers and supporting their creativity
through the AT&T API Platform and other best-in-class tools is the best way
that we can make sure our 100 million-plus wireless customers have access to
the best apps and mobile experience," said David Christopher, chief
marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.
The AT&T API Platform will make app development
easier than ever by giving developers access to the APIs they need in one
convenient place. When developers start writing applications, the classes and
objects they will need to interface with AT&T services are already written,
and accessible. The platform empowers innovation through relationships with
outside developers, while maintaining AT&T's commitment to protecting and
maintaining our customers' privacy.
The platform will offer in-app billing technology that
will allow developers to receive payment for their apps through the
convenience, speed and security of the AT&T customer bill. The platform is
designed to support HTML5 browsers, part of AT&T's commitment to the
advancement of HTML5 technology.
AT&T is opening up AT&T U-verse receivers to
developers to enable development of multi-screen applications that interact in
the home with U-verse TV, the fastest-growing TV provider in the United States
over the past 11 quarters combined, with 3.6 million subscribers and $7 billion
in annualized revenue as of third quarter 2011.
AT&T also announced the coming launch of AT&T
Cloud Architect, an innovative suite of flexible, integrated cloud services for
developers and internet-centric businesses that allows users to build an online
business or run an application quickly with low operating costs.
The API platform (powered by Apigee) has been infused
with some additional detail and six disparate areas that are: Payment, Uverse
with Wireless, MMS/SMS, Location based services, device capabilities and
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mobile application development and service enablement that AT&T has been
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by-products of the combined developers and AT&T internal product
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shared by John Donovan in his presentation. Although it is an interesting
analogy for an application centric audience, one has to wonder how AT&T
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and end users. And there was a mention of global capabilities but there wasn't
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Fluidization Characteristics of a Prototype Fluidized Bed Reactor
F. ABERUAGBA, J.O. ODIGURE*, K.R. ADEBOYE, M.A. OLUTOYE
Chemical Engineering Department, *Department of Mathematics and Computer, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, remnickolutoye@yahoo.com
The fluidization characteristics of a prototype-fluidized bed laboratory reactor were understudied in order to investigate the suitable conditions at which the dehydrogenation reaction of butane could be carried out. To achieve this, a reactor with an effective volume of 1100ml was fabricated and coupled with temperature and pressure accessories.
Zeolites were obtained from the market and clay obtained from different sources and pre-treated was used as catalyst. Airflow at high velocity between 3000-7000ml/hr was used as the fluidising medium to obtain the bed characteristics while butane gas was used to obtain the dehydrogenation kinetics.
The temperature of the reactor system was varied between 353K and 413K while maintaining constant pressure of 1.5 105 N/m2 through a manifold gauge and a constant catalyst weight. Various methods such as pressure fluctuations, visual observations, and bed expansion were used to determine the transition velocity at which fluidization begins. It was observed that this depends on factors such as mean particle size, particle size distribution, and column diameter.
The minimum fluidizing velocity obtained for zeolite was 0.0133m/s and 0.0102m/s for treated clay materials both for a particle size of 250μm. The conversion of butane over the catalysts showed an increase in both cases with a maximum at 0.9813 at 413K. This decreases as the reaction progresses.
Prototype-fluidized bed reactor, Dehydrogenation, Minimum fluidising velocity, Conversion
The turbulent fluidization flow regime is commonly considered to lie between bubbling fluidization and the fast fluidization regime. It has been characterized by low amplitude of pressure fluctuations, resulting from the disappearance of large bubbles/voids. The first photograph of a turbulent fluidized bed, distinctly different from bubbling fluidization, was published by Matheson, Herbst and Holt (1949). A turbulent fluidization regime was introduced in the flow regime diagram of Zenz (1949). The first quantitative study seems to have been performed by Lanneau (1960) who measured local voidage, voidage fluctuations and pierced void lengths in a 76mm ID fluidized bed with fine catalyst particles at high gas velocities, although the transition from bubbling/slugging to the turbulent regime was not quantified. Kehoe and Davidson (1970) extended their work on slugging to higher velocity operation and identified the transition from bubbling to turbulent fluidization based on visualization of a 2-D bed and bubble rise velocity and capacitance traces in a 3-D column. Later the turbulent fluidization regime was reported by Massimilla (1973), Thiel and Potter (1977) and Crescitelli, Donsi, Russo and Clift (1978). In these early studies, transition to turbulent fluidization was generally determined based on visual observations and local voidage or pressure traces. The first transition criterion was proposed by Yerushalmi, Cankurt, Geldart and Liss (1978) to quantify the transition from bubbling/slugging to turbulent fluidization. The gas velocity, at which the standard deviation of pressure fluctuations reached a maximum was said to mark the beginning of the transition to turbulent fluidization. In recent years, the gas velocity has been widely adopted to define the transition to turbulent fluidization. Grace, Issangya, Bai and Bi (1999a) proposed several criteria to be satisfied for any flow regime:
· There must be distinctive features. The darting transitory voids viewed in Type I turbulent fluidization distinguish turbulent fluidization from the other fluidization flow regimes;
· There must be distinctive trends. Such features as the radical improvement in gas/solid contacting (Massimilla, 1973), reversal of the direction of the pressure fluctuation versus gas velocity plots (Yerushalmi & Cankurt, 1979), change in the tendency for gas mixing to vary with gas velocity, unique statistical and chaotic properties (Bai, Issangya & Grace, 1999) and a decrease in the amplitude of the root mean square force on immersed horizontal tubes (Grace & Hosny, 1985) are clear examples of distinctive trends;
· A flow regime should also be capable of being both fully developed and statistically steady. This criterion also appears to be met by the turbulent fluidization flow regime as defined above.
When the flow of fluid passes upwards through a particle bed and the drag force acting on the constituent particles is attained to balance the gravitational force exercised on the particles, the bed starts to be fluidised. With a further increase in the flow rate, each particle is put in motion from its quiescent state to a continuously agitated state in the upward stream of fluid. Therefore such a fluidized bed –which is used for heat exchangers, chemical reactors and drying equipment, etc-can well be expected to have an overall efficient contact of particles with fluid which results in a uniform temperature in the bed and a high rate of heat transfer between particles.
In general, it is well known that the mixing state in the fluidized bed is classified into two categories, that is, a state of aggregative fluidized bed and that of particulate fluidized one. In the former case, bubbles form in the particle bed while, in the latter case, bubbles do not form.
Regarding the clarification of a characteristic difference between the two beds, some light has been thrown on the subject, experimentally or theoretically, by studies of pressure drop across the bed, drag force acting on the particles and interstitial flow between particles (Pigford and Baron, 1985). Wilhelm et al proposed the use of the Froude number, , where umf and dp are minimum fluidization velocity and particle diameter, respectively based on the concept of interactive forces in the vicinity of bubbles generated. They predicted experimentally that the fluidized bed would become particulate if < 0.13 and aggregative if > 1.0. For instance, estimating their criterion of Froude number by using experimental data, one finds that the evaluated critical Froude number results in less than 0.13, when the behaviour of fluidization observed is found to still be aggregative (Fetterman, 1984).
This might be caused by mainly the fact that their resulting formulation was derived from only the interaction force balance at the minimum fluidization. Romero et al (1982) suggested a modified criterion of dimensionless groups including Froude number and Reynolds number, Remf = umfdp/vf where vf is the cinematic viscosity of fluid, on the basis of the instability theory of the bed as developed by Wilhelm et al (1983) whose bed stability theory is based on considering the fluidising medium and dense bed as physically separate phases, especially when the interface of physical system pertinent to bed stability adopted in their study is perpendicular to the fluidising fluid flow direction. They suggested that the criterion between particulate fluidized bed and aggregative fluidized bed is about 100 in a product of dimensionless groups, such as (ρp – ρf)/ρf, , Remf, and Lmf/Dc. Their prediction, however, is no more than agreeable to the experimental results in comparison with the Froude number criterion by Wilhelm et al (1983). Moreover, the use of a product of these groups as a criterion of fluidization is seen to be nebulous (cloudlike or vague) in the cases of air fluidization of mica carried out in the present study. Jackson (1983) and Pigford (1985) carried out their investigation on a premise that the criterion should be based on a consideration of the stability or growth rate of disturbances. However, it might be said that they made their prediction without detailed discussions of whether the solution derived from the equation of motion would diverge or not. Concluding this, notwithstanding the recognition that one of the factors comprised in the criterion is the Froude number, it should be noticed that these previous predictions for the criterion have not been met with satisfactory success. On the other hand, Harrison et al (1971) predicted a stable bubble to be possibly generated in the particle bed after fluidization. Theory of Harrison, et al. merely classifies fluidization into bubbling, transition, and non-bubbling fluidization. However, it is clear that the theory does not predict in advance which types of fluidization in a given system would exhibit in future. Moreover, Verloop et al (1971) confirmed analytically that the particles bed behaves homogeneously at a low voidage after minimum fluidisations. These results may well suggest that both the generation of bubble nuclei and the homogeneous expansion of particles bed could be assumed in the vicinity of minimum fluidization. Furthermore, it is considered that these interpretations throw a meaningful light on the clarification of the criterion problem.
Characteristics of fluidized bed reactor at high velocity fluidization
The behaviour of fluidized bed reactor at its fully developed stage requires the understanding of particles-fluid motion at the beginning of and after fluidization. It is experimentally well known that the pressure drop across the bed after fluidization could be described by Carman-Kozeny equation. When the fluid velocity has reached minimum fluidized one, the pressure drop across the bed will be equal to the total weight of the constituent particles per unit area. At the moment of minimum fluidization or the onset of particles motion, the net gravitational force acting downwards on each particle is balanced by the upwards component of the drag force. In order to ascertain the physical validity of Froude number as the criterion for prediction, it is required to consider the particles motion from their initial contact to onset of minimum fluidization. At the minimum fluidization, the well-known dimensional analysis of the particles motion under equilibrium is presented as follows:
Umf2/dpg = 4/3(1/Cdmf)(ρp- ρf)/ρf, Cdmf = Cdtf(e) (1)
where g is the gravitational acceleration, ρp density of particle, ρf density of fluid, Cdmf apparent drag coefficient of bed, Cdt drag coefficient of a single particle, and f(e) voidage function.
Since the drag coefficient is usually a function of Reynolds number, that is, Cd = f(Remf), then Umf2 /dpg is the same as Froude number. Considering these facts, equations above could be rearranged as follows:
Frmf/(ρp- ρf)/ρf = 4/3 f(e)f(Remf) (2)
DP, the pressure drop across the bed is closely related to drag force, Fd acting on the particles bed. The pressure drop across the bed is expected to be dissipated as the energy suspending the particles bed:
DP/L = Fd f(e).N = Φ(e)Uf (3)
where L is the bed height, N the number of particles per unit volume, and Φ(e) is the drag coefficient.
The above equation is based on the assumption that the drag force on the particles bed would be expected to depend on the relative velocity (Uf-Vp) between the fluid and the constituent particles as reported by Jackson (1963). However, in the steady state, Vp is negligibly small and also the available domain for DP/L equation is approximately Rep < 500. Accordingly, it is expected that the bed expansion could be evaluated by DP/L equation when Φ(ε) is obtained.
One of the purposes of present study is to discuss the parameters dominating the behaviour of particles fluidized bed and to establish a theoretical model, which might be more pertinent to the behaviour of fluidized beds, is made for a prototype fluidised bed reactor. For this purpose, the reactor bed was packed with catalyst (aluminosilicates) and is fluidised by air under controlled pressures.
The equipment used in this work includes vacuum dryer, tray dryer, water bath and hot plate manufactured by Gallemp Kemp Ind. USA. Similarly equipments such as Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), Colorimeter, Electronic weighing balance, and mercury thermometer, manufactured by Cole-Parmer Instrument Company, East Bunker Court, USA. All the glassware's are products of Pyrex and Technico Ltd, UK.
The chemical used are concentrated H2SO4 of analytical grade manufactured by Fisons Ltd., England. Clay samples were collected from different locations. For example, table 1 below shows the details.
Table 1. Source of clay samples
Kutigi
Erio
The analysis carried out on these samples was aimed at quantitative determination of the mineral constituents such as: SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, TiO2, K2O, and Na2O among others. The physical characteristics of importance such as surface area, particle size distribution, and particle density were also determined (see Appendix for details).
Catalyst Pre-treatment
The catalyst was prepared from clay obtained locally. It was ground and sieved to a particle size of 250 microns and later calcined between 550-600 °C. The catalyst was acidified using 0.1%w/w dilute sulphuric acid. 0.15kg of the sample was placed in a beaker where distilled water was added to make a paste slurry.150ml of dilute acid was added to soak the paste for 60 minutes at a controlled temperature range of 80-100°C. This was later dried at 393K for 12 hours. The stated procedure was carried out since catalyst surface is where the conversion in a catalytic reaction takes place. The surface of the catalyst is non-uniform or heterogeneous and, certain spots or locations on the catalyst which actually participate in the reaction are referred to, as active centers or sites. As regards activity and selectivity, active centers have a certain activity associated with them. Catalyst activity refers to the rate at which the catalyst causes a reaction to proceed toward equilibrium while selectivity is for a certain product or reaction, normally some intermediate product.
The kinetic experiments were carried out in a lagged fluidized bed reactor at high-pressure equipped with a cyclone, thermometer, and a pressure gauge. The effective volume of the reactor is 1100mL (or 1.1 Litre). A thermal sensor, an external heating element together with a heating regulator provided temperature control in the reactor with an accuracy of ±1°C. The gas sample was collected through a delivery tube into petroleum ether for absorption. This was analyzed using a gas chromatograph with the liquid-injection method at Kaduna refinery and petrochemical company (KRPC) laboratory from where the percentage conversion and composition of other products were obtained.
The experiments were carried out in a fluidized-bed operation in a 0.085m diameter reactor with a total height of 0.195m. The distributor plate has holes with diameter of 0.002 m and is 0.005m thick.
The gas-phase feed to the reactor is through a manifold gauge connected to the butane cylinder source and volumetric meter where the pressure was obtained. The kinetic experiments were undertaken in two stages: in the first stage, the reactor was operated at low gas velocity of 2500ml/h within temperature range of 353K-413K and at a constant pressure of 1.5∙105N/m2. The second stage involved the operation of the reactor at high gas velocity of 7000ml/h at the same temperature and pressure conditions as in the first stage. Both stages of the reactor operation were maintained at steady state conditions.
The dimensions of the reactor are as given above. The test section of the reactor is made of pyrex transparent glass in order to visually observed the motion of the particles in the bed. In the present experiment, the pressure of supplied gas (butane or air) is measured by a manifold gauge from which the minimum fluidizing velocity was calculated. The solid particles adopted in these experiments are aluminosilicates (zeolite, clay and mica). The physical properties of these particles are given in table 2 below. The size of the particle listed in this table is evaluated by the mesh screen analysis. Prior to each run, the particles bed is prefluidized to ensure uniformity of packing. The pressure drop across the bed is measured before and after fluidization.
In a fluidising state, the expansion of the bed is also measured. All the experimental data are obtained under a steady state conditions. A relation between pressure drop and flow rate of gas is examined for several height ranging from 10mm to 100mm.
Table 2. Experimental condition
Solid Material
(μm)
Particle Density
(kg/m3 )
Fluidizing Fluid
(Medium)
Table 3 shows the characteristics of zeolite at a gas flow of 1000-5000 cm3/min. The results showed that the Umf increases as the gas flow increases. A similar trend was obtained for Reynolds number. Table 4 shows that the characteristics of clay at a gas flow of 1000-5000 cm3/min. The results showed an increase in the bed expansion as the gas flow increases. A similar trend was obtained for Reynolds number and pressure drop. Table 5 below showed an increase in the conversion of butane over the range of temperature considered until a certain time when conversion was observed to decrease.
Table 3. Bed characteristics of zeolite
Gas Flow
(cm3/min)
(m/s)
Particle diameter
(kg/ms2)
(dim. less)
1.75e-01
3.447e+01
Table 4. Bed characteristics of clay
(m/s),U0
(dimension less)
2.37e+3
Table 5. Conversion data of butane over a range of temperature 353-413K at constant pressure of 1.5∙105 N/m2
Time (s)
Conversion, X
T=353K
Table 6 shows the X-ray Analysis of Sample A. This analysis shows the composition of the clay sample. Table 7 shows the constituents of sample B. Table 8 shows the composition of sample C. Table 9 shows the composition of sample D.
Table 6. The X-ray Analysis of Sample A
Conc.
MgCO3
Table 7. Constituents of sample B
Table 8. The composition of sample C
Table 9. The composition of sample D
Discussion of Results
The X-ray analysis of the clay samples reveals some differences in their constituents. For instance, it was observed that sample A has the highest Silicon Oxide concentration, and this may be due to the fact that it is sedimentary in nature, that is its formation was as a result of decomposed marine and aquatic matters. Also from table 6 it was observed that sodium oxide (Na2O) and Calcium Oxide (CaO) has the least concentration in the sample. The total percentage is 97.37 of the constituents with the silicon ratio (SR) being very high at 5.61; this is due to the high amount of concentrations in silicon oxide SiO2 of the clay sample. It was observed for sample B from table 7 that the aluminium concentration was quite high when compared with sample A thus having a high aluminium ratio (AR) of 4.26 percent, but on observation also, the calcium oxide (CaO), magnesium oxide (MgO), and their carbonates has a negligible percentage concentration with a negative value with the calcium and magnesium oxides having -0.21 and -0.39 respectively, and their carbonates with -0.38 and -0.81 percents. Due to the high level of the aluminium and iron oxides, the silicon concentration is quite low when compared with sample A as a result low silicon ratio (SR) is observed.
Similarly for sample C from table 8 shows a high concentration of silicon oxide with 73.55 percent and the aluminium ratio (AR) being on the high side of 5.77 percent. This may be due to the low level of concentrations of the aluminium (Al2O3) and iron Fe2O3 oxides with 18.14 and 3.14 respectively. The oxides of calcium (CaO), magnesium (MgO) and their carbonates were observed to carry a negative value depicting a negligible value of concentrations of these constituents. For sample D in table 9, the aluminium oxide concentrations are quite high when compared with sample C with 20.64 percent, thereby having a higher aluminium ratio (AR) of 4.83 percent. The magnesium oxide and carbonates of this clay shows a negligible concentration of -0.44 and -0.93 respectively.
The above characteristics exhibited by the clay samples indicate their suitability as catalyst. For example, the loss of weights indicates the finesse of the clay particles, thus increasing the surface area for catalytic processes. The loss of ignition observed (table 10), gives a loss of weight that is associated with the ionic charges of the clay samples thereby making it suitable for use as a catalyst. Comparing these with the properties of a catalyst possessing an active sites that is highly concentrated, and are structurally arranged, the same can be said of the clay minerals, which have a well structured constituents, such as the sample A with high silicon level of concentration, the silicon oxide forms an hexagonal structure, this structural bonds gives room for catalytic process.
Table 10. The loss of ignition test of the clay samples
Weight of crucible + contents
before ignition test
after ignition
Loss of ignition
Percentage loss of ignition
The conversion of butane is low at the beginning and increases with the time until a steady state is reached. The product of dehydrogenation of Butane using aluminosilicates (zeolite and clay) as catalyst yields but-1,3-diene alongside other products and some unconverted butane. The profiles of conversion versus gas feed rate had been presented earlier. It indicates that at high gas flow rate, the conversion of reactant to products drops; the reason adduced for this could be largely attributed to deposition of coke on the active surface of the catalyst thus bringing about a decrease in conversion. Thus, the fluidization characteristics of the bed were understudied. From the results, a minimum fluidising velocity, Umf of 0.0133 m/s for zeolite and 0.0102 m/s for clay were used for a particle size of 250 μm at a high velocity of 7000 ml/hr. This is not contradictory for the simple fact that coking could be minimized and the high conversion of the reactants observed before the conversion drops could be marked and the catalyst removed for regeneration. However, when the results obtained were compared with un-fluidized beds, that are fixed beds, there is a marked difference. The catalyst particles are stationary at low velocities. Thus, conversion is quite low and it was observed that the process took a longer time that in economic sense is not desirable.
The plots of conversion versus the process parameters showed a curved shaped graphs showing that the relationship between conversion or the catalyst activity and these parameters are not directly proportional, rather, there is a point of diminishing returns at which a change in the given process variable would have no positive effect on the conversion level. This point may be regarded as optimal value of some sort; and increasing the process parameters beyond this point would lead to a decrease in conversion and hence reduction in the performance of the catalyst activity. It was also observed that as the temperature range and molar flow rate increases for the same weight of catalyst, there was an increase in conversion. The high values of conversions obtained are primarily due to the effectiveness and high activity of the aluminosilicate catalyst.
The influence of gas velocity on particle mixing was analysed in terms of internal solid fluxes calculated by means of the bed pressure equations (see the attached figures). It will be observed from tables 3 and 4 above that as the velocity is increased, the pressure drop increases across the bed length and once the bed is fluidised, the pressure drop remains constant but the height continue to increase with increase in flow. The pressure drop is dependent on the porosity of the particle considered. In this case it is higher in clay used than in zeolite. The lack of accuracy may be due to the wide particle size distribution that resulted in segregation during the experimental runs.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Thinks Public School Statue, With Christian Verses, Is Just Fine
Posted by Priscilla -25.80pc on October 01, 2014 · Flag
In the alternate universe of Fox & Friends, the 1st Amendment protects the religious freedom of Christians to impose their beliefs into the public arena. That's the claim of a patriotic Christian student, who, on Monday, told a very reverential Elisabeth Hasslebeck, that she is "fighting" for her "right" to say "under God," in the sacred Pledge of Allegiance because the Constitution's protection of religious freedom comes from God and therefore God takes precedence over evil atheists who want to impose their godless views on the rest of us. In continuing its support for the religious freedom of Christian students who are being persecuted by evil atheists, this morning's Fox & Friends featured Elisabeth Hasselbeck validating what appears to be a blatant violation of the Constitution. But wait? Jesus wrote the Constitution so it's all good...
After the perfunctory "Fight for Faith" graphics, Hasselbeck reported that "a high school's pre-game tradition of touching a statue is making atheists furious." The chyron reminded the audience of who is to blame for this newest affront to Christians using Fox's patented "battle" imagery: "Fight Over Faith & Football, Atheists Want Statue W/ Bible Verses Removed." Hasselbeck explained that the evil atheists claim that the biblical verses, on a statue on the property of a Georgia public school, violate the Constitution. (Ya Think!) Video of the quotes, one of which featured "Jesus," was shown. Hasselbeck introduced her guest, one of the football players, who is "fighting" to keep the statue in place.
Hasselbeck asked Sam Bartlett about what the statue "means" to the team - rather than addressing what New Testament quotes, on the grounds of a public school, mean in the context of the 1st Amendment. He informed us that the statue was donated, an irrelevant point because that still doesn't make this legal. After proudly proclaiming his Christianity, Bartlett expressed his pride in the statue because "it's a way for me to represent my faith and get Christ's name up there where I can glorify him." While this would have been an opportunity for Hasselbeck to say that public schools are not supposed to be glorifying Jesus, Hasselbeck responded, "Talk about stepping up the defense."
She asked about his teammates thoughts. Naturally, "many" agree with Bartlett because the statue was donated. (One more time, that doesn't make it legal.) The chyrons kept the anti-atheist agtitprop going: "Atheists Outraged, Team Statue with Bible Verses Under Attack," and "Football Foul, Atheists Want Verses on Team Statue Covered." The next chyron stressed the irrelevant donation aspect: "Gift of Faith, Statue Was Privately Donated to Football Team."
Hasselbeck asked what he would say to someone who wants the statue removed because it's a violation of their right to not believe in God - a stupid, propaganda driven question because it's not an issue of anybody's "right" to be an atheist but, rather, a violation of the Constitution. Bartlett blathered about how Jesus died on the cross for everybody's sins but did say that he understood the perspective of a non-believer. His argument got even more incoherent with his comment that before the statue was erected, he [God] "was still God" and that even if the statue is removed "He will still be on his throne, yada, yada..." (Okaaayyy) Hasselbeck responded: "Kind of a strong message."
Invoking the popular tradition trumps the law Fox meme, the chyron read "Proud Tradition, Football Team Touches Statue Before Game." The chyron finally admitted that this is "A Constitutional Controversy" while Hasselbeck continued to ignore it. But she noted that Bartlett is injured and will be relying on the statue's Christian verses to get him through his time on the bench.
"Patheos" writer Hemant Mehda called it. In predicting the response to the Constitutional questions raised by the atheist groups, he said "That means the Religious Right groups are going to get all defensive, send out their press releases to get the Christian base riled up, and make silly arguments about how this is a perfectly fine and legal monument and how atheists hate freedom… or whatever their playbook tells them to do." Enter, stage right, Fox & Friends.
BTW, what do you think Hasselbeck would say about the presence, on the grounds of a public high school, of a statue with Koranic verses?!
While this would have been an opportunity for Hasselbeck to say that public schools are not supposed to be glorifying Jesus, Hasselbeck responded, "Talk about stepping up the defense."
Priscilla, you wrote that as if it was completely unexpected. Now, had the following been written, that would be a shock:
While this would have been where Hasselbeck was expected to toe the official Fox line, Hasselbeck responded, "Public schools aren't there to glorify Jesus."
Then again, that would cause the two brain cells that haven't been killed off from the peroxide treatments to have shut down from an overload. (On the surface, of course, no one would notice anything wrong aside from Hasselbeck's complete silence as the overload would shut down all voluntary actions. The usual blank look on her face would still be there—though truly discerning viewers might notice just a little more blankness in the look.)
There's something wrong with the headline here – it says "Elizabeth Hasselbeck Thinks…."
I'm sorry, but that's just not true or accurate at all. How can she "think" about anything when there is nothing between her ears besides cobwebs and rat turds?
Hulk commented 2014-10-01 13:29:52 -0400 · Flag
With every passing day, she validates just what am empty headed bimbo she really is. She's filling the shoes of the "aging Miss America" quite predictably. Gotta solidify that meal ticket from the fox-nonsense network for narrow minds and I'll informed haters.
There's always an "attack" or a "fight" going on at Fox "News" – keeps the viewers all riled up. Personally, this atheist doesn't give a sh*t – but that's just me.
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So finally I coloured the frame black and adhered it to the water colour paper and then attached it to the card base. Very easy card but I'm very happy with the result.
Hope you enjoyed your Christmas break and now I would like to wish my friends a very happy and healthy 2018.