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Mother's Day Menus & Specials
Complimentary rodizio dining card ($40.95 value) for moms who dine with us to use on their next visit! Brunch: Saturday, May 11th 10am-1pm and Sunday, May 12th 9am-1pm. Dinner: Saturday, May 11th 3pm-10pm and Sunday, May 12th 2pm-9pm.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Father's Day Special Menus & Reservations
Complimentary rodizio dining card ($40.95 value) for dads to use on their next visit. Brunch: Saturday, June 15th 10am-1pm and Sunday, June 16h 9am-1pm Dinner: Saturday, June 15th 3pm-10pm and Sunday, June 16th 2pm-9pm.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Easter Restaurant Specials & Reservations
Brunch: 9am-1pm. $39.95 per adult. Full brunch menu including lobster tail and our new option for bottomless mimosas/bloody marys for $12.50! Dinner: 2pm-9pm. Featuring our 15 cuts of meat & fish, gourmet salad bar, & hot side dishes. Also adding grilled shrimp! $45.95 per adult.
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We love it here! Na Brasa has been our special event restaurant for many years now. They always treat us right and the servers really listen.
If you prefer a certain meat or haven't yet seen it circulating, just tell the next server you see. They'll be sure your choice is brought to you right away👍💕
Our favorites are the top sirloin, filet, flank steak, garlic sirloin, lamb chops and chicken legs. The cheese bread for the table is delicious. If you can, save room for dessert...They're excellent!
The meats were low on seasoning and flavor. The buffet wasn't kept up on. Many had to say something about food not being replenished. Wait staff tried to make up for the slack but it really didn't help
Ray, we are so sorry about the inconsistency you experienced here with us. We will definitely be forwarding these comments to our Management and Kitchen staff for review.
If you've never been you, you need to try it! This place is fantastic. The food is great (and plentiful!) and the staff are fun.
The food was terrific, except for the ribs which were somewhat dry as was the grilled shrimp. Everything else was top notch.
The staff were outstanding. Every one of them. Since it was our 50th anniversary, we were given champagne. Even though we don't drink, the gesture was definitely appreciated.
Thanks for a wonderful evening.
I really enjoyed this place, it was nice being served a selection of meats, I wasn't impressed with the sides bar, I felt the lack of choice, and the instant mash potatoes I could have done without, but overall it was good. I would go back
Service was great as was the selection of meats and salad bar offerings. Never had to wait for additional meats to come out. Fresh plates offered frequently. Meats were very tasty and of good quality, though some were a bit too salty for my taste.
Great experience. I will definitely be going back the next time I am in the Philly area
One of my favorite places to eat. The food is outstanding and the service is exceptional. I can’t wait to go back.
Server was very attentive and anticipated my needs - - makes for A-1 customer service. Diverse menu so that everyone can find something to their liking.
Service was amazing. I wish I could’ve eaten more. Left so full. Downside was it’s so cold in there! Shivering while eating.
Hi, Rosie! We are so glad you enjoyed your dining experience. We will forward your comments about the temperature in our restaurant to our Management Staff so they are able to adjust that!
great food and staff! I would go again and again if I could afford it each time. Our waiter was very good. I forget his name but he was very very helpful with the menu and great!
The meat “special” for the evening was shrimp as well as salmon. You had to wait a long time for that to come to your table. Other meats were fine. Not fabulous. Filet was very well done. If that’s what you like - then it was great. Tasted like leather to me.
It was my daughter's birthdsy. I called the restaurant right before we left the house to make sure they knew, and the person answering the phone said “no problem”. We had dinner, we were offered the dessert menu, we ordered a couple things (thinking that the birthday “whatever they do” would be coming with that. Nope. I had to ask the waiter after our desserts arrived, if he was doing anything for her birthday. He had NO idea that we were celebrating that. I was told that I was supposed to tell him after I got there. I would have don’t that if on the phone that is what I was told to do. Nevertheless, all was fine. A lot of $ for a “just fine” dinner.
Great place awesome food and service is top of the line
Great food, great experience & outstanding service. Highly recommend.
Great service & Excellent food - great dining experience!
Food was varied and delicious. Service was impeccable. Thank you George.
This is without a doubt my favorite restaurant! The salad bar is amazing and the service is ALWAYS impeccable! The meats are cooked to perfection... some of my favorites are the lamb chops, filet mignon, parmesan encrusted pork, and leg of lamb. The salmon is the best I've ever had! Our waitress Sue was great and Ivan makes the whole experience so much fun! Thank you for another wonderful meal!
Every meal I've had here has been a very pleasant experience. I continue to come back not only for the amazing food but the excellent service as well.
My boyfriend and I go to Na’Brasas every year for our anniversary. It is something we always look forward too!! The food is amazing the staff is super friendly and informative and the overall experience never disappoints!! Our waiter Peter was absolutely amazing!! He turned us on to a beer combination that we loved so much we ran upstairs to their beer store and bought it to take home!! I highly recommend this restaurant! It is one of my favorites!!
The salad bar has gone way down hill, and the cuts of meat were of lower quality then I remember. Will not be going back again
It was our first time at this restaurant and we were very impressed with the service. The staff was very attentive and were available at all times
Service style was fun. A unique experience. Very expensive fix price menu. Meat selection was interesting but not outstanding quality. Most was Chewy and tuff. Fish was very dry and tasteless. Would be fun for a celebration with a group. But be prepaid to pay for the service style, not for the quality of the food at the high price.
Out of all the times I've been to Na'Brasa this was my least favorite experience. Only half the food choices came to table and service was slow. Don't think I'll be reserving another table. More inclined to try another steakhouse.
This was our first time to NaBrasa. It was very good. The service was great the waiters and gauchos are very good. They had a nice sidebar and sushi bar to top it off. Great place to go for a special occasion. The food was plentiful. My favorite was the lamb chops. Highly recommend.
Birthday I mention on reservations but no one did anything
Have been to NaBrasa many times for dinner, this was a first for brunch (party of 6) ... stick with dinner! The bloody Mary's tasted like motor oil, there was apparently 10 different types of meats being served- we saw them being passed around us, but maybe only 3 came on their own. We had to ask our waitress to send over more, which ended up being the same ones repeatedly. The omelet station was quick and tasty- about the only plus. Overall, a bit of a let down. Will never go for brunch again.
Have been here several times for brunch and love the food selection and quality, however it seems that the wait staff is always very slow. I know it's a buffet and you basically get your own food, but they should have a juice and soda bar so you can get your own drink too. Our table of six was done with their first plate before the waitress brought us our first drink. Still a good meal, but maybe we'll go earlier - lunch time was too crowded.
Our family attended a birthday brunch for our mother. This was a first time and will totally not be the last. The place was amazing and from the front end service to the personal wait service was outstanding. I placed a note stating it was a birthday event. That was addressed in the beginning and they also sang which was a huge surprise to our mother and also everyone at the table. Such an enjoyable experience
There are several reasons I gave this restaurant a poor review. First, when seated at our table, we didn’t see a server for 10 min, we weren’t sure if we should just go up to the buffet on our own. We finally asked an employee walking by who said we could. When we got back to our table, our server checked on us. He didn’t tell us about the restaurant or explain the steak and buffet service. There were two of us for dinner and the extra place settings on a four person table weren’t cleared, just pilled up on the side by me to make room for our food, they sat there the whole dinner. The actual meat service was excellent. The people servng the meat were efficient, professional and polite. Finally, I ordered desert and received no candle for my guest. I had annotated in my reservation that we were celebrating a birthday. These are not huge deals, but for $46 per person just for meat and salad bar, I expected better attention to service.
Thank you Erion for making our first ever experience at NaBrasa a very pleasant one. Even though we didn’t try all of the meats. We will be coming back for more. Very elegant and the ambiance is breath taking as well.
NaBrasa is a beautiful restaurant and the service was excellent. Our disappointment was that many of the meats displayed on the website were never offered. Salmon only showed up at the end of the meal. We had to ask for lamb and wait about 10 minutes for that to come. It seemed to be just skewer after skewer of various cuts of beef.
I have been to a couple of Brazilian steakhouses around the Philadelphia area. NaBrasa was a close one to me that my boyfriend and I wanted to try. I was overall completely disappointed. The staff was okay in the beginning and then after getting our drinks it was hard to even find her. Then, the buffet wasn’t a lot and all of the “hot” food they offered was cold. We decided to move on to the main course. I couldn’t get a clean plate, my boyfriend had to go grab one for me. The meat was not good at all. Tasted chewy, over cooked and just unappetizing. They meat servers came around every so often and when we asked for medium, we got medium well or medium rare, never what we asked for. Finally, when we finished, it was the fastest service I got all night when she gave me the check. Seemed like she couldn’t wait for us to leave. Even watched the table more than she did all night as I filled out the check. We won’t be back.
Everything was amazing, the food, service. Second time there but it even topped the previous
okay. so we were there tuesday night with a table of 6 adults and 1 child, our waitress only gave us water and plates. and she demanded a 18% tip from a $282.57 bill. i tried giving $18 because that’s reasonable for all that she did. then she embarrassed me in front of my in-laws. she said very loud i’ll go get my manager so he can explain how the gratuity works. inferring i don’t know what a tip is.
Amazing! We were in & out within an hour and stuffed!!! Food was great! They should consider adding a baked potato bar...I didn’t love the sides but the meat was amazing and hey that’s the reason you go there! Desert was also amazing.
The brunch was incredible! So much offered and delicious. We will definitely be coming back for brunch
Our birthday brunch was good and everybody had their fill. I did miss the free bloody hard and was surprised that the prices have increased. But, I would definitely return for another dining extravagance.
Food was very tasty and service was great highly recommended the place
Food was good, both the meats and the salad bar. Gouchos were very friendly and personable. Wait staff was very nice. Room was very loud though, we almost couldn't have a conversation. I can't say if it was the large tables in the room or just echoing from the room itself.
Drinks from the bar (pre dinner) were good, but rather expensive. Even with a 730 reservation we ended up not being seated till 8, not sure if there was confusion (another table with same name) or what as arrivals after us were seated before us but host staff was friendly and helpful about it.
Way too expensive in my opinion. Most meats were too salty. Fish had no taste. Way too loud, I couldn't here the conversation at my table.

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Ambertech Shares Fall After Company Announces Loss
Sydney-based Ambertech, who back in June, failed to tell the market that they had lost key consumer accounts has announced that they are facing losses of up to $800,000 and that revenues have slumped from $54.7 million last year to a forecast that could be as low as $48M.
Back in June we exclusively revealed that the Sydney based distributor had lost two key consumer brands Marshall and Urbanears to Melbourne based start-up Aqipa.
The Company whose shares are currently trading at $0.200 have struggled to lift revenues in the consumer market with the loss of Marshall and Urban ears set to impact revenues in their consumer division even further.
Today their shares are listed at junk levels of $0.130.
In a statement to the ASA yesterday The Board of Ambertech Limited (“AMO”) said that they had recently reviewed its expectations in relation to results for the year ending 30 June 2017. They said that sales would come in at a range of $48M‐$50M (June 16: $54.7M); and that they will report net losses after tax in the range of $500,000‐$800,000 (June 16: profit $237,000).
The final results may vary subject to any potential audit adjustments.
Company Secretary Robert Glasson said “The deterioration in revenue and profit are a result of the following factors, reduced business activity in the residential installation market, across all brands, consistent with an industry wide malaise believed to be the result of concerns over domestic housing prices and international politics”.
This is in sharp contrast to brands such as JBL and Harman Kardon as well as the likes of Sony and Sennheiser who have reported record growth in the consumer markets where Ambertech is struggling.
He also said that reduced sales activity in the Companies media systems group, were affected.
ChannelNews understands that the Company is a Channel Ten creditor and that the Company has been affected by Ten being placed into administration. We have also been told that several organizations are circling the Company and that the Company could be sold in the future.
Back in February 2017 Ambertech reported that sales revenue was down 16.9% to $14,357,000 compared to revenues from this division of $17,284,000.
EBIT was down 39.0% to $759,000 Vs $1,245,000 in the prior year.

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Alexander Zverev is started after a phased very strong idea with a victory in his European sandplatz season. Germany’s number one won his starting game at the Masters Tournament of Monte Carlo against the Argentine Federico Delbonis 6: 1, 7: 5.
Zverev, who also won his two first duels with delbonis, secured the first sentence in the quick pass. In passing two, the 24-year-old briefly lost his line, was 2: 4, but finally turned his third matchball after 1:26 hours.
In the eighth finale, Zverev now meets the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta set at point 13. After the two-round from the world’s world ranking Novak Djokovic the day before, Zverev (ATP No. 3) is the highest player in the starter field.
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Now, Scarlett must use her very particular set of skills to survive undercover…and discover a shocking weapon that could change the balance of power on Earth.
Red-hot writer KELLY THOMPSON (Black Widow, Birds of Prey) and artist MARCO FERRARI (FRONTIERSMAN) introduce some of the most anticipated characters to the Energon Universe in ways you’ll never expect!

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This is an action brought to restrain the collection of a sewer assessment placed upon certain property to cover the benefits of local drainage. Two sewers were constructed, sub-main sewers, one known as No. 199 and the other known as 1018,' constructed very nearly at the same time. No. 999 runs in Parkwood avenue and in front of some of the property, two pieces being on one side of the street and the other two on .the other side, so that all four lots abut upon sewer 999. The property has been assessed its proper assessment for the construction of this sub-main sewer, and in addition to that all these four pieces have been assessed for local drainage. Since then the other sewer that was constructed at practically the same time and across Parkwood avenue at right angles between two of the lots and with a branch running back of two of the other'lots, and the cost of this other sewer, so far as the benefits arising from local drainage are concerned, has been assessed upon this same property.
This is an action brought to restrain the collection of the assessment for local drainage of sewer 1018 on two grounds: first, that the property does not need it, and second, that it is already provided with local drainage. The position taken is that being already provided with local drainage, of course it does not need additional local drainage.
The case is here upon the pleadings and upon an agreed statement of facts, and by the agreed statement of facts it is shown that if connections were permitted .to be made and were made to sewer 999 those connections from this property to that sewer would afford this property, all of it, complete local drainage. It is said by the city that the property is not provided with local drainage so long as the man who owns the property has not made the connection and availed himself of the local drainage that he has been provided with and assessed to pay, and that so long as he does not connect with it and take advantage of this benefit that has been extended to him, the city has.a right to construct *220another sewer and find that that is a benefit to him as local drainage; and the same reason would continue if they went around the four sides of his property and put .a sewer on every side, and answered his complaint that he had local drainage by saying the property is not provided with local drainage; it is simply so circumstanced as that you might provide it with local drainage if you connected it, but you haven’t connected it, and therefore you haven’t been provided with local drainage, and consequently we may find that the last of the four sewers surrounding the property affords you benefits for local drainage and assess you accordingly.
We think this position can not be maintained at all. If the first sewer constructed for which a man is .assessed for local drainage is so located that the. man may connect with it and thereby secure local drainage, we think so soon as it is constructed that he is provided .with local drainage, and certainly his property thereafter does not need any additional provision except what he shall put in himself to furnish him such local drainage. We think that the position taken by the city in this matter is entirely untenable, and that the position taken by the plaintiffs here, Kirk and TIeffelbauer, should be sustained, and that the city should he restrained from collecting the assessment on sewer 1018 for local drainage for the property described in the petition.


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Dennese Victoria and Swastik Pal for ‘Even though the whole world is burning‘
‘Even when the whole world is burning‘ is a projection showcase curated by Dennese Victoria from the Philippines and Swastik Pal from India for the 16th Edition’s festival programme.
Both first-time curators for a commissioned show, they are also photographers and Angkor Photo Workshop alumni; they had met in Siem Reap in 2012. This is their first collaboration together.
“We began the work of forming this selection by asking what has brought us here – why we’re still here, and why we take others along. We didn’t know what we were looking for but when the pieces came together, the picture that was looking back at us could not help but direct us to presence and to contact.”
– Dennese Victoria & Swastik Pal
“Fragile Fragments” by Vinita Barretto
“Times Like These” by Atikah Zata
Can you tell us about the title ‘Even though the whole world is burning’?
Dennese: I have an email dated February 14 from Jessica (Lim) where she mentions the phrase, the house is on fire. And that never left me. Soon afterward I found a James Baldwin quote which goes “Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive.”
So all of these somehow led me to return to W.S. Merwin’s poetry for comfort. I had loved him for To Paula in Late Spring, with its dream of being one day restored to a thing already lost. But then somehow, reading on I found the poem called Rain Light, which had “even though the whole world is burning” as its closing line.
It’s quite short, but there are so many beautiful things in there for me. The part where the mother says she is “going now,” but that “when you are alone you will be all right.” And then of course how it finally ends with, “see how they wake without a question, even though the whole world is burning”.
This year has been a terrible upheaval. But then even before this there have been so many things we have been made to endure. Using this line to hold the slideshow, you can read it in many ways depending on where you are and how you’re feeling.
One is that we are here, another is that there are things we still have. Is this the best use of our time? We cannot fully know. It’s hard to quantify, especially when talking to people who might not be interested nor open to understand. But the most honest answer perhaps is that we want to be here. And maybe I am now speaking for a few of the artists in the selection too, that with all the doubt and disappointment, we have, at this moment in time at least, chosen to stay.
“Untitled Morocco” by Ziad Naitaddi
“Aurelia’s Last 26 Days” by Sandra Hoyn
What was the starting point for the slideshow projection?
Dennese: I started by asking myself, why am I still here, especially with everything that is happening in the world right now, and being a person coming from a developing country. It is also about confronting myself; with all that I can do now, why is it this?
In the beginning, I was very anxious about doing the curation. I thought a lot about it, what it means to be a curator and do I deserve it in any way? Then I saw this article in the New York Times about how ‘Everyone is a Curator Now’, where I read that to curate is related to an old Latin word, which means to take care. If we just use this definition, that our job is to take care, then I can do this. I can take care of 24 people. So that was the mindset that I went with. It’s not about talent or what’s the best or what people should follow. We are meeting people, creating a space and asking people to come in.
Swastik: Initially we had a couple of thoughts – why are we still here? Why do we still keep coming back at it, even when it sometimes hurts, like in terms of what is going on. Then we thought, why not think of it like a commune where we fall together, we rise together. It sounds very utopian but the curation meant a kind of space where we can have a community. It doesn’t have to be with famous people. It can be with beginners or even accidental photographers. It doesn’t have to follow trends.
What I see at a lot of festivals are the same sets of people moving around and it’s difficult for a newcomer to get into the scene. I’ve tried to address that kind of situation in my selection because I wanted to give that space to someone with a new craft, even if it is sometimes not complete. Being selected can mean more to that person, and can be a catalyst or inspiration to do more work.
“The passage of time and what remains…” by Priyanka Singh Maharjan
“Repressed Memories” by Ārun
What was your working relationship with each other like? How do you complement each other?
Swastik: We had a lot of overlaps in common. Dennese told me, you’re a Gemini, I’m a Libra. We need some fights between us (laughs). The only difference would have been that maybe I had wanted to accommodate two more, and she wanted to include eight more in the show.
Dennese: We worked separately at first. I did my own thing, and he did his. He’s more realistic, I’m more like, “Let’s do everything!” In the beginning of the process, he was faster. For the first few people, I would do background checks on everything that they have done. It made the process very slow.
Swastik: But it helped in some cases. For example with Vinita (Barretto), the work we are showing is not from her submission but instead was from her Instagram feed. I wasn’t too sure in the beginning but I connected with what Dennese was saying. Besides the fancy part of being a curator, I like the idea of trying to take care of someone’s work. And with that care, we can make suggestions about what might work better. It’s a mutual collaboration.
“Fragments of The Dying Man” by Deb Choudhuri
“Das Palavras A Pele” by Cecilia Sordi Campos
“To Search the Secret of the Forest” by Pietro lo Casto
Your curation is a mix of experienced and beginner visual artists, what is the common thread that runs through the work?
Dennese: It felt as if they are trying to converse. It’s not that they are all deliberately doing so though. The common thread is that they were able to make us believe them.
So there is honesty in the work?
Dennese: Maybe. As a curator and as a person, there is a fear that I can be misled. I would like to believe, but I can be misled. The people we have selected have the quality of making us believe in them. Also you can feel that they were really looking and really reaching out, that they were there at the places they were photographing and not just passing through.
Swastik: There was a conscious effort on both our parts to accommodate more feelings than just the craft. For example, we have this film by Demie (Dangla). It is unusual where she opens with blurred visuals similar to many of contemporary Asian films. Initially I didn’t know where it would fit in the slideshow but to have something like that – abstract visuals and her friends talking about the pandemic – was rooted in reality, especially in this year where we are all stranded. It felt important to have that kind of voice in the slideshow as well.
We’ve been seeing a lot of visuals every day for quite some time. I’m saturated, and it takes a little bit more to get excited by any visuals or project now. Somehow the 24 works that we’ve selected sparked that excitement in some ways. All of them exposed the surroundings around them. Some shot their villages, some their homes. Most of them shot about their own personal space and beliefs. I’m not interested in who gets first in class and sometimes I feel photography is like that. I want a space where everybody gets accommodated, and not just the celebrities.
Louise (Far) is one of my favourites. Her work deals with a commune where people live and work together, that kind of lifestyle is tough in the capitalist world but it inspires me. So I was looking at that kind of relations where people are trying to take care of each other. That was one of the common themes that I was looking at, I was trying to look at things from a community perspective.
“Mother of the Fairytale” by Louise Far
What was the experience like curating for a slideshow projection?
Dennese: The wonderful thing about the slideshows at Angkor was the people attending. It’s like cinema; there’s a screen and your work will be there, and the people sitting around it. That would have been the gift that we can’t give them this year since it is entirely digital. I was kind of obsessed with that and wanted to give them more.
There’s this website that I wanted to make as a sort of landing space, a temporary exhibition. I had been hoping to find a way to extend the presence of the slideshow somehow, so that more people could find it. And I thought this could do that in a way that was more quiet, and which left you alone to really hear and be with the work itself. Secretly I was also wanting a way to later introduce some of the people whose work we liked but were not able to select. (Ed’s note: the website will be unveiled at the end of the festival as an extension to the projection. Stay tuned for more information).
We also wanted to work with the answers to the How have you been? field on the open call form.
(Dennese and Swastik are also putting the slideshow together) We were worried about the sequence or if the photographers would like it, if the people whose work we admired would like it. Now I try to remind myself that it was in an Excel file that we first saw most of these images – in .zip files, in random order, and yet we were still moved enough to select them. So I try to remind myself that I don’t need to be too much in control, to go back to that original encounter, to know I can let go.
Swastik: I met one of the participants from the Alumni Curates project (featured in Instagram as a series of takeovers), and she remarked that it would have been so nice if all 55 works are featured as a slideshow projection. Maybe the more established photographers will move on from the slideshow format because they want to explore other forms. But when you are just starting out and you see your name and your work on the screen, like a film, it can feel like a dream.
But, when I see the slides that have been created, little layouts that we did not really for the slideshow, but just to help us decide, they look so beautiful that it makes me aware of the limitations of this format. I feel like touching the prints and making real layouts.
“About Time or the Impossibility of an Island” by Marylise Vigneau
“The Other Horses” by Nad-e Ali
What would you like the audience to take away from the slideshow?
Dennese: The best would be that they miss the world. And if they can take just take one thing out of it, I hope that it follows them for a long time.
I’ve shared this early on with some of the artists in the slideshow – with the whole selection I hope to make people feel again, better if it would make them miss people again, make them bolder, make all of us want to go out and journey again despite everything.
Swastik: I feel that the photography industry is like a small cake and everyone wants a piece of it but there’s not enough to go around. This has led to some negativity with people not helping each other. For young photographers, this might mean they are scared to dream. I would like for the audience, especially young people who are just starting in photography, to use the show to dream a bit more and to feel a little less scared, that there’s a little space for them in this industry. I want them to be inspired. I would like that to happen.
Interview by Tan Lee Kuen


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After nine years, the beloved Disney-Pixar Toy Story franchise continues in Toy Story 4. It brings back the characters that we have enjoyed and even loved in the previous films. For that reason alone, I?m sure that many people will be enthralled with the newest part of the story and love this film as much as the previous three. And everyone I have heard talk about the film has had glowing opinions. But for me the glow is a bit dimmer. Encountering Woody and Buzz (and some new characters) is enjoyable, but for me the film doesn?t reach the same heights as the other Toy Story films.
When the story left off nine years ago, Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), and the rest of Andy?s toys had been taken to Bonnie (Madeleine McGraw). (Nine years hasn?t passed in the Toy Story universe, but there is a prologue of something in that universe nine years ago). Things are different for Woody. Bonnie doesn?t play with him as much as the other toys. She even takes his sheriff?s badge and pins it on Jessie (Joan Cussack). But Woody is determined to keep Bonnie happy. When she is apprehensive about a kindergarten orientation, Woody sneaks into her backpack in case she needs him.
When Bonnie ends up at a table alone with nothing to do, Woody gets things out of a trash can that the inventive little girl uses to craft a toy out of a spork, marker, pipe cleaner, and glue-on eyes. Thus, Forky (Tony Hale) is born. But Forky can?t grasp being a toy. He assumes he is trash, having been used already. As he keeps trying to get back into the trash can, Woody tries to educate him about the purpose of being a toy.
When Bonnie and her parents set off on a road trip, Forky tries one more time to escape being a toy by jumping out of the moving RV. Woody follows and as they work their way back to Bonnie (who is distraught at not finding Forky), the adventures begin.
On the way through town Woody sees a lamp in the Second Chance Antique store window that reminds him of his friend Bo Peep who was in Andy?s sister?s room. Sneaking into the shop, Woody and Forky encounter other toys, but the toys in the shop are ruled by Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) and her band of ventriloquist dummy henchmen. Like Woody, Gabby understands the role a toy can play in a child?s life, but she has never had that because her voice box was defective. So she has been on a shelf for 60 years, hoping for a chance. In Woody, she believes stealing his voice box will give her that chance.
As the adventure plays out, Woody is reunited with Bo Peep (Annie Potts) who is running a gang of lost toys, but for them that status has brought a sense of freedom, not the fear that Woody has always understood that to mean. Bo Peep and the others help to bring all the trials and dangers to an emotional ending.
And that ending will be satisfying for most viewers. But for me, it came up short. My first reaction was that this film stripped part of the humanity away from the characters. The value of the past films was not that we were watching toys, but that we sensed that we were watching ourselves. Woody has to deal with jealousy, with loss, with a midlife crisis. Buzz is constantly dealing with his hubris. This time around, there’s much more problem solving than personal growth–even though the story has ample opportunity to deal with personal issues. For example, Woody is reaching something akin to retirement. What is his role going to be if he?s not played with? Because he has spent his life doing the job he was built for, he must feel a bit of being lost at the prospect of being put out to pasture.
The film also raises an issue about disabilities that doesn?t quite fulfill its promise. Gabby Gabby was made with a defect. That defect has relegated her to a world without love. Her story line has a happy ending, but only after her disability is fixed. Another character, Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves), a posable action figure of Canada?s greatest stunt rider, was discarded when he couldn?t do the jumps that were in commercials. Are people?s value dependent upon their abilities or could these toys (and people like them) have been loved for other qualities they have? I wonder how someone born with a disability or deformity would find themselves in this story. Are they lovable only after being fixed?
This is a story that had the possibilities of greatness that the other Toy Story films reached. I don?t think my problem is that I?ve outgrown my love for these toys, or that I?ve moved on to flashier toys. But I think this time around they just aren?t quite the same friends that I found in the past.

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The New Republic created a delightful quiz where you are challenged to identify whether a quote is from Elon Musk or The Simpsons' Mr. Burns. Excellent…. Give it a try: "The politicians [and] unelected bureaucrats who stole our liberty should be tarred, feathered [and] thrown out of town!" — Mr. Burns or Mr. Musk? "I'm… READ THE REST
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Republicans poke fun at Quinn before small state fair crowd
SPRINGFIELD -- Republicans on Thursday took turns poking fun at Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn for his rough outing at the Illinois State Fair the day before.
But their own political celebration was sparsely attended and lacked the spark of the halcyon days when the GOP controlled the Executive Mansion.
Hundreds of booing union members — angry about proposed wage and pension cuts — drove Quinn from the Director’s Lawn stage Wednesday. Financial and political support from labor was essential to Quinn’s narrow victory in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Quinn also mistakenly said President Barack Obama was dead when he meant Osama bin Laden.
“The governor had a bad day. He offed his president, and he got booed off the stage by his base,” state Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, said Thursday.
Dozens of rank-and-file Republicans, many brandishing “Fire Madigan” signs – referring to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago – gathered at the Director’s Lawn to hear from congressional candidates. Party officials implored supporters to vote, believing the political headwinds are with them and their anti-tax, less-government message, despite legislative and congressional maps drawn to benefit Democrats and Obama, the state’s native son, at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Republicans control a majority of the state’s congressional seats and two of the six constitutional offices. While those running for office this fall were peppy, the crowd, which stayed in the shade and under a tent, generally was not.
“I haven’t heard any speaker drowned out by boos, but I haven’t heard a lot of excitement out there either,” said Rodney Davis, the party’s nominee in the 13th Congressional District, which includes part of Springfield.
“Hey, who wants Republican victories in November?” he asked. That generated a round of cheering and applause.
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady, who was relentlessly on message, mentioned what might have been when he recognized state Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington. Bill Brady lost the 2010 governor’s race to Quinn.
“Bill, 31,000 more votes and we would have had it,” Pat Brady said. “Great job. We’re going to get it in ’14.”
Chris Wetterich can be reached at (217) 788-1523.


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This commercial has had me laughing all day XD
Saturday, February 11, 2012
It could be because I'd gotten an email reminder to purchase tickets for this year's Renaissance Faire, but I found myself in the mood for a medieval-themed movie. Shakespeare in Love is one of my frequent go-to's, but I was yearning for a different story.
As I was cruising the on-demand movie listing, I came across Anonymous. Starring Rhys Ifans, (remember Hugh Grant's bizarro room mate from Knotting Hill?), I couldn't resist.
The premise of the movie is that Shakespeare was a fraud and that all of the plays, prose and sonnets were actually written by the Earl of Oxford. During the time of Queen Elizabeth I, writing was frowned upon by the Puritans and plays were deemed sinful. He was forced to hide his writing and thereby paid a barely literate stage actor named William Shakespeare to take the credit for his work.
Produced and directed by Roland Emmerich of epic disaster movie fame, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had actually become engrossed in the movie. If you find yourself looking for something different to watch, I'd recommend giving this one a go.

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By Stan Schwartz
The upstage wall of the set calls for a kitchen window, through which the audience needs to see daylight. But there were only 11 inches between the back wall of the set and the back wall of the theater!
Allen Lee Hughes, the lighting designer for the show, here describes how he solved this challenge:
“Clybourne Park written by Bruce Norris, is a brilliant sequel to Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry. In Raisin the limited natural light is coming from a single small window. In Clybourne Park the stage is bright with natural light pouring into the space from multiple sources.”
“In the previous iterations of Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons, NYC, Mark Taper Forum, LA) the depth of the stage was not a problem and we used a bounce drop with an Altman 6′-0″ mini zip strip. At the Walter Kerr, as in many of the Broadway houses, depth was restricted. We needed a light source that could be custom made to fit a 57”(L) by 26”(W) window that dimmed smoothly from 0-100% via DMX from the console. We needed a source that produced between 5300k-5700k(daylight), and something that the electrician could easily maintain given the distance between the window and the back wall.”
“The Rosco High Output LitePad with adjustments hit those requirements successfully. When the LitePad was installed and the production electrician turned the control channel up to full you could hear everyone in the theatre go ‘WOW’. It was a great moment for the lighting design team since we had worked very hard to insure that the LitePad solved the design challenge, and it did so with flying ‘daylight’ colors.”
Allen Lee Hughes Broadway credits include Having Our Say, Mule Bone, and Once on this Island (Tony nomination), K2 (Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Joseph Maharam Award) Strange Interlude (Tony nomination), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and Quilters. New York credits include designs at the Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Lincoln Center Theater and Off-Broadway. He is the recipient of the USITT Distinguished Achievement Award in Lighting Design and the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Mr. Hughes is the recipient of two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington and has been nominated eight other times.


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Arroz Con Pollo (Rice with Chicken)
If you’re able to tolerate moderate salicylates and/or are trying to test your limits when it comes to food chemicals, this dish is a great one to explore. It’s also a great way to use up saffron.
Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C.
In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine saffron and hot water and let stand until read to use.
Heat an oven-safe skillet over medium heat. Add oil and chicken breasts and lightly brown on both sides, about 4 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate.
Add in carrots and leeks and sauté until crisp-tender, about 5-7 minutes. Add in garlic and sauté for another minute longer.
Add in saffron mixture and salt. Cook until the liquid is almost completely evaporated, about 5 minutes. Add in chicken, broth or water, and rice and bring to a simmer.
Cover the pan and transfer to the oven, baking for 30 minutes or until all liquid has been absorbed and the chicken has reach an internal temperature of 165°F/74°C.
Remove from the oven and stir in the froze peas (if using). Cover and let sit for about 5 minutes. Cut up or shred the chicken before serving.
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 516kcal
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 10.7g17%
- Saturated Fat 0.3g2%
- Cholesterol 215mg72%
- Sodium 668mg28%
- Total Carbohydrate 23.9g8%
- Dietary Fiber 1.7g7%
- Sugars 1.5g
- Protein 74.8g150%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
*Carrots are moderate in salicylates and can be subbed with rutabaga/swede or chayote/choko for a fully FAILSAFE option.
**Peas are high in glutamates and should be omitted if you haven’t passed the glutamate challenge.
This recipe is moderate in salicylates, low in amines, and high in glutamates. It is also gluten free, dairy free, nightshade free, and soy free.


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Resilience is an Item that can only be found in the form of Golden Pupa loot. Upon being picked up, any Crop that is planted adjacent to to hard crust has a chance to plant a duplicate seed onto the hard crust. This does not apply to Heart Beets, Roses, Sunflowers, or Fruit Trees. If multiple different types of Crops are adjacent to the same tile of hard crust, one of them will be chosen to be spread onto the hard crust. The player can still use Pickaxes on the hard crust even if there is a Crop planted there and it will become a normal farm plot.
This is one of the few items, alongside Pumpkin Head, that plants free seeds for the player. This alone makes it a passive way of getting a good amount of extra Cashews over the course of a run. It can also be used as a way to duplicate high tier seeds early in a run using items like Fertilseed Pro and the Sprinkler Tractor. However it can cause problems with farm organization and act as a Fertilizer sink, actively hurting the player.
The following is a list of possible Items that can affect Resilience:

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text: Two hundred and twenty seven patients with stage IIIA-IVB Hodgkin's disease have been treated at a single centre with MVPP chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy to sites of previously bulk disease. The median follow up is 58 months. 119 patients (52%) had stage IV disease. Overall complete remission (CR) rate was 72%. Discriminant analysis of factors predictive for complete remission showed that low albumin was the only independent factor that predicted a significantly lower chance of CR. Overall five year survival was 73%. A Cox multivariate analysis demonstrated that age greater than 40 years, stage IV disease, presence of bulk disease, low serum IgG and male sex to be variables which independently predicted poorer prognosis in terms of overall survival. Stage IV and lymphocyte depleted or unclassified histologies were independently predictive for poorer progression-free survival. Patient weight greater than 70 kg and stage IV disease were adverse prognostic factors for relapse free survival. Results are compared to other published multivariate analyses of prognostic factors in advanced Hodgkin's disease.


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The Hellenic Radio (ERA): News in English, 09-03-19
From: The Hellenic Radio (ERA) <www.ert.gr/>
 Dispute over Economic MeasuresPolitics
Parliament Plenum debate on PASOK proposal for the combat of unemployment reached high pitch today after the announcement of economic measures yesterday. Opposition parties strongly criticized the government's income policy amidst the economic crisis speaking of communication aspect measures. Senior Ministers labeled them "social Justice measures". Trade unions described them as strict austerity measures and provocative attack against laborers' income.
Debate Reached High Pitch
Opposition political parties strongly criticized the government's economic policy. PASOK parliamentary spokesman E. Benizelos as contradictory , noting that at the same time the Parliament was passing regulation for the abolition of tax exemption for the self-employed. He maintained that measures would cover short-term needs and underlined the need for political courage to overcome the financial crisis. What causes fear is not the financial crisis itself but the extent of the government's misjudgment, proved by the announcement of half-measures yesterday said LAOS president G. Karatzaferis. He predicted that the country would plunge into deeper recession as these measures, which deprive pensioners and low income earners of their purchase ability, would dry up the machine. He also supported PASOK proposal saying that the government should not rejected en block just because it was proposed by PASOK. In response, Employment undersecretary Sophia Kalatzakou stressed that the government has a targeted plan to boost employment, reduce unemployment and relieve low- income groups with innovative regulations. Finance undersecretary Thanasis Bouras said: the government and the people are well aware of the global financial crisis. The government has exhausted its resources on social cohesion and is helping social groups that have felt the heaviest impacts from the crisis. Commenting, Interior Minister Prokopis Pablopoulos stressed that the government's measures indicate its responsibility for citizens that have the most need supporting their incomes with social justice measures.
Education Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos portrayed the economic measures as "extraordinary" as extraordinary is the financial crisis". He said: "there is an unprecedented financial crisis which worsens the standing problems of the Greek economy, there fore we should take some measures to shield our economy and protect our future".
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AFNB Holdings Inc. took the second-highest spot on SNL Financial’s list of best-performing community banks with assets between $500 million and $5 billion in 2011.
The Houston-based holding company operates American First National Bank, a Houston bank that has $860 million in assets, $699 million in loans and $712.7 million in deposits.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, the bank’s loans grew 22.8 percent and deposits grew 13.6 percent, according to data from FBR Capital Markets & Co. in Houston.
The bank’s return on assets was 4.2 percent in the fourth quarter, and its return on equity was 36.9 percent — both marks were the highest in the city, according to FBR Capital data.
American First National was founded in May 1998.
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I got a call last week to do a closing. It would be in a place in Colorado that I had never been to before. The first thing that came to my mind was:
Where is Elizabeth?
No, Elizabeth is not my personal assistant who helps me with scheduling my closing assignments, etc. Elizabeth is the name of a small Colorado town in Elbert county. It's a little more than 50 miles from Colorado Springs -- about a one-hour drive.
One of the things that I like about being a notary signing agent is that I have opportunities to visit places in Colorado that I would otherwise not go to. I thrive on the challenges that getting to some of these places presents.
My job as a notary signing agent has taken me high up in the mountains, and far out on the eastern plains. I actually look forward to getting closing assignments to places I've never been or heard of.
And in the future, if anyone asks me, 'Where is Elizabeth?', ... I'll know.

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How Women's Friendships Differ from Men's
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 866 , Segment 4
Episode: What Is Democratic Socialism?, Fighting Fire With Fire, The Psychology of Dehumanization
- Jul 30, 2018 11:00 pm
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Guest: Deborah Tannen, PhD, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Author, “You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships” If you have a close friend who knows your most intimate personal details, you’re probably a woman. If you’ve ever been cut off by a close friend with no explanation, you’re probably a woman, too. Friendships between women can be complicated, but they can also be as intense and rewarding as any relationship in a woman’s life.

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|Publication number||US5589004 A|
|Application number||US 08/450,140|
|Publication date||Dec 31, 1996|
|Filing date||May 26, 1995|
|Priority date||Aug 1, 1994|
|Also published as||CA2196284A1, CA2196284C, US5492139, US5709234, US5772782, WO1996004083A1|
|Publication number||08450140, 450140, US 5589004 A, US 5589004A, US-A-5589004, US5589004 A, US5589004A|
|Inventors||Brent J. Lashmett, Doug C. Lashmett, H. W. Lashmett, Larry R. Herzog, Thomas P. Tri, Merideth L. Karpik|
|Original Assignee||B&S Research, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (11), Referenced by (9), Classifications (28), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/283,611 filed on Aug. 1, 1994, U.S. Pat. No. 5,492,139.
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for remediating contaminated material.
Many materials and objects exposed to oil, PCB, and other hydrocarbon contaminates can be reused if an appropriate cleaning process is provided. As used herein, the term "contaminated materials" can include any material contaminated by the above contaminates, whether that material be granulated (such as floor dry materials or sweeping compounds), mats, rubber beads, air filters for waste centers, used oil filters, or any other material or object which during use is capable of absorbing contaminates.
Cleaning fluids are available which contain various chemicals, emulsifiers, and other cleaning agents which are capable of separating the hydrocarbon contaminates from the objects or materials to be cleaned. Agents also are known which contain microorganisms capable of consuming the contaminates.
However, there is a need for equipment and for a method of operating the equipment which provides satisfactory use of these various cleaning agents to remove the contaminates from the reusable materials so that the reusable materials can be recycled.
Therefore a primary object of the present invention is the provision of an improved method and apparatus for remediating contaminated material.
A further object of the present invention is the provision of a method and apparatus which will permit the remediating of various contaminated materials or objects of various shapes and sizes.
A further object of the present invention is the provision of a method and apparatus for collecting the contaminates after they have been removed from the reusable materials.
A further object of the present invention is the provision of an apparatus and method which are efficient in operation, durable in use, and economical to manufacture.
The method of the present invention removes a contaminated material from a combination material containing the contaminating material and a reusable material. The method comprises placing the combination material in a tank having a cleaning fluid therein capable of separating the contaminating material from the reusable material. The cleaning fluid is circulated around the combination material within the tank so that the cleaning fluid will cause the contaminating material to separate from the reusable material and will cause at least some of the contaminating material to float on the top surface of the cleaning fluid within the tank. The method further comprises drawing off the contaminated material which is floating on the top surface of the cleaning fluid and removing it from the tank.
The apparatus of the present invention includes a tank having a plurality of side walls and a bottom wall enclosing a cleaning chamber for containing the cleaning fluid. A skimming opening is provided in one of the side walls of the tank and is positioned a first distance above the bottom wall. The skimming opening provides fluid communication from within the cleaning chamber to outside the cleaning chamber. A fluid circulation manifold is positioned adjacent the bottom wall of the tank within the cleaning chamber. The manifold has a plurality of spray openings therein for introducing fluid into the cleaning chamber. A fluid outlet opening is provided in one of the side walls and bottom wall and is connected to a recirculation pump by means of a conduit system. The conduit system connects the fluid outlet opening to the recirculation pump and connects the recirculation pump to the fluid circulation manifold. The pump then causes the cleaning fluid within the tank to be circulated from the outlet opening, to the pump and from the pump to the manifold where the fluid is recirculated into the cleaning chamber through the spray holes in the manifold. A contaminant container is positioned outside the fluid chamber and in fluid communication with the skimming opening for receiving the contaminating material which exits through the skimming opening in the tank wall.
FIG. 1 is an exploded pictorial view of the apparatus of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the apparatus of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a rotary dryer for drying the reusable material after it has been cleaned.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line 4--4 of FIG. 3.
Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 generally designates a cleaning apparatus of the present invention. Apparatus 10 includes a tank 12 having a cleaning chamber 13 therein. A basket 14 is adapted to be placed within the cleaning chamber 13, and an agitator motor 16 is adapted to be fitted over and agitator (to be described hereinafter) within the basket 14. Apparatus 10 also includes a recirculating pump 18 and an electrical heating element 20. A gas heater may also be used instead of an electrical heating element 20.
Tank 12 includes two side walls 22, 24 two end walls 26, 28 and a bottom wall 30. An elongated horizontal skimming slot 32 is provided in end wall 28. Outside end wall 28 is a skimming container 33 having a skimming chamber 34 which in fluid communication with the skimming slot 32. Skimming chamber 34 includes at its lower end an outlet 36 having a valve 38 which may be opened or closed to remove the contents of the skimming chamber 34.
The end wall 26 includes a rectangular outlet opening 40 therein which is covered with a filter 42 so as to permit fluid within the cleaning chamber 13 to pass through the outlet opening 40, with the filter 42 filtering out any materials in the fluid.
A recirculating housing 44 is mounted outside end wall 26 and forms a recirculating chamber 46 which is in communication with and outside the outlet opening 40 in wall 26. At the lower end of recirculating chamber 46 is a conduit connection 48 which is adapted to be connected to a pump inlet conduit 50. Pump inlet conduit 50 is connected to the inlet of pump 18, and a Y shaped pump outlet conduit 52 is connected to the outlet of pump 18. An air stand pipe 54 having an air nipple 56 on the upper end thereof is connected to and in communication with the Y shaped pump outlet conduit 52.
Within the cleaning chamber 13 of tank 12, and extending in parallel relation to one another along the bottom wall 30 thereof, are a pair of recirculation pipes or manifolds 58, 60 each of which include a plurality of spray holes 62 therein. Manifolds 58, 60 include pipe connections 64, 66 respectively which extend through the end wall 26 of the tank 12 and which are connected to the two Y ends of the pump outlet conduit 52.
Bottom wall 30 of the tank 12 includes a drain hole 68 which is connected to a drain pipe 70 having a valve 72 therein for draining the contents of cleaning chamber 30. Mounted within the cleaning chamber 13 and extending inwardly from each of the side walls 22, 24 and the ends walls 26, 28 are a plurality of support flanges 74. Flanges 74 are spaced approximately four inches above the bottom wall 30 and are intended to provide support for the basket 14 when the basket 14 is placed within the cleaning chamber 13.
A control 76 is an electrical box containing a master switch 77 and several switches and timeres which are connected by a control cable 78 to motors 16, 18 and heating element 20. Heating element 20 is located inside washing chamber 13 and is attached to sidewall 26.
Basket 14 includes a cylindrical basket wall 80 having a pair of lifting hooks 81 connected thereto. The top wall of basket 14 is provided by a first screen 82 and a second screen 84. These two screens are of two different sized mesh and intended to provide fluid communication into a basket compartment 83 within basket 14. The bottom wall of the basket 14 is provided by first and second screens 86, 88 which are similar to screens 82, 84. A support bar 90 extends diametrically across the upper end of the basket 14 and includes a shaft opening 91 therein. Basket 14 is intended to contain contaminated material 92 which may be granulated material or objects having various shapes and sizes.
An agitator 94 includes a vertical agitator shaft 96 having a horizontal agitator head 98 secured to its lower end and having a splined receptacle 100 at its upper end.
Motor 16 is supported by a motor support frame 102 having a pair of parallel elongated bars 104, 106 which are joined by a web plate 108. Motor 16 includes a downwardly extending splined motor shaft 110 which is adapted to mate within the splined receptacle 100 so as to provide driving connection between the motor 16 and the agitator 94.
In operation, the cleaning chamber 13 is filled with a washing or cleaning fluid 112. Numerous cleaning fluids are known in the art for removing and separating petrol chemical products from objects to be cleaned. A preferred cleaning material for use in the present invention is as follows:
______________________________________Percentage By Volume Ingredient Description______________________________________16% Alcohol70% Water (deionized or distilled)10% An emulsifier manufactured by CRC Laboratories, Inc., 706 South Seventh Street, Delano, Minnesota and sold under the trademark CLEAN-WISE. 1/2% Nutrients selected from phosphorus, nitorgen, sulfer, lime and/or potassium. 1% A cultured bacterial material containing microorganisms for consuming petro chemical products, sold by B&S Research, Inc., 4345 Hwy. 21, Embarrass, MN 55732 under the trade designation B & S Industrial.2 1/2% A catalyst for use with the above cultured bacteria material and sold by B&S Research, Inc., 4345 Hwy. 21, Embarrass, MN 55732 under the trade designation B & S Industrial Achieve.______________________________________
Other cleaning fluids may be used without detracting from the invention.
The material or objects to be cleaned are placed within the basket 14 and the basket 14 is placed within the cleaning chamber 13 so that it rests upon the flanges 74 in spaced relation above the recirculation manifolds 58, 60. The heater 20 is activated to cause the fluid within the tank to be heated to the appropriate temperature for causing the maximum vitality and activity of the microorganisms within the fluid. The preferred range of temperature for the fluid should be between 80° and 100° F., and the preferred temperature is approximately 90° F.
The pump 18 is then activated which causes fluid to be drawn from recirculating chamber 46 into the pump and forced outwardly through the spray holes 62 in the manifolds 58, 60. This causes the fluid within the chamber 13 to be circulated and bubbled around and through the materials 92 within the basket 14 thereby exposing the materials 92 to the maximum amount of fluid and microorganisms as possible. As the petrochemicals or oils are separated from the materials to be cleaned, an oil or contaminant layer 114 forms on the top surface of the cleaning fluid. The level of the cleaning fluid is kept adjacent to the skimming slot 32 so that as oil or other contaminants form on the top of the cleaning fluid they are skinned off through the skimming slot 32 and into the skimming chamber 34. This causes a contaminant reservoir 116 to accumulate within the skimming chamber 34.
The microorganisms contained within the cleaning fluid 112 are aerobic microorganisms which require oxygen. Therefore in order to facilitate the functioning of the microorganisms, the air nipple 56 of stand pipe 54 is connected to a source of pressurized air or oxygen and oxygen is introduced into the pump outlet conduit 52 so as to become disbursed within the fluid being delivered to the two recirculation manifolds 58, 60. Thus as the fluid circulates out through the spray holes 62 into the cleaning chamber 13, air or oxygen is also introduced into the fluid within the chamber 13, and this air or oxygen helps to sustain the microorganisms within the cleaning fluid.
When the materials within the basket 14 have been sufficiently cleaned, the basket is removed from the cleaning chamber 13 and the contents 92 are placed within a dryer such as the rotary dryer 119 shown in FIG. 3. Dryer 119 includes a heating drum 120 having a feed hopper 122 at one end and having heating coils 124 at the opposite ends. Air is introduced in the direction shown by the arrows in FIG. 3, but it flows in a direction opposite to the flow of the reusable material 128 within the drum 120. The drum 120 includes a plurality of fins 130 which grab the material 128 and cause it to tumble within the rotating drum 120. The drum is preferably tilted so as to cause the material 128 to progress from hopper 122 toward a outlet opening 126 at the opposite end of the dryer. The material exits outlet 126 it is dried and ready for reuse.
While the particular drying process shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 may be used for granulated materials, other drying methods may be used without detracting from the invention. Also some objects are not amenable to being dried within a rotating dryer, and in such cases other drying methods may be used.
In the drawings and specification there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, and although specific terms are employed, these are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. Changes in the form and the proportion of parts as well as in the substitution of equivalents are contemplated as circumstances may suggest or render expedient without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as further defined in the following claims.
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- Is ADHD inherited from father?
- What can happen if ADHD is left untreated?
- Can you see ADHD on a brain scan?
- What happens in the brain of someone with ADHD?
- How a person with ADHD thinks?
- What does a neurologist do for ADHD?
- Is there a definitive test for ADHD?
- What age does ADHD peak?
- Can ADHD go away?
- Does ADHD show up on EEG?
- Can ADHD cause obsessive thoughts?
- What is the chemical imbalance that causes ADHD?
Is ADHD inherited from father?
ADHD tends to run in families and, in most cases, it’s thought the genes you inherit from your parents are a significant factor in developing the condition.
Research shows that parents and siblings of a child with ADHD are more likely to have ADHD themselves..
What can happen if ADHD is left untreated?
Children with ADHD often have trouble functioning at home and in school and can have difficulty making and keeping friends. If left untreated, ADHD may interfere with school and work, as well as with social and emotional development.
Can you see ADHD on a brain scan?
Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from patients without the condition, according to a new study.
What happens in the brain of someone with ADHD?
ADHD brains have low levels of a neurotransmitter called norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is linked arm-in-arm with dopamine. Dopamine is the thing that helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure center. The ADHD brain has impaired activity in four functional regions of the brain.
How a person with ADHD thinks?
Attention is never “deficit.” It is always excessive, constantly occupied with internal reveries and engagements. When people with ADHD are not in The Zone, in hyperfocus, they have four or five things rattling around in their minds, all at once and for no obvious reason, like five people talking to you simultaneously.
What does a neurologist do for ADHD?
Neurologists are medical doctors who specialize in the treatment of the brain and central nervous system injuries and disorders. They can be important to include in the diagnostic process since ADHD is a neurological disorder. However, their services aren’t always required.
Is there a definitive test for ADHD?
How Do You Diagnose ADHD? There’s no single, definitive diagnostic test for attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) — no blood analysis, no brain scan, no genetic screening. An ADHD diagnosis is not a quick or simple task.
What age does ADHD peak?
The symptoms of hyperactivity are typically most severe at age 7 to 8, gradually declining thereafter. Peak severity of impulsive behaviour is usually at age 7 or 8. There is no specific age of peak severity for inattentive behaviour.
Can ADHD go away?
“ADHD doesn’t disappear just because symptoms become less obvious—its effect on the brain lingers.” Some adults who had milder symptom levels of ADHD as children may have developed coping skills that address their symptoms well enough to prevent ADHD from interfering with their daily lives.
Does ADHD show up on EEG?
Research shows that the brains of people with ADHD are different than the ones of those without. That’s why some doctors use a physical test to look for changes in brain patterns. The FDA approved the use of electroencephalogram (EEG) to diagnose ADHD in 2013.
Can ADHD cause obsessive thoughts?
Obsessing and ruminating are often part of living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). No matter how hard you try to ignore them, those negative thoughts just keep coming back, replaying themselves in an infinite loop. You know it’s not healthy, but you can’t seem to stop yourself.
What is the chemical imbalance that causes ADHD?
Biological: Studies suggest that ADHD comes from a chemical imbalance or problem with the way certain neurotransmitters (chemicals in the brain that help control behavior) work, especially dopamine. Environment: Exposure to toxins (poisons) in the environment (for example, lead) is linked to ADHD in children.


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Aides said the decision was made by Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama alone. It shows the primacy the president places on protecting his hoped-for legacy as a commander in chief who did everything in his power to disentangle the U.S. from overseas wars. Until Friday night, Mr. Obama’s national-security team didn’t even have an option on the table to seek a congressional authorization.
The only real discussion was a plan to punish Mr. Assad for what the U.S. and others have called a chemical-weapons attack amid Syria’s grinding civil war. The final question, policy makers thought, was how many targets to hit and when to tell the Navy destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean to open fire.
Yet Mr. Obama made no secret to aides he felt uncomfortable acting without U.N. Security Council backing. Current and former officials said his decision reflected his concerns about being seen as acting unilaterally—without political cover from Congress and without the U.K. at his side. Arab states, for their part, have offered little public support despite their private encouragement.
The change in Mr. Obama’s thinking confounded White House insiders. Some raised concerns about the decision. They asked what would happen if Congress refused to authorize using force, a senior administration official said.
The move also took key allies from Israel to Saudi Arabia by surprise, diplomats said. They thought Mr. Obama was about to pull the trigger and were preparing for possible retaliation from Mr. Assad.


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Edwards leads UConn men
The UConn forward scored a career-high 17 points in just 16 minutes as the second-ranked Huskies beat Delaware State 79-49 before 9,734 fans at Gampel Pavilion.
"I feel like I'm always in the right place at the right time," said Edwards, who topped double figures in points for just the third time in his career. "It helps me get rebounds and Craig (Austrie) or Jerome (Dyson) or A.J. (Price) or whoever can find me when I'm open."
Edwards was open quite a bit Monday against the undersized Hornets and hit seven of his nine shots from the floor.
"Gavin is one of the more talented guys on our team as far as athletic talent. He just has to stop having people get a piece of his ball," UConn coach Jim Calhoun said of his 6-foot-9 junior. "When we get to the league, he's got to be more physical. Some of those things that you saw will be knocked away."
Center Hasheem Thabeet also showed plenty of inside strength for the Huskies (7-0), picking up 10 points, 17 rebounds and four blocks. Each of Thabeet's last 10 field goals, including the four he made Monday, have been dunks.
"Hash was terrific. We just didn't get him the ball enough," Calhoun said.
Guard Donald Johnson led Delaware State (1-9) with 25 points, hitting six 3-pointers.
As easily as the Huskies prevailed, the game was far from perfect.
Along with allowing Johnson to do plenty of damage, the Huskies let the smaller, quicker Hornets 15 offensive rebounds.
"We should have really, really dominated the boards," Calhoun said.
"And we didn't really suffocate them on defense, which is something we could have done."
Delaware State was playing without one of its best players, senior forward Arturo Dubois . Coach Greg Jackson did not allow Dubois, who had 13 points and 21 rebounds in State's last game, to play against UConn.
Johnson, who obviously came to Gampel ready to shoot, made six of his 10 shots in the first half and scored 16 points. The rest of his teammates, however, were only 1-of-21.
"They have five NBA players on the floor. It's hard to play against a team that's so talented," Jackson said of the Huskies. "But I've told everyone all year long that Donald Johnson can shoot the ball as well as anyone in the country. He's just on a team that's not as talented as these teams."
The game was relatively close when Johnson nailed his third 3-pointer of the first half, making it 14-11 Huskies. UConn proceeded to score the next 11 points and, after another Johnson triple seven minutes later, the Huskies scored another 10 in a row.
Thabeet had already accumulated 10 points and eight rebounds by halftime, helping UConn gain a 26-2 advantage on points in the paint.
Delaware State trailed 44-18 at the half, thanks to that wayward shooting performance and 13 painful turnovers.
"We had a lot of (forced) turnovers," Dyson said. "On the other hand we gave up a lot of free shots."
The Hornets didn't go away quietly in the second half, cutting what had been a 26-point deficit down to 16 with just over 14 minutes left in the game. Johnson continued to have the hot hand but UConn also took the full-court press off for long stretches, giving Delaware State something of a break.
A basket by Edwards in transition, thanks to a lob from Kemba Walker and a nice mid-air adjustment by the 6-9 Edwards, started the Huskies on their final run.
Edwards scored nine points in the game's final six minutes. Delaware State managed only seven -- including one final 3-pointer from Johnson -- over that same span.


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Hatch is releasing a series of smart products and services to help new parents. The company's first product, The Smart Changing Pad, is a modern redesign of the traditional diaper changing pad with a built-in wireless scale that can help new parents track key infant health metrics like weight, feeding amount, and number of diapers. The companion Hatch Baby App can be used on its own, or can be connected with the Smart Changing Pad for seamless tracking of a baby's personalized growth data.
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Oct 11, 2022
FreightWaves CSX, Union Pacific kick off Class I earnings season Oct. 20 4 minutes read A Union Pacific train. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) A last-minute tentative labor agreement struck by the railroads and the two largest U.S. railroad unions dominated the headlines in the third quarter. But headcount updates, questions about rail service improvements, a surprise announcement that there is a new CEO at CSX and efforts to fully restore service in the wake of Hurricane Ian also are expected to be addressed as the Class I railroads release their Q3 2022 earnings later this month. “These macro events are sort of overwhelming the mundane day-to-day incremental improvement,” said Tony Hatch, a senior transportation analyst and independent consultant. At the start of 2022, the railroads were talking about volume growth. But service disruptions in the first half of the year tempered that optimism. Meanwhile, pandemic-related absences in early 2022 exacerbated the lack of crew availability, which itself was brought about by declines in headcount that have taken place over the last several years. For the second half of 2022, industry observers will be watching for several things. One is how and whether rail service has improved, in part because of aggressive efforts by the Class I railroads to add more train and engine employees so that network capacity can be more nimble. “Service levels continue to be a major issue and that’s especially true now with the STB’s [Surface Transportation Board’s] eyes on the fall grain shipping season ,” said Mike Baudendistel, FreightWaves’ market expert for rail and intermodal. If the railroads have improved their crew availability, particularly in regions where it was harder to find suitable employees, another question is how much of that effort will help grow rail volumes, even as macroeconomic indicators point to a possible global market slowdown. People will be watching “whether getting crews back will stimulate growth,” Hatch said. “Is there pent-up rail demand that wasn’t solved because of the fluidity issue that can be now solved and recaptured when crews get out there? Where are they in terms of the most recent service and operating metrics? What we really hope to see is incremental improvement. And I think we will, for the most part, see that.” Indeed, many of the shipper complaints to STB this year have focused on an inability to get the desired number of railcars, which supports the notion of pent-up demand. “That ‘what is the nature of the pent-up demand’ is a big question to me. And what is the true nature of the Kansas City Southern mantra … [of] service begets growth?” Hatch said. International intermodal volume is down a little from last year and down significantly compared to 2019 and 2020, according to this SONAR chart. (FreightWaves SONAR) To learn more about FreightWaves SONAR, click here . The potential ratification of the outstanding labor agreements — and whether the road to ratification is smooth or bumpy — is another issue that industry observers may be keeping tabs on during third-quarter 2022 earnings calls. On one level, observers might be looking for how the Class I railroads are thinking about their costs, including whether they have reserved enough money for wage increases or back pay. “The biggest question I have going into the 3Q earnings season is whether the railroads have fully accrued for the forthcoming increase in labor costs,” Baudendistel said. “It will also be interesting to see how the Class I management teams address questions about whether higher labor costs give the carriers cause to take pricing up more than they otherwise would.” At another level, there is uncertainty about what will happen once all the unions approve and ratify their contracts, as well as uncertainty over how long it might take for outstanding contract-related issues to resolve, especially as the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division said Monday that its members have voted against ratifying the labor agreement. Do the railroads and unions negotiate on work roles, which could aid the railroads as they try to address technology advances, and how will they address quality-of-life issues so they can reduce attrition? Hatch asked. “These are questions that are going on now that cannot be answered in October in all likelihood. I’m sure they have ideas about this, but they will wait until they have something more concrete,” Hatch said. This SONAR chart shows a drop in domestic intermodal volume that coincided with Norfolk Southern’s (NYSE: NSC) announcement that it would stop in-gating containers ahead of a potential strike. That volume has since recovered roughly to year-ago levels. (FreightWaves SONAR) An additional issue that might be brought up is the effect that a slowdown in U.S. imports and tempering of ocean vessel rates could have on the railroads. “I am interested to see whether the railroads expect a softening ocean shipping market to translate to lower international intermodal volumes and whether the railroads believe that domestic intermodal is losing share to the highway in the more competitive lanes (e.g., CHI-ATL) in light of the soft truckload spot market,” Baudendistel said. With the fourth quarter of 2022 already at hand and the start of 2023 just at the horizon, one question will be what effect having plenty of warehousing and inventory have for the freight rail industry and the broader supply chain, Hatch said. “Everybody’s worked hard to address these issues individually within a supply chain, and you have a big bunch of boxes coming in and a big bunch of warehouses being built and a big bunch of chassis is coming in,” Hatch said. “Are we going to go from significant shortage to surplus in 2023? That’s a better problem than ‘we need a more resilient supply chain.’ But when we swing so much, will the reaction to that swing be to cut back again?” CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) and Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) will kick off earnings season for the Class I railroads, with both announcing their third-quarter 2021 financial results on Oct. 20.
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A look at the Defence news 13 – 18 December
Since last week, the Defence organisation has been flying 11 F-16s to be divested from Florida to Europe in several flights. The aircraft fly to the Azores with two tanker aircraft, and from there they fly to Charleroi, Belgium.
The fighter jets are temporarily held there and kept in airworthy condition until they are handed over to the new owner.
Government responds to investigation into war of independence in Indonesia
"The main and ultimate responsibility for the Dutch operations and the extreme violence (in the former Dutch East Indies) lay with the authorities at the time: the Dutch Government, Parliament, the military as an institution and the judicial authorities.” This is what the Dutch government stated in a second and more comprehensive response to the study ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’.
Value of military support to Ukraine approaches € 1 billion
The Netherlands has now provided almost € 1 billion in military support to Ukraine. The Netherlands Minister of Defence, Kajsa Ollongren, sent the House of Representatives an update on this subject. Ukraine also depends on this support to defend itself against Russia.
The news starting 19 December will be published in January.