DMC Stands For Devastating Mic Control

The King Of Rock

It was 1985, just six ephemeral being removed from the incident known as Disco Demolition Night in Chicago everywhere a frenzied crowd of thousands gathered in Comiskey Park with despise in their eyes and hearts. The abhorrent mob assembled for the sole purpose of sealing the fate of the long permanent disco movement by setting their albums and cassettes of the composition on fire en masse. It was a revolt in the truest sense, unlike any unenthusiastic show towards a fastidious style of composition before. This was not unadorned a slip in the charts; it was an execution.

Disco was dead.

The era of heavy metal had really begun. The Bee Gees, now the official former kings of the airwaves, would be Stayin' Alive no longer. Their bass lines and high leaning vocal stylings were on fire in a fiery Disco Inferno that an all too lucky slew of long haired rockers was throwing gasoline upon.

It wasn't Kung Fu Fighting. No. The war linking disco and rock that raged from the mid seventies throughout the mid eighties was finally over. Rock prevailed and claimed the throne at the top of the mountain, its sole challenger vanquished.

Who else dare challenge the king?

Jazz? "Please..."

Blues? "Come again?"

Country? "Are you serious?"

How about rap? "Rap? What's rap?"

Rap was still very much a new and moderately unknown commodity, largely unseen by the mainstream audience, critics, and radio stations. Most of the rising form of music's sales could not even be tracked with any accuracy in view of the fact that most of the artists were promotion their material out of the trunks of their cars, unable to reliable a record deal.

Distributors stared blank eyed at rappers as they listened to demos. The supposed professionals didn't have the thought to see and be with you the composition that would eventually launch a revolution. Backed into a corner, the only way to go forward was apparent.

A few courageous entrepreneurs ongoing their own rap labels. One was known as Sugarhill Records. It received modest delivery and was the mark that unrestricted what has been called by many "The first real rap song." Rappers Delight, by the Sugarhill Gang, was the best received rap release up to that point by far.

Looking back, some define the moment as the official initiation of rap composition being that the classic release received airplay, reached digit thirty eight on the composition charts, and was available in many stores.
The Sugarhill Gang was knocking on the door to legitimate entry into the composition world, but a twenty a touch rapper known simply as DMC was not content with banging his knuckles against the door. He had his hand wrapped around the doorknob and was twisting it open.

There would be no knocking for Darryl Mcdaniels who, by the side of with fellow rapper Joseph "Run" Simmons, and DJ Jam Master Jay, unrestricted the self titled Run DMC album in the spring of 1984 on Profile Records.

It seemed like no one knew what to make of it. Run DMC was not anything like anything or anyone before them. The assemble of three black men from Hollis Queens defied any and all classification. They weren't rock, even if they had thrilling guitar in some of their songs. They weren't disco.

What are they? What style of composition is Run DMC?

"They're rap."

"Oh, rap. I reckon I heard of that."

The trio was at a snail's pace gaining an audience, catching on with their catchy amalgamation of back and forth rhyming linking Run and DMC laid over the skillful record scratching and 808 drum apparatus beats of Jay. Throw in a few samples and an occasional guitar riff and you had a fresh new sound that cried out to be listened to.

Run DMC would not be denied, nor could that historic first relief which has sold well over three million units. Things didn't explode yet for Run DMC, but that was just a matter of time.

The door was cracked open, but rap composition still just a foot inside. Rock composition was still looking down the mountain, unworried, at rap composition and laughing. The reigning king felt no threat. There could be no challenge to the throne unless someone from the rap world was equipped to step up huge time.

Enter DMC the boards left.

Fade In:

Slavery may have been abolished in 1862 and there was a supposed equality among the races that was talked about, but a instant glance of the composition charts was all that was looked-for to show the flagrant on terrible terms still present. White artists dominated the airwaves. The digit of black rock groups was smallest and the digit of them that hit the charts was right to nonexistent.

Run DMC eventually changed the face of the composition world and helped to join the gap of racism by promoting racial equality - not favoritism in either management - and becoming celebrities in an era that embraced the rigorous contrary of what they embodied.
Forget rock. Forget rap.

Run DMC transcended musical style and classification and in doing so changed the look of composition world in one chief moment when Darryl Mcdaniels summoned up enough testicular fortitude for the entire rap community and performed an act that held with it the ramifications of painting a bulls eye on his back. He straightforwardly risked being a dead man.

It seemed like suicide.

During a year when sales of rock composition to a predominantly Caucasian audience were in the millions, Run DMC unrestricted their sophomore album. The title footstep facial advent a confident DMC spewing five words, without the addendum of music, which changed the musical scenario forever.

The childish man who went on to inspire so many to come after him made an irrefutably plotting provoking proclamation when he rapped five unadorned terms acapella into a microphone so many being ago.

In the world of politics and government, it was Martin Luther King with the well-known words, "I have a dream."

The world of composition has its equivalent and the submit to belongs to Darryl Mcdaniels. His five words, just as powerfully as King's four, take up again to inspire as they get to a total new audience. No one can not remember the first time they heard DMC utter the last terms anyone ever probable to hear from a black man's mouth.

"I'm the king of rock!"

Darryl Mcdaniels was a legend.

The proclamation was so powerful; it was used to name the album and was largely reliable for the eventual platinum status.

DMC kept up the theme with his next lyric, "There is none higher," just in case someone missed the fact that he was indeed the king of rock and the tremendous thrilling guitar that pulsed throughout the footstep and the album - which can only be described as a groundbreaking masterpiece - was not enough to persuade them.

Rock composition was on the ropes; it looked-for to go a rope a dope if it sought after to survive. It got its help from a most dodgy source.
Rather than pick a fight, Run DMC nonstop their merging of rock and rap by extending the lime arm to a assemble of fallen from grace rockers whose best days were well in the rear them buried in the seventies. Aerosmith bent some lackluster minutes in view of the fact that and hadn't had a hit in near a decade.

Mcdaniels and his cohorts joined forces with the struggling rockers and went on to record a classic remake of one of Aerosmith's ancient hits. Walk This Way was an even larger seller the second time around and helped to catapult Run DMC's third release, Raising Hell, into international multi platinum sales.

Run DMC didn't grow to be battling with rock for musical supremacy, but if anyone was keeping score; it was obvious to see who indeed the king was.

It's been reasonably a roller coaster ride for the childish men who made Adidas a phenomenon. Since Raising Hell's relief over twenty being ago the superstars have place out four more albums all of which have achieved platinum status.

Unfortunately the trio was cut-rate to two on October 30th. 2002 when the legendary Jam Master Jay was called to his maker.
Joseph "Run" Simmons is now known as Reverend Run. The new man of the cloth, when not filming his hit actuality TV show, still finds time to rock the microphone with his regularly imitated but by no means duplicated emceeing skills. His solo relief Distortion served to fill many fan's desire for a new Run DMC recording.

DMC, being removed from his days at St. John's university, is set to contest his partner in crime and will even be featuring the Reverend on a few tracks of the King Of Rock's solo debut Checks, Thugs, & Rock -N- Roll.

Ray Mardo, under the artist name Natural Attraction, released the 15 country hit single "Get Stupid" on Radikal/Popular Records. These days the Austin Film Festival honored writer spends his time typing away screenplays and novels and internet marketing. Two of his websites are: http://www.raymardo.com [http://www.whoisthecoolestguyontheplanet.com]

The Steffen House - A Molasses Desugarization Effort That Couldn't Gain Traction

Whatever happened to the Steffen House, once a critical figure of beet sugar factories, mainly in Europe? A Steffen House was considered so essential to the economic achievement of a beet sugar factory that a chief player in the affair of building and operating beet sugar factories in the earliest days of the 20th Century, Henry Oxnard, said he would not accept a contract to erect a sugar factory unless it included a Steffen House.

A key measurement of a beet factory's routine then and now is the percent of sucrose in molasses. The advent of any sucrose in molasses is verify that sugar intended for the warehouse, refined up, instead, in molasses. In Oxnard's day, molasses was deemed a waste manufactured goods and as such was regularly poured into the rivers abutting a sugar factory. Typically, in a ordinary factory missing a Steffen House, or in this more present period, an ion-exchange process, beet molasses will consist of fifty percent sucrose, an unacceptable loss to those engaged in the management of a beet factory. Factory superintendents submit to the presence of sugar in molasses as "purity". High purities, then, imitate high sugar losses to molasses - the same as pouring cash down the drain.

Molasses production is commonly equal to five percent on beets processed, thus a factory run of 1,000,000 tons of beets could result in the production of 50,000 tons of molasses which would contain roughly 25,000 tons of sugar which would have a market regard of ten million dollars, assuming sugar is sold at $.20 per pound, net of manufacturing costs. It must go without adage that the prevention of the loss of sugar to molasses is a dominant challenge to beet factory managers. Since early, technology captured as much sugar as permitted by equipment then extant, the next curative was to take out sugar from molasses. That became the role of the Steffen House.

The Steffen administer was a mode for extracting sugar from molasses invented by Carl Steffen a Vienna born Austrian who patented the administer in 1883 while engaged in sugar manufacture in Moravia. While his mode has numerous variations, the administer in the end starts by diluting molasses with water (enough to start a key of 5-12% sucrose) and cooling it to a very low warmth (below 18 degrees C) after which finely minced lime (Calcium oxide) in sufficient quantity to establish a relationship of 130 percent to the sucrose content is continuously added with fight at a standardized and slow rate. The sugar in the molasses combines with the lime and a saccharage of lime is twisted which is unfathomable in the liquid. The saccharate was then separated and washed in a filter press. The cake from the filter press (saccharate of lime) was diverse with sweet water to a homogeny of cream and took the house of milk of lime in the carbonation process.

About ninety percent of the sugar formerly in the beet was extracted in those factories that employed the Steffen process. In some facilities, the waste water from the Steffen process, which was rich in fertilizing qualities (primarily potassium sulfate), was used for irrigating domain next-door the factory. The structure designed to accommodate the equipment employed in the Steffen administer became commonly referred to in the industry as the "Steffen's House".

The Steffen administer won instant popularity in Europe but establish less favor in the United States most likely in view of the fact that the administer was more refined in terms of its associated chemistry than any administer introduced into a beet factory up in anticipation of that time. The first such administer was installed in 1888 at Watsonville, California. It was a tiny pilot plant with three 5-foot coolers supplied by the Grevenbroich Machinery Company of Germany. Grevenbroich eventually supplied much of the equipment for three pioneer California factories, Watsonville, Los Alamitos, and Chino and nonstop to supply Oxnard's Steffen administer equipment in anticipation of his company and Kilby Manufacturing of Cleveland, Ohio, started producing improved models a few being later.

In the United States, the list of accomplished chemists who held lead positions in beet factories was slim. Often factory superintendents hewed to tried and right technology of the past, preferring methods learned from experience rather than scholarship. Guided by practical experience as a replacement for of theory, they would without malevolence reject thoughts and methods for which they lacked a basis for understanding. The Watsonville experimental Steffens administer was modest used, for example, in view of the fact that the factory director "did not believe in it."

The fundamental attraction of the Steffen administer lay in comparative advantage. Molasses was then an unwanted commodity and presented itself more as a waste issue than a salable product. Removing sugar from molasses was regarded as being paid excellent regard from a touch that would otherwise be discharged into the river, a practice that was from the earliest days of the U.S. beet industry frowned upon by those who relied upon rivers for additional industrial purposes, together with fishing. In time, molasses, which is in the end a sugar syrup that has been through the factory a digit of times and is by the administer of elimination frequently sugarbeet waste containing fifty percent sucrose, establish a variety of markets. Early on, it became a fund of ethyl alcohol but lost favor for many being in view of the fact that of the low cost of unknown crude oil. Interest in ethyl alcohol production would revive in the 1970's when crude oil prices rose. Molasses is also a principal raw material for the production of baker's proliferate and is a chief fund for the production of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and citric acid. However the volume demanded by those users was low compared to the quantity made available by the nation's beet sugar companies. The price of molasses was low as a consequence.

The 1970's saw attitudes about factory waste change from acceptance by the all-purpose public to a near total rejection of the premise that in view of the fact that of the excellent factories do (provide useful products and economic strength) their waste products must be tolerated. Thus the Steffens administer which bent liquid waste impression high alkalinity and pH as well as high organic content and consequent malodorous compounds became unwelcome. A Steffens House discharged waste water in amounts as fantastic as eight hundred percent of the volume of molasses processed.

Various studies indicated that it was doable to modernize the strength of the odors emanating from Steffen waste. The cost, however, to install and operate effective systems would offset the economic gains provided by the process. Thus factory managers who employed the Steffens administer started shutting them down and those who desired the repayment of such a process, looked elsewhere. In addendum to its shortcomings on the environmental front, the Steffens administer recovered only about 60% of the sugar in molasses. Sugar manufacturers started looking somewhere else for a key to the task of recovering sugar from molasses. Seeping into their thoughts was the thought that it would be better to dodge making molasses in the first place. They turned to ion exchange, a administer that would anticipate the making of molasses in the traditional sense.

Ion exchange, or deionization, is a mode of reducing impurities from juice which then allows for increased extraction of sugar. The attitude of ion chat has been known for more than 125 being but seldom used in the beet sugar industry in view of the fact that of its awkward habit of rising the sodium content of sugar juices which retards the ability of sugar to crystallize. However, later-day sugar manufacturers have turned to the practice of ion-exclusion chromatography which was first used fruitfully to produce high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The administer is based on the exclusion of ionic compounds and the inclusion of nonionic compounds.

Molasses, then, once regarded as a thief who captured huge volumes of valuable sugar all through the sugar manufacturing administer had been made, at last, to give up its plunder via ion chat everywhere the sugar recovery rates get to ninety percent compared to sixty percent in the ancient Steffens House and without unenthusiastic environmental impact. And yet another bonus awaited sugar factories that turned to ion exchange.

Modern factories beginning in the 1990's started producing betaine from molasses, a valued food additive with bonus therapeutic benefits. The University of Maryland Medical Center noted in one of its studies that inexpensive wines that use beet sugar to boost the alcohol content, contain betaine. Some experts recommend that this may clarify why wine drinkers from France tend to have low rates of heart disease even with diets high in stout and cholesterol. More cogent, however, is the regard of betaine as a feed supplement for chickens and pigs. A digit of experiments show that the addendum of betaine to the feeds improves performance. Also, studies with pigs indicate an effect of betaine in energy metabolism and a astute boost in growth hormones. Humans, too, are result uses for betaine as a food supplement below a uncommon name, trimethylglycine or TMG.

Thus, the Steffen process, once the savior of sugar manufactures fell into disregard in view of the fact that of environmental and cost concerns but made way for the more efficient and environmentally friendly ion exchange.

Sources:

GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY, The Technology of Beet Sugar Manufacture, The Great Western Sugar Company, Denver, Colorado, June 30, 1920 - an instruction blue-collar prepared largely by D. J. Roach for use by the operating employees of the company's beet sugar factories.

GUTLEBEN, Dan, The Sugar Tramp-1954- Michigan, Printed by: Bay City Duplicating Co, San Francisco, 1954

McGINNIS, R.A. (Ed.) 1982, Beet Sugar Technology, Fort Collins, Colorado, Beet Sugar Development Foundation

©2010 Thomas Mahar All Rights Reserved.
About the Author:
Thomas Mahar served as Executive Vice President of Monitor Sugar Company between 1984 and 1999 and as President of Gala Food Processing, a sugar packaging company, from 1993-1998. He retired in 1999 and now devotes his free time to writing about the history of the sugar industry. A two-time winner of writing awards, he authored, Sweet Energy, The Story of Monitor Sugar Company in 2001 and maintains a blog at http://beetsugarhistory.blogspot.com/.
Contact: Thomas Mahar E-mail tkmahar@aol.com
Thomas Mahar served as Executive Vice President of Monitor Sugar Company between 1984 and 1999 and as President of Gala Food Processing, a sugar packaging company, from 1993-1998. He authored, Sweet Energy, The Story of Monitor Sugar Company in 2001, and Michigan's Beet Sugar History (Newsbeet, Fall, 2006) and is a two time winner of writing awards from the Southwestern Writers Conference for his work with historical novels set in the South and Southwest during the War Between the States era.
©2009 Thomas Mahar - all rights reserved

DMC Stands For Devastating Mic Control

The King Of Rock

It was 1985, just six ephemeral being removed from the incident known as Disco Demolition Night in Chicago everywhere a frenzied crowd of thousands gathered in Comiskey Park with despise in their eyes and hearts. The abhorrent mob assembled for the sole purpose of sealing the fate of the long permanent disco movement by setting their albums and cassettes of the composition on fire en masse. It was a revolt in the truest sense, unlike any unenthusiastic show towards a fastidious style of composition before. This was not unadorned a slip in the charts; it was an execution.

Disco was dead.

The era of heavy metal had really begun. The Bee Gees, now the official former kings of the airwaves, would be Stayin' Alive no longer. Their bass lines and high leaning vocal stylings were on fire in a fiery Disco Inferno that an all too lucky slew of long haired rockers was throwing gasoline upon.

It wasn't Kung Fu Fighting. No. The war linking disco and rock that raged from the mid seventies throughout the mid eighties was finally over. Rock prevailed and claimed the throne at the top of the mountain, its sole challenger vanquished.

Who else dare challenge the king?

Jazz? "Please..."

Blues? "Come again?"

Country? "Are you serious?"

How about rap? "Rap? What's rap?"

Rap was still very much a new and moderately unknown commodity, largely unseen by the mainstream audience, critics, and radio stations. Most of the rising form of music's sales could not even be tracked with any accuracy in view of the fact that most of the artists were promotion their material out of the trunks of their cars, unable to reliable a record deal.

Distributors stared blank eyed at rappers as they listened to demos. The supposed professionals didn't have the thought to see and be with you the composition that would eventually launch a revolution. Backed into a corner, the only way to go forward was apparent.

A few courageous entrepreneurs ongoing their own rap labels. One was known as Sugarhill Records. It received modest delivery and was the mark that unrestricted what has been called by many "The first real rap song." Rappers Delight, by the Sugarhill Gang, was the best received rap release up to that point by far.

Looking back, some define the moment as the official initiation of rap composition being that the classic release received airplay, reached digit thirty eight on the composition charts, and was available in many stores.
The Sugarhill Gang was knocking on the door to legitimate entry into the composition world, but a twenty a touch rapper known simply as DMC was not content with banging his knuckles against the door. He had his hand wrapped around the doorknob and was twisting it open.

There would be no knocking for Darryl Mcdaniels who, by the side of with fellow rapper Joseph "Run" Simmons, and DJ Jam Master Jay, unrestricted the self titled Run DMC album in the spring of 1984 on Profile Records.

It seemed like no one knew what to make of it. Run DMC was not anything like anything or anyone before them. The assemble of three black men from Hollis Queens defied any and all classification. They weren't rock, even if they had thrilling guitar in some of their songs. They weren't disco.

What are they? What style of composition is Run DMC?

"They're rap."

"Oh, rap. I reckon I heard of that."

The trio was at a snail's pace gaining an audience, catching on with their catchy amalgamation of back and forth rhyming linking Run and DMC laid over the skillful record scratching and 808 drum apparatus beats of Jay. Throw in a few samples and an occasional guitar riff and you had a fresh new sound that cried out to be listened to.

Run DMC would not be denied, nor could that historic first relief which has sold well over three million units. Things didn't explode yet for Run DMC, but that was just a matter of time.

The door was cracked open, but rap composition still just a foot inside. Rock composition was still looking down the mountain, unworried, at rap composition and laughing. The reigning king felt no threat. There could be no challenge to the throne unless someone from the rap world was equipped to step up huge time.

Enter DMC the boards left.

Fade In:

Slavery may have been abolished in 1862 and there was a supposed equality among the races that was talked about, but a instant glance of the composition charts was all that was looked-for to show the flagrant on terrible terms still present. White artists dominated the airwaves. The digit of black rock groups was smallest and the digit of them that hit the charts was right to nonexistent.

Run DMC eventually changed the face of the composition world and helped to join the gap of racism by promoting racial equality - not favoritism in either management - and becoming celebrities in an era that embraced the rigorous contrary of what they embodied.
Forget rock. Forget rap.

Run DMC transcended musical style and classification and in doing so changed the look of composition world in one chief moment when Darryl Mcdaniels summoned up enough testicular fortitude for the entire rap community and performed an act that held with it the ramifications of painting a bulls eye on his back. He straightforwardly risked being a dead man.

It seemed like suicide.

During a year when sales of rock composition to a predominantly Caucasian audience were in the millions, Run DMC unrestricted their sophomore album. The title footstep facial advent a confident DMC spewing five words, without the addendum of music, which changed the musical scenario forever.

The childish man who went on to inspire so many to come after him made an irrefutably plotting provoking proclamation when he rapped five unadorned terms acapella into a microphone so many being ago.

In the world of politics and government, it was Martin Luther King with the well-known words, "I have a dream."

The world of composition has its equivalent and the submit to belongs to Darryl Mcdaniels. His five words, just as powerfully as King's four, take up again to inspire as they get to a total new audience. No one can not remember the first time they heard DMC utter the last terms anyone ever probable to hear from a black man's mouth.

"I'm the king of rock!"

Darryl Mcdaniels was a legend.

The proclamation was so powerful; it was used to name the album and was largely reliable for the eventual platinum status.

DMC kept up the theme with his next lyric, "There is none higher," just in case someone missed the fact that he was indeed the king of rock and the tremendous thrilling guitar that pulsed throughout the footstep and the album - which can only be described as a groundbreaking masterpiece - was not enough to persuade them.

Rock composition was on the ropes; it looked-for to go a rope a dope if it sought after to survive. It got its help from a most dodgy source.
Rather than pick a fight, Run DMC nonstop their merging of rock and rap by extending the lime arm to a assemble of fallen from grace rockers whose best days were well in the rear them buried in the seventies. Aerosmith bent some lackluster minutes in view of the fact that and hadn't had a hit in near a decade.

Mcdaniels and his cohorts joined forces with the struggling rockers and went on to record a classic remake of one of Aerosmith's ancient hits. Walk This Way was an even larger seller the second time around and helped to catapult Run DMC's third release, Raising Hell, into international multi platinum sales.

Run DMC didn't grow to be battling with rock for musical supremacy, but if anyone was keeping score; it was obvious to see who indeed the king was.

It's been reasonably a roller coaster ride for the childish men who made Adidas a phenomenon. Since Raising Hell's relief over twenty being ago the superstars have place out four more albums all of which have achieved platinum status.

Unfortunately the trio was cut-rate to two on October 30th. 2002 when the legendary Jam Master Jay was called to his maker.
Joseph "Run" Simmons is now known as Reverend Run. The new man of the cloth, when not filming his hit actuality TV show, still finds time to rock the microphone with his regularly imitated but by no means duplicated emceeing skills. His solo relief Distortion served to fill many fan's desire for a new Run DMC recording.

DMC, being removed from his days at St. John's university, is set to contest his partner in crime and will even be featuring the Reverend on a few tracks of the King Of Rock's solo debut Checks, Thugs, & Rock -N- Roll.

Ray Mardo, under the artist name Natural Attraction, released the 15 country hit single "Get Stupid" on Radikal/Popular Records. These days the Austin Film Festival honored writer spends his time typing away screenplays and novels and internet marketing. Two of his websites are: http://www.raymardo.com [http://www.whoisthecoolestguyontheplanet.com]

The Steffen House - A Molasses Desugarization Effort That Couldn't Gain Traction

Whatever happened to the Steffen House, once a critical figure of beet sugar factories, mainly in Europe? A Steffen House was considered so essential to the economic achievement of a beet sugar factory that a chief player in the affair of building and operating beet sugar factories in the earliest days of the 20th Century, Henry Oxnard, said he would not accept a contract to erect a sugar factory unless it included a Steffen House.

A key measurement of a beet factory's routine then and now is the percent of sucrose in molasses. The advent of any sucrose in molasses is verify that sugar intended for the warehouse, refined up, instead, in molasses. In Oxnard's day, molasses was deemed a waste manufactured goods and as such was regularly poured into the rivers abutting a sugar factory. Typically, in a ordinary factory missing a Steffen House, or in this more present period, an ion-exchange process, beet molasses will consist of fifty percent sucrose, an unacceptable loss to those engaged in the management of a beet factory. Factory superintendents submit to the presence of sugar in molasses as "purity". High purities, then, imitate high sugar losses to molasses - the same as pouring cash down the drain.

Molasses production is commonly equal to five percent on beets processed, thus a factory run of 1,000,000 tons of beets could result in the production of 50,000 tons of molasses which would contain roughly 25,000 tons of sugar which would have a market regard of ten million dollars, assuming sugar is sold at $.20 per pound, net of manufacturing costs. It must go without adage that the prevention of the loss of sugar to molasses is a dominant challenge to beet factory managers. Since early, technology captured as much sugar as permitted by equipment then extant, the next curative was to take out sugar from molasses. That became the role of the Steffen House.

The Steffen administer was a mode for extracting sugar from molasses invented by Carl Steffen a Vienna born Austrian who patented the administer in 1883 while engaged in sugar manufacture in Moravia. While his mode has numerous variations, the administer in the end starts by diluting molasses with water (enough to start a key of 5-12% sucrose) and cooling it to a very low warmth (below 18 degrees C) after which finely minced lime (Calcium oxide) in sufficient quantity to establish a relationship of 130 percent to the sucrose content is continuously added with fight at a standardized and slow rate. The sugar in the molasses combines with the lime and a saccharage of lime is twisted which is unfathomable in the liquid. The saccharate was then separated and washed in a filter press. The cake from the filter press (saccharate of lime) was diverse with sweet water to a homogeny of cream and took the house of milk of lime in the carbonation process.

About ninety percent of the sugar formerly in the beet was extracted in those factories that employed the Steffen process. In some facilities, the waste water from the Steffen process, which was rich in fertilizing qualities (primarily potassium sulfate), was used for irrigating domain next-door the factory. The structure designed to accommodate the equipment employed in the Steffen administer became commonly referred to in the industry as the "Steffen's House".

The Steffen administer won instant popularity in Europe but establish less favor in the United States most likely in view of the fact that the administer was more refined in terms of its associated chemistry than any administer introduced into a beet factory up in anticipation of that time. The first such administer was installed in 1888 at Watsonville, California. It was a tiny pilot plant with three 5-foot coolers supplied by the Grevenbroich Machinery Company of Germany. Grevenbroich eventually supplied much of the equipment for three pioneer California factories, Watsonville, Los Alamitos, and Chino and nonstop to supply Oxnard's Steffen administer equipment in anticipation of his company and Kilby Manufacturing of Cleveland, Ohio, started producing improved models a few being later.

In the United States, the list of accomplished chemists who held lead positions in beet factories was slim. Often factory superintendents hewed to tried and right technology of the past, preferring methods learned from experience rather than scholarship. Guided by practical experience as a replacement for of theory, they would without malevolence reject thoughts and methods for which they lacked a basis for understanding. The Watsonville experimental Steffens administer was modest used, for example, in view of the fact that the factory director "did not believe in it."

The fundamental attraction of the Steffen administer lay in comparative advantage. Molasses was then an unwanted commodity and presented itself more as a waste issue than a salable product. Removing sugar from molasses was regarded as being paid excellent regard from a touch that would otherwise be discharged into the river, a practice that was from the earliest days of the U.S. beet industry frowned upon by those who relied upon rivers for additional industrial purposes, together with fishing. In time, molasses, which is in the end a sugar syrup that has been through the factory a digit of times and is by the administer of elimination frequently sugarbeet waste containing fifty percent sucrose, establish a variety of markets. Early on, it became a fund of ethyl alcohol but lost favor for many being in view of the fact that of the low cost of unknown crude oil. Interest in ethyl alcohol production would revive in the 1970's when crude oil prices rose. Molasses is also a principal raw material for the production of baker's proliferate and is a chief fund for the production of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and citric acid. However the volume demanded by those users was low compared to the quantity made available by the nation's beet sugar companies. The price of molasses was low as a consequence.

The 1970's saw attitudes about factory waste change from acceptance by the all-purpose public to a near total rejection of the premise that in view of the fact that of the excellent factories do (provide useful products and economic strength) their waste products must be tolerated. Thus the Steffens administer which bent liquid waste impression high alkalinity and pH as well as high organic content and consequent malodorous compounds became unwelcome. A Steffens House discharged waste water in amounts as fantastic as eight hundred percent of the volume of molasses processed.

Various studies indicated that it was doable to modernize the strength of the odors emanating from Steffen waste. The cost, however, to install and operate effective systems would offset the economic gains provided by the process. Thus factory managers who employed the Steffens administer started shutting them down and those who desired the repayment of such a process, looked elsewhere. In addendum to its shortcomings on the environmental front, the Steffens administer recovered only about 60% of the sugar in molasses. Sugar manufacturers started looking somewhere else for a key to the task of recovering sugar from molasses. Seeping into their thoughts was the thought that it would be better to dodge making molasses in the first place. They turned to ion exchange, a administer that would anticipate the making of molasses in the traditional sense.

Ion exchange, or deionization, is a mode of reducing impurities from juice which then allows for increased extraction of sugar. The attitude of ion chat has been known for more than 125 being but seldom used in the beet sugar industry in view of the fact that of its awkward habit of rising the sodium content of sugar juices which retards the ability of sugar to crystallize. However, later-day sugar manufacturers have turned to the practice of ion-exclusion chromatography which was first used fruitfully to produce high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The administer is based on the exclusion of ionic compounds and the inclusion of nonionic compounds.

Molasses, then, once regarded as a thief who captured huge volumes of valuable sugar all through the sugar manufacturing administer had been made, at last, to give up its plunder via ion chat everywhere the sugar recovery rates get to ninety percent compared to sixty percent in the ancient Steffens House and without unenthusiastic environmental impact. And yet another bonus awaited sugar factories that turned to ion exchange.

Modern factories beginning in the 1990's started producing betaine from molasses, a valued food additive with bonus therapeutic benefits. The University of Maryland Medical Center noted in one of its studies that inexpensive wines that use beet sugar to boost the alcohol content, contain betaine. Some experts recommend that this may clarify why wine drinkers from France tend to have low rates of heart disease even with diets high in stout and cholesterol. More cogent, however, is the regard of betaine as a feed supplement for chickens and pigs. A digit of experiments show that the addendum of betaine to the feeds improves performance. Also, studies with pigs indicate an effect of betaine in energy metabolism and a astute boost in growth hormones. Humans, too, are result uses for betaine as a food supplement below a uncommon name, trimethylglycine or TMG.

Thus, the Steffen process, once the savior of sugar manufactures fell into disregard in view of the fact that of environmental and cost concerns but made way for the more efficient and environmentally friendly ion exchange.

Sources:

GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY, The Technology of Beet Sugar Manufacture, The Great Western Sugar Company, Denver, Colorado, June 30, 1920 - an instruction blue-collar prepared largely by D. J. Roach for use by the operating employees of the company's beet sugar factories.

GUTLEBEN, Dan, The Sugar Tramp-1954- Michigan, Printed by: Bay City Duplicating Co, San Francisco, 1954

McGINNIS, R.A. (Ed.) 1982, Beet Sugar Technology, Fort Collins, Colorado, Beet Sugar Development Foundation

©2010 Thomas Mahar All Rights Reserved.
About the Author:
Thomas Mahar served as Executive Vice President of Monitor Sugar Company between 1984 and 1999 and as President of Gala Food Processing, a sugar packaging company, from 1993-1998. He retired in 1999 and now devotes his free time to writing about the history of the sugar industry. A two-time winner of writing awards, he authored, Sweet Energy, The Story of Monitor Sugar Company in 2001 and maintains a blog at http://beetsugarhistory.blogspot.com/.
Contact: Thomas Mahar E-mail tkmahar@aol.com
Thomas Mahar served as Executive Vice President of Monitor Sugar Company between 1984 and 1999 and as President of Gala Food Processing, a sugar packaging company, from 1993-1998. He authored, Sweet Energy, The Story of Monitor Sugar Company in 2001, and Michigan's Beet Sugar History (Newsbeet, Fall, 2006) and is a two time winner of writing awards from the Southwestern Writers Conference for his work with historical novels set in the South and Southwest during the War Between the States era.
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DMC Stands For Devastating Mic Control

The King Of Rock

It was 1985, just six ephemeral being removed from the incident known as Disco Demolition Night in Chicago everywhere a frenzied crowd of thousands gathered in Comiskey Park with despise in their eyes and hearts. The abhorrent mob assembled for the sole purpose of sealing the fate of the long permanent disco movement by setting their albums and cassettes of the composition on fire en masse. It was a revolt in the truest sense, unlike any unenthusiastic show towards a fastidious style of composition before. This was not unadorned a slip in the charts; it was an execution.

Disco was dead.

The era of heavy metal had really begun. The Bee Gees, now the official former kings of the airwaves, would be Stayin' Alive no longer. Their bass lines and high leaning vocal stylings were on fire in a fiery Disco Inferno that an all too lucky slew of long haired rockers was throwing gasoline upon.

It wasn't Kung Fu Fighting. No. The war linking disco and rock that raged from the mid seventies throughout the mid eighties was finally over. Rock prevailed and claimed the throne at the top of the mountain, its sole challenger vanquished.

Who else dare challenge the king?

Jazz? "Please..."

Blues? "Come again?"

Country? "Are you serious?"

How about rap? "Rap? What's rap?"

Rap was still very much a new and moderately unknown commodity, largely unseen by the mainstream audience, critics, and radio stations. Most of the rising form of music's sales could not even be tracked with any accuracy in view of the fact that most of the artists were promotion their material out of the trunks of their cars, unable to reliable a record deal.

Distributors stared blank eyed at rappers as they listened to demos. The supposed professionals didn't have the thought to see and be with you the composition that would eventually launch a revolution. Backed into a corner, the only way to go forward was apparent.

A few courageous entrepreneurs ongoing their own rap labels. One was known as Sugarhill Records. It received modest delivery and was the mark that unrestricted what has been called by many "The first real rap song." Rappers Delight, by the Sugarhill Gang, was the best received rap release up to that point by far.

Looking back, some define the moment as the official initiation of rap composition being that the classic release received airplay, reached digit thirty eight on the composition charts, and was available in many stores.
The Sugarhill Gang was knocking on the door to legitimate entry into the composition world, but a twenty a touch rapper known simply as DMC was not content with banging his knuckles against the door. He had his hand wrapped around the doorknob and was twisting it open.

There would be no knocking for Darryl Mcdaniels who, by the side of with fellow rapper Joseph "Run" Simmons, and DJ Jam Master Jay, unrestricted the self titled Run DMC album in the spring of 1984 on Profile Records.

It seemed like no one knew what to make of it. Run DMC was not anything like anything or anyone before them. The assemble of three black men from Hollis Queens defied any and all classification. They weren't rock, even if they had thrilling guitar in some of their songs. They weren't disco.

What are they? What style of composition is Run DMC?

"They're rap."

"Oh, rap. I reckon I heard of that."

The trio was at a snail's pace gaining an audience, catching on with their catchy amalgamation of back and forth rhyming linking Run and DMC laid over the skillful record scratching and 808 drum apparatus beats of Jay. Throw in a few samples and an occasional guitar riff and you had a fresh new sound that cried out to be listened to.

Run DMC would not be denied, nor could that historic first relief which has sold well over three million units. Things didn't explode yet for Run DMC, but that was just a matter of time.

The door was cracked open, but rap composition still just a foot inside. Rock composition was still looking down the mountain, unworried, at rap composition and laughing. The reigning king felt no threat. There could be no challenge to the throne unless someone from the rap world was equipped to step up huge time.

Enter DMC the boards left.

Fade In:

Slavery may have been abolished in 1862 and there was a supposed equality among the races that was talked about, but a instant glance of the composition charts was all that was looked-for to show the flagrant on terrible terms still present. White artists dominated the airwaves. The digit of black rock groups was smallest and the digit of them that hit the charts was right to nonexistent.

Run DMC eventually changed the face of the composition world and helped to join the gap of racism by promoting racial equality - not favoritism in either management - and becoming celebrities in an era that embraced the rigorous contrary of what they embodied.
Forget rock. Forget rap.

Run DMC transcended musical style and classification and in doing so changed the look of composition world in one chief moment when Darryl Mcdaniels summoned up enough testicular fortitude for the entire rap community and performed an act that held with it the ramifications of painting a bulls eye on his back. He straightforwardly risked being a dead man.

It seemed like suicide.

During a year when sales of rock composition to a predominantly Caucasian audience were in the millions, Run DMC unrestricted their sophomore album. The title footstep facial advent a confident DMC spewing five words, without the addendum of music, which changed the musical scenario forever.

The childish man who went on to inspire so many to come after him made an irrefutably plotting provoking proclamation when he rapped five unadorned terms acapella into a microphone so many being ago.

In the world of politics and government, it was Martin Luther King with the well-known words, "I have a dream."

The world of composition has its equivalent and the submit to belongs to Darryl Mcdaniels. His five words, just as powerfully as King's four, take up again to inspire as they get to a total new audience. No one can not remember the first time they heard DMC utter the last terms anyone ever probable to hear from a black man's mouth.

"I'm the king of rock!"

Darryl Mcdaniels was a legend.

The proclamation was so powerful; it was used to name the album and was largely reliable for the eventual platinum status.

DMC kept up the theme with his next lyric, "There is none higher," just in case someone missed the fact that he was indeed the king of rock and the tremendous thrilling guitar that pulsed throughout the footstep and the album - which can only be described as a groundbreaking masterpiece - was not enough to persuade them.

Rock composition was on the ropes; it looked-for to go a rope a dope if it sought after to survive. It got its help from a most dodgy source.
Rather than pick a fight, Run DMC nonstop their merging of rock and rap by extending the lime arm to a assemble of fallen from grace rockers whose best days were well in the rear them buried in the seventies. Aerosmith bent some lackluster minutes in view of the fact that and hadn't had a hit in near a decade.

Mcdaniels and his cohorts joined forces with the struggling rockers and went on to record a classic remake of one of Aerosmith's ancient hits. Walk This Way was an even larger seller the second time around and helped to catapult Run DMC's third release, Raising Hell, into international multi platinum sales.

Run DMC didn't grow to be battling with rock for musical supremacy, but if anyone was keeping score; it was obvious to see who indeed the king was.

It's been reasonably a roller coaster ride for the childish men who made Adidas a phenomenon. Since Raising Hell's relief over twenty being ago the superstars have place out four more albums all of which have achieved platinum status.

Unfortunately the trio was cut-rate to two on October 30th. 2002 when the legendary Jam Master Jay was called to his maker.
Joseph "Run" Simmons is now known as Reverend Run. The new man of the cloth, when not filming his hit actuality TV show, still finds time to rock the microphone with his regularly imitated but by no means duplicated emceeing skills. His solo relief Distortion served to fill many fan's desire for a new Run DMC recording.

DMC, being removed from his days at St. John's university, is set to contest his partner in crime and will even be featuring the Reverend on a few tracks of the King Of Rock's solo debut Checks, Thugs, & Rock -N- Roll.

Ray Mardo, under the artist name Natural Attraction, released the 15 country hit single "Get Stupid" on Radikal/Popular Records. These days the Austin Film Festival honored writer spends his time typing away screenplays and novels and internet marketing. Two of his websites are: http://www.raymardo.com [http://www.whoisthecoolestguyontheplanet.com]

10 Steps For Managing Key Processes That Drive Business Success

When it comes to routine management, managing the routine of your processes can be your best chance for driving routine gains. Identification of key affair processes is critical to organizations as they carry out your deal with by aligning the results of these processes with the strategic goals. Key affair processes are those processes which have maximum impression on the achievement of your organization. Key processes are those that go you closer to your goals and have the greatest impression on your organization. In additional words, these are the processes which would seriously impression revenues, must they fail. This article examines the steps de rigueur to deal with and make the most of the efficiency of your key processes.

A predictable organization must only have less than 15 key processes. A few will be the generic processes within your industry, while others will be point to your unique approaches, goals, service, geographic location, policies, etc. In my experience, organizations are attentive of most of the processes that guide their success. Unfortunately, there are regularly many processes which have an equal or stuck-up impression on the organization which by no means hear the concentration they deserve. Many times, it's these buried processes that keep organizations from performing up to their potential. Identifying key processes using a structured approach, aligning their outcomes to give up the affair goals, designing apt measures and allocating sufficient resources for their enhancement is the key to the achievement of an organization.

Many organizations struggle to identify their key processes. Most public within organizations be with you their team's function within the organization, but they do not be with you how their team's function interacts with additional assemble functions. Business processes are streams of activity that flow crosswise functional boundaries. For this reason, affair processes are said to be fragmented, or scattered crosswise functional silos. This is everywhere the routine management team's services are so valuable. Assigning a administer persuade as part of the routine management team can make possible you to standardize processes and join the communication gap that exists linking functional support groups. Below is a 10 step administer for managing key processes that guide affair success.

Baseline Current Environment

Every routine enhancement initiation starts with a baseline. You must first know how well your organization now executes your key processes before you can absolutely be with you what you need to do in order to get to your desired level of administer execution. This is the foundation and gives you your early point for everywhere you need to improve.

Identify Critical Success Factors

Critical achievement factors are the fundamentals that must be present in order for an initiative to be successful. Some critical achievement factors in administer management include:

• Process alignment - aligning processes to governmental goals and objectives is critical to governmental achievement
  
• Technology investment - the more you can automate your processes, the more efficient your organization will and the more you'll be able break down and identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies
  
• Measuring routine - in order to really be with you your administer execution, you must be able to rate your processes from initiation to finish.

Organize and Centrally Locate Processes

In order to absolutely be with you how processes interact with one another, your processes must be organized. It used to be that each department managed their processes with very modest interaction with additional divisions. But in today's quick paced affair models and the need for instant administer execution, it is essential that organization's consolidate, standardize and deal with cross-functional processes. This requires centrally locating processes and compelling a look at the huge picture.

Standardize Processes

Often times organizations have akin processes that are executed by many divisions and teams. One division may be exceptionally efficient at executing that administer while another division executes at a much fall efficiency rate. Unfortunately, many organizations don't standardize their processes. By leveraging the processes that passionate performing divisions use and standardizing those processes among weaker performing divisions, the entire organization can benefit from extraordinary routine gains.

Redesign Inefficient or Ineffective Processes

This is everywhere we take action. Once we've baselined and leisurely our processes, we are now equipped to take action. Identify the inefficient processes within your organization and the processes that do not support the governmental goals and objectives. If you have a tiny organization or restricted manpower, you can take one administer a time. You'll see that over time you will have redesigned numerous processes and the impression will be clear.

Eliminate Workarounds and Duplicate Steps

How many times have you worked on a administer that was flawed and you establish a workaround? It's incredible the things we will do patch up a administer miscalculation to get the job done. It permanently amazes my clients when we map out a administer and find all of the inefficiencies and duplicate steps. I've seen some processes everywhere two divisions in the end passed ownership back and forth in anticipation of it came to an escalation point and a choice was made by older management. You'll be surprised at how much time you can cut out of a administer when these flaws are mitigated.

Automate Processes Where Possible

This is the name of the game. The more automated your processes, the less opportunity for creature miscalculation and the more predictive your routine will be. This a small time requires a noteworthy investment. But in an age everywhere we want things done yesterday, the investment is most times well regard staying yet to be of your competition and establishing customer loyalty.

Identify Metrics and KPIs

This is everywhere we quantify how effective our processes are. Establishing routine measurements for your key processes, mainly those that span crosswise many organizations will much increase your performance. How many times have you evaluated a failed administer only to get the predictable fiddle with pointing crosswise the divisions involved? When you can break down a routine rate and be with you how much time it must take for each division (or individual) to carry out their part of the process, then you can assign accountability. And answerability regularly earnings results.

Cross Train Employees

In order for an organization to be successful, mainly large organizations, it's vital that employees be with you three things:

1. what are the governmental goals and objectives
   
2. how does their function say to the governmental goals and objective, and
   
3. how does my function impression the larger, cross-functional administer

Understanding how each employee's function impacts the function of additional division is the first step in gaining synergy among your employee and the processes that guide your organization.

Develop Plan for Process Reevaluation

So, you've baselined and centralized your processes. You have standardized everywhere possible. You have eliminated inefficiencies and workarounds. You have applied metrics, automation and cross qualified employees so that they be with you their role in the larger picture. Now it's time to do it all over again. Remember, administer enhancement is a unremitting process. Your competitors are vacant to keep being paid better, faster, more efficient and you must too.

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2010 Actifest - Senior Athletes Going For Gold

Oshawa, Ontario - The 2010 Senior Games Actifest has wrapped up for another two being and excited participants are already looking forward to the 2012 Games to be held in Brampton, Ontario. This year was a chief achievement as Oshawa played host to the games, providing a gorgeous backdrop for the over 1200 participants who competed in eighteen uncommon sports and events. Now before we dive any deeper into this story, let's make one thing clear. The Actifest is full of childish at heart, healthy, committed those resembling that of a much younger generation. In fact referring to this event as the "Senior Games" is bizarre considering that many of these participants could straightforwardly contest up and beat someone 10 to 20 being younger, in their fastidious sport.
Senior Community

The Oshawa University was set up as the Athletes Village. This disorder of the art facility was a wonderful house to accommodate the athletes, providing first class facilities with the youthful feel of a university setting. With many travelling from all over Ontario, dorm style suites offered fantastic convenience for visitors who had a kitchenette, 3-piece bath, cable, local calling, internet door and voicemail. "Much nicer than a lot of hotels I have stayed at!" said Sheila Goodrich from Simcoe County, as she left The University Residence Centre early on Wednesday daylight with pompoms in hand! "Got to go and support the team," she laughed as she made her way onto one of the awaiting buses.

For those who are not familiar with this athletic test of skills among the older community, The Ontario Senior Games were first held in 1968 and hosted by the city of Kitchener. The tremendous rejoinder from the first event built the framework for being to come, establishing the name "Actifest" to be held bi-yearly on even-numbered years. In 1999 it was announced that a akin event in the chill months would be held, appropriately named "Winterfest," the first of these being hosted by the city of Collingwood in 2000 to fantastic success. This year marks twenty being that older athletes from all over Ontario have competed in Olympian style games, setting the bar for generations to come!

Many of the games at this year's Actifest are no walk in the park, physically demanding sports such as Cycling, Nordic Walking, Swimming, Slo-Pitch, Tennis and Pickleball(a new addendum this year!) were all on the card. Some others which take a lot of mental competency and being of mastery include Lawn Bowling, Bocce, Horseshoes, Bid Eucher, Cribbage, Darts, 5-Pin Bowling and Contract Bridge. This diverse list of events shows us that the competitive spirit is still very much bustling within the older community around Ontario. Their keenness to excellent for your health and committed living sets a ordinary for being to come.

Some highlights from this year's event include the initiation of Pickleball. With fantastic interest, over 70 competitors packed the Oshawa University implementation room from all uncommon districts of the province. A huge congratulations goes out to the Durham Slo-Pitch team, who won Gold by defeating Etobicoke by a notch of 7-0 in the championship game. Supporting their sponsor, http://www.PropertiesInDurham.com, it was an incredible win in their home town.

The Lawn Bowling green was reasonably competitive as over 65 players filled the meadow at Northview Community Centre. "We are very lucky to host this year's events!" Actifest volunteer, avid Lawn Bowler and Durham resident, Gord Terwillegar told us. "This meadow here, is the same one used by our minor Bowls Champs, such as Dillon Jackobs from London and Kaitlin Ryan from Kitchener who has competed internationally," he said, "the Senior Games bring increased awareness to a variety of sports, which help to get the younger generations interested and involved." A right proclamation to say the least, as upcoming athletes get a opportunity to see just how far the roots go in these long permanent events.

The finishing ceremonies refined things off as athletes and their families attended a gorgeous feast place on by OSGA,(Ontario Senior Games Association) in which there were guest speakers and recognition agreed to those who helped make Actifest what it is today. As things wound up, the atmosphere felt akin to those days as a youth when summer vacation was coming to an end. The look on everyone's face showed what a fantastic time they had, yet the disappointment that it was all over. "Went by fast," a woman said to me as she left the auditorium, "see you in two years!"

With Actifest refined and the champions having been crowned, we look forward to 2012, when the Games will be held in gorgeous Brampton, Ontario. We trapped up with the Brampton District #19 Slo-Pitch team who were instrumental in bringing the games to their hometown. "We are very excited to be hosting the Senior Games Actifest in 2012, we place a lot of work into securing our bid," limb of the team and Senior Transportation Consultant Emil Szinegh told us. "Now we will be working on the preparation," he laughed, "it's vacant to be a lot of fun!" If this year's Actifest is any indication, this event will grow to be larger and better with every year that passes.

A huge thanks to everyone who had a part in making the 2010 Ontario Senior Games - Actifest, the best one yet! Our hats go off to the athletes who competed in this year's events. You are all role models for the youth of today! Your involvement in the community while chief healthy, committed lifestyles, has laid the footprints for younger generations to follow. The high values set in view of the fact that the games began, has only nonstop to rise. These seniors certainly verify that minutes were made to be broken.

At RetirementListingService.com we are pleased to be a part of such an active and vibrant community. I Lawrence Comiskey, founder and President, actively visit different senior events as I believe in a hands on approach. There is no better way to know what is going on within your community then by actually being there and speaking to those involved. We have a special tie to the province of Ontario, as this is where our website originated and operates from. Our goal is simply to provide a platform, free of charge, where seniors from all over North America can find anything and everything needed, no matter where their travels take them. Through community sponsorship we are able to dedicate our time, into making RetirementListingService.com the best free resource for seniors online. We thank everyone who has taken the time to correspond with us. Without your positive feedback and great ideas, we would not be where we are today! Those who wish to make use of our website can do so by posting any upcoming event or activity within your area. We want to give your community an online voice for all seniors interested.
Lawrence Comiskey is the North American Administrator and founder of Retirement Listing Service, an online senior community for the growing 65+ population. His articles are meant to not only create awareness of this new resource but to inform and help those in this age demographic. Lawrence recognizes the growing shift in consumer trends and is a visionary in the world of seniors online. His hands on approach has helped increase awareness of this new and upcoming community website for senior citizens around North America.