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What Teens Can Learn from Celebrity Scandals
Celebrity screwups can send the wrong message to tweens and teens. It's up to parents to turn celeb transgressions into teachable moments and help kids learn the true meaning of character.
Whether they're athletes, movie stars, or musicians, big names keep pushing the boundaries of bad behavior with sex, drugs, and violence. And our kids have a front-row seat, no less mesmerized than the rest of us. Sure, they're savvy — they know about the difference between image and reality — but they're still kids at heart, desperately seeking role models and ground rules to live by. So what's a teen to think when, often as not, celebs who cross the line are granted Survivor-like immunity, their fame not merely intact but enhanced?
"Every time kids see yesterday's superstar become today's liar, they tend to get more cynical," says Frank Farley, PhD, a psychologist and adolescent specialist at Temple University in Philadelphia. That means parents can't sit on the sidelines. There are valuable lessons to be salvaged from even the tawdriest celeb dramas — teach your children well, and they'll be able to draw on them for a lifetime.
Outrageous Outbursts
Tirades, temper tantrums, hissy fits, giving the finger — hardly a day goes by without some celeb acting up like a spoiled brat. Remember Serena Williams threatening to shove a tennis ball down a line judge's throat at the U.S. Open, or Christian Bale's movie-set meltdown that contained 39 F-bombs? Everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Jude Law has brawled with the paparazzi at some point. Stars sometimes even turn on their fans, like the time singer Avril Lavigne unleashed a torrent of curse words at autograph seekers as well as photographers.
Our kids aren't appalled, but amused — for them it's just another TMZ or YouTube moment. In part, it's because they identify with celebs as cool rebels. "That's why kids troll the Internet and turn these incidents viral," says Farley. "They also do spoofs and parodies of celeb screwups online, since being funny is a sure way to impress their peers."
But beneath the smirks and sniggers, teens need public figures they can emulate. "Kids do take cues from their parents, so it's important to help them decode all that bad behavior," says Celeste Gertsen, PhD, a clinical psychologist and professor at Adelphi University in New York. "Talk to them about how to distinguish professional accomplishment from personal integrity. Ask whether the celeb made a one-time slipup and seems genuinely sorry, or if the mistake is part of a larger pattern that shows a sense of arrogance and entitlement."
Parents can point out that in the case of both Williams and Bale, the outbursts weren't just rude; they were abusive and tantamount to bullying. And while celebs often escape fallout — Williams was smashed with an $82,500 fine but not suspended — your kid won't be so lucky. Tell him that if he pulled the same stunt at Friday night football he'd be booted off varsity for good.
Finally, give your teens a step-by-step plan for staying levelheaded in tense situations. "Remind them to stop and think things through when they feel themselves getting upset so they can control the impulse to act out," advises Gertsen. "It's really all about teaching your kids to have empathy and respect for others. If they realize how someone else is affected by their words and actions, they're much less likely to lose it and get aggressive."
Sports Scandals
Physical talent, drive, and discipline — those qualities abound in star athletes, which is why so many kids identify with them and put them up on pedestals. Problem is, they can't seem to stay there. Whether it's Yankees star Alex Rodriguez finally fessing up to taking performance-enhancing drugs, or Andre Agassi admitting he got high on crystal meth while on the pro tennis circuit, the playing fields these days are littered with scandals of every stripe. "So many stars have failed or fallen off the wagon in some way, and it's really had an impact on kids," says Stanley Teitelbaum, PhD, author of Athletes Who Indulge Their Dark Side: Sex, Drugs, and Cover-Ups (Praeger). "The younger they are, the stronger the sense of disappointment. With older teens, the response is more like 'Whatever' or 'Who cares?' They're not even surprised, just disillusioned and indifferent."
There are many lessons for parents to drive home here. "Start by having a conversation with your child about human frailty and imperfection, and how we all succumb to temptation," suggests Teitelbaum. Even the most cynical teens, he adds, still connect with sports figures on some deeper, subconscious level; when their heroes succeed, kids bask in the glory and feel good about themselves. So it's natural for them to want athletes to be strong and flawless in every way. "I call it the halo effect," says Farley. "It's part of a parent's job to take it off and teach kids that athletes often do destructive things despite their accomplishments."
Then move on to the issue of steroids. Doping is illegal, and it undermines everything that sports is about by giving an unnatural advantage over the competition — whether it affects a game, a championship, the record books, or the Hall of Fame. "Simply put, it's living a lie," says Farley. "So if your teen says what's the big deal or that everybody's doing it, you've got to help him grasp the larger legal and moral repercussions." Make like Socrates and ask lots of questions to help him get the big picture. Is bulking up on steroids any different from cheating? What about fair play and everybody sticking to the rules? Is winning really the only thing that matters? Your end goal is for your kid to come up with the right answers on his own.
Tainted Love
No one can forget the 2009 photo of R&B star Rihanna — her face swollen with bruises, a bloody nose, and split lip, the result of a beating by boyfriend Chris Brown, who was convicted of felony assault and sentenced to 180 days of community service.
On a scale of transgressions this one's a 10, so serious that it can't go unaddressed. "The bottom line here is clear," says Farley. "Abuse is never acceptable, and girls who find themselves victims in any way have to get out, fast."
Experts agree that parents need to recognize the negative, often violent, messages and images being projected to kids, especially young boys. "There's a lot of garbage coming at them that manhood is all about sexual conquest, material wealth, power, and arrogance — what I describe as the bad-ass syndrome," says Kelly H. Johnson, author of A Better Man: True American Heroes Speak to Young Men on Love, Power, Pride, and What It Really Means to Be a Man (Brandylane Publishers). "I have a daughter and five sons. The older boys are in their 20s and the younger ones are in middle school, so I know what I'm talking about. There's definitely less sensitivity these days, while their coarseness is rising."
A lot of that has to do with the movie and music stars kids worship — they're simply not worthy. But parents can provide a counter-balance by strongly voicing their disappointment and disapproval. "Kids have to know the qualities you value and why," says Johnson. "Use precise language — words like dependable, selfless, loyal, which have more depth and content and really get to the heart of a person's character. You want your children to think in those terms, not simply right versus wrong or good versus bad, when they make their own decisions."
Be sure to point out when celebs do something right, as Rihanna finally did. "She scared us all when it seemed she was going to reconcile with Chris Brown," says Johnson. "To her credit, she pulled away and ultimately walked away. I like that it took her months and a false start or two, because it revealed her humanity and showed girls what a tough decision it was to stand up for her dignity and self-worth. She chose the hard right over the easy wrong."
And don't forget to talk about the road to redemption. "For example, if you tell your kids that Brown has a long way to go to regain respect and trust, you're conveying a deeper message as well — that if your kids do something wrong and get caught, they can also make amends, and that you'll be there for them," says Johnson. "That's something they need to hear."
Finally, help your kids find heroes who truly deserve their respect. "There's a wealth of good people out there — fathers and uncles, neighbors and friends, teachers and coaches — who, as opposed to shallow, empty celebrities, have real accomplishments," says Johnson. "Just be sure to take a subtle approach, since teens don't want to feel like they're being lectured. You can't force-feed heroes to your children. They have to find and embrace them on their own."
Originally published in the March 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Right around Halloween two years ago I (along with my 10-year old cocker spaniel Max) proved the laughingstock of just about everyone we knew outside of the San Francisco Bay Area where we then lived. Why? After our regular veterinarian diagnosed Max with a spinal rupture, the treatment plan outlined was straightforward – if over-the-top expensive. Immediate spinal surgery. Price tag: $4,000. Aside from the cost, I couldn't believe major surgery - with a dog in a body cast for weeks - could be the first line of attack.
Nor did another Bay Area vet who relies on alternative medicine techniques for her four-legged patients. She recommended eight weeks of acupuncture and some homeopathic remedies to boot. And so, Max and I went for two months. To my surprise, he took extremely well to the countless needles inserted in his paws, backside, forehead, and ears. By New Year's he was just fine, scavenging for food and chasing squirrels like before. Total cost: $680. A miracle? Hardly. Among two-legged creatures, acupuncture is now an accepted medical intervention for dozens of conditions and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half of U.S. adults have used some form of complementary medicine. Still, we were the butt of many New Age jokes – especially by friends and family here on the East Coast.
But this is not a shaggy dog story.
Integrative Medicine
Recently, I was diagnosed with acute tendonitis in my left ankle, bad enough that I could hardly walk after getting up and such that I was in pain much of the day. After a couple of months of hobbling around, I paid a visit to my regular doctor, a knowledgeable and respected allopathic physician, who outlined the possible treatment options: pain meds, icing, and if not better foot surgery. Ouch. Thinking back to Max's experience, I asked her about alternative medicine approaches, such as acupuncture. Nonchalantly she said: "It won't hurt." Not a big endorsement. Had I not had any previous experience with acupuncture, I probably would have accepted her verdict as gospel.
But I'm not the most complacent of patients and so I sought out an acupuncturist at Duke's spanking new center for integrative medicine (www.dukeim.com), which "draws from the very best conventional and complementary/alternative medicine strategies to create a plan to help you optimize your health." After several sessions of acupuncture, I could walk again! Now, I don't mean this as some kind of come-to-Jesus kind of experience, but my pain is largely gone and my range of activity pretty much normal.
Even though my primary care physician, and many others don't understand or know very much about integrative medicine, an awful lot of people are now being treated with various forms of it and there's a growing body of science proving how it can help heal us.
In 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a report showing that 50% of Americans had used some form of alternative therapy in their lifetime – 36% of us in the past year alone. Not surprisingly, only a quarter of these patients had been referred by a medical professional. Moreover, according to a JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) study, consumers are putting their money where their mouths are: in the last year of the study, Americans spent more than $27 billion out-of-pocket on alternative therapies, nearly equal to the $29 billion we paid out-of-pocket for all physician services.
A Time of Change
Part of many Western doctors' reluctance to endorse these techniques comes from the lack of evidence-based testing (controlled, double-blind, and peer-reviewed studies), the lack of this kind of training in nearly all medical schools, and - to be fair - some number of sham practitioners and practices.
Still, times are changing. When it comes specifically to acupuncture, dozens of reputable studies have proven its efficacy for chronic low back pain, post operative nausea, osteoarthritis, pregnancy nausea, menstrual cramps, neck pain, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, certain kinds of headaches, joint pain and many other conditions – including what ails me – tendonitis. Even the somewhat stodgy NIH issued a statement on acupuncture that concluded: "The data in support of acupuncture are as strong as those for many accepted Western medical therapies"
But while many Western doctors may be slow to embrace integrative medicine, patients clearly are not. This is why I found Duke Integrative Medicine so exciting - and important. Run by Dr. Tracy Gaudet, who worked closely in the 1990s with the founder of integrative medicine, Dr. Andrew Weil, the Duke center only provides therapies grounded in scientific evidence. Dr. Gaudet adds: "This is the new medicine of the 21st century. Integrative medicine is the best of the best."
So go ahead and laugh if you want. And while you do, Max and I are going to go for a walk - pain free.
Steven Petrow is the editorial director of EverydayHealth.com.This article originally appeared in the Charlotte News Observer on August 10, 2007.

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It made me a really happy camper to see that Murfie member, Bill, posted an ad about his Murfie collection on eBay Classifieds. I suggest y'all do the same. (that is, post a classified ad about your CD collection…not Bill's. well, only if you really, really want to.)
Reason #1 – it's easy.
Reason #2 – it's free.
Reason #3 – it's free.
There's a bunch of free classified ads services at your disposal. Aside from eBay Classifieds, there's Craigslist, Oodle, Adoos, BuyMyStuff, and Backpage, to name a few. All these services make it easy peasy to create and post an ad. One obvious tip I have for you is to include the URL of your personal shop in your ad posting. For example, take a look at Bill's ad on eBay Classifieds. Bill makes sure to say that his Murfie collection is at https://www.murfie.com/shop/Bill18. (Well done, Bill!)
Another tip I have for you is to include basic info about your CD collection, like price range and genres available, in the posting description. You may also want to add some music factoids or personal history behind your collection to make the post more share-worthy. Here's an example "For Sale" posting we've mocked up for Craigslist.
Now it's your turn! Tell us in the comments section if you've got a classified ad out there for your Murfie collection. Share the link, I'll give you an air five, and then we'll tweet about it @murfiemusic.


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Rolling Stone magazine drew public outrage this week when it featured a photograph of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its Aug. 1 issue. Some retail outlets are refusing to sell the issue. Here is what editorial cartoonists Chip Bok and Larry Wright had to say about Rolling Stone's decision.
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It was 47 years ago today when the Ford Mustang was officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York and simultaneously in dealer showrooms. The world met the pony car and judging by the fact Ford immediately sold almost 22,000 Mustangs, it liked what it saw.
When Ford first came up with the idea of a "working man's Thunderbird" they had no idea how popular the model would become. The Mustang's long hood and short rear deck and starting price tag of around $2,300 combined with a highly anticipated mid-year launch translated into immediate popularity for the "pony cars".
Ford had not introduced a vehicle as successful as the Falcon based Mustang since the Model A. By the end of the first production year Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs and by March of 1966, the company had made 1 million Mustangs. In the 47 years since the model was introduced over 9 million Mustangs have been sold.


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The Hudson's Bay Company archives, covering 1667-1991, are held on microfilm at The National Archives in record series BH 1. The original Hudson Bay Company archives are held at the Archives of Manitoba, Canada. The records include names and information about settlers who emigrated to North America and worked for the company.
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Beauty: Makeup was fresh-faced with dramatic filled in brows and smokey eyes. Side-swpet bangs and slight bouffant hairdo's.
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While he was President, Ronald Reagan kept an almost daily diary. He was the only President during the last century to do so, and the result—in a form that is greatly reduced but still makes a very long book—"The Reagan Diaries" (Harper-Collins; $35), takes its place next to an earlier volume, almost as large, of correspondence written in his own hand, another of speeches, and yet another of his radio talks. Presidents, including Reagan, usually write memoirs of their White House years afterward; Reagan wins the prize for copiousness of in-office Presidential writing.
Some great politicians have an eerie (Clintonian, one might say) talent for leaving admirers with wildly varied impressions of them. Reagan wasn't like that. He presented a consistent persona, to which people's reactions varied wildly. Reagan ran for office as the nominee of a major party four times—twice for governor of California and twice for President—and won all four races by big margins. But people who got close to him were often unable to feel the connection that voters did from a distance. Aide after aide, and Reagan's official biographer, Edmund Morris, have testified to his remoteness and unknowability, and his children seem to have felt the same way. Intellectuals, journalists, and old Washington pros always saw him as a lightweight—Clark Clifford memorably called him "an amiable dunce." He also generated consistent ideological opposition, mainly from the left but also from conservatives who thought he didn't deliver on his assurances that he was one of them.
Reagan's diaries will reinforce each of these reactions. Those who adore him will find that he didn't have much of a dark side (though he does once refer to Senator Lowell Weicker, of Connecticut, as "a schmuck"). He doesn't curse and plot against enemies, like the Richard Nixon we know from his Oval Office tapes; he doesn't agonize and fall prey to insecurity, like Lyndon Johnson, whom we also know best from his office tapes. He keeps a couple of key principles—taxation is bad and Communism is evil—clearly in mind at all times and doesn't get mired in details. He maintains regular, though unavoidably somewhat scripted, contact with ordinary Americans, especially courageous hard-luck cases, often people whose stories Reagan saw on television and whom he was moved to invite to the White House. He gets genuinely upset when he encounters profanity in a movie. Although, as his critics have often noted, he was not a regular churchgoer, his faith in God is a consistent element in the diaries and doesn't seem staged. (He also mentions that he believes Armageddon is coming, that the Shroud of Turin was, in fact, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, and that Abraham Lincoln's ghost inhabits the White House.)
Reagan has a quotidian quality, which will appeal to traditional conservatives who don't like holders of state power to think of it as a great and glorious calling. Day after day, he turns up at the office, works his way through papers and meetings, and longs for the arrival of the weekend. The Presidency in Reagan's hands seems almost boring: a ceaseless round of plane flights, official dinners, greetings proffered to groups of visitors, adjudication of squabbles among aides, and flattering phone calls to wavering members of Congress. As his term wears on and he enters his late seventies, Reagan also devotes a lot of his time to doctors' visits, all of which he duly recorded. He's a trouper, not a maestro energized and exhilarated by power.
Although Douglas Brinkley, the historian who edited the diaries, generously calls Reagan's writing "uncomplicated and humble," the truth is that Reagan was a master of spoken, not written, English. He writes in a simple, singsong prose, with many misspellings. Richard Crossman he's not. Here is an entry from a day six months into the Presidency: Saw "Mommie" [Nancy Reagan] off for London & the Royal Wedding. I worry when she's out of sight 6 minutes. How am I going to hold out for 6 days. The lights just don't seem as warm & bright without her. Went to the Oval office for the morning brief but my mind wasn't on it. Met in the State Dining Room with St. Legislators, Mayors & Co. officials from a dozen states re the tax bill. . . . Al Haig [then the Secretary of State] called & said we may have a "cease fire" tomorrow between Israel & the P.L.O. Watched the "Waltons" on T.V. and so to bed.
Johnson, in his taped conversations, occasionally offered astute, well-informed, tactically clever, and even funny assessments of a situation. Nixon, scheming as he was, usually had something perceptive to say about the alignment of political forces around an issue. The Reagan of the diaries is usually no better than dutiful. For someone whose job was to connect with people, he has amazingly little of interest to say about those he encounters. They are resolute (Margaret Thatcher), or dedicated (George Shultz), or intransigent (Menachem Begin), or excessively critical (Tip O'Neill, and almost all journalists). Of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Reagan says, "They are both nice & she is an outstanding human being." Of Mother Teresa, "She's a most remarkable little woman." The same descriptive flatness occurs in Reagan's accounts of great events, and in his discussions of politics and policy. The fact that Reagan saw the world in such straightforward terms may have been a political advantage for him, but it is not a literary one.
Reagan does attend closely to his relationship with his audience. He rewrites speeches to make them simpler; he pays attention to what his pollster, Richard Wirthlin, reports; and he almost always takes note of the way his appearances have been received. Wild acclaim in a public setting brings him the most obvious pleasure of any of his Presidential duties. (Old movies, vacations, and horseback riding bring him pleasure, too, but they aren't Presidential duties.) After a speaking engagement at St. John's University in 1985, he writes, "What a morale booster that was—1000's of students telling me they loved me—cheering every other word." He has a curious relation to public criticism. He certainly isn't thick-skinned. It's inevitable that a President who wants to change the direction of American governance would be subject to frequent attacks, but, when the attacks come, Reagan notices them, and they hurt. He doesn't brood, though: there is a flash of righteous indignation and it's over. He seems never to entertain, as most of us do, the thought that a criticism might be indicative of a real fault. Instead, it registers as vicious, unfair, unfounded, and dismissable. Perhaps this is an old actor's trick, developed in response to years of rejection; in a President, it has its uses as a way of keeping oneself in steady forward motion.
Although by the standards of the professional overachievers who populate the Washington establishment Reagan always seemed—and will seem in his diaries—to be lazy and disconnected, he put great emotional energy into keeping what actors call "the instrument" in good working order. Reagan was ruthlessly efficient at spending time on the things that would keep him in character (his writing, his public appearances, his core convictions, his white-bread cultural diet) and eliminating the things that would distract him (too many meetings, excessive policy detail, determining which criticisms are well founded and taking them seriously). What we see in the diaries of Reagan's family life is heartbreaking: he is a successful touring performer whose work requires not only his own total focus but that of his wife, whom he always calls Mommie. Many of the interactions with his children are angry—the children at him, or, more precisely, at Nancy Reagan for being hypercritical and at Ronald Reagan for his unwillingness to settle family disputes. On one occasion, his son Ron hangs up on him; a few days later, Reagan, at the age of seventy-two, writes, "I'm not talking to him until he apologizes for hanging up on me." The following year, his son Michael calls to complain about Nancy, "& when I tried to straighten him out he screamed at me about having been adopted & hung upon me." Once, Reagan reports that a family meeting has solved everything, but no subsequent scenes of warmth bear this out.
And yet Reagan was able to function successfully as President because, in some mysterious way, he could usually sense when his natural rigidity and disconnectedness were going to lead him into trouble, whereupon he would change direction just enough. This is exactly the quality that George W. Bush, who plainly wanted to model his Presidency on Reagan's, doesn't have. Reagan had an uncanny ability to find his way from an ideological instinct to a practical course of action, without admitting, even to himself, that he was doing so. Throughout his Presidency, in domain after domain, he declared himself to be a hundred per cent on one side of an issue—the principled, heroic, unyielding, conservative side—and then, typically, he bent to the exigencies of the situation.
Hundreds of U.S. marines die in a suicide bombing of their barracks in Lebanon in 1983. Reagan declares that he will never listen to the critics who demand that he pull the rest of the marines out—and then, a few months later, he does exactly that. Old friends of Taiwan, like Senator Barry Goldwater, accuse him of tilting too far toward China. Reagan denies it—and then continues to negotiate with the Chinese. Reagan accepts the resignation of the unpopular conservative Anne Burford as head of the Environmental Protection Agency with evidently sincere regret and indignation over the unfair criticisms that she has been forced to endure, then replaces her with the far more moderate William Ruckelshaus. (Then he refers to Ruckelshaus in the diary as Don Rumsfeld.) He represents each of the tax increases that he agreed to after his first round of tax cuts produced enormous budget deficits as an example of his having stoutly refused to raise taxes. In 1987, when his nomination of Douglas Ginsburg to the Supreme Court is in trouble because of Ginsburg's admission that he smoked marijuana years earlier, Reagan writes, "A morning call Bill Bennett wants me to ask Ginsburg to withdraw. I told him that was absolutely impossible. Later a call from Ginsburg that he wanted to withdraw. Well this I couldn't say no to. It looks increasingly that he can not be confirmed & he's taken enough abuse." This is a wonderful instance of Reagan's way of operating, because it so perfectly compresses his standard series of moves, from firm resistance to realistic, but unacknowledged, compromise—done, in Reagan's mind, for Ginsburg's sake, not for his own.
Had Reagan made it his mission to find the consensual center on every issue, he would not have been able to move American politics so far to the right; had he been absolutely true to his convictions, he would have sacrificed enough of his popularity to consign himself to the company of ideological politicians who inspire retrospective admiration for having lost nobly. The most important example of how Reagan's mind worked is, of course, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Reagan ran unsuccessfully for President in 1976 as an opponent of the Richard Nixon–Gerald Ford policy of détente with the Soviets; he specifically promised to fire Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. In the diaries, we often find him consulting with Kissinger and Nixon on Soviet-American relations. Where George W. Bush is loath to engage in diplomacy with leaders he finds objectionable, Reagan, with a salesman's conviction that he can change the mind of anybody if he's given a face-to-face meeting, muses hopefully about trying to persuade Fidel Castro to cut his ties with the Soviets.
Reagan's reputation has risen steadily since he left office. Republican politicians' constant, incantatory tributes to him—as at the first debate among the Party's 2008 Presidential aspirants, held earlier this month at the Reagan Library—testify to his popularity. To judge from Brinkley's selection, the domestic operations of government hardly ever crossed Reagan's mind; the outstanding item on his résumé is the collapse of Soviet Communism in the years just after he left office. Reagan's fans give him credit for seeing all along that this was a possibility and then working relentlessly and effectively to bring it about. Accordingly, they're inclined to ascribe to him a deep, philosophically grounded sense of the meaning of human liberty, which guided him at every step. John Patrick Diggins, whose book "Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History" was published earlier this year, makes such a case: his Reagan was shaped by Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was comparable in Presidential greatness to Abraham Lincoln.
The diaries don't offer much warrant for this view. A better companion to the diaries is "The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism," by an extravagant admirer of Reagan's named Thomas W. Evans, also published earlier this year. By focussing on the decade or so when Reagan was a travelling spokesman for General Electric—a period that he began as a Democrat and ended as a Republican—Evans does a persuasive job of explaining where Reagan's political views came from.
The person who hired Reagan at G.E. was a corporate vice-president, Lemuel Boulware, who has a big fan in Evans. "Although he wore horn-rimmed glasses and his brown hair was thinning, he exuded power," Evans says of Boulware. "His face had a ruddy glow from weekends spent on the golf course in Westchester." Reagan went to work for G.E. in 1954, a time when labor unions were much more powerful than they are now, and Boulware was a leader of an effort by alarmed corporate executives to counteract labor's growing power. One idea of Boulware's was that labor relations should not be confined to the bargaining table; instead, corporations should send their workers a non-stop message about the benefits of the capitalist system. This was Reagan's mission—he was a spokesman whose audience was G.E.'s own employees as much as the outside world—and, in the course of countless hours spent fulfilling it (he was afraid to fly then, and travelled from plant to plant across the country by train), he developed an oft-repeated speech that, when Reagan participated in the Goldwater Presidential campaign in 1964, became "The Speech," a soaring panegyric about the glories of American free enterprise and the threat of Communism, which was the basis of his political career. In Evans's account, Boulware is the true father of Reaganism.
Evans has assembled a plausible list of other influences on Reagan. They are mostly forgotten purveyors of political and cultural Americana, rather than the great thinkers of Western civilization: Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, whose science-fiction fables for boys were favorite reading of the young Reagan; conservative popular economics writers like Henry Hazlitt, Lawrence Fertig, and Lewis Haney; anti-Communists like John T. Flynn, Robert Strausz-Hupé, and Laurence Beilenson; and political operatives like F. Clifton White. It's also possible to detect in Reagan's speeches and writings echoes of the inspirational sermons that were ubiquitous in early-twentieth-century Middle America, like Elbert Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia," Russell Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds," and Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret." And motifs from old movies consistently found their way into Reagan's political talk, and maybe his thinking, too. Reagan's mind was a battered, capacious old valise stuffed with material he accumulated over the decades.
Reagan was without question more deeply and instinctually anti-Communist than his immediate predecessors, but the diaries don't support the notion that he foresaw the collapse of Soviet Communism. He does muse, just a few days into his Presidency, "Wouldn't we be doing more for their people if we let their system fail instead of constantly bailing it out?," but most of the time he treats the Soviets as increasingly powerful, especially militarily, and on the march.
Indeed, the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan's most costly mistake, is rooted partly in his conviction that a general takeover of Central America by Soviet clients is a dangerous possibility. It's also rooted in the customary mismatch between his tough stated position and his real negotiating position. What got Reagan in trouble was his aides' attempts to accomplish a secret three-cushion diplomatic trick shot: sell arms to Iran, so that it would arrange for the release of American hostages; then use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the right-wing Contras in Nicaragua, in spite of a congressional ban. He plainly sent the signals that set all this in motion. As early as 1983, more than three years before Iran-Contra broke, he writes, "We have been so restricted by Cong. in our help to the El S. [El Salvador] govt. that they are losing to the Rebels. I finally told the [National Security] Council to come up with how we could be of more help, not whether we should." This isn't a direct order to help the Contras, but it's a clear directive not to wait around for the intent of Congress to emerge when it comes to the struggle against the Central American left.
Reagan proudly reveals to his diary the idea of "a highly secret convoluted process that sees Israel freeing some 20 Hizballahs who aren't really guilty of any blood letting. At the same time they sell Iran some 'Tow' anti-tank weapons. We in turn sell Israel replacements & the Hizballah free our five hostages. Iran also pledges there will be no more kidnappings. We sit quietly & never reveal how we got them back." Reagan was willing to say that he would never negotiate with terrorists or hostage-takers (and, later, to regard the general public perception of the Iran-Contra affair as unfair), but the people around him were right to surmise that he was encouraging them to do just that.
Iran-Contra isn't the only arena of foreign policy where Reagan's judgment proves decidedly fallible. He's not quick to recognize Mikhail Gorbachev as a transformative figure. He believes progress will come in some areas where it has not, like building a shield against nuclear missiles, and fails to see it coming in areas where it has, like Muammar Qaddafi's falling off the list of the world's most threatening figures.
In retrospect, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík, Iceland, in October, 1986, was a milestone: the two leaders discussed abolishing all strategic weapons, and thereby showed that they were not completely resistant to and mistrustful of each other, in a way that made perestroika possible. At the time, though, the summit seemed like a humiliating failure, because it ended in disagreement over the United States' proposed launch of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan ends his diary entry for that day by declaring, truculently, "I was mad—he tried to act jovial but I acted mad & it showed." Most of the world thought Reagan was being intransigent, for insisting on his space shield; Reagan thought Gorbachev was being intransigent, for balking; twenty years later, the United States is still nowhere near having a workable defense against nuclear missiles but is much more powerful militarily than it was then. The world does change, but not according to anyone's plan. Reagan's relation to the fall of the Soviet Union brings to mind Tolstoy's maxim in "War and Peace": "It is only unself-conscious activity that bears fruit, and the man who plays a part in a historical drama never understands its true significance." ♦


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Harvard baseball opens its 2011 home schedule Wednesday afternoon as the Crimson welcomes the College of the Holy Cross to O'Donnell Field for a single non-league contest.
About Harvard
Harvard enters the week fresh off a 2-2 weekend at New York Institute of Technology. The two teams split doubleheaders on both Saturday and Sunday.
Pitching ruled the weekend as the Crimson limited NYIT to five or fewer runs in three of the four games, while winning the other, 10-6. As has been the case throughout the early going, the Harvard pitching staff limited opposing hitters, with just 27 hits against 33 strikeouts in 30 innings, but struggled with control, allowing 16 base on balls.
Brent Suter turned in the best performance of the week with a complete game shutout, scattering two hits while striking out nine in a 3-0 win on Sunday.
Joey Novak made two appearances out of the bullpen, throwing three scoreless innings with three strikeouts while inducing a pair of double play balls.
Marcus Way led the offense with a .364 average and a .688 on-base-percentage thanks to drawing six walks. He connected for a home run in the 10-6 win and drove in three runs for the weekend. Sam Franklin also had a good showing with a .400 average and a .500 on-base-percentage.
Both Suter and Way were named to the Ivy league's weekly Honor Roll.
For the season, Jeff Reynolds leads the team with a .333 batting average, which is matched by Andrew Hatch and Sean O'Hara, who made his first starts at shortstop this past weekend after missing much of the month with a knee injury.
On the base paths, Sam Franklin (.302 average) and Dillon O'Neill have combined for 15 stolen bases, while Way and Jeff Hajdin are a perfect combined 10-for-10 on thefts.
About Holy Cross
The Crusaders had a nonleague game at Massachusetts on Tuesday, following a four-game split at Columbia last weekend.
Senior outfielder Nick Ciardiello hit .450 with three doubles and six runs batted in last week in six games.
Jack Laurendeau leads the team at .355 while Ciardiello follows at .350 with a team-best 12 extra-base hits and 22 RBI. Laurendeau and Alex Maldonado have combined to steal 19 bases in 22 attempts, though opposing teams are 44-for-50 in thefts against Holy Cross.


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Veterinarians commonly deal with owner complaints that their dog eats its own or another animal's feces or poop. Although there is much speculation why dogs indulge in this behavior, we still don't know exactly why some dogs have this disgusting habit.
Many Animals, and Humans, Eat Feces
Coprophagia (cop-row-fage-ee-uh) is a Greek word meaning feces eating and is used to describe this behavior. We all know of feces eating insects, but many more animals are in this group. Rations on pig farms used to be formulated to account for a certain percentage of coprophagia. Rabbits and hamsters and other cecal or hindgut digesters routinely eat their feces in order to extract more nutrients from their food that may have escaped fermentation the first time.
Elephants, pandas, koalas and hippo young are born with sterile intestines. They eat the feces of their mother in order to seed their intestines with the bacteria needed to aid in the digestion of local vegetation. Female dogs and cats stimulate urination and defecation of their new litters by licking the rectal, vaginal, and penile areas of their young. Dutifully, they eat the feces and drink the urine to avoid contamination of the nesting area.
Gorillas and chimpanzees have been observed eating feces. The behavior is believed to enhance the extraction of nutrients from the tough seeds in their diet. Coprophagia has also been reported in some human patients with schizophrenia, depression, or pica (eating non-food items).
The Medicinal Use of Feces
Clostridium difficile of C. diff infections in humans are reported to top 3 million per year and account for approximately 110,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Early treatment of the condition is fecal transplantation. Patient are fed their own "banked" feces, or that of a close relative, through a feeding tube, or purified bacteria from the same fecal sources, which are put in gelatin capsules. The "good bacteria" from the feces crowds out the C. diff in the intestines and results in a quicker treatment response. Fecal enemas have proven to have the same beneficial effect.
Prebiotic, or "good bacteria," are also used in veterinary medicine to aid in the treatment of diarrhea in dogs and cats. The leading veterinary brand of prebiotic lists its first active ingredient as "ingesta." Ingesta are intestinal contents, more commonly known as poop.
What are the Reasons for Coprophagia in Dogs?
The most common reason cited for dog coprophagia is nutritional deficiency. The lack of iron, or other minerals or vitamins lead the list. But there are no studies to confirm nutritional deficiencies as a cause for coprophagia.
Hunger or near starvation is also suggested as a reason for coprophagia. This view is enhanced by the observation of emaciated wild dogs and canids eating feces. Again, there are no studies to substantiate that hungry dogs are more likely to eat feces than well fed dogs.
Others suggest that like the animals that eat feces for specific nutritional needs, as mentioned above, healthy dogs benefit in the same way. One could argue that they are replenishing their "good gut bacteria" this way. If this were true, then all or most dogs would eat feces. In fact poop eaters are in the minority in veterinary practice. Although fresh feces might contain food residue and beneficial bacteria, old, dried out feces lacks these benefits.
Coprophagia Should Be Discouraged
Your dog's coprophagia could pose a threat to human household members. Dogs can harbor bacteria like Salmonella, E. coli and infectious parasites in their gut without any signs of illness. These organisms can easily be spread to household members that allow their dogs to kiss their faces and lips. Remember a dog's tongue is its toilet paper!
The addition of MSG (monosodium glutamate) or MSG containing products (meat tenderizers) to the diet of the animal whose feces is being eaten often helps discourage coprophagia. In multi-pet households, it is probably easier to add MSG to everyone's diet. Cats may not readily eat MSG-laced food, so if your dog eats cat poop, you may have to be more strategic with the litter box.
Your veterinarian can help you with the proper dose of MSG.
Dr. Ken Tudor
You may also be interested in reading:
What to Do When a Dog Eats Poop
Nutrition Gone Bad – Dogs That Eat Cat Poop
Coprophagia and How it Relates to Digestive Enzyme Deficiency in Dogs


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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have launched a new campaign to eliminate child sex slavery worldwide.
For their first major push, the couple aims to raise awareness about a Haitian system called "restavec," where parents send children they can no longer afford to work as a domestic servant for a host family, according to an interview between the Hollywood couple and Mashable.
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A few years ago I released my first new method for base-catalysed biodiesel manufacture ( Imisides-Pyne ) using a heterogenous catalyst. Due to the cost and logistical difficulties involved in the use of a heterogenous catalyst, however, I never actually used that method and went on to develop another new method using a homogenous catalyst.
Having now used this method for a couple of years, and decided that it has no commercial value (as it will never replace the commercial acid/base process), I now release it for public consumption.
This method has two advantages over the conventional base-catalysed transesterification process:
1. It is foolproof (no titration required)
2. It proceeds at room temperature.
In principle, this differs from the conventional method in that it modifies the methoxide solution by the addition of a drying agent (calcium oxide, or Quicklime). This removes water and pulls the equilibrium to the right, thus resulting in a far higher concentration of methoxide, which speeds up the reaction kinetics such that heating is not required.
Here are the reactions:
1. MeOH + OH- ↔ MeO- + H2O
2. H2O + CaO → Ca(OH)2
Adding the two reactions together we get
3. MeOH + OH- + CaO → MeO- + Ca(OH)2
Note that reaction 1 is an equilibrium. The addition of the CaO removes the water, thus pulling the equilibrium to the right and greatly increasing the methoxide concentration. The obvious implication of this is that since you no longer need to worry about forming emulsions from water in your reaction mixture, you can add as much base catalyst as you want.
Methoxide solution:
Dissolve about 10% w/v KOH in methanol – for example, 2kg KOH in 20L MeOH. Caution – depending on how quickly you add it, this may get hot enough to momentarily boil the MeOH – make sure there are no naked flames in the vicinity.
Now, add the CaO and stir vigorously for several minutes. Since this process is heterogenous (the CaO doesn't dissolve), vigorous stirring is required to allow as much contact as possible with the water in solution. I generally stir for a good 5 minutes.
Now allow it to settle. Most of it will settle out quickly, but the fines take a lot longer. I generally allow two days for it to settle. How much CaO do you use? I generally use about two shovels full in 20L so that when it settled it was about an inch thick on the bottom.
Biodiesel manufacture.
Now just add the methoxide solution to the WVO in your normal quantities at room temperature. I generally use a mixing ratio of 100:15. Depending on how cold it is and your stirring setup you may need to heat the oil a little to thin it out enough for your stirrer to stir it adequately. The reaction is mildly exothermic and the temperature should increase by about 6°C. The reaction appears to go to completion in 10 minutes but I generally let it react for an hour. Let it settle for a day and tap off the sludge in the bottom that contains the glycerol, KOH and fatty acid salts.
After the initial reaction and settling period, a small amount of reaction products remain in the biodiesel due to residual methanol. When the methanol is removed, they fall to the bottom and may be isolated. There are probably several ways to do this, but due to the highly alkaline nature of the reaction mixture, water washing is not one of them.
I use air purification and just use a small aquarium pump to bubble air through the product for several weeks before using it (there is plenty of information around on other air washing setups). Against the biodiesel background, methanol has a characteristic acrid odour that you can quickly train yourself to recognize, and so a smell test can help work out whether the product is ready or not. The surest result, however, is if you just allow plenty of time for the MeOH to evaporate.
1. Quicklime is not easy to get your hands on, unlike hydrated lime, or Ca(OH)2 – don't get the two mixed up. Although it's made and used by the truckload in cement factories, since it has no common domestic use it is generally not sold in hardware stores or chemical suppliers. Ideally, you're looking for a cement factory that has a retail shop, but they aren't that common. For those of you in Melbourne it's easy – just go for a drive up to the Unimin factory in Lilydale on a Saturday morning and you can buy it over the counter. For those of us here in WA, Cockburn Cement don't retail to the public, but I found a mob up in the northern suburbs (Susac Lime) who said they could get some of the Cockburn product for me.
Note – Quicklime does not store well. It is very dry and will absorb water on storage. The best way to store it is to transfer it to a sealed container where it can be isolated from atmospheric moisture.
2. The methoxide solution is unstable (presumably due to carbonation) and must be freshly made for each batch
3. This method is not optimized. The initial recipe that I tried worked immediately so I didn't bother experimenting with it further. It may be possible, for example, to get away with a lower concentration of KOH or less lime.
4. By publishing this method on the web it is now in the public domain, so you are free to redistribute it wherever you wish. My only request is that you ensure that my name is attached to the method.
Mark Imisides
Thanks Mark!
Well done!
Simple schematic for a pump and heater control with a high limit
Sensor for the biodiesel/glycerin layer
Interesting; thanks for sharing.
There's lots of talk about different types of lime here lately. Did you check out this thread? http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/ev...9605551/m/3397000933 You might have some interesting viewpoints or experience to contribute there as well.
Cheers, John
I wasn't able to access any of the articles, but it appears that they are using hydrated lime as a heterogenous catalyst.
The reason for this is pretty easy to understand - hydrated lime is a very common industrial base and is much cheaper than NaOH. It is used in preference to NaOH in the waste management sector, not only because it's cheaper, but because it also adds weight to any settled flocs that you're trying to create.
It also has the advantages that as a heterogenous catalyst it will probably sop up some of the water that is formed (by adsorption) and also adds weight to the settling phase (glycerol).
Chemically, it wouldn't work as well as potassium carbonate (my first method) as the K2CO3 avoids the creation of water completely, but the lime would probably work well enough and would be a lot cheaper.
Heterogenous catalysis has a lot going for it - the glycerol sticks to the catalyst like glue, resulting in very fast separation - the only problem is engineering - how you get the settled catalyst/glycerol mass out of the bottom of the reactor.
But of course, they have to be heated. The room temperature method that I have presented here is so simple that you could make it in a big plastic bucket.
Now that the cold has settled here in the northern hemisphere we can think about next seasons bio batches.
1. If the methoxy is allowed to settle before adding to the reaction wouldn't most of the CaO sludge be left behind in the methoxy container? Decant the methoxy needed for the Biodiesel reaction from the top. This would leave some fines in the bio/gly but that could be drained with the glycerol via a GL1 setup.
2. Could whole batch demething be performed on the above biodiesel/glycerol/residual CaO fines mix before draining without releasing the water from the CaO into the bio?
3. Can the CaO sludge remaining in the bottom of the methoxy container be used over again?
4. Wouldn't the amount of CaO needed equal the number of moles of base used to make the methoxy?
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Here is a thread on this Failed Miracle method of Dr.Egotrips.
The guy that did all the testing and wrote the report is a very close friend of mine.
If he told me little green men had landed in the back yard I wouldn't even check before going to get my camera and a gun.
No one would like to find a shortcut to the bio making process more than my mate, hence why he went to the trouble of doing the tests.
I guarantee if he can't make it work, it will take a miracle for anyone else to.
Contrary to the above, readers might be interested in the following paper which reviews recent investigations of solid catalysts and notes CaO, aka. quicklime, as a good candidate to be used ALONE in making biodiesel.
metal oxide catalysts
Also this other article
which notes how Ca(OH)2 forms a Ca-methoxide on its surface, kind of explains how a solid catalyst which does not dissolve into the methanol still has a chemical effect.
treatment of hydrated lime with methanol
Very interesting. I hadn't thought of that (but probably should've). The highly basic nature of the CaO would serve exactly the same function as the KOH. It's rather similar to the heterogeneous method that I developed using K2CO3. Problem with these methods, however, is that they still require heat, which is why I developed this method.
One problem with it, however, is the availability of CaO. When I first developed the method I was living in Melbourne, and you could just drive up to the cement factory and buy the CaO over the counter. Now that I'm in Perth, however, I'm finding it rather hard to come by, and it is only sold in industrial bulk quantities.
So I've been investigating alternative dehydrating agents that are more readily available. I've found a couple, and am now just testing them to see which of them works the better. I'll post results when available (along with a vid). BTW - can vids be added directly to this site, or do I have to upload to YouTube and post up a link?
I'm curious to know why you are using insulting language.
I suppose your friend has simply proved that nothing is ever really foolproof, no matter how simple it is. Tell him to send me an email to email@example.com and I'll sort out his problem, whatever it is. It's probably just a simple mistake where he's either misread something, or my instructions weren't as clear as they could have been.
In answer (sorry I don't know how to cut and quote):
Yes, the only difference is the addition of the dehydrating agent. This removes the interfering effect of the water, and creates a higher methoxide concentration, which lowers the activation energy of the process and allows it to proceed at room temp.
1. You don't need to titrate because since there is no water in the system, the concentration of FFAs no longer matters.
2. Obviously your shovel is bigger than mine. Rough rule of thumb is that the settled lime occupies about 10% of the vessel by volume.
Note, owing to the difficulty in getting quicklime, I have now modified this method and, if anything, it works better.
Stay tuned
Mr. Imisides; What's the advantage of your process when compared to using sodium methylate in anhydrous methanol, for the transesterification reaction? Maybe the sodium methylate is more difficult or dangerous?
Hi Wes, I'm not sure which method you're referring to - can you post some details? In principle, it sounds the same though, except I don't think that sodium methylate (if you're referring to the sodium methoxide formed from the reaction of NaOH and MeOH) is as soluble in the MeOH as the potassium salt, and since it is the higher catalyst concentration that (by definition) lowers the activation energy and allows it to proceed at RT, you may need the K salt.
But if you comixed the dehydrating agent with the NaOH, you may eliminate a common ion effect that could be limiting the NaOH solubility (and therefore NaOMe conc), and you may get enough NaOMe into the MeOH to achieve the same effect as I have with the KOH.
I actually thought of trying that myself, but since the KOH was only a little more exy than the NaOH I just took the simplest approach.
Mr. Imisides; Sodium Methylate-DuPont; The compound is made by reacting elemental sodium with methyl alcohol. The catalyst contains no water and is shipped in a methanol solution. DuPont provides sodium methylate in 25% and 30% solutions.
Very interesting. Yes, in principle that is the same as my method. It may be the case, however, that the sodium salt of the methoxide is not as active as the potassium salt that my method generates. I don't know why that would be, as in theory the cation is only a spectator ion, but it is certainly the case if you use my other (heterogenous) method - potassium carbonate works but sodium carbonate doesn't. Go figure.
But I'm curious to know what they do with the hydrogen they generate by this process:
2Na + 2MeOH = 2NaOme + H2
Perhaps they sell it to BMW for their hydrogen cars?
for the last few weeks I have been trying this method. Drying the potassium methoxide with quicklime (CaO)
The method produced around 2/3 of the normal amount of glycerol (16 litres from 24litres of added methoxide) and the yield was noticeably higher, producing 208 litres of biodiesel after de-mething from 200 litres of oil.
In this respect this method worked extremely well. However, I found one large drawback, the process produces some calcium soaps. Not a great deal, but they are very difficult to remove.
They are virtually insoluble in water, so cannot be washed out. They are, or seem to be a very similar density to the bio, so a centrifuge will not remove them. I also tried magnesol to no effect.
The only way I found to remove them was to filter through oak chips several times. OK, I suppose if you are set up to do that.
I probably overdosed the methoxide with lime in the initial drying in an attempt to really get the methoxide dry, producing an excess of calcium methoxide.
Hi Dgs,
A 104% yield using 12% methanol is pretty remarkable.
Are you sure you have not forgotten to mention some chemicals used?
Perhaps a glycerine prewash or two?
Did you do this in 45 minutes at room temperature like you normally do?
The calcium soaps are likely heavier than the methoxide solution and might settle out of the methoxide if given enough time.
Hi john,
The calcium that reacted with the water to slaked lime Ca(OH)2
set in the bottom of the cubie. The excess CaO portion that didn't react was indeed settled above the reacted lime, however I think that even if I hadn't overdosed the methoxide the addition of the lime would still produce some calcium methoxide.
It is not so much that the lime settles in the methoxide but that the calcium soaps remain in suspension in the biodiesel.
Mark Imisides reports in his first post on here that the reaction products fall when the methanol has been removed and I realise this is usually the case, but I found this didn't happen with the calcium soaps and in my opinion they are a problem to this method.
The amount of water formed when KOH is added to methanol is 320gms per kilo of KOH and requires also 1 kilo of CaO to absorb this water. I probably overdid the CaO addition and added well over 1 kilo, which didn't help.
Since this first process I did a second using 25% of the dried methoxide and 75% ASM as the catalyst and although the calcium soaps were very much reduced, they were still evident and the batch still had to be passed through woodchips to remove them.
It would be much simpler to just use ASM only, however the drawback is the solid glycerol which makes pre-treatments difficult.
Mr Imisides; I admire your knowledge of chemistry. It cost me a lot to get mine. I do not believe a room temperature causing an appreciable reaction rate. I do not say it is impossible. Increasing the density of methoxide in solution will not lower the activation energy as you claimed. It would increase the reaction rate at temperature. You might be on to something here.
Hi WesleyB,
Many people have performed the reaction at room temperature.
Testing I have performed shows that as long as everything remains liquid and increased mixing time is available, temperature is not a limiting factor to the quality of the biodiesel produced as long as you have adequately mixing.
The rule of thumb is that at 50C with an adequate reactor, a single stage reaction finishes in about an hour.
For every 10C the temperature reduces, mixing time doubles. A good place to start is:
50C= 1 hr mixing
40C= 2 hr mixing
30C= 4 hr mixing
20c= 8 hr mixing
All he is doing is removing the water produced by mixing NaOH/ KOH with methanol.
You need to weigh up the increased cost and extra time spent performing this method against what people achieve not using it.
I personally do not see value for money or time spent.
Of course you have Dgs who just claimed he is achieving 104% yield using a mere 12% methanol.
If that was actually true it would be an amazing accomplishment.
Unfortunately, Dgs makes many incredible claims that are not reproducible so I tend to disregard most of them.
There were earlier trials into this in 2011 and 2012.
Use "find" to search for "new process for making biodiesel" started by The Quiet Dan.
(Which includes my post of course the process does produce bio but
the suspended calcium soaps are too sticky to deal with.
Reminds me of what happens within our arteries.
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Whenever I show our local (= my region) BBQ gear to "outsiders" (all people which did not grow up in our region and never went to a local BBQ), people are impressed. So I thought, let me export this great invention out in the world. Maybe someone out there is interested enough to build the simple solution which has a lot of features.
The Schwenker
As a picture tells more than a lot of words, let me first let you look at it.
The BBQ device which I show you here is called a "Schwenker". The operation of grilling something on a Schwenker is called "schwenken" (the direct translation of schwenken is "swinging around" or "to swing"). As you may guess, this is because you swing around the meat (or vegetables or fish or cake (I have read that one winner of the national BBQ-competition had a Black-Forrest-Cherry-cake on the grill) or whatever people may want to put there) over the fire. The meat which is very often prepared on the Schwenker is called "Schwenker" (we are efficient with words in our region…). Basically this is the meat of a pork which relaxed a day or two in oil, onions and paprika (add pepper, salt and herbs to your own liking, other variations are with garlic and green herbs). While the Schwenker is on the Schwenker, you can put a little bit of beer on it to add a little bit of taste (this is optional). It exists a small Wikipedia entry about Schwenker, there you can even read about other meanings of the words Schwenker/Schwenken (all related to what you see/read here).
So, how to build one? Its easy. Take a metal plate (best is a triangle where the edges are bend a little bit), attach 3 metal poles (they need to be strong enough to carry the grill and the meat) to it in a way that you can attach a metal roll between them (like a hoist, it is there to lift the grill) and that the metal poles form a tripod. You get bonus points if the roll can be rotated where it is attached, but is is enough if it is aligned with one of the poles. Now take a grill (round) and attach 3 little chains to it (in the picture above, those chains are not so little, but it is a big grill, you can feed at least 10 people at once) so that the grill is leveled when you attach those 3 chains to a single point. The 3 chains need to be attached to a long chain, and this chain needs to put on the roll which is attached on the tripod. Now attach a hook on one of poles in a convenient position (if you stand in front of the tripod you need to be able to access the hook easily) and attach the chain which is connected to the grill and the roll. It looks a little bit more high-tech if you use a winch instead of a hook, but then you need to use a metal rope instead of a chain.
- variable heat intensity (lift or lower the grill by attaching a different part of the chain to the hook)
- ecologic/equal heating (swing and/or rotate the grill over the fire, you can cover a lot of grill area with a small fire, all meat gets about the same heating without the need to move the meat itself on the grill a lot)
- keep some meat hot while eating (lift or lower the grill)
- food safety (you need to create more fire but you already have some meat on the grill: move the tripod to the side; you want to move the fire in the fireplace: the chain is not as hot as the grill, use it to move the grill a little bit to the side while moving the fire in the fireplace)
Tips & Tricks
The fireplace in the picture is a part of the barrel of a washing machine (somewhere between a half and a third of a barrel). I got mine for free from a local white-ware shop (from a broken washing machine, off course).
If you create the grill yourself, take care that a sausage can not fall through. The metal needs to be of high quality, ideally stainless steel. Make a little border around the grill, this way you can prevent accidents where a sausage lands in the fire or on the floor.
Instead of 3 metal poles you can use 6. Attach 2 together in a way that they do not separate if you lift the tripod, but allows to separate them if needed (this allows to take the tripod with you). In the Schwenker in the above picture the metal poles are connected with screws to the metal triangle, I did not use any tools to attach it hard, I attached the screws by hand. This allows me to detach everything without any tools. Each of the 3 metal poles consists of 2 small ones. They are connected by tapping a thread into one, and attaching a tube with a corresponding thread to the other one.


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FRESNO, Calif. – The LA Galaxy took home the inaugural Central California Cup with a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes, but will their trip to Fresno become a yearly visit?
Fueled by goals by Marcelo Sarvas and Gyasi Zardes, the Galaxy held off their archrivals to earn their first silverware of the season. Following the game that saw 12,659 fans fill a sold-out Chukchansi Park in Downtown Fresno, Galaxy head coach and general manager Bruce Arena admitted that he was quite taken by the atmosphere created by the raucous crowd.
"I'm sure that we'll be talking to the promoters of the game tonight and see if there is a possibility of returning in the future," said Arena after the match which was the Galaxy's first game in Fresno since 2007.
Galaxy club president Chris Klein was similarly impressed by the facilities that hosted both the first team match on Saturday and the inaugural game for LA Galaxy II on Thursday. Klein even went as far to praise the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino which hosted both Galaxy squads.
"To be hosted by the city of Fresno and the Fresno Fuego has been nice for us. It fits nicely into our preseason," said Klein. "[The team] enjoyed it. The players enjoy getting up here and being able to bond a little bit, they went to the Casino a little bit and they've enjoyed themselves."
It wasn't just the Galaxy brass who was impressed as U.S. National Team regulars Landon Donovan and Omar Gonzalez were wowed by the Fresno faithful.
"I was really impressed with the crowd," said Donovan. "I thought it was great and there's no reason why we shouldn't come back here again."
Gonzalez went a bit further even stating that he hoped LA returned next year.
"The fans came out tonight and hopefully we will be back again next year…and hopefully we can keep the Cup," said the Galaxy defender.
Do you think the Galaxy will return next year? Hoping to make the trip if they do?
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thegypsy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
LoMasTv is site for adults and students interested in learning Spanish. We partner with video producers from around the Spanish speaking world and make the videos available in a player designed for language learners.
Our customers consist of adult learners, educators, and high school and college age students learning Spanish. Our product is designed as a fun way to practice and learn Spanish.
Our current site is here: http://lomastv.com
Attached is the logo, both in ai and png format. I have also attached additional artwork that you may use at your discretion.
This contest is to redesign the frontpage. We are looking for a design that is 970-980px wide, but the background must span the width of the browser window. I don't want a "boxed-in" look. I would like to keep the current blue and orange theme, but I am flexible about the particular shade.
The design should work for other pages on the site as well, meaning the design should have a common navigation & footer like what exists on the current site.
The content should be similar to what currently exists on the homepage. The important thing is that people watch the demo video, and the additional videos if they are interested.
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"Chris Burden: Extreme Measures" is now at the New Museum to January 12. Burden has what looks like a bifurcated career, an oeuvre with a caesura. There's the Burden of daredevil performance art, and then the sculptor Burden who famously makes outsize boys-toys. The iconic performances, in case you have forgotten, are Shoot, 1971, having himself shot in the arm and Transfixed, 1974, having himself nailed to the hood of a Volkswagen. Although some sense of his 54 pioneering … [Read more...]
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What health changes have you experienced from becoming vegetarian or vegan?
My family made the switch to a Vegan diet in 2009. At that time my husband had a total cholesterol level of 316. Yes you read that number correctly. My 9 year old son struggled with itchy & painful eczema over his entire body since birth and my three year old daughter battled chronic asthma, which she had been hospitalized for. My husband had tried prescription medications for his cholesterol but he had bad reactions to them, so he never took them regularly. My son was using prescription steroid cremes as well as daily lotions, just to be comfortable & to keep the redness at bay. My daughter was taking daily Singulair, Claritin, inhalers & often a nebulizer, so she could breathe clearly.
Back then this was our "norm". I assumed prescriptions & over the counter medications were our only defense against all of these ailments. It never occurred to me to look at what we were eating. Until June 8th 2009, when a program based on the book "The China Study" was on television. My husband called me into the living room & had me watch it with him. I am so thankful that I did. The next day I emptied the fridge of ALL animal products. Some went into the garbage and some were donated. But they were out of our home for good. Since that time my husband's cholesterol has decreased to a normal level. My son's eczema was completely cleared within a couple of weeks. No exaggeration. He has not had one itchy, red spot in well over 2 1/2 years. My daughter is off of the pills and only uses her nebulizer a few times a year. I know that dairy was a huge asthma trigger for her. I myself have more energy and my cardio endurance has greatly increased. I just wish I knew back then, what I know now.


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Students are saddled with many things (books, classes, and student loans come to mind) - but a beater backpack with a heavy CO2 footprint shouldn't be one of them. Fortunately, backpacks have surged in popularity in recent years and there's never been a better time to pick up a stylish and sustainable pack to keep you organized while toting your school supplies in the coming academic year. From high-quality handmade in the USA bags to recycled packs and solar powered satchels, read on for our top picks for back to school backpacks!
Freitag Hazzard Backpack
Each year Freitag salvages 390 tons of well-traveled truck tarpaulins and uses them to create an incredible range of products including backpacks, messenger bags, totes and wallets. Their sturdy Hazzard Backpack is made from recycled seatbelts and waterproof tarps that have been carefully cut to create one-of-kind bags that pop with remixed graphic flair. Each bag features internal organization pockets, 15,000 cubic centimeters of space, and a storage pouch for laptops up to 17″.
Timbuk2 Full-Cycle Amnesia Backpack
San Francisco-based Timbuk2 is known for their ultra durable bike messenger bags, and they just launched a new line of environmentally-friendly Full-Cycle bags that are made from 100% recycled materials. The Bluesign certified Amnesia Backpack is constructed from 100% recycled PET with recycled foam padding, and it features a lined laptop compartment that fits computers up to 17″. It also comes with a lifetime warranty, and when it has lived out the last of its days it can be fully recycled.
Parrot Canvas Uwharrie Day pack
If you're searching for a simple backpack that doesn't break the bank, look no further than Parrot Canvas. Their Uwharrie Day Pack stands out with its retro appeal and durable 1000 denier Cordura construction, and best of all Parrot Canvas manufactures all of its packs stateside in its Greenville, NC factory.
It's hard to keep your gadgets charged while jumping from class to class — which is why solar bags are such a bright idea for students on the go. Voltaic's new Array Backpack features a powerful 10-Watt photovoltaic panel that can generate enough energy to charge a cell phone, tablet, camera, or even a laptop! The bag also features a high-capacity battery that can double your laptop's runtime and a waterproof shell made from recycled PET bottles.
$389 from The Ultimate Green Store
Duluth Packs' classic canoe bags have been made in Minnesota since 1882, but they've recently caught fire with an international crowd due to their simplicity, durability, and enduring style. Their new scoutmaster pack is the perfect size for toting books around school, and it's made from durable 15oz canvas that only looks better the more you beat it up. Duluth also offers a lifetime guarantee on craftsmanship and hardware, so if it's ever damaged you can simply send it back to them for repairs.
Joshu + Vela Organic Canvas Backpack
For the minimalists out there, it doesn't get any simpler than Joshu + Vela's elegant canvas backpack. The simple, timeless design of this stripped-down satchel allows its materials to speak for themselves, and they tell a compelling story of sustainability. Each pack is made in San Francisco from USA-grown natural organic cotton canvas and vegetable tanned leather, and they're practically guaranteed to grow more beautiful as they age.
Kanken Backpack by Fjallraven
Fjallraven's Kanken backpack has been a favorite among Scandinavian schoolchildren since it debuted in 1978, and over the past few years the iconic pack has landed stateside. The durable vinylon bag is available in a rainbow of colors and its versatile design can be worn on the back or carried like a tote.


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SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – After claiming the 2013 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season championship, the MIT women's tennis team took a break from dual match play with a weekend of action at the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tournament this weekend. The Engineers had one team make it to the semifinals of their bracket, with the duo of sophomores Alana Peters (Kenilworth, Ill.) and Ava Soleimany (Newport Beach, Calif.) reaching the semis of the B Flight bracket.
In a tournament that includes a format in which each round pairs teams of two against one another and features two singles matches and one doubles match, MIT fielded four teams. Peters and Soleimany was the only MIT team in the B Flight and started their weekend with a 2-1 win over a team from NEWMAC rival Babson. The pair won in doubles, 8-5, with Soleimany providing a 6-2, 6-1 win in her singles match to move the team to the next round. There they swept a team from Roger Williams before playing a duo from Tufts in the quarterfinals. A pair of defaults moved the pair into the semifinals against a team from Amherst, against whom they fell, 3-0, to end their run.
MIT's No. 1 team of freshman Elysa Kohrs (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) and sophomore Victoria Tam (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) started out with a 3-0 win over a team from Tufts. In the Round of 16 the duo faced off against a pair from Middlebury, advancing with another 3-0 victory, with Kohrs winning 6-1, 6-1 and Tam 6-1, 6-2. The team completed the sweep with an 8-5 victory in doubles. In the quarterfinals against Williams the Ephs took a 3-0 win, with Kohrs coming close to scoring a point for the Engineers in a close 6-3, 6-7, 8-10 loss.
Freshmen Krystal Lai (Irvine, Calif.) and Wendi Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) formed another team for MIT. They took a 3-0 win in their opener against Brandeis, with Lai prevailing 6-3, 6-1 and Kong by a 6-0, 6-0 score. The duo scored an 8-4 win in doubles. In the next round against Amherst, Kong won her match by a 6-2, 6-1 score, but the pair lost in the other two matches and moved to the consolation bracket where they fell 2-1 to a team from Middlebury.
MIT's No. 3 team of junior Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) and senior Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) were bounced in their first round match against Williams, 2-1, with the pair scoring their point with a close 9-7 win in doubles. The pair bounced back with a 2-1 win in the consolation bracket against Wheaton, with Hsu winning 6-1, 6-4 in singles and the pair taking an 8-5 victory in doubles.
MIT, the No. 1 seed, will prepare for its first match in the NEWMAC Championships that will take place next Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at Wellesley College. The Engineers will play the winner of a quarterfinal match between No. 5 seed Mount Holyoke and No. 4 seed Babson that will be hosted by the Beavers on Wednesday.


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The manager of an LA Fitness in Atlanta was found dead at his home last week.
Co-workers of Juhahn Belcher drove to his house on May 17 after he did not show up for work and discovered his body, according to local media reports. It appeared Belcher was shot in the head, WSB-TV reported.
Police ruled the death suspicious, but Belcher's friends and neighbors do not suspect that he took his own life, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. One of the neighbors said Belcher, a 33-year-old North Carolina native who lived alone, recruited many of his neighbors to join the club.
LA Fitness has not responded for comment.


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If only he knew that some one out there actually had feelings for him. But he is too caught up with someone who will never like him, to notice that Piper is head over heals for the one and only, Marcel.
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After completing his studies at the Brno Dance Conservatory, in 2003 he was engaged at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre Ballet in Ostrava. In 2006 he joined the Laterna magika company in Prague, where he remained for two seasons. In 2008 he began working at Brno's National Theatre Ballet, where a year later he became a soloist. Since the autumn of 2012 he has danced at the National Theatre in Prague.
Owing to his performing skills and dazzling stage presence, he has portrayed a wide spectrum of both classical and modern repertoire roles, including the titular characters in the ballets Spartacus and Othello (Moravian-Silesian National Theatre), the Seducer in Wonderful Circus (Laterna magika), the Narrator in Cayetano Soto's choreography Carmen, Valmont in Krystof Pastor's Dangerous Liaisons, the Gigolo in Youri Vàmos's Coppélia from Montmartre and the solo part in Uwe Scholz's choreography The Creation (National Theatre in Brno).
The roles he has portrayed at the National Theatre in Prague include Hilarion in Giselle (opposite Svetlana Zakharova), Toník in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Jiřík in Goldilocks, Scrooge in The Nutcracker - A Christmas Carol, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and Rothbart in Swan Lake (the latter two roles he had previously danced in other productions). He also regularly appears as a guest in Laterna magika performances.
Marek Svobodník has created choreographies for performances and projects for the National Theatre in Brno and the Dance Valmez festival, collaborated with the Pro-Art and Dekkadancers ensembles, as well as the Department of Alternative Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He, Ondřej Vinklát and Štěpán Pechar conceived together the choreography 131ND 56LM 31NS for the opening of the National Theatre's 2013/14 season.


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allisonhouse necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 190 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
AllisonHouse is a data aggregation and integration company that specializes in severe weather and severe weather related data like high resolution radar data, tornado reports, lightning strike reports, etc. We are not like weather.com or the like. Customers usually purchase a subscription of our data to 'plugin' to software they already own from one of several weather software visualization providers we integrate with.
Customers usually come to us because the various "free" weather data sources on the net are not reliable enough for use in mission critical situations (storm chasers, 911 centers, TV stations, etc).
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Our website is located at http://www.allisonhouse.com so you can see the kind of data we provide. It has a wide range but primarily related to severe weather.
I like the current website color scheme but would be open to other ideas if it makes the logo/design look better.
The logo should incorporate the name of the company 'AllisonHouse' (capital A, capital H) but also be able to have the name removed from the logo and still have a recognizable 'logo' for use as an icon on a website or on a shirt or whatever.
I would prefer a clean logo. I had traditionally used just fancy script of 'AllisonHouse' but that doesn't work very well by itself in advertising, etc.
If you want to work in a tagline please use "Providing Severe Weather Data When You Need It!"
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Easy 360° Product Viewer it?s a a rich-feature and unique tool with a fully responsive layout which allows to display a large number of images from different angles of a 2D or 3D product offering control over the layout in the way that pleases you most, allowing the user to rotate, pan or zoom the images. Additionally it has an awesome feature called deep zooming, when the image is zoomed it can be viewed in great detail by loading a more detailed version of the image this way allowing the usage of high resolution images without compression.
Easy 360° Product Viewer is mobile optimized running great on iOS (iPad,iPhone), Android and Windows8 mobile devices and of course it works on every modern browser and older browsers like IE7 or IE8. We have tested it on
and on a SAMSUNG GALAXY S3(android) and it runs great on both devices, follow the links to view this demos. Watch demo running on IPAD (IOS) or Watch demo running on Samsung Galaxy S3 (android)
Tons of options (check them out in our live preview).
Easy to use and install (just upload your set of images and the Easy 360° Product Viewer will do the rest).
Fully Responsive & Mobile Optimized (Smartphones & Tablets).
Support for a large number of images without losing performance.
Deep zooming, when the image is zoomed it can be viewed in great detail by loading a more detailed version of the image this way allowing the usage of high resolution images without compression (optional feature).
The possibility to start at a specific image once all images are loaded.
Complete control buttons bar with buttons.
The control buttons bar can be positioned top or bottom.
All buttons are optional and can be easily removed if one or more are not needed.
The order of buttons can be set as you wish.
The buttons geometry (spacing and position) can be set individually offering fine tune control.
Rotation button for rotating the object.
Pan button for panning of the object.
Left and right buttons for rotating the object left or right.
Zoom in/out buttons plus scrollbar.
Slideshow button for play or pause automatic rotation of the object.
Hyperlink button for creating a hyperlink in the menu.
Info window button for showing a detailed custom made window which supports unlimited html content.
Customizable buttons tooltips, the buttons tooltips text can be modified with ease based on the presented product type (please note that the buttons tooltips are optional).
Awesome markers / hotspots support! Three hotspots types (link, small info window and detailed info window) allowing to display information about the product on specific regions. Once created a hotspot can be added on more then one image.
The markers / hotspots can be of any size or shape and they can vary, for example if you want to add three link type hotspots each of them can have a different size or graphics, this applies to all markers/hotspots types.
Built in tool for finding the correct position of the marker / hotspot on an image .
Gestures events support for IOS (ipad and iphone) the image can be zoomed with two fingers.
Navigator window (optional).
Customizable custom right click menu (optional).
Keyboard support (optional).
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The zoom factor can be set allowing to fine tune the level of zoom, this way the image can be zoomed as much as you like
Customizable rotation speed while dragging.
Customizable slideshow rotation speed.
Customizable rotation speed while the right or left buttons are pressed and hold.
Five awesome skins along with the .psd files included (check them out in our live previews)..
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Examples files for each skin and display type included, this way the html can be copy and pasted into your html page!.
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