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By Daniel VanderPyl
Competitive pressures in today's world economy necessitate higher productivity in all markets, and the powder and bulk solids sector is no exception. One major obstacle to maximizing production time is the essential CIP (clean-in-place) process required at every product change and/or shift change.
A tank, blender, and auger conveying system can only be as clean after CIP as it is dry. DIP (dry-in-place) must meet CIP. Just like a pit stop in auto racing, the longer a blending system sits idle in
order to complete the cleaning/drying cycle, the further behind on the production track the next blending shift becomes.
Unfortunately, the onus of tank drying falls upon the powder and bulk solids industry, since liquid processors only need absolute drying when rinse water must not cross-contaminate the subsequent product batch (as in pharmaceuticals), or when the storage of damp, empty tank/totes would allow bacteria to generate.
Fortunately, new technologies are now supercharging the process of drying tanks, blenders, mixers, and tube conveyors used for producing flavors and fragrances in food, cosmetic, wash powder, chemical, and pharmaceutical batch production.
The Lack of a Drying System
All too often, a facility has no cost-effective drying system in place. For many, because cleaning is often a manual process with handheld spray wands, drying (or gross water and puddle removal) is also a labor-intensive step. It usually involves a manual blow-out process conducted by an employee manipulating a handheld compressed air nozzle. However, the time taken is not the time actually needed to effectively dry the tank.
Complete drying requires a secondary evaporative drying stage in order to eliminate the residual interior moisture on every surface of the entire tank and blender and conveying system. This additional drying is accomplished today by using either standard blowers or fans together with in-line electric heaters or by simply opening the hatches and ports in the system and waiting until it air dries. Both of these options require valuable time.
Instead of shutting down the line while a mixer dries during the next shift, most manufacturers have made end-runs around the drying conundrum by installing multiple tank and blender systems. The necessity for such equipment redundancies, and their concomitant expense, can be greatly reduced by addressing the most time-consuming, nonproduction process: either an inadequate or complete lack of a forced-air drying system.
To better define the drying challenge, this article will discuss in more detail the current drying methods and their drawbacks. It will then outline the optimum balance of forced air volume, pressure, and temperature to dry tank, blender, and auger conveying systems.
Plant Air Nozzles and Natural Evaporation
The most common method is natural evaporation, which can take up to seven hours. For most tank, blender, and auger conveyor cleaning processes, the first step is for operators to blow the water droplets and puddles out using a compressed air nozzle before they let Mother Nature take over. Attention must be given to ensure that the compressed air filtration and condensate water traps are in the plant air lines before the air comes out the handheld nozzles.
Even if a high-temperature CIP rinse makes handheld nozzle blow-off unnecessary, leaving mixer lids, hopper lids, and auger conveyor tube ports open to atmosphere for extended periods may not be a good option either. Several hours of evaporative drying time do not guarantee that bacteria cannot grow, or that airborne powders and dust from other adjacent operating mixers won't cause cross-contamination for the next blending batch.
Blowers, Fans, and Heaters
Blower and fan units used in tank, blender, and conveyor tube drying can reduce drying time by an average of 50% compared with natural air drying. They are almost always a direct-drive design in order to minimize size and cost. However, an in-line electric heater must be added, and this ultimately raises both the cost and total power consumption. The final assembly still must be compact enough to mount on a portable cart to easily service multiple mixers, and this portability requirement limits the size and drying power of these forced-air dryers.
There are other performance issues and technical drawbacks that make blower and fan units problematic for many users. They must be connected to an in-line electric heater in order to introduce hot air into the tanks, blenders, and auger conveyors. The blowers tend to have high pressure at low airflows, but low pressures at high airflows. The fan designs have low pressures at all airflow ranges and this low pressure makes it impossible to overcome air pressure resistance through the heater and throughout the tank, blender, and conveying circuit without losing all of the benefits of high air volume.
The end result is low air volumes for both the blower and fan dryer units. This causes equally low rates of air exchange throughout the whole tank, blender, and conveyor system. The net effect of such low air volumes at high air temperatures in regard to the heaters is that air temperature spikes can occur in certain areas. These become dry while other internal surfaces of the tank, blender, and conveyor system remain moist, thereby remaining at ambient temperature longer and not drying at the same rate. These temperature extremes can also cause damage to rubber glands and seals within the tank, blender, and conveyor circuit. Because electric heater elements have a typical surface temperature of 1200ºF, safety considerations increase if the electric heater coils or the heater controller has any type of malfunction.
High-Velocity Air Blowers
High-speed belt drive blowers with electric motors ranging from 3 to 50 hp offer several advantages over the direct-drive blowers. They occupy the same smaller space of direct drive while having higher horsepower than the direct-drive blowers and fans. Because hot air is generated by recycling the natural blower heat, they do not require heaters. It is also possible to connect multiple tank, blender, and conveyor tube ports from one blower simultaneously, but care should be taken to make certain that the airflow is balanced to ensure that the drying time is equal.
As discussed earlier, the optimum design for drying tanks, blenders, and conveyors is by use of a pressurized air circuit in order to achieve the smallest temperature variance throughout. Since this pressure must be maintained along with an air exchange rate of 1–2/min, there must be some means of restricting exit air.
The Ideal Air Volume and Temperature
There are certainly a number of variables among the wide range of manufacturers of tanks, blenders, and auger conveyors, but the common denominators for defining an effective drying system usually prove to be very much the same.
The first step is to determine the maximum continuous air temperature to which the entire circuit can be exposed. Although there are certain systems where Teflon seals and gaskets can handle greater than 200ºF, a more common acceptable maximum is 160ºF continuous air temperature. Just as with the high-temperature CIP solutions, operators must take care to avoid bare skin contact with metal surfaces at 160ºF. However, food safety personnel endorse the 160ºF air temperatures for the 15–30-minutes drying cycle as it supplements the CIP sanitizing process.
Next, to minimize air temperature gradients within the entire tank, blender, and conveying system, the drying air must be pressurized at all times to between 0.75 and 1.0 psig. Air molecules mix better at these slightly compressed levels, and the "hot spots" that are common with the low-pressure blower, fan, and electric heater systems are greatly reduced.
The last piece of the drying formula, with the air temperature at 160ºF and the internal air pressures at ~1.0 psi, is to obtain a total air volume exchange rate sufficient to meet the drying cycle time objective. The more air exchanges, the faster the drying time. With a CIP wash temperature of 140º–160ºF, the air volume exchange rates are as follows: with one air exchange per minute, the drying cycle is approximately 30 minutes; with two air exchanges per minute, the drying time is generally 15–20 minutes.
However, if the CIP temperatures are lower than 140ºF or the target drying time is less than 15 minutes, the horsepower and size of the drying system will make a portable dryer less practical.
Evolving DIP
From ambient air evaporation to high-velocity forced-air drying technology, the evolution of the drying processes for tank, blender, and auger conveying systems is ongoing. As CIP meets DIP, the powder and bulk solids industry is setting new standards for absolute cleanliness.
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Daniel VanderPyl is cofounder and president of Sonic Air Systems Inc. (Brea, CA). He has written and published numerous articles, has made presentations at major industry forums, and has helped author technical books. Sonic manufactures a full range of blowers, air knives, enclosures, HEPA filters, and other accessories for dozens of applications in air/gas handling, and has been awarded two patents for blower and air knife technology.


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On Guilt and Shame
May 21, 2014
It's amazing how much negativity you can disarm simply by owning said negative thing like it's a positive thing.
Errrr ... I guess with HIV it's owning said [capital-P] Positive thing like it's a [small-p] positive thing.
My sister was the one who had the most difficulty dealing with the news of my diagnosis. Barely escaping the "Irish Twins" (siblings born in the same year) designation, my sister and I do, in fact, have that "twin bond."
We speak the same way, can finish each other's sentences, and can converse telepathically in crowded rooms. On top of the twin bond, we went through divorce, remarriage and step/half-siblings together. She is, in essence: my other half.
This makes her particularly sensitive to my emotional state. It bothered her immensely to know I was picked on and ostracized by proto-homophobic peers growing up, and it's definitely informed the way she treats me now.
We're so close, she was the "rock" I would turn to whenever it was time to get an "AIDS test" throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Back then, I want to say an "HIV scare" was relatively common (I run into trouble here: assuming other "80s kids" have HAD "HIV scares" might be inferred as promiscuity, assuming they have not might be inferred as ignorance).
Nonetheless, up until my actual diagnosis last year, my take on this stressful rite of passage was something out of the Eric Roberts 1990s AIDS film "It's My Party."
Bluntly put: if I were to be diagnosed as Positive, I would have needed to have gone on "Suicide Watch." Partially due to the guilt and shame borne from being gay in an unforgiving era, but also because at that time if you had HIV, you could never father your own children (always a life goal of mine).
It was for that purpose, mainly, that my sister always went with me. Suicide was one of the possible outcomes of a Positive diagnosis back then; for this reason, you could not receive HIV results over the phone, or without some degree of counseling coinciding with that test.
And it's from that ancient, dated meme that the tone of concern/support has erupted, from of those close to me. As if my diagnosis was an "uh oh, here comes the Downward Spiral" moment.
There's no Downward Spiral to be had here. Because I refuse to acknowledge the emotions of "guilt" and "shame" with this new life I have. Why?
I touched on this before: in the 1990s, if you were gay it was assumed that you had AIDS. You had to work double-time in your decloseting, to reassure those around you that you didn't have AIDS, you knew how to NOT "catch AIDS," et cetera. When I say my diagnosis late last year was the greatest anticlimax of my life, it's mainly due to all those calories expended on the "but I don't have AIDS" shtick I had to do in my youth.
Further: within days of my diagnosis, my entire worldview came crashing down: I was HIV-positive, going to live, able to have children, and honestly? Happy/sappy on a level heretofore unseen. I can't over-emphasize this enough: contracting HIV was the solitary WORST thing you could possibly have happen to you, growing up. I have, and it's seriously not bad. I'm going to fine; in fact, better than most!
My mother was the last one of my immediate clan who was told. I am most like her, and my brand of crazy is definitely more reminiscent of her's, over any other member of the family. That being said: I did fear guilt and shame from her direction. Ergo, I suffixed my "outing" with:
She was surprisingly much calmer than I had thought. I came out the summer after Jeffrey Dahmer blew up the media, and I know my safety, especially as a gay teen, was always at the forefront of her mind. Yet there I was, HIV-Positive and non-suicidal, asking her to join me in this Brave New World I'm now living in.
My challenge, in these days of "cocooning" before I "out" myself a second time, is accepting that my choice in mates might not always understand what living in this "Brave New World," free of guilt or shame, means.
But that's superfluous. Because living without guilt or shame is the most freeing way to exist, even if it needs to be a more solo one than most. Not only are you not beholden to the judgement of others, you're also free from the scrutiny of your biggest "judge" -- yourself.
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The review backlog is getting increasingly larger here on ChocolateMission so this week you are being treated to an extra review instead of the normal '7Days of Chocolate Reviews' post. The reason why the reviews are stacking up so high at the moment, is because I have recently received several deliveries from various site sponsors. One of these companies, Yankee Soda & Candy (a UK based merchant who sell American goods - See website HERE), were the providers of today's product - Kraft Nasbisco's Oreo Brownie. Informing you guys of the product description seems a bit of a pointless task given it's simplicity, but what the hell, it was billed as a 'brownie baked with real Oreo pieces' ... oh really now!?
The brownie came a largish 85.0g format, which I split with a fellow taste tester. From the outset the packaging created a real impression on me, and I was drawn in by both the cool looking Oreo branding on the wrapper, as well as the cheeky areas of transparency which showed off the inner brownie. Removing the brownie from the packet, an array of pleasant baked cake and Oreo biscuit smells became evident. These aromas managed to further my intrigue, which was already sky high thanks to the rather cool aesthetic effect created by the chunks of Oreo cookies visible in the brownie.
Getting straight in to details of the taste test, this product didn't give a freshly baked, straight out the oven brownie experience, but it would have been unrealistic to think it would do so. The chocolate and sweet cake flavours it did deliver were of a more than satisfying quality, and the Oreo pieces brought the cookie flavours to life in nearly every single bite. At this point I would love to continue to lavish the praise on this brownie, however from the outset it was apparent there there was a pretty glaring issue with this product, and it became increasingly detrimental with each mouthful. My main issue (that my fellow taste tester agreed with I may add) was that the texture of the brownie was just way too dry. The brownie needed some sort of icing, or inner filling to balance the dryness of both the brownie and the cookie pieces. The combination of them both created a saliva sponge, and even though I a glass of milk on standby, it still felt like it created a vacuum in the mouth. On reflection, I think I would have struggled to eat one of these by myself if I was faced with that prospect - half provided a more than substantial snack.
Overall Kraft Nabisco got a lot of things right with this product, but the texture and feel of the brownie in the mouth stood out like a sore thumb, and thus has limited it's score on the ChocolateMission rating system. In regards to taste this brownie wasn't the best tasting one I have had recently (check back Tuesday for that haha!!) but it certainly more than held up it's part of the bargain in delivering a fair standard base brownie with an extra cookie punch from the Oreos. Considering the product in that regard, and in light of the packaging and proposition, it would almost certainly be something I would recommend you all try. Unfortunately the texture inhibits me from being able to do just that, as for me it did somewhat spoil the overall experience. What is really frustrating is that this could have been so easily avoided had they just included a layer of Oreo cookie creme running through the middle of the product - why on earth didn't they do this? If you are a fan of Oreo cookies and are a lover of brownies you will probably want to try this and I don't blame you. Just make sure you have a couple of pints of milk to wash it down with.
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MADISON, Wisc. – An ultra-thin, layered patch carrying a concentrated dose of silver nanoparticles has proven highly effective in healing wounds while not damaging important cells.
Silver is commonly used to prevent bacterial contamination in traditional wound dressings, but it can damage fibroblasts–cells needed for healing.
Now Ankit Agawal, a researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UW-Madison, has developed a way to deliver low doses of silver in a small concentrated area, avoiding fibroblast damage.
Wound healing is a particular problem in diabetes, where poor blood supply that inhibits healing can require amputations, and also on burn wards. Agarwal says some burn surgeons avoid silver dressings despite their constant concern with infection.
In lab tests, patches soaked with 100 times less silver than conventional silver dressings killed nearly 100 percent of the bacteria but did not damage the fibroblasts needed to repair it.
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Please see my first post on the Aqua Shadows for a detailed review, along with photos, of texture, consistency, wear, and so forth. This post is specifically looking at the five matte finish Make Up For Ever Aqua Shadows ($20.00 for 0.14 oz.).
- #0E is a rich black with a matte finish. It has good color payoff in a single pass, and it has a very subtle brown undertone. You'll find it's comparable to numerous black eyeliners so long as they're deeper, richer blacks (instead of a soft black).
- #2E is a dark red-toned brown with a matte finish. It has good color payoff in a single go, and it builds well. This shade had a creamier consistency compared to some of the other shades. Milani Brown is slighty lighter. Chanel Brun-Teak has similar red tones but is lighter. Urban Decay Demolition is a bit darker, less warm.
- #4E is a medium-dark gray with a hint of brown and a matte finish. The pigmentation is only so-so in a single go–it's a bit drier so it doesn't fill in every space with really rich, even pigment. CoverGirl Silver Spark is a bit like this, but the finishes are very different, and it is also much lighter.
- #6E is an intense navy blue with a matte finish. It's very bold, and it has good color payoff, though it's not as buildable as the other shades. MAC Marine Ultra is similar in finish but lighter. Urban Decay Binge is not quite as dark and has shimmer.
- #8E is a darkened green-teal with a matte finish. This shade had the best color payoff in a single stroke, and it was a bit creamier than shades like #4E. This shade compares well to Prescriptives Blue Grotto. It's a bit darker and greener compared to NARS Kaliste. Urban Decay Clinic is lighter and shimmery.
To summarize my earlier review: the matte shades are a bit creamier, and as a consequence, they do not hold up as well as the shimmery shades. I do get significant and noticeable creasing, and it looks pitiful after eight hours, when I've worn these alone. When I wear them with eyeshadow on top, they perform much better, and I didn't have any creasing problems even after eight hours. Over a primer but still with nothing on top, they wear marginally better but still have noticeable creasing over the eight hour period. These are also prone to smudging on their own but also if water hits them, so they're not quite waterproof or smudge-proof.


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Kudos to Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency who is stepping down from her cabinet-level position after the president's State of the Union address in January ("Chief of EPA to leave post," Dec. 28).
Ms. Jackson has performed brilliantly in an often thankless job. Because of her efforts, the nation has been spared countless deaths and illnesses due to polluted air, water and soil.
She was vilified by Republicans who accused her of harming the economy and slowing job creation. But as a businessman, I have always questioned whether a healthy environment really hurts business. And if one weighs economic benefits of saving the lives of our children, I know which side I embrace.
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On November 29-30, 2012, IUCN, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, organized two screenings of a 52-minute documentary on the winners and losers from hydropower development in the Mekong Region. The film was shown at the Vietnam National University (VNU) and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST).
The two screenings gave the 450 students who attended the opportunity to better understand the trade-offs involved in hydropower development and to ask questions directly to some of Vietnam's leading experts. Some of the questions went to the heart of the current debate over the planned Xayaburi dam in Laos. One student asked "After all the debate, does the government agree or disagree with hydropower development on the Mekong?" Another asked "If Vietnam does not support hydropower in Laos, what will the Vietnamese government do assist economic development in Laos?"
Students also ask what a "transparent" dam would look like and, given the negative impacts on local livelihoods, whether or not any countries are pulling dams down?
When Dr. Dao Trong Tu asked "Who loves hydropower?" only a few students raised their hands. When he asked "Who doesn't love hydropower?" many more hands were raised. In response, students questioned Dr. Tu about alternative energy sources to hydropower and the barriers to developing these alternatives.
The questions and answers showed that there isn't a simple yes or no answer to such big projects. According to IUCN's Nguyen Duc Tu, "We cannot say yes or no to hydropower without assessing the full costs and benefits of a project." What was also clear was the value of exposing students, and Vietnam's future leaders, to the latest thinking on such a complex and controversial issue.
The film was partially funded by the Mekong Water Dialogues (MWD), a regional project coordinated by IUCN and financed by the Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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- People who paid up front for their funerals might be spared from the effects of bad investments.The poor financial decisions left the Wisconsin Funeral Trust millions of dollars in the hole.The fund was marketed as a safe investment vehicle. But its money managers poured the cash into high-risk investments that lost money. The fund that's supposed to have 70-million dollars on hand only has 48-million.John Wirth is the court-appointed receiver of the trust. He says the trust has reached a tentative settlement with the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association.Their members have been losing money to make sure clients get what they paid for.The settlement would make sure clients still get fair value and funeral homes are fairly compensated. A judge must approve the agreement.(Copyright 2013 Associated Press - All Rights Reserved)
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Not really sure where to start my paper/journal entry on my Greyhound Bus trip. First, I would like to say that I am not an English major. Secondly, I usually stick to 140 character tweets, so this is going to be tough. Where to start the story…. Okay, so six of my offensive line buddies and me went to Florida for spring break. The week was awesome. Super fun, got sun burnt, and ate way too much food. The week took a turn for the worst when I left our house in seaside to go meet up with some of the UGA Cheerleaders staying in Panama City Beach (Which I might say is the nastiest place on planet earth) . When we arrived we went to eat dinner with country singer Luke Bryan, probably one of the coolest things I've ever done. The next day we went to his concert and had a blast. After I rode to Destin with 3 of the Equestrian girls from UGA.
I thought I still had room to ride back with my fellow O-Linemen (Who were staying in Destin that night). I didn't. So I needed a way to get home to Athens. I had plenty of ride opportunities that were leaving Saturday or Sunday to Athens, but I wanted to be home Thursday to workout a few days before spring practice started.
How was I going to get to Athens?
Possible choices: Jog (Never gonna happen)
Hitch hike (Might get killed)
Take a greyhound bus (Oh no….)
So I decided to go with the greyhound bus. I called one of the Equestrian girls and she drove me to Panama City for 40 dollars In the morning. And the trip begins….
I arrive at the greyhound station not knowing what to expect. I literally was scared for my life. I was ticket number 30. The bus pulls in and the bus driver tells the whole group he has 22 seats available. (So what do I do? Ride on the top of the bus?) I am standing by a white guy who looks kinda creepy. He told me his name was Mike but his friends call him "Lil Meek". He told me that he had just gotten out of jail because he beat up a cop in panama city beach. GOOD. He was ticket number 31. So he and I decided would stand for the first two hours with ten other people…
I was not going to stand for two and a half hours. This story is 100% true. I laid on the floor of this bus from Panama to Tallahassee. I laid on my side because my shoulders were too big to lay on my back. There was a Mexican guy kicking me in the side and cussing me out saying "There is a fat-a** white boy on my foot." I slept a little bit the first trip but I was laying in the nastiest floor on the whole world. We finally arrived into Tallahassee and it took me five minutes to get off of the ground. I was practically stuck in the isle of the bus.
Once we get off the bus we took a thirty minute break and we got onto a nicer bus. I talked to Lil Meek for a few minutes and told me about his "baby momma" and his kid Malcolm who he was going to see. He seemed like a great guy. On the second bus I was lucky enough to get a seat. I sent a text to my roommate and said, "I have a seat #blessed" It had been four hours and my phone was almost dead. I asked every single person on the bus if they had an iPhone charger. Half the bus didn't even own a phone. Three people asked me what an iPhone was.
Anytime someone on the bus used the phone I could hear them. The best conversation was a young lady who was screaming at a man asking him questions, "Where is da baby at?" and "You betta not let yo crazy-a** aunt have my baby" and my personal favorite, "Once I get off this d*** bus imma come find you and beat yo a**". She was really angry.
The next few hours not much happened. We stopped in Thomasville, Cordele, and Macon. In Thomasville to my rescue, a nice young lady carrying an iPad, iPhone, and iPad walked on. She let me use her charger three times. I was on my phone the entire time and had to recharge it three times.
This part is the craziest part of the trip. We stopped in Cordele to get food. We pulled into a gas station that had a Dairy Queen inside of it. Me and about forty people got off the bus and walked inside to find the that Dairy Queen was closed. There was one person who screamed, "I'm gonna burn this d*** gas station to the ground!" another guy cussed out the bus driver because they wanted food so bad. I had eaten nothing all day. They had these pizza slices that were not very good. I ate two of them, a bag of Buggles, and red Powerade Zero and a pack of Reeses. When we got on the bus there was a guy sitting beside me and he had not gotten off and did not have any food. Each stop he smoked like three cigerettes. I felt bad so I offered him some of my Buggles. He said verbatim, "No thanks man, while I'm on Meth I never get hungry but thanks anyways." At this moment I almost lost it. The guy just admitted to doing Meth in front of me. The trip continued for a lot lot lot lot lot lot longer…. The Meth guy started talking to himself. A baby in the back cried for twenty minutes straight. I needed a ride back to Athens and finally convinced a pretty tennis player named Lauren Herring to come pick me up. She told me she was going to be a little late because she had dinner plans already. So I knew I would have to spend about two hours at the greyhound bus station in Atlanta. Dear god help me…
I swear there is not a scarier, sketchier, and ghetto-er place in this entire world than this bus station in the hood of Atlanta. I sat down and watched the basketball game and very shortly a fight broke out. There was and older white guy with a cane who was yelling at a Mexican for taking off his shoes. The old man said, "Put them dang stinky shoes back on right now amigo"(in a very country accent) the Mexican who looked really scary, decked out in tattoos, tackled the white guy and started punching him. The fight was very short, but had a great deal of intensity. They both got throw out. Next, a man yelled at the customer service for literally for twenty minutes, then fell asleep, then woke up and started yelling again.. He get thrown out by the same security guard.
Lastly I walked out side to wait for Lauren to come get me. I had four people beg me for money. I had one guy try and sell me lighter for three dollars? Then another guy came up to me with a bag and in it had five Gameboy Colors. He wanted to sell them to me for thirty dollars. I kindly declined.
Finally my ride came and I drove back to Athens. It took my 6 hours to get to the beach. I left Destin at 7:45a.m. I arrived at my dorm at 11:25p.m.
I encourage everyone to take a greyhound bus trip somewhere and it will open your eyes to things that will blow your mind. Hope everyone else had a good spring break.
kelvin locke permalink
What a crazy story, I know that your dad would be proud of you. Keep up your hard work. GO DAWGS
Tilea permalink
I feel a NEW YORK BEST SELLING NOVEL COMMING ON!!!
GATA >3 Good job son,keep it up…
LawDawg permalink
you are now my favorite UGA football player! Go Dawgs!!!
Sam Owen permalink
I have ridden a lot of greyhound busses, none to pretty but I gotta tell ya that's the worst story I've ever heard. I believe every word
John permalink
This is hysterical.
Had to share:
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Please do yourself a favor..Watts Byron Dantzler posted one of the funniest blogs I have ever read in my entire life! Watts is from Dalton, GA and an OL for UGA!!! Watts, I just have to tell you my friend.. your FB is about to go viral, it might blow up! As soon as the BULLDAWG NATION gets this you will have to blog for US the rest of your career. And don't worry about the English or writing issues…heart to head to paper PUHLEEEEEEZ! THIS WAS GREAT! Sic' Em TQ
Not really sure where to start my paper/journal entry on my Greyhound
JimmieKrackKorn permalink
Nice story. Reminds me of a friend I had who lived in Berlin Germany. He was infactuated with America particularly the south. When he finally made it to America, he ended up taking a greyhound bus trip from Atlanta to New Orleans. My friend said he'll always remember this, somewhere in Mississippi, I young black male got on and sat next to him. My German friend spoke pretty good english so he started a conversation with the new rider. Ended up the young black guy was a running back who was a sensation in his small town in MS, and was on his way to play college ball on a football scholarship. My German friend described his visit with young man as his most typically unique southern American experience…which culminated when the young man fell a sleep on his shoulder. The young man finally disembarked to start his college football career in a small town called Baton Rouge…and my friend rode on to New Orleans. He said he will always remember that Greyhound trip.
Tim Armstrong permalink
If you think. ATL is bad go to the greyhound station in Dallas.
Johnny Ingram permalink
and I thought it was gonna be dull when Ben Jones left.
NCT permalink
Great story. Believe it or not, I live within walking distance of the ATL Greyhound station (although I would hesitate to walk there and certainly wouldn't after dark). You were within a few blocks of where a lot of the Walking Dead scenes were filmed. And I refer to some of that neighborhood's regulars as "walkers". Glad you made it back home safely.
Mike Ryder permalink
You have good story-telling talent and need to seriously consider keeping a journal of your experiences, especially this football season. You're expressive and paint a good picture for the reader's imagination. If you do this for fun soon you'll find you're better & better at it. These are tools you'll have long after your college and football days have passed. Good Luck and have a good season (& this coming from a Gator!)
Marc permalink
Watts if you ONLY knew what a huge compliment this is from Ryder.
John Herring permalink
The great thing about the story is a Herring came to save you in Atlanta. Once took a greyhound to Texas and I swear I could've walked there faster than it took to get there. A week! I was 17 and learned a great lesson. Glad you made it back minus any stabwounds. Hope the work out was worth it. Like seeing that GATA attitude! GO DAWGS!
Sharlinda Haight permalink
After reading this, I am so glad you made it back ok. You probably made it back in one piece because you are one of the biggest guys I know. Please don't ever do that again! There are some very sketchy people that take the bus for sure!
LeAnne permalink
Glad you survived. Next time call someone who lives in the middle, we'd gladly pick you up and take you home. Looking forward to seeing you in April.
UGA70 permalink
Great story Watts. It hasn't changed much since a High School friend and I had a similar experience back in 1966. We took the bus from our hometown in Moultrie to ATL to see a Bob Dylan Concert. And the ATL bus station was just as bad then, if not worse.
RxDawg permalink
Haha, great story Watts. I actually have a roundabout similar one to you in almost getting stuck in Florida… Anyways what I want to know is who kicks an SEC offensive lineman!? Next time your stuck Watts just send out a mass tweet and I'm betting the bulldog nation will come to your rescue (is that NCAA violation? eh..probably)
Nestor permalink
Wow, that was quite an experience. Thanks for sharing. You could write a book with stories like that. Lewis Grizzard made some good money that way.
Russ permalink
Dude, this is hilarious! I've ridden a few buses in my life, but your trip was a little more "colorful" than any I've had. Thanks for the post. I hope your others are as funny.
norman jones permalink
That the funniest story I've heard in ages. The next Lewis Grizzard is on the UGA football team! Watts, this story is going to much more attention than you ever imagined. Go Dawgs! and go Watts!
Dawg19 permalink
Well done, young man. Life is about the stories you live out and tell people about for years to follow. The most boring people in the world are the people who never dare to live.
Dunwoody Dawg permalink
Had a similar experience my junior year at UGA. Went to the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa (1985)to see the Dawgs lose to Boston College in a downpour in Tampa. We were driving back on Christmas Eve when the car we were in blew an engine. We hitchhiked to a bus station in some small town in FL and rode the Greyhound home. An eye opening experience for sure. The bus was packed to the gills and the four of us got spread out all over the bus. Bus driver pulled over and screamed at everyone when the smell of a joint spread throughout the bus (one of my traveling companions was one of the guilty parties). My brother shared a 40 with his seatmate and had a strong offer to continue on to Charlotte where there was crack and hoes available at his new friends' place. It took like 12 hours to get home and I swear we stopped at every exit on 85 in GA. At least we got off in ATL the bus was headed to NYC. I can't imagine the agony of the rest of that trip.
W Hamilton permalink
This is a great account, Watts! LOL! I share your pain, as I once was forced to take the Greyhound from Orlando to Athens! Before we even left the Orlando bus station, the youngest child of a hispanic family on the row in front of me vomited in the aisle. Then I remember waking up in the middle of the night and the bus had stopped for food at a Hardees in Fitzgerald, GA. As luck would have it, I knew people in Fitzgerald — fellow UGA students — and two of them happened to be in that Hardees at that exact moment. I walked out of the Hardees without a shred of dignity after begging those girls to "roadtrip" me the rest of the way to Athens. It was a low point, but I laugh about it now.
Royal Dawg permalink
Watts, this story is awesome! Nice job and you my friend are a DGD!!!
zumadawg permalink
This is the best laugh that I've had in a long time. It brings back memories of my childhood riding the greyhound with my sister from our mom's (Perry,FL) to Atlanta for our dad to pick us up (from Athens). Thanks for a great story Watts. God Bless and GO DAWGS!!!!!!
Staci permalink
Funny! from a Bama fan.
Watts, the "Salty Dawgs" in Myrtle Beach, SC would love to point out to you and your teammates (all UGA teams, actually) that our fair beaches are about six hours away, as well, next break.
Watts, this is hilarious. Panama City is kind of like the Las Vegas of the south. I've been there so many times for Spring Break. You can't plan for things in PC, you just have to deal with what arises. Awesome story, but I must say that your buddies that did not have room for you would have a major a$$ whooping broiling. LOL! Good luck man on the season. Go Dawgs!!!!
Hedder permalink
I can relate. I rode a greyhound bus from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and the things I had to endure were unspeakable. I have never been so close to committing homicide in my life.
mikedawg permalink
The next Lewis Grizzard? I think so! Keep writing!
StuDawg permalink
Hilarious! I had to take a Greyhound once and ended in ATL and it IS a scary place. I hope I never have to do that again.
StuDawg permalink
I also went to Panama City for spring break once and it is a pretty bad place too! But fun, no doubt.
Watts – PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE blog your exploits during the upcoming season. Dawg fans everywhere would love to read more of your stories.
Don permalink
38 years ago. Memphis, TN to Jonesboro, AR. 72 miles. 4 hours of pure Greyhound agony. I ended up marrying that girl. She owed me.
Bo permalink
Dude, I am a Gator and live in Gainesville, I will personally drive you home next time if you will entertain me with your stories. Please keep writing. And someone else mentioned Head to pen to paper. This reminded me of a Lewis Grizzard story.
Jim B permalink
Where's a picture pf the pretty tennis player?
UGAmutt permalink
I took a Greyhound from that same station in Atlanta to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina for Combat Training after bootcamp. Big mistake. I wouldn't say the two stories were identical twins, but they were cousins who bear a strong resemblance. BTW, I live in California (temporarily, thank the Lord) and the Greyhound station in Los Angeles makes the one in Atlanta look like a Royal Carribean Cruise. God Bless you Brother!
Apaul Blanco permalink
When I was 19 I was stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. Before I bought a car I rode Greyhound faithfully. It's amazing how a 6 1/2 hour trip can take 14, 15, or 16 hours. As excited as I was to get home to Decatur, I had the same dread about getting back on the bus to go back. The bus station in ATL is crazy, is that strip club still across the street?
Lee permalink
Watts, you'll probly feel right at home in Athens.
Lyn permalink
Dude, I am a Gator in Marietta, but I like your style! Rode a bus from Wichita Falls Texas to Denver when I was 14. I will never subject my family to that ever!
UGA 89 permalink
There is a new bus that has service to Atlanta as well as Athens called the Megabus. It has TV's as well as charging stations for every person. My parents took it and loved it. It's clean, very inexpensive($50 round trip) and makes only one stop from Jax. to Atlanta or Jax. to Athens. Keep it in mind next time.
Wes permalink
LMAO…this story is great! Be thankful for all that you have in this lifetime Watts. Good luck to you & the rest of my bulldogs now and 4 Eva!
Been There permalink
I flew to Denver once and waited 8 hours in a Greyhound bus station before riding 4 and a half hours to Steamboat. Definitely eye-opening. I was 18, had a motorola v60i that wouldn't stay charged, and a huge ski bag that wouldn't fit it a locker so I couldn't tour Denver. The ride was very interesting to say the least. You'd be suprised what people will say on a bus.
blow my back permalink
the only thing that could make this tale more exciting is a session of fellatio between you and lil meek…..
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Hackerdog permalink
You were willing to ride a Greyhound bus to leave spring break (with cheerleaders) early to get in some early workouts? Damn Good Dawg!
Im in total agreement with others who made reference to Lewis Grizzard. I loved Lewis Grizzard, and you could easily fall right in where he left off. Southern women love a man who can tell a good story. You did a great job here…keep right on rolling with this. And all this is coming from an Alabama girl!


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The plant nutrient strategies adopted by fast- and slow-growing plant species (i.e. exploitative and conservative species, respectively) are known to contribute, more or less depending on the strategy under study, to soil carbon cycling. Exploitative species may impact soil carbon pools by adding large amounts of carbon to the soil, potentially via greater root exudation and high specific root length, whereas conservative species contribute by adding low-quality plant material, i.e. highly concentrated carbon forms in nutrient-poor tissues (De Deyn, Cornelissen and Bardgett 2008 ).
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Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd., Worsley, Western Australia, is among the growing list of companies that are realizing that fitting the workplace to the worker is key to achieving operational effectiveness.
Arnold Oliver, Worsleys superintendent of process control, says, We believe much of Worsleys success is the result of our engaging competent consultants and fully embracing a situation-awareness initiative that incorporated people, alarms, graphics, training and control room design. As a result of our attention to detail, our control room operators are now better informed and thus are making better decisions in less time.
The process Worsley described is a relatively new design concept known as human systems integration (HSI), and it is being effectively used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the design of military battlefield and space travel systems. HSI incorporates a disciplined, unified and interactive approach to integrate human considerations (both cognitive and physical) into a design to improve total system performance and reduce injuries and costs of ownership. HSI incorporates manpower, personnel, training, safety and occupational health, survivability, habitability and human factors engineering.
Integral to the HSI process is applying human factors engineering/ergonomics (HFEE) to fit the work to the worker, instead of forcing the worker to adapt to existing working conditions.
Figure 1. ISO 11064 ergonomic design standards
One of the most vivid examples of a need to consider HFEE is in the control rooms of many process plants worldwide.
How often do you see a press release, brochure or magazine article celebrating a successful start-up that includes a photo of an operator sitting at the operator console? Most likely, the photo showed a bunch of monitors and keyboards plopped down on some computer furniture. What you didnt see was that the control room was built like a box, and then someone was tasked with fitting all the people, equipment, supplies and kitchen into it.
Operators need to be allowed to do what they are trained and paid to do and that requires that they be provided an environment that is void of as many unnecessary distractions and disruptions as possiblesomething akin to an air-traffic control center.
Whats the Goal?
The goal in designing a control room is to create a work environment that promotes the operators ability to maintain high levels of vigilance and situation awareness, says Ian Nimmo, founder and president of User Centered Design Services, and who one client describes as the godfather of situation awareness and alarm management.
Through the late 1970s, control rooms consisted of long panel boards with logically grouped recorders, controllers, indicators, switches, lights and alarm light boxes arranged to provide operators with a big picture of the process.
Beginning in the 1980s, the introduction of distributed control systems (DCS) shrunk those long panel boards into fifteen-inch monitors. To compensate for the operators loss of the big picture, additional monitors were added, along with lots and lots of DCS-based alarms. It was not uncommon for a process plant to evolve from 150 alarm light boxes to more than 2,000 DCS-based alarms.
The distributed architecture of the DCS also encouraged control room consolidation, thus replacing face-to-face conversations between the control room and field operator with sometimes less-than-reliable radio communication. Greater physical distance also changed how supervisors interacted with the control room and field operators. Combined, these changes resulted in the creation of an entirely different control room environment, and it was done with very little thought about its impact on operational performance. Whats truly sobering is that twenty-plus years later, many of those same problems continue to exist in control rooms worldwide.
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text: Molly Messick Hard-Hit Boise Subdivision Lacks Owner-Occupied Homes By Molly Messick • Mar 4, 2013 Copyright 2017 Boise State Public Radio. To see more, visit Boise State Public Radio. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some Idaho Farmers Pray, Others Turn On The Water By Molly Messick • Aug 11, 2012 In the West, in Idaho's arid, high desert, the drought has a mixed effect. There's a big divide between farmers with deep wells and irrigation and those without. Hans Hayden is a rare find: a talkative farmer. He likes to explain things. But when it comes to the wheat he planted this spring, there's not much to say. This field needed rain. It didn't get it. "At this point in time, it kind of looks like a desert," he says. Idaho Businesses Want More Flights To Boise By Molly Messick • Mar 27, 2012 Copyright 2017 Boise State Public Radio. To see more, visit Boise State Public Radio. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Haven Or Hell: Refugees In Idaho Struggle For Work By Molly Messick • Mar 9, 2012 In the last few years, more than 4,000 refugees have found their way to a far-flung spot: Idaho. Most of the state's incoming refugees come to Boise. For years, the city's strong economy, good-quality affordable housing and supportive community created an especially favorable environment for refugee resettlement. The recession has shifted that picture. In Idaho, Two Workers Take Jobs, And Hope For Best By Molly Messick • Feb 6, 2012 StateImpact Idaho's Molly Messick reports on two people coping with the lingering effects of an economic downturn. Before the recession, Idaho had one of the fastest growing economies in the country. But last year, its jobless rate peaked at nearly 10 percent. That number has begun to creep downward – but many workers in the state are still struggling to replace the jobs they've lost.


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It didn't take long for the Panthers to extinguish the hottest road team in hockey Tuesday night. Aleksander Barkov scored 32 seconds in and Florida scored three in the opening period en route to a 4-2 win over the Islanders at BB&T Center.
The Panthers hadn't scored more than one goal in any of their previous three games before halting the Islanders' run of seven consecutive road wins.
Before the game, coach Peter Horachek vowed his team would start scoring. The Panthers proved him right.
"We got goals from all different lines," said Nick Bjugstad, who made it 3-0 near the end of the third.
"A lot of guys came through. It was good to see. We bore down."
The Islanders, who hadn't lost away from Long Island since Dec. 12 in Arizona, looked road weary in the first period as soft clearing passes and poor puck handling helped lead to Florida's quick start.
On the game's opening shift, Barkov and Brad Boyes alternated passes up the ice with Barkov finally sending the puck into the empty net as Kevin Poulin committed to Boyes.
The Islanders, in the middle of a six-game trip, woke up as the period wore on only to find Tim Thomas waiting for them. The Panthers goalie made a number of key saves as he waited for the Florida offense to add support.
With 4:26 left in the first, the Panthers took a 2-0 lead as Drew Shore spun in the right circle and threw up a shot that banged off Brian Strait's skate. Bjugstad then made it 3-0 by driving in and scoring off another New York turnover. Bjugstad ended up being thrown into the goal.
"I just tried going to the net," Bjugstad said. "It's part of the game."
The Islanders came hard at the Panthers in the second, but Thomas (31 saves) was strong again. Florida made it 4-0 when Scottie Upshall steamrolled Andrew MacDonald to steal the puck and scored on a breakaway.
Upshall's goal — his first in 16 games — came as Florida was killing off a penalty.
"It was a big play by our defensemen [Ed Jovanovski and Brian Campbell] down low," Upshall said. "We were able to play with the lead, and that's a big confidence-booster. I think all four lines were great. It was a big effort from everyone."
New York, which didn't get much from leading scorer John Tavares, cut its deficit to three late in the second just as its third power play ended as Colin McDonald scored in front of the net. Early in the third, Thomas Vanek — a potential Florida target this offseason — made it 4-2.
Although the Islanders kept coming, Thomas kept the puck out.
"Timmie keeps us in it every time," Bjugstad said. "It's nice having a 'tender like that."
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The Panthers announced they will host the NHL Draft next summer. The first round is expected to be held on June 26, 2015, with the following rounds on June 27.
"I think that's something that is going to build and build and build," Horachek said. "... I think it's a great thing, great for South Florida, our team and this building. It will be exciting."
Team president Michael Yormark said the team is working on bringing more such events to the Broward County-owned (but team-run) arena.
The NHL promised the county a draft and future All-Star Game last summer in exchange for the commission approving a new scoreboard.
Yormark said the BB&T Center has an agreement to continue hosting the Orange Bowl college basketball tournament and the arena is looking into NCAA men's basketball tournaments.
• Although Upshall scored short-handed, the Panthers weren't as good with an extra skater as their last-place power play went 0 for 5 and hasn't scored in seven games.
Florida had numerous chances but couldn't score on an long 5-on-3 opportunity in the first nor a four-minute power play in the third.


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The wait for the first official showing of the 2010 BMW S1000RR may well be over! Well, almost. BMW is expected to debut the road-going version of the S1000RR to the press and public at the World Superbike Championship being held at Monza May, 10 2009. That's the buzz around the paddock, and it would seem to be confirmed by BMW's changes to the S1000RR's website.
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Where Do Our Carbon Emissions Come From, Anyway?
Richard Conlin is president of Seattle's City Council, which is overseeing the city's effort to become the first carbon neutral city in the United States. He blogs about what reaching that goal really means for YES! Magazine.
Before the City Council can develop a work plan for a carbon (climate) neutral Seattle, we have to determine where our carbon emissions actually come from. This is actually a tough question. It is easy to point at particular sources and agree that they lead to carbon emissions (like coal plants or automobile exhaust pipes). It's also easy to agree that reducing these sources would be a good thing.
But if you are aiming at a truly carbon neutral city, it is important to understand how much carbon comes from different sources. Only with that understanding will we be able to both set priorities for action—and know that what we are doing actually addresses the whole spectrum of critical issues. Of course, even if you have correctly identified the carbon sources that you must deal with, there can still be difficult and challenging discussions about what the best strategy is to actually achieve the reduction goal—but that is the topic for future posts. The science of inventorying carbon emissions has made great progress over the last few years. Seattle has been on the cutting edge of that science, and we completed a review of our emissions in 2005 and updated it in 2008. With one major caveat, the issue of embedded carbon in products, this inventory provides excellent guidance for our work.
So, what did we discover? First, that Seattle's emissions pattern is unique. A huge percentage of carbon emissions around the country and the world come from burning fossil fuels to produce electricity. Thanks to the foresight of previous generations, who built dams for Seattle City Light, our public electric utility, on the Skagit and Pend Oreille Rivers and joined the Bonneville Power Administration in building dams on the Columbia River system, Seattle's electricity was already virtually carbon free at the end of the 1990s. Seattle did own a share of the Centralia Coal Plant, but we sold that ten years ago as the key step to becoming a completely carbon neutral utility. Seattle still purchases a very small amount of electricity from fossil sources to meet peak demands, but City Light fully mitigates that by purchasing carbon credit.
That means emissions from transportation sources are more significant in Seattle, and present the greatest opportunity for carbon reduction. Transportation accounts for 62 percent of Seattle's emissions.
People often assume that means cars are the culprit, but cars and light trucks only account for 20 percent of transportation emissions. Trucks and buses are another 20 percent, and air travel another 20 percent, with the remainder being marine and rail. All of these are, of course, critical and major targets for carbon reduction, but a strategy that focuses on the automobile will not get the job done. In fact, automobile emissions increased by only 6 percent between 1990 and 2008, while air travel emissions increased by 7 percent and truck emissions by 16 percent, for an overall increase from transportation sources of 11 percent.
Buildings are the next largest contributor, producing another 21 percent of emissions. We have made great progress in cutting emissions from buildings, reducing them by 9 percent between 1990 and 2008, with the biggest progress in the residential sector, down by 17 percent.
The big surprise is industry. The 17 percent of carbon emissions produced by industry is a much smaller percentage than it was in 1990, as industrial emissions were cut by 30 percent between 1990 and 2008.
And this is where the major caveat comes in. Part of the reason that industry is down from 1990 is because of increased efficiencies and other real progress. But another factor is that industrial production of products that we use has shifted out of the City—and to do a true carbon neutral strategy, we have to count those as well.
So what are the key lessons from this accounting? Transportation is our biggest carbon issue—but that means a lot more than automobiles. There is still a huge opportunity in the built environment. And we need a more sophisticated approach to industrial emissions if we are going to honestly achieve our carbon goals.
Next: How the EPA's work can inform our approach to including carbon related to the products we buy—and why non-transportation strategies are as important as those related to transportation.
It doesn't have to be the end of the world. Buildings, electricity production, transportation, and food and forestry contribute the bulk of greenhouse gases. But climate-friendly options are ready.
Meet the Joneses. They are your average U.S. energy consumer. And they decide to do their part. Watch how they go carbon neutral in a decade… and then try it yourself.
- from Richard Conlin's blog about Seattle's effort to go carbon neutral.