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World Famous DR Pepper Technique (Pat Pend)
The idea for the Dr Pepper Technique came about one day many years ago (it seems) when I was trying to figure out an inexpensive way of making my first few test batches of biodiesel.
I will assume that if you are reading this for the information then you are new to Biodiesel making, so just a few words of caution:
SODIUM HYDROXIDE (Caustic soda, NaOH, lye) can cause severe burns and death. wash off with water.
Long-sleve shirt, full shoes and trousers are recommended, no shorts or sandals.
Wear chemical proof gloves, apron, and eye protection such as goggles and a full face shield are mandatory.
Always have running water available to wash off any splashes.
Now that I have managed to scare you, just realize that Methanol is the fuel used in most Model airplanes. In the USA methanol is available in small quantities as HEET brand fuel line antifreeze (Yellow bottle)
Lye is an every-day drain cleaner.
Both are freely available in most large shopping centres.
Now find an area where it is safe to make the biodiesel away from children and other distractions. Outside is best. If you are inside it should be well ventelated. The Kitchen is not a recommended work area.
1 litre oil- new or used
NaOH (lye/ caustic soda), at least 6g. Used as a drain cleaner and can often be found next to the Drano.
Methanol at least 250ml. HEET® Gas- Line Antifreeze in the yellow bottle is methanol and readly available in most auto supply stores in the USA.
1- 2 litre (1.9 in US) Dr Pepper Bottle in sound condition with tight fitting top and dry inside. As NaOH/KOH will degrade the plastic used to make soft drink bottles over time, these bottles should never be used to make more than one batch of biodiesel.
1-measuring cup to measure out 250ml methanol
1-scales to measure 6- 7g NaOH
1 teaspoon measure metric or imperial.
1- container to mix the methanol and NaOH in which makes methoxide.
1- Funnel
If using waste oil, take one litre and heat to at least 120 deg c to remove all water. If water is present the oil will spit and pop and carry on. If there is a lot of water this could get very violent, so be careful.
Once the water is gone (Oil becomes calm and there is no more spitting and popping) let the oil cool.
If you are using new oil from the bottle it should have no water in it, so in this case just heat to 55deg c when you are ready to mix.
DO NOT MIX THE METHOXIDE IN A PLASTIC SOFT DRINK BOTTLE AS THE NaOH ATTACKS THE PLASTIC AND YOU WILL QUICKLY BE SHAKING A BOTTLE FULL OF HOLES WITH METHOXIDE GOING EVERYWHERE.
While the oil is cooling mix your methanol and NaOH(lye) to form the methoxide.
Use 250ml of methanol.
This is more methanol than most people use but will help insure a successful first batch.
If you are using new oil this will require 5g (about one level Teaspoon) NaOH.
For used oil, you should do a titration to determine the correct amount of NaOH to use.
However, if you do not have the materials to do a titration, just use the empirical quantity of about 7g NaOH as this amount almost always achieves separation. If you do not have a scales, this is about 1 slightly rounded teaspoon measure (metric or imperial).
NaOH and Methanol do not readily mix, so if you are doing it by hand a bit of time and patience is required. Don't sniff the fumes. CARTRIDGE RESPIRATORS DO NOT WORK WITH METHANOL
For quickest mixing, start with the methanol at JUST body temp (not warm). As you mix, the temp will increase substantially. This is normal. Make sure ALL the NaOH (lye) is dissolved. This may take 10 minutes or more.
Hand mixing can be accomplished using the back of a spoon to stir/crush the NaOH granules in a coffee cup or glass; OR placing methanol/NaOH in a glass bottle with a tight fitting top and shaking/ swirling until ALL NaOH is dissolved.
After ALL the NaOH has dissolved, top up to 250ml with fresh methanol, as there may be some evaporation during mixing.
When the Oil's temp has dropped to 55 deg c or a bit less, using a funnel, pour the litre of oil into a DRY 2 litre Dr Pepper bottle (in a pinch any other brand of bottle will do).
Take the mixture of methanol/NaOH (commonly called methoxide on this forum) and pour on top of the oil using the same funnel.
Remove funnel.
Screw the top down TIGHT onto the bottle.
Shake vigorously for about ten seconds/ 40 good shakes.
NO appreciable pressure is generated during this mixing.
Now place the bottle on a table.
If you were using WVO you will probably observe the oil change colour from a "Light Chocolate milk to a rich, darker brown."
Then, as if by magic, within 10 minutes the by-product (commonly refered to as glycerine on this forum) starts to settle out and form an increasing layer on the bottom of the bottle.
Be sure to notice that you can see a very definite, slowly sinking line towards the top of the Biodiesel as the glycerine slowly settles.
Within an hour, most of the glycerine will be settled out.
This is referred to as separation.
NOTE: Neutral has shown through GC tests that although one 10 second shake produces very useable Biodiesel it is in fact not ASTM conversion standard.
To produce ASTM conversion biodiesel requires titration and a further four- 5 second shakes over the space of an hour.
If you used New Oil, the colour change is not nearly as great and you may have problems seeing much of a colour change at all.
You should now have a bottle containing lighter coloured biodiesel on top of a layer of darker glycerine.
If you reacted New Oil the glycerine layer on the bottom will not be much darker than the oil you started with and the biodiesel will usually be very light in colour.
The biodiesel will be very cloudy, and it will take a day or two more for it to clear.
If it does not work out come onto the forum and see if anyone can figure out what went wrong.
And that is all there is to it. Only a little magic is involved.
Remember, after producing in excess of 53,459 litres of biodiesel in any calendar year using this process, please make royalty check out to Tilly From Paradise and send it to me through your favourite Numbered Swiss bank account.
A few cautions: DON'T mix the methanol and NaOH (lye) in a plastic bottle as NaOH attacks some types of plastic. Once mixed it is quite acceptable to mix your biodiesel in a Dr Pepper plastic bottle.
Do NOT store unused methoxide in plastic bottles. Some plastic will degrade over time when in contact with methoxide.
DO NOT allow any WATER into any steps of this procedure.
Methanol boils at about 65 deg c. DO NOT mix until the oil is below 60 deg c.
Again, these are dangerous chemicals and care is necessary, especially if there are children in your home.
I have Up-Sized the Dr Pepper technique by using a 20 litre plastic drum (longish and skinny) and make 14 litre batches. I simply lay the drum on a wooden "cradle" and place the center of the cradle on a pipe and rock back and forth for 3 or 4 minutes.
I then decant the mixture into a "finishing" container and so am ready to process another 14 litres straight away.
Now that you have a Litre of Finest biodiesel you will probably wish to wash it and this is quite easily accomplished using the World Famous Dr Pepper Wash Technique (Pat Pend)
Tilly SBC/IBA Dr Pepper Div
"No job is so simple that it can't be done wrong".This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tilly,
It is good to see a simple explanation of BD preparation that will work. One small point however:
It has been pointed out in several places on this forum that the reaction will go further if the stirring period is lengthened.
At about 55 degrees maximum yield is obtained if the material is kept suspended for an hour. Gentle stirring for an hour will do this, but if doing it by hand it is easier to periodically shake briefly over a couple of hours.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler". Albert Einstein.
007 at it again
My tests seem to indicate that at 55 deg c (or at most any other temp) 3.5 seconds VIOLENT mixing is sufficent.
Tilly SBC/IBA Relativity Div
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Eienstein.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tilly,
My original tests were done using gas chromatography (gc). They confirmed what other workers had reported, namely that an hour was needed when stirred hot for maximum conversion. The gc measures unreacted starting material and intermediates directly and can detect very small amounts.
When done at room temperature the reaction went just as far but took 4 or 5 hours till no further change in composition could be detected.
Of course this doesn't mean that once-shaken BD is no good. There is a glaring lack of information needing careful research into the question of how much unreacted starting material can be tolerated in various types of motor. If anyone comes across information on this topic it would be good to see it posted it in this forum.
Tilly and Neutral,
Perhaps we should be considering the rate of mixing when assessing reaction time.
With the Dr. Pepper technique the mixing is very quick and involves a lot of agitation for a small ammount of liquid. Evidence of the reaction is apparent very quickly. Solution of methoxide in wvo, uniform liquid, lowering of viscosity and characteristic ester smell. Using a hotplate stirrer and the same quantity of reactants it took much longer to reach the same degree of reaction. Even with a large stirrer pellet in 1L beaker, with pellet at max speed and vortex in liquid ten minutes or more would elapse before reaction point occured. Moving up to 4L of reactants in a 5L beaker with the same agitation extended the time even further. I resorted to stirring the mix vigorously with a large spoon, indication of reaction dropped to 3 to 4 minutes.
Obviously these observations relate only to an initial stage in the reaction. Intend to do a few tests on this one. Unfortunately I don't have access to GLC so will have to rely on SG of raw BD which could compromise results.
Regards squarepeg.
In a number of tests that I have performed, the results indicate that while a short vigerous mix is all that is required, it does take some additional time for the reaction to reach completion.
If you mix the oil at 55 deg c or warmer it seems to take about an hour for the process to reach completion as determined using the Dr Pepper Viscosometer (Pat Pend).
When I did comparison viscosity tests of identical batches with the only variable being the amount of mixing, there was no difference in viscosity. This seems to indicate that for all practical purposes the batches that were shook once for 3.5 seconds were identical to the batches shook a number of times over the hour.
Tilly SBC/IBA
"So many Christians. So few lions.
The difficulty of getting the reaction started in typical glassware is certainly a variable to be reckoned with. One way to reduce this variablity is to only start measuring the time after the viscosity drops. Once the viscosity drops, indicating the bulk of the reaction has occurred, it is easy to keep the material fully suspended. From that point on it should be just the inherent rate of reaction that is observed.
the mixing time for a good reaction would have to be more for a larger batch , say about 20l or more.I wouldn't mix a large batch of say 50l or more for less than half an hour.A 1 litre mini batch is no comparrison as far as mixing goes.
It has been my experience that WVO and methanol/NaOH (commonly called methoxide on this forum) do not readily mix together.
If you were to do a few Dr Pepper mini-batches you will notice that the methoxide will sit on top of the WVO almost indefinately with no intermixing. Even if you rotate the bottle end for end, the WVO and methoxide will not mix to any appreciable amount.
The best and quickest way to get them to mix together seems to be to make the mixing violent. Make the WVO and methoxide "crash" into each other over and over.
It appears that the "Quality" of the mixing is what is really important, and the Dr Pepper Technique provides the violent mixing that is required.
It appears that once this violent, intimate crashing mixing has taken place no further mixing is needed. The reaction seems to just go ahead and go to completion with no further mixing. At least that is certainly what my tests suggest happens.
I suspect the size of the batch has very little to do with it as long as you can get the high quality, violent crashing together mixing to take place.
As I remember, Dhill mixed batches of around 50 litres in a cement mixer for 15 minutes and gets good result.
BioCruiser Mixes 30 litre batches in 7 min using a drill.
Tilly SBC/IBA Violent mixing div
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has it's own reason for existing." Albert Eienstein.
[This message was edited by Tilly on 23 November 2001 at 02:41 AM.]
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The secret of mixing seems to be in getting it happening as much as possible on a wide as front as can be.
ENERGEA use this idea in their continuous process, a large vessel filled with steel balls to increase the contact/interface area, and pumped through at a huge rate of knots. They claim that the reaction takes place in 3.5 seconds, though the mixture travels over several squillion square metres to get there. Heat and pressure are probably involved too.
The nearest we can get to this would be a blender....or a suitably shaped soft-drink bottle.
Or, if we have time on our hands, a low-powered blade mixer and a few hours.
James From Perth.
Iv just gotta have my say ear
Tilly has proven time and again his argument on this forum of course this was thanks to James from PERTH who first bought up the idea (even if it was stolen from that OTHER mob)
after considerable foolin round following up this mixin idea I applied the age old KISS system to all the mixing methods I was lookin at and the winner is NOT pumps IE recirculation mixing
NOT in line pipe mixers
BUT yes the good old blade mixer in a barrel simple effective inexpensive and unlike a pump u do NOT have to drain the pump or lines
NOW how to get the oil methoxide to crash to gether well it really is simple and IF I can get my mixes down to 7 to 10 minutes with 100% conversion using TALLOW then why should I go BACKWARD and employing expensive pumps/vaccume units/ECT,ECT when I am achieving such good results with really inexpensive equipment...
how do I do it THINK "KISS"
BC SBC Perth
The end result does not depend on how hard the mixing is done. As long as the surface, which initially has the methanol, is mixed into the oil the reaction will go. And that is simple to achieve as Biocruiser says.
The size of the mix is not a factor provided the mixing effort is scaled up in proportion to the size. It would of course be very expensive to design a 20 tonne vessel strong enough to be shaken so hard that the contents were fully dispersed in a few seconds, but it doesn't matter because the same result will be achieved in minutes rather than seconds with a suitable agitator. The harder the mix the faster the initial reduction in viscosity, that is all.
But nobody gets 100% conversion no matter how they do it or how much methanol or NaOH they use. It just is not possible in the nature of things. But most people appear to get enough conversion judging by the few reports of engine problems.
How much conversion is needed is a question not properly answered yet. From studying the information on this forum it seems that skimping on the methanol, which certainly lowers conversion, may cause problems with the "dreaded white stuff", emulsions, yield and separation, but as long as separation is achieved it seems the BD is good enough for the motor.
Of course most users of BD are driving vehicles with precombustion chambers. Few are using direct injection motors and, of those that are, many are in Europe and using commercial BD which has a high conversion. In the future more direct injection diesels will be built because they are more efficient.
I am keen to hear reports from people using direct injection motors and making their own BD. How much methanol are you using, and how far have you driven?
[This message was edited by neutral on 24 November 2001 at 09:52 PM.]
I've come across some oil that is a little strange. It tries to gel when you put the methoxide in. In a blender, you can see the oil thicken after the initial reduction in viscosity. If you're lucky, it gets past this thick stage in about a minute and a half. I wonder, therefore, if the doctor pepper method would work for this type of oil (used, from a restaurant).
Blanerobinson, the Dr Pepper Tecnique is definitely worth a try.
One test I ran involved comparing mixing times. Well used oil was the feedstock. This oil looked and smelt more like differential oil than veg oil. A vigorous stir with spoon for seven minutes gave reasonable results with a poor BD yield.
For the second part of the test a laboratory heater/stirrer/pump was used (centrifugal pump passing liquid over heating element, thermostatically controlled). Set the temp controller for 55 deg C. After one hour the previously liquid BD/glycerine mix had set to a slurry. Dr. Pepper tests on the same oil with varying ratios of reactants gave good separation.
Regards, Squarepeg
By all means give the Dr Pepper method a go.
Have you done a titration of your oil? Or are you just doing minibatches to find the correct amount?
Please keep us informed as to the outcome, as every bit of info is another step towards "Total Understanding".
No royalties due for private use until you make in excess of 53,246 litres of biodiesel in one calander year.
If you excede this amount just make out the royality check to Tilly From Paradise and diposit it in your favourite numbered Swiss Bank Account.
Tilly SBC/IBA counting house div
"People who say you can not buy happiness don't know where to shop."
this is very strange there are those on this board that have said to have achieved 103% conversion Personally I go by the amount of BD I get from the amount of oil I put in and no most occasions I end up with the same MEASURED amount
HOWEVER I admit this will drop down somewhat during and after the wash phase especially with Tallo , having said that it is not very much of a loss but it does depend on how much floaty white stuff I get from the Tallow..
The conversion % looks at how much of the oil actually was transesterfied and how much remained un-transesterfied oil that you started with.
If you use the correct amount of NaOH and 25% Methanol, it will make biodiesel that will be around 98% esters and 2% still un transesterfied oil. This has nothing to do with how much by-product (commonly called glycerine on this forum) is produced.
Glycerine (By-product) production depends on how used the oil is. The more used the oil, the more glycerine (ByProduct) is produced and therefor less biodiesel is recovered per litre WVO.
Remember, when transesterfying a litre of WVO we actually have a total of 1.25 litres of liquid in the reactor- 1 litre of oil and 250ml methanol.
Lightly used oil may produce more biodiesel than the starting amount of oil, BUT this BD will be only about 98% esters with the remainder of the biodiesel untransesterfied starting oil.
You cannot really tell by looking at the BD how much untransesterfied oil is present, Although the more untransesterfied oil that is present the darker the BD usually is.
BUT different oils naturally produce different colours of BD, so colour isn't a very accurate way of checking.
There is one sure fire way of checking what % of your BD is esters and how much is still un-transesterfied oil and that is using GC which is very expensive (so I am Told).
The next best way of getting a good idea of the quality of the BD is to check it's viscosity. At a total cost of about 10 cents Aus, the Dr Pepper Viscosometer is a very cost effective device as it can detect less than 1% difference of untransesterfied oil in similar batches of BD. But again different types of WVO (canola or tallow for example) naturaly produce different viscosity BD, so you have to know what the BD is made from.
Tilly SBC/IBA transesterfication div
"3 out of 4 people are 75% of the population."
[This message was edited by Tilly on 25 November 2001 at 09:36 PM.]
You are speaking of 98% conversion at a maximum.
Can this limit be overcome with a 2-stage process, i.e. removing by-product and introducing more meth?
Is it the unreacted oil that screws up in direct-injection engines, and why?
Tests that I have done indicates that the two stage process DOES NOT produce better biodiesel than the single stage. Using more methanol does.
Possibly you could get a more complete transesterfication if you used 500ml methanol/litre WVO.
I think the chemists on this forum seem to agree that once the By-product precipitates it is removed from the reaction.
I am not aware of what the problem is with direct injection engines or what causes it.
But I am sure someone will provide the answer.
Tilly SBC/IBA Humming bird div
"Can I trade this job for what is behind door #2?"
Try heating your sample batch slightly. Fill the sink with HOT water and place the sample container in it.
If it starts to work properly, you will find that the mix is most likely made from a great deal of Tallow ( animal fat ). This happened to me and that was how I got it to go further.
That is one of the main reasons for sample batches. You don't stuff up great quantities at any one sitting.
See how you go.
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Tony Nominee Orfeh to Co-Host 2013 COLUMN Awards in Dallas, 2/25
The Board of Directors and Executive Director/Producer/Founder of THE COLUMN Awards Organization, John Garcia, have announced today that Tony Award nominee, Broadway sensation Orfeh will be their special guest star and Co-host for the 14th Annual COLUMN Awards Gala. The extravaganza event will be held on Monday February 25, 2013 at the Carpenter Theatre at the Irving Arts Center.Tickets go on sale Monday February 4th. For ticket info and all other info, go to the official website at www.thecolumnawards.org.
Not only will she be their special guest star and co-hosting (with Garcia), Orfeh will add another layer of excitement as she will also be performing at the gala.
From New York Orfeh stated, "I am so honored to be following in the footsteps of the legendary Chita Rivera. I'm pretty sure the only reason she's not hosting again this year is that she's canoodling with my husband (albeit on stage) right now. And that's one huge thing we have in common!"
THE COLUMN Awards honors excellence in theater within the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Theatre metroplex, both in Equity and Non-Equity.
THE COLUMN Awards holds the great distinction as being the only theater awards organization in the United States that also serves as a major fundraiser for BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS. Over their 14 year history they have raised over $85,000.00 for BC/EFA.
Orfeh's Broadway credits include FOOTLOOSE & THE GERSHWINS' FASCINATING RHYTHM. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of "Annette" in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (where she met her future husband, fellow Broadway star Andy Karl). Orfeh would go on to originate the role of "Paulette" in LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL, receiving a coveted Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She again achieved critical praise for her performance as "Pippi" the stripper in the original Off-Broadway production, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL.
TV audiences have seen her on such shows as The Chapelle Show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and her infamous episode on SEX & THE CITY, where she portrayed "Anna", the sassy Staten Island girl who tried to cause a bar fight with Samantha and the other girls.
On the silver screen she has been seen in such films as Julie Taymor's ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, KISS ME AGAIN, TEMPTATION, and PURSUIT OF BEAUTY. She soon will be seen in the upcoming motion picture SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES starring as "Mrs. Wasserstein". Her co-stars include Ana Ortiz, Steven Strait, Gina Rodriguez, and Priscilla Lopez.
"The Board of Directors and I are bursting with frenzy excitement on having Orfeh as our special guest star", Stated Garcia. "I became a faithful fan the second I saw her on Broadway in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. When I met her after the show, her physical beauty took my breath away. She had already slayed me with her out of these world vocal pipes on stage, but to see her face to face. Well I was under her spell." Garcia went on to say, "Several years later I would again meet her (and her husband Andy Karl) the very week after they opened LEGALLY BLONDE on Broadway. I had friend in the show, so afterwards we all had a quick visit. Her comedic talents had that audience howling in laughter so much that she stole the show. It's no surprise she would receive a Tony Award nomination for her performance as 'Paulette'".
"I would have luck on my side one more time as I got to see her in the original cast of the hilarious musical THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL. Orfeh portrayed the stripper "Pippi". My main reason to go was due to Orfeh being in the show. She again had me (and the entire audience) holding our sides from laughing so hard, but then to hear her belt to the heavens with the ballad in the second act with the now ever popular lyric, "I'm gonna make like a nail and press on" -she continued her streak of stealing the show!"
"Because of the MTV telecast of LEGALLY BLONDE, the original cast recordings of her musicals, as well as her own music recording career, she has so many fans-especially here in Dallas/Fort Worth. It is surreal that she will be here at our gala! We talked on the phone this morning where she had me constantly laughing, so I can already tell that the audience at this year's gala are in for a gut busting, side splitting evening because of her," concluded Garcia.
First things first: the name. Yes, it's real. And it came from Orfeu Negro, the 1959 film shot by French director Marcel Camus in Brazil (better known by its American name: Black Orpheus). Resetting the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in modern-day Rio de Janeiro during the Carnival celebration, the bossa nova-flavored movie was an international sensation, winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. And it gave one-of-a-kind Orfeh her one-of-a-kind name.
"My mother had a psychic premonition that I'd be a singer like Orpheus," Orfeh once explained in an interview. "She didn't know what gender I'd be, but she said, 'Boy or girl, the name is Orfeh.' I love it when people think I came up with it-like I chose to call myself this unpronounceable word. That's a name only a mother could come up with!"
Growing up in the city, Orfeh attended New York City public schools. Immediately after graduation from a performing arts high school, she landed a record deal with EMI Records, headlining the early-1990s dance group Or-N-More. Life suddenly became a whirlwind of coast-to-coast concerts, music video shoots and press appearances for Orfeh as the group's self-titled album and single "Everyotherday" were released. Although the Top 40 album swiftly went gold and the single climbed to 1 on the club music charts, Orfeh soon watched her life play out like a bad episode of Behind the Music.
"My recording career went wrong," she has said. "Really, really wrong. We had the business manager that stole all the money, the hit record that was about to become a mega-hit record and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under us. After being on the road for years and devoting my life to recording, I found myself at home saying, 'What do I do now?'" Even if Or-N-More may have been no more, Orfeh's talents as a songwriter earned her a much coveted publishing deal with Warner/Chappell and she has written and produced songs for other artists. She also remains a member of NARAS, which gives her nominating and voting privileges for the Grammy Awards.
Thanks to the success of Rent, hip and funky belters like Orfeh were in vogue in musical theater and Broadway soon came calling. Although Orfeh made her Broadway debut in the fall of 1998 as understudy to all the female leads in the original company of Footloose, she was soon sought after for more prominent stage roles. As part of the ten-member company of The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm, Orfeh belted out modern interpretations of Gershwin classics alongside talents like Adriane Lenox, Sara Ramirez and Patrick Wilson. Although the revue closed after just 17 performances, Orfeh already had her next gig lined up.
A hit from London, the stage version of the John Travolta disco film classic Saturday Night Fever arrived on Broadway in a flurry of press and ticket sales. In fact, by the time it opened on October 21, 1999 at the Minskoff Theatre, it hardly mattered that critics mostly dismissed it. What they definitely didn't dismiss was the work of Orfeh as Tony Manero's jilted sidekick Annette, especially singling out her powerhouse rendition of the disco smash "If I Can't Have You" in the first act. She also caught the eye of Rosie O'Donnell, who immediately booked Orfeh on her popular talk show to sing the song. Saturday Night Fever went on to run for 15 months on Broadway, with Orfeh missing no performances.
Saturday Night Fever brought Orfeh more than just a pile of good reviews. When a tall, good-looking Broadway newcomer took over the role of Joey in the show, she was smitten. His name was Andy Karl and by the end of the Broadway run of the show, he was hers. A few weeks later, in early 2001, they eloped in Miami. The married Karls call Manhattan home.
Andy has since made a name for himself as an original cast member of the off-Broadway smash Altar Boyz, and Orfeh has been lucky to perform alongside her husband on several occasions since Saturday Night Fever. In Me and Mrs. Jones at the Prince Theater in Philly, they got to sing soul classics alongside Lou Rawls. Later, they returned to the Prince to co-star in the musical adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City. With Legally Blonde, they finally got to play off each other in a big way. Orfeh played Paulette, the unlucky-in-love Bostonian hairdresser who becomes best friends to Elle Woods, and Karl as Kyle, the UPS man of her dreams. Needless to say, Orfeh was thrilled to get to bend-and-snap for her husband eight times a week on Broadway. Orfeh's performance in Legally Blonde earned her a coveted Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in A Musical.
She's also been seen on the Broadway stage in highly-touted Actors' Fund of America benefit concerts of Dreamgirls and Hair and in two off-Broadway musicals: as rock icon Janis Joplin in Love, Janis and as trailer park stripper Pippi in The Great American Trailer Park Musical.
On TV, Orfeh's played a tough chick from Staten Island on Sex and the City, a sassy secretary on Chappelle's Show and a grieving working class widow on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Most recently, she was seen on the big screen in Julie Taymor's movie musical Across the Universe and can also be heard on the soundtrack backing up music legend, Joe Cocker on the Beatles classic, "Come Together".
Orfeh balances her theater work with an adventageous side career as one of the top voice-over artists around. She can also be heard on video games Max Payne 2, Grand Theft Auto/San Andreas and The Warriors and is one of the primary female voices heard on MTV, VH1 and The Independent Film Channel.
In addition to her acting work, Orfeh continues to work on her music and released her solo debut, "What Do You Want From Me" on Sept 30th 2008 on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight records. The CD is available everywhere in stores and online now.
Orfeh's official website: http://orfeh.com/index.html.

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Interns: When Should I Hire Them?
How do I know when it's an appropriate time to hire interns for my startup?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment and provides entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of their business's development and growth.
When You Have Time & Resources to Dedicate to Mentoring Them
Taking on interns shouldn't be something you do just because you could use the extra help. It's vital to remember that these folks are students or recent graduates that require training and mentorship in the field. So, until you have time (and funds) to do that – or can hire someone else to manage the program – I wouldn't recommend bringing on an intern (or several).
Heather Huhman, Come Recommended
If you are able to get a good intern that you do not have to pay for, you should get them as soon as possible. All good companies need good people and if you don't have to pay someone and all you have to do is train them to your system, why wouldn't you want the extra help? Even if you have to pay them, the time is now to look at how you can leverage the efforts of other people to build out.
Louis Lautman, Young Entrepreneur Society
When You Have a Strong Training Program Set Up
Most interns need direction, and very few interns are actually capable of working in the free-for-all environment that is a startup. Sure, you can sell a lot of interns on the idea of contributing to running a business, but when they're thrown into the mess that can be a startup, they might just give up and quit. If you have a strong training program to enable them to do a good job, then hire away
Danny Wong, Blank Label Group, Inc.
When You Have Real Tasks at Hand
You're ready for an intern when there's more to do than filing and data entry. Hire an intern who can contribute something more to your company than filing papers and entering data. Find an intern who can learn from the experience, but can also contribute something significant to your company's bottom line. Creating a mutually-beneficial experience is most important, for everyone involved.
Matt Cheuvront, Proof Branding
After Delegating Intern Management Responsibilities
Unless you want more work for yourself, hire or make your first intern the program coordinator who will recruit, interview, place and manage your interns so you don't have to deal with the details. When the coordinator has a program structure in place, hire away!
Kelly Azevedo, She's Got Systems
Growing beyond the Grunt
I think a lot of interns end up doing a lot of grunt work without much teaching. Although the work you give doesn't necessarily have to be earth shaking, someone should be spending some time with the interns, teaching them the ins and outs of your industry.
Caitlin McCabe, Real Bullets Branding
Why Wait?
There is very little downside to bringing on at least one intern. You will be amazed at how many low-level activities you are performing each day-things that don't become apparent until you actually start thinking of what you would ask an intern to do. If you can't quickly think of five activities for an intern to do, you are probably micromanaging.
It's Never Too Early
Interns are looking for work experience, so what better time for them to learn than at an early-stage venture? As with any internship program, make sure that you have a specific project delineated and communicate what the deliverables and metrics of success are. Hiring interns is a win-win at an early stage when you can use more hands on deck and they can be part of a high-growth, exciting firm.
How Much Bandwidth Do You Have?
Interns can be a great way to get to things you've wanted to do for the business, but have not been able to, because of the lack of bandwidth. Startups only have so many people working for the company, and because of this, not everything you want done can get done. Interns can allow you to get to some of these items.
Justin Beegel, Infographic World, Inc.
When You Have Enough to Delegate
When I first started my company, I used to think that having interns was great when, as a matter of fact, they wasted a lot of my time. You should not hire interns just to have them. Instead, you should hire interns when you have too much work on your plate and too little money to hire someone full-time. Unpaid interns are such a flight risk that you can never depend on them.
When You Are Structured Enough to Support Them
If your business is not structured enough to give an intern a chair, desk, computer and instructions then you will not get any value out of them. Interns need to be trained and given attention in order to provide tangible value. If your system is running smoothly and now you are looking to delegate the pieces then you should be looking to hire interns to assist.
When You Have Time to Spare
Startups are always quick to hire cheap labor, but often times interns turn out to be a major time drain. Ask yourself what the ROI on the time it takes to train and delegate things to an intern, especially if they are going to be doing tasks that don't often prove ROI themselves like social media. Interns can be great, but make sure they are helping you get to your major outcomes.
When You're Busy with Busy Work
You will know when it's the appropriate time to hire interns for your startup when you find that you are in need of spending more time on important tasks that further your business than less important tasks, or "busy work," which can easily be done by someone less experienced.
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THOMASVILLE | Detectives with the Thomasville Police Department are investigating two homicides that occurred within 24 hours of each other on Saturday.
THOMASVILLE | Detectives with the Thomasville Police Department are investigating two homicides that occurred within 24 hours of each other on Saturday.
TPD Lt. Mike Howard said the deaths of Darrell Wayne Turner and David Braswell are unrelated.
Officers first responded to an apartment building of Thomasville Church Homes at 815 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive at 2:27 a.m. Saturday in reference to a stabbing. Later that day, the TPD officers responded to a residence at 211 Pine St. at 10:38 p.m. in regard to a disturbance and shots being fired.
Turner, according to an arrest warrant, was the victim in the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive homicide. Eric Allen Whisnant, 28, of High Point, has been charged with murder in Turner's death and was placed in the Davidson County Detention Center under no bond.
Officers found a man lying in a parking lot with a stab wound to his abdomen, according to a TPD news release.
Turner was transported to Thomasville Medical Center where he later died from his injuries. Police later charged Whisnant with murder.
A motive has not been released in either case.
Howard said Turner and Whisnant were among six to eight people attending a party at 815 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The lieutenant said he couldn't comment on whether alcohol was involved.
Timothy Hipp, the property manager of Thomasville Church Homes, said neither Turner nor Whisnant lived at Thomasville Church Homes. He said the apartment complex, which is low-income subsidized housing, is taking measures to address Saturday morning's incident.
Hipp said the safety of the Thomasville Church Homes residents, including children, is a priority and the apartment complex works closely with the TPD. He said the apartment complex has not experienced violence in the past four years, has a TPD satellite location on its property and provides after-school programs for children.
Kay McCray, 29, said her mother lives at Thomasville Church Homes. She said her mother, who wished to not be identified, heard some of the commotion involving the party and learned the next day there was a death involved. McCray said her sister also had blood on her vehicle.
"I hate it," McCray said of the incident. "… It's very scary, like my sister was really distraught. She felt horrible thinking somebody lost their life and their blood was on her car."
Shan Rashad, a cashier at Kings Food Mart at 805 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, said business has been slow since Saturday's incident. However, he expects it to pick back up.
"A lot of people are scared, especially at night," Rashad said.
In the second homicide, Howard said David Braswell was pronounced dead at 211 Pine St. in Thomasville upon arrival of medical personnel.
Officers responded to 211 Pine St. at 10:38 p.m. in reference to a disturbance and shots being fired. They arrived to find a white male in the residence with a gunshot wound.
Howard said Monday that detectives are working alongside the Davidson County District Attorney's Office, and no arrest has been made in connection to the death. A person of interest has been identified, and charges are pending the completion of the investigation, the TPD stated in a news release issued Sunday.
Howard, who confirmed Braswell lived at 211 Pine St., said Monday morning that he couldn't comment any further on the case.
According to a search warrant executed at the Pine Street home, officers responded the residence to encounter a juvenile who stated "Daddy, is dead." The search warrant further stated a woman told officers that the shooter left and her father had shot the victim.
Officers removed other juveniles from the residence, according to the search warrant.
"Officers observed a white male subject lying down with a small injury consistent with a small-caliber gunshot wound to the upper left side of his torso," TPD Det. Chet Jarrell wrote in the search warrant. "During the initial protective sweep officers advised they observed a .22 caliber spent shell casing."
Officers seized a .22-caliber shell casing found on a couch, a .22-caliber shell casing found near the bedroom door with the victim, two Canadian Mist bottles, an unspent .22-caliber bullet found under the mattress of a bed and a section of interior sheetrock with a bullet hole from the bedroom in which the victim was located.
The Thomasville Rescue Squad is located across the street from the residence in which Braswell lived. Scott McCaskill, the rescue squad's assistant chief, said the Pine Street neighborhood is "generally real quiet."
"Very, very little activity goes on around here," McCaskill said, adding he didn't know any of the parties involved in the shooting. "This, for a lot of reasons, has become a semi-transient neighborhood over the last 10 or 15 years. A lot of the properties are rental apartments, single-family housing. You don't get to know your neighbors. This was once an upper-middle-class neighborhood, very stable. We even had members living in this neighborhood. Now, that's no longer the case."
The rescue squad, McCaskill said, assisted the TPD and Davidson County Emergency Medical Services at the scene. McCaskill said he didn't know of the circumstances involving the incident.
"The detectives were here for hours – literally," he said. "I know Chief (Jeff) Insley was here with them. By this (the rescue squad) being a satellite police station, they used our board meeting room and some of our facilities to question some folks. They were in here for several hours."
McCaskill called it odd for two homicides to occur within one weekend.
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So here are the top ten sites that helped my research:
1 – Ancestry.com – many databases of info, use it all the time
2 – FamilySearch – IGI, Ancestral File, more helpful here, as well as access to the Family History Library catalog
3 – RootsWeb – helpful researcher contributions
4 – GoogleBooks – many old and valuable family lineage & family history books online
5 – Heritage Quest – census, family books, PERSI, Revolutionary War Pension records. Get free log in from your library
6 – CastleGarden.org – many immigrant ancestors arriving before Ellis Island can be found here, upgrade coming soon
7 – GenForums – great place for queries for surnames, locations
8 – USGenWeb – especially the individual counties posting vital, census and cemetery records, more
9 – Wisconsin Vital Records – marriage records link people born same county, same day, suggesting possible spouses
10 – Milwaukee County Links to the Past – diverse resources on city's people, family, genealogy resources
Doing genealogy is like doing jigsaw puzzles and requires pieces of each person's puzzle from different sources. That's the challenge and the fascination!
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You can see Randy's top 10 list on his post for May 2, 2009. Go to his blog and add a post with your list — or post it online and create a link on this blog page.


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FINRA Investor Education Foundation and the American Library Association Announce $1.19 Million in Grants to Public Libraries to Support Financial Literacy
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation and the American Library Association (ALA) have announced $1.19 million in grants to 17 recipients as part of the Smart investing@your library® initiative.
Smart investing@your library® is administered jointly by the Reference and User Services Association — a division of ALA — and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. The program funds library efforts to provide patrons with effective, unbiased educational resources about personal finance and investing. Now in its seventh year, the program has awarded a total of $8.2 million to public libraries, community college libraries and library networks nationwide.
The new grant recipients will use the funds to implement a variety of programs designed to increase patrons' access to and understanding of financial information. The grants target a diverse group of library patrons — among them youth, veterans, college students, rural residents, grandparents and their grandchildren, and low-income families. Participating libraries will use a variety of technologies and outreach strategies to connect library users to the best financial education and information available. This year's projects give special attention to intergenerational learning and helping adults model effective financial behaviors for children.
The grantees will partner with schools, universities, community colleges, various nonprofit organizations and local governments to expand the impact of the services and resources the grants enable. Library patrons will be empowered to make educated financial choices for both long-term investing and day-to-day money matters.
"The Smart investing@your library® grant program aligns with the emerging, transitional nature of library services and demonstrates the library's role as a community innovator. Libraries across the country are helping family members expand their personal understanding of basic financial concepts, and that builds a lasting framework for success," said ALA President Barbara Stripling.
"The libraries participating in this grant program have a deep commitment to expanding access to effective, unbiased financial education," said Gerri Walsh, president of the FINRA Foundation. "They are taking action to ensure that patrons in search of reliable information about personal finance and investing will be guided by knowledgeable staff to the best available learning opportunities and resources."
2013 Smart investing@your library® Grantees
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library, Albuquerque, N.M.
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library will collaborate with a nearby charter school and a statewide, nonprofit small business development and training organization to deliver financial education for teens ages 14 to 17. Eight library locations throughout the county and Amy Biehl Charter High School in Albuquerque will host learning activities. Program modules will address managing your money, planning your future, making your money grow and protecting what you have. Grant amount: $63,270
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Brooklyn Public Library will engage adult and teen patrons through a series of programs and services tailored to the borough's diverse audiences. The project has several components, including integration of financial concepts into existing adult basic education programs (such as GED preparation programs and English for Speakers of Other Languages), virtual investment clubs for adults and teens, teen financial literacy workshops, and a financial empowerment fair with in-person and virtual components delivered in conjunction with the New York City Office of Financial Empowerment and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Grant amount: $100,000
Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, Rochester, N.Y.
Rochester Public Library and the Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Rochester (CCCS) will provide personal finance education to participants in library-hosted English as a Second Language classes and integrate financial literacy activities into the library's summer camp for ESL children. The adult classes will be co-taught by the library's ESL instructors and a financial educator from CCCS. Grant amount: $58,509
Chesterfield County Public Library, Chesterfield, Va.
Chesterfield County Public Library will focus on the intergenerational transfer of financial learning, while improving participants' facility with the mathematics of money. The project will give special attention to grandchildren and the grandparents who have an influential or primary role in raising them. The library — in partnership with the County Office of the Senior Advocate, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Chesterfield County Public Schools — will seek to equip these "grandfamilies" with financial literacy skills necessary to address immediate needs and longer-term well-being. For the broader community, the library and its partners will deliver a series of mini-workshops on developing a financial plan and setting goals, reducing debt, avoiding fraud and identity theft, investing fundamentals, saving and paying for college, retirement planning and managing healthcare costs. Grant amount: $78,280
Florence County Library System, Florence, S.C.
Working with nearby Francis Marion University, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs and the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Florence County Library System will engage children, teens and lower-income adults in a series of financial literacy activities that appeal to the different learning preferences of the target audiences. For children, the library will conduct a "Dewey Dollars" campaign that incentivizes young readers to explore the library's financial literacy collections. For teens in middle and high school, the library will sponsor a graphic novel contest and a video contest. Students will create narratives illustrating financial themes learned through their engagement with the FDIC Money Smart for Teens program and other multimedia curricula. For low- to moderate-income adults, the library will work with its partners to provide money management instruction and resources to job seekers and residents in economic distress. A separate track of adult workshops will help residents understand and prepare for their retirement needs. Grant amount: $50,605
Glen Carbon Centennial Library, Glen Carbon, Ill.
Glen Carbon Centennial Library will collaborate with nearby Six Mile Regional Library District (Granite City, Ill.), the local chamber of commerce and the Madison County Employment and Training Department to provide personal finance education for the county's families and small business owners. For children, the project team will create interactive, portable kiosks housing age-appropriate learning materials and manipulatives. The kiosks will allow elementary students to explore, independently or with a caregiver, the financial concepts outlined in the Money as You Grow sequence endorsed by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. For adults, Glen Carbon Library will host a series of workshops designed to reduce stress and achieve financial stability among low- and moderate-income families. For single mothers, Six Mile Library District will join with local Head Start programs and community partners to provide financial planning strategies to deal with high-risk circumstances. And for small business owners, Glen Carbon Library and the Edwardsville-Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce will co-host workshops using the FDIC's Money Smart for Small Business Owners program. Grant amount: $54,590
Idaho Commission for Libraries, Boise, Idaho
The Idaho Commission for Libraries will partner with the University of Idaho Extension, the Idaho Financial Literacy Coalition, the College of Southern Idaho and 12 public libraries to bring much-needed financial education to residents in an eight-county region of south-central Idaho, where more than half of the population has an income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Public programs will kick off with family financial literacy fairs to showcase financial education opportunities available to residents and introduce the resources provided by and through their public libraries. The fairs will be followed by multiple financial education events coordinated by the 12 participating libraries. All of the educational events will address the project content areas, namely basic financial literacy, financing a college education, investing fundamentals and retirement planning. Grant amount: $71,014
Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, N.Y.
Middle Country Public Library, in partnership with the Children's Museum of Manhattan, will create interactive, hands-on learning activities for children, teens, and their parents/caregivers focusing on money and mathematics. The project will include portable learning stations, special activities integrated into established, ongoing programs serving preschool and school-age children, financial literacy outreach visits to elementary schools and circulating family financial literacy math kits to reinforce learning at home. Children will learn fundamental concepts such as prioritizing, exchange and valuation. Teens will receive training to act as "financial math buddies" and help facilitate learning for younger students. For parents and caregivers, the project will improve their ability to model exemplary financial practices and teach their children essential personal finance skills and knowledge. Participating adults will also have opportunities to learn about financial planning, credit and investing best practices. Grant amount: $71,000
Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Ind.
Monroe County Public Library and its partners — including Indiana University and the local United Way Financial Stability Alliance — will help residents ages 20 to 39 create a savings and spending plan, manage credit and debt, make prudent decisions about major purchases (a home, for example) and invest wisely. The project complements Indiana University's newly established Money Smarts initiative by extending financial learning to residents experiencing the demands and opportunities of post-college life. The project will follow a "Say – See – Do" approach to adult education. For the "Say" portion of each program component, faculty from Indiana University will deliver short presentations inclusive of topical videos created for each project theme. During the "See" portion, instructors will demonstrate various personal finance tools and processes (such as how to review your credit report). During the "Do" portion, participants will practice using online tools and begin to build their own financial plans with assistance from the instructional team. Participants will also have opportunities to schedule one-on-one or small group "talk to an expert" sessions with instructors and obtain more in-depth guidance. Grant amount: $87,230
Nebraska Library Commission, Lincoln, Neb.
The Nebraska Library Commission will partner with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension to bring financial education programs and services to 23 libraries in mostly rural locations across the state. The program will combine face-to-face educational sessions with online learning. The inaugural educational event at each location will be face-to-face, allowing educators to introduce the online curriculum. Participants will then work through self-paced online courses. These courses address balancing risk, cutting investment costs, choosing an investment adviser and managing an investment portfolio and are segmented for different age cohorts with attention to specific needs depending on life stage. Participants will receive support and encouragement from library staff and coaches at the local level. They will also have access to online Q&A services staffed by Extension educators. At the conclusion of the online series, participants will reconvene for face-to-face sessions to assess outcomes and maintain momentum for continued learning on financial topics. Grant amount: $100,000
New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington, N.C.
New Hanover County Public Library will lead a coalition comprising New Hanover County Schools, Cape Fear Community College, the main library at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and the North Carolina Council on Economic Education to help students from the middle grades through college make informed financial decisions during their early adult lives. The project will give particular attention to budgeting, managing consumer debt, paying for education and investing fundamentals. Grant amount: $36,500
Pelham Public Library, Pelham, Ala.
Pelham Public Library will concentrate its efforts on improving the financial literacy of families with school-age children. For children up to age 8, the library will collaborate with educators from the Milwaukee-based Betty Brinn Children's Museum to create hands-on, money-smart exhibits. These exhibits will develop children's financial math skills and basic money management knowledge. Children ages 9 to 13 will participate in Money on the Bookshelf and Bank on Books — two programs that combine reading development with lessons in personal finance. Students will learn about saving, budgeting, credit, compound interest and related mathematics concepts. High school students will learn about budgeting and the financial considerations of living on their own through the interactive Reality Check simulation. Supplementary lessons from the University of Tennessee's Love Your Money online program and the National Endowment for Financial Education's High School Financial Planning Program will enhance learning. Parents will work with project educators to examine the Money as You Grow sequence of financial competencies (endorsed by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability) and learn to help their children establish good money management skills. Grant amount: $83,500
Piscataway Public Library, Piscataway, N.J.
Piscataway Public Library will collaborate with libraries in nearby Dunellen and New Brunswick, N.J., and with Rutgers Cooperative Extension to deliver an online and in-person financial education initiative to help the "sandwich generation" — those adults who are simultaneously managing their own finances while raising children and assisting aging parents, both financially and otherwise. Workshop topics will include creating a savings plan, basic investing principles, getting started as an investor, selecting and monitoring investments, investing for long-term goals, investing for college and avoiding fraud. Grant amount: $63,671
Santa Fe College Library, Gainesville, Fla.
Santa Fe College Library will focus on increasing financial capability among several audiences in the college's service area, including the college's veteran population and their dependents, first-generation college-goers, students receiving financial aid, students who were displaced but have returned to campus (including some who have previously defaulted on student loans), students in the college's Displaced Homemaker Program, high school dual-enrolled students, and middle and high school students and their parents in pre-college assistance programs. The initiative will give special attention to building financial self-sufficiency and making sound, informed decisions about paying for college. Instructional units will be integrated into the college's continuing education courses, credit-bearing courses and various college readiness and student support programs. Project leaders will also collaborate with community agencies to refer students to supplemental services and one-on-one financial counseling as necessary. Grant amount: $100,000
Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Saratoga Springs Public Library will sponsor separate financial literacy series for adults and teens in the region. Adult workshops will address financial fundamentals (from banking to sound credit practices), personal finance for veterans (including understanding military benefits), introduction to investing, retirement planning, college financing, and personal finance considerations for small business owners. Teen workshops will be activity-based and will help young people create a budget, examine how credit works and how to establish good credit, prepare for important financial decisions such as paying for college, establish goals and understand their first paychecks. Librarians will conduct outreach visits to business- and finance-related clubs at Saratoga Springs High School and deliver programs both during and after school hours. Grant amount: $60,596
Springdale Public Library, Springdale, Ark.
Springdale Public Library will collaborate with the local school district to improve the financial literacy of immigrant families with school-age children. The library will organize a series of family finance events (with translation services) at selected public schools in the district. Parents and children will attend together. Each event will encompass a rotation through four financial literacy sessions led by educators from Credit Counseling of Arkansas, the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, the Economic Opportunity Agency serving northwest Arkansas and Economics Arkansas (an affiliate of the Council for Economic Education). Session topics will include bank products and services, comparing credit opportunities, obtaining and reviewing a credit report, how to build or repair credit, making good decisions about large purchases, saving for college, avoiding financial fraud and teaching children about money. Participating children will receive age-appropriate learning materials about money concepts. Parents will obtain resources to improve household financial management and will have the opportunity to enroll in more in-depth, topical workshops conducted at library locations with the assistance of the Economic Opportunity Agency. These workshops will address household savings, taxpayer topics, the Earned Income Tax Credit and introduction to investing. Grant amount: $34,055
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Toledo, Ohio
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and United Way of Greater Toledo will partner with three social service agencies to help residents with income of 200 percent or less of the federal poverty level achieve financial stability through participation in the FDIC Money Smart program and follow-up financial coaching. In addition to the Money Smart sequence, the participating library branches will host a menu of financial workshops taught by educators from Ohio State University Extension, the regional Social Security Office and Better Investing. Scheduled classes and workshops will be positioned as gateways to one-on-one financial stability services offered by East Toledo Family Center, Lutheran Social Services and United North (a community development corporation). Grant amount: $81,881
The FINRA Investor Education Foundation supports innovative research and educational projects that give underserved Americans the knowledge, skills and tools necessary for financial success throughout life. For details about grant programs and other FINRA Foundation initiatives, visit www.finrafoundation.org.
FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA is dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation and complementary compliance and technology-based services. FINRA touches virtually every aspect of the securities business — from registering and educating all industry participants to examining securities firms, writing and enforcing rules and the federal securities laws, informing and educating the investing public, providing trade reporting and other industry utilities and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and registered firms. For more information, please visit www.finra.org.
Smart investing@your library® is a partnership between the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. The program supports public libraries and community college libraries across the country in their efforts to meet financial education needs at the local level. Visit http://smartinvesting.ala.org for details.
The Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services and collection materials they need. For more information, please visit www.ala.org/rusa. The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 60,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information. For more information, please visit www.ala.org or call (800) 545-2433 ext. 4279.


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I found a number of ads dated from Feb 1971 to April 1971 of the Lisa Theatre that operated in the Old York Theater. No other information available. See ad that I posted on Photo Page.
The Wonderland Theater was built in 1921 and operated until 1931 when it was renamed the York Theater.
It closed in May 1966. During segregation, the York served both white and black audiences with the black folks sitting in the balcony with a separate ticket booth just inside the entry door. I was told that there were no provisions for concessions for them.
A local historian told me that it reopened for a short period on weekends under the name Lisa.
I had a chance to tour the theater today – or what is left of it. It has been heavily remodeled and hard to tell anything about its theater days. The original doors are in place with a double set.
The whites entered through the left hand doors with the ticket booth directly inside to the right.
Black entered through the right hand doors with the ticket booth to the left (served by the same person) with the stairs to the balcony straight ahead.
The balcony is still in place but all the seats are gone. The balcony is being used as storage.
The Projection room is there but the projectors were sold for salvage.
Downstairs you the stage is still standing in the rear but again the whole area is storage.
The owner told me that he removed the metal ends off each aisle and sold them for a handsome price on ebay.
It was great to visit but sad overall.
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The York Theater in West Point, Virginia was in operation from the early Fifties to the late Seventies, with occasional "restart" attempts into the Eighties, as near as we can determine. Economics pushed the prior owner of the building, a now-deceased attorney and entrepreneur, to cease theater operations and to "renovate" the auditorium by adding several small offices into the auditorium space. The building has been used since that renovation variously as law offices, a florist, an insurance agency and now that we own it, as the home to Pullen Computing. The building would be incredibly cost-prohibitive to "resurrect" as a full working theater; it has undergone significant structural changes including installation of ground-to-roof pillars to prevent the roof from collapsing.


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We found out we were pregnant shortly after I had accepted a job traveling. I had given notice and I didn't want to look back. As the pregnancy progressed, my husband and I took a good look at our income and decided one of us could stay home with our beautiful bundle of joy. We made the same amount of money but he hated doing what he was doing and I loved my job. In a state of complete ignorance, I agreed that he would stay home and I would continue to work after my maternity leave. When my daughter was born, it was easy to say she was a natural when it came to nursing. She loved it, it was easy, and she was getting the best nutrition money can't buy. She was a good eater and I seemed to have ample milk while I was home with her. With one exception, she couldn't be in a room with other people and eat; she became way too distracted. As soon as she could move her head to look at voices, she did. I nursed alone so that she would eat. I almost never nursed in public because she couldn't eat and stare at the pretty baubles or listen to voices at the same time.
At seven weeks, we decided to introduce a bottle so that the transition would be easier. I started to pump, and then my husband tried to feed her. We learned some lessons quickly. I couldn't be within sight, hearing or smell or she wouldn't eat. She would then only eat after a solid twenty minutes of crying. If I could hear her crying about eating, I would immediately let down and soak everything I was wearing. We all got it at about 10 weeks, just in time for me to return to work.
And then the nursing nightmare really got ugly. I couldn't make enough milk anymore. I had to pump 8 times a day and got half the milk she needed to keep growing. I tried everything: fenugreek, really hoppy beer, mother's milk tea. The pumps hurt my breasts so much that they were continually raw. None of my clients had nursing rooms where I could pump so I often pumped in my car in a garage in the most private place I could find. I was pumping milk in a garage in Marietta, GA for three months. Sometimes my meetings would go all day and I couldn't get away to pump which made me dry up more and hurt worse than about anything I had ever felt. Planes were often seriously delayed and I couldn't pump while in the airport because I had packed everything except the frozen milk and my laptop. More than once I told my husband to let my daughter stay hungry so I could nurse as soon as I met them at our home airport. She ended up liking the bottle more and after 6 months I made the heart-wrenching decision to stop nursing altogether.


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Before there was a particular disaster for which to prepare, Ashleigh Brickley and her FEMA Corps team sorted something like 10 million meals.
Brickley, 29, leads a 12-member community relations team of the first-year FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Corps program, a unit of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps. They'd just finished two and a half weeks of sorting meals in Shreveport, La., and left for another mission when the news surfaced that a superstorm was headed for the East Coast.
"My boss said, 'I want you to drop everything,' " remembered Brickley, a Harvard High School graduate. The team was told to drive the meals from Baton Rouge to Shreveport.
"All those meals that we'd organized for a future date – he's like, 'Pack 'em all up and ship them off to the East Coast.' "
That task was supposed to take about a week. By the timeline in Brickley's admittedly somewhat jumbled memory – the result of a couple of months of work without a day off – every meal was on the road by the next night at 9 p.m. They'd packed 100 semi-trailers in two days.
Brickley's team woke early the next morning and packed themselves up, not knowing exactly where they'd stay.
"They wanted to send us to the East Coast as quickly as possible, but they also didn't want to send us into the storm," Brickley said. "They don't want to deploy people so quickly that they end up creating more victims."
On Halloween night, as the hurricane dissipated over Pennsylvania, about 220 FEMA Corps volunteers stayed in cramped quarters at a veterans' hospital in Maryland. They drove to Brooklyn the next day and started working.
"Certain areas look like a war zone," Brickley said. "And then another area would be like nothing happened at all."
Finally, Brickley found out that she and the rest of FEMA Corps would be staying in the Bronx on a training ship for local Marines. The same ship was used as disaster relief housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Brickley and her team spent the next six weeks – Nov. 3 to Dec. 15 – digging into relief efforts. As community relations representatives, their job in any disaster is to relay information from FEMA to the community, often about how and where families can receive help. They bring information back to FEMA about any critical cases.
In New York, the team set up a makeshift disaster recovery center in a local park, and registered more than 500 people for recovery assistance while the state made arrangements for a more permanent center.
There were individual stories, too.
"Helping an older couple get out of a house that they were staying in way longer than they were supposed to," Brickley said. "Helping a person get the funding they needed to get somebody in there to get the electricity turned back on."
For Brickley, who'd decided about a year ago to leave a corporate position that would send her to Australia and regularly to places such as Las Vegas and New York on business, the whole trip was an affirmation of her decision to seek a more fulfilling job.
"It's a lot different than going to Vegas and having your company take you out to the best restaurant in the MGM Hotel," she said. "When that person gives you a hug with tears in your eyes and thanks you so much for being there and giving them your time, there's nothing like it."
Aside from team leaders, FEMA Corps members are 18 to 24 years old, and work 10-month terms for a modest living allowance and an education award of $5,550 for future education or to put toward student loans.
Brickley, who's based in Vicksburg, Miss., doesn't know what she will do next after her term expires in June. She's considering teaching in a high-needs area – either domestically or abroad – or working for a nonprofit.
Either way, her perspective has been shaped by her time in disaster relief.
"I think a lot of people are really cynical. I was a little cynical too in my old job," she said. "But it's amazing to see the strength and the power that these young people have in their work, and their ability to inspire other people. It's breathtaking."


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Justice is a tricky concept. It has many meanings, some with legal implications, some with theological meanings, and the term is thrown around freely by everyone from presidents to prisoners in the local county jail. My only thought on this whole matter built around one short word — "justice" — is to seek it with desire and persistence always.
Justice is a tricky concept. It has many meanings, some with legal implications, some with theological meanings, and the term is thrown around freely by everyone from presidents to prisoners in the local county jail.
James Madison wrote that justice is the end of government, or, put another way, the role of government is to see that justice reigns in the land. When Osama bin Laden was killed, President Barack Obama noted that "justice is done." Justice in this sense is about settling a score, righting a wrong. A different meaning, as stated in one of Webster's definitions, is the principle or ideal of just dealing or right action.
When Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964, he titled his Nobel Lecture "The Quest for Peace and Justice." This summarized, if we can be so simplistic, his life. By justice, King usually meant addressing and eliminating "racial injustice." So, in this sense, achieving justice was moving to true equality, recalling one of Thomas Jefferson's most felicitous phrases, "all men are created equal." How to make this happen was a function of justice. It has been a long struggle in this country.
We do not have the space to examine the civil rights movement in this short column, but I think all would agree that its goal was "justice," very broadly defined, including freedom and liberty.
This definition has nothing to do directly with "administering justice" within the system of law as we understand it. Defendants before the law want their cases evaluated "justly," they want "justice," or to be vindicated or cleared of the charges against them. Justice to them is the evenhanded application of the law, although most of them would like the law to be flexible enough to examine and take into account the nature of their misdeeds. These generally portray themselves as victims in one way or another, and so they want justice to be flexible, not blindfolded as Lady Justice is usually portrayed.
Perhaps the greatest of American residents — Abraham Lincoln — also cast his life into a struggle to remove an injustice. In his time and case, it was the continuing existence of black slavery. Lincoln was quoted in an excellent article by a scholar of the Civil War, Allen C. Guelzo, titled "Lincoln and Justice for All."
" 'Your sense of justice, and human sympathy' is 'continually telling you, that the poor negro has some natural right to himself — that those who deny it, and make mere merchandise of him, deserve kickings, contempt and death.' What trampled across this inherent sense of the injustice of slavery was nothing but self-interest, aided by pure, raw power, since 'an arbitrary exercise of power' is what leads to 'still more flagrant violations of right and justice.' "
Going back even further in time, justice appears more than a hundred times in the Bible (depending on the version you are reading), which is a lot, so there must be high regard for "justice." Admittedly though, "sin" appears more times than justice, 430 times in the New International Version, which can be interpreted as man being more burdened by sin than by seeking justice.
Regardless, they are inexorably linked and it is to Scripture that we must seek the roots of justice, a word and concept that permeates society.
Here is one example of justice in Scripture.
"Defend the poor and fatherless;
"Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
"Deliver the poor and needy;
"Free them from the hand of the wicked (Psalms 86)."
The above use of justice by the Psalmist obviously refers to helping the poor, the needy and the afflicted, a theme that also marked Jesus's ministry.
Justice is closely associated with righteousness in Scripture. In fact, the two words are not rendered separately in Spanish language versions of the Bible, but almost always by the same word, justicia.
Righteousness, a word that appears more than 200 times in the New International Version, generally identifies someone in a right or correct relationship with God.
We cite but two verses among hundreds, one each from the Old and the New Testaments.
"Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness" (Genesis 15:6).
"This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe" (Romans 3:22).
I even noticed a stamp I put on an envelope a few days ago. It had a picture of an American flag, and the motto "Justice, Forever" emblazoned across the stamp.
Justice must be important if both secular and religious authorities and individuals impute so much desire to have it. "I want justice!" cried the defendant's lawyer. And in one form or another, thousands, probably millions across time, from the Apostle Paul to Martin Luther King Jr., have desired and spoken to or about justice and injustice.
My only thought on this whole matter built around one short word — "justice" — is to seek it with desire and persistence always. But remember that Lady Justice not only wears a blindfold, but also carries a balance or scales to measure the merits of your case, and a double-edged sword to ensure that justice be done.
I can't improve on the first two verses of the seventh chapter of the Book of Matthew: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." That's justice.
Larry Clayton is a retired professor of history at the University of Alabama.


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601, be careful shoppin' for a keyboard amp, bro'. When I bought my big keyboard amp, I settled on a Crate KX-100 on the recommendation of my music store, based on feedback from a credible keyboarder who had bought one. The features also sold me, rather than the sound. I discovered while jammin' with a guitarist buddy that his Fender bass amp made my keyboards sounds better than my own "keyboard amp". Do you have any spare bass amps around the house...? If so, maybe you should try it through one of those first.601blues wrote::shock: This thing has a nice slide bar organ sound, goin ta get a key board amp ASAP, Looking for a guitar stand that will hold the guitar in playin position, so I can run between the 2,yeah!!
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