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There's a discussion going on at the biodieselbasics list, about the fact that many people tend to mount their methoxide shelf up high, above their Appleseed processor. I think they're learning it from other pictures on the Web- it's not in the original designs.
This practice usually puts the can of methanol at 6' height or so- eye level or above.
This is a safety concern for several reasons-
a. you're lifting something heavy above your waist- ladders + methanol = dumb
b. the 'something heavy' is methoxide which could leak into your face or eyes (out of the vent if you jostle it with the vent open while lifting, for instance)
c. it's completely unnecessary - you dont get any more assistance from the extra height than you do if you place the carboy at waist level or even on the floor.
At http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/appleseedprocessor you'll see that my carboy is just above the pump, but apparently some people have just placed it on it's side on the floor and gotten good results (I haven't tried this myself).
At http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/appleorchard you can see how prevalent this 'carboy above the processor' practice is. We're discussing what to do about the Apple Orchard photos- a disclaimer, or asking the original photo authors to re-take a photo without the high carboy placement. Earlier this spring I had already corrected the Biodiesel Homebrew Guide design to make this lower placement more clear.
MarkThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Shaun,
.... crap i designed my stand around that.... looks like ill have to modify it...
ill redesign it in CAD and run it by the forum... see how that design runs or ill just chop it and move the shelf ill take pics of course
the first time you run it, see if it still works with the carboy on the ground or on a chair or somethign (mine usually ends up on the closest barrel, much less elegant than a built-in stand...)
I have made about 2000 gal in the last 18 months with the carboy located lower than the Harbor Freight pump by about two feet.
Works just fine using using the low pressure on the inlet side of the pump to suck the mixture in. Flow rate is adjusted by the two relevant valves--- actually the valve from the carboy side is left wide open and the mixture flow rate is controlled by the valve between the bottom of the water heater and the pump.
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Thanks Girl Mark
good find .
I put my shelf high also .Just thought it was supposed to be like that because of all the pics iv'e seen here..This is what we call in the
mfg industry as "Continuous Improvement"
I thought that it was gravity fed more or less. Never considered it was sucked in by the pump. I will shorten my hose and lower the shelf.
I guess I still want it higher than the check valve .. My processor was built high enough off the floor so i can get a 5 gallon bucket under it
I did some experiments today with water using the carboy at different heights.
This is the unit I tested it on today
(Yes, that is a shelf wayyyyy up there in the stratosphere---it's the last one I'll make like that, I promise).
Anyway, back to the experiments.
If you look closely at the pics, you can see I've got a 1/2" Check Valve just below where the methoxide comes into my plumbing.
I stuck the carboy below the pump, opened the valve wide open w/ the pump on & nothing. It just sat there.
I raised the carboy up to about belly-button level & still nothing. So then I restricted the flow of the pipe coming from the drain on the tank, whoala! the flow on methoxide started.
But, because I had restricted the flow of oil (it was water for the test today), the methoxide was now gushing in at a rate faster than it should.
So, I've gotta figure out a way to be able to stick the carboy low (just above the pump), still get that check valve to open (it's not a spring check valve, just a swing one) and also not dump the methoxide into the tank too fast, which could cause a poor reaction.
I think w/ my present plumbing the carboy's gonna have to be higher than the pump by about a foot or two at least to get the flow moving because the Harbor Freight pumps will only pull so much suction.
Any recommendations? What am I missing?
One of the designers of carboy's above eye level (Bad Graydon, Bad, Bad Graydon)
Willing to make improvements....This message has been edited. Last edited by: Graydon Blair,
Without disagreeing with the basic principle of doing things safely. I have to dissagree that you get no assistance from the extra hight. I believe you do and I believe that Graydons experiments bear that out. More hight more head/potential eneregy equals more assistance to the venturi effect of the pump sucking it in.
Imagine a U shaped tube with your processor on one end and your methoxide on the other. Ignore the pump for now. if both ends are at the same hight the liquid will be at the same level in both of them and not want to move. If one end is raised then the liquid will want to remain at the same absolute level and so leave the raised tank. So there is something to be said for having your methoxid above the top of your processers fill line.
I use a stainless methoxide tank above my processor. I pump my methoxide into it from the ground using an air powered pump. It is quick easy and safe.
Even then, when experimenting with unusually high reaction temps I had a problem with the meth not all coming out. I added the ability to put a little air pressure in the meth tank and this displaces every last drop quite handily.
Of course this pressure can replace the height entirely.
I think it is how you do things rather than a blanket "dont do this"
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Actually this is a reminder, thanks. I am redesigning my reactor set up in a new "home" and was thinking of lowering the methoxide feed, for it is not necessasry for it to be "up high" as stated.
I always test the security of the caps before doing any lifting though, as should be the practice when dealing with anything potentially harmful.
The new set up will have it on a short stand just above the pump so that minimal gravity is acheived. This, with the aid of the air pressure from the aquarium air pump through the vent cap should be plenty to get it introduced into the oil flow and past the check valve.
I am also playing with the idea of a second reactor in-line so I could place the methoxide feed between them, nice and snug.The new reactor paqe will also be changed as soon as it is available, but still at the same URL.
Mark, you are welcomed to add my name to any disclaimer dealing with this, along with any comments you may feel usable.
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I always have to close off the oil control valve slightly to get the methanol to start flowing and height didn't help change that. The majority of users I know seem to need to close off the oil control valve to get flow going...
Because that's different than what you're seeing, I'm guessing that the amount of 'back pressure' from the processor tank probably varies by size and shape and by how quickly the excess 'pressure' (the make-up air that's being displaced by the added liquid, and any methanol vapor that's evaporating off) can exit the tank (so if you have a tiny vent tube it'll exit slower than a large one, perhaps??). My tank on my processor is twice as large as people normally use so that may be the difference between your experience and mine.
Ant, if you're experimenting with extra high temperatures, you're dealing with something quite different than we are (you're boiling off methanol which will DEFINITELY cause extra high pressures in the reaction tank which will inhibit a centrifugal pump from sucking in methanol from a tank at lower pressures. Instead of adding compressed air to your methanol tank, you could just connect the two tanks so that the pressures equalize. That's difficult to do with a carboy safely (ie what if the tube comes off the barb and you're now venting methanol into your workspace?) but easy to do with any other kind of tank where you can securely attach fittings. My friend Lu was calling that a 'eustacian tube' after the things in your ears. It gets us past the 'close off the oil control valve slightly' problem but doesnt' work with carboys safely in my opinion.
"Any recommendations? What am I missing?"
I have foound it very easy to modulate the "methoxide" flow by varying the setting of the valve in the tank bottom--
As stated in my previous post my carboy is about a half meter below the pump and check valve.
I know we are all "tinkerers" but it sure seems like many of us tend to make things much more complicated than they need to be.
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tell me about it
Graydon and Mark;
PLug an aquarium air pump to the vent cap opening, the presurizing of the carboy will flip the check valve open. It HAS to, laws of physics and all, or is that thermodynamics? Anyway, the high pressure area flows into the lower pressure area.
My plan is to set the methoxide feed on a short pedestal between two reactors for my next trick...
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That answer's a few questions.
1- Restricting the flow of oil (the drain valve) is common
2- Once the flow get's going, opening the oil valve wide open again & restricting the methanol flow ensures that the methanol will be introduced at the right feed rate (not too fast).
3- I'll have to try the "pressurizing the carboy w/ an aquarium pump" idea.
Any pictures any of you have of your setups w/ the carboy's lower than "above the fill line" would be great.
Thanks again for the great feedback (I LOVE this forum for that reason--I keep stuff like this here & off of the basic's forum on purpose).
If you have pics & can't host them, email them to me & I'll host them for you.
Thanks again!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Graydon Blair:
That answer's a few questions.
1- Restricting the flow of oil (the drain valve) is common
2- Once the flow get's going, opening the oil valve wide open again & restricting the methanol flow ensures that the methanol will be introduced at the right feed rate (not too fast)."
There is no need to do this-- just leave the methanol valve open and modulate the flow with the oil valve.
"3- I'll have to try the "pressurizing the carboy w/ an aquarium pump" idea."
This will work but why make a simple process more complicated ?
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Thats also my response to this practice- I think a couple of other people agree with me that it's a bit unsafe sounding. I dont' like the idea of pressurising a plastic can of methanol, no matter how little pressure you're using.
There's a problem with the following:
2- Once the flow get's going, opening the oil valve wide open again & restricting the methanol flow ensures that the methanol will be introduced at the right feed rate (not too fast)."
There is no need to do this-- just leave the methanol valve open and modulate the flow with the oil valve.
If you leave the methanol valve wide open you'll be inducing way too much methoxide way too fast, even if you're restricting the oil flow. It's the methoxide you need to restrict, not the oil.
If you put the methoxide in too quickly I've had problems with it not completely reacting right. Slow the flow of the methoxide down against a steady stream of oil & it works out all right.
Sounds good on not pressurizing the carboy.
Soooo......if you don't pressurize and you're sticking it only a few feet above the pump, how do you adequately:
[A]- Get the flow flowing past the check valve w/o gravity's help and
[B]- Not add too much methoxide at a time to the oil thereby possibly causing an incomplete reaction?
This is really very simple-- by varying the setting of the valve that is feeding the oil you are also varying the pressure (actually you will produce a partial vacuum) at the input junction of the "methoxide" feed. If you restrict the oil feed the pump will draw from the "methoxide" side. By adjusting amount of partial vacuum you have nearly infinite control over the velocity at which the "methoxide" is drawn into the pump where it is mixed by the impeller with the oil.
In practice you open the "methoxide" valve fully and then close the oil feed valve until the "methoxide" check valve opens and the mixture begins to flow. You will then need to gradually open the oil feed valve until you have established the "methoxide" flow rate that you desire. You may need to further reduce the oil feed a bit as your "methoxide" container nears empty in order to maintain the desired rate.
It is desirable for your "methoxide" plumbing to be of substantially smaller diameter than you oil plumbing-- makes thing easier to control.
Most use 3/4" plumbing for oil-- 1/2" or smaller check valve and tubing for "methoxide".
It is simple
It works
it WILL draw from the container even from substantially below the pump level.
(upon reflection-- if your "methoxide" container is higher than the pump you may possibly have a bit less controll due to siphoning-- since I have never tried this with the container up high I am not sure what the effect would be)
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Well I don't experiment with high temps anymore. I agree pressurising plastic is a possible danger, I use stainless, a beer keg would work well.
The main point I was illustrating is that there is an assistance to be gained from hight. I was simply trying to keep a clear understanding of physics on the board.
Whether this assistance is needed is another debate.
Air pressure is a very simple method with no moving parts that does not need the same custom tinkering with oil flow to balance for individualy sized and shaped processors, piping and pumps.
I always circulate my oil at full speed to turn over the contents as fast as possible and get the best mixing. I can use the valves on the methoxide to adjust the mix and will always get positive flow into the mixing tank thanks to a little air pressure.
This may seem overly complex to some but I find it easy and relaiable in practice. It was the Diff who first suggested it to me and at first I thought it would be difficult to implement. But in describing the problem I found I had described the answer and it was fairly easy to do and once done very easy to use.
The pressures involved are only a pound or two above one bar. Not terribly dangerous really. If you do things right. Which was my original comment. It depends how you do things. Different methods can be safe if done well.
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You get a whole whack more "pressure" from the reaction just mixing up the methoxide than you do with an aquarium air pump that can be controled with an on/off switch. I'll let you know if I blow anything up K?
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That is a good point. I have had barrels blow up like balloons from meth mixing; bulging outwards on all sides without any ill effect or bursting. It is obviously very silly of me to allow that to happen but it has been safe so far. HDPE is pretty resiliant stuff. I think joints and seams are your weaks spots.
Let us know how it goes.
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[A] source confirmed to me that the iPhone AIM client AOL demoed during the iPhone Roadmap event does not cheat by continuing to run in the background — it quits when you switch to another app, but doesn't log you out of AIM automatically. Such a client can't notify you of IM messages from the background (a la the way the iPhone notifies of you SMS messages), but when you switch back to the AIM app, messages you missed should appear. Be wary of claims that "An app that does X is impossible without background processing."
If accurate then that, as they say, is that in terms of any hope for multitasking apps before June. If Apple didn't grant AOL "special dispensation", they certainly won't give any to Johnny "Next Big Social Perpetual Ping App".
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Oh my goodness...Until this I'm not sure I've ever seen anything here that has made me throw up in my mouth. First time for everything!
Oh my gosh. That's so much worse.
I'm horrified and really want to share this with most people. That's the problem...not everyone, just most people.
Sad thing is, it looks better than most baby cakes (artisically speaking of course)
Sweeney Todd had to have words with Mrs. Lovatt after she nearly blew their cover with her new marketing ploy.......
I have some friends who make a meatloaf man to eat for Halloween dinner every year. Course, theirs isn't as detailed or as disturbing because it's a man, not a baby. All they do is stick a knife in it and have the sauce oozing out. It's actually quite cool. That baby...is creepy!
That is disgusting!!!
Man Meatloaf. In bacon speedos.
Oh, this could go so many directions...
What occasion calls for a zombie baby meatloaf with a bacon diaper? I would only make this if I was trying to horrify my family into going vegetarian!
Am I the only one who wants to see what it looks like cooked?
OHMYGOSH you almost made this pregnant woman run to the bathroom and puke!!
Absofreakinlutely horrifying. Wonder what side dishes you would serve with it? Nightmare on a plate...bacon as a diaper? Kinda turns me off on bacon now...
I think that is the grossest thing I have ever seen. - BTW - I actually attended a baby shower once with a tiny baby on the cake made of fondant (made by the dad's mother) and the mom to be was freaked out by the thought of eating a baby. Do people even consider that when they order these cakes?
I can't add anything. The title to this post says it all.
As Eben (twolumps.net) has said, "Holy Ganesh's Hairpiece!"
This is one of those times when I wish my brain worked like an Etch-a-Sketch, and that if I shook it hard enough I could erase what I just saw.
Ah well. I guess I know who's hosting the zombie party this year.
Those EYES! This is the stuff of nightmares...
Oh, the horror... the unspoken horror...
That was the hardest I have ever laughed while viewing your fabulous blog. I think that is one of the nastiest things I have EVER seen. Nasty... yet hilarious!!!
*searching for words*
*shakes head and gives up*
Dear GOD!
Did anyone else immediately flash to Lady Gaga in her meat get-up?
This is DISTURBING!
omg...my eyes! my eyes!!!!!!!
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth... My god.
Ow...Ow....Ow...my eyes are burning!
Ohmygod! Those eyes will haunt me!
I thought it was some weird new icing technique...then I realized it was meat....
OMG!! It's bad enough that someone actually MADE such a thing -- which I simply cannot understand doing. But now they have to put that thing in the oven!!! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!?!
I wish they had used boiled eggs for the eyes! That would have been awesome.
My eyes!!!!! It's eyes!!!!!!
AHRGHHHHHHHHH... I will have nightmares tonight! The eyes are the worst and most terrifying thing! Uurrghhhh...
What did it look like cooked? And what are the eyes, pearl onions?
oh. oh my.
YEARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!! That is without a doubt the creepiest thing I have EVER seen... the eyes, the baby, the grin, the hands, the bacon diaper. Must go look at pretty pictures now.


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PetsInDreamland needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
PetsInDreamland is a brand new online pet boutique offering the cutest and most glamorous dog clothing and accessories anywhere! The boutique will offer clothing (dresses, coats, sweaters, t-shirts,) collars, leashes, jewelry (hairpins, necklaces, tags,) salon products, bedding, furniture, toys, and much more.
Target Audience
PetsInDreamland will primarily cater to female pet owners between the ages of 25 and 65 who have discriminating taste and moderate/high disposable income.
Customers will own one or more small to medium sized dogs and will spend a lot of time online shopping for their pets. Therefore, the logo must be eye catching and immediately provide a sense for what the website sells (classy, cute, glamorous pet clothing and accessories.)
PetsInDreamland needs one logo that will represent our brand online, in product packaging, and in print (advertisements, business cards, invoicing, etc). The product packaging and print items may also be sent to auction later once the logo design is created.
I would love for the logo to incorporate a depiction of the "inspiration" for PetsInDreamland...my dog Bitsy (see picture attached.) I would like for Bitsy's likeness to somehow be a part of the logo (and have her wearing some sort of clothing/bling,) but NOT as a picture. Some type of reproduction would be good (see this website http://www.glamourdog.com for an example of what I'm going for.) Please do not directly copy that site's logo, but use it as inspiration for a fresh take on the idea using the attached picture.
Please keep these things in mind when creating the logo:
1. No clip art or stock photos, please!
2. Nothing too childish...we are looking for cute but still elegant and classy.
3. Colors should focus on light and/or hot pink, with accents of silver, white, light blue and light green. Let's experiment with some all pink logos and some that also include light blue and/or light green.
4. Some sort of shimmer, glitter, or sparkle would be great!
5. We will also want a black and white version.
6. Logo should incorporate the name PetsInDreamland (all one word or words separated, and with a capital P, I, and D)
7. The typeface should be clear, elegant and bold...something that stands out.
8. See this website http://www.glamourdog.com for an example of what I'm going for. Please do not directly copy this site's logo, but use it as inspiration for a fresh take on the idea using the attached picture.
Thanks and good luck to all!
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Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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That sound you just heard was our heart doing a triple gainer off our sternocleidomastoid muscle. Apparently, Automotive News Europe reports Fiat is considering the sale of an Abarth-tuned Fiat 500 in the US. Such rumors have been ripping through the car-o-sphere since word first came down about the revived cinquecento. But now, it's Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne's loose lips doing the gossiping. Marcionne says he's like to sell an Abarth 500 in the US as competition with BMW's Mini Cooper and Volvo's C30. But it's unclear whether such a car would get a Fiat badge, considering the company's more intent on keeping Alfa Romeo's US return on track. That means we could see Alfas by 2009, and perhaps an Abarth 500-based Alfa Junior? The mind reels.
[via Motor Authority]
Spy Photos: Abarth 500 Wrung Out On the 'Ring; Fiat Boss Says New 500 Could Maybe, Sort of Reach the US; The Scorpion Returns: Fiat's Abarth-Tuned Puntos Coming to Geneva; Sketches Emerge of New Fiat 500 [internal]


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The Indianapolis Star editorial section of Sunday, Nov. 28, took a detailed look at the much-publicized basketball brawl between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers. The Star editorial page editors solicited essays from four points of view: a college basketball coach, athletic director and college professor. They also sought the opinion of sports psychologist Chris Carr, a 1982 Wabash College graduate. Carr's essay follows:
The "basket-brawl" incident that occurred in the Pacers-Pistons game on Nov. 19 has received excessive media attention and public scrutiny. As a psychologist who specializes in sport psychology and counseling issues related to athletes, to me it represents many social, behavioral and psychological issues.
The event is an opportunity to educate and create awareness about some of the unique aspects of individual and group dynamics in the sport arena.
First, the fan behavior in this incident is frightening. When I take my family to an Indiana Fever basketball game, I feel pretty secure that I won't have to shield my daughter from a drunken fan or charging player. Yet, in my role as the sport psychologist for the Kansas City Royals baseball team, I was in the clubhouse at US Cellular Field the night two fans (a father and son) came onto the field and attacked our first-base coach.
I remember the surreal feeling I had as I watched this event unfold while seated in the clubhouse, then having to process the variety of human emotions as the players came back to the clubhouse after the game. Feelings of anger, confusion, disbelief and fear of safety permeated the environment. All of this due to spectators (both later found to be under the influence of drugs) who believed they could "cross the boundary" by going onto the field of play.
The national response swiftly condemned the fans involved. Yet when verbal insults and mean-spirited words are spewed at players across the boundary, there seems to be a sense of acceptance. ("They're just being fans.")
I was appalled when watching fans throw cups of liquid on the players at the Pacers-Pistons game, but as a professional I understand this behavior. Social psychologists call it "de-individuation." This means that people often behave differently if they are in a crowd than if they are by themselves. This "mob" mentality is often dangerous and aggressive because individuals feel detached from accountability. ("I got caught up in the emotions.")
When you add intoxication to the mix, individuals feel even less connected to their own values and morals.
Without the application of specific consequences, I doubt that overall fan behavior will change, and those few will continue to disrupt enjoyment of the game for all.
And fans can change the dynamic. I remember being with the Royals at Fenway Park in Boston for a series. One fan who sat next to the visiting team dugout was vile and disrespectful of the Kansas City players. In the sixth inning, security came down and removed him from his seat. Shortly after his removal, another staunch Red Sox fan leaned in the dugout and said, "I didn't pay $200 to sit and listen to that idiot." People can make a difference.
The second issue of concern was the players' behaviors in Detroit. Elite athletes do not differ from the general population in prevalence of mental health diagnoses. Yet the world of sport often casts a wary eye on providing psychological resources for athletes. When I spent five years as psychologist for the athletic department at Ohio State University, I was one of only a few full-time psychologists who provided care for student-athletes.
In professional sports, there are nutritionists, strength/conditioning coaches and medical specialists provided for the physical needs of the athlete. Yet there are very few qualified psychologists employed to care for the psychological health of those athletes. So when an athlete acts inappropriately, everyone is shocked and dismayed.
I'm not. I know that stressors such as fan behavior often tax athletes' coping abilities. After all, they are paid very well for their athletic skills, not their coping skills. Psychological interventions can improve a person's ability to cope with adversity and develop new behaviors through the process of therapy/consultation.
But this requires motivation and psychological support. And consequences again play a significant role. If a person believes that consequences for behavior are significant, then a chance for change occurs. If consequences are seen as insignificant, behavior change is less likely.
Bottom line, an athlete can change behavior, but the motivation must be from within, not from agents, organizations or even family.
The brawl incident provides an opportunity to learn that we are all accountable for our behavior, even though the airwaves are filled with excuse makers for both fans and players. No matter what our backgrounds and rationales may be, we eventually must realize that for every action we take a consequence will occur that impacts not only ourselves, but others around us.
Carr, sports and performance psychologist for the Methodist Sports Medicine Center in Indianapolis, is sport psychologist for the Purdue University Athletic Department, the Indiana Fever and the Kansas City Royals.


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Unavoidable Global Realities: Refugees
March 7, 2013
Without a home, without a country: the plight of a refugee. Did you know?*
- There are over 42.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.
- Children constitute about 41 percent of the world's refugees, and about half of all refugees are women.
- About two-thirds of the world's refugees have been in exile for more than five years, many of them with no end in sight.
- Four-fifths of all refugees are in the developing world, in nations that can least afford to host them.
- More than half of the world's refugees are in urban environments, not in camps.
Some of the world's refugees are living in our own backyard, yet many of us do not even know them. Rev. Nicholas Granitsas (M.Div. '74), long-time pastor of First Congregational Church of Revere, has been serving among the refugee and immigrant community in Revere, MA, for nearly four decades. His vision is to reach the urban, transitional communities of that region, particularly working among the first- and second-generation immigrant communities. Join us for "Unavoidable Global Realities: Refugees" and hear Rev. Granitsas share practical examples of how we can address this global reality on a local and personal level. Find out more.
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me." (Matthew 25:35)
*Statistics from un.org/globalissues.


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One of the best parts of the Lunder Building is something that's missing
Hanging plants have helped enhance the Lunder Building's peaceful atmosphere. Read more at massgeneralmag.org
Three p.m. on the patient floor of a hospital is typically a noisy time. Nurses are changing shifts, physicians are arriving to see patients, pages are continually heard overhead, and alarms are beeping.
But on Lunder 9 — one of five floors dedicated to patient care in Massachusetts General Hospital's new Lunder Building— there is a peaceful background hum of the heating unit. Nurses' stations are dispersed so there is no congregated clamor. The floors are made of rubber and so is the coating on the wheels of food and supply carts. Glass doors on the private patient rooms are closed and patients are resting, visible to nurses but insulated from the sound of hospital activities. The corridor walls and the visitors' lounges, sequestered to the four corners of the floor, are also soundproof.
"I've never seen so many patients sleeping as when I visit patient floors in the Lunder Building," says Susan Cronin-Jenkins, RN, senior project manager for clinical planning. She helped oversee the design and construction of the Lunder Building, which opened last summer. "A great deal of thinking and planning went into the acoustical aspects of the building's design," she explains. "We and the architects were very focused on the needs of patients, their families and staff."
A large body of research points to the healing effects of quiet. Studies have shown that hospital noise can raise blood pressure, interrupt sleep necessary for healing, increase sensitivity to pain, and raise the stress levels of both patients and the staff there to care for them. Noise is one of the top complaints of hospitalized patients throughout the country. Hospitals like Mass General are listening.
Achieving quieter units was the goal from the start, says Ms. Cronin-Jenkins, who adds that "the architects were chosen for their expertise in this area."
Building for Noise Reduction
Hospital noise levels have been rising since the 1960s. The average daytime decibel level inside hospitals worldwide is 72 decibels — about the loudness of a vacuum cleaner. This far exceeds the 35 decibels recommended by the World Health Organization — approximately the level of a quiet bedroom at night. Beeping equipment, staff voices, ice machines, paging, food and supply carts all contribute to the cacophony. So does noise related to hospital roommates and the hard surfaces in hospital buildings that bounce noise around.
Most new hospital buildings and renovations must follow the Facility Guidelines Institute's "Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities," which includes acoustic related requirements that are now also the basis of regulatory code in at least 42 states. For reasons involving both noise and infection control, the recommendation is to move to all private rooms. Using sound-absorbing materials to finish walls, ceilings and floors was another major way the Lunder Building's architect met these criteria to reduce noise. For example, the
Lunder Building features:
"What makes the Lunder Building distinctive is the combination of strategies we used to reduce noise," says Sarah Markovitz, senior architect from the healthcare architecture firm NBBJ. The sliding glass doors on all the patient rooms, for example, are typically only used in intensive care units. "Not only are they great acoustically," Ms. Markovitz points out, "but you can adjust how far open or closed you want them."
If an environment is noisy, people tend to talk louder. So Ms. Markovitz and her team also created what they call dispersed "interaction zones" instead of one main nursing station where everyone congregates. They designed the floors to keep the elevators, food delivery, supply rooms and other high-traffic areas away from the patient rooms.
"We also made sure there would be no doors opening and closing across from patient rooms," adds Ms. Markovitz, who estimates that it took interactions with 200 to 300 Mass General clinicians, facilities and planning staff over the course of two years on the whole design of the building, including the planning for solutions to noise control.
Improving the Patient Experience
Construction of a new hospital building is a prime opportunity to employ what are now known to be the best ways to meet patient needs. "I see things on the Lunder patient units that I could only have dreamed of at other places I've worked," comments Rick Evans, senior director in the Service Improvement Department, who has only been at Mass General for relatively short time but has worked in the hospital industry for 15 years. "Private rooms, comforting colors, more light, floor-to-ceiling glass. It's great to see something new that embodies a lot of the concepts we're looking for."
The observations made by Florence Nightingale in her 1898 book, "Notes on Nursing," include two related tidbits: "Unnecessary noise, or noise that creates an expectation in the mind, is that which hurts a patient" and "Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally is a sine qua non of all good nursing."
Private rooms are key to reducing noise and enhancing rest. "With the private rooms, now we don't have to wake up two patients when we only need to help one of them," says Barbara Cashavelly, RN, nurse director of one of the two cancer unit floors, as she slides open the door to one room.
Quieter Bells and Whistles
Pages are almost synonymous with hospitals, but may not be for long. One goal from the start of Lunder planning was to eliminate overhead paging and reduce the confusion and constant ringing of machine alarms.
Nurses typically spent a great deal of time locating other people and waiting for responses to pages to get answers and supplies. Using new communications software from a company called Voalté, Lunder nurses, operation associates, case managers and patient care associates all now use iPhones to communicate directly and quickly with each other.
"We log into the Voalté system when we begin our shift and can see everyone else who is logged in," says Ms. Cashavelly, demonstrating on her iPhone. "We just click on someone's name to call or text her and there's no need to use a pager or overhead page system."
Before the building officially opened, nursing staff spent a great deal of time rethinking the alarm systems that alert them when their patients' physiological responses fall out of a normal range. Many devices have alarms: cardiac monitors that can signal dangerous drops in blood pressure or heart rate, respiratory equipment monitoring breathing, infusion pumps, feeding pumps, bed and chair alarms. There is no standardization of alarm sounds among manufacturers, so caregivers must be able to distinguish among them and react based on perceived importance.
"We listened to all the various alarms and found some we couldn't distinguish," says Ann Kennedy, RN, the nurse director for one of the neurosciences units. "We worked with the company to select tones and levels of loudness that made it easier for us to discern."
In addition, Lunder patient floors have ambient noise sensors. They measure the amount of noise in the environment and recalibrate the critical physiological alarms. If it is louder at one time of day, alarm volume increases, then readjusts when the environment becomes quieter. Automatic display boards on the walls of the patient units provide visual information when an alarm sounds.
Healing Environment
Natural light floods the patient rooms and common areas. There are two sets of shades and panels that allow natural light in the rooms, but create privacy when desired. There are nightlights to read by and in the bathroom that patients can control. Most rooms also have their own thermostat and a pull-out couch if family members wish to stay over. Creating a healing environment has always been a Mass General goal, say the Lunder nursing directors. That effort has been enhanced by the quiet of the Lunder. "We often have head-injured patients who don't do well if there is too much stimulation," comments Ms. Kennedy about the neurosciences units. "Now, if we're trying to calm down an agitated patient, the environment supports us."
In terms of patient satisfaction, being able to put all the known best practices for noise reduction together in one building is already paying off in terms of patient satisfaction. Patients at Mass General are routinely questioned after discharge about their hospital experience, using a standardized Hospital Consumer Assessment survey. It includes questions about how quiet the areas around their rooms are.
"We have seen increases of six percentage points and higher on the quietness questions for the Lunder patient units, which is a huge improvement," says Mr. Evans. "Patients are telling us it's much quieter and they're happy about it."
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The bond between dog and man was forged at least 10,000 years ago; on that much, scientists can agree. But questions about precisely when and why dogs were domesticated remain unclear.
Did hunter-gatherers tiptoe into wolf dens, kidnap pups, and train them to guard and hunt? Or, was it a more opportunistic situation: Once people began to settle down and start farming and generating waste, did wolves learn to coexist peacefully with garbage dumps and the people that filled them with scraps?
A new study led by scientists at the Broad Institute, a genomics research center in Cambridge, and Uppsala University in Sweden tries to begin to answer the question by looking at the DNA of wolves and dogs, finding that key genetic changes affected dogs' ability to eat a starch-rich diet, as well as their brain development.
The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, didn't determine when those genetic changes occurred, or whether the digestive changes occurred at the same time as domestication. But the genetic differences provide new clues about what separates dogs from wolves, and may even implicate genes that changed as both humans and dogs shifted to a different diet — mutations that might underlie modern diseases, such as diabetes.
"It's quite intuitive that one of the things that really changed with dogs was what they eat; wolves are carnivores, and dogs are omnivores, eating everything like we do," said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and Uppsala University and the senior author of the study.
The reason the genes might be interesting ways to probe disease, including human disease, is a bit subtler.
The researchers see the 36 regions of the genome that popped out as different between dogs and wolves as areas that may have been changed as wolves adapted to a human lifestyle.
Those areas might provide hints about the genes and biological underpinnings of modern diseases that have arisen with the shift from a peripatetic existence to a grain-based diet and life in settlements.
Scientific gullibility sparks wild Neanderthal cloning rumor
Harvard Medical School genetics professor George Church found himself at the middle of a viral Internet kerfuffle last week. Blogs and news websites picked up on an interview in the German publication, Der Spiegel, and distorted his speculative comments about the technological feasibility of cloning a Neanderthal to suggest the scientist was looking for volunteers: "Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby," the Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom announced.
The interview, if one bothers to read it, is prototypically Church: It unflinchingly looks toward the technology of the future, taking an optimistic and expansive view of what will one day be possible. The discussion unfolds like a thought experiment, with Church considering the ethical, social, and regulatory issues that could arise from recreating Neanderthals or building new life forms.
In a phone interview last week, Church noted that he is not working on sequencing Neanderthal DNA. He is not synthesizing it. He is not working on cloning any whole organisms. He said the pickup of the news story and the subsequent headline creep online has been instructive and made him concerned about the level of basic science literacy, in comparison with other spheres of society.
"When you see how gullible people were on this particular incident, I wonder," Church said. "If we really talked about [science] as much as we talk about other things," would this same thing have happened?
Church is willing to talk and think big, which is partly why he has been so successful as a scientist, and also part of what made his comments so ripe to be taken out of context. He has seen massive scientific change during his career, helping enable a downward spiral in the cost of sequencing DNA, from about $3 billion to $3,000 for an entire human genome. "So I have a tendency to think in increments bigger than I, say, would have when I was younger," Church said.
He sees communication with the public as a major part of his job, and said that he does not think this incident will cause him to shy away from talking openly about the future trajectory of science. Greater understanding of science, he hopes, will mean a less credulous audience.
Much of the reaction has been supportive. More than 100 people have e-mailed him, volunteering for the job of being surrogate to the first cloned Neanderthal. But, as they could have found out by reading his interview, that job isn't open — in his lab, or anyone else's.
In bird evolution, robins deserve new look, expert urges
What could be a more ordinary sight than the robin, the red-breasted bird that hops around on the ground, yanking worms out of the dirt? Go out with a bunch of birdwatchers on a cold day near dawn and you'll hear a sigh of disappointment when a bird in the distance turns out to be a boring old robin.
But Arkhat Abzhanov, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, wonders: Have you ever really looked at a robin? What shape is its beak? What about its head?
Abzhanov, who studies the evolution of birds, sees the 10,000 species that fill our world — including some of the most ordinary ones — as a major opportunity to investigate deep questions about both evolution and developmental biology.
"What I think is the most interesting thing about birds is we see them everyday and we're so used to them," he said. " And very few people realize just how unusual these animals are."
Take the beak: It's easy to think of it as a primitive triangular appendage that opens and closes; a standard part that can be penciled into a child's drawing. But Abzhanov calls it "the ultimate tool" and a source of amazing diversity and specialization in the bird world, from pelicans to finches.
Abzhanov plans to both demystify bird biology and conjure a bit of mystery about the ones we take for granted, at a talk called "What art thou, little bird?" at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m.Carolyn Y. Johnson can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @carolynyjohnson.


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Let's get physical!
It took a while but we finally began Willow's physical
therapy. Her first session was last Thursday. The boys asked if
she'd be able to crawl when she finishes. Sadly, I had to tell them
it doesn't work like that.
At this point, Willow is scattered in
her development. She can sit for short periods of time, but she has
a tendency to arch and throw herself backward. When she does lose
her balance in a seated position, she doesn't catch herself. We'll
be working on correcting the over-extension. Her therapist isn't
sure why she does it. Sometimes it seems like she's doing it on
purpose, sometimes not. It's a mystery.
We're also still working on
rolling. Willow is still not a fan of tummy-time. She does push up
pretty well when she is on her belly. It's just hard to keep her
occupied so she won't flip herself onto her back.
Her next session
is Thursday. If I remember, I'll update again.


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Bernard made the most of limited touches against the Steelers in scoring two touchdowns as the Bengals earned a 20-10 victory over their AFC North rival. The first running back selected in the 2013 draft, Bernard carried eight times for 38 yards and a touchdown and added a 27-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter to break a 10-10 halftime tie.
BenJarvus Green-Ellis still took the majority of the carries for Cincinnati with 75 yards on 22 carries for the Bengals. Andy Dalton was 25 of 45 for 280 yards and a touchdown.
Mike Nugent added a 25-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to extend the lead and a costly turnover ended the Steelers chances. With the Steelers nearing the Bengals' redzone, Ben Roethlisberger's pass deflected off Jericho Cotchery and was picked off by Reggie Nelson with five minutes left to play in the game.
With the loss, the Steelers fall to 0-2 on the year. It's the first time they've dropped their first two games of the season since 2002. A battered stable of running backs couldn't get anything going for the Steelers as they rushed for just 44 yards on the night. Roethlisberger finished 20 of 37 for 251 yards with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Derek Moye and the interception by Nelson.


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No true freshman quarterback has ever opened the season as the starter at Colorado.
It's possible that could change this year.
Sefo Liufau, a 6-foot-4, 215-pounder from Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, Wash., signed his letter of intent on Wednesday and could be a factor in the quarterback race in the fall.
"I'm excited about Sefo, but I don't want to put all that pressure on him," CU head coach Mike MacIntyre said. "When he gets here, we'll see how he's progressing, but I think he has the body type and I think he has intelligence and he played in a good program there. We'll just have to wait and see how everything unfolds."
MacIntyre said every job is open as he heads into his first season at Colorado. That's especially true at quarterback, where nobody on the current roster has taken hold of the job.
Last season, CU had three different players -- Nick Hirschman, Jordan Webb and Connor Wood -- make starts at quarterback and all three are back. Redshirt freshman Shane Dillon will also be in the mix and many believe he may be the best of the bunch.
"I've seen flashes in all of them," said MacIntyre, who has only seen the players on film to this point. "We'll have to see how they fit into what we do and how we do it. You look at different quarterbacks in different systems; some guys are really good in one system and some guys are really good in another. Somebody will rise to the top. I don't know who it is, but somebody will rise."
Regardless of how the spring plays out, Liufau will have a chance to compete for the job when he arrives.
"We'll go through spring practice and we'll narrow it down and we'll let him get in the mix when he gets here," MacIntyre said.
During his prep career, Liufau threw for 7,297 yards and 68 touchdowns, with just 20 interceptions, while compiling a 34-5 record. In addition, he ran for 606 yards and 18 touchdowns.
MacIntyre raved about Liufau's athleticism. In addition to football, Liufau uses his speed and leaping ability to star on Bellarmine Prep's basketball team.
"Just a phenomenal young man that I think hopefully will be a bell cow for this class and for our program as he grows in it," MacIntyre said. "I feel like that he has the talent (to start); we'll just see if he can handle everything."
Only five quarterbacks in CU history have ever made a start as a true freshman: Randy Essington (1980), Marc Walters (1986), Koy Detmer (1992), Craig Ochs (2000) and Tyler Hansen (2008).
Multi-talented linebackers
MacIntyre signed five linebackers on Wednesday. All five of them also played running back in high school, including Ryan Severson, who rushed for 1,951 yards and 32 touchdowns at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, Calif., last fall.
"I like to get linebackers that play tailback," MacIntyre said. "That's kind of one of the things I look for. My personal opinion is if you can run the ball and make them miss you that if you can get on the other side that means you can tackle them."
MacIntyre said all three of his linebackers at San Jose State were tailbacks in high school. He believes that those players are better suited to think like a running back because they've done it themselves, and those instincts make them more successful.
"That's stuff you just can't coach," he said.
Defensive ends could play early
One area of immediate need was defensive end, and MacIntyre filled that need by adding Timothy Coleman of Mullen High School and Jimmie Gilbert from College Station, Texas.
"With (Tim) and Jimmie, I hope that one of those guys will be able to step out there and help us this fall, because we're a little thin at the defensive end position, depth-wise," MacIntyre said.
Will Pericak graduated, leaving Chidera Uzo-Diribe, Kirk Poston and Juda Parker as the only defensive ends with experience. De'Jon Wilson, who redshirted last year, also plays at defensive end.
"If (Coleman and Gilbert) are not completely ready for it, I still think they're going to be good enough to really help us," MacIntyre said. "I do think they have the tools to do that."
No JUCO players
MacIntyre said he did not go after any junior college transfers.
"Most of those guys that we would have wanted were already basically committed or signed by the time I got the job," he said.
This was the second year in a row CU didn't sign a JUCO player after doing so in each of the previous 15 years.
Sizing up the competition
Rivals.com ranked CU's class as the worst in the Pac-12. Not that MacIntyre is paying attention.
"I haven't looked at one single other Pac-12 list," he said. "I had a wise coach tell me one time, 'Don't worry about everybody else's people, just worry about the ones you have.'"
CU used just 30 of the 62 official visits allowed. Only seven of those were used by the former coaching staff. ... MacIntyre said he has one more coach to hire for his staff -- a special teams coordinator. "I'll do that here in the next couple of weeks," he said. ... Defensive back Tedric Thompson chose CU over Minnesota, where is his brother, Cedric, is a starting safety. ... Offensive lineman Colin Sutton is the younger brother of swimmer Chloe Sutton, who was a part of the United States Olympic team in 2008 and 2012. ... Gilbert's father, Jimmie, was a 1986 draft pick of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, and his sister, Karla, currently plays basketball at Texas A&M. ... The Buffs open spring practice on March 7.
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Most of you guys don't know this, but back durring the end of the Dragon trip I had a little accident. I thought I would post this here to cronical my adventures so to speak.
We stayed in a cabin on Happy Valley road, which is right at the begining of the dragon (right at the rock slide this year unfortunatly). We were taking Happy Valley north to Maryville, there is a 180° hairpin that is just after where it crosses under Foothills Parkway, there is a dip right in the apex on the inside, my rear wheel hit it and the back end kicked out, caught traction and threw me in to the side of the mountain.
I cut down about four or five trees and ended up back on the road. I got very lucky in several ways in this accident:
1. No one was hurt.
2. There was no gaurd rail on the road, and there was about a 60' drop, luckaly I went up the mountan.
3. My windshild didn't break, airbag didn't go off, and radiator and ac condenser didn't get cracked, however were very much bent. The fans stopped working, but its an MR2 so I didn't need 'em anyway.
4. A cop showed up 5 minutes after (the only cop we saw the entire time were were there, not counting on the dragon) and didn't give me a ticket, and even offered to call a tow truck for me (if only there were more cops like her).
5. I drove the car all the way back to Mobile. It never ran hotter than it normally does, and after I adjusted my toe it drove mostly strait.
Lumberjacking. I'm do'n it wrong.
We ripped the bumper cover off, took off the now "V" shaped crash bar and threw them off the side of the mountan. The lower radiator support was literally ripped off the frame, the frame is only slightly dented where the crash bar bolts to the rails, both fenders and hood are bent up, the bumper support is mega bent up, the strut rod mount is bent and the floor board on the passengers side has a nice bulge in it.
After this I was looking for a decent hard top shell to swap all of my stuff in to, but all the ones I found were either beat to hell or too far away so I decided to stick with what I had. I ordered a Front nose cut form CRW and since I had to re-paint the car I decided to get everything that I wanted on the car before the paint. I ordered new window moldings, rear 1/4 windows, a brand new set of 94+ tails, a 94+ spoiler and trunk lid, and found some stock FD RX7 wheels. Now I'm trying to find some JDM thin door molding.
CRW had to order the front cut from Japan, they said it was going to take several months to get it. So far its been about 6 weeks, It just arrived in the country last week so hopefully I'll see it soon.