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Hi Paulus
I am not sure what you are saying.
I looked up the wikipedia article you coppied from and the whole section was:
At higher temperatures, solid KOH crystallizes in the NaCl crystal structure. The OH group is either rapidly or randomly disordered so that the OH− group is effectively a spherical anion of radius 1.53 Å (between Cl− and F− in size).
At room temperature, the OH− groups are ordered and the environment about the K+ centers is distorted, with K+ —OH− distances ranging from 2.69 to 3.15 Å, depending on the orientation of the OH group. KOH forms a series of crystalline hydrates, namely the monohydrate KOH·H2O, the dihydrate KOH·2 H2O, and the tetrahydrate KOH·4 H2O"
Can you be a bit more specific for us non chemistry people why you feel this is relevant to the discussion.
Are you trying to say there are other impurities in the bag of KOH that are not listed on the MSDS?
Any MSDS I have read, all that is listed is Potassium hydroxide and water which total 100%.
If you think there are other unlisted impurities please give a percentage for these unlisted impurities.
Interesting. You seem to be saying that even if methoxide is not produced, water will be produced by dissolving KOH in methanol?
Please provide a link to your source for this information.
Really the first part is clarifying for Dgs's sake that (and how) in fact H2O or water IS incorporated in the structure of solid KOH, particularly when it is solidified at low temperature.
It's an absolute certainly that H+ and OH- ions are released when KOH is dissolved in CH3OH.
KOH- + CH3OH > CH3OK + H2O where the potassium ion is substituted for the proton in the MeOH molecule, and meanwhile the displaced proton (H+) is free to associate with the hydroxyl (OH-) ion surplus from the lye. So we say "water forms." At a molecular level it is probably more complicated than that.
Hi Paulus,
Thank you for your quick reply.
I am super busy today so I will have a closer look this evening when I get back home
HI Paulus,
So I have done some googling and think I understand what is happening.
Just to make things a little clearer for everyone who is not chemistry literate like I am not;
KOH= Potassium Hydroxide
MEOH and CH3OH= Methanol
CH3OK= Potassium Methoxide
H2O= Water
I agree with you that if you mix Potassium Hydroxide with methanol (KOH- + CH3OH) you get Potassium Methoxide and Water (CH3OK + H2O).
HOWEVER the question is how much Potassium methoxide (CH3OK) and water (H2O) is actually produced when you mix Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) with Methanol (CH3OH)?
The author of this procedure and the chemist neutral both thought that there was actually very little Potassium methoxide (CH3OK) produced and therefore there was very little water (H2O) produced.
32gms of water are produced for every 100 gms of KOH dissolved in methanol.
Hi dgs,
I suspect that number is based on the assumption that all the KOH is converted into Potassium Methoxid and water which apparently does not happen.
The Sandy Brae tests that I did on the methoxide did indeed confirm the water content was in the range the32gms/100gms suggests.
50gms of KOH in 400mls of methanol, S/B was 3.12% water. Methanol was 2600ppm water.
Hi Dgs,
What did the S/B read on the methanol before adding the KOH?
Have you taken into consideration the 10% water in the KOH?
As my post states Tilly, the water in the methanol was 2600ppm.
The sandy brae doesn't take anything into consideration. It just reads the water content.
I will try to get my chemist friend to add to this thread and try to clear up this anomoly re water in the KOH.
Hi Dgs,
To be meaningful you would have performed an S/B before adding KOH and then an S/B after adding KOH so you would know what the actual water increase was.
If you did not do an S/B test of the Methanol before adding the KOH then you did not do a meaningful test
You have to take the 10% water impurity in the KOH into consideration.
The KOH we use is typically about 10% water which will show up in the S/B test.
This water is an impurity and has nothing to do with the chemical reaction that results by mixing KOH with Methanol.
That's good information Tilly. I did not know that so much water was in my Potassium Hydroxide solid pellets. My KOH is 85%. I never noticed that the listing of impurities does not add up to 100%, not even close.
I can't understand why you keep asking me that?
I might be able to assist in this research inquiry. I know calcium oxide reacts with water to form calcium hydroxide, that's calcium bonded to two hydroxide groups. So for each molecule of one calcium bonded to one oxygen, upon the absorption/ reaction with water one molecule of water is removed from solution in methanol. But there is an equilibrium that exists. I can not directly prove it, except, if you add adequate Calcium oxide to wet ethanol, the purest dry alcohol you can distill out of the still pot is 99.5%. Calcium oxide will not capture all the water from the alcohol solution.
so your methoxide went from .26% to 3.12% water after mixing in the KOH. some of the water comes from the reaction some comes from the KOH, why do we care where it came from? How do we get rid of it or how much can we reasonable remove?
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Hi Dgs,
So let me see if I understand what you are saying,
You took some fresh Methanol and did a S/B test and found it to be 2600PPM.
You then immediately added 50g KOH into 400ml of this methanol and after mixing the S/B test showed 3.12% water
Let's see how those numbers work out.
400ml methanol weighs about 320g
3.12% of 320g is about 10g water detected by the S/B test which includes the small amount of water already in the methanol and the water bound in the KOH.
About 10% of the original 50g KOH was water which is 5g.
To find the amount of water produced by the reaction this 5g of water needs to be deducted from the 10g total water detected by the S/B
That leave sbout 5g water actually produced by the reaction.
So that means about 10g Water would be produced if you dissolved 100g KOH in methanol
I read that the SB vessel is anodized aluminium (aluminum). The anodizing is aluminium oxide. Apparently methanol attacks aluminium oxide, creating water. Seeing as the SB test detected a quarter of 1 percent water, I think we should exclude it for this discussion, as it is minor.
So we are talking about adding 50gm dry KOH to 400ml methanol, which having a density of 0.792 at (I presume) 20 deg C means it has a mass of 316.8gm.
We know as Tilly says that 10% of the KOH is H2O, meaning in fact only 45gm KOH is dissolved.
Of this 45gm, K has a mass of 31.358gm and OH a mass of 13.642gm.
However in the production of the methoxide, the methanol consumed gives up an H (or proton) which, with the OH, goes to make HOH or H2O (water).
The ratio of atomic weights of H2O to OH is 1.059 (H2O: 18.01528, OH: 17.01).
So the OH in picking up an H, or proton, becomes 1.059
times more massive - so the water created now has a mass of 14.449gm
Added to the initial 5gm impurity (excluding carbonates) the water is 19.449gm, or 0.388972434 (say 39%) of the initial 50gm.
That's a significant amount.
Now, if we add the mass of the MeOH 316.8gm and the 50gm of impure KOH the total mass of the solution is 366.8gm, of which 19.449gm is water - 5.3%.
This is the minimum percentage.
This page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxide states "The methoxide ion has the formula of CH3O− and is the conjugate base of methanol. It is a strong organic base, even stronger than the inorganic hydroxide ion. As such, methoxide solutions must be kept free of water; otherwise, the methoxide will remove a proton from a water molecule, yielding methanol and hydroxide."
For every K ion introduced, a potential H2O molecule exists, to which we must add the 10% impurity. So is "methoxide" created? Apparently it is, because the transesterification reaction proceeds. These ions all exist in solution. I just think it's a poor man's methoxide.
Hi Paulus,
I have been driving all day thinking about this.
I also realized that the "50g KOH" was in fact 45g KOH and 5g H2O. I wondered if anyone else would spot that so well done for spotting it.
I must admit that a lot of your last post does not make sense to me at the moment, however a few thoughts came to mind today while dodging wombats and thylacines.
Apparently Dgs has been told that theoretically 100g KOH mixed into excess methanol has the ability to produce 32g of water.
His testing shows that 100g KOH mixed into excess methanol actually only created about 10g Water.
If water production is the result of the formation of Potassium methoxide and about 1/3 the water was produced that is the theoretical maximum, that would suggest to me that the reaction producing Potassium methoxide has only gone to around 33% completion.
So "drying" or removing the water as it is formed should move the reaction further to the right- completion.
Unfortunately, the original author of this procedure did very little actual testing and it is only a guess as to how much farther the methoxide reaction will go with this drying.
There was a fellow on another forum who did do a lot of testing but for now I will not introduce his results.
That's about in accordance with my calcs - just under 29gm for 100gm KOH. And that excludes the 10% impurity.
Still doesn't solve the problem of getting rid of the water.
Hi Paulus,
it seems to be about 10g water for 90g KOH if you go by the S/B numbers Dgs posted if you remove the 10% water impurities.
Curious how you arrived at your number.
It would be good if you would run through how you arrived at 29g water per 100g KOH.
So if we calculate this by your weight which takes into consideration the weight of the KOH:
...the mass of the MeOH 316.8gm and the 50gm of impure KOH the total mass of the solution is 366.8gm,"
and calculate the 3.12% total water from Dgs S/B test which includes the water in the methanol and the KOH as well as the water produced in the reaction, that works out to about 11.4g total water of which 5g is from the KOH.
Remove the 5g water from the KOH gives about 6.4g water produced by 45g KOH which becomes 12.8g per 90g KOH.
Increase that by 10% to get the water per 100g KOH brings it to about 14g water produced which is a long ways off the 29g water that you have calculated
I think I see what you have done, you have calculated the maximum theoretical amount of water that would be produced if all the KOH was converted into potassium methoxide and water.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tilly,
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Then there is Burger King. The fast-food chain is incorporated in Delaware, which imposes few rules on corporations, and is headquartered in Florida, which has no state income tax, and is owned by a private equity firm based in Brazil.
BK, which is run by a chief executive who is 34, announced it is merging with the Canadian doughnut and coffee chain Tim Horton's and will relocate to Canada, where the corporate tax rate is 15 percent, compared to 35 percent in this country.
The corporation was founded here. American consumers eat its Triple Whoppers, with their gut-busting 1,150 calories, and the franchises pay their tribute to Delaware, Florida, Brazil, Ontario, or wherever. Wall Street loved the move. Burger King stock shot to above $32 from less than $20 a year ago. The rest of us should be disgusted.
Kathryn Slater-Carter's fast-food restaurant isn't owned by a cost-cutting private equity firm, and her CEO isn't dodging taxes by merging with a Canadian doughnut chain.
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If you're a movie buff, kicking back in your most comfortable recliner and enjoying the latest Hollywood blockbuster probably sounds like the makings of a perfect weekend. To help take your movie-viewing experience to the next level though, you'll need a home theater setup guide to create the perfect audio system that's able to bring the sounds of your favorite movies and television shows to life. From showing you how to arrange your furniture and speakers properly to tips on choosing the necessary cables and hardware, this guide will help you set up the home theater system of your dreams. Get that popcorn popping and dim the lights because after reading this home theater setup guide, you'll be ready to grab the remote, relax on the couch and soak up the impressively detailed surround sound with your new home theater system.
Home Theater Setup Step #1: Selecting the Perfect Room
Deciding which room of your home is best for your home theater system setup comes down to a matter of available space and personal preference. Whether you're designing a home theater during the planning stages of a new home or reconfiguring a basement, garage or spare room, there are some important things you should keep in mind.
For instance, you'll want a room that's quiet and allows you to control the amount of light that comes into it. You will enjoy your dream home theater system much more if you can regulate the lighting and minimize other sounds. The room should have enough space to house your speakers, cables, remotes and hardware, but you don't want a completely empty space since the sounds will simply echo and bounce back.
Home Theater Setup Step #2: Choosing the Best Seat in the House
One of the most important elements in your home theater system setup is selecting the perfect seat. Choose seats with low backs, as higher backs can get in the way of audio, interrupting the flow of sound and compromising the sound quality. It's crucial to place the chairs a good distance from speakers and away from the walls, as these positions can disrupt the way audio flows in your room. In order to further minimize distractions, select chairs that provide support and comfort. You don't want to put the action on pause just because a chair is giving you a backache. Look for practical seating that supports your spine.
Home Theater Setup Step #3: Properly Placing the Speakers
Now that you've selected the perfect spot to view your movies, it's time to turn up the volume. Setting up your dream home theater system requires proper speaker placement along with sound components that give you crystal clear listening. Whether you're stationing speakers in a large or small room, envision what your dream home theater system will look like, and who will be using the space. When positioning the speakers, you'll need to decide whether you would like to target the sound in one location for solo streaming or place several speakers around the room to ensure high-quality sound for multiple viewers.
Your center channel speaker, which provides the majority of dialogue, should be placed dead center to the main viewing seat and can be situated either above or below the screen. You don't want to miss out on a single important detail or be forced to press rewind, so placing this speaker as close to ear height as your home theater setup allows is important.
The left and right surround sound channels are responsible for environmental sounds like the cheers and whistles of a concert crowd. For maximum impact, you want these positioned at roughly 90-110 degrees relative to your listening position — in other words, aligned on the same level as your ears. In addition, make sure to place them slightly above your head.
The subwoofer is easiest to place. You can put it just about anywhere in the room when you set up your home theater, as long as it's close enough to the receiver. Just make sure to avoid placing it directly in a corner or a semi-enclosed space since this will result in audio that sounds overwhelmingly loud.
For home theater system newbies who are unsure of which speakers to choose, consider a wall-mounted sound bar like Sony's HT-NT5. The system's slim three-way speakers and six separate amplifiers are specially designed to surround you in the sounds of High-Resolution Audio, with movies, television, video games and music sounding impeccable. For a larger home theater system and a true cinematic experience, there's also the Sony HT-ST9 sound bar, which provides cinematic surround sound, powered by Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD.
Home Theater Setup Step #4: Testing It All Out
Now that the speakers are in place for your dream home theater setup, it's time to make sure that all of the hardware, cables and technology are in order. The right home theater hardware is essential in providing a clear, quality picture and sound that will help you follow the action of the football game or hear the highest notes of a bloodcurdling scream in a horror flick.
There are a number of systems available for streaming, including a Blu-ray player, HD satellite box, video game systems and AV receiver. Before poring over the owner's manual and matching colored cables, it's important to know which systems you'll be using. Most modern systems use only HDMI cables, which allow a relatively easy home theater setup. Sony's STR-DN1070 is one AV receiver option; it includes HDMI outputs, USB ports and AV connections, so you can connect your television, smartphone, Blu-ray player and more all in one space, preventing a cluttered mess of tangled wires and cables. For viewers who enjoy streaming services like Googlecast, there are AV receivers like Sony's STR-DN1070 that enable you to connect and stream directly to your television using a smartphone.
Remember, it's important to take into account the size of your room when considering receivers. Those with a larger home theater space should consider a receiver with 7.1 channels or more. A receiver with more channels adds more depth to your surround sound experience, giving you a more noticeably immersive sound field in larger rooms. Those with smaller rooms are less likely to notice the benefit of additional channels, and a 5.1 channel AV receiver would meet their needs.
If you do find yourself lost when setting up your home theater, there's no shame in asking a licensed professional for help or consulting the manual.
Sit Back, Relax and Enjoy
Ultimately, the most important tip to keep in mind when setting up your dream home theater system is finding the setup that works for you, your space and your entertainment needs. Now that you've learned a little more about selecting the proper room, seating and hardware, you're ready to sit back, relax and enjoy.


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Sailing daily to the picturesque Michaelmas Cay for snorkeling and diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Ocean Spirit is a once in a lifetime experience in one of the most magnificent locations on Earth.
Discover what awaits you on and around this magical reef sand island. The cay and surrounding coral reefs are home to an abundance of life, from seabirds, to turtles and hundreds of species of reef fish.
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בּוֹא bôw', bo; a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications):—abide, apply, attain, × be, befall, besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, × certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, × doubtless again, eat, employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, have, × indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, × (well) stricken (in age), × surely, take (in), way.
to go in, enter, come, go, come in
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to be brought, brought in
to be introduced, be put
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ActingSchools.com has a comprehensive listing of acting schools in the United States that offer a variety of programs and degrees.


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Allende sorry for remarks about mystery novels
NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Allende would like to apologize to all the fans and writers of mystery novels.
Not everyone is forgiving her.
The million-selling author, whose latest book, "Ripper," is a thriller that updates the story of Jack the Ripper, angered many when, during a recent interview with NPR, she said that her novel was a "joke."
FILE - In this May 3, 2010 photo, Chilean writer Isabel Allende poses during an interview in New York. The million-selling author, whose latest book is a thriller that updates the story of Jack the Ripper, angered many when during a recent interview with NPR she said that her novel was a ¿joke.¿ During a telephone interview Friday with The Associated Press, Allende said that her comments themselves were a joke, a joke that didn¿t work. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
During a telephone interview Friday with The Associated Press, Allende said her comments themselves were a joke, a joke that didn't work. She said she had great respect for mystery fiction and noted that she was married to a mystery writer, William C. Gordon.
"Sometimes my humor doesn't come through," Allende explained, adding that she was trying to be self-deprecating. "I am so sorry that I wasn't clear. I take my writing very seriously and I have tried many genres and I've always done it in a very serious way."
Best known for such works of magical realism as "The House of the Spirits," Allende was interviewed last month for NPR's "All Things Considered." Allende said on the program that she was "not a fan of mysteries" and that she had a hard time connecting to some of the recent best- sellers.
"It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there. And the characters are just awful. Bad people. Very entertaining, but really bad people," she said. "So I thought, I will take the genre, write a mystery that is faithful to the formula and to what the readers expect, but it is a joke."
The owner of a Houston store, Murder By The Book, was so offended by the NPR interview that she sent back copies she had ordered of "Ripper." Allende has emailed a letter to the owner, McKenna Jordan, saying that her remarks were an attempt at a "lighter tone" during a "grueling book tour" and that she treated "Ripper" no less seriously than her other novels.
"For 'Ripper,' I worked an average of 10 to 12 hours a day, writing, researching, rethinking, reworking for six months, seven days a week, until I felt satisfied with my final draft," she wrote in the letter, which Allende's publisher, HarperCollins, shared with the AP. "And then I edited for three more months afterward. It was truly no joke for me."
Jordan, speaking by phone Friday to the AP, said she appreciated that Allende had written to her, but called the apology "halfhearted and self-serving."
"She was probably pushed into the apology by her publisher," said Jordan, who has no current plans to restock the book. "I understand she may have had a bad day when she spoke to NPR, but when you're doing a national interview, you don't have the opportunity to have a bad day."
Allende, 71, is one of the world's most popular novelists, and her comments were hurtful in part because they are so familiar to the communities of mystery, romance and other "genre fiction" that have a long history of feeling dismissed by advocates of "literary" fiction. "The whole heart of the matter is that Allende said publicly the same things that have often been said privately," Jordan said.
The lines between "commercial" and "literary" fiction have blurred often in recent years, with such prize-winning authors as Thomas Pynchon and Michael Chabon writing detective stories and such "genre" authors as Ray Bradbury and Elmore Leonard receiving honorary National Book Awards.
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Form and function, one of the huge joints that hold up T5; Refections in boots
The Christmas tree lights dance across the polished marble floor at Heathrow Terminal 5 as I wait for the BA1318 to Aberdeen. Overhead massive trusses, forged joints and gigantic metal pins hold this massive structure in place but while this structure is fantastic, it is insignificant to the natural mountain architecture that we have been privileged to live amongst for the last 7 weeks. Annapurna 3 will still be standing, the wind still ripping at its flanks when Terminal 5 is long gone, when we are all long gone.
I sit alone with my thoughts and the countless other travellers scuttling past, ready and eager to be dispatched in jet-powered metal tubes to the corners of the globe. My team mates have scattered too, back to their own lives, their own homes, their own thoughts.
So what did this trip mean to me? We failed. We failed to get up Annapurna 3 due to high winds that blew almost every day and shut down most expeditions in the Himalaya this season and cost the lives of two brave helicopter pilots who were trying to save two climbers of Anna Dablam*. But we gave it a good shot had a wicked laugh, ate some lovely food courteously of Buddhi and all came back in one piece, friends.
That to me is success enough.
Trying to forge a new route on one of the world's highest mountains is not easy, particularly when you choose a style with no fixed ropes, no Sherpas and no oxygen; it is a straight fight between the mountain and the climbers. I am happy to loose this round; there will be many other skirmishes for sure in the future.
So big thanks to Samsung whose electronic gadgetry allowed us to take fantastic pictures to share will you all and to all the other companies who supported the trip without their support expeditions like this do not happen.
*After the helicopter crashed, the Japanese climber phoned Japan to tell of the horrifying news. He spent a lonely night on the mountain before being rescued by a second helicopter. Pemba Sherpa (our Air Dynasty helicopter pilot) was flying in the area and quickly responded to the accident and flew close to the wreckage of the Fishtail helicopter and confirmed that there was no way the pilots could have survived. Pemba could not assist in the rescue of the remaining Japanese climber because his chopper is not powerful enough, and is not set up for that kind of rescue. High altitude helicopter rescues are very risky.


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Scores of opponents of President Nicolas Maduro marched in Caracas on Saturday, vowing to remain on the streets in defiance of a high court ruling limiting protests.
Student organizers at the last minute decided against marching downtown to avoid a confrontation with security forces in the government-controlled district. Instead they concentrated in the wealthier, eastern neighborhoods that have been the hotbed of unrest since February.
Demonstrators carried signs on Saturday blasting a Supreme Court ruling this week that gives police the right to disperse protests that don't have a permit. Opponents say the ruling is the latest attempt by the socialist government to muzzle dissent amid widespread discontent with 57 percent inflation and record shortages.
Protests that the government blames for more than 40 deaths have lost some of their momentum in recent weeks in the face of a government crackdown and an attempt at dialogue by some members of the opposition.
While Maduro is unlikely to cede to opposition demands that it grant an amnesty for jailed activists, the negotiations could force him to loosen the state's tight grip on the economy, said Dimitris Pantoulas, a Caracas-based political consultant.
He points to the government's wink-wink approval of recent price increases for regulated goods and its willingness to divert government savings earmarked for social spending to fund private investments as a sign of encroaching pragmatism.
"Just sitting across the same table as the government is something the opposition hasn't achieved in 15 years" of socialist rule, said Pantoulas.
While students are boycotting the talks, they're asserting considerable pressure on the negotiators by refusing to abandon the streets. For more than a month, dozens have been camping outside the offices of the United Nations, blocking several lanes of traffic on one of the capital's busiest thoroughfares.
Goodman reported from Bogota, Colombia.


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The phrase "slice of life" has been tossed around so haphazardly, for so long, that it's become something of a pejorative--the kind of descriptor that sounds alarm bells of laziness, or preciousness, or predictability. If considering only its broad strokes, Alexander Payne's new film The Descendants sounds as though it could easily fall into those traps; it is the story of a man wrestling with new responsibilities and old secrets as his wife lies on her deathbed. It's in the playing that the film finds its flavor--in Payne's unique ear for dialogue and tone, and in the keenly felt performances, particularly a leading turn by George Clooney that is among his finest work.
Matt King (Clooney) is an overworked husband and father of two. As the story begins, his wife is in a coma, the result of a boating accident; soon after, the doctors deliver the news that she's not going to recover, and that they must honor her "do not resuscitate" wishes. He's got a few days to round up those who might want to say goodbye, and to do so himself, and in a bit of unfortunate timing, he's also coming up on the deadline to make a decision about his extended family's giant patch of inherited land (he's the trustee).
Plus he's got to break the news to his daughters, 17-year-old Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) and 10-year-old Scottie (Amara Miller). The girls were always much closer to his wife, and Payne and Clooney are refreshingly okay with showing that, yes, he's really not a very good dad. He tends to say the wrong things, to get tough or soft at the wrong moments, and he probably lets Alexandra get way too involved in his quest to hunt down the guy he discovers his wife was having an affair with (though, in all fairness, Alexandria's the one who tells him about it).
Clooney proves himself more than up to the broad emotional demands of the role. After discovering her betrayal, he has a solo scene at his dying wife's hospital bed that's kind of a miniature version of Brando's centerpiece monologue in Last Tango, and nearly as revelatory--a scene powerful and prickly, with just a dash of gallows humor. It's a set piece, a footlights speech, but one that is set up and played organically and convincingly. Navigating the dramatic minefields of the screenplay (by Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash), Clooney is provided countless opportunities to overplay, and waves all of them off; the flatness of his voice in the opening narrations doesn't match his desperation, he shows but doesn't push his helplessness when he gets the death sentence, and a late scene where he chooses to let something go is jaw-dropping in the power of its simplicity. This is a magnificent piece of work, nicely orchestrated by a director who knows when to push in close and when to give the actor his space, and the early complaints from some critics of miscasting are just befuddling (the argument that he is too slick and good-looking to play a cuckolded family man are as shallow and out of touch with reality as those Knocked Up complaints).
Woodley, a talented young actor previously unknown to me, has nearly as many scenes as Clooney, and plays off him well; this is a tough, complicated role, and she's got a good handle on it. The supporting cast is filled with welcome faces like Beau Bridges and Judy Greer (she eases deftly and almost unperceptively from tragedy to comedy in her last scene), while Matthew Lillard holds his own with a turn that is natural and believable in a way he's seldom been.
Payne finds a nice incongruity between the Hawaiian setting (Phedon Papamichael's cinematography is casually picturesque) and what is easily his most downbeat story to date. He's not a filmmaker who is out to dazzle us with his inventiveness; we know the score going in to a scene like Matt's late night chat with Alexandria's dullard boyfriend (Nick Krause), and he doesn't try to pull out a surprise. It's all about how the scene is executed, when he chooses to push and pull. That modesty of ambition is probably the cause of the slight backlash to his last feature Sideways, seven long years ago--neither that picture nor his earlier works were intended as Oscar-Nominated Works of Cinema, but as shambling, low-key efforts in the vein of Paul Mazursky or Hal Ashby. The Descendants is a gentle movie, matter-of-fact in its emotions, unassuming in its laughs, and by the time it arrives at its last shot--a static medium-wide frame in which, strictly speaking, nothing much is happening--it has achieved a kind of easygoing perfection.
Jason lives in New York. He holds an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2001 Press Releases > August 2001 > Wayland professor named to journal's editorial board
Wayland professor named to journal's editorial board
Dr. Perry Collins, assistant professor of psychology at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, was recently named to the editorial board of the Journal of Counseling and Development.
The publication is the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association.
Part of the Wayland faculty since 1999, Collins also serves on the editorial review board of The Journal of Humanistic Counseling & Development, the Journal of College Counseling and the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research.
Collins has also contributed work to several publications, including the North American Journal of Psychology, and has had research papers on which he collaborated presented at the American Counseling Association's annual conference and at the American Educational Research Association convention.
Collins is a licensed professional counselor and does counseling and consulting for several entities, including group homes and other agencies


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This is my final list this year, which saw 3 more than usual to make up for the lack of non-AGB Radio action for the past 6 months or so. As usual, I tried to keep the big names out (no Philip Jeck, no William Basinski, no Thomas Brinkmann), as if there's anyone who would read a drone list and not know Basinski put out one of the best drone records of the year. There were so many records that were absolutely amazing but fell a bit too far from my fabricated & arbitrary definition of drone to make this list (Félicia Atkinson, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Eartheater, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma). Maybe next year I'll have a list of Almost Drone records.
The "Solo" part of this list is only to differentiate it from the Collaborations list I already posted, otherwise it's essentially the same as my usual Drone list. I put this list together and realized only one of the records was not a solo operation, so I axed it and made the list 100% individual work (that's not to say other people didn't help out here and there on the records, though).
In case you missed em, there's also my Top 10 Collaborative Drone Records, Top 15 Metal Records, and Top 20 (Not Drone Or Metal) Records lists.
Things will probably be quiet here for a little while after this. I have two more AGB Radio episodes planned (counting down this list next week followed by a holiday episode), then in January I'll be moving and I have a baby that's due, so I'm not making any plans for AGB until I got that shit on lockdown. Might be doing a bunch of AGB Radio re-runs for a while. No idea. You'll know when I know.
Have fun. Thanks for reading/listening/appreciating.


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Amanuensis Monday – Sgt. Robert Wimp
December 21, 2010
In May of this year, I shared some information on my blog about the death of Sgt. Robert Wimp in Vietnam. You can see my original post here.
As a result of that original post, Carol Yates Wilkerson, http://ipentimento.com, added more information about the date, etc. of Sgt. Wimp's death that she located at http://thewall-usa.com/info.asp?recid=56872, and below is the info that was included there.
SFC – E7 – Army – Regular
Length of service 14 years
His tour began on Sep 15, 1968
Casualty was on Feb 19, 1969
In, SOUTH VIETNAM
Body was recovered
Panel 32W – Line 63
Two Heroes…
"On Sunday afternoon, 19 Feb 1969, I had the misfortune of hearing Early, SFC Robert Wimp, and Captain Edwin Ackerman voluntarily charge into the rice paddies with a small SVN popular force team to repel a VC patrol. I listened to them courageously engage in a fierce fire fight, and request helicopter gun ship support. Then all at once I heard them caught up in an ambush with no way to escape."
13 Responses to "Amanuensis Monday – Sgt. Robert Wimp"
Hi Sherrie!
I hope you continued success in documenting the Wimp family!
I am selecting you for the Ancestor Approved Award: http://robinsavingstories.blogspot.com/2011/01/ten-things-that-surprised-humbled-and.html
Visit Leslie to get your award:
I was recently awarded the "Ancestors Approved" Award from a fellow blogger who like my blog. The "Ancestor Approved" Award was created in March 2010 by Leslie Ann Ballou of Ancestors Live Here as a way to show how much she appreciates and enjoys "blogs full of tips and tricks as well as funny and heartwarming stories…" Recipients are to list ten things which surprised, humbled or enlightened them about their ancestors, before passing it on to ten other bloggers.
That's where you come in. You are one of 10 bloggers I would like to recognize. Should you choose to accept the award, you can post it on your blog, create your list and pass it on. I've enjoyed reading your blog.
Kathy Reed
Jones Family Matters
I don't have any Joneses from the areas you discussed,so our families probably don't overlap — one of the many problems tracing this surname.
"that short bit of text says so little, and yet so much, conveying a picture, and a feeling of helplessness as well."
There is such a contrast between the official U.S. government database of casualties and this battle report. The use of words like "misfortune," "courageously," "fierce" and "no way to escape" gives a feel for the emotion behind the cold facts.
If you go search the Vietnam virtual wall on the Net… go look for Edwin Ackerman. I recently added his photo. And also the short text that I had sent Sherry. 🙂
Robert Wimp was my mother's brother. I remember a cold day in January when we were standing in near the newly dug grave of my grandfather in Eads, Colorado. He has recently died of stomache cancer. I was 10 years old. Uncle Bob was wearing a long green military trench coat. After the funeral he was flown back to Vietnam and was killed one month later. I often think of that time. It was the last time he was able to see his 10 brothers and sisters. It was the first time I had met many of my aunts and uncles. Thank you Uncle Bob for your ultimate sacrifice.
A Google search today led me to check out this website and posting. I maintain a remembrance for SFC Wimp on my Together We Served page. My shadow box with his name and others can be seen here.
I was the last person to talk to them on the radio. I did organize a reaction force to try and help, but by the time we got to their location, all we could do was recover their bodies. A very sad moment in time that I still relive every day.
I hope this site is still active and visited as I really need a photo or two of SFC Wimp. Please, and thank you.