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as I remember it YOU were the one that posted that several persons had achieved OVER 100% conversion
I understand where I made my mistake in my original reply on this string.
Tilly SBC/IBA
"A person in love is incomplete, 'till he is married. Then he is finished."
Recovering more BD by weight than the starting material is possible, regardless of the conversion level. It is possible partly because you add caustic soda which converts free fatty acids to soaps and soap has a higher molecular weight than the free fatty acid. And the weight of combined methanol is ever so slightly heavier than the weight of glycerol removed.
But the main factor which can cause a rise in weight is the addition of methanol which must be added in substantial excess for the reaction to work.
Clearly there can never be a rise in weight if the BD is properly washed as washing removes both soaps and excess methanol. It also washes out some perfectly good BD.
In the initial separation a substantial amount of soap goes out with the glycerine layer. If a reaction produces anywhere near 100% yield it is proof that the amount of methanol remaining is also substantial.
On 2 August Michael (aus) posted on the "Making Biodiesel" forum in the topic "Comparing different production techniques" that it was possible to have a yield of 103%.
Tilly SBC/IBA High Yield Div
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I had to find another way of mixing my BioDiesel as my cement mixer has been away on site earning its keep.
The last 3x120lt batches of BD I made in an open top 200lt drum, that I stirred for less than 15 minutes with a length of 2x1 (flat stick).
I use the same stick for mixing the methanol with the sodium hydroxide which also takes less than 15 minutes.
Using this method I get a return of 120lts of BD +/- a couple of litres. I don't wash so is that close enough to 100% or wot ?
My experience
Used cooking oil that starts off a dark black coffee colour,
Changes to a thicker white coffee colour when the methoxide (?) is added,
Goes back to the black coffee colour when it has been mixed enough,
Usually less than 1 minute with 1lt mini-batches, or 6-8 minutes with 120lt batches.
@ 100-15-5? With good oil, and 100-20-6+ if there is a high fat content
My Landrover is a TDI (Turbocharged Direct Injection),
Methanol varies with fat,
70,000+km on BD and blended BD.
Put a tap about 6 inches up from the bottom of the drum for draining off the BD.
Sucking the fumes up in a siphon hose is guaranteed to give you the worst trip ever.
[This message was edited by Dhill on 29 November 2001 at 10:57 AM.]
Now David, don't you feel a little guilty?
With all these other people investing hundreds of dollars on pumps that can move 20,000 litres of oil per minute at 3000psi and stainless steel reaction vessels that were origionally to be used for the pressure hull of a Thresher class submarine, You tell us that all you use is an empty 200 litre drum and mix for less than 15 minutes with a flat stick?
Next you will probably tell us that you no longer do the "Appeasing the Biodiesel Gods" Dance while you are heating the oil, and that you have stopped sing the "Happy Biodiesel Warrior's Transesterfying Chant" as you mix the oil and methoxide.
I am afraid that if this heresy continues you will be required to turn in your decoder ring with secret titrating eyedropper and pipette.
Tilly SBC/IBA Dogma div
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[This message was edited by Tilly on 29 November 2001 at 10:31 PM.]
Great stuff. You're the one we've got to keep an eye on - lots of km on unwashed BD in a direct injection motor.
I have a theory that when the European and American standards were set they were based on what the big companies could achieve, not on what the engines needed. They were erring on the side of caution in order to have the best chance of getting the car manufacturers to agree on warranty.
Now that the warranty question has been largely settled it is time for the real research into what various motors really need.
The first question I would like an answer to is whether there is any harm in using BD which is alkaline and if so whether avoiding the use of aluminium and diecast alloys could avoid the harm.
Your BD is clearly alkaline Dhill. Is there any aluminium or diecast in your fuel line?
What is the ratio of BD to diesel that you have used?
Keep rolling.
Hi all,
Yesterday I made my first batch using the Dr Pepper technique. Picked up just discarded oil that was about 2 days old and hot 150F, I didn't worry about water, as I felt there should be none.
Filtered and Titration and came up using a total NaOH wt of 5.2gr. and 200ml of methanol. Blended the 2 and added 1liter oil that cooled to 130F and blended again. Poured off mix into a 2liter bottle and in a few hours looked well. I measured off in the pop bottle the 200ml and 1200ml as the should be fill lines.
In 8hr there was not to much glycerine in the bottom, was black and not thick or solid from what I have read. My % looks like 1050 to 1100ml of BD, Is this Possible and why is the glycerine not thicker even after Cooling oner night in the Frig? Did not turn to a gell and looked good.
Then UPS droped off the static mixer I ordered and rushed to set up the 44l mix.
I mixed 2gal of Methonal and had a hard time mixing in the NaOh (228gr) and the oil was cooling down to 120F fast. Some crystals ended up mixing in the oil and I ran the mix through a pump and 6in 1/2 6 tine static mixer pulling fron the bottom of the tank return line on top. Pumped for 45min..
Took a sample of about 3cups and added to a liter bottle. In about 4hrs was settling a bit different than the 1l test, in 8hrs looked like honey, but just slight cloudy, on a scale of 1-10, 9.5. I thought not bad for not having a good mix of sodium Methoxide. I could see only 2 layers of seperation.
After 8hr of settling I set in the freezer over night and was a light solid WVO color. Within min the solid turned to a liquid and I Drained off the oil and Glycerine, This was just like the test batch as in over 100% outcome BD.
I was hoping to distill the 2gal of methanol and reuse to keep cost down. where or what % is in the BD and in glycerine? How much methonal can I plan on distilling back when I have yields like this?
WASHING. I did a wash of the second batch test and this doesn't look to good!
Put the 3cups BD in a large 4cup container. Sprayed with a spray bottle untill ther was about 1/2cup of dark cloudy water in bottom of cup, poured off oil and took ph reading of wash water, 9.5ph. Read up on washing and added some vinegar and sprayed again. No need to read ph. The first wash was cloudy the second was worse, looked like honey butter, light tan in color, Like it went through a blender and the residual settling has a white layer and cloudy water layer after a good 3hrs of setting. Still no gell. Is this normal? I know I need to wait 24h till doing the next wash, But the color looks like I messed up some where?
Any ideas?
I will try to answer a few of your questions.
The length of time it takes for the glycerine to solidify depends on a lot of things, and particurlarly what type of oil you are using.
The glycerine from tallow goes solid MUCH quicker than the glycerine from canola. As a matter of fact, glycerine from canola may take days to go solid.
Lightly used oil will give you very close to the same amount of Biodiesel as WVO that you start with, and yes I have collected MORE Biodiesel than the starting WVO but I don't know how much is left after washing. Michael aus said it is possible to have a 103% yield, but 007 says not, so I will have to do more testing on this just to see what is what.
As for recovering methanol, most of the methanol is in the glycerine. I did some tests back in May and posted the results on the "General Biodiesel Discussion" forum on 9May.
If you distil the glycerine you should get back around 35ml-40ml methanol/litre WVO or about 20% of the original methanol used. If you stop collecting around 100 deg c the methonal should be around 98% pure which is good enough for making BD.
Washing has been talked about a lot on the forum. There are good reasons to NOT use vinegar in your wash. The important thing about washing is GENTLY, GENTLY GENTLY. Biodiesel always looks worse straight after you wash, but it does quickly clear.
Keep us posted as to the outcome.
Tilly SBC/IBA Paradise Div
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
TL, sounds as though your washing is as yet incomplete. Use equal volumes of BD and washwater.
Although I have found that vinegar (especially small quantities in the form of glacial acetic acid added to the BD before wash) works wonders at reducing foaming, it has been suggested that other problems such as reformation of free fatty acids are introduced. Best to avoid using vinegar where possible and as Tilly says wash GENTLY.
My 1L test batches (Dr Pepper) can usually be washed, filtered and ready for use in 2 hours.
Most batches require three lots of wash water. The bubble washing is usually continuous with the exception of batches with low levels of NaOH which tend to foam badly when washed. These batches are washed intermittently to allow the foam to settle and usually require more than 3 washes. The endpoint for washing is a reasonably clear wash water with a pH of 8 measured using Universal Indicator. Phenolphthalein indicator could be used but it indicates alkalinity more than neutrality. Wash till wash water gives clear mix with phenolphthalein then give an extra wash.
The white layer sounds like tallow/tallow esters.
However since freezing the raw BD produced no deposit of tallow/tallowesters I wouldn't be sure of that one. This whitish material should be filtered out of the washed BD before drying. The heat involved in drying liquifies the whitish material. Whilst the warm dried BD will be clear, when it cools this material comes out of solution and clouds the BD. It can take weeks to settle out. I no longer dry my washed BD. Besides eliminating a stage and energy input I have found that the filtered washed BD is crystal clear and stable. The white material is retained by the filter paper (whatman No. 1, pore size retention 11 um ). Test drying has not produced any further separation of water.
You mention a suggestion to wait 24hrs before the next wash. What would be the purpose of this? If the BD is separating well from the wash water I see no reason for this.
Could you expand on your statement "still no gel"?.
Regards, Squarepeg.
HI Tilly
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Hi Netural
I have no idea how alkaline my BD is, I have never checked it.
The fuel lift pump on my Landrover, seems to be aluminium and the injector pump seems to be cast iron.
I started using blended BD at around 42,000km mark, anywhere from 20% to 80% for around 48,000km.
Of the last 15,000km, 5,000 has been on 60%+BD, and the other 10,000 on 100% BD.
Paul and Tilly
I using good used vegetable oil, could have some chicken fat from those good fried wing? No tallow.
I started washing the larger batch of BD (12gal) This past Fri. Did one wash. Must not have had the BD warm enough, It seemed to glob together into two layers, white in color and the BD. I let it set over night and Sat AM Drained off a white liquid and then BD. I did 2 more washes that day. Used about 20gal of water and the wash started to get clear. Checked water PH and is about 8.2 and doesn't change. I thought I would do one more wash on Sun Am and try to get the PH close to 7.
Ran warm water through the BD and it globbed up again, Did some reading on temp and found the BD temp might be to low, 65F. Heated the BD mix up 160F till it seperated and the liquid turned white again. I must have ran over 40 gal of water through the BD and It will not change to clear.
Could it be that there is left over lye in the bottom of the tank and when the BD and water was heated it reacted and made soap?
I had a problem when mixing the methanol and Lye,
Not all mixed together but did get mixed in with the WVO when mixing.
I'll have that problem fixed on my next batch run for next week if the heater and pump are in.
I only have about 5 gal of BD with the white stuff left because of fustration.
I know one of the problems was the BD was not warm enough when I was washing. What is a good temp to wash? What I found was having the BD temp 90 to 105 and the wash above 85F. The water was ready to drain off in 20min of wash.
The question about gel, I put the Dr. Pepper batch the the Refrigator and I thought being below 40F it would thicken or gel up.
Also if I stopped washing at the point the BD wash water was close to clear and PH8.2 sound like it would have been ok to use. Dry, filter or what you suggest don't dry. How is this for use in winter climets? The snow should have been here by now and using the truck for plowing. It's going to be close to 60F tomorrow. I want to try this in our new chevy Durmax with a 20% blend. But don't want to rush it till it's write.
Any ideas?
TL, it has been my experience that the temp of the wash water does not make a great deal of difference, except I keep the temp above the temp that the BD solidifys at. In the case of tallow BD, 20 deg c (70 deg f) is sufficent. I think chicken fat would be considered tallow.
I have noticed that cool wash water seems to washe better/faster than warm.
If you had a layer of white and a layer of BD it sounds like the high temp tallow esters had started to solidify, and yes your wash water was TOO cold.
When washing the important thing is GENTLY GENTLY GENTLY.
My first wash is an equal amount of water as BD sprayed GENTLY over the top of the BD in a FINE spray, making NO ripples or splashes. This water quickly passes thru the BD and I immediatly remove this cloudy water and dispose of it.
The second and subsequent washes are also sprayed but a bit of GENTLE aggitation is allowed.
No your problem should NOT be left over NaOH, as the chemists on the board have advised that any residual NaOH and methanol will all be picked up by the first wash.
Tilly SBC/IBA Hand washing Div
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[This message was edited by Tilly on 04 December 2001 at 09:43 AM.]
I too have been using unwashed BD in s pre-combustion engine 100 % and have done near 40000ks ,the injection pump is an inline piston and is all alloy as is the lift pump and filter houseing ,block and head are cast steel,I have noted no degeneration of any alloy parts except to note their clean state.I had been concerned the BD may have hassened the death of the motor so as to give me a chance to pull it down and note any internal defects caused by the use of BD unfortunately it just keeps on going better than ever,The motor is old and does use oil.but it seems to perform better now than when it was running on dino d.
Hi Hintertech
Another interesting story! 40,000km on unwashed biodiesel is a pretty fair test. The location of the aluminium in your fuel line is of interest. Does the fuel come into contact with the pump housings or is it completely contained in other internal components of steel, plastic etc?
It seems as though the fuel would be contacting aluminium in one place, the filter housing. Have you had a look inside that?
The fuel limes are rubber and steel the pump housing is alloy and in perfect ,all be it very clean (definately no pitting or discolouiration).The lift pump is steel with an alloy piston no rubber seal and steel flap valves,again very clean,the injector pump I have not dismantled ,however the housing is alloy,I would expect the interior to be a mix of high carbon steels and alloys,the performance of the engine sujests that their has been little degredation to tolerences internally in the pump.Just of interest I stored some BD (unwashed) in an alluminium pot for a few weeks ,the line at the level of the liquid was dicernable as "shiny below the BD line" not holey,mayby Im lucky and only have a slightly High PH,it does eat enamel paint ,but I dont quite know how to test its PH as Tilly has explained a straight PH test will be inacurate unless done in water not BD.Since Im using WVO oil in the sump I sort of figured the high acid content below the pistons would nutralise the high base levels being injected above...This of cause is in jest!
I know we are talking the wrong subject in this forum,but its the most interesting one
Thanks for the reply,
I know the washes I did on Sun were no way Gentle.
I'll try and wash and filter out the white gel with hope of clear water in 2 washes or less.
So it sounds like the chicken fat/tallow could be the white stuff? Using agressive last washing brought on this change? So I need to keep it gentle.
Tilly SBC/IBA GENTLY GENTLY GENTLY Washing Div
"An optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true".
I did a demonstration on washing bd using the MIST WASH SYSTEM today using tallow based BD as the test subject
no heating of the tallow was done at all nor was the water heated the tallow was decanted directly from the settling barrel and the glycerin was seperated at this time in a solid mass
the water was sorced direct from the house supply via an outside tap
the first wash went as expected and produced a layer of discoloured water and a cream layer that if seperated from the main body will eventually settle out to water and biodiesel
the second wash when as expected again with only two layers this time discoloured water and biodiesel
the third wash was left a little to long allowing the level to rise and the biodiesel to get to close to the misting nozzel this caused agitation on the surface and injected the water into the biodiesel a little to harshely, after turning off the water and allowing the bd to start settling large blobs of white stiff started to float to the surface
we took of two bottles of this stuff and did two tests
1 added a small amount of salt directly to the white stuff and shook this caused the white stuff to break up/disolve (or what ever) and reverted back to biodiesel
2 added heat only this caused the WS to again revert to biodiesel
we discussed these reactions for some time wondering if I had produced a problem I have had this happen before only when I allow the water to mist into the bd to aggressively this stuff can also be scooped of and just allowed to seperate on its own it seams to have no ill effect on the biodiesel and seams to be harmless
the moral I have to fit a ball valve to my wash barrel to restrict the level although this will not effect the 1:1 ratio of water to bd
NEUTRAL seeing as you are so knowledgable in this field maybe you could find the time to explain what I have produced here
to me it appears to be water,air,and biodiesel forced together, with the air causing it to float to the top of the bd layer
on testing the bd with new clear water the water and bd seperated well with the water very near clear but very slightly hazy although you could see through it easily
I do not BUBBLE wash as I have found that system to be a wast of time very slow and difficult to control
todays wash was done over a 4 hour period this included lots of stop starts (so my guest could have a look at the misting and emulsifying of the water and bd without using mechanicle assistance) the constant stop starts had no ill effect to the wash cycle
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I would be very happy with that conference ** -- Calamitous 03/06/2018 9:31PM
If schools start deciding that academic conferences -- VTHokie2000 03/06/2018 12:23PM
Academic conferences? -- Pylons 03/06/2018 5:06PM
"Academic conferences" already exist though -- VTHokie2000 03/06/2018 5:28PM
Of course there are alliances, as I indicated in my post -- Pylons 03/06/2018 5:46PM
My point was that athletic conferences don't need to have -- VTHokie2000 03/07/2018 12:45PM
Agreed. It's already that way without anyone deciding anything -- Pylons 03/07/2018 1:06PM
But is academics really independent though? -- VTHokie2000 03/07/2018 1:24PM
Academics is absolutely independent -- Pylons 03/07/2018 4:36PM
If academics has no bearing on who joins an athletic conference -- VTHokie2000 03/07/2018 5:08PM
I wouldn't put much stock into what the ACC did sixty years ago -- Pylons 03/07/2018 5:31PM
Back in 2011 Brett McMurphy sent out the following tweet -- VTHokie2000 03/08/2018 12:04AM
So you have a sportswriter guessing about the "likely" reason -- Pylons 03/08/2018 10:30AM
Yes, a sportswriter is speculating based on the Brett McMurphy tweet -- VTHokie2000 03/08/2018 10:48AM
Instead of grasping at maybe's and might haves, you might just pull out -- Pylons 03/08/2018 5:15PM
B1G and it's not even close..... -- CrystalCoveHokie 03/06/2018 09:15AM
You are correct ** -- Hamburger 03/07/2018 05:40AM
I think you are spot on... -- 2hhoop3 03/06/2018 11:25AM
Athletics wouldn't be a driver -- Pylons 03/06/2018 11:20AM
Its not like they don't have a lot of good academic schools in the SEC -- EDGEMAN 03/06/2018 11:24AM
Yeah, if the ACC relationship went sour, Big Ten would be a great fit. ** -- reestuart 03/06/2018 09:45AM
ACC is and should be home! ** -- Lakeridgehokie 03/06/2018 09:12AM
Either would suck for the fans -- EDGEMAN 03/06/2018 08:55AM
If VT ended up in the Big Ten East, it wouldn't be that bad. ** -- reestuart 03/06/2018 09:44AM
Rutgers vs BC - Not sure they is any win in that! ** -- Lakeridgehokie 03/06/2018 10:37AM
Rutgers, more specifically their leadership, is a boil.... -- 2hhoop3 03/06/2018 11:32AM
True! I didn't even think of them, but since we are required to -- reestuart 03/06/2018 10:42AM
Most likely Indiana would move to the West and be in the same -- VTHokie2000 03/06/2018 12:18PM
That would be a whole lot of fun. ** -- reestuart 03/06/2018 1:12PM
Much prefer ACC. Want nothing to do with SEC. ** -- reestuart 03/06/2018 08:03AM
After UNC's cheating came to light, I no longer view the ACC... -- MP4VT2004 03/06/2018 7:51PM
I wake up every morning worried this is the day UNC embarrasses us again. ** -- Byting Gobbler 03/23/2018 10:09PM
I guess I still don't equate "us" with the ACC. -- MP4VT2004 03/23/2018 10:24PM


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Friday, Feb. 6 and Friday, Feb. 13
2-3:30 p.m.
This tour will highlight individuals and locations related to Akron's African American history. As part of the event, Dave Lieberth will lead a hike to the John Brown Monument and the program will conclude at the John Brown House before returning to the UA campus.
Board the trolley at College Street Circle off E. Buchtel Avenue by the Honors College and Arts & Sciences Building. Seating is limited.
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Enjoying life is something Tallahassee resident Dottie McPherson has no problem with. She says, "My resolution is to make more people laugh because I laugh all day everyday, all of the time. It builds endorphins and it makes you healthier. I want everybody to live as long as I'm going to live because I'm going to make it to 100. I plan to spend this next year working toward that goal."
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Letters to the editor should
be' sent to the Clarion, P.O. 91.,
by the Monday preceeding publication.
September 17, 1973
To The Editor:
I would like to respond briefly to the article written by
Judy Harrington after an interview with me last week.
At the close of our conversation, we agreed that I would not
need to see the article before it was printed.
I learned a hard lesson. The article in no way represents the
spirit of our office or the spirit in which we view the problems of
Bethel College housing. The negative spirit of the article
completely misrepresents the actual interview my secretary and I
had with Judy.
Marilyn M. Starr
Director of Housing
Editor's Note: It was not the writer's intent to misconstrue
jnformation in this article or present a negative view of
administration policy in regard to student housing. We believe the
"spirit" of a story is formed in its facts and quotes. If these can
be contested, we are in error indeed.
Defense Defended
To The Editor:
I thoroughly enjoyed the ironical article found in the
September 15 issue of the Clarion, entitled" A case for the
defense." The writers clearly illustrate the transparency of some
of the assinine arguments employed by Nixon and his high
echelon White House aides.
The article makes one again wonder if the American people
wouldn't benefit more by staffing the Senate Watergate Committee
with members of the press.
Respectfully yours,
Kent Sandstrom
Student Association President:
by Dan Nelson
With the start of another year, it is time to re-evaluate our
Dr. Mack Nettleton suggested three priorities last Tuesday
night as he spoke to the Bethel Student Senate at their first
meeting of the year. As advisor to the Senate, Dr. Nettleton
emphasized that he viewed his role of advisor as a service to that
body. He said that he would usually offer advice only when
asked, but ventured the following three suggestions based on his
experience of last year. They were:
I. Make use of the systems we have. In most cases at Bethel,
the proper channel through which to air greivances is a StudentFaculty
committee. Committees exist at Bethel with the express
purpose of dealing with campus problems which arise. This year,
the Student Association is making a concentrated effort to coordinate
the workings of these committees in order to speed
student problems to the forefront of consideration. Also this will
increase student influence on the committees. Dan Blomquist,
Vice President of the Association, is co-ordinating this effort.
II. Don't strain at gnats. It is easy to worry about a very
small problem and let a big one slip by unnoticed. Before our student
government can deal with problems, we must be able to separate
the chaff from the grain. For example, the subject of justifying
a homecoming queen is more important than selecting one.
As another example the establishmen t of an effective line of
communication between the students and the Business people at
Bethel would be more important than getting them to keep the
banking window open longer (although it is hoped that the
second will result from the first).
III. Fiscal responsibility. With an annual Student Association
budget of thirty thousand dollars, it would be easy to look
for ways to spend it all. It is much harder to look for ways to
conserve it Hopefully, students can take the lead in this area.
I am glad for the suggestions t\lat Dr. Nettleton has made,
and I feel that the faster we implement them, the more effective
our student government will be. In future weeks, I will be discussing
other new priorities for students in this column. If you have
a goal that your student government should be considering, stop
by at my office (F A315) and let me know about it.
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The Film that makes Nixon perfectly clear.
Shoes-and ships-and
sealing wax
by David J. Healy
I'm told that it's customary for new columnists to begin by
(1) stating their purpose(s) and (2) providing prospective readers
with some inkling of the column's proposed content and format.
1. This is easy enough. My purpose is to entertain, inform,
stimulate, enlighten, challenge, and utterly delight my readers.
2. Here I pause with mixed emotions. Any attempt at outlining
my hopes and fears for this space runs two risks: first, that
I could thereby harness myself to some kind of form, thus stifling
potential creativity; and second, that I might mitigate the elements
of surprise and informality to be achieved by jumping right
in. On the other hand, to begin with no introduction at all could
result in considerable confusion. Since I fear this last possibilty
more than the other two combined, I have elected to try to give
some foreshadowing of the direction this column will take,
to wit:
I am, of course, obliged to write within the general framework
established by my boss, and that essentially boils down to
this: human interest. I will therefore be interested in what Bethel
people are 'doing, partiCUlarly those kinds of things which might
otherwise get no pUblicity.
So, if you should come across someone or something of note,
feel free to pass it along. I make no guarantee that I'll use your
suggestion, but, as your high school counselor used to say,
"You'll never know if you don't try."
Bethel Clarion, Sept. 14, 1973, from an article entitled
"Miss Starr sets housing policy":
1. A bedroom is not for entertainment, and this is essentially
what dorm rooms are.
2. Assuming that all students are normal human beings, all
men and women are vulnerable to sex.
3. The administration has had several problems in this
regard (pt. 2).
Miss Starr assures me that her knowledge of the administration's
problems "in this regard" is limited to those problems they
have had with students. However, it does make for some interesting
Some mild dissatisfaction has been expressed by various
parties over the rather unimaginative names given to our new
buildings : Academic Center, Fine Arts Center, and the like. There
seems to be a general feeling that this naming system lacks a
certain amount of class.
Take heart ye mourners. I think I have discovered the
beginnings of a reversal of this tend~ncy toward blah ness. Bethel
hired a new man this year in Audio Visuals. And what do you
suppose his title is? Something staid and tradional like "A. V.
Director?" Not a chance. Try this one: Coordinator of Non-print
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Debbie Claassen is a freshman at Bethel this year. She can
distinguish between light and dark, can read some headlines and
she can see large shapes. Bu t she is legally blind.
"Many of my blind friends may disagree with me, but I am
thankful that I was born blind," said Debbie. "I think ~hat the
adjustments would have been harder if I had possessed sIght and
then lost it. I'm thankful God made me the way He did."
Debbie plans a major in political science and hopes to go int.o
law. However, creative writing is another of her interests. ThIS
interest has already resulted in the completion of a novel, Home
of Ashes.
"It's a story about a married couple, with a happy ending!"
Deb explained. "Now I'm getting it transcribed from Braille into
manuscript form."
She is also excited about her piano lessons, which will begin
soon. In the past, Debbie has played the trumpet and the guitar.
She enjoys music very much.
According to Debbie, her parents have never been overly
protective. They encouraged her independence, sending her. to
public schools. At the present time Deb is living off campus wIth
a girlfriend who is also blind.
"Budgeting time is very important to my studies. Some of
my books are in Braille, and some I listen to on tapes. But
mostly, I try to get my friends to read our lessons t~ me. F.or
doing this, the state will pay them one dollar per hour, she saId.
In addition to the handicap of her sight, Debbie has a mild
case of cerebral palsy. This sometimes hampers her walking, but
it doesn't bother her in other activities. In walking from class to
class Debbie is assisted by her seeing eye dog, Connie.
Transportation was a problem for Debbie at the beginning of
the year. Before classes started, she looked for a means of getting
to and from Bethel from her apartment. A fellow freshman, Bill
DeVoe, contacted her the Saturday before school began. He is
now providing her with a ride every day.
Debbie received her dog from Guide Dogs, Inc., in San Rafael,
California. As puppies, the dogs are trained by 4-H members for
about six months. Then Debbie and the prospective owners come
to the center, where the temperaments of the persons and the
dogs are matched.
"I'm still getting used to Connie, since we were matched just
this summer," she remarked.
When both of them are resting, Debbie is pleased to have
attention paid to Connie, but when Connie is working, with
Debbie's hand on the harness handle, others should not distract
the guide dog.
Debbie doesn't let her blindness set her apart from others.
She commented, "When my friends come up to me, I don't say
to myself, "Here come my sighted friends!" I think of them only
as my friends."
"I like it here at Bethel. Bethel students are loving and
friendly, and they don't act funny when I'm around. They don't
whisper or act too goopy."
There are advantages to being blind which many people don't
realize, according to Debbie. She explain:d she is ~ot burdened
with forming pictures of God or Jesus m her mmd, as many
sighted people do, thereby limiting their concept of God.
"When someone says 'God is light', I think of brightness,
but also of the other aspects of light. God is warm, and He is all
around us," she said.
For the present, Debbie only plans to get a solid education.
She wants her future employer to know that she can take the
responsibility for her own successes and failures.
Debbie Claasen and her dog, Connie
Bus-Econ endowed
by Cindy Hillegas
The Otto Bremer Foundation has granted Bethel $25,000 to
develop a Business-Economics major. The money will be used to
hire a department head and strengthen the existing courses. The
present curriculum allows for a concentration in business, and a
cognate in economics. Many students take additional courses at
the University of Minnesota.
"People graduating out of Bethel with Christian motivations
are needed in the business field," said Virgil Olson, Dean of
The purpose of the proposed program is to prepare students
for management and executive positions, Certified Public
Accountant programs, managing church affairs, running their own
businesses, and graduate work in the business field.
This year Bethel has 35 students enrolled in business,
compared to five students in 1968-69. The new program should
bring more men students to Bethel, and help to fill the openings
in the business field.
If the extra funds are received, and the Board of Regents
approve the program, the Business-Economics concentration may
be available next year.
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KA-BY Radio will be on the air two
months from now. KA-BY is the Bethel
radio station, which is located on the
third floor of the Learning Resource
For almost two years Bethel College
has been without a full time student radio
station. After serious equipment problems
the old Bethel station, WBCS Radio,
went off the air late in 1971.
With the move to th~ new campus,
new radio equipment was purchased.
Money from the building fund was allocated
and bids were received in September
of 1972. Audio Engineers, ~ Minneapolis
company, was awarded the contract.
The firm's responsibility was extended to
all audio systems on the campus. After
repeated delay the public address systems
were installed. The radio station is -next
and should be completed in -late October.
Last year KA-BY did some part time
broadcasting of away basketball games.
The station hopes to have a 'full program
schedule this school year.
Contemporary Christian "rock" and
Top 40 music will be featured on KA-BY.
This will make Bethel radio different
from any other radio station in the Minneapolis-
Saint Paul area. National Christian
music programs such as Master 'Control,
Sounds of Joy, and Powerline will be
heard on KA-BY.
Other features of KA-BY will include
two weekly telephone talk shows, news,
and a bulletin board show.
The program budget comes from the
Student Association. The Communications
Board elects the general manager
with confirmation of the appointment
coming from the Senate. Steve Ferrario
will be general manager through Ja~uary.
Unlike the editors of the Clarion and
Spire, the general manager of the radio
station is elected for a term that starts
and ends in the spring.
Don Anderson will be operations
manager of KA-BY. It is his job to interview
and place students who would like
to work on the radio station staff. Any
student interested should contact Don at
the station in room LR300.
Dr. Roy Wilbee is the radio station
adviser. In his position as Audio-Visual
director he will contribute, actively in
helping the student staff determine radio
station policy.
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Events this Weekend
Movies - Bless the Beasts and the
Children, and Kotch, - Friday night
Soccer at U. of M. - Saturday
Football at Upper Iowa - Saturday
Cross Country vs. Southwest State and
Gustavus - Saturd~y
Hans Selvog Concert - Saturday Night
Chapel Program
Monday: Norman Nelson, singer, and
Bill McKee; from California
Tuesday: Student Missionary Presentation
Wednesday: Pastor Lawson, beginning a
series. on Holy Spirit
Thursday: Dr. Robert Mounce, Dean of
Western Kentucky University ,
speaking on Christian faith
and liberal education
Friday : President Carl Lundquist
New students view' Bethel
by Wayne Pauluk
A sampling of new students interviewed
last week on their impressions of
Betbel commented on the Christian
atmosphere, the openness of the professors,
and, especially, the friendliness of
the students.
Jenny Roth, transfer student from
Trinity College, remarked, "I visited here
last year, and all the kids were friendly.
I didn't feel like a newcomer."
When JoAim ' Palace, transfer student
from Wright Jr. College, reached Bethel,
"No one came running up, 'welcome,
welcome, welcome', like I was a lost
sheep. The kids here are just friendly. I
don't think I'm going to feel' like a
stranger," she said.
As , individuals, each new studentnoticed
different aspects of Bethel life
in their first days here.
"I didn't expec.t the lines' for registration.
I expected to take the courses I
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Colin Eliason, transfer student f~om
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"The secular universities present a distorted
view of psychology. I came here
to get its Christian perspective."
Another freshman, John Cox, was
encouraged because, as he said, "I haven't
run across anyone that would be a bad
influence." John came here to ' run in
track and cross country.
"I like the Art Departm~nt. It has
good facilities. And I was glad to find out
about the prayer chapel. It should be very
helpful," said George Effrem, freshman.
Cindy Bjork, a freshman as well, likes
the small college.
"The campus has so much room to
tromp in the woods. I feel closer to God
than ever before," Cindy said.
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Bethel's little meeting with Macalester is nothing more than
statistics in black and white. The more recent contest with
Dakota Wesleyan also rests quietly in the books. If one were to
unfold these meticulously kept records he would find that Bethel
outclassed both opponents in several crucial categories, such as a
two to one margin in first downs in each contest.
Yet, in the final analysis Bethel proved to be a much sounder
football team last Saturday than it was in its first outing. What
was the difference?
I asked Mark Wood, offensive captain, and Ralph Gustafson,
defensive captain, to inform me on how Bethel improved their
overall effectiveness.
Mark and Ralph agreed that the big difference was the
number of mistakes that Bethel didn't make last week. Wesleyan
recovered one loose ball that proved to be costly, but the
menacing errors which plagued Bethel against Mac were remote in
the minds of the players and in the game laSt week. Ralph
pointed out that Wesleyan committed the costly errors this time,
especially in the category of penalties. Also, Ralph thought the
Royals were better prepared last game.
"We had played this team before and at least the upper
class men were mentally more confident. We knew just what to
expect from them," Ralph said.
These, of course, are not an inclusive set of determining
factors in deciding a ballgame. There are other factors which are
equally unpredictable and may happen at any time. Every athlete
on the playing field knows he is susceptible to injury; yet, when
he's out on the turf giving it everything he's got, he can't dwell on
the reality that he may be injured at any time on any given play.
And it happens. Mark hit the nail on the head when he
remarked that losing our starting quarterback, Marshall Shelley,
hurt Bethel's offensive mechanics against Mac. Marshall has a year
of experience behind him whereas the offense was just three
weeks old to John Holine.
There is almost an art to the timing and tuning it takes for an
offense to get together and form a synchronized unit, or, as
offensive coach Ray Fischer would say, "a power offensive
weapon". And last Saturday I was impressed with the excellent
job that John did. Many of the flaws of a week ago were ironed
out, and I know that he'll lead Bethel to many victories in the
Perhaps I've left some readers unconvinced who feel that
Bethel didn't playa better brand of football last Saturday, but
rather that Wesleyan was, in actuality, a weaker team than Mac.
Try telling one of the Bethel players that. They'll tell you that
the men they had to line up against were just as tough as anyone
of their Mac opponents.
I trust that the momentum and the winning spirit gained
from this game is the start of the best season Bethel has had in a
long time. I predict that this will be a winning year. There could
be no better tribute to Coach Reynolds and his first four-year
graduating seniors.
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Rossi grinds out more Royal yardage
Royals dump Dakota
Westleyan, 16-13
by Curt Kregness
Fullback Jack Rossi rushed 60 yards to lead the Royals'
ground attack Saturday against the Dakota Wesleyan Tigers. Th~
Royals downed the Tigers 16-13 on a fourth quarter field goal
by Brent Lundgren.
The Tigers took advantage of a Bethel fumble late in the first
quarter to score their first touchdown. Minutes later, in the
second quarter, the Tigers picked off a John Holine pass to set
them up for their final touchdown.
The Royals came back quickly later in the second quarter as
they marched down the field, and scored their first touchdown
on an 11 yard pass to sophomore Terry Jenson.
With less than three minutes remaining in the first half,
Bethel struck again, this time scoring on a one yard run by
Holine, sophomore starting quarterback. The score was tied 13-13
at the end of the first half.
In the scoreless third quarter, the Royals' defense showed its
strength as it stopped an important Tiger drive on fourth down
and inches to go. Scoring in the fourth quarter was senior Brent
Lundgren, as he booted the winning field goal 26 yards for the
The Royals clearly dominated the statistics, gaining 268 total
yards to the Tigers' 137 yard total. Bethel also gained 12 first
downs against the Tigers' 6.
In other Tri-State Conference action, Northwestern-Iowa
posted a 2-0 record as of September 8, defeating South Dakota
State University and Dakota State (Madison). Westmar and Sioux
Falls were both 0-1, while Yankton had beaten Doane to post a
1-0 record.
The Royals travel south tomorrow to clash with Upper
Iowa at 1:30.
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A recent study from a Washington think tank argues the U.S. Postal Service should provide only last-mile delivery of mail and open all other aspects of the mail system to competition. The report from the non-partisan Information Technology and Innovation Foundation came to a similar conclusion as an earlier proposal from a group of four mailing industry leaders who released a concept paper that also proposed a public-private partnership with the Postal Service focusing on final delivery. Those authors envisioned that this so-called hybrid model would encourage innovation and efficiency.
A panel of fellows from the National Academy of Public Administrators (NAPA), a nonprofit and non-partisan organization providing expert advice to government leaders, reviewed the earlier paper and concluded that many of the ideas represent expansions of current public-private partnerships already employed by the Postal Service, i.e., worksharing. The panel recommended further study around a host of related areas, including financial, labor-related, operational integration and regulatory issues – all of which could pose a range of new challenges.
Critics note a number of shortcomings with these hybrid model proposals. First, the papers don't provide a full cost-benefit analysis of privatizing parts of the system. Revenue could be lost if service were reduced, which could occur with numerous service providers involved in mail transportation and processing. Further, the papers don't indicate what would become of the Postal Service's infrastructure of buildings and equipment.
Papers and studies proposing new business models for the Postal Service are nothing new. Think tanks and academic conferences regularly churned out suggestions for rethinking the Postal Service model, ranging from a return to an appropriated government agency to privatization. Last year, the Postal Service put forward its own business plan for returning to solvency, which it called its Plan to Profitability. Recently, the Board of Governors asked the Postal Service to accelerate many of the action items in that plan.
The Postal Service's 5-year plan requires a number of legislative actions from Congress and does not effectively change the current governance model. That is, the Postal Service would remain a self-supporting government entity funded through its own revenues. The plan calls for some greater freedoms around offering new products, greater control of its healthcare costs, and closing facilities but it does not abandon its public service or universal service roles.
We would like to hear your thoughts. Do you think a hybrid model, like the one considered in the recent papers, has merit? Would such a model add efficiencies or would it merely shift work away from postal workers, as some have claimed? In an era of shrinking mail volume and changing communications, what business model would work best for the Postal Service? How does the Postal Service continue to support its universal service obligation under a new model?


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Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia. The capital is Kiev (Kyiv), located on the Dnieper River in north-central Ukraine.
A fully independent Ukraine emerged only late in the 20th century, after long periods of successive domination by Poland-Lithuania, Russia, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Ukraine had experienced a brief period of independence in 1918–20, but portions of western Ukraine were ruled by Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia in the period between the two World Wars, and Ukraine thereafter became part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (S.S.R.). When the Soviet Union began to unravel in 1990–91, the legislature of the Ukrainian S.S.R. declared sovereignty (July 16, 1990) and then outright independence (August 24, 1991), a move that was confirmed by popular approval in a plebiscite (December 1, 1991). With the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in December 1991, Ukraine gained full independence. The country changed its official name to Ukraine, and it helped to found the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), an association of countries that were formerly republics of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine is bordered by Belarus to the north, Russia to the east, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea to the south, Moldova and Romania to the southwest, and Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland to the west. In the far southeast, Ukraine is separated from Russia by the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea.
Ukraine occupies the southwestern portion of the Russian Plain (East European Plain). The country consists almost entirely of level plains at an average elevation of 574 feet (175 metres) above sea level. Mountainous areas such as the Ukrainian Carpathians and Crimean Mountains occur only on the country's borders and account for barely 5 percent of its area. The Ukrainian landscape nevertheless has some diversity: its plains are broken by highlands—running in a continuous belt from northwest to southeast—as well as by lowlands.
The rolling plain of the Dnieper Upland, which lies between the middle reaches of the Dnieper (Dnipro) and Southern Buh (Pivdennyy Buh, or the Boh) rivers in west-central Ukraine, is the largest highland area; it is dissected by many river valleys, ravines, and gorges, some more than 1,000 feet (300 metres) deep. On the west the Dnieper Upland is abutted by the rugged Volyn-Podilsk Upland, which rises to 1,545 feet (471 metres) at its highest point, Mount Kamula. West of the Volyn-Podilsk Upland, in extreme western Ukraine, the parallel ranges of the Carpathian Mountains—one of the most picturesque areas in the country—extend for more than 150 miles (240 km). The mountains range in height from about 2,000 feet (600 metres) to about 6,500 feet (2,000 metres), rising to 6,762 feet (2,061 metres) at Mount Hoverla, the highest point in the country. The northeastern and southeastern portions of Ukraine are occupied by low uplands rarely reaching an elevation of 1,000 feet (300 metres).
Among the country's lowlands are the Pripet Marshes (Polissya), which lie in the northern part of Ukraine and are crossed by numerous river valleys. In east-central Ukraine is the Dnieper Lowland, which is flat in the west and gently rolling in the east. To the south, another lowland extends along the shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov; its level surface, broken only by low rises and shallow depressions, slopes gradually toward the Black Sea. The shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov are characterized by narrow, sandy spits of land that jut out into the water; one of these, the Arabat Spit, is about 70 miles (113 km) long but averages less than 5 miles (8 km) in width.
The southern lowland continues in the Crimean Peninsula as the North Crimean Lowland. The peninsula—a large protrusion into the Black Sea—is connected to the mainland by the Perekop Isthmus. The Crimean Mountains form the southern coast of the peninsula. Mount Roman-Kosh, at 5,069 feet (1,545 metres), is the mountains' highest point.
Almost all the major rivers in Ukraine flow northwest to southeast through the plains to empty into the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The Dnieper River, with its hydroelectric dams, huge reservoirs, and many tributaries, dominates the entire central part of Ukraine. Of the total course of the Dnieper, 609 miles (980 km) are in Ukraine, making it by far the longest river in the country, of which it drains more than half. Like the Dnieper, the Southern Buh, with its major tributary, the Inhul, flows into the Black Sea. To the west and southwest, partly draining Ukrainian territory, the Dniester (Dnistro) also flows into the Black Sea; among its numerous tributaries, the largest in Ukraine are the Stryy and the Zbruch. The middle course of the Donets River, a tributary of the Don, flows through southeastern Ukraine and is an important source of water for the Donets Basin (Donbas). The Danube River flows along the southwestern frontier of Ukraine. Marshland, covering almost 3 percent of Ukraine, is found primarily in the northern river valleys and in the lower reaches of the Dnieper, Danube, and other rivers.
The rivers are most important as a water supply, and for this purpose a series of canals has been built, such as the Donets–Donets Basin, the Dnieper–Kryvyy Rih, and the North Crimea. Several of the larger rivers are navigable, including the Dnieper, Danube, Dniester, Pripet (Pryp'yat), Donets, and Southern Buh (in its lower course). Dams and hydroelectric plants are situated on all the larger rivers.
Ukraine has a few natural lakes, all of them small and most of them scattered over the river floodplains. One of the largest is Lake Svityaz, 11 square miles (28 square km) in area, in the northwest. Small saltwater lakes occur in the Black Sea Lowland and in Crimea. Larger saline lakes occur along the coast. Known as limans, these bodies of water form at the mouths of rivers or ephemeral streams and are blocked off by sandbars from the sea. Some artificial lakes have been formed, the largest of which are reservoirs at hydroelectric dams—e.g., the reservoir on the Dnieper upstream from Kremenchuk. The Kakhovka, Dnieper, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Kaniv, and Kiev reservoirs make up the rest of the Dnieper cascade. Smaller reservoirs are located on the Dniester and Southern Buh rivers and on tributaries of the Donets River. Small reservoirs for water supply also are found near Kryvyy Rih, Kharkiv, and other industrial cities. Three large artesian basins—the Volyn-Podilsk, the Dnieper, and the Black Sea—are exceptionally important for municipal needs and agriculture as well.
From northwest to southeast the soils of Ukraine may be divided into three major aggregations: a zone of sandy podzolized soils; a central belt consisting of the black, extremely fertile Ukrainian chernozems; and a zone of chestnut and salinized soils.
The podzolized soils occupy about one-fifth of the country's area, mostly in the north and northwest. These soils were formed by the extension of postglacial forests into regions of grassy steppe; most such soils may be farmed, although they require the addition of nutrients to obtain good harvests.
The chernozems of central Ukraine, among the most fertile soils in the world, occupy about two-thirds of the country's area. These soils may be divided into three broad groups: in the north a belt of the so-called deep chernozems, about 5 feet (1.5 metres) thick and rich in humus; south and east of the former, a zone of prairie, or ordinary, chernozems, which are equally rich in humus but only about 3 feet (1 metre) thick; and the southernmost belt, which is even thinner and has still less humus. Interspersed in various uplands and along the northern and western perimeters of the deep chernozems are mixtures of gray forest soils and podzolized black-earth soils, which together occupy much of Ukraine's remaining area. All these soils are very fertile when sufficient water is available. However, their intensive cultivation, especially on steep slopes, has led to widespread soil erosion and gullying.
The smallest proportion of the soil cover consists of the chestnut soils of the southern and eastern regions. They become increasingly salinized to the south as they approach the Black Sea.
Ukraine lies in a temperate climatic zone influenced by moderately warm, humid air from the Atlantic Ocean. Winters in the west are considerably milder than those in the east. In summer, on the other hand, the east often experiences higher temperatures than the west. Average annual temperatures range from about 42–45 °F (5.5–7 °C) in the north to about 52–55 °F (11–13 °C) in the south. The average temperature in January, the coldest month, is about 26 °F (−3 °C) in the southwest and about 18 °F (−8 °C) in the northeast. The average in July, the hottest month, is about 73 °F (23 °C) in the southeast and about 64 °F (18 °C) in the northwest.
Precipitation is uneven, with two to three times as much falling in the warmer seasons as in the cold. Maximum precipitation generally occurs in June and July, while the minimum falls in February. Snow falls mainly in late November and early December; accumulation varies in depth from a few inches in the steppe region (in the south) to several feet in the Carpathians. Western Ukraine, notably the Carpathian Mountains area, receives the highest annual precipitation—more than 47 inches (1,200 mm). The lowlands along the Black Sea and in Crimea, by contrast, receive less than 16 inches (400 mm) annually. The remaining areas of Ukraine receive 16 to 24 inches (400 to 600 mm) of precipitation.
In contrast to the rest of Ukraine, the southern shore of Crimea has a warm, gentle, Mediterranean-type climate. Winters are mild and rainy, with little snow, and the average January temperature is 39 °F (4 °C). Summers are dry and hot, with an average July temperature of 75 °F (24 °C).


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Your Los Angeles Lakers are not invincible. Bynum's hurt his knee again, and now, in infectious disease news, Steve Blake has the chicken pox.
The epidemiology is a mystery: Blake's wife tweeted, "NO my kids didn't give it to him. They were vaccinated and are healthy. No clue where or how Steve got chicken pox." Hm.
If you remember your chicken pox rules, you know that people don't get infected with chicken pox if they've already had chicken pox before. But some important Lakers have never had chicken pox!
Among them: Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, and Andrew Bynum. Or so the Lakers say.
Bynum, Ron Artest and Kobe Bryant never had chicken pox, and it isn't clear whether they have had vaccines for the illness, but Bynum was the only one who confirmed that fact to reporters. Artest said he had the illness when he "was a baby," and Bryant smiled while dropping an expletive when asked if he's already had chicken pox.
Things are so bad that the Lakers had to call up Derrick Caracter from the Bakersfield Jam. The stuff of titles, the tribulations through which great champions are forged.
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Kaz wrote:You can't predict if something you research will be useful in advance. This isn't Civilization
Unleashed90876 wrote:Kaz wrote:You can't predict if something you research will be useful in advance. This isn't Civilization
I wasn't being completely sarcastic with my first post, I just think the idea is kind of funny. Also I agree with Obama that we should scale back NASA for the same basic reasons. Instead of spending billions and billions on colonizing the Moon and Mars we should focus on the realities of Earth. Don't get me wrong spaceships are cool and everything but the Cold War is mostly over and we beat Russia to the Moon, lets move on.
And have you seen a dry erase board filled up with all the Algebraic letters and numbers by one of these people. It's not pretty. I don't know about you but I have no desire to understand the Universe through numbers and "strings". Whether Universe has nine dimensions or four makes little difference to me. To me String Theory is just a highly educated scientific religion.
footnote: I have never played Civilization.
Ensabahnur wrote:LHC is probably the most important thing going on for humanity right now.
That is until they make the Super Large Hardon Collider.
Myth wrote:Space-based colliders have been suggested since the '80s and are still as laughable now as they were then.
Myth wrote:You have no idea what you're talking about.
Universe in the nutshell, pg 177-178 wrote: We don't
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but it might be as small as a millimeter divided by a hundred thou-
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MUMBAI, India — Darren Aronofsky may be a household name in Hollywood, where his last two films were critically acclaimed hits. But to the young Indian artists laboring on the director's newest project — the Biblical epic "Noah" — he was just another client with a looming deadline.
"Who's the director on that?" an American supervisor quizzed a group of serious-faced young men clustered around a computer inside the dim, maze-like production room at Prime Focus studios in suburban Mumbai.
The technicians, who were converting a shot of the title character's legendary ark to 3-D, looked at one another blankly.
"Sir, I don't know," one said finally.
The technical whiz kids at Mumbai's top digital production houses might not know the directors' names, but some of the gravity- and logic-defying sequences in such films as "Avatar," "Skyfall," "Life of Pi" and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" were created on computer screens half a world away in India.
In fact, dozens of blockbuster 3-D movies in recent years — from "The Avengers" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" to the rereleases of "Titanic" and "Top Gun" — featured the work of Indian digital artists.
Animation, visual effects and 3-D conversion have become a $700-million-a-year industry here as Hollywood studios join the list of American companies that have found talent and cost savings in India's vast pool of young computer engineers.
Digital effects are an expensive, labor-intensive enterprise, requiring large teams of artists that must meet the ever-changing demands of directors and cost-conscious studios.
Although India's artists typically aren't as technically proficient as their North American counterparts, industry experts say that labor costs here are as little as one-10th what they are in Southern California, prompting studios to shift much of the basic visual effects work to Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and other cities with hordes of young, computer-literate university graduates.
India's digital effects industry, which has tripled in size since 2007, is projected to grow into a $1.2-billion business over the next three years, according to a study last year by consulting firm KPMG. Analysts say it is following a path set by software manufacturers, drug makers and other American industries that have outsourced work to India.
"It's the same as we saw in the past decade or two with call centers or Microsoft software," said Uday Singh, managing director of the Mumbai office of the Motion Picture Assn., Hollywood's leading trade group. "When the package shows up at your door, you don't know that 10 guys in Bangalore did it. The question is, are the skills good enough here, and they are."
Mumbai, formerly called Bombay, is the center of the prolific Indian film industry known as Bollywood. It is also home to several digital effects houses that count major American studios as clients.
Among them is Prime Focus, which began 15 years ago as a start-up post-production studio for Bollywood and has grown into a global company of 4,500 employees in offices from Los Angeles to Beijing.
Of the 600 visual effects artists it employs in Mumbai, as many as 500 are involved in Hollywood projects, said Delna Dhamodiwala, the company's vice president of human resources.
On a recent afternoon at Prime Focus' global headquarters, inside a converted apartment block an hour north of central Mumbai, technical teams were working on the sequel to the 2005 crime thriller "Sin City."
Seventeen Westerners, most from Los Angeles and Vancouver, Canada, had traveled to Mumbai to supervise 300 Indian artists who were expected to complete production by the end of May.
The film's live action was shot almost entirely in front of green screens with standard 2-D cameras, leaving Indian technicians to conjure up fight sequences, noir cityscapes and 3-D effects using computer programs. Dozens of monitors glowed in the dimly lighted corridors as servers roamed through with trays of drinking water.
"I've never worked in a place this big," said Michael Pecchia, Prime Focus' director of global development and training and a 17-year visual effects veteran who now spends much of his year in Mumbai.
And it's not just new movies. As classic movies and television shows find new lives in 3-D or high-definition rereleases, Indian studios are increasingly hired to make the conversions.
At Reliance Media Works' 95,000-square-foot facility in Mumbai's western suburbs, one engineer recently spent eight months enhancing the sound on all 202 episodes of "The Cosby Show" — a program he'd never seen before — to better match it to today's advanced television sets.
Reliance technicians also have restored classic movies and TV shows whose original celluloid had been damaged, patching tears in "Alvin and the Chipmunks" cartoons, removing blemishes from Disney's Winnie the Pooh and brightening the 1953 Rock Hudson Western film "Gun Fury."
In 2009, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, NASA contracted Reliance to restore footage of Neil Armstrong's lunar walk after the space agency admitted it had mistakenly taped over the original.


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Lea Michele might have had a rough year, but the Glee actress has a lot to look forward to: she's releasing a debut album, Louder, and writing her first book, a collection of beauty secrets out in May titled Brunette Ambition. "It's really hard to not swear when I talk about this album," she says. "Because I am so fucking excited! It's a beautiful, personal thing." (The first single, "Cannonball," comes out tomorrow.) To celebrate her latest projects we chatted with the actress and singer about the beauty secrets you'll find in her new book and her eclectic beauty routine.
Michele favors natural ingredients, which is why you're more likely to find her at a health food store than a makeup counter. "My bathroom looks like a Whole Foods!" she says. Her shower holds Dr. Bronner's Eucalyptus Liquid Soap ($7) and Dr. Hauschka's Lavender Bath ($33). "This soap makes my skin smell good all day," she says.
To say Michele is dedicated to exfoliation would be an understatement. She starts by dry brushing her skin, then uses a homemade scrub and hand mitts in the shower. "I have a whole basket of concotions I've made in my bathroom," she say. "I'll mix coconut oil and brown sugar or sea salt and olive oil, and put them in little containers." Try Garden of Life's Extra Virgin Coconut Oil ($11) with brown sugar after using Aromatherapy Associates' Polishing Body Brush ($22).
It's hard to believe that Michele once had skin problems: she battled acne for years. "I went on Accutane twice," she says. Now she keeps her skin in shape with prescription products from her dermatologist and La Mer's The Moisturizing Soft Cream ($155) when her skin is dry.
For Elle's December cover, hairstylist Harry Josh slicked Michele's naturally-curly locks back. "Harry used coconut oil to create the slicked-back effect," Michele says. "So I got a nice conditioning treatment all day on set!"
Michele lets her location dictate her lip color. "In New York I'll wear one of YSL's red lipsticks," she says, but while at home in L.A. she sticks to Fresh's tinted Sugar Lip Treatment ($23). Try YSL's Rouge Pure Colour Satiny Radiance Lipstick ($34) in 1 Le Rouge.
When not working, Michele keeps her locks in good health with L'Oreal products, for which she's a spokesperson. "I feel so bad for my hair because it goes through so much on set, but L'Oreal's damage repair line totally saves my hair," she says. After lathering up with Total Repair 5 Restoring Shampoo ($5) and Conditioner she applies the brand's Ever Everstyle Smooth and Shine Serum ($7) and wraps her hair into a high bun to dry.
When it comes to scent, Michele switches between Chloe's Eau de Parfum Spray ($70) and a few of Hermes' men's colognes. Try the brand's Bel Ami Eau de Toilette ($123).
"I'm a really big fan of a smoky eye for the red carpet," Michele says. Try Smashbox's Photo Op Eye Shadow Trio ($28) in Shutterspeed to get her look.
When traveling, Michele keeps her skin hydrated with a mist of Evian's Mineral Water Spray To Go ($14) followed by a quirky tip to avoid catching a cold mid-flight. "I put Neosporin ($5) in my nose because I've heard it blocks the germs when you travel," she says.
Michele stays loyal to nail polish shades as well, using Essie's Nail Polish ($9) in Ballet Slippers on her fingers and She's Pampered on her toes. "I keep these two in my purse for touch-ups," she says.
"I do yoga every single day in my backyard and I go on a long hike every week," Michele says. "I'm not a big gym person." Pick up Gaiam's Coral Yoga Mat ($13) to try a similar routine.


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Ka Pai , means " very good" or "well done".
So I thought i'd post our Rusk recipe and call them
Ka Pai Buttermilk Rusks
as I reckon they are very good and definitly well done, being double baked.
I first had them in South Africa about 16 years ago, apparently they were baked by the Dutch settlers to last in the hot climate. They last forever and have to be dunked in hot tea or coffee. ( the famous ones are called ' Ouma Rusks' )
in a large bowl ( or sometimes easier in Two )mix 1.5 kg of flour , 3 teaspoons each of baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar and salt.
300grams of butter cubed, and rub into the flour mix
in a jug add 2 cups of buttermilk , 2eggs, 2cups of brown sugar and a cup of oil ( we use canola )
sometimes we substitute some condensed milk or maple syrup to the mix for flavour
eg. one and a half cups of buttermilk and half a cup of condensed milk
pour this into the dry dry ingredients slowly , reserve some liquid incase the mix is too wet, just mix as you go
make a nice dough
then form into golf balls , this is fun for the kids to do
pack them tightly into greased baking tins and bake in a medium oven 180 -200 c for about thirty minutes ( till they look nice and golden brown but bounce back to the touch, not squishy.
turn out onto a rack and let cool for twenty minutes ,leave the oven on, but turn down low to 80- 100 c
when they have cooled, break them apart , place them on oven trays and bake again ( or dry out ) for about 4 hours. Break a couple apart to make sure they are completly dry inside
They will come out dry and they make heaps of crumbs but last for weeks and weeks, great for dunking in tea or coffee on canoe trips.
Best with Rooibos Tea
you can add all sorts of extras to flavour , cinnamon , vanilla , raisins etc , whatever takes your fancy
our latest batch had dried cranberries and chocolate chips
This recipe makes about eighty Rusks
takes a few batches too get perfect though.