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'That One Punch Ruined Two Lives'
AYER -- Matthew Kurz agreed to speak to police about an incident in which he allegedly punched a 23-year-old Ayer man who then fell backward, struck his head on a cement step, and died about a week later.
"Matthew said that one punch ruined two lives," Shirley police Detective Olivia Siekman wrote in a police report.
Kurz, 28, of Ayer, is facing felony assault charges in Ayer District Court in connection with the Aug. 31 incident in which he allegedly punched Maxwell Fleming, of Ayer, during a dispute over Kurz's behavior toward Fleming's fiancée.
But Fleming died of his injuries on Sept. 7, and Kurz may now face indictment on more serious charges in connection with the death of a man whom Kurz described as a friend.
Shirley police say Kurz ran up to Fleming and punched him once in the face at the Fredonian Nature Center Shirley.
The punch knocked Fleming down, and Fleming struck his head on a concrete step when he fell, according to police reports.
Fleming was taken to Nashoba Valley Medical Center, then flown by helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester with a head injury that claimed his life, according to police reports and an obituary.
Several witnesses spoke to police to describe what happened, and Kurz too gave police a statement in which he admitted to hitting with Fleming with a "haymaker" punch that landed on Fleming's jaw, according to a police report.
Kurz spoke to police while Fleming was still alive and in the hospital, according to a police report.
"Matthew became upset and had started crying as he spoke about how bad he feels knowing that Maxwell is laid up in a hospital bed having parts of skull removed. Matthew told me they were friends and that they have gone fishing together and he never would have wanted something like this to happen," Siekman wrote in a police report.
Friends of the two, including Fleming's fiancée, told police that Fleming was knocked unconscious, according to police reports.
Fleming had asked Kurz to meet him at the nature center to discuss and earlier incident in which Kurz allegedly behaved inappropriately toward Fleming's fiancée in messages sent on Snapchat, and then pulled her hair during another incident.
Kurz, though, told police he had not pulled the woman's hair and simply "did a little hair rub in a joking manner," according to a police report.
Kurz also claimed in his statement to police that he threw the "haymaker" because he noticed that Fleming had both his fists clenched as Kurz approached him, according to a police report.
Fleming leaves his father, Robert Fleming, of Ayer, two brothers, his fiancé, and other relatives, according to an obituary.
Robert Fleming could not be reached for comment, but spoke briefly with Boston 25 News last week.
"It's a hard loss. He was only 23, and you know, I think about him all the time," the station quoted Robert Fleming as saying. "He was a good guy."
Fleming told the station his son was a great fisherman, animal lover, and talented artist.
Maxwell Fleming's obituary says he worked as a metal worker at the Valley Design Company in Shirley.
Kurz's attorney, Joanne Daley, did not return a message seeking comment.
Kurz was arrested on a warrant after voluntarily going to the Shirley police station to speak to police on Sept. 2, according to a police report.
At his Sept. 5 arraignment on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery causing serious bodily injury, Kurz was initially held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.
But following that hearing, Judge Margaret Guzman released Kurz on the condition he live with his sister, remain employed, wear a GPS monitoring device, abide by a curfew, stay away from and have no contact with any witnesses or the victim's family, and wear an electronic devices that can detect whether he drinks alcohol, according to court records.
Kurz is due back in Ayer District Court for a hearing on Dec. 7, though court records indicate Kurz's appearance at that hearing will be waived if he his indicted prior to it occurring.
Meghan Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office, said an investigation into the incident remains ongoing, and that charges may be upgraded as the investigation continues.
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PMS : Get Out of The Way
So you probably heard, when a woman is distressed and hot-tempered nothing productive happens! You men need to step aside, hold your horses, let it breathe and just disappear for a while! Unless you wana get yourself in trouble that's the best way to do it. We women spend 11 days before our period bitching around and making everyone's life around us a living hell! But how much can you blame us, it's a biological fact in which our body provokes such strong feelings of anxiety, depression, cramping and sugar craving due to changes in hormones, and it's beyond any control (pitiful face)! You don't like it when you feel invisible, we know that, but at that point you don't really have a choice! One of the reasons why women tend to understand each other well is because we recognize the pain and suffering each one goes through! Every woman knows that it's impossible to control it; or maybe just maybe most of the time we just enjoy blaming it all on PMS!
Why does this phase mess up our mood?
Scientifically speaking, Premenstrual syndrome is a range of physical and emotional symptoms that normally take place about 5 to 11 days before a woman begins her monthly menstrual cycle. What happens is that women experience headaches, cramps, back ache, fatigue, sore breasts and weight gain that make it impossible to wear anything comfortably! Not only is it physical but mental and emotional syndromes arise as well such as mood swings, lack of interest in sex, insomnia and anger! In other words, this change in hormones causes stress and agony! And when stress and agony meet there's nothing neither fun nor beautiful!
My own philosophical interpretation: Yes, PMS symptoms manifest themselves in an unconscious aggressive behavior and mental disorder but I believe every woman ought to unleash the beast inside of her every once in a while, see the only way to please you men is when we're being kind, sweet and understandable! We do sacrifice a lot; you should know and appreciate that! We suppress feelings of anger caused by you and when they're too much to bear, it becomes impossible to abstain from it! That's when we give you the impression that we're PMS-ing (God bless whoever discovered that concept, or rest thy soul) Am I thinking out loud? Never mind, if you're smart enough you would've figured it out yourself; if not, then here's something you didn't know!
However, it is accurate, when we're in that stage we tend to be aggressive crazy and unbearable! When your woman is experiencing the cycle of hormone fluctuations (PMS) i advice you men to:
- Show up with chocolate or don't show up at all.
- Don't you dare try and upset us, because it will get back at you.
- Don't you dare try and make us jealous because we can lose it to the extent of killing someone.
- We won't care about your day so keep it to yourself or go tell your mother about it.
- We won't get your jokes so better not make any (seriously, you don't want a fake pms-ing laugh)
- We don't wana be cuddled much; our body will be in pain already; unless you plan on doing it softly!
- We won't be available at your services so better not start sending hints about how much you miss feeling us (we'll make you feel alright.. Pain.)
- Again, we demand chocolate; it's not even an option! P.S: anything but Ghandour!
It sounds terrible, but don't worry we will eventually apologize for our behavior and make your day, bear with us few days; we bear with you much much more! Right honeybee?
Regardless of how much this stage sucks, that won't make us lose our mutual respect for one another nor do we use it as a way to underestimate you men. If we're that much fed up we'll consciously get rid of you without giving any excuse! All we'll be asking is for you to empathize, even if you can't sympathize.
Every woman has an inner monster (but cute one) inside of her! Most men only discover that after they're married! Think of PMS as a sample of what you will get if you plan on spending the rest of your life with your woman! If you can handle it, good for you, if not, just spare yourself lawyers and the divorce stages!
Half of what I mentioned above is exaggerated, you do know that! Nevertheless there's no doubt that this stage has an effect on women's actions; you see anger and sadness on one hand and on the other hand you find confusion and moments of bewilderment about everything happening around them! Men, try not to take anything personally; she will eventually regain the sense of herself! For some women PMS could turn into an illness which can only be cured by PMS medication! See how ugly it can get?! So if you wonder why sometimes the woman you adore and call "sweet angel" gets "ferocious and evil" you got the answer!
This article is dedicated to all women out there who know exactly what I'm talking about and to all men who did or did not know that! Whether you're planning on getting married (or God forbid you are married) take into consideration that women's twisted behavior is not due to a state of mind but rather a biological fact, try to be as supportive as possible to one another! After all it only takes place once a month!
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Due to some hectic travel this past week, I didn't have time to write one of my long, elegant, beautifully reasoned blog posts. However, Mark Graban, a good friend of this blog and a mentor of mine, has done a wonderful job of making me sound moderately intelligent with a podcast on his website. Check it out here.
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Bex is on iZombie on June 2nd
Hi all,
The news is officially out: ComicBook.com (you know she LOVES that!) reports that Arrow's Bex Taylor-Klaus will be featured as a Guest star in iZombie's June 2nd episode, "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat." (No Dr. Seuss jokes here, just reporting the news).
Check out the comicbook.com article: http://comicbook.com/2015/05/26/arrows-bex-taylor-klaus-revealed-in-izombie-dead-rat-live-rat-br/
And here's a fun trailer for the episode (yes, she's in it):
And a promo shot …
We started watching iZombie this season in anticipation of Bex's appearance. It's a clever premise, fun to watch, and not nearly as "dark" as you might expect — though it has it's moments.
Tune in to the CW Network on Tuesday night, June 2nd at 9 pm ET/8 pm CT
See you there!
Vancouver, Week 2, Episode #1
And she's off! Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Bex's first official day of filming for The Killing (often referred to as "TK" — no joke!)
The Day Starts at The Circus
Sue picked us up at 7:15 and we drove to a large, empty gravel lot … temporarily filled by a large number of white trucks (trailers), a solitary blue truck (kitchen) and a tent (dining room). Known as the circus, this roving caravan is set up each day that filming is done on location — which is a lot, given that half the cast (or more) seem to be living on the street!
We start in the breakfast area, where a fabulous spread of eggs, bacon, potatoes, oatmeal, fruit, etc. are available, and the chefs in the truck are happy to make special orders upon request. Truly — they're so NICE about it! Gotta love these Canadians.
Since this morning was about finalizing details about Bullet's look, we were taken to Bex's trailer (!!complete with faux fireplace as a space-heater, bathroom, microwave, TV — ton of stuff we'll never need!!), where a white smock was waiting for her. In the future, her wardrobe (neatly cleaned) will be ready, but today there were still many final decisions make.
Bex donned the heavy overcoat labeled "Bullet" (note — not a costume — this is for her to wear around the circus and while on location — coat, boots, hand-warmers, umbrellas — whatever is needed to keep the talent comfortable!), and we headed to the best trailer in the entire circus: Hair & Make-Up.
Bex starts with Julie, who does her hair while consulting on the other leads and a seemingly unending array of extras. I can't tell you much, but it's to become a daily routine. Then she heads down to Charles in the Make-up end of the trailer. It's amazing how long it takes to make Bex look so… well… grungy.
Again, I won't say much, but the level of detail is inspiring, and Charles has the patience of a saint. Every so often, Marian, the 3rd AD (Asst Director), who basically handles all the logistics around the circus and the set, pokes his head in to check the status of the actors.
At this point, Bex, Julia and Max are all in Hair & Make-up, and there's still more to do with wardrobe before we get put into a transport to go to the set. Veena (creator of the show, the writer) comes in for a bit, as does Jori (Wardrobe) to make decisions about tattoos, jewelry, etc. Bex's own art has been incorporated by wardrobe and props. Again — won't spoil anything for you — but Bex is pretty psyched that her drawings are being used.
By this point, she's been back and forth to the trailer with Drory, and fully dressed and ready, we're transported to the nearby location for shooting. All of this has taken about 2 hours.
On Set and Ready to Shoot
Once we arrived at the set, Bex is psyched to meet her best friend on the show, who has been a last-minute cast — and who, we're thrilled to learn, is also filming for the first time today. Bex isn't the only newbie on the set!
They are taken into the set, staged in a community center, where the Director meets them and immediately starts blocking the scene. After they've gone over the scene once or twice and blocked who will be where, the cameras and sound are all set up. Meanwhile, Bex and Cate are taken in to get wired for sound, and someone else takes their stuff and puts it in the 'green' room. Once the equipment is all set up, the talent is brought back in for rehearsal. They run through it a few times, and then they start rolling.
Bex had one scene to do today. Little did I know that she'd be doing it ALL day long! They go through the scene multiple times. And when they are done, they take a brake, move the cameras, and start all over again. It's really an extraordinary process. This one scene was shot multiple times from at least 4 or 5 different perspectives. Now, since this is the first episode, they are consciously establishing the characters, so they're being quite deliberate and taking their time. But it's still a rather awesome process. With something like 40 extras, and untold number of crew, it's incredibly wild how quiet it can can when people start yelling, "quiet on the set, Rolling!"
There's more to report, of course… I've not even made it to noon at this point — but it's time to stop and post, and I'll finish out an average day in the next post. Feel free to comment or ask questions! 🙂
The Importance of Staying Grounded
Another day without a lot of activity – great, actually, for Bex to get started with the semester, though I can tell she's starting to get antsy. Apparently, during Pilot Season, you can get an audition and the sides, but they may not schedule it for weeks – or they can schedule it the next day!
I'm learning that everyone out here has his/her favorite coaches, classes, etc. and there is no shortage of strong opinions. I'm trying to navigate between the agent and the manager, who are working together, but still have their favorites. Sometimes there are delicate decisions to make. And I thought I was out of politics! So I started looking into the classes and coaches, and we'll see what happens.
Bex went to class in the evening, and I went to dinner with my college friend, Bennett, who took me to an authentic Mexican restaurant near Koreatown 😉 It was so nice to hang out and feel relaxed and laugh a lot. Bennett – a brilliant, colorful character with a talent for story-telling – cautioned me about the business with sad tales of Brittany's handlers and the lengths they'll go to make a buck at her expense. I'm reminded again of how important it is for Bex to have supervision out here, and to keep grounded and centered.
While it's not an easy task, I do believe that the many challenges that Bex has experienced throughout her life will serve her well in keeping perspective in this crazy world.
Hands at Sunset
Mother and daughter hold hands at sunset on Balboa Beach … (Thanks for the suggestions, Josh!)


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Acey Deucey Video Poker
Acey Deucey video poker is a variant of Jacks or Better and Bonus Poker. The main difference between Acey Deucey video poker and Bonus Poker is the payoffs for the 4 of a kind hands.
When you're categorizing video poker games, it's common to look at them in terms of pay tables and wild cards. Games with no wild cards can be said to be based on Jacks or Better. Bonus Poker is just a variation of Jacks or Better which has bonus payoffs for a 4 of a kind of a certain rank.
In Acey Deucey, you also get a bonus payoff for a 4 of a kind of a certain rank. If you guessed, based on the name, that aces and deuces pay off more, give yourself a good start.
The rest of this page examines the basics of playing Acey Deucey video poker, how the pay tables affect the payback percentage and the house edge, and how to learn the correct strategy for this game.
But First, What This Game ISN'T
You might have heard of another game called "acey deucey". We played that a lot when we were younger and still hosting poker games at our house.
Some people think this card game resembles poker, but it doesn't really use poker hands at all. You just bet on whether a card will rank between 2 other cards that have been dealt.
That game has NO relation to Acey Deucey video poker.
The Basics of Playing Acey Deucey Video Poker
Most video poker games have similar game play. These games look like slot machines, but instead of arbitrary symbols like fruits and bars, the game presents you with playing card symbols.
This is an important difference.
When you're playing video poker, you know the payouts for the hands. Since the game uses the same probabilities you'd find using a traditional 52-card deck of cards, someone talented at math can use this combination of information to calculate a predicted payback percentage for the game.
You can't do this with a slot machine, because you have no way of knowing what the probability of getting a specific symbol is.
But a specific card in video poker shows up 1 out of 52 hands. It comes up with a specific suit 1 in 4 times, and with a specific rank 1 in 13 times.
This isn't math you can easily do with a legal pad and pencil, though. Computer programmers and mathematicians have calculated the payback percentages for these games, though. They assume that you play every hand correctly.
You might be asking yourself what a payback percentage is-stick around for the next section for a detailed explanation.
In terms of actual gameplay, Acey Deucey plays like other video poker games. Before you start playing, you must insert money into the machine. (Video poker has this in common with slots.) That money is converted into credits based on the denomination of the machine you're playing.
If you're playing a quarter machine and insert $100, you'll get 400 credits. If it's a dollar machine, instead, you'll get 100 credits.
You then get to choose how many credits you want to bet on each hand. You should always bet the max number of coins (5) when playing video poker, because you get a bigger payoff for the royal flush if you do.
If you bet 1 to 4 coins, the royal flush pays off at 250 for 1 or 200 for 1 (depending on the machine). But if you bet 5 coins, it pays off at 800 for 1. This might seem like a minor difference, but it has a big effect on your bottom line for the game.
Once you've chosen how many coins to bet, you press the "DEAL" button, and you get a hand. Acey Deucey is based on 5-card draw poker. And as in 5-card draw, you get to decide which cards to keep and which ones to throw away.
To keep cards, you press the "HOLD" button underneath the corresponding card. Modern machines use touchscreens, too, so you can also just touch the cards you want to keep. When you press the "DEAL" button again, the game replaces the cards you discarded.
The game compares your final hand with its pay table and credits you according to the pay table.
You move on to your next hand from there.
It's a fast-paced game, too. The average video poker player gets in 600 hands per hour, which corresponds roughly to the number of spins you'd make on a slot machine.
We recommend opting for video poker over slot machines every time you get to make that choice. Video poker games offer better odds, and since the odds are known, it's an inherently more honest game.
A Quick Explanation of Payback Percentage, Expected Return, and the House Edge
All casino games have payout odds lower than the odds of winning. That's how the casino guarantees a long-term profit.
In games like roulette, it's easy to see how this works. The even money bet in that game-black, for example-pays off at even money.
But you'd have to win half the time for that to be a mathematically fair bet.
Roulette is set up so that you'll only win that bet 18/38 of the time, which is a little better than 47%.
That's a far cry from 50%, though, and if you play roulette long enough, the house edge will eat your lunch.
The house edge in video poker is harder to calculate because of the variables-including how you play each hand-but mathematicians and computer programs can calculate these numbers with little trouble.
The payback percentage represents the expected return to the player on each bet. The house edge represents the expected return to the casino on each bet.
If you add the payback percentage to the house edge, the total will always be 100%.
The casino (and gambling writers and experts) use payback percentage when talking about or writing about gambling machines. They use house edge when talking about table games.
We'll get into the specifics of the house edge and payback percentage for Acey Deucey video poker in the next section.
Acey Deucey Video Poker Pay Tables, Payback Percentages, and the House Edge
The payback percentage is the theoretical amount you'll get back for every bet you make over the long run. It's a concept closely related to that of the house edge, which represents the amount you expect to lose on every bet on average over the long run.
Slot machine payback percentages vary from 75% to 95%, but you have no way of knowing the payback percentage for a specific machine.
Video poker payback percentages, on the other hand, range from 95% or higher, but some of that depends on how skillfully you decide which cards to keep and which ones to throw away.
Here's an example of a pay table for Acey Deucey video poker:
|1 coin
|2 coins
|3 coins
|4 coins
|5 coins
|Royal flush
|Straight flush
|4 of a kind (aces or deuces)
|4 of a kind (any other rank)
|Full house
|3 of a kind
|2 pair
|Jacks or better
Notice the increased size of the payout for the royal flush, first. That's important. You always want to bet 5 coins to take advantage of that bigger payoff.
Next notice that you have 2 payoffs for a 4 of a kind, based on the rank. If you get 4 aces or deuces, you get 160 for 1 on your money. You only get 80 for 1 on any other 4 of a kind.
On a standard Jacks or Better game, a 4 of a kind pays off at 25 for 1.
On a standard Bonus Poker game, you have the following payouts for 4 of a kind, again based on rank:
- 4 aces pays off at 80 for 1
- 2s, 3s, or 4s pay off at 40 for 1
- All other ranks pay off at 25 for 1
It's also important to note that the payoff for 2 pairs has been reduced to 1 for 1 instead of the usual 2 for 1. That's how the game can afford to pay so much for a 4 of a kind.
How does all this come together to give you a payback percentage, though?
You take the payoff amount and multiply it by the probability of winding up with each combination. That gives you the expected return for that hand. Add all those up, and you get the expected return for the entire game.
In most games based on Jacks or Better, the payoff for a pair of jacks, queens, or kings is 1 for 1, or even money. The probability of winding up with that hand is 22.9%, so the expected value for that hand is 22.9%. (22.9% X 1).
2 pairs usually pays off at 2 for 1, but in Acey Deucey, it's also a payoff of even month. The probability of getting 2 pairs is 10.9%, so the expected return for that hand is 10.9%. (Notice that if it paid off at 2 for 1, that would increase the expected return for that hand to 21.8%.)
3 of a kind pays off at 3 for 1, and your odds of winding up with that hand are 7.83%. The expected return for that hand is 23.49%, which means it makes up more of your payback percentage than either of the two more common hands.
Getting a 4 of a kind that doesn't consists of aces or deuces happens about 0.2% of the time, and it pays off at 80 for 1, making the expected value for that hand 16.7%.
And so on, for every hand on the table.
This gives the game an overall payback percentage of 99.45%, which makes it comparable to most of the better video poker games on the market. Full pay Jacks or Better, with its 99.54% payback percentage, is marginally better.
But Acey Deucey is still competitive.
One aspect of any pay table related to Jacks or Better worth pointing out is the payoff for the full house and the flush. In this pay table, the payoffs for those hands are 7 for 1 and 5 for 1, respectively. Some VP experts use this as a descriptor for the pay table. They would call this pay table "7/5 Acey Deucey".
You might run into a variation of this game that only pays off at 6 for 1 for the full house. This 6/5 Acey Deucey pay table only has a payback percentage of 98.57%, which is BARELY competitive.
Remember that this is a long-term expectation, too. It's an average that you'll only see over the course of thousands of hands. A royal flush, for example, only shows up once every 40,000 hands or so. This means you'll spend a lot of time running with a lower payback percentage, unless you're lucky and hit a royal flush early.
At 600 hands per hour, it will take you 67 hours or so to get a royal flush. It could take twice as many hours as that if you're running cold.
In fact, in the short run, anything can happen in Acey Deucey video poker.
You can make some predictions about how much you can expect to lose per hour playing Acey Deucey, though. Here's how you calculate that:
You start by calculating how much money you're putting into action per hour. Most players are playing 600 hands per hour. For this example, we'll assume you're playing for $5 per hand. That's $3000 per hour in action.
It would be incredibly rare to lose every hand in that hour. You'll win some and lose some. But the average over time should come close to 100% - 99.45%, or 0.55%.
Multiply the expected loss by the hourly action, and you get $16.50/hour.
On the other hand, if you know nothing about the appropriate strategy, you'll probably lose at least another 1% or 2% per hour, which amounts to another $30 or $60 per hour.
So try to play smart.
Those turn into hourly losses of $78 and $111, respectively.
Acey Deucey Video Poker Strategy
Acey Deucey video poker is an unusual enough video poker game that it's hard to find a strategy table for the game. We recommend looking at the pay tables for some of the other Bonus Poker games, but then prioritizing hands with aces or deuces in them. The payoff for those 4 of a kind hands are significant.
Other than that, most of the basic principles of Jacks or Better and Bonus Poker strategy apply to Acey Deucey. For the most part, you'll be reluctant to break up pat hands unless you can draw one card to a monster hand like 4 of a kind or a royal flush.
Acey Deucey is an odd little variation of Jacks or Better and Bonus Poker. It's not something you'll run into often, but if you do, it's a competitive game-especially if you can find the 7/5 Acey Deucey pay table.


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VVS Laxman's five best Test knocks vs Australia in India
When you sit back and reflect on players who have dominated the game and make it into most world XI lists, you will tend to think of those who have great records against all oppositions home and away.
What is also interesting is to look at those who specialised in domination against a favoured opposition. That list would include Bradman against England, Gavaskar against West Indies, Andy Flower against India and Lara against Sri Lanka to name a few. Ask any of those gentlemen in the opposing camps and they will speak of these champion players in a bittersweet yet awestruck tone.
Extra Cover: Sachin Tendulkar's five best Test knocks vs Australia in India
For me, there has not been a sweeter domination than the extraordinary works of VVS Laxman against an indomitable champion side that conquered all, Australia. Shane Warne spoke about nightmares against Sachin, well against VVS he got stung by beauty without realising what hit him.
Laxman in his heydeys, batting in India, dancing down the track and driving with and against the spin on turning tracks, filled the heart with joy. His stats against Australia in India read an impressive aggregate of 1198 runs at an average of 57.04 leaving an indelible mark on the Indian cricketing fraternity and fans for a long time to come.
On that note, take a look at Laxman's top five innings against Australia (in India).
#1 200*, 3rd Test: Delhi, 1st innings, 2008
On a good batting track at the Feroz Shah Kotla, India won the toss and chose to bat first. Sehwag and Dravid were dismissed early and India were in a tricky position at 27/2. Sachin and Gambhir steadied the ship before the former was dismissed for Laxman to walk in at 157/3.
Leading 1-0 in the series, India had to beware of the comeback from the Aussies and not give an inch. From this moment on, the match could swing either way and Australia were looking to wrest control, looking to dismiss India under 300 with some fiery spells from Lee and Johnson.
What ensued was a masterclass from VVS to bring up his second double hundred against the Aussies. He pulled the fast bowlers with ease and drove through the covers as if it were a net session. The torment was languid and had a sense of inevitability; you just knew that Laxman was in the zone.
He smelt the fear of the opposition and numbed them into submission. India finished at 613 and the match ended in a draw. Gambhir also got a double hundred in a big partnership but this match will be remembered for the ultimate endorsement of Laxman's dominance over the men from Down Under.


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I really enjoy blogging but haven't found the time to write in awhile... hence the need for a Merry Christmas post. Above was our Christmas card this year (the photo was taken by my talented friend Alyssa Alig- such a gift to us!). Alyssa dropped by to take some pictures at our house, and towards the end of our time I pulled out some of our fun holiday hats. All the sudden Andy turned on the smile (and it helped that Alyssa had one on too!). I went through the pictures after the session and literally cried. I must have been feeling extra sentimental but as I saw these pictures I was reminded of what a gift my family was. Days can be hard with kiddos who need your help with every bite of food or activity and it seems like this stage will never end (and you'll never get to sleep in again!). But I hear it will, and for a moment when I saw these pictures I saw it not as the most stressful time of my life but as one of the sweetest and most profound gifts I'd ever been given. I sent a text to Alyssa thanking her for taking these. And I felt the weight of my job in documenting other people's lives. My hope in photography is to somehow give someone else an image that might make them more grateful and realize what gifts have been given to them. A side note to photographers: I realized in picking out my favorite pictures that it wasn't the most artistic shots or best lighting that I loved most, but the ones that really caught my family in joy. That reminded me to remember the person, the family, the couple as the main subject in my portraits and not to obsess over getting the most artistic or original angle (although those have there place, too!) Here is the back of our card for some quick specs on our year:
We spent the holiday at my parent's house with special trips to the Puppetry Arts Show, Tea time with the ladies (and Ethan since he wanted to see what it was all about), and birthday celebrations for all the December birthdays.
I also took some pictures in my parent's garage of some of the kiddos with Mimi (my mom:). My brother and his family live in California so we don't get to see them very much- I wanted to document this age and stage of their lives so we could look at it when Ethan asks about them!
Ethan fell on the pavement at the park while pushing one of his cars along the sidewalk- so his nose is actually looking better but poor guy! no photoshop on this:)
My little niece Frances is quite the active lil' 4 year old... so this picture below is perfect!
and here is Oliver, 2 years old.... and my brother, Dan, with his little guy.
My brother Dan is quite the character (for that matter BOTH of my brothers are talented characters; you just never know what to expect with them!) Dan came in the kitchen with this US military helicopter suit on. Apparently my dad had brought it home from my grandparents house, and we made sure to get a picture of Dan in it. You know, just normal holiday stuff.
Another fun activity we did this year was a white elephant gift exchange with hats. My mom has a love for hats that she passed down to me, and this hat game was SUPER fun with the kiddos. Jared got a Coonskin cap and looked like a UT Volunteer.
ps: look at all the stockings above Ethan and my Dad's head- that's right, 14 stockings handmade by my Grandmother and a friend of hers, all with our names and children's names on them. They are really special to us, partly because they stretch to great lengths when filled with goodies:)
Ethan's gift that he really wanted was a Cars 2 World Grand Prix racetrack. And boom: he got. But shortly after we put it together he said, "This is a lot smaller than it looks like in the commercials!" And Jared let him know that is true in most of life;) It has been such a struggle figuring out how to give our children gifts while still teaching them to not be demanding but grateful. Ethan wonders why we can't give him gifts or buy toys for him everyday... But I secretly heard him tell someone else that he needed to be happy for what he does have. It's such a difficult challenge we face living in such a rich country!
and here's me with lil' Andy, giving him some kisses. He really makes me smile.
Final thoughts on Christmas- I want to say a big thank you to my mom (aka Mother Christmas) for making the holidays so special and fun. I know it may not feel fun or special when 6 kids who are 4 and under are screaming or marching around your kitchen with drums and shakers enacting a parade, or even when your own grown children are going a little crazy from all the noise and wildness of family time, but you have always made this time of year a magical time. My children will remember Christmas stories, Christmas plays, yummy treats, overflowing stockings, fun hats, making crafts, and wildly loud dinners because of all the time and love you put into this season. I love you Mother Christmas and am grateful for you!!!


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The New York Review of Books is not the first place most of us turn (or even the third or tenth) for wine talk, so, as a subscriber, I thought I'd bring attention to this terrific review of Neurogastronomy, a new book by Gordon Shepherd--who is not a wine reviewer with a blog to promote but a neuroscientist. Although the review title is a bit misleading--the book and the review are about flavor, good or bad, and makes the distinction between flavor and taste--both will put to rest a lot of discussion about why something can taste like the aforementioned tar, or forest floor. More accurately, it can have a flavor of tar, since taste is a pretty blunt instrument for understanding the world. Unfortunately, there's a pay wall, but I went behind it and pulled some quotes. Here's one from the book:
"A common misconception is that the foods contain the flavors. Foods do contain the flavor molecules, but the flavors of those molecules are actually created by our brains."
The reviewer goes on to talk about how there are only five tastes we can sense (sorry, dmcker, but I think umami is now accepted universally, by all but the most hardcore umami deniers) and the perception of them is innate, but our sense of smell can detect thousands of different smells and put them together in combination. Those combinations are made into a "two dimensional map," combined with the tastes and other associations, and create flavors that we can detect, recall, and compare. Hence tarry nebbiolo, leathery Bordeaux, violets and meat in our Syrah.
There's a great bit about how retronasal smell plays a role--this is something we have discussed elsewhere when I defended the description of wines as "tarry":
"There are two ways that we "sniff." We take in the "odors" of wines, flowers, perfumes, and smoke by inhaling air directly through our nasal passages. This is called orthonasal smell. But a second source of the smells we recognize comes from the back of the mouth. When we chew bread, meat, and other foods, the chewing releases molecules on our tongue surface and into the back of our nasal passages, and the resulting smell contributes significantly to the flavor we experience.
"This is called retronasal smell. Unlike simple tastes, which are hardwired from birth, our responses to retronasal smells are learned. This is what accounts for individual preferences. Since eating things with noxious smells and tastes can kill animals and people if they are not detected rapidly, our taste and smell receptors, which warn us of noxious substances, send both taste responses and the two kinds of smell responses directly to the highest cortical centers of our brains without passing through any intermediary cortical areas. Visual, auditory, and touch stimuli, although important in warning of danger in the environment, take a slower path, and go first through a central relay station in the brain, called the thalamus, before arriving in the higher centers of the brain, such as the cortex."
Foxall here again... Of course, alcohol and other compounds in wine are volatile, meaning they are more available as air-borne compounds, so they are quick to be carried into our nasal passages, and to carry other aromas with them.
One of the most interesting things in the article is the role unexpected senses like sight play in our perception of flavor:
"Similarly, in a famous experiment from 2001, wine tasters used very different terms to describe the flavor of a red wine as opposed to a white wine. The experimenters then colored the white wine with a tasteless red dye. When the tasters were then asked to describe the result, a panel of fifty-four undergraduates enrolled in the Faculty of Oenology at the University of Bordeaux—all of whom had much experience in tasting wine—described the artificially colored wine using the same terms they had previously used to describe the true red wine."
So now I guess double blind means with an actual blindfold on. (And adding new meaning to the term "gettling blind drunk.") Take that, Bordeaux-trained enologists!
The book's description of wine tasting is really on the mark: "All wine descriptive language is in fact organized around wine types…. What a wine taster does in front of a wine is not an analysis of its separate sensory properties but a comparison of all the cognitive associations he or she has from the wine (color, initial aroma, and taste) with the impressions he or she has already experienced when tasting other wines." Which is why your beginning wine drinker feels frustrated at not tasting that tar, leather, forest floor, what have you. Probably some of Parker's (alleged) ability to name Bordeaux by maker and year stems at least in part from the intensity of his initial experiences in the region... experiences that he did not have in Burgundy, for what that's worth. (There, that prevents hijacking the thread into a rant about Parkerization--I've already done it!) So if you had YellowTail with the hottest date of your life, I don't blame you for thinking it tastes great.
I doubt Neurogastronomy is going to rise to the list of must-haves for wine lovers, even for wine geeks, but the review and the book answer a lot of questions and put wine tasting on a higher plane of cerebral activity than one might imagine. I found a little something to explain my own tendency not to buy cases of wine in this passage:
"We can rapidly become accustomed to tastes, and our desire to continue eating, say, chocolate cake or raspberry ice cream can accordingly rapidly diminish. Producers of fast foods are well aware of the need for new tastes, and therefore they often change the flavors of the foods they sell to the public."
Tar, cat pee, and why you cannot tell white from red with your eyes closed...the last word on flavor
- Reply by dmcker, Jun 4, 2012.
"the last word on flavor"
I doubt it.
Great post, Fox, and plenty to discuss. Unfortunately no time to dive in on a workday over here. I'll look forward to reading the others who do....
- Reply by Richard Foxall, Jun 4, 2012.
Yeah, when is it the last word about anything around here?
- Reply by Terence Pang, Jun 4, 2012.
Thanks for this post Foxall, as a neuroscientist who does alcohol-emotionality research, this will be a fascinating read. I need to hunt this book down!
- Reply by Richard Foxall, Jun 4, 2012.
Too cool! and what were the odds of that!
- Reply by dmcker, Jun 4, 2012.
"Yeah, when is it the last word about anything around here?"
So is that something the wife says? ;-) ;-)
"So now I guess double blind means with an actual blindfold on."
Read the first paragraph of my first post here. ;-)
Sorry, still don't have real time to properly discuss (too many product planning skype conferences, one after the other), but couldn't resist sniping away. A pleasant interlude, sniping on Snooth...
- Reply by EMark, Jun 5, 2012.
Excellent, Fox.
Quite a bit of information for my handicapped brain to absorb, but it is definitely very interesting.
One thing that struck me from a personal view is that I know that I have very poor sensory memory. I might be able to remember a great wine that I had in 1994, but I really do not remember the characteristics of that Franus Cab. On the other hand, I do remember the circumstances of the event, and, surely, that enhances my memory. I feel I am not alone. My guess is that very few (there might be some are some but maybe not) have good sensory memories. That is why many wine tasters take notes and refer back to them. I, generally, do not take notes, and that is one reason why I have the difficulty.
- Reply by shsim, Jun 5, 2012.
Great job Foxall! On my to read list.
Hmm I agree with you EMark, I have plenty of trouble remembering but I do take my time to take notes. It is fun to taste wines you had before and compare new notes with previous notes. A good test on consistency.
- Reply by GregT, Jun 5, 2012.
Nice job Fox. I think he's right on in that we create the taste maps in our heads and a lot of it is based on our experiences. As a child, my grandparents would send us a kind of incense at Christmas from East Germany. I've never smelled it since but when I taste certain wines from Saumur, or less frequently the Rhone, they remind me of that smell and they appeal to me immensely because of it.
And surely Parker's ability to tell one wine from another has to do with familiarity - I think we've all experienced that. It is exactly why people who have little experience can be frustrated or confused, but once they've created enough of a base memory, they'll more easily be able to remember a particular wine or another.
I disagree about the conclusion regarding familiarity leading to a decreased desire to eat something. In fact, I think that's dead wrong. We're on a wine board for God's sake! Does anyone have an inclination to drink LESS?
I think the better explanation is that most fast food just isn't very good anyway and people who eat it tend to followers of fashion. It's the salt, fat and sugar that primarily lures people and those are mostly in the sauces and condiments. One fish sandwich is the same as another and they're not really all that different from the chicken or even the burgers. So adding cumin makes them seem really different, and next year adding anise makes them seem brand new again, and as such, they'll attract a few curious buyers, but the fiasco with New Coke and the unchanged-since-its-creation MacDonald's hamburger argue convincingly against the writer's conclusion.
Still, it's a pretty interesting post and one of the few I've ever seen anywhere that actually makes me interested in going out and purchasing the book. Nice work!
- Reply by Craig Bilodeau, Jun 5, 2012.
Great post! I'm with Emark, I don't take notes. Too much work. I drink wine SOLEY for the enjoyment, and I don't enjoy taking notes. :-)
- Reply by Richard Foxall, Jun 5, 2012.
GregT: We may drink wine, but we drink a lot of different wines from different vintages. Novelty is a big part of what we do, and we often comment that one thing we enjoy about wine is that even the same wine tastes different as the night goes on, as the years go by, and as we drink it with different foods.
I don't take notes as I drink, but I have a fairly intense sense memory and can recall things later. I have a "3-D" memory (there's a technical description I won't get into) that is helpful for wine, bad if you have PTSD. It can lead to very specific kinds of recollections that involve sounds, smells, and sights. As I get older, it's harder to access, which I assume is a result of dying neurons and just the limit on how much the brain can store. But what's been cool is how my ability to "taste" something that I see has increased. Except when I'm eating something else and the taste of the thing I look at is disgusting when paired with it. I think most chefs have a variant of this ability that allows them to create new recipes. In any case, I work with a lot of people whose brains aren't wired quite right, most of them schizophrenics or schizoaffective, and I am endlessly fascinated by what we have learned in the last few years about perception and the brain.
- Reply by Richard Foxall, Jun 5, 2012.
BTW, Greg, I love the story about the incense from E. Germany. Next time I'm in NY, I want to hear the whole story. You're on my speed dial, so expect a call.
- Reply by Terence Pang, Jun 5, 2012.
Foxall, there was an interesting paper published by Kamath et al in Schizophrenia Research this year that suggested olfactory deficits in youths with prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia. I wonder whether taste perception is also altered in this patient group?
- Reply by Lucha Vino, Jun 5, 2012.
Here is a link to a recent interview I read with a family member from Castillo de Feliciano that describes how sense of smell and memory played a part in naming their winery.
- Reply by Richard Foxall, Jun 6, 2012.
Terence, I'm in over my head, but it makes sense that people whose sense of the outside world is impaired would fill their minds with the kinds of vivid delusions that schizophrenics suffer.
LV, no doubt that a strong sense memory would make one love wine and want to get into the business. Definitely not a rational decision. Or, at least, not a profitable one.
- Reply by Terence Pang, Jun 6, 2012.
Couldn't resist and did a bit of searching of the scientific literature. There is some evidence of olfactory hallucinations in schizophrenia although it is acknowledged that self-reporting by this group needs to be cautiously interpreted (Langdon R, 2011). But thus far, I haven't come across anything indicating a taste perception difference. Maybe taste (as indicated in the contents of your original post) is such a individualistic entity that it is impossible to quantify.
- Reply by JonDerry, Jun 6, 2012.
I've experienced both sides regarding getting used to a certain taste, then losing desire for it. There's definitely validity to what GT says about fast food delivering salt, fat, and sugar, especially with the gigantic fountain drinks they serve. Can also remember buying my famous 1999 Rodney Strong Cabernet by the case...drank them all up in less than a year and they were all very satisfying.
Alternatively, I think that many of us types love exploring wine, and we know that we'll never be able to taste all of the wine out there, so covering the same ground over and over is unappealing, especially if the wine isn't especially profound or complex. Good wine or food sometimes has an element of surprise that comes along with it if our expectations were low enough going in, and this of course would dissipate with repitition. It's also hard for me to dismiss the basic point of becoming accustomed to tastes resulting in loss of desire.
That 2001 experiment with the red dye is really a classic, someone told me about that who wasn't very much in to wine at all a couple years ago.
- Reply by Anna Savino, Jun 6, 2012.
Thanks for such an interesting post. I am still trying to get that retronasal smelling down but I think the psychological aspect is so interesting in determining the flavors. I will definitely check this book out.
I am just starting out and wanted to buy the aroma kit to learn how to better identify smells but a dear friend of mine told me not to waste my money and just SMELL everything around me! The other day on my italian hillside walk, I closed my eyes and focused on the smells around me like wildflowers, muddy water, bakeries, hot asphalt..etc. I think if we all just pay more attention to smells around us we can come up with some pretty wild wine descriptions!
Thanks for starting such a great topic!
- Reply by Eric Guido, Jun 6, 2012.
This is an excellent post. I agree 100% about the past experiences of your life. More reason to find a wine-reviewer that has a similar palate to your own. Certain things bring me instant gratification in a wine because they are dear to me. I also tend to judge each kind of wine by the best example that I have had of that wine. For intense, a 2004 Bruno Giacosa Dolcetto, which blew my mind, is still my benchmark for Dolcetto. What it smelled like, is what I want Dolcetto to smell like and the same for the taste. My biggest problem has always been that I smell odd foods and ingredients in wine that I often leave out of my descriptions. I feel I'm not helping anyone if I'm listing a bunch of smells and flavors that the majority of wine drinkers won't recognize.
Anna, that's great advise from your friend. I've made a habit of doing this for over 7 years now and it greatly improves your sense of smell (not just with wine). You'll find yourself walking into rooms and being able to smell the powdered sugar in the air from a doughnut someone ate a half our ago.
- Reply by Eric Guido, Jun 6, 2012.
PS: I've read about the Red and white blind fold comparison. I'd love to do this with a blind group one day.
- Reply by Richard Foxall, Jun 6, 2012.
I'm going to check Amazon and see if sales of the book are up. Or, for that matter, subscriptions to the NY Review.


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Natural remedies for anxiety
What natural ways will help you with your anxiety?
What is ANXIETY?
- Everybody feels anxious in different situations. Anxiety is the response of the body when we feel threatened, under stress or that we are in some kind of danger. Often it is a normal phenomenon that can actually help you stay focused or make you feel motivated for a challenge.
Real problems with anxiety appear when our fears become so overwhelming that prevent us from doing our normal daily activities.
Scientist's research show that being put under a continuous stress, can cause changes in the nerve cells of the brain, which can eventually cause a severe anxiety.
Other believe that anxiety can be a genetic disease, and so be passed from parents to future generations.
In this article we will show you some of the natural ways that can help with your anxiety.
Natural remedies for anxiety
1.Different teas
– Chamomile
A cup of chamomile tea, can help you get better sleep at night, and relieve your anxiety symptoms.
Chamomile is a sedative herb which can be safely used by children and adults alike. Chamomile oil can also be put in bath water (5-6 drops) to calm your nerves.
Dose: Tea, 1 cup 2-3 x daily; Tincture, 30 drops 3 x daily.
-Green tea
It is believed that one of the green tea's amino acid can also be helpful with anxiety.
Thyme tea can help with lowering your blood pressure and muscle tension.It's also one of the best natural remedies for anxiety
Lavender can help you strenght up your nervous system. A few drops of lavender oil added to a bath before bedtime are recommended for persons with sleep disorders.
- Bath with essential olis
Taking a relaxing bath with few essential oils, like lavender, can reduce anxiety symptoms. You can also take a pot with hot water, add a little lavender oil, and inhale.
- Exercising
Besides the facts that exercise is essential for your well-being, it can reduce anxiety by helping you stay focused. Exercising not only strengths your body, but also your mind.
- Breathing deeply
It's quite simple! Anxiety sometimes cause heart rushes and suffocating. These can be reduced if you stay focused on taking deep breaths. Also things like yoga or meditation have proven to be very helpful with anxiety attacks.
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Grafton buys Thompson Building Centres
Published: 28 March, 2013
Grafton Merchanting has bought the trade and certain assets of Thompson Building Centres and Thompson Associated Plumbing Supplies.
The purchase includes the four existing branches of Thompson Building Centres in Sunderland, Durham, Newcastle and Gateshead as well as a site in South Shields, closed prior to the administration. Thompson will become part of Grafton's Buildbase division and will widen the company's area of operation, enabling it to trade for the first time in the North East.
Taps Plumbing & Heating Supplies is also included in the acquisition with a standalone store in Birtley and at branches within the builders' merchants sites.
Thompson entered administration in early March 2013. Mark Firmin, joint administrator and regional head of restructuring at KPMG, said: "We are pleased to have secured a sale that preserves this well-known business and offers employment opportunities for local people."
Mark Kelly, chief executive of Grafton Merchanting GB, says: "It has been a challenging period for Thompson, but our intention is to restore and enhance the business to the benefit of all involved. There will be opportunities for people to join a well-established, successful and forward-thinking company, which are greatly enhanced by being part of a larger group.
"Core suppliers will be reengaged and shelves will be restocked over the next few weeks so that we can reinstate the high levels of service and goods that Thompson's has long been known for."


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Pearce Scapes offers custom landscape design and installations. If it is a new installation, or an update of an existing landscape, we design the landscape to fit your needs, lifestyle, taste and budget. We take pride in our work and want your landscape to be a personal reflection of you the owner. We buy the best quality material, from the best growers in Texas. Our crews are easy to work with, and pay special attention to detail.
Pearce Scapes offers these services to enhance your landscape:
Quality Professional Sprinkler Systems
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Because Pearce Scapes is a full service landscape company, we offer a quality custom Sprinkler System that fits the homeowner's landscape needs. The systems are designed to incorporate problematic dry or wet areas, shade or sunny areas, as well as separating flowerbeds, vegetable gardens and grass areas.
As water is quickly becoming a precious and expensive commodity in Texas, Irrigation is now a closely regulated industry. A quality sprinkler system is even more important today than it has been in the past. Pearce Scapes strives to meet or exceed all regulations set out by the state of Texas to give the homeowner the best quality system at the best price that will be the most economical to run in the years come. We install user-friendly Rain Bird parts and controllers and offer a five-year warranty on the controller, three years on parts and one year on all labor.
We offer lawn maintenance on a year round basis in the Champions, Jersey Village, Cypress, Tomball, and Klein areas of Houston. Our professional crews use professional grade equipment and maintain both commercial and residential properties. We maintain a regular route schedule giving the property owner a specific day and time so that they can be assured that their property will be looking its best. We offer basic care as well as detailed maintenance services and can customize your lawn care to meet your needs.


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In the United States, buildings are responsible for almost two-thirds of national electricity consumption and more than one-third of total primary energy use. As a result, the current energy crunch has made conservation measures within these structures more important than ever.
Heating and cooling costs are generally the major expenses associated with the operation of a building. Therefore, any reduction in these costs through the use of energy efficient building envelope components makes sense. Unfortunately, the roof can be the least energy efficient component of a building envelope. Is it any wonder, then, that cool roofing has become such a hot topic?
Cool roofing is gaining in popularity due to its ability to reduce cooling and heating energy usage. Utility companies are also interested in cool roofing because it can help reduce the peak demand in electricity during the afternoon hours of summer months, preventing power disruptions. And, from an environmental point of view, cool roofing can also help to mitigate a phenomenon known as the heat island effect.
Cool roofing is based on the premise of minimizing heat gain through the roof surface. To understand how this happens one must look at the solar energy spectrum as shown in Figure 1. Ultra violet (UV) energy in lower wavelengths amounts to only three percent of the total energy striking the earth's surface. Visible light energy is 40 percent and infrared (IR) energy in the longer wavelengths accounts for the largest percentage of the spectrum. When IR energy strikes the earth's surface, we feel it as heat.
Cool roofing is described by two main terms: solar reflectance and thermal emittance. Total solar reflectance (TSR) is the percentage of all solar radiation that is immediately reflected from a surface. Any energy that is not reflected from a surface is absorbed by the material. Some of this is transferred to heat that can be removed by convective transfer from airflow over the surface. Some of the heat can be conducted through the surface. More importantly, some of the heat can be re-emitted to the night sky in the form of infrared wavelength energy. The latter phenomenon is known as thermal emittance (TE). The combination of solar reflectance and thermal emittance properties of a material determine the surface temperature of a roof and its ability to act cool.
Some typical radiative properties of common roofing materials are shown in Table 1. Metal roofing has a wide range of solar reflectance and thermal emittance values. In the unpainted condition, a metallic surface has a very low TE but a relatively high TSR. When a paint system is applied to the surface, the TE is very high regardless of the color. However, the TSR can vary depending on the color and/or pigmentation used.
In addition to the obvious energy saving benefits of cool roofing to a building owner, its use is also influenced by codes, standards, rebate/incentives or marketing programs. And, in this regard, the landscape is bursting with an ever-increasing list of cool roofing programs and initiatives.
These policies can be national and local programs, each with their own unique criteria and definitions of cool roofing. Most of the programs are voluntary, but some have mandatory criteria. They often pertain to both low and steep slope roofing. Figure 2 shows some of these policies and indicates the requirements for compliance.
EPA estimates that an Energy Star labeled roof can lower a roof temperature by as much as 100º F. The lower surface temperature translates into lower heat flow into the attic space below the roof and reduces the load on the air cooling system. To date, more than 60 percent of the products listed on the Energy Star labeled directory are metal roofing products or coatings used specifically in the metal roofing industry.
The Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) was established in 1998 as a non-profit organization to develop a methodology for evaluating and labeling all types of roofing products. Its program was launched in 2002. This organization is comprised of roofing manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, trade associations, contractors, consultants, government agencies, educational institutions, code bodies, energy suppliers and independent laboratories. The CRRC is now recognized by the CEC as the sole entity responsible for labeling roofing products that are allowed in the California Energy Code Title 24. It is important to note that the CRRC does not establish criteria or definitions for cool roofing.
California is leading the way with an energy code as part of its overall building code. The latest version of its state building and energy code, Title 24, became effective in October, 2005. For the first time, this version of the energy code contains language specific to cool roofing requirements.
Compliance in Title 24 is based on meeting prescriptive requirements of 0.70 TSR, 0.75 TE and being a CRRC-listed product. Compliance can also be achieved using a method of building component tradeoffs and energy budgets. The current code pertains only to non-residential conditioned buildings with a low slope roof. The impact on metal roofing is that unpainted metal such as Galvalume® sheet cannot comply with the prescriptive criteria. However, compliance using the tradeoff calculations is possible, but costly.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 includes tax incentives for commercial construction. An eligible commercial contractor can receive a tax deduction equivalent to $1.80 for every square foot of the building, if the building is designed to conserve energy. The use of energy efficient building envelope components is required, and a cool metal roof can be used to lower the cooling energy use in the building.
Another program gaining in popularity in the construction industry is the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) program, started in 2000. This is a whole-building design program that encourages an integrated design and construction process whereby points are awarded for the use of sustainable products or building practices.
The flagship for LEED has been its New Construction (NC) program. Other programs include Existing Buildings, Commercial Interiors, Core and Shell Projects, Neighborhood Development, Homes and Schools. Four levels of LEED certification are possible based on a graduated system of points awarded. An increasing number of LEED certification requirements for federal, state and local public building construction projects are being mandated.
Metal roofing can contribute to the LEED-NC certification point system in several categories. Its high recycled content can be used to raise the overall building's average recycled content in order to receive up to two points. Supplying a metal panel from a location within 500 miles of a jobsite can contribute to a point for regional manufacturer. The fact that metal is 100 percent recyclable helps with the waste management section of LEED. One credit can be awarded for metal in the Heat Island Roof section where cool roofing is defined.
As the cool roof movement continues to grow in the wake of rising oil, gas and electricity costs, metal roofing is poised to become the product of choice. With its wide range of TSR/TE properties, it can be engineered to optimize the energy efficiency of a roof system depending on the climate and application.
For cooler climates where heating dominates, a lower TE may be desirable which can be met with an unpainted metal roof. In contrast, in warmer climates where cooling loads dominate, a high TSR and TE is desirable which can be met with a prepainted metal surface using lighter colors and/or IR reflective pigmentation. This design flexibility, combined with the sustainability, strength, durability and low life-cycle cost makes metal roofing a cool choice for any building.
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Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is the reboot you never knew you needed in your life.
Charlie's Angels is the reboot you never knew you needed in your life.
Ford v Ferrari delivers real cinema meat and potatoes.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Chaz Ebert celebrated her birthday by honoring Victory Gardens Theater in October 2019.
A video essay celebrating Antonia Bird's maligned masterpiece, Ravenous.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
A new look at a modern classic from an FFC in Korea.
A review of the third season of The Crown, which premieres on Netflix on November 17.
The latest on Blu-ray and streaming includes Good Boys, Hobbs & Shaw, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
Jessica Ritchey on the episodes of The Twilight Zone that she thinks about the most.
The latest in our monthly series looks at Walter Hill's controversial thriller.
The newest chapter of our video series takes a look at one of Tobe Hooper's underrated gems.
An obituary for Tobe Hooper.
A history of the "Resident Evil" films and video games, how they've influenced each other, and how the two latest entries split.
A guide to the latest on Blu-ray, including "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" and "Only Angels Have Wings" (the first time those two movies have ever been in a sentence together).
A preview of dozens of films being released this Summer.
A piece on four films from the opening week of the 2014 New York Film Festival: "Heaven Knows What," "Seymour, an Introduction," "Stray Dog" and "Beloved Sisters."
True story, kind of.
A history and appreciation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the eve of the re-release of a 4k restored version for its 40th anniversary.
Recent releases on Blu-ray.
Released in the summer of 1985 to critical scorn and near-total commercial indifference, the sci-fi/horror hybrid "Lifeforce" has spent most of the following 28 years languishing in obscurity. If it was remembered at all, it was either because of its massive financial failure--which helped doom the futures of both its producing company and its director--or because of its status as one of the all-time favorite films of Mr. Skin, that beloved repository of on-screen nudity.
Peet at NegativeSpace knows it when he sees it.
In the 1957 case Roth v. United States, the US Supreme Court held that the First Amendment did not protect obscenity, which Justice William Brennan characterized as a form of expression that was "utterly without redeeming social importance..." and which "... to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest."
In Jacobeliis v. Ohio (1964), Justice Potter Stewart wrote his famous description of pornography: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case [Louis Malle's 1958 "The Lovers"/"Les Amants"] is not that.Nine years later, in Miller v. California, Chief Justice Warren Burger offered his famous definition of obscenity:The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.Today, of course, porn is made for the World Wide Interwebs, and so-called "torture porn" is mainstream multiplex fare. In a post called "The 120 Days of HOSTEL PART II" at The Exploding Kinetoscope, Chris Stangl argues that the phrase "torture porn" is simply a meaningless critical buzzword, "a non-position that allows a critic not to engage the work. It's critical name-calling." Stengl writes: "Any review, op-ed piece, or coverage of 'Hostel Part II' that includes the phrase 'torture porn' as if it were a meaningful genre designation, I will not finish reading. A line must be drawn. We all have our limits." (Thanks to The House for calling my attention to Stangl's site.)
I was about to disagree with this (after all, I happen to know torture porn when I see it!) -- but then...
LOS ANGELES - It was one of those California Sunday brunches where everyone's expected to fill up on organic bran muffins and honeydew melons and five flavors of herbal tea...the kind of brunch where Bianca Jagger is chatting with Peter Weir, this hot young Australian director, while a reporter from Variety stands between them, so eager to eavesdrop on the conversation.


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With its exclusive finishing, the MP3 500 hpe Business stands out for its small, but precious, details such as the protective cover of the new exhaust outlet and matt-grey finishing of the wheel spokes and central tunnel.
There's something else which distinguishes this model from the rest and that is Vio, the first TomTom navigator developed for scooters. A waterproof screen, driving indications you can read at a glance, anti-traffic system and caller display all help ensure you make your way through traffic quickly and seamlessly.
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