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Seattle homicides plunge to 55-year low
List of 2010 homicides in Seattle
EDITOR'S NOTE: After this story was posted, Michelle Thornton was found strangled to death at her Belltown apartment in the 100 block of Vine Street. The King County Medical Examiner, who classified her death as a homicide Jan. 10, determined she died Dec. 30. Seattle police count her death in the 2011 list, but she is included here because of her death date. Her case was the 20th Seattle homicide in 2010, and makes that annual number the lowest since 1958. Read more here.
ORIGINAL STORY: Mirroring other major U.S. cities, Seattle's homicides plunged to a historic 55-year low last year to 19, a seattlepi.com analysis of department records found.
The last time the city had that number was in 1956.
Of last year's homicides, nine stemmed from domestic violence. Four incidents ended with the killer committing suicide. Police arrested or identified suspects in nearly all of the cases, and most victims knew their attackers.
"Proactive police work, citizens being more involved in reporting crime -- I think perhaps that combination influenced those numbers," said Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt, referring to last year's historic low.
Department officials also acknowledged that Harborview Medical Center -- one of the nation's best trauma hospitals -- has likely saved the lives of many serious assault victims.
Seattle's drop in violent deaths parallels similar drops in Washington D.C. and Chicago, and follows a decrease in other violent crimes. Seattle homicides have dropped by 47 percent since 2000, when the number of violent deaths totaled 36. They were also a stark contrast to the violence in the 90s. There were 69 homicides in 1994.
The homicide counts don't include traffic fatalities or officer-involved shootings, of which three men were killed by police. The data was gathered from annual reports, and the 2010 number was confirmed by Sgt. Sean Whitcomb.
While violent crime has dropped in Seattle, the department is still struggling with a surge in vehicle theft, which increased by 17 percent in the first 10 months of last year, compared with the same time period in 2009.
The department is also coping with a string of videotaped use-of-force incidents, which prompted the Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer to say last year that police personnel "have to grow up a little bit and recognized that we are in a video age."
Here is a detailed look at the people who died in 2009.
Andis Petersons and Franklin Micah Wood, Jan. 11
The incident happened a few minutes after 11 p.m. in the 1400 block of North Northgate Way. Initially several North Precinct officers and a police dog tried to track three suspects, described as black men, in their late 20s or early 30s, wearing all black clothing. At least one was said to be armed with a pistol.
Three days later police released a sketch of one of the men suspected in the slayings of Wood, 18, and Petersons, 20.
Police haven't discredited the sketch, but search warrant documents released in February suggest the victims were intended to be subjects of a robbery gone bad.
A man who identified himself to police as one of the suspects in the double homicide allegedly told police that the roommate of the two men set up the incident because he needed money and didn't mean for his roommates to get shot. But no charges have been filed.
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Glennis Parker, Feb. 9
Police found Parker in a 76 gas station parking lot, sitting in the driver's seat of his GMC truck. The 56-year-old had been shot three times in the head and was unarmed.
His wife arrived at the scene at Terry Avenue and James Street about 4 a.m. -- roughly 90 minutes after Parker was found dead -- and was distraught. Police say she told about a "loud discussion" her husband had with someone at their home earlier that morning. She initially wouldn't identity the other person, but later conceded it was her stepson, according to court documents.
Police investigated a tip that that the stepson, Zachary E. Collins, shot Parker because he thought Parker had been molesting the stepson's mentally disabled brother. The molestation allegation hasn't been proven.
Collins was charged with second-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty and the case is ongoing.
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Andrew Ray Johnson, March 28
About 11:45 p.m. on March 28, 911 dispatchers got a report of shots fired outside a home in the 4600 block of South Brandon Street. As officers were driving there, they were told a person was on the ground in front of the home.
They found Johnson unresponsive. The 24-year-old died at the scene from wounds to the head and chest.
The month before his death, police used a Taser on Johnson, who they say was uncooperative and dangerous. Court records show he was previously enrolled at a mental health facility.
The night of the shooting, police say the suspected shooter, another man and two women were in a vehicle parked in the 4600 block of South Brandon Street. The driver noticed Johnson walking toward the vehicle then Johnson suddenly came at him through the driver's side window, according to court documents.
The driver accelerated and lost sight of Johnson. He then came around to drop both women off and stopped on the side of the road.
"Andrew Johnson suddenly emerged from the shadows and ran toward the passenger side grabbing at (the suspect) who fired three shots at Andrew Johnson striking his body," Seattle Police Detective Russell Weklych wrote in a probable cause document.
The 23-year-old man who police say shot Johnson was arrested April 2 and booked the following morning into King County Jail. But he hasn't been charged.
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Celeste Pond, April 25
Pond was found dead in Unit 11 of the Way West Motel at 8600 Aurora Ave. N. Police say the 31-year-old was killed by her partner, Fabian O. Hudson, 39, who then took his own life, also by gunfire.
The bodies of the couple, known as City and Cece to neighbors, had stayed for more than a week before residents called a motel manager complaining of a smell. Neighbors were shocked to hear of the deaths.
At 12:24 p.m. May 3, police received a call from the motel manager saying he'd found the two dead. Hudson was found on the couch.
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Young-Hee Kim, May 27
Police say Kim's husband beat her to death with a hammer before jumping to his death from their Ballard apartment building.
Kim was 75; her husband was 74.
A caller to 911 reported hearing a woman scream "No! No! No!" The caller heard a thumping sound, no more from the woman and more thumping, according to police.
The incident happened about 10:15 p.m. in the 2400 block of Northwest 57th Street. The husband was found on the concrete holding a hammer. Kim was found on the floor near their apartment window.
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Thearra Steve Sok, June 6
Steve Sok was shot in the head about 2:45 a.m. in the 2100 block of Second Avenue. The 21-year-old died at the scene. A 44-year-old man also was shot in the stomach, but survived.
A man who lives near Second Avenue and Blanchard Street took an iPhone video that captures the eight gunshots being fired. Though the video doesn't show anyone being hit, but includes the disturbing sounds of someone screaming afterward.
In late June, prosecutors filed second-degree murder and second-degree assault charges against Felix Sitthivong, a suspected gang member who a witness said was confrontational the night of the shooting.
Nam Viet Nguyen and Jason Reeves Lee also were charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance after police said they helped Sitthivong flee to Long Beach, Calif. The three pleaded not guilty.
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Shawn Edward Hall, Aug. 3
Police say Hall, 39, was shot to death by Lakesha Shaniel French, who later killed herself on a dead end road in the 14400 block of Interurban Avenue South.
That morning, French asked her apartment complex neighbor to accompany her on some errands. They drove to Westwood Village where French purchased paperwork to complete a will, which she did later that day, according to court documents.
About three and a half hours later, police responded to Hall's shooting in the 1400 block of South Hinds Street. A neighbor reported hearing shots, a scream and more shots.
The neighbor looked down the street and saw a woman leaning out of the passenger side of a car with a gun in her hand, shooting a man on the ground. The vehicle fled eastbound. The witness couldn't confirm that the shooter was the sole occupant, though she didn't see anyone else.
Hall was shot six times and died at the scene.
About 3 p.m. that day -- roughly 10 minutes after the shooting -- French called her mother and said "that she had shot and probably killed her boyfriend, Shawn, that she still had the gun, and was going to kill herself," according to court documents.
The 9 mm pistol she killed herself with shortly after was tired to casings recovered at the homicide scene.
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Arturo Delarosa-Martinez, Aug. 21
About 3:20 a.m. Aug. 21, police were called to a man unconscious in a fenced-off area of the 1000 block of Valley Street. That man, Arturo Delarosa-Martinez, died from a single gunshot wound to the head, according to the King County Medical Examiner's office.
Police say his body was found near a Quinceranera, a Latin American celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, being held at the Naval Reserve Building.
Delarosa-Martinez and the others weren't there long before investigators say rival gang members arrived and a fight started. Gang signs were flashed and one rival gang member showed a chrome-plated handgun.
"Several 'VL's' jumped DeLarosa and knocked him to the ground and started pummeling DeLarosa," according to the probable cause document.
Another man tried to help Delarosa-Martinez and also was attacked. The fight shifted to different places in the building and the last time he was seen, Delarosa-Martinez was standing up swinging at two of his attackers.
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Michael Kniezewski, Sept. 12
Prosecutors say Kniezewski, 21, was strangled by another homeless man near the Seattle Police West Precinct.
That man, Joshua S. Stattman, 32, was arrested after he returned to the homicide scene in the 900 block of Virginia Street and allegedly admitted to the crime. He allegedly said he and Kniezewski drank three beers in the doorway of the Urban Rest Stop in the 1900 block of 9th Avenue.
"Stattman said that the victim told him that he was depressed for a number of reasons and was determined to end his life," Detective Rolf Norton wrote in a probable-cause statement. "Stattman told detectives that the victim then asked for his assistance."
The suspect showed the victim a strap in his bag, and Stattman claimed Kniezewski took it and tied a knot. Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder and his case is ongoing.
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Jonathan Chhonn, Sept. 17
Shortly before 3 a.m. Sept. 17, Seattle police responded to the 2500 block of 29th Avenue South, where Chhonn was shot in the face inside his ground-floor apartment. He later died from multiple gunshot wounds at Harborview Medical Center.
Investigators said he was shot through an open window and are looking for two men in the crime. Police described the suspects as Asian men, 5-foot-7 inches to 5-foot-8 inches tall, in the late teens to early 20s. Investigators say they wore wearing blue jeans and dark jackets or shirts and left the apartment building in a white sedan with a low back end.
Seattle police also were looking into a possible connection between Chhonn's fatal shopoting and two other incidents: Sok's Belltown homicide in June, a double fatality at Lake Sammamish State Park in July. On Chhonn's Facebook page, he wrote that he missed Steve Sok.
However, police say they've found no concrete link that ties the killings together and have not discussed the case publicly other than the initial reports. No arrests have been made.
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Bernard Ray Martin, Sept. 22
Prosecutors claim Chatri Lime Thip stomped and beat 40-year-old Bernard Ray Martin to death on Sept. 22 at Roxhill Park for no discernible reason.
Martin's only offense, prosecutors contend, was approaching Thip and others who'd gathered in the park during the early morning hours to drink beer.
"The defendant's actions -- the brutal and senseless murder of a man who posed no threat to him -- demonstrate that he presents an extreme danger to the community," Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Baird said in court documents.
In another case, Thip previously pleaded guilty to rendering criminal assistance charges related to a deadly shooting at a Pacific community center. He has been charged with second-degree murder for Martin's death and pleaded not guilty. His case is ongoing.
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Choeun Harm, Jennifer R. Harm and Molina S. Phan, Sept. 23
It was about 1:30 p.m. Thursday when Saroeun Phan armed herself with a handgun.
"According to one of the witnesses, she did not say a single word when she came out of the bedroom and came downstairs," Assistant Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel said. "Not a single word."
Police say before turning the gun on herself, Phan killed her 14- and 17-year-old granddaughters, Molina Phan and Jennifer Harm; her 43-year-old son-in-law Choeun Harm; and also shot her 42-year-old daughter, Thy Luellen Phan.
"Saroeun Phan has been struggling with schizophrenia and depression for several years and has sought medical attention numerous times," family members said in a statement. "She has been taking medication prescribed to her by physicians.
"It is not certain whether she has been properly taking her medication these past couple of months."
Police say at some point during the Thursday rampage, the 60-year-old armed herself with another gun and fired at least 20 rounds total at the family home in the 9400 block of Southwest Roxbury Street in West Seattle, where members of three related families lived.
It may have been her intention to kill everyone who lived there, police said.
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Jarrett Jackson, Oct. 23
Police say Jackson, 29, was shot about 2:40 a.m. Oct. 23 near 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street by Pierce A. Dubois, 27. Seattle police say the suspected shooter told officers he had shot Jackson early Saturday, after Jackson had accused him of sleeping with Jackson's "baby's mama," according to a probable cause document.
An off-duty police officer at the scene told responding officers he'd heard three or four shots, then saw a man running away on 12th Avenue South. Officers saw a green Cadillac Escalade pull onto 12th Avenue South with its headlights off.
Police arrested the driver, who fled. Dubois was later arrested running from an area under Interstate 5 known as The Jungle. He's pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
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Michael Yohannes, Oct. 26
Police say Yohannes was shot about 4:40 p.m. at the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Pike Street by Tomas Afeworki, a man prosecutors describe as a cold-blooded killer. Investigators haven't said exactly what motivated the attack on Yohannes, 31.
Afeworki, who was arrested after trying to hide in Zaina Food, Drinks and Friends at 109 Pine St., h ad been released from prison in September 2009 and was under Department of Corrections supervision for multiple crimes when the shooting occurred. Yohannes also had a troubled life, with at least 39 jail bookings since 1997, multiple drug convictions and several felonies.
Afeworki has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
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Joseph L. LaMagno, Nov. 22
LaMagno was walking home from the grocery store when he was attacked at random by Michael La-Rosa, a man with mental issues including schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder.
La-Rosa, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, allegedly told police he "had just killed a guy," shortly after the attack.
Police say LaMagno was repeatedly hit in the head in the 1400 block of East Union Street and still had his grocery bag in his hand, showing he had little or no time to react to the fatal beating. The attack was witnessed by some Seattle Academy students leaving school.
In an obituary published Sunday in the Englewood, Fla., Sun, Lamagno was described as an Streator, Ill. native and graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
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Dale Richard Holme, Nov. 26
Holme who found at 8:50 p.m. that day bleeding from the head near Fifth Avenue South and South Weller Street, in Seattle's International District. He died at Harborview Medical Center after languishing for five days.
Investigators initially had trouble determining whether the man fell or had been attacked. But an autopsy revealed Holme died of head trauma caused by multiple chop wounds. His death has been classified as a homicide, and Michael La-Rosa was named as a suspect after being arrested a day after the attack on Holme.
LaMagno, who remains in King County Jail, has not been charged in Holme's case.
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On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturile and Robert Westenberg attempted to rob a branch of the Chase Manhattan bank in Brooklyn, New York. Westenberg would flee before the robbery was in fully under way, Naturile would be killed by the FBI before the day was out, and Wojtowicz would be apprehended and eventually wind up serving six years in jail.
This was no typical foiled bank robbery, however. The bank manager was able to alert a manager at another branch shortly after the robbery began, and the police were able to surround the building with Wojtowicz and Naturile still inside. With Naturile holding the branch employees as hostages, Wojtowicz left the bank to talk to the cops openly out in the streets, in full view of the throng of press and spectators that had assembled.
When Wojtowicz revealed his motivations for the robbery, the story took on an entirely different dimension. After divorcing his first wife, the mother of his two children, Wojtowicz had begun exploring homosexuality. He met and fell in love with a man named Ernest Aron, and the two were married in December of the previous year. Aron, however, was a transgendered individual who longed for a sex change operation. At the time of the robbery, he was in a psychiatric institution, following a series of suicide attempts related to his gender discomfort.
Wojtowicz was robbing the bank to fund Aron's sex change operation.
Life Magazine wrote an article about the events of that hot summer day entitled "The Boys in the Bank". It detailed not only the circus like atmosphere of that day, but the backstories behind the robbers, and the motivations of John Wojtowicz.
An associate of producer Martin Bregman brought the article to his attention. Bregman was intrigued. Aside from the robbery, the story featured a lifestyle that Hollywood hadn't explored much previously. He felt that if he were to turn it into a film, it would be a first, it would be different.
Though Wojtowicz was convinced to sell the film rights to the story, he refused to cooperate with the screenwriter, leaving the production to come up with their own interpretation based on the factual records and interviews with people involved and people who knew Wojtowicz (Wojtowicz would later write the NY Times disputing several of the events).
Al Pacino was mentioned for the role even before Bregman put the film in motion. The "Life" article said that Wojtowicz had the "broken-faced good looks of an Al Pacino or a Dustin Hoffman", and indeed, there were physical similarities. Pacino had actually heard of the event as it was happening. He got a kick later on out of hearing people say it might make a good role for him.
But when Bregman actually sent him a script and offered him the role, Pacino passed. He had just finished shooting "The Godfather: Part II", and didn't feel up to the demands of working with director Sidney Lumet again (he, Bregman and Lumet had done "Serpico" a few years earlier, in 1973). Lumet was well known for extensive rehearsals and favoring "method acting", and Pacino didn't feel he was up to it at the time.
Bregman pleaded, however, asking Pacino to read the script one more time before giving his final answer. He did, and it was on the second reading that he realized what an incredible role it was.
Pacino's high profile and his relationship with Bregman and Lumet resulted in him wielding extraordinary influence on the picture, including casting choices. He begged Lumet to read John Cazale, in spite of the fact that the real Salvatore Naturile was only 18 years old, and the part was written that way. Pacino and Cazale were friends who had worked together, famously, in "The Godfather" movies, and Pacino had great respect for him. Lumet let him read, and was convinced. He decided to rewrite the role for Cazale after all.
Pacino also sold Lumet on Charles Durning.
Chris Sarandon and Lance Henrikson would each have their first movie role, here.
Lumet had the cast rehearse for three weeks as opposed to his usual two, due to the fact that they would be playing characters who were in such close quarters for such a long period of time. He felt the extra long rehearsal period would help simulate the conditions. He wanted the actors to be themselves, however, so towards the end, he held a couple of days of script-free improv. The exercise turned out so much better than he expected that he began recording the improv sessions and working lines from them into the script.
The resulting film is one of high intensity and drama… a pressure cooker with comedic flashes and character moments mixed in.
On a sweltering August day, three armed men enter a bank at closing time, and demand access to the vault. One of the men loses his nerve and flees, just as things begin. The other two take what they can from the safe, and from the teller's drawers, but are unable to get away before the police arrive.
Once the authorities have the bank surrounded, however, things really begin to get bizarre. While Sal (John Cazale) guards the hostages, Sonny (Al Pacino) takes to the streets, negotiating with the police out in front of the bank. Surrounded by television crews, newspaper photographers and a throng of cheering onlookers, Sonny begins to put on a show. He screams at the cops, and he incites the crowd, screaming, "Attica! Attica! Attica!" (in reference to the riots at the Attica Correctional Facility the year prior). At one point, he even throws handfuls of cash out to the people beyond the barricades.
It's when the police bring Sonny's wife Leon to the scene that "Dog Day" shifts into another gear.
Sarandon's spacey, whining, effeminate Leon bemoans what's become of Sonny, regaling the police with the tale of their relationship, his gender issues, and Sonny's recent character problems. He initially refuses to speak to Sonny on the phone.
He eventually accedes, however, and he and Sonny have a phone call worthy of movie history. It's there that the two rehash their relationship, Leon's experiences in the psychiatric ward, and Sonny's motivations for robbing the bank. It's at this moment that we're fully let into Sonny's character… everything that motivates him, all of his temper issues, his desperation. We're shown the love between the two, but also the frustration of not being able to make their relationship work. Even though both know that this may be their final chance to speak to one another, the audience is left with the feeling that many things were left unsaid.
Immediately following, Sonny calls his ex-wife, the mother of his children, and is treated to a rambling, panicked stream of worry. We've been given a full picture of where he comes from and what his life is like.
It's no wonder he's losing his mind.
It's arguably the finest performance of Al Pacino's storied career.
Sonny is earnest and endearing, yet occasionally violent and unstable. In spite of the circumstances, you get the feeling he would never hurt anyone. He's the mastermind of a poorly thought out plan, trying vainly to hold it all together on the fly. He needs to reason with his partner in crime, his hostages, the press, the crowds, the cops, the FBI and the people in his life all at once. It's a pressure cooker that can't be withstood, and Pacino lets us see and feel every ounce of it. It's an unforgetable, tour de force performance. It's a huge part of the reason why Al Pacino became known as being one of the foremost actors of our time.
In 2006, Premiere Magazine ranked it the 4th best performance of all time, behind only Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront and Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice.
"Dog Day Afternoon" was a critical and commercial success upon its release in 1975. It grossed $50 million on its $1.8 million budget. Dog Day Afternoon won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for five other Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director (Sidney Lumet), Best Actor (Pacino), Best Supporting Actor (Chris Sarandon) and Best Editing. Several of the awards it didn't win (Picture, Director, Actor) went to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", a film that had a dominated that year's awards.
It currently sits at #179 in the IMDb Top 250.
In 2009, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.
John Wojtowicz served six years of his twenty year sentence. He was paid $7,500 plus 1% of the film's net profits for the rights to the story, which allowed him to fund Ernest Aron's sexual reassignment surgery after all. Aron became Elizabeth Debbie Eden and lived out the rest of her days in New York. (She died from AIDS in 1987.) Wojtowicz died of cancer in January 2006.
"Dog Day Afternoon" is a unique cross between a character study and a heist movie. You get the intensity of a police standoff, with the brilliant character work and performances of a serious dramatic piece. Al Pacino has never been better.
It's definitely a "Movie That Everyone Should See".

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It was a night full of memorable moments at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards, but it didn't translate into great ratings for the annual awards show.
The highlight of the evening was Lea Michele stepping out in public for the first time to accept an award following the death of her boyfriend Cory Monteith. While the appearance was never officially announced, it was highly anticipated that it would happen.
The show only ended up garnering 2.6 million viewers and marks the first time the show has not reached 3 million viewers since 2006, according to Deadline.


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Costa Rica Conservation Project – November 2012
The month of November in Barra Honda National Park marks a complete transformation in technology, environmental protection and animal research. Innovative ideas have proven that with enough time and hard work large sums of money are not necessary for quality results. Not to mention that the staff and volunteers have completely raised the bar on self-sufficiency with renewable energy.
Animal and human waste contains methanogenic archaebacteria that decompose organic materials without oxygen. Storing faeces in a bio-digester allows the use of the decomposition by capturing the gases produced to generate green energy for various uses; i.e. cooking, lighting and feeding combustion engines that produce electric energy.
This new practice is considered by many to be a technology of the future, and its implementation has already improved the quality of life of numerous families and industries. This is by using costless and natural products, enabling a considerable economic gain while helping the protection of the environment.
In Barra Honda, Projects Abroad is implementing this technology. During the past month we received an important part of the materials to be used for the construction of a bio-digester. Volunteers and staff members started the construction of the bio-digester and are hoping to finish it by the end of January 2013. In February 2013, we plan on producing and utilizing the gas.
In other news, a previous volunteer, Philip Bell-Doyon, returned to Barra Honda to run an investigation project. With the assistance of other volunteers and staff members, he documented, photographed and constructed a project split up into five sections: reptiles, amphibians, mammals, birds and insects. Thanks to him and the hard work of our volunteers, we now have the names, species and genus of most animals in Barra Honda with their pictures on billboards. These will be beneficial for other volunteers and tourists visiting the park because now the animals are easily identifiable.
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BONAFOS, MENAHEM BEN ABRAHAM (called also Bonafoux, Abraham of Perpignan):(Redirected from MENAHEM B. ABRAHAM.)
French philosopher; flourished at the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was the author of a work entitled "Sefer ha-Gedarim" (Book of the Definitions), or, as it is also called, "Miklal Yofi" (Perfection of Beauty), a dictionary of technical expressions in Hebrew works on philosophy, ethics, and medicine, especially the terms found in the "Guide of Perplexed." The author aimed rather to give a clear explanation of the terms than their etymology, though drawing sometimes upon Arabic and Greek for help in his explanations. The work was published with some notes by Isaac
- De Rossi, Dizionario Storico, p. 75;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1719;
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(Phoenix, Ariz. - April 13, 2005) More than 6,000 Arizona residents are among the 310,000 people nationally whose personal data files were stolen from information broker LexisNexis, Attorney General Terry Goddard said today.
LexisNexis reported in March that 32,000 personal files had been breached. On Tuesday, the company said the number is now believed to be almost 10 times higher. The number of Arizonans whose Social Security numbers, driver's license information and addresses were fraudulently acquired was put at 6,215.
LexisNexis will send letters in the next few days to everyone whose data was acquired, Goddard said. Those letters will include phone numbers people can use to learn more about the security breach and what they can do to protect against identity theft. In addition to the notifications, the company is offering free credit monitoring to all 310,000 people.
The general public can contact a customer service number for LexisNexis at 1-866-246-2328.
"This episode, together with the ChoicePoint, Bank of America and other security lapses in the past two months, underscores the need for a law requiring data brokers to notify consumers whose personal information is lost," Goddard said. "In this instance, LexisNexis voluntarily agreed to notify consumers, but that has not always been the case."
"My office supported a bill in the State Legislature this year that would have required such notification, but it failed to receive a hearing and died in committee," Goddard said. "A bill is now pending in Congress to impose this basic requirement. Depending on its fate, we may need to come back to the Legislature."


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Interview with Ari Korolainen : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Ari Korolainen : Private Case, several ways to use. By using you will find your way.To use environmently friendly materials, plain design, functional products. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Ari Korolainen : This case can be use by several ways. I do not wanna tell everything. I leave something to one who is using it. When your demands grow. Case is ready to answer your demands. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Ari Korolainen : Sell a lot...I would like to design more items to make a large collection. Colors and models .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Ari Korolainen : It took about a year to do this. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Ari Korolainen : I made first cases about 30 years ago. And somehow my design allways is coming from my own needs. Now I needed a case to my Mac. A simple case with Mac feeling and diffrent way to use. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Ari Korolainen : We have own factory, where we make most of the products. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Ari Korolainen : My own needs.IMPORTANT. Sholderstrap can be use different ways. You can carry I phone, Mini I pad or I pad at the sae time with you or you can carry book newspaper or umbrella with you. As much as you can carry inside of a case you can carry outside of the case .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Ari Korolainen : I try to discuss with my friends to get feed back from my work .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Ari Korolainen : I think Mac users are main target.. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Ari Korolainen : Name Olga is like finnish word olka, which means sholder. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Ari Korolainen : We make prototype by hands. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Ari Korolainen : Plain and functionality with a small glue. You can carry I phone, Mini I pad or I pad at the sae time with you or you can carry book newspaper or umbrella with you. As much as you can carry inside of a case you can carry outside of the case .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Ari Korolainen : Macintosh measurementsTo catch feeling of Mac. New color Mac silveris comingThere is a lot of handwork .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Ari Korolainen : I discusses with Mac users and Mac stores To solve their problems. More in .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Ari Korolainen : I have taken part for some other design competitions with a good luck some past years. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Ari Korolainen : Every work learns me something. To develop better products. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Ari Korolainen : More informatio firstname.lastname@example.com .
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text: Pubdate: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Copyright: 2012 Union-Tribune Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.utsandiego.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/386 Author: Greg Moran ACLU: U.S. ATTORNEY WRONG ON MEDICAL POT ADVICE SAN DIEGO -- It's no hoax: U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy is being accused by the American Civil Liberties Union of trying to meddle in local politics by saying Del Mar city workers could face prosecution if voters there approve a November ballot measure allowing medical marijuana dispensaries. David Loy, legal director for the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial counties, wrote in an Aug. 2 letter to Duffy that threatening prosecution for city employees amounts to "unjustified interference in local legislative matters." Loy said Duffy's assertion also is legally wrong -- and that court cases have said public employees are immune from prosecution when doing administrative tasks required under medical marijuana laws. He called on Duffy to retract the statement. But the U.S. attorney for San Diego said she stands by the letter, which she sent in response to a query from Del Mar city lawyers. In the July 17 letter, Duffy reiterated that under federal law marijuana is an illegal drug and individuals who grow, possess or distribute it are breaking the law. "I respectfully disagree with the ACLU's analysis of federal and state law in this context, and would note that the guidance I provided to the Del Mar City Attorney's Office is guidance that has consistently been taken by numerous United States Attorney's Offices around the country as well as the Department of Justice," she said in a statement this week. The debate is the latest example of the clash between state and federal law over medical marijuana. State law allows medical marijuana use, but it remains illegal under federal law. Duffy and other federal prosecutors in California led a crackdown in October on dispensaries around the state, saying they were operating illegally. In San Diego, most have closed. Last week, Duffy was the target of an elaborate hoax by medical marijuana supporters who sent out bogus news releases ostensibly from her office, with one declaring she was cracking down on legal pharmacies that were dispensing prescription medication. She is considering prosecuting them for impersonating a federal officer. In Del Mar, proponents of medical marijuana gathered signatures to place a measure on the ballot to allow dispensaries in the city. In June, when the City Council was deciding whether to include it on the ballot, city lawyers sent a letter to Duffy asking several questions, including whether city employees could be prosecuted for issuing business permits or paperwork for the dispensaries if the measure passed. Duffy responded that public employees who "conduct activities mandated by the ordinance are not immune" under federal law. Loy contends that statement is wrong, and in his letter pointed to several cases where courts have said public employees are protected. Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Alex Kreit said a federal also protects workers. Kreit, the former head of San Diego's medical marijuana task force, said that law was written to protect undercover police officers who may have to possess or consume drugs from prosecution. Kreit said that courts in California and Oregon have said the law applies to public employees, too. However, he said, letters similar to the one Duffy sent to Del Mar have been sent by federal prosecutors in other states where medical marijuana laws are being considered. - --- MAP posted-by: Matt


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The Republican conference has been aggressively circulating a passage in Bob Woodward's book "The Price of Politics" where then-OMB chief Jack Lew suggests the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. On Twitter, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy wrote: "The President demanded the sequester in 2011 - House has voted twice to replace it w/ responsible cuts and reforms to spending #Obamaquester."
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Using Sight to Determine Degree of Roast
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Color is just one of the ways to determine degree of roast. By itself, it is of limited use. When complemented by the audible cues (first and second crack) and the aromas of the roast process, it is extremely informative . Here is a You Tube video showing the color changes that occur during roasting –
|Degree of Roast, Temperature, Description
This coffee was roasted on my Probat 12 kilo so I could take advantage of the sample trier. Ignore the times, and take the temperatures as a ballpark figure.
The important thing is here is to see the transformation the coffee goes through as it roasts and what look, color, bean sizeand surface texture, corresponds to the degree of roast. ***(see note from home roaster George Steinert below).
Roasting is more about exceptions than rules. I have this page about bean color vs. ground coffee color that might be helpful. So get to it.
|(click on preview for full size image)
1. Green unroasted coffee 0:00 – 75 f
This is a wet processed, Central American coffee, a accidental blend I have had sitting around. Each photo here are different coffee seeds from the batch I roasted sosize and shape will vary seed to seed.
2. Starting to pale 4:00 – 270 f
Drum roasters take a long time to transfer heat to coffee so there is little change in the first few minutes. In an air roaster coffee gets to this stage so much faster because of the efficient heat transference of the rapid moving air stream, so the whole warm-up phase can be as fast as two minutes.
Odd looking seeds – the near one might be a Kona Typica and the farther one perhaps the traditional Bourbon cultivar or Mundo Novo. Click on image for large photo, or here for multi-bean photo
3. Early yellow stage 6:00 – 327 f
At this point the coffee is still losing water in the form of steam and no physical expansion of the bean has taken place. The coffee has a very humid, hay-like smell at this point. All of these warm-up stages leading up to first crack are part of an endothermic process, as the coffee takes on heat, leading to the first audible roast reaction, the exothermic 1st crack.
4. Yellow-Tan stage 6:30 – 345 f
The roast is starting to assume a browner color, and a marbling appearance is starting to emerge. No bean expansion yet. The first "toasty" smells (toasted grain, bread) can be detected, and a bit less wet, humid air coming off the coffee. Note that some coffees turn a brighter and more distinct yellow at this time, such as Costa Rican and Mexican coffees.
5. Light Brown stage 8:00 – 370 f
First crack is drawing near at this point. Some bean expansion is visible as the central crack in the coffee has opened slightly. The coffee releases some silverskin or chaff.
6. Brown Stage 9:00 – 393 f
Now we are right at the door of first crack. The coffee has browned considerably, which is partly due to browning reactions from sugars, but largely due to another browning reaction called the Maillard Reaction (which also is responsible for browning of cooked beef!)
7. 1st crack begins 9:20 – 401 f
At this point, the very first popping sounds of the First Crack can be heard. This sound can be similar to popcorn pops (in distinction to the sound of the Second Crack, which has a shallower sound, more like a snap). At the point of first crack the internal bean temperature would be around 356 f.
8. 1st crack under way 10:00 – 415 f
As first crack continues the coffee still appears mottled and uneven in color. The coffee starts expanding in size and shows visible cracks. The amount of chaff in the crease of the seed is noticeably less.
First crack is an exothermic reaction; the beans are giving off heat. But then the beans quickly become endothermic, meaning that a roaster that is not adding enough heat to the process will stall the roast at this point …not a good thing. Once caramelization begins (340-400 degrees internal bean temperature) a roast that looses heat will taste "baked", perhaps due to the disruption on long-chain polymerization. The melting point of sucrose is 370 f and corresponds to this window of temperatures when caramelization begins.
9. 1st crack finishes 10:40 – 426 f
This is considered a City Roast. First crack is done and the roast is stopped.
Notice the bean surface is smoother somewhat from expansion but still has darker marks in the coffee, like a finely etched pattern. The edges of the seed are still fairly hard. At this point the coffee starts giving off carbon dioxide.
10. City+ roast 11:05 435f
City+ means the coffee has cleared first crack, and time is allowed for an even bean surface appearance to develop.
There are only very small changes between the #9 picture above and this one, notably the edges of the bean are a bit softer. The whole stage between the first and second crack is a short period ( 15 to 30 seconds) where a lot is happening chemically to the beans. The coffee gains heat once again until its woody cellulose matrix, the bean structure itself, begins to fracture … that is, the Second Crack.
11. Full City roast 11:30 – 444 f
This image represents a Full City roast; the coffee is on the verge of 2nd crack. This might be hard to judge the first few times you roast; after a while, you will have a feel for it. The beans are have a slight sheen of oil and the edges are softer.
The internal bean temperature for second crack normally is 446 degrees farenheit. But in fact second crack is a bit less predictable than first crack, in my experience. Why? It could be due to the fact that first crack is the physical expansion of the coffee seed as water and carbon dioxide split and CO2 outgassing starts. Second Crack is the physical fracturing of the celllose matrix of the coffee. This matrix is both organized cellulose that reacts readily to heat, and not-so-organized cellulose that does not. Since every coffee is physically different in size and density due to the cultivar, origin, altitude, etc., it make sense that the particular cell matrix is different too, and not as universally consistent.
Click on image for large photo, or here for multi-bean photo Check here for the whole bean vs. ground coffee comparison photos or a Macro photo of a single Full City bean
12. Full City+ roast 11:50 – 454 f
The darker side of a Full City roast is Full City +, where the coffee has barely entered 2nd crack. A few snaps are heard, and the roast is then stopped. Second crack may continue into the cooling phase – this is called "coasting". The more effective and rapid your cooling – the better your ability to stop the roast at the degree you want.
Compare the full size images from the Full City roast and this one, and I think it is easy to see a difference. Well, maybe not easy, but the Full City+ roast is a bit fuller, more small cracks on the face (or flat side) of the bean.
Click on image for large photo, or here for multi-bean photo or
a Macro photo of a single Full City + bean
13. Vienna – Light French roast12:15 – 465 f
The Vienna stage (also called Continental) to Light French stage is where you begin to find Origin Character eclipsed by Roast Character. A dark or heavy roast is at odds with buying coffee for its distinct origin qualities. Dark roast coffees tend to taste more like each other – as the differences due to distinct origins are obscured by the carbony roast flavors. Nontheless, some coffees are excellent at this stage (our Puro Scuro blend is engineered for this roast range).
By the way; Espresso is not a roast. But Northern Italian style espresso is usually roasted to 440 – 446 internal bean temperature. Southern Italian (Scura) is generally a Light French Roast or a tad darker.
Click on image for large photo, or here for multi-bean photo. Check here for the whole bean vs. ground coffee comparison photos or a macro photo of a single French roast bean.
14. Full French roast 12:40 – 474 f
Sugars are heavily caramelized (read as burned) and are degraded; the woody bean structure is carbonizing and the seed continues to expand and loose mass. The body of the resulting cup will be thinner/lighter as the aromatic compounds, oils, and soluble solids are being burned out of the coffee and rising up to fill your house with smoke. 474 is well beyond any roast I do on the Probat. I will go as high as 465 on a couple blends, and that's my limit.
Notice how fast and dramatic the change is from the previous photo – all that happened in less than 30 seconds!
15. Fully carbonized 13:00 – 486 f
At this stage, the coffee can be over 25% ash; it is carbonized, dead, charcoal.
16. Imminent fire … 13:30 – 497 f
This bean is right at the verge of fire – in fact you can actually start a fire with a large batch once you dump the coffee out of the roast drum into the cool tray. The sudden rush of oxygen might be the needed ingredient for cafe del fuego. Kids, grab your marshmallows! Hope you like 'em smokey!
Needless to say, this roast level is full-on carbon and you can write your name with a coffee bean. The bean size here is smaller that photo 15 due to the randomness of the seeds selected to photograph – coffee does not get smaller at this stage…
|***Note from George Steinert, home roaster: "I see a lot of new users of the iRoast2 struggling to make sense of roast levels. I have been using the iR2 since February. I got the best success when I added the digital thermometer with thermocouple probe (both from SM) and condensed the well-documented "degree of roast" information on the SM web site into a one page chart (below). By using the temps on the chart (as measured with the thermocouple planted in the bean mass) as a "guide" and when combining that with actual experience of hearing the cracks (when they can be heard through the fan noise), the color, the smell, and the time (when using a consistent load of green beans), I have had very predictable results. I continue to use the chart as my baseline of understanding when roasting with the RK drum which I started using in June. I reference the start and end of first crack to tell me how the roast is progressing. After a while, the aroma becomes a factor. About 60-90 seconds before first crack begins, I swear I can tell it's coming because of a characteristic aroma. Primarily I use the sounds of the crack(s) and secondarily, the time. With the iRoast2, the temp from the thermocouple gives a pretty reliable indication of where they are in the roasting process…given some flexibility regarding start and end of first crack depending on the type of beans. With the iRoast, you also have the helpful cues of color and seeing what's happening on the surface of the bean. Users should note that First Crack is not going to necessarily begin when your thermocouple hits 401 degrees F nor end when it hits 426 F but after you've done a few dozen roasts you will get the feel for how to overlay the progress of the roast onto the temperatures you are reading.
George Steinert's Degree of Roast/Temperature chart:
Please note that both Tom and George emphasize that temperature alone will NOT determine degree of roast. Each roaster is different and different beans roast slightly differently as well. All the information on this page is to be take together to help determine degree of roast – no one element (appearance, sound, temperature, etc) can determine degree of roast. Most importantly – TASTE THE COFFEE – and see what that tells you about how it roasted.
Note about High Altitude Roasting
Here is a representative image I took of the Agtron Roast Color Tiles, and might give you a basica idea of the color scale. There is a bit of glare on the left side though (most visibile on Agrton 45). Since this is such an approximation and the appearance depends so much on monitor calibration, etc, I am not going to put a ton of work into this … I am working on a better method of sharing these roast colors information.


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Battery losing 1 mile per hour when parked
Battery losing 1 mile per hour when parked
there is a thread that I started about losing charge while parked at Philly Airport.
It's got the explanations Tesla customer service has given.
I guess that when it loses 1 mile of range per hour when it is not plugged, it loses 1 mile per hour as well when it IS plugged in (on-board systems need energy all the time). So in one year your will loose 365 x 24 = 8.760 miles. This seems like a lot, not to worry ?
I have been driving a Nissan Leaf for almost 2 years now, and it didn't loose miles when not plugged in, simply because it was switched off.
Also I have a couple of Lithium Batteries (total 8 kWh) at SOC of 40% doing nothing now for almost 4 months. Energy loss after 4 months was near to zero, simply because they were switched off.
Airport thread:
Pay NO attention to the title - it's pure hyperbole, IMHO...
yea, I am also very concerned about losing charge during the day especially when Model S Facts page (http://www.teslamotors.com/en_EU/models/facts) says exactly:
"The Model S battery will not lose a significant amount of charge when parked for long periods of time. For example, Model S owners can park at the airport for extended vacations without plugging in."
And if I remember correct owners manual says something about 1% lose per day, not 1 mile per hour.
Tesla should do some official statement about that...
The loss does appear to be logarithmic. Sort of. But I can't be sure. They are telling me 4-5% a day in charge. But the mileage loss is different.
The experience very much makes me think that cold weather has surprised the California design team.
Roadside Experience was shocked to learn that Philadelphia Intl. didn't have charging stations.
Welcome to the Northeast.
When I parked the car it said I had 140 miles to go. That was Thursday. 4 days later it tells me I have 74. I've got a 45 mile drive back home.
Hopefully this is something that will be addressed when sleep mode is re-enabled. On the bright side, the monthly electricity savings will probably pay for the 3G data plan.
I think looking at the projected range is conflating the actual state of charge in the battery with the projections of how many miles can be obtained from that charge. Tesla has already acknowledged that the calculations on range take into account how much energy can be extracted from the battery at its current temperature, and do not take into account the fact that the battery will warm up from being used.
A more useful value would be the battery_level field in the charge_state API used by the mobile app (unfortunately you can't get that easily without writing code yourself at the moment), which should be just the battery's state of charge.
You can switch from miles to kwh, that should be more accurate.
Though frustrating, I wouldn't be too worried. When they issued Software Version 4.0, loss dropped to 3-4 miles per day when not plugged in by using what TM calls 'sleep mode'. There were concerns that under certain scenarios the car might not come out of sleep mode 'gracefully' and so it was pulled in the 4.2 release. Based on conversations with TM it is definitely coming back; the only question is whether it will be days, weeks or months before it reappears.
Usually on the drive home from work averaging about 400kWh/mi the battery recovers about 15 miles of ideal range from a cold start, sub freezing temperatures. I use 5 miles of range for a 20 mile trip. Of course I wouldn't set out on a 100mi trek with a cold battery showing 85mi left. We will still have to deal with this uncertainty in cold weather specially after deep sleep is re-enabled. It is just a fact of life with cold Li-ion chemistry.
Get the ideal range and divide by 3. That's your SOC. Honest.
Oh, not quite. I forgot the ideal changed to max 265. So, ideal range divided by 3, plus about 1/8. Pretty close. E.g.: If ideal shows 210 miles, you're at 70+9= 79% charge. If ideal shows 90 miles, you're at 30+4=34%. To the nearest 1%.
Seems to me that if you need to leave your S unplugged for an extended period, you could power the car off. That is what I was told the transport people are supposed to do after loading up the cars for transport across the country.
@BrianH - ideal didn't change to 265, that is rated range. However, it isn't as simple as dividing since the software takes into account the battery temperature to calculate the range. So, you only get the battery capacity if the temperature was unchanged, not the capacity after it warmed up to normal operating temperature.
In that case, it's even simpler. SOC = Ideal/3. No calculation is done on ideal range to speak of, AFAIK. 300 miles = 100%. 210 miles = 70%. 60 miles = 20%. etc.
Above for the 85kWh, of course.
I charged last night on Standard mode to 190mi and charging self quit.
That charge ended about 9:45pm.
When I came out to the car in the morning, that same 190mi indication had dropped to 183mi. So I lost 7 miles overnight.
This seems like a lot to me. Any thoughts? It's realy just uder .5% but on line for about 1% for the day.
7/190 = 3.7%, and over how many hours?
I lose 8 ish miles over 10-12 hours starting at 240 rated miles.
Had ours parked for 14 days, unplugged.......started 195 mi and ended up with 66 mi left. In CA so were lucky to have good weather in the day time and lows around 30's at night.
I left my car plugged in for the weekend and it went from 190 to 182(or so) and then back up and then back down. I think the best bet is to follow the instructions and leave it plugged in (if possible).Hopefully a software update with either the sleep mode or charging scheduler or both would be nice. In the meantime, if your daily range allows it, just drive the hell out of it and enjoy the ride.
See this post for my results parked at Miami airport (70's during day, 50's over night). Net-net: settled down to c. 0.4 miles/hour after first 12 hours.
I'll preface this by saying I love the car. But the operating costs are much higher than implied / advertised. For example: Last weekend (President's Day) I went away for four days, left the car unplugged in my driveway with about 90 miles of range per the dashboard (rated range). When I came back (96 hours later) the car indicated 10 miles of range left, so that's 80 miles of range depleted in 96 hours, or just under 1 mile of range for every hour unplugged. That was in Berkeley with highs probably in the 50s / 60s, and lows last weekend in the low 40s. That's much higher than what was expected (the 1% per day, or about 3 miles per day of rated range - really it's 6x higher!).
I think Tesla needs to do a much better job explaining the details. It's an awesome care, but...
If it truly depletes at 20 miles per day, at my actual energy usage of 350 Wh/mile that's a consumption of 7kWh / day to go nowhere. At my *real* weighted average cost of electricity (PG&E E-6 rate, time of day metering) which is between $0.24 and $0.32 per kWh, it will cost me between $1.68 and $2.24 per day. Doesn't sound like much, but x 365 = $817 per year just to park in the driveway.
This will get fixed as soon as TM puts sleep mode back into the car. Hopefully in 4.3 Should be down to 2-3 miles per day.
Call service. I leave my car unplugged every night. The loss of miles is completely negligible. I don't even notice. Plug in once maybe twice a week.
@dschulner - which s/w version do you have? I assume not 4.2?
Bump. Does anyone have any new information?
My experience has been that in moderate weather, the average parasitic losses when not driving are about 13-15 rated miles/day. That comes out to about 180 watts. Powering down does not seem to help much. I suspect software updates will reduce that amount over time (and that a recent update might have made things worse). Also: when the battery gets down to a lower level, the car is supposed to go into "deep sleep mode" - see http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/plug-it
I have done calculations on monthly and by-the-mile fuel costs at http://EVTripPlanner.com/calcs.php - here is a snapshot (you can make your own adjustments if you download the spreadsheet):
Oops - posted wrong table above - here is the one with Electricity Costs:
You say that the parasitic losses should equal about 180 watts. Wouldn't those losses normally be measured in kWh? And for 14 rated miles at 308 w-h/m, the losses would be about 4.3 kWh, not 180 watt-hours.
Also, your input chart shows maximum charging at 20 kW. You might want to point out that this is with twin chargers. Most people have a single charger, which charges at half that rate.
Watts is *rate* of loss. kWh is *total* over a specified time period. If you run a 100 watt light bulb for 10 hours it uses 1kWh...and that is what you pay for!
So, applied to MS, the 180 watt parasitic load x 24 hours would be about 4.3 kWh - but that would double-count the "baseline" draw when driving. My calculations use non-driving time and estimated total of 123 kWh per month (never used 180 as total energy, just went into the calculation). Thanks for double checking!
True about charger max kW - only an issue for the HPC...home NEMA 14-50 is still under 10kW.
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@Cliff - Great data. Thanks.
I've been trying to quantify the parasitic loss as well. I put a pair of power clamps in my breaker box directly on the two hot leads that go to the nema 14-50 in my garage. I'm able to track the kWh I put into the car on an hourly basis. I plugged in the 180W parasitic loss power that you derived, but I'm getting a smaller difference between kWh supplied and kWh driven than I expected. For instance, I took an odometer and kWh reading on 3/2 8am from the car. I did the same on 3/5 7am. The car says I drove 82 miles and used up 27.6 kWh driving (336 Wh/mile). The power meter in the breaker box says that I supplied 41.7 kWh. Assuming that the car was idle 23h/day, at 180 Wh, parasitic loss would be 12.2 kWh. So if the car had no parasitic loss at all, I would have supplied 41.7 kWh - 12.2 kWh = 29.5 kWh. This means a charging efficiency of 93%. So either the car is overestimating kWh driven, or the 180 W parasitic loss is closer to 140 W. The power meter I'm using is pretty accurate as far as I can tell. I've repeated these samplings 3 different times and I find the same outcome. I have a 85kWh model (rev 4.2) and I top it off every day at 240v 40A.
@jemarting - Depending on temperature/trend, I wouldn't be surprised if the parasitic could be as low as 140W - my measurements varied A LOT (I have one set of measurements on the spreadsheet at the URL above). You also can't count on the Rated Range being altogether accurate - and then there is the temperature-adjusted Rated Range. If you start your measurement when the battery is cold, it is artificially low.
Cliff, thanks for the numbers. A loss of 13 - 15 miles per day isn't that bad.
But for mine, I noticed that, in just over 1 hour, there was a 5 loss of 5 miles. And in two hours, there was a loss of 8 miles. This was when the temperature was around 35 degrees. I will keep track of how much these losses are over a period of time.
If the car was just sitting cooling, that may not be real. Just reporting what the chilled output would be if the battery didn't warm, which it necessarily would. It's an anomaly TM is working on.
I have been keeping a log for the past week and I am losing about a mile of range every 2 hours while parked.
I typically drive 40 miles a day. During the 24 hour period my miles remaining will go from 190 (standard charge) to about 130.
I have concluded that I get about two thirds of the range indicated by the miles remaining. Temp has been in the 40 - 70 degree range.
I am on v4.2 of the firmware.
My electricity cost with TXU is 12 cents per KWH. To charge from 0 to 230 range should take 60KWH and cost $7.20 and I should get actual milage of 153 miles. So my cost per mile is about 4.7 cents per mile. My previous car (Infinity M35) got 17.5 miles per gallon at $3.50/gallon for premium or 20 cents per mile. I am currently saving $185/month for fuel.


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Still having barely enough reading time this June, I reached for an easy to read book, more like an airport read…
Author : Brad Meltzer
Date of First Publication : September 5, 2006 (Hardcover)
Publisher of First Edition : Grand Central Publishing
This Edition's Publication Date : May 1, 2007 (Paperback)
This Edition's Publisher : Warner Vision
No. of pages : 622
The Story :
A crazed assassin attacks the U.S. Presidential entourage at a NASCAR race and changes Wes Holloway's life forever. Wes, the President's aide, survives with disfiguring facial while the President's best friend, Ron Boyle, is shot and killed. But after eight years, Wes spots Boyle, very much alive. The CIA and the FBI are after him for information and the assassin is on the loose once more. Now Wes must figure out the mystery of Boyle buried in old crossword puzzles, Freemason history and Jefferson's two-hundred-year-old codes, before the Book of Fate catches up to him.
The Review :
One of the factors influencing my decision in purchasing a book is the one-liner reviews from respected magazines, newspapers and authors, just like these encouraging comments for the book:
"Move over, Da Vinci; take your code and shove it!…a page-turner." —- Liz Smith, New York Post
"Meltzer's tale of intrigue and pathos in politics engrosses." —– Entertainment Weekly
"A teasing code and a tireless pursuit….the jolts just keep coming." —- New York Daily News
Most of the time I can rely on these little snippets. But this is one time these people have completely missed the mark. How they can describe this book in glowing terms make me suspect these may be paid opinions.
As a thriller, it isn't so thrilling. Meltzer has given us a bland plot sprinkled with mysterious symbols, both of which seem to make the book trail sadly after Dan Brown's wake. With puzzles, symbols and the references to the Freemasons (for perhaps more mystery), it looks like Meltzer is simply trying to cash in on the tidal wave from Dan Brown's popular theme of weaving symbolism into his thrillers.
Alright, he says he meticulously researched everything. I am not disputing that. It's just why try to style yourself, no matter how much less, after another author?
One other thing, it feels as if Meltzer is trying too hard. Why the FreeMasons are so crucial to the plot, I haven't a clue. Even the schizoid character, Nico, seems simply thrown in to up the ante albeit being an unnecessary angle. Moreover , the whole story simply does not focus on its title, The Book of Fate, which from beginning to end appears to be some sort of vague Bible. There is not much reference to it nor does the plot give it any importance. I believe the novel was probably titled so because it just sounds great and intriguing. After all, it must sell, sell, sell!
To Read Or Not To Read :
Reading this book is like grabbing something so one has something to do. After all I've said though, it isn't very bad when you get down to reading it but it isn't great either. Rather mediocre. A read, toss, and forget-about-it novel of which its mediocrity is its merit of getting you adequately by when you're just killing time.
In A Nutshell :
In the end, you come out not clear about what the novel's Book of Fate really is. Oh and the whole conspiracy theory is really not much of an attention grabber, either. Again, bland and boring.
The Book of Fate is definitely an airport read, if you don't mind the watered down Dan Brown wanna-be. It's engaging in the first dozen or so pages then the gripping interest peters out and the action stays on an even keel throughout the middle. Not an engrossing piece; but guaranteed you won't miss your plane with this one.
My Mark : Mediocre — A not so thrilling thriller


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Sean Quinn, formerly Ireland's wealthiest man, has been jailed for failing to comply with a court order.
On Friday, a judge at Dublin's High Court said she had no choice but to sentence the former business tycoon to nine weeks in prison.
In June, he was found guilty of contempt of court, for hiding assets from the former Anglo Irish Bank, but avoided a jail sentence.
In his latest court appearance, Justice Elizabeth Dunne said he had committed a serious contempt of court, which was nothing short of outrageous because of his evasive and unco-operative attitude.
On the eve of his latest court appearence, a grassroots campaign established to support the beleaguered businessman warned the press this week of potential 'civil unrest' if he goes to jail or succumbs to illness as a result of ongoing legal battles.
The group Concerned Irish Citizens (CIC) made its warning as the Irish High Court is set to rule whether the 66-year-old, who has had two heart operations, should be sent to jail for breaking court orders.
CIC says it condemns any acts of violence and vandalism. 'There is civil unrest, but we don't want it exploding in the wrong way,' Patricia Gilheany, secretary of CIC, told the Irish Independent.
Gilheany said CIC has received reports about the 'confirmed signs of trauma, exhaustion and heartbreak' experienced by Quinn, who was formerly Ireland's richest man, and his wife Patricia, at a recent support rally in Ballyconnell, County Cavan.
'Many have also commented that if Sean Quinn or any of his family drop dead from the sheer pressure and stress that they are being subjected to on a daily basis, there will be very serious consequences for their perpetrators and for those who facilitated this horror,' said Gilheany.
The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), which was formerly Anglo Irish Bank, has a visible security detail surrounding its key bank personnel at all court appearances. Last year, a new chief executive appointed to the Quinn Group had his family car completely destroyed by an arson attack at his home in County Meath.
Earlier this month lawyers retained by Sean Quinn told the High Court he wants to purge his contempt, and is willing to cooperate with the former Anglo Irish Bank.
Quinn's companies once employed 5,500 people in Ireland, but now he will be bankrupt into his 70s, Grant added. Quinn also had serious health problems Grant claimed.
Quinn has maintained his denial of being in contempt of court orders restraining stripping of assets, and has appealed the High Court's finding that he was in contempt. The court should defer any decision on jailing Quinn pending that appeal, Grant urged.


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Unemployment moved closer to the dreaded double digits, rising to 9.7% as companies continued to shed jobs.
The August number was up from 9.4% a month earlier, and way up from the 6% jobless rate of a year ago. It was the highest unemployment rate the nation has seen since June, 1983, when the figure was 10.1%. Still, economists saw hopeful signs, as the number of jobs slashhed fell to 216,000, which was lower than expected. Monthly job cuts earlier in the year totaled as much as 700,000. The economy has lost 7.4 million jobs since the recession started in December 2007.
Data on U.S. employment has grown more mixed of late. While there has been improvement, economists expect a labor market recovery will be fairly sluggish. Meanwhile, U.S. Federal Reserve officials have grown more confident that the worst economic downturn in decades is ending. According to minutes of the August meeting held by the Fed's policy panel, Fed officials see growth resuming this year, and they expect the recovery to pick up in 2010. But they point out that the economy remains vulnerable to shocks.
President Obama has said he expects the unemployment rate to reach double digits before beginning a descent. While there are mixed signs that a recovery could be underway, employment is almost always seen as one of the last economic indicators to improve.
"There's no doubt that we have a long way to go and I and the other members of this administration will not let up until those Americans who are looking for jobs can find them," President Obama said in a statement from the Rose Garden earlier this week.
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The Admirals, hoping to make a push for the AHL playoffs in their first year as an Anaheim Ducks affiliate, pulled even at 2 with 4:26 left in regulation on Brandon McMillan's goal.
Hendry, who has played 239 AHL games, scored on his first career AHL shootout attempt, giving the Admirals a decisive 2-1 edge in the tiebreaker. Winning goalie Frederik Andersen made 37 saves.
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THURSDAY, Nov. 17, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A fetus is sensitive to, and can be affected by, the expectant mother's mental state, a new study suggests.
University of California, Irvine, researchers recruited pregnant women and tested them for depression before and after they gave birth. The women's babies were tested after birth to assess how well they were developing.
Consistency in the mother's mental state appeared to be important to a baby's well-being. Development was best in babies with mothers who were either depression-free or had depression before and after giving birth.
Development was slower in babies born to mothers who went from depressed before birth to non-depressed after birth or from non-depressed before birth to depressed after birth, the investigators found.
The researchers said they were surprised by the strength of the finding, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science.
Some might incorrectly interpret the results to mean that a mother who is depressed before birth should be left that way after birth for the well-being of her baby, the study authors noted in a journal news release.
"A more reasonable approach would be to treat women who present with prenatal depression," researcher Curt A. Sandman said in the news release. "We know how to deal with depression."
In another study, Sandman and colleagues found differences in the brain structures of older children whose mothers were anxious during pregnancy. Anxiety often occurs together with depression.
"We believe that the human fetus is an active participant in its own development and is collecting information for life after birth," Sandman said. "It's preparing for life based on messages the mom is providing."
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An advocate for positivity and personal enlightenment, Ayn Cates Sullivan, Ph.D., is an inspirational author and teacher. With advanced degrees in both spiritual psychology and literature, the Californian shares her diverse study and practices via her writing, workshops, and on the web.
As a young girl, Ayn says she found herself already fascinated with poetry and decided at an early age to commit to enlightenment—at a very early age, in fact: "I actually got started as a writer when I was about eight years old. I decided that I was a mystic poet and announced it to my parents. They tried to talk me out of it." The author says she is fascinated with Shakespeare and verse, and still writes poetry as an ongoing spiritual practice. She has three volumes of poetry published.
Though she's an accomplished writer with several titles on the shelves, a foray into children's literature has been a new adventure for Ayn, with her Sparkle series. Sparkle and The Gift is her first children's book in a collection of five. A labor of love, she says the series was written for her own children, now in junior high school and college. "I'm passionate about helping people recall who they are regardless of what they might have faced in their life and to remember the qualities of their soul. I wrote for my children so that when they went out into the world they would have an internal compass of goodness that they could rely upon."
The book's positive and encouraging message has helped not only her family, but touches readers of all ages. "What's important about these books is that Sparkle will not forget her inner light. No matter what she's faced with she will not forget who she is. My kids appreciate that and refer back to that a lot. When my daughter went off to college she said, 'I can't go without my Sparkle books, because without them no one will understand me!' There are a lot of kids, even college-aged, and adults, who say to me, 'Thank you, this difficult thing happened in life and I remembered Sparkle and that pulled me though because I have my inner light and I know it have what it takes.' We need some positive messages in this world today. I share Sparkle with all the children in my life. I've given it to neighborhood kids, nieces, nephews and also many adults. Some people even sleep with Sparkle books under their pillow!"
Each book in the series focuses on the spunky and sweet heroine Sparkle, who learns valuable lessons about healing and compassion through the adventures she embarks upon as well as parables that are shared with her by relatives as stories within stories. "In the first book, the main character is Sarah but she remembers that her name is actually Sparkle, because she has such a brilliant inner light. Her mother asks how to remind others about their light too and Sparkle replies "Every time you speak with anyone you can give them a color and as long as they love the colors and keep them close by, then eventually people will become rainbows again and they will remember who they are."
Ayn explains that each color has a soul quality that helps us remember our true nature. "Love is pink, for example, red is our strength, orange is creatively, green is compassion. As soon as we walk into the garden, we start to remember our true nature and it's very healthy for us." The impact of color is a topic dear to her, she has studied it for over twenty years and calls it "a big passion of mine". (An informative color glossary is available on her website.) She also offers special workshops and events on color, which she refers to as a forgotten language of the soul, "Colors help us remember the beauty of who we are. When we relate from that place our whole world changes."
In addition to their fanciful feel, her book's whimsical illustrations lend a timeless essence to Ayn's inspiring tales, an aspect of creation that she has enjoyed witnessing. "The illustrations are amazing, Belle Du Cray did them. She's incredibly imaginative and really brought all of the stories to life. To see their noses, their eyes, and watch the characters being born is beautiful."
The next book in the series is similarly enriching and compassionate. Sparkle and the Light is Sparkle's next adventure in which she learns about an unusual girl named Ella. "When Ella becomes curious her forehead becomes radiant, family and friends try to get her to hide her light. She gets bullied, but learns through experience how to use her gift to help others. It's a good example of how to deal with people who seem antagonistic. Sparkle learns that people who bully others are generally suffering and that when we really adhere to our own strength and inner light, we don't have to be hurt by other people. In the story Sparkle's grandmother Izzy shows her how to shake the dust of the world off so that she can continue to shine."
In addition to the Sparkle series, Ayn intends to continue sharing the healing power of color and light in non-fiction, as well as other creative endeavors, including a novel. She enjoys reaching people above all else, and says, "I'm an inspirational storyteller for a children of all ages."
Learn more about Ayn Cates Sullivan at www.ayncatessullivan.com.


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Car Review: 2013 Lexus ES 300h Sedan
The all new 2013 Lexus ES 300h Sedan has the chance to lead Lexus into the future with amazing fuel efficiency and new styling. We had the opportunity drive this new offering from Lexus for a week and took away the following impressions.
The new ES features a lower, progressive profile and clean, continuous styling lines from front to rear. All four corners are pulled tightly inward to the wheel arches, creating distinctive proportions. The wheelbase of the new ES has been lengthened by 1.8 inches, while the overall length of the vehicle has grown by just one inch, resulting in a more spacious interior. The new ES unmistakably bears the new face of Lexus with its distinctive, spindle grille. The LED daytime running lights and combination rear lamps reflect the "L" design motif. The ES 300h hybrid features a distinctive rear design with hidden exhaust and an integrated spoiler. New exterior colors for the 2013 ES include Fire Agate Pearl and Silver Lining Metallic. Our test model was nebula gray pearl and the paint was as smooth as the sleek exterior. The auto on/off projector bulb headlamps with integrated LED fog lamps and daytime running lights stand out both during the day and in nighttime driving.
The modern interior of the 2013 ES has been designed to provide a sense of openness and security. Sightlines and visibility are improved, controls are logically placed, and new cabin materials express a high level of craftsmanship. A newly sculptured seat enhances driver comfort. The steering wheel angle has been reduced from 24 degrees to 22 degrees for a more natural control position. Fluid-filled engine mounts, new sound absorbing materials and a tuned engine intake minimize the intrusion of outside noise.
Greater rear seat legroom and knee room are the hallmark of the redesigned, more spacious cabin. Knee room is increased by 2.8 inches and legroom is increased by 4.1 inches. The new design also offers additional foot room below the front seats. I was very impressed with the amount of room for the rear passengers and that is a major improvement over many competitors.
Available comfort and convenience features include manual door window shades, a power rear shade, and a one-touch power trunk closer. Optional ambient lighting, discretely placed under the wood trim, softly illuminates the surfaces of the instrument panel and all four doors. The new ES features enhanced NuLuxe seating surfaces, developed to reduce environmental impact. Genuine leather is also available, as is semi-aniline leather for an even more refined look and feel. Our heated seats and heated steering wheel warmed up in what seemed to be record time in some pretty cold weather. Interiors are available in Black, Light Gray and Parchment. Trim colors and materials include Piano Black, Espresso Bird's-eye Maple and Bamboo.
Obviously designed with attention to ergonomics and driver focus, the cockpit features separate display and operation zones to help keep the driver's eyes on the road. The instrument panel, with its long, layered look, places the main information display directly in the driver's line of sight. Just below the center display is a self-illuminating LED analog clock. Controls are clustered beneath the information zone, on the steering wheel and on the center console.
The second-generation Remote Touch Interface (RTI) allows the user to operate the climate, audio, phone controls, optional navigation system and more. The screen menus are selected with a controller conveniently located on the center console. RTI reduces eye and hand movement, helping reduce effort and distraction. The new ES features the next-generation Lexus Enform system. Lexus Enform provides seamless connectivity with Bing search, iHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable, Pandora, Yelp and Facebook Places through compatible smartphones. Apps are updated through over-the-air downloads, so new apps and content can be added as they become available. One-year trial subscriptions to Lexus Enform with Safety Connect and the Application Suite are included.
The standard Lexus Premium Sound System features eight speakers with Automatic Sound Levelizer, CD player, USB/iPod connectivity, Bluetooth and a SiriusXM receiver. The available Display Audio package adds a seven-inch screen, a backup camera, HD Radio with iTunes tagging, Bluetooth audio, phone transfer and a vehicle information display. The optional HDD Navigation System in our loaner included voice command and an integrated backup camera. The 15-speaker Mark Levinson audio system features an eight-inch display screen, HD Radio with iTunes tagging, DVD audio/video and a SiriusXM receiver. Exclusive GreenEdge technology from Mark Levinson doubles the output of the amplifier, while reducing energy consumption by fifty percent.
Don't let the fact that the 2013 Lexus ES 300h Sedan is a hybrid, as this sedan can seriously move! Featuring a 2.5-liter four-cylinder Atkinson cycle engine, the ES 300h earned EPA fuel economy ratings of 40 mpg city, 39 mpg highway and 40 mpg combined. The ES 300h generates 200 total system horsepower.
The new, low friction engine utilizes a sophisticated power management system and high compression ratio (12.5:1) to increase overall efficiency. Equipped with an electric water pump, electric power steering and an integrated hybrid electric motor/generator, this engine does not require any accessory belts. The beltless design helps improve fuel economy and overall reliability. The ES 300h also features a Drive Mode selector. Normal mode provides a blend of performance and efficiency that is suited to everyday driving, while Eco mode favors fuel economy. Sport mode increases powertrain and steering responsiveness, and for the ES 300h, the IP changes from the hybrid power monitor to a tachometer. The ES 300h adds an EV mode which allows short distance drives, at reduced speed, using only the power from the hybrid battery pack. We spent the vast majority of our time in Sport because that's just how we roll! Once in Sport mode, the 2013 Lexus ES 300h Sedan releases her inner sports car and takes off just like one.
In today's luxury car market, buyers have so many needs, and we think the all new 2013 Lexus ES 300h Sedan can satisfy discerning shoppers. Design, efficiency and a price point as tested of $44,159 puts this Lexus in a sweet spot to sell like a lion. The evolution of the Lexus brand is clearly underway, and with combined 40mpg in a luxury experience with sleek looks, things will keep looking good for this brand.
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