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ipman November 6, 2012 @ 10:49 PM
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Having Trouble Refilling/Bleeding Radiant Heat SystemHello all,
I have a water boiler with radiant heat baseboards throughout a house I purchase and am renovating. There are 4 zones: 1st floor, 2nd floor, basement and addition. Most of the pipe is 1/2" pipe but some of the runs are 3/4" pipe. I recently replaced two ~4' 1/2" baseboard units in the 1st floor zone with Slantfin Baseline units. I put in manual taco coin bleeders on the return side of the units. After finishing the install I have been having trouble filling up/bleeding the system. There are no bleeders anywhere except the two I just installed and one that is installed in the basement ceiling on a first floor zone pipe.
Currently i am getting heat to my first floor and addition. I have two auto vents, one right on top of the boiler on the supply pipe before the pump. There is another autovent a few few above the boiler. I forget exactly what pipe it is on. I have attached pictures of the two autovents. One looks clean and the other looks like it is corroded a little. I had the caps loose on both autovents for a few days with no luck. The corroded one started leaking after I pressed the valve stem looking thing under the cap. I tightened the cap but it is still leaking a little bit (hopefully I don't come back tomorrow to see the water heater blew up from that tiny leak).
I have 3 drains, one right off the boiler on the return pipe, one on the return pipe a few feet up from the first drain I mentioned, and one drain no the return pipe of the addition. I've bled some air from these drains but now water just comes out.
Can someone give me some advice on how to properly fill the system and bleed it, given that there are no bleeders in the second floor? I am less concerned with the basement zone not working but of course that should get corrected as well. I have attached some pictures to illustrate the setup.
Zman November 6, 2012 @ 11:38 PM
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Power purgeYou need to find a way to push water through your system, one zone at a time, from the boiler room. Ideally you can close a valve and use the fill valve on one side and a hose and drain on the other. I cannot see from your pics if this is possible.
ipman November 7, 2012 @ 12:25 AM
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replyI only have two shut off valves, one on the return pipe right before the boiler and one for the return pipe of the addition. I tried filling the system by turning all the thermostats down so the taco zone valves would close, then I forced the 2nd floor open. The second floor actually got heat and I tried filling one zone at a time but I think so much air was on the second floor that all the air bubbles got trapped somewhere and the upward pressure was no longer sufficient to push the water around that zone.
Do you think it would be a better idea to start from the bottom up instead of the top down? First basement then first floor then addition then second floor?
Zman November 7, 2012 @ 12:45 AM
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Push through.You need to find a way to force water through the zones at high pressure. In one side and out through a hose. Take a picture from farther back.
ipman November 7, 2012 @ 6:07 PM
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Heater WorkingHello Carl,
I went to the house today and to my surprise the upstairs heat started working as well as the basement. I opened the drains at the boiler and bled some more air out. Things seem to be working now. I am still not completely confident that all of the air is out and I cannot prove it since i don't have bleeders at the baseboards. I have some questions:
1) I want to buy several 90 degree elbows and install manual coin vent bleeders at some key locations around the house at the baseboards. How would you suggest I remove the current 90 degree elbows so that I can sweat in the new ones? If I cut the pipes I will not have enough pipe left above the floor to sweat the new elbows for the second floor since I don't have access underneath the floor.
2) Would it be enough if I add a t fitting/bleeder in the middle of the runs since it would be more easily accessible?
3) I do not have an auto fill valve. The water supply pipe is 1/2". Can you suggest a good auto fill valve that I can install to keep the system filled?
4) Should I consider adding shut off valves to make it easier to fill each zone? If so, where should I place the shut off valves? Right before the taco thermostat controlled zone valves or somewhere else?
5) My auto vent near my boiler is leaking when I remove the cap. Do you think I should replace it with another auto vent of the same technology or should I look for a better autovent? You can see the pictures I posted earlier to see the type it is. There are two autovents near the boiler, any advantage for keeping both? One is higher up and one is right on top of the boiler.
6) Please let me know if there are any other upgrades I should consider when I go through this process.
McMaster November 7, 2012 @ 9:43 PM
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PumpMy system has a couple water valves (spigots) at the manifolds, somewhat like you would have on the outside of your house one would hook a hose to. This is where I hook my transfer pump hoses to.
1) I take a 5gal bucket of soft water and stick my transfer pump suction hose into the bucket. The pump discharge hose goes from my pump to the valve/spigot (which I then crack open). I use a 1/3 hp transfer pump from Harbor Freight. It moves a LOT of water.
2) I connect a hose from another valve (spigot) in a different part of the HW system that I run into the bucket (the return water line).
3) I engage the pump and 'push' water through the system until all the air bubbles are purged. The pump draws water from the bucket and the return water goes back into the bucket. I can see the air bubbles as they come through. It usually takes about a minute or so to purge a line. Of course, I do this with the water cold, not hot.
4) I have multiple circuits so I start with each valve closed and do one at a time. When finished, I shut the valves and remove the hoses.This post was edited by an admin on November 7, 2012 9:53 PM.
Zman November 7, 2012 @ 10:50 PM
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PurgingIt is hard to tell much from the pictures you posted. More would be helpful.
I don't think you need bleeders on the baseboards. If you pipe the boiler room correctly you don't need them.
Watts makes a good valve fill valve/ backflow preventer. http://www.pexsupply.com/Watts-0386461-1-2-9-11S-M3-Combination-1156-9D-Sweat-3688000-p
McMaster does a nice job of describing the purging process. You should be able to use your zone valves to isolate the zones. A common configuration is to install a boiler drain then a ball valve then another boiler drain. The ball valve is only closed to purge. You can then pump (or use your fill valve) in either direction.
The air vent installed on the Tee in your picture is not effective in removing air. You need an air eliminator.A good eliminator is designed to slow the water and pull the air out of solution.Spirovent makes a nice one.
The location of the eliminator is also important.
More Pics?
ipman November 7, 2012 @ 11:02 PM
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replyAlso, I believe I have the configuration you mentioned. There is a drain at the bottom which you can see next to the heater. on the same pipe there is a shutoff valve in the middle and then another drain above it.
When I fill the system, should I be closing that valve?
ipman November 7, 2012 @ 10:58 PM
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replyMcMaster - Why do you use the pump system vs opening the water supply that is already connected to your water heater? Is it because you can connect the hose to all of the different drains on your water heater whereas the water supply is only connected at one place?
Carl - I posted more pictures.
Thank you.
Zman November 7, 2012 @ 11:22 PM
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Does?Does the arrow stamped in the casting on the black pump point up?
If you follow the pipe from the pump, does it go to the zone valves?And the expansion tank?
How is the tank connected? With a Tee? Where does the 1/2" pipe behind the tank go?
ipman November 7, 2012 @ 11:58 PM
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replyI will have to verify (not at the house right now) but I think the answers to all of your questions are yes.
Which 1/2" pipe behind the tank are you referring to?
Zman November 8, 2012 @ 12:06 AM
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It looksYour expansion tank is attached to a black tee. There is a 1/2" black pipe going forward and a 1/2" copper going back. Where do the pipes go?
ipman November 8, 2012 @ 9:41 AM
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replyI believe the copper end is capped off but I will try to verify later today.
Slimpickins November 8, 2012 @ 12:21 PM
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wowLooking like a piping job from a graduate of the Rube Goldberg School of Plumbing. I would call a local company that specialized in hydronics and install a micro air absorber, redo the expansion tank and pump to "pump away", add some isolating and purge valves. Otherwise you'll be fighting the air problem for ever. Even if Zman help you get it purged, you're still fighting an up hill battle Also that yellow CSST gas line concerns me, not sure the size of boiler but I bet its undersized.This post was edited by an admin on November 8, 2012 12:22 PM.
ipman November 8, 2012 @ 5:49 PM
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reply to wowHello Slimpickins,
What do you mean a pump to pump away?
What information can I get you about the boiler/yellow CSST gas line so you can let me know if its truly undersized? What is the consequence of an undersized line?
I posted some more pics, please let me know if that gives you a better view. Thank you.
ipman November 8, 2012 @ 5:44 PM
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I verified that the pump arrow is pointing up and going towards the zone valves. The water supply line goes to the expansion tank which then goes to a T that splits towards zone valves. I was wrong about the 1/2" being capped off. More pics attached.
Zman November 8, 2012 @ 11:08 PM
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I know those guysLooking at your photos, I had a feeling I had seen this artist before. Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKFhOw-PXw . Curly starts the good stuff about 5 minutes in.
As I was leading up to, and slimpickins stated, you have to correctly pipe your boiler in order to fix your air problem. In a nutshell. The expansion tank needs to be directly upstream of you circulator. It makes sense to put the air eliminator and fill valve there as well. In your case it will take some work to get it straightened out. It might be worth hiring someone. If you decide too take it on. I would highly recommend buying "Pumping Away" from this web site. Dan does a better job explaining boiler piping than I ever could.
As for the gas line.If you post the BTU rating of the boiler as well as the size and length of the pipe. Someone can tell you if it is correct. An undersized line will give you low pressure at the burners and poor efficiency.
ipman November 9, 2012 @ 12:52 AM
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replyThe other thing I find odd about my heating system is that most of it is half inch pipe and rather long runs. At any rate the system appears to be functioning correctly right now so I might just leave it alone for this Winter but I will definitely see about improving it later. Thanks for the book recommendation, I will check it out.
Couple of questions:
1) I've noticed my PSI go up to 20ish at certain times depending on what zone valves are open/closed. I've seen it drop to 10-12ish. Temps between 150-180 degrees. Temperature in my area is 50s in the day and 30's at night. I've read that 12-15 psi usually the PSI you want when the boiler is cold for a 2 story house. What is the PSI you want when the boiler is hot? My aquastat is set to 180 degrees F. Would air bubbles cause this kind of variation or is it normal? Heat seems to be going to every room now. I do not hear any gurgling on the second floor anymore.
2) Is there anything you recommend I do immediately to help the situation before I do a complete overhaul? I'd like to avoid an overhaul until next year.
3) Most of my system is 1/2" pipe and probably over the recommended max length for a loop. Is it worth doing anything about that? It would be a supremely expensive (or time consuming for me) to upgrade the piping to 3/4" or reduce the lengths of the runs. House seems to get heated pretty well the way it is. Would installing pipe insulation on all the accessible pipe help reduce the impact of the long runs?
Thanks for all of your help.
Zman November 9, 2012 @ 7:53 AM
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ReplyThe pressure in your system should be pretty even. The expansion tank if sized and working properly should make up thermal expansion. Air trapped in you system should actually stabilize your pressure. To definitively evaluate your expansion tank, you need to remove it and check the pressure. If you tap the side of an installed tank and the entire tank sounds waterlogged, it is probably bad. If the pressure goes way up or boiler relieve valve discharges you have a problem with the tank. The location of the circulator and expansion tank in your particular system will also make the pressure do strange things.If the pressure changes immediately upon the valve opening, it is because of the pump location. If it increases as the temperature increases it is an expansion issue.
I would not recommend cutting into your system until you are ready to do it right.
The size of the zone piping is probably fine. There are many factors that go into the selection of pipe size. What it comes down to is, are you getting enough GPM to the heaters? It sounds like your heaters are getting hot. That is a good thing.
ipman November 9, 2012 @ 9:21 AM
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replyThanks. Do you think its a good idea to insulate the pipes anyway?
Also when I installed the bleeders on the new vents I believe I made a mistake. I put the 1/8" hole facing towards the right, not facing up so the coin vent is on the right side of the elbow not the top of the elbow. Do you think this is a big deal? I made it this way to make it easier to bleed the water out into a bowl with the baseboard cover on but later on I realized it should have faced up.
ipman November 12, 2012 @ 11:34 PM
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Gas Line SpecsHello,
The yellow gas line says "Gastite 3/4" on it. It is roughly 40" long, maybe 42" if you include the nuts. The heater says 140,000 Btu/hr (41,0 kW) on the label. I've attached several pictures of the gas line. Is this properly sized?
Also while I was taking pictures I happened to look at my water heater and noticed a drop of water next to the hot water line. Looks like it is leaking but after I cleaned the drop nothing came out of it for days. Looking at the attached picture it is clear that the water heater threaded line is corroding. Do I have to cut the copper pipe and redo it or is there a way I can seal it up?
Zman November 14, 2012 @ 9:01 AM
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I would remove itThat size line is probably not causing a pressure problem in your system. It is really unprofessional. Are there any straps on the vertical pipe? What would prevent someone from leaning on it and severing the weak csst above? Did they ground your gas line to prevent electrical damage? The installer saved some time by not using hard pipe and left a liability. I would repipe it.
ipman November 14, 2012 @ 1:42 PM
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replyI don't think there is a strap. I'll have to check for grounding.
Is it supposed to be hard piped all the way to the boiler or is it supposed to be a lot closer and have a short flex line?
I was planning on using a 3 foot flex line (as shown in the dryer instructions) on a gas dryer. Is there something wrong with them for all applications or is it just a boiler thing?


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In a three-day crackdown on child sex trafficking, law enforcement agencies across the nation put 150 pimps behind bars during Operation Cross Country VII. Eleven of those arrests made in our area.
"We've seen for a long time as a problem that hasn't been addressed with human trafficking, and we want to combat it in every way that we can," said Sheriff Richard Roundtree. "That's why we're partnering with any agency, any group to combat this."
Richmond county's Child Exploitation Task Force arrested two suspects on exploitation and pimping-related charges and nine on prostitution related charges.
"Some elements in society, people will forget about it," Sheriff Roundtree said. "If they don't see it, they don't recognize it."
"Anyone that had any doubts that it was going on in this area, certainly can now see that we do have a trafficking issue here," said Elizabeth Smith.
Smith started "I'm Aware." Through various programs, the campaign sheds light on the children who are being sold into prostitution in the CSRA.
"I think a lot of people haven't really wanted to pay attention to the issue thinking that it wasn't something that could happen in Augusta when we know that it does," Smith said.
Smith applauds our local law enforcement for cleaning up the streets, but knows there's more work to be done; hoping the community plays a part in keeping our children safe.
"There might be that one out there that you did know was in trouble, and now you can recognize and seek help for them," Smith said.
During the past 72 hours, the FBI; its local, state, and federal law enforcement partners; and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) conducted Operation Cross Country VII, a three-day enforcement action to address commercial child sex trafficking throughout the United States. The operation included enforcement actions in 76 cities across 47 FBI divisions nationwide and led to the recovery of 105 children who were being victimized through prostitution. Additionally, 159 pimps were arrested on state and federal charges.
"Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across America," said Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division. "This operation serves as a reminder that these abhorrent crimes can happen anywhere, and the FBI remains committed to stopping this cycle of victimization and holding the criminals who profit from this exploitation accountable."
Operation Cross Country is part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative that was established in 2003 by the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, in partnership with the Department of Justice and NCMEC, to address the growing problem of child prostitution.
"Operation Cross Country demonstrates just how many of America's children are being sold for sex every day, many on the Internet," said John Ryan, CEO of NCMEC. "We're honored and proud to partner with the FBI, which has taken the lead in tackling this escalating problem."
To date, the FBI and its task force partners have recovered more than 2,700 children from the streets. The investigations and subsequent 1,350 convictions have resulted in lengthy sentences, including 10 life terms and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.
Task force operations usually begin as local enforcement actions that target truck stops, casinos, street "tracks," and websites that advertise dating or escort services, based on intelligence gathered by officers working in their respective jurisdictions. Initial arrests are often violations of local and state laws relating to prostitution or solicitation. Information gleaned from those arrested frequently uncovers organized efforts to prostitute women and children across many states. FBI agents further develop this evidence in partnership with U.S. Attorney's Offices and the U.S. Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section so that prosecutors can help bring federal charges in those cities where child prostitution occurs.
The Innocence Lost National Initiative brings state and federal law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and social service providers from across the country to NCMEC for training.
The FBI thanks the its local, state, and federal law enforcement partners representing more than 230 separate agencies who participated in Operation Cross Country VII and their ongoing enforcement efforts.
The following list denotes FBI divisions, not necessarily actual cities, where juveniles were recovered and pimps were arrested.
Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Mark F. Giuliano announces its results of Operation Cross Country VII, an FBI led Violent Crimes Against Children initiative targeting child exploitation/child prostitution nationwide, to include task force operations within the State of Georgia.
During the week of July 22, 2013, the Atlanta Field Office FBI's Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force (MATCH) conducted operations to identify, locate, and recover child victims of sexual exploitation for profit, to include child prostitution, and identify, locate, prosecute and/or disrupt individuals and/or criminal enterprises responsible for their sexual exploitation. In addition, the FBI led Child Exploitation Task Force based in Augusta/Richmond County, Georgia conducted similar operations there on July 17-18, 2013.
As a result of those combined law enforcement operations, two juveniles were recovered and eight adult individuals were arrested on state sexual exploitation for pimping related charges in the metro Atlanta area. Nine individuals were arrested on prostitution related charges and two arrests were made on exploitation/pimping related charges at Augusta/Richmond County, Georgia.
The FBI Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force (MATCH) is comprised of the following law enforcement partners:
The FBI's Augusta Child Exploitation Task Force is comprised of officers from the following agencies:
Anyone with information regarding such activities involving child exploitation are urged to contact their nearest FBI field office or law enforcement agency.
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Through Facebook Connect, you'll be able to use your pictures, friends, groups, events and other profile information to other sites. Facebook recently banned popular tech blogger Robert Scoble from the site for exporting his contacts in Facebook to another web site (Plaxo).
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All traveling, housing, and dining on the tax payers dime. The Fed should be worried they have become irrelevant. They are living out their lives without meaning or purpose.
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The fed is self funded. No taxpayer money is used. Next time, educate yourself before you type. You won't look quite so ignorant that way.
Cut federal funding across the board.
Stop using the name Mike.
And alas, as mike has pointed out, the fed is self funded, which begs the question "why is a private entity meddling in foreign affairs, commerce, and government policy?"
Hey can I have a printing press too? Wish I could hang out with all those keynsian astrologers…they can all parrot each other and believe they should decide the economic future of billions cause they are so smart.
There should be massive protests there as these vile haters of mankind steal our wealth and impose authoritarian rule. Love to see Peter schiff or Ron Paul or the great Andrew napolitano be invited…end the fed and restore liberty.
Elliott W is just jealous he can't spend August in Jackson Hole.
According to the agenda in the article, they only meet until lunch. What happens the rest of the day and evening? Do they all go fishing?
How about an Agenda item to change the off-site location? Our nation is $17 trillion in debt and the economy stinks and the Fed continues to gather at Jackson Hole, one of the most expensive places on the planet! Are Chairman Bernanke and his cohort insensitive to their actions that have caused run away debt that has produced an anemic recovery? They behave as if they're doing a GOOD job, sipping champagne, inhaling caviar and congratulating one another on each other's "fine job" during the event's social hour. Mr. Chairman: show some leadership, set an example and get the hell out of Jackson Hole and don't come back until the people of this nation see some real improvement in their lives. You may think that because lavish off-sites hosted by the Government Services Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Internal Revenue Service and now possibly the Post Office, justify the Fed's off-site; they don't!! Somebody in government starting at the top needs to step up and say "This lavish entertainment of one another at the people's expense has to STOP!" Mr. President ? Mr. Chairman? Anyone in Government?
Glad to know when and where the conference is being held. For the weekend, I can direct my daily prayers to the mad gods controlling my economic fate a bit west of where I normally align my prayer rug.
The people at Jackson Hole have done a fine job digging a financial hole for he rest of us. This "let them eat cake" group should hang their collective heads in shame,!
The problem with the current band of academics and bankers who are running the Fed is that they lack imagination. They think their only two alternatives are 1) print, or 2) don't print. Far more important than how much you print is where you inject it into the economy. If you just dump it onto the financial sector, as they've been doing, you get a rising stock and bond market, but the rest of the economy remains anemic. That's what we've got.
How about a more exotic site, like Cleveland?
As Tripper Chanted in Meatballs, " it just doesn't matter.
I think we ought to meld NASA with the Federal Reserve, first project, steer that asteroid towards Wyoming…
"The Jackson Hole event has always been something of a see and be seen event as well."
Wine, dine and be entertained because the Econs are out of theories that work.
Before all is lost forever bury the central Banking NWO international criminal Bankster Bilderberger cartel, They are creating a worldwide Weimar Republic to impoverish the worlds 99 percent as they planned.
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming is not Aspen. I do agree with Mitchell, that it would be better for the U.S. economy if they chose Cleveland or Toledo, Ohio that is (not Spain ;o)
It isn't the Federal Reserve's job to run the economy. If we had competent lawmakers, they would steer public policy and the Fed could return to its much more narrowly defined role with respect to money supply and related issues. It is ridiculous that the Fed is being used (abused) by politicians and lawmakers currying to their favorite special interest groups.
Best: Why isn't Larry Summers attending? For a candidate in line for Governor of the Fed, what is he doing instead, that is so much more important?! The article said he was invited.
Investors create jobs.
If there is no REAL return for their investments, then there are no real jobs.
Cancelling Glass-Steagall tore down the fence that protected hard working American assets
and lowering the rates for this long has created an unfair penalty on those who really-do-know
what they're doing.
Know Goodwill = Know Good Jobs.
Smart Money = Smart Jobs.
Dumb money = NO jobs + chaos
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If you've been reading this blog you now know that there is a separation between pregnancy and birth. Because you are pregnant then you and your baby's mother need to prepare her body for birth and learn skills to work with your baby's efforts to be born.
As you know this should happen no matter which one of these three birth types you end up having. This is so important to really understand. A huge aspect of giving birth is staying connected to the whole process. For women and men who become passive and let the birthing process happen to them without true participation, too often they feel disconnected from their newborn at a time when being connected is so important for starting this phase of being a parent.
This cannot be stressed enough. As a man you might not understand this because no one has pointed it out. Too many women feel shame, blame and guilt about their birth experience. This means they still focus on the birth experience when they need to move along to being a mother.
You may have experienced this in your family. There may have been birth trauma in a previous birth and you watched your baby's mother feel disconnected to your baby and you!
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Birth is so important. It's like a wedding. You don't just let that happen. You plan it down to details and you participate actively! Then there is the marriage or parenting. You know, as a man, that women have long memories about small details. Giving birth is something happening inside her body and if she feels disconnected to that she really feels disconnected and nothing you say will change that. That is why what you DO is so important!
You also may have realized if you're already working with The Pink Kit Package that learning about each others bodies is often new and unfamiliar. Preparing for birth is not the same as sex … it's a whole new language, knowledge and skills. We see sex all around us but birth is still very much hidden except those short videos of the baby being born. If you've ever sat down and watched a normal, 12 hour birth from start to finish you would be bored. But while the woman is doing this monumental process she can't get up and leave for a snack and she doesn't expect you to either.
This means you do need to prepare the pregnant body to give birth and learn the skills you'll both commit to use no matter what birth you experience. The birth of your baby demands your full attention even if it is a medically induced non-laboring delivery. Time still passes. Skills are used during the passage of time. You owe it to yourself as a man, father and partner. You owe it to your baby so that you can feel totally comfortable with your child as soon as he or she is born. You owe it to your baby's mother regardless of whether you remain in a relationship with her.
So during this phase you are increasingly working toward The Birth and you're doing that by bringing your fatherhood qualities to this preparation process. Then in Phase #5 … The Birth you will feel perfectly capable to working with your baby's mother as she works to bring forth your baby


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Crime and violence are everywhere and sex is used to sell;
love is now a four letter word and to some there is no hell.
Babies are having babies and Dad's are fading fast.
Something has got to change somehow or this "society" isn't going to last.
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DESCRIPTION: Set in England during Richard I's reign, Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life is a successful blend of fact, myth and romance. Wilfred of Ivanhoe earns his father's disapproval by falling in love with Rowena, his father's ward. Then he serves with Richard I during the Crusades, while the King's brother attempts to take the throne in Richard's absence. When the King and Ivanhoe return, a series of adventures take place against the backdrop of a tournament of the Knights Templar. Ivanhoe catches the eye of Rebecca, a beautiful and courageous Jewess; he is taken prisoner, along with his father and hers, and Rowena as well; and they rely upon one Locksley (Robin Hood) and his band of outlaws to set them free. When Rebecca is subsequently charged with witchcraft, she asks Ivanhoe to champion her in a trial by combat…but have his affections shifted, or does he still love Rowena? REVIEWS: "The real epic of our age."—Victor Hugo "Walter Scott is out and away the king of the romantics."—Robert Louis Stevenson SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet, is known as the father of both the regional and historical novel. His early works were successful verse romances, but he achieved lasting fame with his prose. His Scottish romances, such as Waverly and Rob Roy, were followed by novels of the reconstructed past, including Ivanhoe and The Talisman. A law clerk, sheriff, baronet, and part owner of a publishing house, he lost everything during a depression and spent the last years of his life writing to pay off his debts. Some say he wrote himself to death.


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Review: The Sibley Guide to Birds, second edition
David Sibley could have sat on his laurels. He would have been entitled to. With the publication of the original Sibley Guide to Birds, heretofore called the first edition, he set an entirely new standard for field guides, not just in North America, but arguably for the world.
Pre-first edition, you had your Peterson partisans, your Golden Guide groupies, your Nat Geo disciples, but after? There was only the Sibley. While the other guides, particularly National Geographic's offerings, continue to have avid followers (including me for what it's worth), the Sibley was the first guide that everyone had to have.
And this was for good reason. Sibley's drawings were at once elegant and fantastically useful. The text was spare and distilled to the essential points. Each species included, by virtue of it being created by a single artist, existed not only as a tool for identification but within the context of every other. There was no accounting for illustrator style or preferred angle. Every bird was painted in the same style, in the same position, so as to make comparison and contrast simple. And no other book had every single species a birder is likely to come across so true to life. It was considered for good reason to be a masterwork.
So nearly 14 years later comes David Sibley's long awaited second edition, and of course the question of whether he can possibly top such an essential guide is foremost on everybody's mind. The answer is, for the most part, that he does. Instead of just adding the new species and various taxonomic changes that have ballooned the AOU and ABA Checklists over the last several years, Sibley has taken the opportunity to make some wholesale changes to the book itself. Most obvious of which is that the artwork is significantly bigger. Additionally there is expanded text having to do with habitat preferences and other noteworthy clues for identifying birds. More information is always better in my opinion, and Sibley has done a nice job incorporating that additional, and valuable, information along with the larger images without overwhelming the reader or making the pages too cluttered.
Content wise, there's a great deal more on subspecific variation in this edition. Sibley hews to the line he established in the first edition of not including subspecies names, but rather illustrating examples of regional variation where appropriate, and these are expanded in the second edition which includes many wholly new illustrations of field identifiable subspecies that were not given space in the first edition.
An additional 111 new species are included in the second edition that were not included in the previous one. Many of these species are strays to the ABA Area, making Sibley's new guide nearly as useful as Nat Geo when it comes to the identification of vagrants. The Old World Calidrids are particularly well represented here. Additionally, if you've spent any amount of time with the old Sibley — and who hasn't? — flipping through the pages is like an easter egg hunt. More, several illustrations have been "touched up" to better reflect the bird in the field. I was surprised by how quickly I was able to find some of them, so internalized is my "Sibley-sense" over the years. There are also additional illustrations of hybrids, juvenile birds, and various useful angles (like many alcids painted "flying away") that add to the user's ability to put a name to birds.
Maps are largely unchanged, though Sibley has thankfully done away with the "green dots" representing "vagrant-records-but-not-really" that seemed to serve only to confuse people. Those birds with limited ranges are illustrated with pop-outs of their range rather than a white expanse of the entirety of North America as before, another positive change.
Sibley's representations of birds are nearly uniformly excellent. However, some of the pelagic species seem just a tiny bit off in a way I can't quite put a finger on. The illustration of the dorsal view of an adult Short-tailed Albatross in flight on page 57 seems a bit strange to me, but the angle is undoubtedly a difficult one for an artist. Your mileage may vary, of course, and I had no such visceral reaction to any other paintings.
A bit has been made of the color reproduction in this edition as compared to the first edition. It's clear that the colors are darker – the publisher calls this "richer" and I'm not inclined to disagree. This is more apparent for some species rather than others. Birds that are primarily red, for instance, like Northern Cardinal and, particularly, Scarlet Tanager come off a fair bit darker than you'd see them in life. Blacks and browns are very dark; there's no getting around it. While some of the paintings are rather shocking at first glance it does not seem to be effect the ability of the reader to discern details on all but the most ebony-hued birds.
For those species for which subtle shades are more important, like gulls, the coloring here seems accurate enough. And for most species the richer hues are a nice improvement over the somewhat washed out first edition. Color shading may also be more noticeable because the page color in this edition is white as opposed to the subtle cream of the first. This change does make the paintings appear more contrasty, for better of for worse. Birders may want to flip through a book before buying to see if this is going to be a problem. In my opinion it should not impair use of the book, but that's a decision that the individual purchaser is going to want to make themselves.
There are a couple minor typos, in the Key to Group Accounts on page xxv and in the Snowy Owl account. Black-tailed and Heerman's Gulls are mislabeled in the gull group account. These are minor, not likely to impact user experience (though the gull thing did confuse me for a minute or so), and will undoubtedly be cleared up in the second printing if not before.
In short, the things that Sibley has always done well are emphasized here. There is no field guide illustrator in North America better able to capture the subtleties of bird identification, the shape and feel of a bird, than David Sibley. The larger paintings fill the page well and the text, though sparse, is informative and useful. If you like the Sibley style, you will not be disappointed here and in most ways he has noticeably improved on what was a spectacular first edition.
Birders should be very happy with what he's done here.
Thanks for Knopf for providing me with a review copy.
10,000 Birds: Iced Over in the South
2013: The Reckoning
I know there's some sort of unwritten rule that says that a blog author is supposed to produce some sort of a roundup of the past year within the first month of the next year. I was waiting so long to get to this post that I may as well have just combined it with 2014. Thing is, 2013 was a pretty epic year for me. I entered eBird checklists for 8 states (3 of them were airports, but still). I picked up 38 ABA Area lifers and 8 new birds for North Carolina. I passed 1000 for my all time world list and hit 550 even for the ABA Area.
Oh, and I went abroad, seeing India (very brief trip, but lots of new birds) and Aruba (longer trip, but fewer new birds). I was asked to be a spotter on Brian Patteson's pelagic trips and invited to be a member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee. I witnessed the bird that broke the ABA Area Big Year record. I moved and got to start a new county list, blowing past 100 by the end of the year.
It was, in short, a good year. Of course, I barely wrote about any of it. But I will regale you with brief glimpses of the year that was, even though I'm nearly 1/12th of the way into the year that is. Gimme a break, it's been a busy year!
Hitting the Century Mark
I got to experience the Space Coast Birding Festival for this first, and hopefully not the last, time this past year. I was involve din a number of excellent field trips, but perhaps the most fun was the North Brevard hotspots trip I ran with Jeff Gordon and a local birder on my last day. Two other groups of birders had run this trip with day lists that neared 100. So we had a goal. We worked these lesser known spots hard that day, picking up local goodies like Ash-throated Flycatcher and Florida Scrub-Jay. We ended the day at 100 species even, beating the other group's total by 2. That, friends, is a good day.
Passage to India
So I got to travel to the other side of the world in 2013, as a representative of the ABA to the Global Birdwatching Conference in Gujarat, India. Sure, my bag didn't make it until the day I left. Sure, the 11.5 hour time difference completely turned me around. Sure, the travel was grueling and the logistics often weird. But man, INDIA. Gujarat is not the biodiversity hub that other parts of India are, but it's pretty impressive. India is a land of contrasts, and a completely different sort of place than I'm used to, both birding-wise and culturally. And I wrote quite a bit about all that. The highlight of the entire trip, though, was likely to be the flock of Sociable Lapwings, a critically endangered shorebird, that we found on the plains of Gujarat on a trip to Chhari Lake. What great birds, and what an incredible trip.
Lapwing spotting with the family
I've made no secret of the fact that I'd like to get my son into this birding thing. Of course, it's fantastic to encourage an interest in nature in young people, but honestly, having a more or less willing partner in these adventures means that I'll probably get out in the field more. Ulterior motives? Sure, but with plenty of beneficial side-effects. Back in February, while the east coast was experiencing one of the most extensive Northern Lapwing invasions in birding history, I had been talking with friends about how it was only a matter of time before someone finds one in North Carolina. And lo and behold, Martin Wall, one of North Carolina's most adventurous birders (I don't know that anyone goes to more out of the way places), found the bird. It was, remarkably, only about an hour away from my door. When I got the news I was sitting at home, having just put my son down for a nap. A short time later, I'd woken him up and we were making tracks north for this bird. Naps can wait, lapwings rarely do. We got it. He saw it. It was a good day.
Aruba. Now that song is in your head. right?
I got to use my passport twice this year, which is more than usual. The second time was a family trip to Aruba, an actual desert island off the northern coast of South America. It wasn't specifically for birding, but I did get an opportunity to get out a couple times and see a few Caribbean specialties and a couple birds more known from South America. Aruba is a strange place, it's hardly a tropical bird mecca, but there are a few cool species. Venezuelan Troupials abound, Brown-throated Parakeets cry out from ornamental palm trees, and the wind blows like you wouldn't believe. I even picked up a rare bird for the island, though it was only a Yellow-rumped Warbler (still a 6th-7th record!) I ended with around 60 species at the end of the week, which was tops in eBird until Steven Mlodinow came down and laid waste to my Aruba Big Year dreams. Oh well.
Offshore is the best shore
I got offshore more in 2013 than I ever had before, and saw amazing birds every time. My last trip in 2012 was disappointing in that I endured my first ever pelagic trip in which I got zero lifers. I'm happy to say that that trend ended in 2013. In June, I got three days out of Hatteras with the ABA where I spotted a Trindade Petrel, the bird of the tour, on the last day. In August, I got offshore for two more days, along with birding raconteur Steve Tucker and other friends and had two amazing days including full frontal views of that same amazing Pterodroma (along with a lifer Long-tailed Jaeger, finally). And just before the year ended, I was present with the inimitable Neil Hayward broke the ABA Area Big Year record with a Great Skua. Yeah, I spotted that one too (which was really satisfying, I don't mind saying). Both absolutely highlights of the year.
Here's hoping 2014 turns out to be as much fun! I've already got a couple exciting trips in the hopper so we'll see you then! Thanks for reading!


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"All of Toronto – perhaps all of Canada – will be watching Monday at 10 a.m. to see if Mr. Justice Charles Hackland decides to kick the city's controversial, populist mayor out of office. Rob Ford is accused of breaking the Municipal Conflict-of-Interest Act when he voted in February 2012 to relieve himself of the requirement to pay back $3,150 in improper donations to his football charity. The penalty for violating the MCIA is automatic removal from office. If Mr. Ford loses his job, Toronto's political future would be thrown into turmoil. Here's what could happen after the ruling comes down..."
I doubt that the judge will rule to remove Ford from office, however I also believed in Santa Claus as a child, let's hope he exercises whatever judicial discretion is available to him.
Ford has faced opposition from all sides, including outright hostility from alleged conservatives since day one of his campaign. His candidacy did more to open my eyes to the clubbiness of our political class than anything else to date. We have no Liberal or Conservative party in Ontario, just interchangeable parts of the same old boys network.
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I keep asking myself that question a lot lately. I suppose that's a question any working mother could ask herself but blogging is not like any other work I know. When I used to work outside the home, for other people, I would never think of work whilst at home, it was 100% family time at home.
When people that aren't bloggers look at my blog they would probably assume that I spend about a couple of hours a week working on it. Oh how very wrong they would be!
They do not realise the many hours that go into designing a website and fixing all the problems that arise.
They do not realise the amount of hours that are spent networking in order to gain a readership.
They do not realise how addictive it can be to constantly be trying to improve your stats (or maybe that's just me).
They do not realise the amount of hours that are spent taking and editing photos as well as the actual writing of posts.
Nor the amount of hours reading and replying to comments and emails.
And all that's just the basic blogging part, if you want to actually make any money from your blog then there's a whole lot more work that needs doing such as organising giveaways, competitions, reviews, sponsored posts and the like, and in order to even begin to do those things you need to impress companies with your pitch and stats, the competition is intense!
Maybe it's not so bad to blog if you're not interested in making money from it, if that's the case then there's no need to worry about your stats, you can just write a quick post while the kiddos are in bed. Unfortunately that's not the case for me. I've made the decision to home educate my children which I love doing but it means I do not get any free time whatsoever because they're always at home with me, also I'm not able to go out and work but I still want to be able to earn my own money. My children are aged from 1 to 16 which means I no longer have the evenings to myself, so literally I have no time to myself.
I'm sure many 'mummy bloggers' blog when their children are at school or in bed but I can't do that so this is how I manage:
- Start at 6 am - I start work in bed, this is the only time I have when I'm awake and the children are not, usually for about an hour or two.
- Work between lessons – I try to keep up with all my emails and comments in brief 10 minute stretches between each of the lessons I teach so I'm not too bogged down with work in the evenings.
- Make sure all the children are in their rooms by 9 pm – Now some of my children are old enough to stay up later than this, I still insist they are all in their rooms by 9, they can read, draw and talk quietly while I get on with writing posts, editing photos, sorting out my website etc, etc, etc as well as spending quality time with the hubster.
So there you go, I work form 6 am to 11 pm for very little money but I do it because I enjoy it. Of course by work I mean not just blogging but also looking after 6 children, daily outings, housework, cooking, maintaining a decent relationship with my man and all the other things involved in running a household, however, blogging does take up about half the time of this in total.
My blog is my hobby as well as my work, it's only 4 months old and I'm still trying to get it established, hopefully in a couple of months it won't be quite as intense but I guess I'll have to wait and see. At the moment I have to set my BT home hub to turn off between 11 pm and 6 am so I can't work during those hours or I'd never stop, also it's not good for your pineal gland when you sleep with WiFi on but that's a whole other topic!
Some days I feel like quitting because it's relentlessly hard work. I wonder what the point is and ask myself if I'd be a better mother without it but the truth is it's my selfish creation, my release, my expression, my communication with the outside world so maybe I wouldn't be a better mother without my blog.


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Originating in the Bordeaux region of France, the Sauvignon Blanc grape varietal is today found in many different countries around the world. It is a grape which prefers milder temperatures, as too much exposure to heat dulls the juices within the green skinned fruits, leading to wines which are flat and characterless. As such, it is often found in valley regions, or by the coast where it can benefit from cooling oceanic winds before their characteristic early harvest. Indeed, climate appears to be the main variable in regards to the eventual flavor of Sauvignon Blanc wines, and wineries are constantly experimenting with harvesting dates in order to bring out everything from meadow flavors and grassy notes, to citrus and tropical fruit flavors in the bottle. In general, though, Sauvignon Blanc varietal grapes tend to produce wines which are dry, zesty and crisp in their nature, and extremely refreshing when served chilled.
Although most commonly associated with excellent Sauvignon Blanc wines, the Marlborough region of New Zealand has also consistently proven that it is capable of growing extremely high quality Pinot Noir and Chardonnay varietals, thus helping the country's wine industry grow in size and range. The region is an exceptionally good one for growing excellent grapes, the climatic conditions allow wineries to extend the ripening times of the fruit, and the result is fruit which is packed full of bright, strong flavors and able to express the finer features of the terroir it grows on. Since the 1970s, Marlborough has greatly impressed the world with its superb wines, and this special region now accounts for over sixty percent of the area of New Zealand under vine.
New Zealand has consistently impressed over the past few decades, with many proclaiming this southern country as being the 'pearl' of the New World wine locations. One of the key attributes of New Zealand wines is their wonderful fruit-forward flavors, which make them a favorite with newcomers to wine, as they manage to be deliciously drinkable without posing many challenges. That isn't to say there is little complexity or interesting features to their wines, as one can easily discover through the fantastic range of wines available from smoky and mineral rich Sauvignon Blancs, to juicy and plummy Pinot Noirs and the beautiful Bordeaux style wines sourced from the excellent Auckland region. New Zealand wineries clearly have a dedication to quality alongside quantity, and such zeal and expertise is quickly helping them become established as world leaders in regards to both domestic sales and exported wines.


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