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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly resort with casino and restaurant
Located in Las Vegas (North Las Vegas), Santa Fe Station Hotel & Casino is close to Mountain View Hospital and Durango Hills Golf Club.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Santa Fe Station Hotel & Casino provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The resort offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink.
This family-friendly resort also offers a casino, an arcade/game room, and multilingual staff. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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- Arcade/game room
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- Pay movies
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The Charcoal Room - This restaurant serves dinner only.
Grand Cafe - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open 24 hours.
Cabo Mexican Restaurant - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Feast Buffet - This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Resort fee: USD 15.69 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Internet access
- Newspaper
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- Deposit: USD 100 per stay
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La Junta First Church of God will be offering a Ground Hog Supper Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Cost is $7, children 5 and under eat free. The church is located at Ninth and Carson.
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Robert Fripp and brothers Michael and Peter Giles formed the group Giles, Giles & Fripp in Bournemouth in 1967. The band was active for 2 years, releasing only one album on Deram Records. This track is an outtake from that album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp, first included on its 1992 reissue. The album did poorly; Robert Fripp has stated that the original release only sold around 500 copies. The group broke up not long after, though Michael Giles and Fripp found better success with their next project, the group King Crimson.
Fripp had an extensive solo career, including several collaborations with artists like Brian Eno and Andy Summers (of The Police). Fripp's lover, poet Joanna Walton, coined the term "Frippertronics" to describe his innovative use of tape delay and tape looping in the production of his and Eno's album, No Pussyfooting, in 1973.


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The trick to this recipe is to add the diced carrots and zucchini and sliced asparagus to the couscous when it is piping hot. The heat from the couscous cooks the vegetables so that they retain their color and bite. I've purposely left this recipe very simply seasoned so that it can be a foil for the chicken and beef dishes I've included in this article. Adding a cinnamon stick to the couscous while cooking adds a great deal of flavor as does adding a handful of chopped herbs after cooking: parsley, dill, mint, basil. Enjoy.
1 large onion – peeled and chopped
Heat vegetable oil in pot over medium high flame. Add chopped onion and garlic and sauté until onion is translucent. Pour in couscous and stir well until some of it has toasted. Pour in water according to directions on the couscous container. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. Cover pot and simmer eight to ten minutes. Remove cover. Taste. Add salt and pepper. Fluff couscous with a fork. Add vegetables immediately and stir gently. Allow to cool. Serve at room temperature.
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by Geila Hocherman and Arthur Boehm, Kosher Revolution, (Kyle Press)
New York's Nobu restaurant,1985: Chef Nobu Matshushia's miso-glazed black cod. Me on first taste: Wow! I longed to make a kosher version of this great dish, but had to bide my time until kosher miso and sake became available. On that happy day I set to work—and here it is, a dish you'll enjoy often and that's baby-simple to make. All you do is marinate black cod in a simple miso-sugar mixture then broil or grill it. The caramelized skin is delightfully crispy, and really compliments the sweet, moist flesh. Served with Baby Bok Choy with Garlic or by itself with any bitter green—this is stellar dining.
1/2 cup mirin
In a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the mirin and sake and bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute (to cook off the alcohol), reduce the heat to medium, add the miso, and stir until dissolved. Add the sugar, increase the heat, and stir until the sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool to room temperature.
Dry the fillets with paper towels and put them in a gallon-size sealable plastic bag. Add the miso glaze, seal and refrigerate for 24 to 48 hours.
Bring the fillets to room temperature. Preheat the broiler or place a grill pan or heavy skillet over high heat. Wipe excess glaze from the fillets and broil or grill, turning once, until brown and glazed, about 8 minutes.
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Amanda Bynes post-surgery (Twitter)
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Amanda Bynes is still lashing out at publications who use older photos of her, but at least now she's explaining why it's so frustrating to her. The reason? Plastic surgery.
We can't say we didn't suspect that the 27-year-old had had some work done, but we appreciate her coming clean about it.
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Just a link to back up some of the things I have been spouting.
Very interesting reading, especially if you liked "The Sopranos". If it wasn't so truly sad, it would be funny, this is the crap you have to put up with when you live in a corrupt union laden state such as this.
I also have to comment on the home owners association comparison, I feel this is a terrible comparison, it assumes that you have a similiar ability to choose both house and job. We bought a house about 6 years ago, and easily looked at 12-15 of them, in different neighborhoods, we could have continued for months, there were literally thousands that matched our criteria.
It's been a while since i looked for a job (thankfully), but i'm pretty sure MOST people are not fortunate enough to pick between thousands of offers, in this day and age many would be happy with ONE offer...so i feel that is a terrible comparison.
By the way, there are many more examples of this, just from my little area of the country, i just have to remember all the numbers of the local unions to give you the data. It is NOT isolated incident, i had to ask my friend what the number was of this union to find it though...have a bad memory.


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First things first: Cinco de Mayo is not a Mexican holiday. And contrary to popular belief (at least in the United States), it isn't Mexico's Independence Day, either (that event falls on Sept. 16).
The first Cinco de Mayo celebration was held on May 5, 1862, when the Mexican American community in California celebrated Mexico's victory over the invading French in the Battle of Puebla. Celebrants in Los Angeles viewed this unlikely win as "a symbol of hope" for forces of democracy during the U.S. Civil War (France threatened to ally with the Confederacy; Mexican Americans were overwhelmingly Union sympathizers).
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Make-your-own tortillas
Homemade tortillas are so easy to make, you'll wonder why you never tried this before. You'll need only two ingredients corn flour (called masa) and water and to invest in a tortilla press ($20 in kitchen stores). For 12 six-inch tortillas, mix about 2 cups masa with 1 1/2 cups water and knead into a firm but springy dough. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes to an hour, then break off an approximately 2-inch ball, place it between two sheets of plastic wrap, and flatten in the press. Place on a hot griddle for 1 minute, then flip and heat the other side. Repeat with remaining dough.
Tortilla Fillings
Courtesy of Marcela Valladolid, host of the Food Network show Mexican Made Easy. Each recipe makes enough for six to eight tacos.
Pork or Chicken Adobada
- 1 small white onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 guajillo chiles, chopped
- 1 cup chicken broth
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 pound pork roast or chicken breasts
- Avocado slices, pineapple slices, and salsa, for garnish
- 2 limes, quartered
1. To make the adobada (marinade), sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil, then add the chiles and cook until soft, about 4 minutes. Place mix in a blender with the broth and process until smooth, about 1 minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
2. Rub the meat with the adobada. Grill until fully cooked, then slice.
3. Wrap a couple of slices of meat in a tortilla and top with avocado, pineapple, salsa, and a sprinkle of lime juice.
Carne Asada
- 1 pound flank steak
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 orange, sliced
- 2 teaspoons oregano
- 1 cup beer (lager)
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Avocado, salsa, lime juice, and cilantro, for garnish
Marinate the flank steak in the oil, orange, oregano, and beer for 1 hour before cooking. Grill the steak, then cut into strips. Remove from marinade and season with salt and pepper. Wrap a couple of slices in a tortilla, with toppings.
Squash Blossoms
- 6 squash blossoms
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 tablespoons shredded cheddar cheese
Lightly sauté squash blossoms in olive oil. Stuff each tortilla with 2 tablespoons cheese and 1 squash blossom.


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[I'm] excited. Motivated. Any word that explains, that expresses my joy and the way I feel about getting back on the floor, that's the word I'd use. These past four years I've wanted to play, I've wanted the opportunity to get out there but it just hasn't been my time. But I feel like now is my time and I'm ready for it.
— Daniel Gibson on Cavs media day.
The last time I posted on Cavs: The Blog, I gave my take on Daniel Gibson's shot at redemption this season as he enters his fifth year with the Cavaliers. Exactly one week later, several Cavs players, including Gibson himself, echoed similar sentiments in front of dozens of reporters.
For those of you who missed it, yesterday was the Cleveland Cavaliers' annual media day in Independence, Ohio. The stage was used by a handful of the team's veterans and new coach Byron Scott to talk about how motivated they are this season, on a mission to prove many of the naysayers wrong.
"We're gonna come in and work hard and we're gonna shock some people this year," J.J. Hickson told reporters at the Cavaliers' practice facility. Antawn Jamison showed similar determination, telling the media, "We've still got enough talent to win and perform at a very high level."
However, while many of the media day player quotes revolved around the idea of being doubted this season, quite a few Cavaliers touched upon the importance of new coach Byron Scott's offense. Second year guard Danny Green stressed that he likes Scott's mentality, stating that he's "all about running and getting up and down the floor" like he did in college. Similarly, two of Cleveland's more athletic players, J.J. Hickson and Christian Eyenga, both acknowledged that running is a big part of their game and that they believe Coach Scott's offense will complement those abilities, which is worth noting since they both got a taste of what to expect this year in Las Vegas Summer League action.
As the quotes about what to expect in a new up-tempo offense kept surfacing, Cleveland's guards continually mentioned one another and how they thought they could do big things this season. Anthony Parker noted his high expectations for Daniel Gibson this year, telling reporters, "He's been in an unfortunate circumstance the last couple years, but we all know his talent level and what he can contribute, and I look forward to him really having a big year this year."
On the other hand, Mo Williams expressed some lofty goals for his old teammate, yet new Cleveland addition, Ramon Sessions. "I expect a lot out of [Ramon]," Williams told the media on Monday. "I expect him to play big minutes, I expect him to play a big part," he elaborated.
Despite the fact that Daniel Gibson saw very limited action late in the season and in the post-season last year and that Ramon Sessions was with a different team altogether, it seems that last season's starting backcourt tandem has already warmed up to the idea of playing extended minutes alongside the two guards. And why not? If Cleveland can throw out a team that includes at least two guards capable of pushing the basketball as Byron Scott envisions, the Cavaliers could have many of the league's more traditional teams on their heels this season.
With this idea of exploiting potential mismatches in the back of his mind, it will be interesting to see how Coach Scott uses his trio of quick and talented, yet undersized, guards. Perhaps he will spend a small chunk of each game using a three guard set, something common amongst the college ranks yet rarely used in the NBA.
When asked if he had any doubts on whether or not the trio of Mo Williams, Ramon Sessions, and himself could be successful on the court this year, Daniel Gibson told Cavs announcer Fred McLeod, "Not at all… You can think about us having to guard [bigger guards], but at the same token those guys have to come on the other end and guard us." Gibson followed this up by stating that in a faster offense it will be more difficult for larger guards to chase him around, assuring Fred "I definitely think that we can be successful with us three, because we go hard."
Ramon Sessions echoed similar sentiments, stating that, "Me, Boobie Gibson, and Mo, we're three explosive, fast guys, so it's going to be tough for teams to defend."
However, just because Cleveland's guards are all on board with the idea of a smaller offensive front, it doesn't necessarily mean that Byron Scott will continually look to implement it throughout the course of the season. There's no doubt that a lineup featuring quick guards in certain moments of the game has the potential to exploit slower teams, but it could come at the expense of the defense. Additionally, Coach Scott has yet to reveal his starting shooting guard, telling media day reporters "I have the starters in my head."
Regardless, it's nice to see the current group of guards band together and focus on executing the team's new offense as they prepare for the new season. After all, as Mo Williams put it yesterday, "This is the hand [we were] dealt, and you've got to play the best you can."
But in the end, it will be up to Byron Scott to show us whether or not his trio of guards is a true three of a kind or simply a trick up his sleeve.
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We are once again on the cusp of a new year,and that means that it's time for the regular yearly round of societally mandated self-improvement, the New Year's Resolution. But while you and I might resolve to get out more, lose a little weight, or drop a few bad habits, our favorite superheroes have made mistakes over the past year that have been just a little bit bigger.
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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Brian Keaton Sr. loves everything about baseball, down to collecting trading cards.
His idol was Ted Williams, the Hall of Fame outfielder with the Boston Red Sox, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps twice.
But when Keaton was injured after a bomb exploded during his deployment in Iraq, he never thought his love of baseball would help him overcome a traumatic brain injury and help treat his case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Keaton, 39, came to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda two years ago, and spent a lot of time in the occupational therapy unit. Doctors at Walter Reed were trying to get Keaton to be active and get his brain working again, but he found himself entirely unmotivated.
"I didn't want to put puzzles together and figurines in holes and stuff like that," Keaton said.
Once Keaton told his doctor about his love of baseball and that he collected baseball cards as a kid, she suggested he sort cards to get his brain moving. Keaton said that was when he wandered into a card shop a quarter of a mile away from his apartment in Silver Spring.
"I was in pretty bad shape," Keaton remembered. "I just needed some cards."
Ricky Huggins said his father, Bill Huggins, opened House of Cards in 1979 in Wheaton and moved to its current location on Silver Spring Avenue in 2001. Ricky Huggins has been helping his dad in the shop since he graduated college in 2010.
Huggins remembered meeting Keaton more than a year ago, when he entered the shop. Huggins said he gave Keaton a standard-size box with about 5,000 cards. He said Keaton was back in a week, hungry for more.
At first, Keaton said, he would sort the cards for four or five minutes, then rest. He would go back and do it all over again, sometimes for hours at a time.
Since he entered the shop, Keaton has received about 500,000 baseball cards from House of Cards, Huggins said.
"I couldn't believe they were giving them to us for free," Keaton said. "I had no motivation because I was so messed up. But I loved baseball so much, I was pushing myself to open another box because I wanted to see what cards were in there."
As his health and memory have improved, Keaton said, he has become good friends with Huggins. Keaton said he sometimes goes to the shop just to talk baseball for an hour.
Struggling to find a way to give back, Keaton decided to present a special plaque as thanks for the cards, which played a huge part in his recovery.
Keaton said he couldn't even sort the cards at first, but is now able to sort them into teams, years and positions.
"They did it with such a willingness to help. They didn't want anything in return," Keaton said. "That card shop has no idea how much they helped. I think it's awesome what they did without asking for anything, without seeking any publicity."
Since joining the Army in 1993, Keaton has been a combat soldier. He has deployed a handful of times, noting he was deployed more after Sept. 11, 2001, spending a total of six years overseas.
A bomb went off during his most recent deployment, leading to more than 100 seizures. He was diagnosed as having a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
"I couldn't remember anything," Keaton said. "My body was shaken."
While he is more easily able to string together sentences, Keaton said there still are everyday activities that he can't do. His wife makes appointments for him and makes sure he gets there on time.
"I was very well respected as a soldier, and then I just lost all of that ability to be who I was," Keaton said. "It affects you in a million different ways — especially as a man. It takes your confidence, takes your pride, takes everything away from you as a person. It makes you realize how fragile your life is. Just like that you can become someone else."
The baseball cards, Keaton said, helped him get back to the person he was.
"They don't know how big of a deal it was that they motivated me," Keaton said of the card shop. Seeing cards he had as a kid brought back memories of his childhood.
Keaton said he was a diehard Cincinnati Reds fan growing up in Indiana and liked Pete Rose, who played for the team from the 1960s to the mid-'80s.
Once the Washington Nationals came to D.C., Keaton — who now lives in Virginia — had a new favorite team. The hourlong chats between Keaton and Huggins often include the Nationals.
Huggins said the cost of donating the cards is significantly lower than the profit he gave up — they would not have yielded any sort of fortune. He said a lot of cards were ones donated to the shop by parents cleaning out closets when their kids head off to college.
While the shop wouldn't buy common cards, the 10 to 20 people hoping to sell the cards were happy to donate them knowing that they were going toward a wounded service member's recovery.
Now, the Yellow Ribbon Fund, a nonprofit organization that supports military families, is setting up a partnership with the card shop so other soldiers in the occupational therapy wing of Walter Reed with traumatic brain injuries can sort cards for their recovery.
Jessica Allen, director of the Fund's Family Caregiver Program, said many soldiers are returning from deployment with cases similar to Keaton's. Sorting cards and doing puzzles like the ones at the occupational therapy unit in Bethesda have helped re-establish brain activity and hand-eye coordination.
She said baseball cards take a childhood love and bring it to life for an adult, reconnecting that passion to help injured service members to "put everything back together."
"When you're healing these guys, you have to figure out what can make their recovery successful," Allen said. "These guys all served because they love our country. Now, they've been injured and that love has been taken away. Now, we have to find some way to incorporate something else they love."
She said she hopes to establish the partnership in the next month, so Walter Reed patients can start taking advantage of the opportunity and start their healing process.
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Kicking the Air Conditioner Habit
Ventilation cooling in a well-designed home can make air conditioning obsolete.
Air conditioning has become an expected feature in new California homes, even those in cooler coastal locations. Because many Californians run their air conditioners for just a few days out of the year, air conditioners use only 10%–12% of the energy in homes, yet they are responsible for about 43% of the residential peak load. This load from hell has been the bane of California utilities, and in 1994 the California Institute for Energy Efficiency (CIEE) set out to address this problem by improving the performance of production homes, of which there are about 100,000 built each year. The CIEE assembled a team of researchers to participate in a project that was dubbed Alternatives to Compressor Cooling (ACC). Continued under the California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program, the project is nearing completion.
The ACC project was grounded in the idea that the need for air conditioning could be reduced or eliminated by ventilating homes with cool night air, which would cool concrete floors,walls, and other mass.This cooled mass then absorbs heat from indoor air during the day, keeping occupants comfortable enough that they avoid turning on the air conditioner or, on the hottest days, shift its use to off-peak periods.
People have used ventilation to improve summer comfort for centuries. So why did the researchers feel something new was needed? Fewer people are opening windows nowadays, because they are bothered by noise from roads and freeways and by outdoor dust and pollens, or because they are worried about security. Whole-house fans improve ventilation but still require windows to be managed and don't filter outside air. For a system to be acceptable to a wide market, it would have to automatically supply cool outdoor air to the house, vent warm air out, filter the air, and be easy to use.
Mapping Compressorless Cooling
Early in the ACC project, studies were completed to determine the practicality of ventilation cooling and to study health and comfort issues. One of the first steps was to verify that computer simulation tools can accurately model building response to ventilation cooling. To do this, a small test building was constructed at Pala, near San Diego, and then monitored. The data from this test were used to calibrate a DOE-2 simulation model of the building. It was found that the model needed improvements in the way it simulated the exchange of heat with concrete slab foundations (most California production homes are built on slabs), so a special function was added to improve modeling accuracy. This model was then used to simulate a typical house in different climatic regions of California in order to map areas that would most benefit from ventilation cooling. The resulting map plots locations where ventilation cooling alone, ventilation cooling plus indirect evaporative cooling, or ventilation cooling plus air conditioning are likely to maintain the indoor temperature below 78ºF through heat storms when used in a well-designed house (see Figure 1).
Concurrently, other studies were conducted to help us to understand the health, comfort, and sociological issues related to ventilation cooling. For example,we found that people have a very wide range of temperature preferences in their homes, and that thermostat wars between living companions are common, although not universal.
Team members also tackled marketing issues, such as how builders and homeowners would respond to home designs that improve summer performance and make ventilation cooling work better. Several very conventional-appearing home designs were developed to show builders that efficient designs do not have to look different. The project also sponsored a "Summer Performance Home" category for the Pacific Coast Builders Conference Gold Nugget award program. There were few entries; at that time production builders were showing little interest in energy efficiency.This attitude changed during the course of the project, fueled partly by the energy crisis in the spring of 2000.
Finding the Right Equipment
With computer simulation results boosting confidence that ventilation cooling could eliminate air conditioner use in a summer performance home,we set about determining what mechanical systems could be used for ventilation. Both independent fans and dampers and systems that integrate with heating and cooling equipment were considered. Early in the project,we considered employing direct evaporative cooling, but we abandoned this approach because higher humidity levels can increase dust mite growth. Indirect evaporative cooling was also explored as a way to squeeze additional cooling effect out of the outdoor air, but it became clear that adapting this technology to many homes would be difficult, because the equipment requires so much space. We also anticipated difficulties with acceptability on the part of home buyers,who are unaccustomed to evaporative cooler maintenance requirements, and on the part of builders, who are very sensitive to change.
In the end,we looked for a system that would meet the following criteria:
• low to moderate cost;
• easily installed and maintained by residential mechanical contractors;
• good air filtration;
• high efficiency (low fan energy use);
• as reliable and maintenance-free as conventional systems;
• daily management of controls not required; and
• maximum utilization of ventilation cooling while maintaining comfort.
To keep costs down, it made sense to us to use the same fan that delivers heating and cooling to deliver ventilation air. By sharing the heating/cooling ductwork, ventilation air could be distributed to every room. This approach also eliminated the need for two filters, one for outdoor air and one for indoor air, but it required that the ventilation system be somehow integrated with the heating and air conditioning system.
Of the several equipment alternatives we explored,we chose a solution that married a hot water air handler to an outside-air damper (see Figure 2).There were two reasons why we decided to use an air handler instead of a furnace as the air-moving device. First,we had worked on a previous project that used a variable-speed electronically commutated motor (ECM) with a hot water air handler, and we were extremely impressed with the winter fan energy savings, high level of comfort, and near elimination of fan noise. Second,we did not want to be encumbered by furnace controls that might interfere with optimal use of the ECM-powered fan for ventilation cooling, and we wanted to avoid the need to obtain American Gas Association (AGA) approvals in order to complete field testing. ECM-driven fans are used in most high-efficiency furnaces, but since air flow must keep up with gas burner capacity, furnaces cannot take advantage of their impressive low-speed performance. While typical furnace fans draw 400 to 700 watts,we found that an ECM-driven air handler can maintain comfort while drawing as little as 50 watts. The variable-speed ECM also makes it possible to vary ventilation rates in proportion to cooling needs, thereby improving summer comfort and reducing fan energy use.
With the means of moving the air more or less resolved,we set about determining the best way to feed outdoor air to the air handler. We explored several designs, some of which would have required multiple motor-operated dampers. Damper air leakage was also a prime concern. Fortunately, a damper that was already being manufactured as a residential economizer provided the answer. With only one motor actuator, no linkages to fail, and a single damper blade that provides switching between return and outside air as well as relief, this damper seemed the perfect solution. Pacific Gas and Electric's Technical and Environmental Services Laboratory tested the damper for durability, leakage, and pressure drop. Leakage was found to be about 1.4% of total fan flow at 25 Pa. The damper was cycled 10,000 times with no signs of failure. Doubling as a return air box, the damper also proved to be easy to install and connect.
We soon realized that the same components could be used to meet winter fresh-air requirements by opening the damper and running the fan at a very low speed. This approach requires only about one-tenth of the fan energy used by fresh-air ventilation systems that use the furnace fan to recirculate indoor air while mixing in a relatively small volume of outdoor air.
Controls That Forecast the Weather
The next challenge was to develop a control system that would integrate control of ventilation cooling, heating, and air conditioning, and that would make the most of ventilation cooling opportunities. The lower the indoor temperature that a house is ventilated to overnight, the cooler the house will stay the next day. Therefore, the homeowner should be encouraged to cool the house to as low a temperature as outdoor conditions (and house design) will allow, in order to keep the air conditioner from turning on. The team spent countless hours on the question of how to design a control that would effectively encourage ventilation cooling.
A breakthrough came when we realized that if people knew the consequences of their temperature settings, they might be motivated to ventilate to cooler temperatures. Several feedback options were considered, including various indicators of energy savings. The team settled on a comfort bar that displays expected next-day's temperatures and that shifts position with changes in user settings (see photo above). A user interface, or thermostat, was designed around this idea. Several display designs were drafted and the preferred design was tested, using an interactive virtual thermostat placed on a Web page. With input from a questionnaire attached to the Web page, a basic design was settled on, and several improvements were implemented following further review of this design.
This shaded comfort bar encourages lower indoor temperature settings by telling the user what indoor temperatures to expect when various settings are selected. The "low"setting is used to select the lowest desired indoor temperature, and the "high" setting is used to select the highest desired indoor temperature, which is also the air conditioner setpoint. The control uses these settings to predict the indoor temperature range for the next day, which it then displays using the comfort bar. If the "low"temperature setting is too high, it causes the predicted indoor temperature range to exceed the "high" setting, and the message "Air conditioner will run" will be displayed.
Behind the scenes, the control must be able to predict indoor and outdoor temperatures reasonably well. By completing a statistical analysis of a large database of both monitored and simulated temperatures, we were able to develop equations that use a two-day temperature history to arrive at these predictions. Though Mother Nature can still throw an occasional curve ball, the predictions have proven to be sufficiently reliable.
Ventilation should be used to cool the house down just enough to prevent the air conditioner from running, so it makes no sense to cool the house to the same "low"setting during both hot and mild weather. In mild weather, comfort can be improved and fan energy can be saved both by operating the fan at a lower speed and by raising the ventilation cooling low temperature limit.We used a DOE-2 computer model that incorporates the same predictive algorithms developed for the control to test various parameters for adjusting the low temperature limit and fan speed in order to keep the indoor temperature below the air conditioning setpoint while minimizing fan operation.
Finding control hardware that would accommodate the predictive logic, that could display the comfort bar, and that would be sufficiently versatile to handle all of the functions needed was another significant challenge. Following an extensive product search, a wall display unit-microcontroller combination was located. This brand-new product was originally developed to communicate real-time pricing and uses soft keys that can be programmed to serve any purpose.A controller is linked to the thermostat by a communications bus and connects to other components. Minor modifications were made to the controller to provide outputs to control the ECM and other components. Firmware was developed for both the thermostat and the controller to provide the necessary functionality. Because owner's manuals for thermostats are frequently misplaced, one of the soft keys was programmed as a Help button.
With the completion of controls, this integrated heating, ventilation cooling, air conditioning, and fresh-air ventilation system needed a name. Suggestions ranging from the sublime to the absurd were offered, and the name NightBreeze was finally selected.
The Proof Is in the Demonstration
With nearly six years of development behind us,we were finally ready to try out the technology.We sought out two production builders to demonstrate both the construction techniques and the mechanical systems. Two builders expressed interest: Clarum Homes, who was building a new development in Watsonville, California, called Cherry Blossom; and Centex Homes, whose Los Olivos development in Livermore, California,was under way. Clarum's demonstration home was completed in October 2001, and the Centex home was completed in July 2002. The Centex home, publicized as the 21st Century Performance Home,was also a demonstration site under the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Zero Energy Homes program, and met the newly developed Alameda County Green Building program standards. Multiple measures were installed in each of the homes to improve summer performance (see Table 1). Zero Energy features added to the Livermore home included a 3.6 kW PV array and a solar water heater.
The 3,080 ft2 Livermore home required two zones, so two separate NightBreeze systems were installed.The smaller Watsonville home uses a single NightBreeze system. In both houses, the water heaters serve as a source of heat for space heating as well as domestic hot water. Residents of both homes found they provided good comfort in summer and winter.
Both homes were monitored to determine how much cooling (and heating) was delivered by the NightBreeze systems, and to see how well indoor temperature was maintained. Sensors measured indoor and outdoor temperatures and relative humidity; solar radiation; fan, pump, and air conditioner power; and water and air flow rates and temperatures.
The Watsonville climate is heavily influenced by the Pacific Ocean. It is mild most of the time, with occasional heat spells, and air conditioning is seldom installed. Indoor temperatures at the Watsonville house proved adequate for comfort, generally staying below 78ºF while using only 11 kWh of fan energy over the entire summer. The owners proved to be extremely tolerant of wide temperature ranges and didn't use their heating system for the entire winter.
The Livermore climate is more typical of central California valleys, and air conditioning is standard on all new homes. Despite a summer that included 12 days when the temperature was over 100ºF, the Livermore house used its two air conditioners for a combined total of less than 20 hours while maintaining an indoor temperature of 78ºF. With the house open for tours, the air conditioners used only 42 kWh from July 15 through September 1. A similar house without ventilation cooling would be expected to use about 25% more.
Winter monitoring results showed that the variable-speed fan motor used an extraordinarily small amount of energy. Typical furnace fan power, as measured by John Proctor, is about 510 watts per 1,000 CFM. The Livermore house heating unit fans averaged 140 watts per 1,000 CFM and averaged only 48 watts while they were operating. No fan energy use was recorded for the Watsonville house, because the residents did not use their heating system—a testimony both to the design of the house and to the wide variation in personal temperature preferences.
A Cool Performance
A third home, the author's residence, was completed in March of 2000 and has served as a test bed for the NightBreeze system. Located in Winters, California, where it can get quite hot during the summer, this home also includes a radiant floor cooling system that supplements ventilation cooling on the hottest nights. The home was monitored for one year under the direction of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to evaluate standard cooling operation versus ventilation cooling and slab cooling. Performance results from the Winters house show a substantial reduction in peak load when the NightBreeze system is operating (see Figure 3).With air conditioning only, 27% of the energy use occurred during the on-peak period (between 12 pm and 6 pm). Ventilation cooling lowered on-peak energy use to just 5%. The ventilation cooling system improved the overall system EER from 9.2 to 11.9, resulting in energy savings of about 23%.
To estimate cooling energy savings in other locales, an 1,860 ft2 house with design features similar to the Livermore and Watsonville houses was modeled, using a special version of the DOE-2 hourly simulation program that emulates NightBreeze control operation. Results of these studies show that energy and demand savings depend strongly on how the house is operated and where the house is located (see Table 2). If the owner operates windows conscientiously, computer simulations predict summer energy savings from 0%– 36%.With windows kept continuously closed, simulations predict savings ranging from 35%–71%, depending on local climate.The computer studies also indicate that ventilation cooling could eliminate the need for air conditioning in Sunnyvale and Long Beach, and that air conditioner size can be decreased by one-half ton in all other locations but China Lake, without compromising comfort.
In addition to supplying cooling comfort, the NightBreeze system provides year-round filtered ventilation, which improves indoor air quality (IAQ) by removing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other airborne contaminants. Filtered ventilation can also reduce moisture buildup that can lead to mold and dust mite growth. And since windows are not required to be open to obtain fresh air, security is improved.
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Applicability. If peak electric loads and high cooling costs continue to pose problems for utilities and homeowners, respectively, the combination of ventilation cooling and summer performance home designs can be an effective solution. Though summer performance home designs provide value in all climates, ventilation cooling is effective primarily in the dryer western climates, and where evaporative cooling has poor market acceptance. Together, summer performance home designs and ventilation cooling provide an effective means of reducing air conditioner size or eliminating the use of air conditioners altogether. Availability and cost. We have been generally disappointed by the lack of interest shown by HVAC manufacturers in ventilation cooling and have begun to produce NightBreeze systems on a limited basis, mostly for additional demonstration projects. For example, eight are scheduled to be installed in Habitat for Humanity Homes in the San Diego area this year. Once in volume production,we expect the cost of the variable-speed air handler, outside-air damper, and controls to be in the range of $1,200 –$1,600. Since the NightBreeze replaces the furnace and any fresh-air delivery system that might be installed, the incremental cost could be less than $500. If the house design and climate allow elimination of the air conditioner, then the cost could be lower than that of a conventional system (a good example of Amory Lovins' tunneling through the cost barrier). The value of improved IAQ and comfort, reduced noise, and the other benefits described justify the higher cost.
For our next acts,we are planning to develop a zoned version of NightBreeze that will reduce cost and improve comfort in larger homes and a version that operates with variable-speed furnaces. Working with a major California HVAC contractor, we expect to introduce the furnace-based system to production home builders by next spring. We are also exploring the possibility of developing a humid-climate version that will integrate dehumidification.
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- The ETSU baseball team will look to add to its six-game win streak as the Bucs head to Nashville, Tenn. to face Belmont in a three-game conference series starting Friday at 5 p.m. ET at Shelby Park.
The Bucs and Bruins are slated to play at 2 p.m. ET on both Saturday and Sunday to close out the series.
Paul Hoilman
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The Bruins (17-17, 6-9 A-Sun) lead the all-time series with ETSU 17-6 after sweeping the Bucs in the last meeting back in 2009.
Belmont also comes into the series hot as the Bruins have won four of their last six including a 17-16 slugfest with Austin Peay in the mid-week. Dylan Craig leads the Bruins in average hitting .344 on the year, while Preseason All-Conference pick Nate Woods has five home runs and 29 RBI.
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The Cost of Google
For the record, I think life with Google surpasses life with no Google.
But when reading The Case for Books by Robert Darnton last week, I had this tangential thought:
Google is not free. We act as though it is, because it certainly seems free (and fast, and easy), but there is a price nonetheless.
First, when we search using Google, a commercial interest is deciding how information is shown to us. When it comes to finding simple, widely-known facts, such as the capital of the Ukraine for example, this effect is not noticeable. But what about when you want to know something more complicated, such as what happened during the bombing of Dresden in World War II? I know Google is good, but if you start with a lack of knowledge about German history and politics, and ask an American corporation (even one trying not to be evil) for the answer, I'm not sure clarity and truth will always result. I'm not picking on Germany, as the world is rife with examples (continuing the World War II theme, let's go with the bombing of Hiroshima), but inevitably Google's ranking is strongly related to majority opinion, and situations are often more complex than the crisp results page implies. Digressing slightly, I think this is where librarians and other information professionals are still relevant.
Second, I'm sure lots of people, like me, are logged into iGoogle all day, and so our web searches and online activities are neatly tied to our names and other Google services. This is a goldmine! Think of all the data that is precisely harvested with this set-up! In exchange for using Google's services, I blithely give all this information away. Typically I am concerned about protecting my privacy, yet this form of invasiveness hasn't bothered me -- for a really interesting article concerning some of how Google uses our data, as well as other articles about the data generated by networked computers, check out the Feb 27 issue of the Economist.
For a while, I have been wondering whether Google will ever get too big. I worry that what it started out as (web indexer, page ranker, data miner) is fast becoming confused with something else (Truth Teller, oracle, gatekeeper). Google's Director of Research recently explained in Nature what the company has in mind for 2020 -- here's the story filtered through Bill Garrity -- and I'm not sure whether to be soothed or perturbed. Even if we wanted to, I don't think there is a way to stop or slow much of this, but I hope the more we understand, the more we can choose to be willing participants (or not). I hope that is what Google ultimately wants, too.
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I've heard Siva Viadhyanathan speak a couple times--he's a fascinating speaker, and one of the points he likes to make is that we aren't Google's *customers* so much as their *products*--that is, Google's business is to get as much of our attention and information as they can so that they can more effectively sell ads. I'm planning to read his book when it comes out, and highly recommend hearing him speak if you can.ReplyDelete
Another thing that's, ah, interesting--Google appears to have access to information about accounts I have that are NOT Google accounts. The "social circle" search results were showing up for me for people I know on Facebook even though I am not connected with them on Google and Google doesn't (or shouldn't) have my Facebook information. But they have Doug's, and they route through his and show me those results. Which really changes how we need to think about privacy as a series of choices.
Correction, it's Vaidhyanathan, not Viadhyanathan.ReplyDelete
Thinking of myself as one of Google's products makes me want to mess with the data I generate. Maybe a new language will result. :-)ReplyDelete
This is so true! From the information I search, to the blogs I view, the ads I click on, and even the products I buy using my google log in, they have a record of everything. Can't help thinking of this as the set up to a fiction plot--if I introduced a character in the first act who started off saying "Don't be evil," you can guess who the villain of the piece would be!ReplyDelete
Touching on some similar themes is this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30&feature=player_embeddedReplyDelete
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En español | It's happened to practically everyone: A sudden, painful cramp in your leg or foot startles you awake in the middle of the night. Studies suggest that one-third to one-half of people over 60 get these involuntary muscle contractions on a regular basis, and their frequency may increase with age. Lasting anywhere from a few seconds to several excruciating minutes, cramps occur when irritated nerves send muscles a signal to repeatedly contract.
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Studies looking at whether stretching can prevent nighttime cramps yield mixed results. Still, some experts recommend loosening muscles that are prone to cramping by doing stretches before bed. "Stretching may help and it has minimal risk," says Eldadah.
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