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Making a 20-Year-Old House Work
Moving into an older home is often accompanied by unhappy surprises affecting energy use and comfort. The solution requires dealing creatively with a number of details.
Almost five years ago,my wife,Wyncia, and I decided to move from Syracuse,New York, to Boulder, Colorado. Wyncia spent a December week with a very patient real estate agent searching for a home. She looked at dozens, e-mailing back pictures and descriptions to me each evening.We finally decided on the first one she saw: a 20-year-old, 2,060 ft2 passive-solar dwelling that rests on the side of a mountain at 7,800 feet above sea level. It came with an active solar water heater, plenty of space for the dog to run around, an attached 610 ft2 garage, and a beautiful view of the valley below.
"It's the only house I saw that felt comfortable on windy days,"Wyncia reported,"and the garage is big enough for a shop." This good news was accompanied by some bad. Electric-resistance radiant heaters heated the house; a local thermostat controlled each one. Boulder is in coal country and electricity is comparatively cheap (7.5 ¢/kWh), but I've always regarded heating with electricity as inelegant. Better to use it for running power tools, lights, and stereo systems. I had my friend Rob deKieffer, a Boulder native and longtime energy buff, inspect the home and tell me how it worked. He found a frozen pipe, a window that didn't crank, and several outlets whose voltage dropped by a bit over 5% when exposed to a 15-amp load, but he pronounced the place in good shape. So we signed papers the day before the owner received an offer of $10,000 more than we paid. It was good timing—and a good omen.
The home's first owner,who was also the designer, did a whole lot that was almost right—but not quite. For instance, it's fairly obvious that he had a hard time clearly defining the home's envelope. The walls are 2 x 4 on 16-inch centers with fiberglass insulation and 1 inch of high-R sheathing. The vaulted ceilings and the attic ceiling are insulated with 10-inch fiberglass batts. So is the attic floor.And there's a hinged door made of plywood with a fiberglass batt stapled to it on the floor of the attic that swings up for the winter to block the attic vent.
There's an 8-ft-deep solar space that is a slab-on-grade with dark tile on top—a great idea for our climate, but this one definitely needed tweaking.All of the house, save for this solar space, is built over a pair of 4-ft-high crawlspaces covered with 6-mil poly.There's a two-speed, whole-house fan with 30-inch-diameter blades mounted in the floor of the attic.
Here are a handful of things I've done to make the house work a lot better.
Making It Tighter
The initial blower door test showed 2,250 CFM at 50 Pa. Not too bad, but I wanted it tighter. The principal leaks were at the edges of the wood covering the sloped ceiling in the main room and solar space, at the attic fan opening, at the attic hatch, in a funky air-moving system in the solar space that didn't work, and around the back door in the downstairs bath. A few tubes of clear caulk took care of the ceiling spaces. The attic fan problem was more interesting. The fan uses a set of thin aluminum louvers to close the opening when the fan is off, but it leaked like a sieve, particularly during windy conditions. So I built an insulating shutter consisting of a wood frame enclosing 2 inches of Styrofoam blue board, and used a piano hinge to attach it to the wall of the laundry room next to the opening. It's behind the laundry room door and out of the way during the summer, but in winter it hinges up and attaches with a wing nut that tightens up the silvered packing material I stapled to the surface of the shutter. I also put in a new attic hatch that fits snugly in the opening and rests on fat foam weatherstripping that has a sticky back, but is also stapled in place. (Belt and suspenders is best with these products, whose stickiness diminishes with time in dry climates like Boulder's.) I also put 2 inches of rigid insulation on the attic hatch.
The back entrance had a poorly fitted interior door that suffered from both conductive and convective heat losses. I replaced it with an insulated door that had a broken window in it; I got it for 15 bucks at the local recycle yard. I took out the old window and replaced it with a double-hung, insulated vinyl window with a screen that began life as a salesman's demo unit. It was a bit short for the opening, so I filled in the opening with rigid insulation and covered it with some decorative tiles from Mexico, held in place with recycled redwood. I also pulled the siding off above the door and replaced rodent homes and bees' nests with urethane foam. So now we have an air sealed downstairs bathroom with daylighting, ventilation, and a functional door for a total cost of $50 plus a weekend of labor.
Solar Space
The solar space runs for 26 ft along the back of the house and is 8 feet wide on the first floor with a sloping roof that meets the main house at the top of the second floor. The roof provides a 1 1/2- foot overhang over the 100 ft2 of southfacing clear insulated glass on the first floor. The glass section consists of six fixed panels measuring 13.2 ft2 each and six 3.5 ft2 windows that swing out immediately below the fixed panels. The wood has held up well and the windows are tight and well sealed.
That's the good news. The bad news is that the original owner took it upon himself to install a funky fan-and-duct system.The system pulled air from halfway up the solar space, transported it via two 30-ft-long ducts to the crawlspace under the north side of the house, and dumped it there! No opening to the living space, no nothing. So I took out the fan, sealed and insulated an opening to an outside louver used to add fresh air, and sealed the entrances to the ducts. This left a substantially simplified passivesolar space that communicated to the rest of the house via two openings on the first floor: a sliding glass door from the dining room and a crank-out casement window above the kitchen sink. These provided about 18 ft2 of opening to the solar space, but since the top of the space was sealed, and warm air rises, air movement to the rest of the house was modest.
The retrofit I undertook was designed not only to solve the solar thermal distribution problem, but also to provide some daylighting and an inside clothes-drying line. The second-floor bathroom was adjacent to the inside wall of the solar space, so I opened the wall above the tub and installed a piece of sliding Plexiglas. This provided light from the solar space and a 2 ft2 opening when desired. I also opened the wall between the master bedroom and the solar space on the second floor, installed a door with glass panels, and put in an 8 ft x 8 ft platform. Thus, between the openings in the bathroom and the bedroom, there's about 20 ft2 through which air from below can thermosiphon from openings of about the same size on the first floor. I also put in a pair of clotheslines on pulleys at the top of the solar space that are accessible from the new platform outside the master bedroom. This is handy, because the laundry is on the second floor. Finally, I also installed an operable skylight in the ceiling immediately above the platform. This allows for viewing the moon from the comfort of our bed, provides a bit more passive solar, and can supply additional ventilation when needed.
Boulder is blessed with about 300 days of sunshine a year, a resource most welcome to those of us accustomed to enduring cloudy winters in upstate New York. On winter evenings,we close off the solar space until the next morning, opening it up at the top and bottom as soon as the temperature of the solar space exceeds that of the rest of the house. Most days, this is around 9 a.m., although after particularly cold nights it's closer to 10 a.m. On clear winter days, the space routinely stays warmer than the rest of the house, getting to the high 80s even with the two interior doors and windows open. More important, it thoroughly heats the rest of the house. The laundry at the top of the solar space is dried by the movement of warm air, which in turn is humidified by the wet clothes. This is quite welcome in Boulder's dry climate, but may be less so in climates with lots of precipitation.
Supplemental heat for the whole house is supplied by an airtight Jotul wood stove. We haven't turned on an electric-resistance heater for three years. Instead,we burn oak purchased from a neighbor down the hill at the rate of half a pickup truckload per year—about $40 worth. We cool with the whole-house fan on low speed and control the fan with a wind-up timer so that it turns itself off in the middle of the night.
Total space conditioning and hot water cost for the year amounts to around $50.Water heating is completely active solar;we've never had to use the backup electric heater. The solar water heater uses a 1/25 hp pump motor that I estimate runs about 1,200 hours per year, consuming 36 kWh and costing $2.70. The fan motor consumes 200 watts on low power, and we run it for at most 500 hours per year. Over the year that fan consumes 100 kWh, costing $7.50.
Reviving the Garage
House space—not to say indoor air quality—is way too precious to waste in accommodating rolling stock, so we park cars outside where they belong. Two summers ago,we converted the garage on the north side of the house into a 250 ft2 pottery studio and a 360 ft2 shop. The first step was to cover the existing cement floor with 2-inch-thick tongue-and-groove Styrofoam blue board covered with 1/2 inch of oriented strand board (OSB), also with tongue and groove. We used low-VOC building cement between the floor and the blue board, and between the blue board and the OSB, and then stapled the OSB to the insulation.This floor system works well and is easy on the feet.
We then took down the 16-ft-long overhead door and recouped it for shelves and siding. The door opening was replaced with a wall (2 x 6 on 24- inch centers) and an insulated door I trash-picked and rebuilt. (Boulder is a nice place for such things.) We put in a pair of small, fixed insulating skylights; two recycled 7 1/2 ft2 insulating windows on the
north wall; and a 2.6 ft2 window on the west. (It's the only west-facing fenestration in the house, which, along with the overhang over the south-facing windows, mostly explains why the summer cooling load is so modest.) We then covered the walls and ceiling with 8-mil reinforced poly and blew in cellulose to high density—11 inches in the ceiling and 6 inches in the walls. I also insulated the interior wall between the pottery studio and the shop with fiberglass batts, because I wanted the flexibility of heating one space without having to heat the other. The inside walls and ceiling are finished with OSB in the shop and 1/2-inch gyp in the studio, and walls and ceilings are all painted with semigloss white enamel. This hue, in combination with skylights and strategically placed 4- ft T-8 fluorescent fixtures with electronic ballasts, yields good lighting that keeps even old guys like me from cutting off fingers in saws.
These spaces are not heated in the winter unless I plan to work there for extended periods. However, they can be heated quickly because they are very tight and well insulated, and because— since the concrete slab is isolated from the space—they have quite low mass. Accordingly,we can open the interior doors to the inside of the house, switch on 1 kW of radiant heating, and make the shop/pottery spaces quite comfortable within an hour; it might take two hours on the coldest day of the winter.
Radon Remediation
The home had been retrofitted with a subslab depressurization system, but it only sucked from one of the crawlspaces. So I installed another 4- inch PVC pipe in the other crawlspace and hooked the two together. This solved the radon-in-the-air problem, but I suspected radon in the water, so I taped an activated carbon sensor to the bottom of the lid of the water closet of the downstairs toilet. My teenage daughter was with us then, so the toilet got flushed pretty often. Sure enough, the test came back indicating 10 picocuries per liter (pCi/l), so we had radon in the water. Accordingly, I did a more serious test with a local lab and became convinced that we should put in a treatment system. Wyncia and I did the plumbing and used the old fan-and-duct cabinetry in the solar space to house some fancy water treatment hardware installed by a professional. It seems to work and the water tastes good!
Finishing Touches
The solar water heater has been on the house for 20 years and works quite well. The only change I've made is to lower the two thermostats on the backup heater to 110ºF; as far as I can tell, they've never switched on the electric elements. We also installed low-flow showerheads, an aerator at the kitchen sink, and a more efficient well pump.
The refrigerator that came with the house used 1,400 kWh per year, so we replaced it with a 21 ft3 unit that uses 525 kWh per year. (Both figures are from long-term measurements.) We also bought a chest-style freezer to accommodate vegetables from a local communitysupported agriculture organic farm. The freezer lives next to a wall of the shop and uses 220 kWh per year.
Instead of using the giant electric oven in the electric stove,we bought a combination microwave/convective broiler that serves us quite well, save for Thanksgiving Day. We also got some pots and pans whose bottoms are very flat, so the heat transfer between the glass stove top and the pots and pans is as high as is practical. This ensures good conductive— instead of just radiative and convective—heat transfer. We installed more than 20 CFLs and put dimmers on the few incandescents we still have. The house was full of light cans, most of which were black on the inside. Since that seemed needlessly inefficient to me in terms of both heat and light,we took the cans apart, sprayed the insides with semigloss white enamel, and then reinstalled them.
What's Left?
Plenty is left, of course. My next major project is to design some insulating shutters for the outside of the main windows in the solar space. At present, the solar space loses 76 Btu per hour/°F, 65% of which (50 Btu per hour/°F) is lost through the windows alone. Covering the window wall with exterior insulating shutters at night will lower losses through the window system to 7 Btu per hour/°F, bringing overall losses from the solar space to 33 Btu per hour/°F. Instead of closing off the space and allowing it to cool overnight,we could easily use the wood stove to make up for this loss, which would amount to only 1,650 Btu per hour on a night whose average temperature is 20ºF. Not closing off the space would enable it to start contributing to heating the house within an hour of sunrise. I'm also interested in automating the opening and closing of the shutters with a simple system that senses both insolation and temperatures to optimize energy performance.
The other project on the boards is to use solar energy to heat the hot tub. Although it's well insulated with urethane and has a thick insulating cover, I'm ashamed to admit that the hot tub is the greatest remaining source of sin—at least in regard to energy use! I would like to install a first-surface mirror—one with no glass layer covering the reflective surface—on half of the insulating cover. (A German company manufactures a polished aluminum product that can take the hit of the weather and nonetheless reflect over 95% of the light that impinges on it.) I plan to install a pair of worm drives (with a single small dc gear motor) to raise the mirror to a vertical position on the north side of the tub when solar conditions are right. A clear plastic cover will remain on the top of the tub to eliminate evaporative cooling and retard convective losses. Sensors will be used to optimize reflective shutter opening to save as much back-up electricity as possible, while closing the lid when the tub temperature gets too high or a high wind comes up.
When I have the electricity use sufficiently low, I'll give some thought to getting off the grid by using PV. Meanwhile, efficiency improvements are almost certainly more cost effective.
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Surviving Life screening/Brian Henson presentation
Hello everyone,
We are pleased to inform you of two events this week at Museum of the Moving Image relating to animation and puppetry. On Thursday, December 1, the Museum will present the New York premiere of legendary Czech animator Jan Svankmajer's new film Surviving Life and a reception to celebrate the exhibition Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer. The exhibition features 50 collages created by Svankmajer and his crew and used in the production of the film.
The following Sunday, December 4, the Museum will present "The Evolution of Puppetry," a special presentation by Brian Henson, son of Jim Henson and chairman of The Jim Henson Company. This will be a personal overview of the groundbreaking technical achievements in animatronics and digital puppetry that continue to be a part of the Company's legacy. One part of the talk will address the use of live puppetry in animated works, illustrated with a clip from Sid the Science Kid. We hope you can share the event details below with your colleagues.
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Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer, Exhibition of 50 Collages by the Czech Animator and Short Films on View at Moving Image
November 17-February 26, 2012
Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street), Astoria, NY
Reception and New York premiere screening of new film Surviving Life on December 1. Reception at 6:00 p.m., screening at 7:00 p.m
The legendary surrealist Czech animator Jan Svankmajer's new feature Surviving Life uses a combination of photographic collages and live-action photography to explore the increasingly intertwined dream and real lives of a Prague clerk. Fifty of the collages created for and used in the production of the film are now on view at Museum of the Moving Image in the Amphitheater Gallery through February 26, 2012. On Thursday, December 1, 2011, the Museum will present the New York Premiere of Surviving Life and a reception to celebrate the exhibition.
The exhibition Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer is presented in collaboration with the Czech Center New York and Athanor (http://www.athanor.cz/). Reception sponsored by Staropramen Beer.
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer also includes continuous screenings of two short films by Svankmajer—Game with Stones (1965, 8 mins.) and Dimensions of Dialogue (1982, 10 mins)—in the Video Screening Amphitheater and a clip from Surviving Life: Film about the Film (2010, 10 mins. Dir. Juraj Galvanek), a behind-the-scenes documentary showing the painstaking process of producing Surviving Life.
"Jan Svankmajer is one of the most inventive and singular animators in contemporary cinema, with a darkly comic and distinctly surreal vision," said Chief Curator David Schwartz. "The exhibition makes a wonderful counterpoint and companion to Jim Henson's Fantastic World."
In Surviving Life (2010), a middle-aged office worker Eugene (Vaclav Helsus) finds a way to enter his dreams at will, to explore his childhood and see what really happened to his parents. As he explains to his psychoanalyst, in his dreams, he has fallen in love with a young woman named Eugenia (Klara Issova). Back in real life, his wife is forced to chase him into his dreams for a fateful confrontation. Svankmajer's boundless imagination and signature blend of absurdity and darkness come through in this, his first film in five years.
Surviving Life will screen in the Museum's Main Theater on Thursday, December 1, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 public / $10 Museum members / Free for Silver Screen members and above. Tickets may be purchased online at http://movingimage.us or by phone at 718 777 6800.
The animated films of Jan Svankmajer (b. 1934) are dreamlike in tone but rooted in the physical world. His films incorporate photographs of household objects—including trash, food, furniture, live and stuffed animals, clock, and feature puppets as characters—placing, in Svankmajer's words, and "imaginary world into reality."
The collages on view in the exhibition were used to create frames of Surviving Life. Svankmajer's crew took tens of thousands of still images of the actors in the film, each photographed separately in different sessions. The photographs were then cut out and added to collages consisting of scenery, props and photographs of other actors. For each actor, hundreds of photographs were taken of mouth movements, which then could be combined in different forms to make sentences. This innovative technique creates an aura of unreality that is fitting for a film about a middle-aged man who leads a double life—one real, the other in his dreams.
Jim Henson's Fantastic World, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition currently on view in the Museum's changing exhibitions gallery through January 16, 2012, explores the creative process of the internationally known filmmaker, puppeteer, and television pioneer. The exhibition features over 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, props, photos, and 15 iconic puppets, as well as video material—all of which illustrate Henson's boundless creativity and innumerable accomplishments.
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The Evolution of Puppetry: A Presentation by Brian Henson. Sunday, December 4, 7:00 p.m.
Brian Henson, son of Jim Henson, Chairman of The Jim Henson Company, and award-winning director, producer, and puppeteer, will give an inside view of the history, and future, of the unique Henson technique and style of puppetry that revolutionized the art form for television and film. He will show samples of the company's work throughout the years, incuding behind-the-scenes clips from Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal and recent work on the TV series Farscape and Sid the Science Kid. Henson will then give a live demonstration of puppetry for the screen; a special opportunity to see one of the masters of the form at work. This will be followed by a Q&A session, with audience questions.
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It was a standoff on either side of Silver Hill Road outside Suitland High School on Tuesday.
On one side stood about 10 protesters from the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church holding signs using derogatory terms about homosexuals and "Divorce + Remarriage = Adultery."
On the other side were pastors and leaders from churches throughout Prince George's County greeting students as they were released from school around 3 p.m.
Westboro Baptist, known for protests against homosexuality, came to Suitland High School on Tuesday afternoon after protesting outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday began weighing Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative passed in 2008 banning same-sex marriage.
According to Westboro Baptist Church's online "picketing schedule," they picketed at the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Suitland High School.
"Suitland is a representation for every high school in the country. This is a training ground for rebellion against God," said Westboro member Shirley Phelps-Roper, 55. "The teachers and administrators are teaching the children that it is OK to be gay, and that it's OK to change sex partners more often that you change socks."
Bobby Manning, pastor at the First Baptist Church of District Heights, organized a group of roughly 20 leaders from county churches and said they wanted to have a presence at Suitland while the Westboro group was picketing.
"Don't worry about what's across the street. Have a blessed day, Suitland students," he said as students got out of school and began walking home.
Manning said the county church leaders' presence was not a "counter protest" and their focus was on supporting the students, not exchanging words with the Westboro protesters on the opposite side of the road.
"All we want to do is communicate to the students that we love them," Manning said.
Suitland High School lost two students to gun violence this school year.
Charles Walker Jr., 15, of Hillcrest Heights was gunned down Feb. 18 while walking home with a pair of newly purchased shoes. Aaron Burrell Kidd, an 18-year-old Suitland High freshman, was fatally shot Feb. 19 in Forestville.
During the protest Tuesday, county police officers were present on both sides of the street to ensure safety. Originally, a counter protest was scheduled by the Prince George's County Young Democrats but it was called off at the request of Suitland Principal Nathan Newman, according to PGCYD president Larry Stafford Jr.
"We didn't want to bring attention to Suitland, which has already been through too much," said Maj. George Nadar, the police District 3 commander.
Newman was outside along with other administrators and staff directing students to buses and their homes after they were released from school.
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In the hills outside French Lick, a ramshackle-looking workshop holds a stunning array of handmade jewelry that shines with sterling silver and polished stones.
We'll be honest. When we followed our GPS southeast of French Lick Resort out to Hinshaw Rock n Gems and pulled up the gravel driveway, our hearts sank a little. Owners Merrill and Janis Hinshaw live in a tidy house in the country, but the shop on the property where they sell Merrill's lapdiary work (that's the fancy name for polishing stones for jewelry) looks pretty humble. Cars park kind of willy-nilly near a wood pile and several sheds; the shop itself is a half-moon kind of structure with a stone and vinyl facade. But once you step inside, you understand how this kind couple has been able to carve a living out of selling jewelry for more than 50 years. The earrings, bracelets and pendants are nothing short of spectacular. We couldn't resist curlicue sterling silver earrings and actually bought two pairs for $69 each (no two pieces are alike) and a bracelet for $15.95. We stopped short of splurging on a $325 pink-stone pendant flanked with similar silver curlicues that was about the size of half of your palm, but took a picture of it for a "maybe, someday" purchase. For a great souvenir of French Lick, women who love unique jewelry can't do better than this. The shop is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.


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Photos by Libby L. Keeling A black swallowtail caterpillar prepares for "the running" Aug. 2 at Day's Garden Center. It is one of four of the original eight caterpillars moved to a huge, 2-year-old parsley plant at the nursery so it would have more room to roam.
Seconds after emerging from its chrysalis Aug. 16, a black swallowtail butterfly climbs the stick where it molted into its pupal form. It lingered there for about an hour, while its wings readied for flight.
The first eight caterpillars rest after feasting on parsley on Aug. 1. At this point, their wrangler determined they needed more space and took four to complete their metamorphases at Day's Garden Center.
Three newly emerged black swallowtail butterflies allow their wings to dry as blood flow strengthens them Aug. 25. The butterfly, considered common in Kentucky, drinks the nectar of a variety of flowers and is attracted by large splashes of color.
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A black swallowtail caterpillar displays a blank countenance July 30 after molting. The loss of a face with each molting led the larvae's caretaker to realize they have only rudimentary vision. Six simple eyes on either side of their heads, allowing them to see changes in light, are visible before a new "fake" face gradually appears.


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Juan Diego Fl¾rez was born in 1973 and studied music both in his native Lima and at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. In 1996 he made his official stage debut in Matilde di Shabran at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where his expressive voice and astonishing agility made him an overnight sensation and led to his debut at La Scala the same year, aged only 23. Since then, he has appeared regularly at all the major international opera houses under the worldÆs leading conductors.
As todayÆs bel canto tenor of choice, Fl¾rez has won particular acclaim in the leading tenor roles of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, as well as in operas by Verdi (Rigoletto and Falstaff), Puccini (Gianni Schicchi),Gluck (Armide), Mozart (Mitridate)and Nino Rota (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze). In 2007 he broke a 75-year tradition at La Scala by singing an encore in DonizettiÆs Fille du regiment, the aria ōAh! mes amisö with nine high Cs, and he created a similar sensation in New York when he repeated the same feat at the Metropolitan in 2008. He is also active as a recitalist and concert artist in works including RossiniÆs Stabat Mater.
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Daryl Hall's award-winning web-to-cable series Live from Daryl's House celebrated it's 60th episode with special guest Joe Walsh. The legendary Eagles guitarist appearance on the latest episode featured hits from his own catalog like "Rocky Mountain Way," "Life's Been Good" and a number from his recent release, Analog Man, called "Wrecking Ball," plus Hall solo numbers "Someone Like You" and "Wrong Side of History."
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NEW FOR 2021! THE CHEVY HOVER-ETTE! A futurology staple since George Jetson commuted to work in one, the flying car is finally in the showroom. Sticker price: $1 million ( including your parachute). For terrestrial transport, the nation's highways are increasingly dominated by electric vehicles. And we don't really "drive" them, since collision-avoidance systems are standard equipment.
Transit proponents yearn for big changes in how Americans get around, from a national high-speed rail network to urban people-movers that use small electric "podcars." But chances are that 2020, for better or worse, will still be all about cars. "We're a highly individualized country," says Tom Frey of the DaVinci Institute, a think tank in Louisville, Colorado. "We're too spread out to emphasize mass transit." Look for semi- or fully autonomous vehicles with cameras, radar, and computers that can take the wheel. Much of the technology already exists — see the adaptive cruise control and parking-assist features in high-end autos today — and General Motors aims to have a self-driving car on the road by 2018. Frey predicts that such vehicles could be available on demand, like cabs without cabbies: "You'll get in a car, punch into a computer where you want to go, and sit back while the car drives you there."
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The Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside, presents the UCR Chamber Music Ensembles in concert on May 15, Saturday, at 8:00 pm in the ARTS Building Performance Lab, ARTS 166. Featured works include the Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor and the Shostakovich Piano Trio in E minor performed by faculty members violinist Frances Moore, cellist Manon Robertshaw and pianist Kimberly Amin. The program also includes Three Shanties by Malcolm Arnold performed by the UCR Wind quintet. The UCR Chamber Music Ensembles are directed by Frances Moore.
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California State University, San Bernardino and the College of Business and Public Administration presented Noel L. Massie, UPS VP the Arrowhead Distinguished Executive Officer award on Friday. If front of Family, Friends, Executives and Community Leaders, Mr. Massie was awarded these awards for all his great work over the past 5 years in as the Vice President of UPS developing relationships in the Inland Empire. Massie has been with UPS since 1977 and has served on many boards and most recently, awarded the Black Voice Foundation a grant for The Opportunity of a Lifetime program to develop students.
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Officials cut the cake at the 100th anniversary celebration of Community Hospital of San Bernardino on Saturday, May 8. Anyone who was born at the hospital was invited to the festivities, as well as the community at large. Attendees included Community Hospital of San Bernardino officials, Kimiko Ford, Vice President, Mission and Support Services, Diane E. Nitta, Administrator; John Nolan, Chairman, Board of Directors, and 62nd District Assemblymember Wilmer Amina Carter (D-Rialto), Dennis Baxter, master of ceremonies, former San Bernardino City Councilman and radio broadcaster, Rev. Bronica Martindale (born at CHSB), Councilman Rikke Van Johnson, Dr. George Smalls (OB/GYN who delivered many babies at CHSB) and San Bernardino NAACP President and Black Voice News Co-Publisher, Cheryl Brown (who delivered at CHSB).
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The draft version of the state's six-year transportation plan includes $6 million for preliminary engineering work on a replacement for the Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, a high-ranking transportation official wrote to Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton two weeks ago.
In a June 27 letter to Middleton, Maryland Transportation Authority Acting Executive Secretary Bruce Gartner wrote that the draft Consolidated Transportation Plan includes $6 million for preliminary engineering, boring and geotechnical work, as well as ordnance detection and pile testing near the replacement's approved location, to the immediate north of the current span.
Though $6 million pales in comparison to the project's total estimated price tag of $850 million, Middleton said the engineering work will be vital in helping determine the replacement's ultimate cost.
Alternative pile driving methods also will be tested in coordination with the National Marine Fishery Service to help protect the shortnose and Atlantic sturgeons, both threatened species found in the Potomac River, according to the letter.
Each year, the MDTA drafts a CTP and presents it to the counties and Baltimore in the fall before delivering a final version to the Maryland General Assembly in January.
"The Nice Bridge replacement project continues to be a priority for the MDTA. We will continue to look for ways to move this project forward," Gartner wrote. "The work we have funded in the draft CTP will provide us with valuable information to assist with moving the project forward."
The letter came after Middleton wrote Gartner and then-MDTA Acting Chairman Darrell Mobley on June 5 urging continued project development following the completion of a six-year planning study last fall, which included federal environmental approvals.
Middleton was pleased to receive Gartner's letter after being told last October by MDTA's Director of Capital Planning Dennis N. Simpson that the Nice Bridge replacement was the authority's "No. 1 priority" beyond the Intercounty Connector, which links Gaithersburg and Laurel, and express toll lanes along Interstate 95 in northeast Baltimore.
"This $6 million holds true to the commitment they made and is a very important next step," Middleton said.
Charles County Commissioner Ken Robinson (D) said he was told in January at the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland's annual meeting in Annapolis to expect good news in the near future regarding the Nice Bridge.
"Needless to say, I'm very happy to hear this," Robinson said upon learning of Nice Bridge engineering funding.
Taken in conjunction with Gov. Martin O'Malley's (D) announcement Monday of nearly $650 million in transportation projects for Prince George's County, which included $5 million for study of transit options linking Waldorf and the Branch Avenue Metro station in Marlow Heights, Robinson said that the CTP demonstrates "a real commitment."
"This is not just petty cash that's being thrown at these two projects," he added. "This is an indication from Annapolis, and specifically Gov. O'Malley, that he takes Charles County very seriously and our transportation needs very seriously."
While the transit study will be funded by the gas tax increase that went into effect July 1, the pre-engineering work on the bridge will not — all MDTA projects are paid for with toll revenue.
Middleton also said that the Federal Highway Administration has approved the location of the replacement four-lane span — adjacent to and north of the current span so as to not interfere with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, which sits just south of the bridge in Virginia.


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Planet of the Apes pics.
I watched all the Planet Of The Apes films a couple weeks ago and got inspired.
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Some more. What can I say? I love the Planet of the Apes movies.
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Great Art! I love it. That movie had a huge affect on me as a child. Still to this day when I catch it from time to time it moves me.
There's a great video from the musician M.I.A. called Born Free that reminds me of the Planet of the Apes.
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Knife sharpening question
I have 3 original Sabatier knives (filleting, chef's, cleaver) 2 American Knives (chefs, Santuko), 1 German, utility knife, and 1 Japanese paring knife.
The German knife and one of the Sabatier's have heels. I have been using a Chef's Choice electric sharpener for a number of years. It's been great except for the knives with heels. The last 1/2 inch or so does not go through. After a while they have lost their balance because this part of the knife is wider then the rest. It's millimeters, but it makes a very big difference.
So this has brought me to the realization that it is time to learn how to sharpen my knives with a stone. I am looking for a whetstone that is easy to use and not too expensive. Any help would be great. Thanks!
re: GH1618
< Perhaps you could have a professional knife sharpener grind a bit off the heels so they would work with your sharpener.>
Good idea, but I think more than a bit of the bolster has to be taken off for a Chef's Choice sharpener.
See how deep the knife is in the Chef's Choice:
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I see, but wouldn't it be sufficient just to reduce the blade at the back. It wouldn't go through, but at least you wouldn't have the extra blade depth intervering.
re: GH1618
Just doing the blade, will eventually create a gap where the heel section of blade can't contact the board. The bottom of the bolster needs to be level or above the edge.
re: JavaBean
I think that is what GH meant. Just reduce the bolster area. Move it up
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Opps, sorry GH.
Yikes, that's two brainfarts in a row...must be going senile:(
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<but at least you wouldn't have the extra blade depth intervering.>
I agree. That may be jefpen2's problem. I am not entirely sure.
<The German knife and one of the Sabatier's have heels>
I would be very surprised that your American knives (Chef's and Santoku) have no heels. Do you mean bolster?
Knife heel is this:
< I have been using a Chef's Choice electric sharpener for a number of years. It's been great except for the knives with heels.>
It sounds like you mean bolster.
<So this has brought me to the realization that it is time to learn how to sharpen my knives with a stone.>
Knives with a full bolster is also challenging on a whetstone, but a least it is possible. You will need to remove a little bit of the bolster to make sure the knife edge can fully contact the cutting board. If you don't, then bolster will be lower than the rest of the knife, and you will have a gap.
< I am looking for a whetstone that is easy to use and not too expensive.>
With your knives, you can pretty much use anything. Arkansas stones should work, so will an inexpensive Japanese waterstone.
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this is what I'm refering to. Mine looks like this. I think it would have to be ground down to be even with the blade? Can I do this with a stone?
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Yes, you can use stones to grind down the bolster, but it takes a while to do the thick ones on a German knife. A bench grinder or metal file is more effective.
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Hi, jefpen2:
You're going to need to regrind/have reground that heel reinforcement. It's not that big a deal, except--as you've noticed--the reinforcement gets in the way of putting it through/across a "slot" sharpener.
It's just a progression from chef to slicer to petty to parer, if you think about it...
If you want to get a jump on the future, have a bladesmith cut a "choil" up into the reinforcement that will give you enough clearance to run through your sharpener. (These reinforcements are largely unnecessary unless you are disjointing large animals).
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Yes, there are a few ways to do it with a stone. You can grind the bolster from the two sides, which is what you have suggested. You can grind the bolster from the bottom. Regardless, it is probably easier to send it someone to do it for you -- if you want to continue to use your Chef's Choice sharpener.
If you don't care to use your Chef's Choice sharpener, then I would just move the slightly bolster up from the heel, so it no longer interference your hand sharpening.
I too have used a CC sharpener, perhaps too aggressively on some good German knives all with substantial bolsters. The result which did shorten the effective blade length and balance by taking away the blade profile for the last 1" closest to the bolster. Best decision I made was to locate a professional knife sharpener who was able to bring down the bolster so the effective length and shape of the blades were restored. I think I paid about $5.00 per bolster repair since I had several knives to fix. I also sprung for sharpening service on those knives and they came back like new and sharper than ever. Point being over zealous mechanical sharpeners have consequences but there are cost effective ways back to good knife profiles
Note how the bolster of the Sabatier is angled and the Germans are nearly level withe the edge.
If I have to drastically reduce a bolster I emulate the Sabatier which F Dick uses a similar angled reduction.
Rock the Sab back on the edge of the board and see where it sits flat on the bolster grind. Then take that to your abrasive and reduce away. Get the bolster even and then thin the sides.
Afterwards sharpen the edge.
I always buzz the bolsters down a bit when sharpening a German knife. If metal comes off the edge an equal amount needs to come of the bolster to keep it on the board.
I have seen 1/2 the blade not make board contact with a neglected bolster from pull through sharpeners.
Gottta get medieval on them sculpting the metal with a super coarse abrasive sometimes to get them down then polish them up.
Any professional sharpener worth their salt knows how to do this. Just ask about a "bolster reduction". If they appear confused find someone else.
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<I always buzz the bolsters down a bit when sharpening a German knife.>
That is nice of you.
re: jefpen2
You could watch the Richard Blaine videos on knife sharpening which are online. I'm not an expert, though, so I'd like to know what the knife afficianados here think of these.
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I think the Richard Blaine videos are a good start. They will certainly get you to the point that you can get a knife sharper than you've ever thought possible.
As far as choosing stones, there are three basic types - Oil stones, which are very inexpensive and have fallen out of favor recently. You can get a complete set for $60 or so. These folks have treated me well - http://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/Oil...
Water Stones are what are popular now - I honestly skipped right over these because they have one big issue, IMO, which is that they are very soft and must be kept flat with a lapping stone which adds work and cost.
I jumped right from oil stones to diamond plates which are expensive, but will last virtually forever and need no flattening (in fact they are used to flatten water stones). Much more expensive though at $140 for a kit - http://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/DMT...
I added a ceramic finishing hone, and my knives can now easily shave newspaper. Well worth the effort.
Don't be intimidated. If you can follow a recipe, you can learn to sharpen a knife!
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<I jumped right from oil stones to diamond plates which are expensive, but will last virtually forever>
They actually don't last that long. My DMT diamond stone used for sharpening last shorter than my waterstones. On top of that diamond stones have issues of producing very refine edge.
Need no flatterening is true.
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Well, you are the first person I have heard say that among many many reports that I've read. I have little doubt that they will last most of my life keeping a half-dozen kitchen knives sharp. The very rough cutting sensation that the plates give when new goes away quite quickly, but that doesn't impede their sharpening ability - it's just part of the break in period. Light pressure is a key part of keeping them in good shape.
I agree you need something finer for finishing.
re: zhenya00
I am sure you have read that many people said that they reserve their diamond stones for nothing but for lapping. Why would one need to preserve a diamond stone for lapping. What is behind that statement is that diamond stones can wear away pretty fast.
I am also sure that you have heard of the famous atoma diamond which has the advantage of replacement diamond pads. The reason why replacement pads are needed is, in fact, the stones wear out.
As for diamond stones wear, it has been discussed here by other posters as well. The break-in period is a nice way to say that a diamond stone gradually loses its cutting power. Its cutting performance changes over time, not just the so call "break in" period. It cuts less and less until it is completely gone. The cutting performance is not consistent throughout its lifetime.
Waterstones are designed to wear fast. Because a waterstone sheds its surface fast, it also means that it re-surfaces its cutting surface, thus maintaining a consistent cutting performance from the first day you buy it to the day it dies.
Here is a photo of one of my DMT stones. In the corners, the diamond particles are completely gone. The surface is very smooth like a polished stainless steel -- which is exactly what it is.
I know a lot of people claim that a diamond stone last a long time because diamond particles are hard and wear slow, but there is a disconnection. While it is true that diamonds are hard and that diamond layer wears slow, it is also true that the diamond layer is very thin. A diamond stone has probably micometers thick of diamond. A waterstone has centimeters thick of abrasive. We are talking about difference of several orders of magnitude in term of materials.
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<So what are my choices if I want to learn how to sharpen with a stone?>
Are you asking options for learning knife sharpening or options for stones. As for stones, I have made a couple of suggestions (see above). As for learning, there are many knife sharpening videos. Mark Richmond has a series knife sharpening video:
Thomas Stuckey also has a nice series of knife sharpening for beginners. In fact, his videos are only the only few good ones on expertvillage (for people who understand the jokes on expertvillage. Heh heh heh:


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