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So much for "put your hands up" or "secure the perimeter." Fair enough? [h/t Danny]
Brazil Pizza Robbery "Shootout." Instant Justice?
Let's see…
Armed robbers threatening serious bodily harm or death – check
Pizza store full of potential hostages – check
Street with innocent citizens, also potential hostages – check
While pretty brutal, this appears to be justified.
Pretty much agree.
Agreed. Now publicize it everywhere so criminals will know what they will face for this kind of crap.
Exactly! Remind criminals that there are consequences worse than prison time.
Frasier goes down…Frasier goes down…Frasier goes down
Down goes Frazier
Close though.
And to answer the question, Yes, fair enough.
Justice served Hot N Fast.
Both them helmet heads got extra pizza sauce with their order.
Talk about speedy delivery…
Reloads in 10 seconds or next, or your next magazine is free!
I don't think their helmets helped too much.
I was expected the guy that walked in earlier to pop out from the back room.
Very nice.
I think the helmets contributed to their demise. I think I saw the cop car slide right past the glass doors while the bad guys were right there. The helmets restricted their view and they never saw it. If they did they didn't react to it.
"… I was expected the guy that walked in earlier to pop out from the back room. …"
That's exactly what I was waiting for too. Thought for sure that guy grabbing the money was going to have a big hole in his chest.
Surprise ending though.
Lol that looked like the laziest robbery attempt ever. No one seemed to really care they were getting robbed. Also, good shooting on the officers part.
It's Brazil. Probably not the first time this place has been robbed. But possibly the last, especially if they don't scrub too hard on the bloodstains on the floor.
And I might add, with grim satisfaction, that the chance of recidivism for these two dirtbags is 0%.
Man, we have some trigger happy cops in Brazil. First the bike-jacker got gunned down in short order, then the pizza barons.
Part of me says "Overkill," the other part says "Efficient."
You may call it trigger happy but I chose to call it you live by the sword you shall receive justice by the sword. Sorry no sympathy what so ever. Looks like the one in the white shirt will not be a burden on the taxpayers of Brazil
On the left frame of the video you can just see the second guys foot. He's down and not moving. I'm going to assume they're both room temperature.
Once they start shooting cops often continue shooting at perps that are completely down and not moving or anything. The perp in the yellow helmet took a shot in the back after he was down and not going anywhere or doing anything. I've seen another vid of a cop shooting a guy in the back after he was shot several times, was not moving and was lying on the ground on his stomach. Just sayin. Not defending the perps, but cops are too trigger happy.
Hopefully, if you're ever involved in a dgu you'll do it right and perfect. Me, I'm willing to cut the good guys slack when dealing with clearly ID'd bad guys.
Really and how many innocent people going into the future did these trigger happy cops save ?
Too bad for the guy in the yellow helmet. Can't say I'm exactly choked up with sympathy.over his taking a round in the back, if indeed he did. Kind of hard for me to tell.
Not every shoot is a good shoot. In this case the yellow helmet was trying to get up when he was shot for the last time. If both perps had hit the floor as soon as shooting started, perhaps the cop would have stopped shooting, perhaps not. The video shows the cop shooting until both threats were neutralized.
Officer couldn't have known he wasn't reaching for the other dudes gun…
I wouldn't have fired at that instant but would have circled to see his hands from his rear… That's armchair quarterbacking.
A person who makes a comment whining about "overkill" knows nothing about how to respond to an armed threat. You shoot until they are down and until they are no longer perceived to be a threat: whatever that takes. You shoot and then say, "Is he down? Are there any more?" Any doubt? Put a few more in him.
That's just reality.
The last shot right at 1:00 seems to cinch the deal.
ErrantVenture11, you're dead wrong if you think the "pizza barons" got shot. Watch the clip again. When the glass breaks, the folks who appear to be the pizza shop proprietors and/or sales staff immediately drop down behind the counter, and can be seen crawling away to safety to the right.
I was referring to the robbers…
I have to respectfully disagree–If someone is willing to threaten innocent life with violence, thereby taking away their life not to mention the terrible pain inflicted on surviving family members, I say you live by the sword (or gun) you die by the same…To me this is justice but YMMV.
Abso-damn-lutely justified.
It would have only been better if the citizens were the ones pulling the trigger.As Jeff Cooper observed, the proper response to criminal violence is immediate counter violence.
I was going to ask to confirm if it was police who shot. Apparently it was.
FYI, Google's translation:
"CCTV cameras show the action of two burglars in a pizzeria in the city of Botucatu, when caught by police. Read the full story in tomorrow's edition (18/10/2013) newspaper Diário da Serra."
Awesome JUSTICE!
I wonder how many shots the cops fired, and how that would compare to a similar situation if the NYPD or LAPD were involved.
Regardless of the number of round fired, they've already proven
themselves better marksmen. Not a single innocent bystander
was shot.
NYPD would have missed and hit half the people behind the counter.
10, yellow guy took 6, black hit 3 center mass. Range was 3 meters.
solves inefficient/corrupt criminal justice system, solves jail overcrowding…. double DING!
Awesome! Dying like the feral pigs they are.
Well that was about the shortest 'trial' for armed robbery I've seen in a bit. Very efficient. Brutal, but efficient.
an armed society is a polite society
Like most of you, I can't fault the cop for shooting. It was ugly, and I hope to never witness such a thing in person, but I can't fault them.
A tasty dish of justice, delivered fresh and hot. Yum.
as we say in Brazil: BELEZA!
Dam good shooting Tex…seems like Brazil is the new wild west..
looks good to me
the employees hardly showed any reaction to the robbers. I guess that could be because this is a common thing or maybe they hit a silent alarm. The Popo in Brazil can shoot straight at least. in Merica they would have had a hour long standoff ending with the entire store being peppered or two more residents of the penal system living on taxpayer money.
No, in Merica they'd have paraded 10 or so MRAP's down main street, shot every dog in sight, raided every house within a 5 mile radius of the crime scene, and then the grateful citizens would've thrown a parade for their conquerors as they drove away.
So much for negotiating and waiting for SWAT.
No trial and no incarceration costs.
There does appear to be property damage, the perps family should pay for that to make it right.
I have to wonder what firearm the police used. My guess is that they used a shotgun. That entire window shattered and I notices quite a large explosion of glass. Plus the fact that the criminals were down almost instantly. That seems like more than a handgun can dish out.
Oh I just noticed at the very end of the video a policeman steps in with a handgun drawn.
And, the criminals were not even visible in the store until about the 20 second point in the video … then the police were shooting the criminals within 40 seconds maximum. That is phenomenal response time. This had to have been by accident that the police just happened to be driving by and saw the robbery in progress through the window. Talk about an unlucky day for the robbers. Good riddance.
Booo fuking hoooo. Someone hand me a tissue.
No tissue. Napkin.
I love happy endings. Sniff.
Wow! Obviously, Brazil police do not give criminals a chance to surrender, and it seems like they do not have to worry about liability from wild shots. I am not saying I am against that, though, for I think two less criminals is a good thing. While serving as a Law Enforcement Specialist in the USAF in Germany, I witnessed a German police officer beat a guy senseless with a baton, and the guy was not resisting. During the Berlin air show, an Army MP had to tell a German police officer to stop and back away, for the Polzei officer was literally on top of this German beating him. German polzei at that time always carried their MP5s, which at the time, would have been unheard of in the US. I found out that it was normal for German police to use a level of force we considered excessive. It woke me up to the fact that police outside the US are a lot different. Except California, New York, and most large "blue" areas in the US, US police theoretically need to take the safety of the populace (and criminals) into consideration. If this shooting occurred here, a US court will ask why didn't the police wait until the criminals finished walking outside, and then try to order them to drop the gun before firing. Further, if a bullet deflected off of the glass and hit a bystander, the court again will ask the same question. A US court would probably award the bystanders a huge sum of money, and the course would likely consider a manslaughter charge for the police officer. I am not advocating for the modern style of US justice, though. It just shows a different type of criminal justice system.
Bob, that's the most intelligent thing I've read about this incident amongst all the testosterone filled comments. Thanks for offering some perspective.
No one want's to ever see anyone get killed,but these guys choose that possible outcome,when you gamble sometimes you lose.They decided their own fate.The officer was justified in that he didn't know if the threat was still capable and armed.Sad to watch but they knew the difference between right and wrong and they CHOSE to ignor it and paid with their lives.
I agree with you. They had it coming, but it's always sad to see a human being dying. They look like young guys. Justice? Yeah. Sad? That too.
Looked like three shots and then an officer with a handgun steps in, probably 9mm? Very impressive how fast those boys died, the blood pool and the other guy's limp foot in the corner were magnificent.
How many of you would be screaming police thugs if this happened in your neighborhood?
Not me.
I think most of the non-chain pizza places in my area have their own guns.
I'm not a soccer fan, but Damn that was good.
That made me smile so much my jaw hurts. Instant justice, that taste is so sweet.
Culinary tip: their pizza will kill you too.
I wonder if the Brazilian media showed 12 year old pictures of those older/teenager criminals?
Probably not, but only because the cop wasn't white. ….Oh wait, Zimmerman wasn't either.
I am starting to like Brazil more and more.
Re the helmets. I'm guessing mostly for masks and they were probably driving scooters or bikes as their getaway rides. Maybe they thought they were some kind of armor, but they'd be wrong if they thought helmets would work for bullets.
I took a couple old motorcycle helmets out to the woods one day for the fun of it. Bullets saw them like they see paper. Helmets are made for blunt trauma. Bullets are anything but that.
Sad. 🙁 They chose their fate, though, I guess. Still sad. Not a good way to go. At all.
The end of the clip has sound — more than one type of gun?
Looked like muzle flashes from more than one location to me.
Money in cash register, $80. Blown out store windows, cleanup and shutdown of business…. $8000
You left out cost of ammo, fuel for the police cars, police salaries, clean up and more important the money the Brazilian people saved by not having to incarcerate these two.
Dead perps: priceless.
Everyone in this video's OODA loop is broken.
Guys with guns? Meh.
Robbing us? Meh.
Exploding glass and gunfire? Stand still and do a little jig.
As Dominic Toretto says in "Furious 6:" "This is Brazil!"
Although I've learned this recently about Brazil: motorcycles are bad for your health.


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Performance analysis and working fluid selection for geothermal energy-powered organic Rankine-vapor compression air conditioning
- Xianbiao Bu1Email author,
- Lingbao Wang1 and
- Huashan Li1, 2
© Bu et al.; licensee Springer. 2013
- Received: 3 June 2013
- Accepted: 31 July 2013
- Published: 23 August 2013
To utilize geothermal energy from hot springs, an organic Rankine cycle/vapor compression cycle (ORC/VCC) system was employed for air conditioning and a thermodynamic model was developed.
Six working fluids, R123, R134a, R245fa, R600a, R600 and R290, were selected and compared in order to identify suitable working fluids which may yield high system efficiencies.
The calculated results show that because of high system pressure for R290 and R134a, R600a is the more suitable working fluid for ORC in terms of expander size parameter, system efficiency and system pressure. In addition, R600a is also the most appropriate working fluid for VCC in terms of pressure ratio and coefficient of performance. R600 and R600a are more suitable working fluids for ORC/VCC in terms of overall coefficient of performance, refrigerating capacity per unit mass flow rate and chilled water yield from per ton hot water.
In sum, R600a is the most suitable working fluid for ORC/VCC through comprehensive comparison of ORC efficiency, expander size parameter, pressure ratio, coefficient of performance, system pressure and chilled water yield from per ton hot water for six different working fluids. However, the flammability of R600a should attract enough attention.
- Working fluid selection
- Waste heat
- Air conditioning
- Hot spring
- Organic Rankine-vapor compression
- Expander
There are a lot of hot springs in the world, many of which exceed 70°C (Lund et al. 20052011), while the proper bath temperature at the hot spring hotel is generally in the range of 30°C to 50°C, which causes the heat energy to be rejected to the atmosphere if the water temperature of the hot spring is higher than the bath temperature, resulting in greater waste of energy and the existence of thermal pollution in the surrounding environment. At the same time, most of the hot spring hotels need air conditioning. So, making use of these waste heats from hot springs released to the environment for air conditioning is of great significance.
At present, some effort has been devoted to the utilization of the vast amount of waste energy for refrigeration or air conditioning. Heat-operated absorption/adsorption systems can utilize waste heat for refrigeration or air conditioning (Lu et al. 2013; Luo et al. 2012). Srikhirin et al. (2001) described a number of research options of absorption refrigeration technology and provided a comparison of the various types of absorption refrigeration systems. Meunier (1998) claimed that solid sorption is very effective for low-grade cooling, not only for air conditioning but also for deep freezing. Wang et al. (2013) studied an absorption air-conditioning system driven by a low-grade geothermal heat source. Kairouani and Nehdi (2006) developed a novel combined compression-absorption refrigeration system assisted by geothermal energy. Davis and Wu (1997) used a finite-time thermodynamic approach to analyze a geothermal-powered low-temperature Rankine cycle for air conditioning. Rosiek and Batlles (2012) described a shallow geothermal system that was designed as an alternative to the cooling tower in a solar-assisted air-conditioning system installed in southern Spain. Lubis et al. (2011) carried out a thermodynamic analysis of a hybrid geothermal heat pump system. Kececiler et al. (2000) designed an absorption refrigeration system with geothermal energy and experimentally analyzed its performance.
Adsorption air-conditioning systems have the advantages of simple control, low initial investment and circulating expenditure, and less noise; however, the coefficient of performance is generally low. Because of sustainable development requirements, efficient refrigerators driven by low-grade thermal energy from different sources have received much more attention in recent years. Currently, the use of thermal energy to operate an organic Rankine cycle-vapor compression cycle (ORC/VCC) for refrigeration has become the subject of renewed interest and has been reported by several investigators. The ORC/VCC system converts waste heat into a cooling effect, which is accomplished at the site of the installation by using the organic Rankine cycle to generate the shaft work required to drive a vapor compression cycle. Aphornratana and Sriveerakul (2010) theoretically analyzed a combined Rankine vapor-compression refrigeration cycle powered by low-grade thermal energy. Wang et al. (2011a, b) introduced a novel thermally activated cooling concept - a combined cycle that couples an ORC and a VCC - and developed a prototype with a nominal cooling capacity of 5 kW. Demierre et al. (2012) presented the development of an ORC-ORC prototype with HFC-134a as the working fluid and a heating power about 20 kW at the condenser. However, few people study the geothermal energy-powered ORC/VCC system for air conditioning, especially ORC/VCC system driven by waste heat from hot springs. In addition, the selection of working fluids has a great effect on the system efficiency and operation condition. Recently, many efforts have been made on the choice of working fluids and the performance analysis of the ORC (Invernizzi et al. 2007; Macchi and Perdichizzi 1981). Hung et al. (2010) investigated Rankine cycles using organic fluids as working fluids in converting low-grade energy and identified suitable working fluids which may yield high system efficiencies. Wang et al. (2012) presented a working fluid selection and parametric optimization using a multi-objective optimization model by simulated annealing algorithm. Guo et al. (2011) investigated the selection of working fluids for a novel low-temperature geothermal-powered ORC-based cogeneration system. Qiu (2012) compared eight mostly applied working fluids nowadays and gave preferable ranking by means of spinal point method. Wang et al. (2011c) analyzed the performance of different working fluids operating in specific regions using a thermodynamic model. Lakew and Bolland (2010) studied the performance of different working fluids to recover a low-temperature heat source. Stijepovic et al. (2012) explored the relationships between working fluid properties and ORC common economic and thermodynamic performance criteria from a theoretical and an analytical point of view.
In this paper, to utilize the vast amount of waste energy discharged from hot springs for air conditioning, the ORC/VCC system is employed and a thermodynamic model is developed. Six working fluids, including hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC; e.g. R123), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs; e.g. R134a and R245fa) and hydrocarbons (HCs; e.g. butane, isobutane and propane), are selected and evaluated to identify suitable working fluids which may yield high system efficiencies.
System design and working fluid selection
Properties of working fluids
Molecular mass
T crit
(100 years)
Thermodynamic models
- 1.
Friction and heat losses in the ORC/VCC are negligible.
- 2.
The power consumed by condensers for both ORC and VCC are negligible.
Results and discussions
Considering the temperature difference of hot water from hot springs at different places and the temperature variation of coolant in different seasons and places, the temperature of hot water at the generator inlet, Th, is in the range of 70°C to 95°C, and the condensation temperature is respectively equal to 35°C, 40°C and 45°C. For the sake of simplification, the mass flow rate of the working fluid for ORC is 1 kg/s. The evaporation temperature is 5°C and remains invariable, and the chilled water temperature at the evaporator inlet and outlet is, respectively, 14°C and 7°C. The isentropic efficiencies for the expander, compressor and working fluid pump are 0.85, 0.8 and 0.9, respectively.
Effect of working fluid types on ORC
The temperature of hot water from hot springs varies according to the season and weather, leading to the temperature variation of hot water at the generator inlet. As a result, the generation temperature Tboi varies with the variation of Th. Figure 2 exhibits ηp for different working fluids as a function of Th. It is obvious from Figure 2 that for all working fluids, ηp depends largely on Th and it increases with the increase of Th. R290 has the maximum ηp compared with the five other working fluids for all heat source temperatures, followed by R134a, and R123 has the minimum ηp. Except R134a, ηp for HCs is higher than those for R123 and R245fa. ηp is 6.75%, 6.57%, 5.92%, 5.75%, 5.62% and 5.53% for working fluids R290, R134a, R600a, R600, R245fa and R123, respectively, at Th = 85°C, signifying that ηp for R290 is 1.22 times higher than that for R123.
Figure 3 illustrates the variation of WRm with Th. WRm is defined as the ratio of Wnet to mp, reflecting the power capability of the working fluid per unit mass flow rate. Observing the profiles from Figure 3 for all working fluids, WRm increases with the increase of Th. This is due to the fact that the difference between h2 and h3s increases with increasing Th, while h1s and h4 remain unchanged when the condensation temperature is invariable, thus leading to the increase of WRm according to Equation 7. WRm for R290 and R600 are almost the same and they are the maximum among the six working fluids. WRm for HCs is higher than those for R123, R245fa and R134a as shown in Figure 3. WRm for R123 and R600 is, respectively, 9.83 and 21.58 kW s/kg at Th = 85°C, the former being about 2.2 times as high as the latter.
VFR as a function of Th is plotted and presented in Figure 4. VFR is defined as the specific volume variation across the expander in an isentropic process, which accounts for the effect of the compressibility through the expansion. As it is seen from Figure 4, with the increase of Th, VFR for all working fluids increases. R123 has the highest VFR, while R290 has the lowest VFR. Observing the profiles from Figures 2 and 4, a conclusion can easily be drawn that low VFR leads to high ηp. This conclusion is consistent with that obtained by Macchi and Perdichizzi (1981). According to Macchi and Perdichizzi (1981), lower values of VFR deliver higher turbine efficiency. Moreover, Invernizzi et al. (2007) stated that in order to achieve a turbine efficiency higher than 80%, the VFR should be lower than 50. In this study, VFR for all working fluids is less than 2.2; thus, expander efficiency higher than 80% can be achieved.
Figure 5 shows the expander size parameter SP plotted as a function of Th. The expander size parameter given by Equation 9 is an indicator of expander size, and it is proportional to the actual expander size (Lakew and Bolland 2010; Stijepovic et al. 2012). As shown in Figure 5, SP decreases with increasing Th for all working fluids, and this is attributed to the fact that higher Th leads to higher enthalpy drop between the expander inlet and outlet as well as higher ηp and thus less SP according to Equation 9. As it is seen from Figure 5, SP is lowest for R134a for all heat source temperatures compared with the five other working fluids and R290 is the second lowest. This is likely due to the fact that compared with the four other working fluids, R134a and R290 have higher pressure and thus higher density at the expander outlet, resulting in lower V3 and thus lower SP according to Equation 9.
Based on the above discussion, it is thus clear that in terms of ηp and SP, R290 and R134a are more suitable working fluids for ORC for recovering low-grade waste heat. However, the system pressures for working fluids R290 and R134a are also high, reaching 2,116 and 1,682 kPa, respectively, at Tboi = 60°C, resulting in high system investment. Except R290 and R134a, R600a is superior to R600, R123 and R245fa in terms of ηp and SP. Moreover, the system pressures for R600a is also not high, reaching 868.3 kPa at Tboi = 60°C. To sum up the above discussion, R600a is the most suitable among the six selected working fluids for ORC for recovering low-grade waste heat in the temperature range of 70°C to 95°C.
Effect of working fluid types on VCC
Performance of VCC with different T c
Fluid type
It is obvious from Table 2 that R123 has the maximum COPc while R290 has the minimum COPc. PR for R123 and R245fa are almost the same and they are greater than those for the four other working fluids. PR for R600a is the lowest among the six selected working fluids. It is well known that working fluids with high COPc and low PR are suitable refrigerants for VCC. To evaluate working fluid refrigeration performance and the relationships between COPc and PR, CRPR is hence defined as the ratio of COPc to PR, which is an indicator of working fluid refrigeration performance. Higher CRPR indicates better refrigeration performance for working fluids. R600a has the maximum CRPR compared with the five other working fluids, followed by R600, as shown in Table 2.
According to the comprehensive comparison of COPc, PR and CRPR for the six different working fluids, it is clear that R600a is the most suitable working fluid for VCC.
Effect of working fluid types on ORC/VCC
Figure 6 illustrates the variation of COPs as a function of Th. In Figure 6, with the increase of Th, COPs increases for all working fluids. COPs equals the product of ηp and COPc. ηp for R123 is the lowest among the six working fluids, as shown in Figure 2, and COPc is however highest for R123 among the six working fluids in Table 2; as a result, the product of ηp and COPc is highest. As evident in Figure 6, R123 has the highest COPs and R290 has the lowest COPs for all heat source temperatures. Except R290, the differences between COPs for the five other working fluids are very small. For example, COPs is 26.76%, 26.45%, 26.01%, 25.72% and 25.47% for working fluids R123, R134a, R600, R245fa and R600a, respectively, at Th = 80°C, and they respectively increase to 35.04%, 34.55%, 33.97%, 33.52% and 33.21% at Th = 95°C.
The effect of Th on CPRmA is shown in Figure 7. CPRmA is defined as the ratio of Qeva to (mp + mic), which reflects the refrigerating capacity of the working fluid per unit mass flow rate. As evident in Figure 7, CPRmA increases with Th for all working fluids. R600 and R600a have the highest and second highest CPRmA. CPRmA for HCs is higher than those for R123, R134a and R245fa. So, HCs of R290, R600 and R600a are more suitable working fluids for ORC/VCC compared with working fluids R123, R134a and R245fa.
N as a function of Th is plotted and presented in Figure 8. Figure 8 shows that N depends largely on Th and it increases with Th for all working fluids. R134a has the highest N and R290 has the lowest N for all heat source temperatures. Except R134a and R290, the differences between N for the four other working fluids are very small. For example, N is 755.41, 690.22, 684.76, 679.39, 673.73 and 517.1 kg/t for R134a, R600a, R600, R123, R245fa and R290, respectively, at Th = 80°C, and they respectively increase to 1,409.8, 1,630.4, 1,406.5, 1,453.4, 1,432.1 and 1,123.6 kg/t at Th = 95°C.
So, in terms of COPs and N, R600 and R600a are more suitable working fluids for ORC/VCC.
In addition, the condensation temperature has an important influence on N, as shown in Table 2. Taking R134a as an example, N at Tc = 35°C, 40°C and 45°C is, respectively, 1,475.9, 1,005.8 and 618.99 kg/t. N at Tc = 35°C is 1.47 times larger than that at Tc = 40°C and is 2.38 times larger than that at Tc = 45°C, indicating that there is a great difference of cooling capability for ORC/VCC air-conditioning system with different condensation temperatures. The condensation temperature depends on the ambient temperature, heat exchanger area of the condenser and cooling water flow rate, while the cooling water flow rate influences the heat exchanger area of the condenser and the selection of cooling water pump and thus the system investment and payback period. Thus, the system performance and payback period should be comprehensively considered so as to decide the optimal condensation temperature during practical design.
In sum, R600a is the most suitable working fluid for ORC/VCC through the comprehensive comparison of ηp, SP, COPc, PR, CRPR, COPs, CPRmA, N and system pressure for the six different working fluids; however, the flammability of R600a should attract enough attention.
To efficiently utilize waste heat from hot springs for air conditioning at the hot spring hotel, the organic Rankine-vapor compression cycle system was employed and a thermodynamic model was developed. Six working fluids, R123, R134a, R245fa, R600a, R600 and R290, were selected and compared to identify suitable working fluids which may yield high system efficiencies. The calculated results show that in terms of ηp and SP, R290 and R134a are more suitable working fluids for ORC for recovering low-grade waste heat in the temperature range of 70°C to 95°C. However, their system pressures are too high, resulting in high system investment. Except R290 and R134a, R600a is the more suitable working fluid for ORC in terms of ORC efficiency, expander size parameter and system pressure. R600a is the most appropriate working fluid for VCC in terms of PR, COPc and CRPR. In terms of COPs, CPRmA and N, HCs of R600 and R600a are more suitable working fluids for ORC/VCC compared with working fluids R290, R123, R134a and R245fa. In sum, R600a is the most suitable working fluid for ORC/VCC through the comprehensive comparison of ηp, SP, COPc, PR, CRPR, COPs, CPRmA, N and system pressure for the six different working fluids; however, the flammability of R600a should attract enough attention.
COPc coefficient of performance for VCC
COPs overall coefficient of performance for ORC/VCC
Cp specific heat of chilled water (kJ/(kg K))
CPRmA ratio of Qeva to overall mass flows of ORC/VCC
CRPR ratio of COPc to PR
h1 enthalpy at the working fluid pump outlet (kJ/kg)
h1s enthalpy at the working fluid pump outlet based on an isentropic process (kJ/kg)
h2 enthalpy at the expander inlet (kJ/kg)
h3s enthalpy at the expander outlet based on an isentropic process (kJ/kg)
h4 enthalpy at the working fluid pump inlet (kJ/kg)
h5 enthalpy at the evaporator inlet (kJ/kg)
h6 enthalpy at the evaporator outlet (kJ/kg)
h7s enthalpy at the compressor outlet based on an isentropic process (kJ/kg)
mh mass flow rate for hot water (kg/s)
mic mass flow rate of the working fluid for VCC (kg/s)
mN mass flow rate of chilled water (kg/s)
mp mass flow rate of the working fluid for ORC (kg/s)
N chilled water yield from per ton hot water (kg/t)
P6 pressure at the compressor inlet (kPa)
P7 pressure at the compressor outlet (kPa)
PR pressure ratio between the compressor inlet and outlet
Qboi generator heat input (kW)
Qeva evaporator power for the ice maker (kW)
SP expander size parameter (m)
Tboi generation temperature in the generator (°C)
Tc condensation temperature (°C)
Tcrit critical temperature (°C)
Th hot water temperature at the generator inlet (°C)
TN1 chilled water temperature at the evaporator inlet (°C)
TN2 chilled water temperature at the evaporator outlet (°C)
V2 volumetric flow at the expander inlet (m3/s)
V3 volumetric flow at the expander outlet (m3/s)
VFR volumetric flow ratio
Wcom compressor work input (kW)
Wexp expander work output (kW)
Wnet net work output for ORC (kW)
Wpump,w working fluid pump power consumption (kW)
WRm ratio of Wnet to mp (kW s/kg)
ηcom compressor isentropic efficiency
ηexp expander isentropic efficiency
ηp organic Rankine cycle efficiency
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (863) of China (no. 2012AA053003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51106161) and Guangdong Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Projects (2012B091100263).
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Buddhists at loggerheads
'It's too confusing for me,' I heard a student confessing outside Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
To the right was a group of Tibetan exiles with their brightly coloured flags, here to greet the Dalai Lama on the Oxford leg of his UK tour. In the middle, a smaller group of Chinese students with one large red Chinese flag and a poster showing a wedding against the backdrop of the Potala Place – presumably to suggest the 'happy union' of China with Tibet.
But to left, was a much larger group of maybe 500 people bearing two big banners which read: 'Dalai Lama: Stop Lying!' And for those of us who couldn't read, they chanted the same lines – like a stuck record, for four hours. 'But they aren't Chinese!?' said the confused student. 'They're not Tibetan!?
It was true: I looked but could not spot one Tibetan among them. Although many were garbed in the robes of Tibetan Buddhism, the assembled protesters were overwhelmingly white and British. 'Why are all these British people protesting against the Dalai Lama?' the student went on, in his determined fog of un-enlightenment. The simple answer is that they were from the Western Shugden Society which is accusing the Dalai Lama of violating the human rights of Buddhists by 'banning' a prayer to Dorje Shugden, a deity central to their practice.
To explain their case they called a press conference at Oxford's prestigious Randolph Hotel. Spokesperson Kelsang Pema (aka Helen Gradwell) claimed that in recent months hundreds of monks had been expelled from their monasteries and that devotees were being attacked and discriminated against in Tibetan communities in India. She claimed that more than a third of Tibetan exiles were adherents of the practice. Tibetan refugee Diki Dolma, who has connections with both Britain and India commented: 'That's nonsense! We know the Tibetan exile community and we know it's just not true. Very, very few follow this practice. I feel sorry for these protesters. I think they don't know much about Buddhism. They make out they are monks, but, look they don't even know how to wear their robes properly!'
The emergence of such an orchestrated protest at this time – and the personalized and vituperative nature of the attacks against the Dalai Lama – raises other questions. 'We are not connected with China,' insists Helen Gradwell. 'The Dalai Lama is mixing politics up with religion but we are not. We are not political. We have no position on Tibetan autonomy.' Asked whether it bothered her that protesting at this time might be playing into the hands of the Chinese authorities, she said that the fault lay with the Dalai Lama for banning the prayer.
To add to the confusion the Office of Tibet in London claims that the Dalai Lama has not banned the prayer. He is 'advising' against it – but saying that those who choose to ignore his advice this cannot expect to attend his teachings. He considers Dorje Shugden a 'fierce spirit' which can be used to curse others. Devotion to this spirit is seen as encouraging sectarianism, harming the prospects for Tibetan autonomy and, indeed, the Dalai Lama's own longevity.
In 1997 Indian police investigations linked the murder of three Tibetan monks, who had been outspoken in critics of Shugden practice, to members of the Dorje Shugden Society who escaped over the border to Tibet. The Chinese have been actively encouraging Tibetans to practise the Shugden school as a way of reducing the power of the Dalai Lama, said a spokesperson from the Free Tibet Campaign.
When monks in Tibet's Ganden monastery destroyed a statue to Dorje Shugden they were arrested by the Chinese authorities and ordered to pay for a replacement. The fact that the Dalai Lama is being accused of precisely the charges he levels against the Chinese authorities – abuse of human rights, lack of freedom of speech – has not gone unnoticed by his supporters.
'We assume that China is behind it but we don't have the evidence to prove it,' said one Tibetan exile, who did not want to be named. Towards the end of the demo in Oxford a man standing close to the Shugden contingent started up his own separate and not altogether intelligible chant. Nearby, I could hear a tall British monk saying into his mobile phone, 'It's alright now. The police are coming for him.' And sure enough the man was promptly bundled off by two officers.
'What about his freedom of speech?' I asked one of the Shugden stewards. 'He was just causing trouble,' came the reply. Er…
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[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.22.10 under Free Beer, News
Not the green stuff, but the bland beer variety.
Time to throw my opinion into the ring. I've read others already opine in this manner, but can't help but add a "+1″ to the sentiment.
It has always baffled me why anyone would buy Bud for a take-home beverage. For a lot less money, you can get Busch, which has always seemed an adequate approximation of Bud to me. I mean, it's not like we're doing tasting events with the stuff.
At a bar is one thing. Everything costs the same there. If you don't like actual beer, then you might as well grab a pint of Bud Light. But if you're dead set on drinking something best served cold as can be in the comfort of your own home, the only reason to pick Bud is image.
Now I am not immune to this. The can does look somehow incredibly cool, even to my modern styling preferences. And Bud Light does bring to mind the notion of refreshment. But once again, Busch and other discount products approximate the final result, and Bush is pretty cool itself. I mean, they used to have the Busch Series in NASCAR (second tier cars, now Nationwide).
Fortunately, these days, I can make just about any beer I like for less than Busch Light, so it has been some time since Busch graced my fridge.
Nonetheless, I'm thinking, wondering if I can get out to a participating on-premise operation to partake of my free sample of Bud. I mean, it's free. Why not? Maybe we can get a holiday "Plain Old Beer Day" to be celebrated September 29th every year, where they give away stuff that I wouldn't buy otherwise.
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 07.23.10 under Alcohol, News
So many people are hating on Brew Dog for their latest stunt. Packaging 55% ABV beer in dead rodents.
That's right, I called it a stunt, but I'm not about to lash out at them.
On the surface this latest move is wrong on several levels:
But you know what, I just can't get enough of the insanity that seems to drive their crazy ideas for huge beers. As if 110 proof isn't enough (that's stronger than almost all distilled spirits on the market) it's packaged in dead animals and costs a fortune and is impossibly rare. I love it!!!
I wonder if they have an equivalent to PETA* over there? And don't they have a TTB*?
At any rate, this sort of thing still hasn't gotten old to me. Even if most of the commentators out there are not happy about it. But in the end, for every person spilling their guts on the web about the move contributes a drop in the bucket of Brew Dog's marketing machine, which is the whole point.
* PETA=People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In other words a bunch of American hippies that refuse to eat animals.
* TTB=Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. I wonder how they decided on TTB. Why not ATTTB? Or even ATB? Anyway they're the folks that regulate labeling, taxes, permits, etc. in the US for beer.
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 02.17.10 under Alcohol, Fun, News
Once again Brew Dog has done it. They've gone and raised the ire of all wings of the beer and political communities. Not complacent to be second best, it's time to make the world's strongest beer… again!
First off, Sam Adams Utopias is the strongest beer, when it comes down to it. By American legal definition, a beer can not be fortified by any method, including "ice distillation". Sam Adams is cooked as normal wort and fermented as such by yeast all the way to its nearly unnatural 27% ABV. All others higher than that, to my knowledge, are done by ice distilling.
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How many brands? How few owners? Who knows? Who cares?
There has been a lot going around about how two "breweries" own over 200 beer brands, comprising a vast majority of the American beer market. As a result, there are a lot of "Bud sucks" kind of remarks out there, as well as abundant boycott sentiment against the big two, three, or four from the craft beer defenders of the world wide web.
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I have somehow been subscribed to the Rock Art Brewery email list. Probably from when I emailed to ask what their tour hours were for the time I was going to their town to visit my Great Grandmother In Law for the weekend. Turns out they didn't do Saturday tours and so basically the answer was "too bad." But I still like their beer. And it was a tremendous bargain at the gas station in Morrisville to pick up a few bombers of one of their IPAs.
Today Renee Nadeau told the group news that boils down to the following:
Hansen Beverage Owners of Monster Energy drinks have told us to "cease and desist" the use of our The Vermonster label.
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.24.09 under News
What else is there to talk about right now? It is GABF time! In Denver, hordes of beer enthusiasts are about to embark on a tasting session of biblical proportions. All I can say is that one day I may plan ahead enough to actually go there.
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.08.09 under Cottrell, IPA, News, Tasting
At long last, Charlie Buffum has come out with a companion beer for the great Cottrell Old Yankee Ale!
I thought the idea had been kicking around a while over there across town in Pawcatuck. And then the other day I happened past Chris Keppel (the sales guy) on the street in downtown Mystic. He was wearing a shirt with something about Mystic Drawbridge beer. I was curious, but he was with someone and I didn't bother him.
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 07.16.09 under Brewing, BYO, News
Anyone who finds their way to this blog must at least have a passing interest in making their own beer.
If you find yourself among the ones that dream of days spent over the brew kettle, then you might find a good resource available to you here. Look to the left, and you'll see a big red graphic for Brew Your Own magazine.
This is a great publication that I read faithfully, and it provides useful information to home brewers of all levels each time. Click on the link to the left to get a free trial issue, sign up for a year of additional issues, and help me out… all at the same time!
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 07.08.09 under IPA, News
Clipper City Brewing makes a lot of beers that really jump out at you at the beer store. Of particular note is the Heavy Seas line. These are a bunch of high gravity beers in extreme styles like Imperial Pilsner.
Although navigating the incredible art on the sixpack holder can occasionally present a challenge to finding out the nature of the beer represented to be within, I'm often quite happy with the selection I've made when I end up with some of this stuff in my cart. Read the rest of this entry…
[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 06.27.09 under News
Bison Brewing is an organic brewery out of Berkley CA.
In this modern world of extreme beer, the very definition of extreme tends to move around a bit. At first, it was generally meant as high alcohol or high IBU or both. Think "Triple IPA". It evolved to refer to style combinations. I'm thinking of "Black IPA" – the strange combo of stout and IPA, probably hyped up in the ABV and IBU depts.
It continues to evolve and mature, as any great beer could do. Today when we think about extreme beer, it could be extreme in a different direction. Like a 3% ABV IPA-ish beer, or culinary-inspired brews.
Bison has released a very intriguing summer seasonal brew. It's a Honey Basil Ale. My favorite part of the press release:
"Like my other specialty brews, this year's Honey Basil Ale uses specialty ingredients judiciously – we don't hit you over the head with the ingredients, but rather hint at it," says Brewmaster Daniel Del Grande. "All our beers focus on drinkability and balance, so after finishing the bottle I leave you wanting another! Some beers out there fatigue my palate; I like to enjoy a couple beers with food and friends."
Sounds nice. I, too, enjoy a couple of beers from time to time. If I can get my hands on this one, I'll have to let you all know how it fares against this enticing testimonial from the Brewmaster.


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Saturday, November 7, 2009
I Hate To Be That Person Who...
sits at the window seat on the train or the plane. Granted it's a great view to watch the world zipping by at the speed of sound, but it often comes with a tiny yet annoying price.
One such case is when that person has to use the restroom so badly he feels like he's about to explode. But interestingly, they're 'stuck' by the window. As Nana would tell us back in the day,"When you need to pee, do it quickly". She always warned about the danger of our bellies bursting or our bladders not working. I never knew what a bladder was at 3 years old but I surely didn't want mine to stop working. I think this person in the window seat probably had a similar relative because it always seems as though you have to go right then and there.
Even more, I'd hate to be that person who has to then wake up or bother the other two or three people sitting next to him. And on top of it, they have to get up when he has to go AND to get up once more when he returns. Crazy, right?
What's even worse? Well, I'd hate to be that person who's in the restroom on the airplane during bad turbulence and gets the blue gel thing on their clothes. That would be really disgusting. No, actually having to ask the two people next to you to get up again while they cringe in disgust as your blue-looking Smurf self has to pass near to them. But thinking of it, I would not even like to be the person that has to keep on getting up every time nature calls you on speed dial.
Yeah. I'd sure hate to be that person!
This has been a certified random thought process by the author, Dave "Loose Cannon" Wills. Feel free to post comments, opinions, similar stories, and/or suggestions below.
3 spoke already...add your 2¢:
- Meg said...
I also feel rude when I am sitting by the window and have to make other people get up when I need to use the washroom....buuut really, I don't feel rude enough to stop requesting the window seat. Because 1) when you sit by the window, you can sleep better, and 2) you get to look out the window without creepily looking over your neighbours shoulder!!
- November 10, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- KC Kelly said...
Pretty sure I'm ALWAYS that person...and when I'm not, I ALWAYS get the "breather"...you know that person, the one who falls asleep with his mouth open, or the person who just got done smoking/drinking and their breath REEKS...FML.
- November 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- michelle said...
hahaha i LOVE the window because i never have to pee on flights. i hate being the one who always has to get up. i warn everyone i fly with about the rules of sitting next to me :p
ps - love your blog :D
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Starting the blog: 'After Barbara Kruger' @ Meine Haus, Winter 2011
To start, this is my tribute to Barbara Kruger, the American collage artist famous for her layered photographs and the artist used also in the header of this blog.
This artist exposes theories about the sociocultural life in her country specifically, and analyzes the role of the media.
From Foucault, Kruger extracts that a person's identity is constructed by social forces, ie one individual social relation with respect to the other. Also, thanks to Barthes, she realized that the "power" is exercised through language.
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Horizon Vanilla Milk.
They carry it in the coolers at Starbucks and at Target. And probably many other establishments, but since I am addicted to both, that's where I buy it (and everything else).
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And sand, and fire, and plain old earth.
Coincident with completing the build of a years-deferred off-piste bike on Friday night, the urge to go deep struck. Jeny was out but Pete was game, so we hastily whipped together a plan then met in the desert loaded for brrrr.
Despite appearances, the desert is cold this time of year. Carrying enough layers and food for our hasty objective were legitimate concerns as we set out into a crisp morning.
Derelict shandy roads gave way to cottonwood lined washes, and though we climbed a fair bit the trend of the day was downhill.
We somehow missed a turn where there was no turn to be missed, then compensated by following a gully to a rock slab, and then dismounted to trundle ourselves down. Not quite to the river yet, but the water collected here told us it couldn't be far.
Blending wholly disparate genres -- rock and ice -- of our riding careers turned out to be less exciting than expected. Sure was pretty tho.
Eventually the wash opened onto a debris fan, across which ran a track that dead-ended at mining detritus above a translucent river. We thrashed through a bit of willow and tamarisk to find waters edge, then enjoyed late afternoon sun while transforming to aquatic mode.
Low angle sun was delicious for precisely one bend of the river, at which point the current oozed us into shade and it was hard to think about anything other than finding a spot to call home for the night.
One bend later that spot presented itself. I'm the guy that always wants to go one bend further, to cover miles now that won't then need to be covered in the morning. Pete's frozen hands insisted that this spot would do just fine.
We fed the fire with tamarisk as though the supply was limitless. Partly because the night was cold, and even once dinner was eaten and chores were done it was but 7PM -- way too early for sleep.
But also because it *is* limitless, as far as I'm concerned...
My self-employed status keeps me up late (by Pete's standards) most every night, while Pete's job as educator has him up obscenely early (by, um, any measure) most mornings. He was up, breakfasted, had taken pics and video, reviewed them, shot more, reviewed those, then had largely packed up while waiting for the sun to reappear. And for me to awaken.
It was the crashing together of plates of grease ice mere feet from my head that ultimately got me up.
I'd guesstimated that direct sun would find us by 8, and was surprised when I rolled out of bed that it still hadn't. I set about boiling water for breakfast and treating more for the day before I caught on that the sun wasn't going to touch this beach all day -- and maybe not for a few more months. That was interesting, but the news of the morning was that I'd somehow not rolled out of bed until 10AM.
Knowing that we'd just burned ~2 hours of precious daylight on a day where we had zero to spare, I apologized profusely to Pete while hurriedly heaving gear into a pile. He wandered up canyon to find some sun while I finished packing, then we shoved off into the slush.
I carried more insulation than Pete -- both the subcutaneous kind as well as the puffy sort -- and as such the temp seemed nice and I felt relaxed through most of the day. Pete spent the day chilled, with downright cold hands and feet, which manifested in him paddling faster, often to tag a tiny sunspot on the other side of the river before drifting back into shade, only to cut across the next bend in search of yet more warmth. As we paddled -- he with purpose and I with none -- we ogled heron and eagle, flicker and raven, all beneath a cerulean sky framed by sandstone walls. I detected not a breath of wind all day.
I know my Canadian and Alaskan friends will look at these pics and read the next sentence and roll their eyes -- and they have some right to. But the days are so short now that you can transit from mid-morning to late afternoon in the time it takes to round a bend of the river. Suddenly we were feeling the miles left to paddle, and ride, not to mention a healthy drive home still looming. We were moving as best we could, but the speed of the river is what it is -- we have no say in the matter.
The sun dipped below the rim minutes before our takeout appeared. Neither of us had been here before so the ideal spot was somewhat open to interpretation. We both know, now, that five minutes more on the river would have saved us ~45 minutes of dealing with mud, willows, crumbling banks, more willows, and cliffing ourselves out within sight of our trail. We know that now.
But in that moment getting out ASAP seemed the smart thing to do, and led to one of us (raises hand) falling knee deep into the river, almost losing a paddle in the ensuing flail, then both of us thrashing through over-the-head brush (Pete took a stick to the brain -- straight up his nose) before delicately passing bikes down the aforementioned cliff, only to then clamber through a ravine and finally onto the trail.
Whence finally we could pedal again we took stock of what remained: 20 miles -- all uphill and in the dark -- might have seemed uninviting to most at this juncture. My flash-frozen shoes made me grateful for it, and with Pete's company and what-me-worry attitude we unwound them without really noticing. I was off once or twice to walk warmth back into my feet, but those instances coincided with steep bits of road so I'm not sure any time was lost.
In the end we covered a seemingly inconsequential chunk of terrain in our brief time out. Yet most of it was new to us, and the things we saw, did, and learned there made it seem like more somehow.
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Today is our Montessori student-teacher Jaclyn's last day with us. We will miss her greatly, but we are sending her on her way having taught her all we can about Montessori materials and learning in a real Montessori environment. Above, Jaclyn is helping a student work with the Teen Boards. You can see that as the student slides each number into the relevant slot they have a visual representation of how the teen numbers are constructed: ten plus an additional amount of single-digit units (where before there were zero single-digit units).
When it comes to working with numbers and letters, having the fine motor control necessary to properly draw their shapes is very important. Activities such as painting help develop this control. Not only does the child need control to create the images they want, they also need it to select the different paint colours and to wash the brush off in between. Note the focus.
Speaking of painting and student-teachers. Above is a Casa East girl working on a job that our assistant Stef created as part of her Montessori training. Stef was tasked with creating an activity that encouraged children to work independently. The child here is following the visual instructions to recreate the actions with only the help of a fellow student and a guinea pig.
Our week was capped off with yet more students teaching, as the adolescents from Strata Montessori visited to continue teaching French to the Casa's. These days they are working on parts of the body.
Casa East also enjoyed the Earth Day songs performed for us by the Lower Elementary students this week, started planting our classroom garden with the Upper Elementary kids, and this afternoon we will be heading out on a neighbourhood hike and garbage clean-up.


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An Irvine, Ca. establishment is now recalling the female herbal supplement RegenArouse because it has been found to contain Tadalafil, making the product an unapproved new drug. Use of RegenArouse may pose a threat to consumers because it can interact with a variety of medications and has the potential to lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. Side effects of RegenArouse may include vision impairment, heart pains, and angina.
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Building Rapport
Posted by Ammar Mango on September 1, 2012
"I think he has a hidden agenda." says one, "I do not think so, but to me he is not trustworthy," says the other, "well, let us hear what he has to say, it will not hurt to listen, and then we can make up our mind on what to do…you do not seem OK with that."
"Well, I am, in a way, but I just never have a good feeling whenever I see this guy."
In the above conversation, minds have already been made, and chances of success for the person they are meeting are close to nil. I do not care how good a talker the person is or how good the deal he or she is bringing is. It is NOT a done deal. The reason is that the person has no rapport.
A boss from so long ago is the first person who introduced me to this word. He was always telling me that it is not enough to be good in your domain. You need to build rapport. Rapport is tricky to define, he used to tell me, and it is not enough to be honest to have rapport, even though honesty is an important ingredient to building it.
Rapport according to Merrian Webster website means "Relationship marked by harmony, conformity, affinity, or accord."
When you have rapport with another, they listen and consider what you have to say, without doubting your intent, ability, or the information you provide. They see you as a trustworthy, competent, and honest person, behind the business role you are carrying out. Building Rapport is key to succeed in business.
One of the most important objectives in long term business relationships is to build rapport. Building rapport to me means two things: First, building trust. Trust of the other party in your competence, trust in your integrity, and trust in your good intents. The second is showing that you care. Others must feel that you genuinely care about them personally. Not just as a role. But as a person behind the role. I know some will jump up and down at this notion of bringing personal relationships into business and the dangers of that. I do not care. This is the way to really do business is to "see" the people behind the business role.
There are so many techniques out there that can help one build rapport, and many of them are good. However, the one that stands out the most as the back bone of all other ingredients is honesty. If this is too basic for you and you are beyond this simple advice then good for you, but unfortunately many are not. Let us look at examples:
How many people do you know who you have caught in a "white" lie? White lie is a meaningless term that means a lie that is not too harmful and made to avoid embarrassment. However, white or any other color, a lie is a lie and if a liar is caught, it shakes their credibility. Without credibility there is no rapport. Many refuse to lie, even when they are obviously joking, and one has to respect that.
Let us take another example. How many people do you know who play with words, where they are not lying but they are playing with words so you misunderstand what they have to say? This also can shake rapport.
How about people who say half truths to win an argument? That cannot help rapport either. They will hide parts of the truth because if they do not it might hurt their argument. So, one day he will be saying Reem is a great team player, and then very next day he will say that she is a terrible employee. I bet Reem's performance did not change overnight. It is just that One can easily pick on one behavior and leave everything else when that behavior helps him or her prove a point. No one trusts people who play that game.
Finally, some will exaggerate the truth to get what they want. "Everybody agrees with me on this" when he only talked to one or two people about it. That cannot help build rapport.
The important point here is that building rapport takes time. Rarely can one build trust with another over few interactions. These things take time. So, even if one says the truth 99% of the time, that is not enought to build rapport. The 1% is all it takes to shake stakeholders' confidence. When it comes to honesty and integrity, there is not a replacement for 100% truthful.
I think it is time for a disclaimer. I am not saying that everyone must be perfect. We all make mistakes. But in reality, if the rapport is shaken even once, it is hard, if not impossible to get it back to where it was. People might still talk and smile but it does not mean they still trust, or that rapport is there.
Also, do not think that rapport requires that you know everything or have the answer all the time. Saying "I do not know" does not necessarily hurt rapport, but saying that you know when you do not certainly destroys it.


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Audi Urban Future Award 2012 - CRIT from Mumbai - the Indian team of architects defined an holistic notion of mobility that encompasses people, goods, energy and data and envisages the redesign of the limited space available within the city. CRIT seeks to approach city planning in a playful manner using self-developed ideas. For example, Mumbai's typical "Skywalks" should be revived, expanding the network of pedestrian overpasses and creating more room for business and green spaces.


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Our High School Staff Invites you to: Back to School Night!
August 16, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
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Who: All HS students and Families
You will get to meet your HS Principals, advisors, counselors, and teachers! We will start the night off together going over some of the important information for this upcoming school year. Then you will be able to meet some of our teaching staff and learn about our different departments. Come and get your questions answered before the first day of school!
**Everyone will start in the main room with our High School Principals. From there you will move from room to room online to meet more OHVA High School Staff! Click here if you need the links [PDF] to the other subject area classrooms.
Watch for the recording in your Class Connect Schedule if you are not able to attend live.
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Google has decided to do away with the infamous brainteasers with which they plagued interviewees. What changed their minds?
Until very recently, interviewees at Google were confronted with infamous, stumping questions such as, 'How many times a day does a clock's hands overlap?', 'Why are manhole covers round?', and 'You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?'
But no more. Google has decided that these brainteasers were not working as intended, and that they did not actually help to predict which interviewees would prove to be good employees once hired. "On the hiring side, we found that the brainteasers are a complete waste of time," Laszlo Bock, senior VP of people operations at Google bluntly put it to the New York Times.
"How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don't predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart," he elaborated.
According to Bock, Google will now rely on more ordinary means of assessing potential employees, such as standardized and structured behavioural interviews. Apparently, it will also give less weight to academic grades in the future.
Workplace blogger, Alison Green (aka Ask a Manager), would probably agree with Google's about-turn. In a post entitled, 'Why oddball interview questions don't work,' she pointed out the problems with this sort of quizzing.
Really good candidates will want to talk with hiring managers about their skills and experience, the role, and what they could bring to it. "Start asking goofy questions about what kind of tree they'd be, and plenty of great candidates will be annoyed and question why you're wasting their time – and plenty will decide they're not a good fit with a hiring manager who hires this way," she wrote.
Another issue with these questions, according to Green, is that good candidates want to spend the interview working out whether the role, and organization, is a good fit for them. Putting brainteasers to a candidate squanders time that could be better spent asking the questions that really matter for both parties.
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Rosalie Watson papers, 1918-1953
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Rosalie Watson papers, 1918-1953
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Collection number: MS 261
A small amount of material related to Watson's involvement in the Red Cross during World War I and World War II including correspondence, printed material, a photograph, and notes for public speaking engagements.
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|Maurice Cole was a well-known British pianist from the 1920s through to the 1950s. He recorded frequently for Broadcast records, and in the 1950s recorded Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier for Concert Hall records.
|Chopin – Ballade No.1
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Clairvaux's 4th Birthday
She was so excited for her birthday. So excited that it often makes me sad that I won't be able to meet their excitement. We try and they always seem grateful so I am not quite sure why I let it bother me.
We started off with our traditional breakfast out. She chose "O McDonald's", but deliberated between Chipotle, Red Robin, and Village Inn. I have supported McDonald's these past few months every morning with my order of one sausage biscuit with egg, one hashbrown, and a small mango pineapple smoothie. Every morning. It is the only meal I can keep down so I am glad they are open every morning. She watches me eat it every morning so she ordered exactly what I usually get.
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Goodness I find your posts so touching. Thank you for the perspective you provide.ReplyDelete
What is it about fast food that is acceptable to eat during pregnancy when all other foods including plain water make you barf? With my first I couldn't keep anything but fast food down for months!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2014 at 1:24 AM
Happy B-day!!! Buon compleanno alla dolce Clairvaux!! ChiaraReplyDelete
If I could I would make a living out of photographing children when people sing Happy Birthday to them! It is one of my favorite things to witness! So adorable! Happy Birthday to Clairvaux! You always find a way to make their day special! I love the breakfast idea!ReplyDelete
God Bless You Little One on your birthday!ReplyDelete
What a precious birthday! McDonald's... serving nauseous pregnant women everywhere! They're my pregnancy go-to also!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2014 at 1:47 PM
Happy Birthday, Clairvaux!! This is such a sweet post. Thank you for sharing your life with us!! -LilyReplyDeleteReplies
- MargoBJuly 24, 2014 at 5:58 AM
I agree -- Wow! The love you shower on your children, including the way you talk about them on this 'blog, is so beautiful. The 'blog's title, "My Child, I Love You" is poetic, but also *very* descriptive of its content. Thank you for letting us see some of your family's life and hear your thoughts. The pictures are fun, and the chance to witness/encounter examples of love are heartening/encouraging.Delete
I was wondering how the morning sickness was going, and praying you didn't feel too bad. I really struggled this time around, and,I too love those McDonald's smoothies:) I love the sweet age of 4. Happy birthday to your fierce one:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2014 at 8:32 AM
I appreciate that you are unapologetic about things like McDonald's breakfast. ;) When my daughters were young and I was driving one to preschool, I stopped every.single.day on the way to preschool for a Diet Coke. I was pregnant (I know, I know, and Diet Coke) and had gestational diabetes, so the "fizz" of a Diet Coke felt like total heaven since I could have almost no sugars or carbs. Here and again, the girls would have McDs for lunch, also...but mostly it was just me and that Diet Coke! Well, my 4-y-o must have mentioned the McDs stop, because the teacher asked her, quite pointedly, "Honey, do you eat at McDonald's *every day?*" I could just sense the judgment in that question...and apparently my daughter did, too, because she mentioned it. I felt so ashamed, even though my daughters are generally nutritiously fed, and also healthy and fit. It was so impactful that I almost never go to McDonald's because of the lingering shame of feeling like a "bad mom." Isn't that silly? My goodness, the power of a word, yes?ReplyDelete
what a wonderful Clairvaux's birthday, happy againReplyDelete
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Saudi Gazette
THERE are different seasons in different months, but in the Kingdom it is usually warm because of the desert. But you all must have noticed that nowadays, you are not much exhausted when you come back from school.
You are not sweating like before, and feel like sleeping early in the night and even wake up fresh in the morning. The winds have changed with all the rain and storm in the past week, and it is getting slightly cold in many cities and towns of the kingdom.
We can say that season have changed as summer ends and winter is coming. Do you know how and why the seasons change?
There are four seasons on this planet, spring, summer, autumn and winter.
In spring flowers blossom, and plants grow, while in summer you have summer vacations because of intense heat. In the autumn, leaves change color and fall off the trees. Winter is cold, completely opposite of summer. Snowfalls in many places as well.
Seasons keep changing. The reason why it is summer sometimes and other times its winter is because the earth spins around the sun in a slightly tilted axis. The tilt has two major effects: the angle of the sun to Earth and length of the days.
For almost half year, Earth is tilted such that the North Pole is more pointed towards the sun, and the days on northern side are longer and hotter. As the Earth keeps spinning throughout the year, its tilt changes and South Pole points at the sun.
During summer, the sunlight hits directly on Earth and heats it up, whereas during winter the sun shines on the Earth at an angle and less heat is spread over a much larger area.
While it is raining and the temperature falls. You know now why winter is here, but you must also know that it is the season for cold and flu. You can find below some tips to minimize your risk of catching cold.
1. Dress Warm — You may not be in a habit of wearing jackets or jumpers, but when the season is changing you must take precautions and dress accordingly.
2. Wash your hands — It is important in every season and every day of the year. Germs can be transferred by a physical contact, a hug or a handshake. You must properly wash them.
3. Drink plenty of water — You might not feel thirsty in winters as you did in summers, but doctors say that you must drink 8 glasses of water a day to stay healthy. Make sure the drinks you take are at moderate temperature. Cold drinks can cause sore throat.
4. Sleep soundly — Nights are short in winter, but you must take care of your sleep. Finish up all your chores and homework on time and go to bed to sleep at least 8-9 hours, enough to wake up fresh in the morning.
5. Eat Healthy — Eating vegetables and other home cooked food will help you keep warm. Don't skip your meal whether breakfast or dinner.


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Lewis Withrow Wood 1939 - 2011 Bonner Springs
Private memorial services for Lewis Withrow Wood, 71, Bonner Springs, are scheduled.
Mr. Wood died Saturday, April 2, 2011.
He was born May 10, 1939, in Panama City, Panama, the son of Joseph Withrow and Lillie Barbara Wood.
Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Christine (Tweddle) Wood; two daughters, Katherine (David) Raclin and Elizabeth (Jason) Richmond; a son, Joseph (Courtney) Wood; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to St. Martin In-the-Fields Episcopal Church, sent in care of Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, 214 Oak St., Bonner Springs, KS 66012.
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JAMIE DONALDSON bounced back from a second-round 73 with a four-under par 68 in the third round of the Omega Desert Classic in Dubai yesterday.
After being blown off course in windy conditions the previous day, Pontypridd-born Donaldson picked up four birdies in a flawless front nine, but was unable to keep up the momentum.
However, the Welshman found himself 13 shots behind leader Stephen Gallacher who, two days after matching his best-ever European Tour round, amazingly went one better.
Holing a 40-yard bunker shot for eagle at the last gave the 38-year-old a magical 62 and he goes into the final round of the Omega Desert Classic three strokes ahead of South African Richard Sterne.
Gallacher, nephew of former Ryder Cup captain Bernard, has won only once in more than 400 Tour events and that was nine years ago on home soil at St Andrews.
But he was joint runner-up with Lee Westwood in this event last February and might never have a better chance to lift another trophy.
Dane Thorbjorn Olesen is three shots back in third and then comes a further two-shot gap to England's Tommy Fleetwood, Indian Jeev Milkha Singh and Chile's Felipe Aguilar.
Gallacher's round contained two eagles and the first of those at the long 13th was nearly an albatross. After a massive drive, he needed just an eight-iron and it hit the flag before stopping less than four feet away.
He had already notched six birdies and the spectacular finish was the icing on the cake.
He is now poised for a victory that would lift him from 111th on the world rankings into the top 60 for the first time.
That would virtually secure him a debut in the Accenture Match Play in Arizona later this month, while a climb into the top 50 by the end of next month would mean a trip to Augusta for the US Masters.
Gallacher has now had four eagles and 17 birdies during a week that has also included four bogeys, one of which involved a climb up a ladder by another caddie to identify his ball stuck in a palm tree.
On 21 under par, he said of the closing bunker shot: "The moment I hit it, it was either stiff or in. I'm excited and looking forward to tomorrow. I'm pretty familiar with his course – I come out here on holiday with the family.
"I struggled last week (in Qatar) and my driver cracked, but with the new one, I'm hitting more fairways and I've putted really good."
Sterne, who opened the event with a 62 and led by one after each of the first two rounds, might have expected a 66 to keep him out in front.
But he contented himself with coming back from a first hole bogey with seven birdies, six of them in the last 12 holes.
Olesen, joint runner-up in Abu Dhabi two weeks ago, shot 67, while Fleetwood's two closing birdies for a 69 eased the pain of a damaging double bogey on the sixth, where he was plugged in a bunker and three-putted.
Westwood, three times' a runner-up in the tournament, improved from 26th to ninth with a 66, but it still meant he went from six behind to nine adrift.
Sergio Garcia, troubled by a sore shoulder all week, managed only a 71 and dropped from eight to joint 19th, while former Ryder Cup team-mate Paul Casey fared even worse. A 73 sees him now down in 38th spot.
Gallacher's compatriot Chris Doak had 11 birdies and no bogeys in the first 42 holes, but found the water at the short seventh, took five and finished the day in a tie for 10th.