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Chemistry 204
Section 205
General Chemistry II
Spring 2007
3 Credit Hours
Dr. Gary D. Anderson
Department of Chemistry
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755
Office: 498 Science
Phone/Voice Mail: 304-696-6594
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web Page http://www.science.marshall.edu/anderson
Prerequisites: Chemistry 203. It doesn't matter whether you took the prerequisite in the regular classroom or by the internet as long as you have completed the course with a passing grade. I would recommend that you not take 204 unless you made at least a C in 203.
Note for students with visual impairments: This course contains a substantial number of graphics files that cannot be adequately described as text equivalents. If you contact the instructor arrangements can be made to provide the source files for the graphics and/or Braille embossed high resolution graphics.
Since this syllabus is rather long, I have included some hyperlinks to help you find specific information.
Required Materials
Computer and Software Requirements
Contacting the Instructor
Course Objectives
How This Course Is Organized
List of Topics to Be Covered
Time Requirement
Target Dates and Deadlines
Grading Policies
Instructor Biographical Information
Required Materials:
Frederick A. Bettelheim, William H. Brown, and Jerry March, Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry, 7th Edition, Thomson Brooks-Cole, 2004 ISBN: 0-534-40176-7
This book can be ordered online from the Marshall University Bookstore or they will take phone orders at 304-696-2461. Cost of the text is approximately $125 (new). Used texts are approximately $95. This is the same book we used for CHM 203 so you don't need to buy it if you still have your book from the previous course.
Unlike the first course, this course has a very nonmathematical approach so you will not need a calculator (except for one problem in one topic)
Molecular Models: If you have a hard time visualizing some of the three-dimensional aspects you may want to purchase an inexpensive set of molecular models but I would recommend that you not pay more than about $15. And, I would suggest that you wait until you find that you really need them before buying them.
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Computer and Software Requirements:
- You will need ready access to the internet. Home access is highly recommmended. Your computer should meet the minimum requirements listed at http://www.marshall.edu/muonline/hardwaresoftwarecheck.asp. Broadband access such as DSL or cable modem is desirable but modem dialup access at 56K will work. There are very few files that will take more than a minute to download even at 56K.
- You will need a web browser. Internet Explorer 6.0 is the browser of choice but IE 5.0 or IE 5.5(sp2) will work also. I have also tested much of the course with the Safari browser for Macintosh OS/X. All portions of the course that I have tested work with Safari 2.0. Mozilla and Firefox browsers will work for most parts of the course but there are some topics that use the jmol Java applet and that will not work with either Mozilla or Firefox
- You will also need the Sun Virtual Java Machine and you can download that from http://www.marshall.edu/muonline/downloadcenter.asp
- Be sure to run the browser tuneup to make sure that you have all the correct browser settings. Note well that it is very important to have the correct cache settings for your browser. If the cache is not set properly you may have problems accessing portions of the course.
- You may need to have Microsoft Media Player installed for one or two topics to be able to see some short movies but you will be able to understand those topics without the movies.
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Whenever you need help with the course or just want to ask a question about anything, you should feel free to contact me.
Contacting the Instructor:
I am sometimes out of town for a long weekend from time to time but will normally have access to e-mail. If I am going to be out of town and out of e-mail contact for more than a couple of days at a time I will warn you ahead of time.
The preferred method is by e-mail because I tend to check my e-mail at least twice a day (even on weekends) and I tend to reply to e-mail as I receive it. You may use the e-mail that is internal to the course by clicking on the MAIL icon on the main page or at the top of the content pages. If you select compose, then browse, the instructor will listed as Anderson, Gary and will normally be on the first page of the list.
Alternately, you may send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or to firstname.lastname@example.com by any of the standard internet mail protocols. I will normally respond by whichever method you used to send your message. If you do not receive a response to an e-mail message within 48 hours you should assume that either your original message or my reply has gone astray in the e-mail system and you should resend the message.
Please note that while we tend to think of e-mail as being a nearly instantaneous means of communication there are times that there are significant delays in e-mail transmissions. Under certain circumstances it has been known to take as much as 48 hours for an e-mail message to get between a Marshall University account and an account at a local internet service provider. I once received an e-mail message from a student 33 days after it was sent. If either server is especially busy or if the network is particularly busy you will see these delays. So, be sure to plan ahead and send e-mail messages as early as possible to avoid problems from unpredicted delays. The private mail function of WebCT is probably the best choice because it does not rely on the message getting from one computer to another.
You may call me at my office number (304-696-6594) but the probability is that you will get the voice mail system. If you leave a message I will normally only make one attempt to return that call if I have not responded within one or two weekdays you may want to call again or send an e-mail message in addition.
If you are in Huntington and want to stop by my office, feel free to do so. I will post my office hours on my web page (http://www.science.marshall.edu/anderson/) and will try to put a notice on the course bulletin board if I am going to have to change them. To be safe, it would be a good idea to contact me by e-mail ahead of time to set an appointment.
I will establish an e-mail list that will be used to make general announcements. Your Marshall University e-mail account will automatically be placed on this list. If you wish to have an alternate e-mail address added to this list you should send me an e-mail message requesting this. If this address changes it is your responsibility to make sure to send me an e-mail message asking me to change the address in the mailing list. General announcements are also posted on the course bulletin board.
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This course is an introductory course in chemistry and is aimed specifically at the needs of those in the health related professions. At the end of this course, it is expected that the student will have
Course Objectives:
- learned to recognize the common organic functional groups
- learned and be able to apply the IUPAC rules for organic nomenclature
- a basic understanding of the structure-property relationships for simple organic compounds
- become familiar with the principal reactions for the major organic functional groups
- become acquainted with how the sterochemistry of a molecule affects its reactions and properties
- been introduced to the structure and properties of the main carbohydrates.
- become familiar with the properties of some of the major classes of lipids including the steroid hormones
- have a basic understanding fo teh properties and structures of proteins
- been introduced to the chemical basis for cell membranes and the transport of substances through those membranes
- attained a basic understanding of the chemistry of the nucleic acids as the chemical basis for genetics and heredity
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Chemistry is a subject that builds on a foundation. You cannot understand the later topics unless you understand the earlier topics. For this reason, I have used the topic mastery model for this course. You cannot go on to a new topic until you have mastered the current one. Each topic has a quiz associated with it and you must make a score of 80% (or higher) on the quiz before you can proceed. You may take the quiz as many times as you wish. Only the highest score will count so you can never lower your grade by attempting to improve your score on a quiz.
Organization of the Course:
When you first start the course, only one topic will be available to you. Whenever you complete a topic, a new one will become available. All of the older ones will stay available so that you can review them as needed.
I divided the course into 62 topics -- essentially starting a new topic at the point where I would normally end a lecture session in a regular course. A normal one hour lecture would cover two or more of these topics so each topic would represent somewhere between 10 minutes and an hour of lecture time in a regular course. You should be able to complete some topics in a few minutes but some will take an hour or more.
The course is divided into four roughly equal sized parts. There is an hour exam after you complete each of these parts. These parts cover roughly 3 to 4 chapters of text material just as they would in a regular course. Click here for a detailed list of the topics.
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NOTE WELL: In a normal classroom setting for this course you would be expected to attend approximately 45 hours of lectures. You would also be expected to spend roughly double that amount of time studying for the course outside of class. The e-course format does not work magic -- you should expect to spend at least the same number of hours completing this course. Do not put off working on the course and then expect to be able to complete it in a couple of days. Be sure to try to meet the target dates so that you can successfully complete the course.
Time Requirement
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Students in this course have a maximum of one semester to complete the course. As is mentioned in the grading section of this syllabus, there is a target date for each of the hour examinations. You should try very hard to meet these targets. Otherwise, you will probably have trouble completing the course. Important dates for the Spring of 2007 are:
Target Dates:
- January 8, 2007 First day of classes. Most students should have started on the topics by this time.
- January 12, 2007 Last day of schedule adjustment. Any student wishing to register for the course after this date will need specific, written permission from the instructor.
- February 3, 2007 Target date for completing Part I and taking Exam I. If you take this exam on or before February 3, 2007 I will add 1% to your final average. If you take this exam after February 10, 2007 I will deduct 1% from your final average.
- March 1, 2007 Target date for completing Part II and taking Exam II. If you take this exam on or before March 1, 2007 I will add 1% to your final average. If you take this exam after March 8, 2007 I will deduct 1% from your final average.
- March 30, 2007 This is the last day to withdraw from an individual course.
- March 27, 2007 Target date for completing Part III and taking Exam III. If you take this exam on or before March 27, 2007 I will add 1% to your final average. If you take this exam after April 3, 2007 I will deduct 1% from your final average.
- April 28, 2007 Target date for completing Part IV and taking Exam IV. If you take this exam on or before April 28, 2007 I will add 1% to your final average. The absolute deadline for taking this exam is May 6, 2007. Failure to complete this exam by that date will result in a grade of zero.
- May 6, 2007 Deadline for completion of the course. You must take the final exam on or before this date or receive a score of zero. If you take the final exam on or before April 28, 2007 I will add 1% to your final average.
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There will be four hour exams and a final exam in addition to the quizzes. The quizzes will count for one third of the final average. The four hour exams will all have the same weight and will account for one half of the final average. The final exam will account for the remaining one sixth of the final average.
Letter grades will be then be assigned based on the following scale for the final average.
Since I want to encourage students to complete this course in a timely manner, I will add 1% to your final average if you take an hour exam on or before the target date for that exam. On the other side of the coin, I will deduct 1% from your final average if you take an hour exam more than one week after the target date for that exam. I will also add 1% to your final average if you complete the final exam more than one week before the deadline. If you take full advantage of this incentive you can raise your grade by a half a letter grade. On the other hand, failure to complete the coursework on schedule can cost you severely. I will post reminders of the target dates on the bulletin board from time to time so be sure to check the bulletin board for this.
- Greater than 90% = A
- Less than 60% = F
The hour exams will be given on-line. There is a time limit on the exams and it will be enforced by the computer -- no answers will be accepted after the time limit on an exam. You will get the graded exam back with your score and feedback on your errors.
The final exam will be handled the same way as the hour exams.
The quizzes are all taken on-line and the scores and the correct answers are available to you as soon as you complete the quiz. While I have set the course up so that a time limit is shown for each quiz, there is no penalty for taking as much time as you like. The time limit is just to give you an estimate of the amount of time you should make sure you have available before starting the quiz. All time limits were set at 10 minutes initially and then were adjusted based on statistics on how long it actually took students to complete these quizzes. In most cases at least 90% of the students completed the quiz within the "time limit" and the average is typically about 2/3 of the "time limit"
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I received my B.S. in Chemistry and my M.S. from the University of Oklahoma. I completed my Ph.D. at Florida State University in 1972. My dissertation research was in the area of isolation of naturally occurring lactones from ragweeds (It's a good thing I am not allergic to pollen!). I spent two years as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University working on synthesis of marine steroids. While at Stanford, I worked with Professor Carl Djerassi (inventor of the birth control pill).
Biographical Information:
I spent six years on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (home of the Fighting Kangaroos) before joining the Marshall University faculty in 1981. I have taught a wide variety of courses at Marshall including general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, various advanced courses in organic chemistry, honors seminars, and even Visual Basic programming. I was Chair of the department from 1982-1986. One of my educational activities is to perform Chemical Magic shows in elementary, middle, and high schools.
My research interests were originally in synthetic organic chemistry but they have gradually shifted to use of computers in organic chemistry and in chemical education. I spent a sabbatical year at the University of California, Santa Cruz (home of the Banana Slugs) working on computational chemistry projects.
My primary hobby is reading (especially science fiction and mysteries) but I do consider some of the things I do with computers to be hobby rather than work and I have been known to play the occasional computer game.
I am very active in the American Chemical Society, serving as Councilor and National Chemistry Week Coordinator for the Central Ohio Valley Section and I am vice chair of the national Meetings & Expositions Committtee. I am also very active in Alpha Chi Sigma, the Chemistry Professional Fraternity. I was advisor for the Marshall University chapter for many years and served as Grand Master Alchemist (President) for this organization that has collegiate chapters on 50 campuses and professional chapters in several large cities.
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Topics to Be Covered in This Course
Part I
Structure of Organic Compounds
- Introduction
- Basic Structural Features
- Additional Structural Features
- Functional Groups
- Isomerism
- Naming Alkanes
- Naming Cycloalkanes and Alkyl Halides
- Conformations of Alkanes
- Cis-Trans Isomerism in Cycloalkanes
- Properties of Alkanes
- Naming Alkenes
- Geometric Isomerism
- Addition Reactions
- Addition Mechanism
- Polyolefins
Part II
Aromatic Compounds
- Naming Aromatic Compounds
- Reactions of Aromatic Compounds
- Phenols
- Naming Alcohols
- Properties of Alcohols
- Reactions of Alcohols
- Ethers
- Thioalcohols and Disulfides
- Types of Isomers
- Chirality, Enantiomers, and Optical Activity
- Naming Stereocenters
- Diastereomers and Meso Compounds
- Naming Amines
- Properties of Amines
Part III
Aldehydes and Ketones
- Properties of Aldehydes and Ketones
- Naming Aldehydes and Ketones
- Oxidations of Aldehydes and Ketones
- Reductions of Aldehydes and Ketones
- Reactions of Alcohols with Aldehydes and Ketones
- Keto-Enol Tautomers
Carboxylic Acids and Esters
- Naming Carboxylic Acids
- Acidity of Carboxylic Acids
- Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids
- Naming Esters
- The Fischer Esterification Reaction
- Reactions of Esters
- Amides of Carboxylic Acids
- Organophosphate Esters
- Polyamides, Polyesters, Polycarbonates, and Polyurethanes
Part IV
- Monosaccharides
- D- and L- Families of Carbohydrates
- Cyclic Forms of Monosaccharides
- Reactions of Monosaccharides
- Disaccharides and Polysaccharides
- Basic Concepts of Lipids
- Triacylglycerides
- Phospholipids
- Steroids
- The Amino Acids
- The Isoelectric Point
- Structure of Proteins
- Properties of Proteins
- Basic Concepts of Enzymes
- Enzyme Kinetics and Regulation
Nucleic Acids
- Structure of Nucleic Acids
- Replication and Transcription
- Chemistry of Heredity
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OSLO, Norway, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Austrian energy company OMV announced its support for a final investment decision for the Aasta Hansteen natural gas field on Norway's continental shelf.
"We are committed to this project," Jaap Huijskes, an OMV board member in charge of exploration and production, said in a statement. "It is designed as a future hub and it will therefore unlock great potential in the region."
Field development entails the use of a 656-foot floating spar platform, which will be the largest of its kind and the first used in Norway. The platform has a storage capacity of 160,000 barrels.
Field operator Statoil this week submitted development plans for Aasta Hansteen, known formerly as the Luva field, to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The company said the field development marks the first time natural gas exploration is planned for the deep waters of the Norwegian Sea.
The field is in about 4,200 feet of water on the Norwegian continental shelf.
Oystein Michelsen, executive vice president of development for Statoil, said in a statement the platform would lead to new discoveries in the area.
"The development may generate substantial ripple effects in the north," he said.
Production should begin in 2017.

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The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads.
During his last stay in Vienna from 1712 to September 1714, Leibniz wrote two short texts which were meant as concise expositions of his philosophy. After his death Principes de la Nature et de la Grace fondés en raison, which was intended for prince Eugene of Savoy, appeared in French in the Netherlands. Christian Wolff and collaborators published translations in German and Latin of the second text which came to be known as The Monadology. Without having seen the Dutch publication they had assumed that it was the French original which in fact remained unpublished until 1840. The German translation appeared in 1720 as Lehrsätze über die Monadologie and the following year the Acta Eruditorum printed the Latin version as Principia philosophiae. [1] There are three original manuscripts of the text: the first written by Leibniz and overcharged with corrections and two further emended copies with some corrections appearing in one but not the other.[2] Leibniz himself inserted references to the paragraphs of his Theodicy, sending the interested reader there for more details.
The "monad", the word and the idea, belongs to the western philosophical tradition and has been used by various authors[3]. Leibniz, who was exceptionally well read, could not have ignored this, but he did not use it himself until mid-1696 when he was sending for print his New System[4]. Apparently he found with it a convenient way to expose his own philosophy as it was elaborated in this period. What he proposed can be seen as a modification of occasionalism developed by latter-day Cartesians. Leibniz surmised that there are indefinitely many substances individually 'programmed' to act in a predetermined way, each program being coordinated with all the others. This is the pre-established harmony which solved the mind body problem at the cost of declaring any interaction between substances a mere appearance, something which Leibniz accepted. Indeed it was space itself which became an appearance as in his system there was no need for distinguishing inside from outside. True substances were explained as metaphysical points which, Leibniz asserted, are both real and exact, mathematical points being exact but not real and physical ones being real but not exact[5]. Clearly, besides metaphysics, the developing of calculus had also provided some grounds for seeking universal elementary constituents. At the empirical level, use of the microscope also corroborated Leibniz's view. "Scientists have had great difficulties over the origin of forms, entelechies or souls" notes §74 of The Monadology [6]while displaying his synonyms for "monad".
The rhetorical strategy adopted by Leibniz in The Monadology is fairly obvious as the text
(I) As far as Leibniz allows just one type of element in the build of the universe his system is monistic. The unique element has been 'given the general name monad or entelechy' and described as 'a simple substance' (§§1, 19). Relying on the etymology of the Greek word (§48), Leibniz posits quantitative differences in perfection between monads which leads to a hierarchical ordering. The basic order is three-tiered: (1) entelechies (2) souls and (3) spirits. Whatever is said about the lower ones (entelechies) is valid for the higher (souls and spirits) but not the obverse. As none of them is without a body (§72), there is a corresponding hierarchy of (1) living beings and animals (2), the latter being either (2) non-reasonable or (3) reasonable. The degree of perfection in each case corresponds to psychic abilities and only spirits or reasonable animals are able to grasp the ideas of both the world and its creator.
(II) God is also said to be a simple substance (§47) but it is the only one which is necessary (§§38-9) and without a body attached (§72). Creation is a permanent state so "[monads] are born from one moment to the next by continual flashes of lightening from the divinity"[7]. Any perfection comes from being created while imperfection is a limitation of nature (§42).
(III) Composite substances or matter are "actually sub-divided without end" and have the properties of their infinitesimal parts (§65). Some understanding how this is possible has been provided by the recent development of fractals. A notorious passage (§67) explains that "each portion of matter can be conceived as like a garden full of plants, or like a pond full of fish. But each branch of a plant, each organ of an animal, each drop of its bodily fluids is also a similar garden or a similar pond". There are no interactions between different monads nor between entelechies and their bodies but everything is regulated by the pre-established harmony (§§78-9). Leibniz concludes that "if we could understand the order of the universe well enough, we would find that it surpasses all the wishes of the wisest people, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is — not merely in respect of the whole in general, but also in respect of ourselves in particular" (§90).
When it was written, the Monadology tried to put an end from a monist point of view to the main question of what is reality, and particularly to the problem of communication of substances, both studied by Descartes called mind-body dualism. Thus, Leibniz offered a new solution to mind and matter interaction by means of a pre-established harmony expressed as the Best of all possible worlds form of optimism; in other words, he drew the relationship between "the kingdom of final causes", or teleological ones, and "the kingdom of efficient causes", or mechanical ones, which was not causal, but synchronous. So, monads and matter are only apparently linked, and there is not even any communication between different monads, as far as they act according to their degree of distinction only, as they were influenced by bodies, and vice versa.
Leibniz fought against the Cartesian dualist system in his Monadology and tried to surpass it through a metaphysical system considered at the same time monist (since only the unextended is substantial) and pluralist (as far as substances are disseminated in the world in an infinite number). For that reason the monad is an irreducible force, which makes it possible for the bodies to have the characteristics of inertia and impenetrability, and which contains in itself the source of all its actions. Monads are the first elements of every composed thing.
Monads are manifest, since they are everywhere, and there is no extension without monads. They are, then, the plenum, that is to say, the condition of an infinitely dense universe, but nevertheless they are unextended. However, this doesn't mean that they lack of any function (as far as they project and reflect force), matter (since they come with it) or that they are extended (considering that they don't interact with anything in the world).
Extended matter would be the impenetrable quality of the unextended—the monad, without any doors or windows—as passively transmitted according to movements which, together with perception and apperception, compose action. In spite of that, a monad cannot remain placed in matter, which follows the monad itself, previously to the generation of matter in time. So, extension and monads coexist acausally by the means of a timeless creation, although they are reciprocally bound according to the appearances.
In brief, Leibniz states that matter is extended, but not only extended. It is, in addition, formed by unextended monads. Then, is matter both extended and unextended? No, accepting that, as far as monad constitutes matter, matter is nothing in itself[Why is this? Elaboration requested here. This is a rather weak attempt at creating a non-existent paradox(and can be analogized and reduced to the following sentence: matter has a form, and thought not (this is not to be confused with it being non-physical), exceedingly; thoughts exists in matter, thus matter is, but bound to be nothing but exactly: "thought", or at least not to be differentiable from matter, and must thus also be confined to the properties that be those of matter) created, presumably, merely for the sake of criticism, since there can be found at least one possible border in the virtual between the extended and the unextended, even though a border holds no functions, it marks a physical relation to at least two different locations, for since it is already given that there can be an extended part, object or substance in the physical, then is thus also given that at least one function exists for that object, namely; 1. Its creation, 2. It's destruction/reconstruction. Is it impossible for these skepticists to imagine an entity with principal parts that are lesser in functional potential, than that of its components in sum. Therefore, this criticism must have to be re-formulated, so that the meaning is changed in its predicative and linguistical functions, in order to work as a valid and proper argument, in short, two differentiable and principal functions, locations or entities can easily, and very aptly have at least one different property, despite possibly sharing theoretical infinite values]. Monad as an isolated being therefore represents the essence of German idealism.
This theory leads to:
1. Idealism, since it denies things in themselves (besides monads) and multiplies them in different points of view. Monads are "perpetual living mirrors of the universe."
2. Metaphysical optimism, through the principle of sufficient reason, developed as follows:
a) Everything exists according to a reason (by the axiom "Nothing arises from nothing");
b) Everything which exists has a sufficient reason to exist;
c) Everything which exists is better than anything non-existent (by the first point: since it is more rational, it also has more reality), and, consequently, it is the best possible being in the best of all possible worlds (by the axiom: "That which contains more reality is better than that which contains less reality").
The "best of possible worlds," then, is that "containing the greatest variety of phenomena from the smallest amount of principles." See fractal for a strong relationship.
|Monadology (1714)
|Wikipedia: Monadology


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I'm an adventurous eater, but I'm an easily intimidated cook. I grew up making things out of boxes, so I tend to go with what is simple or familiar now that I cook mostly from scratch. I figured out how to make a basic red chicken curry, and that has become my go-to (only) Thai recipe for years, despite Thai being one of my favorite cuisines. That is, until I found Katie Chin's Everyday Thai Cooking.
Everyday Thai Cooking is smart and accessible, and features easy-to-follow recipes, appetizing photographs, and informative tips and alternatives. Most of the recipes clock in around 30 minutes or less, and the substitutions are especially helpful. From Thai staples like Pad Thai and Spring Rolls to new favorites like Crispy Mango Chicken, the book has recipes for inexperienced and experienced cooks alike.


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Kathryn Blood - a half sister
Paul Blood - a half brother.
These are the mysterious aunt and uncle about which we learned more after they died than when they were alive. Kathryn was quite a Progressive. When she died, there were papers concerning her which we have in files. Didn't you try to introduce yourself to Paul, Dwight, when he was a big cattle grower and you were working with the Wyoming Legislature? I seem to remember a less-than-cordial situation. In later years, Dad, knowing that Paul had died, tried to find Kathryn. It wasn't until after he died that we found out what happened to her. Everything is a bit hazy where they are concerned. The pictures, however, are wonderful.


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Power Up Watersports, The Legendary Shots and RootBerry were the high-flying trio responsible for the circus-like antics going on-and-up Monday morning at Crab Island.
Ben and Amber Merrell, owners of Power Up Watersports in Destin, say they were the first to bring the slightly unusual water-toy, the Flyboard, to the United States last summer.
Offering tours from Crab Island, Amber jokingly said the best way to describe the Flyboard in action is, "a jet-skiing Ironman."
Powered by a hose connected to the jet-ski, the Flyboard allows the person to fly 30 to 40 feet into the air. Amber and Ben told The Log that although Flyboarding is new � and it may look a little strange from a distance � it�s safe and extremely exciting.
"Ben is a professional � he is very safe," said Amber of her husband who operates the jet-ski.
Joining the Power Up Watersports team on Monday morning, The Legendary Shots crew attempted to sink another one of their awe-inspiring basketball shots while donning the aqua-gear.
Due to Monday's windy conditions, high school senior Christian Lill and John Massey, both of Legendary Shots, started off shaky. As the morning drew on, more curious onlookers driving across the Marler Bridge stopped to watch The Legendary Shots and Power Up Watersports attempt to swish the ball through the net. While The Log was on the scene, their were at least twenty shots, but no scores. See Log Photographer Kathy Harrison's video of the action, click here.
"Right before noon," said Ben. "The guys made the shot."
Adding Flyboarding to their repertoire, The Legendary Shots, is an Alabama-based group that has been making basketball trick shots from seemingly impossible locations since 2006.
Some of their most viewed shots have been made from rollercoasters, hot air balloons, waterslides and zip lines. The Legendary Shots have been featured on national television commercials for Hampton Inn and Flip Video. They have also been featured on ESPN several times.
Next up on the Flyboard were Bill Berry and Jonathan Root � the entertaining-duo of RootBerry.com. Both Root and Berry said they had tried Flyboarding in the past, but neither of them have juggled while atop the board.
Juggling three, four and even five clubs, Berry balanced himself perfectly while on the flyboard.
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First of all......
* As we upgrade and build new....
I think it is time to eliminate atmospherically vented appliances from the breathing zones of our homes
* I realize that the effects of wind and mechanical equipment can and often do overwhelm Stack Effect.
My current favorite online resources for visualizing "Stack Effect" are.....
*John Straube's Article
*John Klote's Article
*Bud Poll's Worksheet
I plan to post some Illustrations and see if you folks agree with my current thinking about the location of Neutral Pressure Planes
Does anyone else have suggestions for online links concerning "Stack Effect"?
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Concerning the Klote Article
No need to brush up on Calculus or Fortran....
Just try to follow the Illustrations and concepts
Hi John, glad to see the topic back at the top. Your comment that atmospherically vented appliances need to be eliminated is correct and I would take the additional step and say that all auditors should have serious reservations about performing or recommending any wx work where these high risk appliances are in use.
I have left my worksheet up but have newer pages in progress that will be added soon.
I'll be following.
Good morning, great discussion. I have a question here in Chicago we have mostly atmospherically vented furnaces and boilers. When I look up at the chimneys some have no rain hat, some have a flat top with a grate around the perimeter(like chicken wire), and some have the standard b-vent top approved for combustion appliances. my question is what are the the differences between each of these in overall stack affect on a house? I'm trying to resize photos will have them up later. Thank you in advance
Hi randy, I'll give this a try. There can actually be several "stack effects" taking place in one house at the same time and they will each have their own pressure distribution and NPP. A house that is rather open will have one. Seal off the air flow between two floors and now you have two different stacks, each with a high and low and its own NPP. Then look at your chimneys. Each can be filled with different temperature air/gasses from cold to hot and each can have different exposure to outside temperatures. The chase way around the chimney or vent pipes can have their own pressures which even though we will probably seal them, an initial complaint might be related to their air flow.
As for the caps you mentioned, they would restrict the air flow through that path just a bit and thus a slight change in the total exfiltration of the house. The result would be a slight shift in the NPP, less exfiltration and the NPP would move down slightly. As for one vs the other in regards to the house stack effect, probably no difference.
Hi Randy, thanks for the question
Hi Bud, thanks for your answer
I agree that there may be several chambers & flues(tubes) & Neutral Pressure Planes in a house.
This is just a Simple example of a theoretic "tight" house with only one open window.
My thinking is that the Neutral Pressure Plane would be near the middle of the only open window.
I say "near" based on the John Klote Paper.
The Klote Paper explains that the NPP is actually slightly below the center of the opening.
This is true for heating and cooling seasons.
I "think" that the pressure difference between Inside and outside will be Approx 1 Pascal at the floor and Aprox. 7 Pascals at the peak.
Hi John,
In the heating season the pressure will be +7pa at the top and -1pa at the bottom, wrto (with reference to outside). In the cooling season (just happens to be the same ▲T) it will be -7pa at the top and +1pa at the bottom, again wrto. One of the keys to understanding how this comes about is introducing that outside pressure. Our readings are wrto, but exactly what is that pressure. We always think of it as 14.7 psi (101325pa) and most (myself included) never paid attention to the rate at which it changes (approx. 3.5pa per foot) as we go up or down in elevation. My worksheet that John posted above goes into detail illustrating the pressure increments on the outside in cold air and then on the inside in warm (lighter) air. It is the difference between those two columns of air that produces the total ▲T we call stack effect, in this case 8pa. The next step is following the adjustment process that creates the NPP and ultimately determined the above and below pressures.
Making this connection between the atmospheric pressures outside and house the pressures inside has really helped me understand and predict air flow in many other applications. Here are a few: Attic venting, chimney draft, unintended duct drafting when not in use, convective heat transfer, and even predicting how tight a house is without running a BD (just an estimate for now).
Some may ask, "why do we need this new information?" One of the answers is our new tighter approach to homes. On a leaky home, opening a window might barely move the existing NPP. But on a tight home, it could cause a swing of 10pa or more depending upon the outside temperature.
One more detail that we will need to go over is that we cannot see this change in pressure between upstairs and downstairs with out trusty manometers. A two story house from the ceiling at the top to the basement floor could have as much as 100 Pascals difference in pressure. Seems like that is something they should have told us at training :).
Howdy Bud,
I totally agree that it helps to "Introduce" the outside pressure.
I know that it has helped me (Thank you Bud)
I actually have the outside pressures on my Drawings ....
I have turned them off for these early Illustrations.
I was just trying to keep things simple (and less cluttered) at first.
......And more like the John Klote example.
I think You and I are saying the same thing ... just with different words.
I will be adding the Outside Pressures in future Illustrations.
Except in this example the Delta-T is -35 and so the Delta-P would be -4 Pa.
Just like a Cold Climatist ..... assuming that "your" stack effect is the "positive" effect
And those who live in a hot climate experience "reverse stack effect" ;--)
We all know that the Southland is "backwards". That's why we invaded it in 1861 and whooped it good.
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This is mandatory listening and watching material for understanding the design methodology and ideas behind the Metro interface in Windows 8 (and thus, Windows Phone 7). All this sounds great in theory, and Jensen Harris, one of the minds behind Metro, is clearly passionate about it - and I love people who are passionate about their work. It's just that to me, the Metro UI doesn't seem to work very well for actual work. I want window management! I'm taking all this into account for an article on Metro in the Developer Preview. Stay tuned.


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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 13 February 2013—DOGObooks.com, the leading website for book reviews by children, is partnering with OCLC to connect children to resources in libraries through WorldCat.
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The WorldCat Search API offers access to WorldCat library records and holdings, enabling partners like DOGObooks to connect users to library catalogs from within partner websites.
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July 19, 2013 -
The Financial Services Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 23 at 10:15 a.m. to consider and begin voting on the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners (PATH) Act.
The PATH Act creates a sustainable housing finance system for America. Among its provisions, the PATH Act:
"Americans deserve a better housing finance system. One that protects homeowners and taxpayers, so that every American who works hard and plays by the rules can have opportunities and choices to buy homes they can actually afford to keep. One that protects hardworking taxpayers, so they never again have to bail out corrupt government sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose top managers engaged in extensive accounting fraud to trigger huge executive bonuses for themselves. America needs a housing policy that is sustainable over time, not one that causes endless boom-bust cycles in real estate that harms our economy. The PATH Act protects taxpayers, protects homeowners and will give Americans the better, fairer, and sustainable housing finance system they deserve," said Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX).
Over the past five months, the Financial Services Committee has held 12 hearings and heard from more than 50 witnesses on the failures of the current housing finance system and the need to create a sustainable housing finance model.
Many of these expert witnesses noted that the financial crisis that began in 2008 started with failed Washington housing policies and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While their senior executives engaged in financial fraud so they could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, these Government-Sponsored Enterprises exploited their government guarantee to take on enormous risk. When the housing bubble burst, Fannie and Freddie received the biggest bailout in history, nearly $200 billion courtesy of hardworking taxpayers. The Dodd-Frank Act, passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama in 2010 in response to the crisis, did nothing to reform the GSEs. In fact, witnesses said Dodd-Frank compounds the government's disastrous foray into housing policy through onerous regulations that hobble the private mortgage market and lock out thousands – if not millions – of qualified borrowers who will be unable to obtain an affordable mortgage.
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Maoist attack: NIA to probe possible security lapses
Anti-terror agency NIA will begin its probe today into the deadly Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh to find out possible lapses on the part of the central forces or the state government. Maoists danced over Karma's body after killing him | Return of the rebelsindia Updated: May 27, 2013 15:07 IST
Anti-terror agency NIA will begin its probe on Monday into the deadly Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh to find out possible lapses on the part of the central forces or the state government.
Action will be taken if anyone is found guilty, Minister of State for Home RPN Singh told reporters here today.
"We have asked the NIA to investigate the Maoist attack. Security lapses could have taken place. Any lapse on the part of central forces or the state government, buck will have to be stopped somewhere. We have to take action," he said.
Asked whether the mastermind of Saturday's attack on Congress workers has been identified, Singh said it was too early to say that and any conclusion could be reached only when the probe is completed.
The Centre has already deployed 30 battalion (approximately 30,000 personnel) in Chhattisgarh to help the state government carry out anti-Naxal operations.
Earlier, Union Home Secretary RK Singh said an official order formally handing over the case to NIA to carry out the investigation would be issued soon.
"We will issue the order of NIA probe. The NIA team will also go to Chhattisgarh today," he told reporters here.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had on Sunday said that NIA will probe the Maoist attack on Congress leaders and the Centre has received a go-ahead from Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh for it.
Heavily-armed Maoists had on Saturday ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in the state's Bastar district, killing 27 people including PCC chief Patel, his son Dinesh, Congress leader Mahendra Karma and ex-MLA Uday Mudliyar and injuring 32 others, including former union minister V C Shukla.
A survivor, Dr Shiv Narayan said nearly 20 vehicles in the convoy came under attack. "The naxals were checking almost every vehicle after the bloodbath."
The attack took place around 4pm, but security forces could reach the spot only after 9pm.
Locals and some mediapersons helped the survivors reach Darbha police station on Saturday. From there they were taken to Maharani hospital in Jagdalpur by ambulance.
The toll in the deadly attack by suspected Maoists on a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh rose to 27 after the bullet-riddled bodies of state party chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh and eight others were found on Sunday.
The bodies were lying in the forested Jiram valley of Bastar region, about a km from the spot where the rebels had ambushed the convoy around 5pm on Saturday, the police said.
Patel and his son were missing after the rebels triggered a landmine explosion and opened indiscriminate fire near Darbha in Jagdalpur district, 340 km south of state capital Raipur.
Among others, the dead included state Congress leaders Mahendra Karma and Uday Mudliyar, who were gunned down even as they tried to surrender. Party veteran and former Union minister Vidya Charan Shukla, who was also part of the convoy returning from a pre-election rally, was critically wounded.
He was airlifted to New Delhi late at night and admitted to Gurgaon's Medanta hospital.
Chhattisgarh DGP Ram Niwas said 32 people were injured in the attack. The police brought 17 bodies to the Maharani hospital in Jagdalpur during the early hours of Sunday. Heavy downpour since morning at Jagdalpur affected rescue operations.
Some missing Congress workers returned to Jagdalpur.
Most of the dead and injured are Congress leaders and workers and four to five of those killed in the attack are personal security officers of the Congress leaders.
Karma, who had been at the forefront of Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxal drive, had been on the rebels' hit list for some time. He had been a home minister in the state and last represented the Congress in the Chhattisgarh assembly as the opposition leader.
The suspected rebels attacked the convoy as it passed through the Darbha valley. The convoy was returning from a rally organised as part of the Congress party's Parivartan Yatra. Chhattisgarh goes to elections later this year.
The rebels triggered a powerful blast to blow up the second vehicle of the convoy and followed up with indiscriminate firing. In the hour-long gunfight that ensued, at least 27 people were killed and several others were wounded, said MA Ganpathy, joint secretary in the Union home ministry in New Delhi.
A PTI report said the attackers, numbering about 100-150, peppered Karma's body with bullets.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the ambush as a "dastardly attack". The ambush came after more than a year of relative lull in Maoist violence and pointed to possible attempts by the rebels to stage new offensives.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi flew to Chhattisgarh capital Raipur by a special aircraft late in the night to meet the injured.
The prime minister ordered the home ministry to dispatch more than 600 paramilitary personnel, including elite CoBRA anti-Maoist commandos, to sanitise and take control of the site of Saturday's attack.
"I have spoken to the chief minister of the state and urged him to provide all possible assistance to those who have been injured and to ensure the security and safety of those who have been abducted," said Singh, who also had a meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
Chhattisgarh is among the state worst-affected by Maoist violence and large parts of it are under the control of the extremists.
In 2012, the state accounted for half of all Maoist attacks on police personnel in the Red Corridor that includes Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and several parts of Bihar.
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
English men can be very complicated, especially if they've had a good education, as Julian Barnes proves in this short, pithy, ironic story of an English man looking back on his life.
The language is exemplary. The jokes are elegant. The sensibility is refined. The wanking is furious.
And then there's the philosophy…
Julian Barnes's real-life English teacher once said, "Of course everyone's worried about what happens when Ted Hughes runs out of animals."
"We thought it was the wittiest thing we had ever heard," Barnes confessed in an interview in the Paris Review (Winter 2000).
The fictional Tony Webster's English teacher says the same thing and Tony finds himself thinking about it often over the years. But Ted Hughes never did run out of animals. That's the really funny and wonderful thing.
Our lifelong concerns are often misguided, aren't they? The things that impressed us when we were young turn out to be facile in the end.
In fact this story is a kind of meditation on how our memories distort reality, if reality is, indeed, ever in a state that could be said to be undistorted. How much of what is passing for reality do we actually understand? How much is fact, how much is fiction, how much is simple ignorance? Or complicated ignorance, if you've had an English public school education.
Is Tony Webster Julian Barnes?
Probably not. Tony Webster is bald and Julian Barnes has a full head of hair. Or so it seems.
But the questions go on.
Do the people who read this story understand it? Some of them do. But if you take a look at the reviews on some websites, you will see that a lot of people missed the point. Some have even made up completely different stories based on an unfathomable logic all their own.
If I were Julian Barnes I would probably sigh and hold my beautifully coiffured head in my hands and wonder if it was all worth it.
And then I'd probably write an elliptical, poignant, ironic novel about how elusive philosophically self-evident truths can be.


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Some people are skilled at Karate but cannot teach it. Some people are good at Karate but are poor teachers. In order to be a good Karate teacher, a person must be skilled at Karate and a good teacher.
I have heard that it is possible to learn Karate, even from a poor teacher. But I do not think that this is true. I think that you can only learn poor Karate from a poor teacher.
A Karate teacher must be able to make corrections on a razor's edge, particularly with respect to body dynamics. Karate is not simply brute punching, blocking and kicking. To quote the commercial, Karate is not so easy that a caveman could do it -- unless the caveman was enlightened and had a great teacher.
If you are going to teach, one of the most important traits you must cultivate is patience. You might have to teach a student something once, twice, a dozen times, a hundred times, even more. You cannot get mad or frustrated. You have to be calm and encouraging. If the student starts to get it on the 99th attempt, you have to be able to say "that's it!" without missing a beat.
The student learns from your patience and enthusiasm -- he learns to be a good teacher like you.
If you compliment the student 99 times and criticize him once, he will remember the criticism and forget all the compliments. Years from now, he will still think about the criticism.
I always say that my students' errors are my errors and my students accomplishments are their accomplishments. I mean this.
My wife often says that I am passionate about teaching. I never really thought about it, but afte she said it I realized that it was true. What I mean is this -- whatever kata or technique I am teaching, I have the feeling that it is the most important thing in the world, at least at that moment. To me, Naihanchi Shodan is great -- an honor to learn and teach. The same goes for Fukyugata Ichi, Passai, or Kusanku. Any kata is great. Every kata is great. None are better or worse -- unless you make them that way.
I like to say that you can learn all of Karate from a single technique. By this I mean that learning one technique properly will have an effect on all the techniques you know. It is like DNA. If you can look at Karate at the DNA level, then there is infinite potential in each and every technique. The building blocks of Karate are actually quite simple. The only problem is in the assembly.
I have been influenced the most by my two Shorin-Ryu Sensei, Sensei Rodney Shimabukuro (whom I started learning from in 1976 or so), and Sensei Katsuhiko Shinzato (whom I started learning from in 2002). They have several things in common, but the most notable is great enthusiasm for the art. When you learn from them, you really want to learn. Their enthusiasm is contagious. It is as if the fire inside of them makes you catch on fire too.
They do not make you do anything. Being the way they are makes you want to train hard and improve yourself.
If you have a good teacher, you are very fortunate. You should make the best use of that opportunity and become a good teacher yourself.
Charles C. Goodin
To Be A Good Teacher
Some people are skilled at Karate but cannot teach it. Some people are good at Karate but are poor teachers. In order to be a good Karate teacher, a person must be skilled at Karate and a good teacher.
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Author Notes: The most famous tomato sauce on the internet, from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. Editor's note: Marcella called for 2 cups of tomatoes when using canned, but feel free to use a whole 28-ounce can (closer to 3 cups), if you like. You can scale up the butter and onion, if you like, or don't—it's genius either way. —Genius Recipes
Serves: 6, enough to sauce 1 to 1 1/2 pounds pasta
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
For the Sauce
pounds fresh, ripe tomatoes, prepared as described below, or 2 cups canned imported Italian tomatoes, cut up, with their juice
tablespoons butter
medium onion, peeled and cut in half
Salt to taste
Making Fresh Tomatoes Ready for Sauce
fresh, ripe plum tomatoes (or other varieties, if they are equally ripe and truly fruity, not watery)
For the Sauce
- Put either the prepared fresh tomatoes or the canned in a saucepan, add the butter, onion, and salt, and cook uncovered at a very slow, but steady simmer for about 45 minutes, or until it is thickened to your liking and the fat floats free from the tomato.
- Stir from time to time, mashing up any large pieces of tomato with the back of a wooden spoon.
- Taste and correct for salt. Before tossing with pasta, you may remove the onion (as Hazan recommended) and save for another use, but many opt to leave it in. Serve with freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese for the table.
Making Fresh Tomatoes Ready for Sauce
- The blanching method: Plunge the tomatoes in boiling water for a minute or less. Drain them and, as soon as they are cool enough to handle, skin them, and cut them into coarse pieces.
- The freezing method (from David Tanis, via The Kitchn): Freeze tomatoes on a baking sheet until hard. Thaw again, either on the counter or under running water. Skin them and cut them into coarse pieces.
- The food mill method: Wash the tomatoes in cold water, cut them lengthwise in half, and put them in a covered saucepan. Turn on the heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes. Set a food mill fitted with the disk with the largest holes over a bowl. Transfer the tomatoes with any of their juices to the mill and puree.
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