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Posted 4/12/13 at 11:29 AM | Michael Greiner
North Korea will nuke someone soon. If not, then someone else will. Soon. Cain killed Abel, revealing the heart of mankind. Cain's have been killing Abel's ever since. Murder happens every day. The question of murder through nuclear weapons is not a matter of if, but when. And it will be soon.
How do I know? Leave 12 dieters in a room for a day with a plate full of double chocolate brownies. They will get eaten. And soon. It is the desire of those in the room. Mankind kills. Mankind advances technologically so that nuclear weapons multiply potential nuclear killers. Cain has a nuke. He wants to use it. He is going to use it. Eventually. Soon.
What does that mean for preachers? What do you preach after the nukes fall?
Answer: nothing should change in the pulpit.
A well prepared congregation will not expect a different message in the weeks after the nuke than before. However, if all is preached about before the nukes fall is the fluffy stuff of "helpful" sermons, short and tight, then the preaching will have to change, for it was wrong in the first place. If the sermons preached before the nukes avoided the tough subjects of the world, then preaching will have to change. FULL POST
Posted 11/27/12 at 4:49 PM | Michael Greiner
It's that holly-jolly time again. Time to pull out the decorations and the lights and, since we love Jesus, time to pull out the old Nativity set. There we will find Mary, on her knees, wearing blue and white --the official colors of the Virgin Mother. There will be Joseph, leaning in, bearded, and admiring his amazing Son.
Jesus will have his place, laying in a wooden manger, the hay thrusting out the sides of his blanket of swaddling clothes. His face looks a little older than a new born, but that's okay. He is the Savior. His arms are out to welcome a world "in sin and error pining." Nearby are the cow, she is at rest, and the sheep, there are a couple of them. There is no pig --this is a kosher stable, after all.
An angel hovers above the a-frame, three-sided barn that contains the holy family. Above the angel, the star shines brightly, sending its golden arms out in all directions. Just outside the walls of the barn are three fine camels. Two of them are standing, one is down on his haunches. There are three kings --one is black, one is white, and one is Asian. They are there with gifts in hand, a rainbow coalition of worshipers from afar. FULL POST
Posted 11/14/12 at 11:33 AM | Michael Greiner
When I was 19 years old I became a Christian. I left home at 17. After two years on my own, my worldview changed immensely. I was not in college. I was not dependent on my parents. I had to find my own way. I felt free, yet directionless. Why I began to seek God at this time I did not know. But I did. At 19, I surrendered to Jesus. Today I am a 49 and have been a pastor for 16 years. How did I get here? How does someone become a pastor?
God calls whom He will. That is the short answer. There is no ideal pedigree for becoming a pastor. He picks preachers' kids and pimps. You can be raised in a devout Christian home or, like me, a mostly religion-neutral home. You can be raised by chimps. God chooses whom He will and it is by His own calculations.
What does this mean? First it means, no one is called because he is impressive. It also means, the call to being a shepherd in God's flock (and specifically a preaching pastor), is not a vocation that is open to anyone who wants it. God must choose. FULL POST
Posted 10/31/12 at 1:09 AM | Michael Greiner
Over 30 years ago, a friend of mine told me the story of his pastor. He was in his study when an unknown man entered with a gun and shot him several times. The pastor recovered, fortunately. Why did this man shoot him? He was deranged. That's all.
Then, today, I read a story about a pastor of a mega church, slain while in the church building. The killer drove his car into the side of the building, and then chased the pastor and beat him to death.
Now, I am a pastor myself. From time to time, I have wondered what I would do if someone "deranged" came looking for me with a gun. Bullet proof vest? Self-defense course? Should I be packing?
Unfortunately, killers don't target only pastors. Sometimes "deranged" people come into church services and begin shooting anyone they can. I have often imagined what I would do if that happened while I was preaching. Would I run down from the front and rush the guy? Or would I use the advantage of the microphone to instruct the congregation, "everybody down!"? Or would I jump and roll out of the way, like James Bond, and flank the shooter? FULL POST
Posted 10/20/12 at 1:24 AM | Michael Greiner
Before making movies, Steve Martin made his career on stand up comedy. One of his routines began like this, "Yes, you too can be a millionaire and never pay taxes." Then he explains how to be a millionaire and never pay taxes. There are two easy steps. "First, get a million dollars. Next, don't pay taxes!"
Simple, right? Of course, he knew what we were thinking, "But, Steve, if I never pay taxes, then the government will take me to court!" But Steve was ahead of us and gave us a plan.
"When you go before the judge, just say, 'I forgot. I forgot that not paying taxes was against the law.'"
That was funny back in the late 70's and early 80's. However, if Martin had not been a comedian, but had spoken seriously, then he would have seemed insane. This past week, I heard a Christian I admired say something very similar -- and, unfortunatey, he was not joking.
Dinesh D'Souza stepped down as head of the King's College in NYC. Why? The reason can be summed up in this one sentence that he spoke recently: "I had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced." FULL POST
Posted 9/27/12 at 1:29 PM | Michael Greiner
Bill Clinton was the worst president in the history of the United States. He was not the worst because he was the worst man to serve. Who am I to judge such things?Most today measure presidential success by policies and economics. I do not. I am offering a spiritual measurement. Never before in history have so many Americans chosen spiritual foolishness than under the governance of Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton was and is a pathological liar. The evidence was and is everywhere. He lies about everything. He lies about things that matter (raping Juanita Broderick, sexually abusing Kathleen Willy, etc). He lies about things off the cuff, ("You probably think I taxed you too much. I do too.").
The Bible says that "If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked." In the United States, "We the people" are the rulers. We listened to Clinton's lies and agreed that he was honest. We celebrated him as the president and supported him to the end. We as a people listen to lies. We as a people have made our officials wicked.
Ironically, Bush was and is an honest man. His policies I largely disagreed with, and some I liked. But no one could find him lying. And yet, we as a nation, by the end of his time, called him a liar and said we don't need any like him. Regardless of policy and results, the spotlight was on the souls of Americans, and it showed our wickedness that we call liars honest, and honest men liars. FULL POST
Posted 9/13/12 at 5:46 PM | Michael Greiner
An audience with God is no small matter. Abraham displayed great courage in approaching God with his questions. When he wanted to ask God to have mercy on Sodom, he did so very respectfully.
The Bible says he started the conversation by "coming near the Lord." Imagine what that was like. God can hear you from wherever you might be, but it might feel safer to be at a distance. God tells Abraham, "I'm about to destroy Sodom." Abraham's nephew, Lot, lives there. Lot had come with Abraham from the old country, following his uncle --Uncle Abe had a vision --God said to leave home behind! Abraham believed God and went. Lot believed and went along too.
Abraham's first thought, upon hearing that Sodom was to be destroyed, might have been, "What's going to happen to Lot? He's going to get killed to." What would the relatives think? Brought him all this way from Ur, just to have him burned alive? That's no way to look after your nephew!
Abe wants to talk to the Lord about this, but the Lord can be frightening –He gets a scary look in His eyes when He announces He is going to destroy a city! He's intimidating. He is also God. Abraham inches near to Him, and begins his questioning politely. Abraham asked his question. He wants to know if God would spare Sodom if there are 50 righteous people in it. God says that He will. FULL POST
Posted 9/10/12 at 8:37 PM | Michael Greiner
There has never been a worse time to be alive. The history of man is the history of wars. Cain killed Abel over vengeful jealous desire to have what he did not. The first son of man killed the second, and we have been repeating the exact sin for the exact same reason ever since.
Mankind wants what does not belong to him. He will get it by theft, by competition, by manipulating government, by amassing power, by war. Mankind denies --no, is highly offended by -- the idea that he is wicked. But his willingness to work for the downfall of others is obvious.
However, God in His kindness, put many graceful restraints upon mankind. He knows that we are wicked from birth, and so He interacts with us to keep us alive, keep us groping for Him. Some of those restraints we will never know until we get to heaven. After all, who can see the heavenly realm, and know the strong arm of God who sets boundaries on the demons, who sends angels to protect, who interacts with our thoughts and plans our days so that we will suppress our own desires for evil, and seek to do what is good? FULL POST
Posted 9/5/12 at 10:32 AM | Michael Greiner
More people live on the surface of the earth today than in any time in the past. As I write this, the US census pop-clock estimates that there are 7,037,380,192 people on the earth. Of course, that is only an estimate. I mean, who can count that many people? Still, that is a lot of people.
Jesus said that the Kingdom of God was like a woman who put a little yeast into a lump of dough and worked it in until it permeated the entire lump. So it is with the Kingdom of God. Jesus declared the Gospel --the yeast-- into the lump of humanity 2000 years ago.
When He spoke the words about the Kingdom and dough, the lump was much smaller, as far as world population goes --about 200 million on the entire earth. When Jesus spoke those words about yeast, there were only a few dozen true believers on the planet. And, with the exception of Jesus Himself, those few had no idea what they even believed, yet! Within a couple of years from the time Jesus spoke this parable, the number of believers would become 120, and then quickly, 5000 or more. They were all concentrated in a small but important area of the world. The yeast was in the lump. The spread was about to begin.
The portion of the lump of dough that the yeast was placed was the Jewish part of the lump. If you are going to get some yeast into the lump of the world's population, there is no better place to start. Why? Because the Jews are communicators and they live all over the place. Being persecuted for centuries is not pleasant, but it does present some strategic advantages for the spread of the Kingdom of God. FULL POST
Posted 8/29/12 at 11:28 AM | Michael Greiner
Two years after leaving home, I became a Christian. Big changes followed. My recreational habits, my words, my sense of purpose, my social circles, my interaction with extended and close family --all these underwent a revolution. Consequently, I thought, "I should probably make something of my life," and decided to enter college at Penn State. More big changes!
College hadn't been a part of my plan. Now, two years out of high school, my view on life had changed radically compared to that of my freshman peers. Learning to be a Christian in academia was also an unexpected challenge. However, I found joy and strength in what my new Christian-speak told me was called "fellowship." I joined a Christian group ("fellowship"), where I could make friends and "fellowship" with them.
What a great situation for a young Christian! Young adults make the most exciting Christians. We were full of passion, zeal, idealism, purpose. However, I met a few Christians in these college Christian circles that are the reason for this blog post: the-about-to-not-be-all-that-Christian-who-had-been-raised-in-the-church type of person. FULL POST


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WHAT: More than 60 members of the ARM® Connected Community™ demonstrated a wide range of exciting and innovative ARM Powered® products at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
With more than 10billion ARM Powered chips shipped into the mobile market by ARM Partners to date, there were a lot of stunning products and technologies to choose from. There was a great deal of interest around the ARM Powered Netbooks from Pegatron and Wistron on the ARM booth – see this interview by ZDnet which really positions ARM as a frontrunner when it comes to creating a new class of mobile Internet devices and a different way for people to use netbooks:
ARM's Roving Reporter captured a few of the other exciting devices and technol
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WHEN: Monday-Thursday, February 16-19, 2009
WHERE: 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress, Fira Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain.
WHO: ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, video engines, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM and ARM Powered are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. Connected Community and Cortex are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Limited.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; ARM Norway, AS; and ARM Sweden AB.
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The Nebraska Chemigation Law requires anyone applying fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides through an irrigation system to pass a test. UNL Extension offers a number of opportunities for training and testing, said Extension Educator Alan Corr.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. chief justice, John Roberts has sought to rein in laws he insists have gone too far on race. At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, he matched rhetoric to action with a pithiness that underscores his opposition to racial preferences.
The court heard a challenge to a Michigan ban on race-based "preferential treatment" in education admissions - a ban that Roberts appeared to support in his questioning of lawyers who argued the case.
The session gave Roberts another opportunity to assert the United States has moved beyond a time when affirmative action was beneficial to blacks and Hispanics - and to assert it with attention-getting phrasemaking.
In a 2007 case, he wrote: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
On Tuesday, when civil rights lawyer Mark Rosenbaum stepped to the lectern to argue that the Michigan ban violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection, Roberts leaned forward from his center chair on the mahogany bench and said curtly: "You could say that the whole point of ... the (Constitution's) Equal Protection Clause is to take race off the table."
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Roberts' reputation for distilling an argument preceded his appointment by Republican President George W. Bush to the Supreme Court in 2005. As a lawyer, Roberts racked up 39 cases before the justices and earned accolades across the political spectrum for getting to the crux of his cases.
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Caddyshack is a 1980 comedy film about an exclusive golf course that has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
- Directed by Harold Ramis. Written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney.
Judge Elihu Smails[edit]
- I have a little poem I'd like to read in honor of this occasion, if I may. Spaulding, get your foot off the boat.
- "It's easy to grin
- when your ship comes in
- and you've got the stock market beat.
- But the man worthwhile
- is the man who can smile
- when his shorts are too tight in the seat". [laughs] Okay, pookie. Do the honors.
- [impatiently waits for the final putt] Well? We're waiting.
Carl Spackler[edit]
- License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill you must know your enemy, and in this case, my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will not quit, ever.
- Great big gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts. How about a nice, cool drink, varmints? Scum! Slime! Menace to the golfing industry! You're a disgrace and you're varmints. You're one of the lowest members of the food chain and you'll probably be replaced by the rat. Well, I have been pushed. I think it's about time that somebody teaches these varmints a little lesson about morality and about what it's like to be a decent, upstanding member of a society! Come to Carl, varmint. Come to Carl. -- Okay, I guess we're playing for keeps now. I guess the kidding around is pretty much over, huh? I guess it's just a matter now of pumping about fifteen thousand gallons of water down there to teach you a little bit of a lesson, is that it? I think it is!
- [standing in an ornamental flowerbed] What an incredible Cinderella story! This unknown, comes out of nowhere, to lead the pack at Augusta. He's at the final hole. He's about 455 yards away, he's gonna hit about a 2-iron, I think. [swings, pulverizes a flower] Oh, he got all of that. The crowd is standing on its feet here at Augusta. The normally reserved Augusta crowd is going wild... [pauses] for this young Cinderella who's come out of nowhere. He's got about 350 yards left, he's going to hit about a 5-iron, it looks like, don't you think? He's got a beautiful backswing... [swings, pulverizes another flower] that's- oh, he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that! The crowd is just on its feet here. He's a Cinderella boy. Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last shot. He's got about 195 yards left, and he's got a, looks like he's got about an 8-iron. This crowd has gone deadly silent... Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion. [swings, pulverizes yet another flower] It looks like a mirac- it's in the hole! It's in the hole!
- Note: bolded portion ranked #92 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
- Ty: I like you, Betty.
- Danny: It's Danny, sir.
- Ty: Danny. Danny, I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen; all you have to do is get in touch with it. Stop thinking...let things happen...and be...the ball.
- Sandy: [with heavy Scottish brogue]: Carl, I want you to kill all the gophers on the course.
- Carl: Check me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they'll lock me up and throw away the key.
- Sandy: Not golfers, you great git! Gophers- the little brown, furry rodents!
- Carl: We can do that. We don't even have to have a reason.
- Sandy: Aye! Well, do it, man!
- Carl: All right. Let's do the same thing, but with gophers. [Sandy storms off] It's not my fault nobody can understand what you're saying.
- Carl: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas.
- Angie: A looper?
- Carl: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver, he hauls off and whacks one- big hitter, the Lama- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says?
- Angie: No.
- Carl: "Gunga galunga...gunga- gunga lagunga." So we finish the eighteenth... and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know... for the effort, you know?" And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
- Al: What're we, waiting for these guys? Hey Whitey, where's your hat?
- Smails: Do you mind, sir. I'm trying to tee off.
- Al: I'll bet you a hundred bucks you slice it into the woods.
- Smails: Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice.
- [he swings his club, and slices the ball into the woods]
- Smails: Damn!
- Al: Okay, you can owe me.
- Smails: I owe you nothing.
- Danny: Judge Smails, sir?
- Smails: Sit down, Danny. I think you know why you're here, so I'll do us the courtesy of not reviewing what happened yesterday. My niece is the kind of girl that has a certain zest for living. The last thing any of us needs now is a lot of loose talk about her behavior.
- Danny: I swear I didn't tell anybody anything, sir.
- Smails: Good, good. You know, despite what happened, I'm still convinced that you have many fine qualities. I think you can still become a gentleman someday if you understand and abide by the rules of decent society. There's a lot of...well, badness in the world today. I see it in court every day. I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. I didn't want to do it- I felt I owed it to them. The most important decision you can make right now is what you stand for- goodness...or badness.
- Danny: Now I know I've made some mistakes in the past. I'm willing to make up for that. I want to be good!
- Smails: Very good! I know how hard it is for young people today and I want to help. Just ask my grandson, Spaulding. He and I are regular pals. Are you my pal..."Mr. Scholarship Winner"?
- Danny: Yes, sir! I'm your pal!
- Smails: [ruffles Danny's hair] How about a Fresca?
- Spaulding: I want a hamburger-- No, cheeseburger. I want a hot dog, I want a milkshake, I want a potato...
- Smails: You'll get nothing and like it!
- At last, a comedy that bites!
- Some People Just Don't Belong.
- The Snobs Against The Slobs!
- Playing A Round Of Golf At The Bushwood Club Isn't Just Confined To The Golf Course!
- At last, a comedy with balls!
- Chevy Chase - Ty Webb
- Rodney Dangerfield - Al Czervik
- Ted Knight - Judge Elihu Smails
- Michael O'Keefe - Danny Noonan
- Bill Murray - Carl Spackler
- Sarah Holcomb - Maggie O'Hooligan
- Scott Colomby - Tony D'Annunzio
- Cindy Morgan - Lacey Underall
- Dan Resin - Dr. Beeper
- Henry Wilcoxon - The Bishop
External links[edit]
- Caddyshack quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Caddyshack at Rotten Tomatoes


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Burra Maluca wrote:
Someone on another forum asked if it was more efficient in extremely cold weather to keep central heating on 'tick over' all night or to heat the house from cold in the morning. I have a feeling that 'tick over all night' is going to be more efficient, but does anyone have any sold information I can pass on?
It is as long as they do not lower it too much. 5 to 7 degrees F usually nets money in your pocket including the warm up the next morning.
Professor of Thermal and Electrical Engineering, Welding/metallurgy: Licenses: PE license, Mechanical license Variety of other "certifications" from industry groups such as Refrigeration Service Engineers Society http://www.rses.org/, ASHRE http://www.ashrae.org/ Ect.
The red represents house temp over a 24 hour period. Midnight to midnight. Warm things up in the morning and in the evening.
The blue represents energy used to get that house temp.
The peaks in the second graph represent the same temp in the first graph.
When you turn the thermostat down, there is zero energy used for a while. Then there is a much smaller amount of energy used to maintain the lower temp.
Then, when you turn the thermostat up, a lot of energy is used to get the whole house back up to the higher temp.
In the end, there is energy savings, but it isn't as much as you might hope.
Supposing for a moment that it takes 100 units of energy to maintain the higher temp all day, and it takes 50 units of energy to maintain the lower tempt all day, you might think that turning the thermostat down to the lower temp for 18 hours a day (3/4 of the day) would bring you down to 60 to 65 units of energy a day. But those spikes in energy use to get the temps back up use a lot of energy units. So your total energy use will probably end up around 90 units of energy per day. So you saved energy - just not as much as you you might think/hope.
(all this depends on dozens of factors, so this is all a lot of averaging and generalizing and a heavy dose of utter fiction - but this is what is in my head)
This is why I think there are way bigger savings to be had by keeping the temp low all the time.
If a person is home very little but at the same time each day, the set back can save you some bucks wile providing comfort while you are there.
Set your stat to the lowest "I am totally happy" temp you can, if you have periods of over 5 hours, set the lower set point about 5 degrees below that and you will save energy. If you go lower than that, while you will save energy in heating the air, allowing the walls, furniture and such cool down too much will use all your savings to warm the space back up.
You might see a lot of claims, I would estimate the savings between 2 and 10 dollars a month so in most folks cases, the automatic thermostat will pay for itself in about 2 to 5 years.
The same goal can be done by setting it yourself, just do not take it to extremes.
A vast majority of folks would indeed be better off to turn it as low as they can enjoy and then sit with a comfy blanket or snuggle with a friend instead of sitting on opposite ends of the sofa!
Professor of Thermal and Electrical Engineering, Welding/metallurgy: Licenses: PE license, Mechanical license Variety of other "certifications" from industry groups such as Refrigeration Service Engineers Society http://www.rses.org/, ASHRE http://www.ashrae.org/ Ect.
Whatever,,,,what about a timer on your hot water? I'll bet you don't need that as much. Key is how are you getting it, a timer (in the majority of cases) will work (fuel usage wise) to save the most.
Heat can vary spring and fall, you can jump the heat up and down and still be comfortable (depending on you) but cold times are what they are, cold.
S'up to you what works.
shaneaaron wrote:
I'll throw one out, a flat line in the dead of winter (one temp that is comfortable) works very well, only because of demand. Keep things warm when you need them that way, it's a comfort thing ONLY. And when you consider heating and cooling all your furnishings when it's frigid, don't they hold/emit heat? If your O.K. with being chilly after kneeling in the snow all day, you are a better man than I.
We have timerstats one to a room. For bed rooms 8am till 7pm there is no one in them and we let the temp drop. In the evening the temp goes to a warmer but still cool sleeping temp, then in the morning it goes up to "comfortable to get out of bed" for a bit... this helps us to wake up too. I work outside and find the the house temp can be quite cool and still feel very warm when I first get in, but when I sit down a bit, I need it warmer. With timerstats you have to set the times earlier than you need so the room has a chance to get to the temp you desire before you need it and of course the heat can shut off a bit before you are finished with it too.
Note: It doesn't get as cold here as some places, our average minimum is around freezing with 10 below that being unusual, but happens once in a while.... really cold is -14C (1949) but that was a long time ago. Anyway, even though the cold setting on our timerstats is set to 12C, the coldest it ever seems to get inside is 15C, except downstairs at 12C, but no heat besides computers and misc electronics... and the earth it sits in. Our high setting is 19 or 20C (normal in most homes is 22C think 72F) and our sleep setting is 18 or 19C at the years coldest and as low as 17C in the shoulder months (Oct,Nov,Mar,Apr) then it gets set to vacation for the summer (12C... means off).
Whatever,,,,what about a timer on your hot water? I'll bet you don't need that as much. Key is how are you getting it, a timer (in the majority of cases) will work (fuel usage wise) to save the most.
We do that too. What we don't do but really works well, is to schedule hot water use to minimize the amount of time the water heater needs to be on. Ours is electric and so could be super insulated which might save just as much as turning it off at night.... gas heaters have to have air flow to feed the fire and exhaust to take fumes away... so with the tube up the center taking heat out all the time, extra insulation on the out side doesn't do near as much. IMO the insulation it comes with doesn't do that much because of the core heat losses.
Just remember, the bigger the difference in temps, the FASTER the energy transfer.
And .... I stand by my point that it takes much more energy to warm a home 15 degrees than 2 degrees.
The strategy of setting the thermostat to 70 for an hour in the morning and for four hours in the evening , seems like it would cut 70% off of the heat bill. I think it will cut only 10% to 15% off of the heat bill. So there are savings, but I think the "heat the person, not the whole house" strategy has a far greater reward.
paul wheaton wrote:Your point about the differential is spot on.
And .... I stand by my point that it takes much more energy to warm a home 15 degrees than 2 degrees.
The strategy of setting the thermostat to 70 for an hour in the morning and for four hours in the evening , seems like it would cut 70% off of the heat bill. I think it will cut only 10% to 15% off of the heat bill. So there are savings, but I think the "heat the person, not the whole house" strategy has a far greater reward.
I agree with both of these points based on my experience in my house. I've been in my house for 2 winters, going on the third.
The first winter I was manually adjusting the thermostat, down to 55ish at night up to 63-65 when someone was home bills were approx $80, $115, $130 for Nov, Dec, Jan. Near the end of Jan I installed a wood burning fireplace insert with a blower and used that to play the game "don't let the furnace kick on" My next gas bill was $80 for Feb, $40 for march. Feb is just about as cold as Jan here, March similar to Nov.
The second winter I was promised a "whole bunch of wood to keep you warm." When my friend finally came through on this the wood he dropped off was a bunch of water logged pine. Needless to say it was no good for keeping me warm. I was however given a programable thermostat at about the same time. I figured I wouldn't see much difference since I had been doing it manually but as it turned out it saved me ~$50/month. Temp is set at 55 at night, warms up to 60 for 2 hours in the morning when everyone is waking up, goes back down to 55 while we are at work. Then warms up to 63 right before I get home from work. Sometimes I would turn it up to 66 if I was getting complaints from certain girlfriends, but now they know that when it's winter you shouldn't be wearing a T-shirt and complaining about the cold.
So wood burning stove saved ~$50/month
Programable thermostat saved ~$50/month
This year I have a decent stock pile of wood and still have the thermostat set the same way. I'll keep track of my results but so far so good, turned the furnace on for the first time last week. It only seems to run when I am at work because when I wake up the house temp is still above the min threshold of 55.
SE, MI, Zone 5b "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~Thomas Edison
1. burning one fire when the sun went down each night, lasted about 3 hours, usually done by 8:30-9pm.
2. and replacing my very old fridge (because it died) with a new energy saver model.
I couldn't believe the instant savings.
The fire was in a standard fireplace (no efficiency there) but was just feet away from the thermostat keeping the central heating off for hours.
We would then retire to our cool bedrooms for the night. Saving $100 during the winter months was really a blessing. I'm a believer in room heating over central heating.
So when it gets cold and strong winds blow I find the temp needs to be raised by 1 - 2C ... however, I also have a woodburning stove and when its lit in the hard winter it keeps the thermostat from coming on most of the time, and yet the oil is there to keep things above freezing through the night. There might well be a small saving by letting the house cool right down, however I feel its better to have a steady heat on keeping the damp air at bay, plus the added comfort should you be home.
Last winter, many folks in my area were caught out with freezing temps day and night and came home from work or awakened to frozen water pipes, another reason to keep the heat on 24/7. Just my long 2p worth.
This year I've already got the sliding door panels up and I've bubble wrapped the whole upstairs- if our room with the thermostat has matching extra insulation, her room won't get overheated. I'm still playing with ideas (and looking for time) for making a solar air heater to feed through a south facing window.
Now that I've finally started reading more here instead of just thinking "yeah, I really ought to get over to check out Permies," I read Paul's 87% article and watched the beginning of the video. Today the kids' Christmas presesnts for Mommy came in the mail: a pet bed warmer, swing arm lamp and IR bulb. Now maybe I can set the ground floor cooler in the evenings.
Now in my next house, the one with the solar radiant heating and a masonry stove, I'll worry about thermal mass.
A quick search I did seems to support it IS better to turn heating off when you don't want it, & on when you do, (AND HIGHLY recommends very programmable heating programmers, many time periods at different temperatures etc). Because, as others have pointed out here, the higher the temperature inside, the greater the heat loss to the outside.
For example:
Dear Umbra,
Many of my friends are environmentally minded and do lots of things to try to have a smaller carbon footprint. Yet when I tell people I turn my heat down when I leave the house even for an hour or two, and that I turn it down to 50 at night, they say, "I thought it takes more energy to reheat the house than to keep it at a constant temperature." Please clarify. If it is better to turn the heat down, then there is a LOT of room for education on this topic, as even many people in the environmental community are confused.
Let's say a typical, nice heat setting is 68 Fahrenheit while at home, 58 at night or while away. (Your 50 is probably lower than most people will try, but bravo to you.) The heater will save fuel as it falls to 58, and expend about the same amount of fuel as it rises back to 68. Therefore, these two transitional phases cancel each other out. And while the heater is set at 58, for as long as it is set at 58, it is merrily saving fuel (aka energy, money, and the planet). Because as we all know, it takes more heat to keep a house at 68 than at 58. Overall, then, fuel is saved.
To bulk up this answer a little bit and remind us all that insulation and sealing the house are important aspects of keeping ourselves, but not the planet, warm, let's discuss air-movement dynamics briefly. Remember, air lives a life of heat equality. Hot air wants to rush out and share the heat with nearby cold air until all air is the same temperature. This happens, as fervid readers may recall, through the processes of convection, radiation, and conduction. The stack effect is an example of convection: Hot air in a building not only rises, but is of higher pressure. As it rises, it pushes against any cracks in the ceiling or roof, escapes, and leaves a low-pressure area at the bottom of the house. The cold air rushes in to the low-pressure area, and must in turn be heated.
Our heaters are fighting an incessant battle on our behalf, warming all the new air. If we are not there to be warmed, or are sleeping under a cozy duvet, we can turn down the thermostat. Programmable thermostats are very helpful and quite cheap.
I repeat: Reheating uses less energy than keeping it hot while you're gone. No organization -- reputable or disreputable -- disagrees with this advice. To quote the EERE, "This misconception has been dispelled by years of research and numerous studies."
One link quoted supporting this view in one the replies might have clinched it
"If you want to really nerd out over this here is most recent, over-instrumented research:
http://www.homeenergy.org/article_full.php?id=566&art ..."
but frustratingly, won't work for me!
ALSO: extracts from the EERE advice:
"A common misconception associated with thermostats is that a furnace works harder than normal to warm the space back to a comfortable temperature after the thermostat has been set back, resulting in little or no savings. In fact, as soon as your house drops below its normal temperature, it will lose energy to the surrounding environment more slowly. The lower the interior temperature, the slower the heat loss. So the longer your house remains at the lower temperature, the more energy you save, because your house has lost less energy than it would have at the higher temperature. The same concept applies to raising your thermostat setting in the summer; a higher interior temperature will slow the flow of heat into your house, saving energy on air conditioning."
[Unfortunately I am then lost, when EERE advise states:
Limitations For Homes With Heat Pumps, Electric Resistance Heating, Steam Heat, And Radiant Floor Heating
Programmable thermostats are generally not recommended for heat pumps. In its cooling mode, a heat pump operates like an air conditioner, so turning up the thermostat (either manually or with a programmable thermostat) will save energy and money. But when a heat pump is in its heating mode, setting back its thermostat can cause the unit to operate inefficiently, thereby cancelling out any savings achieved by lowering the temperature setting. Maintaining a moderate setting is the most cost-effective practice. Recently, however, some companies have begun selling specially designed programmable thermostats for heat pumps, which make setting back the thermostat cost effective. These thermostats typically use special algorithms to minimize the use of backup electric resistance heat systems.]
ALSO: advice from the UK Government's Energy Savings Trust:
"Programmer or time control
This will automatically switch your heating off when you're not at home, or when you can do without it, such as when you're in bed.
Programmers allow you to set 'on' and 'off' time periods. Most models will let you set the central heating and domestic hot water to go on and off at different times. There may also be manual overrides. Check that the timer on the programmer is correct before you set your programmes. You may also need to adjust it when the clocks change.
Choose a cold evening and time how long it takes for your house to warm up from cold to a comfortable temperature – this is the warm-up time. Then turn the heating off completely and time how long it takes for the house to start to get uncomfortably cold – this is the cool-down time.
You can now set your timers including the warm up and cool down time. So, for example, you can make sure that the heating goes on with a warm-up time before you wake up and turns off before you leave the house. If you insulate your home, it will warm up more quickly and cool down more slowly, so you'll save money on heating."
Please note however:
the EST advise says allow for the warm-up and cool down times.
Clearly, if your house / heating system is such that the warm-up period is longer than a period you leave then return to your house, then you can't turn the heating off (and expect the house to return to a comfortable temperature when you want it to). You'd need to turn the thermostat down to whatever the heating system can recover from, when you leave.
If this is the case, then we are dealing with "extreme" cold and / or relatively poor house construction (or possibly high heat expectation).
I think Paul's point:
"And .... I stand by my point that it takes much more energy to warm a home 15 degrees than 2 degrees."
is certainly true, but the logic wrong, since you've been paying (using energy) to keep your home that extra 13 degrees warmer.
(I am a home energy advisor in the UK, so have this discussion quite often) I do meet some people who claim they have tested this and found that they use less energy keeping their house on a mid-temp "tick over" while they are out, then boosting it up when they are in, rather than letting the house go "cold" (I am assuming not freezing).
I can only accept what they say, though it does not fit with what I can justify to myself, nor what "official" guidance seems to be, both in the UK and US.
Other considerations:
Paul is no doubt aware of Ianto Evans' thermal benches / beds and the like – heating furniture (rather than the surrounding air) seems a more sensible way to go, ESPECIALLY when burning wood, because the most efficient burn is a very hot burn, so the deal there is to store and moderate the heat (which massive furniture allows).
Mass furniture is unlikely to be acceptable in most modern (i.e. light-weight homes, where I suspect load-bearing capacity is a limiting factor)
Obviously we don't want our homes to freeze (burst water pipes). Modern heating programmers should include a frost setting, which will prevent indoor freezing - clearly sensible.
And yes (of course):
it is far better to only heat those areas of the house where you are (i.e. not "spare / guest bedrooms..."),
and, more extreme, but I think entirely logical, Paul's personal heating (rather than space heating), e.g. as simple as a blanket on a couch, as per your great "how I saved 87%..." article
Most of us in Europe have got used to very cheap heating, mainly from natural gas which is now getting less cheap, so I think the days of central heating (i.e., in my opinion heating under-used areas of a house) are numbered. In my childhood (I'm approaching 50), my family, who I wouldn't describe as poor, had just one heated room (in addition to the kitchen, which was warm while cooking was happening). I htink this was normal.
So in winter, we were mostly in the (one) heated room. I didn't spend too much time in my bedroom in deep winter, which could get ice on (the inside of) the windows.
Bodies are likely to radiate around 100watts / person, so a few people in one room begins to make a significant heating impact.
So, 1 hour in the morning and 4 hours in the evening is five hours out of 24. About 20%. That means the heat will be set to a lower temperature about 80% of the time.
So people might think that they are going to save about 70% or, under the right conditions, the full 80%.
I think the savings are typically going to be more like 10% to 20%. And, of course, it depends on a LOT of factors.
If we are talking about a house that is poorly insulated and the outside temperature is 62 degrees, and the thermostat gets lowered to 60 at night and runs at 70 while people are in the house .... then I do think people will save a lot of money doing this.
paul wheaton wrote:Your point about the differential is spot on.
And .... I stand by my point that it takes much more energy to warm a home 15 degrees than 2 degrees.
The strategy of setting the thermostat to 70 for an hour in the morning and for four hours in the evening , seems like it would cut 70% off of the heat bill. I think it will cut only 10% to 15% off of the heat bill. So there are savings, but I think the "heat the person, not the whole house" strategy has a far greater reward.
One interesting way to "heat the person, not the house" is to be naked when using radiant heating, including passive-solar heated thermal mass or a masonry stove. Radiant heat is line-of-sight, whatever is exposed to the radiant body is heated. Radiant heat works efficiently by heating the bodies in the room, without significantly elevating air temperatures. Your air temperature could be 60 degrees, but perfectly comfortable, because a radiant body is putting out infrared rays to warm your skin directly.
The down-side, of course, is that 60 degree air is cooling your skin with convective and evaporative cooling. You can reduce this by limiting air-flow. It's a trade-off. The best of both worlds, is a warm bench (like some rocket stove designs), or using a thermal mass like a heated brick or water-bottle, bundled with you under some covers. Once your body's core temperature is up, skin cooling isn't as chilling.
Kevin EarthSoul (real, legal name)
Omaha, NE
at 4 ft away from your Radiant heat source , you will be warmish at 8' and unable to feel the heat at 16', at that range if you are not sitting on the end of
your Thermal Mass you will be cold ! For the Craft ! Big AL !
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The final race of the IZOD IndyCar Series season has become Power's version of "Groundhog Day" as he lives the same day over and over and over.
Perhaps the best driver in the IndyCar Series, Power's inability to win a championship has made him the "Greg Norman of IndyCar." Norman was an unbelievably talented golfer from Australia who faded in the final round of practically every major tournament in which he participated. Some even compared Power to IndyCar's version of the Buffalo Bills as the NFL team went to four straight Super Bowls, only to come up short in every appearance.
Those comparisons are cruel and may be unfair. But one thing is certain – Power and his Team Penske crew on the No. 12 Verizon Dallara/Chevrolet displayed the heart of a champion after Power hit one of the asphalt seams on the racetrack in Turn 2 and crashed hard into the wall on lap 55. When Power spun, his car came within a few feet of hitting Hunter-Reay's Dallara/Chevrolet. If both cars had crashed and were unable to continue in the race, Power would have won the title as he entered the contest 17 points ahead of Hunter-Reay.
The entire left side of the car was damaged, and it appeared Power's hopes were over.
Not so fast.
If Power's car could be repaired and if he could complete 12 more laps, he would finish ahead of E.J. Viso in the final standings. That meant Hunter-Reay would have to finish fifth and not sixth to clinch the championship.
More than 20 Team Penske crew members from all three cars worked feverishly to repair the damaged race car, and Power was able to rejoin the race on Lap 124. After completing the 12 laps to guarantee he would finish ahead of Viso and without the prospect of advancing any further in the field, Power's car went back to the garage area, this time for good.
"That's what you have to come prepared for," Team Penske President Tim Cindric said. "That's the way it goes in this business. Some days it's yours, and some days it's not. A seam caught him out, and that is how he lost control. We have had a good season and all that, but you always want more."
That put the pressure on Hunter-Reay, who had to score a top-five finish to win the championship. At that point in the race, that certainly wasn't a guarantee because Hunter-Reay's Chevrolet was struggling to keep up, dropping toward the bottom of the top 10.
With Power out of the race and Hunter-Reay struggling, the battle up front was fierce between Carpenter, Scott Dixon, James Jakes, Dario Franchitti, Alex Tagliani and Tony Kanaan. There were 29 lead changes among 12 drivers in what had turned out to be an outstanding race in IndyCar's return to the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway for the first time since 2005.
There were two races going on – the one that would determine the first to 500 miles and the race to determine the championship. Both were filled with drama.
Takuma Sato took the lead on Lap 228 of Lap 250, and Hunter-Reay was in sixth place – one position out of clinching the title. Two laps later, he made it to the top five because Alex Tagliani's car conked out and came to a stop on the race course. When the green flag waved on lap 235, Carpenter was in the lead, followed by Sato and Franchitti. Two laps later, Franchitti, this year's Indianapolis 500 winner for the third time in his career, was in front of the field and began to drive away from Carpenter before another yellow flag just nine laps from the finish when Tony Kanaan spun and hit the Turn 1 wall.
One lap later, INDYCAR President of Competition Beaux Barfield made a surprising and controversial decision to stop the race by displaying the red flag.
Hunter-Reay's team owner, Michael Andretti, was livid. Not only did he believe the red flag was unnecessary, it created more pressure and tension on Hunter-Reay as he tried to maintain the top-five position and clinch the championship.
"I don't know why they did that," Andretti said. "It's really disappointing – changing rules here on the fly. It's never been done before. It's a first. I just hope it doesn't cost us the championship. But Ryan's car is good, and he has something to fight with. The whole year has come down to this, and we knew it was going to be a hard fight all night. We told Ryan to keep hanging in there and he did. Let's see if he can win this thing."
The engines were refired after a four-minute, 56-second delay, and racing resumed with Franchitti in the lead just six laps from the checkered flag. Hunter-Reay had moved up to third place and was locked in a battle with Sato as the laps were winding down.
On the white flag lap, Franchitti was out front but Carpenter passed him for the lead just moments before Sato spun and crashed in Turn 2 to bring out the yellow flag. The race was over, giving Carpenter his second career IndyCar victory and Hunter-Reay the championship.
After Hunter-Reay won the Grand Prix of Baltimore on Sept. 2, Andretti vowed that Hunter-Reay was going to win the championship. Hunter-Reay backed up Andretti's guarantee by delivering the championship – the fourth for the team. Tony Kanaan won the title in 2004, Dan Wheldon in 2005 and Franchitti in 2007.
Add Hunter-Reay's name to that list as IZOD IndyCar Series champions for Andretti Autosport.
"He did it, man; he did a great job," Andretti said. "He just did a hell of a job there at the end. When he needs to step it up, he steps it up. He got us this championship. I'm really proud of him. This is a game of inches, and when Will Power spun, we got away with it.
"It's an unbelievable weekend. We won the pole with Marco Andretti and won the championship. But it was big-time tense. This was a team effort, and we have a great driver. This is the best championship. This one means the most. The pressure was on until the last lap. We had to keep our composure and get the job done. And it came down to the last lap of the last race to win the championship.
"You can't beat IndyCar racing – it's the best in the world."
Hunter-Reay's wife, Beccy, was jubilant as she ran down pit lane to greet her husband in the biggest moment of his racing career. But she stopped on pit lane to get congratulations from someone who made a surprising return to the season finale.
It was Susie Wheldon, the widow of Dan Wheldon, who was killed in horrific crash in last year's IZOD IndyCar Series season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
It was yet another moment that added to this unbelievable "dream sequence" on a surreal night in the Inland Empire of California.
"Beccy, I'm so happy for you," Susie Wheldon said to Beccy Hunter-Reay.
"You said it – you said what is meant to be is meant to be," Beccy said to Susie Wheldon.
"The red flag was not what Ryan needed at the time, but maybe it calmed him down," Beccy Hunter-Reay said. "And, oh, my God, I just realized that Ed Carpenter won. Oh my gosh. And I used to work at California Speedway. I did my internship here. I can't tell you how insane this is. We had 38 family members here. This is amazing."
Ryan Hunter-Reay was able to stop on pit lane for a massive celebration with his crew.
"This team did an excellent job," he said. "We were lost on setup, and we had three great teammates that helped and this was a teammate. The only reason I won the championship today was a total team effort. When that red flag came out, I didn't want to see it because I had a rhythm going. I was going to go full-out or I was crashing. There was tons of doubt tonight, but we just kept at it. That's what we have done all season.
"When we were 37 points back at Baltimore, I didn't think this was possible, but we were going to give it a shot."
At that point, a fellow driver dressed it street clothes made his way through the crowd to congratulate Hunter-Reay on his victory.
That driver was Power, the man who had fought so hard, come so close to winning championships each of the past three seasons only to suffer the disappointment of seeing his dream turn into a nightmare by hitting the wall.
"You deserve this championship," Power told Hunter-Reay. "You were the best driver all season."
While Hunter-Reay's crew continued to celebrate, Power made the long walk down pit road flanked by his public relations representative Merrill Cain. He had time to reflect on yet another dream turned into a nightmare.
"Yeah, man, another tough one," Power said. "I have to say Hunter-Reay is a very deserving champion. He won more races than anyone, and he is a very good all-around driver. As you can see, it's a combination that is very tough to beat.
"To sit and watch this race on the couch was pretty intense, realizing we had a chance to still win this championship. It's another second, another year ..."
Power realized his team produced a championship effort to repair the car just so he could make 12 more laps.
"That was very impressive," Power said. "When I saw there was still a chance we could win it, I didn't want to watch. But to rely on Ryan having a bad day is not the way to win a championship. Ryan is certainly a fighter, and as far as all-around drivers, he is on top of the list.
"But for me, if I could just finish the three oval races I crashed out of, that would be big points. I wasn't being aggressive on the oval here. You just can't win, you know? I just simply have to get better on the ovals. I've won the road course championship quite convincingly so it is very obvious where I lack.
"I was just sitting there praying to have a couple of guys pass him. I feel bad for Penske Racing."
Carpenter's Dallara/Chevrolet finished 1.9132 seconds ahead of Franchitti's Dallara/Honda in a race that finished under yellow. Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Scott Dixon was third in a Dallara/Honda. Hunter-Reay finished fourth in a Dallara/Chevrolet to claim the championship with Team Penske driver Helio Castroneves rounding out the top five in a Dallara/Chevrolet.
Not only was it Carpenter's second career IndyCar win as a driver, it was his first as a team owner.
Carpenter grew up at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway – his mother, Laura, is married to former IMS President and Indy Racing League founder Tony George. So there were many times that Carpenter dreamed of winning a "500-Mile Race."
Well, he did – but it came at California and not Indianapolis.
"It was a wild race," Carpenter said. "I had never done a 500-miler before other than in Indianapolis, so there were a lot of things to not know what to expect. But it was fun. We started out great, and the car was really good early. I felt really confident coming into the race that we had a good car. We started trying to make it better, because it wasn't the best car early, and we actually made it worse. We just kept working on it and got better and better as the race went on. Got a couple of good restarts in the end. I got in good position and was able to make a well-timed pass on Dario and get a yellow to come out.
"The red flag, I guess that is a new procedure at IndyCar that none of us had heard about, but it worked out for me tonight, so I'll take it."
Carpenter finally got to celebrate a win a in a "500." Hunter-Reay finally got to celebrate an IZOD IndyCar Series championship, but he paid tribute to how Power and his team went down fighting even after crashing into the wall.
"I think Will is one of the great talents there has been in IndyCar in a very long time," Hunter-Reay said. "He is one of the best. His talent level, what he does on the track, especially some of these road courses and street circuits some of us haven't seen at all. He certainly would be a deserving champion if he won it.
"But we had a breakout year. We really did. We fought for this thing. I certainly feel bad for Will ending up in the wall like that. They got him out there. And trust me, I was not happy when I heard we had to finish one more position up because they got him back out. That was a curve ball I wasn't expecting.
"But Will coming in runner-up quite a few seasons in a row, it's just a matter of time before he wins it with the talent that he has. He's certainly great for IndyCar in many ways."
It was Hunter-Reay's time on Saturday night. And it's time for Power to finally end this nightmarish cycle of losing the championship in a Greg Norman-like meltdown in the final round.
Talk about waking up in the middle of a dream Power simply wants his nightmare to come to an end.


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Chelsea complete Filipe Luis deal
Chelsea have completed the signing of left-back Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid.
- Chelsea Head To Head: Make or break for Mourinho?
The Blues announced they had reached an agreement for the defender on Wednesday and they have now tied up the transfer.
The Brazil international, 28, has put pen to paper on a three-year contract at Stamford Bridge, after Jose Mourinho sought to replace Ashley Cole, who has left for Roma on a free transfer.
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- Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) July 18, 2014
Luis told Chelsea's official website: "This move is a dream come true for me. I now have the opportunity to play for Chelsea, and also in the Premier League.
"I'm very happy and looking forward to getting started and giving my best for the team during the coming seasons."
Luis joined Atletico from Deportivo La Coruna in 2010 and went on to enjoy impressive success with the club, lifting the Liga title last season.
He also won the Europa League with Atletico in 2012, setting up a UEFA Super Cup meeting with Chelsea, which saw the Spanish side triumph 4-1.
Luis helped his nation win the Confederations Cup in 2013 but he was not named in the 23-man squad for this summer's World Cup.
He will join former Atletico teammate Diego Costa at Chelsea, who have also recalled Thibaut Courtois from loan at the Vicente Calderon and have signed Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona.
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Ask Questions and Cube Up the Answers
Lesson 6 of 7
Objective: SWBAT ask and answer questions about informational text using words and text features to verify answers.
- 2nd grade informational texts (I used our Houghton Mifflin Social Studies text (the sections about explorers). You could use a set of short biography readers at the 2nd grade level
- 'Cube It Up' student worksheet
- Computers/Ipad for students to create cube - with printer capabilities or
- BioCube website: (try it out before you teach the lesson, make a template cube with the questions you can answer from the text - make sure you can save a template and print from it)
- Printable Biocube template (if the students don't use the website) for students to fill out-print this on card stock
- Set up the whiteboard so it looks like the worksheet
- Students needs scissors, pencils, colored pencils/crayons
- 6 strips of tape to put on the side of each students' desk
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: questioning, biography, informational text, text features, names of the text features you will use– preview your books to see features they have – I used map, photo, pictures, caption, heading
Reading texts in social studies and science helps the students build a foundation of knowledge in these areas to make them better readers in other content areas. The cross disciplinary focus with the Common Core State Standards encourages teachers to use texts from other subjects in reading lessons, which ultimately benefits the students as they are exposed to vocabulary and concepts and generalize them throughout the day. The focus on answering questions using text evidence (RI.2.1) to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text in this lesson represents a shift in the Common Core State Standards to encourage students to read closely. Students are shown how to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it. The ability to cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions (when writing) makes their answers more powerful and arguments more convincing.
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Let's Get Excited
Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Introduction to the lesson (a review from yesterday, so keep it short)
- "Yesterday we read about world explorers in our informational text. Some of these men explored America. Let's look at our timeline to see when all of this happened."
- "How does the time period of these explorers compare to the time period of the Native Americans?" (The context of time can be so difficult so the timeline really helps me with these ideas.)
- "Let's take a peek at our class map. What were some of the countries that the explorers came from and went to?" (Again the visual is paramount to giving the kids context)
- "Here's a quick video of some explorers. (The video is a song with pictures that's an overview of American explorers. The voice is not good, but my kids REALLY liked it.)
- "Wow there were LOTS of explorers in that video."
- "Did you recognize any of them?"
- "What did you think about their clothing?"
- "Why they were going to America?"
- "Let's write a few vocabulary words on the board that are related to exploration that we might need later for our work." (explorer, journey, voyage, discover, adventure)
Although I don't like to 'front load' lessons with a lot of information (I want to keep the focus on the text), I wanted to spend a few moments reviewing the ideas of explorers since there was SO much information in this section (names, dates, countries....). We have been talking about early World Exploration and we read the HM sections the day before, but it was worth spending a few moments on vocabulary and names, which went a long way toward allowing the kids to have an overall picture before they start answering specific questions about the topic. Anytime we have new information in a text that's loaded with text features, I tend to spend 2 days on the information. On the first day, we get an overall picture and I teach the vocabulary and concepts. The second day we go back, relook at the text features and get specific information.
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Teacher's Turn
Explain the task
- "Today, you'll be working in groups to find more about a specific explorer. We are going to use questioning to find information about him and then make a 'biocube' - which is a cube that shows information that you'd put in a biography."
- "Most of the information about these explorers is in the text features of the book - the maps, charts, timelines, etc."
- "Take a quick look at our some of our informational text features vocabulary that we've been using. (reference the words that you put on the whiteboard) "What's a map for? Where do we find a caption? How does the heading help us?....."
Modeling (I chose Columbus because he's the most familiar)
- Read the first section about Christopher Columbus and look at text features, writing information on the whiteboard organizer. "I'll keep my answers short because I'll be typing them later into the website."
- "I'm going to choose 'Christopher Columbus' to find details about. His name is in the heading. I'll write 'Who is the explorer?' and his name next the first question."
- "For the next question I'll write 'Where did he go?' There's a map that shows he went to North America." (Write that on the board)
- "The next question I'll write is 'How did he change people's thinking?' The caption says that they learned about America so I'll write that."
- "For the next question, 'What was made after his trip?'. There's an picture that shows the maps that were made when he returned."
- "For the 'why' question, I'll write 'Why did he go there?' The diagram shows that he went there to find America, so I'll write that."
- "Now I'll pull up the website and type my questions and answers onto the website."
- This is what the whiteboard looked like when we were done.
For this lesson, the focus was answering questions and identifying text features. You'll notice that the questions on the whiteboard are different that those on the worksheet. After I modeled a few question, the kids chimed in with other question ideas and I realized that allowing them to ask questions, although a good skill, would not require them to necessarily look at the text features. Some of their ideas for questions couldn't be answered by the text features (which was the focus of the lesson) or by the text at all (Was he married? or How many kids did he have?). I changed it up and decided to give them a worksheet with the questions already written for them. I demonstrated how to write very short, but accurate, answers since they'll be typing.
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Explain the task
- "Now you'll be working in groups to find out more about an explorer from the text. In the book, there is information and LOTS of text features about each one."
- Put the kids in groups. I always give a quick review of the Rules for Good Group Work on our group rules poster..
- "I'll list the group and the explorer for you to work on. Each group gets one worksheet. Find the information and make sure you have support from the text. Is there a caption or picture that tells you the answer? Keep your answers short. I may come by and ask you how you got your answers - where is the evidence from the text features."
Kids answer questions in groups
- Students read their text (walk around and ask what text features they are using – "How does that graph help you?" "What does that map show?")
- Students fill out worksheets with questions (encourage them to use 1-2 of the target vocabulary that you used in their questions)
- Here's an example of one of my student's completed worksheets.
Kids enter information for the cube
- Students type the information into the website or write on a blank template (if you're not using the computer/ipad)
- I again had to remind them to take turns typing information - they love to use the computer/ipad.
- This was really engaging for the kids. Here's a video of a student using the 'cube' website.
Students are practicing the skill of gaining information from text and text features and then writing answers based on the evidence that they read. They are answering questions based mostly on the text features, which are often overlooked. The students read the text and move on, ignoring the captions, illustrations, lists, diagrams, graphs, etc., which carry SO much information. My goal is that they know and use various text features to locate key facts or information efficiently. (RI.2.5) As they work, I ask them about their evidence. Are they reading closely to determine what the text says explicitly and are they able to cite specific textual evidence to answer and answer the questions? (RI.2.1) Ultimately, they are learning how to cite evidence to answer questions, as well as acquire and utilize academic vocabulary, both of which are captured in one of the key shifts in the ELA Common Core Standards.
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Show What You've Learned
Finish the cube
- "Cut out the cube and get ready to draw." This is what the cube cut out looked like.
- "Now you can add illustrations to their cube. How do you know what the explorer looked like? Check the illustrations! What was the name of the country? Look in the text. Remember to always have 'text evidence' to support your answers!"
- "When you're done illustrating, fold and tape together the cube. (Here is a step-by-step visual of the 'steps to making the cube')
- This is what one of my student's cubes looked like.
Reflect on what you have learned
- Students share their cube with the class and you prompt with questions.
- "Which feature helps you most?"
- "How did you answer that question?"
- "Did that (text feature) give you information?"
- "How does that question help you understand what you read?"
- Here's an example of one of my students student reflecting on her project.
Check for understanding – can they make an illustration that supports their questions? Can they share how a text feature helped them? These answers will guide your next lesson – review a certain skill, reteach the lesson, or challenge students with different objectives. When the teacher asks the questions, she can differentiate the difficulty of the question, use target vocabulary, check for class understanding and prompt as needed ("Did the bold print help you….?")
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be easily scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Students with challenges in reading or language should be mixed into groups of various learning abilities. They may need support to answer questions because questioning is typically very difficult for these students.
Students with more ability should be able to ask deeper questions about the topic and be a model for the group. Encourage them to prompt the group to answer questions that look deeper into the text. Although they may need prompting and an example, it's worth challenging them to use higher language and sharpen their questioning skills.


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Our Point of View, by MEA-MFT President Eric Feaver
June-July 2010
About that salary freeze...Little good can be said about the pain state and university employees are suffering as they work their way through a two-year long salary freeze. When we bargained that freeze immediately before the 2009 Legislature, Montana was descending into the Great Recession. And there was no purported "surplus." We doubt one exists today despite curious assertions to the contrary. But the deal we made with the governor and passed through the 2009 Legislature did in fact save jobs and fund employee health insurance for the biennium. At the time, that was a good deal, the only deal we could make.
But salary freezes just don't wear well over time. Lest anyone wonders, MEA-MFT will not bargain another salary freeze. If unable to make a salary gain when we next meet the governor's representatives at the prebudget bargaining table, we will take our chances with the next legislature. Damn the considerable political risks.
And it is wholly regrettable that school employees in far too many districts are right now bargaining salary freezes of their own. Uncertain state funding, escalating health insurance costs, and declining enrollment continue to pound away at the salaries school employees deserve.
So what about health insurance reform...? No matter how hard I try to feel good about the health insurance reforms Congress recently passed and the president signed, I just can't get there. I see no health insurance cost controls. Zero. In fact, a couple of reforms, good as they might be, right along with other mandated coverages, will drive up the costs of health insurance for everyone. Meanwhile, school employees across the state have no reason whatsoever to believe that next year or ever again they will be able to afford the health insurance they have now. Never again.
Absent a mandatory, statewide health insurance pool, there is NO way to control school employee health insurance costs. Too many plans. Too many on-the-job-training school health insurance managers including administrators and teachers. Too many vendors making serious money at premium payers' expense. Consequently, as we have tried in the past, we will try again in the next legislature to create a mandatory, statewide, school employee health insurance pool. As we have frequently noted, state and university employees, regardless of where they live and work, all have their own mandatory statewide health insurance pool. So should school employees. Bar none. The law of large numbers works. Our plan would save everyone money, including taxpayers.
Finally, what has my union done for me lately...? At times like this, the question "what has my union done for me today" falls rather easily off members' lips. My standard response is to urge folks to think longitudinally. Our union has been doing great stuff for years of days. Need proof? Visit www. mea-mft.org. Click on "A proud history of MEA-MFT victories" in the News section.
No fooling, MEA-MFT does plenty every day…but the best thing we do is represent so many talented, committed public employees: k-12 teachers and university faculty; correctional and probation officers; nurses; revenue collectors; Head Start instructors; child and family advocates; k-12 paraprofessionals; historical society archivists and historians; Fish, Wildlife & Parks biologists; Cascade County deputy attorneys; Butte Silver Bow librarians; education students and retirees…the list goes on and on.
MEA-MFT works for all our members. We do not represent one membership group at the expense of another. Our diversity makes us strong. It gives us a far better picture of how we all belong to each other. Everyday we see how our members' work intersects and unites to make Montana a desirable place to live. In the last analysis, we are almost all public employees paid for out of the public purse to do the work that matters.
Wherever we go next, we will all go together.
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Actress Hayden Panettiere has praised Tennessee police officers after she was involved in a car crash in Nashville.
The former Heroes star allegedly ran a red light and crashed her car into another driver who was changing lanes during the incident on 14 November (12).
Panettiere walked away from the accident without sustaining any major injuries, and she has now taken to her Twitter.com page to thank the cops who assisted her following the smash.
In a post, she writes, "Thank you to the Nashville police department. Was in a scary accident and they were great!"