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I will type some dimensions here to see if anyone sees an obvious problem. I think I am going to have to rebuild.
Using the key letters from the Bible rocket mass heater book by Ianto
A=5X8 I loosley tried to shorten that and found no change in draft
B is 12 inches when I was shaping the cob around the combustion unit I added 6 inches to the height of that.Today I chopped out the front of that when I was trying to tighten A and held a lit match in the mouth of the burn tube and the flame stood straight up
D might be 10 inches but I have to check the photos of my layout
d is 16 inches
F is 6 inch stove pipe inside an 8inch pipe now I am wondering about this
E is 41 inches but at this point it includes G which I set at 1.5 inches
i put the core of the hot water heater eccentrically over the heat riser it is domed so I wonder if the slope has caused a constriction at that point
J is a crescent about 10 inches long with a maximum gap of 3 inches at the peak
K is 8 inch stovepipe. The total length is about 37 feet with 4 right angles. it does not lay flat but rather slopes up 4-6 inches from the beginning to the end
I will send another mail and attach some photos
If you don't get your info in a day or two, speak up and I'll check with erica.
I think I will be able to retrofit a regular steel drum in the space and will have the room to make a brick riser in the barrel Have to double check to see if that would need to be insulated or the brick is adequate alone.
I will take some pictures of the process.
Its a learning process. building the stove and posting the pictures
paul wheaton wrote:
Pics would be excellent!
If you don't get your info in a day or two, speak up and I'll check with erica.
I have always been interested in alternative ways to do things, as is my dad... So I was surfing the web looking for some sort of efficient way to heat all this space & found Pauls vids on YouTube
So after reading about as much as I can find to read on rocket mass heaters, I have a few questions for the experts
Has anyone tried running these heaters off of creasote coated wood (cross tie splinters to be exact)
I think it would work well & get hotter, if it can burn all the soot that they produce
Thanks, Matt
I would choose to not do that - but I'm just one guy concerned about toxic gick. Clearly, you are not so concerned.
I would think it would be far better than a conventional fireplace or woodstove - because I would guess it would get burned more completely. I cannot think of any problems that might arise with a rocket mass heater that would not be with something more conventional.
nizhoni1 wrote:
I went on and tore out the heat riser today. after reviewing I decided the 16.5 inch water heater core and 6 inch diameter heat riser did not match the needs of the 8 inch duct. In the process I found some clay obstruction at J which was probably too tight anyway.I also think there was some settling and the size of G was 2 inches or maybe less
I think I will be able to retrofit a regular steel drum in the space and will have the room to make a brick riser in the barrel Have to double check to see if that would need to be insulated or the brick is adequate alone.
I will take some pictures of the process.
Its a learning process. building the stove and posting the pictures
You spotted what I was going to say about your initial post:
your areas are all different.
the 8" duct has a 50" cross-sectional area
the 6" heat riser has a 30" cross-sectional area
that alone can make a stove really sluggish, as we did it once by accident.
then the burn tunnel has a 35" cross sectional area,
and the feed tube has a 40" cross section.
Ideally, you want all of these to match the ducting's area, so if you're keeping the 8" bench ducting then enlarge these other elements to a 50" area.
Insulating the heat riser is definitely important. Insulate the burn tunnel too if you can.
The difference in temperature between the inside of the heat riser, and the outside of the barrel, is important for the draft.
Hope that helps and good luck. Post a link to pictures when you have them.
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It was freezing as I put the finish layers over the final structure and water was dripping from the interior windows as the cob sweated as I laid it on,
There have been several nights recently that were 14 degrees.I was sleeping with the window open and just cooked a meal on the top today. It is taller than the original and I have compensated by being able to step up on the bench to stand next to it. The the rocks in the floor surrounding are all toasty warm.
What a arelief.
I posted pics somewhere else and they said they were HUGE. What are the recommended limits for size here?
will a smaller version of the rocket mass heater work with smaller pipe as long as everything is proportionate? or is 8 inch pipe absolutely necessary? theres a video that briefly mentions that 4inch pipe is too small but doesnt really explain why. im also not sure what you mean by cross sectional area, but i guess thats probably in the book.
with pocket rockets, does the exhaust pipe get very hot? could i use an existing old furnace chimney to connect the exhaust or would this be too dangerous?
also, why use pipe in the cob mass at all? why not use chicken wire or something as a skeleton for a system of cob tunnels? just a thought.
any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
I used huge pipe because I didnt want to think about obstruction in the flue once all that mass surrounds it.You could probably carefully build a tunnel with cob around chicken wire but I would worry about constrictions from the weight of the mud in the building process.I would also wonder if any gasses could seep out through the breathable cob.
They weren't very clear about why the 4 inch flue was too small.There has to be a system mismatch since there are smaller "pocket rocket" stoves but maybe the difference lies in that they are used for cooking and we are talking mass heaters here.
the exhaust pipe at the exit is just warm after almost 40 feet of travel. I have a cleanout marked by a rock 10 feet from the firebox and it gets too hot to touch.
also, trying to think of a more compact mass heater. i have a mobile home and am worried about how much weight in can support. has a sort of coil been attempted with the ducting? kind of like a radiator? would the tight back and forth of the flue affect the draw? i guess a pocket rocket with mass around it would be a good and easy solution to this problem.
brainstorming and experimenting on this with my grandfather... excellent male bonding.
I used concrete rubble around the flue of my rocket stove. I don't even want to think about how much it weighs. probably more than two tons but I built a bench along two sides of my house.
pocket rocket: I suspect that the exhaust would get really hot. That's where you would probably get a great deal of the heat. The downside is routing the exhaust immediately outside before getting most of the heat out. And that is a sad waste.
Concrete blocks: my guess is that they would be pretty good for part of the system. The exhaust would go down one channel and back the other channel. But I would worry about the exhaust taking shortcuts.
Lightweight heater: I've been thinking a lot about the same thing. Something radiator-esque. Lightweight. Easy to put in and take out. I'm thinking of something that has a proper combustion chamber, but that there will be a pile of duct that will go back and forth to get all of the heat out before the exhaust goes outside. So it would be massless - but still way better than a wood stove or fireplace.
nizhoni1 wrote:
My stove is 8 inch with 3 turns.No problems.
How long is the exhaust?
nizhoni1 wrote:
about 30 feet
If you were doing, say, 80 feet and had no problems, then I would be impressed. But 30 seems like the norm - no biggie.
sorry you took it that way
it's going in the 'basement', and should have about 3.5 cu yards of mass, I expect Ill have some thermal calcs to do as I have about 40 feet of riser, so i should get 25 feet of heated horizontal after the burn, and that puts me at 65 feet... its all 8" pipe, but i dont plan on adding height to the existing pipe, just going down a story with the stove and building it from earth.
is that the limit pushing were refering to? od do I have to rebuild my exterior piping to accomdate more interior horizontal?
would this work? ?? seems like it would boost efficiency and give more room for the exhaust to heat up the air in the room.
hopefully i can get pictures up soon of what i have so far.
all those bricks are TM, but have lots of surface area despite their mass. almost heat they pick up is heat that is convected through air,and because air moves, much of the stoves heat never sinks into the bricks. rather than conducted through mass, your TM is charged weakly and dissipates quik- ie, inefficient. the rest of the heat transfer is done through radiance, and in this case a thats an even weaker transfer due to reflectivity and other consequences of matter...litterally, as radiation travels best in a vaccum. in the presence of matter it quickly reflects and bounces about, and when it is absorbed, the spectrum of radiation were concerned with turns into conducted and then convective heat so fast that it litterally bounces of whater it hit as heat that gas or liquid simply dissipates-
so you have a choice-insulate or build thermal mass. or both.
the surface are of the brick TM you're using is a large area for heat transfer, but convected heat absorbs poorly into TM vs. Conductive. The mass/surface area ratio of cob that is in contact with the heat source compared to the bricks is significant.. tha less moving air per TM volume = a bigger battery, deeper heat sink, slower charge and release. all that ends up becoming what we call more effcient.
youre well on your way, it seems.
theres more here than we need to know, but its good reads
I'll pick on Paul, because I think he likes it. Hope that's true, Paul
(and, How's Montana treating you?)
paul wheaton wrote:
4 inch pipe: My impression is that all attempts have ended up with poor results. I have a theory ..... I suspect that a four inch system could work fine provided that the pipe is no longer than 12 feet with no more than two bends.
Smaller systems suffer from laminar flow constriction - in other words, the gas goes too slow because the pipe is too small, and it gets stuck along the sides. Especially at the bends. Shorter pipe, fewer bends - good place to start.
Also, it's hard to build and maintain a decent fire in a space with a 12.5" cross-sectional area - that's about 3 1/2" by 4". Can't hardly fit a stick in there. So fuel mix might be different: more bark, more twigs, quicker-burning kindling.
And the friction / bumps on the sides get more significant as the wood gets smaller and lighter, so it won't self-feed downward. More fiddling.
And... and...
To solve all the problems that crop up at 4", you're basically inventing a different animal.
If anyone makes a nice miniature rocket mass heater at 4", please let us know.
paul wheaton wrote:
pocket rocket: I suspect that the exhaust would get really hot. That's where you would probably get a great deal of the heat. The downside is routing the exhaust immediately outside before getting most of the heat out. And that is a sad waste.
Hey now, don't you remember the Pocket Rocket demo?
The hottest part of a genuine Pocket Rocket is at the bottom of the can; Ianto proudly points out that it was designed to keep your feet warm.
Here's a Pocket Rocket picture:
The red "blush" areas on the dark grey exterior are my attempt to show where the hot spots tend to be on the ones I've built and burned.
This is one of the options I'd try for the trailer-home situation, rather than trying to build a mass-heater without any mass. Flame in direct contact with the barrel/bucket makes it HOT (red glow is literal reality) so use an insulated sandpan & bricks underneath. When you're dependent on radiant heat, the hotter it is, the more effective it will be at reaching across those distances, or transferring into nearby mass.
Note that when the flames go up inside the container, they easily find the upper opening to the vertical stovepipe. The combined heights of container and stovepipe create a continuous drafting thermo-siphon, pulling air and flames through the system, and keeping the smoke from coming back out the fuel feed.
The insulated heat-riser on a full-scale rocket mass heater creates a hotter, miniature thermo-siphon. This allows the apparent defiance of the laws of physics and 'pushes' the exhaust down and around the remainder of the system. Without a thermo-siphon, squiggly pipes = no draft.
The heat lost in the exhaust is 'wasted', true. But for good reason:
"better out than in" when it comes to smoke in the house.
That's one of the dangers of a squiggly 'exhaust radiator' inside a house: it can mess up your draft, creating more potential for smokeback and/or leaks from all the extra joints.
There are other reasons to think twice about re-routing a stovepipe around inside your house to capture waste heat. I posted them on the "conventional fireplace" thread, where the suggestion seemed singularly ill-suited to the original question:
Erica Wisner wrote:
Paul, you sound excited about this idea of an exposed-pipe radiant heater. (New thread?)
Do you know that this was tried historically?
Please read up on the historic versions before attempting this one at home.
nizhoni1 wrote:
about 30 feet
30 feet is definitely the norm; it's a decent, efficient 8" system.
FYI the record as far as I know on Rocket Mass Heater length is about 70' run on an 8" system; that's with a horizontal exhaust. But it didn't work so good.
Dale H (the masonry heater guy) said the masonry-heater rule of thumb is keep the heat-exchange path to about 20 feet, and the exhaust temp above 90 degrees (to draft vertically up a chimney).
90C is just under 200 F; water vapor is still (mostly) steam. I suspect that keeping the water vapor from condensing into a fat dense plug is a big factor in keeping vertical exhausts happy. 90F just seems too cool to me; a horizontal exhaust would be needed, as the CO2 and H2O are both denser than air.
Ianto's book sez:
"To rescue most of the heat, a 6-inch system should have at least 20' of ducting and a thermal mass of about three tons. An 8-inch system needs 30 feet of duct and should weigh about 5 tons." (p.25, Rocket Mass Heaters).
A well-proportioned rocket mass heater can push exhaust 30, 40 feet or more.
But heat transfers most effectively when there's a large difference in temperature. So the further you go, the more the benefit diminishes.
A stove that can draft at 50' if the wind and weather are cooperating, or a stove that reliably drafts at 30' no matter the weather.... which of these beasties would you want in your home?
Now, if it's a prototype in a barn, go for it. Set a new record. And send us pictures.
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erica- you and ernie kick ass. thanks for all you do in this field!
A lot of my thinking comes from something I read about 20 years ago: a 90 degree turn in a dryer exhaust has the same friction as five feet of straight dryer exhaust. And the longer your dryer exhaust is, the less efficient your dryer will be.
I think the key to a lot of this is what you said about the insulated combustion chamber: that provides the "push" - once you have that, then you can set about extracting all of the heat out. And the pocket rocket does not have that! Therefore, the pocket rocket DEPENDS on a warm chimney - so if you don't have heat leaving the system, then it will not properly expel exhaust!
Please read up on the historic versions before attempting this one at home.
something i wanted to add... people say that one of the drawbacks of a rocketstove is that you dont get the pleasing view of the flame, but the light that comes out of my wood feed while burning dances on the ceiling in an amazing aurora-borealis-like effect when all of the lights are out. its quite nice, some friends and i spent a couple hours last night just watching the light show.
brett hunter wrote:
if you click on the bold text in ericas quote it takes you to a thread that explains that s curved chimneys can be deadly.
And there's the rub: are we talking about a chimney or are we talking about exhaust? I think most of the concerns for a chimney do not apply when you use an insulated combustion chamber. No creosote. Very little smoke, if any.
Exhaust radiators or fancy masonry heaters with hard-to-clean intestines work best on systems with very clean exhaust. They also greatly increase drag, as you pointed out, so they call for sophisticated balancing of the system to maintain adequate draft.
On a home-built barrel stove that's not insulated.... I'm glad to hear it has clean exhaust, but I wasn't sure of that from the pictures...
Even when it's capable of a clean burn, I tend to suspect that at some point, users of any metal stove are going to be tempted to smolder wood overnight to keep warm since there's not much thermal mass in the typical American woodland retreat.
I just like to throw the cautions in there, because all these ideas sound good one at a time, but they're only safe or reasonable in certain combinations.
The best predictor of any combustion system's behavior is another working model the same size, shape, etc.
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Kathleen Sanderson wrote:
Here's another question: If I build a rocket stove in our garage, as I plan to do, I can run the exhaust out either the east side or the west side. The east side is *usually* (not always) down-wind; west side is *usually* up-wind. But the east side is the front of the house and would be visible from the road. Will the exhaust draw better on the down-wind side (I would think so, but....). I'd rather not have it visible from the front of the house, though, if it would work the other way.
My experience is that going out the downwind side is usually worth it.
A dryer-vent style cap on the vent can make it inconspicuous as far as neighborhood aesthetics.
If you have windows on both sides, you could try sending the exhaust out the upwind side through the window, and see if it works OK in typical wind conditions.
Once you are pretty sure it will work, you can do the permanent install through the wall.
It may be that while the morning wind makes it smoke back, the evenings are OK, or vice-versa. Or you may be able to create enough wind baffling to compensate for the wind. (There's a funky H-shaped Bernoulli cap among the case studies in the back of the rocket mass heaters book that might help.) Getting the exhaust above the roofline by a few feet can help, too.
The big issue is how big is the pressure difference between the two walls. If the downwind side (and house) are at low pressure in the lee of the wind, it will be very had to push the exhaust into the high pressure area created on the windy side of the house. Baffles can only do so much. In that case the last resort is a good-sized fresh air intake on the upwind side; run it behind the bench so it pre-heats from the thermal mass, and you might solve the problem.
Or move the exhaust to the downwind side, which makes the low and high pressure work for you.
Good luck with the project. If any of these suggestions work for you, or if you find a new solution, we'd love to hear about it.
Erica Wisner
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can you use a gas burner in the rocket stove if you run out of things to burn ?
could you add a cast iron grate for coal, pellets, charcoal, and corn cobs?
are bends in the exhaust required to slow air movement or could you just use all straight pipe with thermal mass?
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hello all. after reading all of your post i had a few questions.
can you use a gas burner in the rocket stove if you run out of things to burn ?
could you add a cast iron grate for coal, pellets, charcoal, and corn cobs?
are bends in the exhaust required to slow air movement or could you just use all straight pipe with thermal mass?
My first thought is that if I answer in any way other than "if you try that you will die" then I will expose myself to lawsuits.
So: if you try any of that you will die.
Now that that's out of the way: those are some awesome questions. I think a fully accurate answer would be "it depends." I would actually like to add to the question pile with "junk mail, newspaper, pizza boxes, paper packaging, lousy books, oily paper towels, sawdust, wood chips, pine straw, cooking oil that has gone a bit off, and the dried bones of mean people."
It seems it would be pretty awesome to burn just about anything and get heat out of it. While I remember hearing about Ianto and Linda heating their home in a pocket rocket one winter with junk mail - I'm not sure how big that home is/was nor whether it was exclusively junk mail.
So .... I'm thinking about the corn cobs, coal, pellets and the like .... I'm guessing that the primary problem might be that the air goes right by the coals without putting a lot of air to the fuel. I suppose one might cobble something together that you could drop into the feed tube to help focus some of the air to the fuel.
As for "gas" - I suppose this question could be broken up into gasoline, diesel, methane, propane, biogas, etc. I suspect each one would need something to facilitate the burning. I can imagine a propane heater being rigged up just under the combustion chamber. As the combustion chamber warms, air will be pulled in via the feed tube and pushed through the mass. It seems like it would work.
carbonout wrote:
are bends in the exhaust required to slow air movement or could you just use all straight pipe with thermal mass?
My impression is that it could be all straight pipe.
brett hunter wrote:
when you have a heat riser, does a tall chimney outside still benefit the draw? or is the exhaust all being 'pushed' out rather than pulled?
It depends on how hot your exhaust is, and how hot the chimney can get.
On most rocket systems longer than the 'minimum' described in the book (20-30 feet) the exhaust is getting cool enough that it is a "push" rather than a natural upward draft at the exit.
The really efficient stoves that Ianto and Paul favor, tend to have exhaust temperatures more like a dryer vent, maybe 90-110 degrees F. So that tends not to benefit from vertical chimney except in certain conditions.
If it's cold outside, the natural draft of warm air is better; if it's hot outside, your 'warm' exhaust is effectively colder than the outside air, and will not rise without mechanical intervention.
A cold chimney with cool exhaust (under 90 degrees, or in some cases anything under 200 F) will not draft upward. Both CO2 and water vapor are denser than air, and condensed wet fog even more so. If you plan to suck all the heat out of your exhaust, give yourself an option to exhaust it safely sideways or downward instead of up.
A cold chimney with hot exhaust will warm up quickly, and then the chimney will aid the exhaust moving out. Hot exhaust rises due to its buoyancy compared to the surrounding outdoor air. If the chimney stays cold (like an exposed chimney with a lot of wind chill), then there may be a tendency for the exhaust to cool and sink back down at certain points in the chimney, causing intermittent problems.
A hot chimney with cold exhaust doesn't occur by itself in nature. You can create something similar with either a chimney heater, or install the chimney in the center of the house instead of outside in the cold. Black-painted chimneys also soak up a little sun and warm up in the daytime too. These can help what would otherwise be a problem chimney, to draft better.
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carbonout wrote:
hello all. after reading all of your post i had a few questions.
can you use a gas burner in the rocket stove if you run out of things to burn ?
could you add a cast iron grate for coal, pellets, charcoal, and corn cobs?
are bends in the exhaust required to slow air movement or could you just use all straight pipe with thermal mass?
Paul's answer was pretty much accurate.
I think they did use 100% junk mail in a Pocket Rocket just to prove that they could. They said it was a very transformative experience and they have never looked at junk mail quite the same way again. Or signed up for so many catalogs voluntarily.
I know some of the researchers have played around with adding oily fuels, sometimes just to get rid of the oily pizza boxes, other times to attempt destructive testing of prototypes. Oily fuels smoke a lot, but small amounts sometimes burn cleanly when combined with normal wood fuel. Loose fuels like paper or oily paper towels can cause smokeback when they flare up, momentarily clogging the burn tunnel while burning quickly in both directions.
Destructive testing using oil and hardwood fuels to super-heat the systems revealed that the barrel can get cherry red or even mostly white-hot without failing. Over-firing is much more likely to crack the bricks in the burn tunnel, especially the first brick in the bridge.
If there is firewood at all, then these heaters will require less of it than you would expect from any other type of stove.
If your region does not have a lot of naturally occuring wood fuels, it might be better to design a heating system around the available fuels in the first place.
Rocket researchers are definitely interested in the notion of a fuel cage or hopper-fed system for pellets, corncobs, pine cones, etc. As far as I know, nobody's gone and built one yet. It's hard for me to imagine a hopper-fed system where the hopper wouldn't also serve as a potential chimney for a deadly backflash. An iron grate or cage such as you suggest, might be a better option. It's all about getting the right airflow to fuel ratios, if you want to use the same system for alternative fuels.
Bends in the exhaust are not required and do in fact slow down the exhaust. You don't want any obstructions you can avoid, which is one reason the smooth pipes work better than rough brick or stone for the heat-exchanger.
In order to fit 20-30 feet of exhaust into a typical living-room bench, bends are most people's best option. The other is trying to split the exhaust, and have it run evenly through several smaller, straight pipes.
I've heard of that being done, a 12" system splitting into aboiut 8 4" pipes. Apparently it worked pretty well, although flow dynamics would predict uneven heating. There were unrelated problems that kind of made the whole question of uneven heating a moot point. (Don't use beeswax to finish a heated earthen floor.)
Like Paul said, doing these things injudiciously could cause
- pain,
- injury,
- death, or
- embarrassment.
Any advice I give, should be taken with the same caveat:
proceed at your own risk and pleasure.
If you decide to test any fire-powered ideas indoors for some reason, a carbon monoxide detector would be a very good investment.
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In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman offended by her boyfriend's racist and misogynistic family.
Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers. An edited transcript of the chat is below. (Sign up here to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week. Read Prudie's Slate columns here. Send questions to Prudence at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
Emily Yoffe: Good afternoon, everyone. I look forward to your questions.
Q. Boyfriend's Family: My boyfriend warned me ahead of time that his family was a handful, but nothing could of prepared me for Thanksgiving. N-words and gay slurs and an uncle who referred to Secretary Clinton by the worst word toward women imaginable. I am not trying to be a snob, but I can't comprehend raising a child around these people. Although we are in med school a thousand miles away, we are thinking about settling down near his hometown. I talked to him about the outright bigotry his family embraces, and he is both embarrassed and also nonapologetic—I shouldn't judge them for, amongst other things, referring to our president in a manner that you wouldn't even publish. He's a great, decent guy, but his family is not one I would want to be a part of, and I'm having a hard time reconciling the two.
A: Even if one's family is composed of the rudest, crudest racists and misogynists, it can be a big leap to ask someone to write them off. Fortunately, your boyfriend ended up being nothing like these people. He's embarrassed by them. But he also feels some instinctive sense of loyalty to the people who raised him, and whom he knows in a more complicated way than you possibly could. I can understand your wanting him to denounce these idiots wholesale, but you should be able see how that might have felt presumptuous to him. You say he's your boyfriend, not yet your fiancé. So it seems premature to start dictating that you want to limit the exposure of your nonexistent children to them. You have made your understandable shock clear, so now you should back off. Let him spend some time considering what it must have been like to see his loved ones through your eyes. That will be more powerful that your trying to get him to sever ties with the only family he has.
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Q. Hearing Intimate Moments From Neighbors: I own and live in a semiattached house in a large city. The house adjacent to mine is owned by an landlord and rented out. The tenants and I share the wall between our master bedrooms. In a nutshell, I hear EVERY MINUTE of their intimate encounters. I'm in no way asking how to get them to stop. They are consenting adults and can be as intimate as they wish. My question is what to do about being woken up several times a week by their cries of ecstasy. I have so far been able to resist knocking my knuckles on the wall to alert them to their racket, but I'm an early riser and am really not interested in learning on a four-or-five-night-a-week basis how good the male partner is. Please advise.
A: These people can be identified the smiles on their faces and the bags under their eyes. You own, they rent. So you're the one who's going to have to invest in the sound proofing. Get a consultant and find out what can be done on your end to muffle the joy. Once you do that, if you still can hear the blow by blow, you need to go over and have a conversation with them. You can say that unfortunately the walls between your homes aren't thick enough, and that the sound between the bedrooms leaks through. You can say you've mitigated this as much as you can, but for their privacy, and your sleep, and if they could keep it down (per Bill Clinton, you don't have to specify what "it" is) you'd all be more comfortable.
Q. Abused Friend: My friend from school is being abused at home, where she lives with her grandparents and her mother. I've known for a few months that her grandma calls her names, and makes fun of her, but I thought very little of it because they were only words. Recently though, her grandma has become more and more violent, to the extent of burning her personal belongings, and burning her with cigarettes. I want to call Social Services, but I am afraid they will take her away and put her up for adoption, in which case I may never see her again, or they will investigate, decide it's not abuse, and then it will make things worse for her. Also, she has confided to me that she doesn't want to leave, just kill herself. I am very afraid for her well being, but I'm afraid to lose her. What should I do?
A: What a tragic situation and of course your friend is terrified to stay and more terrified of what would happen if she left. However, this girl is in imminent danger. Her grandmother has committed crimes against her that should be prosecuted. Please tell your parents, and together you should all go to the principal of the school right away to get started on getting this girl safe.
Q. Re: Boyfriend's Family: I don't think the OP is wrong for considering her future with boyfriend. It doesn't sound like the boyfriend is willing to limit contact with his family, so these folks are going to present quite a problem in the future, should the OP and boyfriend marry. Certainly all the letters you receive from people having in-law problems should be a flashing red warning to your readers about how important it is to choose your partner carefully. OP is right to be concerned, and I would advise her to hold off on making future plans with her boyfriend unless/until the issues can be discussed and resolved to her satisfaction.
A: Sure I see you could make the argument that she should get out now if this is his family and he's not ready to call them out on what they are. However, few family relationships come with such an easy on-off switch. He could be thinking, "Well I grew up with these people, and I'm nothing like them. I'm not ready to sever relations with them because of fear of exposing our not-yet-conceived children to their grandparents." It's no defense of his family to say that he might have understandably started feeling defensive because she was asking him to see them only as an outsider would. Now that he's introduced her to them, it's opened up a conversation between them. I don't think it's time for an ultimatum.
Q. Family Drama: I am a single, successful career woman who has been dating a wonderful, charming man for the past two years. With the holidays approaching I have a problem—my boyfriend would like to be included in my family events. However, my parents and siblings absolutely abhor my boyfriend. They disapprove of our significant age gap, his divorce, his behavior based on meeting him once at a party, where, in their opinion, he drank too much. They consider him a cheap, womanizing drunk who is taking advantage of me. At Thanksgiving he wondered whether I would like to have him accompany me to family dinner. Now with Christmas looming—how am I going to tell my atheist boyfriend that my family will have a fit if he shows up for midnight mass?
A: This is the season of people behaving abominably. It's time you did some truth-telling to both sides. You have to let your boyfriend know that you've been struggling with your family's disapproval of him. Explain they dislike the age difference between you and his divorce. Tell them they have always been hyper-judgmental and you are having a very hard time dealing with their negative remarks about him. Then you tell your family that you have been in love with a fine man for two years who is a permanent part of your life. If they want you to part of theirs, it's time they behaved with the true spirit of the season and welcomed him into their homes. If they refuse, then you should say you are going to have to start a new tradition of being with kind and loving people for the holidays. So you and your boyfriend will be celebrating Christmas together away from them.
Q. My Sister Won't Get a Divorce From Her Cheating Husband: My sister's husband "Ben" cheated on her with one of her best friends, "Kelly." Apparently the affair has been going on for years and Kelly's 6-year-old son is the result of this relationship (what was a shock to everyone, especially to Kelly's husband). Since the affair became public my BIL and Kelly have left their spouses and started living together. My sister is devastated, but keeps saying she still loves Ben and wants to win him back. Ben used to work for my family's company, but has left his job and has been struggling financially since. In a desperate attempt to save her marriage, my sister has been giving Ben expensive gifts and even significant amounts of money from time to time. How can I make her come to her senses? She refuses to get a divorce! Ben is a scumbag and she deserves much better! I understand that she still has feelings for him and that maybe she is afraid of being single after so many years, but Ben is not worth her effort and humiliation. Please help.
A: Ah, love, that all-purpose excuse for being treated like crap. You have to accept that some people can't be helped. What you can do is reflect reality back to her. When she starts going on about how much she misses him, you can say, "Sure, it's hard to end a marriage. But he's now living with the mother of his child, so things don't look too promising." Eventually tell her you just can't be a sounding board about Ben. Say he's treated her so terribly that it's too painful for you to hear her strategies for getting him back.
Q. Re: Calling Social Services for abused friend: Cigarette burns are serious abuse, and this kind of physical violence usually only escalates. Please call Social Services TODAY. You can remain anonymous, Social Services will investigate and they will take this complaint very seriously.
A: Good point. I hope this letter writer can get her parents involved in this—this is too much for a teenager to handle alone. The parents could then call Social Services. I also think all of them should go to the principal immediately. It's important for people who know the abused girl to be alerted so that she is not simply descended on by strangers.
Q. May I Have Your Daughter's Hand in Marriage?: My girlfriend's parents have always been wary of me. I'm not a Christian (she and they are), I'm 40 (she's 25), I'm divorced and a father, and she and I have struggled over my close relationship with my ex-wife. Their friends have sometimes been more open about their disapproval of me and their belief that my girlfriend could do better. What speaks in my favor is how happy I make my girlfriend and how well I treat her. I believe her parents respect me for that. I want to marry my girlfriend, and I'm wondering whether or not I should ask her dad for her hand in marriage. I think it's an archaic practice, but I know it matters to him. Among my girlfriend's family and their close friends, the story of how a man asked a father for his fiancée's hand in marriage is almost as important as the engagement story. I'm trying to get over what I feel—that it's sort of ridiculous to ask a man's permission to marry his grown financially independent daughter—and trying show my (hopeful)-future-in-laws that I'll be a good husband to their daughter.
A: I'm wondering if during your courtship with your girlfriend you've noticed you've been excluded from holiday gatherings. If so, and you're the boyfriend of the previous letter writer, I've got news for you: Her parents can't stand you. From what you've laid out here, it doesn't sound to me as if marrying this young woman sounds like such a good idea. You don't share religious views, which are important to her. Her family doesn't like you and you're intimidated by them. You're considerably older, you have kids, and most important, she doesn't like that you remain close to your ex, the mother of her children. That is a serious problem that will only escalate once you marry and especially if you have children together. It could be that you really enjoy having a much younger girlfriend. But maybe she's not actually ready to step up and take on the responsibility of helping you raise your children. I know you weren't asking me for approval for her hand, but I'm not giving it, either.
Q. Mother Spoiled Engagement Surprise: My boyfriend recently asked my parents for approval to marry me. My mother was so excited, she decided to fill me in on the happy news. While it came as no surprise to me, I still informed my mother that it's not protocol for parents to tell their daughter about this sort of thing. After that I let it go. Meanwhile, other family and friends who have heard about the story are mortified and have chastised my mother for not keeping this a secret. My mother is now upset and keeps trying to defend her actions. What is the proper etiquette?
A: So a future mother-in-law actually likes the guy her daughter is going to marry and now everyone is piling on her for spoiling the secret. Tell everyone to back off and tell your mother you're sorry she's getting so much blow-back. Look, I dislike the whole business of it being totally up to the man to decide when two people are getting married. I'm assuming the proposal didn't come as a total shock and that you two had had conversations along the way that you wanted to spend your lives together.
Q. Parents' Cookbooks: My parents passed away this year and I have been sorting through their things with my two siblings. My parents have three children, three children-in-laws, 10 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. After years of cooking and hosting, my mother had many cookbooks she relied upon for recipes. I love hosting and it would mean a lot to be to have and use these cookbooks. My siblings think the cookbooks should be divided among the remaining children and adult grandchildren. I understand that everybody has fond memories of Grandma's cooking and holidays, but I am the only person who would actually use them and follow her notes. I asked my siblings if they were willing to trade, like they could have her Christmas ornaments or other things and I could have the cookbooks. They did not seem pleased with this suggestion. I am really upset at the prospect of my mother's cookbooks being passed to people who will not appreciate them (and potentially get rid of them). Any other suggestion for dealing with this?
A: "Did not seem pleased" is different from utterly opposed. Either everyone actually is interested in the cookbooks, or your family is taking the notion of dividing everything equally too far. Dividing things up according to interest can be fair even if it means some people get all of one thing and none of another. You may have a sibling who loves the art on the walls while you have never been able to stand it, so you'd be delighted not to have to deal with getting rid of the paintings. Reopen the discussion after you've done an inventory of the house and you have a better idea of what people want. It could be that people could make tentative lists of the things that are most meaningful to them. Then you could make the case that you have the shelf space and interest to keep your mother's cookbook collection all in one place. You can add that doing so would give you the opportunity to follow her own version of the pumpkin pie recipe you all love. If you come at this more gently, you might just get your way.
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"Java has proved itself to be a key technology in the delivery of applications across mobile devices," said Ben Wood, principal analyst at Gartner. "It is one of the most widely used application environments on mobile phones today, and its use is set to expand. Mobile operators are keen to see Java more widely deployed, as it is a means of promoting additional, non-voice revenue streams."
Sony Ericsson will incorporate the ARM JTEK software in its designs to enable the Jazelle technology embedded within the ARM926EJ-S™ processor, to accelerate the execution of Java applications. The solution will give greater performance levels for media rich content such as media streaming and the latest Java technology-based games, without increasing system cost or power requirements.
"Java technology is already a very important element of mobile applications, currently for gaming, but with the potential to go beyond this," said Oliver Gunasekara, global director of Wireless, ARM. "As such, handset vendors are focused on maximizing its potential and are looking toward Java acceleration in the core to make the most of Java technology-specific applications."
Sony Ericsson will begin shipping devices incorporating the JTEK software and the Jazelle technology-enabled ARM926EJ-S processor during 2004.
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Man badly injured in attack by six boys
2 more teens plead guilty in NCH 'bored' beating
Man badly injured in attack by six boys
Two more of the six teens accused of brutally beating a man because they were bored entered guilty pleas.
The teens admitted Monday to an assault charge. Three other teens have already entered the same pleas.
Pat Mahaney, of North College Hill, was badly injured when he was attacked by the six boys, who were aged 13 and 14 years old at the time.
Police said the boys admitted they beat the man because they were bored.
As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a rioting charge against the teens.
The plea agreement also allows the boys to avoid detention in an adult facility.
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DINUBA, Calif. — The answer to the questions how many angels can fit on the head of a pin and how many glassy-winged sharpshooters (GWSS) does it take to reduce citrus yields are very similar.
A bunch.
University of California, Riverside entomologist Raymond Hix has never researched the angel-on-a-pinhead issue, but he has determined that it takes 1,000 or more GWSS to reduce navel and Valencia orange yields.
GWSS populations of that level on citrus groves anywhere near a grape vineyard would send the grape grower screaming through the vineyard because it takes only one Pierce's disease-carrying GWSS to infect a vine and potentially destroy a vineyard.
That is why federal and state governments are pouring millions into controlling GWSS in areas where both citrus and grapes are grown.
However, Hix told a Citrus Research Board growers educational seminar in Dinuba, Calif., that the feds and state government will not be in California forever to control GWSS and citrus growers need to know how many GWSS it takes to cause damage.
Pierce's disease does not infect citrus, but there is a disease threat for California citrus. It is citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC). It is found primarily in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica. If the disease ever reached California, the combination of the bacteria and the vector will cause serious damage to the citrus industry. In South America, CVC has caused severe economic losses.
Even without a diseases threat, high levels of GWSS feeding can reduce yields and size distribution, according to Hix.
In the second year of Hix's study, the yield reduction at population levels of more than 1,000 GWSS per tree was 50 percent. The effect of GWSS feeding was cumulative over the two years of the study as the magnitude of the changes increased in magnitude and significance from the first to the second year of the study.
To control such high levels, the systemic Admire can be applied in May through drip irrigation systems. It takes three to six weeks for the systemic pesticide to control GWSS. Hix said high population levels in July and August are the most damaging.
If the citrus with high levels of GWSS are adjacent to disease-susceptible grapes or almonds, Admire should go on in March or April to control movement of GWSS to those crops.


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DOTD announces interstate lane closures this week
Louisiana DOTD will have overnight lane closures to I-10 in Jefferson Parish two nights this week.
One right lane of I-10 eastbound and westbound between Clearview Parkway and Veterans Memorial Boulevard will be closed from March 25 at 9:30 p.m. to March 26 at 5:30 a.m.
The right westbound lane in the same area will close from March 26 at 9:30 p.m. to March 27 at 5:30 a.m. as well.
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Dance Disaster Movement
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DDMs Kevin Litrow on vocals at Rothko on Friday, July 29.
Dance Disaster Movement proves true to its name
Long Beach-based band performed heavy beats and hardcore drama
By Aileen Torres
Seeing Dance Disaster Movement, or DDM, live is undoubtedly an experience of sorts. Those who attended their headlining show at Rothko on Friday, July 29, witnessed more than just two 20-somethings playing their music on stage. What they were privy to was a performance to rival any avant-garde theater show also happening in town that night.
Kevin Litrow, who plays the synthesizers and guitar and does the loops and vocals in this hard-hitting experimental rock duo, earned the designated moniker of frontman by acting out his take on all three nouns in DDMs name: There was dance, disaster and movement in spades, particularly of the tripped-out, robotic-esque variety, featuring Litrow extending his arms through space as obtrusively and stiffly as possible. He did get even more loose on occasion, peppering the android act with more than a few operatic flourishes of arm-sweeping gestures, manic waving and wild gesticulations. There were also a couple of Elvis-like kung-fu moves thrown in, some orangutan-esque strutting and a little bit of Baryshnikov-gone-ballistic action to go with the (most likely subconscious) febrile nods to Puccini. All performed, mind you, with the idea of disaster throughout.
For the final actor, during the final songLitrow dropped down and played his guitar while thrashing around with his back on the floor. He then jumped off stage and channeled his inner preacher man, laying hands dramatically upon the forehead of an audience member who happened to be standing in the front row. Surprised he was, but the chosen one was also visibly amused at being singled out to receive this anointing from Litrow, whose cup of raw energy was running over profusely, right through the very end of the show.
Matt Howze, the drummer, who additionally plays trash can, maraccas, synthesizers and loops in DDM, was a distinct presence on stage in his own right. The intensity of his drumming, which borders on a trip-hop sound at times, was made manifest as he played with his arms pounding about his drum kit so rapid-fire-like he looked to have more than two arms.
All kind of surprising, given the duo are generally very casual, laid-back, down-to-earth individuals.
Howze and Litrow met in their home town in California through a strange telepathic connection, as the story on their website goes. It was 1999, and they were in the waiting room of a dream specialist. Litrow was there because of a dream he had had a few nights previously, which involved the words brain beat morphing into body beat. Howze was there because he was deeply disturbed by a dream of drones attacking him. There was a lot of chain-smoking involvedcourtesy of Howzewhile waiting to see the specialist, and Litrow was outside of his own head enough to notice Howze in the room. The two were dressed similarly in very casual garb, so Litrow intuited the possibility they may have been on the same wavelength. He introduced himself to Howze, and they got to talking.
Were from the same town, so he actually knew people that I knew, said Litrow. And I had seen him around before, like, at shows and stuff. He looked familiar. We had mutual friends that we didnt even know [we had]. And we just talked about music. I had seen his old band, and he had seen my old band before, too.
The Long-Beach-based duo has been together since 2000. Their first album, we are from nowhere, was released in 2001. Their latest album, Snow on the TV has just been released. Its more progressive than our last album, described Litrow.
As for the bands songwriting process, Its definitely mutual, said Howze. Hell [Litrow will] have an idea, or Ill have a drumbeat, and well kind of go off on that. It usually starts with a riff, and we expound on that. But we do that together. Its a lot of trial by error. It takes us a while to write a song, cause both of us write, and we have different personalities, so it kind of takes us a while to find that next part or next thing. But once we find it, it works.
Theres definitely intellectual lyrical content, said Litrow of DDMs songs, for which he is the sole lyric writer. Some of its poetic. Some of its straight up. Most of the stuff I write, it pretty much comes out of what I feel. But its almost, like, subliminal, almost symbolic.
The two members have different personalitiesIm all about instinct, said Litrow. Hes [Howze is] very mathematical, which creates a dynamic of balanced tension. There may be a lot of arguing involved in the process, but the end result is solid. We come out writing good songs, with good song structure, said Howze. Instead of just bullshit improv jammed-out noise, which a lot of bands end up doing. But theres a lot of impulse, too.
The band does ensure that each song has a core logic, but, as Howze said, they also allow for a lot of improvisation in the studio, in keeping with the more intuitive bent of Litrow, which Howze tempers by occasionally stepping in to check his band mates impulses. For example, as Howze said, One song, we pretty much wrote it in the studio and just jammed it out. It turned out good. Thats kind of how we started together, too. We kind of jammed together, so weve gotten used to that.
With the Moog pedal we use, its kind of hard to jam, but we try to do it as much as we can. Its such a weird way to write music. Theres never been anything weve had to think out so much. Its kind of like putting a puzzle together from one change to the other without it completely losing anything. What helps is buying equipment. The local music stores love us because were constantly buying crazy equipment. For one of the songs, we did it in the studio, and we kind of had it written out, and we figured out I needed a Moog pedal for my electronic drums, so thats what Ive been using now.
DDM is definitely not afraid of using technology to enhance their sound. In fact, theyre constantly engaged in experimenting with all types of gadgets and gizmos. Howze plays a trashcan on stage, and there was a Radio Flyer wagon, as well as drills and doors, incorporated into the soundscape of the last album.
The band will be touring through the summer, and they are in the midst of writing songs for their first full-length album, to be recorded in a few months.
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A common symbol seen at every Chinese wedding. This one is actually meant to be a guest book, where people sign their name and add their good wishes in the open space below the character.
Close up view of the artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
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Gary's random little things about China:
When crossing a street, or merely making your way down the road, there is a certain law of physics that comes into play: When two forces meet, one must yield.
Here is the general yielding scheme in China:
Cars yield to big buses and trucks.
Bicycles and cars mingle and narrowly avoid each other. When push comes to shove, the bicyclist knows he will lose the fight. But the car driver knows that the bicycle will scratch his car when he runs it over, and will only yield on that premise.
Cars will not yield to, but are required to avoid pedestrians. When you hit a pedestrian at low speed, it does very little damage, and unlike a bicycle, will almost never scratch your car. Therefore pedestrians are given a smaller margin.
Note: Regardless of green or red stop lights, it is against the law to come to a complete stop when making a right hand turn in China (no matter how many pedestrians are in the way). The rule is "honk and avoid, then continue on your way".
Motor scooters yield to no one, not even when they are being driven on a pedestrian-filled sidewalk. Motor scooters zip around like they have nothing to lose - this may be true, as smaller motor scooters require no license of any kind and are very cheap.
If you are driving on the wrong side of the road, or going the wrong way on a one-way street, you do not have to yield to anyone, no matter what kind of vehicle you are operating.
Cars will yield (not by choice) to pedestrians crossing the street in numbers greater than 10 (it is best in China to invite 9 of your friends for an outing if you plan to cross a lot of streets).
In lieu of yielding, drivers are required to honk at pedestrians. I swear to God, this is the law! It's a safety issue: If you are passing a pedestrian that is walking on the side of the road, you are required by law to honk at them to let them know you are there.
Note: All streets in Chinese cities, sound like a New York traffic jam 24 hours per day with all this "safety honking".
I have not been able to find a traffic law that states you must yield to ambulances. And in practice, very few drivers do.
When two large vehicles come face to face on a narrow roadway, and neither can pass, neither will yield. They will sit there, honking at each other for a while. After several cars are lined up behind them, they will decide that they should have yielded earlier, and start to back up. This is to the great dismay of all the cars behind them who will honk in unison. This could go on for an hour or more. It ends when a police officer arrives, tells both drivers what idiots they are, issues tickets to both of them, and then systematically makes the situation worse by insisting that all the smaller cars turn around (rather than back up) by making 162-point turns in the small roadway. Eventually, two of the cars will hit each other, for which both drivers will be cited and fined on the spot.
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Boston String Quartet to perform on island
The Boston String Quartet will present "WorldSong" on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Central Baptist Church. The concert will include a mix of music, including zydeco, Taiwanese, fiddle, Bulgarian, gypsy, salsa and bossa nova. The group performs its own arrangements of classical chamber music, rock, jazz and world music.
The quartet has collaborated with John Mayer, the Boston Ballet, Fionnuala Gill, Giorgia Fumanti, Jennifer Holliday, Lisa Fisher, Tim Janis and Dave Fiucznyski.
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Bylsma, Penguins trying best to not get ahead of themselves
Don't get Dan Bylsma wrong.
The Pittsburgh Penguins coach is thrilled his team is a win away from advancing to the Eastern Conference final.
But the Penguins haven't eliminated the New York Rangers, yet.
"It's easy to say it's 3-1 and you have an advantage in the series, but it never ever feels that way," Bylsma said Friday morning.
"It seems like a really nice place to be, and it's a heck of a lot better than 2-2. You have to have the desperation in your game that they are going to have. We have only 75% of the wins needed. It's not a complete job.
"You can hear it in their talks, their backs are against the wall, they are desperate, they have nothing to save it for."
Win on Friday night at the Consol Energy Center and the Penguins will have, possibly, as much as a week of rest before meeting the Boston Bruins or the Montreal Canadiens in the conference final.
Lose and both teams head back to New York for Game 6 on Sunday.
The Rangers didn't have a morning skate, so there was no update on the status of forward Martin St. Louis, whose mother passed away on Thursday.
It's expected coach Alain Vigneault will provide information when he meets with reporters late Friday afternoon.
"I just heard about that this morning and it's tough," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. "You never really like to hear news like that. I have had the opportunity to play with Marty in the Olympics and get to know him. He is a great guy and competes hard and I'm sure it's not easy. We are definitely thinking of him."
St. Louis does not have a point in the series and has gone six playoff games without marking up the scoresheet.
Bylsma wouldn't give an update on defenceman Brooks Orpik, who appeared to suffer an injury to his right knee in Game 4.
Orpik did not participate in the morning skate. Expect Robert Bortuzzo to come back into the Penguins lineup.
The Penguins have eliminated the Rangers in each of the previous four playoff series between the clubs. The Rangers have never come back and won a series when trailing 3-1, and the Penguins are 3-0 in their past three elimination games.
In their most recent one, against Columbus in the first round, the Penguins were good for 50 minutes before allowing the Blue Jackets back into the game. Eventually, the Penguins won 4-3.
Penguins forward Jussi Jokinen will attempt to extend his points streak to nine games.
A year ago, Jokinen was a healthy scratch during the conference final against Boston.
"Throughout the season I have felt good health-wise," Jokinen said. "I have played with some good players, some good minutes in top-six and on the power play. Hopefully I can keep playing the same way.
"It's much more fun to play in these games than watch in the press box, that's for sure."
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