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Extract and insert rectilinear views
One of the most problematic points when shooting spherical panoramas is the view straight down also called the nadir view. Either the tripod is visible or there may be alignment or color mismatches if shooting handheld.
Unfortunately neither the nadir nor the zenith (straight above) area can be edited directly in the equirectangular image since it is very distorted. For this task we need to extract a partial view - best in Rectilinear Projection.
Important! For all transformations that use non-overlapping images like assembling cube faces to an equirectangular image the 'Fast transform' option should be disabled. As a default 'Fast transform' is disabled for the Panorama Tools Plugins and for PTEditor. However, it is enabled by default for some of the GUIs (PTGui f.e.)
Fast Transform can cause the loss of some pixels in the corners of an rectilinear image which will be visible as small triangular black holes in the result image. More on 'Fast Transform' on Fulvio Senore's page.
PTGui 5 has a new internal stitcher which causes a similar effect even if Fast Transform is switched off. Don't use PTGui 5 internal stitcher to assemble cubefaces! Choose "Panotools Stitcher" (PTStitcher) instead.
Possibilities with panotools
There are basically three possibilities to extract partial rectilinear views with panorama tools:
- PTEditor
- Panorama Tools Plugins
- PTStitcher or nona used directly or indirectly by script or batch file, GUI or PanoCube Plus
PTEditor is a Java application provided with the standard Panorama Tools distribution. It should run on any OS where Java and the panotools runtime (the pano12 library) are installed. There is a nice tutorial on How to use PTEditor. This is the most convenient way to extract and insert any arbitrary rectilinear view. The disadvantage is that it doesn't save 16 bit images.
Panotools plugins
The Photoshop and GIMP compatible Panorama Tools Plugins are part of the standard Panotools distribution as well. The most recent version that corrects some bugs and works for 16 bit is available as part of the panotools download from panotools sourceforge page.
The plugins contain the Adjust filter, which is capable of extracting and inserting any view in almost any projection. Any data (pan/tilt angle, size of view etc.) has to be inserted manually. Yaw, roll and pitch value have to be calculated or estimated which makes the usage a bit inconvenient.
However, extracting and inserting Zenith or Nadir is straightforward and relatively easy. Helmut Dersch has outlined the basic workflow in Extracting Rectilinear Images from Panoramas. You need to do the following:
- Load the Equirectangular image in Photoshop (or any plugins compatible image editor).
- Choose 'Adjust' or 'PTAdjust' from the Filter menu.
- Press the small 'Prefs' button in the upper right corner.
- In the following dialog uncheck option (a) and check options (b) and (c) (see plugins description for details)
- confirm with 'Ok'
- check 'Extract', check 'Use Options' and press 'Set'
- In the following dialog there is an upper part called 'Image:' and a lower one called 'Panorama'
- In the 'Image' section:
- In the 'Panorama' section:
- Set HFOV to 360 for a full sphere.
- Leave 'Width' and 'Height' empty (will be read from the image)
- Check 'Save to Buffer' if you want to merge the result into your pano later.
- Choose Format: PSphere (which means Equirectangular)
- Uncheck 'Load Buffer' to avoid loading of previously saved images.
- Press 'Ok' twice to perform the transformation
The result image will be loaded into a new window where you can edit it as any other image.
Once you are done with editing the image you can either insert it back to your orignal pano or load it as a masked layer.
You need to have checked 'Save to Buffer' in order to be able to merge the result into your pano.
- With the edited rectilinear image as foremost (active) document open Adjust or PTAdjust dialog from the filter menu.
- Choose 'Insert' and 'Use Options' and press 'Set'
- in the following dialog leave anything as is or set it to the values described in the Extracting part if you changed them meanwhile with these exceptions:
- In the 'Panorama' section:
- Uncheck 'Save to Buffer'
- Check 'Load Buffer'
- check 'or paste'
- Choose 'Color Correction: none'
- Set 'Feather:' to a small value or 0
- Press 'Ok' twice to perform the transformation ans merging.
Loading as layer
Sometimes it might be usefull to load only the transformed Nadir or Zenith image in order to insert it as a new layer into a panorama.
- With the edited rectilinear image as foremost (active) document open Adjust or PTAdjust dialog from the filter menu.
- If you changed any settings since extracting the image set them as described under Extracting.
- Press 'Ok' to perform the transformation
The image is loaded as a document containing an alpha channel with the mask. In photoshop you can move this into a masked layer:
- In the layers palette double click the layer thumbnail in order to create a layer from background.
- Choose 'Load Selection' from the 'Select' menu.
- Choose 'Channel: Alpha 1' as new selection and press 'Ok'
- Click the 'Add vector mask' button in the bottom line of the layers palette.
- Shift-Drag (pres and hold the shift key after started dragging) the layer from the layers palette to your original panorama.
PTStitcher supports 16 bit images and can be used to extract and insert partial views in different ways.
- By directly scripting it.
- With PanoCube Plus
- By one of it's GUIs (PTGui, PTAssembler, Hugin, PTMac...)
nona is a free alternative to PTStitcher that can be used as a drop-in replacement if PTStitcher is not available.
There are several scripts or batch files available that extract 6 cube faces from an Equirectangular Projection image. One of the most convenient windows batch file is written by Eric Gerds and part of his DOS Utilities for Panoramas. A less convenient batch file is found on Erik Krause's page. PTStitcher scripts are found on Ben Kreunen's page
PanoCube Plus
PanoCube Plus can extract six cube faces (single, batch modes) for editing and then convert it directly into QTVR cubic movie(s). Both 8/16 bits per channel are supported - depending on the pano12 library used the cube faces are the same bit depth as the source images.
To activate "equirectangular to 6 cube faces" mode copy the file Script.txt
to the folder where your source image is and set "1" as first character in this line using a text editor (notepad!):
1 # create tiles for editing ( 0 = NO, 1 = YES). Default NO.
in the file Script.txt
and put it into pano's folder. Next drag and drop your single pano or folder with panos onto the program icon. The source file name and path should contain no spaces. The source image must be exactly in 2:1 format (f.e. 2000x1000 or 6000x3000 pixels). PanoCube calls PTStitcher 6 times and creates 6 files in the order front, right, back, left, top, bottom and replaces the last two characters of the name with 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66. All files ended with 55 are represent zenith view, ended with 66 - nadir view.
After editing drag again any one (not all!) tile or folder with tiles to get QTVR cubic movie(s). In batch mode important to have first six letters differ in filenames, otherwice PanoCube can skips "similar" files.
This technique is good if the final product is a QTVR movie. If you need an equirectangular for PTViewer you can of course drag the .mov file on panocube plus to get it converted, but image quality suffers because of intermediate JPEG compression and decompression and another interpolation step.
Inserting cubefaces again
You can assemble the cube faces again using the PTGui template from http://www.erik-krause.de/ttt or the batch file from Eric Gerds: Dos for Panoramas.
You can even remap only one cube face to equirectangular and insert it as an additional layer into your layered photoshop document. This has several benefits:
- no additional interpolation for the rest of the panorama.
- possibility to patch nadir in a relative early stage of editing thus leaving open any possibility of correcting over all colors etc.
- preserving as much as possible of the original image data
To re-insert the patched cubeface into the original document implies that you have worked on a cube face with enough resolution, preferable the pixel width of the original pano divided by 3.
You can use the batch file or PTGui template mentioned above. You simply have to set output size equal to your original panorama size and create single image TIFFs as output. Any of those TIFF files can be added to the original panorama as a masked layer using the "Tiff to masked layers" action from http://www.erik-krause.de/ttt
To use any of the other GUIs you need to
- Add the cube face as input image
- specify rectilinear and FoV 90° for input images
- set all lens correction parameters to 0.0
- specify the correct yaw and pitch values for the particular image:
tile front right back left top bottom Yaw 0 90 180 -90 0 0 Pitch 0 0 0 0 90 -90
- specify the correct output size.
- specify TIFF without mask or feather (TIFF_m) as output format.
- don't set control points and don't optimize
- create the panorama
All of the GUI front-ends should be capable of extracting an arbitrary rectilinear view from a spherical pano. Use the equirect image as input (don't forget to set the correct FoV) and specify a rectilinear image with 90° as output "panorama". Set all lens correction parameters to 0.0. Then change yaw and pitch of the input image until you get the desired view. Note that the values work the other way round than when inserting an image.
PTGui offers an additional advantage: The panorama editor and numerical transform. To use it load your image as described above, open panorama editor and choose 'Numerical Transform' from the edit menu.
On the 'Panorama Settings' tab don't forget to uncheck 'Use fast transform' (for details see Warning at top of page).
To pan along the horizon f.e. in 20° steps insert 20 into the 'Yaw' field and press 'Apply' repeatedly until you get the desired view. Positive values pan right, negatives left.
Do the corresponding for 'Pitch' and 'Roll' if needed. This way you can extract any partial view. Once your are done create the "Panorama" (which is the desired partial view) using output format TIFF. Note down or save the exact values for Yaw, Roll and Pitch as shown on 'Image Parameters" tab page.
Now edit the partial view to your need. Then add it to the project with your original panorama and on 'Panorama settings' tab change to equirectangular and 360°x180°. Choose individual lens parameters for the new image on 'Lens settings' tab and set 'Rectilinear' and 90° on 'Image parameters' tab. The image should fit now perfectly in the original panorama.
In order to move the panorama back to it's original position go to panorama editor again and choose 'Numerical transform'. Now Enter the exact values for Yaw, Roll and Pitch you previously saved or noted down. The panorama should move back to it's original position now.
You can create either the complete panorama or the partial view only. Choose the size of the original panorama for output.
There are two templates available for conveniently extract and insert the floor cube face using this technique from http://erik-krause.de/ttt
Online tools
Cube to Sphere online tool http://nadirpatch.com/cube2sphere/
- Upload each cube side to accordingly place
- As soon as last side is uploaded the converting to equirectangular projection starts
- Download stitched panorama
Sphere to Cube online tool http://nadirpatch.com/sphere2cube/
- Upload equirectangular projection
- Waiting while it is converting
- Download each side of cube projection
Other possibilities
- The free Super Cubic plugin for photoshop extracts and inserts both zenith and nadir.
- A video tutorial using Photoshop actions and PTGui templates can be found here: Nadir patching in Photoshop with actions and PTGui templates
- A two parts tutorial with Hugin
- Patching a Panorama with Pano2VR: Patches documentation, video tutorial

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About 40 medical personnel have arrived at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay amid an increase in the number of hunger strikers at the facility.
Since last Saturday, 100 of the 166 prisoners at the camp have been refusing to eat; 21 of them are being fed through nasal tubes. Five of the hunger strikers are in the camp's hospital, according to a statement from Army Lt. Col. Samuel House. ( As we've reported, 84 prisoners were on hunger strike on April 22.)
The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg reports:
"House issued the statement just before noon Monday, saying 'currently only a handful of detainees are being tube-fed.' He sought to distinguish between those designated for forced-feedings and those actually strapped to a feeding chair to have a tube snaked up the nose and into the stomach to pump in a can of Ensure or a similar nutritional supplement up to twice daily.
"Captives are moved in shackles from their cell to a separate forced-feeding site, House said in a statement where 'most of the detainees who are approved for tube feeding will eat or drink without the peer pressure from inside the cell block.' "
The Herald also reported that the medical reinforcements come amid a visit to the facility by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that the American Medical Association is asking Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel whether doctors at Guantanamo are being asked to violate their ethics by force-feeding prisoners. The news agency, which obtained a copy of the letter, reports: "It urged the defense secretary 'to address any situation in which a physician may be asked to violate the ethical standards of his or her profession.' "
The hunger strikes began in February, as prisoners protested conditions at the camp and their indefinite detention.
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Adopting a Dog: Surviving the First 24 Hours
by Arden Moore
Published on November 03, 2011
The drive home was a blur. I'd just adopted a two-time shelter reject named BJ from a Siberian Husky rescue group.
Now, the 2-year-old, just-spayed Husky-Golden Retriever mix I was about to rename Chipper sat motionless in the back seat, looking at me with weary eyes. I'd quickly ushered her into the car during a rainstorm and I remember how much this dog's matted coat stunk — and how helpless I felt because I couldn't open the windows for ventilation.
Am I crazy? Is this the right dog for me at this time in my life? What is this dog going to do when we get home? Is she going to pee on my rug? Will she listen? What have I done?
Do these questions sound familiar? People speak of buyer's remorse when they make a major financial investment, like purchasing a new car or a home. But one of the biggest emotional investments you will ever make is adopting a dog.
The clock starts ticking on the longest day of your life the second you sign the adoption papers. For the next 24 hours, you'll experience a crazy blend of euphoria and doubt. You may have trouble eating and concentrating. Your heart may race. Don't worry — these are all normal occurrences.
To set you — and your new dog — up for success and a lifetime of happiness, here are some pointers for the first 24 hours.
- Dog-proof your home before dashing out the door. Shut bedroom and bathroom doors, install doggie gates, put away electrical cords, potentially toxic plants and small objects that may be accidentally swallowed, and introduce your dog to limited parts of your home.
- Take the day off from work. And don't schedule any other activity, such as catching a movie with a friend. For those first 24 hours, it's important that you're there for your dog as he adjusts to a strange, new environment filled with novel sounds, sights and smells.
- Buy just the basics. Skip the Fido fashion outfits and pick up a buckle collar or harness, a 6-foot leash and stainless steel food and water bowls.
- Stick with his current chow. Feed him the same food he has eaten at the shelter or rescue home, and work with your veterinarian to gradually transition him to a diet that's best for his age, breed, health condition and activity level.
- Don't go overboard with treats and happy talk. Speak in a calm, confident tone to ease his possible feelings of anxiety, and avoid upsetting his stomach with too many food rewards.
- Run a bath. Be patient and calm as you bathe your new dog to get rid of any shelter smells. He'll feel much better — and smell better, too. If that's too stressful for the first day, the bath can wait a day or two.
- Be selective when introducing friends. Pick one or two dog-savvy friends to meet him on the first day, and limit additional distractions. Wait to host a big welcome party until a few weeks have passed.
- Don't expect a full night's sleep. As your new dog snoozes in a crate or on your bed, your racing mind will record every breath he takes — and every move he makes.
- Remember that the only constant in life is change. It's natural for newly adopted dogs to take a few weeks, even months, to feel comfortable and secure enough to show you their true personalities. It took Chipper a couple of weeks to sport her now trademark open-mouth grin and full-body wiggle. But it was worth the wait.
Speaking of Chipper, let's fast-forward seven years. She surfs, joins me in a people-dog workout class, and serves as my demo dog for the pet first-aid classes I teach. Sure, the first 24 hours with her turned me into an emotional wreck, but it was worth every second for the life that we now share.
We hope you enjoyed our contribution to Petside.com's Pet 'Net 2011 Adoption Event. Be sure to check out all the amazing submissions at the Pet 'Net hub!
This year, Pet 'Net is bringing something new to the table — a partnership with Iams and a social media donation campaign! Calls to action on Twitter will yield food donations as part of Iams Home 4 the Holidays' Bags 4 Bowls initiative — and we've got all the details.
By taking any of the simple steps below on November 16, 2011, Iams Home 4 The Holidays and their Bags 4 Bowls initiative will donate bowls of food to local shelters!
- Tweet @Iams with the Pet 'Net hashtag #IHeartShelterPets and Iams Home 4 The Holidays and their Bags 4 Bowls initiative will donate 25 bowls of food to local shelters.
- Share your adoption story on Petside's Facebook Wall for a chance to be featured on Petfinder.com as a Happy Tail story!
- Like and comment on any adoption story or Pet 'Net-related post on Petside's Facebook Wall and earn one additional bowl per action.
At the end of the day, we'll tally how many bowls of food were earned. Get sharing!


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Imagine yourself as a resourceful farmer during the Great Depression. You'd like to make a dessert for your family, but traditional pie ingredients, like cherries or pecans, are too expensive or not available.
Desperate times call for desperation pies (or starvation recipes, if you happen to be in Greece).
Also known as "make-do" pies, desperation pies were made with any ingredients a farm cook had on hand or could scrounge up at a moment's notice. "[Desperation pie is] a pie that you made when you had nothing left to make it with," says food folklorist and author Joanne Raetz Stuttgen.
And sometimes this meant pulling off feats of tastebud trickery that modern day chefs are rediscovering with great interest, Stuttgen tells The Salt.
For example, vinegar pie was the creative cook's fruit-free answer to lemon meringue pie. "If you want a lemon meringue pie but you have no lemons, the vinegar gets the tartness like the lemon," says Stuttgen. Now vinegar pie is so hip, even Chef Emeril Lagasse has a version.
Some desperation pies of yesteryear were even inspired by off-season cravings. If you wanted an apple pie, and you had a surplus of green tomatoes before the apples were ripe, tossing sliced green tomatoes to sugar and apple pie spices like cinnamon and nutmeg was a good substitute, Stuttgen says.
"Also, it could be something local," she says, "Like if there was a blight, for instance, that destroyed pecans, you could put in oatmeal in place of the nuts. That can 'mock' the flavor and the appearance of the pecan pie."
War-time rationing also encouraged a great deal of culinary creativity. Recipes for meatless mincemeat pie, a pie usually made with chopped beef, fruits, and spices, began to emerge in patriotic World War II cookbooks with titles like Cooking Without Meat: A Supplementary Kitchen Guide for War-Time Cookery.
Additionally, desperation pie recipes have been shared in community cookbooks for over a century, and many traveled from region to region through these cookbooks, says Stuttgen. Today, thousands of home cooks still share their time-tested pie recipes in popular cookbooks compiled by organizations like the and the .
Even in times of plenty, some desperation pies, like sugar cream pie in Indiana and chess pie in the South, went on to become famous regional favorites that people still make today. "They have a place," says Stuttgen, "and they become traditional and symbolic of a region, or a family, where that pie has to be at Christmas every year."
But Stuttgen says that more than regional character, these pies show the ingenuity and creativity of the American spirit in times of struggle.
"These types of pies come from sheer practicality," she says, "You probably cannot convincingly trace them to a specific region or a specific cultural group; instead you just have these women who are making do with what they have."
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The specter of more expensive energy, along with concerns about its availability and environmental impact, has renewed interest in finding more efficient ways to use it. For executives, this shift could bring not only new challenges, including stringent regulations, but also new business opportunities. And for society as a whole, the potential savings are huge: more than $1 trillion in the United States alone.
Many people focus on opportunities that require high-tech new systems or on conservation efforts that reduce the benefits from energy. Yet there is great potential to reduce its consumption and minimize its total cost by using existing technologies—and without changing everyday habits. So why haven't these prospects been realized already? Four fundamental barriers stand out. Energy efficiency typically requires large upfront investments to achieve savings that accrue later. In addition, it has low mindshare, and opportunities are fragmented across billions of devices in more than 100 million locations. Finally, the organizations that would be primarily responsible for implementing energy efficiency find it hard to measure, which makes them less motivated to act.
Realizing the full range of savings may require a comprehensive energy policy,1 but regardless individuals and companies alike must become more aware of the importance and profitability of change.2 This article therefore focuses on the broad range of opportunities and challenges our research has uncovered in three key sectors.
The residential sector
Let's start with the residential sector, which accounts for 35 percent of the end use potential for energy savings. The incremental investment to make 129 million US homes—and the appliances, devices, and climate control systems in those homes—more energy efficient would be $229 billion, providing present-value savings of $395 billion. Upgrading building shells and heating and cooling equipment, mostly in existing homes, represents the largest opportunity (71 percent). The rest would come from upgrading devices and appliances.
We divided US homes into three clusters—existing homes of low-income people, existing homes of other Americans, and new homes (those built after January 1, 2009). At all income levels, energy-efficiency upgrades to shells of existing homes (for example, through insulating basements and sealing air leaks) offer the largest opportunities. Similar savings could be achieved in new homes at half the cost, but few such homes will be in place by 2020.
Still, the barriers are significant. Homeowners typically know little about their energy consumption or how to reduce it and end up underestimating savings from retrofits. They may also move before recouping the upgrade's cost—a barrier that undermines 40 to 55 percent of these opportunities. And for most families, allocating funds for such money-saving measures is difficult: core spending absorbs 90 percent of average household budgets, so a "typical" retrofit costing $1,500 absorbs 30 percent of annual discretionary spending. If the expense isn't a deal breaker, homeowners face high transaction costs researching upgrades and finding suitable contractors. Poorly installed and operated equipment—some reports conclude that contractors install 90 percent of it suboptimally—can hike air-conditioning and heating costs by 30 percent.
Nonetheless, solutions have recently emerged. In New York, the Long Island Green Homes program, an innovative approach to financing, provides capital for upgrades. Monthly repayments smaller than the savings they generate are paid through utility bills or property taxes, so the beneficiaries—future owners or current tenants—bear the costs. Even so, while product labeling and voluntary standards have been effective for new homes and may work for existing ones, full penetration will take years. Energy-efficiency improvements could also be mandated—say, when houses are sold or renovated. Since the 1980s, the mandatory Residential Energy Conservation Ordinance (RECO) in Berkeley, California, has prompted upgrades to about 500 homes annually at a typical cost (to home sellers) of $400 to $1,300. Austin, Texas, by contrast, requires home assessments, not improvements. Realizing such solutions on a national scale represents a business opportunity for investors and business leaders.
Devices, small and major appliances, and lighting
Although smaller devices and appliances, notably TVs and PCs, offer only 19 percent of the 2020 residential opportunity, capturing it would require just $3.4 billion in incremental capital, with possible present-value savings of $65 billion. Neither consumers nor manufacturers think much about these devices' energy consumption, since it doesn't loom large on electric bills. In fact, an existing energy-saving feature of PCs—the low-power standby mode—is enabled in only 15 percent of home office computers. The power that devices consume on standby can account for up to 90 percent of the total energy used, so a general standard makes sense. Voluntary standards could be developed faster than mandatory ones and might smooth the way.
Energy consumption by lighting and major appliances (such as water heaters and refrigerators) is expected to decline on an absolute basis by 3.3 percent from 2008 to 2020, mostly thanks to more efficient lighting. Further savings are possible; lighting constitutes 15 percent of this cluster's energy consumption but 82 percent of the savings potential, largely from the faster-than-mandated adoption of compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) in the near term and the subsequent spread of LED lighting as its costs decrease. Even now, average homes could save up to $180 or more annually by switching from incandescent bulbs to CFLs, though 42 percent of consumers still distrust them. For appliances, mandatory standards have proven their value: from 1987 to 2005, they saved US consumers $30 billion in energy bills. And the voluntary labeling of many appliances through Energy Star—a joint program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Energy—has saved 1,790 trillion BTUs.3 As the experience with CFLs shows, to capture many of these opportunities manufacturers must ensure that the customer experience remains unchanged or improves.
The commercial sector
Because several commercial clusters—especially new homes and office devices—resemble their equivalents in the residential sector, we'll stress the differences. The net present value–positive upgrades would require a $125 billion investment and provide present-value savings of $290 billion. Buildings and the devices used in them offer 87 percent of the opportunity.4
We divided US commercial structures among three clusters: existing private, existing government, and new private buildings. Two barriers have features specific to the private sector. The first, threatening a fifth of its potential, is the expectation of most companies that efficiency investments should pay back in one to four years—a problem for deeper retrofits. Second, energy-efficiency programs often arouse resistance because they may increase debt and divert money from revenue-enhancing projects.
Financing through public–private partnerships might solve these problems, especially in private commercial buildings: for an appropriate premium, a credit-enhancement fund that shares the default risk with lenders could direct private capital toward energy-efficiency projects. This approach has worked in other markets, particularly student loans. Similar credit insurance rates, totaling $2 billion to $4 billion, would guarantee the $73 billion in capital this cluster needs. A strong effort by banks or energy service companies (see the next paragraph) to lobby for the creation of such a fund and then to implement it would enable significant financing to flow.
The efficiency opportunity for government buildings is greatest in those of localities (counties, cities, and towns) and, secondly, of states. Unlocking it would require investments of $19 billion and $7 billion, respectively, and provide present-value savings of $36 billion and $13 billion, respectively. One barrier specific to government buildings is the fact that many states limit the use or effectiveness of performance contracting—a business model in which a third party (sometimes called an energy service company) finances and implements efficiency measures and recovers its investment by sharing in the customer's savings. As for new commercial buildings, the same observations that apply to new homes apply to them.
Office devices
People often resist focusing on their energy use because they consume it in drips and drabs. Office devices exemplify this problem: there are hundreds of categories—PCs, medical and lab equipment, cash registers, and data servers, to name just a few—and the consumption of each of these devices is usually limited. Nonetheless, they offer among the most cost-effective opportunities: present-value savings of $57 billion for an $8 billion investment.
Perhaps more odd than the failure to address small (but collectively large) opportunities is that fact that many purchasers in the commercial sector focus on acquisition rather than life cycle costs. In fact, sometimes costs of any kind seem unimportant. In data centers, where energy use could triple from 2008 to 2020, risk-averse managers overinvest in servers: 30 percent of them might consume electricity on a given day, even if only 3 percent were in use. Total-cost-of-ownership purchasing criteria could help capture much of this opportunity.
The industrial sector
The processes, support systems, and buildings of the US industrial sector not only consume more energy than the others combined but also offer the greatest NPV-positive energy-efficiency opportunity (3.65 quadrillion BTUs)—although the smallest (18 percent) as a percentage of end-use consumption. Capturing this opportunity would save $447 billion though present-value investments of $113 billion.
Varied industrial processes provide 67 percent of the sector's energy-efficiency potential; energy-consuming support systems (motors, buildings, and steam systems) and the recovery of their waste heat make up the remainder.
The largest opportunity lies in energy-intensive processes (such as bleaching, in pulp and paper, and hydrocracking, in refining), which require upfront investments of $51 billion for present-value savings of $182 billion. Payback times of less than 2.5 years could be realized in about 42 percent of these projects, which involve measures such as implementing more energy-efficient processes, upgrading current ones, and improving maintenance and monitoring. Systematically recovering waste heat would improve the energy efficiency not only of processes that are energy intensive but also of processes that aren't—within industries such as foods and plastics. Such industries offer $96 billion in present-value savings for a $28 billion investment.
Energy-consuming industrial-support systems, including steam systems, motors, and buildings, could provide present-value savings of $164 billion for a $34 billion investment. Although these represent a smaller opportunity, it could be easier to pursue because boilers and the like are more standardized than industry-specific process equipment. For boilers and other steam systems, the opportunities include (again) waste-heat recovery, better-insulated distribution systems, and valve and fitting improvements. Pumps, process equipment, and other systems driven by electric motors can become more energy efficient if factories match the power of components with their load requirements. Opportunities for industrial buildings resemble those for commercial ones.
Even in the industrial sector, energy often represents a relatively small fraction of costs, so top managers may resist serious investments. As in the commercial sector, payback times, capital constraints, and procurement can be problematic. Industrial sites, for example, generally have tight budgets, and many companies now require a one-and-a-half- to two-and-a-half-year payback, although even a two-and-a-half-year timeline cuts the sector's potential by only 46 percent. Managers may ignore attractive energy-efficiency projects because companies fear to hurt their credit ratings by raising debt. Fear also causes risk-averse plant managers to replace failing equipment with the same models rather than more up-to-date and energy-efficient ones—but inventory-carrying costs prevent many distributors from offering them anyway. And even many industrial-procurement operations focus on upfront rather than total costs.
An energy manager properly empowered through top-management and financial support can help companies realize 8 percent of the total industrial savings identified above. In some facilities, energy managers have delivered savings of 20 to 30 percent. Increasing the penetration of the kind of corporate programs that energy managers implement is the focus of the EPA's voluntary Energy Star Partnership. The US Department of Energy's voluntary Save Energy Now initiative, which aims to reduce industrial-energy intensity by 25 percent in ten years, has already helped 2,100 US manufacturing facilities cut their energy costs. Efforts to clarify the industrial sector's energy criteria for purchasing and using equipment could save significant amounts of money, without the staff reductions typical of other cost-cutting moves.
Financial incentives can help companies allocate capital for energy-efficiency plans, lengthen payback times, and make energy-efficient products more available. Wal-Mart Stores' Company of the Future supply chain initiative, for example, offers suppliers in seven product categories not only incentives to cut their energy use and emissions but also support, such as subsidized energy audits. Direct incentives from equipment manufacturers and distributors, governments, or utilities would promote upgrades of process and support systems. Such upgrades are now rare because early adopters face large risks.
Within specific industries, efficiency targets or equipment standards can help boost capital allocations, lengthen payback times, create awareness among executives, and make many products more available. Voluntary agreements, for example, have induced the participants to cut their energy consumption in return for receiving financial rewards, gaining exemption from some regulations, or avoiding stricter ones. Many regulators value the flexibility and fast implementation of voluntary agreements. From 1998 to 2006, for example, one such understanding raised a Dutch chemical industry's energy efficiency by 23 percent.
McKinsey has looked long and hard for ways to obtain an affordable, secure energy supply while controlling climate change. Energy efficiency stands out as the single most attractive and affordable component of the necessary shift in energy consumption. Although significant challenges stand in the way, solutions not only exist but can also be scaled up to a national level, which would cut the US energy bill by 23 percent and save a net $680 billion by 2020. But that isn't very far in the future, and each wasted day makes this—or any goal whatsoever—more difficult to reach.


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"A horrible legacy for our children and grandchildren"
The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide has jumped by a record amount, according to the US department of energy, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.
The figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.
"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, the co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The world pumped about 564m more tons (512m metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009, an increase of 6%. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries, China, the US and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.
It is a "monster" increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate department of energy figures in the past.
Extra pollution in China and the US account for more than half the increase in emissions last year, Marland said.
"It's a big jump," said Tom Boden, the director of the energy department's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Lab. "From an emissions standpoint, the global financial crisis seems to be over."
Boden said that in 2010 people were travelling, and manufacturing was back up worldwide, spurring the use of fossil fuels, the chief contributor of man-made climate change.
India and China are huge users of coal. Burning coal is the biggest carbon source worldwide and emissions from that jumped nearly 8% in 2010.
"The good news is that these economies are growing rapidly so everyone ought to be for that, right?" Reilly said. "Broader economic improvements in poor countries has been bringing living improvements to people. Doing it with increasing reliance on coal is imperiling the world."
In 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its last large report on global warming, it used different scenarios for carbon dioxide pollution and said the rate of warming would be based on the rate of pollution. Boden said the latest figures put global emissions higher than the worst case projections from the climate panel. Those forecast global temperatures rising between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4-6.4 Celsius) by the end of the century with the best estimate at 7.5 degrees (4 Celsius).
Even though global warming sceptics have criticised the climate change panel as being too alarmist, scientists have generally found their predictions too conservative, Reilly said. He said his university worked on emissions scenarios, their likelihood, and what would happen. The IPCC's worst case scenario was only about in the middle of what MIT calculated are likely scenarios.
Chris Field of Stanford University, head of one of the IPCC's working groups, said the panel's emissions scenarios are intended to be more accurate in the long term and are less so in earlier years. He said the question now among scientists is whether the future is the panel's worst case scenario "or something more extreme".
"Really dismaying," Granger Morgan, head of the engineering and public policy department at Carnegie Mellon University, said of the new figures. "We are building up a horrible legacy for our children and grandchildren."
But Reilly and University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver found something good in recent emissions figures. The developed countries that ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas limiting treaty have reduced their emissions overall since then and have achieved their goals of cutting emissions to about 8% below 1990 levels. The US did not ratify the agreement.
In 1990, developed countries produced about 60% of the world's greenhouse gases, now it's probably less than 50%, Reilly said.
"We really need to get the developing world because if we don't, the problem is going to be running away from us," Weaver said. "And the problem is pretty close from running away from us."


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I first started coming across recipes that used preserved lemons like this dish for a Moroccan tagine with preserved lemons and olives, about this time last year. The idea of preserved lemons was very intriguing and I just had to try them. Since I was not able to find any preserved lemons I finally decided to just make some myself and my first batch was ready to try. Olives are a food that I really enjoy but I rarely seem to cook with them so this dish was on the top of my list of recipes to try using the preserved lemons. Besides, it was the perfect excuse to pick up some nice quality olives to snack on at the same time. To top it all off this dish is braised so the chickens juices drip into the sauce and all of the flavours have a good chance to mingle and get to know each other including those amazing Moroccan spices.
This dish takes a little bit of time and effort, but not too much, and it is well worth it. The Moroccan chicken tagine with olives and lemon preserves turned out really well! Everything mixed together to form a tasty symphony of flavour in your mouth. Every time I try a dish with a Moroccan spice blend I am liking them more and more. I don't normally use so many spices in a single dish but the Moroccan spice blends seem to work really well. I really liked the touch of heat that the harissa brought to the table and the sweetness of the honey balanced it out well. The preserved lemon peel had a nice texture and really brought the lemon flavour to the dish. Overall I really enjoyed this dish and I look forward to enjoying the leftovers.
I now have a jar and a half of preserved lemons and I would certainly like to hear how you enjoy your preserved lemons.
Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Olives and Preserved Lemons
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 pinch saffron
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 whole chicken (cut into 8 pieces, or chicken thighs or breasts)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 onion (sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon ginger (grated)
- 1/2 cup water (or chicken stock)
- 1 preserved lemon (pith removed, and peel rinsed and sliced)
- 1 cup olives
- 1 tablespoon harissa
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 cup parsley (chopped)
- 1/4 cup cilantro (chopped)
- Mix the paprika, cayenne pepper, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, saffron, salt and pepper and rub it into the chicken.
- Heat the oil in a large pan over medium-high heat add the chicken and brown on all sides and set aside.
- Add the onion, and saute for 3 minutes.
- Add the garlic and ginger and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the water, chicken, preserved lemon, olives, harissa and honey, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat and mix in the parsley and cilantro.
Slow Cooker: Optionally implement steps 1-4, place everything except the parsley and cilantro in the slow cooker and cook on low for 6-10 hours or high for 2-4 hours before adding the parsley and cilantro and turning off the heat.
Note: You will probably want to go easy on the salt as the lemons are preserved in a lot of salt and the olives are pretty salty as well.
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The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council recently announced the results of a survey that shows consumers rank blueberries ahead of strawberries as their favorite berry.
Strawberries had reigned supreme since the council first commissioned the consumer attitude survey in 2004. It commissioned a second survey in 2008.
In the 2013 survey, the council's third, 36 percent of respondents identified blueberries as their favorite fresh berry. Twenty-nine percent gave the nod to strawberries.
Conversely, 47 percent ranked strawberries as their No. 1 berry in 2008, while just 21 percent gave the nod to blueberries.
"That's a nice move," said Mark Villata, executive director of the USHBC, based in Folsom, Calif. "It shows that blueberries are really coming on strong as a berry that folks are interested in."
The survey showed consumers like both the taste of blueberries, as 81 percent said that was what they liked about the berry, and the fact the blueberries are good for you, as 84 percent of respondents said they were aware of the health benefits of blueberries.
In 2004, just 39 percent said they were aware of the berry's health benefits.
"The whole health halo that has surrounded blueberries has really been a godsend to the industry," Villata said. "It has really helped move the product."
The survey also showed that berries are increasing in popularity among young people and minority groups.
Also, 68 percent of respondents said they had purchased blueberries within the past month, compared to just 38 percent in 2008.
"This is a good report card for us," Villata said.
Villata said the independent research firm hired to conduct the survey contacted 3,765 households nationwide by phone calls and through the Internet.
The council uses information from the survey to help direct its market promotion activities, Villata said.
"It helps us to see where we need to go, what areas we need to address, where we need to ramp up, and, in some case, to just kind of track how well our programs are doing," he said.
The USDA recently approved a one-third increase in the assessment growers pay the council, bumping it from $12 a ton to $18 a ton.
The increased revenue, Villata said, "is going to help us keep ahead of this new wave of record production. We have to keep demand ahead of supply. These dollars will help us do that."
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'That '70s Show' Star Lisa Robin Kelly Dead at 43
Sad news for Hollywood and fans of former FOX sitcom 'That '70s Show' today, as we've learned that actress Lisa Robin Kelly has passed away at the age of 43. Kelly had been best known as the actress behind Eric Forman's (Topher Grace) sister, Laurie Forman, eventually being replaced in the role due to her notable off-screen personal difficulties.
TMZ first reported the news, clarifying that Kelly died in her sleep at a rehab center, at which she had been attempting to treat alcoholism. The actress went into cardiac arrest late Wednesday night and was unable to be revived. "She had been fighting demons for a while and finally lost her battle," said Kelly's representation, noting that the actress had checked herself in for treatment earlier this week.
Lisa Robin Kelly's death arrives as a sad end to the actress' difficult story, which includes instances of domestic abuse with estranged husband Robert Gilliam, and multiple arrests for DUI, spousal abuse and assault. Kelly left 'That '70s Show' for good in the fifth season, and ended up replaced by Christina Moore in the sixth season. In an interview with ABC News previously, Kelly had admitted, "With That '70s Show I was guilty of a drinking problem, and I ran."
We'll bring more as the story develops, but it is sad news all around. Feel free to leave remembrances of Lisa Robin Kelly in the comments.


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Spring will arrive early this year, according to America's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil.
Phil did not see his shadow when he emerged from his home in Gobblers Knob, Pa. early Saturday morning. Legend has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2 winter will last six more weeks. If he doesn't see his shadow, spring will come early.
The tradition began in 1887, but Phil (and his ancestors) have only predicted an early spring 16 times, according to ABC News. The west-central Pa. groundhog was greeted by a crowd of nearly 20,000 onlookers who came to see his prediction.
Of course, the furry creature's prognostications are not always accurate. Phil predicted six more weeks of winter in Feb. 2012. That January to June were listed as the warmest seven-month period since systematic records began being kept in 1895, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
In recent years, other groundhogs have joined the celebration by making their own predictions. "Punxsutawney can't keep something this big to itself," according to the National Climactic Data Center. "Other prognosticating rodents are popping up to claim a piece of the action." Groundhogs in New York, Ontario and Atlanta also make annual predictions on Feb. 2.
Staten Island Chuck, who resides in New York's Staten Island Zoo, agreed with Phil's prediction. Chuck predicted an early spring, as he did not see his shadow on Saturday morning.
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The modern pharmacopeia is a glorious thing—drugs have helped many people with depression and anxiety, not to mention cancer and other life-threatening diseases. But what goes down your throat must eventually come out, er, elsewhere—especially since drugs are designed specifically so they won't break down on the pharmacy shelves or in a patient's body. Starting in the 1990s, with the advent of super-sensitive chemical-detection technology, scientists began discovering that a lot of this medical chemistry is surviving wastewater treatment plants and flowing into waterways. That, in turn, raised a basic and troubling question: What's it doing to the fish?
Typically, the impact of industrial chemistry on wildlife is tested using fairly basic measures of toxicity. If it doesn't kill animals outright or prevent them from reproducing—as DDT did by causing birds to lay thin-shelled eggs—it's not considered a clear and present threat. But with more and more psychotropic drugs like antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs flowing from factories, into consumers and out into the wild, environmental scientists have begun to worry that the meds may be affecting animal behavior too. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, Swedish researchers report that they put that question to the test—and they came up with some troubling answers.
The scientists, all affiliated with Sweden's Umeå University, began by testing perch, a species of schooling fish, living downstream from a wastewater treatment plant. The investigators were specifically looking for traces of the anti-anxiety drug oxazepam, which has been observed in waste water before. They found the drug in the water and, when they examined muscle samples of the fish, saw it there too—but in six times the concentration it is in the river, suggesting that it builds up in the animals' bodies over time. Next, they started afresh with a school of perch they hatched from eggs and, when they had grown, put them through a battery of tests to measure behavioral qualities thought important for perch survival, such as schooling and danger avoidance. Then they split the school into three groups: the first would live in a tank with clean water, the second would swim in water with a same concentration of oxazepam on the order of what was found in the river, and the third would get water with 500 times the river's concentration.
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Once the fish had been in their respective treatments for a week, the researchers ran the behavioral tests again. To see whether the fish sought the company of others, they released each perch into the central compartment of a three-part tank, which had three other perch on one side and an empty compartment on the other, and recorded where and how the central fish swam for about ten minutes. Then, to measure the fish's boldness, they put each perch into a small, dark box for 5 minutes in another tank, opened a door in the box's side, and watched to see how long it took the fish to venture out of its haven. Finally, they put each fish in a tank stocked with 20 zooplankton, the tiny creatures perch like to eat, and recorded how long it took them to snap up their prey.
The clean-water fish were unchanged after their time in their pristine tank, performing the same way as they had a week before. The fish exposed to a low level of oxazepam spent significantly less time near other fish, darted around more frequently, and gobbled up their food much more quickly than they had a week prior. The effects were even more pronounced in the high-exposure fish, particularly in the boldness test. Leaving the dark box requires more chutzpah than most perch can muster; not a single clean-water fish or low-dose oxazepam fish would do it. But a remarkable 23 of the 24 high-dose fish came out. "It's an extreme effect," says Tomas Brodin, assistant professor of ecology and an author of the paper. "They get fearless." Brodin suspects that the low-dose fish's more hyperactive, less social behavior is a milder version of the high-dose fish's boldness, all implying a reduction of caution. "That's bad, if you're a little schooling fish," he adds.
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The Umeå researchers do not suggest oxazepam or any psychotropic operates exactly the same way on fish that it does in humans. At the same time, the drug works through a particular cellular receptor that humans and perch—and many other species—share, so there is a potential for overlaps. That has Bryan Brooks, a professor of environmental science at Baylor University with long experience studying pharmaceuticals in the environment, arguing for a new testing standard for drug toxicity. "We should be thinking about behavior in a compound that affects behavior," he says.
If groups like the US Environmental Protection Agency are ever to draft regulations to improve the control of drug release into the environment, they will need just that kind of testing data to determine which drugs need the most attention and how to get rid of them. That could lead to demand for new filtering technologies—and those systems could be put straight to work. "The good thing is that we have the effluent in the pipe," says environmental scientist Jerker Fick, another author of the paper. "If someone comes up with a good solution to remove [the drugs], we have a place for it."
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DETROIT -- Matthew Stafford and Reggie Bush did their part to keep the Aaron Rodgers-less Green Bay Packers in the game.
Stafford turned the ball over a few times and Bush did once.
Instead of crumbling and losing confidence, both players bounced back and helped the Detroit Lions put together a dominant performance after an awful start.
Stafford threw three touchdown passes, including one to Calvin Johnson, Bush had 182 yards of offense and scored, and Detroit scored 37 straight points to rout Green Bay 40-10 on Thursday.
"When we get out of our own way, we can be pretty special," Bush said.
Early on, it looked as if the Lions were going to find another way to waste chances to win a game and take control of the NFC North.
"It's easy when you lose a couple games in a row, particularly the fashion that we lost, for people to say, 'Here we go again,'" Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said. "I'm sure there were some people that were saying that, but they weren't on our sideline."
The Lions (7-5) had lost their last two games, five consecutive against Green Bay and a franchise-record nine straight in their annual showcase on Thanksgiving.
"It's a step in the right direction for us," Stafford said. "I'm sure the turkey will taste better."
The Packers (5-6-1) have a five-game winless streak for the first time since 2008.
"We're not used to anything like this -- not on this team," Green Bay linebacker A.J. Hawk said. "This is something that is going to make a lot of guys on this team think, and that's good. We need to find some answers because they just ran the ball down our throats."
Bush responded from fumbling deep in Green Bay territory to score a 1-yard TD run that gave Detroit a 17-10 lead late in the first half. He finished with 117 yards rushing and 65 yards receiving. Bush's backup, Joique Bell, ran for a career-high 94 yards and a score.
The Packers, painfully, are finding out how valuable Rodgers is for the franchise. Rodgers has missed four-plus games since fracturing his left collarbone. Green Bay has tied one and lost four without him.
"We're a wounded team that got drilled by a good football team," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
Matt Flynn became the fourth starting quarterback for Green Bay this year and was sacked seven times, once by Ndamukong Suh for a safety.
Flynn didn't fare as well as he did in his last start for Green Bay against the same opponent.
He was 10 of 20 for 139 yards with an interception and two fumbles. In the last game of the 2011 regular season, while Rodgers rested for the playoffs, Flynn threw for 480 yards and six TDs in a 45-41 win over Detroit.
"They might have a lot of the same guys, but I can say they're a different defense," Flynn said. "They're flying around, creating havoc."
The Packers have been leaning on rookie running back Eddie Lacy lately, but he was limited to 16 yards on 10 carries against one of the NFL's best defenses against the run.
Detroit was balanced on offense.
Johnson had six receptions for 101 yards and a 20-yard TD to put the Lions up 24-10 early in the third quarter. He has 4,944 yards receiving in two-plus seasons, breaking Jerry Rice's NFL record for yards receiving in a three-year stretch. Rice had 4,850 yards receiving from 1993 to 1995.
Stafford was 22 of 35 for 330 yards with two interceptions and a fumble that was returned by Morgan Burnett to put the Packers up 10-3 early in the second quarter.
After that, Detroit did whatever it wanted on both sides of the ball. And if the Lions didn't start the game so poorly, the score could've been even more lopsided.
Detroit gained 561 yards and gave up just 126.
Green Bay didn't have more than 100 yards of offense until Flynn threw a 56-yard pass to Jordy Nelson with a little more than a minute left. Flynn then fumbled in a fitting end for a game that he and his team would like to forget.
Packers guard Josh Sitton might've fired up the Lions, saying they were "dirtbags," a couple days before the game, but didn't seem to regret his choice of words.
"I don't take back anything I said," Sitton said. "But I don't want to stand here and discuss it again."
NOTES: Green Bay C Evan Dietrich-Smith, two years after he was stomped on by Suh, left the game with knee injury and didn't return. ... Packers TE Ryan Taylor was knocked out of the game and was evaluated for a concussion after a crunching hit by Detroit's DeAndre Levy, who made his NFL-leading fifth interception during the game. ... Lions CB Chris Houston was inactive with a foot injury and was replaced by rookie Darius Slay.
Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press


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We are a franchise dealer of Chrysler brand products and services. This Privacy Statement describes the way that this website Marina Chrysler Dodge Jeep collects and uses the personal and non-personal information about you that we collect or that you provide through this website. Our website provides information about certain brands of products including Chrysler brand automobiles. Although we are an affiliated franchise dealer of Chrysler products and services, we make no representations on behalf of Chrysler LLC or their affiliated companies.
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During a normal visit to our site personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, mailing address, email, and telephone number, is not collected unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you opt not to provide us with personal information, you can still access our websites; however you may be unable to participate in certain promotions, have an order fulfilled or receive product information (such as a quote on a product) or qualify for a credit application, if applicable.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you when you visit our website is to provide you with the information you need about our products and services. For example, we will ask you for personal information in order to fulfill your request for information on a particular vehicle, service or incentive. We will use this information to contact you regarding the same. This information may be used in order to provide you with products that you may be interested in or to improve our service or functionality and ease of use of our website.
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During a normal visit to our site, no personally identifiable information about you is collected. All information on our site is free to browse at your leisure without the need for you to provide us with any personal information. During normal use, our website does collect "aggregate" information, which is non-personally identifiable information. This means that we do not track these items on an individual basis that identifies you, but rather accumulate this info on an aggregate basis that includes all site visitors. Non-personal information includes tracking the site pages visited or the amount of time spent on our site.
Our primary goal in collecting aggregate information is to be able to perform site metrics that allow us to improve the functionality of the website. We need to collect aggregate information in order to track page visits, recognize peak usage times and analyze potential site redesign.
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Phil Harris and Alice Faye are back in 20 new digitally remastered episodes - including 18 episodes available for the first time anywhere.
As we join Curly and the Mrs., spring is in the air, but the show is on thin ice with its sponsor RCA Victor and its president Clyde Scott (Gale Gordon). Amid contract worries, battles with writers, family outings, sorority girls, and selling television sets, the show takes a dramatic turn - and chaos and hilarity follow! We also hear "The Life Story of Phil Harris and Alice Faye"!
Special guests in this collection include Norris Goff (reprising his Abner Peabody character from Lum 'n' Abner), and Rose Marie who makes an appearance as Julius' mother! Getting in on the act are regulars Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetely, Robert North, Jeanine Roos, Anne Whitfield, announcer Bill Forman, Martha Wentworth, Sheldon Leonard, Hans Conreid, Joseph Kearns, Gerald Mohr and more.
Includes a Program Guide by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. with photographs and background information about the programs.
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There Are Times That Try Bunny's Brains
Loschmidt's paradox is that the laws of thermodynamics are time asymmetric because entropy always increases, but the underlying laws of physics are symmetric under time reversal. It should not therefore be possible to derive the second law of thermodynamics from first principles.This has lead to the suicide of as many physicists (Boltzmann and Ehrenfest among them) as Schroedinger's cat. Recently friends Motl and the Capitalist Imperialist Swine have wandered into the killing field. The Pig plays the chalk, quoting Boltzmann
There are times in every blogger's life when a Bunny comes across something that is really really interesting, but does not have the angle or the understanding to really push to a conclusion. "A proof of Clausius' theorem for time reversible deterministic microscopic dynamics", Journal of Chemical Physics, 134 (2011) 204113 by D.J. Evans, S.R. Williams and D. J. Searles is the ticket for Eli. This trio has been thinking about how to establish thermodynamics on other than the normal ad hoc basis. Yes bunnies, the laws of thermodynamics are observations, better put Ansatze, or as the Wikipedia puts it educated guesses that are verified later by its results. The Clausius inequality, should the readers have forgotten isOf course, when the past is determined by the correct method – the method of retrodictions which is a form of Bayesian inference – we will find out that the lower-entropy states are exponentially favored. We won't be able to become certain about any property of the Universe in the past but some most universal facts such as the increasing entropy will of course follow from this Bayesian inference. In particular, the correctly "retrodicted past entropy" will more or less coincide with the "actual past" curve.The secret sauce is the statement that in retrodictions
...the lower-entropy states are exponentially favored.I'm putting that in my "remains to be demonstrated" file.
EW&S prove this is true only in the limit of infinite time, where the temperature is that of the "underlying equilibrium state" and only assuming T-mixing, ergodic consistency and the axiom of causality. That means, of course, that there are quantum issues yet to be confronted, but certainly this appears valid for classical thermodynamics.
In a later paper (JCP 137 (2012) 194109), the three authors conclude:
Our proof (of the zeroth law) is constructed using an array of previous results. Out proof of the zeroth "law" is far more informative than the corresponding derivation using ergodic theory. Combining the present proof with the observation that for an isolated mechanical system the energy is constant and our recent proof of the Clausius inequality, we see that all the so called laws of classical thermodynamics are mathematical results provable from the laws of mechanics supplemented by the axiom of causality and by the T mixing condition. Theis might be regarded as changing the logical status of thermodynamics.So why does the Gibbs approach to equilibrium work?
A second, less obvious result of our work is that for nonequilibrium systems entropy seems to play no role at all! Its place is taken by dissipation. The idea that one could use the Gibbs entropy in proving relaxation to equilibrium is obviously erroneous as discussed in a range of papers . . . . .
The present work points out, however, that entropy is not really necessary away from equilibrium. It is only at, or very near to, equilibrium when dissipation is identically zero or so small that local thermodynamic equilibrium can be assumed, that entropy (and the Gibbs approach-ER) may be useful. One may resort to other dynamical notions of entropy, cf. the Bolzmann entropy, or the one defined in the third paper of Ref. 21 to avoid these problems.The infinite time is where the fun lies. Remember Loschmidt? In a purely mechanical universe, motion is time reversible, e.g. given a complete description of the initial condition one can postdict where all the particles were at earlier time and predict where they will be in the future, but classical thermodynamics claims this not to be the case, and statistical mechanics establishes that for large systems this will not be possible because of entropic driving forces.
About a decade ago Evans and collaborators showed experimentally, that for small systems, easily of the size of today's nanostructures, there can be momentary violations of the second law. There would appear to be nothing really standing in the way of building an entangled system of such a size and that could really be the Mayan calendar for physics.


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A rose bush a very special romantic charm. The flowers of 75 to 80 petals, the fragrance and colours of rose Bengal, resist very well to rain. The foliage is very healthy and resistant to diseases. Gold medal in Monza. Diameter of flower is 8 cm.
Flowering from may to frost.
Rose THE FAIRY
Reference: THE_FAIRY_T100
Rose The Fairy offers continuous flowering from June until the beginning of the winter. Its double flowers are light pink colour. This rose, vigorous the port flared is a good ground cover that we can also plant in the planter.
Width 80/100 cm
planting density 3/m2
Essential tips for successful planting of your Roses :
If you already had roses in the same place, change the earth to a depth of 60 cm.
Choose an airy and sunny (at least 4 hours of sunlight), avoid the proximity of trees or northern exposure.
Make a hole 50 cm deep and make an organic manure (aged manure, or compost 2 years minimum age...)
Put a layer of good soil (10 cm) of vegetable added, if needed 1/3 good potting soil to prevent the roots come in direct contact with the manure.
Roses bare-root : do not leave the air if you do not plant immediately. Leave them in their original packaging in a cool place protected from frost, wind and heat. Beyond 8 days put-in gauge.
The day before planting, soak completely in the water : the roots and branches.
Re-cut the roots before planting.
Place the rose bush and then fill in with soil, packing firmly with the foot to the ground all around the roots.
Rose bushes in clods : They can be stored for several days at the expense "off-gel" before planting. Remove the plastic bag, soak 1 to 2 hours the root ball in a bucket of water and plant the root ball, leaving the film around (biodegradable).
Roses in pots : Plant the rose with its root ball by watering thoroughly at planting.
Watering : Water thoroughly (8 to 10 L per rose) for planting.
When the ground is set, return of the land above the grafting point in order to avoid that the rose never dries out by the wind and from freezing in the winter.
The 1era year regular watering 1 x per week depending on the weather.
SIZE : Do not resize, not the branches when planting fall. For a planting of spring re-cut the branches from the end of march.
Winter Protection : Buttez your rose bushes in November, with the earth in 15 cm of height of branches to protect them from the cold weather.
At the beginning of march, remove the hump. Depending on your region and the type of rose, from late February to early April, remember to resize your rose bushes.
Data sheet
- Type of flower
- Very double
- Use
- Balcony and terrace
landscape - Breeder - Publisher
- Collection Générale
- Color
- pink
- Disease resistance
- resistant
- Delivery ideal for planting
- January, February, March, April, May, October, November, December
- Sending period
- oktober to june


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Harbor Insurance Group
Apr 03, 2015
Spring is a time for rejuvenation, and, as the weather gets warmer here in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the days grow longer, there's a positive energy in the air. Many people decide it's the perfect time for reorganizing and refreshing their homes, while others eagerly get to work in the yard and garden.
While it's easy to get caught up in spring cleaning and planting, this is also one of the most important times of the year for home maintenance. The beginning of Daylight Saving Time is a great time to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, so if you haven't done that yet, here's your reminder. It's a good idea to do a basic checkup in some other key areas, too. After all, winter can be rough on your home.
These tips, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and others, can help. Call it "spring training" for homeowners.
Yard and ExteriorThese tasks will help keep you and your family safe, and they also can save you from costly repairs or homeowners insurance claims. So remember, when spring rolls around, there's a lot more to do than cleaning and changing your clocks.
Contact Us!At Harbor Insurance Group, we can work with you to make sure you've got the coverage you need, while at the same time using all possible credits and discounts to make that coverage affordable.
Call us at 727-528-2240 or send us a note at info [at] harborins [dot] net. We want to help you meet your goals, and make sure what's important to you is protected!
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