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(Birmingham, MI) - Acupuncture by Dr. Susan A. Burke, OMD (Oriental Medicine Doctor), L.Ac (Licensed Acupuncturist) of Acupuncture Health Alliance offers one of the most holistic and comprehensive acupuncture treatments you're likely to experience. For starters, the session lasts a full 2 hours – usually one hour on the front of the body and one hour on the back, including insertion and removal of the needles (exceptions are made for extenuating circumstances). She also offers acupuncture face-lifts, Chinese herbal and nutitional counseling, and cupping.
Dr. Burke has recently moved to a new location in Birmingham, "with huge amounts of open air and light." She relocated her practice to Birmingham after many years in Berkley, Michigan, prior to which she practiced in California. This year marks her 25th year in practice! She received her initial training in China, and has since has received continuing education and training both in California and at various national workshops. She has maintained both national and State of California Licensure since 1987.
Acupuncture is one of the most ancient holistic healing techniques known to man, today scientifically researched and validated. Acupuncture is the trained and precise placement of hair-thin needles at specific points, or meridians, on the body, which correspond to different organs, nerve pathways, and bodily systems (i.e., endocrine, etc). Based on principles of Chinese medicine and its understanding of the body/mind, health, and healing, it is understood that chi (pronounced "chee," Chinese for the vital life force) streams along energetic pathways in the body. This chi, however, is easily disrupted by physical, mental and emotional stressors (i.e. poor diet, sleep, trauma, medications, and environmental issues). Acupuncture can assist in restoring balance to these pathways, facilitating improved health and optimal functioning on all levels.
Numerous conditions are effectively treated with acupuncture, including back pain, infertility, digestive issues, chronic pain and/or weakness, chronic headaches and migraines, arthritis, carpal tunnel, and tendonitis. It is also effective with many respiratory and gynecological and reproductive issues, and even addictions. In addition, it effectively addresses many emotional and physiological issues in addition to improving over-all immunity, health, and vitality.
An initial appointment with Dr. Burke will begin with a discussion of the patient's health issues and concerns. According to Chinese Medicine practice, Dr. Burke will analyze the tongue, as well as subtle pulse readings, which will clue her into the various biological systems and their current levels of balance and/or vitality. The information gathered will guide the session. No two patients, and no two sessions for the same patient, will be identical. Thus, every person and every situation will be different with respect to length and frequency of treatment.
I stayed away from acupuncture for years because I couldn't imagine that anything involving needles could feel good! But the fact is, the needles as super-thin, and with a highly trained practitioner like Dr. Burke, the insertion of most of the needles is actually imperceptible. While sometimes there will be a momentary pinch or sting immediately upon insertion, this is usually when there is much accumulated "heat" in a particular location, and it lasts only a moment. Once they're all in, they can't be felt at all, and a profoundly deep sense of relaxation sets in. An acupuncture session with Dr. Burke is almost like a spa treatment. One client is so appreciative of her talent and expertise that he travels an hour one way for his appointments!
Some years ago, I saw Dr. Burke for a 'tune up,' and to address what was probably tendonitis or a carpal tunnel flare-up in my right hand (my 'mouse' hand). I was experiencing terrible pain and had almost no mobility in that wrist and hand. After my session with Susan, I had renewed mobility and the pain was down from a 9 ½ (out of 10) intensity, to about a 2 – which by the next day was at 0. In fact, I felt so good the next day that I had completely forgotten that just the day before, I had barely been able to use my right hand!
Ruth was in her 90's when she began seeing Dr. Burke. She had experienced acupuncture before, but found that Dr. Burke's technique put her previous experience to shame. "It's an entirely different ballgame!" she gushed. She began seeing Dr. Burke on average of once every 6-18 weeks, and continued seeing her every 2-3 months for several years. During that time, she enjoyed much relief from her arthritic knees, in addition to an overall greater sense of balance, vitality, and wellbeing.
One patient, a 44 year old woman, had been trying to conceive for 6 years before coming to Dr. Burke (many studies show the efficacy of acupuncture in improving fertility). Within 3 weeks of her first treatment, she was pregnant!
Lauren* saw Dr. Burke in the hopes of shifting out of her clinical depression. Her initial 3 sessions were spaced 7-10 days apart; Her first experience was cathartic, and the improvement after each subsequent session was steady. Her next few sessions were spaced about 2 weeks apart; and for a few months after that she went about every 3 weeks. Within just a couple of months she felt better than she had since before the depression had settled in a year or so before. Before long, her sessions were spaced once monthly. By the end of a year she was going on average once every 6-8 weeks, and her "maintenance" plan for the following few years was once every 2-3 months, though of course if something especially stressful or painful was going on - emotionally or physically - she would come in for a treatment to "head it off at the pass."
A patient named Amy, who lives out of state, was referred to Dr. Burke by a friend (and happy client). Amy had been experiencing severe pain and increasing lack of mobility in her right thumb, which had been steadily increasing in intensity since her daughter had been born nearly a year before. Amy had been to doctor after doctor, and was finally told that surgery was the only option available to relive her pain and restore mobility – assuming the surgery was successful, which could not be guaranteed. Amy didn't even have time for a standard session with Dr. Burke, but she popped in anyway, hoping that perhaps a brief, localized treatment would be an option
Instead, Dr. Burke took a look, got some information from Amy, and told her that in this instance, specific mega-doses of vitamin E for 4-6 months was actually what was called for. It seemed too good to be true, and with the popular scare about possible dangers of 'too much' vitamin E, Amy was a little concerned. But it was that or surgery, so she decided to give it a try. Sure enough, within 3 months of the suggested regimen, Amy's thumb and hand were completely back to normal! Talk about non-invasive 'surgery!'
Dr. Burke's new office in Birmingham has three patient treatment rooms, two of which are bathed in natural light thanks to an entire quarter of the room being a door-wall. The outdoor area outside the doorwalls are entirely closed in and private. She shares her office with a Thai Massage practitioner, who occupies two of the offices total of five rooms.
Her office is located at 1890 Southfield Road, Suite #3, in Birmingham, Michigan. The building is a one story red brick building at the corner of DeWitt (the entrance faces DeWitt), located just north of 14 Mile Road on the west side of Southfield Road.
For further information or to make an appointment, call Susan A. Burke, OMD, L.Ac at 248-582-8888. You can also visit her website at http://www.acupuncturehealthalliance.com.
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EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: NRA Chief Lobbyist Cox Says "We Will Defend" Stand Your Ground Laws
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At an event during last weekend's National Rifle Association annual meeting, NRA chief lobbyist Chris W. Cox said that the group doesn't "apologize" for its support for "Stand Your Ground" self-defense legislation in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin, adding, "We will defend our efforts. We will defend those laws."
Cox's comments came during an appearance at Friday's workshop on "Grassroots Campaigning in a National Election Year" attended by Media Matters. The head of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action was asked by an NRA district organizer to defend the NRA's support of "Stand Your Ground" legislation given the controversy currently swirling around such laws.
COX: There's support across the board for the Second Amendment, there's support across the board, even post-media hysteria over the last few weeks, there's support across the board for legitimate self-defense. We don't apologize for supporting -- whether you call it a national right or a God-given right, legislation that recognizes our right to defend ourselves. The fact that other groups and other business entities and others are supportive of that concept of constitutional freedom, whether they're concerned about it from a Second Amendment standpoint or an economic freedom standpoint, that's not my position to be, you can call them and ask them, that's not my position to take, for debate, for them. We stand in strong defense of any effort to allow law-abiding, good people to defend themselves against criminal attack. We don't apologize for that. It's not a problem in this country. We will defend our efforts. We will defend those laws, and if others want to join that fight we will.
During a Saturday speech at the annual meeting, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre attacked the media for their coverage of Martin's killing, accusing them of "manufactur[ing] controversy for ratings." The NRA's role in helping to author Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law and promoting similar laws across the country has in recent days become a focus of media attention.
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Classic Donkey Kong Country Returns Getting 3DS Remake
Fans who missed out on the Wii classic Donkey Kong Country Returns will have another chance to enjoy the game when Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D hits the Nintendo 3DS later this year.
While Thursday's Nintendo event was chock full of great news for 3DS and Wii U owners, the biggest surprise was the announcement of the 3D debut of one of the company's most cherished characters. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D will be a fully revamped remake of the Wii title from a few years ago.
Though details were sparse on any new inclusions to the 3D version, Nintendo has released a brand-new trailer exclusively on the 3DS eShop today. Whether or not the game will retain the cooperative play present in the Wii version remains to be seen. However, Diddy Kong (the character co-op partners played as on the Wii), is definitely present in the promotional images, so that's a good sign.
While we wait for more specifics, you can check out the latest screenshots below, and let us know what your favorite DK game was in the comments.


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Hoagies - Why is one so different?
Made a batch of hoagies this morning. I have baked these many times. Recipe is from http://www.pizzamaniac.com/archives/2005/08/10/grinder-hoagie-roll-recipe/
I mix, rest 20 min, add salt and OO, knead in Bosch compact 10 min, mostly on 2. Rise about 90 min (room temp 66 F)
All four were 195-196 grams, pre-shape to logs, rest 10 min, shape, rise about 45 min, slash, mist bread and oven, bake at 450 in Chicago Metallic pans.
Any ideas why the one didn't open up like the other three?
Since it was cooler than usual they may have been a little underproofed relative to what passes for normal.


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Combine and Share Group iPhone Videos with Vitoto
More and more people are making amazing videos with nothing but their smartphones. It's pretty easy to do when you're shooting from just one perspective. Apps like Vitoto make it easy to get multiple angles of the same shot or at the same location from a different perspective by combining the videos together. You have to connect to Facebook to use the app, but once yet another app has access to your Facebook social graph, multiple people can quickly shoot videos and add them to one video thread using the simple functionality. Once a portion of the video is shot, users can create a thread and invite Facebook friends to join the thread (provided they also have the app).
Once they have accepted and start shooting there own videos, the app does the rest and automatically groups them all together to make one single shot. No figuring out the best way to coral all the videos together, and no manually splicing all the videos together. You also don't have to wait until all the video is shot, Vitoto constantly adds new videos to the thread.
It looks as if Vitoto wants users to get social, because users need Facebook to create an account and invite other users to join video threads. But you can also view and even contribute to other public threads. The more people to join a thread, the more flavor a thread can have. Lurkers can comment on videos as well. The idea of an app like Vitoto is sound - I mean, who isn't on their smartphone shooting video of a party, vacation trip, or major event? Vitoto simply provides the conduit for a user to invite other people who may be shooting the same event but from their own perspective.
The one main thing that stuck out the most is the lack of transition effects between videos - It just abruptly jumps from one video to the next. It would've been nice to include some sort of very basic "cross-dissolve-ish" effect, but I'm assuming that among other things like better video quality and more bandwidth, premium users will have access to better editing capabilities?
Overall, I think mobile video sharing is the next frontier, since everybody "and their momma" is squeezing the life out mobile photo-sharing. Apps like Streamweaver and Vitoto are adding another level to videos that may be attractive enough for users to make their mobile videos more social.


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Maybe the startups in Silicon Valley had a little too much eggnog at the last holiday party. Venture capital firm First Round Capital has made a holiday music video, a parody of Internet sensation Rebecca Black's "Friday," and posted it on YouTube.
Many of its portfolio companies make an appearance, including Path, Kiwi Crate and Rockmelt. They sing along to catchy lyrics like, "VC's in the front seat. VC's in the back seat. Gotta make up my mind. Which one should I take?" Future startups take note: This could be you next year.


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BILBAO, SPAIN — One thing the U.S. National Team never has to worry about in international competition is confidence. The continuous destruction of the competition has a way of fortifying that quality in a group, no matter the parts.
A slow start, a tight quarter here or there is not enough to rattle a locker room full of NBA stars who know that every time they hit the gym they are considered the prohibitive favorites.
Their 5-0 march through Group C, finished off with a 95-71 win over Mike Fratello's Ukraine team Thursday, was simply a warm-up for much bigger things in this FIBA World Cup. The round of 16 in Barcelona is a different monster, one-and-done. U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski made sure to remind his team of that after the Americans clinched the top spot in the group a night earlier.
The final phase — which begins Saturday for the U.S. — is where the fun starts for the U.S. No matter what anyone else thinks, no matter the expectations, nothing has changed internally for a team that entered this competition with its fair share of skeptics.
"We expect to win them all," said U.S. forward Kenneth Faried, "We have high hopes for each other, and we look at each other each and every day and look at each other's eyes, and we see that fight. We're not going down without a fight no matter who we play. We know the opponent is not going to go down without a fight, so we just got to be better than them, just that night."
Faried wasn't expected to be one of this team's leaders but has emerged, along with Anthony Davis (who knows the ropes after a gold-medal ride along at the London Olympics in 2012), as the team's centerpieces.
So far, the World Cup has been less about the competition, or lack thereof, and more about the National Team's examination of their own work and what must be corrected.
"Once we start getting a big lead, we start focusing on what do we need to work on — what do we have to get better [at] to win this gold medal," Davis said. "I think that's our biggest thing. Right now, we make sure we're playing defense, make sure to stop turning the ball over a lot. That comes from everybody on the floor and even out to the bigs, taking better shots, making sure we rebound the ball. That's the only way you can score the ball, when you have the ball, so we have to make sure that we limit our turnovers and rebound."
As hard as it is to gauge a team's performance when it's steamrolling the competition, Coach K and his staff have had plenty of practice. Their streak of wins during World Cup/World Championship, Olympic and international exhibition games grew to 59 with the win over Ukraine.
"For me, I look for togetherness, effort, how we share the ball," Coach K said after his team thumped the Dominican Republic Wednesday. "We felt we were going to win, and then how do you play, and overall I thought everyone left the court feeling good about how they played."
Whether or not they can continue to play this way, with the tougher competition ahead, is the lingering question.
They have elite NBA perimeter scorers — James Harden, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving, DeMar DeRozan, Rudy Gay and Derrick Rose all qualify — that would be more than happy to crank up their output if needed.
But why change if what you've been doing has worked this well so far?
"I honestly don't think we're going to change a lot," said Thompson, like Faried a newbie to this sort of competition. "Like I said before, it's on the defensive end. Teams don't have the lateral quickness and length and athleticism that we do."
Even if that kind of talk strikes some as a bit brash, it's honest. It's that confidence the U.S. has built over the years.
"We've just got to keep clogging those passing lanes and make it tough on them when they go to the basket and limit 3-point opportunities," Thompson continued, "because a lot of these great European teams have great shooters. We just want to make them get to the rim and finish over us. Guys like Anthony Davis and Kenneth and DeMarcus [Cousins] are monsters down there, so we know that's our strength."
When the National Team roster for the World Cup was finalized it wasn't sure exactly where the strength would reside. Four big men 6-foot-10 or taller were selected for the first time during Coach K's tenure, which was viewed by some as a sure sign toward potential matchups against other teams in the field like Spain and Brazil.
Coach K dismissed that theory.
"No. It's really what we thought was the best balance for the team with a chance that at sometime we might take a look at Anthony [Davis] at the four," he said. "Those 12 guys are the 12 guys who earned it in our opinion, and we felt that was the best balance especially with us knowing that Derrick [Rose] was going to be able to play. If we weren't sure about Derrick, then I think we would have had to look at another way."
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Job Market Looking Up for Those Earning Graduate-Level Degrees
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Dec. 9, 2012 07:01 PM
RESTON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/09/12 -- Uncertainty hangs above many of the world's economies, but the job market for 2013 graduates, particularly those with graduate-level degrees, may be looking up, according to a survey of 201 employers conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council.
The 2012 Year-End Poll of Employers finds 76 percent of employers expect to hire new MBA graduates in 2013. Just 69 percent of them hired class of 2012 graduates. Of the employers planning to hire MBAs in 2013, 56 percent plan to offer starting base salaries that keep pace with inflation (43 percent) or exceed it (13 percent).
"Employers recognize that employees with graduate business degrees are a wise investment when times are uncertain and they need talent that not only bring skills but agility to meet the changing demands of these times," said Dave Wilson, president and CEO of GMAC, which administers the GMAT exam for graduate management programs worldwide.
Hiring projections for experienced direct-from-industry hires (86 percent, up from 83 percent hired last year) and new bachelor's recipients (78 percent, down from 80 percent last year) remained relatively stable. The poll also found that demand for new graduates with graduate degrees in other business fields is smaller but growing:
The outlook for internships looks strong in 2013, as well. Some 85 percent of the employers polled plan to offer student internships in 2013, with 70 percent planning to use undergraduate interns and 65 percent planning to use MBA interns. Although fewer companies offer internships to other masters-level students, those that do are likely to offer as many or more internships in 2013 than they did in 2012.
The 2013 outlook follows a hiring year that went as well as or better than expected for most companies. Between 85 and 97 percent of companies that planned to hire across each candidate type in 2012 actually made the hires, and most companies hired as many or more employees than they planned for each candidate type.
The 13th annual Year-End Poll of Employers includes responses from 201 employers at 182 companies worldwide, including 45 Fortune 500 companies. The poll prefaces GMAC's annual Corporate Recruiters Survey, a more comprehensive survey of employers worldwide released in conjunction with the Global Management Education Graduate Survey, a student exit survey, each May.
The summary report is available at http://www.gmac.com/market-intelligence-and-research/market-research/why-your-school-should-participate-in-gmac-surveys/year-end-poll-of-employers.aspx
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Sheriff promotes Hodgkinson to Chief Deputy
The Orange County Sheriff's Department has been without a Chief Deputy for a few weeks now. On Thursday, Aug. 11, Sheriff Keith Merritt officially announced that the position of Chief Deputy has officially been filled.
"It is my honor and pleasure to announce that the former Captain over Patrol, Clint Hodgkinson, as the new Chief Deputy of the Orange County Sheriff's Department," Merritt said.
On Monday afternoon, Aug. 14, the Sheriff's office hosted a small reception welcoming Hodgkinson as the new Chief Deputy.
"It really doesn't matter which title I carry, I am still going to serve the citizens [of Orange County] the best I can," Hodgkinson said.
Chief Hodgkinson is a lifelong resident of Orange County. He has attended both Lamar University and the Lamar Institute of Technology. In 1994, he began as a corrections officer at the Mark W. Stiles prison unit in Beaumont. He was hired in 1997 by the Orange Police Department and attended the Lamar Regional Police Academy.
As an officer with the City of Orange, he worked as a patrol officer and eventually became a field training officer for new hires.
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Evan, I'm hoping you will comment on this.
Since energy myths are front and center at the moment I would like to discuss a single myth, the science of hot air rising. Actually, I have for my own purposes upgraded this one to an energy legend, as it has proved extremely difficult to correct. I'm assuming it is wrong but I'm certainly open to all opinions.
There are several areas in our energy business where this is important, attic venting, stack effect, convection, and chimney draft to name the obvious. The legend as I see it is that people have observed warm air moving up for so long that there is a belief that warm air has some inert power of its own. Statements like "the warm air will rise and exit the upper vents and pull the cold air in the lower vents", implies that the warm air initiated that process and as a result not only pulled the cold air in through the soffits, but additionally air from the house as well. My belief is, the opposite is true. The cold air pushes its way into the attic and forces the warm air up and out the upper vents based upon the principles of buoyancy. Here is a simple article by April Holladay that explains this invading cold air process very well is:http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2005-02-18-won...
At first glance this appears to be just a simple statement of what everyone sees in the real world. But the concept that cold air is the driving force becomes important in properly explaining the other, above, modes of air movement. As energy professionals I believe it is important that we determine the truth about this legend and learn to state it correctly so future generations will not be led to believe that there is magic in warm air.
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Let's see if we can stir some interest with the conclusions that can be drawn from the above.
1. Attic venting: When considering attic venting without the effects of the wind, static, the question of removing or leaving gable vents in the presence of ridge and soffit vents says leave them in place. The discussion can extend to include wind driven effects, but first we must understand that hot air rising is the effect, not the cause of this process.
2. Stack effect is not initiated by warm air rising, but by colder air invading the lower air leaks in our homes. Gravity is the engine, buoyancy is the science, and cold air wins the bottom.
3. Convection is also powered by cold air falling and pushing warm air up, not the other way around.
4. Chimney draft is not powered by all of those hot combustion byproducts, but by the cooler air surrounding our combustion appliances pushing those hot gasses up.
I searched on stack effect and didn't find a single correct explanation. Boats float because of buoyancy. Hot air balloons go up because of buoyancy. How is it that so many feel that warm air can rise and pull in its replacement air?
Yes, I agree that buouancy is they key here. (But wouldn't it be handy if those "heat molecules" had invisible little propellers in them that helped power them--for unknown reasons--upwards?)
Perhaps the perception among lay people is fueled by the way they experience warm air being propelled (by invisible fans, or course) upwards from heating supply registers. Dunno.
Sometimes these "folk perceptions" (a.k.a. Legends) are safe enough (e.g. the sun "rising" in the morning and "setting" in the evening), but other times they are a hindrance. In any case, I agree with you that HP experts (and sometimes consumers) need to understand this just as an astronomer (or the informed lay person) needs to know that the Earth goes around the Sun.
Good morning Evan and thank you for weighing in on this issue. As I had hoped, your explanation is short and very clear. Like your example of the sun rising, warm air rising on its own has become the accepted way of stating the process. Unfortunately, explaining it correctly creates confusion and that confusion makes it difficult to discuss other areas of our energy science, this will help. I'm sure I will be back looking for more clarification as I re-write the way we explain all things related to warm air, without those little propellers.
What I thought was going to be a discussion of the modest forces involved in static attic ventilation has turned into a much bigger project, but from the searching I have done, we have let this stand for far too long and although it will be difficult, the correction process needs to begin.
Thanks again
The article you cited has this interesting tidbit:
"The air parcel, however, has mass and therefore weight. Gravity pulls it down. If gravity's pull is less than the buoyant upward push, the parcel rises. If gravity's pull is greater than the buoyant push, it falls."
So it is not the cold air pushing the warm air up, it is the reduced mass of each cubic foot (or inch) being less affected by gravity that allows it rise, allowing the colder air to fill the void.
It seems like you can't have cold air falling without warm air rising, and vice-versa, so they are intimately connected. It does not strike me as unscientific to think of warm air rising as long as you also think of cool air falling along with it.
Ed Minch
Hi Ed,
I've been trying to come up with a short answer, always difficult for me, but here goes.
Gravity provides the downward force for both the warm and cold air. The weight of the missing colder air (now displaced by the parcel of warm air) is the upward buoyant force. That number minus the weight of the parcel of warm air yields the net upward force. Reducing the weight of our air parcel would increase the net upward force, but it would not be fair to credit the lighter parcel with any form of lifting ability.
Convention has described warm air rising, as if under its own power, for so long it has become an energy legend and is repeated everywhere. It is that "everywhere" and the need for our profession to properly understand this energy science that is fueling my efforts. Now, I am certain we will never change the perception that warm air rises, but as energy professionals we need to recognize the issues like stack effect don't follow that often stated perception. Cold air invades the lower portions of our homes and pushes the warm air up and out. Nowhere is it being described that way and IMO that needs to be corrected, even if it is only within our profession. It does make a difference, along with our understanding of convection, draft, and ventilation.
I realize it will take time to digest this, but rely on the old sciences, so far they have not changed.
I understand what you are trying to do - get the science right. This is obviously not an easy concept if we are discussing it here, and we throw enough concepts at our customers already. We are paying for hot air, so it is easy for a homeowner to visualize his money going out the roof. And it would not make the fact that the warm air IS rising out of the building any more palpable.
So how would you rather we describe it? Put it in one paragraph that I can train my auditors on, and maybe even talk to the more receptive customers about.
Ed Minch
When I started this I thought what you are asking would be possible, but I'm having trouble explaining this to energy professionals, so changing the language for the home owners would probably introduce an unnecessary level of confusion. For the time being, we will need to learn two languages and the one I'm suggesting is more of an understanding between professionals than a spoken language.
Example, the flue gas that goes up and out our chimneys is being pushed out, not rising on its own. Therefore it is not contributing to the negative pressure in our combustion zone by creating a vacuum behind it. The same applies to stack effect. The negative pressures we see in our basements WRT outside are due to a lower atmospheric pressure, the column of air passing down through our homes, when compared to the column of air outside. This is something we can discuss, but I would not do so when talking to our home owners.
There are however small changes we can make and I will be working on them as support grows, like avoiding the vacuum word. Currently, any suggestions I make will fall on many deaf ears as most still want to believe in those little propellers Dr Mills mentioned. If we can get more people to comment, pro or con, we can clear the air and work on that new language.
As for anyone considering adding comments, don't be shy if you disagree with my explanation, many do. But without discussion nothing will change. If you agree, even better :).
And those talking points, they will come.
Still having a problem with this. Here is something we can all try - it is kind of cool. Find a single pane window on a cold day, no sun hitting the window, no ductwork nearby (at least the heater off). With your smoke gun, stick or pencil, puff a little smoke at the top of the window, wait 10 seconds and puff again, wait ten seconds and puff again. In a couple of minutes you will have a donut of smoke slowly moving around and around. It falls down the window, hits the floor and goes out into the room, travels a foot or so across the floor, then starts to go up until it gets near the ceiling where it heads back to the wall where it joins itself at the top of the window.
So what is happening? The room air at the top of the window is starting to cool off which reduces its volume making it heavier per unit volume. As it falls down the window it gains speed as it gets a little cooler. Once it goes all the way down it travels level away from the window, but then it starts to heat again from the room air, which increases its volume making it lighter per unit volume so gravity has less of an effect on it.
But notice that nothing would go up if nothing went down - you can't have one without the other. This is, of course, a convective loop, but it is the same thing as stack effect.
I was taught by the Princeton Research team that came up with this, that there are two kinds of convective loops - open and closed. A closed convective loop would be a top floor stud cavity in an old victorian house. There is no top plate, so from the attic I can look straight down into this cavity. There are no air leaks into the house so there is no blower door component to this. However, there is still energy loss as the cold attic air falls into the hole, where it is heated and rises out again. This is a chicken and egg situation where the falling and the rising act together. And this is the problem that caused them to get the NASA-purchased infrared scanner out of the closet as they knew something was going on but couldn't figure it out.
An open convective loop is the same situation as above, but now we have installed electrical wiring in this stud cavity and have a hole where the box is cut into the wall. We still have the same internal convective loss, but now it is accelerated by the room air being (pushed or pulled - do we really know?) forced through the hole and the losses are much greater. Convection plus stack.
So in technical terms can you really isolate the force that causes the warm air to rise and the cold air to fall so that you know which is doing the work?
Sorry for the lengthy reply - got going on it
Ed Minch
Good morning Ed, I took you to breakfast this morning to work up an answer. As for the lengthy reply, I appreciate of the reply and the effort behind it. This topic has been pushed aside for many years because simply describing what we see has been easier for all. Changing this thinking is going to take more than my shoulder to the wheel to make the air movements we see fit the science behind them.
I have observed convective loops as you describe and they make for a great demonstration, but to confess, at the time I would have described them as the warm air rising, because that is the way I had always heard it. As for identifying the initiating force, we have to get down to the molecular density. When that cold air first starts to move down the glass, there is a wave of slightly compressed air in front of it and a zone of slightly decompressed air behind it. So, at the start, there is an increased pressure pushing air at the bottom out of the way, while there is a decrease in pressure above pulling in replacement air, simultaneously. However, since the increase in pressure below and the decreased pressure above are still in the process of moving air molecules, the air farther out into the room doesn't know anything has happened yet. As the process continues, that increase in pressure at the bottom and the decrease in pressure above extends to a column of air a few feet from the window and results in an upward flow within that column and thus begins our convective loop. But it was gravity pulling the denser/heavier air down at the window that started the process. We can repeat the demonstration with a hot glass window and a cold room and again it will be the greater weight of the cold air in the room that now pushes the lighter warm air next to the window up to initiate our new convective loop. As the glass adds energy to the air next to it (heats it up) the air becomes warmer, less dense, and lighter, but it goes nowhere, until we define the temperature, density, weight of the air around it. Once we know the density of our air sample and the density of the air around it, the denser/heavier air will initiate the movement, through buoyancy.
There is another way of looking at open loop convection. If we look at stack effect where the incoming air and outgoing air are supplied by and absorbed by the great outdoors, where neither has any measurable effect on the pressures surrounding our homes, then the convection process can be considered as an open loop. In other words, there is no continuation of the process once the air leaves the home. This fact, that the outside pressures remain the same, is important in determining the boundary pressures that move our stack effect air in and out. I will have a neat chart soon to illustrate just what those numbers are.
I hope that makes sense.
Still having a problem with this as the rising and falling do not happen unless in conjunction.
You say:
"If we look at stack effect where the incoming air and outgoing air are supplied by and absorbed by the great outdoors, where neither has any measurable effect on the pressures surrounding our homes, then the convection process can be considered as an open loop."
This is the "butterfly in China" - of course there is an effect outside the house, it is a very small effect, but an effect nonethless. Does opening the door of the refrigerator and watching the cold air fall onto the floor - to be replaces with room air sucked into the refrigerator - have an effect on the second floor of my house? Yes it does. It is masked by the sun shining in the windows making little loops of their own and by the duct system forcing air around (and in and out of the envelope), but with the right instruments it should be measurable.
Stack and convection are the same thing - it's just a matter of scale. And still, there cannot be one without the other. This is starting to sound like my college calculus class - my head is hurting
Ed Minch
However, I am enjoying the interplay.
Just a quick reply, little new to the site and this is maybe a little simplistic but, at least for clients to grasp, the opener"heat will always go to cold" helps themto get their heads around the idea. To this point as it pertains to flue gasses, isnt it possible the hot combustion gasses are not being pushed at all but 'pulled' by the cooler outdoor temperatures surrounding the flue pipe? Whis is why drafting problems can occur more often when it is not that cold outside, like in shoulder seasons? I just wanted to throw it out there, have a good day all.
Hi Ernest, hot will always go to cold, but when describing air movements, hot and cold are just defining the density/weight of our air parcels. We could shift to different gasses with different densities with all at the same temperature and the science moving them around would be the same. As for drafting problems being more common in the shoulder seasons I would guess that might be due to more cold starts. When it is cold outside we always kept the fire burning, I love a fire. But in shoulder seasons, it wasn't needed as much so we would let it die and then have to cold start it again. Just guessing, but stay tuned as I'm optimistic that with some help we will have some user friendly talking points that will follow the science and improve everyone's understanding of air flow.
PS, the sad part about all of this, is the geeks in the labs already know all of this, I just haven't been able to find it written in plain English (no calculus equations) so we can all apply it. If anyone is at fault, it is not the people describing what they see, but the scientific community that has stood by all these years and allowed the public's understanding to erode to its current level.
Re-read Dr Mills post above, he helped, and I hope he goes digging for some good material.
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Alternative metrics demonstrate the value and influence of scholars work apart from traditional citation counts and can enhance the impact of a CV. Altmetrics provide additional, supplementary information and can balance misleading metrics tied to particular journals. More timely than traditional metrics, altmetrics quickly reveal the impact of recent work and add authority to different types of scholarly products not captured as articles. Altmetrics can capture social media references that escape traditional metrics and reflect public engagement prompted by scholarly writing. The availability of altmetrics expands publishing opportunities to include new venues and stimulates innovative strategies for evaluating research. When included in a CV altmetrics must be accurate, clear and meaningful.
career development
impact of scholarly output
social web
Bulletin, April/May 2013
The Power of Altmetrics on a CV
by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem
Altmetrics, tools measuring scholarly impact in an online environment, are displayed in a wide variety of places: journal article webpages, university press officer dashboards, data repository grant applications and many others.
In this article we focus on one particular application: including altmetrics on a scholars CV. Ambitious scholars have been including altmetrics on their CVs for years, for example indicating that a paper was recommended by Faculty of 1000, received a Highly Accessed download badge on BMC or was widely discussed in the media. As tools improve, we can anticipate these early-adopters will begin to incorporate a much wider range of altmetrics on a much wider range of products.
However, if we expect these early adopters to be joined by their more cautious peers, scholars will need a clearly articulated case for value. What are the benefits that will stand the test of time and that should motivate early and ongoing action? Librarians can help in this process.
We discuss 10 benefits to scholars and scholarship when altmetrics are embedded in a CV. Altmetrics as a class of measures
- provide additional information;
- de-emphasize inappropriate metrics;
- uncover the impact of just-published work;
- legitimize all types of scholarly products;
- recognize diverse impact flavors;
- reward effective efforts to facilitate reuse;
- encourage a focus on public engagement;
- facilitate qualitative exploration;
- empower publication choice; and
- spur innovation in research evaluation.
There are also risks to including altmetrics in a CV when it is done without care. We give several suggestions on how one should and shouldnt include altmetrics in a CV. Finally, we close with a few ways that academic libraries can empower scholars to include altmetrics in their CVs, starting today.
Provide additional information
The primary benefit of including altmetrics on a CV is the inclusion of additional information. Readers of a CV can still assess the CV items just as they have always done: based on title, journal and author list, perhaps augmented by accessing the full research product for a custom qualitative assessment. In addition to exploring this data, with altmetrics, if the readers so choose, they can dig into post-publication impact of the work.
De-emphasize inappropriate metrics
Evaluating an article based on its journal title or journal impact factor is generally regarded as poor form: high journal impact factors vary across fields, an article often receives more or less attention than its journal container suggests, the authors may have selected a low ranking journal for the speed of its peer review or its open access status rather than its journal rank, and so on. For further details see www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems/items
Yet what else are readers of a CV to do? Most of us dont have sufficient domain expertise to dig into each item and assess its merits based on a careful reading, even if we did have time. We need help, but traditional CVs dont provide enough information to assess the work on anything but journal title.
Providing article-level citations and altmetrics in a CV gives readers more information, thereby de-emphasizing evaluation based on journal rank.
Uncover the impact of just-published work
Why not suggest that we include citation counts in CVs, and leave it at that? Why go so far as altmetrics? The reason is that altmetrics have benefits that complement the weaknesses of a citation-based solution, as well cover in the next few points.
One of the most obvious benefits of altmetrics is timeliness. Citations take years to accrue. This delay is a big problem for graduate students who are applying for jobs soon after publishing their first papers and for those promotion candidates whose most profound work is published only shortly before review.
Multiple research studies have found that counts of downloads, bookmarks and tweets correlate with citations, yet accrue much more quickly, often in weeks or months rather than years. Using timely metrics allows researchers to showcase the impact of their most recent work.
Legitimize all types of scholarly products
Funders and institutions are beginning to explicitly welcome inclusion of datasets, software and other scholarly products in biosketches and CVs. This greater flexibility is great news for recognizing all worthwhile forms of research output, but how can readers of a CV know if the included dataset or software project is any good? What is the size and type of its contribution? Should they be impressed?
We often assess the quality and impact of a traditional research article based on the reputation of the journal that published it. This approach isnt possible with alternative products. Data and software cant be evaluated with a journal impact factor or journal ranking since repositories seldom select entries based on anticipated impact; they dont have an impact factor; and, even if such a metric were possible, we surely dont want to propagate the poor practice of judging the impact of an item by the impact of its container.
How, then, can alternative scholarly products be more than just space-filler on a CV, something that an evaluator counts but cant appreciate?
Product-level metrics (like article-level metrics, but for more than just articles) provide the needed evidence to convince evaluators that a product has made a difference. Furthermore, because alternative products often make impacts in ways that arent fully captured by established attribution mechanisms, altmetrics will be key in communicating the full picture of how research products have influenced conversation, thought and behavior.
Recognize diverse impact flavors
The impact of a research paper has a flavor. Lets imagine it as an ice cream flavor. The impact flavor might be champagne: a titillating discussion piece of the week. Or maybe it is a dark chocolate mainstay of the field. Strawberry: a great methods contribution. Tiger-stripe black licorice: controversial. Bubblegum: a hit in the classrooms. Low-fat vanilla: not very creamy, but it fills a need.
There probably arent 31 clear flavors of research impact. How many are there? Maybe five or seven or 12? We dont know. But it would be a safe bet that, just like ice cream, our scholarship and society need them all. It depends whether we have a cone or a piece of apple pie. The goal isnt to compare flavors: one flavor isnt objectively better than another. They each have to be appreciated on their own merits for the needs they meet.
To appreciate the impact flavor of items on a CV we need to be able to tell the flavors apart. Imagine that for ice cream all you had to go by was a sweetness metric. Not happening, right? So too, citations alone cant fully inform what kind of difference a research paper has made on the world. Important, but not enough.
We need more dimensions to distinguish the flavor clusters from each other. This is where altmetrics come in. By analyzing patterns in what people are reading, bookmarking, sharing, discussing and citing online we can start to figure out what kind what flavor of impact a research output is making.
It is worth noting that flavors are important for research products other than just papers. For example, some publicly available research datasets are used all the time in education but rarely in research; others are used once or twice by really impactful projects; others across a field for calibration; and so on. Understanding and recognizing these usage scenarios will be key in recognizing and rewarding the contributions of dataset creators.
More research is needed to understand the flavor palette, how to classify impact flavor and what it means
(http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/31-flavours/). In the meantime, exposing raw information about downloads, shares, bookmarks and the like starts to give a peak into impact flavor beyond just citations.
Reward efforts to facilitate reuse
Reusing research for replication, follow-up studies and entirely new purposes reduces waste and spurs innovation. Unfortunately, our common method of disseminating research through subscription-based static flat pdf articles makes research difficult to reuse.
If they choose, authors can make their research easier to reuse. For example, authors can make article text available for free or available for free with broad reuse rights (open access). They can choose to publish in places with liberal text-mining policies and investment in disseminating machine-friendly versions of articles and figures.
Authors can write detailed descriptions of their methods, materials, datasets and software. They can make their associated datasets and software openly available for reuse. Authors can go further, experimenting with executable papers, versioned papers, open peer review, semantic markup and so on.
When these additional steps are useful when they do indeed result in additional reuse the increased use will likely be reflected in downloads, bookmarks, discussions and possibly citations. Including altmetrics in CVs will reward investigators who have made these investments and encourage others to do so in the future.
Encourage a focus on public engagement
The research community, as well as society as a whole, benefits when research results are discussed outside the Ivory Tower: engaging the public is essential for future funding, recruitment and accountability. Today, however, researchers have little incentive to spend time engaging in public outreach or making their research accessible to the public. By highlighting evidence of public engagement like tweets, blog posts and mainstream media coverage, including altmetrics in a traditional CV will reward researchers who invest in public engagement activities.
Facilitate qualitative exploration
Including altmetrics in a CV isnt all about the numbers! Just as we hope many people who skim our CVs will stop to read our papers and explore our software packages, so too we can hope that interested parties will click through to explore the composition and details of altmetrics engagement for themselves.
Who is discussing an article? What are they saying? Who has bookmarked a dataset? What are they using it for? As we discuss at the end of this article, including provenance information is crucial for trustworthy altmetrics; it also provides great information to move beyond the numbers and jump into qualitative exploration of impact.
Empower publication choice
Publishing in a new or innovative journal is risky: many authors are hesitant to publish their best work somewhere unusual, somewhere without a sky-high impact factor. Altmetrics will help to change this situation by highlighting work based on its post-publication impact rather than its journal title. Authors will be empowered to choose publication venues they feel are most appropriate, leveling the playing field for what might otherwise be considered risky choices.
Successful publishing innovators will also benefit. New journals wont have to wait two years to get an impact factor before they can compete. Publishing venues that increase access and reuse will be particularly attractive. This change will spur new innovation and support the many new publishing options that have recently debuted, such as eLife, PeerJ, F1000 Research, Digital Humanities Quarterly and others.
Spur innovation in research evaluation
Finally, including altmetrics on CVs will engage researchers directly in research evaluation. Researchers are evaluated all the time, but often behind closed doors, using data and tools they dont have access to (and frankly wouldnt want to take the time to learn). Encouraging researchers to tell their own impact stories on their CVs, using broad sources of data, will help spur a much-needed conversation about how research evaluation is done and should be done in the future.
There are also risks to including altmetrics data on a CV, particularly if the data is presented or interpreted without due care or common sense.
Altmetrics data should be presented in a way that is accurate, auditable and meaningful. Accurate data is up-to-date, well-described and has been filtered to remove attempts at deceitful gaming. Auditable data implies completely open and transparent calculation formulas for aggregation, navigable links to original sources and access by anyone without a subscription. Meaningful data needs context and reference. Categorizing online activity into an engagement framework (http://blog.impactstory.org/2012/09/14/31524247207/) helps readers understand the metrics without becoming overwhelmed. Reference is also crucial. How many tweets is a lot? What percentage of papers are cited in Wikipedia? Representing raw counts as statistically rigorous percentiles, ideally localized to domain or type of product, makes it easy to interpret the data responsibly.
Assuming these presentation requirements are met, how should the data be interpreted? We strongly recommend that altmetrics be considered not as a replacement for careful expert evaluation but as a supplement. Particularly in these early days, we should view altmetrics as way to ground subjective assessment in real data to start conversations, not end them.
Given this approach, at least three varieties of interpretation are appropriate: signaling, highlighting and discovery. A CV with altmetrics clearly signals that a scholar is abreast of innovations in scholarly communication and serious about supporting and communicating the impact of scholarship in meaningful ways. Altmetrics can also be used to highlight research products that might otherwise go unnoticed: a recent paper with a lot of tweets or a highly downloaded dataset or a track record of F1000-reviewed papers suggests work worthy of a second look. Finally, as we described in the exploration section above, auditable altmetrics data can be used by evaluators as a jumping off point for discovery about who is interested in the research, what they are doing with it and how they are using it.
How to Get Started
How can you add altmetrics to your own CVs or, if you are a librarian, also empower scholars to add altmetrics to theirs? Definitely start by experimenting with altmetrics for yourself. Play with the tools, explore and suggest improvements. Librarians can also spread the word on their campuses and beyond through talking, writing, teaching and outreach. Explicitly welcome evidence of impact when you solicit CVs for new positions, awards and grants. Last but not least, try it out for yourself!
Heather Piwowar is a postdoc at Duke University, studying the adoption and use of open research data. She is also a co-founder of ImpactStory (http://impactstory.org/), an open-source web tool that helps scholars track and report the broader impacts of their research. @researchremix
Jason Priem is a PhD student and Royster Fellow, studying information science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a co-founder of ImpactStory (http://impactstory.org/). @jasonpriem
Articles in this Issue
The Power of Altmetrics on a CV
Open Access and Altmetrics: Distinct but Complementary
Ask Not What Altmetrics Can Do for You, But What Altmetrics Can Do for Developing Countries
New Opportunities for Repositories in the Age of Altmetrics
The Many Faces of Article-Level Metrics
Five Challenges in Altmetrics: A Toolmakers Perspective
Are Alternative Metrics Still Alternative?
The Reception of Suzanne Briet in the United States
IA: Enabling Action: Digging Deeper into Strategies for Learning
RDAP Review: Collaborative Annotation for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse