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11 When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 2 So his attendants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm." 3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her.
5 Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses[1] ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him. 6 (His father had never rebuked him by asking, "Why do you behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.) 7 Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they gave him their support. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Rei and David's special guard did not join Adonijah. 9 Adonijah then sacrificed sheep, cattle and fattened calves at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, 10 but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the special guard or his brother Solomon.
11 Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king, and our lord David knows nothing about it? 12 Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life of your son Solomon. 13 Go in to King David and say to him, 'My lord the king, did you not swear to me your servant: "Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?' 14 While you are still there talking to the king, I will come in and add my word to what you have said." 15 So Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room, where Abishag the Shunammite was attending him. 16 Bathsheba bowed down, prostrating herself before the king. "What is it you want?" the king asked. 17 She said to him, "My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the Lord your God: 'Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.' 18 But now Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, do not know about it. 19 He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the king's sons, Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant. 20 My lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to learn from you who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 21 Otherwise, as soon as my lord the king is laid to rest with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be treated as criminals." 22 While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived. 23 And the king was told, "Nathan the prophet is here." So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground. 24 Nathan said, "Have you, my lord the king, declared that Adonijah shall be king after you, and that he will sit on your throne? 25 Today he has gone down and sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep. He has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest. Right now they are eating and drinking with him and saying, 'Long live King Adonijah!' 26 But me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he did not invite. 27 Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
28 Then King David said, "Call in Bathsheba." So she came into the king's presence and stood before him. 29 The king then took an oath: "As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble, 30 I will surely carry out this very day what I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place." 31 Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, prostrating herself before the king, and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"
32 King David said, "Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada." When they came before the king, 33 he said to them: "Take your lord's servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule and take him down to Gihon. 34 There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet and shout, 'Long live King Solomon!' 35 Then you are to go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah." 36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, "Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, so declare it. 37 As the Lord was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon to make his throne even greater than the throne of my lord King David!" 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David's mule, and they escorted him to Gihon. 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, "Long live King Solomon!" 40 And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.
41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they were finishing their feast. On hearing the sound of the trumpet, Joab asked, "What's the meaning of all the noise in the city?" 42 Even as he was speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, "Come in. A worthy man like you must be bringing good news." 43 "Not at all!" Jonathan answered. "Our lord King David has made Solomon king. 44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and they have put him on the king's mule, 45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon. From there they have gone up cheering, and the city resounds with it. That's the noise you hear. 46 Moreover, Solomon has taken his seat on the royal throne. 47 Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!' And the king bowed in worship on his bed 48 and said, 'Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has allowed my eyes to see a successor on my throne today.' " 49 At this, all Adonijah's guests rose in alarm and dispersed. 50 But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, went and took hold of the horns of the altar. 51 Then Solomon was told, "Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, 'Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.' " 52 Solomon replied, "If he shows himself to be worthy, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die." 53 Then King Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And Adonijah came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon said, "Go to your home."


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Introducing Word 2013
Today Tristan Davis, Senior Lead Program Manager on the Word Team, introduces you to Word 2013.
Last Monday, we announced the Office Customer Preview – now that the Preview is publically available, I wanted to kick off a series of Word 2013-focused posts by giving you an introduction to the new release, as well as the underlying philosophy that drove the investments we've made.
Part of the new Office
Office 2013 as a whole is a significant update to the apps you know and love – across the board, we've done a ton of work to ensure this version is:
- Integrated tightly into the cloud, allowing you to easily keep all of your content (and the apps themselves) accessible everywhere
- At home on Windows 8 with a refreshed, Metro-style look/feel, that still feels familiar to both novice and advanced Word users
- Tailored for both keyboard/mouse and pen/touch, enabling you to be productive on all of your devices
Those Office-wide investments are directly reflected in the changes you see in Word 2013 – one of our most important goals with each update is ensuring that you have a consistent, familiar experience across all of the applications you use.
Defining Word 2013
Within that, our team's philosophy for this release was simple:
- We will invest deeply in a set of scenarios that are shared across all of the Office applications (like the ones I described above)
- We will continue to focus on polishing existing user experiences/scenarios over "adding new features", driving ourselves to make improvements in the things that users already do every day
I believe that the changes you see in the Preview demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that all of the work we did was in support of those two principles, and results in changes that you'll see and appreciate on a daily basis.
When we took those principles and used them to prioritize the list of potential investments this release, we ended up with a set of five "pillars" – it's these pillars that guided the team all the way from concepts to what you see today:
- Polished Core User Experiences
- Best on Windows 8
- Integrated into the Cloud
- Friction-Free Collaboration
- Great for Digital Consumption
Polished Core User Experiences
There are a set of things that people do in Word every day, and we know that making those things work better is more powerful than just about any new feature we could add, so we spent a lot of time understanding where users had trouble and where the design just didn't feel right, and optimizing those core experiences. Here's a small set of the improvements we've made:
- Working With Figures
- Live Layout – as you move/resize/rotate a picture within a document, Word will show you its position in real time, so you can position it "just right" the first time.
- Alignment Guides – to help you get things exactly where you want them, Word will display guides that help you put that picture right at the top-right margin, in the middle of the page, etc. and ensure they stay there
- Layout Options – This one is one of my personal favorites; whenever you click on a picture/chart/SmartArt, a button will appear to its top right that lets you easily wrap text right there in context.
- Working with Tables
- One-click Row/Column Insertion – The most basic action in a table is "add another row", so we added the ability to do that in context, by going to the place where you want the new row to appear and clicking the button to add it.
- Improved Border Tools – People pull their hair out over getting table borders just right, so we created a Border Painter to let you apply the borders you want by brushing them on directly with your mouse.
- Refreshed Table Styles – We also refreshed the set of default table styles to provide more options that coordinate well within your document, and enable you to present all kinds of information clearly and confidently.
- Working with Headers & Footers
- Document Info – When we mined the user feedback on headers and footers, the thing that stood out above everything else was that there were a small set of things you wanted to easily add to the header or footer that weren't available as immediately as they should be. The Document Info button now includes each of those top items, letting you add them with a single click.
- Working with Themes and Styles
- Design tab – We know that you spend a lot of time making your documents look polished and professional, so your message is presented in the best light possible. The Design tab brings all of the tools needed to create a great-looking document into one place, so you can easily create a unique, beautiful look for each document you create.
- Refreshed Text Styles – We also refreshed the default text styles for Word, adding a crisp/clean set of headings that look great and feel modern/fresh.
- Document Layout – As well as the specific improvements you'll experience above, we also updated the core layout engine in Word. This isn't a change you'll immediately see, but it's one that you should feel, as even the most complex layouts work predictably and reliably.
Best on Windows 8
The new version of Word is at home on a Windows 8 PC, whether it's a desktop, a laptop, or a tablet, as we've optimized the experience around the unique needs of each of those scenarios.
- Touch everywhere – When you use your fingers to work with Word on a tablet, the Ribbon expands to make commands easier to tap, handles on pictures expand, the selection gets "handles" to make it easy to change, and a specialized MiniBar puts the most common commands right at your fingertips (pun intended).
- Inking – As well, if you're using a pen, you can easily ink on the document, in the margins, or in comments.
- Included in Windows RT – Word 2013 has also been optimized for ARM-based Windows 8 devices, and will be included on Windows RT devices like the Microsoft Surface.
Integrated into the Cloud
People are using more devices than ever before, and we wanted to make sure that your Word experience travels with you wherever you are and on whatever device you are using. As a result, Word is tightly integrated into the cloud, ensuring that your data, your documents, and Word itself can move with you from device to device.
- Save to SkyDrive – Word 2013 makes it easy to save all of your files in the cloud by default, so they're always available to you whenever you are. They're also always cached, so they're available even when you don't have an Internet connection.
- Roaming MRU – Whenever you're signed in to Word 2013, we'll store a list of documents you've recently opened in the cloud, so when you move from your laptop to your desktop, you don't have to go looking for them again – they're right there. And if you pin a file to your MRU on one machine, it'll be pinned to the list on all your devices.
- Resume Reading – Within those documents, Word also keeps track of where you're currently reading, and that digital bookmark is stored in the cloud as well. So if you're reading on the bus on the way to work, when you log in to your desktop at the office and open that file, we'll get you right back to where you were when you last stopped.
- Apps for Office – Office's extensibility model is also moving to the cloud, with a new extensibility model based on web standards (JavaScript for the logic, and HTML/CSS for the presentation), and deployed via the cloud (yes, VBA is still there too). This new model allows you to build powerful web-backed solutions for Word documents.
Friction-Free Collaboration
Just as I said above that most people use more than one device, most work that's done these days isn't done by one person in solitude – it's the product of collaboration between many people, working together to create something great. We know that enabling that is a critical part of Word's job, so we've added a bunch of tools to enable seamless collaboration around a document.
- Simplified Sharing – Through the Backstage, it's easy to share documents with the people you're working with, so you can all easily access the document to work together. When I share, I can easily choose both who I'm sharing with, and how I want to share (Do I want you to edit, or just read? Do I want you to be able to share with more people, or is this invitation just for you?)
- Simple Markup – When groups of people are working on a document together, Track Changes is a commonly used tool to make sure that everyone can see "who changed what when" in the final product. The result of that can be a document that's hard to read, as all of the tracked revisions make it hard to see what the current state of the document is. Simple markup hides the revisions behind a single red change bar, and lets you show/hide the details by clicking on it. In other words, instead of having to figure out the result of changes that are marked up like this:
You'll see just the final version in its easy-to-consume form, with the details hidden behind the change bar, like this:
- Comment Replies / Mark Comments "Done" – Comments are a powerful tool when working on a document with others, and we've added functionality to address the two common requests: you can now reply to a comment, to have a discussion about a specific item, and you can mark a comment "done", so you don't have to delete it to communicate that you've taken action on its contents.
- Lock Tracking – If you want to ensure that all changes to a document are tracked, you can require a password to ensure that the people you're working with don't accidentally turn it off.
- People Everywhere – Finally, you'll notice that the names in comments aren't just names anymore; they're associated with the people that made them, so you can both see their picture, and hover over it to contact them via phone/IM/email without leaving Word.
Great for Digital Consumption
We know that there's a LOT of reading that happens in Word – nearly two-thirds of user sessions in Word contain no editing at all. As a result, we built a refreshed, modern reading experience for Word 2013; the goal was to create a clean and distraction-free environment that went beyond presenting an electronic equivalent of paper to create an experience that feels at home on all types of devices – from tablets to laptops to smartphones, all the way to 30 inch monitors on a desktop PC (if you're lucky enough to have one).
- Read Mode – To optimize Word for the times when you are focused on consuming, not creating, content, we added a new Read Mode that contains a bunch of features aimed at making your reading experience as easy and efficient as possible:
- Column Layout – One of the virtues (and pitfalls) of "paper" layout (i.e. 8.5×11 or A4 pages) is its rigidity – the pages are always the same size, regardless of whether those pages fit comfortably on your screen or not. And often, they don't. We've watched countless times as users end up scrolling back and forth on their phone with each line that they read, forced to make an awkward tradeoff between a comfortable text size, and a size that "fits" the screen on which they're reading. Read Mode's column layout reflows the document to the constraints of the device on which you're reading, ensuring that reading feels as comfortable on a 7" screen as a 24" one – a set of columns fit to the screen that scroll left to right.
- Object Zoom – When the document's content is reflowed, pictures/charts/tables in the document are also resized to fit in the resulting columns – often, that means that they're reduced from their original size. However, those elements can be the most information-rich part of a document (and hard to read when they've been shrunk down), so you can easily zoom "into" the object with a double-click or double-tap, bringing it front and center and allowing you to enjoy full focus on it at its original size.
- Definitions/Translation – One of the most common causes of reading disruption is the need to look up additional context – for example the meaning of a word or additional background information about a concept. When in Read Mode, those tools are right there in context.
- Web Video – With more content being read digitally every day, documents are now able to include content like video that doesn't have a perfect analogue in the physical world. Word 2013 lets you include video from web video sources like YouTube directly in your documents, and allows you to play them back right within the context of the document itself.
- Navigation Pane Improvements – As well, we know that many folks rely on the Navigation Pane when they're reading content in Word, so we've refreshed and modernized it as well. One specific addition that I love is that as you read, the navigation pane will update to show you where you are in the document, even if your cursor isn't on that page (so as you're reading, you can always look and see where you are in the context of the overall document).
So Much More…
Talking about the release, I kind of feel like a proud parent – there's just so much great work that was put into this update, and over the coming weeks the folks on the team will share that with you in much more detail, so please stay tuned.
But, before I'm done, I wanted to touch on two additional important things about the release, investments important enough that they deserve special mention:
- First, we have added the ability to import PDF files into Word via PDF Reflow. This is an incredibly common feature request, so it's really exciting to finally be able to enable it – with this functionality, you can transform your PDFs back into fully editable Word documents, rehydrating headings, bulleted/numbered lists, tables, footnotes, etc. by analyzing the contents of the PDF file.It's worth noting that this doesn't make Word a PDF viewer; our goal wasn't to be a full-fidelity PDF viewer like the Windows 8 Reader app; instead, we explicitly focus on making the file editable again, even if that causes the layout to change slightly so that it behaves like a familiar Word file.
- Beyond all the exciting enhancements above, the team also spent significant time to address known issues that have been reported, ensuring that we're always improving the application's core stability, even as we add to it. I know we might not have fixed every bug you've seen, but we make a conscious effort to ensure that we continue to push the level of polish higher and higher with each update.
– Tristan


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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Family Tree ~ Raw Edge Applique
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Gorgeous Rita! I love the little birds. Excellent way to utilise little scraps huh? xReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 8:51 PM
It's looking beautiful Rita! I was lucky enough to attend one of Kellie's classes a year ago and although I found it really difficult it was extremely worthwhile when I got it "right" in the end! She is just a delight and her work is divine.ReplyDelete
I love the tree! I'd love to use this technique to make a waterfall quilt one day .. I have a plan!ReplyDelete
I can't wait until June!ReplyDelete
Are you hooked yet? It's so much fun. I'd love to go to one of Kellie's classes... one day...ReplyDelete
Your pieces always make my heart sing with joy. Thanks so much for sharing them!ReplyDelete
This is just gorgeous!!! I love it and I love the fact that were able to do the workshop. Lucky you! I am hoping to find one of her workshops that I can do up here too. Can't wait to see your progress! Happy stitching!ReplyDelete
Its going to be lovely!ReplyDelete
Cute birds with their orange beaks!
Wow - that is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
I love it, the colors are so springlike. Well done.ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous. I am doing one of Kellie's classes next weekend - can't wait!ReplyDelete
Ohhh I love it, I'd love to do a class with Kelly. Love her stuffReplyDelete
Kellie is fantastic - I love all her stuff, such fun designs and the background FMQ she does is just amazing. Your lovely tree is really going to pop! You might fall in love with FMQ. Should 'straight line quilting' be worried?ReplyDelete
Wow! 2 of my favourite quilters in one place together.ReplyDelete
Tell Kellie I said 'Hi'.
Andi x
Woohoo :) Two of my favourite bloggers have met!! I cannot wait to see what this may result in!ReplyDelete
Its lovely Rita. I love the saturated greens, they seem so you!ReplyDelete
The birds made the lovely tree adorable -ReplyDelete
Grateful for your sharing of the prosess!
Knowing you, this will look like you've been doing it forever once it's done.ReplyDelete
This is wonderful - love the colours you have chosen - can't wait to see more.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Perfect for spring!ReplyDelete
That's so beautiful.ReplyDelete
How lucky are you to take a class from Kellie. I've made 2 of her trees (on my own) and my machine applique is still lacking. But your tree is wonderful!!ReplyDelete
Kellie is awesome in every way. You are going to LOVE this technique!ReplyDelete
I love how it's turning out! Sounds like a great class.ReplyDelete
This is absolutely beautiful, I love how its shaping up!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love the way it turned out! Projects like this one are my very favorite!!!ReplyDelete
what a coinsidince, im currently working on one of kellys patterns, I would love to know what the pros of polyester thread are, and iv NO idea what im going to do once it comes to background freemotion quilting as im afraid i will ruin the whole quilt due to inexperience! looking forward to reading more about what you've learnt.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 12:47 AM
Love it! I did something similar for Thanksgiving for my mother-in-law, but I'm thinking that I need one for our kitchen wall!ReplyDelete
It's gorgeous! I really really want to learn how to do this kind of quilting. One of these days there has to be a class somewhere that I can take!ReplyDelete
What a coincidence, I had my first ever lesson in applique yesterday and I cut out little leaf shapes too. Mine are for a block but I am not sure if I actually like it so may just do a tree.ReplyDelete
Hilarious! Yesterday I posted a tree I am working on, very similar, for an auction at my daughter's preschool. I had each of the kids sign a leaf in thier cute preschool handwriting, and am adding apples for the teachers, have the class rabbit on it....if you want to take a look at it (it is in the very beginning phases), I posted it here:ReplyDelete
this is stunning!ReplyDelete
It is so, so cute! You will do great at the background quilting, I'm sure of it!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I just love her stuff and am so jealous you got to take a class! Great job!ReplyDelete
It is so cute! I love it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 5:26 AM
Lovely! I like raw edge applique too... I don't know how anyone has the patience for the traditional kind!ReplyDelete
How fortunate you were to take that class. I LOVE her work! Hands-on tips from Kellie would be priceless. And your little black birds are adorable!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a super fun class! I'd love to learn the free motion fill-in quilting.ReplyDelete
That's a great start you've got there! The birdies will look even cuter with legs. :)ReplyDelete
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I love the fabric with printed text. Where did you find it, what fabric is it?ReplyDelete
I love Don't Look Now designs but have yet to have a go at one. How lucky to be at a workshop! Will have to keep my eye out for another one some time.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your finished product, because it's always so much more encouraging to see the designs made by someone other than the designer themselves.
looks good, love your fabric choices. I've been wanting to do one of these classes too, I just have to keep praying she'll come over to WA.ReplyDelete
How amazingly wonderful! Will you pass on your knowledge to us? I have never and afraid to, do this. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
I've long been a fan of Kellie's work and have made a few of her pattern (muddles through more like it). I would love to go to one of her workshops. Your tree looks absolutely lovely and the colours are so "red pepper" ;).ReplyDelete
How I would like to take a class from that instructor! Her FMQ on pieces like this is just amazing. I can't wait to see your completed piece. The tree is beautiful.ReplyDelete
Great colours! And love the spotty birdies! I have been lucky enough to do a workshop with Kellie and am totally hooked on the applique and swirly quilting. I can't stop! Have fun!ReplyDelete
very nice, rita!ReplyDelete
Love your color choices. So pretty. Can't wait to see it completed. I just bought the pattern last week to make the tree and I'm hoping to take a stab at it soon! My 7 year old daughter wants it for her room. I hope I can do it. It is totally outside of my comfort zone but she saw the quilt as a display in a local quilt store and fell in love with it. What's a mom to do? I have to try to make her one.ReplyDelete
This is Beautiful. Applique is new to me. I am going to have to give this a try.ReplyDelete
I love your tree. Your greens are perfect and those (legless) birdies are still really cute. I'm not one to sew "non-functional" items but this tree would be a fantastic item in a frame.ReplyDelete
Your tree is gorgeous you lucky duck! I'll bet you guys had a grand time -- Kellie's so fun to be around. I'd love to have a whole day of sewing with Kellie -- we always manage to meet where it's too much of a pain to bring all that sewing "stuff". Although, I must say, KellieShopping has to be right up there with a day of KellieSewing LOL!ReplyDelete
fantastic tree and even the birdies with no legs are great fun. I love it!ReplyDelete
What type of polyester thread does she/you use? I love Kellie's work and yours too..beautiful tree. Lisa in TexasReplyDelete
Oh it is so lovely, such beautiful work. Thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
You are pushing your boundaries, aren't you? It still looks like Rita though, with those fabric selections.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2011 7:25 PM
OMG I think you might have actually taken my place in that class! Now I am really disappointed. I was disappointed enough as it is, but I admire your neatness soo very much. I hope to do another class soon!ReplyDelete
Where can I get a pattern for this tree? I have been asked by my church to create a tree with leaves wall hanging.I am not a very good drawer!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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U.S. Envoy: Time For Intervention In Central African Republic
The Obama administration's ambassador to the U.N. says this is a pivotal moment for Central African Republic and time for the international community to take steps to prevent further atrocities there.
Samantha Power, a former journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is well known as an advocate for humanitarian intervention. How she and the Obama administration handle the conflict in CAR is a major test of that.
"Many countries on the continent are now scrambling to pull forces together so they can deploy them to ensure that those forces get to the Central African Republic in a timely fashion," she told NPR in an interview in her cabin during a flight to Nigeria. "President Obama has just authorized up to $100 million to support the African Union forces on the ground."
Nigeria is a leading member of the African Union and soon-to-be-member of the U.N. Security Council. During her visit there, Power is discussing ways the country could help speed up the deployment of African Union troops to Central African Republic.
For its part, the U.S. has already begun airlifting peacekeepers from Burundi to join the French-led African Union mission in Central African Republic. The U.S. is also providing equipment and training and considering military advisers to help the African troops restore order.
While some experts have described the conflict there as "pre-genocidal," Power calls this "an important prevention moment."
"We know from history that in the early phase of conflict and violence that is motivated by ethnic or religious tensions that there are key moments to change the calculus of individuals on the ground who every day are making decisions about whether they want to take the side of peace or take up arms and begin to target their neighbors," Power said. "Central African Republic is in one of those periods right now where people are making those choices every day."
The latest crisis started in March, when Muslim rebels, known as Seleka, toppled the government and rampaged through villages, burning churches and homes. Christian militias have since committed atrocities against Muslim communities. And the U.N. estimates that the conflict has affected half the population.
Leading aid organization Doctors Without Borders, also known by the French acronym of its name, MSF, blasted the United Nations recently for failing to respond quickly enough. Sylvain Groulx, who runs the MSF office in Bangui, the capital, says the U.N. has been too timid.
"There was a period of time after the rebel coalition arrived at the doors of Bangui — that for six months there was no U.N. agency outside of Bangui. That was deplorable," Groulx says. "All during this time while they were evacuated outside the country or held up in their compounds, we continued doing the work."
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in New York this week that the U.N. is trying now to ramp up aid efforts.
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Tim Ferriss Intro
Hundreds of people have asked me about Soylent, a controversial Silicon Valley team trying to replace food with a grayish liquid.
"Does it really deliver all the nutrients the human body needs?"
"Is it safe?"
"Why hasn't anyone tried this before?" [Hint: they have]
And most often: "What do you think of Soylent?"
Serendipitously, four or so weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Shane Snow, a frequent contributor to Wired and Fast Company:
I'm sure you have seen the buzz about the food-hacking movement, where a couple of Silicon Valley techies have been creating Matrix-style food replacement formulas for "optimum" chemical nutrition. Soylent.me, in particular, has been buzzing like crazy, having raised $800k in a Kickstarter-like campaign.
But nobody (besides the creators) has gotten his or her hands on any yet.
Except me.
Naturally, we had to do an experiment.
This post describes the longest non-employee trial of Soylent to date (two weeks without food), including before-and-after data such as:
– Comprehensive blood panels
– Body weight and bodyfat percentage
– Cognitive performance
– Resting heart rate
– Galvanic skin response
– Sleep
I share my thoughts in the AFTERWORD and occasionally in brackets, but this article focuses on Shane's experience and data. Please also note that this is *not* a Soylent take-down piece. I hope they succeed.
That said, there are some issues. I expect the debate on Soylent to be fierce, so please leave your thoughts in the comments. I'll encourage the Soylent founders to answer as many questions as they can. From all sides, I'm most interested in studies or historical precedent that can be cited, but logical arguments are fine.
Also, a quick clarification: There is a bit of soy lecithin (an emulsifier) in Soylent, but soy is not a main ingredient, which is understandably confusing.
Enjoy the fireworks…
Enter Shane
It's seven a.m. on a Wednesday, and I am in my kitchen staring at a bag of flour. A crinkly, metallic bag with a blue, Superman-style "S" logo glued to it. With no scissors handy in my one-bedroom Manhattan apartment, I've managed to tear the bag open roughly with my teeth, inhaling a blend of oatey sawdust that, when mixed with water, will be my sustenance for the next two weeks.
I stare at it, thinking about all the pizza I won't be eating, and the donuts Rebecca from the office will surely set out on the table next to my desk. But, I had all those things last night as a parting gift to my taste buds, so I sigh, pour the flour mix into a 2-litre pitcher of cold water, and shake.
Bottoms up.
This is Soylent. Not the cannibalistic "Soylent Green" that Charlton Heston weeps about in the 1970s sci-fi movie, nor the soy and lentil "soylent" steaks in Harry Harrison's 1966 novel, Make Room! Make Room!. This is Soylent, the tasteless, odorless food replacement drink that a kid in California—who raised a million bucks from strangers like me—invented to take food out of our daily equation and, ambitiously, cure world hunger. This is the Soylent that geeks in Silicon Valley have been buzzing about for the better part of a year, and the Soylent that various nutritionists have attacked with dire arguments of Ad Hominem mixed with Appeal to Authority. This is the Soylent whose inventor, Rob Rhinehart claims has made him fitter, more alert, and more productive, after having drank it semi-exclusively for about seven months.
… and it tastes like oatmeal water. Not bad, I admit as I gulp down half a Nalgene bottle's worth for my first of many non-breakfasts with the stuff. I fill a second Nalgene to drink after work, and leave the Fedex box with a dozen more crinkly bags on the kitchen counter as I lock the apartment door behind me.
On the surface, Rhinehart, a 24-year-old entrepreneur and engineer, seems an unlikely person to invent such a concoction. I had reached out to him months ago after reading his blog, where he moaned about how time consuming cooking and eating food is for him, and documented the development of a meal replacement in the vein of the amino acid goop served on board The Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix. But when we met up a few weeks ago in Brooklyn, Rhinehart became in my mind the most likely person to invent such a drink. Quiet, earnest, with the precise diction of someone smarter than any of your friends (unless you hang out at science poetry slams), Rhinehart strikes you as the kind of obsessive introvert who really doesn't have the patience for food and just might be willing to cram a decade of biology and chemistry into his head during Winter Break to invent a cure for it.
Basically, he's a hacker. He's just taking that hacker's mindset to the human body.
"People see some credential as this binary thing," he explained to me about why he's qualified to do this. "The formal path is really inefficient." But by devouring textbooks and seeking mentorship from master chemists and nutritionists, and bringing his experience in electronics manufacturing (which turns out to be strangely analogous to mass-producing supplements), he had successfully reverse-engineered—at a molecular level—exactly what the human body needs out of food. He claimed, at least.
And that's where the nutritionists and whole foodies start to freak out. As Rhinehart published his findings and geared up to take his chemical smoothie to market (the natural thing for a Silicon Valley-ite to do upon inventing anything), the objections started to chunkily pour in like mineral-packed oat-water in a Nalgene bottle. The most common include the following:
- The body needs whole foods and not atomic nutrients; the synergy between diverse ingredients is what matters in nutritional uptake.
- We don't know what we don't know about nutrition (i.e. Soylent might be unexpectedly harmful).
- The inventor has zero background in health.
- Some of its core ingredients are nutritionally empty.
- "If food is too hard, you're doing it wrong."
- It's "ludicrous" and "dangerously unhealthy."
- It hasn't been scientifically tested by anyone but the founder.
I love food as much as the next person. As a New Yorker, I hang out with whole foodies, juicers, raw vegans, and holistic health coaches aplenty. As a vegetarian, I am no stranger to dire warnings about dietary choices, or superstitions many people have about food. But as a technologist, I can relate to Rhinehart's questioning of the assumptions we perceive as granted. (For example, I'm nervous about antioxidants, as some studies indicate they're harmful to the point of causing cancer; however, most of us assume "high in antioxidants" is a selling point.)
So, when I look at the above list of objections, I think this:
- The body needs whole foods, not atomic nutrients; the synergy between diverse ingredients is what matters in nutritional uptake. This sounds nice, but has not been scientifically proven.
- We don't know what we don't know about nutrition (i.e. Soylent might be unexpectedly harmful). That's not a good reason to not try to innovate. Why not do some tests?
- The inventor has zero background in health. If we're going to dabble in logical fallacies, this one is better: If a man with a bachelor's degree can invent self-landing rockets, then a kid with the same degree and a blender can invent a meal replacement drink.
- Some of its core ingredients are nutritionally empty. The Soylent team claims they're updating the formula to resolve such concerns. But even so, is Soylent on the whole less healthy than the average person's diet? Are the "filler" ingredients supplemented in a way that delivers balanced nutrition? Those are the questions that need answering.
- "If food is too hard, you're doing it wrong." Given the obesity epidemic in America and the number of malnourished people in the world (including America), it's not a stretch to say food is indeed hard for a whole lot of people.
- It's "ludicrous" and "dangerously unhealthy." Given the lack up scientific backup for such statements, this is only conjecture at this point. (Interesting side note: Rhinehart told me that Soylent meets FDA guidelines; the crowdfunding campaign says the components are FDA approved, and Soylent will be made with "strict regulatory controls." I'm curious what those controls are, but it sounds to me like he is essentially cooking with FDA approved ingredients but hasn't gone through the nightmare that is the FDA testing process on the final product yet. Not that FDA approval means something is perfectly safe for all people, per se.)
- It hasn't been scientifically tested by anyone but the founder. I want to test it.
As the crowdfunding orders piled up, and it became clear that Soylent's delivery would be delayed like every Kickstarter project ever funded, I asked Rhinehart if I might get my hands on some supply, so I could do a gruel-based version of Supersize Me and measure the results of what Soylent does to a mildly out of shape 28-year-old.
He shipped me two weeks' worth.
Then, I asked Tim Ferriss, himself a body hacker whose penchant for lateral thinking is refreshing in the echo chamber of interest-conflicted health bloggers and naysayers, for advice on how to make my two-week study scientific. He had a company called Basis overnight me a health tracking wristband, gave some advice regarding blood tests, and said, "Keep me posted!"
Now, I knew that two weeks was probably not enough time to see dramatic changes, but it is enough time, worst-case scenario, to do some damage. (However, total meltdown didn't seem likely.) What I wanted to do was begin testing the conclusions that Rhinehart and his company had claimed, that compared to the average person's diet…
- Soylent provides all the energy and nutrients the body needs.
- The body can absorb all the nutrients Soylent provides.
- Soylent makes one more alert.
- Soylent can help people cut fat and maintain good body weight.
- Soylent saves time and money.
- And at the end of the day: Soylent isn't dangerous.
I consider myself a pretty health-conscious person. No alcohol. No meat. Slow-carbs when possible. Run three miles, three times a week. Pull-ups, push-ups on the days I don't run. On the weekends, however, my weaknesses come out: I tend to devour pizza and shotgun Vanilla Coke. Despite what is probably an above-average-health routine, I am out of shape compared to five years ago when I lived in Hawaii and surfed/body-boarded every day, and I'm certain that I don't get all the vitamins and nutrients I need—especially things like Omega-3s that vegetarians have a tough time eeking out of spinach and arugula smoothies.
Here's what a typical day's worth of food looks like for me:
Breakfast = Muscle Milk (often I'll also have mate tea when I first get up)
Lunch = Chipotle vegetarian burrito (or something akin to it) and a Diet Coke
Dinner = Take out, usually something like Thai red curry with tofu
Snack = Typically, a handful or two of peanut M&Ms from the office; almonds if I'm lucky
Nutrition Facts–Grand Total:
Calories: 1862
Total Fat: 74.1g
Saturated Fat: 24.5g
Trans Fat: 0
Cholesterol: 19mg
Sodium: 4,277mg
Potassium: 1,395mg
Carbohydrates: 199.5g
Dietary Fiber: 34g
Sugars: 45g
Protein: 88g
Vitamin A: 96%
Vitamin C: 139%
Calcium: 105%
Iron: 84%
Vitamin D: 35%
Thiamin: 35%
Niacin: 35%
Folate: 35%
Biotin: 35%
Phosphorus: 35%
Magnesium: 35%
Copper: 35%
Vitamin E: 35%
Riboflavin: 35%
Vitamin B6: 35%
Vitamin B12: 35%
Pantothenic Acid: 35%
Iodine: 35%
Zinc: 35%
Chromium: 35%
Want to see the individual nutrition facts for each item? Here they are:
Muscle Milk Diet Coke Chipotle Burrito Thai Red Curry (x2 servings) Rice Peanut M&Ms
Total Cost:
$24 / day
For two weeks, I traded that in for this:
(Click to enlarge. Note that my shipment had two weeks's supply, though this paper says one.)
Nutrition Facts:
Soylent isn't supplying a finalized nutrition facts list until the company launches this Fall, but here's the breakdown based on information Rhinehart shared with me and has posted online, based on daily nutrition percentages for an adult male and the recommended daily serving size of Soylent. (Download his most recent nutrition facts sheet here.)
Calories: 2404
Total Fat: 65g
Saturated Fat: 95% of daily recommended value
Trans Fat: 0
Cholesterol: 0
Sodium: 2.4g
Potassium: 3.5g
Carbohydrates: 400g
Dietary Fiber: 40g
Sugars: ?
Protein: 80g (Note that early reports declared that Soylent had 50g of protein; Rhinehart recently revised his blog to say 120g of protein now, though he told me it was 80g in the Soylent Version 0.8 that I drank. The formula isn't final yet.)
Vitamin A: 100%
Vitamin C: 100%
Calcium: 100%
Iron: 100%
Vitamin D: 100%
Thiamin: 100%
Niacin: 100+%
Folate: 100%
Biotin: 100%
Phosphorus: 140%
Magnesium: 112%
Copper: 100%
Vitamin E: 100%
Riboflavin: 100%
Vitamin B6: 100%
Vitamin B12: 100%
Pantothenic Acid: 100%
Iodine: 100%
Zinc: 100%
Chromium: 100%
$9 / day (at the crowdfunding campaign price)
Day 0
The day before Soylent, I went in to my doctor for some fasting blood tests. Tim recommended a comprehensive swath of exams via WellnessFX, a company that collects and visualizes health information in cool, newfangled ways. Unfortunately, the nearest clinic was two states away from me. Most of the tests in WellnessFX's "Cadillac" suite don't have to do with dietary changes (according to my doctor), but were just plain cool and important to know about in general. So I did the next best thing and got a few panels—ones that a local nutritionist recommended—at my doctor's office and had them shipped to a lab that WellnessFX uses. (Also note: if I had gotten the comprehensive suite here in New York, it would have cost over $5,000 to cobble together the individual tests on my own! One day, I will spring for that, but not today.)
[TIM: I disagree with Shane's doc and would argue that most blood markers can be moved up or down by diet. After all, outside of physical environments/pollutants, what other primary epigenetic inputs have greater global effects? From liver enzymes to gene expression, you are what you eat.]
Then, I attempted to do 3 different body composition and weight tests: my FitBit home scale, a bioelectrical impedance body composition analyzer (or BIA, for which I used an InBody 230 at a local gym), and a DEXA scan at a local radiology lab. Bad news struck once again, as the DEXA scanner table was broken, "but will be fixed in two weeks." After calling the only place in NYC that I could find that has a Bod Pod (Brooklyn College) and getting voice mail every day for a week, I decided to bag the third body scan. It was the before/after comparison that mattered anyway, which I would get with the other two just fine.
Finally, I took some tests on Quantified-Mind.com to measure my mental alertness while I was eating my typical diet of burritos and Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi. In this way, I could try to reproduce Rhinehart's claim that Soylent improves mental acuity.
I normally wear a Jawbone UP bracelet to measure my steps and sleep, but Tim recommended the Basis band, which measures those things plus skin temperature and heart rate, so I started wearing that.
I was determined to eliminate any other variables, including bedtime, stress, and exercise, so I tried to stick to my regular routines before, during, and after the trial, and I did my best to standardize my sleep schedule and the times I weighed and measured myself, for both mind and body tests.
And then I had a mini party for myself, gorged on all the foods I shouldn't eat, and went to bed with food in my belly for the last time.
Days 1-3
(Me. 7am. Looking like some sort of a wild animal.)
My first surprise was that Soylent tasted fine, familiar even. It's easy to gulp down quickly. In fact, as someone who's used to drinking disgusting vegan protein shakes made out of peas and hemp, I found it quite pleasant.
On the first day, I was struck with a wave of exhaustion around 3:30, and I had a "tired headache" the rest of the afternoon. This low energy in the afternoon is common for me, but felt particularly bad this day. I blamed it on the Vanilla Coke at 11pm the night before.
Months ago, my doctor had told me I had a mild amount of acid reflux. It hadn't bothered me lately. But as soon as I started the Soylent, I noticed that the back of my throat started feeling like fire.
On the second day, it was clear to me that I was psyching myself out on the "no food" thing. My nose seemed to pick up the scent of food everywhere. I even wrote this in my journal:
"Last night I had a dream that I ate a brownie, and halfway through the brownie realized that I was only supposed to be eating Soylent for the next two weeks."
By the end of Day 3 I realized that if I drank more Soylent in the morning and rationed it less, I had great energy levels in the afternoon. On Days 1 and 2, I drank about half of my supply by 8pm when I got home, and on the days that I tried to drink 3/4 of my supply by mid-afternoon, I felt great.
But also by the end of Day 3, I had a monster canker sore on my bottom lip.
Days 4-6
(Me. 7am. Still looking haggard.)
By the fourth day of Soylent, I turned a corner. I started feeling noticeably great. I didn't get the afternoon doldrums, I wasn't starving, and had plenty of energy for my regular, 3-mile run along the West Side of Manhattan. On Sunday, I held a marathon writing session, where I didn't even look up for over 6 hours—a shocking feat for me lately. And my burning reflux throat was completely gone. Though the canker sore was still going strong.
WARNING: Skip to the next section if you don't like reading about poop.
It was around this time that something I should have anticipated—but hadn't—finally happened. My poop became Soylent. Typically (and forgive me if this is TMI) I have a bowel movement once a day; it's rare that I don't. With Soylent, I started going every two days. And by the time everything from before made it out of my system, said infrequent bowel movements became extremely sticky and, ahem… off-whitish-tan. It was gross, but felt strangely… purifying?
Days 7-9
(Me. 7am. Look who took a shower!)
I stopped craving food at this point. I felt fantastic. I sat at a work outing and didn't care that I wasn't eating the delicious guacamole that everyone was passing around. I would watch people leave for lunch breaks and chortle to myself while I got an hour of extra work done and sipped my Soylent. My energy levels were higher than I had felt in a while. I didn't feel that sort of shaky invincible like you do after drinking a Red Bull, but I felt pretty darn close to it.
But on Day 8, something peculiar happened. I got really bad vertigo in the afternoon. Then again the next afternoon.
I soon realized this was because I had been cheating since Day 7.
What happened was my blender broke. I had been shaking and stirring Soylent by hand, which meant I wasn't able to get all the clumps out. By this time (and either it was my batch settling or me starting to get lazy at stirring), the chunks in my mixtures were getting huge. The white stuff that was mixed into the tan stuff was floating to the top and congealing together. For the last few days, I'd tried swallowing the white chunks down and gagged on them. So I just started just scooping them out.
I'm pretty sure the white chunks were the rice protein, and perhaps something else important. Whatever it was was causing my blood sugar to crash. On the afternoon of Day 9, I bought a Magic Bullet.
Days 10-13
(Hey, look at you, Mr. Morning Person!)
The Magic Bullet did the trick. I fully mixed and fully drank my Soylent, and soon felt great. No more vertigo. Energy levels still at an all time high.
At this point, I was becoming hyper productive—both because I felt like it and because I was no longer using food as a procrastination method in my life. One of my coworkers told me I was more wired and chipper than he'd ever seen me.
[TIM: The "food as procrastination technique" is a non-trivial point. It's critical to always ask yourself: "What else could explain this effect?" Personally, I love to delay writing by snacking and drinking when totally unnecessary. If Soylent removes these delay tactics, is the improvement due to biochemical change or a behavioral change?]
Also by this time, the canker sore was completely gone (I am told it was stress), and there was still no more sign of the reflux (perhaps also stress?).
I was happy. Life was starting to feel simple. I felt… lighter… inside. Which is a hard thing to objectively measure, but that was the case.
And by the final day, to my surprise, I found myself wishing I had two more weeks' of Soylent left.
My first day back to real food was a bit of a doozy. I took all the blood tests and body scans in the morning, fasting, and then went straight to upstate New York for a meeting. In the meeting, we were served pasta salad and melty cheese sandwiches, which I promptly devoured. And then felt like a camel had kicked me in the intestines. Later that day, I ate half of a pizza from Angelo's in Midtown (great place, btw) and washed down some vitamins with Muscle Milk to ensure some modicum of nutrition.
And the next day I felt gross.
Inspired by my experience with Soylent, and with that junk food binge over and done, I committed to eating healthier on my own. And I have. I cut soda out of my diet entirely—an easy thing to do after two weeks off. After a couple days of mild indulgence on things like bread and chocolate, I've now restarted Tim's Slow-Carb Diet™, this time with what appears to be a little more will power. I even started working out with a trainer. (No more half-hearted pull-ups!)
Though I felt a noticeable difference in energy after the first couple of days, once I started eating healthy on my own, I feel like I'm somewhere between my "normal" and "Soylent" level. Which is not too shabby.
(Oh, and it took two days for poop to not be Soylent anymore; four to completely return to normal. Hooray.)
Here's the raw data from my tests, plus explanations when needed:
Weight / Body Composition:
This is the embarrassing part where everyone gets to see how out of shape I am. (Note to any lazy future news reporters who arrive at this page via Google or some other future search engine: Do not describe me as 160 lbs and made of 20% fat in any future articles. I'll soon be a changed man, I swear!)
InBody 230 (BIA) Scan, BEFORE:
InBody 230 Scan, AFTER:
The BIA indicates that I lost 7.7 lbs in these two weeks. (Awesome!) Concerningly, I seemed to have lost 3 lbs of fat and 4.7 lbs of lean mass. (Hmm….)
Fortunately, only 1.2 lbs of that lean mass was "dry lean mass" aka muscle. The rest was apparently water weight. So I had a 3:1 fat loss to muscle loss ratio, which is much less concerning.
My home scale tells the same story, just scaled down about 5 lbs:
FitBit WiFi Scale, BEFORE:
FitBit WiFi Scale, AFTER:
I'm not quite so heavy on the home scale; that's undoubtedly because the bio-electrical scanner scans you while you're still wearing your clothes, and I was wearing pretty heavy jeans the first time I went in. To make sure clothes weren't a factor, I wore the same jeans when I went back in the second time (both times I wore a V-neck t-shirt of similar weight).
For anyone who's curious, I do have DEXA scans, which the place with the broken table (Chelsea Diagnostic in Manhattan) took of me on the last day of Soylent. They pretty much corroborate the %s. Here's a fun picture:
Blood Panels:
I had several blood panels tested before and after, with the following results:
Bloodwork BEFORE:
(Click either of the below images to enlarge)
Bloodwork AFTER:
(Click either of the below images to enlarge)
You can pore through the data yourselves, but the areas that stick out to me are the following:
- Fasting Glucose went down
- Sodium and Potassium and Chloride and Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen and Calcium stayed relatively the same
- Creatinine went up 30%
- Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate dropped 27%
- Total Cholesterol went from 127 to 117, dipping just below the normal range. (Says the nurse at my doctor's office, "The abnormal result was your total cholesterol level which was 117mg/dL. The low limit is 25mg/dL, so it was only slightly out of range. When your levels are high this is a concern, but low cholesterol is not anything to worry about.")
- HDL Cholesterol (the good kind) stayed basically the same
- LDL Cholesterol (the bad kind) went down from 66 to 63
- "Non HDL" Cholesterol (I assume more of the bad kind) went from 82 to 73
- Triglycerides, or fat in the blood stream, dropped 46% (apparently lowering my risk of heart disease)
- Monocytes, Absolute went up 25%
- Eosinophils, Absolute went down 33%
- Basophils, Absolute went up 25%
Mental Alertness:
I tested my reaction times via a site called Quantified-Mind early on and toward the end of my Soylent trial (and attempting to get the same amount of sleep before each test, also mitigating other variables such as mood or time of day). The site puts you through a battery of tests, randomized in groups of 7, so the results below are a combination of a couple of trials that I did in order to get matching tests both times.
Higher scores mean better reaction times and accuracty. As you can see, I improved across the board. This seems to corroborate the observation that I was feeling more alert and mentally snappy.
Vital Signs & Steps:
I wore a Basis band for the duration of the trial (with the exception of Day 5, when the battery ran out, and I left it at home charging). Below are some screenshots of early days on Soylent versus later days on Soylent.
(click either of the below to enlarge)
(Key: Blue line is skin temperature; red line is heart rate; orange bars are steps walked or run. Gaps are when I took the thing off for some reason.)
It's difficult to pick out many Soylent-related insights from these charts, other than nothing crazy went on with my heart or skin temp throughout the trial. One interesting tidbit is my sleeping heart rate seemed to smooth out the longer I was on Soylent. There was less jumping up from 45 to 53 beats per minute and back.
I asked Bharat Vasan, one of the founders of Basis, to take a look at the limited data set I collected and help me unpack what happened. He dumped my data into a spreadsheet (which you can view in its entirety here), and commented on the following highlights:
- RHR: Your Resting Heart Rate had declined over the last 3 days of data from 50bpm to 46bpm which could be a sign of improved fitness. There are also other factors that could have contributed to it from your diet or sleep patterns. It may be interesting to chart your weight against resting heart rate.
- Sleep: You slept a little over 8 hours a night (both average and median) which is the great since that's what's recommended. Sleep times seem to have been pretty consistent with a couple of late nights (judging from the patterns chart below).
(Side note: one of the cool things the Basis tracks is perspiration vs heart rate. Notice with this chart how my perspiration spiked even at times when my heart rate was normal. "Potentially due to an emotional reaction or temperature changes," Bharat tells me. Does that have to do with diet? I'm not sure. But it's interesting.)
Regular diet (not including meals out with friends on weekends, which almost always includes dinner Friday night and brunch Saturday): $24/day
Soylent diet: $9/day
Savings: $15/day or $105/week ($5,460/year)
(If you include $80/weekend I typically spend on eating out here in New York, then that's another $4,160/year, for a total of $9,620.)
Potential weaknesses in the data:
Although I attempted to eliminate variables that could affect any of my before/after measurements (such as wearing the same clothes for the bioelectrical impedance scan and taking photos and tests at about the same times of day), the following things could have affected the final data:
1) I took my second BIA approximately 3 hours earlier in the day than the first one. Though I drank tons of water during Soylent, according to the instructions, those missing 4 lbs of water weight indicate I may have been less hydrated when I came in the second time. And studies of BIA measurement (on obese subjects, at least) indicate that hydration potentially alters the accuracy of BIA muscle and fat measurement.
2) On that note: I drank more water during my 2 weeks of Soylent than I normally do. How much of my results could be attributed to that change versus the actual Soylent ingredients, I'm not sure. But it could be a factor.
3) An alternative explanation to my improved scores on Quantified Mind could be that I simply got better at the tests because I had taken them before.
4) This experiment only looks at the effects of addition (I added Soylent). The gaping hole is that I couldn't properly test the effects of subtraction of elements of my regular diet. What if the elimination of diet caffeinated soda is what really caused the fat loss? What if Muscle Milk was making me sluggish, rather than Soylent making me alert? (I think these explanations are probably unlikely, but I'd rather be certain than hunch-driven.)
5) Perhaps most importantly with a one-man experiment like this, I'm not immune to the possibility of a placebo effect. Would I have had similar results if someone told me that a pizza-only diet would make me skinnier and snappier? (P.S. If that diet ever becomes a thing, count me in.)
What I would do differently next time:
I believe a 30- or 60-day Soylent trial would produce more conclusive (and perhaps dramatic) results than the two weeks. Before embarking on such a trial, I would test (or study) the elimination of various elements of my diet, one by one, to account for the effects of subtraction on all of the measurements I took.
Second, I would like to test Soylent with a number of subjects, and give half of them placebos. The difficulty here, of course, is in the details, and in the possibility of really screwing the placebo people over. (Do you give them a drink that truly is nutritionally empty and then watch them nearly starve to death? What do you split test: high carbs and low carbs, high vitamins and low vitamins, individual ingredients? Do you blend up a day's worth of Chipotle and Muscle Milk and dye it tan as a control?)
I would certainly do a DEXA scan or Bod Pod before and after, not just BIA and a home scale. (Couldn't help it this time with the broken table at one location and summer break at the other. Also, how does the entire city of Manhattan only have one of each of these?!)
To better measure muscle gain or loss, I would physically measure the inches of my waist, arms, chest, legs, and neck before and after.
Finally, to really make things interesting, I would love to split test subjects living off of various other meal replacements (they're out there). The Ultimate Meal, GNC's Lean Shake, Slim Fast, Naturade—shoot, even Muscle Milk (if I drank 4 of my 34g shakes a day, I'd get 100% of nearly all my vitamins and tons of protein).
While we're at it, we might as well put the test subjects all in a house together and let MTV film. 😉
After looking over the data and my daily observational journals, it appears that a Soylent diet contains more nutrition than my typical diet, and that I was able to absorb said nutrition sufficiently well. Even though I'm not in the habit of putting many bad substances in my body (except for caffeinated soda, which I have now cut off), I was definitely getting more balance and less junk via Soylent than I do with my normal routine. My blood tests show that I remained healthy under a Soylent regimen. I had no weird heart rate or sleep issues (and in fact seem to have slept better than normal), and I was indeed more alert.
However, the composition of my weight loss (3 lbs of fat and 1.2 lbs of muscle shed) indicates that I wasn't getting enough protein to maintain lean muscle, given my height/weight and the 3-mile runs and pullups/pushups I do 3x a week. This speaks to the challenges of creating a one-size-fits-all formula in a food replacement. When I try Soylent again in the Fall, once the company ships orders, I plan to supplement with extra protein. Of course, Rhinehart and team are still tweaking the formula. They say they will soon release different flavors, and Rhinehart indicated to me that they could adjust the mixture for athletes. So more optimal protein/carb mixtures are likely in the cards at some point.
Going along with some of the skeptics I mentioned earlier, I do question the high amount of carbs and the use of oat flour and maltodextrin in the Soylent 0.8 formula; why not something healthier to deliver energy, like quinoa? Perhaps it's a cost issue?
One thing to note is that these guys aren't marketing Soylent as a fat-shredding regimen. It's meant to be a health simplification diet. And that it absolutely was. Shockingly, so, I might add, because I expected to be miserable the whole time and was in fact quite happy. Beyond the time savings (and not having to think about food much), I was struck by how much easier it was to stick to a diet as simple as Soylent versus any other diet I've tried. As they say, it's easier to be 100% obedient to a diet than 99%. Soylent left no room for debate, and therefore turned out to be quite easy.
(Though sticking to the diet was surprisingly easy, I did have one gripe: Nalgene bottles are a rather bad user experience with anything but water. The mouth of the bottle is huge, making it easy to spill. And spilled Soylent dries like paper mache.)
By far, the most interesting result to me was the cost and time savings of living on Soylent. I saved $200 during my trial. This is good news for the company's greater mission of combating world hunger—especially since I imagine they'll be able to manufacture and ship the stuff to impoverished areas at much cheaper than the kickstarter price. (One side note: the use of Soylent requires access to clean water, so there will be additional logistical challenges to making a "cure-all" for the world's starving.)
My two weeks of Soylent is just a data point among a flood of results that will come out as the powder hits the market this fall. Long-term, clinical trials are certainly going to go a long way to proving the stuff's effectiveness and safety to a degree that will not leave nutritionists nervous. But in my limited data set, signs point in a positive direction for the Soylent crew.
On the other hand, food is delicious. Much more delicious than Soylent, even though Soylent isn't awful.
"We're definitely not trying to compete with the experience of your mom's cooking," Rhinehart tells me. "Our goal is to make food more like water."
I found a new appreciation for good food after living on Soylent for two weeks. That first bite of Angelo's Pizza on my first day off was a truly aesthetic experience.
But all the freedom to eat heavenly, post-experiment food didn't prevent me from saving half a bottle of Soylent after the last day of my diet, just in case I needed a quick meal sometime.
It wasn't long before I did.
Shane Snow is a technology journalist in New York City. He contributes regularly to Wired Magazine, Fast Company, Advertising Age, and more. Follow him on Twitter @shanesnow or on his LinkedIn Influencer blog at http://www.linkedin.com/influencer/7374576. And if you're especially adventurous, subscribe to his private mailing list at http://eepurl.com/yJaEP
Open Questions:
I came away from my Soylent experiment with a few unanswered questions. I'd love any insights or opinions from Tim's readers on the following:
1) How much of a problem are the so-called "nutritionally empty" ingredients like Maltodextrin? Are carbs from that source (or oat flour) just as good as other carbs, so long as one gets all the other vitamins and minerals from other sources?
2) What powder-izable ingredients might one swap in for any of the Soylent ingredients to further optimize the formula?
3) What other variables ought to be controlled for in future experiments with Soylent?
4) What's the probable explanation for the acid reflux and canker sores in the first few days? Is it possible that they were related to Soylent, or more likely related to other factors in my life?
5) Also, can we suggest some more marketable names than Soylent? (Or is the fact that it's a hoax-sounding name good for marketing?)
Afterword from Tim
I commend the Soylent team for attempting to simplify food. The problems of nutrition and world hunger are worth tackling.
That said, I'd be remiss if I didn't highlight a few points, voice a few concerns, and pose a few questions. Soylent has done an incredible job of building an international PR platform, sparked from single well-done blog post written before it was a business.
And with great audience comes great responsibility.
Food isn't a game, and people can die. I propose that — if Soylent doesn't modify it's claims — people will die. For their customers and investors to remain intact, allow me to highlight a few things:
– Meal-replacement powders aren't new. The only reason SF-based investors think it's new it because of a novel target market: time-starved techies. Met-Rx pioneered meal-replacement powders (MRP's) in the 1990's, and there have been dozens of copycats since. From the Wikipedia entry:
Created by Dr. A Scott Connelly, an anesthesiologist, the original MET-Rx product was intended to help prevent critically ill patients from losing muscle mass. Connelly's product was marketed in cooperation with Bill Phillips and the two began marketing to the bodybuilding and athletic communities, launching sales from the low hundreds of thousands to over $100 million annually. Connelly sold all interest in the company to Rexall Sundown for $108 million in 2000. MET-Rx is currently owned by NBTY.
– Be careful with any terminology like "FDA-approved" or indirect implications of medical-like claims. Get a good regulatory affairs law firm familiar with both compliance and litigation. Consumables at scale involve lawsuits.
– It's premature to believe we can itemize a finite list of what the human body needs. To quote N.N. Taleb, this is "epistemic arrogance." Sailors only need protein and potatoes? Oops, didn't know about scurvy and vitamin C. We need fat-soluble vitamins? Oops, consumers get vitamin A or D poisoning, as it's stored in body fat.
But let's put aside a complex system like the human body–what about an isolated minimally-viable cell? Craig Venter, who sequenced the human genome, was recently interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek on his team's attempts to build one:
We're trying to design a basic life form–the minimal criteria for life. It's very hard to do it because roughly 10 percent of the genes are of completely unknown function. All we know is if we take them out of the cell, the cell dies. So we're dealing with the limitations of biology.
Upshot: The human body isn't well understood at all.
This doesn't mean you can't attempt to create good nutritional products; it does mean you need to mind your claims.
– Nutrition and people are not one-size-fits-all. Among the Soylent claims Shane outlined, there are the below. I've added my comments:
Soylent provides all the energy and nutrients the body needs.
[TIM: I'm not convinced Soylent can prove this.]
The body can absorb all the nutrients Soylent provides.
[TIM: I'm not convinced Soylent can prove this for healthy, normal subjects, let alone — for instance — people with celiac disease who cannot handle grains.]
Soylent makes one more alert.
[TIM: If measured, this could potentially be demonstrated.]
Soylent can help people cut fat and maintain good body weight.
[TIM: Be wary of any structure or function claims. Reword.]
Soylent saves time and money.
[TIM: Provable compared to another defined group (e.g. eating at Chipotle), but not across the board.]
And at the end of the day: Soylent isn't dangerous.
[TIM: I'm not convinced Soylent can prove this. Where are the data? Safe for how long?]
I think claiming to know all the nutrients human's require is dangerous. Claiming something is "safe" as opposed to a more objective/provable "all ingredients are on the GRAS list" is also playing with fire.
Given your early adopters, there's a good chance you'll have at least a handful of Type-I and Type-II diabetics (among other medical conditions) who are engineers prone to enjoying extremes. How do manage that with your user directions and messaging? What if they're 100 pounds instead of 180? Or 350 pounds instead of 180? Don't expect "Don't use Soylent if you have a pre-existing medical condition" to stop them from using it exclusively as food, if that's your positioning.
Tread carefully. Moderate claims are nothing to be ashamed of and can be monetized incredibly well. Don't roll the dice with your customers' long-term health.
Best of luck. I really hope you guys figure it out.
And dear readers, what do you think of Soylent's approach and the above experiment?
Please join the conversation in the comments below. There several MDs, nurses, and nutritionists kindly offering their professional opinions (and answering questions).
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Beautiful Rosa!ReplyDelete
Ça m'impressionne toujours ces oeuvres d'art grandioses "cachées" dans le quotidien de la vie! Bravo pour cette géniale mise en valeur.ReplyDelete
Love all the details! Such a nice collection of pictures - thanks.ReplyDelete
Wow - amazing!!ReplyDelete
Love these! And thanks for letting us see all the exquisite details, too. Happy holidays!ReplyDelete
I love details, you might know already. The beauty of these is particularly enhanced by the black and white. Great pics...ReplyDelete
Fabulous pictures Rosa and so detailed!!ReplyDelete
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Gothic sculptures are pretty impressive and Iove the small hare in the first photo.ReplyDelete
Wow, love these pictures - Beautiful light and depth! Such a great job!ReplyDelete
beautiful! each and every one f themReplyDelete
Gorgeous Rosa.ReplyDelete
I know I always ask this, but where is this one?Replies
Thanks, dear! It's in Bern, Switzerland. ;-)Delete
Wow, really lovely, Rosa!ReplyDelete
G'day LOVE Gothic sculptures and once again, your photos capture the essence Rosa! Well done!ReplyDelete
Cheers! Joanne
What beautiful captures Rosa! :)ReplyDelete
Rosa, I think Switzerland will be my first stop, if I ever manage to get my dh. over his fear of flying. Or else, I might have to go at it alone. Such beautiful sights!ReplyDelete
enjoying discovering Bern through your images; the arcitectural details are what always interest me in any city. Beautiful~ReplyDelete
bonjour Rosa très jolie ta nouvelle présentation, ça fait un bail que je n'étais pas passée te voir. Comme toujours de très belles photos et un plaisir de les découvrir comme à chaque fois. Bon week-end et gros bisous ;)ReplyDelete
These photos are super, Rosa. Especially good in black and white.ReplyDelete
Great photos! The stone texture is captured fantastically, my hands can feel it..ReplyDelete
gorgeous pictures of some gorgeous pieces of art!ReplyDelete
Beautiful textures, Rosa!ReplyDelete
Amazing pictures Rosa! Have a nice weekend dear,ReplyDelete
Bises xx
nice pictures.ReplyDelete
Quel relief! Superbes photos blak&white Rosa. Bon dimanche.ReplyDelete
I love the things you show us, Rosa! Thank you!ReplyDelete
I love looking at these. Thanks, Rosa :)ReplyDelete
Wow they are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing them with us Rosa.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:03 AM, December 02, 2013
wow, fascinating hand sclupture!ReplyDelete
great job!!!
schon so viele Male davorgestanden und drüber hinweggeschaut. Einfach schön.ReplyDelete
I also admire architectural details! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
You just transported me into another time Rosa. The contrast you chose in your pictures is telling the story of the sculptures so intensely, it's as if time itself has stopped.ReplyDelete
Wow, they are gorgeous. Each one of these photos are frame worthy. I agree with Helene, they tell a story. Lovely.ReplyDelete
What expressive faces that have stood the test of time :)ReplyDelete
It must be some kind of story behind this sculptures....how impressive!ReplyDelete
Beautiful as always Rosa.ReplyDelete
This is a beautiful collection of black and whites. I love it!ReplyDelete
Oh my I would love to visit, your pictures are gorgeous.ReplyDelete
You always have great eyes for beautiful things that I may just pass by. Your photos make me realize different things and beautiful things in life. Gorgeous shots!ReplyDelete
Amazing! What unique captures.ReplyDelete
The complexities of these Gothic figures is presented so well through the eyes of the photographer. That is you, Rosa and they are superb...Thank you so much for sharing...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:05 AM, December 12, 2013
Oh! I really like this! I always appreciate the stone carvings on buildings. Very nice job!ReplyDelete


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Home Page Chess Life Online Huseynov Wins Chesapeake Open
|Huseynov Wins Chesapeake Open
|By Michael Regan
|January 20, 2013
The 5th Annual Chesapeake Open was held from 11-13 January in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 132 players particpated playing in six sections. The Championship section, which had 31 players rated over 2000, was won by IM Elmir Huseynov with a score of 4.5.
The tournament used a score-based payout scheme with a bonus for first place in each section. The combination yielded a payout of $1000 for IM Elmir Huseynov. Scott Low (2265), Jared Defibaugh (2352), and Chris Sevilla (2042) tied for second with scores of 4.0. The Maryland Chess Association web site has the final standings and you can find USCF-rated results on MSA. Check out the Maryland Chess Association facebook page for photos and upcoming events.
In round 3 Scott Low had a nice win against GM Larry Kaufman.
Two of the most interesting games were both in the fifth round. In the first one Chris Sevilla (2042) defeated Robert Fischer (2042). The interesting thing is that White never gets a chance to move either rook during the game.
In an interesting game between GM Kaufman and Todd Bryant (2276), Kaufman ended up with four minor pieces against a queen and rook. You don't see this kind of material imbalance very often.


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This page is about peripherals and adapters useful/necessary for BeagleBoard. As the design goal of BeagleBoard was to make it as simple and cheap as possible, e.g. not having a LCD added, you will need some add ons to use the peripherals of this board. This page will list known peripherals. If you use peripherals not listed here, please add.
There are pages listing "official" verified peripherals and adapters.
The page Verified BeagleBoard Peripherals lists peripherals known to work with BeagleBoard. To add new entries go to del.icio.us and add tags "beagleboard" and "peripheral" (singular). Once you've verified, please also add the "verified" tag. Others will then be able to find the peripheral links using del.icio.us/tag/beagleboard+peripheral+verified. The peripherals specifically linked at Verified BeagleBoard Peripherals page above are at del.icio.us/jadon/beagleboard+peripheral+verified.
Unofficial and local
Most of the official peripheral and adapter links are located from shops in the USA. For non-US people, sometimes it doesn't make sense or isn't comfortable to order international. Therefore here we list some local and unofficial links for peripherals and adapters.
Some German (europe?) peripherals and adapters for Beagle.
Serial adapter
- RS-232 ADAPTER 9-POLIG, Ar.-Nr.: 976253
USB OTG host cable
For Beagle Rev. B boards you need a special USB adapter cable to use OTG port as host:
- Conrad Electronic USB 2.0 KABEL MINI-USB/USB A-BUCHSE 1,8M, Art.-Nr.: 971535 (Note 1)
- Hama Mini-USB-Kabel On the Go, Mini-USB-A-Stecker - USB-A-Kupplung, 0,15m, e.g. available from Amazon or order via your local dealer directly from HAMA, Art.-Nr: 00041848
Note 1: From mechanical point of view, you can use Mini-A or Mini-B USB plugs (no Micro connectors!) with Beagle board. Both will fit into Beagle's USB OTG receptacle. But to be detected properly, USB ID pin has to be connected to ground. And this is only done at Mini-A plug. So Mini-B plugs will not work unless you modify them to connect ID pin to ground. This is necessary e.g. for above Conrad cable.
USB hub
- As BeagleBoard can only drive <= 100mA, an external self powered USB hub is recommended: USB 4-Port Hub 2.0 mit Netzteil, USB2 4PORT HUB
DVI cable
- Reichelt 19 pol HDMI-Stecker > 24+1 DVI-D Stecker 2,0m, AK HDMI-DVI 2,0
Power supply
5V, >= 500mA, stabilized, 2,1mm/5,5mm e.g
- Kompaktschaltnetzteil, 5W, out 5,0 V PSA 05R-050 (unverified)
UK peripherals and adapters for Beagle.
Serial Adapter
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Plate-Serial-Adaptor-Wiring/dp/B000HPUGIO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1204792180&sr=8-1
USB hub
- 3-Port USB 2.0 Hub with Network Adaptor includes UK Mains power supply http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=228901
Confirmed with Rev C2 boards
Bluetooth Dongle
- Dlink DBT-122 Rev C P/N IBT....C1G http://dlink.com.au/Products.aspx?Sec=1&Sub1=18&Sub2=39&PID=211


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With our quarterly cleanup coming up soon, I'd like to remind everyone about the purpose of the member storage shelves. These shelves are intended for storage of projects in progress, and the materials and tools being used for those projects. I would like to invite everybody to take some time to organize their storage area prior to the quarterly cleanup. When organizing your storage, there are a few requirements to keep in mind:
- Allotted space: Everyone should make an effort to occupy no more than one half of a storage shelf with their projects and materials. There is no problem with using a whole shelf, as long as the material you are storing is actively being worked on. Check with the Shop Manager or an Area Manager if you have special requirements.
- Labeling: The owner of every item stored on these shelves should be readily identifiable, with contact information. This requirement can be met by placing parking permits on each item, or applying a strip of tape or similar label to the shelf. This is especially important with quarterly cleanup approaching. If we don't know who something belongs to, we don't know whether or not it's abandoned.
- Tidyness: As much as possible, material on the shelves should be stored in a relatively neat fashion, and items should not overhang the front of the shelves. We want the space to look organized and functional when guests are touring the space.
- Inactive projects: Anything you have stored at the space which you haven't worked with in a long time should be taken home or disposed of.
The overall goal here is to give members a chance to organize and evaluate their storage prior to quarterly cleanup, so that items are organized in the way their owner wants, as opposed to being organized at the whims of the cleanup participants.
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The solar panel components also convert direct current to alternating current for use in the home. In a well-balanced grid-tied configuration, solar panels generate energy during the day and then use it indoors at night. Electricity metering programs allow solar generator owners to get paid if the solar power system produces more energy than the home needs.
With proper maintenance, solar systems can be less expensive and can provide power for over 30 years. The rising cost of electricity from traditional sources has made installing solar panels a breeze for many homeowners. The main factor in determining how much a solar panel system will save you in the long run is your electricity bill, which can vary based on your location.
However, solar panel efficiency is something that most homeowners looking to install a rooftop system want, as they are likely to have less room to work with than commercial solar projects or ground-mounted solar panel systems. Plus, with fewer high-efficiency panels, you'll have room to expand your solar system if you buy an electric vehicle or add one to your home. More sun means more energy generated and more savings potential from solar energy.
Despite the positive and negative imbalance inside the panel, sunlight hits the silicon in the solar cell to dissolve the electrons. Over time, the more sunlight hits the cells, the more electrons are released, and the more current, the more energy they generate. Here, we'll take a closer look not only at how the photovoltaic effect works, but also how solar cells work together to produce different voltages, and what all the different sizes mean in the spec sheet.
These shops can even arrange professional installation for you to help you install solar panel for your home. In addition to getting the installation cost, you can find out about the electricity costs calculated over 25 years, how solar-compatible your home is, and even compare deals to find the best deal.
The orientation of your home towards the sun, the amount of shade and the type of roof also affect the power of the solar system. You can estimate the efficiency of panels in your area using a solar energy rating calculator. The simplest thing to do is look at your electricity bill to get your home's hourly energy consumption, multiply it by your home's peak sunshine hours (3 to 4 hours on average) and divide by 300, which is average power for your home. solar panels (although there can be from 150 to 370). The average home has more than enough roof space for the required amount of solar panels to generate enough solar power to meet all of its energy needs. The surplus generated electricity is fed into the backbone electric grid, paying for electricity consumption at night.
A single solar module can only produce a limited amount of energy; most installations contain multiple modules that add voltage or current to the wiring and photovoltaic system. The electrical connections of the module are made in series to obtain the desired output voltage or in parallel to provide the desired current (amperes) of the solar panel or photovoltaic system.
You can also inquire about any tax breaks in force, such as the 26% solar tax credit under the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021, that could help pay off a significant portion of the array.
Electric bills in your area and the metering policy of your local grid can also affect the total cost of a solar system. The best solar panel option for your home will depend on your budget and solar installation cost, roof space, sun exposure and desired energy efficiency. Let's take a look at the main types of panels and what you need to know to be a smart solar shopper.
Knowing about them can help you decide whether to use solar panels in your home. You can get a rough estimate of how many solar panels you'll need based on previous bills, available roof space, and the amount of sunlight in your area, but you'll need to check with your local solar installer to get the exact size of your system. An easy way to answer the question "how many solar panels do I need" is to have a local solar installer inspect your home and provide you with calculations for system size (including number and capacity of panels), cost, and year. savings. a life. Choosing a solar inverter can be a little confusing, so it's best to discuss your specific needs with a local solar contractor.
If you live in an area with high electricity tariffs and adequate solar classification and can afford the initial investment, it is worth installing solar panels in your home while the 26% tax credit is in effect – for the environment and your wallet. Even if you're in an area with a lot of rain or shade, you can still save on your electricity bills. If your area experiences frequent power outages, solar power can keep the lights on. When electrical grids fail, such as during a California power outage in October 2019, solar panels are often insufficient to fully power a home or other facility because they are designed to power the grid and not directly to homes.
Typically, a purchased solar system can be installed at a lower total cost than the installed system using a solar purchase, lease, or credit agreement (PPA). If you'd rather buy your own solar power system, solar loans can lower your initial system costs. Different solar panel installers may offer different funding plans, which gives you some flexibility. Choose the option that best suits your solar level of comfort.
Industry professionals produce polycrystalline solar panels very efficiently as little silicon is wasted in the process. On average, monocrystalline solar panels (the most energy efficient option) cost between $ 1 and $ 1.50 per watt, which means that equipping a 6kW solar panel system (also known as a solar system) costs between $ 6,000 and $ 9,000. Less energy efficient than monocrystalline solar panels, polycrystalline solar panels cost between $ 0.90 and $ 1 per watt, so a 6kW solar panel system equipment will cost between $ 5,400 and $ 6,000, making it a cheaper option.
String inverters are the most common types of inverters used in solar home systems. Micro-inverters offer higher power output but are more expensive than string inverters. Microinverters provide high energy efficiency because the panel on the shaded part of the roof does not block the flow of energy from the solar conversion that takes place inside the panel on the solar part.
Solar panels can be used for a wide variety of purposes, including remote power systems for cabinets, telecommunications equipment, remote sensing, and of course for generating electricity from residential and commercial solar power systems.
So far, the tariff has resulted in an increase of 16 cents per watt for the average consumer, which means a total increase of $ 960 for a six kW system, according to EnergySage.


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