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I would like to suggest a solution to the Brunton legs. Since the gap is only 1.5 mm, use a little bit of epoxy on the stand to build it out and make the Group 2 canisters fit propertly. Or perhaps a little bit of hot glue from a glue gun (haven't tried it, but that might peel off too easily). Or even if you have that rubberization stuff a bit of that on top of the epoxy.
If you had that, you might even work with the Primus one if you want the extra lift it gives and then coat the bottom of the legs too.
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text: ODU Sports Lady Monarchs Fall 2-0 To Tribe In Final Exhibition August 18, 2013 By ODU Athletics Box Score/Play By Play Box Score (PDF) Photo Album NORFOLK, Va. – The Old Dominion University women's soccer team fell to William and Mary 2-0 on Sunday afternoon at the ODU Soccer Complex. This was the second and final exhibition for the Lady Monarchs before regular season play begins. The Tribe got on the scoreboard only four minutes into the game as Aly Shaughnessy played a beautiful lead pass in through the left side to senior Dani Rutter, who was able to put her shot past freshman keeper Meredith Lenox. In the 13th minute, Old Dominion freshman back Thyla Peterson produced a big team save for the Lady Monarchs, as Rutter was able to break free again. ODU's defense held off W&M for the rest of the half. At the half, the Lady Monarchs only allowed William and Mary to take three shots. In the second half, the Tribe's Rutter netted her second goal of the game in the 62nd minute of play to give W&M a 2-0 advantage and ultimately 2-0 win. Rutter's second goal was unassisted and came from just outside the box; a shot that she was able to curl around Lenox into the left side of the net. Lenox protected the net the whole game for the Lady Monarchs and tallied a total of three saves. William and Mary dominated the corner kick count 8-0, as well as shots fired 13-2. The Old Dominion University women's soccer team will begin regular season play on Friday, August 23, at 5 p.m. against La Salle in the opening game of the JMU Tournament in Harrisonburg, Va. Be sure to keep up with all the latest news regarding ODU Women's Soccer on Facebook; as well as follow @ODUWomensSoccer on Twitter!


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Hard data resolves decades-old mystery of how certain zeolites form
April 17, 2006
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The porous, sieve-like minerals known as zeolites have been used for decades in purifiers, filters and other devices. Yet creating and refining a new type of zeolite is still a matter of sophisticated trial and error: no one has been able to figure out exactly how the crystals form, even in the laboratory.
Now, however, a team of chemists, engineers and mathematicians, using some of the most advanced microscopes in the research arsenal, has uncovered new details for the step-by-step evolution from molecular soup to carefully engineered zeolite crystal.
With this knowledge, laboratories may be able to use targeted methods to create zeolites with precisely the crystal sizes and shapes demanded by molecule-specific applications such as chemical sensing.
University of Minnesota chemical engineer Michael Tsapatsis, graduate student and lead author Tracy Davis, and their colleagues report their findings Apr. 17, 2006, online in Nature Materials. The research was supported by several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants from across three Divisions.
Zeolites are familiar to consumers as, say, the white crystals in aquarium filters, or the ion-exchanging workhorses in advanced detergents. But their real economic impact is behind the scenes, where they are critical for extracting various chemical components out of petroleum and its byproducts on an industrial scale.
Zeolites accomplish this feat by trapping and removing specific target chemicals, which makes it easier for companies to purify the chemicals they want. So the challenge for researchers is to tailor a zeolite for each application that traps just the right set of chemicals. Ultimately, their goal is to control the structure, size and shape of the crystals well enough for zeolites to serve as sponges for hydrogen in fuel tanks, channels in next-generation sensors and separation membranes for chemical manufacturing.
"Controlling the growth of a certain crystal structure is difficult because it is done by trial-and-error, or what some critics may call a 'mix, wait and see' approach," said Tsapatsis. Researchers have lacked a clear understanding of nucleation and growth processes that control formation of those zeolites and related organic-inorganic nanostructures, he added.
In an effort to improve that understanding, Tsapatisis and his colleagues have spent more than a year monitoring the growth of zeolites in a laboratory setting, where they could watch the crystal growth process in exquisite detail. Using advanced tools that included a state-of-the-art High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope purchased with NSF support, and a Small Angle X-Ray Scattering System on loan from Anton Paar GmbH of Granz, Austria, the researchers were able to observe changes on the scale of single nanometers (billionths of a meter).
"These are complex structures containing hundreds of atoms per unit cell and their formation is determined largely by kinetics," said Tsapatsis. "Our approach is to slow down the kinetics and exhaustively study the evolution by all techniques available to us."
Ultimately, the researchers hope to develop, validate and improve quantitative mathematical models that describe the complex systems.
The study showed that the zeolites form in a step-by-step, "hierarchical" fashion, with silicon-oxygen nanoparticles forming first. Those particles then aggregate into larger, more complex structures, incorporating other atoms and molecules while still leaving substantial pores and tunnels. Based on their findings, the researchers developed a set of mathematical equations that describe the nucleation and growth process.
"There are essentially unlimited opportunities for these crystals if we can control their pore structure and crystal shape, tailoring designs to specific applications ranging from catalysts to bio-implants," he added.
While laboratory zeolites tend to exist as microcrystal powders, the researchers hope the new insight may help yield larger structures--even layers and thin films--that are perfect for optoelectronics, sensors, and micro-reactors.
"We are already attempting to prepare thin films of the materials to replace energy inefficient separations, like distillation, with membrane separations," said Tsapatsis.
For example, instead of purifying products by heating the starter liquid to a boil and distilling the desired chemicals, the new membrane sieves could achieve the same goal when the fluid simply passes through.
"Membranes made by our current process will cost over $1,000 per square meter - too expensive for widespread use in applications like hydrogen purification and hydrocarbon separations that need thousands of square meters of membrane," said Tsapatsis. "With the mechanistic knowledge we now have we are designing one-step film formation processes that could cost one tenth that amount."
Funding for this work was provided by the NSF Directorate for Engineering Division for Chemical and Transport Systems and the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division for Materials Research and Division for Mathematical Sciences under the following grants: CTS-0103010, CTS-0522518, DMR-0320641, DMR-0212302, DMS-0413864 and support through the NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network.
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In a move to reduce costs and move students more quickly toward graduation, California State University trustees approved a plan Wednesday to limit the number of credits required for most bachelor's degrees.
Most of these majors must set a maximum of 120 semester units by fall 2014. Some, in architecture, landscape architecture, fine arts and music, will be allowed to exceed that limit. Other exceptions must be approved by the chancellor, after consulting with faculty and others.
Cal State leaders have been trying to coax colleges to reduce unit requirements for more than a decade, asking campuses to review degree programs and justify those requiring more than 120 units. Currently, about 81% of programs meet the standard.
But the issue has become more pressing as state funding cuts forced course reductions and enrollment declines. Many universities around the country are studying ways to have students complete bachelor's degrees in four years or are touting their success in getting students to graduate in that time.


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Considering Mugi has been shown to carry just about anything effortlessly (with a big smile), I wouldn't think it out of line for her to push the leaf-like Mio off the stage.
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I've never thought that Megumi would be inserted and remembered by KyoAni. +3 points for her angelic voice, well-matured personality, and her solid admiration as a fan after she graduated in Sakura high. Surprisingly, the tea party was a pleasant addition as well as their first live performance including new music towards the end. As expected from Mio, the lyrics of Pure-pure heart were dreamy and playful but nevertheless, it has the same caliber as Fudepen and Stapler song. 6/2 can't come soon enough.
Anyways, the episode was a fun ride. In this wedding-esque tea party, the lack of groom or partner was somewhat disturbing while Mio was walking down the stage with a wedding music, if I heard it correctly, as a background. Mugi was really happy when Azusa and Mio, stunned with a blank faces, sliced a portion of the cake. Ritsu and Yui were both superb MCs. Mio opened up her thoughts to her growing fan club, and Nodoka had a decent screentime upon granting her simple request. Good stuffs nonetheless.
|2010-05-19, 22:05
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
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What a strange experience watching that.
The fan club tea party... is was so... lame! Painfully lame at parts. And that made it funny.
It was also creepy... and that gave just a bit of an edge to juxtapose the lameness.
I don't think either part by itself would have made for good television. It'd just be creepy or lame. But this combination, this perfect proportions in the mixture, it created a vibe that can only be describe as:
Awk-weird. (Trademarked by Kim Possible)
And it worked. Somehow it got past my cynical defenses, avoided being smothered by my empathy for the embarrassed Mio, and made me chuckle... and I ended up giving this Frankenstein of an episode a 10. How... How did they do that?
I actually liked the poem. I thought the lines were rather good and had a pretty clear message... but then I'm known for writing poor impenetrable poetry myself.
As for why they picked Az-nyan to cut the cake, obviously they decided to bask the Mio mini-me in the glow of the idol so that after graduation the fanclub can shift focus to her and thus still remain supporters of the Light Music Club.
Every band needs one member that all the creepy stalkers and obsessive groupies can focus on. Obviously the other members have elected Mio to fill that post- after all she does it so well. Yui as the other face of the band gets to appeal to the Genki girls and the tomboys, and the guys who prefer that type.
They actually would probably make an effective duo in a real life band as the "faces".
PS: Also, am I the only one thinking that Mio's song writing is maturing a bit? Sure, Pure Pure Heart (or Pure Pure Love as it should probably be translated) is very light and fluffy. But at least it isn't comparing love to office supplies. In fact the lyrics seemed to me to fit right in with some of the cheesier (and successful) songs from Eighties pop. They also seemed closer to the level of the opening and endings in the level of polish.
|2010-05-19, 23:59
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
Well Mio's Poem ran like this (according to Coalguys)
Glittering sugar,
An ingredient for the caramel sauce I mix for you,
Granulated sugar, brown sugar,
Maple, honey, wasabon sugar,
All ingredients for the caramel sauce I mix for you,
My heart is also like caramel sauce
A little burn matters not, for you help make this sauce taste better!
Bottom line : All the sweet stuff the recipient of this poem mixed into her heart made it soft and gooey. And the taste does not matter because she's already in love.
Of course, the risque part is that she's directing the poem at girls, in which USUALLY girls direct stuff like these at the guys they love. Apparently Mugi's rather happy.
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|2010-05-20, 00:07
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I loved this episode. As I did the last one. I can't say that for many of the previous ones. This season is hitting its stride, for me. Or maybe I'm just learning how to appreciate it.
I really like Hikasa Youko (Mio) as a seiyuu right now. I thought she was good in this episode, and I like her as Junko in Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou, too. And she's going to have starring roles in two shows starting this summer: Seitokai no Yakuindomo and Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin.
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Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
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You got it all wrong. The "caramel sauce" in the second and fifth line is Mio's music (fitting considering her lyrics). The 6th line changes the use of caramel sauce to represent Mio's heart or feelings. (Implying that she's a sweet sensitive girl like her music). The fangirls burn the sauce (Mio's heart) because Mio finds them a little scary and creepy. However, she says that that's okay because the fangirls make the sauce (both her music and heart) taste better. Meaning that fangirls increase the fun and feel of being in a band and writing music for real fans makes her music better.
I got that at the first reading. It's as clear a blue sky. How can people not get it?
|2010-05-20, 03:16
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A bunch of recents post have been deleted. If you have issues with other members, bring them on pms. Secondly, you should know the limit between tolerable off topicness and annoying off topicness. That limit here was crossed, and it's the second time in a row after what happened in the episode 6 thread.
Can we please try and behave well? It's for everyone's sake, among other things.
On Topic note: not a bad episode. I just smelt a strong auto-celebration process going on, which in some way spoiled my fun for seeing Mio in all those odd situations. Props for some music though, finally.
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Great episode, good mix of comedy, some development, and nice insert song, so I'd put it only behind episode 5 for the second season so far. The flashback part was surprising well done, and I laughed so bad when Mio's "plan" to break the awkwardness failed so epically.
Cause Pure Pure Heart was easily better than any of the S1 insert songs if you ask me.
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Titanfall and White Xbox One Consoles Rumored for Release
Looks like that Xbox One update we heard about might be coming sooner than we think. According to a new report from The Verge, the update is on track to arrive in March. That would mean improvements to the social connectivity and dashboard would be implemented just in time for Titanfall. As luck would have it, it sounds like Microsoft's plans around Titanfall don't end there either.
The Verge also reported a white-colored Xbox One is expected to come out sometime in October. If you recall, a similar model was given to Microsoft employees who worked on the Xbox prior to its release. Microsoft is also said to be experimenting with an Xbox One that runs without a disk drive. This "digital" Xbox One could coincide with a new, upcoming version of the system believed to have 1TB of storage. A Titanfall-oriented Xbox One system is also expected to debut with the game's release date of March 11.
Getting a new SKU of the Xbox One wouldn't be surprising given how many different variations of the Xbox 360 were released, but having a new themed model arrive so soon after launch is something we haven't seen before. It's actually a little surprising (and disappointing) that a specially designed Xbox One might be hitting the market this March. We're not going to hold our breath for the disc-less model, but for all intents and purposes, these other editions sound pretty feasible. Now we just have to wait and see if these reports pan out.


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Local business owner Kenneth Gordon Lolley is facing more child sexual abuse charges after an investigation determined he may have inappropriately touched the private parts of another underage girl.
Lolley, 73, of Hood River, was charged by information with nine counts of first-degree sexual abuse in Hood River County Circuit Court Dec. 19. According to court documents, Lolley, who owns KV Pottery Studio on Tucker Road, is accused of eight instances of touching the genitals of girl less than 14 years old and one instance of touching her breasts. Documents show the touching allegedly occurred multiple times throughout the period of March to September 2013.
With the new charges, Lolley is now facing 14 counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Lolley was originally arrested for five counts of first-degree sexual abuse on Dec. 12 after a Hood River County Sheriff's investigation yielded two female victims between the ages of 8 and 10 who accused Lolley of similar touching. Deputy District Attorney Carrie Rasmussen reported during Lolley's Dec. 13 arraignment that the defendant "teaches pottery classes to both children and adults and we believe that … many young folks have been exposed to Mr. Lolley in the Hood River area."
This is not the first time Lolley has been charged with a crime of a sexual nature. In January 1989, he was arrested for two counts of public indecency after "exposing himself and masturbating" in front of two underage girls as they walked to their school bus stop, according to Rasmussen. Hood River County Circuit Court archives show Lolley pleaded guilty to one of the charges and was sentenced to three years probation, had to pay miscellaneous fines, and was subject to "100 years community service work," although this is most certainly a typo.
Lolley, however, did not have to register as a sexual offender in 1989 — the same year Oregon started its registry. Jeff Clabaugh, manager of the Oregon State Police's sexual offender registry, said that an act of public indecency, even involving children, did not warrant inclusion in the registry back in 1989 and still does not today.
Lolley was originally housed at the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility in The Dalles on $200,000. The court honored a request from Rasmussen during the Dec. 19 hearing to raise Lolley's bail to $300,000 in light of the new charges. Brian Starns, counsel for the defendant, said during a Dec. 30 status hearing on the case that he intended "in the near future" to file a formal written request for bail addressing "whether the bail as currently set is constitutional."
The next court appearance for Lolley is scheduled to occur no later than Jan. 9.
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I am always interested in reading about other mothers who are drawn to ultra endurance events, how they got there, how they train, and what challenges they face. I think it would be very COOL to run an ultra with one of my kids or be on an adventure race team with them, and my husband. Talk about family fun (or not!).
This week was a cut back week, since I had been training hard with three weeks at 70+ mpw out of the last four. I am getting a feel for what my body can handle, when I need a day off (usually Thursday after Wednesday's sufferfest tempo runs), and when I need to replace running with swimming (today, after a tough runs on Friday and Saturday and a long day at my daughter's swim meet). Being successful at Grindstone is going to mean getting to the start line in good shape---NOT overtrained or nursing an injury, so I remind myself of that when I am feeling flat or sore. This week was a great week to take it easy.
Monday, July 21: OFF. No swimming, no running, no lifting. Recover from the long weekend of training.
Tuesday, July 22: 7 miles easy on trail, HR below 120.
Wednesday, July 23: 3 miles warm up, then 5 miles at 7:20 pace on rolling dirt roads, then easy jog over to power lines. I then ran three repeats of the power lines (1:10 up, 3 minutes recovery to the bottom). Then 1 mile cool down. Total miles: 10
Thursday, July 24: 5 miles easy on trail, HR below 120.
Friday, July 25: Carter's Mountain! This is a very tough and historic run, a perfect "Tour Of Charlottesville" for someone new to the area who might want a killer hill workout. First, I ran easy on the Saunders trail for about a mile up to the Carter's Mountain Orchard Rd. Then I ran steady (HR 135-140) to the top for 13 minutes (it's about a mile to the top). Then easy running down, focusing on leaning forward from my ankles---Chi running-- to the boardwalk up to Monticello. Turn around at the Monticello bridge, then cut across a fire road down to the parking area. Then climb up the mountain again, this time on sweet single track to the top (another 13 minutes of climb), then descend to Secluded Farm, a gorgeous piece of land donated to Monticello, with miles of mowed grassy trails. Total miles: 8.6, with about 3500 feet of climb.
Saturday, July 26: 16 miles with the marathon training group. This group meets weekly at different spots around town for their long runs. Most runners are training for Richmond and Marine Corps, though some are also training for Baltimore and Mt Desert Island in Maine (Bill). I like to jump in with the group every now and then. On this day they were running a gravel road 7.5 miles out and back, and I added an extra mile to make it 16. I decided to just run as I felt...easy, not breathe too hard, and see what happened. To my delight, I was clicking off 8-minute miles with no problems, and my second half all my splits were in the 7:30 range. I ended up running this course about 4 minutes faster than I have ever run it, and I felt like I was doing an easy run the entire time. Very encouraging!
Sunday, July 27: Swim and lift. Total for the week, about 48 miles. Next week calls for 77 miles and my first track workout!!


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|2004-05-07, 06:39
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Age: 33
How u Know that....u saw Volume 11?
|2004-05-07, 14:20
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s e m p i t e r n a l
Asuka installations that haven't been collected into a tankoubon yet. ^^;
And Risa gets a bit more "screentime" in volume 10 and the proceeding chapters, but Riku has been the more dominant twin (and the favorite twin for a landslide since forever) for a while now so Ionno, maybe Sugisaki-sensei is doing it for balance? o.o
|2004-05-08, 03:50
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Aww, I'm liking the balance. Now my Risa-chan gets more facetime (she eerily reminds me of Souma Kagura from Fruits Basket...)~
But the omake with Riku-chan (in the May Asuka installment) was f.u.n.n.y. She's quite a gutsy gal.
|2004-05-08, 07:08
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lol i like the gutsy type, especially in twins, have you noticed that there's always the active one and the more feminine one??? and i tend to go for the active one, GO RIKU-SAN!!!! but maybe if i read d.n angel now and if risa is not the lil ditz (sorry key...can't find another word to describe it ) she was in the beginning of d.n. angel, well...maybe...i will start accepting her... just maybe, heehee
|2004-05-08, 17:28
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D.N.Angel vol. 1 is already in stores, Mika-san... o.o
Volume 2 should be coming out soon, this month or next, I think. I haven't bought the English versions, really... I saw it in stores and nearly passed out. x.x They really mucked it up when they had everyone call everyone by their given name instead of just translating what was on the page. *fume fume*
|2004-05-18, 08:17
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Motto motto...ne?
When I was Japan last Dec, I found D.N.Angel vol 10 in the one of the bookstore there in Nagoya. Apparently vol. 11 is nowhere to be found. I wanted to ask the salesgirl for vol 11 but I have a plane to catch but I'm sure vol 11 will be out soon...I hope^^.
|2004-11-02, 09:14
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[QUOTE=Rasengan]Sorry to bump this old thread. But has anyone read DNAngel up to volume 9-10? I just have one question, does umm, Dark actually like Risa now? Because I would really not want that to happen. Since Satoshi seems to like her, and that is already pissing me off, now Dark too?!... Doesn't Dark like Riku...? (I hate Risa, because she's so feminin and seem to think the world revolves around her, I like Riku alot better).
well,dark will not like Risa as he is not a human being and he was just saying good bye to her.Also,dark has to leave daisuke one day as he will have to destory krad to prevent him from opening the gate of darkness.well,i am more anxious to see if riku will find out the truth bbetween dark and daisuke.
|2004-11-02, 15:43
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Actually, it seems as though Dark is beginning to develop some sort of feelings for Risa in the manga (Daisuke notices this as well). No one can say for sure whether or not it's love (which is highly doubt, but at least he's beginning to feel something for her)--and if it is, whether or not it's really Risa that he loves--but they did share quite a few sweet moments in volume 10. The confession, Risa's answer to Dark's question (that was apparently eating away at him?), and the close of their somewhat-relationship.
But Sugisaki-sensei's been so busy working on Lagoon Engine that she hasn't had too much time for D.N.Angel lately.
|2004-11-02, 16:25
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Rewrite of the Life
I was a fan of the DN Ngel Manga even tho I couldn't find any scans 0_0
I then found out about Lagoon Engine ^-^ I love that manga too I know what its all about and characters but I can't find scans 0_o ...
DN Angel anime I heard isn't as good as the manga, that ususually happens book is better than the movie/animation.
|2004-11-29, 04:15
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Join Date: Jan 2004
I purchase DNangel ( volume 1 ) from Amazon.com . i love it...it was fun to read .
But now am upset cause I cant seem to get my hands on a copy of any of the new release ones at Amazon
so does amazon have them or should I search for another source
|2004-12-02, 01:14
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Toronto
Licensing usually means english (western language) licensing.
Technically, fansubbing is illegal, since the original japanese company has the rights.
Luckily, japanese companies don't care that much for english audiences enjoying their anime.
(I mean, they are trying to promote their culture)
[heh... some conspiricy theorists even say that it's a new for of japanese invasion tactic.]
Unfortunately, if you ask for an licensed anime, it cuts directly into the licensed company's profits.
Thus, problems arise...
Now, for legal links to D.N. Angel:
|2006-11-30, 17:51
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
This has been bugging me for a long while now: Does anybody have any idea when the next volume of DNAngel is getting released in Japan? Volume 11 came out way back in August of '05, and I still can't find any word on volume 12. >.>
|2006-12-13, 18:15
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wolverhampton, UK
Age: 31
aparently it ends at volume 11 for now
i dunno if thats true or not but i hope it isn't.. i started the anime to see if i could see more goings on between riku and daisuke
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The No Shampoo method is similar to the No Poo method, and it is a grooming approach for curly men in which shampoo is reduced in frequency. Rogelio gives you our modified no poo guide for manly curls!
"No poo, you don't won't go to the loo, fool".
That could very well be the slogan for an anti-diarrhoeal drug but, at Manly Curls, we are not here to discuss scatological topics, so the "no poo" I'm about to bring you is something that you will actually benefit from reading, hair-wise that is.
Truth is, if you are not a bit of a hair geek like myself, you will not have heard of the term "no poo". No poo, or the no poo/no shampoo method, refers to an approach in which one doesn't shampoo on a daily basis so as to keep one's hair looking good and well-groomed. If you are a Manly Curls dude, you will know by now that yours truly has been knocking down the conventional men's grooming dogma of daily shampooing ever since he went on a manly mission to "curlicious" locks. If, on the other hand, you are new to my site, then I welcome you to read my 30 day natural hair experiment as well as my article on all about using shampoo to get an idea of what I am talking about. Oh, and I have just made up on the spot the term "curlicious" as a portmanteau for well-groomed curly hair (curly & delicious). Poo? Not shampooing? Curlicious?
Not freaked out yet? Good, continue reading.
Curlicious donuts you have there, my friend
In all seriousness now, not shampooing daily (i.e. no poo/no shampoo method) or altogether not using shampoo has a following, believe it or not. What's more is that not shampooing your hair daily has an actual solid basis supporting it. You see, your scalp has thousands of hair follicles (the tiny pockets from which hair grows from) and each hair follicle has a little gland next to it which secretes a special type of oil known as sebum. If you hadn't already deduced it, this aforementioned gland is called a sebaceous gland and it has an essential role in keeping your hair shiny and strong. The goal of this gland is to secrete sebum so that your hair is coated with a thin film of the oil, strengthening the hair strands.
Conventional shampoos, being the good detergents that they are, literally wash away the sebum from your hair which means that, each time you shampoo your hair, you are removing this precious natural oil which is essential to good hair health. What is a conventional shampoo? One that contains a sulfate-based ingredient, most commonly sodium lauryl sulfate, or in other words, most commercial shampoos available to us men.
Notice above how the hair follicle has a sebaceous gland next to it (purple sack)
Source: http://training.seer.cancer.gov/
Now, before I dig into the details, I will tell you that no poo/no shampoo has a bit of a semantic discrepancy. Some purists will say that no poo means completely avoiding shampoos (sulfate or sulfate-free) to clean one's hair while others are more lax in their definition of no poo and do include conventional shampooing, albeit with any lower frequency than a daily one. It really becomes a mess and there are forums dedicated to discussing the semantics of no poo and the likes; furthermore, I find the word "poo" both stupid and confusing to newcomers to the hair care world as it is my belief that hair care and hair grooming should be made as simple as possible, for we ain't talking about performing a brain-aneurism surgical repair.
The above paragraph is why I have decided to simply call what is to follow our No Shampoo method; a method that is based around the premise of not using shampoo daily and finding one's optimal shampooing frequency. Funky names aside, ingrain in your brain what I have just emphasized in bold because you can call it whatever you want but the point is to find your optimal shampoo frequency, which will vary from one dude to another. In fact, one's optimal shampoo frequency could be "absolutely no shampoo ever", sure, but many men find that they do need a conventional shampoo somehow in there, if anything out of convenience, although in much lower frequencies than the daily frequency of conventional hair grooming dogma. For what is worth, this actual method that you're about to learn is one I learnt (and coined) some years ago as I realized how shampooing every day would make my curly hair uber frizzy while, on the other hand, shampooing every 3 days actually made my hair look much, much better. Thus, this method has already been tried by yours truly and quite a few other poor souls who accepted my experimenting on their hair.
Before I continue, let's make a quick stop and ensure that we are all still on the same page.
- Our No Shampoo method is a method to grooming one's hair by shampooing with a lower frequency than daily
- Our No Shampoo method is an approach that benefits hair as it allows for better sebum coating of the hair strands
- Shampoo removes the scalp sebum which is secreted by some tiny glands located next to the hair follicles and you want a good amount of sebum coating your mane for best hair looks
The questions is now: why would I want to go no poo/no shampoo and stop shampooing my hair? What's in it for me? Well, you can expect the following benefits if you followthe No Shampoo method:
1) Your hair will be less dry
If you ask me, this is reason enough to go no poo/no shampoo. Dry curly hair equates frizzy hair which equates not so cool looking curly locks. By dropping shampoo frequency, you give your hair strands a chance to be coated by sebum, which will pave the way to less dry and more moisturized hair. I know it sounds girly but moisture is your ally as a curly haired man.
2) Less tangles and knots
As your locks are covered in sebum, they will become smoother. Couple that with a good hair routine and you are talking Adrian Grenier mane-awesomeness level. Smoother locks equate less tangles and knots, this being a big problem for men in the higher end curly hair types (III-V), especially when hair reaches medium length and beyond.
3) Better looking hair
Moisturized hair + tangle-free hair equates better looking hair. That simple, folks.
4) You get to know your hair
It may sound silly, but I always stress curly dudes to get to know their curls. No, I am not talking about dedicating a daily segment of your hidden personal diary to them (what, you don't have a personal diary hidden in the closet…?), I am talking about actually knowing how your curls behave naturally. With the No Shampoo method, you actually get to know how your hair behaves under several scenarios. That's cool's in my "personal diary" book.
5) Less crap gets absorbed by your body
Simply put, the less funky-named ingredients you expose your body to, the better. By doing the No Shampoo method you will be cutting by half, straight away, the amount of chemicals you stress your scalp with. And that's only if you shampoo every other day. Moreover, the detergent action of shampoos can cause irritation in some men's scalp when shampoos are used daily and I have seen some great cases of dandruff being tamed by going no poo/no shampoo.
This is the sort of curlicious results you can expect on your hair by finding your optimal shampooing frequency
Still with me? The above beach party picture hasn't scared you away? Cool.
Let's now look at how to do the No Shampoo method for men. It consists of 3 essential keys:
1) Drop shampoo frequency slowly
Ease into no shampoo, do not make the mistake of altogether stopping shampoo use. Your scalp is used to daily shampooing so don't swing to the other extreme of totally avoiding shampoo. This is how you drop your shampoo frequency:
- Skip a shampoo day for the next two weeks, so you are shampooing every other day or what I call 1 on/1 off
- Reassess after the 2 weeks. Is your hair still looking dry and you have only noticed mild cosmetic benefits? Introduce another non-shampoo day so that now you do 1 on/2 off for the next 2 weeks. If, instead, your hair is looking much better, 1 on/1 off is your optimal frequency though you can also try 1 on/2 off to see if it works even better
- Reassess after the 2 weeks (4 weeks by now since you started). Hair still looking dry? Add another off day (1 on/3 off). Hair looking great? Stay on 1 on/2 off. Hair started to look a bit greasy? Go back to 1 on/1 off and stay at it for 4 weeks. Reassess again after 4 weeks and try 1 on/2 off again.
See the pattern? You introduce an extra non-shampoo day every 2 weeks until you find your optimal frequency. This is key. From my experience, curly haired men benefit from 1 on/1 off all the way to once a week. I've seen a few exceptions but the vast majority of men, regardless of hair type, fall within this shampoo frequency range, it's just a matter of experimenting as I stated above. As a rule of thumb, the higher end your hair type is (think coils and kinks), the lower your optimal shampooing frequency will be. I do once a week for most of my time, and I have some beastly coils and kinks protruding off my head.
2) Use your fingers to help the sebum travel
Sebum has a hard time travelling across your hair strands, so use your fingers to help the sebum reach all the way to the tips. I have termed this the Sebum Coating method and it is performed when you soak your hair in the shower on your non-shampooing days.
The Sebum Coating method is done by grabbing one lock of hair at a time and running your fingers gently from the root of the hair (i.e. scalp) all the way to the tip (i.e. end), while water from the shower bulb is running on the lock. You run your fingers once and make sure you use lukewarm water for the Sebum Coating method. For the record and since many people have asked, part of why my curls still looked good by the end of the 30 day natural hair experiment was precisely because I stressed this method, so run those fingers on your lustrous locks, it will pay off greatly.
3) Use an alternative to a conventional shampoo
This is where I leave it up to you. On your shampoo days, you can go with a sulfate-free shampoo or instead use a conventional sulfate-based shampoo. If you use a sulfate-free shampoo, bear in mind that you will have to increase your shampoo frequency a bit, as sulfate-free shampoos are weaker in their detergent action than conventional shampoos. And just in case you don't know how to discern a sulfate-based shampoo from a sulfate-free shampoo, basically just about all shampoos (i.e. commercial/conventional) are sulfate based whereas those shampoos that are "sulfate free" will state so very clearly in the label. Just like I recommend in my book, The Curly Hair Book: Or How Men Can Now Rock Their Waves, Coils and Kinks, you are better off starting your quest to find your optimal shampooing frequency with a sulfate-based shampoo, and, once you have obtained said optimal shampooing frequency, switch shampoos if you feel like trying another one.
On non-shampooing days, you can either use a conventional conditioner to provide some cleaning to your hair (conditioners have a weak cleaning action) or you can use natural alternatives. I have had success with diluted lemon juice as well as baking soda (one table spoon per glass) and diluted vinegar (with two parts water); for the baking soda and vinegar method, simply use the baking soda first, then the vinegar. You can also not use anything on your non-shampooing days; just do the Sebum Coating method (remember, the Sebum Coating method is always done on your non-shampooing days!). It comes down to preference, but the point remains, you will only use shampoo as per your newly-found optimal frequency while at least doing the Sebum Coating method on your off days!
Troy Polamalu and I agree, conventional shampoos make our curls way too frizzy and dry!
Our No Shampoo method is a great way to allow your hair to naturally do what it is intended to do. By managing your shampooing frequency, you allow your hair to benefit from the coating of sebum your scalp produces while allowing for the removal of excess sebum in a timely manner. As you effectively find out your optimal shampooing frequency, you will end up with smoother, more-moisturized curls, which will ultimately look better, and all while actually cutting down your use of shampoo. It really could not be any more convenient!
All the best.
P.S: the No Shampoo method is explain in depth in both my books, The Curly Hair Book and The Men's Hair Book. The No shampoo method is key in your quest for great-looking curly hair, so you really must optimize this part of your hair management!


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Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen should stop dragging his feet and cover the exorbitant medical bill a Sprague man who suffered a heart attack and is saddled with a $118,000 medical bill after he was taken to a U.S. hospital, NDP health critic Matt Wiebe said today. He's also refusing to say whether he will do anything to prevent other Manitobans from ending up with the same unfair burden due to a health crisis, Wiebe added.
"Unconscious and at death's door, a doctor ordered Robin Milne to be transferred to a hospital in North Dakota to receive life-saving treatment," Wiebe said. "But the Pallister government has left him in the lurch, refusing to cover the massive cost of his treatment. This is a shameless abdication of responsibility by this government."
Mr. Milne suffered a heart attack in his home in Sprague on Oct. 2, 2016. As per standard practice, he was taken by ambulance to a health clinic in Roseau, Minnesota. A doctor there tried to arrange transportation to St. Boniface hospital in Winnipeg, where doctors were on standby to operate.
When no transportation could be arranged within a safe timeframe and because of his serious condition, the Minnesota doctor transferred Mr. Milne to Grand Forks, N.D, where doctors saved his life. The Grand Forks hospital sent Mr. Milne a bill for $118,000, which the province has refused to cover, even though Mr. Milne had no choice in the matter.
"The stress of recovering from a major heart attack, compounded by crippling medical bills has been wearing down Mr. Milne and his family for months. He has written to the health minister, shared all of his medical files but has not heard back from the health minister. Why not?"
Manitoba has a reciprocal arrangement with several Minnesota hospitals, called the Altru agreement, that covered Mr. Milne's medical bills in that state, but there is no such arrangement with North Dakota hospitals.
"The health minister has refused to release the Altru agreement. Nor will say whether he will try to expand it to other U.S. hospitals where Manitobans living close to the border could be sent to. Instead, the Pallister government demands citizens like Mr. Milne buy private health insurance to cover the possibility of a heart attack or any other health ailment that may require transfer to a facility in the U.S.," Wiebe said. "This is incompetent. What imaginary company sells such a policy? The Minister should at long last do the right thing and cover Mr. Milne's medical costs."


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We had an opportunity to sit down with green building consultant Carl Seville, also known as the Green Building Curmudgeon for his no-nonsense look at green building and remodeling. Carl just published the textbook GREEN BUILDING: Principles and Practices in Residential Construction and is working on the new LEED for Homes Guide. We jump into the the quickly evolving world of green home construction and fly over the many local and national green building programs he has worked with. Fresh from speaking at the RaterFest Conference in the Colorado Rockies, he gives us a sometimes surprisingly optimistic look at better home construction.
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Inhabitat: Carl you seem like a pretty nice guy, so how did you come up with the term Green Building Curmudgeon and does that really describe you?
Carl Seville: Well on one level it does. I find that I like to complain about things. I get very frustrated with people who are so positive about everything, like you run into people at the US Green Building Council or National Association of Home Builders and they're just accolades and everything is wonderful and you know, nothing is wonderful. Everything's got issues and so the whole idea of being The Green Curmudgeon, it was a combination of Frank DeFord's Sports Curmudgeon, which is a sports character, which he does on NPR, and Lewis Black who is my favorite comedian. I desired to be a combination of those two people.
It's just the idea of being able to be critical about things in somewhat of a humorous way and get people thinking differently. And the logo I came up with is the earth with a screw driven through it, which is just sort of my attitude that I keep working at it but there's a piece of me that believes we're sort of beyond hope. We've already gone over the edge. I'm doing the best I can to pull us back in, but it's not really working.
Inhabitat: Have you gotten a lot of mileage from that?
Carl Seville: Oh yeah, all the time. It's "You're The Green Curmudgeon." Actually just today at the presentation at the end, I said, "Oh, and I'm The Green Curmudgeon," and one guy who I'd been talking to all weekend, he goes, "I didn't know you were The Green Curmudgeon." It's pretty funny. In the blog, every once in a while I'll really hit a nerve and it will really go pretty viral, but some of them are just interesting stories and observations on things.
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Inhabitat: Well let's talk about one of your most popular, Should Batt Insulation be Outlawed? which you got a huge response from.
Carl Seville: Yeah, including a nasty letter from the Vice President of the North American Insulation Manufacturer's Association. It wasn't quite a threat, but it was close. The post was about the fact that batt insulation, not just fiberglass but any batt insulation, is generally not installed very well, including recycled jeans and wool, all sort of stuff. The method of installing insulation is very difficult and what happens is batts are very cheap and people install them very quickly and cheaply so they appear to be much less expensive than other products. But if you actually installed it right and installed it per the manufacturer's instruction and installed with all the air barriers that the manufacturer's instructions suggest you install with them, it's really about the same price as any other insulation. But it's just this lowest common denominator and if you think about it, the building codes and the energy codes require things to be installed to manufacturer specifications. Manufacturer specifications call for high quality, grade one insulation, which means no gaps, no compression and that never happens. Since batt insulation is an inherently challenging product to install, I just suggested that maybe we not sell it and that it made people crazy, which was actually kind of fun. I like that.
I think 75 or 80 percent, maybe even more new homes use batt insulation. It's just so many homes are just sort of basic, built as cheaply as possible and then even as you get into higher quality homes where people understand and want high performance. They're often going for the finishes, the granite countertops, the fancy exterior finishes, the size, and the things like the energy performance fall by the wayside. It's pretty common. I mean I've seen lots of big, fancy houses, people paid a lot of money for them and they have terrible insulation.
Inhabitat: So for home construction in the last five years, has it changed much since the 'housing bubble'?
Carl Seville: Well I think what's interesting is when I first got into green building in 2000, the market was good. A lot of people decided green building, high performance building is good. A lot of builders and some remodelers got into it and the market was good enough that they could build it into their pricing and make money out of it. Since the collapse, I think what happened was a lot of people who were building green are gone or scaled back. A lot of them who are building green, the flexibility they had in their budgets just don't exist so a lot of people dropped it. So green building is I think struggling in a lot of cases. It's an interesting kind of cross because just as the market demand started happening, the economy tanked, so the consumer interest was there but the value of the homes wasn't there.
I think it's starting to come back and there's this other interesting congruence is that building codes, energy codes are getting better. There was this whole issue with the stimulus money; any state that took stimulus money had to agree to meet the 2009 energy code I think by 2014 or something. There's a real push to bring energy codes up, so the energy codes are getting very good and they're actually starting to exceed some green building programs, even though it's just the energy part. It's a very interesting little juggle of up and down and everybody is kind of leapfrogging trying to keep up with everybody else. So green building itself is still struggling in terms of homes.
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A couple of really bright areas is multifamily, particularly affordable multifamily because I know in Georgia where I live and in many other states, all affordable housing or the vast majority of affordable housing is green because the low income housing tax credits are closely tied to high performance building. They designed it, specifically in Georgia, but in lots of other states they designed that the QAP's, the Qualified Allocation Plans, for these subsidized housing projects, they only make sense if they are green certified.
Inhabitat: What about consumers now that there's so much more 'awareness' about what green building is? Do you think that they're pushing harder for their contractors and architects to include it?
Carl Seville: I think it depends on the market. The demand is sort of erratic in the southeast. I think most trends tend to move west to east and so I think there's a lot more going on in the west coast.
Inhabitat: Would you get in trouble saying that by folks on the east coast?
Carl Seville: No, no, every trend moves from west to east. Seattle had the coffee shops and then they came to the east. I actually remember talking to my sister in California once and this was years ago and she goes, "Do you have these wrap sandwich shops all over town?" I said, "No." A year later, they're everywhere. They just…any trend on the west coast ends up on the east coast.
There's consumer interest, but I think what tends to happen with most people, the vast majority, is it ultimately comes down to dollars. They want the house, they want the house where they want it, the size the want it, with the features they want and the vast majority the green tends to fall to the bottom; the high performance tends to fall to the bottom. They're going to buy the granite; they're going to buy the deck.
The good thing is that buildings are tending to get built better and as people are living in high performance, multifamily green, multifamily buildings, as those people start moving into houses, I think they're going in with an understanding of what the value is. You know it's frustrating that it's not moving faster, but a piece of me thinks it means job security. It's like people are going to continue to need my help for years to come.
Inhabitat: You're a consultant for certifying green homes, so on green rating systems right now, do you think they are robust enough?
Carl Seville: Well it's interesting because they're in this incredible state of flux. Let's start with Energy Star, which has moved to version 3.0. The agreement in the industry tends to be that it was a little bit too much, a little bit too fast, and the timing was terrible. It's good, it's very good stuff, but it's a big leap but it's been really hard for people to adjust. The problem is primarily the heating and air conditioning part of it. Energy Star 3 requires contractors to be trained and certified and we're not really sure there's that much value in the training and certification because of the way it's being put together. These guys do need training and certification, but the particular stuff Energy Star put together isn't necessarily that good. Then within the program requirements for testing and balancing all the ducts, testing all the air flows, it's stuff that is really hard to do in residential projects.
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Inhabitat: Green rating systems really starting with a prescriptive basis, do you think that approach is still valid?
Carl Seville: You know I got into this in about 2001 so I didn't have much experience with prescriptive rating systems. I started out with Earthcraft, which was kind of a split prescriptive. They had certain minimal requirements but also required a HERS rating, so you had to hit a certain HERS score and then do a number of things so it was really more of a performance program. Earthcraft recently rolled out their latest version, which was they did a big change in 2011 which is pretty stringent and also hit a time when the market is kind of struggling, but they had to keep up to stay ahead of energy codes. It's still a good, solid program, doing very strong in multifamily. They do single family renovations, which are kind of slow right now, and they're moving into a light commercial program that they think will have a lot of traction because it's a much less expensive way to certify small, commercial building, whereas LEED tends to get really costly at that scale. So Earthcraft is there and then LEED for Homes is going through its reiteration.
Inhabitat: How is LEED for Homes changing?
Carl Seville: They rearranged it to align with the commercial program. Certain things and points are now requirements. They've added some stuff and they've made some changes that are very good. They've totally aligned it with Energy Star version 3.0, which is probably good and appropriate for LEED and simplifies some of the things that were just extras and all of the make work that really didn't serve any purpose. And I think overall it's pretty good. I think they're trying to simplify some of the administrative problems that the earlier program had, but it's going to be a big jump up although there'll be an overlap. The current version and the new version are going to both be in place for a couple of years.
Inhabitat: What do you think of more pure performance-based standards like Passive House?
Carl Seville: It's funny; I think Passive House is interesting. I know Katrin Klingenberg, Executive Director of Passive House Institute US. I like her. I think she's done some really cool stuff. I think Passive House is a little nutty. I mean I look at it and it's like, 'oh you want 14 inches of insulation?' I don't know enough about it to be really critical of it and I think she's actually doing some good stuff in terms of realizing that where it was developed in Europe was a fairly consistent climate and the US just has way too many climate zones. I think she's probably making the right changes with it and I guess she made a good move that they're going to pull any of the foams with high global warming potential out of the program.
Inhabitat: That's much more of a prescriptive thing, which was also controversial because many passive house advocates wanted a pure performance type of standard and all of a sudden these prescriptions are starting to trickle in.
Carl Seville: I think all of these program should be a combination of prescriptive and performance. I think purely performance doesn't necessarily make sense and I think purely prescriptive doesn't make sense. I think some hybrid. I think setting some base levels. As an example, I have clients that compare programs and interestingly enough, one of the options now in multifamily is Energy Star version 3.0 or Earthcraft, at least in my region in the southeast, or LEED and Earth Craft has certain minimum requirements, like for heating and air conditioning efficiencies and things like that and if you go below them, you cannot get certified. Energy Star has a very challenging energy model. LEED for Homes right now, from an energy standpoint, is one of the easiest programs. Right now LEED for Homes is basically focused on Energy Star version 2.0, whereas most other programs have pushed up to Energy Star 3.0 or at least something close to Energy Star 3.0.
Inhabitat: How do you visualize that we shift away from the current bad practices in the industry and especially the use of materials and consumption of resources in general that we do with housing?
Carl Seville: Oh, the earth is screwed. Well there's two ways to look at it. From an energy standpoint, I think code adoption and code enforcement because truthfully the 2009 energy code and we're moving to the 2012 soon is pretty damn good. I mean if you actually do everything in the code you get a pretty good house.
The other piece of it, resource efficiency, water efficiency, things like that, that's an education thing and I think we're kind of…a chunk of our country is still in the Hummer society. They want what they want and even if building higher performing homes, greener homes, doesn't require sacrifice, if people perceive it to require sacrifice, they're going to…look where we are politically. We're just totally polarized and the right is just off their rocker in one direction and the far left, which there is very little of, they're a little bit off their rocker in the other direction.
Libertarians and right-wingers aren't willing to sacrifice much of anything and the Democrats and the liberals are so moderate right now. I grew up with the left wing was pretty liberal, was pretty radical and it swung way to the right. So the lefts are the moderates now and they're getting better but they're somewhat afraid of their own shadow and they're not going to start complaining and demanding things of conservatives and libertarians for a while.
Inhabitat: So we have to market ourselves out of this?
Carl Seville: Exactly, we have to convince people that it's the right thing to do, that they will get benefits, convince people of the benefits of doing these things.
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Inhabitat: Let's talk about your book a little bit. Green Building Principles and Practices looks to be pretty technically oriented. You have a lot of information in there.
Carl Seville: Yeah, it was designed as a college textbook for undergraduates and graduate schools, architecture, engineering, building construction, and it's sort of a steps through roughly construction sequence all of the things that are involved with putting together a green building. It's not every step, but it gives you all the options to consider and how they all interrelate and I think that's the key thing we tried to point out, that building a green building, a good building, a high performance building is carefully planning it from the beginning and then making sure that everything is done right. You make all the right decisions throughout the process and then each decision…the kind of foundation you put in affects all the other decisions through the building.
There's no green building GPS- it does not self-correct. If you make a wrong decision, if your first decision is wrong and your next 15 decisions are right, you could still be going the completely wrong direction, so you need to make all the right decisions from the very beginning.
Inhabitat: When you're on a building site how do you get people to look at it more closely and change the way they approach their methodology?
Carl Seville: Well it depends on what your position is on the operation. Like I'm working on a house where the guy is building a house and he hired me to be his consultant and to certify his LEED house and the builder, he's an okay builder. He doesn't really understand high performance building, but he's very receptive and it happens to be around the corner from my house, so it's convenient. I can swing by…literally it's like two blocks away so I can swing by there. I've had to go back and reinspect things multiple times because he's trying, but I go back and I pull some stuff out and I say, "See, look behind this. See where…" and he gets it and he appreciates it. I remember this as a contractor, you sort of rely on your subcontractors to do things and he didn't know enough to know that his subcontractors were giving him substandard work.
Inhabitat: So you had to be there to train him and he then trains the subcontractors?
Carl Seville: Yeah and this house is definitely way better than it would have been, so I think he's learning and I think he's kind of getting that it's not a ton of extra work. It's just doing the work right in the first place. That's really what it comes down to.


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Today's Babe of the Day is Christine Mendoza. She may be a retired model, but she's got looks that just don't quit.
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Virginia Barendt, 77, of Grand Forks, N.D. died Friday, December 28, 2012 at the Valley Eldercare, Grand Forks, N.D.
Virginia Barendt, 77, of Grand Forks, N.D. died Friday, December 28, 2012 at the Valley Eldercare, Grand Forks, N.D.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m., Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at the Holy Family Catholic Church, Grand Forks. Visitation will be one hour before services at the church.
Virginia Barendt was born February 21, 1935 in Devils Lake, N.D., the daughter of James and Leona (Wruck) Hennessy. She grew up in Devils Lake and graduated from Devils Like Central High School in 1952. She worked in Devils Lake as a switchboard operator. She married Gerald Barendt in Devils Lake on October 14, 1954. They farmed for a number of years in Webster, N.D. area. She moved to Devils Lake in 1981 where she worked at the Good Samaritan Nursing Center. She moved to Grand Forks in 1997 where she worked at Skips Budget Drug and Red River High School in the commons area.
She is survived by three children, David Barendt of Grand Forks, Kathy Barendt of Harrah, Okla. and Sue Hach of Grand Forks; 10 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren; siblings, Leslee Smart, Wendy (Garry) Rahn and James (Cheryl) Smart, all of Grand Forks.
She is preceded in death by her parents, step-father Lester Smart, and son Guy Barendt in 1999.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred. To sign the online guestbook go to www.danddahlfuneralhome.com .
Dahl Funeral Home, East Grand Forks, Minn., is in charge of arrangements.


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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy New Year!!!
Time to say goodbye to 2012 and welcome in 2013! Last year was quite a year for us both good and not so good, but isn't that just how life is? As the years pass and I gain more wisdom, I have become so much more accepting of the things that I can and cannot change and I am at peace with that. Last night we celebrated with our traditional New Year's Eve Fondue Party! The kids just love it and it's now looked forward to each and every year. This year we added a few new items to dip into the chocolate including potato chips and boy was that a hit!
Over the past several days I have been busy working on taking down all the holiday decorations and diving into a few home improvement projects that I have been wanting to tackle. First and foremost giving Henry a bedroom makeover. Currently his room is in complete disarray and I am gearing up to do some sanding of walls and then adding a fresh coat of paint. Then bringing in all the new furniture and accessories to give him a bright and fun new "Big Kid" space. After that I will be moving onto Abby's room to give her a "Tween" makeover. Sadly, she's ready to pack away all her little girl things and upgrade to a more "mature" space. You have no idea how hard it is for me to pack away all the darling little things that I have cherished in her room but...she's growing up too. Hard to believe her 9th birthday is just two months away! Then onto the kids bath, and a fresh coat of paint in the loft and then the upstairs will be done for a while...I hope! I've also been planning school lessons for the new year and dreaming up new designs for Olabelhe. Soooo so much to do and clearly not enough time. I have so many plans for this upcoming year and fingers crossed I will be able to scratch a fair amount of them off my very long "To Do" list. How about you? Do you have big plans for the new year?
3 comments:
- Ronda said...
Happy New Year!
I too have big plans and am not done planning. Iknow we are going to replace flooring in the living room and hoping to paint my sewing space. I want to finish 2 quilts this year and hoping to sew for the girls more in 2013. Always wanting to learn I have some new techniques I want to work on and I have some books I want to read. I think I have some lofty goals this year and cant listthem all, but Gods will 2013 will be a great one!
- January 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM
- Laurie said...
Happy New Year! This will hopefully be a year where I catch up on some partially finished projects and then go on to new. Yes, the home improvement is always on the list too.
- January 1, 2013 at 10:09 AM
- Rachel Proffitt said...
My daughter will be 9 in February, so obviously our girls are close in age. She isn't quite ready to give up the toys yet though... although she doesn't play with them as often :/
Plans... well some clothes for DD and myself (I have a skirt in mind I want to make her as well as two trousers and some PJs).
And we were hoping to go home to the UK this autumn. Hoping being the operative word!
- January 1, 2013 at 9:41 PM


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Frequently Asked Questions
Cut Through the FOG
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the problem?
The City of Portland spends an average of $100,000 a year cleaning and repairing sewer lines clogged by grease, and about $12 million a year to treat wastewater containing high concentrations of fats, oils, and grease (FOG) and food waste. FOG can block sewer pipes and cause sewer backups in basements and sewer overflows from manholes. Repairs and cleanup are expensive for both the city and property owners, and sewage releases threaten public health and the environment.
While FOG and food waste enters sewer lines from homes and businesses; Food Service Establishments (FSEs) are a major source of FOG. Some FSEs pay additional fees of the added cost of treating this concentrated sewage.
What is the city currently doing to reduce the impact of FOG on the sewer system?
Some areas of Portland, especially areas with high numbers of FSEs, have repeated sewer maintenance problems. The city has designated these areas as accelerated grease cleaning areas (AGCAs) where maintenance crews clean sewer pipes 20 to 30 times more frequently. City staff also works with FSEs in these areas to adopt practices that reduce grease and food waste discharges to the sewer system.
What is new about how the city is approaching reducing FOG's impact on the sewer system?
With Cut Through the FOG, the city will take these steps to reduce the impact of FOG on the city's sewer system:
- increase the number of businesses that pay the additional fees
- require grease removal devices in all new or remodeled FSEs
Will any of these new requirements apply to my business?
Yes, if any of the following apply:
- Food is consumed at your business
- Food is processed at your business
- Your business discharges wastewater containing FOG or food products
Are any businesses currently paying the additional fee?
Yes, 72 businesses currently pay the additional fee due to the amount of FOG and food waste in their wastewater.
If the only water use at my business is for bathrooms do I have to pay the fee?
No, only businesses that generate wastewater containing excessive FOG or food waste have to pay the additional fee.
What is the fee for my business?
The fee is based on how much water your business uses and the amount of FOG and food waste in your business's wastewater discharges.
How is my rate calculated?
The city determined base rates by sampling and analyzing wastewater discharges from numerous businesses. The rates are based on the average amount of FOG and food waste in certain business classes.
What can I do to reduce my fee?
Businesses that implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) to prevent FOG and food waste from entering the sewer system can lower the additional fee they pay from five to 64 percent.
When will the additional fee go into effect?
The current schedule is listed below. There will be no changes in sewer fees for FSEs until city staff have visited the site and verified whether or not BMPs have been installed.
- Supermarkets: January 1, 2012
- Bakeries: January 1, 2012
- Donut Shops: January 1, 2012
- Meat Processors: January 1, 2012
- Brew Pubs: January 1, 2012
- Hotels: January 1, 2012
- Commercial Kitchens: January 1, 2012
- Coffee Shops: July 1, 2012 – December 31, 2013
- Restaurants: July 1, 2012 – December 31, 2013
What is a BMP and which ones qualify for these discounts?
A BMP is a best management practice, an approved practice that reduces the impact of FOG and food waste on the city's sewer system. Using the following BMPs can make FSEs eligible for reduced fees:
- Grease Trap - A grease trap is a small under-sink device designed for small facilities that captures oils and greases. Coffee shops and other small dischargers generally use grease traps. If your business uses a grease trap, the city recommends you maintain it through the Preferred Pumper Program. Go to preferredpumper.org for more information about the Preferred Pumper Program.
- Grease Interceptor - A grease interceptor is a large underground vault outside the facility designed to capture fats, oils, and greases. While installation is more expensive, interceptors are easier and cheaper to clean than grease traps. If your business uses a grease interceptor, Cut Through the FOG will require you to maintain it through the Preferred Pumper Program.
- Food Grinder Removal - Grinders (e.g. garbage disposals) are under-sink devices designed to pulverize food. The city recommends that FSEs do not use food grinders because they transport food waste to the treatment system.
- Food Composting/Food Donation - FSEs can compost food waste through the city's compost program or donate still-edible food to food rescue agencies. Contact Sustainability at Work for more information and assistance.
What if I already have these BMPs or am not sure which BMPs to install?
City staff can help you meet these new requirements. If you think you have BMPs installed or aren't sure which BMPs are best for your business, call 503-823-7885. Staff can provide assistance over the telephone or in person at your business. Staff will inspect your business to verify installation and maintenance of the BMP. After verification, your discounts will go into effect at the next billing cycle.
How much does it cost to install a Grease Removal Device?
A typical grease trap installation costs from $1,900 to $4,700. A typical grease interceptor installation costs from $9,000 to $11,000.
How much does it cost to maintain a Grease Removal Device?
Depending on the cleaning frequency, a typical grease trap can cost between $1,200 and $5,800 annually to maintain. A typical grease interceptor costs from $1,200 to $3,600 annually to maintain.
Is there a list of companies who can maintain my Grease Removal Device?
The city recommends you use a preferred pumper for your maintenance needs. Preferred pumpers are regional waste haulers who are familiar with local regulations, skilled in grease removal device cleaning, and can fully and effectively complete all notification and reporting requirements. You can get more information and see the preferred pumper list at preferredpumper.org.
Is my business required to install a Grease Removal Device?
You are required to install a grease removal device if:
- You build a new business, take ownership of a business, or remodel or make tenant improvements in an existing business
- Your facility contributes to a sewer line blockage or sewer overflow
All facilities get a discount by installing and maintaining these devices.
How do I pay the additional fee?
It will be included on your City of Portland water and sewer bill and will be listed as Net Bio Oxygen Demand and/or Net Total Suspended Solids.
What if I have questions about the additional fees on my water and sewer bill?
If you have questions about the fees, call 503-823-7885. For other questions about your water and sewer bill, contact customer service at 503-823-7770 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
What if I use water that doesn't go down the drain to the sewer?
You can receive a credit on your sewer bill by installing a credit meter and reporting the meter readings to the city. This can reduce both your sewer charge and the additional fees. Call 503-823-7885 for more information.
Will I receive a visit from city staff?
City staff will meet with you at your business to answer questions about the new requirements and discuss the most appropriate best management practices for your business.
If you have best management practices installed already or plan to install them, staff will inspect them to make sure they are installed and maintained properly so that you can receive the correct reduction in the additional fees. City staff will also make periodic, random inspections to ensure that grease management devices are properly maintained and serviced.
Are there reporting requirements?
A preferred pumper will maintain your grease removal device and will file the correct forms with the city so you don't have to. If you don't use a preferred pumper, you are required to verify appropriate grease removal device maintenance and provide the city with grease removal device maintenance forms after each servicing.
Can I appeal charges or other requirements?
If you don't agree with the rate assigned to your business, you can request that the city conduct additional sampling of your wastewater.


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Some days start out easy enough. They appear to be fairly stress-free and sometimes even wide-open. Then my phone rings and the whole picture changes in seconds.
I looked at my phone one Saturday morning and saw a friend was on the other end, so I answered. He sounded more than mildly stressed as he gave me a greeting I think was sort of window dressing.
"Hi, Jeff. What are you up to today?" he asked.
Oh, not a lot, really. How about you?
"Well, I tell ya what. I 'encountered an error' [Editor's note: I cleaned up that statement for a wide audience. That is definitely NOT what he said.] and I could really use your help. I was cuttin' down a tree in my front yard and I dropped it on my house."
Okaaaay. Well, that explains your tone of voice, I guess.
"Is there any way you could bring your tractor over and help me get this cleaned up? My wife is gone and she's just gonna have a fit if she gets home and sees what I did, so I could really use some help."
This particular friend isn't exactly a next-door neighbor. We're in the same area code, but it's not a quick jaunt from my place to his, especially with a tractor. Even so, I was doing some math in my head, trying to remember just how big the big tree in his front yard is and how far from his house it stands. Uh, stood.
Friends periodically ask favors. It happens to everyone. Some favors are small: "Can you give me a ride somewhere?"
Some are medium-sized: "Can you take me to the airport early in the morning?"
Some are big: "Can you stand up with me in my wedding?"
Some are just too unusual to quantify: "Can you help me remove a tree I just cut down onto my house so there's no evidence?"
That one ranks right up there with "Can you help me dispose of the body?"
That's what true friends are for, right? This wasn't exactly a body we were moving, but I wasn't entirely convinced there wouldn't be violence involved if I didn't get there in time, so I decided to hit the road.
All the way there, I kept trying to figure out how I would handle different scenarios. What if he dropped a monster oak right into his living room? Granted, his wife would now have that beautiful skylight she'd always wanted, but she may have a skywall and/or a skybasement, too. This could be like one of those old Vonage commercials.
What if he just brushed the corner of one room with a big branch? Should I take a big blue tarp with me? Do I have enough room anywhere to store a bunch of his household stuff if he suddenly has to move it out while the carpenters work on the rebuild?
More importantly, how big will this tree be? I wonder if it's a small log-chain job, or a big log-chain job. Maybe I'll get to use The Snake from the good people at Dakota Riggers! A guy should always be prepared for a job with mass and force by having his Snake handy. Hate to have a log chain break and take out whatever windows may be left in my friend's house. I had The Snake along just in case.
Obviously, I didn't need to bring a chainsaw. Sounded like there was a sharp one on the scene already.
When I showed up at my friend's yard, I was somewhat relieved to see that he hadn't done a complete demolition job on his house. It wasn't exactly Paul Bunyan PhD work, but it wasn't a disaster. He'd cut the tree down and it sort of landed on his front porch. From a distance, it didn't look bad, but it didn't look great either.
I hopped out of the cab as my friend walked over to me. He didn't look all that cheerful, but I didn't think this was the time to really lighten the mood with a lot of humor, so I kept pretty quiet.
It would be a fairly straightforward job. The angle of the tree carcass and its intersection with the house was such that hooking a chain on and pulling it off the house would probably take the porch right along with it. Yeah, it'd be the quickest and easiest solution, but it wouldn't be the prettiest or the cheapest one long term.
We decided that our best bet may be for me to go around to the other side of the house and see if I could slip my loader bucket underneath the tree and then lift it up as I drove forward while trying to steer away from the house. If the tree was going to slide and collapse, we wanted the motion and momentum to be going away from the house. Worst-case scenario, it would be the ends of the branches doing any damage and not the trunk. The trunkular portion is the part of the tree where the big dollars add up the quickest.
Maybe I'd have been better off with pallet forks. Maybe I'd have been better off with the awesome brush grapple I have for my skid loader. Regardless, I was too far from home to go get the exactly perfect tool for the job. Besides, we were on a deadline. The law would be home within another hour or two and my friend would have a lot of explaining to do to her. I haven't been married very long, but I've picked up a few of the basics in short order.
I got the tractor around to the other side of the house. Funny how the tire tracks I left seemed like small potatoes in the big picture of this whole episode. I was sure hoping my friend's wife is a big picture kinda gal.
The loader was positioned under the tree. I was headed toward the house at sort of a 30-degree angle. I very slowly started to hit the hydraulic lever to raise the loader and see if the tree was going to move or if my rear tractor tires were going to become airborne. Thankfully, the tree started to rise toward the heavens! I then cranked my steering wheel to the right and slowly crept forward, fully expecting the tree to slide back onto the loader and take out a minimum of two hydraulic hoses. This was late Saturday morning, of course. It would not be easy to get busted hoses fixed before a certain witness saw the crime scene.
The tree stayed in position. I got the cargo hoisted off the roof and began to move it away from the house. My tracks looked like a check mark by the time I was done. My friend came up to me as I got out of the cab and pretty much gave me a bear hug. He was more than a little pumped that we got the job done without so much as a scuffed shingle to show for it.
He and I got the chain hooked onto the tree carcass and got it moved to another area of his yard where he had a brush pile from some other firewood work. We cleaned up a few of the other big branches and sticks that were left. It didn't look like nothing had happened by any means, but it sure didn't look like there had been a house holocaust either.
Before I got in the tractor to leave, my friend had a question. When I had first arrived at his house, he had asked me to take a picture of the scene. If it turned out well, he wanted to show his wife what had happened. If it didn't turn out well, there'd at least be a recent photo to put on the display at his funeral.
"Jeff, is there any way you could email a copy of that picture to my wife?" my friend asked. "She'll want to see what a [multiple expletives] I am when she's not around!"
Yep, I'll gladly share the evidence. Most people don't believe these stories until they see the photos.
As a special favor for him, Sherill and I happened to find an item in Michigan while we were there to see her family for Thanksgiving. It's a shirt from her hometown. That's really the town's name on the shirt. I'm going to see if they'll make my friend the honorary mayor. I think the photo of the tree will be the perfect clincher on his application.
Guy No. 2