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Battery efficiency in cold climate
Battery efficiency in cold climate
I can tell you about my experience in cold weather. I'm in Southern CA and my commute to work was 20 - 32 degrees this morning. I started out with a standard charge, 240miles with software update v4.1 installed and sleep mode enabled. Got to work and my mileage left was 156. I went outside around noon to show my friend the car and it dropped to 136 mileages. I'm going to call Tesla and inquire about the drop. I have a suspicion; it's the car trying to keep the battery warm.
I just took delivery of my model S in denver last week. Last Thursday I drove it to Steamboat Springs from Boulder Colorado. Average outside temperature on the trip was 10F. The trip was 168 miles in distance over two mountain passes on snowpacked roads. When I arrived in Steamboat the rangometer showed 88 miles rated.
Two things to note. Average speed was low about 45 mph due to the weather and I did not use the heater until I hit Rabbit Ears pass with the destination assured.
I also took delivery in Denver a couple of weeks ago. Since it's turned cold in the past week, in city driving over shorter distances, the car uses around 450-500 watts per mile. (BTW, R3dStang66: I spend about a quarter of my time in San Diego, and So. Cal. cold is not in the same league as Chicago cold. Neither is Denver's, but it's closer.) Doing the math, if an 85K battery is supposed to go 265 miles, the EPA estimate is based on something around 320 watts per mile. At 500 watts per mile, the range is more like 170 miles.
When the car is cold, a warning message appears on the dash display, indicating that the battery is being warmed and the car is operating at less than its usual complement of power. (Less than usual being rather relative; a crisp acceleration still crushes the passengers back into their seats.)
Of course, you're simply not going to use up the battery in a day of driving around the city, so Jonathanfsawyer's experience may be more responsive to your concerns.
I started driving my Model S Performance in Chicago on Dec. 29th. I had the same exact battery situation. I drove in 30 degree weather starting at 245 miles. After driving 50 miles, it said I had about 170 miles left. After leaving the car in the cold for a few hours, it dropped down to 135 miles. I still had more than enough miles to get back home, but I was still a little surprised. I guess it's good to know what I am dealing with in the cold.
I took delivery in Denver 2 days ago. Using the seat heaters will use less power than heating the entire cabin. Regen does not seem to occur until the battery has been warmed up (so you are losing some energy in warming the battery & the lost regen while the battery is warming).
Agree, CA cold is not the same as Chicago cold. I just wanted to give benamrami some input.
Does the car let you pre heat the battery before you leave while plugged in so you do not waist energy on the road?
I don't think so yet. You can't "start" the car till you are unplugged from the charger. Future software updates might have some version of this...
I have had a Chevy Volt for 3 months. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is get to my computer to start warming up the Volt. I can pre-heat the car 10 min., 2 times before I leave for work. It is awesome getting into my Volt all warm and toasty , with no loss of battery charge , as the pre-heat comes from my home juice. Tesla REALLY needs to fix this soooon!!!! We need to be able to have remote start,(While plugged in) with preheat/cool...I do hope they have this completed before I get my model S.
@Bsbomber - yes, that is a nice feature and I use it in my LEAF whenever the weather is particularly hot or cold. You can also set it on a timer to do it automatically if your schedule is steady enough.
An overnight solution some have used is plugging in to a 120V. Most of the power goes to warm battery and cabin, with only a trickle of mileage added.
The same effect can be achieved by telling the car to accept a lowered amperage; set it so that the battery isn't quite full by morning. That means it maintains warmth the whole night, and you have no waiting for regen or full power in the morning.
As soon as Apple releases the iPhone app to Appstore everybody with an iPhone and cellular coverage where the car is parked will be able to start preheating both the cabin and the battery.
A pre-heat timer is surely forthcoming in a future software upgrade. Probably together with the charge timers.
Jat: do you experience similar drops in range when parked outside in the cold as reported above with the Leaf?
When Li-Ion batteries are cold, the amount of charge that can be pulled or flow is limited. There is not a reliable way to measure battery SoC when the pack is cold. When the pack warms up to operating temp the diminished charge me be restored minus the power used to warm up the pack. Keeping the car charging on a low current draw seems to be the best solution so far. Pre-warming after the app is release will do the trick also. However if you are driving in very cold weather, the batterie might actively be warming and again in that phase SoC info is not reliable.
Here is my cold weather test drive results from today, 1/1/13:
Outside temp 7 - 11 deg F.
Accessories in use were: XM radio (moderately loud), driver seat heater at #1 level, and Climate Control set to 67 deg F, auto fan, but with 'Range Mode = On' (which limits how hard the heater/fan tries to work - see notes on software v 4.1). Overall, it was a very chilly cabin.
Drove 86.2 miles (43.1 out, 43.1 back), at steady 65 mph (cruise control), on gently rolling hills, with no net elevation gain.
'Rated Range' at start 250 miles (with warm recently charged battery).
'Rated Range' at end 129 miles. When I shut down, I got a messages saying the battery is cold, and recommended charging.
So: used 121 'Rated Miles' to go 86.2 miles (achieved 71% of rating).
The 30 mile average projected range remaining at end was 102 miles projected. So, real miles plus realistic projected range was 188.2 miles, compared to 250 'Rated', or 75% of rated miles.
Average energy use was 411 Wh/mi, with total energy use of 35.4 kWh.
I was a bit disappointed, but then again it was 7 deg out! I would have thought that the batteries would stay plenty warm, as I used them to cruise at 65mph, but apparently they got colder as the trip went on.
Next, I will try the same trip at 55 mph cruise control (tomorrow - should be about the same temp).
BTW, this was SE Minnesota on dry roads with Dunlop snow tires on 19" aftermarket wheels, inflated to 45psi.
I would like to know how the past few days have been, given the colder few days. Please let us know when you can or send me an email. I worry about my commutes to Rockford year round, both in the cold and as degradation creeps in. It will sit for up to 7 hours also before I return to Naperville.
Right now, I don't think there is any way to heat the car when you are not in it, even if it is charging. The car shuts off when you lock it and walk away, although it continues to charge. Even if you could heat the car in the morning before getting in, there is no assurance that it would be heated from your utility rather than the battery. That is because the charging likely would have been completed sometime in the night, and will not continue to top up even if the battery is depleted by the heater -- at least not until it reaches some predetermined level of discharge.
That is why the software fix/app needs to address the complex relationship between heating and charging, with the goal of having the car fully charged and warm at the time you want to begin driving, without overcharging or endlessly topping up.
ArieK asked about the Leaf. I recently left my Leaf parked at the airport for 10 days, with the battery at 9/12. When I came back the battery was at the same level, and the range estimate was only 4 km lower (4 km ~= 2.5 miles). It's not exactly cold here, but it's not warm either - temperatures from about freezing to not much above, let's say in Fahrenheit 30-45.
It sounds as if the Model S is not as good at retaining charge, or rather that it uses energy while inactive. I'd like to really know what's going on with the battery heating. I won't likely be driving the car enough to have to worry about charging it every night, and am a little concerned at how much Tesla emphasizes plugging in whenever the car is not in use.
Adjust the Amp draw rate down so the car is charged or almost charged at about the time you want it. Or if you don't need many miles, plug in to 120V.
Brian, that could get you a full charge by morning if you timed it just right, but it wouldn't get you a warm cabin. My point, however, is that this kind of function is what software is for: to take the guesswork out of it. Just set the control so that the car is fully charged and the cabin is 69 degrees at 7:30 a.m., using the most efficient and battery-friendly means to get there; while you're at it, make sure I take advantage of my utility's off-peak rate structure.
I was under the impression it did for someone, or perhaps he was referring to just the battery (to avoid regen loss).
Someone reported that if the door is cracked, the car as well as the heat will stay on (he was out sledding or skating IIRC and left the door open to play music, not realizing he was heating up the entire continent.) Might work in your garage, but might not be a good idea out on the street....
Brian, yes I believe the car keeps its battery warm, but I don't know of any way to keep the heater going. Well, yes, you could keep the car door open! Why not just put a little space heater in the car, and run an extension cord to the nearest outlet? Or how about sitting in the car all night, and pressing the brake every time the car shuts off? But as a practical matter, we must be resolved to getting into a cold car in the morning, at least until TM gives us a software enhancement or an app.
I have a Chevy Volt. In the summer in Chicago, I was averaging about 1 mile per .35 kWh for
a total battery range of about 45 miles.
In the winter, I'm using about .5 kWh of energy for each mile and the range is only about 30 miles.
I'm not sure how much of this experience applies to the model S, but based on my experience with the Volt and the comments above, I am expect a big difference in mileage between summer and winter on the model S I've reserved.
I'm in central Ohio. It's been ranging 10 to 32 F here the last couple weeks. I have not observed any noticable power loss while the car is sitting unplugged for extended periods. I was not working over the holiday so most of my driving was 0 to 50 mph some highway at 75. My observation is that the wh/mile is 450 to 550 while the car is warming up the battery with cabin heat and seat heat. Once the regen yellow dotted line is gone (assuming this indicates the battery is warm) the wh/mile goes down to around 400 to 450 depending on my driving. In 45F plus temps I was getting around 300 to 350 wh/mile with no cabin heat only seat heat. I will note some of my wh/mile is attributed to the power needed to get out of my unshoveled driveway. We had about 8 to 10 inches of snow. Note I have my wh/mile graph set for 30 miles.
There's definitely no problem with mine in moderately cold weather, but I can't claim to have any insight for how she'd behave in a truly cold climate (I grew up in Canada, so I know that's a whole different story.) It was right around freezing this morning for my drive in to work in Northern California. I drive over highway 17 from the coast, where the summit is 1,800 feet and into Cupertino back at 236 feet, so the drive isn't exactly flat. I has seat heating and climate control on for the entire trip and my average usage was 308 Wh/mi. I believe that's actually better than the EPA estimate so I'm extremely pleased.
There's definitely a huge difference between driving a typical car and "one foot" driving in the Model S where I completely avoid the brake whenever possible. I turned creep off yesterday when I got home because it felt too much like an automatic and it interferes with using regen to slow the car to a stop.
... so I'd be curious to hear from people as the seasons change and find out what range of temperatures seem to have an impact, and how much relative to a 32F reference point.
@james: Wow, after reading a bunch of posts on this forum about the speed with which the Model S loses charge when not plugged in I find it amazing how well your Leaf is able to hold it's charge while unplugged!
The thermal management of the Leaf has been pretty much openly ridiculed on many occasions so I find it even more surprising how well it deals with this specific situation. It has most certainly risen in my esteem and the 2013 model is only getting better, range wise. If the fundamental layout and chemistry isn't changed much I would expect it to remain equally proficient in keeping it's charge.
It has been between -5 and +28 degrees Farenheit in Oslo for the last weeks , and its normal from november to march.
I really expect Tesla to launch a preheating function that works both plugged and unplugged, before they start deliveries to Norway (the second biggest marked for this cars in the world)
Or else it would be necessary to install a Webasto or Ebersprächer heater. (I dont want that smell...
and I would get a bad feeling when filling diesel or gasoline into this premium EV. )
I also expect to see official longterm testresults from this kind of climate and topography before I buy it.
A local Toyota salesrep told me that they dont believe the Rav4 EV (built by TM) could be sold or used in our climate and topography.
But for now, I really appreciate the feedback from the american owners with simular climate.
I know that somebody in TM actually is thinking of us here in the north, beacause when I discussed useless "all year" tires with a rep at the local TM showroom, another rep suddenly came out and said that they just decided to offer "real" winter tires.
One example of "non working batteryopreated device" over here, is iPhone. When we take them out of my pockets in cold weather to send a message or take a picture, it dies an tell us to charge. Even if it has 80% battery left. (This is not the right thread for mobiledevices, so please dont comment this..)
actually, that's a problem for those hoping to use the mobile app. "Only works when your mobile device is warm." Strictly a battery problem, of course. Circuitry works better when cold. Loves liquid nitrogen.


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With the addition of the Challenge, BC Bike Race is charting new ground in mountain bike stage racing. While half-distance events are wildly popular in the world of Ironmans and Marathons, mountain bike stage races have maintained a status quo; but no longer, as this major coup in the mountain biking world creates the opportunity for more people to enjoy the 'Ultimate Singletrack Experience'.
BCBR Operations Manager, Tom Skinner, on the evolution of the Challenge: "We wanted to open up BC Bike Race to as many people as possible, while maintaining the same experience that we've delivered over the last few years. After much discussion, we felt that a new short-course seven day event was the way to do this. While our Epic days are an average of 60km, we're aiming for the Challenge days to average around 30km. They'll still feature awesome singletrack, the same great base camps, and seven days of riding, but will hopefully open up BCBR to people who don't feel like riding for as long a distance each day."
The BC Bike Race is going into its fourth year and has celebrated unprecedented success over the last three. After quickly becoming one of North America's premier mountain bike stage races, the Challenge option was a natural progression. "Everyone should be able to reach their goals and achieve something great every year," said Andreas Hestler, BCBR Marketing Director. "Epic or Challenge, 60k or 30k per day, BCBR is still 7 days of sweet mountain bike singletrack. We hope to see all of you, whether Epic or Challenge at the start line of the 2010 BC Bike Race."
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Fergie & Iggy at the AMAs
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Perspective. Makes you look like an asshole. And it took Iggy Azalea to make me realise how much I like Fergie. As I've said before re: Iggy Azalea, I am not a believer. I refuse to buy into her star. Madonna was the one who taught us how to pat our pussies, OK? Fergie though… I loved everything about Fergie last night – the wrap shirt over the bodysuit, the gold boots, she was on point with the performance, she sounded great, her legs are sick, and she's as pretty as she's ever been. Full Story
Belly Cupping: Fergie edition
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Oh Jesus. I'd rather see the Beyonce armpit pose than have to endure another edition of Celebrity Belly Cupping. Unfortunately, due to the rise of the Motherhood Industrial Complex, since Motherhood is the ultimate Whitewash, Belly Cupping is never going away. Full Story
Fergie's taunting leather pants
Yesterday I was at the new Intermix in Toronto looking for wardrobe for an upcoming shoot. Is it wrong for me to say I kinda want it to be chilly, just maybe for two days, so I can wear my new sweater? Anyway, what I didn't buy was a pair of black Helmut Lang leather leggings. Full Story
Overkilling stars?
I really wanted the Dolce & Gabbana star print dress a month ago. Again, for TIFF. Anne Hathaway has it on for the new cover or Marie Claire UK, and several celebrities have worn several versions of it on carpets all summer. Click here to see the original on the runway, the one I was thinking of, if not for the fact that I think it might be getting overkilled now. Full Story
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If Fergie had been with him yesterday, this sh-t would not have gone down the same way. So Josh Duhamel, after escorting his wife to the BillBoard Women of the Year event in New York, where she was named the Woman of the Year, then boarded a plane for Kentucky that was delayed. He was texting and refused to stop despite being asked three times, going so far as to deride the flight attendant who kept asking him. Full Story
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Qurb (Proximity) with Allah
Qurb (proximity) with Almighty Allah, which is man's ultimate objective and which must be reached with will-power, does not mean bridging the gap of time and place, because Almighty Allah is the creator of time and place and encompasses all times and places and has no relationship in time and place with any being:
"…هُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ۖ"
"He is the first and the last and the Ascendant (over all) and the knower of hidden things... (57:3)."
"…وَهُوَ مَعَكُمْ أَيْنَ مَا كُنْتُمْ…"
"... And He is with you wherever You are... (57:4)."
"…فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ…"
"... Therefore, wherever you turn, there is Allah's face... (2:115)."
In addition, the spontaneous bridging of time and place is not deemed a perfection. So what is actually meant by this proximity?
"أَلَا إِنَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُحِيطٌ…"
"... Now surely He encompasses all things (41:54)."
The being and all the existential states of all creatures are within Allah's power and linked to His will-power. Rather, the existence of everything hinges on connection with and dependence on Him. As a result, He is closer (than aught) to everything:
"وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ…"
"... And We are nearer to him than his life vein (50:16)."
"فَلَوْلَا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ"
"And We are nearer to it than you, but you do not see (56:85)."
And this is a true existential proximity but it is not acquired. For this purpose, it cannot be regarded as the ultimate point and destination of man's development.
For proximity, one can conceive a meaning which is acquired and which is compatible with man's ultimate perfection. And that is a proximity based on credit and honour. That is to say, man is subjected to Allah's special grace such that all his demands come true:
A servant who reaches such a degree has reached his objective. In common usage too, a person who is loved by an eminent person is called "muqarrab". The Holy Qur'an also uses the term muqarribun to refer to the forerunners of the path of man's development:
"فِي جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ .أُولَٰئِكَ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ"
"And the foremost are the foremost, these are the ones who are drawn nigh (to Allah) (56:10-11).
But here we do not intend to conduct a verbal discussion and to find a suitable meaning for the term qurb. The intention is rather to draw greater attention to man's ultimate goal, so that in its light, we would get to know the general path and the main road towards development. We must therefore, focus on the reality lurking beyond this honour and credit.
The reality which is regarded as man's ultimate perfection and which is called the qurb of Allah is a phase of being wherein man's innate gifts become active through their own voluntary movement. This movement can be quick and speedy (like that of some messengers and divine guardians who proceeded with development from the very first moment of their lives and who reached great perfection in a very small span of time) as Isa ibn Maryam (AS) said (the following) in the cradle:
"إِنِّي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ آتَانِيَ الْكِتَابَ وَجَعَلَنِي نَبِيًّا…"
"... Surely I am a servant of Allah; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet (19:30)."
According to Shi'ah narrations, the Imams of the Ahlul–Bayt (AS) praised Allah even in the prenatal state and were born bowing down (to Him). And these are the sadiqun. Or if the movement is average or slow in speed like that of other believers, it is diametrically opposed to the declining movement and retrogressive trend pursued by the disbelievers and the hypocrites.
The perfection derived from this voluntary trend does not depend on time and place and on material and physical conditions. It is rather related to man's heart and soul, and material conditions have a role only in paving the way for (this) movement, else the body's quantitative and qualitative move or transferring from one place to another have no impact on man's development, except that they assist man's spiritual and moral progress and that they are indirectly effective in man's development.
Thus man's true development consists of a scientific movement within the soul to reach a state where it could see itself dependent on and linked with Him, where it could see no independence in being, features, and deeds for itself and for other creatures, and where no incident would prevent it from making this observation. The sciences and observations acquired by man in the course of this movement will heighten his existential status and will gradually make his essence more perfect.
As a result of this, the less man feels in need of Allah, the more he deems himself independent in managing the affairs and providing the means of living and performing physical and mental activities. And the more independence he considers for other objects, the more ignorant, the more imperfect and the farther away from Allah will he be. The more he sees himself in need of Allah, the more he removes the veils of means, and the more the dark and bright veils are lifted from his eyes, the more aware, the more perfect and closer to Allah will he be, so much so that he will become a monotheist in acts and impacts and will see no independence for traits and beings. This is a state which the deserving and sincere servants and Allah's chosen friends will reach. Then there will remain no veil between them and their Beloved.
Thus true qurb with Allah is for man to realize that he would have everything while having Allah's love and satisfaction and that he would have nothing without Allah.
The Means of Achieving Qurb with Allah
All beings in the world of existence are the creatures of Almighty Allah and are dependent on Him in existence and existential states and have no independence whatever:
"…ذَٰلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ خَالِقُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ"
"That is Allah, your Lord, the Creator of everything... (40:62)."
"أَنْتُمُ الْفُقَرَاءُ إِلَى اللَّهِ ۖ وَاللَّهُ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ…"
"... You are they one who stand in need of Allah, and Allah is He who is the Self-sufficient the Praised One (35:15)."
And the reality of their existence is dependence on and attachment to Him, as well as absolute captivity and servitude.
"…كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ…"
"... Every thing is perishable but He... (28:88)."
"…وَعَنَتِ الْوُجُوهُ لِلْحَيِّ الْقَيُّومِ…"
"And the faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent God... (20:111)."
"إِنْ كُلُّ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ إِلَّا آتِي الرَّحْمَٰنِ عَبْدًا"
"There is no one in the heavens and the earth but will come to the Beneficent God as a servant (19:93)."
And the acts that they perform are the signs of dependence, servitude and needfulness. Thus ontologically, each person serves Allah:
"…وَلَهُ أَسْلَمَ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ…"
"... while to Him submits whoever is in the heavens and the Earth..(3:83)."
"…وَلِلَّهِ يَسْجُدُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مِنْ دَابَّةٍ"
"And whatever creature that is in the heavens and that is in the earth makes obeisance to Allah (only)... (16:49)."
"… وَإِنْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِ وَلَٰكِنْ لَا تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ…"
"... And there is not a single thing but glorifies Him with His praise, but you do not understand their glorification... (17:44)."
Man is not exempted from this general rule, but normally he is not aware of his ontological servitude. In other words, he has been created in such a way in this world that he regards himself and other objects as being independent:
"Allah created the creatures as ignorants."1
That is to say, man does not see himself linked with Allah. In like manner, he sees his perfections as emerging from himself and deems himself independent in carrying out various deeds. He sets this independence in existence and in existential signs for other beings as well. He constantly endeavours to expand the sphere of his being and to obtain greater perfections and to find power to carry out more deeds and to make the foundation of his independence stronger. Among his conscious perceptions and desires, there is nothing contradictory to this "imagined independence." Of course he possesses an innate, unconscious perception of his inherent needfulness and his existential dependence, but the dominance of that material and animal aspect precludes this innate perception from reaching awareness except in specific conditions.
After reaching rational development, man can more or less, become aware of his own needfulness through mental activities and rational analysis and can realize the presence of Allah. Gradually with the development of his reason and with expertise in reasoning, he will gain more knowledge about his fundamental needs and his dependence, until in the ultimate phase of his rational progress, he will reach acquired awareness of his dependence. But this mental progress will not bring about an intuitive knowledge by itself. The domination of instincts and feelings and the attraction of desires and sentiments will often leave no room for the appearance and manifestation of innate knowledge, unless man decides to prevent their inundation, so as to reach self-realization, to prepare a means deep within his soul and to initiate a spiritual movement towards haqq. That is to say, he should focus on Allah and by continuing and strengthening sincere regards (for Allah), polish his innate knowledge and draw himself close to Allah.
In such a state, man's development in the way of the true destination and innate objective commences. That is to say, with free will and choice, he will make a conscious effort to realize his connection with Allah. He will confess his own need, weakness, meanness and finally his inherent poverty and needfulness. Then he will return to their true Owner the servants of Allah whom he unjustly attributed to himself and to others. And he will return the garb of divine power:
"إِنَّهُ كَانَ ظَلُومًا جَهُولًا…"
"... Surely he is unjust, ignorant (33:72)."
This movement continues till man becomes a sincere servant. As a consequence, man's ultimate perfection lies in becoming a sincere servant or in seeing one's inherent and complete needfulness. To reach it, one must worship Allah and strive to please Him. That is to say, he should prefer the will of Allah to that of himself:
"إِلَّا ابْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ رَبِّهِ الْأَعْلَىٰ"
"Except the seeking of the pleasure of his Lord, the Most High (92:20)."
Thus, the main course of development, the right path of humanity, and the correct way of reaching proximity with Allah is worshipping Him, declaring imagined independence null and void, and confessing one's complete and all-embracing need of Allah:
"وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنْسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ"
"And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should worship Me (51:56)."
"وَأَنِ اعْبُدُونِي ۚ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ مُسْتَقِيمٌ"
"And that you should worship Me; this is the right way (36:61)."
Only an effort and endeavour which has a hue of the servitude and worship of Allah can be deemed as being directed towards proximity with Allah and towards true development. Nothing other than worshipping Allah could be regarded as leading towards true perfection.
- 1. Biharul–Anwar, Vol 3, 15


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Google Docs is something we are still experimenting with in our classrooms. However, we have both made a start on using their exceedingly simple 'forms' document to gather data in the classroom. It is useful both for larger data gathering projects and for shorter ones.
In Year Five, the maths class have been given the problem of finding the most common names. This is a great problem as there is a lot of historical data to look back at as well as making use of easily accessible current data by looking at class lists. In order to extend this, we created a simple form on the Google Docs. This asked the year someone was born and what their name is. The link was sent out through our VLE and Twitter accounts to ask people to respond. You will be amazed at how quickly real information comes in. Google Docs then converts that into a handy spreadsheet for you which can be downloaded as an excel document or used collaboratively. Not only is data handling being covered but there is also a real life context to the use of spreadsheets for ICT.
In Year Six, we used the same form creation tool in an OMS. The class were asked what question they would like to ask. We then looked at what information we needed to gather to actually answer that question. The class decided that they wanted to know about favourite supermarkets so we decided we wanted to know about age, whether or not you are in charge of buying the shopping and which was the most common supermarket you used. This led to an excellent discussion about the use of open and closed questions to get responses and how we might find out why someone chose a particular shop. In the lesson, as a class, the form was completed and submitted. By the end of the lesson there were already some responses so the class could see the survey in action.
The surveys are still live so please feel free to join in (Year Five here and Year Six here). Later on in the week we will post about how the data gathering went and what we used it for.
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DISCOVERY BAY — An increase in theft attempts the last few months has some residents in this normally tranquil community feeling uneasy.
Discovery Bay residents say they are seeing an increase in suspicious activity, including salesmen without credentials going door-to-door and unfamiliar cars casing neighborhoods. The uneasiness has led to a spike in service calls to the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.
"(Thefts are) a lot more prevalent lately," resident Jim Mattison said. "It seems like everyone I know, or friends of people I know, have told me they've been burglarized."
What's alarming, Mattison said, is that burglaries are no longer solely "crimes of opportunity," where prowlers sneak in through an open door or window. Rather, more brazen prowlers are breaking into windows and doors, he said.
Popular targets for burglary include iPads and iPods, laptop computers and purses in cars; power tools, small electronics and cash in homes; and wakeboard decks and boat speakers and engines at marinas.
One of the recent auto thefts was $10 worth of coins that the driver used to pay for parking meters at work, sheriff's Lt. Alan Johnson said.
Despite the heightened concern, the recorded number of burglaries of cars, boats and residential properties has remained steady, according to sheriff's department statistics.
There were nine reported burglaries in Discovery Bay in both February and March, compared to 10 in January and 12 in December. The town averaged about seven burglaries per month in 2012.
Some say the problem may be greater than the statistics show because the counts do not include items such as all attempted burglaries and incidents incorrectly reported to the harbor master rather than the sheriff's office.
Though the numbers show residential concern may be more of a perception issue, Johnson says the recent spike in calls shows residents are reporting anything they feel is suspicious.
Concern about crime in Discovery Bay is not new, with the last major push occurring five years ago. A community meeting drew 550 residents — about six times what was expected — and raised awareness about neighborhood issues.
Organizers of a community meeting being held April 24 at Discovery Bay Elementary hope to accomplish the same thing.
"The chatter is out there. Hopefully, it helps re-energize residents to stay on top of things," said Amanda Dove, a resident who is organizing the meeting.
Discovery Bay has two sheriff's deputies and a crime-prevention specialist dedicated solely to law enforcement services. The three positions were funded by P-6 zone funds in 2009, an annual tax for police services in unincorporated areas.
Since that time, Discovery Bay's reported burglaries dropped from 178 in 2008 to 119 in 2011 and 98 in 2012.
Though it's too early to tell, burglary numbers may go down in April, Johnson said. Sheriff's deputies recently arrested four people from Stockton that were responsible for multiple Discovery Bay burglaries, he said.
"They told us that they were coming to Discovery Bay because the people had nice things," Johnson said.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.
Burglary Basics
Here are some tips to help prevent burglaries:
— Lock all outside doors and windows before you leave the house or car.
— Make your home look occupied and difficult to break into.
— Leave lights on when you go out.
— Keep your garage door and garden sheds closed and locked.
— Don't allow daily deliveries of mail, newspapers or fliers while you are away.
— Don't leave items such as lawn mowers, barbecues and bicycles (or computers, cellphones and GPS devices in cars) in plain view.
— Never leave notes on your door such as "Gone shopping."
— Change locks immediately if keys are lost or stolen.
— Have adequate exterior lighting.
— Trim trees and shrubs so they cannot be used as hiding places for intruders.
— Never leave keys under doormats, flowerpots, mailboxes or other "secret" hiding places.
— Write down the license plate numbers of any suspicious vehicles.
— Note the descriptions of any suspicious persons. If you notice anything suspicious call 911 immediately.
— Form a Neighborhood Watch group.
— Consider installing a burglar alarm system.


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MyTwoCensus Editorial: This hire is ok, but a dangerous trendTuesday, June 8th, 2010
Yesterday, a press release from the Census Bureau detailed the hiring of Roderick Little, who will join the U.S. Census Bureau as the new associate director for statistical methodology and standards. The report states, "Little is the Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and chaired the Biostatistics Department from 1993 to 2001 and 2006 to 2009. He is also professor of statistics and research professor at University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research." After speaking with statisticians and those familiar with Dr. Little's work, I am confident that he is an excellent hire for the Census Bureau. My qualm with this hire is that Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves, who studied and worked at the University of Michigan, is bringing in his friends to work for the Census Bureau rather than creating the open, transparent, and fair government that President Obama promised long ago. In the short-term, this hire is fine, but if the Census Bureau starts to look like the University of Michigan faculty club rather than a government agency, my eyebrows will be raised, and yours should be too.


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ISAF World Match Race Rankings - Open
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- ISAF Grade 1 Events - Trofeo Challenge Roberto Trombini, Italy; Swedish Match Cup, Sweden
- ISAF Grade 3 Events - Polish 470 Match Race, Poland
- ISAF Grade 4 Events - Summer Match Race Trophy, Italy; All Marine Youth Match Racing Series - June, Australia
- ISAF Grade 5 Events - Bermuda J-24 MR Championship, Bermuda
The top ten highest placed sailors in this Rankings' release will all receive invites to the ISAF Match Racing World Championship 2005 taking place in Calpe, Spain from 12-17 September. The 2004 World Champion Ed BAIRD (USA) at number two automatically receiving an invitation to defend his title, so effectively all skippers in the top eleven places will receive invites. The twelfth competitor at the ISAF Worlds is selected by the host MNA Real Federación Española de Vela, the host club Real Club Náutico de Calpe and ISAF and is Santiago LOPEZ-VAZQUEZ (ESP).
The major loser in this month's Rankings' release is Russia's Eugeniy NEUGODNIKOV. He climbed into the World's top ten in the last release of the Rankings thanks to a win at the ISAF Grade 2 Match Race Lugano in Swizerland. However a lack of competition since then sees NEUGODNIKOV drop two places to an agonizing number twelve. His loss is Björn HANSEN's (SWE) gain. He looks set for his fourth straight appearance at the ISAF Worlds thanks to a second place in the ISAF Grade 1 Trofeo Challenge Roberto Trombini in Marina de Ravenna, Italy. That result sees him rise up from 15 to ten in the Rankings.
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With the exception of World number three, Mathieu RICHARD (FRA), the top five in this Rankings' release all faced each other last week at the ISAF Grade 1 Swedish Match Cup in Marstrand. Peter GILMOUR (AUS) continued his remarkable run this year, securing his third straight victory in an ISAF Grade 1 event to ensure he keeps the spot at the top of the ISAF World Match Race Rankings for at least another six weeks. In the quarter finals in Marstrand the Australian knocked out his nearest rival, BAIRD for the second event in a row giving him a solid points lead in this Rankings' release. Russell COUTTS (NZL) was the defending champion at the Swedish Match Cup, but lost out in the quarter final stage. However with SPITHILL falling, COUTTS climbs up one place to number four in the Rankings and is still counting one event fewer than the sailors around him. Philippe PRESTI (FRA) also benefits from the falling SPITHILL, moving into the top five of the Rankings, a major improvement on the Ranking of 22 he held around this time last year.
Just outside the top eleven, neither Matteo SIMONCELLI (ITA) nor Bertrand PACÉ (FRA) could score the high placed finishes they needed to secure themselves an invite to the ISAF Worlds.
Further down the Rankings, Michele SAPONARA (ITA) is one of the highest climbers, gaining almost 100 places after finishing second at the ISAF Grade 4 Summer Match Race Trophy in Ostia Rome, Italy. The Italian moves up from 233 to 136 in the Rankings. The real risers come from Poland though after the ISAF Grade 3 Polish 470 Match Race in Gizycko. Winner, Tomasz JANUSZEWSKI in only his second ISAF Graded event, beat competitors ranked over 450 places higher than him, and consequently climbs from 498 to 226.
Jamie WOODS (AUS) also makes massive gains this month following his second place at the ISAF Grade 4 All Marine Youth Match Racing Series - June, in Sydney, Australia. The Australian entered the Rankings last month at 607 and this time round climbs up to 318. However not even WOODS' rise can match that of Bermuda's John NICHOLS. After finishing runner up to Pete RAMSDALE (BER) in the ISAF Grade 5 Bermuda J-24 Class MR Championship in Hamilton he climbs a massive 643 places from 1196 to 553.
The next release of the ISAF World Match Race Rankings will be on 24 August.
Invites for the ISAF Match Racing World Championship 2005 will be sent to the following sailors:
- Ed BAIRD (USA) - Defending Champion
- Peter GILMOUR (AUS)
- Mathieu RICHARD (FRA)
- Russell COUTTS (NZL)
- Philippe PRESTI (FRA)
- Paolo CIAN (ITA)
- Sebastien COL (FRA)
- James SPITHILL (AUS)
- Ian WILLIAMS (GBR)
- Björn HANSEN (SWE)
- Staffan LINDBERG (FIN)
- Santiago LOPEZ-VAZQUEZ (ESP) - invited by the Real Federación Española de Vela, Real Club Náutico de Calpe and ISAF
Sailors have until 3 August to confirm their attendance. If any invites are not accepted then they will be passed on to the next highest sailor in the Rankings.
ISAF World Match Race Rankings - Women
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- ISAF Grade 1 Events - Swedish Match Cup, Sweden
- ISAF Grade 3 Events - Polish 470 Match Race, Poland
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For the third Rankings' release in a row Claire LEROY (FRA) maintains her position in the number one spot and she now looks like a dominant leader with almost 2,000 points separating her from second place.
Former number one, Maire BJÖRLING (SWE) beat LEROY in the semi finals of the ISAF Grade 1 Swedish Match Cup in Marstrand but failed to defend her title when 2003 World Champion Malin MILLBOURN (SWE) beat her 3-0 in the final. That loss combined with BJÖRLING's break from match racing last year sees her drop to third place, as she is now only counting seven events in her points total.
Nina BRAESTRUP (DEN) finished a disappointing seventh in Marstrand, but as BJÖRLING drops points she moves up to reclaim the second place in the Rankings she held in September last year.
Jenny AXHEDE (SWE) and Klaartje ZUIDERBAAN (NED) remain stationary at numbers four and five with neither competing as skippers since the last Rankings' release. Aside from some minor shuffling of positions due to the rotating ranking calculation, the major change at the head of the Rankings sees MILLBOURN climb back into the World's top 20 for the first time in almost a year at number 15. The Swedish Match Cup winner will now be aiming to climb back towards the number two slot she held for several months at the end of 2003/beginning of 2004.
Australia's Jacqui BONNITCHA also makes a significant climb this month after carrying over the Rankings' points from her win in the open ISAF Grade 4 All Marine Youth Match Racing Series in Sydney, Australia. She moves up ten places and is Australia's third highest ranked sailor at number 28.
Aside from the Swedish Match Cup the other event in the latest Rankings' period was the ISAF Grade 3 Polish 470 Match Race in Gizycko. Katarzyna TYLINSKA is Poland's highest placed sailor in the 470 ISAF World Sailing Rankings and proved her ability in the match racing scene in Gizycko to take her second victory there. She consequently rises from 59 to 38 in the Rankings to overtake Agata SIERPINA and also become Poland's best placed sailor in the ISAF World Match Race Rankings. As runner up in Gizycko, Marta PETRASZ (POL) is one of the highest climbers, jumping from 102 straight into the top fifty at 49.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High-altitude pilots in the Air Force have a poorly understood type of brain lesion three times as often and four times as large as those seen in the brains of other military personnel, according to a new study.
The lesions appeared on brain scans of an elite group of U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft pilots, of whom there are fewer than 200 in the U.S.
"Normal young healthy adult brains have few (lesions), as we have demonstrated in our control group," said lead author Dr. Stephen McGuire of the University of Texas in San Antonio and the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
The pilots in the study had lesions called white matter hyperintensities, which appear as bright spots on brain scans and may be caused by reduced blood flow, similar to those seen with head trauma, McGuire said, though none had experienced such injuries.
The reconnaissance planes regularly fly at 64,000 feet and can go higher than 70,000 feet, where pilots can see the curvature of the Earth and the dividing line between night and day, while commercial flights typically cruise at about 40,000 feet. At high altitude, the spy planes maintain cabin pressure of 28,000 to 30,000 feet, compared to the average of 8,000 feet in a commercial flight.
High-altitude pilots are at increased risk of decompression sickness, or "the bends," in which decreasing pressure allows bubbles of gas to form in the blood and can lead to temporary slowed mental processing or permanent cognitive decline.
With heavier use of the U-2 planes between 2006 and 2010, the number of incidents of pilots experiencing decompression sickness rose somewhat, McGuire's team writes in the journal Neurology.
But the new study found an increased number of brain lesions even when the pilots had not experienced decompression sickness, indicating that some other aspect of a low-pressure environment might explain the results.
McGuire and his coauthors compared the brain scans of 102 spy plane pilots with those of 91 other active duty military personnel of similar age, general health and education level. All the men were between the ages of 26 and 50 years old.
The pilots had more lesions and they were larger than in the comparison group.
Pilots had an average of 9.7 lesions versus 3.3 in the comparison group, and the lesions averaged .16 cubic centimeters in size for pilots compared to .04 cubic centimeters for non-pilots.
Brain lesions in the comparison group were concentrated in the frontal lobe, which is typical of the lesions seen with normal aging, but lesions were found equally distributed throughout the brain in the pilot group.
A higher number of brain lesions have been reported in mountain climbers and deep-sea divers as well, the authors note. In those instances, the lesions are thought to represent tissue damaged by gas bubbles or tiny clots in blood vessels.
"Being spots of cellular damage, white matter hyperintensities can be caused by many things - inflammation, infection, disease, trauma, vascular problems like small strokes, low oxygen, low glucose, or low air pressure," said R. Douglas Fields, a neuroscientist at National Institutes of Health and a mountain climber. "This is why they are seen in the normal population with increasing with age," Fields told Reuters Health by email.
Since they are tiny, many of the spots may be harmless, said Fields, who was not involved in the new study. But they do represent damage to white matter, which is where the communication trunk lines in the brain are buried deep below the gray matter on the brain's surface where all the synapses do their computational work.
"The effects of white matter injury can be very diverse and quite widespread, or only affect a local region," Fields said. "It all depends on what connections get damaged."
"More research needs to be performed before we can say for certain that these lesions are dangerous," said Dr. Sean Jersey, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and radiologist at David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in California.
In the past, doctors saw the spots on brain scans as a normal indication of aging, he said, but over time they have also been linked to specific diseases, like heart disease, migraine headaches, diabetes, high blood pressure and infections. "In the case of our U-2 pilots or divers, they are probably the result of an occupational exposure which was previously unrecognized," he said by email.
A 2010 review of studies on the lesions seen in aging brains linked the spots to an increased risk of stroke, dementia and death.
The current study, however, found no impairment of mental processing among the pilots.
"The study was unable to identify any clinical deficits (i.e., observable neurologic defects, such as memory or motor difficulties) in any of the U-2 pilots studied, and all of them are still performing the extremely complex tasks associated with flying the U-2," according to Lieutenant Colonel Edward T. Sholtis, deputy director of public affairs for the Air Force.
"What we do not know is the long-term implication of these findings, which is why we are instituting a long-term monitoring program," Sholtis told Reuters Health by email.
Air Force flight operations guidelines are under review to potentially increase pilot downtime between high-altitude flights longer than nine hours, and limiting the length of deployments, he said.
"Any person exposed to extreme altitudes is at risk," including extreme high altitude mountain climbers and deep-sea divers, McGuire said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/16Hne3v Neurology, online August 20, 2013.


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Schumer's plan takes helicopters out over Long Island Sound until they hit Shoreham, where they can then cross land to get to the local airports. The problem is the route to East Hampton Airport takes them right over our homes.
We understand that we need to allow traffic to the local airport, but what the Schumer proposal doesn't account for is a second, southerly route, that would also send air traffic out over the ocean to cross over Georgica to get to the airport. We're prepared to accept our share of the burden if our neighbors south of the highway are ready to accept their's.
The Schumer plan, while well intentioned, is simply inadequate. But that is easily remedied if a southerly route is added into the legislation (East Hampton Airport managers have already been urging copter pilots to come in over the ocean to reduce the burden to the north). While the public comment period is officially over, let your local, state and federal officials know that you don't want to bear all the burden of helicopter traffic.


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Apple will produce one of its existing lines of Mac computers in the United States next year, CEO Tim Cook said.
Mr Cook made the comments in part of an interview taped for NBC's Rock Centre but aired on Thursday morning on Today and posted on the network's website.
In a separate interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, he said that the company will spend $100m (€76m) in 2013 to move production of the line to the US from China.
"This doesn't mean that Apple will do it ourselves, but we'll be working with people and we'll be investing our money," Mr Cook told Bloomberg.
Like most consumer electronics companies, Apple lets contract manufacturers assemble its products overseas. However, the assembly accounts for little of the cost of making a PC or smartphone. Most of the cost lies in buying chips, and many of those are made in the US, Mr Cook noted in his interview with NBC.
The company and its manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group have faced significant criticism this year over working conditions at the Chinese facilities where Apple products are assembled, prompting Foxconn to raise salaries.
Mr Cook did not say which line of computers would be produced in the US or where in the country they would be made. But he told Bloomberg that the production would include more than just final assembly.
Regardless, the US manufacturing line is expected to represent just a tiny piece of Apple overall production, with sales of iPhones and iPads now dwarfing those of its computers.
Mr Cook said in his interview with NBC that companies like Apple chose to produce their products in places such as China, not because of the lower costs associated with it, but because the manufacturing skills required are just not present in the US anymore.
He added that the consumer electronics world has never really had a big production presence in the US. As a result, it is really more about starting production in the US than bringing it back, he said.
The news comes a day after Apple posted its worst stock drop in four years, erasing €26.7m in market capitalisation. Apple shares fell 18.57 dollars, or 3.4%, to 529.95 dollars in Thursday's pre-market session.


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This storeroom was located on the fifth-floor of Hogwarts Castle. It was usually kept locked, and in it one could find caretaking supplies, such as brooms, buckets and sponges, as well as spare roll of toilet paper and a shelf with coloured bottles. By 1991, there was a Fire Crab infestation there.[1]
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Q: Do I need to heat the water in my pond in order for my fish to survive the winter?
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During the winter months when the water temperature is 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit and below, koi and goldfish enter into a dormant state. The technical term for this is torpor, and it means that the fishes' metabolism and activity slows, they become very lethargic, and they require little nourishment. In this state, the koi and goldfish will, in fact, be quite comfortable in temperatures as low as 35 degrees.
Demystifying De-icers
If koi and goldfish don't need the water warmed, what's the deal with pond heaters and de-icers, like the Thermo-Pond, Farm Innovators or Perfect Climate™ de-icers?
These tools of the trade aren't intended to turn up the heat in your pond's water. They're designed to simply melt a hole in the ice, which allows dangerous gases to escape while letting fresh and life-sustaining oxygen. When plugged into the Thermo Cube® Thermostatically Controlled Outlet, the de-icers will turn on when temps dip to 35 degrees and off when temps rise to 45 degrees on their own. To save even more on energy costs this winter, consider installing a PondAir™ & Thermo-Pond 3.0 aeration and pond de-icer combo. When used with an aeration system, you can use a lower wattage de-icer which will not need to be ran as often to maintain an open ventilation hole.
De-icer's Limitations
But the one thing de-icers don't do: actively circulate or move the water like an aeration system does. That agitating action is necessary to trap and bring oxygen into the pond's entire water column—including the bottom, where the fishes are snoozing. It also helps to prevent ice from forming a complete sheet on the pond surface.
Though running a pump will help move the water, it doesn't agitate it enough to get those O2 levels up. A pump also costs more to operate than an aeration system, and, if ice does form, you could do some major damage to the unit from poor water flow. If you do not yet own an aeration system for your water garden, the PondAir™ & Thermo-Pond 3.0 Combo is a surefire way to protect your fish this winter.
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