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Further to yesterday's post about Specialized putting the Krabon Kaibosh* on yet another bike brand, a commenter shared the following:
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I sent Mike Sinyard an email asking WTF, and this was his reply (BS?): Here are the facts—in July 2013 we reached out to NeilPryde Bikes to figure out a solution on a bike name that was similar to one of ours, Allez, in addition to their use of the trademarks "Epic" and "Innovate or Die". We were able to agree on a solution in December. The NeilPryde crew worked with us on this solution. This has been a closed issue since we reached that decision in December.
If you would like to discuss further, I'm glad to talk anytime. Mike.
April 8, 2014 at 7:53 AM
*[Krabon Kaibosh™ is a registered trademark of Specialized Bicycle Components. Cease and desist immediately or we will make your life a living heck. Also, Cease™ and Desist™ are both registered trademarks of Specialized Bicycle Components. You know the Drill™ at this point.]
None of this addresses the fact that "Allez" and "Alize" are totally different words. If I were an actual journalist, or if I cared enough to do so, I might follow up with Mike Sinyard myself and ask the following question:
"Given that there are only 26 letters in the alphabet and so some of them are bound to repeat themselves eventually, which words are other bicycle companies still allowed to use?"
To which I imagine I'd receive the following answer:
Meanwhile, the aspiring Kickstarter entrepreneur would be wise to avoid the Wrath of Sinyard™ in choosing a name for their
They say every time a Fred crosschains his bike an inventor launches a light on Kickstarter, and here's one that you can wear:
Kind of like a cylopean bra:
Or else a very Terry Gilliam-esque hairnet.
By Kickstarter standards this is actually pretty good. I've certainly seen kookier inventions, and while there's nothing stopping you from clipping your existing light to your backpack I suppose the glowing bra straps might make a difference--though I'm withholding my investment until they make a recumbent-specific version:
Speaking of cleavage, I was checking out the inventor's brake lever cleavage, and my personal rule of thumb is that your handlebars should not be so narrow that your barrel adjusters are touching:
He'd also be a lot more visible if he were wearing a headlight bra.
Next we have the "Bike Poncho," because the poncho is the duct tape of waterproof garments:
At first I thought this was a cycling-specific poncho (like Rivendell sells), but I soon realized it's a poncho for your bike:
Firstly, your bicycle will not melt if it gets wet while sitting on your trunk rack, though I'd imagine this thing must flap like a motherfucker at highway speed. Plus, what if it falls off? If this Kickstarter gets off the ground I will live in constant fear of being blinded by an errant bike poncho on my next road trip.
Secondly, if you're so worried about it, why not put it inside your giant SUV?
(Yeah, I know, because your stupid family's inside and there's no room, whatever.)
Another poor selling point was this admonition:
Followed by this photo:
Using bikes in Amsterdam to sell a bike poncho is like using a Brazilian beach scene to sell your line of modesty swimwear for women. Anyway, even a fake Dutch bike when left naked will withstand the elements just fine.
This isn't to say the Bike Poncho is patently absurd. In fact, I could see using such a thing for my Big Dummy, which I often leave outside in foul weather, and which is a bit more vulnerable than a Dutch bike due to its exposed chain, derailleur drivetrain, and so forth. Then again, I could just use any of the millions of motorcycle covers already on the market, and I keep meaning to buy one, but I never get around to it.
Of course, you can't mount a motorcycle cover under your saddle so you can cover your bike "on the fly:"
But mostly, the Bike Poncho is remarkable because it looks like boobs:
Bras and boobs, and still one more to go--the Kold Rush, which is by far the craziest of the lot, and which was not a hip-hop record label in the 1980s:
I knew this one was going to be good as soon as I saw the hose:
"This must be some sort of system for administering colonics to yourself on the go," I thought at first, but I was mistaken, but only by a little bit. Here's the inventor, explaining how he's been cycling for 40 years, and that he hates being hot:
Presumably in that 40 year period he has also not figured out how to adjust his helment straps.
Of course, humankind has known for well over a century that if you get hot while riding you can always pour some water on your head:
However, this guy apparently lives in mortal fear of taking his hand off the bars, and so he decided instead to invent a Rube Goldberg-esque "micturating helment." See, this right here is what it looks like when genius is happening:
For some reason, they had to test it on a dummy first:
From this, they learned to make the reservoir 34% smaller:
34% smaller than what, exactly?
They never say.
Anyway, here's the button that makes your helment go pee on you:
It's like when you pick up a turtle and it starts pissing out of fear.*
*[Disclaimer: I have never experienced that and have no idea if it actually happens.]
And here is this elegant device in motion:
Complete with schmatta so you don't blind yourself:
They also added a "streamlined insulated cover," apparently to the rider's ass:
So why exactly did they add a "streamlined insulated cover" to the rider's ass?
They never say.
All I know is that I hope to sweet merciful God Jesus Lord Sinyard that this thing becomes popular, because I can think of no greater fun than rolling up to Freds and unplugging their little plastic helment urethras:
Expect Specialized to bring one of these to market within six months, and to sue anyone who dares use the phrase "Incontinent Turtle."


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New Yosemite Vid: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk, Dave Mason Wrap Great U.S.Tour
They had good luck and bad luck. Dave Mason tore off two fingertips, one when a rope slipped as he brushed a route on rappel, but both he and Mina Leslie-Wujastyk, who are just wrapping up their three-month U.S. road trip to Ibex, Joe's Valley, Bishop, Yosemite and Moab, logged tons of mileage.
They had good luck and bad luck. Dave Mason tore off two fingertips, one when a rope slipped as he brushed a route on rappel, but both he and Mina Leslie-Wujastyk, who are just wrapping up their three-month U.S. road trip to Ibex, Joe's Valley, Bishop, Yosemite and Moab, logged tons of mileage. They fly back to Sheffield, England, from Denver on Monday.For Leslie-Wujastyk, highlights included, within four days, sending three V11s and a V12—what she calls the "beautiful, beautiful"
Thigh sandstone face of Dark Matter in Huntington Canyon, Utah. The V11s were Jigsaw, Milkman Sit Start (V10/V11) and Man From the Past, all at Joe's, where she also did the V11/12s Gentleman's Project and Ghost of War. The above appear to be first female ascents, though other information may exist: If so, please note in comments field below.
She says, "This trip was a chance to go to new places, climb classic boulder problems and experience an American road trip—it satisfied on all counts! We had a blast from beginning to end."
In Yosemite Leslie-Wujastyk climbed Midnight Lightning third try (she slipped off the first move her first go, but reached the mantel second try); flashed the Yosemite highballs Flatline (V8) and Panic Room (V9); and sent Cindy (V10). Cindy had been established by her fellow Brit Sean Myles, though he toproped the tall line, having broken his leg not long beforehand. Last year, after a decade in which Cindy sat unrepeated, California's Randy Puro cleaned and climbed it.
Mina also did the UK climber Jerry Moffatt's famous Thriller (V10), which she called a lifetime goal and "Great, brilliant," and The Force (V10), another historic tick.
Various other women to boulder hard in Yosemite include (of course) Lynn Hill and Lisa Rands, with early ascents of Midnight Lightning and other problems, Natasha Barnes (first woman to climb The Force), Lyn Verinsky, Courtney Hemphill and Robyn Puro.
For Mason, one of the coaches of the British national team, a lowlight was coming heartbreakingly close to doing Black Lung, hitting the last hold many times on this famous Ben Moon (UK) V13 in Joe's Valley. He did other V13s including the fourth ascent of the James Litz problem Wing Chun at Ibex, despite having tape on two fingertips.
He says, laughing, "If I go back there I won't have to do anything but Black Lung!"
Leslie-Wujastyk will return to Vail in June for the annual Bouldering World Cup held there, and she and Mason intend their next real U.S. trip to be to Hueco and Chattannooga, in January-February of 2014. They are now to take the next few weeks rather easy, with some outdoor climbing on gritstone, prior to beginning training again in January.
Mason says, "Outdoor climbing is less intense," meaning not as hard on the body.
As we turn the corner into real winter, Leslie-Wujastyk, though liking outdoor climbing best, is unperturbed to face gym days.
"I like training," she says mildly. "I like trying hard. I get a kick out of seeing the improvement."
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? As days of preparations dwindled to hours before his blockbuster interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong went out for a training run and then retreated behind the stone walls of his Austin compound to huddle with a handful of close advisers.
After more than a decade of denying that he doped to win the Tour de France seven times, Armstrong was scheduled to sit down Monday for what has been trumpeted as a "no-holds barred," 90-minute, question-and-answer session with Winfrey. He is expected to reverse course and apologize, as well as offer a limited confession about his role as the head of a long-running scheme to dominate the prestigious bike race with the aid of performance-enhancing drugs. Winfrey and her crew will film the interview at Armstrong's home and broadcast it Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
If he was feeling any pressure, Armstrong hardly showed it during a jog under bright skies Sunday, even as members of his legal team began arriving one-by-one at his home nearby.
"I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly," he told The Associated Press, but declined to reveal how he would answer questions about the scandal that has shadowed his career like an angry storm cloud.
Armstrong was stripped of all seven Tour titles last year in the wake of a voluminous U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that portrayed him as a ruthless competitor, willing to go to any lengths to win the prestigious race. USADA chief executive Travis Tygart labeled the doping regimen allegedly carried out by the U.S. Postal Service team that Armstrong once led, "The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Yet Armstrong looked like just another runner getting in his roadwork when he talked to the AP, wearing a red jersey and black shorts, sunglasses and a white baseball cap pulled down to his eyes. Leaning into a reporter's car on the shoulder of a busy Austin road, he seemed unfazed by the attention and the international news crews that made stops at his home. He cracked a few jokes about all the reporters vying for his attention, then added, "But now I want to finish my run" and took off down the road.
The interview with Winfrey will be Armstrong's first public response to the USADA report. A person with knowledge of the situation told the AP on Saturday that Armstrong will give a limited confession and apologize. He is not expected to provide a detailed account about his involvement, nor address in depth many of the specific allegations in the more than 1,000-page USADA report.
In a text to the AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her (Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."
After a federal investigation of the cyclist was dropped without charges being brought last year, USADA stepped in with an investigation of its own. The agency deposed 11 former teammates and accused Armstrong of masterminding a complex and brazen drug program that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of other performance-enhancers.
After he was stripped of his Tour titles, Armstrong defiantly tweeted a picture of himself on a couch at home with all seven of the yellow leader's jerseys on display in frames behind him. But the preponderance of evidence in the USADA report and pending legal challenges on several fronts apparently forced him to change tactics dramatically. And he still faces legal challenges.
Former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to decide whether it will join the suit as a plaintiff.
The London-based Sunday Times also is suing Armstrong to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit. On Sunday, the newspaper took out a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune, offering Winfrey suggestions on what questions to ask Armstrong during their talk. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to deny Armstrong a promised bonus for a Tour de France win, has threatened to bring yet another lawsuit seeking to recover more than $7.5 million an arbitration panel awarded the cyclist in that dispute.
The lawsuit most likely to be influenced by a confession might be the Sunday Times case. Potential perjury charges stemming from Armstrong's sworn testimony in the 2005 arbitration fight would not apply because of the statute of limitations. Armstrong was not deposed during the federal investigation that was closed last year.
Many of his sponsors dropped Armstrong in the wake of the USADA report ? at the cost of tens of millions of dollars ? and soon after, he left the board of the Livestrong cancer-fighting charity he founded in 1997. Armstrong is still said to be worth about $100 million.
Livestrong might be one reason Armstrong has decided to come forward with an apology and limited confession. The charity supports cancer patients and still faces an image problem because of its association with Armstrong. He also may be hoping a confession would allow him to return to competition in the elite triathlon or running events he participated in after his cycling career.
World Anti-Doping Code rules state his lifetime ban cannot be reduced to less than eight years. WADA and U.S. Anti-Doping officials could agree to reduce the ban further depending on what information Armstrong provides and his level of cooperation. USADA officials said in a recent interview that the cyclist's cooperation could well initiate a "pathway to redemption."


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New requirements for ballast water dumped by ships
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has provided a pathway to U.S. waters for invasive species that damage ecosystems and cost the economy billions of dollars.
Commercial vessels are equipped with tanks that can hold millions of gallons of water to provide stability in rough seas. But live creatures often lurk in the soupy brews of water, seaweed and sediment. If they survive transoceanic journeys and are released into U.S. waters, they can multiply rapidly, crowding out native species and spreading diseases.
Ships are currently required to dump ballast water 200 miles from a U.S. shoreline. But under the new general permit released Thursday by the EPA, vessels longer than 79 feet — which includes an estimated 60,000 vessels — must also treat ballast water with technology such as ultraviolet light or chemicals to kill at least some of the organisms.
The new guidelines don't apply to vessels staying within the Great Lakes, a decision that environmentalists criticized as leaving the door open for ships to ferry invasive species around the lakes.
The permit imposes international cleanliness standards that the Coast Guard also adopted in regulations it issued last year.
The EPA said studies by its science advisory board and the National Research Council endorsed the standards, which limit the number of living organisms in particular volumes of water.
Environmental groups contend the limits should be 100 or even 1,000 times tougher, but industry groups say no existing technology can go that far.
"The numeric limitations in today's permit represent the most stringent standards" that ballast water treatment systems can "safely, effectively, credibly, and reliably meet," the EPA said in a statement with the 200-page report it released on the permit late Thursday.
Steve Fisher, executive director of the American Great Lakes Ports Association, praised the EPA for taking a reasonable approach, with many provisions resembling the Coast Guard's in the interest of harmonizing different agency policies as much as possible.
"EPA's final rules now end the debate over ballast water regulation — environmental protection can now begin," Fisher said. "From this point forward ship owners will be busy making arrangements to install the necessary ballast water treatment equipment by 2016."
But environmental groups, whose lawsuits forced the EPA to adopt ballast discharge standards in the first place, said they're too weak.
"The EPA had an opportunity to lead the world in solving this globally dangerous problem, but they have missed the mark ... again," said Mary Ellen Ashe, executive director of Great Lakes United.
Ashe also criticized the EPA for exempting ships that never leave the Great Lakes, where ballast water is blamed for introducing invasive species including zebra and quagga mussels. Those organisms have spread across the lakes, clogging water intake pipes and unraveling food webs by gobbling microscopic plankton on which fish depend.
Environmentalists contend that those exempted ships can carry exotic species around the lakes even if they weren't responsible for bringing them to the U.S. The EPA said treatment technologies are "unavailable and economically unfeasible" for those vessels. But it said any built before 2009 would have to take other steps such as limiting the amount of ballast water they pick up near shore.
Under the EPA permit and the Coast Guard regulations, ships built after Dec. 1 will have to comply with the treatment standards immediately. The requirements will be phased in for existing vessels over several years, with treatment technology being installed as ships are taken out of service for maintenance.
A coalition of environmental groups said there should be a hard deadline to retrofit all existing ships. But the EPA contends that a faster pace isn't feasible because the ballast treatment industry needs time to produce the equipment and vessel owners must develop schedules for dry-docking them to have the work done.
The EPA refused for years to set rules for ballast water under the Clean Water Act, but was ordered to do so by federal courts after environmental groups sued. The agency issued an industry-wide permit in 2008 requiring shippers to exchange their ballast water at sea or, if the tanks were empty, rinse them with salt water before entering U.S. territory in hopes of killing freshwater species inside. Environmentalists sued again, saying those requirements were inadequate.
They may return to court yet again, said Marc Smith, senior policy manager for the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes office.
"We're disappointed that EPA has punted instead of taking its responsibilities seriously," Smith said. "We're currently assessing all options, including any kind of legal recourse or working through Congress."
Legislation on ballast water has been introduced previously in Congress but got bogged down amid disagreements over how strict the cleanliness standards should be.


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Wondering what academic life at Coffeyville Community College will be like? In addition to the degrees and majors, as well as the faculty composition at Coffeyville Community College this section includes detailed information on freshman retention rates, reasons students did not graduate, and an analysis of full-time and tenured faculty vs. adjunct teaching staff.
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What's the point of going to college without academics? Find out more about the faculty and staff, what majors and fields of study are offered at this college, and information on online classes if offered. Here are some of the things you'll learn in this section.
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- The Majors offered at this college.
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The total number of instructional staff teaching the 1,898 undergraduate students at Coffeyville Community College is 68 . When this is adjusted to account for those with part-time status, the result is the "full-time equivalent" (FTE) count. Using the FTE count for students and staff results in a "student to instructor" ratio of 26 to 1 which places Coffeyville Community College among the worst concerning instructional attention.
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Trappers need to watch for wolves
As trapping seasons hit their stride, area outdoorsmen need to be mindful of wolves.
Though wolves and coyotes are very different in size, its still possible to mistake one for the other and its possible for wolves to find their way into a coyote trap.
According to DNR Biologist Brian Mastenbrook, a female adult wolf weighs between 55 and 80 pounds and a male weighs between 70 and 95. Coyotes are significantly smaller, in the 20-30 pound range.
Wolves are big animals that will defend themselves viscously when trapped. Mastenbrook said it's important to contact the DNR for anything wolf-related, especially if one is accidentally trapped.
Telling the difference between adult wolves and adult coyotes is fairly easy, but differentiating between and young wolf and an adult coyote can be more of a challenge.
Wolves have a thick, rounded snout, rounded ears, long legs and large feet, while coyotes have a pointy snout and ears and small feet, explained Mastenbrook.
Staying vigilant for wolf signs is also a way to indicate that a trapped animal could be a wolf.
It may sound fairly simple, but telling the difference between a wolf and coyote sign has proven exceptionally difficult, even for outdoorsmen.
Wolf tracks are about 3x4 inches, much larger than coyote tracks.
"A wolf track is about the size of the toe of your boot," said Mastenbrook. "Wolf tracks are big. You'll know it immediately. If there is any doubt, you're probably looking at a coyote track."
Though no sign is full-proof, kill sites offer distinct clues as to the presence of wolves.
"Generally, wolves don't leave any bones at a kill site, mostly just hair," Mastenbrook explained. "Coyotes can't eat the bigger bones like the ribs, vertebrae and legs. Wolves eat those up usually."
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ASHRAE in Weatherization
Over the years, the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) has gone through a number of significant changes, trying to become more scientific and technical. There has been frequent controversy, however, about how tight a house should be, for fear that indoor air quality (IAQ) will suffer if a house is too tight. These choices are changing again, taking the words "too tight" out of the discussion. Soon it will be possible to tighten a house as much as possible, and still be confident that IAQ will remain acceptable.
DOE has mandated that the low-income weatherization program implement a new ventilation standard—one that will probably require the addition of mechanical ventilation on many weatherized houses. BPI also recently announced that it will be adopting this same standard, effective January 1, 2013. The referenced standard, ASHRAE 62.2-2010, "Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings," calculates required air movement based on both floor space and number of occupants. The standard also looks at the capacity to remove contaminants (including moisture) from the bath and kitchen and, in existing buildings, recognizes accidental ventilation from infiltration.
First, according to the standard, 1 cubic foot per minute (CFM) of ventilation for every 100 square feet of area is the minimum flow rate for an "occupiable" floor area in low-rise residences. For example, a 1,200 ft2 home must get at least 12 CFM of continuous ventilation (simply slide the decimal two places to the left). Add to that a requirement of 7.5 CFM per resident; the standard assumes two people in the master bedroom and one in each additional bedroom (minimum ventilation for occupants is number of BR + 1). Therefore, a three-bedroom home would need (3 + 1) x 7.5 CFM, or another 30 CFM of ventilation for the occupants. Adding the initial 12 CFM to this 30 gives 42 CFM of continuous whole-house ventilation for this example. However, if more than five people live in a three-bedroom home, the flow rate is based strictly on the number of residents.
Because the bathrooms and kitchen are recognized as sources of poor IAQ, there are specific requirements for each room. Every bath (with a tub or shower) should have an intermittent fan capable of either removing 50 CFM or providing a continuous flow of 20 CFM; there is no mechanical requirement for a room with only a toilet and a sink. The kitchen can have a range hood that removes 100 CFM on demand, or an exhaust fan that provides a continuous flow of 5 ACH for the entire volume of the kitchen. This completes required calculations for new houses, aside from evaluating other obvious sources of pollution (attached garage and combustion appliances, for example) and limits the noise from these fans, measured in sones. Though there is no guarantee, the upside of these rigorous sound requirements is that fairly high-quality fans will be installed.
Existing Buildings
As before, there are requirements both for whole-building (continuous) ventilation and for local exhaust in existing buildings. The calculation for whole-house ventilation in a previously occupied building, such as a weatherization house, is the same as that described above. In addition, there are means to accommodate inadequate local ventilation in existing buildings, and recognition (and credit) for infiltration. Rather than install each required local ventilator, whole-house flow can be increased in proportion to a calculated deficit, but also can potentially be reduced based on how leaky this leaves the house.
The local, or spot, airflow deficit calculation starts with the required intermittent flows of 50 CFM for each bath, and 100 CFM for the kitchen. Actual flow from any existing fans can be measured (or calculated, with a compliant duct size and length based on specified flow at 0.25 inches of water gauge), and then subtracted from the requirement. One operable window can further reduce a deficit by 20 CFM per room. The remaining deficit, after existing fans and windows are recognized, is divided by 4, and the result is added to the whole-house ventilation flow rate requirement as additional continuous flow.
As an example, a house with one bath that has a window and a vent fan with flow measured at 20 CFM has a calculated deficit of 10 (as 50 - [20 + 20]). The kitchen, with two windows and a range hood with measured flow of 125 CFM, has no deficit (100 - (20 + 125) = -45). Note that no room deficit can exceed zero and provide a credit. Summing the bath (10) and kitchen (0) deficits, and dividing by 4 yields 2.5 CFM, to be added to the whole-house ventilation flow rate for the building.
By contrast, in a house with a window in the kitchen but not in the bath and no existing fans in either room, the additional flow would be 32.5 CFM:
- Kitchen: 100 – (20 + 0) = 80.
- Bath: 50 – (0 + 0) = 50.
- Overall: (80 + 50)/4 = 32.5.
Based on the initial 1,200 ft2 example, the total ventilation flow required would be 42 + 32.5, or 74.5 CFM continuously. By optimizing equipment selection—say, by installing a range hood meeting the required 100 CFM intermittent flow— the continuous flow could be reduced by 20 CFM to 54.5 CFM.
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Thom Knoll can be reached by phone at (269)364-3817 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information, and to read the standard, visit www.ASHRAE.org or go to their bookstore to purchase the Standard 62.2-2010, the Standard 62.2-2010 Users Manual, and Guideline 10-2011: "Interactions Affecting the Achievement of Acceptable Indoor Environments" at www.techstreet.com/ashrae/ashraegate.html.
To learn about the WAP Technical Assistance Center (WAPTAC), visit www.WAPTAC.org. Useful articles on this web site include the "Weatherization Guidance Memo" (under the Rules and Guidance tab), "Health and Safety Guidance" (also under the Rules and Guidance tab), and "WAP Standardized Curricula: ASHRAE 62.2" (under Training Resources).
WARM Training Center is located at 4835 Michigan Ave., Detroit MI 48210. Call 313-894-1030 or visit www.WARMTraining.org.
Infiltration Credit and Its Cost
A postweatherization blower door value can be used to recognize the contribution of unintentional ventilation to IAQ. ASHRAE Standard 136 is referenced in Standard 62.2, so the blower door value at the reference standard of 50 pascals (CFM50) is converted, based on building height and local weather factor, to an estimated natural value in CFM. An allowance based on 2 CFM per 100 square feet of occupiable floor area is deducted from the blower door result and then cut in half. The resulting flow rate can then be deducted from the continuous whole-house ventilation rate.
For a 2,000 ft2 single-story house in Chicago for which measured infiltration is 1,550 CFM50, the ASHRAE 136 calculation would equal 73.2 CFM (1,550 x height factor 1 x weather factor 0.93 x constant 0.0508). The 2 CFM per 100 square feet yields 40 CFM, so the infiltration credit equals 16.6 CFM (half of 73.2 – 40).
This infiltration credit clearly increases as house tightness decreases. So too, however, do the heating bills. When infiltration is increased to 2,550 CFM50 (infiltration credit of 40 CFM), the cost of heating the ventilation air removed by the fan will decrease by an estimated $450, but the cost of heating the infiltration air will increase by approximately $900. This two-to-one relationship continues until infiltration credit eliminates the need for mechanical ventilation (but heating bills will become the homeowner's biggest concern).
Since the object of weatherization is to reduce energy costs for low-income households, it is important not only to look at the cost to the program of installing equipment, but also to calculate the lost opportunity if maximal infiltration reduction isn't delivered at every opportunity. It should be a no-brainer to embrace the idea of tightening the house as much as possible, and to provide high-quality equipment to operate the home efficiently and economically.
This article was sponsored by DOE's Weatherization Assistance Program, through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Exploring the Haute Route huts
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Vail, CO Colorado
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of three stories about a 2012 father-son trip to the Alps to climb the Haute Route, a 110-mile journey that crosses the highest, most dramatic peaks of the Alps from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland.
Fan Fan, our guide, met us early at our hotel for the short drive to Italy through the amazing Mont Blanc tunnel. Arriving in Courmayeur you immediately get the change in the vibe. Everyone met at a small cafe with a very interesting bathroom before heading up the first stage of the tram, with full avalanche and mountaineering gear in tow. With serious stuff ahead, Stefan decided it was the perfect time to try his first espresso.
After riding three stages to the Punta Helbronner summit, we skied down the opposite side of the valley from the Aiguille du Midi and skinned across the upper reaches of the Mer de Glace glacier to the base of La Tour Ronde. As we took the climbing skins off of our skis, put on our crampons and roped up for the steep climb up the couloir, a massive fog bank rolled in. After some mobile calls to other guides and getting a bad weather forecast, an earlier group began down climbing above us. Despite blue skies everywhere in the valley, we were getting shut out of this classic descent, one that requires an abseil into the 40-55 degree upper reaches of the couloir and a long, steep drop onto the Brenva glacier back to Courmayeur.
So, back down the Vallee Blanche to Chamonix. Problem is that our two cars were still back in Italy! After a late lunch in Chamonix and with the vehicle rescue problem seemingly resolved, we set our sights on the next morning and the start of the Haute Route.
Day 1: Argentiere – Trient Hut
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Our tour began with a bus ride to the base of the Grands Montets, followed by a two-stage tram ride to the summit. From the summit we skied onto the Glacier d' Argentiere. Working our way around a myriad of crevasses, we skied down to the Col du Passon, avoiding the heavily trafficked Col du Chardonnet. Our route, though much longer, should avoid the bottlenecks going down the backside of the Chardonnet. At the top of the Col, we broke out once again into sunshine, dropped down the backside onto the Glacier du Tour, followed by a long mellow skin across a wide valley to the base of the Col Superieure du Tour into Switzerland. After a long and steep climb up the Col, we dropped onto the massive Antarctica-like Trient Plateau for the long skin across to the Cabane du Trient. One more climb and we arrived at the hut, where our exertion was forgotten as we took in the spectacular view.
Our group was among the very first groups to arrive at the hut, (a pattern that would be repeated all week) which is perched high on a cliff above and facing the full expanse of the plateau. Since the huts are fully stocked and serviced (via helicopter) we ordered a lunch of cold Swiss beer and traditional Swiss Rosti (a large plate of hash browns topped with eggs, ham and cornichons). We let all the gear and ourselves dry out in the sun and relaxed, enjoying the passage of multiple groups of skiers crossing over to the hut late into the afternoon.
The huts themselves are set in amazing locations, fully stocked and a fusion of international skiers – English, French, Swiss, German, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and us, rare Americans – all settled in for a great dinner, wine and an early night packed in like sardines in the huts dorm-style sleeping quarters.
Day 2: Trient Hut – Mont Fort Hut
We set off from the Trient Hut around 7 a.m. for the initial descent down the Trient Glacier to the Col des Ecandies. The glacier, while not steep by our standards, was frozen solid with many crevasse holes. Several less-skilled skiers from an English group were roped together on this descent and seemed paralyzed with fear. Arriving at the Col des Ecandies, we found the lower couloir devoid of snow and stripped to bare rock. As our guides seemed to have unwavering confidence in our abilities, we headed up with axe and crampons, but did not rope up. Knowing that several people are climbing right behind you and that one slip means you will plummet down the Col and take out everyone behind you, tends to focus your concentration to new levels. This is another no-fall zone, for sure under these conditions.
At the top, we took a brief break before setting off down the Val d'Arpette and then a long descent to the Village of Champex for a needed coffee break at a cafe along the lake and a taxi ride to the valley floor for the first of several trams to Verbier. It was sunny and warm as we arrived in Verbier, where we took a two-hour break wandering the village before heading up to the Mont Fort hut for our second night.
The Mont Fort hut lies within the Verbier ski area boundary, so we had a few on-piste runs before we settled in at the hut. Once again, we were among the first groups to arrive so that meant more beer and Rosti! The hut was fairly deluxe and very well stocked, so we kicked back and enjoyed a great three-course dinner and our own private room. I think we were all asleep moments after our heads hit the pillow.
Day 3: Mont Fort Hut – Pra Fleuri Hut
We awoke early and headed out onto the piste before veering off to begin climbing the Col de Chaux. The sun rose just as we crested the col and another clear and warm day was before us. From the col we traversed a long ridge and dropped down to the base of the valley for a long skin to the Col de Momin. We then encountered a very steep switchback climb that required the first use of our ski crampons and tested our marginal kick-turn skills. Arriving at the col, we again saw the Matterhorn far in the distance. After a quick water break, we climbed to the summit of the nearby Rosablanche Peak at 3,336 meters/10,944 feet, again with axe and crampons and no rope.
We headed down the backside of the Rosablanche and skied into a vast valley heading towards the Pra Fleuri Glacier. By now the sun was cooking us and the temperature was in the 60s. Stripped down to just my first base layer and wearing my vintage Vuarnet glacier glasses for the first time since the early 1980s, we skinned, switchbacked and traversed for what seemed like an eternity in the heat until finally the Pra Fleuri hut came into view far below us. At this point, Martin, myself and Stefan, who was suffering from a cold he caught the day before, headed straight to the hut while Mike, John, Peter and Hattrup headed further up to ski down a snowfield above us.
Built in an old quarry, the Pra Fleuri hut in the center of a huge bowl was a welcome sight. My clothing and boots were soaked with perspiration and it felt great to be relaxing in shorts and a T-shirt as once again we arrived long before the other groups. At this point, while I reclined in a chaise with a beer in hand, I could not help but be amazed at how fate, karma and sheer good fortune united to put me there.
Check back next week for the third and final part of this series.
Barry Levinson is a longtime resident of the Vail Valley, the founder of Ski Racing Development (www.skiracingdevelopment.com) and part- time private ski instructor at Vail. Email comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Letters: September/October 2011
Passive House No Magic Bullet
I attended the North American Passive House Conference in Portland last year and am generally a supporter of the Passive House program. However, I have a problem with how the program is currently being marketed and discussed. In the article "Passive House Gets Active" (Mar/Apr '11, p. 22), the author repeats a common misconception that I have seen in numerous other articles and publications: "If you can achieve these [Passive House] goals, you have reduced energy consumption of the building by roughly 90% over a typical code-built building. Once you reduce your utilities that much, it's easy to get to net zero energy. " This statement is simply wrong.
The Passive House program focuses on superinsulation and airtightness. This may reduce the space-heating energy of the building by 90% over a typical code-built building, but space heating is only a fraction of the energy consumed by a building. The rest is water heating, fans, lights, appliances, cooking, and miscellaneous plug loads. Even if the heating load were to be completely eliminated, this still leaves well over half of the energy use of the building in most climates. It is not going to be "easy" to get to net zero energy without addressing these other loads in addition to the space-heating load.
The Passive House program is a great program to reduce space-heating energy, but it is not a magic bullet that will solve all our energy efficiency problems.
Jonathan Heller, P.E.
Ecotope, Incorporated
Seattle, Washington
Blown Cover?
A reader glancing at the cover of the July/August 2011 issue of Home Energy could come away with some incorrect ideas about the integration of windows with the drainage plane in new construction.
Specific details vary depending upon whether the window has an integral flange or brick mold/casing, but neither uses straight flashing in the way shown in the picture.
All components (house wrap, sill panning, window, and straight flashing) must be installed shingle style. In the picture on the magazine cover, the straight flashing on the side jam would direct water from the drainage plane into the rough opening. The result would be unhappiness. The installation of the house wrap at the top of the opening is incorrect as well; that needs to be cut into a flap so it can be dropped down over the top flange of the window (if it has a flange) or over the drip cap if there is no flange. Under no circumstances would a piece of straight flashing go over the necessary 45 degree cut that would integrate the window flange or casing with the drainage plane; putting it there would be a waste of material. It's also a missed opportunity that we can't see the critically important sill panning. But excellent details are at www.buildingscience.com/documents/information-sheets/pan-flashing-for-exterior-wall-openings/? searchterm=window/.
For a complete protocol, see www.finehomebuilding.com/how-to/install-replacement-windows-and-flashing-correctly. aspx/.
Please excuse my zealousness, but absent/improper window flashing and the lack of kickout flashings are perennial pet peeves around here. And yes, I know I need to get a life!
-— Ed Voytovich
Building Efficiency Resources, LLC
Syracuse, New York
There were some errors on p. 39 of the article " Integrating Energy Efficiency and Healthy Homes, " in the July/August 2011 issue. The Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) was established in 2008 by the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, not by the Federal Healthy Homes Work Group or the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) as stated in the article. GHHI was launched as a national partnership in January 2009 with the Council on Foundations, White House Office of Recovery, HUD, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The Annie E. Casey Foundation, and 14 project sites. The Federal Healthy Homes Work Group was established by HUD, not NCHH.
On p. 8 of the July/August ' 11 issue, a photo covers some of the text. The editors apologize for the mistake and the confusion it has caused our readers. The article, " Carbon Monoxide Around the House: Comparing CO Monitors, " reviews several CO monitors. The review of the Bacharach Monoxor III CO monitor, which was partially obscured by the photo, is reprinted below.
Bacharach Monoxor III. The Monoxor III is really in a different class, and I have included it here only because it is often used both for ambient and for undiluted CO testing. One drawback to that approach is that the unit cannot be used for both purposes at once. If the probe is in the throat of the water heater measuring the undiluted CO, it can't be measuring the ambient CO in the room. Nor is the Monoxor III well suited to walking around the house taking ambient CO readings. The pump is running all the time, which is a bit noisy; it is somewhat bulky; and it is particularly awkward if the hose and probe are attached to the body of the unit. The unit has no alarm function, so you have to be looking at it to monitor CO levels in the house.
However, in order to conduct a complete building analysis, you need a means of measuring the undiluted CO and the ambient CO. Although it is a compromise, the Monoxor III is one of the least expensive ways of measuring both.


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In the 1930s, Halliburton established its first research laboratories where the company tested cement mixes, began offering acidizing services to break down the resistance of limestone formations and increase the production of oil and gas, and performed its first offshore cementing job using a barge-mounted cementing unit at a rig in the Creole Field in the Gulf of Mexico. This was the beginning of what was to become the world's most extensive offshore service.
Halliburton took the initial steps toward becoming a worldwide company in 1926. We sold five cementing units to an English company in Burma, the start of our Eastern Hemisphere operations, and Erle P. Halliburton sent his brothers to open our business in Alberta, Canada. We opened in Venezuela in 1940. By 1946, the company – using its innovative technology – had expanded into Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the Middle East and began performing services for the Arabian-American Oil Company, the forerunner of Saudi Aramco.
In 1951, Halliburton made its first appearance in Europe as Halliburton Italiana SpA., a wholly owned subsidiary in Italy. In the next seven years, Halliburton launched Halliburton Company Germany GmbH, set up operations in Argentina and established a subsidiary in England.
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Some of the most important decisions that influence the public's knowledge aren't made by scientific societies and they don't take place in Washington DC. For the most part, they're made in the capitals of each state, as each has its own standards for what students leaving its public schools should know. Those standards set lesson plans and help decide which textbooks are acceptable.
That latter feature means that states with large student populations, like Texas and California, have an outsized influence on education in other states, as textbook publishers work hard to ensure that their products can sell in the largest markets possible. So the state school board in Texas, an elected body that approves education standards once a decade, can have a widespread impact on the US education system.
Unfortunately, the schoolboard in Texas has been a mess. Elections with tiny voter turnouts have put in place religious and ideological warriors who want to rewrite textbooks in the image of their own beliefs, disregarding the expertise of the people who actually know the subject areas at issue. Their contentious assault on science and history standards, which took place in 2010, has been captured in the film The Revisionaries, which PBS' Independent Lens will be showing this coming week.
The process for creating Texas' educational standards is mostly a sound one. A panel of educators and subject experts, often drawn from the academic community, decided which subjects are most relevant and what students should know about them. The standards are then handed over to the board for approval. But the soundness ends there. The board, which may not (and in many cases, does not) have expertise in these subject areas, is allowed to delete, edit, or replace any of the standards recommended by the experts.
And oh boy, do some of them relish the chance. You can see how much respect then-Board Chairman Don McLeroy has for expertise in the clip below, where he wonders why none of them support his tortured misrepresentation of Stephen J. Gould.
McLeroy, a young-Earth creationist who thinks the world is 6,000 years old, is one of the center points of The Revisionaries, which opens with him being grilled in the state capital. He was nominated by Texas governor Rick Perry for another term as Chair at a time when, as one of his questioners notes, there were 11 bills under consideration to strip him of his existing powers. Yet somehow, he came within two votes of being approved.
The movie follows the testimony and actions of the board as it tears through—and in some cases, tears up—the science and history standards that were forwarded to them. It uses footage of hearings and votes, along with interviews of many of the participants, including a professor involved in writing the science standards, and Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network, an organization dedicated to limiting the impact of the board's more ideological members.
And they are seriously ideological. McLeroy is quoted as saying, "education is too important to not be politicized," while fellow board member Cynthia Dunbar claims that "education is inherently religious." And she apparently treats the board meetings the same way, as she's shown giving an opening prayer in which she calls for Jesus to help everyone recognize that the US is "a Christian land, governed by Christian principles."
The existing Texas science standards had language that called for the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution to be taught. That language has opened the door to the sorts of spurious criticisms that McLeroy is fond of (and apparently, subjects some of his dental patients to). So when the proposed new standards came to the board without any mention of strengths and weaknesses, McLeroy and others fought hard to put them back in. As a compromise, the board simply renamed them to "analyze and evaluate," creating awkward results like instructing students to "analyze all sides of scientific information" about evolution.
If anything, the history standards were worse. Dunbar claims she's a "big fan" of Thomas Jefferson, but thinks a "secular humanistic ideology" has clouded current interpretations of his work. So she cuts him out of the standards on the Enlightenment and its influence on the US' founding documents, instead substituting in pre-enlightenment figures like Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin. Further revisions to history come rapid fire, as others try to add the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority, and NRA to a section on the '80s, and another person tries to make sure Barack Obama's middle name (Hussein) is added to the text where his name appears.
One board member, looking at the results, is seen saying, "I feel that I have let down the students in our state because all those kids in our schools right now, when they get to college, they're going to learn the real history."
The movie ends with McLeroy losing his reelection bid by a few hundred votes, but already thinking about running again at his next opportunity. But some of his many opponents note that the changes he helped make to the standards will be influencing entire generations of students before they're next revised in 2020.
Enough people describe the whole process as a mess that it's no surprise The Revisionaries struggles to lay it out in a narrative. The challenge is made larger by the filmmakers' decision to provide little framing for the footage, other than sporadic notes scratched on a blackboard to give some sense of the timing and location of the clips. As a result, the movie really doesn't work if you go into it hoping to get a history of the Texas school board. In fact, it would probably be better if you went in to things with a rough outline of the events (the one in this review would be enough).
But if you've got that, the film is a fascinating glimpse into the sorts of thinking that drive the public controversies that have happened in Texas and elsewhere. The issue is probably best captured by some footage of McLeroy away from his work on the school board, teaching a Sunday School class at his church. In tackling Noah's Ark, he only spends a brief moment on the moral import of the story, and then he's off with a scale model of the ark, discussing how its interior could have been organized. Before the scene ends, the children are out on a soccer field, laying out the shape of the ark and counting out known species of animals, all in an effort to show it could work.
For some people, it's not enough to have beliefs. The facts have to be made to comport with them, and everybody else then has to agree with those facts.
The Revisionaries will be appearing on PBS' "Independent Lens" this week. You can find out more details at the PBS site.


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Here are 29 covers from the hallowed, heavy September fashion issues (click to soak it all in). So how do Vogue, Elle, and the smaller titles stack up? Let's put September to a full statistical analysis.
Click the image to enlarge for the full, glossy effect.
First, titles and cover stars, from left to right:
Row 1: Allure, Kim Kardashian; Harper's Bazaar US (subscriber cover), Jennifer Aniston; Harper's Bazaar Australia, Elle MacPherson; Harper's Bazaar US (newsstand cover), Jennifer Aniston; Harper's Bazaar Japan, Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise; Harper's Bazaar UK (subscriber cover), Gisele Bündchen; Cosmopolitan US, Jessica Alba; Dazed & Confused, Dakota Fanning; Elle US, Julia Roberts.
Row 2: Elle UK, Emily Blunt; Essence, Naomi Campbell, Iman Abdulmajid, and Liya Kebede; Flare, Doutzen Kroes; Glamour US, Jennifer Lopez; Glamour UK, Katy Perry; i-D, three covers, Kate Moss, Lady Gaga, and Naomi Campbell; LOVE, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Row 3: Lucky, Jessica Simpson; Marie Claire US, three covers, Mary-Kate Olsen; More, Laura Linney; Teen Vogue, Victoria Justice; Vanity Fair US & UK, Lady Gaga; Vogue US, Halle Berry; Vogue Australia, Catherine McNeil.
Row 4: Vogue Japan, Natasha Poly; Vogue Portugal, Olga Scherer; Vogue UK, Kate Moss; Vogue Germany, Constance Jablonksi; Vogue China, two covers, Feifei Sun, Liu Wen, Ming Xi, Shu Pei Qin, and Tao Okamoto; W, triple gatefold, Yaya DaCosta, Jennifer Lawrence, Greta Gerwig, Kat Dennings, Jessica Chastain, Emma Roberts, Zoe Kravitz, and Mary-Elizabeth Winstead.
September By The Numbers
- Number of magazines pictured above: 29
- Number of people on all the covers of these magazines: 48 (including six people with covers of LOVE, not pictured)
- Notable magazines not appearing here: Vogue Paris and Vogue Italia, neither of which is out yet
- Number of magazines that have multiple covers: 8 (counting Harper's Bazaar US & UK's subscriber and newsstand covers; LOVE's eight covers; Glamour UK's eight regional covers, each of which features Katy Perry; i-D's three covers; American Marie Claire's three covers; Vogue China's two covers; and W's triple gatefold cover)
- Number of covers featuring Gisele Bündchen: 2 (counting one cover of LOVE, not pictured)
- Number of covers featuring Naomi Campbell: 2
- Number of covers featuring Kate Moss: 2
- Number of covers featuring Lady Gaga: 2
- Number of covers featuring one or more people of color: 6
- Total number of people of color on all of these magazines: 12
- 12 out of 48 makes: 25%
- Number of years since a black woman was last on the September cover of American Vogue: 21
- Year in which American Vogue first featured a black cover model: 1974, with Beverly Johnson
- Ratio of actresses : singers : models: 21 : 3 : 23
- Number of reality television stars who wanted to be on a magazine cover without first staging a fight with a female family member: 1
- Ratio of women : men: 47 : 1
- Oldest person on a September cover: Lauren Hutton, 66, LOVE (not pictured)
- Youngest person on a September cover: Dakota Fanning, 16, Dazed & Confused
- Number of women over 40 on a September cover: 10, including American Elle, Vogue, and Glamour
- Uncanny Valley Award For Most Outrageous Photoshop: Essence
- Most wtf hair: American Vogue
- Number of magazines in addition to i-D, where such a pose is traditional, where a person on the cover was snapped covering up or closing one eye: 5
- Number of black-and-white covers: 8, counting Hutton's LOVE cover and the subscriber covers of US & UK Harper's Bazaar
- Prettiest cover: Gisele Bündchen for Harper's Bazaar UK, duh
- Number of covers pictured above with the word "Va-jay-jay" in 48-point font: 1
- Number of covers pictured above with the words "Fall Fashion": 9
- Number of issues claiming to be the "Fashion Issue": 6
- Number of American nationals involved in the creation of Vogue Japan's "American Beauty" cover: probably zero, given the fashion editor is Italian, the photographers are Dutch, and the model is Russian
- Achievement Award For Most Awkward Pose: jointly given to Jessica Simpson and Elle MacPherson
- Most original cover of a mainstream magazine: Lady Gaga on Vanity Fair. Duh.


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The Moon is a bit of an enigma. In some ways, it's nothing like Earth, as its minerals contain few volatile chemicals and it has a relatively tiny core. But in other ways, it's nearly our twin, with many elements having isotopic signatures that are almost identical.
Currently, our best model for Moon formation involves having a Mars-sized object smack in to the early Earth. This could create a Moon that has some similarities to the Earth, but ends up with most of the iron from the impact being deposited in the Earth's core. The only problem with this is that anything as big as Mars probably originated from elsewhere in the Solar System, and thus would have a very distinct isotope ratio.
Today, Science is releasing two papers that take very different routes to tackling this problem. One models what would happen if, instead of a large size difference between the Earth and its impactor, the two bodies were of roughly equal size. Another models two differently sized bodies colliding, but assumes the proto-Earth was spinning much faster than it is now, with "days" on the order of 2.5 hours long. And, in a dilemma that may interest planetary scientists, both models produce the sort of distribution of materials we currently see.
Models of Solar System formation suggest that its rocky planets were built sequentially, with planetesimals condensing from the dust and debris, and then merging to form protoplanets. Over time, these protoplanets underwent a series of collisions and mergers, building planets like Venus and the Earth. (A few objects, like Mars and Vesta, may have sat out most of these later mergers, leaving much smaller objects behind.)
A collision of this sort could help explain some puzzling aspects of the Moon. If the debris left behind were dispersed enough, some of it could condense into a separate object, explaining how two large bodies could end up in such close proximity. And heavy elements would preferentially end up in the larger one, explaining the Moon's small core.
The simulations that show how these collisions would work involve smacking together two spheres full of particles, with each particle having a distinct identity and location—heavy metal particles in the core, silicate rocks in the crust, etc. By tracing these particles through the collision, it's possible to follow the iron from the impactor, and watch it drop into the Earth's core, and so on. The problem is that they also show that the Moon should end up with a crust that's largely composed of material from the impactor. And that's tough to square with the fact that the different forms of many elements, called isotopes, vary with a body's location in the Solar System.
So, unless the impactor started right next door, we'd expect that the isotope ratios of the material it brought wouldn't look like the ones on Earth. And, as we look more carefully at the material in the Moon, that just doesn't seem to be the case.
One of the new papers, from the Southwest Research Institute's Robin Canup, takes a look at what would happen if two large bodies combined. Typically, the Earth is modeled as being nearly its current size, the product of multiple planetoid mergers; its impactor as being about a tenth of its size. Canup ran a series of models in which the two were much closer to equal size, starting with an impactor that was half the mass and moving up to one that was about 90 percent. Models where the impactor was about 80 percent of the size of the pre-Earth created debris disks that could form a Moon; both it and the resulting Earth ended up with very similar material in their crusts.
A second paper, from Sarah Stewart of Harvard and Matija Ćuk (now with the SETI institute), went about things completely differently. They focused on the fact that all the collisions involved in building a planet are expected to leave it spinning very rapidly. So they modeled a normal Mars-sized impactor, but had the Earth spinning really fast, with days lasting anywhere from 2.3 to 2.7 hours. These collisions produce a debris disk that was composed primarily of material from the pre-Earth's mantle, which would explain the Moon's present similarity to the Earth.
An example of one of the runs of this model is seen here. The smash leaves the impactor's matter evenly distributed, and a sufficient amount of debris far enough from the Earth to form a separate body.
The problem with both of these models is that they leave the Earth-Moon system spinning very rapidly. Since the angular momentum of the system has to be conserved, we need some way of getting rid of some of this spin. Tidal forces can do some of that, but the authors of the second paper go on to show that there's a resonance between the lunar orbit and the system's orbit around the Sun. This effectively moves some of the angular momentum out of the Earth-Moon system, and into the system's orbit around the Sun. Combined with tidal forces, this can put a strong enough brake on the system.
Which model will win out? Right now, neither paper really addresses the others' model, so it's a bit hard to say. It's possible that, as the details are filled in, one or the other model will provide a better match to the data we already have. Or one of them could identify data we don't have yet. The ongoing GRAIL mission, which is mapping the density of the Moon's crust, may also provide some further information that will help us understand the Moon's formation.
Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1225542, 10.1126/science.1226073 (About DOIs).


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OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual to designate three dollars on his or her income tax return (six dollars on a joint return) to be used to reduce the public debt of the United States.
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT: Pres. Eisenhower apparently once said that he believed that there could be no surplus as long as our Nation was in debt. I come from that school of thought, and yet that is not exactly where we are right now in Washington.
Where we are right now is debating whether or not 90 percent or 50 percent, or some number in between, of these projected future surpluses should be allocated to the debt. What struck me is the fact that really more than just the Congress should be involved in that debate. It is for that reason that I introduce today the Taxpayers' Choice Debt Reduction Act.
What this bill would do would be to simply take the 1040, the tax return as we now know it. And right now, we can send $3 to the presidential campaign. This would create another box wherein we could send 3 bucks to debt reduction. That is not enough money to change our national debt, but it is enough money to make a small step in an important debate that we all ought to be a part of.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means; never called for a House vote.
[As part of the Contract with America, within 100 days we pledge to bring to the House Floor the following bill]:
The Fiscal Responsibility Act:
A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses.
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FL-24:Sandy Adams
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Billy Crystal Gets Personal in New Memoir
Billy Crystal remembers a show in Baltimore, around 1975, when he opened for the 1950s revival act Sha Na Na.
He was an unknown comic at the time, an unknown who happened to look exactly like one of Sha Na Na's lead singers, Johnny Contardo.
"I'm introduced and I have no billing," Crystal says during a recent interview. "'Please welcome another star of our show and an up-and-coming new comic ...' That was the '70s. Whenever you heard 'up-and-coming new comic,' it was like 'Ugh.'
"When I hit the stage they thought I was Johnny playing a guy named Billy Crystal and they booed and they hissed and so forth. And I started getting in their face, in a funny way. And I finished my set and I got a standing ovation after I walked off. And Johnny got a T-shirt that he would wear and it said, 'No, I'm not Billy Crystal.'"
It's been a long time since Billy Crystal has been mistaken for anyone else.
At 65, he has the same round face, scrappy New York accent and rubbery grin known to fans of "Analyze This," "When Harry Met Sally ..." and all those Oscar telecasts. Seated in his publicist's office, sipping coffee from a paper Starbucks cup, he looks at least a decade younger than his age and is working at the same pace — constant — that he's kept up for much of his life.
He's set to star in a film comedy directed by Frank Oz and this fall will return to Broadway with his one-man show about his childhood and his father, "700 Sundays." His whole life is on record for his current project, the memoir "Still Foolin' 'Em," which set off a million-dollar bidding war among publishers last spring that was finally won by Henry Holt and Company.
Turning 65 was all the inspiration he needed.
"All of my really dear friends who are the same age are pretty much saying the same thing, which is basically, 'Wow. Jeez. This is really happening,'" he says. "You go through stages — first day of school, 'It's a bar mitzvah,' 'a wedding.' 'You know who died?'"
Crystal is both a typical baby boomer, baseball fan and political liberal who brags about his grandchildren and can't believe that he's a grandfather and a VIP who seems to have lived out every childhood fantasy — a star of movies, television and the stage, befriended by Muhammad Ali and Mickey Mantle, adored by Sophia Loren. During one Oscar show, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty stopped by his dressing room to compliment him. Beatty and Bill Clinton turned up backstage after a performance of "700 Sundays."
He has not only palled around with Mantle, Yogi Berra and other New York Yankees, he even got to play for them.
"In 2007, I was in Costa Rica for Christmas vacation and could feel my birthday looming," Crystal writes in his memoir. "I was anxious about turning 60 — it felt like a huge number. Derek Jeter happened to be at our hotel."
Jeter "happened" to be there, and also happened to be a longtime friend who asked Crystal to make a birthday wish.
On March 13, 2008, Crystal was allowed an at-bat during a Yankees exhibition game.
"Dreams have come true for me in so many different ways that's it's almost astounding," he says. "As I was writing these things, other people reacted to them — I've lived through them, but other people say, 'Do you realize how many great things have happened?'"
He has had disappointments — minor, major and profound. Joe DiMaggio once punched him in the stomach (Crystal, hosting a tribute at Yankee Stadium for Mantle, had failed to introduce DiMaggio as "the greatest living" baseball player). He was scheduled to appear on the debut broadcast of "Saturday Night Live," but his segment was cut. The 1992 film "Mr. Saturday Night," which Crystal directed and starred in, was a critical and commercial letdown that kicked off a dry spell and made Crystal wonder if his movie career was over.
But the real wound was sustained at age 15 when his father died of a heart attack. Jack Crystal was a jazz promoter and producer, and his son's first audience.
"That's how you start," Billy Crystal says, "making your parents laugh. And he was a really great mentor in looking at these really great comedians on television and saying, 'Watch Laurel and Hardy and not The Three Stooges.' 'You can stay up late, even though it's a school night.' Then you can watch Ernie Kovacs and stay up for Jack Paar because Jonathan Winters is on."
With the 50th anniversary of his father's death approaching, Crystal decided it was a good time for another run, likely the last, of "700 Sundays."
"I love the energy of Broadway and I thought this was the way to commemorate it (his father's death) and then put the show to rest," he says. "I see the thread (in life) as I always end up returning to the stage, to get up in front of people and make them laugh and make them look at themselves and make them nod their heads and go, 'Oh, that's me, too.'"


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