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Charting Fertility By Ovulation Microscope: Focusing on Fertility from a Doctor's Perspective
For the more than 10 million couples in America who are trying-to-conceive, accurately predicting ovulation - a woman's most fertile time of the month – is one of the most important keys to successfully conceiving a baby.
A woman is fertile for only a handful of days during each menstrual cycle. And because her unfertilized egg has a short life-span of just one day, predicting ovulation and timing intercourse is central to conception. In working with my own patients, there are a number of different methods and practices I recommend, including maintaining a daily fertility chart.
Fertility charting allows a woman to monitor her own reproductive wellness, help her understand the nuances of her own menstrual cycle, and to correctly identify when she is most likely to conceive. Looking at several physiological variables, a woman can learn to identify the days when she will most likely ovulate - the best time to conceive a baby.
As a daily part of fertility charting, I have come to ask many of my patients to include the use an ovulation microscope - a touchstone in predicting a woman's most fertile time.
What is an Ovulation Microscope?
An ovulation microscope monitors and predicts fertility by detecting hormone changes that occur prior to and during ovulation. When a woman approaches her date of ovulation, she experiences a gradual increase in the hormone estrogen. This "estrogen surge" facilitates an increase of salinity in her saliva, which in turn produces qualitative changes in the structure of her saliva – the formation of distinct crystalline patterns often referred to as "ferns" or "ferning" – that can be viewed through an ovulation microscope.
These crystal patterns, which in appearance emulate "frost on a windowpane" or the delicate fronds of a fern, indicate that an estrogen increase has occurred - a precursor to ovulation. With a positive result (or ferning pattern) ovulation is most likely to occur within 24 to 72 hours.
Using an ovulation microscope is relatively simple, and my patients adore the convenience and ease-of-use of this handy diagnostic device. In using the microscope, I ask my patients to test in the morning, before eating or brushing teeth or even drinking water. They simply collect a saliva sample (just a dab from below the tongue) and place it on the lens of the microscope. After a five minute "drying period", they view the sample through the microscope and record the result on their fertility chart.
During the "transitional phase" (at the onset of the estrogen surge), my patients will see a mild or disconnected crystal-ferning pattern. This transitional phase can typically last a few days. Then, during a woman's most fertile time of the month, a denser, intricate ferning pattern can be observed. With a positive result, ovulation will most likely take place within 72 hours.
What is most instructive - and fun - in using an ovulation microscope is the ability to monitor results over a patient's entire menstrual cycle, observing the gradual changes in the structure of her saliva as she approaches ovulation. In fact, using an ovulation microscope is wonderful because it is precisely this gradual transformation in saliva patterns that provide an early alert to impending ovulation and fertility (something that urine-based LH tests do not provide). This early-alert feature of ovulation microscopy makes the microscope an especially invaluable tool for women with irregular cycles.
Even more important is the educational function of the ovulation microscope. Where an LH test functions like a luances and details of cycle changes. There is a dynamic quality to ovulation microscopy allows her to feel the rhythm of her cycle and better connect with her overall reproductive health and wellness.
While the ovulation microscope is not a new innovation, the popularity of this method of ovulation prediction has increased in the United States over the past several years. The research and clinical data behind ovulation microscopy has been around for a long time. In fact, clinical studies indicate that saliva ovulation predictors are a very accurate way to predict a woman's most fertile time of the month.
Many of my patients have found these easy-to-use, handheld microscopes to be wonderful addition to their daily charting routine. And more than one patient has attributed a successful pregnancy to this diagnostic device.
Article by fertility expert Amos Grunebaum, MD/Ob/Gyn. Dr. Grunebaum endorses the Fertile Focus Saliva Ovulation Microscope.


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Thanks to Ben Wright, banjo-player of the Chicago-based bluegrass band Henhouse Prowlers, who toured as a four-piece band in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany in March last year (see the EBB for 14 Feb. 2011).
The band has changed guitar players and added a fiddler, and the full new five-piece lineup - Ben Wright (banjo), Starr Moss (guitar), Jon Goldfine (bass), Grant Ziolkowski (mandolin), and Dan Andree (fiddle) - is shown in the photo. Their brief bio reads:
The Henhouse Prowlers hail from Chicago, IL, and are one of the hardest touring bands in bluegrass. With 220+ shows a year under their belts, these guys are both great pickers and songwriters. The band shows serious respect for traditional bluegrass, all while incorporating themes of modern city life. The Henhouse Prowlers have won multiple prestigious awards including the RockyGrass band competition and several Chicago Music Awards.
The full tour dates now showing on their schedule, including Sunday double-headers, are:
6 Apr. Stone Valley Music, Lichtenvoorde (NL)
7 Apr. The Pub, Zonhoven (BE)
8 Apr. Fagot, Ingelmunster (BE) / Roskam, Brussels (BE)
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11 Apr. De Stek, Arendonk (BE)
12 Apr. Bacchus, Geel (BE)
13 Apr. N9, Eeklo (BE)
14 Apr. Hoppin' Around Vorselaar (BE)
15 Apr. Crossroads, Antwerpen (BE) / Ace Cafe, Rumst (BE)
16 Apr. Au Sans Nom, Schaerbeek (BE)
17 Apr. Merlo, Brussels (BE)
18 Apr. Burgerweeshuis, Deventer (NL)
19 Apr. McBoll, Olen (BE)
20 Apr. Sjor, Roggel (NL)
21 Apr. Antiq Cafe, Wolfersheim (DE)
22 Apr. Willem 2, Den Bosch (NL) / Turnhout (BE)
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World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond. The website RecordSetter has begun to take on the same territory, but with a more inclusive policy, as users submit videos of record attempts in order to try to receive a world record.[1] The website challengers.guinnessworldrecords.com is similar to RecordSetter, as the record attempts are judged by Guinness World Records adjudicators, but the records to attempt are provided beforehand.[2]
In the United States the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term World Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running) to describe good and bad performances not recognized as an official world record: either because the event is a not an event where the IAAF tracks the record (e.g. the 150 m run or individual events in a decathlon), or because it does not fulfil other rigorous criteria of an otherwise qualifying event (e.g. the Great North Run half-marathon, which has an excessive downhill gradient). The term is also used in video game speedrunning when someone achieves the fastest possible time for the game and category.[3]
In culture
Malaysia is one country where world record-breaking has become something of a national fad.[4] In India, the setting and breaking of records is popular: world record registrars based in India are Limca Book of Records, Unique World Records, World Records India,[5] and Asia Book of Records.
In sports
Some sports have world records recognised by their respective sports governing body:
|Wikinews has related news: World records
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- ↑ "RecordSetter.com World Records". recordsetter.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ↑ "Guinness World Records Challengers". challengers.guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ↑ "Speedrunslive - Glossary". Retrieved 29 November 2015.
- ↑ Boulware, Jack (April 2006). "The World Record-Breaking Capital". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ↑ Paavan Solanki (October 2015). "World Records India - Indian Book of World Records". worldrecordsindia.com. Retrieved 2015-09-01.


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There will be no NEP at Pontiac & 9th (9:30-11:30am) or Ostend & James (12:45-3:30pm). We will be at our other Thursday sites North & Rosedale (9:30-11:30am), Monroe & Ramsay (12:45-3:30pm), and Baltimore & Gay (7-10pm).
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Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) has dominated the 2017 Ipsos Vehicle Quality Awards, garnering a total of 10 gold awards. With its extensive model range, Toyota has come out on top in terms of the number of gold awards won in the latest vehicle quality survey conducted in South Africa by Ipsos, the international market research company.
The recently-announced results are derived from a detailed survey conducted in 2016 and involve more than 7 000 owners of vehicles from 17 different brands. These interviewees must have bought their vehicles new through franchised dealer channels. Interviews were conducted telephonically by the Ipsos team and took place after the vehicles had been in service for about 90 days. The 17 brands surveyed represent 72% of new vehicle sales in SA during 2016.
Toyota's golds came in the Small Hatch (Yaris), Small Sedan (Corolla Quest), Multi-Purpose Vehicle (Avanza), Petrol Single Cab (Hilux), Diesel Single Cab (Hilux), One-Ton Single Cab Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) Brand, best performing LCV (Toyota Hilux Petrol), Volume Passenger Car Brand, Local Passenger Car Manufacturing Plant and Best Local LCV Manufacturing Plant.
Calvyn Hamman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing says: "As a vehicle manufacturer, there is no greater joy than being voted by our customers as the most trusted brand. This stamp of approval is a reflection of our ongoing pursuit to put smiles on Toyota customers and proof to our dealers, sales teams as well as colleagues at the Prospecton plant that their diligence doesn't go unnoticed. We are not only proud of the customers who have voted our cars the most reliable, but also proud of all the Toyota employees behind our brand."
There is no denying that quality has always been a big aspect in the customer's decision to purchase a vehicle and this has, in turn, resulted in customers requiring higher standards of quality and customer experience. "At the centre of Toyota is the philosophy of Quality, Reliability and Durability. We endeavour to maintain a high standard of quality in all the vehicles we sell to our customers," he says.
The latest Ipsos vehicle purchasing and servicing customer research revealed that the way customers perceived the servicing experience had improved even more dramatically. An interesting insight, according to Ipsos, is that there were more complaints with imported passenger cars than those made locally. It must be remembered that these days more than 70% of the cars sold in SA are imported models, says Ipsos.


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Chicago − An estimated 50 health care professionals from throughout Illinois are scheduled to participate in a rigorous five-day training hosted by Attorney General Lisa Madigan to fulfill the classroom requirement for certification as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE).
Madigan said the training, to be held February 6-10 at the Hilton Garden Inn, on South Dirksen Parkway in Springfield, will provide registered nurses with the opportunity to meet the International Association of Forensic Nurses certification process for SANEs.
A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner is a registered nurse who has been specially trained to provide comprehensive care to sexual assault patients in a medical environment. SANEs receive specialized training in evidence collection techniques to gather physical evidence in sexual assault cases. Almost no other criminal offense requires as extensive an examination and collection of evidence as a sexual assault, Madigan said. Physical evidence, like DNA or hair and nail fiber, can increase the chances of a conviction, and having such evidence can help to relieve some of the pressure experienced by the victim. SANEs also appear as expert witnesses during court proceedings.
"Nurses provide sexual assault victims with prompt, gentle and compassionate care they so desperately need," Madigan said. "Through our efforts, we hope to train hundreds of skilled Illinois professionals each year with high quality education and support for RNs and others who serve the critical needs of sexual assault survivors."
Madigan's SANE Coordinator for Illinois, Julie Garner-Teno ─ a registered nurse, SANE and member of the International Association of Forensic Nurses ─ will oversee the
40-hour training. Madigan said physicians, law enforcement, prosecutors and victim advocates also are encouraged to attend to gain information that will assist them in working with SANEs, sexual assault victims and in evidence collection. All of t hese professionals in the criminal justice system must work together effectively to hold sex offenders accountable.
Madigan said two additional SANE training sessions are scheduled for March 27-31 in Carterville and May 15-19 in Itasca.With statistics showing that more than 16 women report being raped each day in Illinois, Madigan's Crime Victim Services Division oversees several programs for victims of sexual assault and violent crime. More information about these programs is available online at www.IllinoisAttorneyGeneral.gov/victims and www.IllinoisAttorneyGeneral.gov/women or by calling the Attorney General's Toll Free Victim Assistance Line 1-800-228-3368.


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The Sodi World Series championship – worldwide biggest leisure karting ranking – starts the 2017 season under the best auspices by the launch of the new internet website. Integrally designed internally by the SODIKART staff (www.sodikart.com), this new Sodi World Series showcase has been thought to improve significantly the SWS experience to each and every SWS driver around the globe.
Already online, this new website has not gone unnoticed since many drivers already have positively reacted to the new design and features. This new website is totally "web responsive" (self-adaptable interface to any digital support : smartphone, tablet, screens of all sizes) and is modernized thanks to a reworked design and various new features.
« XP Points » and SWS rewards
This great novelty, unique in motorsports, offers a truly new experience to the drivers. On the sidelines of the official SWS ranking, the XP points (experience points) make their appearance. Each driver can now win various virtual rewards at each and every SWS official race, which each offers a certain number of XP points. The XP points' ranking automatically divides the drivers into categories from "Beginner" level up to the "Legendary" level.
Find all the rewards and various explanations on the dedicated page (https://www.sodiwseries.com/en-gb/rewards.html), and go on your track to get your next rewards and become a Sodi World Series' legend!
« Sodi World Finals » page
In order to represent at best the world's greatest leisure karting event, the pages dedicated to the "Sodi World Finals" have been redesigned and updated with the official rankings since 2011 and the photo galleries of each event. The page of the "2017 Sodi World Finals" will also come online in the coming days.
Navigation & various improvments
Numerous other modifications have been implemented on the SWS website, in order to make navigation easier for each user, but also to automate certain processes and rules of the SWS championship through the system. We invite all drivers to discover these developments during their next visits on www.sodiwseries.com.
We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this new showcase of the Sodi World Series.
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Isle families trace ties to '39 Pineapple Bowl
By Lee Cataluna
The story is almost too big for Hollywood. It involves a legendary film director, an exotic setting, football heroes, a chance meeting that leads to love; even World War II is part of the plot.
All these divergent elements come together in one man, who at 63, is just now learning of his provenance.
It started with a UH football game, when Hawai'i was still a territory and much of the Mainland was still segregated.
Seventy-one years ago, the UCLA Bruins football team boarded the ship Matsonia for a 4 1/4-day trip to O'ahu to play the University of Hawai'i.
On coach Bill Spalding's team were Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, two of the first African-American athletes who would go on to integrate the National Football League. Jackie Robinson, who would integrate professional baseball, joined the team later that fall.
Also playing for UCLA were two brothers from Hawai'i, Francis and Conkling Wai.
The Wai boys, as everyone called them, were close friends of Washington and Strode. Though the team was the most diverse in the country, there was still discrimination in daily life, and the Hawaiian-Chinese-Caucasian Wai brothers banded together with their African-American teammates in a kind of shared outsiderness.
Playing for the University of Hawai'i team was the great Tommy Kaulukukui, the Rainbows' first All American. The coach was Otto Klum, for whom Klum gym was later named.
The "Pineapple Bowl" was played on Monday, Jan. 2, 1939. According to The Advertiser's story the next day, 18,000 people came out to Honolulu Stadium (not yet called the Termite Palace) to watch the game. It was a blowout. UCLA won 32-7. But Advertiser sports editor Red McQueen wrote:
"The score in no way indicates the closeness of the battle. Hardly a match physically for the towering invaders and frontiersmen, the plucky Rainbows remained a constant threat with their fast-breaking plays and devastating serious bombardment. From whistle to gun, it was a thrilling battle, one that will long remain in the memory of the fans."
The game was special to Kim Wai, the boys' father. The boys had to make their own money to buy passage to the West Coast, so the assumption was that they would not come home until they finished college. But this trip was paid for by UCLA, so it was a grand homecoming for Wai's two oldest sons.
The story goes, though, that sending talented Hawai'i athletes to Mainland colleges was frowned upon, and that UH planned its revenge, which got Strode angry.
"On the first play of the game, they ... lost Conkling Wai, who received a painful injury to his nose that forced him to retire for the afternoon. A short time later, the other of the two local Wai brothers, Francis, went out of the game with an old shoulder injury, never to return.
"Midway in the second period, Woodrow Wilson Strode, stellar visiting end, was chased from the field and the Uclans penalized half the distance to the goal for using his dukes too freely."
THE Lū'AU
Kalaeloa Strode always knew that his parents met at a lū'au when his father came to Hawai'i to play in a football game, but he wasn't sure where the lū'au was held and he didn't know the Wai family was so prominent in the story.
He had heard the story many times while growing up, but he had never heard it told by the Wai family.
"My father always thought the Wai boys' father was a wealthy businessman and he hosted the lū'au for the team," Strode said.
Lambert Wai, 89, laughs at the idea of his father as a rich man. "Oh no! My father wasn't wealthy. But he had rich friends."
One of Kim Wai's rich friends was Advertiser sports editor McQueen, who hosted the lū'au for the UCLA team at his beachfront home in Kāhala.
The Kalaeloa sisters were hired to dance hula as part of the evening's entertainment. Luana Kalaeloa spotted handsome, muscular Woody Strode and set her sights on him.
"My mother always said she thought he looked like Kamehameha," Strode said. At the end of the evening, the dancers had the custom of giving away the leis they were wearing. "Her sister was aiming for him but my mother got to him first and put her lei around his neck."
The football team was to sail out of Honolulu on Jan. 6, 1939.
Luana Kalaeloa was late to the pier to see them off. When she finally got there, she saw Woody Strode with a bunch of leis from other girls around his neck.
"She took all the leis off him and threw them into the water. Then she put her lei around his neck," Strode said. She lingered and they talked until the boat was leaving and the gangplank was raised. "My dad was getting nervous, but my mom wouldn't leave, saying 'Promise me we'll see each other again.' When he finally said, 'I promise', she said, 'That's all I wanted' and dove off the boat and swam to the pier."
Four years later, they met by chance again.
Luana Kalaeloa had moved to Hollywood, where she was performing in a Hawai'i-themed night club show.
One night, Woody Strode walked into the club, and Luana recognized him instantly.
She jumped off the stage, went up to him and asked, "Remember me?"
He did.
Six months later they were married in Las Vegas in a union that broke barriers. Woody Strode was African American and Native American, Luana Kalaeloa was pure Hawaiian. They always said theirs may have been the first interracial marriage in Las Vegas. That was in 1940.
Woody Strode was drafted into World War II, and Kalaeloa, a true baby boomer, was born in 1946 when his father came home.
At one point, all four Wai brothers, Francis, Conkling, Robert and Lambert, lived in Los Angeles together, sharing a room the size of a two-car garage.
Lambert is the youngest. He was still in school at Punahou when that infamous 1939 Pineapple Bowl was played. Lambert attended Santa Monica Junior College and was set to transfer to UCLA. But then Pearl Harbor was bombed, and he had to come home. Brother Robert Wai, who is about to turn 91, also played for UCLA.
In those college days, the brothers got by on what little money they could earn. Lambert remembers cleaning the schoolyard, cleaning the clubhouse, cleaning the gym.
"At Christmas, my father sent $100. That was for the four of us, and that was the only money we got for the whole year," Lambert said.
Woody Strode was a frequent guest in the Wai brothers' close quarters.
"We invited him to our house because he loved music. We would sneak in beer on the side," Robert Wai said.
Strode nods hearing this about his father. Sounds just like him.
"My dad loved to sing," he said. "He would play guitar. After a few drinks, he would go into a falsetto."
The Wai boys knew Woody Strode and Luana Kalaeloa before they ever met each other.
They knew Woody Strode before he became a movie star.
And they knew John Ford before he started making movies with Woody Strode.
The other common thread running through this epic is legendary Hollywood filmmaker John Ford, the man Orson Welles called the greatest American director. Ford won six Academy Awards and directed classics such as "The Grapes of Wrath," "Stagecoach," "How Green Was My Valley" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Val-ance."
The Wai brothers' father was having drinks with friends on Waikīkī Beach when he saw a lonely figure wander past on the sand. Kim Wai called out to the man and invited him to have a drink.
John Ford accepted the invitation and a deep bond between the families was forged.
Later, when the Wai boys lived in Los Angeles, John Ford looked out for them, even sending his Rolls Royce and chauffeur to take them around.
When Ford's son attended Punahou, he lived in the Wai house. Ford's daughter also went to Punahou, and she was a friend of Luana Kalaeloa.
"I'm still in touch with John Ford's grandson almost daily," Lambert says.
Woody Strode acted in many of John Ford's movies, including starring in the title role in the film "Sergeant Rutledge." More than that, he was Ford's dear friend. Late in his career, Ford was injured in a fall on a movie set and Woody Strode took him in for months while he recovered.
"My dad slept on the floor at the foot of his bed," Strode said. "Every night, they would read two or three books."
All these connections, and the Wai brothers had never met Woody Strode's son.
Then Kalaeloa Strode decided to run for Congress. Though he was not a top vote-getter in yesterday's special election, a story about his campaign led Lambert Wai to contact him.
"My brothers Francis, Conkling and Robert all played football with your father and Kenny Washington and Jackie Robinson," Wai wrote in his introductory e-mail. "... I and my three brothers knew your father quite well."
Wai invited Strode to lunch and said, "I am 89 and still drive and my brother Robert is 91 and he still drives."
Last Saturday, Strode took up the "younger Wai boys" on their offer. Over sandwiches and photo albums, they connected threads of the story that made up a larger-than-life tapestry.
Conkling Wai died in San Francisco 25 years ago. Francis Wai died young. He was killed in 1944 in Leyte and received a posthumous Medal of Honor. Woody Strode died in 1994.
"The last time I saw your father, John Ford was opening a home for disabled veterans in Simi Valley," Lambert Wai told Strode.
Ford died in 1973.
But Lambert and Robert Wai have long, sharp memories, and Woody Strode, Luana Kalaeloa and John Ford were memorable people.
And so the stories were passed around the table about a movie star, four brothers, a football game and the connections between people that may always be there but take a lifetime to be revealed.
"And now, I've only just met you and I'm 63," Strode said. "I've had so many untied knots in my life, and here we are."


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One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, the United States was nine months into the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln was doing all he could to keep the Union together – and, if you believe current movie lore, he was also battling vampires.
Some observers think the U.S. is more polarized today politically than at any time since that conflict. That's pretty hard to believe.Look no further than North Texas in 1862. Exactly 150 years ago last month more than 40 men were hung in Gainesville and Decatur for not reporting to the Confederate draft that day. Most of those hangings took place in Gainesville.
Wealthy slaveholders who didn't have to fight anyway orchestrated the roundup of dozens of suspected Unionists or draft-dodgers. Many people in North Texas didn't want to secede from the Union. Only a small percentage of people in this area even owned slaves.
On Oct. 12, based on flimsy evidence, and juries composed completely of slave owners, 14 of the men, chosen at random, were sentenced to death. The next day, on a cold October morning, they hung dead like strange, macabre holiday ornaments downtown. Nineteen more were hung in the coming days.
The violence spread down what is now Farm Road 51 in the days that followed. In our own Decatur, Capt. John Hill supervised the hanging of five more men.
Lincoln's war was just – one of the few just wars in history.
Lincoln refused to allow secession because he didn't want the U.S. to become another Europe. He knew if the U.S. splintered with a few Southern states at first, who would leave next? The Midwest? California? He feared it would eventually transform us into a hodge-podge of independent nations with different constitutions and forms of rule plagued by war just like Europe had been for ages.
He had a vision for a united, strong country that could flourish with a combination of the production of raw goods and the manufacturing of those goods, all pushed forward with the ingenuity of the world's most hard-working and adaptive peoples flocking to our shores.
The problem with the two presidential candidates we vote for on Tuesday is that neither describes a clear vision of America's future.
The biggest issue facing both is the economy, AKA job creation. Neither candidate has a realistic plan to address this issue.
Romney's vision of the future is to keep taxes low as possible for the wealthiest Americans. If you do this they might float down some bread crumbs from velvet-lined pillows in heaven to the poor, huddled masses below. When they buy a second or third home this will create jobs because they're going to need someone to walk the dog, fix espressos and handle the dry cleaning.
Obama's is slightly better. He wants the nation to invest more in renewable energy sources and education, which will create some jobs for sure, but probably not enough to satisfy the tens of millions of Americans out of work.
One thing we can all be thankful for is that neither one has to deal with anything as major as a civil war, despite what Lubbock County Judge Tom Head said back in August.
And until I see people being hung for political views on the Decatur Square, it would probably be wise to not compare the political polarization of today to that which took place before and during the Civil War.
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|Caffeine; aka Tree-of-life.
Recently our chemistry department held a research symposium. A series of morning talks, lunch, and afternoon talks. Each series of lectures was punctuated by a brief coffee/stretch break, in which a hundred or so zombified chemists lined up single-file to the lone coffee dispenser. With a simple push of a button, each of us received, like holy communion, our ration of liquid alertness.
The cups were tiny, but the coffee soon ran dry. The caterer had not, for some reason, adequately estimated our caffeine needs, and thus disgruntled students and postdocs pressed and re-pressed the dispenser button with forlorn faces.
Our organic area chair was not pleased. With the assistance of some choice vocabulary, he expressed wonderment at the incompetence of the caterer.
"There's still some decaf," I pointed out. "We could just drink a couple thousand cups of that." (The decaf had not been touched, being functionally useless).
He chuckled. "There is some caffeine left over in decaffeinated coffee." Then an aside: "You know how they remove it? They market it as nature's effervescence.* But there's nothing natural about supercritical carbon dioxide."
For various reasons, typically health-related, there is a demand for decaffeinated coffee. The first industrial decaffeination processes used benzene (yikes). This method has fallen out of favor; the current most popular methods include ethyl acetate extraction, dichloromethane extraction (hello), water/charcoal, or supercritical carbon dioxide.
Amusingly, ethyl acetate extraction is referred to as "natural". In fact, a lot of coffee sources like to tout their "natural" methods. The popular Swiss Water Process, for example, is touted as "100% chemical-free" by many coffee dealers (despite rumors that the company employs a solution of aqueous dihydrogen monoxide). Caribou Coffee subscribes to this line of chemophobic nonsense.
Although it's tea and not coffee, Numi offers an amusing and confusing account of their "organic decaffeination process":
We use an organic CO2 process to decaffeinate our teas called "Effervescence." The tea is placed in a pressurized chamber and Carbon Dioxide, an inert gas, is pumped in and locks onto the leaves, extracting caffeine from tea leaves. This process does not leave any chemical residues and maintains antioxidant levels and flavor quality (in other processes, polyphenols are removed). This is the only chemical-free decaffeination method that does not extract flavor or health properties.Apparently carbon dioxide isn't a chemical. And it's inert (haha, joke's on you, everyone who's made carboxylates from organolithiums and dry ice!)? And they don't mention that the carbon dioxide is a supercritical fluid and not a gas, pressurized at several hundred atmospheres. But that would sound too much like a chemical, and chemicals are bad.
Altogether, "decaffeinated" is a bit of a misnomer. It's not caffeine-free. It's caffeine-deficient. Some caffeine still remains (this should come as no surprise).
A normal (i.e. useful) cup of coffee contains about 110 mg of caffeine (or more, or less, depending on brew method and whatever source you're looking at). Decaf contains up to around 10 mg (or as little as 2 mg; it depends, I guess). So via some quick computational methods we can say that there are 11 cups of decaf to one cup of real coffee (or 55 cups if you have 2 mg in a cup). Call it ten for sig figs' sake. That's about as good as you'll get.
So don't worry. Chug anywhere from ten to fifty-five cups of decaf when your departmental seminar runs out of regular and you'll be good to go. But since that's 1.9 to 10.3 quarts (1.8 to 9.8 liters) of liquid (a common guideline is a max tolerance of about 1 liter of water per hour max), you may just have to sleep through that materials chemistry seminar.
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Are there typical setbacks for a home?
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Covered decks are subject to these setbacks. However, uncovered decks and stairs are not.
What about allowing for parking for a new home?
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Schalit returned home Tuesday in a prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group after more than five years in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
Scenes of Schalit's arrival could have easily been mistaken for scenes of the release of the fictional soldiers in last year's opening episode of the TV show, which is due to start its second season soon.
Cheering throngs gathered with flags and banners for Schalit, just as extras did in the TV program. Banners with slogans calling for the release of Schalit looked uncannily similar to banners depicting the show's fictional soldiers. Real-life TV broadcasters presented fictional news bulletins on the show announcing the impending arrival of the POWs — the same broadcasters who later reported real news about Schalit.
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"Gilad is not an imaginary (POW)," his parents said in a statement when the show debuted last year.
"The overuse of symbolic reality was appalling," wrote TV critic Ariana Melamed on the popular Israeli news site YNet. She called the show "an unprecedented manipulation of the public's emotions."
Another critic called the news anchors' cameos "scandalous" because they broke down the barrier between TV drama and serious current events.
"It was hard for me to see those manipulations," said Moran Sharir, TV critic for the Israeli daily Haaretz.
Still, he said the coverage of Tuesday's prisoner swap proved "just how real the show is."
Gideon Raff, the writer and director of "Prisoners of War," refused to draw parallels between his show and Schalit's release. He insists his show was not modeled after the Schalit affair, but was inspired by the experiences of prisoners of war who returned to Israel. He denies that he was capitalizing on Israelis' raw emotions.
"We've tried to make the best drama we could," he said. "We've regarded the subject with respect."
"Prisoners of War" follows the fictional story of three soldiers taken captive in Lebanon during a botched clandestine operation against a senior terror figure. After 17 years, Israel negotiates a prisoner exchange and the soldiers — two alive, one in a coffin — are returned to Israel. The soldiers and their families struggle to resume normal lives. Meanwhile, an Israeli official interrogates the returning soldiers, out of suspicion that they may be acting as spies for their former captors.
In a country with a military draft, people are protective and emotional about prisoners of war. Israeli leaders have previously agreed to lopsided prisoner swaps with militant groups, much like the deal to free Schalit, arguing that they must uphold their social contract with the nation not to abandon soldiers on the battlefield.
There are about 400 former prisoners of war living in Israel today. A number of others are still considered missing in action.
For his scripts, Raff interviewed psychologists specializing in POW post-trauma and met with former Israeli prisoners of war. Some of their experiences of returning home made it into plotlines.
Like the fictional soldiers, Israeli POWs from the 1973 Yom Kippur war were taken to an isolated Israeli facility and interrogated about their captivity, an experience they say was demoralizing and traumatic.
A number of former POWs appeared in an episode depicting a support group.
Hezi Shai, who was held in Lebanon for three years in the 1980s following Israel's first Lebanon War, said the show gives a glimpse of "what happens to (POWs) when they are back home and start to live a regular life."
"Not all of them are in good shape or have a good life," Shai said.
Because he was one of the last Israeli POWs to return home alive, Shai acted as a consultant to the TV show — and to Israel's military.
Shai said about a year after Schalit's capture, a military representative contacted him to ask how the army should handle Schalit's return, whenever it would be.
Schalit, 25, appeared gaunt and frail upon his return and his initial medical examination said he was malnourished and suffered from a lack of exposure to sun and had minor wounds from his initial capture. His father, Noam, has since said he went through a "difficult experience" in captivity. He did not elaborate.
The Israeli show's American spinoff, "Homeland," debuted this month on Showtime, telling the story of an American soldier released from captivity in Iraq. He receives a hero's welcome, but a CIA officer played by Claire Danes suspects him to be an al-Qaida turncoat.
Despite harsh reviews, the Israeli show garnered high ratings. A quarter of Israeli viewers watched the first season of "Prisoners of War," according to Israeli production company Keshet, making it one of the top 10 most-watched shows of the past decade.
Sharir, the Israeli TV critic, didn't like the show's blending of fiction with reality, but tipped his hat to the show for captivating so many Israelis at such a vulnerable, tribal level.
"It talks to the audience's kishkes," he said, using the Yiddish word for gut.


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The Open Internet & Innovation
Let's make another Internet--thoughts about the Boston workshop.
I just attended the Open Internet and Innovation workshop in Boston yesterday, and I was disturbed by the basic tone, which was, "gee, how can we keep making money with this thing to keep it alive?" There were a lot of ideas that seemed to me very similar to the way network operators were thinking, pre-internet-era. The current internet has become too polluted by large corporate stakeholders who have their own selfish ...more »


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Hogan Lovells Adds Real Estate Lawyer Lea Ann Fowler in Denver
Hogan Lovells announced that Lea Ann Fowler will join the firm's Real Estate practice as a partner in the Denver office.
"Lea Ann has significant ties to the Denver real estate community and a notable reputation for representing prominent investors and lenders on highly complex matters," said Mark Eagan, Hogan Lovells' Head of Real Estate for the Americas. "Bringing Lea Ann on board deepens our national platform for our regional, national, and international real estate clients."
Fowler represents a range of commercial lending institutions, developers, operators, and investors in real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, development projects, asset-based lending involving loan origination, restructurings, loan participations, note purchases, and commercial mortgage-backed securitizations.
"I am excited about the opportunity to bring leadership to the Denver real estate team, mentor younger attorneys, and expand my client base nationally and internationally," said Fowler.
In a release, the firm said:
Fowler has a highly regarded commercial real estate finance practice, representing clients in the origination of multimillion dollar senior and mezzanine structured financings secured by all sectors of commercial real estate, including hotel, mixed use condominium projects, retail, office and industrial portfolios. On the investor side, Fowler advises commercial real estate developers and private equity firms in the structuring and negotiation of large portfolio acquisitions and dispositions and multi-tiered construction and permanent loan transactions, including workouts and restructurings.
"Many of us at Hogan Lovells have known Lea Ann and worked with her for many years," said Cole Finegan, Regional Managing Partner at Hogan Lovells. "We are very pleased that such a prominent real estate and finance lawyer will now be part of our local, national, and global efforts."
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Fowler was a shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP. She earned her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and her B.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University.


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Furnished Condo in Stripers Landing in Franklin County. On the waters of Gills Creek, Smith Mountain Lake. New Floor Coverings. Move in condition. Immediate Occupancy. Lake View. Community Pool, Tennis Court, Laundry, and Boat Launch Ramp. Schools, Dudley Elementary; Ben Franklin Middle School, Franklin County High School. 2 Parking Spaces. Well maintained unit. Covered Porch/Balcony, Lake Side. Fisherman's dream. Extra Nice Unit.
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Architectural Atmospheres - On the Experience and Politics of Architecture. with Texts by Gernot Bohme, Christian Borch, Olafur Eliasson, Juhani Pallasmaa
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Experiencing buildings and spatial constellations is also a perception of atmospheres. Architects, planners, investors, and politicians are obliged to create such effects not merely intuitively or randomly, but according to intersubjective criteria that can be verbalized. This discourse book consists of four, interdisciplinary contributions and forty color illustrations. It provides an essential introduction and continuation of this dialogue.


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While Drew Carey, host of The Price Is Right, made his first official appearance on The Late Late Show alongside actress Keke Palmer, he had shown up in a couple of the show's previous sketches.
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Ok, now let's get down to business.
Halloween-related business! OOOOOOOHHHHHH!
So I've been working on a concept for my couple's costume this year. Le boyfriend ACTUALLY AGREED TO THIS. I don't think you guys can really comprehend how monumental this is for me. For the last 3 years that we've been together, Chris has NEVER wanted to do a couples costume with me... no matter how much I begged and pleaded. However, THIS YEAR he totally suggested it! I came up with the concept, and now we're super excited to execute it for the various Halloween parties/events we'll be attending post-midterm mayhem.
He's going to be The Riddler, and I'm going to be Poison Ivy! WIN!
Okay, I'll stop with the CAPS... now.
Now Chris and I don't just buy costumes, we make our own. He might go a little bit crazier than me when it comes to complexity, but we both can brag about the fact that we've never had to buy a full costume in our lives (Thanks Mom). Sure, sometimes we do have to buy licensed props (like a lightsaber for my Lady Vader costume), but for the most part we do our best to use our existing closets as well as hand-made little details for our costumes.
Here are some Poison Ivy costume necessities, Shopaholic style (some more risque than others!):
|Forever 21: Fit & Flare Cage Dress in Green
|Spirit Halloween: Passion Red Adult Wig
|American Apparel: Cotton Spandex Jersey Short Sleeve T-Shirt Leotard in Forest
|Stag Shop: Gloves - Red
|Spirit Halloween: Dominatrix Ponytail Red Adult Womens Wig
|H&M: Jersey Dress in Green
|Nasty Gal: Why Yes Platform in Red Suede
|Michaels: Ashland Ivy Collection Mini Ivy Chain Garland
|Liminalia: Ivy Faerie Crown Circlet Adjustable Gold Velvet Ribbons Headpiece
|Party City: Adult Green Seamless Tights
|Nasty Gal: Audrey Platform Wedge in Red Suede
|Illamasqua: False Eye Lashes in Deep Green Black
|Chanel: Rouge Allure Luminous Intense Lip Colour in Pirate (My go-to Red lipstick!)
Remember, it's Halloween - so have fun! Be fearless! Anything goes! Don't stress about accuracy or all of the finite details; as long as someone can figure out who you're dressed up as, you've done it right. Keep within your character/item/idea/concept's colour schemes. If your character has a very distinguished feature/item, do your best to incorporate it in some shape or form. If you can make the prop - amazing, if not, don't sweat it! Spirit Halloween, Party City, Etsy, and Ebay are great places to grab those little things that really tie the whole costume together. Just be mindful of any necessary shipping time - plan ahead or be resourceful to get those last-minute costumes constructed!
If this ain't enough couples costume inspo for ya, try out Alanna Okun's list of 30 Unconventional Two-Person Halloween Costumes over at Buzzfeed.
*Blows a Kiss*
If this ain't enough couples costume inspo for ya, try out Alanna Okun's list of 30 Unconventional Two-Person Halloween Costumes over at Buzzfeed.
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The sling is the first missile launcher. This ancient weapon was swung by rope and used smooth rocks. The purpose of this weapon was to hit far range targets.
Is there any physics that have to do with this?
The sling is ancient weapon and was the first missile launcher. Back then a missiles were thrown by hand, from either an instrument or an engine, that was intended to strike an object from far distances. So basically, the weapon consisted of a long rope loaded with a smooth rock/projectile. As the rope swung around in the air the energy is being switched from kinetic energy to potential energy. As soon the smooth rock is release into the air, the energy is kinetic energy then as it gets high into the air the kinetic energy gets turn to potential energy then as the rock comes back down then striking its target. So then the energy turns back into kinetic energy. As you build up Momentum, the object moved faster, making it easier to kill whatever it was you were aiming at.
David and Goliath
You all heard the story of David and Goliath. How David the small guy fought Goliath the biggest warrior Israel's warrior has ever seen. So brave David stood up against Goliath, once the fight started David's weapon was a sling and brought down might Goliath and cut off his head. The soldiers that invaded Israel retreated bask to there country.
Was it possible for David to kill Goliath in one shot?
See how a sling works by watching this video. Don't do this at home!!
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Tom Eblen: Erik Reece hopes new book will cause UK to rethink future of Robinson Forest
JACKSON — As we hike uphill through beech and yellow poplar trees, a wild turkey flies out of the woods and across the trail in front of us. A few hundred yards higher, Erik Reece stops suddenly and points at a scarlet tanager foraging among the oaks.
At the crest of the ridge, we climb an old fire tower and are rewarded with a spectacular view of Robinson Forest. On this clear, spring morning, the forest looks like a rolling "river of earth," as James Still described the natural landscape of Eastern Kentucky in his classic 1940 novel, River of Earth.
The green waves roll out in every direction until they suddenly stop at Robinson Forest's boundary. Beyond the boundary are huge, gray scars from surface mining and the flattened, denuded remnants of "reclaimed" coal-mine land, now struggling to support foreign grasses and scrubby trees.
"We hope more people will go to Robinson Forest, but a lot of Kentuckians won't, so we wanted them to experience it vicariously," said Reece, co-author with James J. Krupa of the new book, The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future (University of Georgia Press, $24.95).
Reece will sign copies of the book from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at The Morris Book Shop, 882 East High Street.
Reece is a UK English professor best known for his award-winning 2006 book, Lost Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. Like Lost Mountain, this book has a forward by renowned Kentucky author Wendell Berry.
Krupa is a UK biology professor who, over decades of study, has explored every ridge and valley of the main 10,000-acre block of the 14,786-acre forest, which contains some of the state's cleanest streams.
"It is one of the last and largest examples of the oldest, most biologically diverse ecosystem in North America — the mixed mesophytic," the authors write in their introduction.
"Unfortunately, industrial development has churned under the mountains surrounding these 14,000 acres, turning Robinson Forest into an island of biological diversity surrounded by an ever-expanding desert," they write, adding that there is every reason to think that coal and timber interests want to plunder this land, too.
Reece and Krupa are both fine writers. In this small, engaging book, they alternate chapters, explaining the natural and human history of this unique corner of Breathitt, Perry and Knott counties, and making a case to preserve it.
Krupa describes the geological history of Robinson Forest and the surrounding Cumberland Plateau, which was formed before there were dinosaurs, mammals or even flowering plants. These mountains were once covered by a shallow inland sea and then swamps. Dead ferns and trees sank to the bottom for thousands of years, forming peat and eventually bituminous coal.
Krupa also discusses his research into the ecological diversity of the current forest. Who knew that lichens and wood rats could be so fascinating?
Reece's chapters describe the forest's human history, from settlement to the early 20th century, when Cincinnati business partners F.W. Mobray and E.O. Robinson bought the forest and cut virtually all of its timber.
In 1923, Robinson gave the wasted land to the University of Kentucky for research to "tend to the betterment of the people of the mountain region of Kentucky." Under UK's stewardship, most of the land has regenerated over the past 90 years into a second-growth version of the biologically diverse, native forest.
But coal operators, who wield considerable clout, have periodically pressured UK to allow mining in the forest. Reece said he and Krupa decided to write this book after the UK Board of Trustees' controversial 2007 decision to clear-cut 800 acres of the main forest.
Although the forest recovered from clear-cutting a century ago, critics doubt that can happen again because of the extensive surface mining on surrounding land and the planting of invasive species as part of mine "reclamation."
Reece said he and Krupa hope their book will prompt UK officials to rethink their management strategy for Robinson Forest and embrace a broader ecological research mission. A part of such a mission could be helping Kentucky adapt to climate change.
Specifically, the authors urge broader input into decision-making about the forest. Currently, Robinson Forest is managed by UK's Forestry Department. Also, they want UK to separate research and revenue goals, so that there is not periodic temptation to log or mine Robinson Forest to make money for the university.
Reece is up for tenure this year, and he acknowledges that this book won't be popular in some corners of the university. But he thinks Robinson Forest is worth fighting to preserve.
He said the book was inspired by The Unforeseen Wilderness, which UK commissioned Berry to write in 1971. It advocated for preservation of the Red River Gorge at a time when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wanted to destroy it with a flood-control dam.
"We want to give readers a sense of why Robinson Forest is worth saving," Reece said. "If you can convince people to love something, they won't destroy it."
Excerpts from the final chapter of The Embattled Wilderness
"Robinson Forest is many things: It is one of the most important ecosystems in Appalachia, it is a laboratory for crucial research and teaching, and it is a gift held in trust for future generations of Kentuckians. But it is also a model for how we must proceed in our habitation of the natural world. In fact, Robinson Forest represents a model for an entirely new definition of "economy," whereby our American systems of exchange, both of wealth and energy, are brought in line with the most important and inescapable economy of nature."
"What we as 21st-century Americans must finally come to understand is that the economy of consumption operates in direct opposition to, and at the peril of, the economy of nature. ... Kentucky should look to Robinson Forest as a model for a sustainable, post-coal economy. We must replace the industrial logic of the strip mine with the much more ancient wisdom of the forest."
"To abandon wilderness places like Robinson Forest would be to abandon ourselves. To ignore the natural laws of its watersheds for the logic of our own industrial imagination would be to abandon our better selves — to abandon a sustainable future for the sake of short-term avarice and indulgence. But to preserve the world will mean learning the lessons of Robinson Forest, and in doing so learning to preserve that embattled wilderness."


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Solar panels at White House give a boost to alternative energy options
Monday, October 25, 2010; 12:45 PM
Within 15 years, the sun could supply 10 percent of the nation's power needs, according to research by the nonprofit group Climate Action. The White House will be part of any such trend, as President Obama announced the return of solar panels to heat water and supply some electricity for the first family.
The president's move has homeowners wondering whether their roofs should be soaking up rays, too. So how do you go solar?
Your first step is to the Web.
Sites sponsored by the Department of Energy and several solar panel manufacturers offer calculators to give you a sense of whether solar is worth pursuing for your home. You enter your Zip code and electrical needs - either in terms of kilowatt-hours from your utility bill or how much you spend per month on power. The program knows how much sun your area enjoys and which tax incentives are available. It will predict how much money you'd save over 25 years, after which most solar panel warranties expire. (The panels will probably last longer than that, though.)
The program doesn't know much about your particular home, and those details can make a difference. Do you have a south-facing roof? Is your roof shaded by trees you're fond of? You'll need to call in some installers for a reality check.
The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (www.nabcep.org) has a database of trained installers, and that's a good place to start. Choosing an installer is probably your most important decision. "The installer is the one who's going to design your system and actually drill holes in your house," says John Supp of Solar Depot, a wholesaler that supplies local installers.
Have several companies survey your home. They should do a free consultation, and good installers will walk you through the technology and the installation process, and explain what government incentives are available. You should feel confident in the company's stability. The warranties on workmanship usually last 10 years, and you want them to be around if something goes wrong.
A range of options
There are some really cool bells and whistles out there. According to Scott Carr, vice president of residential business at Standard Solar, a major local installation company, the system you choose should allow you to monitor the solar energy being generated. Standard Solar, for example, offers a personalized Web site where you can track your energy production and use. It's helpful not only in conservation but also in letting you know if something has gone wrong on your roof.
Most installers work with several manufacturers. Some makers offer superior efficiencies. This can be important if you have limited roof space or a partially shaded roof. But you'll pay extra for the upgraded technology, inflating your cost per kilowatt-hour.
Aesthetics can also be an issue. Some companies feature sleek, all-black units that don't look as though you've covered your house in graph paper. Check on the warranty. The best companies offer 25 years, but many of the panels installed 30 years ago are still producing.
Beyond that, choosing a manufacturer isn't necessarily a big deal. "There are no moving parts on a solar panel, so they rarely fail," says Tom Dyer of Kyocera Solar. "The decision really comes down to cost per kilowatt-hour." There's no maintenance required, either, unless you want to hose off the glass occasionally.
The federal government offers a 30 percent tax credit. Maryland and the District offer grants - up to $10,000 for large systems in Maryland - although the amount may decline as more homeowners take advantage of the program. Virginia's solar subsidy has been exhausted. Consult www.dsireusa.org for incentives in other areas and benefits your county might offer.
There are a variety of financing options. Paying cash upfront is best, if you can swing the $15,000 or so. But you can finance with a home equity loan or on an unsecured basis. Some installers offer leasing programs, with the option to buy the equipment at any time.
The installation will probably take one to three days, with only minor disruptions to your home. The last step is hooking up your panels to the utility meter, which can take weeks because it's the utility company's job. But once it's done, you'll get the pleasure of watching your meter run backward when you're making more electricity than you're using.
Now or later?
Many people are concerned that the technology will advance, and in 10 years you'll wish you had waited for the newer models. No one can guarantee that new ideas won't come along, but there are reasons to buy now.
We are approaching the efficiency limits of the current technology. According to Julie Blunden of solar manufacturer SunPower, silicon panels are capable of converting only about 29 percent of the sun's energy into electricity. SunPower, probably the industry leader in efficiency, is about to release a model with 23 percent efficiency. We're not likely to see leaps in the near future.
Second, the tax incentives are pretty good. Depending on where you live, the government will foot 30 to 65 percent of your upfront costs. As energy costs rise and public debts pile up, who knows whether the federal and state governments will stay this generous?
There's one footnote to this story: You might be able to cut your utility bill and take advantage of the federal government's largesse without drilling solar panels into your lovely terra cotta roof.
Consider a simple energy audit, which can tell you where your house is leaking and how to seal it off. You'll qualify for up to $1,500 in tax credits for adding insulation, resealing windows and making similar improvements, and it won't cost nearly as much as solar.
"Installing solar panels turns your drafty, uncomfortable house into a slightly cheaper, drafty, uncomfortable house," says Brian Uher of Amicus Consulting Services. (Of course, Uher recommends solar as a next step after eliminating those leaks.) He has set up a site where you can find a qualified energy auditor. Many homeowners in the District can get the audit for free, and it's subsidized in many other areas.
No word yet on whether the White House has been energy-audited. But over the years it has had a problem with leaks.
Palmer, a freelance writer living in New York, is a regular contributor to Slate.com's Explainer column.


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The Neville House Associates, an all volunteer organization, owns and maintains Woodville Plantation as a living history museum. We depend on the support and patronage of our loyal members to maintain the house and to support museum programming.
We hope that you will consider becoming a member of the Neville House Associates. If you are already a member, please consider renewing your membership. Memberships are for the calendar year and are renewable in January of each year.
To download an annual membership form, Membership Application 2018 please click here.
We hope that you will consider increasing your membership to a "Donation Level."
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- Free admission to Woodville Plantation during regular hours of operation (every Sunday 1-4pm)
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Thank you for your continued support. We hope that you will plan to visit Woodville Plantation to enjoy this wonderful piece of American history.