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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Friday, September 4, 2015
Creative Writing Short Stories Workshop
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Take this introduction to short story writing. Learn about plot, conflict, resolution with a published writer.
Category: Education, Seniors
Seasonal Crafts
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Make seasonal and holiday arts & crafts items to take home.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Kids
Bryant Park Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
at Upper Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Bryant Park Shakespeare returns with three productions presented by The Drilling Company.
Category: Theater, Free Summer Theater, Shakespeare in the Parks
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Van Cortlandt Track Club
at Van Cortlandt Stadium (in Van Cortlandt Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.
Van Cortlandt Track Club runs through and around the Yonkers-Bronx border in small groups. For local running tips, visit vctc.org.
Category: Fitness, Sports, Outdoor Fitness
ESL Beginners Class
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Spanish-speaking adults will learn the basic structure of English from an ESL instructor.
Category: Education
Greenmarket at Grand Army Plaza
at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
At what other market can you do all your food shopping, sample local wine and explore Brooklyn's favorite park?
Category: Markets
Yoga on the Beach
at Beach 108th Street (in Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk), Queens
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Join yoga instructor Helen Kilgallen from Elaine's Dance School in this beginner Hatha Yoga class.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Shape Up NYC Zumba
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Combining Latin, international and popular music with dance moves that create an aerobic workout. This class features a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt…
Category: Fitness
Shape Up NYC Body Sculpting
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
This total body workout addresses muscle strength and endurance while keeping the heart rate up to burn calories. Enjoy fun, continuous movement to great music.
Category: Fitness
ESL Advanced Class
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
The focus of this class will be on sharpening English language speaking, reading comprehension, and writing for Spanish-speaking adults.
Category: Education
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Brighton Greenhouses?
Has anyone purchased a Brighton greenhouse? I have seen them on a few review sites but I haven't see anyone who's actually purchased one speak up. I'd like a little background info if anyone has any.
I don't have experience with this particular greenhouse, but I did look at their web site and their online video (see link below), and it looks like a decent greenhouse, given the low price. Of course at this entry point the aluminum extrusions are going to be fairly light, and you can tell from the video that the glazing is pretty light-gauge, too. However, for the money, I'd say "Not bad at all." My key concern would be if you were in a place with wind or hale. Strong wind can blow out some greenhouse panels, or even overturn the structure if it is not secured to the ground, so I would find out about that. I would also want to know how easy it would be to replace cracked or broken glazing panels since they look like they are a proprietary shape with a molded edge to add some rigidity (although you might be able to get a flat piece at a plastics shop that would substitute adequately). Lastly, the 5 year warranty is an encouraging sign.
There are a lot of threads in this forum about the Harbor Freight greenhouse, which is a good deal, but fits together poorly, has poor instructions, needs modifications to provide adequate service, has marginal customer service, and doesn't have much of a warranty. If it were me, just based on what I can determine online, the Brighton looks like a better alternative. If you do buy this, I'd be interested to hear what you think.
Here is a link that might be useful: Brighton greenhouse
I own one and love it. For the price it was the best option. I own 3 entry level greenhouses similar to this one, and they all were priced about the same but the mixture of the translucent panels on top and the clear on the sides makes this a clear winner.
I use this one for tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumber, eggplant, dill, fennel, basil, and Italian parsley. I am short, but if you are taller you might want to get something with a taller roof. But in the starter greenhouse category I would say this this is your best bet for any price under $1300.
Here is a link that might be useful: heres where I purchased my greenhouse

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Still new to this, so I'm not completely sure what BIAB is (though I know it stands for brew in a bag). I use a large grain bag to steep the grains (is that BIAB?) but there isn't enough room to do an all grain recipe. Though I could try two separate batches I suppose...
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It's very similar to steeping your grains. If you look in the BIAB area of the All Grain page, there are some great threads on how to BIAB. Now that I've done a couple, I wish I would have just started this way. It really isn't any more difficult than extract.
In a nutshell you use a large bag to contain your grains that fills the majority of the kettle. You heat the water to your desired strike temp, add your grains and stir so there are no clumps, make sure you are at the proper mash temp, let them sit until the starches are converted, remove the grain bag and let it drain back into the kettle, squeeze the bag to get more wort back, then bring it up to a boil like normal. It sounds more difficult than it is.
There is a lot of good info out there. Don't get intimidated by it being "all grain". I don't even have 10 batches under my belt yet and am putting out beer with good results. If I can, anyone can. http://biabcalculator.com is a good place to get your calculations.
There is a difference between mashing and steeping grains, but on a basic level they're pretty close. Check out this link as well. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/ind.../Brew_in_a_Bag It'll help get you started. Hope you have a successful next brew. BIAB is pretty easy. Just takes a modest amount of planning and care.


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The pelican, which lost its parents and washed ashore in Tanzania after a storm, had never learned to fly. Enter its handlers, who took it in, named it Bigbird, and taught it to fly by running up and down the beach with him for months. Thankfully, they also had the foresight to strap a GoPro to its beak prior to its first takeoff, so you can watch Bigbird's first flaps in all their majestic glory.
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Paranoid Penguin - Linux VPNs with OpenVPN, Part V
This article and my previous four columns covered Virtual Private Network principles and architectures; described a few VPN technologies available for Linux and how SSL/TLS solutions differ from IPsec; covered OpenVPN server configuration, including how to generate and manage digital certificates; and described client configuration and usage; all for a simple remote-access usage scenario.
With all of that plus the practical use details I covered this month, you should be well on your way to a secure remote-access VPN solution using OpenVPN. If you decide to use OpenVPN instead or additionally to build network-to-network VPNs or to do a "bridging" OpenVPN solution, the OpenVPN man page, HOWTO and FAQ should make more sense to you now than they would have before reading these articles—all of which means, you no longer have any excuse to surf the Web through insecure wireless hot spots without protection!
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Slipstream can again only be used in sector space.
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Values will now be identical to the original console.
This console still goes into Science console slot.
This is a temporary fix and the console will eventually go back to using Starship Shield System skill points.
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Townhouse sale potentially falling apart, may have to relist
So remember the townhouse which sold so quickly it was too good to be true?
It was too good to be true. All of the offers we received were contingent on FHA financing, but it turns out that as of April 2012, our development is not FHA-approved.
The buyer really wants the house and is trying to get approved for traditional financing, but if that doesn't pan out, I guess we will have to put the house back on the market.
If we re-list the house, I think I would like to list it $5,000 higher than we originally did. We aren't in a hurry to sell. We would prefer to move out by August 15, but our new house won't be ready until Oct/Nov so we have some time to wait for a buyer if we must.
Thoughts? Comments? I-told-you-sos? :)
Responding to myself, in case anyone cares. :P
Our real estate agent called up all of the other potential buyers. One of them came back with a competitive offer with conventional financing. According to our math, this offer is actually several thousand dollars better than the previous offer, and it has the same close date. Crossing my fingers that this deal doesn't fall through!


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The Effect of Metro Rail on Air Pollution in Delhi
In this paper we investigate the effect of the Delhi Metro, an intra-city mass rail transit system, on air pollution within Delhi. To identify effects on pollution, we exploit the discontinuous jumps in metro ridership, each time the network is extended. Our identifying assumption is that in the absence of the extension there would be a smooth transition in pollution levels. We find strong evidence to show that the Delhi Metro has resulted in reductions of two important vehicular emissions, namely, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide. We estimate a cumulative impact of a 35 percent reduction in CO levels for the region around ITO (a major traffic intersection in Delhi). This is suggestive of a traffic diversion effect, where people are switching from private modes of travel to the Delhi Metro. Given, documented evidence on the adverse health effects of air pollution, our findings suggest that these indirect benefits must be considered in any cost-benefit analysis of a rapid mass transport system.
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Okay lets stop accentuating the negatives, because there are some good parts as well. For the compromises you do make you get a nice looking case that has a really nice mirrored finish emblem two fully autonomous USB 3.0 Ports and some small amount of foam on the inside of the panels to keep them from vibrating to the heartbeat of your hard drives for $50.00. The engineering is really neat as the whole top panel can be completely removed to easily build inside. Don't worry, there are no mention of the 10 screws that hold the top cover on, in the manual, but if you are fortunate enough to have read this review or you figured out on your own why they used Phillips head screws to hold the top panel instead of rivets, then you can remove them quickly and effortlessly and replace the top back on after the build is completed.
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Aerocool Advanced Technologies, one of world's leading manufacturers of excellent gaming PC gear, presents the Aero-1000 chassis as part of its new PGS-A (Performance Gaming System) series. "A" stands for Airflow, which is one of the most important aspects, when it comes to building a PC case.
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After my recent review of the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX I felt that I wasn't quite done with the review. What good is a case designed for watercooling with all air cooling installed? And aside from that travesty, I felt that in order to properly test Phanteks' made for watercooling mini-ITX case I should actually do a proper install. With that in mind follow along with this guide as I install a full custom loop in the Enthoo Evolv ITX.
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Cougar has announced a brand new case in their QBX chassis. This small form factor case was designed to fit great hardware inside as well as quite a lot of cooling. The official size specifications of the case are 178 x 260 x 368 mm, but you still have room inside for long high-end graphics cards, five hard drives, a slim ODD drive and a 140 mm long power supply.
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It could well be that the universe is not expanding; it is a static size. In which case it is the matter in the universe that is shrinking, and at a constant rate. It is this shrinking that could account for the perceived acceleration of the universe's supposed expansion.
the fact that human beings have the capability to figure this stuff out is about as awesome as the discoveries we make along the way.
"Observations made since 1998 suggest that w is pretty close to -1. If it were found to be exactly -1, that would make dark energy something physicists call a cosmological constant."
The article focuses often on whether w will be found to be exactly -1. Is this number special? Could w not just as likely be some other cosmological constant in the neighborhood of -1 (maybe a few hundredths more or less)? Do any of the results depend on -1, exactly?
Apologies for lowering the standard of the debate in these comments. But regarding these 1a supernova. If they are dimmer, and thus further away, than their current speed says they should be, doesn't that mean that they were going faster in the past, and have thus slowed down, rather than sped up? (Given that both measurements are talking about the state of the star at the same time X million years ago?)
People easily do not take into account that the visible -light detection universe is a space and time dynamical object if General Relativity is correct at cosmological scale .Expansion of Universe ?. Well ,Spatial or Spatial-TEMPORAL ?.Remember that a Galaxy one billion of light years that you see NOW on your telescope may be extinct 999.000.000 years ago !. Perhaps we are just observing something that does not exists any more for its proper-time (The galaxy) .So , is correct to say that Galaxy is become farther from us ?.
The point : It is beyond our present cognescence to observe spatial-temporally the Universe at Large .Correct if I am deadly wrong!.
*thank you Jesus* :-)
Newton would have thought all this was getting wierd.
Then again, his contemporaries might have thought him wierd.
what they might do next./
But in our Universe at large, as we know it, "out there among the stars", our measure of time, without any reference to our Solar System, is utterly devoid of meaning. Which brings me to the crux of my central thesis.
Einstein's famous equation takes the speed of light as a given, immutable and constant. But we know that the Universe, as we know it, indeed space itself, is expanding. Not only that, the rate of expansion is accelerating. And not only that, we also know that time is a relative concept.
We know that time on a body that is moving away from another body slows down, relative both to its relative speed and the time on the other relatively stationary body. We must emphasise "relatively" because we also know that, in the overall scheme of things, nothing can be said to be "stationary".
That poses another problem. If nothing is stationary, what does it mean to be stationary? Moreover, if light must travel "through" space (or "dark matter") and that space (filled or not) is rapidly expanding, what, then, does "the speed of light" really mean, in absolute terms. Relative to what exactly?
So. Everything we know so far about this Universe (of ours) is constantly in a constant state of motion. And we, who are trying to interpret and thereby make sense of what we think we can see of and in this Universe, are ourselves in the thick of it, in it and on it.
For a brutally honest, dispassionate and objective view, we would have to step off our Earth and outside "The Cosmos", like good old Archimedes, who just wanted a place to stand so he could move the Earth.
How are we to make sense of "the speed of light", if we have nothing to measure it against? By stating that e=mc², where e is energy, m is mass, and c the speed of light in a vacuum, clocked at 299,792,458 metres per second – or, to put it a little more prosaically, like rocketing roughly seven and a half times around our Earth in one second – how "on Earth" can this formula be said to be "dimensionally consistent", or "independent of any specific units of measurement"?
Surely, we can only understand "speed" in terms of "time and space", as measured according to our essentially comparative, because experientially obtained, data, namely "metres" and "seconds"? How else are we to understand "the speed of light", than by expressing it as a certain distance travelled (metres) during a certain length of time (seconds)? But what does that mean anywhere else? (Where's Albert?)
The time it takes for light to traverse "one metre" depends on our interpretation of our experience of the time it takes for our Earth to orbit our Sun. If the expression, e=mc², only makes sense in terms of specific numerical values that are obtained from our own arbitrary measurements of our experiential observations of time passing, what does that mean in absolute terms?
Even more intriguing, if our measurement of "cosmic" distances is arbitrarily expressed in terms of "light years", or the distance that light is said to travel in the time it takes for our Earth to orbit our Sun, how do we know how many of those years it took for the light from a distant star or galaxy to reach our eyes? Do photons kind of wear out with age perchance?
I have done some homework. I've looked at the Creative Commons website. So now, I too, can number myself among the initiated, the cognoscenti. I now know all about the 'Cosmic Distance Ladder', 'standard candles', 'Astronomical Units', 'parallax', 'Cepheids', the 'RR Lyrae variables', 'Supernovae', 'standard rulers' and so forth. And, wouldn't you know it, I also understand that there are a number of problems with all of this.
/ For example.
problems with all of this./
For example. How do we decide what the dimensions of our standard candle are? How do we know what 'object' we're looking at in the first place? How can we find enough visually similar objects whose distances we take as given in order to come up with a pretty good guess of the size and nature of the target with any acceptable accuracy? How easy is it to use the standard candle on an object that does not fit what is essentially an arbitrary category?
In other words, how standard can these candles really be anyway? Suppose a distant type Ia Supernova actually has very different properties than a closer one. We regularly make use of these particular Supernovae to construct the 'right' cosmological model. But what if their properties are different the further away they are? The following story is not suitable for older children.
In 1952, Walter Baade found, on the basis of variations in the metal content detected in their spectra, that the parameters of backyard Cepheids commonly used to set the standard candle were not the same as those used to get a fix on the galaxies in the same neighbourhood. That meant that certain stars turned out to be much brighter than they were supposed to be. Which left us with egg all over our collective faces. It seems we got our distances only half right. Suddenly we had to admit that the nearby galaxies and the diameter of the Milky Way are in fact twice as big than was thought. (Well, don't look at me.)
Reminds me of, Robert McNamara, saying in 1995 (27 years after resigning as Defense Secretary) that the war in Vietnam had been a "terrible mistake". Or Alan Greenspan (sage of Wall Street), admitting at the height of the GFC, that he had made a mistake. He had "placed too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets", he said, "and failed to anticipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortgage lending". (Uh-huh. Um … Hail Caesar? Those who are about to die salute you.)
I've even sat through one of Terrence Tao's star turns at UCLA, where he explains how all this works. And it's all so beautiful. Quite simple really. He's brilliant, no doubt about it. A regular star, as he unlocks all the mysteries of the cosmos. And … using my own standard candle, I've been able to calculate, to within a whisker of blatant hypocrisy, that I'm nearly as brilliant. At least, enough to admit it.
You see, I'm still left with this inescapable heresy. If photons are said to have no mass (else they could not barrel along at the speed of light), how is it that gravity has any purchase on light? How is it that, if Black Holes exert such an irresistible gravitational attraction, not even the sweetness of light, the quintessential Roadrunner, can escape? Nothing goes faster than light, right? Not even that wiley black holy coyote. (Or your average R&D budget.)
In a shell of this nut. If photons travel at the speed of light, they have no mass. Therefore, gravity should have no noticeable effect on light. But, if that is so, how come gravity, a weak force, bends, twists and (tell it not in Gath and Ashkelon) even arrests the speed of light? In fact, if, at the speed of light, time and space are meaningless, light should be able to traverse infinity in no time at all. (Please Joe, say it ain't so.) © harderwijk
You are worth an academic career. Forget the Economist
cubic metre of water./
Many other measurements are defined relative to the kilogram, so its stability is important. The question of what "specifically observable constant of nature" should define a kilogram has been under consideration for more than 200 years. The International Prototype Kilogram (IPK), made of pure 'incorruptible' Platinum, was found to lose weight, possibly due to corrosion in reactivity with the air. So a new standard had to be adopted and a resolution was finally reached only last year.
The metre had already been redefined in terms of invariant, fundamental physical constants, first in 1960 by the wavelength of light emitted by krypton, and later with reference to the speed of light. So, at the 94th Meeting of the International Committee for Weights and Measures in 2005, it was decided to do likewise with the kilogram.
Five years later, this body proposed that the kilogram be defined in terms of the Planck Constant, denoted as h, which was adopted in October 2011. Finally, after all this time, a kilogram is now delineated, if you have sufficiently accurate gear, in terms of the Planck Constant, a vanishingly small number, "reflecting the sizes of energy quanta in quantum mechanics". Enough said.
A metre was once held to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's Equator to the North Pole at MSL, but now it's defined as "the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of one second". But here's the rub. How can a metre derive its meaning from a second, if this is also used to measure the time light takes to travel one metre? (If you get a sense of a circular argument brewing here, it means you are still with me.)
What is a second? Where did we get this tiny bit of mortality? Our arbitrary measurement of time is derived from our original observation of what is happening on Earth and how this particular planet is behaving vis-à-vis our Sun. We say that the Earth takes 24 hours to spin on its axis. Once again, we know that the Earth is not bound by the dictates of my watch. Quite the reverse. We have divided our experience of the period between each time the Sun appears to reach its zenith in the sky at noon, into 24 hours. Each hour is then divided into sixty minutes, or 360 seconds. Twenty-four hours is therefore 86,400 seconds.
It matters not that we now place our battered faith in the tremors of a very cold Caesium-133 atom, elaborately kept shivering near Absolute Kelvin. While it's unquestionably a very accurate yardstick, it's really just another example of our obsession with precise standards. (Our very own standards.) Other units, like the volt and the metre, rely for their dimensions on this definition of the 'Caesium Standard'. But, in the final analysis, each second of our lives on this mortal coil still derives its meaning from what the Earth is doing around its axis.
And around the Sun. Because we also know that, once again, as regularly observed and arbitrarily measured on this very same timescale, the Earth takes roughly 365 days and six hours to complete one orbit of the Sun. (Not precisely.) We call this interval one year. This can be further sub-divided into 8,766 hours, 525,960 minutes and 31,557,600 seconds, give or take. A "light year", then, is equivalent to 31,557,600 x 299,792,458 metres. But not precisely. Go figure.
But that is all our own work. This is only one of the many possible chronologies, that we could have devised and adopted, just to enable us to "keep track of time", as we know it. Worse, much like the naturalist living with a pack of baboons, we find in particle physics that our meticulous observations appear to affect, not only what those bloody-minded particles just did, but also what they should have done and what they might do next.
/ But in our Universe at large,
Warning. This is part one of four, of a very long post. So if you're frightfully busy …
I have a problem with the way the so-called 'standard candle' is devised and deployed to "measure" celestial distances. It looks like a circular argument to me. What does it mean to measure something?
We accept that e=mc². This requires faith. By that I mean nothing more sinister than 'the capacity to believe'. Like I believe the time on my watch, my birth certificate, what is printed on your money, there was no second gunman on the grassy knoll and that tomorrow is due any minute now. Question of faith.
What does e=mc² mean? "Energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light, multiplied by itself". Who says so? We do. Here on Earth. Would the implication of e=mc² be true anywhere else in this universe? We must believe that it would, or 'we' could not have been to the Moon. But what are "energy", "mass" and "the speed of light"? How do we determine what dimension anything has, unless we compare it with something else? (Unless we expect to die, life itself is meaningless, right?)
Energy is expressed in convenient but arbitrary "units of measurement". In the case of electro-magnetic energy: "calories", "joules" or "British Thermal Units". We know that pure water, when heated at what in English we call "mean sea level", boils at precisely 100 °C. (At any significant altitude above mean sea level, water boils before it reaches 100 °C.)
What does that mean? The water is not obeying our thermometer. No. We observe the behaviour of the water as it is heated and, by placing a column of mercury in it, we see what level that column has reached by the time the water is boiling and mark that as 100 °C. (We do the same when the water is freezing and mark the level of mercury as 0 °C.)
We now have a purely arbitrary scale by which to measure everything else whose temperature we think significant. All those temperatures are only relative to a scale derived from the temperature of water. The Kelvin scale expresses temperature in absolute terms, assuming that, at 0 °K, all molecular motion would cease and matter, as we know it, would dissipate. This has not yet been observed.
Sea level is only significant to us because we know that, at specific latitudes, the Earth's atmosphere directly above the surface of the oceans has a specific density and therefore a specific pressure. However, due to the tides, which constantly fluctuate subject to the gravitational pull of the Moon and every other body in our solar system and beyond, sea level is not constant. So we talk about "the average level between the mean high tides and the mean low tides", represented as the MSL (mean sea level).
From the atmospheric pressure at that arbitrary level we obtain what is called in English "1 Atmosphere". The atmospheric pressure at the surface of the Dead Sea (422 m below MSL) is slightly higher than 1 Atmosphere. The summit of Mt Everest is currently 8,848 m above MSL and rising, we are told, due to "tectonic shift". (India drifting north.) The altitude is extrapolated from the atmospheric pressure, measured as about ⅓ of that at MSL.
Similarly, mass is also arbitrarily measured in terms of "the mass of a known substance at a certain temperature, as measured against the temperature of pure water boiling at sea level". The mass of an object can be measured in kilograms and is commonly understood as its weight. But weight is the observed effect of the Earth's gravitational pull. On the Moon your weight means something other than what it does here. A kilogram is almost exactly, but not quite equal to, the mass of one litre, or 1/1,000 of a cubic metre of water.
/ Many other measurements …
"We accept that e=mc²."
Its got proof. The fact that c is constant popped out of experiments attempting to detect the effect of the assumed lumniferous aether. The experiment failed and showed light's speed to be the same regardless of one's own speed.
Now as far as I can remember physics does make an assumption that the rules are the same across the universe.
In as much as light ( or massless particles) travel at a constant speed as measured by any frame of reference in space time is more of an observed constraint that influences the metrics of time and dimension if other observed constraints are to hold. It doesn't matter what the metrics are, only that they represent the same 'concept'. Unit of measure are just constants of an equation whose -interesting- features are their form: y=mx+b, etc.
Thank you. It's most unfortunate. Because of your tag, I'm tempted to describe reading your post as trying to read the leavings in my teacup. I'm sorry. I cannot make any sense of your words.
Perhaps we ought to try, at least, to avoid the jargon of the Shaman. The priests have held the floor long enough already, haven't they. I think Einstein himself famously asked his students to speak slowly, so that he could follow what the hell they were on about.
That said, I'm afraid any language, no matter how 'simple', is more likely to mystify, than serve to clarify what we really mean. Don't you find?
However, you are responding to only part one of my four-part rant. (I know. It seemed like a good idea at the time.) I did try to condense what I took to be my salient points, in response to the blog on today's TE interview with Ofer Lahav on Dark Energy. Look forward to hearing from you there. Cheers.
Its going to be hard to avoid all jargon -- unfortunately physics abounds with math, and a lot of experimental results that have been picked over and replicated lots times. its a bit hard to convey stuff like this without a shared knowledge base.
Its the nature of Physicsts to attempt to root out inconsistencies, so there are plenty of minds trying to find holes in process, assumptions, or eventually theory, but there is the assumption that what has been tested a lot is probably 'true'.
There are questions you ask that are similar to one's I have, but mine come from a different angle.
While I confess that i do not completely understand what this is talking about, I get the impression that we are spending scarce resources on experiments without direct impact on our wellbeing. what happened to Priority?
.....it is this kind of research that has shaped the modern world. Let me put it this way: this kind of "useless head in the clouds" science has given us semiconductors (computers), nuclear technology, gps, +++. Basically, we know it´s not useless, we just don´t have the imagination to see here and now what it might lead to. Rest assured, the money is well spent.
Very interesting -- but it is a shame to spend billions of dollars to confirm or refute the expansion of the universe regardless of the nature of it. The holy book of Muslims had already mentioned this over 14 centuries ago!! ...
At [51:47-48], God says: "With power did We construct the heaven. Verily, We are Able to extend the vastness of space thereof. And We have spread out the earth, how Excellent Spreader (thereof) are We!"
While at [41:53], God says: "We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their ownselves, until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Quran) is the truth. Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He is a Witness over all things?"
That truly is Islamic science at its finest.
Now, we have to wait for a long search of "w"... once they will have found it another consonant will come up on the cosmology glossary. Anyway is fascinating..
Just to add my voice to those who think the Economist would be a far less interesting magazine if it didn't print articles of this nature.
And, also, to add what an interesting article this is: right, wrong or in between, what an interesting sum up of this subject.
And kudos to Working Man for his easy to understand explanation.
Owing to this new slightly mad set up of comments I shall have to repeat this post as reply to Working Man.
An enigmatic enigma - a mystery that induces scientists to go into deeper and more they dig in more puzzling elements are unearthed - this is the science of God, the almighty! However, we are getting knowledgeable in our desperation for discovery.
The caveat on this article that some researchers think time, effort and money would be better spent on a less problematic branch of science (presumably, by that, they still mean astrophysics, cosmology and quantum physics) is interesting.
Physics, its difficulties and unsolved problems are as interesting as they are perplexing to the layman. The amount of interconnectedness between Wikipedia articles on physics topic (X is a Y of Z, requiring your familiarity with Y and Z before you can begin to understand X, and so on) is a rough but clear indicator. Sometimes, the intriguing nature of the universe we live in, I feel, can distract people from how useful pursuing knowledge of it actually is.
Ultimately, the pursuit feels philosophical. Physics, like computer science, was borne out of philosophy and the first tentative steps made by philosophers. The relentless search for the answer to "What is the Universe?" sounds like "What are we?" and "Who are we?". I have a lot of time for philosophy. But the chasing after results and the spending of billions of dollars at times feels like a right-brain conspiracy by scientists to have the feeling of getting closer to an answer that ultimately remains elusive, and probably will not be as satisfying or useful as feeling of nearing it suggests.
The most promising branch of physics, to me, seems to be fusion power, with the possiblity of economically useful teleportation a close second. The first offers more energy than the Earth could ever possibly require, and even the possibility of synthesizing elements that the Earth will one day run out of. In short, a fountain of infinte human life (at this scale; the Earth could sustain a human population with 1500's levels of consumption far longer than it could today's). Teleportation might one day be used for the transport of goods and people, and possibly the prospecting of other planets for minerals, though this seems far more unrealistic than the potential of fusion.
My question, and it is an open and curious one coming from a definite layman, is how useful is the pursuit of understanding of astrophysics, cosmology, the Universe and Everything to humanity's practical needs? What is the case for spending as much time and effort on it as we do? Is there justification for pursuing understanding of a Universe, when nothing of practical use to humans aside from understanding likely lies beyond our solar system, and for a species having far from an easy time living on its planet? How much of the understanding we glean is practically useful. Should we be using more time and money, and how much, to pursue, say, fusion power, than cosmological understanding?
Or, tell me if I am totally misled.
But it's so cool! I love astronomy!
The beauty of pure research like this is that we can't even fathom some of the applications. First of all, research like this drives technology, and in driving technology, we all benefit. The internet, GPS, megapixel cameras, and the technology in ipods has all been driven by research in other areas (such as astrophysics!). Who knows what great technology and applications we will get from pushing the boundaries?
Don't forget that feeding the soul, the intellect, and pushing boundaries of knowledge is what we are born to do, so it does fulfill that need. And, learning new physics is not purely philosophically interesting, but can teach us more about how we can make things work on the Earth, too, leading to other new discoveries.
In terms of the usefulness of fusion power, you are absolutely right. Teleportation, not so much.
The problem with economically viable teleportation is that it takes so much energy on either side. Imagine, for instance, that in the 24th century someone wants to set up a teleportation network to transport helium 3 from Neptune to the Moon. The process would take something like at LEAST 6 times as much energy as the helium 3 could produce at the destination.
That's assuming the system works at something like 100& of theoretical maximum efficiency.
Bulk transfer of goods through teleportation is always going to be uneconomically viable. It just takes too much energy.
In terms of your main question, I have no idea.
Consider that this pursuit might provide the necessary knowledge to do things like manipulate gravity, implement FTL or othe tweaky scifi stuff.
Do you not see the inherent contradiction in what you have written?
To be able to achieve teleportation (which effectively means traveling faster than the speed of light), one will need a complete understanding of the laws of nature. Currently, gravitation is not understood fully. The ultimate goal of physics, in its current state, is a "theory of everything" which must include gravitation along with the other forces of nature. The study of dark energy and dark matter, currently completely unexplainable, are central to this effort.
Far from being wasteful, it is studies of this nature that might one day save the human species by allowing us to escape the limitations of this planet. With the passage of time, the sums now being spent on these projects might look very small indeed, in relation to the benefits they bring.
To Magnus:
In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Ben Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby?"
There has always been pure knowledge and applied knowledge. We never know when the "pure" will be transformed into "applied".
As for fusion, maybe one day we will manufacture hydrogen pellets in near earth orbit. In a zero gravity environment, they could be made more perfectly round than they ever could be on earth. Why? you may ask.
Perfectly round pellets would be better than the earth-made variety to place inside a laser fusion reactor: when, say, 160 lasers are fired simultaneously at the pellet, a perfectly round shape would be much more likely to achieve controlled fusion. This is because there would be equal pressure on the whole surface of the pellet. That would be the closest we could duplicate the Sun's internal environment where we know fusion occurs every second.
Now, I am not a scientist---only an unemployed Credit Analyst. But I think the above makes sense. I hope I answered your question.
Any where you point, is the center of the universe.The universe is a single process and it is intelligent.The faster we chase it, the faster it speeds up in order to escape our inspection.We can now create anything we can imagine.We have the means to start the world all over again...and this time do it right.The answer to our problems is right here on earth, not 'out there'.To me, space exploration is a means to avoid what we know needs to be done here on earth and within our selves.Questioning all that you have been taught is true, is a good place to start. Regards, Jordan'.
"...at micron scales the attraction between two masses will no longer depend on the square of the distance between them in the way that physicists since Newton have required it to."
Can someone explain why this might be true?
I think, because at that scale, masses would show the influence of the conjectured energy on their gravitronic interactions. Distances at scales larger than the theorized curled up dimensions, I think the energy influence woud exponentially fade away...
Or because of quantum effects, when a completely different set of rules kick-in, to Newtonian physics.
Thank you (and teacup775) for answering.
It's the scale that is unnerving and hard to comprehend. Nerve axons can be 1 micron in diameter and red blood cells are about 6-8 microns in diameter. It's practically the macro-world -- and Newtonian physics would seem safe.
Probably I am not understanding this at all, but why would gravity be overridden at 1-2 microns, kick-in above that scale, then again be overridden at the scale of the universe, where entire galaxies are yanked away from each other?
What's so special about the "middle," where gravity functions?
On re-reading the section, you are right. Micron scales are huge compared with quantum distances, so that cannot be the explanation.
The writer might care to clarify.
"What makes Dr Burgess's proposal unusual is that he went out on a limb and suggested that these energy-sapping, curled-up extra dimensions should be as big as a few microns across, gargantuan by string-theory standards."
Unless it's a typo, that's the hypothesis.
If I am undersanding things correctly, because things (particles, dark energy etc) operating in the tiny dimension would influence the strength of gravity interactions at that scale, but at larger scales that influence dissipates. Or gravity "operates" mostly in those tiny dimensions and what we see at most scales is just whatever is left over in regular space time, the rest of gravity's influence disappating away in the distances of the curled up dimensions.
Newton calculated G from celestial bodies, so it just may be a good estimate, as is his general mechanics are for non relativistic speeds.
By another analogy relativistic effects are only really noticable at large percentages of c, otherwise Newton laws holds sway.
I am looking forward to the results of the experiment.
Thank you Economist for the article. Please go on giving us more.
Doesn't a speed-up of the expansion need more energy/matter than before?
And doesn't this violate the 1st law of thermodynamics?
The expansion is driven by vacuum energy. More expansion means more vacuum means more energy. I don't know if this violates thermodynamics, but that's how it works, as far as I understand it.
I thought "nature abhors a vacuum." Sounds like the universe loves a vacuum so much it's constantly expanding it.
Ths is one reason why I think we're just the froth from some higher dimensional objects crushing into each other. Playe tectonics at the next game level up.
I am no cosmologist, but it appears that vacuum energy is not equal to just the "vacuum" of space.
There is a still-unknown phenomena that creates a kind of anti-gravity repulsive force that accelerated the Universe's expansion rate about 5 billion years ago.
All one reads is conjecture after conjecture, theorizing and hypothesizing to attempt to explain the unexplainable.
So many top brains have been engaged in finding out the dark side of the universe, why not spare some energy and thought on how to get rid of the persistent dark side of human beings first? (btt1943)
I presume you mean 'explain the unexplained'; if not, prove it's unexplainable.
As for your second paragraph, other people are working on that. We can't all do the same job.
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Hanging An Industrial Steel Range Hood
"How's it hanging?" That was the big question last week. Not in the "Hey, how ya doing?" sense of things, but more in the "Um, how are we gonna hang this $60 hood we found on Craigslist" kind of way.
Sherry talked last week about how we planned to encase it in a DIY'd wood cover (see inspiration pics back on last week's post). Both of us were so excited about (1) the price tag and (2) the final look that we didn't really think through the middle part: actually installing the darn thing. So yeah… #planningfail?
Here was our challenge (beyond just not having any of the installation materials or instruction): this is an under-cabinet hood and, well, we don't have any cabinets to install it under. I figured that there were dozens of sites online detailing how to convert an under-cabinet hood to a wall-mounted one, so I wasn't worried… until my Google searches started coming up empty. That's when I started to second guess our plan. Was this just something that couldn't be done?
Then I discovered these.
We didn't buy these (our hood is Jenn-Air brand). But the fact that Kenmore sold bracket specifically "for mounting range hoods to wall when overhead cabinet is not used" meant it was not a completely crazy idea to retrofit ours to hang on the wall as well. So Sherry and I concocted a plan, did some shopping, and readied ourselves for some hood hanging (and possible hood hanging failure, as is always a possibility when we attempt to figure this stuff out as we go). This picture will make more sense soon, but just know it involved some wood pieces as a makeshift mounting panel and some heavy duty metal brackets as a stand-in for a cabinet.
But before we could put our plan in motion, some details needed to be taken care of. You know, little things like oh-yeah-we-didn't-tile-high-enough-under-the-vent-pipe. Another lapse in planning. Oh well, it took about 20 minutes to whip up a small batch of thinset and fill it in with some spare tiles. Yes, it was slightly maddening to have to go back to the tiling phase (especially for eight measly rows) but by this point we've learned just to laugh. Wince a little. Laugh some more. And get it done.
Then we mapped out all the important stuff on the wall to ensure that things would hang where they were supposed to hang. Looks pretty crazy, right? But I promise it makes lots of sense…
All of this painters tape is marking important reference points, such as:
- 1 & 2: Where our floating shelves would go – important because we wanted the bottom of the hood and the top shelf to be lined up (which was about 34″ from the top of the counter which is right between the hood manufacturer's recommended 30″ – 36″ distance from the stovetop)
- 3, 4, & 5: Where our studs are – important so we could attach the hood securely to the wall
- 6: The center point of our stove – important so the hood would hang squarely over the stove
In case you're wondering how I located the studs, it was actually thanks to some forethought on Sherry's part. Back when that wall was open she begged me to somehow mark where they were before we tiled and covered everything up, so I opted to make small marks on the ceiling to keep track of where each stud was. Then I taped a piece of thread to that mark, tied a paper clip to the other end (to weigh it down) and voila – a perfectly marked stud all the way down the wall. And once we hang our crown molding around the ceiling those little stud-marking dots will be hidden once and for all.
With all of our guides marked, it was time to screw in our first piece of wood. Here's the deal with the wood. The hood by itself was technically wide enough to hang from two studs, except the studs didn't line up with the two notched holes in the back of the hood (which were at either end) and I didn't trust that it would hold that way even if they were lined up perfectly.
So we figured we'd screw a slightly wider-than-the-hood piece of wood into two studs (and use a heavy duty anchor to secure it in a third location) and then hang the hood onto additional screws that lined up with the hood's notched holes. We actually got a contractor's blessing (just didn't feel right drilling into our pretty wall o' tile without double checking our plan with an expert first. So after that phone call we took a few deep breaths and moved on to the next (very scary) part of our plan: drilling into our tile. GASP.
I bought a special bit that's meant for glass and tile. It took a bit of pressure, but eventually I got all of my holes drilled. Though I think we both silently freaked out the entire time drilling was in progress.
Once we got over having riddled our tile with holes (okay, there were just six) I used some 2.5″ screws to secure the chunky plank of wood to the wall. I have to tell you, feeling those screws grab the stud so tightly was one of the most confidence inspiring parts of this process. I felt like I could've hung my whole body weight from this thing – that is, if I was able to grip the tiny ledge with my lanky girl fingers.
With one board in (to hang the hood from) I then had to attach a second one (to hang the brackets from) also with long screws into two studs and a third set of screws into heavy duty anchors to further enforce things. Then it looked a little something like this. Note: the vent pipe is slightly off-center, not the boards (so once we build the frame for the hood that will be solved and it'll all look centered). Oh, and the blue arrows are pointing to the two screws that the hood will hang from.
We felt pretty good when we realized that most upper cabinets are just held to studs with screws and then loaded up with dishes and plates and other items (and then a hood might be added on top of all that weight) and the whole shebang stays up.
Speaking of which, it was time to put the hood up (since the brackets would need to go up after the hood). Okay, so maybe this part was scarier than drilling into tile. We half pictured the whole wall of tile pulling off of the studs. But lucky for us, it didn't budge. It was up there solid as a rock. Which is good news, because clearly I could use less time worrying about hanging hoods and more time spent shaving…
Anyways. Sherry supported the hood just in case (she's the perfect height to rest it on her head from underneath it while standing on a small stepladder) and I attached the brackets to the wood panel and then into the hood using the same slots where it would've attached to a wall cabinet.
It was feeling plenty secure by this point, so I relieved Sherry's head from hood-holding duties while I secured the second bracket and she took some more photos.
Once it was tightly held to the wall, I took care of some of the finishing touches – like attaching the vent pipe to the hood and plugging it in (btw, how lucky were we that the existing plug hole in the range hood was pretty much perfectly placed for our outlet???) – and we were in business. Phew! Update: We've since learned that metal foil tape (sold at hardware stores) is better for taping that duct together than duct tape (regardless of the more fitting name of the latter – haha) so we'll be retaping that vent with foil tape to keep the seal nice and strong for the long term. Thanks for the tip guys!
Okay, so admittedly it looks kinda ugly right now. The exposed pipe / wood / giant hole in ceiling aren't really a good look, are they?
But it was a good start. Not only did we have a hood for the first time in over two months, but we had a hood that wasn't crazy close to the stove like our old microwave was (we hung it 34″ from the top of the counter which is right between the hood manufacturer's recommended 30″ – 36″ distance from the stovetop). And this hood has two fancy light settings. Oooooh. Ahhhhh.
And I know the exposed wood looks kinda crazy – especially because it sticks out about an inch on the sides. But I promise this is all part of a plan (hint: they'll make for a good spot to attach my homemade wood hood cover), so just bear with me for a couple of days.
Oh and don't mind this POV, we didn't have the filters snapped in yet (they're basically big stainless steel rectangles, so it looks a lot better from below once those are in). We'll have to share more photos soon.
Now in case you're still worried about this thing coming crumbling down overnight (we were – we actually pulled the stove out before we went to bed the first night just in case!), know that it has survived a few full days now with nary a creak or shake. So without jinxing ourselves, Sherry and I are calling this hanging project a success. All is good in the hood, as they say. Between the long screws going firmly into those studs and the heavy duty brackets also adding extra from-the-top support, this guy is pretty darn secure. So after a few days of breath-holding, Captain Careful can officially exhale.
Now for the fun (?) part – building a pretty wood cover for it. Somebody crank up my jams! We'll be back with all those details in a few days, but in the meantime, what did you guys do this weekend? Any heavy-object hanging? Tile drilling? Using your head to support something? Oh and something crazy crazy crazy is going on in our house today (well, it starts today and lasts for the next three weeks!!!) so we'll fill you in on all that tomorrow (once we have lived through one day of it and have some photos to share).
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Love it! You guys give so much motivation that DIY is possible. In fact, after two 5K estimates from contractors, I decided to and convinced my husband to let me) reno my bathroom myself. I'm using pros for plumbing and electricity, but the rest is me. Two weekends of demo and I have the room down to its guts. Next step, put new walls back up! Thanks for the push that it was possible to do this DIY (and save a few K's). Hopefully I'll have good before/after shots to share!
Now you guys can be the google search help for the next person!
Looks great and the kitchen is really coming together!
Over here my Dad and husband built a deck platform to go over this ugly grate we have in the front yard, now its pretty and ready to be decorated with plants in the spring!
Now that I'm seeing the hood up on the wall, the wooden cover TOTALLY makes sense. At first I wasn't sure how all of it would work, but it's like the lightbulb has been switched on. Ha ha.
My guess for the crazy 3 week project is either turning the carport into a garage, or doing a huuuuge photo shoot for the book. Either way, good luck!
I was watching Dear Genevieve last night and saw your exact penny tile for another kitchen re-do! They ended up getting the wrong kind while shipping, though, and had to go with a bluer shade of the same type, but it was still really cool to see.
You guys are KILLING ME with that sort of teaser!!
Can't wait till tomorrow to find out what you are up to….
Don't use Duct tape. Get the metal foil tape that is used for ducts. Unless you don't plan to be in the house for a long time.
Looks really great guys!
I just wanted to second what Greg mentioned above. I'm not sure why it's called duct tape when I've always been told to NOT use it for taping HVAC ducts (are there other ducts that need taping??)
Go with the metal foil tape instead.
I have to admit I wasn't completely crazy about the tile at first. But it looks great with the stove on the wall and is really starting to shimmer in the pictures. It looks like y'all made a great choice. I am excited to see what the hood cover is going to look like. I can already tell how it makes the kitchen look bigger just by elimiinating the over head cabinets.
"all good in the hood" *snort with laughter
Love lines like that. :D
Well it technically wasn't this weekend, but at the end of last week I hung a little shelving unit in my kitchen. It was not nearly as intense as your project, but I did it all by myself- which definitely required some interesting balancing acts!
Your hood looks great, can't wait to see the final result! http://youngscholarslife.blogspot.com/2012/01/additional-kitchen-storage.html
I think the most impressive part of your renovation is using tools that would make my Moms tool look like Norm Abrams. Very innovative! Nice Work!
We put up a penny tile backsplash this weekend, which went so quickly thanks to your amazing step-by-step posts! I'll be picking grout off my fingernails for awhile, but the walls look great!
Great job! I don't see myself ever doing that and my hubby would much rather pay someone to do it *but* it looks great so far (I'm sure it will look better later) and I love.that.tile.
What did you use to seal the joints of the duct work on your range hood? In the photos it looks like duct tape.
Regular duct tape from the hardware store is not actually meant for duct work, as the adhesive does not hold up. It is recommended to use metal/foil tape designed for duct work or mastic designed for duct work. Just thought I'd give you a heads up in case you were not aware.
Your kitchen is looks amazing, can't wait to see the finished project!
This looks great! Your kitchen is really coming together! You guys are fearless! We got up to demolishing our basement this weekend. Well, the man of the house did. I made pretty silhouette art instead! Ha. What a trade!
Well, of late I haven't had anything to say when y'all ask "Did you do any big home changes this weekend?" but this time I do! My father-in-law and my buds helped me remove my old formica counter top, stabilize the old base cabinet frame (hello Wobble City) and install the second hand granite countertop from the ReStore that has been sitting in the garage for, oh, about a year. So I also have a weekend full of "Please, don't come crashing down" stress. The hood looks great- look forward to seeing some shelves flanking each side.
I love how well you guys problem solve! I can't wait to see what the frame you build looks like. I also can't wait to see your floors. I think that is really going to make your white cabinets pop.
Also, every time you say you have a surprise, I keep hoping it's a sibling for Clara…just sayin!
I don't even think it possible to express through text how impressed I am that Sherry thought to mark the studs while the wall was taken apart. HOLY COW that was smart!
I am SO envious of your ability to pre-plan your projects out (though I wasn't sure this post was headed that way in the beginning!). My fiance is the WORST at that. He will normally think of some kind of project, start it, not have anything he really needs to start it, then get really frustrated running around looking for something simple like a screwdriver, then not be able to find one, then have to go to the store and get a new one… and you get the idea. I wish I could convince him to blog read to see that if you carefully consider things and are prepared before you jump in head first it usually ends pretty amazingly!
John, are you planning on insulating your ductwork? I was watching Holmes on Holmes this weekend and they said any pipe that goes into an attic space should be insulated. Just thought I would pass along their recommendation. It looks great. Well Done.
Looks great! Can't wait to see it up and running with the wood cover!
This weekend I decided the waiting game is ovah and I'm either building a desk or a bar cart…still in the deciding process :)
Man, your kitchen looks freaking AWESOME!:) And it's just in the progress! I can't wait to see the finished product! I'm secretly (not any more, since I'm commenting:)) stucking your blog because we just bought our first house that needs a lot of love and I need some inspiration that I took from you!:) Especially your tips on painting and picking paint colors.
Our problem was (and still kind of is) that last time house was painted with oil-based paint and our latex would "stick" over it, so it scrapes easily especially in the bedrooms and hallway because I don't think we washed those walls with TSP (we washed our living room and kitchen/dining room and the paint seems to hold up a bit better). Still we had to put 2 coats everywhere and my husband is so sick of painting we have to take breaks. Now, I don't know what we should do in the areas where paint scrapes easily. Any ideas/advice? Thanks.
So exciting! I think it looks like it would be very solid, and I'm Captain Worry over at our house about things pulling out of studs.
I'm sorry that this is totally unrelated and something you've probably answered but I couldn't find it searching… but do you have any recommendations for an affordable low/no VOC paint from somewhere other than Lowe's? We're hoping that in the very near future there will be a reason that I will be wanting to not have VOCs around, as well as a reason for quite a few more projects (I'm sure you know what I mean), but the nearest Lowe's is over an hour away and I haven't found anything else local. We have Home Depot, Menard's, True Value, as well as the paint stores, but the only thing I found was uber expensive at one of the specialty paint stores. Any suggestions?
Not only do we have the same stove, but we have the same tea pot! You have a better kitchen though! :) :)
Looks great! What a find! Drilling into tile would make me nervous, too. It's coming along so well.
Ooooo, it looks so pretty! I would have been a little more than sick drilling that tile. I am excited to see the wood hood!
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We have gone from rainy chilly weather to record breaking heat in the space of a week!! It was over 100 on the thermometers around here. Don't know what the official temp. will be, but pretty sure it broke a record. Yikes!!
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Robin takes an appreciative sip of Louis Royer Force 53, a heady brew with flavours of dry fruit and a punch that almost makes your eyes water. It's served with a mellow red bell pepper and cashew soup, and crostinis topped with sweet dehydrated figs.
The main course, a lemon garlic grilled basa fish, is teamed with Louis Royer VSOP, which is warm, velvety and round. "Quality depends on age," says Robin, adding: "By law it has to be a minimum of two years — but it can go up to 30, 40, 50, 100 years. This is what is extraordinary about cognac. You can keep it for years and years, and not lose its essence."
Dessert is a vanilla bean crème brulee served with the Louis Royer XO, which is smooth and lingering. Between sips, Jean Pierre Damatteo, technical director for Louis Royer, discusses how the company is now focussing on Asia. China, he says is currently fuelling the growth of the industry.
And, he adds with a laugh that both he and Robin aren't exclusively cognac drinkers, though that's where their loyalties lie. "Life would be very boring if you drink the same thing. I think only makers of Coca Cola drink Coke every day. As long as the product is well made, and a pleasure to the palate, we'll drink it."