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Does Taurus just copy everyone's guns, or did you put those grips on that Eclipse look-alike?
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Its a PITA/I had to sell it
My Taurus 1911 doesn't like Speer Gold Dot ammo. I have 6 mags (2 taurus, 2 Mec Gar, and 2 Kimber), so I guess I've had 6 FTFeed.
I've fired around 750 rnds of various other brands of FMJ and JHP without any problems. Hope to get another 200-300 today... Bass Pro Shop had WWB for $20.99/50, so I bought eight!
Does Taurus just copy everyone's guns, or did you put those grips on that Eclipse look-alike?
Those don't look like Taurus grips. It's a 1911, so unless it says Colt it's a clone.So I would guess that everyone has that to want to make them look like. I wouldn't think Taurus was trying to make one look like a Kimber. But I haven't seen a two tone from the factory either.
Pretty cool looking though. My PT1911's have more rounds that I would want to count and have yet to give me a problem. It's in the thousands but I really don't know how many rounds. If I had to guess around 1800 to 2200 rounds in the stainless one. The blued around 1000-1500.
This is what I'm talking about...
So-called "double-diamond" checkered grips were always standard-issue equipment on M1911s, both civilian and G.I. Therefore, modern 1911 clones are very frequently found bearing one form or another of "double-diamond" grip panels.
Taurus isn't copying your Eclipse. Instead, both are copying Colt.
I was referring to the similarities in the black finish with exposed flats along with the grips. I saw that Taurus 1911 and thought, "First beretta, now this?!"
I don't own one of these Kimbers, but have long admired the finish on them.
I currently own a Kimber and a Smith & Wesson .45.
They are both very good guns.
The Smith is 20 years old (I bought it new) and carried it as my duty gun.
The Kimber is brand new and a dream to shoot - it comes with a lot of "gunsmith" custom work already done to it.
Most of my "failures" happened with my Smith when it was brand new & not well "broken in".
I haven't had any failures on my new Kimber.
A lot of .45 brands do not have the following (you can get all of this installed from your gunsmiths):
Made entirely in the Kimber Custom Shop.
Night Sights, Meprolight Tritium 3-dot night sights.
Compact and Pro Carry pistols have 4-inch bushingless match grade bull barrels.
Barrels and chambers are match grade for accuracy.
Breech faces are polished.
Ejection ports are lowered and flared for reliable function.
Slides are machined from solid stainless steel and given a satin finish that will not reflect light.
Compact Stainless II has a shorter frame yet retains 7-round magazine capacity. 8 rounds is a Wilson Combat Magazine.
Kimber aluminum frames have been lab tested to over 20,000 rounds without evidence of meaningful wear.
All Compact and Pro Carry pistols use a proven single recoil spring design.
Available with steel, stainless steel or lightweight aluminum frames that reduce overall weight.
Crimson Trace® Lasergrips.
Tactical Rail.
Deep front strap checkering 30 lines-per-inch.
Deep rear strap checkering 30 lines-per-inch.
Deep trigger front grooving.
Deep bottom trigger guard checkering 30 lines-per-inch.
Checkered flat mainspring housing.
Match grade Premium Aluminum Trigger
Sights and edges are rounded and blended for easy carry w/o snagging clothing.
Beveled magazine well.
Magazine release button is extended for fast reloading.
Match grade trigger breaks clean and consistently every time.
Extended ambidextrous thumb safety.
Kimber aluminum frames are machined from solid blocks of 7075-T7 aluminum to the same critical dimensions as the steel frames.
The S&W .45 I carried on duty had almost none of these - I added a lot to it .
As I said before - you can get all of this on almost any .45 with the help of a gunsmith & after market parts , but it's available straight from the factory when you buy the Kimber I bought.
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CT grips, huh? What does that model run?
Not sure what your asking?
The Kimber comes in all kinds of models and configurations - cost depends on what you want on it - the cheapest I've ever seen was at a gun show for around $900 the most expensive around $1600 at a gun shop.
If your asking about the cost of the Crimson Trace grips alone, I've seen them online from $260 to $359 for the model that came on my Kimber model Crimson Trace laser grips, LG 401-P1.
I hope this helps.
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Only about 400 rounds fired so far, but it has not had a failure. I have only used the following: Winchester ST/JHP and Target Ball, and some (10 rnds) reloaded LSWC/HP so far. So needless to say I am happy with my new HD gun. Almost forgot to mention it's a Para 1911 model 14-45 Gun Rights.
Had my Kimber SLE for several years now. Zero hiccups. Have shot WW, Fed, REM, Hornady, Speer, and SWC reloads. Am very happy with the pistol. See ya, Bill
i voted no probs.
my current springer champ op and para gi expert are flawless.
however, my very first handgun years ago, was a norinco 1911. it was a complete piece of !
constantly jammed, ftf's and fte's. my dad traded it for a nice cannon slr camera a couple years ago
Oh Boy you traded off a true machined frame in the Norinco for a cast iron Springfield Clunker!
The failure rate of the 1911 handgun is proportional to the departure away from the original design concepts by John Moses Browning.
It was never intended to be a "Target Weapon". It was designed to be a close range self defense weapon for our military personnel. It was designed to be shot from a horse and to be loaded and activated with one hand. Please see the original Military Operations Manual at this location http://www.sightm1911.com/manual/manual.htm
It was designed to shoot round nose bullets of 230 grains that John Moses Browning also invented. It was designed to have very loose tolerances to operate in all types of conditions.
The more you stray away from the original design the higher the chance for failure get. Come on people, you can drive nails with a glass challis too until it breaks also!......
I've been watching this post for quite a while now. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If you aren't having any malfunctions in your gun, there's only a few reasons for it...
1. You're the luckiest person on the planet and got a great gun.
2. You're the best shooter ever and always have perfect form.
3. You're not counting all malfunctions by placing blame on something else (ammo, shooter, dust in your eye)
4. You're not shooting your gun very much.
Mechanical failures are a certainty in any mechanical device. Introduce the human element into the equation and something just doesn't add up. A malfunction is a malfunction is a malfunction, regardless of what may have caused it.
Consider that the original question regards failures after the break-in period.
I had 11 failures within the first 685 rounds fired in my Kimber. I've now put 3643 rounds through the gun. No failures, jams, stovepipes, etc since round number 685.
Good maintenance? (I've changed the springs according to the manual, clean and lube the gun on a regular basis)
Perfect form? (my doctor tells me my coumadin level is perfect, but she hasn't said anything about my form)
Luck? (maybe)
Not counting all the shots? (yes, actually I am counting all the shots. Among those 11 were some I blamed for my wife's limp-wristing [she doesn't shoot this gun anymore], or bad ammo - it didn't like Monarch or WWB 230 grain ammo)
Not considered to have been shot much? (I don't know what this standard is)
Or am I lying? (No - but then if I lied about the above, then I'm probably lying about this. My opinion is that I'm not lying)
So has it had failures? Yes. Based on my criteria above, she had 2 failures after the 500 round break-in period.
But she has not had any failures in the last 2,721 rounds.
I can believe that some folk have had no failures after the break in period.
Never argue with drunks or crazy people.
I can't totally agree with you here Zur. With a 1911 if you have a decent one..Don't have to be any top of the line stuff..Just decent and you take the proper care it will function as it should always. With a 1911 you have to be a lot more careful with things like springs. Especially the recoil spring. The recoil spring will wear faster than they do in many other type weapons. They start to collapse over time and will get weaker because of it and that will cause problems. This is why you will see say..A Springfield Mil-Spec that has a 14-16 # spring fail before you will a higher dollar 1911 that has a 18-20 # spring. You only need a 16# to make the weapon work right with most all store bought ammo but if it gets sloppy and you get failures. The weapon with the 20# spring can fire many more rounds before that spring gets below the 15-16# level and really needs replaced.l so people think the weapon is built so much better. This also answers why some higher end 1911's require a break in period. Because they have the heavier springs and can be too tight for some store bought ammo. While most middle and lower shelf 1911's do not say the require the same break in time.
One of the biggest shortcomings for a 1911 according to non 191 people will be that they require too much maintenance to perform at their top level. Where newer style combat weapons can go much longer without it. Many non 1911 people will concede that the 1911 can and many times will be more accurate. And anyone that knows anything about weapons knows the more accurate the tighter the weapon needs to be. And that tighter tolerance leads for less places for dirt to go before it becomes a problem. Add that to the issues with some springs and you have a recipe for failure. But it can be avoided most the time of the 1911 user keeps a sharp eye out for things before they become an issue. I like most 1911 shooters always has an extra spring or two laying around. I keep one just to compare against one in the weapon. It starts to get to .75" shorter it needs replaced or I will have a problem.
Using this info I have been able to say honestly that I have a a 1911 that started life as a Mil-Spec that has had thousands of rounds fired and without a problem. I have a PT1911 that can say the same. As with my Para LTC. I did have an issue once with an RIA but I did not check things as close as I should have when I took it down to clean it when new. It stove piped once. I changed the spring to a 16# and it worked well until I sold it. I'm not I don't see the guy that has it much so I can't speak of it's lack of failure now. I do shoot at least one of my 1911's every time I shoot. I will shoot at least 100 rounds through it. And they all perform as I expect them to. But like I said I have to pay closer attention to them than I will my Sig Sauers, Browning Pro-40, or even my Buckmark. I learned my attention to detail in a 1911 from a man that carried one through two wars. And he always said because of that attention he was able to come home from both.
For me grip is not as much an issue with a 1911 unless you are using some pretty tight springs and ammo that is not loaded real hot(down loaded target stuff). But I load my ammo to simulate my carry ammo. I never understood the lighter load to target than carry. But I guess that's just me.
Ok... I should have clarified. I'm approaching about 30k thru my 1911.
Please note, I never said anyone was a liar, I just said something isn't adding up.
I meticulously maintain my gun, new springs, with spares in the bag. Good lube and good cleaning regimen. I've had 40 stoppages over those ~30k rounds.
I guess I just get tired of hearing terms like "flawless" and "perfect" and "unbelievable" from people that shoot 300 rounds thru their gun and call it hard use and seeing 77% of the vote going to zero stoppages. It just doesn't add up on one level or another.
Sorry, I'm just pissy... still.
Truth be known, that's what started this thread to begin with: Kept hearing folk talk about the unreliability of the 1911.
But it was always phrased as "a friend/acquaintance's" gun, or something someone saw somewhere.
I'm happy with mine, and couldn't believe that if 1911 failed all the time that they would be such a big part of gun sales.
So I launched this unscientific poll to see what real owner's of 1911's were experiencing.
Never argue with drunks or crazy people.
Heh..Man I wasn't trying to come off mad or accusing anything. I just thought I'd try to clarify my earlier posts in how my pistols act. I can't speak to anyone others posts because I never see any of y'all at my house which is where I do most of my shooting.
I do agree... A handgun is not been used in my opinion until you get a couple thousand rounds through it anyway. To me if 200-300 rounds it's still new. under 500 rounds you wont even know most of the weapons traits because it's just too new.
I have put 2000 round through my Taurus 1911 and never had an issue. I have heard horror stories, but not a hicup with mine.
Still waiting for the catastrophic life altering failure which will forever make me rue the day I use a 1911.


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With oversupply being the major issue across most sector, ship owners are expected to turn their attention to other niche markets, such as the LNG and offshore segments, instead of the more traditional tanker or dry bulk ones. In its latest weekly report, Clarksons Hellas said that "owners and yards alike have been keen to see what lies ahead in the post Lunar New year market and for the time being - with large amounts of early capacity still available at various yards it will be interesting to see just how keen some yards will become in order to win some potentially vital new business. With some yards in China now becoming increasingly flexible through payment structures and terms offered, it will likely not be too long before some owners are tempted to order the new generation eco designs at levels close to or below levels we have seen in the past decade. Having discussed the merger of two Japanese Yards last week, it is sad to see reported this week that two of the Korean Yards have not been as lucky to receive such good news. Samho Shipbuilding in Tongyong, which has historically specialised in building Chemical tankers and Handysize bulkers no longer has the support of the creditor bankers after the demise of their sister shipping company and will now reportedly only complete slowly two handysize hulls before ceasing business. Sekwang Heavy Industries, who again have their main history in the Chemical tanker newbuilding sector along with more recently a diversification into the offshore sector have found no buyers after being put into court protection and again will now reportedly build any further Vessels" concluded Clarksons Hellas.
In a separater report, shipbroker Golden Destiny said that "the newbuilding business remains stagnant with offshore and LNG segments attracting investors' focus that are seeking for newbuilt vessel to diversify their core business and adjust in new market fundamentals. No fresh activity has been reported this week either in the bulk carrier or tanker segment with subdued sentiment in the freight markets discoursing owners' decision for new investment plans. South Korean yards with market expertise in the construction of more specialized units will be again the beneficiaries for the year 2012, while consolidation in Japan and China's Shipbuilding industry is likely to be the key issue in the coming months as a solution to the dried out of newbuilding business and the slide in newbuilding prices. Overall, the week closed with 19 fresh orders reported worldwide at a total deadweight of 235,200 tons, posting a 90% week-onweek increase due to 75% stronger business for offshore units. This week's total newbuilding business is down by 51% from similar week's closing in 2011, when 39 fresh orders had been reported with bulk carriers, tankers and containers grasping 44%, 18% and 26% share respectively of the total ordering activity. In terms of invested capital, the total amount of money invested is estimated at region $1,5 billion with 9 transactions reported at an undisclosed contract price. The most overweight segment appears to be the offshore segment with 14 fresh new orders by attracting 72% of the total invested capital" said the Piraeus-based shipbroker.
It went on to mention that "in the bulk carrier segment, an Indian utility and mining group, Haryana based Lanco Infratech, is considering a series of 15 or more kamsarmaxes, between 80,000dwt and 85,000dwt, to build its fleet so as to have greater control over its cargoes and reduce its dependence on chartered vessels. The owner is already approaching yards in China and South Korea that are more competitive on newbuilding prices offered. The order is said to be placed by autumn with deliveries in mid 2014.
In the gas tanker segment, Norway's Hoegh LNG declared its option for a third floating storage and regasification unit of 170,000 cu.m at South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries for a price region $250 mil with delivery in June 2014. There are options for three more, the original two were ordered last year. The booming LNG sentiment encouraged the owner to add one more unit after securing firm contracts to employ the similar vessels ordered last year. Höegh LNG and Perusahan Gas Negara finalised a deal on 25 January to employ the first vessel off Belawan in North Sumatra. Earlier the same week, Höegh said it had won a tender offer to deploy the second FSRU newbuilding, in a project in Klaipeda, Lithuania. CEO Sveinung Stohle said with the two earlier-contracted vessels now employed, a third one was ordered to follow the company's strategy to grow its footprint in what it believes is a growth segment. Höegh placed 22.6M new shares with investors for 53 kroner ($9.09) per share and lifted about 1.2Bn kroner in fresh equity for financing its third newbuilding, the company said in a separate statement. Furthermore, Russian shipowner Sovcomflot is going to exercise its options for two LNG units of 170,200 cbm ice class 1C tri fuel at STX Offshore and Shipbuilding with delivery at the end of 2014 and early 2015. In the LPG segment, Hyundai Heavy Industries has won a LPG contract by Pertamina of Indonesia for a unit of 84,000cbm, with an option for one more, for delivery in the second half of 2013. The newbuilding cost of the unit is said to be at $77 mil due to higher specifications than the average design requested by the owner. In addition, partners of Unigas pool are under discussions to place and order for three plus three LPG ethylene carriers of 12,000cbm at a price between $38,5mil and $40mil each. The three partners, Othello Shipping, Schulte and Sloman Neptune, are expected initially to sign up for one vessel each with potential South Korean yards, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and STX Offshore and Shipbuilding. A final decision will be concluded within the next two or three months" said the report.
Finally, "in the container segment, the Hamburg-based company Peter Dohle has concluded an order for one 4,800 teu unit, with an option for one more, at Jinling Shipyard, for delivery in the first quarter of 2014. Sources reveal that the owner placed the order prior to the Chinese New Year last month at a cost believed to be $55 mil each. The yard is said to be the first time that builds such large units as it has only previously built boxships up to 1,100 TEU" concluded Golden Destiny.
Nikos Roussanoglou, Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
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In the previous post «Olonkho, Sakha heroic epos, in Timofei Stepanov's painting The Upper World«, I wrote that the famous Yakutian artist, Timofei Stepanov, appeared to be the first, who depicted the Sakha heroic epic «Olonkho» in the series of paintings.
I noted, «Timofei Stepanov was named as a Olonkho story-teller in fine arts. Indeed, one painting is like one big tale with many small stories.» After, I offered to see my iPhone photographs of fragments of one art piece called «The Upper World.» In the end, I promised to continue the topic.


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Modeled after a similar measure in California, the bill would make it easier for residents to present a case against a utility rate increase request by covering some or all of the expenses involved in preparing testimony. Pepco and Delmarva Power together spent $1.8 million in 2012 making cases to the Maryland Public Service Commission for rate increases, and those costs ultimately were passed on to ratepayers, Carr said.
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The proposed bill would level the playing field of resources available to testify about rate increase requests, and would put more eyes on Pepco, which has been permitted by the Maryland Public Service Commission to neglect its infrastructure for years, Carr and Milstein said.
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Arduino-Open Hardware and IDE Combo
This article is a bit different from my usual column in two ways. First, it's starting with a hardware and software combo—something I've not done before. Second, the projects are linked to each other and come recommended to me by Perth LUG member, Simon Newton.
Given the mostly hardware-based information for the project, here are some carefully selected bits of information from the Web site:
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language and the Arduino development environment. Arduino projects can be standalone or they can communicate with software running on a computer.
The open-source Arduino environment makes it easy to write code and upload it to the I/O board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing, avr-gcc and other open source-software.
For those who are happy with a binary, the Web site makes things very easy with 32- and 64-bit binary tarballs at the download page, and if you're lucky, the Arduino IDE may even be in your repository. If you're going with the binary tarball, just download the latest from the Web site, extract it, and open a terminal in the folder. To run the program, enter the command:
$ ./arduino
If you're running from source instead, instructions are available on the Web site with a link from the Downloads page, although I don't have the space here to cover its somewhat unusual installer method. Nevertheless, it does recommend a series of packages that should help troubleshoot mishaps with both the source and binary tarballs. The Web site says you need the following: Sun Java SDK, avr-gcc, avr-g++, avr-libc, make, ant and git.
If you have a local repository version installed, chances are the program can be started with this command:
$ arduino
Under my Kubuntu installation, the Arduino IDE was available in the KDE menu under Applications→Electronics→Arduino IDE.
However, I must stop you here before actually running the program, and I apologize if I led you astray in the last few paragraphs (don't worry if you've already started it, you can close and re-open it with no worries). Obviously, before you can do anything with an Arduino board and the software, you first have to plug in your Arduino device. This will help in the configuration of your hardware, especially if you're using a USB connection.
Once that's out of the way, you now can start the program with any of the methods above.
With the program running and the device plugged in, let's set it up. Inside the main window, click on the Tools menu and navigate your way to the Board menu. From there, choose your Arduino device (I had the Arduino Uno). Now you have to choose your serial port, which is under Tools→Serial Port. If you had a USB device and the program found it, a USB option should appear here (in my case, /dev/ttyUSB0).
With all of that boring stuff out of the way, I'm sure you're keen to sink your teeth into this hardware/software combo. The IDE makes things simple with a series of examples in an easy-access menu. Look under File→Examples, and check out the impressive list of examples from which to choose. I recommend starting with Blink under the 1.Basics menu.
With Blink, you can start with the most basic of basics and come to grasp the syntax with well laid out code with documentation for each line. To try out this code, click Upload, which is the sixth button along in the blue menu, with the right-facing arrow. If all goes well, you should see your device start blinking from an LED, perhaps with a board reset in the process.
If your board has an enabled reset facility like the Uno I was using, you should be able to make code changes by uploading them, watching the board next to you reset and start again with the new program. In fact, I recommend you try it now. Change one of the lines, perhaps one of the lines dealing with the delay time, and then upload it again. Now this may seem lame, but to a hardware "n00b" like myself, changing around the program and updating the running hardware in a visible way was quite a buzz!
If you want to check out your code before uploading it, the start and stop buttons are for verifying the code, with the stop button obviously allowing you to cancel any compiling partway through. Although I'm running out of space for the software side, I recommend checking out more of the examples in the code, where genuinely real-world uses are available. Some highlights include ChatServer, "a simple server that distributes any incoming messages to all connected clients"; a reader for barometric pressure sensors; and a program for demonstrating and controlling sprite animations.
However, I've been neglecting one of Arduino's real bonuses, and that is the ability to use a board to program any number of chips, remove them from the main Arduino board, and use them to run external devices. The nature of open hardware really makes this a robotic enthusiast's wet dream, with examples like my close mate Phil's robotic spider showing some of the cool things you can achieve with this suite.
Nevertheless, I do have one specific use of Arduino in mind to tie this column together, and that is Simon Newton's Arduino RGB Mixer: a six channel color mixer that interfaces with OLA. Check out the following link for instructions on how to make this simple device that shows off both of these projects at the same time: http://www.opendmx.net/index.php/Arduino_RGB_Mixer.
Read more at: http://arduino.cc/enJohn Knight is the New Projects columnist for Linux Journal.
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This is the fifth installment of my series on maximizing British Airways miles. Since so many of you got in on the super-lucrative 100,000 mile BA Visa sign-up bonus (see details of the current 100K offer), it would be beneficial to check out: General tips, Post 1 – Booking BA Awards, Post 2 – Booking Partner Awards, Post 3 – Oneworld Alliance, Post 4 – Taxes and Fees, Post 5 – Household Accounts, Post 6 – Companion Ticket, Post 7 – Using ExpertFlyer for Partner Award Availability, Post 8 – The Art of the Stopover, Post 9 – Leveraging Miles and Cash Redemptions, and Post 10 - Using Qantas.com to Find Oneworld Award Availability. Also, be sure to check out my post on the credit card deal itself and the lengthy Q&A in the comments section.
With British Airways, their frequent flyer program is different in many ways from traditional "legacy" US programs. One of the most unique aspects is BA's Household Account feature. The Household Account allows you to pool miles from up to 6 other members of your "household." Key things to note:
1) There has to be a head of household. This person will have full control of who joins/leaves the Household.
2) Anyone can join your Household, they just need to have the same address as the Head of Household on file in their Executive Club account. Your address on file can be changed at any time, free of charge.
3) When awards are booked, the miles will be pulled proportionately from each member's account. For example, if there are 4 members in the household:
Tom: 35,000 miles, 42% of total Household miles
Dick (Head of Household): 19,000 miles, 23% of total Household miles
Harry: 15,000 miles, 18% of total Household miles
Sally: 14,000 miles, 17% of total Household miles
Collectively the Household has 83,000 miles. Harry and Sally decide they both want to go from New York to Buenos Aires on spring break, but neither of them have the 40,000 miles needed for the coach award on American Airlines. Under most loyalty programs, they'd still be short and would be stuck paying fees to transfer miles between accounts. However, since the Household has enough collective miles to book two 40,000 awards, they have nothing to worry about. They can simply log in to their British Airways account and book the awards and the 80,000 miles (which is 96.39% of the total Household's mileage balance) would come proportionately from each account. So to see how many points they'd each be left with simply take the leftover balance (3,000) and multiple it by each of their % ownership of the account.
Tom: 1,260 miles, 42% of total Household miles
Dick (Head of Household): 690 miles, 23% of total Household miles
Harry: 540 miles, 18% of total Household miles
Sally: 510 miles, 17% of total Household miles
Remaining balance = 3,000 miles
The good thing is, this process is automated, so no long division required.
While the Household account is free, British Airways did put some rules in place to limit abuse:
1) You can only book awards for people in your Household. This is probably the biggest thing to note; what you gain in flexibility to pool miles, you lose in ability to redeem for anyone else. The one exception to this is the 2 for 1 companion certificate, which you get after spending $30,000 in a calendar year on the Chase Visa (more on that in a future post).
2) Once it's created, you can only add/delete members every 6 months. Household accounts were not created so you could pool miles with random people. The intention is that it's with your immediate household, though they leave the interpretation of who qualifies as a Household member up to the Head of Household, which is generous.
3) You can disband a Household Account at any time, but you can't re-create another for 6 months
4) Suspicious activity will be flagged and remember – BA can take all of your miles away at any time. Pressing your luck with a fraudulent Household Account isn't worth it.
5) Only people 18+ can redeem for awards. If the Household Account is disbanded, all miles of minors go to the head of household.
6) Only redeemable miles are pooled. Each member still continues to earn elite points individually.
7) Like regular BA miles, Household miles expire after 36 months of no activity (though its very easy to keep accounts active, especially if you have the BA Visa).
I recommend reading the rules on Household accounts before signing up for one. If you still have any questions, feel free to ask in the comment section and I'll do my best to answer since I am currently a Head of my BA Household Account – oh the power!
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Reconnecting with Nature Through Green Architecture
Stephen Kellert, a social ecologist, is a passionate advocate for the need to incorporate aspects of the natural world into our built environment. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains what we can learn from cathedrals, why flowers in a hospital can heal, and how green design can boost a business's bottom line.
By richard conniff
Stephen R. Kellert, a social ecologist, has spent much of his career thinking and writing about biophilia, the innate human affinity for nature. His most recent book (with co-editors Judith H. Heerwagen and Martin L. Mador) is
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life
. It's an exploration of how we cut ourselves off from nature in the way we design the buildings and neighborhoods where we live and work. And it's an argument for re-connecting these spaces to the natural world, with plenty of windows, daylight, fresh air, plants and green spaces, natural materials, and decorative motifs from the natural world.
Kellert and his co-authors believe that people learn better, work more comfortably, and recuperate more successfully in buildings that echo the
Stephen R. Kellert
environment in which the human species evolved. The new volume brings together the evidence, which is strongest in health care. In one study, for instance, spinal surgery patients in rooms with bright sunlight needed 22 percent less pain medication than patients in darker recovery rooms. But firm evidence of improvements in workplace productivity, absenteeism, employee retention and other bottom-line criteria is still too patchy for most companies to make the commitment to rethinking design.
Kellert himself recently put his biophilic ideas to the test at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where he's the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology. As one of the driving thinkers in
the design of the school's new headquarters
, opened early this year, he pushed successfully for use of wood surfaces from the school's own forests, green courtyards, and many other biophilic features. Kellert has also served as an advisor to such prominent green building projects as Bank of America's new office tower in midtown Manhattan, Goldman Sachs' Jersey City campus, and the new Sidwell Friends Middle School campus in Washington, D.C.
After 30 years in academia, Kellert recently cut back on his teaching to join Environmental Capital Partners, a newly formed private equity firm,
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investing in companies offering green products and services. But, in an interview with
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, he admits that persuading his partners to invest in biophilic design is just a dream, for now.
Yale Environment 360
: So let's start with the status quo, can you talk about one building that really epitomizes what we're doing wrong, that cuts people off from nature instead of connecting them to it?
Steven Kellert
: One simple statistic is that the majority of people who work in office buildings in the United States work in a windowless environment. And look at the way we decorate or don't decorate hospital rooms, for example. A good many of them are windowless, especially the older kinds. They're barren. There's not much attempt to incorporate any kind of organic — even simulated organic — characteristics. There's a great recent study by Roger Ulrich. There are identical emergency room rooms. One is this windowless, barren environment, with nothing on the wall, and the barest, meanest of furnishings. And it's a room that is characterized by hostility, anxiety, and even acting-out behavior. And then they transform the room — it's the same room, still windowless, but they put décor in there that had natural materials, it had patterns on the couches that mimicked natural forms; they had pictures on the wall. I have a picture of the two side by side — and you only have to see it to recognize in yourself which place would you rather be, and the empirical data was dramatic. Less hostility, less aggression, less acting-out behavior, and this is not just amenity value, it's actual performance and productivity.
The same thing occurs in the workplace. Why do people experience flagging morale and fatigue and higher absenteeism in these windowless environments? Why are they far far more likely to try to incorporate some kind of — usually fairly pathetic — but to incorporate some kind of expression of organic quality — they'll have a Sierra Club calendar, they'll have a potted plant, much more likely than say somebody working in a perimeter in a windowed environment. The problem is that that's really superficial, there's not really an experiential engagement, and so after a while even though you've got a beautiful Sierra Club calendar you barely see it anymore, it's like your screensaver, which saves you for a little while and then it's just background Muzak, or whatever.
: So what are two or three of the main things that buildings need to be doing to get people connected to nature, and that work well…
: Well the lowest hanging fruit, I like to say, because it's the easiest thing do, is natural light and — to the extent that you can — natural ventilation helps. Certainly décor. A lot of what we've done from time immemorial in buildings is to contextualize our experience of nature in ways that we hardly even realize. When you go into a cathedral, which often has many biophilic elements in the way in which it manipulates light and space and air, and material and shape and form, and color sometimes as well, you know people don't say "ah, nature," it's not obvious, it's not a direct experiential contact with self-sustaining nature. It's what I call vicarious or representational nature. A lot of this is retrieving things that we've done in the past, intuitively and instinctually, and I use the word advisedly, because I think these are biological tendencies, inclinations. As we became more machine-oriented and thought of the world as a human-engineered world, I think we've kind of lost sight of those needs.
: You've said at some point that we have laws to protect zoo animals from being kept in hostile environments. I wonder if we have laws that do the opposite for humans, that force us into unnatural and hostile environments?
: We have laws to protect animals from environments that we regard as psychologically degrading or depraved or debilitating. And the irony, those were humane laws, they were promulgated by organizations like the Humane Society of the United States, and now we try to create naturalistic habitats for these animals, because they're animals, right, and we describe the conditions as inhumane, which to me is the ultimate irony. And yet we can put ourselves into a windowless environment, something that would have been considered like a Skinner box not too long ago, with very little stimulation, very little color, very little variability, very little that is organic in its simulation or form, and yet we don't regard that as inhumane, which I think says volumes about how we don't really see ourselves as like the animal in the cage, we are something different from an animal.
: In the book much of what you present as evidence is not about aesthetics, it's about neurology and physiology. I'm thinking of the healthcare studies where patients in surgery had a 22 percent reduction in the use of painkillers when they were in more naturalistic recovery rooms.
: Why do people bring flowers to the hospital all the time? What good is it? It's not a pill, it's not—these flowers aren't selected for their medicinal values, they haven't been systematically examined for their pharmacological effects, and yet people do it. Is it just superficial? Is it just a nice gesture, nice but not important? I would suggest that it is a much deeper recognition of the healing effects associated with affirming life. I don't think there's a person on earth who doesn't respond to a sunset, or to a beautiful flowering rose, or to a conical shape of a mountain.
And when you begin to look, you begin to see all sorts of adaptive and functional tendencies that can come out of that experiential response to aesthetics. Modern medicine sees ourselves as transcending and conquering nature, and all we needed was a machine that could intervene and make us well again, conquer, suppress, eliminate disease, and certainly we've done marvelous things with these machines. But we've also lost sight of some very fundamental aspects of health and healing, and consequently create these hospitals that are very often mechanistic to the point that they're debilitating, and the evidence in this particular sphere is beginning to change some minds.
: The one thing missing in the evidence and that really matters most to builders and developers is, whether biophilic design affects cost and benefits, profit and loss…
: Right. There's some evidence—it's not completely absent. We're doing a study right now for the eastern headquarters for Bank of America at Bryant Park [in mid-town Manhattan], and the builders, one of the authors in our biophilic design book…Bob Fox…he did incorporate some elements of biophilic design, in terms of fresh air, and natural light, and all kinds of experiential elements and materials used and so forth…
: The trading pit in that building is the only one, I think, that has daylight.
: Right, right, and we're collecting data across a wide range of parameters from physical data to social data to psychological data. And we're going to be able to measure whether there have been bottom line effects, absenteeism, health and symptomatology, productivity, retention — retention is a really important thing for a company like Bank of America, because it costs a lot to train people — and so we'll have some of those indicators. My colleague on the Bank of American study did an office and factory study associated with the Herman Miller company, which is a furniture manufacturer, in which they were able to find significant productivity gains, less absenteeism, less health problems, a better sense of well-being as reported by the individuals that participated. And ultimately all of this translates to the bottom line.
I would prefer that we had even more subtle measures — critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, solidarity, if you will. Ultimately, those are the real tests of whether a company succeeds or not. Genzyme, which employs a lot of expensive Ph.D. types to do biotech work, built a new building, which doesn't look much different from the outside, but when you go inside it's got light and space, it's got these little mini parks. They find people are working together more, and they're working longer — only 20 minutes on average, but that's a big factor from their point of view.
: Have you had a builder or a developer say "you've talked me into it"?
: I think that if the consumer of the product starts demanding it, that will drive change. If we depend on enlightened developers, that's going to be very difficult. First of all, most of our development in the United States is kind of hit and run. It's money coming from afar, that wants return on investment very quickly, and where the people who are investing the money and getting back returns on that money don't really care about the productivity of those who are leasing the space. That sounds kind of callous, but they don't care very much because they don't reap the benefits.
: So the customer…
: So the customer has to believe that this is a better work environment, and that is a slow process. On the other hand, the first law of social life is contagion, and if you can get to that critical threshold where enough people believe this is the case, even if they think it's just the fashion of the day, it can start to accelerate. And I believe that will occur.
: So let's talk about architects. The book is pretty harsh, at times, on architects, even though you have architects among your authors. So how are your architects reacting to this?
: I think most are indifferent rather than hostile.
: Well, how do you get their attention?
: I know that when we did our session on biophilic design at the "Greenbuild Conference," I thought we had been given a room that was too big, and that it was going to be embarrassing, because we're going to have this room for seven or eight hundred people and there'd be a hundred there… We filled the place up, and were turning people away.
: One of your authors has proposed a way to get architects thinking more along the biophilic design lines, and that is to have a biologist at the table. Architects already have to deal with so many people at the table when they're building, what would one voice add?
: Part of our problem today is kind of promiscuous specialization, the engineer or contractor or architect or whatever the specialization is,
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focuses on their particular brand of knowledge and develops it to the nth degree without reference to other areas, and consequently it's fragmented and we accomplish certain goals in that specialization, but it usually causes problems because it's not integrated. And I think architecture is beginning to recognize that that model is broken and needs to be more interdisciplinary and there needs to be more collaboration and teamwork across different disciplines. So for example, a couple of architects in the book — Stephen Kieran with KieranTimberlake Associates, Bert Gregory with Mithun — have hired graduates of the [Yale] School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, without architecture degrees but who have a strong interest in design.
: You've recently started an investment firm with an environmental orientation. Are there companies that you have just shunned because they don't get biophilia and biophilic design, and are there other companies that you embrace?
: I wish it were so. Our firm has a focus on environment and a focus on investment, on environmental investment. I've found out that the investment side has a capital letter and the environmental side is a lower case letter. I think we've partially done it, but not as much as I would like.
: So you sound like if we're talking about the outlook for biophilic design for the next five or 10 years, maybe cautiously optimistic?
: I do think that we're going to moving more and more in that direction, especially as the evidence becomes more demonstrative that this is not just an amenity value — pretty but not important. Everyone's looking for an edge, everyone's looking for a gain, that's one thing that I've found in my foray into the economic world, is that competitive advantage in distinguishing your firm is so critical. And I think as it becomes clear that this gives you a competitive edge, you'll see an accelerating implementation.
: You moved into a building [at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies] just recently that was designed and built with nature in mind. Has it changed things for you?
: Definitely, and I'll give you an example. We had a conference up in the third floor, and it was celebrating the legacy of Aldo Leopold who is one of the iconic figures in the environmental field, and it was a dark stormy day, heavy rainfall, and people loved being in that room. You had the refuge of the room, but you had the prospect and enjoyment of looking out at nature. You felt like there was this dialogue between inside and outside that was so stimulating, affirmative. Certainly for the occupants of the building, the users of the building, there appears to be a tremendously positive reception, not just because it's more energy efficient, but because people really like to be there. And to me that will be the motivation to sustain the building, because the technology comes and goes in terms of how efficient it is. Ten years from now, technology we put in there to make it energy efficient will be eclipsed by far more sophisticated technology. But whether people will maintain that building and modernize the building and restore it will be because they really love the space.
: Because the connection to nature is there…
: I'm convinced of it.
Richard Conniff
is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a National Magazine Award-winning writer, whose articles have appeared in
The Atlantic
The New York Times Magazine
, and
National Geographic
. His latest book is
Swimming With Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff With Animals
. He is the author of six other books, including
The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales of the Invertebrate World
. He blogs for the Web site
. Conniff has also written for
Yale Environment 360
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and a
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So is aesthetic design a sustainable design strategy? You seem to imply yes. Why haven't the sustainable building rating systems (such as LEED) focused in on this? Is it deemed to be stifling creativity by requiring certain aesthetic features. I agree that people are molded by their environment, for the good or bad. We need to move forward and recognize that some sustainable design strategies are actually working against a strong aesthetic, such as requiring cheap renewable materials. Aesthetics needs its place in our discussions.
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I think there is a place for electrical lighting strategies in this discussion. And I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Trimble - that aesthetic design issues should be on a par with other "green" design discussions and rating systems - otherwise we will end up with bland, static, cold fluorescent and LED lighting -- rather than active transformational lightplay -- in both interior and exterior public spaces.
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