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Jon Kaase Racing Engine
Written by on February 18, 2014 The EMC-winning engine redefines Ford's four-valve mod motorAsk the average performance enthusiast about Ford's modular family of engines and you'll usually hear a barrage of preconceived and misguided notions. The engines are too small. Those things don't make torque. You need a blower to make power with one of those. The bore is too small for real horsepower. Ford blew it when they phased out the good old Windsor small-blocks. The opinions go on and on, but the reality is that the mod motor, introduced in 1991, has been one of the most successful and innovative series of V-8 engines in production history.
Notable for its single or dual overhead cam layout, the mod has been produced in two-valve, three-valve, and four-valve variations, with iron and aluminum blocks, and in a staggering range of displacement and horsepower output. It is safe to say that the mod has been offered in a broader range of permutations than any engine in history. There is little debating the mod's success as a production engine. Still, outside of modifying late-model vehicles, suspicion of the mod seems to linger in the hot rodding world.
When we revised the rules for the 2013 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge, one of the changes from previous competitions was to remove the prohibition on four-valve engines. We wondered how many would take note of this revision, and take up the mod as the basis for a competition build. From a classic engineering standpoint, the advantage of a four-valve layout has been documented since the early part of the 20th century. Still, we had to wonder how common misconceptions might influence the acceptance of the mod engine in our competition. After all, this was a contest of normally aspirated power, one where low-end torque is a major contributor to score, and finally there was the hurdle of a 400ci minimum displacement. This is not the normal venue of the mod Ford.
Jon Kaase of Jon Kaase Racing is an engine builder known for innovative thinking and exceptional engine building talent. Kaase saw opportunity in the four-valve Ford, "I started thinking about it right after the rules were announced last year at the press conference at the PRI show. It just looked like if you could make it big enough, it would be an interesting project. I thought it could be very good, but I wasn't sure, since I didn't know that much about them or what parts existed. I started to do some research, because I didn't have any history with that engine whatsoever."
Job one was to explore the possibility of increasing the displacement to meet the 400ci requirement. Kaase explains, "I really didn't know how much stroke you could put into one, since nobody really had taken these engines to this kind of displacement. I had to see if big displacement was physically possible, but in the end it turned out to be pretty easy."
Kaase began by looking at block selection, considering both the iron and aluminum blocks available. Determining the iron blocks to be more limited in bore size, Kaase went with an aluminum 5.4 production block as the basis. Kaase elaborated on the block: "The aluminum block has siamesed cylinders, and does not come with a sleeve in it. It comes with a thin plasma coating as the liner in the cylinders. I bored it out and designed some thin .050-inch wall sleeves for it, and ended up with a bore size of 3.720 inches." Kaase had a custom billet crankshaft cut by Bryant, using the OEM journal diameters and a 4.700-inch stroke. Filling the bores are custom Diamond pistons built from a model made by Kaase for this application, with Eagle 6.658-inch rods connecting the internals. The combination yielded a displacement of 409ci, making it the largest known engine of its type ever built.
Exotic Top End
Clearly, the defining component of the engine is the four-valve DOHC cylinder head arrangement. Ford had several variations of these four-valve heads, with these being the Ford GT-style castings. Kaase actually acquired this set from Roush Yates, as takeoffs from a Daytona Prototype endurance racing engine. The heads were already CNC ported, and Kaase actually acquired two sets, giving him a set of heads to experiment with. As Kaase tells us, "I worked on one of the sets putting a little bit bigger intake valve in it. That is the set of heads I ended up running, but I really didn't see much improvement. To be honest, I did hardly any headwork, almost nothing. I did put the bigger valves in, but the other heads made every bit as much power."
The heads and cams were essentially a team, and optimizing the combination required unique considerations with the DOHC arrangement. Unlike a conventional pushrod engine, the DOHC engine opens the door for a wide range of variables and adjustments, with separate intake and exhaust cams allowing experimentation on centerline angle individually. Kaase described some of the theory and testing, "With all the valve area they have, at about half lift there is a lot of valve opening area, so these engines will run about 20 degrees less camshaft. If you can run a lot less camshaft, it would seem to reason that it would make a lot more torque down low. With the very long stroke and the short camshaft, I figured it would be very good down low if it had the right manifold. Really, these factors influenced my decision to try the four-valve in the competition."
Jon continued, "I talked to COMP Cams and they helped me out with ideas on the duration. I had two different sets of cams, and in the end had one set reground, so I had quite a few variations to try out. I tried a lot of different things, and it is basically trial and error. I started out with the biggest cams, and I had those cams in every possible position, with wide lobe separation, narrow separation, way advanced, way retarded, just everywhere, because they are easy to move. It was pretty consistent that the intake wanted to be at around 98 degrees centerline, and when I finalized everything, the exhaust was the same, it wanted to be at 98 degrees. You can say I was at 98-degree lobe-separation angle, and zero advance. One observation I made from the EFI cam sensor, which reads in degrees, is that from 3,000 to 7,000 rpm the cams will retard about 5 or 6 degrees. You couldn't ask for anything better than that, it is just what you want."
While the four cams seem exponentially more complex, Jon tells us, "It wasn't that hard. For this contest the intake lobe is going to want to be between 92 and 100 degrees. That will work the best, especially with a compression-ratio limitation. With 11.4:1 compression, the engine still produced about 240 to 250 psi cranking compression, which helps down low. At the same time, the later you open the exhaust the better off you are going to be down low, so having the exhaust in at 98 degrees it opens late and that helps you. It wasn't that hard to figure out; I knew about where it wanted to be and that's about where it ended up. On these kinds of engines especially with their good exhaust flow it wasn't going to need a lot of exhaust cam. Initially I had less exhaust than intake, but I ended up with them both the same."
Nothing really outlandish was needed in the valvetrain; the factory Ford components proved to be excellent. As Jon explained, "The rockers have a roller wheel and 1.8:1 ratio, and it really works out well. I never had any trouble with the hydraulic adjusters. I tried shimming them and making them almost solid, and it really didn't matter, they worked fine no matter how you did it. In the end I just ended up removing the limiters and running them as original. I never had a bit of trouble as you might have with a hydraulic. With these engines the spring loads are much more modest than we are used to with the larger valves of a pushrod engine. I used COMP Beehive springs with loads of 115 pounds on the seat and 280 pounds open. If you look at the valves they really weigh very little and they have titanium retainers on top of that, so the relatively light spring loads offered all the control required in this operating rpm range."
The induction system consisted of a factory '00 Mustang Cobra R intake manifold with an Accufab throttle body. This rather rare intake manifold is a two-piece unit, with laid-over individual runners enclosed in a separate plenum housing. Kaase found this intake to offer the broadest powerband, "When I first got it running, I had a four-barrel intake manifold, and the engine made as much as 2 hp per cubic inch. The thing is, for the EMC competition you need to have very good low-end torque to score well, so it goes to show you that even with everything else going for you, with one wrong component, it still will not give the power curve you want. We had to give up a lot of that upper-end power to make it better down low."
Jon continued: "The manifold is a two-piece design and is hard to find, especially the top. On the bottom I ported it a little bigger, but I don't know if that really mattered because I started out with it un-ported and when I ported it, it didn't really help it. It is pretty small, but it still makes pretty good power. The biggest thing I did to it was shorten the runners a little bit, because they were really close to the sides of the top cover. There were a few places where the entry to the runners was a half inch from the top cover. I cut about an inch or more off the runners and angled them back. I made radius entry rings out of aluminum plate to give the runners a good entry. The shorter runners really helped from about 4,000 rpm and up, mostly because the stock runners were just too close to the top cover wall."
The induction development continued with the fuel injection, as Jon details: "The other thing I did is experiment with the injector position. When the injectors were in the original position, there was only about 5 lb-ft of difference, but 5 lb-ft is the difference between a win and loss at the AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge. With the injectors in the stock position, it was easier to get the tune correct, and you could see it was clean in the plenum. When I moved the injectors up the runners like I ran them, you could tell it had more standoff, and you could see the fuel staining in the plenum. It was much harder to tune, and I had to really chase the fuel curve for each cylinder through the rpm range, with the greatest difficulty being below 4,000 rpm. We tried it with the injector at the mouth of the runner, but it didn't work out well. The pulses would throw the fuel out of the port and it would go everywhere."
While the Kaase mod motor is an extraordinary piece in just about every aspect, the crowning achievement has to be the unique "16-pipe" exhaust headers. The system takes advantage of dual primary tubes from each cylinder, a setup we confess to have never seen on any V-8 engine. Kaase tells us, "I got the idea looking at a Buell V-twin racing motorcycle. At first glance, seeing the four pipes I presumed it was a four-cylinder, and looking closer I realized it was a twin. It was a system that I felt could be put to use on the Ford four-valve. I had only built one set of headers decades ago, but something like this was interesting enough to try. My first set was based on the idea of using a long and a short primary on each port, looking to produce a wider tuning window, but it didn't really work out compared to a conventional header. The final design proved to be functional in testing, showing advantages at certain rpm points compared to a more conventional header. Actually, there were quite a few further variations I would have like to have tested, but the time was not available. You could play around with something like this forever."
Power Play
There's no doubt that Kaase's mod motor is an unusual engine combination. With a displacement bigger than any other V-8 mod motor, a huge stroke and tiny bore, four cams, 32 valves, 16-pipe primary headers, a factory intake with injectors shooting up toward the plenum, all based on a stock Ford block and heads, and turning an essentially factory valvetrain, this thing was an enigma. At the 2013 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge, Kaase's radical mod held a crowd of onlookers simply slack-jawed at its sight. That astonishment continued as the engine went into the dyno test cell and began spinning out power. At the bottom end, the numbers were staggering, with over 600 lb-ft of torque on the dial at just 3,400 rpm. That, folks, is an outstanding level of torque for an engine of this displacement. The dyno's strain gauge kept stretching up to a peak of 666 lb-ft at 5,100 rpm. The resultant specific output of 1.63 lb-ft per cubic inch is unheard of, especially considering an 11.4:1 pump gas engine. Convinced that a four-valve mod can indeed make torque?
On the power side of the equation, 720 peak horsepower was recorded, equally impressive considering the engine was built for the broadest possible power curve at the EMC competition. Kaase had already seen well over 800 hp in pre-event testing with a combination favoring top end output. Still think you need a blower to make power from one of these mod Fords? Think again. Frankly, the Kaase mod gathered up all of those preconceived notions about these modern Fords and annihilated them in an incredible display of pure engine power, taking his fifth AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge Championship in the process.
By The Numbers409ci Ford Modular Four-Valve | |
Bore: | 3.720 inches |
Stroke: | 4.700 inches |
Displacement: | 409 ci |
Compression ratio: | 11.4:1 |
Camshafts: | custom COMP Cams hydraulic rollers |
Valve lift: | 0.625 inch |
Duration | 230 degrees at .050 |
Rocker and ratio: | COMP Cams 1.8:1 |
Piston rings: | Total Seal .043, .043, 3mm |
Piston: | custom forged by Diamond |
Block: | OEM production aluminum 5.4 M54A |
Crankshaft: | Bryant |
Rods: | Eagle 6.658 inches |
Cylinder head: | Ford GT |
Chamber volume | 59 cc |
Intake valve diameter: | 1.510 inches |
Exhaust valve diameter: | 1.260 inches |
Intake manifold: | Cobra R |
Header: | Kaase 16-pipe |
Ignition: | MSD |
Damper: | Innovators West |
Oil: | AMSOIL 5W20 |
Fuel: | VP Fuels VP100 |
3,000 | 515.1 | 294.2 |
3,100 | 556.2 | 328.3 |
3,200 | 576.2 | 351.1 |
3,300 | 592.7 | 372.4 |
3,400 | 608.2 | 393.7 |
3,500 | 616.3 | 410.7 |
3,600 | 615.6 | 421.9 |
3,700 | 615.3 | 433.4 |
3,800 | 621.0 | 449.3 |
3,900 | 631.5 | 468.9 |
4,000 | 643.0 | 489.7 |
4,100 | 652.3 | 509.2 |
4,200 | 658.1 | 526.2 |
4,300 | 657.9 | 538.6 |
4,400 | 654.6 | 548.4 |
4,500 | 651.3 | 558.0 |
4,600 | 649.7 | 569.1 |
4,700 | 651.5 | 583.1 |
4,800 | 655.3 | 598.9 |
4,900 | 660.1 | 615.9 |
5,000 | 664.3 | 632.4 |
5,100 | 665.9 | 646.6 |
5,200 | 665.2 | 658.6 |
5,300 | 658.9 | 664.9 |
5,400 | 652.8 | 671.2 |
5,500 | 645.9 | 676.4 |
5,600 | 639.5 | 681.9 |
5,700 | 633.7 | 687.7 |
5,800 | 627.2 | 692.7 |
5,900 | 622.0 | 698.8 |
6,000 | 617.3 | 705.2 |
6,100 | 612.1 | 710.9 |
6,200 | 606.2 | 715.6 |
6,300 | 599.3 | 719.0 |
6,400 | 590.8 | 720.0 |
6,500 | 580.3 | 718.2 |
6,600 | 567.5 | 713.2 |
6,700 | 552.0 | 704.2 |
6,800 | 536.2 | 694.3 |
6,900 | 519.7 | 682.8 |
7,000 | 505.6 | 673.8 |


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Hamels seeking support as Braves look to avert sweep
Phillies lefty to be matched opposite Maholm at Citizens Bank Park
Don't let his 6-13 record fool you, Cole Hamels has been on a roll of late. In his last 12 starts, the Phillies left-hander is 4-2 with a 2.17 ERA and has held opponents to a .233 batting average.
Hamels was dominant on Monday against the Nationals, allowing just one run on two hits, but still took the no-decision in a 3-2 Phillies win.
That has been a theme for Philadelphia in Hamels' starts this season, as the offense has scored three runs or fewer in 15 of his 29 starts.
"Can he feel that way all the time?" teammate Jimmy Rollins said after Hamels' last start. "He was nasty tonight. That changeup was as nasty or the second best it's been all season long. He hit his spots and he hit every pitch where he wanted to."
Getting just their fourth series win since the All-Star break with a 6-5, walk-off win over the Braves on Saturday, the Phillies go for the sweep on Sunday at Citizens Bank Park.
Left-hander Paul Maholm gets the nod for the Braves as they inch closer to securing the National League East.
Maholm (10-10, 4.41 ERA) got his first win since June 30 when he beat the Mets on Monday, allowing three runs on six hits in five innings of work. He also struck out four and walked three.
Marking his third start since returning from the disabled list with a sprained left wrist, Maholm struggled with his command, needing 100 pitches to get through those five innings.
"Normally I'm trying to get as close to 10 pitches per inning as I can, and obviously it wasn't there today, as far as that goes," Maholm said after the start. "I'm sure it [stinks] as a position guy to sit back and try and deal with that both ways. Both teams took forever, and that's not something I enjoy pitching with."
Braves: Gattis back in lineup
Manager Fredi Gonzalez is keeping Evan Gattis' bat in the lineup even though the skipper had the option of going to a healthy Jordan Schafer off the bench.
"In [Phillies starter Kyle] Kendrick's splits, right-handers are hitting pretty good [.319 vs. 245 by lefties] against him," Gonzalez said before Saturday's game. "We just brought [Gattis] back [from Triple-A Gwinett on Tuesday], he hasn't gotten a chance to play a lot, and to tell you the truth, I have seen some pretty good at-bats."
Gattis went 0-for-3 in Saturday's game with two strikeouts and a walk.
Phillies: Revere, Howard to play in instructional league
Center fielder Ben Revere and first baseman Ryan Howard will play in the Florida instructional league in the coming week.
Revere (broken right ankle) will head to Clearwater, Fla., while Howard (left knee inflammation) is already at the team's Spring Training site.
"They'll get more individualized attention there and they're starting to work in some of their baseball skills, so as we get closer and closer to FIL, those guys will be doing more and more," said general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. "Hopefully at some point, when they get their bodies together, they'll be healthy enough to play in some games. At the end of the day, we just want to make sure that, at least for their peace of mind, they know mentally that they're ready.
"They'll play as long as we think it's necessary. Whether it's two games or 10 games or 12 games. It's about being able to go into the offseason knowing that they're ready to go, ready for Spring Training."
Worth noting
• The Braves have recorded 20 quality starts in their last 29 games and lead the NL in that category with 87.
• The Phillies are just 17-58 when scoring three or fewer runs this season. When they score more than three, they are 48-19.
Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Open source at The Junction
Leave a CommentThe Junction gladly invited us to gather and chat a little about open source in Israel on Sep 20, 2012.
I was thinking that it could be cool if this meetup would theme around open source. I feel that folks in Israel are using an enormous amount of open source software but contribution and leadership is somewhat lacking. There is very small amount of open source projects actually initiated and led in Israel and it is not common for a start-up or larger companies to actually contribute to open source libraries that they use. I also know that people who believe in open source are usually the best hackers and that it would be cool to gather some of them in the same room.
The meetup was great. There were about 70 participants (it took about 24 hours for all spots to be filled) and about 12 people presenting (!).
You can check out the ustream feed from the session (quality is not that good…)
Thought it could be useful to share some refs to the decks/talks/people/projects with people who could not attend.
Not so lonely…
@idangazit (Idan Gazit) gave an amazing talk titled The Lonely Planet Guide to Open Source Communities. The deck was freaking b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l (if you saw any of Idan's work you know it's always beautiful) and the presentation gave a friendly introduction to how open source communities work from Idan's experience and open source in general. You should definitely check out the deck.
500K users
Following Idan's talk, @gidgreen (Gideon Greenspan) showed off a little project he was working on called Question2Answer, which is an open source platform for building Q&A websites. He built this platform all by himself and open sourced it and it became extremely popular very rapidly. Currently it runs more than 6,000 Q&A sites around the world with a registered user base of 500,000! I must say that this is a great example of the power of open source and the ability to make a difference with software.
You can find the deck here.
Microsoft and Open Source?
@yosefd (Yosef Dinerstein) from Microsoft presented anode, which is an open source platform for hosting node.js apps. The platform is developed within Microsoft and runs on top of the Azure cloud.
All the libraries published as part of this project are available on Github and use the MIT license.
The githubbers panel
@ashevat (Amir Shevat) hosted an extended panel with folks doing open source day-to-day. Naturally, lots of interesting religious discussions about everybody's favorite software stacks. The beauty of this world is that there's no single answer that and everyone can decide on their own mix of stuff they use and love.
+1s go to Django, Rails and node.js on the web frameworks. Scala was favorable as well. -1s for Java and .NET and even for PHPwith claims around a poorly designed langauage quite a lot of bad advice from a vast community of web developers.
On the database front, hackers love MySQL, Redis and Riak. Oracle big expensive enterprise databases are off limits and there was an interesting discussion about MongoDB which some of the folks love and some feel that it's not ready for heavy production use.
The panel included:
- @vkushner (Vitaly Kushner) from Astrails
- @kensodev (Avi Tzurel) from Gogobot
- @refack (Refael Ackerman) from Empeeric
- @yosefdi
- @idangazit
- and Jeremy Moskovich from Google
Show me the money
Following the panel, @adambn (Adam Benayoun) from binpress gave a useful talk about commercial aspects of open source. He listed the various license types and provided some interesting approaches on how real companies make money off of open source. Here's a link to his deck.
Adam also talked a little about binpress which is a marketplace for software components they are building. Binpress helps people who publish software make money by taking care of the commercial side.
uijs – yet another cross-platform mobile app framework built with Israeli hands
We finished up with a few more quick introductions to open source projects.
@emeshbi (me) presented uijs which is an open source system for building mobile web apps based on the HTML5 canvas. It is in early stages and we are looking for folks interested in participating in the first steps of building this project. It is MIT licensed and hosted on Github.
Reversim – Israeli tech podcast
@rantav (Ran Tavory) referred everyone to his podcast called Reversim which is a super popular Hebrew podcast about software in Israel.
@alonkeren (Alon Keren) showed bitorama which is an Israeli hacker news.
Thanks everyone who talked, debated and participated and thanks for great hosting at the junction.


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- Location: Kincaid Park Soccer Complex, Anchorage, Alaska
- Age Groups: Current U10 - U14 Boys and Girls
- Cost: $150 per Camper. Each Camper will receive a quality training experience from some of the nation's top collegiate soccer coaches, a soccer ball, and camp t-shirt.
- Format: Each Camper will have six (6) training sessions (two(2) per day) with the staff of college coaches representing twelve (12) different college soccer programs from around the United States. Additionally, there'll be specific goalkeeping training for all goalkeepers with a dedicated collegiate goalkeeper coach.
- Accommodations for out-of-Anchorage Campers: Out-of-Anchorage Campers can be offered a special housing rate and FREE transportation to/from Kincaid Park from the host hotel. However, out-of-Anchorage Campers must provide their own chaperone while staying at the host hotel. We also have limited home-stay housing options with Rush families for out-of-town camp attendees. Please contact the Camp Director for details.
- Registration: Registration for the Alaska Airlines Youth Soccer Camp will open on February 4, 2013 and close May 19, 2013. (Registration may be limited to maintain the integrity of an appropriate Coach:Player ratio)
Please Note: Teams registering with more than ten (10) players will be allowed to train together if requested.
This is a terrific opportunity for players and teams to to train with some of the top soccer coaches in the country prior to the Alaska Airlines Cup, Region IV Soccer Tournaments or just the UAYSL Summer Session.
An equivalent camp outside of Alaska could cost as much as $650 for a camp and housing not including travel expenses.
All refund requests received 30 days or less prior to the start of the camp will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the Tournament/Camp Director. All refund requests received 30 days or less prior to the start of camp will be assessed a $50 administrative/cancellation fee AND may incur additional costs due to the timing of the request or non-refundable costs which the camp has incurred. Request for refund for medical reasons may require a physician's note.
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The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a public-private initiative to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.
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Direct solar thermal energy can be used to power solar cook stoves, which can save time, work, money, and combustible fuel in suitable circumstances. Unlike solar photovoltaic energy, which requires expensive PV cells to convert sunlight into electricity, solar thermal energy can be captured instantly and directly with a solar cooker, which generates zero emissions heat for cooking food and boiling water. By comparison, a one hundred square foot PV array would be needed to power a single hotplate. Solar thermal energy can also be used for solar hot water heaters, sterilizers and food driers.
- Health Emissions: Use of direct solar thermal energy to power cookstoves produces no smoke, thus eliminating health impacts associated with cooking over open fires or crude stoves.
- Climate Impacts: Solar energy use emits no greenhouse gasses and does not contribute to climate change.
- Fuel Efficiency: While the efficiency of solar thermal energy for cooking is dependent on sunshine, this "fuel" is available free of charge, making it an extremely cost-effective solution, especially for populations with limited access to other fuel sources.
- Fuel Availability: Most people cooking over open fires or on crude stoves live where sunshine is abundant and solar cooking is possible, as indicated by NASA's solar insolation maps. However, in the sun's absence there is often a need to burn combustibles as well, in which case multiple stove technologies can compliment each other. In some places solar can be the main source of household energy, while in others it is an excellent back-up energy source. As with other fuel efficient stoves, solar cookers are unfamiliar to most cooks in the developing world who are used to cooking over an open flame, so their adaptation to these stoves requires careful training and follow-up.[1]
Global cooking greenhouse gas emissionsEdit
Recent news and developmentsEdit
- March 2015: Julie Greene, Executive Director of Solar Cookers International, while attending the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves launch party for their new "Empowered Entrepreneur Handbook", noticed the HotPot solar cooker being featured in a prominent location. Another step forward for solar cooking.
- March 2015: The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves offers their catalog of approved stoves, including ten solar cookers and one heat-retention cooking device. See the catalog You can apply to have your solar cooker added. Read more...
- January 2015: GACC has released their November 2104 Post-Summit Report
- January 2015: Patricia McArdle responds to the GACC Post-Summit Report from the November 2014 conference.
- November 2014: Hillary Clinton acknowledges solar cooking's role in solving cooking fuel crisis - In her keynote speech at a Global Alliance meeting, Hillary Clinton stated that students from the Clinton School of Public Service had traveled overseas to teach solar cooking.
- September 2013: Climate and Clean Air Coalition High Level Assembly Announces Ambitious Agenda - Norway's Minister of Environment and Minister of International Development served as co-hosts of the Assembly and made a significant announcement early. "We want to see other countries act," said Bård Vegar Sohjell, Minister of Environment. "We want to enable those with the will, but not necessarily the resources, to act. Concrete efforts in developing countries are important. We are pleased to announce that Norway, in addition to strengthening our efforts at national level for this year and next year collectively, will contribute an additional 110 million Norwegian kroner (approximately 20 million US dollars) to reduce emissions of short lived climate pollutants, with a main focus on efforts in developing countries." Read more..
- March 2013: Solar cooking promotors at the GACC conference - The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves sponsored the Clean Cooking Forum 2013 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from March 18-22, 2013. The solar cooking community and the Solar Cookers World Network is being represented by Crosby Menzies (South Africa), Gabrielle Simbriger-Williams (US), Sanu Kaji Shrestha (Nepal), Scot Frank (US/China), Nguyen Tan Bich (Vietnam), Yasaya (Nigeria), Alex Kee (Malaysia), Catlin Powers (US/China), and Julie Greene (USA) took the photo. The group held a solar cooking demonstration, and plan to present a joint presentation on the last day of the conference. The participation by these advocates of solar cooking helps to build the alliance with fuelwood cookstove advocates, and helps spread the message of the integrated cooking method.
- December 2012: New study estimates 4 million deaths globally from household cooking smoke each year - The recently released "Global Burden of Disease 2010", funded by the Gates Foundation and just published in The Lancet, comes to this conclusion, and is double the previous accepted estimate. The study isolated the effects of cooking smoke only. There appears to be a shift from communicable children's diseases to non-communicable disease in adult populations as the major health threat affecting developing countries. The cooking problem is compounded by the fact that achieving a fifty percent reduction in cooking smoke does not correlate to a fifty percent reduction in respiratory disease. Substantial smoke reduction is required to see significant improvement. Read more about the air quality findings from the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves press release.
- December 2012: GACC welcomes interested promoters to come to the Spring 2013 Clean Cooking Forum to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Visit the new event website: http://www.cleancooking2013.org
- November 2011: The EPA had decided to test at least one solar cooker for the GACC.
- October 2011: The World Health Organization says that the smoke and gases from cooking fires in the world's poorest countries contribute to nearly two million deaths a year — that's more than malaria. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and the cookstove industry announced last year that they would work together to create a market for better cookstoves, under the aegis of the United Nations. The U.S. government has committed over US$50 million. Half of that will go to NIH for research on how much household air pollution needs to be reduced to produce real health gains. Read more...
- May 2011: On the public education front, Solar Household Energy(SHE) founding director Dar Curtis is participating as a contributing member of the Technology and Fuels Working Group of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. This alliance of governments, corporations and nonprofits is promoting cleaner cooking solutions than the open cooking fires and inefficient cookstoves used by three billion people around the world. Solar provides the very cleanest cooking of all cookstoves. Read more in the SHE spring update 2011.
Articles in the mediaEdit
- October 2011: 100 Million Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves by 2020, Is It Possible? - The Morningside Post at Columbia University
- October 2011: Curbing Cooking Smoke That Kills More People Than Malaria - National Public Radio (NPR)
External linksEdit
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Smallpox is a disease caused by a virus. At one time, it was one of the world's most feared infections. Smallpox has no treatment or cure. It can be fatal. Smallpox is nearly nonexistent as a result of a worldwide vaccination effort. The last case in the US was in 1949. The last naturally occurring case in the world occurred in 1977. There have been no cases of smallpox reported anywhere. The vaccine is no longer given.
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The Braves will take the field Monday night at Turner Field as the National League East champions for the first time since 2005. From here on out, it's all about the postseason.
That doesn't mean Atlanta has nothing to play for in these final seven games, of course. There's still the matter of home-field advantage leading up to the World Series, which the Braves can lock down by maintaining the NL's best record. That would also set up Atlanta to host the winner of the one-game NL Wild Card playoff. Atlanta leads the NL at 92-63, while St. Louis, which plays Sunday night, is 91-64.
"Hopefully we can keep this going, and I think we will," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "I think we'll show the fans at home that we still have some business to take care of."
So there will still be something on the line when lefty Mike Minor leads the Braves into the first of three games against the Brewers. Milwaukee will start right-hander Marco Estrada, who's pitched well since coming off the disabled list.
Minor has been somewhat inconsistent as of late, allowing at least three runs in five of his past seven starts. He gave up three runs in the first inning Tuesday against the Nationals, but he bounced back with five scoreless innings.
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Estrada, meanwhile, has come back strong after spending two months on the DL. The right-hander has posted a 2.62 ERA in seven starts since recovering from a strained left hamstring, most recently allowing three earned runs and striking out seven over seven innings against the Cubs on Tuesday.
Estrada took a shutout into the seventh in that outing before giving up three runs, including two on a homer by Welington Castillo, but it was still a step in the right direction -- his fourth quality start in his last seven trips to the mound.
"I'm trying to do the best that I can, because I'd love to stick around with this team," Estrada said Tuesday. "I know everybody here -- I'm pretty comfortable here -- so I'd love to stay here. But this game is a business. I'm trying my hardest to show these guys that I belong here, and hopefully they give me the opportunity for next year."
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• Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said Sunday that Jean Segura may be available to pinch-hit as soon as Monday. Segura has been sidelined since Wednesday with a strained right hamstring -- which makes running, not hitting, the primary concern -- but Roenicke was optimistic the All-Star shortstop will be available this week.
• As a team, Milwaukee has little left to play for during the final week of the season. Roenicke admitted it will be difficult for some of his players to get motivated this time of year, but that's not the case for everyone.
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Braves: Johnson not focusing on batting title
• Third baseman Chris Johnson is finding it hard to ignore the possibility that he might win the NL batting title, but he made a conscious effort to not think or talk about the race until the Braves locked up the division title. Johnson is batting .329 on the season after an 0-for-4 performance Sunday, just below Colorado's Michael Cuddyer, who entered Sunday hitting .331.
"I'm just glad to be where I'm at this late in the season," Johnson said. "Actually my teammates are thinking about it more than I am. This guy is telling you need to get one more hit to get your average to be 2-for-4 for the day and stuff like that. So it's pretty cool. They're rooting for me more than I'm rooting for myself."
• Since picking up 17 hits against the Mets on Sept. 2, the Braves have tallied double-digit hits in two of their last 18 games -- 10 on Sept. 10 and 12 in Sunday's 5-2 victory.
Worth noting
• Atlanta has spent a Major League-best 175 days in first place, carrying a division lead of at least eight games since July 24.
• Brewers outfielder Khris Davis sat out of Sunday's series finale against the Cardinals but should start against Minor and Paul Maholm, both lefties, during this series. Davis has been dealing with a sore left wrist.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Animal Name Game!Moderator: BioTeam This is not an actual reply to a post, I was just wondering if anyone knows what this animal is?
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Re: Animal Name Game!Is there such a thing as an invertebrate marsupial? No, it's not an invertebrate.
@the picture:
Maybe a baby lemur, bush baby, or related species?
What did the parasitic Candiru fish say when it finally found a host? - - "Urethra!!"
It is tough to tell in this picture - but for sure it isn't a possum. I can tell you that it is a primate. I don't think however it is a lemur (but it is hard to tell in this picture). Look at the nose, lemurs usually have whiskers and a dog like nose, in this picture(from what I can tell) both those features are lacking. Looks like a pygmy marmoset or something related to it.
Re: Animal Name Game!right goin to have a stab here. Is it an opossum??
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As a Chinese, I have to say that I agree with the most standpoint in this article. It's painful to accept, but it's the fact. However. I sincerely hope western media could see the effort the government has put to push forward the reform. The world is not black and white. Most people have to struggle their way out in grey area.
More importantly, there's no way that the reform can be brought from top. No matter with what party or what -ism, bring anyone from the bottom to the office, China would still be the same, maybe worse. China has tried that again and again in the past 100 years, but all in vain. Ordinary people should first learn to appreciate the right to vote and decide their life rationally, rather than based on immediate interest.
Otherwise, China has to expect a political figure as powerful as Deng, even more provident than him.
Maybe he can go streaking with Obama...
New leaders in China are coming out on stage again like it did 10 years ago. This raises lots of tumults and discomfort, as some policies or so called government actions are concerned, like the article's saying as media guidance. This seems a must for all governments in history, that they hold on the responsibility to guide its people to do the right thing. To guide by the government originates from the accustomed and historic policy, as most chinese inhabitants are presumablly uneducated, nor civilized. They potentially lose their way in thinking and doing what are necessary, and they need support and instructions. Probably this is true. Thousands of years of long Chinese history don't generate a complete environment for human thinking and actions on their own, but to obey and follow whatever it says from the government. In fact, the majority of Chinese are accustomed to this slavery and forcedness. They might not like it, but await rules and even laws from the upper leading officials, habitually and unconsciously. The change occured two score years ago, while traditions still exist. Great amount of people, especially remotely inhabited Chinese, are not willingly to distinguish the true and fasle, but accept all information from the newspaper, radio, TV and the net, without their own judgement. Do they need guidance? Probably yes.
Meanwhile, more and more educated and civilized Chinese dislike the incoming supervision as they don't want to be watched and prohibited in doing and thinking themselves. They don't need such support and instructions, although they don't have much on their own. They blame and even hate the naked king, while they are not willing to be the silly spectators.
OK, even my little pea-brain gets it now!
That's the reason why we call all these corrupt high level Chinese Communists "naked functionaries" (with extended family and property in Vancouver perhaps?)
While Chinese economy goes on growing, lifting millions out of poverty and expanding the middle class, China bashing has become a national sport enjoyed by most western countries. China lifted 350 million Chinese out of poverty and added 100 million to middle class. It has the best cities, the biggest dam, the tallest buildings and more of them, the longest bridge, the fastest super computer, the best infrastructure, the best and fastest railways, the best and most mechanized airports. It has accomplished this in mere twenty years. It took the west close to 150 years to achieve the same. This is the real truth, but in the west no one wants to talk about it.
I kind of agree with what you said that China has done an amazing job on economy, but the discontent is still there, particularly among the middle class, because economic growth doesn't necessarily mean all China and Chinese people need. Their voice need to be heard, but unfortunately little could be achieved within. Nobody denies what China has accomplished, but the party needs to do more in terms of letting people voice how the country should be run.
'While Chinese economy goes on growing, lifting millions out of poverty and expanding the middle class, China bashing has become a national sport enjoyed by most western countries'
Every country is bashed. Only the Chinese are too proud to handle it.
'It has the best cities'
Not according to any measure I know.
'tallest buildings and more of them'
Huh? It doesn't even have a top 5 building. If you mean more empty buildings, I'd agree.
'fastest super computer'
Not any more...
'best infrastructure'
On what measure??
'best and fastest railways'
That is laughable.
'It has accomplished this in mere twenty years. It took the west close to 150 years to achieve the same'
It is much easier to follow than to lead. Let us see what happens if China is to innovate. I haven't really seen Taiwan, Singapore, HK, Malaysia, South Korea innovate. Only Japan.
Besides Japan, as you mentioned, South Korea has innovated hugely, especially in the mobile market. Samsung and LG are now world leaders in mobile consumer technology, which is a sector that requires massive amounts of innovation, both in terms of technology and in terms of marketing and business strategy. Products like smartphones and LCD screens are completely new markets which sprang up seemingly overnight, and South Korea has been at the head of the pack in that race for a while.
Hong Kong, while suffering from some stagnation now, was really at its apogee during the 1990s, where it was widely considered a world-leading center in terms of finance and banking. For better or worse, it did lead the way in innovating in a lot of fields during that period.
There's no reason to believe that the recently industrialised East Asian countries have an inferior capacity to innovate than Western countries. All it really takes is a germane business environment, good education, and an accommodating level of basic welfare.
I'm not really sure what your "It is much easier to follow than to lead" comment is supposed to mean.
"Party leaders now seek to "guide" the public conversation with commentary that sounds more in tune with public discontent, and less like government propaganda."
I seriously doubt "guiding public conversation" (Read:online propaganda) is a new idea for the Chinese government.
Based on the sheer volume and tone of commentary from the usual pro-PRC bloggers here and other online discussion forums, I imagine they have entire departments dedicated to swaying public opinion online, not only domestically but also abroad.
I see these Articles eventually bring out the American delusional Jingoist/Denialist Types.
Instead of critically thinking for themselves and trying to solve problems they agree with everything that is fed to them by their deluded idealist liberal press, focusing and being trapped in a vicious cycle of victim hood and blame (this is the same mentality fundamentalist, criminals get trapped in, blame others and never take responsibility to fix problems).
Its much easier to Blame someone else (Chinese) than to try to take responsibility and fix your own problems (failing economy, rampant increasing poverty, exploding debt, a country been torn apart by social issues, failed incompetent government, corrupt politicians 10 billion in campaign spending, dysfunctional corporations such as HP etc.. the list is endless)
I do not take glee in stating these things about the place I grew up in, only saddess and pity.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ("Who watches the watchmen?")
No one.
The Western Fourth Estate has utterly failed, no longer a voice of critical thought or dissent but merely a vehicle to perpetuate the dysfunctional list of growing societal ills
I was referring to the other post not your post
500,000,000 people have been urbanized, does it mean anything to you?
If you really think such government needs to pay people to defend it, you are badly brainwashed.
Interesting, but whats the difference between this and left wing/liberal main stream media pressing their gay agenda and drug abuse culture on everyone.
The liberal elites that control mainstream media seem to think everyone in the US wants their sex lifestyle/drug abuse culture, but sadly San Fransisco isn't the US. Its the same pretentious elitess thinking that got the US stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan "that everyone wants our values".
In either case you have a small amount of people guiding the direction of the conversation, I see absolutely no difference in how liberals use media to press their agenda as any different from what the Chinese government is doing.
Totally agree.
In many ways the "Western" approach is far more sinister and damaging, because damaging ideas such as the gay agenda are promoted very insidiously through movies, music, under the guise of anti-bullying campaigns, etc., and by maintaining a hyper-sensitive politically correct culture in which anyone who dares to call a spade a spade is quickly dismissed as a nutcase bigot.
At least in China, for now, you can probably tell it's just government propaganda. Until they adopt the American ways.
Yes, the Chinese are not blameless, and their system is not perfect, but are we any less blameless, Is our system any superior. It is easy to blindly accuse and blame others and never realize or see our own problems.
We have become complacent for far to long and rested on our laurels, it is time to think critically about our own glaring problems before its too late.
The Emperor is not naked at all, but many are eager to undress his new cloth that way.
Like the toy "magnetic pieces for dress-up dolls" popular among todler girls, they can dress up the "emperor" anyway accodring to their own fancy.
What can you say? A good swimmer must have been on steroid, an astronaut was silly waste, a Nobel was politically won, millions of new mouths fed were a hoax.
There is no balm for itchy teeth.
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I am sorry but i have to say - what you wrote is pieces of shit. Just produce more awsome films and tv series! this is what i want for you!
Microblogs or Weibo in Chinese reminds us of Chinese characteristics, which dates back to the period of more than 2000 of years ago when the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC -256 BC) fell apart. It was in this era that hundreds of schools of thoughts emerged that have their effects felt on history for centuries. Not only was there Confucius and his disciples taking lecture tours around, but there were Mo-tse, opponent to Confucius, Sun-tzu, writer of the book the Art of War, Strategists of the War States going about drumming up support for their ideas as well. There were Lao-Tzu and Zhuang Tzu, romantic philosophers roaming about escaping from the reality.
Weibo scenario bears much the same to the situation mentioned above when people of all walks of life want their voices heard. What can and should be done by authorities is nothing but dredge or guide as described in the article, rather than block up or stifle, which is sure to result in a waterway bursting its banks. Simply put, there should be outlets for citizens to vest their angers if it is impossible to get the problem settled immediately. Government officials would get to know more about what ordinary people are in desire of and take relevant measures in return.
This article raises the old, but always interesting, question of "what is the role of the media?" Does it form public opinion? Or does it react to public opinion. I think that for most of the past 60+ years, People's Daily has formed public opinion - or at least made many people feel that no alternative opinion existed.
Times may not have changed in the perfect sense of the word. But they ARE changing. Microblogs play an extremely important role in China to an extent that I would say they now play more of a role in opinion forming than any Government mouthpiece. Propaganda is on the back foot. These organs are now being forced to listen to - but more importantly REACT to - public opinion. Just look at what The People have achieved in just the past 3-4 months:
* Criticism of the Beijing Municipal Government for its handling of the July 21 floods.
* Criticism, leading to removal of, "Da Biaoge" - who was seen wearing watches worth several times what he should be expected to wear based on his salary.
* Criticism of excessive nationalism regarding the Diaoyu Islands, especially when a man was beaten for driving a Japanese car.
New media - not just microblogs, but also Youtube equivalents - are giving Chinese people a voice. Sometimes, of course, a hand comes from behind and stifles that voice. Things will happen slowly in China. But the days of People's Daily speaking for The People are in the past. This is something that should be applauded. In international media terms it may not immediately strike you that "delegate cries 5 times during speech" has become "delegate is mocked for crying 5 times during speech" is important. But if you think about it, it's huge.....
Freedom of speech means media controls what people know and don't know; media shapes and manipulates people minds.
Oh, plus journalists are natural born nice guys who should be trusted and never be punished no matter how they mess up with society and people.
"...now seek to "guide" the public conversation with commentary that..."
I suppose you try to "guide" me,don't you? Mr Commentators!
No - you are free to believe what you want. By the way, w/o meeting the commentator or even hearing his/her voice, you cannot tell what his/her intention is just by a few lines of text. I can't either by the way, so let's not jump to conclusions.
Thanks Gady! Microblogs can go wild sometimes and then they cannot be tamed. The only solution is to go for the kill switch.
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