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I'll come straight out and tell you that I'm an avid video game player, have been since I got hooked on Donkey Kong Jr. when I was ten years old. From dotty eight bit graphics on my first Vic 20 to the Pentium 4 powerhouses and monster video cards on my home network today, I'm a technology junkie of the highest order. A simple decision by my parents set me down the path of intelligent adoption early in my experience: I begged for an Intellivision, they got me a Vic20. Suddenly I'm programming instead of mind numbing button pushing – I'm a creator not just a user. Twenty years later I'm working as a systems trainer and technician.
From that brief biography I give you my reaction to the documentary called "First Person Shooter" I saw on CTV last Sunday (www.firstpersonshooter.tv/index.html), created by Robin Benger, a TV producer and film maker. Rather than simply trying to scare you while appearing to keep a semblance of veracity and professional indifference, I'll try and unpack all of the assumptions and the real intent behind this lightly veiled propaganda. In its desperate attempts to stay on top I find the current popular media (and in this case medium of television itself) taking poorly researched, rather desperate shots at the latest distractions. In the case of "First Person Shooter" the father of a child deeply addicted to a game called "Counter Strike" uses his own medium (he is a television producer and film maker) to analyze and ultimately criticize his child's dependency on media.
The general issue of addiction can be dealt with in fairly specific terms. Game playing, even in its most chronic form certainly can't be quantified as a physical addiction. At best it can be described as a reinforced behaviour. What reinforces the behaviour of a chronic player, a need for control, expression, respect? Online playing is not just the wave of the future any more, it is here today. Community, interaction and team building are a huge part of the modern online gaming experience. A child addicted to this is a child addicted to a need to belong; not exactly a damning statement; and one that prompts the question: why are these things so lacking in his non-virtual existence?
What is especially laughable about Mr. Benger's documentary is that he uses his medium of television to debunk a new and competing medium for media. I wonder if he is more upset that his child is having trouble prioritizing his life or that he isn't supporting Mr. Benger's own media infatuation. The question of what benefits television has in attacking a competing medium must be an integral part of this examination.
There is a small step between an addictive personality and an obsessive one and in either case they can lead to amazing, expression or discovery. The price people pay for this kind of infatuation can also lead them to depression and ultimately make them unable to support their need. In short if you're shooting for a small target like genius you will often miss and the results aren't pretty. If a child becomes so infatuated something that it consumes their lives, it seems to me the best way to push through it is to assist them in swallowing too much. They'll eventually force themselves away from it and in doing so their rejection of the infatuation will surely be more meaningful.
In the meantime we've got something like video games, that many older people simply don't accept. They find it threatening, difficult to understand and so place a low value on it. As a gamer (with a fine arts background and an honours degree in English and Philosophy) that gaming has been churning out exceptional pieces of art for many years now. As the technology continues to improve the media presented on it will only become more immersive and meaningful. Whereas once printing allowed for the widespread, sedentary activity of reading for the masses, and movie and television furthered the trend towards sedentary, cerebral entertainment, video gaming has reintroduced the entertainee as an active participant in the process. In doing so it promises to further enhance our ability to express and understand our selves and the reality around us; the goal of any media.


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Map-based navigation: it's one of the killer apps for any mobile platform. The only sticking point is getting the maps. Downloading map tiles on the fly is the default solution for most navigation apps, but pre-loading makes more sense when it's possible. Unfortunately, open source navigation apps have earned a reputation for clunky and awkward map-loading interfaces. This weekend, let's look at a simpler method, so you can get on the road quicker.
A Historical Expedition
Sure, whenever you have solid data coverage and a cheap-but-fast mobile plan, you can stream maps on-demand — but even then your download speed can to a crawl at just the wrong moment. Plus, you can forget about streaming maps if you're traveling to the back woods or headed overseas with a pre-paid SIM. Pre-loading map sets bypasses the entire problem, plus for many apps it allows you to calculate routes while offline as well.
The problem is that the open source apps make pre-loading into a colossal pain. Some provide a pre-loading interface that falls flat — such as by requiring you to manually enter unformatted latitude and longitude coordinates for the corner points, by not allowing you to see which maps it already has stored, or by attempting to download every zoom level in the database. Others simply have no pre-loading interface at all, requiring manual configuration file editing to point the app towards the right storage directory.
If you had unlimited disk space, you could always grab the entire OpenStreetMap global data set, but for all practical purposes the way most people will operate is to keep a small set of maps on their device at any one time — home, the destination city for a particular trip, and so forth.
Complicating matters slightly is the fact that different navigation apps utilize different map sources. If you're hiking cross-country, you probably want a topographic map, so OSM's street map source isn't going to be any good, regardless of how easy it is to partition off the relevant boundary lines and download tiles. If you use more than one app then typically you double the amount of work involved, since most navigation apps have their own package format and directory structure — even when dealing with the same map source.
Atlas Time
We can simplify the process by using the Java application Mobile Atlas Creator (or MOBAC for short). MOBAC includes a web map renderer on which you can select the region of which you're interested in generating an offline map source, plus controls that let you configure zoom level and other options. Whenever you have your "atlas" (which is MOBAC's term for each individual offline map bundle) configured, you can have MOBAC batch-download the tiles and properly configure them for the navigation device of your choice.
You can download MOBAC from the project's site on SourceForge.net. For most users, all you will need to do is grab the .jar package linked to under "Download" on the home page. It requires Java 1.6 or newer, which is standard fare for Linux. The developer recommends you also download the latest build of Java Advanced Imaging from Sun (or presumably, Oracle), although this is optional. A subset of mapping applications also require the Sqlite database; the Download section links to the appropriate Java library.
The current release of MOBAC is version 1.9 beta 5, which officially supports 28 different navigation and mapping apps. There are others that use a compatible format, but don't make the main list. Most are turn-by-turn mobile navigation aids like AndNav, OsmAnd, and Osmdroid, but off-road utilities like Mobile Trail Exporer, specialty apps like Nokia Sports Tracker, and GPS-logging apps are supported as well — including those for dedicated GPS hardware like Magellan and Garmin units.
MOBAC Usage
After you've downloaded the requisite files,
cd into the resulting directory and launch MOBAC with
./start.sh &. The left-hand window pane holds a series of expandable settings docks; click on the arrow in each dock's title bar to see its content. The right-hand pane is for GPX data, which is a different enough use case that we don't have time to discuss it. In the center is the map view widget.
The atlas-building process is a bit quirky, but you will soon get the hang of it. The "Map source" selection dock on the left lets you choose which map is displayed in the map view. "Atlas Content" further down displays the map components you have selected so far. By default, MOBAC starts a new atlas project named "Unnamed atlas" at startup. You can work on more than one at a time — use the "New" button to create one. Just keep an eye on which atlas project is selected as you work: every time you make a selection on the map view, you can click the "Add selection" button to add it to the currently chosen atlas project.
In the map view widget, the right mouse button acts as a "grab" controller, with which you can pan and scroll the map view. The left mouse button allows you to draw a selection rectangle onto the map. The scroll wheel zooms in and out. When you have selected the region you want to save, go to the "Zoom Levels" dock and check which levels you want to download. There is some trial-and-error involved, but if you're new you can learn a lot by visiting OSM's web renderer and watching the zoom level there. You probably don't need more than two or three levels; it simply depends on the detail level you want.
What makes MOBAC exceptionally useful, however, is that you don't have to stop at one selection rectangle or one map source. You can add multiple cities (at a high zoom level) and a large swatch of highway (at a lower zoom level) all to one atlas. You can also grab OSM street data and OSM public transport or hiking maps, and merge them all into a single atlas.
When you have all of your selections made, choose "Convert atlas format" from the "Atlas" menu. This dialog lets you select the output format of your maps. The README file (which is also accessible through the Help menu) describes which format is required for each of the supported apps. For other apps, you need to look online for documentation (Mappero, for example, uses the "OSMTracker tile storage" format, which seems to be popular among the open source apps, although AndNav has its own). If you installed the Java Advanced Imaging package mentioned earlier, you can select some custom tile processing options (such as reducing the color data to save space), but it's not required. When you're ready, click "Create atlas" and MOBAC will download all of the tiles in your atlas selections, convert them, and package them for use on your device.
At this point, all that remains is to copy your freshly-minted atlas to your mobile device. Here the process varies from app to app. Start by clicking the "Open Atlas Folder" button in MOBAC's "success" dialog. Each atlas project you've built will be saved in one location, so you can maintain a local library. Whether you can simply drag-and-drop an atlas folder from your hard disk to a USB-attached device, or whether you need to navigate inside it and drag the sub-folders independently depends on the app. Start by consulting the README file; if you don't find instructions there, go to the MOBAC wiki, which maintains pages on the subject — often linked to real-world how-to guides.
Radio Free Data
You may have noticed that there is a long list of map sources rambling down the sidebar of the MOBAC homepage, but that I have only discussed using OSM-based data sets. That is because Robert, MOBAC's lead developer, recently made a change to the application that disabled most of the commercial and proprietary map sources. As he explains on the forum, he did not do this because the map data was licensed in a manner incompatible with MOBAC's GPLv2 , but because the terms of use for a handful of the more litigious map providers explicitly forbid so-called "bulk" downloads through their APIs.
Whether your personal usage of MOBAC constitutes a "bulk" request depends on how much you select, but Robert did not feel like working it all out individually. Instead, he disabled the problematic services, and now says he will re-enable any of them for which a clearly-expressed deal can be reached. He is asking MOBAC users to contact map service providers rather than doing the deal-making himself.
I have grave doubts as to whether that third-party negotiation technique will work, but in the meantime I don't mind: OSM works everywhere I have traveled, and it is explicitly free. You can read more about the map source setup process in the same thread, including how to add map sources that are free but don't offer any TOS at all (or simply don't respond to inquiries). It's important to notice, however, that a web map source has to meet some technical requirements in order to function. The MOBAC site has a list of map sources that are incompatible, and a tool to help you determine if a new source meets the requirements.
Westward Ho!
It only takes a few seconds for MOBAC to download and convert hefty map collections if you have a reasonably fast Internet connection. Doing so once might be a slight convenience when compared to making a single custom map set, but what makes MOBAC worth keeping around is how it simplifies the process on a repeating basis.
As mentioned above, you can save your old atlases for later re-use; MOBAC can also be configured to freshen already-downloaded tiles so that updates to the map are added to your existing atlas. It also allows you to bookmark map views, so that you can quickly re-visit settings; this is especially useful as you are getting used to what your preferred zoom levels are for different types of transport. In addition, MOBAC excels because of its support for multiple map layers. How uninteresting would it be if you had to choose between street maps or public transport, but not both?
Open source navigation apps have come a long way in a short period of time, particularly on Android, but they all still have room to improve in the area of offline map support. It is an understandable afterthought if you are the developer, where offline and online maps are such very different features. Which is why it's such a good thing MOBAC is available to bridge the gap.


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I want to have my homes electrical panel (circuit breaker box) replaced. You have big deals listed on your site that show 2 prices: 1 of 100 amp boxes and 1 for 200 amp boxes. How can I determine if panel is 100 amp or 200 amp?
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In nearly half a century of investigating strange mysteries, I have frequently encountered claims of the mysterious force or power known as qi or ch'i or simply chi (pronounced "chee"). The term translates as "air" or "breath" and, by extension, "life force" or "energy flow."
In traditional Asian cultures, especially Chinese, chi is the essential principle in such practices as feng shui (pronounced "fung shway"), the art of creating harmonious environments; acupuncture, a form of traditional Chinese medicine in which needles are inserted at specified points to stimulate the flow of chi (Nickell 2012); and certain martial arts, including tai chi. I will expand on the latter here, exposing tricks used by masters and their followers.
I am quick to say I did not have much special knowledge for this particular investigation other than my background as a magician and wonderworker (Nickell 2005, 219–220, 231–232, 274), but I did have a college course in sport judo and was once trained—by karate black belt and physics teacher Matt Lowry—to break boards by striking them with my hand (Nickell 2011; 2012a).
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Tai Chi, et al.
Tai chi is a shortened form of taiji quan, "Supreme ultimate boxing." Conceived centuries ago as a martial art, it is now also practiced—as "Taoist tai chi"—as an exercise technique. In China in 2010 as a visiting scholar in an exchange program (see Nickell 2012), I watched people doing morning tai chi exercises. The graceful, flowing movements reminded me of Chinese brush calligraphy, and I found plausible the claims that the practice could help reduce stress and tone muscles.
In addition to tai chi, all martial arts typically involve the concept of chi—including kung fu, a Chinese form of fighting without weapons, and taekwondo, a type of Korean karate that uses such aggressive moves as jabs, chops, and dramatic leaping kicks. All rely on chi, the supposed internal life energy, as discussed in the Qi Encyclopedia (Lam 2016). Many unsupported claims are made for the magical, invisible chi—whose existence itself is unsupported by science.
Consider the myriad therapeutic claims made to promote tai chi. Martial arts authority Bruce Tegner (1973, 140) calls them "misleading." As he explains:
Tai chi promoters claim that tai chi exercise will cure as many diseases and restore as many non-functioning organs as the old snake-oil remedies. While it is true that practice of the routine will promote general health and you will feel better if you do tai chi, there is absolutely no acceptable evidence that tai chi is a substitute for medical care. A tai chi teacher is without any preparation for diagnosing disease, or for prescribing for cure or care. If you are ill, see a doctor. If your ailment could be "cured" by doing tai chi, it could be "cured" by any routine of exercise. It is a cruel deception to make promises of "cure"; rather than enhancing the reputation of tai chi, it lowers it to the rank of a quack or crank activity. Tai chi is a good exercise and it deserves to be rescued from the bad reputation of cure-all quackery.
Chi Chicanery
Still other claims made for chi—involving tai chi and related martial arts—are actually due to skill and application of simple physical principles. Here are a few examples.
Candle Feat. In 1984, one of my university students, who had witnessed a sensational karate demonstration, told me how the practitioner supposedly flung off some of his "energy" (chi) to extinguish a candle. He supposedly accomplished this by simply pointing at the flame in a dramatic fashion.
I went to see the demonstration at a Lexington, Kentucky, high school. The martial artist had his mouth taped to prove he was not blowing out the flame. He moved his open hand in a rather short, quick blow toward the flame. It only flickered the first time, but on the fourth try was extinguished. I was later able—with some practice—to duplicate the feat. I also found that the secret to such a stunt had been published months earlier in a kung-fu magazine. The secret lies in "displacing the air. . . . The speed of your technique is what causes the flame to go out" (Blauer 1983, 86).
Cutting Apple on Throat. The same evening I watched the candle stunt, I also witnessed a seemingly risky feat in which a martial artist placed an apple on the throat of a reclining man and cut it in two with a sword. The blade went quickly down but stopped abruptly—rather in the manner of someone "pulling a punch" in stunt fighting. This might be practiced successfully.
The blade does not need to go all the way through the apple to cut it in two. Indeed, I have heard of a trick method in which a short length of rigid wire is inserted in the apple near the bottom to help stop the blade. Nevertheless, sometimes the stunt can go awry as shown in a YouTube video of an assistant having his throat cut—fortunately not fatally ("Karate Master" 2009).
Psychokinetic Effects. A young martial arts instructor and ex-con named James Hydrick fooled countless people in the 1980s by causing a balanced pencil to move by only pointing at it, turning pages of a phone book from several feet away by simply staring, and performing other feats. Touted by an Associated Press story and the TV program That's Incredible, Hydrick seemed to gain scientific support for his powers when he passed tests given by an assistant professor of electrical engineering. Hydrick wore a karate gi and claimed Eastern philosophy helped him develop his mind power.
However, Hydrick was undone when magician and psychical investigator James Randi challenged Hydrick on What's My Line?—offering him $10,000 if he could demonstrate genuine paranormal powers as claimed. Randi thought Hydrick was merely blowing to spin the pencil and flip the book pages, so he scattered feather-light Styrofoam pieces on the table around the book and challenged him to repeat the feat. If he were blowing, the Styrofoam pieces would be disturbed and thus reveal the trick. Hydrick spent an hour and half pretending to use his powers before giving up (Baker and Nickell 1992, 80). He later confessed, boasting that he had "tricked the whole world" (Korem 1988, 149).
No-Touch Knockouts. Again, karate master George Dillman allegedly discovered a technique allowing him to direct chi so as to knock down a human target. My Italian friends Massimo Polidoro and Luigi Garlaschelli investigated the claim for an episode of National Geographic TV's Is It Real? They began by watching a video of Dillman waving his hands before a volunteer who started to oscillate and then collapse on the floor, "exactly as Obi Wan Kenobi would do on an Imperial guard in the Star Wars films" (Polidoro 2008, 20).
The skeptics suspected the feat depended on the power of suggestion. "It looked like the old hypnotic stunts where the hypnotist stands in front of someone, points a finger to his face telling him that he is going to fall backward and, after a while, the person falls as expected" (Polidoro 2008, 20). When they conducted an experiment with Dillman, and Garlaschelli stood with closed eyes as suggested, he learned that another factor was at play: It is easier to lose one's balance with closed eyes. So he opened his and became immune to the punches of chi directed at him.
The investigators followed up with another test in which one of Dillman's students stood behind a curtain that blocked his view while the karate master sent his supposed chi punches at intervals directed by the skeptics. This ruled out suggestion, and the student simply stood looking puzzled, awaiting the chi force that never came.
Another questionable claim—one a television producer asked me to look into in 2009—involves what is known in the martial arts as rooting. This is the purported special ability—aided by drawing chi up from the earth while imagining roots branching down from the feet—to keep oneself planted firmly despite an incoming force ("Rooting" 2016). I watched a hastily shot video of tai chi Grand Master Don Ahn. What I saw reminded me of the stunts of certain "human magnets"—such as teenage Lulu Hurst of Georgia in the 1880s.
Billed as the "Georgia Magnet," the fifteen-year-old Hurst would stand before the audience holding a stick parallel to the floor of the stage, while two strong men gripping it would attempt to move her. Instead, she merely pressed against the stick and not only prevented the action but pushed them across the stage to the spectators' delight. Hurst called her power a "Great Unknown." However, in time came criticism: the New York Times (July 13, 1884) called her performances "a phenomenon of stupidity" showing "how willingly people will be fooled. . . ."
Miss Hurst also became concerned with how spiritualists were embracing her as a powerful medium. After two years of performing, she married the young man who managed her show and returned to obscurity. She later confessed that the secret behind her power was simply "deflected force," namely, "unrecognized mechanical principles involving leverage and balance." She simply caused force applied against her to deflect, or glance off, and so become a useless effort (Nickell 1991, 34–40).
Among several imitators of Hurst, "One of the cleverest of these," wrote magician Harry Houdini (1920, 228), used the stage name Annie Abbott. Her posters even billed her as "The Little Georgia Magnet." She was a brief sensation in London, where she took her act in 1891, but—exposed by what Houdini (1920, 229) called "a keen-witted reporter"—she also soon faded from view. Her real name was Dixie Annie (Jarrett) Haygood, and she is buried in the Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia, where I visited many years ago (see Figure 1).
Overpowering a Master
Master Ahn seemed to use principles similar to those of Hurst and Abbott. I flew to New York on June 26, 2009, to shoot a demo for a possible TV series,1 and I observed him closely. He remained firmly in place while others—singly or together—attempted to push him backward. Having others play by his rules ensured his success as he applied the principles of low center of gravity (his small stature and effective stance) and force deflection.2 He employed his forearm much as Lulu Hurst used a stick, having opponents place their hands there so he could use it as a lever, pivoting from the elbow.
I was the only one to displace him. I did so by subverting his method: I quickly crouched low, grabbed him bodily, and moved him—sputtering and protesting—straight back. He strongly objected, saying I was manipulating him. And so I was, refusing to play his game, which had nothing at all to do with chi and everything to do with physical principles.
Of course it was rude to have behaved so, but it was not the same as grabbing something from a magician's hands. The latter is an honest deceiver, whereas—intentionally or otherwise—the martial artist who attributes such feats to anything other than physical principles is misleading the public.
To smooth things over, I pretended to have misunderstood what was expected and invited him to try again, allowing him to succeed. He not only resisted my push but actually repelled me, as I compliantly played by his rules and let him easily deflect my applied force.
- I never learned what happened to our videotape of this event, since I was drawn away to another film project. A producer did say he was very happy with my efforts (Gaines 2009).
- Dongkuk "Don" Ahn (1937–2013) was also a prominent artist residing in New York City. Born in Seoul, South Korea, he painted in acrylic on canvas using fluid brushstrokes reminiscent of Eastern calligraphy ("Don Ahn" 2014).
- Baker, Robert A., and Joe Nickell. 1992. Missing Pieces: How to Investigate Ghosts, UFOs, Psychics, & Other Mysteries. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
- Blauer, Tony. 1983. Effective self-defense. Inside Kung-Fu August: 85–87.
- Don Ahn (Dongkuk)—Spirit. 2014. Available online at www.ahlfoundation.org/spirit/; accessed August 23, 2016.
- Gaines, Cory. 2009. Personal communication (from Leftfield Pictures) to Joe Nickell, June 27.
- Houdini, Harry. 1920. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. Reprinted Toronto: Coles, 1980.
- Karate master cuts his assistant's throat. 2009. Available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJvglrEsAk; accessed August 23, 2016.
- Korem, Dan. 1988. Powers: Testing the Psychic & Supernatural. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 85–156.
- Lam, Paul. 2016. Qi in Martial Arts. Available online at qi-encyclopedia.com/?article=Qi%20in%20Martial%20Arts; accessed August 23, 2016.
- Nickell, Joe. 1991. Wonderworkers! How They Perform the Impossible. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
- ———. 2005. Secrets of the Sideshows. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
- ———. 2011. Karate Student. Available online at www.joenickell.com/KarateStudent/KarateStudent1html; accessed August 25, 2016.
- ———. 2012. Traditional Chinese Medicine: Views East and West. Skeptical Inquirer 36(2) (March/April): 18–20.
- ———. 2012a. Jujitsu White Belt. Available online at www.joenickell.com/JujitsuWhiteBelt/JujitsuWhiteBelt1html; accessed August 25, 2016.
- Polidoro, Massimo. 2008. Just like Jedi knights (if only). Skeptical Inquirer 32(3) (May/June): 20–21.
- Rooting, stabilizing . . . in Qigong. . . . 2016. Available online at www.egreenway.com/qigong/rooting.htm; accessed August 23, 2016.
- Tegner, Bruce. 1973. Kung Fu & Tai Chi: Chinese Karate and Classical Exercises. New York: Bantam Books.


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The only bad part of the announcement was that the ride wouldn't open until 2016, nearly two years from that point. Thankfully now we're already closing in on the end of '15, meaning that the ride has made much progress and is now under vertical construction.
Seen above in one of several photos released by Rocky Mountain, the first vertical structure is growing by the day. I'm not totally familiar with the worksite as I haven't been to Sweden lately, or ever, but it looks like the start of the ride's second hill.
For those that need a refresher on Wildfire's layout and statistics, check out the original concept art and the like in this post we did.
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At 99 Ranch and other Asian markets around town you can choose live fish and the butchers will deep fry them for you. Rex sole, black pomfret, and tilapia are all great for frying, elmomonster says, but whatever's on sale is always a good option. You can use the fried fish for anything from stews, to seafood hotpot, or even for fish tacos, but elmomonster just serves it over steamed rice and a stir-fry of green vegetables, with some homemade nuoc cham.
One of the Filipino markets on Vermont Avenue fries whole tilapia at the bargain price of $1 a lb., and serves it with chile-spiked vinegar, says monkey
You're not limited to just choosing whitefish either, meatier fish like salmon cut into steaks and deep fried work great too, says mabziegurl.
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How to Graft Jasmine
The common jasmine (Jasminum officinale) is a deciduous vine that can grow up to 30 feet tall. The jasmine's fragrance is a great addition to any flower garden, but some gardeners prefer to grow their own jasmine bushes from cuttings instead of buying them from nurseries. Grafting is a technique that joins two parts of a common plant and allows them to grow together as one. Grafting allows you to grow new jasmine plants without purchasing new bushes from commercial outlets. This method works on jasmine bushes if both parts being used for grafting are healthy and at the same growth stage.
Choose a mature and healthy shoot to be used for grafting from a 1-year-old jasmine bush. Cut the shoot with a sharpened set of pruning shears. Trim the shoot to 9 inches.
Measure the rootstock 12 inches above the ground and mark it. Cut rootstock down to the 12-inch marking. Prune the rootstock of all its twigs and leaves.
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Hold the shoot upright and slice at a downward angle into one side of the shoot's tip, stopping when the cut meets the middle tip-point of the shoot. Repeat the cut at the adjacent side of the first cut, forming a groove for the tongue of the rootstock to slide into it.
Position the groove of the stem over the tongue of the rootstock, interlocking the two together like gears. Slide the two pieces together to create a tight fit and wrap them with grafting tape. Keep the grafting area moist and check for a calloused section to show that the grafting attempt was successful and remove the tape, usually around eight weeks.
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Booming population in the country has become a worrying topic. Over this, UNESCO recognized World Population Day was celebrated at Homerton Grammar School, 21/A, Faridabad on 7th July. During this, the Head Boy, Manish and the Head Girl, Khushboo of the school gave brief information on the World Population Day .They told the students that the human population growth has increased at a rate of about 2% for the last three years. More people mean more consumed resources, increased damage to the earth and more waste. Students of class 11th went to 21/C market and Mewla Maharjpur, Sector-46 with a street play. Through the play they ignited the awareness among men and women about the consequences of the rising population. Through the play they told them that it is ultimately up to us to solve the problems of rising population.
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Amazon expands Dash use to entire catalog
NEW YORK >> Amazon has updated its barcode-scanning Dash shopping wand so you can now buy anything with it, not just groceries.
With the wand, you scan a product's barcode or say its name to add it to your Amazon shopping cart. You still need to go to Amazon's website or app to complete the order. The wand is meant as a quick way to reorder a product or order an item that's on the top of your mind while at home. Or if you're out shopping, you can add something to your Amazon shopping cart to ship later.
Amazon's app already has a barcode-scanning feature called Flow. Carrying the wand saves the trouble of opening the app, scanning the item with the phone's camera and then adding the item to the shopping cart.
The Dash wand is the latest hardware device Amazon is selling to try to rope shoppers in. Amazon's $190 Echo smart speaker (and its smaller siblings, the $50 Dot and $100 Tap) performs a variety of tasks including ordering products. The company also has one-click Dash reordering buttons that can stick to any surface and can be used to instantly reorder household products like detergent or toilet paper. Unlike the wand, the buttons are tied to specific products.
With Wednesday's update, you no longer need to be a member of Amazon's $299-a-year grocery delivery service Prime Fresh to buy a wand, but you do need to be part of Amazon's $99-a-year Prime loyalty program. The wand costs $50, though Prime Fresh members can get it for $20, with a $20 credit included,


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AARP is focused on making Charlotte and the region more livable for people of all ages. Walkable Charlotte Week, our Livable Communities Listening Sessions, and the upcoming Making a More Livable Mecklenburg livable communities summit are helping to engage people 50+ on the effort to meet the challenges of the coming demographic changes. This week AARP North Carolina's local team in Charlotte conducted Walkable Charlotte Week, which aimed to raise awareness about the issue of walkability and why that is an essential component of creating a livable community.
Most of us are aware of the coming demographic changes in the coming years. The baby boom – as they call it – is now here. I don't know if anybody noticed but yesterday something very significant happened. 10,000 turned 65 and qualified for Medicare. Today, 10,000 people are turning 65 and qualifying for Medicare. Tomorrow.. guess what's going to happen? That daily trend is here now and will continue for the next 18 years, adding nearly 80 million older Americans to the population. This is will be a disproportionate amount of growth with respect to other age groups and a big change for a young city like Charlotte, where only 8.5% of the population is 65+.
When most of us hear about the baby boom, we usually hear about it with respect to federal public policy –the solvency of Social Security and if we will have enough dollars as a country to meet the challenges of an older society. But what most people don't realize is that while the questions about federal policy are important, most of the impact is going to be felt at the community level - in counties, in cities, in suburbs, in the neighborhoods in which we all live.
So an essential part of this discussion is how local communities will be impacted and what they will need to do meet the challenge of an older population which relies more heavily on services that older people need including public transportation, health care, housing and long term care. And as decision makers and number crunchers look at the financial costs of these challenges, the more apparent it becomes that people will need to get what they need right there in their communities.
Now the good news in all of this is that most people want to age in place. AARP has done studies on this and overwhelmingly most people would rather remain in their own communities and have access to all of the services they need to age with dignity than to have to move out of those communities in order to get those services. And that is precisely what communities are going to have to do anyway because the costs of the aging-in-place are far more manageable and healthier than the alternative.
Walkability is a critical component of aging in place because it allows people to be active, engaged and independent in their communities. Walkable communities are ones that are connected to each other, to public transportation options, to the services that they need, and of course, that are safe. A walkable community that is connected means little if the intersections are not safe to cross.
Since the passage of the city's "Complete Streets" law, Charlotte has made strides in making the Queen City a more walkable and livable city for people of all ages and abilities. But the city still remains behind other major metropolitan areas in terms of walkability, which is a substantial barrier to those 50+ who want to age in place.
But walkability isn't just about people who are AARP age (50) or retired. It is important to everybody. This week is Halloween. And while for children the top concerns are what costume they're going to wear and how much candy they'll get, for parents the top issue is safety. For those parents with kids too young to trick or treat, having enough time to cross a busy street with a stroller is just as important as it is to an older resident using a walking device or someone with a disability using a wheelchair.
A walkable Charlotte is also important to the business community. The manager at the Wendys restaurant was happy to let us use her parking lot to launch Walkable Charlotte Week because, as she said, "a safe community is important to all of us". If people cannot access the businesses that provide services we need and want, we all lose.
So during this week AARP volunteers joined staff from the Charlotte Department of Transportation and others to assess the walkability and safety of key intersections throughout the city. Using a simple but effective " Sidewalks and Streets Survey " instrument that AARP developed with national experts, our volunteers fanned out across the city to assess intersections and help determine such things as: does the timer give you enough time to safely cross? Is the traffic behavior an issue? Are there sidewalks that keep you out of the street, and curb cuts to assist people with disabilities to safely cross?
We have also invited the general public to participate as well, and AARP would like to thank the partnership of the city's senior centers and the Charlotte Mecklenburg library system for the valuable roles they played. All during the week, anyone who wanted to survey an intersection in their community could stop by their local library branch and pick up a survey kit which includes everything they need. They picked the intersection, picked the day and time they want to survey it. Older residents who frequent the senior centers could get kits from the centers as well. As AARP gets back those surveys we will share it with CDOT. We will also share key problem areas with city council members who represent those districts.
Our hope with Walkable Charlotte Week - and subsequent efforts - is that city planners, elected officials and the residents of our great city will see the importance of creating a more walkable and livable community. Aging-in-place will become more and more of an essential way to address aging and the time for Charlotte to do it in the most thoughtful manner is now.
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Clev keen to return to 175lbs without pressure
Cefn Fforest's Nathan Cleverly (28-2, 14KO) is looking forward to returning with a relatively low profile and away from the spotlight on Saturday. The 28-year-old will feature on the undercard of Matchroom Sport's stacked 'Rule Britannia' show at London's O2 Arena against Czech Republic's Tomas Man (13-8-1, 8KO) in an eight round contest. The last time Cleverly was in a ring, the Welshman's three-fight cruiserweight experiment backfired when he was beaten in a rematch with his bitter rival Tony Bellew. November's disappointing defeat, courtesy of a Split Decision, came on Britain's biggest platform of Sky Sports Box Office and while it boosts the financial benefits of fighting, the scrutiny is intensified and often unforgiving. Speaking of the situation, Cleverly said: "I'm enjoying just going under the radar, I've got to be honest. It's nice to have a breather and slip under the radar with no major media attention. Not many people knew I was on the bill, it's not much pressure and I don't feel so mentally fatigued. "I don't regret it [attempting cruiserweight]. It was a calculated gamble. I enjoyed the process and training, doing the weights and looking the part. No regrets, I didn't get hurt and I was fighting bigger guys, I came through it unscathed. "Until the last fight, it was enjoyable. I learned valuable lessons and found out I wasn't a true cruiserweight. I'm glad I've experienced it and found that out, I've no regrets about that move and we go on to the next challenge." Cleverly's lethargic performance at 200lbs persuaded him to return 25lbs lighter as a light-heavyweight – where he previously enjoyed WBO world, European, British and Commonwealth title reigns. It will be Cleverly's first fight back at light-heavyweight since suffering his first ever professional loss, a heartbreaking fourth round stoppage to Russia's undefeated Sergey Kovalev in August 2013. Since the failed fifth defence of Cleverly's then WBO title, Kovalev has established himself as the weight categories best boxer by unifying the WBO, WBA and IBF versions of the title. The task of shrinking to a minimum weight is an unenviable task for any boxer and Cleverly's promises that he's prepared for it professionally. He said: "It's been good, I've felt sharp and my weights come off nicely. I feel strong at the weight and I've been able to train well. It'll be nice to get back there. I'm enjoying the adventure of going back to my old weight, getting it restarted. "I sit back and look at what I achieved in the light-heavyweight division in the past, it gives me goose bumps sometimes. I get excited and I want to do it all again, I'm young enough and I've learned a lot from my old chapters and I can use it in my next mission. Cleverly's lethargic performance at 200lbs persuaded him to return 25lbs lighter as a light-heavyweight – where he previousl "There's no major changes, it's all kind of a similar to routine to what I was doing back then. Ultimately, my first run at light-heavyweight was an unbelievably exciting one. So, there's no dramatic change to what I was doing when I was in form. There's been a lot of repetition with a few minor tweaks here and there in my training, lifestyle and weight making. Lets hope it can take me to become two-weight [correction: time] world champion." The overmatched visitor with the unenviable task of opposing a motivated Cleverly for his keep-busy bout is Tomas Man. The former super-middleweight has 22 outings of experience under his belt and won 11 on the spin but it's mostly been against the same pool of opponents. The Welshman has paid little attention to his opponent, who he should be facing around 9pm on Saturday, and openly admits that he's more bothered about proving he can perform at 175lbs. In conclusion, Cleverly said: "I know his [Man's] record and that he's an orthodox fighter, that's about it. I haven't seen the guy and I don't need to. I'm just concerned about myself and turning up in good condition at light-heavyweight. I'm going to take him out and move on to where I belong, a world title challenger. "It's important that in this tune up fight, I make sure I'm good at the weight and I'm strong at it. It's about getting the cobwebs off, I've been out of the ring for six months. It's an important fight for my assault on the world stage, I need this one just to get my timing and make sure the weight is done properly." Sky Sports Box Office will show 'Rule Britannia' exclusively live this Saturday. Buy now at www.skysports.com/brookgavin


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Harasssment Charges Filed in Cyberbullying Suicide
Felony charges were filed last week against two girls in Florida accused of harassing a classmate so much that she jumped to her death.
Authorities in Polk County arrested 12- and 14-year-old girls before the investigation was completed, after the older girl continued to post abusive messages about the victim on a social-media site.
Rebecca Ann Sedwick, 12, had been targeted for about 10 months by the girls, who told her that she was "ugly" and "should go kill herself" on numerous occasions online, according to arrest records. Rebecca jumped off a silo at an abandoned cement plant last month.
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In a surprising manner, the U.S. President Donald Trump recently remarked his intention of withdrawing from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF). This has led to huge speculation in the policy circles with many observers suggesting of rising tension between Washington and Moscow along with arms race. The arms control agreement was negotiated by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Washington D.C. in 1987. During the Cold-War, the two blocks remained locked down owing to their different political ideologies with a major aim of superseding one another. While both sides averted major crisis, each side laid emphasis on building modern weaponry including nuclear arsenal. In a zero-sum pattern, each side acquired more weaponry that ultimately ended bloodlessly and Mikhail Gorbachev's significant role in it cannot be forgotten. By scrapping INF treaty, Donald Trump is bringing hard elements in America's foreign policy and altogether negating the earnest efforts made by the earlier statesmen who negotiated arms agreements for a peaceful future.
It is important to mention here that despite the disintegration of the socialist block and so called 'end of history' moment, the ideology still persists and is actively shaping the post-cold war politics. Undoubtedly, Cold War politics had occupied every region of the world, however, much of its effects were felt in the European region, where two separate ideologies stood face to face each other. During the Cold War there was an intense arms race between the two blocks and Nikita Khrushchev's statement that "we will bury you!" directed towards West had profound impact on how the Cold-War evolved. It was President Richard Nixon who brought relaxation in military tensions by signing Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT-I) with Soviet Union's Premier Leonid Brezhnev in 1972. The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 broke the détente and emerged as a strong hurdle in honoring the terms of SALT-2 talks negotiated by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev in 1979. Back to square one. However, the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in mid 1980s brought a new era that led to the signature of a much important treaty–– the INF. For the people living in Europe, INF treaty was a big relief. It not only led to the elimination of number of short range missiles but also took Europe away from the stand-off of respective missiles of United States' Pershing and Soviet Unions' SS-20.
By the provisions of INF treaty, nuclear missiles were kept out of Europe for nearly three decades. Does the scrapping of INF treaty signal the return of a Cold War? The recent political statements from Washington and Moscow are the reappearances of Cold-War like tensions. In reference to Trump administration's decision of withdrawing from INF treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly warned United States' of deploying intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe. Putin has warned of possible counter-strikes to European nations, if United States deploy such missiles. The evolving political atmosphere is fraught with danger and in this regard several European nations have opposed Trump's decision of pulling out from INF treaty that they believe could lead to nuclear arms race.
Right from the beginning Donald Trump has shown strong disdain towards Multilateralism that remained the hallmarks of American diplomacy particularly under the democrat leadership of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. In March of this year, Donald Trump announced of withdrawing from Iran nuclear deal. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had repeatedly confirmed that Iran is complying with all of its obligations under the nuclear deal. The Trump administration did not present any strong reason for the withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, instead it was Donald Trump's perception towards the defects in the deal that drove him for that decision. In addition, Donald Trump had repeatedly spoken against the Iranian nuclear deal during his Presidential campaign and it could be argued that the decision was more intended in character.
In order to understand Donald Trump's decision of pulling out from INF treaty, there is a need to look at the decision from what Kenneth Waltz calls levels of analysis. Apart from the strong despise by Donald Trump towards multilateralism, John Robert Bolton, the National Security Advisor to him is strongly disdainful towards arms agreements. His push towards the scrapping of the INF treaty cannot be overlooked. However, that does not explain everything. The important level for understanding this decision is how successive leadership of Washington have grappled to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ever since Vladimir Putin has come to power in Moscow in 1999, the different administrations that represented United States have attempted to engage him albeit unsuccessfully. As the White House Correspondent for the New York Times wrote, Putin who formerly worked with Moscow's top notch spy agency KGB has proven to be a tough riddle for leaders of Washington from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush and Barack Obama. And now Donald Trump. Putin's ambiguous persona and his unexpected diplomatic maneuvers have mostly put Washington on the back foot. Every new President of United States has attempted to build ties with Putin and amidst this Washington is pushed by events like invasion of Georgia and Ukraine. In the larger realm, Moscow under the leadership of Putin is trying to reclaim its position that it once possessed and continuously challenges the Washington's dream of a unipolar world.
In the post-Cold War times, Russia has actively benefitted herself in the larger framework of today's so called liberal international order. The policy of acting tough against Moscow has failed in past and Donald Trump and his advisor seem to repeat the same mistake. The decision of withdrawing from INF treaty will not serve United States in strategic domain, instead it will only propel both sides for aggressive approach. The arms treaties serve as important institutions that shape expectations and in this domain there is a need to honour the treaty on both sides. Dishonouring and scrapping such institutions can lead to utter madness that the world around us doesn't ask for.


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The Boston Police Department reports two people were shot around 1:15 a.m. Saturday at 183 Harvard St.
Both victims, a 24-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man, were taken to Boston Medical Center. The woman died; the man was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say an officer who happened to be nearby at the time of the shootings heard gunfire and saw two men running away from the scene. In a statement, the department says, "As a result, the officer immediately called for back-up and began pursuing the suspects on foot. During the course of the foot pursuit, the officer lost sight of the suspects. However, a search of the area enabled responding officers to locate the suspects hiding in a backyard in the area of Gleason Street."
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Hola, we live, surf and have vacation rentals in Nicaragua and are planning a road trip to El Salvador but...having trouble finding places to stay. We are looking for mid-price and something around the El Cuco area since we have a friend from Guatamala that we will be meeting around there. She is a beginner surfer so we want to stay somewhere that she can surf with us. We also will be traveling with our dogs so....looking for someplace that is pet friendly! Any suggestions??
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hi look around playa las flores, there is a little hotel called Miraflores.... nice and clean place just on walking distance of the surf. The beach break in front is very easy for beginners, i am not sure if they alow dogs ;)


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Dril bu, Dorje, and Damaru
My daughter is a doctor at a major East Coast hospital. In the summer of 2012, she trekked for 21 days in through Zanskar, Ladakh with an Indian medical NGO providing free medical care for villagers. She is also a Nyingmapa Tibetan Buddhist – a follower of HH Penor Rimoche, and she asked me if I could find a matching set of ritual implements for her practice.
I've been a Karma Kargyu Tibetan Buddhist for over 38 years, so I was well aware of the significance of the ritual tools she requested, and vowed to obtain the finest examples I could.
"Vajra (Devanagari: वज्र; Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ། dorje;) is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond. Additionally, it is a symbolic ritual object that symbolizes both the properties of a diamond (indestructibility) and a thunderbolt (irresistible force).
The Bell, known in Sanskrit as the Ghanta, and in Tibetan as dril bu. The bell is the most common and indispensable musical instrument in tantric Buddhist ritual. Gods and apotheosized lamas alike hold this popular symbol, along with the thunderbolt in their hands. The bell has an elemental function and its sound, like those made by the trumpet and the drum, is regarded as auspicious; it is said to drive away evil spirits. Like the church bell, the Buddhist hand bell sends the message to evil spirits that they must stay away from the consecrated area where the ritual is being performed." http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/ritual
"A damaru (Skt.damaru; Tibetan ཌཱ་མ་རུ; Devanagari: डमरु) is a small two-headed drum, used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.Damru is known as the instrument of Lord Shiva.Damru was first created by shiva to produce spiritual sounds by which this whole universe has been created and regulated.
In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the damaru is part of a collection of sacred implements and musical instrument was adopted from the tantric practices of ancient India. These reached the Land of Snows from the 8th to 12th century, persisting in Tibet as the practice of Vajrayana flourished there, even as it vanished in the subcontinent of India." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaru
Luckily, one of my old friends from the 80s – when I ran Triplegem Lapidary in Boudha – was in town for Losar and the Slave's Run. Through him, I had been introduced to an antique dealer named Bishnu, who provides one of the best selections of wholesale antiquities in Kathmandu. The bell and dorje matched set, is a rare find. It is over 200 years old and was used by Nyingmapa Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Sherpa region of northeastern Nepal. The double-sided drum, or damaru, had been used by Nyingmapa Tibetan Buddhists in the Tamang area of Central Nepal.
Like most antique shops I've encountered throughout Central Asia, the items on display in the main shop are mainly to attract tourists. The really important artifacts are to be found in the back rooms. I visited Bishnu's back room with my colleague, Arizona John, a resident of Bali for over 30 years. Besides creating museum quality arts and crafts at his Balinese workshop, he also sells unique artifacts at such places as the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, the biggest such show in the United States.
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Lamppost number 1 outside rear access to 4 Woodcote way Abingdon not working. Keeping the area very dark.
Ref: 351480 Thank you for reporting this outage for an Electrical asset maintained by Oxfordshire County Council. Reports of this kind are vital to assist us in keeping the County in light.
We have logged your report on our asset management system and we hope to get this repaired as soon as possible. Oxfordshire County Council have recently appointed new term maintenance contractors to manage our electrical highway assets within Oxfordshire, however they are currently dealing with a small backlog of outstanding faults from the transition from the old contractor to the new. Our aim is to get as many faults as possible rectified, however this will be based on an area approach. Apologies for any inconvenience caused while this asset is out of operation.
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The street lamp is at the back of number 9 Palmer Place ,on the corner down the back of the caldesac There is a 9 on the gate
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A conventional refrigerator—your kitchen fridge—works by compressing a gas, then letting it expand, all within a closed system. Expansion cools: it's basic thermodynamics. Once the gas has chilled your beer and your bologna, it is routed back to the compressor, where the cycle starts again.
Unfortunately, the gas employed is freon; well-suited to the purpose, but when those pipes get old and leaky, it plays havoc in the atmosphere.
But listen, says Penn State physics professor Jay Maynard. A sound wave causes compression and expansion too.
In this case the gas is air. Chao Zhang, a Ph.D. student in Maynard's lab, suggests thinking of a discrete parcel of air, a blob, riding those waves of sound in an enclosed space. The waves are small, so the displacement for any given blob is minute—a few hundred microns, or even less, depending on the wave's frequency. But each squeeze and release is accompanied by a corresponding shift in temperature.
Maynard and Zhang are working on gathering up these little changes and putting them to good use. They are building a thermoacoustic refrigerator: an icebox powered by sound.
There are a number of challenges involved in fleshing out the concept. "The first problem," Maynard says, "is that there's no heat flow in air. The thermal conductivity is too low.
"So what you do is get yourself a boundary, a solid surface, and propagate sound waves across that." The surface, he explains, ferries the heat — but not too fast. Thermoacoustic cooling depends on establishing and maintaining a temperature gradient.
It works like this: Take a thin plate of stainless steel or other suitable material. To both ends of it fix a heat exchanger—a thin hollow coil with water or another liquid running through it to carry heat away, like a car radiator. Enclose this assembly in a well-sealed tube. Then apply sound.
For demonstration purposes, a standard stereo speaker funneled to one end of the tube will do nicely. Hit the right frequency and the tube becomes a powerful resonator. Maynard sketches the configuration on a blackboard.
"You've got a tremendous amount of sound in there, 190 decibels. Above the pain threshhold," he says. "But it all stays inside that rigid tube, reflecting back and forth, building up." The steady pulse sets the air in the resonator quivering.
"There's a pressure differential created," Zhang explains. "The pressure in the tube is highest at the ends, and lower in the middle. So when a blob of air moves toward the end of the tube, the pressure on it is increased. The blob is compressed, and its temperature rises. Then it moves back toward the middle, where the pressure is less. It expands and cools off."
Here's where the steel plate comes in. At each end of its little back-and- forth waggle, the blob must pause to change direction. That instant, if the blob is in contact with the steel surface, is time for a transfer of heat.
Toward the middle of the tube, the relaxed blob—being cooler than the plate—takes on heat. At the other end of its swing, all scrunched and warmed up, it gives the heat back. Then it goes back and repeats the cycle, over and over. So, like a tiny bucket brigade, hundreds of blobs transfer heat from one end of the plate to the other—and eventually from one heat exchanger to the other. If you keep your starting heat exchanger at room temperature, say by circulating tap water through it, Zhang says, your ending heat exchanger will soon cool off nicely.
It's important to use the right material for your plate, Zhang adds. "You want it to hold a lot of heat, but not conduct it very well, so you don't ruin the temperature gradient you're trying to create." Ceramic would be ideal for the purpose, he suggests, except that ceramics cannot easily be made thin enough to function efficiently. "Most designs use plastic or stainless steel." To create enough cold, you also need lots of surface area, which is why thermoacoustic devices typically employ a stack of a dozen or more plates.
One persistent design problem, Maynard says, has to do with improving the interface between the stack and the heat exchanger. "It's what we call a link-scale problem," he explains. The typical heat exchanger is made of copper tubing and fins, with a gauge of three millimeters. Copper tubing can't be made much smaller. The plates in a stack, on the other hand, might be only a tenth of a millimeter apart—a distance fixed by the laws of thermal absorption. So the ratio is 30 to one. This size disparity means a lot of heat is lost in transfer.
To get around this problem, Zhang has created a composite design—a stack with a heat exchanger built into it. He pulls out an early prototype, one he painstakingly made of Pyrex. It fits in the hand, embedded with a score of tiny plates and a maze of tubing not much thicker than pencil lead. "This was very difficult to construct," he smiles. "It took me over a year." After he built it, however, Zhang had a better idea—a design improvement he can't discuss, because he and Maynard have applied for a patent on it.
Theoretically, Maynard says, once the bugs are worked out and efficiency is improved enough to make them commercially feasible, thermoacoustic refrigerators will be cheaper to make and more reliable than today's ozone eaters. "The promise is there. There are no moving parts, for one thing."
But, he adds, "There's a lot that has yet to be worked out." It will likely be some time, then, before household refrigerators are humming a different tune.
Chao Zhang is a Ph.D. student in physics in the Eberly College of Science, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802; 814-865-7841; email@example.com. His adviser, Julian D. Maynard, Ph.D., is distinguished professor of physics, 104 Davey; 865-6353; firstname.lastname@example.com. edu. The research reported here is funded by the Office of Naval Research. For more information on the Maynard lab, visit http://www.phys.psu.edu/MAYNARD/maynard.html. To learn about another thermoacoustics group at Penn State, headed by Steven Garrett, United Technologies Corporation professor of acoustics in the College of Engineering, visit http://www.acs.psu.edu/users/sinclair/thermoacoustics.html. Design for a refrigerator that cools by sound. An acoustic driver (bottom), like a stereo speaker, pushes sound waves through a stack of heat-absorbing plates (center) attached to a resonator (top). Air is cooled by compression and expansion.


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