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Greetings. This is my first post/question - many more to follow, I'm sure.
I live in a rental house that has radiant floor heat and a heat recovery ventilator that pulls warm, moist air out of the baths, kitchen, and laundry room and blows outdoor air warmed through the heat exchanger into the living spaces of the house.
The fan started making a high pitched noise this week, so I called and they sent out a service guy (plumber). The air exchange unit is located in the attic against a south facing wall. The attic is not heated, but the attic is included within the building envelope (insulation against the roof).
The plumber, after a bit of effort, pulled out the central core of the exchanger - it looks like a pentagon or hexagon prism with zig-zag filter around the perimeter (not the fan or fan motor). It was frozen - obviously moisture had gotten in and then the cold make up air froze it. It's been well under freezing here for several weeks. The plumber said the ice was restricting the airflow causing the fan motor to work harder.
The plumber changed two small rectangular air filters where the ductwork enters the HRV, put everything back together, turned the fan on, and the sound was gone. He said the system would be fine. After he left, I checked the air blowing into the house, and it felt like air conditioning - which I really don't need in the dead of winter.
My concern: When the ice melts, and the water sits within the HRV, will I have a mold problem?
The system looks like it has a light to show that it is frosted up and might auto shut off, but obviously that didn't work.
Thoughts? Should I pull the ice core out and let it thaw and dry and reinsert it? I can live without the air circulation for a couple of days.
Many thanks.
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Is the house tight enough and the occupant load high enough to require ventilation?
Good question.
It's US government housing on a military base in Germany - kind of a mix between German and American design (think of committees here combined with language barriers). Most German homes in this area do not have active ventilation systems but do have moisture issues if they aren't opened up frequently. Locals open their windows for five or ten minutes once or twice a day to reduce humidity and get fresh air in the houses. These US houses were built in the past three years, and I like to think they used some Passivhaus concepts, but they didn't site them for optimal passive design.
House size: 1500 square feet, three occupants (plus cat). Radiant floor heat (central hot water plant). Wall construction is block (concrete) and if it is typical for this area, has foam exterior insulation on the outside covered by a stucco topcoat. The only wood framing is in the roof, which is tile.
The west exposure has two large sliding doors 36 sf each and all rooms except the laundry have at least two windows. The windows seem pretty well insulated but the frames are leaky. Both full baths have operable windows. The airflow with the HRV doesn't vent humidity well enough and there is no direct exhaust fan from the baths, so we tend to crack the window for a few minutes after each shower.
I really don't think the HRV works as they had hoped/planned. The vents are 4-inch diameter. Ductwork in the attic is uninsulated metal and all exposed runs in the attic are a good 10 - 20 feet long. The attic is about 20 degrees colder than the rest of the house but much warmer than outside. I think any heat they might have recovered from the kitchen, baths, and laundry dissipates through the ducts in the attic before it gets to the heat exchanger.
We don't own the place or maintain the systems and will be headed back to the states in the summer, but I'd like to be a good steward for the next residents of this house.
As I recall, HRV's have a drain tube to help eliminate this issue & that might have been the main issue / might still be an issue. Personally if you can handle opening the windows for a few minutes each day - I would pull the core & let it all melt / drain away
Very interesting. I would think that you are correct that there might be moisture issues. Paul Raymer whom is on this site would be great person to ask directly. He has probably forgotten more than I know about ventilation.
The system from your description appears to be lacking any defrost mode that would solve this problem. With as harsh as the winter has been in this area this might be an anomaly due to unusual conditions or simply a design flaw
Have you tested your humidity levels?
You might need a dehumidifier in the conditioned space to control the moisture effectively
very good article about HRV and ERV here http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/hrv-or-erv
keep us posted on what you find out
You might actually have a tight house there. The typical HRV I see is installed in a large, leaky, custom home with a couple of people living in it, and they're sitting there with their mittens on with the ventilation running continuously. I get funny looks when I suggest they might not need it.
The installation sounds flawed, and if you're not going to fix it, I would turn it off during conditions cold enough to freeze the core, and crack windows for ventilation.
I am surprised that you are having this issue in Germany. They are well ahead of North America in both efficiency of units, and proper installation. The HRV should have a defrost mode, either with unbalancing motors to provide more exhaust than intake, to warm the core, or a pre-heater. I am also surprised at the installation, which sounds to be poorly done. There are two issues immediately;
1) The system should be checked for balance. By commissioning it, you can make sure that the supply and exhaust flows are balanced. If they are not, the HRV will not perform well, excessive condensation in cold weather can occur, and then frost.
2) Running ducts in an attic that is up to twenty degrees colder than the house is not good either. Exhaust air is pre-cooled prior to entering the HRV, and supply air is cooled before it gets to the rooms in the house.
Balancing the system and insulating the ducts in the attic would both be beneficial, and may resolve some of the frost issue, as well as improve performance and result in warmer air coming in to the house.
This is a combo American-German house. The US government contracted the design and construction and it ended up being a mix of US vs.German norms/standards -- perhaps a case of too many cooks in the kitchen with an added language barrier and US QA folks overseeing the work who aren't necessarily familiar with German engineering.
That said, the system has a frost warning light (which never lit), so I think it does have a defrost mode which may not be operating properly. Your suggestions make perfect sense too.
Unfortunately, because Uncle Sam owns the house, they maintain it. If it were my house and system, I would get it commissioned and maybe do something with the ducts. Uncle Sam has a contractor maintaining the houses and we have to rely on what they do. He changed the filters and it subsequently warmed up outside, so the system seems to be working properly now. I think the unseasonably cold temperatures (-17C) were beyond the design for the system. Normally the temperature gradient between the attic and house isn't so high - we were in the extreme freeze that hit all of Europe over the past few weeks.
One other thing I noticed yesterday - the dryer vent is located about a foot from the HRV intake vent on the outside wall of the house. When the dryer is running, the HRV can easily be pull in warm (and moist) air!! Germans use condensing dryers that don't vent to the outside and wouldn't encounter this issue!
Please let us know if cleaning the filters and the core cured your problem.
There should be a drain for condensation. The drain tube should have a loop in it with water trapping/preventing air leakage through the drain system. If yours does not have a drain, since clearly condensation is occurring in your climate, have one installed.
Some ERV/HRV's have defrost cycles to prevent the core from icing solid like that. If it ices again the cycle may need to be adjusted.
When I pull the core, I don't see a drain but there is a tube that runs directly from the base of the unit to the sanitary vent line for the house, so I believe it does drain but don't see a loop.
I had the flu last week and didn't get up to pull the core until yesterday. Temperatures were an unseasonably cold -17C here for about two weeks but it warmed up above freezing over the past five days. When I pulled the core, it was dry, so it must have melted and drained or airflow dried it out.
The indicator panel on the HRV unit has lights to show how it's operating, and there is a frost light (which wasn't lit when the system was iced up), so I think that may be the failure spot.
To the guys who deal with these units all the time, would an ERV be more of an approiate unit than an HRV?
in general, I would say no based on the climate there, but Martin Holladay did a pretty good write up on this issue here: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/hrv-or-erv
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LOS ANGELES >> A federal judge moved the corruption trial for state Sen. Ron Calderon and his brother Tom Calderon from September to May 19, 2015 after prosecutors and the Calderons' attorneys asked for a continuance because of the massive amount of filings in the case.
The delay means Calderon will have termed out of his elected position by the trial's date.
Ron Calderon faces ten counts of mail and wire fraud, four counts of bribery, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, seven counts of money laundering and two counts of tax fraud. Tom Calderon was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and seven counts of money laundering.
The state senator's indictment alleged he took $100,000 in cash bribes, planet tickets, expensive dinners and golf trips in exchange for steering litigation. The two men pleaded not guilty to their charges. Both remain out on bail.
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NH woman awaits U.S. Supreme Court appeal of $21M verdict against drug makerBy JASON SCHREIBER
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March 17. 2013 10:16PM
PLAISTOW - Karen Bartlett was living a normal life until Feb. 1, 2005.
That's when she began noticing a bad reaction to sulindac, a generic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug she'd started taking a few weeks earlier for shoulder pain.
Bartlett, now 53, discovered blisters on her face and other parts of her body. She had trouble breathing and experienced vision problems.
"It felt like I had sand in my eyes," she recalled.
Bartlett rushed to the emergency room for what she later learned was a drug reaction described as "hell on earth" by a burn surgeon. She was diagnosed with toxic epidermal necrolysis, a severe form of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. It's a potentially fatal skin condition that can be caused by a reaction to taking drugs such as sulindac.
"Because of taking a generic drug, now my life is totally changed in all aspects," said Bartlett, who spent nearly two months in a medically induced coma in a burn unit. She said she suffered lung damage and burns over nearly two-thirds of her body, with her skin sloughing off. She also endured more than a dozen eye surgeries and is now legally blind.
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Bartlett sued the generic drug manufacturer, Mutual Pharmaceutical Company. After a two-week trial in 2009, a jury awarded her $21 million in damages.
Mutual appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the First Circuit in Boston last year, arguing it's producing an FDA-approved drug and isn't liable, but the verdict was upheld.
On Tuesday, Mutual will take its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bartlett will be there as both sides argue a case that could decide whether the manufacturers of FDA-approved generic drugs can be held responsible and face lawsuits like the one Bartlett won.
Mutual argues that Bartlett's design defect claim is preempted by the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which gives the Food and Drug Administration the authority to oversee the safety of food, drugs and cosmetics. The FDA approved sulindac in 1978 and Mutual's generic drug in 1991.
Federal law prohibits generic drug makers from altering the composition of brand-name drugs.
In this case, Bartlett's doctor prescribed sulindac under the brand name Clinoril, and her pharmacist dispensed generic sulindac.
In its brief filed in the Supreme Court case, the federal government urged the court to reverse last year's ruling that allowed the verdict to stand, writing in part, "Tort judgments second-guessing FDA's expert drug safety determination would undermine the federal regime to the extent that they forbade or significantly restricted the marketing of an FDA-approved drug."
It also states that the FDA conducted a "comprehensive review" of the risks and benefits of all NSAIDs and didn't conclude that sulindac should be removed from the market.
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Keith Jensen, Bartlett's lawyer, argues that the risks outweigh sulindac's benefits and that there are more reports of reactions to the drug than to other similar drugs on the market.
"Two courts have concluded that sulindac is an unreasonably dangerous drug. Without suits like Karen's, blindness and death will result from people taking unreasonably dangerous drugs," he said, adding that generic drugs make up 75 percent of all drugs dispensed in the United States.
Jensen said that if the generic and brand name drug industry "get their way" in this case, lawsuits that could inform juries and the medical community of dangerous drugs "because of their changing risk benefit profiles will be abolished and there will be no mechanism to either, through lawsuits, alert the medical community of important issues, or to compensate victims like Karen who not only have been tragically injured but have also proven twice that the drug they took is an unreasonably dangerous drug."
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Eight years after suffering the reaction, Bartlett still sees numerous doctors on a regular basis and had to quit the job she loved with a local insurance company.
Bartlett said she can no longer drive and only walks to the mailbox because of her vision loss. She can't enjoy other things in life, like seeing her 28-year-old son, Matt, performing on stage.
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Like her burn surgeon, Bartlett said "hell on earth" is the only way to describe her experience.
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The rule changes DEP is proposing were introduced in our 2012 legislative session and failed to pass because of concerns that they were the first steps toward water privatization.
I read with interest the recent opinion piece by Greg Munson of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, "Rewarding communities for water conservation," and I think there's something other than conservation happening here.
The main goal of the so-called consumptive use permitting consistency (CUPcon) rule changes that DEP is presenting is not conservation, if you consider "conservation" to be a permanent reduction in the amount of water we are already using. Instead of working to leave more water in the aquifer — water that our lakes, rivers and springs desperately need — DEP is proposing to lengthen the duration of water use permits so users do not "lose" the water they have "conserved," meaning that water is not actually conserved at all.
By doing this, DEP provides incentives for public utilities and others to overestimate the water they need — not conserve it — and if no one requests a hearing by this coming Wednesday, these rules are a done deal.
Florida's current water laws declare that water in Florida belongs to everyone. In other words, no one in Florida can "own" the water in the ground under their feet or in navigable rivers and lakes. Our rules were written to protect existing water users as well as maintain the health of our natural water bodies. If we didn't have water laws, there wouldn't be any fresh water left in Florida.
Every Floridian has the right to use rivers and lakes that are navigable and to have legal access for recreation. Every Floridian also has the right to use free groundwater or suitable alternatives for reasonable beneficial purposes, as long as it doesn't hurt those who already hold water permits.
Privatizing public water supplies does not cause the price of water to go down in the long run. It causes expensive new problems. Historically, taxpayers usually end up footing the bill to fix them.
This new rule takes the first steps toward water privatization by allowing individuals or companies to trade water credits or sell rights to huge quantities of water rather than putting that water they don't need back into the public domain. It does this by rewarding water "banking" or "hoarding" and by extending the life of water permits by a decade or more at a time when our rainfall levels have dropped significantly.
When you factor in rising temperatures, unreliable rainfall and our plummeting fresh-water supplies, permits should be getting shorter, not longer.
What is really interesting to me is that the rule changes DEP is proposing were introduced in our 2012 legislative session and failed to pass because of concerns that they were the first steps toward water privatization. Now, it seems that since the Legislature would not comply with the wishes of the DEP, the agency is collaborating with the water management districts to change the rules through backroom deals in Tallahassee. It's also very interesting that both the head of DEP and the boards of the water management districts are appointed by Florida's governor.
We Floridians need to wake up, or our water will not be ours any longer.
Annette Long is president of Save Our Suwannee, a North Florida water advocacy group, and lives in Chiefland.


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SOCHI SCENE: Unforgotten 1980
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — No, they haven't forgotten the 1980 Winter Olympics in Russia. Then again, it would be a miracle if they had.
The in-flight magazine of Russian airline Aeroflot offered a breakdown this month of past Winter Games, with blurbs on each and of course including the 1980 Lake Placid Games. The 2002 Salt Lake City Games also got a less-than-rave review, though that was mainly in regard to the figure skating scoring scandal and some prominent doping matters.
The harshest words, by far, were reserved for the 1980 games.
"The Lake Placid Olympics," the paragraph begins, "was one of the most poorly organized."
It goes on to talk about how venues weren't completed in time and how the athletes' village was built in what would eventually become a prison (which is true).
Then came a nod to the Cold War. "The Americans used the games to wage a propaganda campaign in support of a boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow," the passage read. "Despite the harsh psychological setting, Soviet athletes performed notably."
There was no mention of one of the most polarizing moments of any Olympics: USA 4, USSR 3 in men's hockey, the "Miracle on Ice" game.
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Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is doing OK for itself in limited release, having made $13 million worldwide since its release 3 weeks ago, but an art house movie this expensive needs to do better than OK to break even. Lucky for Fox Searchlght, Terrence Malick has some pretty high profile admirers who are willing to lend a hand. In a new featurette that Searchlight posted at Apple (you can also watch it embedded below), Christopher Nolan and David Fincher-- from undisclosed locations on the sets of their respective upcoming movies maybe?-- sing the praises of Malick, their testimonials intercut with footage from Tree of Life that's, of course, gorgeous.
It's actually great to hear fellow filmmakers talk about what they get out of Malick's work, especially after Tree of Life has been so thoroughly discussed by critics for weeks now, and I love the notion that Nolan says Malick's influence can be "clearly seen" in his work, because it's a little hard to connect Batman punching the Joker with long meditations on nature and grace. Anyway, check out the video below, and if you've been waiting for Nolan and Fincher's endorsement to check out The Tree of Life-- well, I'm not sure why you'd do that, but now you have a good reason to check out one of the year's most fascinating movies.


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STOCKTON - Dennis Specht is an old-fashioned retailer.
STOCKTON - Dennis Specht is an old-fashioned retailer.
He owns two brick-and-mortar storefronts - Cazale's Florist in downtown Stockton and Stockton Floral in north Stockton - that account for more than 90 percent of his business.
And Specht is honest about what he thinks of his current online site - an e-commerce site operated by flower order broker Teleflora but that displays Cazale's phone number, address and description.
"As far as ... ordering online, it's been a losing proposition for years," he said.
"With all these additional charges that go to online stuff, it's not a good thing for us."
And his customers get far fewer blooms for their bucks, as well.
But Specht is not about to give up on the Internet. Quite the contrary, he's in the process of developing a new website - cazalesflowers.com - that's more about presenting the qualities of his business of providing flowers for weddings, parties and other special occasions and less about touting generic seasonal flower arrangements.
"We're trying to get that more to our level," he said. "I want it to be a little bit more sophisticated, a little bit more about us."
Retail businesses need to be on the Internet, said Nate McBride, acting director of the San Joaquin Delta College Small Business Development Center.
"People don't use their Yellow Pages anymore," he said. "They're all getting on their phones or computers or tablets and looking for businesses."
While consumers often prefer to be able to see, touch or try on certain products - such as flower arrangements, flowers or shoes - a website can help attract new customers, let repeat customers easily reorder goods or services and provide a wider geographic reach.
"It's easy enough and cheap enough to have an online presence," McBride said. "There are very few businesses that wouldn't benefit from that, ... especially for finding new customers."
Dillard's operates full-line department stores in 29 states, including a Stockton store, but its website, dillards.com, greatly expands its reach.
"We think of it as a separate store, and it's our largest store," said Julie Bull, a spokeswoman for the Little Rock, Ark.-based retailer.
Dillards.com reaches customers in all 50 states, plus a number of foreign countries, since it began offering international deliveries several weeks ago.
But it's more than just a shopping site, Bull said.
"It allows us to educate our customers regarding fashion trends, hot items, new products and in-store events," she said. Dillards.com is a complement to our store operations and vice versa."
While Dillard's does not separately break out its online sales, Bull said that channel is rapidly growing and being supported by a new fulfillment center opened in March.
Peck's Jewelers is all about its hands-on, brick-and-mortar retail presence.
Peck's is Stockton's oldest family owned and operated jewelry store, founded by Peck Fields in 1945 and now run by his grandson Jeff Fields. It recently moved to a new storefront in Stonecreek Village on Pacific Avenue after 31 years in nearby Sherwood Mall.
"I would never buy a diamond online from a supplier online. That's never done," Jeff Fields said. "Why should an end buyer do it?"
But he is sure to maintain a website - pecksjewelers.com - to bring in new customers, who may not know of his business' long history or even seen the new store.
"You would want to assume everyone's heard of Peck's, but that's not true," Fields said.
"(Customers) don't ever say, 'We saw your ad in the phone book.' They say, 'I was at your website and noticed you're a certified gemologist appraiser.' "
That's just what he's looking for from his online presence.
"I'm more in trying to build a relationship than to make a sale," Fields said.
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As always, you know that if it's happening in Denver, it's happening on Denver.com.
We're still your home for all the best inside info for things like Denver restaurants and best bars in Denver, but we're also finally giving long-overdue attention to all those great Denver dispensaries, and we'll be continuing to add much more over the coming weeks.
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Reviewed by Prabhat, grade 6
The book is about a kid named Greg Heffley and his strange life. He has a mean brother a strange friend and a mom and ok dad. He writes about his life in his diary. In this book he and his family are stuck in his house for a long blizzard with no power. That is my review on this book.


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PEORIA — The Peoria Housing Authority got the cold shoulder from West Lake Avenue residents Wednesday during its first public meeting since identifying a property for possible development.
The board has said from the beginning stages of its plans to redevelop Taft Homes that funding and NIMBY — not in my backyard — would be the toughest obstacles, and weren't surprised to hear enlivened arguments against dispersing public housing units.
"We knew there'd be opposition," PHA Board Chairman Ken Zika said. "One of our goals was to provide the most accurate information that we had and try to explain what we're trying to do."
About 200 people, including five Peoria City Council members, Taft residents, and neighbors from the city's 4th District, crowded into Clary Funeral Home, just across the street from a possible housing site, 2917 W. Lake Ave.
The meeting originally was planned for SpringHill Suites, but the room filled to capacity well before the 6 p.m. start so it was moved to the funeral home, where more seating was available.
At times during the heated discussion, shouts and comments from the crowd drowned out PHA officials and others.
"Everybody wants to say the places it shouldn't go. We need to find some places it should go," Zika said.
The Housing Authority presented its plans for the potential property, which included 30 of the 80 units that will make up Phase 1 of redevelopment.
The plans weren't specific, but proposals for a co-developer were due Wednesday and PHA expects to have its partner in place in early March.
Comments from neighbors focused mainly on crime and other problems they associated with poverty.
"I want to be able to walk this neighborhood with my 2-year-old and 4-year-old and not have to worry about it," Stephanie VanOppen said. "I don't want to have to get my concealed carry permit and carry a gun."
For Taft Homes residents in attendance, listening to the barrage of negativity was difficult.
"I didn't know I was going to have to be fighting wolverines to try to raise my 2-year-old," said Jania Davis, a 27-year-old single mother who moved into Taft Homes a year ago when she left a shelter in Chicago.
PHA CEO Brenda Coates, along with safety and security administrator Jerry McKean, tried to allay fears, an effort that was not always well received by the crowd.
"People are people and should be judged on a case-by-case basis," Coates said.
Fourth District Councilman Jim Montelongo reiterated his previous comments that the West Lake location isn't optimal for multi-family development. In fact, about two-thirds of the property is zoned for single-family use. If the PHA was to buy the property, he would not support rezoning the land.
Fourth District resident Jim Runyon said his diverse neighbors were one of the area's greatest assets. But he, too, encouraged the PHA board to consider options in other parts of the city.
"We here in the 4th District have some of the most diverse housing in the entire city, and I'm proud of that," Runyon said, adding, "Why does the 4th District need more diversity?"
Ultimately, Runyon said if affordable housing is developed at the proposed West Lake property, he would welcome his new neighbors.
"To do otherwise is just unthinkable, that we would turn or backs on someone in this community and say you're not welcome here."
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PEORIA — The Peoria Housing Authority got the cold shoulder from West Lake Avenue residents Wednesday during its first public meeting since identifying a property for possible development.


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Djokovic beats Tsonga to reach Shanghai final
SHANGHAI (AP) — Defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the final of the Shanghai Masters on Saturday with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, putting him in position to win back-to-back titles in China for the second straight year.
The top-seeded Serb extended his winning streak in China to 19 straight matches dating back to last year when he won the China Open in Beijing and then Shanghai. He successfully defended his China Open title last week, and will try to do the same in Shanghai on Sunday.
"It's important for me to get into another final," Djokovic said. "(My serving) was very controlled, very efficient. ... I was trying to open up the court and move him around."
Djokovic lost his No. 1 ranking to Rafael Nadal this week, although beat the Spaniard in the Beijing final. He could come up against Nadal again on Sunday, as the Spaniard plays Juan Martin del Potro in the other semifinal later.
Djokovic raced out to a 3-0 lead after only seven minutes against Tsonga, who came out looking flat and misfiring wildly at times on his groundstrokes and volleys.
However, Djokovic then lost his temper in the second set when serving at 4-2, yelling angrily at the chair umpire after two disputed calls. Tsonga twice challenged late calls that went against him — and both times the Hawk-Eye camera replay showed the balls had clipped the line. The umpire awarded both points to the Frenchman, prompting a furious reaction from Djokovic who thought the points should have been replayed.
"Twice I was on the ball, twice you take the point away from me," Djokovic yelled. "Focus!"
Tsonga managed to break the rattled Serb to get back on serve at 4-3, but his comeback was short-lived as another error-strewn game allowed Djokovic to break him at 6-5 to close out the match.
The Frenchman, who missed several months this year with a knee injury, still boosted his chances of reaching the season-ending ATP finals, moving into position to claim the last spot in the eight-man field for the tournament in London, with three weeks left to play in the season.
"I have to play if I want to go," Tsonga said. "I just have to play and try to win as much as possible."


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More than 30 stores in New Towne Mall will be part of the national trend of stores opening Thanksgiving night.
More than 30 stores in New Towne Mall will be part of the national trend of stores opening Thanksgiving night.
The stores and the mall will open at 8 p.m. and remain open throughout the traditional "Black Friday" before closing at 9 p.m. Friday.
Mall General Manager Jody Hopkins said that the retailers have confirmed they will open when the mall opens at 8 p.m. A few others are awaiting direction from their corporate offices. There are 53 stores in the mall in addition to the five anchor stores and kiosks. Four anchor stores, Kohl's, Elder-Beerman, J.C. Penney and Sears, all will open at 8 p.m.
Marshalls, the fifth anchor store, will not open until 7 a.m. Friday. Although the store doesn't offer "Black Friday" discounts, it's still expected to attract shoppers because of its routine low-price approach and being open while many people are in a buying mood.
"We think it will be successful," Adria Bergeron, mall marketing director, said of the Thanksgiving night venture.
For the past two years, some stores in New Towne Mall opened at midnight. The mall remained open through "Black Friday" before closing at 9 p.m. Friday.
In 2011, some stores opened at 3 a.m., with all open by 6 a.m. on "Black Friday" only.
"It was very, very successful last year after opening at midnight," Hopkins said. "There were lines outside all of the anchor stores. Sears opened last year at 8 p.m., and lines started forming outside at 6 p.m. Sears was packed after opening."
The National Retail Federation said that "Black Friday" remains the biggest shopping day of the year. Some people refer to shopping on Thanksgiving as "Grey Thursday."
Hopkins said that for some retailers, November and December account for 60 percent of annual sales volume.
"It's earlier this year, and everyone is wondering how the customer is going to 'vote,' with the dollars they spend," Hopkins said. "We don't know if there's a 'magic cutoff time' for what would be too early to open on Thanksgiving Day. Some people don't like the thought of being open on Thanksgiving, but if customers are out shopping, that will dictate the changes in starting times going forward."
The fierce competition to lure shoppers spending Christmas holiday dollars has prompted ever-earlier discount offerings. In 2009, when some major retailers first tried opening on Thanksgiving Day, a National Retail Federation survey found only 3 percent of shoppers starting at midnight or earlier. By 2012, that soared to nearly 28 percent.
A National Retail Federation survey found that 53.8 percent of Americans already have started their holiday shopping this year.
Bergeron said that when major retailer Macy's recently announced that it would open Thanksgiving night, other retailers followed suit. Target pushed its opening to 8 p.m., an hour earlier than last year. Toys "R" Us will be open at 5 p.m. The ripple effect nationwide pushed into the Tuscarawas Valley region.
"We follow the lead of our anchor stores, and we have to react to the requests from our tenants," Bergeron said. "Several store managers said their corporate direction was to follow the lead of the anchor stores at their mall. After seeing the majority consensus, we decided to open up the mall's concourse."
Hopkins, a former manager for J.C. Penney, said the earlier starting times "presents a staffing challenge for some stores. That's a comment that we heard from managers, almost across the board. They're still trying to figure out what will be the best scheduling – when they'll be the busiest or when it will ease up."
Hopkins said that many families will spend part of Thanksgiving Day with relatives for the traditional meal or watching sports, then go shopping.
"It's more convenient for some folks to go during the evening than getting up so early," he said.
Hopkins said that, based on national surveys, items expected to be popular this year are personal electronics, large-screen TVs, toys, small appliances, women's fashion boots and jewelry.
"There's going to be a nice representation of stores, the food court, anchors and specialty stores," Hopkins said. "Shoppers aren't going to be disappointed about their options."


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In this book the main character is Cody. I liked Cody because he was really funny and he does a lot of silly and different things in the book. Once he got into this kid named Moose?s sleeping bag and Moose said not to get in his sleeping bag and Cody almost got caught by Moose. Cody changed a lot in the story because he was really lazy at the beginning of the book and at the end he was not so lazy. My favorite part was when Cody lost his swimming trunks during his swim test. Funny things like this were the main reason that I liked Cody.
I would recommend this book because it is a real funny book. If you like really funny books you would probably like this book.


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Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is the largest retailer of home improvement goods in the world. Home Depot sells everything you would need to build a home -- from tools to paint. It operates 2,200+ stores throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and China, offering products and services to end consumers as well as to professional builders, tradesmen, and repairmen.
Like all home improvement retailers, Home Depot is very vulnerable to interest rates and the continued housing market slowdown. The subprime mortgage crisis in the financial industry has also been a major factor behind Home Depot's struggles. Growing international operations in Canada, Mexico and China also buffer Home Depot's exposure to the domestic US market.
Home Depot started in 1978 and has since grown rapidly into one of the largest retailer in the U.S. reaching $1 billion in sales by 1986,[1] and a record $77 billion in net sales in mid 2000s. Today, Home Depot operates in the US, Canada, Mexico and China.
Home Depot operates under four different business segments:
The company caters to three main types of retail customers:
In the past, a high correlation has existed between the rate of home purchases and buildings and interest rates. As interest rates fall, prospective home owners and builders can borrow money less expensively and therefore will be more likely to do so. When more homes are built and purchased, Home Depot's sales to homebuilders and re-modelers increase. On the flip side, when interest rates rise, borrowing becomes more expensive and the number of building and home improvement projects decline, resulting in fewer sales for Home Depot. In addition, higher interest rates make home refinancing, a major source of funds for home improvement projects, more expensive.
The collapse of the housing market, which was caused by subprime lending, has caused national home foreclosure rates have to go up dramatically, with the hardest hit places being the Southeast and Southwest. The more foreclosures there are, the more homes are on the market, which results in a decrease in demand for building new homes.
It should be noted that housing booms do not always occur when interest rates are low. This is especially true in the case of a geographic area housing boom. There are many reasons for such booms (e.g., a company may move to an area, providing a boon through new jobs creation). Because Home Depot has widespread locations throughout the U.S., they are in position to take advantage of such booms.
Home Depot's only significant competition in the home improvement retail industry is Lowe's Companies (LOW). Lowe's and Home Depot are by far the leaders of the home improvement retail industry, but together they comprise only 18% of the estimated $348 billion home improvement market (this includes pure product demand as well as installation labor demand). The rest is distributed between other "big-box" retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), smaller hardware store chains, construction firms, and other small businesses.
Home Depot also faces competition from smaller independent mom & pop stores. Although these stores usually cannot match the prices of the industry giants Home Depot or Lowe's, they make up for higher prices with customer care, tradition, and perhaps convenience. In addition, the presence of Home Depot in some areas has even caused customers to boycott the giant firm and to shop at local businesses. The advantage that Home Depot has against these smaller competitors is that they stand a better chance at outlasting the economic downturn and in the mean time attracting old customers of fallen businesses.
One example of a small competitor is Builders FirstSource (BLDR), a company that makes and sells structural and related building products for residential new construction. The company is based in the United States and operates in the United States.


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As Chelsea's players walked off at the end of this desperately disappointing goalless draw they were greeted by chants of "Boring, boring Chelsea" by the Arsenal fans waiting by the tunnel. They did not look as if they cared, though. This, after all, was José Mourinho in his purest form, a pertinent reminder that he is often more entertaining than the football his teams produce. They tend to be more pragmático than galáctico.
As the match neared its end, Mourinho was not even bothering to pretend that he would be delighted with a draw, just as he was when Chelsea visited Manchester United in August. With three minutes remaining, and Arsenal finally starting to find cracks in Chelsea's defence, off went Fernando Torres and on came David Luiz – heaven knows what Roman Abramovich will have made of that substitution – and Mourinho could soon be seen urgently ordering his players to get back after an attack had broken down.
Abramovich might dream of fantasy football but the qualities that have brought Mourinho success, and he has had a lot of it, are rather less romantic.
The clue was in Chelsea's line-up. It is questionable whether Mourinho truly trusts players whose unpredictable talent cannot be controlled by systems and tactics and there was no place for either Juan Mata or Oscar, both of whom might have provided that crucial touch of class.
Instead a muscular but decidedly functional midfield three of Frank Lampard, John Obi Mikel and Ramires was expected to frustrate Arsenal. Indeed Chelsea were such awkward opponents that there were times in the first half when Mourinho, amusing himself with his own theatrics on the touchline, was almost marking Bacary Sagna on Arsenal's right.
For Arsenal, Chelsea posed a familiar challenge. Arsène Wenger has now failed to overcome Mourinho in 10 attempts – five defeats and five draws – and Arsenal have beaten Chelsea only four times in their past 23 encounters. Chelsea's ability to give Arsenal a case of the yips is unrivalled. More often than not, they have been too streetwise.
There had been a sense, though, that this was an opportunity for Arsenal to prove they possess the nerve for big matches and impose themselves on Chelsea, who have been uncharacteristically open, a previously solid defence starting to show signs of age.
Arsenal, by contrast, have played with great assurance and clarity all season and have developed a knack of winning when they are below their best, which has not always been their forte under Wenger.
Yet Arsenal have tired in recent weeks and this was a fourth successive game without a victory in all competitions. They came into this match having lost 6-3 at Manchester City last weekend and, although victory would have taken them back above Liverpool at the top, there was rarely fluency or conviction to their passing in midfield. With Aaron Ramsey struggling to gain a foothold, they missed the suspended Jack Wilshere's tenacity and drive while Mesut Özil whose influence has waned as he adapts to the rigours of English football, was largely anonymous.
At times tempers were frayed. Chelsea's midfielders thundered into tackles with considerable force and Mikel should have been sent off for a dangerous foul on Mikel Arteta, yet Mourinho dismissed Arsenal's complaints. "They like to cry, that's tradition," he said. "Football is a game of contact."
Having been knocked out of the Capital One Cup last week, Chelsea were determined to be hard to beat and ensure they did not fall five points behind Arsenal. Everywhere Arsenal, who did not muster a shot on target until the final 10 minutes, turned there seemed to be a blue shirt. Petr Cech had little to do.
Theo Walcott, who never had a chance to run at César Azpilicueta, a right-back out of position on the left, appealed for a penalty when Willian caught him but to no avail and, having established their physical superiority, Chelsea were unlucky not to lead at the break when Lampard's superlative volley hit the bar.
As the match wore on, Olivier Giroud, who has scored twice in his past 13 matches, twice went close and an Arsenal winner started to look more likely, the cue for David Luiz to make his entrance and for Operation Lockdown to begin.
The Arsenal fans voiced their disapproval of Chelsea's negativity after Mike Dean's final whistle but Mourinho, relishing his pantomime villain status, was in no mood to apologise, gloating about his record over Wenger instead. "Ten times, they don't win once," Mourinho said.
In more ways than one he has a point.