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Convicted felon Joshua Scott Jowers was not allowed to possess shotgun that killed girl
The father of a 10-year-old girl accidentally shot to death Friday has been charged in the illegal possession of the shotgun that killed her, the Ware County sheriff said Monday.
Taylor Marie Jowers died at her home just after 1 p.m. Friday when she was struck in the chest by a blast from a shotgun that a 15-year-old boy was in the process of unloading, said Ware County Sheriff Randy Royal.
In their subsequent investigation, Ware County detectives determined that the girl's father, Joshua Scott Jowers, 33, is a felon and not allowed under Georgia law to possess any firearms, Royal said.
In addition to the 12-gauge shotgun, detectives seized other firearms from the home in the 4900 block of Jana Lane and then secured a felony warrant charging Jowers with possession of a firearm by a felon, he said.
Jowers was arrested Sunday night and booked into the Ware County jail, Royal said.
A Ware County magistrate set his bail at $500,000 Monday morning and someone signed a property bond shortly thereafter for his release, Royal said.
From all indications, the discharge of the shotgun was unintentional by the 15-year-old boy who, because of his age, Royal described only as a close relative.
The shooting happened in the living room of the home. The young victim had asked to hold the shotgun, and the boy was unloading it to make it safe for her to handle, Royal said.
Ware County deputies, who arrived at the scene first, and EMTs all worked to preserve the young girl's life, but she died at the scene before a Life Flight transport to a trauma hospital could occur, Royal said.
Joshua Jowers and his wife were both at work at the time, and the children were home from school for spring break. Next-door neighbors, to whom the 15-year-old ran seeking help, called 911, Royal said.
An autopsy on Taylor Jowers' body was scheduled for Monday at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's crime lab in Savannah, Royal said.
Royal said he will turn over the findings of his office's detectives to District Attorney Bradley Collins.
Counselors and social workers from throughout the Ware County school system were at Wacona Elementary School Monday morning to talk with any staff members or students who knew Taylor, school system spokeswoman Theresa Martin said.
"Our social workers and counselors are second to none. They met with the staff at the school Sunday,'' Martin said. "It's very tragic for our whole school family."
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Make Rich People Read Chekhov
There have been two articles in the New York Times very recently concerning empathy.
First, there was this Opinionator piece about how rich people have less empathy. Second, there was this Well blogpost which reports on a study that implies you can improve your empathy skills, at least in the short term, by reading literary fiction like Chekhov.
Empathy means understanding and sharing the feelings of other people. So what do these two columns actually refer to?
For rich people, it's mostly about attention rather than empathy. The idea is that researchers study how people pay attention to people (answer: they pay attention to high status people more), and found that rich people don't do it much at all. They claim attention is a prerequisite for empathy, and that there's a negative feedback loop going on with the rich, a lack of empathy, and increasing inequality.
As for the literary fiction column, it cites a study in which what they measure is something a little bit different, namely the "theory of mind" of a person after reading Checkhov versus something else. The concept of the theory of mind is that we have internal models of other people's mindset, and actually they claim to be able to separate this into two parts, cognitive and affective. So if I have a realistic impression of what you're feeling, we say that my affective theory of mind is good, whereas if I have a realistic impression of how you're planning to act, that's called nailing a cognitive theory of mind.
A few comments:
- I'm not so sure about the attention-leads-to-empathy assumption. Sometimes I am on a subway and I start sensing people's emotions around me whether I like it or not, even when I'm trying not to pay attention to them. For me empathy is like smell, and some people are incredibly smelly, especially on the subway.
- On the other hand it resonates with me that rich people have less empathy. Certainly this seemed to be the case when I worked at D.E. Shaw, although it might have been a self-selection thing: maybe people who are not empathetic are attracted to working at a hedge fund.
- In any case, there's a tremendous disconnect between regular people and the attitude of finance people, along the lines of "I'm smarter than those people so I deserve to be rich", and I ascribe much of this disconnect to a lack of empathy.
- In both of these columns, though, the question was how well do you pay attention to, and read, people in the same room with you. Unfortunately that's not a good enough question, at least if you're worried about that negative feedback loop, if you think about the real world. In the real world, even in New York, rich people don't spend lots of time in the same room with anyone except other rich people. So it's a bigger problem to address than what you might at first think.
- Having said that, I don't claim that if everyone just had more empathy all our problems would be solved. Even so I do think it might help. Certainly my sensitivity to other people's emotions deeply affects me and my actions and goals, but of course that's too little evidence to go by.
- In any case it's an interesting thought experiment to imagine a world of increased empathy. I like that it's being considered as a basic attribute of interest, and that it seems tweakable.
- Conclusion: before talking to someone I perceive as unempathetic, I will bust out a Checkov short story (this one) and demand they read it on the spot. That should really help.
October 9, 2013 at 7:29 am
It's a bit annoying that the sweet guy with an inability to feel anything has to be a statistician. Bit of a stereotype?
October 9, 2013 at 8:55 am
He does feel, he just doesn't happen to love Vera. If anything, I would say it is anti-stereotype that he gets on so well with these people he didn't know and unintentionally wins the affection of the daughter.
However, as to the main point of the post: after reading the story, I'd still classify myself as heartless.
October 9, 2013 at 7:36 am
Ha ha reading Chekhov is a good enough activity independently of any potential societal benefit!
October 9, 2013 at 7:49 am
Saying rich people ought to read Chekhov, is like saying poor people ought to read Ayn Rand.
October 9, 2013 at 8:06 am
Empathy is heavily situational.
It all depends on the situation, and to say that it doesn't is another example of fundamental attribution error.
October 9, 2013 at 8:16 am
The problem with the first article, and one that liberals have in general is this: disagreeing with YOUR solution, is not not caring about the problem. The second article, well I'll wait till it is replicated – I won't be holding my breath.
October 9, 2013 at 9:40 am
"Sometimes I am on a subway and I start sensing people's emotions around me whether I like it or not, even when I'm trying not to pay attention to them. "
I used to think this was true of all people, but it dawned on me a few years ago that many people really are oblivious to this. This is much more of a personality type, rather than a fundamental law of human nature, unfortunately.
October 9, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Or fortunately, if you want to be able to read your book on the subway in peace!
Empathy uses lots of subskills: I personally am good at the novelist's trick of figuring out how someone will react based on their background & conversation, but not particularly attuned to body language. My attention patterns match my strengths: on the subway I eavesdrop, but can blissfully ignore people who aren't talking or impinging on my personal bubble.
October 9, 2013 at 9:44 am
Schlock "science". Frankly, given your writings on metric abuse in algorithms e.g. teacher evaluation models (which I appreciate), I would have assumed you would be a bit more rigorous in your thinking before embracing of this work. Using terms such as "empathy" to describe what they measure in their models is a cheap play to abuse terms loaded with emotional content that depend heavily on context.
October 9, 2013 at 10:50 am
I think Rep. Randy Neugebauer's words to a park ranger say it all: "How do you look at [this group of veterans] and … deny them access?" The veterans, the schoolchildren, the civilian contractors who work for the military…none of them spend time in rooms with the rich or the powerful, so the rich and the powerful imagine them in their own images. Neugebauer imagined the park ranger had the authority to open the gates to veterans and the economic security to do whatever she damn well pleased. Most people in the US don't actually live in that reality, sadly.
October 9, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Yes, agreed.
I don't expect empathy from a McDonalds cashier, but I do expect it from my psychoanalyst.
In fact, discretion is continuously stripped away in modern life (as this blog repeatedly demonstrates), taking away empathy and the opportunities for showing empathy with it.
October 9, 2013 at 11:43 am
Re Chekhov: or read "The Kiss" or "An Attack of Nerves" or "Ward 6".
October 9, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Hey Cathy, kudos as I read today that DE Shaw is no longer taking in new investors and you said that in one of your video presentations as more get into math models and try to come up with the "winning" models it becomes more difficult to keep the trend going to build models that profit…just thought I would add that…but they are keeping the "reinsurance" business which is a topic for another day:)
On empathy, yes and it's even scarier in healthcare as that's our lives and I breath and eat material on this topic. It is a problem with perceptions as I would call it. You do become products of environments for sure.
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation ( http://www.humanism-in-medicine.org) a first of its kind institute for research on humanism in medicine was created last year. People do get blinded for sure and this is the "last" place where we need any lack of empathy for sure. It's not ok to let a machine completely delegate what kind of care you will receive as you read about the folks that think machines can do it all, they can't. Machines can give decision making information on illness, etc. but no way delegate the care and replace the human element. Some idiot in Japan thought a machine could do this and created the "end of life robot"..it makes your hair stand up on end and fully substantiates what you are saying here with empathy for sure:) Maybe they should start selling these to the wealthy to make a point about empathy (grin)..sorry a little satire here.
October 9, 2013 at 1:49 pm
How do you define "rich people?" And more importantly, how do rich people define "rich people?" I've worked for a number of rich people for years and one thing I have noticed they have in common (aside from having gobs of money) is that they feverishly deny being rich. Privilege appears to be most advantageous when it is least acknowledged. If no one is willing to self-identify as privileged, then how do we begin to develop empathy for people who are less privileged?
October 9, 2013 at 2:43 pm
I bet this Chekhov's story would freak rich people out: http://www.online-literature.com/donne/1248/
October 9, 2013 at 10:33 pm
I would love to see a study of the average income of Chekhov readers… My bet > 65k/yr
October 9, 2013 at 11:21 pm
You might be interested in http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7715, which is a critical take on the study in Science.
October 14, 2013 at 10:53 pm
Hey, Cathy, my husband, who was cleaning out his desk, handed me a Chekhov medal that my father acquired in Russia in 1935. What's the probability of two serious Chekhov references in one day?? I'll pop the medal in my tote to show you Friday. Cheers, Maxine


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This became apparent to me when I sat down this morning to write down my monthly goals. Normally, I keep it simple and try to concentrate on four or five goals at a time. However, when I started thinking about what needed to get done, I realized it was a lot more than I had anticipated.
Here's everything I am hoping to accomplish this December, in list form.
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- Spend some quality time with family
- Have a social media detox
- Create a set of goals for 2019
- Evaluate my goals for 2018 and see how I did
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SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – Miguel Segura Aguilo's ancestors were executed as Jews five centuries ago in Spain, but he is not welcome in his local synagogue today.
Gershom Sizomu, who will be ordained this month in Los Angeles as a Conservative rabbi, dreams of setting up the first yeshiva for African Jews in his Abayudayan village in East Uganda.
Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a largely African-American congregation in Chicago, is off to Nigeria to make connections with the Ibo, a community that claims Jewish heritage.
These men, and dozens of other representatives of far-flung communities seeking recognition by the Jewish mainstream, gathered earlier this month in San Francisco at a conference sponsored by Be'chol Lashon (In Every Tongue), a project of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research.
The Ibo, Lemba and Abayudaya of Africa, the anusim and xuetas of Spain and Latin America, Ethiopian Jews from Israel, Indian Jews from New York and Asian-American Jews-by-Choice spent three days networking and sharing information about their struggles to join the global Jewish family, a family that is not always eager to embrace them.
"The Jewish community keeps talking about the crisis of intermarriage and the crisis of declining numbers, but meanwhile you've got people with Jewish heritage, spiritual seekers, Jewish communities of historical significance, and the Jewish community is doing nothing to help them," says Gary Tobin, the institute's president and a longtime advocate of greater openness to those outside the Ashkenazi mainstream.
According to institute research, at least 20 percent of American Jews are racially and ethnically diverse. But old stereotypes about what "real Jews" look like persist, Tobin says.
"Instead of worrying about people being 'lost' to intermarriage," he wonders, "why aren't we extending our ideological borders to include all these people who are so interested in joining us?"
Some of these communities have gone through formal conversion, like the 800 Abayudaya of Uganda, who did so together in 2002. Others have not, including the Lemba of South Africa, who claim Jewish ancestry and point to the Jewish cultural practices they have maintained for centuries.
Still others languish in a gray zone, notably the anusim of Spain, Portugal and Latin America, known more popularly as the conversos – those whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Catholicism under the Inquisition, and who now wish to reclaim their Jewish identities. Estimates of their number range from tens of thousands to more than 1 million.
Aguilo was part of a group from Mallorca, Spain that met with Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yonah Metzger, last year, to request a mechanism for their return to the Jewish fold.
"He told us, 'I need to find a legal tool to defend your position to the rabbinate,'" says Aguilo, a prominent journalist who writes and lectures widely about the xuetas, descendants of those conversos who recanted and reclaimed their Judaism before execution.
Aguilo and his friends are still waiting for Metzger's reply. "Whatever happens, just don't put a cross on my grave," he says, only half-joking.
Some of the anusim claim special status as the descendants of Jews, insisting that they don't need formal conversion. A handful of sympathetic rabbis have held "ceremonies of return" for them, just as a growing number of Conservative rabbis describe the conversion of people with one Jewish parent as "affirmations" of a Jewish identity they were born with.
But thousands of others are willing to undergo conversion, says Cuban-born Rabbi Manny Vinas, who runs El Centro de Estudios Judios, a Spanish-language Torah center in New York that tries to guide anusim back to Judaism.
"These people want to return to Jerusalem with their heads held high," he says, arguing the need for a formal process to help them.
Those who wish their conversions to be recognized by Israel are thwarted, he asserts, by new conversion regulations worked out between Israel's rabbinate and the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America, whereby only conversions performed by 15 Orthodox rabbinical courts in North America will be accepted in Israel.
That means, he continues, that anyone from Central or South America who wants to convert must travel to North America, a practice that favors the rich.
"The only people able to convert are those with enough money to do it in the United States," he says.
Some of the communities in Be'chol Lashon's network are far removed from this political struggle over conversion. The Lemba of South Africa, who formed their own Lemba Cultural Association in 1948, are still at the stage of finding out who they are, and what Judaism is all about.
Be'chol Lashon is sponsoring a Lemba student in Botswana who is writing his doctoral dissertation on the history of the community. This is in line with the group's focus on empowering local leadership, says Be'chol Lashon director Diane Tobin.
She noted that Be'chol Lashon also funded Sizomu's five years at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, so he could return to Uganda this summer as Africa's first native-born black rabbi.
Sizomu wonders what effect his return will have on his people's worship style, as he has now become accustomed to western Conservative norms.
"The words we use are the same," he says, explaining that the Abayudaya use prayer books donated by Conservative rabbis who have visited this past decade, "but the melodies are African."
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Have you ever wanted to see classic poems "read" by their long-dead authors via creepy computer animation? Well, now you can! On YouTube, poetryanimations has published a nearly 250-part series of poems that feature photos of their authors, modified so that they appear to be talking. Have a look at this creepy, but kind of awesome, example, in which Lewis Carroll "reads" his poem "Jabberwocky":
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A look at the memorable moments at the Country Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee.
Pop superstar Beyonce was rumored to be showing up at country music's big night, which sounded like an unusual pairing that sent social media into a frenzy. Would she do a duet or a solo? Just present? When she did show up, it was in a respectful, boisterous and collaborative performance with the Dixie Chicks of her country-flavored song "Daddy Lessons" from her new album "Lemonde." Beyonce, who apparently needed no introduction, looked gorgeous in strands of pearls and a hip-hugging Zuhair Murad gown, swaying happily to the sound of a sax solo, boogying while others sang and clapping along. The Dixie Chicks had been covering her song on the road so it made sense to invite her. For her part, Beyonce may have made some new red-state fans. It was a win-win.
The CMAs elegantly straddled the line between nostalgia and moldy oldies by making elegant nods to past idols and educating new country fans to artists who paved the way like Loretta Lynn, Vince Gill, George Strait and Barbara Mandrell. Old clips from previous shows honored those who have died. And when married couple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed an epic medley of country standards, it ended with a lip lock that seemed rooted in genuine love and respect. All night, it was fun to see so many artists in the audience singing along to classics being performed onstage like "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
Full credit goes to organizers for front-loading a ton of live music right from the top. A portion of a dozen songs -- from Alabama's "Mountain Music" to Reba's "Fancy" and Carrie Underwood's "Stand By Your Man" -- took a blistering 10 minutes and gracefully ended with the microphone in the hands of Randy Travis, who has been rehabilitating after a 2013 stroke, and he joined in on the last lines of the song. When Thomas Rhett won single of the year award, he said the sequence left him in tears. The rest of the night was virtually wall-to-wall music, as it should have been.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both came in for some gentle jokes. Co-hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood pulled out a duffel bag they called a "basket of deplorables," which Clinton used to describe some Trump supporters. (Inside was "camo and ammo"). Paisley, meanwhile, channeled Trump when he announced: "This show is rigged!" He said he'd accept the results -- only if he won, though he wasn't nominated for any awards -- and referred to his co-host as a "nasty woman" and "crooked Carrie." Later, he jokingly called Jason Aldean and Brooks & Dunn "bad hombres." None of the presenters or performers got in on the act, avoiding any politics just days before the election.
The CMAs may have been celebrating their golden anniversary but the awards took place in the national shadow of an even more special event -- Game 7 of the World Series, pitting the Cleveland Indians, who last won the Fall Classic in 1948, and the Chicago Cubs, who famously hadn't won the World Series since 1908. The show was more than half over by the time presenter ESPN broadcaster Kirk Herbstreit made the first on-air reference to the other big show -- informing the audience that the Cubs were up in the fifth inning. Later, Vince Gill said the Cubs were up 6-3. The CMAs ended with the game in the eighth inning, meaning a whole lot of country stars probably pulled out their phones as soon as Garth Brooks won the top award and the hosts waved goodbye.
The CMAs pulled out all the stops to make their birthday look elegant. Sometimes, it worked well, as when Tim McGraw's "Humble and Kind" was accompanied by a montage of diverse American faces and when Kelsea Ballerini performed her hit "Peter Pan" in front of two dancers who did an elegant ballet combining muscular aerial work on wires. But sometimes it crashed, as when Little Big Town performed "Better Man" in what looked like a hay field with a wind machine on full force. It was poorly lit, the well-dressed group seemed uncomfortable and it looked like they were performing in truck exhaust.
No matter who was going to be the big winner, it was always going to be Dolly Parton's night and the CMAs did this beloved genre-breaking performer proud. Some of the most skillful and genuine female singers in the genre -- Reba, Jennifer Nettles, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride and Kacey Musgraves -- stood facing the country icon and sang some of her hits like "9 to 5" and "Jolene" in a stunning serenade. Then she was presented with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award and quipped, "This is an absolute high for me." The fact that her acceptance speech was rushed was the only strange note. Chris Stapleton, who won the following award, like a gentleman, offered to give her some of his time.


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HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A Detroit-area entrepreneur believes he has scored a touchdown with his new business idea. Or thrown a strike.
Actually, it's both.
Chris Hutt owns the Fowling Warehouse, a 34,000-square-foot repurposed industrial site in Hamtramck that's devoted to a football/bowling hybrid sport — fowling — he and some buddies invented while tailgating years ago at the Indianapolis 500.
The facility features 20 lanes, where players or teams try to be the first to knock down all 10 of their opponents' bowling pins by tossing a single football from a distance of up to 48 feet.
The game is not complicated, Hutt said, but it's not easy, either. In the Fowling Warehouse's first six months of operation, only 29 strikes had been thrown over 100,000-plus games.
There's another quick way to end a fowling match: A unique shot called a Bonk, which occurs when a player knocks the middle pin — and only the middle pin — off the board on the first throw. The other nine pins must remain standing.
According to Hutt, there are about 60 Bonks per month. Those who record one are allowed to "honk your Bonk," or sound a Great Lakes freighter horn at the bar. The sonic blast is deafening, Hutt said, but it lets "everyone know … that you're the coolest person in the room."
Hutt's business, which also has a 175-seat beer garden and a stage for live music, has drawn big crowds on weekend nights. Some take advantage of a deal that allows unlimited play for $10 until closing at 2 a.m. Others reserve lanes for group play, up to 10 players per lane, in two-hour increments.
Peter Grace's third fowling excursion came on a recent Friday night, when he and about 20 others celebrated a friend's birthday.
"It's just a great place to hang out," said Grace, a 27-year-old from Detroit. "It's the best of both worlds. You're bowling and you're playing football at the same time."
Hutt, 46, said he eventually would like to expand his fowling empire.
"This will work in any major city," he said, "and we really want to target the college towns."
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Checking Out HUD's Proposed Mobile Home Performance Standards
by Ron Judkoff
Ron Judkoff is a Senior Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory measured the thermal performance of two mobile homes built to meet recently proposed federal energy performance standards. How did the homes--and the standards themselves--measure up?
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has proposed new standards aimed at reducing heat loss in new manufactured homes and was expected to issue a final set of standards in late October. The proposed standards reduce the maximum allowable overall thermal transmission coefficient for mobile homes, expressed as a Uo-value. They don't prescribe how manufacturers should achieve the Uo-value, just that they meet it by designing homes with acceptable overall performance. The new standard provides a revised calculation procedure by which manufacturers must determine their performance (Uo) and thereby show compliance with the new standard.
To determine the accuracy of the proposed methods for measuring thermal performance, and help manufacturers find cost-effective ways to meet the standard, we tested two mobile homes built to meet the standards. An additional goal was to determine the accuracy of the new HUD calculation method in predicting the overall heat transmission coefficient (the rate of heat flow between the inside and the outside of a mobile home). The experiments took place at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Collaborative Manufactured-Building Facility for Energy Research and Training (CMFERT), a large insulated warehouse where a mobile home can be thermally tested under controlled and repeatable environmental conditions.
The Manufactured Housing Institute arranged a collaboration between NREL and Schult Inc. Schult built two 16260 ft homes, one to a proposed cold-zone standard and one to a proposed warm-zone standard. Schult was allowed to choose any of their typical single-wide models as the base to which energy improvements would be applied. NREL didn't try to influence the design of the homes.
We also observed the homes being built in the factory, documenting as-built construction details and specifications. Schult calculated compliance with the new standards for their designs using HUD's new draft calculation manual. Later, we recalculated compliance with the new standards using the same method, but using the as-built specifications instead of design specifications. We then compared the calculated overall heat transmission coefficient to that measured in the environmental enclosure.
The proposed standard does not cover a number of factors that affect the energy efficiency of mobile homes (including infiltration and ventilation duct leakage). Many heat transfer paths were not taken into account by the proposed standard and calculation method. We tested for potential thermal anomalies. We investigated the degradation in thermal performance that might occur because of penetrations in the rodent barrier from field hookups and repairs, duct leaks, closing of interior doors with and without operation of the furnace blower, and exposure to winds.
Test Methods
We used a variety of techniques to test the mobile homes including coheating tests, infiltration tests, furnace efficiency tests, and infrared imaging. CMFERT is equipped with a computerized data acquisition and control system which maintains the warehouse and mobile home at a steady temperature and measures the electric resistance heater power required by the home. This method, known as a coheating test, allows a manufactured home to achieve a steady-state condition, with the warehouse temperature acting as the outside temperature. An overall heat transmission coefficient for the home can then be determined from the measurements. This coefficient includes heat loss from conduction through the envelope of the home as well as infiltration heat loss (heat loss from air leakage). To separate these two types of heat loss, we measure infiltration rates of the mobile homes with tracer gas and a blower door.
We also measure the combined furnace and heat distribution efficiencies of the homes. This is done by comparing the energy required to heat the home with electric resistance heaters in the living space (therefore 100% efficient) to that required when the home runs on its own (in this case gas forced air) furnace and duct system. The ratio of these quantities determines the overall heating system efficiency. These tests are done under both a still air and a simulated 3-mph wind condition. The wind is induced with a large bank of fans (see CMFERT: Training and Testing of Mobile Home Retrofits, HE Jan/Feb '90, p.23, and Mobile Home Retrofits Revisited: CMFERT Phase II, HE Jan/Feb '91, p.21).
`Apples to Apples'
The proposed standard and the draft HUD calculation manual do not include infiltration losses in the overall heat transmission coefficient calculations. For this reason we separated the measured heat loss into a conduction portion and an infiltration portion so that an apples to apples comparison could be made between the measured conduction heat loss coefficient, the heat loss coefficient specified in the standard, and the calculated conduction heat loss. We subtracted the heat loss caused by infiltration from the measured overall heat loss of the home to obtain the conduction heat loss coefficient. The maximum allowable conduction heat loss coefficient Uo is specified in the proposed standard as:
(cold zone) Uo = 0.079 Btu/hr ft2deg.F
(warm zone) Uo = 0.109 Btu/hr ft2deg.F
Both homes met the proposed standard with minimal design changes. The cold-zone home came in about 1% below the maximum allowable value of Uo and the warm-zone home passed by about 7%. In the warm-zone home, the roof, floor, and wall sections were all typical for this manufacturer, as were the windows and doors. In the cold-zone home, all components were typical except for the wall, which was increased from 224 to 226 in. stud-wall construction to accommodate a thicker insulation batt. Even the 6 in. thick wall is an option already offered by the manufacturer (for an additional cost). The only changes from the usual design were the amount of insulation specified in the floor and roof. Increased insulation fits into the typical cavity depth available in designs normally used by this manufacturer (see Table 1).
There's a Hitch
These results are encouraging, but the homes tested were built with the manufacturer's 82 ft2 minimum window option. Had the window area been larger, substantive design changes would have been necessary to meet the standard. For example, if all other components of the homes were kept the same, but the window area was increased to 115 ft2, Uo for the cold- and warm-zone homes would increase to about .084 and .122 Btu/hr ft2deg.F respectively, as estimated using ASHRAE heat-loss calculation methods. Therefore, the homes wouldn't meet the standard.
We analyzed several design alternatives to bring units having a window area of 115 ft2 into compliance. Homes with increased window area could meet it many ways. For instance, a warm-zone home with 115 ft2 of window area could meet the standard with added self-storing storm windows or an increase from R-11 in the floor pan and wings to R-22 and R-19 respectively, and an increase from R-11 to R-19 in the walls. In a cold-zone home with 115 ft2 of window area, increasing the average roof insulation from R-16 to R-26 by substituting flat-roof-truss construction for vaulted roof scissor-truss construction could bring the home within compliance. Vaulted ceilings could be retained in the cold-zone home by increasing their average insulation from R-16 to R-26 by redesigning the scissor truss to be deeper in the heel and deeper overall (this would also require redesigning the flat-ceiling truss to match the pitch of the new scissor truss in homes with combined vaulted and flat ceilings).
Schult typically uses wood siding and triangular truss roofs with blown-in insulation for both their single and double-wide models. Roughly half of the manufactured housing industry now consists of single-wide units, and many of these still use (less energy-efficient) metal siding and bow-string truss galvanized roofs. This will probably make it harder for them to meet the new standard.
Testing the Tests
The new HUD compliance calculation method proved quite accurate for these homes coming within 2% and 8% of the actual measured values for the cold and warm zone units, respectively. However, these homes contained relatively few of the problematic heat-loss paths found in older homes. The calculation method should not be expected to work as well for homes with ventilated walls, mostly empty interstitial cavities, and cavities with large leaks to the outside. Neither the standard nor the compliance calculation method account for natural infiltration, convective bypasses, duct leakage, heat losses from operation of forced-air blowers, or ventilation requirements. The better constructed and insulated the home, the more accurate the calculation method will be. This trend is seen in the data where the calculation method was more accurate for the cold-zone home than for the warm-zone home.
Real-Life Conditions
We tested the homes for sensitivity to various real-life situations. Rips in the rodent barrier were made to simulate the types of holes likely to result from routine installation and maintenance of a home (for instance, field hook-ups of gas, water, electrical, and waste lines). Cuts were made and insulation was shifted to the side at strategic places (for instance under the toilets) as if repairs were made to those parts of the home. To characterize the effects of air pressures induced by the forced-air circulation system, for some tests, the furnace fan was hard-wired on, without the furnace actually producing any heat.
Both homes were more resistant to degradation in performance from wind, rips in the rodent barrier, and operation of the furnace blower, than older homes we have tested in the past. Ducts and floors were relatively tight (compared with older homes) and under-floor cavities contained more insulation, thereby suppressing convective bypasses. However, with interior doors shut and the furnace blower operating, the heat losses for both homes increased by 39 and 36 Btu/hr deg.F (approximately 15%) respectively. In this case, the overall heat-loss coefficient exceeded the standard for both homes. This is extremely important because occupants are likely to close bedroom doors, especially at night when the furnace operates the most.
In a forced-air heating system of this type, air is delivered to the individual rooms via air ducts under the floor (in the belly). The air then returns to the furnace through an air intake at the furnace itself, positioned in the central kitchen/living room/dining room area. When all interior doors are open, the return air can pass freely through the doorways to the furnace. If the interior doors are closed, the air must pass through relatively small cracks under the doorways to return to the furnace. This results in higher pressures in the delivery ducts and end rooms, which are partially sealed off from the central room by the doors, and relatively lower pressures in the central room even if the doors are properly undercut as they were in these homes. These pressure differences increase the overall infiltration rate of the home and the ductwork, thus increasing heat loss (see Mobile Homes: Small Zones, Big Problems, HE Sept/Oct '93, p. 34). Even small holes in the duct work can result in large heat losses under these conditions.
Furnace Efficiency
Generally, the heating system was more efficient in the cold-zone home. This is probably because the cold-zone floor cavity contained R-22 insulation under the heating duct, whereas the warm-zone home contained R-11. We also tested the furnace efficiency under the same set of above mentioned real-life conditions. Again, the largest effect was from the combination of closed interior doors and operation of the furnace blower. In the cold- and warm-zone homes this decreased heating system efficiency from the base case by 5% and 9% respectively. The greater decrease in furnace and duct efficiency for the warm-zone home may also have been caused by the smaller amount of floor insulation in that home. In both homes, efficiency decreased when holes were cut in the rodent barrier and when the interior doors were closed. An approximate 3-mph wind, however, did not appear to affect the delivered heat efficiency of either home, indicating that the combination of an intact rodent barrier and either R-22 or R-11 under the duct, render the homes relatively impervious to duct heat loss from wind. It is possible that decreases in efficiency could be detected under greater wind speeds, or if holes in the ducts and/or rodent barrier were larger.
Air Tightness
To see if the homes became less tight from the stresses encountered on the highway trip from the factory, we blower-door tested the cold-zone home before it left the factory and again when it arrived at CMFERT (about a 300-mile trip). The home did not become leakier as a result of the trip.
In addition to the two homes we tested at NREL, we blower-door tested three other homes during our visit to the factory (see Factory Observations, p.25). All of the mobile homes we tested were extremely tight--perhaps too tight. ASHRAE recommends an average infiltration rate of at least 15 cubic feet per minute (cfm) per person. At the factory the homes averaged 10 cfm per person. It may be that a mechanical ventilation system should be required, or that the new standard should include maximum and minimum fresh air requirements.
As expected, both homes had increased leakage and infiltration rates after holes were cut in the rodent barrier. In the warm-zone home, we sealed off the furnace ducts to observe any change in equivalent leakage area, an indirect way to measure duct leakage know as the subtractive method. We measured only a 3 in2 reduction. Visual observations revealed approximately a 6-in2 gap between the furnace plenum and supply duct. These holes are small compared to ones we have observed in homes in the low-income Weatherization Assistance Program. However, even small supply duct leaks can cause large heat losses and reductions in heating system efficiency when the furnace is on and interior doors are closed. Also, these ducts were new. The tapes used to seal the fiberglass folding-board duct sections are known to degrade over time, and these ducts are extremely difficult to repair. It is probable that duct leakage will increase over time with this type of duct.
The Shape of Mobile Homes to Come
Generally, the proposed HUD standard represents significant progress with respect to the 1976 standard. However, the emphasis on the overall heat transmission coefficient (Uo) should be complemented by equal concern for other issues.
Scan Results
We used infrared cameras to look for potential thermal anomalies. Although we found a number of them, only one of these, the connection of the furnace to the heating duct via the floor plenum, was of major thermal significance in these two homes. We know this from the tests at CMFERT. While infrared imaging is extremely useful for locating potential problems, ordinarily it is almost impossible to quantify the energy significance of a problem just from the scan. For example, a scan might indicate a duct leak problem behind a wall, but it does not indicate how much energy would be saved by its repair.
The ability to conduct the infrared scans under controlled, repeatable steady-state conditions, and in conjunction with other testing techniques, proved extremely informative, and could eventually lead to improved interpretation of infrared images taken under field conditions. In this process we learned as much about the infrared technique as we did about the homes. This is illustrated by differences observed between sets of scans taken under both steady-state and non-steady-state conditions.
Under non-steady conditions, many structural elements appeared to have severe thermal shorts when observed from the inside because of the temperature history of the units. This was because of their thermal capacitance. When the home was rapidly heated, these structures remained cold longer than the insulation cavities and interior finishes, thus giving the appearance of thermal bridging. Once the homes reached steady state, many of these temperature differences became much less pronounced. Auditors using infrared cameras in the field need to be aware of the inside and outside temperature history of the home. For example an infrared scan could be very misleading shortly after occupants switched on the thermostat.
We also observed that the rodent barrier material was slightly reflective in the infrared spectrum. Therefore in some cases heat reflections from the body of the cameraman appeared to indicate large heat leaks in the belly cavity.
On the Mobile Home Trail:
Running the Gauntlet of Regulators
Mobile homes represent roughly 15% of the nation's new homes. Occupants tend to be poorer--less likely to be able to afford high energy bills. One estimate is that new standards will cost consumers $10 per month in increased mortgage payments, yet save them $18 per month in lower energy bills.
In 1987, Congress passed legislation requiring HUD to revise its energy standards for mobile homes, which have not been changed since they were instituted in 1976. At the same time, standards for site-built buildings have vastly improved and a large number of factory-built homes already exceed current standards. But the revisions were delayed (see HUD Standards Overdue, HE Sept/Oct '92, p.9).
Exasperated with the delay, Congress (in an amendment to the Energy Policy Act of 1992) ordered HUD to issue new standards within one year or relinquish to the states its authority to set the standards (see Unfinished Business at HUD, HE Nov/Dec '92, p.2). HUD contracted with Pacific Northwest Laboratories to develop revisions to the standard and PNL's recommendations were included (with few changes) in HUD's proposed rule. With time running out, HUD was expected to issue the final rule in late October.
-- Cyril Penn
Table 1. Thermal Characteristics of Test Homes Component Cold-Zone Home Warm-Zone Home ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Floor Wings R-20 (2 3.5 batts compressed R-11 (1 3.5 batt) in a 226 joist cavity) Floor Pan R-26 (1 3.5 blanket doubled over) R-11 (blanket) over) Floor Average R-23 R-15 Ceiling: Vaulted R-17 R-17 Ceiling: Flat R-26 R-26 Ceiling Average R-18 R-18 Walls R-14 (2 2 6 framing, R-10 (2 2 4 framing, 16 o.c.) 16 o.c.) Windows R-1.4 (1 pane + interior R-0.8 (1 pane) self storing storm) Heating Duct R-4 board inside R-22 blanket R-4 board inside R-11 blanket Furnace Gas-forced air Gas-forced air Return Air Through living space Through living space Internal Dimensions ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Length 2 Width 55.35 ft 2 14.7 ft 55.7 ft 2 15 ft Wall Height 7 ft 7.5 ft Vaulted Ceiling Area 636 ft 653 ft2 Flat Ceiling Area 178 ft2 183 ft2 Window Area 82 ft2 82 ft2 Floor Area 814 ft2 836 ft2 Volume 6173 ft3 6580 ft3 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Note: R-values are average R-values for the entire assembly including framing, insulation, compressed insulations, air films,and so on.
Factory Observations
A one-week factory visit allowed us to become familiar with factory operations, production-line procedures, and quality control methods. Here are some observations and suggestions from the visit:
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Dwyer sends Sporting to 1-0 win over United
Dom Dwyer scored in the seventh minute and Sporting Kansas City beat D.C. United 1-0 Friday night to move to the top of Major League Soccer's overall points standings.
Jimmy Nielsen needed just one clutch save to record his league-leading 13th shutout for Sporting (16-10-7). Kansas City is two points ahead of New York and Portland, who both play on Saturday.
United (3-23-7) saw their winless streak reach 18 games and need to win their season finale against Houston on Oct. 27 to avoid finishing with the fewest wins in the league's 18 seasons.
Dwyer's goal came after United defender Perry Kitchen misplayed a back pass and had the ball taken away by Sporting's Peterson Joseph. Joseph passed to Dwyer, who drove past goalkeeper Bill Hamid and shot into the open net for his second goal of the year.
Jared Jeffrey nearly equalized in the 15th minute, getting free on Nielsen for a 1-on-1 after a through ball from Chris Pontius, but Nielsen didn't bite on Jeffrey's feints and turned away his shot from close range.


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by Sherri Stewart
A Historical Romance/suspense
Everything is going wrong at the Buttercup Inn. Following the fire, the accident, and the theft, Winnie's confidence as an innkeeper is at an all-time low. If it weren't for Matthew Lister's steadying presence and help, she'd sell the inn and move away from St. Augustine. What's more, the chemistry between Matt and herself is more than she can handle, especially since he answered her all-important question the wrong way. He didn't have a camel.
Winnie Flaherty doesn't know whom to trust. Someone is trying to ruin her business and possibly even kill her. Her love life isn't faring any better because, after all, how many potential suitors in St. Augustine own a camel?
Chapter One
The horse ignored her.
"Come on, Malarkey," Winnie pleaded, "Help me. I can't pull this cart out of the ditch by myself." She blew an errant strand of hair from her damp forehead, scratched the horse's withers, and surveyed the cart. Its tilted wheel stuck fast in the muddy grooves that skirted the road, and the wheel had separated from the cart.
"What am I going to do?" Why was this happening?
She peered up at the clouds. God, help.
She tugged at her damp, scratchy collar. The sun's intensity was unusual for February in St. Augustine. The balmy Atlantic breezes failed to reach this backroad between Joe Buck's General Store and the Buttercup Inn.
Winnie fingered Malarkey's mane. "You are not helping. The icebox items will go bad if we don't get a move on. Miss Simpson will throw a fit if I don't serve clotted cream with her strawberries. She already thinks I'm a failure as an innkeeper."
When her horse continued to ignore her, she tried bribery. Rifling through the bags, she extracted a carrot and held it close to Malarkey's nose. "Doesn't this smell good?"
He didn't budge, so she tried appealing to his higher equine nature. "Malarkey, a good tea service means happy guests, which means more guests, and money for a real stable."
She inched backwards, cajoling, prodding, and pleading. He didn't budge.
She was tugging on his reins when her heel landed in a rut. Flailing arms had no effect on overcoming gravity. Like a dead weight, she fell, the stony surface of the road digging into her lace bloomers.
Moaning, she pushed herself to a seated position and assessed the situation. The heel of her shoe remained stuck in the rut—as stubborn and immovable as Malarkey. The carrot had flown in some unknown direction. Her summer frock was stained and covered with dust, and her shoe had no heel. Something dripped off her cheek—she dabbed at it. Russet-colored mud. She wiped it with her sleeve.
What else could go wrong? She sniffed the air. Was that a skunk she smelled?
Her ears perked up at the clip-clopping of approaching hooves. At last, someone to help save her parcels of food. She started to rise when the hem of her dress caught in her one good shoe and ripped.
"Great, now I'm not decent," she whined to the horse.
Grasping a handful of torn cloth from the rear, she rose to her feet and balanced on her one good shoe.
She hoped whoever was coming wasn't that harridan, Miss Landis, who owned the inn across the street from her Buttercup Inn. Maybe that was why she smelled skunk. She smoothed the wrinkles from her skirt and tried to appear dignified.
A man rounded the corner, slowed, and stopped six feet from her.
"May I be of service?"
She held back the impulse to roll her eyes. Nothing irked her more than people who stated the obvious. Despite the sun's glare, she caught the amused lines that skirted his eyes, and her anger flared inside.
That was all she needed—a smug Northerner. Winnie knew almost every one of the nearly two thousand residents of St. Augustine. He was not from around here—of that she was sure. His stifled grin wasn't lost on her.
He slid off his horse, tipped his bowler, and proffered a hand. Thick raven hair framed his tanned face.
Something about him was familiar. Strong chin. Aquiline nose. Laughing, kind eyes. It couldn't be the boy from grammar school. This man was tall, rugged, and sure of himself.
"Matthew?" She wiped her hand on her skirt and took his hand. "What happened to that lad who followed me home from school every day?"
"If it isn't Winnifred Flaherty. As I recall, someone needed to be there to pick you up when you fell off your horse or the playground swing or whatever." He studied the cart. "And that need still exists, I see."
The skin on the back of her neck prickled. "It's Winnie now, and yes, I was a tad accident-prone when I was younger. It wasn't easy playing games at recess in a dress. But I'm all grown up now, so I can handle things myself." An untimely dollop of mud dripped from her hair onto her dress with a plop. She dabbed at it with the back of her hand, hoping he hadn't noticed.
He ambled to the cart and squatted to examine its wheel. "The shaft is broken, but I can fix it." He rose and laid his hand on the horse's mane. "Malarkey? Hey boy, I remember you." With a soft voice and a gentle touch, he guided the horse forward.
Malarkey snorted playfully. Within a moment, Matthew hauled the cart onto the road.
She gaped at him. "How did you do that? You must have a way with animals."
"It's a gift. It comes in handy when you're a veterinarian." He gave her the barest glance as he patted the horse's flank and spoke quiet words in his ear. He picked up the carrot she had dropped earlier and fed it to him. Malarkey strutted and huffed, enjoying the attention.
She crossed her arms and eyed the bags of food growing warm in the hot sun. "I don't know how I'm going to get those parcels home."
"Let me see what I can do." When Matthew bent down to examine the underside of the cart again, Winnie stared at his back, irritated at his success with the horse. She didn't appreciate his smirk. This wasn't the best of days for her, and he should be more compassionate, as he had been in grammar school—when all she had to do was crook her finger and he'd come running.
His broad shoulders rippled under his shirt. He certainly had grown into his body. The combination of gentleness and strength awakened dormant feelings inside her, which overpowered her mouth.
"You've filled out." As soon as the words spilled out, she covered her lips with her fist. Her gaze dropped to the ground. Hopefully, he hadn't heard.
When she glanced up, he was shaking his head. "So, you still say whatever comes to mind."
Her cheeks warmed. No, she wouldn't bite back. Instead she changed the subject. "Last time I saw you was in tenth grade when you announced you were moving out west. I heard you joined the army."
"That is correct." He opened his mouth to say more but then pressed his lips together in a narrow line.
When he didn't offer more information, she asked, "what brings you back here?"
"My grandfather. He died in early 1879. His house has sat empty for two years. I'm staying there while I settle his estate, but I'm also searching for a place to open a veterinarian clinic. My cousin is here as well. You remember Mel Maislin?" He dropped to the ground and shimmied under the cart.
"How could I forget boisterous Mel? All the times he got in trouble for his pranks on the teacher or some unassuming classmate." Mel and Matthew had been an inseparable pair, but Matthew was the kinder, smarter, and quieter one, who stood back and allowed his cousin to enjoy the limelight.
School memories came billowing back in waves as she stared at Matt, lying on the dusty road under the cart. The time when he left his group of friends to help her up and dust her off when she fell out of a tree after trying to retrieve a ball. And that dark day in eighth grade when he'd insisted on walking her home from school after she received news that her father had died.
Even then, she had a crush on him, not that she would have admitted it to anyone but God. Although he was a few years older, his desk was behind hers because Lister came after Flaherty in the alphabet. Whenever she glanced back, he met her eyes with a wink. It made her blush when he caught her staring at him.
She said, "Sorry about your grandfather. I know how hard it is to lose someone." She cleared her throat. "Isn't Mel at Yale?"
"He just finished his first year of law school. Still loves to have a good time." He rose to his feet, removed a handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped his hands. "So what have you been up to?"
"I run the Buttercup Inn. Mother passed a year ago, and now it is up to me to keep it going."
"I'm sorry about your mother. She was a wonderful woman."
This grown-up Matthew Lister intrigued her. He didn't hesitate a moment to get his clothes dirty. Her interest triggered that all-important question—the one never too far from her mind. "By any chance, do you have a camel?"
"What?" He stared at her for a moment, then pointed back. "Just the horse." After retrieving his hat, he mounted his steed.
She limped over to him and patted his horse. "Thank you for helping me … again and again. Why don't you and Mel come by the inn for tea. It's the least I can do."
He put on his hat. "What would your husband say?"
"I'm not married." She forced the next words out. "But I am already taken."
A groove formed between his brows. "Are you engaged? Do I know him?"
"No and no." She couldn't tell him the truth because he'd laugh at her. She was determined to be faithful to her promise. He continued to stare at her with head cocked, so she said, "It's a long story. You don't want to know."
"Humor me."
She hesitated, but she owed him something for helping her since she couldn't afford to pay him. "Remember Fran and Lizbeth from school? The year after you moved away, the girls in our class—all six of them became obsessed with finding out who they would marry. I didn't care, but everyone else did. Fran and Lizbeth even paid for a session with Miss Miranda, the fortune-teller who lived above the general store."
Matt took a brush from his saddlebag and rubbed his horse's black mane. "Why didn't you care?"
"Father had died. Mother and I were in survival mode. We had more important things to think about." Like money for food, she thought. "The girls talked me into going with them to Miss Miranda's, but I chickened out at the last minute and waited outside. It didn't seem right to trust a fortune-teller for such an important decision and to have to pay for it."
"Wise choice, but you haven't answered my question."
"I've said enough." She didn't add another word because he wouldn't understand. She didn't tell him that she preferred to get her answers from the Bible. She didn't tell him she'd prayed for God to reveal her future husband's identity. When God didn't answer her, she let her Bible fall open and pointed with her eyes closed. "And behold, he stood by the camels at the well," the verse in Genesis said. Because that piece of information seemed so obscure, she prayed again and followed the same procedure. This time she pointed at the name Melchizedek.
Even though Florida had no camels, she held onto her promise from God. Her husband Melchizedek would have a camel. When anyone showed her the slightest interest but clearly didn't qualify, she responded with, "I'm already taken."
He broke into her thoughts. "You're still a daydreamer. I put the wheel back on and fashioned a temporary shaft. You'll make it to the inn, but I will follow behind in case it doesn't hold. I would be happy to come by tomorrow and put a new shaft on it."
"That is very generous of you." Her shoulders loosened. "Of course, I want to pay you for your work."
"Not necessary. My pleasure." His eyes were kind, but his jaw tightened. "I want to warn you. The break on the shaft was a clean one."
"What does that mean?"
"The wood was cut with a saw. It may have been done intentionally."
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Once she passed the bar, Sherri's immediate plan five years ago was to practice immigration law in Atlanta, but God had other plans for her. She teaches twelfth grade English in Orlando during the day and writes romantic suspense novels in her spare time at night. Her first two novels, Come Out of Hiding and A Well-founded Fear of Death won awards at writers' conferences in Florida. Inn Danger, which won a Tapestry award, is her third novella. Sherri lives with her husband Bobby, son Joshua, and dog Lilith near Orlando. She enjoys golf, walking, reading novels, trivia, the Bible, and her friends and family.
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These are some of the most interesting multi-million dollar cars for sale at this year's Pebble Beach collector car auctions.
Powered by a 300-horsepower V12, this Ferrari is one of only ten such cars ever made. The Italian supercar-maker's U.S. importer, Luigi Chinetti, wanted a street-drivable open-top car that his customers could race successfully at the track. The cars he requested were named for the hugely successful North American Racing Team.
With the proceeds from this car going to charity, this was the single most expensive car sold at the week of events centered around the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, a classic car show held in California. In fact, the price set a record for any road car ever.
Ordinarily, a charity connection would raise the selling price of a car. But not at this level, according to McKeel Hagerty, head of Hagerty Insurance, the collector car insurance company. At these prices, nobody's paying more than the car is actually worth.


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proteus Digital Health, Inc., the leading digital medicines company, today announced that it has completed a second closing of its Series G financing, raising over $172 million and adding additional respected institutional investors. This latest round of growth equity, one of the largest U.S. private financings this year and the largest in the digital health sector, solidifies Proteus' leadership in digital health.
The company announced on June 2 the first part of this funding series with $120 million from new major institutional investors based in the United States, Europe and Asia. The funding will enable the company to advance the manufacturing and commercialization of digital medicines.
Andrew Thompson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Proteus Digital Health™, said, "The digital health market is rapidly forming. Investor confidence in Proteus is driven by customer excitement, our superior board and leadership team and a unique technology platform that enables us to link one of the most valuable industries of the 20th century – pharmaceuticals – to the most important utility of the 21st: the mobile internet."
Proteus Digital Health™ is creating a new category of products, services and data systems that have the potential to significantly improve the effectiveness of existing pharmaceutical treatments. Called digital medicines, these new pharmaceuticals integrate medicines with ingestible, wearable, mobile and cloud computing and deliver solutions that enable patients, their families and physicians to make better decisions about health.
About Proteus® Digital Health™
Proteus Digital Health™ is pioneering a new category of products, services and data systems based on integrating medicines with ingestible, wearable, mobile and cloud computing. Its core technology – the digital health feedback system – provides an unprecedented view into an individual's personal health choices and physiologic response, allowing patients to better manage their health and more effectively collaborate with caregivers and clinicians, while enabling new information-based business models. Proteus has received a CE mark in Europe and FDA market clearance in the U.S. for its wearable and Ingestible Sensor™ devices. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., Proteus is privately held and funded by Carlyle, Essex Woodlands, Kaiser Permanente®, Medtronic®, Novartis®, Otsuka®, Oracle®, ON Semiconductor® and other investors. Further information is available at: www.proteus.com


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We've covered the Boston Bruins pretty heavily here on PDL over the last few weeks. First there was the Thornton incident (you know, this thing which Thornton is appealing) and then we discussed Brad Marchand mocking the Canucks. You might be sick of the boys from Boston by now, but we promise that the top fight in this week's installment is worth bringing up the Bruins just one more time.
5. Jordan Nolan (LA) vs Frazer McLaren (TOR) – Dec 11
An LA-TOR game isn't one you see too often these days, but that didn't stop the two sides from showing some animosity towards one another. Then again, Toronto is usually willing to drop the gloves with just about anyone.
4. Brian McGrattan (CGY) vs Dylan McIlrath (NYR) – Dec 15
You could make a strong argument that McGrattan is the best (and potentially only) thing Calgary fans have to cheer for. Unlike the team he plays for, McGrattan destroys the vast majority of the opponents he faces. Here the story is the same as he pummels McIlrath.
3. Chris Stewart (STL) vs Dalton Prout (CBJ) – Dec 14
Lopsided bouts are fun to watch, but the most legendary hockey fights are the balanced ones. Stewart controls the first half of this one before Prout comes on strong at the end. Either way, this is a great scrap between two teams who unfortunately don't have the pleasure of seeing each other too often now that Columbus has shifted to the East.
2. George Parros (MON) vs Eric Boulton (NYI) – Dec 14
Is it just us, or has Parros not been the same since he shaved off his moustache back in November? Well, it might have had more to do with the concussion he suffered at the start of the year, but we think he was tempting the fighting gods by shaving off that beauty. Here he takes on Boulton and though he appears to own the fight, Boulton lands a big blow to send Parros down to the ice.
1. Milan Lucic (BOS) vs Luke Gazdic (EDM) – Dec 12
This fight is awesome. It features punches to the head and body, shaky camera work and a noisy crowd. This fight earns major bonus points for occurring right next to an image of Popeye on the boards.
Will this altercation be remembered as one of the year's best?
Previous installments:
December 2 – December 8
November 25 – December 1
November 18 – November 24
November 11 – November 17
November 4 – November 10
October 28 – November 3
October 21 – October 27
October 14 – October 20
October 7 – October 13
October 1 – October 6
The 15 best hockey fights from 2012-13.
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New Roller Coaster at Dollywood Will Be First of Its Kind in the States
Friday the 13th , this April, a one-of-kind steel coaster will open at Dollywood in the mountains of East Tennessee. Mystery Mine will be the first Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter in the States and it will be a custom installation. Euro-Fighters feature separate cars that seat two rows of four passengers instead of the traditional trains. They appear to have pretty compact layouts and usually offer a few inversions. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature would be the beyond 90-degree drop that they offer. Speed at Oakwood Theme Park in the UK features a 97-degree drop! (Seen here.) Mystery Mine will offer a similar (95-degree) drop and more importantly some cool, creepy theming. Check out the official site for ride animations and more information.
"What if there is no light at the end of the tunnel?"


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Vanilla Custard Tart with Raspberry Glaze
The recipe is from one of my mother's treasured recipe boxes, I'm not sure where it originally came from, but it's been a favorite for many years. It is quite simple to prepare and if you try it, I hope you like it as much as I do.
The buttery-nutty shortbread crust is pressed into the pan (no rolling), creamy vanilla flavored filling with a raspberry-jam glaze makes this one a standout.
I use almonds in the crust, but you can change this around to suit yourself, almost any kind of nut in the crust, and your choice of fruit jam or spread for the topping.
For the custard filling you can use low-fat, whole or half & half (half cream & half milk), and any kind of jam or fruit spread topping makes this recipe quite versatile.
Vanilla Custard Tart with Raspberry Glaze
½ stick (4 tablespoons) butter
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup finely chopped almonds, toasted (pecans, walnuts or hazelnuts can be substituted)
1/4 teaspoon almond extract, if using almonds, OR vanilla extract if using other nuts)
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2-1/4 cups milk, (your choice non-fat, 1 or 2%, whole milk, or Half & Half )
1 egg yolk, beaten
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract (OR skip the almond extract & use ½ teaspoon vanilla only)
1 jar (12 ounces) raspberry jam (or spreadable fruit) Strawberry, Apricot, Cherry or Peach jam will work here, too.
Note: I use only about 8 ounces of jam, it is plenty sweet, but let your palate be your guide.
You may heat the jam & stir to liquify to make it easier to spread, and strain seeds from the berry jams if you like. Cool before spreading on the tart filling.
Optional serving garnishes:
1-1/2 cups fresh raspberries, or additional toasted nuts
Sweetened & softly whipped cream, flavored with a little vanilla extract
Whirl the nuts along with the flour in the food processor fitted with the metal blade until the nuts are finely ground. You can skip this step if you finely chop the nuts with a knife.
In a small mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly. Beat in flour and nuts.
Coat a 9-inch fluted tart pan with removable bottom with cooking spray.
Press crumb mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of pan. Place on a shallow rimmed baking pan.
Bake at 400° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned, watch carefully; it can burn quickly.
Cool on a wire rack.
In a small bowl, beat egg yolk with a fork. Set aside.
In a medium size saucepan, combine sugar and flour. Stir in milk until well blended.
Over medium-high heat, cook and stir until thickened and bubbly, reduce heat to medium-low; cook and stir 2 minutes longer.
Remove pan from the heat. Stir a small amount of hot filling into the bowl containing the beaten egg yolk. Mix well then return this mixture to the pan, stirring constantly.
Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat; gently stir in extracts. Pour over crust. Cool slightly, then refrigerate until filling is set.
In a small bowl, whisk jam until smooth; spread over filling. Garnish with raspberries, whipped cream, or additional nuts if desired
6 to 12 servings, depending upon how generous the portions.
Posted by Mari @ Once Upon a Plate at 6:08 AM
Labels: Desserts, Fruit, Fruit ~ Berries, Pastry/Pies/Tarts
3 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2008 at 7:36 PM
looks wonderful! would love to try with lemon curd~ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Yum... and I like Jain's lemon curd idea!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Wow!!! This looks amazing!!!!ReplyDelete
I will certainly try this one!!!
I love vanilla, I love raspberry!!
Thanks for the recipe!!
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"I wish [critics of the administration's jobs bill] had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit [to rape]." -- Vice President Joe Biden, Oct. 18, University of Pennsylvania
"... at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do, it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." -- Barack Obama, Jan. 12, 2011, Tucson, Ariz.
Joe Biden is not a big effing deal, as he might say.
In fairness, few vice presidents matter, and Biden suffers by comparison to his immediate predecessor, who mattered more than most.
As you know, the current vice president says dumb things, funny things, weird things. He talks like the sort of guy who sits right next to you on the bus even though there are plenty of empty seats -- just so he can explain how squirrels aren't mammals.
Indeed, in many respects, he's as close as American politics gets to a wacky sitcom character who's a couple fries short of a Happy Meal.
Remember when he told us how President Roosevelt went on TV to reassure America after the 1929 stock market crash? It wasn't until later that someone reminded him that no one had TVs in 1929, and that FDR wasn't president. Remember when he insisted that in Delaware, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. ... I'm not joking"?
He wasn't joking then, and he's not joking now when he says that if you oppose the president's jobs bill -- which currently enjoys bipartisan opposition in the Senate -- you're OK with more rapes and murders.
No wonder he thinks many Republicans acted like "terrorists" during the budget negotiations last summer.
And speaking of terrorists, my complaint about Biden has always been that he gets to behave like the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat. By that I mean Arafat got a free pass from many in the West because he would only say horrible things in Arabic while he would talk peace in English.
Biden's double standard allows him to enjoy a kind of political immunity that only encourages asinine impunity.
When he says outrageous, idiotic and reprehensible things, the mainstream press and the Democratic Party shrug, even smile, and say, "Oh, that's just Joe." And if he says something nobody can ignore, he's always allowed to take it back because everyone knows he has as much control over his mouth as Pakistan does over its tribal regions.
Biden may not matter much, but his boss does. And that's why it's worth pointing out that Biden isn't simply freelancing out there.
Like all vice presidents, part of his job is to carry water for his boss, and he carries more water than Gunga Din. "In my wildest dreams," he proclaimed of the stimulus, "I never thought it would work this well."
Biden has repeated his insinuation that if you're opposed to yet another stimulus to pay for municipal workers, you're OK with the fact that "Murder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise."
When his boss doesn't want him to repeat his crazy talk, Biden dutifully zips his yapper. Not this time. Why? Because this is part of the White House's overall strategy to demonize the opposition. It's from the same playbook that has Obama insisting that Republicans are for "dirtier air, dirtier water," and are woefully deficient in decency and honesty. It is also the same playbook that makes an absolute mockery of the new politics Obama routinely calls for.
Joe Biden is Barack Obama's loyal pet, and like even the most loyal dog, he sometimes has an accident on the carpet. But he still does his master's bidding when asked.
And that is the one way Biden matters. He is a reflection of his boss, and an accurate one at that.