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The Revive 600H x 628W three column horizontal wall mounted radiator with a raw metal (lacquered) finish is sure to add impact to any room offering a traditional design with a modern industrial twist. These radiators are becoming more and more popular and are already a firm favourite with interior designers.
"The Raw Metal finish is as the name suggests, it is the "raw manufactured" product with all the processes of manufacturing visible. The product then has a clear coat of lacquer to seal the steel from any contamination. The product is not a consistent finish and will show the imperfections and welding marks (stripes) from the manufacturing process. If you require a consistent finish then a solid painted colour is recommended."
Please note: Decorative column radiator feet are an optional extra. Radiators require a secure fixing to the wall and the feet are only for decorative purpose. Revive column radiators are NOT freestanding when used with feet.
Also due to the unique flow diverter built within all Revive column radiators the flow MUST to be on the same side as the permanent blank which is the opposite side to the air vent bleed valve.
The most popular colour radiator valves purchased with the Revive Raw Metal column radiators is the Black Nickel range which compliment the colour tones of the metal. We also sell the pipe tails and decorative floor plates in the matching Black Nickel colour which replaces the copper pipe to the valves. Click Here to view the range of Black Nickel products.
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Yes, we do sell feet for the Raw Metal column radiators which are mainly for decorative purpose.
These can be used to take some of the weight BUT the radiator MUST always be fixed to the wall with the brackets supplied with the radiator.
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Measurements for mounting radiators can be found in the installation PDF under the specification tab on each radiator product page.
The measurements can also be found on the Revive radiator website or download the PDf in the attachement to this answer.
You will also need to consider that the foot is 100mm from the finished floor level.
Top tip, if building the stud wall for this radiator to be fixed to, use Ply or OSB board between the studs even if it is stuck using gripfil to the back of the pasterboard as this gives you a much larger target for your fixings accross the area the radiator will be hung and give you more margin for error.
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However, it is useful for you to know that due to the unique flow diverter, built within all Revive column radiators the flow MUST to be on the same side as the permanent blank which is the opposite side to the air vent bleed valve.
This is more a flow and return system thing, but is useful to know when thinking about your valves.
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Searching for Clinton's big idea
Here's one thing you won't find in Hillary Clinton's book: a clear reason to run for president again.
The "Hard Choices" book tour has had all the trappings of a warm-up for 2016, and even though Clinton insists she hasn't decided yet, she keeps dropping hints that she has ideas for the future of the country. "You've got to ask people who want to run for anything, but particularly president, what's your vision? What is your vision for our country, and do you think you can lead us there?" Clinton said at a CNN "town hall" forum.
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But if Clinton has a big idea for 2016, the book — all 596 pages of it — is not the place to look for it. Policy experts in the Clinton orbit say that's not the right way to read the former first lady's latest tome — it's mostly a foreign policy memoir, and any hints of other themes, like the advancement of women and climate change, are there to wrap up the issues she has already worked on throughout her career.
But any campaign has to have a big idea it's wrapped around, and that means Clinton still has to spell one out — assuming she has one in mind.
( Also on POLITICO: Inside POLITICO: Maggie Haberman on the Hillary book tour)
If Clinton gets into the race, the pressure will be on to make clear what she would actually do in the White House and what she thinks will be the unfinished business after eight years of Barack Obama's presidency. Any Democratic nominee would have the same problem: It's especially challenging to follow a president of the same party and make the case that you'd really provide something different. But the problem would be especially tough for Clinton since she served in the Obama administration — and since she's already talking about the need for a policy "vision."
The early consensus in Democratic circles is that Clinton's best bet is a campaign about the economic challenges that will remain after Obama's presidency, either income inequality — which Clinton is already mentioning with increasing frequency — or the general problems of the middle class, according to interviews with a dozen Democratic strategists and policy thinkers.
That's the best way for her to play to her strengths, the strategists and policy experts say, since she has been talking about income inequality for years and can also talk about the economic growth that helped middle-class Americans during Bill Clinton's presidency.
She'd have to decide which issue should get more weight, since that's one of the biggest simmering disagreements among Democrats. The more populist ones think inequality is the bigger issue right now, and Clinton herself has been talking about it more than she used to. But the centrists and some Bill Clinton alums say the middle class is more important — and the former president is reminding Democrats not to overlook middle-class concerns, saying in a speech that "the absence of social mobility is a far bigger problem than income inequality."
( Also on POLITICO: What we've learned from Hillary Clinton's book tour)
She may be able to resolve that tension by nodding to both camps, as she did at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week. Clinton sounded a populist tone, saying Americans should "feel they have a stake in the future and that the economy and political system is not stacked against them." But she also spoke to more general, middle-class anxieties: "Of course, you have to work hard. Of course, you have to take responsibility. But we're making it so difficult for people who do those things to feel that they're going to achieve the American dream."
Most Democrats believe voters will see the economy as the major unfinished business of Obama's presidency, and they'll be looking for any ideas Clinton can offer on how to speed up the economic recovery and improve the quality of their lives.
"We survived the recession — now, how do you get the economy from second gear into third gear?" said Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank. He said there's "no one better in the Democratic Party" to lay out the next steps in 2016: "She was part of an administration that understood the economy extraordinarily well."
Officially, Clinton's aides say she's not doing anything other than talking about the issues she's always considered important. "There's no candidate, so there's no campaign, but the themes you are hearing are ones she has cared about and worked on all her life, and always will," said Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill.
( Also on POLITICO: Hillary Clinton: 'Fees have been donated')
But there's already a strong interest in how she'd move the Democratic agenda forward if she does jump in. And Clinton noted, almost as an aside, at the Aspen Institute that "I'm thinking a lot about what we might do and how we can do it."
In many of these conversations with Democrats, there's a clear hope that Clinton can re-create her appeal to white, working-class voters that she displayed when she ran against Obama in 2008 — a demographic that Democratic strategists say the party must start winning in greater numbers.
That assumes, however, that Clinton will be able to shake off the tone-deafness she has shown on the book tour with comments like the one she made about being "dead broke" — and the Clintons' struggle to buy "houses" — and later, her insistence that the Clintons "pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off."
"One of the big tests for her will be, is she in touch with ordinary folks?" said Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, a former adviser to Bill Clinton. "But it's so clear that this will be the main problem facing the country that that will force her to be in touch. I think she'll welcome the chance to do that."
( Also on POLITICO: Hillary Clinton on Edward Snowden: 'His decision')
Some Democrats say she can make the case that economic growth is the single best strategy to fight income inequality, based on her husband's record in the 1990s. "She had a ringside seat to what a growth agenda can do. It can narrow wage and income gaps, and it will mitigate inequality," said Will Marshall of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute, a longtime adviser to Bill Clinton who helped develop the "new Democrat" ideas that shaped his presidency.
"You can't go back and re-create the policies 20 years later. You need an update. But she knows what prosperity looks like," Marshall said.
Others argue that Clinton could adapt other longtime causes of hers — such as early childhood development and education in general — as an entry point to talk about the bigger themes of economic growth and inequality.
It's "a major idea that's both economically and socially important and plays to her strengths … and is central for both economic growth and for reducing inequality," said Austan Goolsbee, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in Obama's first term. "It's a space that she's always been identified with, and it's a contrast with the Republicans, who tend to say the federal government shouldn't be involved."
And Heather Boushey, executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, notes that Clinton has already talked about how the struggles of middle-income and low-income families drive economic inequality. "These issues are intricately intertwined — inequality and what happens to families," Boushey said. "Talking about these issues together — and how they affect each other — is a compelling and logical next step."


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Overbay exits with knee injury
Blue Jays first baseman Lyle Overbay exited Friday's game at Dunedin Stadium in the first inning with what the club is calling a "left knee contusion." Following an awkward play at first, Overbay met with head traininer George Poulis and then limped off the field and headed for the clubhouse.
After Tampa Bay's Jason Bartlett doubled to lead off the game, Carl Crawford bunted a pitch from Toronto starter Shaun Marcum down the first base line. Marcum sprinted toward the ball and gloved it, heading near the foul line as he made the play.
At first base, Overbay positioned himself in foul territory, but Marcum's throw carried behind a sprinting Crawford to the inside part of first base. Overbay quickly adjusted, but nearly collided with Crawford. The first baseman recorded the out and then fell awkwardly, appearing to injury the knee on the play.
No word on how much time Overbay might miss, but it does not sound serious.
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I can't recall Overbay ever being injured throughout his time with the team? Amazing, considering the injury trouble the Jays have had.
I remember that broken hand…that seemed to mark the end of Overbay's ability to hit!
Now, I would never wish injury or ill will on any player….but maybe this could be a blessing in disguise for Ruiz to get some playing time and show the Jays what he can do.
Lyle had a tremendous career going in TO in 2006. You are not much of a Jays fan, however, if you can't remember his injury in 2007. I remember the game against the Chicago White Sox like it was yesterday even watching from Saskatoon – his bat hand was struck by an inside pitch and smashed his hand. Chicago's manager, Ozzie Guillen, even had the gall to come out to the plate to argue that the ball hit the bat. What a dumb ***. I often wonder if he ever apologized to Lyle for his actions. The rest of 2007 was pretty much a write-off being on the DL for most of the rest of the season. Lyle continued to have problems throughout 2008 with inconsistency at the plate and it was revealed later that the hand continued to bother him through all of that year as well. I believe his inconsistency in 2009 had more to do with him being platooned with Kevin Millar than anything else. If he is allowed to play full time in 2010 I think he could return to his 2006 form. Ruiz is more suited to the DH spot and possibly relieving Overbay at times.
Ruiz, yes… but how about bringing up Brett Wallace?
Sorry Lyly, as affable as you seem to be as a person, your playing days are numbered in TO!
I believe that Lyle should have been traded long ago. In fact, I believe that he was "almost" traded for a catcher with a bad back. No matter how well he plays, the problem is that Jays' fans view Lyle as the "past" first baseman — not the current, nor the future. Wallace may be too raw right now — give him a few months to find his groove at AAA. However, Ruiz and/or Dopriak would provide a much cheaper and, in my opinion, more effective option at 1st base. Lyle seems like a gentlemen — but he is part of a group that includes Encarcion, Bautista, and Wells that needs to move on (though moving Wells is pretty much impossible).
They won't bring up Brett Wallace for an injury replacement, because they wouldn't want to blow a year of eligibility. If Lyle has to go on the DL, they would likely promote Brian Dopirak, who is already on the 40 man roster.
For you Overbay haters out there: Lyle Overbay is one of the best defensive gloves in the game. He has one of the best throwing arms of any first baseman, and he is swinging the bat this Spring. What's to trade?
Well, I don't think that I am an idiot for not remembering … maybe just neglectful.
I should have rephrased saying I don't remember him going on the DL. That is what I mean't to say, but even that would be wrong because he did in 2007. Sorry for the negligence.
Great defense and a good throwing arm doesn't justify $8 mill. per year for that position. When you add in the lack of capability of hitting lefties, limited power, limited rbi producer, there isn't too much to trade unless we eat $5 million.
Problem with Overbay is, we're between a rock and a hard place, we can't trade him unless we eat the majority of his contract and if we keep him all year, its unlikely we'll even get a draft pick for him, since I doubt very much we'd offer him arbitration and he surely won't be an "A" class free agent.
I doubt very much if Lyle ever repeats what he did in 2006-which was his career year. He's now 33, and if you check out how he's hit lefties over the last 3 years or so, there's been consistent decline each year.( .190/.256/.278 last year)-that isn't coming back, imo, not at 33.
I agree with most of your comment, Welikeroy (ie. Problem with Overbay is, we're between a rock and a hard place, we can't trade him unless we eat the majority of his contract and if we keep him all year, its unlikely we'll even get a draft pick for him, since I doubt very much we'd offer him arbitration and he surely won't be an "A" class free agent).
He is having a tremendous 'Spring", however, and deserves to be the full-time starter. His knack for hitting doubles into the gap in 2006 was awesome.
jaysfansaskatoon, I think you were refering to gsjays comment that I can't take credit for:
Another note to my misguided statement:
Overbay has actually been out at least one game on 8 different occasions with the Jays. ha ha. I was way off! What an oversight on Overbay! It still never seemed like he missed any time. Call me crazy! Maybe because that high .OBP always goes unnoticed.
Welikeroy, you are absolutely right, I was referring to the post by GSJAYS. I had also noticed that Overbay's OBP in 2006 was identical to 2009 at .372. With 19 more walks in 2009 versus 2006 compared to 158 less at-bats he still obviously sees the ball very well – maybe VW should take note.


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Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan is a direction-setting modern art museum at River Landing in downtown Saskatoon, Canada. Inspired by the landscape and the rich history of architectural modernism, renowned Canadian architectural firm KPMB has designed a 130,000-square-foot museum that will be an architectural centerpiece for the city. Lead patron Ellen Remai has donated 15 million CAD toward construction costs, 15 million CAD to support international exhibition programs, and a comprehensive collection of 406 Picasso linocuts to enhance an existing collection of more than 8,000 works. Following the appointment of inaugural CEO Gregory Burke in 2013, the museum is quickly becoming a vibrant institution committed to affirming the powerful role that art and artists play in questioning, interpreting and defining the modern era. Portuguese curator Sandra Guimarães has been appointed Director of Programs / Chief Curator. Remai Modern's projected opening is late 2016.


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Oh and I hate to brag and be obnoxious and all but....
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
again with the trees
Oh and I hate to brag and be obnoxious and all but....
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- Karin said...
You might not like that picture, but I think that tree looks lovely!
The hydrangea is beautiful indeed. The good thing is it probably will stay in bloom for a while. And did you know hydrangea is perfect for drying? Just put it somewhere in your house and it dries beautifully. That way you can enjoy it long after the blooming is over!
- July 30, 2009 at 1:23 AM
- Corinne said...
Thanks Karin, and thanks also for the tip about drying my hydrangea. I never thought about doing that but that is a brilliant idea. I am definitely going to try that.
- July 30, 2009 at 7:30 AM
- Kate said...
Your photos are just fine. The flowers look so real, I want to reach in and pick them for my room. I think the blue jar is rock candy in the making.
- July 30, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Corinne, you can leave the hydrangea stems in a vase with no water, or you can tie a piece of string around the stem and hand in a warm but breeze free place. Hydrangeas don't lose much colour if left in a vase.
The jar looks like water coloured with blue food dye and epsom salts in the bottom.
I found your website by linking from Mary Corbett's twitter.
- July 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Corinne said...
Thanks Marian, I am so excited to try this :).
I should be able to take some photos today of the mystery project revealed. There are some good guesses here!
Oh no, my word verification today is "failyer"! yikes :D that can't be a good sign.
- July 31, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- Glenda said...
Such beautiful flowers!!
There is no such thing as too many tree designs, IMO. I chuckle every time I update / clean out my Wist because it's pretty obvious I have a huge love of trees and tree silhouettes ;-).
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have found a new left tackle.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Thursday that the Bucs have signed Anthony Collins to a five-year deal worth $30 million ($15 million guaranteed), according to someone who has seen the deal. The team later confirmed the news.
Collins spent the last six seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, where he served as a valuable swing tackle with above-average pass-blocking abilities. The Bengals wanted to keep Collins, who was also pursued by the Carolina Panthers.
Collins' signing is the latest sign of a complete overhaul of the operation in Tampa Bay under general manager Jason Licht and coach Lovie Smith. The team released Darrelle Revis and signed quarterback Josh McCown on Wednesday. The addition of Collins represents another change at a cornerstone position.
Which is, of course, bad news for incumbent left tackle Donald Penn, who now appears destined to get his walking papers. Penn never lived up to the expectations after signing a six-year, $41.7 million deal before the 2010 season. He'll find a job next season; it just won't be in Tampa.
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I'm thinking of blocking all IP adresses indicated by Akismet as containing spam. Something like cronning
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WHERE wp_commentmeta.comment_id = wp_comments.comment_id
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and then adding the IP's automatically to .htaccess.
Even better, I would like to post the current list of 524 IP's to a webservice to be sure hundreds of other people are also blocking the same IP.
Is that smart?
update now checking with http://www.dnsbl.info/ . Interesting e.g. 184.108.40.206 is listed with one of the spam database but not others. So I probably need to write a plugin that auto blocks the IP and then refer them to DSNBL if they want to unblock themselves. IS there already a DSNBL plugin?
update apparantly (ofcourse) there is : http://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-checked-by-dnsbl


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Suggests at the appointed time will be doable without magic.
Then after arriving here to this stage , it becomes obviously clear to them through the invisible world of non being , that they are at one with time on the everlasting : they live in an eternal plasma.
I would signal ... "Being without form".
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Wilson Chandler has missed all but four games this season but participated in Denver Nuggets shootaround on Friday and believes he is a little over two weeks away from a potential return.
"I'm very excited," Chandler said. "The first time I was excited to play but I was kind of weak and just wasn't ready. This time around I feel really strong and confident about it."
Chandler, who is dealing with a hip injury that's much longer to heal than he had thought, is aiming to come back on Jan. 13.


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Ada Programming/Types/Enumeration
An enumeration type is defined as a list of possible values:
type Primary_Color is (Red, Green, Blue);
Like for numeric types, where e.g. 1 is an integer literal, Red, Green and Blue are called the literals of this type. There are no other values assignable to objects of this type.
Operators and attributesEdit
Apart from equality ("="), the only operators on enumeration types are the ordering operators: "<", "<=", "=", "/=", ">=", ">", where the order relation is given implicitly by the sequence of literals: Each literal has a position, starting with 0 for the first, incremented by one for each successor. This position can be queried via the 'Pos attribute; the inverse is 'Val, which returns the corresponding literal. In our example:
Primary_Color'Pos (Red) = 0 Primary_Color'Val (0) = Red
There are two other important attributes: Image and Value (don't confuse Val with Value). Image returns the string representation of the value (in capital letters), Value is the inverse:
Primary_Color'Image ( Red ) = "RED" Primary_Color'Value ("Red") = Red
These attributes are important for simple IO (there are more elaborate IO facilities in Ada.Text_IO for enumeration types). Note that, since Ada is case-insensitive, the string given to 'Value can be in any case.
Enumeration literalsEdit
Literals are overloadable, i.e. you can have another type with the same literals.
type Traffic_Light is (Red, Yellow, Green);
Overload resolution within the context of use of a literal normally resolves which Red is meant. Only if you have an unresolvable overloading conflict, you can qualify with special syntax which Red is meant:
Like many other declarative items, enumeration literals can be renamed. In fact, such a literal is a actually function, so it has to be renamed as such:
function Red return P.Primary_Color renames P.Red;
Here, Primary_Color is assumed to be defined in package P, which is visible at the place of the renaming declaration. Renaming makes Red directly visible without necessity to resort the use-clause.
Note that redeclaration as a function does not affect the staticness of the literal.
Characters as enumeration literalsEdit
Rather unique to Ada is the use of character literals as enumeration literals:
type ABC is ('A', 'B', 'C');
This literal 'A' has nothing in common with the literal 'A' of the predefined type Character (or Wide_Character).
Every type that has at least one character literal is a character type. For every character type, string literals and the concatenation operator "&" are also implicitly defined.
type My_Character is (No_Character, 'a', Literal, 'z'); type My_String is array (Positive range <>) of My_Character; S: My_String := "aa" & Literal & "za" & 'z'; T: My_String := ('a', 'a', Literal, 'z', 'a', 'z');
In this example, S and T have the same value.
Ada's Character type is defined that way. See Ada Programming/Libraries/Standard.
Booleans as enumeration literalsEdit
Also Booleans are defined as enumeration types:
type Boolean is (False, True);
There is special semantics implied with this declaration in that objects and expressions of this type can be used as conditions. Note that the literals False and True are not Ada keywords.
Thus it is not sufficient to declare a type with these literals and then hope objects of this type can be used like so:
type My_Boolean is (False, True); Condition: My_Boolean; if Condition then—wrong, won't compile
If you need your own Booleans (perhaps with special size requirements), you have to derive from the predefined Boolean:
type My_Boolean is new Boolean; Condition: My_Boolean; if Condition then—OK
Enumeration subtypesEdit
You can use range to subtype an enumeration type:
subtype Capital_Letter is Character range 'A' .. 'Z';
type Day_Of_Week is (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday); subtype Working_Day is Day_Of_Week range Monday .. Friday;
Using enumerationsEdit
Enumeration types being scalar subtypes, type attributes such as First and Succ will allow stepping through a subsequence of the values.
case Day_Of_Week'First is when Sunday => ISO (False); when Day_Of_Week'Succ (Sunday) => ISO (True); when Tuesday .. Saturday => raise Program_Error; end case;
A loop will automatically step through the values of the subtype's range. Filtering week days to include only working days with an even position number:
for Day in Working_Day loop if Day_Of_Week'Pos (Day) mod 2 = 0 then Work_In_Backyard; end if; end loop;
Enumeration types can be used as array index subtypes, yielding a table feature:
type Officer_ID is range 0 .. 50; type Schedule is array (Working_Day) of Officer_ID;
See alsoEdit
- Ada Programming
- Ada Programming/Types
- Ada Programming/Libraries/Standard
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'First
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Last
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Pred
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Succ
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Img
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Image
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Value
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Pos
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Val
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Enum_Rep
- Ada_Programming/Attributes/'Enum_Val


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GTP: 1990 Road Atlanta IMSA GTP Retrospective
September 29, 2010 by GTP.com · Leave a Comment
Take a look back at the IMSA GTP race held at Road Atlanta in 1990 and an assortment of other shots from sportscar racing at the famed circuit.
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2009 Silverstone Classic Gallery
September 18, 2010 by GTP.com · Leave a Comment
Enjoy a collection of 191 photos from the 2009 Silverstone Classic, featuring IMSA and Group C images generously provided by GrandTouringPrototype.com reader Ed Fahey.
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GTP: 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Gallery
August 19, 2010 by GTP.com · Leave a Comment
Enjoy a collection of 166 photos from the 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, featuring the IMSA GTP class.
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GTP: 1985 Jaguar XJR-5 In-Car
August 15, 2010 by GTP.com · 2 Comments
Ride along with former IMSA GTP racer Rick Knoop as he pushes his big cat hard during the 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The immaculate Group 44 XJR-5, built in 1985, produces the most glorious sounds of all the cars from the GTP era. Listen in as Knoop winds the 6.0L V12 to the redline.
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GTP: 1984 Group 44 IMSA GTP Press Kit
August 13, 2010 by GTP.com · Leave a Comment
A look inside the 1984 press kit for the Group 44 Jaguar IMSA GTP team, featuring the Lee Dykstra-penned XJR-5.
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GTP: Dan Gurney AAR IMSA Retrospective
August 11, 2010 by Marshall Pruett · Leave a Comment
Enjoy a collection of 153 photos from our archives, featuring Dan Gurney's amazing contribution to the IMSA series with entries in GTU, GTO and GTP.
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GTP: Rolex 24 Retrospective
January 27, 2010 by GTP.com · 2 Comments
Enjoy a collection of Rolex 24 photos from our archives, with images ranging from 1985 to 1993.
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GTP: Laguna Seca IMSA Broadcast Compilation
October 16, 2009 by GTP.com · Leave a Comment
The 2009 American Le Mans Series just came to a close at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and in honor of that thrilling season finale, let's take a look back at some of the exciting IMSA GTP races from the classic track's past.
All videos are courtesy of the American Le Mans Series.
We'll start with the 1985 edition.
GTP: 1985 Laguna Seca Race Broadcast from GrandTouringPrototype.com on Vimeo.
GTP: 1986 Laguna Seca IMSA GTP Race Broadcast from GrandTouringPrototype.com on Vimeo.
GTP: 1987 Laguna Seca Race Broadcast from GrandTouringPrototype.com on Vimeo.
GTP: 1993 Laguna Seca Race Broadcast pt1 from GrandTouringPrototype.com on Vimeo.
GTP: 1993 Laguna Seca Race Broadcast pt2 from GrandTouringPrototype.com on Vimeo.
GTP: Wheels Of Fortune
They were the wheel of choice in the IMSA GTP series and remain the wheel of preference today in the American Le Mans Series. What started as an original equipment supplier association with Porsche's GTs and Prototypes turned into one of the few common threads of the most diverse sportscar series of the seventies, eighties, and nineties.
Cars, teams, and drivers changed, but look across the various history books about the IMSA series, and BBS wheels were the dominant choice from Porsche 935 to the Toyota Eagle Mk III.
I first fell in love with the look of BBS wheels with those 935s; the gold, webbed wheel centers were dramatic; they looked equally as fast at rest as in motion. If other wheel manufacturers only cared about low weight and high strength, BBS recognized that aesthetics were equally important.
They ticked all the boxes for lightness and durability, so why not go the extra step to design wheels that looked less like appliances and more like pieces of art? Why not sell a wheel that complimented the flowing likes of a sportscar.
In America, BBS had (and still has) John Slagle and Craig Donnelly to thank for supporting the burgeoning IMSA series when it transitioned from a well kept secret into the monster series that dominated its era.
For Donnelly, a BBS employee since January 1st, 1980, and Slagle, rescued from the road car division in early '86, the days supporting GT and GTP racing came less by choice and more by necessity.
"Back at that time we had a lot of the guys that came into the GTP cars were coming out of the 935 Porsches," said Donnelly, "they were Group C cars from Europe which, obviously, BBS had already been making wheels for. And a lot of the car manufacturers that were based in England like March and Lola; we had relationships with that we just continued those relationships here with already existing teams that we were servicing.
"But because we were doing racing service and we were already at 20 plus events a year, there really wasn't anyone else that was as visible. So it made it pretty easy to build our brand in IMSA."
Slagle landed at BBS at a time where the quality of their wheels stood out in the series. "One of the things I think that was important in that era was that if you really looked at it, as those cars evolved there weren't many wheel manufacturers that they could go to. You can either use a one-piece wheel manufacture like Dymag or Speedline but they were very expensive then; they weren't very service friendly. And BBS became, especially in the States, the trusted wheel supplier because the supply of once-piece wheels here was very difficult."
Once BBS became established as 'the wheel' to have, sportscar manufacturers began to lean on the Braselton, GA operation to manufacture lighter and stronger units. As downforce spiked and lightweight chassis construction materials became popular, wheels went from being an afterthought to a major area of performance to exploit. As BBS modified their wheels to keep pace with the rampant development in wind tunnels and autoclaves, their rivals tried to attract BBS' customers with promises of better wheels. Donnelly recalls it didn't always go as smoothly as their competitors had hoped.
"Teams were always looking for that edge. So there were guys that would bring in some stuff from Europe here to race on. And they would fail here because the racing conditions in America, on our tracks, especially in GTP, was much different than Group C in Europe, which were tabletop-smooth race tracks. Where in this country, we were brutalizing stuff on these cars here. Plus the GTP cars would run with downforce, I think, that had developed way beyond what they were doing for that in Europe. So we saw situations even on our products here, we saw stress factors in North America that they did not see in Europe.
"We were giving feedback to BBS Germany to develop parts at a faster rate; as cars developed, tires improved, suspensions improved, aerodynamics improved, more downforce – then you have to also upgrade wheels to deal with the additional stress. And this is a standard thing that you do throughout the evolution of certain racing series. But with this, we were the ones pushing that to Europe, not Europe saying this is the latest spec stuff for us to use."
Donnelly would grow accustomed to a difference in opinions between BBS Germany and BBS USA. "The term 'Heavy American Air' became kind of a standard when we were discussing things with the Germans then. Because we were giving them stress and downforce load numbers like nothing they were seeing in Group C, they said it was all due to the heavy American air, which created more downforce and more stress and all this. That was kind of humorous."
The fallacy of 'Heavy American Air' would come to light in 1992 at Road Atlanta when both Nissan GTP cars suffered spectacular tire failures resulting in gravity defying barrel rolls. The sheer violence of both incidents actually helped Donnelly and Slagle to get their parent company's attention.
"Fortunately, Goodyear found out about the 'Heavy American Air' with the Nissans," Slagle said. "After those crashes I think Germany had a greater respect for what we were trying to deal with because Nissan admitted to Goodyear that the downforce numbers they supplied them were inaccurate. It shed a whole different light on what we were dealing with and made Germany sit up and listen when we told them our cars had greater needs than what they were used to."
Decades after their first involvement in the IMSA series, the two men can't help but wax nostalgic about the times and the cars. Their look back into the series also reminded Slagle that while times have changed, many things have stayed the same.
"When you compare it to today, the funds were so much lower, the cars were really cool. Competition was fabulous. But it was much more low key in that one team could party with the other team and things of that nature. But from the work aspect, when I look back on it, it's really kind of comical because we would pull up in a minivan that we rented and we'd be back there schlepping wheels. We didn't even have an air gun to assemble or disassemble wheels; we were taking them apart with a speed handle!
"And it's really funny because everybody used to laugh: you're back here in a rental car fixing wheels – and yet last year I was in Salt Lake City for the Rolex finale and we were doing virtually the same thing! Okay, we have a Snap-on air ratchet now but in a lot of ways things hadn't really changed. The products changed and evolved but a certain part of it really hasn't. I can't remember who it was, somebody was laughing, 'You've been doing this for like 20-something years, we thought you'd change.' And I think back on it and yeah, it's been over 20 years. And we're still doing it…"
GTP cars – no matter the manufacturer — were usually found on gold BBS wheels. The color was a perfect fit for the various cars they were fitted to, but as Donnelly recalls, it wasn't a choice.
"Gold. Standard BBS color. Everything was gold. There were no 962s that I know of that ever left that shop other than gold. I don't think we even did black…you could have pretty much any color as long as it was gold…"
If gold was the traditional color, the cross-spoked wheel design was also a BBS trademark. "You know, that cross-spoke design was spawned out of a number of different racing center ideas but at that time it had the best stiffness-to-weight ratio of anything going," Donnelly offered. "The only thing you could compare it to, weight wise and was lighter, were the trick Speedline monoblocs that were hollow-spoked.
"Our wheel centers actually had hollow chambers inside. They use a loss type system in the casting and you'd actually have a hollow chamber inside there. It even had a Porsche part number on the wheel center. It was a 956 part number in those days. But it was definitely developed with Porsche directly. We used that technology for years to come with our customer products in GTP, and a lot of other companies tried to copy them with little success."
Another unique visual from the GTP days were 'wheel fans,' first seen on Porsches (that I can recall) and soon requested by the majority of BBS' clients. Donnelly found most GTP teams were trying to keep up with each other, asking BBS to sell them what they'd seen on their rivals cars without always understanding if it would help or hinder their own cars.
"The fans were really kind of comical because in some cars, depending on the aero package that they ran, they didn't work at all," said Slagle. "It became a bit of a game, especially – I know we're talking about GTPs but we were so prominent in Trans Am and IMSA GTO back then – but really in the saloon cars it was funny because depending on the package they had on the car or whatever, they might help cool the brakes, they might help aero wise, they might not do anything, they might even be a negative!
"And so whoever was leading or winning in the series, we had all these little games being played by their competitors and people would be trying to copy them. They'd say, 'It had to be the fans!' So they'd put fans on the car too. We had crew chiefs talking our ears off trying to find out how the fans would help their individual cars, but because all of the chassis were different and had different aero concepts, we had no answers for them. It was all just head games. But it was all part of the fun of the series."
Wheel fans made their way into other series – notably on the fearsome Audi Quattro Trans-Am cars. Donnelly smiled when recounting the extremes Audi went to in crafting their own fans. "Audi spent more money developing the cooling cones than they did buying wheels! BBS didn't develop those cooling cones. That was developed in the wind tunnel – actually through some universities – with Audi and they were basically trying to evacuate any air underneath the car. It wasn't about cooling brakes; it was about getting everything out from beneath the car. For a lot of the other guys, though, you couldn't always have a logical conversation with someone about the actual benefits. They were going to do what they were going to do and they believed they were going to get the benefit out of it, one way or another."
BBS used aluminum to make wheels for many years, eventually developing a one-piece wheel that became popular in the GTP series, but when Nissan came asking for the same wheel to be made from a lighter alloy, BBS obliged, even if the costs seemed astronomic at the time.
"They went to the one-piece wheels only because of weight," said Donnelly. "And then Nissan bought the one-piece magnesium wheels they were commissioned from us. For us, we were like, 'That's a lot of money!' But at the same time, if they were spending to save three pounds of unsprung weight, it was worth it to them And how much money would you have to have stacked up to buy the engineering and build the components to take that weight off elsewhere? It was a no-brainer for them."
"Back then I think a three-piece on that car was somewhere around $1300, something like that. And that would have been with all the best components that we could muster up at that point. For the magnesium one-piece, add about another 50% added on and that was the price and we were kind of almost like shell-shocked and embarrassed to try to quote that price. And then the reality, I guess, when you look back on it they were burning so much money it didn't matter. That was actually pretty cheap."
GTP: 1977 McLaren BMW Camel GT Press Kit
September 12, 2009 by GTP.com · Leave a Comment
Press kit for the 1977 McLaren BMW 320i Camel GT team and driver David Hobbs. Powered by a 2.0L four cylinder engine, the flame-spitting Citicorp-sponsored 320i took four wins during the 1977 Camel GT championship.
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How to Configure Your Wireless Home Network
Configuring your wireless home network is a separate step from configuring your wireless access point. You can configure your wireless access point to manage certain configuration information for the devices on your wireless network. For example, your wireless access point can automatically assign IP addresses, IP subnet masks, default gateway addresses, and DNS server addresses to all of your network devices using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP. This greatly simplifies the configuration and management of your home network.
These are the steps to configure a wireless network using a NETGEAR WGR614v7 wireless router. Your steps may be a little different depending on the wireless device you're using.
2Under LAN TCP/IP Setup, either use the default settings for IP Address and IP Subnet Mask, or enter a different IP address and subnet mask.
Leave RIP Direction and RIP Version set to their defaults (None and Disabled, respectively).
3In the next section, select the check box next to Use Router as DHCP Server. For the starting IP address, enter the next available host address in your IP address range.
A subnet mask value of 255 indicates the network portion of your IP address, so every host on the network in this example will have a network IP address of 192.168.1. The host portion of the address is the number after the last decimal, so 2 would be the next available host address in this example. (Your wireless access point has host address 1, represented as 192.168.1.1.)
4Enter an ending IP address within the same network range.
You should allocate enough IP addresses to cover all the devices (for example, PCs and printers) on your network and a few extra for growth. For the most part, each device will require only one IP address. This example shows an ending IP address of 192.168.1.20 for a total of 20 host addresses (including the wireless access point).
5Click Apply.
This will save your settings.