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Before and after every first-team fixture, our MatchDay Show guest and an Arsenal blogger will have their say on the game.
Arsenal took on Olympaicos in the Champions League on Wednesday and our Talking Heads for this game were Nigel Winterburn and Andrew Mangan of Arseblog.
It was a good win for Arsenal, but in terms of performance it wasn't the best. But when you come off after a game like that you need to make sure you have won, and Arsenal have done that. It was frustrating at times because Olympiacos were organised defensively and got a lot of men back behind the ball. We didn't really move the ball with great authority - but having said that, we now have six points on the board and that puts us in a really strong position. I thought Kieran Gibbs did well again, Carl Jenkinson did well and Gervinho obviously scored another goal. But on this performance, I am sure they will all look at it and say that individually and collectively they can do better.
I think it will be a technical game. Arsenal have started well, aside from the match against Chelsea, while Olympiacos are top of their league. Technically they're very good but over the last few seasons Arsenal have played them twice at home and won both, though both games have been quite tight. If Arsenal play at a high tempo, I think that will really test Olympiacos and I fancy them quite strongly. If they can get an early goal then it could be a comfortable night.
Arsenal were far from their best on Saturday, but Chelsea created very little. The frustrating thing will be the two goals they conceded. It just wasn't good enough at the highest level. This match against Olympiacos will be a great test now - good teams bounce back very quickly. This current squad are up to the task and I think it will end up either 3-0 or 3-1 to Arsenal. I'm confident they will win, but you've got to earn the right to win.
Arsenal, and stand-in manager Steve Bould, will have found the first half more difficult than they would have liked. Olympiacos set up to frustrate us and we didn't do ourselves any favours with some uncharacteristic sloppiness in possession. We could have been behind when they contrived to miss an absolute sitter but Gervinho's goal should have seen us go in ahead at the break. Instead we paid for our carelessness and conceded almost straight away. Bould must have had plenty to say at the break because Arsenal were much better in the second half. Podolski's goal owed much to the industry of Gervinho and, although Ramsey's fantastic finish came very, very late, we always looked more likely to score again than to concede. Overall it was a good win which puts us in control of our group and will help restore confidence after the Chelsea game. With a tricky trip to West Ham coming up on Saturday it's good to get back to winning ways.
After the disappointment of Saturday's game against Chelsea, the Champions League provides a good chance to get back on track and build confidence ahead of a tricky away trip to West Ham this weekend. Arsène Wenger will be looking for more solidity from his defence but also more from those tasked with scoring the goals we'll need to win the game. We missed decent chances last weekend and we have to be more clinical against Olympiacos.
I suspect the schedule might also play on his mind when it comes to team selection. Playing again on Saturday might give him pause for thought so maybe there'll be a touch more rotation than the changes enforced by the injury to Abou Diaby and the potential absence of Mikel Arteta. All in all I feel this is a game we should win against familiar opponents, this being the third year in the last four we've drawn them in the group stages. Last season goals from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Andre Santos secured the three points, I'd take the same again.
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Re: Universal to Kubota Parts list?
I would like a copy of 5411 parts book. thank you jim firstname.lastname@example.com I have a Newport 27 in hyder Alaska thanks.....
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Hi Mark,
My boat is certainly not worth what you quoted, and while I won't be sure until I get the head off (it's stuck to the block pretty securely and is soaking in Sea Foam now), I seriously doubt that my engine has 15 years left in it!
Here is the manifold listed at Torreson if it could help you (for $550) Universal 300418 Sailboat Supplies, Engine Parts and Boat Parts
At least on my engine, the rubber exhaust hosing doesn't begin until after the water is injected (the riser is made of iron) and the water would mix with the exhaust down the last fall in the riser, passing through four inches of rubber exhaust hosing, and combining in the water muffler. I'm honestly interested in Rafael's experience running a dry manifold as the alternator and starter are very close to the exhaust manifold and I'm curious as to whether they've suffered damage! My manifold is probably okay right now (getting it pressure tested at the machine shop when I take the head in) but curious as to how it worked out for Rafael.
Also, Rafael, did you have any issues getting your head off? Mine seems stuck on with superglue (most likely due to saltwater corrosion around one of the studs and a bolt). I've tapped it with a rubber mallet, hauled on it with a block and tackle, poured sea foam down the stud/bolt holes, and turned the engine over with the glow plugs and injectors in trying to get the compression to blow it off - but no luck. Please share any tips you used!
Re: Universal to Kubota Parts list?
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Hey Rafael - I was looking at the same thing and received the same dire warnings about running a dry manifold. Is yours still working alright - did you insulate it at all with wrap? Are you running at cruising rpm (2400 rpm) for sustained periods (multiple hours in a row vs. just exiting harbor?) I assume you've just led a hose from the top of your block to your mixing elbow to inject the water into the exhaust. Thanks!
Re: Universal to Kubota Parts list?
I've no idea where you got $500 from, for the marinised exhaust manifold. As far as I know, they are not available new for any price. In fact, if you know where to get one, let me know, because I'll buy one right now.
Cost of boat : $45,000
Cost of re-power : $15,000
and you're panicking about $500 for a manifold, which might extend the engine life by 10 years?
Re: Universal to Kubota Parts list?
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My manifold is toast and I'll be d@mned if I'm going to pay $500 for a new one! This is ridiculous! After inquiring here on sailnet and being warned my engine would turn into a nuclear reactor without the exhaust manifold water jacket I wound up bypassing the manifold jacket entirely (corrosion blocks the internal passages backing everything up resulting in engine overheating) and so far it's never glowed red or set the 'glass deck above it on fire.....but sure, I'd like to replace it and have it work as it should, but $500? smh
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Gotta love the farm tractor pricing. Universal price for a glow plug $81,` farm supply price $13
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Re: Universal to Kubota Parts list?
JJJ sometimes it takes the heating and bending a 12 point box wrench to get at the cap bolt ends. but it can be done.Get all the caps off and carefully lift the entire crank.The con rod bolts can damage the journals. Then tap each rod.Watch for ridge wear at bore top before you damage the ring lands Worth saving ?? your call but giving up ???
Ok. Sorry i do see the z500 on the dipstick. I thought i was going to see a cereal number. The kubota dealers wont help me without it and i cant see it anywhere. All The labels are worn off and i dont see any numbers embroidered on the actual block other than the 508 cc. Most threads ive read people say they see the cereal number on the side of the block but i dont see it.
I was able to get a rebuilt block to replace the frozen one that i pulled out of my boat and right now im piecing together the parts that are salvageable. The original block im still working on unsiezing. The conrods are in a position where i cant unbolt them to beat the pistons out without turning the crankcase which doesnt seem to be going anywhere. Not sure its worth saving.
Re: Universal to Kubota Parts list?
Your 5411 is a Kubota z500 block. It was used in their B5100D and B5100E tractors. Still haven't gotten around to rebuilding mine, but last February I received a quote from Sid at Kumar Bros (www.kumarbrosusa.com) for bearings, pistons, etc... basically a rebuild kit minus gaskets... for $259 with free shipping. At that time everything was in stock. Hope this is helpful. Keep us all posted as you go along with this! Mine is still out there on my project list.
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mr Rafael Block i also have a 5411 that i'm rebuilding right now. i have 2 dipsticks and neither have an imprint number on them. Is there another way to know the Kubota model number?
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Dec 17, 2006.
I think Nazr's minutes are mostly going to "The Viagra Guy".
It depends on how much a supply of Viagra Arnie has and how long Stern will keep letting him serve it up!!
I would like to say yes. Yes Maxiel is going to get more time than Dyess. Who knows after last nights game he may. I doubt it though. McDyess is still an untouchable I am sure. 6th Starter you know, he can do no wrong. On Mohammed, he is not going to get benched after the team just commited a 30mil contract to him. If he is deemed a dissapointment then if anything he will continue to start to keep his trade value up there.
I sure hope so.
There are 5 guys who have a chance at minutes. Here is what I hope happens: Sheed: 35.3 mpg -7.3 mpg= 28 mpg Dice: 21.2 mpg -1.2 mpg= 20 mpg Nazr: 19.4 mpg -.4 mpg= 19 mpg J Max: 10.4 mpg +5.6 mpg= 16 mpg Dale : 10.4 mpg +2.6 mpg= 13 mpg
JMax gobbles up a large chink of Dyess' minutes. McDyess is moving in slow motion, his knees are going and he's trying to play himself into game shape. Flip will fall to his own comments in which he said the best players will play. This statement equates to JMax playing significant minutes each and every game as long as he gives consistent effort. Joe will have plenty to say if Rasheed comes back and we fall back into that same lame rotation with no Dale and No JMax.
You have fallen in love with an urban myth. Delfino will not seize the moment...Maxiell will.
Don't we want him to take Dyess's job? Don't we want Jmax to be the getting minutes and develop to increase our depth? Isn't the point of drafting a player is that he actually play? If you look at the Spurs just about everybody gets some burn http://www.nba.com/spurs/stats/ Same for Dallas http://www.nba.com/mavericks/stats/ If you look at the minutes a game stat overall http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/Minutes.jsp it is misleading because you don't see a piston untill # 25 but almost every guy above them is suppose to carry the team they are on. I would like to see every guy that suits up gets to see some action. When a team gets in the penalty and you know that fouls are going to stop the game get a guy in there even if it's just until the next foul. Mix it up a little so a team has to scout everyone not just the same 7 or 8 guys.
If Joe is that petty, find a new GM. We got a chance to win it all this season. No way a GM should mess with that, and no way I belive for a second Joe is thinking that way.
Flip also flat out said JMAX would not be getting 32 minutes per game, which of course is a direct contradiction to saying that the way players play dictate their minutes. Also, on the subject of minutes, its funny how the younger players have to earn minutes, while Flip Murray will be "given" minutes, lots of minutes, to try to pull his self out of a slump.--Me, I say Flip Murray is in no slump. What Flip Murray has shown of late is typical Flip Murray. It seems on occasion this season that Flip Murray is managing to suppress his great urge to call his own number--but it always turns out just to be a temporary suppression and its back to being Flip Murray. With that said, here is how I think the minutes should go. No Flip Murray. No Mohammed. That takes out our two weak links on defense, and it takes out the two guys who fit the least in an offensive scheme where teamwork is front and center. Our starters should become Billups, Rip, Tay, Maxiell, and Sheed, with each getting 32 minutes. Our bench should be Blalock, Delfino, Amir Johnson, Dyess, Dale Davis, with each getting 16 minutes. Remember, Dale is getting old. Although he can temporarily play more, that should be saved for the playoffs. The entire game would feature us going into the post. Mostly JMAX for the 1st unit, and then Amir Johnson for the 2nd unit.
All good points here, but I can't see trying to fix something that isn't broken. As long as CB and Rip are carrying the Off. load our front line will SEEM weak. CB has to trust Nazz more. On Off. Nazz is efficient. JMax requires special attention [due to his size] when he gets in, he should get more of Tays minutes. The good news is the bench is playing more and as a 4+1 unit.! I'm totally against trading any of these guys, and that includes F.M.
I think that JMax is making it obvious that earning playing time on the Pistons pretty much means that you have to be the best player and do it several times in a row. No mistakes, no missed-shots, no bad calls against you, etc. Bargnani, Melo, Nowitski, Howard... these guys would have all whithered with the Pistons as rookies with little or no PT. They would have had to pay their dues and learn to be post players from Sheed (who posts up about as often as Chauncey). Most of them would have gone ballistic and probably demanded a trade. Maxiell is doing and saying everything just right. Joe correctly assessed this kid's game and character. Now, he needs to make sure that Flip doesn't ruin it.
He should and hopefully he will. Unless of course, you believe in urban myths. All it takes is opening up the energy level. The bench has to learn comfort levels with the starters and as I mentioned before, some of them should start to accelerate this process. Flip need not shy away from bruising some of the many huge egos on the team. It would be a huge mistake for JD to trade DD. He is very valuable insurance to have in the long haul and plus, he is playing excellent ball. If he can bring close to a double-double in 20 minutes, then everyone wins. JMax and DD keep everyone honest in the paint. Prince needs to sit on the bench , which frees up JMax. DD can rotate with Sheed, Naz and McDyess with Sheed getting the most minutes.
Interchangeable parts are nice but I perfer to dance with who brought me. Stability must mean something to these guys.
Just found an interesting stat, but i wasnt surprised. J-Max is currently 3rd on the Pistons in FTA/game. Not per48, but per game. CB - 6.6 Rip - 6.5 J-Max - 2.5 Sheed - 2.3 Tay - 2.1 Nazr - 1.9 Everyone already knows it, but for Sheed to average 2.3 FTA per game is a sin. He has more 3PA than 2PM. I like that stat as a guide to a balanced game. If you make more 2 pointers than you attempt 3 pointers, thats a good balance. Currently 4 Pistons fail this test. Billups 133-84 (3PA-2PM) Sheed 80-76 Delfino 38-15 Hunter 25-16
They have had years of stability and now it is catching up to them. They are leaderless and barely have the edge at home games. The talent is the same, the desire and mental framework are too inconsistent. Flip is not like LB, with the latter putting them on trial working through the media. Flip's method should be to rotate the players, and we should be seeing more of this as evident from JMax and further substitution patterns. The pistons are the deepest team in the East. Correct me if I am mistaken, but did not the majority of the forum members want an increase in bench playing this year? Certainly JD stressed this, and then you have Sheed going lame (?), which I hope is only the beginning of finding good working combinations. You might recall that I had mentioned that December should be the start of these substitution patterns and continuing through Jan. I hope it not only continues, but increases.
Yes I do remember that. But if we lose a couple in this bench era, I bet Twitcher dumps the whole project. A one week ankle repair? Let it rest. 10 minutes that's all he should get.
I voted undecided because I am still of the opinion that he should be taking some of Tayshaun's minutes, not Dyess'. DD should be sharing with him. And I do think the Piston's bench is good. They are probably the second best in the East, IMO.
YES (said with reservations). One thing I can say in Dyess's favor is he really sucked while on the court with NazMo. He seemed to be more effective comming off of the bench, paired with any other big.
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Ben, I think you will be happy you did. Glad we could help some.
Royce and others,
I understand it now, I found a few more sites and did more reading.... Thanks for all the answers and posts. Sounds like its worth the extra effort to just go ahead and build for a tight quench.
Lust4speed, I often thought the same thing. I suppose if the flat part of the piston and head was larger (pushing the charge WAY over to one side), I suppose that could be an issue.
|So if the mixture is directed to one side of the piston, does the resulting combustion push harder on that side of the piston? Probably not, but scary thought.
I read that site that someone posted about quench, and with what you said i understand more about quench. I guess this is what i learned today!!!! I am under the idea that the roll of quench is more important to detonation, but as a added benifit you pick up some horse power......
that was a good example you gave. It drove home what the web site stated about quench. What you said about the "D" shaped pistons is what i was trying to say but i guess it didn't come out right.... L.O.L.
It's nice to have a place to go and ask tough questions and have a disscussion with out people slamming you...... I love this place!!!!
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Keith I think the better quench make more power because of better combustion. The fuel mixture is nice and swirled and the fact that igniting at the right time and in the right place. I don't think in a race fuel application the difference would be as large as in a pump gas application.
I can't really follow your example because you are not taking the cylinder head into account (or at least I don't see how you are). The combustion chamber is in the head, not in the cylinder (if you will). So the design (size and shape) of the cylinder head is just as important as the quench and piston top.
In your example I don't see how you can still have 10:1 in all three examples, I understand it was just in theory but, I think too many factors were left out. The top example would have the best quench though. The reason is (assuming a closed chamber head) the charge would be forced to the "open" part of the chamber because that is the only place for it to go. In your example the heads would all have to be flat or open chamber for your conclusion to be true.
Think of it as stepping on the edge of a water balloon. All the water will rush to the other edge, now if you step on the center the water goes in all directions. Same basic principle (which I am sure you understand the theory behind quench/squish). Since you know what it is, you have to understand what it does. The effect of the fuel rushing across the top of the piston and combustion chamber, cools (quenches). If you have no squish then you have no quench. You can have the same compression, but without the squish you have no quench. Yes, the engine will still run but, you have lost the quench effect. This is how the different "squish" (quench) heights make a difference.
With a large quench you are basically stepping on the middle of the balloon the mixture goes in all directions (out of control). This is why .035-.045 is the goal we shoot for. Much more than .045 and you no longer have squish. Running tighter than .035 would be even better but, you have to give room for rod stretch etc... Some guys like to build race engines so the piston just kisses the head when the piston rock at TDC, they say is make a little more power. Of course this is not something you would want to do in an engine you want to live for a while.
Once you get much over .045 it no longer makes a difference. So if you have a choice of .090 or .140 it really doesn't matter neither will have squish/quench.
I don't claim to know it all, I can only explain what I have learned/believe.
I hope that helps some?
Edit: blndweasel, we were typing at the same time. Excellent exapmle Very good way to look at it.
perhaps I can try to explain it in yet another way...
Try this little experiment. take a big book. stand it up on one end on a table somewhere, and let it fall over to one side. You should notice a big wash of air come out from under the book as it approaches the surface of the table. It's elementary physics. As the surface of the book comes closer to the surface of the table, the air has to go somewhere, and it wooshes out wherever it possibly can.
Take a look at the combustion chamber on your cylinder heads. There's an open part next to the spark plug and around the valve seats, and if you were to scribe a circle around the circumference of where the piston bore meets up with it, you should notice that a little less than half of that area is completely flat and flush with the surface of the mating surface between the head and the block. So you understand that there is a flat part on the head, right? The flat portion of that head is like the table.
Now take a look at the face of your piston. If it's flat all across the top, the analogy is simple. The face of the piston is like the book. As the piston approaches top dead center, the air in between the piston face and the flat portion of the combustion chamber on the head is forced out... into the cavity portion of the combustion chamber on the cylinder head. Air is being forced from the flat portion to the open portion, creating movement of air (i.e. turbulence) It's the turbulent movement of air and gas that encourages an even burn throughout the combustion space. In fact, the piston face gets so close to the face of the cylinder head at its flattest part, that (correct me if I'm wrong) very little combustion occurs in this .035" space between the surfaces.
As soon as you start to add volume between the flat surface of the cylinder head and the piston, namely as you increase that .035" gap to, say, .060 or .100 by adding a full face piston dish, or setting the piston lower than the surface of the deck, you introduce an area where essentially "stagnant" air can reside.
If you take a bowl and perform the same experiment as with the book, and let the open face of the bowl fall over onto the table, you're going to notice much less air evacuating from under the bowl, because it's getting trapped inside. Understand why the bowl is producing less air movement / air turbulence / quench than the book? Same difference between full dish pistons or pistons set low in the block, and zeroed in flat tops that have a proper quench height.
D-shaped dishes work differently, because the piston still maintains a flat face at the area where quench occurs, at the flat portion of the cylinder head within the diameter of the piston bore. So essentially if you only look at the quench area of the piston, D-shaped dishes look identical to flat top pistons in this area. That's why both flat tops and D-dishes produce quench.
Does this help at all, or am I just rambling?
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I don't know what exactly you're working on, but.....if I put scenario #3 in my engine and 58cc heads, I'd have 8.2 static compression. My quench would be .144.
(BTW, I've got a small block Ford stroked to 331. Flat tops (-6cc), zero deck, 58cc chambers and running about 10.3:1 static cr with a .039 head gasket. Quench is .039.)
Well, I read the last article, it was very informative, I hadn't seen this article before, thanks for posting it. But it still doesn't make complete sense to me yet. ... I can understand the reason why it works on a flat top going from .060 to .040 . But I dont understand if you take these 3 pistons show here wouldnt all the quench or squeezing area be the same?
just hypothetical numbers here for example
piston 1 = .000 deck height -10cc 10:1 compression
piston 2 = -.050 deck height -5cc 10:1 compression
piston 3 = -.100 deck height flat top 10:1 compression
All have the same amount of compression area. Turbulence would be the same for all 3 pistons wouldn't it? They all have the same size cc chambers.. If these were all flat tops I can understand quench improves because you have less cc'ed area, but if you are limited to say 10:1 compression, arent all 3 pistons going to react the same? If nothing else piston 3 leaves more of the fuel air mixture closer to the head then piston 1 because its spread out over the entire piston top.
Royce, you are right it was an open chamber head. They were bb-2's and he did run 110 or 116 octane in it.
Do you think that an increase in horse power is due to the quench in and of it self, or due to the fact that with the proper quench you can get away with a more aggressive tune due to the fact that it is less sensitive to detonation???? what would the power difference be between the 2 motors we are compairing????
That is a problem with the hemi head designed motor. The chamber above the piston at top dead center is so big and you have 2 areas on each side of the plug to get the burn to..... The orginal hemi was a tuners nightmare until they figured out what was going on. They needed so much spark lead to get it all burnt and then just a little more would put them into detonation and lift ring lands.
I understand where you are coming from and I am not taking it as an argument.
Let me see if I can put it another way, If you don't have a quench (anything above .050 or so), then the charge is not going to be forced (squished) to one part of the chamber (usually towards the spark plug). This will invite uncontrolled burns to start. It is not only the shape of the top of the piston that matters but, it plays a big role. With a "dog bowl" dish there is no quench (no flat part on top to create a squish), so in this case it doesn't make a big difference but, this is also the reason "D" dish pistons are a better choice. The same could be said for open or closed chamber heads.
So basically a good quench controls where in the combustion chamber the charge will be, and with this you can control "when" it is ingited. Since the squish will cool the cobustion chamber as the charge rushes across the top of the piston the benefits are two fold. Now with your example of a large quench I don't think it would matter what the shape of the piston is, because you really don't have a quench effect anyway. The piston is not coming close enough to the head to create a squish, so you will have a "lazy" charge just waiting to be ignited by the first available source (hot carbon, etc...) since it didn't cool the combustion chamber there is even more of a chance for hot spots and uncontrolled ignition. As you can see it is a cycle and chances of pre-ignition and detonation are increased as the quench gets loose.
Now if you run high octane race fuel this would be less of an issue, even though you would make more power with a tighter quench (IMO) but, you won't have as big of an issue with the detonation.
To answer your question about the difference in the flat top .105 down and the D dish .010 down. While you will have the same 86cc's of volume, it is "where" the volume is that counts. With the flat top (.105 down)a lot of the volume will be spread out over the whole piston and all over the chamber. With the tight quench and the d dish the same 86cc's of volume is in one specific are (right next to the spark plug) and HOW it gets over to that area is the advantage, It is forced/squished over to that side. This is the effect we are looking for.
While K-star has/had a friend that ran a HUGE quench and "got away" with it, I don't know what the combination was/is so I really can't comment. If I had to guess I would say he had open chamber heads for one. Was this a street car running on pump gas? What was the compression? Seeing that it was a 14-71 blower on it I would say it was not a pump gas engine. The blower would also have a very "active" charge. Even at that how do we know if it was detonating or not? If he filled up with 91 octane what do you think would have happened?
I am looking at this from a street driving perspective, drag/race cars get away with a lot of things that will not live on the street or pump gas. So make sure we are comparing apples to apples. Last I remember you planned on running pump gas, correct? If not then you may be able to get away with that wide quench but I still say power will suffer.
Here is another good article on the topic of quench.
Royce and others,
Why would flame front be any different for a flat top .105" down or a normal piston .010 down with a 22cc dish, they both have a total of 86cc's chamber volumes at TDC. To me it seems as both would be the same. How much does quench really effect in the real world? Wouldn't both these pistons respond the same? Royce I hope I don't sound like Im arguing, Im just trying to understand the physics involved here.
K-star mentioned his friend ran .190 down. with out problems.
If anyone has built motors with .060" + quench please post here and give me your opinions.
Here's some info on quench from Speedomotive:
What's the part # of the piston you're looking at? What's the chamber size on the heads?
A measurement of .105 below the deck is a lot in most circumstances.
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Plays: All Other NightsThe Twelve-fortyThe Surrender
Teaching Philosophy: I have been teaching playwriting since 1990 and screenwriting since 1998. My total love for theatre and movies (and TV too) as well as the history of these genres, drives my instruction. I'm always intrigued at the seemingly infinite number of ways people want to tell a visual story. Just when I thought I'd seen it all, some student will come to a class, or send me an assignment, that will test the boundaries of everything I thought I knew about writing for the Stage and Screen. And that's when the fun begins. As I read something I'm working on, I'll often stop and think "I'd never accept this from a student," shake my head, hit the "delete" button, and try it again.
It all pays off when I'm sitting in a theatre, or a classroom, and watching (or listening) to a student's work being read or performed. I remember the piece's various drafts. I marvel when something I told the student wouldn't work does work after all. I can feel the attention being paid to the spoken word. And I can't imagine doing anything else.
Awards: Screenplay "I Miss You" shown at the 2012 Algerian Film Festival. Two-time semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Film Writer's Competition. Nominee for Best New Play in 2008 by Independent Reviewers of New England for The Boys of Winter. His play Returnees was named a finalist in 2008 at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
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Im working on a SE FETT... this is the ESB helmet. Here my progress so far this is my first time painting... I've been working on the helment for about a week now.. and juggling a MOW pack also. The helm is a Sgt Fang.
Im working on a SE FETT... this is the ESB helmet. Here my progress so far this is my first time painting... I've been working on the helment for about a week now.. and juggling a MOW pack also. The helm is a Sgt Fang.
Awesome work on the paint job GBeef!
Looking good! your weathering is coming along great
Awesome start there bruv...
Looking good!
Hey, that's looking great so far! Nice paintage.
Is that the new Sarge v.2 bucket? Or did you tweak his v.1?
Very good work! Weathering is looking beautiful. I'll be using this as reference when I paint my lid up in the coming weeks. Question: Is that with spray cans, or airbrush?
Sweet job on the weathering! Looks great!
This is a sarge V2.. and yes i sanded the bumps of the lower mand. Yes it did take some work No its not that bad.. the bumps are big but if you take your time your fine.
Im going airbrush on the helmet. My Jet Pack will be a mixture of Cans and Air.
This is my first paint app.. and first time painting with model paint. I wouldnt use this as reference!.. hahaha.. but thanks for the compliments. I just wanted to make sure im on the right track.
if you want refrence look at AOSW2 pics.. and check out Spidey fetts JB project he's the MAN!!!... I do have a question how is everyone getting HAIR line painting? what techinic are you using?
Also any ideas on how to paint the ear decal?! (just wondering how your applying the masking tape) Im trying to do everything painted on.
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For my very fine scratches, I actually scratch down to the base resin with a compass point.
For the "not quite very fine scratches," I use a #000 brush.
Heres an update where im at im done the color block in now for the details... Im almost done, been juggling the jet pack and armor also. (but its outta the way now!)
Very nice! The colours blend together perfectly.
that is a beauty! good job!
Now there's a jump in progress.
Lookin' awesome!
That is one sweet paint up! you deffo got some skills GB...
awesome for a 1st timer
Thats a great paint job! Those colours look really good together as well...and all done in a couple of weeks... Are you going to dirty it up ?
yeah im in the middle of doing that now its only about 75% complete i have all the dirt and grim scratches. TF Thanks for the tip on the brush, i figured out the black pattern on the front. maybe next time ill try a layered helmet..
Heres my finished bucked i think... I i dont like how my rust came out.. but if you pro have suggestions on the rust please PM ME!... This is my first bucket and pretty much first time experince painting so you can say ive learned alot. I would like to do a MS3 bucket or a FPH when i get the chance for a second helmet.
Now on to the visor, servo, and leds! YUCK!
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To say I'm jealous is the understatement of the week.
wow. that is one excellent paint job
Wow, thats just realy awsome right there.
Nice job Jackson!!
That came out fantastic! Great job!
How!? How do you do it!? How does one own so hard at weathering a helmet? That has to be soo tough! Amazing!


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By Bob McNab
Bob McNab was a fixture in Arsenal's back-four from 1966-1975. In all, he made in 365 appearances for the Gunners, only three of those as a substitute. Throughout the season, the former left back will provide his expert insight into all things Arsenal.
Bertie Mee used to say to us when we were playing against a side that was deficient in every way, that they would fight scratch and bite because of who you are – you are the Arsenal.
He'd say: "This is going to be a battle royal, You have to match them for their effort and fight. It might take 89 minutes for our skills and technique to come through, but if you don't match them with that, we're not going to come through on top."
In my day, with the poor fields we used to play on, results like that were more prevalent that they are today. But his point will never be lost, no matter how football turns.
Bob McNab was speaking with USA.Arsenal.com's Kevin Mooney.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Corning Community College presents Woven Wonders: The World of Medieval Tapestries with Dr. Kate Dimitrova on Monday, February 10, 2014 at 12:55—1:50 p.m. in the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Library. Part of the Books and Bites series, the event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
This presentation will introduce the world of medieval European tapestries, beginning with the middle of the fourteenth century, and will explore the history of tapestry and demonstrate the monetary, cultural, political, and religious values of these "woven wonders." After the presentation, Dr. Dimitrova will spend some time investigating the tapestries currently on display in the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Library. Attendees are encouraged to join in this exploration!
Kate Dimitrova, Assistant Professor of Art History at Alfred University, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual arts and art history from the University of California at San Diego and then went on to earn both a Master of Arts degree and PhD in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. She has been awarded various fellowships, grants, and honors, including a Fulbright in Belgium and Kress Fellowship in Paris, France. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. Her co-edited book, Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, is due out in 2014.
This event is hosted by the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Library at Corning Community College. For additional information, please contact: Sarah Weisman, Associate Dean of Learning Resources, at 607-962-9385 or email@example.com.


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Sometimes it takes the passing from the scene of a strong yet reasonable and accommodating voice to show how valuable and in short supply that commodity is in today's political discourse.
Such was the circumstance with the news last week that former Sen. Warren Rudman, Republican of New Hampshire, had died at age 82. The loss of the cofounder of the Concord Coalition, the prominent advocate for comity and thoughtful compromise in the nation's politics, triggered an uncommon outpouring of bipartisan regret and posthumous praise for Rudman's efforts to restore cooperation between the parties.
This Yankee stalwart's Southern Democratic co-chairman of the coalition, former Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, saluted him for his determination to work "with members of both parties who were willing to put America's interests first" and "knew America had to face up to our current and long-term fiscal challenges."
Another Democrat and former chairman of the coalition, former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, whose failed bid to return to the Senate was backed by Rudman, remembered him as "a leader who always put the nation's interest ahead of politics." The comment could have been directed at the Democrats and Republicans now poised to address the ominous "fiscal cliff" facing Congress before year's end over federal deficit reduction.


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Still LOSING in my book.
Broke joke he is
Still LOSING in my book.
Broke joke he is
"His woman"
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You think you hate it now, but wait 'til you drive it.
she looks like a whore
On his company website, the "transparent" sales pitch video on background text is impressive. Simple idea and 1st time I see it.
well, she is wearing a whore's uniform.
And another thing. Does the world hate America because we're sex-hating Puritans or hedonistic sex crazed douches who parade our women around like whores? You fun-hating "America is terrible" pantywaists need to get your goddamn stories straight.
Livin' the dream!
To be honest, he just looks desperate.
I <3 driving.
I bet HE takes up the ass from HER. Just sayin...
Haterz gon get up at 7:30 am tomorrow and drive to their sh*tty job in their sh*tty economy car (that has soul of course ).
Meh, whatever blows wind up your skirt.
'Your Still Suck Off Your Moms Tit': A Defense Of The World's Most Stereotypical Lamborghini Owner
Our commenters seem mixed on whether or not Bryan Salamone, a.k.a. The World's Most Stereotypical Lamborghini Owner, is actually as unique as he seems in Facebook photos. A reader who just emailed us, though, is convinced we have it all wrong.
Here, in unedited form, is an email from a man calling himself Robert regarding Mr. Salamone. Additionally, as per the email, I will soon be lobbying Nick Denton to allow me to create a blog fully dedicated to how much of a ***** I am. My true life's work.
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Stacey Cole's Nature Talks: Sparrow's feeding trick shows its ingenuity
STACEY COLE | July 19. 2013 8:36PM
The June 17 letter began: "Recently I witnessed some interesting bird behavior that I wonder if any of your readers or you, have also observed."
The Twin Mountain reader continued: "I was in Conway with my wife and we had just entered our vehicle parked in a busy store parking lot. I glanced down to the front of two vehicles that were parked next to us. I noticed a sparrow feeding a bug to probably its chick which was almost the same size as its mother. Now at first I was concerned because the birds were between two parked vehicles that were facing each other in this busy lot. There were no obvious trees nearby and I wondered where the birds had come from. I feared for them as these cars could be moved by their owners at any time when they also came out of the store.
According to "Fundamentals of Ornithology," written by Josselyn Van Dine and Andrew J. Berger: "... instincts are inherited ... instinctive behavior is evoked by complex environmental situations particularly through visual and auditory stimuli."
"We have a pair of robins that come back every year to nest in our garage roof overhang. It appears that they have two chicks this year. In previous years, I have offered them worms that we had purchased at our general store. They would not touch them. This year, I offered them grape jelly because it was mentioned in one of your recent columns. No luck with that!
This was especially evident when he was hoeing small weeds. Gramp always hoed backwards so that he left no tracks when he was done. While hoeing, a robin would work the soil as close to the hoe as it could, anticipating the exposure of an earth worm.
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Celebrating Cage and Debussy
Two of arguably the most influential composers of the twentieth century turned super old this year: John Cage (100 this month) and Claude Debussy (150 last August). This week on Hammered! we pay homage to these modern musical titans with alternating selections from each's vast piano oeuvre.
John Cage was six years old when Debussy died in 1918, and their musical overlap seems on the surface to be equally nonsignificant. But while each's style represents wildly different aesthetic worlds, there are nevertheless striking similarities between their areas of musical consideration.
Each exhibited a fascinating preoccupation with Far Eastern culture, manifesting for both composers in works that re-imagine its sounds, rhythms and timbres. In the case of Cage, Chinese texts and Zen Buddhism provided a philosophical foundation for an entire period of his compositional output. In a more strictly musical sense, Debussy and Cage also paid obsessive attention to the musical integration of silence, and dealt fastidiously with rhythm, timbre and form, which for both was often a function of strict numerical proportions and symmetries.
The juxtaposition of piano music this week hopes to tease out some of those interrelations. On Monday's two-part show, half showcases aspects of this Eastern influence (Debussy's "Pagodes" from Estampes and selections from Cage's Sonatas and Interludes), and half explores two takes on the same formal genre (Debussy's Etudes book two, and Cages Etudes Australes). Later in the week, hear Debussy's Image paired with Cage's Imaginary Landscapes, and two days of Debussy Preludes (books one and two) balanced with miniatures spanning Cage's entire compositional career.


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Chapter 9. Strategies for Extending Bakery Product Shelf-Life
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Published Online: 13 DEC 2007
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999332.ch9
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Bakery Food Manufacture and Quality: Water Control and Effects
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Cauvain, S. P. and Young, L. S. (eds) (2000) Strategies for Extending Bakery Product Shelf-Life, in Bakery Food Manufacture and Quality: Water Control and Effects, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470999332.ch9
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Air Capture
Guest Commentary by Frank Zeman
One of the central challenges of controlling anthropogenic climate change is developing technologies that deal with emissions from small, dispersed sources such as automobiles and residential houses. Capturing these emissions is more difficult as they are too small to support infrastructure, such as pipelines, and may be mobile, as with cars. For these reasons, proposed solutions, such as switching to using hydrogen or electricity as a fuel, rely on the carbon-free generation of electricity or hydrogen. That implies that the fuel must be made either by renewable generation (wind, solar, geothermal etc.), nuclear or by facilities that capture the carbon dioxide and store it (CCS).
There is however an alternative that gets some occasional attention: Air Capture (for instance, here or here). The idea would be to let people emit the carbon dioxide at the source but then capture it directly from the atmosphere at a separate facility.
The removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the surface ocean or during photosynthesis. Ocean absorption is a result of both the higher concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the alkaline nature of seawater (Note that this absorption that is leading to the "other" CO2 problem, ocean acidification – which may prove detrimental to coral reefs and other organisms that use carbonate). Land-based air capture is an effort to enhance this mechanism at an industrial scale so that CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere under controlled conditions. Given that it is performed under controlled conditions, we can use more alkaline solutions to improve the rate of capture without adversely affecting the biosphere.
Industrial air capture is based on the absorption of CO2 using alkali earth metals such as sodium or potassium. The process is a variant of the Kraft Process used in most pulp and paper mills and as such, benefits from a long industrial history. The CO2 is absorbed into solution, transferred to lime via a process called causticization and released in a kiln. With some modifications to the existing processes, mainly an oxygen-fired kiln, the end result is a concentrated stream of CO2 ready for storage or use in fuels. An alternative to this thermo-chemical process is an electrical one in which an electrical voltage is applied across the carbonate solution to release the CO2. While simpler, the electrical process consumes more energy as it splits water at the same time. It also depends on electricity and so unless the electricity is renewable or nuclear, will result in the storage of more CO2 than the chemical process.
If the technology is well established and, aside from the oxygen combustion of lime, dates back over 50 years, what stops it from being used and what might change in the future?
The main barrier is the efficiency of the energy requirements during the reducing process. Air capture requires energy to move the air, manufacture the absorbing solutions and solids as well as to produce the oxygen, fuel and make up chemicals. All of these items will result in additional CO2 emissions, which reduce the efficiency and therefore the benefits. The second important consideration, and maybe the dominant one, is cost. Air capture has to be more economical than the proposed alternatives (hydrogen, electricity, renewables, greater efficiency etc.). It should be stated clearly that air capture is not a viable alternative to capture at large, point source emitters such as power plants since it will always be more efficient to capture and store carbon dioxide from more concentrated streams. So while there are any non-CCS fossil fuel plants, Air Capture is a non-starter.
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