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Re: Sailing alone??
Guess im late to reply but I sail my 23' Kells alone, wife does help when shes there but I'm addicted and she just likes weekend cruises. Its a good size in my opinion... I leave her in the slip all season then leave her on the trailer all winter after maintenance is completed.
Oh and I'm a rookie as well...Just take it easy don't rush out to sail the very first day, wait for 5mph winds and such
Re: Sailing alone??
When i single hand pretty much all the time other then when i bring freinds sailing. But the one thing i do do when i bring friends sailing it i show them how to start the motor and put it in gear and how to use the motor. Also i should them how to let the sails out. and if i or any one else falls over boared let the sails out right away and keep a eye on the person in the water. But when im by my self i leave the cockpit a lot to fix the genny if it gets caught or to reef or raise/ lower the sails. doing it by yourself you just get use to doing it before your in a congested area like a harbor you drop sails before the harbor and motor in exspecaily if im staying in the harbor.
Ive learned a lot about single handing. never fell in and hope to never fall in. Also i suggest that single handers wear life jackets good idea. i usally only wear my in heavy weather.
to the op. 26' if a good size boat and any boat you can get use to single handing making routens.
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Re: Sailing alone??
Then there is that great "Canadian" invention , singlehanding around the world.
Re: Sailing alone??
Most nearly every post focuses on the physical ability to handle a boat. Seems to me that is putting horse before the cart. In order to safely sail solo it is important to be able to plan ahead. In order to do that you have to visualize what you re trying to do, predict how the boat will react to you inputs, and plan your escape route if all goes haywire. All of those things depend upon experience. If no experience, then you should restrict yourself to boats small enough that you can manhandle them if all goes haywire.
I used to single hand a 42' keel boat, from dock to dock. It was always a pleasure. Now we have a 38'cat. Fun sailing, but docking is challenging.
If your SO will allow, buy a simple old board boat or dinghy, sail in swim suits, regularly capsize and laugh about it, learn abut wind, waves, mistakes, etc. Sell the thing (or give it away) after a season, and then look for a real boat. You will be both happier, and a better sailor.
Re: Sailing alone??
Sailing solo or single handed has many meanings in today's world. Each one has its merit and difficulty.
1. Sailing solo or single-handed in the cockpit with full crews below deck
2. Sailing single-handed with many non sailors on board.
3. Sailing solo across the ocean from port to port with GPS, SSB and Sat Phone, water maker and etc.
4. Sailing solo crossing the ocean non-stop with GPS, SSB and Sat Phone, water maker and the 24/7 sat phone connection with on call experts. Example: Jessica Watson in her Ella.
5. Sailing solo across the oceans without GPS, Sat phone etc. Just like the early days where the psychological well being plays a significant part in the survival of the voyage.
Sailing is getting much safer. The technology allows us to minimize the unknown. I will have a better chance to survive today than in those days of 50 years ago when I sail into the ocean. I choose Number 3 where feel comfortable to go solo since I am not really sailing alone - my family and friends are with me.
Re: Sailing alone??
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My question is this: how many of you sail alone... that is, without a crew? I don't mean alone as in there is no one else aboard, just that they are along for the ride.
It's all about knowing the boat and planning every move. Once out on the water, I believe most people can handle fairly large boats with little help. That is as long as you're not surprised by heavy weather. You have to know how to recognize that coming on too. With enough knowledge and experience the size of the boat really doesn't matter until you bring it into port.
Re: Sailing alone??
I singlehand my Bayfield 29' fairly often, although docking in my slip is a pain. My gf is still getting into sailing, and it's true, yelling at your sig. other during docking can really cause an issue. Almost lost her for the whole season.
Re: Sailing alone??
If your wife is only half willingly entering into the hobby you need a boat with a lot of ballast. Because the first time you turtle that smaller boat with her on board you will be getting a divorce.
Re: Sailing alone??
gnu, if you're taking along the tourist trade, and you pan to go out for more than a couple of hours at a time, you may want to consider a 28-32' long boat. Under 28' you often can't get any kind of real head on the boat, and without a real head? Yeah, the tourists are going to be real unhappy and life as you know it will come to a nasty end.
Being able to sit someplace dry, being able to stow or prepare food, and having a real head to use, all may not be obvious but they REALLY keep the tourists happy. And you know the old saying, if Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
Of course if you just want to putz around on a lake or bay for a couple of hours and get some fresh air, smaller is better. Way more affordable, way less maintenance. Just depends on where you plan to go with sailing.
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22' is a good starting point. A Tanzer 22 is a common starter boat in this area- easy to handle solo, stable, durable, easy to maintain, good sized cockpit, decent accomodations, active racing fleet, relatively cheap to buy, relatively easy to sell, if/when you want to move to something larger.
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Amended forecast:100 yesterday, 104 today, 110 tomorrow, 108 friday, then maybe some respite with a dry change.Most of the State is on fire alert. It is school holidays, so I am watching the 40 acres of dry reeds 10 yards form me with interest. last week some local residents further up the line from me did a lil scrub clearing. Elvis the Sky crane and his mate Bluey were fire bombing, filling up from the bay infront of me. Fun to watch. If it wasnt a local, then it was a firebug as three fires were the same MO.
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Sykes, Fouse Claim Horizon League Weekly Honors
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's basketball team swept its trip to Cleveland State and Youngstown State over the weekend, and sophomore Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) and freshman Jordan Fouse (Racine, Wis.) played an important part in the victories. On Monday, Sykes was named the Horizon League co-Player of the Week and Fouse was tabbed Newcomer of the Week.
The award was the third of the season for Sykes, who averaged 23.5 points per game on the trip, and the second time Fouse has earned the weekly award for top newcomer. Fouse averaged 8.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.5 steals on the week.
The way he played after halftime, Sykes probably could have sat out the first halves and still won the weekly award for the fourth time in his career. Sykes scored 19 points after halftime in both of his team's wins, leading a furious rally in a 66-59 win against Cleveland State on Friday before helping the Phoenix pull away from Youngstown State 71-54 on Sunday afternoon.
Scoring 23 and 24 points in the two contests, the 5-foot-11 sophomore made 13-of-23 shots from the field and 17-of-19 free throws. In the two second halves, he made 10-of-13 shots from the field and 15-of-16 free throws.
While the weekend magnified it, the second-half outbursts were nothing new for Sykes. Taking out a game at Loyola, when he logged just two second-half minutes due to injury, Sykes has averaged 12.6 points after halftime of the past eight games. For the season, Sykes is averaging 9.3 points per game after halftime and has reached double figures 10 times.
Sykes also won the league's weekly award on Nov. 13 and Dec. 24 this season. The Chicago native is fourth in the Horizon League in scoring at 15.5 points per game. He is shooting 44.8 percent (134-299) from the field, 46 percent from long range (23-50) and 80.9 percent (127-157) from the free throw line.
A model of consistency despite being a true freshman, Fouse had another week in which he stuffed the stat sheets. The 6-foot-7 wing made 4-of-7 shots from the field and 9-of-11 free throws in the two games. At Youngstown State, Fouse posted his third double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Fouse, one of three Phoenix players to start each game this season, is averaging 6.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. He ranks second in the Horizon League in rebounds per game and is first in offensive rebounding (2.4), third in steals (1.7) and fourth in blocked shots (1.5).
In league play, Fouse leads the conference in rebounding (8.4) and offensive rebounding (2.6) and is third in steals (2.0) and fourth in blocks (1.9). He has helped the Phoenix lead the conference in rebounding margin, scoring defense, field goal percentage defense and blocked shots in Horizon League play.
With three regular season games remaining, Fouse is four rebounds and six steals from breaking Green Bay's single-season freshman records in the categories. His 39 blocks are the second-most by a Phoenix freshman, behind only Alec Brown's 67 in 2010-11.
Winners of three-straight games overall and three-straight road games, Green Bay takes a break from Horizon League play on Saturday, traveling to Des Moines, Iowa for a BracketBuster contest against Drake of the Missouri Valley Conference.
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To 283 or not to 283?
Hey guys, my brother has an old chevy 283 block, crank, and heads that he's willing to give me to use for a swap. It's from between '58 and '62, casting code 3757519, two bolt mains. Things are a bit rusty so everything would have to be cleaned up before the build.
My question is: is it worth it? I'm looking for 300-350 hp, not afraid of turbos if that's the way to go. The other best option would be a junkyard LS1 which would be lighter and have more power, correct?
I have zero experience with american engines, so forgive me if I don't make sense.
Would it be cheaper to machine the block and buy parts to build the engine, or just buy a complete LS1 and be done?
By the time you get just the heads cleaned up, magnafluxed, pin the studs, freshen the guides, cut the exhaust seats for hard inserts to survive unleaded fuel, grind seats and valves, install new springs, retainers, keepers and seals, you'll have way more invested in just the heads than a whole boneyard Gen III motor would cost.
Please be advised that the factory was able to pull 270 hp with two Carter WCFB carbs and 283 hp with Rochester fuel injection, so I don't think you're gonna step up to the plate and hit a home run like 300-350 hp, not with those heads. Put down the Hot Rod magazine and read everything you can on this Hotrodders.com site. Real people live here and tell real stories of their experiences.
Write down every number you can find on all the parts you have and list them for sale on Hemmings Motor News. There is surely some dude out there who needs them to complete his restoration.
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Thanks for the response.
What if I keep the block only, or the block and crank? I was considering getting some aluminum heads anyways to lighten it up.
I'm just trying to ask all of the questions. As I said, I don't know much about the small block chevy, but I'm starting a project and I want to learn about them.
If you really want to have a 283 that/s fine but as stated it isn't worth it cost wise to try to build hosepower with cubic inches that small, plus not a lot of torque and you have to "drive" them to make them go, not against it, cool for a resto but most are smart and swing the LS way, well worth it power wise ans cost wise, plus a million more things you can do as turbos which will hold up better.
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cobalt327 (11-16-2012)
Thanks a bunch. This is exactly the info I was looking for. Looks like I'll be in search of an LS!
The crank is a small journal steel, the block in particular is iffy some had thin walls! that limits boring! heads are limited in flow! But many people are looking for numbers matching parts for restorations and 283s are becoming very hard to find!
Tech is right
283 is a fun engine.dont build one unless you want a 283,a stock 350 is 1/2 the price and plentyful. I would like a 283 for fun and yes 350 hp is not that hard to get,then the first 350 hp 350 you see will drive away from you,,,,,,,,,,,,
Where are you located? You state you dont know American! Are you Knowledgeable to clean and check parts? 283s can be runners! especially in lite cars like an Opel GT Etc. Your heads if they have screw in studs or pinned studs may have been reworked years ago, It doesn't hurt to clean and measure and tag, everything as you tear it down (its your labor and its free) see what you have, run numbers,You may have a jem! But if you need help and it costs money and your looking for big H. power and torque! Its the wrong choice! But you said you dont know American engines it would be a great one to learn on! And when cleaned painted and assembled should bring a better price then parting it out!
Just a thought, Jester
I'm in northern NY. I do have experience from rebuilding a few subaru engines, and I can clean/check, but this stuff is far too rusty to be useful without machining. I suppose the best thing to do is bring it to a shop and ask them what it's worth?
Everything's torn down and all that's left is the crank, block, and heads. How easy would it be to find the right rods and pistons for a proper rebuild?
The crank is steel, so find a small journal 327 bare block and have it bore 30 over and get 302 30 over pistons and use 327 connecting rods because the 283 rods are weak. Have it balanced.
With a roller cam and good set of 202 64CC aluminum heads. You can make over 400 horsepower. Only problem is getting lots of $$$$$
Rods and pistons are easily available. 5.7" small journal rods (2.00" crank journals) from any 283 or 327 SBC up to '67 will work. Scat makes a small journal rod in their Pro Stock series, part #2570020P for a pressed pin rod with 3/8" ARP cap screws, part #2570020 for a bushed pin with 3/8" ARP cap screws. Eagle makes rods in their SIR series, #SIR5700SBLW for bushed pins, #SIR5700SPLW for pressed pins. Both companies also make stronger H beam style rods (for more $$$$ of course).
KB makes 2 hypereutectic pistons for the 283, KB165 is a flat top 2 valve relief piston with a 6cc dome volume, available in .030", .040", and .060" overbore sizes (no stock bore listed). KB166 is a domed piston with -4cc dome volume (available in the same overbore sizes as the KB165). Both have a 1.805" compression height. With a 3" stroke and 5.7" rods these pistons will give a 9.005" stack height, in a stock 9.025" deck height block the pistons will be .020" in the hole.
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The Rods may be the same size, but the early 283 rods would break and the 327 are much beefier and handle the revs. I know a friend that had a 283 in a street rod and one of the connecting rod split in two and the block was trashed.
There are many posts on here about 302s! A lot are mine! I posted cost to build and a couple of break downs!#1 Use the large journal 4 bolt 327 block with inserts for the small journal crank! or a 350 4 bolt block (small journal block is weeker) But this is an Idea of what your looking at if your interested! and a price Idea! I have a blue print to build a 302 but to hit over 400 hp in a 302 and the rpm ranges! you can do it much cheaper with a 350 and it will be more reliable! I build and run destroked 302 based engines I love em! But They are high maintenance!!
All dimensions in linear inches, except as noted.
Displacement: 306.1 ci
Bore: 4.030
Stroke: 3.00
Block deck height: Milled to 9.021
Piston deck height: 0.016 (below deck)
Piston volume: 17.9cc dome
Head gasket compressed volume: 8.9cc
Compression ratio: 11.75:1
Rod length: 5.7
Piston compression height: 1.805
Piston-to-wall clearance: 0.004
Main-bearing clearance (Nos. 1-4): 0.0029-0.0035
Main-bearing clearance (No. 5): 0.0026-0.0030
Rod-bearing clearance: 0.0026-0.0030
Rod side-clearance: 0.013-0.019
Crankshaft thrust clearance: 0.004
Piston-ring endgap: 0.020/0.018/0.026
Pressed piston pin-to-rod: 0.0008 minimum
Piston-to-head clearance: 0.055
Cylinder Heads
Valve size: 2.08/1.60
Combustion chamber volume: 64 cc
Port volume: 215/85 cc
Flow at 0.500 lift: 265/207 cfm @ 28 in H20
Flow at 0.600 lift: 281/217 cfm @ 28 in H20
Valvespring od/id: 1.509/0.697
Valvespring seat pressure: 135 lb @ 1.850
Valvespring open pressure: 325 lb @ 1.345
Valvespring coil-bind height: 1.100
Spark plugs: Autolite Racing AR3933, gapped at 0.035
Critical Fasteners
ARP head bolts: 60 lb-ft (Teflon sealant on threads, ARP lube under washer)
ARP main and oil-pump studs: Bottom hand-tight, back off 11/44-turn (oil)
ARP main stud nuts: 70 lb-ft (ARP lube)
ARP oil-pump stud nut: 60 lb-ft (oil)
ARP rod-bolt nuts: 40 lb-ft (ARP lube)
Pioneer balancer bolt: 75 lb-ft (oil)
Comp rocker-arm studs: 35 lb-ft (red Loctite)
Grade-8 cam bolt: 25 lb-ft (red Loctite)
ARP intake bolts: 30 lb-ft (RTV silicone)
Piston weight: 451.0 grams
Piston-pin weight: 130.0 grams
Ring weight: 48.0 grams
Rod-bearing weight: 44.0 grams
Bobweight: 1,641 grams
Type: Mechanical flat-tappet
Grind: Comp Cams Magnum 294S
Duration, advertised: 294/294 degrees
Duration, 0.050 tappet lift: 250/250 degrees
Lobe displacement angle: 110 degrees
Installed intake centerline: 105 degrees
Lobe lift: 0.356/0.356
Rocker arm ratio: 1.52:1
Valve lift at zero lash: 0.541/0.541
Valve lift at running lash: 0.519/0.519
Valve lash: 0.022/0.022 hot
Camshaft base circle: 1.150/1.150
Pushrod length: 7.900/7.900
Piston-to-valve clearance: 0.145/0.300
Core 327 small-journal bare block EN-C327BA A&A Midwest $350.00
Core 283 forged-steel crank N/A Castillo's $125.00
Core 2.00-inch journal rods (8 required) N/A Dougan's $80.00
Speed-Pro forged pistons with pins (8 required) L2210AF-30 Summit Racing $411.12
Speed-Pro file-fit piston rings R-9342-035 Summit Racing $96.95
Speed-Pro Competition Series rod bearings 8-7065CH-10 Summit Racing $62.69
Speed-Pro Competition Series main bearings 138M-10 Summit Racing $55.99
Speed-Pro Competition Series cam bearings 2100M Summit Racing $35.69
Pioneer 6.72-inch-od SFI harmonic damper 872022 Summit Racing $149.39
Edelbrock head with valves (2 required) 77579 Summit Racing $1,139.00
Comp Cams 294S Magnum cam and lifter kit CL-12-222-4 Summit Racing $195.95
Comp Cams Pro Magnum 1.52:1 roller rockers 1301-16 Summit Racing $265.69
Comp Cams Magnum double-roller timing set 2100 Summit Racing $32.95
Comp Cams dual valvesprings 925-16 Summit Racing $122.39
Comp Cams valvespring retainers 741-16 Summit Racing $59.99
Comp Cams valve locks 611-16 Summit Racing $24.88
Comp Cams valvespring locators 4771-16 Summit Racing $39.88
Comp Cams 51/416x7.900 Magnum pushrods 7693-16 Summit Racing $105.95
Comp Cams flat guideplates for 51/416 pushrods 4808-8 Summit Racing $21.88
Comp Cams 31/48x71/416 High Energy rocker studs 4500-16 Summit Racing $26.99
Edelbrock Street Tunnel Ram intake, complete 7110 Summit Racing $259.95
Edelbrock Performer 500-cfm carb (2 required) 1404 Summit Racing $449.76
Edelbrock throttle linkage kit 7097 Summit Racing $26.95
Edelbrock calibration kit (2 required) 1486 Summit Racing $47.88
Milodon oil pan, LH dipstick 30900 Summit Racing $139.88
Milodon oil pickup 18314 Summit Racing $34.88
Speed-Pro high-volume oil pump 224-4143 Summit Racing $26.95
Speed-Pro heavy-duty pump shaft 224-6146E Summit Racing $10.99
Silver Seal dipstick and tube TW6505CP Dougan's $7.00
Used stock bypass valve N/A Wrecking yard $10.00
Mr. Gasket spin-on oil-filter adapter 1270 Summit Racing $9.75
Fel-Pro head gasket (2 required) 1010 Summit Racing $73.90
Fel-Pro intake set 1206 Summit Racing $14.88
Fel-Pro RACE set 2702 Summit Racing $18.95
Fel-Pro one-piece oil-pan gasket, LH dipstick 1880 Dougan's $36.00
Fel-Pro Cork-Lam valve-cover set 1604 Summit Racing $27.95
ARP main studs, small-journal, no windage tray 134-5402 Summit Racing $39.75
ARP head bolts, with stainless steel outer row 134-3603 Summit Racing $96.99
ARP Wave-Loc 11¼32-inch rod bolts 134-6401 Summit Racing $59.88
ARP oil pump mounting stud 230-7004 Summit Racing $6.50
ARP timing-cover bolts 200-1501 Summit Racing $9.95
ARP intake bolts 134-2001 Summit Racing $12.88
ARP valve-cover studs 400-7603 Summit Racing $18.88
Pioneer harmonic-damper bolt 859012 Dougan's $6.00
Pioneer oil-pan bolts 854001 Dougan's $15.00
Moroso distributor holddown clamp 26200 Summit Racing $7.95
Performance Distributors distributor & coil 14720 Performance Dist. $295.00
Performance Distributors Live Wires C9053 Performance Dist. $95.00
Fram Autolite racing spark plugs (8 required) AR3933 Summit Racing $37.52
Lucas 10W30 synthetic engine oil (7 quarts) 10050 Summit Racing $48.65
ACDelco oil filter PF1218 Rock Auto $4.83
Edelbrock Elite tall aluminum valve covers 4249 Summit Racing $71.95
Pioneer freeze plugs PE100BR Summit Racing $10.99
OEM Paints Chevrolet Orange/Red engine paint OE62020 The Paddock $26.95
Pioneer fuel pump block-off 839033 Dougan's $6.00
Used stock timing cover N/A Dougan's (Free)
Silver Seal timing tab 6544R Dougan's $5.00
283 crank: magnetic-particle-inspect, grind
0.010/0.010, heat-treat N/A Castillo's $327.00
Clean and inspect parts, deburr block, install freeze plugs and cam bearings, machine block, fit pistons and pins, resize rods, balance assembly, surface heads, valve job, assemble engine.
N/A Dougan's $2,667.00
*All prices are as of press-time and are subject to change.
3,000 305 174 5,100 354 343
3,100 302 178 5,200 352 349
3,200 301 183 5,300 351 354
3,300 301 189 5,400 351 361
3,400 302 195 5,500 350 367
3,500 306 204 5,600 351 375
3,600 311 213 5,700 350 380
3,700 315 222 5,800 347 383
3,800 318 230 5,900 343 385
3,900 321 238 6,000 339 387
4,000 325 247 6,100 335 390
4,100 328 256 6,200 334 395
4,200 333 266 6,300 332 398
4,300 336 275 6,400 328 400
4,400 340 285 6,500 326 403
4,500 344 295 6,600 322 405
4,600 348 305 6,700 320 408
4,700 351 314 6,800 316 409
4,800 352 322 6,900 310 407
4,900 352 328 7,000 302 403
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(Delmar Win, 6-02) This photo was taken in Victory Lane after "winning" the NHRA Delmar, DE US 13 points race, June 2002.
From left to right, engine builder, Bub Whitiker, Jerry MacNeish, Tim Bishop, and Mark Dickerson.
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Jerry MacNeish and the legendary Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins at the 1994 NHRA Keystone Nationals, Maple Grove, PA.
VIN number 124378N411100
Build Date 04A (first week of April)
Color Corvette Bronze
Interior Code 712, black standard
Car Shipper Shipped on April 11, 1968 to Ammon R. Smith Auto Company, York, PA
Engine Data Cubic Inches, 302
Cylinder heads #3917291, completely stock, no porting allowed!
Stock rocker arms & valve springs
Intake 302 aluminum intake, casting #3917610
Carburetor Holley, #4053, 780 CFM 4bbl
Camshaft Crane, .480 inches lift, 272 degrees duration, valve lash, .016-.016
Pistons GM 302, .030" oversize
Horsepower 456 @7700rpm
Rear Tires 9" x 30.0" Hoosier's
Rear axle & ratio 12-bolt, 5.57 Richmond Pro Gears
Clutch 10 inch, three finger from Advance Clutch Technology
Shift Points 8200 RPM
BEST ET 10.80 @122.30mph
Jerry MacNeish E-Mail: email@example.com 410-781-0418
PJs 302 in a mazda miata with a 5 spd would sure make the ferrari boys look silly
Its hard to find some parts it depends! example: Pink rods are hard to find but there are many aftermarket rods available! How deep are your pockets? Can you afford to build a screaming 302, or a 283 with good power? To get a 283 to 283 HP costs a lot more then getting a 350 to 283 hp!!!!!!! That's as simple as it can be stated!!!!!!
A 283 crank in a 327 or 350 block is a 302 if you bore it .030 its a 306 and so on! If you use a small journal block or the 283 block , Girdle the mains .
What do you want? Don't let some one talk you into something you cant finnish!! or when its done your not satisfied! Tech & vinniekq2 among many on here wont stear you wrong!!!!
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It's usually because no one tests them on a regular basis, as we've seen in a couple of critical moments this week. This caught my interest because my former job required me to manage systems like the ones that failed at the New York City hospital (via Instapundit):
On Monday, New York University's Langone Medical Center lost power during Hurricane Sandy, and ended up having to evacuate 215 patients when the generator that was supposed to keep its charges alive and its critical systems running failed to turn on. Across the United States there are about 12 million backup generators. Most only operate during blackouts — times when a hospital, or a laboratory, or a bank, needs electricity and can't get it from the larger electric grid.
But backup generators aren't 100% reliable. In fact, they won't work something like 20%-to-30% of the time, said Arshad Mansoor, Senior Vice President for Research & Development with the Electric Power Research Institute. The bad news is that there's only so much you can do to improve on that failure rate. The good news: There are solutions that could help keep a hospital up and running in an emergency, even if the emergency power system doesn't work.
So why do backup generators fail? The short version is that we only use them, you know, for backup. Most of the time, these generators just sit around, doing nothing. It might seem like you're keeping them safe, but it's actually a pretty rough way to treat a mechanical system.
BoingBoing equates this with scooters put up for the winter, but scooters aren't designed to save your business — or lives. In my previous career, I ran call centers for burg/fire alarm companies, whose UL certification depended (in part) in having generator/UPS systems, and testing them on a weekly basis. We actually had to test them under load once per month, which seriously shortened the life of the UPS battery array, but was worth it. When you don't test under load, you don't know if your generator will keep pace with your needs, or whether the load will switch properly at all. I had a load-switch failure happen to me during a power outage in one of those centers even with testing under load on the regular schedule, which resulted in an all-night effort to keep alternate power sources to our critical systems before the batteries expired.
Bottom line: if you have a backup generator in case of emergency, either for your business or your home, you'd better commit to testing it on a very regular basis. Otherwise, you will have a big chuck of metal that's only good for a conversation piece.


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|Neither of mine are barkers, so when they do I pay attention. My female is now over 2 and she has shown her protective side once. She is never in a situation where she needs to and I'm okay with that. The one time she did show it, it was with my son. He came home from college and I had him come in the yard to wait for each dog to come out. It was dark, he had a hoodie on, and she wasn't expecting it to be him. She rounded the corner running at him barking, growling, and teeth bared. She didn't slow down or back down, she would have knocked him on his butt. He spoke to her real fast and she switched gears immediately when she knew it was him. It did scare him, we don't do it that way anymore.
|Good ideas, thank you. We are enrolling in an obedience class next month so hopefully that will help. She sits, lays, shakes, high fives, plays dead, stays, leaves it, etc. We live near her sister and sometimes they "talk" so I'm pretty sure she tries to get to her. It only happened twice but I don't leave her alone now. If I'm with her outside she stays with me. For 11 months old she is probably doing pretty good. This is my first dog (husbands 3rd) so I'm learning right along with her.
Give this a look, not saying you need to do this but here's my thinking. Your job is to protect your dog from bad experiences, sometimes stuff happens but we do the best we can. That includes stress caused by strangers. She clearly is not people aggressive but it sounds like she has to pick or choose friend or foe?
How is she supposed to do that??
My dog learned to treat people as furniture, I taught him to ignore people, people became part of the landscape! He learned to accept the touch of strangers because I kept people out of his face (people aggressive GSD) he doesn't have to decide for himself, who is friendly and who's a threat.
He was taught what "normal' interaction with people looks like, he knows how a friendly stranger behaves, he knows how kids behave (to a degree don't have kids) and that's his base line.
Something happens outside of the norm, he looks to me, if I can't respond...he knows what to do! Normal every day people are non issues to him, he doesn't care about people but he knows how people should act under normal circumstances.
And my Boxer was a people happy,people loving, friendly dog and she to was scared of no one. But she to knew what normal interaction looked like.
Give it a thought.
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From everything I have read, dogs either have it or they don't for the most
part as far as being protective goes. There are little things you can do like
encouraging her alert barking or anything else you see as a positive. She
sounds to me like you guys don't have her respect. You need to check out
NILIF and get going. It stands for nothing in life is free, its all over the net. My
favorite book of all time is Lew Burkes dog training, it goes over everything
for the perfect dog, including protection work. Good luck.
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|Your 11 month behaves like she is 5 months. This sort of "juvenility" could be a hormonal issue. I remember my school: some of our girls still looked like Lolitas ten years later, and some looked and talked like matrons when they were 12. On the other hand, every dog copies his owner, I don't know your age, but your dog might behave the way you behave.
If she runs when you turn your back on her, you have a problem,that is not acceptable ever! Will she Sit/Stay and Down.
Popping her on the butt with a newspaper is clearly not working, quit doing it! It is easier to teach a dog to "do something" than to "not do something!"
If she is misbehaving in the house tell her "to go to bed" fun time is over! Does this dog have any discipline at all?
What's her background did you get her as a puppy?
Most GSDs don't mature until they are 18- 24 months old, which is when their protective side will start to develop, IF they have a protective side. Each dog is an individual and not all become protective. As the pack leader, they rely on you to keep them safe - that would be your job. Most of the time, just having a GSD by your side, or one that will bark at strangers at the door is a fantastic deterrent and all the protection most people need.
As for her behaviour issues - can't say for sure what is going on without actually seeing your dog and your interactions with her - for sure you will need to change the way you interact to get her to change her relationship with you. I think you need to learn how to gain her trust, develop a bond, and make her want to listen to you. If she is only 11 months and you have gone through several training philosophies, then she is confused with what you want. You have to understand that dogs are NOT naughty and defiant, but very smart and excellent students of human behaviour - she has found ways to get the attention she wants, even if it is negative attention. So you basically, without being aware of it, have trained her to do the things you don't want her to do.
I suggest training classes, for her and you! I was struggling a lot with my adopted shelter dog, she was the same as your girl - I tried to make her listen, force her to submit to my will - it was an exhausting battle. I finally enrolled us in classes, and I learned so much!!! I learned how to set her up for success and motivate her to want to listen to me. Classes were fun and rewarding, and I became a much better and more successful dog owner, and my relationship with my dog improved tremendously and we started to mesh together and became a team.
So ditch news paper and the discipline, put a line on her so she doesn't run-off, manage her environment so she has the opportunity to do good, and no opportunity to do bad, and get thee to a class!!
|Maybe she's still young,or you've never been in a situation where she had to turn it on, I'm a rookie though
My 11 month old female GSD would probably either hide or lick any intruder. She loves strangers! Is being protective just not her nature or will she grow into it?
Also, she is super defiant! She does naughty things while looking straight at me! My hubby and I don't let her get away with it, but it doesn't stop her. She is constantly in trouble. We use positive enforcement, pop on the but with a newspaper, firm voices, etc. nothing works. Advice?
I've heard so much about loyal and protective GSDs and so far mine is super naughty and even runs off if I turn my back for a few minutes. Help!
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Anil Bhoyrul argues that UAE schools are earning thousands of dollars for doing absolutely nothing
Dina Haddad Monday, 16 September 2013 3:32 PM - Canada
In Montreal we have the same system, registration fees are between 100$-150$.
The best.. We pay 100$ every year for ALREADY registered child for the next year, means that at the end of 6 years of secondary school, they cash 600$ /per child for ONE time registration.
By simple calculation the school ends by having 150,000 $ per year as cash in hand, literally in their pocket.
If one try to ask why, traditional reply is: public school are free.
Manesh Gurnani Wednesday, 23 January 2013 12:38 PM - UAE
SE - i agree fully with yr 2nd point. The schools r giving all homework on the net, thereby saving teachers time & money on stationery, books, etc, after v paying so high exhorbent school fees. What r the teachers doing in the classroom??? My daughter is in 2nd grade GEMS school & frankly most of the homework (90%) has to be done with the assistance of her mother, as it requires checking on net, printing, photographing, pasting. Sometimes same topic is dragged for a whole school term, without any extra further educational topics. If parents r to educate our children at home, then what is school for, playing or has my daughter's school headmaster told in a meeting that "parents r suppose to teach the children & the school is only here to assist the children in learning" rubbish!!! I request Dubai education dept, KDHA, to take a serious step b4 v parents lose our patience.Katy Friday, 25 January 2013 11:15 PM - UAE
One more time Gems has set the trend on raising extortionate fees in the UAE. For 2013-2014 they have jacked up re-enrollment fees to 2,500AED and parents of new students don't get their fees back in they do not get a seat. Sadly, other schools have followed suit. Bradenton Prep, just to mention one, has increased its re-enrollment fees from 500AED to 2,500AED and they are also requesting the payment be made by Feb. 14th. KHDA rated them as acceptable (notorious Nibras got the same rating by the way) yet they believe they ought to command obscene fees 8 months ahead of the new academic year.
I can only praise and encourage Anil and other brave journalists to continue using their share of voice and to write on the controversial topic of schooling fees until Govt. steps in to regulate the business of education. Parents can raise their voice as well. Imagine the impact of an online petition signed by the 100,000+ parents whose children are schooled here.
Laura Wednesday, 23 January 2013 10:56 AM - UAE
It would be interesting to read the report with the following details
-how much money each school was making from registration process
-how many kids registered and how many got spaces
-how transparent the registration process was
-How was the "customer service" after the school collected 500 AED
maria Wednesday, 23 January 2013 9:33 AM - italy
I think the main problem here is with outstanding schools (there might be 1 exception), they think they are the best on the planet. I wanted to have a tour in one of the outstanding schools and the lady was saying from a distance "we are fully booked for 2 years" I asked about the open day and she said we don't have any as we are so busy. She was saying that without asking about the age of my child. They are also too busy to inform parents who registered that their child didn't get a space, they don't bother answering the phone or responding to emails.
Arabian Business bravo!!!!
Corben Monday, 21 January 2013 2:57 PM - UAE
Well, to name some: Kings School, Jumeirah School, Jebel Ali Primary, Wellington...just a couple that have extremely well commercially trained Registrars that give you an excellent pitch, only to find out that 200 other parents have been swindled into paying 500 non-refundable dirhams for 20 places they have internally secured. Great cash flow operation.
Also, if you dig into the backers of these schools, you will find "very well run" private equity firms reporting interest ROI's in their funds exposed to "education".
Wake up and smell the dubai coffee machine.
Mark Monday, 21 January 2013 2:51 PM - UAE
It is no longer an education but a poorly managed business.
2 weeks after my 3 year old son started his first semester in September, the "prestigious" school decided to increase the tuition significantly though they had promised that they wouldn't a few weeks earlier.
I receive weekly invitations to get my son to join after school activities. The invite highlights the name of the activity and the cost associated to it without giving any details to the actual activity. In addition, they keep promoting these activities to the children in class in order for them to do the same with their parents.
The solution is not government interference but for us, the consumers to object collectively.
Anil Monday, 21 January 2013 2:48 PM - UAE
The solution is simple. If admission is not granted, AED 400 is refunded. They can keep AED 100 for answering the phone.
S E Monday, 21 January 2013 2:47 PM - UAE
1. In Gems schools, parents are asked to pay fees for 10 months in a year. The number of working days in March is at maximum five days and yet we have to pay for transport and tuition for the whole month. What gives?
2. Children in GEMS schools are being increasingly asked to 'research' information on the net and come to school prepared to present it. They are planning to do away with textbooks that were paid for at the beginning of the year. If children are to research topics on the net and only appear for assessments in schools, is it not better to home school them? Why bother with school if parents are to supervise all this?
3. Transport fees charged by STS increased along with the towfuel hikes in Dubai. The fuel prices were reduced; however there was no reduction in transport fees. Now they claim that since they have to fit all buses with surveillance equipment, they have to charge more. Can they not adjust with the difference in the fees that they have been charging unfairly?
David Sunday, 20 January 2013 9:26 PM - UAE
Since we all want the best for our children are we not prepared to invest in this? These stories always focus on the abhorrent assumption of schools making a profit off the back of hard working ex-pats. Well sorry but your sad stories of being hard done by the education system in this country has quite another side to it. It costs money to set up schools with good resources and well qualified teachers and provide the best education demanded by the clientele...you very people who are always complaining about the expense of it all. I am not justifying the costs of registration or some of the other issues involved where clearly the KHDA have the responsibility of instructing the schools in respect of their fees structure, including registration fees. It is not the schools therefore you should be complaining to but the KHDA themselves.kingkaiser Monday, 21 January 2013 2:56 PM - UAE
David, the schools here simply offer very little value for money. For similar prices elsewhere in the world, you get schools with a track record of Ivy League graduates. Here, the graudates go to mid tier universities that most of us could have gotten into anyway!
So I'm not sure where all that money is going, since its certainly not in making the students more appealing to top universities.
David Monday, 21 January 2013 2:54 PM - UAE
I agree that there should be greater transparency and responsibility shouldered by schools. It would be easy to issue a clear set of actions regarding the admissions policy and requirements at the point of application explaining fully what the charges are, points of contact and so on. But how do you stop parents registering at multiple schools to ensure they will eventually get a place for their child and at the same time give the schools some degree of control over expected take-up on places for budget and employment purposes. If there was no charge at all or if the money was refundable parents could register just where they liked and with no consequence when they make their choice.Geko Monday, 21 January 2013 2:49 PM - Dubai
Sarcastic Telco?? I think you have to check the meaning of business. Where is the exchange of value in currency or in kind except one way lugging? Only sarcastic transaction we know in similar ethics are those Nigerian emails where the receiver does not respond back anything in return. We are in Dubai.
Look at any currency bill, CBs promise you to pay and you extend the same promise to others against a return. Where is the return here? What is the proof of existence of a seat and did they evaluate that piece of form that they printed?
Again, I can ignore boneheads, Parents salaries are result oriented until otherwise you have a different way of milking the employer to gain your salary that may not ethically acceptable to others. If someone takes yr money without give you anything in return, it is financial forgery. Apologise or better repay or both if you consider education noble.
Mark Renton Monday, 21 January 2013 2:46 PM - UAE
David, the KHDA do not force schools to charge registration fees, nor re-enrollment fees for that matter. It is very interesting (and fairly predictable) to see which schools will exploit the regulations to the maximum, and which will look at parents as valued customers, and not just a bunch of mugs to be milked for as much money as possible.
I'd like to believe that the KHDA are the right channel for complaints, let's all complain and see if anything happens......Oldtimer Monday, 21 January 2013 2:44 PM - United Arab Emirates
One wouldn't complain if the quality of education was reflected in the high fees. I would gladly pay if they only hired competent tutors and paid them decent salary. In the school where my kids study, there is a lot of hype about the emphasis on 'global values' and extra-curricular activities but all this is at the expense of academic excellence. Lot of gimmicks like laptops, audio-visual aids etc just before KHDA inspection but back to the old mediocre teaching soon after! Teachers are paid a pittance so none with any skill stay back; only the jobless housewives who have some graduate qualification but no teaching experience are recruited b'coz it's cheaper to hire them! The result is that we have to arrange private tutoring for our children, to compensate for the woeful teaching that has robbed our hard-earned money and given us nothing to show for it!kamal Monday, 21 January 2013 12:38 PM - UAE
Mr. David,
I think you are missing the point.
it became a practice to charge the AED500 regardless if there or will be any vacancy.
don't you think the school should have a pretty good idea on the registered students.
I fully support that this has to stop.
Scott Feasey Sunday, 20 January 2013 3:20 PM - UAE
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Strasbourg, 31.05.2011 - The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) today published its fourth report on Cyprus. ECRI's Chair, Nils Muiznieks, said that, while there are positive developments, some issues of concern remain, such as the disproportionately high concentration of Turkish Cypriot and Roma pupils in particular schools and the continued vulnerability of foreign domestic workers.
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(ITC). As companies have increasingly begun to do in recent years, Apple had turned to the ITC to play court and offer a back door to ban its competitors' products.
The ITC examined several of Apple's patent claims (including a humorous one in which Apple claimed to have "invented" interrupt driven undervolting of a computer chip). In the end it decided that HTC was presumably in infringement of only one of those patents --
U.S. Patent 5,946,647
Apple has struck a blow at the pesky Android rebels, with a token victory over HTC's legacy products. [Image Source: LucasFilm; modified]
Like many of Apple's technology patents, it came from the lucrative period between 1998 and 2004, where Apple pushed through increasingly ambiguous patent claims, which it would use over a decade later as a club to try to beat back its mobile competitors.
The patent seems to cover in various vagueries some sort of software framework that takes messages and then launches events -- a nebulous description that could cover everything this side of
Windows 7
Watson the supercomputer
The abstract reads:
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. The application program interface communicates with the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the detected structure.
The patent was filed in 1996, over a decade before Apple announced its first smartphone was coming.
II. Busines as Usual for HTC, Despite Ban
The interesting thing is that the ITC somehow seemed to reach the opinion that a shift occurred around Android 2.3 Gingerbread, removing the infringing feature. This means that not only did most of Apple's claims get dismissed, but that its sole successful claim only worked towards banning a handful of aged HTC devices, which were still sporting Android 1.6 ("Donut", remember that?), Android 2.1 "Eclair", and Android 2.2 "Froyo".
Only HTC's older models will be barred from U.S. sales, come April. [Image Source:
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Noticeably not on the list is HTC's flagship product lineup, which includes best-selling smartphones such as the HTC Rezound.
HTC cheered this positive turn of events, commenting, "We are very pleased with the determination and we respect it. However, the 647 patent is a small UI experience and HTC will completely remove it from all of our phones soon."
Even if the ban is ratified by ITC President , it won't go into effect until April 19, 2012.
If Apple hope to use the lawsuits to regain its U.S. sales lead, which it
recently lost to HTC
, it's likely out of luck. And while Apple may be able to at least effectively harass patent-poor HTC, Apple has seen its legal campaign against the world's top smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) start to collapse.
Earlier this month the ITC
slapped down Apple's request
to ban Samsung's mobile devices. And in Australia it saw one of its lone victories over Samsung erased as a
of appeals courts
unanimously decided to lift
a sales ban, admonishing a lower court judge, who they argued grossly misinterpreted the law in her pro-Apple decision.
II. The More You Tighten Your Grip... The More Star Systems Slip Through Your Fingers.
Falling behind in both domestic and international sales to its surging Android rivals, Apple CEO and co-founder in his waning days urged his workers to
spend the entirety of Apple's substantial cash fortune
, if necessary to try to legally drive Android into the ground.
For it's part Apple is reportedly trying some more clever techniques, founding shell companies, such as Cliff Island LLC, and
partnering with experienced "trolls"
like Digitude Innnovations. Apple also continues to patent seemingly obvious technologies that have been on the market for several years or more,
such as the swipe unlock
, a feature found on Neonode Inc.'s (
) mid-2000s feature phones, and on other early products. Oddly the U.S. Patent and Trademark rubber-stamped two Apple patents on that particularly feature, with nary a question or complaint.
Currently while Android smartphone makers are drastically outselling it (roughly 5-to-2), Apple is still wildly more profitable,
rivalling Exxon Mobile
) for the distinction of being the world's most profitable company. But those massive sales are predicated on the continued success of Apple's tablets and smartphones. If that market share continues to dwindle, as analysts are predicting, Apple may find itself falling off
its record fiscal fortunes
, which it has enjoyed of late.
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A list of controversial "dos and don'ts" regading sexual relations for Turkish women has been published by the Directorate of Religious Affairs. According to the much debated list(it is not law in Turkey) people should avoid having illegal etra-marital affairs and engaging in such behaviors as flirting and dating that might lead to adultery. Turkey is a nation in which some women are blatantly western in their normal behavior while others adhere more closely to traditional ways of behavior.The web site of the Directorate said "women have to be more careful since they have sexual stimulants." It cited women who wear perfume outside fthe home as displaying immoral behavior because "Our Prophet Mohammed did not approve of women who wear perfume and fragrances outside their homes and he descried this action as immoral."
The list in itself is an expression of free speech and one can accept or reject the suggestions. The danger lies in having the list used by men who wish to harass women who don't follow its precepts. It is doubtful if western thinking women and men will cease flirting and dating because of a list published on a web site.
Ironically, the list of "dos and don'ts" as well as opposition to abortion would probably meet with approval by many American rellgious fundamentalists. Perhaps, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson should pay more close attention to their similarities in thinking with Muslim fundamentalists. They may have new allies in their fight against immorality and abortions.


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Hypothesis testing and long range memory
What is the actual hypothesis you are testing when you compare a model to an observation? It is not a simple as 'is the model any good' – though many casual readers might assume so. Instead, it is a test of a whole set of assumptions that went into building the model, the forces driving it, and the assumptions that went in to what is presented as the observations. A mismatch between them can arise from a mis-specification of any of these components and climate science is full of examples where reported mismatches ended up being due to problems in the observations or forcing functions rather than the models (ice age tropical ocean temperatures, the MSU records etc.). Conversely of course, there are clear cases where the models are wrong (the double ITCZ problem) and where the search for which assumptions in the model are responsible is ongoing.
As we have discussed, there is a skill required in comparing models to observations in ways that are most productive, and that requires a certain familiarity with the history of climate and weather models. For instance, it is well known that the individual trajectory of the weather is chaotic (in models this is provable; in the real world, just very likely) and unpredictable after a couple of weeks. So comparing the real weather at a point with a model simulation outside of a weather forecast context is not going to be useful. You can see this by specifying exactly what the hypothesis is you are testing in performing such a comparison in a climate model – i.e. "is a model's individual weather correlated to the weather in the real world (given the assumptions of the model and no input of actual weather data)". There will be a mismatch between model and observation, but nothing of interest will have been learnt because we already know that the weather in the model is chaotic.
Hypotheses are much more useful if you expect that there will be a match; a mismatch is then much more surprising. Your expectations are driven by past experience and are informed by a basic understanding of the physics. For instance, given the physics of sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere (short wave reflectors, long wave absorbers), it would be surprising if putting in the aerosols seen during the Pinatubo eruption did not reduce the planetary temperature while warming the stratosphere in the model. Which it does. Doing such an experiments is much more a test of the quantitative impacts then, rather than the qualitative response.
With that in mind, I now turn to the latest paper that is getting the inactivists excited by Demetris Koutsoyiannis and colleagues. There are very clearly two parts to this paper – the first is a poor summary of the practice of climate modelling – touching all the recent contrarian talking points (global cooling, Douglass et al, Karl Popper etc.) but is not worth dealing with in detail (the reviewers of the paper include Willie Soon, Pat Frank and Larry Gould (of Monckton/APS fame) – so no guessing needed for where they get their misconceptions). This is however just a distraction (though I'd recommend to the authors to leave out this kind of nonsense in future if they want to be taken seriously in the wider field). The second part is their actual analysis, the results of which lead them to conclude that "models perform poorly", and is more interesting in conception, if not in execution.
Koutsoyiannis and his colleagues are hydrologists by background and have an interest in what is called long term persistence (LTP or long term memory) in time series (discussed previously here). This is often quantified by the Hurst parameter (nicely explained by tamino recently). A Hurst value of greater than 0.5 is indicative of 'long range persistence' and complicates issues of calculating trend uncertainties and the like. Many natural time series do show more persistent 'memory' than a simple auto-regression (AR) process – in particularly (and classically) river outflows. This makes physical sense because a watershed is much more complicated than just a damper of higher frequency inputs. Soil moisture can have an impact from year to year, as can various groundwater reservoirs and their interactions.
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Experience campus on a Homecoming football Saturday! Begin your visit at Lansdell Hall in the Admissions Office (2nd floor) with an admissions/financial aid overview. Then, you will be guided on a campus tour by one of our very own Student Ambassadors. You will have the opportunity to walk through our suite-style residence halls and technologically-equipped classrooms. Before heading off to the football game, we will treat you to lunch in our newly-renovated dining hall. Afterwards, come support our RAMS at Mitchell Stadium – tickets are on us!
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Won Ed Murphey Award for outstanding track performance at team banquet by virtue
of his NCAA-winning 400m dash effort ... Won Volunteer Award for toughest track
competitor at team banquet ... Seemingly got faster every time he touched the
track as he broke records in his specialty multiple times ... Became the first
Volunteer to win the NCAA 400m dash, although Anthony Blair tied for the NCAA
Indoor 440 yd. title in 1980 ... Won the 400m dash at the NCAA Outdoors with
a thunderous 44.53 in the finals to shatter his own school record (June 1) ...
Kikaya�s time of 44.53 stood as the third-fastest time in the world in
2002 and fastest by a collegian ... Became the last Vol to cross the finish
line in Tennessee�s runner-up team effort at the NCAA Indoors, as Kikaya
anchored the 4x400m relay to a fifth-place, 3:02.83 finish, running a 45.2 split
despite his school-record 44.53 effort in the 400m dash earlier in the day ...
Broke school records in the indoor 400m dash, outdoor 400m dash, indoor 4x400m
relay, outdoor 4x200m relay, outdoor 4x400m relay ... Besides being a world-class
400m man, Kikaya�s relay skills played a crucial role in Tennessee landing
its first-ever designation by Track & Field News as the nation�s top
overall relay squad ... More Kikaya fireworks came when he set the school 400m
dash record twice in two days at the SEC Outdoors ... Kikaya won the 400m dash
with a blazing 44.86 (May 12) at the SECs to rewrite his school record from
a day earlier ... In the prelims, Kikaya ran a 45.00 to break the 1974 time
of 45.04 by Vol great Darwin Bond ... Won the 400m dash (45.46) and 4x400m relay
(3:02.14) at the Sea Ray Relays ... The Sea Rays 4x400m relay time of 3:02.14
broke the school record, meet record and stood as 2002�s 11th-fastest
time in the world, ahead of 15 national teams from around the globe ... Kikaya
pulled the 400m dash and 4x400m relay double one week earlier at the Sea Ray
Relays with a 45.53 and 3:07.88 timing ... Kikaya led off Tennessee�s
school-record 1:20.20 winner in the 4x200m relay, the fastest time in the world
in 2002, and clocked a 44.5 anchor leg on the second-place 4x400m relay in 3:06.32
at the Penn Relays ... Won the 400m dash in 45.53 and anchored the winning 4x400m
relay to a 3:07.88 finish to lead the Vols to the team victory at the Gatorade
Classic and defend a 32-year home winning streak.
2002-Indoor- Kikaya has come through as an immediate impact signee with his ability to produce in the 400m dash and 4x400m relay ... Continuing a monster first season for the Vols, Kikaya broke the indoor school record in the 400m dash twice more during the NCAA Indoors to move the total to four times he has broken the school indoor record from Feb. 9 to March 9 ... Kikaya�s game effort in the 400m dash proved essential to the Vol NCAA title run ... Ran a 46.07 to notch the second-fastest NCAA 400m dash prelim time (March 8) ... In the finals, clocked in at a blistering 45.93 to post the current indoor school 400m dash record to earn third at the NCAA Indoors, despite entering the meet with the 11th-best time ... Continued his heroic NCAA Indoor effort by anchoring Tennessee�s second-place 4x400m relay (3:06.87) in an unthinkable 44.9 split after running the 400m dash finals earlier in the day ... Chiseled his name as the indoor school record holder again in the 400m dash with a 46.51 to claim fifth at the SEC Indoors (Feb. 24) ... Kikaya�s blazing 45.5 anchor leg led the Vols� 4x400m relay to second place in 3:05.63, easily an automatic qualifier as the second-fastest time in the nation and shattering the Tennessee indoor school record in the event ... Broke the school indoor 400m dash record, the first time of the season, with a 46.77 to earn third at the Armory Invitational (Feb. 9) in New York ... Took third in the 400m dash with a 47.88 to help the Vols to the win at the SEC Eastern Division Challenge at Florida ... Proved a valuable relay man with anchor legs on Tennessee�s two fastest 4x400m relay clockings of the season -- a 3:09.68 at the SEC Eastern Division Challenge and 3:10.49 at the Kroger Invitational at Virginia Tech.
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American Airlines' parent company, the AMR Corporation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday; this is certainly dismal news for the carrier's employees and shareholders. But American's customers may likewise be worried about what lies ahead. Should fliers expect more fees, cuts to mileage programs and other unfavorable changes from the airline in the near future?
A piece published by satirical online newspaper the Onion in 2008 was oddly prescient. The story, American Airlines Now Charging Fees to Non-Passengers, reads: "[American Airlines President Gerard Arpey] said that non-passengers of American Airlines should expect to pay a small fee when making Greyhound bus reservations, choosing to drive to their final destination, or simply being a citizen of the United States with a valid Social Security number. Arpey went on to note that some additional charges would also apply, including a $15 fee for every piece of luggage customers have inside their bedroom closet, and a one-time payment of $40 for any American whose name is Greg."
In the wake of a gloomy turn of events in the airline industry, it's refreshing to have a chuckle. But is there an element of truth in this parody?
For now, everything — including ticket prices, extra fees and mileage programs — will pretty much stay the same. According to a statement posted on the airline Web site,"American Airlines and American Eagle are operating normal flight schedules, and our reservations, customer service, AAdvantage program, Admirals Clubs and all other operations are conducting business as usual."
Every other legacy airline has gone through bankruptcy in the last decade — US Airways, United, Delta, etc. — and lived to tell the tale. Judging by past bankruptcies, we can predict that American will likely be curtailing its route map down the road. Says IndependentTraveler.com contributor Ed Hewitt, "Bankrupt airlines almost always make changes and cutbacks to routes and flight frequency; staying on top of your flight through e-mail notifications will help you get the word more quickly." It's a good idea to sign up for e-mail alerts from American if you have an upcoming flight scheduled.
As for fees, we can't say whether or not American — or other carriers, for that matter — will roll out more petty charges to squeeze some extra revenue out of the pockets of its customers following this latest airline bankruptcy. As always, travelers should keep an eye on ticket terms and conditions when purchasing a flight.
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Doyle's lecture will focus on the dinosaur tracks of the Connecticut Valley and their discovery by Edward Hitchcock. She will also discuss Hitchcock as a historical figure, taking into consideration his expertise in many different subjects, including theology, geology, and the link between science and scripture.
Doyle received a B.A. in history from Wellesley College and an M.A. in gender and cultural studies at Central European University (Budapest). Currently, Doyle is the program manager for the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Massachusetts, which serves as a history museum, library, and archive, as well as a center for history education.
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'There is no shortage of compelling storylines that will play out in this series. How will the Sabres cope with their favoured status? How will New York do with third-stringer Wade Dubielewicz in net? Will four of the top free-agents-in-waiting (Ryan Smyth, Jason Blake, Daniel Briere, Chris Drury) dazzle or fizzle? But the one that's got the hockey world buzzing is Nolan's return to Buffalo.'
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Hampton to pitch in simulated game
Hampton to pitch in simulated game
After Hampton completed a relatively pain-free, 10-minute bullpen session at Disney on Monday morning, he indicated there was a chance he'd pitch on Wednesday night against the Indians. But Braves manager Bobby Cox decided it would be best for the 35-year-old southpaw to keep his arm strong and his legs protected in the environment of a simulated game.
"I don't want to take any steps back," Hampton said. "That's why I was like, 'Maybe a simulated game would be a little smarter, because it would be in a more controlled environment.' Plus, I would continue strengthening my arm without any added stress on my leg."
Toward the end of Monday's 10-minute bullpen session, Hampton felt some slight discomfort in the right groin that he strained in the second inning of Friday's game against the Tigers. Still, he opted to run 12 sprints with the belief that that the discomfort might have simply been caused by fatigue.
So far, Hampton hasn't had any problems with his left elbow, which has prevented him from pitching during either of the past two seasons. All of his recent health-related issues have been confined to his right leg. He suffered a right hamstring strain while pitching in Mexico in November and then tweaked his groin on Friday.
Still, after running Monday's sprints, Hampton gained a sense that his hamstring is nearing full health.
"That's the best that I've been able to run with explosive movement and everything," said Hampton, who hasn't pitched in a regular-season game since Aug. 19, 2005, is determined to be part of the starting rotation on Opening Day. That's part of the reason he decided to stay on schedule, instead of waiting a few extra days to pitch in a Grapefruit League game.
Buddy Carlyle will start in Hampton's place during Wednesday night's game against the Indians.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.