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Moving day will be here sooner than you think. You probably wish you could blink your eyes and everything would arrive in its proper place in your new home. But you're not a genie. It's going to take careful thought, smart preparation, and plenty of muscle to get your belongings from their places in your current home to the right spot in your new one. Here are some ideas to help you get ready for moving day.
Plan. Plan. Plan.
You may have the urge to start tossing your things in boxes and sorting them out in your new place. Resist that urge. Plan ahead to make sure you move out and move in as easily possible.
- Think about your new home: layout, size, number of rooms. Chances are you're going to have to organize your stuff in a different way than it is in your current home. Those changes affect how you pack.
- Draw out a floor plan of your new place. Look at the bedrooms, living spaces, and kitchen. Start planning where things will go. Literally draw objects into the floor plan so that you can visualize them in your new home.
- Moving Checklist [PDF-59.5KB], a checklist to help plan and organize your move.
Buy Supplies
Having the right equipment ready will make your move a little less painful. You'll want these supplies on hand:
- Boxes for your stuff. This one is obvious. Get about double what you're thinking, because you don't want to overload them, and you definitely don't want to run out of boxes at the last minute!
- Bubble wrap and packing paper to protect valuables. Use packing tape to seal boxes.
- Plastic sandwich bags, blank stickers, and permanent markers. You'll find out why later.
Sort. And Purge.
Let's face it: We all have a lot of stuff that we just don't need. Do you really want to pack up, haul, and unpack stuff you never use and don't care about? Before you pack anything, start by separating stuff you need from stuff you don't.
- Start in the storage area of your house. The basement, the attic, a closet - wherever you keep that mass of stuff you think you need but never use.
- Go through things. If you haven't used, looked at, or at least thought about something in a couple of years, separate it into the "purge" pile.
- Don't be afraid to keep valuables or special items - even if you don't use them often. Put these types of objects together, and pack them safely in case you don't open them for a while.
- Decide how you're going to get rid of stuff. Donate it to charity? Hold a garage sale? Leave it by the curb and hope someone takes it?
Get Packing
The moment of truth has arrived. All your planning has come down to this. Keep a few things in mind while you're packing:
- Don't forget to wrap breakables in bubble wrap or packing paper.
- Make sure to line the bottom of your boxes with foam peanuts or crumpled-up newspaper. Place the heavier items on the bottom and the lighter items on the top.
- When everything is packed in a particular box, sprinkle in some more packing peanuts, tape up the box, and label it.
Preparing Furniture
It's tempting not to prep furniture and hope that everything survives the move without a scratch. But taking a few extra minutes on the front end can save you from getting a big headache. Here are a few ideas to keep your furniture protected during the move:
- Remember the plastic sandwich bags, blank stickers, and permanent marker we suggested earlier? They come in handy when you're disassembling things like tables, bookshelves, and cribs. Nuts, bolts, and washers go in a plastic bag, which can then be taped to the underside of a piece of furniture. For items that have a lot of individual components, use the stickers to label each item so you can easily assemble the furniture again.
- Apply wax to fine woods to prevent scratches.
- Put pillows and coverings in plastic garbage bags. Make sure to fasten the bags so debris can't get in.
- Wrap important furniture with blankets or bubble wrap for extra protection.
Take a Deep Breath
You're finished packing. Relax, but don't lose too much steam: You'll need to unpack everything soon.
Get some rest before the big day. Go visit some of your favorite places, or spend time with friends and family. And keep things in perspective: Moving is hard work, but there's an end in sight.


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Job Openings at the University can be found at this site.
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Organic Garden Center gives the community a place to learn about organic gardening.
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With refreshing scents and flavors to enhance your cooking, add to beverages and use in potpourris, mint can be an indispensable plant in your garden.
Mint's only downside is it will take over your garden if it gets half a chance. But you can contain its exuberance by growing mint in pots. Or you can confine mint in a garden bed with metal or plastic edging. Bury the edging to a depth of 14 inches around the perimeter of the mint patch.
Mints for your garden
Spearmint, with its slightly sweet flavor, makes a refreshing tea and can be used to highlight flavors in a fruit salad. Or add it to new potatoes or grain pilaf. Plants grow 2 to 3 feet tall, with pale pink or white blooms appearing in middle to late summer.
Peppermint is more pungent than spearmint, growing to 3 feet tall with pinkish lavender flowers. It's a common ingredient in teas, especially for soothing the stomach.
Corsican mint is a ground-hugging mint that prefers shade. It drapes over a container or weaves in between stones.
Most mints can be started from seed, with the exception of peppermint, which is propagated by cuttings. Choose a sunny location –– except for Corsican mint –– with moderately fertile, humus-packed soil. Use a light mulch to retain moisture and keep leaves clean. Most mints are hardy to zone three or four; Corsican mint is hardy to zone six, so treat it as an annual in colder regions.
Once plants are growing vigorously, you can harvest young or mature leaves. Don't be afraid to cut the plants back frequently to promote fresh growth. Use fresh leaves in cooking or dry mint leaves on trays or by hanging bunched branches upside down in a warm, dark and well-ventilated area.
For more tips and garden information visit www.garden.org.
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A freshly painted home is a plus for potential buyers. However, choosing bright, bold colors like red, orange or yellow, or choosing unusually dreary colors like black, brown or deep purple can turn buyers off because of the extra work it takes to re-paint. It is best to stick with neutral colors in a white or beige color scheme.
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Recycling aluminum cans is easy and makes a huge difference in the environment, so be sure to do your part. After all, one wasted can is equal to a half can's worth of wasted gasoline. And a recycled can is back on the shelves in as little as 60 days. Making new cans from recycled cans requires 95 percent less energy than making them from scratch, so don't let that soda can end up in the landfill.
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Home Improvements: Cleaning linoleum floor tiles
When choosing a cleaner for linoleum floors, remember that excessive pH levels will damage the tiles. Try pouring a small amount of vinegar into a bucket and drench a rag in it. Clean the floor and then wring out the dirty rag in a separate bucket of water. Once the dirt is removed, dip the rag back into the vinegar and repeat. Poor dirty vinegar out as needed and refill with fresh vinegar. No need to rinse the floor afterwards.
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Garden Guide: Sticking to your roots
There are a lot of gardeners interested in using native plants, and there are good reasons for doing so.
"(Good reasons) include a desire to maintain or restore some of the original landscape; an interest in attracting birds and wildlife to the area; and satisfying a desire to connect with the natural environment," said Sharon Yiesla, a University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. "Some communities may even specify that only native plants be planted."
"Native" plants are often defined as plants recorded as growing wild in an area at the time scientific collection began. Other plants are considered "introduced."
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BRUSSELS—The European Commission has proposed to revamp Europe-wide regulations to improve the prospects of its booming organic farming sector. The commission says its plan will boost research into organic farming—from pest and disease management to techniques for organic seed production and the coexistence of organic farming with nonorganic agriculture.
The reform will help farmers catch up with soaring consumer demand for organic food, said Dacian Cioloş, Europe's agriculture commissioner, during the plan's presentation here yesterday. The European Union's market for organic products has increased fourfold in the last decade, reaching €20.9 billion in 2012, while the bloc's organic farmland has only doubled in the same period.
The commission's proposal includes draft legislation to harmonize and tighten rules across the bloc as well as a nonbinding action plan, which lists policy intentions and practical steps to prepare the shift to a revamped legal regime.
Under this plan, the commission says it will organize a conference next year to identify research and innovation priorities for food producers. Its outcomes will be used to define research topics under Horizon 2020, the European Union's 7-year research funding program.
While organic farmers are now allowed to feed their animals 5% of conventional feed, or to use nonorganic seeds under some conditions, they would have to go 100% organic under the new regulation. The commission hopes that this obligation will boost research and innovation in the area of protein and micronutrient supply for animals, and techniques to breed organic seeds, which are currently in scarce supply.
Copa-Cogeca, a lobby group that represents European farmers in Brussels, has warned that if rules are too tight, they will curb the growth of organic farming. "The rules must not discourage new farmers from converting into organic farming nor existing organic farmers to continue production," a Copa-Cogeca spokeswoman tells ScienceInsider in an e-mail.
The commission's action plan lists other research areas that deserve particular attention, including new ways to stave off pests and diseases; alternatives to copper products for plant protection; and the coexistence of organic farming with regular agriculture. The commission also wants to bolster the uptake of existing research results in the fields, including findings from conventional farming research that could be relevant to organic agriculture, says an E.U. official.
At the moment, it is not clear how much of the European Union's agriculture science budget will fund research relevant to organic farming; IFOAM EU, an advocacy group for organic farming, is arguing that 10% of it should go to organic farming topics to reflect the growing importance of the sector.
Philippe Baret, a geneticist at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, says that Europe needs a broader research agenda that includes economic and regulatory issues, not just technical solutions. Scientists shouldn't just study how conventional and organic farming coexist from a technical point of view, for instance, but should also compare their relative benefits for human health and the environment, he says. "Organic farming is not alone in a bubble," Baret says.
While the action plan can be rolled out immediately, the commission's draft regulation has to be examined by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, which represents the European Union's 28 member states. The commission expects that the reform could take effect in 2017.
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We are in love with licorice at Pukka. Sweet, earthy and delicious it perfectly harmonises the perfect cup of tea.
Growing in sandy soils its creeping roots spread in every direction drawing nutrients from deep within the earth.
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Baron Alanya Steele, aged sixteen. Father was an Elk Marquis, Mother was a Bear. Was the second-born child and the only one to survive childhood. Chose to be an Elk. Is married with two children, a daughter, Fen, followed by a son, Ohalu. Wife is a Fox, Shutari Tammel, who had an Elk Father. Wife was the sixth child of her family, and the only one to survive.
Strength: Weakness
Cunning: 5
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Courage: 3
Beauty: 2
Prowess: 3
Service: Weakness
Tenacity: Weakness
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NCAA Tournament isn't a big payday for referees
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Millions of dollars will be exchanged during the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, but referees will only see a few thousand for their efforts.
The tournament, which starts today with 16 games, doesn't offer NCAA referees the same payday as other professional referees. The reason is most NCAA referees work as independent contractors, forcing them to foot their own travel and health insurance expenses.
According to The Washington Post, the NCAA paid referees $1,200 for the first round, $1,400 for the second round and $2,000 for the Final Four in 2012. The NCAA does cover the referees' travel and hotel expenses during the tournament but not during the regular season.
Nearly all of the referees will work fewer than four games. Around 10 will be selected to referee the Final Four.
Scores and stats: Follow March Madness here
"If officials were paid $2,500 the first weekend, $5,000 the second weekend and $10,000 the third weekend, the NCAA probably wouldn't go broke," The Washington Post wrote in 2012. "And it would give [John] Adams a better chance of setting some kind of maximum number for regular season games officials could work."
Under current NCAA rules, referees are only limited by the timespan between games. A referee cannot officiate a game in the same 24-hour period.
Adams, NCAA's supervisor of officials, said last year he'd like the option to limit the number of games referees work to no more than 72 games in a season. Twenty-seven referees crossed that number this year, including Roger Ayers, who worked 95 regular season games, according to Statsheet.com.
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NCAA basketball referees are not part of an established union, and their salaries are contingent on the number of games they officiate. Referees can make $1,000 to $3,000 per game during the regular season, according to Yahoo. In comparison, NFL referees will make more than $10,000 per regular season game in 2013, according to CNN.
So by removing 20 games from their schedule, a referee could see their salary drop by $20,000 to $60,000.


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I was loving life in this progressive-Western-hipster haven city near the Left Coast, USA, and yet I always felt a strange dread, or foreboding feeling, before going to social events at known 'Anarcho-houses.' Whether it was a party, movie night, discussion session, or whatever, I always feared running into enemies. I also felt anxiety over seeing people that I just did not like, or spotting a male jerk that was holding his hot girlfriend like a valued possession and evil eyeing potential male rivals, or even having to endure some loud mouth, obnoxious creep that seemed to go to most parties – just to ruin the ambience for everyone else.
I usually rode my bicycle to the event. When I arrived to the destination, I first made sure to grab as much free beer as possible, or score some free drugs, or enough free swigs of liquor to make the trip worthwhile. Late at night, I always rode my bike severely wasted in order to get back home. The local, donut cop brigade never gave me a DUI on my bike. White skin privilege did have its benefits. I definitely was not the only stoned Anarcho-hipster on his bike getting the breaks.
But when I look back on those days, I felt just as nervous before attending political Anarcho-events, as attending parties represented by other urban subcultures, such as theater people, taxidermists, service industry types, punk musicians, yoga teachers, or just drug-addled hipsters. Why was this this case?
The answer was due to the ego nastiness and common rudeness plaguing the 'Anarcho-hipster' scene, or as I liked to call it, Middle-Class Anarchism with lots of white skin masks. Yes, there were many black clothes outfits, lots of good music, many right attitudes, different hairstyles, ripped clothes, patches, backpacks with survival stuff, ripped Converse All Stars, street swagger, denim vests, hats of all shapes and even a few overalls and bare feet – but there was no real community. Anarchists were just as close-minded, mean and egotistical as the corrupt world around them, and once in a while, even more so.
I do remember a good amount of cliques and associations in that scene. The list included Books to Prisoner people, volunteer cabals at the local radical bookstores, Indymedia people, small Anarcho-house conglomerations, Anarcho-community center leaders, IWW guys, Anarcho-zine writers, Anarcho-journalists that organized and printed radical newspapers, and a few involved with the Freeskool. A lot of radical stuff was happening at the time, but without the camaraderie and fellowship representing real freedom and actual revolution, the events were just parties, get-togethers, and simple experiences representing both the good and bad of humanity. An interested bystander does not need any Anarchist philosophy in order to learn about this part of life.
Anarchy in the USA is just another subculture fielded by numerous cliques and associations, seen mostly within a rough sea of white faces wearing dark clothes. Unfortunately, the Leftist diseases of rudeness, weirdness, pettiness and vengefulness have sprouted some deep and poisonous weeds within this radical subculture. I personally have had to verbally fend off various Anarcho-assholes that have gotten angry with me over some inconsequential offense. I have also seen Anarcho-shit clowns verbally jump on some other person for saying something a little off kilter from the supported Anarcho-dogma. This situation is not good.
Anarchists do not have to necessarily act the part of a gentleman or a gentlewoman, but they do need to understand the importance of discreetness, politeness, friendly manners and prudent communication. These common, but very important behaviors are the most crucial and cohesive actions for any political, philosophical or religious group that seeks to transcend into a strong and marvelous community. An Anarcho-gentleman or gentlewoman would not be such a bad thing either – even though it does seem contradictory.
The cult or culture of the gentleman-gentlewoman began in the European Renaissance period, and more specifically, in the geographic region of Italy. A new occupation, or even a new social class, formed itself in late the 1450s, called 'cortigiani,' or courtiers. These courtiers were essentially social parasites that hung around aristocratic and royal courts. Those court bums or freeloaders became servants to their aristocratic and royal patrons.
Court parasites also became notorious in Europe with such names as, 'hanger ons,' 'court followers,' 'flatterers,' 'leeches,' 'scroungers,' 'freeloaders,' and just simple 'human fleas.' Even though these hanger ons annoyed their patrons, the various dukes, earls, counts, barons and kings to no end, they still had to perform some meritorious service to their patron lords. Most men performed military service, if they were not in the Church, and the women often had to become breeders, spiritual advisers, (if they were nuns that had political visions), or they could attain elite prostitute status with the name of 'courtesans.'
An Italian writer, by the name of Baldassare Castiglione, published a book in the 1520s, which soon became a best seller throughout the rest of Europe during the entire 1500s. The title was 'The Book of the Courtier.' The writer staged his monograph around ten roundtable conservations between both gentlemen and gentlewomen, from some anonymous Italian Renaissance court, concerning their opinions of the right actions of a courtier. Most of the talkers emphasized an Italian term called 'sprezzatura,' or in contemporary English, intensity of action with simultaneous light relaxation.
The courtier-gentleperson had to perform his/her special skills through an excellence of work, and at the same time, show off his/her abilities with a sense of flair and sensual finesse. The courtier had to essentially transform his/herself into a public celebrity of notoriety. With these great abilities, the gentle person could hope to enter the social class status of the lords, or aristocratic parasites.
With this new class status, they also took the titles of 'signore,' or lords of estates, lands and their lower class subjects. This signore-courtier title then smothered itself across the rest of Europe like Castiglione's etiquette book. Signore became 'señor' in Spain, 'seigneur' in France, and 'sire,' or 'sir' in England. In the 1680s, this cult of the courtier and a gentleman took on connotations that were quite a bit more insidious.
Our English-American gentleman title actually comes from the French, 'gentil homme,' which became a renowned-infamous title-status within the aristocratic realms of gluttonous dining and parasitical living. This degenerate lifestyle included ten course meals inside of a 200 plus room palace called Versailles featuring fountains overlaid with Italianate sculptures, brilliant silverware, maze like gardens, gold inlayed mirrors and marbled spit shined floors, all of this dishonorable waste flourished under the tyrannical reign of the Sun King, Emperor Louis XIV during the late 1600s.
Within the British colonies of the Americas, or as their name was back then, the American Plantations, and especially in the cavalier state of Virginia, later called 'Old Dominion,' the gentleman planter class emerged with his hundreds of eternal African and white slaves, a large plantation home, and a long political, 'distinguished' career in the state assembly. No wonder Anarchists hated the gentle person term and the actions associated with such despicable leeches. But the modern Anarchist tripped into one of the ruling class' traps.
The trap was pushing the revolutionary into the brute world of lower class poverty and misery. Good manners and politeness cannot survive under the reign of capitalist wage slavery and the urban hells that it creates. The Anarchist became the knight of shining armor for the weak and defenseless, but he and she also took on the traumas of poverty with nasty cravings for vengeance. The Anarchist still suffers from this malady today. But we do not need to suffer like this.
If we truly want to experience beautiful street revolutions representing the fullness of humanity, or in other words, Anarchy, then we will have to change our attitudes and actions as of Now. We must keep the good thoughts in our minds, contentment in the fact that we do know the truth, and finally, we need to have compassion for the ignorant and hurting people around us. Let us listen fully to the rants and complaints of the angry and suffering working classes, then we can give them the perspective of Anarchy.
We should not say 'sir,' and ma'am,' which represent false manners and actually support hierarchy. The elites of modern Europe understood that the cult of the courtier-gentleman kept them safe from the pitchforks and knives of the common slaves. The slaves outnumbered the parasites, and the lower classes could have slaughtered all of the rich and powerful within a month's time. But they never did – and never will. The main reason was, and is still, that the poor and hurting secretly love and yearn for the 'sprezzatura,' or charisma of the old aristo-bums. Some people in the lower classes pine to see them, to read about them, and to experience their pathetic lives, somewhat fantastically, within their own lamentable existences. Think on the contemporary, and noxious popularity of gossip rags and media celebrity TV programs.
If any Liberal control freak, Marxist mad dog, or Fascist weirdo tries to harass us, then we should act accordingly. Remember that gentlemen also had the rights to publicly bear arms – and to use them on their inferiors. We Anarchists can lovingly take on that role, since the rich and powerful have lost complete respect in the public sphere. However, most pedestrians we see on the urban streets are not ideological true believers, nor are they like the elites that are destroying all life on our planet. Equanimity is the way.
The public's lives are rotting before their very eyes and they know that something is very wrong out there. With all of the common distractions, modern spectacles and media manipulations, how could they know about who and what is destroying them? It is so much better to break out into a smile when we see the absurdity everywhere. We can change things slowly, but we first must have the right attitude with right actions: tranquility within ourselves, amiability with our fellow Anarchists, politeness with our neighbors, and compassion for the misdirected.


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Automatic Upgrade: Changing Your Torque Converter for Better Performance
Making speed when racing with an automatic tranny is easy with the right torque converter
Several years ago, the idea of going circle track racing with an automatic transmission in your car was considered lunacy. Automatic transmissions back in the day weren't called "slush boxes" without a reason--they were inefficient, killed throttle response, and were a big horsepower drain.
Today, automatic trannies in race cars have become much more common as a way to keep costs down. Since it's nearly impossible to find a Monte Carlo (or any other GM metric chassis for that matter), a Thunderbird, or a Taurus with a stick, pulling a car out of a junkyard to transform it into a race car means you are also getting an auto tranny. To save money for racers in the lower classes, the rule books simply state that you have to race what came with the car--and that means the automatic transmission is now part of the race package.
You can race a stock transmission and get by with it, but there is no way a stock piece designed primarily for a smooth ride and low production costs is going to provide the same performance of a torque converter purpose-built for racing. There are other modifications that can be made to improve the performance of an automatic transmission, but swapping torque converters is by far the easiest and packs the most bang for the buck.
As a rule, stock torque converters are too large in diameter and too heavy. Both factors are critical in terms of performance because the converter essentially hangs off the back of the crankshaft and must be spun at engine rpm. Excess weight, especially when it's located at a greater distance to the centerline of the crank, makes it difficult for the engine to accelerate. Additionally, stock torque converters simply aren't built to withstand the additional horsepower and frequent wide-open-throttle conditions common in racing.
The Competitive Advantage
A torque converter that is purpose-built for racing may look similar to the stock version on the outside (except smaller), but there are many differences that make them more efficient when it comes to transferring power from the engine, through the transmission, and to the rear wheels. Proper design is critical because a torque converter has no direct mechanical linkage between its input and output portions. Instead, it uses the resistance of moving vanes through the automatic transmission fluid to provide the power linkage between the crank and the transmission. This is known as a "viscous coupling."
"There are several things we do to improve the performance of our torque converters over a stock unit," explains Scott Miller of TCI Automotive, one of the top manufacturers of high-performance automatic transmissions and torque converters. "All of our converters that we have for circle track applications use Torrington-style bearings instead of washers like in a stock converter. So everything turns more easily, which reduces drag in the converter and allows the engine to spin up more quickly. Combine that with the lighter overall weight and the smaller diameter of our converters, and you get significantly more power coming out of the turns.
"A second thing we do is all of our performance converters are furnace-brazed. The pieces inside the converter are furnace-brazed, which makes the converter stronger and more efficient. Under heavy loads--such as a more powerful race motor in full acceleration--the fins inside a non-furnace-brazed converter will flex. When that happens, the converter loses efficiency and less power is put to the ground."
Understanding Stall
As a torque converter spins faster, it gains efficiency until it reaches its stall speed. "Stall" is the speed, in revolutions per minute, at which a converter gains maximum efficiency. In stock car racing, there is no purpose in racing with your engine rpm below the torque converter's stall speed, because that means you are failing to put the greatest amount of your engine's power to the ground. Also, even after you have reached the converter's stall speed, there is still a certain amount of slippage because of the viscous coupling. In this area, however, all converters are not created equal. Stock converters may allow as much as 10 percent slippage after stall, while TCI's performance converters use tighter clearances and more aggressive designs to reduce slippage after stall is achieved to between 2 and 3 percent. For a racer, that's easy math.
To determine your minimum stall, you must be able to predict the minimum engine speed during racing conditions. This is usually the moment you pick up the throttle on turn exit--the time you need all the engine torque available to power out of the turn. If you race a converter with a higher stall than this rpm, you are going to be giving up power on the track. The easy solution would at first seem to be to pick the lowest stall converter available, but this creates problems of its own. As the stall number drops, design requirements usually force the converter to be larger. And, as we've already discussed, a larger converter comes with a greater moment of inertia, which makes it harder for the engine to accelerate. The fight becomes a battle between lowering the stall speed and keeping off weight.
Fortunately, torque converters purpose-built for racing can be more efficient at stall and smaller than their stock brethren. Among converters with the same design, the smaller unit will always have the higher stall numbers. "Normally, the smaller the converter, the higher the stall is," Miller says, explaining how TCI can build a smaller converter with a lower stall number than most stock units. "But we can change the fin angles and modify the stator inside and actually lower the stall. That helps when comparing a stock converter that's 30-plus pounds to one of our 10-inch converters. The modifications allow us to lower the stall level, but when comparing our 10-inch converter to our 11-inch version, the bigger unit is going to have the lower stall speed."
Of course, all this sounds good, but if you cannot get it to work in your race car, what use is it? To find out, we followed Jim Cook, owner of Jim Cook Racing, as he installed a TCI 10-inch racing converter and transmission oil cooler into a customer's race car. The car is an '84 Buick powered by a Chevrolet 350-cid engine and using a Turbo 350 transmission, which is easily the most popular engine/transmission combination when it comes to classes where an automatic is required. This race car normally competes in Strictly Stock-level events.
The biggest trouble when it comes to installing a new torque converter doesn't have anything to do with the converter itself--it is getting all the "stuff" out of the way so you can get to the transmission. Before they could turn the first bolt on the transmission, Cook and car owner Chris Hargett had to remove the exhaust pipes, driveshaft, and crossmember, as well as all the transmission linkages. You are going to spend a fair amount of time underneath your race car for this project, so get it up on a set of jackstands so you can operate underneath the chassis comfortably and safely. The next step is to drain the fluid from the transmission and separate the transmission (including the bellhousing) from the engine at the flexplate. In our application, there were three 38-inch bolts holding the torque converter to the flexplate. Lower the transmission on a shop jack so that you can access the torque converter. The converter install is actually so easy that Cook and Hargett didn't bother pulling the transmission from under the car.
Once you have access to the front of the transmission, simply pull out the old torque converter. You may have to wiggle it a little bit to get it loose, but excessive force isn't necessary unless it is damaged. To install the new torque converter, simply slide it onto the transmission's input shaft. The converter needs to connect at three levels--the input shaft, the stator support, and the front pump gear--so you may need to spin the converter a bit to get all three engaged. You should not, however, have to bang or otherwise force the converter into position. Once it's in place, raise the transmission back into place so that the hub of the torque converter slides into the end of the crank, and bolt the converter to the flexplate.
If your race car already has an integral transmission fluid cooler in the radiator, plumbing TCI's external oil cooler is equally as easy. A cooler is highly recommended because it helps improve component life. Racing at WOT produces a lot of heat and stress, and anything you can do to keep the temperature down in the stock-based transmission will help.
TCI's kit provides all the fittings and hoses necessary for the install. There are two options when installing the kit. You can piggyback the external oil cooler with the existing oil cooler in the radiator. Cook prefers this method because it can actually help bring the transmission fluid to operating temperatures before the race. With the car running--even if you are sitting in the pits--the transmission may not be engaged, but the water temperature will come up to operating temperature. By running the transmission fluid through both coolers, the higher water temperature will help bring up the temperature of the fluid to give you good performance as soon as the green flag falls, but the external cooler will keep it from getting too hot under racing conditions.
You can also re-route the transmission fluid away from the radiator completely and use the external cooler to keep the temperature under control. This is Miller's preference because it both simplifies and separates the systems. "In a race application, I prefer just bypassing the radiator completely," he says. "Just run the lines straight from the tranny to the cooler and be done with it. If something ever happens and the radiator starts leaking, you will get water in your fluid and your transmission will be toast. I think it's just safer and simpler."
Overall, installation of the torque converter required less than two hours of work. The external oil cooler required another 45 minutes. At the time this went to press, Hargett had not yet raced the car with the new setup, but we'll give an update on its performance in a later issue.


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(CNN) -- Add this to our list of fun ways to celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday this week.
Passengers on board an easyJet flight from Gatwick, England, to Verona, Italy, on April 23 became the surprise audience for an inflight performance of Shakespeare's plays.
Verona is a principal setting for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
The hour-long performance -- hosted by the airline as part of a campaign to have April 23 officially recognized as National Shakespeare Day -- was put on by actors from the Reduced Shakespeare Company. (Shakespeare fans argue over April 23 or April 26 as his exact birthday.)
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The plane had also been emblazoned with a portrait of the playwright.
Armed with props and costumes, three actors paraded the aisle while running through abridged versions of every comedy and tragedy penned by the Bard.
"We hope to set a new Guinness World Record ... for the highest ever theatrical performance," said easyJet communications director Paul Moore in a statement.
As a testament to the troupe's entertaining performance, no crotchety complaints seem to have appeared (yet) on social media about lost sleep.
"Certainly, this was the most entertaining flight I have ever taken. It was a fabulous performance and great for the children," passenger Simon Cureton told Portsmouth News.
While the airline has taken its Shakespeare Day campaign seriously, throwing free performances at airports, emblazoning the playwright on plane livery and promoting the best Shakespearean destinations in its inflight magazine, the campaign has a long way to go.
The petition had 729 signatures at the time of writing.
If it hits 100,000, it will be considered by the House of Commons Backbench Business Committee.
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