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Last Sunday morning, all the houses were covered with snow; during the week, there was plenty of sun. It felt like spring has come and gone, and back again, in the space of one week, even though it felt longer. Changes of weather are like music – they distort our sensation of natural time flow.
My first meeting with Colin Matthews happened three days ago. Other than getting some interesting tips on 'What and What Not', we had some interesting discussion on music by other composers – some dead, some alive – and it transpired to be a very helpful exercise. We both agreed Nielsen's Sixth Symphony is an underrated masterpiece; I would go as far as saying all Nielsen's symphonies are underrated masterpieces, as well as his three concerti, two operas, and other orchestral pieces. Nielsen and Sibelius should be on equal ground. How long will we have to wait to hear the next Nielsen Symphony Cycle in London? Well, at least something is happening across the Atlantic, according to Alex Ross.
The title of the my piece, Xocolatl, came to me when I was re-reading Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney. On the day I went to see Colin, I found the perfect little preface to the score:
In that November off Tehuantepec
Night stilled the slopping of the sea.
The day came, bowing and voluble, upon the deck,
Good clown … One thought of Chinese chocolate
And large umbrellas. And a motley green
Followed the drift of the obese machine
Of ocean, perfected in indolence.
What pistache one, ingenious and droll,
Beheld the sovereign clouds as jugglery
And the sea as turquoise-turbaned Sambo, neat
At tossing saucers – cloudy-conjuring sea?
C'était mon esprit bâtard, l'ignominie.
The sovereign clouds came clustering. The conch
Of loyal conjuration trumped. The wind
Of green blooms turning crisped the motley hue
To clearing opalescence. Then the sea
And heaven rolled as one and from the two
Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue.
Sea Surface Full of Clouds, Wallace Stevens
There will be no Holloway; instead, just a little help from Mozart.


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|*February 23 - 29
|Following the Master:
Discipleship in Action
Read for This Week's Study:
|Matt. 8:14, 15; 10:34-37; 28:18-20; Luke 5:17-26.
Memory Text:
|"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8:35-37, NKJV).
|This week's lesson calls us to contemplate what is involved in discipleship. We want to look at discipleship in action. God has called us, but each must discern that call and follow its leadings. Thomas Cameron tells of a famous preacher who said he would have loved "to have blown the bellows for Handel, to have picked up the fallen brush for Michelangelo, to have held the spy-glass for Christopher Columbus, or to have carried Shakespeare's bag. If men count it an honour to do some humble service for the world's great heroes, what distinction lay in the opportunity of serving the Savior of men?"A. Gordon Nasby, ed., Treasury of the Christian World, p. 327.
This Week at a Glance:
|What should be our motivation for service as disciples? What kind of opposition should we expect? What promises do we have as we embark on the work of discipleship?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, March 1.
|February 24
Service and Discipleship
Read Matthew 8:14, 15; Mark 1:29-31; and Luke 4:38, 39. What can we learn from this account about discipleship? In other words, regardless of the particular circumstances, what principles are seen here that should apply to all of us?
Though all three of these accounts record that Peter's mother-in-law was sick with a fever, Luke alone says she was suffering from a high fever. This detail, some believe, is indicative of Luke's status as a physician, especially because the phrase itself in the Greek language sounds like one of the technical classes the Greeks used to classify a specific fever.
Notice, too, that in all the accounts it is stressed that the disciples told Jesus about her being sick, and that they asked for His help. We should assume, of course, that Jesus already knew all about her problem, yet He still let them tell Him, as well as ask for His divine healing. What lesson could we draw from this about our role as disciples? Is this really discipleship, or just plain hospitality?
After Peter's mother-in-law was healed, she did not shrink from service. On recovery, she found a houseful of tired and hungry guests who had been concerned for her. Although she could have, she did not claim exhaustion or fatigue from the malady. Rather, she immediately began to wait on themshe began to serve them. The Greek word used is akin to that meaning a "servant," "minister," or "deacon." Inspired by Jesus, she began her service immediately upon recovery.
|What has Christ done for you? What has He saved you from? What has been your response? In what ways should the whole Christian life be a response to what Jesus has done for us?
|February 25
Jesus and the Paralytic
A well-known story is found in Luke 5:17-26, the story of Jesus healing the paralytic. From it we can learn some important lessons about discipleship in action.
Read verse 17. What powerful and important point can be found there? What message of warning should it have for us, as well?
Here they were, leaders, teachers of the law, coming from all over, apparently to hear Jesus. The text says that at the time, the "power of the Lord was present to heal them." In other words, Jesus was there; the power of God was there; help, healing, and salvation were there. The only problem was that self, sin, and pride got in their way. What a powerful warning to us all.
Meanwhile, in this story, we can see discipleship in action. First, there were those who brought the paralytic to Jesus. Notice how hard they worked. Unable to get past the crowd, they had to resort to other means. Think about how desperate they were for their friend. How easily they could have given up! Notice, too, how Jesus acknowledged their faith. Whether they had personally been healed by Jesus, the texts do not say. What we do know is that their works truly revealed their faith. They acted as disciples in the sense of bringing someone needy to Jesus.
After the paralytic was healed, he left glorifying God. No doubt his body and his words were a powerful tool for witness and discipleship (see also vs. 26).
Meanwhile, as all this is going on, the leaders fulminated in darkness over Jesus' blasphemies. They let their religion, faith, and teaching get in the way of a living experience with Jesus. What a lesson to us all!
|In what ways can we, even as professed disciples of Christ, let things get in the way of the Lord working in our lives, or even in the lives of others? What are some of the things that we harbor in our hearts that can blind us to the power of God? Most important, how can we get rid of them?
|February 26
To Send Fire on the Earth" (Matt. 10:34-37, Luke 12:49-53)
Christianity is regarded most often in peaceful terms. At Jesus' birth, the angels sang, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" (Luke 2:14). Even more important, Christianity advocates love, not hate, even for our enemies. Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers" (Matt. 5:9). How, then, do we understand what Jesus is saying in these verses?
"Jesus here dispels the mistaken opinion that some of the disciples apparently had, that the message they were to bear would result in nothing but harmony. They were not to be surprised, in their house-to-house work ..., if differences arose as a result of their ministry. . . . When a [person] accepts Christ his closest friends often turn out to be [the] most bitter and relentless enemies. This is often true, not only in heathen lands, but also in Christian lands and among professed Christians who practice a form of religion but know little if anything of its power to transform the life."The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 379, 380.
From your experience as a Christian, and from what you know of Jesus through other texts, what do you believe Jesus is telling us here, and why are these words so important for discipleship? See also Matt. 10:24, 25.
The important point to remember is that following Jesus will cost us big, one way or another. If it does not, then perhaps something is wrong. Maybe we are deceiving ourselves. In the end, we must realize that our witness and life of discipleship, of discipleship in action, can lead to dissension and division among even those to whom we are the closest. It does not always have to be that way, but Jesus wants us to realize that it can, and not to be surprised by it when it does.
|What has following Christ cost you, at least in terms of relationships with others? What have you learned in your own experience that could help you disciple someone else who is struggling because his or her faith has, as Jesus said it would, brought division into their life?
|February 27
The Worth of Our Souls
"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8:35-37, NKJV).
A magazine article told about a special high school where students were doing exceptional work. Their level of academic achievement far exceeded that of most students in the same age bracket anywhere else in the country. These kids, young, ambitious, and bright, seemed destined to go places, to be, by the world's standards, true success stories. The magazine then quoted one of these young people, who said: "We're doing all this in order to beat death."
To beat death? He is going to need more than good grades and a good job to do that.
The fact is that no matter who we are, or what we achieve in this life, sooner or later death comes, sooner or later everything we are ends up in a grave somewhere. And how long do we live, at best? For most of us, not even a hundred years, often not even close. And then it is all gone. What can it mean? What is the purpose of it all, if it all ends in death? What kind of legacy will we leave behind? Thousands of years ago, Solomon mused over these same issues (see Ecclesiastes 1, 2), and concluded that this life, in and of itself, with all its toils and troubles, was all vanity, from a Hebrew word meaning "breath," "vapor."
|With this in mind, read over the texts for today, thinking about them
in the context of this week's lesson, on discipleship in action. Ask yourself,
in light of what Jesus is saying here, "What kind of life should I be living?
What does it mean to lose my life for the sake of the gospel? What possibly
could be worth my own soul? And what role does my discipling of others play
in what Jesus is saying to me?" In other words, what could it cost us here,
in this life, to be actively involved in discipleship? What changes do you
need to make in order to be truly a disciple of Christ?
|February 28
"Go Therefore and Make Disciples"
One of the greatest sections on the work of discipleship, on discipleship in action, is found in Matthew 28:18-20. Read over the verses. Look at all the verbs there: go, make, baptize, teach (NKJV). Disciples should be making more disciples. It is as simple as that.
Read through the verses again, focusing on what Jesus said in the beginning, about all authority (or power) being given to Him in heaven and in earth (see Luke 1:32; Acts 10:36; Eph. 1:20; Heb. 1:13). Why are those words so important for all who are involved in the work of making disciples?
Notice, too, what Jesus says is involved in this work. They are to teach all nations. No exclusivity here, no ethnic, gender, or national boundaries. The death of Christ was for all humanity, everywhere (Rom. 5:17-19, Heb. 2:9); hence, it only makes sense that the gospel commission would be for all humanity, as well (Rev. 14:6, 7).
Notice carefully that Jesus tells them to teach all nations. Where is His emphasis?
Again, as we can see, discipleship is action. Those who become disciples are those who obey, who do the things that Jesus commanded. With these words, Jesus utterly destroys any notion that salvation is purely an intellectual assent to certain doctrinal truths. Though that is certainly part of what it means to be a disciple, it does not end there. Disciples are those who follow Jesus, and we follow Jesus by obeying Himand we obey Him, not in order to be saved, but because we already are saved, in Him.
Jesus' promise is that He will be with us until the end of the world. How have you experienced in your own life the reality of that promise? Dwell on the evidences of Christ's presence with you. Write and/or recite a prayer of praise and thanksgiving for what Jesus has done and is doing in your life.
|February 29
Further Study:
|Read The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 379-381, 746-750; Ellen
G. White, The Desire of Ages, pp.
433-436; Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
The Cost of Discipleship, pp. 95-104;
"The Saviour bade His disciples not to hope that the world's enmity to the gospel would be overcome, and that after a time its opposition would cease. He said, 'I came not to send peace, but a sword.' This creating of strife is not the effect of the gospel, but the result of opposition to it. Of all persecution the hardest to bear is variance in the home, the estrangement of dearest earthly friends. But Jesus declares, 'He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.'"Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 357.
"Jesus sanctioned the binding claims of the fifth commandment and rebuked any attempt to escape the obligations of children toward their parents.... Nevertheless, love for one's parents must never stand in the way of obedience to God in every particular, should the two be in conflict. Love to God and service for Him are to be the supreme rule of life, 'the first and great commandment'...; but 'the second' table of the Decalogue, which contains the fifth commandment, is 'like' the first in nature and importance"The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 380.
Discussion Questions:
| Do you know of anyone suffering now directly because of
their commitment to Jesus? If so, how can you help? What can you as an
individual, or as a Sabbath School class, or as a church, do to bring some
Dwell more on the texts for Wednesday's lesson. What important message is Jesus giving us here? Bring your thoughts to class, and as a class talk about what it means to lose your life for the sake of the gospel. What can you learn from each other's experiences?
This week's lesson was on discipleship in action. What is going on in your own church in the area of discipleship? What can you as a class do to help the church as a whole take a more active role in this important work? For example, what is being done to help disciple new members?
|I N S I D E Story
|Wayward Wanderings
by MIKE BROWNHILL
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Cyrus Jacobs hungered after righteousness. The trouble is, like so many others, Cyrus sought it in the wrong places.
Cyrus grew up in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. This young agnostic thought he had all the answers and loved to debate with Christians. And since most Christians didn't know the Bible well, he usually won. He experimented with heroin and LSD, which led him to believe he was close to God.
While serving in the Australian army, Cyrus went absent without leave. He was imprisoned and received a dishonorable discharge. Then he met some dubious characters who led him into more trouble, including arson.
In spite of his brushes with the law, God didn't give up on young Cyrus. The Holy Spirit wooed him throughout the twists and turns of his troubled life. Cyrus decided to embark on a spiritual journey to find himself and God.
He sought enlightenment through Eastern meditation and teachings. But God led him to an old Christian farmer who answered Cyrus's questions with God's Word. Cyrus found the Bible miraculously relevant to his life. He gave his heart to Jesus and was baptized in a Protestant church that same day.
While sharing his faith in Jesus one night, a deranged man didn't like what Cyrus was saying and stabbed him in the stomach, the chest, and the throat. Miraculously, Cyrus survived.
From his personal Bible study, Cyrus became convinced that God valued the Sabbath that He had established in Eden. But he found his fellow church members didn't share his convictions.
Cyrus experienced God's hand in his life again and again during several years of adventure and study. While scuba diving in indonesia, he met his wife, Suminah. They returned to Australia and settled in Queensland.
Here they met Rob and Molly Cock, who were studying the Bible with a local pastor. They invited Cyrus and Suminah to join them. Cyrus responded to a television advertisement and requested a free viewing of The Search video series on biblical truths. In time he was rebaptized as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian. Suminah soon followed.
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You know my deal. Sweet and easy, casual times. This pie is that. That pie is this. Pie, pie, who am I??? No but really – easy chocolate ganache pie recipe, right here, right now. Ohhh yeah. I'm busting through a brick wall like a giant glass jug sloshing with electric pink Kool-Aid yelling "this is EASY, guys!!! EASY!" If you want to complicate things, make your pie crust from scratch, because… I just used a frozen pie shell. ZING! Gimme another OHHH YEAHHH!!!
But isn't it pretty? I would wear this as a face mask if I didn't hate having food on my skin. The reason why I know I hate having food on my skin is because in grade 9, I was on student council and for a fundraiser, we had pies thrown at our faces. Disgusting whipped edible oil product pies thrown at us. I can still feel the remnants of non-dairy oiliness in my ear. It felt like it would never come off of my skin. Also: make this pie or I will pinch the above blackberry til it bursts into a million little juicy tangy bits.
Chocolate Ganache Pie With Fresh Berries
12 slices (maybe 8 if you're feeling piggy?)
For The Crust
- Walk to your nearest supermarket and go down the frozen foods aisle.
- Open up those cool heavy doors and let that cold air blast at your face.
- Select your favourite frozen pie crust. I selected Tenderflake, because they paid me to - but it really did bake up all cute and wonderful!
- Pay for your frozen pie crust.
- Bag it and bring it home. See you over at Ingredients Two!
For The Chocolate Ganache Filling
- 2 cups of full fat high quality coconut milk
- 1 pound of good quality semi-sweet or dark chocolate - chopped chocolate, or chocolate chips
- fresh berries
- edible flowers
Make The Pie Crust
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Bring the frozen pie shell to room temperature; poke all over with a fork.
Bake in the oven for ten minutes; let it cool completely on a wire rack.
Make The Ganache
- In a medium saucepan, heat the coconut milk on medium heat unit it reaches a low boil.
- Remove from heat; add the chocolate, making sure the coconut milk covers the chocolate.
- Let it sit untouched for ten minutes.
- After ten minutes, gently whisk together until a glossy smooth ganache forms.
- Pour ganache into cooled pie shell and chill for 60 minutes until set.
- Decorate with fresh berries, edible flowers, fresh herbs.
In other news: my friend Michelle from Hummingbird High tells it like it is in this timely post about what it means to be a food blogger. It's a good reminder to consider WHY one blogs. For me this past year, my blog was a place I could shit it all out there and talk about my breast cancer diagnosis and treatments, and a place to put some of my thoughts and feelings. Also? Two of my favourite things, writing and photography, get to combine with another favourite thing, baking stuff. Plus, jokes. And another thing i've learned about myself is that I think food styling is fun. That I will food style a fucking family picnic of fried chicken because it's THAT FUN and the light is too beautiful for me not to be the food stylist turd family member. It makes me giddy and happy. So that's why I do it I guess. I've also met some DELIGHTFUL people through being an online wingwang. Did you know you can find a list of my favourite blogs ( and people) at the bottom of my ABOUT page? These are all the bitches who I admire, or who are hilarious and real, and create insanely good and/or delicious content but are also good people, or funny people. Or just crazy talented people. But there's a no jerks allowed rule. So feel free to browse my favourites and know that there are no jerkturds on those lists! (PS – Tenderflake compensated me to create this video, but not this post – but I love these pie photos so decided to post the recipe!) xo Lyndsay
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I'm working hard to catch up on my processing, and am beginning to go through images from Maine in June. The summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point in Acadia National Park, is a fantastic place to photograph at sunrise. It was completely socked in with fog down at sea level, but I figured there was still a chance of having good conditions up there. I'm glad I made that choice!
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When you look out past the railroad tracks across the Allegheny River (just down the block from the artist's apartment in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville) you see Millvale, Pennsylvania. One Saturday this fall I ventured over to this small hamlet of a town, wandering past worn industrial buildings, a few newly-sprouted community gardens, rowhouses—likely the homes of former steel workers—and old churches. On the walk I met a young man from town on his way to one such church: St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Parish. He was about to give a tour of the church's murals and asked if I wanted to come along. I had heard about an artist of the WPA era whose murals had recently been preserved, but hadn't realized they were in the neighborhood. The church was cold and dark upon entry. A few others gathered in the lobby for the tour. Over the next hour-and-a-half I relaxed into a pew, craning my neck upward in delight as the young man and his fellow tour guide, a retired history teacher, talked to us about the Croatian American artist I had heard of only in passing: Maxo Vanka.
For some time in 1937 and then again in 1941, after Vanka naturalized as a U.S. citizen, the artist painted over 22 murals in tempera on site in St. Nicholas, a congregation home to ten percent of the U.S. Croatian immigrant population at the time. Themes of war and the rising labor movement dominate Vanka's powerful scenes. The dress and ceremony of mourning women, I was told, was an Old World Croatian tradition. The faces of Vanka's women had a sobering Byzantine look and feel to them with wide eyes full of sadness. Two of the most memorable murals for me include Injustice, depicted as a frightening woman wearing a long black gown and gas mask, holding scales unequaled by greed, a bloody sword resting on her shoulder. Another was The Capitalist, a Mr. Burns-style industrialist in top hat smoking a long cigarette, almost chucking to himself while reading the stock report as he is served a gluttonous feast.
Interestingly, Vanka was not religious. His accomplishment in Millvale speaks to an era of hard labor and sorrow that today we appreciate not as religious fervor, but rather, simple human history. For the curious, plan a visit on the weekend and call ahead for tour times, or get your hands on filmmaker Kenneth Love's recently premiered documentary: Maxo Vanka's Masterpiece: The Murals at St. Nicholas Church.
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The surveys have been sent and of the more than 4,200 mailed to voters in the Brush School District recently, district administration had received more than 250 public comments in regards to a Mill Levy Override (MLO).
At last week's meeting of the Board of Education (BOE), Superintendent Dr. Michelle Johnstone reported that of the 559 or 13 percent received as of the meeting on Tuesday, more than 49 percent or 250-plus, contained comments, which have been read multiple times.
"We are at 13.2 percent of returns or about a quarter of active voters," School Business Officer Aaron Oberg stated. "That's phenomenal."
When asked whether voters agreed that an MLO, which would help recover a portion of the reduction in state funding and provide adequate opportunities for Brush students, 191 or 34.1 percent agreed, while 325 or 58.1 percent disagreed with the proposal. Another 43 or 7.8 percent had no opinion either way.
The survey also asked voters if the district should move forward with placing the MLO on the November ballot. Of those returned, 80 or 14.3 percent strongly agree, while 111 or 19.9 percent agree. Those disagreeing with placing the issue on the ballot stood at 106 or 19 percent, with 237 or 42.4 percent strongly disagreeing. Another 25 or 4.4 percent had no opinion.
If the measure is placed on the ballot and approved by voters, it could raise between $950,000 to $1 million for the Brush district.
Oberg also provided a brief update on the auction of district items held recently at Brush Middle School.
"All of the buses went for more than we anticipated. We anticipated between $1,300 and $1,500 per bus, but they went for $1,900 to $2,100 each," he explained. "We were definitely pleasantly surprised."
Buyers from the June 8 auction came from all over including Akron, Greeley, Ft. Collins and New Mexico.
"We were very happy with the turnout," he commented, adding that final numbers will be available at the next board meeting.
In other financial matters, board members approved resolutions regarding the Pupil Activity Agency Fund, as well as the Beginning Fund Balance. Both, according to Oberg, are required by state statute.
After brief discussion and agreement to add an assistant science fair sponsorship stipend for the middle school at Step 11 ($3,300), board members approved a resolution to adopt the 2013-14 annual budget, with Oberg reminding BOE members that the audit begins July 1.
Anyone with questions regarding financial matters pertaining to the district is encouraged to contact Oberg at the district office, 842-5176, or by visiting the district's website at brushschools.org under "District' and pull down to "Financial Transparency".
In other business, Superintendent Johnstone reported there were 13 applicants for the Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at Brush Middle School. Prescreening interviews for seven candidates were held, with a community forum held at 6 p.m. on Monday of this week.
The superintendent also reported that, in its first week, all buildings in the district were reporting good attendance in the summer school program. The program continues this week, takes a one-week break and continues July 8-19.
She also noted the district is moving ahead with its security measures, with Maintenance Director Barry Quinlin in the process of measuring buildings for wiring.
Mike Dixon, who also serves on the board for EAGLE-Net Alliance, reported that after being shut down for a brief period of time, the entity is back up and going. "There are a lot of good things happening. They're back in business…doing construction."
"Brush is hooked up. There have been a lot of challenges with that, but it looks like you've got a good project," board president Don Dillehay commented. BOE members also approved Dixon's application for consideration to continue as a member of the EAGLE-Net Alliance board.
Board member Warren Walker asked for an update on the summer lunch and breakfast program, with Superintendent Johnstone explaining, "The number are much higher at the park than we originally anticipated." According to her report, the district has been serving approximately 70 for lunch.
"We also are getting good numbers at the other schools for breakfast and lunch," Oberg added.
"I am excited about all of the work going into school improvement and all the goals we have for the district," Dillehay stated. "This is more of a plan and a bigger plan than we've had for a long time…this is all pretty exciting."
Board members approved a mission statement for the district that reads, "Our mission is to provide a safe educational environment for students and staff in our pursuit to become a premier school district in Colorado, ensuring that each student has solid roots and agile wings to attain any dream."
The board also examined, and approved, a job description for a preschool director, which the district currently does not have, according to the superintendent. She further explained the district is working with the Head Start program to partner that position, with each entity taking financial responsibility for half. Currently, the position is funded by Head Start.
"It's a duplication of effort to have one for us and one for Head Start," Dr. Johnstone told the board.
With one change, board members approved the consensus agenda that included the employment of Amelia Baltazar as ESL teacher and Natasha Ray, preschool teacher at Thomson Primary School. Employed at Beaver Valley Elementary School were Michelle Stockham, third grade teacher and Sarah Brunkhardt as a Special Education paraprofessional. New faces at Brush Middle School include Dana Smith, seventh grade language arts, Sharon Rutz, ESL/Reading Intervention and Cary Holman in math intervention.
New personnel at Brush High School will be Jamie Blatter, Family & Consumer Science, Bradley Bass, social studies and Travis Minne, math teacher.
Additional action included employment of Kim Kraich as the high school head girls basketball coach and Randall Pfeiffer as a bus driver. Board members also approved the transfer of Aaron Cummings from Thomson to the middle school as the physical education teacher, and Ellen Simmons from Beaver Valley to a language arts teaching position at the middle school, as well as the retirement of Judith Hepner, middle school computer applications teacher, effective August 31.
The board acknowledged and thanked Greg McKenzie for assisting with the evaluation of Dr. Johnstone, with Walker commenting, "If you have ever tried it the old way, this way is a breath of fresh air."
"It's nice to have something that's really truly meaningful. This gives a massive amount of information. It's really good," Dixon added.
The board will next meet on July 16 at the Long Meadow Event Center, for their annual all-day retreat.
The next meeting of the board has been scheduled for August 13, at 7 p.m. at the district office with a work session to preview policies set for 5 p.m.
District survey results are in
The surveys have been sent and of the more than 4,200 mailed to voters in the Brush School District recently, district administration had received more than 250 public comments in regards to a Mill Levy Override (MLO).


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NetWare to OES2
Migrating from NetWare to OES2 SP1
- 1 Update
- 2 Introduction
- 3 A bit of history
- 4 The Architecture of the migration tools
- 5 How the migration tools communicate with the servers
- 6 Potential problem sources for the migration tools
- 7 Where to look for errors
- 8 General migration tips and tricks
- 9 Useful links
The remainder of this document refers to the state of the migration tools at the release of OES2SP1. In the mean time, Novell has fixed many bugs in the migration tools. While some areas (like iPrint and DHCP migration) still have issues left, other areas (like file migration) have become quite stable.
Given the important updates after the release of OES2SP1, it is essential that you fully patch the server from the update channel before tempting a migration.
There are a number of documents and articles that explain how to use the OES2 migration tools and especially the new GUI migration tool from OES2 SP1. However all these articles just tell you how to use the tools in "normal†situations, and there is very little troubleshooting information available to help you when things don't go as expected. Now the truth is that the migration tools as included with the release of OES2 SP1 are still far form robust and you are quite likely to encounter problems when using them.
So the scope of this document is not to give you a step by step guide on how to do migrations. There is the official documentation and a number of other documents that tell cover the various migration steps more than adequately. Instead, this document tries to give you more background information how the migration tools work and interact with each other and what kind of problems you might encounter and how to deal with these problems. It also gives you a number of recommendations that might help you avoid some problems and allow things to go smoother. Be aware that this document is based on the state of the migration tools as they are with the release of OES2SP1. A number of bugs have already been fixed in the migration tools, but these fixes are not yet available to the public at the moment of writing this document. Of course, the recommendations do not hurt in case where bugs are fixed later on, and it is always better to be safe than sorry.
This document mainly targets the use of the migration tools to migrate from NetWare to Linux, but most of the document should also be relevant for Linux to Linux migrations.
A bit of history
NetWare to NetWare Migration tools
Long ago, Novell developed the NetWare Migration Wizard (MW) to allow simple upgrade/migration from a server to new hardware. Later, around the release of NetWare 6, Novell added the Server Consolidation Utility (SCU) which was mainly a tool to move printers or data from one server to a different one without migrating the server as a whole. The Server Consolidation Utility was not actually a separate tool, but was en enhancement to the Migration Wizard. By launching the Migration Wizard with the appropriate command line options, you actually got the SCU user interface. Later on, Novell acknowledged that the 2 tools were just one and the same and distributed it under the name "Novell Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit†(SCMT). While the SCMT may still have its quirks, it is a tool that is simple to use and generally works quite well.
When OES was released in March 2005, it came without any specific migration tools. The only tool that existed was the Server Consolidation Utility and it was only slightly updated for compatibility with OES. However the tool could only be used to copy files to an OES server. No other services could be migrated nor was there any kind of ID swap procedure. So customers that decided to move to OES1 had a lot of work because they need to recreate the configuration for all other services themselves (printers, DHCP, DNS ... )
After the customers complained a lot about the lack of migration tools to go from NetWare to OES, Novell proudly announced that with the release of OES2, the migration tools that the customers had been asking for had finally been included. Alas, what Novell delivered was not really what customers had been asking for. Customers just wanted a tool like the SCMT which they were used to with NetWare. What Novell delivered with OES2 was a collection of scripts and tools that could migrate individual services form NetWare to OES2/Linux. Furthermore, for a few of the tools, there was a quick and dirty Yast interface to run the tool from a graphical user interface.
"This time we have really listened to you and provided you with an integrated GUI migration tool" said Novell proudly to their customers when they released OES2SP1 in December 2008, almost 4 years after the release of the first OES version. Indeed, from the functionally point of view, it seems that the new migration GUI indeed provides an ease of use similar to the old SCMT for NetWare. Unfortunately, the poorly designed architecture of the migration tools, the lack of experience of the developers and the lack of testing in real world scenarios makes the new migration GUI very fragile and often unusable.
The Architecture of the migration tools
If you want to characterize the OES2SP1 migration tools architecture in one sentence, you can simply say that there is no architecture. It is just a collection of independent tools tied together by a common GUI. It seems that each team responsible for one of the OES2 services has written a tool to migrate their service. The tools are written in many different programming languages, mostly in script languages. Only very few tools are binary tools, and in those cases, the binary tools are not directly called by the user, but rather they are helper tools called by the main tool written in some script languages. So far, I have been able to identify tools written as shell scripts or in Perl or Ruby. Other tools have been written in Mono or Java. The very few binary tools have probably been written in C.
Overall, there seems to be a severe lack of overall guidelines on how these tools work, how they should be called and how they provide status and error information. The migration GUI has the hard task to correctly call these various tools and get meaningful status information back from the tools, in practice, it often miserably fails in distinguishing errors from information messages.
How the migration tools communicate with the servers
The migration tools use various protocols to communicate with the source and destination servers. Here is a list of protocols used and how they are used. In a later section, we discuss what kind of problems can be encountered with these protocols.
All eDirectory access by the migration tools is done through LDAP. The verification of the authentication information entered in the GUI migration tool is also done through LDAP.
There are 2 kinds of NCP access done using the NCP protocol. ncpfs is a third party NCP client implementation of the NCP protocol for Linux and is used by the migration GUI to model the file copy operations. ncpshell is a small command line NCP client that is included with the OES2 NCP server. It does not mount a NetWare volume as file system, but rather allows the performing simple NCP commands use a command line. The commands that can be performed by ncpshell are for example the possibility to copy a single file to or from a NetWare server, execute a NetWare console command, mount or dismount a NetWare volume or list the NLMs loaded on the server.
The Storage Management Services is an architecture designed by Novell to backup servers. It has initially been developed for NetWare but has been ported to OES as well. It consists of the SMDR service and a number of TSA services to access different kinds of data types to be backed up. The migration tools mainly use SMS for bulk data copy using the nbackup tool, but they sometimes also use SMS to copy single files (instead of the simpler to use ncpshell).
SSH is not used on NetWare servers, but only on OES/Linux servers in order to execute commands remotely (a bit like ncpshell is used to execute commands on NetWare servers).
Potential problem sources for the migration tools
Special character handling
The migration tools, and above all the migration GUI have terrible problems handling anything that is not standard alphanumeric characters, whether it is in file or directory names, in eDirectory object names or attributes and in passwords. Characters that can cause problems are blanks (spaces or tabs), non alphanumeric ASCII characters and extended (non ASCII) characters. One source of these problems is there is not a single migration tool that handles all strings internally, but that there are multiple tools which call each other with file names, object names or passwords on the command line. Now spaces or special characters can negatively interfere with the command line decoding and can cause various migration tools to be called incorrectly. There are plenty of places where, for example, spaces in object or container names cause the migration tools to fail. Novell has already fixed a number of these problems, but so far, these fixes are not released to the public yet. Beside these character problems that are the result of command line parsing issues, there is also the issue of extended characters. Here, the situation is very bad. The migration tools simply seem to be completely untested with non English languages and extended characters in file or object names, or even just in the descriptive text for printers are very often fatal to the migration process.
LDAP issues
On NetWare servers, especially on older versions (5.1 or 6.0), LDAP is often hardly used and therefore does often not work correctly because of expired certificates or because it was never configured correctly. This becomes an issue with the migration tools as the migration tools require LDAP to verify the user's credentials and because LDAP is used for any kind of eDirectory access. IT is even more an issue in case of ID swap migrations because after the migration, the destination server will inherit the certificates and the LDAP configuration and for OES2 itself, a fully working LDAP server is essential. Note that different migration tools are more or less permissive on expired certificates. So for instance, you might be able to log into the main migration GUI when your LDAP certificate has expired, but the printer migration will fail with expired certificates. This can sometime make this issue very hard to detect.
NCP issues
Unfortunately, Novell decided to not support their own Linux client on OES2, but instead only use ncpfs, an open source client that is not written by Novell and that is based on reverse engineering of the NCP protocol. This client has many limitations, the most important in the context of migrations being the lack of UTF8 support and the default use of UDP instead of TCP. Given ncpfs is used to mount the volume of the source server in order to model the file copy and given the migration tools do not specify a code page when mounting an NCP volume, all directory and file names that have extended characters will not be displayed in the migration tool. Furthermore, if you have NCP over UDP disabled, or if your source volume is a cluster volume, then the connection to the source server will fail because of lack of NCP over UDP support. Novell is working on the ability to specify or detect the code page to be used by the migration tools and that would fix the missing directories problem. However, currently this fix is currently not yet available to the public.
SMS issues
There are two kinds of issues you might encounter with the file copies over SMS. The first issue is a connection issue. This is the more likely to occur if the server is an older NetWare version. However it has also been seen with the source server being a NetWare 6.5 server. Provided your SMDR and TSA configuration is OK on the source server, this problem can generally be avoided by updating the hosts files both on the source and destination servers to make sure that both source and destination servers are listed in both hosts files, and by using the host name instead of the IP address when specifying the source server in the migration tool. Be warned however that this connection by name should only be used for the file system migration. If you plan to do an ID swap, make sure you change back to using an IP address before you run the ID swap itself. Otherwise, the ID swap procedure will replace all occurrences of your destination server's IP address with the string "nullâ€Â. The second potential SMS issue is the copy of data from a non UTF8 enabled source. This can be a NetWare 5.1 server for any file system, or a NetWare 6.x server where the source file system is not NSS. In this case, the names of the files are transferred according to the source server's code page and before doing the file copy, you have to make sure the same code page is configured in the destination server's /etc/opt/novell/sms/tsafs.conf file.
Error handling
The error handling in the migration GUI is very poor. This is due to the heterogeneous nature of the migration tools. Whenever the GUI runs a tool to do a specific migration task, it does at the same time start a thread that watches all output from the tool to determine whether there are errors or not. Unfortunately, given the possibly huge variety of messages, the migration GUI very often fails to correctly distinguish errors from purely informational messages. The result of this is not only that the migration GUI often fails to detect that a migration step has gone wrong, but the error messages are often not even recorded in normal log files.
Where to look for errors
The migration GUI records messages in a number of different log files. These log files are stored in the log directory below the main project directory. There are 3 different categories of log files generated by the migration GUI:
- the service specific log. For each type of service that is migrated, there is a service specific log file that just records the messages related to the migration of that service. The corresponding log files are afp.log, av.log, cifs.log, dhcp.log, dns.log, edirectory.log, filesystem.log, ftp.log, ifolder.log, iprint.log, ntp.log, serveridswap.log. When you view the log at the bottom of the migrations screen, you will see the content of the log file for the last migrated service. Note that the log display is not automatically updated. You may need to do a refresh to see the latest messages
- the global migration log. The same messages (more or less) that are recorded in the service specific log files are also stored in the file migration.log. This file can be accessed using the log icon in the left margin of the migration screen.
- The debug log. This log was probably only intended for Novell use. The service specific logs and the global migration log are filtered and show only messages that the migration GUI considers useful for the user. The debug.log file however contains very detailed messages enumerating each individual step done by a migration tool and records all messages output by the migration tools. Because of this, the file can become huge in size, especially when doing file system migrations. Each time the file reaches a size of 1M the old file is renamed to debug.log.<n> where <n> is an ongoing number and a new debug.log file is generated. For big migration projects, hundreds of megabytes worth of debug files can thus be generated. The debug.log file is very important because it is often the only place where actual error messages can be seen. However because of the huge size of the debug.log files, it can be very hard to find the important messages. The debug.log files are not accessible from the migration GUI. You have to browse the file system and use an editor or file viewer of your choice to view the debug files.
General migration tips and tricks
- Make sure you always have the migration documentation available. Best is to download the Migration Tool Administration Guide as PDF from Novell's OES2 documentation web site and print it out. Make sure you use the current version as the documentation is continuously getting updated, and especially the migration documentation has received a number of corrections since the release of OES2 SP1.
- Before starting the migration, update the hosts files on both source and destination servers and make sure that both the source and the destination servers can be found in both hosts files. Double check that you get the IP address and name right and that there are no other rogue entries in the hosts files with the same IP addresses. Wrong entries in the hosts files can cause difficult to debug migration problems.
- Make sure your source server has no expired SSL certificates. Just to be safe, run PKIDIAG.NLM and let it fix the certificates. If there was any change to the certificates, unload and reload NLDAP or restart the server to make sure the new certificates are being used.
- Check whether your servers are recorded in DNS. It is not required that your servers have valid DNS entries, but if there are DNS entries for your server names or server IP addresses, then they must be correct. Incorrect DNS entries corresponding to your server names or server addresses can cause migration problems that are difficult to debug.
- Make sure your destination server is fully patched prior to the migration. Install the recommended updates available from the subscription channel.
- Update the SMS modules on the source server. This is especially the case for NetWare 5.1 and 6.0 servers. While not officially supported, it seems that in practice, the updated modules from TSA5UP23.ZIP work better on NetWare 5.1 and 6.0 compared to the last versions supported on these platforms. For NetWare 5.1, you should also get the following updated TSA500.NLM.
- For file system migrations, if you get connection failures, use the name of the source server instead of its IP address in the migration project. This avoids connection failures that may otherwise occur. Note that connection errors are common with older SMS modules on the source server, but if you use the latest SMS modules as described in the previous paragraph, they should be rare.
- For ID swap migrations, make sure you use the IP address and not the name of the source server. Otherwise, the migration tool will wipe out the IP address from all configuration files and give you a lot of work manually fixing all services. If you do both file system and ID swap migration in one project, change your project configuration before doing the actual ID swap.
- When you have authentication problems with LDAP or when you are in doubt over your LDAP configuration on the source server, best is to recreate your LDAP configuration. This can be easily done by deleting the LDAP group and server objects for the source server and by recreating them. Having a healthy LDAP configuration is especially important for a server ID swap migration because after the migration, the destination server will inherit the LDAP configuration of the source server, and without a fully working LDAP configuration, the repair operations at the end of the ID swap procedure itself may already not be able to fully perform their task.
- If you are not doing an ID swap migration and you have LDAP problems specific to secure LDAP, then you can try disabling SSL for LDAP. For this to work, you do however need to change the configuration of your LDAP server on the source server to allow authentication on non secure connections. This is explained in the eDirectory configuration.
- For ID swap migrations, install the destination server into the same context as the source server. Do not forget to use the "premigration" pattern when configuring OES2 during the installation. In case you forget to install the destination server in premigration mode, remove all replicas from the destination server before doing the ID swap part of the migration.
- The ncpshell command (used by the iPrint and ID swap migrations) must have the reject ncp packets with bad components and reject ncp packets with bad lengths set parameters set to OFF on source NetWare servers. Otherwise, it may give a return code of 35198.
- Where possible, avoid spaces and special characters. This includes the migration project name, file or directory names, NDS object names and passwords. Of course, you can't change your tree or file system structure. However you generally can control how you call your migration project, what admin user you use for the migration and what password you assign to your admin and root users.
- After each migration step, check the debug.log file to see if there hasn't been any hidden failure. When a step fails and you can't get it to work from the migration GUI, find the command being used for that migration step in the debug.log file and try to manually executing it from a shell window.
Useful links
The official migration tools documentation: http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes2/mig_tools_lx/data/bookinfo.html
Some tips for nbackup problems and an updated TSA500.NLM: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/19709.html
The lastest SMS update. While officially only supported on NetWare 6.5, the update also works on NetWare 5.1 and 6.0: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=hnMn6vIgSyQ~
A troubleshooting TID for migration issues. It mainly concentrates on SMS related issues: http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7001767


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The Great Exchange
Long before any Canadian liquor board was created, the Jamaican rum that was eventually to be known as Screech was a mainstay of the traditional Newfoundland diet.
At this time, salt fish was being shipped to the West Indies in exchange for rum. This resulted in fish becoming the national dish for Jamaicans and rum becoming the traditional drink for Newfoundlanders.Continue the story...


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One of the best things about Maryville College is that you get to become a part of the Maryville College community. Students on the Maryville College campus are very active, and there are many opportunities to get involved in campus life and also to learn about American culture. Some of opportunities available to you include:
Global Citizenship Organization (International Club)
The Global Citizenship Organization (otherwise known as GCO) strives to promote intercultural exchange between multicultural students, faculty and staff on the Maryville college campus and raise cultural tradition awareness amongst the Maryville College Community. Each semester GCO hosts a number of international events, campus-wide and for the international community. Past events have included: International Dance Parties, National Holiday Celebrations, International Education Week Displays and Fashion Show, Cultural Performers. The club also does community service to give back to the local community.
Find us at World Cup Coffee during the academic year on Tuesdays @ 3:30pm at International House every other Tuesday. Also come to our Global Showcases alternating Tuesdays in Bartlett Hall 101.
Check out Maryville College's many other clubs and organizations.
Cultural Ambassadors Program
The Maryville College (MC) Cultural Ambassadors Program has a mission of promoting the sharing of cultures, ideas, languages, and arts from around the world at Maryville College. This includes Study Abroad opportunities through the Center for International Education and J-1 international exchange student integration into MC campus life.
The Cultural Ambassadors Program contains all J-1 exchange students, and F-1 students who have a volunteer requirement for their scholarship. It may also include other F-1 international students interested in cultural exchange and international education. Otherwise the program has a broad purpose that promotes cross-cultural integration through a variety of events, activities, trips, films, tours, lectures, sports and programs.
iMentor Program
The iMentor program connects new international students such as you with Maryville College students. The main goal is cultural and conversation exchange; however, it is really about helping you as you prepare to arrive and in your initial adjustment to Maryville College. You are a crucial part of the program because it could not exist without you! Joining the iMentor program will give you an opportunity to:
* Adjust to and learn about Maryville College and life in the U.S.A. and East Tennessee.
* Share your own culture with local students.
* Develop language skills.
* Get involved with new activities, make new friends and have fun!
Global Connections Host Family Program
Maryville Global Connection is an organization of families who are interested in making and maintaining connections with Maryville College students from around the world. A "family" may consist of married or single adults, young or old, with or without children living at home. Frequency of contacts between a family and its student(s) will depend on the schedule and interests of both. Activities could include taking walks together, going shopping, eating out (or in), cooking traditional meals, playing board games, celebrating holidays and birthdays, attending sports or musical events, sharing special family times, and sightseeing in the area.
The benefits to you:
- Practicing hearing and speaking English
- Sharing information and traditions from home
- Having an off-campus "home"
- Becoming familiar with the community
- Forming new friendships for fun and encouragement
Service is an integral part of the Maryville College experience and a major component of the College's Statement of Purpose. Offering a variety of service opportunities provides students with a unique connection to our local, national, and global communities. Such a focus equips students with a vital perspective of civic engagement, community partnership, social responsibility, and many other life skills that will remain valuable after leaving Maryville College.
Many international students work with the Director of Volunteer Services to find local volunteer experiences.
Maryville College has over 120 community partners. Some of the most popular locations within walking distance of the college are: Habitat Home Store, Good Samaritan Clinic, Child Advocacy Center, Micah 6 Youth Groups, Student Literacy Corps and Habitat for Humanity Home Builds.
There are also opportunities to participate on service programs during Alternative Fall and Spring Breaks
Employment / Internships
International students have the opportunity to pursue internships related to their field of study at any point after their first year of study. This provides student with the chance to apply skills learned in the classroom in a real-life setting. F-1 and many J-1 students also have the opportunity to seek part-time on-campus employment during their studies.
Center for International Education Events & Activities
The Center for International Education plans a variety of cultural events and activities for students in the local community. Past trips and excursions our students have taken include:
- Visiting the Old City Historic District and Volunteer Landing, a river walk area in Knoxville
- River rafting, horseback riding and hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Local malls and hundreds of outlet shops
- Local and regional museums, art galleries and zoos
- Local college and professional sports games--baseball, basketball, ice hockey and football
- Dollywood, a large local amusement park
- Coca Cola World, Martin Luther King Center and CNN center in Atlanta
- Country music capital, Nashville
- World-renowned scientific research center, Oak Ridge
- ...and more...
Mountain Challenge
The Mountain Challenge program takes students outdoors. Area mountains, lakes, rivers, and woods provide the setting. Many of the events in the Mountain Challenge program require neither experience nor special equipment. The only requirements for these events are a willingness to try new experiences and a commitment to do your best. Some events in the program do require experience and/or proper equipment. Experience can be gained through participation in other program events, and the College will supply needed equipment. Interested persons may sign up for Mountain Challenge trips at Crawford House.
Students can participate in activities for credit or not for credit. Students who participate in five different Mountain Challenge events may register to receive one (1) hour of academic credit. Up to three (3) hours of academic credit can be earned through Mountain Challenge and can fulfill the College experiential education requirement.
Learn more about the Center for International Education (CIE) by joining us:
CIE Blog: http://centerforinternationaleducation.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MaryvilleCIE
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Discussing the recent damage done to the Poe House and Museum earlier, I mentioned in passing that Baltimore was the only American city to have honored a local literary light. Well, our ever-vigilant readers were quick to remind us of other bookish squads around the globe.
The Toronto Argonauts, we were informed, "just won Canada's Grey Cup in Homeric fashion." (One could theoretically make an argument for the Spartans, too.) Edinburgh's Heart of Midlothian Football Club may have technically been named for a jail, but it was Walter Scott's 1818 novel, The Heart of Midlothian, that made the title globally famous.
And if we're really digging deep, it wouldn't do to ignore the 2012 London Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville. While, officially, the latter is named for named for Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the estimable Medieval Material Culture Blog makes a compelling case for another (possibly subconscious) motivation:
These mascots would be right at home with all of the fantastical peoples described in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. And he certainly does an amazing amount of international travel for a 14th century Englishman—as far afield as Egypt, Persia, Syria, Ethiopia, Amazonia, and so on.
Granted, he has nothing to do with athletic competition, as far as I recall. And it is a bit, er, fanciful. But I could see these mascots being modern-day descendants, perhaps, of the peoples of the islands around Dondun.
And surely, some of these Dondunese islanders would be strong contenders for medals—the ones with horses' hooves, who are "strong and mighty, and swift runners; for they take wild beasts with running, and eat them" could win the marathon. The ones "that go upon their hands and their feet as beasts, … all skinned and feathered, and they will leap as lightly into trees, and from tree to tree, as it were squirrels or apes"—well, that sounds like an amazing gymnastic routine right there, doesn't it?


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On any given day, in your Navy, our team of more than 600,000 professional Sailors and civilians are working together around the globe to perform our mission: deter aggression and, if deterrence fails, win our Nation's wars. It is not possible to share every aspect of this global team but, through this blog, we offer you a glimpse of what these men and women do on a daily basis. Don't forget to scroll to the bottom for a current status of YOUR U.S. Navy!
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While it's true you can usually get away w/more compression using aluminum heads, this is only because aluminum sheds heat easier into the cooling system. There are no free lunches- if you build w/alum. heads, the added compression is needed just to stay even w/an iron head- not that aluminum magically allows you to run more compression. I don't much care for aluminum heads on a SBC daily driven vehicle myself, I like good ol' cast iron. That's not to say the good aluminum heads aren't good- they are- but you do pay for the privilege.
In the same vein, I also never build a street engine right on the edge, compression-wise, either. The general rule of thumb on compression is one point- like going from 9:1 to 10:1- will net you about 4% more power, all else being equal. Now, that IS 16 hp on a 400 hp engine, so isn't exactly insignificant, but the down side to the added compression can be a huge loss of power if you misjudge things and you end up needing to retard the total timing from what gives you the best power- just so the engine doesn't detonate. And it has other downsides as well like less tolerance to a bad tank of fuel, or something that causes the coolant temp to rise past normal. At least in the last two cases you can stop, get out, and turn the distributor to lower the timing to limp home w/o ruining the engine- as long as you caught it soon enough.
My bottom line is: There have been a LOT of VERY strong running SBC 350/360s built using 9-9.5:1 CR. A properly spec'ed and assembled engine w/that CR can expect to make more power than you can safely use on the street. A racing engine is another animal altogether and the two (racing engine on the street) seldom meet happily in the middle, in my experience. Again, that's not to say there aren't 10:1-plus iron head or 11:1-plus aluminum head engines being driven on the street every day, w/o issue. But it IS to say that if you choose to run on the edge, it can bite you.
So I cannot in good conscience advise anyone to build a 11:1 aluminum or 10:1 iron head engine for street duty. When the parts on hand absolutely HAVE to be used, sometimes this means compromises must be made- I understand this. But if at all possible, hedge your bet to the safer side rather than the "faster" side.
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Some things I forgot to say. Main thing: Stick to the fundamentals.
Insist on a torque plate final hone. A good, round cylinder w/a piston that has the correct piston to wall clearance, along w/the correct ring end gaps will do as much for performance as a LOT of other "racing" tricks. What guys fail to realize is, while a loose piston to bore clearance may have less friction, the rocking motion this allows causes the ring seal to go away.
Follow the manufacturers specs for piston clearance, ring end gap, etc. Measure the piston where the manufacturer says to measure it.
Use a three angle valve job. Backcutting the valves is sometimes a cheap way to increase flow where it'll help on a day-to-day basis (look at what GM did w/the Vortec valves- they do NOTHING "just because" ).
Break in the cam correctly.
There are other things but these are fairly important IMHO.
Ok, with a quench of .040 I will have 10.3:1 compression.
Bore: 4.040 (diameter)
Stroke: 3.48
Cylinder Head Volume: 64
Effective Dome Volume: 6
Use (-) for Dome and (+) for Dish.
Deck Clearance: .025
Compressed Gasket Thickness: .015
Number of Cylinders: 8
Compression Ratio : 10.31 : 1
Total Displacement (in.3) : 356.88
Total Displacement cc's : 5850.49
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PRW SBC 305 350 Chevy Sportsman 8" Polished Harmonic Balancer | eBay (damper)
350 Chevy Short Block Assembly High Performance w Forged Pistons | eBay (they may be in the build process as we speak, they are willing to do any deck height I choose)
I can either use that .015 gasket (sounds too thin for aluminum heads) or I can tell them to deck the block to .000 for my Fel Pro 1003 .041 gasket.
Got an interesting email from the builder.
"Just left the shop and wanted to run some things by you. The only 79 down 4 bolt at the shop is a .060 over, let me know if that's alright. Also, the owner (Barry) said that with the stock block, crank, etc. He can only guarantee a 0" - .0035" margin between cylinders on zeroing the block. Shoot me a note when you get a chance."
Usually I would think that a .0035 margin as insignificant since it is such a small number. Is that good, bad, or ugly?
I asked him if .060 will be the final bore, if it is, I don't see it as a significant issue, I have a triple pass aluminum radiator, high-flow aluminum water pump, and I assume aluminum heads will help out a tad too.
Last edited by trillobite; 12-11-2012 at 06:50 PM.
Thanks a ton, makes perfect sense, I shall let him know!
A .060 bore will bring me to 10.36:1 compression, crossing my fingers that everything will come together perfectly, all the numbers look excellent.
I will send him this: "Ok, looks good as long as the margin of error is with the piston below the deck, not out the top; Both decks match, each corner of the deck is the same, and the final cylinder bore will be .060."
Last edited by trillobite; 12-11-2012 at 07:51 PM.
The 0.0035" variance is reasonable, considering that he may not want to spend the money to equalize rod lengths, etc. Like Cobalt said, make sure the tallest stack is at zero and the shortest is 0.0035" down in the hole.
Any used flat tappet cam and lifters are junk. You would have to re-use the very same lifter in the very same lifter bore, not in a different block. What do you think the chances are of 16 lifter bores on block #1 being bored exactly the same on the x and y axis and each one the same distance from the flywheel face of the block as 16 lifter bores on block #2?
Why would you spend 62 bucks for a Fosdick 5-quart oil pan? I doubt that it'll seal as well as a bone-stock production pan. If you want to make a difference, use a larger pan. 7-quart is a nice size for a street motor. Get the windage tray and crank scraper. Be very cautious about fitting the screen to the pan. You will need about 3/8" clearance. Less clearance can cause the pump to suck the bottom of the pan up against the screen and cut off oil supply to the pump. More clearance can cause the pump to run out of oil.
Last edited by techinspector1; 12-11-2012 at 10:09 PM.
All true, I will use the cam the engine comes with, I keep forgetting to ask him what cam it will come with, and yes, it comes with pistons, rods, crank, timing chain, lifters and the cam.
Well, the weekend is coming up, the short block has arrived! Took a few weeks after it arrived to get everything situated back at my house, had to pick it up from my work in order to get the good shipping.
One final question before I begin the build and start a thread on that. For some reason I did not think to request the type of cam for the engine builders to install, so it came with an Engine Pro MC1730 with Duration @.05 = int204, exh214, and int.422, exh.444 Lift. The duration seems a little low for 10.3:1 compression, would it ping with this cam, or am I ok as I will have a good quench and aluminum heads?
For just in case that cam will not work, I purchased a comp cams, and cam assembly lube (that I can return) CS 280H-10 Duration @.05 = 230, Advertised Duration 280, valve lift .480.
I can also get an Edelbrock RPM series, and I believe that one had about 245 duration at .05 and 305 advertised, but I figured that would be a bit over-kill.
Let me know what you all think, I can return this comp cams next week for a different one with even more duration, or less, I simply got one so if it is correct I can get my pushrod length measured, and next week can have things moving along smoothly.
Use the Comp 280 cam. With 10.3:1 static compression ratio, it will make 8.746:1 dynamic compression ratio on the KB calc. Should be just right for aluminum heads and pump gas.
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TE • Hunter Henry, Arkansas 6-6 250 Little Rock, Ark.
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OL Andrew Jelks, Vanderbilt 6-6 290 Paris, Tenn.
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Jose Mourinho has told Sky Sports he will return to the Premier League and he won't rule out a return to Chelsea.
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The Real Madrid boss was in the capital after having attended Brazil's game with Russia at Stamford Bridge on Monday evening.
Mourinho is widely expected to leave Real this summer, and suggested last week that he was ready to return to one of his former jobs, which many people took as a hint he would be back at Chelsea.
Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports News, he admitted he still loves English football and confirmed his passion for Chelsea remains.
"In this moment, I am completely independent of talks and speculations, and people who know me, know me well enough that I think about my job at Real Madrid," Mourinho said.
He joked that the current freezing weather conditions in England was not enough to put him off.
"I cannot deny that, despite this weather, I love it here, and as I said I have a house and I have big emotional connections with Chelsea and one day I think naturally I will have to be back to English football, or to Chelsea or to another club.
"Of course, Chelsea means to me differently than other clubs. Chelsea is in my heart as Inter is for example.
"One day I have to be back but again it is normal that I am in London. The same way I walk in my home city in Portugal, people see that as normal and this is normal, the same thing is normal when I am in London."
Also linked with the Manchester United and Manchester City roles, Mourinho does not expect either of those jobs to be available any time soon.
"I think Manchester is Sir Alex's kingdom and I would love that job to be his job forever, and for many more years and the other chair is Roberto with a contract," he added.
"He was champion two years ago so I don't think there is a move over there and I hope everything goes well for everyone. Even Benitez, I hope it goes well for him and I wish the same for them as me for it to go well."
Mourinho insists that his presence in London, which is regular, should not be seen as a sign of his imminent arrival, though.
"You know, there is a lot of talk but I think people has to understand that I can be in London very often, because we have a house here and I love it here and our daughter is coming to study in London and being in London should be seen as a normal thing for us," he said.
"But every time I come and people see me shopping, people start immediately making connections about a return and I feel it a little bit because I say every day I love it here and I have a fantastic time, and that I will return one day so, to be fair, I give a little contribution to the speculation.
"But at the end of the day I am in Madrid and very committed with ambitions for the club for the rest of the season.
"We are in the last eight of the Champions League and we have a final against our rivals Atletico Madrid.
"People who know me know I am professional and that in this moment I only think of Real. "