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Crate Motor - Repurposed CrateWritten by on March 28, 2012 Build your own race engine
Chevrolet's crate engines have been used in racing now for several years. And while racers far and wide still debate the merits of crate racing (right along with the weather, politics, and the quality of the food at the local track), there's no doubt that crate motors are now a major part of the racing landscape.
One of the main benefits of crate engines--specifically Chevrolet "602" crate which is outfitted with iron cylinder heads and the more powerful "604" crate which has aluminum heads--is that they are quite affordable compared to most purpose-built racing engines. The iron-headed 602 engine (PN 1958602) is the least expensive at just under $4,000. For that you get a cast-iron block with four-bolt mains and a one-piece rear main seal. The crank is nodular cast-iron, the heads are Vortec with 64cc chambers. Powdered metal rods and cast-aluminum pistons provide a 9.1:1 compression. An oil pan with kickouts and large breathers on the left-side valvecover are the major concession to circle track racing. Altogether, the 602 engine is capable of 350 hp and 390 ft-lb of torque and a redline around 6,200 rpm thanks to lightweight springs and hydraulic lifters. It may be pretty pedestrian for a race engine, but it does work when everybody on the track is racing the same thing.
When more power is called for, there's Chevrolet's 604 crate engine (PN 88958604). It upgrades the package to Fast Burn aluminum heads, a forged steel crankshaft for improved strength, a high-rise single-plane aluminum intake, and 9.6:1 compression. It costs about a grand more, but for that you get 400 hp and 400 ft-lb of torque.
Either way, the crate motors are so limited in power, that any small difference between two of the same type can result in a real advantage on the racetrack. Both types of engines are sealed and while certified rebuilders are allowed to refresh the engines, when it comes to major repairs it's often a simpler matter so simply replace the entire engine.
As a result, there are plenty of crate engines available if you know where to look. As a way to recoup some of their costs, many crate racers sell their old engines to hot rodders or mechanics, but more as still gathering dust in the corners of race shops across the country.
We couldn't help but think that these castoffs have the right bones for a great engine build. Sure, the hydraulic roller lifters, cast pistons, and relatively low compression aren't great for racing, but both crate engines have components that can be used to make a quality hand-built race engine. So after a little--OK, a lot, actually--bench racing we decided to take a shot at seeing what could be built from a refuse crate engine. The sweet spot for reusing parts seems to be in the Street Stock classes, so we chose what we figured to be a typical rule book for a high-end Street Stock class. We'd find a used crate engine on the cheap, reuse what we can, and build a Street Stocker. The thinking is that by doing this, a racer can use the savings from his or her crate recycling program to invest in components that can actually help him gain an advantage on the competition. At least that's how the thinking went--we just had to do it to see if we were right.
The first step, obviously, was to find an appropriate donor motor. You might be able to get away with using the 602 engine's cast crank and powdered metal connecting rods if you are building a Pure Stock motor, but our plan had us aiming at the higher level Super Street class. This meant we wanted the forged crank from the 604. After a little searching we found a candidate that had been pulled from a race car and basically abandoned after a blown head gasket made it unfit for racing. We agreed to cough up a grand for the engine, which was probably a bit on the high side compared to what you will be able to get one for with a little haggling, but we considered it a way to help a racer get back on the track.
The engine we purchased had already been torn down, so we don't have any photos of it together. But it did show signs of water having sat in a couple of the cylinders. We also noticed that a couple of the rod journals on the crank had been scratched by the rod bolts during disassembly--which is annoying but not a deal killer. Overall, the parts we wanted looked to be in decent shape and the rest will likely be finding its way onto ebay anyway, so we considered the project a go.
The first step was to take the block and crank to be machined. We used KT Engine Development in Concord, North Carolina, which specializes in race engines. In this installment we'll take a look at a few of the components we'll be adding and our reasons why, machine up the block, fit the bearings and assemble the short block. So follow along!
The Game Plan
Eventually, we hope to put the completed recycled crate engine into a race car and put it to the test in real competition. We're shooting for a typical Super Street class, which is a high-end Street Stock racing usually on dirt. So we came up with the most common rules for this class. These fit no particular racetrack--so if your track has a Super Street-type class there will probably some differences in what you are allowed--we simply came up with what we have found is typical at most tracks. This means we may have to make a few changes when we do choose a specific track to race, but at least this allows us to make a real game plan.
Block--Cast-iron, may over bore 0.060
Crank--48 pounds minimum weight, can't knife edge, stock stroke for engine size
Pistons--Any flat-top, may float wristpins
Rods--Any steel rod, must be stock length, may be bushed
Heads--Stock or stock replacement, no Vortec, no porting, all bowl work must be in line with valve guide, screw-in studs allowed
Valves--Must be steel, maximum size 2.020 intake 1.600 exhaust
Rocker Arms--No shaft mount, may be steel or aluminum, roller tips allowed
Intake--Edelbrock 5001
Camshaft--May run solid or hydraulic, flat tappet only, 0.500-inch max lift measured at the valve (0.025 lash allowed), lifters must be stock diameter for engine run
Exhaust--Headers allowed, no Tri-Y collectors
Carburetor--May run Chevy Quadrajet, Ford Motorcraft, or box stock Holley 650 (PN 4777), carb spacer maximum 1 inch
Timing Chain--Chain only, no belts
Oil System--Wet-sump only, any pan
After a little searching we found a candidate that had been pulled from a race car and basically abandoned after a blown head gasket made it unfit for racing
The connecting rod is very highly engineered and is fully machined, so even with the reduced mass, it should be capable of holding up to high rpm's and 500-plus horsepower in a racing environment
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1 During teardown, we weren't able to punch out one of the internal oil gallery plugs at the back of the block, and KT Engines' Nathan Allmond showed us this trick. He uses a drill bit approximately the same diameter as the plug but doesn't drill through the plug. Instead, he allows the flutes of the bit to bite into the plug and then pulls it out from underneath.3 Although we knew we wouldn't be able to reuse the aluminum Fast Burn cylinder heads, we wanted a 604 crate engine because it comes with the stronger forged crank. Most Street Stock rules require a stock-style crank with a minimum weight of 48 pounds, and this one fits the bill perfectly. To keep the rotating weight down we're pairing the stock crank with a set of Carrillo's ultra-light A-beam connecting rods.4 One issue with the Chevrolet crate motors is that they use a weight on the flywheel to help balance the crank. We want the engine to be internally balanced, so even though the rod and piston combination we'll be using is quite a bit lighter than the stock stuff, the rear of the crank still required just over 80 grams to be added. The ideal solution would be to add heavy metal to the counterweights, but that's outside the price range of most real-world Street Stock builds. So we accomplished the same thing by welding up a couple lightening holes that had already been drilled into the rear counterweights from the factory. We intentionally added too much weight so that we could then go back and turn down the counterweights on a lathe to help clean up the crank a bit and reduce windage. Here, Allmond deburrs all the rough edges.5 Whoever tore down the crate engine originally wasn't as careful as they should have been and left a few scratches on the rod journals. Here, you can see a mark left after a rod bolt has been smashed against the journal. It wasn't bad enough that the crank had to be cut down, but it is annoying.6 Allmond worked hard to buff out the scratches on the journal and did a good job of minimizing the damage to the point that we're no longer worried about tearing up the bearings. But extensive polishing can affect the journal diameter by a fraction of a thousandth of an inch, which can alter your bearing clearances.7 The crates also use stock-style press in oil gallery plugs in the front of the block. This can be a problem because the higher rpm levels of a built motor can create higher oil pressures in the main oil galleries. So Kevin Troutman threads the gallery holes with a tap in preparation for 1/4 pipe plugs.8 Make sure not to tap the center gallery too deeply because it has a crossover passage for the cam journal just inside the entrance. If the gallery plug is threaded too deep it can cut off oil to the journal and you will be left with a burned up bearing. A good rule of thumb is to tap the hole so that when fully inserted the end of the plug is flush with the block as you can see here.9 Additionally, the crate is also outfitted with a single-row timing chain and cast-iron sprockets. We'll be changing them out for a much stronger and more accurate double-row timing set from Comp Cams, which requires a slight modification to the block. You will need to cut back the top edge of the boss for the oil gallery like you see here.
10 We won't bore you with all the pictures, but KT Engines also went through the block and line honed the journals, bored the cylinders and honed them (with a deck plate) to a final size of 4.030 inches and decked the block to bring up the compression and ensure we won't have any more blown head gasket problems. Here, Kevin Troutman finishes up the block work by deburring the rough edges left by all that machine work.11 Chevrolet supplies a quality 8-quart oil pan complete with a windage screen, kickouts and trap doors on it's crate engines, so we will be keeping it and the oil pump for this build.12 Besides the fact that most Street Stock classes won't allow a hydraulic roller cam anyway, the stock unit (top) only has a duration (at 0.050 lobe lift) of 208 for the intake and 221 for the exhaust. The Comp Cams solid flat tappet cam meanwhile specs out with 240 and 246 degrees of duration at 0.050 and is much more aggressive getting there. There is also another unique feature of this cam we are excited to try out. Notice how the lobes near the cam's journals beefed up with extra material. Comp now offers these special cores that are designed to significantly stiffen up the camshaft. By reducing cam flex it should help reduce the chances of wiping a lobe on these super agressive flat tappet designs as well as help control the valve opening and closing events more precisely for additional power.13 Once the block is finally ready, the task of fitting bearings is ready to begin. We're using King Engine Bearing's XP line of bearings which are designed specifically for the demands of circle track racing. King holds these bearings to extremely tight tolerances (the shells are matched to within 0.0001-inch) and can handle very high loading without flaking.14 Powerhouse Products sells a very affordable set of micrometers and dial bore gauges that you can use to measure your own bearing clearances. Generally, you want 0.001 bearing clearance for every inch of journal diameter. So for a standard Chevy 2.100 rod journal, you are targeting a bearing clearance between 0.0020 and 0.0022. For complete instructions on how to measure and fit your bearings, go to www.circle track.com and search for15 Stock cranks, like the ones we are using, are notorious for often being slightly undersized. Plus, the extra polishing work we did on this one probably also contributed to the fact that we were getting too much clearance on both the main and rod journals. To bring the bearing clearances back into spec, we ordered up a set of X bearings from King. These bearings are thicker to take away 0.001-inch of clearance. For the main bearings we only needed to tighten up the clearance by 0.0005, so we used a standard shell in the housing bore and an X shell in the caps. The rods were running 0.003 total clearance, so we used both X shells to get an average 0.002 bearing clearance all the way across.16 Once all the bearings are properly fitted, they are coated with plenty of assembly lube and the crank is lowered into place.17 Before installing the main caps, lubricate the threads and underside of the head of each bolt with light motor oil.
19 After securing the main caps, Troutman checks crankshaft endplay. Although this crank has already been run in this specific block, you can't take anything for granted. The new bearings mean endplay must be rechecked. We came out with 0.005-inch of movement fore and aft, which is well within tolerance.20 Rules normally allow any piston as long as it has a flat-top. These units from JE Pistons are an excellent choice for this application. They have to work with a stock length 5.7-inch rod, so the compression height is relatively tall, but still, they are lightweight, designed to work with a low-friction 0.043 ring package and have a slipper skirt to further cut friction against the cylinder walls.21 The JE pistons utilize wire locks to hold the floating wristpins in place. Wire locks do an excellent job once they are in place, but they can be difficult to install and seem to have a tendency to spring out when they are about halfway in the hole and roll underneath your toolbox. I prefer to use a device called the Lock-In-Tool which makes installing wire locks a snap. It holds the wire lock in place so it can't spring out on your while you push it into the groove inside the piston's pin towers.22 Old-school engine builders used to cut down their rod bearings on a lathe to reduce friction. King has already taken this step by making their performance rod bearings narrower to help reduce friction and the chances the edges of the bearings will rub against the crankshaft fillets.23 This angle shows the most unique feature of the Carrillo A-beam connecting rods. Unlike conventional I- or H-beam rods, the narrow beam (compare it to the big end of the rod to see just how much has been cut away) not only helps cut weight but also reduces windage because of the narrowed profile. The connecting rod is very highly engineered and is fully machined, so even with the reduced mass, it should be capable of holding up to high rpm's and 500-plus horsepower in a racing environment.24 For comparison's sake, check out the new rotating assembly on the left versus the unit that came out of the crate motor. We weighed the connecting rod, piston, rod bearing and rings, and the Carrillo/JE/King combination weighed in at 1,106 grams versus the stock weight of 1,373 grams. That's more than one-fifth cut off the total weight.25 JE also spec'ed the best set of rings to work with the pistons. They recommended a set of 0.043/0.043/3.0 rings for the best combination of low drag and good oil control. The were installed to JE's specifications.26 Once the pistons and rods were together, Ken Troutman began the process of installing them in the block.27 Carrillo goes the extra step and actually includes lubricant for the rod bolts. By knowing the exact properties of the lubricant you will be using, Carrillo can confidently provide the precise torque figure that will give you the correct amount of rod bolt stretch. If you have the capability of checking rod bolt stretch, it's always a good idea. But for those of you that don't have a bolt stretch gauge, this can provide some piece of mind that the rod bolts—one of the most stressed components in any race engine--are installed properly.
28 Ken Troutman checks the side clearance between the rods and the cheeks of the crank journals and determines that there is at least 0.020-inch of movement--more than enough to avoid excessive friction between the sides of the rods when the engine is running.


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BRIDGEPORT - Young teams - regardless what sport it is - sometimes have tough times regaining their intensity following a big win.
That wasn't an issue for the Bridgeport girls' basketball team Thursday evening.
Just 72 hours after toppling River on the road, the Lady Bulldogs were back at it and left no doubt against Madonna inside the John J. Havlicek Gymnasium, posting an impressive 62-39 victory to improve to 5-0.
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DRIVING FORWARD — Madonna's Leanne Grubbs brings the ball upcourt past a Bridgeport defender during the Blue Dons' 62-39 loss to the Bulldogs Thursday in Bridgeport. - Mike Palmer
"We played well, had balanced scoring, played pretty good defense, so it was a nice win for us," said Bridgeport head coach Rob Zitzelsberger. "I think if we continue to play as a team, we'll be alright."
Team ball was not an issue against the Lady Blue Dons (1-4). Four Lady Bulldogs cracked double figures.
The Lady Bulldogs' attack was led by their junior duo of Nicole Smolenak and Maclaine Murad. The pair evenly divided 32 markers. Smolenak had a brilliant floor game with eight rebounds and five assists.
Brittany Higgenbotham was solid on the interior with 10 points and eight boards. Talented freshman Caitlyn Kroll finished with 11 points despite struggling some from the floor.
Bridgeport owned a 13-7 lead after one and led 32-21 at the intermission.
Any thought of a Blue Dons' rally were quickly eliminated as Bridgeport used a 17-4 run in the third to blow the game wide open.
During the period, seven different girls recorded points.
"Our goal in the third quarter is to not let the other team back in the game," Zitzelsberger said. "We like to press, run and shoot the ball. We want everyone to shoot the ball when they're open."
Madonna, however, continued to scratch and claw its way during the fourth quarter, but the deficit was just too large to make a serious dent in the Lady Bulldogs' advantage.
"I thought the girls did a great job of playing with some heart against an excellent ball club tonight," said Lady Blue Dons' head coach Don Ogden. "The third quarter happened to us when we played Bridgeport the first time. We just kind of shut down mentally and had too many mistakes."
Madonna was paced by Nicollette Sellitti's 11 points. Rachel Grubbs added eight points and a like number of rebounds.
The Lady Bulldogs held a 37-18 edge on the glass.
Bridgeport took exceptionally good care of the ball with only 11 turnovers. Madonna, meanwhile, was charted for 21 miscues.
"That's a really good number for us," Zitzelsberger said. "A lot of those were unforced, too. We work a lot on ball handling and we're fundamentally pretty sound."
The Lady Blue Dons are back at it on Tuesday when they visit Clay-Battelle.
Bridgeport, meanwhile, has a three-game week ahead. It treks to Beallsville on Monday, hosts St. Clairsville Wednesday and Cameron on Saturday.
Bridgeport 62, Madonna 39
Madonna 7 14 5 13 - 39
Bridgeport 13 19 17 13 - 62
MADONNA (1-4): Holt 1, 2-4 4; Sellitti 4, 2-5 11; Platek 1, 1-3 3; Davis 1, 0-0 2; Grubbs 1, 0-0 2; Lammers 0, 0-0 0; R. Grubbs 3, 2-3 8; Rosso 3, 0-0 9; Totals: 14, 7-15 39.
BRIDGEPORT (5-0): Kroll 4, 3-4 11; Smolenak 4, 5-6 16; Murad 7, 0-0 16; Benda 2, 0-0 4; Higgenbotham 5, 0-0 10; Massey 0, 3-4 3; Renzler 1, 0-0 2; Millard 0, 0-0 0; Totals: 23, 11-14 62.
Three-Point Goals: M - Sellitti, Rosso (3). B - Smolenak (3), Murad (2).

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Hepatitis Health Center
Signs of Rise in Hepatitis C Cases Among Young
May 5, 2011 -- Hepatitis C infections are rising among adolescents and young adults in Massachusetts, apparently in part due to needle sharing that spreads the virus, the CDC says in a new report.
There is reason to believe, the researchers write, that this trend may be occurring in other states.
The CDC in collaboration with other state and local health departments is examining hepatitis C virus surveillance data in order to determine whether similar trends are occurring in other areas.
In Massachusetts, a rise in cases in the 15- to 24-year-old age group from 2007 to 2009 occurred most frequently among white people, the CDC says. And the increase was divided about equally among males and females.
Injection drug use was the most common risk factor for transmission. The increase apparently represents an epidemic of hepatitis C related to sharing of needles and a history of drug use via nasal passages, according to the CDC.
The study is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for May 6.
Monitoring Hepatitis C
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health uses an electronic data system for disease surveillance. All positive laboratory results indicating hepatitis C infection are reported to the department.
Though an overall decline in rates of newly reported hepatitis C infections was detected between 2002 and 2006, an increase was noted among people 15 to 24. Starting in 2007, Massachusetts state health officials sent hepatitis C infection case report forms to reporting clinicians in an attempt to gather data on new cases among young people 15 to 24.
Between 2002 and 2009, rates of newly reported cases in the 15-24 group rose from 65 to 113 cases per 100,000 people, the CDC says.
Between 2007 and 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health received 1,925 reports of new cases among the young people, 53% of which were confirmed, with the rest classified as probable.
Analysis of data showed that the most common risk was injection drug use. The researchers say that of 1,196 cases with a reported risk history, 860 (72%) were in people who reported current or past use of injectable drugs. And of those, 719 or 84% reported injecting drugs during the previous 12-month period.


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Unanswered: null value of types Integer and Float accepted by a grid
I have a grid with fields of types Float and Integer ( in Java) because i need to put null value in these fields, but when i add new record to this grid with null value of some fields, the new record is saved in the database but i cannot see it in the grid. I think the problem is that fields in grid don't accept null value of types Float and Integer ( not int and float).Anybody can give me any suggestion???
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I have been using null values and not have seen issues. Especially not on other fields than those that are null.
Have you checked that they are actually being returned from the server? Have you checked whether they do end up in the Store? Is it really just the grid not displaying them?
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- What are the purposes of martial arts forms? 25 answers
Most martial arts seem to have staged pre defined series of moves as part of their practice routines. Karate with its Katas, Taekwondo with the Poomsaes etc.
When push comes to shove and the fight is real, details like which part of the leg to kick with etc. change and it becomes different.
I want to understand what exactly traditional teachers say about the usefulness of these exercises.


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What you need to know about submitting a building regulation application
Is there a charge for making a Building Regulation Application?When is a Building Regulations Application required? When is a Building Regulations Application NOT required? What does Building Consultancy do when things go wrong?
What is the difference between Planning Permission and Building Regulation Approval?
Planning Permission deals with the appearance of the proposal and the effect it will have on neighbouring properties and the general environment.
Building Regulations deals with the constructional details of building works to ensure the health and safety of people in and around the building.
Building Regulation Applications are valid for 3 years from the date of deposit and planning applications are valid for 5 years from the date of approval. Work must start (but need not be finished) in these times or a new application fee will be required.
Is there a charge for making a Building Regulation Application?
Yes there is a fee payable to the city council. The amount will depend on the type of work and is laid down in an annual scale of charges through 'The Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 1998.
Work to be carried out to improve access for a disabled person however is normally exempt from charges.
A Full Plans application usually involves a 2-stage payment. The first stage is a Plan Fee, which must be paid at the time you submit your plans, and the second stage is an inspection fee, which is payable after the first inspection of work on site has been carried out
The fee for a Building Notice submission is a single charge equal to the sum of both the plan and inspection fees and payable at the time the Notice is submitted.
Please contact Building Consultancy for further information about fees or visit our web site on www.birmingham.gov.uk/buildingconsultancy
Please note that there is NO fee required for re-checking amendments to plans.
Once you have given a Building Notice or submitted Full Plans, you can start after you have given us 2 days notice that you intend to commence your work.
If you have submitted a Full Plans application and start work before your application is approved you run the risk of works on site not complying with the regulations.
When is a Building Regulations Application required?
When erecting or extending a building.
When installing a new WC or bathroom that involves new waste pipes or underground drainage.
When installing a heating appliance or boiler (unless the work is supervised by an approved installer).
When building a house extension, (however most conservatories, car ports and porches are exempt).
When converting a house to flats or bed-sits.
When building an attached garage.
When making general alterations that mean altering a load bearing internal wall or work which affects the existing means of escape routes.
When converting a loft or other roofspace.
When replacing or adding new windows to a house.
When replacing or renovating a thermal element (roof, external wall or floor). Renovation in relation to a thermal element means the provision of a new layer or replacement of an existing layer in the element, thus re-plastering an external wall or replacement of roof tiles will require an application form.
When underpinning foundations.
When changing the use of certain buildings.
When is a Building Regulations Application NOT required?
For a carport if open on two or more sides with a floor area of 30 square metres or less.
For a conservatory with a floor area of 30 square metres or less and wholly or partly glazed with glazing which complies with the safety standards of BS 6206 (1981), and with the conservatory area separated from the main dwelling by the existing external door.
Generally, when building a detached garage that is more than 1 metre from the boundary and has a floor area of 30 square metres or less.
What does Building Consultancy do when things go wrong?
Building Regulation Enforcement
Building Consultancy's job is to make sure buildings are safe for the public by checking that the building work has all been carried out in accordance with the Building Regulations.
If our surveyors believe that an infringement has occurred they will identify the problem to the builder and give them the opportunity to put it right. If the builder is still unable or unwilling to do this, the Building Consultancy Enforcement Officer will take over and work with the builder to ensure that the contravention is corrected. This is why it is important to involve the Building Surveyor from the earliest stages in order to avoid costly errors.
In some extreme cases where the work is very poor and the builder fails to rectify the problems to his satisfaction, the Enforcement Officer will take the matter to court and prosecute the builder.


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Welcome to Norton House Hotel & Spa
An elegant blend of the classic and the contemporary
As you pass the original stone gatehouse and journey along the tree-lined drive, between open fields, Norton House creates a striking first impression: an elegant blend of the classic and the contemporary.
Originally owned by the Ushers, the family behind Glenlivet Whisky and the Ushers Brewery, the house still has the appearance of a private country home. But, like one of the family's finest malts, it has improved with age. As well as historic features, it is now a place of stylish dining, advanced business technology and 21st century comforts.
This 1840 hotel is a romantic Scottish wedding venue and one of the best meeting venues in Edinburgh, thanks to its location, 5 minutes from Edinburgh Airport and 20 minutes from the city centre, and its tailored, all inclusive packages. Set alongside our hotel there is the Norton House Health Club & Spa, a great place to work out, relax or unwind.
Whatever the reason for your visit, we look forward to welcoming you and making you feel at home.
Ronnie MacKay
General Manager
0845 0727468 or 0131 333 1275
Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8LX Scotland
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At a glance
- AA four red star inspector's choice country house hotel
- Set in 55 acres of grounds in Edinburgh
- Ushers – a 3 AA Rosette fine dining restaurant, the brasserie and spa café bar
- 83 bedrooms including 4 feature rooms
- Check in: 3pm, check out: 11am
- Spa with top treatments and leading product houses
- Health club open to residents
- Conveniently located 5 minutes from Edinburgh Airport and 20 minutes from the city centre
- Easy access to the A8 – M9 – M8 J2
- Complimentary onsite carpark
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Annual Accrual of Vacation Days
Full-time employees who have completed fewer than 15 years of continuous service are granted 22 vacation days per academic year.
Full-time employees who have completed 15 years of continuous service or more are granted 25 vacation days per academic year.
Vacation days are earned at a rate of 1.83 days per month for a 22 day allotment per academic year or 2.08 days per month for a 25 day allotment per academic year.
Part-time employees receive vacation at a rate proportional to the number of hours worked per week. To compute your vacation time, multiply the number of hours you are scheduled to work per week by 4.4 (the number of weeks' vacation time for full-time employees). This gives annual vacation accumulation in hours.
Scheduling Vacation
Employees must schedule any planned use of vacation in advance and obtain the approval of the person to whom they report and in accordance with any unit, department or division protocol.
Note for New Employees: You may take vacation time after you have passed your six month probationary period with the approval of your supervisor. At that time, you are given credit for the vacation time you have accumulated during your first six months.
Unused Vacation Days
Employees are strongly encouraged to take all of their vacation days during the academic year in which they are accrued. In the event that an employee is not able to use all of their vacation days in that time frame, you may carry unused days into the subsequent year as follows:
Vacation Upon Separation
Employees who have given the required four weeks notice when resigning from the University will be paid for their unused accrued vacation days up to the maximum accrued vacation days as defined above.
*Special Carryover
On September 1, 2010, any unused vacation time that exceeds these maximum limits will be recorded on a one-time-only basis in a Special Carryover bank, which you can draw from until August 31, 2013. On September 1, 2013, all unused vacation balances in excess of the allowable maximum carryover limits will be forfeited. To avoid this, you and your manager should discuss ways for you to schedule vacation time so you can reduce your balance.
When vacation days are taken by an employee, they are applied first to "Vacation Available" (accrued vacation days plus carry over days from the prior year), then to "Special Carryover" days, if applicable.
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6 Spectacularly Bad Ideas From History's Greatest Geniuses
The modern world as we know it was shaped by the minds of geniuses. But the same "outside the box" thinking that gave us our great innovations also gave them some truly ridiculous ideas.
Does that give us the right to mock some of history's greatest minds? Ah, who knows?
#6. Thomas Edison's Ghost Busting Machine
Thomas Edison is America's most beloved asshole inventor, famous for stealing other people's inventions, hiring thugs to physically intimidate his competition and heroically electrocuting an elephant to discredit the use of alternating current. Also, he invented the light bulb (which he stole) and the motion picture camera, which he only invented so he could film himself having sex with other men's wives [citation needed].
"...and you'll just be in the closet the whole time we're boning, filming the shit out of it."
Naturally, the next step for Edison was paranormal extermination. During the early days of the 20th century, contacting the spirit world was all the rage and any jackass with a gypsy wig and/or monocle could make bundles of cash holding seances to bilk grieving families hoping to talk to a deceased loved one. And if there was one thing Edison loved, it was money.
After intentionally burning his finger to the point his fingerprint was erased, Edison noted the fingerprint grew back and triumphantly concluded that all human beings must be made of "immortal units" which cannot be destroyed, thus explaining the existence of ghosts. He set about creating a device that would trap these immortal units and allow them to be studied by the living.
Edison was incredibly secretive about the nature of his ghost hunting mechanism--not even a prototype was ever seen. Just about the only real detail anyone knows is that one of his assistants died while working on it, presumably because Edison wanted to test and see if it worked.
You'll have to watch Casper: Origins to learn more.
#5. Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine
Nikola Tesla is like the photo negative of Thomas Edison. Edison made Direct Current (DC), Tesla made Alternating Current (AC). Edison became grotesquely rich, Tesla died poor. Edison got tons of stuff named after him, including corporations and high schools. All Tesla got was a crappy rock band from Sacramento.
Though it wasn't all sour grapes for Tesla--while Edison invented some pretty common place items like light bulbs and record players, Tesla excelled in awesome invention like robots, wireless electricity and death rays. He predicted the Internet 80 years before its existence. Also, he was played by David Bowie in a movie.
"Immediately, I rule harder than any scientist ever."
One thing Edison and Tesla did have in common was batshit lunacy. In Tesla's case, it was a pocket-sized earthquake generator. In 1898, Tesla conducted an experiment in mechanical resonance in his New York lab, which basically measures the tendency of something to absorb more energy from a vibration if said vibration matches its own natural frequency. In other words, everything has its own musical pitch that, if matched, will break the object, not unlike opera singers breaking crystal glasses with just their voices. Except in this case Tesla's crystal glasses were buildings.
Allegedly while testing his electro-mechanical oscillator (or earthquake machine), many buildings began to shake. Once the very building he stood in began to tremble, Tesla took a sledgehammer to the device, destroying it and likely saving everyone in the city.
"Shit, I've gotta break this fucking thing."
It's not really clear why Tesla was developing a portable earthquake machine, other than the fact that he could use it to get virtually whatever he wanted, for the rest of his life. There is no further record of Tesla using or trying to market the device, though we presume he kept a working version of it in his home in case he ever caught Edison combing through his garbage.
Tesla wouldn't hesitate to murder you with science.
#4. Alexander Graham Bell's Six Nippled Sheep
As all of you (hopefully) know, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, which is arguably the single most important invention of all fucking time. As probably none of you know, one of Bell's less notable inventions is the six nippled sheep.
Bell spent the last 30 years of his life and $250,000 (adjusted for inflation that's roughly the Gross Domestic Product of Canada) on his beloved deranged sheep. Why would a famed inventor spend all his time and money just to shit on nature? To make more sheep, of course. Upon purchasing a pet ewe for his children, Bell noted sheep possessed only two nipples, an inferior number compared to pigs and cats. Evolution had clearly fucked this one up.
Bell versus Evolution: The Throwdown.
Bell figured that sheep with more nipples would naturally produce more offspring and thus make farmers' wallets fatter, a postulation not supported by science of any kind. Of course, the ramifications of the nipple enhanced sheep implies more far-reaching applications, the likes of which man has only fantasized about to this point.
And by "man" we mean Total Recall.


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The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has completed preparation for this Hajj season, Deputy Minister Dr. Tawfeeq Al-Sudairi said today.
This year's Hajj plan will be implemented by more than 800 preachers assisted by 80 interpreters in many different languages stationed in 133 centers.
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Were the Apocryphal writings the primary motivation behind the cannons and councils of the 4th and 5th centuries or were there other motivations? Did the ancient church leaders cite their reasons for making the canons?
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I'm not sure which specific councils you're referring to, but for the sake of this answer I'll assume it's the first four ecumenical councils. The Apocryphal writings were not the primary focus of these councils; doctrinal concerns were (the Trinitarian and Christological heresies). Here is a brief summary of these councils:
Concerning the Apocryphal writings, many early Christians considered them to be scripture due to their inclusion in the Septuagint, with the notable exception of Jerome. The lists of books considered "canonical" by many groups today were drawn up very early (fourth century and onward), so there was little dispute (with the exception of the Apocryphal works) when official canons were drawn up in the 16th and 17th centuries.1
So in response to your question, the answer is no, the councils of the 4th and 5th centuries did not primarily deal with Apocryphal writings.
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Egypt Court Delays Contested Ruling
Protests Lead Top Tribunal to Put Off Decree on Constitutional Panel's Legitimacy, Escalating Fight; 'Dark Day' for Judiciary
CAIRO—President Mohammed Morsi's battle with Egypt's judiciary and opposition groups escalated Sunday as hundreds of his Islamist supporters besieged the country's highest court to prevent it from ruling on the legitimacy of a panel that created a draft constitution.
The court said it was suspending its sessions until the safety of its judges and personnel can be guaranteed.
The rising tensions come after Mr. Morsi set a mid-December date for a referendum on the contested constitution, which contains several references to Islamic Shariah law, as both sides showed no sign of backing down.
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Later on Sunday, the board of the Judges' Club, the largest association of judges, held a meeting at which they agreed not to participate in the constitution's referendum, according to its chairman Ahmed el-Zind.
"It is a very dark day in the history of the Egyptian judiciary," the Supreme Constitutional Court said.
The developments represent the latest installment in Mr. Morsi's standoff with the judiciary and the opposition. The divisions are seen by many as the gravest threat to Egypt's fragile democratic transition since street protests toppled former strongman Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 in one of the most closely watched uprisings of the "Arab Spring."
"Egypt on the brink of a volcano," said a Sunday headline in Al-Masry al-Youm, one of the country's main dailies.
The latest wrangling began on Nov. 22, when Mr. Morsi issued an edict which, among other things, shielded all his decisions and the Islamist-dominated panel drafting the constitution known as the Constituent Assembly from judicial review. The assembly last week rushed to approve a constitution in a marathon session, despite a boycott by more than a quarter of its members representing secular groups and churches in Egypt.
The assembly's chairman handed Mr. Morsi the final draft of the constitution in a televised ceremony on Saturday, during which the president announced a Dec. 15 date for the referendum as hundreds of thousands of his Islamist supporters rallied in Cairo. Most were bused in from the provinces.
Secular and liberal parties in the opposition, as well as youth movements and others, have rejected the draft constitution and Mr. Morsi's edict. They view the moves as a blatant attempt by Islamist parties, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, to implement their Islamic agenda and consolidate their hold on power in the Arab world's most populous and strategic state.
Siding with the opposition groups are a majority of the country's judges, many of whom were appointed by Mr. Mubarak's regime and who have been on strike since Nov. 25 to protest Mr. Morsi's edict.
For their part, both Mr. Morsi and his Islamist allies see the opposition's stance as a conspiracy—fueled by former regime loyalists and businessmen, corrupt judges and unnamed foreign states—to undermine the president and his government, who were the product of what they say was "the fairest election" in the country's history.
So far, the anti-Morsi camp has remained firm in its opposition. "We are sending a final warning to Dr. Mohammed Morsi who was elected as a legitimate and democratic president of the country that his legitimacy is eroding and diminishing with his policies and actions that are biased toward his party and group," said a statement issued by 18 secular and liberal parties as well as youth movements that played a pivotal role in the anti-Mubarak uprising.
The signatories said they were organizing a large demonstration dubbed "the last chance" outside the presidential palace on Tuesday to pressure Mr. Morsi to rescind last month's decree and postpone the referendum on the constitution. The groups say the document is illegitimate because, they say, it was drafted and rushed through by an Islamist-led body that doesn't reflect Egyptian society's ideological diversity.
The same groups have threatened civil disobedience across the country if Mr. Morsi doesn't respond to their demands this week.
"We cannot have a referendum on it [the constitution] because there has been no dialogue about it," said Mohsen Ibrahim, 45 years old, a florist who is among the hundreds of people who have camped in Cairo's central Tahrir Square for more than 10 days to protest Mr. Morsi's edict. "It's full of nails and land mines."
In his speech at Saturday's ceremony, Mr. Morsi recognized the deep polarization in the country and called on his opponents for "a serious national dialogue about the nation's worries." But he also reiterated his determination to press ahead with the referendum.
"This responsibility makes it imperative in front of God, you, the Egyptian nation and the world that I forge ahead and not hesitate to carry out the will of this nation," Mr. Morsi said.
The president and his Islamist allies, especially the Muslim Brotherhood he once led, are banking on their grass-roots support across Egypt and a highly organized party machine to win approval for the referendum, which they have estimated at 70%. If it fails, Mr. Morsi will have to call for the formation of a new Constituent Assembly to produce another draft.
Driving the pro-Morsi camp is also a belief that former regime loyalists, including those in the judiciary, are determined to turn back the clock to the Mubarak era and deny Islamists their legitimate win.
This was evident in the speeches made by Islamist politicians and clerics on Saturday at their rally outside Cairo University's main campus, branding opposition leaders, the media and some judges as "enemies of Egypt."
The same atmosphere prevailed Sunday among those surrounding the Supreme Constitutional Court building in Cairo's Maadi neighborhood. Many had spent the night on the court's lawn and marble entrance, sleeping on blankets and cardboard cutouts, as riot police stood nearby to prevent them from storming the building.
"This court is the claw of the conspiracy," said Hatem Heikal, 55, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Minority Relations, Part 2
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And now, the focus turns to the Latino community. In talking with them on the streets, in previous campaigns, I learned that most of them preferred the term Latino, rather than Hispanic. Hispanic seems to have a broader connotation, reflecting Spanish descent. My particular focus is on the people who compose the newest wave of immigration, and they are from Latin America.
We Americans have a great deal in common with Latinos. That may seem odd to say, but it is true. The Latinos who have come to America are people with a crucial similar characteristic to many Americans, in one particular way. It is reflected in our national character.
The people in my mother's family came to this country over 300 years ago, from southwestern Germany. They had been through the Thirty Years War, followed by a little Ice Age. It was time to leave Germany; enough was enough.
They did not have the benefit of the internet or a telephone or any of the communication systems we now take for granted. Bravely, with determination, on faith, they came across the Atlantic Ocean. One family brought their twelve children. These people came from the Mosel and Rhine River Valleys, and by sheer good fortune, settled in the Hudson River Valley, which must have seemed like a homecoming.
What is it that we, as Americans have in common? It is the boldness, the risk taking, the guts and determination to set out to work for a better future, for ourselves and our families. We share these traits with Latinos, who are the latest wave of immigrants.
Latinos are often victimized by "coyotes" as they make their own risky trek or "voyage." It may be through a desert, where they are victimized or simply die from the clash with a harsh environment. The story of risk is multi-faceted. And once they achieve relative "safety", they still often face the life of someone in the shadows. On the Shore, we know there are people in virtual economic slavery, actual sexual slavery, and those being victimized by people traffickers.
I'll keep this focused. Their story is a large one and deserving of attention, and reform, of our immigration system, which is broken. But we, who are politically oriented and active, can help. We can help by finding ways to bring them out of the shadows and making contact with them.
And the shadows are not just figurative. Two summers ago, my wife and I went to a concert on Aurora Street, in Easton. The band was Colombian and they set up shop in the middle of the street. People came with their lawn chairs and there were families who, by their appearance, had Hispanic or Latino descent. But, there were other people in the shadows of trees and buildings. Perhaps, a small gathering in a nearby parking lot, or young men peering around the corner of a building..
At one point the band stopped playing and, in Spanish, invited the people in the shadows to join us. A very few accepted the offer. Most did not.
The point here is that we have so much work to do, hand-in-hand, with Latinos. As noted with the black community, we must do something other than just exhorting them to register, and to vote. We need to reach out and listen. There are two things we can do: we can engage them with questions about their situation, their hopes and their dreams, and we can make them an offer.
In fact, there are two offers we can make to Latinos. One offer comes in the form of questions we should ask. What is your life like here? What do you need? What are the issues and how do you view them? Questions will help us establish trust. Then, we can make another offer: we can offer them a pipeline for information, to help them find what they need. When there is a problem, we can get the information for them, since they may be afraid to ask, for a variety of reasons. We need to ask them to please come to us. After trust, can come inclusion and support for their dreams.
Only then do we suggest they register and ask for them to vote for our candidate who may then, in turn, be in a position to support and help them.


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|Wedding anniversary, Vernon and Joan (Strazzeri) Wright, 1962
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Wright of Oakville celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to Italy and a party given by their children at Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury. Mr. and Mrs. Wright were married Sept. 8, 1962, at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Oakville. They have four children, Gina Donato of Watertown, Sahryn Iadarola of Cheshire, David Wright of Waterbury and Missy Byron of Wolcott, and nine grandchildren.
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Memorial Service for Maureen Martin (1946-2013)
On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Heartland Institute hosted a memorial service for Maureen Martin in its library at One South Wacker Drive #2740 in Chicago. We celebrated the life and accomplishments of one of Chicago's most effective and outspoken defenders of individual freedom and the rule of law.
Maureen Martin, a long-time senior fellow and legal counsel to The Heartland Institute, died in a house fire on February 5. She was a talented attorney, scholar, and writer as well as a close friend of many of us here at Heartland, the Federalist Society, and in her adopted home of Green Lake, Wisconsin.
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CPAC Chicago 2012 talk about Fast & Furious, is here.
Read Joseph Bast's eulogy for Maureen Martin here (PDF).
Read niece Jennifer Lugo's eulogy for Maureen Martin here (PDF).
Maureen Martin worked for The Heartland Institute for nearly 15 years and volunteered for the Federalist Society, Rotary Club, and several civic and business groups in Green Lake, Wisconsin. She was a loyal friend, a great listener, and always the optimist in the room.
Martin was the long-time editor of Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly, a newsletter that documented outrageous examples of lawyers and plaintiffs abusing the legal system for personal gain. The newsletter went to thousands of journalsits and researchers every two weeks and helped focus attention on a problem that costs consumers and businesses billions of dollars a year.
Martin was the author of many influential legal briefs on public policy issues including the right of nonprofit groups to keep the identities of their donors confidential, the Second Amendment, and environmental regulation. Her amicus brief on gun control was cited four times by the majority in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 landmark ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, finding individuals have a constitutionally protected right to "keep and bear arms."
Martin was a talented researcher and writer as well. She generated a steady stream of op-eds, letters to the editor, and feature articles on a wide range of public policy issues including smoking bans, climate change, gun control, collective bargaining reform, and much more. She wrote two recent Heartland Policy Briefs explaining and defending Wisconsin's Act 10, a pioneering collective bargaining reform measure.
In 2012, when The Heartland Institute was the victim of criminal theft of corporate documents, Maureen worked tirelessly to assemble a legal team to explore our legal options and press the U.S. Attorney to prosecute the offender. Most recently she completed work on chapters for a new book on the urgency of constitutional reform that Heartland plans to publish later this year. Her bio appears in our directory of experts here.
The freedom movement has lost one of its finest defenders, and many of us have lost a close friend. Please join us as we share memories about this remarkable individual on Tuesday, March 19 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. This event is informal and not sectarian. Please register using the form below.


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There are many good books describing how to construct the Lagrangian for an electromagnetic field in a medium.
$$ \mathcal{L}~=~-\frac{1}{16\pi}F^{\mu\nu}F_{\mu\nu}-\frac{1}{c}j^{\nu}A_{\nu} $$
When moving to the Proca Lagrangian (and a massive photon), I know what the mass term looks like but I have know idea where it came from.
$$ \mathcal{L}~=~-\frac{1}{16\pi}F^{\mu\nu}F_{\mu\nu}-\frac{1}{c}j^{\nu}A_{\nu}+\frac{\mu^{2}}{8\pi}A_{\mu}A^{\mu} $$
Why is $A_{\mu}A^{\mu}$ the correct term to include? I guess that it must be Gauge and Lorentz invariant so why wasn't it included in the original Lagrangian? Why is the factor of $\frac{\mu^{2}}{8\pi}$ needed?


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The callers tell people they have won the lottery, but must pay the taxes first before their prize can be awarded.
"If you are lucky enought to win some type of lottery," police say, "any taxes or other fees would be withheld from the winnings before the winning money would be awarded. You would not have to send money in advance."
Cpt. Lonnie Neeman said operators of some telephone scams are based outside of the United States and lost money may never be recovered.
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I am new to D&D and I am joining a campaign that automatically starts me in level 6. We are playing 3.5 version. I am a half-elf fighter with an alignment of chaotic neutral. I want to play my character where I take advantage of the others and slowly but surely bend them to my will. I want to become a character that is strong enough to not be loyal to any one. I need advise on what skills I will need and how to get them. I thought of my approach as starting as a thief before revealing my true nature. How do I do this? Of the five players I have the trust of three. How can I take advantage of this?
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I upvoted the question since it's the sort of thing that new players often wonder about; but the only possible answer is Stop what you are doing right now!. D&D (and roleplaying games in general) are very specifically not about being the winner or 'bending other characters to your will'.
It is conceivable that a particular campaign may allow the party to dominate NPCs and become the most powerful force in the area; if the DM allows this, it will only be possible if the whole party co-operates, and can trust each other. Similarly, it is possible (with experience and the willing assistance of the GM) to play an evil character who is loyal to nobody and will betray the rest of the party whenever it suits him. Unfortunately, the rest of the party will find out about this in due course, and a good roleplayer would execute your character immediately. (As others have mentioned, most players would take the extra precaution of never playing with one of your characters again.)
This game is clearly going to be very different from anything you are used to: I strongly suggest you abandon your preconceptions, start with a simple character like a fighter who prefers hitting things to thinking, and see how the campaign develops. There's nothing wrong with being a tyro, but it does mean that you have to learn how to play rather than imposing your ideas on others.
First: Talk to your DM. Ensure that this character is right for the game they are running. Does the DM force/allow social skills to be used against other PCs? Does the general plot have a point at which you could take control of the party? Is there a reason that the other players would go along with your character? Is there a reason some higher authority won't just squash you? If the DM does not think that the character is a good fit then stop and find another character.
Second: Talk to the other players. Have any of them played in games that included betrayal? Have there been past betrayals in this group? How did the players (not the characters) feel about that? Are they okay having a single party leader? How would the Paladin that's been in play for the last three years react to a thief trying to takeover the leadership role? If the players have had bad experiences in the past then stop and find another character.
Third: If you have the agreement of the DM and a sense that the other players will not be put off by such a plot line, then focus on:
Finally: Accept the fact that the party may turn on your character and kill them off, or simply walk away from your character and you may have to roll up a new one.
First of all - think very carefully about whether you want to do this and why you want to do this. As a number of people have already mentioned in the comments to your original post, if you don't handle this well then it's a one-way trip out of the game probably and a lot of annoyed friends.
On the flip side - this has been done a lot in fiction and is almost a fantasy trope. Of course, in most fantasy, the manipulative snake-in-the-grass gets found out and strung up at some point or other and you should be prepared for that too.
If you decide you really want to go down this path then speak to the GM and get their buy-in before proceeding. You're not going to get anywhere without their cooperation anyway so you might as well find out if you can secure it before you even start.
So - if you're still sure you want to do it and the GM is happy then here goes my advice:
First of all - avoid the obvious choices in terms of class (rogue being the primary one) and stick with something less obvious (your choice of fighter here is a pretty good start). Pick up skills that allow you to manipulate NPCs (diplomacy and gather information are good ones [unless they exist only in pathfinder and I'm mis-remembering them as 3.5]) and do sneak stuff - that's not too easy for a fighter so you might want to look at progressing a few levels as a ranger or some other class that has access to some handy skills (check out the players handbook for a comprehensive list of what skills each class gets). Maybe picking up a level or two of rogue would help although be cautious here as that often draws suspicion from people. A level of wizard or sorcerer can also add a great deal of variety and surprising abilities to your character if you can keep that acquisition from the other characters.
At the end of the day, though, the success of this sort of character will be in your hands playing it more than it will be in skills, stats or abilities of the character. And whether or not you get away with it without losing kudos with your friends will depend very much on how well they take to having their characters manipulated, deceived and/or betrayed.
I have played in D&D groups that where not totally cooperative. I didn't like it but once I did "win". Let me share that experience with you and the outcome.
This was an AD&D game, 1e, with some heavy house rules. The group was five strong. I will not use real names in order to protect the privacy of these folks.
I was the new kid in the group and this group loved to "debate"… everything. Lenny's favorite thing was to yell, at the end of combat, "I KILLED DA MONSTER! DA TREASURE IS MINE!" Tim backed Lenny. Ron would mutter about poisons. I was a monk and my needs were simple. Sounds chaotic doesn't it? It was – words can't come close. But it was a bit fun. Until my alignment slipped. I went from LN to N.
Saul pulled me aside and we talked about what was happening. Because of plot we had been cut off from our world and we lived in a dimensional pocket that was an insane alchemist-mage's mystical compound. So I couldn't get back to my monastery. I would gain no more levels as a monk. Because we were locked in this crazy mage's house Saul allowed me to pick up as a magic user (dual class rules, not to be confused with multiclassing) by using some of the house's training facilities we had found. I didn't want the rest of the party know I was no longer a monk. As a monk they left me alone, I was a non-threat. I saw advantage in remaining viewed in that way. When asked how I would explain having magic I came up the idea of praying to my ancestors to cover the magic. I pray and then would "feel my ancestors' power" and cast a spell.
Saul informed me that I could get a familiar; he wanted it to be a faerie dragon. I was down with that. Suddenly, my "ancestors" became much cooler. The faerie dragon, Tig, very much loved to stay invisible all the time and screw with the party. Answering my prayers to the ancestors was also a favorite activity for Tig.
The sessions went on and I was getting tired of the other players and the bickering. I began to pocket things while the others argued. My alignment shifted again, from N to CN. I talked with Saul about my changing my character. I had just purchased a copy of Oriental Adventures, and I wanted to try out some of it. Saul had wanted to as well. The party was still stuck in the pocket dimension, mostly because Lenny just wanted to find stuff to kill and didn't care about finding a way out just yet. Saul allowed me to switch classes, extending the dual class rules. I then became a Wu Jen/Ninja.
Two sessions later the game ended with my "monk" assassinating Lenny's cavalier in his sleep using a dagger of venom I had stolen from a loot pile. The monk took all of Lenny's treasure and escaped the pocket dimension. Tim and Ron remained trapped. No resurrection was possible for Lenny, so Saul said.
While this was nowhere near a typical gaming group I did find it fun for a short time. I would never want to do it again but the experience was worth doing it once. Afterward, Lenny and Tim didn't want to play with me again. Saul was fine, as was Ron.
Take from that what you will. But, if you really want to do this, then I say don't use a fighter. You need stealth. You need misdirection. You need cunning. You need a DM that will not be hostile to what you are doing. Finally, you need to be sure relationships out of game will not be affected. I say they will be, regardless of what you may think.


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LAKELAND | Polk County's housing industry is still in rebuilding mode, but 2013 has been promising thus far.
After years of low production and construction job losses, Polk builders are seeing sustained growth. Permits for new single-family homes are up 58 percent through May compared with the same time last year, and May's permitting activity was at its highest level in nearly five years.
"We've definitely picked up. We've actually gotten to the point where we have limited the number of sales that can be done by community, because the demand is so high," said Jared Weggeland, spokesman for Lakeland-based Southern Homes. "We haven't had to do that in a while."
It's a far cry from the feverish pace of the mid-2000s housing boom, but activity is steadily ramping up, largely because of a shortage in existing homes for sale. Investors and other buyers have depleted inventories of distressed homes (while many foreclosed homes remain in limbo), and Polk home supplies are low after construction began to fall sharply in 2007.
At the same time, lack of equity has prevented many homeowners from putting their properties on the market.
"I think the big influence has been the contracting inventory, the evaporation of the short sale and distressed (homes), which were major competition to new homes," said Joel Adams, co-owner of Lakeland-based Highland Homes. "What's left (in existing homes) is not as high quality as it was one or two years ago, so it gives the new home builders another look."
Highland completed about 230 homes in 2012 and expects to surpass 300 units this year, Adams said. He said the company's production peaked at roughly 1,000 homes in 2006 and reached a low of about 130 in 2011.
Southern Homes is projecting 220 closed home sales this year, Weggeland said. That's up about 11 percent from last year, and a gain of approximately 29 percent from 2011.
Weggeland said Southern Homes isn't building new developments from scratch these days, but he said the company has had success acquiring lots and building homes in a number of unfinished communities started by other developers.
"We haven't turned dirt for ages, nobody has. It's been too expensive and available lots are cheap," he said.
Meanwhile, Miami-based Lennar recently announced plans to open up more than 1,000 new home sites in Central Florida, including more than 260 sites at the Providence community in Davenport.
"We started to see a strong increase in demand at the beginning of 2012, and it has continued," said Mark Metheny, president of Lennar's Central Florida division, in an email to The Ledger. "We believe this is largely driven by pent-up demand ... but (an improving job market) in particular is fueling renewed activity."
Metheny said Lennar is "encountering lot shortages in good locations, as well as labor and material shortages."
Construction employment is showing signs of life. Polk's construction sector had 2 percent annual job growth in April and a slim 1 percent annual gain in May. On a national basis, construction unemployment was at its lowest level for the month of May in five years, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.
"Both residential and nonresidential construction have been adding workers at roughly double the rate of the overall economy in the past year," said Ken Simonson, the association's chief economist, in a report earlier this month. "At the same time, formerly unemployed construction workers are finding jobs in other sectors, retiring or going back to school. These conditions may lead abruptly to worker shortages in parts of the industry, such as welders and pipefitters."
The National Association of Home Builders is forecasting a 29 percent gain in total housing starts this year, which would be the first time since 2007 that starts have exceeded the 1 million mark. With median home prices rising amid a shortage in inventory, the economist for the National Association of Realtors says more new construction is needed to meet demand.
"The home price growth is too fast, and only additional supply from new homebuilding can moderate future price growth," said Lawrence Yun, NAR's economist, in a report this month.
Polk recorded 1,295 single-family home permits in 2012, the area's greatest total since 2008. Activity reached a high of 11,269 permits in 2006 and bottomed out at 1,041 permits in 2011, according to Ledger records kept since 1994.
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Joseph Pintz's functional and sculptural ceramic work explores the role that domestic objects play in fulfilling our physical and emotional needs. Inspired by his Midwestern roots, Pintz often recreates hand tools and other seemingly mundane objects. In the process, the dense meaning of these objects is transferred into clay. Both his sculptural and functional works are featured in The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft through July 31.
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Pintz earned a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and urban studies at Northwestern University and completed post-baccalaureate studies in ceramics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In 2006, he received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and in 2006–2007, he was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts where he was awarded the Lincoln Fellowship. He currently teaches ceramics at Bowling Green State University.
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Collaborations & Dialogues: Selections from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Print Collection features works produced at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles by prominent contemporary artists Ellsworth Kelly, John Baldessari, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra and Robert Gober, among others. Master Printer James Reid who curates the exhibition, visits Portland as a PNCA/Cyan PDX Cultural Resident and guest instructor for Advanced Printmaking Studio: Collaboration, a workshop offered through PNCA's Continuing Education program.
James Reid is the Workshop Director of Gemini G.E.L., one of the most important centers for the production of graphic art since its founding in 1966. He has been the Workshop Director since 1998 and worked directly with all of the artists represented in this exhibition. Jordan Schnitzer and James Reid have known each other since Jordan first began collecting work produced by Gemini.
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The second mishna on Chullin 32a explains that if an animal is rendered invalid by any death which does not occur through proper ritual slaughter it is nebelah while if it is rendered invalid for some other reason it is terefah. My question is: what are the consequences of an animal having one of these statuses versus the other? You can't eat it either way, obviously; are there differences in what benefit you can derive from it? What are they, and which is the more severe disqualification?
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As far as I know, the above answer is correct. A neveilah conveys ritual impurity, while a treifa does not; as per the gemura in Niddah on 42b, which makes a drasha from the pasuk in Vayikra 22:8.
Here is a direct link: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=37&daf=42b&format=pdf it is about 3/4 of the way down the daf.
As the other answers stated, the main difference between נבילה וטריפה is the טומאה. However, there are also other differences, such as אותו ואת בנו (see שמלה חדשה טו); in שלחן ערוך פב where ביצת טריפה is אסור but ביצת נבילה is not; and (lamely) someone who makes a vow נדר not to benefit from one but left the other alone. These are found all over שמלה חדשה for a quick summary see there, 20:6.
A neveilah is tamei (ritually impure); a treifa isn't. Benefit is permitted either way.
A first-born-Nebelah can have kedushat-Bechor and needs to be redeemed from a Kohen. If it is terefah it loses its Bechor-status and doesn't need redeeming.
According to Rav Hisda, if, when it died, a non-Jew owned any of the parts of the Nebelah that would render the animal treif if that part was missing (eg. windpipe), then the animal is unfit to be a Bechor, and doesn't need to be redeemed. (Bechoros, 3a)


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