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Yep, this having a job certainly gets in the way of getting stuff done.
Particularly when I am only home on Sat & Sun.
Been work traveling and have only spent the weekends at home.
Leaves me with Saturday to do some stuff to her car.
But on a good note, I got the passenger side lower control arm and ball joint replaced on the Crown Vic.
This side came apart pretty easy and no heat was was involved to help the process. This side only took a bit less than 2 hours when last weekend the driver side took about 8hours
I think the squeaking is gone now-----front end was pretty squeaky when turning the wheel last weekend and this morning----after the ball joint change, no more squeaking (will know in the morning when it is colder out).
Here in the next few weeks I will get all of the steering stuff replaced just to be on the safe side as she puts about 200 miles a day on this car.
Also finally crawled under the 66 Elky to tighten up all of the rear control arms and the front suspension.
Did not want to tighten anything until the car was done hand had been sitting for a while--------dont want to put the bushings in a bind.
All in all----pretty productive day
The Elky even started up without any help from some ether after sitting for about a month without being started----guess the fuel pump is working now.
I suspected an "iffy" alternator as it did not seem to be charging, or perhaps it was draining the battery over a period of time. So the car had been sitting with the battery disconnected.
Changed the alternator from a cs130 to a cs130D and tie voltmeter reads a lot higher-----hopefully when I get back from Dallas this coming week the battery will still have a charge to start the car.
(new battery, alternator, and complete wiring)
Today, didn't touch the Gran Sport but spent the day working on my SHO to sell it. I was thinking $1500 but darn that car looks good and it's all original, I am thinking after a little research I may be able to get $2500. That would be nice, could use the extra dough.
A good day here -
Made up a cover for the new trunk mounted battery and a separate top for that cover to hold the JVC stereo/receiver a couple days ago. Yesterday I was able to find some vinyl fabric to cover this assembly. It's a little darker, but it's about as close as I could find locally. I then covered it this morning - and have a new appreciation for guys who do this for a living - then got it all installed and finished 'cleaning up' the wiring. Got the trunk upholstery modified - had to pull the covering loose from the ABS backer , trim about an inch off of that backer, reinstall the padded upholstery then install on the trunk lid. After that, reinstalled the electric trunk opener. Next, the driver's door needed to have the padded upholstery pulled and the floppy mirror tightened.
After a chicken 'n' dumpling dinner, a cold adult beverage, am tired and just sat down to watch the NA$CAR Bud Shootout
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I found $175 in tools that I had "lost" today. Now, the sad part is I already had replaced the sockets to a tune of $75!
I had pulled these tools from my tool box at work to pick up a pair of horns at the wrecking yard for my Rambler back in August when I was finishing it up. I thought I had just lost them, had them in a bag or something and just left them somewhere. I waited a good long time before I started replacing them. You know, because you just KNOW they are going to show up. I waited about four months before I went ahead and picked up the sockets. So today I find them cleaning out my SHO to sell. I had SEARCHED this car a few times looking for them. They were under A FRIGGING FLOOR MAT! GRRRRRRRRr
I also took another haul of junk from my Ramber parts car to the metal bin at the shop today. Good by rear end and other misc metal parts.
Finally got the rear end today! Painted it a little and put it in. When I had taken it out, I removed it in pieces. Man, it was a real job putting that thing in all together in one heavy chunk. Going to be a while yet before I can get it on the road and see how the 700R4 and these 3.70 gears compare to the TH350 and 4.11's I took out. I couldn't resist, I had to put the rear tires on and see how the channel in the front changed the looks. I have decided it was definitely worth the time & work, beside, I was able to correct a few other things in the process. Got a couple "honey do's" tomorrow but I'm going to try to get a couple of the smaller pieces of floor in that won't affect running any mechanicals.
Looks good, I love that photo of the rear end in there, it is "cozy" isn't it! Ever since I saw my first dragster up close where that rear end was shortened to almost the pumpkin, nothing but gears and slicks, I have loved the short little rear end, all business baby.
Finally did something worth while
I finally got some free time today and made a hammer form to make the new wheel openings I want....This was my first attempt and my only sheet of steel I had left .without thinking I made the wrong side,OOPS .....Oh well ,at least I dont have to make it again.I'll just have to wait and make the right side which has the widened fender already (that has to be done first) I'm pretty happy with the results I just wish I made the right side so I could have stayed and got it tacked on..
The right (rear) fender
This is the right fender that was widened 2" that I made the reshaped wheel opening for Unfortunately without thinking I had the form upside down and I actually made the left wheel opening
Really looking good Mikey you can work on my rig anytime my friend.
Sure....As long as I can do BOTH sides just in case I screw up...This was a major feat for me and I've been putting it off dreading putting the proper shape back in because its a compound curve...it was surprizingly easy....Thanks to the guys at www.allmetal .com for pointing me in the right direction
i like that wide body look, nice work on the hammer form job too!!
yesterday, I went to the swap-meet and picked up some small grinding wheels, a 1/4" pipe tap, and a outside mirror
today I bought some scion tc seats, so now I have something to sit on
Got the "Honey Do's" done for now, made a couple pieces for the floor in front of the tubs. Welded them in and went back to fitting the seats. With a tunnel in the floor now, will have to approach them different. Made a couple pieces to mount the inside slide rails over the tunnel a bit. This should let me mount the seats a bit further back than the original position as I'm 6'1" and it was just a little tighter than I wanted. I plan to reinforce under these pieces where I put studs up through. I'll close the ends also and make some risers for the outer slides also. Dang it! The weekend draws to a close and not nearly enough done.
another "What Did I Work On This week" reply:
Started ripping apart the GTI golf which was originally presumed to have a bad head gasket. its actually a bad turbo thats leaking coolant into the intake hosing and watering down only one cylinder. I was originally waiting for a day we could get it on the lift but i broke down and just started doing it on the floor.
pulling a turbo off one of these engines thats already out of the car is enough work as it is, its even less fun on your back in a cold shop on an assembled car.
That car will be getting a k03/k04 hybrid turbo since we have 2 busted k03's that are only good for parts at this point
Also got to diagnose a 2002 A4 quattro. Customer bought it 2 weeks / 275 miles ago and it came back on a flatbed. Customer stated "the engine just .. stopped" while driving on the highway.
Starter wouldnt turn the engine over. A socket / ratchet on the crank wouldn't turn the engine over. Pulled the plugs and cylinder #2 ate one of its valves as an afternoon snack. The head of the valve has about an inch is stem still intact, and its tripoded between the head and the piston. Piston looks like it was beaten with the end of a pipe, and even the spark plug hole is peened smaller from all the squished metal.
Car has a 7mo service plan that will pay up to $1200 for the repairs, but i have zero faith in the warranty company. They seam to like to parrot the phrases "normal wear" and "electrical issue"
Ill probably wind up punching the entire company in the face to get the car covered.
Fun times
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Has anyone mounted snaps on their metal armor? I am trying to figure out a method to doing this before I get my LSFU leather vest.
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Has anyone mounted snaps on their metal armor? I am trying to figure out a method to doing this before I get my LSFU leather vest.
Gorilla glue seems to work well for me on metal,fiberglass and plastic.
sweet I will have to try it
I got some second hand wickedbeard armor and the snaps were attached with CA glue. It seems to work pretty well.
May I suggest keying the metal prior to gluing, make some scores with a dremel so the glue has something to hold on to.
i agree with werstrooper, but i'd also use some 2-part epoxy.
unfortunately we do not have CA glue out here. but keying the metal is a good tip
E6000 glue works from anywhere walmart sells it
plenty of superglue but none has worked so far I have looked and never found the brand CA glue but there is plenty gorilla glue and it has worked great for the artwork that I do.
CA is short for cyanoacrylate, or superglue. The brands vary, satellite city is popular, I use maxi-cure. The idea is to get the thick gel stuff, that regular watery superglue wont do a thing except run all over the place. I've seen Zap-a-gap used recently also.
If I'm going metal to metal the safest bet is JB Weld or another 2 part epoxy for metal.
I think Bondo will do a pretty good job, Araldite will do the job to but from experience if you want something to last a long time you don't use Araldite.

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Second baseman Tadahito Iguchi, Crede's infield mate on the White Sox 2005 World Series championship team, roamed to his right, got a glove on the ball but couldn't make the play cleanly on what was an infield single. Two innings later, with A.J. Pierzynski on first, Crede shot a hard grounder toward the mound, which deflected off pitcher Enrique Gonzalez's right hand for his second infield safety of the game.
Those hits marked the fourth and fifth for Crede this spring, covering 37 at-bats, so they look like line drives to the third baseman. But just as Crede wasn't panicked by his low average when asked one week ago, he still realizes the present .135 mark is part of the ongoing on-field recovery process stemming from being away from baseball for eight months.
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Re: Outboard motor bracket
Dave.... all of this was hashed out 5 years ago!!
Re: Outboard motor bracket
sounds like incompatible uses-- dinghy low power short shaft. auxulary moderate power long shaft. unless your boat is configured to use an auxilary outboard you have a number of issues starting with how you start, shift or adjust throttle. hanging a swing bracket on the stern will create an access issue unless you have 5' arms
IMO the amount of vertical motion developed at the transom even in a small sea is enough to have the prop constantly in and out of the water. Keep in mind that the distance from the cavitation plate and the prop is less than a foot.
Given that the OB motor is kind of out of reach it is clear that the throttle will be set to a given RPM, directionally locked and the boat steered on it's own rudder.
There is little question in my mind that the OB will overspeed again and again as the prop clears the water then gets buried again. I wouldn't bet any money on the durability of the OB. (or the transom )
I don't believe it to be a workable solution unless you're in a very flat-water environment. I agree with Cam, in emergency make the dingy fast and push the yacht with that.
Thanks for the thoughts
I did, in fact, mount a bracket on the stern, for storing the dinghy motor, a Tohatsu 3.5 four stroke. Raised, it will serve as storage, lowered I can sit in the dinghy and move the motor onto the dinghy. It will move the boat enough to give steerage and possibly get me out of the way of other larger vessels (tugboats and barges) on the intercoastal if need be.
I bought my Pearson 36 without an inboard motor. We built a custom bracket to bolt an off the shelf bracket so i could fit a medium shaft outboard on the back of the boat to move it around. Once i put a diesel back in the boat i plan on leaving my bracket in place on the stern. Ive got a 9.9 longshaft that i use on it now that i will leave back there.
In this picture you can see the bracket ive been using for the last 2 years. Also thats a 40hp outboard on there. I would keep useing it, but it died.
Now in this pic you can see the first bracket i made. This one was junk, i bought the motor mount at a marine junk store for $10 and found the 2 peices of angle iron in the boat yards scrap pile. But it did get me from the yard to my anchorage with a 15hp motor.
I say go for it if its what you want. Also look at it this way, you always have something grab onto and pull yourself onboard.
Hard...I see nothing wrong conceptually with hanging 80 pounds off the back of the boat...but i would be concerned about the structural integrity of the C30 transom in heavier seas with something like that. I suggest that you visit some of the C30 owners group forums or write to Catalina directly to understand how to do this so that it is structurally sound.
Personally, I think it will detract from the look of the boat and the re-sale value and you can accomplish the same purpose by simply lashing the dink to the boat and driving it if the main engine fails.
You'd need a hell of a dinghy motor to move a 40' Brewer Pilothouse sailboat.
Actually, I have given this a fair bit of thought. While it is nice to think that maintaining your diesel will make it run forever( or that you could always sail into a marina), all too often it will fail at the worst possible moment and a lot of sailboats do end up being towed in to repair facilities (here is a link to a blog that I read that proves my point- BitterEnd ). It seems that since most of us cruisers carry an outboard for the dink anyway all it would take to use it as an emergency engine would be a different type of bracket for the stern (with the variety of stern shapes it would probably take several different designs). With my stern which is almost plumb, a mount that slid in some tracks so that I could lower it to use (or lower to mount in the dink) would work. If you could leave it on this bracket permanently so much the better, you wouldn't have to hoist it onto the stern pulpit. About the only objection I would have to it is aesthetics, but an outboard on the pulpit really doesn't look too good either. You can use the dink as a tow boat but it doesn't work very well in rough conditions, and if you lash it in a hip tow arrangement you have a hard time getting in and out when you need to change throttle or shift gears. Seems like an opportunity for our engineers on Sailnet to me.
While the idea of an emergency engine is nice and all... it isn't a good idea in reality. You have a sailboat...if the engine dies, one would hope that you would be able to use the sails. If you're too close to shore to safely use the sails, you have an anchor.
Most sailboats that use an outboard as an auxiliary, like mine, have to have a long or extra long shaft version of the outboard engine. This is not what you want on an inflatable dinghy.
Most reasonably sized dinghies that will fit on a Catalina 30 will be happily powered by a 4-6 HP outboard. This is light enough that you shouldn't really have any trouble mounting it or de-mounting it. Store it on a rail-mounted outboard motor bracket, a bit forward of the stern.
Do you have an emergency engine on your car? Having a spare outboard is overkill. Just make sure you properly service your diesel motor, and always carry a few extra parts like an impeller, belts and filters (fuel and oil). That diesel will run for 100 years (subscribe to US Boats if you want extra assurance).
Re; the dinghy. Engine size always depends on the size of the dinghy, and how many passengers you plan to carry. For a Catalina 30, I am guessing you would want a dinghy for 2 people, max 4. Therefore, do the math on the weight, and size an engine accordingly. I would advise against strapping a 10hp motor to your transom, as you'll easily take a knot or more of speed off your performance. Weight on the transom of any boat is often overlooked by many, and the result is a loss in boat speed.
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I'm hoping you can help, I (like many other on this formula!) am becoming increasingly confused trying to find out which company to do my TEFL with.
I've decided I want to do a 3 day TEFL so to have more teaching time but am unsure of who to do it with.
From my research i've come to the conclusion that, their is no set level of TEFL qualification. It seems everyone use's a different body to accredit too. Leaving me thinking who should i go with and more importantly who should I trust?!
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The retired footballer looked dashing as always in a dark suit and matching tie as he chatted with the affable host and later beat him in a game of Egg Russian Roulette.
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There are multiple 'changing of the guard' moments coming on NBC's late night schedule, and Jimmy Fallon is ready to welcome Seth Meyers to his chair.
The "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" host invited his "Saturday Night Live" pal to the show last night (January 28) where he passed Meyers the pickle as symbolic gesture to indicate his approval.


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Mayor Ralph Becker announced Thursday that he has filled three vacancies in Salt Lake City's government.
Todd Reese will be the new director of parks and public lands, coming to Salt Lake City from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, where he was parks director. The University of Iowa graduate is a licensed landscape architect with 25 years of experience.
Becker also promoted Marina Scott to treasurer. The deputy treasurer for the past seven years, she has bachelor's and master's degrees from Weber State University and a master's from Vilnius University in Lithuania.
The city's new deputy director of housing and neighborhood development will be Nichol Bourdeaux. She was Sorenson Unity Center's director for five years and has 15 years of experience with government agencies and nonprofits, Becker noted.


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Yes! I'm hennaing now thanks to your advice
The Mehandi Full Color Henna with Amla and Shikaki gave me amazing curls and a vibrant red color! It was also SOOO much better than Rainbow, and it was only $3. Love henna!
Just wanted to thank everyone (especially poema) on this thread. I've been toying with the idea of henna for a few years, but felt so overwhelmed by it, even though I used to use henna for body art as a kid.
I'm wanting to cover a few grays and give my flat brown locks some depth, so I think I'm ready to take the henna plunge.
I just have one question: Given that henna is permanent, if I don't care for the color I get after I dye my hair, can I dye over it with a henna-indigo (or other herb mix) to get back to my original (dark brown) color? Obviously I won't use a fake henna mix, only BAQ and another safe colorant.
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Your Christmas tree shouldn't be the only green thing in your home this season. Read on for tips on crafting a more environmentally-friendly holiday season. [ + - ]
Get a real tree: Not only do the real things help produce oxygen while they're growing, afterward you can either turn them into mulch or, if you get a live tree, replant them. PVC, which most fake trees are made of, has a large carbon footprint during the tree production process, according to PlanetGreen.com. [ + - ]
Dim the lights: Christmas lights are wonderful, but how bright does your house really need to be? Cut back on the display, put your lights on a timer and use LED lights -- not only are they more environmentally friendly, they'll help cut your power bill. [ + - ]
Embrace e-cards: Share the holiday spirit with a virtual card instead of sending one through the mail. If you do still embrace physical cards, choose some from recycled paper. [ + - ]
Give fewer gifts: This doesn't mean you need to be a Scrooge -- just get a little more creative. Give homemade food, tickets to a concert, gift certificates to a spa or a donation to a favorite cause in the receiver's name. If you still want to put a more traditional gift under the tree, buy one wrapped in as little packaging as possible, recommends PlanetGreen.com. [ + - ]
Get creative with gift wrap: Traditional wrapping paper takes a very long time to decompose in the landfill, according to GreenLivingTips.com. Instead, make your own using decorated paper bags, newspapers or old calendar pictures; place gifts in a basket; or wrap your gifts using part of the gift itself -- for instance, PlanetGreen.com recommends wrapping kitchen supplies in matching dish towels. [ + - ]
Give the gift of power: If you're buying a battery-operated toy, include rechargeable batteries and a charger with the gift, advises GreenLivingTips.com. [ + - ]
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Jägermeister TV Effort Stars Tough Men From NFL, Nascar, Boxing, Heavy Metal
By Barry Janoff
May 3, 2012: Jägermeister this week will unveil the first TV commercial in the brand's 77-year history as part of a multi-media push for the popular liqueur.
The spot features a private club comprised of Jäger-drinking men from various intense occupations — former NFL all-pro wide receiver and current TV analyst Keyshawn Johnson, pro surfer Nathan Fletcher, guitarist Kerry King from heavy metal band Slayer, five-time Boxing Writers Assn. trainer of the year Freddie Roach, Nascar pit crew chief Mike Lingerfelt and acclaimed tattoo artist Mister Cartoon — who welcome a new member: five-time world champion bullfighter Rob Smets.
The TV spot, "A Seat At The Table," anchors an umbrella campaign, "Stronger Bond," explains how men who drink Jägermeister have formed a unique bond. "[They] have lived lives darker and brighter than others, formed bonds that are harder and stronger than the rest. . . . A man's right to sit at this table must be earned before he is offered a seat at it."
The campaign targets men 21-29, according to Germany-based Mast-Jägermeister SE, which was founded in 1935, and Sidney Frank Importing Co.
Spend was not disclosed, but Mast-Jägermeister and Sidney Frank said they are "making a significant investment in media buys and product integrations across multiple cable networks." The commercial will run on FX, Spike, Comedy Central, ESPN, Discovery, Fox Sports and elsewhere.
Support includes Internet and such social media destinations as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube; and outdoor advertising in key markets. Dedicated Web sites will feature "behind the scenes documentary videos and footage for each of the seven men around the table" and encourage visitors to "share their own [Jägermeister] experiences through customized apps."
All creative comes with the "Drink Responsibly" message. Lead agency is Mistress, Los Angeles.
"Jagermeister has always been consumed socially," Michael Volke, a member of Mast-Jägermeister's executive board, said in a statement. "This product was originally developed for, and dedicated to, hunters that have deep connections to their craft and each other. The "Stronger Bond" campaign triggers stories of this kinship and bonding from the brand's deep history and highlights that bond amongst this exceptional group of men."
"The introduction of this campaign is a milestone for our business as we continue to build Jagermeister in the U.S., the largest market in the world."
According to John Frank, vice chairman for Sidney Frank Importing, New Rochelle, NY, "The introduction of this campaign is a milestone for our business as we continue to build Jagermeister in the United States, the largest market in the world."
Mast-Jägermeister said that brand is the No. 1 selling imported cordial in America and 8th largest-selling premium spirit worldwide.
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Groth Picks Up Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week Honors
By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - After a record-breaking opening weekend of the 2012 season, Green Bay volleyball senior Brittany Groth (Oak Creek, Wis.) has been selected as the Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week for the period of Aug. 24-26. It marks the fourth time the Phoenix libero has received the award in her standout career.
Groth registered 72 digs in nine sets played at the Green Bay/Country Inn & Suites Tournament over the weekend, averaging a league-best eight digs per set. She started the season with 24 in Green Bay's sweep of Drake on Friday before adding 19 more against Central Michigan on Saturday. She saved her best performance for the tournament finale against Auburn, breaking the school record for digs in a three-set match with 29. Groth previously tied the three-set digs record in 2010, matching Phoenix assistant Sarah Rauen's mark of 26.
"Brittany has been breaking school records left and right over the past couple years, so I'm not surprised she's continuing that right away this season," Phoenix head coach Debbie Kirch said. "There's no doubt that she's the most relentless player on our team and she's not going to let the ball hit the floor. She had a great weekend and is very deserving of the Player of the Week award."
Groth was named Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week twice last season, picking up the award on Sept. 26 and Oct. 31. She was also recognized on Oct. 10, 2010. The senior currently holds Green Bay's school records for digs in a four-set match (38), three-set match (29) and for an individual season (659 in 2011). Groth needs 547 more to pass Megan Elfering (2005-08) as Green Bay's career digs leader.
Groth and the Phoenix opened the 2012 season with a 1-2 record, defeating the Bulldogs 3-0 in the opener before suffering a pair of tough 3-0 losses to the Chippewas and Tigers on Saturday. Green Bay is back in action on Tuesday night when it travels to DeKalb, Ill., for its first road match of the season against Northern Illinois at 7 p.m.
Carmen Leitermann was named to the Green Bay/Country Inn & Suites All-Tournament Team following a trio of strong performances. The senior had a team-high 31 kills over the weekend, committing just three errors. Her .475 hitting percentage is second among Horizon League players through the first weekend of competition ... Groth's average of eight digs per set is tops in the league, with the second-highest total being 5.19 by Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Taylor Root from Valparaiso ... Katie Mroczenski had a strong weekend the Phoenix, posting 14 total blocks - the second-highest total of any Horizon League player after the season-opening matches ... Leitermann had 10 total blocks in Green Bay's first three matches. Her six solo blocks pushed her career total to 82, moving the senior into second place on the school's all-time list ahead of Jessie Theys (81 from 2000-03) and behind Marie Kaland (97 from 1992-95) ... A pair of freshmen made their debut in a Phoenix uniform at the team's home tournament. Becca Mastey played in all nine sets for Green Bay, recording 20 digs and four assists, while Taylor Kasal appeared in one set against CMU, picking up a pair of digs ... Green Bay is averaging more digs (21) and blocks (2.67) per set than any team in the Horizon League.
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Re: Tell Me About Jeanneaus
We've been extremely happy with our Jeanneau. She sails like a rocket on rails with furling 135 genoa and furling main with NO battens. Some would try to argue that can't be done. While not a high end brand, our is very often mistaken for one. Probably the majestic blue paint job.
While Jeanneau is owned by the same company as Beneteau, they began separately. I recall, when they merged, that Benie affirmed they would not change the manufacturing process of Jennies, which I understand was a bit superior and a bit more expensive. I believe they kept that vision.
I have to admit that I think the pre-2008ish era had better mechanical fixtures and I prefer the teak work from those days to the new manufactured teak. But, if you like a contemporary look, the new finishes would be very appealing. Clean and bright.
I have not sailed the newer series boats, but do have a friend that recently delivered a 509. He said it was unbelievably fast.
In the end, when shopping for our current boat, we found ourselves comparing all others to her. She is the perfect balance of sailing and living for us. She is better designed for coastal cruising than blue water passage, but perfectly capable of the latter. I believe you buy the boat for what you intend to do with it 90% of the time, as long as she can handle the exception or two. That's what we have.
Re: Tell Me About Jeanneaus
We have delivered lots of Jeanneaus. They are very popular in Europe - good value for money, and generally with reasonable performance and sensible designs.
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I cant see the reasoning here in relation to steel or lead having more or less shock absorption. There seems to be a conception that we all go around slamming into immovable objects, when lots of the boats like mine have encapsulated keels and yes I have ran aground more than once but only in mud or sand. I would rather hit coral or rock with something more forgiving than fiberglass. At the end of the day its swings and roundabouts.
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The sunrise IIRC is about 34-35'. At the time, probably a race-cruise to cruise-race style boat. The Ginn Fizz was more of a cruiser per say. It can be found in both a ketch and sloop rig. The ketch IIRC is a much lower build % than the sloop.
If you like these two, also want to look for the SunShine 36/38. The only real difference between the 36 and 38 is the 38 may/should have what i will call a true sugar scoop stern. There is also a regatta version that has the surgar scoop fill in, into a normal looking solid transom, but really raked backward! This allows a bit more waterline at times, so a faster boat. Some even had a taller mast/more SA etc, ie the regatta version. The Sunshine is an early Tony Castro design, as is my smaller version the Arcadia. Also, a lot of boats of this era, do not have some interior niceties that some like, ala a shower, hot and cold running water. Wood work frankly I feel is better, a bit more solid wood/teak used, and better quality teak plywoods. But being as teak is harder to find, not as good etc, the newer models are using a ground teak to make the look of todays models, be it a Beneteau, or Jeanneau.
The boats of this 80's era were built when Bangor Punta owned Jeanneau, along with Cal, O'day, ranger to name a few others. You can find some Cal and O'day versions of some Jeanneau's, built here in the states with that boats name tag. An Oday 39/40 IIRC is the sunfizz, and the Cal 9.2 a "Rush" IIRC. having a hard time looking this combo up. Both the Rush and Cal 9.2 are Ron Holland designs.
If one goes HERE, you can find differenc models and names, with specs, and also on the left upper side of the page, some alternitive models, depending upon when built, by whom etc. Like my boat, Arcadia, became a Sn Way 28 after Bangor Punta folded, the French government found a buyer/take over company to keep Jeanneau open for 10 yrs or so, then in 98?!?! or there abouts, Group Beneteau took over the franchise. Henri Jeanneau who started the company around 1959 or so, started literally building what became some of the fastest motor race boats in France, then branced out to cruiser and a sail boat that sold something like 2500 hulls! The rest is history to say the least. SO racing is in the brands blood much more than cruising in reality. They at least are building fast cruisers vs SLOW cruisers.
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I think the Jeanneau's are great production boats. The only big negative I see is their use of iron for keels. I think lead is a better material to use for keels. Lead is more forgiving then iron if the boat goes aground; There is less maintenance and less to worry about with regards to glavanization. You need to be careful about the keelbolts in iron keels as well as their attachment points. You have to maintain a barrier coat on the iron keel as well as ensure it continues to be completely encases--you don't have those issues with lead. Other than that, they are quite nice for the money.
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Sorry I am late to this discussion, I don't follow this board very often. My boat is a SO40, my only problem with the boat was finding one configured the way I wanted it. You might like to read my thought process while boat searching.
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Every boat is a compromise, cost, performance, maintenance, usability and comfort.
Iron keels if properly maintained are fine. One advantage is bottom paint sticks. I don't think I have ever heard of a boat being lost because of an iron keel.
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Not to get too far off topic here. A thought, maybe sloop can reflect on BG's thoughts as I did.....While BG does say iron is better. maybe in HIS boat designs, being as he designed mostly from what I can tell full keels. They can bounce if you will a bit better than fin's can, hence why and iron ballast might be better from this standpoint. Where as lead in a fin, as paulo points out would be better, with the give being a softer material.
Please note, lets keep this to an iron vs lead part of the disscusion, not merits of fin vs full. There is another rather large thread elsewhere to go into that part of the disCUSSion.
At the end of the day, a jeanneau would probably work well for the OP, as would a Catalina or beneteau in reality. Marty
I have grounded hard with a lead fin and I know that the absorption of energy by the lead deforming doesn't feel like much - it was quite a shock.
I've never grounded an iron keel so I have no personal comparison, I just thought that Garden had the experience to know the difference after 1000 boats or so.
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Hey to bring it back to topic, one of the iron keels I was looking at belongs to a Jeanneau Sunrise, but unfortunately it sold before I could even look at it. I like them and especially the Gin Fizz and the Sunrise seem really solid boats with some real passage-making history even though that was likely not the intent when originally designed and made. They seemed to be strongly built for a production boat. I don't know about the current production line and how much influence Beneteau has influenced the line. Not that Beneteau makes a weak or inferior product, just their focus seemed to be a bit different.
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Not to get too far off topic here. A thought, maybe sloop can reflect on BG's thoughts as I did.....While BG does say iron is better. maybe in HIS boat designs, being as he designed mostly from what I can tell full keels. They can bounce if you will a bit better than fin's can, hence why and iron ballast might be better from this standpoint. Where as lead in a fin, as paulo points out would be better, with the give being a softer material.
Please note, lets keep this to an iron vs lead part of the disscusion, not merits of fin vs full. There is another rather large thread elsewhere to go into that part of the disCUSSion.
At the end of the day, a jeanneau would probably work well for the OP, as would a Catalina or beneteau in reality.
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That is a bunch of money be it US$ or Euro's! Hence why the lower priced brands will be using Iron vs lead. $25G for an Oyster your boats size, is peanuts, ie less than 1%. for your boat, 5% or so! A much bigger chunk of the puzzle. For my boat with 2400 lbs of iron, that is $2000, or about 3-4% difference in initial cost.
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To reduce water pollution generated during construction, the U.S. EPA has issued effluent limitations guidelines requiring larger sites to limit sediment in stormwater discharges and implement control technologies. Approved November 2009, the regulation limits runoff to 280 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU) on 20-acre construction sites and eventually, depending upon the location, on 10-acre sites.
The regulation, which took effect in February, is being phased in over four years. This gives permitting authorities — EPA, state environmental agencies, and public works departments with stormwater enforcement authority — time to develop monitoring requirements, and construction site owners and site operators time to find new ways of complying.
EPA's preferred way to prevent runoff is to limit the amount of soil and sediment that can be washed away. But although it's generally less expensive and less time consuming than treating water that's already polluted, source reduction sometimes requires changing the way site owners and contractors approach projects. Thus, it's an underutilized cost-savings tool.
The concept is simple: reducing or eliminating the generation of sediment eliminates the need to control the sediment by installing and maintaining treatment methods such as silt fences and sedimentation basins. If you reduce the amount of pollutant generated at the source, you also reduce the material use, liability costs, potential regulatory violations, and the need to invest in pollution-control equipment.
In the past, the industry tended to focus on end-of-pipe solutions —treatment and disposal methods — to control pollutants, rather than using source reduction to prevent the pollution. These methods may be easier and less expensive to implement under stormwater regulations that don't have discharge limits. However, to meet the discharge limits of the new EPA guidelines, construction sites may also have to add more expensive end-of-pipe pollutant-control technologies such as flocculation, coagulation, and filtration — a process where chemicals are added to bind small particles together before they are passed through a filter that removes them from the water.
Source reduction generally requires less effort to implement, inspect, and maintain and will likely cost less than using the above combination of treatment methods. But it usually requires more up-front planning: changes in construction design, activities, operations, and material use that prevent or reduce the quantity of pollutant generated.
Source reduction techniques include:
Grading the jobsite over a period of time. This minimizes the area of exposed soil, which in turn minimizes the potential for erosion. Additionally, existing vegetation acts as a natural sediment filter while improving infiltration.
Although this option may require separate mobilizations for grading equipment, preconstruction planning can optimize equipment use and minimize mobilization issues.
Reducing the amount of impervious surface. Using less asphalt, concrete, brick, stone, and other materials that seal the soil surface, and installing pervious concrete, porous pavers, and other pavements that allow rainwater to pass through them promotes infiltration rather than runoff. These pervious materials also help reduce runoff during construction, eliminating potential stormwater pollution.
In some cities, where post-construction regulations require that construction site owners/operators minimize runoff from completed projects, there has been increased use of pervious materials. In those cities, completed construction sites may be required to have the same runoff as they did prior to construction.
Stabilizing the site as soon as possible. Seeding, mulching, or otherwise covering exposed soils as soon as practical limits the potential for erosion. Most general permits require stabilization within short time frames anyway.
When stabilization involves establishing vegetation, speed up the process by avoiding soil compaction or regrading compacted soil, using topsoil — for example, instead of fill dirt — and applying appropriate water and fertilizer.
Taking seasonal weather fluctuations into account. Minimize soil exposure by scheduling work for fairly predictable times of low precipitation or, conversely, to ensure rainfall frequency corresponds with the vegetative establishment.
Although the wet and dry seasons do not always correspond correctly, major grading activities should be conducted during the dry season. This will not only reduce the potential for stormwater pollution, but it also will save time and money spent on cleaning out and repairing silt fences and sediment basins. The end of the project, when the grass and trees are typically planted, should be scheduled for the wet or growing season. This will also save time and money spent on watering trucks.
Controlling run-on to the site. Divert streams, ditches, and sheet flow around the site through grading and landscaping. Of course, take care that diverting the stormwater run-on doesn't cause erosion elsewhere.
It may also fall to your operation to educate the regulated community on how to effectively meet the new guidelines.
Departments enforcing stormwater permit compliance (i.e., Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems or MS4s) can support source reduction by providing comments during reviews of construction site stormwater pollution prevention plans, sediment and erosion control plans, and construction plans, as well as by conducting public outreach activities.
— Wanzenried and Doan are environmental engineers with engineering consulting firm Terracon, which provides geo-technical, environmental, construction materials, and facilities services.
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 171, June 18, 1999
UNICOS/mk Upgrade to 2.0.4, on Yukon, June 22ARSC users, read news UNICOSmk_2.0.4 on yukon for more information.
Visiting Alaska? ARSC Summer Tours, Wednesdays at 2:00ARSC staff are giving tours to the general public at 2:00 every Wednesday, through Aug. 25. Just show up. Bring your Uncle and your kids!
The tours start in the basement of the Butrovich building, at the kiosk in front of the machine room viewing windows.
We start with an introduction to ARSC, Arctic science and engineering, and the supercomputers. We then proceed into the video production and training lab, give an ImmersaDesk demo using weather, Alaska terrain, or other data sets, and give a wild-card demo suited to the group and the guide.
ARSC tours are part of the UAF's larger program, which includes the Poker Flats Rocket Range (launching barium to the ionosphere), the Large Animal Research Station (muskoxen! Rudolph!), the Geophysical Institute (earthquakes, volcanos, SAR) and the Botanical gardens (how will Alaska feed itself after Y2K? Can you say, "Sauerkraut & Spuds?").
For UAF tour schedules, see:
Restarting Previously Checkpointed NQS Jobs After a CrashIn issue #164 ( /arsc/support/news/t3enews/t3enews164/index.xml ), we ran the article, "Restart" vs "Rerun" and Preventing the Latter , and defined these terms:
the NQS request runs for a while, is held, and a checkpoint image is created. Later, using the checkpoint image, it starts up again from the point at which it was interrupted.rerun:
the request runs for a while and is interrupted by a crash. Later, it starts again FROM THE BEGINNING.
Occasionally, we experience a third situation, as follows:
A job runs for a while, is held and checkpointed, is later released, restarts, runs for a while, but then, while the job is still running, the system crashes!
To understand what happens next, you must know that NQS always saves the latest checkpoint image until the job exits the system.
Thus, when the T3E is rebooted, NQS discovers the old checkpoint image and, instead of rerunning from the beginning, restarts from that image. For clarity, here's a depiction of the sequence, where:
______ indicates job is running, ...... indicates job not running: job check- 1st crash 2nd starts pointed restart ;-( restart __________________ ............ __________ ............. ______-> ( Wall-Clock Time increasing to right )By reusing the old checkpoint file, NQS has saved all the initial work. From the program's point of view, here's the sequence:
job check- starts pointed _________________________ 1st crash restart ;-( __________ 2nd restart _____________________________-> ( Simulated Time increasing to right )This seems good, but, depending on the code, trouble may lurk in the repeated section of the run:
- If the code continuously updates a results file (on every iteration, for instance), it may duplicate some output, thus corrupting the file.
- If the code uses its own system of restart files to create contiguous runs, then some of the work completed between "1st restart" and "crash" might have been salvageable. This effort will have been wasted.
- Other??? Again, code dependent.
Your individual control lies in two qsub flags (and their qalter analogues):
#QSUB -nr <or> qalter -r n
This prevents the job from ever rerunning from the beginning. This wouldn't prevent the situation described above because the 2nd restart is from a checkpoint file, not from the beginning.#QSUB -nc <or> qalter -c n
This blocks any attempt to checkpoint the job. This would prevent the situation, but would also force the system administrators to kill your job every time they would normally just hold it. This happens at scheduled test-time. It also happens when the system is dedicated to very large jobs -- which, at ARSC, happens every evening and sometimes during the day (see: news chkpnt_sched ).
We don't recommend use of qsub -nc.The more common problem is the simple rerun. Thus, we do recommend use of "qsub -nr", unless you're confident that your job can repeat portions of its run safely.
The qalter command can be executed from within the executable portion of your qsub script, or from the command line, to temporarily disallow checkpointing or restarting. See: man qalter .
New TOP500 list publishedhttp://www.top500.org/lists/1999/06/top500.list.html shows that after recent upgrades, ARSC is now listed as number 45 alongside several other sites with the same equipment.
This list of 500 systems is well worth a glance through as it shows an interesting collection of different sites covering University, National Labs, to some interesting commercial sites ranging from Banks, Airlines, Online services etc. Worthy of longer inspection is some very interesting commentary on the latest list and how computing has changed since the first TOP500 list was published in 1993. This, plus much other useful information, can be found at: http://www.top500.org
Orbs On the Cray: Distributed Objects ProgrammingOn Wednesday, June 23rd, from 1:30-2:30 pm, in Butrovich 109, Mr. Logan Colby will describe distributed programming, CORBA, and his work porting two different CORBA implementations to the Cray J90 at ARSC. Logan recently earned his MS in computer science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Distributed programming is finally coming into its own, especially as described by the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) specifications.
In this talk, Logan Colby will describe distributed computing and show how it is realized by CORBA. He'll present the results of his work during the last year porting two implementations of CORBA (DSTC's Fnorb and Xerox-Parc's ILU) to ARSC's Cray supercomputers. He'll also demonstrate a couple of applications developed using the Cray orbs.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:{{ C header files always end in ".h". Why the different conventions for Fortran? For instance: include 'mpif.h' include 'VT.inc' include "mpp/shmem.fh" }} Here's a longer list of packages on the T3E which use the three different conventions: *.inc : netcdf, HDF, VAMPIR *f.h : MPI, pghpf *.fh : SHMEM, PAT My Search of Fortran texts and a number of web docs revealed no suggestions for naming include files. And no-one made it easy by sending us "the answer." So... the question remains open. Q: Sometimes I need to duplicate entire "branches" of an existing directory tree. For instance, I might need this structure: ./v12/19990201/weather/Burmuda/restart/2301/ ./v12/19990201/weather/Triangle/restart/2303/ As you might guess, it's really annoying to type these nine commands: mkdir ./v12 mkdir ./v12/19990201 mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather/Burmuda mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather/Burmuda/restart mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather/Burmuda/restart/2301 mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather/Triangle mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather/Triangle/restart mkdir ./v12/19990201/weather/Triangle/restart/2303 Is there an easier way?
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By the mid-'70s, the new band included additional members Greg Hawkes (keyboards/synths), Elliot Easton (guitar), and former Modern Lovers member Dave Robinson (drums). Shortly after, the quintet changed its name to the Cars (with Ocasek becoming the undisputed leader -- penning all of their tunes), resulting in a more streamlined sound and look, which fit in perfectly with the burgeoning new wave movement. Signed to Elektra, the group rocketed to stardom on the strength of their classic, mega-selling self-titled debut in 1978, and with further releases such as 1979's Candy-O, 1980's Panorama, and 1981's Shake It Up, the band became one of the top rock bands in the U.S. It was also during this time that Ocasek began to branch out artistically by producing for Suicide, Bad Brains, Romeo Void, and Iggy Pop, and issuing his 1982 solo debut Beatitude.
With the advent of MTV, the way a band looked proved almost just as important as the music, and the Cars seemed to be custom-made for the new channel as their 1984 release Heartbeat City became one of the year's biggest rock records, spawning several Top Ten singles and heavily rotated and stylish videos. Ocasek found himself in the tabloids around this time when he began dating, and eventually marrying, fashion model Paulina Porizkova (who had appeared in the video for the Cars' hit ballad "Drive"). 1986 saw Ocasek release his second solo effort, This Side of Paradise, before returning to the Cars for what would be their final album, 1987's mildly received Door to Door, before splitting up a year later.
Not much was heard from Ocasek immediately after the Cars' split, but he eventually resurfaced in 1990 with Fireball Zone. He subsequently released other solo works throughout the decade, including 1993's Quick Change World and Negative Theater, 1996's Getchertikitz (a collaboration with Suicide's Alan Vega), and 1997's Billy Corgan-produced Troublizing (for which he supported with a very brief tour, his first since leaving the Cars). Beginning in the mid-'90s, Ocasek began producing again for acts such as Bad Religion, Black 47, Johnny Bravo, D Generation, Guided By Voices, Hole, Possum Dixon, Martin Rev, Jonathan Richman, and both of Weezer's hit self-titled releases in 1994 and 2001. In 2005 the Sanctuary distribution family gave him his own label, Inverse, to develop new acts and released the first new Ocasek album in eight years, Nexterday. ~ Greg Prato
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After 3 years of smile-inducing miles with my little 2-door thorough-bred Wolfsburg pocket-rocket, its time to part ways and say goodbye to the my beloved candy white Golf GTI. Just like the Jetta before her, it is one car which I will never forget.
Its when you find yourself strangely talking to your car on the last drive, down that long twisty back road on the last night she's in your hands, that you realize it is more than a marriage beyond man and machine. The feel of the shifter, the weight of the clutch, the feel of the bolsters on your back, the gentle subdue of the engine's harmonics... its all become second nature. She's the car that you've infatuated over since you were a teen, finally in your driveway 4 years later, and that you're still madly in love with like the first day you touched her.
Its been good to me. "You've been good to me". I caught myself whispering that to her the last few days. Strange, I know, talking to an inanimate machine which will never whisper back save the hum and whistle of the engine. The way she surges forward with the swift kick of the accelerator is like angels pushing. There's no other way of putting it. The seats, the room in the cabin, the smell of the soft touch dash and the leather wrap shift boot, its the perfect symphony that entice the heartbeat and welcomes you with every drive.
She's never failed me, ever. From those daily commutes to the North Shore and short hops through town running errands all day; to those winding roads up the Coq that go from summer sun to winter blizzards in an instant, where I can die and go to heaven driving forever. Those summer days detailing every line, every accent, every detail, and those cool autumn nights preparing her for the winter ahead. She has taken me to places I will never trust another car to go. Like Clarkson has said before, its everything you can ever want from a car. You can take it to the beach or hit the slopes with all your gear, and show up at the hotel the same night, where the concierge will open the door for you. Its the every-car.
Like a dream, I will need to wake up and live the reality of my life now. But the fever of DAS AUTO which has beleaguered me for the last 3 years must now be broken. Like the many things I have said goodbye to, I must let this go. But I know, no matter what I drive now, will never serenade my soul, the way she has
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Police Ban "Blacklist" Over Racial Concerns
Scotland Yard has directed its staff to no longer use the words "blacklist" and "whitelist" over fears the words are racist. The British law enforcement agency told officers the words were no longer "appropriate."
"I am sure we can appreciate the sensitivity around the use of such terminology today so please ensure it is no longer used," Security Services Chief Brian Douglas wrote in an email obtained by The Sun.
In place of the two terms, Scotland Yard suggested using "greenlist" and "redlist."
However, Scotland Yard said it does not reflect an official change in policy.
"It is a change in internal information communications technology terminology which reflects a more appropriate use of language," the agency said in a statement to the newspaper.
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'The Sabres honored their past by bringing back their still popular blue and gold uniforms as a one-time promotion. It's the first time the Sabres wore them since changing to their current red and black colors in 1996. Sabres spokesman Michael Gilbert said the players didn't learn of the change until 15 minutes before the game.'
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WHO estimates that in developing and transitional Member States, 16 billion health care injections are administered each year – an average of 3.4 injections per person per year. This figure, along with reports indicating inappropriate use of injections, suggests that injections are overused as a means of administering medications. In addition to being overused, injections may also be administered through unsafe procedures and cause infections.
A safe injection should not harm the patient, the health care worker or the community. Injections may harm the patient when injection devices are reused in the absence of sterilization. Injections may harm health-care workers when dirty needles are not collected in safety boxes. Injections may also harm the community at large when health-care facilities are surrounded by sharp health-care waste – mostly dirty syringes and needles.
Reuse of injection devices in the absence of sterilization is of greatest concern, since it leads to the heaviest burden of disease. A mathematical model developed by WHO suggests that in 2000, in developing and transitional Member States, reuse of injection devices accounted for an estimated 22 million new infections with Hepatitis B virus (one-third of all such infections), 2 million new infections with hepatitis C virus (40% of all such infections) and 260 000 new HIV infections (5% of all such infections). The infections acquired in 2000 alone are expected to lead to an estimated 9 million years of life lost (adjusted for disability) between 2000 and 2030.
Evidence shows that death and disability associated with unsafe injections are highly preventable. First, interventions that aim at improving communication between patients and doctors and at improving prescriptions through monitoring of providers have effectively decreased injection overuse. Second, interventions to make single-use syringes regularly available in each health care facility effectively prevent reuse of injection devices.
In addition to being highly effective, policies and plans for the safe and appropriate use of injections are a sound investment in health. WHO estimates that interventions implemented in 2000 for the safe and appropriate use of injections cost US$102 per year of life saved (adjusted for disability). This cost is less than the threshold value of 1 year of average per capita income in developing Member States used by the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health as a criterion for an intervention to be considered very cost-effective.
WHO assists Member States in benchmarking, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating national policies for the safe and appropriate use of injections through four key strategies:
- increasing population awareness regarding the risk of HIV and other infections associated with unsafe injections;
- making sure there are sufficient quantities of single-use injection devices and safety boxes in every health-care facility where injections are administered;
- ensuring that donors and lenders supporting the supply of injectable substances in developing and transitional Member States also support the provision of injection devices with reuse-prevention features and safety boxes;
- managing the waste associated with dirty syringes and needles in a safe and appropriate way.


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I purchased one of the radio shack voice amplifiers and on review of some of the old discussions am planning on placing the speakers in the helmet. Dont want to talk out of my butt as some of the locations didnt work well for people. Any one found the best place to locate them without getting a large amount of feed back or making the helmet uncomfortable to wear? Pictures if available would be great.
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Hi Friends, I am new in this forum .
I need your help. Can you please suggest me any DSLR in the range of Rs.32K ($650). That will be very much helpful for me. I tried for Canon 500D. But sellers saying that its discontinued and they are asking me to go for 550D. but that is bit out of my budget. So I need your help. Please suggest me something good.
I am in Mumbai, India. So if someone also help me to find out canon 500D in local market, that will be also helpful.
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If you're looking for an entry level DSLR then any of the major named brands will serve you well. It depends on what type of things you're going to be photographing, and in what light. I bought a KX Pentax almost a year a go, and I've no problems at all with handling or image quality. You can see some of my images on the photo gallery, all bar one was taken with the KX. If you were concidering this one, go for the newer KR model, as it is better in low light. Whichever camera you buy, I'd always go for one that's been released for a few months, as they will be cheeper.
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Contact dermatitis is a red, itchy rash caused by a substance that comes into contact with your skin. The rash isn't contagious or life-threatening, but it can be very uncomfortable.
Possible causes include soaps, cosmetics, fragrances, jewelry, and plants, such as poison ivy or poison oak. Some people are exposed to substances at work that may cause contact dermatitis.
To treat contact dermatitis successfully, you need to identify and avoid the cause of your reaction. If you can avoid the offending substance, the rash usually clears up in two to four weeks. You can try soothing your skin with cool, wet compresses, anti-itch creams and other self-care steps.
Contact dermatitis usually occurs on areas of your body that have been directly exposed to the substance — for example, along a calf that brushed against poison ivy or under a watchband that triggers an allergy. The reaction usually develops within minutes to hours of exposure to an irritating substance or allergen. The rash can last two to four weeks.
Signs and symptoms of contact dermatitis include:
The severity of the rash depends on:
See your doctor if:
Seek immediate medical care in the following situations:
Contact dermatitis is caused by a substance you're exposed to that irritates your skin or triggers an allergic reaction. The substance could be one of thousands of known allergens and irritants. Some of these substances may cause both irritant contact dermatitis and allergic contact dermatitis.
Irritant contact dermatitis is the most common type. This nonallergic inflammatory reaction occurs when a substance damages your skin's outer protective layer.
Some people react to strong irritants after a single exposure. Others may develop signs and symptoms after repeated exposures to even mild irritants. And some people develop a tolerance to the substance over time.
Common irritants include:
Allergic contact dermatitis occurs when a substance to which you're sensitive (allergen) triggers an immune reaction in your skin. It usually affects only the area that came into contact with the allergen. But it may be triggered by something that enters your body through foods, flavorings, medicine, or medical or dental procedures (systemic contact dermatitis).
You may become sensitized to a strong allergen such as poison ivy after a single exposure. Weaker allergens may require multiple exposures over several years to trigger an allergy. Once you develop an allergy to a substance, even a small amount of it can cause a reaction.
Common allergens include:
The rate of allergic contact dermatitis in children is similar to that in adults. Children develop the condition from the usual offenders and also from exposure to car seats, the plastic in toilet seats and infant clothing snaps.
Occupational contact dermatitis refers to rashes resulting from exposure to allergens or irritants on the job. Certain occupations and hobbies put you at higher risk of this type of contact dermatitis. Examples include:
Contact dermatitis can lead to the following complications:
You're likely to start by seeing your primary care doctor. He or she might refer you to a doctor who specializes in skin disorders (dermatologist).
Because appointments can be brief, it's a good idea to be well-prepared for your appointment.
For contact dermatitis, some basic questions you could ask your doctor include:
Your doctor is likely to ask you questions such as the following:
The key to successful treatment of contact dermatitis is identifying what's causing your symptoms and figuring out whether you have the irritant or allergic type. Doctors rely on these main steps to determine the cause:
A patch test. Your doctor may recommend a patch test (contact delayed hypersensitivity allergy test) to see if you're allergic to something. This test can be useful if the cause of your rash isn't apparent or if your rash recurs often.
You may be asked to avoid certain medications and sun tanning your back for a week or two before the test.
During a patch test, small amounts of potential allergens are applied to adhesive patches, which are then placed on your skin. The patches remain on your skin for two days, during which time you'll need to keep your back dry.
Your doctor then checks for a skin reaction under the patches and determines whether further testing is needed. Often, people react to more than one substance.
Key treatments for contact dermatitis include:
To help reduce itching and soothe inflamed skin, try these self-care approaches:
Some alternative medicine therapies and ingredients are proved to cause contact dermatitis as a side effect. Examples include:
General prevention steps include the following:
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The North Platte St. Pat's volleyball team swept a triangular on Tuesday by beating Dundy County-Stratton and Cambridge at the McGahan Activities Center.
In the first set against Dundy County (1-2), St. Pat's broke away fairly early to get the edge over the Lady Tigers.
Both teams battled for the first 10 points in the second set. But the Irish started to pull away after Shelby Allberry served for aces on two-consecutive plays that made it 10-7.
Soon, the lead became 19-13 after Kari Slattery served for a pair of aces and St. Pat's put away Dundy County-Stratton after that.
"We came out and played well," said Lady Irish coach Shelly Byrn. "We had good serving and passing. If we have good passes, we can do a lot with our offense."
In the second match, St. Pat's rocked Cambridge 25-9, 25-9. To start the match, the Irish scored the first four points with Brook Boucher serving. From there, the Lady Irish never looked back in the first set.
The second set started the same way, with St. Pat's scoring four straight. But after the Irish got the serve back at 5-1, Bree Saner ran off 11 points in service for a 16-1 lead.
Cambridge (0-3) made a run of sorts late but the Trojans still couldn't get to double figures before the Lady Irish finished them off.
"Any coach would be happy with two wins," Byrn said. "There's some things we've got to work on for tomorrow night before we get ready to play Broken Bow and Cozad on Thursday. Then we play Gothenburg next Tuesday."
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text: Several universities in the USA and the country of Israel have banned iPad use within their borders. While reasons are varied and have changed over time, all have centered around the iPad Wi-Fi implementation. As reported by MacRumors, Princeton University came out with the reasoning for their iPad ban. While the items sited are completely transparent to the end user, … Read More