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Team History
Red Bull Racing was formed from the remains of the Jaguar team in November 2004, following Ford's decision to exit F1.
Jaguar itself originated from Stewart Grand Prix in 2000, the latter first appearing on the F1 scene in a blaze of publicity at the start of the 1997 season.
With Jackie Stewart's business connections and race record, and the might of the Ford corporation behind it, outsiders expected a lot of Stewart Grand Prix, Jackie himself however was more realistic. Second place at Monaco in only its fifth race would have been more than he expected.
The team was the subject of rumours concerning its financial position in the off-season, but Stewart bounced back with the announcement of deals with the American MCI and Lear Corporations. With heavily revised Ford engines and an innovative carbon-fibre gearbox, Stewart Grand Prix looked set to improve on its maiden season.
The same driver line-up started the 1998 season but, save for two point scoring finishes in Canada, the year was disappointing. Magnussen may have opened his F1 account with sixth in Montreal, but was replaced by Dutch driver Jos Verstappen from France onwards as a consequence of his lacklustre performance. Verstappen fared little better, however, and it was often left to Barrichello to carry the Stewart flag.
Unsurprisingly, the Brazilian remained in place for 1999 although, for a while, he was being mentioned in connection with a move to Williams. His new partner was Johnny Herbert, who transferred from Sauber, and the pair hoped to raise both the morale and the mood in Milton Keynes. The attractive new SF-3 chassis looked the part and, early problems aside, performed well. Barrichello, as expected, looked the more likely to score points, and took pole in France, but it was Herbert who popped up to win the team's first - and only - GP at the Nurburgring in September. He then went on to out-point his Brazilian team-mate in the final few races and ensured that his career received another shot at redemption.
Barrichello jumped at the chance to replace Eddie Irvine at Ferrari for 2000, and the two swapped seats with the Irishman joining Herbert at the renamed Jaguar Racing team. Taken over by Ford at the Canadian GP in 1999, the Stewart name disappeared after just three seasons and that lone win, to be replaced by one of the most evocative in British motorsport.
Testing of the new R1, the first ever Jaguar F1 car, was a mixed bag for both drivers, but the new Cosworth CR2 engine was among the lightest and most powerful on the grid.
Just one year after BAR's calamatous entry into the sport, Jaguar's first year of GP racing was little more successful though with their only points coming from Irvine's gutsy fourth spot in Monaco. The cars were slow and reliability left a lot to be desired and the team was dealt a bitter blow when Paul Stewart revealed he had cancer and was forced to leave the team. Herbert's F1 career ended on a sour note with a pointless year and a nasty crash in his final race at Malaysia when the suspension broke.
The R2 was built to be more reliable than its predecessor, but its extra solidity brought with it a natural burden. Whilst many believed that Rahal had what it took to turn the team around, ultimately a lack of success saw him removed in a coup led by three-time world champion Niki Lauda.
The team started the 2001 campaign with Eddie Irvine and Luciano Burti, then signed Pedro de la Rosa as a test driver when he was dumped by Arrows. By the time of the Spanish Grand Prix, Burti had been moved onto Prost, allowing de la Rosa - who opted out of a deal with the French team - to take over his race seat.
As in 2000, the season was largely disappointing, but punctuated with brighter moments, among them Irvine's sparkling third place at Monaco. That the team had to wait until round seven to open its account summed it all up, however. The Irishman ended the year with six points, de la Rosa with three, leaving Jaguar eight out of eleven.
For 2002, Irvine and de la Rosa remained on board, with Lauda at the helm full-time. However the new R3 was a disaster and there was talk, early on of reverting to the R2, as the R3 was a complete dog.
The team started the year well though and Irvine took fourth place in Australia. However this was not down to the car, more the fact half the field was knocked out following a massive pile-up at the start. The team then had to wait until Belgium in September to score another point, before an inspired drive at the Italian GP from Irv, when he qualified fifth and finished third ended the year on a high.
During the off-season though several changes took place. First up was the outfit's decision to opt for an all-new driver line-up. So it was out with Irvine and de la Rosa, and in with former Minardi driver, Mark Webber and ex-Williams test driver Antonio Pizzonia.
Then a number of weeks later, in mid-October came the shock news that Lauda himself had been axed, the fourth team boss at the team to leave since the outfit was formed in 2000.
Tony Purnell thus took over the poisoned chalice, as the head of Ford's Premier Performance Division [PPD] - comprising the Jaguar F1 team, Cosworth Racing and Pi research. His job was not easy, but 2003 brought results, and more importantly respect for the Ford owned team.
Mark Webber was certainly an asset and the Aussie was easily the undisputed number one driver at the team by the end of the season, scoring 17 points in total, with a string of sixth and seventh place finishes - not to mention some top notch qualifying efforts.
Webber's team-mates though didn't have it so easy, Antonio Pizzonia lasted until the German GP, when Justin Wilson was brought in as his replacement. The Englishman though fared little better, and despite notching up an eighth place finish at the US GP was eventually dropped, as economics dictated a change.
Jaguar notched up 18 points in total in 2003, on route to seventh in the constructors', and there was a real feeling of progress at the Milton Keynes based squad, and a sense that the 2004 year's car, the R5, might allow them to continue to move up the grid.
Winter testing was mixed however, and Jaguar desperate for cash, signed new boy Christian Klien to partner Webber. The Austrian, who impressed in the International F3 Euro Series the year before, was backed by Red Bull and was rumoured to be worth around £4-6 million.
The season though was far from successful, and following the promise of 2003, 2004 was far tougher - both on and off the track.
In total the team managed just 10 points, narrowly beating Toyota to seventh place in the Constructors'. Webber was again the team leader, scoring all but 3 of their haul, but it was off-track that the outfits' real problems emerged.
Ford's decision to sell the outfit, along with Cosworth, in September 2004, threatened to end the Milton Keynes based squad, and while it had been rumoured, Ford might just re-brand the team - Ford Racing - under financial pressure, the 'Blue Oval' elected to get out of F1 completely.
Although the teams' future was uncertain in the following months, in November, Red Bull, owner, Dietrich Mateschitz, came to the rescue, taking over the team, and in the process realising his own long-term dream, of owning his own F1 operation. Therefore, Jaguar departed Formula One winless and having scored just 49 points in 84 races.
Red Bull Racing signed David Coulthard at the end of 2004 to lead the team and in early January appointed Christian Horner to replace Tony Purnell as team boss - a move that surprised many, as it was thought that Red Bull would retain the Jaguar management. David Pitchforth was also removed, to be replaced by Guenther Steiner, who ironically was the technical director at Jaguar from 2001-2002, but was dismissed as it was deemed he didn't have enough F1 know-how.
During 2005, Coulthard was partnered by Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi, the young pairing having to 'seat-share' the second car. While, early on in the season, it was thought they would both contest roughly the same amount of races, as the year went on this turned out not to be the case, and Liuzzi did just four events.
Red Bull surprised many in '05, scoring points in eleven of the 19 races and ending the season with 34 points in total - 14 more than Sauber and just four fewer than BAR-Honda - to claim seventh in the standings. DC, as one would expect, scored the majority of the points - 24 - and took the team's two best finishes, when he was fourth at the Australian GP and again at the Nurburgring.
Determined to maximise its F1 exposure, Red Bull bought the Minardi team towards the end of the season, re-branding it Scuderia Toro Rosso for 2006.
Effectively a Red Bull 'junior' team, STR was expected to provide an outlet for some of the other Red Bull-backed drivers', fielding Liuzzi, who was 'transferred' from RBR, and American Scott Speed in 2006, thus bringing an end to the brand's US F1 driver search programme.
Red Bull's 'senior' team, meanwhile, stuck with Coulthard and Klien in 2006, with former Minardi man Robert Doornbos taking on the Friday test role. The team also switched to Ferrari engines, after agreeing a deal early on in 2005.
After the confident first season, however, the second proved to be harder.
Indeed, with RBR going to the first race in Bahrain having not even completed a race distance thanks to endless cooling problems brought on by their new engines, the fact Klien finished at all, let along in eighth place, proved to be just as surprising as their double-point scoring debut in 2006.
There was an even bigger shock in store when Coulthard captured the team's maiden podium at Monaco, the Scot's superior experience and the car's fondness for circuits requiring downforce proving a magical combination on the way to third, but the reality was that RBR suffered for the most part, frustrated by midfield performances, increasing reliability woes and a decision to stop development of the already conservative RB2 midway through the season.
Barring Coulthard's podium, neither driver would finish higher than eighth throughout the rest of the season, prompting some rather choice words from the Scot regarding the team's failure to move forward.
Klien departed three races from the end of the campaign, allowing Doornbos to return to a race seat, but the Dutchman already knew that he would not be in the frame for 2007, which, with the much-vaunted arrival of designer Adrian Newey, many hoped would herald a turning point.
Coulthard remained on board in '07, but Klien's seat went to another non-Red Bull man, namely Mark Webber, who was brought in to partner the Scot. Doornbos remained as a tester, alongside Michael Ammermuller.
Alongside Newey, RBR also pulled off the coup of securing a supply of title-winning Renault engines to replace its STR-bound Ferraris and, with the aggressive-looking RB3, the team was aiming to make progress.
The RB3 was clearly faster than the RB2, but reliability proved a real issue, with the transmission the cause of a number of DNFs. Such fragility really hindered DC and Webber, although there were still some highs, including Mark's third place finish at the Nurburgring, while Coulthard's best was a fourth place finish in Japan.
In the end DC scored 14 points - and was tenth in the drivers' championship, while Webber notched up 10 and was 12th. The combined tally of 24 left the Milton-Keynes based operation fifth in the constructors' - a two place improvement on '06, although with McLaren excluded, in reality the outfit was sixth.
Having showed its potential, Red Bull knew that it could, and should, do a lot better in 2008, and the Newey-designed RB4 proved to be an improvement on its predecessor, allowing the unchanged line-up of Coulthard and Webber to begin the season with seven scoring appearances in the first eight races. The Australian was the better accumulator, but missed out on a return to the podium while DC came through the usual Montreal madness to claim third.
The Scot's early season was marked by a string of on-track clashes that denied him the chance to score regularly, but failing to get through the first phase of qualifying at several rounds made life difficult for the oldest man on the grid. By mid-season, he had confirmed his decision to call it quits after Brazil and the only shame was that his swansong lasted just as far as turn one.
Webber, too, was not immune to ill-fortune, with the now familiar gremlins continuing to dog the Australian, not least in Singapore, when a potential podium went begging as a passing metro train apparently sent the gearbox electrics haywire. Fourth place in Monaco was thus the best Webber managed, but second on the grid at Silverstone again underlined his qualifying prowess.
Luck also played a part in restricting the team to seventh in the constructors' championship, its own drop-off in form late on - not helped by the below par Renault engine which it had demanded in place of 2007's Ferrari powerplant - coinciding with possibly the strongest midfield battle in recent years.
With Coulthard's F1 career at an end, Red Bull called on Sebastian Vettel to step up from sister team Toro Rosso to partner Webber for 2009 and it didn't take the German long to make his mark. Armed with easily the best Red Bull car to date - the RB5 - Vettel took the team's maiden pole position in Shanghai and then stormed to victory the following day to take Red Bull to the top of the podium for the first time. It was to be the first of three victories for the German who showed why he was so highly rated by finishing second in the championship standings behind Jenson Button.
For Webber, the year didn't start well when he suffered a broken leg in a collision with a 4x4 during his own Tasmanian adventure race. Luckily the Australian was fit to start the season and after a difficult start to the year, he followed Vettel home in China to help the team to its maiden 1-2 finish. A breakthrough win came in Germany where he overcame a drive through penalty to secure victory although a run of five no-scores towards the end of the year ended any hopes of a title challenge. A second win of the campaign did come in Brazil as Red Bull finished the season second in the constructors' championship.
If the RB5 had been a good car, the RB6 put together by Newey and his team proved to be even better as Red Bull stormed to the championship titles in 2010.
Vettel's season didn't start well as technical issues cost him victory in the opening two races, although he did pick up his first of the year in China. After a controversial clash with Webber in Turkey, the German took his second win of the season in Valencia before a late season charge saw him win three of the final four races to become the 2010 champion; coming from behind in Abu Dhabi to beat Fernando Alonso to the crown.
Many will argue that Webber should have beaten Vettel to the championship after the Australian's best season to date. Five pole positions and four wins - including on the streets of Monaco - showed Webber to be a true title contender and he was the man to beat heading into the inaugural Korean Grand Prix late in the season. Unfortunately for Webber, Korea marked his second DNF of the year - the first having come in Valencia after he was launched over the rear of Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus - and he was then forced to play catch-up, ultimately falling short of becoming the first Australian title winner since Alan Jones back in 1981 as he finished the year third.
Having also picked up the constructors' title to go with Vettel's drivers' crown, Red Bull headed into 2011 as the team to beat - although few would have predicted the way in which the titles were successfully defended.
An astonishing campaign from Vettel saw him secure 15 pole positions from 19 races while eleven wins ensured he was able to wrap up the title with ease for a second straight season. Such was the pace of Red Bull's RB7, Vettel failed to qualify on the front row on only one occasion and was only outside the top two on race day twice all year; finishing fourth on home soil in Germany and then retiring in Abu Dhabi after sustaining a puncture on the opening lap.
In any other year, a total of three poles, seven fastest laps and a victory in Brazil would have been classed as successful but for Webber, it wasn't enough to avoid being comprehensively outperformed by his team-mate. In fairness to the veteran, he endured his fair share of problems over the season with a number of KERS related issues and a series of poor starts hitting his challenge. One such tardy start cost him dear at Silverstone where he started from pole but could only finish second behind Vettel, despite ignoring team orders not to challenge the German for victory.
With both titles secured for the second successive season, Red Bull went into 2012 as the team to beat with both Vettel and Webber being retained for another year.
No longer able to make us of its blown diffuser after a regulation change, the team started the season without the advantage it had enjoyed the previous season, although Vettel made the most of a safety car period to take a podium in Australia.
Having failed to score in Malaysia, he secured his first win o the year in Bahrain but then gradually slipped away from Fernando Alonso through the European season – where he scored just two podium finishes. Along the way, he missed out on a certain victory in Valencia to alternator failure and clashed with Alonso at Monza in a move that saw him handed a drive-through penalty. Webber by contrast picked up his only two victories of the season in Monaco and Britain.
Along the way, there was controversy surrounding the design of the RB8, with a hole in the floor of the car being outlawed before the Canadian GP despite being on the car since Bahrain, and questions being raised about the team's engine maps in Germany.
With those arguments put to bed and with upgrades introduced for the latter part of the year, Red Bull suddenly came alive – with Vettel reeling off four straight wins to roar into the championship lead. The constructors' championship was secured in the USA and a dramatic season finale in Brazil ended with Vettel taking the drivers' title for a third successive season.
The team remains the same again for 2013 – and again it's the Milton Keynes-based outfit that will start the year as the one to beat.


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...and have found to be the most competitive?
I've only used my M1 Garand and M1903A3. I would like to use my Swiss K31, Swedish Mauser M96, German Mauser K98 and Finnish M39.
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...and have found to be the most competitive?
I've only used my M1 Garand and M1903A3. I would like to use my Swiss K31, Swedish Mauser M96, German Mauser K98 and Finnish M39.
Springfield 1903 (which I bought in high school for $30) and Mauser 98. One of these days I plan to try my Mosin Nagant and my K31 for Metalic Silhouette just for fun.
FN-FAL at local shoots, Hehe, lots of fun.
Haven't been in any competition except with self.
Which rifle I am using and how I am shooting depends on how good I do.
In my practice I try to use the same potion and conditions as I am when hunting.
If I am just going bang-bang, it don't differ. I like my new 308 Rossi, My Gibbs 2A1 and the 1917 LSA #1mklll* with the short stock.
g3 clone, ar, nagant, ak so far.
ar + g3 have been doing good.
thinking of taking the sks this month.
Ar and my CMP M1 International Harvester!
Bulgarian AK- 74 at the spring '07 Knob Creek assault rifle match.
To me, Milsurp means as issued (unless you have a full auto M16, FAL or what ever, it doesn't count).
I have used (depending on the competition) 1903A3, M1 Garand, No4/MK1* Enfield, K98k Mauser. The 1903A3 has been consistantly more competitve than any of the other rifles. Second would be the No4/Mk1* Enfield.
You really have to work the bolt and have the reload down to be competitive. In rapid fire the M1 Garand has a very small advantage as bolt manipulation isn't required. But the M1 Garand can't beat the 1903A3 for accuracy.
Just my .02....
I've shot the Garand more than anything else.
Amongst the bolt actions, I've shot the Swiss K31 a lot, the 1903 a good bit, the British #4 Mk1 and #5 a bit, and occasionally the Finnish M39. If you look at the results from the Civilian Marksmanship Programs Vintage Military match, the Swedish Mausers and Swiss K31 dominate. Look at who is #6:
CMP Results
I'm really shocked at the CMP results. Especially since the range was only 200 yards.
I shoot @200 yards, Offhand and Sitting Rapid, @300 yards, Prone Rapid, and @600 yards Prone Slow.
Using my 1903A3 - 200yds.
Offhand 97-4x
Sitting Rapid 98-5x
Prone Rapid 89-4x
Slow Fire 180-12x
Total 467-25x
The above scores were an "average" of 15 fired matches in 2006. Yes, I'm rated as a High Master, and no I don't compete at the National Level. But I feel that my score with my 1903A3 would be comparable to the higher scores listed in the CMP Matches.
At some time in the future, I'll have to try the CMP yardage to formulate a compatible score, not counting that it won't be under national level pressure which would count towards the score.

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Laura Thomas enters her fourth season as an assistant coach for the Northern Arizona Swimming & Diving program. A two-time NCAA All-American swimmer at Georgia, Thomas has founded two aquatic clubs and been a head coach for three club teams and a high school team with more than 15 years of experience in the state of Georgia.
Thomas earned her first coaching position in 1997 as the head coach for the Deer Run swim team in Conyers, Ga., a position she held for more 15 years during which time she led swimmers to six county championships. Thomas founded both the Cobia Aquatic Club in Conyers and the Swim Oconee Aquatic Club in Watkinsville, Ga., and served as head coach, president and CEO of both organizations.
Thomas also has a wealth of experience in teaching, having taught at three different middle schools since 1997. Since 2006 Thomas taught math and social studies to seventh and eighth graders at Oconee County middle school in Watkinsville while also serving as the head coach of the Oconee County High School swimming & diving team for the last three seasons. In addition to those duties, she served as an assistant coach to Harvey Humphries, Associate Head Coach at the University of Georgia, while working for the Athens Bulldogs Swim Club.
Thomas put together a storied career both in the pool and in the classroom at Georgia where she was a two-time NCAA All-American. She was named All-SEC all four years of her career and was named team captain her senior year. Thomas participated in the 1984 US Olympic trials and was the UGA school record holder in the 200 butterfly at the time of her graduation. Academically, Thomas was a three-time Academic All-American, earned the NCAA Post Graduate scholarship, and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee.
Thomas graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia in 1988 with a Bachelor's in marketing before earning a Master of Education in instructional technology from Troy University in 2005. Thomas has a daughter, Zoe, who is in seventh grade.


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Operation Last Resort, which has been calling for an overhaul of CFAA, has also made a number of moves to help keep its public campaign high profile. Notably, the group hacked MIT's website in a tribute to Swartz. It has also defaced or disrupted multiple websites, including that of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which establishes sentencing policies and practices for the federal courts. The group also hid Asteroids games on targeted government websites, which if unlocked via an Easter egg, allow viewers to blast the site to pieces.
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Hey everyone. I am putting up some of the markers I have accumulated over the years that haven't gotten the use that they deserve. They are in good shape as you will see. They have been adult owned and cared for. Feel free to offer up and as always cash takes priority over trades.
Marker: Invert Mini Gen 3
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Postgame Notes
North Carolina 112, Chaminade 70
Nov. 21, 2012
North Carolina 112, Chaminade 70
Nov. 21, 2012
- With the victory, UNC improved to 15-3 all-time in the Maui Invitational and has won 11 of its last 12 games in the tournament. Carolina's 15 Maui wins are second-most in the event's history behind Duke's 16.
- Roy Williams improved to 13-2 as a head coach in the Maui Invitational, including 8-1 as Carolina's coach. Williams is 18-4 overall in games played in the state of Hawaii.
- Carolina scored 62 points in the first half, the first time it had 60 in a half since scoring 60 against Mississippi Valley State on Nov. 20, 2011.
- The Tar Heels shot a season high 68.6 percent in the first half (24 for 35). For the game, Carolina shot 62.3 percent, its highest of the season (first time over 50 percent) and the first time over 60 percent since shooting 62.1 against Tennessee State on Nov. 22, 2011.
- The Tar Heels made 9 for 12 from three-point range in the opening half. Four different players made at least two threes in the first half.
- Carolina made 13 three-pointers for the game, the third time in the last four games the Tar Heels have made at least 10 from beyond the arc.
- Carolina surpassed its scoring total from the previous evening against Butler (71 points) with 15:36 to play in the game.
- Reggie Bullock made three three-pointers, the fourth time in the last five games he made at least three three-pointers. Bullock tied his career high with six assists.
- Freshman Brice Johnson made his first start of the season and scored a season-high 16 points.
- Sophomore guard Luke Davis came into tonight's game with five assists, and he had a season-high seven to go along with a season-best five points against Chaminade.
- With 112 points, UNC reached 100 for the first time since Jan. 1, 2012, vs. Monmouth (102). On Wednesday, Carolina scored its most points in a game since scoring 116 against UNC Asheville on Nov. 30, 2008.
- The Tar Heels held advantages of 52-18 in points in the paint, 33-5 points off turnovers, 24-12 fast break and 47-14 off the bench.


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Staff Directory סגל ההנהלה וההוראה
The full Staff Directory lists all current administration and faculty members in Maimonides School. This information can be filtered alphabetically by last name. The Staff Directory can also be viewed by school division and department.
The main number for the school is (617) 232-4452. The division office extensions are: Elementary School, x300; Middle School, x200 and Upper School, x100.
All emails listed below are followed by @maimonides.org.
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|The Vortec head design is great its the rest of the vortec engine package that sucks....the poppet style injectors, the hard to program black box computer, the distributer (dizzy),and the leak prone intake gaskets are all reasons not to transplant this engine into anything else. I own a 98 excab 2wd and cannot get 20mpg with it. My vortec headed 350 in my 79 gets 22 to 23mpg consistantly with the same gear and trans ratios and it has a 650 holley double pumper....and its 3 seconds faster in the quarter. Keep it simple put a carb on it with vortec heads or if you have your heart set on transplanting something better go with the 4.8, 5.3 or 6.0L engine combinations....Im sure they have their issues too but atleast they are current and manufacturers are still building hop up parts for them.....Sorry for the rant but thats my 2 cents.....for what its worth lol....Lorne
The RHS Vortec head, which is based off the OEM casting, is better than the OEM head. I've flowed them vs OEM and if you get the pro torker model, with the multi radius seats, and 2.02-1.6 valves, it out flows the stockers by a good margin.
Also, they are twice as thick on the deck surface and have more meat around the seats, reducing the problem of the crack prone factory vortec head. If you want to run your factory manifold, it will fit, but you will need to match the manifold to the height of the runners on the Vortec heads, and do a port match job. These heads are cast in Australia, and RHS is part of the Comp Cams group, so they are good quality.
It will run better with a dedicated Vortec intake, so if I were you, I would plan on using a Vortec style manifold. There are heads floating around out there claiming to be Vortec heads when they really are not.
In order to be a vortec head, it has to be patterned after the GM design. The name sells, so be careful of what you are buying.
Otherwise, use junkyard models, but get them magnafluxed, and make sure the bone yard will take them back if they are busted. Look closely at the center bolt holes on the deck surface of the head, and look closely at the exhaust seats. I've fixed alot of these cracks, but you need the right equipment to do it.
|Instead of machining the vortecs for more lift, you can simply install a set of ls1 (beehive) valve springs and run to something like .525 lift. The whole set is pretty expensive though( like $250 for springs, retainers, keepers etc) but when you subtract the cost of machine work(and the waiting for the machine shop to get it finished,which can be a serious annoyance if you ask me), and a new set of regular springs, keepers etc. that can handle .525 lift. It seems allthemore worth it.
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Vortec heads?
Thanks guys. I have tme to think bout the cam fer my motor and then figure out what i will do. But i think i will have to have a set when it comes tme. Thanks agian
"aftermarket vortec style heads"
"Aftermarket" refers to manufacturers other than OEM, such as the aforementioned Jimmy-Crack-Corn and Ah-So heads which are junk in my opinion.
I'm talking about using genuine GM Vortec heads. You can buy them new across the counter at any Chevy dealer or you can harvest them from a boneyard motor, '96 to '99 Chevy truck with 350 Vortec motor. Look for a sawtooth design on the end of the heads and pull the valve covers to verify casting numbers 12558062 or 10239906. If you get heads from a boneyard, get the rocker arms (special rail rockers for use with Vortec heads) and valve covers (center bolt design) with them. Take them to a machine shop and have them magnafluxed for cracks. Unaltered Vortecs will have a valve lift limit of 0.450" due to clearance between the underside of the retainer and the top of the valve seal and will have to be disassembled and the clearance increased if you plan to run valve lift over 0.450". Or, you can purchase heads which have been modified for more lift. Or, you can get a camshaft with more duration and lift-limited to 0.450" from any of the cam grinders. Scoggin-Dickey sells heads which have been modified for 0.525" lift under part number SD8060A2, assembled with valves, springs, seals and retainers.
New 12558060 heads.....
New 12558060 (SD8060A2) heads modified for more lift.....
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So if im reading right the after market vortec style heads or finding a doner truck with the motor and trans i want is the way to go. Not just finding head and puting in a whole computer and that junk. IF you mean it another way let me kno. I want good pull power and mpg that is standable. Cause when i get done with my truck it wont be drove much and plenty of time to just work on it.
125508060 is a part number of the original 1996 & up production Vortec. It can be made from either a 10239906 or a 12558062 casting. The difference between them is that the 906 uses hard seat inserts and the 062 uses induction hardening. Scoggin Dicky among others sell a modified version for cam lifts over .45 inch at the valve. This head requires a specific intake that has raised runners and the Vortec unique bolt pattern, GMPP and Edlebrock supply units for a carb. Keep in mind this head does not have a provision for exhaust heat to the intake and if you need EGR it has to be externally plumbed.
GMPP has also released part numbers 25534421 and 25534431. These are Vortec style heads with heavier casting thicknesses and larger 2.02 and 1.55 inch valves, they accept higher lifts without modification and feature a 180 cc intake for the 421 and 206 cc intake for the 431. These are complete ready to run heads, they are also available under a different P/N as machined but bare. The original Vortec "060" heads all use 1.94/1.50 valves with a 165-170 cc intake port. These use the standard Chevy bolt pattern for the intake but the intake still needs to be a raised runner type.
Putting a complete injected Vortec into a non injected, non computerized vehicle is a big project, not impossible, but a challenging effort. You need the computer, wire harness, sensors, injection pump and lots of detail parts. Additionally, the computer needs information from the transmission and about the vehicle that older vehicles can't supply without modification to the transmission, installation of A to D converters or replacement with a Vortec era transmission. There will be problems with instruments such as the speedo, requiring a converter, or outright replacement to an electronic unit. Like I said not impossible but an extensive and technically challenging swap.
Unfortunately, the Vortec injection isn't that great, any type of performance work and for general reliability these systems are usually back dated with port injection parts from older TPI systems.
You can get heads that are called "Vortec" and will work with a conventional manifold, but they won't be genuine GM Vortec heads. They'll be made by Jimmy-Crack-Corn Induction Systems or Ah-So Industries or whatever and in my opinion, are a waste of money. None of the knock-offs have shown me that they flow anywhere near the original 12558060 GM heads. Having to use a dedicated manifold is a small price to pay in my opinion.
Knowing nothing at all about EFI and the new electronic systems and unwilling to learn at my age, re-wiring for a computer-based system sounds to me like a nightmare. I guess if I were going to do it, I'd buy a donor vehicle and install all the wiring from it to my ride, ripping out all the original wiring. I'm told there are companies who specialize in wiring systems to do it, but they won't be getting any of my money.
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I have a 79 4 bolt 355. And was wanting to stroke and bore a little more. But can i get a set of vortic heads that my holley 4bb in take will fit. Or if i go vortic then do i have to buy a diff 4bb intake. Or is all this just wishful thinking and ill have to go fuel injection with the vortic. And how hard would it be to wire up a vortic in my 86 blazer. And what is some of the other things that would have to be changed in the truck to make it work? Thanks guy i kno that yall will know the best way to go. Thank agian
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Staff Report | August 23. 2013 9:16PM
That's the day that Colleen Driscoll, a payroll coordinator in the Manchester police department, wants to get city workers on the street as part of the Walk to End Alzheimer's.
This is the third year that Driscoll has fielded a team of city workers. Two years ago, four city workers decided at the last minute to participate and raised $750. The following year 21 city workers raised $1,700.They joined about 1,100 people who participated in the Manchester walk last year.
"It's rejuvenating," she said. "It just makes you feel like you're doing something for a good cause. It's just an overwhelming feeling. It's inspirational."
Last year, the Manchester walk raised more than $176,000. Driscoll said November marks her 25th year with the city, and she's not related to the former police chief, Mark Driscoll. She said she walked the first year in honor of her mother, former state Rep. Alice McDonough-Wallace, who died of Alzheimer's disease in 2011.Driscoll is captain of the city team.
She said she has received the OK from Mayor Ted Gatsas to email all city workers to encourage them to participate. And she has placed posters in break rooms.
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Canisius senior guard Billy Baron had 23 points, eight assists and five rebounds and fellow senior Chris Perez scored 21 points to go with five assists in his Canisius debut as the Golden Griffins defeated Daemen 102-84 Monday night in an exhibition game in the Koessler Athletic Center. Every Canisius player in uniform played in the game and 10 of the team's 12 active players scored in the victory.
Baron, the MAAC Preseason Player of the Year, went 7-for-10 from the field, 3-for-5 from 3-point land and 6-for-8 from the free-throw line in the win, while Perez ended the night by going 8-for-14 from the floor and 5-for-6 from the charity stripe. Four Griffs posted double figures in the scoring column in the win, as senior Jordan Heath scored 15 points to go with eight boards and three blocks and redshirt sophomore Dominique Raney chipped in 11 points and four assists in 17 minutes.
Canisius shot 53.6 percent from the field as a team and ended the contest by going 21-for-30 from the free-throw line. The Griffs held a 37-33 advantage on the glass, led by junior forward Josiah Heath and his team-high nine rebounds. Freshman Zach Lewis and redshirt freshman Phil Valenti added eight points each to the Griffs' winning effort, as the Blue and Gold improved to 6-1 in its last seven exhibition games, dating back to the 2000-01 campaign.
"This was a good effort tonight against a quick, well-coached team, but we know we still have some work to do," Canisius head coach Jim Baron said. "I thought we got a lot of good contributions from all of our guys, but we really need to work on little things like understanding positioning on defense and rebounding the basketball. We have some work ahead of us, but all in all, this was good for us to see another team with quick guards as we get ready to play a tough schedule again this season."
For Daemen, junior Gerald Beverly recorded a double-double with a game-high 24 points and 10 rebounds. Junior Jordan Greene chipped in 17 points, while senior Casey Sheehan added 15 points and eight assists. Senior Mark Coppola also had a double-double for the Wildcats, as he ended the night with 11 points and 10 assists. Daemen shot 50.8 percent from the field and 70.6 percent from the free-throw line for the game, but turned the ball over 18 times, which resulted in 28 Canisius points.
The Griffs never trailed in the game, jumping out to an early 9-4 lead 3:54 into the contest on the power of a pair of treys from Baron and Jordan Heath and a traditional 3-point play from Perez. The Wildcats battled back and made it a one-point game at 11-10 at the 14:58 mark of the first half, but the Blue and Gold pulled away with an 11-0 run over 1:30, capped by a baseline jumper from Valenti to make the score 22-10. Canisius shot 52.9 percent from the field in the game's first 20 minutes and held a 47-35 lead at the break.
In the second half, Daemen could not close the gap, as Canisius lead by as many as 26 in the game's final four minutes. Redshirt sophomore Kevin Bleeker scored five points in his first game action since 2011-12 and freshman Lou Dunbar scored five points off the bench as well. The Griffs got 27 points off the bench in the win and tallied 46 points in the paint.
Canisius will close out its exhibition season Nov. 6, when the team plays host to Mercyhurst in the Koessler Athletic Center. Game time is set for 7 p.m.Game Notes: Canisius and Daemen met for the first time in men's basketball… Senior Chris Manhertz (ankle) and junior Jeremiah Williams (hamstring) did not dress… Both players are expected to return to practice in the next few days… Prior to the game, Canisius hosted local boys in grades five and six for a basketball clinic that also stressed the importance of reading and proper nutrition… The crowd of 1,581 marks the fifth crowd of 1,500 or more in the Koessler Athletic Center for a men's basketball game since the start of last season.


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Went out to Mud/Gull Lakes on saturday for the first ride of the summer. It was nicer there than in town. I was hoping that with the rain the water level would be up and it was - only about 1.5 feet of the boulder was sticking up so it was very much like late in the season. The water was up enough to get over to Gull Lake through the beaver damn, but the water is still only 10 inches deep in the flats behind the damn in Gull Lake. My super duper new jack lift on the outboard helped out a lot in getting me "stuck" worse off than normal. I spent the day running around and testing the motor angles and tilt and trim to determine what would be the best way to run the thing and still get some power out of it. Lots of fun. The biggest issue is bow weight - need more. And ass weight - need less - working on that pound by pound this summer.
I was surprised at the lack of ducks - 1. I would think that the area would be a good place to hatch out a few eggs, but I guess not. It is funny that there are ducklings hatching out in the old trailer park in Muldoon but not in the lakes in the boonies. Ducks are strange.
View from the top of the bluff over the launch area. Someone pulled out one of the nasty boulders that the trailers get stuck on.
I have always wanted to get a photo of the rig on the "cliff" above the launch. A lot of the guys that I chat with down in America don't understand it when I say we launch over a cliff. Hopefully this will explain that a little.


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Notice: I have decided to do this Bi-Weekly so the meets dont become to close together.
I was looking around the forum board and i realized there is no on going meet thread for the San Francisco Bay Area and there was a interest that was shown for this so i decided its time to create one.
Hopefully after time this thread will get stickied.
Here's how this will work i will make the first meet location were we can meet and once there we can vote for the next location for the following meet.
Each location will be where there is food and something to do. We can either eat there or go somewhere else. And after words we can always still go and do something else too.
We will Meet and Greet on either a Friday or Saturday evening in different locations around the bay area hopefully there are people out there who are still interested in this. We will try to make this accessible to everyone so that we all have a chance to go.
until this meet grows to the need of farther out locations we will continue to use the below location.
I will keep this updated for us with all the new information.
I hope this is a success and it grows here with the San Francisco Bay Area Community and i hope to see you all out at the next meet.
We ask that you honor the normal common sense rules that apply.
no loud music, racing, revving of engines, showing off, break-stands or spinning of tires at the meet location. as long as we use common sense and follow the rules we will have no problems with any law enforcement.
Here's the info for the next meet.
Im putting these meets on hold because very few have attended once or twice and then there was no more if anyone wants to plan a meet post up the information and i will update the main thread here with the information....


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Zimbabwe's bank account has a balance of … $217
posted at 11:33 am on January 30, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
No, I didn't leave off a "million" or "billion." They have a grand total of two hundred and seventeen dollars left:
"Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 in government coffers," Finance Minister Tendai Biti said, according to The Telegraph. "The government finances are in paralysis state at the present moment."
That last admission was an understatement not because of his assessment of paralysis, but because he implied the problem is only a recent one.
The country that was once considered southern Africa's "breadbasket" for its fertile lands and rich mineral deposits has been experiencing slow but certain ruin due to more than three decades of largely despotic rule by President Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe and his cronies seem to be making off with most of the revenue:
Last year, Finance Minister Biti complained that government coffers had not received the promised $600 million in diamond revenues from a recently discovered rich deposit. Biti said that only one-fourth of that pledge has been received.
Overall, at least $2 billion worth of diamonds have been stolen from Zimbabwe's eastern diamond fields and have enriched Mugabe's ruling circle, international gem dealers and criminals, according to an organization leading the campaign against conflict diamonds.
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It's a Kee-modified Luxe that's cheaper than a Luxe by over $100. People are looking for something to replace the Luxe - I mean, look at how well the Vapor sold at first before everyone found out their pieces didn't fit together. If Empire got the marker operation right, they'll have players lining up to buy.
$1500. No thanks.
Pressure transducer like the MacDev.
Standardized, single size screws through the marker.
So far what I'm hearing I like. Of course, I'm not buying it - but I bet a lot of people will.
EDIT: From Social Paintball:
Price: $1,499.95
Hardware Features:
Pressure Balanced Spool Valve Firing Engine
Precision Pressure Sensor for On-screen Pressure Readout No External Gauge Needed
OLED Display with Super Bright 2000:1 Contract Ratio
Push Button Bolt Removal with Hinged Frame for ultra quick maintenance
Software Features:
Slick Assistant Lubricant Monitoring System alerts you when you need to lube your paintball marker
Customizable Ramping and Full-Auto Modes to max out your paintball markers performance
Interrupt Based Firmware gives an ultra responsive feel when firing. Virtually no lag time between trigger pull and response time
User Adjustable Anti-Bolt Stick settings makes first shot drop off a thing of the past
PC Enabled out of the box with no special accessories needed. Update firmware, change settings, and make custom boot screens with the included PC software
its the same price as a luxe. you are comparing it to the LE splash ano's that are more than the base luxe.
and trust me, you can very easily get a brand new luxe for under retail with even the slightest bit of research. i just purchased a BNIB one, from the factory for WELL under MSRP.


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As one of the applications in Microsoft Office, Word is the dominant word-processing program for both Windows and Mac users. Millions of people around the globe use it. But many, if not most, of them barely skim the surface of what is possible with Microsoft Word. Seduced by the application's supposed simplicity, they settle for just what's obvious--even if it doesn't satisfy their wants and needs. They may curse the wretched Bullets and Numbering buttons multiple times a day or take hours to change the font size of every heading in a lengthy report, yet they're reluctant to dig deeper to take advantage of Word's immense capabilities and limitless customization tools.Let Word Hacks be your shovel. Let it carve your way into Word and make this most popular and powerful application do precisely what you want it to do. Filled with insider tips, tools, tricks, and hacks, this book will turn you into the power user you always wanted to be. Far beyond a tutorial, Word Hacks assumes you have a solid working knowledge of the application and focuses on showing you exactly how to accomplish your pressing tasks, address your frequent annoyances, and solve even your most complex problems.Author Andrew Savikas examines Word's advanced (and often hidden) features and delivers clever, time-saving hacks on taming document bloat, customization, complex search and replace, Tables of Contents and indexes, importing and exporting files, tables and comments, and even using Google as a dictionary! With him as your guide, you'll soon be understanding--and hacking--Word in ways you never thought possible.Covering Word 2000, 2002 and Word 2003, Word Hacks exposes the inner workings of Word and releases your inner hacker; with it, you will be equipped to take advantage of the application s staggering array of advanced features that were once found only in page layout programs and graphics software and turning Word into your personal productivity powerhouse.
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Vital tool in my Word armamentarium
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Wonderful quick reference for tech writers who want to make Word play nicely. The hack for turning off overwrite mode is alone worth the price of the book. Contains many hacks not available even from the MVP Word website, including ways to handle doc corruption, a topic for which I have had trouble finding comprehensive info.
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How to read Haskell
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This stub is intended to become a tutorial on reading Haskell. It's aimed at the non-Haskeller who probably doesn't care too much about trying to write code, but wants to understand it.
1 The tutorial
...needs to be written
-- insert here some horrible (for the non-Haskeller) long example -- something we can work through slowly (and show why we find it beautiful)
1.1 What the heck is xyz?
One problem you might face when reading Haskell code is figuring out some cryptic entity like
xyz is.
1.1.1 Hint: order doesn't matter
Outside of a monad, it really doesn't matter what order things in Haskell code appear. So if you see something like this...
foo = whatTheHeckIsBar
you should take into account that
whatTheHeckIsBar may be defined somewhere below
- scope in a nutshell
- except for monads? explain
1.1.2 Hint: use grep
(This might seem really obvious, but it's sometimes easy to forget)
Or use the search feature of your favourite text editor. It's probably defined right there before your eyes, and if it's true to Haskell style, the definition is probably so small you blew right through it. In vi, for example, you could do
/= *xyz which searches for =, an arbirtary number of spaces, and then xyz.
Barring that,
xyz might be defined in some different module in the code you downloaded. You can look for telltale signs like
import Manamana (xyz)
But note that sometimes programmers get lazy, and they don't specify that
xyz should be imported. They just let rip with
import Manamana
So solution number 3 would be do something like
grep xyz *.lhs *.hs
(Note that literate programs sometimes use non-literate code, so search in both lhs AND hs)
A fourth idea, if you can't find something, is to look it up in Hoogle
1.2 Hint: use type signatures
When you see stuff like this
-- example please! foo :: Bar Ping Pong -> Baz Zed Dubya -> IO (DoublePlus Good)
...don't fight it! These are type signatures and they are an incredibly useful way of getting a rough idea what a function is supposed to do.
- elaborate
2 What confuses non-Haskellers
Since this tutorial is not yet written, we encourage you to note here the things which confuse non-Haskellers about the code code.
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- super-super-concise stuff (things using liftM and liftM2)
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The Premier League's Dubious Goals Panel have confirmed that Arsenal's second goal against Aston Villa on Saturday, November 27 was scored by Samir Nasri.
Nasri volleyed past Brad Friedel via a deflection to put the Gunners 2-0 up in a game they went on to win 4-2.
The Panel decided that his shot was already goal-bound and thus have decided not to strip the French midfielder of the strike.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Pelosi to Slackers: Relax!
posted at 3:11 pm on March 12, 2010 by J.E. Dyer
I really think she has overplayed a weak hand with this one:
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job loss because of a child with asthma or someone in the family is bipolar—you name it, any condition—is job locking.
(Full transcript of her interview yesterday with Rachel Maddow here. H/t: multiple sources, including Rush Limbaugh.)
This is so far out beyond even the left field of reality, it could only have come from a woman whose husband is very, very rich. There is something sort of "Lost Horizons" about it, this idea that there's a Shangri-La, if we can only get to it by turning our health care over to the federal government, where the Tibetan monks will happily labor from dawn to dusk, satisfied with their primitive lot, so the alienated Englishman can find himself at last.
But, of course, this Shangri-La is supposed to be in Bucksnort, Tennessee, and the Tibetan monks are you and I, slogging away in the step van and the office pool. Presumably the alienated Englishmen aspiring to be photographers and writers will be self-selecting.
I call dibs.
Limbaugh professes to have been very angered by this lunatic passage from Pelosi, but I'm actually heartened to think of the people who heard it yesterday (granted, not all that many), and the ones who will hear it in the coming days. Because this is so over the top, hardly anyone in America would consider it defensible ground. It beautifully exposes the idiocy of the American hard-left's national health care idea. It really is based on a thoroughly unrealistic, selectively elitist utopianism.
I don't think Americans on average buy this kind of nonsense at all. Maybe Pelosi's version of "I have a dream" will sink soundlessly, without a ripple, but I truly believe a majority of Americans are still hard-headed and sensible enough that if they do hear these words, even some of the die-hard supporters of the bills currently before Congress will peel away. Union leadership, for example, may be cynical enough to turn not a single hair at the concept of bricklayers and truck drivers working hard so wanna-be filmmakers can quit their day jobs and still have health "insurance." But the actual bricklayers and truck drivers won't be – and what's even more important is that the average Joe, regardless of his own estate, won't see that prospect as having any fairness about it whatsoever.
Common sense will also tell the average Joe that in this particular Shangri-La, a whole lot of people will opt to become aspiring performance artists rather than remain in the ranks of the hardworking monks. Nobody won't have nuthin', 'cause who'll want to work?
The logic of the Pelosi/Reid/Obama plan to transform health care always had to lead to this extreme manifestation. Guaranteed health "insurance," no matter what, means exactly that. It means the incentive is gone for you to keep paying into the system, since there is no relationship between what you pay in and what you get out.
Great job, Nancy! Keep it up.
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Sofia Vergara's Sunshine State New Year's with Nick Loeb
Getting in some all-important couple time, Sofia Vergara and her fiancé, Nick Loeb, did some shopping in Miami, Florida over the New Year's holiday weekend (December 30).
Clad in an all -black ensemble, the "Modern Family" momma strolled arm in arm with her husband-to-be as they checked out the merchandise at the Lincoln Road Mall.
Proud to show it off, Ms. Vergara's stunning engagement ring was front and center on her left hand during the sunshine state stroll..
The couple became engaged in July while celebrating Sofia's birthday at the Mayan archaeological ruins of Chichen Itza with friends. No date for the big day has been set.
Enjoy the pictures of Sofia Vergara with her fiance Nick Loeb at Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach, Florida (December 30).
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We'll begin with the toilet. If you're buying a toilet, then it's highly likely that a toilet seat will already be included with your purchase. However, you may want something different, something on a more luxurious and higher comfort level. It could also be the case that your current toilet seat is broken, and it's pointless replacing the entire toilet when the seat is only a small portion of the overall cost.
Toilet seats made from wood, such as a pine toilet seat, are a unique selection. Regarding structure, a heavyweight toilet seat will offer more support. Soft close toilet seats are also a popular selection, which allow you to let the toilet seat fall without slamming against the toilet itself.
A broad range of accessories come under this one, and there's an option to buy them in packs and ranges if you're starting afresh. If you just need one item, buying them individually is fine, but it's not the best idea to pick and choose accessories from different ranges as you'll come to find that they may not match and it may cost you more.
Beginning with humble toilet roll holders, you can immediately see that there are a wide range of styles available. You should be able to find one that matches your bathroom décor. The same goes for the majority of other wall mounted bathroom accessories; you need to be sure that they will match your bathroom suite.
Alongside toilet roll holders, other priorities are shower caddies for in-shower storage. Soap dishes, tumblers, and toothbrush holders all look incredibly stylish when mounted to the wall instead of simply resting on your sink. You may also want to get a towel ring or towel rail so your towels aren't just hanging limply off a radiator unless it's a stylish heated towel rail
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For safety (and legal) reasons, you should get all bathroom lighting installed by a qualified electrician.
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People are familiar with the option of bulk buying to attain discounts and it's very similar to buying a pack rather than buying individual items. Buying individually can be beneficial if you want to mix and match certain items or don't want additional fittings, but more often than not buying an accessory pack will offer a better value for money. The packs from Plumbworld are focused around different ranges all of which have their own unique styling. This in itself means that all of your accessories will complement each other whereas individual items may have different designs that clash. Another plus of buying in packs over individually is that build quality will be guaranteed throughout the pack, ensuring a high-quality set of items. Individual items from different retailers may have a varying build quality and dependent upon how picky you are; this could potentially be a downfall in your otherwise flawless bathroom.


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Chloé Fall 2012
Listening to Clare Waight Keller talk about her fall collection for Chloé, it's hard not to draw parallels. "It's about a British girl falling for the classic elements of Paris . . . pearls, lace," said the designer, a British girl who moved to Paris last summer when she assumed creative direction of the house. Asked just how autobiographical this inspirational narrative is, Waight Keller conceded with a laugh, "I really like it here. It feels a lot more grown-up."
So is it any wonder then that her fall collection (shown in a bright, sunny tent in the Tuileries, an iconic Parisian setting if ever there were one) combined a Londoner's sense of sportiness and street with the polish and refinement of French living? Clothes that are by nature casual—a hooded parka, a sweatshirt, a loose skirt—were reimagined in delicate laces and silks in a quiet, pastel palette and beautiful quilted georgette. Not only did the treatment elevate these pieces so that they look more dressed up, but it changed the way they hung on the body so that what in its original state might have appeared bulky or unrefined, suddenly draped elegantly across the shoulders or flowed ever so slightly in the breeze. Plus it made them seem more versatile. One gets the sense that the pale, dusty-blue quilted georgette skirt worn with a monochromatic lace sweatshirt layered over another shirt, as Waight Keller showed it, would solve a number of fashion crises for day or night.
What was also great about the way that Waight Keller balanced the sophisticated with the sporty was that she never sacrificed that Chloé sense of cool. It was retained in her ideas for black tie, i.e., "the evening T-shirt" in lace with satin sleeves, and in her proportions, which for the most part were big. Voluminous shapes on top, like an oversize ivory coat layered over a slimmer quilted cornflower-blue jacket or a fabulous multicolored sweater with a zipper up the back and an exaggerated, forest-green neck that reached the chin, were grounded by round pumps with cone heels or sandals adorned with giant pearls. And the bags, including a soft, structured two-handled number, were as so many have been this season, huge.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee junior Dalton Saberhagen has been named to the 2013 Southeastern Conference Baseball Community Service Team for his outstanding efforts in giving back to the Knoxville community, the league office announced Monday.
Thanks in large part to Saberhagen's hard work in organizing and leading the team's volunteer efforts, the UT baseball team was named the recipient of the Big Orange Cup at the 2013 Volscars. The award is presented to the team that participates in the most community service events over the course of the school year.
In October, Saberhagen handed out candy and interacted with local children during UT's annual "VOLoween" trick-or-treat festivities and also participated in a Halloween event at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. He and his teammates later took part in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk to pay tribute and bring hope to those battling blood cancer.
Saberhagen also volunteered with the local chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters at a special movie night for kids, assisted at a free youth baseball clinic and helped the Vols hold a headshaving event, raising over $3,000 for the Vs. Cancer Foundation and East Tennessee Children's Hospital.
On May 15, Saberhagen and the Vols hosted a clinic for the Knoxville Challenger League, which allows youngsters with special needs to play their favorite sports.
The SEC supports a Community Service Teams for all 21 league-sponsored sports. The Community Service Team looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to his community in superior service efforts. For the complete SEC Baseball Community Service Team, visit SECSports.com.
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The design team over at Sleepypod, makers of the innovative mobile pet bed/carrier, have created a totally new kind of pet bed, which will be launched later this year. Crater Dot is a contoured lounge comprised of two parts, the outer contoured lounge base made of molded foam with a polyester fabric cover, and the colorful inner plush dot center. The two parts can be easily taken apart and cleaned. The plush dot center will be available in three colors: Blossom Pink, Mossy Green, and Lunar Gray. The two pieces create a contoured 3-dimensional dish that is both comfortable for pets and stylish enough for a modern interior. The Crater Dot is portable and includes a grommet for easy hanging storage.
And for those chilly winter nights, you can even use the optional warmer (originally designed for the Sleepypod) with the Crater Dot. Simply slide the warmer into the pocket in the base and plug it into a standard electrical outlet, or use the auto adapter when you're on-the-go.
The Crater Dot will be available later this year and will sell for a suggested retail price of $73.99. It will be available on the Sleepypod website and at other retailers that carry Sleepypod products. I'll be sure to post more info when it is available.


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Talkback Gardening: fruit fly trap
August 08, 2012 , 10:27 AM by bronwen wade
We've had a huge amount of interest in guest gardener Karen Armstrong's fruit fly trap, which she talked about on-air this week.
For those of you wanting the recipe, here it is...
2 litres water
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 Tbs cloudy ammonia
Method - Mix ingredients thoroughly. Pour 2 cups of the mixture into a 2 litre plastic milk container. Cut two holes, one each side, into the bottle (about the size of a 1 cent piece) halfway between the mixture and the lid. Screw the lid on the milk bottle as the fumes of the cloudy ammonia are trapped from rising out of the bottle.
Application - As soon as the trees are in bloom, hang 2 bottles in each fruit tree or amongst your tomato vines. If the sun can shine on the bottle for part of the day all the better. Replace the mixture after two weeks or when it becomes black with flies. This mixture also catches mosquitoes, blow flies, cockroaches, house flies and codling moth.
Karen says tell your neighbours! If everyone helps to reduce fruit fly we all benefit.
Other tips
Start trapping for the female as the weather warms up or when you see signs of fruit development (usually October).
Clear away fallen fruit because it attracts fruit fly
Net your fruit trees with a fine, stretchy fly netting (net your tomatoes too).
Plant basil seedlings to help ward off fruit fly. Then you can use the basil crop to make your own pesto!
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Arsenal triumphed in Saturday's north London derby, beating Tottenham 5-2 at Emirates Stadium, and one Junior Gunner was lucky enough to win tickets to the game after winning an exclusive competition.
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|SH - take a look at the "Heavy Weather Sailing" thread under "Seamanship". Lot's of good talk about these techniques.
|About "heaving-to" in general. I have read and heard that this maneuver is deployed in steep seas for "safety." Is this true? Wouldn't it invite a knockdown? Does it work under a reefed mainsail and small jib? There is so much to learn... I realize this thread is about MOB in regard to fast upwind sailing, and that the maneuver would allow a drift back toward the MOB in this scenario, but in a steep sea situation, I can see myself suddenly in a beam sea, pitching and rolling to port if carrying too much canvas. Thoughts?
|To me the quickstop or heave-to sounds a lot more effective than the figure-8 or the triangle.
|St Anna
I think you may be missing my point, but thats OK, I respect your experiences and posts.
I dont think I would like to be in cold water for too long.
Oma: we were required to demonstrate this technique, which was called the triangle technique, singlehanded to pass CYA Basic. This was in 2007. The process was, after shouting man overboard (mostly so the MOB knows that you noticed) and tossing the life ring,
1. count off 20 boat lengths on a beam reach
2. tack and bear away to a broad reach and count 15 boat lengths
3. come up and approach MOB
4. luff and retrieve MOB
After a bit of practice at getting the counting right, it was surprisingly effective... in 15 knots of wind on a partly cloudy day with 1-2 foot seas
St. Anna: don't have to. I've been overboard... on freediving trips. Every few minutes the skipper would have to motor upwind to our float.
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Originally Posted by AdamLein View Post
I think boats have more windage than poor suckers in the water.
Also what Oma just said.
I have a dedicated sling with dbl blocks which clips onto the end of the boom. That way, the vic can be hauled onboard whilst trying to minimise being clobbered by the boat. Soft sling, under armpits and bitter end into a winch.
Theory will only get you as far as knowing what you should do. We all know that a real situation is never like it is in the books. A list of steps printed and laminated (like I have for emergency stuff) may help if it is you that is over the side, floating face down....
Anyway, lets hope it is never needed for real.
Originally Posted by smackdaddy View Post
So then - with the quickstop/heave-to technique, you should be upwind of the COB - right? With him/her essentially on your quarter?
More recently, the concept of stopping ASAP and then going back only a short distance has been accepted as the preferred method.
But you're still downwind of the MOB when you turn.
Under sail I would go to weather of the MOB then heave the boat to and drift back onto him/her. If motoring, I would probably just chuck the Lifesling in the drink and drive the prescribed circle to "gather" the MOB on the line.
I also have a drop-down ladder on the transom that gives one a false sense of security because when you're in the anchorage it's easy to get up the ladder. With the boat heaving amongst 10' waves it's really hard especiallly for older folks and kids.
Originally Posted by Omatako View Post
Sorry, how do you figure that? If your boat has rounded up anyway, that's a great time to douse sails and get back to th MOB. If your boat rounds up and that threatens to bring your rig down then you're WAAAAY over-canvassed.
There used to be (and God forbid, maybe still is)an international practise of sailing off on a reach and counting the seconds while the boat is being prepared to turn around and then when everyone is nice and comfy, sailing back to the MOB, hoping to hell that your reciprocal course is accurate and that you don't have to put in a tack and then miraculously you'll find the MOB where you thought he'd be.
If that is the process that is being used on a boat then the helmsman/skipper needs to include the description in his safety briefing. I for one will get off the boat right there.
I often disagreed with Giulietta but on this he's bang-on. I fully endorse the process of rounding my boat up if there is a person in the water. I go directly head to wind, drop the main, furl the headsail, start the engine and get back to the MOB ASAP.
If the helmsman thinks there is a risk of running over the MOB to a point where he's going to put him amongst propeller blades then MOB practise should begin with driving lessons, not sail management.
"If your boat rounds up and that threatens to bring your rig down then you're WAAAAY over-canvassed."
Could be, but on larger race boats, this is pretty common, particularly with runner dependent rigs, but then again, folks driving and racing these aren't beginners.
IMHO, the most important factor in getting someone back on the boat is just getting them out of the water. There are any number of situationally appropriate ways to get back to the MOB, but it's damn hard to get someone back on deck. Personally, I'm a huge fan of lifelines around the cockpit that can come down with the flip of pelican hooks and a quickly deployable ladder. The same thing that make life lines so helpful keeping us on the boat do the same to keep us off. Most of the open class racing boats have very strict rules regarding functional MOB equipment that MUST be demonstrated before being allowed to race. There are a number of very effective and simple ideas that these guys and gals have come up with that are worth a very close look.
Thanks for setting me straight though.. on a round up MOB, you're absolutely right. You've already got the quick stop done, so why not pick up the crew while you're at it, eh?
So then - with the quickstop/heave-to technique, you should be upwind of the COB - right? With him/her essentially on your quarter?
This makes the most sense in terms of throwing lines/lifeslings, etc. as you are much more likely to get it to them instead of having it blown back at you.
But then, as said above, you've got to be very careful not to run over the poor bastard as you drift down on him. I assume this is what the quarter-to position is about. Is this right?
Originally Posted by St Anna View Post
The theory has to let the yacht be to weather of the victim. owever,if the poor sucker is to weather of you, he should drift onto you
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