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Three months after Nick Brant became head of IT at Brisbane-based Virgin Blue, he faced one of the biggest IT challenges of his career. Ansett Airlines crash-landed with the loss of 16,000 jobs almost taking owner Air New Zealand with it. Brant had to ensure his department could help Virgin Blue step up to take Ansetts place in the newly competitive Australian domestic market.
While other staff had to deal with filling vacant landing slots, and recruiting and chartering new planes, Brant had to upscale his IT systems to help Virgin Blue operational for just a year at that time deal with an anticipated surge in business, a surge that would drive the airline to capture 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market.
We were frantic trying to get the scalability of our systems. There are different touch-points in any systems but we got through them as a priority, he says.
The Ansett collapse meant additional servers, Web servers, communications links and so on had to be fitted within a matter of weeks. All this activity was not matched with extra IT staff immediately, either. They arrived later.
It was really busy for a while. Some of us had long days of over 12 hours, says Brant.
Expansion challenges
Now, the 41-year-old faces the challenge of another expansion, the launch of a sister company, Pacific Blue, which is basing itself in Christchurch, New Zealand. This will create 200 jobs initially, with staff operating daily flights to and from Brisbane, starting on 1 February 2004.
This expansion comes amid talk of Australia-Pacific Island services for Virgin Blue, plus announced intentions for domestic services within New Zealand and more Trans-Tasman services.
When Brant joined Virgin Blue in June 2001, it employed just 880 people, including 12 in his IT department. Now, the three-year-old company is a big bird, employing 2,800, with 40 in IT, increasing to 50 next month when Brants department moves to larger premises.
We are doing more things. We are pushing more helpdesk and support. As the company gets bigger, there are more IT systems to look after. We have stayed light in terms of staff because of the physical conditions. But now we are getting an extra floor at our headquarters so we can employ more IT and other staff, he says.
Coping with growth is Brants biggest challenge. His team is endlessly installing new equipment and new systems, while upgrading others.
Pride of the fleet The launch of the new airline, Pacific Blue, will further expand his responsibilities and expand Virgin Blues fleet of planes as Pacific Blue takes delivery of Boeing 737-800s fresh from Seattle, each equipped with 180 economy-class seats.
Pacific Blue parent Virgin Blue prides itself on a young fleet, with newness also extending to the IT department, although Brant says he cannot give a figure on his IT spend, or whether it is above or below airline averages.
As a relatively new company, Virgin Blue has much new stuff. Most servers and PCs are less than two years old. Virgin Blue has some 900 PCs overall and more than 100 servers. The airline is a Dell shop with Intel-based Dell PCs. Some Linux-based servers are used but, again, it is mostly Dell boxes and Sun Solaris servers.
The software is an office-standard Windows environment, although some PCs, say at check-in or departure, do not have full Windows, says Brant.
We try to keep standards as much as possible to make support easier. It has been a good relationship. They havent let us down, he says.
Pacific Blue already has headquarters in New Zealand, sited at Aviation House, near Christchurch Airport, which is part of an airport-built complex known as Airport City.
We have people coming over from Australia (to Christchurch) to work with local companies. People will come as required. We have a full-time person in Christchurch helping to set everything up. But if we need communications guys, or server guys, we can fly them over. I cant say how many as the focus is to get the airport ready, says Brant.
Cost control
Typical of a budget airline, costs are being contained by keeping as much of the operations in the Brisbane head office as possible. Brant will also run the IT department from Brisbane initially, though he looks forward to paying the odd visit to Christchurch.
Theres a lot of communications equipment going into the head office at Christchurch. We have provided infrastructure for all 200 staff, some servers and communications gear, switches and routers, PCs and peripherals for normal check-in, he says.
Much has been learned from existing Australian operations, so the Kiwi start-up will effectively be a clone of what worked across the Tasman. It will be a bare minimum set up at first. After that, we will keep adding, as long as we get the functionality. We also dont need to set up much infrastructure in Christchurch because we can use thin clients and access functionality from head office, says Brant.
Standard communications have been installed already, with redundancy to avoid any single points of failure. And if this strategy makes Christchurch seem more like a branch than a head office, you are half right. Brant says Christchurch will have both branch and head office features. IT policy will be set from Brisbane, there will be some local infrastructure, but how much will depend on what makes logical sense.
We have not confirmed whether we will employ IT people in Christchurch, says Brant. We may outsource, or fly people over as required. But we will have some on the ground.
As a budget airline, bookings will mainly be through the Internet, with travel agencies also able to make online bookings for customers. Both Virgin Blue and Pacific Blue have their own Web sites (www.virginblue.com.au and www.flypacificblue.com), which fully integrate with each other, allowing you to buy each airlines flights on the same Web site. Both are hosted in Brisbane.
However, there are no IT or other connections whatsoever with Virgin Atlantic or the European shuttle service Virgin Express. They are wholly separate companies, with no flight or other links to their Australian cousins, barring the Virgin brand and Richard Branson ownership connection.
Ticketless tickets Virgin Blue has used Internet booking since day one, as it is cheaper than traditional systems, reducing staff and ticketing costs. Instead, wherever a customer buys their tickets, the ticketless system will involve a printed itinerary with a reservation number and a need for passengers to carry a passport with them for identification purposes.
Brant says this system also integrates with the core reservations system Open Skies, also used by other budget airlines like Air New Zealand subsidiary Freedom Air.
It allows access through the Internet and other systems and keeps a customers data in one place, so when the customer arrives at the airport, the check-in staff handles exactly the same data as input when the flights were booked.
Open Skies forms one of three main, airline-specific IT systems used by the airlines. Flight planning, crew scheduling and rostering run on a system called Sabre, while Trax software handles airline maintenance.
Issues facing Brant include regulatory compliance, an area of failure that seriously disrupted Ansett in its final year. He must ensure Virgin Blue has financial records going back years. Crew hours worked and maintenance hours worked must also be stored, which means ensuring everything is backed up every day.
Aside from these daily chores, Brant also demands innovation. This includes new PDF-style itineraries, introduced in July 2003, also used by Freedom Air, which allow people to change their bookings online. Virgin Blue has also just finished its proof of concept for sending itineraries by SMS text, though Brant wont say when the service will be launched.
As you would expect from any company carrying the Virgin brand, Brant says his department works closely with Virgins marketing and commercial department.
We use technology to make it happen, to make it easier to book and sell online. We set up the infrastructure and we work on tight timeframes. But our number one focus is safety, he says.


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This quality standard covers the care and support of people with dementia. It applies to all social care settings and services working with and caring for people with dementia.
It should be read alongside the NICE dementia: support in health and social care quality standard (QS1) which covers care provided by health and social care staff in direct contact with people with dementia in hospital, community, home-based, group care, residential or specialist care settings.
This quality standard was previously called the quality standard for supporting people to live well with dementia.
NICE has produced a tailored resource for supporting people to live well with dementia.
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Fire agencies prepare for busy season, ask residents to do the same
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Dry weather and an ongoing drought in Southern California are putting fire departments all over Southern California on high alert for a dangerous and active fire season. "It's not a matter of if this is going to happen, it's a matter of when" said Rancho Cucamonga fire chief Mike Bell.
Chiefs from Riverside and San Bernardino counties came together to discuss plans on how to handle the impending season. "If we have fires, the potential for them to become large fires and have extreme fire behavior is very real this year," said Bell.
Some say the last fire season never ended. In fact, Cal Fire's staffed at a level usually reserved for June, at the peak of season. While they prepare, departments here in the Southland want people in the area to do the same by getting involved in the "Ready, Set, Go" campaign. It asks people to protect their homes by clearing out brush, removing flammable items and preparing for the worst. "Have all of our kits, your family possessions, the things you might call a go-bag, ready to grab," said Cal Fire Riverside county chief John Hawkins.
The campaign also asks people to create and practice an exit plan. Hawkins pointed to the evacuation of the town of Idyllwild during last year's Mountain fire as an example. "We told the people to go early, and they did and it was a very orderly evacuation," said Hawkins.
The message is also important for people in the Coachella Valley. Palm Springs fire chief John Allen wants desert residents to pay special attention to our sometimes dangerous conditions. "When it's 120, the humidity's down below 10 percent, and the wind's are blowing, we all have to be fire safe and conscious of what we do outside," said Allen.
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Tony Award-winning star of Hairspray, Marissa Jaret Winokur, will be one of the contestants this season on "Dancing with the Stars."� When news broke of her involvement, she couldn't wait to share that experience with BroadwayWorld.com and its readers.� Marissa will be checking in from now until she wins (YAY!) or is eliminated (BOO!) with exclusive photos and a glimpse into what's going on as she takes on the other celebrities in the ultimate "dance off!"
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The line-up of celebrities for Season 6 of "Dancing with the Stars" includes Tony Award-winner Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray) and Priscilla Presley.�The cast will also include former Olympic ice-skater Kristi Yamaguchi and Telenovela star Christian De La Fuente; plus actress Marlee Matlin and entertainer Penn Jillette; and radio jock Adam Carolla (dancing with Julianne Hough). Plus tennis champ Monica Seles, R&B singer Mario, actor Steve Guttenberg (3 Men and a Baby, Police Academy), Miami Dolphin Jason Taylor, actress Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie).Season 6 of "Dancing with the Stars" will premiere on ABC on Monday, March 17 in a special 2-hour episode.�For more information visit ABC.com
Marissa Jaret Winokur is best known for creating the role of "Tracy Turnblad" in the hit Broadway musical Hairspray, a performance for which she won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress. Winokur has since been seen in the Farrelly Brothers film Fever Pitch and the television series Stacked. She just finished filming the series lead in a new pilot called Fugly, for 20th Century Fox and CBS and is currently working as one of the leads in the Lifetime movie Betrayals.
Marissa Jaret Winokur: "I am very sad to see Penn�leave.
�I really liked him backstage�-�we really became friends!"
Marissa Jaret Winokur: "Okay sorry for the black and white, but the
camera was in the wrong setting. My nieces were so excited I meet
the Jonas brothers!��Tony was an amazing friend and shamelessly
asked if I could take a picture with them!!!"
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"I love her - such great energy backstage"
Marissa Jaret Winokur: "Cutting the tassles.
Wardrobe is the best! I love my drag!"
Marissa Jaret Winokur: "My dear friend Dana Perri.
She was in the amazing arial act with the sphere
and ribbons and purple costumes. She also
trained me for the 2 weeks before the show to help
build up my muscle and teaches at my favorite class -
Cardio Barre!
Marissa Jaret Winokur: "OK.�I thought my poor dad was gonna have
a heart attack��in the audience when I was in the final two!
No family at results shows ever again!
�I kept looking at him saying 'It's okay I love you.'
My mom was panicked, but looked cooler so I wasn't worried
about her. She did talk to all the press - she was very proud
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Considering the AG's prosecution of this guy, I'm reminded of the cartoon: "Your problem is obvious".
This is a discussion on Call the VA crisis line -- get tried for weapons charges that could carry 40 sentence within the Law Enforcement, Military & Homeland Security Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; More often than not I disagree with the Roanoke Times editorials. However sometimes they nail it. No justice in prosecution - Roanoke.com Editorial: No justice ...
More often than not I disagree with the Roanoke Times editorials. However sometimes they nail it.
No justice in prosecution - Roanoke.comEditorial: No justice in prosecution
Dismiss the case against a U.S. veteran who only threatened himself.
A case unfolding in federal court — one that never should have been brought to bear — threatens to rend the fragile safety net that was strung to save this nation's troubled veterans.
Sean Duvall could have been just another statistic, just one of the estimated 18 veterans dead each day by their own hand.
Instead, he did what the Department of Veteran Affairs suggests. He called the crisis line set up in 2007 to help suicidal veterans. He was desperate, depressed, homeless and wandering Blacksburg with a suicide note to his family and a home-made gun fashioned from a steel pipe and a shotgun shell.
He had hurt no one, nor did he intend harm to anyone but himself. By seeking help, Duvall unknowingly invited the full and awesome power of the U.S. attorney's office into his life. And now he is being prosecuted by the very government he once defended, the very government that said it would guide him through his troubles if only he'd call and ask for help.
Duvall's crime stems from having a crude weapon and for waiting, as instructed, on the edge of Virginia Tech's campus for help to arrive.
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I'm just one root in a grassroots organization. No one should assume that I speak for the VCDL.
I am neither an attorney-at-law nor I do play one on television or on the internet. No one should assumes my opinion is legal advice.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro
Considering the AG's prosecution of this guy, I'm reminded of the cartoon: "Your problem is obvious".
And some wonder why these troubled GIs don't trust the gov't to help them. Another Federal disgrace. Now all the slowly and laborously built programs to help these poor guys and gals are esentially back to ground zero.
Retired USAF E-8. Curmudgeon at large.
Lighten up and enjoy life because:
Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid... Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Very sad!The Government you once protected with your own life,will take yours for it's own pleasure.I train at least once a month on Fort McClellan base in Al.,a lot of the base has been returned to civilian authority,the rest is just setting there wasting away,there are literally hundreds of barracks that could be given to homeless-in need Vets,but that would'nt turn a profit for our money hungry politicians
Very sad. What would we do if all the soldiers just "striked" one day? Or never enlisted at all? We owe these men and women a debt we can never repay, but we sure as hell better start trying!!
Once again a dis-service to one who served. We can all help by supporting one of the many returning veteran programs, although in most cases they have to ask for help or at least accept the outstreched hand.
The problem is the GOV is like a malicious virus, it does what it is told from the oval office. Don't take this that I am anti, I just don't trust it.
Real good guys! Charge and lock up a Vet when he calls for help! I guess the government is too busy selling weapons to the Mexican drug lords!
I'm sure there's a little more to the story than this, but it does reek of being close to immoral.
I just spent 6 hours at Audie Murphy VA hospital thursday going thru my annual Spinal Cord clinic assessment.One part of the assessment was with a Psychiatrist asking if I had any depression and or suicidal thoughts,I not only said no,but I explained all the friends and support systems that I have in my life.We ended the session with her getting a really good "Rice Pudding recipe" that I make,I was "ambushed"they sent in the dietician next.
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--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
We can only hope and pray that this Judge is a man of conscience and will dismiss this travesty.At a hearing Tuesday, his public defender, Randy Cargill, asked U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Wilson to dismiss the weapons charges that could carry 40years in prison. Wilson did not immediately rule, saying he would do so later in writing. We hope the delay is to allow him to frame a sharply worded rebuke for prosecuting a person seeking help with a mental ailment.
Cargill calls what the government is doing to Duvall dishonorable, wrong, unfair and shocking to the conscience.
Whoever made the decision to prosecute this man should be placed among the ranks of the unemployed...immediately!
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it".
Thomas Jefferson
Don"t let stupid be your skill set....
And Shepards we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee,
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, So that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command,
And we shall flow a river forth to Thee, And teeming with souls shall it ever be,
This is too bad. But an illegal weapon is an illegal weapon, no matter what his condition is. Would I be facing the same charges if I was in possession of this weapon and mentally unstable?
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Wow another great quilt, it is perfect also, I love the navy and green together. Great job.
I love both of your quilts....
That is soooooo cute! I love the colors and everything about it. Great job!
Your story harks back to the recent thread about how we feel about doing what someone wants us to do as opposed to doing what we want to do.... People should realize that you can tell a painter you'd like a picture of Yosemite Park, but you can't tell her how to paint it. The same is true with quilters who love making a quilt. If you are trying to do what someone has said they want it becomes a burden. What you do has a 99% chance of NOT being what they were thinking. Hope the NIL likes her quilt!
That is precious..........nice work, and wonderful use of color!
The quilt is gorgeous! I love the colors and the animal prints are wonderful, the cutest I have ever seen! What a terrific gift!
You sister and BIL will love it. It is so cute. The back is as precious as front.
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Seduced at Midnight
by Jacquie D' Alessandro
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A delicious Regency read!! Engaging characters and an entertaining plot line. Nice amount of steam to keep the story popping!
I love a lively historical with all the pomp and circumstance! Really enjoyable read!
A fun series.
As the cover implies...there are some really steamy scenes!
Jacquie D'Alessandro latest regency romance is "Seduced at Midnight". This is book three in her 'Mayhem in Mayfair' series about a group of spunky heroines who form a socially acceptable literary society yet read books that wouldn't be on any socially acceptable list in the ton! These feisty gals find their heroes in the course of the books. I've been a fan of D'Alessandro since I read "Red Roses Mean Love" in 1999. Her books are like a bag of popcorn, not too serious, lots of fun, and yet you don't feel heavy when you're done.
Lady Julianne is the daughter of socially-conscious parents. Her mother is cold and distant, and her father never passes up the opportunity to remind her of her worthlessness as a female, other than marrying well of course. Now it appears her minimal freedom is almost over as her father is 'interviewing' suitors to choose the best (read richest and highest ranking) match. Poor Julianne can only dream of adventure now, right? At least until a robber/murderer puts her in his sights and her father hires the totally unsuitable, yet man of Julianne's dreams, Gideon.
Gideon came from nothing, yet has become one of the best Bow Street Runners. His reputation is what gets him hired by Julianne's father to protect her. Too bad for Gideon since she's the only woman he's never been able to get out of his head. And the more time they spend together, the worse it is...because his attraction and appreciation for her keep growing. But he's a Mister, not a Lord, and that makes him totally inappropriate for Lady Julianne.
I enjoyed reading this book. I figured out fairly early who the 'bad guy' was, but that didn't bug me at all as I just concentrated on the growth of the relationship between Julianne and Gideon. And yes, the sequence of events that lead to their happy ending are pretty improbably, but once again...I was just having too much fun reading the rest of the story to worry about that. I don't let the occasional burned or unpopped piece of popcorn spoil my enjoyment of the rest of the bowl!
It took me a little while to get into this book. It's not that it was bad, per se, so much as none of the characters really grabbed me despite having had contact with them in the previous two books in this series. Once I got more into, I did enjoy it and the characters finally came to life. My biggest complaint about the book was the amount of set up versus payoff.Some of the resolutions were a little too pat for me, there was a lot of time setting up the obstacles Julianne and Gideon faced and then very little time showing how they got past them (and even then the resolution was a little too easy). In that way, the ending is a little too abrupt and somewhat unsatisifying.That said, the book did do a good job of getting me excited for Logan and Emily's story and I will be reading that as soon as it comes out.
This was an excellent follow up to Confessions at Midnight. Lady Julianne Bradley is a shy beauty that received no love from her parents. Gideon Mayne is the first man to see her as more than a pretty face. My only disappointment is that we did not get to see Julianne's parents reaction to her wedding. It would have been nice to see the happy couple get the last word.
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Crazy in Alabama concerns two concurrent stories, which take place in small town Alabama in the mid '60s. One centers on the inhumanity and injustice of segregation, while the other tells of a woman following her dream, even though it means killing her husband and deserting her children to do so. Sure, both stories reveal craziness in Alabama, but they pull focus from each other. It's difficult to be seriously caught up in the atrocity of segregation, when the "insane movie star" plot is so prominent. The stories come together through a lad called Peejoe, who acts as the narrator. When the story opens, Peejoe's Aunt Lucille unceremoniously deposits her seven children at her mother's house and drives off to California with the head of her husband in a Tupperware container on the backseat.
Why is Lucille crazy? A life of dangerous boredom has driven her to not only kill her husband, but also to decapitate him it's Helen Cixous's "castration and decapitation theory" run amok. But where feminist theorist Cixous argues than a man's power is threatened, he strikes out at something weaker than himself, often his wife, in Crazy in Alabama it's the wife who is so enraged by her lack of power that she strikes out literally decapitating her husband. In this sense, the film might be considered a feminist manifesto. But there's a flippancy here that is uncomfortable. Rather than giving voice to female resistance to oppression, or even female creativity, Lucille comes off as an angry lunatic, bound for Hollywood to seek fame and fortune in the movies.
Peejoe shakes his head in admiration at Aunt Lucille, as if her insanity is inspired. But it is the second story that more closely involves Peejoe; a story of a different kind of craziness, and one he's less impressed by. Call it apartheid, call it segregation, Peejoe calls it unfair. Whatever you call it, it becomes Peejoe's problem when a black youth named Taylor, tries to swim in the town pool, only to be killed by the local sheriff. The pool is full at the time, but Peejoe is the only witness willing to come forward. These two stories parallel each other at first, but gradually their lines converge. Lucille is caught and brought home to face justice. The Sheriff offers Peejoe a trade-off: leniency for Aunt Lucille if he will hold his peace about Taylor's death.
While the movie as a whole lacks dramatic thrust, I certainly enjoyed individual performances in Crazy in Alabama. Lucas Black plays Peejoe with an intensity only youth and innocence can muster. And the film really comes to life with the comic antics of Rod Steiger, who appears at the end of the film as the judge. However, by the time this yarn winds its way to court, most viewers will give up taking the movie seriously at all, and Steiger's idiosyncrasies are the final straw. He is captured in many ridiculous moods and poses, which throws credibility to the wind, but makes for much entertainment. And I did chuckle when Sheriff Doggett, played stoically by Meat Loaf, opens the freezer lid to discover the body of Lucille's husband. It was rather reminiscent of a scene in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, except Meat Loaf is on the other side of the ice.
Crazy in Alabama is not a great film. The issues at hand the oppression of women and African-Americans are momentous, yet the comic relief of Steiger as pompous white judge is the most memorable scene. As a serious film, Crazy in Alabama doesn't work. As comedy it has a long way to go, too. It lives somewhere in the never-never, in a category reserved for films where husbands direct and wives star, no matter what the cost.
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Camille Grammer, one of the original stars of the Bravo TV reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, will not be returning for the 3rd season of the show. A source close to Camille insists that she is leaving the show of her own volition because she no longer wants to expose her private life to the world. BUT, in comments made during an impromptu interview, Camille claims that she would love to come back for another season but she and Bravo couldn't come to a deal. HMMM. No matter the why, Camille and The Real Housewives are dunzo!
Camille Grammer has decided not to come back for a third season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, a source confirms to PEOPLE. "She's been in discussions and at the end decided she wasn't willing to expose her personal life anymore," says the source. "She's at peace with her decision … She's in a great place in her life right now," says the source. "She's grown a lot in this past year and she's made some wonderful friendships [on the show]. It has steered her life in a direction she never imagined. She's ready for new challenges."
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The blasts could not be the handiwork of Muslims as widely believed, he said, arguing that the community realised that a successful attack on BJP leader L K Advani could trigger a sympathy wave that would give the party full majority at the Centre. However, they should weed out the bad elements in the community, he said
Rajnikanth denied that he had come to the fore quickly enough when a single bomb blast occurred during the previous AIADMK regime but was keeping silent after the serial blasts now. He said Karunanidhi had given a fitting response to this allegation on his behalf, saying that he (Rajnikanth) had raised his voice after witnessing the growth of the bomb culture and the atrocities that occurred under Jayalalitha's rule.
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you could damage the ear by using a qtip. never insert anything into a dog's ear it is so much different then a human ear.
seek vet medical attention immediately for ear infections. an ear infection has severe pain on and inside the ear, red, and hot to the touch.
in the future use large cotton balls to clean off excess dirt.
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He doesn't want you to touch the ear because it hurts. A vet will tell you to flush the ear rather than using a q-tip. If this behavior has continued for more than a couple of days, you really need to see the vet.
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Try using a wash cloth on the tip of your finger and sticking it into his ear. Massage back and forth. It should pull up some of the liquid. If he also shakes his head it will also release some. If the inside of his ear is red and irritated he also has an infection going on which could be why he cries when you touch it. If that is the case I recommend using PETfection Ear Cleaner spray. It is 100% Organic and Non Toxic and is wonderful at clearing up ear infections. You can check it out at www.mypetfection.com. I highly recommend it and found it works much better than any cleaner the vet gave me. Hope this info helps, good luck!
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The Nick Adams Stories
Most writers about Hemingway conclude that The Nick Adams Stories, while fiction, are thinly disguised autobiography. We touched briefly on some of those stories in the previous paper, and now have the opportunity of forming further insights into Hemingway by virtue of these stories.
It seems that the book of this title was recently published posthumously – in 1999 – if I read the copyright page correctly, and it contains stories previously published in Hemingway's life, plus some stories and fragments, never published before at all. And for the first time, all of these tales are arranged in the order of Nick's chronological life (and hence of Hemingway's) as well.
If you are reading the book, the new material is set in oblique type, a kind of italics, to differentiate it from the previously published content. In chronological order the stories are as follow. Italics identifies the new material.
Three Shots
Indian Camp
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
Ten Indians
The Indians Moved Away
The Light of the World
The Battler
The Killers
The Last Good Country
Crossing the Mississippi
Night Before Landing
Nick Sat Against the Wall . . .
Now I Lay Me
A Way You'll Never Be
In Another Country
Big Two-Hearted River
The End of Something
The Three-Day Blow
Summer People
Wedding Day
On Writing
An Alpine Idyll
Cross-Country Snow
Fathers and Sons
"Three Shots" we commented on earlier, and rereading suggests one more thing, Hemingway's fascination with the wild. He doesn't start his childhood stories with Twain-like tales of school mates and pranks. Twain died in 1910, and so was alive when Hemingway was young. It is probable that Hemingway read Huckleberry Finn in school or from the Oak Park library.
It is interesting to note that Hemingway is never humorous; sometimes he's sarcastic, but never with the purpose of making the reader laugh – which is often the motivation of Twain. So we start Hem off with the frightened youth in the Michigan forest; the first in a lengthening string of threatening situations, culminating with the bullfight, or bullets and bombs in war.
There is one story about Nick as a wounded soldier in the Italian army called Now I Lay Me, that contains many youthful memories. Indeed, the title itself is the beginning of a child's nightly prayer that is likely one that Hemingway, as a youngster, recited. Also, the story might really belong with some other of the adolescent stuff – like The Last Good Country – and so I'd like to discuss it first.
Of course, Hemingway was wounded as an ambulance driver for the Italians in WWI, when he was a quite young adult, so one might expect the story to carry much truth. Strangely, the story is mostly about Nick's fear that his soul will leave his body if he goes to sleep in the dark. So, Nick goes to great lengths not to fall asleep in the dark. He has this fear because he felt as if this were happening to him when he was "blown-up" (and Hem was blown-up in his legs when he was wounded), but Nick struggled successfully to keep his soul in his body.
I have known men who quite seriously confided to me that "soul travel" has happened to them, sometimes called "out-of-body experience" or "astral planing." It hasn't happened to me, but then I don't think I have a soul like that. For a wounded soldier, such a sensation certainly might be frightening, because once the soul leaves the body, the body may be dead, if, of course, the soul can not return, as many who report the phenomenon say it can and does.
Nick is only afraid of this happening to him if he goes to sleep in the dark. If there is light, artificial or daylight, he feels he can prevent it, but not in the dark. One wonders if such thoughts bothered Hemingway. His whole lifework, one way or another, concerns fear – bravery and cowardice – and what to do about it. Hemingway was raised Christian – protestant, but Christian – which implies a belief in an afterlife.
Before he married his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, a Catholic, he converted to Catholicism. I don't know how he squared his divorce from Hadley with the Church, but maybe his conversion made his first marriage null and void. In spite of my eighteen years of Catholic education, I don't know just how that works, but I can imagine that Hemingway was not sincere about it anyway, and I've never read anything after that to lead me to think he was very committed to Catholic orthodoxy.
In fact, there is one place in Death in the Afternoon where he says that the belief that humans have "immortal souls" is why severely injured bull-fighters are not put out of their misery like bulls and horses are. Hemingway doesn't seem to share that belief. There may be other places in his fiction where this dilemma is considered, but I haven't encountered it yet.
We must remember that Hemingway killed himself, in 1961, with his mouth covering the barrels of a shotgun (I have heard), so there would be a clear outcome to his action and no possibility of earthly survival. He must have settled his mind about the matter of soul travel by then, and I suspect he didn't expect an afterlife. But many in our world do. Hemingway's father also committed suicide, as did his kid brother, Leicester, in 1982.
Most of Now I Lay Me deals with the ways in which Nick forces himself to stay awake in the dark. These ways are entertaining, but not profound. He fishes. In memory he recalls in detail all the trout streams he has ever fished, how many worms he had, and what other bait he used. He prays for every person he can remember, and in the remembrance relives his mother "cleaning the basement" and burning his father's collection of Indian artifacts – arrowheads and stone tools – and other "saved" objects his father tries to rescue by raking them out of the fire.
One wonders if this is a memory of Hemingway's or an invention. We know from biographies that Hemingway's relationship with his mother was strained in many ways, but especially by the way she treated his father – and tried to treat Ernest. He and his father were the only males in the family of five females until his brother Leicester was born, fifteen years later. That is really what the The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife is about, but more subtly.
In Now I Lay Me, Nick is a Lieutenant paired with "an orderly" assigned to him, who occupies the same room in an Italian home or hospital, and has trouble sleeping also, but not for the same reason. Nick does not reveal his fear to the orderly, and they converse in the night, careful not to awaken their Italian hosts.
The orderly thinks that Nick should marry a wealthy Italian girl, because their culture prepares them so well for wifedom. "A man ought to be married," the orderly says. "You'll never regret it. Every man ought to be married." Nick says he'll think about it, but demurs because he doesn't speak Italian that well. He tries to remember every girl he ever knew, and imagine what kind of wife they would be. Eventually, all the girls blurred together, so he returned to his trout-stream memories in order to keep his soul in his body.
We know Hemingway married four times, and was unfaithful to his wives when opportunity beckoned. He liked marriage as a convenience, but never allowed himself to be dominated by a woman, like his father was. In Death in the Afternoon, he reveals that he marries to keep himself out of the whorehouses, and to protect himself from disease. Syphilis and gonorrhea at the time were very widespread, and penicillin wasn't even discovered until 1928. But he did allow himself some leeway when it came to beautiful women who threw themselves at him; as did Marlene Dietrich.
Hemingway's four wives were Hadley Richardson (m. 1926-29, Paris), Pauline Pfeiffer (m. 1930-40, Key West), Martha Gellhorn (m. 1940-45, Europe), and Mary Welsh (m. 1946-61, Cuba and Idaho). [dates approximate, spelling correct]
Hem fathered three sons (no daughters), one by Hadley and two by Pfeiffer. Hadley's son John (called Jack, or Bumby) produced three daughters including Mariel, later appearing as a seductive teen-ager in Woody Allen's film Manhattan, and Margaux, who committed suicide almost twentyfive years to the day after Ernest did.
So, we would have to conclude that Hemingway was a ladies man, and a marrying one at that. He had many male friends, but there is no suggestion I know of that he was ever in doubt about his own heterosexuality. That is part of his charm, for women, at least. Add to that his stature, almost 6'1" and carrying for most of his life a weight above 200 lbs, he cut a very manly figure.
There is a passage in Death in the Afternoon where Hemingway discusses homosexuality among men. Seems he didn't think much of them. The terminology then was "queers" and "fairies," and Hem uses both. In Spanish it is "maricone," and he asks a female author, who is writing a book about El Greco, if she considered Greco a maricone.
"Why no," she replies, "should I?" Hemingway then compares El Greco to Goya and Velasquez, finding El Greco's paintings the most feminine of the three. Probably I would too. Hem instructs her to just look at El Greco's work. Perhaps convinced, nevertheless she says "The book is done."
Hemingway concludes this scene by writing, "Viva Goya. Viva el Rey de los Maricones." Long live Goya, the King of the Queers? Does that make sense? Goya, the most masculine of the three, is still considered by Hem to be a "fairy?" Maybe that is what he thought about all artists.
Let's jump now to a peculiar Nick Adams story, called A Way You Will Never Be. Well, what is this way you – the reader – will never be? Maybe "the way" would be called PTSD today, or post-traumatic stress disorder. When the story was written, that term did not exist yet, and maybe Hemingway didn't expect that it, or something like it, ever would.
Here, Nick is recovering from his wounds by visiting a battalion to which he was once attached. He is clearly bothered by his war experiences, in recurring dreams and in wakefulness. Nick, an American helping the Italians, now finds his sanity questioned by his previous brothers-in-arms, and though he feels sane, he realizes how tough it is to shake a "crazy" rep once it gets applied to you.
His "duty" as it were, is to demonstrate to Italian troops what an American uniform looks like. "Millions" of American troops are coming – by most accounts – but haven't arrived yet. This is what they will look like. His uniform has been manufactured by an Italian tailor, and isn't quite correct; and Nick is supposed to have cigarettes and chocolate to give away, but those goods are presently not available at the front.
He attracts a crowd of curious soldiers, but instead of instructing them about the uniform, he regales them with stories of catching grasshoppers to use for fishing bait, and informs them that American grasshoppers are called locusts in Europe. Nick thinks this is okay, that he is not "crazy," as some say, but it would be harder to find a crazier statement than this one, under the circumstances.
Now I have been crazy, and can attest that while crazy, one has certain defects of thought – appropriateness, logic, interpretation – that I could see after the fact as crazy, but I needed some time to come out from under. Maybe this is what Hemingway means by "a way you will never be," that is, shell shocked by the craziness of war.
As the story opens, and elsewhere in his writing, he describes the dead men he sees on the battlefield, almost bursting with gas, covered with flies, and with their pockets all turned out by the victors, or by thieving civilians, looking for money. The other papers – letters, photographs, notes – are scattered all around the bodies, of no interest now that their principal is dead. Morte, in French, tote, in German. Nonexistent, in English. Or at least nonexistent unless you believe – as Hemingway may have, at that time – in a spiritual life after death. My father had that, my mother too. I don't. What more can I say?
Is that what A Way You'll Never Be means? Crazy, shell-shocked, PTSD? The answer must be in the story. Read it for yourself.
In The Light of the World, we seem to look in on two early experiences of Nick and his friend Tom, when they were seventeen and nineteen, according to Nick. Probably Nick is the younger. They enter a bar and order beer, for a nickel a glass.
The bar offers free pig's feet to customers, but not for a nickel beer. Nick puts a half dollar out, and Tom takes some pig's feet, but immediately spits it out. "Your goddam pig's feet stink." He gripes. "You punks stink yourself," says the bartender.
I remember pig's feet from my uncle's bar, in Dayton Ohio in the late '30s. Disgusting items floating in brine. Maybe now I'd be willing to try some, but as a child – no.
To avoid a fight, Nick hauls Tom out of the bar and they walk in the cold to the train station, where there are a few people, including three whores, huge women in shimmering dresses, the largest a 350 pounder named Alice. "Must be like getting on top of a hay mow," a bystander says. Funny line, but somehow not laughable in context.
The whores begin arguing about a man (not present) named Steve Ketchel, that both claim to have been loved by. One whore attests: "I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God, and his own father shot him down like a dog."
Alice contradicts her, "No. I knew him before that. He was the only man I ever loved. He said, 'You're a lovely piece, Alice,' that's exactly what he said."
"It's a lie," the other whore said. Alice and she wrangle about the "truth" of their memories until Nick and Tom decide to move on, but Nick reflects that Alice had "about the prettiest face I ever saw . . . but, my God, she was big." Alice said "Good-by," and Nick thinks, "she certainly has a nice voice," before Tom pulls him away and they depart – end of story.
What in the hell is "the light of the world"? Is it the experience of these two encounters illuminating the mind of young Nick about some of the persons and situations he will face in the world? More than likely. We have a venal, self interested, bar-keeper leery of two youngsters (punks, in his language), plus a trio of derailed women reminiscing about life, love, truth and loss. Pretty good addition to the education of Nick Adams, if you ask me.
Well, here we are at the end of seven pages, and still have at least a half a book to go. Think I will end it here, and get it posted for you blog followers, at up2pee.com and copied for those of you without computers. Caio


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Does it expire after a certain time ?
Does it become null and void if accept further rent payments - As I understand it, the possession order has nulified the tenancy so if I accept any further rent I will establish a new tenancy to which the original N26 will not apply ???
Would I be better off accepting monthly payments as repayment of debt and not accept rent until arrears have been paid ?
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Who doesn't enjoy a boat ride on Toronto Harbour a glorious sunny day?
How About a Tour Boat on Toronto Harbour?
As I was exploring Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, I noticed tour boats docked at the pier. Sometimes, boat tours and even those hop-on hop-off bus tours can be the right thing to do. I just don't like to wait in line or spend a lot of time on them. When I learned that the Harbour Star was just about to leave for a 45-minute tour through some of the lagoons and canals of the 14 Toronto Islands, I bought a ticket and climbed aboard.
Along the Way
Location, location, location! There isn't a shortage of condominium developments in Toronto and these along the waterfront seem to have met that classic real estate requirement of having a great location. King's Landing is the building with the staggered level pyramid shape on Queens Quay.
This might look a little scary, but it's just a plane coming in for a landing over Hanlan's Point to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
Toronto has an island airport that has flights to over 15 cities in Canada and the United States. It's named after Billy Bishop, a Canadian fighter pilot hero of World War One. To get to the airport from the mainland, you take a 90-second ferry ride. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, that is the shortest scheduled ferry ride in the world. There are now plans to build a tunnel to the airport as well.
Hanlan's Point is named for the the Hanlan family that settled on the Toronto Islands in 1862. Our tour guide told us a couple of interesting things about the area as we passed Hanlan's Point Ferry Dock. There are plaques at the dock to commemorate Babe Ruth's first home run as a professional player. It happened nearby at what was Hanlan's Point Stadium on September 5, 1914. She also noted that there is a popular clothing optional beach located on the point. However, willow trees blocked that view as we sailed along.
Heading Back
This tour gives just a glimpse of the islands as seen from the Harbour Star and was just right for me that day. There are other boat tour options and ferries from the mainland docks to Centre Island. There you can disembark to enjoy an amusement park, concession stands, and all kinds of recreational activities, like biking and boat rentals. Sounds like a good way to spend a summer day!
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Toronto has such a different feel to it when seen from the water – especially on a sunny, summer day. What a fantastic selection of shots Cathy.That's quite a mess of condos! I hadn't appreciated how filled in it actually is.
It's been a number of years since I've been to Toronto. Very beautiful city. Completely different perspective from the water. Reminds me a little of the Seattle skyline.
I always enjoyed Toronto when I went there for business, but never wanted to live there. Your shots are great, and the city does look fantastic from the water. (BTW…I was able to get you added to Mr. Linky after a bit of tinkering!)
Beautiful shots, Cathy. I love that skyline picture. I've always loved boat tours since it gives one such a different perspective of a city. This looks like a wonderful tour I'd gladly do if I visit Toronto. I didn't know too much about the city but it I'm adding it to my Canada places to go.
The boat looked a bit crowded but, you got some cool photos !
Looks like fun, seeing Toronto from a totally different angle. And I love boat rides.
If I had a chance to go there, I would certainly go on a boat tour too. Everything looks so different when you're on the water. Look at those ducks!
Great photos of the skyline! I have been enjoying your Toronto posts – it's interesting to see one's city from the perspective of a visitor!
Gorgeous photos – it looks so sunny & summery there! The skyline is beautiful too.
Thanks for posting & linking up with us this week!
"Red" looks like a cool boat! Nothing beats getting out on the water. What a wonderful day!
I also love boat tours! Especially when I get out in the water and look back at the city, the view of the buildings together is amazing =)
Toronto is a place I've heard so many great things about, but haven't seen for myself yet. Thanks for the photos and inspiration!
I loved this, and am sorry we didn't take to the water when we were in Toronto. Your pictures make me feel cooler on this hot Arizona day.
I was just looking at booking a trip to Toronto and the surrounded areas this morning, so this post is perfect timing! On another note, did you meet up with Ayngelina while you were there?
We've been in Toronto last year. Its only 4-5 hours by car from Michigan we're we stayed at. I agree with you location is always important. Toronto is expensive place to stay but your photos are inviting to visit the place. I never been in this place wish to visit and explore Toronto in our next adventure.
Great photos, Cathy! A boat tour is the perfect way to see Toronto.
It turned downright chilly since I arrived, no boat rides for me!
I am with you on the boat tours and the hop on, hop off. Sometimes they are the best way to save precious travel hours, pick out what you want to see and then head off on your own. These photos are great; I love the blue sky. . .we haven't seen a lot of that in the Seattle area lately.
If only I wasn't so seasick…
I've been thinking of visiting Toronto. You pictures certainly make it look like its worth a visit.
What a great way to explore the city! Looks like it was the perfect day too.
You know I have never done this, and didn`t even know it existed in the city. I may have to try it this summer.
Great set of pictures! Reminded me instantly of my friend's series that he did on the Toronto Dragon Boat Race over there some time ago and it's been published! You should consider offering those pics to some Toronto tourist office because it sure did make me wanna go there soon after seeing them!
Oh lucky you that you just happened to be passing as the boat was ready to leave. I'm with you, I don't like queueing for things like this but if the opportunity arises… 🙂 Look like it was worth it, too. Great photos.
You know, I think Toronto is going to have to happen for me soon! It's not too far from New York, and I have read so many posts lately about how interesting a city it is!


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Bill Richard lost his son, 8, in the Boston Marathon explosion and his wife and daughter endured numerous injuries. For the first time, the grieving father is speaking out. Keep reading for his emotional statement.
Martin Richard was killed in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15. Martin's father, Bill Richard, was allegedly running in the marathon when his son was killed, his wife's brain was injured and his daughter lost her leg in the explosion. Courageously, Bill has released a statement, regarding the loss his family has endured. It's incredibly sad to read.
Martin Richard's Dad Speaks About Son's Death
Martin's father, Bill Richard, said in a statement:
"My dear son Martin has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Boston. My wife and daughter are both recovering from serious injuries. We thank our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers. I ask that you continue to pray for my family as we remember Martin. We also ask for your patience and for privacy as we work to simultaneously grieve and recover. Thank you."
Martin Richard: Boston Marathon Bombing Victim
Martin was reportedly standing with his mother Denise Richard and sister Jane Richard, 6, when two bombs exploded within 12 second of each other, according to The Boston Globe.
Before the explosions, Martin gave his dad Bill Richard a hug at the finish line. Sadly, when Martin ran back to his mother, the first bomb exploded and killed him. Reports claims that his Martin's mother was seriously injured — she underwent surgery for an injury on her brain on April 15, and Jane lost her leg.
This story is incredibly sad. What do YOU think, HollyMoms?
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Crawford was signed to Del-Fi Records in 1961 -- as was the custom in those days, the stars of successful series were often given at least one shot at a recording career. His first record, "Daydreams," reached number 70, but his second release, "Your Love Is Growing Cold," failed to chart at all, while his third single, "Patti Ann," got to number 43. These records were fairly conventional teen pop, well-produced but otherwise unexceptional. And then, for his fourth single, Crawford recorded "Cindy's Birthday," which cracked the Top 20 in 1962, as did its follow-up, "Your Nose Is Gonna Grow." His recording career peaked later that year with a pair of Nashville-cut gems, "Rumours" (backed by "Nobody Loves a Clown," an early song by future Bread founder David Gates) and "Proud," which reached number 12 and number 28, respectively. By 1963, Crawford's series was off the air, and the fashion for teen singing idols was beginning to fade; still, Crawford managed one more chart placement with "Cindy's Gonna Cry." He cut a few more records, but following his graduation from high school in 1964, Crawford gave up his recording career, preferring to pursue his real first love, bronco riding, joining a rodeo later that year. His subsequent acting appearances were rare, although he did return to work during the mid-';60s with Chuck Connors in a superb episode of Connors' next series, Branded. ~ Bruce Eder
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I often write poetry to warm up my writing muscles. Poetry helps me practice the elements of rhythm, flow, metaphor, simile, imagery and symbolism. Although these poetic elements are not as concentrated in prose as they are in poetry, they still exist in prose and I think it is very important that writers understand how to use the core elements of poetry to improve the stories that we tell. I decided to feature works of poetry in my book recommendation series because I believe that works of great poetry are essential reading material for all writers.
Unfortunately, this is another area where I'm not an expert in. I haven't read as much poetry as I would like and that's why I'm excited to hear all of your picks so that I can add them to my reading list for the upcoming new year.
But before you go on recommendin', here is my list of The 3 Poems You MUST Read Before You Die:
Poet in New York by Federico Garcia Lorca
Lorca is my most favorite poet of all time. His poems have a passion and a lyrical quality to them that is unmatched by anyone else I have ever read. His metaphors and similes practically bleed off of the page. I don't know how he does it, but it's astonishing. I think Americans will find his collection of poems, "Poet in New York", more accessible than his other works, just because these poems were inspired by the Spaniard's stay in the United States. Nonetheless, in that one stay, Lorca manages to break down The United States to its very core. He strips the country of all of its fake clothes and renders it naked, stained, bloody, beautiful, and cruel. I didn't even mention that Lorca was also a religiously skeptical, openly gay man–and in 1920's and 30's Spain that was not an easy thing to do. He was even rumored to have had a fling with none other than Salvador Dalí. Lorca's impassioned life was a burst of fire that was extinguished too quickly. Good thing he left behind his amazing poetry before he was tragically murdered during the Spanish civil war.
If by Rudyard Kipling
There are few poems you can say that can be carried with you every day of your life, and can hold within them every lesson you would ever need to confront every challenge you could ever face. That's "If," by Rudyard Kipling, in a nutshell.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
This poem is probably an obvious pick. But I'm not sure if the reason I picked it is so obvious. It's important to note that Frost doesn't say flat-out that by taking "the road less traveled by" he succeeded. The poem is not about success, it's about willing to take a risk when others didn't dare. It's about carving out your own place in this world, regardless of those who tell you to follow the normal path. It's about taking the journey, taking the adventure over the expected, day-to-day alternative of bench-sitting and people watching. It doesn't matter where you end up, it's about taking that uncharted road and having fun on that path. Where "the road less traveled by" takes you is besides the point, it's the very fact that you took that unique journey, over the obvious one, that makes all of the difference.
What poems do you think everyone should read at least once before they die? You can recommend more than 3 if you like.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And – which is more – you'll be a Man my son!
-Rudyard Kipling"
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This was fun to get you didn't really know what was going to be in it until you got which is always fun. I liked it but my ring was a bit sideways but it still looked ok4


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Having some issues with a new setup. SBC, flat tops, 882 heads, ~9:1, 500 lift/300dur, lo-rise intake, Holley 650 carb. Plenty of fire, all MSD. Engine seams to be running rich , can't get that clean crisp strong idle. Sluggish from a start like its loading up and also at cruising speeds with throttle just cracked. Runs decent when I get on it. A little help please?!?!
This is just a guess, because I'm certainly no carb guru. The long duration of the cam is causing low manifold vacuum. The power valve is seeing the low vacuum and mis-interpreting it as the motor being under load, opening up the circuit and adding fuel. Maybe you could install the lowest calibration power valve (1" hg) and try it.
where are you mixture screws at, you may need to reduce the diameter of the IFR's
Assuming your timing is all where it should be, the next thing to do is put a vacuum gauge on it. Measure manifold vacuum off the carb or manifold. As mentioned already, make sure your powervalve isn't open at normal cruise or idle vacuum. Set your idle to maximum vacuum. That should be a starting point.
How do you know it's rich and not lean off a start?
Oh, thought of another early thing to check: make sure the float level isn't too high and dumping excess fuel into the venturis.
A 02 will make things a lot easier.
In you scenario the pv will be open at all times, but it will not feed fuel to the idle circuit.
If it's open at idle and feeding fuel into the motor, then the idle circuit has nothing to do with it. The motor will be rich regardless and you won't be able to get a clean idle. That was where I was coming from.
" i thought you were saying that an improper powervalve would give you an overly rich idle."
Yes it will, just won't be through the idle circuit.
Forget the idle circuit. That's not where the problem is the way I see it.
After your responces and reading some of the other threads I relly believe there is a Vacuum issue for starters.
I also believe that the "match" of the components is wrong.
82 350 4bolt .040 over w/ eagle crank and rods, hyp flat tops
882 heads 1.94/1.50 valves 160? cc runners 76cc chamber basicly stock
Crane 100112 cam 500 lift 302 adv dur
Wiend intake http://www.holley.com/8004.asp
Holley 650 DP vac advance
All parts are new or rebuilt
I am looking for a decent set of aluminum heads with ~64cc chambers and bigger runners and a more aggressive intake. Should bring it to life.
Thank you very much for all your help guys!!
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Have a set 461 castings, yes the old double humps...again! lol that I can pick up from an older gentleman that came out of a mid 60s 327 vette orig. Been sitting in his shed for 20 yrs. 100 bucks plus shipping yes 2.02s
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New set of Aluminim Small Block Chevy Pro Comp Motorsport Heads (2 heads)
Produce 500 HP Out Of Box With Advanced Port Design
Just do a nice bowl blend
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2.02 and 1.60 valve seat size
for 420 bucks bare
economy went to hell so $$$ is tight now, unless Im going to get 50+ more hp off the alum heads screw it I'll be a camel jockey. :spank: sorry if I offended anyone.
to the original poster. Your combo is fine it just needs some tuning to run properly. How much vacuum are you getting at idle? Where are your idle mixture screws set at? Did you set your transition slots in the carb properly?
One of the local shops recommended that I block off the power valve and increase the primary jet size by 2-3. Also, not running any vac lines off the carb at all. No PCV at all just vents, and the brakes and trans is off the intake with a T. Whats your take on this?
I agree, DO NOT block off your powervalve. In fact, don't go back to the shop that recommended this to you. Anybody who would recommend that for a street car has no business tuning carbs. It's not terribly difficult to do things the correct way. With a little knowledge and some trial and error you can tune the carb to work perfectly.
The only time to consider losing the powervalve would be for a race only engine that is only WOT or idle.
Oh, forgot to add. You need a pcv to have some negative pressure in the crankcase. This will help the rings stay seated which helps power and efficiency.
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An old fashioned flower basking in the noonday sun. What a nostalgia trip! My sister and I used to make hollyhock dolls with the flowers and seed pods.
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Mazu worship binds Taiwanese people
By Alan Fong, The China Post Thursday, April 15, 2010, 9:56 am TWN
As an island and an oceanic country, Taiwan has long loved and revered the sea. Since its earlier days as a fishing-based economy, the people in this nation have honored the Chinese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖), also spelled Matsu, as its patron deity. The Mazu religion serves as the glue the bind the people of various ethnicities in Taiwan and as the base of Taiwan's rich and evolving culture.
"Taiwan is one of the world's biggest centers of Mazu belief. Mazu worship has long been the religious belief generating the highest amount of energy in Taiwanese society, it presides over the biggest group of believers, the richest resources and largest number of temples," said Yen Ching-piao (顏清標), president of the Jenn Lann Temple (鎮瀾宮) also known as the Chen Nan Palace (鎮瀾宮), the heart of Mazu worship in Taiwan.
"The believers always commissioned the best craftsman to build temples in Mazu's honor, thereby erecting one quintessential Taiwanese architecture another another," he went on, "To the Taiwanese people, Mazu worship is not superstition but a deeply ingrained belief. Taiwanese people love Mazu regardless of their ethnicity and age. You can say that the development of Mazu culture is the miniature of Taiwan's history."
Built in 1770, Jenn Lann Temple is known as one of the most important centers of Mazu culture in Taiwan for its status as the organizer and starting point of the 330-kilometer Mazu procession in the third lunar month that attracts over a million pilgrims island-wide. The trademark event, which is believed to be as old as the temple itself, has long been one of the biggest events in the Taiwan calendar.
Thanks to the assistance of the government, the procession has gained international followings in recent years. The Discovery Channel ranked by the million-member strong match one of the three religious festivals in the world, Yen explained. The celebrations also help push Mazu culture beyond the confines of religion and establish it as the core of Taiwan's national psyche.
This year, Jenn Lann Temple will hold the procession from April 17 to April 25. The organizers have expanded the celebrations to a nine-day trip throughout southern Taiwan that will pass by over 80 temples in over 20 townships of the four sea-bordering counties of Taichung (臺中縣), Changhua (彰化縣), Yunlin (雲林縣) and Chiayi (嘉義縣). The trip typically begins at midnight. The pilgrimage reaches the Mazu Temple in Changhua City (彰化市) on the first night and then moves to Fuhsing Temple (福興宮) in Hsiluo (西螺), Yunlin, on the next day.
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ECHO LAKE, Mont. - An FWP Commission public hearing will discuss proposed boating rules for Echo Lake. That hearing is set for February 19 at 7:00 pm in the Kalispell Hampton Inn. That hotel is located at 1140 Highway 2 West.
The commission is proposing rule changes after the public submitted three petitions to change the boating rules on the lake. The proposed changes include classifying the Causeway Bay as a no-wake zone year round, and establishing the whole lake as a no wake zone during periods of high water, classified as 5 feet or less from a survey pin placed on the deck of the lake's Causeway Bridge.
NBC Montana has spoken with several Echo Lake residents who complain that wakes during high water have damaged and eroded their properties.


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