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A/N: I took the few traditions Josef mentions from the old traditions of the German holiday. I learned it only by reading the few pages I could find on the subject, so if anything is incorrect, I apologize. Also, I only used a few of the traditions, not everything that is done to celebrate the holiday. Please excuse any inaccuracies if anyone is more in the know on the matter than I am. But you're welcome to fill me in privately, because I am interested in how the German Chrismas is celebrated (all cultures, really) whether modern or not so modern.
A Distant Christmas
"Hey, Josef", Mick greeted his friend, then chuckled when Josef gave a startled jump and Mick's voice. It wasn't often that Mick could get the jump on the older vampire.
"Hey," Josef returned, but Mick halted on way to seat himself in his usual chair across from Josef's desk. Josef's business office was as luxurious as his home, and as comfortable.
There was a look on Josef's face, an evasive air with an almost sheepish undertone. It was far removed from Josef's usual composed expression. And of course, Mick had manage to startle him, which was previously unheard of. Josef was up to something that he didn't want Mick to know about. Of course, that meant Mick had to know.
"What's going on?" Mick asked, not quite achieving the casual non-nonchalance he was going for. Probably because he couldn't hide the suspicious smirk.
"Not much," Josef said, trying for casual, but Mick wasn't fooled.
Mick let his eyes wander and he didn't need his investigator's eye to see the small thins in Josef's office that made it different than usual. Josef tensed where he was standing but he said nothing as he observed Mick taking stock of the room.
Ah, there.....in the corner. A small tree, about three feet tall. It stood on a small stand in front of the plate glass window that overlooked the city. The tree was not adorned with the modern popular choices; there were no twinkling lights, no bright ornaments of thin glass, not lighted angel or star atop it. But there was no mistaking it was a Christmas tree. The limbs were laden with small fruits, small, lit candles placed strategically, even some small cookies and candies. It had quite an old fashioned air about it, far beyond his own time, but Mick rather liked the effect.
Scattered about the room were more flickering candles, bigger than those on the small tree, and Mick wondered how he'd missed them upon first entering. He blamed the crackling fireplace that Josef was still standing in front of; the smell of the burning wood and the crackling flames would have covered the scent of melting wax, the stark light and shadow would have detracted from the tinier ones around the room. That was as good an excuse as any.
The fire itself was telling; it was a new thing, so far as Mick knew. The fireplace had always been there, of course, but Mick had never known it to host an actual fire. And above it, on the mantel, was the strangest thing.
"Is that a boot?" Mick asked in bemusement.
"Yes," Josef said simply, resignedly. Mick waited for more but it seemed Josef was going to make Mick drag it out of him.
"Okaaaaay.......why is there a boot on your mantel?"
"Because, Mick, it holds more than a shoe."
Mick blinked, at a loss. Holds more of what? And what would one put into a boot besides a foot anyway?
"Josef.....what is all this? What's going on?"
"Absolutely nothing, Mick. Did you need something?"
"I was just gonna ask if you wanted to go do something," Mick answered, but he didn't give in to Josef's attempt to dismiss him. "Somethings going on. Josef, did you.....uh......decorate for Christmas?" Mick tried to keep his question neutral so as to not put his friend off, but he couldn't keep the incredulous humor from seeping through.
Josef finally gave in to the resignation that Mick would not be gotten rid of so easily. His face said it all as he waved a hand to Mick's usual seat. "Fine," he said.
Mick took his seat as Josef took his own behind his desk.
"Soooo.....you decorated?" Mick asked again, grinning hugely. Josef doing something so mundane, yet so touching, as decorating for Christmas was making it hard for Mick to maintain his composure. But it had it's prospects for future teasing.
Josef's eyes narrowed dangerously and glowed with their frost white as his fangs slipped down.
Mick winced at the obvious threat to teasing. He lost his smile- most of it- and gave a nod to his friend. Point taken. Josef would not appreciate Mick making light of this matter.
Back to himself, Josef leaned back in his chair. "I just started feeling nostalgic," Josef explained, almost defensively. "The building is having a Christmas party for the employees and their families tomorrow. That's all everyone's been talking about for a week. I just wanted to do my own thing. Is that okay?"
The last words were snapped sharply and Mick realized Josef was, indeed, quite defensive about the matter. He wondered if this was the first time since being a vampire that Josef had celebrated a holiday. Surely not.
"Of course it's okay, Josef," Mick soothed, but casually. Too mushy and that would put Josef off for sure. And anyway, Mick was genuinely curious about how Josef perceived the holiday. He'd seen almost four centuries, after all, and the holiday as Josef knew it would be of a different culture, as well. "I've never seen a tree decorated like that. It's really nice."
Josef peered at Mick across the desk, obviously searching for signs of insincerity. Seemingly satisfied, Josef relaxed into the chair and nodded his head. He reached down into a side drawer and pulled out a half full bottle. "Scotch?" he offered Mick. At Mick's nod Josef produced two shot glasses and filled both, sliding one to Mick.
"Much better ambiance than all those garish lights, blinking and twinkling," Josef finally said, his tone conveying his opinion of modern Christmas lights.
"I think so too," Mick agreed. "But aren't the candles dangerous?"
"It's happened," Josef admitted. But the trick is to keep the tree watered and the limbs moist. And back then, there were special ways to hold a candle on a tree. They don't sell the holders any more."
Mick nodded and swallowed down is drink, ending in an ungracious choke and a grimace. He'd never know Josef to keep anything but the most high quality.
"Yeah," Josef agreed as he drank his own shot down. "This stuff is crap. Don't even know how it got here. Keep forgetting to replace it." Josef stowed the bottle, two shots lighter, back into the drawer and the two glasses followed.
"I get the candles and the tree, Josef, but why the boot?" Mick resumed the topic.
Mick was surprised at Josef's wide grin. "I loved the boot when I was a kid. We all did. Usually the kids used shoes, but if we could get away with it we used a boot because it holds more. Our Christmas started on the sixth. Well the night before, really......that was when we put our shoes out."
"Yeah.....we used to leave cookies and milk for Santa," Mick remembered with a smile.
Josef cocked his head quizzically. "I never understood that part."
Mick just shrugged. He didn't know where the American tradition had come from either.
"Well, for us, the sixth is when St. Nicholas-"
"Santa Clause?"
Josef shrugged at the interruption, but went on "-when St. Nicholas hopped from house to house filling the shoes or boots. St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children and he carries a book of all the children's sins-"
"The list of naughty or nice," Mick pointed out the similarity.
"- and if the children were good we got lots of goodies in the shoe. Candies and cookies and cakes. But if we weren't good we got a shoe full of twigs."
"It's like our stocking that we hang. If the kids are good, we get goodies, but if kids are naughty, we get coal. Josef....did you ever get twigs?" Mick asked mischievously.
"Did you ever get coal?" Josef asked pointedly.
"Uh.....you said the shoe gets put out on the sixth?" Mick asked hastily to divert the subject and Josef smirked triumphantly. "But it's way past. It's Christmas Eve, Josef."
"Yeah, I know, but.....we celebrated the holiday throughout the month, doing different things on different days, and Christmas Eve was when Mother decorated the tree then revealed it to us right before the evening meal. It was very festive and warm." Josef's voice took on a tone of fond remembrance. "Lots of fruits and goodies on a plate for each of us......we'd sing, open presents. Sparklers, even."
It all sounded wonderfully happy and cozy to Mick. He wanted to hear more, and not just because it all sounded so....nice, but also because Mick so rarely heard anything about Josef's past. But Josef shook himself from the distant memories and went on briskly.
"I just did a bit of an abbreviated version. I don't think St. Nicholas will mind. Besides-" and here Josef's tone softened into something unrecognizable but almost melancholy, "-I don't think St. Nicholas will think my boot warrants anything but twigs anymore. Not if I'm in his book of sins"
Soon after that the conversation turned to more mundane things and Mick took his leave, Josef declining a night out with his best friend. Josef stared into the fireplace for a very long time, reliving happy memories of his far off childhood.
He'd let himself be drawn in by the hustle and bustle of the modern holiday, all that talk and excited glee of the human employees and their anticipation of the family-oriented office party the next evening. Well, time to get back to reality. He was not a part of their world, nor did he want to be. His memories were just that, memories......and old and dusty ones, at that. Let the humans fool their children with Santa tales and superficial presents. Josef was beyond that, wanted no part, and he didn't even like kids, anyway. He would show his face for the thanks due to him for endorsing the lavish party, then he would enjoy some very old scotch in his office. Alone. Just the way he liked it. Josef stood from his chair and doused the fireplace. Then he made a systematic round of the room to blow out each candle one by one, ending with those on the small tree.
He locked his office behind him.
No one was present to see the creeping figure stealing into the dark office a few hours before dawn.
Josef detracted himself from the throng of overly gleeful adults and stick children and retreated, at long last, into his office. He shut the heavy door hard behind him, just grateful for the quiet and the peace. Whatever gave him the ridiculous idea to host a company party? Especially one that invited the employees' children. This has to be, by far, one of his worst ideas ever.
Josef left the lights dim and took his chair behind the desk. He swiveled, the back of the chair to the desk, to stare into his own reflection in the plate glass window. He could see a few of the city lights twinkling, but mostly the darkness reflected his empty office.
Just as Josef had decided to search for the last of his bottle of scotch that he kept in the bottom drawer, his eyes caught the reflection of something in the window. Spinning the chair quickly, Josef spun to face the fireplace.
It was still there. The boot. Only now it was filled.
Josef's mouth opened, his jaw dropping a bit in awe, and he stood slowly. Josef crossed to the mantel and stared at the boot. The dim lighting did not hinder his sharp nocturnal eyesight. Yep. The boot was filled. And not with twigs. The boot was filled with wrapped candies and cookies of all kinds.
"Unbelievable," Josef muttered.
He would never admit to a soul, living or undead, that he had been awed in that moment.
Josef reached for the boot and picked it up, heavy with it's loot of goodies. His fingers brush an object foreign to the boot leather, something cool and smooth, and Josef turned the boot to see that there was something tied to the boot with a ribbon, of all things. It was a bottle. A bottle of the finest quality scotch to be had, anywhere.
Josef did not think that St. Nicholas, patron saint of children, had left him a bottle of scotch.
Josef carried the boot to his desk and set it down on the polished wood, then reclaimed his seat behind the desk and booted up his computer.
A couple of official phone calls to security and Josef had what he wanted, and the video feed on his computer screen confirmed his suspicions. His benefactor, creeping through the hallway on silent feet, almost invisible in the darkness, then stopping before Josef's locked office door. Of course, a lock didn't stop him, just like security had never known he was there.
But the intruder knew he was be observed; before he disappeared into the dark doorway that was Josef's office- which had no cameras in it, of course- he looked up directly at the camera with a wide grin, and winked. He'd known Josef would see the footage.
Josef laughed aloud, unabashedly with no one to hear him.
St. Mick, patron saint of best friends.
Josef would enjoy that scotch, some of it with Mick. But that was for later. Right now, he had something else to do.
Josef cradled the boot in the crook of his arm and left his office. Entering the main room of the party, Josef strode to the middle of the room, ignoring the incredulous looks of the well dressed business associates.
Josef upended the boot, spilling it's sweet contents to the floor as everyone watched.
"Is there anyone here that likes candy?" he asked loudly to the room, with a smile none had ever seen on his face.
The gleeful screeches and cries resounded throughout the room and covered the music as children converged on Josef and his candy.
Josef knew his uncharacteristic and seemingly odd behavior would be the talk of the office for quite a while, but right now, he didn't care.


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|Property type
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|7 - 10 nights
Outstanding conversion of a traditional Andalucian Cortijo / Finca with fabulous views to Alora´s ancient Moorish castle. Close to local shops, bars & restaurants. Easy access to Alora train station with direct line to Malaga and onto the Costa Del Sol beaches & links north to Seville, Madrid and Barcelona. Stunningly converted to delight anyone choosing to holiday here. 5 bedrooms, one with luxury en suite facilities including a body turbo shower system. Very spacious living room, LCD TV, 2 receptions, massive dining hall, fully fitted kitchen, three bathrooms. The property has an abundance of charming traditional features, such as exposed brickwork, original exposed beam ceilings and rustic furniture. Outside there is an extremely spacious terrace, fabulous 9 x 5 swimming pool, covered pergola, sun lounger's, dining table and chairs and a very large fully enclosed garden area with its own lemon grove. The ideal self catering family summer holiday villa.
The villa is only a short distance by car or train from El Chorro where you can visit the world famous Camino Del Rey, Caminito Del Ray - The Kings Walk - a spectacular open walkway throught eh El Chorro Gorge. The train station is under 5 minutes from the villa.
Explore: Explore the stunning Andalucian countryside or visit some of the other nearby whitewashed villages and hill towns offering a wealth of excellent restaurants, bars and shops. Take a trip to the new Casabermeja Spa offering therapeutic treatments and spa facilities. Why not visit the nearby wolf park - it really is amazing !! The El Chorro Gorge and El Torcal National Park can be reached in 10-15mins by car. There is also the local train station offering a direct service to El Chorro or into Malaga. Take a trip to nearby Marbella and the world famous cosmopolitan capital of chic - Puerto Banus. There are numerous beaches in this area including a nudist beach at Cabopino...if you dare! You can also take part in various water sports such as waterskiing, paragliding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, deep sea fishing and speed boating. If this seems like too much hassle to you, then why not relax on the terrace or sip a cool refreshing drink by the pool and gaze over the Andalucian countryside.
Relax: Sip a drink whilst reclining on your sun lounger and looking out at the stunning Andalucian countryside. Not thirsty, then how about lying in the shade under the Moroccan style pergola. Feeling hot ? .. simply slip into the beautiful cool water of your luxury private pool and relax whilst looking upwards towards that perfectly clear blue sky. This is not a dream, its you, enjoying yourself at Cortijo El Puente. You can choose whatever you want to do, whether it's relaxing around the villa, sunbathing next to stunning pool area, wandering round your own lemon grove or venturing deep into the heart of the Andalucian countryside and maybe chatting to the locals. This traditional part of Spain is full of charm and you will be welcomed with a smile from the locals. It's your holiday...make the most of it. With a fanastic swimming pool, 5 bedrooms, great location in the Costa Del Sol, this is the ideal villa for that special family holiday or for a 'get away from it all' break.
Out and About : Within easy reach is Malaga with its newly opened Picasso exhibition as well as excellent shopping, tapas bars and restaurants. Granada is 90 mins away with its unique Alhambra, Rhonda (60 mins), Cordoba, famous for its Mosque and Seville with its stunning old town (2 hours) are all worth visiting along with El Torcal, prehistoric landscape Antequera (40 mins)
Local outdoor activities include hill walking, bird watching, mountain biking, quad biking, and horse riding. The villa is the perfect base for touring the very best of Andalucia and for visiting the many excellent restaurants in the surrounding area and the beautiful lakes of El Chorro are just a short drive away or 7 minutes by train. We are approximately 30 minutes from Malaga airport and the Costa del Sol beaches or the cosmopolitan city of Malaga.
We are also just 20 minutes from the famous beautiful natural park.
Took the opportunity to have a few days away pre xmas and new year and this was just the ticket. Quiet, relaxing area in a gorgeous villa and pool.
Spent days picking lemons off the lemon trees !! and watching TV. Occasionaly logged onto emails with the free WiFi. Everyone should do somehting like this once a year. It was bliss.
Booked this at the last minute for a surprise getaway with family and we could not have been more impressed.
The villa is just beautiful and has some lovely features inside it that we have never seen in any other holiday rental property that we have stayed in.
We could not believe the size of the villa and there is just loads and loads of room inside it.
Pool is gorgeous and completely private so no worries about anyone else sharing it !
Having just returned from our gorgeous holiday villa, its only right that we should let everyone know what a fantastic place it is. Sometimes pictures do not do villas justice and this is most certainly true of this villa. The decor really is great - we found it to be rustic but very tastefully done - with some lovely features and touches that made you go "Awww".
February weather was okay, but most definitely better than back in the UK so we cant really complain. The local village may not be to everyones taste as its more traditionally Spanish thatn a lot of the other tourist places on the coast, but if you want a bit of laid back traditional Spanish life, then this is the sort of place for you. One of the things we really liked is that there were lots of places to go and eat, all within a 5 to 10 minute walk. No high street chain stuff here, just good old tasty local food, whihc may not be to everyones taste, but then why come to a lovely village like this if all you want is fast food and traditional british grub.
Unfortunately the weather wasnt warm enough for us to enjoy the pool, but we more than made up for that by lying round it in the sun..
To sum it all up... gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous
Getting a break in January was a godsend and this was an ideal place to visit for a bit of peace and quiet.
The house was fabulous and very well fitted out. There was nothing more we could have wished for.....
If you ever visit here, you will be spoilt for choice with local restaurants and tapas bars. We had at least 8 places all within 5 minute walk and the prices were so good, we only ate in the vial once during our stay.
Hopefully we will be back again later in the year and have another great break.
Thanks to Ray and Terry for their attentive service and help during our stay. Nothing was too much bother and they definitely aided us during the holiday.
Weather was glorious for this time of year - which is always a plus - the villa was superb with everything we needed already there.... All we had to do was bring in more food and drink.
The kids splashed about in the pool whilst we lay in the sun, safe in the knowledge that we could see them and that it was a private pool inside a large fully fenced garden / finca. You probably couldn't imagine w better place to have a family holiday if you tried.
Looking forward to coming back again next year.......
Went for a getaway with friends and this is just what we needed. Chilled out, great weather, sunny skies and plenty of lazing around.
None of us wanted to drive , so we got the train from the airport then on to Alora. Really simple and easy to do. Walk to villa from station is 10 to 15 minutes depending on how quickly you go. Wouldnt receommend doing the walk in the middle of summer if you have large suitcases. Best to get a taxi. Its not far, but I think the heat would be too much personally in the height of summer.
We had plenty of places to go to during the saty and as the prices were very reasonable, we didnt eat i once. Howver the kitchen had lots of space and all the appliances you could need. All we used was the kettle, microwave and fridge / freezer.......
Comfortable villa with satellite tv and all UK channels plus wifi - great to keep in touch with the office if you want to ( we didnt !)
If you go, I'd recommend the wolf park and go to the cost one day to have look around before coming back to the peaceful village of Alora
Just a short note to say what a great time we had. Weather was fantastic for February and the house was just amazing. All of us thouroughly enjoyed ourselves and the house is much bigger than it appears in the advert, so we were all delighted. Only comment would be that one of the bedrooms is fine for 2 children under 14 or so, therefore making the maximum capacity 8 adults and 2 children. I think the owner says this anyway, but just incase anyone wants it for 10 adults, its probably not going to take that many.
We had fabulous local food at Manhattan and a grat breakfast cooked by Lynne at Harveys / Jacks Tavern. Everyone liked bar DKnas in Alora - superb tapas and atmosphere.
All in all a wonderful holiday in a fantastic house in a stunning location. What more can I say !!
Alora is a stunning white village around 25 min drive from Malaga airport in the Costa Del Sol. It is set near the El Chorro Gorge with its fantastic mountain range and only 10 mins drive from some of the best walking, climbing and outdoor activities that Andalucia has to offer.
The village itself has a quaint mixture of traditional Andalucian life plus some recently opened modern and cosmopolitan tapas and wine bars. There is a true laid back way of life in the town and you are always welcomed with a smile from the friendly locals. This piece of paradise is well served with low cost regular flights to Malaga Airport and from the villa you will be ideally placed to explore the true beauty of traditional Spain as well as mingle with other sun seekers on the coast if you wish to take a day out at the beach. Visit the true Spain and find Villages where time seems to have stood still. This is a great location for a family summer holiday with 5 bedrooms and a magnificent swimming pool.
Golf: Golf is available nearby at Alhaurin, which has 2 courses, or if you travel slightly further to the coast, there are many many more courses to choose from.
There are a number of Golf Clubs around the area. Listed below are only a few that are available.
Alhaurin Golf, Alhaurin El Grande - 20 minutes
Parador Malaga de Golf - 30 minutes
Both excellent quality, demanding golf courses.
In addition El Candado, Malaga -30 minutes
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|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
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5 May 2017 - 15 Jun 2017
10 night minimum stay
for 10 nights
26 Aug 2017 - 3 Sep 2017
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
My Standard Rate
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
|No additional mandatory fees
|Refundable Damage Deposit
Prices per week in UK pounds. Free welcome pack includes, wine, beer, washing liquid, dishwasher tabs, milk, bread, cheese, tea, coffee and sugar. We accept no liability for travel cancellations, delays, personal injury, theft, loss or conseqential loss of any kind including cancellations made by the owner. Payment by Credit Card / Paypal will incur a surcharge of 3.5%. All bookings subject to t&c's, available on request. E&OE. Prices are for a maximum of 8 people. For 10 people, add £100gbp.

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Fluothane (halothane, USP) is supplied as a liquid and is vaporized for use as an inhalation anesthetic. It is 2-bromo-2-chloro-1, 1, 1-trifluoro-ethane. C 2 HBrClF 3
The molecular weight is 197.38. The drug substance halothane molecule has an asymmetric carbon atom; the commercial product is a racemic mixture. Resolution of the mixture has not been reported.*
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Halothane is miscible with alcohol, chloroform, ether, and other fat solvents.
The specific gravity is 1.872-1.877 at 20°C, and the boiling point (range) is 49°C-51°C at 760 mm Hg. The vapor pressure is 243 mm Hg at 20°C. The blood/gas coefficient is 2.5 at 37°C, and the olive oil/water coefficient is 220 at 37°C. Vapor concentrations within anesthetic range are nonirritating and have a pleasant odor.
Fluothane (halothane) is nonflammable, and its vapors mixed with oxygen in proportions from 0.5 to 50% (v/v) are not explosive.
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Sorry, this is a bit lazy of me, but at the moment I can only confirm that this works on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. It might, however, work on other versions too, and maybe also with Debian of course.
If when you run an apt-get update you are being told something like this right at the end:
W: GPG error: http://196.x.y.z lucid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2940ABA983EF826A
… then install "add-apt-key" on the box, and run it, adding the missing key itself to the end of the command, as shown below.
root@xyz-box-bry-01:~# apt-get install add-apt-key Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: add-apt-key 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 5,314B of archives. After this operation, 81.9kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://196.x.y.z/ubuntu/ lucid/universe add-apt-key 1.0-0.5 [5,314B] Fetched 5,314B in 0s (270kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package add-apt-key. (Reading database ... 88896 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking add-apt-key (from .../add-apt-key_1.0-0.5_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up add-apt-key (1.0-0.5) ... root@xyz-box-bry-01:~# add-apt-key 2940ABA983EF826A gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg' created gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key 83EF826A from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 83EF826A: public key "Opscode Packages " imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 OK root@xyz-box-bry-01:~#
I've found that sometimes the key server doesn't have the key and so it's not imported, but re-running the command generally fixes that as the next key server chosen usually does end up having the key. Once you've successfully imported the key, run "apt-get update" again and your problem should no longer exist.
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what is the really the right kind of oil for diesel engines?
15 w 40?
20 w 50
plain SAE 50 or 40?
What prompts me to ask this is yesterday's oil change project on my universal 5416. I waited for a nice cool overcast day... no sooner got the project started.. the sun came out! temp shot up to a close 90, in the boat easily 110! ARRRG! But, I stuck with and got it done. The jug of rotella I've been saving for this event is/was 15W40. Everything seems OK, oil pressure, sound, etc. I've always thought 20 w 50 was a better choice.
Please let me know if I'm not ok. WAIT! don't answer that! :D err.. I mean the oil :rolleyes:
Hi there,
My perkins 4-236 owner manual asks for SAE 40 (Delo is one brand that I have heard is good to use). This seems to be a standard oil. Going to a standard automotive supply the 10-40w is way more common and won't wreck the motor immediately if that is all you can find.
Other engines have different requirements.
from your owners manual:
Use SAE 30 HD (CD) or 10W40 heavy duty diesel lubricating oil
Diesel motors require an oil that can withstand the soot and other particulates that end up in the motor oil. As far as whether to use multi-grade or a straight grade motor oil, I was of the opinion that straight weight motor oil was the best. I have since changed my opinion on that. Back in the 80's, I rebuilt motors in highway trucks. Cummins and Detroits were our bread and butter. Cummins was specific about using a multigrade oil in their motors. We had a customer come in after one of our rebuilds complaining about his oil consumption. He was using 30 wt oil instead of 10-40. We switched him over to the Cummins recommended 10-40 (or whatever it was) and the owners oil consumption went back down to normal. I was impressed. There is a difference and there is a reason why engine manufactures recommend certain oils.
Oh, and Delo-400 is one of the quality oils for diesel motors.
I've been using Delo 100 40W in our older Pathfinder. Our manual says to change the oil and filter every 100 engine ours, but on a sailboat that could take a long time in getting a 100 hours on an engine. Acids build up when oil sits in a diesel for to long (not good for the engine), so I change out the oil and filter every 3 months wheather I hit 100 hours or not.
As you may know, the numbers refer to viscosity, "thickness" of the fluid. Multi range oils have become the de facto standard. A 15-30 oil supposedly has the ability to hold its viscosity through a range of temperature.
If you use your boat summer only, as most of us do. And you live on the hot steamy side of the continent, an SAE 40 would not be a bad choice. Though if you encounter a 30-degree F. day in August, the viscosity of your engine oil will make it tougher for your starter motor to turn the engine over.
Once started, the higher viscosity oil carries off heat more efficiently than the thinner oil. Any of the weights you listed will work. You will find that oil is like anchors in so much as everyone has a (usually emotional) strong opinion, seldom backed by anything more than anecdote.
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Your engine manual should specify an oil type and weight, and the standards required of the oil. Diesels take a special HD formulation, the container should specify for diesel use. Heres what Westerbeke says:
"Use a well-known brand and try to use the same brand each time you change the oil. Avoid mixing brands of oil. Different manufacturers use different additives, and mixing brands may cause a problem if additives are not compatible. More important is to use the correct A.P.I. (American Petroleum Institute) and S.A.E. (Society of Automotive Engineers) ratings. For Westerbeke and Universal DIESEL models use A.P.I. code CF or CG-4, S.A.E. #30, 15W-40, 10W-30 or 5W-40."
Changing oil often is cheap insurance. According to the Chevron website, Delo-100 was formulated for 2 cycle diesels (Detroit Diesels)
My boat gets only Shell Rotella 15-40. That's what the PO used for 10-years and he was on the Shell team that developed Rotella...if he believes in it, I believe in it. I'd be a fool to change.
"'Hit don't make no diff'erns"
Those are the words of a diesel mechanic I work with. And when pressed, I have to admit, he made some sense.
Modern diesels run about 500,000 miles between rebuilds. That's about 10,000 hours.
So if you motor at 5 knots you'd have to drive your boat around the world twice in order to create enough wear to create a rebuild situation.
Just follow manufacturer recommendations and change about twice a year - even if you haven't used the engine. That's because oil is hygroscopic and absorbs water over time.
And be sure you are using an oil intended for diesels - it'll have a "C" designation (for compression ignition) instead of an "S" (For spark ignition) like gasoline engine oil.
thank the sea gods at least my diesel is ok... can't say dat bout me!
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Paradise is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County.
This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Paradise has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.[1]
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- Otto Strasser (1897–1974) — German Nazi Party dissident, resident during 1940s and 1950s.
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The three Theban plays by Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone - are one of the great landmarks of Western theatre. They tell the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, who was destined to suffer a terrible fate - to kill his father, marry his mother, and beget children of the incestuous union. He does this unknowingly but still has to suffer terrible consequences, which also tragically affect the next generation.
"So Well Done!"
When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
""Oh, Ford, Ford Ford, I Wish I Had My Soma!""
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring. It begins a magnificent tale of adventure that will plunge the members of the Fellowship of the Ring into a perilous quest and set the stage for the ultimate clash between the powers of good and evil.
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Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard's band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage wolves, and other dangers. Bilbo quickly tires of the quest for adventure and longs for the security of his familiar home. But before he can return to his life of comfort, he must face the greatest threat of all.
"Quite a journey"
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.
"Great Book, With an Amazing Narrator"
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
"I'm Burnin', I'm Burnin' for You"
Heidi is sent to live with her embittered grandfather high in the Swiss Alps. Heidi's innocent joy of life and genuine concern and love for all living things become the old man's salvation. From the goat - herder Peter and his family to the sickly girl Clara and her desperate father, Heidi's special charm enriches everyone she meets. Unselfish to the core, Heidi's goodness overcomes all obstacles - even those seemingly insurmountable.
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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d'If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.
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The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship has been forced to split up. Frodo and Sam must continue alone towards Mount Doom, where the One Ring must be destroyed. Meanwhile, at Helm's Deep and Isengard, the first great battles of the War of the Ring take shape. In this splendid, unabridged audio production of Tolkien's great work, all the inhabitants of a magical universe - hobbits, elves, and wizards - spring to life. Rob Inglis' narration has been praised as a masterpiece of audio.
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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The elderly spinster, Miss Cornelius appears to be the cause of a range of strange supernatural phenomena which are troubling the house where she is temporarily lodging. But when Andrew Saxon, a local schoolmaster, accuses her of being behind the mysterious haunting she turns on him with a terrifying curse. Following this the focus of the strange and terrifying phenomena mysteriously shifts to the Saxon household...and worse still, it seems as though the awful powers have transferred from Miss Cornelius to Saxon's beloved wife, Molly.
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Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead 'souls', or serfs, whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol's characters.
Epictetus (c. AD 50-135) was a former Roman slave (he was also lame in one leg, and walked with a crutch) who went on to become a great teacher. His philosophy, Stoicism, was practical, not theoretical - aimed at relieving human suffering here and now. The Manual is a collection of Epictetus' essential teachings and pithy sayings, compiled by one of his students.
A carefully produced edition of Emerson's most famous essay. Beware of other publishers' slapdash editions.
A vivid love story and adventure tale, Oroonoko is a heroic slave narrative about a royal prince and his fight for freedom. The eponymous hero, Oroonoko, deemed royalty in one world and slave in another, is torn from his noble status and betrayed into slavery in Surinam, where he is reduced to chains, fetters, and shackles. But his high spirit and admirable character will not be suppressed.
This 1937 radio dramatization was written, produced, and performed by none other than the incomparable Orson Welles of War of the Worlds fame. The story of the book is faithfully retold (with questionable subjects carefully camouflaged) and is suitable for students aged 10 and older. This live recording, masterfully performed by an incredible professional cast, includes sound effects, music, and an unforgettable story.
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis); and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the procession of the inhabitants; but that of the Thracians was equally, if not more, beautiful.
Eve's Diary - Complete, written by the incomparable Mark Twain, was first published in 1905 in the Christmas edition of Harper's Bazaar. This charming short story is told from both Adam and Eve's point of view as they traverse their new world from the Garden through to the Fall and is said to be a love letter to his late wife Olivia Langdon Clemens who passed a year before it's publication.
What if Eve, the mother of all humankind, had blogged? What if she had shared her discoveries of the newly formed world, her experiments as the first scientist, and her travels as the first explorer? What if she shared the secrets of assisting the first man without damaging the first fragile male ego? What if we could enjoy with her the first falling in love? Perhaps she did. Perhaps we can. Perhaps somehow Mark Twain plucked that first "blog" out of the cosmic ether....
Set before and during the Great War, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives to the unprecedented experience of the war itself.
"Fantastic narration of a modern classic"
First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade's End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine. A profound portrait of one man's internal struggles during a time of brutal world conflict, Parade's End bears out Graham Greene's prediction that "there is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."
"A brilliant, challenging, and valuable work"
The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Drawing on his experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance-driver, Cummings recounts the series of mistakes that led to his arrest and imprisonment for treason. This edition restores much of the original manuscript.
"The Prose of Panopticons"
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. This is no ordinary novel. This is the story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I - he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with his mind intact.
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
"This is not unabridged"
Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.
"Great War Poets, great poetry, great work"
In 1914, a beautiful foal with a distinctive cross on his nose is sold to the Army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western front. But his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son he left behind. Will he ever see his true master again?
"Great idea for reluctant readers!"
Arguably some of the most powerful poetry ever written. Classic works written during World War I by Wilfred Owen, Siegried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke.
A soldier in the First World War who never actually sees any combat, Josef Svejk is the awkward protagonist - and none of the other characters can quite decide whether his bumbling efforts to get to the front are genuine or not. Often portrayed as one of the first anti-war novels, Hasek's classic satire is a tour-de-force of modernist writing, influencing later writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner and Joseph Heller.
"Too abridged"
A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches. Robert Graves, who went on to write I, Claudius, has given to posterity here one of the all-time great insights into the experience of war.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara.
"Russian Philosophical Feast"
Graham Greene's evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King's Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
"Excellent performance of Graham Greene classic"
This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - "Alas, Babylon." When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness....
"Excellent listen"
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.
"Not to be rushed but to be savored"
The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens' most famous characters.
"The Armitage Voice""
A Signature Performance: Elijah Wood becomes the first narrator to bring a youthful voice and energy to the story, perhaps making it the closest interpretation to Twain's original intent.
"Masterful Narration"
Narrator Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
A haunting tale set on New Year's Eve, The Chimes tells the story of a poor porter named Trotty Veck who has become disheartened by the state of the world, until he is shown a series of fantastical visions that convince him of the good of humanity.
"Best Version of "The Chimes" on Audible!"
During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night, and when the train arrived at his destination, the rough draft was done. The depth of this book has made it an enduring favorite.
"Great classic book to include in your library!"
A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
"Conrad's Brilliant & Wild Novella"
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery.
"Brilliant language and awesome performance but ..."
Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dante's The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation - decades in the making - gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively listenable lyric poem. Written in the early 14th century and completed in 1321, the year of Dante's death, The Divine Comedy is perhaps the greatest work of epic poetry ever composed.
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
"Best Narrator"
This volume contains a collection of fairy tales from a wide array of classical works. These immortal tales include "The Enchanted Stag", "Twelve Brothers", "Puss in Boots", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Light Princess", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hansel and Gretel", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor", and "The Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp".
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Courtney Love's memoir
The question is not so much "what will be in Courtney Love's book?" as "what could possibly be in Courtney Love's book that she hasn't already spoken/ranted/raved about?" Still, her self-titled autobiography has been described as "too crazy not to be true" and should provide her definitive take on her time with Hole and her doomed relationship with Kurt Cobain. It will also, hopefully, spill previously unspilled beans on her relationships with Billy Corgan and Steve Coogan. Oh, and according to an interview she did with Rolling Stone, it was inspired by Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. The mind boggles. TJ
Everything to do with Kanye West
Kanye has hinted that a seventh studio album of his should see the light in 2014. But even without the prospect of this "minimalist eight-track" affair, be sure that Kanye's quotes, wild displays and jaw-dropping motorbike-humping videos will make him the most talked about pop star of the year. Again. TJ
Metallica and Iron Maiden team up for Sonisphere
The two heavy-metal giants have never played at the same festival in the UK until now, so expect Knebworth Park to be suffering from severe tinnitus by the time July has finished. TJ
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen's Oscar-bound drama about Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in pre-civil war America, is remarkable, if not for its classy performances (Michael Fassbender's volatile plantation owner is chillingly good), then for the fact that it's based on a true story. McQueen uses Solomon's personal anguish to cut to the heart of a superpower's relationship with the slave trade. Henry Barnes 10 January.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese's bleak Wall Street comedy arrives after the reckoning, but is set before the crash. Based loosely on the book by former trader Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an amoral money man snorting his way through multiple millions as the stock climbs higher and the party gets louder. There's no nod to the recession, no attempt to find meaning in excess. Just more money, more drugs, more fun. Morality is for wimps. HB 17 January.
Sex. Four hours of the stuff, with a brief interval for the audience. Lars von Trier – him of the genital mutilation (Antichrist) and the extended disability joke (The Idiots) – knows how to push our buttons. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin share panting duties as Jo, a sex addict detailing her conquests to an older male confidante. Von Trier premiered the film, which contains scenes of penetrative sex, bondage and fellatio, on Christmas Day. Happy holidays! HB 21 February.
Christopher Nolan proved that brainiac sci-fi could do well at the box office with Inception. Now his cinematographer, Wally Pfister, puts his mind to directing with a similarly cerebral thriller. Johnny Depp plays an artificial intelligence researcher who is willing to sacrifice himself to create a sentient machine. Rebecca Hall and Paul Bettany play fellow researchers, trying to pull him back from the brink. HB 25 April.
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn's bestseller gets a big-screen adaptation. Ben Affleck plays a struggling journalist implicated in the disappearance of his wife (Rosamund Pike), who went missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Set in the heart of recession-hit small town America, Gone Girl is a gritty suspense story. It'll need someone experienced in delivering grim-minded thrillers to direct. Step forward Mr David Fincher. HB 3 October.
Veronica Mars
Kickstarter's great success story. The film version of Veronica Mars, a cult US TV show in which Kristen Bell's high-school super-sleuth solves crimes in her downtime, was floundering in development. Then creator Rob Thomas turned to the 90,000 fans on the internet that were ready to chip in and see the film made. Cue a shift in our understanding of film financing and a wave of other film-makers (Spike Lee, Zach Braff, James Franco) begging funds off Joe Public. HB
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Family Guy creator/swing crooner/feminist-baiting Oscar host Seth MacFarlane steps out from behind the camera with this comedy western. MacFarlane plays a yellow-bellied sheep farmer whose lack of courage costs him his gal (Amanda Seyfried). Only a rambunctious adventure across the old west, a duel with an infamous outlaw (Liam Neeson) and many, many dick jokes can help our hero get back on the horse. HB 6 June.
Akram Khan
Akram Khan has joined forces with some extraordinary dance artists during his career, from Sylvie Guillem to Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. This autumn's project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Israel Galvan. Judith Mackrell Sadler's Wells, London EC1 (0844 412 4300)
Inside KFC
We've already been inside Greggs, Claridge's, Liberty and Iceland, and now we'll get to see inside the mighty KFC. An upcoming three-part BBC1 documentary promises "unprecedented access" to the company, from boardroom to the lowly restaurant chef. It'll be worth watching for no other reason than to see if the truth of KFC is closer to the adverts (tender-eyed men stroking organic chicken wings) or most people's experiences (cross-eyed hen night revellers staggering up to the counter at 3am, bellowing "BARGAIN BUCKET"). Stuart Heritage BBC1
The Jump (Channel 4)
The BBC has Celebrity MasterChef, where famous people cook things. ITV has Splash!, where famous people jump into some water. And now Channel 4 has The Jump, where famous people strap planks of wood on to their feet and shoot off an icy ramp at 40mph. If you've ever wanted to see what Anthea Turner looks like writhing around in agony with two broken legs, or what Nicky Clarke looks like strapped to a gurney, this might just be the show for you. SH Channel 4
Sochi Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics never tend to catch the public's imagination to the extent of its summer counterpart. The 2014 games look set to go the same way, thanks to the outcry and drip-by-drip boycott over Russia's human rights violations. However, Olympic fever is still strong here, so it might only take one British medallist to get everyone tuning in again. SH BBC
The Trial
Recent high-profile controversies about the ethics and outcomes of drug trials have meant the use of humans for pharmaceutical testing has become a recurrent subject in popular culture: including Lucy Prebble's National Theatre play The Effect and an episode of the Channel 4 drama series Fresh Meat. This potentially fascinating documentary follows the participants in a 2013 trial at Frenchay hospital in Bristol, aimed at finding a new treatment for Parkinson's disease. Mark Lawson BBC2
The Mistress Contract
Based on a real-life story, TV and film writer Abi Morgan's return to the stage has a tantalising premise: the long-running relationship between a man, 93, and his mistress, 88. He provides her with bed and board, she with "all sexual acts as requested, with suspension of historical, emotional, psychological disclaimers". Andrew Dickson Royal Court, London SW1 (020-7565 5000), 30 January to 22 March.
This May Hurt A Bit
As Danny Boyle's 2012 Olympic opening ceremony proved, the NHS is part of the British psyche – which is probably why it hurts when things go wrong. The latest from Out of Joint explores one family's journey through the digestive tract of the NHS. Will they be spat out? LG Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds (01284 769505), 6 to 15 March. Then touring.
As she proved with 2011's Mogadishu, a tough-minded study of Britain's educational system, ex-teacher and playwright Vivienne Franzmann is never afraid to say the unsayable. Here she takes on the failings of the care system, mental health and addiction. LG Royal Exchange, Manchester, (0161-833 9833), 12 to 22 March, then touring.
Breaking up is hard to do – and if you've been together since 1707, it's easy to forget what brought you together in the first place. In the year of the Scottish referendum, playwright Tim Barrow reminds us of the story behind the Act of Union and the larger-than-life historical characters involved. Lyn Gardner Lyceum, Edinburgh (0131-248 4848), 20 March to 12 April.
With Edward Snowden's NSA/GCHQ revelations making headlines throughout 2013, the Donmar is keen to prove it's on top of the news. Josie Rourke (who recently scored with Shakespeare's Coriolanus) directs; young playwright James Graham (best known for his surprise parliamentary hit, This House) writes. AD Donmar, London WC2 (0844 871 7624), 10 April to 31 May.
Battle of the towers of London
With plans for novelty towers shaped like a can of ham, a knife and a rolled-up napkin set to join the Gherkin in the City of London, the table is almost laid for a surreal dinner party in the sky. This year, two of its biggest guests will finally join the party, with the completion of the Cheesegrater, by Richard Rogers, and Rafael Viñoly's Walkie-Scorchie "fryscraper". With the latter undergoing an expensive retrofit to try to banish the lethal "death ray", will it be safe to walk along Eastcheap this summer? Oliver Wainwright
Glasgow School of Art by Steven Holl
Looming over Charles Rennie Mackintosh's original Glasgow School of Art building, American architect Steven Holl's new extension to the college has been designed as a shimmering apparition of greenish glass in contrast to the heavy masonry structure across the road. A spiralling sequence of studios will climb up through the building, arranged around "driven voids" to bring light down deep into the floors below. The different departments will all be connected by a continuous zig-zagging route designed, says the architect, to encourage "creative abrasion". OW
A House for Essex
The final project of mischievous architecture practice FAT, which recently announced its breakup, this surreal hybrid between a Thai wat and an Essex barn will be one of their strangest projects yet. Conceived as a scaled-up gingerbread house, it will be decked out with ceramic mouldings and tapestries by Grayson Perry, along with a line of his sculptures on the top of the roof. It will be the latest building in Alain de Botton's programme of Living Architecture holiday rentals – and promises to be the kookiest of the lot. OW
Master of the Queen's Music
Peter Maxwell Davies's self-imposed 10-year limit on his stint as Master of the Queen's Music ends in March, a few months before his 80th birthday. There's no stand-out candidate to succeed him, for it's hard to imagine most of the other leading British composers of today writing the ceremonial music required. Mark-Anthony Turnage might be one possible candidate, though; others could be Judith Weir, Michael Berkeley or Jonathan Dove. Before that appointment, though, the LSO has a major Maxwell Davies premiere, when Antonio Pappano conducts what Davies says will be his last symphony, the Tenth. Andrew Clements Barbican, London EC2 (020-7638 8891), 1 February.
In an age when too many composers are encouraged to compose their first operas at far too young an age, Julian Anderson has taken his time before embarking on one. Thebans, with a libretto by playwright Frank McGuinness, based upon Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone plays, has been gestating for some years since ENO first offered Anderson a commission. It's directed by Pierre Audi, intendant of the Netherlands Opera and once a familiar figure in London contemporary music, here making his ENO debut. AC Coliseum, London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 3 May to 3 June.
Sensing Spaces
Architecture is not just about walls and doors and iconic skylines. It is about what's inside a shape – the volumes that a building contains and how the human body moves through them. From labyrinths to pods, from vast open halls to underground swimming pools, architecture can craft powerful spatial experiences. This exhibition uses multimedia installations to make the most avant-garde spaces of 21st-century architecture come alive. Jonathan Jones Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8000), 25 January to 6 April.
Art as Therapy
Author Alain de Botton believes museums should change lives. This exhibition applies that ideal – the theme of his book Art as Therapy – to the great collections of the Rijksmuseum. Can Rembrandt's Nightwatch help you deal with a fear of the dark? Does Vermeer's Milkmaid suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder? The exhibition no doubt asks far more profound questions than these as it aims to show how artistic masterpieces can heal the pain of modern life. JJ Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (0031 20 6747 000), 25 April to 7 September.
Digital Revolution
Digital culture is the future that's already here. But is it art? That old chestnut of a question is likely to be raised in new forms by this survey of how the digital revolution is changing everything from music (will.i.am is a participant) to cinema and interactive art (represented by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer among others). Perhaps the most fascinating field for debate is gaming, which is both addictive and genuinely creative in the complex imaginary worlds it reveals. If digital life is art, is the artist an individual or a crowd? JJ Barbican, London EC1 (020-7638 8891), 3 July to 14 September.
• This article was amended on 6 January 2014. An earlier version said Union, which opens at the Lyceum in Edinburgh in March, was written by Mark Thomson. He is the director; the playwright is Tim Barrow.


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TRENDING TRI-STATE: Nicki Minaj's Life Changing Experience
In a new interview with "The Rickey Smiley Morning Show" Nicki Minaj talks about working with Beyonce on the remix of "Flawless".
"She is the Queen, I was so honored to work with her. She's somebody that I've looked up to my entire career. If anybody that knows anything about me knows that I've been literally probably shouting Beyonce out in every interview since my mixtape days just cause she's so driven and I love her drive. I love what she means for women. She's an inspiration to women who wanna get out there and bust their ass and work hard. This has definitely been a life-changing experience for me. Shout out to B."
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When a fan malfunctions, the problem is usually loose or dirty blades. If the fan won't operate or if it's noisy, cleaning and tightening will usually fix it. Here's how to repair a room air conditioner's fan:
Step 1: Open cabinet and locate fan.
Tighten setscrew with screwdriver or Allen wrench. If air conditioner has round vent fan, tighten fan on motor shaft by inserting long-blade screwdriver through port in fan.
Fan is installed in its housing with bolts, and vibration can loosen these fasteners. Then tighten them with wrench.
Step 5: If you suspect fan motor is faulty, test it with VOM set to RX1 scale. Disconnect terminal wires from terminals, and clip probes of VOM to wires.
By following the routine maintenance mentioned in this article, you will be able to handle most problems that occur with your window air conditioning unit.
For more articles on home repair, check out the following links.
- How To Repair Central Air Conditioners: If your system sends cool air to all parts of the house, you've got central air. Keep the system running cool.
- Major Appliance Repair: If the a/c isn't the only thing in your house on the fritz, you can learn how to fix other machines in this article.
- Small Appliance Repair: Once you've tackled the a/c, a toaster or blender seems like child's play. Find out how to fix them here.
- Thermostat Maintenance: To make sure there's actually a problem with your a/c, you may want to check the thermostat, too. Learn how to calibrate a thermostat.