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thats gotta be photoshopd. but beauty, my fav bike. besides an old moto-guzzi
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thats gotta be photoshopd. but beauty, my fav bike. besides an old moto-guzzi
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Quote, originally posted by PieroGti » thats gotta be photoshopd. but beauty, my fav bike. besides an old moto-guzzi
It's not a photoshop. That's the Ducati Sport 1000 - it's part of a new line of "retro" Ducs that they're putting out, called the "Sport Classics." It goes along with the GT 1000 and the Paul Smart 1000.
It's 100%real!
And I agree with you, it's REALLY pretty. These bikes have taken the title of my favorite Ducs away from the Monster series.
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does anyone have any sites with build ups and such ? im really liking them
Quote, originally posted by ArpyArpad » does anyone have any sites with build ups and such ? im really liking them
he's got some nice cafe racers on there.
where is vduben's GB250?!?! I'll NEVER get tired of seeing that thing!!!!!
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Quote, originally posted by rx7racr » where is vduben's GB250?!?! I'll NEVER get tired of seeing that thing!!!!!
I'm glad, because there's even more pics comin' at yah!!
Old thread! -Still my favorite
here's my friend's awesome 78 cb750. and my POS in the 3rd pic
Bringing this back from the dead!
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wow.... that is amazing!
I used to rollerblade, I think Im going to give it a go again.
Quote, originally posted by Trayvessio » I just fell in love with cafe racers when I was browsing this forum. Post up your cafe racer pics!
I've always been into sport bikes, but recently I've fallen madly in love with cafe racers too. Here's mine. Can't wait. Spring is 45 days away up here.
Read this if you're into cafe racers. It's what pushed me over the edge.
Quote, originally posted by Song of the Sausage Creature by Hunter S. Thompson » There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.
Everybody has fast motorcycles these days. Some people go 150 miles an hour on two-lane blacktop roads, but not often. There are too many oncoming trucks and too many radar cops and too many stupid animals in the way. You have to be a little crazy to ride these super-torque high-speed crotch rockets anywhere except a racetrack - and even there, they will scare the whimpering **** out of you... There is, after all, not a pig's eye worth of difference between going head-on into a Peterbilt or sideways into the bleachers. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
When Cycle World called me to ask if I would road-test the new Harley Road King, I got uppity and said I'd rather have a Ducati superbike. It seemed like a chic decision at the time, and my friends on the superbike circuit got very excited. "Hot damn," they said. "We will take it to the track and blow the bastards away."
"Balls," I said. "Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers."
The Cafe Racer is a different breed, and we have our own situations. Pure speed in sixth gear on a 5000-foot straightaway is one thing, but pure speed in third gear on a gravel-strewn downhill ess-turn is quite another.
But we like it. A thoroughbred Cafe Racer will ride all night through a fog storm in freeway traffic to put himself into what somebody told him was the ugliest and tightest decreasing-radius turn since Genghis Khan invented the corkscrew.
Cafe Racing is mainly a matter of taste. It is an atavistic mentality, a peculiar mix of low style, high speed, pure dumbness, and overweening commitment to the Cafe Life and all its dangerous pleasures... I am a Cafe Racer myself, on some days - and it is one of my finest addictions.
I am not without scars on my brain and my body, but I can live with them. I still feel a shudder in my spine every time I see a picture of a Vincent Black Shadow, or when I walk into a public restroom and hear crippled men whispering about the terrifying Kawasaki Triple... I have visions of compound femur-fractures and large black men in white hospital suits holding me down on a gurney while a nurse called "Bess" sews the flaps of my scalp together with a stitching drill.
Ho, ho. Thank God for these flashbacks. The brain is such a wonderful instrument (until God sinks his teeth into it). Some people hear Tiny Tim singing when they go under, and some others hear the song of the Sausage Creature.
When the Ducati turned up in my driveway, nobody knew what to do with it. I was in New York, covering a polo tournament, and people had threatened my life. My lawyer said I should give myself up and enroll in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Other people said it had something to do with the polo crowd.
The motorcycle business was the last straw. It had to be the work of my enemies, or people who wanted to hurt me. It was the vilest kind of bait, and they knew I would go for it.
Of course. You want to cripple the bastard? Send him a 130-mph cafe-racer. And include some license plates, he'll think it's a streetbike. He's queer for anything fast.
Which is true. I have been a connoisseur of fast motorcycles all my life. I bought a brand-new 650 BSA Lightning when it was billed as "the fastest motorcycle ever tested by Hot Rod magazine." I have ridden a 500-pound Vincent through traffic on the Ventura Freeway with burning oil on my legs and run the Kawa 750 Triple through Beverly Hills at night with a head full of acid... I have ridden with Sonny Barger and smoked weed in biker bars with Jack Nicholson, Grace Slick, Ron Zigler and my infamous old friend, Ken Kesey, a legendary Cafe Racer.
Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....
So when I got back from New York and found a fiery red rocket-style bike in my garage, I realized I was back in the road-testing business.
The brand-new Ducati 900 Campione del Mundo Desmodue Supersport double-barreled magnum Cafe Racer filled me with feelings of lust every time I looked at it. Others felt the same way. My garage quickly became a magnet for drooling superbike groupies. They quarreled and bitched at each other about who would be the first to help me evaluate my new toy... And I did, of course, need a certain spectrum of opinions, besides my own, to properly judge this motorcycle. The Woody Creek Perverse Environmental Testing Facility is a long way from Daytona or even top-fuel challenge-sprints on the Pacific Coast Highway, where teams of big-bore Kawasakis and Yamahas are said to race head-on against each other in death-defying games of "chicken" at 100 miles an hour....
No. Not everybody who buys a high-dollar torque-brute yearns to go out in a ball of fire on a public street in L.A. Some of us are decent people who want to stay out of the emergency room, but still blast through neo-gridlock traffic in residential districts whenever we feel like it... For that we need Fine Machinery.
Which we had - no doubt about that. The Ducati people in New Jersey had opted, for some reasons of their own, to send me the 900ss-sp for testing - rather than their 916 crazy-fast, state-of-the-art superbike track-racer. It was far too fast, they said - and prohibitively expensive - to farm out for testing to a gang of half-mad Colorado cowboys who think they're world-class Cafe Racers.
The Ducati 900 is a finely engineered machine. My neighbors called it beautiful and admired its racing lines. The nasty little bugger looked like it was going 90 miles an hour when it was standing still in my garage.
Taking it on the road, though, was a genuinely terrifying experience. I had no sense of speed until I was going 90 and coming up fast on a bunch of pickup trucks going into a wet curve along the river. I went for both brakes, but only the front one worked, and I almost went end over end. I was out of control staring at the tailpipe of a U.S. Mail truck, still stabbing frantically at my rear brake pedal, which I just couldn't find... I am too tall for these new-age roadracers; they are not built for any rider taller than five-nine, and the rearset brake pedal was not where I thought it would be. Mid-size Italian pimps who like to race from one cafe to another on the boulevards of Rome in a flat-line prone position might like this, but I do not.
I was hunched over the tank like a person diving into a pool that got emptied yesterday. Whacko! Bashed on the concrete bottom, flesh ripped off, a Sausage Creature with no teeth, ****ed-up for the rest of its life.
We all love Torque, and some of us have taken it straight over the high side from time to time - and there is always Pain in that... But there is also Fun, the deadly element, and Fun is what you get when you screw this monster on. BOOM! Instant take-off, no screeching or squawking around like a fool with your teeth clamping down on our tongue and your mind completely empty of everything but fear.
No. This bugger digs right in and shoots you straight down the pipe, for good or ill.
On my first take-off, I hit second gear and went through the speed limit on a two-lane blacktop highway full of ranch traffic. By the time I went up to third, I was going 75 and the tach was barely above 4000 rpm....
And that's when it got its second wind. From 4000 to 6000 in third will take you from 75 mph to 95 in two seconds - and after that, Bubba, you still have fourth, fifth, and sixth. Ho, ho.
I never got to sixth gear, and I didn't get deep into fifth. This is a shameful admission for a full-bore Cafe Racer, but let me tell you something, old sport: This motorcycle is simply too goddamn fast to ride at speed in any kind of normal road traffic unless you're ready to go straight down the centerline with your nuts on fire and a silent scream in your throat.
When aimed in the right direction at high speed, though, it has unnatural capabilities. This I unwittingly discovered as I made my approach to a sharp turn across some railroad tracks, saw that I was going way too fast and that my only chance was to veer right and screw it on totally, in a desperate attempt to leapfrog the curve by going airborne.
It was a bold and reckless move, but it was necessary. And it worked: I felt like Evel Knievel as I soared across the tracks with the rain in my eyes and my jaws clamped together in fear. I tried to spit down on the tracks as I passed them, but my mouth was too dry... I landed hard on the edge of the road and lost my grip for a moment as the Ducati began fishtailing crazily into oncoming traffic. For two or three seconds I came face to face with the Sausage Creature....
But somehow the brute straightened out. I passed a schoolbus on the right and got the bike under control long enough to gear down and pull off into an abandoned gravel driveway where I stopped and turned off the engine. My hands had seized up like claws and the rest of my body was numb. I felt nauseous and I cried for my mama, but nobody heard, then I went into a trance for 30 or 40 seconds until I was finally able to light a cigarette and calm down enough to ride home. I was too hysterical to shift gears, so I went the whole way in first at 40 miles an hour.
Whoops! What am I saying? Tall stories, ho, ho... We are motorcycle people; we walk tall and we laugh at whatever's funny. We **** on the chests of the Weird....
But when we ride very fast motorcycles, we ride with immaculate sanity. We might abuse a substance here and there, but only when it's right. The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body. It is that simple: If you ride fast and crash, you are a bad rider. And if you are a bad rider, you should not ride motorcycles.
The emergence of the superbike has heightened this equation drastically. Motorcycle technology has made such a great leap forward. Take the Ducati. You want optimum cruising speed on this bugger? Try 90mph in fifth at 5500 rpm - and just then, you see a bull moose in the middle of the road. WHACKO. Meet the Sausage Creature.
Or maybe not: The Ducati 900 is so finely engineered and balanced and torqued that you *can* do 90 mph in fifth through a 35-mph zone and get away with it. The bike is not just fast - it is *extremely* quick and responsive, and it *will* do amazing things... It is like riding a Vincent Black Shadow, which would outrun an F-86 jet fighter on the take-off runway, but at the end, the F-86 would go airborne and the Vincent would not, and there was no point in trying to turn it. WHAMO! The Sausage Creature strikes again.
There is a fundamental difference, however, between the old Vincents and the new breed of superbikes. If you rode the Black Shadow at top speed for any length of time, you would almost certainly die. That is why there are not many life members of the Vincent Black Shadow Society. The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time.
It was impossible. But so was my terrifying sideways leap across the railroad tracks on the 900sp. The bike did it easily with the grace of a fleeing tomcat. The landing was so easy I remember thinking, goddamnit, if I had screwed it on a little more I could have gone a lot farther.
Maybe this is the new Cafe Racer macho. My bike is so much faster than yours that I dare you to ride it, you lame little turd. Do you have the balls to ride this BOTTOMLESS PIT OF TORQUE?
That is the attitude of the new-age superbike freak, and I am one of them. On some days they are about the most fun you can have with your clothes on. The Vincent just killed you a lot faster than a superbike will. A fool couldn't ride the Vincent Black Shadow more than once, but a fool can ride a Ducati 900 many times, and it will always be a bloodcurdling kind of fun. That is the Curse of Speed which has plagued me all my life. I am a slave to it. On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME."
Modified by hawc at 10:25 PM 2-19-2006
My Cafe Racer Gear:
My '78 Suzuki GS750.
More mods on the way.
any pics of the Ducati 900s Thompson was talking about?
I'm really diggin' the bikes in this thread. kinda eyeballin' the triumph thruxton. pictured here, (photoshopped without the rear fender) I'm really thinking about getting a bike, I'm going to take a safety class first of course and get a feel for riding. think something like this would be ok for a first bike???
Excellent choice. It's beautiful.
Some not-so-flattering shots of my 77 CB750. FOR SALE $2500
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Quote, originally posted by hawc » Can't wait. Spring is 45 days away up here.
Well the season's now pretty much over up here and it was a great one. Here a few pics I posted in the Car Lounge but I'll post them in here too.
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Wildlife: Natural History
Field Studies Council Discover more about the outdoor environment with Field Studies Council's (FSC) natural history courses Covering birds, animals, plants, habitats and courses to generally explore the natural world, you can choose to learn at the level that suits you; whether you are new to the subject or already have some experience. FSC Centres have been chosen for the richness and diversity of their surroundings and the unique wildlife and flora often found within easy reach. Courses are led by experienced and passionate tutors with in-depth subject knowledge and will be filled with people who have similar interests. A selection of one-day and short residential courses are available during the year at FSC Centres in stunning locations across the UK. The all-inclusive course fee covers tuition and activities, and the comfortable full board accommodation for residential courses. FSC is an environmental education charity with 70 years' experience of providing informative and enjoyable opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to discover, explore, be inspired by, and understand the natural environment. A wide range of other courses are also available with FSC including walking, photography and arts.
Contact www.field-studies-council.org/naturalhistory Phone: 0845 345 4071 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Countryside We all aspire to the 'good life', living the rural dream. Perhaps a small-holding is your goal, or maybe even a full blown career in agriculture. Maybe you just love the countryside and want to find ways to get more involved and spend more time outside. Whatever your reason for considering a countryside based course you should find some inspiration in this guide…
Countryside: Rural Studies
Education in the countryside As more and more people are seeking a career working in the natural environment, courses in rural studies are becoming ever more popular. There are hundreds of jobs, skills and hobbies that get you out into the Great British countryside. You may be looking to improve a skill you already have, or learn something completely new. This guide can help you find the perfect course. Perhaps you want a new career or a way to earn a bit of extra cash, or useful knowledge for your own home or smallholding, or just a bit of fun! Whether it's further or higher education, or you're simply interested in practical short country courses, there should be something here to inspire you.
CJS Training Directory www.countryside-jobs.com/training
Comprehensive directory of countryside, conservation and wildlife training provision. Everything from one day drystone walling to MSc in wildlife conservation. If you work outdoors and need to refresh your certification or simply like the idea of trying your hand at a traditional craft search our directory to find a course that suits.
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Bring your ambitions to life Writtle College, a partner of the University of Essex, has been offering an inspirational range of specialist courses for 120 years. Our qualifications, including certificates, diplomas, degrees and masters level programmes, are designed to provide our students with the knowledge and skills essential for successful and rewarding careers. Our subject areas include: • Agriculture • Animal Science and Management • Art and Design • Countryside • Conservation and Environment
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Countryside: Rural Training
Acorn Rural Training Acorn Rural Training – A.R.T. provides instruction and certification for many rural skills. Whatever your needs, we can offer you a range of learning opportunities that are most suited to you or your organisation. You will receive the highest quality training and assessment from instructors with many years of experience based in the industry. Whether you are considering a change of career, an update or more experience, promotion or for your own general use and safety, A.R.T. can provide the professional and specialist instruction that is tailored to your needs.
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Countryside: Rural Training
Cotswolds Rural Skills Ever wondered how a dry-stone wall is constructed? Ever looked at a newly laid hedge and pondered how it's done? If so, why not satisfy your curiosity and try one of the Cotswolds Conservation Board's rural skills courses? Whether you want to try your hand at blacksmithing, rebuild a 200 year old dry stone wall or have a go at the age old craft of hedgelaying, then our courses are for you! Perhaps you have your own section of dry-stone wall that you want to rebuild, or length of hedge you would like to lay? We can help by showing you how it's done. We have courses in: • Dry-stone walling • Hedgelaying • Woodland Coppicing • Blacksmithing • Lime Mortar (historic building restoration) • Cotswold tile roofing ...and more!!
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Finding your perfect career just got even easier! From floristry to forestry and agriculture to animal care, the land-based and environmental sector offers an exciting and diverse array of careers. But how do you know what suits you best? After all, finding something that matches your skills, personality and interests isn't always easy. Lantra's brand new Careers website has recently launched and is packed with lots of useful resources such as factsheets, case studies, career pathways, job profiles and CourseFinder. One of the most exciting features on our new website is Role Finder. This unique interactive tool has been especially developed to help you identify suitable jobs in the sector. Like working with animals? Want to manage people? Prefer working outdoors? Enjoy science and technology? See yourself as a natural leader? Simply select the statements that apply to you and we'll do the rest!
So what makes it different? • Role Finder focuses on you, not just your education or qualifications. It looks at your skills, personality, experience, interests and preferences too • It matches you with several roles in the sector then gives you full details , including working life, salary and progression routes • It's been developed by career expert s at Lantra who know the sector inside out • It's free and easy to use!
Find the perfect course to help you land your dream job Whether you're just starting out in the land-based and environmental industries or looking to progress your career, you've come to the right place. Lantra Awards is one of the leading providers of training courses and qualifications in the UK. Over 50,000 learners every year choose Lantra Awards for our training courses. With over 40 years experience we are passionate about developing and delivering quality products and services. This means you can benefit from nationally recognised certification on successful completion of your training or qualification.
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Pesticides/Pest Control This covers everything you need to tackle those pests, to help you keep your plants and crops happy and healthy.
First Aid/Health & Safety/Manual Handling Find out how to stay safe in a land-based setting and what to do in an emergency.
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Countryfile: Habitats and Conservation
Field Studies Council Field Studies Council (FSC) offers a range of courses covering broad conservation and ecology issues. These include biological recording, higher level species identification, habitat management and National Vegetation Classification and are ideal for those seeking training or continuing personal development (CPD), as well as for amateurs with a general interest in ecological and environmental issues. FSC Centres have been chosen for the richness and diversity of their surroundings and the unique wildlife and flora often found within easy reach. Courses are led by experienced and passionate tutors with an in-depth subject knowledge. A selection of one-day and short residential courses are available during the year at FSC Centres in stunning locations across the UK. The all-inclusive course fee covers tuition and activities, and the comfortable full board accommodation for residential courses. FSC is an environmental education charity with 70 years' experience of providing informative and enjoyable opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to discover, explore, be inspired by, and understand the natural environment. A wide range of other natural history courses are also available with FSC including birds, mammals, invertebrates, flowers, grasses and fungi.
Contact www.field-studies-council.org/habitats Phone: 0845 345 4071 Email: email@example.com
Countryfile: Walking
Field Studies Council Walking is a great way to explore the outdoors and Field Studies Council (FSC) courses help develop your knowledge of the natural world while you walk. Short courses explore local landscapes and wildlife with an expert on hand to guide you. There are also more focused courses on geology and some of a more active nature such as navigation skills. FSC Centres have been chosen for the richness and diversity of their surroundings and the unique wildlife and flora often found within easy reach. Courses are led by experienced and passionate tutors with an in-depth subject knowledge and will be filled with people who have similar interests. A selection of one-day and short residential
courses are available during the year at FSC Centres in stunning locations across the UK. The all-inclusive course fee covers tuition and activities, and the comfortable full board accommodation for residential courses. FSC is an environmental education charity with 70 years' experience of providing informative and enjoyable opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to discover, explore, be inspired by, and understand the natural environment. A wide range of other courses are also available with FSC including walking, photography and arts.
Contact www.field-studies-council.org/exploring Phone: 0845 345 4071 Email: email@example.com
Gardens There are a plethora of garden related courses available for enthusiasts embarking on a career change or simply looking to follow their passion. Here's a selection of the UK's leading schools offering land-based courses...
Gardens: Horticultural Studies
Capel Manor Develop new skills in horticulture or learn the strategies behind good planting and design at Capel Manor.
Leading the field with highly qualified and vocationally experienced tutors, our reasonably priced full, part-time and evening courses and apprenticeships are suitable for beginners, career changers and entrepreneurs. They include everything from introductory courses to two year diplomas and apprenticeships, and offer the opportunity to take part in shows and competitions. Established as a centre for horticultural
studies in 1968, Capel Manor has developed a reputation for delivering high-quality training and strong links with the industry. It is home to the National Gardening Centre, the Institute of Horticulture and Which? Gardening magazine. The College is equipped with wide-ranging plant collections, design studios and specialist facilities for teaching practical skills, such as horticultural machinery. Our centres across London include a 13th-
century manor house and 30-acre country estate in Enfield, and grounds in parks across London including Regent's Park, Gunnersbury Park and Crystal Palace Park. Our students have developed successful careers in everything from designing and building gardens and parks to working in botanical gardens, country estates, and in football stadiums as groundsmen. Some have gone into journalism and television. A large number go on to set up their own businesses, while our garden design students and staff have won prizes at Hampton Court and Chelsea Flower Shows on an almost annual basis for the past 17 years.
Contact www.capel.ac.uk Phone: 08456 122122 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Gardens: Botany and Plants
Field Studies Council Find out more about the plants in your garden and further afield with an identification course led by Field Studies Council (FSC) Courses range from Wild Flower Identification to Gardening for Wildlife and Urban Botany and you can also opt for learning about particular species like trees, ferns or grasses. FSC Centres have been chosen for the richness and diversity of their surroundings and the unique wildlife and flora often found within easy reach. Courses are led by experienced and passionate tutors with an in-depth subject knowledge and will be filled with people who have similar interests. A selection of one-day and short residential courses are available during the year at FSC Centres in stunning locations across the UK. The all-inclusive course fee covers tuition and activities, and the comfortable full board accommodation for residential courses. FSC is an environmental education charity with 70 years' experience of providing informative and enjoyable opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to discover, explore, be inspired by, and understand the natural environment. A wide range of other courses are also available with FSC including walking, natural history and arts.
Contact www.field-studies-council.org/plants Phone: 0845 345 4071 Email: email@example.com
The Inchbald School of Garden Design
"Inchbald's 40 years of experience in teaching garden design made choosing their online course easy." Sarah Hammond www.sarahhammonddesign.com Online Garden Design Graduate
I've been working as a designer for a number of years and took the course as I wanted to consolidate and develop my knowledge and skills and also gain the confidence to grow my business beyond a local, word of mouth operation. I saw the Inchbald with its reputation and standing, and the fact that it offered a challenging, rigorous course as the perfect place to do that. Online Garden Design Courses Our online design courses aim to continue the high quality of teaching which is central to the garden design school and which our reputation has been built on over the past 40 years. You get the same standard of tutoring and unlike most other online courses, have the opportunity to meet your fellow students at an open day at the beginning of the course. This can be invaluable, as you can share ideas throughout the course and it can be an important support network when you are working from home. The unique features of our online garden design courses make them superior to conventional distance learning, correspondence or home-study courses. When you join an Inchbald online course you join a small class with other students. You follow a course timetable and develop close working relationships with your tutors and fellow students. Crucial to all of our online courses is the regular feedback and advice from tutors on your weekly work assignments. You set up your design studio at home and have 24/7 access to your class through your bespoke course website. Through discussion forums online, you share ideas and observations with fellow students and your tutors. This stimulates and informs your design education, and this contact with others who are studying the same course at the same time helps to sustain you. The course schedule sets a dynamic pace allowing you to see progress, and establishes a valuable professional ethos, in which you are expected to meet deadlines and commitments. Most importantly, your tutors are personally interested in your progress and development and give you
regular and frequent guidance and feedback on your work.
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Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)
A recent Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) report has revealed that 72% of horticultural businesses across the sector are struggling to fill vacancies with skilled workers. However horticulture offers a very varied and rewarding career, and also offers a wonderful opportunity for those looking for a change of direction and a new career. The first stage is to gain qualifications and experience. The RHS has been offering horticultural qualifications for many years, and they are well-respected in the industry and offer an entry point to many different areas of horticulture. Philip Windle, RHS Head of Qualifications, said: "One of the most appealing aspects of our qualifications, especially for
career-changers, is the flexibility of study offered. Both our theory based qualifications and those in practical skills are designed to be studied part-time, and the theory qualifications can also be studied through distance learning. Courses leading to qualifications are offered at colleges and other approved centres throughout the UK, with both day and evening classes available�. As well as gaining the knowledge and the practical skills, those thinking of a career change should consider gaining experience of working in a horticultural environment. One option is to work as a volunteer in a public garden, park or community horticultural project.
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History If you're looking to expand your knowledge of history or archaeology, there are a vast range of courses available – all over the UK. You can choose between undergraduate, postgraduate, short or even online courses. Here is a selection of what is on offer...
History: Irish Studies
St Mary's University College London's only MA in Irish Studies commences week beginning 16 September 2013. The course is designed both for full-time one year students as well as part-time students taking the course over two years or longer. The 2013-14 timetable is as follows: SEMESTER ONE
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Full-time fees are £3500. Part-time students pay only for the modules they study (£583 per module). Enrol online or by completing a Postgraduate Admission Form (email@example.com)
MA in Irish Studies Take the decision now to study for an MA in Irish Studies at St Mary's University College
1 year full-time or 2 years part-time Starting September 2013 This flexible programme, London's only MA in Irish Studies, will appeal to recent graduates as well as those students wishing to return to formal education. It will provide a sound platform in research training, a route towards doctoral studies and a career in academia.
Contact www.smuc.ac.uk/irishstudies Dr Ivan Gibbons, Programme Director Email: email@example.com
Students will benefit from St Mary's historic links with Ireland dating back to 1850. In addition, London's pre-eminence as an international centre for Irish culture will enable students to access the city's rich Irish cultural and community network including our annual Irish Studies conference and our Centre for Irish Studies. For more information, please contact Dr Ivan Gibbons, Programme Director in Irish Studies Email: email@example.com
www.smuc.ac.uk/irish-studies St Mary's University College Twickenham London
History: Local History and Archaeology
Field Studies Council Would you like to discover more about local history, archaeology or even historic transport? Field Studies Council (FSC) has a selection of courses which cover many facets of history and pre-history, from Stone Age times to our modern industrial society. With their enjoyable blend of field excursions, slideshows, discussions and other activities, these courses are for anyone curious to learn how the past can be brought to life and the way people's ideas and actions have shaped today's landscape and built environment. A selection of one-day and short residential courses are available during the year at FSC
Centres in stunning locations across the UK. The all-inclusive course fee covers tuition and activities, and the comfortable full board accommodation for residential courses. FSC is an environmental education charity with 70 years' experience of providing informative and enjoyable opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to discover, explore, be inspired by, and understand the natural environment. A wide range of other courses are also available with FSC including walking, arts, photography and natural history.
Contact www.field-studies-council.org/history Phone: 0845 345 4071 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
History: Literature
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Hi a bit of advice where I am going wrong but when I change to a D chord from another chord when I up upstrum I cannot get it to ring properly am I up strumming to quick before chord is down and also is this a comin problem with beginners all other chords are fine, I hope I have made sense, cheers.
From what it sounds like, you're just not switching chords fast enough. Slow down, it'll take time before you can change between chords quickly enough. Also, yes this is common just keep practicing switching between all of your basic chords. It takes time to build muscle memory.
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Assuming bdqdog diagnosed the problem correctly, this is one of the most common issues that even the most skilled guitarists are constantly working to improve and iron out. Your transitions from one chord to the other will get smoother with time. It's an on-going process of development and improvement. Even when you're good in that area...you can always become better.
This is very common, this might help with changes in general - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcjDp5Iexw


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In the biggest news since the initial concept announcement, GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz confirmed that in fact the first Chevy Volt prototype, with the full lithium-ion battery pack has hit the test track.
He said "It is reliably meeting its objectives. Even with a rough calibration, even with the wrong drive unit, the wrong body, etc. etc., it has been hitting its 40 miles on electric power."
He specifically confirmed the dynamometer tests have been successful even under various thermal conditions.
He even went so far as to say "I can almost say the battery is the least of our problems,"
He further explains that much of the engineering challenge ahead has to do with software, figuring out how and when the engine should kick in for example.
He notes that he is much more confident in the November 2010 deadline. He talks about Volt vehicle line executive Frank Weber in the following way:
"Three months ago if you asked Frank Weber 'so November 2010?' he'd get flustered and say he wouldn't answer until he knew more, now if you ask him the same question, he's calm and relaxed and says unless we encounter some completely unforeseen obstacle – November 2010 looks good."
Finally he confirms that CEO Wagoner is as involved in the Volt project just as much as he is, confirming extreme interest in it straight from the top.
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This is a guest post from Professor David B. Benson (retired), who is a regular commenter on The Big Biofuels Blog.
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Photosynthesis uses only a very small fraction of the available sunlight. This means that growing biomass to make biofuels will require considerable land (and water) resources. Even so, these are available and some biofuels offer unique advantages.
As a gas, biogasses and biomethane, biofuels can replace the use of natural gas. Indeed, sufficiently pure biomethane can be, and is to a limited extent, directly introduced into existing natural gas pipelines.
As a liquid, biofuel can, and does, replace liquid fuels derived from fossil oil. Currently ethanol is used to replace some gasoline; possibly butanol will do so in the future as it has greater energy density. Similarly biodiesel is already replacing some diesel and pilot projects to replace some jet fuel with a bio equivalent are under way.
Various techniques produce other grades, such as heating oils, from biomass.
As a solid, biofuels can replace some or all of the fossil coal used in coal reactors used to generate electricity or provide space and process heat. An older technique, being revitalized, is to torrefy wood. Newer pyrolysis methods produce a combination of liquids and solids; the solids are usually called biochar. The biochar is, in effect, extremely high grade coal for burning purposes; in a later section we will touch on what may well be a more important use of biochar.
There are several different ways to turn biomass into biofuel. The algal techniques require minimal land to sit upon, indeed just rock will do. Considerably more equipment is required. Unfortunately, none of these methods, algal or otherwise, as yet preserve NPK for later reuse; we touch on this most important subject in a later section.
Food and Fuel
A recent FAO report states there are, world-wide, about 5 billion hectares of agricultural land. Of this total, about 30% is defined as arable land and another 20% is currently not in production. The arable land grows mostly foods; the unused lands, often degraded, could be used to grow biofuel stocks. Most of these currently unused lands are in the Global South, South America and Africa. Additional lands are governmental agriculture program set-asides; with better irrigation, additional lands could become available in Central Asia and elsewhere.
Much farmland in Russia is currently unused.
So through 2030, according to a recent analysis, there is plenty of land to grow biomass for biofuels without competing with lands currently used for growing foods. In addition, much of the arable lands are used inefficiently to grow animal feed for meat animals; beef, mutton and pork are probably the worst offenders for inefficiency and concomitant release of carbon dioxide; beef and mutton animals the worst for release of methane. So the future may bring less animal protein and more vegetable protein, much more efficient. This could, in turn, release arable land for growing biomass for biofuels, relieving the supposed 2030 date for serious competition between food and fuels.
For some farmers in developing countries, growing food crops for biofuel feedstocks appears wise. Tubers such as sweet potatoes and cassava are food crops, but not preferred ones. The advantage to such tubers is the ability to grow on somewhat degraded soils. Some of these farmers may well wish to grow their primary food crops on good soils and tubers on the poorer ones. If the primary harvest is successful, the tubers provide a cash crop, perhaps for biofuel feedstaocks. If the primary harvest is less than adequate, some or all of the tubers can be eaten; a form of food security.
The result, as I now see it, is that there will be no serious competition for land resources between food and fuel crops through about 2050, provided the quantity of meat in diets goes down, on average.
Eating less meat is considered to be more healthful, by the way.
I haven't considered the competing needs for fibre such as wool and hemp, and construction woods, nor parks and other land set-asides.
Global South
Since so much of the land appropriate for growing biofuel feedstocks is in the global south, the concept of energy independence for many countries in the northern hemisphere is a chimera; it will not be possible via biofuels and so not possible to be completely energy independent. What could occur, I suppose, is energy independence by hemisphere; the Americas on the one hand and the rest of the world on the other. Given the extent of investment in Africa by countries and corporations in Asia and Europe, with almost none from North America, such may become the defacto arrangement of the future, with various smaller degrees of cooperation between, say, Brazil and African countries.
Potassium, chemical symbol K, is in ample supply.
Phosphorus, chemical symbol P, is currently being mined at a rate of 0.8% of reserves per year; the reserve base is not(currently) economic to mine. This rate may seem small, but the unused, degraded lands to be devoted to biofuel production will require some; suppose doubling to 1.6% per year. Then the reserves are depleted in 62 years, 2070.
Worse, this assumes that world reserves are not overstated. Analysis suggests that reserves are overstated. If so, the end may come in, say, 2050. Whatever, agriculture, biofuel production, waste management and so on needs to start conserving phosphorus for reuse; don't waste phosphorus.
Nitrogen, chemical symbol N, is in short supply only in that it needs converting from diatomic nitrogen in the air into a biologically useful form in the soil. Some micro-organisms do just that; these are often associated with legumes. For example, it was locally the practice to alternate soft white winter wheat one year with dry peas and lentils the next. This practice meant that less chemical nitrogen fertilizer had to be applied to the growing wheat.
The chemical nitrogen fertilizer is fixed from the air via the Haber process, steam reforming natural gas to start the process. The price of these fertilizers varies with that of natural gas, thought to generally increasing over time. Obviously biomthane could replace the natural gas, but this may not be the best use of biomethane.
Producing biologically useful nitrogen could well be something that addtional micro-organisms, including genetically modified ones, could play an increasing role, lessening dependence upon the Haber process.
Civilizations end when the topsoil is used up. Avoiding this requires conservation and soil building. Building soils includes adding compost but now also some biochar. This later amendment then competes with simply burning the biochar as a fuel. So to the list of competing uses for agricultural land, using some to grow biomass for biochar to simply build topsoil has to be added.
Vast amounts of biomass simply go to waste. While crop wastes left in the field replenish the soil, some is collected with the crop, so could be used as biomass feestock for biofuels. Other concentrations of wastes abound: animal feedlot wastes, abattoir and fish offal, other food processing wastes, biomethane from landfill operations.
Now that half of humanity lives in cities and towns, municipal wastes are an important source of biomass which are underutilized. A few municipalities use some: Dayton, Ohio, ferments to biogasse and burns this to generate electricity; some municipalities in The Netherlands generate enough extra biomethane to support CNG filling stations; San Diego, California, generates enough high quality biomethane to supply some to the natural gas pipeline. But there is much more which can and should be done to note only improve the quality of wastewater discharge but also efficiently capture the energy currently often just wasted.
All this involves quite substantial infrastructure development and improvement.
An estimate of current world energy consumption, from all sources not including foods, is 420 exajoules per year. With increased energy efficiency, but also a larger and wealthier population, an estimate for the year 2050 is 800 exajoules. At the same time the peak in traditional fossil fuels will have come (and according to some, gone).
While various means of producing electricity and process heat, including space heating, will surely be non-biological, a reasonable estimate for a biofuel contribution is between 200 and 400 exajoules, depending upon the competing demands for land, water and other resources. The higher figure requires substantial development of supporting infrastructure and other equipment. This is surely possible, in some amount, so that biofuels will supply some, not all, energy needs between 2030 and 2050.
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Cadillac, with hundreds of small dealers, focuses on big-city service
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Automotive News -- June 13, 2010 - 12:01 am ET
DETROIT -- Cadillac is preparing to welcome back hundreds of franchisees, many in small towns. That will end its post-bankruptcy plan to rebuild sales with only about 500 dealerships in large metro markets.
But new sales chief Kurt McNeil is keeping a key part of the original plan. In an interview this week, he said he wants all dealerships, big and small, to provide the customer service of a glitzy big-city store.
Once arbitrations and settlements finish this summer, the brand will reabsorb 400 to 500 franchises cast off during General Motors 2009 bankruptcy, mostly at small dealerships, McNeil said.
"We were going to make drastic changes, but now, were going to have to go back and continue to improve our network," said McNeil, who took over as Cadillacs U.S. sales chief during GMs sales and marketing shake-up in March.
The brand had about 1,400 stores at the beginning of 2009, so it has still trimmed its dealer network, even with the reinstatements. More reductions are possible, McNeil said.
"Where we might have one or two too many stores in a metro area, were going to have to work on that," he said.
No more No. 2
In the meantime, McNeil said hes trying to rally dealers around the goal of customer-service supremacy.
Cadillac finished second in J.D. Power and Associates most recent surveys that rank customer satisfaction with dealerships sales and service departments.
"Number two for Cadillac is never going to be good enough," McNeil said.
Cadillac will relaunch its dealership programs this summer for roadside service and for Cadillac-only loaners for Cadillac owners, McNeil said. Only 10 to 30 percent of dealers currently use those programs. In addition, Cadillac dealers just completed Ritz-Carlton customer-service training, first reported in April by Automotive News.
The brand is continuing the plan it unveiled last fall for metropolitan stores to remodel with limestone exteriors and black-tile interiors. McNeil wants metro stores to compete with stores selling German luxury makes.
But Cadillac also will ask smaller dealerships with multibrand buildings to install the brands preferred signs and to place Cadillacs hotel-style greeter desk in the luxury brands section of the showrooms, McNeil said.
As before, if a dealership complies with GMs recommendations, GM will pay most of the costs.
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Adding up to 500 franchises complicates one other part of Cadillacs plan: lean inventory.
The smaller dealerships rejoining the fold have to restock empty lots since they have been unable to order new inventory for about a year. Getting them suitable product lineups may cause Cadillac to carry a higher days supply than its targeted German competitors, which dont have hundreds of rural dealerships, McNeil said.
Cadillac started June with a 75-day supply in the United States, according to the Automotive News Data Center. Most products are readily available for dealers, McNeil said, but the popular SRX crossover is an exception. SRX inventory has been below the ideal 60-day supply since September and had a 57-day supply on June 1.
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That is a sad story. There are many things that could have helped her.
Don't do things you don't want to explain to the Paramedics!
Stupidity should be painful.
Some more info I heard on the news about the victim: she had changed her phone number and installed a security system at her house. She also believed she was being followed because psyco husband "seems to know too much about where I have been", which she relayed to friends shortly before her death. ("Psyco" is my word, not hers.)
They each had children, but none together, according to the news.
This coward's actions make me sick. Let justice be done.
A lot of could have been taken, but they were not. It's sad that this sort of thing is coming more into the main stream of society. No days you must be prepared at all times. Not just a firearm, but a buddy, whistles, knives, OC spray, etc.
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
how much do you have to pay for a "restraining order/protective order"? with court fee, lawyers fee, your valuable time...... how much? maybe around $1600. oh by the way they expire! how much is a glock $450.... hmmm.
got to texas as fast as i could...Fuhgeddaboudit!
Aren't "gun free zones" just wonderful, and they work so well.
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|June 30th, 2007, 10:16 PM
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I honestly think that the law was too inclusive. It included fetusesthat were dead and had no hope. I do think that the woman in the article made the choice to have an abortion because she didnt want a handicapped baby. In the article she says she never even named it while others did. I dont have any sympathy for her.
|July 1st, 2007, 01:27 PM
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Well, seeing what has already been done with the legality of abortions, I would be hesistant to allow a PBA of a child that is dead, because soon enough it will be allowed to happen for defects too. It is not the end of the world for a woman to have a still birth. The fact that she lost her baby is the tough part, not the method of its arrival. Things are fine the way they are, as long as the don't try to pass that insane "inclusion" for stressed out pregnant women.
|July 2nd, 2007, 10:01 AM
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|July 2nd, 2007, 10:11 AM
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Point being this: I don't see why a PBA is necessary in any circumstance, I see no need for exceptions (well, not yet at least!)
|July 2nd, 2007, 11:39 AM
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In my eyes ending a life just so you dont have to deal with the problems is selfish. This is whether it be abortion, suicide(including assisted), or murder.
Just my $.02
|July 2nd, 2007, 12:45 PM
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The good news is, two years later she is pregnant again.
|July 2nd, 2007, 12:51 PM
web wheeling, hard.
I am glad she is pregnant again, I pray her child is well!
Do you know what I mean when I say that as soon as we open the door for PBA to be ok, it will then have a foot shoved in said door until its busted wide open? In other words, as soon as there are some acceptable ways, it is a matter of time until they discover more, then they just allow it for "mental health" reasons like it was attempted in April of this year. If we don't allow anything, it is a much better barrier to the protection of life.
|July 4th, 2007, 09:46 PM
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Here's the real deal folks.....................babies that can't contribute to the whole need to be buried before they are born, after they are born, what ever......Not to piss anyone off but thats the way humans did it for thousands of years.
Now if anyone of you are a woman and are pregnate, then I think you can have say in this. I am not a woman and I have not experienced a parisite growing in me. So how could I say what is right about someting I could never know about.
But I do know all about a child that is fucked up. My grandson was born with Cerebal Palsy..severly...he suffers from a paralized throat and cant swallow. He is fed thru a tube in his belly...forever..... His arms fail around like rubberbands on crack..and he spits every 20 seconds...about 3-5 times a day he chokes on his own spit.....Chance are he will drown in his own vomit before he is 5 years old.....
The PAIN my daughter deals with EVERYDAY is very very serious. HER pain is what matters to me. Not the life of a flipper armed spit maker. Oh yes there is a boy inside there...until we find him dead in his sleep.
You have no idea what kinda pain a "troubled fetius" can cause a woman or her family. Had the choice been offered to this family if we knew in advance the suffering we all would endure...let alone my grandson.
We would have aborted for sure.............or in the olden days I woulda taken him outback and whacked him with a shovel
|July 4th, 2007, 11:44 PM
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|July 5th, 2007, 11:37 AM
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2. I know several people with special needs too. They situations are not quite as extreme as your hated grandson. I have a buddy I mentor who is retarded. Great kid, he is slow, different from all other kids. This does not make him an underserving person to have life. If you are unable to learn anything from the life of your grandchild beyond killing him, then maybe you are the weak one who should have been offed.
3. Here is the problem with your argument: You CANNOT know fully the challenges you will face with a special needs child. I know a grown man with the same ailement, but he can actually walk. Albeit very slowly and very akward, but he gets around. He cannot speak very well at all, everything is slow, everything is slurred, and he drools all over the place. But what is neat about Eric is that his mind is 100%. If you just wait for him to speak, he is just as much there as anyone else. So how exactly are you to know ahead of time what the outcome will be with a special needs child?
|July 5th, 2007, 05:13 PM
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It's seems your one of thoose posters who takes everything personal and with a bucket of salt.........too bad for you friend
Please never make the mistake again to decided who I hate.
As far as what you posted................sheeeesh I can see how a simple mind would take it that way. Dave are you a simple thinking man ? I hope not.
1....what I said about abortion is simple...it's the womans choice. And your counter point is mute as it has absoulty nothing to so with what I said. Where did you get the idea, I have a say in how a murder person is trreated. WTF ? are you drunk...............lmao. I said , how could I make a decision about abortion if I am not a woman.
2....where did I exactly say I wanted to kill my grandson ? Or where did I say I hate him ? And where do you get the idea I am weak ? Because I spoke truth about the history of Humanity. Up until the 1940's in many parts of this country, messed up babies were quitely killed at birth. What does that have to do with me ?..........this is not the olden days.
3..I am not having an argument, you are...and not even with me. Your have an argument with " What you think I am thinking " Thats called Projection, we all do it from time to time. It's very unhealthy for a constructive talk.
Now I admit my style in my posting dealing with my grandson was a bit raw. So let me say this.....I am very pissed off at what happend to my Kid and her kid..we all are. It was a mistake not something that just happend ok. SO when my daughter calls me like 4 times a week in the middle of the night becasue her son needed CPR AGAIN cause he choked on his vomit or spit. He almost died again................See past you and self induced projections...dude put youself into her shoes.
Point I was really making is this.........At what point is the pain of the many worth less than the life of a very seriously whacked Fetus or newborn ?
The reason people "murder" screwed up infants is simple. The weight it brings to the life of the many, is worth far less than the unhealthy life of a whacked child. Understand that ? It would be better to put that child out of it's and our misery.........
It's a valid point and in the past it was expected.
Now if you want to stay away from JUDEMENTS and stick to a honest approach to this, I will continue this with you....If not............
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SUB PANEL Grounding
I am installing a sub panel to a new barn.
Circuit Breaker at Feed box to Sub Panel is 20 amp - 2 pole
Pull distance is ~320 feet with 4 wires of THNN #10 through PVC.
(Black, Red, Neutral, Ground)
All outlets will be GFCI protected.
I will be powering:
a horse water tank heater (winter)
3 or 4 box window fans (summer)
3 outside lanterns (60 watts or less each) (all seasons)
4 inside lights (100 watts each) (all seasons)
1 general use outdoor GFCI (intermitent/temporary use)
I am using a Square D sub panel 70 amp box (which I had to add a Neutral bar that is screwed onto the box housing)
My question is: ??
I was intending to install one 10 ft. ground rod which is wired back to
the box for a separate gound bar screwed to the box.
Should the ground wire be connected to a new separate ground bar -(which will be screwed onto the box)?
In effect the ground bar and neutral bar will both be screwed into the box housing, but each bar will have separated neutral and separated grounds.
Should I NOT BE HAVING A SEPARATE GROUND ROD and only use the MAIN green feed that was pulled through (because this is a SUB Panel)
I live in NJ for code determination and 2011 if still a question.
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There is no minimum size FEEDER requirement, only a DISCONNECT requirement.....
225.39 Rating of Disconnect
And I agree, just run a 20 amp multiwire branch circuit and be happy. :)
Most inspectors I know interpret this as meaning the minimum size feeder as well based on calculated load., and I agree.
So if a breaker is the disconnecting means then the circuit or feeder would have to correspond.
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If they'll allow a 20A feeder then WHY demand a 30A or 60A disconnect? That's kind of my point.
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ok, I know what and how to use for feed wire to the new sub panel.
My question was centered on the sub panel wiring of ground and neutral.
I am going to double rod the ground wire back to the box where it is connected to the bar that is screwed into the back of the box.
I need to know if the neutral coming in the sub panel and the circuit neutrals are to be isolated from the grounded box.
In main panels ground connector and neutral are used pretty interchangeable. But in a sub panel, do the neutral and ground need to be separate from each other.
I read the NEC rules and I gotta say, it looks like a lawyer wrote it with all the number cross references, instead of easy to follow diagrams.
Thanks for your help.
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Thanks for your help. You made it clear as day.
I guess I got (confusion!) for reading the code.
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I would like to think that the ROP process will eventually get around to creating language that is up to date.
As for the disconnect rating .. it's based on the number of circuits being used to supply the actual building loads. I am assuming that they want a disconnect that is capable of disconnecting any possible short circuit. I also think they (the NEC guys) expect an electrician to not design small feeders to large amperage building disconnects when there is no practical reason to do so and termination lugs are to freakin big for small wire awg.. So for service rating that pretty much starts you at 30 amps especically when your thinking about using a non-ocpd disconnect at the remote building.
Now another grey area is only one feeder or branch circuit can be ran to the remote building or structure .... there are exceptions but generally the only one that applies to residential is "other characteristics" where it says "different uses" such as to operate exterior lighting. I've heard many arguments on that small sub-section as to its meaning when it applies to residential.
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The daily El Espectador reported the student reported the teacher after seeing him in the teachers' room pasting in stickers he had taken from students who had been trading them in class. The teacher reportedly took them because the trading of the Panini stickers was distracting students from their class work.
"It's no way to give an example to young ones, taking their stickers away for your own benefit," the mother of one of the students told local RCN radio.
The theft of Panini stickers is big business in Brazil, the 2014 World Cup host. Thieves in Rio de Janeiro recently stole a van containing 300,000 Panini World Cup stickers. In 2010, 135,000 stickers were taken from a distribution center in the city of Santo Andre.
The swapping and trading of the stickers made by the Italian publishing company Panini to complete albums has been popular worldwide since the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Panini fever is also heating up in the USA ...
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Server-Side Polymorphic Viruses Beat Standard AV Signatures
In 2006, new kinds of computer viruses emerged that successfully countered traditional anti-virus solutions, claims a new report.
In its 2006 E-mail-borne malware Review publication, e-mail security developer Commtouch and Proofpoint said that server-side polymorphic viruses appeared during the past year. These launched much quicker attacks and included several variants aiming to get past typical anti-virus programs.
According to Commtouch VP of Products, Haggai Carmon, 2006 saw a new method of distributing e-mail borne malware comprising huge number of short-spanned and low-volume variants emerging every hour turning it into a 'zero-hour'. These variants were of 'Stration/ Warezov' and 'Happy New Year!' viruses.
Carmon continued to say in his company press release that throughout 2006 there have been outbreaks of thousands of unique variants that made attacks in successive overlapping waves, going on for weeks, sometimes even months. The barrage of those attacks nearly defeated traditional AV software to develop and transmit new signatures to protect end-users against risks of infection. Commtouch predicts, these types of attacks will mutate and intensify through 2007.
During past experiences, replicas of the same virus tended to be distributed in large numbers with one or at the most a small number of slightly altered variants. These were easy to arrest as anti-virus products developed faster solutions that could identify and destroy malicious code. But then code writers applied different techniques that were capable to exploit the 'zero-hour' flaw within those anti-virus mechanisms.
In the latest server-side polymorphic malware attacks the distributors create large quantities of exclusive malware variants and release them at the same time or in succession. The problem with these is that by the time a signature is released for one variant that variant has finished its circulation and several others have arrived.
A real-time protection is a must to save enterprises from exposure to unaccountable levels of risk, says Ram Habal, Director of Product Marketing for Proofpoint. Without that the cost of curing malware infection can go as high as $500 per infected PC. When an organization is hit by masses of variants of a virus, it must unfailingly block each one to prevent losses.
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