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Beefeater hosts a design competition in Sweden to create new packaging and a signature cocktail.
For the launch of a special edition of Beefeater London Dry Gin in Sweden, Beefeater is inviting Swedish consumers to express their creativity and love for London by entering a competition for the new Beefeater bottle. The Stockholm-London creative challenge contains two categories: design and cocktail.
For the first, consumers need to show off their creative skills and give an interpretation of modern London by designing a new label for the classic London brick bottle. For the cocktail category, consumers need to create a signature drink for Beefeater London Dry Gin, which gives others a taste of what London means to them. Rai Fierro, the brand manager of Beefeater Sweden, said:
Sweden is in the front line when it comes to design, creativity and innovative ideas. When the opportunity now came to present a special edition and unique version of our classic Beefeater "Londonbrick" bottle we wanted to bring out all of this creativity and give the Swedes a chance to be a part of the process.
One winner will be chosen from each category and they will be invited to London to create the design and the cocktail for the special edition together with the Beefeater international team, which will then be featured at selected restaurants and bars in Stockholm next year. The deadline for the competition is January 15th, with the winners presented on January 31st.


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Ray Williamson was a partner at Hampton Veterinary Group in Hampton Heath, near Malpas
TRIBUTES have been paid to a highly-respected vet who died after being found with life-threatening injuries at his Cheshire practice.
Father-of-four Ray Williamson, 57, worked at Chester Racecourse as the on-course vet on race days for the last eight years, and was a partner at Hampton Veterinary Group in Hampton Heath, near Malpas.
He was found at the surgery in Post Office Lane on Monday morning having suffered life threatening injuries, believed to be from a gunshot.
Mr Williamson began working as a racecourse vet at Chester in 2004 and had also worked at Bangor-on-Dee races for more than 20 years.
Chester Race Company chief executive Richard Thomas and Jeannie Chantler, general manager at Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse, led the tributes to Mr Williamson.
They said: "Ray was a major part of every race day at both courses throughout the years.
"He had been with us so long I can't even find the date he began, but it was more than 20 years ago at Bangor on Dee. He and his colleagues started at Chester in 2004.
"Ray's professionalism shone through; his compassion when talking to owners and trainers of horses he was dealing with and the way he was able to communicate with the stable staff who love the horses they care for.
"His great enthusiasm for his work and the way he made his colleagues and friends laugh, even when there may have been a difficult situation, were just some of the great qualities he possessed.
"Being a racecourse vet means working lots of weekends over and above the normal long veterinary hours and we were very grateful Ray gave up his time so willingly to assist us.
"We will miss his banter and his humour."
Mr Williamson lived in Bickley, near Malpas, with his wife Judy and also is survived by three daughters and a son.
He joined Hampton Veterinary Group 25 years ago as a cattle vet after qualifying from Cambridge but soon became well known for his work with horses.
Colleagues paid tribute to Mr Williamson in a statement on the surgery's website.
They said: "It is with deep sadness that we announce the tragic loss of our dearest friend and colleague Ray Williamson.
"He was such an incredible vet with a large, caring and jovial personality we know he will be greatly missed by all.
"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time. Rest in peace 'Brother'."
Mr Williamson also worked as a racecourse vet at Aintree and at point-to-point meetings across the North West and North Wales.
He worked for Grand National winning trainer Donald McCain and was secretary of the Association of Racecourse Veterinary Surgeons.
Mr McCain, whose stables are in Cholmondeley, posted on Twitter: "Very sadly lost our vet Ray Williamson yesterday, a truly lovely man."
Cheshire Police spokesman Rachel Hayes said: "At 8.34am on Monday, October 22, police were called to a veterinary surgery in Malpas by paramedics.
"On arrival at the surgery in Post Office Lane, Hampton, officers discovered a 57-year-old man with life threatening injuries.
"Sadly the man was pronounced dead a short while later.
"Detectives investigated the circumstances and confirmed it was not suspicious. A file is being prepared for the coroner."
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Posted by: alan1 at 23:40 on 24 October 2012 Report
RIP ray as i have worked with ray/brother at
chester banger and aintree he was a good friend to me my thoughts go to judy and daughters i will miss you and very sad alan horse ambulance driver
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Our thoughts are with your family Brother. A great person and a great vet.Privilege to have known you RIP .Phil,tony kev john richie di ben josh. workers in the back straight at Bangor
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How about Map[Take[#,2]&,{{a, b, c}, {d, e, f}, {g, h, i}}]?
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Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:48:13
Composer Ramin Djawadi is the man behind the music for HBO's sprawling epic, Game of Thrones. He's managed to do the seemingly impossible as well. His score weaves into the massive and bombastic scenes with equal power, but he reels back and elegantly punctuates the more somber moments with appropriately pensive fare. He's one of the most emotionally "in tune" composers out there, and every score he does remains impressive and unforgettable.
In this exclusive interview, Ramin Djawadi talks to ARTISTdirect.com editor in chief Rick Florino about Game of Thrones, Pacific Rim, and so much more.
Do the characters or the story exert a bigger impact on your musical choices? Is it a combination of both?
It really depends. For example, in the case of Game of Thrones, it's a little bit of both. There are so many characters and locations. When we started on the show, we sat down and decided that we had to be really careful. We couldn't have too many character themes or themes in general because there are a million things going on. We tried to be clever about having themes for the different houses like the Stark family and the Lannisters as well as certain locations and plot points. It happens wherever we feel the story wants the support from the music to steer the audience into a direction.
The world is so immersive and emotional that the music must mirror that.
Exactly! In Season 3, the character development is unbelievable. In Season 1, I didn't even have a theme for Theon. However, in Season 2, his character blew up so much that we created a theme specifically for him. That's been a lot of fun from season to season. We'll see who they're focusing on now and go with it.
The music is orchestral and massive, but it's still intimate. Is finding a sonic balance important?
Yeah, that's another great thing about the show. It's obviously dialogue- and character-driven. In the early episodes, there's not much music. For a TV show, there are lot of moments without music. Then, as the story grows in the later episodes, the music picks up as does the size of the score. Underneath the dialogue, you don't want to be full. As the plot expands, there are bigger musical moments. It works really well in this.
What character are you particularly drawn to?
There are a lot of great characters but maybe Daenerys Targaryen. I love watching how her power grows and grows to that amazing finale at the end of the first season. Thematically, I'm adding an ethnic element to her musically. Her journey is very interesting. When you watch the first episode, you have no idea she's going to turn into this powerful character. Everybody loves Tyrion Lannister though too [Laughs].
What else has changed this time around?
Sticking with the characters and the plot, it guides me where we go musically. There's a different focus on different characters. The development leads the score. In a way, it gets grander and grander. It's nice to have themes recurring and develop them further.
How are you approaching Pacific Rim?
It's been so fun working on it! We're actually about to score. With what you can see in the trailers, it's a big action adventure film. There's a lot of action. We're using a big orchestra, and it's going to be huge. I'm doing some traditional stuff as well as some more rock- and electronic-oriented stuff. It's a nice combination.
Who have you been listening to lately?
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Macala Wright: How Brands Design Customer Experiences Of The Future
Consumers not only expect great brand experiences, they believe they're entitled to them.
In today's digital age, consumers expect more from the business they support and the products they purchase. Consumers not only expect great brand experiences, they believe they're entitled to them. Experience are now directly tied to aspiration and intention, creativity and technology are merely the enablers. In his new book, What's The Future of Business, Brian Solis, the principal of The Altimeter Group, takes marketers through matrix of designing and connecting for consumers.
The End Is Near. 70% of Fortune 1000 companies will be replaced in the next few years. 40% of the Fortune 500 companies in 2000 were no longer there in 2010. – Edward E. Lauder, Built For Change
Brian, you state that the future of business comes down to relevance and the ability to understand how technology affects consumers decision making processes. If experience is everything, then why are brands and marketers still "selling" to their consumers and failing to embrace what they learn about their customers' preferences to improve their experience?
Experience is indeed everything. Your question is interesting in that you ask why brands still sell to consumers and fail to embrace what they learn about customer preferences. This assumes that business leaders and supporting models are resilient in how they listen, learn and adapt. Unfortunately, we know that the contrary is most often true. Businesses simply do not operate as one organism. Today, customer experiences are indeed fed back into organizations, but their lessons do not reverberate or resonate throughout the corporate body.
- Customer service does not speak to product development.
- Sales and marketing does not speak to customer experience.
- UX does not speak to executives.
- Leaders are out of touch with how technology is affecting society and behavior.
Without an understanding of how consumerism is evolving, without a true sense of customer-centricity, businesses will continue to sell, market, and serve customers from a position of assumption rather than purpose.
The future of customer relationships and business lies in experience architecture. This means that businesses must assess what the true experience related to their brand, products, and people is as its shared not solely in the blur of metrics such as NPS that do not measure impressions (feelings, not views) and in turn, expressions.
How can we shift our views in order to understand how our customers view things? What must we learn to do?
Customer centricity begins with the belief that you can fix something that may or may not be broken. It's a philosophy. It's an aspiration. Businesses must believe that learning is part of innovation and innovation as such, must become part of the culture. Innovation applies to product development as much as it does to processes, services and ultimately experiences.
Right now, the customer experience is left largely to chance, meaning it's rarely intentional. Worse, organizations are still structured around a traditional funnel. This is why silos exist. Accordingly, every step of the customer journey and the resulting lifecycle is shaped by these departments, that do not by the very nature of today's business model, work together to deliver a consistent experience.
Think 360. I define 360 not as a marketing catch-phrase, but instead a intentional effort to articulate and strengthen a deliberate customer experience at every touch point whether it's online, in social or mobile, or IRL. To understand customer experiences then is to embrace empathy as part of the corporate DNA to create a sense of urgency and offer a new direction in which to pursue.
We must have something to learn. We must be driven to translate learning into insights, transform insights into ideas, and turn ideas into desired experiences.
Experience is design. Business is design. – Brian Solis, The Altimeter Group
The new customer experience is actually a journey and it's driven by the shared experiences of other consumers. It's perpetual. It's emotional. With big data, social media listening, research, customer information is more than readily available. More importantly, experiences and the emotions that people feel and share must be met with more than a listening or research team. This understanding and awareness requires a handheld escort throughout all avenues of the organization that in some way, shape or form contributes to the customer experience.
In your book, you've said that, "Without understanding what matters to customers and why, without learning their behavior and without empathy, we can't make meaningful experiences." How does this affect the way in which we conduct consumer market research?
No matter how smart we get with predictive algorithms it doesn't matter, because without understanding social science, without aligning with a bigger mission or vision with what we are trying to do — something that is going to matter to people — we are just managing businesses the way we always have. We are not moving in any new direction.
I believe that companies should invest in what I refer to as a human algorithm. This is where data science meets social science. It's the ability to process information and humanize it. This delicate balance of art and science marries research and analysis with the study of human behavior. It also takes a fair amount of storytelling to appreciate what people do and say and make it relevant to every facet of corporate decision-making.
- It should inform and teach.
- It should inspire.
- It should unlock creativity and innovation to do something better tomorrow than how we approached markets today.
When it comes to customer connectivity, UI/UX and design are a crucial piece of experience. But the book also makes the case for technology, how should brands and marketers to invest their money in software and technology that can help the design these experiences. How important are they?
The book is based on this premise…UX is the new CX and as such the RX for enlightened experience design. The book explores the art of user experience design and the importance of customer experience to challenge leaders and decision-makers to reverse engineer the customer journey. Perhaps my proudest achievement with the book was to make it an "experience" in of itself. I studied UX to design a business book to feel, look, and act like an analog app.
Its design mimics online and mobile content, streams and networks to make it easier and more engaging to turn each page. The goal was to create a proof point that demonstrates the importance of UX and design to make the print book matter again. I also have a mission to take this experience and one day help apply it to the world of student textbooks.
See, everything begins with the ability to articulate the customer experience you wish to enliven. It should align with or influence your brand promise and how you want them to feel, think, do, and share. What I'm honestly trying to instill in readers of #WTF is the idea that customer experience is an opportunity to go back to basics. This is that moment when everything we thought or felt as consumers can become the very thing that moves us to push for change within our companies.
Often referred to as customer journey mapping, by studying the customer journey for your traditional as well as your connected customers, you'll uncover a different journey for each. This is a good thing.
Touch points, shared experiences, places and people of influence, common references, at every step of the way, we're introduced to a real world that we only assumed existed. Often, we misunderstood and undervalued the role experiences play in guiding this journey. We assumed that what we said, where we said it, and the investments we made in reaching people and leading their path to us was all it took to succeed in business.
Now that customers are connected – they're empowered and becoming more demanding. Why wouldn't businesses better understand this behavior to improve and personalize…everything?
Technology therefore becomes an enabler of a greater vision and aspiration. Networks, apps, sites, become windows into new worlds and allow us to better understand what's possible and what's important. To uncover them takes research. To activate them takes prowess, empathy and purpose. But at the end of the day, we can't get caught up in technology because it's trendy or pervasive. Technology merely represents the channels we use for engagement, learning, and the constant pursuit of relevance.
This is going to require a tremendous amount of "vision" from business leaders, how can they develop new ways of thinking in order to meet this challenges they now face?
The book doesn't provide all of the answers that business leaders need to prescribe their every next step. But that's the point. The future of business is a blank canvas. The relationship you wish to have with your customers and your employees and the experience that people feel, share and relish is yours to define. This is a time for leadership as opposed to management…or should I say middle management. This is a time to see what others do not and do what others cannot or will not.
- Explore the new customer journey.
- Assess the current state of shared experiences within new or unfamiliar networks.
- Renew or redefine your vision for your brand, its promise and the experience you want to deliver.
- Design it.
- Reset your business functions to align with the customer journey where internal collaboration contributes to a consistent and reinforced experience.
- Measure the relationship between stated experience and shared experience.
- Listen. Learn. Adapt.
Tomorrow's business will invest in a resilient and not a rigid business model to ensure the success of the business and the correlating value of relationships and experiences.


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Yesterday, during the height of fighting between Israel and Gaza, the Huffington Post decided it would be a good idea to publish their weekly Nazi-related article. This time it is about Germany paying compensation to victims of the Nazis which includes (but isn't limited to) Jewish people. Any kind of state of the Jewish people was not mentioned in the article yet what do you think was one of the top favorited comments? If you have to guess, you must not have been reading the Huffington Post very long:
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Is anyone else doing something similar? Is it a fluke or does this approach have genuine possibilities?
How they do depends on the product and quality of the photos. They work nicely for a starter.
toolman, they are very targeted and concise. I wouldn't try it for anything very competitive, but specific phrases work.
There's no excuse to delay the decision by exploring the site (and then getting sidetracked), so if the sales pitch is good enough you've got 'em...
> spin off more products
It's got to be worth a try. I've another product from a different company being advertised nationally (UK). The ad features a site with around a dozen products, and isn't really producing, so it's an ideal test opportunity.
Added: Assuming this works out, the next step is to try and lure the customers to the larger, stickier site after making the sale. Any thoughts?
>lure the customers to the larger, stickier site after making the sale.
I think this is an excellent idea. However, you may not want to redirect them after the confirmation - they may find another product they would have rather bought. If you can convince them to opt-in, send them an email a week or two after delivery.
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Milwaukie High School students received a challenge last week. A challenge of kindness, love and personal aspiration. A challenge that many accepted eagerly.
Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 when two fellow students went on a killing spree. Two weeks prior to her death, Scott wrote an essay challenging others to be kind to one another. She said that by being nice to even one other person, people could spark a 'chain reaction' that would change the world.
Her family, after finding that essay and other writings by Rachel, began spreading her message, which made its way to Milwaukie last week.
Two Milwaukie students, Alysha White and Brittany Johnson, spent a great deal of their senior year spreading the word about the program and raising the funds to bring it to Milwaukie after friends of theirs at Rex Putnam High School saw the presentation last year.
They said that, like any high school environment, Milwaukie has cliques and those who feel marginalized, and they want to help put a stop to it.
'People are just really judgmental, but I think you get that with every group of kids this age,' White said. 'You get treated differently if you're different and I don't think it's OK at all.'
The Rachel's Challenge presentation focused a lot on Scott's brother, Craig. On the day of the shooting Craig was huddled in the library with his two best friends, one of whom was one of the only black students at the school. The gunmen shot his friends point blank, and Craig said the last thing his friend Isaiah heard in his life were racial slurs.
'This has really inspired me,' said Milwaukie student Zoe Brooks. 'If we could eliminate prejudice and just continue with our lives without that hate, like Rachel was trying to do, the world would be a lot better place.'
Milwaukie student Aly Braun said she was inspired by Craig Scott, who eventually found the ability to forgive the shooters and who is now working toward a career in filmmaking.
'When they were talking about her brother lost two friends … I really think if I lost two of my friends it would totally rip me apart, and I'm really impressed with how Craig has accepted it.'
Braun, Brooks and about 30 other students were picked by White and Johnson and teachers to join a team that will seek to continue the challenge and keep that caring spirit going not just for a week or two, but for the rest of the school year and beyond.
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Today, the Martin Heinrich Campaign launched Vets for Martin, a group of New Mexico veterans committed to electing Heinrich to the United States Senate. "Martin is a strong advocate for all veterans, their families, and working-class New Mexicans," said retired Air Force General George Franzen from Placitas. "I am proud to stand with Martin."
"Martin knows about the challenges facing our returning military members and their families. He doesn't just say he'll fight for us; he shows it in his actions," said Andres Lazo, an Army combat veteran from Bernalillo.
When he arrived in Congress, the first piece of legislation Heinrich wrote was a bill to make it easier for veterans to communicate with the Veterans Administration. Since then, Heinrich has worked to fast-track disability claims for veterans and bring state-of-the-art medical facilities to VA hospitals. He is also an advocate for legislation to provide groundbreaking treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. "As a Navy veteran with a service-related disability, I deeply appreciate Martin's efforts to ensure that the VA is providing the best possible care to myself and others," said former Representative Nate Cote from Las Cruces.
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The 10th annual Dogfish Dash is in the books, with close to 2,500 runners and spectators from around the country, 150 volunteers and $120,000 raised for The Nature Conservancy in Delaware! Special thanks to Sam and Mariah Calagione, Mark Carter, staff of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and the dedicated volunteers of Chesapeake Utilities and many others who made the event possible.
The Dogfish Dash is a slightly off-centered road race that starts and finishes at the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton. In addition to the chip-timed race, the Dash includes tasty morsels, live entertainment and Dogfish Head beer. There is also a costume contest with awards for the best "recycled" costume (individual and team).
Since 2007 the Dogfish Dash has generated more than $300,000 for the Delaware Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
- 2015 - $120,000
- 2014 - $75,000
- 2013 - $51,600
- 2012 - $38,500
- 2011 - $33,500
- 2010 - $26,000
- 2009 - $25,000
- 2008 - $20,000
- 2007 - $10,000
The Nature Conservancy's Delaware Chapter is grateful for this enduring partnership with the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, a company that appreciates Delaware's natural landscapes which, when healthy, produce clean water and healthy soils for the ingredients going into their products. We are eternally grateful that this forward-thinking and environmentally-conscious Delaware-based company has generously dedicated proceeds from the annual Dogfish Dash to The Nature Conservancy's Delaware Chapter for the past seven years!
The 11th annual Dogfish Dash takes place Sunday, September 26, 2016. Registration for the race fills up quick. Stay tuned for more information and consider lending your support as a volunteer.


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"ACA maintains that all available evidence strongly suggests that joint control or ownership of multiple Big 4 affiliates in a single market results in significantly higher retransmission consent fees. As the FCC itself has found, consumers ultimately foot the bill in the form of higher cable rates," ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka said.
ACA officials held meetings with FCC staff on Feb. 15, Feb. 17-18, and Feb. 22, just days ahead of the agency's announced plan to consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on retransmission consent at its March 3 public meeting.
The NPRM is viewed as the agency's response to wide-ranging concerns over TV stations' aggressive bargaining tactics, such as staging signals blackouts in millions of cable homes either just before or during marquee awards shows and professional sports games and championships.
ACA believes that the FCC needs to limit the unfair advantage that Big 4 network affiliates exert in jointly negotiating retransmission of TV programming on cable systems. Broadcasters have entered into price fixing agreements to gain bargaining leverage, forcing small cable operators to pay higher retransmission consent fees than they would if they had negotiated with each station separately.
In the FCC filing, ACA documented the scope of broadcasters' effort to combine Big Four stations in markets around the country. The trade group identified at least 93 instances of sharing agreements or duopolies in 78 television markets, affecting more than 37 percent of markets.
ACA cited a 2009 study by Suddenlink Communications that found joint negotiating hiked retransmission consent fees by 22 percent.
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ACA stressed that there is no underlying cost basis that would justify small cable operators' paying nearly double what larger cable companies do for retransmission consent.
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Under federal law, TV stations and cable operators are required to bargain for retransmission consent in good faith. The FCC's NPRM is expected to solicit comment on what changes to Commission's retransmission consent rules, particularly the good faith rules, would make the marketplace work better.
ACA suggested in the meetings with FCC staff that the agency should consider redefining the good faith negotiation standard to prohibit separately owned Big 4 broadcast stations in the same local market from jointly negotiating retransmission consent fees.
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My mistake, I should have been more clear, I have hydro's I'm still trying to get the lingo correct. Flunked englihs in high skool. I can't seem to post anything here without being corrected.
So your description- provided that you have roller rockers AND roller lifters- is fine.
I apologize for the sarcasm in my last post, Just seemed to me like BBC had nothing better to do than try to make me look stupid . After all, if I were to crank down on some solids like that, I don't think I would still have a motor to talk about. And just for the record, I' m just trying to sharing my experience. Not school someone.
I mostly just signed up here for these little smiley things>> < I really do like these things.. Sometimes when it's all been said these things are better than words
I will occasionally correct someone if what they said was dyslexic(backwards) or if the wrong terminology is used, but the intent isn't to belittle anybody just set the record straight on what is fact.
Sometimes folks have an opinion on the fix for a given problem, but sometimes the fix isn't always the same for a given problem. I think sometimes folks are a little paranoid on the forum and bite back at someones statement. This turns in to an argument that didn't need to start to begin with. This leads the OP into being paranoid about posting because he got into an argument over something he said that was just his opinion.
This leads into nobody wanting to post which makes the forum boring.
Okay, Back to the valvetrain thing. I'm speak from years of fixing valvetrain issues, not some intimate knowledge of valvetrain dynamics.
Everything everybody has said here has substance to it.
I THINK that lifters don't all hydraulically harden at the same amount of plunger travel. I have found stock lifters to need a full turn to function correctly or you give up lift. In other words it seem like the lifter is moving up with out lifting anything until the travel is satisfied for it to hydraulically harden. By the time it finally starts getting the valve to open, its already hitting the other side of the lobe and going down.
This results in a really soggy running engine if you're only using a 1/4 or 1/2 turn of preload. Keep in mind we're talking stock cam and lifters.
Every hydraulic high performance cam and lifters I dealt with would not tolerate a full turn of preload with out pumping up and staying pumped up( never bled down and was holding the valve open) I finally figured out that stock cam adjustment doesn't work with HP cams.
After trying adjusting them while running and cold before startup and found that 1/2 turn always seems the perfect adjustment. In fact, I've finally mastered perfect cold adjustment and can adjust a fresh engine, bolt the valve covers on and not have to take them back off. But every so often you have some settling of clearances in the pushrod seats and the head gaskets that requires a readjustment. I've found that fel-pro perma-torque gaskets eliminate the need to re-torque and loosing valvetrain clearance.
I use Comp products pretty much exclusively at least on about the last 6 engines I've built and they say 1/2 turn is approx. .030" and it worked perfectly for me on flat tappet and roller hydraulics. I use the spin method on the pushrods and have gotten alot better than my first try with pre-adjusting.
A comment on economy rebuilt engine valvetrain, I've found a few 350's about impossible to adjust till quiet. Seems like the economy lifters, valve springs, rocker arms and maybe some lifter bore slop, are just noisy even with perfect adjustment.
Sorry about the long post, but this comes up alot and I wanted to throw out my opinion on what works for me. Plus I'm sick right now and have time to sit awhile on the computer. olnolan
This is an Excellent forum.. Duntov
A hydraulic lifter is an assembly of an outer body into which is placed an inner piston/plunger sub-assembly, and an inner spring that holds the piston/plunger assembly up against a retainer on the top of the lifter which forms a cavity below the piston/plunger and the inside bottom of the lifter body.
The inner piston/plunger assembly is made of the piston/plunger part which is hollow and has an oil entry hole in its side, a top called the socket where the push rod rides, under the socket is a flat disk inertia valve, at the bottom end is a check valve sub-assembly that contains a check valve which can be of a ball or disk design retained against a hole in the bottom of the piston/plunger body with a light spring and a retention cup that holds these pieces to the bottom of the piston/plunger.
The top of the lifter outer body is machined for an inner retention device that keeps the inner piston/plunger assembly from coming out. This device is a either a wire bail or a Circlip. Inside the bottom of the lifter body is a spring that lightly presses the piston up against the retention device at the top.
Engine oil under operating pressure is fed into the lifter from a hole in the side of the outer body. This oil passes into the hollow piston/plunger where it goes in two directions: one, past the inertia valve under the socket to feed the pushrod, rocker, and valve spring with oil; the other past the bottom check valve to fill a chamber under the piston/plunger assembly pushing it up toward the retainer thus removing all clearance lash in the valve train. Engine oil pressure is not high enough to overcome the spring pressure keeping the valve closed, but is sufficient to remove the lash. When adjusting the rocker nut, the valve spring is strong enough to overcome engine oil pressure to allow the push rod to press the inner piston/plunger into the lifters body. Excessive downward adjustment will at the extreme press the check valve assembly into the bottom of the outer body damaging it. The adjustment is nothing more than depressing the piston/plunger an amount about equal to the heat caused expansion of the engine and its parts, it should be about the amount that a solid lifter clearance is set to as all you want is the lifter to operate where the piston/plunger does not pump up against the retainer with an exception Ill talk about later, nor so much clearance that lost motion in valve train becomes enough to hold the valve open when the piston/plunger pumps up to remove excess clearance due to valve train deflections and spring harmonics.
When the cam lobe starts to push the lifter against the valve spring, the plunger sinks ever so slightly too where inertia plus the light retention spring closes the check valve trapping oil in the cavity below the piston/plunger and the inside bottom of the lifter body and closes the disk valve that controls oil flow into the pushrod. This hydraulically locks the inner piston/plunger to the outer lifter body. Continued rotation of the lobe then pushes the lifter to where it actuates the valve train to open and close the valve. This is one place where a small amount of lost motion occurs as the inner piston must initially move fractionally slower than the outer body. This is done by allowing a tiny amount of oil to leak out while the lifter is rising on the lobes ramp.
When the lifter comes off the closing side of the ramp, the loss of valve spring pressure allows the internal high pressure trapped oil to push the check valve open as well as the disk valve to the push rod and escape. Oil then flows to the rocker mechanism and into the lower cavity till the cycle repeats on the opening ramp. If during this part of the cycle a clearance appears due to bending of the push rod, rocker stud, or floating or sticking of the valve; the plunger under engine oil pressure will react to close any clearance until it meets with valve spring pressure. If these events occur the piston/plunger will position itself higher than its initial adjusted position. If the next cycle of the lobe gets to the lifter before it can bleed the excess oil out from the force of the valve spring pushing backwards on the piston/plunger assembly; the base point of the piston/plunger will start that much taller as it hydraulically locks itself for the next opening cycle. Then when the lifter comes off the lobe, the valve will be held off its seat, unless the lifter has enough cycle time to bleed the excess oil out of the lower cavity. This is pump up, it occurs because something in the valve train has put either a clearance by deflecting under load, a loss of valve control from spring surge, or a momentary time lapse against function as in a sticking valve. By adjusting the plunger/piston lower in the lifter body, you increase the hydraulic lash, which at pump up will increase the amount of distance the valve will be positioned above its seat. This, also, increases the time and number of RPMs that must be reduced in which it would take the lifter to bleed down to recover from a pump up situation. So to a very large extent, the lifters ability to hold the initial zero lash adjustment is dependant upon when the check and disk valves close and how tightly they close.
The response time and amount of a lifters ability to track with the cam profile is directly related to how radical that lobe profile is and the amount of valve spring pressure that pushes on it. All hydraulics have some amount of leak down and a response time to recover that on the back side of the cam. There are lifters such as the Rhoads' that have more leak down than would a production lifter in a grocery getter engine. Crane and Comp also utilize fast leak down lifters to the same purposes which is to obtain a faster recovery from a pump-up situation and to build in an amount of RPM dependant variable cam timing. The latter is used on hot cams which tend to kill bottom end torque where a reduction of duration and lift at lower RPMs tends to bring the torque curve peak to a lower RPM and to hold that peak over a boarder rev range which provides more low speed power without resorting to high stall converters and or stiffer rear end gearing. But the down side is these lifters tend to tick at low RPMs where the downward movement of the piston/plunger does not have time to recover to zero lash on the cam heel because of the designed in leak rate. But as RPMs come up, the plunger runs out of time on the lobe to sink as much as at low revs, so the lifter nearly returns to its adjusted zero lash state by its normal operating process of viewing the high leak down as a distance of lash to be taken up. But these type lifters always leak the piston/plunger a bit more than the OEM type so they will extend the operating rev range before pumping up, but always at the cost of a tiny bit of duration and lift at the valve against the theoretical events commanded by the cam. This is where a solid lifter always carries an advantage.
As I said back at the first paragraph of the Operation section, there is a situation where you can push a hydraulic to function more like a solid. If the piston/plunger retention device is a Circlip instead of a wire bail, it is possible to adjust the lash so it is just at zero lash with the engine hot to where the piston/plunger assembly is just touching the retaining Circlip. This will prevent the lifter from pumping up to where it holds the valve off the seat as it takes up lash that develops from deflecting parts and spring surges. However, this can put a lot of load on the retention device which is why Circlips are recommended over wire bails. But bear in mind that a failure of the retention device will result in a messy, if not destructive, situation.
I agree w/ Duntov
With a 1:1 rocker ratio, .050" change at the stud (fulcrum) = .100" change at the lifter plunger (less a bit due to angles).
With a 3:1 rocker ratio, .050" change at the stud (fulcrum) = .075" change at the lifter plunger (less a bit due to angles).
With a 1.5:1 rocker ratio, .050" change at the stud (fulcrum) = .900" change at the lifter plunger (less a bit due to angles).
I Think, BBP
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Could you elaborate some on your: "Excessive downward adjustment will at the extreme press the check valve assembly into the bottom of the outer body damaging it"
From my investigation, some adjust their hyd lifters very close to the bottom, to keep high RPM plunger collapse from reducing lift & reducing seat bounce. David Vizard suggests this in one of his books.
Thanks, BBP
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The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) engaged in violent protests over the past few days in an effort to end the military coup government which has ruled Thailand over the past half year. The military government was installed by the King of Thailand after former premier Thaskin won an election. Thailand is slowly moving its way back to more democratic means although the military continues enjoying extensive power within the nation.
The question continually arises in so many societies controlled by the military — how does one protest against oppression? Are mass demonstrations a tool? Should one wait patiently until the military decides to allow some semblance of a free election? The people of Myanmar have been waiting for forty years for its military dictatorship to end with no evidence they will surrender power.


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Bountiful •The Bountiful softball team regrouped along the grassy knoll after downing East 18-2.
Assistant coach Russ Stoddard addressed the team as the players threw on hoodies trying to warm up after the chilly four-inning affair Tuesday.
"Who got hit today?" Stoddard asked, causing three hands go up. "Feels good on a cold afternoon, doesn't it?"
The girls laugh, sharing bruises received from being beamed three times in the batter's box.
It wasn't just the toughness to take the pitches that improved the Braves to 5-0 in region. It was their sharp hitting and smart base running that led to a dominant victory over East.
Bountiful was the model of efficiency from the start, hitting six consecutive singles in the first inning. No. 7 hitter Landi Hawker, a freshman, came to the plate and hit the ball deep to left, legging it out for a grand slam.
"I was just trying to move the runners," Hawker said sheepishly. "It's way fun hitting my first home run."
Belle Stoddard struck out five, giving up three hits and a walk, to earn the win. She committed to the changeup and worked a combination of pitches to keep the Leopards off-balance.
"My outside curveball is my go-to pitch, and it was breaking well today," Belle Stoddard said. "It was the changeup and rise that really kept them guessing."
Stoddard was only in trouble once, giving up a two-run home run in the fourth. A quick timeout with teammates settled Stoddard down after East's Kuea Angilau rounded the bases.
"They told me that they had my back, we got you," Stoddard said. "I knew I could throw ground ballers and they'd get them out."
Bountiful coach Russ Latey credited his seniors for setting the example.
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Kicking off with Super Bowl 48
Kicking off with thoughts on Super Bowl 48:
I don't know if the record-setting Denver Broncos have the NFL's all-time greatest offense, but I believe they have the all-time best passing offense under the current rules favoring the pass receivers over the defensive backs.
The Broncos obviously had the NFL's best offense this season and the Seahawks obviously had the best defense. The old bromides – a great defense beats a great offense , and offense sells tickets but defense wins championships – don't apply here. Because this is not a level playing field. The NFL wants more offense because most fans prefer shootouts over defensive duels and points drive TV . The more the merrier.
It was good to hear all the comparisons of the Denver Broncos-Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl 48 matchup to the Buffalo Bills (NFL's top offense) vs. the New York Giants (NFL's top defense) in Super Bowl 25. Those Bills deserved some love – 23 years after Scott Norwood's wide-right missed field goal.
ESPN's Bill Polian, GM of those Bills, this week dropped a piece of information that I'd never heard – Buffalo burned its last timeout in Super Bowl 25 when someone on the sidelines yelled "TIMEOUT" and QB Jim Kelly immediately complied. Polian didn't reveal who it was, but said the culprit was not a coach. Using that timeout cost the Bills an opportunity to run another play before Norwood's FG try. Polian said the Bills probably would've gained enough yards on that phantom play to put the ball in Norwood's normal near-automatic range. Polian said Norwood from 47 yards was far from a sure thing.
The way I figure it, Denver would score a minimum of 30 points against Seattle in decent weather on a neutral field and the Seahawks aren't likely to score more than 24 points against the Broncos on any sort of field in any kind of weather. My pick: Denver 35, Seattle 24.
If the Broncos win, quarterback Peyton Manning likely will be chosen game MVP and it wouldn't be a surprise if he broke Kurt Warner's record for yards passing in a Super Bowl (414 yards for St. Louis vs. Tennessee in Super Bowl; XXXIV).
Seattle's Richard Sherman enters Sunday's game as the most-watched defensive back in Super Bowl history. He welcomes the attention and he'll have it. If the Seahawks win and the defensive unit is the difference, don't be shocked if Sherman becomes the second cornerback to be Super Bowl MVP (joining Larry Brown of Dallas in Super Bowl XXX).
Two names have surfaced as possible No. 9 picks of the Buffalo Bills in the 2014 NFL college draft: Auburn offensive tackle Greg Robinson and North Carolina tight end Eric Ebron.
Robinson would bolster the pass protection for EJ Manuel. Ebron would give Manuel a receiving threat in the middle of the field. Both would be immediate starters and upgrades at their positions.
The coaching showdown between Duke's Mike Krzyzewski vs. Syracuse's Jim Boeheim has grabbed most of the attention entering Saturday evening's Blue Devils at Orange game, but Jabari Parker vs. Tyler Ennis also is intriguing.
One prominent college basketball analyst (Jeff Goodman of ESPN) this week rated Ennis the best freshman player in the nation and Parker No. 2. Jeff Borzello of CBSsports.com had them 1-2 in reverse order.
If one of those two players significantly outplays the other, his team likely will win.
Major League Baseball pitchers aren't likely to use padded caps for protecting against being skulled by line drives until they look better than the model approved this week. Safety is good but the cap has to look good, too.
Keith Law of ESPN.Insider this week ranked Major League Baseball's 30 farm systems. Minnesota was No. 2, behind only Houston (five straight No. 1 overall picks because the team has been so terrible): "The Twins have more high-end talent – I'm referring to players who have both high ceilings and also have a reasonable probability of getting close to those ceilings – than any other organization right now."...Minnesota prospects on his Top 100 list: No. 1 CF Byron Buxton, No. 8 3B Miguel Sano, No. 49 CF/2B Eddie Rosario, No. 62 P Alex Meyer, No. 76 P Kohl Stewart. All but Stewart could be Red Wings this summer.
Andrew Albers this week was given his outright release by the Minnesota Twins so he could sign to play in South Korea this season. Albers, 28, was a huge surprise for Rochester last season. He was 11-5 with a 2.86 ERA before being promoted to Minnesota, where he was 2-5 with a 4.05 ERA in 10 starts.
Slugging third-base prospect Miguel Sano, a probable Red Wing at some time during the 2014 season, is the cover subject for Baseball's America's 2014 Prospect Handbook.
Here's hoping Andre Reed finally is elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday. It will be tough because 2 of the other 124 finalists also are wide receivers – Tim Brown and Marvin Harrison, and they have even better stats.
New York state will supply 25 athletes to the U.S. Winter and Paralympic Games, including Rochester's Ryan Callahan, captain of the New York Rangers. Callahan is a potential free agent after this season and there is speculation that the Buffalo Sabres could be interested. I don't blame them.
Long-time kicker Morten Andersen also is a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's the all-time leaders in points and games. He this week touted himself and punter Ray Guy for Canton, suggesting that kickers have been neglected in the voting. I believe Steve Tasker would be more-deserving than any kicker, representing all non-kicking special teams stars. Tasker is not a finalist this time around.
Warren Harper, a popular and productive forward for the Rochester Americans from 1983 through 1987, has died at age 50 after a long battle with brain cancer. In 297 games with the Amerks, he had 85 goals and 119 assists.
I apologize to the Buffalo 716ers of the Premier Basketball League for mocking their name. The new HarborCenter restaurant in Buffalo will be called "716." I didn't think it was that big a deal when it was Rochester's area code. It's obviously a much bigger deal in Buffalo.
There currently are four former Syracuse Orange players in the NBA: Carmelo Anthony (Knicks), Dion Waiters (Cleveland), Wesley Johnson (Los Angeles Lakers) and Michael Carter-Williams (Philadelphia). Scoop Jardine (Tulsa), James Sutherland (Los Angeles) and Arinze Onuaku (Canton) are in the NBA-D League. Several SU products are playing overseas, i8ncluding Donte' Greene (China), Kris Joseph (France) Andy Rautins (Germany) and Brandon Triche (Italy). I have no idea where Fab Melo is.
Dan Marino this week said he would've thrown for 6,000 yards in a season in today's NFL. Maybe. But he probably still wouldn't win a Super Bowl if his team drafted only pass-protecting offensive linemen and neglected a running attack.
How about a REAL casino for Medley Centre? Finger Lakes and Batavia Downs are NOT casinos, they are slot machine emporiums. I believe a genuine casino in Greater Rochester would outdraw Finger Lakes and Batavia Downs combined, employ more people, pay more taxes and might even include a privately-financed performing arts center.