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Bathroom fan not drawing air properly
I have a general question about a bathroom fan not drawing air properly at a friend's house.
The house is a 1600 sq.ft two-storey built in 2003. There are 3 bathrooms: 1 on the main floor, 1 on the second level off the hallway, and 1 on the second level off the master bedroom.
The issue is with the bathroom off the master bedroom. The fan does not draw any air unless I close the vent on the main floor bathroom and turn off the fan. This is the only time it works.
The bathroom off the hallway works at all times. No issues there.
A plumbing & heating company was contacted and they said because the fan will draw from the first source you have to reduce the damper on main floor washroom so that it doesn't steal all the air. I have never heard of this before. In my own house, I can have all the bathroom fans running simultaneously and it would work just fine.
Is what I am being told a logical response, or is there something I should be looking into? I think they are tied to the same exhaust as it appears there is a main fan located in the basement.
Thank you in advance.
Is there a gap of about 1" under the door?
Never head of a fan being located in a basement to exhost air in the bathrooms above it.
There are systems that are made to have one central fan to exhost more then one room with the same fan, but if someone just used a tee with no baffles it's not going to work.
This just sound dumb. Each fan should have its own piping to outside. Why have they complicated something so simple? You mean to tell me that they design something where if the one fan goes down you lose all your bathroom venting? Brilliant. Also like Joe said, no intake, no exhaust.
Panisonic is one company that makes a central vent system.
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My gut instinct is that this is all too good to be true. But that's all I have to go on. Just like everyone else, I've paid a lot more attention to Iraq than I have to Afghanistan. At first blush, the impending success of the Afghan presidential elections seems like a major victory for George W. Bush. But what does it say about this administration or about the United States that things are far better off in the country where we only have a handful of troops and have kept a much lower profile throughout the occupation?
With the benefit of hindsight, we'll probably realize that Afghanistan was simply much closer to being "ready" for democracy than Iraq. For some reason, the warlords and the heroin trafficking and the ethnic divisions didn't wreck the occupation. Even so, the prospect of success in Afghanistan only underlines how violent Iraq has become.
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Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) is soaring after announcing impressive second quarter results and full-year estimates that are in-line with Wall Street.
The popular cloud computing company reported a Q2 EPS of $0.09. This was 18 percent lower than the EPS reported during the year-ago period, but it was still higher than Wall Street's estimate of $0.07.
Revenue came in at $957 million versus $938.81 million as sales were up 31 percent year-over-year.
Salesforce also announced that it expects to report a third-quarter EPS of $0.08 to 0.09 versus the Street estimate of $0.08. The company anticipates a full-year 2014 EPS of $0.32 to 0.34 versus $0.32.
"Salesforce.com continues to be the fastest growing software company of its size with year-over-year growth of more than 30% in revenue, deferred revenue, and operating cash flow," Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce, said in a company release. "I'm delighted to announce that just four years after delivering our first $1 billion revenue year, we are now poised to deliver our first $1 billion revenue quarter in the third quarter of fiscal 2014."
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Do whatever it takes to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
That was the message from Indmar Marine Engines president Chuck Rowe, who gave House Republican leaders a seldom-heard small-business perspective Wednesday in a meeting on Capitol Hill.
Rowe and eight other small business owners met with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
National Marine Manufacturers Association legislative director Jim Currie and NMMA government relations office vice president John McKnight, who sat in on the meeting, said Rowe let legislators know that the marine industry is made up of small-business owners.
He expressed concern that if we went over the fiscal cliff that unemployment would rise by 4 percent and that would really be a bad thing for the marine industry in general, Currie told Soundings Trade Only after the meeting. We are very much a discretionary product, and if people are not sure of what the future is going to be like financially, theyre not going to buy a boat.
Rowe told legislators that a dealer he met with in Orlando told the story of two serious prospects who left empty-handed because they were too uncertain about the fiscal cliff, Currie said.
Chucks message was, We cant go over this fiscal cliff. Do what you have to do. It would be great if you cut spending more than raising taxes, but the main thing is, get it done.
The meeting stemmed from a call Rowe made last week to Currie and McKnight.
We had just gotten a call from Chuck Rowe commenting that all he was reading about was that the White House and others were meeting with gigantic corporations, Currie said. He was wondering when someone was going to meet with smaller businesses like him.
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The blogosphere has long obsessed over Apple products, both real and potential, but today I think we set a new record. MacRumors has commissioned a graphic designer to make an interactive 3d of the iPad Mini.
The model is the work of CiccareseDesign, and it's based on MacRumors' best guesses for what the device might look like. That blog has been following the iPad Mini rumors from the beginning, and they even broke some of the rumors, so they have a first hand view of this growing story.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – The Francis Marion University baseball team jumped up 10 positions to seventh in the latest Collegiate Baseball Magazine NCAA Division II Top 30 poll released Monday (Feb. 23), the highest-ever national ranking for the Patriot program.
FMU shares the No. 7 spot with Slippery Rock University, while Central Missouri State University maintains its hold on the top position in the poll.
Francis Marion won three of five games last week, including two wins over then third-ranked and Peach Belt Conference preseason favorite Kennesaw State University. One of the Patriots' losses was a 13-11, 11-inning slugfest to Presbyterian College.
Francis Marion was ranked as high as 12th last season and was ranked 12th once during the 1993 campaign.
The 6-3 Patriots return to action on Wednesday when they play host to Barton College in a 2 p.m. contest. FMU plays a three-game PBC series this weekend at Augusta State University.
The Patriots own a team batting average of .308, led by junior center fielder and Darlington native Quentin Davis, with his .474 average, two home runs, and 11 runs batted in. Senior starters Erin Jones (2-0, 1.80 earned run average) and Phil Padgett (3-0, 6.75 ERA) lead the Patriot pitching staff.
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The impression that Ben Howard burst out of nowhere with Every Kingdom, his Mercury-nominated debut album of acoustic, soul-baring folk ballads, is not right — and it's important to him that we know that. Certainly no one in 2011, when it was released, expected it to sell 600,000 copies in the UK, a million globally and rise to fourth in the album charts a week after its softly spoken creator stunned the boozy crowd at the 2013 Brits by winning the awards for British breakthrough act and male solo artist.
But everything about the 27-year-old Howard, from his artistic self-worth to his contempt for the fame-obsessed prima donna types he meets backstage at festivals, rests on the notion that he won his success the hard way, the traditional way; gigging relentlessly, in his case to crowds of fellow surfers in Devon and across Europe. His best-known songs, such as the top-ten hit 'Only Love', and 'Keep Your Head Up', weren't known to the nation overnight on the whim of Simon Cowell, but were slow-burners, loved by the crowds at the intimate shows he played around the world (his first album charted even higher in the Netherlands and Belgium than it did in the UK).
He's known to be less gentle in person than he seems cooing in his distinctive breathy voice behind the microphone. He doesn't give many interviews and those he does tend to mention that he can be irrit-able and defensive and prone to going on rants about other musicians and his critics. Two years ago, one unfortunate interviewer mentioned an article about 'beige pop' that suggested the Mumford-Adele-Sheeran wave in British music that he is part of was a bit on the boring side. 'I couldn't give a f*** what he says,' said Howard.
Before we meet, in the restaurant of the Soho Hotel, he first has a quick fag outside 'to chill out' and then, suitably relaxed, sits down at our corner table, smiling agreeably. Shyly radiant in black jeans and a faded surfer T-shirt, he looks like a striking wetsuit model, or a hard-to-read hunk on Home and Away. Everything he says is accompanied by the hallmarks of a guy who has earned his money through introspection: studied pauses, lengthy looks into the distance, expressive facial twists. His measured responses couldn't be more different from the hysterical tweets, mainly from his teenage fanbase, that greeted the announcement of his long-awaited run of gigs next month (Hackney Empire, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris). One tweet wailed: 'I don't think my mum understands the importance of getting Ben Howard tickets, like if I don't get them, I will cry forever.' 'I am so happy yet so worried about not getting tickets that I want to vomit but cry because of Ben Howard,' panted another.
I was present at two of his biggest festival appearances: first in an acoustic tent at Bestival in 2012 and then in a packed-out afternoon slot on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury last year (he was on shortly before the Rolling Stones). But in the year since, his crowd has become notably more One Direction. 'I've been very fortunate that the screaming girls haven't put off the guys at the back, who are still listening,' says Howard, referring to the dramatic change of fanbase he's experienced in a short space of time. 'It's flattering. It's nice to be the centre of attention among many women.' He admits it 'instantly puts a strain on any relationship', but adds that his long-term girlfriend 'deals with it pretty well'.
Howard grew up 'in the doldrums of Middlesex' and went to primary school in Richmond. Living right under the Heathrow flight path, he remembers standing at the end of the garden with his mother, a jeweller, and his older sister Krysia, waving up at his architect father when he was returning from business trips. 'I don't have any contact with any friends from when I was younger,' Howard says, though he recalls happy trips along the Thames, where it bends around Richmond and Isleworth. When he was eight, his parents moved to Devon, close to Totnes, an outpost of free-thinking and hippie localism in the West Country.
By age 11 he was writing love songs, jamming with his sister and her friend India Bourne on cello. (Bourne remains one of Howard's full-time collaborators, singing harmonies, playing bass and helping out with percussion.) A well-received first open-mic gig in Totnes set them on their way. Throughout secondary school, music was Howard's full-time hobby and by the time he started at University College Falmouth in Cornwall, it had become his main priority — he quit his journalism course after six months and never looked back.
A month of sold-out gigs across Europe in 2011 landed him every musician's dream: a record deal with the label of his heroes, Island Records, which had first signed Howard's inspiration John Martyn, at the age of 19, in 1967. Howard's parents were big music fans, who introduced their children early on to singer-songwriters such as Martyn, Van Morrison and Simon & Garfunkel. His other musical heroes include Neil Young — Howard admires his 'fierceness', but doesn't want to get political himself until he's got his message straight. 'We live in a modern world and yet there are fewer people who own everything,' he says, when pressed for an insight into his politics. 'I kind of shy away from it because you've got to be very clear about what you want to say.'
Some would bracket Howard with the other twenty-something male British breakthroughs of the past few years, such as Ed Sheeran or Tom Odell. I ask if he gets on with that crowd; they presumably meet backstage at festivals and award shows. 'I was talking to a friend in the pub last night and saying that it's interesting that we've never really been a part of any scene,' he says. 'I keep out of the way. I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them. You see people throwing their toys out of the pram. There's nothing wrong with a bit of arrogance, because it's show-business, but when everyone around them is catering for their needs and they're still trying to be this larger-than-life character, you just think: "You could be normal in this scenario." '
As if to prove his anti-music-business credentials, Howard's first songs were recorded in a converted barn in Devon and he has just bought his first house, in Totnes, near the sea, which he shares with a couple of housemates. He's been with his girlfriend — whom he refuses to name — for over a year now. 'It's kind of really important for me at the moment because everything is quite chaotic,' he explains. 'It's nice when you can find someone who understands.'
Earlier this month, he announced the title of his second album, I Forget Where We Were, on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show. Out this autumn, it's less pop-like and more eclectic than Every Kingdom. Its sonically grander, more complex sound almost seems to say: 'Not for teenagers.' 'One of the main themes is anxiety,' he explains. 'The past couple of years I was drinking a lot and I obviously had a lot of attention as well, so it was quite nice to go away and write a record just drawing on what I was feeling [about that]. I was quite anxious about a lot of things, so that's kind of really pushed itself to the forefront in a few of the songs.' No alcohol is ordered during our meeting — it's mid-morning, after all — but still, I ask if his drinking has been a problem, recalling that in one past interview the journalist noted that Howard was on his third whisky before 3pm. 'It's never been a problem,' he says. 'It's not a big deal; it's just something you do on tour and stuff. It's not like any sort of dependency or anything. I've been quite fortunate that I live where I do and I've got friends that I have, so it's never something that's dictated my life.'
Howard is a confessional singer whose songs sometimes border on self-help: 'Keep your head up/keep your heart strong'; 'I will become what I deserve.' 'I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music,' he says. It's where the intense connection to the thousands of anguished kids comes from, but I wonder if it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Can singing about heartache sometimes beget more? 'It's all very personal, sometimes I wonder whether it's too personal,' he says. 'I think you have to be very conscious to save something for yourself, that's one of the most important things anyone has ever said to me. It was an ex-girlfriend of mine and it's the line from a John Martyn tune as well.' He sings hastily, under his breath, so our fellow late-breakfasters can't hear: 'Cos I saved some/You didn't get it all.' Learning that lesson means there are some songs that will never see the light of day. 'I didn't record a couple of songs on this album because they were too much,' he says. 'There's definitely a line you've got to take. About family and stuff. It was just something I didn't want to share.'
Hearing that, my mind turns to a highly shared fan post on Tumblr, which makes the unlikely claim that many of his songs are inspired by the claimed suicide of a long-term girlfriend (lines are quoted from 'Follaton Wood': 'Still don't, don't you forget/That rope you tied around your neck'; 'And it took them three days to find you/tired torch lights and dog scents/Oh they led you down from the highest branches/Cold eyes and frozen arms'). It's something he has never spoken about. After a long pause, he answers uncertainly, 'No. I think there's a lot of stuff...' his voice trails off. 'People will figure out the strangest things, but I'm quite happy to let people follow their imaginations.' It's obviously something he's heard before. 'I've heard it [the imagined suicide] talked about. It's not true in the truest sense — I don't think any ex-girlfriends have committed suicide,' he says. 'But I like the freedom people have with songs, the fact that someone will spend the time going through them. But I don't think it's mine to deal with, you know?'
For all that, he admits that the process of growing famous on the back of baring his soul turned a 'fairly extrovert' kid into a shy star. 'I meet a lot of people who are awkward around me now. I was always embarrassed about that; the more attention I got, the less I wanted it and the more it would manifest in a physical way and I would be hunched over about it. I'm just starting to realise now that it's not my problem, it's somebody else's problem. And that's OK.'
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It was in 1907 when the San Antonio School Board purchased a building site for the proposed Missionfield School. In 1907, H. L. Page prepared plans for this school and the building was finished in 1908. It was at this time when the name was changed from MissionfieldSchool to Riverside Park School because the city of San Antonio had just completed the fine golf course at the Riverside Park located on Roosevelt Ave. In 1912, the Fowler Brothers who were the developers in this part of the city, offered to sell the remaining portion of the block surrounding Riverside Park for $3000.00. In 1913, an undeterminable amount of money was set aside in order to purchase the lots. After the purchase of the property, there was now about a square block bounded on the north by School Street, on the east by Naylor, on the south by Hansford, and on the west by the railroad track.
In the school year of 1907-1908, Riverside Park School opened its doors and welcomed their first class of students. The school was a new brick building consisting of four classrooms, which were all equipped with new desks with wrought iron supports, new chairs, and all new supplies. The restrooms were frame buildings located outside of the main building in the yard. There was a large spacious area located in the new building that was used as an office by the first principal, Miss Margaret E. Burke (1908-1923).
The main entrance of the building was ornamented with sculptured angels, this was found to be an early original work of Dr. Pompeo Louis Coppini. The center of the sculpture donned a round plaque, which contained the name of the school and the date of its establishment. Throughout the years, Coppini's work has been preserved and when the old building was torn down, the sculpture was carefully placed above the north door entrance on the present building. The plaque is no longer in the center of the sculpture and it is not known when the plaque was demounted.
In 1930, a new brick building was erected just west of the original structure. The new building consisted of six classrooms, which were equipped with tables and chairs on the lower floor. There was an office, a small clinic and a small bookroom. Names of the board members who were serving at the time were engraved on a bronze plaque and was positioned on a wall at the main entrance of the building. The names are as follows:
• J. H. Hornberger, President
• Mrs. Stella Steve Walker
• Dr. J. A. McIntosh
• Leo Brewer
• Mrs. C. W. Taylor
•Mrs. W. H. Quirk
• Adolph Beckman
• B. W. Hartley, Superintendent
In 1944-1945, the old type of hand bell that was utilized to call the staff and students was replaced by the school's first electrical school bell system. In 1948, new furniture was purchased in order to replace the old in five of the upper grade classrooms. In 1950, the 1B class was furnished with modern air-plane type tables and chairs.
Due to steadily continuous growth in the community, on September 4, 1957, construction began on a new cafeteria stucture. The dedication ceremony of the new cafetorium was celebrated on March 4, 1958.
After fifty years of use, the old building was proven to be unsafe and it was torn down in the spring of 1964. The construction of a new wing consisting of twelve classrooms was started and completed by September 1964. The new classrooms were considered very modern, each room had sinks and bubblers for drinks. Each room had cloakrooms with folding doors, and all rooms were equipped with shelves and coat hangers for children's coats. All primary rooms had toilet facilities. New furniture was purchased and each student had their own desk and chair.
In 1966-1967, Riverside Park once again outgrew her building and the plans in the future, perhaps in 1967-1968, are to construct a library and to establish a kindergarten or Headstart Program aided by the Federal Government. Enrolled at the present time (1967) are
482 children with the guidance of 18 teachers.
As growth in community continued to increase, it was necessary to add to the existing building. It was around 1914 when two additional classrooms were added to the original building. The building was made with safe concrete halls and safe concrete stairs. At this time the building was heated with a hot-air furnace. The two upper rooms of the original building had a folding partition, which could be opened in order to create an auditorium. At the beginning of World War I in 1914, additional classrooms and two classrooms in frame buildings were erected on the south side of the yard in order to accommodate the growing number of students. These new rooms housed the lower grade students and teachers.
One frame building was converted into a cafeteria and auditorium. Then in 1939-1940 the two old frame buildings were torn down and a more serviceable cafetorium was built.
-- May 1967… History Updated by Belle Henderson
Riverside Park Elementary
Through further research of the school's history and more interesting facts have been discovered and documented.
One of the classrooms built in 1930, which was room (14) and is presently room (224), is still in its original plan on the second floor. The once black board is now a green chalk board and the wall where the cloak closet was once located has been removed, but the coat hooks are still in the same place.
Many black and white pictures are still located in the school and it was discovered that all photographs were taken outdoors because during that particular time-period there was no electricity. There are photographs of students performing in a percussion ensemble, students in costumes, and several student class pictures.
Over the past years, more programs have been implemented in order to better serve the students, such as the gifted and talented program, computer technology classes, reading interventions,
P.A.L.s (Peer Assistance and Leadership), and the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program.
During the past one hundred years, seventeen principals, hundreds of faculty members, and thousands of parents have had a profound impact on the school's history.
One extraordinary fact that was discovered was that Mrs. Sarah B. Williamson was one of the first teachers hired in 1908. Incredibly, Mrs. Williamson served 30 years as a first grade teacher, 2 years as an assistant principal, and 16 years as a principal. Mrs. Williamson compiled the first documented history of the Riverside Park School in April 1952. Mrs. Williamson exemplified the commitment to the students and community of Riverside Park.
When Riverside Park School was first established, many of the student enrolled, consisted largely of students from German decent. Former neighborhood residents recall that the people in the community often spoke German.
From 1979 to 1995, Riverside Park began a new chapter in the history of the school. Mrs. Marvene Brown Elliott was appointed as the first African-American principal and the second principal to service the school and community for sixteen. Many improvements, changes, and plans were initiated during Mrs. Elliott's
Due to overcrowding issues in the school, the neighborhood was surveyed and new boundaries were established. Many of the existing students of Riverside Park were sent to neighboring schools. Within a few months, enrollment began to increase and once again, more portable buildings were added to the campus. There were a total of (22) classrooms outside of the main building. Realizing the need to add to the existing building, S.A.I.S.D., along with the campus improvement committee moved forward and formulated plans for the construction of a new wing.
The groundbreaking of the new wing began on November 25, 1995 and the new wing was completed in the fall of 1996. On December 10, 1996, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held in order to officially open the new addition to Riverside Park Elementary School.
The first floor housed (1) Pre-Kinder classroom, (5) Kinder classrooms, (4) First grade classrooms,
(1) DSP classroom, and restrooms for the boys and girls. The second floor housed (5) Third grade classrooms, (3) Fourth grade classrooms, the library, a resource room, girls and boys restrooms and much needed storage
closets. There were also some renovations made in the old building as well, such as a new counselor's office, a clinic, an elevator and a resource room.
Improvements continued when the S.A.I.S.D. 1997 bond aided in renovating a fine arts room, a speech room, upgraded the fire alarm system, technological and infrastructure upgrades, and the ability to become in compliance with the A.D.A. (American Disability Act) facilities. The construction of a new gymnasium began in December 1998 and was completed with a coveredwalkway to the main building in August 1999.
The Early Childhood program began in 2001 and serviced English and Spanish speaking 3 and 4 year old students. A 2001 Bond Election financed an Early Childhood Facility (ECF) and construction began in February 2002.
In 2001-2002 Riverside Park Elementary became a TEA Recognized campus under the leadership of Jo Nell Foley.
In 2003, Ms. Sandra Martinez, principal (2003-06), was determined to take Riverside Park Elementary into the 21st Century and initiated plans to pursue a TEA Charter School Grant. The students, staff, community and Board members voted to accept the TEA Charter School Grant and on May 15, 2004, Riverside Park Elementary was officially renamed Riverside Park Academy. Riverside Park Academy became the first Elementary Technology Campus in the San Antonio Independent School District. Under the leadership of Ms. Martinez, the school also garnered a United Way Grant and a Project Youth Connection After School program grant, which are still in existence today.
On May 9, 2008, Riverside Park Academy celebrated its One-hundredth Anniversary of educating children and servicing the community. As part of the ceremony, the honor choir of Riverside Park was featured singing our 100th anniversary song entitled Oh, Riverside Park, words written by Baldemar Rodriguez a 4th grade teacher and music composed by Frank Villarreal. This was a monumental occasion attended by Dr. Robert
Duron, Superintendent; the SAISD board members James Howard, president; Carlos Villarreal, vice-president; Thomas C. Lopez, secretary; Doug Sellars, assistant secretary; Liz Melson, Area II Executive Director; Beatrice Aleman, principal (2006-2008); past and present faculty, staff, students and members of the community.
Kristin Willmann (2008-2009), joined the Riverside Park family as the principal and made many positive academic changes.
In May 2013 the SAISD voted to change our school name from "Academy" back to "Elementary". From 2009 to 2016, Riverside Park Elementary, was under the leadership of Mr. Homer Rivera, servicing 482 students with the guidance of (1) counselor, (1) Assistant Principal, (1) nurse, (30) teachers, (10) paraprofessionals,
(4) office staff members, (4) custodial staff members, and (4) cafeteria staff members.
Presently, for the 2016-2017 school year we are welcoming our new Principal, Dr. Cassie McClung.
It is the goal and commitment of Riverside Park Elementary to help foster model students who are educationally nurtured, technologically skilled, physically and emotionally robust, and creatively inspired in order to become successful productive citizens who are apt to triumph over any future endeavors.
-- December 1996 History Updated by Jo Nell Foley
-- January 2008 History Updated and Compiled by
Rose M. Richardson, Retired Teacher
--February 2010- July 2016 History Updated, Compiled, and Published by
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Murray, Martin H. (2001) Students: managing to learn; teachers: learning to manage. In Miller, Judith, Groccia, James, & Miller, Marilyn (Eds.) Student-assisted teaching - a guide to faculty-student teamwork. Anker Publishing Company, Bolton, Mass., pp. 50-55.
Two large (400 enrollments) freshman courses at Queensland University of Technology in Australia have been converted to a resource-based, student-centered format, which has enabled supplemental instruction (SI) sessions to be incorporated. The SI scheme is very popular with students, has greatly improved students' grades, and has reduced dropout rates from engineering. The students now learn content from the resource material and understand the theory in free ranging, fun SI sessions; the teacher has become a manager of the process instead of being a knowledge guru. Professional, non-technical development of students has greatly improved, and all this has been achieved with a reduced financial burden on the department.
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I just found out a place in our community is shutting its doors. This I know is not uncommon now. The workers will get unemployment, at least the ones that can. The business is fileing bankruptcy to pay off outstanding bills and then they will call the employees back but at a lower wage than hat they were making. If they refuse then no job and no unemployment since they refused to come back. This to me sounds like another way for business' to get out of their responsibilities. Once is one thing but this guy has done this before many times. What happens to all the bills that this guy owes?
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Well that really sux! What a meanie!03-24-2009, 02:04 PM #3
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It is instances like these that really make me angry. We are paying for his bills he didn't pay through taxes and cuts in services! UGHSponsored Links Remove Advertisements03-24-2009, 03:01 PM #4
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In Michigan you aren't required to accept a job at a lower wage than you were making in order to draw down your unemployment, nor do you have to look further than 35 miles away from your home.
Companies are closing their doors everywhere and it is sad. It's like the Big 3...a lot of people think the workers should accept pay cuts down to what the foreign automakers who have plants in the US pay their workers...to that I say WTF...since I haven't noticed the price of those cars drop any even though they pay a much cheaper wage.
All we can do is keep plugging along and hopefully the economy will pick back up again.
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We are having a meeting at work tomorrow. We are hearing through the grapevine they are going to ask us to pay 1/2 of our insurance. I pay $15 a month for good insurance, health only. If I paid 1/2 I would be paying at least $300 a month. If this is what they are going to ask my answer will be keep all of your money. I'll be getting married real soon and have his insurance with dental and vision. I'll save them money. Someone also said they were talking about asking us to take a pay cut. I'll only do this if they don't mess with the insurance. They did already ask the salaried employees to take a 10% cut last week and they agreed. Since December they have done away with our quarterly incentive program, stopped contributing to 401k, and just last week they posted they will no longer be providing free coffee for employees. I've always thought providing coffee for employees was a waste of money, they don't provide soda for non coffee drinkers.I'm sure the next thing to go will be our reward day. To me this is a no brainer. I always thought my reward for working was my paycheck.They give us a paid day off for every 90 or 120 days we work without missing, depending on our hours( 8 hr. people only have to go 90 days because they work 5 days a week while 12 people work 120 days since they work a 4 day one week and 3 day the next week rotation). They also laid 2 more guys off Sunday. My department can't keep up but the rest of the
plant is very slow.It's getting scary.
Cat"For if I have my faith, I can rise up and say, I still have it all." HisSong03-24-2009, 11:20 PM #6
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It is scary; but be happy you have a job at all. Most of the reason for companies asking you to pay insurance is because of the insurance companies. When they pay outrageous money for an aspirin in the hospital; then they raise their rates; employers cannot keep up with that. I have been married for 33 years and we have paid our own insurance for most of it with no dental and no prescription.03-25-2009, 07:34 AM #7
If I were to go on my dh's insurance, now this is just me no body else. It would cost almost 1000 a month. Witht hat you havenothingleft to buy groceries so you'd die anyway from starvation so why pay it? ( don't mean to be flip but it's true) We are able to get CHIPP or his daughter til she's 18. This isn't the first time this guy has done this and whats' bad is he has the money and the product topay his bills and employees. Just doesn't want to part with it. It's lumber industry and the market is down abut he owns mega property where he doesn't have to pay for logging and a gated home with security camers no less in a rural area of Pa. there is virtually no crime to speak of because f the close knit neighbors watching everybodys back. That's why I like it here. Everybody minds their own business but don't eventhink of crossing theline cause we'll know. He really has no reason to do this to his emloyees03-25-2009, 08:32 AM #803-25-2009, 10:12 AM #9
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I agree. I wish we had the option of paying 1/2 (we already do kick in $50 a pay period = $100 a month for our health benefits for Single, DOUBLE that for family coverage!) Wish we were allowed to take a 10% pay cut/no raise/no bonus/no match to our 401K in order to keep our jobs, but our company (HUGE Law Firm in NYC making mega $$, so what's their reason for lay-offs then?) won't even consider it!
It must be nice to have those kinds of options in order to keep one's job. I guess for some people though they feel entitled to keep it all and carry on like there are no problems with the economy. TIMES ARE HARD Everyone is effected and Everyone is supposed to be in this together. So quite complaining already and be thankful you all even still have jobs! I and plenty of other people would give our right eye to be give such an option.
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If insurance is the issue, have you considered self-insuring? My hubby's got great benefits and his employer covers him and the kids for 70 a month... to add me (SAHM) it would be another 600$ a month. This was before the recession. I decided to self-insure and I contacted a insurance company and got an individual policy for about 100$ a month. It covers major medical, no prescription/dental and has a large deductible, but I have no complaints. I am saving 500$ a month.03-25-2009, 06:00 PM #11
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I would think that this kind of person should be an example. Get ahold of your local secretary of state and congresscritters. Right now, people manipulating the system for simple gain at the expense of others are REALLY unpopular (AIG).
My .02, but that's what I'd do!
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305 build help
Ive used this site for ages to look at already asked questions but it is now time that i ask my own, so any help would be appreciated.
I just bought a 305 w/ flat top pistons, said to be about 10:1 compression, stock heads, no cam, clean crank,etc. i bought this for a 1986, c10 truck. I am starting with the motor and working my way back as needed.
My question is, i am building this motor for street/strip, mostly street but i do tend to find my self at the track on weekends. It is a chevy 85' 305 block standard bore with the stock crank. I was looking at a cam that will give me good performance street and track as well as allow me to upgrade my heads without buying a new cam when i eventually do so. I played with that Comp cam program and found 12-246-3 to be to my liking...Duration @ 0.006": 274° / 286° Duration @ 0.050": 230° / 236°
Max Lift w/ 1.5RR: .487" / .490" Lobe Separation: 110°
First, is that a cam for me and how much do you think i need to do to my stock heads to make it work- springs/retainers... ect...?
I also have a buddy with Trick Flow Heads TFS-31400001 that i can get cheap. Should i just go with those since they already have the needed springs, lift clearence, milling etc.
And if so should i stick to this cam choice?
I know its alot of questions but any help is appreciated. thanks
that is a whole lot of cam for a 305, i would say that would be a healthy street/strip cam in a 350. what heads are on the 305 if they aren't th 4416 HO 305 heads then they are pretty much garbage and need to be scrapped. i know that you should already know this but the 305 is certainly not the engine you want to start out with as a street/strip motor, they are a efficent low end light weight tow motor, they make next to no power above 4000-4500rpm. pretty much all the non 4.000"+ bore sbc's are not a good motor to start with when wanting to build a performance engine.
about the largest valve's you could go with would be 1.94 intake and a 1.5 exhaust as you will still have to have about a combined .060" clearnace between the two valves and the valves and the cylinder walls. so you would have to see what all is in your friends heads
how about this you find out what are all the specs on your friends TF heads and let us know and we'll tell you if it's a good idea or not.
thanks, yeah i realize that a 305 is not an ideal motor to build for this but it was cheap, free for some work i did.
the specs on the heads are; 180cc intake port, 64cc chambers, 2.02"/1.60" valves, 13* intake / 23* exhaust valve angles, angled sparkplugs, 50 state legal, Has steamholes for 400" engine, heads flow 240cfm intake @ .600" lift & 200cfm exhaust @ .600" lift.
thanks for the help
Keep in mind that any money you put into that block in the way of parts and machine work is throw away money because you will want to move up to a 350 some day.
Do yourself a favor and at least check around and see what a 350 will cost you before you start.
i certainly agree with this!
with those heads you will have problems with the valve size and wall clearance, as well as you will loose about .5 of a compression point so if you have "10:1" now you will end up with about 9.5:1 and limit your choice of cams all due to the 58-60cc heads you have on there and the additonal 6-4cc's in the TF 64cc combustion chambers.
if your goal is to make a 300hp 305 then i would say find a set of 4416 305 HO heads, and use a cam around 210-216 duration @ 050 with about .450 lift. you may want to look into a cam with a later intake closure or more LSA to compliment the cam selections you will be looking at and the supposed 10:1 CR
Ive seen builds done that make 325hp with vortec heads, i just figured these trick flow heads would help open her up alittle more. A 350 is ideal but as for now i am gonna try to see what i can get out of this 305. If i was really concerned about times i would choose a different car too but iam just trying to build something fun, my other projects are for the other half of me trying to turn times. thanks for the idea tho
like i mentioned the 2.02/1.6 valves will be too much/close to the 305 cylinder walls, you wont be able to go over 1.94/1.5 and that is what the vortecs have. the TF heads are pretty much out of the question, now a set of vortecs may work but you will spend 500.00 to get a set that have been rebuilt and worked the way you want then vs you can find a set of 4416 heads for 50-100.00 and have them rebuilt for 200ish and it wouldn't be too hard to make 300hp with them just dont expect to turn the 305 up much past 5000rpm
thanks for that information, iam going to look into that. Now what about a cam set up? if i run those style heads. Is that cam i mentioned going to be to much? thanks again.
Also this block is a 85' 305, what years did the 4416 heads come on. i dont have them around me to look at the casting numbers, thanks.
The TFS TW heads you are talking about are the "G2" version that has a few of the problems sorted out that the first heads had. Keep the lift below 0.520" unless you flycut the pistons for valve clearance. The usual eyebrow or trough valve slots will not do- the TW G2 head has 16º/18º valve angles and the(intake only?) valve isn't in the same location as OEM, IIRC. P to V clearances have to be verified for all cams to be safe, including both sides of the ICL where it is to be installed.
Using the TW heads, the CR will be low- about 8.2 w/the usual stock bore, stroke, deck and piston volume specs and a 0.041" head gasket thickness. You can bring this up by using 0.028" composite gaskets ~8.6 CR), even more by zero decking the block (~9.0). More yet w/milling the heads.
The 416 heads were used on '80 to '84 or '86 (depending on where you look) 305's.
Another option is to use the Vortec 5.0L "059" head from a '96-up L30 engine.
Vortec L30 "059" casting:
LIFT Int Ex
.100" 68 47
.200" 128 103
.300" 179 138
.400" 205 152
.500" 221 163
L30 305 head info- POST #487.
Here's how these guys got 372 hp out of their 305.
ok well i think iam sticking with the heads that came with it, they held a .480 lift cam before it was torn down, the springs were replaced to hold that much lift and the heads are 68cc. So a little for information for my build.
That being said, with those heads and a 5.0l Edelbrock rpm II with 600cfm carb.
Any suggestions on a cam... i would like a rougher idle, good torque but also hp for a little track time (i know its not going to be turning stunning times, but id like it to do as well as possible)
Thanks again
I have an 86 chevy C-10 with a nice little 305 in her. Not a street/strip but fun to drive and turn a few heads. All i have is headers, edlebrock performer intake, edlebrock 600 carb, 700r4, and most inportant i got a set of gears(3:42) and this thing flies. I wouldnt do anything internally to a 305. Now I have seen some pretty wicked sounding cammed up 305's but that same cam would do lots more in a 350. If thats all you have then roll it.
Yeah sounds like fun, i cant wait. I am only looking for a cam because i need to buy one anyways, so i figured id go as big as possible with this set-up because honestly there isnt really a money difference between a stock cam and a little beefier cam.
i think i am leaning towards a comp cam magnum:
Magnum 270H Hydraulic Flat Tappet Camshaft & Lifter Kit
Lift: .470''
Duration: 270°
RPM Range: 1800-5800
any thoughts?
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I to am sad to see Mark go. He was one of the best interviewers on TV. He definitely has Bush beat all to heck.
I noticed him. He was a handsome aligned presenter on the show. However is going on another often viewed channel so lades will get a softer, angled book. I will miss Mary Hart, very classy.
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L'Estrange, 28, who has spent the last four years with the Bulls and had another 12 months left on his contract, recently became a father for the first time and wants to bring his daughter up in Australia.
"I would like to thank Bradford Bulls for allowing me to be released from my contract," he said.
"Me and my wife, Jessica, have recently celebrated the birth of Grace, our first child, back home in Australia.
"And we have come to the extremely difficult decision of leaving behind my professional career as a Bradford player, in Super League.
"I have had an absolutely amazing time with the Bulls and I have played alongside some fantastic players.
"I have made life-long friends and I was honoured to be named captain before the 2012 season.
"But I am part of a very close-knit family and we wish to bring up our daughter in Australia, around those closest to us."
Bradford coach Francis Cummins said: "Heath has been a great servant and a fantastic ambassador for the club.
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"I am a family man, I have children of my own, and they have to come before sporting careers. Heath has to do the best by his wife and new baby.
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Wal heater
I'm looking to add a wall heater to a sunroom on our house and am curious how the height impacts its ability to heat the room. I've seen some info on the cadet heaters and they recommend you mount the heater 12" from the floor, but I'm thinking of putting ours 24-36" up from the floor. The room gets heat from the house furnace (leave the french doors open all the time) so this is just for supplemental heat and is primarily going in so I can count the square footage of the sunroom in the house. The sunroom is about 280 sqft and we would like to capitalize on it if we ever have to sell the house.
Heat rises, the lower it is the more of the floor will get warmed, and more of the coldest air will get preheated and rise.
Have you concidered baseboard heating that gets placed under the windows to reduce heating loss?
I've given baseboard heating a small thought. We have furniture up against most of the walls and I'm not sure baseboard heating will work unless I figure out how to rearrange the furniture allowing for more open space.
Strange rules pertaining to living area I must say.
The higher you put it, the colder the floor will be. And you might find that it is unusable after having spent that money. Along with a home inspector questioning how well it orks when you go to sell.
After re-evaluating the room and the requirement for hard wired heat I believe I have found a suitable location that will allow it to be closer to the floor, have more than enough clearance from anything and actually be in an ideal location to circulate the air in the room. ow I just gotta go and buy the darn thing and get to the installation.
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MOSCOW, August 4. /TASS/. Natalia Molchanova, the world's most decorated free diver, is reported missing off the island of Formentera near Ibiza, Spain, National Geographic said on Tuesday.
The 53-year-old champion free diver went missing on August 2 while freediving with her friends. She did not surface after a recreational dive to 30-40 meters without fins.
She might have been caught by a strong current, National Geographic said. According to Molchanova's fellow divers, she went missing some three kilometres northwest of La Savina de es Freus, a part of the sea where currents at the surface and at depth are said to be unpredictable and strong.
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I have a 460 in my vehicle and I want it to make around 650 hp. What are the best mods to acheive those kind of numbers.Heads,cam,exhaust... Need help
The 460 has a lot of room to grow, a stroker kit to boost the displacement will be the first best step. From there, a good head/cam/intake combo should get you around 650 with no problem.
yeah, lot's of potential in that motor.
The block has potential, the heads...not so much, unless you have SuperCobraJet or Boss429 heads. Invest in good aftermarket heads first, and if the torque curve isn't broad enough, throw a stroker kit under those heads. going the opposite way, well...
Just because you can't do it...doesn't mean its impossible
see engine masters chalanges, you'll get alot of the dynomatched info that will really help.off the top of my head. ball park.would be a great set of aftermarket heads. ask for flow numbers before you buy.i tried to research them for you but no real luck.edelbrock performer rpm heads flow decently.couple those with a 248@ intake degree camshaft or bigger, i prefer a roller, if you can get one. with over .550" liftrun minimume of 10.5:1 compression, i think i'd go with 11:1.large 2" or 2-1/4" primary pipe headers, a great freeflow exuast.lets try for dual 3" or single 4.5" exuast.almost 1000cfm carb at 7500rpm.a big freeflow air filter. i assume pump gas.3000rpm+ converter stall.single plane intake. hi rise. hell nitrouse would get you way over the top real easy.so would forced induction, if your interested in something more streetable.
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BERKELEY – The first two components of the euro crisis – a banking crisis that resulted from excessive leverage in both the public and private sectors, followed by a sharp fall in confidence in eurozone governments – have been addressed successfully, or at least partly so. But that leaves the third, longest-term, and most dangerous factor underlying the crisis: the structural imbalance between the eurozone's north and south.
First, the good news: The fear that Europe's banks could collapse, with panicked investors' flight to safety producing a European Great Depression, now seems to have passed. Likewise, the fear, fueled entirely by the European Union's dysfunctional politics, that eurozone governments might default – thereby causing the same dire consequences – has begun to dissipate.
Whether Europe would avoid a deep depression hinged on whether it dealt properly with these two aspects of the crisis. But whether Europe as a whole avoids lost decades of economic growth still hangs in the balance, and depends on whether southern European governments can rapidly restore competitiveness.
The process by which southern Europe became uncompetitive in the first place was driven by market price signals – by the incentives those signals created for entrepreneurs, and by how entrepreneurs' individually rational responses played out in macroeconomic terms. Northern Europeans with money to invest were willing to lend on extraordinarily easy terms to those in the south who wanted to spend, and ample pre-2007 spending made employers there willing to raise wages rapidly.


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Hello and thank you for using Just Answer,Yes, if your mother is a US citizen or a resident alien she is taxed on her worldwide income. This means even if she does not bring the money back to the US.
She will need to report the sale on her US tax return for the year of the sale. If she received more for the property then her basis in the property she will be taxed on the gain.
What is her tax liability. I thought if she was under the 15% tax bracket her liability would be zero
Her bracket will be determined by her gain as that amount will be added to her income now.
She needs to report the sale even if she has a loss.
So her tax would be her income now plus the gain or loss on the sale of the apartment correct?
That is correct. The gain will be added to her regular income then:The rates will be
for example her gain was 30,000 dollars and her income is 19000. she would be responsible for the tax on 49000
This applies even if she does not wire the money back to the US
Remind her too
that is she has an account over there holding themoney
she will need to report that
I hope our CHAT has been useful
So the upper limit for the 15 percent tax bracket is 65000 dollars. If her gross including the sale of the apt. is 45000 she would owe no tax to us gov
but she would still have to file income tax for the sale of the property
She would need to file and if she has income of $5000 she will have a tax liability but not Capital gains tax
ok I see she would have regular tax liability not captial gains. Thank you
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From payroll to property, Portland area leaders debate taxes of all kinds
Call it a vote of no confidence in Salem.
Since the Jan. 28 defeat of Measure 28, business and government leaders have been debating how to raise money locally not just for schools but for other services usually addressed by the state, including transportation, human services and law enforcement.
Portland leaders are searching for local solutions because they no longer believe they can count on the state Legislature to help maintain services.
As a result, local taxpayers may be asked to make up the difference.
'We are between the classic rock and the hard place,' said Portland city Commissioner Erik Sten. 'Either we depend on Salem to do the right thing, or we take matters into our own hands.'
Local tax talks are under way in city of Portland, Multnomah County and Metro offices and throughout the private sector.
No consensus has emerged as to the kind of tax or taxes that might be employed, who it would affect, who would administer it or even if a new tax should be attempted at all. But every kind of tax has come up for discussion, some in public venues, some not so public, including income taxes, property taxes, business taxes, payroll taxes, real estate transfer fees, bonds and Ñ yes Ñ even a sales tax.
Most of the proposals so far would be for limited time periods.
The debate will sharpen today at a meeting of the City Club of Portland at the Multnomah Athletic Club featuring three key players: Gregg Kantor of the Portland Business Alliance; Jim Scherzinger, superintendent of Portland Public Schools; and city Commissioner Jim Francesconi. Francesconi is expected to outline new proposals regarding schools and the business income tax.
Much of the talk, of course, centers on the schools. The most popular target for raising new money so far has been the payroll tax, which has been under discussion anyway as part of plans by Multnomah County and the city of Portland to revise business income taxes.
School advocates are pushing for the quickest solution, which they think would be a business payroll tax surcharge for schools. Multnomah County Commissioner Lisa Naito wants a temporary county income tax for schools, public safety and human services. City Commissioners Randy Leonard, Dan Saltzman and Erik Sten want a combination of the two, all for schools.
Mayor Vera Katz is quarterbacking the impassioned talks among the city, the county and business leaders. Officials hope the talks will produce one plan they all can agree on.
'The attitude in Multnomah County has been, 'Hey, if this is what it's going to take, then let's do this,' ' said Nancy Hamilton, a member of Help Out Public Education, a new parent group.
The proposals reach beyond schools. Naito's idea of a county income tax surcharge, introduced Wednesday, calls for the same three-year income tax increase as Measure 28, with 40 percent of the extra revenue going to schools in Multnomah County, 30 percent to public safety and 30 percent to human services.
Naito calls the plan, which could be put in place by the county board of commissioners without a public vote, the 'Daughter of Measure 28.' Measure 28 passed 57 percent to 43 percent in Multnomah County.
'We must be prepared to support our children, law enforcement and the most vulnerable people in our community if the Legislature fails to adequately fund these services,' Naito said in a letter to public officials.
She said her plan should be implemented only if the Legislature fails to come up with adequate financing.
More than survival
Sten, Saltzman and Leonard propose a payroll tax surcharge and a local income tax Ñ they haven't decided if it would be city or county Ñ all for schools. Their goal isn't just restoring the school year but making sure local schools flourish, with a full program of academics, art, music and sports.
On one level, local officials have been cautious about going forward with their local plans, worried that their efforts might lessen the urgency among lawmakers to come up with a state solution. But at the same time, they want quick changes to assure parents that Portland schools will be healthy by fall. They fear that further cuts and larger classes will prompt a stampede away from the public schools.
State legislators started the 2003 session last month with talk of tax reform. Gov. Ted Kulongoski sees a plan driven by the public, not by him or by lawmakers, and state Rep. Mary Nolan, D-Portland, said the Legislature wants to make schools less reliant on income taxes, which are unstable in a recession.
Sen. Ryan Deckert, D-Beaverton, chairman of the Senate Revenue Committee, said the best that school advocates can hope for this year isn't more money but permission for voters to increase school funding on their own, maybe through property taxes, a real estate transfer tax or income taxes.
Deckert isn't optimistic about anything happening quickly. Such a move would require a constitutional amendment, he said, and that means a two-thirds vote of each chamber and a statewide vote. Only then would local voters get to decide whether to raise more money.
State Rep. Lane Shetterly, R-Eugene, chairman of the House Revenue Committee, wants to move more quickly. He wants a measure on the May ballot to give school district voters greater authority to increase property taxes for schools. If passed, he said, districts could ask voters for new levies in September and collect some money through the November property tax bills.
Business plays part
Business, said Kantor of the Portland Business Alliance, will play a role in what happens.
'We promised the business community that we would focus on building a world-class work force and create an economy of the mind,' he said. 'And we did that. But now we are not living up to that promise, and we have to do something about it. This is not just some dirty secret we are whispering about here in Portland. The world is watching.'
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Technical Abstract: A total of 412 rice accessions were identified in field tests in 1988, 1989 and 1990 that had an area of activity >10 cm to ducksalad and in 1994 a total of 94 accessions demonstrated apparent allelopathic activity to barnyardgrass in field tests. The rice accessions that showed activity in the field had 2-3 time more root biomass than cultivars that did not show the activity. In barnyardgrass infested plots the grain yield reduction o rice accessions that demonstrated apparent allelopathic activity was about 37% as compared to a 68% reduction in grain yield of non-allelopathic accessions. Chromatograms of allelopathic and non-allelopathic accessions fall into two types, one which is represented by the allelopathic accession PI 312777 and the other by the non-allelopathic cultivar "Rexmont". Individual F2 populations from hybrids involving PI 338046 with "Adair", "Katy", "Lemont"/RA 73, "M-201"/Katy and ?Newbonnet" were evaluated in the field at Stuttgart in 1992. Eight F6 lines from the crosses PI 338046/Lemont/RA73, PI 338046/Alan, PI 338046//M201/Katy and PI 338046/Katy were field evaluated in replicated tests in 1996. One line from the cross PI 338046/Katy was high yielding (9882 kg/ha) and had significantly fewer ducksalad plants. In an F2 population involving PI 312777/Lemont there was a normal distribution for allelopathic activity which indicates that allelopathic activity is quantitatively inheritated.


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