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Radiator autopsy
I first looked closely at the entire radiator in order to find where it had failed.
It was not easy to see any flaws, which was surprising to me since I had seen water leak out of the driver's side, below the hose, about midway or just above midway on the plastic side. (In hindsight, I should have looked harder while the engine was running; but I just assumed a major leak based on the volume of spray coming out.)
To help me find the flaws, I rubbed chalk over any imperfection I could find.
About the only place on the radiator I could find a flaw was this apparently slight crack on the PASSENGER side (note that it appeared that the driver side was where the leak lay, although there was some liquid at the expansion tank side of the radiator but it could have been thrown there by the fan).
I noticed the only thing holding the plastic side panels in place were an evenly spaced series of crimps. With a pry bar, I easily pushed up the soft aluminum crimps to free the passenger-side panel containing the alleged crack.
Soon the passenger-side plastic panel popped free, along with a rubber gasket along the edge.
I repeated the effort on the drivers side aluminum crimps, which, with experience, came off easier than I had expected.
Soon I had both plastic side panels in my hand. Amazingly, the purported crack I saw from the outside did not appear to extend to the inside of the radiator. I was perplexed. In fact, there were NO CRACKS apparent looking at the inside of the radiator.
At this point I wondered if the failure was on the driver side hose itself, or in the expansion tank. However, I re-used the hose (that hose had been recently replaced with the alternator only a month ago due to my
clumsy destruction of the plastic bleed screw
during bleeding); and a later post will show no apparent cracks in the expansion tank.
Looking closely at the bottom of the drivers side panel, near the drain screw, I noticed a bit of gray clayish gunk. Not much. But a little gritty stuff around the screw itself.
I noticed the same very thin fine gray paste on the corresponding passenger side panel. (Any idea what this is? Is it aluminum dust?)
After looking the two panels over for fifteen minutes, I finally gave up trying to identify the flaw that caused the coolant leak. Whatever it was, it was minute if it existed in the radiator at all.
As it's important to be able to remove the nipple from the drivers side of the radiator, I took a look at how that nipple socket is constructed. This, in the future, may be useful because we don't yet have a cn90-patented technique for removing the nipple intact, so as to make a radiator shroud removal a dry affair, without the need to replace the expansion tank overflow hose radiator nipple hose clamp in the future.
It's hard to tell here, but it is worthy of note that this radiator nipple was "saved" during removal. This is a Behr nipple bought at the BMW dealership because
the original nipple broke when it was removed
during an alternator repair a few months back. While the new Behr nipple went in place at that time without problem, it was nearly impossible to remove that radiator nipple without destroying the two tabs on the radiator holding that nipple in place.
What we need is a better mechanism for removing this nipple intact, to facilitate shroud removals that do not require cutting off the original BMW hose clamps.
WANTED: An ingenious method of removing radiator nipple
It is also important to note that the new Nissens nipple, which came with the new radiator, was much larger in diameter at the bulb end, necessitating a larger hose clamp than was initially expected, and further necessitating a trip to the auto parts store to find a larger solid hose clamp. The initial replacement hose clamp for the Behr replacement nipple was 11-13 mm solid band. The parts store was missing the size in between; they only had the 14-16mm size. The Nissens bulb end needed something in between (lesson learned). I had to grease and tug and pull and coerce the smaller clamp onto the larger Nissens bulb.
I also took a look at how the drain screw works. It appears to snap into place to lock in the closed position. If leverage is required, a small Phillips screwdriver can be inserted into the hole to turn the drain 90 degrees to open it up to the flow of coolant. This appeared to be working correctly.
Lastly, I took a long hard look at the radiator metal itself. I was shocked at how clean and pristine looking the inner flat tubes appeared to the naked eye. They were amazingly clean, considering the car was built in late 2001 and 91K miles had been driven on this OEM radiator (
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In the future, an enterprising individual who comes up with a method for re-crimping new plastic (or better yet, aluminum) side panels, will be a very rich person!
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Hi, After installing Cassandra 0.8 I discovered that my app stopped working. The issue is that the app is now unable to read a row that was inserted by a CLI set command with a numeric string key. CLI in Cassandra 0.8 seems to be treating literals inconsistently. Please let me know if I am missing something. Here is a very simple scenario: create column family Ranges; set Ranges['1']['1']='1'; list Ranges; ------------------- RowKey: 01 => (column=01, value=31, timestamp=1314636970671000) The row key and column '1' are treated as bytes while the value is treated as UTF8 or ASCII. This raw can not be read with a string serializer for "1". This is clear when I make keys, columns and values readable: assume Ranges keys as utf8; assume Ranges comparator as utf8; assume Ranges validator as utf8; list Ranges; ------------------- RowKey: ☺ => (column=☺, value=1, timestamp=1314636970671000) This issue is even more obscure when I use an IP address as a key. The CLI is also unable to deserialize key after the format is specified: set Ranges['192.168.2.17']['1']='1'; list Ranges; ------------------- RowKey: 19ff16ffff17 => (column=01, value=31, timestamp=1314637423906000) assume Ranges keys as utf8; list Ranges; invalid UTF8 bytes 19ff16ffff17 Thanks you, Oleg
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2-Step Verification
Keeps Twitter Hacker Free
One of the biggest annoyances (and threats to our business) that we face in social media marketing is hacked accounts.
They're embarrassing at best and down right costly at worst!
A slew of high profile twitter hackings in early 2013 was enough to prompt Twitter to finally offer a 2-step login option (to go with their HTTPS option which you should also be using).
This variety of login protection relies on a second device (in this case, your mobile phone) to confirm that you are actually YOU and thus block a bad guy from logging in.
Two-step logins exist for most social media sites now (including Facebook here and Google here) and are a big part of the puzzle when it comes to protecting your accounts for trouble makers.
Twitter documents the system here.
Setting Up Twitter 2-Step Login
(Keep in mind, that, as with all 2-step logins, some additional steps will be required to connect to apps like Hootsuite once you enable 2-step verification. Details below.)
A mobile number may only be associated with a single twitter account, which can be a challenging problem for those with multiple accounts.
Only one mobile number may be associated with a twitter account which can be a challenging problem for businesses and those with professionally managed accounts.
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Before you do anything else, bookmark this link. This will come in handy the first time you have trouble with the system and/or lock yourself out!
To set up login verification:
- Go to your account settings on twitter.com and check the "Require a verification code when I sign in" box.
- When prompted, click Okay, send me a message.
- If you receive our verification message, click Yes (Note: you'll have to enter your password).
Now, when you log in to your account on twitter.com, a six digit code will be sent via SMS to your phone. Enter the code when prompted and you're in!
Note: If you are currently logged in to Twitter on the web or on your mobile device (including any applications), you will not be logged out of any existing sessions once login verification is enabled.
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To use a temporary (application) password:
- Go to the Applications tab of your account settings on twitter.com.
- Click the Generate button.
- Enter your current account password and hit Generate again.
- When prompted to log in to your other device or application, enter your username and use the temporary password that you were provided.
- You're in! The device or application will show up in your list of applications in your settings page.
Note: Temporary passwords must be used within one hour from the time they are created.
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Whew! Looks like a lot there but fortunately it's really easy to set up!
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The Mazak distributor now helps customers gain a comprehensive approach to manufacturing automation by providing complete robot integration services for their machine tools.
The Mazak distributor now helps customers gain a comprehensive approach to manufacturing automation by providing complete robot integration services for their machine tools.
Distributor Northwest Machine Technologies (Rogers, MN), which serves Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Western Wisconsin exclusively for Mazak Corporation (Florence, KY), recently launched a new in-house automation division that will provide customers with complete robot integration services for their Mazak machines.
With the added integration service, customers will further benefit from a comprehensive approach to automation solutions together with the local expert service and support that can boost productivity through better machine utilization.
Mazak provides manufacturers with a wide range of advanced equipment and technologies as well as innovative automation systems that are incorporated within the company's unique 3-4-5 The Next Level of Productivity manufacturing solution. 3-4-5 allows manufacturers to effectively identify the right level of technology, including automation, needed for improving their specific operations and advancing productivity to the next level.
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CINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati men's soccer team secured a 5-1 decision in a friendly against Cincinnati State on Saturday night at Gettler Stadium. The Bearcats received two goals from John Manga (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay) and individual goals from Richardo Israel (Free Town, Jamaica/Lennon), Austen Morley (Aberdeenshire, Scotland/The Gordon Schools) and Rantz Bourgeois (St. Amanta, La./St. Amant). Alan Rovira (Simi Valley, Calif./Simi Valley) assisted on the first three scores of the game for Cincinnati.
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"He was great," said Rovira. "I think he was a little bit nervous, but it was great to see him get some action."
//Offensive Outburst
"Although we scored five goals, we still missed on a number of chances," Dayes said. "We want to be a little more opportunistic and clean up the restarts."
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XX is the seventeenth episode in season four of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Catherine, Sara and Nick investigate when the body of a female prison inmate is found tied to the underside of a bus. What first looks like an escape gone wrong turns out to be a murder when it is discovered the woman was already dead before she was tied to the bus. Meanwhile Grissom and Warrick investigate the death of a man stabbed to death in his apartment.
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- George Eads as Nick Stokes
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- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
- Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
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- Alex Carter as Detective Louis Vartann
- Archie Kao as Archie Johnson
- James Patrick Stuart as Adam Matthews
- Eric Stonestreet as Ronnie Litre
- David Berman as David Phillips
- Gina Torres as Warden Hutton
- T. R. Knight as Zero Adams
- David Marciano as Frank Samuels
- Diana Maria Riva as Juanita Roya
- Todd Tesen as Doug Hanson, Bus Driver
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- Patrick Macmanus as Adanto Adams
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The rear R shock on my SRX is giving problems, and needs to be replaced.
The car only have 38K miles on it and was bought new but there it is !
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I contacted the GM agents in ZAF, who recon they can import it for me at just under $5k a shock!!! That is just not happening!
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THE ACE GROUP--One to One
Val DiGiacinto is spreading the message of variable data printing and one-to-one marketing. And his clients are heeding his call.
If you build it, they will come. It is the now-famous phrase uttered in the movie "Field of Dreams." It also aptly describes the transformation that the New York City-based The Ace Group underwent in the 1980s when it changed its core business from typography to digital prepress. It continues to hold true today as The Ace Group plans its next metamorphosis into the world of digital and variable-data printing.
"We are now a commercial prepress company that does digital printing," explains Val DiGiacinto, vice president of technical sales and a leader of the revolution occurring at The Ace Group. "The digital printing and e-commerce sides of our operation are where we really see the future and the growth of our business," he predicts.
But, DiGiacinto doesn't need a crystal ball in order to speculate on where the industry is headed. He has hard numbers to back up his predictions. In 1999, 15 to 20 percent of the work The Ace Group did was variable-data printing. This year, they have seen that number increase to between 50 and 60 percent.
"It's an area in which we really see potential for growth," he discloses. "We believe that is where the future of this business is moving."
In part, the move toward variable-data printing has increased as the technology has come of age. "The technology has migrated to the point where, as a salesperson, I no longer have to make excuses for digital printing," he says. "The technology has improved to the level where it satisfies the needs of our clients—even to the point that it's not just a 'good-enough technology.' "


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During these tough economic times, many companies have been wrestling with the choice of laying off workers or putting them on furloughs. Across the country, decisions such as this have become inescapable.
A high profile furor recently arose in Boston when the Hyatt Hotel chain decided to permanently lay off 98 people from its housekeeping staff and subcontract the jobs to Hospitality Staffing Solutions of Georgia, which plans to do the job cheaper. The housekeepers earned $14 to $16 per hour with benefits, and their replacements will earn half that with no benefits.
The housekeepers at the three affected Boston hotels were told on the very day they were laid off. Most responded with anger, protests and dejection at losing their jobs with no advance notice during grim economic times.
Many of the employees charged the company with treating them like animals, not even giving them dignity and respectful treatment. One hotel employee said the staff was deceived into training the new employees while being told they might have to fill in for them when they were sick or on vacation. Another employee said they were asked to clean out their lockers five days earlier because the lockers were going to be cleaned.
The Hyatt chain responded by saying they face unprecedented economic challenges in the current business climate. The company claimed that abrupt and steep revenue declines in the area hotels forced them to make this decision. Hyatt also claimed they did not deceive the employees and that the employees have been treated with dignity and respect.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick put pressure on the hotel chain immediately by vowing that state employees would boycott the hotel chain unless the employees were reinstated. Patrick sent a letter to Hyatt claiming the discharges were "the worst nightmare of every worker in today's weak economy."
As of this writing, the hotel has not reinstated the employees, but has agreed to extend their health insurance benefits until March. A few days later the hotel chain claimed it would be sure that the laid off workers got new jobs in Boston, and that they will match the workers' previous rate of Hyatt pay through the end of the year.
Most of the employees recently met and rejected the Hyatt offer saying they want their jobs back and nothing less. The Hyatt layoffs have generated protests nationwide as workers in other cities have rallied behind the Boston workers.
What constitutes fair treatment by an employer in the current economy? Are they expected to retain workers though they say they cannot afford it? Why are so many companies and universities, for that matter, not hiring as many full-time workers and opting for part-time staff? Is it justified on financial and ethical grounds? These are difficult questions to answer without knowing all the facts in a given situation.
One thing is clear. The manner in which employees are treated when layoffs are imminent does matter. Companies have responsibilities before a decision to layoff is made as well as after the decision is made. Before, the organization should diligently study whether layoffs are the only viable option. A critical examination of alternatives is essential.
Once the decision to lay off workers is made, providing advance notice to the employees is a minimum standard of fairness. Providing transfer, relocation or outplacement benefits also is in order. Gradual implementation of the layoffs helps.
Hyatt will suffer tremendous loss of reputational capital because of how this mass layoff was handled. The hotel's opponents are questioning their values and ethics. For Hyatt, this decision went from what appeared to be a routine business decision to the current crisis in which protests, boycotts and threats of lawsuits have become the order of the day.
Employees today, including hourly workers, expect better treatment than in the past. Treating human beings as just units of input will have serious long-term consequences for the company and the business system overall.
• Archie Carroll is author of Business Ethics: Brief Readings on Vital Topics (2009). He may be reached at email@example.com.
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London (CNSNews.com) - With an eye on poll results showing a small slide in support for his party for the first time in the election campaign, British Prime Minister Tony Blair Wednesday stressed that "every vote counts" in Thursday's vote.
The ICM poll for the Guardian newspaper put Labor at 11 points ahead of the Conservatives, its smallest lead since the campaign began although still enough to give Blair a hefty majority in the House of Commons. Significantly, the 43-32 poll saw the Conservatives gain four points at the expense of Labor, rather than other smaller parties.
Throughout the campaign, ICM polls have consistently given Labor a lower rating than other polling organizations, some of which have put Blair's party ahead by 20 points and more.
Conservative leader William Hague also jumped on the figures, using them to back up his contention that the battle was not yet lost.
"Tomorrow the world will find out that the forces of conservatism are still on the march," he told party supporters at a meeting in London early Wednesday.
But Labor, ironically, stands to gain from the last-minute ICM poll, which may galvanize half-hearted supporters to get out and vote.
Hague earlier urged voters to deny Labor a second consecutive landslide victory, which he said would be dangerous for the country. Blair called the move a Conservative ploy to encourage voter apathy and try to win "through the back door."
This latest poll will be seen as confirming Labor fears that the tactic could work.
"Every vote counts," Blair said Wednesday, warning supporters that "the election is an open race. Political history is littered with examples of sure things that didn't turn out to be sure things."
Britain's future at stake
Blair, Hague and Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy have full programs Wednesday, crisscrossing the country to reach out to undecided voters and hammer their messages home.
Hague has sought to bring crime, the influx of "bogus" asylum-seekers, and the question of Britain's future in the European Union - including the single EU currency - onto the agenda over the past four weeks.
But the issues that have ended up dominating the campaign are public services and taxation. Labor has undertaken to pour more money into schools and hospitals, while the Conservatives have promised tax cuts, denying Labor's claims that to do so would require severe cuts in public spending.
Hague has not given up on the European issue, however, telling the London meeting Wednesday that the election provided voters with a choice to decide the future of the UK.
"If you've had enough of being told that we should be ashamed of our history and cannot govern ourselves, if you want a government that believes in the future of our country, I say vote for what you value," he said.
"Tomorrow is a choice not just about who will run this country for the next five years but about the country that their children and grandchildren will inherit."
Hague has promised a Conservative government would not replace the pound sterling with the euro for at least the lifetime of the next parliament, and said Britain should not be "run by Europe."
Blair favors joining the euro once specified economic conditions are met, and subject to a national referendum.
The prime minister, too, said on Wednesday that "the future of Britain is on the ballot paper tomorrow" - although in his case he was warning against a return to the years of Conservative policy.
"Don't us let go back ... to where we were four years ago," he told a press conference in Nottingham. "It's time to move this country forward."
Blair swept to power in 1997 with a 179-member majority in the 659-seat House of Commons. The 11-point lead in the ICM poll would translate into a majority of around 170-seats.


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The award lists keep rolling in! Today The Desmond Elliott Prize announced the ten titles that made their 2013 longlist cut. In case you're unfamiliar with the award, here's a brief description from their official website:
The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. Worth £10,000 to the winner, the prize is named after the literary agent and publisher, Desmond Elliott.
When choosing the winner, a panel of three judges will look for a novel which has a compelling narrative, arresting character, and which is both vividly written and confidently realised.
Below, we've posted descriptions and cover art for all ten of the longlisted titles. We haven't actually read any of this year's nominees yet, but we're excited to dig in as they all sound extremely promising. The shortlist for the prize will be announced on May 23rd and the winner will be announced on June 27th.
The Marlowe Papers
By Ros Barber
On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now let Christopher Marlowe tell you the truth: that his 'death' was an elaborate ruse to avoid his being hanged for heresy; that he was spirited across the channel to live on in lonely exile, longing for his true love and pining for the damp streets of London; that he continued to write plays and poetry, hiding behind the name of a colourless man from Stratford – one William Shakespeare. With the grip of a thriller and the emotional force of a sonnet, this extraordinary novel in verse gives voice to a man who was brilliant, passionate, mercurial and not altogether trustworthy. The son of a cobbler who rose so far in Elizabethan society that he counted nobles among his friends and patrons, a spy in the Queen's service, a fickle lover and a declared religious sceptic, he was always courting trouble. When it caught up with him, he was lucky to have connections powerful enough to help him escape. Memoir, love letter, settling of accounts and a cry for recognition as the creator of some of the most sublime works in the English language, this is Christopher Marlowe's testament – and a tour de force by an award-winning poet: provocative, persuasive and enthralling. (From the hardcover edition)
The Universe Versus Alex Woods
By Gavin Extence
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read.Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local bullies. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen – he's got the scars to prove it. What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he'll make an unlikely friend. Someone who tells him that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make the best possible choices. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing . . . (From the hardcover edition)
The Panopticon
By Jenni Fagan
Pa'nop´ti'con ( noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [Greek panoptos 'seen by all']
Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders.She can't remember the events that led her here, but across town a policewoman lies in a coma and there is blood on Anais's school uniform.
Smart, funny and fierce, Anais is a counter-culture outlaw, a bohemian philosopher in sailor shorts and a pillbox hat. She is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met.
The residents of the Panopticon form intense bonds, heightened by their place on the periphery, and Anais finds herself part of an ad hoc family there. Much more suspicious are the social workers, especially Helen, who is about to leave her job for an elephant sanctuary in India but is determined to force Anais to confront the circumstances of her birth before she goes.
Looking up at the watchtower that looms over the residents, Anais knows her fate: she is part of an experiment, she always was, it's a given, a liberty – a fact. And the experiment is closing in.
In language dazzling, energetic and pure, The Panopticon introduces us to a heartbreaking young heroine and an incredibly assured and outstanding new voice in fiction. (from the hardcover edition)
The Palace of Curiosities
By Rosie Garland
A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight. Before Eve is born, her mother goes to the circus. She buys a penny twist of coloured sugar and settles down to watch the heart-stopping main attraction: a lion, billed as a monster from the savage heart of Africa, forged in the heat of a merciless sun. Mama swears she hears the lion sigh, just before it leaps…and when Eve is born, the story goes, she didn't cry – she meowed and licked her paws. When Abel is pulled from the stinking Thames, the mudlarks are sure he is long dead. As they search his pockets to divvy up the treasure, his eyes crack open and he coughs up a stream of black water. But how has he survived a week in that thick stew of human waste? Cast out by Victorian society, Eve and Abel find succour from an unlikely source. They will become The Lion Faced Girl and The Flayed Man, star performers in Professor Josiah Arroner's Palace of Curiosities. And there begins a journey that will entwine their fates forever. (from the hardcover edition)
Petite Mort
By Beatrice Hitchman
Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death … A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1913 at the Path? studio, before it was seen even by its director. A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent – and the secret she keeps too – will soon get her a dressing room of her own. A beautiful house in Paris, with a curving staircase, a lake, and locked rooms. A famous – and dashing – creator of spectacular cinematic illusions, husband to a beautiful, volatile actress, the most adored icon of the Parisian studios. All fit together, like scenes in a movie. And as you will see, this plot has a twist we beg you not to disclose. (from the hardcover edition)
The Fields
By Kevin Maher
I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral and everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now, though. Right at this moment. Here in this kitchen. And I wonder if it could've been different.
Dublin, 1984: Ireland is a divided country, the Parish Priest remains a figure of immense authority and Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old, the youngest in a family of five sisters. Life in Jim's world consists of dealing with the helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, and quietly coveting the local girls from afar. But after a drunken yet delicate rendition of 'The Fields of Athenry' at the Donohues' raucous annual party, Jim captures both the attention of the beautiful Saidhbh Donohue and the unwanted desires of the devious and dangerous Father Luke O'Culigeen.
Bounced between his growing love for Saidhbh and his need to avoid the dreaded O'Culigeen, Jim's life starts to unravel. He and Saidhbh take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London that has dark and difficult repercussions, forcing Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places.
The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character: Jim's voice leaps off the page and straight into the reader's heart, as he grapples with his unfairly interrupted adolescence. Lyrical, funny, profoundly original and endlessly inventive, it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new voice. (from the hardcover edition)
Signs of Life
By Anna Raverat
This is an addictive psychological drama about a disastrous love affair. At the age of 23, Rachel had an illicit relationship with a guy in the office, one that quickly spiralled out of control. Now in her early thirties and living alone in a flat in Camden, Rachel is struggling to make sense of what she set in motion. She writes from diaries, from photographs and from memory to explore questions of love, obsession and the choice she made, and in doing so she recounts the chain of events that led to her relationship's shocking end. The novel opens with the assertion 'This is not a confession," but Rachel"s lover is dead, her life is in pieces, and as her story unfolds we're never quite sure where the real truth lies. (from the hardcover edition)
Seldom Seen
By Sarah Rigard
Desiree White was walking through the fields of winter wheat and oilseed rape when she saw it.
She picked the newspaper bundle out of the ditch and took it to the phone box.
Across the baby's tiny body she could see a faint tattoo of Lady Di's face where some of the newsprint had rubbed off. It was like finding a featherless bird fallen out of its nest.
No-one had ever bothered much about Desiree but now everyone is interested in her, in what she saw, in who the parents might be and why they'd dump a baby. Even Bernie Capon, her older brother's best friend, wants to know what she thinks.
As years go by and everyone else moves on with their lives, Desiree feels stuck, unable to forget what she saw that day. Somehow she owes it to the baby to solve the mystery. But when she starts to make connections which bring the truth dangerously close to home, it seems that some secrets are best left alone. (from the hardcover edition)
Jammy Dodger
By Kevin Smith
Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine—with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer—he's content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world—of nine-to-five jobs, mortgages and political violence—at bay. So when his cushy number is threatened, Artie hatches a cunning plan to keep the funds coming in. But events quickly spiral out of control and before long he is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl? With a cast of characters that includes a gun-toting playwright, a jealous police chief, a drunken actor and a giant white rabbit, this is a rich and riotous tale about coming-of-age in 1980s Belfast; a novel that is by turns darkly ironic and laugh-out-loud funny. (from the hardcover edition)
The Painted Bridge
By Wendy Wallace
Just outside London behind a tall stone wall stands Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, recently-married Anna Palmer becomes its newest arrival, tricked by her husband into leaving her home, incarcerated against her will and declared hysterical and unhinged. With no doubts as to her sanity, Anna is convinced that she will be released as soon as she can tell her story.
But Anna quickly learns that liberty will not come easily. And the longer she remains at Lake House, the more she realises that — like the ethereal bridge over the asylum's lake — nothing is as it appears. Locked alone in her room, she begins to experience strange visions and memories that may lead her to the truth about her past, herself, and to freedom – or lead her so far into the recesses of her mind that she may never escape…
Set in Victorian England, as superstitions collide with a new psychological understanding, this elegant, emotionally suspenseful debut novel is a tale of self-discovery, secrets, and search for the truth in a world where the line between madness and sanity seems perilously fine. (from the hardcover edition)
Have you read any of the ten novels on The Desmond Elliott Prize 2013 longlist? Which was your favorite? Comment below and let us know what we should read, and/or what we should avoid.


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Service Cosmo Spada enlists his fellow Boy Scouts to repair benches at Tilikum Retreat Center
Cosmo Spada Jr. and six of his fellow Boys Scouts have spent much of the last month in a sylvan glade tucked into a hillside near Newberg. But they werent earning merit badges for camping, backpacking, archery or nature. Instead, they were constructing places for weary campers to take a load off.
The effort served additional purposes, as well: getting Spada one step closer to earning the rank of Eagle Scout and fulfilling the requirements of his senior project at Newberg High School, where he will begin his senior year next week as a student in the Green School.
I have a few more requirements to complete before (reaching) my goal of becoming an Eagle Scout, Spada said in an email interview. This was the last major hoop that I had to soar through.
The 17-year-old youth has been in the Scouts since the age of 7 and is a veteran of Troop 520.
The idea to renovate the benches at Tilikum Retreat Center came from Linda Sandberg, who serves double duty as the mother of one of the Scouts and as a Tilikum employee. She worked as Spadas mentor on organizing the project. Materials to replace rotten wood on the half-dozen benches were provided by the Spada family, as was construction oversight and guidance by the Spada patriarch, Cosmo Sr.
Overall, the project took two months one month for planning and assembling the materials, one month for execution with more than 60 man hours of actual labor, Spada Jr. said.
The project went as smooth as butter thanks to the well-needed month to organize and plan the details of my project, he said. The boys from my troop learned quickly and followed orders well. Every time there was something to work around, we fixed it. With the worst injury of the day being a splinter, Id say things went pretty well.
Spada first got into scouting through his father, who ferried him to Cub Scout meetings every week. He said that as time went by he began to embrace the morals and instruction entrenched in the organization, which he carried into Boy Scouts. It wasnt until returning from summer camp in 2012 that he made the decision to push for Eagle Scout.
Becoming an Eagle Scout is an achievement that only 7 percent of all of all boys who become involved in scouting ever reach, he said. I was motivated by a scout leader whom I met at the camp. He had been in scouting through all his life. He gave an inspirational speech to me and a couple of my friends about the true meaning of becoming (an Eagle Scout), that as an Eagle Scout you show that you can lead in many situations, that you are a self-reliant man and, most of all, that your courage, fighting spirit and positive attitude has impacted countless people.


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A National Ice Age Centre? What could be better for a warm late summer weekend? For the first time in Britain, a visit to the shivering world of 13,000 years ago has become possible. Cool in every other sense, the new £7m complex at Cresswell Crags near Worksop was launched in June by Sir David Attenborough.
Light, bright and full of dagger-shaped teeth and mammoth bones, the centre overlooks a remarkable limestone gorge where Neanderthal man went hunting. Caves with names such as Robin Hood's Cavern and Church Hole pockmark cliffs above a mass of wildflower banks and a lake created by the Neanderthals' successors, the Dukes of Portland, to shoot ducks.
The strange little landscape is part of the estate of Welbeck Abbey, a rambling (and still private) mansion famous for underground rooms created by the disfigured fifth duke, who could not bear to be seen. Local people have always known about it, and the mile-long circular walk between the cliffs is a favourite stroll. But it didn't hit the national headlines until 2003.
That year, a group of archaeologists found the oldest artwork in the country in three of the caves, delicate engravings of reindeer, bison and birds which had been overlooked in the chaos of crumpled stone which forms the roofs and walls. Even the artist George Stubbs, who stayed at Welbeck and set his famous painting of a horse and lion at the Crags, missed them. "Mind you, at the time the caves were being used as barns for the ducal cows," says one of the new centre's curators, Dr Rebecca Clay. "In fact some of them rubbed part of the bison away."
Wearing a miner's helmet, lamp – and if it's a school party, Ice Age-style sewn furs – Dr Clay tramps up the ladders leading guided tours to see the startling discoveries. The find gave fresh energy to a small but determined group of enthusiasts who tried to win World Heritage status for the gorge 20 years ago.
"They set us three conditions: to move a local sewage plant, divert a road and build a proper centre," she says. When Attenborough blessed the new centre, after examining its vicious-looking hyena skulls (the Ice Age version of the animal was nearly twice as big as today's), all three challenges had been met. A second application for World Heritage status is ready to go.
Half the centre is set aside for schools, and has all manner of ingenious ways to sneak archaeology into the national curriculum, in which it still has no official place. Using art, dance, history and natural sciences, the Ice Age team will battle on against unscholarly foes such as the new Hollywood blockbuster Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. "The Ice Age came after the twilight of the dinosaurs," says Becky. "But what we have to offer the kids instead is mammoths, lots of mammoths."
Scores of these mammoths stand on the shelves of the shop, fluffy, plastic, jigsaw, kits and all sizes. There's also an exceptional exhibition of real artefacts, including mammoth bones found in the caves but dispersed in Victorian times and now brought back to Creswell at last.
Dr Jill Cook, curator of European prehistory at the British Museum, admits to divided loyalties as she helped to put the final touches to the displays. "London has lost one particular national treasure: an incredible painted etching of a horse on a rib bone which was found here," she says. "But no one could resist the enthusiasm and energy of the team here. This is the right place for it to be seen."
Other exhibits include fossilised hyena poo, an almost certain hit with younger visitors, and a map which shows how Britain was solidly fixed to the continent in the bone-artist's day, with the Thames flowing directly into the Rhine. There's a cafe with an open-air terrace above the river Whalen; and don't miss the woolly rhinoceros's vast teeth.
• Creswell Heritage Trust; a National Centre for the Ice Age. Crags Road, Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3LH, 01909 720378 www.creswell-crags.org
• Open: March–Sept every day 9.30am-5.30pm, Oct–Feb weekends only 10am-4.30pm. Ice Age tour: £6.50 adults, £4.50 children, £5 concessions. Rock Art tour: £8 adults, £6 children, £7 concessions. Combined tour: £13 adults, £8 children, £11 concessions. All tours include the exhibition. Children advised to be five or older to go on Rock Art tour, which includes access to caves. You can walk free round the gorge, but with no entry to caves. Parking at the centre £2.
• Nearby attractions: Harley gallery, Dukeries garden centre and Welbeck farm shop in outbuildings of Welbeck Abbey. Further afield: Bolsover Castle, Chatsworth house, Hardwick Hall


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Economic Development
The Gas Bill
Facing a future of rising fuel costs, fleet managers are looking to an array of options.
Ramiro Lopez plays a critical role in the operation of his city's fleet. As assistant director of the Dallas Department of Equipment and Building Services, it's up to him to identify cost-saving, environmentally friendly options for operating 4,600 vehicles. But give a nod as well to Lopez's sidekick: his personal Ford pickup-- 140,000 miles young. "So many vendors call us, saying they have a new oil or some thingamajig that we need to use," Lopez says. "When that happens, I get the product, stick it in my truck and see if I feel or see a difference."
Lopez will test almost anything, and it's not as if his accomplice can argue about it. And like Lopez, most state and local government fleet managers are becoming students of the latest vehicles, fuels, additives and other tools that might help them operate their sophisticated and diverse fleets--from police cars and fire trucks to heavy-duty construction equipment--at maximum efficiency.
A variety of factors have brought public fleet managers to this point, but chief among them is the spike in gasoline prices. Some fleet managers, of course, have the luxury of operating in jurisdictions that have long encouraged innovation in fuel efficiencies. In Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, for example, fleet managers were able to initiate comprehensive, fuel-saving programs long before gas prices became a headline-grabber last year. In some localities, the incentive for updating fuel programs had been environmental mandates for air quality under the Clean Air Act. Elsewhere, fleet managers were--and continue to be--motivated by an ongoing reality: Their agencies are very visible targets for privatization, and advocates for outsourcing are on a constant prowl to uncover inefficient government operations.
In their search to balance tight budgets with rising fuel costs, fleet managers are finding that, whatever their past history and their state's or locality's culture, they do best by using an array of options. Any move to, say, simply replace a fleet of gasoline-powered cars with hybrid vehicles or convert an entire fleet of heavy equipment from traditional diesel fuel to biodiesel would ignore the complexities of these decisions, as well as lose sight of more routine, everyday solutions that can make a difference.
"We like to get excited about coming up with grand plans to solve our problems," says Joseph H. O'Neill, executive director of the National Conference of State Fleet Administrators and a former fleet administrator for the Arizona Department of Transportation. "Quite frankly, the guy who just continues to march smartly and practice good management and tight supervision and maintenance will get the most efficient fleet."
At the top of the list for controlling costs is the search for a cheap substitute for gasoline. A dizzying array of names go onto a list of alternative-fuel options. Most governments that have already moved into this territory have probably looked at two general sets of choices for fleets: compressed natural gas (CNG) or ethanol for passenger-style vehicles, and some formulation of biodiesel for heavier, diesel-powered equipment.
CNG offers dramatic cost advantages but the higher purchase price of vehicles that run on it can be a drain on the savings. Seattle has been pumping CNG into its fleet of public cars for several years. Every department in the city of Seattle, says Dave Kerrigan, the city's fleet services director, relies to some degree on CNG.
This form of alternative fuel is a good fit for this northwestern city. It is readily available locally and reduces concentrations of fine particulates, a major source of pollution in the Pacific Northwest.
The low cost of CNG has been a bonus, particularly during last year's period of extreme price volatility for gasoline. Last September, when the price of regular unleaded gasoline was $2.60 a gallon, Seattle was able to pump CNG into its cars for $1.36 for the amount equivalent to a gallon, Kerrigan says.
Dallas, too, has been realizing savings through CNG, which currently fuels about one-quarter of the city fleet's needs. While Lopez allows that "CNG has really been our big cost saver," he notes that the city is looking for ways to improve the balance among the fuels it uses, to take full advantage of price and environmental benefits. "We're not locked into any one fuel," Lopez says. Recently the city has been looking into introducing ethanol, produced mostly from corn in the United States and commonly used in a mix that is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.
Ethanol use has been particularly popular in Midwest communities that can boast of helping local farmers--even as the "cleaner" fuel improves the environment and reduces dependence on foreign oil. About 50 vehicles in Aurora, Illinois' government fleet run on E-85. Most of the E-85 cars are used by such departments as building and permits and public safety, says Joseph Hopp, director of fleet operations.
Ethanol does not represent a significant cost-cutting strategy, however, since a loss of fuel economy with ethanol vis-`a-vis gasoline more than offsets per-gallon savings at the pump. Hopp says Aurora has experienced a 16 percent loss of fuel economy with ethanol. Still, the other benefits of using ethanol, as well as a $340 per vehicle rebate from the state for ethanol-use cars, make the decision to use the alternative an easy one, he says.
For heavier construction equipment and other vehicles in a government fleet that run on diesel fuel, biodiesel has become a widely accepted fuel alternative. It can be produced from a variety of oils ranging from soybean oil to cooking grease and is generally used in a B20 blend--20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent standard diesel. It is produced in concentrations as high as 100 percent biodiesel, but at such levels it can freeze at temperatures of 25° Fahrenheit or below.
A 1999 governor's initiative in Ohio asked the state Department of Transportation to purchase $1 million in biodiesel for its vehicles. At that time, officials were still learning techniques for mitigating the problem of the fuel gelling in the department's storage tanks, says Lindsay Mendicino, spokesperson for the state DOT. Six years later, with 4,200 pieces of heavy equipment that can run on either diesel or biodiesel, the department is on pace to exceed 1 million gallons of biodiesel a year.
Saving money is not the primary driver behind use of biodiesel. It generally costs more than conventional diesel fuel and also results in some givebacks in fuel economy. But in some jurisdictions, incentives have made up for the higher cost at the pump. The school district encompassing Las Vegas, for instance, has 1,200 buses that run on B20. While the company that produces the biodiesel receives federal tax credits on the fuel, it has agreed to pass some of that bounty along to the local government in the form of a credit. The payoff for the producer company rests in the city helping to build a larger market for biodiesel.
"The factors that are paramount in these fuel-purchase decisions," says Dan Hyde, fleet and transportation services manager in Las Vegas, "are air quality--we're in a nonattainment area for carbon monoxide-- diversifying fuels and jobs." Biodiesel satisfies all of Hyde's stated goals. It not only reduces soot and appears to have no negative effect on vehicle performance or power, it has the added bonus of making use of a homegrown product.
Hyde also continues to look at other alternative-fuel options; two passenger cars in the city's fleet run on a new technology of hydrogen fuel cells that work in a similar way to an electric battery. Hyde believes the public sector constitutes the only entity in a position to test these options and help bring them into the mainstream faster.
"It is the fiduciary responsibility of fleet managers to make alternative fuels part of their job description," he says. "If we can't get these fuels into our fleets, so that the public isn't the one put to the test when these eventually get to the mass market, who else can do it?"
They cost more--$8,000 per car in the subcompact category--but hybrid gas-electric vehicles offer substantial fuel savings over conventional gas-powered cars. Seattle's Kerrigan estimates that hybrids save about $400 to $500 per car on fuel over the course of a year.
But that doesn't mean fleet managers are rushing out to replace existing cars with hybrids. They are, in fact, involved in a dicey balancing act. The hybrids are, after all, expensive and have not reached their full technological capacity. However, the cost of the cars is somewhat offset by higher resale values.
Bottom line: Kerrigan and other fleet administrators say they are keeping an eye on plug-in hybrid technology and fuel cells, hoping that fleets could derive even more benefits from those. "We're willing to look at any new technology that will improve the environment or save us money," Kerrigan says.
Meanwhile, some cities are making the investment in present hybrid technology. Excluding police sedans, 49 of the nearly 400 sedans in Portland, Oregon's municipal fleet are hybrids, and the response to them from drivers in the fleet "has been overwhelmingly favorable," says Don Taylor, assistant fleet manager for the city.
Another prevalent strategy with vehicles has involved replacing aging gasoline-powered vehicles with "flex-fuel" cars that can run on either gasoline or ethanol. Since ethanol's availability varies from location to location, this approach offers drivers flexibility and can enable them to price-compare as the cost of both fuels fluctuates.
During times of economic crisis, fleet administrators often resort to what can be a tough--and highly unpopular--decision: downsizing the fleet. No department likes to lose access to cars and the mobility they represent for their workers. Not surprisingly, fleet managers can be subjected to harsh reactions when they take cars away from departments. But reductions are a fact of life. In the 2001 economic downturn, Seattle found that the elimination of 200 cars helped balance its fleet books.
A growing number of localities, mostly in the West, are also using an accompanying strategy to control fleet size. For workers who require use of a car only occasionally, fleet managers are entering into car- sharing agreements--the use of a car on an as-needed basis, be it an hour or a day.
These car-sharing arrangements--a variation on rental car contracts-- have been more commonplace for private businesses and among city dwellers who may walk or take public transit to work but who like access to a car for an occasional weekend excursion or shopping trip. Now cities such as Portland are using car-sharing contracts to reduce the size of city motor pools, particularly for vehicles that can go unused for long periods of time.
Car-sharing is similar to a family choosing between buying a beach home to use for its annual two-week vacation versus purchasing a time- share for that two-week period. Bruce Cross, who retired in late 2005 as fleet manager in Portland, says that his office looked at other options for short-term use--arrangements with cab companies or mass transit operators--before selecting the car-sharing service run by a private company.
Government employees in a downtown location with nearby residential development, where the private company can share the costs of the service among many drivers, are ideal candidates for this type of arrangement. Also, it helps if the participating employees do not need a car every day: A building inspector, for instance, would be a poor candidate for car-sharing.
As is the case with individuals and businesses, government agencies that enroll in a car-sharing program pay for the service based on vehicle usage, usually an hourly rate. In Portland's program, an employee who needs a car for an event or meeting can book the car online. When the employee arrives at the car, which is usually parked in a garage in a downtown location, he or she takes out a power card that holds member information, swipes it against the windshield, and unlocks the door. Entering more codes inside the car allows the driver to start the car and proceed to the destination. The driver returns the car to the same location after the trip is completed.
Portland's car-sharing contract took effect July 1. While city officials expected they wouldn't see even 300 hours a month of total usage in the first year, they were surpassing 600 hours a month by October. The success of the arrangement allowed Portland to cut the size of its 30-vehicle motor pool in half.
The city did experience some glitches with the system at first. It had to arrange to have new parking placards for display with the private vehicles so that parking enforcement personnel would know that, although the car had no city logo on it, it was being used by a city employee who had parking privileges.
But despite the fact that city employees using the service have to "compete" with others in the community for temporary use of a car, response from staff was overwhelmingly positive. About the only potential barrier to the system's long-term use in Portland is a pending union grievance filed by mechanics over a loss of work on cars at the motor pool.
If Portland could eliminate its motor pool entirely, it could realize a $30,000 annual saving, as the motor pool's $100,000 cost outpaces the $70,000 projected tab for the car-sharing arrangement.
When government fleet managers face unexpected upturns in fuel prices, the best, most immediate response lies in routine steps. "You can save 5 percent in fuel costs by making sure your tires are properly inflated," O'Neill says. "You can save 5 to 7 percent by switching to synthetic oil in your engines, transmissions and rear ends. It comes down to smart and efficient management."
Indeed, there is evidence that many agencies that were already using alternative fuels, hybrids and other innovations prior to last year's gasoline price shock focused mostly on everyday maintenance and driving habits when prices soared in 2005.
"We did get the word out through our vehicle liaison for people to reduce use and to bring vehicles in for regularly scheduled maintenance," Portland's Taylor says. Officials also urged drivers of city vehicles to shorten idling times, as a gallon of fuel is wasted for every hour the engine is idled. The cost of that can add up quickly. Seattle's Kerrigan has this rule of thumb: "If you have to idle for more than 30 seconds, don't do it at all."
Dallas's Lopez describes these kinds of steps as instilling a culture change in those who operate vehicles in a government fleet. "It's a message you have to constantly work on," he says. "You want employees to be more conscious about things like a leaking vehicle."
The main advice of these government administrators to their colleagues is that whether or not gasoline prices approach record levels again this year, they should be considering all options large and small for improving the efficiency of the fleet operation. And for any officials who feel they need more help to test the possibilities, who knows: Maybe Lopez's pickup will be up for sale soon.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Homemade Glitter Designer Paper!
Warm Wishes is stamped on some glimmery paper for a nice icy effect IRL. Not sure I'm so keen on the card....but I sure am keen on the glitter designer paper!
Card Details:
Cardstock: SU! Designer Paper, Fibers, Monogram: Figgy Pudding/Basic Grey Hardware: Making Memories Happy New Year: Karen Foster's 1/8 inch snap stamps Warm Wishes: Come Clean Designs Ink: black Punch: SU!'s Slit Punch Snowflakes: Archiver's Glitter: Art Institute Ultrafine Pearlescent
5 comments:
- Melissa M. M. M. said...
I`m certainly keen on the card; it`s stunning and so original. LOVE your technique: sheer genius! I made some shimmer spray with pearl-ex, but I bet yours has more oomph & stays on better. I`ll have to get one of those sakura pens! :0) Mel (SBS2-too)
- November 29, 2007 at 9:05 AM
- AnnMarie said...
Hiya Michelle! Welcome to the Sisterhood Group 2!! Great idea with the glitter! Very nice blog! Looking forward to getting to know you!
- November 29, 2007 at 9:12 AM
- Betsy said...
Hi Michelle,
I've just joined SBS2 and really looking forward to the sisterhood. I just started my blog this month as well. So much to learn! And fun to finally have a way to share!
Take care,
PS Love the Reindeer black card. Gorgeous!
- November 29, 2007 at 1:38 PM
- Crissy said...
Beautiful card! Welcome to SBS2! I look forward to seeing more of your creations and getting to know you better!
- November 29, 2007 at 4:36 PM
- Wife2TJ said...
What a WONDERFUL idea! I never thought of that. I love my sakura glue pen, I'll have to try this sometime. Your card came out amazing, love the glitter on the paper. -Samantha (Fellow Sisterhood2 blogger!)
- November 29, 2007 at 5:10 PM


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Looks very nice. A straight bolt would be better. Here's some info too...
Last week I bought this G24(T) mauser. At the time I had never heard of the G24(T). I have found some info on them but not much. Anything that the members here can tell me about it would be appreciated. The rifle is in very good condition. Unfortunatly the bolt does not match the rest of the gun. Everything else seems to match and be correct. The bore is in like new condition. There is no pitting and very little blue wear. I pulled it out of the stock and all the metal under the sock line looks like new. The inletting in the stock doesn't have a scratch in it. As I have not been able to find any of these for sale any info on their value would be appreciated. I can take more pictures if anyone wants them.
Looks very nice. A straight bolt would be better. Here's some info too...
Check out info about my CD of images and data sheets...
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Beautiful rifle Steve, thanks for sharing. What BiO said. With all the Vz.24 parts, a straight bolt, blued, should be an easy, cheap find.
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"You have enemies? Good. That means youve stood up for something, sometime in your life. " -
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I bought one a year ago on the VERY cheap and was told at that time $1300.00. Mine too is a bolt mm but with a correct matching bolt. Condition very comparable.
Wisconsin, land of cow $hit and beer farts.
when i first read g24(t) and that you'd never heard of one before you bought it i was waiting to see how bad you got taken. but you done good, nice rifle!
"And I will show you, where the Iron Crosses grow."
Hello: In reference to your G24 (t). Rifle was manufactured by code "dou" (Waffenwerke Brunn, Bystrica) in 1942. The G24 (t) is the German adoption of the Czech VZ24. In total, 333,000 were manufactured 1940-42, prior to switch over to K98k production. I
have personally seen these in two different configurations. The first, is with a converted VZ24 European walnut stock inletted for the
German sling configuration. On this version, the VZ24 sling inlets are wood filled. The second variaiton is like the one you have with
the standard German laminated stock. From my observations, the receiver, bolt and butt stock contain matching serial numbers. Also, you may find some Czech proof marks on the bolt handle root. As to raitiy, these are not common rifles as it is my
understanding that the majoirty of these rifles were issued to the Waffen SS and eventually ended up on the Eastern Front. As to value, mismatched items definitely have a negative impact upon value. You may find additional value information on page
170, of Petersen's Stamdard Catalog of Military Firearms. In excellent condition, all matched I would presume, Petersen shows $950.
Non matched rifles probably half of that value. On the other hand, I do not believe that these are really collector appreciated and
the value for an excellent matched rifle is in the neighborhood of $1200 to $1300.
im not real up to date on the price of these, but whatever values you do get, the general rule is if the bolt is mismatched the value is half, give or take. that also goes for k98s etc.
"And I will show you, where the Iron Crosses grow."
Edit: Here are 3 links to k98s I mention. What does your book say they are worth?
I sold a 41 g24(t) with mm bolt and mm stock for $500.00 about a year ago.
Wisconsin, land of cow $hit and beer farts.


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1. Re: 1.7 and 1.6 side by side?gimbal2 Aug 22, 2012 1:08 PM (in response to 957218)You already have it running side by side. The only trouble is that the software needs to be built such that you can force it to use a specific installation of Java. It seems to want to use the 'default' one. Only way to find out is to check the documentation of said software or to contact customer service.
2. Re: 1.7 and 1.6 side by side?958088 Aug 27, 2012 3:55 PM (in response to 957218)I have a similar situation. I have a server equipped with an early Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC). The console-view function requires Java 1.6, and it won't operate if 1.7 is installed. I have found a workaround that may work for you as well: Open the Java applet in Control Panel, then click on the Java tab, then View. You will see your installed Java versions. If I uncheck 1.7 but leave 1.6 checked, I can view my DRAC console. When done I reenable 1.7.
Note that since I installed 1.7u6, there is a new warning message (see thread, "Goofy error message, jre7u6"). This does not prevent me from viewing my DRAC console; it's just annoying.
3. Re: 1.7 and 1.6 side by side?user1769454 Oct 26, 2012 11:11 AM (in response to 958088)I do the same when running Oracle Forms 10G, which is not certified for 1.7, BUT does someone know how to make this change automatically ie. in a script so that it can be done just before the application starts.


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