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My dog tore a couple of his neuter stitches and now the wound is gaping. It's 11 at night. Wound is closed with bandaid.
I recently adopted a dog from my local animal shelter three days ago. I took him to the vet within five minutes of signing the adoption papers. He'd been neutered by the shelter, but the vet couldn't tell me how recent it was. He's been licking himself quite a bit and my family realized he still has stitches that he's been worrying, so we put an e-collar on him to stop the biting and save the stitches. He stopped after that day and we were able to leave him without the collar the next day. However, he's managed to tear his stitches and now the wound is gaping and bleeding. We managed to close the wound using a bandaid to pull the incision back together and the bleeding seems to have stopped. He's simply asleep. He's not warm or groaning in pain unless he tries to walk around. I plan to take him to the vet first thing tomorrow morning. Any advice on what to do until then?
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It probably won't even need to be restitched...You are fine until morning.
Member 73926 answered on 8/2/09. Helpful? / 0
If it's not bleeding, he's probably OK until you get him to the vet tomorrow. Put his bed or crate where you can hear him at night, in case he takes a turn for the worse, and keep the Elizabethan collar on him so he can't worry the stitches or band-aid.
I'm surprised the animal shelter didn't give you any post-op instructions - at our county pound, we were given lots of information regarding Katie's spay surgery. They did the surgery in the morning, and we took her home that afternoon. If your animal shelter follows that same model, your dog's stitches are probably fairly new.
Just keep him comfortable, and it's only a few hours now until you can get him to the vet. I hope he's doing better soon!
Congrats on your new dog! Rescues are the BEST!! :-)
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Installing new utility tub in basement
Hi, we own a 1958 home in Ohio. We recently ripped out a basement "concrete" utility tub, which was located next to the washer and dryer. The washer drained it's discharge into this tub. The utility tub then had a black flexible hose that ran from the tub to a hole in the concrete, which appears to be a drain with no cover. Also, the "hole" has another pipe that comes from the water heater, and drains into it.
Our question is whether we can just re-create the same set-up for the new "lighter" utility tub? We would like to do everything up to code, so as to not incur expenses later for re-sale. Any helpful tips or feedback?
You will be fine if that is the way it was when you got the house.
Guessing that the "hole" is a floor drain with no cover. This is typical. I would say to go ahead and run the new set-up the same way.
If you want to get everything up to code then you cannot recreate the same setup you just took out. A proper drain and vent for your utility tub needs to be installed.
Thanks to all!
It has been done! It might not be up to code, but it's the same way it was before the tear down.
LoL....I kind of figured you'd scab it back together even though you stated in your original post that you wanted to keep everything up to code. Congrats!
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If you're interested in using GWT to build mobile apps and mobile web apps from a single codebase, then you'll want to take a good look at mgwt. The following is a guest blog post from Daniel Kurka, the creator of the mgwt library.
Going mobile with mgwt and gwt-phonegap
mgwt is a library for developing mobile apps and mobile websites with GWT using a single codebase. mgwt provides native-looking widgets and effects for most of the popular mobile platforms. It also comes with a ton of other useful features for building mobile apps. We've detailed some of them later on in the post.
With mgwt and gwt-phonegap, you can deploy your GWT applications to any app store that Phonegap supports (such as the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store), or let your users access them as a mobile-enhanced web applications. Both projects are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, and are available from Maven Central.
Some of the key features in mgwt and gwt-phonegap:
- mobile widgets that are compatible with UiBinder and the Editor Framework
- a DOM API for touch and animation events that corresponds to HTML5 and CSS3, and gesture recognizers built on top these APIs that detect the most common gestures on mobile devices
- themes for iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Android tablets, and BlackBerry
- auto-generated HTML5 offline manifest to support development of offline applications
- in GWT's development mode, gwt-phonegap emulates the Phonegap API, so that developers can debug and test Phonegap applications from within their IDE
- support for GWT RPC in a Phonegap environment
One of the most impressive things about mgwt is how closely the widgets and effects resemble their native counterparts on each specific platform.
For example, this is how some of the widgets look on iOS and Android:
mgwt is built for performance and uses many GWT core concepts to be as efficient as possible. As mobile app developers know, performance and efficiency are critcal.
Both mgwt and gwt-phonegap are built by Daniel Kurka, who is one of the GWT Steering Committee members.
Want to learn more? Check out the mgwt homepage and the blog. There's also a 90-minute talk on mgwt presented at the Dutch Google Developer Group (GDG), and a post on Daniel's blog with a more detailed description of mgwt's features.
mgwt homepage: http://www.m-gwt.com
blog: http://blog.daniel-kurka.de
mgwt talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V0CdhMFiao&feature=plcp
mgwt features: http://blog.daniel-kurka.de/2012/07/mgwt-going-mobile-with-gwt-phonegap.html
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Talk Cinema showcases sneak previews of award-winning independent and foreign films before their theatrical release. Always a surprise, the films are personally selected from leading festivals by film critic Harlan Jacobson. The movie could be a quirky indie comedy, a provocative documentary or the next breakout hit. Screenings are introduced and followed by moderated conversations hosted by distinguished guest speakers.


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Not sure if there's too many curry fans on here, but thought I'd post here in any event.
I'm not usually a big fan of supermarket curry sauces, but Sharwoods have brought this new one out which comes with a warning and everything. I do like a good hot curry, so thought I'd give it a go, but having researched the chili in question I've become rather concerned that:
"In northeastern India, the peppers are smeared on fences or incorporated in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance" and, slightly more worryingly:
"In 2009, scientists at India's Defence Research and Development Organisation announced plans to use the peppers in hand grenades, as a non lethal way to flush out terrorists from their hideouts and to control rioters. It will also be developed into pepper spray as a self defense product".
So, yeah, I'm now a little more apprehensive about trying this weapon-based sauce. Has anybody else had any experience with it?


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Curious George Appearance Highlights Mar. 22 Family Fest
Sale of Single-Game Tickets Starts with Family-Friendly Event, WVIA Partners
By John Sadak / Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders | March 10, 2014 10:38 AM ET
Moosic, Pa. - Curiosity may have killed the cat, but Curious George has entertained countless children. Come Saturday, March 22, and thanks to the good folks at WVIA, The Man with the Yellow Hat's good buddy will be part of the entertainment at PNC Field when the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Triple-A/New York Yankees) hold a Family Fest from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the stadium's Mohegan Sun Club.
The fun goes beyond monkey business too. Guests will also have the opportunity to participate in a behind-the-scenes tour of PNC Field, which claimed national Ballpark of the Year honors this off-season from Ballpark Digest. Festivities include the opportunity to tour the home and visiting clubhouses as well as the dugouts and the pristine field, weather permitting. The team store, SWB Station, will be open and concessions will be available. Memberships for the Quills Kids Club presented by Hildebrandt Learning Centers will be available for purchase and available seats will be marked for the multiple ticket packages the RailRiders offer. This offers fans the chance to pick their seats for multiple games at great rates - the packages start at only $35.
Please note, Curious George will have 30-minute meet-and-greets at 10:30 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.; 12:30 p.m.; and 1:30 p.m.
Single-game tickets for the 2014 season will also be available for purchase for the first time. The ability to pick and choose from the season's most highly-anticipated contests on the entire 72-game home slate gets underway at 10 a.m. as well. Highlight dates include the April 10 home opener; Mother's Day, May 11; the Fourth of July and many more. Fans have the opportunity to purchase single-game tickets online at SWBRailRiders.com, by phone at (570) 969-BALL (2255), or in person at the PNC Field box office. Current ticket package holders can beat the rush and get a jump on the action with the privilege of purchasing single-game tickets in advance, online only, beginning March 17.
Team supporters will enjoy one of the premier values in town as standard ticketing will include: $7 seats for the Honda Dealers Homer Zone, $8 for bleacher seats, $10 for field reserve and $12 for infield box seats.
The RailRiders have all the bases covered for the 2014 season chock full of thrilling promotions on a nearly daily basis. The new kid in town this year is the all-new T-shirt Tuesdays and the popular returnees Dollar Dog Mondays, Kids Eat Free Wednesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and more.
The RailRiders' 2014 season begins on Thursday, April 3 when the club kicks off a seven-game road trip at Syracuse against the Chiefs (Washington Nationals).The home slate commences a week later on Thursday, April 10 when the Chiefs visit PNC Field for a four-game series and homestand. For season ticket information or to book a ballpark group outing, call (570) 969-BALL (2255) or visit swbrailriders.com.
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Gunmen in army uniform execute five in east Nigeria
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Gunmen in military uniform abducted five people in eastern Nigeria, tied their hands and shot them dead, police said on Saturday.
The attack overnight took place in Dananaca village, Taraba state, which is usually peaceful but which suffered a bombing at the hands of Islamist militants last week.
"The police are still investigating to ascertain if the people are real soldiers and from which unit," police spokesman for Taraba state Ibiam Mbaseki told Reuters by telephone.
"If they were genuine military men, they would have contacted us before carrying out such an operation, but we don't know where they came from."
Islamist sect Boko Haram, blamed for dozens of shootings and bombings since it launched an uprising in 2009, has sought to extend its reach to much of the north and the capital Abuja. The group has become President Goodluck Jonathan's number one security headache.
Suspected sect members attending a wedding party on Saturday opened fire on a military surveillance team monitoring the event, killing three civilians, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa of the joint military task force said.
Security forces combating Boko Haram complain that they hide amongst the civilian population, but the military's heavyhanded crackdowns and summary executions of suspects has angered the already alienated population of northern Nigeria.
The sect's armed struggle intensified after its spiritual leader Mohammed Yusuf died in police custody in 2009.
A bomb blast struck a police chief's convoy in eastern Nigeria's Taraba state on Monday, killing 11 people in the first such insurgent attack in the state. Continued...


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This actually looks pretty neat.
This actually looks pretty neat.
i found this funny
Hacks and exploits. I know this may seem weird, but TRY to hack the game [if you have knowledge of such, please do NOT try to manually edit files that could corrupt your game and cause you to need to re-download or ask for support. TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!], and TRY to exploit it [try to use lag to dupe items, or find an item that sells for more than it buys]. THIS WILL HELP! We need to prevent bugs and exploits before the game is released! Report it!
So lets hack!!
Its a sticky in the cb section
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its not dumb... they are asking for the pro hackers to find exploits and hacks such as dupe.. if they find out that players can dupe during the CB then its perfect because it will be fixed for open beta, but if they find that kind of exploit only during the open beta then they will have to do character wipe and such.
So, is this another point & click game?
Oh, nice. Looks like I missed out on CB though. >_<
I registered for the site today...maybe ill get in
Salvation, only the Outspark staff could inivite you into closed beta. If you haven't gotten into it by now, you most likely have to wait until open beta.
3 minutes until the 20th PST time..
CRAP! I just noticed the 3pm part T_T
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It's closed beta so stuff will get wiped anyways. lol
But it still will be fun <3
"Unleash your inner bunny"
yea I just wanna check it out if its worth playing
anyways what do you guys think about my sprites :P?
looks like the blue sword is broke oO
but the other ones are nice
any who.. im abit confused is the client out yet? im in the beta but i didnt get my invite but i can c the closed beta forum but.... now i dont get any emails from them about the client oO wasnt it suposed to be out like now or somthing? idk, any wey, tell me if u know any thing^^
is june 20th right now and now is time to go on google.
is june 20th right now and now is time to go on google.
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this is bullshit, I registered a week ago and i did'nt get an email! im so pissed off!:mad:
nevermind, i found it
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this absolute crap. I created 2 beta accounts on 2 diferent email providers a week ago..none of them got aqcepted..im so pissed


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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – After dropping back-to-back losses to Southern Conn. and New Haven last week, the Merrimack College women's basketball team looks to snap its two-game losing streak when they host Stonehill College Thursday night at Hammel Court in a Northeast Division showdown.
The Basics
Game: Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 |5:30 p.m.
Records: Merrimack (10-9, 6-8) | Stonehill (13-5, 10-4)
Location: Bert Hammel Court | North Andover, Mass.
Last Time Out
New Haven managed to pull away late, as the Warriors suffered their second consecutive defeat, 82-70, on Saturday afternoon at Charger Gymnasium.
Both sides went back-and-forth down the floor over the course of the first stanza, as the Warriors went into the break trailing by just nine, 43-34. That theme continued in the opening minutes of the second half, as Merrimack continued to keep the pace with the Chargers, but a late spark ignited the home side to an eventual 37-36 point advantage in second-half scoring.
The margin stayed within five points for the majority of the first half as the game's four ties and two lead changes all occurred within the opening 15:11 of action. It was a New Haven three-pointer that tied the game at 29-29 with 4:49 to go and started the Chargers on a 12-0 run to build a lead that they would not relinquish. In total, New Haven ended the period on a 19-5 stretch to take a 45-34 lead into the locker room.
The lead grew as large as 18 points in the second half at 70-52 on a pair of Hayes free throws with 6:22 left. Merrimack made a final push with an 11-0 spurt to climb within seven points with 3:45 to play, but the Chargers shot 8-for-9 from the free throw line down the stretch to close out an 82-70 victory.
This Season against the Skyhawks (Nov. 20):
- Stonehill managed to pull away early in the second half, as the Warriors suffered their first conference defeat, 86-74.
- The home teams' strengths came from dominating the battle on the glass on Wednesday, as the Skyhawks held a 40-33 edge in rebounding.
- Merrimack shot 83.3 percent (15-of-18) from the free throw line; the Warriors recorded 10 points off a Stonehill's turnovers.
- Both sides registered over 70 percent from the free throw line, while Stonehill finished 6-of-13 (46.2) from long range.
The Warriors:
- The Warriors have lost their last two games, while shooting a combined 38.8 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from long range.
- Junior Chloe Rothman (Newton, Mass.) is the only Warriors to average in double figures a game with 14.4 points.
- The Warriors hold a 4-4 record at home, while losing to Southern Conn. in their last home game.
- Merrimack has totaled 38 blocks as well as averaging two blocks a game.
Scouting the Stonehill Skyhawks:
- The Skyhawks are coming off a 92-81 overtime victory win against the College os Saint Rose on Saturday, as well as earning its third consecutive win.
- On the road, Stonehill is 3-4, while shooting 44.9 percent from the field and averaging 34.6 rebounds a game.
- Stonehill's offense leads Division II shooting 40.3 percent from 3-point range and ranks fourth in assist/turnover ratio with 1.35.
- Senior guard Mary Louise Dixon leads the Skyhawks in points and assists averaging 16.7 points and 5.9 assists per game.
For continuing coverage of Merrimack athletics, check back online at www.merrimackathletics.com, and follow the Warriors on Twitter @MC_Athletics.


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Bendable figure from the 1993 horror movie "LEPRECHAUN". This figure was given out to theater employees during it's release.


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Boxing News
Shot of the Day
WBA heavyweight champion David Haye walks to a neutral corner after a scoring a knockdown en route to a ninth round technical knockout victory over former heavyweight champion John Ruiz on Saturday night in Manchester, England. This week the Haye Team plans to open negotiations for a possible fight with Wladimir Klitschko in front of 80,000 in London's Wembley Stadium in the Fall.
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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
- Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/pictures-pictures-pictures/)
- - Share your most 'liked' 2012 fb photocluster (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/pictures-pictures-pictures/198449-share-your-most-liked-2012-fb-photocluster.html)
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Interesting:) The first one is my golden and GSD, the second one is the beginning of my mom's memorial garden, the third is the tattoo my son got in memory of my mom(his nana) and the last one is Robyn hiding from me(I think I was getting ready to cut her nails)...Like I couldn't see those ears:D
Great idea-and great pics so far!
Here is mine:
The top left is Mikko's Master Agility Dog title, top right is a pic with my husband after he earned 1st place at a Nosework practice trial, bottom left is from USDAA regionals, and bottom right is Mikko hiking on his 7th birthday.
I'm not surprised they are all of him, lol
How do you get them to cluster like that? Does Facebook do it for you?
Yes, click the first link I posted and it takes you to the app(it's fb)
Oh sorry, I was so focused on those gorgeous pics of Karlo and Onyx, I completely missed that!
Just happened to get 2 of Keefer and 2 of Halo!
That's the day we picked up Keef at the airport, posted on his 7th birthday, and then him in front of our Christmas tree this year. Halo's top picture is at her last tournament of 2012, where she earned her Flyball Dog Champion-Gold title, and the other picture was just her looking cute in one of her usual hangout spots.
I would post mine, buuut. Two pics were of me, one of my sister and only one of Koda :(
I love this! What great photo's everyone! And congrats on the accomplishments...baby Keefer with his lil water dish :wub:
LOL Kymmey, I never put up people pics! But my sister tags me enough that my daughter is plastered on my wall and I just can't remove them...I only share my dog's lives for the most part.
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This piece was written by Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Interreligious Understanding, N.J., with co-authors: The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York City; Professor Marshall Breger, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and former Reagan White House liaison to the Jewish community; and [Read More…]
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This week, High 5 Games has several new positions open. The company is hiring a project manager, a UI/UX designer, a customer support manager, and a social media analyst. Meanwhile, ICED Media is on the hunt for a group account manager. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.
- Project Manager High 5 Games (New York, NY)
- UI/UX Designer High 5 Games (New York, NY)
- Customer Support Manager High 5 Games (New York, NY)
- Social Media Analyst High 5 Games (New York, NY)
- Group Account Manager ICED Media (New York, NY)
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Christopher Davis: Google 'Almost Certain' to be More Profitable in a Decade
Christopher Davis of the Davis Funds sits down with Consuelo Mack WealthTrack in an interview that will air tomorrow, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. ET on WLIW21 in New York and nationally on public television -- check your local listings.
Among the subjects: What the co-manager of the Davis New York Venture Fund (NYVTX) sees as the bright decade ahead for Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN). IT's bright enough that, so Davis argues, the sometimes bright line that investors attempt to draw between "value" and pricier "growth" stocks starts to blur. Excerpts from the interview follow:
We think acquisitions are dangerous, and yet [Google] did a brilliant acquisition of YouTube and, of course, they bought the company that created the operating system, Android, for the vast majority of phones on earth. So they have been incredibly visionary and incredibly thoughtful about how they protect this competitive business. But if you were to say, is that a business that in 10 years from now is almost certain to be more profitable than it is? I would say so, and that's unusual in technology. That's one of the big changes in the world is that with the Internet there have been new blue chips created. I'd put Amazon in this category.We own just a little bit of Amazon, but without question Jeff Bezos is one of the great executives of a generation and has built one of the great companies, and I would defy anybody to give me a scenario where Amazon is a smaller company 10 years from now than it is today." ...
[W]e also have owned companies where we see them in a sense as the future blue chip companies. Some of them have higher growth rates like Google and in this case a little bit of Amazon, and they aren't as well understood because of that. A lot of value investors won't look at them, but what we believe is that growth is a component of value. Companies that grow profitably are more valuable than ones that don't, and we don't understand why investors try to create this distinction where they say it's a strange thing for one investor to be simultaneously interested in United Health or American Express and at the same time see value in a company like Google.


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34th ANNUAL HEADDRESS BALL
Get out your features and glue guns, the Key West Business Guild proudly presents the 34th Annual Headdress Ball in our new location at the Truman Waterfront, at the end of Southard Street, Thursday evening, October 27th. This year's spectacle is sponsored by Aqua Night Club and the new Side Door Lounge. Tom Luna returns as the outrageous Emcee, and Rudegirl will again do the sound. Out tent has been extended to allow more table seating, and General Admission standing. We will open at 6:30pm to showcase our vendor displays which includes food and bar service. Show Starts at 8:00pm, opened by Christopher Peterson. Come see contestants from all over the county vie for the $3,000 first place prize. Judges will judge on above the head creations only. Best of local Key West Talent will also perform. We go on rain or shine. This event always sells out so book your tickets early!
So please, re-visit this website for updated information or follow us on Facebook, Facebook.com/headdressballkeywest
The Headdress Ball is the annual fundraising event for the Key West Business Guild.
The KWBG wishes to THANK our sponsors!


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Over the last 32 years, Cornwall-based theatre company Kneehigh has firmly established itself as one of our most consistently innovative theatre companies. For BAC's first family Christmas show since 2010, they've gone for an anarchic, contemporary adaptation of the Cinderella tale that, as always with Kneehigh, treads a fine line between pantomime, concert, storytelling and physical theatre.
BAC's cavernous great hall removes some of the intimacy that the company specialise in creating between performer and audience: with bleacher-like seats and a high ceiling, it feels more like a school gym than a theatre. But the performers quickly turn that to their advantage, persuading most of the audience to get up and dance at the Prince's ball (in fact, he has not one, but two). With a glitterball spinning overhead and party music resounding from the speakers, the vibe is soon that of a riotous school disco.
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|TBTC Study 26 PK: Rifapentine Pharmacokinetics in Children Receiving Once Weekly Rifapentine and Isoniazid for the Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Determine whether rifapentine exposure (level 24 hours after drug ingestion) is equivalent in young children receiving weight-based dosing to adults receiving 900 mg. [ Time Frame: 24 hours after drug ingestion ]
- Correlate estimated rifapentine exposure with toxicity in young children receiving rifapentine and isoniazid for latent tuberculosis infection. [ Time Frame: During the three months of taking rifapentine ]
- Validate the accuracy of estimated rifapentine exposure with pediatric rifapentine dose based on weight. [ Time Frame: 24 hours after drug ingestion ]
- Determine estimated drug bioavailability in pediatric subjects (ages 2 to < 12 years) given higher mg/kg doses of rifapentine. [ Time Frame: 24 hours after drug ingestion ]
- Determine the association in adults between polymorphisms of MDR1 genotype (P-glycoprotein) and rifapentine estimated exposure. [ Time Frame: at the time of blood draw ]
- Determine the frequency of lower antitubercular drug concentrations in adults with acetylator status determined by N-acetyltransferase genotypes and of rifapentine by C24 and by MDR1 genotypes. [ Time Frame: at the time of blood draw ]
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|Study Start Date:
|September 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2008
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|August 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
The pharmacokinetics of rifapentine have been studied in adults, adolescents (ages 12-15 years), and patients with hepatic dysfunction and HIV infection. However, there are no published data on the efficacy, safety or pharmacokinetics of rifapentine in children. This lack of data has precluded till now enrollment of children less than 12 years old in TBTC Study 26, a study of the effectiveness and tolerability of weekly rifapentine/isoniazid for three months versus daily isoniazid for nine months for the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection, a phase 3 treatment trial that will enroll 8000 persons with latent tuberculosis infection. A recently completed initial evaluation of rifapentine pharmacokinetics among children receiving a single dose of rifapentine demonstrated significantly lower exposures of rifapentine among children compared to adults, when children were given weight-based doses chosen to be comparable to a 600 mg oral dose in adults. This reduced exposure suggested that children require higher weight-based doses than adults and a model was constructed to estimate rifapentine doses in children that would result in exposures similar to the 900 mg dose used for adults in Study 26. Study 26 has been amended to include children ages 2-11 based on the initial single-dose study and pharmacokinetic modeling. The purpose of Study 26PK is to evaluate the adequacy of the doses chosen for young children who enrolled in Study 26.
Briefly, this study aims to:
- determine whether rifapentine exposure is equivalent in young children receiving weight-based dosing to adults receiving 900 mg.
- correlate rifapentine exposure with toxicity in young children
- validate accuracy of weight-based dosing in children
- determine rifapentine bioavailability in children
- determine association in adults between polymorphisms of MDR1 genotype and rifapentine exposure
- correlate isoniazid concentrations in adults with acetylator status
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|2 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
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Enrolled in TBTC Study 26 randomized to treatment with once weekly isoniazid and rifapentine:
- Child between the ages of 2 to less than 12 years for whom informed consent by a guardian and of assent (if applicable) have been obtained.
- Adult greater than age 18 for whom informed consent has been obtained.
- Willingness to undergo a blood phlebotomy 24 hours following dosing of isoniazid and rifapentine after receiving at least three once-weekly doses of rifapentine plus isoniazid.
If as a result of a contact investigation, both a parent and child are enrolled in Study 26, both may be co-enrolled into the pharmacokinetic substudy with the adult serving as the control for the child. Preference will be given to a biologic parent of the same gender. If no eligible biologic parent is available for study, the next adult of the same gender and at the same TBTC site, who is substudy eligible, will serve as the adult control.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00164450
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|United States, Arkansas
|Central Arkansas Veterans Health System
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72205
|United States, California
|University of Southern California Medical Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|University of California at San Diego
|San Diego, California, United States, 92103
|University of California, San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Colorado
|Denver Public Health Department
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80204
|United States, District of Columbia
|Washington DC Veterans Administration Medical Center
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20422
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University School of Medicine
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30303
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University School of Medicine
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 21231
|Hines Veterans Administration Medical Center
|Hines, Illinois, United States, 60141
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231
|United States, Massachusetts
|Boston University Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118
|United States, New Jersey
|New Jersey School of Medicine
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07103
|United States, New York
|Columbia University
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
|United States, Tennessee
|Veterans Administration Tennessee Valley Health Care System
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|United States, Texas
|University of North Texas Health Science Center
|Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76104
|Houston Veterans Administration Medical Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital
|San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78284
|United States, Washington
|Seattle-King County Health Department
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|Hopital Universitario Clementino Fraga Filho
|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2194.590
|Canada, British Columbia
|University of British Columbia
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 4R4
|Canada, Manitoba
|University of Manitoba
|Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3A 1R8
|Canada, Quebec
|Montreal Chest Institute
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2X 2P4
|Agencia de Salut Publica
|Barcelona, Spain, 080023
|Study Chair:
|Marc Weiner, MD
|VAMC and University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
|Responsible Party:
|William R. Mac Kenzie, MD, Medical Officer, Tuberculosis Trials Consortiu, DTBE, CDC
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00164450 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 10, 2005
|Last Updated:
|August 22, 2008
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mycobacterium Infections
Actinomycetales Infections
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Antitubercular Agents
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Fatty Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Lipid Regulating Agents
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Leprostatic Agents
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C8 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
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Hi, I am thinking of buying a healthy oil for my hair , I am trying to buy organic, here is a list of some oils. If anybody tried these can you please tell me which one(s) you tried , how does it work for your hair and any additional information . thanks
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Olive oil is my favourite. My hair isn't as good as it could be, but its much better than before, and I think the olive oil helped a lot with that. It helps tame my crazy frizzy hair... trust me, NOBODY has frizz as bad as mine, but olive oil helps me a little.
My hair just feels stronger now and is much healthier than its ever been which is probably more of a priority than frizz.
Anyway, all these oils, might work for one but not for another, coconut oil for example- I had heard so much about it, people saying it did wonders for their hair, I tried it and I swear it dried my hair and made it feel really bad.
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I like coconut oil when my hair is in twists, but that's about all I use it for. It's really heavy.
Grapeseed is really lightweight and a great heat protectant! I use it whenever I straighten my hair at home. Just put a small amount on while your hair is still damp and comb it through.
I know you didnt mention apricot oil but I like that too. It's also a good heat protectant but is heavier than grapeseed is. It's also good for your skin because it has great anti-aging properties.
Not a huge fan of olive oil personally. I dont like the smell too much and it it's pretty heavy like coconut oil. I would only use it on twists but the smell is kinda nasty. Good for hot oil treatments though.
Hope I could help! :)
Oh! And I use jojoba on my scalp a lot. Sometimes I will mix it with tea tree oil for when my scalp is irritated.
thank you for your replies:love5: i forgot to add this I am looking for more of a light weight oil
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Go through the list and look for oils described as 'light' as well as the other properties you might want e.g. odourless, anti-oxidant, noncomedogenic (sp?) etc.
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secondary metering rods
To answer one of your questions, bigger (fatter) secondary rods will lean out the secondary side. However, changing the rod hanger can also effect mixture. As was mentioned before, Cliff Ruggles book really spells out how the QJet works and how to modify it.
First start with a fresh set of spark plugs.
When you fire it up and take it out you're looking first for lean signs, these will be backfires thru the intake, pinging when you get on it, possible hard hesitation when you whack the throttle open. These are the first apparent signs the mix is lean, don't worry as long as you don't keep hammering the engine in this condition it'll be fine. If it doesnt do this, drive it for a few days then pull the plugs. White with splotches on the insulator is telling you its way too dry and is detonating whether you hear it or not, slight discoloration of the insulator in brown, gray, with perhaps a bit of yellow to orange tells you the mixture is pretty good. Black says it's a little rich, caked black quite rich, and wet black way too rich. Rich isn't as immediately destructive as lean but it begins a washing of the upper cylinder lube from the cylinder walls which increases the wear rate between the walls and the rings so it's something you want to attend to when you see it. At the start up, rich will feel bubbly, like the engine is almost right but seems to be full of liquid, which it is.
I wouldn't go diving into jets and rods till I went thru this start up phase to see what it wants. Then it gets more subtle, a metering rod carb is more tunable than those with just straight jets, so you have to be careful not to get in too deep to fast, its really easy to get lost in Q-Jets and Carters. Remember jets are only one solution on a Q-Jet, equal to them is the metering rod and the piston control spring, this not only sets the effective jet size, but times those sizes on engine need by virtue of manifold vacuum. For a Holley there are main metering jets and the power valve/power jet combination. For the Q-Jet all that and more is built into the main jets, metering rods and the piston that moves the rods. The rods have 2 to 3 different sizes on each shaft each is positioned according to engine load. The jet is one size; the metering rod passes into the jet effectively reducing the size of the jet. High manifold vacuum pulls the control piston down against the spring putting the thickest diameter of the rod into the jet; this makes the mixture for low speeds at a nearly closed throttle. Then there is a slightly smaller step, as the manifold vacuum decreases the spring pushes the control piston up pulling the smaller diameter step into the jet, this provides the mixture for cruise as the throttle is getting more open. The next step is WOT, it is the smallest diameter, when the manifold vacuum falls toward zero, the spring pushes the control piston all the way up exposing the jet to the least restriction. This is high speed enrichment and corresponds to the more familiar Holley which would have main metering and the power jet both feeding the main well at this point.
On the secondary side a Holley works pretty much like the primary with events being controlled by a one size fits all jet, some models include a power valve and accelerating pump, but most don't. The Q-Jet remains more complicated here operating in a similar manner to the primaries with a large fixed jet and a metering rod. Only here the metering rod is driven by a flapper air valve hinged above the throttle plate. There are different cams available to adjust the open close profile of how the metering rods move in relation to the air valve. The air valve is controlled by a spring or counterweights depending on year and model of the carb. They also can be changed to tune the air valve. As the secondary throttle is opened which is mechanical, the air valve is subjected not to vacuum, but the engine's flow demand. So if you whack the throttle to WOT at idle, the air valve doesnt move as there is no air demand for it. But do that at higher speeds and that valve will begin to open once the primary circuit can no longer keep up to demand. Then it will open proportionally to the need of the engine at any moment moving the secondary metering rods with it. These are usually tapered but some are stepped similar to the primary. The further the air valve opens the smaller the taper becomes on the metering rods and the more fuel is allowed to pass thru the jet.
That my friend is a Q-Jet without having to buy the book. However, I highly recommend this for bathroom reading http://www.amazon.com/Rebuild-Modify.../dp/1932494189 Mr. Ruggles knows his stuff and trust me the Qjet is a place where you want to know a lot before setting foot inside.
i never change anything when swapping from one size to another all the q jets are pretty lean jetted anyways, especially the later years they are,
the secondary rods you can check without doing anything except rmeoving the small flat head blade screw that holds the secondary rod hanger on the top of the carb between the two secondary air valves cant miss it
jut pull the screw and lift the hanger up with the two rods, straight up
are two-letter codes on them like AA or BC etc.
are charts online etc to decode them, certain ones are better than others of course.,
i collect any and all q jet carbs i come across either to go through or for parts only. so i have amassed lots of trays of parts and lots of carbs over the years, and i only run q jets on my gm v-8 engines
there are billions of informational pages out there on the web for these carbs. lots of info, you cna find out anything about them.
good luck
|Well I actually swapped it in and took it for a ride. It has great off idle and part throttle performance so I don't think i will mess with the primaries. I have this in a pretty much stock engine in a dirt track car that will see a lot of WOT. How will I know what secondary metering rod is in my qjet now? I'm thinking maybe I should just put the next larger one in to be safe. Putting in a bigger secondary metering rod will richen it up at WOT, correct?
How to 'tune' or rejet a quadrajet?
I have a quadrajet that I want to put on a 350 but I think it came from a 305. Do I need to 'rejet' it or anything?
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Victoire woke up later that night to someone banging on their front door. When she rolled over, she saw that Teddy had his wand in his hand and was already pulling on a pair of pyjama trousers. She squinted at the clock as he made his way into the hallway. It was almost 3am.
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"Van told him?" Victoire couldn't help but feel a little stung. She knew that Van was close to his brother Quinn – they'd shared a flat for years – but she had really thought that he'd keep his mouth shut about what had happened for at least a couple days, especially since Quinn worked with Dominique.
Dominique snorted and pushed her pale blonde hair back from her face. "Yeah, right. Like he'd do that to you."
Victoire felt her body relax a little, and she let out a sigh. When she glanced up at Teddy, his gaze was determinedly fixed on the floor. "So how did you find out, then?" she asked her sister.
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"Dominique, how many people did you accost to find out something that your sister would have told you in a couple days, anyway?" Teddy asked pointedly, and she shot an annoyed glance in his direction.
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Given that Dominique was eighteen at this point, Victoire doubted that it would stave off a blowup for much longer.
He glanced over at Victoire. "I really would love some tea, if you don't mind," she said softly, and he sighed.
"All right," he said, and turned to leave the room. When his back was to her, he must have muttered something to Dominique, because her eyes flashed dangerously, but he left without further incident.
"Dominique, you need to stop doing that," Victoire said tiredly, pulling her knees up to her chest. "One of these days, he's going to lose it."
Her sister shrugged. "Yeah, well, for him, what does that mean?" She lowered her voice, and said, in a rather poor imitation of Teddy's voice, "Dominique, you are being annoying, please stop."
Victoire actually managed a laugh. "You should have heard him earlier today." She related the conversation between Teddy and Uncle Harry that she'd heard earlier in the day; by the time she finished, Dominique looked rather impressed.
"Good for him," she said. "He needs to learn how to be a jerk sometimes."
Dominique didn't actually dislike Teddy, any more than he disliked her. Victoire knew that they cared about each other, and Dominique's reaction to their engagement had been unadulterated enthusiasm and excitement.
The issue was that Dominique was impatient, impetuous, and occasionally a bit callous, where Teddy was exactly the opposite. And when it came to any problem Victoire was having, they were both utterly convinced that their way was better and the other's would only end up doing her more harm than good.
"So Micah told Hannah?" Victoire asked, bringing the subject back around to her sister's invasion of her flat. Dominique nodded, and Victoire wrinkled her nose. "Sucker."
Hannah Randall, who had been one of Dominique's best friends since they'd met at the Leaky Cauldron a few summers before Victoire started at Hogwarts, was very, very sweet. She was so sweet and genuine that you often forgot that she wasn't naive and innocent as well.
Add that to the fact that Micah had been considering asking her out since she'd joined Werewolf Capture that summer, and Victoire wasn't surprised he'd cracked.
"Stop trying to change the subject," her sister said irritably. "What happened? Micah said you were injured, but you look fine to me."
Victoire opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again before she could speak. Her mind had suddenly gone blank.
"We'll see if she's still fine next full moon," Teddy said from the doorway as he carefully carried the mugs of tea into the room.
Dominique's eyes got wide. "You—" Victoire nodded, and her sister closed her eyes. "Shit."
Teddy handed one of the mugs to Victoire, and she took it gratefully. He turned to her sister. "Sorry, Dominique. It's been a long night. I didn't want to sit around my kitchen pretended that it takes awhile to make tea. I made you a cup, though." He gave her the other mug before settling back in next to Victoire. When she went to kiss him on the cheek, she could smell scotch on his breath. She raised her eyebrows at him, and he shrugged.
"That's all right," Dominique replied. She was blowing on her tea and did not appear to have noticed the exchange. "I didn't know you'd yelled at Uncle Harry today. If I had I wouldn't have been such a jerk."
Teddy seemed to consider saying something, but ended up deciding against it.
"What happened?" Dominique asked again, and Victoire sighed. She knew that her sister was not going to leave until she'd been told what had happened.
By the time Dominique left, Victoire was absolutely exhausted.
"I'm sorry about her," she said as Teddy pulled back the covers and crawled back into bed with her.
He sighed. "It's fine," he said, reaching out tentatively for her. She wriggled over so that she was closer to him, and he threaded his arm around her waist. "She didn't want me hovering." He was not quite able to keep the irritation out of his voice, but Victoire didn't call him on it. This was their problem, and she knew better than to get in the middle of it.
Instead, she turned to him and said, "Scotch, though, Teddy? Really?"
He smiled and lowered his head a little to brush his lips against hers. "Occasionally, I need a drink to deal with your sister, especially when it's three in the morning and you've been attacked by a werewolf."
"I'm sorry about her," Victoire said softly, resting her head against his chest. "She's just…" her voice trailed off, and he shook his head.
"Vic, don't get me wrong. I love your family. They're terrific. They've treated me like I'm a real part of their family since we started going out." He laughed, and she could feel the vibrations of it ripple through his chest. "I think I have more family being an orphan than most people who have parents have."
She turned her head a little to kiss his collarbone. "My family adores you."
"I know," he said. "Your parents didn't even really hold those nights you didn't go home over Christmas holiday in your seventh year against me, and I'm sure they knew exactly what we were doing."
Victoire had not been so lucky. Her parents had known better than to try and stop her from leaving the house – she was of age at the time, after all – but they'd subjected her to a long lecture about being careful when she was intimate with Teddy and about how he was really a very nice boy but even so she shouldn't feel the need to rush into things just because he was older.
By the end, she felt so uncomfortable and awkward that she'd wished that they'd just sent her to her room like they did when she was fifteen and out all night with Fred and Micah.
The only redeeming thing about the entire exchange was that her sister had eavesdropped on the conversation and then spent the next six months quoting it whenever their parents were not in earshot.
"And I really do like your siblings," Teddy added. "Dominique just gets under my skin sometimes, especially when she barges into our flat at three in the morning."
Victoire shifted her body into a more comfortable position and closed her eyes. "That's my sister," she said. "Let's go to sleep."
Victoire allowed Teddy to convince her to stay home for the next couple days, but between the articles splashed across the front of the Daily Prophet both mornings and having absolutely nothing to distract her from her anxiety, Victoire put her foot down after that. Spending all her time sitting at home moping wasn't going to solve anything, and even with visits from both Fred and Dominique, it was probably doing her more harm than good.
And besides, everyone needed to see her and know that she was fine; otherwise, the rumors would start flying.
Dominique approved wholeheartedly of her decision, but both Teddy and Fred seemed to think that it was a bad idea. According to Dominique, the trouble with them was that they were both Gryffindors who thought with their hearts, and they just didn't understand that Ravenclaws could compartmentalize things and control their emotions.
Which had, predictably, led to some sniping between the three of them that had both given Victoire a headache and validated her decision to go back to work.
Victoire loved her sister dearly, and she even thought that Dominique was probably right. However, she also thought that Dominique badly needed to learn how to use tact and diplomacy.
The thing that all three of them did agree on was that her spells bouncing off the wolf was very, very strange. She'd had no word on any of the developments of the case, so she had no idea if whatever Van had snatched from around its neck had even been identified.
Which was yet another reason to go back to work. She thought it was very peculiar, too, and she wasn't going to find any answers sitting at home.
She'd no sooner stepped out of the fireplace at work on her first day back, however, when Lavender appeared and asked her if she had a moment.
Though it was phrased as a question, Victoire knew far better than to interpret it as one. When one of your bosses asks you if you have a minute, you need to have a minute.
She therefore followed Lavender into Seamus's office without saying anything, though when the door closed more loudly than she'd been expecting it to behind her, she jumped. When she whirled around, Lavender pointed at the chair in front of the desk.
Victoire sat, and Lavender settled herself behind the desk and leaned forward. Her face was impossible to read.
For her, anyway. She rather wished that Van was here to interpret for her; he'd always had a strange fixation on Lavender that she'd never really been able to understand, though she suspected it was why he was perpetually single.
"Should you be back at work?" Lavender asked, and Victoire shifted uncomfortably in her seat.
"I'm fine," she said. The statement came out sounding a little more defensive than she'd meant it to.
"No, you're not," Lavender said flatly. "No one is fine that quickly."
Her tone made Victoire feel slightly unsettled; it was as if Lavender knew about the nightmares. But she couldn't; Teddy was the only one who did, and Victoire was quite sure that he hadn't told anyone except maybe his godfather.
Then Victoire flashed back to something her uncle Ron had said shortly after she'd joined the D.C.B., before her aunt had elbowed him and told him to shut up. He'd mentioned Lavender being locked up in the permanent ward at St. Mungo's for years after the war, because she'd had a complete nervous breakdown.
Victoire hadn't really believed him then. The idea of Lavender laying mute in a bed in St. Mungo's was so at odds with the very capable woman who helped run the division that she'd assumed he was just exaggerating again.
Now she wasn't so sure.
"I'm coping," Victoire said after a moment. "People bothering me about whether I'm sure I'm all right just makes that harder." That was the main reason she hadn't told her parents yet; she knew them, and she knew how much they'd try to help and only end up making it worse.
Her tone, however, had been sharper than she'd expected, and she winced. They might be more informal in the D.C.B. than some other divisions were, but Lavender was still her boss. "Sorry. I—"
Lavender shook her head. "Don't worry about it," she said. "I'll stop bothering you about it, but if you need help, or someone to talk to…" her voice trailed off.
Victoire could not possibly imagine going to Lavender for comfort, but she nodded anyway. "Why didn't my spells work?" she asked, changing the subject.
Lavender eyed her for another moment before reaching into one of the drawers and pulling out something wrapped in a cloth. She put it on the table, and as she slid it toward Victoire, the fabric fell to the side, revealing a chain with a golden locket on it.
Victoire stared at it, and felt her heartbeat start to accelerate. "But.. but that's…"
"A shield charm," Lavender supplied for her. "Produced by Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes."


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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
I have used moly in the past but these loads were developed with Tungsten Disulfide which is a vastly superior product.. I would definately start low and work up with moly as it behaves differently than tungsten..
In my experience it has dramatically improved accuracy and barrel life in my rifles. the Warbird's throat life expectancy was placed at 800 rnds, I have exceeded that by 500 rnds with no loss in accuracy, I use a bore prep made with the same tungsten powder to coat the bore with a few passes then a dry mop to remove the excess material, the hot gasses are deflected by the tungsten coating and pass through the bore with less impact on the throat and rifling . I will add info on the stuff in my next post !
180 Gr Swift A-Frame coated with tungsten disulfide
105 gr. Alliants Reloder 25
3474 FPS 20 ft from the muzzle
3.584" Cartridge OAL
3.015" Ogive OAL
load tailored specifically for my rifle in that barrel... your results may vary
also powder used came from 4 5lb jugs of same lot "April 21,2001 S2 LOT 25029"
powder may have a different burn rate from newly manufactured lots as was seen with Hodgdons H-1000.... all data was derived by live fire with temperatures ranging from 55-65 degree Fahrenheit , my hunting conditions were in same temps maybe a bit lower...
RL 25 is known to be temperature sensitive, in high temp areas use extreme caution with max loads.... several more reasons to start low and work up....
my go to load that I used for all my hunting in Alaska (in Brown Bear country) with the Warbird, I worked up a load with uncoated 180 gr Swift A-Frame bullets during barrel break in using RL-25 (load data from Lazz website) accuracy was around 1" at 100 yards...
When I started using tungsten coated bullets velocity dropped off indicating lower pressure, I gradually worked up to 3600 fps and came across high pressure signs and accuracy fell off, backing down to my best accuracy load , 1/2" 3 shot groups at 100 yards, all shots were fired with bbl cooling intervals of at least 10 mins. without disturbing/ moving the rifle from my shooting bags, ( line of sight/ bullet path remained the same) which I found is crucial for shooting for groups and determining your loads accuracy, I often see guys at the range pulling their guns off to shoot with another rifle or a buddy wants to shoot his rifle, I go alone for accurate load development.
always shoot through a chronograph when developing top end loads, your velocity is usually the first indication of high pressure,
With the Sako TRGS M995 and it's 26" barrel, anytime a 180 gr uncoated bullet is at 3300 fps or more, start watching for signs of pressure on your fired brass. some bullets will create high pressures with a 1/2 grain increment of powder without any warning with the previous lower charge...
another critical step for accuracy----my brass prep involved sorting 200 pcs of brass by weight after the primer pockets were uniformed, flash hole deburred, full length sized in a 7.82 Warbird Redding FL die then trimmed all pcs of brass to same length.... basically follow the bench rest shooters techniques of preparing brass for a competitive shoot.... it does work ! the goal here is uniformity in ammunition, identical loads will produce better accuracy .
My brother has an identical rifle bought at the same time, he had a muzzle brake installed by Wild West Guns from Anchorage which shortened his bbl by about an inch but his rifle reached higher pressures with lower charges using the same lot of bullets and powder..
Accuracy of 1/2" at 100 yards was found with 1 gr less powder and similar velocity
104.0 gr RL 25
3.581" Cartridge OAL
3.012" Ogive OAL
I apologize for such a long winded post, just wanted to share with you my results with my loading methods for the Warbird....
let me know how it works out, really curious about the brass made by Hornady ! I believe the stuff I have was made by Mast...
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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
here's the info as promised, read in its entirety and make your own judgement, I have been using it since 2000 for all my bullets including lead and hardcast revolver loads, absolutely minimal leading in higher velocity loads for lead bullets, the stuff is fantastic...........
Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) is dry/solid lubricant powder and is one of the most lubricious substance in world. WS2 offers excellant dry lubricity (COF: 0.03) unmatched to any other substance, including Graphite or Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2).
Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) can also be used in high temperature and high pressure applications. It offers temperature resistance from -450 deg F (-270º C) to 1200 deg F (650º C) in normal atmosphere and from -305 deg F (-188º C) to 2400º F (1316º C) in Vacuum. Load bearing ability of coated film is extremely high at 300,000 psi.
Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) can also be used instaed of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2). See comparison of WS2 / MoS2
Since the powder offers one of the lowest Coefficient of Friction (Dynamic @ 0.03 & Static @ 0.07), the applications are unlimited and could be tried with every conceivable idea. .
Two established ways the WS2 powder can be used are:
1) Mixing the WS2 powder with wet lubricants (such as oil, grease & other synthetic lubricants):
The powder can be mixed 1wt% to 15wt% (as required) with grease or oil. This will enhance lubricity of the mixture and also improves High Temperature and Extreme Pressure properties of mixture. During the use, WS2 in the mixture will get coated on mating/moving parts, which in turn reduces friction and improves lubricity and load bearing ability for much longer cycles.
2) Coating the WS2 powder on a substrate requiring (dry) lubricity:
The powder can be coated by spraying (at 120 psi) the substrate with dry (& cool) pneumatic air. It does not require any binders and spraying can be done at normal room temperature. Coated film will be 0.5 micron thick. In an alternative application method, the powder can also be mixed with Isopropyl alcohol and this paste could be buffed to the substrate. The coating applications are already established in many areas such as Automotive parts, Racing Car Engine and other parts, Aerospace parts, Bearings (Linear, Ball, Roller etc), Shafts, Marine parts, Cutting Tools, Blades, Slitters, Knives, Mold release, Precision Gears, Valve components, Pistons, Chains, Machinery components and many other areas.
Engineering - General Information
Bearing, gear & cutter life extended by 200 - 500%.
Application Areas Include:-
High Vacuum, High Temperature, Clean Room, Aerospace, Nuclear, Cryogenics, Machine Tools, Racing Engines, Cutting Tools, Die Casting
Benefits and Capabilities of WS2
Solves problems such as: friction, excessive wear, seizing, galling and fretting.
Withstands loads upto 350,000psi at temperatures between -273oC to 650oC.
Enhances the performance of all oils and greases.
Overcomes or reduces mechanical lubrication problems improving performance and extending service life up to
Eliminates and reduces costly maintenance problems that cause breakdowns and expensive downtime by stopping galling fretting and friction caused by dissimilar metals and their different hardnesses.
Maintains the dimensional integrity of the substrate to within 0.5microns withno buildup.
Is inert, inorganic, non-toxic, non-distortive, non-corrosive and resistant to most fuels and solvents.
Resists carbon build-up from burnt deposits due to its extremely low coefficient of friction - less than half that of Moly and Teflon.
Molecularly bonds to all materials and platings.
Engineering - Material Properties
Bearing, gear & cutter life extended by 200 - 500%.
Composition - Modified Tungsten Disulphide (WS2 ) in laminar form.
Coefficient of Friction - 0.030 dynamic, 0.070 static. ( WS2 on WS2 )
Load Capacity - Same as substrate up to 350,000 psi
Adhesion - Molecular bond, no cure time, applied at ambient temperature
Temperature Range - Lubricates from -460oF to 1200oF ( -273oC to 650oC) in normal atmosphere, -350oF to 2400oF (-188oC to 1316oC) at 10-14 Torr
Chemical Stability - Inert, non-toxic, corrosion resistance. Non magnetic
Substrates - All ferrous and non ferrous metals, man-made solids /plastics
As A Substrate - Accepts most paints, all platings, is compatible with solvents, fuels and oils
LOX Compatibility - Insensitive to detonation by or in presence of oxygen
Hardness - approximately 30 Rockwell C
Thickness - 0.5 microns (0.000020 in)
Military Specification - Processed to DOD - L - 85645
Engineering - WS2 Applications
Bearing, gear & cutter life extended by 200 - 500%.
WS2 stops Pickup and Seizing on SS and Titanium
WS2 is finding many applications where the stopping of pickup or seizing is important. These screws are for a medical application which requires servicing every 3 to 5 years. Finding the parts seized is not an option.
Stainless steel parts within hydraulic systems and titanium parts for aircraft/space systems are typical application areas. Parts can be masked.
WS2 Extends Life of sliding parts
The cost of downtime due to wear of sliding parts can be dramatically reduced by specifying WS2 on sliding machine parts. The surface treatment is applied without heat and at 0.5micron thick does not affect engineering tolerances.
Use WS2 where conventional lubricants cannot be tolerated, where oils/grease are allowed their performance is enhanced.
WS2 Extends Gearbox Life
These gears are from a high-precision gearbox where WS2 is applied to reduce friction and extend life. Coated gears run with lower friction, higher efficiency (7-9%), will run at higher speeds and with a significantly longer life.
A Formula 3000 team owes its success to its WS2 coated gearbox. WS2 coated CV joints took part in the Paris - Dakar rally.
WS2 and Gearboxes:-
The coating is 0.5 micro thick so no engineering changes are necessary will not chip or peel. No heat is used in its application. WS2 is used with usual gearbox oil.
The coating is porous and has an affinity for oils to ensure you always have a lubricant film (oil and WS2) between bearing faces.
WS2 is very low friction so less heat is generated within the gearbox. We are told by our US licensers that the US Army Airforce is considering using WS2 to extend gearbox life in the event of small arms damage to helicopter lubrication systems.
WS2 will extend the life of your gearbox. You may be able to run with less oil onboard.
Gear shifting will require lower forces (Smaller Actuators?) and be smoother and faster in operation.
WS2 delays the onset of micropitting.
WS2 extends life of Ceramic Ball Races
A specialist bearing company routinely supplies ceramic ball bearings to its customers.
WS2 has been shown to extend the life of such bearings by enabling a "self healing" property of WS2 coated bearing to recover from shocks which would otherwise cause bearing failure.
WS2 Extends HSS Cutting Tool Life by 2 to 5 times
Tests have been done in the UK using WS2 as a coating on a HSS broaches. The life of the broach was extended by 5.5 times over an uncoated broach. A high speed tungsten carbide TicN coated milling cutter used for milling turbine blades was coated with WS2 - its life was extended by 2.0 times. A 2.8mm solid carbide drill coated with TiN cutting an aluminium alloy drilled 2200 holes - coating with WS2 extended the life to 7000 holes.
These cutters used normal cutting fluids during operation (after coating). In the US WS2 is used to extend the life on a range of cutting tools from gear hobs, broaches, taps, milling cutters & centre drills.
Benefits are:-
Cutting edges remain sharp - we have coated razor blades for plastic film manufacture.
The very low coefficient of friction reduces the heat generated in chip formation. Chips are well formed.
WS2 prevents the build-up of material on the tooth face.
WS2 is chemically inert so does not react with materials such as Titanium.
WS2 withstands temperatures upto 650oC.
Allows you to increase speeds and feeds and/or extends tool life.
WS2 is a lubricant in High Vacuum
A company with vacuum and compressor experience supply special purpose machinery for high vacuum research facilities in the UK and abroad. Previously they used MoS2 to lubricate bearings for use in such machines.
This was a time consuming and costly process. The company have now switched to using WS2 coated bearings which provides a quicker and lower cost solution to lubrication at high vacuum.
WS2 Lubricates at Cryogenic Temperatures
An Aerospace laboratory was trying to get a stepping motor to work at 4oK. We were asked to coat the bearings after which it worked quite happily.
WS2 Prevents Nut Seizure on Routing Head Spindles
The manufacturer of routing heads reported an occasional seizing of the collet tightening nut on to the head spindle.
After coating the threads with WS2 the problem did not re-occurr.
Zinc Diecasting
WS2 is also being used to stop galling and pickup in metal die casting. With coated ejector pins one company achieved 25,000 shots without any maintenance on the tool - a record for them!
Engineering - Application Areas
Bearing, gear & cutter life extended by 200 - 500%.
Cutting Tools:
End mills
Roughing mills
Jig reamers
Centre Drills
Drills and taps
Linear bearings used in:
Waterjet cutting
Positioning devices
Ball & Roller Bearings:
Vacuum and Laser applications
Nuclear applications
Clean rooms
Medical devices
Food processing
Wet or caustic applications with polymer grease
Video Recorder:
Hi speed duplication
High speed spindles
Cart wheels
Aluminium rolling mills
Ball Screws:
Thompson type shafts
THK, IKO & NSK linear actuation and positioning devices
All engine parts,
Main bearings,
Big End, Little End Bearings
Gear Boxes
Wheel bearings, CV joints
Transmissions, Rear end differentials
Copying equipment, paper handling devices, printing presses
High temperature open faced, non wet lube applications
Clean rooms
High load heavy equipment for ease of disassembly
Electric Motors:
Including Generators,
High speed and fractional hp
Motor drives
Internal/External splines shafts
ACME Threads
Dental motors, Medical Motors, Turbine Engines
Wear plates, Gibs
Cold Forming:
Canning machinery. Can be coated onto titanium nitride to reduce friction and wear.
Tooling cold handling
Crimping tools
Forming tools
Galling problems of Stainless on Stainless
Galling problems of Aluminium on Aluminium
Conveyer systems, Glass plants, Paint spray systems
Roller chain
Link assemblies
Glass plants
Food processing
Clean room applications
Machine assembly sprocket grip chain
Automotive conveyor
Servo valves,
Metering valves,
Ball valves,
Fuel automotive injection systems,
Diesel hydraulic valves and nuclear systems
Stainless steel components,
Hydraulic, fuel, air
Applications where galling is a problem
Investment Casting Tooling:
Eliminates the use of silicon sprays and extends life of moving parts
Plastic Injection Moulding & Extrusion:
All mould components which contact resin
Slides, gibs, Ejector Pins
Enhances flow 3-9% and increases productivity from 5-11% on average.
Replaces release agents, does not transfer to finished parts.
Can be coated on top of chrome plating and other hard coatings
Metal Die Casting:
Useful lubricant between parts of multipart dies, to prevent seizing, where lubrication is difficult due to high temperatures. Release agent with Zinc
Use on nozzles & machine guards where spatter needs to be easily removed
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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
I have a sako m995 chambered in a lazz warbird, with a 27" pac nor barrel. i took it out today and ran some test loads threw it using new brass, this is what i came up with.
98gr. R25
210 berger vld
5 shot group just over 1/2 inch @ 100yds
96gr. R25
210 berger vld
5 shot group under a 1/2 inch @ 100yds
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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
Thanks for posting all that information. I think ill give bullet coating a go. My question to you is whats your process of treating your barrel first? Also what method so you use to coat your bullets? Ive been reading and really like the method described on 6mmbr. It seems easy enough. Thanks again. Very good info there
What twist is your pac nor barrel? Ive been leaning towards the 185gr bergers for my 1 in 12 twist.
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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
I also have a 1 in 12 twist
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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
Tungsten is powder and can be mixed with just about anything with no harm... I mix it with isopropyl alcohol and shake it up real well, soak a patch then run throught the bore let sit a few min to let alcohol dry out then mop excess with a clean dry patch just before shooting, acts as a flame / heat barrier and aids in accuracy, can go a lot more rounds without cleaning bbl.... with many brands of coated bullets recoved in tests over the years , rifle engraving on the bullet shows the super slick coating does not shear or rub off the bullet excessively.... leaving minimal copper fouling in the bore.....
Make certain you degrease the bullets first. I use CRC Brakleen brake parts cleaner, the red can, lay out the bullets on a clean towel spray/hose them down and let dry, Brakleen dries real fast and leaves no residue, once the bullets are dry don't touch them with fingers as the oils on your skin will contaminate the surface of the bullets and ruin your whole batch........
coating process is in a tumbler for 30 min with ceramic tumbling kernels from a moly coating pack I had, 1 tsp will coat a lot of bullets, tumbling more than 30 min is pointless as the bullets will take what they need, afterwards it's a waste of time
.338 cal 300 gr. Accubond, coated and "naked"
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Re: Lazzeroni Warbird
Thank you very much Swamplord, im going to go your route and coat everything. Ive always wanted to try with moly but tungsten looks better. Lots of good data so far. I think I may try the new Lr accubonds as well.
Thanks to everyone so far.
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