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I will be installing the new ESS V3 supercharger as soon as it's available for purchase My question....does anyone have first hand experience or knowledge of tires that will be better suited for this kind of massive power as opposed to my Sumitomo 255/40 ZR18's? I currently use a 75 shot of nitrous with a window switch and my current tires hook fairly well...as in 0 to 60 in 4.2 secs. well With a 600 hp supercharger I'm going to need bigger and better tires. Any input from those who have upgraded their tires would be greatly appreciated. Street tires that is...
You'll need to invest in a better suspension to handle what I'm sure will be some epic acceleration squat. That'll also help maintaining grip, in general.
As for tires, go with an extreme performance tire like the Bridgestone Potenza RE11's or Dunlop Direzza Star Spec Z1's. Both are excellent tires and I've owned and tracked both. With proper wheel offsets, you can certainly run a 285 tire in the rear. Again, with proper offsets, you can run a 255 tire up front or wider if you dial in more than 2 degrees of negative camber. I'd recommend buying an 18x10 rear wheel with an offset in the mid to upper 30s and an 18x9 tire with an offset in the upper 30s. That'd be a VERY conservative offset for the rear which will give you headroom to play with various sized spacers to get the tire width of your choice to fit with the amount of negative camber you end up running...
Slightly OT, but what clutch are you planning to go with?
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With a blower and 75 shot of crack you might just wanna skip the street tires make the step to an r comp like the r888, Pilot Sport Cup, P-Zero Corsa.. they are live able on the streets but will grip a fair bit more then the RE-11/star spec. I was actually surprised when I went for r-comps at how good the re-11/re-01r actually was in comparsion. I guess I expected a bigger jump in performance. Either was I think you are going to need every bit of traction you can find and r comps will give you most of the traction your going to need.
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With the street tires you'll have grip in the cold and almost-as-good grip in the hot. As you mention, the jump in grip from today's extreme performance tires to the non-slick r-comps is not very significant (surprisingly).
Either way, you might also want to look in to a more effective LSD. The M-Diff is great but by no means the pinnacle of LSD technology.
I will possibly be doing this when they have it available as well, I was planning on doing some custom stuff to make that power but if they offer it as a kit so be it.
You don't need new suspension to handle the power though it will help to be able to adjust.
I agree just go straight for an R comp, I use Hoosier slicks on my M3 and they handle the power very well. They keep traction in third sometimes which is saying a lot. If you want to stick with "street tires" use either dunlop starspec, bridgetsone re-11s, or nitto NT-05s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqX7IIaXtkg Is it on a dyno? No.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqX7IIaXtkg Is it on a dyno? No.
TCK d/a coilovers, Stoptech 6/4 piston BBK, OEM CSL headers
As for the suspension assisting with putting the power down, it does assist. With the stock suspension and stock power, the rear end squats and squirms at WOT. Now ratchet things up to 600hp and it'll squat even more and squirm even more at WOT. Just look at some cars when they do a dyno pull. Going with stiffer springs will assist in keeping the rear level. Adjustability can help with that as well and will keep keep the squirm under WOT controllable. And with that much power, you generally want everything to be nice and tight with no unnecessary motions that would otherwise upset the car's balance.
I did not suggest driving with slicks in the rain, unless you are saying I'm suggesting the OP kill himself since I said they would kill you in the rain . You can however still use them. I have been using them on my car for some time.
Sorry but in regards with suspension you don't know what you are talking about, like I said yes it will help to have an adjustable suspension but it's not necessary. You're actually suggesting the opposite of what should be done for the suspension in terms of adjustment and the points you indicated are plain incorrect. Squirm is not related to dampening and spring rates, it's relates to suspension style (which you wont be changing) and bushings.
In a high horsepower car you WANT the car to squat and stay down to put the power down effectively, You do this by running lower spring rates and adjusting dampening, not the opposite you are suggesting (which is for cornering and trades off how much power you can put down).
I know a thing or two about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqX7IIaXtkg Is it on a dyno? No.
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Last edited by blau335; 11-04-2009 at 01:24 PM.
Hey guys!
Thanks for all the input I definitely want to go with the high performance street tires...for all around versatility. I appreciate the debate between which tires to use though. As far as mods to the susp. I will try stock setup first and see how it feels. The clutch will have to be upgraded, and any input on that would be great. I was thinking about just burning up my stock clutch first...which shouldn't take long, and then upgrade. My nitrous system will stay, but I'm going to drop down to a 50 shot set for third gear only off the zex traction control window switch
I might get the s/c kit towards the end of next year as well, looking forward to the release of the new stage 1,2,3 kits. I think stage 2 will be the big winner with everyone, front mount, relatively cheap and no major work needs to be done.
I bet your right about stage 2 being a winner. I just know my self too well....a few months after stage 2 and I'm on the phone to ESS asking for stage 3. I actually like the idea of having the forged pistons and rods just as a little extra buffer, plus I'm a nitrous whore We have forged cranks already so you throw in the pistons and rods, and it's a f!@# tank
Thing is no one technically sells a clutch kit for our car, but the disk size and bolt pattern of the pressure plate are the same as the M3, my only concern is the possibility of the pressure plate geometry being different and not disengaging the clutch fully with the location of the Z4 slave.
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yeh...good point. I'll send Roman an email at ESS to see what they recommend. I'm sure they have already thought through this one.
BTW...can you pass on the info for the nitrous kit you are using, thanks. Also, I believe someone else on this forum was using some sort of other spray to cool the intake down during hot days. I was thinking of doing this, since during the hot summer days you can really feel the loss of power on the supercharger. You may want to look into this...?
Last edited by chargedZ; 11-04-2009 at 11:42 PM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqX7IIaXtkg Is it on a dyno? No.
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275 40 18 normal street tires with a little low tyre pressure would be fine if you dont drag race
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Also I think you might have mis understood what I said or I didn't do a good job of explaining what I ment in terms of the r-comps compared to re-11/re-01r. An r-comp DOES have a ton more grip then any street tire I have driven ( I have used pretty much every one except for nitto tires) but it just surpised me how good the re-01r's still were. that being said going from re-11's to r-comps took my best time at time attacks at track by my old house from 1:23.4s to 1:21.1s. That is with no other changes to the car except for the comps
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Last edited by F360C; 11-05-2009 at 08:39 AM.
I have a ZEX wet 75 shot with 10lb bottle, ZEX remote bottle opener, ZEX bottle heater, ZEX traction control...which allows what rpm and gear for activation as well as max rpm nitrous shut off. I have a dual ZEX purge kit with red led lights. The purge allows you to purge air through the line so that activation occurs with pure nitrous. Race comp AFR and nitrous guage which I feel are very important. ZEX nitrous systems will automatically adjust fuel ratio depending on what the bottle psi is. The bottle heater is critical for maintaining at least 900 psi for a more dramatic nitrous punch! On my switch panel, the red push button is the purge, the blue guard switch is bottle heater, the red guard switch is the nitrous arm, and the window type switch is to open my nitrous bottle remotely from the comfort of my seat. It's not a perfect looking setup, but I think it looks nice. I had the work done professionally with custom install of switch panel and guages out the door after taxes for $2700. A little expensive for a nitrous setup....but you can easily spend more buy the way nitrous and superchargers compliment each other nicely. Nitrous dramatically cools the intake charge during hot summer months and superchargers love cold weather when nitrous bottles are difficult to heat to optimum psi
Although it is not mean next to zero i agree that the real deal is acceleration times..
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Yes nitrous is cold but and increases horsepower just alone by cooling but because of nitrous you bring more oxygen you burn more fuel for more horsepower so temps go up. Water / meth kits can help you decrease the egt, intake temp... and also decrease the risk of detonation.. i also recommend you to use a knock sensor with alarm inside and egt fuel pressure and water temp gauges
Last edited by basar13; 11-05-2009 at 10:34 AM.
By the way I will definitely get a dyno after the v3 is installed with and without nitrous. Once all that is done and I can figure out what tires I want...I will get some 1/4 mile, 0 to 60, 60 to 130 times. Anyone want to guess what the V3 will do for 0 to 60 times with proper street tires, clutch and everything else stock. Obviously driver skill, temps, road condition bla bla bla will play a part....but just a ball park #.
basar13...I agree. I'm looking at more protective measures as well. I forgot to mention that I also use 1 step cooler spark plugs. I'm doing research on the water/meth. Thanks for pm.
article about supercharged nitrous engines
There comes a point in your power buildup where you may consider adding nitrous oxide injection to your supercharged car. This point typically coincides with reaching a level of performance that means increased investment and diminishing returns from your supercharger. For example, my car comes from the factory with a 5th generation Eaton MP45 supercharger. This supercharger is limited to about 230hp worth of flow rating and so no matter what I do with bolt-on upgrades on my engine, my peak horsepower will not exceed 230hp limit because that is the point at which the supercharger becomes the bottle neck in my system.
As we've talked about in previous articles there is still the option of porting the factory supercharger for a 10 to 15% gain in capacity (which in this case would be another 23 to 35 horsepower). There is also the option of retrofitting a larger supercharger such as the Eaton M62 to gain potential up to over 300hp depending on the final choice of a supercharger.
This modification path (porting or replacing the factory supercharger) can prove to be complex and costly, especially if the supercharger is integrated into the intake manifold (and possibly an air to water intercooler) as the case is with many factory supercharged cars.
A possible viable solution for this situation is to use nitrous oxide injection to supplement the power delivery when racing, and being satisfied with a reliable lower powered car when the nitrous is off and we're not racing.
The reason why nitrous oxide (N2O) becomes a great power adder is twofold:
1- Nitrous is cheap as far as horsepower per dollar goes, and especially in the situations where we're already supercharged and so will only be using it on the rare occasions when we do hit the track.
2- Nitrous oxide is a great 'chiller' as it comes out of the bottle at a temperature of negative 127*F and is capable of cooling the overall supercharged air charge mixture by over 100*F as reported by enthusiasts, this is an additional temperature reduction over the effects of whatever intercooler you have fitted. This in-fact makes nitrous a great proposition for cars that have already maxed out their superchargers, where the supercharger is running at peak rpms and producing very high outlet temperatures. The nitrous oxide injection can effectively boost the thermal efficiency of the supercharger when it is most stressed out and give us a nice, cool, and dense mixture.
3- Nitrous oxide fuel delivery is fairly straight forward to setup and to tune, especially on newer model cars with return-les fuel systems, or difficult to crack computers that make it difficult to upgrade (and properly tune) a much larger supercharger setup. Nitrous oxide fuel delivery can be set-up totally independently from the OEM ECU and fuel system and thus makes nitrous a possible application for German cars with stubborn computers.
4- This is a racer technique... most cars seem to perform better during the winter months because the air is cooler, horsepower is elevated, and the tracks although cold, can be prepared for traction and will heat up enough during the night to allow for traction and to give people the ability to exploit the cold dense air to post their best times of the year. As the weather gets warmer, traction increases because the asphalt is warm and sticky, but horsepower is reduced due to warmer, less dense air. Typically racers find that their cars vary in their quarter mile performance by as much as a half a second between their summer tune and their winter tune, especially if you're using a supercharger or turbocharger that compresses (and further heats) the incoming air.
The solution to on-track consistency, racers have found, is to combine the use of nitrous oxide (which is summer friendly) with forced induction (superchargers and turbochargers) which are winter friendly. In the summer time, the outside temperature is high, and so the nitrous bottle pressure is maintained at a high level above 1100 psi. This allows for a generous nitrous flow rate under the sustained pressure (even without a bottle heater) which gives great summer performance for nitrous assisted cars. While in the winter, the outside temperatures drop significantly, the nitrous in the bottle contracts and the bottle pressure drops, subsequently, the nitrous flow rate drops and nitrous assisted cars show worse performance in the winter times.
The complete opposite is true for supercharged cars that produce great horsepower in the winter from compressing cool dense air, and poor horsepower in the summer heat. When you combine these two power adders you get pretty flat and consistent horsepower production year round because the supercharger shines when the nitrous is weak, and the nitrous shines when the supercharger is weak, and thus together, they give consistent power deliver year round.
Now we have to consider that nitrous oxide is an oxidizer and thus not only does it increase the amount of air and fuel combusting in the cylinder, but it also produces a faster moving flame front due to the oxidizer properties of the nitrous oxide. This means that additional timing retard, great octane fuel, and possibly colder spark plugs will be required to run spray on a supercharged car. Furthermore, because of its cooling effect, a 100hp shot on a supercharged Camaro can very easily put down OVER 120 rear wheel horsepower of additional power. This means that the 'out of the box' jetting of a nitrous kit may not be adequate on a supercharged car and you'd have to make sure to monitor and possibly increase the fuel jetting to match the final horsepower figure of your car). Last but not least, if you're running a 500hp supercharged car with an additional 120hp of nitrous oxide injection, then you must make sure that your fuel delivery (fuel pump and fuel lines) are able to flow the total amount of fuel required to deliver 620hp.
Applications scenarios:
1- You have a car like mine, a 2005 C230 kompressor that comes with a 230hp limited Eaton MP45. ECU on the car is a Siemens ECU that very few people know how to tune, and the fuel system uses a return-less setup with an in-tank fuel pressure regulator. With this kind of setup all forms of dry nitrous injection are out of the question because we can neither compensate for fuel through flashing the factory ECU, nor can we elevate fuel pressure during the nitrous injection because the fuel pressure regulator is in-accessible....
Recommended kit:
A wet nitrous injection kit that injects both fuel and nitrous oxide from the injection nozzle.
Injection location:
After the supercharger, after the intercooler, and into the intake manifold of the car.
Maximum recommended injection:
25% of the original total power figure which corresponds to around a 50 hp shot of nitrous on our example.
Expected final horsepower:
60 to 65 wheel horsepower and possible about 130 ft-lbs of additional torque!
2- You have a car that has an accessible fuel pressure regulator, or an ECU that can be re-flashed for nitrous oxide or a 'dual tune' setup. In this case it is recommended to use a dry nitrous kit for two reasons:
First: Dry kits are safer on supercharged cars (as long as the fuel delivery through the injectors or raised fuel pressure is adequate) because they hold a reduced chance of intake backfires because the intake manifold is dry of fuel.
Second: Dry nitrous injection contains no fuel, and so we don't need to worry about fuel falling out of suspension from the injected air. This means that we no longer have to spray the nitrous right before the intake manifold and we now have the option to move the point of injection much farther back. Spraying nitrous BEFORE the intercooler, right after the supercharger gives the nitrous stream more time and more contact with the compressed air coming out of the supercharger which results in more cooling and further increased horsepower.
Recommended kit:
A dry nitrous injection kit that injects only nitrous oxide from the injection nozzle.
Injection location:
After the supercharger, before or after the intercooler and not necessarily right at the intake manifold of the car.
Maximum recommended injection:
25% of the original total power figure which corresponds to around a 50 hp shot of nitrous.
Expected final horsepower:
70-75 wheel horsepower and possible about 130 ft-lbs of additional torque!
3- You have a car that has an accessible fuel pressure regulator, or an ECU that can flashed for nitrous oxide or a 'dual tune' setup. You also want to make as much horsepower as possible from your nitrous...
In this case it is recommended to use a dry nitrous kit injecting before the supercharger. As we mentioned in our articles on twin charging (combining turbochargers with superchargers for added performance), when two 'chargers' are chained in series where one charger feeds the next, then the two pressure ratios of the charger combine because the second charger compresses air that is already compressed by the first. For example two turbochargers set for a 1.5 pressure ratio (or 7 psi of boost), running in sequential mode will result in a final pressure ratio of 2.25 bar (or 18psi of boost) which is more than the 'expected' 14psi that is the sum of the two boost levels.
Similarly, injecting nitrous oxide before the supercharger, delivers already compressed air. This is true weather we are talking about nitrous being compressed because it has twice the oxygen concentration as normal air or we're talking about the nitrous cooling and compressing the incoming air. The final amount of compression observed by the supercharger inlet will vary depending on the ratio of incoming air to the size of the nitrous shot, and can result in an increase in boost of between 0.5 to 2.5 psi!
This boost increase is in addition to the power increase of the nitrous oxide injection and so it can be an additional 5 to 25 hp.
Recommended kit:
A dry nitrous injection kit that injects only nitrous oxide from the injection nozzle.
Injection location:
Before the supercharger inlet.
Maximum recommended injection:
25% of the original total power figure which corresponds to around a 50 hp shot of nitrous.
Expected final horsepower:
75-100 wheel horsepower and possible about 160 ft-lbs of additional torque!
Things to avoid:
1- No matter where you setup the nitrous injection, make sure not to spray nitrous into your MAS air flow sensor or your intake air temperature sensor. These temperature dependant sensors, tell the ECU to advance the timing in colder conditions. As we mentioned earlier, nitrous is an oxidizer that increases the speed of travel of the combustion event and thus requires maintained (if not retarded) ignition timing compared to a supercharged only setup. Avoid spraying on these temperature sensitive sensors to prevent accidental timing advance from occurring.
2- Avoid spraying a wet kit (fuel) before your supercharger, as the wet fuel mist will damage the supercharger rotors and strip their coatings.
3- Make sure you check your air fuel ratio on the nitrous and don't stick to the 'out of the box' air to fuel settings with the kit. For example an extra 2.5 psi in your intake may or may not be compensated by your stock ECU and so depending on how well the ECU reacts you will have to adjust the fuel jetting on the nitrous kit.
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Citation: Kanis, J.A., Johansson, H., Oden, A., Dawson-Hughes, B., Meldton, L., Mccloskey, E.V. 2010. The effects of a FRAX revision for the US. Osteoporosis International. 21:35-40. Interpretive Summary: In 2008, the World Health Organization released the original version of a calculator called FRAX (registered trademark) that was developed to predict risk of fracture over the next 10 years using information on an individual's clinical risk factors for osteoporosis and their bone mineral density at the hip. The FRAX (registered trademark) score is an important determinant of who should be considered for pharmacologic treatment to prevent fractures. A revision of the fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX (registered trademark)) has been developed based on an update of the epidemiological information for the US (hip fracture and mortality rates). With the revised tool there were strong correlations (r>0.99) between the original and revised FRAX (registered trademark) estimates of fracture probability, but the revised models gave lower fracture probabilities. The revised version of FRAX (registered trademark) should allow for more accurate prediction of fracture risk.
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"Pepper Potts. So good of you to come."
"Thank you," Parker replied automatically, then immediately went past, hand latched on tightly to Hardison's arm.
Elliot came behind, lugging the chair. "Where do I put this?"
Parker followed where Pepper pointed and Elliot followed Parker.
Natasha found them before he'd gotten the chair on the ground and gave Parker another hug. She stiffened but pasted a smile on her face.
"I'm so glad you came," Natasha said warmly. She shook hands with Elliot and Hardison. "So glad to meet you. Clint's told me a bit about you."
Elliot smiled and nodded that way he did when he wanted out of there as fast as he could.
"Of course, you're staying for the party?" Natasha shot him a pleasant, expectant smile and procured the strained, 'of course,' that was only polite.
Parker had forgotten how good the Widows could be at what they did. She settled for her less subtle you're-not-anywhere-buddy grip on Hardison's arm to convince him they were all in this together.
Natasha gently herded them toward the other guests.
Lots of people. Too many people, names, expectant smiles. It was easier to skate beneath notice and pocket wallets than meet Coulson, Hill, Carter, May, Morse, Fury, and an endless line of other agents intent on greeting this unknown friend of Natasha's. Natasha simply introduced her as Parker and moved her right along. No one really needed to know where the two met first.
But then it was mostly men on one side and women gathered around the gifts, and everything felt a little easier. They talked about babies instead of history.
"Do you know yet if it's going to be a girl or a boy?"
"Have you picked a name yet?"
"They're terrible when they're teething, but…"
They oohed and ahed over Parker's gift, they planned out dozens of ways to spoil the coming girl, and they shared all the joys and headaches that might be ahead of the new parents. Parker listened and let herself sink beneath notice as she watched Natasha be a normal woman with a real smile that lit up her entire face.
On the way back, she leaned forward and put an arm on the shoulder of each seat in front of her.
Elliot glanced back. Hardison kept his eyes on the road.
"I want a baby," Parker announced calmly.
Lucille screeched to a halt.
Parker just grinned. #
I have been a bad girl in general. I went off on a Yuletide kick and have posted literally nothing here on this blog because I don't usually clutter it up with my entire fanfiction ouvre. (There are reasons. I'm prolific. And chatty. And...)
So to play catch up in the least valuable fashion possible perhaps, here are the posts that went on my LiveJournal and were not crossposted here (minus a few of expired interest):
I apologize for how heavily this skews toward fandom. That is the reason I have not been crossposting.
Now, I shall attempt to stay up to date for the rest of the year.
Prompt: December 16. X-Men fic for lithiumlaughter
Author's Note: So it's not 300 words and it's not really ensemble, but I've got Rogue, Scott, and Remy on the docket in a few days, so I just went with the feels.
Kitty loved her friends and she loved the school. She even enjoyed all the smiles and laughter that went into Christmas decorating and the way Kurt teleported mistletoe into place and Jean hummed carols to herself while telekinetically putting up garlands.
But Kitty didn't celebrate Christmas and sticking around this year was making that more and more significant. She eventually shut herself in her room or went outside to the icy gazebo just to get away from it all.
When she finally trudged back inside, Rogue was issuing a breezy, "Hi, sugar," and Scott had opened his mouth to say something with that classically lifted finger when Kurt interrupted the entire greeting by grinning at Kitty and teleporting her to the living room in a cloud of sulpherous smoke.
"Seriously, Kurt?" she demanded.
"Look, look!" Kurt turned her around to the window.
Kitty stared at the menorah and the wrapped gifts in a pretty little pile of Hanukkah paper nearby.
"We counted up the presents and you get to open three each day," Jean told her while she was still processing everything. "We wanted you to light the candles, obviously."
She turned around and hugged every body that had crowded into the room behind her, tears stinging her eyes and smiling.
Leverage + MCU, Parker and Natasha wreak havoc together to pass the boredom of being off missions/jobs
They're not allowed to go on missions (cases) because, as amazing and strong and independent as both women were, they had to make some concession to masculine (over)protective hormones around pregnancy.
"And combat could cause a miscarriage," Natasha admitted with a sigh over her steaming cup of… hot chocolate. She mourned the lack of coffee not for the stimulants but for the taste, which she claimed rather emphatically that decaf could not touch.
Parker glared at her own cup of hot chocolate. "I could accomplish so much. No one suspects the pregnant woman."
Natasha stared at her. No one did. She raised an eyebrow. "What case are your boys working?"
"Wouldn't tell me." Parker scowled more furiously.
Natasha smiled. "I am a spy."
It was a different skillset, one a handful of thieves wouldn't be prepared for.
"Now you promise you'll be careful," Clint double-checked for the umpteenth time while Natasha gritted her teeth and bore it.
"I'm spying, not fighting," she reminded him. "No one suspects the pregnant woman."
"They'll recognize you." His brows furrowed in adorable concern.
She kissed his cheek and waved him off. "Give me some credit, Barton." By the time she was ready, she could have been Parker's sister and she certainly didn't look like the Black Widow in her thick glasses and messy blonde ponytail and bookish outfit.
"Have fun."
Parker sighed in contentment hanging upside down from the harness outside of a window while Natasha handed her tools while watching Spencer's and Hardison's positions on her tracking unit.
"You should exercise as close to the due date as possible," Natasha agreed. "This was an excellent decision."
They both looked around for a moment, taking in the breeze, the view over so many unsuspecting heads, the delightful feeling of momentary weightlessness instead of aching feet and back and, seriously, they could not wait to give birth and get back their usual centers of gravity.
Parker righted herself thoughtfully and handed back the glass cutter, which Natasha tucked back into her belt. "Did your Clint think we would be grifting inside the building?"
Feet flat on the ground acting normal? Natasha snorted. "If he did, he forgot who he married."
Parker nodded. "He knows."
Natasha agreed readily. "Yes. Do your boys know about the Red Room?"
"Most days, I don't." Parker shrugged it off with a slight blankness to her face that suggested disassociation and long familiarity with leaving well enough alone. "Shall we?"
"Hardison!" Eliot's voice was hard over the comm. "There's no package!"
"What do you mean there's no package? Of course there's a package. Do you think I didn't lovingly resear—"
Parker's distinctive giggle interrupted them and both men clutched their earpieces in surprise. "Got it! Meet you back at the house later. I've got a playdate first."
"We left you the cleanup," a clipped alto interjected before both women left the line.
The two reconvened at the Tower, giggling and sharing hot chocolate while they put their feet up. Clint came by and smiled, glad they had both found another friend.
Avengers fic for lithiumlaughter
"SHIELD is gone. It's the end of an era." Tony looked appropriately sorrowful. Briefly. Very briefly. "Time to move in then!" He rubbed his hands together gleefully like a little boy.
"Don't hold back, why don't you, Stark," Clint deadpanned over the videophone.
Natasha just shot Clint that raised-eyebrow look that meant 'You thought he would?'
Clint shrugged.
"No, no. Verbal speech is required for this conversation," Tony admonished.
"What do you think?" Natasha asked in Czech.
Clint replied in Farsi, "I think he's crazy and an international target and we'd be crazy to move in, but…" He shrugged. "Might as well."
"Cute," Tony said. "Very cute, kids."
Natasha flicked an eyebrow back at Clint in a Romanovian version of a shrug. "We'll move in."
Steve crashed in the party room in the Avengers Tower penthouse, looking like HYDRA had run him ragged. "Not HYDRA," he corrected. "Bucky."
"Ah. Chasing the ghost." Clint was sprawled out on the couch with the best view of the TV and barely even glanced Steve's way. Dog Cops was on and that took priority.
Bruce brought Steve a glass of water.
"Thank you." Steve nodded.
"Any luck?"
He shook his head. "He's moving on quickly whenever he stops anywhere."
"You going to do the same, Cap?" Natasha's voice asked.
Steve looked around. He started when he realized she was perched on the back of the chair he was sitting on.
She arched an eyebrow, as if to say, 'Well?'
"You mean…"
"Are you going to move into your suite here?" Clint finished for her. "Say yes. Tony's annoying when he's whiny and he's been whining since we said you were off the grid."
"I do not whine," Tony stated quite seriously.
Natasha slid off Steve's chair and patted Tony's shoulder. "You do."
Bruce cleared his throat gently.
Steve looked at him, clearly hoping for rescue.
"We'd be glad to have you."
It was really Jane's fault that they got Thor. She moved in and her boyfriend tagged along for the ride.
"Don't say I never did anything for you," she joked with Tony over equations at the table in the party room.
Natasha agreed. "Finally, a bit of peace."
MCU + Leverage, Parker was red room for Anonymous
A little dose of crazy and a little failure of memory behind a ridiculously high skillset might indicate something else under the hood.
"Why'm I getting the feeling our thief isn't normal?" Barton asked, shoving the paperwork down the conference table toward his partner.
Romanoff shook her head with a, "Don't be sill— Oh." Recognition flickered in her eyes at the picture on top. "Parker."
Leverage Consulting & Associates was aboveboard on paper, but their activities didn't exactly line up with law-abiding citizens. Natasha brooded over this for approximately two hours until Coulson brought down word that SHIELD wasn't interested in the company, only retrieving their lost gadget.
"We don't normally hire thieves to get back our assets, but it was taken up with several other owners' materials in a mass raid on the storage facility," Coulson informed them. "This crew retrieved all of the stolen goods."
"We'll think about using them in the future," Hill offered.
Visible tension went out of Natasha's shoulders. Clint just groaned. That's all he needed, another crazy ex-Red Room operative to develop a soft spot for.
This Parker was clearly well taken care of. Clint did a double take when he saw the profile pictures of the rest of Leverage's associates.
"Eliot Spencer, you old dog."
"You know him?" Natasha cast him a baleful eye under her red bangs.
Clint didn't really like the new look, but it wasn't worth complaining about. It'd be gone in another half dozen missions guaranteed. "Retrieval expert. Did good work in armed forces before we both went freelance."
And that was as good as a welcome mat.
She took out her burner phone, dialed Leverage's phone number, and handed it to Clint.
"Thanks, partner," he snapped. "May I?"
It was worth it to see her tiny smile.
They didn't mention Parker. If either member of Strike Team Delta knew anything about the Red Room, they knew reminders of it were more than unwelcome.
They walked in with smiles on their faces as the rightful owners of an inocuous looking, expensive vase and shook hands with Alec Hardison before Parker breezed out, got one look at Natasha, and hit the roof—literally. She was up and out of Natasha's typical combat range faster than a spider could scurry.
Natasha just stared at her from across the room for a long moment. She picked up the package and said softly, slowly, "I work for SHIELD now. Perhaps we could be friends." She shrugged slightly.
Clint could see the tension back in her shoulders, see that this actually meant something to her.
Parker bit out in that same flat tone Natasha used to use when he first recruited her, "Prove it."
Natasha tilted her head, pursed her lips, and finally pulled out a USB drive. "Don't get caught with this."
Parker watched as Natasha set it in Hardison's open palm. This clearly was over the hacker's head.
Finally, Natasha tugged Clint's arm and they left. Before they reached the door, she wound her fingers through his.
Three weeks later, a text message appeared on Natasha's nobody-has-this-number-nor-can-hack-it phone at three o'clock in the morning, waking Clint and starting a blue streak. Natasha rolled over and flipped it open. She showed it to him.
Nothing blew up. Coffee at 700 across from SHIELD.
He stared at her. "Friends, huh?"
Natasha shrugged and set the phone back on the nightstand, but a tiny smile played about the edges of her mouth.
No holiday requests for today (feel free to ask for more!), so I thought I'd talk a little bit about the stuff I've been thinking about, largely because I noticed I tend to write a couple commentfic every day regardless of whether I write anything else.
En brief: writing some small prompted thing without an expectation of perfection or any amount of length helps keep my ideas flowing and me writing. I can usually manage it regardless of what else is working well or not.
It made it obvious to me how much I like writing AUs of my AUs and tons of different premises or ships with the same characters and how much it irks me in original fiction when I'm stuck with one solid canon. Did you know I apparently ship all of the following:
It's almost scary. To say nothing of my heaps of headcanons that conflict and different much beloved backstories I make up for these people, among many others in many other fandoms. No wonder I have difficulty sometimes nailing down my original worlds. I like to open things up, not nail them down.
On a different note, I still love gifting fic. I can write for myself and do, but there's something wonderful about giving that kicks in with prompts that makes it so much easier and also that puts on more constraints to what I'll produce because I want the recipient to like it, even if they only care that I like it.
There's a prompter at the comm who doesn't care if the fills tickle their fancy, only that I'm happy with the fic, but I'm only happy if they like it and it suits them, which is hard at times because they like rarepair (how I picked up a couple actually) and don't like Clint/Natasha.
So rambly thinky thoughts.
Happy ficcing to all of you doing Yuletide or Secret Santa (don't get me started :growls: ) or anything else!
deaf Clint for lithiumlaughter
Clint lost most of his hearing before he was six years old. Clint thought it was his own fault; Barney said it was Dad's.
Barney took his own fists to any kid who pushed Clint around in the orphanage and used his own crude homesign to translate for his younger brother. When they left for the circus, it was Barney that showed off Clint's almost preternatural aim and made it clear that being deaf left less room for distractions. It made Clint an asset, not a liability.
So when Clint discovered the Deaf community, it didn't take long for him to join it.
Agent Phil Coulson had been tasked with recruiting Hawkeye, but he ran into his first major obstacle when he found himself face to face with someone who barely bothered with English. A sniper could get away with choosing to engage in sign language or via written English only. A spy didn't share the luxury. It didn't help that Barton's handwriting left much to be desired.
Coulson rubbed his temple then shoved aside his notepad to dig out a copy of SHIELD's benefit package.
Hawkeye eyed it suspiciously for a moment, then took it and flipped through a few pages. He shrugged but kept it.
Coulson started to give him a phone number, then crossed that out and wrote an email address instead.
Two weeks later, he got an email back.
'You really want a Deaf ex-carnie?'
He typed back, 'Can you learn to read lips?'
'Already do.'
Coulson muttered to himself. Hawkeye clearly saw the benefit of playing into stereotypes. Understand without being understood. It was the smart thing to do, but it bothered Coulson that he'd bought in too.
Reading lips didn't mean that Hawkeye talked much at all. What few words he did say were when he ws frustrated enough to want to shoot the offending party rather than talk to them. He signed, he read lips, and he gave Coulson looks that shouldn't be repeated aloud but that Coulson had to translate anyway. Anyone who thought deafness was a liability were referred to Hawkeye's mission success rate and his range scores.
Unlike the rest of SHIELD, Coulson was thrilled when Barton brought home Natasha. Finally someone else could repeat those faces out loud.
"I'll be the spy, and you be the sniper," Natasha told him.
'Talk I can,' Clint pointed out.
She raised an eyebrow, as good as saying he didn't like to.
Coulson watched the exchange with interest. Clint would make an excellent spy and did occasionally when they had cause to insert a Deaf person.
Clint merely shrugged.
Natasha nodded. "That's settled."
Fury kept on his sign languages, even if he swore like a sailor while trying to master Russian Sign Language. "I can't have my agents knowing languages I don't," he pointed out.
Mostly Coulson assumed that Fury wanted to know what Strike Team Delta was gossiping about at the back of the meetings.
Loki didn't know sign language. Allspeak was based on speech and even though his words were translated into English and he understood Clint's thoughts when he tried, he didn't realize that Clint couldn't lipread Aesir and didn't understand a word Loki was saying.
Little wonder then he ended up forced to serve a purpose he hated but still managed to have an embarrassingly lousy shot.
Steve asked if he could fly the jet and Clint exchanged glances with Natasha to read her. He accepted the job.
'Okay?' Natasha asks him at last, signing into his hand under the table as they ate shawarma.
Instead of answering, he tangled his fingers into hers.
Request: December 1. Clint has no idea how Natasha found out it was Barney's birthday (or why that should even matter to him) for alphaflyer
Natasha didn't often surprise him anymore, they knew each other so well, but there were times when she still managed to startle him. Clint had almost forgotten the significance of the day when he stumbled out of the bedroom, half asleep and grasping for coffee, to find her sipping a mugful and holding the pot hostage.
"It's your brother's birthday today."
He stared at her for a long moment. How did she find that out? It didn't even matter. His brother was dead.
Natasha held his gaze long enough to make him suspicious of why she was telling him this. "There's somewhere I need to take you." She handed him the pot. "Get dressed."
It said a great deal for their relationship that he did indeed drink his coffee, get dressed, and let her drive him somewhere on Barney's birthday.
"So you hacked my file," Clint seethed into the silence in the car between them.
"Not exactly," which was as good as a you're so far off the mark your name shouldn't even be Hawkeye. But she wasn't giving up her secrets. She wouldn't really be Natasha if she did.
She drove them to an area of New York he hadn't had cause to be in for a long time then parked near a tall apartment building. He followed her up to a small unit and followed her in after she knocked and the door opened.
He stopped cold.
Barney was dead, dead, not standing here in front of him, looking awkward and hanging his head that Barton way when he realized his little brother was staring at him. Barney didn't have an apartment and, and pictures scattered over furniture of a family and an FBI badge on the kitchen table and a bow hanging on the wall.
Clint opened his mouth to curse, to demand, but Natasha broke the silence first.
"They told him you were on a vendetta you shot him." She looked at him a long moment, then turned to Barney and smiled slightly. They had talked before. It was obvious. "Happy birthday." Then she turned and made her way past Clint and out of the apartment, leaving the brothers alone.
Clint stepped forward to lean both arms on the kitchen table. "You're alive."
"Three weeks in ICU." Barney shrugged. "I got better."
After being shot by Clint's arrow in a gang bust. After he'd tried to kill Clint. Brother against brother because they'd played for opposite sides.
"I never even looked," Clint admitted.
"Well, I did try to kill you, even if it was due to bad intel." Barney gestured at the apartment. "I cleaned up, joined the FBI."
Words stalled out. Neither paid attention to who moved first but they wrapped arms around each other and held on for long enough to be brothers again.
They talked, caught up, and Natasha stood watch outside the door, pleased at the length of time without the sounds of angry voices. It hadn't taken her long to put together the pieces after she ran across Barney at the FBI, not knowing everything she knew about Clint. How many Bartons played with a bow and arrow on a job?
It was Barney's birthday, but it was her gift to Clint.


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Serves 4
I grew up on a pineapple farm and, to us professionals, the dinky little disks you see in cans or in restaurants were for the birds! Pineapples come with their own, albeit rather prickly, handle. You just slice off the skin with a machete, hold the fruit by the top, and munch away. If we were being very civilized, the peeled pineapples would be cut into wedges like in the photograph. Perfect for cooking, juicing, or eating daintily with a knife and fork.
Sugar-Lime Sauce
Juice of 1 fresh lime (2 tablespoons)
1/2 cup brown sugar
Whipped Coconut Cream
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons canned coconut cream (optional)
Pineapple Sticks
1 pineapple, peeled and quartered lengthwise
(remove the prickly eyes with
the point of a knife)
8 metal kabob skewers
To make the sauce, put the lime juice and sugar in a small saucepan, bring to a boil, and stir until the sugar dissolves.
To make the Coconut Cream, beat the cream with the confectioners' sugar until soft peaks form, then fold in the coconut cream, if using.
Cut the pineapple quarters into 2-3 wedges lengthwise. If preferred, slice off the core sections, then cut each wedge into slices about 1/2 inch thick. Thread long metal skewers through each wedge and brush with the lime mixture.
Light an outdoor grill or preheat a broiler. Grill or broil until the fruit is tinged dark brown. Serve drizzled with any leftover sauce, accompanied by the whipped coconut cream.
Sticks & Skewers
By Elsa Petersen-Schepelern
Time Life Books
Hardback, $15.95
Color photos throughout
Recipe reprinted by permission.
This page created June 2000
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There's a new sexy asskicker in town, and her name is Christian Pitre. The actress plays a gun-toting assassin in the new post-apocalyptic action film BOUNTY KILLER (in theaters and available On Demand starting September 6th), based on a short film of the same name which also starred Ms. Pitre. Having seen the film, I can assure you that Christian makes a case for being a serious contender for "hottest gal most likely to knock you to the ground" in the movies.
I was lucky enough to talk to Christian about her newfound role as uber-badass, being stuck sitting next to Gary Busey (who co-stars in the film), whether or not she's ever beaten someone down in real life, and what she did when she met her Hollywood crush, Leonardo DiCaprio.
So tell me about your character, Mary Death, in BOUNTY KILLER. She's pretty badass.
She's a bounty killer, the most famous of the bounty killers in the world. She has decided she wants to put the world back the way it was when she was a child. A lot of people say she's so bad, and what I say is, she's badass. And unless you're a bad guy, she's not going to kill you for no reason.
This was based on a short film that you were also in - how cool is it that it got made into a movie and now it's getting released?
It's absolutely. Obviously this is what we all hoped for when we made the short, and most of us thought that it was going to get picked up and made into a feature. Everyone gave one thousand percent on the short and knew that Henry [Saine, the director] had a really cool project, and we were hoping he'd keep us on board for the feature, which he did and it's fantastic.
Did you get to keep your sexy costume?
No, and I wouldn't want to. I think every costume I wore is completely covered in blood now. We kept all of them and kept looking for one that didn't have a stab mark or hole in it or blood all over it. I think by now you they can probably stand up on their own.
Gary Busey is in the film; do you have a great Gary Busey story?
(Laughs) We were so busy shooting that one day, but there was definitely a moment when I was walking back to change or something and he just grabbed me and said "Mary Death, come over here!" And I was like, "ohhh I don't know if I have time," and he said "sit here!" and I said "Okay, yes sir." Within the next fifteen minutes of sitting there, he told me his whole life story, about him dying twice and everything that he's been through. He talks about some really interesting things. It was fun, but I remember at one point my costar Matthew was walking by and I was just sitting there alone with Busey and I said, "Matthew where you headed? Come over here and sit down!" I thought I couldn't be the only one hearing this stuff, someone else had to join me.
If the world was thrust into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, do you think you'd be kickin' ass and shooting people?
I don't know, I'm a country girl so I might be one of those people who build a cabin in the woods near a river. I've had a lot of people ask me that though, and I think if I needed a job, maybe I would take up being Mary Death. I don't know if her spurs would work out in real life though.
Did you have to get in super great shape for this, considering all of the fight scenes?
It was pretty difficult. I had never done martial arts before this, but I'm good at learning choreographed dancing, and it's kind of like learning a dance. But in general I'm a runner and a hiker, I just stay active. I've got an 8-year-old, so that keeps me active all the time. But I learned martial arts in four months for this.
Have you ever been in a real fight?
I haven't! I watch a lot of MMA fighting, and I kind of want to do it, but I want to say "just don't hit my face." I enjoyed the physical challenge of learning how to fit for the movie, it releases that energy. I did end up busting my eye during the filming, and I didn't feel it at all, and they were like, "are you alright?" and I said, "yeah it's fine let's just keep shooting." I really did not feel it at all, but then I pulled my hair back and there was blood coming out. It didn't hurt until the next day, and then I was like, "ahhh okay." So I think if I ever do get into a real fight, I won't worry about it because your adrenaline keeps you going. Have you ever been in a real fight?
No, I haven't. I don't think my face could handle it. I try to avoid them.
(Laughs) Me too. I'm the least confrontational person you'll ever meet. I'll take a lot before I'm pushed to the point where I have to fight someone.
What do you do for fun?
I'm one hundred percent a family person. I love just spending time with my husband and daughter, or having my mother come out to visit. Like I said, I'm a country girl, so my favorite place in the entire world right now is a river about three hours from here, the King's River. Chilling out in nature and being around family. It doesn't take much, I'm easily pleased.
What is your favorite action movie?
The action movies that I've been introduced to before this were just the mainstream movies that everyone would see, THE AVENGERS and that kind of thing. I hadn't really thought about doing this kind of movie myself. But now I'm really excited to be introduced to this whole world that I wasn't aware of before.
Do you wonder if now you'll be typecast as "the badass chick", like a Kate Beckinsale or Milla Jovovich?
I can already see what you said happening, which is totally fine with me. Honestly there aren't that many actresses out there who want to do this sort of thing, the stunts every day and getting beat up. I don't blame them, but I really enjoy it, and as long as I can physically do it I'd love to do these. It would be great. There's always time for drama when I'm old, or when I'm tired. (Laughs)
I have to ask my favorite question: who is your celebrity crush?
For me one hundred percent it's Leonardo DiCaprio. It has been since I was a girl. And I was on set with him once, I was doing a small part as a stewardess in INCEPTION, and I couldn't even make eye contact with him. My mom was so disappointed; she asked me what I said to Leonardo when I met him, and I told her nothing, he was so overwhelmingly handsome. She was like, "I am so disappointed in you, your whole life you told me what you were going to do when you met him." I was like, I can't just grab him! It's not just about how handsome he is, he's just a good actor, and anybody who is that good at what they do is very attractive.
Well I appreciate your time, and good luck with BOUNTY KILLER!
Thank you!
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St George Cemetery
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submitted: 1999, last edited Dec 26, 2006.
Total records = 1,724.
St George is about six hours drive west of Brisbane. The best route seems to be via Warwick (New England Highway), and thence by the Cunningham Highway to Goondiwindi, and westwards by the Barwon Highway. The country is flat, flat, flat. The town is situated on the Balonne River, which has a weir, built in the fifties. It was formerly a sheep grazing area, but the advent of water has brought greater diversity, with wheat and cotton growing. The nearest railhead is at Thallon, some fifty miles distant, so road transport is very important. The cemetery is just outside the town on the north side, on the road to Surat. It is about 100 metres off the road.
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The University of Puget Sound women's volleyball team split four matches at the Posada Royale Invitational last weekend in Thousand Oaks, Calif., but still is ranked 11th in the nation as they look for another deep run into the postseason.
They defeated Chapman in five sets and La Verne in three sets, but fell to Cal Lutheran and were swept by Claremont on Sept. 8. Still, the Loggers have been led by a solid core of returning players, namely reigning first-team All-American outside hitter and Northwest Conference Player of the Year Jackie Harvey. But fellow outside hitter Marissa Florant, middle blocker Nicolette Reynaud and setter Jenni Brehove have been – and will be – key to the Loggers' success as well.
The Loggers sit at 5-3 overall on the young season, as their grueling schedule has featured five teams ranked in the preseason Top 25. The Loggers return home to play their final nonconference match on Sept. 13, when they host Concordia-Moorehead at 7 p.m. They open league play by hosting Linfield on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. and George Fox on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.
The University of Puget Sound women's soccer team is looking for its 12th consecutive Northwest League title this fall, and improved to 2-1 on the young season with a dominating 5-0 win over Warner Pacific at home on Sept. 7.
Liz Blonden got the Loggers started with a goal off Kylie Beeson's corner in the 19th minute, and the Loggers benefitted from an own goal to make it 2-0 in the 30th minute. Lauren Swanson scored on a free kick from 25 yards out in the 35th minute to make it 3-0 at the half.
Beeson added another assist when Alex Teesdale put in her corner in the 70th minute, and Annie Jonsson closed it out with a goal off an assist from Annie Prickett in the 85th minute.
The Loggers made life easy for keeper Lauren Thomas, allowing zero shots by Warner Pacific while collecting 18 shots and nine corner kicks of their own.
The Loggers were ranked 13th in the nation when the new rankings came out earlier this week, and will begin league play with a match at Pacific Lutheran on Sept. 14 at noon.
The Pacific Lutheran University men's soccer team put up two dominating shutouts last weekend to improve to 4-0 overall on the season – the first time they've won their first four games since 1998.
The Lutes won 4-0 over Evergreen State on Sept. 8, as Derek Johnson scored twice in the first half to take control – including a goal less than six minutes into the game off a pass from Giancarlo Santoro. Rigoberto Loreto made it 3-0 in the 53rd minute by bending a free kick into the net, and added an assist three minutes later when his corner kick found the foot of Brian Lefavour, who drove it in for the final tally.
The Lutes topped Wisconsin Lutheran 3-0 on Sept. 6, as Lefavour helped make it 1-0 in the 11th minute when Troy-Mikal Oliger scored off his corner. Johnson struck for a goal just before halftime off another assist from Santoro, and Loreto scored in the 81st minute to put the game away.
The Lutes have allowed only one goal in their four matches so far, and will host Southwestern (Tex.) on Sept. 13 at 5 p.m. and Hardin-Simmons on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.
After announcing their 2013 Hall of Fame class in June, Puget Sound will host the induction ceremony for the five new members on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Wheelock Student Center on campus.
The inductees include Craig Caskey (baseball), Dave Davis (cross country/track & field), Laura Grinstead (soccer), Erin Peterson (softball), and Roger Woods (swimming).
Caskey (1972) went on to pitch in the major leagues and still holds school records on the mound over 40 years after he threw his last pitch as a Logger. Peterson (2000) was an All-American catcher and still owns the home run record at Puget Sound. Grinstead (2001) was an All-American defender on the soccer pitch and led the Loggers to their first Northwest Conference title. Davis (2000) and Woods (1994) both earned individual national titles for the Loggers in their respective sports. Woods was a three-time NAIA national champion in the pool while Davis won the NCAA Division III cross country title in 1999 and was a three-time All-American.
The class will be celebrated again during the Loggers' football home opener against Chapman University on Sep. 14 at 1 p.m. For more information visit http://www.loggerathletics.com or call (253) 879–3140 to RSVP.
Registration for the RAGE Girls Volleyball League in the Puyallup and Spanaway-Parkland communities will be held on Sept. 14 at Puyallup High School from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and again on Sept. 21 at Franklin Pierce High School from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. League play is offered for girls in grades 3-9 in both the elementary and junior high divisions. Cost is $45 if registered before Sept. 14 or $50 afterwards and includes a t-shirt, an instructional clinic, and seven matches.
An instructional clinic by members of the Puyallup High School volleyball team will be held on Sept. 14 from 9-10:30 a.m. for students in grades 3-5 and from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. for students in grades 6-9. Another similar clinic will be held on Sept. 21 at Franklin Pierce High School. Volunteer coaches are also being sought. Over 240 girls participated in the league last year.
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If you venture deep inside the pyramids (as I did the day after the fun at the zoo) you find that the inner chamber smells very strongly of piss. It's a predictable act of desecration, I guess. But it does tend to encourage a speedy visitor turn-around.
In general, though, the pyramids sprang lots of surprises. And they offered the possibility of pleasures (or transgressions) that would be decidedly off limits back home.
Let me say to begin with, unlike so many "Wonders of the World," they do not disappoint. They are absolutely vast and, at least if you view them one direction, they give every impression of being isolated in the trackless desert.
Visitors are not encouraged to look the other way, where the huge silhouettes appear not against the background of the camel-dotted sands, but against the suburbs of Cairo – and, in particular, against the distinctive colours of the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet (Pyramids branch). It doubles with Pizza Hut if you go upstairs.
But, smell apart, the best bit was climbing inside, right into the burial chamber of the Great Pyramid. This is what British Health and Safety regulations would long ago have put a stop to. The climb is steep, with just a handrail and ridged wooden planking to help you. It's fantastically hot, even in December. And for a good stretch of the way you have to crouch down and almost crawl along a low passage to reach the heart of the monument.
Heaven knows what would happen if you didn't make it. There wasn't a defebrilator, alarm, or any other of the paraphernalia of the nanny state in sight. It makes it all seem faintly ridiculous that some governmental Risk Assessment doesn't allow the average visitor even to touch the stones of Stonehenge (might they fall down?), but insist that we gawp from a safe but boring distance.
Not that the Egyptian Antiquities Service makes a visit to the pyramids any easier than one to Stonehenge. You have to buy a ticket to get into the main area, pass through the metal detector and by the tourist police with their guns (Egypt gives a very plausible impression of being a relatively cheery police state, "for your protection, Sir" as they say). It's only when you've climbed up to the entrance way on the pyramid itself that they tell you that you have to buy another ticket, from somewhere completely different, if you want to go inside. And it's only when you have got back one more time, that they tell you that you can't take your camera inside. It would clearly be asking for it to leave your precious digital on the little shelf suggested (when we went, it was the resting place for just one "throw-away" camera); so you have to climb down again to leave it in the car – or, as we did, disguise it in a make-up bag.
And all this has to be done, while avoiding the pushiest touts (plus camels) anywhere in the world. Exactly what scams they were trying to pull off wasn't clear; but scams they certainly were. Our driver insisted, like an anxious parent of thoughtless adolescents, that we spoke to no-one, that we didn't wander round the back of the monument (where presumably even worse scammers lay in wait) and that we didn't hire the first camel from the first Bedouin we saw.
Still it was probably the most memorable sight I've ever seen. And December was the perfect time to visit. Apart from a handful of intrepid Europeans, most of the visitors were local school parties. The little girls sweated through the passages in their veils and headscarves. But (much to the annoyance of their teachers) found us rather more exotic and photogenic a sight than the antiquities.


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While doing spring maintenance, I replaced the raw water impeller. After I replaced and started the engine I noticed a small stream of water running from the small hole on the pump. I don't see any numbers anywhere. Anyone know where pump model number is?? Rebuild / replace??? Your input appreciated.
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The one on the top of the shaft
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Engine is a universal M18 in a 31. Thanks for your help
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That is a Sherwood raw water pump. Oberdorfer makes the other pump for that engine. You could rebuild it, (read about that here: http://www.sailnet.com/forums/diesel...rfer-pump.html) but do yourself a favor and don't...
Call Depco Pump in Tampa (or maybe St Pete) and just buy a new one. It should cost ~$200 The guys at Depco really are experts. Make sure that you get a catalog from them too.
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.. If you are not going to follow my advice in the above post, Maine Sail posted a how to on rebuilding his Westerbeake pump here; Rebuilding A Raw Water Pump Photo Gallery by Compass Marine at pbase.com
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Found a new Oberdorfer pump for about $275 plus shipping. Installation not to bad but lower mounting bolt pretty well corroded but I finally won the battle with it. Pump number is N202M-15.
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