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Teahupo'o edged towards its dangerous best today as the Billabong Pro Tahiti continued its march hunting a result, with a new west swell kicking in for the sudden death round two heats of the Foster's Men's World Tour event. Solid 2m (4-6'++) slabs of water, with some bomb sets from the west, saw conditions become critical on the end section as surfers tried to escape from the wrapping barrel.
As usual the Foster's Men's World Tour Top 45 matched the spectacular waves with the commitment and skill that you expect from the world's best. It was an awesome Teahupoo day and the best is yet to come, with a fresh south-west swell pushing 3m expected for the final two days of competition.
The round two heroes were many and varied in the challenging conditions, but one of the undisputed kings of this incredible wave, Cory Lopez, was the day's most consistently brilliant performer.
There's not a whole lot to Florida's 5'10"150lb younger version of the Lopez brothers, in fact you might even call him a bit on the skinny side, but for what he lacks in meat and mass, he makes up for with heart beat and bravado.
Bagging the enviable scores of 9.7 and 9.23 in the first four minutes of his round two heat of the Billabong Pro Tahiti against Toby 'Murderer' Martin, Cory continued his ride further into the ASP's pro surfing history books as the man to beat in Teahupoo's chunderous caverns. Yes, we call his opponent Murderer, or Murdz, for the chilling gazes he is capable of, but today, sorry, Dee Why's Murdz got murdered.
With eight minutes remaining Lopez added insult to injury throwing away his 9.23 after an unbelievably deep, long and critical run along the reef, coming out after the fire-hydrant wave spit. He scored a 9.93 to amass a heat score of 19.63, not just the highest of the day and the event so far, but just 0.3 from the record of the highest ever two-wave heat score in ASP annals.
Lopez also went back to back with his elder brother Shea who won the preceding heat in the dying seconds of his showdown with Australia's Richie Lovett. The Lopez bras are on a roll.
"I took the momentum off my brother's win," said Cory. "I'm stoked! I guess I just got lucky starting off the heat with two nines so quickly".
"It's perfect out there, and you've just got to know which ones to pick, and luckily I picked a couple of good ones. The 9.93 finish was pretty unreal. The wave just bottomed out and drained perfectly off the reef".
"A lot of the bigger ones haven't been that hollow, but that one hit the reef perfectly, and held up, and held up, and hit the inside shelf and drained really square. It was perfect and I just came right out."
The highest wave score of the day went down in the last heat of the day as Brazil's Neco Padaratz overcame his phobias of nearly drowning here five years ago and charged like he wanted to drown today. He and Australia's young rookie Bede Durbidge had an exceptional heat as the swell relentlessly stormed through as Sunday's sunset approached.
Their exchange started with Durbidge logging an 8.3, but Padaratz went one better on the wave behind to score 8.83, followed by a back-up mid-six wave. He then lost priority taking a west peak that didn't pitch a barrel. Bede then duplicated Padaratz blunder, but got out of the wave quick enough to get back to the take-off zone and grab priority.
Durbidge needed a 7.5, but came up short with a 7.43 on his next wave, Neco inheriting priority. The firey Brazilian missed the first wave of the next set and handed priority back to the rookie, who scored an 8.07 leaving Padaratz hunting a high score, but again holding the all important joker card of priority.
Driven like the maniac he can be, Padaratz's chance came as one of the biggest waves of the day stormed in amongst the huge flotilla of craft in the channel. Padaratz turned and stroked into the monster, dropping incredibly late, almost with the pitching lip. A split second after he landed at the bottom of the threatening wall, the guillotine lip shaved his curly locks by millimetres, adding drama for all.
He pulled up with perfect positioning and timing to park himself in the spiralling pit and charged through the first section, but he was late for the next section and disappeared from view, looking to be impossibly deep as the wave clicked up a gear. The crowd in the channel collectively sighed, but seconds later the talented natural footer charged from the deep groins of the incredible wave.
Padaratz got five ten-point scores across the board, and the 2005 Billabong Pro Tahiti had its first perfect score, leaving Durbidge solidly comboed. Unperturbed, the young Stradbroke Island surfer racked up 9.30 on his final wave a minute before the final hooter, to break the double figures he needed, but it obviously wasn't enough to deny the Brazilian his right to round three.
It was a drama packed day even before dawn. Current Foster's Men's World Tour ratings leader Trent Munro (AUS) was up at 4am, pacing his bedroom, punching the air proclaiming "Game on! Game on!" and raring to go. Four hours later he was paddling out to take on Tahiti's accomplished surfing soul Manoa Drollet.
Opening with an 8.17, and eventually backing up with a score of 6.83, Munro got by the local who opened with a no-hands 8.5 pit, but thereafter failed to emerge from much he pulled into.
"There was no way I was going to take him lightly, and I think I played my game well," said Munro. "He was unlucky to get caught on a couple of those barrels he pulled in on the inside. I guess that's just the way it goes".
The drama continued in the second heat with Damien Hobgood (USA) hunting anything that moved on the inside at the heat's outset, while Air Tahiti Nui Von Zipper trials wildcard Liam McNamara decided to wait for the sets.
McNamara's tactical choice ended up being an error, but Damien had a choice to make as well, half way through the heat, flying through the air after escaping the closing keyhole of a racing west pit. Zeroing in from a mid-air trajectory over the back of the wave, on both a jet ski and one of the photo boats.
Hobgood chose the jet ski, manned by Hawaii's big wave legend Brock Little. The sickened thud as his hip and thigh hit the fibreglass hull had the channel watchers agape fearing the worst, but the 25 year-old Floridian took it in his stride, returning to the lineup to finish his job and move to round three. He almost seemed embarrassed by everyone's concern.
"I had plenty of time to react. It was a decision to either hit the boat or hit the ski," said Hobgood. "There was a boat behind Brock, deeper, and it was either try and miss Brock and go straight into the back of the boat, running propellers and all, or aim for the ski."
"I took the ski option because it's a smaller and a little more forgiving thing to hit. It was unfortunate thing; it's really west today and the swell is coming right out of the channel and there's not much room. It can happen to anyone."
"I was fortunate enough to hit it with the best part of my body. I saw it coming, so I threw my butt at it, and you know, it's not broken…whatever, I think it's going to be fine," said Damien before heading to shore to be checked by the doctors just the same.
The two trials wildcards were thereby dispensed, but Billabong's local wildcard Hira Teriinatoofa had other ideas when it came to his following heat with former event runner-up Luke Egan. Like McNamara, Egan waited for the sets, but they didn't come.
Chasing Hira's 9.{{{57}}} top score for a medium sized, but long and deep barrel, and a seven plus backup, Egan's patience was never rewarded. With less than two minutes remaining, he eventually pulled into a long clean pit, but never emerged, appearing to be content to enjoy the view inside as a consolation prize.
Just as the swell settled into more regularity later in the day, nine point rides came thick and fast. Tom Whitaker was brilliant bagging a 9.73 and back-up eight plus to thwart a strong charge from Huntington rookie Tim Reyes, while San Clemente's Chris Ward got one back for the USA in the following heat trouncing Australia's Luke Stedman.
Australia's Lee Winkler rallied late to take out 2000 World Champion Sunny Garcia with a committed effort, while Hawaii's second round best went to rookie Fred Patacchia Jnr, who surfed like a master banking two nine-plus rides to finish the skilful backhand efforts of Shane Beschen, who also now lives on the North Shore.
South Africa's Greg Emslie had a shocker getting washed over the reef and into the lagoon on his first wave, and things didn't get much better as Dean Morrison (AUS) marched on with maniacal commitment. The Springboks on the wild continent will be stoked though to hear that their Durban rookie Travis Logie set new standards in commitment and once and for all blew away any doubts about his worthiness in big waves. The kid went mad.
Logie drew Australia's already established charger Phil Macdonald, but the young goofy footer from South Africa obviously wasn't interested in reputations, other than disproving the doubters of his own testosterone. He went seriously crazy, including a 9.9 on his last wave.
"I'm very chuffed! I've never surfed Teahupoo over one foot before, and so that was first time out there in 'real' Teahupoo waves," said Logie.
"I was really nervous before the heat, sitting and watching in the channel, so I'm stoked I got the jitters out and showed the world that I can surf waves like this. I'm stoked!"
"That 9.9 final ride was quite a deep-ish one," said Logie in full understatement mode.
"I could see the wall building up all the way down the reef, so I just pumped my board as much as I could in the barrel. At one stage I didn't think I was going to make it, and then I got a late burst of speed, and I came out. It was such a lovely wave".
That's it folks. Teahupoo makes and breaks, or shames and sometimes even lames. This is the place of pace, and it all continues tomorrow with round three with the starting time to be called at 6.30am. The beat goes on…the beat of racing hearts.
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Heat # 1
Trent Munro def. Manoa Drollet
Heat # 2
Damien Hobgood def. Liam McNamara
Heat # 3
Hira Teriinatoofa def. Luke Egan
Heat # 4
Daniel wills def. Renan Rocha
Heat # 5
Mark Occhilupo def. Kirk Flintoff
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Tom Whitaker def. Tim Reyes
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Shea Lopez def. Richard Lovett
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Cory Lopez def. Toby Martin
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Lee Winkler def. Sunny Garcia
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Tim Curran def. Troy Brooks
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Travis Logie def. Phillip MacDonald
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Have you guys ever heard of Joey Harrington? Be grateful.
Stafford is going to have a great year. The Lions changed coaches and just need to stay healthy and acquire one more receiver. , I DO think the NFC will be tough this year. Seahawks, 49ers, Panthers, ( yikes that's the Eagles schedule) . Add in the Eagles? and Lions?
I actually agree with you. I don't think offense will be an issue for Detroit. They will put up some big numbers.
Looking forward to some predictions for this season... today...I see 6-10...could change later though.
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Don't need Stafford any more... Lions sign Orlovsky as backup QB - Yahoo Sports
All in favor of trading up in this draft please excuse yourself from this thread !
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Middletown, R.I. resident Sheila McCurdy was named Rhode Island Boater of the Year this week by the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association at opening-day ceremonies of the Providence Boat Show.
She was given the group's John H. Chafee Award, named after the former Rhode Island governor and senator.
"Sheila has excelled in sailing individually and has given an equal amount back to recreational boating through her work and volunteer pursuits," said Tom Rich, president of New England Boatworks and president of the association, in a statement.
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I was wondering if anyone knew what the attached picture is? It is buried in the ground directly behind a house built in 1955 in Florida. I think it might be the lid of an old oil tank or septic cover, but am not sure. Any ideas?
could be near anything. pop the cap and let us know; don't breathe it. j
I would say not an oil tank, could be a water meter, not likely a septic tank.
This sounds stupid because why would a 1955 house have one, but it looks like a grease trap that I deal with at my employers here in upstate NY. I wouldn't think a house would have one but anything is possible. Crack the lid and send a picture of what you find. Be careful, loosen nuts slowly. If there is any pressure in the vessel you may get water or other nastiness backflowing.
If you have 'city water' it COULD be the outside shut-off.
Note that the two "bolts" appear to be recessed into a counterbored space. This appears to be intentional so that you would need a special socket or "key" made to fit down into that area. Something that a homeowner would not readily have. Maybe a public utility or even a fuel oil supplier. But-if it were for fuel oil there would have to been a vent piping also. The white cap on the right I hope is for reference as to the size of this unit. I would contact the local building code authority and see if anyone is there that may know something about codes back in 1955 for fuel oil tanks, or even (as stated) the septic system, if so equipped. Those bolts are there for a reason. Either a pressure situation, or a "tamper-proof" situation. Just my nickel's worth there, David
Looks like a water shutoff box.
I'm pretty sure it IS a water shutoff. We had one at our old home that pretty much looked like that.
They open the lid, then use a long steel rod/tool to turn on/off the home's water supply.
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The thing to the right looks like painted over meter.
I'm not sure the size of this thing, the weeds make it look bigger than a water shutout riser but the cap makes it look to small to be a grease trap, it's definitely to big to be the fill on a oil tank, unless it's a HUGE tank. After looking further at it I would lean towards water shutoff but there is one other thing about that idea.
I work with water shut off risers all the time, I have the water keys that remove the nuts and the wrenchs that reach down in there to turn the valve off. I deal with valves from 2" up to 12" and this riser is not something I've seen. From what I've been told water risers have to say "Water" on the top of them just like sewer man hole covers have to say "Sewer" on them. Does that mean they all do? Of course not, but most that I've seen do say water on them.
Maybe it's the clean out for the waste water leaving the house?? Being that it's in back of the house also makes me question water shut off idea. Those are 1. usually out close to street and 2. at the front of the house. However, waste water ussually leaves the back of the house to go to the tanks/leech field, that is if you don't have city sewer. But remember that in 1955 it was very likely to have your own leech field. Of course, all my experience has been from Ohio and north. Florida is way different. :-)
almost looks like the top of a well
Opening it to see what's inside sounds like the logical approach. You could however, measure where it is in relation to the inside of your home. Possibly from one of the building corners to see if a pipe penetrates the foundation wall in a basement or up into a crawlspace.
Any of the guesses made could be right. Is, or was there ever a pool, spa, or lawn sprinkler system in the backyard? Wondering if it's some kind of shut-off for either.
I'd say it's the cap of either a cistern or a septic tank. More likely the latter.
So have you figured it out yet?
Inquiring minds want to know.
If you haven't figured it out yet I would take a wire brush to it to see if there are any markings underneath all that rust.
Or take a pic (with measurements) to your local building inspector or permit office.
Thanks, for all your ideas. I have not opened it yet but here is more information. The house is on septic and a private well. The well pump is 20 feet to the right of this. The septic tank is 20 feet north of this around the left side. This buried tank is directly behind the bathroom ( near bath tub and toilet). Thanks.
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Thock! That deeply satisfying sound of golf club striking golf ball is one that I have rarely produced in my life. Lack of skill, however, didn't stop me accepting a challenge to play a round on Nullarbor Links, the world's longest golf course which opened in southern Australia in late 2009. The distance from first hole to last: 1,365km.
Named after the Nullarbor Plain, which straddles Western Australia and South Australia, this 18-hole par-72 course is strung out along the Eyre Highway, the lifeline that connects Perth – the world's most isolated big city – with the rest of the nation.
With its Astroturf tee-off areas and "natural terrain fairways" sprung with Outback surprises, Nullarbor Links offers a unique golfing challenge that covers some of the harshest terrain on the planet. "You don't get the lush greens and beautiful bunkers of the Royal Melbourne," says Al Caputo, general manager of Nullarbor Links. "This is a real golf course."
To play all 18 holes represents a four-day thwack-and-throttle epic that wraps a golfing thrill with a driving experience inside an Outback adventure.
The idea behind the course is to slow down the 24,000 tourists who race across the Nullarbor Plain every year. Emblazoned with names drawn from local myth and history – Silver Lake, 90-Mile Straight, Nullarbor Nymph, and so on – the 18 holes evoke the hardships that the Australian pioneers endured, and the qualities that these hardships instilled: determination, ruggedness, generosity, esprit de corps, humour and a wit even drier than the Outback itself.
In the spirit of Edward John Eyre – who in 1841 became the first European to cross the Nullarbor – one golfer has pledged to play the entire course on foot, a 30-day game. Alternatively, Perry Will of Ceduna Boat Charter is offering clients the chance to play all 18 holes in just three days, travelling by air. For some players, the time set aside to play the course depends on the price of fuel versus the price of beer at the various roadhouses (equivalent to service stations in the UK) on the way.
Anyone can pay A$50 (£29) for a scorecard and tee off. Each hole is either part of a local golf course, or is a single bespoke hole attached to a roadhouse. You can hire clubs at each hole for A$5 (£2.90). Instead of a Pringle jumper, pack stout boots, thick socks, a brightly coloured top should you get lost, and gloves to pick the goannas off the tees.
I played the course in reverse order, travelling west-to-east. First, I picked up a set of classic golfing wheels in Perth. "Whatever you do," cautioned the Mercedes dealer, "avoid wombats. Imagine hitting a cement-filled water trough. You get the picture. I've seen a good wombat strike write a car off."
I fired up my car and set off for Kalgoorlie, 700km east of Perth for my Nullarbor Links debut, eyes peeled for suicidal wombats.
Sitting on the world's richest seam of gold, Kalgoorlie is mine, all mine. Its Golden Mile has yielded more than 50 million ounces since prospector Paddy Hannan stumbled on it in 1893. The main mine, the Super Pit, is a giant bunker, 1.5km by 3.3km by 530m deep. It operates around the clock every day. In 2008, it accounted for one-third of Australia's entire gold production of 219 tons.
With gold selling at more than 1,100 dollars an ounce, the locals prefer digging holes to playing them. Kalgoorlie Golf Club was empty when I found it. If you are accustomed to sculpted fairways, iridescent greens, water features and fascistic hierarchies, you're in for a shock. Kalgoorlie's clubhouse is a hovel, and the greens are brown. The rest is untamed bush. This must've been how the pioneers of golf played. After four swings, I managed to get off the tee.
One hour and several golf balls later, I packed away my clubs, said goodbye to Kalgoorlie and headed east into the Outback. Ignoring the published volumes of dos and don'ts of outback driving (which recommend tool kits, spare parts, shovels, air compressors, tow-ropes, emergency beacons and winches galore), I packed spare spare tyres, water, sunblock, cash and maps, then loaded up my golf-pod with the Best Songs For Golfing in the Outback.
"Outback is an Aboriginal term meaning 'place with no shops'," said David Morley, Australian car pundit and my travelling companion. In fact it's a contraction of "Out Back of Beyond": any place more than one day's drive from the nearest city qualifies.
"Place with no cell phone signal" might be more appropriate. Outback driving can be dangerous for reasons that hardly apply in Europe. Fatigue, heat and dehydration are the killers, abetted by extraordinarily persistent flies.
Australians whinge about English weather, but theirs is so much worse: aggressive, exhausting, damaging and frankly dangerous. "If you break down, the last thing you do is walk," said Morley. "From the air, a vehicle is easier to spot than a person. You can set fire to a tyre. You have shade in a vehicle and water in the tanks. Distances are deceptive. What looks like one kilometre is 10km. You walk, you die."
Then there is the sheer ennui. There are three types of Outback scenery: prairie, desert scrub and gum forest. The Eyre Highway scythes through the world's largest eucalyptus hardwood forest of blackbutt, salmon gum and gimlet trees. It's all rather beautiful, like English parkland, but repeated for hundreds of kilometres. Hypnotised by the sameness, you lose track of time. Your sense of distance plays tricks with you. You hallucinate and start to see ... camels?
Camels are not an optical illusion. They really do roam the Outback. Introduced by Muslim camel herders known as "Afghans" in the mid-19th century to transport goods, the dromedaries were eventually supplanted by railways but have adapted so successfully to the Outback that they are now classed as vermin. Still, it is a good idea to brake if one gets in the way.
Kangaroos are particularly dangerous at dawn and dusk. They become confused by headlights and leap in front of cars. "If Skippy smashes the windscreen and joins you in the driving seat, you hope he's dead," said Morley. "Because if he's alive, he won't be best pleased. An angry 'roo can open a bloke up."
From its size, colour and emptiness, you'd think the Outback was twinned with Mars. Some sheep and cattle stations here are larger than European countries. At 24,000sq km, Anna Creek Station in South Australia eclipses Israel, Slovenia and Cyprus.
At Lake Lefroy near Kambalda, 55km from Kalgoorlie, I thought I really had arrived on another planet. A thick blanket of snow seemed to stretch to the horizon, except that it wasn't snow, but salt: hundreds of square kilometres of pure salt. My kidneys ached at the sight of it. The water table here is seven times more saline than the sea. Lefroy is one great evaporation pan. Fans of land sailing will recognise Lefroy as the setting for several land-speed record attempts.
Next hole: the mining town of Norseman. The local Ngadju tribesmen welcomed us with a dance routine enacted on the green of the tough par-four hole. "Ours is the oldest living culture on Earth," said James Schultz, their leader. "We are proud to portray it. We are also very happy to have a golf course on our land. I play a lot myself." Schultz showed me two types of boomerang: the homing type and the hunting type which doubles as a putter.
"I remember a sonic boom and a magnificent kaleidoscope of colours like fireworks," said Gary Prendiville, whose family owns Balladonia Motel where the 175-metre hole is a tricky snake-infested par three. One night in July 1979, Skylab flamed Earthwards. Balladonia lay in its path. The local shire ranger gave Nasa a littering ticket and President Carter rang to apologise. Meanwhile, Miss America, in Perth for the Miss Universe contest, posed for pictures.
Balladonia is the western gateway to the Nullarbor Plain itself. The plain is a desolate 200,000sq km waste slightly smaller than V C Great Britain. Utterly flat and covered with spinifex grass, it looks like the ocean floor, which it once was. The Nullarbor is the world's largest block of limestone. Its thin topsoil cannot support trees, hence its name (Nullabor means "no trees" in Latin).
That great 19th-century explorer Edward John Eyre described it as a "blot on the face of Nature". Eyre's trail remained a potholed camel track right up until the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 when it was finally patched up. The road wasn't sealed until 1977.
This part of Australia was opened up by the road train, not the car. Now, all sorts of vehicles cross the Nullarbor: the wackier the better. Nearing the end of our journey, we arrived at the Nullarbor Roadhouse to find a gyrocopter refuelling at the pumps.
Alan Seeby, manager of the roadhouse, listed some of the wheels that pull in. "Lawnmowers, rollerblades, wheelbarrows, caravans, pushbikes and cycles ridden by Japanese people," he said. "In Japan cycling is the new golf."
I teed off at the Dingo's Den hole (538 metres, par five), as road trains slid along the horizon like targets in a shooting gallery. I skilfully avoided the wombat-hole "bunkers", but before my ball came to rest a crow swooped and flew off with it in his beak. "He does that all the time," sighed Seeby. "One family lost eight balls."
The southern fringe of the Nullarbor Plain ends abruptly with a 60-metre cliff drop into the Southern Ocean, as if part of Australia had broken off and sunk. This is the beginning of the Great Australian Bight, that gentle concavity on the southern Australian coastline, celebrated for whale migration and surfing. Near the town of Penong, Cactus Beach is reputedly one of the world's greatest surfing spots.
With rollers queuing up to crash on to the white sand beaches, Cactus Beach is a magnificent sight. In summer, however, it attracts up to 500 young surfers from all over the world who camp here without power or water.
"It's every parent's worst nightmare," says Perry Will of Ceduna Boat Charter. "But few sensations match surfing for pure uncut speed. It is a lifestyle and an obsession."
"Cactus Beach has four different types of wave all within walking distance," says Andrew Brook, a local surfer. "The winds tend to blow offshore which holds the waves up. You always have good surf."
With the blue ocean, the golden sand and the white breakers, Cactus Beach looks enticing, but do take care. Great white sharks have taken five people in these waters in the last 10 years. Also dangerous are the surfies, who sometimes come on very territorial, both on and off the water.
If the great whites and the surfies don't get you, the March flies certainly will. In or out of the water, you're a target. And let's not mention the king brown snakes.
I scoured the road as we neared Nundroo, home of the largest population of Southern hairy nosed wombats in Australia. I could almost hear the price of car insurance popping as I crept along.
We arrived intact at Ceduna, the end of a heroic odyssey. Besides a few unlucky golf balls, I had hit nothing. But I had learnt much about the Australian spirit. In order to "get" Australia, you need to experience what one Australian I met described as the "epicness of so much nothingness". Nullarbor Links is more than a round of golf. It is a journey into the Australian psyche.
Travel essentials
Getting there
*The writer travelled with Qantas (08457 747767; qantas.com ), which flies from Heathrow to Perth via Singapore; returns start at £613 for travel between 16 April and 20 June if booked by 2 February.
*Flights to Perth are also offered by Singapore Airlines (0844 800 2380; singaporeair.co.uk ), Emirates (0844 800 2777; emirates.com ) and Cathay Pacific (020-8834 8888; cathaypacific.com ), via their hub cities.
Playing there
*Nullarbor Links, c/o Alf Caputo (00 61 407 990 049; email: email@example.com; nullarborlinks.com ).
*To play the course from west to east, buy a score card at Kalgoorlie Visitor Centre, Town Hall, Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (00 61 8 9021 1966; kalgoorlietourism.com ).
*To play the course from east to west, buy a scorecard from Ceduna Visitor Centre, 58 Poynton Road, Ceduna, South Australia (00 61 8 8625 2780; cedunatourism.com.au ).
*Scorecards are also available at all roadhouses along the Eyre Highway.
*Nullarbor Links tours are offered by Ceduna Boat Charter, c/o Perry Will, Ceduna, South Australia (00 61 8 86 252 654; cedunaboatcharter.com.au ). Two-day tours start at A$2,750 (£1,569) per person, including three nights' B&B, transfers and play. Three-day tours start at A$3,250 (£1,854) person.
Staying there
*Balladonia Motel, Eyre Highway, Balladonia, Western Australia (00 61 8 9039 3453; email@example.com; nullarbornet.com.au ). Doubles start at A$119 (£68), room only.
*Nullarbor Roadhouse, Eyre Highway, Nullarbor, South Australia (00 61 8 8625 6271; email Alan Seeby: email@example.com; nullarbornet.com.au ). Doubles start at A$110 (£63), room only.
More information
*Tourism Australia: australia.com
*Tourism South Australia: southaustralia.com
*Tourism Western Australia: westernaustralia.com
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Hole-by-hole: The world's longest course
You can play Nullarbor Links travelling either west-to-east or east-to-west. Here is a brief guide to all 18 holes starting in Ceduna in South Australia and finishing in Kalgoorlie Western Australia.
Hole 1, Oyster Beds
Par 5 (485m)
Ceduna Golf Club
Of all the holes, the two at Ceduna are the most "orthodox" in so far as they have fairways which are covered in grass for most of the year, although the greens are not made from actual grass but from a mix of sand and oil called "scrapes". Ceduna is a municipal golf course in the charming seaside town of Ceduna. The hole is named after the nearby 85-hectare oyster beds of Denial Bay which produce Pacific oysters for export.
Hole 2, Denial Bay
Par 4 (370m)
Ceduna Golf Club
This hole is on the site where the first settlement in this part of Australia was founded in 1880; the settlement has evolved into present day Ceduna.
Hole 3, Windmills
Par 4 (260m)
Penong Golf Course
A picturesque cluster of 26 windmills, known locally as "Windmill Flat", has developed over many years to give the people of Penong access to water in one of the small underground basins close to the township.
Hole 4, Wombat Hole
Par 5 (520m)
The holes are in isolated parts of the bush and fairways consist of sand, scrub and thick undergrowth, punctuated with big animal holes. Nundroo is home to Australia's largest population of hairy nosed wombats.
Hole 5, Dingo's Den
Par 5 (538m)
Nullarbor Motel
A rough fairway pocked with rabbit holes. Dingo's Den is a misnomer. Stone the Crow! is more appropriate. As you tee off, a crow swoops, grabs your ball and flies off with it. The crow has filched several hundred balls since the course opened.
Hole 6, Border Kangaroo
Par 3 (160m)
Border Village
The tee is a patch of Astroturf in a roadtrain park next to a 5-metre model of a kangaroo.
Hole 7, Nullarbor Nymph
Par 4 (315m)
Eucla Golf Club
The Nullarbor Nymph, a mythical naked Sheila who lived with kangaroos in the desert, was dreamt up in a bar in 1971 and spun to a gullible media which turned it into a world story with TV crews scouring the Outback.
Hole 8, Watering Hole
Par 4 (330m)
Mundrabilla Motel
This hole is named after a nearby sheep station in Mundrabilla which was settled in 1897. Australia's biggest gold meteor was discovered nearby, weighing more than 10 tons – proof that someone out there in the Universe was playing celestial golf.
Hole 9, Brumby's Run
Par 3 (125m)
Madura Pass Motel
The midway point between Adelaide and Perth, Madura Station was first settled in 1876. The Eyre Highway climbs from the coastal Roe Plain upwards some 100 metres on to a huge plateau, the Hampton Tablelands.
Hole 10, Eagle's Nest
Par 4 (347m)
Cocklebiddy Motel
An ex-Aboriginal mission, Cocklebiddy lies on the southern edge of Western Australia's sheep grazing belt where, given sparse rainfall, the normal population density of sheep is just 8 to 10 sheep per square kilometre. Nearby is one of the world's largest cave systems. Cocklebiddy Cave has been explored to a distance of 6.5 kilometres.
Hole 11, 90 Mile Straight
Par 4 (310m)
Caiguna Motel
This hole celebrates Australia's most famous stretch of highway, the 90-mile straight. At the easterly end of it, Caiguna Roadhouse was built to assist traffic crossing for the Commonwealth Games in Perth in 1962.
Hole 12, Skylab
Par 3 (175m)
Balladonia Motel
Named after the Skylab space research laboratory which crashed 40km to the east in 1979, this is a difficult "fairway" of arid desert woodland with tough grasses, gravel, sand and dense undergrowth.
Hole 13, Sheep's Back
Par 3 (141m)
Fraser Range Station
On the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain, Fraser Range is home to the world's largest Eucalyptus Hardwood Forest which includes more than 20 species. Classic Australian scenery.
Hole 14, Golden Horse
Par 4 (436m)
Norseman Golf Club
A conventional layout, but with little grass. The hole is in the goldmining area of Norseman which has yielded 5 million ounces of gold.
Hole 15, Ngadju
Par 4 (354m)
Norseman Golf Club
The land of Norseman belongs to the Ngadju people who will delight you with their boomerang dance. Near the golf course is Warrarnbunna lake, a huge salt flat.
Hole 16, Silver Lake
Par 4 (392m)
Kambalda Golf Club
This hole is near Lake Lefroy, a 510 sq km salt flat among the world's finest land-sailing venues due to the texture of its surface.
Hole 17, Golden Mile
Par 4 (339m)
Kalgoorlie Golf Club
Bare red earth fairways and oiled-sand "greens". This hole commemorates the Golden Mile, one of the richest seams of gold on the planet on which the town of Kalgoorlie stands. The Golden Mile was discovered in 1893.
Hole 18, C Y O'Connor
Par 4 (365m)
Kalgoorlie Golf Club
One of the driest places on Earth. To sustain the mining community during the gold rush of the late 19th century, water was shipped in via a pipeline that C Y O'Connor built between 1898 and 1903. It is still in use.
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Need to remove toilet temporarily
I need to remove my toilet temporarily. I have been watching videos and noticed a lot of people remove the tank from the bowl. Is this necessary? I know it isn't if you are just going to throw it away, but I'm going to just use a new wax ring and just reseat it. Will I have problems seating it and leveling it if I do not remove the tank?
But that depends on how level your floor is.
I wouldn't want to undo any more connections then you have to. Yes, its more bulky to place whole toilet back in place, much easier if someone helps guide the floor bolts in with you. I just don't like making the bowl to tank connection, to easy to over tighten the nuts, but maybe thats just me.
The tank to bowl connections are not that hard to make. The problem IMO is that the gaskets are probably to the point where if you take them off, they will need to be replaced.
The toilet is a little bulkier with the tank still installed, albeit not unmanageable by any means. Just use a rag or a sponge to get all of the water out and you should have no problems.
Not a problem, just more bulk when resetting it. I always set the complete unit, even on a new install. I hate tightening the tank bolts from under and in back of the tank. Most instructions for setting a toilet say to put the wax seal on the bottom of the bowl. I set it on the flange and locate (eyeball) the bolts through the holes in the bowl. Less chance of ruining the seal as you lower it.
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Warning: This is a review of Tampax non-applicator tampons. If you have delicate sensibilities and may be offended by this topic please look away now!
The vast majority of the tampons on the market these days are applicator tampons, for good reason. Non applicator tampons are more difficult to use. Therefore I would not recommend them to first time or nervous tampon users. Having said that, if you are comfortable using applicator tampons you should be able to use these easily enough.
The main criteria I judge sanitary products on are comfort and protection. This product does extremely well on both. I feel very well protected when I am using these tampons, which is a big advantage and a time of month when I am feeling generally very grouchy and tired. As long as you insert the tampon properly it will be very comfortable - you can''t feel it at all.
The main advantage of Tampax non-applicator tampons over their other rangers is that they take up less than half the space when they are in your purse or handbag.
These particular tampons are rated regular for absorbency, which I find is good for a couple of days in the middle of my period after the first heavy day or two. Obviously this will vary from woman to woman, but the regular rating matches well with a medium flow as far as I am concerned.
In terms of value for money, Tampax branded products in general are a bit more expensive than other brands but there are two factors which I think makes this product worthwhile - they are very good quality, and in some of the places I shop they are the only non-applicator tampons available, so if I need them I have little choice.
To be honest i was quite suprised by these.
I usually use either tampons or towels depending on type of period but have always found the applicator tampons good.
Dissapointed by the fact that i just seemed to have many embarrassing moments when using the non applicator ones .
Lets just say i would have been better using a `Happy shopper`Tea bag ! :) ... :/ soz tampax!
But still , i guess they tried and i'm sure that thousands of other woman will love them! .. er.. just not me! :)
I always vowed never to use a non-applicator tampon. Too close for comfort perhaps. But a couple of weeks ago I was intrigued by this product. I thought "It can't hurt to try". I'm really pleased with Tampax non-applicator Tampons. They're small enough to fit discreetly in your handbag, or in a make up bag in your bathroom (don't like to scare off my guests!). They have a little dimple for your finger so inserting them isnt a gross procedure. I've found them to be more comfortable than normal Tampax, just as absorbant, and they dont go fluffy at the end like normal Tampax can at times. The only down side is you cant flush the plastic wrapper down the toilet like you can with the paper wrapper on normal Tampax. But its a small price to pay.


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text: Posted November 12, 2012 While I'll agree there's talent on the roster, it's in a surplus at positions that aren't as important in todays NFL. We have some huge holes on our team. LT, WR2, CB, RG, FS, SS all are significant holes. LT, WR2, CB, and FS are positions that a premium is placed on in todays league. That's a huge problem. But I agree, coaching is horrendous..... The problem is, it's difficult to even evaluate the talent level on the offense because the coaching is so bad. Not one player on O is performing above and beyond expectations. Not one. That is coaching. Get a good staff in here, and we'll have a lot better idea where the deficiencies are. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Before Rebecca Cleveland, Ph.D., became a Marilyn Gentry Fellow in Nutrition and Cancer, she was one of the epidemiologists adding to a growing body of evidence linking breast cancer and obesity. Now in her second year as a fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Cleveland's cutting-edge research is helping us understand the role of obesity and related risk factors in breast cancer prevention and survival.
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Good 335i tune?
So I'm looking for a tune for my 11' 335i. I'm between ESS, Cobb, and the JB4. Right now I'm leaning JB4 because of the great reviews and price.
I was hoping to get some opinions on any of the tunes and what you guys would recommend. So if you have any experience with them I'd love to know. If anyone has anything else they'd recommend I'm open to hear that too.
Thanks, D
JB4 is probably the best, personally I like the idea of cobb (even though I have dinan) because you just plug it into the odb2 and let it do its thing.
Do you know the difference between the JB4 and Cobb? I feel like they both have maps you can chose from so they're pretty similar.
I like my JB4 Meth map + integrated meth hardware.
Does Cobb have that?
I like switching maps and/or going back to stock map at the press of a steering wheel button, even if driving.
Does Cobb have that?
Procede used to be the only competition worth mention - what happened there?
COBB Accessport... Hands down, is the most convenient, easiest to use, and makes excellent power as well. Of course you don't have to take my word for it, you can do a few searches online for it on this forum, and you'll see a lot of guys are running COBB as well, and with great responses.
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So Cobb took their place -- having no added hardware to detect by BMW dealers sets it apart.
But the rest of the story is a list of disadvantages vs JB4. Cobb's deep access software is $3,000....in addition.
What's the cost of Cobb hand held OBDII unit replacement? Misplaced or 'borrowed,' that's one big matzah hangin' in the wind.
Guys, I believe OP has N55 not N54 engine, all mods so far produce far less increase in HP/Torque. Cobb only promise 11% and 18% HP and torque respectively; gone the day of 50HP+ gain ala in N54 with a single tune. N55 proves to be more resistant to tune.
I'll say wait until someone crack the gate open.
Haven't paid much attention, but a glance at the JB4's N55 Page shows the larger gains are there.
Both the JB4 N55 and COBB are great choices. It ultimately comes down to what you're looking to do. The JB4 is a piggy back where as the COBB is a flash tuner. The Cobb is much easier to install and to most, it is considered to be more user friendly. You also get free updates for life and all updates can be downloaded straight to your handheld unit from your PC/Mac. JB units will always require hardware upgrades which do cost more money (ie. JB4 stage 1 to stage 2 or JB3 to JB4).
Cobb N55 stage 1 Peak Gains
Aggressive: 11%HP / 25%TQ
Sport: 3%HP / 14%TQ
Cobb N55 stage 1 Max Gains
Aggressive: 18%HP / 26%TQ @3200
Sport: 10%HP / 14%TQ @3200
up to 60hp to the wheels (80hp crank) on a completely stock car or up to 100hp to the wheels (120hp crank) on a fully modified car
I update my JB4 firmware with a laptop & USB cable - updates are downloadable, no charge.
COBB is an easier install but so far its not producing what JB4 does horsepower wise nor does it have the in-car features of the JB4. That's a trade off only the final user can put a price on. In my case 1/2 hour work was not a reason to go to a flash tune. As for upgrades I went from a JB4 to a JB4 G5 for a combined cost that is less then the initial purchase price of a COBB.
There has only been AFAIK 3 versions JB3, JB4 & JB4/G5. There have been many many free updates to both firmware & software. You can still get free firmware/software updates for all the versions so they are not obsoleting them just enhancing the features.
Thing you really need to think about on retail vendors recommendation is who has the most to gain buy advising the purchase of a more expensive product. As we all have said before they are both good systems designed for different user requirements. Personally I do not believe that some one who can't install a piggy back should be doing any modification to their cars, but that's just me.
A few this left out of the post above:
Over 15,000 in use and tens of millions of customer miles driven.
Features: code reading/deleting, optional in dash boost, timing, air/fuel, shift light, and IAT gauges, autotuning, a buttery smooth new CANbus based integrated boost control system, optional isolated boost control, map switching on the fly via steering wheel controls, built in downpipe fix, hot/cold oil temperature protection, progressive methanol integration, water pump remapping, gear dependent boost control/traction assist, and much more to come with free firmware updates uploaded using a windows laptop (or mac w/ windows emulator) and BMS USB cable. For those who have access to E85 (ethanol) fuels the JB4 will automatically tune itself for them yielding huge power gains over pump gas alone. In addition a speed limit defeat, manual transmission 2STEP rev limiter, and manual transmission no lift shifting can be enabled by adding in an extra harness.
Oh, what the hell! ;)
Dinan N55
Stg3: 373HP /408 TQ at crank
Stg2: 355HP / 401TQ at crank
Minus 15% to get on the same page as all the other tunes. :)
Since all the aftermarket tuners use WHP as the industry standard many people think Dinan is a much stronger tune than it really is.
The Dinan advertising is a bit misleading to those who do not understand WHP vs BHP/CHP
There is nothing misleading about it. They make their claims quite clear. To take off on a similar thought of yours, if a purchaser doesn't understand the difference, he shouldn't be buying it.
And I know, you are just going to dismiss me as someone who has drunk the Dinan Kool-Aid, but I just felt more comfortable with the Dinan reputation and warranty. And I am not looking to get into a debate about it, but I have observed your constant criticism of Dinan. My observation is that most people, not saying you, buy JB4 or Cobb because they believe the need to be undetectable is an important feature. I believe it is wrong for JB4 and Cobb to advertise that it is undetectable and encourage it be removed and the codes cleared before you take it to the dealer with blown turbos or whatever. I just happen to believe that if you want to play the mod game you should accept the consequences of your actions and not try and hide it. Those who do cost every BMW owner money in increased warranty costs. Dinan is upfront and installed at BMW dealerships for the most part. That's just my .02 cents.
^^^ No debate here you are entitled to you opinion.
IMHO Dinan is an expensive insurance policy with a mediocre performance package attached. I know a lot of people are happy paying the freight to feel comfortable, nothing wrong with that. Others who are familiar with performance enhancements don't want to pay $5300 to Dinan for 38whp less than can be purchased for $500 from other vendors who are not in the insurance business.
I can't speak to other peoples motives but I do know for the difference between the Dinan $5300 & BMS $500 I could buy a set of high performance turbos to replace blown stock units & most likely get change back.
My diesel laughs at 100k mi goals.....should hit 500k mi this year, maybe early next. Steadfastly refuses to break. Now replacing driver's seat leather + steering wheel, worn out.
Really, I thought 400k would be the max afore major maint. Wrong-o!
FYI: JB4 & integrated Meth from BMS $1k - mighty fun; better than any Dinan, the latter premium priced throughout the line. Running, what, ~450 hp & 450 ft lb torque....heck I don't even know. Runs sweet, so, hard t'care!
I'm like the cole trickle of BMW's :p
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Anyone can increase boost to the sky but at what costs? Dinan maintains many other engine parameters that it controls to safely protect longevity, but if this is true with a JB4 system then you don't have anything to worry about.
Just to add to what daytrader stated, the Dinan tune alters some 2000 lines of code affecting the whole gamut of ecu controlled processes.Many a tweak other than turbo boost is being
accomplished. Now as to doing it yourself etc..ahh-with a $60000 car, I'd rather it done correctly. Hey, I drive-I appreciate the expertise of those who fix(or enhance).
Not to say I wouldn't put in a jb product myself-but I was pretty happy to have tweaked an already awesome as is.. . coupe with an intact warranty* (as per Dinan etc)
To each their own. I wasn't looking for a racing car-would have gone another route if I were.
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Dear John:
Welcome to Canada! Or rather, welcome to the Region of Waterloo International Airport, as I understand you're going to be flying in from California on a regular basis to your new job.
Some people get huffy about this. They think that to turn around BlackBerry, you need to spend your time on the ground, in the office, not jetting across the continent for the weekend. And those who aren't raising an arched eyebrow at your 4,100-kilometre commute are grumpy about your pay package, worth about $90 million the day you signed on, and which could, in theory, still pay you tens of millions of dollars if you fail.
Those people are what I like to call "wrong." If you can save this company, you are worth every dollar. In fact, you're probably worth $90 million even if you just simply do a better job than the last CEO, the German guy whose name I've already forgotten. The most memorable thing he did was change the company's name from Research In Motion to BlackBerry. He should have changed it to Sisyphus.
But never mind him. Let's get to the good news. BlackBerry still has loyalists. I know, because I'm one of them. The other day—no word of a lie—my six-year-old looked at my phone and informed me: "BlackBerrys are not very popular." I nearly replied, "Listen, son, that may be true, but they will have to pry my BlackBerry Bold 9900 out of my cold, dead fingers." Then I thought better of my choice of words.
The reason for my affinity to the BlackBerry is simple. As I write this, I have 1,419 unread e-mails. Hundreds more messages will pour in tomorrow. What I really need, aside from a time-management consultant and a shrink, is a wireless device that allows me to type quickly and accurately. It's a mystery why Apple and Samsung Electronics haven't developed keyboard phones, but…well, they haven't, and perhaps that's why BlackBerry is still here, and it's certainly why one is in my pocket.
I know a number of businesspeople who feel the same way, but are also baffled by what your company has done lately. One fellow who runs a large amount of private-equity money recently held up his phone to me, also a Bold 9900, running on the old operating system. He said that, after trying the fancy new Q10, he sent it back. It was too hard to use. Another guy who works for a large asset management firm told me that everyone in his office was complaining about the Q10. He had his IT department fix his old one.
Don't you find that strange, John? All that pain and toil to bring out the BlackBerry 10, years of promises and delays and more promises, and this is the result—millions of unsold phones gathering dust, endless griping about the product, about how nothing works the way you think it should, and just where in the name of Lazaridis is the back button, anyway?
Several months after the BlackBerry 10 line was launched, I had the chance to ask a senior North American telecom executive why they weren't selling. The executive was adamant that he wouldn't speak on the record, and just as adamant that the phones were not very good. BlackBerry even managed to mess with (sorry, "re-engineer") the keyboard.
But he really wants BlackBerry to succeed. The dominance of just two smartphone platforms—Apple's iOS and Google's Android—frightens him. And so it should. The latest figures from IDC show that 94% of the smartphones shipped in the third quarter were either Apple or Android. That means the consumer is in the hands of two of the largest companies on Earth.
What are you going to do about it? A lot of pundits have turned thumbs-down on the "business-first" strategy—the idea that BlackBerry should refocus on serving the corporate and government customers on which the company was built. This will fail, they say, because more businesses are now asking (or forcing) their employees to use their personal cellphones for work, so the consumer market will become the business market. Gartner Inc., a tech consulting firm, predicts that by 2017, about half of employers will require their staff to supply their own devices.
Well, that still leaves the other half. So if your plan is to try to fix BlackBerry, rather than break it up—if you want to take a shot at making this company great again—here's a modest suggestion on how to start. Find 100 executives, bankers, accountants, traders, operations managers, civil servants and politicians who are BlackBerry users. Bring them to Waterloo. And get them to tell you where it all went wrong.
We're pulling for you, John.
Derek DeCloet
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