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Did you feel strange during the eclipse?
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Strange SoundsKeymaster
Living far away, I was just wondering if you felt disoriented, dizzy and no energy or on the contrary full of energy and love?
Thank you
Apocalypse RiderGuest
Oooh yeah, total mental and energetical mess in my head… lots of strange and extreme emotions and uncontrolled thoughts, sometimes boredoom, depression, feeling of nonsense of everything with pressure with head, and sometimes short periods of energy, pleasure and inspiration. Some my friends felt the same and some fell sick.
Paula AbellGuest
I felt a sense of wonder and connection to the Creator. No odd feelings . It was very comfortorting knowing that an infinite God was still in control and could give signs and wonders in the heavens for all to see . Genesis 1:14 and the upcoming Sept 24th fullfilment of Revelation 12:1-5 with the alignment of Virgo , Leo , Jupitor in Virgo , Sun and Moon at her feet. venus , mars and mercury join the 9 stars that make up leo to make the 12 crowns(stars) on virgos head . This prophetic allignnent has nt occured in 7 thousand years . Its an amazing time to be a live a see prophecy fullfilled .
Idaho JimGuest
Here in Hayden Idaho , the weather was warm and I had on my T-shirt. My wife and I noticed that it got quite a bit cooler during the eclipse , I told her that I might go and get a long sleeve shirt or sweater on. It seemed to warm up within an hour.
Yes we did feel funny. Both my husband and I felt a pressure especially when outdoors during the peak. We also were really tired all of a sudden and I actually got ill. We only had 62% coverage here. I talked with several others who experienced the same no matter how much the totality in their area. I guess if is can change the tides it most certainly can change things in us too.
Yes, I felt lots of energy and happiness a few days before the eclipse. The night before I felt spiritual and grateful for the signs that our Lord is providing us. Even if I wasn't exactly sure what that sign meant I felt connected to him. I felt the need to pray for others. It was a great feeling.Then the eclipse came and that evening I felt ill and extreme fatigue as if I had the flu. I couldn't get comfortable and I felt as if the life had been sucked out of me for about 3 days post eclipse.
Rhonda Lynne FloraGuest
I thought I was crazy.about 8 hours after the eclipse my husband and I both got very ill.Severe headaches,extreme fatigue and it is now Sept 4th and we just go over the headaches but the fatigue still lingers.I was terrified for a few days because of our health.I knew it was not "flu"I have NEVER felt anything so weird.Also;it seems to me that the whole sky has somehow changed.The shades,colors,the moon here in Wa.State,has actually turned deep orangeish red,as if the sunset is reflecting off of it.Even at like 3 am.Shadows are a strange "yellowish" color and do not look the same either.I am not a doomsday nut,but I have talked with so many people that are experiencing similar things,even strange things in the sky.Why are the oceans receding?Why are there some strange weather anomalies all of a sudden?People are saying the stars are aligned for the "end times"in the Bible to start on Sept.23rd.I see many articles supporting the alignments and the theory but find it hard to believe that anyone could ever predict the day of the Lords second coming.I am confused,anxious,and very on edge with a feeling there is definitely "something happening"but am lost to define it.I sincerely hope that this is all coincidence,or the US and other world Govts.are running HAARP or CERN.and they have some insidious plan.You know….they would NEVER alert the public,and that is so sad.
Thomas NodoubtGuest
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Apocalypse RiderGuest
Moon is generally mysterious thing from millenia. Notice that it is very often associated with things like dark, night, vampires and such dark climates, and with water, ice and mermaids too. Its influence is really strange. Last time when was the blue moon, i had similar feelings to this recent eclipse. And I have observed that during the full moon, there is odd cold everywhere and the moonlight is also somehow cold… Some say that full moon causes coldest weathers and strong frosts during winter. There are many theories that the moon is artificial thing created by aliens to control us and block our potentials, who knows… But proofs and observations are showing that moon somehow sucks energy in many forms, from life force to heat and during eclipse it could block lot of energy from sun, not only light.
jack longGuest
we felt extremely tired and lacking in our life force, it was a crazy eerie feeling. And since then we are fearful of the changes that are occurring and the strange energy that is still felt here in the US.
We didn't have 100% here in my neck of SC. I was outside for all of it. I got sunburn on my arms sitting on my porch. When the twilight started and the streetlights came on, it was extremely eerie. My son and I were both exhausted and took 4 hour naps after. I've not been the same since. Just weird feelings but nothing at all to do with my Christian beliefs. Even now, I don't feel quite right. And when I go out at twilight to check on the dogs, I get those same eerie feelings. Also when the roosters crow.
Definitely felt as if life force was thinning out – stretched. Felt sick for days after and the atmosphere and air still feel different. I was in 98% totality and only popped outside for moments at a time to view the eclipse. It did become very cold and the eerie dead color could not be captured on camera. There were no animals around – all hiding and very quiet. My brother decided he wanted to be in totality so he took a short drive to be there. He said he felt so sick it was disorienting. I don't know about all this talk about connecting with God during this eclipse – it felt quite the opposite. Aboriginal cultures of the past made a point of taking shelter during these types of astrological events as they understood this powerful force would have a negative effect on their bodies.
Julia ArmstrongGuest
I felt a strange sense of foreboding during the eclipse. Like something bad was going to happen
Here in Tucson everything got quiet. The birds,even my chickens got quiet. They actually ran in the coop for the duration.
Apocalypse RiderGuest
It is intriguing that never before I had such feelings during eclipses, and I never heard similar opinions about it as well. Any moon events before blue moon in 2016 were just events, no strange feelings, no lack of life force. I read somewhere that during end times many people will suffer so much that they will damn their existence and regret they were born.
Hello, did feel some "heart pressure" at the height of the event, as soon as it passed I recovered just fine– I had a disoriented feeling seeing it…had to shift my attention on children and keeping them out of the viewing.
Neither, exactly. But sort of a sense of strangeness/unreality.
Yes I felt dizzy n had to sit down, got a lil clarity, felt really tired, drained no energy
PA MomGuest
I am in PA and I felt like I had on sunglasses. I felt uneasy and strange. This lasted for several hours. The animals also were disoriented by the odd dimming and pressure. It didn't bother the kids. They continued as if it were nothing.
Collette FuhrimanGuest
My husband, my son and I were traveling from Colorado to Utah the day of the eclipse. I felt strange like a heaviness within me. My eyes even felt heavy. My son had a full on anxiety attack. It seemed my husband was in affected by it. It got quite cold for a bit. The eclipse was very surreal. Dreamlike.
I did Black Mass and summoned the devil to curse the human race when the sun went dark. It worked! Lots of Cat 5 hurricanes and fires.
My friend and I drove Carbondale Illinois from Delaware to catch the longest totality duration. He didn't seem affected but I got a headache almost instantly when the sun was partially blocked. I slept for seventeen hours almost straight through afterwards and during I had to sit down because I was disoriented anxious and nervous as if something terrible was going to happen. It was scary as hell and as I am not a timid person I found it very frightening. I have doubled down on caution ever since, and still feel like something happened to me that day. It changed my entire outlook on life and the world and I am glad to see I am not alone in that finally, as I have said nothing to anyone regarding it. #nervously aware of change


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We still can't stop talking about BioShock Infinite. We're going to force ourselves to, but first, here's our second and last round of essays from Wired writers about what we're still thinking about after finishing Irrational Games' masterpiece.
In our last set of letters, Wired fellow Jensen Toperzer, contributor John Mix Meyer and I talked about the game's playful, powerful messages about free will and its parallels to works in other mediums such as The Dark Tower and There Will Be Blood. This time, we get into the game's extraordinary use of music, emotional attachments to the character of Elizabeth and the religious and political themes at play in the game's city of Columbia.
Note: Colossal BioShock Infinite spoilers follow. Only read this if you've already finished the game, too!
What your letters illustrate to me is just how deep the BioShock Infinite rabbit-hole goes, and in how many directions at once. I have a feeling there's still a lot to be discovered, Jensen, in terms of those little details like the state of Elizabeth's choker throughout the game. Or, Mix, the role that religion plays: Infinite, for all the ballyhoo prior to its release, does not in the end feel like the full-throated critique or satire of Tea Party politics that it initially seemed to be.
Knowing what we do now about the origins of Comstock, it seems more of a cautionary tale: We tell ourselves just-so stories to avoid having to deal with negative aspects of ourselves we'd rather not confront. Booker massacred Native Americans at Wounded Knee, and the baptism promised to wipe those sins away. And it worked all too well, since he (now "reborn" as Comstock) internalized those feelings of self-righteousness and created a society in which non-whites were recast as enemies deserving of that punishment. People, whether on the left or right or wherever, do this on a smaller scale all the time; we dehumanize those who disagree with us to make it easier to indulge our worst impulses and lash out at them, often in ways that completely contradict our perceived notions of ourselves as open-minded and tolerant.
Booker – the one we played – rejected baptism, which you could read as a rejection of religion but also as a more general rejection of a one-size-fits-all solution to life's problems, of adopting a Truth that lets you off the hook as far as any further critical thinking. Booker, when Elizabeth questions the white and colored bathrooms, says it "just is" that way. He doesn't question the status quo, but importantly, neither does he have a prepared answer for Elizabeth to justify why different races have to use separate bathrooms, as Comstock surely would.
Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about was music.
I got to play the first four hours of BioShock Infinite at a preview event in December, and I paid close attention (maybe more than anyone at Irrational expected) to exactly what songs were being played during the game. As I heard snippets of lyrics, I jotted them down, and looked up the full songs later. I ended up putting the results of my findings into a story that month, with my initial interpretations of what was going on.
While the previous two BioShock games were also liberally sprinkled with period music that helped to create the vibe of Rapture, it soon became apparent that the songs in Infinite were much more tightly linked thematically. The connection between the songs in the first four hours was "If you leave me, I'll die": Lovers parting acrimoniously, a despondent lover's suicide, one's world utterly collapsing after being left behind. Of course, at the time it was difficult to imagine what exactly these lyrical links were referring to, but it's clear now: Booker's love for his daughter, and the tragic and terrible way that they were separated.
And of course, there are many more references to later events in the game. Time loops:
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Multiple universes with constants and variables:
You're to blame, baby, for what I do
I know that I can be beggar, I can be king
I can be almost any old thing
It all depends on you.
The deaths of Booker, Comstock and Songbird:
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown.
There is, of course, more music in the final game that adds to the theme. One great addition that I don't really think I have to explain is "Tainted Love." Even the title! But there's more. Some of this stuff was tucked away well enough that I didn't notice it at first, but check out the opening verse to "Button Up Your Overcoat":
Listen, big boy,
Now that you got me made,
Goodness, but I'm afraid,
Somethin's gonna happen to you!
Listen, big boy,
You gotta be hooked, and how,
I would die if I should lose you now!
Oh, and when you go to Rapture briefly, they play one of the period songs from the original BioShock soundtrack, "Beyond the Sea." Why, is this a song about being apart from a loved one? Do you even have to ask?
What other videogame has this much hidden in it, waiting to be found if you examine every line of every song, every bit of dialogue? What else in this medium is so carefully detailed? What a joy to examine something more closely and have your efforts so richly rewarded!
What else have you two found?
Chris and Mix;
The music was a huge part of this game for sure. I'm not as able to comment on it as I'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to recognizing music accurately and understanding it (my usual reaction is "I like that thing I just heard! Hooray!") but I still have to say, standing on Battleship Beach and suddenly realizing that the song I was hearing was "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" hammered home that this wasn't Kansas anymore, it wasn't even 1912 anymore, it was something else. Then there were the little things about the tears: the way that the first tear you see Elizabeth opens goes to a 1983 Paris, but not one that even we, the players know. The film on the marquee? It's Revenge of the Jedi, which was the original working title for Return of the Jedi. And then we re-visit that 1983 later in Comstock House, where an aged Elizabeth looks down on the destruction as Columbia firebombs New York City.
To me, though, there was something in this game bigger than those little moments, and it comes back to Comstock House. It doesn't take very much to get me intellectually invested in a game—give me a challenge and you've got my attention. I mean I'm the kind of person who digs Kingdom Hearts despite it being an incomprehensible mess. It takes a very special kind of game to get an emotional investment out of me. I rarely cry at movies, I almost never cry for videogames, and other than the brief thrill of a jump scare I'm even more rarely afraid for any reason. But Comstock House? That was the most frightening thing I've ever encountered in a game, and I played System Shock 2. The difference was this: in System Shock 2, I was afraid primarily for myself. Everyone around me was already dead, and the terror came from being very much alone save for a psychotic AI and a viral hivemind, both of which wanted not so much to kill me but to absorb my mind for their own twisted reasons.
In Comstock House the fear came from me finding myself genuinely afraid for someone else. I—at that point rather fully invested in "inhabiting" Booker on some level—didn't give a damn about myself. The Songbird took Elizabeth, and I was, at first, merely determined that I was going to go bash that thing's head in until it gave her back. But then I walked across that bridge and into what was clearly a tear (a tear which I couldn't avoid, there was no other path) and found that it was abruptly snowing, that I was in a place more reminiscent of Rapture or the Von Braun in its decrepit and terrifying grandeur, and worse, what did that mean for Elizabeth?
Then as you go through that house you hear her being tortured in each one of those tears, and you hear audiologs of her future self broken and driven mad, and then you get the slow realization that it's all your fault. You didn't come. You didn't save her. Elizabeth is what she is because of you.
As I'm writing this and remembering it loops back around, because you get the later realization that Elizabeth was locked in a tower for years because of you. Because of both versions of you. It all comes back to being your damn fault. And it hurts! This, combined with how tense that whole area is, the creepy lighting, the Boys of Silence and their swarms of bullet-sponge enemies who drop no health or ammo, the lack of resources, the moments like the severed Washington head rolling towards you slowly in a wheelchair followed by, worst of all, nothing happening... by the time I met the Future Elizabeth, I was crying and actually saying, "No, Elizabeth, no."
But why did I have that reaction? It comes back again to the little things. Elizabeth is the most fully realized non-player character I've ever encountered. I could watch her idle animations all day, and sometimes I'd just pause to see how she'd react to things and what she'd do. Little things like at the amusement park when she can grab free cotton candy (and she's never had cotton candy before! She's so cute when she reacts to it! Oh my gosh!), the way she reacts to everything at Battleship Bay, and even the way she just looks around at things, all of it subtly made me start to care about her. The scene at the shantytown bar where Elizabeth and Booker sing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is doubly heartbreaking after you finish the game, and at the time is a wonderful quiet bonding moment that you could easily miss if you're not a completionist. Then there's the way that in battle, she in fact escorts you. In a very mechanical, visceral way, you need her. You get used to her presence, to her shouting "I'm still looking!" or tossing you just the thing you need to turn the tide of a firefight and in Comstock House, when she isn't there, you feel her absence all the more keenly for the absence of those little things.
I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised by Elizabeth. Going into the game and from all the promotional material you expect this to be a typical "Grizzled action dude rescues hot lady and a romance or something" garbage. Instead, Elizabeth is first off still by far the more dangerous of the pair of you, and while naive is probably also the wiser and more competent one. She takes care of you. In a lot of ways, she's the real main character. Yeah, you rescue her from a tower, but she's the one who pulls you through the rest of the narrative. And finally, it's not a romantic love story, but a familial love story, one about fathers and daughters, and one which hit me pretty damn hard, especially at the end. That was nice to see. You could probably write a whole other complete essay about the symbolism of the dualistic abusive father embodied by Comstock and gruff but ultimately loving father in Booker (and the overprotective "Father" of the Songbird) and the way Elizabeth has to drown them all in the end, but that's another story for another time.
Then, even after 1983 Elizabeth sends you back in time to rescue 1912 Elizabeth (note, again, that you're not even capable of rescuing her on your own—she has to save herself, you're only the tool that she uses to complete that action), "your" Elizabeth isn't all better and back to her perky self. She's a harder, colder person. Even her idle animations and talk change; she doesn't look in wonder at things anymore, but instead simply looks for what you both need to survive. It's heartbreaking. It's perfect. I love it when a game breaks my heart.
The end result of all this is that I had a very strong emotional reaction to a character in a videogame, to a character who would in a game by any other studio be relegated to annoying escort mission status. Infinite succeeded where the first Bioshock failed with its Little Sisters: It made me care. And in the end, it all comes down to those little details.
Hi again, Jensen and Chris!
You two are making me wish I was more musically inclined. I'm ashamed to admit that I couldn't even really nod my head and say "yes, yes" as I read your insights regarding the game's music. Even so, I think that's what's great about the game. It gets across so many different messages and themes to different people – everyone can take away something unique without sounding like a lunatic. I think the fact that the two of you are able to wax poetic on things that never occurred to me is a testament to the ability of Ken Levine and his team.
There's one thing people have been talking about, however, that I think is really off-base and that's the notion that BioShock Infinite is too violent or that the violence harms the game. I feel this assertion speaks of a profound misunderstanding of one of the game's central themes: That history repeats and that there are fundamental aspects of mankind in all of us that you can not get rid of.
Columbia itself is a symbol of this. The upper class and the ruling elite separate themselves from the influence of the American government and build a city in the sky to celebrate individualism and ingenuity. But what do they do when they get there? They build monuments to the founding fathers, the very men of government they've attempted to break away from. They pray to these statues, even! In the industrial district stands a towering gold statue of Jeremiah Fink, a rich and powerful citizen of Columbia who runs the city's manufacturing plants.
The people of Columbia think they're championing capitalism and titans of industry. They think they've constructed an entirely new form of society. But really all they've done is trade in one god for another. Even Comstock, the founder and so-called prophet of Columbia, isn't nurturing faith in a higher being. Instead it's he who has taken the role of God.
Indeed, the only thing really separating Columbia and 1912 America is ideology. In both, xenophobia runs rampant, racial minorities are oppressed by both everyday citizens and the government, violence and crime is the norm and the poor vastly outweigh the wealthy.
Then there's the Vox Populi, a revolutionist group made up of Columbia's poor and downtrodden. In the beginning, you're supposed to empathize with the group and it's hard not to. Throughout the game, you witness several events of blatant racism, culminating in a trek through Columbia's slums where you realize just how large the economic and social divide is. So when the Vox Populi begin their violent uprising, you feel compelled to fight along with them and so you do.
At one point, Elizabeth compares the Vox revolution to Les Miserables and at first it feels like an apt comparison. But then the Vox Populi's uprising turns darker: They begin murdering indiscriminately, they lay waste to the city and in mere hours, the once picturesque city of Columbia is a nightmarish ruin of collapsed buildings and dark skies lit up with bullet fire.
At this point I wasn't thinking of Les Miserables anymore. Instead I was reminded of the speeches of Malcolm X, but on a grander scale. And so Columbia fell to the weaknesses of mankind, just as it had been plagued from the beginning.
If BioShock Infinite had ended there, I would consider it a cynical work, whose themes convey messages of hopelessness. But as typical of a BioShock game, the ending turns the entire game upside down. Booker is a character tormented by his sins and weaknesses. In many ways, I think of him as an avatar for all of mankind. Haunted by violence, he seeks salvation and when he thinks he's found it, he merely repeats his sins.
In the end, though, he's ultimately able to make things right. He doesn't change everything and he doesn't fix the world's problems. But he's able to come to terms with himself and reach a new beginning.
The same goes for us, if we try.


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My buddy not only ripped his hamstrings to shreds but also Ripped out one boot of his track system. The inserts came through clean out of the rail. Warranty expired two years ago.
My buddy is all in tears to get his board fixed by the time he heals up,
I guess option 1 is fyberglass and epoxy, and moving his stance a little bit, but not sure it will hold his extreme kiteloop landings, or
Option 2 is drilling a hole, epoxy the edges so the woodcore doesnt suck up water, and make a 'cogua board' connection,
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A Day in the Life
(which was a regular work/school day during tax season – so apologies in advance for this being both the longest AND the least interesting post yet…)
5:55am – Wake up (no alarm – we don't use alarms). Bathroom trip. But then I crawl back into my warm bed. Usually, I'd just get up and start my day, but today the siren call of my duvet was too strong.
6:25am – Plum (age 5) visits. Good morning! She actually climbs up onto our bed (a rarity!) for a cuddle. We chat and wake up Dad.
Head downstairs. I allow a TV show pre-breakfast and pre-getting dressed (never a good idea). Pack three lunches because Pickle (age 6) has opted out of school lunch, because it is "Cook's Choice". Lunches include some combo of yogurts, cucumbers, apples, Cheez-It, baby carrots, string cheese, and sandwiches. The littles get a special treat – ½ of a leftover birthday cupcake each!
While I make lunches with Tyler (he was helping with lunches, making coffee, packing bags for the day and doing dishes) Pickle arrives downstairs. A 6:30am wake up is late for him! He wants to take a shower because his hair is unruly. I agree, on both counts. I de-fat, de-bone, shred and sauce the pulled pork I had cooked in the crockpot overnight. That will be dinner tonight.
7:08am – Upstairs to shower. And brrrrrr, it is a cold one. All thanks to the hair-obsessed 6-year-old who used 94% of the hot water. Thanks a lot. Step out of the shower to hear Pistachio (age 3) bellowing for me. Wet and half-dressed I go see him. "Is it wake up time?" he asks. Indeed it is. As I had suspected the night before, this guy was tired and/or growing because this is a very late wake-up time for him, too. He wanders downstairs, and I finish getting dressed. I run a brush through my hair and yell down to Ty to let our neighbor in (we are giving her a ride to school today).
7:30am – Time to get Pickle and the neighbor to school. I go downstairs to find Plum screaming and naked on the love seat (reminder to self to talk to her – and my husband? – about being naked in front of non-family members), Pistachio is eating an English muffin in his PJs and chirps happily, "Bye Mama, have a good day!" I leave him and naked Plum in the competent and patient hands of their father. He will get them dressed and off to school. I have my usual argument with Pickle about the need for warm outerwear, which delays our exit, but eventually I get him out the door.
7:45am – Drop Pickle and his classmate/our neighbor at school. Stop at the local corner store for an iced coffee and bagel – a treat, and only $3.50! Sit in my car for a second to update my Moment app and sign up for "Moment Boot Camp". Moment is an app that analyzes how much time you spend on your phone each day. I've been using it for a few weeks and have determined that my numbers are too high (yikes) so I sign up for their Boot Camp, which sets daily goals for using your phone less.
Drive to work listening to CD 15 of 16 of Bruce Springsteen's Autobiography "Born to Run". Bruce reads it, and I'm a fan, so I've thoroughly enjoyed having him read to me during my commute. It is a fun history, and some of the writing is just fantastic. I'll be sad when the last CD is done.
Park in the garage (I should park in the lot, but today I just don't feel like it) and clock-in at my desk.
8:28am – Work. The regular stuff. During breaks in the day I pack up and send a toy I sold on eBay, and fill out a kindergarten registration form. We have our yearly benefits meeting at work (open enrollment – yippee) and I lament the brokenness of our health care system and its costs while simultaneously being thankful for pretty good insurance coverage.
Lunch – I had texted my husband that I was craving shrimp and he told me to go get some at lunch. So I do. And what a nice treat! I go to the (fancy-ish) steak house next door, sit at the bar, have a lovely lunch including some shrimp, and read a little bit of my newest book – The Atomic Weight of Love. It is a great break in the day, a delicious meal I didn't have to cook, and some time alone with my own thoughts. Awesome.
4:30pm – Work done. Head out. Call my mom on the way. I call her most days during my commute home.
5pm – Pick up grumpy oldest. He often complains about pick-up time, being too late or too early. Sigh. Mostly he complains because he is hungry. Thankfully he tucks in to his uneaten packed lunch because he had, indeed, opted for the "Cook's Choice" which happened to be calzones. Blood sugar and mood improve.
Pick up the littles, who are just down the road. Our elementary school and preschool are really close to our house – like a mile. What a win! The littles were not required to wear snowpants on this day, which makes my life easier because there is far less schlepping of KID STUFF.
5:20pm – Home! I pick up the mail, get all of the kids and all of their stuff in the house. They are in good moods, and are happy to play for a bit. I unpack lunch boxes, then convince Pistachio to take a quick bath. The big kids agree to straighten up the toy room with minimal whining. After bath the kids continue to play while I empty the downstairs trash cans and take out the kitchen trash. I open a package for me from a cool Instagram group called This Is My Fav. Basically, there is a theme each month, and you are assigned a group member to send a $10+ gift to. It is fun – and a little bit chain letter-ish. This month's theme is Spring Cleaning, and I'm thrilled to open a box of Scrub Daddies. I laugh because I sent Scrub Daddies to my gift recipient this month, too. They are great.
6pm – Get dinner ready. It comes together quickly since I prepped it this morning. I mix up some coleslaw (for me and Ty). And we have pulled pork sandwiches on Hawaiian rolls with sides of green grapes, carrots and cukes. I typically insist on dinner at the table, but tonight, I allow dinner in front of our first pre-bed TV show. The kids choose Johnny Test, which is really not my favorite.
After dinner and the show, the kids get into their "cozies" (our family word for pajamas). This always takes longer than it should. I put on their second and final show, and they get to pick their dessert/treat. Usually they each have little bowls of ~20 chocolate chips. Tonight, Plum and Pickle choose to have a leftover birthday cupcake each. Pistachio sticks with the chocolate chips. While the kids watch their show, I unload the dishwasher, reload with dinner dishes and straighten up the kitchen. As show ends I realize that Pistachio has gotten a melted chocolate chip smeared on his cozies and the couch, so I do a quick clean up and rinse out the cozies so the chocolate won't stain.
7:20pm – I declare it is time to head upstairs for our nightly routine and bed. Major protests from all, but they know I mean business. The big kids brush teeth (with help from me) and then state that they want to take showers (Pickle would shower 4 times a day if we let him). It is pretty late to start showers now, but I relent. While Pistachio uses the potty pre-bed, I wash Plum's hair. Pistachio walks off to his room to sit in the big brown chair and wait for me. Plum finishes up, puts her cozies back on and climbs into my bed to look at a book. Pickle takes his turn, and his time, in the shower.
Pistachio and I cuddle up in the big brown wing chair. We brush teeth, which is still a bit of a battle, and then read some strange lift-the-flap book about two sisters, Madison and Ashley. He loves lifting the flaps, but the story – mostly about girls playing dress up, gardening and cooking – is pretty awful. I make a mental note to "lose" this book. We chat a little bit about our days. He declines a song. He typically tells me "Mama, please put me in my bed," when he feels he's done enough chatting, but tonight he tells me he has to poop. We truck off to the bathroom, and I find Plum and Pickle in my bed using the iPad, instead of reading books. Blargh. I sit Pistachio on the potty, and take the iPad away (tears). Pistachio decides he does not have to poop after all (poop is one of the most effective bedtime stalling techniques when you are newly potty-trained – he figured this out quickly, smart kid). I plop him in his bed and go back to dealing with the big kids who are tired, and still complaining about iPad removal.
(Photo below is what they were supposed to be doing…)
8pm – I alert the big kids that it is now 8pm and since rules haven't been followed, they have to get in bed without me reading books tonight. Much sadness. Many protests. But they do get in their beds in their shared bedroom. I leave them for a minute to attend to a hollering Pistachio who needs me to cover him up with his blanket. I do. And say a final goodnight to him.
I sing songs to the big kids, This Land is Your Land and some others I've made up. And I agree to let Pickle read for 10 minutes. He is reading Randy Riley's Really Big Hit, a great book, with fun big words, and he's feeling very proud of himself. I spray Sweet Dream Spray (some sort of linen/room spray that I have repurposed) and give kisses. I retreat to my bed for a few minutes while I make notes about my day for this post and text a bit with Tyler, who is still at work.
8:20pm – I've given them extra time, and still hear them chatting a bit, so I tell them it is truly bedtime, no more chats or books. I give more kisses and sing their lullaby. I close the door behind me and head downstairs. I fire up my computer and organize photos on Shutterfly until 10pm. I make albums for each month and for every big event or holiday, and put these on a Sharesite for friends and family. It takes forever, and I'm behind. I finish up November and December, and start on Christmas. My husband's phone and my phone update to Shutterfly automatically, and I upload the photos taken with my "real" camera there, too. While I do my photo stuff, I "watch" This Is Us and blackish and drink seltzer with a splash of lemonade.
10pm – I close out of Shutterfly and check Facebook for a bit while I wait for Tyler to get home. I always wait up for him.
10:20pm – Tyler gets home. He's tired. I am too. I leave him on his own to make pulled pork sandwiches and wind down and I head up to bed. I decide to read a few pages before bed and end up staying up too late reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm considering reading the series to the kids, and wanted to read the whole series myself first (I had only read the first 4 books previously). I'm finally on book 7.
11:28pm – Whoops. It is definitely time to turn off the light and go to bed.
1:11am – Up. Too much seltzer.
2:40am – Up. Way too much seltzer.
6:09am – Plum appears by my side of the bed, ready to start her day.


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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Complete!
Today, the Windows and Windows Server teams announced that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released to manufacturing. In keeping with our goal of delivering great tools on the same cadence as our platforms, I'm thrilled to announce that we have completed final builds of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5.
This has been an exciting road for all of us involved in these projects, and we're glad to be able to deliver these to our customers.
For MSDN Subscribers, the bits will be available for download on August 15th. Visual Studio Professional, Premium, Test Professional, and Ultimate with MSDN Subscribers can also sign up for a free, one year developer account for Windows Store today, with Windows Phone developer accounts coming soon.
We're also planning an exciting launch event on September 12th, so mark your calendars, and visit http://visualstudiolaunch.com for more details.
Thank you to all of you that have taken the time to try the Visual Studio 2012 Developer Preview, Beta, and Release Candidate releases. Your feedback has been very helpful.


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Cyber-threats are increasing all over the globe. This battlefront is becoming more important than any other, as more militaries are turning to and creating new units centered on the art of hacking. As more companies like banking institutions place sensitive information or control services online, the prospect of having that information stolen or altered increases.
The US military is no stranger to these facts, and has taken steps to secure its digital domain, as well as command and control systems from outside threats. Industrial-strength firewalls and top-secret encryption technologies for communications, radio frequencies, and documentation (to name a few) all receive upgrades as the technology becomes available, which also spikes a rise in demand for personnel to implement that new technology into new or existing platforms.
Over the last two decades, military academies in the US have created new academic classes that center on cyber security as the threats to critical networks increases. The US Army, Navy, and Air Force academies have all adopted Cyber-warfare/Security (formerly known as Information Assurance) into their respective computer sciences curriculum, with Annapolis going so far as to require all freshmen to take a semester in cyber-security and another required semester for juniors beginning in 2014.
The Naval Academy has also instituted a new Cyber Operations major offered to freshmen for the first time this year (2013).
The Air Force has lead the way when it comes to cyber-security, offering cadets a degree in Computer Science/Cyber-warfare since 2004, which requires students to take classes not only in Computer Science, but Cryptology, Information Warfare, and Network Security.
Not to be left out, the Army requires almost every cadet at West Point to take two technology courses such as Computer Security and Privacy, and offers other Cyber-Warfare/Security courses for those majoring in that respective field.
To test each institutions' effectiveness in the cyber realm, the NSA (National Security Agency) holds its annual (for the past 13 years) Cyber Defense Exercise, with teams from all three academies, as well as institutions from Canada, competing in large-scale computer network defense simulations. The contest tests how well each team can create and maintain a fully functional computer network under constant hostile attack.
For the past two years, the Air Force has won first place by being able to build a complete system network with email, web, and file transfer capabilities from scratch. During testing, the team successfully defended their network from hackers, completed a forensics challenge, and were even able to secure a vulnerable web server in the time allotted.
It's safe to say that the hottest new jobs to be offered within the next decade by military recruiters will be rooted in cyber warfare.
Related posts:
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- Legal Questions Arise as Cloud Computing Gains Traction
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- Congo Mining Abuses Prompting SEC Regulations
- Hackers Probe Medical Implants
- How Engineering Progress Precipitates Crime


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It's not an expression I have heard before, but I suspect that it is an extension of the saying that "someone [or something] doesn't cut the mustard"; meaning that the person or object is not capable of carrying out the task in question. So Slim is telling Preston that, not only is he not able to cut the mustard, he's not even capable of making a dent in it.
There's a similar dismissive expression in Br English, saying "You can't even fight your way out of a paper bag".
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May 18, 2012 | By Dave Lewandowski
The initial four races of the IZOD IndyCar Series season have been a bumpy ride for Marco Andretti, who's 19th in the championship standings and claiming 11th at Barber Motorsports Park as his best finish. So Indianapolis popped up on the schedule at an opportune time.
"We've had some hard luck. We've just got to keep hammering on," he said entering the month.
There wasn't a reason to think Andretti, 25, couldn't make strides at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He has in the past: runner-up in his Indianapolis 500 maiden run and third twice in the past six years.
His No. 26 Team RC Cola car was quickest in practice May 16 on the 2.5-mile oval (40.2367 seconds; 223.676 mph) and second to rookie Josef Newgarden on May 17 with a lap of 40.5208 seconds (222.108 mph).
On May 17, Andretti's midday lap of 39.5535 seconds (227.540 mph) mph lived up to the "Fast Friday" moniker to top the time sheet for the day and month.
Thirty-two drivers recorded 1,206 laps without incident in a precursor to Pole Day time trials May 19 (11 a.m.-6 p.m.). Oriol Servia, driving the No. 22 Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing entry, did not get on track because of an engine issue that was resolved late in the day.
All drivers were aided by a bump in the turbocharger boost of 10 kPa, which equals about 40 horsepower and 4-5 mph per lap, that will be utilized in qualifications. The initial 24 car/driver combinations will be set on Pole Day, with the remainder of the 33 spots being filled on Bump Day May 20.
Andretti, who has started in the top 10 at Indianapolis in four of his six years, will be the prohibitive favorite to pick up the $100,000 pole winner check following the two segments of qualifications. The last time an Andretti sat on pole at Indianapolis was Marco's grandfather, Mario, in 1987 -- the year Marco was born.
"Why not try to go for the pole?" said Andretti, who in 2011 struggled to get into the show (starting 27th but finishing ninth). "If you're going to be in the top nine, you might as well be on the pole. It would mean the world to me. I showed up this month to win the race and I still believe I can do it from 33rd, But if we could do it from first it would be fantastic.
"Today was a big day for us. I thought we were at a bit of deficit to my teammates to start the month, but we just kept rubbing on it. We kind of woke the car up and obviously with this added boost today it woke my car up in particular as well. We've been working really hard too and finding that every couple of tenths of a mile an hour and it all adds up. I've been really working specifically hard on the consistency over the four laps that I think is going to make a difference."
His Andretti Autosport teammates could pose the biggest threat. Three of the four, all using Chevrolet power, wound up in the top 10 on a warm and cloudless day. Ryan Hunter-Reay (226.400) was fourth, James Hinchcliffe (225.974) was sixth and Ana Beatriz (225.653) was seventh.
"It's been a lot of fun working with the four of them," Andretti said. "I think we could simulate our own race. It's been fun also because you know every time the five of us roll out, the big time of the day is going up -- whether by one of us or somebody trying to tag along with us. I think a couple of them have a really good shot at front row if not the pole."
Ryan Briscoe, driving the No. 2 IZOD Team Penske car, was second quick (39.6764 seconds; 226.835 mph) and teammate Helio Castroneves was third (39.6973; 226.716) in the No. 3 Shell V-Power/Pennzoil Ultra Team Penske car.
"(Andretti Autosport) is going to be heavy favorites (for qualifying) and I'd say for the race as well," Briscoe said. "I haven't done many long runs with those guys, but I've seen them running together and they looked pretty good out there. They've done a good job, definitely. I think them -- and together with our package at Chevrolet -- we're very pleased with how things are progressing over the last week in practice.
"It's going to be close. There are a lot of teams that are really doing well this year for the Indy 500. There are a lot of small teams that are sticking to the big guns. We've got to be on our toes and keep working hard."
Scott Dixon, driving the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car, was the top Honda driver in fifth (226.224). Teammate Dario Franchitti, a two-time race winner, was 10th.
"Scott and I are the first two of the Honda-powered cars right now and I think we have some work to do," Franchitti said. "It can't be roses every day and you just need to keep pushing. We have some work to do and the Target guys are working very hard on this with the Honda guys to come up with something before (qualifying). Whatever happens we'll do our best and that is all we can do."


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The tension is mounting. Rivalry games are just around the corner. Championship dreams are starting to fade or become reality. The time to make a Heisman moment is running out as well. This weekend has a little bit of it all to offer this weekend, eve if the BCS championship heavyweight contenders are mostly taking it easy this week.
BCS Championship frontrunners get week off, sort of
No. 1 Alabama (10-0, 7-0 SEC) and No. 2 Florida State (10-0, 8-0 ACC) can put everything on cruise control this week, but nobody will expect that. The Crimson Tide square off in an epic Iron Bowl match-up with Auburn next week but warm up with a home game against FCS Chattanooga (8-3, 6-2 Southern) while Florida State will play host to Idaho (1-9). Both should be able to name their score, but Florida State's game will be under a bit of a microscope.
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is the center of attention in college football this week, but not for his play on the field. Winston has been linked to a sexual assault case from last December and a state attorney continues to review all of the information before making a decision on whether or not to press charges against the Florida State quarterback and Heisman contender. If you think Florida State is going to succumb under pressure or Winston will falter under the scrutiny, think again. Against Idaho it is not likely the first team offense will be on the field anyway.
Baylor, Oklahoma State put Big 12 on the line
No. 4 Baylor (9-0, 6-0 Big 12) visits No. 10 Oklahoma State (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) looking to keep the high powered offense in gear. Baylor is making a push to move by Ohio State in the BCS standings, and with the Buckeyes taking on Indiana the Bears may have a good chance to make a move with a strong showing against the Cowboys. The winner of this one will take over first place in the Big 12.
Since being upset by West Virginia, Oklahoma State has won six straight games including last week's 38-13 shelling of Texas in Austin. Quarterback Clint Chelf was 16-for-22 for 197 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for a game-high 95 yards and two touchdowns in the win over the Longhorns. Chelf will need more help from the supporting cast this week because Bryce Petty, Lache Seastrunk and Antwan Goodley make for a lethal trio every time they are on the field. There will be plenty of points scored in this one, and it will be critical for Oklahoma State to find a way to keep pace early on.
Why can't we have Clemson-South Carolina this week instead?
Every season criticism is thrown on teams scheduling cupcakes at the beginning of the year rather than improving their strength of schedule. This trend may change as college football moves to the College Football Playoff model that takes note of strength of schedule more than the current BCS formula. Unfortunately the season also ends with some blatant mismatches lacking any sizzle as well.
No. 7. Clemson (9-1, 7-1 ACC) is one of those teams. Sure, the Tigers play No. 11 South Carolina (8-2, 6-2 SEC) next weekend, but this week they host Citadel. The Gamecocks, meanwhile, are hosting Coastal Carolina.
Speaking of South Carolina…
The Gamecocks may not be playing an SEC game this weekend but they can clinch a spot in the SEC Championship Game anyway. No. 8 Missouri (9-1, 5-1 SEC) travels to No. 24 Ole Miss (7-3, 3-3 SEC) and needs to win to stay in front of South Carolina in the SEC East standings. If Ole Miss picks up the win, South Carolina will head to Atlanta as a result of owning a head-to-head tiebreaker with Missouri earlier this season.
Manziel's Heisman moment?
No. 12 Texas A&M (8-2, 4-2 SEC) heads to No. 22 LSU (7-3, 3-3 SEC) Saturday afternoon. SEC Championship stakes may not be on the line in this one, but Johnny Manziel's Heisman chances may be. Manziel has become one of the favorites to win the Heisman Trophy this season, and for good reason. Manziel may not be putting up the kind of numbers he did last year during his 2012 Heisman campaign, but his numbers are superior in many areas once again this season. All that is lacking is a signature win. With home losses to Alabama and Auburn, a road win at LSU followed by a win at Missouri could help put Manziel on the top of the ballots of Heisman voters. History may be against Manziel when it comes to winning a second Heisman Trophy — it has only been done once before of course — but the schedule sets up well for Manziel to put together some lasting impressions before the votes must be submitted. Last year a road win at Alabama put Manziel over the top. Could a road thriller have the same impact this season?
Heisman aside, third place in the SEC West is on the line, which could lead to a spot in the Cotton Bowl the way things may play out.
Pac 12 South Battle in the Rose Bowl
No. 17 Arizona State (8-2, 6-1 Pac 12) is the team to beat right now in the Pac 12 South, but No. 14 UCLA (8-2, 5-2 Pac 12) gets the home field advantage in the stadium both teams dream of playing in on New Year's Day, the Rose Bowl. While Oregon appears to be on track to host the Pac 12 championship game, the south is a bit more wide open than you might think. Arizona State has a chance to make things a bit less complicated if they can escape Los Angeles with a win against the Bruins. If Arizona State wins they will carry at least a one-game lead in the division in to the season finale against Arizona. The Sun Devils have not been quite the same team when on the road this season, going just 2-2 with losses against Stanford and Notre Dame.
UCLA has played very well at home this season. The Bruins have scored at least 37 points in each of their five home games. Quarterback Brett Hundley has thrown 12 of his 20 touchdowns at home and has been intercepted just twice in those games. The Bruins will likely keep plugging freshman linebacker Myles Jack in the offensive backfield in certain situations. In the last two games Jack has rushed for 180 yards and five touchdowns.
In a bizarre twist, a UCLA win also keeps USC in the running for a Pac 12 championship game appearance, although the Trojans need a few things to fall in to place for them to keep that dream possible.
Bowl Eligibility Update
The following teams can become bowl eligible with a win this weekend:
Colorado State, Louisiana-Monroe, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, UT-San Antonio
On the other hand, these teams can officially be eliminated from postseason contention with a loss:
Central Michigan, Colorado, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Indiana, Louisiana Tech, Memphis, Mississippi State, Northwestern, South Alabama, Tennessee, Utah, Wake Forest, Wyoming


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Lot Size0.09 Acres (3,920 SqFt)
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Charming 3 bedroom 2.5 bath single family home in desirable Two Rivers Village neighborhood. This home boasts a single car garage with additional surface parking, fresh paint, new carpet, and central air-conditioning. Walking distance to the community pool, playground, private lakes, and two walking trails. Priced to sell, this home won't last!
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Going jewel-toned? This colorful trend has been making appearances everywhere, from college campuses to the red carpet. But be warned: What Britney, Selena and Avril may not tell you is that most high-fashion hair color shades require once-a-week touch ups to maintain the bold and vibrant hues. For the average consumer, proper maintenance can be very time consuming, not to mention costly. Neglect your jewel-tones, and the once vivacious colors will quickly fade into a drab and mousy hair-tragedy. Cobalt blues fade into a sad greenish-yellow and Screaming Fuchsias fade into a wimpy, salmon-orange. If you're dying to sport jewel-toned hair, but not up for the high-maintenance upkeep, alas... there is still hope for you.
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"We watched the dumbest Netflix film ever called The Dirt," Love told Interview. "It's so stupid and vile about women, and just fucking dumb. It was super fun to groan together."
She described an afternoon of relaxation, with massages, tea and the company of friends who all found the film, based on the 2001 memoir, as lousy as could be.
Love continued: "I was like, 'When's Ozzy gonna snort the ant?' Then, within seconds, he snorted the ant. Then the
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I have an Access application that pulls data out of an accounting system (Quickbooks), processes and transforms it then inserts it into a SQL Server database.
This app runs 24/7 on a Windows 10 virtual machine (VMWare) which is controlled by a remote desktop connection. The app is started by connecting in using RDP, logging on, starting the app then disconnecting the RDP session to leave it running 'headless'.
This has been working for over a year but has, in the last week or two, developed an issue. When you disconnect the RDP session the app freezes, and seamlessly resumes when you reconnect. I know this is happening as the app generates an event log which has gaps in it corresponding to the time the VM/RDP is disconnected.
Has there been a Windows update which has changed the behaviour of disconnected RDP sessions? There have not been any changes to the VM or the app other than usual Windows Updates.
Bit stumped, any help, ideas appreciated !
Nov 21 2019, 06:00 AM
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I don't have an answer for you, but can confirm I have seen several other people report the exact same issue in various forums. It would be a good guess that this is somehow related to an update. You would need to review you computer logs to see what has recently been installed and then try uninstalling them one by one until you locate the culprit.
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you might try a app called alwaysup we have used it in the past to keep a ms access application open and running in the back ground even if you are logged off. Win 10 have been changing alot of the coding for the rdp because they want to start selling license to use it like server software can so many people using patches to do multiple log ins and they are not making any money off of it. anyways that is what we have used in the past seems to work very well
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Is this a VM on Terminal Services, or are you just remoteing into the VM?
If its terminal server, then there i a good number of settings:
You can set this on the host server (if using terminal services).
Open gpedit.msc
Browse to Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Windows Components --> Remote Desktop Services --> Remote Desktop Session Host --> Session Time Limits.
Enable the "Set time limit for disconnected sessions" and set it to Never
I don't know if the above will fix, or work if you are NOT using terminal services, but it worth a look at.
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When you disconnect the RDP session the app freezes, and seamlessly resumes when you reconnect.
This seems to be related to the May-2019 Windows 10 updates.
A workaround is to use the XDDM instead of WDDM display driver model. - Using these keywords on Google should get more detailed instructions.
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Stop Trouble Before it Starts
As compact utility loaders continue to gain popularity, contractors are depending on them for more and more applications. To complete all of the tasks that a compact utility loader is used for, many contractors keep them running from sun up to sun down. With so many projects dependent on one machine, a breakdown can greatly affect the progress of a job, and the more time a repair takes, the more it will affect a crew's productivity. Therefore, it is essential that operators know how to detect and properly fix problems when they first appear to prevent larger issues that require more time and money to fix.
Being aware of how a compact utility loader operates is the most important factor in determining if a problem exists. The operator has a large responsibility in detecting anything unusual about the machine and properly reacting to any observations, such as rattling noises or jerky operation. Following are some of the most common telltale signs of problems that require immediate attention.
One of the most obvious indications of a problem is a smoking engine. A smoking engine is usually a sign of burning oil. Gasoline engines will usually produce white smoke, while diesel engines will produce black smoke. In either case, it is important to have the engine inspected immediately.
White smoke coming from an engine can also be a sign of a fuel problem and should be inspected. Additionally, a compact utility loader that sounds as though it is running out of gas even if gas is in the tank may indicate a problem with the fuel system.
Grinding sounds often signal a problem that you should address immediately. If you hear grinding, check and grease the pivot points immediately. However, grinding is often an indication that damage has already been done and parts will need to be replaced.
In addition, jerky operation or chattering noises are usually signs of hydraulic problems. If a chattering noise is heard, it most often is an indication of damage done by water in the hydro system. Jerky operation can be a sign of a problem with the hydraulic system that should be addressed by a trained mechanic.
Not only is detection important, but also knowing how to address the problem is critical. Many repairs can be performed by the owner with the help of manufacturer's resources such as manuals and specially designed Web sites. However, it is usually suggested that a trained mechanic, dealer or manufacturer handle engine or hydraulic system repairs.
While knowing how to react to compact utility loader problems is essential, the best way to address problems is to prevent them by developing a proper maintenance schedule. One of the first steps a contractor should take when forming a maintenance schedule is to consult the operator's manual. While many maintenance steps are suggested for almost all compact utility loaders, maintenance intervals and steps will differ for each machine because of variations such as engine type.
Regardless of the type of compact utility loader, one of the most important daily maintenance items is a check of all nuts and bolts. Compact utility loaders are often required to work in tough conditions that make them vulnerable to problems associated with loose parts. Taking time each day to look over the machine for loose nuts and bolts can drastically reduce repairs and replacements.
While checking for loose parts, an operator should also inspect the hydraulic lines for leaks. This quick daily check can save a contractor a great deal of money and hassle. A quick visual check under the machine will offer warning signs such as dripping oil or components wet with an oily substance. Small hydraulic leaks can quickly grow into large leaks that are expensive to fix and can cause damage to a customer's property. If a problem is discovered, find out where the substance is coming from and replace or tighten the leaking part.
Greasing all pivot points is another important daily maintenance step for all compact utility loaders. Because parts rub against each other and friction occurs at these points, it is important to protect them with frequent greasing. Making sure all pivot points are properly greased reduces wear and extends the life of components.
Additionally, the wheels or tracks on the unit should be inspected daily. An operator should check air pressure on a wheeled unit and track tension on a tracked unit. At this time, an operator should also check the wheels or tracks for wear. If working with a tracked unit, the road wheels, or boogie wheels, which the track runs on should be examined. Checking these items for wear is especially important if the machine is being used in an area with a lot of concrete or blacktop surfaces, which cause more wear than mud or grass.
One of the most important daily maintenance steps is cleaning and checking the air filter. An operator should clean an air filter with dirt or dust buildup by blowing on the filter from the inside with an air compressor. If an air filter is deformed, torn or clogged with dirt, it should be replaced immediately to prevent damage and keep the engine from running in a rich condition, which can cause spark plugs to foul and carbon to build on push rods.
Engine oil is another important element in a daily maintenance schedule. Running a compact utility loader with an insufficient amount of oil can cause serious engine problems and drastically reduce the life of the machine. If oil needs to be added or changed, an operator should refer to the manufacturer's specifications on items such as oil viscosity and how much oil to add to the machine.
Not only is it important to perform maintenance before work begins, but it is also equally important to clean the machine at the end of each day. Washing the machine provides operators with an opportunity to inspect the machine for damage, and mud that is not washed off can harden and cause damage to moving parts when the machine is restarted.
In addition to devoting time to daily maintenance checks, several items should be addressed on a weekly, monthly and time-specific basis. Belts should be checked weekly. The belt tension should be tight with a ¼-inch deflection at most, and a belt showing any signs of glazing or cracking should be replaced.
Check the fuel filter on a weekly basis. A mechanic or operator should look for signs of water in the fuel, and drain fuel with water present, especially when dealing with a diesel machine.
Another weekly maintenance item is a check of the hydraulic oil and filter. Because any dirt allowed into the tank can lead to pump damage, the area around the fuel tank opening should be cleaned before opening the tank. Hydraulic oil that is a milky color is an indication of water in the hydro system and should be drained immediately. Water molecules in the hydro system will turn to steam as the system heats up, causing damage to the pump and wheel motors.
The fuel system and hydraulic system not only require weekly maintenance but also time-specific maintenance. Perform a check of the fuel tank and entire fuel system for cleanliness monthly, and change the hydraulic oil and filter approximately every 400 hours. Check the operator's manual for specific replacement intervals.
Spark plugs also require time-specific maintenance. Spark plugs should be checked every 100 hours for excessive carbon buildup, porcelain damage and a proper gap. Replace spark plugs yearly or if a spark plug is cracked or damaged.
Furthermore, check the battery every 100 hours. Any white corrosive buildup on the battery should be cleaned off as it robs a battery of power. The battery connection needs to be checked to prevent problems with charging the battery as the machine runs and starting the machine.
Some of the most important maintenance steps are not done for the machine, but rather for the operator's safety. Before performing any repair or maintenance, the operator should shut down the machine, remove the key and place the key in a safe location to prevent the machine from starting. To prevent accidental starting while working on electrical problems, the battery should be disconnected. An operator should also use all built-in safety features, such as cylinder blocks. The most important requirement is to be alert and use common sense.
Contractors demand a lot from their compact utility loaders, and it is essential to follow a maintenance schedule to keep the machine in good working condition to meet all of these demands. However, the easiest way to increase the life and performance of a unit is not done before the workday starts or after it ends. Practicing proper operating techniques such as operating the machine smoothly, traveling with loads in a safe position and being aware of surroundings are the easiest preventive measures contractors can take to keep the machine in top shape for many years.
Fred Hemmer is a field service manager with The Toro Company (Bloomington, Minn.).
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The following steps are generic to any application, but have example configurations that will work with the tutorial examples, in particular, Example: SAML Authorization over SSL (SA) and Example: Transport Security (SSL).
To configure SSL for your application, follow these steps.
Select one of the mechanisms that require SSL.
These include Transport Security (SSL), Message Authentication over SSL, and SAML Authorization over SSL.
Server Configuration
GlassFish is already configured for SSL. No further SSL configuration is necessary if you are using Transport Security. However, if you are using one of the Message Security mechanisms with SSL, you must update the GlassFish certificates as described in To Update GlassFish Certificates.
Configure a user on GlassFish as described in Adding Users to GlassFish.
Client Configuration
For configuring your system for SSL in order to work through the examples in this tutorial, the same keystore and truststore files are used for both the client and the service. This makes it unnecessary to set system properties to point to the client stores, as both GlassFish and NetBeans IDE are aware of these certificates and point to them by default.
In general, for the client side of SSL you will not be using the same certificates for the client and the service. In that case, you need to define the client certificate stores by setting the system properties -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore, -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore, -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword, and -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword in the application client container.
You can specify the environment variables for keystore and truststore by setting the environment variable VMARGS through the shell environment or inside an Ant script, or by passing them in when you start NetBeans IDE from the command line. For example, in the latter case, you would specify the property settings as follows:
netbeans-install/bin/netbeans.exe -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=as-install/domains/domain1/config/cacerts.jks -J-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=as-install/domains/domain1/config/keystore.jks -J-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit -J-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=changeit
Use the hard-coded path to the keystore and truststore files, not variables.
For the SSL mechanism, The browser will prompt you to accept the server alias s1as.
On the client side, for the Transport Security (SSL) mechanism, you must either use the fully-qualified hostname in the URL for the service WSDL when you are creating the web sercie client, or else you must follow the steps in Transport Security (SSL) Workaround.
Service Configuration
To require the service to use the HTTPS protocol, you have to specify the security requirements in the service's application deployment descriptor. This file is ejb-jar.xml for a web service that is implemented as an EJB endpoint, and web.xml for a web service implemented as a servlet. To specify the security information, follow these steps:
From your web service application, expand Web Pages->WEB-INF.
Double-click web.xml (or ejb-jar.xml) to open it in the editor.
Select the Security tab.
On the Security Constraints line, click Add Security Constraint.
Under Web Resource Collection, click Add.
Type a Name for the Resource (for example, CalcWebResource), and type the URL Pattern to be protected (for example, /*). Select which HTTP Methods to protect, for example, POST. Click OK to close this dialog.
Check the Enable User Data Constraint box. Select CONFIDENTIAL for the Transport Guarantee to specify that the application uses SSL because the application requires that data be transmitted so as to prevent other entities from observing the contents of the transmission.
The IDE appears as shown in Figure 7–4.
Click the XML tab to display the additions to web.xml. The security constraint looks like this:
<security-constraint> <display-name>Constraint1</display-name> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>CalcWebResource</web-resource-name> <description/> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> <http-method>POST</http-method> </web-resource-collection> <user-data-constraint> <description/> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> </security-constraint>
When you run this project (right-click, select Run Project), the browser will ask you to accept the server certificate of s1as. Accept this certificate. The WSDL appears in the browser.
Creating a Client
When creating your client application, use the fully-qualified hostname to specify the secure WSDL location (use https://fully_qualified_hostname:8181/CalculatorApplication/CalculatorWSService?wsdl, for example, in place of http://localhost:8080/CalculatorApplication/CalculatorWSService?wsdl).
In some cases, you might get an error dialog telling you that the URL https://fully_qualified_hostname:8181/CalculatorApplication/CalculatorWSService?wsdl couldn't be downloaded. However, this is the correct URL, and it does load when you run the service. So, when this error occurs, repeat the steps that create the Web Service Client using the secure WSDL. The second time, the web service reference is created and you can continue creating the client.


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A school in Meridian, Idaho, is banning students from taking Apple iPods into exams because two kids were overheard discussing how to use them to cheat.
iPods, or other MP3 players, can, in theory, be loaded with recordings of possible exam answers or written notes can be included as lyric files. Kids at some Californian schools have already been caught with incriminating notes on their music players.
Aaron Maybon, principal at Mountain View High School in Meridian, Idaho told AP: "It doesn't take long to get out of the loop with teenagers. They come up with new ways to cheat pretty fast." There is even talk of a national ban.
One student reckoned cheaters could still get away with running an earpiece up their sleeve and listen to it while appearing to lean on their hands.
It is all a long way from 2004 when Duke University gained valuable publicity by buying 1,650 iPods to help its students keep up with their studies. The idea was students could use the players to store recordings of lectures, freshman calendars and other course information. ®