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…remains stuck on stupid.
I'm shocked.
Fortunately, judging by the polls, folks are starting to notice.
…remains stuck on stupid.
I'm shocked.
Fortunately, judging by the polls, folks are starting to notice.
I was thinking that this would be a good iPhone/iPad app, but apparently someone was way ahead of me.
Some people have been counting on the CAIB to support their nonsensical assertions about safety of government versus commercial vehicles. Well, they're out of luck:
Our view is that NASA's new direction can be a) just as safe, if not more safe, than government-controlled alternatives b) will achieve higher safety than that of the Space Shuttle, and c) is directly in line with the recommendations of the CAIB.
Just one more nail in the coffin of space policy mythology. There may be good arguments against the new plan, but for the most part, for the past few months, most of the ones I've seen have been both tragic and hilarious in their illogic and non-factuality.
[Update a few minutes later]
In reading the whole thing, I think they're being far too kind (though I understand that they have to be diplomatic):
Second, the CAIB recommended that future launch systems should "separate crew from cargo" as much as possible. This statement is sometimes taken out of context. What it does mean is that human lives should not be risked on flights that can be performed without people; the new plan to procure separate crew and cargo transportation services clearly is consistent with the CAIB's recommendation. But the recommendation does not disallow the use of a cargo launch system to also fly, on separate missions, astronaut flights. Indeed, the fact that Atlas V and Delta IV are flying satellites right now, including extremely high-value satellites, has helped to prove out their reliability. And the many satellite and cargo missions that Falcon 9 is planned to fly will also produce the same beneficial result.
This is a very important point. First, that people have always misunderstood the "separate crew and cargo" lesson. To the degree it ever made any sense at all (we don't do it for trucks, or airplanes), it never meant to have different vehicle designs for crew versus cargo. And one of the craziest notions that the Ares defenders had was that it would be "designed" to be so safe that crew could fly on it on its second flight, whereas rockets with a proven record of dozens of consecutive successful flights under their belts were somehow less "safe" than one with only one flight. As the CSF pointed out today:
The demonstrated track records of commercial vehicles, combined with numerous upcoming manifested flights, means that the family of commercial vehicles already has, and will continue to have, a much stronger track record than other vehicles such as Ares I. The Atlas family of rockets has had over 90 consecutive successes including 21 consecutive successes for Atlas V, and additional unmanned flights will occur over the next few years before any astronaut flights begin. Similarly, many flights of the Delta and Falcon vehicles have already occurred or will occur before astronauts would be placed onboard. Astronauts will not be flying on vehicles that lack a solid track record.
By contrast, NASA was planning to place astronauts on just the second full-up orbital flight of the Ares I system. Ares I would have many fewer test flights than Atlas V, Falcon 9, or Delta IV. Furthermore, the first crewed flight of Ares I will not occur until the year 2017 as determined by the Augustine Committee. Thus, at the planned rate of two Ares I flights per year, it would take the Ares I rocket until at least the year 2025 to match the demonstrated reliability that the Atlas V rocket already has today. That is, the commercial rocket has a fifteen-year head start on safety.
Demonstrated reliability through multiple actual flights to orbit is crucial because paper calculations have historically been insufficient to capture the majority of failure modes that affect real, flying vehicles—especially new vehicles flying their first few missions. As the Augustine Committee stated, "The often-used Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) … is not as useful a guide as to whether a new launch vehicle will fail during operations, especially during its early flights." Demonstrated reliability is crucial.
And it's something that would have taken decades for Ares to develop, given its horrific costs and low flight rate.
And then it's nice to see people with these credentials dispense with this nonsense:
It has been suggested by some that only a NASA-led effort can provide the safety assurance required to commit to launching government astronauts into space. We must note that much of the CAIB report was an indictment of NASA's safety culture, not a defense of its uniqueness. The report (p. 97) notes that "at NASA's urging, the nation committed to build an amazing, if compromised, vehicle called the Space Shuttle. When the agency did this, it accepted the bargain to operate and maintain the vehicle in the safest possible way." The report then adds, "The Board is not convinced that NASA has completely lived up to the bargain."
To put it mildly. And there's no reason that it would be any different in the future. The institutional incentives haven't changed, and never will, with a government-run program. Private industry has a very strong motivation not to kill people — it could put them out of business. Government agencies, on the other hand, tend to be rewarded for failure.
It looks like ACORN only sent the rear end of one:
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes — fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority's newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Furthermore, the report charges that efforts to get state and federal authorities to act on its findings have been "stonewalled."
"We aren't trying to change the result of the last election. That legally can't be done," said Dan McGrath, Minnesota Majority's executive director. "We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn't compromised."
Good luck with that.
Despite the confusing double negative in the caption, White House spokesbuffoon Robert Gibbs is denying that the White House tasked the NASA administrator with Muslim outreach.
[Update a while later]
Keith Cowing is far too credulous of the White House spokesbuffoon. If I have to choose between the credibility of a decorated Marine General, or the guy who said he never heard any anti-semitism in twenty years of holding down one of Jeremiah Wright's pews, I know who I believe.
Technically speaking, anyway:
I've already commented on this issue twice, remarking that Obama technically is a fascist, but that it is much better to call him a statist or corporatist. But there is the tricky issue of whether a word should be defined by experts (to the extent economists are experts on anything) or whether it is more appropriate to accept the common understanding of what a word means. I don't have a firm opinion on that issue, but if socialism now means someone who believes in lots of government intervention and redistribution, then Obama is a socialist (heck, Bush also would be a socialist). But if we stick with the official definition, which involves government ownership of the means of production, then Obama has relatively few policies that meet that standard.
He does have a Marxist outlook, though (as all true fascists do).
[Update a few minutes later]
Why Obama is failing. Because he lied his way into office:
…we were lied to about this by Obama and the MSM winked. Yet it was a far more significant lie than Clinton's proclamations about Monica Lewinsky, which only peripherally affected affairs of state and were obviously the desperate acts of a man caught cheating. Obama's prevarication was about the very essence of his political views. Widely desirous of electing its first black president — I felt this myself but did not act upon it — the nation gulped and swallowed the lie, but, consciously or unconsciously, it did not forget.
Now we are where we are. We have a president that no one wants to listen to because we do not fully believe him. His own party is deserting him not just because they know his ideas are unpopular. They also know he is unable to convince anyone. We have shut him off.
The irony, of course, is that his biggest supporters, who still continue to support him — young people and blacks — are being hurt the most by his policies.
I would find this to be a pretty big incompatibility. I had no idea that Robin Hanson's wife was so opposed to cryonics:
"You have to understand," says Peggy, who at 54 is given to exasperation about her husband's more exotic ideas. "I am a hospice social worker. I work with people who are dying all the time. I see people dying All. The. Time. And what's so good about me that I'm going to live forever?"
First of all, it's not about living "forever." It's about living as long as you want to live. What's so bad about you that you don't want to do that?
If I were him, I'd be very worried about her fidelity to my wishes, if he goes first.
It's a very interesting article with insight into the transhumanist subculture, by Kerry Howley.
I have to confess a little skepticism, though — there are no interstates above the Grand Canyon. The closest one, I-40, is sixty miles south of the rim.
Also, Apple's new customer service.
…will save the space program from a Shuttle-derived parasite eating up all the technology funding?
This bill, however, will probably not get very far. Note Jim Muncy's comment to the NASA Watch item:
Fortunately, most authorization bills can't proceed in the Senate without unanimous consent. Which means one Senator can stop this monstrosity.
We continually hear about how "The" Congress is opposed to the Administration's plan for NASA. However, most all of the vocal opposition to the plan has come from a limited number of Congresspersons protecting Constellation related projects in their states and districts. They deliberately biased the hearing witness panels to eliminate voices of independent support for the administration's plan.
I'm thinking maybe Sam Brownback.
As a commenter somewhere (maybe over at Space Politics?) said, the key to settling space isn't going farther now — it's reducing the cost of access and making it routine. Commercial crew will do that for LEO, and the new technology development programs will do it for beyond. And heavy lift, particularly a Shuttle-derived version, will just continue to delay the day that we become spacefaring, as the falsely perceived need for it has done for forty years.
[Update a few minutes later]
A draft of the bill, obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, was presented to NASA last week by the committee, chaired by Florida Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. So far the White House has not commented on the bill, but several Florida Space Coast leaders have expressed concern about its impact here.
Of particular concern is the fact that Nelson — Florida's main space supporter — would take away billions of dollars from commercial rocket and technology development that over the next decade would have diversified the aerospace industry in Florida and provided KSC with new jobs and prestige.
…Frank DiBello, the president of Space Florida, the state's aerospace development body, is not pleased. "We don't want to sacrifice Florida seed corn for an increased R&D role to be politically expedient and save jobs for Utah and other states," DiBello told a Brevard County jobs-development meeting Saturday.
"The Senate bill kills outright the promise of a real R&D opportunity for KSC. It's not good for Florida. I don't know who Bill Nelson is listening to, but it's not his constituents," DiBello said.
Of course, the question itself is generous in its assumption that there is any cognition at all going on here. Bill Nelson has never struck me as the sharpest tack in a drawer of pretty dull ones, and this is just more evidence of it.
The debate over the new space policy has been taking place in pretty much a logic-free and fact-free environment, at least on the part of those who oppose it. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation has released a fact sheet to dispel all of the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD), much of it nonsensical, that opponents have been tossing up for months. Clark Lindsey has an HTML version.
I found it a little amusing that they counted Jake Garn as an "astronaut." I doubt if many of the astronauts consider him (or Bill Nelson) one.


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Continued HER2 Suppression With Lapatinib Plus Trastuzumab Versus Trastuzumab Alone
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
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Last updated: March 22, 2016
Last verified: March 2016
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- On-Premise Executors
- Getting Started
- Connecting the Slave
- Installing the Slave as a Service
- OPE behind a proxy
- Configuring a Job to Run on the Provided Slave
- Configuring the Slave Environment (linux, OSX only)
- Known Issues
- Security
- Building Docker Images on an OPE
- Give Us Your Feedback
- Subscribing to On Premise Executors
On-Premise Executors
On-Premise Executors is a feature of DEV@cloud that allows customers to connect their on-premise machines (slaves) from Linux, Mac OSX or Windows using the Jenkins CLI.
There are several reasons why you might want to provide your own executor (in Jenkins terminology a slave can have multiple executors):
You require access to internal network resources such as private databases or source control systems (and Jenkins VPN service is not appropriate)
You need a specific operating system or libraries which aren't provided on DEV@Cloud
You need to run performance tests on tuned hardware/software stacks
Getting Started
You need a DEV@cloud Enterprise subscription to access this feature. When subscribing or upgrading to Enterprise an input box is shown which lets the number of executors be added. This can be modified at a later date if necessary (downgrade is initiated through a support ticket today).
Next, the jenkins-cli.jar is needed. A CLI JAR of at least version 1.460 is needed; the above link currently offers the client from Jenkins 1.509.x. Also create a workspace directory on the local machine for the jobs to be executed in.
Next, you will need an SSH keypair for authentication. It is recommended that one is generated specifically for this purpose, especially if the slave will be connected from a server. If this is going to run as a system service a key without a password is required. The public key needs to be added to your user account in the CloudBees console.
|We recommend that you use a system user (not one associated with a particular person) when connecting your On Premise Slaves. If you connect slaves using keys which are associated with a specific person in your company, they will stop working when that person leaves your company and loses access to your account.
Connecting the Slave
Below is the basic usage of the cli.
$ java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://<myaccount>.ci.cloudbees.com -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa on-premise-executor -help: "-help" is not a valid option java -jar jenkins-cli.jar on-premise-executor args... Connects a on-premise executor -description VAL : Description to be put on the slave -executors N : Number of executors -fsroot VAL : Directory where Jenkins places files -labels VAL : Whitespace-separated list of labels to be assigned for this slave. Multiple options are allowed. -name VAL : Name of the slave. If unspecified, one is generated for you -install VAL : Install as a service; full path to ssh key is required. -persistent : This makes the node persistent which allows NodeDescriptors to be set.
-s specifies the address of your jenkins instance. -i is optional if the key you want to use is /.ssh/id_rsa or /.ssh/id_dsa. For other key-files a path will need to be specified. Note the SSH key must be an openssh key.
A full command is something like:
$ java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://<myaccount>.ci.cloudbees.com on-premise-executor -fsroot /path/to/root -labels osx -name osx-server-2
An important piece is the label. Labels allow you to connect multiple slaves, and have jobs choose any slave that matches the label.
Installing the Slave as a Service
To install it as a service simply add -install <key> to the end of the command and it will use the configuration provided for the executor that is started by the slave.
$ java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://<myaccount>.ci.cloudbees.com on-premise-executor -fsroot /path/to/root -labels osx -name osx-server-2 -install /path/to/mykey/keyfile
The recommended method to making sure that everything will work as expected is to run the command with -install first to make sure it connects.
Running the slave with systemd on linux
As most linux distros are standardising on systemd for daemonisation and process management - here is a script you can use to base your installation on. Put this in a file "/usr/lib/systemd/system/ope.service" and then you can restart it via: systemctl restart ope, systemctl status ope, etc.
[Unit] Description=CloudBeees On Prem executor Documentation=On-Premise+Executors Requires=network.target After=multi-user.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/opt/java6/bin/java -jar /usr/share/jenkins-cli.jar -s https://cloudbees.ci.cloudbees.com on-premise-executor -fsroot /home/ec2-user/workspace -labels docker -nam\ e docker-builder-1 Restart=always RestartSec=60 StartLimitInterval=0 User=ec2-user [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ## ## To install: ## ## ensure all names and paths above are correct for you: ## ## install -D -m 644 ope.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/ope.service ## systemctl daemon-reload ## systemctl start ope ## systemctl enable ope
For this to work - you need to be using systemd, a server with ec2-user account, and also have setup your ssh key for correct access. You should run the command (java -jar …) for the slave agent at least once in a shell OF THE USER YOU INTEND TO RUN THE SERVICE AS (ie ec2-user in this case) to ensure you have all the details right - and the master host is added to authorized_keys.
IMPORTANT - running as consistent user
This example runs as ec2-user. Note that if you change users at any point - you will need to delete the workspace directory - and start again, due to file permissions. You need to run the slave command, at all times, as the same user. Do not change it without starting again with a fresh workspace. You can also run as root (eg if you are running a docker slave - in which case you don't need any additional user).
Mac OSX
For installing a mac slave as on-premise executor you will need to create a
launchctl plist. As an example about how to do this you can create a file called
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
Move this file to
/Library/LaunchDaemons and change the permission so it can
be correctly handled by the root user.
sudo chown root com.jenkins.ci.plist
sudo chmod 644 com.jenkins.ci.plist
To install the service use:
launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.jenkins.ci.plist launchctl start com.jenkins.ci
In case you want to list the service and stop it you can then use:
launchctl list | grep jenkins launchctl stop com.jenkins.ci
To troubleshooting you should check the output of
/path/to/stdout.log and
To uninstall the service run
launchctl list
and find the service. Then run
launchctl remove <service name # example - org.jenkins-ci.slave.a4ef276f>
This uninstalls the service and stops the slave.
Download and install Oracle JDK
Create a folder c:
Download jenkins-cli.jar from your Jenkins master in "c:"
See https://[myaccount].ci.cloudbees.com/cli/
Download https://[myaccount].ci.cloudbees.com/jnlpJars/jenkins-cli.jar
Copy your SSH key "my_rsa_key" in c: To generate a SSH key on Windows, you can use ssh-keygen bundled in "http://msysgit.github.io/[Git for Windows]"
Test the OPE connection running the command (don't forget "-labels windows"):
java -jar c:/jenkins/jenkins-cli.jar -s https://cyrille-leclerc.ci.cloudbees.com -i c:/jenkins/my_rsa_key on-premise-executor -fsroot c:/jenkins/ope-fs-root -labels windows -name my-windows-ope
Standard output should look like:
Slave.jar version: 2.33 This is a Windows slave Slave successfully connected and online
Verify that the Windows OPE appears on your Jenkins master dashboard
Create and run a test Jenkins Free Style Job with:
Name: "windows-job"
Restrict where this project can be run/Label Expression: "windows"
Add Build Step / Execute Windows batch command / Command : "dir"
The Job output should look like:
Started by user Cyrille Le clerc Building remotely on my-windows-ope in workspace c:/jenkins/ope-fs-root/workspace/windows-job [windows-job] $ cmd /c call C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\hudson7149717920587053636.bat c:\jenkins\ope-fs-root\workspace\windows-job>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 5E71-6BA3 Directory of c:\jenkins\ope-fs-root\workspace\windows-job 04/14/2014 03:15 PM . 04/14/2014 03:15 PM .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 12,367,929,344 bytes free c:\jenkins\ope-fs-root\workspace\windows-job>exit 0 Finished: SUCCESS
Stop the jenkins-cli script and register the Jenkins OPE as a Windows service
java -jar c:/jenkins/jenkins-cli.jar -i c:/jenkins/my_rsa_key -s https://<myaccount>.ci.cloudbees.com on-premise-executor -fsroot c:/jenkins/ope-fs-root -labels windows -name my-windows-ope -executors 1 -install c:/jenkins/id_rsa
The console output should look like Installing On-Premise Executors as a service. This can take up to 2 minutes. [ope-fs-root] $ c:-fs-root-slave.exe start Installed On-Premise Executors as a service. Note it can take a few minutes to start. Successfully started
In the Microsoft Management Console, you can see a "Jenkins Slave" service
To start/stop/uninstall the Services control panel can be used.
OPE behind a proxy
In case your OPE is running behind a proxy you will need then to add the following Java arguments to the
https.proxyHost=$PROXY_HOST https.proxyPort=$PROXY_PORT
The full
jenkins-cli command should look similar to the one below.
$ java -Dhttps.proxyHost=$PROXY_HOST -Dhttps.proxyPort=$PROXY_PORT -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://<myaccount>.ci.cloudbees.com on-premise-executor -fsroot /path/to/root -labels osx -name osx-server-2
Configuring a Job to Run on the Provided Slave
Currently to make a job run on the provided slave, you need to select "Restrict where this project can be run" in the job configuration page, and input your label you want the job to run on.
Jobs configured to run on provided slaves will not run on the CloudBees elastic slaves, and jobs with no label set, will not run on provided slaves.
Configuring the Slave Environment (linux, OSX only)
Because of how the masters are configured at the moment, to use some tools like Maven, you may need to provide the tool in the location Jenkins expects it to be, either directly, or with a symlink. Below are the paths that are used for the JDK and Maven. You can inspect /opt on DEV@cloud slaves with a job to find other provided tools if needed.
Java parent path: /opt/jdk
Java versions under the parent path:
Maven parent path: /opt/maven
Maven versions under the parent:
Known Issues
You must provide an absolute path for the -fsroot parameter.
If you receive an error such as "FATAL: Null value not allowed as an environment variable: M2_HOME", make sure that you have configured a valid installer for the Maven you are using. You can do this by navigating to /configure (Manage Jenkins → Configure System) and click "Install Automatically" underneath the Maven job you are using. You can then choose "Install from Apache" and select the appropriate version.
All users on your account are allowed to connect slaves using their registered public/private keypair.
All communication to and from your slave is secured by HTTPS.
Building Docker Images on an OPE
An OPE allows you to run what you want - this includes building Docker images. There is a quick guide here on the specifics of Docker.
Give Us Your Feedback
If you have tried (or not tried) the feature - fill in a short poll for us (takes about 30 secs).
Subscribing to On Premise Executors
To use the On Premise Executors feature you need to be subscribed to the Enterprise tier - the feature is not available in the PROFESSIONAL or STARTED accounts.
To configure the feature in the CloudBees account click on the gear icon in the upper left hand corner.
Choose "Build Executors" in the Account Tools panel.
Then enter the number of executors and click update.
I get an Exception: "Unable to connect On-Premise Executor. …"
I get an exception "Unable to connect On-Premise Executor. There are 0 executors already connected and you tried to connect 2 but this account has a limit of 1 executors. Please purchase more if needed."
By default, the OPE connection script try to allocate 2 executors. If you get a message … you tried to connect 2 but this account has a limit of 1 executors. Please purchase more if needed.", then you must either:
Subscribe to more executors (See " Subscribing to On Premise Executors" above)
Or specify in the jenkins-cli.jar command line to use 1 executor adding the parameter "-executors 1"\{\{/code}}
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New owner near for Shanton
Relevant offers
The receiver of womens' clothing retailer Shanton Apparel has hammered out a conditional deal with a New Zealand-based buyer to save the chain.
The deal relies on the buyer, Shanton Fashions, being able to secure leases for the stores after negotiations with existing landlords.
A sale price was not disclosed.
Shanton Apparel owns Shanton Retail, which has about 122 staff at 39 stores.
It also owns BBB Retail, which has 45 Bed, Bath and Beyond homeware stores and which is not involved in the receivership.
Tauranga-based receiver Anthony Harris said it was a very positive outcome, preserving jobs for the "extremely loyal" staff since the firm had gone into receivership in October.
It would also preserve tenants for the landlords, many whom had had a long relationship with the Shanton brand.
Company Office records show Shanton Fashion was incorporated yesterday and its sole director and a major shareholder is Auckland-based Mandeep Pala, who has a variety of business interests.
Harris said other sale details were confidential until the transaction was completed.
But he confirmed that all employers at receivership would be paid preferential holiday entitlements in full.
Gift vouchers, which staff were initially told to stop selling, would be honoured before and after the sale process.
Until the receivership, Shanton Apparel was majority-owned by Australian-based Atamine, with Carter Trading and Manukau-based Taca holding stakes.
Shanton Apparel, including BBB Retail, had total revenue of $48.7m and made a net profit of $2.3m for the June 2011 year.
BBB Retail's accounts for the year to June 2011 show the company had total assets of $10.3m but liabilities of $13.5m.
It shows a $9.9m related party loan to Shanton Apparel.
Shanton Apparel's shareholder equity was also in the negative by $640,000, mainly due to a $10.4m related party loan to Shanton Properties (NZ) and accumulated losses.
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Hamilton City Council votes unanimously for Momentum theatre rebuild
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Waikato coach pleased with side's positive attitude in Ranfurly Shield defence
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Firearms targeted in rural burglaries
Transforming Hamilton: Steve Hart has his say
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Hamilton 'sugar baby' charged with blackmail after meeting man online
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Kiwi cyclists treated as second-rate road citizens
Chiefs fail to capitalise, falling to Hurricanes in Super Rugby semifinal
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Miner found dead after front-end loader rolls in Waihi goldmine
Waikato ease past King Country in the wet to hold on to the Ranfurly Shield


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Logitech Wireless Drum Controller
A pricy game peripheral to rock out with
- Good build quality with soft drum pads, easily adjustable
- Expensive investment, what do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?
Bottom Line
If you're a serious rocker, Logitech's Wireless Drum Controller peripheral for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 is an investment you can justify thanks to the good build quality, adjustability and ease of storage. Casual gamers may be happy with the significantly cheaper drum kit in the Rock Band or Guitar Hero game bundle.
Price$ 399.95 (AUD)
The Logitech Wireless Drum Controller is a well constructed and easy to adjust peripheral that will stand up to punishment from even the most enthusiastic gamer. It's expensive but it offers a few notable advantages over the Guitar Hero or Rock Band bundled peripherals. We tested the PlayStation 3 version of the device.
Setting up the Wireless Drum Controller is slightly time consuming, but this is because there's good scope for adjustment. Each of the three drum pads can be moved along three axes, and there is an additional degree of rotation to aim the pads at the player. The control pad can be moved horizontally and vertically around the centre bar, while the two cymbals have horizontal and vertical adjustment. The positions of instruments can also be swapped, so the system can be configured to suit a wide range of playing styles. We configured ours for "awesome". That's just how we roll.
The Logitech Wireless Drum Controller can also be folded away for temporary storage — a merit of its modular construction. The fold-out legs don't lock into place during normal use, so there's a small possibility of accidentally kicking them inwards and destabilising the drum kit during frenetic gameplay — trust us, we know this from experience.
After the somewhat complicated set up, connecting up the drum kit is a breeze. Colour-coded plugs connect each instrument to the control pad, which wirelessly communicates with the PlayStation 3 through a supplied USB dongle. Two AA batteries power the whole setup — there are no wires tethering the peripheral to the PlayStation 3 or a power outlet.
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- Nightclub
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- This hotel has 224 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-11:30 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 21
- Local laws may restrict unmarried guests from sharing a room
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- Children (2 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Free children's club
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Free self parking
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- Smoke-free property
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- Children's club (free)
- Free breakfast
- 3 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Barbeque grills
- Free beach cabanas
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- Full-service spa
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- Nightclub
- Beach umbrellas
- Outdoor pool
- Health club
- Spa tub
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- Children's pool
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- Sauna
- Business center
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- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2009
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- Rooftop terrace
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- Accessible bathroom
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- Minibar
- Bathrobes
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
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- Premium bedding
- Tempur-Pedic mattress
- Individually furnished
- Separate living room
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Designer toiletries
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- 30-inch LCD TV
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
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The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. The spa is equipped with Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic.
DiningThe Crystal - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
The Bonzai - This restaurant serves dinner only.
On Site
- Health club
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Tennis on site
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
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- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
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- Water skiing nearby
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- Russelior
- Russelior Hammamet
- Russelior Hotel
- Russelior Hotel Hammamet
- Russelior Hotel And Spa
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
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The charges below are included in the total price displayed:
- Christmas Eve gala dinner fee for stays on 24 December
- New Year's Eve gala dinner fee for stays on 31 December
Optional extras
The spa is accessible for TND 50
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of TND 150 per vehicle (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Outstanding 4.7 /5 from 66 reviews
The staff was very helpful and friendly, good food and services.
Was good hotel but needs some updating/repairs to pool and spa areas. Fiberglass pool rocks were showing the fiberglass as the coating had worn away. In the spa both showers in the mens area didn't work. One had no way to turn on water and the other only had scalding hot water and no shower head so you just had a hose to use.
By far the best hotel I've stayed at in Tunisia. Everyone was so accomadating from the moment you walk in to the moment you leave. Throughout our stay we were always asked if we needed anything at all. I felt like a princess. It is a little pricey but it's worth every penny I promise. This will be our hotel of choice for our next stay in hammamet for sure. We only stayed 4 days but I wish we could've stayed much longer.
Little expensive
Good family holiday.i will be back
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Any Smiths fan should include the song "Jeane" in his or her collection. I actually recorded this song onto cassette tape back in the mid-1980s from a friend who had a vinyl 45 of this song. Jeane was the "B-side" (remember those?) to the "This Charming Man" single. "This Charming Man" is of course one of the many phenomenal and well known songs the Smiths produced and is widely available as part of other released work. There are a very small number of songs produced by the Smiths that were only released as B-sides to vinyl 45s. Jeane is the best of these. Others include: "Work is a four letter word" and "I keep mine hidden". Most of the B-sides were picked up on Louder Than Bombs, but some - like Jeane - were overlooked. I had not realized that this song was ever picked up on CD until now- currently listed as out of stock. I have been a die-hard Smiths since 1985 and believe this song should really be included in the collection of any devout fan.
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By Neil57 - Published on Amazon.com
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The CD in this offer has seven different remixes of "This Charming Man" plus "Wonderful Woman". "Jeane" and "Accept Yourself" are not on this CD. They are on the other version of this release which is not offered here. For the record, the remixes are nice for collectors, but not essential for casual listeners.
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I love the smiths, this could be a cd of just morrisey grunting and i would still give it 5stars :) great cd, one of my favorites.
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1831 50C PR65 NGC. O-103, R.8 as a Proof....Click the image to load the highest resolution version.
1831 O-103 Half Dollar, PR65
1831 50C PR65 NGC. O-103, R.8 as a Proof. This piece is an
unquestionable, deeply reflective proof striking that looks as much
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proof. The fields are glassy-smooth and deeply reflective. The
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the star radials, Liberty's hair curls, and the eagle's feathers.
There is a series of parallel, shallow lines on the cheek of
Liberty that appeared during the minting process.
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A number of 1831 half dollars have appeared in auctions over many years, yet only two examples seem to have claim to proof status. The two pieces are the present coin, and the specimen that appeared as lot 155 in Auction '79.
The surfaces are marvelously clean for a proof striking from this time period and the only mentionable flaws, other than the Mint-made ones on the cheek of Liberty, are a thin staple scratch over the eagle's right (facing) wing, and a light scuff in the field above star 1. Generally brilliant throughout, there is just a bit of light golden color around the peripheries on each side. A rare opportunity to acquire what is undoubtedly one of the finest proof Bust halves as well as one of the rarest dates in proof format.
Ex: Samuel H. Chapman, as part of a complete proof set, one of only two complete sets known to him; to Dr. C.A. Allenburger; Allenburger Sale (B. Max Mehl, 3/1948), lot 871, where it sold for $58.50 to John Jay Pittman; Pittman II (David Akers, 5/1998), lot 1495, where it brought $46,200.
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My first QS meetup. I've been following the blog closely for a year now and when I couldn't make the conference, I decided I had to console myself with a meetup.
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Excellent, engaging presentations - a real community...and the Locker Project rocks! It would be great to have some affilliated working groups where members could zero in on QS areas of particular interest.
0 · June 2, 2011
My first quantified self meetup and it was terrific. High energy group full of great ideas and passion. Lots of geeks like me, but also many artists, etc. We hung out for hours afterwards in a local beer garden. Africa hot in the room - I was shvitzing before my presentation. But it was a muggy, hot night. The tech worked perfectly and there was even nice snacks/drinks.
Worth the double bridge & tunnel from NJ.
0 · June 2, 2011
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Students in a college were classified according to years in school (X) and number of visits to a museum in the last year (Y = 0 for no visits, 1 for one visit, 2 for more than one visit). The joint probabilities in the accompanying table were estimated for these random variables.
a. Find the probability that a randomly chosen student has not visited a museum in the last year.
b. Find the means of the random variables X and Y.
c. Find and interpret the covariance between the random variables X and Y.