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Wii U rising: Ben and Andrew hash out what Nintendo has to do to rejoin the conversation
People aren't talking about the Wii U anymore. The company showed a number of fun games in the expected franchises at E3, it offers backwards compatibility, the extra screen offers some interesting gameplay possibilities, and it's the lowest priced "next"-generation console on the market. Whether or not we put the Wii U up against the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 as a true next-generation is an argument that may be better served some place else.
I was playing New Super Luigi U with my kids a few days ago, and the level design and challenge is top notch. Luigi's adjusted jump and that little bob at the end changes how you interact with the world, and the game feels fresh again. I also greatly enjoyed Game and Wario, although some parts of that game were much better than others. I went back and played Zombi U, and remembered why I liked it so much.
It's not a bad system, and in fact it's the system I keep next to my bed, without a television, for a spot of gaming before bed while my wife reads. Being able to play console-quality games on that tablet-style controller is a great feature, and it's definitely a selling point for families. There's nothing wrong with a little Call of Duty before bed, especially if you can play it in bed.
So what does Nintendo have to do to get back in the conversation? How does the company get itself back into our dialog about games? A price cut or a better bundle would definitely help; the perception is that systems like the PlayStation 4 are much more powerful, for only $50 more. The Xbox One is $150 more, but it also comes with the new Kinect and a sexy suite of media functions. The Wii U has Netflix, and it loads slowly. Fighting on price is a great way to get back in the game, especially if Nintendo is going to position itself as the second system in your home.
So they have to work on the value proposition. Add a game. Cut the price a bit. Put some distance between the Wii U and the newer, more expensive consoles that may be delivering more bells and whistles than the average consumer needs. The value fight is always a good one, and I'd love to see Nintendo aggressive. Do you remember how the company kicked its ass into high gear with that 3DS price drop when sales were sluggish? Now the portable is doing great. Let's see some more of that, please.
So Andrew, what would it take to get people talking about the Wii U again?
Andrew's thoughts
I want to see Nintendo fight. Nintendo is a very slow and thoughtful company. They know their customers, and they've been around the block a few times so they're hesitant to make any drastic moves until they're sure it's time.
What I want to see is Nintendo start fighting tooth and nail for exposure, because I think that's partially their problem. Nintendo has always let its games speak the loudest, but they're not releasing any games so Nintendo's essentially not speaking. Remember this snarky jab Sony took at Microsoft over the used games issue? Nintendo's had the same used games position as Sony for years. That should have been their viral ad. They should have been pounding Microsoft over that, and using that issue as a wedge for inserting Wii U into the gaming conversation.
If they must keep their stiff-upper-lip style then at the very least I hope they're planning a one-two punch of some sort around the holiday season. My gut feeling is that gamers haven't sworn off the Wii U. They don't dislike it. In fact, most people I talk to are intrigued by the system. They just don't have that extra push to get them to make the buy. I think Nintendo could push a lot of people over the edge with news of a small price cut to coincide with a surprise game announcement and the release of a highly anticipated title. Maybe Pikmin 3.
If there's one thing hardcore gamers hate, it's being left out of the zeitgeist. Right now, Nintendo isn't convincing people that they're missing something by not having a Wii U. They need one big, beautiful day when they can declare to the hardcore gaming audience, "This is what's happening on Wii U. Our shit is as perfect as it ever was. Get in here now or you're a chump."
The Year of Luigi does not communicate this message. The question is whether or not Nintendo has the software up its sleeve to nail home that message. Do you think Nintendo has a strong enough game lineup for 2013-2014 to be able to crush the preconception that Wii U has no games?
Ben's thoughts
What Nintendo does very well, and very profitably, is to sell their franchise titles to people who already like them. I'm a Nintendo fan, and I'm going to buy the new Mario Kart game, and it looked absolutely stunning at E3 running in high definition. I'm going to buy the new Mario game as well. I'm excited going back to Wind Waker in that game's high definition upgrade. The new Donkey Kong Country game looks and plays great.
The problem is that it's hard to really communicate anything about these games if you're not playing them. Do you like those series? You do? You're going to love these new games! It's high-quality stuff from very talented artists and designers, but that hype doesn't extend outside of Nintendo's bubble. If you're not already in the bag for these games, you don't care, and there's not much to be done to make you care. The company has games, it's just games that we expect and take for granted.
It would be great if Nintendo could really stress the neat things that screen can do, and help to push games around it. I think the Wii U version of Rayman Legends is going to be the best version; playing with a friend using the television and the tablet controller is a great time. I still play the Zombies mode of Black Ops 2 with friends in two player co-op. You only need one system and one copy of the game for a nice mini-LAN! Why don't they hype that sort of thing?
I think the secret is getting out of the Mario-festooned comfort zone, get some games that really do neat, social things with the controller, and make sure the games can't be replicated easily on any other system. You don't have to be the most powerful system on the block if you have games no one else can duplicate, and that speaks to players.
So let's wrap this up: If you could wave your hands and have one thing change about the Wii U, or a company decision you think could help turn things around, what would it be?
Andrew's wish
I won't claim to have any idea whether this would make any business sense, but personally I'd like to see Nintendo get more competitive with their game pricing. Right now, they are incredibly stubborn about not only propping up the AAA pricing model, but ensuring that their games never drop in price. It took years and years to start getting a few Nintendo Select titles at $20-30 on Wii.
I spent the last 4 years as a broke freelance writer, and missed out on almost all of Nintendo's first party games because of that policy. I'm not sure what Nintendo gains by ensuring that people like me can't play their 2-3 year old games by keeping the price frozen.
Beyond that, I'm not sure whether Nintendo is winning the cost argument these days with their games, and I think keeping their games stuck at $40-50 artificially restricts the Wii U audience. Charging $40 for Game and Wario is just too much. More and more it feels like Nintendo is getting stuck in the same vice that has been hurting middle tier publishers for the last five years. Nintendo's biggest games are still attracting customers, but are they still able to convince customers to drop $40-50 on mid-tier games like Game and Wario or Pikmin?
The pricing equation has changed, and if I had one wish it would be for Nintendo to do something, anything, to show that they're aware gamers can get thousands of games for a fraction of the price of a Wii U game on Steam, iOS, and through F2P titles. Because when I go to GameStop these days, I have a very difficult time convincing myself to pick up a Wii U game I'm unsure about instead of waiting and getting 10 games for the same price during the Steam Summer Sale. I suspect that a lot of consumers have a similar internal debate.
Nintendo tends to have this "ride out the storm, Nintendo is eternal" attitude to market fluctuations. So my one wish would be that they abandon that, and begin to recognize that the market has changed forever. The $60 party may be over, unless you're selling Mario and Zelda.


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Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January
This coming January is likely to be the first time that anyone outside of a production facility will get a look at jOBS, the new biopic of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher. The movie, which was initially announced in April of this year, covers 30 years of Jobs' life from 1971 to 2000 as an entrepreneur and leader of such companies as Apple, NeXT, and Pixar. It also stars Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons, and Matthew Modine.
The movie is not based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, released shortly after Jobs' death last fall. A separate film that is based on Isaacson's book is also in the works, and is being written by famed screenplay author Aaron Sorkin.
jOBS is set to be screened on January 27, 2013, the closing night of the Sundance festival. It is not yet clear when it will be released to regular theaters for those that can't attend the movie festival.

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San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau (above); John Beath (below)
In the middle of the gaping strait that separates Washington state from Canada's Vancouver Island sit some of the country's most boater-friendly and perennially popular islands. If one were to grade Washington's beloved San Juan Islands on accessibility, facilities, ease of use and quality of fishing, the report card would have to show straight A's.
For private boaters, the San Juans are a northwest nirvana - a world apart, yet one that begins only a few miles west of the closest jumping-off point on the Washington mainland, Anacortes. Launch ramps and sling hoists allow boaters ready access from the mainland, though trailer boaters also have the option to launch right in the islands, coming in on one of the state's regularly scheduled ferries.
Given the popularity of these islands, an angler knowing no better might assume they'd get fished out. In fact, thanks in large part to years of aggressive hatchery rearing of salmon by the Washington State Department of Fisheries, catch success overall has remained phenomenally high.
Salmon Success Story
"Some of the best chinook fishing we've had in 25 years" - that's the way Larry Carpenter at Master Marine in Mount Vernon, Washington (www.mastermarine.com), sizes up opportunities in the islands. A hard-core salmon-fishing enthusiast himself who has worked in the industry locally for decades, Carpenter has the sort of perspective that makes him appreciate just how good fishing has become.
Without hatchery fish, salmon seasons would be woefully short to protect populations of wild strains that biologists judge are on the ropes for various reasons, habitat degradation often high among them. But annual infusions of 60 million fin-clipped chinook ensure an abundance of salmon from (and eventually bound for) hatcheries; these fish allow anglers to catch chinook most of the year - all but November, May and June.
At a glance, anglers can see whether a salmon retains its adipose fin (meaning it's a wild fish and must be released much of the year) or not (indicating a fin-clipped hatchery fish, ready for the net). The state's long-standing regulation allowing only barbless hooks keeps release mortality of wild fish at low levels.
July and August offer plenty of shots at trophy-size chinook. (During prime months of July and August, both wild and hatchery chinook may be kept.) But for the fastest fishing, hit the islands in winter. From December into early spring, fishing is outstanding for blackmouth (the local term for chinook that have gone to sea to return three or four years later, in the fall, to spawn). These "local" chinook run a respectable 8 or 10 pounds to 20 or more.
The majority of salmon fall to spoons or plugs pulled behind flashers on downriggers. The traditional technique of mooching herring remains very effective, but Carpenter points out that dogfish can be a moocher's nightmare, particularly in summer.
Winter fishing demands warm clothing, but winter visitors will find no crowds to contend with, and some days prove delightfully calm. Also, with so many steep slopes and pockmarked shorelines, anglers can find lee places even on blustery days.
Flourishing Facilities
Full-service marinas and waterside resorts abound. Among the larger such operations, Carpenter mentions Deer Harbor Resort and Rosario Resort & Spa on Orcas Island (www.deerharbor.com and www.rosarioresort.com); Roche Harbor Resort (www.rocheharbor.com) and many facilities at Friday Harbor (www.fridayharbor.com - "the big city of the San Juans") on San Juan Island; and Fisherman's Bay on Lopez Island (www.lopezisland.com). Smuggler's Villa Resort (www.smuggler.com) midway on northern Orcas is less well known but offers a nifty hideaway for small boaters. Ditto, says Carpenter, for Snug Harbor (www.snugresort.com) on the west side of San Juan.
Those who prefer to live aboard can tie up at a marina or to one of the many anchoring buoys. Also, the state offers 16 great boat-in parks with camping - find them all, with detailed information, at www.parks.wa.gov; under "Find a Park," click on "Regional park maps" and then on the San Juan Islands inset.
While small boaters generally do just fine in these waters, Carpenter does remind readers to "keep in mind the tides." Depending on tide and time of year, tidal flow can vary as much as 12 feet or more between low and high. Check out a tide chart before you plan to put a boat in or come back out on a launch ramp. Also, be cautious when a heavy ebb or flood tide builds up against a wind going the other way, as nasty rip lines can develop.
For more, general information, go to www.visitsanjuans.com.


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Ross expands manufacturing plant in China
Charles Ross & Son Company recently announced the completion of its manufacturing plant expansion in Wuxi, China. The expansion adds approximately 20,000 square-feet to the existing building. The facility is strategically located in Wuxi City, on the Shanghai/Nanging Expressway, about 70 miles from Shanghai. The plant manufactures several Ross products including: High Speed Dispersers, Dual and Triple Shaft Mixers, Planetary Mixers, Discharge Systems, and Pressure vessels, tanks and other fabricated equipment. The mixing and blending equipment manufactured at this site is intended to complement the Vertical Blenders, Ribbon Blenders and Motionless Mixers that are being manufactured at the second plant site in Qidong City. Ross equipment built at these locations is primarily intended for sales in China and in other the East Asian markets.


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For the third week in a row, the Bills had a chance to win the game late in the fourth quarter. But for the third week in a row, and eighth time this season, Buffalo failed to execute when necessary and remains winless after a 22-19 loss to the Bears in Toronto.
Chicago's Earl Bennett hauled in the go-ahead touchdown with 6:41 remaining in the fourth quarter, and the Bills were unable to respond with a score of their own. Costly turnovers and miscues have become the norm down the stretch for this team, and Week Nine was no different, as a missed point-after try, failed two-point conversion and turnover on downs doomed any chance of pulling out a victory. Both the Bears and Bills scored three touchdowns with no field goals, but the missed conversions were the difference.
The PFW Spin
Offensive balance (or a lack-there-of) was the topic of conversation for Bears fans heading into the game, but the conversation may be heading to Buffalo now. The Bills had a 52-18 pass-run ratio in the contest, an insane disproportion for a game that never had a point differential of more than a touchdown. Head coach and offensive play-caller Chan Gailey blamed early struggles on the ground for the reason the team was so pass-heavy.
"We tried to establish the run early in the ball game, but couldn't," Gailey said. "So, we ended up having to throw the ball a lot more than I ever wanted to in the ball game."
Chicago has one of the league's top run defenses and the Bills' offensive line has struggled in 2010 creating running lanes for RBs Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller. Jackson finished with 16 yards on eight carries with one touchdown and Spiller finished with 7-20-0 — the first time this season the rookie led the team in rushing. Still, 15 carries between the two is not enough, and the lack of balance wound up costing the team a win. In the entire fourth quarter, Gailey called only four running plays, five if you count the failed two-point conversion.
Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick had another impressive afternoon, but a pair of costly fourth-quarter interceptions — one with the Bills up by five and looking to put the game away, the other trailing by three with less than a minute remaining — doomed the team again. Fitzpatrick manages the game well and clearly has gained the trust of his coaches who sent him back to pass time and time again on Sunday. Yet, when it came down to crunch time, he did the same thing in Toronto that he did in New England Week Three and Kansas City Week Eight: throw an interception. Until he protects the ball better, the Bills will continue to lose in close games. And without a run game to help, the zero in the win column is a burden resting on the quarterback's right arm.


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The time training requirements in order to receive your Texas Concealed Handgun License have been shrunk from 10 hours to four hours.Chris Reitsma is a local Texoman who played a big part in helping bring about change to those time requirements. Reitsma owns and operates his own CHL training class. Last year Reitsma went to Austin and testified in favor for the new time changes. He argued that the student of a CHL class retains more information in a smaller time frame.Dale Richey of Archer City says the shorter time was beneficial for him. "It's short enough now to keep it interesting rather than a long drawn out class. Where you tend not to pay so much attention towards the end of the day," said Richey about the new time requirements. Richey also explained, "I definitely feel comfortable it offers the basic knowledge that you need to get started with."Newschannel 6 Jack Carney took part in a CHL training class Sunday. After more than three hours of reviewing gun safety and law, students were given a paper test before they could go through the shooting portion of the training. "The Texas CHL is not really based on accuracy or marksmanship," said Reitsma,"it's more based on safe handling, to prove that you know how to safely handle that firearm. It takes training, any CHL holder should pursue additional training or practice on their own after they get their license."Oppressors of the time changes say that smaller hours will lead to bigger gun safety problems. Reitsma looks to the constitution."To those who oppose it, I say to them, the second amendment says we have the right to keep and bare arms; it mentions nothing about training at all."After the training was over all 16 students in today's class were informed they had passed. Thanks to the new time changes, the class was finished in less than five hours.
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The Cody family might not have expected they'd fall in love with the turtle they got from the pet store in Colorado.
Within weeks of adopting "Katrina", she was sleeping in bed with the kids. Katrina nuzzled her way into everyone's hearts and into just about every nook and corner of the Cody's backyard.
They named the family's go-kart racing team after her likeness and made her their mascot.
Fear the Turtle Racing turned into a championship team with the Cody's three kids behind the wheel, and Katrina's likeness on all their equipment.
In 2010, when the family made the move to Hickory, Katrina of course, came with them. Then one day, while the Cody's kids were playing in the yard with Katrina, the worst happened.
"Coleton was playing with her watching her real close and he got distracted by something, and he turned around and she was gone," said dad Eric.
The entire family was devastated. After weeks of searching, they couldn't find Katrina.
"I mean you've got these shirts and every time we look at anything with the race team you're reminded of her, it really was a part of us," Eric said.
The family had to move to a new house in Troutman and leave behind any hope of finding her.
After 19 months - the unthinkable happened.
"I saw [a turtle] standing down here and I thought 'He's going to get squished'," said Hickory Parks worker Trish Passman as she points to a spot in a parking lot where she found a lost turtle.
Trish picked it up, and found it had a dog tag attached to a small hole in its shell.
"It was a heart-shaped dog collar and I saw the name said Katrina but I couldn't get it scraped off good," said Trish.
She was finally able to read the number and after 19-months made a call the Cody family never expected to get. She left a message saying she found a turtle with a dog tag on it.
It was only hours before Eric told the kids to get in the car for a trip to Hickory to pick up some parts for the race team. The "parts" was actually crawling around in Trish's backyard.
"Is that Katrina?" said Allison Cody. "I went over there and picked her up and looked at her and I said, 'Yeah! It's Katrina'!"
Now safe back at her new home with her old family, Katrina doesn't go anywhere in the yard without someone's eyes on her. They've made a new family friend in Trish too.
Speaking of Trish, it's safe to say she got just as much enjoyment in finding the wayward turtle as the family did getting her back.
"I guess it's fate. Whoever gets a chance to find something that means that much to somebody?"
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Jesus - The Resurrection
What does it mean to say that Jesus is "The Resurrection"? Today Fr. Tom Hopko dives deeply into the significance of the Gospel as it relates to the resurrection of Christ.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Prepare the Way of the Lord
From December 4th through the 6th, 2009, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, hosted a retreat on the Christmas Gospels that featured the wisdom and insight of Fr. Gregory Jensen. Listen to the first lecture on "The Magi and the Star" here.
The Silver Chair
Prince Rilian is a captive in the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom. Will he ever escape? Listen to Dr. Chrissi Hart read The Silver Chair—book four in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia—on her podcast Under the Grapevine, beginning December 11th.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Before SCOBA, There was the Federation
On a new American Orthodox History, Matthew Namee interviews historian Fr. Oliver Herbel about a little-known—though very important—1940s precursor to SCOBA.
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Beauty and Suffering
On a beautiful fall afternoon at the family home in Canada, Fr. Tom Hopko is reflecting on the disparity between the beauty of God's creation and the tremendous suffering happening in the world.


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The GRAB Lab conducts research into robot manipulation and
biorobotic systems. Current research topics include robotic hands and
dexterous grasping and manipulation, upper-limb prosthetics, human grasping and manipulation, and assistive and rehabilitation devices, among others. Some details on our established work can be found on the Research and Publications pages.
We have recently begun to make some of our robotic hand designs freely available as Open Hardware through the Yale OpenHand Project.
Along with those efforts, we are beginning a larger effort to encourage, centralize, and host other similar Open Robot Hardware efforts through our site OpenRobotHardware.org.
Prof. Dollar is the editor and co-founder of RoboticsCourseWare.org, an open repository for robotics pedagogical materials.
Dec. 10 - Prof. Dollar has been promoted to Associate Professor - great news!
Oct. 15 - Hari's paper entitled Energy-based limit cycle compensation for dynamically balancing wheeled inverted pendulum machines is a finalist for Best Student Paper at the 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. Great work, Hari!
Sept. 28 - The teams from the DARPA Robotics Challenge have received their ATLAS Humanoid Robots, complete with iHY Hands developed jointly between our lab, iRobot, and Harvard. Check out one teams documentation of trying out the ATLAS robot for the first time, with a few shots of the hands (ours are on the right arm).
Aug. 8 - Prof. Dollar has been awarded the 2013 DARPA Young Faculty Award.
Aug. 6 - PhD Student Kamran Shamaei took First Place in the ASME Student Robot Design Competition, Graduate Division. Congrats Kamran!
June 6 - The final version of our hand produced for the DARPA ARM-H program, produced with iRobot and Harvard, was featured in CNN's Outfront with Erin Burnett.
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- bedrooms 3
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Spend your next beach getaway in this scenic Sunset Island condominium! Located in Ocean City's most sought-after neighborhood (67th St.), 35 Fountain Dr. West (3E) is a 3-BR, 2-BA end-unit home with all the extras. There are high-end touches throughout, such imported tile flooring, stainless steel appliances, jetted soaking tub, 4 Flat-Screen TVs, 4 Blu-Rays, and upgraded Cable package that includes HBO & Showtime. WiFi and Local & Long-Distance phone service are also included. Relax on the spacious Balcony for a view of the gorgeous pond & fountains.
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- Balcony with Fountain Views
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- 4 Blu-Rays
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- Bedroom #3 – Double
- Living Room – Queen Sleep Sofa
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BonitaHall 38 weeks
Yes, some of these are powerful role models, but you do have to consider that some of these characters are also very "feminine" by Kimberly still needs Tommy to save her.
EmiliaKoiler1370721671 38 weeks
Everyone is complaining about the fact that there are a couple princesses in here. So what? They can be a good role model even as a princess! Who cares? This list is more about movies with good role models than movies without princesses. And if a little girl likes princesses, why can't she like them? We make a big deal about them getting to play football and get dirty, but what if THEY DONT WANT TO?!? For heavens sake people, stop arguing!
Dusty1375134754 38 weeks
My Neighbor Totoro- a wonderful story about Satsuki and Mei who meet some forest spirits, deal with disappointment (mom doesn't come home from the hospital when expected) and have a deep sisterly love. Fern Gully- a cartoon with a eco-friendly message. Crysta, a young faerie who saves the day. Secret Garden: Mary, orphan sent to live in her uncle's castle-esque estate in India, is intelligent, independent and easily reconnoiters the manor's secrets. Charlotte's Web: Two of the wisest, loving and heartfelt characters (Charlotte and Fran) work to save Wilbur from the eventualities of live stock. The Croods: A visually stunning way to tell a love story between a father and daughter. Labyrinth: A young woman makes a wish that her baby brother was gone. The goblin king took him so she has to rescue him. Visually amazing, some good songs and magic. Bedknobs and Broomsticks: It's a classic for a reason. Madiline: A bright and curious little girl who finds herself in predicament after another. A Simple Wish: A little girl with her bumbling faerie godfather, who accidentally turns her father into a statue, must get the wands back from the evil Claudia. Nanny McPhee: Nanny McPhee is a coarse looking woman who teaches rambunctious kids how to be nice. Ramona and Beezus: Ramona makes trouble but means well. She is a typical 9 year old. It is also a great opening for reading the Ramona series with your youngster. Any of the American Girl series...
Susan15112746 38 weeks
I must be missing something. I don't see the list or a link
LauraGomezDeCid 38 weeks
2 of my daughter's favorite movies are on here, Brave and Mulan. We love watching them together and I do love the messages in these movies.
MomOfTwo0516 38 weeks
Clearly you haven't watched the movies because Merida and Fiona are princesses and it is refreshing to see a strong princess. Mulan becomes a princess if she marries the prince she fell in love with. There is nothing wrong with princesses. Also, power rangers, Really? why not spongebob.
CoMMember13629082754342 39 weeks
Shrek? Terrible choice for little girls. Full of rude humor, stereotypes, and sexual innuendo. 12 and up, maybe.
Gisel14951925 39 weeks
Ok so where is the link???
Norine15105387 39 weeks
I'd also make the argument that Annie is an "American" princess -- orphan girl saved by bazillionaire? C'mon. Whoever mentioned Pippi Longstocking is right on the money. Fantastic story. And how 'about Anne of Green Gables? She's a fabulous role model of a feisty -- and fire-haired -- girl who went her own way regardless of what people thought. One of my favorite fictional characters ever. Or how 'bout Hermione in the most popular children's series ever -- Harry Potter. At every turn, she out thought and out maneuvered the guys. Harry may have been the "chosen" one but he'd still be figuring out how to get the Sorcerer's Stone were it not for Hermione's brains -- a fact he readily, and frequently, acknowledged. And lastly, I'd argue that Annabeth in the Percy Jackson series is a pretty good role model too. Not sure they ever made a movie of this but Harriet of the Harriett The Spy books provides a good, non-princessy role model as well. I'm sure there are others that I haven't even thought of. Stop looking to Disney. They're in the princess business. There are other models elsewhere.
CLWaller27025 39 weeks
"Alice in Wonderland"? Honestly! A political satire that makes little sense without the "Cliff's Notes"? I think not!
CLWaller27025 39 weeks
TABITHAWILLEY 39 weeks
Um 2 for sure have princesses in them the other one is Mulan...she's not a princess but if you go to any Disney Store you'll fined her lined up with the other princesses thus making her a princess of sorts.... hmmm this story wasn't what I was expecting I'm a little disappointed
JenniferBarnes73423 39 weeks
I call BS on the whole "personal story". Any kid that grows up in a house that supports what they love and is interested in would never go to school and cry because they didn't look like everyone else. It isn't society's fault that your friend hasn't been doing her job as a parent right. Princesses and frill and lace have been around since forever. It's our job as parents to decide how much of all of it our kids watch. We are also the ones responsible for making sure that our children feel comfortable being themselves. My daughter went as princess Vader for Halloween this year because she couldn't decide between her two favorite things: princesses and star wars. This entire website is a troll.
SallyBackhaus 39 weeks
Merida and Fiona are princesses. The closest thing any Power Rangers episode has to a plot is hit the giant foam monster. The other's (that I know) are good, but way too much emphasis in our children's lives is placed (by adults) on media. At some point in the last couple generations we seem to have decided that kids magically became too stupid to tell reality from fantasy. My kids don't need to get their role models from TV. They have real people to look up to.
BonnieCarter4870 39 weeks
Shrek has Princess Fiona!
KimiBeltram 39 weeks
We should embrace the things our daughters care about most not tear them down.
Heather-Owen 39 weeks
My twelve year old looked through these movies and to of these movies have a princess in them. The other movie that its being grouped with them is Mulan and while she is NOT a princess Disney does group her with them making her one of their in current princesses in toys and clothing. I think it is said that the child mentioned above felt that she couldn't wear her Power Ranger outfit because everyone else is a princess, but every child should get to choose what they want. My child (when she was six) went to school dressed as a mushroom from Mario Bros. She was so cute, most of the girls were Tinkerbell my kid didn't care she wanted to be Toadstool so she was. I think letting girls pretend to be princesses and like frills and lace is fine. Letting your daughter wear jeans and T-shirt is fine too, my daughter wears all of it. She sometimes looks like a prom night and others like she is heading out play football...still other days she mixes it all together. I think patents should let the kids watch what they (the parents) deem fit and teach individuality!!
TinaConstable 39 weeks
Omg for god sake what a load of poop... Seriously... Why can't we allow our children to have what we had at their age... Dreams are what makes us who we are... Why can't they watch what we did, it's a friggin cartoon and the morals of the story are that no matter what life throws at as we can still be who we want to be... Leave a child be a child and don't force upon them that those stories are just stories and their dreams will never come true... It's you that's killing their dreams not a movie... Let them be a child and see children's films!! They are not children for long!!
KirstyPhillips 39 weeks
People view princess movies in the wrong way.... yes classic Cinderella and Snow Whites are old fashioned and stereotypical BUT they were created in an era where that's how women were viewed..... take other Disney Princesses for example- Ariel is talented, adventurous and feisty, Belle is intelligent, kind and brave, Tiana though she doesn't start off as a princess becomes one yet never loses her drive and her work hard ethic, Rapunzel is another who has talent, a desire for adventure and bravery, Jasmine is rebellious.... and Merida really breaks the mould of frilly dresses and "girly-ness" ... these are the examples and messages we should take from Princesses instead of focussing on the happy, ever after..... though what's wrong with finding someone who'll love you I don't know, isn't that what being human is about in the end? My little girl adores princess movies, she's a classic girly girl BUT that doesn't stop her putting on her Ninja Turtles mask and testing out her ninja skills! Our daughters will take what lessons WE give them from life. Let fairy tales be just that!
ErinLafleur 39 weeks
I laugh because my 5 year old daughter doesn't like the "classic" disney princesses. This year she went as Vanellope VonShweets from Wreck it Ralph who although she finds out she is a princess looks in disgust at the frilly dress, shakes it off and decides to change things so she was a president instead of princess. My daughter also LOVES Mulan (who isn't a princess) and Jasmine who although is a princess is a little spunkier than your classic Cinderella, Snow White or others. Really I have no problem with whatever she choses though, she should hold her head high in cofidence whether a princess or something else. As far as this list it has some great ones but one I definitely would have added to this list would be Pippi Longstocking. We love that movie!
TanyaMull 39 weeks
I am not really sure how it is such a big deal, I have a daughter who loves pink and purple crowns and lace. I know plenty of women who love fairytale movies. That is what they are fairy tales. Meant to be make believe. It is the job of the parent to give their daughter the confidence and self respect that weather they want to wear a power rangers costume or a pink lace dress with a crown. They by no means are pigeon holed into what their adult life will be like. I am appalled that princess movies would get the responsibility of causing a girl to "wait around for Prince Charming". Get a grip ladies!! These little girls are just that little girls let them express whatever they want! I certainly thin u may want to watch the movie Annie over the message is the same!
MelissaOquendo 39 weeks
"12 Movies Perfect For Gradeschoolers (With Nary a Princess in Sight)"... are you kidding me? THREE of those 12 are princess movies. It's a list of 12 movies, 3 of which happen to be princess movies. Why bother trying to put a 'no princess' label on this list, when it's so clearly incorrect. Ridiculous.
AlaneStolkovich 39 weeks
So, 3 of these are princess movies...duh!
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IF Canon did it right you get free image stacking (4 images) which should result in less noise and better color reproduction
^ This is the crux of my question: if I don't need the full sensor resolution anyway, maybe doing (some of) the downsizing ahead of time results in a better final image. It all depends on the specifics of how RAW and sRAW actually map sensor sites to the file.
If you need a simple answer: I does not.
Relatedly, does anyone know whether Canon's RAW format stores post-interpolation RGB pixels, or does it separately store the red, green and blue data as pre-interpolation discrete readouts? If the latter, whatever smarts could have been applied to the sRAW should still be applicable to the full sized RAW image.
The RAW format records non-interpolated RGB values. Yes, whatever Canon is doing to produce the smaller "RAW" formats, you can do it yourself, if you knew how (and if you find a really good reason for that).


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|Sara Mingardo has had to cancel her concert, instead there will be Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin
|Due to unforeseen circumstances in an opera production, Sara Mingardo has had to cancel her concert on 18th November 2014 in the Rudolfinum. Instead there will be another equally renowned interpreter of baroque music, desired Canadian soprano, Karina Gauvin.
"We had a blessing in disguise. Karina is very busy artist living in Canada, who we managed to reach while she was on her opera engagement duties at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. An audience has got a unique opportunity to see the legend of baroque opera for the first time in the Czech Republic", says Václav Luks, conductor, artistic director of Collegium 1704 and dramaturge of the 3rd season of "Collegium 1704 in the Rudolfinum". Karina Gauvin and Collegium 1704 with Václav Luks will be performing Vivaldi's moteto in In furore iustissimae irae and arias from Händel's operas Alcina, Rodelinda a Rinaldo.
Take a look at Karina Gauvin's videoclip with Händel's aria Care Selve from Atalanta opera (http://youtu.be/E1cuAXYkSaU) and one of the most popular baroque arias Lascia chi'o pianga from Rinaldo (http://youtu.be/ZsF1w25mWhw).
Already purchased tickets for 18th November concert will still remain valid and need not to be changed. We are negotiating with Sara Mingardo for alternative dates in the next season. Thank you for understanding.
|Our plans for the summer 2014
|Collegium 1704 will be performing in one of the prestigious festivals, Festival
Chopin i Jego Europa on 20th August. The program will be a non-traditional event that will consist of the music from Rossini, Donzietti and Bellini, which you may be familiar with from our previous concerts with Raffaella Milanesi at the Rudolfinum. The program will consist of the music of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. For the first time ever we will also be performing an extraordinary Symphony in D major by the Czech composer J. V. H. Vořišek. According to the dramaturgy of the Chopin Festival, the music is much younger than the one usually presented by Collegium 1704.
It's a great privilege and honour to be resident guests and perform at a number of dates in one of the biggest festivals of early music in the world, Oude Muzik Utrecht. Collegium 1704 will be performing on three different concerts, dramaturgy linked to Bohemia: the first and the opening concert will take place on 29th August with the music from Zelenka, Tuma and Fux (broadcasted live by Avro TV and Dutch Radio 4). On 1st September, there will be a performance of Oratorio di San Giovanni Nepomuceno from the Italian composer Antonio Caldara. The final concert on 2nd September called "Salon Praga 1723" will introduce instrumental music by Zelenka, Reichenauer, Brescianello and Orschler.
In late summer, we will come back to Poland, where Collegium 1704 is very popular, for two another concerts, on 6th and 7th September, at the legendary festival Wratislavia Cantans. This year's festival theme is "From Darkness to Light" and Collegium 1704 will perform Handel's 'Dixit Dominus' and the Requiem in D major by Jan Dismas Zelenka.
|Early Music Festival in Riga
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Solicitor slams 'heavy handed' council after he is dealt car fine
3:00pm Wednesday 30th January 2013 in News By Melanie Vass
FINE OF THE TIMES: Charles Garegnani was fined after being spotted by the council camera car while broken down at a bus stop
A SOLICITOR who was fined after his car broke down in a bus stop has criticised the council's "heavy handed" approach.
Charles Garegnani, of West Road, Pokesdown, eventually succeeded in overturning the £70 penalty charge notice issued after he was caught by Bournemouth's camera car.
But his appeal was initially rejected and he had to pay the fine while continuing to argue his case.
Mr Garegnani, a legal consultant for Fair Justice, believes Bournemouth council should have overturned his fine more quickly and feels the system deters motorists from appealing.
He said: "The system as it is is not fair. If you pursue an appeal you risk having to pay double the amount you would have paid if you did so straight away.
"After my appeal was rejected, I paid on a without prejudice basis and re-appealed but how many people would know you could do that?"
The 38-year-old had sent the council photographs of his BMW broken down on the bus stop in Seabourne Road and in the process of being jump-started.
"I thought they would use their discretion and cancel the fine but they turned the appeal down, saying I needed an invoice from a recovery firm or garage, which obviously I didn't have as we fixed the car ourselves.
"I think there is a genuine purpose behind the camera car but it just feels heavy handed. People will give up and pay £35 because they can't spend time arguing their case in front of an arbitrator."
Gary Powell, parking and traffic manager at Bournemouth council, said: "We have a fair three stage process for any motorists wishing to appeal against a penalty charge notice. Full consideration is given to individual cases and mitigating circumstances are taken into account.
"Mr Garegnani appealed against his PCN but this was refused on the grounds that insufficient written evidence and documentation was provided.
"Although Mr Garegnani paid his fine, he re-appealed to the council and gave additional information to support his case.
"We believed Mr Garegnani's situation was genuine and as a result we used our discretion to refund his penalty charge."
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3:15pm Wed 30 Jan 13
TD61 says...
3:39pm Wed 30 Jan 13
muscliffman says...
TD61 wrote:My thoughts exactly, why is someone pouring fuel into the car?
Broken down? Looks more like he allowed his car to run out of fuel - which is not mechanical breakdown, it's negligence so he should have paid the fine and moved on with his life :o/
This does suggest it has not broken down mechanically at all but has simply and avoidably run out of fuel.
(A jump start in these circumstances is not unusual as repeated attempts to re-prime and start the car would be needed - discharging the battery.)
Would be interesting to know all the facts here!
3:48pm Wed 30 Jan 13
The Renegade Master says...
3:56pm Wed 30 Jan 13
TD61 says...
The Renegade Master wrote:If he could get a "witness" to write a letter to the appeal board stating that he helped Mr Garegnani to jump start his car and not mention the lack of fuel which lead to a flat battery, the council would not have had full details, so could only act on the "evidence" submitted ..... that's how it appears to me anyway .....
I think it's clear that if Bournemouth Council had thought Mr. Garegnani had simply run out of fuel they would not have returned his fine.
4:02pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Lord gungedin of Ferndown says...
4:11pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Lord Spring says...
4:13pm Wed 30 Jan 13
chris100 says...
he should know this
any tickets go to pepipoo and they will help you
4:26pm Wed 30 Jan 13
MMM444 says...
4:51pm Wed 30 Jan 13
rayc says...
5:03pm Wed 30 Jan 13
BoscombeBloke says...
5:29pm Wed 30 Jan 13
davidhaz says...
6:07pm Wed 30 Jan 13
BIGTONE says...
7:23pm Wed 30 Jan 13
BoscombeBloke says...
8:16pm Wed 30 Jan 13
mysticalshoelace says...
Lets face it the only reason for that camera car is to raise revenue for a council that can't manage its money!
8:19pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Letcommonsenseprevail says...
10:06pm Wed 30 Jan 13
s-pb2 says...
davidhaz wrote:Think you could be onto something there!
he was probably dogging....... He told the officer the transsexual midget sitting on his lap was only helping to "get it started" Broken down was the best excuse he could come up with.
I personally dont think hes holding up a penalty notice, I think its a swimming certificate
Also why in one pic do the Echo blank out his registration, yet in the next picture its in plain view?
10:17pm Wed 30 Jan 13
BoscombeBloke says...
11:51pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Bob49 says...
Most folk will also think that car engines nowadays tend to require computer diagnostics,and would not presume to simply call someone out to put some petrol in the tank - but wait for a qualfied 'recovery' mechanic instead.
Further I am sure (as will many others be) that battery's on cars like that do not simply drain (go flat)through driving around town - and expect that he has parked up to use the loo or something and after getting a ticket has concocted this farcical nonsense.
I tend to agree with the council here.
5:09am Thu 31 Jan 13
Phixer says...
Is this another Echo posed photo-op breaking the law? About time the Echo was taken to court.
8:30am Thu 31 Jan 13
djd says...
My heart bleeds for him.
9:53am Thu 31 Jan 13
jeebuscripes says...
Whenever life gets you down just contact The Echo.
10:46am Thu 31 Jan 13
Wintonian says...
chris100 wrote:That's not the kerbside yellow line, it's the dotted line separating the bus stop from the main carriageway.
not a very good solicitor is he ????? if you look at the yellow line you will see thats its broken so is not legal and from that pic it doesnt look like he isfully in the bus stop just the rear end of the car is
he should know this
any tickets go to pepipoo and they will help you
10:18am Fri 1 Feb 13
The Liberal says...
BoscombeBloke wrote:Just a thought, but maybe he saw the camera car go past while he was stuck there? I mean it's not exactly inconspicuous, is it, with bright markings and a great big camera on the top of it!
How strange, mr garegnani 'had sent the council photos of his BMW broken down and in the process of being jump started' to support his claim to get the fine quashed. His fine was issued by the camera car, and he would have had no idea that he would be fined until it arrived on his doormat. Why on earth would he take photos of his cars alleged breakdown, for his own pleasure!. Methinks he could have taken photos after his fine arrived to create 'evidence'. Please council check the weather conditions,exact car location etc to see if perjury has occurred.
10:21am Fri 1 Feb 13
The Liberal says...
Phixer wrote:Not so. A council has every right to issue PCNs.
A 'real' solicitor would have known that a council cannot issue 'fines'.
Is this another Echo posed photo-op breaking the law? About time the Echo was taken to court.
I do you hope you have a 'real' solicitor to fend off that potential libel suit, though!
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Republican Mike Bennett, who will be sworn in Jan. 6 as the county's new supervisor of elections, echoed remarks made to CNN by Florida Gov. Rick Scott on how to fix the state's embarrassing election day meltdown.
During the Nov. 6 general election, Manatee voters waited up to two hours at the county's sole early voting site; in some counties, the wait was up to six hours.
In 2011, as the president pro tempore of the Florida Senate, Bennett voted to cut back on the number of early voting days. "I don't have a problem making it harder (to vote)," he was quoted as saying. "I want people in Florida to want to vote as bad as that person in Africa who walks 200 miles across the desert. This should not be easy."
But now that he's about to take over as the county's elections supervisor, Bennett said Wednesday he would like to see the number of early voting days restored from eight to 14, and more flexibility given to local officials in choosing early voting sites.
Bennett also advocated new voter registration cards with photo ID's for all Florida residents, paid for by the state.
"I hope to be actively involved through the Association of the Supervisors of Elections to cure some problems," said Bennett.
His stance is in sharp contrast from comments Bennett made last year. "Do you read the stories about the people in Africa? The people in the desert, who literally walk two and three hundred miles so they can have the opportunity to do what we do, and we want to make it more convenient? How much more convenient do you want to make it? Do we want to go to their house? Take the polling booth with us?
"This is a hard-fought privilege," Bennett said in 2011, according to the American Independent. "This [voting] is something people die for. You want to make it convenient? The guy who died to give you that right, it was not convenient. Why would we make it any easier? I want 'em to fight for it. I want 'em to know what it's like. I want them to go down there, and have to walk across town to go over and vote."
Bennett is succeeding Bob Sweat, who is retiring after 28 years.
Scott, in defending his refusal to allow early voting on the last Sunday before the election, told CNN that he was simply complying with the law, but he added "We do need change."
In an interview with host Soledad O'Brien, Scott noted that Secretary of State Ken Detzner is working with the state's supervisors of election to create legislation to improve the process.
"We've got to go back and look at the number of days of early voting that we have," the governor said.
Meanwhile, testifying before a U.S. Senate committee, former Rep. Gov. Charlie Crist, a newly minted Democrat, criticized Scott for signing the law and failing to extend early voting when he had the chance.
"Florida, which four years earlier was a model for efficiency, became once again a late-night TV joke," he said.
Crist said in 2008 that he ordered early voting hours extended because of long lines, noting that he and his then-chief of staff, former U.S. Sen. George Lemieux, "figured out a legal justification."
Crist is a potential challenger to Scott in 2014. He dropped his Republican affiliation in 2010 when it became clear he would lose the GOP's U.S. Senate nomination to now-Sen. Marco Rubio. Crist opted to run instead without party affiliation but then lost to Rubio in the general election.
After campaigning for Democratic President Barack Obama this year, Crist officially became a Democrat last Thursday.
A Qunnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed Scott's job approval rating at a dismal 36 percent while Crist had a 47 percent favorable rating. The poll of 1,261 registered Florida voters has a 2.8 percent plus or minus margin of error.
"It is outrageous that it took a national embarrassment for Gov. Scott to see that his voting changes are wrong," state Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, who represents a part of Manatee County, said after Scott's interview.
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This will no doubt bring out differing opinions. About 35 years ago, I encountered my first tank, 30 gallon, with rusted-through pinholes. I welded with the stick, the only electric welder I had at the time. Tested the tank to 410 PSI with water and a grease gun. My external fitting holding the gauge cracked at that pressure.That tank later developed another hole at a different location and I welded it with MIG. Still in use at 125 PSI.
Lately, I have welded up pinholes in three tanks in the 8 to 20 gallon size. All the holes were in the bottom. All three are Sears "portable" compressor units, probably 30 to 40 years old. Two were built by Campbell-Hausfeld, supplier prefix 106, and the third was built by Devilbiss, supplier prefix 919. All are belt-driven compressors. These are limited to about 100 to 120 PSI. Scott and Fetzer may have owned Campbell- Hausfeld at some time.
New replacement tanks of similar size are currently available from Grainger at incredibly high prices, in the $300.00 range.
Over the years, I have cut open several tanks to find that significant rusting is almost always very localized with pitting only in small areas.
Automobile cooling systems now range up to 20 PSI with aluminum and plastic radiator components.
And if the tank was going to explode, why did it not do so just before the pinhole developed? Why would it be more likely to do so just after a welded repair? And how often are explosions of air tanks reported?
So I test with the pointed end of a chipping or pick-type body hammer for soundness of the tank. My other, and perhaps best, test is to set the MIG welder to penetrate about 75% of the thickness of 16 gauge sheet and start welding around the pinhole. When the hole can be fully encircled without burn through, one more pass around the outside of that bead and then start filling in the inside of that bead "circle".
I bought two of the compressors complete and running with motors for scrap price. The third belongs to a friend who was going to junk his and had bought new Harbor Freight oil-free unit. The new was so disappointing that he asked me to look at it to see if it was operating properly. He took the new one back for refund and likes the repaired one better.
Good as new after welding? I doubt it. But my confidence in the repair is high and I now have an abundance of available compressors for my use at minimal cost to supplement the 80 gallon 5 HP unit in the shop.
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I had a much younger cousin do a science fair project that involved steam. It scared the living @$&** out of me. It had a 15 pound relief valve. His dad , my uncle was a tug boat captain and gotten the tank, gauge and relief valve off a scrap barge. I convinced them of the danger finally so they brought the combo to me for test. First I removed the relief valve and plugged the hole. Next I filled the whole apparatus with water and then applied 125 pound air from my air compressor. Fortunately nothing leaked, if it had so what a little stream of water and no one hurt. Next I replaced the relief valve and slowly worked up the pressure till the relief popped off. It, the gauge and the one on my air tank agreed. I felt comfortable with it at that point. I caused Eugene to make a brass plate engraved " Hydro-statically tested to 125 lb" and what ever the date was. He won a prize. One of the judges was from Marsh and Mclennan or how ever you spell it. The commercial insurance company. They awarded Eugene an extra award that was not part of the original contest for the Hydro test plate. I was proud of him and he of me for making him do it. At first they were going to disqualify him because of the steam. Oh he had a CO2 extinguisher with a favorable test date at the display too. You bring back happy memories of a family working together.
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Steam accidents happen when a dry boiler is overheated and then water is added which then flashes into steam volumes far faster than any safety vent can handle. Pressure instantly rises to incredible numbers and disaster results.
I do not think that 120 PSI will rip open long places in a tank.
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I noticed something unique about my 4 year old Coleman 60 gallon vertical tank compressor that bothers me. The bottom drain screws into a bushing that is welded into the bottom if the tank. The bushing appears to actually extend an inch or so up into the bottom of the tank, and leaves an area that holds an inch or so of water in the bottom and never drains out. What made me notice it was that I used the compressor for several days before any water came out when I opened the drain. After that time water comes out every time open the drain.
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Oxygen causes rusting. Pressure in the tank might "reoxygenate" that trapped water. But if it does not, then the trapped water does not further cause rusting once the dissolved oxygen in it is depleted.
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I do a lot of work with ASME pressure vessels and am constantly amazed at how much air pressure a very thin-wall vessel will contain. As long as the tank is round, the forces remain uniform and they seem to last forever. Having said that, I would be afraid of welding pinholes on thin gauge steel, without a "backing-bar", and even then I am not sure I would trust it completely. I think you are doing the right thing by hydro testing first, because it is safer than a pneumatic test. Good luck with your repairs.
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I figure that if and when it rust through there will be a circle of pin holes all the way round tight at the top of the water, where the water and air meet.
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Oh really, the guy in one of these pictures was killed. The rest just got hurt a lot. Making up a tag and claiming somethings certified is against the law. Unless you have an R stamp for welding pressure vessels, you should leave them alone.
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I can certainly appreciate the fact that something bad happened in the photos you posted, but you can't come into a conversation and claim such things with out giving us the story behind the pictures. For all we know, someone filled the tank with hydrogen, opened a valve and then had a smoke break. What happened, chain of events, pressures involved, heat, and on and on.....
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The photos show multiple compressors and tanks. This was a service facility for compressors? What service/modifications were done to the exploded unit? Suppose that the controls were changed and no changes made to the tank? Would one then blame the explosion on the tank?
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I have one of the green Sears compressors, 106 prefix, 1 hp, 2 cyl, still has the original ribbed belt. Belonged to my father, maybe 40 years old. Sat in my BIL's basement unused for 20 years or so until I grabbed it. Had a hole that I brazed 15 years ago. Still used the compressor until this spring when I got a much larger unit. Seemed like a good idea to braze the hole closed at the time but maybe not. I have no idea what the common failure mode is for tanks in an explosion, over pressure from a bad relief valve, metal fatique, rust weakening the metal?
In general I would say it is a bad idea to weld/braze the holes but I admit that that is exactly what I had done.
What is the technique for hydrotesting with a grease gun? Fill the gun with water?
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Where I used to work we had a vertical compressor suppling air to a car was machine. It developed a 1 1/2" crack at the top of the tank under the compressor mounting frame. Glad I wasn't there! I just replaced the whole unit, with plans to cannabilize the compressor later. BTW my shop compressor was made from a propane tank, it was originally used in the local post office to air up tires, probably over 50 years old,very heavy tank and Ingersol Rand 2 cyl. compressor.
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Since water is essentially incompressible ( it does compress significantly at 50,000 PSI!) one fills the tank completely with water with a threaded opening at the highest point. Then a grease fitting is installed in that opening ( with tee and pressure gauge if desired) and start pumping in the grease. Grease guns are said to be capable of developing 10,000 PSI. I think testing to twice the operating pressure is adequate. If the tank bursts with water, less than a cup full will be discharged while all the pressure is relieved. No danger. One tube of grease was all that was required for the 30 gallon tank which was a former propane tank. Obviously any tank can be destroyed with enough pressure applied.
Removing and plugging high pressure relief valves, miswiring pressure switches so that they do not shut off the compressor, several other things are all setups for disaster. Compressors drawing over about 15 amps should be on a magnetic starter for long life of the pressure switch- and correct wiring of those is essential for safety.
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I went through some of the same issues with my compressor. The condensation collects at the bottom of the tank and that promotes the rust. With horizontal tanks the sidewall is made of much thinner material then the end bells. Because of that when I replaced mine I purchased an upright so it should take a longer time to rust through. I didn't want to replace mine either. I wanted to repair it too, but in the long run due to the potential for injury, I decided that the cost of a new compressor wasn't so bad after all.
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#1: Damage appears to be caused by something other than the pressure most air compressors can produce.
#2: What is the source of the information?
#3: There would have been an investigation conducted in the case of an accidental death. Local newspaper would have published information on the accident and subsequent court cases?
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