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What Controller and Auditor General Ludovic Utouh revealed while unveiling his 2011 government Audit report in Dodoma a few days ago, that public funds are being squandered with impunity, is obviously not news to the citizens of this country.
The only new development is the amount of money being embezzled in one way or another, which is in billions and seems to be rising to trillions of shillings.
We are saying few people will be surprised to hear what the Audit Office has reported in process of doing its duty because it is the same story we get every year. Even the barely disguised loopholes and excuses used in the open theft and calculated financial sabotage are the same.
Stealing public money is now part of the public servants' culture, for those engaged in the dirty game remain role models in society, as they display their ill gotten wealth in broad day light - unfortunate as this national self destruction mess may be.
How we fail to block clearly identified theft avenues of public money is disturbing and unbelievable. The report cites payments made in respect to maintenance of government vehicles as one of the loopholes used to divert billions of money to the pockets of dishonest public officers and their comrades in crime in the private sector.
This is part of the story, as even the cost of buying expensive and fuel guzzling luxurious vehicles for government bureaucrats and other fat cats in the political establishment is a burden to the poor taxpayer. Much has been said about the malpractice and promises to address the issue are one of the popular, or rather unpopular songs, but nothing is happening.
One notes that institutions in central government departments as well as local government authorities which have excelled in this malpractice are mentioned by name. Common sense, much as it may not be all that common, tells us that in this case the suspected culprits that is - officers in these institutions, are known and the buck ought to stop at their doors. Why such tainted characters remain safe in their abused public nests is a puzzle, to put it mildly.
Ghost workers who have refused to die despite being targeted to be killed for the last ten or so years, if my memory serves me well, are another conduit used to bleed the treasury dry. We are told a cool one billion shillings disappeared in thin air by paying invisible workers during the period under review.
This money is enough to buy several ambulances or to equip a number of primary schools with desks and other basic requirements. Is it true that the issue of ghost workers is too complicated to be handled or contained once and for all in the 21st century?
Theft avenue number three highlighted in the down- to- earth CAG's report is making payments in respect to undelivered goods and services. To add insult to injury, it has been reported that the blatant looters made part of the payment in advance.
One would expect a hint of this nature to attract the attention of the criminal investigation police department or the anti- Corruption Bureau, or both, immediately, leading to an urgent and express mission of finding out what really transpired in the implicated institutions or government agencies.
Questionable tax exemptions and over spending continue unabated. There have always been plans to take measures and ensure transparency prevails in this area but little results are seen in practice.
A combination of these financial malpractices and other factors are an obvious recipe for a massive national debt reported to have risen from 10.5 trillion in 2009/20010 to 14.4 trillion in 2010/2011. Who are we to blame for this kind of financial mess?
Legislators have made much noise about the ongoing looting, but many citizens hesitate to take them seriously as nobody can guarantee that most of them cannot board the gravy train when the opportunity arises – not when they turn a blind eye to the sitting allowance system abuse in government and crave to be on board. It is high time members of the public reacted seriously to this white collar crime and injustice.
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I've been making them for my campaign about a week or two in advance. What exactly are you using them for? Combat maps, handouts?
I'll start cleaning things up and posting what I have.
I've noticed that someone made all maps for the "Keep on the Shadowfell" and "Thunderspire labyrinth" dungeon and dragon 4e adventures. I'm currently starting the Scepter Tower of Spellgard adventure as a DM and I'v been trying, in vain, to find the maps for this adventure.
I'm definitely not a cartographer myself and was wondering if someone was working on that project?
Thank you!
I've been making them for my campaign about a week or two in advance. What exactly are you using them for? Combat maps, handouts?
I'll start cleaning things up and posting what I have.
I would be using mostly the combat maps. For the rest I'd rather leave it to the player's imagination based on my descriptions. If you started making some of those combat maps and are willing to post them, I would be most gratefull!
Thank you in advance!
I'm not sure if what I have is going to be useful for you, my current setup is to feed maps, as the players see things, to a secondary monitor so that they can transfer the necessary info to the battle mat.
This means that, for the most part, they're not at a great resolution, and they're not really "dressed".
I'm not always faithful to the original layout. If there are differences that you don't like, forgive me.
You'll also find that I cheat distances for things that aren't going to appear on the screen all at the same time. The distance between the towers of the raparts for example should be about 300', but 90% of that distance is never going to be used, so I just did a screen's worth and called it quits.
Here's a clean version of the ruins too.
That looks cool. Is that CC?
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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Nytmare, this is exactly what I was looking for. You've just made my life as a DM that much easier!!
If you have any more maps for the Catacomb and Tower areas and are willing to share them as well, that would be most appreciated.
Thanks again for your contribution, I can't insist enough on how gratefull I am
I'll upload everything I make, as I finish them.
Just to let you know, I've been using those maps for the last 3-4 games and the players really enjoyed these.
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Pitching sees less zip, but more jump
Moving the softball pitching rubber from 40 feet to 43 this season has produced more hitting and scoring. No surprise there.
What may come as a surprise is the improved pitching statistics.
Woodcreek High School begins the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs Friday night with a .283 team batting average, 19 points above last season. The Timberwolves average more runs (4.48 to 4.12) and hits (7.48 to 6.6) than they did last season.
In the circle, Woodcreek's pitching staff — sophomores Amanda Horbasch and Lexi Wilkerson and freshman Jenna Curtan — allows a collective .227 batting average, 12 points lower than last season. The trio allows 5.8 hits per game, one fewer than last year's 6.85 average.
While that three extra feet has taken zip off their velocity, it also allows Horbasch's riseball to climb more and gives Curtan's screwball and curve and Wilkerson's changeup and curve more time to move.
"Definitely the rise," Horbasch said Thursday after practice, adding there's more opportunity to throw low and high riseballs. "At 40 feet, you don't really have that option. You can only throw a low rise."
Roseville has increased numbers this season in team batting average (.327 in 2011 over .320 in 2010), runs per game (5.65 to 4.5) and hits per game (8.96 to 7.14). The Tigers would face Woodcreek at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at the Sacramento Softball Complex if both win Friday night.
Kayla Fields' batting average has increased from .277 in 2010 to .344 this season. While improved statistics also are related to age and maturity, the sophomore said the additional three feet gives hitters more time to watch the ball travel.
"You have longer to see where the movement is going, the spin of the ball and things," Fields said. "It lets you see the ball longer and track it."
Roseville's team batting average allowed is slightly higher this season: .184 against .177 in 2010. Senior Delany DeMello began pitching from 43 feet last summer and said the transition took about two weekends worth of tournaments.
"I know the batter can see it better, but you can still hit your locations better," said DeMello, who has a 1.85 ERA.
Coaches are on both sides of the fence regarding the new distance. Woodcreek coach Art Banks likes the change. He pointed to the Timberwolves' lower strikeout ratio this season: 2.1 per game compared to 4.4 in 2010. Roseville's strikeout ratio has dropped from 2.7 in 2010 to 2 this season.
"It's not as dominating a game as it used to be by the battery," Banks said, adding defense now plays a bigger role. "Ours has been pretty tough at times. It's actually played into our hands pretty good."
Granite Bay coach Michele Granger doesn't believe the change is "a big deal" at the varsity level, but she questioned the change at the junior varsity level.
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Boltor, Kunai and Mag and I usually roll with these mods and can usually do about 40 mins or so regular survival if I'm careful, so that should be ok? Haven't got Nova and Nekros yet though might go farm their parts later. Currently have Ember, Ash, Mag, Nyx, Valkyr while Rhino and Oberon are cooking.
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OCamlSpotter - OCaml source browsing
OCamlSpotter is a tool for OCaml source code browsing.
- You can search the definitions of names of values, functions, data types and modules.
- Emacs and Vim helpers help your browsing via editors.
- Definition search traverses module aliases and functor applications: if module M = N, OCamlSpotter automatically seeks the definition of M.x in N. Very helpful in the modern OCaml programming with lots of modules.
OCamlSpotter 2.x uses *.cmt and *.cmti files created by OCaml compiler 4.00.0 or newer with -bin-annot option.
Unlike OCamlSpotter 1.x, OCamlSpotter 2.x is a standalone application. You NO LONGER need compiler patching. Just make, make install, and configure ocamlspot.el.
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Otherwise OCamlSpotter complains that it cannot find required cmt/cmti files.
How to do it?
Normally this requires little modifications to the build script (Makefile/OMakefile/...) of each library. Basically, you need:
Add -bin-annot to the compiler switch. For example OCAMLCFLAGS += -bin-annot
Copy cmt and cmti files at installation. For example:
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This means that you need to recompile all the OCaml libraries you use with -bin-annot.
If you want to browse OCaml's standard library (stdlib and otherlibs), you must also recompile those modules with -bin-annot option to create cmt/cmti files.
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After winning the Fen Badge from Crasher Wake, Ash and co. decide to head to the next Gym, or contest, whichever comes first. During their trek, it starts to rain. As they try to get out of the rain, they find a cute little Azurill and it's caretaker, a maid named Monica, who invites them to stay at the luxurious mansion of her employer, Mr. Backlot.
During their stay, they find many adorable Pokémon, and a Swinub with an appettite as big as that of Lina Inverse. Can they be able to curb it's overeating, and what new skills will Dawn acquire.
- Lisa Ortiz, who was part of the cast back in the 4kids days, returns after being on a three season hiatus to voice Monica.
- After getting out of Team Rocket's machine, the color of Buizel's collar is the same as the shade of yellow of some of the other Pokémon (most notably on Ambipom, Buneary and itself).
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Justin Bieber was released from jail yesterday, after being charged with DUI, resisting arrest, and driving on an expired license. He posted $2,500 bail and while he was leaving, he sat on top of a vehicle and waved to his fans, like a beauty queen or something. But spending the morning in jail didn't seem to slow him down. Just a few hours after he was released, Bieber headed straight to South Beach for a few drinks! There's a photo of him checking his phone and hanging at a table filled with bottles around 5:30p.m. Thursday. And guess who was haning out with him?! His good ole dad, Jeremy Bieber! It sure sounds like Justin's parents are enabling his behavior. Justin reportedly told the police that he didn't know what prescription medicine he'd taken - he just takes whatever his mom gives him.
Some of the celebrity Tweets cracked me up:
Keyshawn Johnson, the former NFL player who moved out of Justin's neighborhood after complaining about what a nuisance he is, and how he's always speeding down their street: "They finally caught HIM! Glad no one was hurt, no kids in the street. Everyone grows up at some point. Hopefully he learns from it. The scary part is grown adults who are with him aren't protecting him from himself! All looking for a quick buck. Learning experience for all."
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WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES, you don't usually think of renewables. NC GreenPower is working to change that, specifically in North Carolina.
NC GreenPower focuses on engaging the consumer and even supporting economic development in the renewables arena. Despite its renewables focus, NC GreenPower's approach could serve as a model for organizations tasked with engaging consumers in smart grid efforts and developing a more robust workforce to support smarter technologies. The group also shows that consumer engagement with energy doesn't always have to come from a utility.
Established in 2003, NC GreenPower is the first statewide multi-utility renewable energy program in the United States. The program gives all North Carolina electric customers the opportunity to promote the use and development of green power generated in the state. NC GreenPower's efforts include a volunteer speaker's bureau, community outreach efforts and contribution opportunities. ''We want to help people understand renewables and have a vote-with-your-dollars moment,'' said Martha Gettys, business development manager at NC GreenPower. ''Customers can let North Carolina know that renewable energy matters to them. They are making contributions with a measurable result.''
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We got a sample of the potential contentiousness in a House of Delegates divided, with 54 Democrats and 46 Republicans, in two heated debates last week over the magistrate pay raise bill (HB2434).
With three exceptions, the passage vote and the debate leading up to it was partisan - and to a great extent, more ill-tempered than usual. (It's not unusual to see legislators stage intense debates on the floor, then pat themselves on the back and share a drink in junior rules - but the exchanges last week seemed more angry and personal than usual.)
Delegate Daryl Cowles, R-Morgan, who in his new role as minority whip is the target of many of the Democratic delegates' barbs, said despite last week's exchanges, he believes the members of the newly configured House will manage to work together this session.
Also confounding was why the first bill the House leadership took up this session was a controversial pay raise bill that died in Senate Finance last year, and appears to have no better chance of passing the Senate this session.
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Miley is expected to run against appointed Sen. Sam Cann, D-Harrison, in 2014.
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There's also bills to exempt any firearms and ammo purchased and maintained in West Virginia from federal regulations (SB68, HB2427), to repeal municipal ordinances restricting handgun purchases (HB2558), and to allow persons with concealed weapons permits to pack heat in the Capitol (SB333, HB2459).
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Didn't see a thread on this and I'm interested. What's your's?
Mine is probably a signed poster from this years bball team, OSU game towel/ticket, and randomly an arm rest from a seat in Hilton. Got it at the 2005 Virginia game.
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Didn't see a thread on this and I'm interested. What's your's?
Ticket to the OSU game at this point....maybe my ISU football helmet
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Wow good thread. My towel from the OSU game last year is fast becoming my favorite ISU possession. My grandpa hand carved me a cy back in the 80's and that is my most prized ISU possession though.
My wife: an ISU cheerleader.
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My diploma.
Followed by my John Holliday poster and my ISU license plates, one of which hangs on my office cubicle at work and one which will go up in my garage when we buy our house (can't use them in Michigan).
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The OSU game towel,ticket and pics. 87-88 mens basketball season preseason roster with the team signatures I have had since I was ten and when I became a Cyclone they scrimmaged against each other at Indian Hills Comm College.
The most prized is my Fred Hoiberg the mayor the magic t-shirt signed by Fred himself, having the signature of someone you idolized while developing your game....awesome. It is framed above our couch I sit underneath it every night.
A signed picture of me (as Cy) with Johnny Orr at my hometown 4th of July parade.
Its a tie between these:
Signed Orr basketball, Signed Rhoads fb, Game ball signed by the team from the Insight bowl, a signed basketball from the ISU basketball team 2010.
Random things would be one of the old section seating signs from JTS. I also got a North Texas Program with Coach Mac Sig on it from his first game he coached there this year.
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My diploma.
Followed by my John Holliday poster and my ISU license plates, one of which hangs on my office cubicle at work and one which will go up in my garage when we buy our house (can't use them in Michigan).
A set of tickets to the last big 8 tournament and an Johnny Orr autographed piece of Hilton floor from the first flood
My wife hers is, well her diploma and most expensive.
My degree
Carrying the banner for ISU.
Quarterback wristband signed by Seneca Wallace the day he broke the consecutive completion record against Baylor (I think it's like 22 straight completions).
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Kia has a long and unremarkable history of trying to sell the large Magentis saloon in the UK. No matter how cheap it was, British buyers were just not convinced, but they are going to be a lot more interested in the Optima. To start with, Kia has a vastly improved image now, and has proven it can easily sell £20K SUV models in this country. Secondly, the Optima is actually well-suited to the UK market, with is diesel-only range, sharp styling and copious equipment.
First impressions in our Kia Optima review are very good. The styling of large Asian saloons has tended to veer between dull and contrived, but the Optima looks more classy and certain. The big hunk of metal around the C-pillar (the back of the rear passenger door) may not be to everyone's liking, but it is distinctive and gives a tiny hint of a coupe. Above all, it says that Kia has found its own design language and it is not trying to imitate anyone, which is a huge step forward compared to 10 years ago. The interior is similarly striking. The dashboard arguably looks a little hectic and the plastic around the ventilation controls is a bit hard and shiny, but overall it compares favourably with those standard-bearers, the Ford Mondeo and the Vauxhall Insignia.
In our Kia Optima road test, the surprises continue. The ride is quite firm, but well controlled with good damping - again the exact opposite of its wallowing predecessors. This makes the Kia Optima quite an entertaining drive, although the light (if accurate) steering reins in the fun-factor somewhat. Performance is best described as satisfactory. The 1.7 litre engine is relatively small for a car of this size, but the 134 bhp output does a good job of hiding this fact. When pulling away from rest in our Kia Optima road test, the engine takes a little time to get into its powerband, and, in the automatic, you can tell that the engine has to work hard up steep hills. However, the 57.6 mpg official fuel consumption for the manual version more than outweighs these minor inconveniences.
As you would expect, all versions are well equipped, with the base model having Bluetooth, air-conditioning, alloy wheels and electrically folding mirrors. Our choice would be the 2 Tech trim level, which includes an excellent 12 speaker Infinity audio (Infinity is a sub brand of Harmon/Kardon), sat-nav and part leather seats.
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1. Roomy and refined 2. Good economy with manual gearbox 3. Idiosyncratic styling
1. Sunroof takes up some rear headroom 2. Engine a bit lacklustre at low revs 3. Automatic gearbox is three road tax bands higher than the manual
Most fun: 1.7 2 TechMost sensible: 1.7 1Worst: 1.7 2 Luxe - the Tech makes much more sense
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DO NOT MESSAGE ME ABOUT THESE AMPS. I have nothing to do with Sanway or purchasing these amps. Any information I have is in this thread. If you have questions, CONTACT SANWAY. The information is in this thread.
So in my quest for even more power, I ended up looking for the biggest amp I could find. That ended up to be the Lab Gruppen FP14000. However, I would need four of them, and a cost of $6500 a piece put them out of my range. Fortunately, the fine PRC of China does not care much for intellectual property, and has produced a magnificent clone. Actually, they produced many clones. The problem was finding a good one.
Tasso, CVR,and a few other companies will resell busted or QC failed amps, or even clones from another source. Many other companies will resell another company's amp and claim it as their own (shocking).
In my search, I found two suppliers who were producing their own units. These were Gisen and Sanway. I ended up purchasing from Sanway for a few reasons. First, they use higher capacity capacitors. Second, their heatsinks are actual copper. The only downside is that each amp has four fans that I will have to replace or put a resistor inline to quiet them down. I'm in the process of doing this now as I have a bunch of test fans. The fans in the amp are 24v. The amps are priced at $726 a piece. Quite the bargain if you feel comfortable wiring money to China with no recourse if your goods don't show up. It cost a little over $400 to ship them DHL to NY.
If someone wants to try one of the Gisen, be my guest. When I was going to order a sample to compare anyway, they told me they didn't have the parts on hand to build it. Two days later they told me they were good to go, but after that I didn't even want to risk it. If someone else wants to order one from there and compare, that would be cool, but the Sanway amps are great.
Anyway, onto the good stuff. These amps are monsters. My subs go so much louder now. Easily +6db over the MA-5050s in stereo mode at 4ohms (tested at 10hz). When the bass hits, it literally dims the lights in my house. I have 200a service. The amps are connected on four 30a breakers at 120v. The displays on these are nice. They will not blind you, and have nice level meters.
Now for the bad stuff. The amps weren't exactly perfect. The one issue I've seen so far is that one of the voltage protection switches when set to "hard" will cause the VPL light to light. This is only on one amp and I am going to contact Sanway about it. It's not a feature I'm using, so I don't really care. UPDATE: I have contacted Sanway. They have supposedly isolated the issue and are sending me a replacement part to fix the power supply board. I will update further when I receive more information. They said it was damaged by Franklinism which cracked me up. Franklinism is static electricity =]
UPDATE2: I have replaced the fans. The amp went from 75db to 52db at the front panel. They are nice and quiet now. However, the cooling is greatly reduced. I pummeled these for a few hours and could not get them to overheat in anything resembling a normal condition. I was running these HARD, very heavy dubstep at levels that became physically uncomfortable to be in the same room. They didn't come close to overheating. The only way I was able to get the temperatures to spike was to run them full out for over 10 minutes. Let me tell you, this wasn't fun. I turned off three of the amps, so I only had one enclosure and one amp running. The lights for -4 were on, and I turned up the knob another 3db. I finally was able to push it into uncomfortable territory. Beating on them for hours, I was only able to push it up to 73C at most. I was able to push it over 90 going flat out. The unmodified amp was on average 15-20C cooler. I didn't notice any performance decreases during any of this, and I would have pushed the amp further if I wasn't worried about melting the VC's of my very expensive drivers.
So, 300-400ohm resistor (using wire wound 5w) and 60mm fan and then an 80mm fan. It takes two of each of those per amp. Pics here, writeup here.
Here are some pics I've accrued from Sanway, and some pics of what I received. They shipped the amps DHL and they got here in 3-4 days. You can see their other clones on their alibaba page which also links to their real page. You can also email them at firstname.lastname@example.com .
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Pictures of the 10000Q were also posted. It is very similar and looks to possibly use the same power supply with different amp modules.
I'm relinking the pictures here. Thanks DL86.
I get pretty much the same effect when running my rig full boar - lights are dimming - gives it a club type feel....
Yes, thanks for all the info and pics, notnyt; I've been lurking in waiting for that!
Price is the killer feature... we hope?
...and indeed it is! Wow!
Thanks for the update.
Quad 5400s and two of these puppies... $5.2K and a ridiculous amount of output. Otherwise known as the 1/2 notnyt.
The scary thing is, I wonder what LG has for guts that make it worth 5-6K over these?
Blasting brown notes for 10 years and counting!
$726 is nothing for amps of that power as long as they will last. I've heard of sanway before but it was some sort of mixer and not an amp. what did they charge you for shipping or was that in the price?
The scary thing is, I wonder what LG has for guts that make it worth 5-6K over these?
It would be interesting to send both out for qualified independent analysis by someone unfamiliar with LG, and see what happened.
Can you tell us what you think of their other models and more of why you chose Sanway?
I thought I did? Re-read the first post
Maybe 2-3hz? These are designed to be flat to low. Look at LG's specs
These things are incredible.
Nope. Therein lies the rub.
These things are loud.
I am considering buying something from them, not that model I don't think. For the same "clone", I want to know what kind of questions and diligence you did to decide which was best?
I mean how did you know that they had copper cooling plates and the other company didn't? What other types of questions like this did you ask?
I am considering buying something from them, not that model I don't think. For the same "clone", I want to know what kind of questions and diligence you did to decide which was best?
I got pics of the hardware
you've got to be pushing your luck though running potentially 7000 watts at 10hz into those drivers, no? hope you don't crash or cook them.
great pics of the insides.
Running at 4ohms. Only 4400w per driver I also didn't push them full out.
killawatts are only rated to 15a.
I'm not gonna fry it
I reckon they'll pull a full 30a.
Pretty loud, if not louder. Smaller fans and more of them.
I'm working on finding replacements for them. I think I found some already. I need to create or find a tool to remove the smaller fans. It's very hard to access the lower screws on them without disassembling the entire thing, which I'd rather not do, though I may have to. I need a phillips with a 90 degree head. I'll make one if I have to, but I'm sure I can find one somewhere.
I bet the extra cost is R&D, warranty, customer service, repair centers, having people in North America, marketing and safety testing.
If something happens to the amp don't expect them to fix it.
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text: Crowd control: How today's protests, revolts and riots are self-organising Magazine features 27 January 12 by Bill Wasik This article was taken from the February 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.Let's start with the fundamental paradox: Our personal technology in the 21st century -- our laptops and smartphones, browsers and apps -- does everything it can to keep us out of crowds.Why pack into your city-centre department stores when Amazon can speed the essentials of life to your door without your having to negotiate crowded pavements and stand in queues? Why approach strangers at parties or bars when dating sites such as mysinglefriend.com can more efficiently shuttle potential mates into your bed? Why sit in a cinema when you can stream? Why cram into arena seats when you can pay per view from your sofa? We declare the obsolescence of "bricks and mortar", but let's be honest: what we usually want to avoid is the flesh and blood, the unpleasant waits and stares and sweat entailed in vying against other bodies in the same place, at the same time, in pursuit of the same resources.And yet, on those rare occasions when we want to form a crowd, our technology can work a strange, dark magic. Consider this note, passed around among young residents of Greater London on a Sunday in August last year:Everyone in edmonton enfield woodgreen everywhere in north link up at enfield town station 4 o clock sharp!!!!Bring some bags, the note went on; bring cars and vans, and also hammers. Make sure no snitch boys get dis, it implored. Link up and cause havic, just rob everything. Police can't stop it. This note, and variants on it, circulated on August 7, the day after a riot had broken out in Tottenham, protesting against the police killing of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in a botched arrest. So the recipients of this missive, many of them at least, were already primed for violence.It helped, too, that the medium was BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), a private system in which "broadcasting" messages -- sending them to one's entire address book -- can be done for free, with a single command. Young people in the UK have embraced the platform wholeheartedly, with 37 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds using the devices nationwide; the percentage is probably much higher in urban areas like London. From early on in the rioting, BBM messages were pinging around among the participants and their friends, who were using the service for everything from sharing photos to co-ordinating locations. Contemplating the corporate-grade security and mass communication of the platform, Mike Butcher, editor of TechCruch Europe and a digital adviser to London Mayor Boris Johnson, wryly remarked that BBM had become the "thug's Gutenberg press".Nick de Bois, one of Enfield's representatives in Parliament, was whiling away that Sunday afternoon at the horse races in Windsor, where a friend's wife was celebrating her 40th birthday. It was a fine day of racing: in the third, Toffee Tart bested Marygold by just half a length, paying off at 7/2. "Unusually for me, I hadn't looked at my handheld in two hours," de Bois says. But when he did look, he saw something disturbing. Gossip was swirling about more riots that night, with Enfield named as a likely target.De Bois decided he had better cut his race day short. "I never even had a chance to recover my losses," he deadpans.By five in the afternoon, he was on the streets of Enfield Town, along with a handful of police. Was there a riot? No -- not really, not yet. But there was a gathering crowd, a mixed-race group of mostly young men, just milling around in small bunches. Some were conducting what de Bois describes as "reckies" -- reconnaissance missions -- around the town centre. "They were just having a good look," he says.Then, at around 6pm, as if at some unvoiced, unseen command, the street exploded. The crowd hit a Pearsons department store, a Starbucks, an HMV. Police were able to move in and contain the violence -- or so they thought -- to a small part of the town's shopping district. "Of course, there were side roads," de Bois says. "But broadly speaking, the looting had been contained. Calm had been restored." It was a loose version of kettling, an anti-riot tactic whereby police keep a disorderly crowd penned in, often for hours, to avoid their causing any more trouble.Only then, though, did the situation in Enfield get truly surreal. De Bois was standing outside the sealed-off zone, behind one line of police, in an open area that led to the train station. As he watched in amazement, more and more people -- some disembarking trains at the station, some stepping out of cars -- continued to pour into the shopping centre. Riot police were convoying in, too, but their numbers couldn't possibly keep up. And even if they did, it was impossible definitively to separate the would-be rioters from the bystanders.Right behind a line of armour-clad police who had successfully contained a riot, this new crowd of hundreds was gearing up to start off a second one. As 7pm approached, face coverings went up, and a small group walked past de Bois with a crowbar. Gangs began to break windows throughout the centre -- one local jewellery store lost nearly £40,000 in stock. Police would descend on a group, but then the crowd would disperse, only to reconstitute itself somewhere else a few minutes later.But there was also something strange about the character of this riot, and these rioters -- something that seemed to make the violence unstoppable. At base, it was their confidence: their surety that, as they streamed out of their cars and trains, or as they milled around in small groups, or even after they were dispersed by police, they would always find one another in sufficient numbers. As de Bois wandered through the crowd, he buttonholed one of the young men, asked him who they all were and why they were there. "Don't worry," said the looter to the MP, in a tone of gruff reassurance. "We'll be out of here soon."***The year 2011 brought waves of crowd unrest not seen on a worldwide scale for more than three decades. From January's revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia through a summer of sit-ins and demonstrations in Europe, India and Israel to the Occupy Wall Street movement in autumn, in the past year a new generation of activists has rediscovered -- and subtly reinvented, through social media -- street action as a means of political expression.But on both sides of the Atlantic, there was a rash of more mysterious, more malicious-seeming crowds in which technology appeared to play a central role. Riots spread across Britain over four days and caused millions of pounds worth of property damage. US cities struggled with their own disorder: in Kansas City, Missouri, gunfire injured three after hundreds of high-school students descended on an open-air shopping mall, while Philadelphia imposed a curfew to fight a long string of surprise gatherings by teens. At least five cities experienced an innovative form of robbery, whereby a large group of kids would simultaneously run into a store, take items off the shelves, and run out again. To be sure, technology wasn't at the root of all the crowd mayhem: for example, an investigation of a group robbery in Germantown, Maryland, determined that the thieves had hatched their plan on a bus, not online. But with most of these events, there was some sort of electronic trail (Facebook, Twitter, texts, BBM) that showed how they coalesced.Groping for what to call these events, the media christened them "flash mobs" -- lumped them in, that is, with the fad in which large crowds carry out a public performance and then post the results on YouTube. So at around the same time that Fox was running a lighthearted flash-mob reality show called Mobbed, and Friends With Benefits, the high-grossing rom-com starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, featured a flash-mob dance in Times Square, New York, US pundits and public officials suddenly began railing against flash mobs as a threat to public order. Petrol station robberies became "flash-mob robberies", or even "flash robs". "THE EVOLUTION OF FLASH MOBS FROM PRANKS TO CRIME AND REVOLUTION," declared San Francisco's The Examiner, after the hacktivist group Anonymous had helped to create subway shutdowns.Here is where the story got a bit uncomfortable for this writer. The Examiner's flash-mob timeline, which ended in a terrifying stew of rioting and revolution, literally began with my name. Back in 2003, as a sort of social experiment, I sent an email to friends and asked them to forward it along, looking to gather "inexplicable mobs" of people around New York. Then, over the span of just a couple of months, I watched in amazement as my prank turned into a worldwide fad. I should add that the first flash mobs weren't like either the Friends With Benefits kind or the burn-and-loot kind -- or, maybe I should say, they were a little like both. Like the happy mobs, they were good-natured spectacles, and they often involved the crowd performing some benign group action: bowing before a robotic dinosaur, making birdcalls in Central Park. Like the violent mobs, though, they were highly spontaneous; the crowd was told where they were going and what they would do there only minutes beforehand. And the goal of the get-togethers was not to entertain but, if I may borrow a phrase, to "link up and cause havic".I even called my events "mobs", as a wink to the scary connotations of a large group gathered for no good reason. But I didn't come up with the name "flash mob" -- that honour belongs to Sean Savage, a UC Berkeley grad student who was blogging about my events and the copycats as they happened. He added the word "flash" as an analogy to a flash flood, evoking the way that these crowds (which in the original version arrived all at once and were gone in ten minutes or less) rushed in and out like water from a sudden storm. Savage and I never met while the original mobs were still going on, but today we work just a block away from each other in San Francisco -- me at Wired, him at Frog Design -- so we now can get together and commiserate about what's become of our mutual creation. It had been bad enough to see the term get appropriated by Oprah Winfrey to describe a ridiculous public dance party featuring the Black Eyed Peas. Now the media was stretching the term to include just about any sort of group crime.One reason the term "flash mob" stuck back in 2003 was its resonance, among some sci-fi fans who read Savage's blog, with a 1973 short story by Larry Niven called Flash Crowd. Niven's tale revolved around the effects of cheap teleportation technology, depicting a future California where "displacement booths" line the street like telephone booths. The story is set in motion when its protagonist, a TV journalist, inadvertently touches off a riot with one of his news reports. Thanks to teleportation, the rioting burns out of control for days, as thrill-seekers use the booths to beam in from all around to watch and loot. Reading Flash Crowd back in 2003, I hadn't seen much connection to my own mobs, which I intended as a joke about the slavishness of fads. I laughed off anyone who worried about these mobs getting violent. In 2011, though, it does feel like Niven got something chillingly correct. The riots that wracked American cities in the 60s tended to be localised, with rioters taking out their aggression on the neighbourhood in which they lived. By contrast, Nick de Bois says that, of the 165 or so people arrested so far for the looting in Enfield, only around 60 per cent hailed from the local borough. The other 40 per cent commuted in from elsewhere, including locales as far afield as Essex and Twickenham, each a good hour's drive away. Instead of teleportation booths replacing telephone booths, it turned out that those phones merely had to shrink down enough to fit into our pockets. Read page 2 1234 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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