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doesnt say much now but hope that they make it good like old games. linkaget has been revealed today that Sega has filed a trademark for the name Sonic Unleashed, likely to be a new Sonic game for Next-generation consoles.
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he says there hoping fo one like the original.
Dont think that yet,as much as i love sonic it could easily be messed up....................
PS3 now, sorry Wii. You gather dust.
i never played the wii version of sonic or sonic riders either, so the only sonic games i know are the retro classic ones sonic 1,2 and, never played 4 i even bought the gamecube retro version.. i wanna play or buy sonic riders, how is it? heard sonic 1 for wii sucks though.
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APM 2.0 vs DJI NAZA?
Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions about either of these flight control boards? I need to decide very quickly as I already have an order in for the APM 2.0
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Technically, almost nothing changed from V1. Just a minor sensor refresh. Still same buggy core code, still same obsolete 8bit MCU, and of course, the same arduino setup that requires endless screwing around to get anything to work. Far from Naza's plug-and-fly setup.
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But once you actually do get it setup, you have an incredibly stable and full featured system. Especially with 2.3, with the addition of the rate-D, people are getting really nice results. It also benefits a lot from simonk's esc firmware.
The Naza is limited, but easy to use. If you have a problem with it your going to have to wait for DJI to resolve, with the APM there are hundreds and hundreds of active users all working on revisions and modifications to the code.
RTL and auto landing are working pretty well now, new code to automatically tune PID's is being worked on, waypointing is fully there. The old circling loiter problems are being squashed as the stabilize loop is getting more attention, resulting in all other modes behaving as they should.
There is also some promising work being done with inertial navigation, not the mention the upcoming switch to ARM chips in line with the rest of the Arduino family.
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Ahh perfect guys this is exactly what I need to here. What about overall flight characteristics of each? And is it possible to add GPS to NAZA at all?
I am currently on the preorder for APM 2.0 but really considering switching to NAZA.
Also I'm pretty sure the MCU is 16bit? but I could be wrong
From my point of view it is easy, if you wanna be part of a project, that evolves, than the AMP is great, if you find and resolve an issue or implement something new you get acknowledgements from hundreds and hundreds of other users. But if you just want to fly a copter?
If you have a good friend and this friend is maybe not an expert in computers, he is just a pilot that wants to get familiar with multicopter, think of the amount of questions he will pose to you if you recommend the AMP (yes of course you can say "look at the wiki"), and now see how happy you would have been (and he would be) recommending Naza (or something comparable).
There have been, and there still are great opensource projects out there, but that does not mean that every opensource project is great, or that everything should be done with opensource. As beeing a software engineer, having hundreds and hundreds of users who contribute and check in, I do not want to be the one who tidies up that mess (of course, if there are two, three or four motivated people working together that can change everything).
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Neither of both FCs are "plug&fly". Both require hardware- & software setup and tinkering/tuning to adjust the values for your airframe and both require a good choice of motors, ESCs, receiver&transmitter.
I guess you pre-ordered the APM for some reasons. If they are still applicable you might want to stay with your decision.
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I think I am going to stick with my decision, I like the all of the extras on APM 2.0 my only concern was tuning it but if they both ultimately require a lot of tuning (especially if PID related) i might as well stick with APM
I'm not going to say you made the right choice or not, but I myself have a APM2 on pre-order and I'm eager to see what it can do. I think it has a lot of potential and we'll start to see that soon as more and more people use it. But to me neither controller is actually "better", it just depends on what you're doing and the goals you want to accomplish. If you said you need return-to-home then obviously the APM2 would win. If you said you wanted a more simple install and configure with a more manual controller then the Naza might win.
I love the comparison especially totally agree with 'ramovan'
as TC mentioned in the beginning sure...naza is user friendly.
Actually Naza is for the people who don't want to play with setup.
In most of the cases, the default setup will take care of your flight without much headache provided you have recommended air frames, ESC and Motor etc. stuff. One day you will be saturated with Naza because there is nothing else to invent.
On the other hand, APM is for the people who want to do research and studies. You will be thrilled when the bird is flying smoothly and hovering...with your own frame and setup..
I had before UVAX .... I had very hard time to make the setups...I was about to give up.. so for hard working technical people.. APM is the choice..
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I have discovered that most of my problems have been left unanswered in APM forums. I may have asked the wrong questions or something but still... A friend of mine had some issues with his Wookong and received an answer from DJI support within 24 hours. These are just my observations and should be taken as such.
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If you want to compare, then you need to compare two similiar feature sets
that means
Wookong x APM
plug and play x DIY - it's as simple as that
regular users couldn't care less if it's tarduino or ARM as long as it works well - APM does a good job with mission planner - regular user does not need to know it's arduino at all when updating and setting up.
There are problem in a software, sure, but I'd be very surprised if Naza/Wookong didn't have their own backlog of critical issues, you just don't hear about them because it's not as open.
IMO there's still nothing "better" than APM for a guy who likes DIY and open source. Not until someone makes ARM-based UAV.
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Looks like you put a stop to trading on this one! Welcome aboard and nice position. It is a gamble but not nearly as bad as many bets you could make out there.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
If the company wasn't in a position where they do need to sell some shares then this stock would trade significantly higher. This share price is LOW. If the stock is left to itself and ADMD raises less cash through it than they recently have done I believe this is easily a $.14 a share stock. Earnings report is on its way and I think there will be a significant increase in revenues over that last quarter's and maybe even last year in general.
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Well on top of all that has been going on in my life, yet another is tearing me down. Never thought I would be here and have prayed numerous prayers about it. Have been married almost 17 years, together with my hubby 22 and half years and now he has said he is not happy. We have had problems in the past (that came out of the blue really) and it was the same thing. Like walking into a door that you did not know was there. He said he was leaving then.. I thought we worked things out and everything seemed really good. Yet once again I am the stupid one. Now after hearing of his plant closing in 2011 he just kinda went strange from then. Hardly talking to me and when he was it was treating me badly, snapping at me and commenting rudely etc. and then saying he is not happy and seems he is making plans to leave me and my two girls. I am devastated, and heart broken and some days don't feel I even have the energy to stand. My eyes are so swollen today from crying most of the day yesterday. My life will never be the same if he leaves, more importantly my girls lives will never be the same. I grew up with my father leaving when I was 10 and never ever wanted my kids to be faced with this and have to go through what I did! Now it seem I can't do much to stop it! I'm so broken inside and I don't understand any of it ! Why is life so cruel?! Why every time I turn around is another person walking out on their spouse?! What is happening to this world?!! I don't know what my girls and I will do or how we will get on with out him. Jobs are few and far between and my experience is even less than that. I grew up working with kids in day cares when you were allowed to have one teacher in the room who was not ECE and one that was. I did not have my ECE but knew more than most that did since I had been in day cares since I was 16. Now a days both teachers have to be ECE qualified, and now that I am 40 I really don't think working with kids is for me, and sadly I don't really know much else, and frankly I am terrified of the thought of anything else. It's silly really, but it goes back to my childhood. Anyway, I don't drive either so that makes things even more difficult. Enough on that though. Thing is I never thought I would be here. My hubby always said that I would never be faced with that. He knew what I went through as a child and he said he would never put me nor any child through that, and now here he is not giving a crap and only into self gratification and what is good for him. He is thinking only of him, his happiness as a single man with no responsibilities, no one to be accountable to, no kids in the house when he comes home so he can just do what he wants and not have fatherly responsibilities. He wants to play his online poker and do his own stuff. My girls wonder why his happiness is more important than there's. They don't understand any of it either because as my daughter says, "mommy you guys hardly ever argue" We didn't anyway, but now with how he treats me it is like he is trying to create arguments just so he can say we don't get along. I guess that way in his head if he believes it or creates it he feels better running off on us. It seems he is working harder at making our marriage bad than he is at making it good.. Life sucks and if he leaves I don't ever see it being better.. No after that my life is basically ruined. For some with big paying jobs and such maybe life does not have much of an adjustment after a spouse abandons everyone, but that is not the case here. I don't have a good paying job, nor do I have that good education. My hubby knew that before we got married and he also knew how important it was for me to be a stay at home mom while my kids were in public school at least. (because of how I grew up I wanted to be there for my kids to help ensure they would do well in school and have confidence in themselves). Both my girls get VERY good grades and are confident girls, but I can see this ripping all that away and changing them. Especially for my youngest who is only 11. It's awful and I feel very broken. I am trying to remain strong, but that is easier said then done. Holding myself together some days feels impossible. This time of year it's even harder. Some people are so selfish! Running out on people seems to be the thing to do now a days. No wonder everything is so screwed up. And this is coming from the girl who used to be a very positive person no matter what happened in life. That is another things that tears me apart. All this has changed me so much and trusting anyone is very difficult. I used to trust almost everyone... *sighs* Seems now a days it's normal to have more than have the population single parents.. I just don't know how I will do it, I guess for some it is easy, or easier anyway.. For me, well I don't see anything easy about it. Especially with hubby losing his good job and finding something for that good of pay any more is difficult. He gets a buy out but once they take off taxes it won't be much, and then after getting that even if he pays off bills, then now we have no money coming in and he can't collect unemployment, so of course he will need something. The jobs out there know don't pay much so if he leaves half of not much is pretty much nothing to live off of... I see him being the type of person to find something under that table so he has money for him, but then we suffer even more, and as selfish as he has been I don't see him caring all that much. When I say selfish I mean it. He never wants to leave his online poker games to take the girls any where, everything is a bother for him when it comes to doing something other than for himself, and that I am not exaggerating about in the least......... Anyway....
All I have is prayer and I have been doing a ton of that lately.......
Blessings to all, and I pray that your lives are joyful and happy and that you are not being faced with anything such as this........
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My Dear Sunshine,
I can't begin to tell you how deep my understanding and feelings go for you right now.
Honey, I have been there too. Be strong. (Thats why I changed my name to Ka- Taki-tomotsin, which means be strong in blackfoot). I went thru it at about the same age as you. Im nearly 70 now...and the best things I can say to you, are get help from a really good counselor. I had one for $5.00 per session thru Family Services. It really helped. It was so hard on my girls too, but they made it through and two of the three are much stonger from what they learned by it.
Sunshine I really like what Crickett wrote. I would like to add to it by saying, "AND THIS TO WILL PASS" and "GOD NEVER GIVES US MORE THAN WE CAN HANDLE". You are a strong woman, this is not your fault I am willing to say. Men go thru menopause just like women, and there lives at 40ish are not very secure sometimes. Especially with him loosing his job. STAY STRONG! NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE YOUR HAPPINESS AWAY. HOW YOU FEEL IS UP TO YOU. IF YOU HAVE TO, GET MAD!
All my love and prayers are with you. Please feel free to email me anythime. I am here for you.
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You have my support and prayers!!! Be strong!!! You know in your heart what you need to do! Your girls are looking to you for strength and love! I know you have it within to be their loving mother and pillar of strength!
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I feel your pain. I will keep you and your girls in my prayers, and will keep praying that God will make a way where there is no way.
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"For I know the plans I have for you,� says the Lord. �They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Seek help and guidance from people you trust, and that have your best interest at heart. (Family, & friends.)
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So sorry to hear your story. It's not easy for anyone. But somehow we get through it.
If you think he's not "just venting" and there is a real possibility of him leaving, please think about contacting an attorney to protect your rights, especially before he receives a buyout from his employer. Once the money is gone, there's nothing to claim your half of. You also need to establish his wages while he's making better money. If he thinks he's just walking away with no responsibility, he's got a rude awakening coming. He'll find that paying out child support doesn't leave much money for gambling or a new single life.
That being said, it sounds like most of his problems may be stemming from his online-gambling addiction. He needs help. It's affecting his whole disposition, and he's about to throw away everything good in his life. Try to talk to him about it, or get someone else to talk to him... family member, friend, anybody.
You're in my prayers.
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You are in my thoughts!
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I am so sorry to hear of this additional challenge in your life. I hope and pray that you and your girls will have a healthier and happier 2010, and that your problems will be resolved in the best way possible so you will have peace of mind and ease of heart.
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Oh dear...my heart goes out to you and I feel so awful at the situation you are in. I don't have any words of wisdom, but
am sending wishes your way that things will improve between you and your hubby.
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I wish for peace for you and the girls. It may sound trite but...God never closes a door without opening another window. Take charge of your life and protect your girls from harm. Will be checking in on you to see how you are doing.
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Oh Honey, I'm so sorry for what you're going through right now. I'm praying for you and your girls....Linda
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Thanks for sharing your sad situation. My heart and prayers go out to you. Remain strong and pray always.
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Remember that "Woodland Fairy Birthday Party" that I asked for some help with a couple weeks ago? Here's a sneak peek of how it turned out – many thanks to HWTM readers and all the fantastic ideas that you posted!
More pics of this party will be available soon, but I just got them back and couldn't resist posting a little sneak peek right away…starting off with the most ridiculously cute pic of them all – the fairy princess herself! {above}
After really diving into the details of this party, I realized that there are tons of routes you can take with a fairy theme… and tons of ways to bring it to life! This party ended up looking more "enchanted" than "woodland" style to me, so I've renamed it from the original post, but I still think it would be fun to explore the woodland-style version in the future and really play up the ivy, wood/branches, old-fashioned lanterns, fireflies, and other "Peter Pan" type elements.
Inexpensive details like sheer ribbon, metallic pipe cleaners, and paper stars added a touch of whimsy to the place settings…
The birthday signs matched the digital invite, and dragonflies, butterflies, twinkle lights, and giant paper "flowers" (a.k.a. Martha Stewart's pink tissue poms) transformed the birthday girl's backyard into an Enchanted Forest!
How cool is this giant tree?! It's pretty magical all on it's own!
LOTS more pics coming soon…stay tuned!
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i was so happy to find this post. our family and most of our friends are out of state so we are having a really small party at home. i still wanted to make it special with the details. i fell in love with the images and hired someone to design a replica of the invites and poster. on the poster i had my daughter's name included as well and even had stickers made. ours is more a fairy garden theme but your party images are really what set us of on the right path. thanks for sharing!
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This is so beautiful. Where did you find the placemats??
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I have done a few fairy parties for clients but the baby smile is the cherry on this party theme.
Please take a moment to visit my website for some fun ideas.
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I loved everythign about your fairy party. Emma is turning 1 in May and I am planning to have a Fairy theme party for her. Can you tell me where you got the big green leaf, fairy houses and the gold leafs for the decoration? I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
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I also like this! wow, you really have the talent. I hope you could share some more ideas for me for my baby's first birthday party!


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Supergroup Fall Out Boy announced today they will hit the road for the must-see concert event of summer. The group with perform July 27 at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.
Aptly titled the Monumentour, the band will showcase their trademark brand of fiery, hard-charging rock music across the U.S. to 30 plus cities in the summer's best venues.
New Politics, an alternative rock band from Denmark, is the opening act.
The holidays are just around the corner, and Catholic Charities suggests this is the perfect time of year to give something back to those less fortunate.
Beacon of Hope Christian School, 1230 Kings Estate Road, third-grade teacher, Cindy Madubuike received special honors from First Coast News this past week, when she was named the "Teacher of the Week" by the local TV news organization. First Coast News is a news partner of The St. Augustine Record.
The nomination came from a parent who said that Madubuike "helped her son open up to others and learn to love school."
The Tim Tebow Foundation has launched a relief effort for victims of the recent typhoon in the Philippines.
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New Mt. Moriah Christian Ministry, 676 Christopher St., will celebrate homecoming at 4 p.m. Sunday, welcoming guest speaker the Rev. Eugene W. Diamond, pastor of Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church, Jacksonville.
Diamond holds a B.S. degree in psychology with a minor in religion from Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, and a master of divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and many other religious and civic organizations.
Tim Ayers, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for FirstAtlantic Bank, was recognized by the Jacksonville Business Journal as one of this year's Ultimate CFOs. These honorees were selected because they are managing resources in a responsible and creative way for their respective companies. In his role as CFO since 2006, Ayers has helped manage the risk the bank has encountered in the midst of an ever-changing and volatile financial climate.
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My photo of five survivors of five separate wars can never be duplicated again. Yes, they are all local people. In the photo's center is Bill Fletcher of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Today, there's no veteran of that war left.
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Bowl season is rapidly approaching, providing college football fans all over the country a much-needed escape from visiting with the in-laws.
The Big 12's six bowls are full of storylines, from Mack Brown's last game at Texas to Oklahoma being a major underdog in a BCS bowl.
The Sooners aren't alone, however. Four Big 12 teams are listed as underdogs, according to VegasInsider.com, three of which are by double digits.
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Sutton called Rodgers "delusional" when he defended Braun following the Brewers star's first drug suspension. Rodgers followed by tweeting that he was so certain of Braun's innocence "that ya I'd put my salary next year on it."
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Padraig Harrington has had his eye on playing the Waste Management Phoenix Open for years, but the Irishman has never been able to fit the tournament on his schedule. But the three-time major champion is in Arizona this week for the $6.2 million event, which starts Thursday at TPC Scottsdale.
The 41-year-old Dubliner is also making his 2013 American debut with a different look. Despite 20/20 vision, Harrington will be wearing prescription glasses. He's not sure how long the experiment will last, though.
"Well, I wore this pair for about two hours at Durban (South Africa) before they got the sack, and I have another pair this week that I've been wearing, and they've managed all the way through my practice round up until I started hitting wedges on the range, and I could have been sowing potatoes after a while in the divots I was taking," he said during a media session on Tuesday.
"I don't know if those glasses will make it. Basically I have 20/20 vision without glasses. These obviously improve my vision and just make - obviously reduce a bit of fatigue. They haven't really changed anything else, the glasses. They don't make me read the greens any different. This pair would, but not any different. I over-read a lot.
"The likelihood is you won't see the glasses, but I'll probably wear them just for fatigue and that," added Harrington, who's had four laser eye surgeries. "My eyes are probably a bit dry for contact lenses at this stage, but obviously it worked on other things about focus, and I changed my routine with them and stuff like that.
"It's kind of the way these days - you know, you're looking for specialists in every area of the game, whether it's short-game specialists, putting, long game coach, psychology, everything is par for the modern game, and this is just another - I suppose another little addition. We'll wait and see how it goes. But certainly I didn't putt very well last year, and I needed to do something about it. So far, so good."
Harrington is looking forward to playing in front of the massive galleries at TPC Scottsdale, a place that hosts upwards of 500,000 attendees during the four days of the tournament. He's already got an idea of what he'll do in case he aces the especially rowdy 16th hole where the fans loudly react - both positively and negatively - at tee shots on the par-3.
"I'm thinking about pulling a shirt over my head and running down to the green if I hole-out," the Irishman joked. "That's a soccer celebration, and with my six-pack and everything, it would look perfect. All I remember is Henrik Stenson got grief for his physique when he obviously stripped down to his boxer shorts, so I now realize no professional golfer should ever do that again. If he's getting grief, the rest of us are in a lot of trouble."
Here's what else Harrington told reporters about the state of his game and what it feels like to be playing for the first time in the Phoenix Open.
MODERATOR: We welcome three time major championship winner Padraig Harrington to the interview room. First start on the 2013 PGA Tour, first appearance ever at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Your initial impressions and a few comments about coming here.
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: Yeah, there's no doubt this tournament, the Waste Management Phoenix Open, is a tournament that you have to go and play it sometime in your career, and I've looked at it over the years, and it's never quite fit the schedule but I've always wanted to come and see what it's like in person, so delighted to be here this time. I'm looking forward to a nice week on the golf course, and obviously enjoying the week. I think it is one of those fun weeks in golf, and we do need them in golf. We need variation. It can't all be the same every week, and it's nice that there is going to be an interesting atmosphere around this event.
MODERATOR: Your initial impressions of the golf course.
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I played nine holes today. It's a good test of golf. Greens are really nice. It's probably not quite what I expected. Obviously I knew I was coming to a desert golf course, and the front nine doesn't quite look like that most of the time. There's quite a lot of trees in the desert. It kind of plays and looks like a regular tree lined course, but obviously if you do go into that desert, it doesn't seem to stop running into it and finishes in a cactus.
Q. What's the state of your game right now? How are you feeling?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I wish I knew. Yeah, I'm quietly confident going forward. I don't know exactly what that means for this week, but in the weeks ahead, I'm very comfortable with where things are at. I felt I played nicely last year. I think I finished 13th in the stroke average putting badly, so I did quite a bit of work during the winter. I always do quite a bit of work. But I focused a little bit more on my putting, and certainly if the first two weeks are anything to go by, it was in good stead.
If I can play, swing and hit the golf ball like I did last year and putt like I did in those two events, things are looking good for me. You never know, though, but certainly I'm optimistic. But you're always optimistic at the start of the year. It's all ahead of you at the start of the year. It's only when you get halfway through that it sets in.
Q. Did you make more changes than usual in the off season or less?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I don't know if - I think the only - nothing different than in past years. There was a few things, yes. I worked on the long game, but probably most of the changes I did in the off season were more on routines. I changed my putting routine and changed a few things around in my putting. That was probably the biggest thing. And also did some changes on my long game routine.
It was more to do with the good stuff, I suppose, during the winter. As I said, I was pretty comfortable with how I hit the golf ball last year, and most of my mistakes I thought were more mental than anything else. It was a question of doing some work on that. While I'm happy with where I stand at the moment, it still wouldn't be bedded in at the moment. It's not natural, some of the changes I've made. So there's still a little bit of conscious talk going on, and that's why I'm out here weeks like this. You're just trying to get a few more tournaments in so that you can make it more - get it more into the subconscious and make it a little easier.
Q. Being a member of two tours, you've spoken often during the years about how there's so many tournaments to play each year on both -
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: So many great tournaments, yeah. There's just a lot of choice nowadays.
Q. How difficult was the decision to come here?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: You know, as I said earlier, I really have watched this tournament on TV, and I really appreciate what they've done here, and I feel like it was always an event I wanted to come and see and play myself. I'm a great believer that we have a lot of golf tournaments and a lot of golf tournaments that try and be - hold them out to be something, and it's nice to have variation. It's nice to come here and very much they celebrate the spectators this week, and that's a nice thing.
It's a great thing when you see golf tournaments that they get a little niche. It's very important in this day that all the golf tournaments can't be the same, and it's important that each tournament has to find a little niche in the market to try to strive themselves different. Obviously the Waste Management Phoenix Open has done that with their spectators. They created a completely unique event in golf, and that's a great thing. So that's why I'm here, because of that.
Plus I like the - I really do like AT&T and Riviera coming up, Northern Trust Riviera, and I always feel when I get to these events, I always feel like I wish I played a little bit more coming into it, I wish I had one more tournament under my belt. This year it was an opportunity, and if I played in Dubai, and I was considering playing in Dubai, it was a 20 hour flight to get into AT&T. As I'm defending in the pro am in the AT&T, I felt a 20 hour flight was not a great idea.
Q. Going into 2011, it seemed like your changes in the winter were more expansive than normally.
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I've been trying to explain this at home, and I kind of got to grips with it maybe last year. I've made no more changes. Every year I make changes. Every year. It's what gets me out of my bed. I'd have given up this game a long time ago if I was just trying to stay still. Every year I'm trying to figure out how to get better. Every day I'm trying to figure it out, every year I'm trying to figure it out. Change in 2007 and 2008 and other years, I was just higher profile and people kept asking me about changes. I just kept changing; that's what I do, and I'll keep changing. The only thing I know is to keep evolving and keep changing.
Everybody else's perception of me changed after 2008, and certainly it put a lot of pressure on me when people kept asking questions about changing, changing, changing. I changed between 2007 and 2008. I won in 2007 hitting a draw all the time, I won in 2008 hitting a fade predominantly. I make big changes all the time. This year I started working with some eye people during the winter, last year I started working with Dave Alred. Every year I'll find something between now and the end of the season to change during the off period. I won't necessarily do it in season, but I'll find something this year that I think, you know what, I could be a bit better at that, and I'll go and work on it.
You know, I wouldn't say monumental - like I did change coaches about 18 months ago to Pete Cowan, that was a big change, but it fit in nicely. The change when I went to Bob Torrance in '99, I went from 8th in the Order of Merit to 30 something that year, I did take a big step forwards. Bear in mind when I turned pro in '96, all I ever did as an amateur is hit a pull cut off the tee, and I was quite short. By the time I made it through Tour school, they had an orientation week on the European Tour in January, and from January to the tournament, maybe a month later, I went from hitting a pull-cut to hitting a big huge draw and hit it about 40 yards further and was really happy. I hit a big sling hook. That's just who I am. I'll keep evolving and try to find something new. The good thing with this winter is maybe some of the things I was working on this winter, because I was more comfortable with my golf swing last year, the things I worked on this winter probably a bit more constructive in terms of getting value out of them, as in I spent a lot of time on my putting, and I spent a good bit of time on my routines, as well.
Q. It seems you play a lot of desert courses. Do you like desert golf?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I like golf. To be honest, if they were playing for $6 million out there on a runway out there at the airport, I'd still tee it up. But I do, I do like - it's amazing how much easier, like out on the range today I started hitting golf balls. It's amazing how much easier it is to hit golf balls here than even a nice day at home at the moment. You're hitting a wedge and it's going 100 yards. Like here you're out on the golf course and you hit pitching wedge and you've got 135 yards. The ball just flies better. It just flies easier. You mis hit it slightly at home, and it squirrels off into the rubbish on the right and moves 20, 30 yards in the air, here it moves five yards. It's just easier to play golf in the desert.
And at this time of the year, it's ideal for all the players. This is one of the big things with the Middle East Swing and Europe, it's ideal when your game is not quite right. This is a perfect place for working on your golf swing in these conditions. It's ideal. As much as we'd like to turn up and play well every week, if you don't play well in the desert, there's perfect practice conditions, as there is out here. There's a number of tee boxes, there's chipping greens everywhere, there's a lot of areas to work on your game. These are perfect golf courses to come to at this time of the year when you're trying to get your game in shape for the year, and the bonus is if you play well, you're playing in a big event.
Q. Saturday is the big day here -
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I hear they're putting green on for the Irish fellas. There you go. Had they told me before, I would have turned up earlier.
Q. When you get to 16 on Saturday are you going to pull anything out of your golf bag for the fans or is that a closely guarded secret?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: It'll absolutely be a closely guarded I'm thinking about pulling a shirt over my head and running down to the green if I hole-out. That's a soccer celebration, and with my six-pack and everything, it would look perfect. All I remember is Henrik Stenson got grief for his physique when he obviously stripped down to his boxer shorts, so I now realize no professional golfer should ever do that again. If he's getting grief, the rest of us are in a lot of trouble.
Q. How much did it hurt not playing in the Ryder Cup, and how much is it a motivation going forward?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I would be motivated full stop. Obviously it's very disappointing when you miss out on something like that. I watched Friday and Saturday, and I'm sure I sat there and watched it and I second guessed a lot of it and said, oh, if I was there or what's happening there, and on Sunday with the way it went, it was just unbelievable watching. I got totally drawn into it on the Sunday, and it was incredible how much even sitting in your sitting room at home, the atmosphere was so exciting watching it. Yeah, there was a good part of me that wished I was there, no doubt about it. But I think the way it happened, in that moment you were just enjoying that moment and you weren't really reflecting on it.
I think on the Friday and Saturday I was certainly, oh, why didn't I play better, why wasn't I in the team. On Sunday I was just wholeheartedly behind the team rooting and getting into it. Afterwards, yeah, you look at it and say, it's a missed opportunity, you want to get there again. And I realized one of the big reasons I didn't make it, it's tough to make any Ryder Cup team both in the U.S. or in Europe, and I didn't play - I only got a chance of making it on the World Ranking points with the schedule I keep, and I didn't play I think the seven biggest events, the seven events I didn't play that basically give you points for turning up, and I wasn't in any of those.
I realized in order to make it easier you have to be in those events, and to get into those events I need to play well this year before the qualifying so that I'm in the likes of HSBC and China, I'm in the likes of either Sun City or Tiger's event, I'm in the two Match Plays, all the events that it's actually easy to pick up points in because you're guaranteed when you pick it up. I wasn't in any of those last year, and it put a huge amount of pressure on my game because two or three guys are going to have exceptional years, win big points, and then you're really only playing for one or two spots, and you've got to gather those points in events like the Match Plays where you're given points when you turn up, really.
Q. Having Paul as the next captain, how much does that increase the determination?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I was determined full stop. I think having Paul as the next captain, I don't think it motivates me more to get in the team. I'm absolutely delighted for him. I'm fully motivated to get in the team full stop. I played World Cups with Paul, I've known him for a long time. It would be fantastic. It's going to be fantastic having him as a Ryder Cup captain. It would be fantastic to be in the Ryder Cup no matter who was captaining the team. Probably it does make it more special, yeah, no doubt about it. But I'm as motivated as it gets. Once you get to saturation point you can't add any more in, so I'm already in. I want to be in that Ryder Cup team.
Q. You've played on many winning Ryder Cup teams including playing for Monty in 2010 at Celtic Manor. What do you make of McGinley as a leader, having known him for as long as you have known him?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: I said this at home: Paul is a strange character playing professional golf. Professional golf is obviously anybody involved in it, it's one of the most selfish games that you can play. It's an individual sport, and we play in it for a long number of years, and it's all about managing ourselves. Paul McGinley loves team golf, loves teams full stop.
He's always been more of a team player than anything else. Throughout the years, for him the World Cup was such a big deal, the Vivendi Trophy, the Ryder Cup, but also football when he played as a kid. It was all about teams for him. He's probably sacrificed the last three years of his playing career and the next 18 months of his playing career for the Ryder Cup. It's been all about the team for him. It's unique amongst professional golfers, as I said, because most of us you do need a team grounding as a kid in order to have some balance, but then you play a selfish individual game for 25 years, the teams just tend to go out the window. But for him his whole focus has been on teams. It's a big deal for him, no doubt about it.
He's an interesting guy because he's a real fighter, and he's quite an organized person when it comes to teams. He'll be trying to manage the team and take control of a lot of things it would seem, kind of like a Bernhard Langer, but he also has a - he has a little guy syndrome. He's a little fella, and he likes to fight. He really has that little bit from his football days. He's got it inside him and will lead the team well in that respect as well as being organized. There's two good sides to him in that part.
Q. You mentioned working on something in the off season and said you were working with an eye specialist. Obviously you're wearing glasses right now. What did they find, and will you be wearing glasses on the course?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: Well, I wore this pair for about two hours at Durban before they got the sack, and I have another pair this week that I've been wearing, and they've managed all the way through my practice round up until I started hitting wedges on the range, and I could have been sowing potatoes after a while in the divots I was taking. I don't know if those glasses will make it. Basically I have 20/20 vision without glasses. These obviously improve my vision and just make - obviously reduce a bit of fatigue. They haven't really changed anything else, the glasses. They don't make me read the greens any different. This pair would, but not any different. I over-read a lot.
The likelihood is you won't see the glasses, but I'll probably wear them just for fatigue and that. My eyes are probably a bit dry for contact lenses at this stage, but obviously it worked on other things about focus, and I changed my routine with them and stuff like that. It's kind of the way these days - you know, you're looking for specialists in every area of the game, whether it's short game specialists, putting, long game coach, psychology, everything is par for the modern game, and this is just another - I suppose another little addition. We'll wait and see how it goes. But certainly I didn't putt very well last year, and I needed to do something about it. So far, so good.
Q. Even though it was only a four man event, what was the importance of winning the Grand Slam?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: It's always nice to win. You know, the winning feeling is the same no matter where you play and how you're playing. You're trying to - you're coming down the stretch and you're trying to hold on to a lead but you're also trying to go forward. All those experiences, whether you've got 155 guys chasing you or you've got three guys chasing you, it's the same thing in the last nine holes. Yeah, it was a nice feeling. It's nice to know - and I holed a couple of crucial putts at the right time, which you always do when you win.
I'd like to say I felt good in that position, being in with a chance to win, and I handled that very well in the sense that I hadn't been there in a while. As I always say, the key is to get yourself in with a chance to win, and I responded well to that, so I look forward to giving myself a few more chances. I hadn't forgotten how to win let's say, which is a nice thing.
Q. How did you make the determination that the eyesight was the problem with the putting?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: Well, I lost my confidence in reading the greens essentially. So it was pretty easy to figure out that it was my eyesight that was giving me - I really did lose my confidence last year. That was essentially it. I second guessed a lot of reads, and ultimately then hit a lot of tentative putts. I spent a good bit of the season working on my putting stroke, trying to fix the tentative putts, but the tentative putts were really coming from just my lack of commitment and doubt of my reading of the greens rather than anything else. I was thinking, and I briefly had a conversation with the people who work with Ernie Els January last year, but I was doing other things and didn't feel like - I didn't want to put something else into the mix at the time. And I was considering going back this winter to - well, I needed to do something, and then there was a group based in Northern Ireland who came to my attention, and obviously being closer to home, they were easier to work with.
Q. And are these the ones that did the surgery?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: No, I've had four laser surgeries, and as I said, I have 20/20 vision. I was laughing in Abu Dhabi with the light there, guys in my playing group with no glasses I could see the golf balls landing and nobody else could. I'm perfectly fine in terms of what I can see. These make it better, but really I have astigmatism like a lot of people. I grew up with a bias to reading putts right to left, so if I saw an eight foot putt that was straight, as a kid, I'd aim right half. That's where I would see it.
For the last number of years, if I saw that same eight footer, I'd actually look at it left half. Now, that's just how your eyes have how my eyes have changed. I was used to it for 20 years of my life having a right to left bias, now I have a little bit of a left to right bias, and it's been a little it's just something that I suppose if I grown up that way, it would be fine, but my eyes changed that way, so in fairness I have a left to right bias, and I just have to work on it and get on with it.
Q. The people in Northern Ireland, are they the same as Sherylle Calder's group?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: No, that's totally different. This is a different group altogether. They work in a number of sports, so they would be - I have no idea what Sherylle's - I didn't get into detail with what they do, but I'm sure it's a similar thing in terms of eye exercises.
You know, I've touched on these before, I've read books on it and looked at it, but this is - it's easier when you have somebody else organizing it for you and managing it sort of thing, and certainly I'll be interested to see how it goes. So far, so good. As I said, a couple of good weeks down the first couple of weeks, and we'll have to wait and see. But certainly I could have putted better in a few tournaments last year and it would have made a big difference. We'll see if it's - I think it's explained very nicely, your eyes just change over time, so I'm just working very hard to get them back to where they were.
Q. Does Ronan help you read putts at all?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: If you see me ask Ronan to read a putt, it's not a good sign. He actually had laser surgery during the winter. He was really blind before that. Now he's got good eyesight. But it doesn't matter - the problem I will ask my caddie to read a putt if we average once a round, but it means I have doubted the read, and essentially anybody - the best way to read a putt is get in there, read it and believe in it, as Bob Rotella - it's far more important to be committed to your line than to be right, and when you ask somebody else for instruction on reading the greens, their pace - everything they do, as much as Ronan, he can help, it's just not a good sign when you start relying on your caddie. You're really not taking responsibility in that situation for what you see.
Yes, once in a blue moon, but it's not a good day when you start asking your caddie. As I said, you're abdicating your responsibility. We're professional golfers; we should know what we're doing at this stage. Yes, I will ask him once or twice when I get distracted or lose my way I will ask him, but not as a regular deal.
You guys don't play snooker, but it's like snooker; nobody can tell you the shot to hit, you have to see it. It's always second best when you're asking somebody else. The absolute best way is to have 100 percent confidence. If you have 100 percent confidence in your caddie, maybe that's - I suppose I do, but at the end of the day, his perception of a firm putt right lip or an easy putt outside the hole, we all see things a little bit different. So best thing is to trust your own reading of the greens and be able to commit to it and go with it, which I was sorely lacking last year. I was really bad last year. I was just so bad.
Q. What's your measure of a good year, and have you ever gotten to the point in your career where you got worried about a year?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: No. You know, winning is the ultimate measure, but there are secondary goals, playing well, playing consistent, playing solid, getting yourself in contention a lot, because winning is obviously a result, and sometimes you can do everything right and not quite get there. But there's no doubt, in terms of outside pressure and people - outside judgment, most people would judge you purely based on whether you won or not, so in that sense, you could miss nine cuts and win a tournament, and it goes - if I - hopefully not, but if I miss - say I play 20 times on the Tour over here and I miss 18 cuts and win twice, I'll have 18 Friday evenings where I'll be a sorry person to be having dinner with. I'll have two great weeks. So in terms of the year, I'll have 18 lows and two highs, which would be pretty miserable. But in two years' time, all I'll remember is the two wins, and my record will remember the two wins.
As much as we try, we spend all our time trying to be consistent, it's the inconsistent wins that are probably the most important thing. Yeah, I would put down wins - especially for me, as well, like when I finish up, they will always go for me at the moment, well, he won three majors. Hopefully when I finish up they won't say he won three majors. He won eight majors. (Laughter.) And he won 40 events. So my CV will always start with that, so that's - it won't go down, he made 20 cuts in 2013 or something like that, as much as it's a measure of consistency. It's not a long term measure of us. Winning is the most important thing.
Q. Players from time to time over the course of years change equipment, yet you've remained pretty loyal to Wilson. Why has that been the case? Why have you stuck with them, they've stuck with you?
PADRAIG HARRINGTON: There's lots of reasons for changing equipment at different times. But whatever equipment you have, you've got to have absolute belief in it. You've got to believe you have the very best equipment at your disposal. I've been very lucky in that sense. Wilson have won the most amount of majors, their irons have won the most amount of majors. They make a superb iron. They're very focused on their players. They have small number of players, and so that means if any one of us goes to them and says, we'd like this, they can actually do it.
They can actually move production and make sure that the club is focused on their players. So they will move mountains for me and do anything I want necessarily, so they tend to produce the club - they produce a great iron, but they tend to produce an iron that the player likes first and then sell it to the public rather than necessarily producing a club that the public likes and trying to make us play it. They concentrate on the Tour player because they know that's where they're at. As I said, they have the most majors won by any iron brand in the game.
Luckily on top of that I've got the freedom to play - I play Titleist Pro V1x, the best ball in the game, no doubt about it, which is a great variability for me, to be able to put that ball into play. You know, that's the great thing, great thing for me. I have enough maneuverability and Wilson have always allowed that with the ball and things like that, so it gives me the advantage that I have. I feel like I tee up there with the best equipment you can have.
But every player has got to feel that way. You can't stand on the tee box thinking you can give away anything. It's tough out here to win. You don't want to give up one inch, so you've got to have that belief, and as I said, Wilson and Titleist, what two better brands could you ask for? I'm pretty happy when I tee it up that I've got the equipment to go out there and win tournaments.
MODERATOR: Thank you very much, Padraig. Good luck this week.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russia got what it wanted and desperately needed from international lenders, who agreed Monday to $17.1 billion in new loans as part of a two-year financial bailout to rescue the country's precarious economy.
The announcement of the loan package culminated weeks of speculation and negotiation that followed the collapse of Russian financial markets this spring.
The money could begin to flow into the Russian economy as early as next week, but apparently only if parliament approves the government's economic stabilization plan, by no means a sure thing.
The loans are to come from three sources: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Japanese government. When combined with already-negotiated loans, the bailout package totals $22.6 billion.
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"These resources will allow us to significantly strengthen the anti-crisis efforts of the government and will help to stabilize and strengthen the Russian economy," Chubais told reporters.
In Washington, the Clinton administration hailed the accord. "We view it as a major step forward with Russia's reform efforts," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said.
The IMF's chief negotiator, John Odling-Smee, said the deal will mean that "confidence will return to the financial markets and the pressures on the ruble will not continue."
The IMF board of directors is scheduled to meet in Washington next Monday to consider the deal. The State Duma plans a special session on Wednesday to further debate the measures.
The lower house is dominated by the Communist Party, which opposes the program to cut the deficit and improve tax collection.
"We will make a judgment about the position of the Executive Board in the light of whatever decision the Duma makes," Odling-Smee said.
Millions of Russians have been pushed into poverty by the country's shrinking economy during the 1990s, and the infusion of cash is designed to ward off another big downturn.
The government hopes the loans will prevent a devaluation of the ruble, restore foreign investors' confidence, and allow the state to begin paying off its many debts, including billions of dollars owed to unpaid workers.
Chubais, the architect of Russia's privatization program, had been seeking $10 billion to $15 billion in new loans. The agreement he struck calls for $12.6 billion in new loans this year, followed by $4.5 billion next year.
The IMF said $5.6 billion could be made available immediately after its board meeting next week.
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1 p.m.
Your correspondent is always down for a music festival, but let's be real here: Voodoo's lineup this year is weiiiiird. OffBeat celebrates eclectic, idiosyncratic music taste as much as anyone, but c'mon. Is anyone excited for more than, like, three of these acts? Skepticism is the mode heading in here.
Of course, music festivals are not all about the music. We may not have a single genre of music to rally around. And we don't have the drug cornucopia you'd find at a bigger festival to lubricate matters. All we got is a beautiful weekend in New Orleans, a completely random assortment of bands, and the will to get weird.
5 p.m.
Overrepresented demographics at Voodoo Experience 2012
-Hippie/hipsters, all face paint and cutoff jeans — there are hardly any indie bands or jam bands on the schedule this year, so the lesson here is that these kids will show up to any festival.
-Crust punks
-Girls in risqué outfits/costumes
-Marijuana-smoking parents with lawn chairs
-Bros, usually with at least three of the following: baseball caps, sunglasses, no shirt, cheesy tattoos in cursive, plastic cup in hand.
Underrepresented demographics at Voodoo Experience 2012
-People of color
I wander around upon arriving and eventually wind up watching Infantree play for a couple hundred people. The songwriting was passable, but the instrumental breaks were surprisingly awesome, evoking a harder-rocking Fleet Foxes. The crowd is fairly unenthusiastic, though in our defense it is 5 p.m. on the first day of a music festival.
I wander onward and stumble upon some abrasive bubblegum electronica, being produced by a couple of skinny blondes twisting knobs & throwing their hands in the air. They're called NERVO, my schedule tells me. Your correspondent is entirely apprehensive with regard to the appeal of laptop shows, especially at music festivals. I mean, shit, they're just twisting knobs and yelling. Most people are just sitting in the grass, perhaps waiting for Die Antwoord — about half of those standing up are enthusiastically throwing their hands in the air at every opportunity (every five seconds). Your correspondent is admittedly not the target audience here, but it seems reasonable to say that something is off. Your correspondent is so dismayed by this shitshow that he is compelled to indulge in a gigantic daiquiri. Plus Die Antwoord is coming up, and I refuse to be sober for that.
I'm going to spare OffBeat's readers from the 600 words I just typed on how much I hated the Die Antwoord show. Wikipedia calls them "a South African rap-rave group." One reviewer recently wrote:
"Ostensibly, Die Antwoord is weird. As far as you or I can tell — with our normal (and/or normally-hip) lifestyles — they are a pair of entertainers that are fucked up, strange and/or wholly personify 'the Other.' But on a layer one degree deeper — a subtext that has as much to do with irony as it does LARPing — the duo has simply mastered Branding in the 2012/hashtag sense of the term."
The truth of the matter is I just don't get it. The band kicked things off with a rap that went something like: "DJ R-Def will fuck you in the ass / DJ R-Def will fuck you in the ass / DJ R-Def will fuck you in the ass / DJ R-Def will fuck you, punk ass white boy faggot / Look who scared of a real man / DJ R-Def will fuck you til you love me." The next four songs all had "fuck" in the title, though most of their raps are unintelligible. Your correspondent doesn't find this shit worth intellectualizing, frankly.
7 p.m.
I catch a little of Gary Clark Jr. and The Avett Brothers, but the combination of Die Antwoord and that second daiquiri has me too out of sorts to pay attention. I do notice that the festival grounds are starting to light up. There are sculptures, lights and installations everywhere suddenly, enough to impress even the most visually desensitized '90s child. Bonnaroo has nothing on this. I'm starting to notice more and more people clearly on drugs.
9 p.m.
Things finally start to make sense with Neil Young. This guy is perfect for the music festival medium, agreeable, laid-back, and huge. I'll confess I expected the old timer to be on rhythm guitar, but nothing doing; Young plays his own solos, and he rocks out way harder than I'd anticipated. Shit got weird at a couple points — think more Wilco or Yo La Tengo than CCR. I find myself pining for just the instrumental breaks, the verses and choruses mere formalities. His guitar playing is just beautiful, there's no other word for it. After one especially intense jam, a bro is heard exclaiming, "That was fucking aaaaaawesome!" Indeed, it was.
11 p.m.
On my way out, I pass a bunch of kids dancing around a flaming robot, blaring some beep-boop-y techno. I instantly know this will be my lasting memory of my first day at Voodoo.
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Introducing the only insulated overhead guillotine dog kennel door on the market. The unique layered panel design provides for optimal insulation and greater strength than conventional kennel doors.
The Insulated Guillotine kennel door is not only popular in commercial settings but is a necessity for the residential (homeowner) private kennel. Security Boss® has designed the side channels of the guillotine door to work with both the insulated panels as well as the standard panels. This is a huge benefit for kennel owners who may want to start out with the standard panel design, and then upgrade to the insulated panels. No need to change or reorder the side channels, they work with either panel.
The Security Boss® Guillotine Kennel Doors use the strongest side rail channel on the market, these are the thickest, most durable side channels available. Edges are contoured so there are no sharp angles that could cause abrasions or injury. (Note: This side view allows you to see the unique design that allows for the use of either the standard 1/4" HDPE panel or the 1/2" thick insulated panel).
The Standard panel has machined edges that provide a better weather resistant barrier than a standard "C" channel that are found in other brands of kennel doors. The unique Security Boss® side rails are designed for either the standard panel or the insulated panel. Often budget constraints dictate choices during construction, but with Security Boss®, you can simply upgrade to the insulated panels at a later date, without changing the side rails. The Standard Panel is a 1/4" thick HDPE panel that is made for every day abuse and wear. The tough HDPE is chemical, detergent and bacteria resistant. We made the adjusting slots wider in the side rails as well, this allows for easy installation of your guillotine doors to ensure they slide evenly and easily.
The Standard Guillotine kennel dog door comes with a bottom seal to provide for a superior seal. This bottom weather seal is replaceable and has no screws or contact points where a dog may injure themselves. The weather seal has has a rubber bulb along the bottom that is affixed to a heavy duty, metal reinforced vinyl slip on channel. We have found that some people love this feature, others simply remove it and use the doors without it.
Each door is equipped with all the necessary mounting hardware to operate your guillotine door from the exterior of the kennel.