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Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
I realize what happened to you sucks but now you know that you can and should backup everything you care about. It does not matter if the ps4 has all of these features you are talking about. The HDD could always completely fail and you could lose everything.
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cb765 wrote:
Once your system locks up its too late even for safe mode, and we can not backup movies purchased from psn. The PS3 does not have the ability to identify a bad game file and fix it before corruption occurs , that is why I started this conversation, a game freezing should not have to lead to losing everything , a game not downloading properly should not have to lead to losing everything. And cloud save is not enough and only helps with game save data, what about movies from psn , what about themes, what about games, there needs to be a safe way to reboot when a game freezes that does not risk corruption like a reset button, the PS3 and PS4 need to be able to locate and fix or delete bad files without compromising the entire HDD.
|When it comes to protecting your data, redundant backups on different locations [e.g. local, external, cloud] is your best friend.
|Depending on the movie, you can back it up to an external device or a PSP. Movies purchases are a one time download for they are treated as a physical copy. The movie purchase/rental agreement is clear on these things. It is up to you to be proactive and back them up before your HDD fails/becomes corrupted.
PSN Video Owners Terms
Purchasing videos to own from PlayStation Network Video Download Serviceis similar to purchasing a Blu-ray Disc™ or DVD movie, with the difference being you can store your purchased videos to your PS3, PSP System, or PC. Plus, you can play back your purchased content on one PS3 and up to three PSP systems. There are specific guidelines when purchasing videos from the PlayStation Network.
Guidelines for purchasing videos to own
- Purchased videos to own have no time limit for viewing, so as long as the terms of the agreement are not violated, the purchased videos can be viewed indefinitely
- Purchased videos to own in standard definition can be played on a single activated PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and up to 3 activated PSP® portable entertainment systems.
- Purchased videos to rent in standard definition can be downloaded to a single PS3 or a single PSP system then passed between either activated system once.
- Videos purchased on the video store cannot be re-downloaded once it has been downloaded to either a PS3 or PSP system
- Any user on a PS3 may begin playback of a video purchased to own once it has been downloaded to the system (unless some other restriction, such as parental controls
Guidelines for renting videos
PlayStation®Network Video Download Service Terms
Guidelines for renting videos
- You can only view the videos for the following amount of time:
- You have up to 30 days to download the video after completing the purchase. This time limit is also the maximum time available to view the video.
- You have up to 24 hours to view the content after the first time it is played (assuming there are 24 hours or more before the 30 days expire).
- Rental videos can only be played initially on a single PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system or a single PSP® portable entertainment system, depending on type of video you rent. It cannot be played on both products simultaneously.
- Rentals can be downloaded to a single PS3 or a single PSP system, depending on type of video you rent.
- Videos in high definition may only be viewed on a PS3.
- Content cannot be re-downloaded once it has been downloaded to either a PS3 or PSP system without renting the video for an additional term (if you rent the video again at a later date, you can re-download the video at that point).
- Once you have started watching a rental video, it cannot be transferred to watch on another device.
- Any user on a PS3 or PSP system may begin playback of a rental video once it has been downloaded to that system (unless some other restriction, such as parental controls, prevents you from playing back the content).
- There may be issues accessing the Canadian Video Download Service outside of Canada.
NOTE: 24 hours after the start of playback, a title covered by a rental license will no longer be viewable even if the content remains on the PS3 hard disk drive, Memory Stick™ media, or PSP®go system storage. This is true even if the 30 day download deadline has not expired.
Conversely, if you start the first viewing of a 2 hour video with only 1 hour left on the 30 day period, you will not be able to complete the video, even though you have not had the full 24 hours. Once the 30 day period is over, the video can no longer be viewed regardless of the time remaining on the 24 hour clock.
The permitted time to watch the video is the shorter of the 24 hours after the first playback or 30 days after purchase.
Also be aware, if you are simultaneously watching and downloading a video, the 24 hour clock will start the instant the video is first played. Since the download time will depend on the size of the video and your connection speed, a download may take several hours to complete. If you later decide to stop viewing the video to allow the download to finish, the 24 hour expiration will not stop because the video has not finished downloading which may cause the rental to expire before you can finish watching the entire video.
Click here for information on how to transfer rental movies from the PlayStation Network.
|Being able to re-download your game related DLC, themes, avatars is a form of cloud backup. If you didn't know you can re-download these things from your Download List.
|The PS3 is able to locate and remove bad data without compromising the entire HDD. It is called Restore File System
What we might see is improvements to the utilities found under Safe Mode. The PS3's HDD is fully encrypted and because of it there is only so much you can do to it. A lot of thing can go wrong that might prevent an encrypted HDD from properly booting up [e.g. damage boot loader, master key, etc]
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?[ Edited ]
set your drive to READ ONLY. and create encryption , ps3 wouldn't be able to do a thing!
thats if we're talking about External drives!
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
cb765 wrote:
When playing a game on PS3, if that game freezes and your PS3 locks up , you can not access the dashboard, your only option is to turn it off and turn it back on(with fingers crossed) and let the PS3 run fix file system, it does this all by its self you have no control you just sit there and hope for the best.
The new arquitecture should be better at handling resource hungry tasks but system locks are caused by bugs in software. SONY can go out of their way to add a reset button but if the game you are playing is buggy then there is the change that your system will lock, at which point all the reset button is going to do is a hard reset.
The PS3 takes over at this point because it will not boot from the HDD anymore until this gets fixed one way or another, because the PS3 treats the HDD like it is one big file. If this process fails your only other option is to boot up in safe mode and choose option 5 because the other ones will not do anything for you. Option 5 is restore PS3 system, that means wiping the HDD and starting over.
We have to deal with this with limited options because Sony gave the PS3 limited ability to deal with data corruption,
The PS3 HDD is fully encrypted and with security comes inconvenience. Be proactive and backup your data. Be glad that we have such options at our disposal [there was a time in which we didn't have them] Be glad that we get to use comercially avaible HDDs instead of proprietary HDDs.
and gR3yGh051 I am talking about data that came from sony, psn, and game data and save files, my problem started when I downloaded a game from psn that did not work, you should read an entire thread before posting argumentative remarks and taking shots at me personally. I will accept all constructive feedback and if you can help me prevent this from happening again great, if not that is fine too, I am not posting because I want to battle with the forum, I am posting because I want Sony to hear me and maybe fix this problem for all gamers on PS3 and PS4.
Use a wired connection for all heavy game downloads & firmware updates. There are plenty of things can go wrong when downloading a heavy file. I also suggest you upgrade your router's firmware.
As for SONY, what they need to do is increase their deployment servers and if they are not doing it already, simultaneously provide serveral download mirrors. This would provide the redundancy/file check you've been referring to; morover, it should make download faster & cause less load on the servers.
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
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cb765 wrote:
There are still a lot of unanswered questions about PS4 like how many usb ports will it have, where are they located, will they support 2.0 and 3.0, will it have an optical plug and support turtle beach px21 wired headset,
The PS3 will support USB 3.0
Yes, it will have a digital output. [I woud be retarded not to have one]
will we be able to pay to change our online ID,
That is PSN related not PS4.
will we be able to customize our profile card or use the one we use on these forums from psnprofiles.com, will there be a bigger bio section so we can let other gamers know who we are and the type of gamer
For the next generation the PSN is aiming to become a gamer's social network. I'm pretty sure the next time around SONY will do more with their trophy card. If they don't you can keep using your psnprofiles.com card.
,will the PS4 be able to keep its self cool when it is downloading and charging controllers while it is in sleep mode,
It better. I'm pretty sure they will not release the device without a good cooling system.
what is the touchpad on the controller for?
What are the buttons on the controllers for? The touch-pad is yet another medium for you to interact with the system.
Some of the solutions I talked about in this thread may not be perfect but they are solutions that can work. The PS4 is still in early stages of development, now is the time to talk about issues, features, and anything else we feel is important, do you know what happens if we don't ? " NOTHING"
Even if we don't talk about it, the PS4 will still be assembled and released. There has/is/will be a lot of people working on all the aspects that form PlayStation [e.g. hardware, software, structure, legal, marketing, etc...] No matter what, the PlayStation 4 will see the light. Nevertheless, yes, we ought to engage in conversation and discuss at all level the forthcoming future of PlayStation.


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See the video! Demolition of the old gymnasium at San Ramon Valley High School continued through this morning with a crane working like a jackhammer, poking away at the concrete and steel structure while an excavator cleared away the debris, which was sorted for recycling.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 5:06 PM
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Goodbye to the old San Ramon Valley High gym
Original post made on Aug 18, 2008
Like this commentPosted by Scott Phillips
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on Aug 18, 2008 at 6:37 pm
My brother, sister and I all went to San Ramon Valley High School (classes of 1956, 1960 and 1971, respectively). This article mentions that the Large Gym (originally called the Boys' Gym in the era of political un-correctness!) "has been a part of the school since 1950." I was under the impression that it had been built in the late 1950's. I confirmed with my sister, who dragged out her high school yearbooks to show that construction started in 1957 and was completed in 1958.

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Liquid Nicotine Poisonings up 300 percent!
Most people are familiar with e-cigarettes. New e-cigarette stores are popping up almost every day. City councils around the country are debating the pros and cons of setting age limits to buy them and banning them in places where smoking cigarettes is already forbidden.
There's another e-cigarettes related story that's is much more alarming that is beginning to surface - the potentially deadly liquids that are often bought and used to refill the e-cigarette vaporizer.
These "e-liquids," the key ingredients in e-cigarettes, are powerful neurotoxins. Tiny amounts, whether ingested or absorbed through the skin, can cause vomiting and seizures and even be lethal. A teaspoon of even highly diluted e-liquid can kill a small child.
According to an article in The New York Times, e-liquids are being mixed on factory floors and in the back rooms of shops.
Toxicologists warn that e-liquids pose a significant risk to public health, particularly to children, who may be drawn to their bright colors and fragrant flavorings like cherry, chocolate and bubble gum.
Many users, unaware of the toxicity of the ingredients, are casually leaving replacement bottles around the house where children are finding and ingesting them.
"It's not a matter of if a child will be seriously poisoned or killed," said Lee Cantrell, director of the San Diego division of the California Poison Control System and a professor of pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. "It's a matter of when."
Nationwide, the number of poison cases linked to e-liquids jumped to 1,351 in 2013, a 300 percent increase from 2012, and the number is on pace to double this year, according to information from the National Poison Data System. Of the cases in 2013, 365 were referred to hospitals - triple the previous year's number.
As two examples, of the 74 e-cigarette and nicotine poisoning cases called into Minnesota poison control in 2013, 29 involved children age 2 and under. In Oklahoma, all but two of the 25 cases in the first two months of this year, involved children age 4 and under. That age group is considered typical.
The e-liquids are much more dangerous than tobacco because liquid is absorbed quickly into the skin, even in diluted concentrations. Initially, many of the e-cigarette brands were disposable devices that looked like regular cigarettes. However, many of the newer e-cigarette vaporizers are larger and can be refilled with liquid that is generally nicotine, flavorings and solvents.
Unlike nicotine gums and patches, e-cigarettes and their ingredients are not regulated. The FDA has said it plans to regulate e-cigarettes but has not disclosed how it will approach the issue.
Chip Paul, chief executive officer of Palm Beach Vapors, a company that operates 13 e-cigarette franchises, estimates that there will be sales of one to two millions liters of liquid used to refill e-cigarettes.
If you look online, you can buy e-liquids anywhere from a liter to 55 gallon containers with 10 percent nicotine concentration.
Mr. Paul said he was worried that some manufacturers outside the United States — China is a major center of e-cigarette production — were not always delivering the concentrations and purity of nicotine they promise. Some retailers, Mr. Paul said, "are selling liquid and they don't have a clue what is in it."
The nicotine levels in e-liquids can vary. Most range between 1.8 percent and 2.4 percent, concentrations that can cause sickness, but rarely death, in children. But higher concentrations, like 10 percent or even 7.2 percent, are widely available on the Internet.
A lethal dose at such levels would take "less than a tablespoon," according to Dr. Cantrell, from the poison control system in California. "Not just a kid. One tablespoon could kill an adult," he said.
Many people believe that e-cigarettes are a new and valuable tool in the battle to quit smoking. The science isn't there yet to say whether they actually help or just replace conventional cigarette addiction. But one thing is for sure, if you have e-cigarettes and in particular, e-liquid refill containers in the home, they should be kept out of a child's eyesight and reach.
Source: Matt Richtel, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/selling-a-poison-by-the-barrel-liquid-nicotine-for-e-cigarettes.html?_r=1
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With New Zealand's catching woes continuing in Hamilton yesterday, the Black Caps could learn a thing or two from 14-year-old Reuben Andrews.
The St Paul's schoolboy took a contender for catch of the summer early in England's innings - and he didn't even leave his seat.
Reuben was at the game to attend to the boundary ropes and was sitting just inside the picket fence at Seddon Park. It was a position that served him well when Ian Bell pulled Andrew Ellis for six.
The ball eluded a leaping Mitchell McClenaghan on the boundary but not Reuben, who leaned low to his left and got two safe hands to the ball.
"The ball just came and the guy missed it, so I sort of dived," Reuben said, adding that he saw it pretty late because of McClenaghan's jump.
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With the Mars rover Curiosity's successful landing Sunday, Aug. 5, at 10:32 p.m. PDT, U.S. Geological Survey scientists continue their strategic role in the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the most advanced mission yet to explore whether the Red Planet has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.
Several USGS scientists are playing important roles in a mission that involves hundreds of people from many government and private agencies in the United States and other countries. Oftentimes, in missions this large, individual contributions are hard to isolate, but doing so allows for a deeper understanding of the complexity and interconnectedness of space exploration. USGS brings its unique multidisciplinary scientific approach to the mission through the work of several scientists doing vital research.
USGS researchers mapped and helped to select the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission's landing site in Mars' feature-rich Gale crater. They also are working to capture video of the descent and landing, to safely guide the rover amid hazards such as deep sections of soft sediment, to record and analyze the chemical and mineral composition of martian rock and dust, and to evaluate the role water played in forming the martian landscape. USGS expertise in marine depositional processes will help ascertain where water might once have flowed on Mars -- an exciting prospect because, on Earth at least, environments that contain water almost always contain life.
Gale crater was chosen for the landing in large part because data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that alluvial and sedimentary processes possibly driven by water might have occurred there, according to geophysicist Randy Kirk, who led the group that created high-resolution terrain models of the leading candidate locations for the landing.
"The MSL mission would literally have been impossible without the fantastic imaging systems on the current generation of Mars orbiters like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the advanced techniques we now have for processing huge amounts of image and spectral data," Kirk said. "Not only did these instruments pinpoint the ancient sediments that may hold a record of habitable environments for MSL to investigate, their images allowed us to map every rock and slope in the candidate landing sites that could pose a risk to the mission."
Looking for Signs of Water
Among other things, the USGS scientists and their colleagues will be investigating a feature very near the landing site that appears to be an alluvial fan, which could be evidence of prior existence of water. In the months after the landing, Curiosity will approach Aeolis Mons (sometimes informally referred to as "Mount Sharp"), the three-mile-high mountain in Gale crater's center that shows signs of being formed of layered sediments, which may indicate a history of wind or water processes.
Geologist Ken Herkenhoff will use several specialized cameras and instruments aboard Curiosity to study landforms and surface processes on Mars for signs of past water as well as organic compounds that are associated with life on Earth. These instruments will take color video of the craft's approach and landing and, once it lands, color photos and high-definition video of the Martian terrain. Another instrument functions like a geologist's hand lens, providing close-up views of the minerals, structures and textures in martian rocks and dust. Herkenhoff and USGS astrogeologist Ryan Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow, will also work with Curiosity's onboard ChemCam spectrometer and remote microscopic imager, which will fire a laser at martian rocks and dust and analyze the elemental composition of the plasma generated by the laser. It will search for organic compounds, as well as analyze the inorganic geochemistry of rocks and soils.
"The laser lets us rapidly study the chemistry of targets up to 7 meters away, and it is sensitive to light elements like hydrogen and nitrogen that other equipment can't easily detect," Anderson said. A member of the USGS team whose research helped lead to the selection of Gale crater as the landing site, Anderson describes his countdown to Curiosity's landing in his "Martian Chronicles" blog for the American Geophysical Union.
Both Herkenhoff and Kirk are science team members for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera that was used to map the landing site and will attempt to capture images of the Mars Science Laboratory as it descends via parachute to the martian surface. As well as being exciting documentation of this difficult planetary landing, these high-resolution images from 300 kilometers above Mars' surface will provide important context for the data expected to be collected on the surface.
"It's difficult enough to land a rover on Mars, as the spacecraft must execute every instruction perfectly as it enters and descends through the martian atmosphere," Herkenhoff said. "Acquiring this image will require coordinating the activities of these two spacecraft from a distance so great that they cannot be controlled in real time-the round-trip time for radio signals to travel between Earth and Mars will be almost half an hour.
Beyond verifying that MSL's parachute successfully opened, this image will provide a dramatic view of the most critical and exciting part of MSL's mission to Mars," Herkenhoff said.
Studying Martian Sediments
In contrast to the aforementioned three USGS scientists who work full time on planetary issues out of the USGS Astrogeology Center, USGS geologist David Rubin of the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, CA, was tapped for the Mars mission for his expertise in marine sediments on Earth. As an outside reviewer of data from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Rubin helped to corroborate NASA findings that there was once flowing water on Mars, judging by the shape of sedimentary ripples found there. On the current mission, he will help to evaluate the sedimentary features that the rover finds for evidence of marine or wind-driven processes.
Rubin explained how he, as a marine geologist, got involved in planetary science. "I've done research on the underwater sand dunes of San Francisco Bay and beach restoration in the Grand Canyon. NASA scientists and I realized that there were similarities to these subaqueous features on Earth and on Mars (as observed by the earlier Mars rover mission)." NASA funded his current research project to study sedimentation data transmitted from Curiosity in the expectation that understanding the processes that form ripples and dunes and their deposits on Earth can help explain how landforms and rocks originated on Mars.
Scheduling the Rover's Tasks
The mission runs not on Earth time but on Mars time, based on martian days, called "sols." For at least the first 30 sols of the mission, Rubin have an additional task: He will be among the scientists of the Surface Materials and Mobility team who chart the rover's daily route amid sand dunes and other potential hazards. To do this, they must make the stressful adaptation to martian time. A Mars sol is just under 40 minutes longer than an Earth day; the difference, not much at first, quickly becomes disruptive, Rubin said. Again, his expertise in dunes and sediments will play an important role -- this time in keeping the rover safe from hazards.
For the first 30 sols of the mission, he and Anderson will also join three science theme groups -- geology, environment and mineralogy -- that direct the rover's daily tasks. Depending on the planets' relative position, it takes about 13 minutes for signals to travel from Earth to Mars, too long an interval to transmit individual instructions. So Curiosity's tasks will be programmed an entire sol at a time, the same operational approach used for previous Mars rovers. Every minute of the rover's sol will be scheduled, taking into account temperature on Mars, data bandwidth, battery power, and time.
Unlike previous rovers, which used solar panels, Curiosity has a 110-watt nuclear generator, but its energy must be carefully budgeted. The team must schedule some mechanical activities later in the sol, when the faraway sun has warmed the rover's robotic limbs. The rover will perform its data-gathering tasks during the martian sol, and begin transmitting each sol's data at martian dusk. Images from Curiosity will thus begin to reach the USGS and other investigators on Earth a sol or two after the landing.
"I am especially excited to see what Gale crater looks like from the ground after studying if from orbit for years," Anderson said. "The first color panorama with Mount Sharp in the distance is going to be spectacular!"
To track the progress of Curiosity and the Mars Science Laboratory mission, go to http://www.nasa.gov/.
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I apologize for some fans that may have been a bit over the top. Hopefully they have been banned. Anyway, congrats on making to the NFC Championship game.
I am feeling very good about this game. I really like the matchups and intangibles. Special teams is going to be huge in this game and the 49ers have a big advantage in that department.
The defensive line, especially Justin Smith are playing great right now. Eli most likely will not be graced with anywhere near the time he had against the Packers. The run defense has been spectacular all year long so I do not see Jacobs or Bradshaw being a factor. That will leave it up to Eil vs the 49ers top rated defense. Gotta give it to the 49ers. I mean, is Eli really going to have a third miracle throw that sticks to a helmet? I have seen luck before but le'ts get real. Eli pulls these throws out of his ***...
Sorry Giants fans...The 49ers have made up their mind that they are going to win the SB this year and there is nothing the Giants can do it about it.


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Mario Tennis Open is the newest Mario tennis title from the Japanese game developer, Camelot. It lets you play as any one of the gang of Mario characters, and they each have specific strengths and weaknesses. If you'd prefer something more personalised, players can also use their 3DS Mii character.
Mario Tennis Open comes equipped with the game modes you would expect from the 3DS: singleplayer, local multiplayer, online multiplayer, and "Street Pass", which lets you engage in games with other Miis that you might encounter as you're wandering around with your 3DS. While I wasn't able to make use of the multiplayer options, which allow you to play against other 3DS-toting friends (only one of whom needs to own the game), there are still a bundle of options for those going solo.
First up is the tournament mode, where you play against a range of opponents in order to climb the ranks and win tournament cups. Getting through one tournament subsequently unlocks the next; there are four different tournaments that you can play through.
Exhibition mode lets you play against different characters on different courts, either in a singles or doubles game. Here you can choose your opponent, the skill level of the game, the court, and the number of sets and games you'll play, as well as the starting positions of each player.
The gameplay in these two game modes is pretty straightforward: manoeuvre your Mii to the right spot on the court, and then choose from a variety of different shots (helpfully referenced in the lower screen while you play). You can go for a lob, drop shot, slice, apply topspin to your shot, or hit it flat and hard. For players finding all the options a bit much, the x button will perform a 'simple shot', but of course you won't want to run around pressing just one button to hit the ball for long.
In addition to the different shot types, there are also two different view modes available. First up there's the standard three-quarter view, that takes in most of the court, and your opponent, from a reasonable distance above all of the action. If you want to get closer to the feel of the court, however, by lifting the 3DS up in front of you, Direct Mode is triggered.
In Direct Mode, you move the 3DS left and right to look around the court. When you hit your shots, they will be aimed in the direction that you're facing as well. In this mode, characters will automatically run in the direction of the ball, which can be useful for beginners who want to practice their different shot combinations, but ultimately means there is little challenge in playing in this mode for too long. (This is a shame; it would be good to have the option to turn the 'auto-run' behaviour off, so players could continue to enjoy the "at the net" experience, but with more of a challenging game.)
There is also a third option for solo players, called Special Games. This is a group of tennis mini-games, designed to mix things up a little and really let players utilise some skilled shot placement. In Ring Shot, you begin a standard rally, but while you play against your opponent you also are trying to hit various golden rings that appear over the net, and that are worth more and more points as they grow bigger. In Galaxy rally, you have to play a rally against the Luma, a floating star opponent, who also has a constantly changing court. In Ink Showdown, you play on a court where several Inky Piranha Plants have positioned themselves. They spit out great balls of ink that you have to hit back, or else your screen gets covered in ink splotches.
My favourite of the Special Games however, was the Super Mario Tennis game, where you repeatedly hit a ball against a wall, upon which a scrolling game of Super Mario Bros is playing. You get points for squashing Goombas and Koopas, as well as triggering mushrooms and collecting coins. For veterans of the classic Mario game, it is an interesting twist on the title.
Winning games (or even doing reasonably well) rewards players with coins that they can then use to buy new gear for their Mii in the Club Room. Some gear is obviously just decorative, while other items, like the Donkey Kong Wristbands, improve your character's power, spin, and movement on the court.
While Mario Tennis Open certainly has a lot going for it, including a good theme and the great production value we have all come to expect and enjoy from Mario games, there wasn't really enough to keep me riveted to the game for long periods of time. The music was too cutesy and grating for my liking (a complaint I have with many Nintendo sports games), and I would have liked the option to be able to turn it off, but keep the sound effects of the match. Still, I would rate it as a good go-to game to pick up for short periods, like the bus ride to work.
Just make sure your headphones are firmly plugged in first.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Va. - We 'spring forward' into daylight saving time this weekend, and while for some it means an hour of lost sleep, for others it's helping their bottom line.
Some workers can accomplish a lot with an extra hour of daylight.
Whether it's caring for cattle or working out in the fields, it takes a lot of hard labor every day to keep Countiss Dairy in Washington County, Virginia going.
Owner Michael Countiss told us as we head into spring that work will only pile up.
"Oh that's the busy time of year. We plant the corn and get ready to mow hay," Countiss said.
Washington County Virginia extension agent Phil Blevins told News 5 in the agriculture business, much of the work is dictated by daylight, and 'springing forward' into daylight saving time can help when it comes to farming.
"When you're used to getting up at a certain time of the day, it does seem to give you more time to work in the evening," Blevins said.
More time in the evening is just what's needed in the next few weeks at Countiss Dairy.
"We'll start hauling the manure and doing that kind of stuff. That's where we get the guys that do the day jobs and come in the evenings," said Countiss.
Some of their employees just work the evenings until dark, so more daylight means more productivity.
"We got to get it done," added Countiss.
When you talk time there's another consideration; the livestock.
"Occasionally dairymen, since they're on a usually a fixed schedule as far as their milking times, they'll move their milking times," explained Blevins.
While that time change may throw our schedules off, we learned it doesn't create a big impact to dairy cattle.
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Whenever it's time to change your clocks, it's also time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors.
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Washington (CNN) -- An FBI investigative team arrived at the site of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in eastern Libya, Pentagon spokesman George Little said Thursday.
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Romney will probably do a decent job of pointing out the flaws in this one, but I have a hard time believing he would put out a better one than Obama's.
What has Romney suggested that is so bad you feel uneasy?
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Netanyahu seems pretty antsy to get this party started. If that happens, there's no way we can stay out of it it seems .....and I would prefer to stay out of it.
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Does anyone have any news about the Sochi cup that is supposed to be this weekend?
Does anyone have any news about the Sochi cup that is supposed to be this weekend?
Federation Cup, Sochi, Russia
Live Results Page: http://fsrussia.ru/upl/results/1213/sochicup/index.htm
Pairs SP
1 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov 67.34
2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov 60.76
3 Tatiana Novikova / Andrey Novoselov 50.50
4 Ekaterina Petyakina / Konstantin Bezmaternykh 46.72
5 Christina Astakhova / Maxim Rump 45.30
6 Catherine Kuklina / Maxim Petukhov 41.92
Ladies SP :
Shelepen is done imo, Career will be over soon, biggest mistake turning to Sokolovskaya as a coach was her kiss of death
1 Nicole Gosviyani 55.87
2 Polina Korobeynikova 54.78
3 Valentina Chernyshova 54.47
4 Sofia Biryukova 50.30
5 Alexandra Deeva 42.86
6 Polina Shelepen 33.56 - 2 Falls
Men SP
joke scores, Gachinski fell twice
1 Sergei Voronov 78.46
2 Ivan Bariev 74.69
3 Konstantin Menshov 74.50
4 Artur Gachinski 74.24
5 Mark Shymatkov 66.32 3
6 Gordey Gorshkov 59.72
Short Dance
1 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin 60.20
2 Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro 58.28
3 Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuev46.03
4 Anna Polikarpova / Maxim Kirillov 41.36
5 Tatiana Baturintseva / Andrey Nevsky 37.33
Thanks, sky_fly20! Such a shame that Polina S is losing her touch, big time. What is happening to Arthur? He seems more and more unsure each season
Of all these skaters, I'd love to watch S/Z's performance the most!
Kavaguti/Smirnov SP
Gachinski is never reliable, I bet they will pluck Kovtun to go seniors soon
The translation is so bad but seems like Gachinski fell on a quad and a spin?
Arthur fell on a spin? His Lp is fantastic, I hope he rebounds.
Federation Cup
1 - Kavaguti & Smirnov --- 195.03pts
2 - Stolbova & Klimov --- 180.89pts
3 - Novikova & Novoselov --- 148.80pts
4 - Ashtakova & Rump --- 142.69pts
5 - Kuklina & Pethukov --- 135.61pts
Petaykina & Bezmaternykh withdrew (he got injuried)
Links: http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20121007/621974784.html
Federation Cup
1 - Konstantin Menshov - 233.25pts
2 - Sergei Voronov --- 230.28pts
3 - Artur Gachinsky --- 219.00pts
4 - Ivan Bariev --- 216.59pts
5 - Mark Shymatkov --- 198.46pts
Gordei Gorshkov withdrew
Federation Cup
1.ª - Nicole Gosviyani --- 159.29pts
2.ª - Polina Korobeynikova --- 154.12pts
3.ª - Sofia Biryukova --- 147.08pts
4.ª - Valentina Chernyshova --- 146.29pts
5.ª - Alexandra Deeva --- 114.41pts
Polina Shelepen withdrew
Shelepen has a sprained ankle, but she said maybe a few days off after it will be fine
Shelepen confirms she is now with Buyanova's Group with Adelina and Maxim
MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti, Artyom Kuznetsov. Skater Polina Shelepen told the agency "R-Sport", which do well at the Fed Cup injury prevented her feet.
Representative single skating, started test events in Sochi with poor performance in the short program on Sunday, did not come out at the start due to illness.
"The injury was two days before the flight - told the agency Shelepen. - It so happened that I sprained left foot and could not be used at full strength in the performance of its elements. If it is not disturbed, then within a few days it should get better . Meanwhile, it should be strengthened, bandage. "
Shelepen reported that she withdraw from the competition, along with the coach was scheduled after a workout, "but asked the federation to act."
"We were asked to skate with the items that you are able to. So meaning upset result was not, especially since this is not the Olympics," - she said.
Speaking of ice as an Olympic venue, the skater said that "it is generally good." "Of course, it is also necessary to fill and pour - it crumbled too, especially in the early days, when we arrived. However good," - she said.
Shelepen was satisfied and the organization of the tournament.
"The only thing that we have always been fads in training - that half of the world was not on the ice, the screen hung right above the ice. But the competition everything went well," - she said.
Skater also talked about going to a group of Helen Buyanova.
"It was not easy, as a past coach, I worked for a long time. But now work is very interesting and I am satisfied. Like a new team, which I was well received," - she said, noting that trains with Adelina Sotnikova and Maxim Kovtun.
"Competition is always going to benefit," - she commented rivalry with Sotnikova.
After the speech in Sochi Shelepen will participate in the Grand Prix, which will be held in Canada from 26 to 28 October.
"I have at the end of this month, Grand Prix, which I should be very well prepared. This is very important for me to start. Program, I think we will not have to adjust and gain that is. Before the Grand Prix will only train ", - she said.
She knew she was injured and they asked her to skate anyway? For such a small domestic unimportant competition she was risking her health?
I think this is an interview with Velikova about Stolbova & Klimov. Could someone translate please?
Federation Cup
1.º - Pushkash & Guerreiro --- 142.81pts
2.º - Sinitsina & Zhiganshin --- 142.67pts
3.º - Starygyna & Volobuiev --- 120.07pts
4.º - Polikarpova & Kirilov --- 109.01pts
5.º - Baturintseva & Nevsky --- 103.49pts
All couples, with the exception of B&N, got at least one deduction on the FD!


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For a long time as a child I used to think that the only person subject to hand-me-downs was my younger brother. Then I learned where a good chunk of my clothing was coming from, an older cousin and older kids of my mom's friends. I soon learned, that when it came to hand-me-downs, there were no socioeconomic barriers and a lot of times there were trades involved. We'd get a bag of clothes, they'd get a bag of toys we no longer used. This is the basic concept behind StokeBox, a new venture out of San Diego looking to connect thrifty parents who either need or need to get rid of lightly used kids clothing and other items.
Getting over the stigma of wearing hand-me-down clothes (even though only you really knew the truth) was difficult as a kid, due to that peer pressure thing. These days though, everyone is in a constant crunch to save money, at every economic level. Save for the occasional Hot Topic Pop Culture shirt, my kids wear hand-me-downs, and they don't seem to care. I notice that trend among many families, as trading with friends and neighbors for child-related items has become normal practice. Continue Reading "Hand-Me-Downs Go Social With StokeBox" »


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Call it the paradox of Rhode Island's primary season: the results were no great surprise, but they still managed to raise some eyebrows.
At work here, as communications consultant David Preston noted in a day-after-the-election email, was an absence of reliable public polling.
The problem was particularly pronounced in the Providence mayor's race. When the contest took shape in the spring, the conventional wisdom had lawyer and progressive darling Angel Taveras replicating outgoing Mayor David Cicilline's East Side-South Side coalition and cruising to victory over his more traditional opponents.
But there were no public polls in the race. And in the final weeks of the campaign, as rivals John Lombardi and Steven Costantino ramped up their ground operations, an information-starved political class came to believe that the contest was tightening.
It was not. Taveras racked up an impressive 49 percent of the vote, to 29 percent for Lombardi, 20 percent for Costantino, and less than 2 percent for perennial candidate Christopher Young.
Lisa Churchville, general manager of WJAR-TV, says media outlets declined to conduct polls in many of the races for a host of reasons. Among them: getting an accurate sample in, say, a mayoral tilt bound to attract just a few thousand voters can be difficult; and paying for surveys when viewers seem less-than-engaged in the political season is not the wisest of investments.
"It was a low-key primary — it sure wasn't Delaware," she says, referring to a hotly contested Senate primary in that state.
Whatever the reason, Rhode Island's pundit class was left flying blind as Primary Day approached. In the attorney general's race, State Representative Peter Kilmartin's victory came as no great surprise. But rival Stephen Archambault's impressive surge in the final weeks of the campaign — he finished with 33 percent of the vote to Kilmartin's 40 percent — went largely unnoticed.
In the 1st Congressional District race, Cicilline's victory over rivals Anthony Gemma, David Segal, and Bill Lynch was widely expected. But the only public polling — a Brown University survey on the race from late July which gave Cicilline a comfortable margin — was out of date by election time. And Cicilline's opponents had legitimate gripes with the polling methodology.
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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › Water resistant down now available at ZPacks
Sep 20, 2012 at 8:08 am #1294267
ZPacks has just listed water resistant down as an option with their bags and quilts. 800 FP.Sep 20, 2012 at 8:50 am #1914023
Stephen MBPL Member
@stephen-mLocale: Way up North
If Joe has that means Gooses Feet and Enlightened will not be far behind.
CheersSep 20, 2012 at 8:54 am #1914025
Apparently, higher fill powers are also available to manufacturers, but only with a minimum order of $25,000.Sep 20, 2012 at 9:22 am #1914032
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I will order 50k's worth so ;-)Sep 20, 2012 at 10:11 am #1914044
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@mike_hefetzLocale: Israel
"This down is washed with a water resistant treatment which makes the down hydrophobic" sounds like a wash in treatment…i wonder if its just like nikwax downproof…? or is it the nano coating stuff (which i assume entails more than just washing)
The lab report is interesting too (although test 3 with the laundry cycles seems to be incomplete…)
ps – has anyone got experience with downproof nikwax type?Sep 20, 2012 at 11:30 am #1914067
Hmm, this is pretty sure to get confused with the DownTek and DriDown stuff. But it appears to just be down treated with a wash-in like the Nikwax mentioned before.
Maybe Joe can chime in with what it is and who makes it.
(Gilbert Goose made it, silly…)Sep 20, 2012 at 4:12 pm #1914153
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I'm interested in where this is coming from as well. Might be DownTek, which means the floodgates are opening to cottage manufacturers. The big boys will be using it en masse come spring.Oct 4, 2012 at 5:39 pm #1918261
Anybody have any further updates on this?
Given the nature of the outer material of these bags and the fact that many of us have found that 900 down suffers in high moisture areas (such as here in the Redwood forest where I live) the ability to go with the WRD is very tempting.Oct 6, 2012 at 5:43 am #1918614
I received my twin quilt with water resistant down yesterday. It's the 20 degree quilt in long, and I went with 25% overfill rather than 30, thinking that the WR down won't suffer as much loss of loss in humid conditions, the shared body heat will make it slightly warmer than the single, and partly to claw back a little of the increased weight with 800 fp down. Part of the decision to go with WR down was because I live in an area with hot, humid summers and mild damp winters. Mildew and mould are a problem, and I hope the water resistance means I can worry a bit less.
The quilt had been in transit for 4 days, but when I took it out it lofted immediately, even without shaking. Anybody worried that the treatment might affect the down's ability to loft can be reassured. My wife has a ZPacks 20 degree bag with the normal down, and I can't notice any difference.
Obviously, I can't comment on long-term durability, – or even how it copes in the field. I have a couple of trips coming up in the next 3 weeks, so I should be able to say a bit more after that.
I don't like to comment on gear that I haven't even used, but I guess no one has much experience with these quilts yet, either.Nov 10, 2012 at 8:36 pm #1927584
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Katabatic Gear is now offering water resistant down as an option for their quilts.
RonNov 11, 2012 at 12:07 am #1927595
Zpacks are using Allied Feathers Resist-Down. How all these products really compare is probably difficult to say at the moment, as there are no std testing procedures and it is early days for all of them. DriDown claims to be superior to DownTek and Resist-Down haven't really given that much detail about their product (however it doesn't appear to be as good on first look).
Will be interesting to see how this all develops. I wonder what Katabatic gear is using?
I have just got a Zpacks 30 degree quilt with Resist-Down 800 fill, but wont be using it for a couple of weeks. The cut is really good. Not quite as roomy as my Enlightened Equipment quilt, but roomy enough and I prefer the std baffling to the Karo design.Nov 11, 2012 at 5:39 am #1927600
As I mentioned in another thread the Allied Feathers stuff is not the same as the DownTek or DriDown. Their claim is that they only retain "30% more loft than untreated down when wet".
A lot of people are going to be confused with this and the first time they have a problem will be yelling that none of them work.
My suggestion is to go to the down producer/manufacturer's site and read their testing info.
I wonder where Katabotic is sourcing theirs from? Aaron?Nov 11, 2012 at 4:42 pm #1927680
As I mentioned in another thread the Allied Feathers stuff is not the same as the DownTek or DriDown.
Yes you've been very definitive on this :).
Their claim is that they only retain "30% more loft than untreated down when wet".
No- Their claim is that they only retain "30% more loft than untreated down when exposed to moisture". This could be referring to the effects of humidity and of moisture generated by the sleeper. DriDown does "claim" much higher performance in this area.
Resist down claims "And if it does get wet, it dries up to three times faster than untreated down." DriDown claims 33% faster drying times and both products describe their down as hydrophobic.
My suggestion is to go to the down producer/manufacturer's site and read their testing info.
You will be comparing one paragraph from Allied Feathers with two comprehensive marketing web sites from companies who are all in competition with each other. Also they are all using different testing protocols and testing labs. You can read all about it here.
Finally I can't see any quantified test data on the DownTek site. Just a video of some down being mixed with water. Data may be out there somewhere?
I wonder where Katabotic is sourcing theirs from? Aaron?
Yes would be interesting to know.
Over time hopefully some sort of consensus will arise about how well these treatments work and which is the best. However, it seems too early to me to say anything definitive. DriDown seems to be the current leader and this is great if you currently want a 600 fill Sierra designs sleeping bag.Nov 11, 2012 at 5:26 pm #1927685
Take a look here Jason. There is total failure at 190 minutes. I saw both the DryDown and DownTek go all day being constantly agitated. (Flipped)
I don't have a horse in this race at all. I am just afraid that people seeing this are going to think they are getting the "nano-treated" stuff.Nov 12, 2012 at 11:39 pm #1927953
I don't have a horse in this race at all.
Shouldn't this be a goose race:). I have adopted a retired greyhound as a pet, so we could have a dog race:)
I did see the Zpacks report (I am surprised that they allowed Joe to put it all up on line). Hopefully over time it will al become a bit clearer about how all these products stack up.
I was just reading in TGO magazine that Berghaus are now using water resistant down in one of their jackets. So I soon think its going to be very widely used. It gives marketing departments some thing new to say about yet another down jacket or sleeping bag. Whether it is really a game changer remains to be seen.
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I've noticed my best hive with six to ten uncapped worker cells on a given inspection, and the occasional sighting of a worker carrying a pupa away from the hive. Does that mean these bees are too aggressive about getting at the mites?Producing Varroa-Tolerant Honey Bees from Locally Adapted Stock: A Recipe*
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Varroa-tolerant colonies can be identified using one or more of the following techniques.
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The 13th annual zydeco and Cajun festival showcases over 60 bands, artists, and performers, plus food, dance, and "8000 pounds of crawfish straight from Louisiana."
Also on tap: authentic Creole food, dance lessons, costumed New Orleans-style parades, and kids' activities. 619-234-8612.
Tab Benoit will perform on May 8, Annette DaBomb on May 9, Fuzzy Rankins on May 10, and Lafayette Blues Band on May 9 and 11.
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I have had some excellent advice thus far on this forum, so I thought I would seek some help on my next question!
I have discovered a couple of services that stand out to me, but wanted some input from you guys. I have checked vulnerability databases and the obvious choice is IIS 7.5 out of the two. However, if you were doing a full penetration test for a client and came across these two applications, what would be your plan of exploitation and how would you fancy you chances of actually being successful?
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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Governor Walker's Weekly Radio Address: "Investing in Wisconsin's Workers"
We have some more good news for Wisconsin workers. This week I signed a Special Session Assembly Bill, increasing funding for the Wisconsin Fast Forward program by $35.4 million. Job creators across the state tell me they have jobs available – what they need are skilled workers to fill them.
With this latest investment, we will work to eliminate technical college waiting lists for high demand fields – including advanced manufacturing, agriculture, and Information Technology.
We'll also help high school students get training in high demand jobs through dual enrollment programs between our high schools and technical colleges. And we'll invest in programs that help people with disabilities enter the workforce. All of this is in addition to the more than $100 million investment in worker training we included in the last state budget.
According to the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Monday, as of this January, Wisconsin ranks fifth in the nation in new manufacturing jobs, year over year.
Wisconsin is going back to work – and we'll keep our upward trend going, by improving the business climate and investing in the motivated, dependable workforce we are known for.
I want to thank members of the state Legislature for working together across party lines to pass this $35.4 million investment for Wisconsin's workers.
The state partnered with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to produce and distribute a brief radio address once a week. Audio files and a written transcript of this radio address can be accessed on http://www.wi-broadcasters.org and http://walker.wi.gov/media/weekly-radio-addresses.
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Stylish Room with Breakfast (ST1)
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Méret14 m²
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|Gibraltar Walk, E2 7EN London, Egyesült Királyság
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Smart and sleek the private bedroom features a double bed, an office area and plenty of storage space. Guests are welcome to use the well-equipped kitchen complete with a breakfast bar and tiled bathroom.
Liverpool Street Train Station is just a 15-minute walk away, whilst the West End and Oxford Street can be reached within 20 minutes' journey by London Tube. Numerous 24-hour bus routes service central London.
The surrounding neighbourhood hosts a wide variety of bars, Indian restaurants and art galleries. For nightlife lovers, Shoreditch is one of London's prime clubbing destinations.
HázirendPlease clean up after yourselves.
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Cheap but great. Was only in for one night and just needed a place to stay. The room and apartment were clean and comfortable. Just found it a bit difficult to find, although I'd only just got off the plane. Recommended.
Shoreditch is a wonderful place to stay. There are plenty of nice pubs and little cafes.
However in this particular accomodation we experienced two little problems:
First of all the Wifi connection was very weak and unstable. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. Most of the time it only worked for about 3 minutes.
Secondly, the warm water supply was very unstable either. A long, hot shower was impossible since the warm water would only last for 5 minutes.
Despite these problems the overall stay was okay.
Very nice and uncomplicated contact. Clean room, very cozy and we met some really nice people. Will definitifely book again when coming back to London. Thank you very much for everything!
Location: 9/10.
Facilities: 8/10
Located in a super nice area near Brick Lane in the Shoreditch area. When you get familiar with the surroundings, you'll find a short cut to Liverpool Street Station through Spitafield Markets.
The flat is nice and neat. Wifi working perfectly. One drawback is the broken holder of the shower head. Breakfast is just cereals.
Your host, Kaz, replies quickly on your requests.
Perfect location, response rate on emails and questions very quickly. Everything was perfectly arranged. Nice room (windows couldnt be opened all twe way so wouldnt recommend when its hot), good sanitory, clean. Only negative point: you hear everything your neighbours do or say (loud music at midnight while shiwering and singing along, but that depends on what co-guests you get stuck with....)
Nice, clean room. Just tea and coffee included.
Located very close to Liverpool Street Station and Tower Bridge.
For the girls: No hairdryer ;)
Can be fully recommended!
Fabulous location, great room with everything you need. The host went above and beyond to assist. Also worth noting that check in is a breeze. No waiting around etc. very clear instructions of how to gain entry.
Clean and tidy.
Cleaner comes every day.
Highly recommend!
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Former Ruckus Channel Sales Leader Lands At Rival Aerohive
Ron Gill is named vice president of Americas sales at Aerohive, responsible for leading the company's channel sales charge in the region.
CRN Exclusive: Brocade Channel Chief On Channel 'Disruption,' Ripping Off The 'Band Aid' And Aligning For 'Success'
Brocade Communications Channel Chief Sandra Glaser Cheek spoke with CRN about the May restructuring that she conceded has caused "confusion" in the sales trenches and the steps the company is taking to resolve problems in the field.
25 Hot Certifications For Cloud Professionals
Cloud-focused partners are increasing looking for employees that stand out from the pack. Here are 25 certifications that help cloud professionals do just that.
5 Key Features Of The Google Jamboard
Google's new $5,000 digital whiteboard is meant to foster better workplace collaboration. Here are five key features of the Google Jamboard.
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New polymers get their power from moisture
Fenella Saunders
A waterfall showcases the immense energy that can be found in all forms of water. But a damp piece of paper might not top the list of potential power sources. However, that's all a new polymer composite needs in order to both roll about and generate a little electricity. As chemist Mingming Ma and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explain in the January 11 issue of the journal Science, inspiration from tough-but-stretchy animal skin led them to the right combination of materials to make a film that is moved by water.
The composite is made from a relatively rigid polymer, called polypyrrole, combined with a flexible one, called polyol-borate. When the two long-chained chemicals are electrically deposited onto a surface simultaneously, they randomly intersperse and bond together to spontaneously form a film. The polypyrrole forms a stiff network to support the material. But in the presence of water, the interweaved polyol-borate breaks some bonds with the polypyrrole and joins up with water molecules instead. This reaction expands the polyol-borate, swelling the film overall. When the water evaporates, the reaction reverses, returning the film to its original shape.
If the film is surrounded by a constant water level, Ma explains, it just rolls up into a tube and sits there. But if there's a water gradient—more moisture, say, on one part of the film than another—that's where it gets interesting. The team set up such a gradient by placing the film on damp paper, with the air humidity maintained at 20 to 30 percent.
"When the film absorbs water, the two sides curve up but the middle part still contacts the moisture," Ma explains. "But with the two sides going up, the center of gravity goes up so the system gets unstable and falls in either direction. Now the side falls back to contact the moist surface, and still needs to curve more to get away, so it continues to roll and actually turns over." The film takes about 5 seconds to complete a cycle, but Ma says the rate could be controlled by modifying the temperature and thus the speed of water evaporation. (Videos of the toppling films can be found at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6116/186/suppl/DC1.)
During this process of toppling and flopping around, the film generates quite a lot of motion. The swelling and contracting is a bit like what happens in fast-twitch muscle fibers, so Ma and his group think that the films might be used as actuators—artificial muscles—for small robots. They have demonstrated that the films can lift a stack of glass slides 380 times their weight, and transport a cargo of silver wires 10 times heavier than themselves. The films can generate about 10 newtons of force—enough for a robot to do some useful work. Ma says that the size of the films could also be scaled up, because he and his colleagues found that a 9-centimeter-long film moved at the same rate as a 4-centimeter one. The films can be cut into any shape, but girth is a performance factor: Thicker films are slower but can lift more weight. Ma says the film's movement can be guided: "If you stretch the film in one direction, it will curve in the other direction, so we can control the curvature by stretching."
The mechanical energy from the film's motion can also be captured as electricity. Ma and his colleagues coated one film with a piezoelectric material, which converts stress into electric power. The film was able to generate a micro-coulomb amount of charge within several minutes. This amount of charge was stored in a capacitor at a voltage of around 1 volt, which was enough to make a red LED flash. The films might be able to provide more electricity if several are wired to the same capacitor.
The group is exploring piezoelectric materials that are more efficient at converting mechanical energy into electric current, but Ma notes that even a low level of power may be useful. For instance, small environmental sensors that are distributed in remote regions, where it would be hard to change batteries, might benefit from being powered by just a little water. The films maintained their integrity in the lab after six months of open storage and hundreds of movement cycles, so Ma thinks they could survive an extended period of environmental exposure. "The film itself is very stable, chemically and mechanically," Ma says. "For a sensor, it doesn't need a very intense deformation or stretching. Although it moves, the mechanical stress generated is pretty small."
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Without medical concerns and with a halfway decent combine, Jones would be in the conversation for the first pick overall and probably a top 5 lock. But, as we all know, there are concerns about a spinal stenosis diagnosis that have many teams scared. He didn't work out at the combine, and then put up numbers at Georgia's pro day that would have placed him "near the bottom" of LBs at the combine.
So the questions:
1) Where do you think he gets drafted?
2) If he's there at 19, do you want him in blue?
I know he projects better in the 3-4, but the kid is an animal on the field and some folks (like Mayock) think he's suited to be an SAM in a 4-3.


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With a little practice, anyone can solder copper water pipe. Learn how to cut, clean and flux pipe and fittings, how much solder to use, and how to check for a leak. We'll show you how to solder like a pro so you can tackle your next DIY plumbing job.
A self-lighting torch eliminates the hassles of a striker or match.
After years of using a regular, inexpensive torch, I finally splurged on a fancy model with a built-in lighter. They cost more, but boy, what a difference. Just pull the trigger to light the flame. No more fumbling with a striker or match. And it's safer, too. I used to leave the torch burning just to avoid relighting it. Now I turn it off when I set it down to avoid accidentally igniting my blue jeans.
In addition to the self-lighting feature, look for one that burns MAPP gas. MAPP gas produces a hotter flame, which is better for soldering larger diameter pipes (1-in. and larger) and brass valves. Once you're comfortable with how much heat to apply for a good solder joint, you can switch to MAPP gas to speed up all of your soldering jobs.
A tube cutter gives you a cleaner cut than a hacksaw.
Use a good-quality tubing cutter rather than a hacksaw. You'll be assured clean cuts with square ends that fit neatly into the fittings. The cutting process leaves a small burr inside the pipe. To avoid creating undesirable turbulence inside the pipe, remove the burr with the flip-out burr remover on the back of the cutter.
A 4-in-1 cleaning tool cleans pipes and fittings quickly and cleanly.
Oils, oxidation and other impurities on the outside of pipes and inside of fittings prevent solder from sticking. To clean them, you can use just about anything that's abrasive, including sandpaper and emery cloth. But for the quickest, cleanest results, buy a 4-in-1 cleaning tool like the one shown. Use it to clean the outside of pipes and the inside of fittings for 1/2-in. and 3/4-in. copper.
Tinning flux contains a powdered metal alloy that's similar to solder.
After a thorough cleaning, coat the pipe and fitting with flux before heating the joint. This helps solder flow into the joint. You may find two or three kinds of flux on the shelf. We recommend tinning flux. It contains a bit of powdered metal alloy that is similar to solder. The alloy melts and coats the inside of the joint and helps ensure a solder joint that's completely filled and leakproof.
Sand and flux one section of pipe at a time.
We don't recommend trying to assemble the entire plumbing run before starting to solder, but cutting, sanding and fluxing a grouping of pipes is a good practice. It allows you to accurately cut and fit the pipes before soldering. With this done, it's an easy matter to solder the joints one after the other. Since the pipes are held firmly in position, you don't have to worry about accidentally disturbing a joint before it's cooled.
Use the right amount of heat to solder the joint.
If you don't heat the joint enough, the solder won't flow into it. If you heat the joint too long, you'll burn the flux (it'll smoke and turn black) and make it difficult to get the solder to flow into the joint. Applying just the right amount of heat comes with practice, but it's not hard to learn. Here's how. Light the torch and, if possible, adjust the torch until the blue part of the flame is about 1 to 2 in. long (this depends somewhat on the type of torch and tip you use). Then position the tip of the blue part of the flame on the fitting and heat the joint about five seconds or until the flux starts to bubble and sizzle.
Test the joint by touching the solder to the seam on the side opposite the flame. When the copper is hot enough, the solder will melt like butter. Move the flame away from the joint and feed about 1/2 in. to 3/4 in. of solder into the joint. The solder will flow into all areas of a properly cleaned and fluxed joint. Then to make sure the joint is completely filled, run the tip of the solder quickly around the seam. It's easier to reach around the backside of the joint if you bend a hook on the end of the solder before you start. If the solder beads up and rolls off rather than flowing into the joint, you've probably burned the flux or the copper isn't clean enough. You'll have to take the joint apart to clean and reflux it before trying again.
Complete cleaning and proper fluxing and soldering result in a joint like this that's completely filled with solder.
With practice, you'll know by feel when you've successfully soldered a joint. The solder will flow easily and completely around and into the fitting. But when you're just starting out, it's a good idea to inspect the joints for voids.
A good solder joint should have an even band of solder showing all the way around. If you see an area that looks as if it needs more solder, brush a little flux onto the joint. If the joint is still warm, the flux will melt and flow into the void. Then reheat the joint and resolder.
I'm always a little nervous when working so close to wood with a flaming torch, especially when the water is turned off. That's why I make a point of filling a bucket with water first. I also keep a fire extinguisher handy and protect flammable materials with a flame protector.
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
4-in-1 pipe cleaning tool, Flux brush, Flame protector cloth
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.