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So im thinking about purchasing one of these babies. Any one have any confirmation or input as to what the compaiability is with lunux O.S`S.
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So im thinking about purchasing one of these babies. Any one have any confirmation or input as to what the compaiability is with lunux O.S`S.
this is a sata ssd drive. As long as you have SATA II, you're lucky. If you're with IDE, well...
Thanks for your input Gromeo but it`s not just a sata drive its a solid state drive, and i was wondering if anyone has any succsess storys with them and linux
running linux on an eee 901, wich uses an asus 16 gb ssd.
the fact that its ssd shouldn't bother the OS, since communication is the same as with any other sata drive.
As long as your computer supports sata, it doesn't matter what the media actually is. The drive will show up as sdXwhatever.
I also have an Eee 901 and I'm running a regular Ubuntu install on its SSD without any issues so far. The major concern with SSDs is the write-cycle lifetime of these drives - you should therefore use a non-journaling filesystem like ext2 to lower write-access to the drive. It's the same drawback as with any flash medium. I implemented some other minor tweaks to address this drawback like e.g. mounting the Firefox Cache-directory to RAM instead of the flashdrive.
i'm using one of these as system drive for linux and windows
as already said before:
- for the OS'es the technology of data storage doesn't matter, it shows up like any "normal" hard drive
- the limited write cycles especially of MLC SSDs (like the vertex) are considered a problem by lots of people as or4n9e mentioned - wear levelling and the onboard cache should help to minimize the number of writes though
you can find a lot of information on this in the manufacturers message board at h x x p://w w w.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186, including firmware upgrades (the next one is said to enable the TRIM command, preventing the drive to get slower over time), lots of guides how to prevent unneccessary writes to the drive and many other usefull stuff
there is also a way to determine the remaining life expectancy (i e writes) of your drive using SMART h x x p://w w w.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57898&highlight=smart
all things considered i'm very happy with my vertex (although it's only the 30 GB one), it's very fast compared to a traditional harddisk (high sequential and random transfer speed, low access times, very responsive overall feeling) and it doesn't make any problems
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University of Maryland freshman left-handed pitcher Tyler Blohm was named a second team Baseball America Freshman All-American, the publication announced Monday morning.
University of Maryland director of athletics Kevin Anderson announced the promotion of Rob Vaughn to head coach of the baseball program Thursday. Vaughn, who previously served as Maryland's associate head coach, becomes the eighth head coach in program history.
Four University of Maryland baseball players were selected on the third and final day of the 2017 MLB Draft on Wednesday. Junior right-handed pitcher Jamal Wade (17th round, Seattle Mariners), sophomore outfielder Marty Costes (25th round, Houston Astros), redshirt junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Selmer (31st round, New York Mets) and senior right-handed pitcher Jared Price (37th round, Miami Marlins) were all taken.
University of Maryland right-handed pitcher Brian Shaffer was named a National Baseball Writers Association Third Team All-American, the organization announced Wednesday.
University of Maryland junior shortstop Kevin Smith and junior right-handed pitcher Brian Shaffer were selected on day two of the 2017 MLB Draft Tuesday. Smith was picked in the fourth round (129th overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays and Shaffer was taken in the sixth round (172nd overall) by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Maryland baseball head coach John Szefc has accepted the head coaching position at Virginia Tech. A national search for the head coaching position will commence immediately.
University of Maryland freshman left-handed pitcher Tyler Blohm was named a Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-American, the publication announced Wednesday.
The Maryland baseball team was eliminated from the NCAA Regionals, falling 8-5 to West Virginia Sunday afternoon at David F. Couch Ballpark.
The third-seeded Maryland baseball team used a six-run fourth inning to push past fourth-seeded UMBC, 16-2, in a Winston-Salem Regional elimination game at David F. Couch Ballpark Saturday afternoon.
The third-seeded Maryland baseball team fell, 9-1, to second-seeded West Virginia in the opening game of the Winston-Salem Regional at David F. Couch Ballpark Friday afternoon.
Maryland enters its third NCAA Regional in the last four seasons this weekend in Winston-Salem, N.C. The third-seeded Terrapins will take on West Virignia in game one of the double elimination four-team regional Friday at 2 p.m.
Maryland junior right-handed pitcher Brian Shaffer was named a 2017 Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, USA Baseball announced Wednesday. Sponsored by Major League Baseball, and presented in partnership with the Rod Dedeaux Foundation, the Golden Spikes Award is presented to the best amateur baseball player in the country.

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Lopez, Luevano ready for Saturday
By Matt Richardson
As the spotlight wanes on the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao mega-match implosion, boxing and its myriad of young talent will move on. The first step in this process begins this weekend at the theater in Madison Square Garden when two of the sports brightest stars box in compelling, competitive fights against quality opponents. This is what boxing is about. The Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would have been nice to have to look forward to. But boxing will be fine as long as fight cards of Saturday's nature continue to be made.
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In the main event, unbeaten junior featherweight title-holder Juan Manuel Lopez (27-0, 24 KOs) will move up four pounds to take on featherweight title-holder Steven Luevano (37-1-1, 15 KOs). Lopez is returning from a fight-of-the-year candidate against Rogers Mtagwa last October, also at the Garden. In the televised co-feature, featherweight title-holder Yuriokis Gamboa (16-0, 14 KOs) will meet Mtagwa (26-13-2, 18 KOs). Gamboa will undoubtedly try to look more impressive against Mtagwa then Lopez did, with the hope that wins by Lopez and Gamboa could set up a match between the two sometime later in the year.
Talk of the clash was muted at Wednesday's final press conference at the Garden, however, because Gamboa elected to continue training in Miami, Florida than come up to New York City to promote the card. "Cubans love the warm weather," said Bob Arum, the promoter of the show, "unlike Puerto Ricans who can adapt." Mtagwa, a Tanzanian native, attended the press conference but elected not to speak thru broken English. His manager spoke instead, thanking the usual entities while predicting victory for his charge. So while Gamboa was absent and Mtagwa relatively mum, there was little hype for the fight between the two on Saturday or a looming fight between Lopez and Gamboa later in 2010. And while the promotional bandwagon for that fight has yet to begin, Arum and company did the second best thing – talk up Saturday's card instead.
"It's going to be a great fight on Saturday night," Lopez said thru translation. "It's one of my dreams to fight for my second world title. I prepared very hard for this fight and I'm ready to go up to 126." Luevano, meanwhile, said he appreciated the opportunity. "It's an honor to fight here at the Garden," Luevano said. "Come Saturday, I'm going to give it my best, give it my all and still keep my title."
Arum said the nine-bout card is "real close" to being sold out with only a "few hundred" $100 and $75 tickets left. The promoter said overall they have fielded a "tremendous response" to Lopez; a fighter Arum said is "fast becoming the biggest star in his country (Puerto Rico)."
The non-televised portion of the card will feature a variety of prospects and contenders with middleweight John Duddy at the top of the list fighting Juan Astorga in a scheduled eight-rounder. Junior middleweight Pawel Wolak will also see action against Ishmail Arvin and featherweight Jorge Diaz will box Tommy Atencio. A trio of unbeaten fighters (cruiserweight Carlos Negron, light heavyweight Will Rosinsky and junior welterweight Chris Algieri) will also fight on the card.
Puerto Rican boxing staples Miguel Cotto and Felix Trinidad are also expected to attend the card in support of Lopez. Arum promised a "great, great event on Saturday night." And with a stacked card, fight stars at ringside and competitive fights on paper, Saturday's boxing should help move the sport past the Mayweather debacle and into a more positive position in 2010.


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Three Women Held at Gunpoint in Home Invasion
OCALA- It was the kind of "welcome wagon" that came with a ski mask and a gun. Just hours after they had moved into a new house, three women were robbed at gunpoint. It happened in Ocala on the 1200 block of northeast 23rd street.
Twenty-four-year- old Josie Alicea and 20- year -old Nilka Mercado moved into the home on Tuesday at around 8 p.m., with Josie's sister Olga Alicea. Just four hours after moving in, they had some unwanted company. Two of the victims were standing outside the home when they noticed two people coming from their backyard. The men were wearing ski masks with skull designs on them.
"They brandished handguns, pointed them at the victims and yelled at them to get in the house. The men forced the victims in the house and to get down on their stomachs on the floor inside the house," said Sgt. Angy Scroble who is the Public Information Officer with the Ocala Police Department.
Sgt. Scroble said the men made Josie wake up her sister Olga who was sleeping on the couch.
Then the intruders forced Olga to search the entire home while holding a gun to her head.
"One was taken to a bedroom where the children were sleeping, four and five years old, to find valuables," said Sgt. Scroble.
The children slept through the robbery, but the men threatened to hurt the kids.
"They indicated there were a lot of obscenities screamed at them. You know you better find the valuables and give them to me. I'll shoot the children, those sorts of threats being made," said Sgt. Scroble.
At one point, one of the men struck Josie in the head with his gun.
"While all three were made to lie on the ground and stay there, there was some indication that they could hear them talking to one another that a truck or car had arrived," said Sgt. Scroble.
Before running out the door, they told the women to count to 200. Police said the women's cooperation is what kept them alive.
The robbers got away with cell phones, cash and a 60 inch flat screen TV. Both men are black. One is five 5'8 heavy build and the other is thin about 5'6.
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Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood
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To be right when everybody else has been wrong can be a lonely, even disabling experience. This may be a way of understanding the enigmatic character of Joachim Fest, the German historian, journalist and editor who died six years ago. His Berlin family belonged to the Bildungsbürgertum – roughly, the well-educated middle class – and rejected Hitler and National Socialism from the very first moment. Fest was a handsome, restless, rather unhappy man. In postwar West Germany, he never fitted into any of the conventional slots. He had no time at all for Soviet socialism, which he considered an early variant of the virus that later produced the Nazis, or for any Western form of Marxism. But although a right-winger, he neither dreamed of reversing the outcome of the Second World War nor chose to imagine the Germans as helpless victims of a single madman: Hitler did not have to happen.


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Steve Coppell admits he could face an anxious wait to discover if he will remain at Reading.
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Reading manager Steve Coppell admits he could face an anxious wait to discover where his long-term future lies.
Coppell is out of contract this summer and is sure to extend his five-and-a-half year spell with the Royals if he steers them to a Premier League return.
Should they fall short, however, then Coppell accepts there is no guarantee he will remain at the Madejski Stadium, even if he wishes to stay.
With seven games remaining Reading lie third in the Championship, four points off automatic promotion with a game in hand on second-placed Birmingham.
Asked about his future plans, Coppell told the Evening Post: "I have thought about it, but I have not reached a conclusion of any type.
"A lot will depend on how we do between now and the end of the season, but it isn't just me who can decide. There are other people who make decisions too.
"But at the moment all everyone is doing is concentrating 100%. All our concentration has to be on the importance of the next seven games.
"I am excited by this patch of games and I think there is a sense of excitement from the players," he added.
"It has been difficult to read anything this week with so many people away, but I get the feeling there is excitement and people want to get the job done.
"I still feel we are more than capable of going unbeaten in our last seven games.
"It is going to be a real test of the squad's character, drive and determination and as a manager it is a big challenge for me.
"I have just done 1,000 games as a manager, but ultimately that is in the past now. It all comes down to the next seven."
The promotion push continues with a trip to face Coventry City on Saturday, when Julian Kelly is set to replace the suspended Liam Rosenior at right-back while Coppell will assess the condition of Kalifa Cisse, who pulled out of Mali's World Cup qualifier against Sudan at the weekend due to illness.
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Vision of the Seas - Mexican Riviera
Destination: Mexican Riviera
Embarkation: Los Angeles
Embarkation was a breeze! I would say probably about 15 mins total and that is with tagging luggage,getting a porter, and checking in for our Sea Passes.
We were on the ship and it was amazing, music everywhere and drinks being offered left and right. We found our stateroom and all info was laid out on the bed and ready for our enjoyment. We ate in the Windjammer and it was delicious! We then went over to our room and got ready for our Muster drill and that was a breeze as well.
First day on the ship was pleasant we attended the Meet and Mingle and made new friends immediately. The dining room food is exceptional and the wait staff is very pleasant and attentive. Although the internet sucks!!! It took 45 minutes just to actually get on and as you were on and waiting 2 minutes for one page to load you better believe they were charging More you that .50 a minute. We got our charges reduced due to the inconvenience.
Cabo was a great port we did the Sail and Snorkel Fiesta great excursion. In Mazatlan we did the Stone Island Excursion and it looked a little weird as we first got on the catamaran but where they take you is truly beautiful. That is where my Fiance proposed and in a quaint rustic place. Puerto Vallarta was great we did the Paradise Village resort for the day and that was fabulous as well.
Sea days were fun there is always something going on a great food to be eaten. I also experienced a full body massage and it is well worth it!!
On our last night I was sad to say bye to my wonderful friends we had met and to the beautiful blue ocean that we watched everyday on the 9th Deck!
This cruise is well worth the money and the people you meet is just as rewarding. You are truly Royal on Royal Caribbean!!! Less
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From the Utah Ski & Snowboard Association — SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — The Utah Ski & Snowboard Association closed its 202-day 2010-11 winter season July 4 at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. Utah's 14 ski and snowboard resorts recorded 4,223,064 skier day visits during the season, previously estimated at 4.2 million. This marks a 4.23 percent increase over the last year's 4,048,153 and is less than a percentage point (0.6 percent) below Utah's all time record set in 2007-08. The National Ski Areas Association defines "skier days" as one person visiting a ski area for all or any part of a day or night for the purpose of skiing/snowboarding.
In addition to skier day growth, Utah received record snowfall with Snowbird receiving 783 inches of The Greatest Snow on Earth® exceeding the old mark of 688 inches set in 1983-84. Snow totals were not the only thing climbing in Utah this season, as spending generated by skiers/riders was an estimated $1.173 billion according to a research study conducted by RRC Assoc. for the state industry marketing group. This number surpasses the previous estimate from Utah's 2007-08 record season of $1.06 billion.
"It is safe to say that Utah ended the 2010-11 ski season with a bang," noted Ski Utah President Nathan Rafferty. "These results solidly reinforce the strength of the Utah ski product and the opportunities existing for future growth. As we finally close the 2010-11 season, we are busily preparing for next year, which is only a little more than four months away."
Total Utah statewide skier days for the past six years are as follows:
Season • Skier Days • Rank
2010-11 • 4,223,064 • 2
2009-10 • 4,048,153 • 5
2008-09 • 3,972,984 • 6
2007-08 • 4,249,190 • 1
2006-07 • 4,082,094 • 3
2005-06 • 4,062,188 • 4
For a complete history of Utah's skier day visits http://www.skiutah.com/media/story_starters/utah-skier-days-table.


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Indian superstar batsman Sachin Tendulkar could finally earn his 100th century this morning.
At time of writing, Tendulkar is looking solid at 88 in India's Asia Cup match with Bangladesh.
The legendary batsman, generally considered to be the greatest to come out of the subcontinent, is closing in on the landmark, which would elevate him to god-like status in his country and set up as one of the sport's all-time greats.
There had been concerns that Tendulkar's quest for his 100th ton had destabilised the Indian team as every Tendulkar innings raised the question, "Can he do it this time?"
But after a succession of disappointments, Tendulkar has hit his stride against Bangladesh and looks set to reach the memorable landmark.


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Brecker Brothers keep legend alive with reunion
Randy Brecker says he is happy to be keeping one of his most famous musical creations "in the family."
A new version of the Brecker Brothers Band will perform April 12 at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild on the North Side.
His wife, Ada Ravotti, will play saxophone in place of Brecker's brother, Michael, who died of leukemia at 57 in 2007.
"There was only one Michael Brecker," the trumpeter says of his virtuosic brother, who fought the disease for nearly three years. "The same can be said for Ada, too. She has her own sound and is bringing it to the band."
The Brecker Brothers Band was formed in 1975 in the days when Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago were bringing jazz-like horn passages to pop music. Randy Brecker, who was a member of Blood Sweat & Tears on its first album, and Michael took matters a little differently.
They brought rock-pop rhythms to a jazz band in the manner of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" — but with a little more funk.
Brecker, 67, says the reunion band came into fruition about 1 1⁄2 years ago, when he was putting together a gig at the Blue Note in New York City. Many of the suggested sidemen had Brecker Brothers ties, so they put it together as the first reunion band.
This group has slightly different personnel, but is the band that will go next to the Berks Jazz Festival across the state and then to Europe. It is the first time this group has performed in public, he says.
It consists of Brecker and Ravotti, guitarist Mitch Stein, bassist Neil Jason, drummer Rodney Holmes and keyboardist-singer Oli Rockberger.
Brecker has had a long and varied career. Early on, before Blood Sweat & Tears and the Brecker Brothers, he did a great deal of studio work in which he would perform a huge variety of music.
Of course, he also was playing jazz in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and with leaders such as Horace Silver and Art Blakey.
That work has kept him open to a great variety of music and made it possible to bounce from one form to another quickly. In the past few years, for instance, he has been sounding more like a bebop and hard-bop player, performing the kind of material he did at the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Seminar and Concert this past November.
But he says he always is pleased to go back to Brecker Brothers material.
"I really like going back there, because the thing was my idea," he says.
Back in the '70s, he says, he and his brother started fooling around with funk-rooted jazz. A club owner said he would book them, but wanted the band to be called the Brecker Brothers, the trumpeter recounts. They did it, got the job and a band was born.
At this weekend's shows, the band will play classics such as "Skunk Funk," as well as some lesser-known pieces from the past and new material.
Playing mainstream jazz or funk-based material sounds different, he says, but they both use the same mindset.
"They all come out of the same river," he says.
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French journalists freed from Syria
PARIS (AP) — France's presidential palace says four French journalists held hostage in Syria since June have been released.
President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement he felt "immense relief" after learning today of the release of Edouard Elias, Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres — all said to be in good health despite "very trying conditions" of their captivity.
The ?lys?e Palace said the four would return to France in the coming hours, and it did not provide any details about the conditions of their release.
The four went missing in two separate incidents in June.


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The Turlock Senior Citizens had a very successful "Yard" Sale last week that, because of weather and the generosity of everyone, stayed indoors. Thanks to the community, it was well attended. Many members were very generous with their time to sort, price, and assist with the selling and clean up, making a big job light.
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Back in the days before genetic studies, the process of how to measure what a race is and is not was clear. It involved precise measurements of the structure of the bones.
Many casual and informal posters on anthro boards take advantage of the fact that now our process is more confusing. They claim that "the latest research supports their findings" and count on the fact that the average person will be too confused to actually understand it.
The fact of the matter is that understanding the implications of SNP Markers / Autosomal DNA / Y Chromosomes / MT-DNA and exactly what they mean is more confusing than it was in the old days when it was based on a ruler. And so many informal posters count on the fact that their audience cannot force them to verify their claims and thus claim whatever they want to.
I was very careful in writing my previous article to point out that even if the number of races in existence that I alluded to are wrong, that races should be defined based on a repeatable, consistent and impartial process. Thus even if we miscalculated, the proper move then is to calculate properly and not to then conclude that race is "whatever I want it to be." So even if there are in fact six races or four races instead of five, the reason for making that argument should be based on a mechanical and reproducible process and not based on politics. (Now you can see how I have studied a lot about process and procedures, I do have a background in using computers to build business processes so do not be surprised!)
The bottom line is that once you take this view, the odds of Jews being "a race separate from humanity" or "genetic drift stopping in Europe" are as close to Zero as you can get. Even if all Jews were identical twins, they still would not be external to the grouping which humanity can impartially be divided into.


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What makes paint bubble up?
I'm a beginner so please bear with me. I'm wondering what makes paint bubble/wrinkle. While prepping my truck, I was told to remove all traces of the rattle can primer that the previous owner had applied or risk the new paint going over it. When I was a kid, I remember spraying lacquer over enamel rattle can with horrible results (I think that was what I did).
Anyway, I can understand about chemical incompatibilities, etc. but when I discovered that most base coats are not mixed with an activator, this got me wondering why it does not bubble when you spray clear over it. I recall reading somewhere that lacquer is just pigment dissolved in solvent and that you could, in theory, scrape off dried lacquer, add thinner, and respray it. Is base coat similar? Can someone explain how or why paint might bubble up?
The reason for the question is sometimes one might want to just spray some rattle can paint on a spot repair to prevent rust, a quick and easy way to do it. But, to have to remove all traces of it later can just be a major pain.
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rattle can primer will absorb moisture and cause rust you can't see.. best to just leave it alone
Like was alluded to, the rattle can primer will absorb moisture, especially if it's been on the vehicle a while before the top coat is shot on. The moisture will do two things -- first, the color will not have a good base to stick to, and second, the moisture will react with the metal and cause iron oxide --- rust. This will cause the primer to peel back from the base metal and everything above the primer will come bubbling off with the primer.
Use 80 grit on a DA, and shoot the panels as soon as possible (within the hour of the panel sanding being completed, especially if you're working outside) with a good etching primer.
The final product will only be as good as the initial work you put into the base. Every little bump, dent, and scratch will show through....so make the base as good as you want the topcoat to look.
Oops, sorry...I think I may have worded things unclearly. I was thinking more along the lines of spraying rattle can paint. After it dries and if you apply another type of paint over it, it will likely bubble or wrinkle. Is this always true if you spray automotive paint over it? Why does this happen?
For instance, I have some trim pieces that I'd like to paint black. Rattle can would be quick and easy to get it done now. I'd like to redo it later in "real" auto paint but would hate to have to strip every speck of the rattle can stuff off. The big areas are easy, the little crevices are a lot harder. I know...do it right the first time but sometimes that's not practical.
For trim, the easiest way to refinish is to sand the rusted areas down to bare metal and shoot a couple of coats of etching primer. Then use a few coats of what's called 'trim black' for a finish topcoat.
Issues with rattlecan paintjobs are generally (1) improper/insuffucuent prep, (2) paint too light, and (3) paint too thick. The first is easily fixed - clean the area. Any loose metal/paint/dirt/anything else will cause the paint to flake and bubble after a bit. The paint being too thick or thin is completely the responsibility of the shooter. When you're starting, keep the can upright, pointed directly at the surface, and about 8 inches from the surface. You want to have the can moving prior to starting the paint, and have the paint lay down where it's not so dry as to not cover with two or three coats, but you also don't want it so wet that the paint is dripping off.
When it comes to colors...the color/clear/primer must all be compatible. But the basics still apply -- cleanliness and proper technique. Learn to shoot with a rattlecan; there's nothing wrong with the paint and it's cheap. In my opinion, there are so many bad rattlecan jobs out there that every rattlecan job is carrying that bad name. But do your homework, use compatible products, and keep the worksurface clean if you want your work to last.
The "problem" is that most rattle can is enamel and it never really dries completely,so when you come back later and spray more rattle can or automotive type paint,the SOLVENT attacks it and that is what causes the wrinkling. You can re coat LACQUER rattle can over and over itself but enamel is best done right the first go around.
Todays automotive paints use a system of chemicals DESIGNED to be re coated BUT,even they will pop or wrinkle if re coated too soon.It's ALL about SOLVENTS and letting them escape before the next coat,other wise,you'll have the SAME issues.
Nothing "wrong" with doing interior pieces with spray cans but exterior needs the right paint.
"Wrinkling" is ALL about solvent from the next product getting UNDER the substrate product.
This can happan as Bee4me said by the solvent soaking thru, OR it can happen by the solvent getting under the edge of the substrate product.
It can happen to 2K as easily as 1K products. If you spot primed an area over OEM paint on a car that wasn't scuffed well, even with 2K primer, when you paint over the whole panel the solvents from the paint can get under the edge of the primer because it doesn't have proper adhesion to the poorly scuffed OEM paint.
OR if you have too thin of a film of a 2K from lack of application or from being sanded thin, it too can "lift" or "Wrinkle".
With 1k rattle cans all bets are off as mentioned before, the solvents just jet right on thru it and wrinkle city.
Thanks for the replies, great info! A couple more questions...
If one were to paint something with intentions of later repainting with automotive paint, is lacquer the safest bet for rattle can stuff? Enamel sounds like it's definately out of the question. I should clarify that I would remove as much of the rattle can paint before recoating, but might not get every bit of it off.
Out of curiosity, is urethane reducer more or less aggresive/harsh of a solvent compared to lacquer thinner?
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It was either 1939 or 1940 when we moved into Holly Cottage, I was two years old, there was a thatched roof and it had been two houses semi det, very primitive, dirt flooring, with a huge stone and I really mean big - THE STONE COULD NOT BE MOVED we were told, as many people had tried in the past. As the house was over 400 years old we decided to live with it, and my Dad [Erny Burton] tiled around it. There was a largish fire place not far from the stone, an open staircase and upstairs we slept in a bedroom with the underside of the thatch showing. Coming downstairs again there was a back door which led you down, by way of a small path to the Lav [as it was then referred to].
The Lav was covered in ivy and there was a long wooden seating arrangement with two holes, one for mums and dads and a smaller one for little girls, like me. Beneath the holes were the buckets and behind the buckets was a small door whereby the the contents of said buckets were taken away, also there was the nail hammered into the wall and a piece of string threaded through torn up squares of newspaper.
By the front door there was the pump, it needed an awful lot of pumping, was very noisy then suddenly lots of water would come gushing forth and splash all over you, dad placed a large sink underneath it, he also built a wooden lean-to kitchen at the back linking the two back doors.
Over a period of eight or so years with grandad's help, plumbing started to happen, and then after the war we acquired electricity.
Opposite lived Mrs Hankey [I don't think the spelling's right] and the Post Office shop, she was grandmother to my friend Elsie.
Next door was Dones Farm where John and his sister [think she was called Mary but might be wrong] were born, I spent many happy times on the farm, in those days people helped each other when needed, as I grew older there was collecting eggs, keeping the barn tidy after playing on the bales, and riding on the cart during the hay cutting, helping with the ropes, riding back on one of the horses that pulled the cart, and when the threshing machine arrived collecting the chaff and distributing it to the various places where the hens laid, and the potato picking, making friends with the land army girls, [whether they wanted my company or not].
Now I am reminded of the Italian prisoners of war, they were wonderful, they liked to play with me, calling me Bambini, dressing up my bike with flowers, laughing and singing. Farmer Done said they didn't know the meaning of hard work, Dad said they were like children. They were fun. They were eventually replaced by Germans who were well aware of the meaning of work but no fun at all.
Another memory - evacuees -- Lots of children from London arrived in a charrabanc [bus], whoopee, there was, I think her name was Janey who stayed with Mrs Hankey, and she told me that she used to have tea with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at the palace every Sunday. I believed every word she said.
Pickmere was popular as a holiday place and after the war we had the Yanks who were stationed nearby. There was a small fun fair and a dance hall owned by the Cheetams who were well off and owned a car, and the lake of course, for swimming, fishing and boating. Farmers rented land that they weren't using to caravanners, people with tents and small wooden huts were being built for holidaymakers, the Yanks were great they would give us chewing gum, and anything else when we followed them, particularly if they were arm in arm with the beautiful ladies that had arrived soon after and Pickmere became quite lively. There were mutterings like 'over paid and over here' and some people did not seem to approve of the beautiful ladies, but for us kids it was a chance to develop our own skills at earning a bit of pocket money on the side.
'Got any Gum Chum' we would call out as the Yanky Doodle would attempt to walk off with the beautiful lady, we learnt to be very persistant netting not only gum, but also candy and eventually down to the brass tacks of money. We were not the only ones, I remember two magic words that were whispered then a number of people would gather around somone who would be selling somthing, and money would exchange hands, the words were'black market'.
Dad said it was against his principles to obtain stuff on the black market, we kept quiet because we had the special knowledge of - what Dad didn't know would not worry him.
There was much merryment in those days, dancing, singing and drinking until one day, the word went out that we were all to be raided by the police.
We didn't have the communicating networks of today, but probably more efficient was the kids with bikes, teenagers and toffs with horses, Mrs Hankey at the switchboard in the Post Office and the collective spirit solidarity that no longer [sadly] exists.
The raid eventually turned up and the Yanks, Beautiful Ladies, music makers, and noisy people had all gone to ground. Instead there were some very drunken pigs who had made a brave and very wild bid for freedom, these pigs were big, they were MASSIVE and they were MAD. They chased the brave band of policmen back into there large van and away. I remember the sound of squealing to this very day, and that must have been about sixty-eight years ago. I didn't ever find out if it was the pigs or the police who did the squealing, it was probably both.
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It's the bottom of the eighth inning, and Jayson Werth steps into the batter's box for the Philadelphia Phillies. The bases are empty, the game tied. The right fielder faces Steven Shell, relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. On Shell's fourth pitch, he leaves a sluggish curveball hanging over the plate. Werth smashes it into the stands for a game-winning home run.
As fans cheer, a highly sophisticated yet little-known technology operation at Major League Baseball swings into action. A team of about 60 people in downtown Manhattan slice and dice the video of Werth's hit and send clips zipping through the Internet to thousands of computers and cell phones around the world. Five minutes after the homer a commuter on the local train to Philadelphia's Main Line could watch it for free on his mobile. A visitor to MLB's Gameday could learn that Shell's pitch was a mere 74 miles per hour and that it broke 14 inches.
All the effort pays off. The tech operation, known officially as Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), pulls in about $450 million a year. About half of that comes from fans who pay $120 a season to watch games live over the Internet, with the rest generated by advertising alongside free content and other extras. The business has grown into a significant revenue source for Major League Baseball, which has total revenues of about $6 billion. "They have a passionate base that they went after in a smart way," says Bobby Tulsiani, analyst with the market research firm JupiterResearch.
The league's strategy may be instructive for other sports franchises and, indeed, for other companies in the online content business. While most leagues limit what they put on the Web and avoid streaming live video online out of fear that their television ratings could be hurt, MLB's experience suggests that such concerns might be misplaced. "Rights fees are up, attendance is up, viewership is up," says Bob Bowman, chief executive at MLBAM. "Somehow the strategy of putting [baseball games] on every device that has a plug or a battery has worked for the business partners. Even more important, it's worked for our fans."
Staggering Amount of Stats
What draws fans to the league's online offerings are features they can't get on the plain old boob tube. At the Gameday site, they can find out that Werth's home run came on Shell's 18th pitch of the evening. They can also learn that his first and third pitches to Werth were both 89 mph fastballs, while the fateful curveball was 15 mph slower.
An obsessive fan could get lost in all the data in the MLBAM archives. There are video clips of each major event in the league's games this season. Statistics are available on how particular players have done against a starting pitcher. The site has final standings for every season back to 2001, too. "It's much more than what you can get on television," says Jupiter's Tulsiani. "It taps into the base by offering multiple camera angles, stats, and on-demand video."
MLBAM's New York offices are like an adolescent's idea of a dream job. On one recent summer day, dozens of workers sat at desks watching hour after hour of baseball live on sleek Apple (AAPL) iMacs. They chatted and joked as the day's games unfolded. There was a flurry of activity when something important happens in a game, like Werth's homer or a crucial strikeout.
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The key to the operation's success is video editing software the league designed from scratch. The program lets employees produce highlights in just a few minutes, which is important because the group is sending out about 200 highlights a day during the regular season. It works like this: Each game plays on a computer in a small window. As soon as something important happens, an MLBAM employee rewinds the game in the computer and marks, then saves, the highlight. It's then passed along through two supervisors who send the highlight out over the Internet.
"The program took about two months to make," says MLBAM's Joe Inzerillo, senior vice-president for multimedia and distribution. Would MLBAM ever consider licensing its program? "We've had inquiries about people wanting to buy the program, but it is so tethered to our back end that we'd have to address compatibility issues. It's unlikely it would make sense to sell it."
Instead, the company uses its technological advantages to work with other sports. This year the NCAA paid between six and seven figures to run its live streaming of the men's college basketball tournament through MLBAM's servers. They also run Major League Soccer's Web operation. MLBAM thinks it's unlikely other sports will want to swallow their pride and ask baseball to run their Web operations.
Big Revenue Opportunity
MLBAM sees mobile phones as the next big revenue opportunity. It's already built customized applications for a number of phones, including the BlackBerry from Research In Motion (RIMM). The league plans to role out software in early September that will let owners of Apple's iPhone tap into the statistics from the Gameday Web site. That's likely to be followed by similar applications for other phones, including those from Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT), and Sony-Ericsson (SNE, ERIC). "The one device we all rely on is our cell phone," says Bowman. "It is with us, sadly perhaps, as many as 24 hours a day."
Four years ago, MLBAM hired a separate staff to design mobile Web sites and applications. MLB's mobile site now gets more than 10 million page views a day and it has more than 25 mobile applications. Still, in spite of the large audience, MLBAM's mobile offerings generate just a sliver of revenue for the company now. "It's a long ramp to economic nirvana for content publishers in mobile," says Bowman. "The ramp is not steep. It is much longer term." Right now, the company only makes around "10 to 12 million," from mobile, according to Bowman. "It's not a $50 million business for us," he says. "I'm not sure it is for anyone, but those days will come."
The company could increase revenue from advertising if it figures out how to place ads on its mobile Web sites. However, MLBAM, like most companies, is still trying to figure out the best strategy. "If the 10 million page views our mobile site got was on a PC, that could be real money," says Bowman. "The advertising for wireless is not robust. How do you put an ad that is big enough to read on a small screen?"
As technology continues to improve, and streaming video becomes easier on all devices, some fear television contracts and ratings will suffer. Bowman isn't worried. He has a pretty simple strategy: "If you serve the fans, you take care of your business."


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FRISCO, Texas – It proved impossible to separate MLS power Real Salt Lake and international guest Stoke City in the 2014 Generation adidas Cup, but Stoke are flying home with the trophy after winning a dramatic shootout Sunday afternoon at Toyota Stadium.
The teams tied 1-1 in regulation, their second tie of the tournament after a frantic 2-2 draw In group play on Tuesday. In that contest, Salt Lake had edged Stoke in a shootout and eventually won the group, but Stoke qualified for the semifinals as the best group runner-up and got revenge on Real Salt Lake in Sunday's 3-2 shootout win. It was the fifth time out of seven editions that the tournament final has been decided by penalty kicks. Real Salt Lake won the 2008 title and lost the 2010 edition, both in shootouts.
On Sunday, Real Salt Lake seemed to respond better to the North Texas heat, controlling possession in the first half. There were few clear-cut scoring chances, however, and the breakthrough came from a free kick in the 26th minute. Lining up a set piece from the left corner of the penalty area, Sebastian Saucedo bent in a low, right-footed delivery that skipped through the penalty area and in at the far post without touching anybody. It was the tournament-best fifth goal of the tournament for Saucedo.
RSL almost added a second goal shortly before halftime, as Evan Waldrep played a through ball behind the Stoke defense, and Tate Schmitt – who had scored a dramatic tying goal against Stoke on Tuesday – raced onto it before rifling a shot to the top right corner, only to see it skip off the frame of the goal.
In the second half, Stoke came out with renewed energy and movement, and they were rewarded with a goal in the 44th minute. From a Salt Lake throw-in, Johnville Renee-Pringle won a header to Theo Brierley, who ran toward the penalty area, fought through a tackle, and slipped a pass toward goal. Forward Julien Ngoy ran onto it and angled a low shot through the legs of charging goalkeeper Christian Herrera, tying the game.
With both teams running out of steam while playing their fifth game in seven days, most of the late scoring opportunities came from free kicks, with Josh Williams heading wide for Stoke and Real Salt Lake's Justen Glad heading his best look straight at the goalkeeper.
So it came down to penalty kicks yet again. After the first two shots were converted by each team, Stoke goalkeeper Tommy Dyche punched away Glad's shot in the third round, only to see Herrera deny the normally lethal Charles Weston-Hayles in the bottom of the round. In the fourth round, Salt Lake's Josh Doughty hit the post with his shot, and Renee-Pringle scored to put Stoke in front.
Dyche then made perhaps the biggest save of his young career, reaching back with his trailing leg to block Aaron Herrera's effort and bring the Generation adidas Cup to foreign soil for the first time.
In the post-tournament awards ceremony, Saucedo took home both the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player and the Golden Boot as its leading scorer, while FC Dallas goalkeeper Charlie Furrer was named the Golden Gloves winner after posting three shutouts in five matches. But Stoke City, who brought only 14 age-eligible players to the tournament, took home the most important hardware, the championship trophy.
Real Salt Lake (3-0-2) vs. Stoke City (2-0-3)
2014 Generation adidas Cup - Final
April 20, 2014 –- Toyota Stadium, Frisco TX
Scoring Summary:
RSL – Sebastian Saucedo 5 (unassisted) 26
STK – Julien Ngoy 2 (Theo Brierley 1) 44
Real Salt Lake – Christian Herrera, Aaron Herrera, Miles Stray, Justen Glad, Diego Silva, Fito Ovalle, Danny Acosta, Tate Schmitt (Leo Fuchs 63), Evan Waldrep (Gavino Carranza 50), Sebastian Saucedo, Josh Doughty.
Stoke City – Tommy Dyche, Daniel Jarvis, Josh Williams, Theo Vassell, Lewis Banks, Theo Brierley, Johnville Renee-Pringle, Ollie Shenton, Tom Shepherd (Kyren Hamilton 59), Julien Ngoy, Charles Weston-Hayles.
Misconduct Summary:
STK – Josh Williams (caution) 37
STK – Lewis Banks (caution) 61
Referee: Victor Rivas
Referee's Assistants: Kyle Atkins, Danny Thornberry
Fourth Official: Rubiel Vazquez
Matches played with 35-minute halves.
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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Finally got round to releasing this today, thanks for all the suggestions that were made in the other thread, implemented as many as I could…
I've released a tutorial and the src over on ActiveTuts, hope someone finds it useful
Ho now i know why you bug me on the FLA
yap yap we saw this already but now its official,good luck with sells …ho sorry i meant nice class…
your http://docs.msfx.co.uk/as3/trace/. link on the tuts is 404
Nice work Matt !
Good tutorial.
Excellent utility, you know what would be awesome? if we could see the debugging through a broswer (in the console maybe).
By the way, you rocks!
A heads up that I've updated this library quite a bit recently, adding some really nice (in my opinion) features such as passing a textfield as your console, making user/class optional, rearchitecturing the clipboard functionality and introducing the ability to export your log as a timestamped textfile
Latest source available via my GIT Repo


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Desert Hot Springs - A late Tuesday afternoon accident leaves a neighborhood without power and sends a driver to the hospital in Desert Hot Springs. According to Cal Fire, just before 4:30 p.m. they responded to the intersection of Flora Avenue and Cholla Drive, to a report that a car was on its side and power lines were down in the area.
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Okay. Thanks to you both. I think I will look into the japanese-style griddle cooking. I think it is called teppanyaki. There seems to be some established recipes available with specific sauces. I don't want to labor over a griddle and let guests choose their own sauces. Rick


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But the use of buffer cars throughout the train could help prevent fires and explosions from spreading, or lessen their impact by parcelling up the shipment. However, this would cost the railways money since they'd have to run more empty cars.
"If you have 100 cars of hazardous materials, all you have to have is at least one buffer car – that's it," Mr. Pritchard said. Although the industry has morphed into something new, the rules and oversight have not kept pace. "The same rules I just described to you have been in place since I started my hazmat training back in the 1960s."
No emergency plan
The facility where the Lac-Mégantic train was loaded with crude sits on the south side of New Town, N.D., a frontier boomtown on the prairies that can't grow fast enough to supply sufficient hotels and restaurants to accommodate the influx of rig workers.
Last summer The Globe gained exclusive access to the site, which is where Miami-based World Fuel Services buys oil from drilling companies for shipment to refineries.
The site, with dual tracks for loading oil, is a testament to efficiency, but also an example of the greater risks created by this new era of oil trains. Each day, or every other day, a Canadian Pacific train backs about 40 empty tanker cars onto each track for filling. Large tanks holding Bakken crude drilled nearby dispense oil into the tanker cars. At the end of the process, engines hook up both 40-car loads and depart as an 80-car unit train. This is how the Lac-Mégantic train began its journey.
The amount of time it takes for crude to be pumped from the ground and loaded onto a train for shipping can be as little as three or four hours.
The reality is that not all crude is checked for critical characteristics such as flashpoint or boiling point, which provide insight into its explosiveness. The introduction of unit trains for oil has created an industry that is sometimes moving too quickly for careful inspection or testing.
But Mr. Pritchard has been to sites where the shippers knew they didn't have to do extensive testing, because of the loose regulations.
"They didn't have to," Mr. Pritchard said. "If they said it was a flammable liquid, and they pretty much knew it was a flammable liquid, that's all they had to say."
The reason for such lax scrutiny stems from the government's general lack of concern about shipping oil in general. For years, Ottawa never saw crude, even in mass quantities, as a more dangerous product.
In 2006, when internal auditors at Transport Canada began examining weaknesses in the department's handling of disaster preparedness, they zeroed in on the little-known Emergency Response Assistance Plans system. These plans, which help first responders such as fire crews deal with emergencies involving hazardous materials, ensure critical equipment – such as specialized foam trucks for extinguishing flames and other hazmat gear – is kept at stops along the route to deal with an accident.
Any company that wants to ship dangerous goods must have an ERAP in place. But when the internal auditors probed how the system worked, according to federal documents, they found troubling weaknesses.
Of the 926 ERAPs the government had approved for hazardous materials shipping, 453 of them were issued with interim approval, requiring followup. However, Transport Canada failed to follow up on roughly half of those interim approvals. In one instance, "one company transported shipments of at least 3,000 litres of flammable propane gas for over 13 years with only interim approval of its plan," the internal audit says.
Another weakness was what the program omitted. Although ERAPs were required for shipping everything from chlorine to gasoline, no emergency plan was needed for moving crude oil. The government did not see oil as potentially dangerous.
The auditors ordered an extensive review, and in 2008 Transport Canada pledged to fix the gaps in its ERAP system. Over the next five years, the department retrained staff and rewrote several of its policies. In April of this year, Transport Canada declared the job complete, and oil was left out of the program.
Three months later, 6.5 million litres of crude spilled from the train in Lac-Mégantic and erupted in a series of major explosions. The fire burned for days as emergency crews struggled to get the blaze under control, using equipment borrowed from nearby towns.
Responding to The Globe's revelations of questionable testing standards by oil shippers, Minister of Transport Lisa Raitt announced last week that the federal government is stepping up its oversight, and is working with U.S. regulators to deploy inspectors to oil-loading facilities to scrutinize crude being shipped to Canada by rail.Report Typo/Error
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The backpack was an old christmas stocking which I put a shoelace through, and I was really proud of it because it worked like a drawstring. XD;
I remember that all the spray-on orange hair dye came out when I rubbed a balloon on my head. o_o (Why we do this as kids, I'm not sure...)
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Recession provides big break for New York artist
By Vivianne Rodrigues
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For most of the past decade, New York City street artist Peter Zonis has sold his oil pastels to the rich and famous from a sidewalk outside Barneys, an upscale department store on famed Madison Avenue.
But his big break may have come with the financial crisis.
A series of his large-scale, recession-themed paintings called "Metropolis Now" has gone on exhibit in the lobby of the Durst Organization building in midtown Manhattan. It runs until April 10.
"Being a street artist and going through some hard times in the past, I could see people becoming nervous with the economy and stop spending money," Zonis said. "But at that point, the best thing to do rather than to focus on the negative of the situation would be to transform what was happening into art."
His whimsical, brightly colored paintings already had generated interest, particularly among New York real estate moguls, when a curator at the Durst Organization offered an exhibition.
Zonis's paintings sell for about $500 to $10,000, and well-known buyers have included former baseball star Reggie Jackson and television host Pat O'Brien.
But the 50-year-old artist, who grew up near Boston and moved to New York in the 1980s after graduating from design school, has yet to gain acceptance from curators in places such as The Museum of Modern Art.
"Unfortunately for some, being a street artist can carry a certain stigma ... as if you were not a serious one," Zonis said. "That's something I'm trying to change." Continued...


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I finally got done with the lower part of my AWM engine, took all the pistons out, cleaned them, lubed them and changed all the rings. Also honed the cylinder walls and replaced the oil pump, oil stand gasket, etc. Now Iâm getting ready to install the head. Iâve acquired a used one that seems to be in good shape, the guy Iâve got it from rebuilt his AEB engine and wanted to used a 06A head, after he installed it, didnât like the results and went back to use the old style head.
After reviewing the good head, and comparing it with my damaged one, I noticed that the cams are positioned differently. Now (I must point out that my passat is a 2004), I also noticed that my head has the 058 coding and the one Iâm replacing it with has the 06A code, Here are pictures of the two head sides:
The âold oneâ
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After Lining the lobes in the same area, look at the TDC mark on the 06A head:
Iâm trying to make sense out of this puzzle; my old head has the exhaust valves bent but the cams and timing never got damaged, so I donât think theyâve moved at all. The new replacing head supposedly worked fine and should be synchronized as well. One idea that comes to mind is that I read there are differences between the 058 and the 06A heads relating to cam gears, but I donât know exactly what that means or if that is the case here, or if I need to adjust something on the 06A head, or does variable timing compensates for it? .
I really need to find an answer for this so I understand what is going on.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.