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Extended Stay America - Foxboro - Norton
Extended Stay America - Foxboro - Norton
Hotel Guest Rating: 6.5/10
280 S. Washington Street
Norton, MA 02766
Welcome to the Extended Stay America - Foxboro - Norton
Designed for longer stays and located near Gillette Stadium, Extended Stay America - Foxboro - Norton welcomes Priceline guests with fully equipped kitchens, free Wi-Fi and a guest laundry.
Hotel Features
With three floors and 101 rooms, this Extended Stay America offers such standard in-room amenities as complimentary Wi-Fi, workspaces and fully equipped kitchens with refrigerators, microwaves and stovetops. Non-smoking accommodations are available. Guests are welcome to freshen up their wardrobes in the on-site laundry facility. Pets are permitted for an additional fee. Parking is on the house.
Hotel Location
Situated off I-495, this Extended Stay America is located midway between Boston and Providence, approximately a 45-minute drive from each. The hotel is within 30 minutes of Gillette Stadium, home to the New England Patriots and F. Gilbert Hills State Forest. Logan International Airport is 42 miles away.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests report that this Extended Stay America, midway between Boston and Providence, is "excellent for business travelers" and an "overall decent value," thanks to its fully equipped kitchens, and "friendly staff."
Extended Stay America - Foxboro - Norton Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible facilities
- Accessible parking
- Accessible room
- Air conditioning
- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
- Alarm clock
- AM/FM radio
- Cable television
- Children welcome
- CNN available
- Coin operated laundry
- Color television
- Complimentary breakfast
- Complimentary coffee in lobby
- Complimentary continental breakfast
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Continental breakfast
- Desk with electrical outlet
- Early check-in
- Efolio available to company
- Elevators
- Fire safety compliant
- Free high speed internet connection
- Free local calls
- Free parking
- Free toll free calls
- Front desk
- Full service housekeeping
- Handicap rooms
- Heated guest rooms
- High speed internet access
- High speed internet access fee
- High speed internet connection
- Housekeeping - weekly
- Individual Efolio available
- Interior corridors
- Internet services
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Kitchenette
- Late check-out available
- Lobby coffee service
- Meeting rooms
- Non-smoking
- Non-smoking rooms (generic)
- On-Site parking
- Onsite laundry
- Parking
- Parking lot
- Pets allowed
- Photocopy center
- Private bath or shower
- Public area air conditioned
- Remote control television
- Safe deposit box
- Secured parking
- Security
- Telephone
- Train access
- Voice mail
- Wireless internet connection in public areas
Hotel Information
Please note that only weekly housekeeping services are provided. Fresh towels and linen can be exchanged at the front desk at any time. Daily housekeeping services are available for an additional fee.The grab-and-go breakfast served includes breakfast bars, muffins, hot cereal, coffee and tea only.A valid credit card is required at check-in. If no credit card is available, 100 USD cash deposit is required. This deposit is fully refundable upon check-out and subject to a damage inspection of the accommodation. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Extended Stay America - Foxboro - NortonOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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Tim Lambesis, once singer for the San Diego metal band As I Lay Dying, and his attorney are expected back in court next week arguing that he deserves "custody credit" for the days he was on "house arrest," after hiring a hitman to kill his wife.
"There will be a hearing on July 18th to determine if the time Lambesis spent on house arrest will count as credits towards his prison term," prosecutor Claudia Grasso stated in an email.
Tim Lambesis is expected to be in San Diego's North County Superior Courthouse at 9:30 a.m. next Friday, before the same judge who sentenced him to six years in prison, the Honorable Judge Carlos Armour.
Lambesis, 33, was in the midst of a bitter divorce battle with his wife of eight years when he agreed to pay $20,000 to an undercover officer to kill his wife.
The singer was taken into custody the same day as the sting operation, on May 7, 2013. He was in local jail for 24 days (and given credit at sentencing for 48) before he paid $160,000 in fees to the bondsman who posted his $2 million bail.
Lambesis was on house arrest at his parents' home in Del Mar, California, wearing a GPS monitor, from June 2013 until his sentencing in May 2014, when he was taken away in handcuffs.


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What am I looking at, and why do I love it?
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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron( Well, that was certainly awesome.) I'd try to create some type of contrast between this and Duke Nukem Forever, but it's been a few weeks since I've touched that, and El Shaddai's good enough on its own. Again: awesome. I probably wouldn't have thought that when I first got the game; I just wanted to make a few Transformers jokes (remember, I played this game solely because of this video), but after having played this game, I wouldn't have been surprised if Metatron jumped in for a racing mini-game while singing this with this voice. Hell, I wouldn't have been surprised if El Shaddai invented a Transformers character named Metatron just for that, even if Metatron is a character already. It's the most insane goddamn game I've played this year, and probably the best.
Wait, Metatron, Japanese anime girls, insanity....HOLD ON A SECOND! Let me warn you right away that this insanity has absolutely nothing to do with it being Japanese (I think it's Japanese; the only two voice options are English and Japanese). If anything, I'd blame it on the religious aspects, because they are heavy. The game starts with a textbook douchebag (seriously, look) by the name of Lucifel telling us about the game's story. It takes place anywhere between 14,000 and 360,000 and concerns itself with Professor Brothers angel Enoch. (Given those two pictures, it's no surprise that I found a lot of yaoi when I Googled Lucifel.) He's being sent down to Earth to whack some sense into some other angels who decided to create....I'm not exactly sure what the hell they created. The important thing is that the plot isn't too important. In fact, until about chapter 8ish, there really isn't a plot to speak of. Oh, sure, there are cutscenes and end-chapter plot recaps and stuff, but that doesn't mean there's a plot. For that to happen, the events need to connect in a meaningful way. That doesn't happen. (Oh, and that's not at all a criticism. I'll tell you why later.) But wait: if there's no plot, then how the hell is there sy...er, how are there themes? OK, a theme, and one that it does pretty well: love. Remember those Fallen Angels from before? They created that...whatever...because they love humans so damn much, both physically and emotionally. Unfortunately, God's not into that hippie crap, so he comes off as a bit of an asshole. Think about it: he made the spawn of angels/humans a Kirby penis doomed to kill itself (that's how much he hates love), and I don't remember Lucifel ever ending one of his phone calls with the guy with, "Yea, I love you, too." Speaking of Lucifel, at one point in the story, he sees one of the Fallen Angels sobbing over his friend having plunged into the deadly darkness. Lucifel's response? Call him an asshole and question the validity of his sorrow. Did I mention that Lucifel's an utter douche? (Oh, and I'm pretty sure that that's not a mistranslation of Lucifer; he's in pretty good standing with God, even without the love.)
But again, that doesn't matter. None of that matters in any sense of the word "matters". Remember when I said that this was the most insane goddamn game I've played? I wasn't exaggerating for comedic effect. Or any effect, really. This game is just too insane to put into words. There's absolutely zero cohesion with...anything. The only thread uniting this is "God and stuff." That may sound lazy, but El Shaddai simply doesn't give a fuck. The only thing it cares about is not making sense to you in any way whatsoever. What's that? You're starting to come to terms with how insane this game is? You're making sense of it? Well, then...nipples. Nipples everywhere. And not even in a sexual fashion, like Duke Nukem Forever. Just walls of nipples, staring at you...forever staring at you. That's what El Shaddai does: it changes things up in the strangest of ways just as soon as you're beginning to understand it. In fact, I actually wrote down little summaries of the levels about halfway through the game, when I first understood that this insanity was permanent. I wish to stress that absolutely none of the following words are jokes. Let me begin: first, I wrote down that one level is pretty much Kirby if he sucked up a dildo and lit himself on fire. Oh, we're just getting started. After that, Enoch dresses up like Isaac Clark, jumps on a motorcycle, and begins ripping off Final Fantasy VII in unimaginable ways. Just like in Final Fantasy VII, it's goddamn awesome. Then this, because why the fuck not? Next up is a platforming sequence that can best be described as "what happens when Super Mario Galaxy makes furious love to the Mad Madam Mim part of Lords of Shadow" (that's too many Don Bluth jokes for one blog). Then lunch, then you jump through Q*Bert Land, followed up by a fight against the aforementioned alligator. Finally, the credits, where it turns out that the people in charge of localizing this game were called The Mustard Corporation. Oh, El Shaddai. You are only consistent in how ludicrously crazy you are.
Meanwhile, the game is just assaulting your eyeballs with more types of crazy than the DSM-IV cares to record. Just try to count all the crazy art styles El Shaddai tries out. I couldn't, because my eyes burst into flames around chapter 2. (More religious symbolism, I take it?) It mixes and matches all of these surreal techniques and styles in a way that I don't think I've seen in any game before. You have your cel-shading (wait, look at the title...Is it actually called Cel Shaddai? Oh, UTV Ignition, you magnificent bastards), your Bahamut Lagoon-esque filter craziness, some weird experimenting with shapes and lighting and stuff, and a bunch of other things. If there's a Photoshop filter to be found, then El Shaddai has probably based an entire level around it. Oh, but don't think that this game only looks good artistically. What? You think that? Go to my last blog and look at how awful Duke Nukem Forever looks. I'd say that I just think this game looks good because I'm fresh off Duke Nukem, but two things: first, I haven't played that game since September 3rd. Second, El Shaddai just looks good on its own. Kinda. I'd demonstrate with a screenshot, but oddly enough, none of the screenshots on the site do this game justice. None are as smooth as Enoch's perfectly rendered ass is in-game. Also, none are animated GIFs, so you can't see all the fluid animation and other things I like. In short, I want to fondle Enoch's smooth ass in all the right ways.
Oh, why have I not mentioned the gameplay yet? Well, I guess it may be due to just how many gameplay styles are on display (again, I was dead serious about those Don Bluth jokes). For now, let's focus on the most obvious: the Devil May Cry combat. Again: I was not joking in any way when I said that Enoch had to "whack some sense into some other angels." He has a lot of options for whacking those angels about. He has a sword, a shield, some peashooter thing....that's it. But trust me, you can build up some pretty awesome combos with these...on their own. Unfortunately, there's no mixing and matching of weapons, but for one good reason (again: none of these are insults). That reason? Weapon stealing. Slap an enemy about enough, and you can steal their weapon. It's actually a bit more awesome than I'm making it out to be. How, you ask? How do you ask? Anyway, first up is the flow. Remember what I said about the graphics being smooth and fluid and all those other nice words? It all applies to the combat, too. There's a great satisfaction to be had in jumping from enemy to enemy, eviscerating their very being, and getting your ass knocked against the wall. As it turns out, combat actually requires some amount of skill. You know, reading enemy patterns and timing dodges and stuff like that. I'd say that this goes for bosses, too, but some of them don't really have any noticeable patterns. Oh, they have attacks you can dodge, but they don't use them in some sort of special pussy order. You'll just have to learn how to dodge their attacks, which probably explains why I got my ass kicked so much. But you know what? I'm OK with that. You know why? You lose some of your armor with each major hit, eventually leaving you with a shirtless blond boy with washboard abs and denim jeans. I am just fine with that. Alright, I have to end this paragraph somewhere.
So I guess platforming is up next, right? Where should I start? 2D or 3D? Because it has both, and they're both pretty damn cool. I guess 2D is up first, mainly because it's just so damn unexpected in a game like this. Oddly enough, the more I reflect on it, the more I find it to be pretty standard. Sure, you're jumping through bouncy, cutesy levels in a game that doesn't really commit to bounciness nor the properties of being cute, but that's just eye candy. At the heart of it, you're just playing through some pretty decent platforming levels. Nothing more, nothing less. If you want some of the cool shit, upgrade a single dimension. That's where all the crazy "read paragraphs three and four again" stuff happen. I've already mentioned the "Gabriel's sexiness+Mario's excellence=Enoch's sexyllence" level, but there's so much more to it. You know, like Carnival Night Zone "jumping makes me go up" platforms, that Q*Bert stuff, something vaguely ripped from the world of Castelian, and perhaps a more obscure reference than that. The only real complaint I can lodge against all of this is that it's a bit forgiving. Did you fall off the platform because you're a stupid bastard? Don't expect El Shaddai to use such crass language (Duke Nukem Forever certainly would); instead, expect it to stick you back on that platform, maybe with some health (read: clothes) taken away. It's like they're rewarding you for all that! In fact, fuck that criticism; a world where my failures are rewarded with a half-naked Enoch is a world I would be happy to inhabit.
Of course, not all can be perfect. Finally, this is the paragraph where I (softly and very timidly) insult this Metatron's ascension. First up, the lips sometimes don't match what the characters are saying..........That was a fucking terrible insult. I know I've a better one waiting for this game. How about "progress in this game is pretty confusing"? Yea, that'll work. Turns out that all that eyeball exploding confusing has a dark side: not knowing if you're advancing the game. Part of the problem is the narrative: it says that some levels are kinda optional, so you come to think that you're only playing some of these levels because you kinda chose to at some point early on. I know that it sounds weird, but I guess it's something where you had to play the game to understand. Let's avoid that with the next point: kinda boss battles that have the same problem. In fact, a lot of the time, El Shaddai just boots you out of these into the confusing parts I explained earlier this paragraph. It's not even a skill thing; sure I got my ass kicked fairly hard before being booted into some of these levels, but other times, I was doing fine. I took a couple of hits, but I knew for certain that the boss du jour was taking many more hits. Yet at some point, the game decided that it had enough of this shit and dropped me in those awesomely crazy platformy/combat parts. Meanwhile, you have all these elements that are either improperly explained or never brought up at all. Of course, I'm talking about the meter on the pause screen and the scores. The former serves no immediately clear purpose, while the latter seems to exist only in the pages of the manual, or New Game +. I'd call all of this a lengthening tool, but the game's kinda short at 12 chapters long. I managed to plow through it over the course of three days. But again, none of that matters. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this game is awesome. I could go the traditional writer route and just parrot off everything I said before, but I'll just say this: El Shaddai has one of the best achievements in the incredibly brief history of achievements. It may not look like much at first, since it's just for getting all the achievements (a hard task when almost all of them are secret), but the name completely justifies it: Lord of the Metatron. I'll just leave this link here and let nature take its course.
Review Synopsis
- Have you ever seen an episode of Regular Show? You know how each episode has that one moment where you can pinpoint when things went totally off-the-wall? Imagine if somebody made an entire game around that concept.
- How do you manage to combine Devil May Cry and Kirby? Outline the logic that made this possible.
- Its only flaw is that its flaws fucking suck at bringing the game down.
- Here's a fun drinking game: take a drink every time I say "again." That "again" counts, as does that one.
For those who have not played El Shaddai, but would still like the El Shaddai experience:
Silent Bomber( Wait, something about this feels a bit familiar.) No, I'm only kinda talking about the last blog I wrote, where I spoke of a PS1 game alongside an Xbox 360 one. Instead, it's just about how, again (drink up), both of these games feel kinda oddly similar. Oh, I forgot to introduce the game I was talking about. Silly me. Anyway, it's Silent Bomber, an action game from the fine people behind...Tail Concerto? Really? That Tail Concerto? Well, at least it's better than Tail Concerto.
But about as ridiculous, give or take. Imagine Metal Gear Solid, only set on a space battleship in the future. Allow me to explain: there's a war going on, and there's this battleship that needs destroying. Enter Jutah (pronounced you-tah (likely a typo)), hardened war badass extraordinaire. He heads in to destroy it, but shit goes downhill before the beginning of the damn mission. The rest of the game consists of two things: figuring out specifically why things went downhill so fast, and pushing things uphill, and then down the other side of the hill. Hopefully, something explodes at the end of it. (More on that later.) All that entails is a stupid yet enjoyable action movie with just as much cinema as Metal Gear Solid (see what I meant before?). And I do mean stupid. For example, there's a line about chess at the beginning of the game. Somehow, that's enough of a reason to have a chess level at the end. I will say, though, it's much better than the chess level in Shining Force II. Actually, the reason is that the villain says so. Speaking of the villain, the big twist is that he's...an obscure anime villain? (Given the El Shaddai segment, I should have gone with this instead.) Wait, I meant "and I do mean enjoyable" all the way back there. Just take those things I said before and add the cinematic part. Dear god, this game is cinematic, but in all the right ways. Who would have thought that a PS1 game could have actual mouth movements when characters are talking? (I'd have said "competent voice acting", but, uh...) Not even Metal Gear Solid had that! Hell, not even Metal Gear Solid looked this good. I'd call Silent Bomber the best looking Playstation game ever, but Dino Crisis is better, as are a few other games, so it'll have to settle for one of the best, instead.
Yet despite all that stuff, this is not a movie, but a video game. However, they both have one thing in common: a deep-seated love of explosions. In fact, that's what Silent Bomber is all about: not-at-all silent explosions. Your only means of attack is to throw bombs at enemies, which is actually a cooler process than I'm making it out to be. There's a certain rhythm to shoving bombs on an enemy and jumping out of the way to separate their small intestine from the rest of their bodies. (Wait, most of the enemies are robots.) Imagine if somebody based an entire game around the parts of Duke Nukem Forever where you could throw C4 on enemies. Only add some other forms of C4, like napalm C4, gravity C4, electric C4,...wait, no, that's it. But there's decent enough strategy to be had with that small amount of weapons. Should you make a wall of napalm and wait, or make a wall of regular-ass bombs and wait? (I'd say the same of the RPG system, but it's kinda confusing and the best strategy is always "SHOOT MORE BOMBS FROM ANYWHERE!".) But don't think that it's all explosions (even though it should be). You also get some platforming! It's not particularly good or anything. Moving right along, you also get a grading system. (Kinda like El Shadai?) You know, like in Sonic Adventure! Only unlike Sonic Adventure, the grading system in this game is ridiculously harsh. Most of the levels angrily handed me a D for my efforts, and no, I'm not going to make a joke about how stupid I am. I'm not even sure how the grading system works; I'd blast through one level for a D, but spend twenty grueling minutes on another for a B. Is it based entirely on how much I suffered?
Actually, now that I think about it, this is a perfectly challenging game. Oh, wait, it's just a challenging game. You don't even need to go for the greatest scores like an anachronistic obsessive-compulsive madman to experience it. Remember what I said about the rhythm? Often times, it's interrupted by taking a stray bullet to face or something like that. Hell, it doesn't even have to be from the enemy you're trying to kill; there are just that many enemies to go around. In fact, I'm fairly certain that that's where Silent Bomber gets a lot of its difficulty: tons of enemies. It just gets tedious and cluttered after a while. Things get especially bad in one of the later missions where you're expected to defend one of your teammates from dinosaurs. Too many dinosaurs. When you think you've got rid of one, another shows up just to spite you. That is not how you're supposed to make a game difficult. Boss battles are better about it, though. It's just you and the boss, so if you get hit in the face with enough lasers to gain X-ray vision (or go blind; I don't know a lot about human anatomy), that shit's on you. No blaming it on a billion robots deciding to use you as practice for the inevitable robot uprising. By now, I'd have called the game out for being short at 14ish missions over two hours (especially with the difficulty thing from before), but I'm not really angry about that. It's got enough variety to keep things interesting, and I never have anything against the concept of exploding everything that there is in the worlds to explode. I'd make a comparison to Metal Gear Solid again, since it's like that but with explosions (especially in mission #6, which was unsubtly ripped from Metal Gear Solid 1), but I'm not sure that would do it justice. I was never really a fan of the explodey bits of Metal Gear Solid games. I might as well end things here before I start rambling on about fat people on roller blades.
Review Synopsis
- It's like Metal Gear Solid in space. Also, bears disappear in Ikebukuro or something. I'm a bit muddy on the details.
- Is there anything to hate about explosions....in video games?
- I never thought I'd say this, but there are sometimes too many things to blow up.


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Animal abuse linked to human violence
Re "Cats shot and killed with arrow" (Feb. 27):
This article described the details of how these cats died after being shot by an arrow. The author mentioned the details that led to the death of the cats more than once. This is a dangerous situation with potential to escalate. There is a person at large who clearly is troubled and needs to be evaluated and held accountable for their actions. The potential for escalation is dangerous and should have been mentioned.
I understand the emotional appeal to the public regarding cruelty to animals. Not to take away from the offense, but it would have been better to mention the link between animal cruelty and harm to human beings by serial killers/mass murderers. There are a great deal of resources that describe the link between animal cruelty and human violence. It should have been the focal point. Cruelty to animals is horrible, but we should be more concerned with the pattern of behavior that puts humans in harm's way.
Another threat is the danger of someone being in sniper mode, and the danger to anyone within the path of that arrow. It is a danger to society to have a person out there shooting arrows in a residential community. Anyone could have been shot with that arrow.
— Venaye Davis, Long Beach
Income inequality a threat
Re "CEOs are being paid more — a lot more — and the gap is widening" (March 3):
It is bad enough to see in the report that CEO pay has skyrocketed over the past few decades: "In 1982 CEOs were earning 42 times more than the rank-and-file employees, and by 2012 it jumped to 354 times more."
To make matters worse, the Bloomberg study indicates that the CEOs at eight major corporations "earn more than 1,000 times the pay and benefits of the average worker in their respective industries." The downsides of the inequity, as corroborated by noted economists, include destabilizing our economy and threatening the foundation of our democracy. Hopefully, these gross inequities can be lessened before we experience a revolution.
— Karl Strandberg, Long Beach
Putin's 'KGB in a suit'
Re "Putin's push into Ukraine must be stopped" (Editorial, March 4):
Make no mistake about it, Vladimir Putin is KGB in a suit. But Hillary Clinton's likening him to Adolf Hitler is an exaggeration intended to burnish her warrior chops in preparation for another crack at the White House.
Hitler's moves were from a position of strength; Putin's from weakness. He sees a powerful China blow by Russia in the east, Moslem extremism threatening its underbelly and NATO expanding on the western periphery. The central Asian former Soviet republics are more trouble to him than they are worth, and the East European satellites and Baltic former Soviet republics are bound to the European Union and NATO.
Putin's "red lines" are the Caucasus — hence the battering he gave Georgia five years ago — and the Ukraine and especially, the Crimea (historically part of Russia before Khrushchev blithely transferred it to the Ukraine).
His view of Ukraine: first a trade agreement, then EU membership, then NATO — a dagger pointed at Moscow. Nevertheless, he agreed to Ukraine's territorial integrity as part of the deal for returning their nuclear weapons to Russia (probably had his fingers crossed behind his back).
We and the EU should hold him to this agreement and, short of military intervention, take steps to add to his miseries.
— Bill Ives, Long Beach


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Syl12, Mar. 2013
Called me 3 times Feb. 20, 2013, Feb. 23, 3 times Feb. 27, two times Mar 2, Mar 12 early in am. No message is left. Who are these people. Grrrrr.
9, May. 2013
Today is 05/09/2013. as of 9:25AM they have called 5 times since 05/04/2013. Have left no messages.
TexasJester16, May. 2013
5/16/13 Just got a call - STRONG East Indian accent - said I had $180 past due on my Chase card. Only problem - my Chase card hasn't been used in months. It was hard to understand him, and I finally cut him off by saying I would check with my accountant. He kept saying this call was being recorded for training purposes - and I think I interrupted his flow and thoroughly upset him!
Annoyed31, Jul. 2013
I'm a receptionist and I have been receiving these annoying calls for weeks! It's getting worse with every passing day. Majority of calls are: The caller, heavy East Indian accent, is asking to speak with an employee. I say we don't have that person here - they ask for a number and I tell them no. Just last week I ended up telling the a*****e to "F" off and said I would report him. No call from that guy - but I'm sure I'm getting his buddies. I hate people like this. Please be aware these are scam calls and NEVER give out ANY personnal information!!
5, Aug. 2013
called 7/29/13 9:14am and7:18pm 7/30/13 8:03am and 2:51 said he was from chase needed info over do amazon told him i am on don't call list don't call me again has called 8/4/13 10:58 am 4:39 pm. and 6:59 pm scam thing to get credit. card. i turned in complaint next Illinois bell telephone to put stop to this also India acsent
30, Sep. 2013
Received 3 calls today asking for a Jeff Robinson. Told them have wrong number and hung up.
30, Sep. 2013
Received 3 calls today asking for a Jeff Robinson. Told them have wrong number and hung up.
The Swerve21, Oct. 2013
I received a call from this number at work today asking about someone I had never heard of. I confirmed with them that they had the right place (a particular department in library).I found out from a co-worker that she used to work here in the same position I do now, but that has been about four or five years ago. I transferred the lady, who had what we thought was a Filipino accent, over to my co-worker. He was super suspicious about it. She said she was representing Chase bank and needed to get in touch with this person and needed her new phone number. My co-worker told them that they are asking for too personal of information and basically shut the conversation down very quickly. It was a good thing he did too after reading all of the other complaints on this number.
DENNIS24, Feb. 2014
SAID HE WAS CALLING FOR UNPAID CREDIT CARD BILLS THAT I HAD NOT USED IN 4 MONTHS and were above the limit on that card when I did have it
25, Feb. 2014
Irritating people, Thank goodness for call reject.
Rod24, Dec. 2014
This number has called me 17 times in 3 days, I don\\\'t answer and they never leave a message, I get calls from New York and California numbers right after that too.
31, Dec. 2016
probably scam
11, May. 2017
Scam! I don't even have a chase card!
22, Jun. 2017
That number call 2 times today , it's said from chase bank ,leave message to call back ! When I call back , the answering machine asks for full ss and full credit card number ?? Weirdes !!


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I just wanted to know if anyone else had a problem as mine:
When I checked up my a/c balance it had enough funds for 2+ days.Now when I refreshed the page after sometime, there came my shock!The funds vanished and the a/c went offline...
I doubt its a case of fraud or some back-end problem at Overture..
What say u?
If you have a high quality log analysis software package you should be able to determine if the clicks were fraudulent or not, just by seeing if they stay on the page. The more info you can gather the better when you make a claim that you had fraudulent clicks...If they come back and say that they did not determine that you did get fraudulent clicks and you can prove that you did, you can get a refund/credit.
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Overture is allowing content syndication of ads in pretty much any way their partners want them to use it, which has caused a lot of account problems for people.
Also, I have been using content match option from the day 1.All these days I have had no problems with my CTR.
Have reported the same to OV.I guess I need to get a fraud check done.
After this weekend, you will be able to bid on keywords seperately for "content match", and not affect your bids for normal distribution channels (MSN/Yahoo/etc)..
But until then, I would strongly advise to turn it off.


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- Consistency. You can't just do it the one time though. You need to take care of your customer throughout their lives. Only when you prove to them that you can do all of the above on a regular basis will they trust you enough to give you their business from here to eternity. It's a big step right, swearing off all others and deciding to take your product for the rest of their life. It's almost like marriage, and marriage requires a sustained commitment.
- Reward. If a customer proves his loyalty to you, you have to recognize it, and reward him for it. If I'm buying the same thing from the same seller every time, I want to be a given a little pat on the back. Again it doesn't mean you give them your product for free whenever they come along, it's not the magnitude of the gesture, but the gesture itself that counts.


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Sheffield back at Tigers workouts
Ongoing lawsuit vs. ex-agent Boras remains on mind
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
For another Spring Training, he'll have to deal with the lawsuit from his former agent, Scott Boras, who is seeking a five-percent portion on the three-year, $39 million contract Sheffield signed with the Yankees. And for one more time, he made his feelings known about Boras.
"Everybody knows what this man stands for," Sheffield said.
But as Sheffield showed last year, he has an ability to filter through distractions. Now that he has put his shoulder injury behind him and can swing a bat without pain, he'll take care of the rest.
"It's not a distraction," Sheffield said. "I've learned to adapt to any situation. People like that exist."
Sheffield missed part of Wednesday's workout due to a personal matter, but it had nothing to do with the lawsuit or his surgically repaired shoulder. He was back on the field Thursday, playing catch with the outfielders, but he said he'll have to attend to the lawsuit in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 28.
This is the fifth year he has had to deal with the case, now before an arbitrator through the MLB Players Association. He missed four Spring Training games last year to deal with depositions. He can't talk about the details of the case since it's ongoing, but he doesn't hesitate to discuss his feelings for the other party involved.
"It's probably personal with him," Sheffield said of Boras. "But when it's done, it's going to be personal to me. I'm going to warn everybody. Trust me, it's going to be the ugliest thing you've ever seen. There are people you don't want to mess with, and I can guarantee you I'm one of them."
Boras served as Sheffield's agent during his time with the Dodgers in the late 1990s and early into the 2000s. Sheffield fired Boras prior to his deal with the Yankees, which he negotiated with George Steinbrenner, but Boras' case is that he had worked on Sheffield's free agency. Sheffield countered by contending that Boras spoke badly of him and affected his market value.
Asked about his time dealing with Boras, Sheffield said, "Total hell. I wish I would've never introduced myself to him. Bad person. Bad person."
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Boras declined to react.
"I'm not going to comment on Gary's comments," Boras said when contacted by The Associated Press on Thursday morning.
The issues between Boras and Sheffield have a different backdrop this year after the offseason matters Boras had with other free agents. Alex Rodriguez, a close friend of Sheffield and a Boras client, worked around Boras to rekindle talks towards a new contract with the Yankees after using an option clause to become a free agent. Kenny Rogers, Sheffield's teammate, fired Boras in November before re-signing with the Tigers.
Sheffield said he only had limited talk with Rodriguez during the offseason, and that he did not advise him. Rogers has been diplomatic about his dealings with Boras, saying it made no sense to retain the agent when Rogers had no intention of signing anywhere but Detroit.
Sheffield can understand players taking control of their representation.
"It's a matter of taking your own career in your hands," Sheffield said.
Sheffield criticized both the Players Association and Major League Baseball in part for allowing his case to continue. Known for speaking his mind on matters, Sheffield said he will have plenty to say on the matter once the case is over.
"No fine is going to be big enough," he said. "No suspension is going to be long enough."
At least Sheffield has his health, which right now looks fine for him.
After surgery repaired the torn labrum in his throwing shoulder last October, Sheffield felt the difference almost immediately. After not being able to use the shoulder for a month, he could pick up heavy suitcases and do a three-mile run.
Once he picked up a bat a couple weeks later -- something he rarely does even in a normal offseason -- he had his full range of motion. He didn't swing hard again, he said, because he was afraid his health was too good to be true.
The final sign came when he reported to camp early a couple weeks ago.
"As soon as I tried to hit a ball over the fence, and I hit it over the fence," Sheffield said, "I said to myself, 'I've still got it.'"
Now he believes that he could play four more years if he wanted to. He won't rule out playing beyond his current contract, which runs through 2009, because he has thought about retirement before and come back.
"If my body feels good," Sheffield said, "why quit?"
If he retires, it would likely be to make his family happy. He admits they've wanted him to retire before. Issues like dealing with Boras only further it.
"They don't like the negative stuff that comes my way, and I love it," Sheffield said. "I like to prove people wrong."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Gamespot is sporting a 64Mb movie from a "special edition" of Jade Empire. It's unclear -why- it's a special edition but we'll take their word for it.
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text: my car doenst feel right 10 and 20lbs feels the same, and i dont kown what the cause is?? when it gets to [email protected] it sputters. i got smoked by a stock vr6 jetta. and the HP the LA3 puts out is about 20 more HP than a VR6. whats gives?? my car just slows down a 4K and doenst pull as hard. and if i do a 3k launch like in stingers video it doesnt come close to reving that fast. and the timing is at 10-11 with the spout out, and i can here a leaking noise when i get to 4K. could it be the head gasket blown between cylinders??im goin to do a compression test and check the plugs and gaps


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Nogales Nibbles: You can stay north of the border and get in some pretty entertaining noshing and sloshing, too. The sloshing takes place at Arizona Vineyards, a real hoot. The wine masters here eschew noble grapes like Cabernet, Merlot or Pinot Noir--"too expensive," they say. Instead, they buy table grapes from places like Florence, Chandler and Buckeye. Then they fashion them into about 60,000 bottles of cleverly named wines: Apache Red, Rattlesnake Red and Desert Dust. Wine tasting is accompanied by hilarious marketing patter. "This Rattlesnake Red," our host intoned with a straight face, "reminds us of a good Chianti." The Apache Red, meanwhile, recalls to him the refreshingly fruity bouquet of Beaujolais. Yeah, right, and I'm Baron de Rothschild. Don't look for Arizona Vineyards wines at Sportsman's or the supermarkets. The wines are sold only through the Nogales outlet--$5.50 for whites, $7 for reds. And don't bother building a wine cellar for them. They're drinkable--barely--for only about a year or two. Arizona Vineyards is at 1830 Patagonia Road (State Route 82), about a ten-minute drive from downtown Nogales. It's open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 1-602-287-7972. Chile Reception: That's what you can expect at the Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Company, a delightful place to pass some southern Arizona time. This 50-year-old operation, founded by a cowboy stunt man who worked in the early days of movies, cooks up some first-rate salsas and chile pastes, which are set out on a chip-laden table for customer munching. By far the most compelling condiment is the Santa Cruz Chili Paste, a sublime blend of mild red chiles that makes a wonderful seasoning for meat and chicken. The other products are also tempting: a chili barbecue sauce, zipped up with jalapeos; two kinds of picante; and a green salsa. Every once in a while, the product shows up in a Phoenix specialty shop, but according to the store manager, you can't count on finding it. Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Company is located a quarter of a mile south of the historic Tumacacori Mission, about 20 miles north of Nogales. The store's open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., except for an hour at noon. Take I-19 to exit 29 and follow the signs. Call 1-602-398-2591 for more info.
Nuts: The Grand Canyon. Majestic saguaros. The world's largest irrigated pecan orchard. Yes, indeed, Arizona has it all. Thirty years ago, the Santa Cruz Pecan Company began planting 6,000 acres of pecans about 45 minutes north of Nogales. Today, they're up to their eyebrows in nuts. You can pick up honey-baked pecans, hot and spicy pecans, roasted and salted pecans, praline pecans, pecan brittle, pecan logs and chocolate-covered pecans. There's pecan meal, and even barbecue briquets made from pecan shells.
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Legend goes behind the scenes of a seemingly ordinary place - The Brooklyn Brewery, an Olive Garden, the Louvre - and exposes the seamy underbelly beneath. We explore the inner lives of the people who make up a place, and connect the whole thing with a narrative throughline. You'll never think of [place you suggested] the same way again!
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ON Friday, February 28, the people of Barry were entertained to a night of wonderful singing by the Three Choirs of Barry; the Barry Ladies Choir, The Barry Choral Society and the Barry Male Voice Choir.
The concert at St Mary's Church, Barry was organised by the Mayor of Barry Cllr Claire Curtis in aid of her charities of the year The Jam Fund and Ty Hapus.
As well as being entertained by two sets from each choir and a an opening and closing song which saw all choristers come together, the audience were also treated to two performances from a young and up and coming star and a pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg Jodi Bird. Jodi was also thrilled to join the Barry Ladies Choir to sing "Joyful Joyful" from the west end hit Sister Act.
Cllr Curtis said: "I cannot thank the three choirs and Jodi enough for giving their time not only on on Friday evening but their commitment over the last couple of months to rehearsals and the logistics of organising the concert. The audience were treated to an excellent programme ranging from Welsh and African compositions to classical and west end songs. I would also like to thank everyone who supported the event and helped raise funds for the two charities. A big thank you also to Father Ben for allowing us to use St Mary's as the venue for the concert".


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~Think of a film starring Trevor Howard and Cynthia Johnson ~
I'm pretty confident that there are two responses to that instruction. One will be a bemused look and a muttering of "Trevor and Cynthia who?" and the other will provoke you to put on your best plummy accent and do an impression of the star-crossed lovers in Noel Coward's classic film 'Brief Encounter'. But that's not the film I want to write about. Imagine if instead of having to tear themselves apart on the railway station, our Trev and his lady friend had found a way to stay together - for a very long time.
This preamble brings me to the film 'Staying On' which shares nothing with 'Brief Encounter' except its two lead actors. Instead of sipping tea by a bunch of steam trains, Trevor and Cynthia play Colonel and Mrs Smalley, two characters who first appeared in a modest way in the last two books of Paul Scott's 'Raj Quartet. The Raj Quartet is better known for its television adaptation which created the fabulous TV series 'The Jewel in the Crown'. The book of Staying On was published in 1977 and won Paul Scott the Booker Prize. The film was then released in 1980 as a 'for television' film - i.e. not for cinema. I was surprised to realise that despite the book of 'Staying On' being a sequel to the Raj Quartet, the film of 'Staying on' predates 'The Jewel in the Crown' by several years. OK, it's not quite like Star Wars starting in the middle and then going back to the start years later, but I found that interesting.
~Himalayan Retirement~
The film takes place in 1972, 25 years after Indian Independence, and is set in the fictional Himalayan town of Pankot which in the film is easily recognisable as one of my favourite places, Shimla. Tusker (Colonel Smalley) and his wife Lucy are the only Brits left in town and all the others have died or long ago gone home. Tusker tells us that he was the wrong age when Independence came because he was too young to retire and too old to start over back in Britain. Staying on meant that Tusker adapted to the changes, building a circle of friends amongst the local Indians who stepped into the void left by the departure of his colleagues from the army and later from business. Mostly he hangs out with the type of locals who dress, speak and act like the men who left Tusker behind, men who turned themselves into mock-Englishmen, joining him for the consumption of phenomenal quantities of gin at the Club. By contrast, Lucy has no friends as there are no local white women for her to mix with and she struggles to deal with the class and race divide.
The Smalleys live in the Lodge, a pretty little bungalow with fabulous views which sits in the grounds of the Smith's Hotel, once the grandest hotel in town but now displaced for that honour by a new hotel called the Shiraz. Mrs Lila Bhoolabhoy is the owner of Smith's hotel and her husband Mr Bhoolaboy (or Billyboy as Tusker calls him) is the hotel manager and Tusker's friend. Mrs B is a formidable business woman with big plans and wants to buy into the Shiraz hotel group. To do so she needs to sell her hotel and she can't do that unless she can drive the Smalleys out of the Lodge. She sets about finding devious ways to get the elderly couple to leave, knowing from the regular visits from the local doctor that Colonel Smalley is not well. This starts with the tactic of sacking the gardener so that the grass doesn't get cut or the flower beds weeded. The lengths that Lucy and the Smalley's servant Ibrahim go to in order to secretly get another gardener without Tusker knowing are amusing.
Lucy is frightened. Tusker is so ill that she's been warned he may not live much longer unless he stops drinking. What will happen to her, what provisions has he made for her and how will she survive if he dies? She repeatedly demands that he tells her what her future holds and when he does it's in such a beautifully old-fashioned 'stiff upper lip' way that she's liable to fall in love with her elderly husband all over again.
~Never mind the plot, look at the view~
In terms of plot, it's fair to say that not too much actually happens in this gentle but deeply moving story and what does happen is not very surprising. My husband fell asleep on the sofa whilst we were watching it but what he saw, he said he enjoyed. It's not a long film at just an hour and a half long. The star of the film is Shimla itself, offering up luscious views, endless sunshine and a glimpse at a great city before it grew to the sprawling monster it is today. Trevor Howard is very convincing as the alcohol-sodden ex-soldier whose best days are far behind him and does an extraordinary job of going bright red in the face at frequent intervals. Cynthia Johnson is radiant in a wrinkly-old-tortoise sort of way, with her sparkling eyes and gentle elegance. She may be physically the stronger of the two but we're left to wonder how many of her marbles have been mislaid as her behaviour becomes increasingly batty. She dances around the house daintily, she talks to herself and to people who aren't there, and she's making herself sick with worry about her future and her husband's health. Here is a woman entirely believable as the elderly wife of an ex-soldier.
The supporting cast are fabulous. We have Saeed Jaffrey as Mr Bhoolabhoy and Pearl Padamsee as his unpleasant wife. He performs wonderfully in the role of henpecked husband to a wealthier, controlling wife and she is utterly horrible. Zia Mohyeddin plays Ibrahim, the Smalley's Muslim servant, and gives us most of the humour. There's a wonderful moment when he's cleaning Mrs Smalley's jewellery in a glass of gin and then polishes it off with an exclamation of "Waste not want not".
The director was Canadian Silvio Narizzan, of whom I have to admit I'd never heard although he's (apparently) best known for the 1966 film Georgy Girl.
If you are interested in India, especially if you watched and loved 'The Jewel in the Crown' then you will most likely love 'Staying On'. If you find films about the challenge of old age interesting, then give this a go. However if you love films in which beautiful young people run around having action packed adventures with lots of computer generated animation and stuff like that, then please do yourself a favour and skip this one.
The DVD of Staying on has no extras, dating as it does to a time when such things weren't expected (i.e. long before the invention of the DVD). The DVD is currently available for £3.75 including postage on Amazon.


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Egypt's press freedom under Mursi spotlighted at trial
CPJ has documented a stream of attacks against the press under Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi. Islam Afifi, editor-in-chief of the independent daily Al-Dustour was charged with insulting the president.
Bloomberg reports on the story and quotes CPJ Deputy Director, Robert Mahoney, on this benchmark press freedom case under Morsi.


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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - The Buffalo Bills have selected Alabama offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio with the 44th pick in the NFL draft after trading down three spots in the second round.
Kouandjio is listed at 6-foot-6 and 322 pounds, and left Alabama after three seasons. He addresses Buffalo's need at tackle, and will be given a chance to compete for the starting job on the right side.
The Bills swapped second-round picks with St. Louis and also added the Rams' fifth-round selection, 153rd overall.
The Bills already made a splash on Thursday, by trading up five spots to select Clemson receiver Sammy Watkins with the fourth pick.
Watkins' addition prompted Buffalo to trade receiver Stevie Johnson to the San Francisco 49ers on Friday, hours before the second round began.


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DavidN - why would you want low gain for landing, I assume most would opt for a high gain setting during approach and landing.
To optimize guardian for our planes, we are all going to have to do some adjustments over several flights.
Initially I plan on setting up a slider on my JR9503 to control the gain, eventually the optimal gain setting will be mapped to the flight mode switch, using the gyro sub menu to control the gain, David you might want to look into this option.
Here is the written conclusion.
Test Flight: Fly level, cut throttle and pitch up.
F4F with three seperate helicopter type gyros: snaps into a spin and dives when in head holding mode. In Rate mode, the aircraft just goes into a dive.
P47 with FY30A: Stalls, dives and then goes into a glide. Sometimes though it just reaches a noticeable angle in the roll direction - as if the sensitivity was not high enough to detect it had not yet reached level in the roll axis.
P47 with Guardian: Stalls, dives and then goes into a glide. It's much more responsive than the FY30A in getting it's roll axis back to level and it's pitch axis back to the user's set angle.
The main thing here is that the FY30A and the Guardian 2D/3D both have software that ties in all 3 gyros and accelerometers. It's like having preprogrammed mixes that include these sensors, and their input/output.
In contrast, the F4F has three independent gyros that are not programmed to "level" the roll axis of the plane. Nor is the elevator gyro being driven to attain the pitch angle that the user had set. Because they work independently, they can lock their corresponding control surface to a certain orientation. You have to be very careful to fly such a plane, and must consciously coordinate each control surface especially in a slow banked turn with head holding active on all 3 independent gyros. My preferred setup for this F4F is to fly the ailerons in Head Holding (as highest a gain that can be set without oscillations), and the elevator and rudder in Rate mode (with very low gains).
Lastly, in my Twister 480, I've gone from 3D mode to 2D mode in every attainable orientation, and never once did the plane go into a spin. It always leveled out and glided. In contrast, I don't use the Stabilization mode of the FY30A in the P47. It does not have the type of override that the Guardian has - making the aircraft difficult to bank or pitch - essentially turn. You definitely want to be clear of tree tops when flying the FY30A in Stabilization mode.
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The first shipment for those who pre ordered months ago should ship any week now. That group is sold out. Next shipment should be in August.
The wait drags on..... :(
Thats more like late summer..... not late spring as advertised?
Well better late than never... I finally got out of the tropical storms, rain, humid nastiness, and being stuck working to get out and get my 72in 3DHS AJ Slick up with the guardian installed. And I didn't even drop my radio in the dirt this time. Here goes... Wind was very gusty, and about 14-45mph. It was blowing exactly 90deg across the runway at my club field. I'll be honest, even though I've flown some other planes with the Guardian in winds worse than this, I was really apprehensive. I mean this is my favorite plane in my trailer. It was previously owned by the man himself (AJ), and he signed the inside of the cockpit, so it's got a little extra cool level in it. It's windy as hedoubletoothpick and the gusts are erratic. But I dropped the tail of the trailer and put the wings on, dropped the 6S5000 in, balanced, and taxied out.
First feelings on this plane with the Guardian in it is wow, or should I say WOW! This plane on high rates is normally a butt-puckerer. If you're not on top of it when flying low, it'll catch you off guard because the rates I run on it are slightly higher than recommended. This was completely not the case with the Guardian 2D/3D stabilizer installed. I first did some putt aroun flying in 2D mode and some elevators into the wind. Even with he wind gusting erratically there was virtually zero wing rock. I mean if you concentrated on it you could see it ever so slight, but that was it. During fast passes I got a little flutter, but I think next time I go out I will mix gain to throttle and try to put a curve to match it. I did not have a lot of time to mess with radio today because I wanted to get a couple flights in. I goofed with 3D mode a little then popped it into 2D mode and let it elevator drop all the way to the ground. Landed with a gentle plop. I can do that with some of my other planes but not this one.
I swapped out to the second battery and this time spent the whole flight in 3D mode (except for takeoff). It figures I had no one to film me because the whole time I was flying I was kind of hoping just one pilot would see me kicking this Slick around like I was a master. Knife edges into the wind were true and no wiggles. The plane tracked straight as an arrow even when it was low and slow. A fast knife edge gave me a little flutter, but the Guardian seemed to back the gain down on it's own and the flutter tapered off. Hovers were solid and I probably had the hover hanging lower than I've ever doe it before but some really raunchy gusts were tipping it over a bit because of the nice wing area on that plane. Hard snaps were a little mooshy with 3D mode enabled but I think that can be addressed in the radio. They are not like that in bypass mode. The EagleTree head dev guy is really good with suggestions on stuff like this so I am asking him to see what he suggests.
So all in all I was very impressed. I actually think it was even better in this plane than in some of the smaller ones that I tried it in. When the ones I ordered arrive (I also plan to order 2 more), I will likely have one in this plane for those windy days like this and practicing new moves. Plus, landing in gusts to me is the most challenging thing about RC flying. The Guardian made landing in these gusts a non-event. I even tempted it by pulling off a few more landings just for fun.
How about a station break while we wait for our pre-orders to ship ....
FPV takeoffs and landings....
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Thank you for your report. One thing I wasn't clear on. In your report, you said, "Test Flight: Fly level, cut throttle and pitch up". Did you intentionally pitch the airplane up with an elevator command or did the airplane pitch up by itself ?
My original premise was as follows:
1. Fly level at cruise or full throttle in 2D mode.
2. Chop throttle, but make no other inputs.
3. Observe model behavior. I suspect that the model will continue straight and level, but lacking power it will lose speed (Guardian will keep adding up elevator in order to maintain a level pitch attitude.) At some point, the airplane will lose so much airspeed in trying to maintain pitch level without power, that it will stall. Does it in fact do this or does Guardian 2D somehow lower the nose to allow the airplane to maintain flying speed ? A normally stable airplane without stability augmentation can be expected to pitch down all by itself because it will try to maintain a constant angle of attack rather than a constant attitude.
This was a flaw that we found in flying the NASA PA-30 in attitude command mode. The airplane was marvelously docile to fly as long as power was kept between mid range and full. Adding or reducing power simply resulted in a speed change without an attitude change. But when we reduced power to the point that the airplane needed to nose down to maintain a safe speed, it would stall because the control system kept trying to maintain a level pitch attitude.
I'll try it again. The Guardian's pitch angle in 2D can be set between +-25 deg from what I understand. We'll try -10, 0, +10, and +20 deg. My thoughts are - if the controller is fast enough to detect even a minute change in the angle, and its output is coupled to a fast servo that is linked to an adequate sized control surface then the plane should not enter a pitched nose up stalled state, but harrier to the ground.
If anything, I would imagine that it would start gliding backwards - pusher with a canard!
I wonder why your test vehicle pitched upwards? Do you remember the sensors used and a summary of what the logic was in maintaining level flight?
PS. The video I took is pretty boring.
Update: It just dawned upon me - I'm a bit slow when it comes to these things - but these units do generate an aritificial horizon. See manual. From this data, they can condition the logic to maintain the nose of the aircraft at some limit above that aritificial horizon. This will prevent it from stalling. Anyhow, there's a lot you can do with software, and so it's a guessing game as to what the code actually does.
Read thru some stuff during lunch...
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Skip to comments.Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in the new year
Posted on 12/29/2012 6:42:05 PM PST by BenLurkin
Curiosity will now head for Mount Sharp in mid-February after it drills into its first rock.
"We'll probably be ready to hit the pedal to the metal and give the keys back to the rover drivers," mission chief scientist John Grotzinger said in a recent interview at his office on the sprawling NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus, 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.
The road trip comes amid great expectations. After all, it's the reason the $2.5 billion mission targeted Gale Crater near the Martian equator. Soaring from the center of the ancient crater is a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) peak with intriguing layers of rocks.
Curiosity's job is to figure out whether the landing site ever had the right environmental conditions to support microbes. Scientists already know water flowed in the past, thanks to the rover's discovery of an old streambed. Besides water, life as we know it also needs energy, typically provided by the sun.
What's missing are the chemical building blocks of life: complex carbon-based molecules. If they're preserved on Mars, scientists figure the best place to hunt for them is at the base of Mount Sharp, where images from space reveal hints of interesting geology.
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It would make a lot more sense to look for resources which would ease the task of colonization.
The last thing we want to do is find life. That would forever render the planet untouchable.
Evidence of past life can be more easily found by men on foot.
I'd hate to be the rover driver who rolls it
Flo the insurance lady is gonna be pissed.
"oops, did I do that?"
Gotta get prepared.
sane one cracks, already insane, its a snap
I think a lot of people would like to find life on MARs. The easiest way to do that is to put people there and then the question is answerable in the affirmative and we can move on to other questions.
People can act with intuition and move much more quickly.
Robots are incredibly slow and are literally only scratching the surface.
If you want there to be life on Mars, then send some peeps and voila, there will be life on Mars. Problem solved. Question answerable in the affirmative.
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Americans spend more than $9 billion a year on frozen dinners, according to market research firm Euromonitor. That's a whole lot of lasagna, pizza, macaroni and cheese, and many, many other heat-and-eat entrees. The clear brand leader in the frozen dinner category is Stouffer's, which has a larger share of the market than its three closest competitors combined. But the company isn't as dominant as it first appears -- three of the other brands in the top five are owned by ConAgra Foods, and their combined market share come closes to Stouffer's. This is not an industry that shows wild swings; revenue varies only slightly from year to year. Euromonitor numbers do show there has been a small drop-off from 2009, when sales peaked at $9.2 billion. Here are the top brands.
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ICU Medical to Voluntarily Discontinue Distribution of CLC2000 Positive Displacement Needlefree IV Connector in US
ICU Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICUI) today announced it will voluntarily discontinue U.S. distribution of the CLC2000® Positive Displacement Needlefree Connector effective April 30, 2013 due to FDA concerns over the safety of positive displacement needlefree connectors and sharply decreasing U.S. sales volumes caused by customers switching to the company's newer, clinically superior needlefree connector technologies. The CLC2000 will continue to be available for purchase in markets outside the United States.
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Lawrie starting to regain stroke at Triple-A
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Lawrie went 1-for-4 on Saturday night and is 9-for-19 in his past four games. The native of Langley, British Columbia, also smacked his first home run of the month with a two-run blast on Friday night.
"There has been some hard contact," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "He's doing a good job defensively as well. I think more than anything, as we look at situations where a guy misses either a two-week or prolonged stretch where they're able to step right back in and maintain some of the approach that they've had prior to the long layoff, those are all encouraging signs."
Lawrie missed more than a month after fracturing his left hand during a game with Las Vegas on May 31. The 21-year-old was on the verge of being promoted to the Major Leagues at the time of his injury, but the club wants to make sure he is all the way back to full strength before he makes his debut.
"It hasn't changed or given us a projected date," Farrell said of Lawrie's recent success. "But it's good to see him back on the field doing what he's doing."
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WASHINGTON – Last season, D.C. United center back Dejan Jakovic appeared in 23 matches, tying a career high, scored his first MLS goal and logged 1,861 minutes en route to helping lead United to the playoffs.
He and Brandon McDonald were regarded as one of the league's better central defensive pairings heading into this 2013 campaign, but with McDonald now in Salt Lake after being traded and Jakovic fighting through another season interrupted by injuries, those expectations have fallen by the wayside.
However, Jakovic returned to action late last month after missing eight league matches with an adductor strain and subbed on against Chicago in a 4-1 loss after playing a half in a friendly against Chivas de Guadalajara. He then started three consecutive matches (two MLS and the club's 2-0 US Open Cup semifinal win over the Fire) as he continues to work his way back into United coach Ben Olsen's rotation.
"The Montreal game and the Chicago game, he was a stud," Olsen of one of his more veteran players. "He was a big part of why we won those two games. When Dejan's on the field, we're a better team. It's just a matter of keeping him healthy and finding the right recipe for him to be more durable and make sure he's on the field as much as possible."
Indeed, injuries have pestered the 28-year-old Canadian international throughout his career as he played a total of 34 matches in 2010 and 2011 combined and 93 total matches in five years.
"Obviously, no one wants to be injured. It's not a good feeling to be watching your team from the sideline," Jakovic said. "But I worked hard and everyone else has been working hard. Everyone has stepped up their game. I'm just happy to be back there and contributing to the team."
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Again playing for a United club that's last in the league, as D.C. were in 2010, Jakovic feels different about the final three months of this season as compared to 2010. With an Open Cup finals date with Real Salt Lake looming on Oct. 1 and an influx of young players to breathe new life into the lineup, United have plenty to play for down the stretch.
"Definitely, we have a lot of young guns," Jakovic said. "This is my fifth year here. Me and Chris [Pontius] are the longest players to be here. It's a good group of guys that have come forward and are willing to learn. I'm just looking forward and I think there's a bright future for some of them."


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CHICAGO, Ill. ¿ MVP.com announced its plans to acquire PlanetOutdoors.com, the leading outdoor e-commerce site based in Boulder, Colorado. This acquisition marks MVP.com's further advancement into vertical sports categories to enhance the breadth and depth of merchandise offered on its flagship mvp.com site. MVP.com also owns igogolf.com and tennisdirect.com, co-owns and operates mvp.ca in Canada, and powers the e-commerce sites of Sportsline.com and Faceoff.com. PlanetOutdoors.com's financial backers will invest additional funding in the combined company. Terms of the agreement with PlanetOutdoors.com were not disclosed.
"MVP.com is committed to offering customers the best products and services in each category in which we compete, from team sports and fitness to outdoor recreation and individual sports," said John Costello, CEO of MVP.com. "PlanetOutdoors.com has established the definitive destination for outdoor gear and apparel on the Internet, and is dedicated to the same excellence that we pursue at MVP.com.
"The U.S. Market for outdoor products is about $16 billion with the online segment projected at $1.6 billion by 2002. By combining PlanetOutdoors' merchandising and customer service strengths with MVP.com's technology, fulfillment and marketing expertise, we are creating a superior site to attract more customers and lead this market."
Customers will continue to find the widest variety of name-brand outdoor products at PlanetOutdoors.com, and will be able to chat in real-time with online customer service experts who focus exclusively on the outdoor category. World-class customer service from some of the top outdoor athletes in America has been a defining asset of PlanetOutdoors.com since its inception. Customers also will find many site upgrades over the next few weeks, including 24×7 customer service, and enhancements in the technology that powers the site.
MVP.com will continue to leverage PlanetOutdoors' strong brand equity by maintaining and promoting the PlanetOutdoors URL. Customers also will be able to shop at PlanetOutdoors by entering through mvp.com.
"Our relationship with MVP.com will produce synergies that we could not have undertaken on our own," said David Secunda, president and CEO of PlanetOutdoors.com. "PlanetOutdoors will gain more resources to expand the business while holding onto the core assets that made us a leading brand in the outdoor category, including our world-class customer service and the industry's best merchants. We looked at a number of potential partners who could recognize our existing value and allow us to stay true to our mission, and MVP.com presents the perfect fit. Together, we will empower active people of all abilities and interests to quickly and easily gear up and get outdoors."
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Founded in 1999, PlanetOutdoors offers customers of every interest and participation level a unique and authentic online experience where they can learn about different products and prepare for and plan outdoor activities. The company received more than $20 million in funding from venture partners, including CMGI@Ventures, Trinity Ventures, APV Technology Partners, all of Menlo Park, California; and New York's I-Hatch investors and Boulder's Sequel Venture Partners, Tango Partners, Forefront Capital and Canyon Capital.
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Sustainable Solutions | Spring 2011 Speakers
The Area: A Journey through the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Documentary film and discussion with Cameron Salony.
Stressors on Steroids: Climate Change, Land-Use Change, Disturbance Regimes and the Future of Western Ecosystems
Lisa Graumlich,Dean of the College of the Environment, University of Washington
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Building a Resilient Local Financial System
Jared Gardner,Oregonians for a State Bank
The recent financial crisis brought on by the "Too-Big-To-Fail" banks plunged the country into the worst recession since the 1930s. But while the federal government bailed out the nation's biggest banks and corporations, the rest of the country has been left to fend for itself. Two years, six million foreclosures, and eight million lost jobs later, the financial system is not meeting the needs of America's working families. Jared Gardner will discuss how the establishment of a state bank will help build a resilient local financial system, and transfer benefits and power to the citizens of the state.
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Beyond The Spill
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Following the BP Oil Spill, 22 Oregonians traveled to the Gulf Coast to bear witness to the impacts of this environmental disaster on the cultural, economic, and environmental fabric of the region. They would be introduced to a complex and ambiguous crisis, and leave considering how their actions a continent away could influence our evolution Beyond The Spill
Community-Based Sustainability Solutions: What is the Recipe for Success?
Susan Anderson,Director, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, City of Portland
Former head of the City's Office of Sustainable Development and the Energy Office.
Portland has a remarkable history of long range planning and sustainable development. But not every effort has been a success. How come some of the greenest ideas to promote renewable energy, recycling or habitat protection fail, while other efforts thrive? Susan Anderson has spent more than two decades learning how to develop and grow community-based sustainability programs in Portland and throughout the U.S.
Come hear about a handful of these innovative, but practical, efforts and explore the building blocks of success.
Collaborative Conservation: Endangered Fish Recovery in the Upper Colorado Basin
John Loomis,Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University
Author ofIntegrated Public Lands Managementand co-author ofEnvironmental Policy Analysis for Decision Making.
Collaborating in endangered species recovery has the potential to save significant costs for water users such as farmers, industries, and households, and ultimately society as a whole. Collaborative conservation also allows the employment of a broader range of recovery tools than traditional regulatory mechanisms used in Endangered Species Act (ESA) implementation. Professor Loomis will discuss the benefits from voluntary collaboration as opposed to the "business as usual" regulatory approaches in the case of a collaborative fish recovery program in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
Human Identity & Environmental Challenges
Tim Kasser, Professor and Chair of Psychology at Knox College and author of The High Price of Materialism and other works related to consumerism and well being.
Co-sponsored by Portland Center for Public Humanities
Despite some important successes, the efforts of the environmental movement have thus far failed to activate the kinds of personal and social changes necessary to meet the many ecological challenges we face. A growing body of psychological research suggests that if these efforts incorporated more knowledge about human identity (including our values, our sense of social identity, and the ways we cope when threatened), greater progress towards a more sustainable (and socially just) world might be forthcoming.


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Transfer news: John Eustace heading for the exits at Watford
John Eustace is set to bring his association with Watford to an end, with the midfielder looking for regular game time.
Last Updated: 28/06/13 11:01pm
The 33-year-old has spent the last five years at Vicarage Road, with his only break coming during a loan spell at Derby County in 2009.
He remains the Hornets' club captain, but struggled for action in 2012/13 as Gianfranco Zola put his side in promotion contention.
Watford are keen for Eustace to stay on at the club, possibly in a coaching role, but he is not ready to hang up his boots just yet.
Eustace's representative Colin Gordon said in the Watford Observer: "Watford wanted John to stay with the club in some capacity, but John wants to continue playing.
"Gianfranco Zola really likes him as a bloke and really wanted him to stay around the place and everyone who knows John knows he will make a top manager one day.
"But he wants to continue playing - he wanted assurances about playing time and things like that and Watford couldn't give him that.
"It's disappointing we couldn't come to an agreement and that it's petered out in this way, but the club have been very fair with us and we part on good terms."


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Notre Dame Reconsiders Stance on Football Independence
Matt Peloquin
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence.
The Big Ten and Pac-10 have both said they are exploring the possibility of adding schools.
Swarbrick says that looming realignment changes could be "relatively small … or they could be seismic."
While Notre Dame prefers to remain independent in football, Swarbrick says, he and university president Rev. John Jenkins will evaluate whatever changes occur and assess how they effect the Fighting Irish.
Swarbrick told reporters Tuesday morning: "You can each come up with a scenario that would force our hand."
The obvious move would be for Notre Dame to join the Big Ten, which would boost the conferences coverage of the BTN in markets such as New York. It is believed that Notre Dame would prefer joining the Big Ten if there were other Big East schools involved, such as Syracuse and Rutgers from the northeast. It does seem unlikely that Notre Dame would join the Big East for football, especially if they were to lose a Rutgers and/or Syracuse. But the school could probably negotiate their own deal with the Big East and maintain their current NBC TV contract.
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About Us:Here is a little info about us and what we are about, if you like our aims and ideals justdrop us a line and get to know us better.We are a small Social,friendly mature based guild. Our main language is English, and we play on a UK (GMT) Time Base. The Guild is both PvE/WvW based giving ample opportunities to do both with groups doing something most days or in your own time with the guild. We try to focus on all content, WvW, dungeons, making sure we get all we can out of the game and have fun hitting our goals in doing so, be it working as a group through the hard times and the good! (being those rewards we always love to see when we down a boss). We as a guild do not discriminate and all are welcome both Female/Male players as well as couples.Do take in to consideration with we pride ourselves on being a social guild we are not hardcore / semi-hardcore in any way shape or form, we play to have fun, we rarely schedule events as things are always going on within the guild mostly in the evenings after our members have finished work, put the kids to bed and settled in for the night.
What TOS is about:We like to create a friendly atmosphere within the guild so that when you log on you know your going to get a friendly warm welcome.we know grouping is a big part to mmo's and in GW2 we have a better opportunity to do so with the sidekick level system. So we will be grouping as much as possible.We also have a voice over net system (Mumble), Mumble is enabled for our guild we want you to log onto that as much as you can to get to know the members of the guild quicker and its always good to have a banter and have laugh with each other.As well as the serious side that Voice com's are needed for especially in raid/dungeon areas for quick and orderly tactics. As I've already said endgame content – dungeons will be the big part of our PVE playing time as well as making our characters the best we can in the process. In WvW we want to try to get regular groups going that allows the guild to play as a group in WvW, this will bring good tactics and team play into the mix and make our gametime a more enjoyable experience.We also have an awsome alliance with another like minded guild who regulary join us for dungeons and many random events so there is always something to do most days when you log on
Requirements:Just to finish here is a short list of the requirements that we wish you tofollow if your wanting to join TOS.Minimum age 18+Treat all members with respect.Be able to follow & sometimes lead.So if you like what you have read so far come pay us a visit, the links below:http://theoldsouls.enjin.com/
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