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A week ago, I pointed out that the Parts Express subwoofer amplifiers bore only a CE mark, which at the time I claimed that the mark meant essentially nothing about its safety.
I was right.
In speaking with our in-house regulations standards director I learned that the CE mark is self-applied by the manufacturer, and that it only has meaningful value to those in the EU.
From EDN Magazine 01/97
"The purpose of the CE marking is to allow manufacturers to place products on the market and ensure the free movement of goods. The CE marking is primarily for market control by customs inspectors and enforcement authorities."
"The CE marking simply indicates that the product conforms to the relevant directives' safety and EMC requirements and that the manufacturer has performed all the necessary evaluation procedures. The "CE" symbol is not a registered trademark and is, in principle, the manufacturer's responsibility. Except for some high-risk products, most manufacturers can perform a self-assessment of their products to meet the essential requirements of the directives. In doing so, the manufacturer has a choice of meeting the minimum legal requirements or meeting the market expectations as well. In Europe, expectations vary considerably among countries."
So, are the PE plate amps considered dangerous or risky because they do not hold any safety certifications? I would think not. They appear to be made well enough to pass muster, and I know they've sold several thousand of them without one incident. My purpose of the post is to inform and promote discussion.


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Even though polls show that 90 percent of Americans favor background checks for gun buyers, a background check bill failed to clear the Senate today. This happened despite the bill being proposed by members of both parties, Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)
"We will use every means possible to make sure the constituents of these senators know that their elected representatives ignored them…" - Ex-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly*
Gun control: Senate rejects background checks deal
By John Bresnahan, Politico (04/17/2013) – The Senate has rejected a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, handing President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders a major defeat on one of the key pieces of the president's second-term agenda.
The vote was 54-46, with only four Republicans crossing the aisle and voting with the Democrats in favor of the bipartisan proposal by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Sixty votes were needed.
Gun-control supporters in the Senate gallery and the hallway surrounding the chamber — some wearing ribbons and buttons with pictures of loved ones killed in shootings — wept when the results were announced. From their euphoria last week — when Toomey and 15 other Republicans voted with Democrats to allow the gun debate to begin, to Wednesday's reality that the bill was defeated – proved too much for them. [MORE]
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It was my first festival and it couldn't have been better. Thank you guys for coming to my city. Bilbao wants you back. Thanks God I'm seeing you again in March, in Madrid. I got the tickets on time!
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Come to Madrid please! Lots of people wondering that guys!
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I am traveling around Spain and this concert is one of the stops on my journey. I am really looking forward to it. I think you could do an amazing cover of "Holiday in Spain" by Counting Crows and would be a perfect fit if it was mixed in.
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Getting my tickets tomorrow so are three of my friends- coming from the UK to see you and be part of this amazing festival. I saw mumford and sons in hyde park last year and I honestly believed it couldn't get better,.. so happy to put that to the test!!!
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I'm coming too..!!! No supe hasta ayer que venÃÂan y estoy alucinando!!! I'm very happy!!! I'm sooo glad to have you guys here in Spain! Thank you!!
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Creo que yo también.
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an amazing ability helps alot when travaling befor you are able to get your speeder bike.
This ability is good period. Even after you are level 50+ and have ++2500% speeder bike movement simply because this one works anytime you are not in combat but are in flashpoints/ops/WZ. Since you cannot use the speeder in some of those situations (most situations in ops/FP and never in WZ) it makes life better.
Stealth will not de-activate or otherwise affect Sprint, but if you enable Sprint while you're stealthed, your Stealth will be broken.
Found that one out the fun way :P
Either old data or just incorrect. This does not break stealth.
Originally, Sprint is a trained ability for all players at level 15. This grants 35% increased movement speed when not in combat. This buff was lost on death.
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Patch 1.12 - If Sprint was active when a player died, it now remains active when the player is revived.
Patch 1.2 - The Sprint ability is now available at level 1.
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I have really noticed it, the irritated eyes, the fatigue, and the 'am I? or aren't I?' sick business....it is time for allergies folks!
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quote:Originally posted by jmcbrew ... I have run B100 in my other cars, but not in the Sprinter.
Two '96 VW TDI B4 variants, '87 MB 300TD, '97 Ram 2500 Cummins, '89 Ford F250 diesel, Kubota lawn tractor, Diesel Generator... 31 Cylinders Kicking on the Sweet Sauce of the Soybean
You certainly wouldn't want to run straight vegetable oil (SVO) in the car untreated. You'd either convert it to biodiesel before putting it in the tank (preferrable, but more work) or run a secondary tank for the WVO.
If you want to run biodiesel, no modifications are necessary.
Sprinter vans offer an interesting BD challenge, so I've been told... (I was going to buy a fleet to rent out)
Apparently they have a fuel chiller for the common-rail efficiency... (this of course sends chills up the spine of a BD person), so...
Dr, Dan of http://www.fuelwerks.com/ ...
Has been using a pre-heated Racor filter on the Sprinter's, as well as routing the lines closer to exhaust for additional heat. This has proven fine in the PNW climate. (might be too much heat in TX or AZ.)
Personally if I was running BD in an expensive vehicle I would be sure to have a Racor prefilter (BEFORE factory filter) + a fuel pressure gauge (pre-injection pump). The Racor filters have a translucent bowl to indicate what kind of stuff you are feeding your engine, and to indicate the presence of water. + the filter elements are CHEAP. Keeping tabs on your fuel pressure is critical to the health of your VERY expensive Injection pump. You might want to add a 'lift' pump to assure pressure remains adequate.
Sprinter would run fine on B100 as long as it was good stuff, soy feedstock is questionable, (Europe is buying most of the Canola BD) so I would stick with B20 below 40F
I own a 2003 Sprinter van, I also run a 1998 Dodge 3500 (cummins). I make my own fuel and I run B100 in the 3500 - absolutely no problems. However the Sprinter is a whole different story. Every 1100 miles right on the dot, the van starts coughing and sputtering and the warning light comes on to change fuel filter. I have gone through over a dozen filters with no improvement. I did get the tank professionally cleaned before I started running the biodiesel. for 1000 miles the van runs great, no issues, plenty of power etc. I look at the Dodge sprinter specs and they caution not to run more than 2% biodiesel (why bother). Changing the filter is a major pain, a minimum of 30 minutes if all goes well and longer if it doesn't, Unfortunately not going right is the norm. Does any one know if there is an aftermarket fuel filter (like on the cummins), that I could switch to????
Does anyone run B100 on sprinters?
Thanks in advance
I have the 2005, 2500 series Sprinter. This of course is diesel. I have watched my brother in law burn biodiesel in his 2002 truck for 500 gallons. this is vegetable oil converted to biodiesel. I had 5 gallons of diesel in the 26 gallon tank when i put in 20 gallons of biodiesel. I ran 20 miles and the engine warning light came on. The next morning I drove about 15 miles more and the engine would cut off at 45 to 55 miles per hour. I added 3 gallons of diesel and took it to the shop to check the engine light. The fault code was low fuel line pressure or low flow fault. The warning ligt was reset at this time. After leaving the repair shop the Sprinter ran perfect. Highway speeds of 75 MPH without a problem. After this I hooked up the trailer and drove about 60 miles and the engine light came on and it died.
After towing this back to the Sprinter dealer the engine warning light was checked again and I was told it was low flow and high flow fault codes. Today I am waiting to get the Sprinter out of the shop. The tank has been drained and cleaned the filter has been changed and the injectors were cleaned. $648.00. Now it still won't start since the fuel line pressure is less than 4000 psi and I was told it need up to 20000 psi to operate this system ( i am leary of this ) So the fuel pump has been ordered and the 2100.00 for this includes the labor. But it takes 5 days to do this entire task. for a current total of $2748.00. That Brother in law of mine is a 1)*($*#@&$!(*Y$!*$&!#)(@$. Any thoughts about this
I have exactly the same problem running my sprinter on B100 for years and going through a lot of fuel filters...
Did you ever find a solution for this fuel filter problem? change every 1,100 miles....
Please let me know.
Yes I have been running B100 in my 2002 Sprinter for years and have the same Fuel Filter early change problem you described.
Did you ever find a solution to improve the life cyycle of the fuel filter?
Did you find a better fuel filter?
5000 miles and counting .....
Lookin' good, mackconsult!
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Biodiesel users need not fear the fuel "chiller" either. It's just a little radiator exposed to the air, so you cannot chill your fuel below the ambient temperature. And if your fuel clouds at ambient temperature, that's a problem in itself.
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Fire from a train explosion is seen in Lac Megantic Sunday. At least five people died and 40 were missing on Sunday after the runaway train carrying crude oil exploded and destroyed the center of a small Canadian town in a disaster that raises fresh questions about shipping oil by rail. Reuters
LAC MEGANTIC, Quebec—Canadian authorities on Sunday confirmed five deaths and said about 40 people remained missing after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire early Saturday, causing an explosion that destroyed dozens of buildings in this small town.
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A firefighter worked Sunday where a train derailed and exploded a day earlier in Lac Megantic, Quebec, killing at least five people. Dozens are still missing. Christinne Muschi/Reuters
A police spokesman on Sunday said several investigations were under way. Because deaths were involved, Quebec police will conduct a criminal investigation into the incident, and the spokesman told the media at a noon briefing that they "cannot rule out foul play."
Teams from the train operator and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada have been on the scene since early Saturday, but the continuing fire has limited access to the site.
Earlier, local media had reported as many as 60 residents missing and up to 30 buildings destroyed. The scale of the explosion and evacuation already would rank the accident as one of the most dramatic rail incidents in North America in recent years.
The train, operated by Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Inc., a unit of privately held Rail World Inc., of Rosemont, Ill., derailed early Saturday morning in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Oil has leaked into the town's namesake lake and a nearby river.
WSJ's Carolyn King reports from the scene of the train derailment that caused a massive explosion in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Video: David George-Cosh via #WorldStream.
Video captured in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec shows the explosion that erupted after a train carrying crude oil derailed and caught on fire. Photo/Video: YouTube/Francois Rodrigue.
A company spokesman said the train had been stopped and secured outside town just before midnight. Its crew was off the train when it started moving again, for unknown reasons, eventually traveling almost seven miles before derailing in Lac Megantic, the company said.
Numerous cars have derailed, said Canada's Transportation Safety Board, which has deployed a team of investigators. TSB officials said they were focusing their initial probe on the train, its brakes and the track.
The derailment is the latest in a string of railroad mishaps involving crude oil shipments in Canada and the U.S., amid a boom in North American crude production and crude shipments by rail. So far, though, recent derailments have resulted in only minor spills, typically far from urban centers. The recent spate of derailments has ratcheted up scrutiny of the North American railroad industry's safety record in carrying crude.
A spokeswoman for the provincial police force, the Surete du Quebec, Aurelie Guindon, said about 1,000 residents have been evacuated. Another 1,000 have been evacuated from a nearby town because of worry over air quality, authorities said at a news conference in the late afternoon.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. aired video of flames and black smoke billowing above the town as emergency-services vehicles jammed a road leading into the municipality. CBC also posted raw video footage, taken by residents in the early hours of the morning, of buildings ablaze and residents running for cover through the town's streets.
A large blast woke Bernard Deners at around 1.30 a.m. Mr. Deners, who lives about a half mile from the blast scene, said the air was scorching hot outside his home when he went outside to investigate. Flames leapt high in the air. More explosions rattled the town hours later.
"It was terrible, just terrible," he said. The entire town, a close-knit lakeside community, came out onto the streets.
Buildings burn after a derailed train exploded in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Quebec police
"We think there are many people dead, many, but we just don't know," the 58-year-old said. Mr. Deners said everybody in town knows someone who is missing.
Local hotels were fully booked with residents seeking temporary shelter and emergency officials. Jean St.-Pierre was working at the Hotel Oriental when he heard the first blast and rushed to the window.
He raced to his car and drove to the scene, but was turned back by more explosions.
"It was like hell, there was fire everywhere and explosions," he said.
Mr. St.-Pierre fears the worst. Guests who witnessed the explosion up close said a bar at the center of town was full of people outside enjoying a drink when the first explosion struck nearby.
"It's like a nightmare," he said.
The police have blocked off a large no-go zone around the site of the derailment. Lac Megantic, a town of about 6,000, is located about 155 miles east of Montreal in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
Joe McGonigle, Maine-based vice president at Montreal Maine & Atlantic, said the train had been stopped outside of town for a crew change, and that there was no crew on the train at the time that it somehow started to roll again. The train's engineer had inspected the train at just before midnight and all was secure. However, sometime after that, the train started to move, eventually traveling 6.8 miles, and part of it derailed and several cars exploded, he said.
"The train was released, we don't know how," he said. All safety measures were in place, and the train was "secure," he said.
Rail World, in a statement late Saturday, said the derailment happened at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday. The train involved had 72 carloads of crude and five locomotive units. The company said railway personnel were able to pull 13 carloads intact from the site at the rear of the train.
The crude oil originated from North Dakota and was destined for St. John's, New Brunswick, said Ed Burkhardt, head of Rail World, MM&A's parent. The train had been handed over to MM&A-operated tracks, and switched to MM&A locomotives, from Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. CP.T +0.93% Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. Canada: Toronto $160.28 +1.47 +0.93% Dec. 12, 2013 4:15 pm Volume : 189,444 P/E Ratio 34.69 Market Cap $27.83 Billion Dividend Yield 0.87% Rev. per Employee $413,046 11/29/13 CFO Moves: Fortinet, Canadian ... 11/29/13 Canada Stocks to Watch: CP, Su... 10/25/13 Canada Stocks to Watch: CP, Sa... More quote details and news » , he said. A CP spokesman wasn't immediately available to comment.
"The fact is the train ran away," said Mr. Burkhardt. He said the company is not sure of the cause—whether an improper application of the brakes had occurred or if there was some other reason. The engineer has told company officials that he complied with all the safety procedures, he said. The company hasn't been able to go near the train to investigate because of the fire. The rail cars were leased, not owned by Rail World or MM&A. He wouldn't name the lessor's name or disclose the customer's name.
MM&A is a regional rail company with 510 miles of track in Maine, Vermont, Quebec and New Brunswick. It operates about 15 trains daily with a fleet of 26 locomotives and employs about 170 people, according to its website.
The rail network, the former Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Co., was acquired, and its named changed to MM&A, a decade ago by Rail World, a privately held rail management and investment company founded by Mr. Burkhardt, railroad veteran.
Mr. Burkhardt is the former head of the Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp., which had owned or operated rail networks in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., New Zealand and Australia before it was dismantled early last decade. Mr. Burkhardt has rail investments through an affiliated company, Rail World Holdings LLC, in several countries, including Estonia, Poland and the Ukraine. He wasn't immediately available to comment.
MM&A has recorded seven incidents involving hazardous materials spills in the U.S. since 2000, according to data kept by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
The most recent was an August 2012 incident in Brownsville Junction, Maine, where an inspector discovered a small anhydrous ammonia leak due to a loose valve.
The largest was an April 2011 release of 105 gallons of gas oil in Easton, Maine, which occurred when several tank cars derailed during a low-speed switching operation. There were no injuries reported in any of the incidents.
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Military aviation prepares for the inevitable.
- By Michael Milstein
- Air & Space magazine, July 2011
Courtesy Northrop Grumman
There comes that moment for each new U.S. naval aviator, after six weeks in the classroom, then six months in a T-34 or T-6 trainer, and a year in a T-45, when he must fly out to the ship for the first time, ignore the moths in his stomach, slam the airplane onto the deck, and hook the cable. The rookies make these trips to the carrier in groups, but each lands alone. Some will have to go around. A few will wash out altogether.
Now a new aviator is headed to Navy carriers, one that never needs training, never tires, and never gets nervous. Called the X-47B, the vehicle flew for the first time this year, in the California desert, in preparation for its first autonomous landing on a carrier, scheduled for 2013. The X-47B is a robot, and though it's just a demonstrator, it will provide a compelling glimpse into the future of naval aviation.
Unmanned air vehicles, or UAVs, are now the fastest growing fleet of military aircraft. The 300 UAVs flying today are expected to almost triple by the end of the decade. UAVs initially proved themselves in long reconnaissance flights, but military services soon equipped some with missiles. The X-47B takes the next step: It's an unmanned combat air vehicle, or UCAV—a UAV designed for attack. Maker Northrop Grumman and the Navy call it a UCAS, or unmanned combat air system, with the vehicle as the system's most visible part. Whatever the acronym, the $636 million carrier landing demonstration program aims to show that these new, stealthy, increasingly self-sufficient vehicles can fly in and out of the controlled chaos of a carrier deck and perform other frontline jobs long handled by humans.
UCAVs mark not just a technological shift but also a cultural one, with computers coolly assuming missions from fighter pilots who as a group have evolved an elite-club identity, complete with its own language. When the UCAVs fly, no one will banter on the radio about "goo" (bad weather), "drift factor" (straying off course), or "pucker factor" (self-explanatory). Nobody will bother to "call the ball" (follow the glide slope light to land). The robot will merely get a digital go-ahead, then drop to the deck.
In response, pilots are expressing everything from curiosity to skepticism. Many admire the endurance, versatility, and affordability of UAVs. Others scoff that they will never replace human initiative.
"It's probably what every group of people who ever had their job automated went through," says Missy Cummings, a Navy fighter pilot who became an MIT professor and studies how humans and UAVs work together. "The pilot has that image as sort of the last bastion of derring-do, and perceives [piloting] skills as irreplaceable. We have an emotional attachment to the idea of being a pilot that is very hard to lose."
The Army and Air Force adopted UAVs rapidly in the last decade for around-the-clock surveillance and occasional strikes. The Navy was slower, but is now "all in," says Rear Admiral William Shannon, the service's program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons. A helicopter pilot, he says UAVs will expand the Navy's reach at far less cost than piloted aircraft.
The X-47B's distinction may emerge in carrier ready rooms, where pilots watch one another's landings on closed-circuit screens. Every landing gets a grade, posted on the wall. A perfect score is rare; pilots are lucky to get a few in their careers. A poor grade is an embarrassment, a sign of safety breaches that could turn fatal. "We're very critical of ourselves and each other, but it's a good rivalry," says Captain Mark "Mutha" Hubbard, commander of the Pacific Fleet Strike Fighter Wing, based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California. "Professionalism demands scrutiny, so we scrutinize each other's passes to a high degree."
Pilots can use the Automatic Carrier Landing System, which automates the approach and landing on a pitching deck. But that earns no grade. "It's very competitive. I think that's what keeps us wanting to do it in the hands-on, because we're graded and we're ranked," says Hubbard.
The X-47B's grades won't make the ready room wall, and it won't care. It will land flawlessly every time. Its odd geometry and nose-up angle would make it hard for an onboard pilot to see the deck anyway.
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Re: MIT's Missy Cummings:
"As an example of when a pilot is needed on board, she points to the day in January 2009 when Chesley Sullenberger, a former Air Force fighter pilot, used his judgment to select the Hudson River to land his US Airways A320 after geese crippled his engines."
Really, and otherwise the pilots just sit there and look out the windows, is that it?
Missy Cummings is one of the more widely quoted proponents of the pilotless commercial planes concept. She may have a teaching position at MIT, but once again she proves that she has no idea what she is talking about.
Time and time again she reinforces the infuriating myth that modern commercial aircraft are so automated that they basically fly themselves, with the pilots on hand merely as a backup.
This is so untrue that it is hard for me, even as an airline pilot myself, to get my arms around it and begin to explain why and how.
Perhaps Ms. Cummings flew F-18s in the Navy, but she clearly has little or no grasp of what goes on in a commercial airline cockpit, and she ought to be ashamed of herself for perpetuating false notions of how commercial airplanes are flown, and what pilots actually do for a living.
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Posted by Patrick Smith on May 18,2011 | 07:56 PM
With all due respect for Mr. Smith, Professor Cummings, and M.I.T., as well as this writer of this august publication, what we are talking about here is more of an aspiration than a reality.
To suggest that creating an I phone app to pilot a robocopter is in anyway equialent to piloting an F-18 Tomcat is simply ridiculous. If not, then lets turn all the 12 years olds in the world into Navy Piltots tomorrow.
Clearly, the terms "remotely piloted" and "unmanned" are two vastly different notions. The error here is that they appear to have been used interchangably. The termiology is very poorly constructed. This article which should have been a historical piece and a situational survey has turned into an offensive picant article prickling to subjective human sensibilities.
An article which could inspire has turned into one that offends, or was that part of the overall objective?
Posted by Dean Ledbetter on May 25,2011 | 01:43 PM
..sounds like a "post Turtle" to me or- do NOT tear the fence down until you find out just why it was put up.... (not original with me- sorry)
Posted by David H. Stringfield on May 25,2011 | 03:05 PM
I hope that we don't get too overly reliant on UCAVs. The weak links in UCAVs are their data links and reliance on GPS, which can be jammed or destroyed. You can use terrain following radar even with a UCAV to attack a target, but if you lose GPS you are going to have an extremely hard time landing on a carrier. UCAvs will be a great tool in the combat toolbox in the right situations - when you don't want to lose a pilot.
Posted by Bill Wollard on May 26,2011 | 12:19 AM
While I can see why the presence of UCAVs could seem unsafe or threatening to some groups, the technology behind "computer vision", AI, GPS, pattern recognition, accelerometers and other electronics-based sensing is advancing so fast that a UCAV that pilots by itself even without GPS or data link is within the foreseeable future. A natural human tendency has always been to think that no machine can do their jobs and yet machines can take over a variety of tasks and scenarios ever more complex and challenging, more important are issues of accountability, since a machine as thouroughly tested as it can be, it is always subject to error (just like a human!) but we court-martial humans that don't accept orders or punish mistakes, but we cannot court-martial a UCAV for something, or for a missed target, so who will be acocuntable when the record-breaking AI-manned UCAV misses its mark and hits a civilian?
Posted by Bruce Kenobi on June 15,2011 | 06:51 PM
The author either has a clear misunderstanding of what UAVs do, or he is being intentionally misleading. I have to say that I'm disappointed in some of the statements made by former military officers. I know that they understand UAVs, which only leaves the intentionally misleading option. They are contractors trying to sell their wares. You don't have to lie guys. We all know that Remotely Piloted Vehicles are where it's at. But don't play down the importance of an experienced combat pilot sitting at the controls and making the tough decisions. You've left people with the impression that mindless robots are randomly firing missiles. What a terrible (and terribly untrue) concept. Shame on you all, and shame on Air and Space for printing this kind of sensationalist garbage.
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Well, since Kilo6's Girls Und Panzer thread sadly seems to have died, the forum has, to my knowledge, been left without an active GuP thread. Now I personally think this is an utter travesty, so I thought I might check to see if anyone would be interested in starting a new one. As the title implies, this one has a slight twist on the usual formula...
For those who don't know, Girls Und Panzer is an anime series set in on an alternate universe Earth whose major differences compared to our native Earth are that world peace (or at least something close to it) has been declared at some point after the end of World War II, and also that tank driving has its own martial art associated with it, Sensha-dō (known more commonly simply as Tankery) and has, historically, been exclusively the purview of women. In this setting, many nations have refitted some their aircraft carriers into floating universities of a sort, and many of these academies field a squadron of World War II-era tanks (whose crews are formed from eager members of the student body) retrofitted with extremely tough spall liners and (theoretically) harmless ammunition so they might participate in Sensha-dō. It is on one of the smaller, less well known academies and its Tankery team that this thread will focus... Can they follow in the footsteps of the heroes of Ōarai Girls High School, rise to the challenges that await them and win honour and glory for Australia? Well, we'll see soon enough, won't we?
Much like Kilo's thread, this game will operate under the principle that each player will roleplay a single tank and its entire crew, with the commander of one crew also serving as the overall commander for the academy's entire squadron. The setting is an as-yet unnamed Australian academy (suggestions for the name are welcome!) built upon the Majestic-class light aircraft carrier R21, known more commonly as HMAS Melbourne. Since Ōarai's unexpected win in last year's Tankery finals, investors have falling over themselves to grab a slice of a rapidly expanding pie. New leagues are being formed and a plethora of smaller, less notable academies are beginning to form their own teams, often driving the most unexpected of panzers. HMAS Melbourne's academy is just one of many benefices of this new Tankery craze. Additionally, public and political pressure are, one-by-one, prompting academies to cave in and finally allow boys to participate in Tankery. Thus, male crew members for one's panzer are entirely permissible, though they should fully expect to get at least a little bit of stick for it...
1: All tanks to be used must have been constructed prior to August 15th, 1945, the end of the Second World War.
2: All tanks must use standard "soft" ammunition that is specifically designed not to penetrate upon impact, and this ammo only comes in armour piercing, with no high explosive shell available. Thus, howitzers are not to be used unless they are capable of firing an armour piercing shot.
3: Open-topped vehicles are only permitted if they are retrofitted with a closed top, much as the American tank destroyer M36 was historically.
4: No self-propelled artillery.
Further details will be provided in the OOC thread should it ever be started. But the burning question before that can happen is this: Is anybody actually interested in such a thread?
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A couple of days ago I put on a record that John Moloney gave me when Chelsea Light Moving joined Sharon Van Etten at Town Hall a year ago called Caught on Tape by Thurston Moore / John Moloney and released by the amazing label/record store Feeding Tube Records in beautiful Northampton, Massachusetts. It's live recordings taped to cassette of John and Thurston playing what I am assuming are improvised sets with just electric guitar and drums in Europe in 2012. I put it on while working on the insert for my new record and listened through the whole record twice. It's a great record. The cover art for that record is by Raymond Pettibon so it's pretty amazing, too.
It turns out that was just a precursor for me to delve deep back into Sonic Youth and Sonic Youth affiliated records. After listening to The Washing Machine record this morning, I pulled out Psychic Hearts which is, if I'm not mistaken, Thurston Moore's debut record under his own name. It was originally released in 1995 as a three sided LP with the 4th side being an etching by Rita Ackerman that appears to have been done originally on vinyl as well. It honestly looks like she hand etched each one, pretty bad ass looking. It was reissued not too long with outtakes on side 4, but I haven't heard that version.
Anyway, I'd forgotten how much I love this record. Steve Shelley is playing drums and Tim Foljahn (of Two Dollar Guitar and now solo fame) plays second guitar and Thurston plays guitar and bass. It's a really cool kind of noisy record that touches on all things Thurston Moore. It has guitar noise, strange tunings, pretty mellow strums and random answering machine snippets and hints of the acoustic vibe he took further on later solo records.
In the way he presented it originally, it's almost like two separate records. Sides one and two are on clear green vinyl and have shorter more structured feeling songs. Also, all of the liner notes internal artwork are on the sleeve for record one. Then sides three and four are on black vinyl wrapped in a simple unprinted black sleeve. Side four is an etching as mentioned previously, but side three is a twenty minute stretch out of instrumental amazingness called Elegy For All the Dead Rock Stars that must have been a blast to record. It's mellow, it's explosive, it's droney, it's controlled feedback, it's great.
This is getting longer than it should be. That's what I'm listening to and it's amazing, highly recommended.


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Doing the bad weather drive
With the weather sitting down on us literally like impending doom, I often get scared while driving. After all, in the dark recesses of Bureau County it can be difficult to see at night, even when things are perfectly clear. Any good defensive driver bases what they do on the behavior of other motorists on the road. At night, that can be a hard thing to do if folks have forgotten to turn on their lights.
In Princeton, driving behind, past or in front of someone who has not turned their lights on is a pretty common occurrence. Even worse, they seem to not heed the signal from other drivers who flash their lights to warn them. I imagine this is the old lit up gas station problem gone county-wide. Outside of the county seat, Bureau County is pretty dark, which, I imagine, leads a number of drivers to believe their lights are on when they leave a place that is well covered by street and business lighting. The problem is that it could be too far into the out-of-town journey before someone realizes they are a dark horse — something unseen.
I blinked at two cars with my bright lights during a recent Sunday night's weathering to no avail. The following Tuesday night, as I returned from covering a Princeton Tigress game, all I could think about were ghost cars coming across the bridge as I turned onto Route 34 from Backbone Road. I could hear the crunches of collision as I made the often wary left turn.
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Ah man, yesterday it was a record setting 81 degrees. For March, that is incredible. Today it will be 57 and rainy. Now, that is still well above normal for us, but after 81 degrees, it's....sucky. I mean, you almost wish it wasn't as nice as it was, because the normal enjoyment hitting above 50 in March is gone now. Stupid nice weather.
I know, I'm never happy.
I will be next week when Guitar Hero 2 hits the 360 though. Promise.
Anyway, gotta fly, so let's do it to it.
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The Anti-Doping Agency accuses Armstrong of using steroids and blood boosters to win the Tour de France from 1999-2005, and leading a complex doping program on his teams. If found guilty, he faces a lifetime ban from the sport and could be stripped of his titles.
Armstrong denies doping and has sued to block the case. He argues USADA's investigation and arbitration process are unfair and violate his constitutional right to due process. Armstrong also claims the International Cycling Union, the sport's governing body, should have jurisdiction and the union has come to his defense.
Judge Sam Sparks will not rule on the evidence against Armstrong, but will consider his claims on due process and jurisdiction. USADA officials want Sparks to dismiss the lawsuit and allow their case to go forward.
If Armstrong's lawsuit is dismissed, he could appeal to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court, take his case to arbitration under USADA rules or quit the fight and accept sanctions.
Armstrong had faced a Monday deadline to decide whether to take his case to arbitration, but USADA agreed to extend the deadline to Aug. 23 while his lawsuit is pending.
USADA, recognized by Congress as the official anti-doping agency for Olympic sports in the United States, insists it has jurisdiction under UCI rules, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency. USADA and UCI filed court documents claiming jurisdiction up to late Thursday.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charged Armstrong in June, about four months after a federal grand jury investigation of the cyclist ended four months earlier without any indictments.
Doping charges were also levied against five others associated with his teams during his Tour de France victories. Three cases are still pending and two doctors who worked with the teams have been issued lifetime bans.
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