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2012 Athletic Awards Reception Honors Student-Athletes
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- May 4, 2012
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HAMBURG, NY – The Athletics Department proudly honored their 2011-2012 student-athletes at its annual Athletics Awards Reception May 3. Following the Swan Auditorium ceremony, a casual light-fare snacks reception was held in the West Herr Atrium.
The evening consisted of a series of presentations which profiled Hilbert student-athlete academic achievements, and senior athlete awards followed by the distribution of individual awards announced by each head coach from the twelve NCAA Division III teams. President Cynthia Zane's welcoming remarks opened the evening celebration. Hilbert's athletic director, Susan Viscomi, guided the program, serving as the night's emcee.
Eleven of the twelve NCAA Division III teams are members of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. The AMCC honors student-athletes who maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher by the completion of the fall semester, each year. The 2012 AMCC Academic All-Conference team consisted of 56 Hilbert athletes, many of whom sat for a 'team picture' at the conclusion of the evening. To see the complete list of AMCC Academic All-Conference members visit the AMCC website.
The men's lacrosse team is an associate member of the North Eastern Athletic Conference which announces their yearly Academic All-Conference team at the conclusion of a full academic year. Those athletes must achieve a 3.4 cumulative grade point average to be honored by the NEAC. But, Hilbert would like to announce these lacrosse players who achieved the same 3.2 gpa as their fellow athletes: Tyler Catalfano, Michael Cavanagh, Roland Jimerson, Richard Landahl, John Pingitore, Doug Tatac and Nick Tuttle.
And lastly a special acknowledgement goes out to the following student-athletes who earned a perfect 4.0 in the fall semester - Nicole Estep, Amber Grosch, Allison Hall, Maria Linares, Joe Pernick and Matt Williams.
Special recognition for Hilbert's 2012 edition of the Chi Alpha Sigma New York Theta Chapter followed. The National College Athlete Honor Society honors junior and senior student-athletes carrying a grade point average of 3.4 or higher who exhibit good moral character. The fourteen newest members were awarded a certificate and a medal of honor: Nicole Blair, junior; Michael Cavanagh, junior; Stephen Crane, senior; Maria DelMonico, junior; Amber Grosch, junior; Allison Hall, senior; James Knapp, junior; Rachel Kwiatkowski, junior; Jessica Morey, junior; Katie Newton, junior; Kayla Norman, senior; Katherine Pettis, junior; Emili Ripley, senior; and Stephanie Smith, junior. These student-athletes joined three senior repeat honorees (Michael Maritato, Jill Martucci and Matt Militello).
Head coaches of each program took a few moments to recap their team's season and to announce each squad's 2011-2012 award recipients. To see a complete list of Most Valuable, Most Improved and Coaches Award winners (click here).
Once the bulk of the evening presentations were distributed, Jill Martucci (women's softball and soccer; Hamburg, NY/Hamburg) and Matthew Militello (baseball; Depew, NY/Lancaster) were announced as the 2012 McGrath Award winners. The award is provided by Francis and Marie McGrath, two generous benefactors of Hilbert College who stipulate that an award be given to the one female and male graduating student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average (over the course of at least five academic semesters). Martucci will graduate with a degree in computer security and information assurance, boasting a 3.91 cumulative GPA. Militello will graduate with a criminal justice degree earning a cumulative 3.48 grade point average.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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Burglars strike as golden pair run marathon
Published at 11:09, Thursday, 26 April 2012
THIEVES burgled the St Bees home of a couple in their 70s while they were away running the London Marathon to raise money for charity.
The raiders got away with between £60-£100 in donated sponsor money as well as personal items belonging to Chris and Charm Robson, of High House Road.
Despite the theft, the couple will still have around £2,600 to forward to Alzheimer's Research UK. And Swintons, their house insurers, have offered to make good the stolen sum.
Chris, 73, and Charm, 72, had decided to mark their 50-year golden wedding anniversary by taking part in the marathon and using the opportunity to raise money for a good cause. Chris's mother, Honor, suffered with Alzheimer's before she died.
While they pounded the streets of London alongside 37,000 thousand other runners, the news from St Bees came through.
Amongst stolen items was £60-£100 cash donated by well-wishers and supporters as sponsorship money. The rest had already been banked, or had been pledged online.
Also taken were two gold necklaces and a bracelet which had belonged to Charm's grandmother and had sentimental as well as monetary value; three silver spoons and her laptop. The telephone lines had been cut too.
The burglary was discovered when a neighbour noticed a ladder had gone missing. She went to see if any other neighbours had also lost items and it was then she saw her own ladder up against the wall of the Robsons' house, against a bedroom window. It is thought access had been gained via a cellar door.
Inside the thieves had rummaged about but "hadn't trashed the place'' said Charm.
"It was an old laptop anyway so they are welcome to it. I only used it for lecturing and had everything backed up on the PC. I am sad to lose the family pieces of jewellery though."
News of the burglary was passed to Sam, the Robsons' daughter with whom they were staying overnight at Twickenham.
Another daughter, Reswana Patterson, said the upsetting event had however highlighted the wonderful community spirit that exists in St Bees. "Everyone rallied round, it has been very heartwarming and the family are grateful.''
Charm and Chris, who have five children and nine grandchildren, completed the marathon, beating times they had set themselves. Chris wanted to finish in under six hours and did it in 5hrs 44mins and Charm, who completed the run in 4hrs 45mins had set her target at under 5hrs 30mins. The couple have a passion for running but for Charm it was her first London Marathon.
"The crowd support along the route is wonderful,'' she said, "with the whole 26 miles lined with people handing out sweets and fruit etc. We had our names on our vests and people were calling out 'C'mon Charm!''
Alzheimer's fundraising manager Miranda Mays said: "Chris and Charm are an amazing, selfless couple. Instead of treating themselves for their golden wedding anniversary, they decided to run a marathon to raise desperately needed money for our pioneering dementia research.
"We were devastated to learn they'd been burgled while they were taking part. It says a lot that their first concern was the loss of any donations rather than their personal possessions and the violation of their home.
"We rely entirely on wonderful supporters like Chris and Charm to fund our world-class research; we hope the culprits of this heartless crime are caught soon."
Ex-teacher Charm, took up running when she was 40 and, despite a minor stroke seven years ago, was determined to carry on. Chris, who was running his third London Marathon, is a retired physics teacher.
On Monday, the Robsons broke news of the weekend break-in on This Morning television programme during a brief interview with presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
Along with several other runners they were enjoying a therapeutic massage in the studio to ease their aching muscles.
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• Saw action in 29 games
• Averaged 10.1 minutes played per game
• Averaged 2.3 points and 1.8 rebounds per contest
• Recorded 20 assists, nine steals and two blocks
• Tallied a season-high nine points on two occasions (at Colgate and against Lafayette)
• Went 3-for-5 from the field at Colgate and 3-for-4 from the floor against Lafayette, notching season-highs in field goals made
• Brought down a season-high five rebounds against Maine
• Had at least one rebound in 27 straight contests
• Blocked shots against North Carolina A&T and Lehigh
• Had five multi-assist contests and one multi-steal contest (coming against Bucknell)
• Finished the season with a .322 field goal percentage and a .596 free throw percentage.
• Saw action in 22 games
• Averaged 6.2 minutes played
• Also averaged 1.2 points and 1.1 rebounds per game
• Recorded six steals and four assists
• Tallied a season-high six points at Lafayette, going 3-for-4 from the field
• Also brought down a season-high four rebounds at Lafayette
• Played a season-high 12 minutes in three contests (Connecticut, Vermont and at Lafayette)
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• Finished the season with a .357 field goal percentage and a .368 three-point field goal percentage
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Verizon forever, I don't care about HSPA+ vs. EVDO Rev. A.
New iPad LTE and HSPA+ radio tests
The new iPad brings with it the option for a new, dual radio that brings with it 72Mbps LTE on AT&T and Verizon in the US and Rogers, Telus, and Bell in Canada. Sadly, there's no international LTE support for Australia, Asia, or Europe yet, perhaps due to the differences in LTE segments around the world. However, the new iPad also brings a new 42Mbps HSPA+ radio for AT&T, Canadian, and international carriers that support it. (Technically dual 21Mbps HSPA+ radios.) Those are theoretical speeds though -- what you get in a lab when alone, sitting on top of a tower. In the real world we're often lucky to see half the theoretical speeds, and often considerably less. That's why we put them to the test.
New iPad radios specs
The new iPad supports the following cellular radio frequencies:
- 4G LTE at 700, 2100 MHz
- UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA at 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz
- GSM/EDGE at 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
- CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz); UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
New iPad LTE and HSPA+ speed tests
I took the new iPad out to a local coffee shop to see what type of real-world results I could get. The first thing I did was load up the SpeedTest.net app [free - Download now] app and run it 3 times on LTE to make sure I was getting consistent results. I've gotten close to 50Mbps before, both with an LTE stick and with the new iPad on launch day, but these tests had me hitting almost 30Mbps down and over 10Mbps up consistently. (On 2 bars of LTE, for whatever that's worth.)
You can quickly turn off LTE with a flip of a toggle switch in Settings, and the handoff is extremely smooth and quick -- the LTE indicator goes off and the 3G (or 4G on AT&T... sigh) comes on. I repeated the same test 3 times, and averaged around 15Mbps down and 0.75Mbps up. I've only ever gotten between 5 and 8Mbps down on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S, so that new HSPA+ down (HSPDA) really is much faster. The upload speed really wasn't great though. (On 4 bars of HSPA+.)
Now switching back from HSPA+ to LTE has proven to be a problem for me. I don't know if it's because I have really strong 3G and really weak LTE, so once the radio gets a taste of that stronger signal it won't let go, but even if I cycle LTE on and off, cellular data on and off, or Airplane Mode off or on, LTE just won't come back. All I can do is wait for a while (several minutes) for it to "find" LTE again, or power cycle and get it back after reboot.
(If you've tested the LTE to HSPA+ handoff, share your experience, so we can better figure it out.)
New iPad LTE and HSPA+ HD video test
After the reboot, I put the LTE radio to a more real-world test -- streaming the Avengers movie trailer in HD. (I could have gone with Prometheus but Avengers had a Hulk...) It worked flawlessly. The trailer began to play almost immediately and never once stopped or stuttered. The download indicator stayed well ahead of the play indicator the whole time. It was as good as being on Wi-Fi. Fast Wi-Fi.
HSPA+ didn't do nearly as well. The trailer started playing almost immediately but also came to a screeching halt almost immediately as well. The download indicator limped ahead, but at no time did it race the way LTE did.
Apple might send lower resolution or lower bit-rate video to slower connections, so I'm not sure HSPA+ was even taking the same load, but either way, it wasn't up to the task.
Like the previous tests, I repeated each 3 times for consistency, and also drove around and tried them in several other locations, though I haven't gotten more than 2 bars of LTE, and in some places I haven't been able to connect to LTE at all.
Overall, however, both the new LTE and the new HSPA+ antennas in the new iPad are impressive, the LTE most of all. If always connected, on-the-go internet is important to you, and you live, work, and travel to places with LTE coverage, you want this.
Addenda for Verizon LTE
Something to keep in mind for those considering the new iPad on Verizon LTE -- while the AT&T and Canadian LTE models fall back on the impressive (for downloads at least) HSPA+, the Verizon model falls back on the anemic EVDO Rev. A, which averages 2 or 3Mbps. I wouldn't even attempt to play an HD trailer over that. I'd wait to get back to Wi-Fi. It would probably take less time.
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New iPad LTE and HSPA+ radio tests
Why in God's name would you ever want to leave a major city? :)
Seriously though, I haven't left a major city in three years. And that was a trip to Vegas where i had to drive through the desert. I got reception the whole way though not that i was making was trying to use data while driving. Even when i left my current city i flew from one major city to another major city. The only time i didn't get data was when i was on the plane.
I'm all for faster data though so i'm not saying it's a unimportant. Just not outside of major cities for me. lol.
LTE looks like the only way to go.
I agree and its the main reason I'm not getting the LTE version. I understand the need for caps but they need to be something more realistic. Something like 10 gigs would probably be enough to guarantee people weren't abusing it while at the same time allowing people to use the device without worrying so much about overages.
My AT&T "3G" always runs 2-3 Mbps. Verizon just expanded LTE into east Texas. Can't wait to switch if throttling continues.
That is normal unthrottled speed for me.
I'm not seeing the joys of hspa+ on AT&T. We've had 3G for a few years now and while impressive then, it's gotten worse. Most speedtests are like 1mb or often half that. Upload is around .5mb. In Louisville where it's "4G", downloads are usually 1-3mbps. This is on the iphone 4S.
This was great a long time ago and certainly better than the competition but AT&T sucks big time now (though not as much as Sprint). Maybe it's a location thing but my opinion is written in stone now.
I got a Verizon ipad, and even on 3G, at least the data is more reliable. LTE rocks. Heck, even in verizon's extended 3G/4G networks, it's much better than AT&T. Can't wait to dump AT&T altogether when the iphone 5 launches.
Just to be clear, it's not the decreased speeds on AT&T that make it stink as much as how often i get no data at all no matter how many bars I have. But i do think they have throttled whole areas. In one area I go to all the time, speeds used to be around 2-3mbps all the time. Those were the times i could sing songs about how great AT&T was. This is when decisions are made to sign contracts or take back.
Since Nov or so, i can't get above .5-1mb to save my life, if i can connect at all. This was over 4 or 5 different devices so it's definitely them.
Bottom line, I do not trust AT&T any longer. Not that i trust any carriers, but AT&T is certainly the low point.
Rene, once you turn off LTE u need to wait at least 5 minutes to have back LTE this is for all devices with LTE... Or reboot like u said there is no workaround this yet....
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ELKIN - High school football playoff action kicks off tonight around the state.
Three local teams punched their tickets into their respective postseason bracket, the North Carolina High School Athletic Assocation announced last week, with two squads opening at home in the first round.
Elkin and Starmount will host their opening-round matchups, while East Wilkes will hit the road for its first game.
The Buckin' Elks, the 1A conference champions, welcome Mountain Valley Conference opponent Alleghany to Grissom Stadium tonight in the first round.
The Elks finished the regular season with a 6-4 mark and a 5-3 record in conference play, including a sweep of the 1A side of the split conference en route to the title and a No. 1 seed in the Midwest pod.
Quarterback Josh Strickland and running back Jamiles Hayes will power Elkin's offense against the Trojans, but the defense will be key for the Elks advancing.
Elkin's D, led by Jamey Cranford, Mitchell Abbey and Kody King, has not allowed more than 21 points in the final five contests and will have to continue its strong play tonight.
During that stretch, the Elks limited Alleghany's passing attack to 20 points in their big 35-20 victory on October 12. Hayes led Elkin offensively with four touchdowns on the night.
The Trojans finished the year sixth in the conference standings at 3-8 and 3-5, including a 13-7 win over West Wilkes in the season finale.
In Boonville, Starmount is in unfamiliar territory after last Friday's 14-7 loss to Wilkes Central in the conference title game - heading into the playoffs coming off a loss.
But head coach Scott Johnson said he's preparing his team to focus on tonight's game, not what was lost in Moravian Falls last week.
"It's the next game we want to win and that's all I'm focused on. All that stuff in the past I can't change. We'll just start a new streak," he explained.
The Rams return to the field tonight against Carver in an intriguing 4/5 opening-round matchup looking to bounce back.
Starmount's deep rushing attack, led by Chaston Martin (1,006 rushing yards, 15 TDs), will have to lead the Rams against the Yellow Jackets.
In the first head-to-head meeting between the local programs, Starmount's stout defense will look to limit Carver's offense, which is averaging more than 26 points per game. The Ram D still boasts the state's top-ranked unit, allowing just 4.7 points per game, led by Zach Worley (100 tackles), Michael Wood (78 tackles) and Will Lambert (six interceptions).
Despite the loss to Central, Starmount finished second in the standings at 9-1 on the year and 7-1 in conference play. The Yellow Jackets finished the year at 5-5 and 4-1 in the Pac-6 Conference.
In Ronda, East Wilkes punched its ticket into the 1AA postseason on the final night of the season with a 23-8 victory over Ashe County in West Jefferson.
The Cardinals were rewarded with a tough draw against unbeaten and defending 1AA state champion Swain County in the first round.
The Maroon Devils finished the regular season with a perfect 11-0 record and 6-0 in the Smoky Mountain Conference and are the No. 1 ranked 1A team in MaxPreps' rankings.
East finished 2-8 on the year and 2-6 in the MVAC.
All games kick off at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
To download the full bracket, go to nchsaa.org.
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As used in this Act, the followiug terms shall have the following meanings: (n) "Multiple use" menns; The manag{'ment of all tho various re- Definitions, newaOle surface I\'$OUr('es of the national fore;;ts so that they are utilized in the combii1ntion thnt will best meet tlJc needs of the A mer-iran people; mnki11g thE' most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide eufficicnt latitude for pe1·iodic n<ljustmeJJts in use to conform to chnnging neerls and conditiOns; thnt some land will be used for less than n.ll of the resources; und lmrmf}nious nnd coordinated man- III,'Cment of the v11rim1s resources, ench with the other, without impair-ment of the productivity of the land, with I'Ollsiderntion being given to the relative vnlues of the vnrious resources, nnd not necessarily the combinntion of W'es that. will give the grentest dollar return or the grf'atest unit. output. · (b) "Sustained yield of the seveml products nnd services" means the achievement IHJd maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level annual or reguln.r periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national forests without impairment of the productivity of the land. 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Ins reletl-y. llr. ~ ll&o - ~lad 'ritll t•- 1Rftatal7 volxae aa4 area Uta ad I<BI tillber tn- -... 1M tl•l._. ~ t~oe .. -· tor tile etin worlWic eirela, 'rill be a,.Ual>le 1>,ear]¥ JUIII>rT • ~or Power• ot tile Sol- llati-1 Poroat ll&o IJad - -ttns -rec-aa·t]¥· t'riotll .. .. ~- otllar 1Dd....-try ftF'&oeateti-• to n'fiew date. 11orlt OD tile BleD -are to be 011 -1lle. 'l'bo objeetift 111 to dlmo1op aa a.fPEOtad pl.an 1>,- A)lll'i1 1, 1965. 8lac!ere]¥ ;youn. Fk -l1 1'tO!Il IVIIIIUII Regt..a1 r ..... tor A Study of Forest Service Procedure For Contracting Air Tanker Serv~ ~ A New Policy For Such Contracting As the use of air tankers for dropping retardents to aid in the control of forest and range fires has increased, many problems of contracting for such services on a basis fair to the Government and to the operators h~t•,.., bP.en encountered. Air tankers like other types of fire control equipment are needed only during the actual fire emergency. Need for the service ia highly unpredictable as to location and extent of use, We have approached the air tanker problems by the sa~ time tested procedure generally applied to other kinds of fire control equipment furnished by private contractors. Sine• we cannot predict where a forest or range fire will occur or how big it will get, it is economically impracticable to contract in advance for the maximum anticipated fire demand. We, therefore, limit advance contracting of equipment to thoae strategically located "first attack" bases and to the quantity and type of equipment at such bases which past history has demonstrated gives us the best coverage for the money spent. Additional equipment demands to control large fires is obtained by contracting on the open market where and to whatever extent the emergency situation demands. Procedures we have used to contract for ground equipment for fire control have not been satisfactory to either the operators or the Forest Service for air tanker services. In an effort to resolve the matter, a survey was made this year during July and August, of air tanker operations in western Forest Service Regions 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6, to determine whether initial attack air tanker services should be covered by formal contract · an~ if so, whether such a contract could be prepared for service·wide use. The Iurvey proved to be timely. The operators interviewed were very glad for the opportunity to be heard on this matter. All preferred to have a firm contract covering tanker operations. Forest officers from the various Regions participating in the survey agreed that some standardized procedure must be adopted to provide the tanker services needed with the greatest possible margin of safety and dependability. They also favored a firm contract for first attack tankers. Basically the objectives of the Forest Service and the operators are compatible. Both want safe, effective service and a stabilized industry. There is every reason to believe this can be done. Quite naturally the operators are interested in a profitable contract. They were not unreasonable or arbitrary in their proposals. Contract procedures and contract requirements were discussed at every meeting. There was little difference of opinion either by operators or Forest officers on contract requirements, specifications, and terms. However, it became apparent early in the survey that the primary objectives of safe, effective air tanker service by a stabilized industry cannot be achieved by soliciting open competitive bids for the contracts. 2 There are a great many more air tankers for hire than the Forest Service needs to hold in readiness for initial attack. These are surplus military aircraft modified for air tanker use, They are not useful as a general purpose airplane and many can be used only as air tankers. The Forest Service is therefore the biggest user and the competition for our contracts is very great. Our problem is how to contract our initial attack requirements with the operator able to furnish the most effective service at a reasonable price and with the greatest possible margin of safety. Regardless of how this is done, there will be a flood of protest from operators who are not awarded contracts. Regardless of this the Forest Service policy for awarding initial attack air tanker contracts must be one that best serves the interests of the Government. The standard practice of purchasing property and services after open competitive bidding is effective when the service to be furnished can be fully described in the bid specification, bids submitted can be fairly compared and evaluated, and perforaance can be measured for actual compliance with the advertised specifications. This is not possible for air tanker service, The true value of this service to the Government can only be measured in terms of effective air tanker support for control of forest and range fires. Effective air tanker service is not subject to precise specification, nor can the capability of a bidde~ to deliver effective air tanker service be evaluated from a quoted unit price. Whether bids are solicited on the basis of dollars per hour of flight, gallon-miles or ton-miles of retardents carried or any other manner, there is no practicable .ethod of comparing the real value of the service to the Government by analysis of unit prices quoted by the various bidders. Airplanes used for tankers are of many makes and models. Performance characteristics, speed, and capacity vary between makes and types, and even between the same makes and types because of condition and age. Airplanes which can be used effectively and safely over certain terrain are ineffective and hazardous in other areas. A pilot able to perfor. with a high degree of accuracy and safety in one type of airplane may be capable of only minimum performance in a different type. Miniaum requirements for aircraft and pilots can be written. However, minimum performance in this kind of work is most expensive in dollar~ paid for flying time and has the least effectiveness in control of fir~s. Forest Service requirements are not satisfied with an airplane which can carry a given number of gallons of retardent slurry and a pilot who can fly it to a given spot, dump the load and return. Unless the retardant is accurately dumped on the area of the fire where it is most effective in 1topping the fire the entire trip is of no value to the Government. Unlike a standard contract, there is no opportunity for the Government to protect against poor or ineffective performance by "reperformance" or nbuying against" the contractor. Either the original perfor.ance is effective or it is useless. There is no second chance. The small fire which might have been inexpensively controlled by a timely and effective air tanker drop can become an expensive damaging blue. Time does not pause. In performance of standard contracts the Government is fully protected 3 by enforcement of the contract teras and the contractor reaps the benefits of his efficiency and experience if he can perfora to a better standard than his competitors. The reverse is true for air tanker contracts. If the contractor can perform with speed and effectiveness his flying time is held to the minimum and so are his earnings. The contractor that performs to the adniaum standard builds up more flight tiae and thus more pay. The benefits of premium performance accrue to the Government rather than tbe contractor just as the accomplishments of highly efficient emplo,eea are of greater benefit to the Government than the accomplishments of average employees of the same grade. Air tankers from our initial attack bases frequently will be the first control units to reach a fire. It is essential that the pilot have the experience and judgement to recosnize and properly assess the situation as he finds it. His proficiency and accuracy as a pilot may enable him to drop the retardant slurry on the target of his choice. However, if the drop is to be effective the target must be correctly selected. Pires occur in varying physical situations. Retaroents dropped by air tankers seldom extinguish the fire. Properly placed and applied the retardant can slow down the rate of spread until smoke jumpers or ground crews can get on the job. All pilots do not have the same ability to properly evaluate tbe prime factors of fuel, topography, and weather which radically effect fire behavior. Drops on the wrong area of a fire which are ineffective or which are only partially effective cost just as .uch as drops with .aximum effect on correctly selected targets. It is essential that the Forest Service know the capabilities of pilots before awarding a contract. The dependability, experience, and integrity of the contractor and his facilities for inspecting and maintainins his equipment are also of prime importance. We now have established where initial attack tankers should be based to give the best coverage. Mixing plants are permanently installed at these bases. At some locations like Redding, California and Redmond, Oregon ve have entire regional air service centers built up. Types of aircraft that can operate most effectively fro. the base airports and in the terrain which the base serves on first attack have been determined. At most of our tanker bases there is a resident operator with hangar and qhop facilities, spare parts. tools, and equipment for the type aircraft he owns. These operators have franchises or leases with the city or 4 county authorities. They have been encouraged to risk capital and time to develop airport facilities which will serve the communities. They were in business last year and can be expected to be in business next year. At very fev bases is there more than one resident operator. These are operators regularly engaged in the airplane service business. We know them, their regular pilot and mechanic personnel, their equipment, and the repair, inspection and maintenance facilities at each operating base. During the past several years while air tanker operations have been developing we have procured services from them by contract and by open market rental arrangements. It is only natural that resident operators have secured and now have the kind of aircraft and the trained pilots our program people have found most suitable and reliable for use in their particular areas. There is a distinct advantage to the Forest Service in having a contractor who is available year after year, is familiar with the country, and has a diversified air service business. These resident operators and most of their pilots are "old timers" who know the National Forests in their respective areas, This is invaluable in £!refighting both in the saving of time and in safety of performance, They have other air service business which enables them to maintain a stable operation and we know from past experience that we can get effective air tanker service at a fair price and with a greater safety factor from these operators. In open competitive bidding these operators are at a disadvantage. If there is to be competition at these bases the specifications have to permit transient operators to compete. with resident operators. If we specify that the bidder must have hangar and shop facilities, tools, equipment, and repair parts at the operating base, wa eliminate all but the resident operators. If we do not so specify, we risk the prospect of awarding the contract to a transient operator who must then maintain his aircraft in the open with such transportable tools and equipment as he can bring to the base with him. We have solicited bids for air tanker services and the results are far from satisfactory. In some cases these bids have resulted in good reliable resident operators with top notch pilots and the best available maintenance and repair facilities losing out to transient operators who under-bid them from a few cents per hour to several dollars per hour. In other cases resident operators who must operate at their regular base or not operate at all and recognizing they must underbid transient operators have cut their price to a point of actual loss to get the contract. It is neither equitable nor in the best interests of the Government to force these operators to cut prices below reasonable levels to protect their business and investment in unequal competition with transient operators who clearly are unable to furnish a truly comparable service. For example on a recent bid a transient bidder underbid a resident 5 operator with known capability for superior performance by $34.00 per hour. The airplanes offered by the bidders while not the same were fairly comparable. Past experience as to reliability of equipment and personnel, effectiveness of air tanker operations, safety, and dependability materially favored the resident operator. From a strictly fiscal comparison of bid prices, $34.00 per hour seems to be a sub· stantial price saving. However, the low bid of $365.00 per hour is $6.00 per minute. If the transient operator uaes over six minutes more flight time pe_r hour than the resident operator, the low bid becomes in fact more costly. The probability that he will require more flight time is very great indeed, Responding to initial dispatch to a fire the transient operator must proceed on a compass bearing. The resident operator knowing the country knows exactly where to go and how to get there, A single extra orbit waiting for radio directions can use up the time. Going unnecessarily high in unfamiliar country, crossing a single ridge in the wrong place, and many similar things are much more apt to happen to the transient than to the resident operator. The price difference in this example is sizeable. Bids have been received with as little as ten cents per hour between the high and low bids. In this case all bids were rejected. However, had award been made to the low bidder there is no doubt it would have cost the Government more for performance of the contract. Local airport authorities have tried to protect resident operators from unequal competition by asaessing heavy landing and use fees on transient aircraft. Some states likewise atte.pt to protect resident operators. (see pages 26 and 74 of Utah laws governing Aeronautics and Ordinance No. 2073, passed July 8, 1964, by the city of La Grande, Oregon. Undesirable results of bids in other areas have been: 1. Resident operators that were underbid at their home base in turn entered low bids at other bases. As a result all were in the position of "transient" operators. None of them were operating efficiently or economically. This is the poorest kind of a contractual arrangement pouible. 2. Resident operators of known reliability were underbid at their home base. The next year in order to protect against a similar situation they bid below actual cost. The Forest Service cannot foster this kind of cutthroat price competition. 3. A top notch resident operator whose fair price was underbid folded up and quit the business rather than reducing his operating standards to engage in the price cutting scramble. Inequities of pricing and of paying for standby, ferry time~ and flight time are nu~rous. Most are directly attributable to the impracticability of comparing the true value of competitive bids when applied to an operation with the variables existing in air tanker perfo rmance, Bids are not serving the best interest of the Government. They are encouraging the worst kind of cutthroat pricing which can only result in less effective service at a higher cost, with greater risk to life 6 and property. Cutthroat pricing is spreading to open market transactions also. This summer transient operators flew air tankers into bases where the Forest Service bad rental agreements which were not legally binding contract with dependable resident operators. They demanded consideration for a~l, or at least a share of the business because they offered to cut the unit price per hour of flight by as much as $25.00 per hour. All of our contracts and open market rental arrangements for air tanker services contain the standard "save harmless11 clause. The contractor is solely responsible for death or injury to his employees and for damage or loss of his aircraft. However, this cannot be considered an invitation to the Government to foster or permit cutthroat competitive pricing which must in the end result in cost cutting by the contractors to make ends meet. The first place to cut costs is to cut maintenance and repairs to the aircraft and the next is to cut personnel expenses. Both lead directly to a more hazardous, less dependable service. The only tankers available now, and for the next several years, are surplus military airplanes. These are old airplanes. They require a very high level of maintenance and inspection. Parts and replacement engines are increasingly difficult to find. Pilots and mechanics with training and experience on these aircraft are fewer each year. Insurance companies underwrite tanker operations anticipating that twenty per cent of them will be lost each year. It is necessary only to review the record to see that this is not a wild guess, Each year we lose tankers on fire or spray jobs, most of them with pilot fatalities. This has been a favorable fire year but, to date, we have lost two aircraft and two pilot~ while actually attempting t1) make fir~ drops. Another tanker airplane was lost and the pilot killed while making a practice drop. One fatal and one non~fatal crash occurred on Forest Service spray jobs. Because of th~ nature of air tanker work we cannot hope to eliminate all risk to men and equipment. The Forest Service cannot do less than its utmost to protect the lives of tanker pilots and prevent loss of contractor equipment in performance of air tanker services. To do so it is imperative that we contract with the best available operator at each hase, not with the cheapest. The risk to pilots and equipment can only be minimized by awarding tanker contracts to the resident operators with the best available maintenance, repair, and inspection facilities. There is no question that these services can be better performed at a base shop where equipment, parts, tools, facilities, and personnel are .aintained for that very purpose, than they can in an open field with such materials as the operator can carry with him. 7 The physical demand on pilots is an important item. The nature of the work requires that pilots be readily available. This may go on day after day with no actual flying. Pilots of transient operators either have no "ready room" facilities at all or they move in on the resident operator or the Forest Service. We have experienced both. It is justly said "every contractor should have a toilet and a telephone", Many transient bidders have neither. Pilots cannot maintain efficiency if they must spend their non-flying time in the dirt under the wing of an airplane. To expect the resident operator to furnish ready room facilities to his competition or the Forest Service to provide for the transient but not the resident operator is neither practicable nor defensible, These are the factors which make it impracticable to write bid specifications in a manner which will permit open competition, comparison and evaluation of bids on an equal basis. Bids by operators owning different makes and models of tanker aircraft, employing different pilots, and providing repair and maintenance facilities which vary from nothing to sizeable fixed investments in plant and equipment cannot be compared on the basis of dollars per hour of flight. The value to the Government must be measured in terms of safe, reliable servi-~ ·~hich is effective in controlling forest and range fires. NEW POLICY: Initial attack air tankers will be covered by contract that, to be useful to the Government, will be negotiated under the authority of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, Title III, Section 302(c)(l0), with the best qualified resident operator at each initial attack air tanker base. At any base where there is more than one qualified resident operator, and at bases where there are no qualified resident operators, competition will be restricted to operators known to be capable of safe, dependable and effective performance. The policy of the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service for negotiating contracts in excess of $2,500 is designed to assure selection of the best available contractor and to secure a fair contract price. A Board of Contract Awards of three or more members is established in each Regional Office. The duties of the board are to (1) solicit proposals from individuals or firms capable of undertaking the contract, (2) review and evaluate the qualifications and capabilities of all prospective contractors, (3) select and authorize negotiation with the best available prospective contractor, and (4) determine a reasonable contract price for the job to be done. This information is then furnfshed the Con~racting Officer who actually negotiates the contract. We believe this procedure to be in the best interest of the Government and fair to the operators. It is the most which can be done to provide effective air tanker service safely at a fair price by a stabilized industry, Approved J {I -j1- {, f eldttf/.24r~<'~ Acting Chief Prepared by: Division of Fire Control and Divbion of Administrative Servic_es Forest Service U. s. Department of Agriculture .... t.-J ..., ~n ·~·, < e ·:. S., }o'or~st :;erv1ce h;:s .::on(.rc·,:-Led f,-,, ';, 8 -'lerial spr~y:_r,~~ .l"_t_,.olling, ~u.J .i.'lre .-ntppr·03~:H•: .:1, . 1\c;. ~cr·.·'>·,,, -''J drcrJ:tft oper4t.ors of question.,.ble cApabil1 ty, Ar.d h~s r1•>~t:pled ~.no pA.id for such services on R bAsis of price ~:-~lonA rA.t.her tnc:n ll<:V'tn;· requirements for pAst perfOl"'llAnee, And experien;~0 fl.LlR-hfJ cf\tJon;:; bRd::-ed up by financial integrity, AdeqMte :CJ.<>.intennncc~ oqp·,_bJ.e perso·-:r'~'J. org~nizf:!.tion~ ,qnd the fixed fr;cilities needed r.o clo · •1 r:.f:'Jci<2r-.L Sfl-Lisf"!ctory job nnd ;·dlliR~A.;; i r.. the l:<:tst fe':! ye~rs ~ cont·~.., ':-ts l'IDd suppleF.,en'Al ccntr-'"lcts hi'J.lTE'- been granted to persons of doubtful fimmcial st"1:nding nnrl experience qu.~lific"'tions and/or previously prinarL~-Y enr;r>.~;ed ).>t ,10n· cornrterciAl 'lvi'1.tion businesses nnd thus_. by unsl'\tisf<Jctor~-' pe:d'w:-m:-;nc.e cr>.used an economic h~rdship 'iri t.hin comnur,i ties wherein t.hey h<>.ve: O:?t::!.·r:~,;;;:' due to non-r;-;;yment of bills or t'li t:a ~dded nnd unness?.ry expense to i.:.he ~~. S .. Forest Service .in supervi sian ~nd bc-o'kkeepinr;" n.'J. of 11ht cb couJJ ,1A.Ve l.>een avoided by contrRcting l'li th reputRblc, e.st."l.blisheEi cvrrJ.'Jerc:~._~~_J. avil'ltion ope:rA.tors normally OOsed '1:":1 thi.n the ccntr.o_cts 01re'l.S Rnd i';HERE~S if better st~ndArds And q't.l?.lificntions for the OL':ders were incorpC'rated nithin these Forest Service Contracts~ the contractor coald more efficiently And econoi!lic!'llly perform these co:1trr•d;w~l services, thus sP.ving the U .. S, Government time and money~ NO\'i THEREFORE BE IT R.f.~/ 1 1 \-:· ;; . . Northwel!li't Aviation OJ)erators Council go on record requesting that the u. S~ Dan~rtment ot· Aericulture1 Forest Service Div:~sion, reyj_ew A.n:! rem-1t.e their Fo:re[rG fier-'~!ics ~-i:rcr~ft Service ColJtr,cts with con&i der~tion or" the following i terns as c~UA.lifications: which J_t is suggested be incorporated into SRtd cont:r~.,~,:;., L F.tXE:D MSE ')P.SHftTOR Bidder sh'1.\.1 be ~n est.,blishP-d Cor... merci'--!.1 AviRti::-n O)·)er:<~.to.:-.' with L"se fA.cilities r-~dequ..--;te for oper1t\.0·J .·L'ld maint.ent:nce of :o.irc:r"'"'t. ClSeC i.n Fm·est Service opentttor;,J, '&.:! 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SprM.yi.ng Co-r~.~!·-~c·;,~ s:-, .:'.-.\_ ,,,h:-~ .. :-.w~n s:!; :-~ h{yrr"!ent Bond., F'UR'l'HERl~iOR!i; thR't this resolutj on be for<)l'arded to F.icht~r;\ E, !,:C".Ard1e~ r ::3 LiepArtment- oi' Agriculturet Forest Service? 1.;RS1JingtOJ125:. :·; C.,~ coptes t:; the R.eg:ionn1 :-·or-est Ser-v.ice CffJ..t:!eS in the No•"tl-1\'les-t. P.nd 1 ~, f).Jl f3eruH,o~~s :-md U S, R~r;r~s,;ontRt.ives l.n tl-'.~ fX'T Northwe<'P·. st~-,-t~~; C:r c.
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|Wilderness Act 1960; H.R. 10572, Len Jordan correspondence; Forest Service policy on contracting Air Tanker services.
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|Len B. Jordan
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Public Law 86-517
86th Congress, H. R. 10572
June 1 Z, 1960
To outborlz~ rtUtl dh•(•d that the national forl~~ts lle mnung~d nnder prindpleM of
multiple UN~ o\Dd to 1"''"\uce n ~n~talnell yield 1>f J•rodtld~ •uul HH.-ict'~, and tor
other I""I'OsPS.
He it t'.WU'ted by fhr. ,\'cnf/te and l!ou~e of Hepre.,entntivcH of the
Cnited ,'I' tate!( of Amcrim in ('ongrC8ii 1/H~embled, That it is the policy Na.tional forof
the ('ongn~ss thnt the nntionnl forests nre estnhlishe!l uml shall k ests,
ndministcred for outdoor recrcatiou, range, ti!llber, wnter5hcd, and management.
wildlife nnd JiHh purposes. The put·poses of this Act nrc declared to
ho supplemcnt\ll to, but not in {]erogntion of, the purpose.s for wl1ich
tho nntionnl forests were est:1hlish{'d ns set foJ·th in tin~ Act of .June 4,
IHH7 (Hi lUi.C. 470). Nothing herein shall he construed us nlfecting- 30 Stat, 34.
tho jurisdictiou Ol' responsibilities of the severn! States with rcspoct to
wildlife and fbh on tho uational forests. Nothing herein ~l~:dl he
l.'onstrued so nH to alfect the use ot· tHllllini~tJ·ntion of the mineml
J\'Som·ces of n:ll ionnl forest lands oJ· to at fed the m;c or ndmin istmtion
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Well, at least it took longer than push notification or turn-by-turn navigation, right?
As should be no surprise, given how the porn industry is typically among the first to adapt to new technologies, Macenstein reports that the first app to feature nudity has made it into the iTunes App Store.
The app is rated 17+ for frequent/intense sexual content or nudity, and frequent/intense mature/suggestive theme. This means the new Settings > General > Restrictions > feature for parental controls in iPhone 3.0 can be used to globally allow or block the app (or any app based on several age-based levels). MacRumors explains the results:
If an App falls outside of the allowed rating they will simply disappear off your home screen. Once you turn the restrictions off again, the affected apps reappear.
This should mean we don't see any more app rejections for search-based language or content, but it also leads us to wonder how long it will be before we see major adult entertainment companies come knocking on the App Store door...
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I bet the Apple guys Loved sending this one through the Approval Process =)
To everyone saying this is bad, this is America (at least for me). In America if you want to buy things like this that is your right. No one is forcing you to buy these apps and you never have to see them. It is simply not possible that someone else being able to have this app will ever harm you or degrade your iPhone experience. Please respect the rights of everyone around the world and grow up. As adults we have the right to choose to download these apps if we want.
Now, where is my South Park app? I see Family Guy didn't waste any time.
@sting7k I agree. I myself will not be getting this or anything like it for all I know but it will make some people happy and the point isn't Adult Apps. The point is more things can be allowed now such as violence. A lot of games have been rejected because they had too much blood. Anyone who complains about it is stupid. Either don't look at it, or if you are worried about you're kid, set some parental controls! That is what they are there for! And I also agree that I hope they resubmit that South Park App. :P I really wanted it. haha.
As much as I wouldn't like to see this app available. Remember that this is still business, the more apps Apple can sell, the more money they can line their pockets with. Will I use my iPhone for adult content, I highly doubt it. If it is there then it is there, and I hope Apple will not promote it anymore than just making it available. I rather use my phone for other things than adult content!!
It's a very thin line for users to be determining what's appropriate for the app store or not. What one person thinks is appropriate another will think is pure smut. If we start complaining about application content then why not complain about iTunes content as there are songs with verbally explicit content, or we should complain that Safari on the device can access very mature content. And Apple should not be bound by some moral obligation when approving applications. They have taken the legal option of providing for content restrictions and it is now up to the user to decide what is appropriate for their (or kid's) device. I probably won't use these applications, therefore I won't download them; it's that easy.
And I can see there becoming a new "Mature Content" category in the app store to control the new influx of applications like this one. Yeah, right below the "Medical" category to give users the feeling of having to walk to the back of the video store to look at the mature videos.
I don't think you will have to worry much about seeing these apps featured on the app store home page in iTunes. And remember, Apple already sells explicit music and videos.
I wouldn't mind a mature content section just to see what's out there.
@PeterM11, gonna mention it over at southparkstudios.com on the forums. Their staff are pretty active so hopefully they see they can get these apps approved now.
My prediction: Some big-headed media buffoon will try to make headlines claiming this is the end of the world as we know it, a threat to all puppy dogs and whole-milk cheeses, and then same big-headed media buffoon will be caught in public consuming the most bizarre fring pr0n imaginable on the iPhone.
Always happens.
They took it off the AppStore! Why?
I see the fake moralists are already up in arms over this, I guess they didn't realize you can see hardcore porn with Safari? And what's with people calling this "porn"? Has this country become so un-educated that they think a picture of a topless bikini model is porn? So sad, I'd expect attitude's like that in Iran, not here. I agree with how George Carlin felt about stuff like this, it's not like people are forced to buy it, I think some people just need stuff to complain about because they have no life of their own to keep them busy.
I see that they already pulled it, for once it would have been nice for a big company not to cave in to the whining from the religious nuts ofthe world.
The App has been pulled
"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography. The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed, and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content. This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store."
Off Cnn's website
From Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr:
Perhaps the real reason was the server crash:
If Apple is going to continue to enforce content from the web it seems to me they have taken on the task of perpetually filtering the entire internet.
That's it! I'm outta here! I've been waiting for Apple to come up with a worthy option to my Treo Pro and they give me porn? I waited for cut and paster, a decent word processor, a spreadsheet, and a good PIM and they finally made it (kind of).
Yes is is America and we do have freedom but my choice is to not view and not listen AND to not support, insofar as is possible.
Soft/hard? What's the difference? I'm selling my 3G and going back to WinMo. At least then I won't feel like I'm a direct contributor to the problem.
@bill: I'm not sure if you're aware, but Apple didn't develop the app, a third party did. But if boobs trigger your sense of moral outrage to such a degree, maybe you're making the right decision. Because god knows you can't see porn on a WinMo phone.
This falls to a question of Apple allowing some chicks naked picture on the App store then Apple succumbing to yet another lawsuit because said chick says she never allowed that photo to be taken... It makes Apple a target, its a shame but thats the society we live in today... Blame society not Apple...
Ive met the website on my iphone http://www.iphonesexy.net free website adult. We can find anything!!
and yes the adlut content hits the iphone. Many buy it for that, checking discreetly adult pages from quite everywhere and this! is something...
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iphone porn has been around for a while now... but only in web app form not the actually app app
a good iphone porn web apps is (in my opinion) http://www.allmobileporn.com
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Thank you for sharing your info.
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Looks good, entirely unsurprising though, aside from timing. The paint is very prototype-y though, I could conceive of buying this but only after seeing final production figures, I've been burned on the previous Battle Droid figure by just having too high of expectations for the price and proto pics.
We knew the variants would come, and OOM's as good a choice as any to kick them off.
But...how much will Sideshow ask for a single BD with 2 being recently offered at $119? It would be shocking (but extremely doubtful) that they let a single go for $60....but anything too close to a hundred would be way too much without some major incentive like an environmental-style stand (TF ship deckplate or Naboo-inspired stone walkway of hanger deck floor comes to mind) and/or a big selection of accessories.
I'd actually like it if they offered OOM-9 with another basic Infantry unit in a two-pack similar to the initial set. I'm really impressed with that set and look forward to seeing where Sideshow goes with this new figure they can variant-release over and over like the clones...
Even at $60, I would want to see a stand if I were buying. There is a value threshold, I know I push the edges of it with my expectations, but c'mon, it's a coat of paint and 2 new accessories (antennae cluster and binoculars).
Not a bad idea coming in another multipack with a regular BD, although again they'd have to contend with hurt feelings of those who preordered the first 2-pack when all they wanted was 1 figure -- and then the STAP came with 1 BD. If they could make that regular BD somehow a little unique from the other 3 currently out or planned (2pack, STAP), I could probably still see that working, but not merely backpack number, it'd need something more.
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The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
And the pics are out: $65, no stand shown, no extra figure, just a gun and electrobinoculars. Not feeling this, will wait until it ships before deciding.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
...and the figure is coming soon....24 day notice has appeared for this BD Commander...
....and after getting it right before Xmas and then having to send it back because of a paint mis-hap(they missed one eye), I've finally got OOM-9....
...and I really like it. The body is good and tight...articulates and holds poses well. Seems like each new droid is getting better with this, which is cool. The binocs are neat and the antennae rig looks good plugged into it's back. I wish they would include both the antennae rig and the back pack with future droid releases so one could mix it up a bit with display options. Could spur a bit of army-building, there too.
The deco works for me...the yellow is there, but not in an eye-popping, garish way...less like a bulls-eye and more like a designation mark. The distressing/detailing is different from the previous two-pack droids and the STAP pilot. I like that a lot..it's giving this ever-growing droid army a great look.
Sometimes I wonder with these sixth-scale SW figures if some perceptions about how something should look are less about the source and more about how we've seen it rendered in the past, either as other figures or toys. In hand, this figure looks pretty good...
Now let's get a Security model, a pilot model and some fresh-from-the-foundry Geonosian red ones....
By "missed one eye", you mean they didn't paint it at all, or the paint missed its mark?
The yellow on the head looks good, but like so many other iterations, I feel like the torso circle paint doesn't pop enough because it doesn't have a physical border. Were I designing this I'd probably have put a thin white or black border around the chest dot.
I think Sideshow shot themselves in the foot here by making it $65 and a low-run exclusive, $65 was the price they could have sold a lot more on if they hadn't made it exclusive.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
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The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
The paint missed it's mark.
And yes...there is a lack of information on Sideshow's site regarding this one - it was on-then off-no edition size, no wait list , nothing.
I'm glad I got one, but I hope future "editions" of BD's aren't so mysterious....
Ah, probably fell out of its mask just as they went to hit the paint. Glad to hear you got a replacement.
At this price, Sideshow should have aimed for a larger audience, they really don't make much sense to me on these sorts of things. I can't imagine too many folks are buying OOM-9 for his exclusivity.
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I tried to record some gameplay videos. But the games then become mostly unplayable.
Some examples:
Firefall, no recording: 60 to 80 FPS
Firefall, while recording: about 5 FPS?
DOTA 2, no recording: absolutely smooth with all graphics settings maxed out.
DOTA 2, while recording: absolutely unplayable, again like 5 FPS.
I got no other programs running that drain noteworthy resources (only the game and recording software).
I had a look at the resource monitor while playing Firefall.
CPU strain without recording: 35% to 40%
RAM, in use: 3.4GB, Standby: 4.4GB
Harddisk, read/write total: 18MB/s
While recording:
CPU strain: 75% to 85%
RAM: about the same, still 3.4GB to 3.5GB in use and about 4.4GB on standby
Harddisk, read/write total: about 220MB/s
I tried both DXtory (which compresses the video before it's saved on the harddisk) and Fraps (which saves the video uncompressed). With DXtory I get stuttery sounds and jumpy FPS, with Fraps I get normal sounds but steady superlow FPS.
I got following system:
Harddisk space. 4TB
CPU: i5-3570k
Graphics card: Radeon HD 6800
Anyone got any advice?
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Your best bet is probably FRAPS, recording to a separate hard drive from the game.
Looks like DXtory compression eats your CPU, and both are eating up all your SATA bandwidth.
Also, try lowering the recorded resolution. If you are playing at 1080, and trying to record at 1080, that could be killing you. Try knocking it down to 720.
Thanks for your reply.
With Fraps, the FPS is very low as well. At least with more modern games. Sadly, I can choose there only between full HD recording and half size. 720 ain't possible.
I just wonder which component of the setup is the reason for this problem. Is the Radeon HD 6800 too old, so that it requires help from the CPU, which ain't available anymore when I record stuff?
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As I understand it the people who do this on a more than casual basis use one system for the game and one system for capturing the audio and video stream.
What does it do if you record at half size?
And again, what does it do if you change your game resolution to 720?
Not that either of those are "the answer", just it would provide more data as what you could possibly do.
Being able to play and record and stream at 1080 is pretty strenuous on a machine. The 6800's aren't bad cards, depending on the game they may have trouble trying to do both though. I have a feeling the real bottleneck isn't the video card, but the hard drives.
Hmmm, yeah, it seems that one of the bottle necks are the harddrives. They have just a speed of 5400rpm. I also got an external one.
I tried now following: Playing DOTA 2, I recorded a video once on the 2TB internal harddrive, and once on my external.
FPS without recording: between 75 and 99+
FPS recording on internal one: between 5 and 40 (quite jumpy)
FPS recording on external one: between 20 and 30 (never below 20)
The description of the external one says "high speed usb 2.0". Not sure if that's any different from regular USB. HMm... 20 FPS is already better, but not really good.
Yeah, USB 2.0 is "hi speed" compared to the older 1.0, but still a far cry from what internal SATA can do. Get another internal drive if at all possible, 7200rpm at that.
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Hm, well, I'll see about that. I don't want to throw away my 2TB one, despite it just having 5400 RPM. The 1TB one though... But my OS and everything is installed on it. Oh well...
Well, putting another internal one would be ideal, it would be the cheapest (and nearly the fastest). Most computers support at least 4 SATA devices normally (CD-ROM is usually on one of them though), and there really isn't a practical limit to the number of hard drives you can have. There are other ways to skin the cat though.
One option is to get another SATA controller - these are not expensive ($25 maybe for a cheap one). Sometimes these come with eSATA ports - which allow you to use nearly any internal hard drive as an external, at full SATA speeds. This is probably the cheapest option if you have room to plug in a PCI card in your computer.
Another one would be to get a USB 3.0 adapter, and an external drive that supports USB 3.0 - those are nearly as fast as SATA in the first place. Your USB 1.0/2.0 stuff will work with it, but not at full speed, so you'd need another USB 3.0 external enclosure to record to.
And another option would be to use a Gigabit ethernet NAS (and to make sure your existing NIC is gigabit, if not, upgrade that as well). This would probably be the most expensive of the options, but it's also the most flexible, since it would allow all devices at home access to the same high speed storage device, and allow you to change the media in the storage device independent of all your devices. ~Most~ current pre-packaged NAS'es support RAID (allowing you to span multiple disks out for increased storage and reliability), and have built-in servers for various nice things, like web servers, iPhone storage, iTunes streaming, etc.
My mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H. It's USB slots are 3.0, according to the description. Hmm... I guess I'll try that. I found a 128GB USB 3.0 stick that, according to the comments on the product, never writes slower than 80mb/s. That should do the trick. In case my hard drives really are the problem.
To get 80MB/sec, you need to have a USB 3.0 port to plug it into. If you do, then great, this part isn't a problem.
The second problem is, they are expensive. You can get a SATA3 120G SSD drive for $20 less, throw it on a USB 3.0 external enclosure for $5, and have essentially the same thing, with the option to install it internally later if you wanted to. Of for that matter, a much less expensive 2T 7200rpm drive, the same enclosure, and still come away with 80MB/sec transfer and much more capacity.
And the last problem: you need more bandwidth than that, especially if you are wanting 1080p
So you can see, 80M/sec isn't going to get you very far. Getting 20fps out of USB 2.0 (which peaks out around 30-35MB/sec) is really not bad at all.
Are you sure about the bandwidth?
I just told Fraps to record full HD with 30 FPS and split it in 4GB files. They're both 137 seconds long. 4000MB / 137 = ~30MB/s recorded. Or do I miss something?
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Is your OS 32bit or 64bit? 32bit OS can only ever use 3.5 gigs of RAM.
Those numbers were taking from a video recording site, but we can do the math ourselves:
We usually play at a 32-bit color depth (8 bits per RGB channel, plus 8 bits alpha channel). To dump the framebuffer though, we don't need all 32-bits, just the RGB values, so that's 24-bits of color data per pixel.
There are 1920x1080 pixels in "HD", that's 1920 x 1080 = 2,073,000 pixels per frame.
24 bits per pixel by 2,073,000 pixels = 24 x 2,073,000 = 49,766,400 bits per frame
8 bits in a byte, so 49,766,400 / 8 = 6,220,880 bytes per frame
60 frames per second, so 6,220,880 x 60 = 373,248,000 bytes per second
1024 bytes per kilobyte, and 1024 kilobytes per megabyte, so 373,248,000 / (1024x1024) = 356 MB/sec for raw, uncompressed video
I don't know how FRAPS saves the data, or what bit depth they are converting it to.
I got a 64bit OS.
Well, I guess the best I can do is ask around if a friend got an USB 3.0 usb stick and see how well it does its job. :) Thanks for the help.
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Make sure that there is a lot of free space on your hard drive, and then defragment it immediately before recording a video. See if that helps. Even a 5400 RPM hard drive should be able to do sequential write speeds around 100 MB/s. By contrast, USB 2.0 caps you at about 50 MB/s theoretically, and considerably less than that in actual real-world usage.
The problem with hard drives is that they're really only good at sequential data transfers. Whenever the hard drive has to stop to move to a different physical place on a platter to read or write, it has to wait about 10 ms or so before it can do anything else. 10 ms may not sound like much, but if you have to do it thousands of times in a row, you can see the problem.
Fortunately, though, recording a video should be sequential writes. That means that you pay the 10 ms penalty when you start writing, and then after that, only when it runs out of buffered data to write and has to wait for more data to accumulate before it starts writing again. If your hard drive is badly fragmented, however, then it could start writing, then quickly run into data already written to the platter and have to stop for a while and then start writing somewhere else. If it writes for 1 ms, then has to take 10 ms to move somewhere else, then writes for another 1 ms, then has to stop for 10 ms, and so forth, then you can see the problem. Defragmenting your hard drive takes all of the data on the drive and physically moves it around so that you'll have a big, huge contiguous empty area that lets the hard drive write away.
Another possible problem is if something else is trying to use your hard drive at the same time. If you start recording a video, and then something else wants to read from or write to the hard drive, then the hard drive has to stop recording, deal with what the other program wants, and then return to recording. That means you pay the ~10 ms switching penalty twice. The game you're playing likely needs to use your hard drive as you're trying to record things, though the details will vary wildly from game to game.
You can avoid that by having a completely separate hard drive that you write to. An internal SATA drive is probably your best bet here, as performance will be far more consistent than if you're using USB. This doesn't need to be all that expensive. For example:
If you don't use it for anything other than recording videos, then no other programs should interfere with it. Seagate says that drive can do 125 MB/s. For purely sequential transfers with nothing else trying to use the hard drive at the same time, if there isn't a bottleneck elsewhere, 125 MB/s is realistically attainable, too.
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Originally posted by Ridelynn
Was about to advice FRAPS as well. been using it for ages (legally purchased version) and I have a seperate 320Gb drive for movies & sounds. Never a problem unless the game I try to record is badly written (GW2 recorded with 10FPS...). Only problem then is to get a good editing tool... I'm using AVS4You myself (again, legally purchased version) and love how much editing options it gives for a price that low. I would advice AGAINST Pinnacle Studio for editing. I have it here and the basic version (more expensive than AVS4You BTW) doesn't support HD. If you want HD (and I guess you will) you'll pay $75 extra or so...
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