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Gartner Positions Oracle in the Leaders Quadrants for Transportation Management and Supply Chain Planning
Gartner, Inc. has named Oracle a Leader in two of its latest Magic Quadrant reports, "Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems" and "Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning System of Record." In addition, Oracle received the highest-ratings for company and product assessment in Gartner's "Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Management in Consumer Goods, 2014" report. Gartner's Magic Quadrant reports position vendors within a particular quadrant based on both their completeness of vision and their ability to execute.
Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems
"Reducing freight costs continues to be the prime motivation for investing in a transportation management system. However, securing capacity and improving overall freight efficiency are becoming equally strong motivations," write the authors of Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems" report. "Leaders have a compelling vision and a reliable ability to execute," the authors continue. "Leaders in the TMS market have broad, deep, and formidable functionality that addresses a broad range of user requirements. These vendors have proven products and track records of customer success, and have demonstrated momentum in growing their market presence. Leading vendors support sophisticated and complex transportation strategies for large customers with substantial freight spending, as well as their ability to deploy their TMSs in smaller shippers. They also meet the needs of users throughout the transportation process, with offerings from tactical planning and procurement through to freight payment and audit functionality. Leaders also offer adaptable technical architectures that allow for rapid innovation, which is needed to stay ahead of market demands. Furthermore, Leaders must have an SCE convergence strategy, as well as real examples of converged processes supported by their offering."
Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning System of Record
"Leaders demonstrate strong SCP [supply chain planning] SOR [system of record] vision and execution capabilities," according to the report. "They have an expansive set of functional capabilities spanning most, if not all, of the key functional modules of Gartner's SCP SOR reference model. Their coverage across the three categories of planning functionality—design, optimize and respond—is good, especially for the optimize-planning category. They have a good range of SCP SOD [system of differentiation] solutions and are strong in the nonfunctional SCP SOR capabilities, such as the architecture of their SCP solutions, scalability, and speed, and availability of configurable analytics. They have established firm, functional, and technical road maps that closely align with Gartner's view of a good future-proofed SCP SOR."
Gartner's Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Management in Consumer Goods, 2014
"Technologies related to managing trade promotions have never been more relevant, as the average revenue expended by manufacturers for promotions now exceeds 20 percent of revenue," the report states. "Companies are leaving spreadsheets for automated technologies, while others are adding promotion optimization capabilities." "Consider automating these processes as soon as possible if you are using spreadsheets to manage promotional planning and trade funds," says the report's author. "With trade spending continuing to increase and the need for strong analytics as a differentiator, it doesn't make sense to wait."
Read "Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems," Gartner, C. Dwight Klappich, February 13, 2014, ID:G00258086. Read "Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning System of Record," Gartner, Tim Payne, March 6, 2014 ID:G00248122. Read "Vendor Panorama for Trade Promotion Management in Consumer Goods, 2014," Gartner, Dale Hagemeyer, March 28, 2014, ID:G00249438. Learn more about Oracle Transportation Management, Oracle Value Chain Planning, Oracle's Demantra Predictive Trade Planning and Demantra Trade Promotion Optimization.
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin joins OSU to boot up finished Cowboy Wind Farm
"We are happy that what we advocated 40 years ago has come to fruition," Ramakumar said. "For a professor or anybody in teaching, the idea is to sow seeds that will grow later on, and that's absolutely true in this case. The students are more and more interested, and my classes have more students than ever before. They're wanting to learn about sustainability and wind energy."
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Big, maybe too big
First impression: Big, often sparsely populated with passengers even though fully booked.
Getting around: My wife who always gets lost on ships, never got lost.... The promenade and atria always let you know where you are.
Dining: Very fast service, food quality good but range so so. Wine menu...don't buy the package...Americans really need to try Australian reds to realise how BAD Californian wines are.
Portofino restaurant is outstanding.
Staff: Fantastic.... Tip your drink staff and reap the rewards!
Entertainment: If you are not into show tunes from the 70s, don't bother. Dissapointing to say the least.
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A question: How about making note of a day when their is NO mention of any crime in EPA? THAT would be newsworthy!
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^^^^What a lousy comment to make!^^^^ What local community goes a day w/out crime? None! But the interesting kernel in your lousy point is that there is a lot of good news in EPA, and many interesting people. Your local news site here isn't committed to writing about that, though. EPA has various ways of getting info out & about, as well as its own news site. So the problem is more the perception & the assumption of people like you.
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In the unboxing, Major Nelson said something along the lines of "Oh and the power button! We've done something pretty cool here. See you at gamescom..."Well gamescom is over and I never saw some mindblowing news regarding the power button.
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Everything was Nicolas Cage and nothing hurt. -Nicolas Cage
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If you do not like to see interesting sculptures depicting statue of naked people then avoid reading this post. But for those who treat this as display of art, then there is no way this post can be offensive. If you arrive La Coruna, Spain by cruise ship, certainly you will see these two statues standing just in front of La Coruna's cruise terminal.
I decided to went ashore yesterday for some coffee just at the shopping mall closest to the ship. Coming out from the cruise terminal came into view these two naked sculptures. It did not came into my mind to take photos of these intriguing art at first, but I noticed several others too were as curious as me, so here's what I got during that call in La Coruna, Spain yesterday.


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Using a one page guide to creating a course portfolio (PDF), Gail Rathbun guided participants through the creation of a course portfolio, using the Carnegie Foundation's KEEP (Knowledge Exchange Exhibition Presentation) Toolkit, now available in the MERLOT.org web site. Examples and links are available in this PowerPoint presentation, available here in .pdf format.
This 12 O'clock Scholars Brown Bag Series was led by Robin Newman, Associate Dean of Students. Robin went over the Tips for Avoiding or Handling Difficult Student Situations handout (PDF). Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) also distributed copies of this semester's first weekly teaching tip about handling difficult behaviors (PDF).
Led by Lesa Vartanian, PSY, and Gail Rathbun, CELT, this workshop distributed these Online Course Design Guidelines (PDF) (based on the Quality Matters Rubric)
Sam Birk, CELT, utilized "Moving Theory into Practice Digital Imaging Tutorial" from the library website at Cornell University for this workshop.
Sam Birk, CELT and Scott Vitz, ITS provided an overview of a variety of instructional technologies. Handouts (PDF) included a chart of the software available, examples of what it can be used for, and how to get access to the software. Another handout presented Seven Principles for Good Practice in Web-Enhanced Courses (PDF).
IUPUI's Megan Palmer, Director of Faculty Advancement in the Health Professions covered a variety of topics related to lecturing as a teaching strategy: research on its pros and cons for learning; how to be a better speaker; and effective strategies. Attendees shared a wealth of their own useful ideas. She provided a handout listing her tips for making lectures more active (PDF), as well as an article on using Powerpoint.
Megan made extensive use of the book "What's the use of Lecture?" by Donald Bligh. CELT has two copies of this book in the CELT Library.
CELT offers resources under its Teaching Resources>Teaching Tips and Strategies and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lectern" by Connie Staley, in the CELT Library.
Facilitated by Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, Philosophy
Jennifer shared her experience with using the Quality Matters™ rubric to identify ways in which she could strengthen her online teaching and improve student learning outcomes. Her outline, presentation notes, and effective practices can be found in this PowerPoint presentation (PDF). In addition, CELT offers for download the Quality Matters™ rubric (PDF). She also made us aware of a web site that can be used to check for the usability of a web site by disabled students.
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Classroom Assessment Techniques range from simple to complex strategies to engage students while collecting feedback on their learning. CATs may be effectively used in a variety of classroom settings and disciplines. In this session [available as notes (PDF) or as a Powerpoint (PDF)] Linda demonstrated some of the simplest and easiest to use techniques: Visible Quizzes, Minute papers, Muddiest point, Brain Storm, Think, Pair, Share, and Three Stay, One stray, which are explained in this handout (link) and her presentation. For more techniques, read Classroom Assessment Techniques by Angelo and Cross, 50 Ways to Leave your Lectern by Connie Staley, and Busy, Noisy, and Powerfully Effective by InfoTec, all available in the CELT Library.
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Oddball casting rumors and Batman 3 seem to go together like peanut butter and tuna. (Yum, yum, right?) It's been a while since we heard one, so it was almost a welcome surprise when Australia's Herald Sun reported that Christian Bale was OUT of the third Batman film, to be replaced by his Terminator Salvation co-star, Sam Worthington.
According to the Herald Sun, Worthington's star is about to "shoot into the stratosphere" with his performances in the upcoming Terminator reboot and later in the year with James Cameron's Avatar. (And on a related note, the size limit of G4's Avatars are 120w x 120h pixels and 100 KB.)
The Herald Sun, however, did not give any substantive reasons for coming to a conclusion on this rumor -- other than a vague recounting of "industry gossip." (Although I suppose making up a story like this and publishing it, would technically be considered "industry gossip," as well.) However, Christian Bale's recent leaked rant was also cited as a reason, due to possible damage to his profile. *Utter bull.*
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Monument to Paul Celan
The famous poet Paul Celan was born in in Chernivtsi in 1920, when it belonged to Romania. His family was of German-speaking Jewish origin and his original name was Paul Antschel.A monument with the bust of Paul Celan commemorates him as one of Chernivtsi's most famous citizens. When it was erected in June 1992, it was the first non-soviet monument...
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Theatre of Music and Drama
Chernivtsi's Theatre of Music and Drama was named after Olga Kobylianska, a famous Ukrainian writer. A statue of her stands just in front of the main entrance. The theatre was built between 1904 and 1905 by the Viennes architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.The exterior includes Renaissance style elements, whereas the interior is kept in...
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Chernivtsi Restaurants
My favorite
This is a chain that has spots across Ukraine. Opens at 10 and has coffee, espresso, crepes, soups, salads & pizza as well as some other Italian foods, and some desserts. Everything we have tried has been very tasty and affordable even for our Ukrainian friends. The service was very friendly by local standards and I had no problems ordering in...
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We had a good lunch...
We ate at Pyramid, across the street from the old "Tourist Hotel" near Maidan Shopping center. The 5 of us all had salads, entrees and sides. The food was tasty, 2 of us had fish, 1 sausage, 1 veal and 1 pork and everyone was satisfied with their meal. With beverages it was just under $15 a piece. The service was very helpful, but wouldn't come to...
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We ate at Mario near the theater about a block from the end of Kobalenski. It was quick, inexpensive and rather tasty. For lunch the 4 of us split a large pizza, we each had a small salad and beverages for just 7.50 dollars total. It must be a small chain as I saw another a few blocks from where our family lives on Nezalezhnosti. We plan on...
Chernivtsi Nightlife
It`s a kind of a restaurant or a drinking place but there is a couple of times a week live music performed and dancing is quite common .
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Train to Suceava
There is now a train from Chernivtsi (coming from Lvov) to Suceava leaving at 10.34 am and arriving 5 hours later. On the DB website instead of Chernivtsi you have to use Chernovcy.
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Re: Train from Chernivtsi to Kiev 2012
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Travel from Ukraine to Moldova
I am in the process of travelling from Lviv to Tiraspol via Chernivitsi and Chisinau. There are buses and trains from Lviv to Chernivitsi. The train takes around 6 hours, the bus takes around 7 hours and costs 90 ukr grevny.On the board at Chernivtsi bus station there are buses listed to Chisinau (Кишинів...
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Chernivtsi brochure with maps
As we stayed 4 days in Chernivtsi, I decided to buy a little brochure about Chernivtsi. Apart from maps of the city centre and the surrounding area, it also includes the routes of the public buses and the mini buses (marschrutki) as well as timetables for both the trains and the long diatnce busesUnfortunately all information is only listed in...
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Appropriate Type For This Shop = all types. From clothes to jewelry, electronics, shoes, food. You can find all of these and many more in this huge bazar.If you know how to bargain you can get great prices. Still, it's recommended to go with a local person or someone that knows their language. My hunch is that there is a price for foreigners and...
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Chernivtsi Local Customs
Public toilets
The standards of public toilets in the Ukraine vary a lot. If you are lucky you might find clean and comfortable public toilets in bigger cities like Kiev or Lviv. But even here squat toilets can be seen quite often, also in restaurants or hotels.Just be prepared that you always have to pay a small fee for using public toilets and that toilet paper...
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Ukrainian currency: Hryvnia
Ukraine is a country of cash, so it is always best to pay cash. The local currency is the "Hryvnia" (abbreviation: UAH) which is divided into 100 Kopecks.In 2004/05 new banknotes were put into circulation, but the various old ones are still valid and in circulation as well. This causes some confusion as you may have 2 or even more variations of the...
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Ukrainian Beer
When travelling to a foreign country I always try to taste their local beers. In the Ukraine the following two beers were among my favourites:Lvivske Beer is not only known in Lviv, but also all over the country. Rumours even say that it had the reputation of being the best beer in the former Soviet Union. The history of the Lviv based brewery...
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Chernivtsy: Dentist
In case you need a dentist while you are traveling, here is one I went too: center "NADENT", vul. Stasuka, 10 kv 1 phones: business 03722-3-32-05, cell 067-994-22-07. I think a female and a male doctor practices there, I went to the guy. Treatment was really great, I totally recommend going there if you need it. I paid about $35 for a medium...
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Stray dogs
Similar to many towns in Romania, also Chernivtsi seems to be home to many stray dogs. We noticed them all around the town, especially near the bus station.They are usually used to people and busy street life, therefore they are probably harmless. Nevertheless, I am always very cautious when stray dogs are around.
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Don't drink the water
Water warnings are common for travelers. On my first trip to the Ukraine 15 years ago I made the mistake of drinking the water in the form of compote.. My stomach wasn't real happy about it. This time I decided to do a better job about not drinking water. This time I resolved to do a better job. I was about to make my morning coffee and even though...
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If you take a GSM mobile phone...
If you take a GSM mobile phone from your home, just note that prices of cellular phone call are VERY high in Ukraine. Please check at home with your GSM company about the rates in Ukraine. I know that 1 minute call can be about 5$.....
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Crossing the border from...
Crossing the border from Romania.If you come from Romania, and you listen to my advices, please arrange the border cross with Zoya. At the border, the old Comounist way of thinking is ruling.Don't joke there with the soldiers, don't laugh at the front of the soldiers while talking in your language.Please note that the Visa you get to Ukraine...
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If your current health insurance doesn't cover you while your abroad, you should consider getting international travel insurance just in case something should go wrong.
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Travel Guides
Like many other countries in Eastern Europe, the Ukraine is a rapidly developing country. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to find a Tourist Information Office or just a free map, therefore an up to date guide book for independent travellers is highly recommended.Here are 3 travel guides, which we used during our recent trips to the...
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Free maps and brochures of Chernivtsi
I was really surprised about the wide variety of free maps and brochures in the Tourist Information Centre of Chernivtsi. They even had some free of charge high-gloss brochures available.Apart from that, they sell all sorts of souvenirs as well as several guidebooks and DVDs in various languages. The Tourist Information Centre is located near the...
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Chernivtsi Off The Beaten Path
As we stayed 4 days in Chernivtsi, we also went on a half-day sidetrip to the historic district Sadhora. In the 19th and early 20th century it was the Jewish centre of the Bukovina and an important place of Jewish Chassidism. In the middle of the 18th century a mint was established here as well. Beside an old Jewish cemetery, a Christian cemetery,...
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Christian Cemetery
Another very interesting cemetery is the Christian Cemetery, which is even larger than the Jewish Cemetery. Besides Ukrainian and Russian tombstones, there are also many Polish and German inscriptions. The grave of the famous Ukrainian writer Olga Kobylianska is said to be located here as well, but we didn't find it.Directions:The Chistian Cemetery...
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Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery of Chernivtsi is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Most of the place is more or less overgrown by vegetation, but it looks like some people look after it. The tombstones date back to the 18th century and many have German, Hebrew, Ukrainian or Russian inscriptions.At the entrance stands a Ceremony Hall, which was built in...
Chernivtsi Sports & Outdoors
As on most of my travels I always try to have a look at the stadium of the local football club.
The Bukovina Stadium is the home ground of the FC Bukovina Chernivtsi which was founded in 1952 under the name Burevisnyk Chernivtsi. The stadium has a capacity of about 17.000 and also includes track and field for athlectics.
It was quite easy to get inside the stadium as the gates were open due to students doing exercises.
The Stadium of FC Bukovina Chernivtsi can be found behind the Shevchenko Park at the Holovna street, somewhere south east of the city centre.
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Chernivtsi Favorites
Soviet war memorials
Besides a few smaller Soviet war memorials, which commemorate the victims of WWII, we spotted two larger ones:An obelisk style Monument to the unknown soldier stands in the eastern half of the large Soborna Square, which used to be named Austria Square during Austrian times.A Red Army Tank Monument can be found at the corner of the streets Gargarin...
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Park Shevchenko
Chernivtsi's largest park in the city centre is the Park Shevchenko, which was named Volksgarten during Austrian times. The park includes a permanent funfair with all sorts of rides, as well as a summer theatre. Apart from that several statues and fountains can be found in the park.Directions:The Park Shevchenko is situated along the Holovna street...
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Central Square
Chernivtsi's Central Square (Ploshcha Centralna) is the heart of the city centre. The southern side of the square is dominated by the Town Hall, which is described in more detail in my "Things to do" tips.Just next to the Town Hall stands the former Directorate of the Bukovinian Savings Bank, which is now the Art Museum. The facade of this Art...
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A traditional Cornish cottage in a rural location surrounded by farmland. With an enclosed private garden and parking space. Set in the open countryside facing the sands of Gwithian on the east side of St Ives Bay. Within easy walking distance of a three-mile sandy beach and numerous coastal walks on National Trust-owned land. Simple access to St Ives, Penzance and Hayle.
The property is a semi-detached cottage and accommodation is available from February to December. Oil-fired central heating. Can accommodate up to four people and one infant in crib (upon request). Linen can also be provided on request. Please note that due to Gwithian being a very rural area, mobile phone reception is limited for most providers.
We also welcome all pets! Please let us know what pets you may have upon booking
Size | Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms |
Nearest beach | Gwithian Beach 800 m |
Will consider | Long term lets (over 1 month) |
Access | Car not necessary |
Family friendly | Great for children of all ages |
Notes | Pets welcome, No smoking at this property |
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Luxuries | DVD player, Sea view |
General | Central heating, TV, Games room |
Standard | Kettle, Toaster, Iron |
Utilities | Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine |
Rooms | 2 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms |
Furniture | Single beds (2), Double beds (1), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4 |
Other | Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair |
Outdoors | Private garden |
Access | Parking |
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Last week my buddy and I were brewing a batch of our IPA. Our plan was to bottle our Imperial Red on the same day. Amidst the entire process, we of course became rather hungry. Being that we were outside I figured that I would just fire up the grill and barbecue a few brats and burgers. So I did. I grabbed a package of brats and couldn't rip the sucker open. I grabbed the knife and sliced the top part and finally got the package open. After turning around I notice that my buddy has the bottling bucket open with our gorgeous Imperial Red glistening in the overcast of the great northwest. It is also about that time that I realized when I spun around and set the knife down, I dripped a ton of bratwurst juice DIRECTLY into the beer. We decided to just go with it and see how it turns out anyway. If it doesn't become infected, maybe we just created a nice Louisville Red? Anyway, what's the biggest bonehead mistake you guys have made when brewing? I figure it's best if we just laugh these instances out. I can promise I won't be anywhere near my brew with hotdog juice again.
In the 24 batches I've done, the biggest mistake was forgetting the priming sugar in half of a 10 gallon batch. We did remember it in the 2nd half of the batch, but then we didn't know where the non-priming sugar bottles stopped and the ones with priming sugar started. We separated primed from non-primed from unknown. Primed ones were fine obviously. The non primed ones I had to open them all and drop in the priming drops and recap. For the unknown ones, in some, I'd open them up, drop a tablet in and they would spew foam. So those I pitched. Overall not the biggest deal, but we did lose a few beers.
Adding 5 oz of corn sugar to a 3 gal batch netted a loss of 33 or so bottles that became bombs.........
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Other than habitually leaving valves open and spilling wort on the floor, one of the dumber things I've done was try to use my hop spider bag as a trub filter by recirculating my wort through it while chilling. It blew up like a giant wort balloon. To get the wort out I had to lance it with a knife.
Left me wort overnight in the pot. Came home from work the next day. Fermented it anyway. Tasted like my first batch. Gross.
hmmmmmm.... Knocked over a bucket with 5.5 gallons of chilled wort just as I was finishing up a brew day..... Dropped a 6.5 gallon glass carboy through the bottom of my plastic wash sink, onto a tile floor where it disintegrated into tiny, tiny glass shards that covered my entire basement.... Forgot to turn the burner off on my mashtun and added my grain- checked temp 10-15 minutes later and it was 200 degrees. That is probably enough for now Brew long enough and you will do all kids of dumb ****.
Dumbest thing I done was getting the bright idea of using a small heater, on the lowest setting, to bump the temp in my temp controlled freezer for an altbier I had brewed. The current ambient temp was in the mid to low 50s (my garage was colder), so I thought the heater would raise the temp to 65F and the freezer would then kick on if it went past that to keep it at 65F. I came back downstairs after 20 minutes to see how it was running and noticed the freezer temp controller was flashing 135F!! Miraculously, I still got fermentation (and didn't burn my house down). I want to do that batch again and see if that mishap had any impact.
"There is no right way to brew. The journey to finding out what works best for you is 99% of the hobby. Ethanol is the other 1%" - Bobby M
Not my dumbest, but I had the bright idea to drop a muslin bag into a carboy and rubber band it around the top. The goal was to pour the wort, trub and all, into the bag to filter it out. I thought I had a brilliant idea! For some reason (maybe a few too many beers?) I thought that I would then be able to pull the full muslin bag back out when I was done, can't say I didn't give it the ole college try. I now have newfound sympathy for my wife pushing three babies through a hole three babies just should not fit through. Ended up just dropping it in and leaving it and the beer turned out horrible.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson
I was at Andrew event for a local brew club. They were brewing a couple of batches for an upcoming beer fest. One of the guys was getting ready for the last hop addition at the end of the boil. He wanted to be precise on the time of the addition. So he took his phone out and swiped to unlock and dropped the phone into the wort. They'll only have one batch to pour next weekend.
letting other people know that I brew. 65% want free beer (90% of them just to get drunk, 10% for the love of beer), 25% want to heckle me because I brew beer, 25% want to quiz me about little things to catch me showing the stupidity of home brewing. the numbers add to over 100% because all three overlap each other. there's a small amount that do all three.
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HK's USA warehouse selection is getting better. I noticed just the other day that they finally have some Zippy batteries in stock! Shipping seems to be based on total mAh or something because it says "USPS Priority" which should be a flat rate for a box, but the shipping goes up, up, up as you add even some smaller batteries. Not sure what that is all about. But I am sure it will be much faster than Swiss Post at least I just got a box full of lipos from HK international and it took just over one month. Seemed to take forever to update the status once it made it to Zurich.
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Camera Mount on Nose Mod
I went with the quick and dirty (aerodynamically) method for mounting my camera on the nose. It leaves just enough nose in front of the camera for bumper protection.
Basically, all I did was make a cut in the foam for 2 lengths of 3/8" square hardware dowel for a solid platform for the camera to sit on and be rubber-banded to. I hot glued the dowels into the slot in the foam. If you look closely at the photo you'll see popsickle sticks placed there to tilt the camera up. I can take them away if I want more down tilt. Kinda low tech, but easy and lightweight. The camera is a Pentax OptioW60 which is a good all around outdoor 10 Mp point and shoot. It is waterproof and dustproof. The latest in this line is the W90 which now has 12 Mp and is advertised as "shockproof". The reason I went with this camera is the interval shooting feature (which most don't have). Fun for doing high quality time-lapse sequences. The low HD video (1280 X 720 pixels) is has a maximum capture rate of 15 fps, so unfortunately not the easiest to watch when the camera is moving fast. I'll post a short video from the new camera mount in the next post. With the camera so far forward, I have to mount the battery way back in the fuse under the wings. I can't put anymore weight in front of the CG because i don't think i can reach to put the battery back any further. I was just doing this with my 3S 2200 mah...not sure if it will work now with the 1500 mah. Mmm....has anybody put a hatch further back in the fuse? I was hoping to try my new roll control gyro (the Detrum GY48V) and "borg" camera for shooting still photos on demand today, but a very light mist was the frustrating inhibitor, too bad because the winds were so light. Here is a thought for some discussion: I was thinking of eliminating the rudder on my SkyS. I'd like the additional channel for flaps since I have all the channels full now on my cheap 6 channel radio. I don't actually fly with rudder much, but want some more experienced pilots take on the question. Here is the video I mentioned above:
Jan 30, 2011, 01:38 AM | ||
another link
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...=W&LiPoConfig= Happy hunting |
Jan 30, 2011, 03:27 AM | |
New stuff for the V2 Sky Surfer
Ok. Back on topic. I have been assembling my Sky Surfer #3. It is the first V2 that I have assembled. Here are some pictures. I will explain them down below.
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Jan 30, 2011, 04:16 AM | ||
Jan 30, 2011, 03:57 PM | |
I got to do the the test flight will all my FPV gear on it and although it seems heavy for it's size it handled it extremely well very impressed . I was invited to Gymon Oklahoma about a hour north of me . I did some flight video but was nothing great. I did a couple snap shots to share . Wind was from the north 15 to 25 . I will be redoing the way my camera is mounted . I am going to try and do a hatch like mentioned I had to put my 2200 pack back in fuse to balance . Overall it is a GREAT Little plane !!!!
Here are a few pictures . |
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