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Night watch on the canal
After sunset, Amsterdam goes wild, sometimes so wild that the city needs a conciliator. Mirik Milan is the world's first – but not only – night mayor. Our reporter met and accompanied him toward the end of his term in office
A man in a pink tutu stands in the middle of Leidseplein square, gazing helplessly at the dozens of tiny booze bottles, chocolate bars and condoms lying in a puddle at his feet. Swaying unsteadily, he bends down to retrieve them. His friends cheer him on as he sorts the goods into his vendor's tray. It's his stag party: His buddies want to watch him act like a crazy idiot before tying the knot. With its perimeter of clubs, bars and restaurants, its neon signs above doorways promising intoxication and good company within, Leidseplein in the center of Amsterdam is the right place to go.
A dark-haired man in red jogging gear blazes a path through the crowd, raindrops beading off the lacquer fabric of his suit. Mirik Milan has his hood pulled over his head, but is immediately recognized by the bouncer at the Jimmy Woo club, a woman with a blond quiff and a neckful of tattoos. Milan is Night Mayor of Amsterdam, after all, the patron saint of reveling bachelors, the representative of all creatures of the night – of locals desirous of a quiet life and club operators alike. Inside the Jimmy Woo, Milan marches over to the console and shares some news with the DJ. Beneath the flickering of hundreds of light bulbs, the dance floor resembles a large piece of jello with protruding arms and legs.
"The night gives everyone a sense of freedom," says Milan, "because all night owls have one thing in common: They are looking for a great experience. It's easier to let yourself go among like-minded people." Milan is now 37 and doesn't go out as often as he used to. He works mostly at his desk, in an old architects' office overlooking a canal. This is where, back in 2012, Milan became the world's first night mayor, with one coworker and a vision. "I come from the nightlife scene. It's where I grew up, where I made my friends. The opportunity to represent the scene worldwide was like a dream for me," he says. Many other cities have since followed Amsterdam's lead, and now London has its Night Czar and New York its Office of Nightlife.
Over the past six years, Milan has done much to achieve peaceful coexistence in Amsterdam, but he will hand over the office to his successor this month. Like Milan now, his successor will not be getting very much sleep since Amsterdam, like Berlin, is a European party capital. Marijuana consumption and prostitution are both legal here, the festivals and DJs, notorious, making Amsterdam a magnet for the party crowd. Unfortunately, many revelers often feel so free in Amsterdam that they vomit in doorways, brawl on street crosswalks and urinate against mailboxes. Someone is needed to mediate between the nightlife scene and daytime business, between rowdy revelers and peace-loving locals, between light and dark.
Many people think Amsterdam is so liberal, but we actually have many rules
Over the years, the people of Amsterdam have grown a little thin-skinned. Small wonder, given that each year, 850 000 residents share their city with 17 million tourists. The canals are becoming congested, rents are rising, hotels are driving residents away. In an effort to establish a balance between visitors and residents, the city is constantly passing new laws. Since the end of 2017, no new souvenir shops are permitted to open in the center of town – no new gouda cheese shops, no frikandel snack shops. What's more, residents are no longer allowed to rent out their private homes through Airbnb for more than a maximum of 30 days a year. On top of that, the city pockets a five-percent tourist tax on every booking.
After dropping by the Jimmy Woo, Milan runs on to the Rijksmuseum, where he's organized a night dinner at the Rijks restaurant there in a bid to highlight another nightlife problem: "It's hard to find a decent meal in Amsterdam after 9 p.m.," he says. He's trying to establish an area downtown where businesses can stay open round the clock. He regards as his greatest achievement the 24-hour license he managed to obtain for ten establishments in 2014. "Many people think Amsterdam is so liberal, a paradise for hedonists. But we actually have many rules and regulations," he says.
The high point in the calendar of the city's organized excesses is the Amsterdam Dance Event, which is held every October. "Around 375 000 people attend more than 300 events over five days – and still police and medics report business as usual, no more than on an ordinary Saturday night," says Milan. Amsterdam has become organized, it's a bit like Disneyland, a bit like nursery school. It has learned how to deal with hordes of high or intoxicated people: Provide simple access and exit points, clear directions – here's the bar, there's the bathroom –and illuminate the dark corners.
Shadows offer protection from prying eyes and exposure. They embolden people to do things they would not dare to do by day. In 1669, Amsterdam became the second city in Europe to install gas street lamps, blurring the boundary between day and night to this day, although the dark hours have asserted their special status. To Milan, the good aspects outweigh the bad: "The night brings people together. It's where ideas are born and relationships begin and it's tremendously important to the creative scene, but also to businesspeople like myself."
Before completing his degree in communication science, Milan had already set up his own event company and organized parties until becoming Night Mayor – an honorary office at first. "Without an official structure, I would have remained nothing more than a merry fellow with his own ideas," says Milan. In 2014, he became the world's first full-time night mayor, and that office then became an independent NGO, financed in equal thirds by the city, nightlife players and what Milan earns from appearances and consultations. A total of 80 000 euros comes together each year that way. The "Prince of Darkness" is elected in an online vote by a colorful mix of people, including artists, club operators, festival visitors and residents.
If something goes wrong at night, the initial reaction is usually a ban, says a disapproving Milan. As Night Mayor, he sees it as his job to work out a satisfactory solution with everyone involved. "If a drunk beats someone up, it's not the club operator's problem, it's society's problem," he says. He wants to wean society onto peaceful coexistence.
Milan had a close relationship with ex-Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan, who died in October 2017, even though they only met up once or twice a year. "Van der Laan had a huge influence on me over the past few years. I really admired his open, honest manner," says Milan. The two men realized their most important project on Rembrandtplein square. Here, too, there are several night clubs and bars, and in the middle, 15 bronze statues of armed men in breeches, taken from "The Night Watch," the Rembrandt painting hanging in the Rijksmuseum. Steadfast, they stand before their maker, unfazed by the people who drink, wrangle and hang out. Milan raised funds from the clubs around the square and van der Laan matched the amount. With that budget, they improved the street lighting, established a pedestrian zone and introduced "square hosts," who patrol the Rembrandtplein to make sure everyone obeys the law. What's more, residents can now contact their law enforcers via app. "The people who live here finally have the feeling that the city takes their problems seriously, and the partygoers feel safer too," says Milan.
His successor will have his hands full too. Every year, five percent more tourists arrive, and 25 million are expected in 2025. "We can't make Amsterdam less popular," says Milan. He heads back via Museumplein, where the words "I am sterdam" bid everyone welcome in giant letters. He does feel that the city's dance floors could be more open: "More diversity in our nightlife would be good both for the city and its residents."
It's been a good, lively night but now it's getting late, even for Mirik Milan.
A tour of Amsterdam nightlife
Start with a meal
A good place for that is the De School, a gallery, gym and club serving great food.
Feel the heat
Check out a concert at the Paradiso, a live music club with a long tradition.
Top-up time
Keep your spirits up! The Vesper serves some exquisite drops.
Get down
Time to really let loose: Locals and tourists party together at the Claire.
Perk up
Avocado toast and banana latte are sure to banish your hangover.


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Some bricks have a random power-up within them. There are many various power-ups (most beneficial, some of them harmful), such as: lengthening/shortening our paddle, enlarging or duplicating our ball, adding thrusters to the paddle so that it can fly, adding various weapons so that the paddle can shoot and destroy bricks, and many more.
Occasionally, various monsters will appear on the playfield and begin flying around. Most of those are harmless and do nothing except interfering with the ball (if it hits them, it bounces off). However, some monsters will destroy your paddle if they touch it.
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With the games to be released internationally over the next two weeks, the Tokyo Game Show was our last chance to check out both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus in HD before they hit the shelves.
Sadly, I didn't have time to get to Shadow of the Colossus (it was a little busy in there), but I was able to settle in for an extended session with Ico's opening sequence, and walked away impressed.
Not with the game. I mean, this is a classic we're talking about, and one that's aged well, so how it plays wasn't really going to be a problem. I was more concerned with how it looked. And it looked great!
This isn't a straight re-release, as some work has been done. Yet neither is it a remake, as the upgrades are subtle and restrained, only being used in those areas that, in 2011 and on a HDTV, were deemed necessary.
For example while mostly untouched, everything in the game, from the characters to the levels, now runs in true HD, and some stuff even looks like it's been retouched to improve on failings in the original, something you don't really notice until you zoom right in on Ico's face and notice that instead of being rough polygonal blocks he's now got a smooth face that scales as you zoom out.
It's also locked into a consistent 30 frames per second (the original would sometimes slip below this during busier sections), which might not sound important but makes everything look smoother and a little more contemporary while you're running around.
For all the critical acclaim the game has received over the years, it still hasn't sold that well, especially when you consider it's been released twice already (once in 2001 and a reprint in 2006). Hopefully this loving application of spit and polish convinces those who haven't yet realised hand-holding and empty castles can be a lot more awesome than they sound.
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Many of my friends and colleagues had been itching to view the docu-comedy Babylon that aired recently on Channel Four. One standout story in the programme was the portrayal of officers being filmed by a documentary crew.
I admit that I sat cringing at the representation. One officer kept hamming it up to the camera, while others were trying to do the job unaffected by the media intrusion. Back in the office, the comms team was considering whether a separate dog-related documentary should include footage of officers swearing. Fact or fiction? Can documentaries really represent what goes on in an organisation? And what is the role for the comms team?
At Greater Manchester Police, we receive about five requests each day to take part in documentaries. These range from showing specific departments, through to the life of a new recruit and a regular stream of requests to work with police dogs and horses. Most haven't been commissioned and will never see the light of day. A few do, both with and without our help.
Working with film crews can have a positive impact. Last year, TV programme The Unspeakable Crime showed the support provided to victims of rape. Hopefully, it encouraged people to seek help. But for every good documentary, there is one that can leave a nasty taste. If anyone remembers seeing the documentary about Harpurhey, an area of Manchester, on BBC Three, they may be unaware of the tension it created within the community.
Committing to take part in a documentary is committing resources and time. The key for Greater Manchester Police's participation is that the programme will support its objectives. It is also important to reach the required target audience. Finally, it needs to bring a return on investment for us. There needs to be a significant benefit if a crew is being brought in for several months. If the benefits aren't clear, we may not progress.
Policing is a high-interest subject, but we don't want to be all over the TV. If we have a crew in looking at a specific subject, then we don't allow any others in.
Every day people are taking footage of events to post on social networks. Cameras are all around us and smartphones are never far away.
Concerns about letting fly-on-the-wall documentary crews loose in an organisation have disappeared. Comms teams would once have been trying to manage crews, review the footage and ensure the organisation was portrayed in the best way. Now, whether the member of staff has been filmed swearing by a documentary crew or a member of the public, it is understood that it is going to be shared.
Whoever you are and wherever you work, you could be on camera. As comms professionals, we need to push to ensure people are treated in the right way, and organisations behave in a reasonable way.
Amanda Coleman is corporate comms director at Greater Manchester Police


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Also, you should link to a more informative page than the amazon one. Maybe the wikipedia page.
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Comic 472: well this will be short...
Also, you should link to a more informative page than the amazon one. Maybe the wikipedia page.
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Really? You're utterly unwilling to concede that it might have any appeal to those who haven't read the book?ReplyDelete
Pick up on some goddamn genre clues already.
Because I haven't read the book. And I think this is a hoot. Just what about combining IHOP with a slow descent into madness doesn't appeal to you?
"There was blood on the floor. Some of it was mine."
Sorry pat, I choose to stand firm. I think he could have changed it slightly to be a more general "IHOP descent into madness" and it would have worked. Like maybe if the title had been something like "They seem so innocent to most people, but I am slowly being sucked into the powerful vortex of evil that is IHOP...."ReplyDelete
Instead, he adopts the much more ranbling, disconnected, confused etc style that I guess is a parody of the book. Which makes it I'm sure much, much better if you have read the book, but a significantly dampens the humor (to me at least) otherwise.
You must admit that even if you found it funny anyway, if you didn't read the book then you are not the intended audience.
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Man, I would have liked this so much if he hadn't declared the parody at the top. I've never read the book, so at first I thought it was just an IHOP descent into madness, and that would have been awesome. He kind of crippled the joke, but hey. Still my favorite xkcd in a while.ReplyDelete
Wouldn't hold it against someone if they found this fucking stupid, though. It kind of treads the line.
I didn't get it. However I think I have figured out his evil scheme! He has a large internet audience, most of whom will NOT have heard of this obscure parody. However, it looks at least slightly interesting because of the words IHOP and blood on the menu, so everyone will click the Amazon link, which I noticed has a tag, giving him $$$$ when people get the book by clicking his link! Or maybe even $$ for clickthroughs! Heck, I clicked the link even before discovering this evil plot!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2008 at 7:31 PM
I've read the book--even wrote a final paper on it--and this is spot on. It's actually funny. This comic is a nice break from programming in-jokes and attempted romance.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Yeah, the last few commentaries have been really lacking, Carl. It might be time to give this up. You used to have a really good thing going here, but it seems like you're just doing whatever you can to get the daily critique up, even if it doesn't really hold any merit.ReplyDelete
Andy - that is ingenious. I wonder how hard it would be to start my own version of this. PS EVERYONE BUY "Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual" it is the best book EVER!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Anon - Ok, that's what I was looking for. I believe you that's it's a great parody, and I am sure that if I had read it I would love this comic. Oh well. Still, I guess that means it's funny and he does have some humor left in him, I just didn't get it this time.
Tedzen - I am very aware that this is a possibility. The last two weeks have been very weird for me (as I warned you they would) but now my life is back to normal so hopefully it will get better (also I'm going to go read all the feedback people put on this post).
If enough people tell me I've lost it, I'll stop. I'm ready for that if need be. It would be far too ironic if this blog became everything I hate about xkcd, and everyone moved on to xkcdsuckssucks.blogspot.com.
I still appreciate your commentary. Though I still maintain there needs to be an xkcdsuckssucks.blogspot.com just to have a recursive balance.ReplyDelete
I've read House of Leaves. It's one of my favorite books. I thought it was a wonderful parody, though not quite top of form. At the same time, when I read it, I was pretty sure most people would just think it was weird. Maybe amusing. Probably not memorably so.
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2009 at 6:41 AM
Having literally finished House of Leaves about 10 minutes ago (it's a good read by the way), I have to agree that this is a dumb comic. Sorry, but I don't want to read all this bullshit in a bad imitation of the half-insane ramblings of Johnny Truant in relation to a damn pancake house. It's boring.ReplyDelete
The biggest problem with this comic is that to anybody that hasn't read House of Leaves it doesn't make sense, and to anybody that has read House of Leaves, it's not nearly as fucked up as the book itself. So it's either incomprehensible or a pale imitation depending on your point of view.ReplyDelete
i actually just got around to reading House of Leaves and agree with you. I really should go back and update this post with my newfound knowledge.ReplyDelete
It's pretty dumb to say he should have watered it down to just generally going insane and obsessing about house of pancakes. Because that's like "it would be funnier if he'd taken the joke out". (and would you at least admit that the 'guy goes insane and tries to figure out meaning from the HoP menus' joke hasn't been done before?). I'd read house of leaves, and I really like this one. He's searching for meaning in all the wrong places.ReplyDelete


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For 3 1/4 cups whole milk only 1/4 cup rice is added to make a rather soft rice pudding.
Some participants noticed that the rice/milk mixture was not thickening at the end of the 30 minute cooking time as directed in Dorie's Book "Baking From My Home to Yours".
Dorie was most helpful and let us know that there is a typo in the book and the cooking time should actually be increased to 55 minutes, so if you have the book you may want to make that notation about the increase in cooking time.
There is a variation in the book so you can make this chocolate flavored, or fold in some whipped cream. I simply added a small dollop of homemade raspberry jam.
This is probably a good version of rice pudding, but it didn't change my mind, I still prefer my Mom's Tapioca pudding over any other.
But don't allow me to spoil the experience for you. If you like rice pudding, you may like this version!
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King.com is announcing that it will release its most popular Facebook game, Candy Crush Saga, on mobile in November.
The announcement was expected to be made in conjunction with executives from Facebook at a San Francisco event this evening. The game will fully sync across mobile and social, allowing players to save their scores and any purchases made across both mobile devices and Facebook.
It's the second game that the London-based games company has launched cross-platform, so why the big party to make the announcement?
In an interview, Riccardo Zacconi, CEO and co-founder of King.com, explained that this particular game represents a key milestone for the company as it begins to bring all of its games from Facebook to mobile. This summer, it launched its first game, Bubble Witch Saga, across mobile and social. But he is particularly excited about launching Candy Crush Saga, a match-three game, on mobile because of how well it is already doing on Facebook. Today, it is attracting nearly five million daily active players on Facebook, making it the fourth largest game behind three Zynga titles.
Even as a mobile game, King will rely heavily on Facebook for distribution — which is probably why Facebook is helping to promote King's extension from one to the other. For instance, if a user already plays the game online, a link to the game will appear in Facebook's app in the left-hand navigation on iOS. If a user clicks on the game inside of the Facebook app, he or she will be sent to the App Store, where they can download the native version of the game — if they haven't already.
He said since launching their first game cross-platform, they've discovered two things:
- Players who connect to Facebook on mobile monetize and retain better. "It's an improvement in the game experience when they are connected to friends," Zacconi said.
- Also, usage of the Facebook app doesn't fall when a user also starts playing on their mobile phone. "It's accretive," he added.
However, Zacconi said he did not know how many players have discovered and downloaded its games through the Facebook app.
King.com, which has previously said it is evaluating its chances for an IPO next year, will bring all of its "saga" games to both Facebook and mobile, offering one seamless experience. "We believe if a player likes a game on their computer, he'll also want to play the game everywhere," Zacconi said.


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Volkswagen Super Bowl ad staring the pint-sized Darth Vader or the already legendary extra long Chrysler Eminem Ad. Both ads raised the bar for car companies for ads in the big game. The Volkswagen ad had tremendous impact on brand awareness and sales according to a report on BusinessWeek. A feat that for instance Hyundai would like to achieve during the Super Bowl 2012 with their new ads. The success of some of the 2011 Super Bowl Car commercials increases the pressure to air even better ads at the Super Bowl XLVI.
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For the first time in almost seven years, scientists watched a blue-and-red sunset from Mars, courtesy of NASA's Opportunity rover. The new view is appealing from an inspirational as well as a scientific point of view, scientists said Thursday.
"You're observing the sun setting on another planet — how often do you get to do that?" Cornell astronomer Jim Bell, team leader for the Mars rovers' panoramic cameras, told journalists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's important not to forget that what we're doing does have special inspirational moments like this."
The time-lapse sequence echoed a similar set of observations conducted during the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission — the last time that a probe successfully landed on the Red Planet. Sunset photos were also taken by the Viking landers back in the 1970s.
Bell said the latest sunset pictures were "inspirational and beautiful, but there's really some good science in there as well." For example, atmospheric scientists analyzed the way the sun was hazed over as it sunk toward the horizon, and concluded that the Martian air held twice as much suspended dust as it did when Pathfinder snapped its pictures, he said.
"Those of you who live in Los Angeles will be very familiar with this effect," Bell joked.
So far, Opportunity and its twin in Gusev Crater on the other side of Mars, the Spirit rover, have returned 9.1 billion bits of data to Earth, including about 11,000 images from 18 cameras, Bell said.
Beginning next week, the rovers will try taking the first-ever pictures of eclipses as seen from another planet's surface, Bell said. Because of the orbital mechanics involving the two moons Phobos and Deimos, Martian eclipses are thousands of times more common than the earthly phenomenon, though not nearly as spectacular.
Bell said the rovers would take more pictures of sunrises and sunsets, and also conduct nighttime astronomical observations to judge how opaque the Martian atmosphere was at night.
Seeking traces of water
Atmospheric science is a sidelight to the rovers' main mission — a study of Martian rocks and soil to determine whether the planet had liquid water long enough in ancient times to support the development of life.
"Water is the elixir of life," said Ray Arvidson of Washington University at St. Louis, the deputy principal science investigator for the $820 million mission, "and if we come up with the conclusion that water has been involved in the surface or subsurface at some time in the past, then I think the probability that prebiotic systems could have gotten started and life could have gotten started goes way up."
But he declined to predict whether the mission would reach a conclusion on the liquid-water question. "That story is right around the corner, but we need to finish the work in progress, get all the data analyzed ... and then I think the story will be known," he said.
Rovers to become more robust
The rovers were designed for a primary mission of at least 90 Martian days, or sols, each one nearly 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Spirit has reached Sol 53, and Opportunity is at Sol 32 — but the mission team says both rovers could keep going for many days longer than the 90-day "warranty period."
Slideshow: Mars at halftime "Both of them, from a spacecraft health point of view, are fantastic," said mission manager Jennifer Trosper. Engineers are planning to upgrade the solar-powered rovers' software so that Opportunity conserves more of its electricity during the night, and so that both of the rovers are more willing to roll over what Trosper called the "more challenging terrain" ahead.
For the first part of the mission, the rovers' hazard avoidance software was set conservatively, but Trosper said Spirit was entering a more rock-strewn area that would call for a bit more robotic courage. The future upgrade would build more "robustness" into the rovers' navigation software, she said.
Over the next day or so, Spirit would analyze a craggy rock nicknamed Humphrey, then continue on its trek toward a crater called Bonneville, less than 330 feet (100 meters) away. "We hope in a few weeks to two weeks to crest the rim of the crater Bonneville and to look in," Arvidson said.
About the same time, Opportunity should be finishing up its work within the 72-foot-wide (22-meter-wide) crater in Meridiani Planum where it landed a month ago. Arvidson said the science teams for Spirit and Opportunity would then "both be at the rims of craters, one thinking about going in and the other thinking about going out onto the plain."
More pictures to marvel at
Opportunity sent back more pictures for scientists to marvel at, including a look at a scattering of rocks, pebbles and soil on a shelf of bedrock called Charlie Flats.
Bell said an enhanced-color view of Charlie Flats, spanning only half the size of a coffee table, showed "more spectral color diversity than we've seen in almost any other data set on Mars." He said one rock in particular could bear the spectral signature of gray hematite, a type of iron mineral that could have been formed by interaction with liquid water.
NBC News space analyst James Oberg said that the feature was intriguing, but also illustrated how easy it was to read deeper meaning into raw imagery from Mars.
"What it looks like is a small critter that burrowed through these sediments, probably when they were softer, eons ago," he observed via e-mail. "At least, that's what we want it to look like, so we need to resist that interpretation and just look harder."
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Interval training can help you get the most out of your workout.
Are you ready to shake up your workout? Do you wish you could burn more calories without spending more time at the gym? Consider aerobic interval training. Once the domain of elite athletes, interval training has become a powerful tool for the average exerciser, too.
It's not as complicated as you might think. Interval training is simply alternating short bursts (approximately 30 seconds) of intense activity with longer intervals (three to four minutes) of less intense activity.
For instance, if your exercise is walking — if you're in good shape, you might incorporate short bursts of jogging into your regular brisk walks. If you're less fit, you might alternate leisurely walking with periods of faster walking. For example, if you're walking outdoors, you could walk faster between certain mailboxes, trees or other landmarks.
Whether you're a novice exerciser or you've been exercising for years, interval training can help you jazz up your workout routine. Consider the benefits:
Yes — but you can take interval training to many levels. If you simply want to vary your exercise routine, you can determine the length and speed of each high-intensity interval based on how you feel that day.
After warming up, you might increase the intensity for 30 seconds and then resume your normal pace. How much you pick up the pace, how often and for how long is up to you.
If you're working toward a specific fitness goal, you may want to take a more scientific approach. A personal trainer or other expert can help you time the intensity and duration of your intervals — which may include movement patterns similar to those you'll use during your sport or activity — based on your target heart rate, the ability of your heart and lungs to deliver oxygen to your muscles (peak oxygen intake), and other factors.
Interval training isn't appropriate for everyone. If you have a chronic health condition or haven't been exercising regularly, consult your doctor before trying any type of interval training. Studies suggest, however, that interval training can be safe and beneficial even in people with heart disease.
Also keep the risk of overuse injury in mind. If you rush into a strenuous workout before your body is ready, you may injure your muscles, tendons or bones. Interval training doesn't have to involve high-impact exercise, ballistic or jumping movements, or heavy weights. Instead, start slowly. Try doing just one or two higher intensity intervals during each workout at first. If you think you're overdoing it, slow down. As your stamina improves, challenge yourself to vary the pace. You may be surprised by the results.
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This Is What It Would Look Like If a Mom Sang 'Let It Go' [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Yes, this is another parody of 'Let It Go' from Disney's 'Frozen.' But this time, it's told from a mom's perspective.
According to 961JoyFM, one woman from the Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana decided to give Queen Elsa the voice of a mother — one who is at the end of her rope with her young children. Dressed in pajama pants and a bathrobe as she performs on a stage with props like a couch, toys, and a laundry basket, she hilariously laments the difficulties — but ultimately, the joys — of being a mother.
"Socks off white laundry mountain tonight, not a clean pair to be seen," she begins, ultimately leading to the chorus, which is a familiar refrain both parents and kids alike can relate to.
"I said no, I said no / Don't turn away and slam that door," she sings boldly.
And the lyrics only get better from there. As the bridge builds, she belts out, "Why is his Batman underwear here on the ground? Why can't you put it in the laundry baskets all around?"
But, like any mom, her love for her children outweighs all of those little annoyances.
"Let it go, let it go, 'cause I'm their only mom," she belts out one last time. "And here I am, and here I'll stay, 'cause I'm their mom / That stuff never bothered me anyway."


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|System: PS3, X360, PC
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Monolith Productions
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Sierra Entertainment
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: April 24, 2007
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1 - 2 (16 online)
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by D'Marcus Beatty
May 2, 2007 - Children can be spooky. Movies like The Shining, The Grudge, The Ring, and Damien can attest to this sentiment. Perhaps it is the twisting and corrupting of a symbol of innocence and innocuousness that frightens us so much, but seeing children in the role of aggressor generally spooks audiences. F.E.A.R. knows that and exploits that, crafting a spooky but fun experience for the PlayStation 3.
F.E.A.R. is actually another one of the latest ports to PlayStation 3, although it is admittedly one of the better ones, at least in terms of gameplay. A lot of the elements that made the game great didn't survive the transition to Sony's system, but the fun is still intact, and for anyone who hasn't played any of the other versions, it will be sufficient. However, if you've tried the other versions, prepare to be a little disappointed.
F.E.A.R. cleverly stands for the First Encounter Assault Recon team, a team of government soldiers that deal with paranormal encounters. The assignment of the game is to tackle a cannibalistic psychic that can control an army of clones with his mind. During gameplay, your character, which is a member of the F.E.A.R. team, will get flashes of unsettling imagery and will also be subject to apparent "hallucinations" that add to the disturbing feel of the game. The story is cleverly told through various means, mostly voicemails, answering machines, the aforementioned hallucinations, and dialogue from team members. However, the story quickly becomes an excuse for the gameplay and the majority of gamers won't remember much of the narrative as much as the frenetic shooting.
The gameplay is a typical first person shooter, with an assortment of guns and grenades to dispatch your foes. However, a few things make F.E.A.R. stand out from the rest of the standard FPS games. The first and most obvious is the sprinkling of horror elements, which makes the game feel like a survival horror hybrid without the feeling of fear or desperation. The player never really feels as threatened as in the typical survival horror game, but that obviously the intent of the developers and not a shortcoming.
F.E.A.R. also makes use of the main character's heightened reflexes, which works as the slow-down feature for the surrounding foes. This ability is limited in use by a meter which depletes as the reflexes are initiated, but swiftly refills when not in use. If anything, this decreases the game's difficulty by bounds, although it is fun to rush a foe, blast him with a shotgun, and then continue on to slaughter more enemies even as the first one is still floating through the air.
The final and most commendable distinction is in the game's A.I. The hordes of foes actually work as a team and will try to flank you and use a number of viable tactics to try to defeat you. You'll see them using obstacles as cover, barking orders to one another, attempting to outmaneuver you, and even cursing in disbelief at your speed and durability. Each foe, from the moment you see them to the moment they're lying at your feet, feels like a true human opponent, especially from the assorted comments that they make as they battle you.
There are some areas where F.E.A.R. falls short though, especially when compared to the PC and Xbox 36 versions. The first and most obvious flaw is in the graphics. F.E.A.R. doesn't really look next-gen and actually pales in comparison to the previous versions. The main character's arms seem like stiff boards that shift robotically when he leans and show no life signs at all. This lifeless stiffness extends to the other characters and environments as well, creating a lack of depth that hurts the game's appeal. There are also long load times that weren't as pronounced in previous versions.
The sound in the game is excellent, with superb voice acting, especially from the clones that you battle. Everything in the game has an appropriate and well done corresponding sound, from the weaponry to the beeping answering machines.
F.E.A.R. also has a multiplayer mode that allows you to take your game online with eleven playable maps and different modes including capture the flag and deathmatch. In addition to multiplayer, F.E.A.R. also includes the Instant Action mode, which is a sort of Time Trial to compete against others for the best time. Both of these modes are fun and extend the playtime greatly.
Overall, F.E.A.R. is a fun and great experience for anyone who hasn't played the game before. Anyone who's tried the game on the PC or Xbox 360 will immediately notice flaws and probably retreat to the previous versions, but the game still makes a nice addition to the PS3's growing library of ported titles.
D'Marcus Beatty
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President Barack Obama's first budget of his new term is a political straddle, aimed at enticing Republicans into a new round of deficit negotiations while trying to keep faith with Democrats who favor higher taxes in service of more government spending.
That gives everyone something to dislike if they are so inclined - and many in divided government are.
Obama's stated goal is otherwise, namely that his $3.8 trillion budget should lead to the completion of a slow-motion grand deficit-cutting bargain by offering to save billions from programs previously sheltered from cuts. Medicare, Social Security and even military retirement are among them.
Perhaps to reassure Democrats unsettled by this approach, the president said his offer to trim future benefit increases for tens of millions of people is "less than optimal" and acceptable only if Republicans simultaneously agree to raise taxes on the wealthy and some businesses.
"If anyone thinks I'll finish the job of deficit reduction on the backs of middle-class families or through spending cuts alone that actually hurt our economy short-term, they should think again," he said in an appearance Wednesday in the White House's Rose Garden.
In rhetoric reminiscent of last year's campaign, he added, "When it comes to deficit reduction, I've already met Republicans more than halfway."
That's not how they see it, and the issue was doubtless on the menu at the dinner for a dozen Republican senators that the president invited to the White House several hours later.
The early public reaction from Republicans was generally predictable, and none too positive.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the president deserves "some credit for some of the incremental entitlement reforms that he has outlined in his budget.
"But I would hope that he would not hold hostage these modest reforms for his demand for bigger tax hikes," Congress' top Republican added, a repudiation of Obama's insistence on higher taxes.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell wasn't nearly as generous. "We need a balanced budget that encourages growth and job creation. We don't need an extreme, unbalanced budget that won't balance in your lifetime or mine," he said. He stopped short, barely, of accusing Obama of trying to blow up chances for compromise rather than improve them.
Overall, Obama's budget accentuated the vast differences between Democrats and Republicans in their approaches to igniting a slow-growth economy - the issue that the president said was "the driving force behind every decision that I make."
He proposed slowing the growth of federal deficits without eliminating them, and is seeking $1 trillion in higher taxes over a decade. His plan wipes out roughly $1 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts contained in legislation he signed more than a year ago and calls for new spending to expand pre-K programs and increase highway and mass transit construction and repair. The net impact on the deficit is savings of roughly $600 billion over a decade, far less than the $1.8 trillion the White House claimed.
By contrast, the budget that Republicans pushed through the House last month leaves across-the-board cuts in place, reduces spending by an additional $5.6 trillion over a decade and shows a balanced budget without raising taxes.
Both sides also express support for an overhaul of the tax code, although neither has yet fully staked out a position.
That makes benefit programs the likeliest - possibly the only - fruitful area for another deficit-reduction compromise in the coming months.
Over a decade, the president's proposal to change the way the government calculates inflation - and therefore makes annual adjustments in benefits and income tax brackets - would produce savings estimated at $230 billion.
That's a relatively small amount of savings in a decade, when overall spending will be counted in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Ironically, in political terms, it may be enough to do what Republicans have so far failed to accomplish - produce serious cracks in the unity that Democrats have generally maintained in earlier deficit-cutting negotiations.
Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat running for the Senate, issued a statement saying he opposes the budget "because it would cut benefits to seniors on Social Security and makes other significant cuts to other key low-income programs that are vital to Massachusetts residents like low-income heating assistance."
Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement that while she agrees with Obama on the need for a balanced approach, "there are specifics in the president's plan around earned benefits about which I have serious concerns."
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, a group with strong ties to Democrats, was more blunt. "We object to the president's proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare. Social Security has never been contributing factor to the deficit and we cannot leave seniors out in the cold," she said.
EDITOR'S NOTE - David Espo is chief congressional correspondent for The Associated Press.


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The University of California at San Diego Energy Dashboard allows users to see up-to-the-second information on a structure-by-structure basis for 60 of the largest buildings on the La Jolla, California, campus. The data is provided by UC San Diego Physical Plant Services from over 200 energy meters providing energy usage at the building level. The portal also features information coming from roughly 40 individual power meters that measure energy consumption in the office, e.g., a computer and monitor drawing power from a single socket. A denser deployment of meters, which would measure and display individuals' energy use, is currently under planning and development.
The Energy Dashboard grew out of a simple premise. "If you cannot measure energy use, you will not be able to make much headway in reducing your energy footprint," said Yuvraj Agarwal, a Research Scientist in the Jacobs School of Engineering's Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department.
"Energy models of buildings are decades old, and nobody was looking to see if those were still valid," added Agarwal, principal architect of the dashboard. "People tend to think that by shutting off the lights in an office, they've done their part for the environment. In fact, our measurements indicate that personal computers can account for almost 25 percent of energy consumption of a building, and most of the time, these PCs are turned on but are not actually in use. If you also include servers and data centers, the contribution of so-called IT equipment can be a staggering 50 percent of total baseline energy use, because a lot of the energy is used during nights and weekends when utilization for these PCs and servers tends to be very low."
The tools available on the Energy Dashboard include real-time power measurement of the entire UCSD campus; energy consumption for each building; and power usage of individual devices such as PCs and servers that are plugged into electrical sockets in some CSE offices. The campus meters are all viewable by the public, but access to the individual meters is currently restricted to the owner of that meter (for privacy reasons).
The Web portal provides statistics updated at least once every minute on total power consumption, power generation, imports from San Diego Gas & Electric, and a comparison between power usage and production. (UC San Diego produces about 82 percent of its annual energy load using 1.2 megawatts of electricity from photovoltaic panels and a 30-megawatt natural gas-fired co-generation plant.) To locate energy-use data on each building, visitors to the Energy Dashboard can select the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, or any of the university's six undergraduate colleges.
The new portal grew out of research that took advantage of the CSE building's green features, including four building sub-meters and 16 individual circuit meters installed over the last year. Working with his Ph.D. advisor at that time, Jacobs School of Engineering computer science and engineering professor Rajesh Gupta, Agarwal sifted through the data from the mixed-use CSE building and three others that are typically found on a research university campus: a residence hall, a data center, and a research building with energy-intensive clean rooms for nanofabrication—the Atkinson Hall headquarters of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
The researchers were able to identify where peaks in energy consumption came from and the primary components of baseline energy use " including IT's large energy drain even when computers were not in use (e.g., at night or on weekends when the computers are often left on, just in case the user ever wants to connect in remotely or they are running a background application that requires the machine to be powered on).
"Buildings with a large IT footprint can therefore reduce consumption significantly by decreasing their base energy load," concluded Agarwal. "Our ability to look at energy use in fine detail gave us greater insight about how to reduce power consumption significantly in these campus buildings. To do that, you have to create effectively duty-cycled buildings."
Duty-cycling refers to the fraction of time that a computer or telecommunications system is in an "active" state as compared to a low-power "sleep" or an "off" state. The challenge with duty-cycling is lack of availability. To achieve availability even when the system is sleeping, Agarwal effectively created a hybrid active-passive state for power-managed systems. In the case of a building, says Agarwal, computing systems that are not in use could revert to a hybrid active-passive state,' using only one to two percent of their normal power usage, while' still allowing these computer to perform very basic functions and know how to seamlessly wake up whenever needed.
"You want machines that can effectively talk in their sleep and thus stay connected," said Agarwal, only half-jokingly. "If every PC and server could revert to a 'sleep-talking' state, the IT equipment would also generate much less heat, and that would translate into further savings on air conditioning and climate-control systems. We estimate that the CSE building energy use could be cut in half."
With support from the campus, CSE and Calit2, Agarwal and his colleagues in the Microelectronic Embedded Systems Laboratory are working to prove that estimate by enabling this "hybrid sleep" option for desktop PCs and servers across the CSE department as a pilot deployment. To enable this functionality, a few participants in the study are using Somniloquy, a dedicated USB hardware dongle that was previously developed by Agarwal and his colleagues. Furthermore, a significant number of users are now employing "SleepServer," a software-only version of the energy-saving architecture developed recently by Agarwal, who is scheduled to present a paper on the technology in Boston at the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in June.
To improve the value of data in the UC San Diego Energy Dashboard, they are also working with a private company on a less expensive plug-level meter. Today individual meters that can monitor energy use remotely cost approximately $200 each; Agarwal thinks that if they can get that price down to the $30 to $50 range, individuals wanting to track their own carbon footprint will be happy to invest in a meter that would transmit its real-time data to the Energy Dashboard, where the user would be able to use the portal's tools to track their own usage " and even compare it to the energy profile of a colleague in the next office. "Working with a set of very creative and intelligent students, and leveraging their talent to address some of the energy issues of today, is also immensely satisfying since it feels like you are solving a real-world problem in the end," said Agarwal. Among the graduate students working on the Energy Dashboard project is Ph.D. student Thomas Weng, a coauthor on the November 2009 First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings paper The Energy Dashboard: Improving the Visibility of Energy Consumption at a Campus-Wide Scale with Agarwal and Gupta.
According to Agarwal, his group is now working on an Energy Dashboard API that will make it possible for anyone at UC San Diego to integrate their own power meter into the dashboard and take advantage of its visualization and comparison features. In the longer term, the researchers are looking into ways to release the API to the larger community, outside of UC San Diego, such that anyone with the appropriate energy meters can post, visualize, and compare their energy use data on an externally available Energy Dashboard.


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CHICAGO AND BALTIMORE - The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) today issued a declaratory ruling that it does not need to review further the merger of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) and Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG). The companies submitted their joint application to the New York State PSC on May 17, 2011.
"It is a positive step that the New York State PSC does not require further review of our application, because it means they have cleared us to proceed," said Exelon President and COO Christopher M. Crane. "This is another milestone toward completing our merger, and we continue to be on track to close the transaction in the first quarter of 2012."
"This merger will create the number one competitive energy provider with one of the industry's cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets, along with one of the largest customer bases nationally," said Constellation Chairman and CEO Mayo A. Shattuck III. "The New York State PSC's decision demonstrates additional progress in our efforts to finalize the merger early next year."
Constellation is a co-owner of the Nine Mile Point and Robert E. Ginna nuclear power plants in New York and markets power and gas in the state. Exelon has no operations in New York State.
The ruling follows Exelon, Constellation and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company's announcement earlier today that they have reached a merger settlement with the State of Maryland, the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), the City of Baltimore and the Baltimore Building and Construction Trades Council. The settlement includes a significantly expanded package of benefits totaling more than $1 billion and expected to create more than 6,000 jobs in Maryland.
Shareholders of both Exelon and Constellation overwhelmingly approved the merger on Nov. 17, and the Public Utility Commission of Texas approved it on Aug. 3. The Maryland Public Service Commission is the only remaining state approval required. The merger also requires regulatory approvals by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Justice.
The Exelon-Constellation merger will combine Exelon's environmentally advantaged generation fleet with Constellation Energy's industry-leading customer-facing businesses. The companies announced their intent to merge on April 28.
A copy of Exelon and Constellation's filing with the New York State PSC is available at: http://documents.dps.state.ny.us/public/MatterManagement/CaseMaster.aspx?MatterSeq=37029.


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You look stunning as always!! And I love that jacket!! xx,JO.
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I have a bag like this thrown in the back of my wardrobe somewhere, I'll have to dig it out, I forgot how much I like them!ReplyDelete
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That tote bag is so cute! It looks really great with what you're wearing. I've not heard of them before but they've got some really lovely things! Just added their 'Bon Voyage' clutch bag to my never-ending wishlist... x
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ahh I love these shots! that jacket is so fab. just wondering, what lense do you use on your camera? all your photos always look so great
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Have fun at the festivals! The coat is amazing!!
I love that jacket so much! Alphabet Bags is such a cute little brand, I agree...the quality is fab! Congrats on winning, sounds like you're gonna have SUCH an exciting summer x
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I am obsessed with this jacket. Also that lip colour is amazing!
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Love the outfit, especially the coat!
Love this outfit !! I search since a long time an hat like yours but i didn't find this in France :/
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I love that mac! and the bag is seriously cute.
I totally know your pain about never being able to get anything with your name printed on it -.- x
That mac is everything! I'm obsessed with Alphabet things and am hoarding almost anything with 'N' on it.
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Congrats on winning! Going to festivals all over the place sounds like quite an experience.
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Love your bag and your mac is so cute! That's so lucky that you've won a competition to go to euro festivals! Wow well done!
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Those photos are super cool, and you make me laugh with the held of secrets not that perfect ... It's okay we won't tell anybody ;)
I always find tote bags are the perfect partners for a shopping trip and this one is adorable! When I was younger I could never find anything with my name on it either. Love it! And well done for winning the comp, sounds amazing!
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One thing about fabric tote bags is that they have so many uses it would be hard to even list all of them. But what is certain that they will never go out of style. They have been used mostly used as beach bags, diaper bags, and even purses. womans bagsReplyDelete
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If you've driven past the former Market Street Café and Chevron station in the past week, you've probably given yourself whiplash checking out the massive canopy frame covering the gas pumps out front.
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With it's new restaurant, The Pointe, it looks like the Omni is getting serious about being a player on the downtown restaurant scene.
Aptly named after the architecture of its building and location at the apex of the Mall, this replacement for the previous restaurant inside the Omni Hotel, 235, differs radically from its predecessor.
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54 degrees of frost is as far below freezing as 86 degrees Fahrenheit is above freezing.
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The TS-EC879U-RP supports SSD caching which can greatly boost IOPS performance of storage volumes. It is perfect for improving overall workflow of IOPS demanding applications such as virtualization.
With increasing virtualization of IT resources, the need for high performance storage is more essential than ever. The TS-EC879U-RP offers class-leading system architecture matched with 10 GbE networking performance designed to meet the needs of demanding server virtualization, such as VMware®, Citrix®, and Windows® Hyper-V. 10 GbE network speeds greatly increase the agility of data transmission in a virtualized environment intensifying NFS and iSCSI connection performance.
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Note: TS-EC879U-RP with 32GB RAM is required
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RAID is an advanced feature that the QNAP Turbo NAS offers to enhance data protection and performance. The QNAP Turbo NAS has a scalable design in addition to supporting various levels of disk configurations such as RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+hot spare, 6, 6+hot spare, 10, 10+hotspare, single disk, and JBOD.
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The TS-EC879U-RP supports multiple bonding modes: Balance-rr (Round-Robin), Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad, Balance-tlb (Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing), and Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing).
The LAN ports of the Turbo NAS can be configured in failover mode which allows the TS-EC879U-RP to sustain the failure of one network port and provide continuous services.
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The TS-879U-RP can be deployed with multiple different IP settings for sharing among different workgroups in two different subnets.
The TS-EC879U-RP offers various features to help the administrator manage the system efficiently.
Instant SMS and Email Alert
Note: Windows Live Messenger Alert will not be supported after March, 2013 due to the service termination from Microsoft.
|SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
Collect the information, warning, or errors of the TS-EC879U-RP and send warnings up to 3 SNMP servers for centralized management and real-time monitoring.
|Wake on LAN
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Create schedules to automatically turn on, turn off, or restart the TS-EC879U-RP. Up to 15 schedules can be set.
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Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) helps the administrator monitor hard disk status. Moreover, the TS-EC879U-RP supports Hard Drive Health Scan (HHS) for disk checking and bad blocks scanning.
Comprehensive Event Logs
|Available QPKG Software Plugins
Maximize the usage of the TS-EC879U-RP by installing additional QPKG software plugins developed by the users and communities worldwide.
|Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E3-1225 v2 Processor 3.2 GHz
|System memory: 4 GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Memory module pre-installed: 4 GB x1
Total memory slots: 4
Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4)
|Flash Memory
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|Hard Drive Tray
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|LAN Port
4 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port (Optional dual-port 10 Gb network card is supported)
|LED Indicators
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2x USB 3.0 port (rear)
Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
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|LCD Panel
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Enter and Select buttons for configuration
|Alarm Buzzer
|System warning
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|88(H) x 439(W) x 520(D) mm
3.46(H) x 17.28(W) x 20.47(D) inch
|Net weight (NAS only) : 12.52 kg/27.61 lb
Gross weight (with packing and accessories) : 19.75 kg/43.54 lb
|Sound Level (dB)
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In operation: 54.6 dB
(with 8 x 1TB hard drives installed)
|Power Consumption (W)
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In Operation: 132W
(with 8 x 1TB HDD installed)
|5~95% RH non-condensing, wet bulb: 27˚C
|Power Supply
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Output: 300W
|Expansion Slot
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|Reserved for system maintenance
|3 x 6 cm smart cooling fan
2. If the NAS is to be installed in a rack, a rack shelf or QNAP rail kit (optional purchase) is required.
3. The optional rack kits for the TS-x79 rack mount models are only compatible with square-hole server racks.
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Supported Clients
Supported Browsers
Multilingual Support
File System
Backup Solution
Disk Management
iSCSI (IP SAN)
Server Virtualization & Clustering
Power Management
Access Right Management
Domain Authentication Integration
MyCloudNAS Service
Storage Plug & Play
Web Administration
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