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Zune HD
September 17th, 2009
Microsoft enters the touchscreen game with a major contender.
For awhile, many had thought the iPod touch had dealt blow to the Zune that Microsoft didn't have an answer for: the 2008 Zune update was just a mild refresh, and even the software team was mostly quiet for the next year. The Zune HD, then, is Microsoft's return salvo. It promises not only to put the Zune level in terms of features like multi-touch input and Internet access but to have features Apple lacks, such as 720p support, HD Radio and an OLED screen. We plan to discover just whether or not Microsoft's return to form is enough to quiet Apple's guns.
design: thin is in
Microsoft has been known for making reasonably slim players, but sleek ergonomics were never its strong suit: all of the "clickpad" Zunes were comfortable, but very blocky and slightly childlike in their look. That goes away with the Zune HD, which is arguably one of the most attractive media players to date. It's minimalist but still visually interesting, and Microsoft has even managed to work the improved ergonomics into the design language: the tapered back is easier to hold, and the two-tone ridged sides make it easier to grip the player with just your fingertips. And once again, the Zune uses an aluminum back that resists scratches and hides most fingerprints, especially if you own the 32GB platinum model.
It's also noticeably thin and smaller than its Apple counterpart. It may be thicker than an iPod touch, but there's no question the new Zune fits more easily in a pocket both in thickness and width.
The controls are more mixed, but still quite positive. Microsoft was careful not to make the mistake it has with Windows Mobile in using a resistive (pressure-based) touchscreen, which would have been imprecise and prevented anything more than single-touch controls. Here, it's a capacitive glass touchscreen that reacts to very gentle input, and it supports multi-touch gestures (more on the subject later), albeit with the quick accumulation of fingerprints as a result. If anything might be a weakness, it's the physical buttons, which have small but largely forgivable quirks. The home and power buttons are slightly hollow -feeling, and the quick control button (there in place of a volume rocker) is harder to find without looking.
As before, there's no easily replaceable battery or storage card slot. That's becoming less of an issue with players as battery life and internal memory increase, but those who value expansion first will certainly want to turn to Creative or SanDisk first. The curious may be interested to note that the back is relatively easy to open, however: teardowns by others have revealed that you only need a screwdriver with a wood screw head to open the back. Without readily available spare parts there's little to do but look and void the warranty, but it remains an option.
music playback and the interface
Those who've had experience with
earlier Zunes
will recall that Microsoft's interface was freshly styled but, out of the necessity of a four-way control pad, couldn't be that original. Its best feature was the use of a cross-like interface that would always show nearby menu options even while it displayed what's in the current menu, such as existing tracks. In short, it was enough to be useful but not enough to lure entrenched iPod owners.
A touchscreen has given Microsoft more freedom to refine its interface for browsing and playing content, and it shows. In some senses, the interface is just refined rather than new. The menu layouts remain the same text driven arrangements as before, with touch mostly used to simplify what was already there: the top-level button to shuffle all songs is quick, for instance, and you now just have to tap on the words above the current menu to take a step back. Flicking through menus or playlists requires just a very natural-feeling swipe, too, and is much faster than even the touch scrolling on the clickpad. The larger, higher-resolution screen is also a treat for finding items visually, especially podcasts.
At the same time, Microsoft has made some potentially controversial changes to how it handles basic media controls. Rather than put the pause, skip and volume controls directly on the now playing screen, the Zune HD needs a screen tap on that view to show those basic controls. This makes sense for video -- most want the main interface out of the way during a TV show -- but it's counterintuitive for music, especially as Microsoft sees fit to put the much less essential favorite, repeat and shuffle functions at the top level. It's also harder to get back to the now playing screen than it is on a device like the iPod, where you can even set the home button as a double-tap shortcut to common music tasks. While the quick control button on the side of the player will give you basic controls, here it's usually necessary to revisit the home screen and visit the Quickplay section to actually see the track data you saw before.
One area where Microsoft deserves at least some credit, though, is in integrating artist information with music. With syncs and downloads, any track that has recognizable track data (which is most) gets not just the album art but also a custom artist background, a bio, a discography, photos and related artists. And just as the Zune Marketplace will let you see albums produced by an artist but unavailable on the store, the Zune HD will fill in all the custom artwork and details even for artists whose music can't (legally) be downloaded anywhere. Play a Beatles album and you'll not only see John and Paul in the background but have a chronology of the group's music, even though it can only be found on CD outside of a
Rock Band
There's a definite tinge of self-promotion to the feature, though: while useful for filling in details of an artist you don't know much about, it's made clear this is partly a vehicle for getting you to either buy more songs from the Marketplace or to download them if you have a Zune Pass. Thankfully, it's not pressed in your view unless you go looking for it, and the Zune team's care for music is shown in lavishing the same amount of attention on famous artists that have little to no online presence as those in the modern top 40. If nothing else, it's an appreciated level of eye candy that isn't as present on more austere players.
The aforementioned Quickplay is certainly an element the iPod lacks. Like the desktop software, it gives you a quick, visual at-a-glance view of what's been most recently accessed, most played, and importantly, most recently added. Frequent buyers or Zune Pass subscribers might consider having very quick (two taps) access to a just-imported album a defining advantage, and the format isn't limited to music, either. Photos, videos, websites and even radio stations show up in this list, so it's never hard to quickly play a favorite album or revisit a video.
Radio also deserves a mention, though only just. The touchscreen makes it easier to browse airwaves and to select stations, but the main addition is HD Radio. To be honest, we don't find much use in it. While it does provide better sound quality and more variety in music, it's limited in scope (only some stations have it) and its digital nature means that poor reception translates to complete silence rather than the somewhat usable "fuzz" of analog FM. We consider it a bonus rather than a must-have feature.
photos, videos and the stunning OLED screen
The Zune HD's name suggests its highlight is visuals, and this is where the player undoubtedly excels. As we mentioned before, the control scheme is more logically laid out for photos and videos, and multi-touch comes into play here. You can pinch to zoom into and out of photos as well as flick through them while browsing -- it's no secret that this is modelled after the iPod's approach, and it's one area where imitation was all but necessary for an intuitive experience. The interface for browsing both photos and videos is again intuitive and lets you sort by automatic criteria, such as the month a given set of photos were synced with the player. An accelerometer is built into the player and works very well for rotating to display photos at their native aspect ratios.
More than anything, though, the Zune's OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display makes either still or moving images a treat in most cases. In most lighting conditions, the screen is much more vivid than an LCD like that on the iPod. OLEDs don't need backlights, so they produce true blacks and better overall contrast ratios. Colors "pop" on the screen in any mode, but with photos and videos the effect is dramatic and has the virtue of making them very attractive to look at. Given that the 16:9 aspect ratio of the display also eliminates most of the black bars that appear when a video has to be cropped to a non-native format, resulting in a larger real-world picture, we'd go so far as to say that the Zune HD may be the ideal handheld for watching modern movies, TV shows and video podcasts.
There is a caveat, though, and it's potentially significant for certain users. As OLEDs aren't naturally reflective like LCDs, they have a tendency to wash out in bright light, such as a sunny day. We did notice this occasionally , but it wasn't quite the fatal flaw that we'd feared would be present. We'll take the rich color in most conditions, especially as this renders the Zune HD one of the few players whose output still looks good in the dark.
What's inside the player is equally important to video playback. The new Zune is one of the first genuinely mainstream media players to handle 720p (1280x720) video properly. No current reasonably-sized handheld display can actually display this at native resolution, and certainly not the Zune HD's 480x272 panel; however, it's valuable to have support for loading videos without needing to downsize them to fit, as on the iPod and most every other player before it.
That sheer performance also gives Microsoft's hardware a distinct advantage for TV output. Unlike Apple's video out, which just shows a currently visible photo or video in full screen, the Zune HD's optional
HD AV dock
has a specially designed interface just for the TV that uses a remote control for input. It's much more flexible and lets users play music or otherwise use most of the Zune interface, including videos at the full resolution. There are times where we're inclined to use the Zune HD as a portable media center.
What irks about the Zune HD's video capabilities are hardware limitations and marketing decisions. One that Microsoft can't escape is storage size: with current models limited to 32GB but a typical HD movie consuming anywhere between 4GB and 6GB, regular HD viewers won't have more than a handful of videos on the player at any given time. Moreover, the necessity of buying a full, $90 dock to see video at its native resolution is likely to leave many customers missing out on one of the Zune's staple features.
Internet features and the app dilemma
As much as Microsoft might be loathe to admit it, the Zune HD is the first Zune whose Wi-Fi access is useful on a broad, practical level. The infamous ability to "squirt" songs and photos is gone; Wi-Fi sync has always been partly useful, but on a basic level shopping the Zune Marketplace is now decidedly easier thanks to quicker navigation and the option of typing in searches.
Importantly, though, this is the first Zune to have a web browser, which instantly opens the door to using the Zune as a general-purpose Internet device, not just a connected media player. It also gives the Zune wider options for where it can connect: at least in theory, the Zune can login at coffee shops and other locations that need a website login to work.
In practice, the browser isn't quite as strong as it would promise to be. Based on the Internet Explorer 6 engine, it's mostly accurate and handles typical pages correctly. It also takes advantage of the accelerometer very well: pages are reformatted almost instantly the moment the Zune is tilted on its side. But using an aging web engine is also a clear problem when the Zune is compared against the Safari browser with the iPod touch. Web browsing just isn't as engaging: sites load much slower, sites occasionally show visual artifacts, and any site that uses the very latest web code (such as HTML) is ruled out. Multi-touch input is present but doesn't work as well here as in the photo browser. Pinching is slightly "loose" in that it may zoom slightly further in or out than you intended, and double-taps are more likely to not zoom in far enough to properly highlight text.
Some gripes also exist with the onscreen keyboard. It's mostly positive and takes a few useful cues (once again) from the iPod, like a visual confirmation of the key you're about to press or intelligently adding shortcuts to common text entries (think ".com") when relevant. But as it's on a slightly smaller and noticeably narrower display, mistakes are slightly more common than on Apple's hardware. We also greatly missed the auto-correct feature both to fix mistakes and to speed up entry, although it does remember past web addresses to save time.
The combination of flaws adds up to an experience that leaves web browsing to more deliberate tasks and mobile-optimized sites (a number of iPhone-aware sites recognized the Zune, on this note). We'd use the Zune HD for updating Twitter or checking webmail, but we can only see ourselves occasionally using it for day-to-day web browsing.
Perhaps the most upsetting feature for anyone on the fence between Apple and Microsoft is the climate for apps: namely, that there isn't much of one. On launch, just nine apps are available and mainly involve two minor utilities (a calculator and a weather app) as well as a handful of 2D board games. 3D games have been promised by the end of the year, including
Project Gotham Racing: Ferrari Edition
, but no one should buy the Zune HD today with the expectation of using it for productive tasks or as a substitute for a Nintendo DS.
Worse, many of these apps load slowly and have pre-launch ads. Having to view a Kia ad just before a game is unlikely to persuade users to return. We suspect this will change as more apps appear or as feedback possibly results in a reversal of the ad-based policy, especially for the promised, frequent-use apps promised later like Facebook and Twitter.
Even if this is the case, though, users just shouldn't anticipate software availability on the level of the iPod's App Store, at least in this incarnation. Microsoft has publicly cautioned that the initial app selection will be limited to first-party titles and therefore that specific app needs aren't likely to be met. It's been speculated that Microsoft is waiting until it can sync development of Windows Mobile and Zune apps before opening the floodgates to third-party development; until then, buy the Zune HD as a media player first.
audio quality and battery life
Gauging sound quality is a subjective effort as it can vary widely based on the quality of the encoding as well as your listening equipment. Even so, we're generally pleased with the pure output of the Zune HD when using a good pair of in-ear buds, such as the Shure S2c or, yes, Apple's In-Ear Headphones. It doesn't feel like the Zune brings out quite as much detail as an iPod under the same conditions, but the sound is warm enough and will certainly let you hear the difference between steps up in earbuds or headphones.
Upgrades from the Zune 80 and 120 will be disappointed to learn that the stock earbuds aren't the Premium Headphones that came standard with the hard drive players in the past. We don't think too many will miss these, though. Prices are lower with the Zune HD, and we've often recommended that audiophiles look for their own earbuds rather than pay the extra expense for pre-supplied earbuds that often will only sound mildly better than the very cheapest models. For those who hold out with the default, the audio quality is strictly average for the price, but the anti-tangle magnets on each earpiece are more useful than for most in the class.
There's little to complain about in terms of longevity. Officially, the Zune nets 33 hours of music with Wi-Fi off and 8.5 hours of video. In our short testing time we had reason to believe the music playback figures were accurate, but we're skeptical about video. Microsoft's battery claims for video assume an unacceptably low 320x240 resolution for playback. No one is going to play a video at this resolution, and battery life will go down sharply just with 640x480 (standard-definition TV) clips, let alone 720p. Also, be ready for battery life to shrink with a heavy amount of browsing or with apps that heavily tax either the 3D rendering or Internet features. This isn't different from the iPod, but it's a reality of handheld devices.
a note on Zune 4.0 software
For all the changes made to the Zune hardware, there's actually not much to write about the 4.0 update on the PC side. It adds Quickplay, which isn't as useful on the desktop, and now lets users buy or rent HD movies through Zune Marketplace. The most useful feature is Smart DJ. There's no doubt it's a clone of Apple's iTunes Genius, but it's at least a tangible improvement. It now creates automatic playlists based not just on single songs but also whole albums or artists. And if you do subscribe to a Zune Pass, you can use the Smart DJ to make playlists based on the entire Zune Marketplace catalog -- a definite guarantee that content can always stay fresh.
In fact, the other most notable addition on the software side is web access to that Zune Pass, which now doesn't require the Zune software at all. On a computer with a modern browser, even a Mac, you can play anything from the Marketplace for no extra fee. The feature isn't unique but is a definite advantage for those who forget their Zunes at home. As a whole, the Zune software remains easy to use and visually attractive but isn't a revolution.
wrapping up
Coming to the Zune HD, we were afraid that it would reflect the stereotype of a Microsoft 1.0 product: interesting and full of potential, but far too rough to be enjoyable. That was doubly true as Microsoft's poor reputation with Windows Mobile touchscreen phones didn't offer much hope that the company would mend its ways, even with promises of capacitive multi-touch input.
Thankfully, most of these fears weren't warranted. The latest Zune as a media player is surprisingly accomplished. Quirks with music navigation and the cost of extra features aside, it's a modernization of an already good media experience that comes with some technically very advanced features. We'd recommend it most for the sort who watches TV shows on the subway commute to work or movies while waiting in the airport. The screen is large and beautiful, and those who want to port their media around the living room without a full, dedicated set-top box have their first truly viable option.
Dock pricing aside, the pricing of the devices themselves are right. There are few $220 players that have the 16GB Zune HD's feature set, and at 32GB ($290) it's still very competitive with not only Apple but Samsung, Sony and most others in the field.
What gives us pause is Microsoft's plans for mobile apps and Internet use. The situation could be very different in a year's time, but the software library and web browser right now are strictly secondary in the Zune HD's world where they're at least as important on the iPod as media functions. If you look at devices like these as pocketable computers, the Zune is for now very limited where Apple's feels like a genuine platform from which to check the Internet, play games and in some cases complete work.
The iPhone question also has to be raised. So much development has been put into the Zune as a media player at a time when converged smartphones are steadily replacing dedicated devices; there's no guarantee the Zune HD will be completely satisfying in a year's time, and owners of devices like the iPhone or HTC Touch Diamond2 won't have as much incentive to upgrade.
Still, for those who want a player first and everything else second, the Zune HD is a thoroughly enjoyable device. In fact, it's the definitive choice for anyone averse to the Apple ecosystem but who still wants an advanced touchscreen player.
- Sleek, fairly durable design.
- Excellent OLED multi-touch screen.
- Mostly very polished interface.
- Capable web browser.
- 720p playback; special TV interface with a dock.
- Good audio quality and battery life.
- No serious app platform.
- Web browser is tangibly worse than Apple's.
- Odd priorities in music controls.
- No major overhaul to the Zune software.


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Announcing the Slow Food Denver Farm Visit Series
Have you ever wondered what it takes to raise bison or how cheese is made? Have you wanted to meet your local farmers and learn how they produce the food you eat? Please join Slow Food Denver this summer and fall as we visit several Front Range farms. Each visit will include a tour, lunch created with products from the farm, and an opportunity to ask questions and build connections with the people who feed us. Every outing will be family-friendly and fun!
Pricing includes the farm tour and lunch. Transportation will be on your own and we encourage carpooling.
Member- $20; Non-Member - $25; Student - $15;
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Visit three or more farms and receive a 15% discount.
Schedule (visits from 10 - 2ish, specifics will be provided for each day):
Saturday May 22, Windsor Dairy (Windsor)
Saturday June 5, Prairie Ridge Buffalo Ranch (Limon)
Saturday July 17, Berry Patch Farms (Brighton)
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Sunday September 12, Cresset Community Farm (Johnstown)
Saturday October 9, The 63rd Street Farm (Boulder)
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These factors have changed drastically the production and profit potential of tobacco. But most growers today want to know two things: Will there be a quota buyout and when will it occur?
A recent report prepared by Economist Bill Givan and Agronomist J. Michael Moore of the University of Georgia and Economist Russell Sutton of Clemson University takes a look at the buyout question.
The first significant proposal for a quota buyout was made in 1997 by U.S. Senators McCain (R-Ariz.) and Ford (Tenn.), according to the report. Others surfaced before the Master Settlement Agreement was signed in November 1998, and many more have been introduced since then.
The proposals come at a critical time for U.S. tobacco growers. During the last two years, contracting has become the dominant means of marketing tobacco, replacing traditional auction markets.
The price support program functions in an auction where USDA grades of leaf are linked to different levels of price support. However, contract sales bypass the auction and are not eligible for price support.
Further, due to the declining demand for tobacco products and U.S. leaf overseas, there is less available quota, and quota rental rates and sales prices have risen. Growers who try to maintain economic scales of production face increasing costs and less aggregate income.
For these reasons, states the report, grower interest in a buyout is at an all-time high. Quota owners see this as an opportunity to exit with a generous payment. Some growers seem ready to give up the security of the price support safety net for greater freedom in making production decisions and selling directly to manufacturers.
Several quota buyout bills have been introduced in the most recent session of Congress, providing for the purchase of quota from growers or other quota holders. These would either modify or eliminate the tobacco program. Some would set up entities to explore new production alternatives.
Others would set up programs for rural development and funding in communities where tobacco is grown. Still others would grant provisions for FDA authority to regulate tobacco products.
Nearly all bills propose to pay quota owners $8 per pound for quota loss and $4 per pound to active growers to help replace lost income. This money generally would be paid over a five-year period. Most of them would terminate the current tobacco program. But some would retain an annual production right (non-transferable) — or limited transfer — to grow tobacco which would be placed in the hands of the growers. Still others would include a minimum price guarantee of leaf based on the cost of production.
A primary concern with all buyout proposals is funding. Current federal budget deficits effectively prohibit any public monies from being used. Consequently, most bills propose funding by tobacco manufacturers. This, of course, would be passed on to consumers in the form of a user fee. Total costs of these proposals, over a five-year period, range from $15 billion to $19 billion.
But there may be some opposition, according to the report. Initial payments that may have to come from the U.S. Treasury as user fee collections may not be sufficient to fund early payments. Of course, the intent would be for the Treasury to be repaid as fees are collected, but any payments from public monies (although to be repaid) will be opposed by some.
This is big money, say the university specialists, but future Phase II payments likely would be terminated upon passage of any buyout.
Congress currently has many pressing bills on the agenda (the possibility of war, agency appropriations, etc.). Most of these are in front of any tobacco buyout in the political process. Any quota buyout would have to get substantial support from representatives and senators from states that will not directly benefit from buyout money and would essentially impose higher prices on their tobacco-consuming public.
Only about 100 representatives in the House are from all tobacco states combined. Further, each tobacco state has only two senators.
No one knows for sure what effect the election might have on this legislation. Some think it could put a rush on buyout legislation, while others think Congress may take a wait-and-see attitude.
But there is support from the public health community for a buyout. Further, these groups have supported some type of tobacco program for growers along with FDA regulations over tobacco manufactured products. But once the situation moves into the political arena, most anything is possible.
Failure to enact a buyout means the current program would stay in place. Farmers would continue growing the current basic quota with the current price-support system. Continuation of contract selling would rest in the hands of the buyers.
If contracting does continue, states the report, there likely will be more specifications imposed on tobacco production. While tobacco product manufacturers often are viewed as large, impersonal entities, it should be kept in mind that their reason for existence is to make a profit, according to the report. And if the leaf content or characteristic affects the demand for their product, then they will set specifications for the leaf.
And with the size of today's basic quota, the industry has an excess capacity for farm-level production with the barns and harvesting equipment that were in place few years back.
But the continuation of the present system likely would result in smaller quotas due to future declining exports and domestic usage.
Export of U.S. tobacco (while it is of extremely high quality) must compete with tobacco grown in other countries.
Many of these countries have cheaper labor and lower production costs. One purpose of the quota buyout is to eliminate the equity inherent in the right to grow tobacco, so the producer growing tobacco is the only beneficiary of the right to grow it. This would eliminate quota as a factor in the cost of producing tobacco, thereby lowering overall costs and increasing competitiveness, predicts the report.
Currently, a producer who owns quota does not pay himself rent, but there is the opportunity cost of holding quota because it has value. A grower who rents quota must pay the quota owner, which boosts total costs.
When the cost of producing tobacco is inflated by the right to grow it, it's more difficult for U.S. growers to be competitive with foreign tobacco. The proposals submitted would eliminate the equity issues associated with quota, concludes the report.


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State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan and Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Director Edmund M. Walker will present certificates of completion to members of the Call/Volunteer Firefighter Training Class 41 and Class 42 Dec. 20 at the Department of Fire Services, Stow.
67 graduates from 31 Fire Departments
Two classes are graduating at the same time. Class 41 trained at the Hamilton Fire Department and Class 42 trained at the Department of Fire Services in Stow.
Class 41 had 24 students including 22 men and two women from the Byfield, Georgetown, Hamilton, Haverhill, Lynnfield, Middleton, Rockport, Salisbury and Topsfield Fire Departments.
Class 42, pictured, had 43 students including five women, and 38 men from representing the Ashby, Boxborough, Carlisle, Dudley, Groton, Harvard, Holden, Hopedale, Hopkinton, Littleton, Mendon, Millbury, Oxford, Princeton, Rutland, Shirley, Shrewsbury, Stow, Tyngsborough, Wareham, West Boylston and Westminster Fire Departments
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Fitted my Losi shafts onto the front.
Pressed the 21x15 bearings inside the carrier
Widened the outside to suit the 14x8
Drilled holes through the shaft.
Now she is just as strong as she is pretty.
Put some meats on and lost some weight. Can't wait to see the roost!
Today I finally got to take it out for a test run and wow! I found out that the old v tread tires that came on it provide little traction on the street as it would spin out easily with more than half throttle and if I ease it up till it hits second and than pour the power on the same thing happens and I love it. In the grass it just flips wright over so its seems like I may need to adjust the slipper just a bit and lower the ride hight. After shutting it down to handle some other business I forgot to open the fuel cut off and then the battery died in my easy start so I put it away. Gonna wait till the wrm weather comes back and really enjoy the revo and jato I have recently snagged up and given some much needed tlc.
Just installed some traxxas tube pushrods to go with my new p2 rockers. Havent driven it yet with the p2's.
One shot.....One kill, no exceptions
Installed a jp1 pipe and metal gear, my big block project is looking the part now..
Took her out to the gravel pit and thrashed a 1/2 liter of fuel through her. The 3.3 with a single chamber exhaust and a 15/40 gear set and the short wheel base, she is a banshee.
When I got home I found that I finally broke the front bumper and the negative lead to the starter motor,the right side wheel nuts like to come loose even with lock tight on them, the wire was an easy fix and hopefully some glue and zip ties will hold the bumper together till my rpm bumper comes in.
Now I'm gonna stuff that pesky 2.5 with the dual chamber back in and take her to the parking lot tomorrow and try to finally get that power plant dialed in as good as my 3.3 is.I also put my old T-max tires back on her.
O.S.21 Nitro Revo, Stampede 4x4, 2 Axial Honcho's
Still on the complete rebuild, both diffs have been torn down and rebuilt. :-) on to the rest now.
4 tanks through the 2.5r today and had her dialed in, on my fourth lap out on the grass I thought I hit a stick the way it shoot up in the air and landed on it's lid and stalled.
When I walked over and picked it up it looked ok so I rolled it on the ground a couple times just to check the drive line and it sounded bad.
Back to my house to tear it down and find that my Opti-Drive decided to shift into reverse while she was doing about 25mph(or it could have been my bulky glove since it was 18f.) either way I ordered a new set of drive gears.
After removing the reverse gear and cleaning the debris I reassembled the transmission stuck it in drive and un-plugged the shifter from the Opti-Drive till my new gears come in.
Who needs reverse when you drive fast anyway?
O.S.21 Nitro Revo, Stampede 4x4, 2 Axial Honcho's
I finally bought a new gallon of nitro so I went to run the truck. The first tank went well, kind of tuning for the weather but overall was running great. Went to the park with my boys to run the rest of my 1st gallon and got half way though the tank when the truck stopped moving and the motor starts screaming. First thought is my slipper messed up. That was fine so I walk back home because it's getting dark and cold. I did my engine shutdown with after run and found out that the truck didn't want to roll backward, it was basically locked. I removed the transmission and got to see what was wrong.
So I was lucky Hobbytown was open until 8 because I was able to get the new gears and transmission case. I will put the transmission in tomorrow, I just don't feel like it tonight.
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I got the transmission fixed in about 20 minutes once I took it apart and got to Hobbytown. I just have to put it in the truck and I am going again. I did the FOC so it's possible I did something wrong, but I am pretty sure I put it together properly.
Don't know how I did it, but I broken one of the screws on the cooling head. There was also another one that was loose. That would explain why it wasn't running right. I didn't have any more head screws to replace it, so I used a motor mount screw since they are the same size. Hope it's made from the same material.
My exhaust header broke today $20 later and was able to run on the RC track for a good hour.
day 4 of snow bashing fun! guess cabin fever cant keep me down anymore.
magically i broke a front bumper..the black piece that takes the shock from the chrome bumper. im glad its an easy plastic glue fix rather than an online order type. out tomorrow! maybe..its been miserably cold. cant wait for upgrade time.
Revo 3.3 FTW!!
I replaced my header gasket on my 21TM it was running lean. Polished the manifold and pipe, too cold out here to run it, 17degrees.
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Went to moms to bash, all to find the darn easy start wand button discharged itself in my backpack.
Cleaned it and put it away for winter. Then worked on my race buggy.
One shot.....One kill, no exceptions
20F today but I took her out any way (pre-heated and started right out the back door) and burned off a tank in the alley.
The old 2.5r is running great!
Brought her in to clean up and noticed my front shock mount was loose, alot to be said for after run maintenance
O.S.21 Nitro Revo, Stampede 4x4, 2 Axial Honcho's
Took it out for a snow run then cleaned it up and said good bye Heading to NC for some training on John Deere equipment. Be good while I'm gone...sorry you had to see me pack up the crawler and heli...had to bring something "rc" with me
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I've got a pile of parts coming in today to fix my BB Revo. I'll try to get those on tonight. MIP rear shiny drives. Traxxas aluminum push rods. Rubber pieces for the carb and an exhaust seal. I have to fab up a front mount for the JP-4 pipe. Put the steering servo back in it. Lots of work to do.
When I'm done with that I still need to fix my 2.5 Revo. New stock roll bar. Clean the air filter.
Both the RX batteries need to be charged.
Got to get the BB one ready for KOH in 2 weeks.
Started tearing into my revo today to change the diff oils and found that my front bulkhead was cracked, not bad mind you but enough for me to want to replace it and while I'm at it I am going to replace the rear as well.
Had no idea that the new 3.3 had an engine brace so I ordered one of those too go along with the rest.
This is turning out to be a pricey hobby.
O.S.21 Nitro Revo, Stampede 4x4, 2 Axial Honcho's
finally got out for some quick runs and my shock end broke again ...aluminum ones on order. Meanwhile had some spare parts ...yeah buddy!!
Man, another broken part for me. This time my right front upper arm broke. I was able to run half a lap at my track when it broke. I know it was cold and that is the main reason it broke. But my motor was running so great with the cold weather. So I bought RPM fronts and the true trac rear much to my wife's dismay. I will put them on in the next couple days.
Looked at my revo today wishing it was spring time to go bashing.
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Boiled some talons of my gemini wheels to get ready to install on the new geode wheels I just ordered. May put my pullstart on too.
One shot.....One kill, no exceptions
Broke my primary shaft again in the tranny and destroyed my clutch. Im packing the girl up until it gets warm. The AB Drag Mod is Boss, but it has horrible gas mileage when its cold. I don't think I was even getting 6 minutes a tank, and that's with 30% nitro. The MC9 worked great after I heated the motor up.
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Go Patriots!
Great day of bashing! Broke my esc cover! Oh well! Was worth it!
Started to change out my broken front a-arm and find out my bulkhead is cracked all the way through. So now I have to wait to buy a new bulkhead before I change everything out. I am also surprised how much I have to remove to be able to change the arms out. More complicated then I was expecting considering how easy everything else has been.
Turn on the radio, then the receiver, make sure everything works then start the engine.
Here is a tip: install a fail safe set to full brakes when signal not received from the controller. I too, learned the hard, expensive way
Replaced springs back to the soft original white and green springs. Can't wait for Warner weather and no snow to go bashing!!
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The revo got a fail safe installed today. Never want to witness another run away like 2 weeks ago. Had to replace entire frt suspension from that one. Fail safe set to full brakes now! Buku due here Wednesday. Sure I'll have alot of tuning fun this weekend.


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UH Manoa to host international food processing and safety conference on Feb. 26-27University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Food Technology Program
HONOLULU - The Food Technology Program in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will host an international conference titled, "Go Global: Food Processing and Safety," Feb. 26-27, 2008, at the Pacific Beach Hotel in the 7th Floor Grand Ballroom. The conference will focus on food processing and safety and the various issues of international trade in agribusiness.
"The topics discussed will help raise awareness and practical knowledge amongst agribusiness practitioners on global business activities through an increase in marketing intelligence, development of new strategies in how market shares can grow and identification and expansion of new markets," said Aurora Saulo, conference coordinator and the extension specialist in the Food Technology Program. "This conference addresses problems local practitioners have long voiced." The two-day conference will include a keynote address by Dr. Nega Beru, director of the Office of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, on "The Future Global Food System."
Local, national and international experts will discuss topics that include: Global Issues Facing the Safety of Food; Trends in the Food Preferences of Consumers; Creating and Marketing Healthful Foods; Enabling Environment for Market Access; Value Chain Management; Facilitating Market Linkages; International Marketing Strategies; and a CEO Forum on Best Practices.
The conference is held in collaboration with the UH Center for International Business Education and Research, Hawaii Food Manufacturers Association and De La Salle Professional Schools (Manila, Philippines).
For more information and to register, go to http://ctahr.hawaii.edu/globalfoods. The deadline to register is Feb. 15, 2008. Those interested in attending but have missed the registration deadline should contact Aurora Saulo at (808) 956-6564.
For more information, visit: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/globalfoods


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Cruise Night
We went up to the cruise night last night and was I ever disappointed; it's a big joke. People that own these nice cars, they went to a parking lot and just sat there. Streets lined up with people waiting to see them go by and look at them and all they do is sit in a parking lot. They need to know what cruising is all about, it's not park your car show in different parking lot.
Dandelions provide a much needed food source for honeybees in the spring particularly in years like this with the late freeze. Our obsession with lush, green, weed-free lawns costs us a lot of time, money, and water and puts a lot of really nasty chemicals into our environment. And then scratch our heads and wonder why bees are dying off all over the place.
How you could put that cartoon, Tinkersons in? It is not worth the ink it takes to print it.
Lyons Track Team
As a part time school bus driver I get to meet and interact with a lot of fine young people in our schools. This weekend I was given the privilege of driving the Lyons track team to the state meet, as I have done a number of times before. Each time I am impressed with their class, respect, and discipline. This is all a reflection of their coaches. They were champions on the track and they will be champions in life because someone has taken the time and made the effort to show them how it's done. God bless you Coach Roberts, we need a lot more like you.
Semper Fi
Last Saturday a young marine and his wife bought breakfast for a bunch of veterans at Aunt Alice's. I just wanted to give a shout out and a Semper Fi to that young marine.
I thought fireworks were completely illegally, if they're not, they should be. TC Line
I've recently been noticing a change in the TC Line, from completely liberal balance to being fair and balanced and I just wanted to call and say thank you. I'm not as disgusted as I used to be. Thank you.
Ron Paul
I saw somebody was complaining that someone still has a Ron Paul up, well I still have my Ron Paul sign up, but don't worry. Just simply add "don't blame me, I wanted Ron Paul for President." And that still makes it very, very relevant.
On the IRS. I Just wanted to say that not one of the targeted 501C applicants were turned down and that is probably the real scandal.
Train Noise
Concerning those that are complaining about the train noise. Just like any other law we got, if one life is saved than it's all worth it. So Think about that.


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Washoe County's school superintendent has repaid the district $2,200 in donations to United Way that were made with district money.
Superintendent James Hager said he hopes his action ends the controversy that arose after the district's ex-lawyer questioned the legality of the donations with public money.
Though the donations were approved by the school board and deemed legal by the district attorney, "The perception held by some is that they may somehow have been inappropriate," Hager said Thursday in a letter to the board.
Hager serves on the board of directors of the United Way of Northern Nevada.
The donations included one made in April 2001 for $1,000 and another for $1,200 made last May.
Another $1,200 donation in November was rescinded after former General Counsel Jeffrey Blanck objected.
Blanck then lodged a complaint against Hager at the sheriff's office. District Attorney Richard Gammick said no crime occurred.
A week later, in a Jan. 16 letter, Hager suspended Blanck from his $93,000-a-year job for undisclosed reasons.
"I had some e-mails and some people wrote that they didn't know if these were appropriate," Hager told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "One guy said he was opposed to United Way and I don't want this to become a lightning rod because we have so much work to do in educating our children.
"The sheriff's department said there was no violation of the law and the district attorney said the same thing," Hager said. "There is no sense in arguing over it, so let me repay it and let's move on."
On Wednesday, school officials proposed having an arbitrator try to resolve the dispute between Blanck and Hager. Blanck refused and hired Reno lawyer Shannon Bryant.
Bryant said Hager's repayment gives the perception the original donations to the United Way were improper.
"It certainly doesn't change anything with respect to my client," Bryant said. "In fact, I think it reinforces it. It is an indication that Dr. Hager acknowledges that there is some impropriety in the initial payment."
Jonnie Pullman, school board president, said donations to nonprofit organizations would be suspended until trustees review the policy.
"There are places for donations, a good example is the foster grandparents program," Pullman said Thursday.
"Other government agencies make donations to these agencies because they consider them partners in the vision of that agency."
Vice President Dan Carne suggested the board should refuse to take Hager's money.
"If we can't support United Way with a little $1,000 check, then something is wrong with the values we have as an organization," Carne said.
"The United Way supports families, kids and education. To say that we don't want to support their mission, which is supporting ours, is absurd."


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One local favorite capsized twice in his kayak. Of the fifteen windsurfers who entered a race around the Island, two finished. Sailboats called for a minimum of three hands: one on the tiller, one on the main sheet and one on the bilge pump.
All in all, there probably were easier ways to raise money for Martha's Vineyard Community Services.
Yet last Saturday's Windsurfing Challenge through wind and waves in Island waters proved the most successful yet, raising more than fourteen thousand dollars for the only umbrella social services organization on the Island. In the past, the annual challenge has raised less than ten thousand dollars.
Nevin Sayre, who founded the challenge twenty years ago (and who finished first Saturday on the round-the-Island course, a circuit of fifty five miles), realized that the same participants were showing up year after year. "We thought to grow the event, we had to include nonmotorized crafts," he said.
Adding in kayakers and sailors, along with the additional funds they raised through pledges, resulted in a record effort for the challenge.
The event is a proverbial drop in the bucket compared to the organization's main fundraiser, the Possible Dreams Auction, which last month raised five hundred fifteen thousand dollars through live and online auctions.
Yet every dollar helps at Community Services, which counts on private contributions to fund a fifth of its six million dollar annual budget. The organization serves about half the Vineyard's year-round population with services that include mental health counseling, an array of early childhood services and nursing.
Hats off to the sailors, kayakers and windsurfers who got soaked for hours on end to raise money that will help their fellow Vineyarders. A suggestion, too, that Community Services start exploring smaller efforts to help supplement its Possible Dreams event and attract the private support needed for its worthwhile work.


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A dozen Changhua County professors and researchers have allegedly forged receipts to make false claims for reimbursement and are being prosecuted under anti-corruption legislation. Now that a large-scale investigation has been launched, people are on tenterhooks, and there are many professors and research assistants who are worried that they too will be implicated.
Major figures in academia, such as Minister of Education Chiang Wei-ling (蔣偉寧), Academia Sinica President Wong Chi-huey (翁啟惠), National Science Council Minister Cyrus Chu (朱敬一) and National Taiwan University president Lee Si-chen (李嗣涔) have called on prosecutors not to charge the professors and researchers with corruption, as not all were lining their own pockets. They reason that the prosecutions will scare talent away from working in academia in Taiwan.
The law stipulates that exploiting one's professional status to illegally procure public funds for personal gain constitutes corruption: There is no room for discussion.
Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law and it is right to say there is no room for discussion. The academics who have come out in defense of the professors have not done so to cover their own backs, they have done so because they are aware that the rigid nature of the government's reimbursement and audit system for research funds has forced many researchers to doctor the system to fund their projects.
Similar cases have been seen in the world of politics, with department head special allowances and the president's state affairs fund. Such behavior has been occurring over a long period and has come to be seen as the norm in academic circles.
The answer to this problem does not lie in academia alone, other sectors must throw in their hats too. The judicial authorities need to follow the money so they can differentiate between self-serving corruption and cases where people have diverted money to fund projects as a matter of necessity. The full weight of the law should be brought down upon those who are simply trying to line their own pockets.
At present, anyone who obtained funds in advance for services yet to be rendered is liable for prosecution. Many more could still be implicated. If those concerned did not seek to pocket the money themselves or confessed and offered to return the money, then they should be able to avoid prosecution for corruption. This would certainly reduce the impact the case may have on academia.
If the judiciary finds itself encumbered by legal restrictions the Legislative Yuan should replicate the way it dealt with the case involving heads of government special allowances, when it made amendments to the Accounting Act (會計法), effectively decriminalizing 7,500 individuals involved, including department heads, their aides, secretaries and administration staff. This would absolve liability for people who were unaware of the legal ramifications of their actions and preserve the integrity of Taiwan's academia.
It is comforting to see important members of the academic world join forces to plead on behalf of their colleagues, even though the institutions they represent are part of the problem, or at least implicated.
There should be a debate between the National Science Council, the Ministry of Education, Academia Sinica and universities on how to remedy the flaws in the current research fund reimbursement and audit system, to make it more flexible and reasonable. This is the only way one can be sure these problems will not be repeated by the next generation of academics.


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BNSF provides an example: traditional thinking on a truckload shipment from Los Angeles to Charlotte, N.C., would have suggested that the shipment is railed to the closest hub with the shortest dray possible. But not one size fits all. With Next Generation Intermodal, shippers are aware of the creative options that may better fit their specific needs - whether that's faster transit time or greater cost savings.
"Providing shippers with this level of visibility and detail allows them to make the decisions that are best for their supply chains," said Steve Branscum, group vice president, Consumer Products (CP). "We believe highlighting this wide range of solutions will encourage shippers to try intermodal in situations they may not have considered before."
BNSF's online Intermodal Advisor tool provides shippers with detailed comparisons of shipping options, giving them everything they need to maximize their use of intermodal rail service. According to the railroad, CP has worked hard to help shippers better understand the benefits of intermodal shipping and how BNSF can best meet those needs.
"Next Generation Intermodal is the next step in an evolving process to help meet their expectations and to help them expand their use of rail intermodal solutions," Branscum said.
Next Generation Intermodal was discussed earlier this year during the CP Supply Chain Summit and, in mid-November, BNSF unveiled a new identity for Next Generation at the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) event in Atlanta, Ga.


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abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg Vorbis (the default), MP3, FLAC, Ogg Speex, or MPP (Musepack) encoder. It grabs an entire CD and converts each track to the desired format, then comments or ID3-tags each file, all with one command. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, the creation of a single track from a CD, resume operation, CD concatenation, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with LAME), parallelization, SMP, proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, distributed encoding via distmp3, and more.
CD-Rchive2 is a complete revamp of the popular but now aged CD-Rchive program. It is intended to be used with cdrecord-ProDVD, cdda2wav, and mkisofs for the production of data and music CDs and data DVDs. Built in tools allow cloning of a complete CD or DVD and writing copies. A Boot Wizard will guide you through steps required to make a bootable CD or DVD, write the code, and compile a binary menu program which runs with isolinux. (If this software suddenly stops working, there is a good chance your cdrecord-ProDVD key has expired; get a new one from the site.)
CDDB.py provides an easy way for Python programs to fetch track and disc information on audio CDs. This information is acquired from CDDB, a very large online database of track listings and other information on audio CDs. Included is a C extension module to enable Python to read track listings from audio CDs under Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Win32. The interface to this extension module is portable and is intended to be ported to other OSes easily.
CDDBD.sh is a shellscript speaking the CDDB Protocol version 1 without enhancements and read only. CDDBD.sh allows to query a local database on a filesystem that was filled with entries using such programs like xmcd or kscd. CDDBD.sh was developed to be used in a local or home network and not to serve a WAN.
CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio tracks), etc. The primary goal for developing this file system was to `unlock' information in old ISO sessions. The file system also allows you to access data on faulty multi session disks, e.g. disks with multiple single sessions instead of a multi session.
cdparanoia reads audio from the CDROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM. Cdparanoia will read correct, rock-solid audio data from inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. cdparanoia will also read and repair data from CDs that have been damaged in some way.
Cdrdao records audio/data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents (toc-file). Features include full control over length and contents of pre-gaps (pause areas between tracks). Pre-gaps may be completely omitted, e.g. for dividing live recordings into tracks. Control over sub-channel data like catalog numbers, copy, pre-emphasis, 2-/4-channel flags, ISRC code, and index marks are provided as well. GCDMaster is a Gnome GUI front-end that lets you import MP3 and WAV files, select track markers and cut/copy/paste audio snippets before burning.
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD/BluRay recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD/BD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives; audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs; full multi-session support; CD-RWs, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, BD-R/BD-RE; and TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD/BD writers.


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Glenn Beck entertains 15K with 'Man in the Moon'
07/07/2013 8:07amGlenn Beck received a warm Utah welcome for a sold-out weekend of patriotism, history, service and politics leading up to the premiere of his original show "Man in the Moon."
Swimmer drowns at Sand Hollow State Park
07/07/2013 8:33amA swimmer has drowned at Sand Hollow State Park in southern Utah.
Brigham City woman dead in I-15 crash
07/07/2013 9:08amA 57-year-old woman is dead following a crash on I-15 near the border of Tremonton and Elwood.
Wildfire near Vegas prompts 100s to flee homes
07/07/2013 9:43amBone-dry trees and vegetation are fueling a raging wildfire near Las Vegas that has prompted evacuations of more than 500 people and left a blanket of smoke over the city, officials said Saturday.
Questar Gas seeks 2.5% rate increase
07/07/2013 11:48amQuestar Gas announced Monday that it is asking the Utah Public Service Commission for a $19 million increase in its Utah general rates.
Man involved in '88 compound standoff set to be released
07/07/2013 12:25pmAfter 25 years, the man who triggered a 13-day standoff at a Utah polygamous compound that ended with the death of a corrections officer will be released from prison Tuesday.
Feds bar new mining claims in solar energy zones
07/07/2013 12:59pmFederal officials have taken another step toward establishing 17 new "solar energy zones" on public lands in the West by barring new mining claims that could impede renewable energy development on the sites.
Team interviews old-timers in federal battle for 12.5K rural roads
07/07/2013 1:48pmA legal team from the state of Utah has been traveling the far reaches of the state to film roads and record testimony in the state's legal fight against the federal government to secure title to more than 12,000 Civil-War era roads.
Tired of public urination, businesswoman builds outhouses
07/07/2013 3:08pmHow do you stop public urination? One upset business owner across from Seattle's Occidental Park is taking matters into her own hands by creating makeshift outhouses in the nearby park.
Man killed by hit-and-run driver who was on drugs, police say
07/07/2013 3:34pmA man died Saturday night after being hit while jaywalking by a man under the influence of drugs, police said.
Teen girl killed in rollover on I-70
07/07/2013 5:09pmA 14-year-old Denver girl died in Utah Sunday afternoon when a car carrying her rolled on I-70 near Green River.
Floods hit Sandy homes even after drain upgrades
07/07/2013 6:04pmSandy city officials said storm drains functioned correctly after massive amounts of rain flooded six homes Saturday night.
Celebrating our children's independence
07/07/2013 7:31pmAs parents, it is often difficult to let our children make their own choices — but it is imperative that we do.
Was shooting on reservation murder by police or suicide?
07/07/2013 7:57pmUtah Highway Patrol trooper Dave Swenson had his gun trained on the disabled Suzuki sedan when the teenage driver and his passenger climbed out.
Infiniti FX37 is not a car, and it's not an SUV
07/07/2013 8:51pmCrossovers are aptly named because they're neither car nor SUV. Here's a look at one that tries to compete against both, but does best in its own crossover category.
Man with special needs hit by train, killed
07/07/2013 10:08pmA 27-year-old man with special needs was killed Sunday when a train hit him near the Price River.
Mudslide shuts down Alpine Loop near Sundance
07/07/2013 10:31pmA slide of mud and rock has temporarily shut down the Alpine Loop in American Fork Canyon. Crews are working to clean the mess up.
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I read that potential-induced degradation (PID), the reduction of a solar-electric module's efficiency over its lifetime, is sped up by the use of transformerless grid-tied inverters, which allow the modules to cycle electrons at the grid's AC frequency. Module manufacturers are advertising PID-free modules, which supposedly counteract this problem.
Transformer-based inverters don't cycle and have a constant flow of electrons. So would using one allow my modules to last longer? Does anyone have real experience in this area, or is it all theoretical at this point?
Zachary Strassman • via email
PID is the result of PV modules being held at a high potential (voltage), which causes them to temporarily decrease power output. With high-voltage arrays, ungrounded inverters, and increasing module efficiency with antireflective coatings; PID is showing up in the field—not just the lab.
PID is due to leakage of electrons out of the silicon cells. These migrating electrons accumulate on the surface of the silicon cell, where they affect the ability of the P-N junction in the cell to convert sunlight. This power reduction can occur over days or weeks. It is seen at higher array voltages, higher temperatures, and, especially, under higher humidity conditions. Estimates of power losses due to PID range from 10% to 60%, although the most I've seen (on a negatively grounded SunPower array) is about 25%.
The type of encapsulant and backsheet used on the modules are factors that can influence PID. Some compounds are more prone to leaking current than others, and some are more affected by moisture than others.
Another factor is the antireflective coating—some types, while improving efficiency, also make modules more prone to PID. How the silicon's cells are layered (for example, back-contact cells in which the P and N layers are flipped) also affect the module's PID propensity.
The third major factor affecting PID is the array's polarization and voltage. Most negatively grounded arrays are not affected by PID. Historically, however, negatively grounded SunPower arrays could suffer PID. PID is generally only seen on high-voltage (100+ volts) arrays as well. Whether modules are PID-prone is largely dependent on the antireflective coating and encapsulant.
The good news is that, in crystalline silicon modules, PID is mostly reversible. By properly grounding the array, the extra electrons that have leaked to places they shouldn't are sent back, restoring the module to its normal state. By holding the cells at the proper high voltage for a few days (48 to 96 hours) with an external source of voltage, PID can be almost completely reversed. Properly grounding the array so it gets a few hours of the proper voltage every day will also reverse the effects of PID.
Electrical standards organizations are developing tests and standards to rate whether a particular module is susceptible to PID. Look for these certifications on modules in the future. If you do not have PID-prone modules, the type of inverter you use may not matter. But if you do have PID-prone modules, use an inverter that grounds the modules in the proper direction to avoid PID for those particular modules.
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Hello everyone. I've started my lowcarb journey in October. I've gone low-carb (20-30 g per day) to lose weight and manage my post-prandial reactive hyploglycemia (wasn't severe, but I felt hungry literally all day + mood swings etc). I felt great and managed 2 months on plan, then one sweet treat kind of threw me off the wagon, but not too much. Did well on the holidays, then spent a couple of weeks in Paris and the pains au chocolat got in the way LOL Now I'm back on it and feel quite confident but...
There's one thing I just can't ignore, and it's that I'm not enjoying this diet in the least. I know the science behind it, I agree, I know this is the best way to eat, probably, but I just can't enjoy it. I'm Italian, raised on a culture of pasta, bread, croissants, all kind of delicious sweets, rice, whatever.
I just don't enjoy eating meat, cheese, butter and bacon all the time... even if I eat copious amounts of veggies every day to "buffer" the distaste, I can't shake the nagging feeling that this isn't the way I'm, personally, supposed to eat. If only I could eat some rice and some bread, sometimes... but then I get on the scale, and I've gained a couple of pounds of water retention, and I think about the health benefits, and tell myself I must trudge on the low carb path.
Plus, my social life has become a nightmare. Here in Italy there's no low-carb culture, no lowcarb products, and people aren't really supportive of the lifestyle... It's become so hard to eat out that I just don't do it anymore and stay at home with my meat and my cheese day in day out. It's not that I don't like them, because I adore meat and cheese, but it's just so monotonous, I guess?
I know I'm whining but I just need to vent somewhere... I know this is the right choice for one's health on the long-term but it's so hard for me. I just don't enjoy eating anymore, when once it was one of my biggest pleasures, and don't enjoy my social life that much neither, since it revolves so much around sharing food and drinks I can't have.
I really don't know what I should do at this point... Maybe I'm just looking for someone who understands what I'm going through? Sorry for the rant...
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My mom immigrated to America from Italy when she was a teenager so I kinda know how you feel. I savor bread and butter, and carbonara is a favorite of mine. It's hard, but I have insulin resistance and know that if I don't do low carb I will end up with diabetes so for me it's less of a weight thing.
I think you need to look for other ways of cooking things. Have you looked into Mexican cooking, minus tortillas is very low carb. Think shredded chicken with cream cheese jalapeño sauce (queso fundido) sometimes just find a new set of recipes can help. My favorite dessert right now when I need it is berries with marscapone. Salami rolled with cream cheese is super yummy....
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The other thing is we all need to find something that works for us. That is the key and one that will make any way of eating a life time change.
Good luck to you and enjoy your time in Italy!
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First of all Big Hug. If you dislike it so much, you'll not stick with it. How about tweeking it? Something like south beach? Upping the carbs and cut calories might work for you but not to the level of just a regular low calorie diet. Eat mostly low crab when alone and eat regularly when out? But even Italian dining out doesn't have to be all carb, does it? Maybe you can try to make an effort to order a say fish and a small pasta?
At the risk of sounding a bit insensitive I will give you the following quote that resonated with me "If it was easy, everybody would be skinny" I forget who said it. But it doesn't have to be impossibly hard either like it is for you right now.
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You know what? This may not be the right plan for you. Plain and simple. Yes, it's healthy, but physical health and emotional health must be in balance.
I grew up in a very Italian-American part of the country, with all of my best friends being Italian. Fresh Italian food was a mainstay (heck, not-so-fresh Italian was a mainstay in my home LOL). But as I grew up, I realized that what I really loved about Italian food was the meat, and the sauces, not the bread and pasta. So I am lucky in that respect.
I haven't been to Italy, much less lived there, to know the kind of options readily available in restaurants, but if this is not workable for you, then it's not.
I tried to go low carb for YEARS before it finally "took". And even after that, it took about 9 months before the switch really flipped. If you're not ready, you're not ready. If this doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you. Trying to do something you hate just means the fall will be harder, not that you won't fall.
Just my 2 cents.
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It is a trade off but I think it is trading up. I will take the beautiful rich foods I can now eat over wheat, sugar, GMO fruits, etc. any day. I will take feeling well and being lighter over being sick, really fat and tired any day. My food choices never stands in the way of going out and being with friends and family. I can always find something to eat and even if it is skimpy, I can eat at home later or before I go.
Btw, I find Europe to be the best place for low carbing with all it's fabulous meats and cheese, fish and olives and olive oil and on and on.....
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My question to the OP.....
Have you read a LC book?
I just have a suspicion that you're not doing this right.....
Maybe it's just me.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and being so kind to me. I feel quite guilty for bringing my negativity in this wonderful forum but I just didn't know what to do with myself today (the pasta ad on the tv was looking too inviting I guess lol).
Beeb, I'm a full-blooded Italian and lived in Italy all my life My issue is more cultural than anything, I think. The thought of never, ever eating again pasta or rice or bread or pizza makes me feel just sad .. I feel so torn between eating the way I know is right and my country's way... which can be um quite liberal with the carbs!
I will add, I'm not overweight - and my BMI is already in the healthy range, after I lost a substantial amount of weight a couple of years ago (mainly by spending hours on the stationary bike). I aim to lose not more than 10 pounds, but since I'm already a normal weight it's kinda harder than it looks.
My real concern all in all is the reactive hypoglycemia which made me a famished harpy ready to prey on every little piece of carby food around. I went low-carb to cure my addiction to the carbs, in a sense (and avoid getting more and more insulin resistant)... I had a period, just before making the switch, where I was eating cake literally every day, pasta twice a day, half a liter of milk every day, pizza on the weekends and bread with Nutella spread for snack morning and afternoon. It was ridiculous and so unhealthy, but I was also battling a stretch of depressive thoughts that made food just about the only pleasure in life.
I will check out the JUDDD board, thank you so much for the suggestion!
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I just think that when you want a WOE to be a lifestyle change rather than a temporary fix, you basically have to see yourself being on some version of it forever. If you can't see this than I think you should find some other plan to manage your weight with. People are succesful and healthy on all sorts of plans. My MIL is happily taking weight off with Weight Watchers, and I have friends who lost weight and kept it off with South Beach. SB might actually be something that you could do and incorporate many Italian specialties. Good luck whatever you decide!
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I've read Why We Get Fat and Wheat Belly. I'm doing this the best way I know... I eat lots of vegetables, lunch and dinner, and good portions of meat (pork, beef, chicken etc.). Eggs for breakfast, snack on cheese, one fruit per day if I can sneak it in the carb allowance. I'm not going hungry nor do I have a terribly monotonous diet. It's just that, any way I spin it, I'm not that big of a "rich taste" lover. I can do without the sugary treats, but I just love the bland taste and the texture of rice and pasta, the pleasure of munching on fresh fresh bread, the freshness of veggies and fruits (without worrying if they're too carby), the comfort of a good legume soup
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If you don't need to lose weight, maybe you'd be better off with a simpler low sugar, low starch approach instead of all out low carb. As I understand it, it's a myth that food in Italy is all spaghetti and pizza. I understand that carby dishes are served in small servings as a course within a full meal. There's plenty of meat, fish, seafood, cheese, eggs, offal served as the main course, plenty of fresh veggies in the antipasta course and with the main course.
What if you just either skipped the pasta course or ate only a very small portion? For example, when my family has rice or potatoes, I eat about 1 tbsp or so. Not enough to trigger anything, but just enough to get a taste and not feel deprived. WHen I was still eating grains, a BITE or two (but never three!) of bread, slathered with olive oil or butter was enough to satisfy without throwing me off.
The most important thing is to stay away from sugary things--no sweets, little fruit ( and only with plenty of fat--I think that's common in italy--fruit and cheese for example) and eat very little of the starchy stuff if you eat it at all. Eat plenty of fat and a reasonable amount of protein at every meal. Make snacks full of fat and protein, not starchy snacks. But eat what everyone else is eating, to the extent that you can minimize the carbs.
At home, it's easy. I make "zoodles" either with my mandoline (like paparadelle) or with a julienne peeler (like spaghetti) from zucchini when the rest of the family has pasta. And I recently attended a catered meeting featuring FOUR pasta dishes from a good Italian restaurant. I made do with the salad, but there was marscapone cheese to go with the pasta--I just took a big dollop of marscapone and ate it with a spoon on top of my salad! That fit the bill and I loved it. Oh, and I did take some tiny tastes of the gnocchi and polenta dishes. They were great, but since I filled up on the marscapone the tastes were sufficient.
Finally, go all out on the non-carby food you love so you don't feel deprived. Deliberately choose foods you love. Focus on what you CAN have, not what you can't. And enjoy every bite! Lately, I've been craving burrata--I buy myself some and eat it all with a good salad. Yum! So decadent. Who's deprived????
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Former pasta addict here. Subjectively, I've noticed that not all carbs are created equal....meaning, I don't respond to rice, potatoes, carrots, squash etc the way I respond to wheat, oats, corn or sugar in large amounts. The last group triggers bad cravings but the first group seems fine. If it plays out for you the same way, and since you aren't really overweight, I wonder if you could find a compromise where pasta and bread are "out" but risotto and certain other starches are "in"? Maybe it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing approach!
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Try finding lower carb alternatives for your favorites. I'm not Italian, but I love the food. I do things like this:
Spaghetti squash with tomato sauce and homemade meatballs (important to make them from scratch because the pre-made ones have a lot of carbs)
Meatballs in alfredo sauce (yummy)
Low carb tortilla topped with pizza toppings and tons of cheese. I cook this on parchment to crisp up the crust.
Dreamfield's pasta for spaghetti or mac n cheese
It might help you enjoy it more. Good luck whatever you decide.
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But, for me, whether I enjoy it or not, LC is really the only option. And I am actually very grateful for it. Even with getting very nearly zero pleasure from my food, my life is much better for it and, as long as I don't get hit by a bus, I think it will be longer.
If I was in your shoes I do think I'd try other things and see if you can come up with something else that works for you. It sounds like you aren't terribly bad off metabolically and quality of life is important.
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I understand. I am a vegetarian at heart. I was a vegetarian for almost 30 years. Beans, grains, lots of Italian stuff. It almost killed me.
What felt like "what I was meant to eat" was just carb addiction. I know that now. Please reflect on this and try to figure how much of this is the little addicted brain talking to you.
I would go back to carbs in a heartbeat if I could, but between my weight and diabetes, it would be a contest whether I got too fat to move or died first. *sigh*
Best of luck with it!
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If it is about the reaction, have you thought about doing low GI rather than low carb. With low gi you can still have brown rice and pasta as they don't have the same reaction as the very processed white varieties, I know it is not quite the same but it might be enough to help you maintain a WOE that you know is healthy.
I love Italy and spending time there, I will often have the antipasta and then meat and veg or salad when we eat out. I do let myself have the occasional carb based dish (the pizzeria in the village we stay in is the most amazing place ever) but try to adjust the rest of my day around it.
The other thing is if you are not trying to lose weight then you may be able to eat a higher carb load than you are currently on without starting to gain weight.
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Thanks everyone for the replies and the suggestions
Rubidoux, I feel your pain, and yours, ravenrose, but I'm pleased to see that you are "at peace" with this lifestyle. It's so healthy... It's just a shame that for some us it doesn't quite work on the enjoyment level. Give me a nice lasagna over a steak every day of the week, month and year.
I'm feeling much better today. I think I'll have to tweak this diet at some point because, seriously, the thought of never ever eating pasta again or pizza (in Italy it's downright sacrilegous to eat only the toppings. My friends looked at me as if I had sprouted a second head when I tried it, once) is awful. But for the meantime, I think I'll keep it, at least until I lose the excess weight - I'll just raise my carb limit a little to allow the odd slice of brown bread here and there... after all I can lose weight even on a normal high carb calorie-deficit diet (actual health notwithstanding) so this shouldn't stall me.
I visited my doctor today (who by the way is awesome and gets the low carb philosophy) and she told me (again) that my metabolism isn't completely off-whack... had I been totally insulin resistant, I probably would have gained a lot of weight during that "cake-Nutella-twice a day everyday" stint that lasted from about July to October, but actually I didn't gain more than a couple of pounds (just mantained my "pudgy" figure lol). The real problem there was my hypoglycemia and how miserable it made me feel.
The thing about low carb for me is that even though I don't enjoy it fully at 30 g per day, I know it's really healthy. And I'm not the most health-minded person out there, at all, but I can't deny how light and clear-headed it makes me feel. So after the weight is gone (wishful thinking! LOL) I hope I'll be able to find my low-carb lifestyle..80-100g per day would be heaven
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What kind of person are you? Really.
carb addict? where just a few meals of pasta, bread etc. would throw you into a tailspin of gaining weight or are you the type that can have some pasta, bread, etc. and control those portions?
If I had control, real control I absolutely would not be eating LC. The restrictive choices is mind numbing to me. But I have a problem. I eat carbs til the cows come home, then they land on my butt I can't do a managed control eating plan of all foods.
if you can, then you need to check into lowering calories on one day and then eat what you want if going out with friends the next. You know. be smart in your daily choices. control yourself. Be conscious of the foods you choose and portion and control it with the better choices.
Sadly I tried this. Not for me because I need strict control. If I didn't I would be eating a bit of bread, a small bit of pasta, and a ton of other foods higher in carbs.
If you really don't enjoy LC then you must find a new way to eat thru the day and manage your menu. look around cause there are tons of great options. you just have to explore.
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dianda, Why don't you look into the Harcombe diet? Its a food combining WOE. If you want a carb meal you can have one, but you can't add any fat to it. If you eat a fat meal, then you add no carbs(pasta, rice, potato)you can add veggies to either meal. I've not tried this diet, just starting to read up on it.
I did practice food combining about 10 years ago(Somersizing) and had succes until I started adding things I shouldn't have.
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I'm not a compulsive carb-eater, but when I ate my "normal" diet of around 250-300 g carbs per day I was constantly hungry, even half an hour after a major meal, which meant reaching out for carby snacks all the time, only to be hungry right after anyway.
I'll check out the South Beach Diet some have suggested Btw, JUDDD looks crazy interesting from a scientific point of view but it's too hardcore for me
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Carbs and fat are the deadly combination for weight gain. You can't have them both and lose weight. So, it is best to pick your plan and decide what works for you.
I did Somersizing many years ago..Carbs/no fat, then 4 hours later you can have a LC/moderate fat meal..
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where would a big old chunky piece of italian toasted bread loaded with soft melty butter fit into that plan? LOL
dianda if you really know yourself and your eating patterns, then researching a few of the plans that others mentioned is a great idea. one might fit you. Also there is a 5:2 JUDDD plan. eat 5 days moderately and pick 2 days out of the week to cut calories and be more strict. I hear 5:2 is what alot of people are kinda picking for maintenance.
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I totally get where you're coming from. I lived in Italy for years, and my father is from Italy and is a phenomenal cook. I grew up eating pasta almost daily, and bread. I completely understand the cultural pressure you're feeling, because I know that my Italian relatives would think I was completely insane if I didn't eat the pasta. Plus, they would feel personally insulted if it was something they cooked.
Because of my diabetes, though, I HAD to stop eating these things, or face high blood sugar and diabetic complications. That fear has so far overridden everything else. I really thought I wouldn't be able to give up the pasta and rice and bread, but I have, and honest-to-God don't miss them. It took a while, and I had to detox my body from its carb addiction, but it happened eventually.
At restaurants, you'll have to just pass up the Primi and jump right to the Secondi.
I would eat a huge plate of mozzarella and prosciutto and call it a day! Or a nice caprese; tomatoes are OK in not-huge quantities.
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South beach or carbohydrate addicts diet would be my suggestion as you are not too ove weight...I think either would help with cravings and level out blood sugar so you aren't feeling hungry all the time.
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