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There's nothing like the virgin powder of a long dormant snowboarding title.
It's been a while since EA has released an SSX title, and much has been made about the resurrection of the franchise with the all-new SSX. Featuring actual topography, or real world mountains, SSX features some of the most dramatic and insane courses the franchise has seen to date. While the much-ballyhooed deadly descents are more of a hindrance to the overall game than a boon, SSX still manages to be an incredibly fun sports title.
Though SSX dropped that ?Deadly Descents? moniker ages ago, the most dangerous mountains on Earth are still a large part of the game. While they are present in all of the game's modes, these courses are most prevalent in the World Tour mode. Easily my least favorite part of the game, the World Tour acts as a lengthy tutorial for people who are new to the series, or need to get reacquainted with it. Taking place over nine locations including Alaska, Siberia, and New Zealand, the World Tour tasks you with tricking and racing most of the minor courses in the game before trying to survive that region's hallmark deadly descent. The Trick It and Race It events are just fine and dandy, and really help you get a grasp of how to best approach the multitude of drops present in the game. Save for the expert AI competitors, almost every race is a good time. The same just can't be said for the deadly descents themselves.
Each of the deadly descents is supposed to be the highlight of the particular area you're racing. While it's true that there are a few standout experiences on these mountains, most of the Survive It challenges are exercises in frustration. Making it down to the bottom of many of these boss mountains will truly test the limits of your patience, as you'll find yourself careening off a cliff or falling into a crevice way too often. The development team clearly saw just how much of a challenge these courses presented because after a few failures, you can skip them entirely, and move on to the next location. There was a real missed opportunity to create something wholly unique and extraordinary, however the Deadly Descents themselves fall completely flat in execution. Fortunately, these segments are small parts of a larger experience that's rife with the fun and ridiculous tricking fans have come to love.
After honing your skills in World Tour mode, it's time to take your boarding to the next level in Explore. This is where the meat of SSX lies. Combining both offline and online game types, Explore seamlessly melds two experiences to create a bountiful package replete with an excess of courses and race types. Every race you compete in will give you a chance to earn some in-game credits. Those credits can be used to purchase new riders and upgrades. While the same can be said of the World Tour mode, the gear and mods you can purchase don't really affect the outcome of the game too drastically. In Explore however, constantly keeping your rider up to snuff with the latest boards, mods, and clothing is a great incentive to keep you coming back time and time again. Boards are judged on speed, boost, and trick stats, and learning which type of board to utilize on a given race can make all the difference. Clothing doesn't really affect what you do, but there will sometimes be rare items up for sale that give a slight bump in one of the three stat areas. The mods you can purchase (armor, gliders, headlamps, etc.) are fine-tuned for specific courses, and only really come into play on the more extreme tracks.
No matter what your preference is, Explore mode offers you more than three times the amount of courses to venture down. You can compete against AI opponents if you choose, but you can also compete against the rest of the field online in organized competitions through Global Events. Every event will have an entry fee (though these fees can be set to free), top payout, and specifications. Some Trick It courses will require you to not use high-level boards. Some of the more dangerous events task you with completing the objective without the aid of any mods. There are some high stakes challenges available, and participating is only half the fun. While racing, you can place or find geotags anywhere on the course. Collecting them will earn you a bonus credit payout, while keeping yours out of reach will have you constantly earning a stream of credits until someone does collect it, or you reach your tag's credit cap. It's an ingenious way to have players constantly branching out to find new paths down a course instead of constantly rushing down the best line.
Even though there's not straight up competitive multiplayer, SSX's Ridernet will keep tabs on all your friends to see how they're performing. You can then challenge a friend's ghost down a course, which will earn your friend credits. The same is true if your friend decides to take your ghost on. SSX's focus online isn't about just taking on your friends, which can be viewed as both a good and bad thing. While you're truly taking on global opponents, and aren't limited to 8-12 players at a time, you will miss out on that intimate multiplayer versus experience. That said, it is possible to set up an event to challenge your closest buds, but when Ridernet keeps tabs on everyone's times anyway, there's no real reason to do so.
Despite not being very fun to ride, the Deadly Descents do look pretty awesome. EA did a fantastic job bringing these real locations to life in a video game, even if they are somewhat exaggerated for gaming purposes. There's a true sense of speed felt every time you start a drop, and the riders all control remarkably well. If there's a single downside to any of the presentation in the game, it's the ludicrous motion comic cut scenes used to tell the origin stories of all the riders in World Tour. Simply put, they are badly written, and invoke the worst memories of the 90s comic book boom. Fortunately, they're a minor aspect of the overall game. All the animations look solid, and the tricks are extremely eye-catching. Stringing together a fantastic series of moves is both mentally and visually stimulating, and it's quite easy to become hypnotized by the fluidity of your character on the mountain.
Bottom Line
Long overdue, the return of SSX to consoles is a real treat. Aside from a few poorly designed courses, the game is truly fun to play. The virtually endless amount of content provided with the Global Events and Explore will keep you coming back time and time again, and the ease of play makes SSX accessible to even the newest of players. With so much going right for SSX, it's hard to hate on the few issues brought up by the Deadly Descents events. It's about time SSX was brought back, and EA's development team did so in grand fashion.
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Topic tags/keywords: finishing cedar spray gun Hello all, I would like to purchase a HVLP spray gun to spray solid body stain and acrylic paints for outdoor furniture projects. I already have a 4hp / 18 gallon compressor, any suggestions???? Thanx, Nat -- Nat - West Sayville,L.I., NY |
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I was watching this to see what folks might say 'cause I'm looking into spray guns myself. Did you see this review on LJ: http://lumberjocks.com/reviews/1321 I'm thinking about going to get one this weekend. There are a few others reviews here. Hopefully you'll get some input. -- -- Chuck S. |
#2 posted 04-02-2010 02:44 AM |
IMHO, HVLP conversion guns are great for thin finishes- like clear top coats – shellac, lacquer, and even waterborne clears. They usually aren't designed for thicker materials like latex or exterior painting – The Wagner and Graco sprayers sold by the big box do a better job on exterior products. I am not sure what you mean by solid body stain – if you mean exterior stains like semitransparent and solid stains, then again, HVLP is not ideal , you would move more volume and get better results with a Graco sprayer like this http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xkx/R-100634354/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053 I haven't used that model, but have used similar equipment. If you have a HD or Lowes rental near you, try renting one and see what you think. |
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I just picked one of these up a week or two ago and it works pretty well. This is the only gun I've ever owned so my opinion is not that educated but i bought some latex paint, thinned it down, and started spraying. I'm mainly interested in spraying paint rather than finishes and it seems like it'll work well. I might have my settings incorrect but my 15 gal compressor struggled to keep up but maybe on finishes where I don't need to lay down as much material a small compressor would work well. It's workable, just slow as the tank recharges. The only problem I'm having is figuring out what the settings do and how that effects the results. the instructions are pretty poor so it seems like it'll be trial and error for a bit but it does seem to be a good buy. I bought the gun, the stainless tank, and the 2mm tip for latex and I think I got it all for about $60 at the local woodcraft. Hope this helps. |
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The major problem that people have spraying paint is the compressor, not the spray gun. Many cheap spray guns are knock-offs of Binks/Devilbiss designs that will do a decent job but critical replacement parts are non-existent (seals, etc) However, most of them, including the brand name tools, require 8 – 10 cfm at 50 – 70 psi, and that is for oil based paints thinned to the proper spray viscosity (i.e. lacquer, enamel and varnish). Water based (which includes acrylics) takes a lot more cfm, because water does not like to atomize, and the molecules are very big. For water based paints, and especially for latex, it takes over 12 cfm, or an airless (3000 psi through a machined nozzle). Most 120v air compressors will not operate a regular spray gun, much less an HVLP. They will push an airless (expensive piece of equipment) so for acrylic or latex, it may be best to rent the sprayer. However, an airless gun is not something a novice can usually operate without cascade runs. The top max will be about 6.5 cfm at 50 psi with a 120v compressor. A pressurized cup or tank, will reduce the cfm needed to properly atomize the paint, because the air cfm needed to siphon the paint up the tube is eliminated. If spraying acrylic or heavy paint, a 2 qt pressure pot (HF sells them relatively inexpensively) will greatly increase your chances of getting a decent coating if using a 120v compressor. It won't be great, but may work for small projects. Add this to the low price gun, and you may have a combo that will work. One thing to watch for in thinning latex. If you thin it too much, you may get a good looking coating to start with, but there will not be enough binder (i.e. latex) in the finish to give it any durability. Your "life-time" paint just became a 6-month coating. Go -- Go http://ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=730 |
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Thanx for all the input,stiil looking and more confused. -- Nat - West Sayville,L.I., NY |
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I have an Asturo ECO SX, the primary reason I bought it was it requires less air than a lot of the other guns so I am able to run it off my smallish compressor. I got a kit with 3 tip/needles – a 1.1mm, 1.4mm and 1.7mm. They have a 2.2mm for latex, but I haven't had the need yet. I have only really used the 1.4 tip and sprayed shellac, lacquer and some water based product from target coatings. The 1.1 would be good for water based dyes and probably some stains. I am running it off a 20 gal/1.5 hp compressor. So far it has been ok for my small to med sized projects but I wouldn't want to run it all day. You might also think about getting a filter, I added one and it made a big difference in the finish quality. I am running a 2 stage, the first is a oil/water separator the second stage is more of a cleaning stage. Good air is really important so your finish doesn't get contaminated before the material hits the wood. Oil or water in the mix will make it impossible to get a good result with most product. With guns I think there is a bit of a learning curve, but I think it is time well spent. |
#7 posted 04-07-2010 04:17 AM |
I've had an Apollo for years. With 4hp you might get away with a conversion gun. My old Craftsman did not have enough umph (that's a technical term) to power a conversion gun. If you can handle the price you can't beat the Apollo or one of the other (not Wagner) HVLP guns. My $.03 Lee -- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project. |
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The defense said Clifford Friend will not testify.
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2) My husband starts buying me very nice things when I talk about another man too much.
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4) Twitter is fun. I've been a Facebook girl all my life, but it was Twitter that made the last five days sizzling with action!
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On Wednesday 2 March 2011, Alan gave his first speech from the backbenches since resigned from the Opposition frontbench in January.
He applied to the Speaker of the House to secure an adjournment debate on the subject of trawlermens pensions: an issue he has been working on since uncovering the scandal in 2007.
He has been working with the other port MPs, Austin Mitchell and Frank Doran and with Thompsons solicitors in order to get justice for men who never received the pensions they paid into in the 60s.
As a backbencher Alan is now able to request adjournment debates and he used the opportunity to shed some light on an issue that he believes now needs concluding.
The speech he gave at the debate is below:
"The purpose of this debate is to bring to the attention of the House and the Minister a scandal involving the maladministration of a pension scheme that has left thousands of distant water trawlermen who reached retirement age up to 30 years ago without a penny of the pension they contributed to wholesale inflatable water slides.
First the context.
Distant water trawlermen worked in the most arduous and hazardous occupation imaginable, working 18 hour shifts in Arctic waters where temperatures could falls as low as 40 degrees below freezing.
In 150 years of distant water trawling from Hull which was exclusively a distant water port and the biggest in the world, 900 ships were lost at sea and 6,000 trawlermen were killed. The mortality rate was 14 times higher than coal mining.
When the industry collapsed as a result of the agreement between Britain and Iceland that ended the so called "Cod Wars" in 1976, the men were promised compensation, re-training and re-deployment by a government Minister from that despatch box.
They received nothing. Classified as casual workers, they were thrown on the scrapheap and whilst the trawler owners were paid millions of pounds in de-commissioning grants, not a brass farthing was paid to the trawlermen themselves.
That injustice was belatedly rectified by the compensation scheme introduced in year 2000, although there is still one aspect which my Hon.Friend the Member for Great Grimsby and I have referred to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
As we worked with the ex trawlermen to achieve
that compensation, a number of them referred to a pension scheme that operated in the industry.
Some men over 50 had been allowed to commute their pension to a one- off payment to alleviate the hardship as the industry collapsed, but many men said they couldn't remember receiving anything from the scheme even though they were now well beyond pensionable age.
>I established that there was indeed a Fishermen's Pension Scheme established on 1st April 1961 by a Trust Deed made on 19th December 1960, between the British Trawler's Federation Ltd. and Lowndes Associated Pensions Ltd.
It was a contributory scheme, the men paying sixpence per sea day and the employer nine pence. Contributions to the scheme ceased in 1979 and benefits ceased to accrue.
The benefits accrued up to the date of discontinuance secured by a group deferred annuity contract underwritten by what is now Aviva. Capital Cranfield became the trustees when they acquired Lowndes in April 2000.
Having established these facts, I wrote to Aviva in 2006 to find out if any pensions remained unpaid. My impression was that there may be around l00 such cases may have occurred.
By 2007 I had discovered the scandal of a scheme where few records had been kept and no effort had been made to track down the men whose pensions were due.
Over four and a half thousand trawlermen from Hull, Grimsby, Aberdeen, Fleetwood, Milford Haven and North Shields, had reached pensionable age from the l980s onwards without receiving the pension they were due. About a quarter of them from Hull.
The reason for this disgraceful maladministration was that the only records kept of members were their surname, initials and date of birth. There was no record of the men's National Insurance numbers, or their addresses, nor any other pertinent information from which they could be traced.
There had been no attempt to rectify this situation, nobody was alerted to the problem in the communities affected, the unpaid pensions simply remained in the scheme while many of the men lived out their old age in penury.
Aviva the insurers had been paying benefits (or more usually not paying benefits) without the intervention of the trustees since l986 at the request of the then trustee, Sedgwick Noble Lowndes, which as I said is now part of Capital Cranfield. This in itself seems a strange arrangement and one that neither party should have allowed.
As well as the 4 ½ thousand men who had reached pensionable age there were 8,879 still below age 65 with little prospect of receiving their money as they became eligible.
Since I wrote to the then Secretary of State at DWP and the Pensions Regulator in January 2007 to alert them to this scandal, a great deal of effort has gone into finding the missing fishermen.
Aviva has worked with local MPs on the Find the Fisherman Campaign which we agreed should run for two years.>At the end of that period, In October 2009, MPs met with Aviva and Capital Cranfield to take stock. Aviva in their briefing note for this debate talk about unclaimed assets being "common across the industry" and after setting out details of the "Find the Fisherman" campaign, they say that "some members remain unpaid".
For 'some' read 6,837. That's the figure we were given for the men who had not been and probably never would be traced at the end of the campaign. That's over half the scheme membership.
Perhaps the Minister would tell me if he believes that this level of unclaimed assets is at all "common across the industry".
Together with my Hon.Friends the Members for Great Grimsby, Aberdeen North, Cleethorpes and Fleetwood, who also attended the meeting with Aviva and Capital Cranfield in October 2009, I put forward proposals that would allow wind up of the schemes on a fair basis.
Firstly, we would need to agree how to distribute the surplus in the scheme coffers.
At that time it was £2 ½ million pounds, although I heard this morning that Capital Cranfield are saying its £1.3 million.The disparity has yet to be explained to us.
Secondly, provision needs to be made for unidentified beneficiaries who may come forward in the future.
Thirdly, we sought payment to the 50 odd families where payment is disputed. These are cases where Aviva say the money had been paid, usually in the l980s, but where they have no proof of payment and the families are adamant that it was never received.
In this respect let me explain to you the way the payment system worked as described by the Chief Executive of Aviva in a letter to one of my constituents:
"When an employer wanted to claim a pension on behalf of one of his employees he would make an application to the Royal National Mission who acted as an intermediary and would in turn apply to Norwich Union on behalf of the employer. Norwich Union would verify the details against the policy and authorise a payment to be made to the Mission who would then pay the employer so they are able to pass the money on to the individual fisherman".
He goes on to say "I appreciate this will appear unnecessarily complex but, rightly or wrongly, this is how payments were settled in the past".
So a scheme with no National Insurance numbers and no addresses, relied on trawler owners who were gradually disappearing as the industry was in terminal decline to go through the Seaman's Mission, who incidentally informed Norwich Union, as it was then, that they did not have the resources to undertake this work, in order to give cheques to men who in the main did not have bank accounts.
We say that the benefit of the considerable doubt in disputed cases should rest with the men and their families.
Our final proposal concerns recompense. We feel strongly that some compensation should be paid to the men and/or their communities for the appalling way in which this scheme has been administered.
The Trustees and the insurers had a financial and moral responsibility to scheme members which they failed to fulfil. The way this scheme operated would have shamed a local sweepstake organiser.
The fact that the men whose interests they should have safeguarded did one of the most difficult and dangerous jobs imaginable and in the main spent their old age scraping for every penny whilst money that could have eased their plight was never paid to them adds to the sense of injustice felt within these proud communities.
Since October 2009, we have been fortunate to have the services of a pension's expert from Thompson Solicitors, working pro bono on our behalf to try to bring the arrangements discussed to a successful conclusion.
Seventeen months later there has been little progress and no further approaches to the port MPs by Aviva or Capital Cranfield to resolve the issues that remain outstanding.
In the absence of any involvement by ex trawlermen or anyone from the affected communities amongst the trustees, I believe it is incumbent on Aviva/Capital Cranfield to seek our approval for the final arrangements to wind up these schemes.
Perhaps the Minister can tell us who are these companies answerable to?
I understand that they are proposing to agree their own fees for the wind up.
There must surely be some external oversight of these arrangements.
The port MPs wish to meet the Minister to explore the issues surrounding this scheme in more detail and we think it would be beneficial to have the Pensions Regulator present.
Surely he must have a role in ensuring that the schemes are wound up in an orderly and timely fashion with the interests of the members properly protected?
We seek from the Minister nothing beyond his understanding of how badly this scheme has been administered and his assistance in bringing this long saga to a conclusion acceptable to Port MPs as the representatives of affected communities.
Finally, I ask the House to imagine the outcry there would be if thousands of bankers, civil servants, or even former MPs had been treated in this way. It would be a huge story that we'd be following regularly in the national media.
This has been an almost silent scandal.
This evening's debate will I hope bring it to the attention of a wider audience in the quest for justice for communities who contributed so much, sacrificed so many and yet were treated so abysmally."


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Francis J.Parker, Frank J. Parker, Frankie G. Parker.
Automobile thief, distillery owner, brewery owner, known as the flying bootlegger.
Born in Oil City, PA . He worked the oil fields there and left school at the age of 15. He later moved to Detroit and worked as an ignition expert during the war.Parker lived in Montreal, Canada from 1925-1931, owning many distilleries there. He claimed during his trial that he owned a mine in Colorado and two breweries in Chicago.The Bismark and Roosevelt.
Frank Parker police record is as follows;
September 1911 - No bill; Confidence game charge
April 4,1913 - Fined $15 and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.Charge unrecorded.
October 3,1914 - Sentenced to 5 to 25 years at Joliet penitentiary for burglary.
October 16,1915 - Paroled on technicality in mittimus.
March 13,1917- Returned to prison for violation of parole (Stealing automobiles).
April 9,1920- Reparoled.
September 20,1920 - Discharged from parole.
Parker was indicted in 1926 by a federal grand jury as the owner of Archer products brewery which was raided on July 49,1926. 5,000 Gallons of beer and a $100,000 of distillery equipment was seized.Parker was not apprehended and the conspiracy charges against him were dropped the next year.
Frank J Parker , Aviator millionaire who had humble beginnings as once committing a crime against nature which was stricken off the record .God only knows what the crime was.Parker started his life of crime as a petty hoodlum.He was known to Chicago police as the leader of an auto theft ring which stole more than a 1,000 cars.
Parker was also named in the Gov. Len Small pardon scandal in which crinminals were given easy pardons.Parker had been given one of those famous pardons.
Not all bad ,Parker once courageously flew food and clothing to fishermen stranded by a blizzard on South Fox island in March of 1926.
Parker lead a double life, also dabbling on the other side of the border, owning distilleries in Montreal ,Canada. In fact he owned several of them of which made him much sought after by bootlegging gangs in Chicago and Detroit. Parker had friends on both sides of Chicago supplying them with products like Mumm's champagne,Old Log Cabin whiskey, Old Colonel, Old Tom gin, Mountain Ridge whiskey and other assortment of liquors.
Since Parker was also an accomplished flyer, he would transport the hooch unmolested into Chicago or Detroit. Parker supplied and delivered making him rich in the process. Parker had old ties to the Northsiders supplying them with the best in Canadian booze.
Hymie Weiss was said to have met his girlfriend in Montreal while doing business with Parker there. Parker dealt with Ted Newberry as bank tranactions uncovered by authorities showed even after Newberry defected to the Capone camp.
In 1930, Canadian authorities put their hands on Parker and figured that the Montreal distillery owner was also a criminal who had done time in Joliet prison. Parker was facing perjury charges in Montreal for bribing two excise officers while running the Dominion distillery and dealing in shady affairs.(Evading taxes).
Parker's lawyers produced a pardon that was signed by Gov. Len Small
Parker was freed on a $10,000 bond in the Canadian case.
Parker's life of crime does not end there. He is also arrested in a forgery case (American Express cheques) with his known pals Bugs Moran and others. After the first trial in which they are found not guilty they are later retried.
On May 20th,1933, Parker is shot at and wounded as he is making his way to his home at 1614 Jonquil terrace. Parker tells police that he was shot by one of three bandits while resisting the holdup.
In another case Frank Parker is trapped through intercepted letters explaining where a cache of counterfeit bills are located.They are found by government agents at the Tam O' Shanter, a golf course in Niles.
April 14th 1939 Frank Parker is found guilty of counterfeiting.
April 22,1939 Frank J. Parker is sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 on counterfeiting charges.
January 1941 Frank Parker seeks pardon for his crimes but the judge refuses and orders him to do his remaining year in the Cook county jail.
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