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One of the toughest things about fixing a portable spa is diagnosing the problem. Not only are there many manufacturers, but also each one now offers several different models. Every year brings new spas with the latest controllers and diagnostic mechanisms.
To avoid common pitfalls that may arise, service technicians must first collect all the necessary information, sort through the basics and then pinpoint the culprit. Here, experts offer advice on how to diagnose a problem spa.
Initial investigation
Before you disassemble anything, start with the basics. That means taking a few minutes to listen to the homeowners. To save time and money for your clients (and yourself), start with a preliminary screening. During the initial call, ask your customers to give a detailed description of how their spas have changed.
If the issue sounds simple, your customers may be able to pinpoint and repair it without a service visit. Otherwise, send a technician, and make sure it's someone experienced in the area of the suspected malfunction. There's nothing worse for customers than discovering that their repair tech isn't familiar with the equipment.
Prior to the visit, ask the owner to make some basic checks. For instance, if the customer says the high-limit switch tripped, the spa should be heated before you arrive. Then, you can quickly measure how warm it gets before it shuts off. It beats standing around waiting for the spa to heat.
Once on site, the tech should speak with the clients again to get a better sense of the issue, too. Often, by asking them to share how things happened in chronological order, the problem will be readily apparent. It's important to ask pointed questions, and don't settle for vague answers. If you ask when the customer last cleaned the filter, it's not enough to hear, "Recently" or "Don't worry about it." Evasiveness usually means they don't know.
Again, a couple of preliminary checks can help determine how the spa is used. Many techs start by first lifting up the cover, which tells them all about the water's chemical makeup — the discoloration in the cover will give the entire history of the spa. For example, water with a low pH level burns the cover, so the center would be white. That should signal to the tech to go directly to the heater to look for any chemical damage at the heating point.
In such cases, odds are the problem will reappear if customers aren't reminded about maintaining proper water-chemistry levels. After handling the immediate repair, be sure to discuss spa chemistry and customize a maintenance routine based on the owner's usage.
Also, the filter should be checked early on. A clogged filter can cause a number of failures. If you suspect that a pressure switch needs replacing, for instance, it really could be the filter's fault. If the filter's dirty, there may not be enough water pressure throughout the system, causing the switch to be triggered. If the filter hasn't been replaced in more than two years, many techs advise changing it — regardless of whether it turns out to be the culprit.
Finally, check for the simple things that aren't always obvious. For example, older-model spas include a magnetic interlock on the door. If the door isn't closed, the spa won't work.
Pinpoint the problem accurately
There's a term some spa-repair techs use to describe colleagues who replace part after part until the unit works properly. They're called "parts jockeys," and many service managers discourage that approach.
Constant parts replacement saves neither time nor money, many service pros say. Customers may grow impatient waiting for this trial-and-error method to bear fruit. Meanwhile, the costs for unnecessary parts can quickly escalate.
Some techs will simply replace the problematic component without isolating the problem. If the heater isn't working, for example, they may just install a new one. But, in many cases, it's not the heater that's defective. It could be a relay three or four switches back that's just not giving the heater power.
Or, it could be a thermostat. Either way, zero in on the problem by following a pre-determined diagnostic protocol you've established for each basic set of symptoms.
For instance, if the GFCI trips repeatedly, consider disconnecting the heater. If the GFCI doesn't trip, then you know it was the heater. If it wasn't the heater, move on down the line and disconnect the air blower. If the GFCI doesn't trip now, then the air blower was at fault. But if it still trips, the next thing you disconnect is the flow switch… and so on.
Begin by checking the main component itself. Use a voltmeter or multimeter to determine whether the pump, heater, blower or another piece of equipment is receiving power. If it is, you've found your problem. If not, then a switch or relay likely isn't transferring the current.
Depending on the symptom, you may want to consult an electrical blueprint for the spa, if one is available.
Then you can see which series of switches and relays are involved. Next, work back from the main component, checking each relay or switch in the control box.
Certain areas are tougher to inspect than others. When confronted with a spa that's more than a few years old, it may be difficult to tell when a circuit board is causing the problem or whether it's the topside control.
The diagnostic mechanism will provide a code, but that could apply to either component. For such tricky diagnoses, plug in separate units to see if they work. Many techs bring along additional topsides for testing purposes. They disconnect the client's topside, plug in theirs and, if they get the same reaction, then it's the board that's bad. If it works with the new topside, it's the topside that's bad.
In some instances, the problem may not be a faulty part at all. If the system doesn't heat, it could be a restricted flow. Check the plumbing for leaves or other debris that may have caused a clog. This is often the case when a flow switch or pressure switch isn't working. It may detect that not enough flow is moving through the heater and block heater activation. This also keeps the heater from burning out or catching fire.
If the unit contains a pressure switch, a little sand or dirt may also plug it up, preventing the heater from sensing the system pressure.
Close it out
After the repair, conduct a full diagnostic assessment of the spa. Among other items, check the chemical balance, the heater terminal at the bulkhead fittings, the air-check valves, jet selectors and buttons. Look for burned wires. Evaluate every screw in the pack to make sure they're all tight. Make sure all the wire connections are proper. Also, remember to test the ground fault protection during each visit. If you notice something that could cause another failure, notify the customer. These checks and precautions only take a few extra minutes, but it's worth the trouble.


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In late 1999, an internal reorganization consolidated virtually all NZP science under the direction of the Associate Director for Conservation, Dr. Chris Wemmer; this included scientists and affiliated staff from the Department of Zoological Research (now known as the Department of Conservation Biology). THUS, THE CLOSURE OF CRC WILL VIRTUALLY WIPE OUT ALL SCIENCE AT NZP. In one brutal and ill-advised action, NZP science has been reduced from the world's pre-eminent zoo-based conservation organization to just another small zoo, with a handful of Ph.D. scientists (almost all in reproductive physiology). Gone will be programs in marine mammal biology, molecular genetics, small population genetic management, migratory birds (including the Migratory Bird Center), field ecology, GIS and remote sensing, animal behavior, monitoring and assessment of biodiversity programs (MAB), and most importantly, conservation biology (including long-term ecological field studies in the US and abroad). 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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 131, November 26, 1997
Why a 1-PE NQS Queue
As noted in the last newsletter:
the ARSC T3E now possesses a single-PE queue. The purpose of this queue is to run non-MPP tasks, such as creating tar files, thus freeing application PEs for parallel work.
In order to prevent NQS from locking application PEs unnecessarily, users should schedule large serial tasks to the single queue and not to blocks of application PEs. As an example of the problem, if a user requests a large number of processors and then, in the same qsub script, performs some post-processing activity on one command PE, NQS keeps a lock on the entire application PE block until the command PE job completes. The application PEs remain unnecessarily idle.
In the first example below, the user requests 42 PEs and uses them in a parallel application. Unfortunately, the 42 PEs are still held by the job, and remain idle, while the post_process_data script runs and a tarfile is created:
############################################################ #QSUB -q mpp -l mpp_t=14000 -l mpp_p=42 #!/bin/csh echo ' started ' cd /the/working/directory mpprun -n 42 ./a.out < input > output ./post_process_data < output # WRONG !!! tar cf results_my_run output # WRONG !!! echo ' completed ' ############################################################
This results in the user being billed for processors they are not actually using and it makes other parallel jobs wait for free resources while the post processing and tar operation completes. Hardly ideal.
A simple solution is to submit an NQS job to the single PE queue, from the first script, once the significant parallel computation is completed:
############################################################ #QSUB -q mpp -l mpp_t=14000 -l mpp_p=42 #!/bin/csh echo ' started ' cd /the/working/directory mpprun -n 42 ./a.out < input > output echo ' completed ' qsub make_a_tarfile ############################################################
where make_a_tarfile contains:
############################################################ #QSUB -q mpp #!/bin/csh echo ' started making tarfile ' cd /the/working/directory ./post_process_data < output tar cf results_my_run output echo ' completed making tarfile ' ############################################################
The current limits on the single queue are such that there is an 4hr runtime limit and many can run at the same time, so users shouldn't see any great delay between the finish of the MPP job and the start of the single job.
As noted last week, to get NQS to route your job to the single queue, leave the PE and run-time limit requests out of your qsub script (as the above example shows). And, as always, the queues are under review and, subject to our observations and your input, are subject to change.
ARSC Queue Policy
The policies for ethical queue behavior listed below are nearly identical to those that evolved over time on the T3D. They are complicated a bit by the single queue.
What follows is news queue_policy on yukon:
The T3E is a popular, limited resource. ARSC has found that T3E users are willing to work together to provide fair access to the queues. Please: 1) Submit/execute no more than one job per 8 or 4 hour queue at a time (with the exception of the "single" queue). 2) Do not submit/execute jobs in more than two different 8 or 4 hour queues at the same time (with the exception of the "single" queue). 3) Submit/execute no more than two jobs per 5 or 10 minute queue at a time. 4) Do not submit/execute more than five jobs at a time in the "single" queue. As an example, if user "goodman" submitted a job to the m_32pe_4h queue, he/she would not submit another to this queue until the first had run to completion. Meanwhile, "goodman" could also have one job in the m_16pe_8h queue, two in the m_16pe_10m queue and even a couple in the single queue. In general, please try to use as few processors as are necessary and be flexible in the number of processors with which your codes can run. This tends to increase the overall throughput, scheduling efficiency, and number of people able to use the system at a given time. Please contact User Services (firstname.lastname@example.com or 907-450-8602) if you have any questions concerning this policy. Also, please contact us if you feel that the queues are being misused, and we will work to resolve the situation. ARSC may hold or delete jobs that are submitted in violation of this policy.
As always, your input on the queues and queue policy is appreciated. Please let us if you find yukon a reasonable machine on which to work.
Supercomputing '97
Supercomputing '97 was in San Jose, CA on November 15th-21st. Quite a number of people from ARSC were in attendance, and below we present a few highlights from the perspectives of Guy Robinson and Roger Edberg:
There was much hardware on display on the various vendor stands. Cray/SGI presented the T3E-1200 system and a 128 node Origin 2000 working in single system image. Tera was active presenting benchmarks from a system during the show. Digital announced a new collaboration with Quadrics to use Meiko networking technology to build a cluster based system and how this fits with their plans for a 100Tflop system in the early part of the next century. All other vendors made a good display of systems being used by many customers with a wide range of software packages.
In the presentations many speakers concentrated on the lack of improvement in the processor memory bandwidth interface and the relative complexity of the numerous cache structures available and the cost of programming to suit each. Solutions proposed range from a return to SIMD like architectures with large number of processors each with relatively small memories to large scale hierarchal memories with enormous switching networks controlling access.
Software was also evident with a multitude of new applications being presented by vendors and independent research centres often through impressive visualisations. The simulations are becoming more interdisciplinary and the control and management of data is often a major part of a successful project.
Also, after speaking with researchers from several centres, the need to justify and demonstrate that these improvement are worthy of the expense is becoming a major issue. Software, both in terms of systems software to support operational aspects and the development of next generation applications is of interest and there is more activity in this area than in developing hardware and applications software at present. An exception to this is an openMP effort which standardises shared memory programs.
A number of speakers discussed the socio-economic impacts of HPC systems. Several talks addressed the dramatic changes which might occur as the computing power is fully unleashed and scientists and engineers, along with other less traditional compute intensive disiplins start to make use of HPC.
The keynote speaker, Paul Saffo, pointed out that the technology changes never have the expected impact on society and the results are unpredictable.
David Brin, a Sci-Fi author and technology observer presented a talk which warned of the dangers of an information age where everyone can know everything about others. Instead of immense freedoms it can actually provide terrible controls over how people behave and a sociological byproduct might actually be less individual independence as more people conform.
Some speakers considered teraflops to be complete and were looking forwards to the advent of petaflop systems.
There were many new stands on the block, Windows NT seems to be coming of age and clusters of these systems are attracting attention. Several stands had examples and there was a tutorial presentation on the Beowulf project which detailed the important aspects to consider when building a cluster. The project has produced a super-cluster which performs at a peak of 10Gflops. PGI presented some impressive performance figures for multiprocessor PC systems using HPF to express the parallelism with minimal code development/modification efforts.
A panel session on Thursday November 20 was devoted exclusively to visualization. Panelists were Pat Hanarahan (Stanford), Paul Woodward (Minnesota), Chris Johnson (Utah), Tom DeFanti (U. Illinois at Chicago), and Philip Heerman (Sandia Labs). Talks and discussion focused on several topics:
- problems with processing large (terabytes) data sets for visualization,
- methods and problems with 'computational steering', using visualization to guide large-scale supercomputer calculations,
- methods and ideas for data filtering and feature identification, and
- integration of simulation and visualization codes.
The panel commented that visualization is rapidly converging with simulation--expect to see tight integration of visualization and application codes in the future. Several panelists presented animations from recent work. Woodward presented some particularly striking animations from gas dynamics simulations of red giant stars.
Many booths at the Supercomputing '97 exhibition had demonstrations of visualization software and hardware.
NCSA presented a number of 3D VR demonstrations during the SC'97 exhibition. Most notable were: (1) Cave5D, an implementation of the Vis5D visualization package using ImmersaDesk VR technology, and (2) The Virtual Temporal Bone, a VR world used to teach surgical students the anatomy of the temporal bone and associated structures in the human ear. The temporal bone demonstration included live interaction with a surgical instructor located in Chicago.
The scientific visualization team at NCAR presented a 20 minute videotape of CFD/climate research highlights using a 3D rear-screen projector with Crystal Eyes glasses. The program featured animation from the Vis5D package and NCAR's 'volsh' volume rendering software. The NCAR visualization team have added 3D capabilities to Vis5D; these 3D enhancements are scheduled for inclusion in the next official Vis5D release.
NASA showcased a number of visualization projects, including 3D CFD visualization (NAS) using an ImmersaDesk.
The ARSC booth presented a videotape of visualization highlights from the past year, as well as an interactive demonstrations of a tsunami visualization and polar ionosphere model.
Thanks To All
Again Supercomputing '97 was a great experience and our thanks go to all those involved in making this such a wonderful conference each year.
ARSC Thanksgiving Reading List
We polled ARSC staff for this optional holiday article, asking what they read on the plane back from SC97, or would have, had they been to SC97. So here are some books to consider, in no special order:
The Sparrow Recently finished _The Sparrow_ by Mary Doria Russell. Could be classified as Science Fiction by virtue of being set in the future, but it would be very limiting to classify it as just Sci-Fi. A very good read, _very_ thought provoking. Reviving Ophelia Currently reading _Reviving Ophelia_ by Mary Pipher. A sociological review of what teen age girls face in our culture. I'd recommend it for folks who have teenagers or soon-to-be teenagers. May not be exactly what their daughters face, but undoubtedly does reflect the experiences of some of their peers and some of the pressures of this culture. The Bhagavad Gita I just started the Bhagavad Gita. Were you going to have a "philosophy" section? Opera for Dummies (comes with CD of your favorite hits) The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn This is a classic which I already plan to reread. Chaos, The making of a new science by James Gleik. A "must read" for science/computer types. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Riveting story of a huge storm over the N. Atlantic in 1991 which sank the sword-fishing boat, the "Andrea Gail." Includes a lot of technical information on meteorology, ship design, wave formation, death by drowning, rescue at sea, etc... as well as history of the New England fishing industry, and the personal stories of the people and towns involved. My father-in-law, an ex-commercial fisherman, loved it, but says it was too critical of the fishermen. The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook by Ames, Nadeau and Moreland -- technical Scientific Visualization by Neilson, Hagen and Muller -- technical Programming Python by Mark Lutz -- technical Forces in Motion by Graham Lock -- biography of composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton The Music of What Happens by John Straley -- mystery by Sitka AK writer The Atlas by William T. Vollmann -- fiction Kid Books! Tons of "Arthur", "Berestain Bears", and Richard Scarry w/ the kids as well. Vegetable Heaven Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven : Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side-By-Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts (new cookbook by the author of The Enchanted Broccoli Forest and The Moosewood Cookbook) - I'm going to buy it for myself for Christmas. The Radio version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. Peace on Earth by Stanislaw Lem and "R" is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury, ...some very different views of science fiction Lunatic Cafe by L. Hamilton ...an adventure in between genres Hal's Legacy ...in a technical frame of mind, Hal's Legacy by David Stork shows the future in fact. Xanth I plan to read all 15+ Xanth series novels by Piers Anthony. The kingdom of Xanth is a fantasy land full of puns and magical beings. For example you pick light bulbs from a light plant and your shoes from a shoe tree. The last time I read the series there were only 13 books. I've lost count of the ones I haven't read. The Long Walk Captured by the Soviets in 1939, and falsely accused of spying, Polish Lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz was eventually sentenced to serve ten years in a labor camp located near Yakutsk in Siberia. The title of this book refers to the principal adventure in this affair, Slavomir's escape from confinement along with five comrades, and their year-long trek to freedom, by foot through such unfriendly climes as Northern Siberian, the Gobi desert, and the Himalayas. This book was an interesting read.
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I bought a 1.5 and a 2" pipe and I will take the size back I dont need I guess lol.
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|August 29th, 2013, 12:55 AM
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Wanna know something? I come from a dysfunctional family. Horribly sexually, emotionally, and physically abused mom, and due to this childhood abuse, she was absent from my life most of my childhood. My father was a very angry controlling absent father who was also a workaholic. Youngest sister is mentally handicapped. Dysfunctional? Hell yea. Am I screwed up as a man? A productive person of society? Possibly. I'm an asshole, prick, but I pray, go to church, and have a conscience on how I treat others. Honesty is a core value, and patriotic spirit too. I don't always agree with what I even do for a living, but my ethics keeps me employed and I earn my check honestly.
So for you to take this 'high road' and say you will never charge your children rent for living in your own house, be sure you don't disservice them further by reducing other valuable lessons available to you. And don't judge someone else for their methods of parenting either. I may have come from a screwed up family, but they charged me rent to live their when I got my first job. It didn't screw me up, it did hurt some paydays, but it taught me something. Sure, it didn't teach me EVERYTHING, but there is MERIT in my parents raising me the way they did.
You very well may have a different approach on teaching your kids the value of being mature, but stop your arrogance on others for how they may have done things. You aren't on any posters I've ever seen for perfect parenting.
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|August 29th, 2013, 08:12 AM
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I only lived with my parents for the first 2 semesters of college (moved out right after winter semester was over) and I only had a low paying job for the first semester.
I was taking 17 credits and working about 25 hrs a week, between gas to get to work/school, occasional lunch on campus during my long days and my bills I would not have been able to pay even $50 a month to my parents. I also did a lot of work around the house, so as long as she is doing her part and getting good grades I say no rent.
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Charging your 18+ year old child rent seems like a pretty white trash thing to do when they are working towards bettering themselves and building a future, ie going to college.
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My parents charged us rent if we were not in school (regardless of whether or not we were working full time). I plan to do the same with my kids.
I do like the idea that some have mentioned that if you do charge them rent to put it away for them so that when they do move out you can give it back to help with their rent.
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$0 a month if you like your kid and don't care if they stay.
$50 a month rent to "teach" your kid responsibilities.
$100 a month if you like your kid, but want help with utilities/groceries
$500 a month if you can't stand your kid
|August 29th, 2013, 08:57 AM
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Wow, I couldn't charge rent for a good kid going to school and working 2 jobs. Its rare these days to find a kid that wants to continue education and doesn't expect to be given everything because its their right as a kid. The most I would do is charge 50 a month for utilities cable internet ect. Save all the money and give it back to them when they leave.
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I had a friend who was single at the time and spent alot of time around our house when my 2 daughters were in their early teens. He made more than one comment to me that I was too hard on my kids. However, he was the first one to act like a big brother to them and compliment to others about how well behaved my daughters were. A little irony here? He now has 5 daughters but lives out of state & they are still pretty young but I'm curious to see how his parenting goes.
My older daughter asked me more than once how come her younger sister got away with things that she didn't. My best answer is that parenting is OJT (on the job training). No one goes to school for it and no one can gain work experience until a situation happens. People don't know what parenting is like till they have to rush a sick kid to the doctor at 3:00am or have a choking child and panic sets in. My oldest choked on a hard candy and started choking. I grabbed her and headed out the door only to catch myself that she would be dead before I got to the doctor. I held her upside down while my wife stuck her finger up her throat. She coughed it out. Right thing to do? You tell me when you have never experienced it before. So back to my daughter's question, you learn as you go, and on top of that, each child is different and reacts differently to the same upbringing.
Bottom line is that no one is perfect, nor has all the perfect answers. I didn't pay for all of my kid's college & felt that as long as they were working their way through college, I wouldn't charge them rent. It worked for us and for them.
Anyone who thinks they have all the answers, especially if they have never hit that point in life, does not have the answers...... only opinions.
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But I agree with both of your posts and feel you have both put well thought out well written responses together.
NOTHING annoys me more than hearing a "non" parent tell me I am doing something wrong with MY children.
That said, my dad always tells me I am too hard on my son. I have tried to lighten up. I believe that I have, there are certain things that I just can't figure out how to correct, though minor, I still think they need some attention to make sure they do not become major issues at any point in time.
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Seems to me like there's almost infinite possibilities/scenarios to your question. Is your kid holding decent grades, helping wash dishes, paying all her own bills (i.e. car ins, tuition, fees, books, etc) and possibly stashing some money in the bank? If yes then I'd say help her out a bit.
OTOH, if you're paying tuition, helping out with car &gas and she's out partying on the weekends blowing her money then heck yeah I'd charge.
It's all going to depend on your particular situation. I know I had to pay some and no, I didn't get any back either
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My daughters are 7 and 9 respectively (if anyone asks for pics, I will personally gouge the requesters's eye out and skull fukc the hole.) I have already started the process of explaining to them that I will provide for them as long as they are attending school and working. I am not willing to pay their tuition but I will at least make sure they have a ride, a roof, and food while they try to better themselves. I've also told them that if they choose not to attend college, they must move out at 18 and start being adults. That's not to say I will not help them get started and I will always be in the background making sure everything is ok. If they daughters are fighting the good fight, I'll cover for them. If they are broke because of partying or bad decisions, sucks to be them, go get a second job.
So in summary, I guess my vote is for not charging the kid rent. She seems like a go getter and as long as she is trying to better herself you are helping her move forward in life by providing shelter for her. If she strays from the path of responsiblity, then you might want to charge rent.
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I'm not sure where this rant came from. I wasn't saying I'm a perfect parent or even that I'm a good one. I try to do my best, just like a lot of parents try their best. Then we have those from dysfanctional families that either do not care to try their best, or they simply can't because they lack a point of reference since their own childhood was a mess.
All families cannot be dysfunctional, because then, that would be the norm. :)
All families may have certain traits or behavior that characterizes a dysfanctional family. I think this is what you were trying to say, however that does not make all families dysfunctional.
I wasn't even saying that parents who came from dysfanctional families are not able to be good parents to their children.
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Thinking more about charging my kids rent, I would still not charge them rent to live with me, but if they turned out to be scum or leeches, I would rather throw them out of my house than support their behavior by providing them "cheap" place to live.
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Was just thinking, what's one of the things we do when we move to a new place. We venture out little by little taking in landmarks of our new surroundings to enable us to pinpoint our new abodes. Sounds like an orientation flight to me. Of course you could just use a map or gps but where's the fun in that, right?
Are you planning on opening a window to let the bees in and out? :roll:


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Thread: Deion Branch Files Grievance
09-01-2006, 07:29 PM #1Regular 1st Stringer
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Deion Branch Files Grievance
"pats turn down trades, branch files grievance"
Granted, I find this highly interesting when it's not actually that cool cause of what I'm doing school-wise.
Basic facts seem to be
*Branch can seek a trade
*Branch works out contacts with the Jets and Seahawks in the area of 40 million with about 13 of that guaranteed.
*Pats turn down offers from both teams with Jets reportedly offering a second round pick
*branch files.
I think Branch has a good case here.
No way in hell does any team pay two firsts. The only players I can think of that would be worth two firsts would be someone like: Carson Palmer, Peyton Manning, Walter Jones, Julius Peppers, Ladanian Tomlinson off the top of my head. Those players being guys who are true monsters, mega stars that no team would ever every let leave their franchise unless they're on the downside of their careers and can't play to the value their contract (insert preston-esque shot at JO and Ray...come on, you know he would). Those teams will compromise the rest of the team just to make sure they keep them.
That said, Branch is not that kind of player.
*TO's was um..."dealt" for second round pick (TO is better imo)
*Ashley Lelie went for a third (lelie is admittedly worse)
*Peerless price was signed forcing the Falcons to pay a 1st (I am pretty sure), but this was universally regarded as a gamble (price did put up numbers like branch)
*Stallworth went for LB M. Simoneau and a 4th (potential, but never quite played to a 1st round WR)
So I think Branch has a pretty good case that a second round pick (especially with the expected JETS performance this year) is a reasonable offer.
I'm very interested to see what comes of this. We all know teams are TERRIFIED of trading high draft picks. Boller hosed us, even if he does pan out to be better than average. Price screwed the falcons. What's worked recently? Maybe the Eli Manning trade will be worth it. This could do a lot to change the trading policies with RFA and just in general.
We could be seeing a slight shift of power towards players who get lowballed and have to play out undervalued contracts given by tightfisted teams (don't go telling me the pats aren't tightfisted, they don't really pay anyone big outside Brady and he could have gotten more somewhere else).
Lessons: sign short rookie deals if at all possible. The trend is for longer and longer rookie deals...why? So they can get a player like Branch for $1 million a year if he's good. Patriots are going to get bit in the ass eventually by their refusal to pay market value.
Anyone else have a take on this? :hammer:
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Getting ready to mount the hooks and lower brackets on my MOW jetpack for the new (and improved -- great job guys!!) v2 harness from Bobby and Gav. Has anyone figured out the ideal placement for these on the back of the pack to make it hang right (e.g. farther down than ROTJ) for ESB? The upper hooks are not so much the problem as figuring out exactly where I want these bottom brackets to sit.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Pwn Toney, Apr 21, 2007.
Surely you don't contest that Pistons players never claimed this?
Ben got what he wanted. He got 60 million, and he earned the money. Ben got what he wanted. New goals with a different organization. The ability to be considered the veteran leader of the team. He left at the right time for him. Chicago fans loves him as he lead his team past the first round. Ben misses his Detroit friends (former teammates) but he now plays........CHICAGO BASKETBALL...........doesn't sound right !!!!!!!
Funny, but Skiles and Flip have fairly similar philosophies. The only difference I see is that Skiles was less likely to take crap from Ben out of the gate.
This weekend Ben will remain an ex-Pistons, an ex-Pistons who will try and stick it to his old team. If you think Ben was mistreated and want to see a nice playoff run sacraficed so Ben can have his revenge and Dumars taught a lesson then so be it. Or if you just want to see Ben do well and let chips fall where they will, then feel free. It is comming though, make no mistake about that. With all things being equal the Pistons should win this series. So it is kind of test of coaching styles and bbal philosophy of how Ben thinks the game should be played ( since he partly left the Pistons for it ) versus the new direction that we have gone in. Which side of the fence are you going to be on?
I see some other differences.
I don't know or care everything they've claimed. But if they did claim this, they were either stupid or lying.
I suppose this isn't worth discussing if you don't realize how many Pistons (including Ben Wallace) were saying this for many, many years. I'd like to not think the players I root for are only either stupid or lying.
I see minute ones. My favorite fabricated one, however, is the one about Saunders not concentrating on defense.
Personally, my favorite fabrication is that Ben Wallace did concentrate on defense. After all, the Pistons fielded the best defensive team they've had since the late '80s when Nazr Mohammed was in the starting lineup.
Great. Next you'll tell us that "time to go to work" is just a marketing slogan.
Speaking of coaches, did anyone notice how Chauncey Billups called Orlando a "well coached team"? Is he being serious, or angling for the negotiations?
I just disagree. Skiles' approach does have a distinctively more defensive approach no matter how you slice it. The point is not to say that Flip should have played Ben 48 min/game no matter what the circumstances. The point is that Saunders and Skiles have very different methods as to when and why to substitute Ben Wallace. Brown used Wallace effectively without having to "never" pull him from the game and Skiles has followed a path that is closer to how Larry Brown used to use Ben Wallace than Flip Saunders. Substitutions alone are not the sole amunition for Wallace going "ballistic." Saunders' coaching methods are not condusive to maximizing Ben Wallace's talent. Wallace realized it and Saunders should have paid attention to what was successful before he arrived and at least incorporated some of the approach considering his playoff record prior to arriving was questionable at best.
If it makes you feel more like a true Pistons fan to basically invent character flaws in an ex-player, I hope it's working. That is completely unfounded.
What playoff record are you talking about? The one where the Wolves were never favored in all but one of the series and pretty always got to face the Spurs or the Lakers? LB is a great coach and was the right person at the right time. Joe D himself said Flip coached tentatively the first season as he didn't want to rock the boat with a group of established players. Is Flip a great coach, no, but he is not a bum that is often suggested. Ben did and does have a big ego, no critcism of his contribution as player, but he didn't like what he saw and acted on it in his own way. I am not trying to defend Flip, but there has to be some balance in criticizing him too. RC got booted out of Indy, he is a very good defensive coach who wears on his players and can't seem to get them over the hump. I think the Bulls series will tell us a lot more about Flip and the players. Let's give him a chance.
You can also include the 04 ECF when they were the higher seed and still lost to the Lakers. I didn't like Cola as coach either, the same way I don't like Flip as coach. As you said, he is not a great coach. That means, there is definitely someone better than him we could have hired instead of just handing him the job once LB was pushed out the door. I don't like the way he coaches and if he proves me wrong by winning it all, I'll be the first to admit it. But, personally I don't like him as coach and would rather Joe D had spent more time looking for candidates. As inept as Cola was...Ben Wallace wasn't begging for a trade. As much of a "drama king" as many here make LB out to be, Ben Wallace wasn't itching to get out of town (and his trade value couldn't have been higher than at this point). Lo and behold here comes Saunders and next thing we know, we're triple teaming Lebron, Wade, and Shaq...getting humiliated by CLE into a 7 game series, and getting bounced by a team we should have beaten and our best defensive player is outta here. It's simply amazing how the guy that has accomplished the least has the most supporters. Call me crazy But, then again everyone cried like babies when Cola was fired so I guess I shouldn't be surprised in the regular season wins love-fest.
The Cleveland series was as much Flip's coaching as it was the players. They could'nt hit the broad side of barn from the field and made mistakes that a veteran team shouldn't have. Should Flip have stepped in and taken a harder approach, yeas, but all the hype was that the Pistons were a bunch of players who could turn on the switch and take it to another level. Joe D has identified this weakness many times. In some ways the team has too much cockiness. No love or dislike for Flip, just waiting to see the results speak for themselves. Ben did the right thing, get the best contract he could. I would have loved to see him in a Pistons uniform but not at that price and it was clear that he and Flip couldn't co-exist.
...which is precisely why I don't feel bad about hoping he does well. I have my own feelings about what Saunders could have done during that CLE series...but they ain't paying me to screw it up so it doesn't make much difference.
I hope he does well too, just not against the Pistons. He was a sight to watch in the Miami series, got into Shaq's head, rebounds, tips etc. Looked like the Ben of old.
I'm just going to point out the obvious here. How we "root" is not going to affect the outcome of the games. If Low wants to root for Ben Wallace, then he should do it. Judging by the 966 posts, he is obviously a Pistons fan.
Whoa...just last week I was at 79 trying to get into playoff chat...
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Third, O'Donnell et al. argue that we used too low a truncation parameter when doing the 'truncated least squares' regressions. In general, using too low a truncation parameter will overly smooth the results, and tend to smooth both temporal and spatial information. The problem with using too large a truncation parameter is that it creates problems when data are sparse, resulting in numerical noise (overfitting). O'Donnell et al. try to get around this problem by using cross validation — that is, trying a bunch of different truncation parameters, and using the ones that give the maximum r2, RE and CE statistics.
There are a number of other criticisms that O'Donnell et al. make, such as whether it is okay to infill the weather station data at the same time as doing the calibration against the satellite data (as we did) or whether these have to be done separately (as O'Donnell et al. did). These are more technical points that may or may not be generally applicable, but in any case do not make a significant difference to the results at hand (as O'Donnell et al. point out).
Let's assume, for the moment, that all of these ideas are on the mark, and that the main reconstruction presented by O'Donnell et al. is, in fact, a more accurate picture of Antarctic temperature change in the last 50 years than presented in previous work. What are the implications for Antarctic climate? How would they differ what was concluded in Steig et al. (2009)? The answer is: very little.
The spatial patterns of annual trends, and how they evolve through time, is similar in both papers. In particular, O'Donnell et al. find, as we did, that the entire continent was warming, on average, prior to early 1980s (Figure below from their main "RLS" reconstruction). As we said in our paper, this would tend to support the idea that cooling in East Antarctica is a recent phenomenon at least in part attributable to recent trends in the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), which is itself forced (at least in part) by stratospheric ozone depletion.
O'Donnell et al. also reproduce our finding that the seasons in which the most rapid and significant warming is occurring are winter and spring — in large areas of both East Antarctica and West Antarctica. In spring, warming is significant throughout all of West Antarctica through the entire 50 years of the record, and in winter, it also occurs throughout all of West Antarctica in the last 25 years. In both seasons in this latter period, the locus of greatest warming has been West Antarctica, and particularly the Ross Sea region and Marie Byrd land, not just the Antarctic Peninsula as virtually all studies prior to ours had assumed. This is an important result that we highlighted in our paper because it has implications for our understanding of the dynamics involving Antarctic warming. Specifically, we made a model-data comparison in the paper, in which we said
… both in the reconstruction and in the model results, the rate of warming is greater in continental West Antarctica, particularly in spring and winter, than either on the Peninsula or in East Antarctica…. This is related to SST changes and the location of sea ice anomalies, particularly during the latter period (1979–2003), when they are strongly zonally asymmetric, with significant losses in the WestAntarctic sector but small gains around the rest of the continent.
In other words, during the period where we have good sea ice data, areas with little sea ice are always areas of surface warming in the Antarctic. It was already well established before our work that sea ice anomalies play a major role in the observed waring on the Antarctic Peninsula's west coast. Our work showed that this is also true in West Antarctica, and is fully confirmed by O'Donnell et al.'s analysis. The only point of disagreement is in winter, in the earlier part of the record only (prior to the satellite era).
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My childhood dog had a very odd habit of only eating the red pieces of his food (sadly he was on purina... My parents did not know better at the time). I wondered why he developed the habit.... So I tried it. Surprisingly, that was the only color piece that had ANY slightly meaty flavor... The rest just tasted like cardboard. I've never been one to want to feed my pets something that I wouldn't eat. (I was never the popular child lol)
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I was watching my niece as a teenager and she wanted to give my dog a treat. She said she wanted s treat too so they could eat them at the same time. I gave her a human cookie in one hand and a dog cookie in the other hand. She gave the human cookie to the dog and she ate the dog cookie. It must have been pretty decent because she asked for another.
I used to make dog treats for my dog and my husband walked in as I took a batch out of the oven. He took one, went on his way and I didn't say anything. A few minutes later he came back and told me to throw them away because they tasted like they were missing something. I told him they were dog treats. He looked at me like I had two heads.
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very funny stories below...thanks for sharing. Here is mine.
When I was a teenager my mom used to keep cat food in a glass cookie jar that sat on the kitchen counter. One weekend my aunt and uncle were visiting. This aunt is a rather proper lady and generally thought of herself as distinguished.
Well, the aunt was apparently a bit peckish waiting for dinner to be served. She went straight to the glass cookie jar and starting eating the dry cat food. She had eaten several pieces before we noticed what she was doing. She was absolutely mortified.
When we asked what the cat food tasted like she dead panned her response "a bit dry". Everyone laughed like crazy.
|It wasn't much of an Oopsie that my husband tried one of Gunther's treats... They were blueberry and Pomegranate Nutro Ultra biscuits and he sniffed it and took a little nibble as I was starring at him in horror. His review was "eh, not that bad." o.O.... We switched to salmon strips haha no way in heck he was going to try those :P
Idont know how I managed to miss so many of the comments on this thread but your stories are awesome & just changed my bad mood (from training) into a "happy, all smiles & giggles" mood.
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Haha I was tempted to try the fruitables. They smell so darn good. Lol
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I ate a few of these kibble pieces one time on this old food my mom used to feed her dog. I was 10 or something, and I lost truth or dare. It was pretty bad.
I bought Lara these beef jerky strips that are made of all meat and a few other things, they smelled SO GOOD I almost tried one, but I resisted :P
we buy mostly natural balance LIT cookies for random bedtime treats. They all have a really strong odor so I have never even been tempted to try those.
We grew up with a lab that was freefed. My mom started babysitting for this couple and my mom noticed one day that the younger son (around 1.5 years old at the time) was missing so she looked around the corner and he was sitting at the dog bowl eating the kibble happily and "sharing" with the dog that had a WTH look.
He kept trying to get back to eat more and she had to end up moving the food completely so it wasn't accessible anymore.
When my daughter was a toddler, I made a birthday cake for her. My family was coming over to help celebrate her birthday.
She proudly stuck dog bisquit treats into her cake. I didn't notice until my family was at the house. They thought I seriously stuck the dog treats into the cake. We were all laughing and my daughter reached over, grabbed one off the cake and ate it. I thought it was funny, my mother was horrified.
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The wife stoically replied, "I didn't kill him. He fell off the mantel while he was licking his butt."
As a youngster, apparently one day my parents found me sitting in the kitchen with the cats, sharing their kibble... one for me, one for kitty, one for me, one for kitty. I think they put the food up after that.
As a teen, my friends and I tried out some of the dog biscuits, and a few of them weren't terrible. I can't remember which ones were any good, but I can say for sure that Liv-O-Snaps were pretty awful, those I do remember.
When I worked at various pet stores, I've tested out a biscuit here and there just for kicks, but never found any that tasted worth a darn. I guess I just don't like the same things the dogs do?
In the last training class I was in, I had found that the current dog's FAVORITE treats EVER were turkey sausage bites (human ones), so I grabbed a couple bags of them, and had put them into my little treat training bags to carry them in. Without even thinking about it at one point, I snuck a couple into my mouth, and noticed that I was suddenly getting REALLY GOOOD focus from my dog, so I randomly spat a little piece of one at her while she was just sitting there looking at me. The looks I got that night were priceless, and we all had a good laugh when I explained just what treats I was using that night. I've turned myself into a human pez dispenser more than once since then.
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