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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 07:24:44 PM »

Jr.

It's do able, arnt the songs on BMI though?

but we would like the songs too!

Yes, but are they on BMI?

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 07:16:51 PM »

It's do able, arnt the songs on BMI though?

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 06:59:15 PM »

Man Power is cheaper BMI is more money, lol.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 05:47:38 PM »

Cents/Liter..

Sometimes costs me $60 - $70 to fill my tank! It isn't cheap up here, we're luckily enough in a price break right now but over the summer and around that time it was bloody expensive!

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 05:41:52 PM »

i thought u were in ATL alreay?

I think I'm set to move back to Atlanta soon though!

Nope, I'm in Canada now. Will be moving back to Atlanta in a few months.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 05:16:07 PM »

I've been to Canada too! Some would say I live here, too!

i like the canadian side better

The Canadian-side of everything is better 

I think I'm set to move back to Atlanta soon though!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Any weather.com Gold subscribers here?

« on: January 24, 2008, 04:09:43 PM »

I got it for free, but its nothing too too fancy.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 24, 2008, 04:04:27 PM »

One of my teachers have told us there have been rumors flying around that one of the presidential canidates (I don't remember who) is coming to my school next month.

Want to come up to Canada and hide until they're gone?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Nears Completion of HD Facility, Moves Toward All Native HD

« on: January 23, 2008, 08:42:17 PM »

Heres some fun facts about the HD structure:

An estimated 155 tons of structural steel were required for the structure.
The acoustical doors leading into the studio weight 800 pounds each.
There will be 420 electrical circuits feeding the overhead studio light strips alone.
The interior of the studio space is the equivalent of 4 stories tall.
The irrigation system – which uses water runoff captured by a 9,200-cubic-foot underground detention vault – dials in to get the weather forecast before it begins to irrigate.
Almost 10,000 square feet of access flooring will be installed in the facility.
The generator in place to provide standby power for the new studio and tech core expansion has enough capabity to provide power to 100 homes for a day.


Here's a timeline of TWC HD:

February, 2008 – Completion of the structure of the new facility and HD studio.
April, 2008 – Target date for installation of new sets.
May 2, 2008 – Rehearsals of studio programming begins.
June 2, 2008 – Launch of first tier of HD in-studio programming featuring the popular programs, Your Weather Today and Evening Edition.
Third Quarter, 2008 – Continued transition to in-studio programming in HD until all studio programs will be presented in HD.


A new Master Control room for overseeing both SD and HD programming has already gone into operation. Meanwhile planning is continuing to transition the remaining aspects of the network to HD.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 23, 2008, 07:57:35 PM »

Alright, heres a fun story..

For the past few hours I have been receiving calls from a Pittsburgh area code..  The calls have sounded like "Hello, hello?" and "Anyone there?" and even on occasion some have said my last name "Hello, can I speak with Mr. or Mrs. Smith?" - Keep in mind this was on my answering machine..

They have been caling since about 4:00PM, so at around 7 I decided to do some research, turns out the calls have been getting everyone:

http://800notes.com/Area-Code.aspx/1-412

Take a gander at that page, as you can see this is a pretty annoying thing! Has anyone else seen this / had this happen to them?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?

« on: January 23, 2008, 12:29:44 PM »

Got to hand it to them though, they went in to disaster control and have done a really good job so far. I'd hate to be working on the night of the aforementioned events.

Some small information here, master control is being run by Airboss right now, versus Saturn.

I agree totally with that. They did a fine job of getting back on the air as quickly as they could. Those whose job it was to get that done should be proud of the job they did.

I would love to know what water equipment failed, I doubt TWC will release a press release about this as I doubt they will want to show it off, lol.. But their recovery is something to be proud of.

I've got a group of friends at TWC who I hope to hear from and get the details!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?

« on: January 23, 2008, 12:20:27 PM »

Lets look at this from something we all know, graphics applications..

Airboss is like MS Paint, Saturn is like Adobe Photo Shop.

Satrun is much more effcent when it comes to timing and event scheduling. Airboss is good at timing and scheduling, but all it does is switch sources and doesnt play the clips its self. Saturn actually plays the files its self using a file server.

I think Saturn is back up now, scheduled events seem to be running on cue.

What are the technical differences between Airboss and Saturn?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?

« on: January 23, 2008, 12:54:51 AM »

Got to hand it to them though, they went in to disaster control and have done a really good job so far. I'd hate to be working on the night of the aforementioned events.

Some small information here, master control is being run by Airboss right now, versus Saturn.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Is anyone else's TWC feed down?

« on: January 23, 2008, 12:42:37 AM »

Interesting thought that just occured to me-we beleive that the cause of TWC's problems was a power surge that destroyed equipment (or at the very least damaged it). But could that really be the case? I mean, wouldn't you think they'd have some sort of surge protection/supression in place, to prevent catastrophes such as this? I mean, you'd think any company whose very operation and livelihood depends solely on computers and other electronics which are very delicate and easily destroyed by power surges would take some kind of steps to  protect their equipment from these kinds of issues. 

We had a surge at the station back in July of last year, it all depends on the power of the surge I guess.. There are some systems that can handle it and some that can't.. For example, the video source switcher, if it gets over 5V of power, it will turn off.. But if it gets more then 5v of power like lets say 100v of power, it will detect that and turn off, but the voltage would be so high it could bypass it and fry the switcher... Thats talking small voltage tho. This surge at TWC was enough to fry some equipment and knock out everything in the process.

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Contributions / Re: Meltdown clips

« on: January 22, 2008, 04:15:39 PM »

It's only been 4hrs give it some time.