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Here's a pic of the vivis:


And the pack of heads:


And the spare tubes:


Nick

Yes, OneDay, you can do a find and replace on all those locations - useful if you want to quickly move your library from one hard drive to another (unless iTunes manages your music, in which case it's much easier). If I remember rightly (it's been years since I last did this), you edit the "iTunes Library.xml" file, then delete (or rather, move to a different location - just in case ) the "iTunes Library.itl". iTunes then rebuilds the library from the xml file. The instructions should be on google somewhere...

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Ah, here's one: apple discussion link and an older but clearer explanation - makeuseof.com link and aha, a more detailed explanation - hifiblog link.
Can't seem to find one which references iTunes 11 so don't know if there's been any changes to the process - but remember, back up back up back up!

I can't remember what happened to my playcounts when I did it - *possibility* of losing them, but YMMV. The major difficulty is that everything gets added in with the date of the move, losing your original date added.

Hi guys, just wondering if anyone has tried the VH-Drawtube, or know if it's called something else by other vendors?

I'm interested in trying out a cheapish mech mod, but I want it to be telescopic and fit the kick, and not have major issues (doesn't everyone?!)
I liked the sound of this one because it has an airflow control which might be neat.

It's not the same as the Beautiful Dream Drawtube - that has a side button and no air control (and is twice the price - SS rather than the probably chrome brass of this one). This one has a bottom button apparently.

The main thing about this one is that I can't find any reviews anywhere, so if someone has owned one and can say if they were happy with it or not, that'd be great 

VH-Drawtube



Nick

Hmmm, might just be unlucky with RM - I ordered my protanks from same place on the 15th, shipped same day and got them on Thursday (18th)!
Great price, especially if you order enough to get free shipping...

Hope yours come soon, can't get enough of my protank! Definitely new fave tank

Hmmmm, logic failure here methinks:
1/3 of smokers suffer from mental health issues -> if you smoke you probably have mental health issues -> all smokers are mental...
i.e. 1/3 of A's are B's -(Small Logic Jump!)> A's are probably B's -(Biiiig Logic Jump!)> all A's are B's...

Of course that's just the headline, the actual article merely points out that smoking is common among people suffering from mental health issues, and so doctors should consider mental health assessment when treating smokers. Since doctors are supposed to consider mental health assessment on a long list of indicators, this just adds to the list. There are similar lists of indicators for things like heart disease - i.e. obesity, poor diet etc.

1/3 of all smokers suffer from mental health issues (and 2/5 of all sufferers smoke), but approximately 1/5 of the population suffers from mental health issues (and the same proportion of the population smoke), so this suggests that mental illness is more common among smokers. Does this mean that smoking causes mental illness? Or that mental illness causes smoking? No - that takes two different effects 'being a smoker' and 'suffering from mental illness', and makes one the cause of the other. This could be a hypothesis certainly, but I've never seen any research which demonstrated such a link.
Is it possible that smoking helps people manage mental illness? Perhaps - there is research which shows that nicotine helps manage stress.
Is it possible that people suffering from mental illness are less likely to make the same risk analysis that many ex-smokers made, which helped motivate them to quit smoking? Perhaps - mental illness can cause poorer risk analysis.

Storm in a teacup article, tsk tsk Independent, thought you were better than this... I'd expect it from the Daily Mail

The text of that video, and slightly more info available here: clicky

Unfortunately, it seems these 510 style chargers aren't very well-made/designed. They don't seem to have the built-in protection that good battery chargers do. Either that, or the quality control on them is poor.
The MH Trust I work for just banned all e-cigs because of two incidents at other Trusts where a charging battery started fires... From the descriptions, it sounds like it was a patient, and left unattended, as they said it set fire to bedding, but of course they've decided on a blanket ban (no pun intended lol)
I plan to fight this, but one of the things I'll suggest is that they ban people from charging batteries on the premises (or perhaps, not without staff supervision), but I am not hugely optimistic of getting a large organisation to change its mind....

I do think that mod batteries are safer as you can choose to buy good quality named batteries - i.e. AW IMR or Sony/Sanyo/Phillips, and you can get quality chargers with inbuilt protection - like the intellicharger. Unfortunately, we don't know what's actually inside our Ego batteries, so we can't judge that it is reasonably safe. When it comes down to it, a Lithium Ion/Mn battery is a highly concentrated power source which can discharge high voltage relatively quickly, and therefore is never going to be 100% safe.

Nick