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wind predictions (and some thunder ramblings)

so astc thunder just came out and it was fire!

(MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THUNDER UNDER THE CUT)

So curlfeather was just the best and I loved her so so much, it was SO INSANE HOW SHE WAS EVIL??? i literally could not believe it. I mean, like, my brain went: “oh what? Is this a fake vision? Am I misunderstanding? Cuz she is NOT EVIL”

Before she had the “curlfeather is evil” vision and river star was like “ermmm you can’t see her in starclan rn” I thought maybe she could be in DF by a starclan misunderstanding? Or somehow died in starclan or DF? But it never crossed my mind she could be evil, what the twist!

I feel like curlfeather being evil is a little weird and doesn’t really fit in with the character they made her be, all nice and such? It kinda seems like a forced twist thinking about it, but cool and unexpected anyways.

AGHHHH I TOTALLY THOUGHT FROSTPAW’S FIRST VISIONS WERE REALL GRRRRRR it was by far the best part of the twist when we found out her first visions weren’t real. I think (hope) we all thought Frostpaw was becoming a warrior apprentice because she had too much pressure and stress and her visions were real, she just didn’t want to believe that.

but they actually weren’t real and just her mind??? That’s crazy, this book was INSANE

ALSO I FEEL LIKE FROSTPAW SHOULD HAVE REACTED MORE TO CURLFEATHER BEING EVIL?? After her vision she just went “Alr let’s head back now”

anyways, you’re here for wind predictions, not thunder rambling.

I really hope the prologue is gonna be curlfeather in DF, but honestly speaking it’s probably gonna be Berryheart or Splashtail or something.

I really want an interaction with Frostpaw and Curlfeather, I kinda wish Shadowsight could still see DF now because I need some cat to talk to curlfeather and find out what her actual motive other than I wanna be leader isss

Let’s be real, her only motive is “I wanna be leader”, isn’t it?

I would like to know if her reaction is “yeah I totally made up all ur visions and never loved u XD” or “ummm evil?? Murder??? Whaattt????”

I assume nightheart n Frostpaw are gonna run into the gathering (or warriors is gonna disappoint us and have them only say it to RC, ofc) and say everything. Splashtail’s gonna be like “ummmm huh?? Huh?? Wdym???”

in the end, I really want Frostpaw to become lead??? Like we haven’t had a protagonist with even a slightly powerful role like mentor since the prophecies begin?

it would be pretty refreshing, although poor mothwing, still nobody in this clan can talk to starclan 😭, and she’s still all alone 🤡

I want you guys to tell me what characters could potentially be lead! I’m gonna hold a vote soon! I have nightheart, Frostpaw, sunbeam, duskfur, splashtail, and tigerstar down as choice so far!

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Traction Control vs. Stability Control Systems: What Is the Difference?

The difference between traction control and stability control is like the difference between a GED and a master’s degree or PhD in vehicle safety. Stability control is just traction control with more vehicular education (computer programming) and better tools (a more powerful processor and more electronic sensors).

Clearly the anti-lock brake system, or ABS as we now know it, came first—on the 1971 Imperial. That same year, the Buick Riviera introduced MaxTrac, a primitive traction control system with no brake intervention, which instead compared transmission output speed with front wheel speed to detect spin and cut engine spark until the front and rear wheel speeds equalized. With no way to reduce fuel flowing through the carburetor, this reportedly led to some impressive backfires.

Stability control sort of debuted on the 1990 Japan-market Mitsubishi Diamante, variously referred to as active trace and traction control, then Active Skid and Traction Control (ASTC), but America’s first taste of a system like the ones we know today arrived with help from Bosch on the 1995 Mercedes-Benz S600 coupe. Let’s examine and compare the systems as they exist today.

What Is Traction Control?

This active safety feature was engineered to allow vehicles to make optimal use of the accelerative traction available on any given surface by measuring wheelspin, and then controlling it by using the anti-lock-braking system’s hydraulic solenoids to apply braking pressure and/or by employing the engine’s electronic throttle, fuel, or spark controls to trim power and slow a spinning wheel. These systems frequently offer the option of being switched off. The button to do this might be marked TC, TCL, or with an icon depicting the rear of a car above two backwards-S-shaped burnout marks. If your vehicle is equipped with both traction and stability control, they will almost certainly be controlled by the same button, which may then be labeled ESC, VSC, or with the icon. For a complete list of traction and stability control acronyms, scroll to the bottom of this article.

What Is Stability Control?

Modern stability control systems leverage all the hardware required by the traction control and anti-lock brake systems (a brake-pedal application sensor and wheel speed sensors at every wheel, plus a hydraulic valve body able to relieve or add pressure to the brake circuit for each wheel independently) and adds several new sensors. A steering wheel position sensor joins the brake and accelerator-pedal sensors to inform the system of the driver’s intended path and speed. A yaw sensor measures how much the vehicle is rotating around its vertical axis (what you experience as a skid or spin), and a three-axis accelerometer module detects both lateral and longitudinal acceleration, as well as any angular slope the vehicle is driving on. Consulting all these sensors, a more powerful computer then compares the vehicle’s actual motion with the driver’s intention. If the two don’t match, the system applies individual wheel brakes (as well as engine controls, if necessary) to bring the vehicle’s path into alignment with the driver’s intention. Note that because stability control became mandatory in the U.S. in 2012, all new passenger vehicles are equipped with the holy trinity of driver-assist systems: ABS, traction, and stability control.

How Does Stability Control Change the Vehicle’s Path?

If you’ve ever gone canoeing, kayaking, or whitewater rafting, you’ve probably steered a boat by back paddling on the side that you want to steer toward. Stability control does the same thing—adding brake pressure to one side of the car to gently steer it in that direction, with varying results depending on whether and how much the front or rear brakes are applied. Remember, the driver has already dialed in a desired amount of steering, so if the car isn’t reacting as it should, then reduced traction, extreme winds, or some other external force is causing the path to deviate, so simply ordering the electric steering assist to steer more is unlikely to achieve the desired effect. A deft stability control system does its work without the driver noticing, except perhaps for the blinking stability-control lamp that indicates the system is working.

How Do ABS, Traction Control and Stability Control Work Together?

The systems are completely integrated, so it’s impossible to have stability control or traction control without ABS. The anti-lock braking system’s hydraulic valve block enables the wheel-speed regulation required to limit wheelspin for traction control and for stability control to regulate the vehicle’s path. Some vehicles allow drivers to disable or dial back the effectiveness of the systems. Traction-control off buttons are most prevalent, stability off-buttons are less so (and when they exist they can be nested in screen menus and they seldom turn the system completely off, as we frequently find in our Figure Eight testing). As noted, these systems also share the same button as well. Note that not since the B3 (’86-’92) Audi 80/90 has an ABS-off switch been offered.

My Stability Control Offers Settings—Which Is Best?

Some performance vehicles offer different settings (like the Chevrolet Corvette, many Cadillac V-cars, or any BMW M car) tailored to more aggressive driving situations. These sometimes offer so many settings that owners’ forums are probably better equipped to answer this question. Off-road-oriented vehicles that provide different terrain modes tailor the level of stability control intervention in each to suit the different terrains, so simply setting this mode to match the terrain you’re covering is best. Otherwise, John & Jane Q Public are best advised to leave those traction and stability control buttons alone on public roads. Performance-mode settings are often accessible only from deep inside infotainment-system menu trees or by pressing and holding a button for many seconds. They tend to make the system more permissive of neutral slides or even some degree of oversteer drifts. If you’ve had high-performance driver training courses and you’re planning to drive your car on a closed course with safety guard rails and so forth (and are prepared for the insurance hit if something goes badly wrong), engaging these settings may indeed make your car much more fun to drive. Note that many (but not all) of these systems revert to full safety-net mode if you touch or stab the brakes in the middle of a slide.

When Should I Turn Off Traction Control?

If you’re in a normal car with no terrain modes that becomes slightly stuck in sand or snow because your system kills the power at the first hint of wheelspin, switching off the traction control portion of the system can allow the wheels to spin enough to “burn down” through snow or sand to a grippier surface below and get the vehicle moving again.

When Should I Turn Off Stability Control?

Have you won an SCCA title or finished a LeMans race? Are you helping Kim Reynolds measure MotorTrend Figure Eight performance at our test facility? If you answered “no” to all of these, then maybe never, which is why manufacturers generally make it difficult to access the “off” mode, so nobody accidentally turns it off. We can’t recommend ever turning stability control completely off on a public road, but exceptional drivers seeking to fully explore the limits of their high-performance vehicle on a closed road or track may find the “off” setting valuable.

What Causes the Stability Control Light to Come on?

Stability control is a safety system, so its functionality is continuously monitored by the onboard diagnostic electronics. That light comes when the system is either switched off, switched to a lower level of sensitivity, or suffers any sort of fault (some off-road terrain modes reduce the system’s effectiveness enough to illuminate the lamp when in those modes). So, if you haven’t touched a switch and it comes on, you probably have a system fault. The most common of these are sensor malfunctions, and the sensors that are first to go are those mounted out in the elements, like the wheel-speed sensors. These can be knocked out of alignment or damaged by road hazards or become corroded. The light will oftentimes flash when the traction and/or stability control system is actively intervening to bring the car back under control.

What Are Other Names for Stability Control?

Here is a list of the names various manufacturers use for their stability control systems around the world:

Acura: Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) (formerly CSL 4-Drive TCS) Alfa Romeo: Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) Audi: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Bentley: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) BMW: Co-engineering partner and inventor with Robert Bosch GmbH and Continental (TEVES) Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) (including Dynamic Traction Control) Bugatti: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Buick: StabiliTrak Cadillac: StabiliTrak and StabiliTrak3.0 with Active Front Steering (AFS) Chevrolet: StabiliTrak and Active Handling (Corvette & Camaro only) Chrysler: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Dodge: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Fiat: Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) Ferrari: Controllo Stabilità (CST) Ford: AdvanceTrac with Roll Stability Control (RSC) and Interactive Vehicle Dynamics (IVD) and Electronic Stability Program (ESP) General Motors: StabiliTrak Honda: Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) (formerly CSL 4-Drive TCS) Hyundai: Electronic Stability Program (ESP), Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) Infiniti: Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) Jaguar: Dynamic Stability Control (DSC), and Automatic Stability Control (ASC) Jeep: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Kia: Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Lamborghini: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Land Rover: Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) Lexus: Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management (VDIM) with Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) Lincoln: AdvanceTrac Maserati: Maserati Stability Program (MSP) Mazda: Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) (including Dynamic Traction Control) Mercedes-Benz co-inventor with Robert Bosch GmbH: Electronic Stability Program (ESP) Mini: Dynamic Stability Control Mitsubishi: Active Skid and Traction Control MULTIMODE and Active Stability Control (ASC) Nissan: Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) Porsche: Porsche Stability Management (PSM) Subaru: Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) Toyota: Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) and Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management (VDIM) Tesla: Electronic Stability Control (ESC) Volvo: Dynamic Stability and Traction Control (DSTC) Volkswagen: Electronic Stability Program (ESP)

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Jacksonville, North Carolina has the distinction of being the youngest city in the United States with an average age of 22.8 years old,

which is due to the fact that Jacksonville has a large military presence as it is home of the US Marine Corps training facility, Camp Lejeune and New River Air Station. Jacksonville has good proximity to local beaches such as Hilton Head, South Carolina and North Carolina’s Southern Outer Banks area.

Jacksonville offers indoor and outdoor activities that can be enjoyed throughout the year such as a Frisbee golf course, skate park and Splash Pad. There are miles of trails and greenways throughout Jacksonville where you can bike or take a leisurely stroll. The yearly calendar is full of fun festivities such as Oktoberfest, Winterfest, National Night Out, ArtBlock, Summer Concert Series, and the Jacksonville Jamboree. Read on to learn more about the best things to do in Jacksonville!

1. Lejeune Memorial Gardens

Lejeune Memorial Gardens is home to the Beirut Memorial, the Onslow Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Montford Point Marine Memorial, and 9/11 Memorial Beam from the World Trade Center. The Beirut Memorial is a tribute to the 273 Marines who lost their lives in Lebanon and Grenada on October 23,1983. It is set in a wooded site with beautiful landscaping.

The 9/11 Memorial houses a beam from the Twin Towers that was presented by the New York police and firefighters to the first troops to invade Iraq following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the second largest Vietnam Veterans Memorial after the memorial in Washington, DC. The Montford Point Marine Memorial honors the Montford Point Marines, African American Marines who served in WWII. The marines were the first to serve in the US Marine Corps.

2. Walton's Distillery

Walton’s Distillery is a family owned and operated business that became fully operational in 2013. To find it, go past the winding Black Creek Road and just beyond the bank of Black Creek you will find the small-batch distillery located on a site where numerous illegal stills had previously operated. Today, corn whiskey is legally made at the distillery. One of the unique aspects of the distillery is the naming of their spirits. The founder and owner, Donald Walton, names his spirits after family members and the labels bear the name of the family member. His first spirit, E.M. Walton’s Corn Whiskey, was named in honor of his great-grandfather.

Once the whiskey production was fully underway, Walton expanded his product offering by adding moonshine which is concocted in the traditional moonshine stainless steel still with copper condenser. Adding moonshine was his cousin, Norwood Rochelle’s, idea as he had made moonshine illegally for approximately 50 years in the woods of surrounding counties. The name of the moonshine is Junior Walton’s Authentic Carolina Moonshine, named after Walton’s grandfather.

3. Bayonet Enterprises Cruises

Bayonet Enterprises is a family owned and operated business that provides quality leisure experiences on the waterways of the New River in Jacksonville, NC. They offer a variety of cruises for all types of occasions and celebrations. Cruises include Let’s Do Lunch, Sunset Wine and Cheese, Champagne Brunch, Family Picnic, Sunset Dinner Cruise and longer cruises such as the 5 hour mini getaway, a six hour day on the water, and an overnight getaway. The boat is equipped with towels, soap, sunscreen, fleece, blankets and 1st aid items. Children under eight cruise free.

4. Lynnwood Park Zoo

Lynnwood Park Zoo is a beautifully landscaped park and is the only animal exhibit in Jacksonville and the Camp Lejeune area. The zoo displays over 80 animal exhibits, with many different species of exotic and domestic animals, reptiles, and birds from around the world such as zebras, wallabies, pigmy goats, sheep, alligators, python turtles, owls, emus, turkeys, geese, hawks and more. Visitors can meander along over a mile (1.6 km) of walkways between exhibits.

There is a nature center and a picnic area with tables at the entrance. Self-guided and guided tours are available too. Children can get up close personal with a hands on look at small animals, birds and reptiles on the guided tours. The zoo is an exceptional family destination, where visitors have learning opportunities, can stroll through leisurely nature trails, and enjoy a picnic before or after a visit.

5. Wilson Bay Park

Located on the New River, Wilson Bay Park is a perfect place for a picnic, fishing or catching a spectacular sunrise over the water. The picnic shelter, which holds approximately 60 people, is located right on the water and has playground equipment and restrooms nearby. Take a stroll along the waterfront on the boardwalk or head to the dock to fish, maybe even for some shrimp. At the end of the boardwalk over the water is a beautiful gazebo which is a favorite spot for weddings.

6. Shipwreck Island Waterpark at Adventure Landing

Cool off and have a blast at Shipwreck Island at Adventure Landing. This water park has a little bit of everything. Older kids and parents will get their adrenaline pumping on the Xtreme slides such as the Eye of the Storm and the Hydro Half-Pipe. The wave pool will be a hit for the whole family!

7. Peterbrooke Chocolatier Production Center

Take a tour of the Peterbrooke Chocolatier Productions Center located in San Marco Square. Meander the square to discover fabulous boutiques, art galleries, and the fountain of lions.

8. The Jacksonville Jaguars at Everbank Field

For an exciting night, watch the Jacksonville Jaguars play at Everbank Field where Super Bowl XXXIX was held. There are a variety of seating options to choose from including Field Seats, Club Tables, Spa Cabanas, Party Cabanas, and the Bar Rail. Be sure to visit the State Farm Fan Cave, which is air-conditioned and open to all ticket holders. If you have kiddos 12 and under, be sure to enroll them in the Jaguars Cub Club or Kids Club to receive special discounts and fun activities created just for them!

9. Museum of Science and History

Every member of the family will LOVE the Museum of Science and History. Be sure to visit the museum’s events page when planning a visit so that you don’t miss a thing! The MOSH is part of the ASTC Passport Program, and ASTC members get in for free. If not a member, save a few dollars by visiting on $5 Fridays!

10. Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park

There is plenty to do here; visitors can camp, surf, fish in the lake, hike, and bike. For the surfer in the family, be sure not to miss surfing at The Poles located in Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park.

Here are a few more ideas for what to do in the area: Top 10 things to do in Irvine

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