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I think that the IRS should have two types of retirement accounts: Roth and Retirement account. We should all be able to contribute the same amount or percentage and be able to choose our own provider for the investments. This would eliminate the need for several chapters of IRS code.
Anybody here have an expense ratio anywhere close to this?
Allow me to explain the "Lies of Averages". If you take the gross market returns (no fees) of the S&P 500 from 1980-2012, you'll find that the index has averaged 12.55%. This sounds great. You'll sit down with your advisor or you'll jump on a financial calculator and insert 12.55% for the average return and determine if you put $205 into your 401(k) you'll be a millionaire in 33 years! You'll think, "I'm all taken care of!"
The reality is far from the fiction. For the simplicity of math, I'll assume a starting balance of $10,000 and no additional contributions. The ending amount isn't the point...it's the principle that I'm want you to grasp.
I'll start out describing the perfect investment. The perfect investment is one that has no losses, no fees and no taxes. Today, want you to focus in on the losses and the fees part. We'll dig into taxes on a later date.
Using the perfect investment scenario, you sit down with your advisor and he shows you that the market has average 12.55% over 33 years and your $10,000 will grow to $494,767 because that is what the market has averaged. True, it did average 12.55%. But average and actual (you spend actual) are two different beasts when you deal with scenarios that you can have losses in.
Here is a quick illustration: Add 100% gain plus a 50% loss. What is the average? What can you spend?
Back to the prior example. The perfect investment at 12.55% average has your $10,000 growing to $494,767 in 33 years. However, the real ending value (factoring real gains and real losses) has you at $323,889! The losses cost you $170,878! Recall the conversation that you probably had with "your guy"..."Hang in there, the markets will come back, they always do, you just have to ride it out, don't bail out now...." This advice sounds great, but in real life it cost you $170,878! How many years of retirement income is that for you?
Now do you see what I mean when I say the "Lies of Averages"?
Let's apply fees to the "Lies of Averages". The average expense ratio in a 401(k) is about 3%. Some more and some a bit less. The more aggressive the fund, the higher the fees. Other plans have much higher fees (I've seen some 403(b) plans as high as 5%).
When applying the fee to the 12.55% gross average return of the S&P 500 you are left with 9.55% average. The perfect investment scenario (no losses) would have your $10,000 growing to $202,767. However, the real numbers have your $10,000 only growing to $129,402!
If you recall, at 12.55%, $205 per month for 33 years would have you at $1 million dollars! Add in the 3% fee and this number is reduced to $522,505 AND this doesn't even include accounting for the losses! The fees have cost you nearly $500,000! How many years of retirement is that? With six losses in 33 years for the S&P 500, this $522,505 would be around $260,000 after factoring in those losses!
Let's role play for a moment. You're 33 years old and you walk into a Wall Street advisor's office or you pull up the financial calculator on your online 401(k) account and you figure you want $1 million when you're 66. You see that the market has average 12.55% and you decide to put in $205 into your 401(k) plan or other retirement account. In your mind, you're all set and you rebuff any person's attempt to shed light onto your situation because you're convinced that "you're all set". Fast forward 33 years and you're 66. You've ridden the wave of ups and downs and you got the advice from everyone to "hold on, ride it out, the markets will rebound" and now you're 66 years old. You look at your account to see that you only have $260,000 in real money (that will be taxed at a yet-to-be-determined tax rate when you pull it out). A far cry from that $1 million your calculator told you that you'd have.
What do you do now? Back to work. You put off all of your dreams to age 66 only to find out what you were told isn't true and isn't a reality. According to the Census Bureau, of the people that started working at age 25 and are now turning 65, 1% is wealthy and 4% have enough put away for retirement. Of the remaining 96%, 29% are dead. That leaves 67% dependent on government (Social Security), family (their adult children), friends, charities and employment.
A bit of a side note, the IRA was created around 1974 and the 401(k) in 1980. People turning 65 today were about 25 when the IRA was created by ERISA in 1974...could the lack of financial security with today's crop of new retirees be a coincidence?
Most people have allocations of stocks and bonds, not 100% stocks. A straight line assumption of 6.5 to 7% blended return might be better assumption if relying on straight line projections.
I am still rather naive on retirement accounts and wet behind the ears overall with investing. I would like to hear an educated response to what was posted here.
Your acquaintance isn't P.T. Barnum per chance?
Anybody here have an expense ratio anywhere close to this?
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On 9/3/13 I lost my extraordinary Labrador companion gundog of 7.5 years to a very sudden and inexplicable death. I was absolutely crushed as he was my constant companion and a true joy to hunt over regardless if for waterfowl or upland birds. He will be greatly missed all the remaining days of my life.
Within three days of losing my companion gundog, I was going crazy and could feel the palpable tide of depression rushing at me full bore. I knew then and there that I must initiate a search for a successor to my beloved gundog.
My initial search could not have come at a worse time and I was not having great success with the five kennels in my shortlist of preferred bloodlines. That said, I stepped outside my geographic comfort zone and reached out to Haynes Floyd of Double TT British
Kennels in Sylvia, Kansas. As a complete stroke of luck for me, and the misfortune for someone else, I was able to select one of two black males out of a very desirable breeding due to a reservation on a pup having to be dropped by the reservation holder due to a family illness.
My new pup TTF CRAIGHORN KIFFIN "TRAD" is the product of a mating of HRCH UH TTF CRAIGHORN "KIFFIN" MH x FTW LEAWYN LAINNE "TARA" and I took delivery on 10/23/13 via an overland gundog transport service.
The wee Trad is absolutely beautiful and is everything I might hope for in a prospective gundog pup. Trad is highly alert, curious, intelligent, and maintains great eye contact on
me as his trainer / handler. He shows strong interest in both water and bird wings. He is also very social, bold in the woods demonstrating that he is an ATP ( All Terrain Pup ) by handling every obstacle we worked him over. He showed great agility, tenacity, and self confidence as we traversed the woods.
Trad has brought me a healing that nearly two months ago I would have thought impossible. My beloved gundog Cayden will live in my heart forever and I will think of him daily every day of my life. The name I selected for my new pup "Trad" is an abbreviation or slang of the Irish word "TRADISIUN" which means tradition in English. My new pup Trad will be a living tribute to his predecessors and the tradition of gundog excellence they bestowed upon my life. I look forward to watching Trad as I personally train him, and observing his journey to gundog excellence.
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Description ADULT BREEDING MALE Has mostly black plumage, but with striking white patch (mostly the greater coverts) on wings (obvious when perched and in flight). ADULT NONBREEDING MALE Has black elements of plumage replaced by streaked gray-brown on upperparts; underparts are whitish with bold dark streaks. ADULT FEMALE Recalls nonbreeding male, but plumage is paler overall and white on wing is restricted to less distinct patch formed by white edges to greater covert feathers. Note also the bold dark line bordering the pale throat. JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but with less distinct markings.
Dimensions Length: 6-7 1/2" (15-19 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to prairies; winters from southern U.S. to Mexico in grassland habitats.
Observation Tips Easy to see within range, in suitable habitats.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Eastern Canada, Southeast, Rocky Mountains, California, Western Canada, Southwest
Voice Song is a delightful and varied mixture of trills and shrill and liquid whistles; call is a soft hu-eee.
Discussion Large and well-marked, sparrowlike grassland bird, males of which are striking and unmistakable in breeding plumage. All birds have a stout, conical, blue-gray bill, and a white tip to the tail. Often perches on fences and forms large flocks outside the breeding season. Sexes are dissimilar.


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Mark Miller Talks About Legends and Family
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I know that it has been a hard week for the fighter we know and love as the Fight Shark. The training, the traveling, the unraveling of his mind as he prepares himself to fly to Russia to fight for the Glory World Series against Nikolaj Falin. This is his first fight in years now since his open heart surgery in 2007. MMAWeekly.com has been publishing a weekly blog written by Mark where he discusses preparing for his fight and the thoughts that go through his mind.
One of the best parts about reading the articles is that you get to see a lot of the more intimate thoughts that go through Miller's mind, as well as see a fighter that is well-read, educated and brilliant in his own right. It is a breath of fresh air to know that you are supporting someone who is not only a skilled fighter, but able to think and communicate far beyond your average professional fighter. In his latest blog he discusses training with Buddy McGirt and Rob Kaman.
|Here I am years later, and these two men are my coaches. These are the men polishing me for this fight. I feel so lucky to have such a career that I get to work with the people I have looked up to and aspired to be like. And truly, my career has been this way since the beginning. Starting with Maurice Smith and Rick Roufus, two men I still am so grateful to, and now these guys.
On top of that, Miller discusses his father and his NBA career as well as his three children.
My dad played in the very first NBA game ever. He played for the Toronto Huskies. I always sort of held that fact as a piece of pride. He was a part of something big, bigger than himself.
I hope to do that for my kids. I have three sons, all of whom are so brilliant, and so individual. I am so proud of the human beings they are growing up to be. I hope one day that they will feel that they can have that same pride when it comes to me.
This is what drives me when it gets hard on nights like this.
Read the rest of Mark's blog on MMAWeekly.com and of course, stay tuned to LiverKick.com for more updates as Mark prepares for his big return fight. [source]


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Keeping football players safe and reducing injuries top priority
SPOKANE, Wash. - With all eyes on New Orleans this weekend for Super Bowl XLVII, a lot of questions are being raised about the safety of America's favorite sport.
New research shows football concussions can cause brain damage, even death. This week, President Obama weighed in on the topic saying if he had a son he would have to "think long and hard" before letting him play.
How to keep players safe and reduce injuries is now a top priority for the NFL and sports associations across the country.Keeping football players safe while playing
The NFL announced this week it's working out the details to give $100-million to Harvard University to study and treat players injuries.
In Spokane, nearly 2-thousand kids sign up to play flag and tackle football with Spokane Youth Sports Association every year.
Phil Helean, Executive Director of SYSA said education and training are key to keep kids safe on the field.
"We train our coaches to make sure they are using, teaching proper techniques for blocking and tackling, just to prevent injuries," Helean said.
Before kids can play football, parents have to sign and read a form outlining the symptoms of a concussion.
Under Washington law, an athlete who has suffered a concussion or is suspected of having a brain injury must be removed from the game or practice immediately. The law also requires the athlete to be checked out by a doctor specializing in concussion injuries before they can play again.
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1971 Chevy Suburban Superlift Suspension - Project SuperBurb Part IIPosted in Project Vehicles on September 1, 2002 Comment (0)
Last month we introduced our '71 Chevy Suburban and equipped it with some stout axles and lockers, along with a set of 4.88 gears. For this issue's installment of Project SuperBurb, we decided it was time to revamp the Sub's tired old suspension. Dreams of lots of lift and tires big enough to run over import cars filled our heads--but then we remembered that our Burb had to serve double-duty. Actually, it has to do more than double-duty, as the idea is to build one vehicle that could serve as an awesome tow rig, a comfortable daily driver and a capable trail rig.
For those reasons we decided to dial back the lift and tire size, since towing with 40-inch mudders didn't sound like a good idea. Plus we wanted a tire size that was somewhat easy to replace. Huge tires aren't easy to find in remote areas, which is where we tend to need them.
With all that in mind, we decided on a conservative 6-inch lift and 35-inch tires. For the 6-inch suspension system we turned to Superlift. Until very recently, all that was available from Superlift for the '67-'72 Chevy crowd was the company's heavy-duty front springs. But we felt that those would be a bit stiff for our purposes.
We were in luck, as the folks at Superlift informed us that the company's softer Superide springs were going to be available for the '67-'72 Chevys. Even better, we could get the first set. So after our new suspension arrived we busted out the tools, cleared out the driveway and went about slapping the lift on the Sub. What follows are the details and results of our toil.
So what's in store for the next installment? How does 340 hp, 450 lb-ft of torque and an overdrive sound?
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The Before and After
We were surprised at the amount of flex that the Suburban had in stock condition. Most of it was due to the stock springs, which were completely worn out. Because of the softness of the springs, the Suburban was all over the road, and on the trail it would quickly blow through its meager suspension travel. In stock form our Suburban managed a 562 RTI score on a steep 30-degree ramp.
After the lift was installed, we hit the 30-degree ramp again. Though contact between the front tires and the fenders stopped our progress before the Burb could achieve full flex, it did manage an RTI of 603. We expect a slightly higher number after some fender trimming and after the springs break in.
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Installing a suspension system isn't just about flex. We made large gains in approach and departure angles that will help the big Burb on the trail. The most impressive gain was clearance under the low-hanging transfer-case crossmember, and improvement that will help keep the Burb from high-centering. Check out the following before and after numbers.
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|Front Differential Clearance (inches)
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|Rear Differential Clearance (inches)
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After last month's axle install we decided to do a little light wheeling. We quickly found that one of our hubs was busted. Upon disassembling the front Dana 44 we were horrified to discover puny axleshafts that looked like toothpicks, and tiny U-joints that looked like they came out of a Jeep.
A quick call to Warn solved our problems. First we ordered a set of Warn's premium manual-locking hubs for our Dana 44. But we knew we had to get rid of those puny axleshafts, so we also opted to get a set of Warn's 4340 chrome/nickel alloy shafts. They don't neck down like our stock ones did, and we can use the bigger and stronger 297X U-joint. Another nice feature is that they are machined to accept full-circle retaining clips, which do a much better job of retaining the U-joint.
Fire and Breaker Bars
Having an air compressor and an impact wrench sure is nice, but such accoutrements are not in the buildup budget right now. In place of air power, there are a few helpful techniques to remove stubborn nuts and bolts, and working on a 32-year-old vehicle gave us plenty of chances to use them. First, always have a big breaker bar in your tool chest to provide extra leverage. If that doesn't work, we take the handle off our jack and slip it over our breaker bar to make one giant extended breaker bar. When that doesn't work, and as a last resort, we break out the propane torch. We let the flame from the propane torch play on the offending nut for about two minutes. Then we spray it with Liquid Wrench or WD-40--neither seems to ignite. We then immediately attempt to remove the stubborn nut. So far this technique has worked for us--the heating and then instant cooling seems to free the nut every time. Once you've done this, though, toss the nut and/or bolt and buy new ones.
The Tires and Wheels
Due to the multi-purpose nature of SuperBurb, tire choice was very critical, since the tires we chose had to be able to tackle a wide variety of tasks. That is why we decided on a set of Pro Comp Xterrains in the 315/75R16 size. That's equivalent to a 35x12.50R16 in nonmetric lingo. They ride smoothly, are very quiet, and their aggressive tread does well in a variety of terrain. Another plus is their D load-range rating. We wrapped them around a set of 16x10 fully polished Xtreme Alloys from 4Wheel Parts Wholesalers.
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Hackensack's Pork in the Park Backyard BBQ Festival is Aug. 3
The third annual Pork in the Park Backyard BBQ Festival will be held from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, in the Hackensack City Park.
There will be two- to four-person teams, which must have paid the $100 entry fee and sign up by Saturday, July 27. Contact Steve and Dolly Pauly at 218-675-5250 or 612-910-6602 no later than July 27.
Prizes will be awarded for first ($500), second ($250), third ($150) and People's Choice ($100).
There will be live music, a beer garden, food booths and sweet corn on the cob. There is no gate fee; however, tickets can be purchased at the entrance for sampling the contestants' ribs.


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By Ben Levisohn
Infosys (INFY) has jumped 8.1% to $47.61 this morning after the Indian IT company surprised the market with far better earnings than had been forecast.
But these big earnings-inspired moves are getting to be old hat for Infosys. Remember its January report? The stock jumped about 18% after beating market estimates. Then three months later, Infosys gave back all those gains–and then some–when it took a Dave Kingman-like swing at its earnings forecasts and hit nothing but air.
And now we're at it again. The earnings quite good: Infosys reported a profit of 23.7 billion rupees, ahead of expectations of 23.2 billion rupees, according to Bloomberg. The company also said its annual revenue in dollars would increase by 6% to 10%, when analysts had forecast that that it would cut.
But how optimistic should investors be considering recent history? Oppenheimer's Glenn Greene, Brent Navon and Andrew Hummel weigh in:
We are somewhat encouraged by these results, especially the upside revenue and margin performance, and early signs of improved utilization. That said, quarterly results recently have proven volatile, and management's commitment to its current strategic direction remains ambiguous. We expect considerable share strength given the muted expectations into the quarter.
Janney's Joseph Foresi and Jeffrey Rossetti are also wary:
The results are a reversal from last quarter's disappointing execution. Infosys faces headwinds on the execution front as it continues to move to Infosys 3.0, the margin profile is pressured by commoditization, and present multiples are not representative of earnings growth rates…We maintain our NEUTRAL rating.
William Blair's Rahul Bhangare expects Infosys's margins to remain under pressure:
There was no margin or earnings guidance given; however, we continue to expect significant margin pressure in 2014 driven by lower-margin Lodestone revenue, compensation increases, higher subcontracting costs, and lower pricing. Management expects nearly 300 basis points of margin headwind from wage increases alone in the second quarter. While we suspect the company can offset some of the pressure by increasing utilization and realizing currency benefits, we expect 2014 GAAP operating margin to decline 280 basis points year-over-year.
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2012 was a bad year for AstraZeneca - Revenue declined 15% to $27,973 mn
Singapore: AstraZeneca (AZ) revealed that during its fourth quarter and the full year of 2012, its revenue declined 15 percent at constant exchange rates (CER) to $27,973 million. The financial report reflected the loss of exclusivity on several AZ brands. The company will hold a Capital Markets Day on March 21, 2013, to provide a strategy update. AstraZeneca also unveiled the status of its developmental pipeline for the year ending December 31, 2012. Click here to view AstraZeneca's development pipeline in .PDF format.
Brilinta/Brilique, Symbicort, Faslodex, Onglyza and Iressa continued to grow, while diabetes alliance franchise strengthened by the inclusion of Amylin portfolio and the approval of Forxiga in Europe. Loss of exclusivity on several brands and the disposals of Astra Tech and Aptium were the key drivers of the revenue decline. Symbicort, Faslodex, Onglyza, Iressa, Brilinta/Brilique and Seroquel XR combined to deliver $600 million of CER revenue growth for the full year. Core EPS was $6.41 for the full year, a nine percent decline at CER.
Core EPS in 2012 benefited by $470 million ($0.37) from two separate tax related matters during the year. Proceeds from the sale of Nexium OTC rights contributed $0.16 to Core EPS. Reported EPS for the full year was down 29 percent at CER to $4.99. The decline reflects the $1.08 per
share benefit in 2011 from the sale of Astra Tech and higher restructuring costs in 2012. Revenue in the fourth quarter was down 15 percent. Core EPS was up one percent as a result of lower operating costs (including significantly lower intangible impairment costs in R&D) and a favourable
$230 million adjustment to deferred tax balances following substantive enactment of a reduction in the Swedish corporation tax rate.
The board declared a second interim dividend of $1.90 per share, bringing the dividend for the full year to $2.80, consistent with the progressive dividend policy. The company expects a mid-to-high single digit percentage decline in revenue at CER for 2013. With core operating costs expected to be slightly higher than 2012 at CER, core EPS will decline significantly more than revenue.
Dr Pascal Soriot, CEO, AstraZeneca, while commenting on the results, said that, "Our performance in 2012 reflects a period of significant patent expiry and tough market conditions globally. Despite the challenges we face, I am excited about AstraZeneca's fundamental strengths which will be key in returning the company to growth and achieving scientific leadership while maintaining our reputation for strong financial discipline."
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Flat pedals aren't just for curmudgeons and kids; we know lots of folks who ride flats. While most of those tend towards the wilder side of mountain biking, we have cross-country riding friends who prefer to be free from the confines of typical clipless pedal systems as well. Ergon makes the PC2 Pedals specifically for mountain bikers or commuters that want flat pedals without the excessive radness or intimidation of BMX-style pedals with gnarly, shin-tenderizing spikes. Like their line of biomechanically-inspired contoured grips, Ergon designed the PC2 Pedals with the goal of optimizing them for foot placement and biomechanics. And with this in mind, the result is a set of pedals that creates a comfortable platform, without causing hot spots or sore feet. The platform on each pedal is set at a 6 degree angle for proper joint alignment through the foot, knee, and hip.Ergon builds the PC2 Pedals with the help of a couple of key partners. They leaned on Magura, an expert in injection molding, for the development of the GFK composite body. It's durable and allowed the designers the freedom to create the shapes they wanted. It spins on Igus polymer bearings, another German manufacturing partner with extensive knowledge. The composite body has built-in reflectors on the front and back edges. They also make use of 3M grip tape on both sides of the pedals to help you keep your foot in place as you ride.The Ergon PC2 Pedals are black and come in two sizesSmall and Large. The small works for feet smaller than 42 European or 8.5 US. The large works for anything larger than that. - $79.95


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I wanted to ask all of you Guru's a couple of quick question. My Female Chocolate Lab has been doing fantastic after getting her to a great trainer for several months in that last year . She was doing pile work and was almost complete collar force to pile when I got and I wanted to work with her from there. I am working from Lardy's "Pile Work" chapter. She is now lining really well and stopping square on the wistle. I lack the experience to know when to move on to T drills.
I have read ahead a little and she has all of the tools to do the drills. She was taught to stop on whistle with the rope, and now is good on the whistle when being sent. What is the best way to teach or enforce stopping while coming in. What I was reading didn't seem very clear on that. I hope that is not too stupid of a question. She will be going back to the trainer in a month or so, but I wanted to see how far I could get her before sending her back
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US FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and LifeScience Alley sign memorandum of understanding (MoU)
Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is joining hands with US life science industry to bring advancement in regulatory science. The apex agency has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with LifeScience Alley, life sciences trade association in the US. Regulatory science refers to the tools, methods, and approaches to assessing the safety, effectiveness, performance and quality of medical products.
"This agreement represents a critical step in the process of realigning the day-to-day interactions between medical device companies and the FDA," stated Mr Dale Wahlstrom, president and CEO of LifeScience Alley and the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota. "It builds the foundation for specific projects that will improve the environment in which the medical device industry is operating, which will help to ensure the availability of life-enhancing and life-saving devices for patients."
The MoU recognizes that CDRH and LifeScience Alley, which represents the industrial and academic medical technology community sectors, have shared interests in further developing regulatory science for medical devices and in enhancing the understanding of the safety, effectiveness, quality and performance of medical devices.
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"The FDA's approach to regulation must be as smart and as innovative as the products we review," said Dr Shuren. "This MoU represents the beginning of important collaboration among industry, government and academia to strengthen the medical device industry and assure that Americans benefit from safe and effective medical products."
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kygobbler wrote:Dewey, I like how treerooster has his stuff also but there is in one thing in that photo I am going to try to do. I want to make a Mr. Skully like that. I think that is awesome and I know my wife won't be to fond of it but it will be in the man cave. Lol
Dude we have the same thought process on this one. I agree 100% on the Mr Skully and driving the wifey crazy.
We need to have treerooster give a step by step tutorial on how to make a Mr Skully.
turkey junky wrote:we just got back some mounts from kansas ill try & post some pics with help from dewey of course... lol
my father got back a nice rio grande full body gobbler strut n that can also be hung on the wall... i got a rio grande gobbler that is a half body mount that goes on the wall facing you but looks like its in full strut wings & all i like that style of mount it takes up less room overall...
both mounts are top notch & quality mounts that make our other turkey mounts look like a novice did the work!!! ill try & get them pics posted early next wk i think & you guys can let me know what you think...
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Okay, some may claim the Zaap "pewter" ships display better out of the box. I'll almost certainly never know, since I'll almost certainly never be able to afford another one for an opener.
Some may claim the Defender is better/as good an opened display SWAF. That's a tough call. They're such VERY different ships, I prefer to think they compliment each other rather than have to rank them.
I haven't opened my Falcons, and I'm working on scoring a cheap one for an opener. That's one of the others I think will display really well. I'd like to hear what AF ships others think are outstanding when displayed out of their box.
As fo non-SW Action Fleet, the Aliens series also look like they'd display spectacularly as openers.
But back to the main subject....
I received my 2nd Dagobah X-Wing today. This one ordered specifically to display out of the box. I am thrilled with it. In addition to the "swampy" paint effects, they also added some gray and puke-color (sorry, I thought for a long time, and that's the only description I could think of for the color) patches on the ship that beautifully pop out some of the textured areas that simply do not show up on the standard, minimally-painted versions.
As everyone probably knows, you can still score these on eBay for under $10 + shipping pretty regularly. I paid $9.49 + $5 shipping. In my opinion, for what little that's worth, I think this is hands-down the best value-for-the-dollar aftermarket AF collectible. If you have only one of them, and you're reluctant to open it, to retain its value as a collectible, then I urge you to get your butt on to eBay and snag an opener. If you're disappointed after seeing it, I'll buy it from you myself (provided you got one for about what I paid).


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I really value positive training and use it whenever possible to help teach the dog new skills. I have found it great for obedience and puppy training but I question its value with advanced retriever training (though retriever training is inherently positive - as long as there's a bird at the end of every retrieve). I also don't think there is such a thing as 100% positive.
With that said, I think you can train a decent or even nice gundog able to do multiples and blinds without the use of force or aversives. Below are a couple of folks I know about who try to take a "purely positive" approach.
Lindsay Ridgeway (mentioned above):
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This Tasty Tuesday we are sharing a savory recipe from Emeril Lagasse that will bring some vampy creole sophistication to your table.
Staked Vampire Chicken with Blood Braise
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2003
Prep Time:1 hr 10 min
Cook Time:1 hr 20 min
6 servings
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, softened
2 tablespoons Essence, recipe follows
1 (4-pound) chicken, giblets removed and rinsed well
Cedar stake, see below for details
Olive oil, for browning sausage, plus extra for roasting
3 pounds hot Italian sausage links (still attached, if possible)
1 pint pearl onions, peeled
1 cup stemmed shiitake mushrooms, cleaned
1 cup whole crimini mushrooms, cleaned
1 cup oyster mushrooms, cleaned
1 pound baby carrots, tops trimmed, peeled
1 bunch red baby beets, tops removed
1 whole head garlic, separated into cloves and peeled
2 sprigs rosemary
2 sprigs thyme
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 cups red wine
3/4 cup beet juice
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon chopped thyme leaves
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Remove 1 oven rack and place the other at the bottom of the oven.
Mix the softened butter and Essence together to make a paste. Rub the paste all over the chicken and under the skin of the breast. Set aside.
Place a large roasting pan over 2 burners on the stove and heat over medium-high heat. Add enough olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of the pan. When the oil is hot, add the sausage links, still attached in a coil. Brown on both sides, about 3 minutes per side.
Remove from the heat and create a space in the center of the sausage coil that is large enough to fit the cedar stake and the chicken.
Place the chicken on the stake and place in the center of the sausage. Add the onion, mushrooms, carrots, baby beets, and garlic around the sausage. Drizzle with olive oil. Add rosemary, thyme, and season with salt and pepper. Roast for 1 hour or until the chicken and sausage is cooked through. Check after 30 minutes to make sure there is still sufficient liquid in the pan. If the pan is dry, add a little chicken stock or water.
While the chicken is cooking, in a saucepan, combine the red wine, beet liquid, cream, and Dijon and reduce by 1/2, about 15 minutes. Stir in the thyme. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
Remove the chicken (still on the stake) from the pan and place in the center of a large platter. Surround with the sausage, garlic, and vegetables.
Ladle the sauce into a goblet or gravy boat and serve with the chicken.
Cedar Stake:
1 (1 by 6 by 36-inch) untreated, food-safe cedar plank
From the piece of cedar cut a base of 6 to 7 inches.
From the remaining plank cut a 7 to 8-inch piece. Cut this lengthwise approximately 1 1/2 inches wide. This will form your stake. At 1 end, make 2 diagonal cuts to form a point at the top of the stake.
Nail or screw the stake to the base by putting nail or screw through base and into the stake. Make sure to use stainless steel nails or screws and sanitize them in boiling water before using.
Essence (Emeril's Creole Seasoning):
2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon dried leaf oregano
1 tablespoon dried thyme
Combine all ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight jar or container.
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The Alibi's annual Haiku Contest winners
In Japan, haiku are traditionally short poems focused on the natural world and our place in it. This being America, we like to take tradition, dip it in batter, fry it up and serve it on a stick.
This year, haiku entries of all flavors came pouring in from middle and high schoolers, inmates and apostrophe abusers. It was difficult to narrow down the nearly 3,000 haiku we received, but our commitment to art demanded nothing less. Our favorites in each category will receive a $20 gift certificate from Gold Street Caffè, a gift certificate for $15 to Yoga Now, a $10 cert from Pin It Up Hair Studio, $10 worth of pie from Pizza 9, two movie passes to Guild Cinema and an authentic (and classy) Alibi bottle opener key chain! Winners can pick up their loot at our headquarters (413 Central SE) Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to make other arrangements. We do not deliver.
Thanks to our judges Jessica Cassyle Carr, Marisa Demarco, Adam Fox, Molly Lindsay, Laura Marrich, John Millington and Ilene Style for their discerning tastes. And a very sincere thanks to all of the entrants. Having to read thousands of fun, weird and moving poems ain't a bad gig.
The Winners
Best Traditional Haiku
sunflowers open
like verbs, hummingbird hangs, a
feathered green comma
—Danny Solis
Best Haiku About the Undead
on Easter Sunday
my five year old child exclaimed
"Jesus! A zombie!"
—Todd Eddy
Best Haiku About the Recession
I have no teacher
For AP Economy,
APS is broke.
—Beth Wright
Best Haiku That's Also a Jingle
I love my iPhone
I can sit on the toilet
And let loose a tweet.
—Joe Black
Best Haiku About Michael Jackson
More than his music
Michael was the first Black man
To walk on the moon
—Hakim Bellamy
Best Haiku About Sopaipillas
New Mexico meals
end when we lick the honey
off our fingertips.
—Ann McGinley
Best Nursery Rhyme Haiku
Old Mother Hubbard
Living in the South Valley
Makes bomb burritos.
—Charles Gravina
Best Haiku About Dirt
Detroit roach ice cubes.
Brooklyn chicken bone sidewalks.
Burque dirt on toast.
—Emily Severance
Best Haiku About Cryptids
Ach, Wild Haggis.
Ahv no' sen the wee beastie,
bit ye smell 'im 'round!
[translation from the Scottish:
Ah, Wild Haggis.
I've never seen the creature,
yet its fragrance looms.]
—Jordan Ganz
Best Miscellaneous Haiku
That man standing there,
He has a lot of keys. Must
be the janitor.
—Brandon Chapman
Room for More: Other Favorites
Parched life holds its breath—waiting
Smell of desert rain
—Larry Elmore
A dust cloud blows by
Crickets and wind chimes emerge
Beneath restless sky.
—Joel Kurzawa
The Undead
My little toe is small
My big toe is a zombie
My other toes are scared
—Jonathan Coriz, Desert Ridge Middle School
Crunchy and stiff
Hand punching out of the ground
Fingers breaking off.
—Grace Roff
How zombies despair
marching on Capital Hill.
No brains anywhere!
—Jordan Ganz
This whole recesssion,
I've been thinking, "and I thought
Detroit sucked BEFORE."
—Chris Chapin
Also a Jingle
If ever you want
To paper your new bird cage
Alibi works well
—Joe Black
Alternative source
All your news, views, and the Don.
Weekly Alibi
—Rich Newman
Mattress Firm. Where it's
Easy to get a crappy
Bed. Wow! Twist ending!
—Bella Pori
Michael Jackson
Not Until He Died
Did I Really Sit
And Appreciate "Earth Song"
—Laurel Butler
This man dances good
But he likes to grab his groin
I think something is wrong!
—Carlos Montano, Desert Ridge Middle School
Before his death I'd
Always assumed the aliens
Loaned him to us
—Hakim Bellamy
[Editor's note: Not 5-7-5, but too good not to include.]
Warm cotton batting
Unraveling in my mouth
Ribbons of honey
—Lauren C. Teffeau
I can't take you home,
You just don't keep very well.
Like my poetry.
—Patrick Hibbard
Santa Fe Santa:
Christmas gifts of red and green,
sopaipilla sack.
—Jordan Ganz
Nursery Rhymes
Nursery rhymes are
Fun when you're young but as you
Age they get freaky
—Mary Farrah
Living in a shoe
The old lady with the kids
Rhythm method sucks
—Joe Black
I hate nursery rhymes
Jack should jump over a cliff
Not a candlestick.
—Chad Smith, Desert Ridge Middle School
What to say of dirt?
Does Old Dirty Bastard count
in a dirt haiku?
—Jordan Ganz
gossip's sad appeal
is that other people's dirt
makes us feel cleaner
—Jeffrey D. Miller
Dank and full I hope
My compost draws out richness
I love rotted beets
—Kristen Sandoval
You ate my puppy
So don't pretend you're not real
Bad chupacabra!
—Hope Eckert
Yeti supports plan
of public health care—its lack
—Emily Severance
New status update.
Mothman lives in Point Pleasant.
We're friends on Facebook.
—Sue McGilpin
Haikus are so lame,
they never make any sense,
—Christina Barajas
waiting for my cat
his conspicuous absence
proves most difficult
—Micheal Henry Lee
Toddler hell-bent on
destruction and suicide.
Also likes Elmo.
—Holly Hargrove
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Rekindled Fascination With 3D Form And Engineering Solutions
The sculptural element of my output has gone largely unrealized over the years mostly down to the prohibiting expense of developing these ambitious projects with real materials. My Node Frames project and various sustainable building technology projects have rekindled my fascination with the engineering require to fabricate real structures from real material.
Limitations Of Developing Sculpture Digitally
I feel there is only so far I can progress with designing sculpture digitally, being as the best sculptural and architectural form always grows out of the properties of the materials used and functionality. Neither of these can be easily simulated on a computer so much of my 3D thinking gets no further than sketches.
Opportunity Provided By Commission
I have a number of sculptural forms I've been turning over in my mind for many years now and at some point I'd love to commit to evolving these creations in the real world of space and stuff. This is where a commission would provide a way forward for the Sculptural manifestation of Root2Art.


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hi stan, i'll call a brother a brother but i won't do it publically. What i'm saying is to put a little video on a public forum that in a way attaches monkeys to a black man (obama) you might want to consider other things.
Funny the brothers I know have a preference for, MY insert n word, public or not.Every day I would have to to check for shoe polish on my face from being referred to as my you get the point. As a side note a few have grown out of it, but will still let it slip.
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March 2010
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Freerace ****
Short characteristic: The new iSonic 111 in the wood carbon version feels much more crispy compared to the prerunners and combines a lively, fleet-footed riding performance with the objective best speed potential.
On land: The 2010 footstrap models are easier to adjust compared to the last years straps, especially when you want to get them wider (for windsurfers with big feet and shoes). The iSonic board gets offered in 2 constructions, but without fins.
On the water: Fully powered up with a 38 fin the Starboard offers almost the same control as the RRD, with a fleet-footed unresisting riding experience. The board "sizzles" absolutely free above the water and offer sthe sailor the most racing fun. When the wind drops, the board needs a bit bigger sized fin to keep up the speed. Otherwise you are loosing speed and the upwind edge sinks down. Tuned with the right fin the iSonic is definitely the right choice to make it on the podium in all conditions. The board also performs extremely controlled inside the jibe. With some more pressure you can go through narrow jibes as well and the board takes the best speed out of the jibe on the new course.
SURF recommendation: If you find the right fin for the the board, you will have a board, which combines a sporty riding performance, best control and objective performance in a superior way. The new wood carbon construction gives the iSonic a more crispy feeling compared to the former years.


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Not to sidetrack the CORN thread:
Not to sidetrack the CORN thread:
Osama has been lying since he swore to " Preserve protect and defend the constitution". Its a shame lies and incompetence are not grounds to impeach him.
Bob Gutermuth
Canvasback Chesapeakes
So what exactly does that have to do with anything? Are you saying obongo is better becasue he has broken fewer? Isn't that kind of like saying someone who kills one person is less of a murder than someone who killed two? Whats the point, both did it and both would be murders. Try real hard to understand what your reading Roger. The title was Broken BO's promises? It was not Did Bush, Clinton, Washnington, Kennedy.....break promises. Does it make it better that GW broke promises? Are you saying it is OK because GW (in office for 8 years, not 6 months) broke more promises? If you would like please start a thread about anyone you like breaking promises, but come on you make yourself sound like a freaking joke with every post being BUSH did it worse.......
Views and opinions expressed herein by Badbullgator do not necessarily represent the policies or position of RTF. RTF and all of it's subsidiaries can not be held liable for the off centered humor and politically incorrect comments of the author.
Corey Burke
George W Bush is no longer POTUS, Osama is. Its time to let W go and start really getting to the bottom of what the incompetent one is doing instead of letting W's alleged mistakes form a smoke screen to hide the inadequacies of the current administration.
Bob Gutermuth
Canvasback Chesapeakes
Presidential campaign promises have been broken by the winner for as long as elections have been held in this county, and that will most likely continue. Every president I can remember from Kenedy forward has broken campaign promises (not to mention lied while in office). I think it is part of the criteria for the job. Only time will tell how many promises Obama keeps and breaks.


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Modern crime often leaves an electronic trail. Finding and preserving that evidence requires careful methods as well as technical skill
Simson L. Garfinkel
Just two decades ago, there were no digital forensics tools as we know them today. Instead, practitioners had to repurpose tools that had been developed elsewhere. For example, disk backup software was used for collection and preservation, and data recovery tools were used for media analysis. Although these approaches worked, they lacked control, repeatability, and known error rates.
The situation began to change in 1993. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court held in the case of Daubert v. Merrell Pharmaceutical that any scientific testimony presented in court must be based on a theory that is testable, that has been scrutinized and found favorable by the scientific community, that has a known or potential error rate, and that is generally accepted. Although the case didn't directly kick off the demand for digital forensics tools, it gave practitioners grounds for arguing that validated tools were needed not just for good science and procedure but as a matter of law. Since then there has been a steady development of techniques for what has come to be called technical exploitation.
Probably the single most transformative technical innovation in the field has been the introduction of hash functions, first as a means for ensuring the integrity of forensic data, and later as a way to recognize specific files.
In computer science a hash function maps a sequence of characters (called a string) to a binary number of a specific size—that is, a fixed number of bits. A 16-bit hash function can produce 216 = 65,536 different values, whereas a 32-bit hash function can produce 232 = 4,294,967,296 possible values. Hash functions are designed so that changing a single character in the input results in a completely different output. Although many different strings will have the same hash value—something called a hash collision—the more bits in the hash, the smaller the chance of such an outcome. (The name hash comes from the way hash functions are typically implemented as a two-step process that first chops and then mixes the data, much the same way one might make hash in the kitchen.)
Hashing was invented by Hans Peter Luhn and first described in a 1953 IBM technical memo; it's been widely used for computerized text processing since the 1960s. For example, because every sentence in a document can be treated as a string, hashing makes it possible to rapidly see if the same paragraph ever repeats in a long document: Just compute the hash value for each paragraph, put all of the hashes into a list, sort the list, and see if any number occurs two or more times.
If there is no repeat, then no paragraph is duplicated. If a number does repeat, then it's necessary to look at the corresponding paragraphs to determine whether the text really does appear twice, or the duplicate is a the result of a hash collision. Using hashes in this manner is quicker than working directly with the paragraphs because it is much faster for computers to compare numbers than sequences of words—even when you account for the time to perform the hashing.
In 1979, Ralph Merkle, then a Stanford University doctoral student, invented a way to use hashing for computer security. Merkle's idea was to use a hash function that produced more than 100 bits of output and additionally had the property of being one-way. That is, it was relatively easy to compute the hash of a string, but it was nearly impossible, given a hash, to find a corresponding string. The essence of Merkle's idea was to use a document's 100-bit one-way hash as a stand-in for the document itself. Instead of digitally certifying a 50-page document, for example, the document could be reduced to a 100-bit hash, which could then be certified. Because there are so many different possible hash values (2100 is about 1030 combinations), Merkle reasoned that an attacker could not take the digital signature from one document and use it to certify a second document—because to do so would require that both documents had the same hash value.
Merkle got his degree, and today digital signatures applied to hashes are the basis of many cybersecurity systems. They protect credit card numbers sent over the Internet, certify the authenticity and integrity of code run on iPhones, and validate keys used play digital music.
The idea of hashing has been applied to other areas as well—in particular, forensics. One of the field's first and continuing uses of hashing was to establish chain of custody for forensic data. Instead of hashing a document or a file, the hash function is applied to the entire disk image. Many law enforcement organizations will create two disk images of a drive and then compute the hash of each image. If the values match, then the copies are assumed to each be a true copy of the data that were on the drive. Any investigator with a later copy of the data can calculate the hash and see if it matches the original reported value. Hashing is so important that many digital forensics tools automatically perform this comparison.
A second use for hashing is to identify specific files. This approach takes advantage of the property that it is extraordinarily unlikely for two files to have the same hash value, so they can label files in much the same way a person can be recognized by their fingerprints.
Today forensic practitioners distribute databases containing file hashes. These data sets can be used to identify known goods, such as programs distributed as part of operating systems, or known bads, such as computer viruses, stolen documents, or child pornography. Recently, several groups, including my team at the Naval Postgraduate School, have applied cryptographic hashing to blocks of data smaller than files, taking advantage of the fact that even relatively short 512-byte and 4,096-byte segments of files can be highly identifying.
File and sector identification with hashing means that a hard drive containing millions of files can be automatically searched against a database containing the hashes of hundreds of millions of files in a relatively short amount of time, perhaps just a few hours. The search can be done without any human intervention.
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Prof. Hiroaki Koide also measured radiation levels in Tokyo.
The Japanese government never admitted to this amount of contamination in Tokyo.
Prof. Hiroaki Koide concludes that if Tokyo has been contaminated this much, then 'areas within Fukushima prefecture must be seriously contaminated'.
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profoundly important video that I have referred to again and again; continue to refer people to. Thank you so much! Excellent information.
Further studies for reference:
Busby quotes Bandashevski – who was imprisoned for protecting children and speaking out the truth. Here is his study (he lost much of his work, as some other guy took over his position in Belarus, and he fled Belarus): Cesium directly harms the hearts of our children: MODIFICATIONS IN CARDIAC-VASCULAR SYSTEM OF CHILDREN, LIVING IN CONTAMINATED WITH RADIOISOTOPES: http://chernobyl-today.org/images/stories/Bandajevski_2001_Radiocaesium_and_heart.pdf
500 Bequerel per Kilogram – japanese limit amounts to murder. Why: we can rightly consider the Cesium-137 in relatively small doses (20-30 Bq/kg); a breach of the regulatory processes in the body: PAGE 2 – 3: http://chernobyl-today.org/images/stories/BANDAJEVSKI_UNSCEAR_-_REUTERS_Sept_22nd_2010_Eng_V2.pdf
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Long time again since my latest entry!
This morning, edd has posted a link on a mail from Linus Torvalds about XML which is good food for thoughts...
I dare you. Prove me wrong says he before a rant showing that good taste and simple syntax is a MILLION times more readable than XML.
The interesting point is that Torvalds is right (could it not be the case?) and that he is also wrong.
He is right that simple text formats can be easier to edit and easier to read than XML documents, especially if you edit them by hand. He is also in his rights if he want to use good taste and simple syntax.
He is wrong if he assumes that good taste and simple syntax will save him from XML!
What many people miss to see (especially amongst XML zealots) is that what's important with XML isn't the syntax, not the angle brackets...
That's not because Torvalds uses good taste and simple syntax for his configuration files that I can't take a couple of hours to write a SAX parser for good taste and simple syntax and validate Torvalds' configuration files through a RELAX NG schema written with the non XML compact syntax. Zero angle brackets here, but still a XML application!
Hmmm... XML is only syntax and its syntax isn't important?
That's the XML paradox. Maybe, what's really important in XML is the quest for interoperability which has followed its publication. Maybe, after all, XML is a principle and not a technology?
BTW, have you noticed how straightforwardly Torvalds' demonstration can be applied to programming languages to show that Python (good taste and simple syntax) is a MILLION times more readable than C, Java or C# to name few?


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Insects don't have lungs. Their oxygen-delivery mechanisms aren't sophisticated enough to allow them to become particularly large. Anything larger than a huge tarantula would need a respiratory system like a vertebrate's.
Insects don't have lungs. Their oxygen-delivery mechanisms aren't sophisticated enough to allow them to become particularly large. Anything larger than a huge tarantula would need a respiratory system like a vertebrate's.
That's my jacket!
What do you think of man sized aliens with XO skeletons such as in the Sigourney Weaver series with aliens?
Those movies are classics. Geonosians are similar but made less threatening for audiences including children. But the Mustafar lava flea is a better example for what I was talking -about creatures that the figures can ride
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I personally hope that the creature designers for the new trilogy are a little more creative than just making giant insects. What made most of the OT creature designs so great was that they might have suggested certain animals that exist on our planet, but they rarely ever copied those animals directly.
The OT designers put a lot of effort into creating creatures that audiences had never seen before, but still somehow felt familiar and were firmly grounded in reality. For instance, Tauntauns and Banthas feel familiar, but we don't have a single animal on earth that looks anything like those creatures.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
How about the rancor and Sarlaac? A giant hairless gorilla and a huge venus fly trap? The space worm in ESB? (EXOGORT)
Yeah sorry to bug you but we need bugs ;')
They could go to Mon calamari and do more sea creatures though. But wait for it... It's a trap!
However riff Tamsen's people brought to life would be cool.
Wait. They briefly show the cancell on kashyyyk in episode 3. But no major characters used it for any significant amount of time like the dewbacks.
But maybe after the Battle of Endor The New Republic has chained ewoks and they ride them with harnesses
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The Special Edition Sarlacc might have evoked a Venus Flytrap... barely.... but I'm talking about the original design for the ROTJ. The Special Editions and the Prequels showcase some of the lazy and uncreative design work that I hope the new trilogy is able to rise above.
The spaceslug... well technically I guess that could be classified as a giant bug, but it made sense within the context of that specific scene. Plus, there was no exoskeleton and it existed in a low atmosphere environment.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
I dunno if the prequel concept design work is lazy and uncreative, I think it largely lacks the discipline to know when not to do something just because it is new or unique, or is what the boss says he wants. Also that Lucas and/or McCallum may have picked the wrong people to put the focus of concept artwork on, putting the wrong types of artists in charge of certain things. Doug Chiang isn't untalented, he's just focused on an aesthetic that is too experimental, too many flights of fancy, too much insectoid detailing and impossible/improbable machines, lots of complexity... IMO that means not cinematic - it may be undisciplined in that regard, but I don't think it's uncreative and lazy. You're the artist though, you're more qualified to make an objective statement in that regard - stuff like overly complex without sense to why it'd really operate, that's where I suppose we should defer to your opinion.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
But that's the thing about art, it's purely subjective. I might look at a specific design and say, "it's great" and you might look at that same design and say "it sucks." Which one of us is right? We both are.
When the original designers started to work on Star Wars, they obviously had very little to draw from, so they needed to cull their ideas from several different sources: Flash Gordon, WW2, westerns, pulp sci-fi, comic books, high-fantasy, mythology, etc. For Empire Strikes Back, they didn't have a lot freedom to explore new ideas since studios didn't think that "Star Wars 2" was going to be a success. Plus, I'm pretty sure making Yoda actually work onscreen probably took up the lion's share of ILM's special effects budget.
By the time ROTJ came around, Star Wars was officially a phenomenon and the designers finally had all the money they needed to create all of the creatures that they wanted to create. Having over 80 different aliens/creatures/monsters in ROTJ was considered totally revolutionary at the time. So, what we saw in ROTJ were the results of a group of artists who had had their hands tied creatively for several years, because of limited budgets, finally cut loose to create whatever they could imagine. But they weren't interested in repeating themselves, they wanted to surpass ANH and ESB in every possible way; so they went back and started drawing all of their inspiration from the real world again.
As a result, I think the mass of creativity and the level of polish that each design showcased in Return of the Jedi has yet to be matched even today.
When it came time to start designing for the Prequels, ILM had some massive hurdles to overcome since, not only did they have to outdo Return of the Jedi, but they also needed to outdo the 16 years of sci-fi films that had also tried to outdo ROTJ. Basically, Star Wars had inspired so many copycats, that the Prequels were in great danger of looking like just another copycat.
I was actually very encouraged by that first Ep1 trailer because everything looked so different from anything we had seen before and I think that's why I still believe Ep1 is the strongest of the Prequels from a design standpoint and is the one that feels the most like a Star Wars movie. What I think made the design work so well was that they "went back to the drawing board" and took most of their inspiration from non-Star Wars sources.
However, I think Lucas started to seriously second-guess himself during the concept stage of Ep2 and we got designs that no longer drew their inspiration from the real world, but drew their inspiration from the previous Star Wars films. Lucas tried to justify it by saying that we needed to see "transitionary forms" in the vehicles, but I believe that was just an excuse to play it safe. Instead of taking another risk on new ideas, ILM decided to start eating their own feet (figuratively of course). Because of that the pool of creativity started to shrink more and more. By Ep3, we were getting old designs broken apart, mashed-up and passed off as new designs (Commander Cody, I'm looking at you).
There are a few great Prequel designs that I still believe surpass some of the OT designs, however. Queen Amidala's outfits from Ep1 (that kind of thing made sense for a queen, but just became a tired joke with no punchline by Ep2 and 3), Sebulba and Dud Bolt (my two favorite Prequel alien designs), and the AT-TE (which is like an AT-AT that seems like it would actually be practical on the battlefield).
For the most part, though, I think the Prequels suffered from just too much stuff and very few designs could be polished to the level that we had become used to in the OT.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Art for art's sake is subjective, but this isn't only for its own sake, that's what makes it concept design. This art has a specific purpose which gives it some level of objective slant. Art here is serving a different medium (and one could well argue, a lower common denominator-oriented medium), it's conveying a story's ideas through a cinematic medium to a mainstream audience. It's not serving a Warhol film that would be meant to challenge the very notion of cinema and of storytelling.
Looking over the concept art for Star Wars and ESB, it's clear that there were several schools of thought and several philosophies, some more based on Lucas' words and some more based on '70s sci-fi magazines. McQuarrie worked most closely with Lucas in the formative era and was concerned more with art as an expression of designs and ideas than of itself, and I think that gives it more objectivity on which to draw from. The Flash Gordon stuff got tossed pretty early, you don't see it in Joe Johnston's ANH work much because by then they had moved past it, Lucas and McQuarrie worked out an aesthetic that moved away from that limited look (the costumes are the biggest shift IMO, they go from very Flash Gordon comic book era to something more lived-in and thought out; Lucas also tossed the Flash Gordon industrial style early on, no gleaming rocketships with fins and flames and portholes. Once you get to Yoda concept work, there's almost an agony over how to express the idea with a myriad of ideas, Johnston, McQuarrie, and even Stuart Freeborn have many different avenues explored on the character - some of those changes were needed from technical perspective, and some were just Lucas and Kasdan working the character out as a concept on the page.
I dunno how financially free Lucas was for ROTJ, he had to take out a huge loan from Bank of America to make the film on his own, and he was going through an expensive divorce. It seems like just with ANH and ESB before, bringing in new blood and then those eyes were bigger than the stomachs, fabrication and design wanted to do any- and everything and thought they could get away with it because the money was coming in from somewhere else, from an unseen mom and dad. If anything, I'd say the variety of aliens in ROTJ served Lucas' bruised ego after feeling pummeled during the disaster that was the need for a cantina scene reshoot, another situation where a lot of money went into realizing a lot of alien designs, only this time Lucas put more effort into ensuring the myriad of aliens weren't cinematically-unusable. Yet ROTJ is the first film in Star Wars where you can see actors eyes inside the eyeholes of the alien masks - the Gamorrean, red Nikto, and Barada masks fall short here. So money was certainly anything but no object. Ideas however, in ROTJ, were in no short supply, and for every piece of concept art that succeeds you have a piece that looks torn from the pages of a '70s-era Heavy Metal magazine - Jabba alone has some of the most unusable and visually offensive ideas sketched out.
For TPM, I think Lucas tried so hard to look "old and elegant" that he got wrapped up in trying to be different. TPM is like Alex P. Keaton, he's a young Republican mainly because his parents are hippies, without them his identity would seem entirely foreign, TPM's aesthetic serves primarily to exist as a rebelling act against Star Wars, to make a universe that wasn't Star Wars rather than to be its own take on Star Wars. Eps 2 and 3 clumsily attempt to backpedal, as you said, into a 'bridge' that it compromises the aesthetic. There was also a lack of thought on how things would evolve to how they were, from creatures to equipment to buildings to vehicles, and then taking those ideas and THROWING A THOUSAND MORE OF THEM ONTO THE SCREEN AT THE SAME EXACT TIME just because the digital tools gave them the power to do so. How does the Kaadu become a thing that's just 2 legs and a head, no arms? Lucasfilm's answer seemed to be "who cares, it's not the tauntaun!" Nothing has a past in the prequels, it seems like it's just about getting different ideas up there, either derived from Star Wars or the polar opposite of Star Wars.
Dud Bolt, really??? Sebulba is a relatively straightforward design with the challenge of "front to back jobs for limbs", but Dud Bolt is just a warthog crossed with a platypus to me, he's just seems silly and cartoonish, second in that scene only to Ben Quadinaros. Like, how does Dud Bolt keep that head supported, how does he get those clothes on over that giant noggin and beak, how does he see anything ahead of him (you know, kinda important for a racer)? Whenever I see him those things jump out at me first thing, I can get past some aliens like Sebulba and Jar Jar and Gasgano, but Dud Bolt stops me in my tracks. What about him appeals to you so much, if you can put it into words?
Funny you should say that, in my collection so far, the AT-TE in real life is actually less stable than the AT-AT. When you look at industrial equipment and designs that inspired those two vehicles, the AT-AT is based on big stuff like elephants and cargo cranes, while the AT-TE is based on tiny stuff like bugs. My AT-TE has dumped itself once and flipped itself over once, my AT-AT has never fallen.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
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Description ADULT Has bluegray back and wing coverts, with darker flight feathers. Back color grades to brown on cap, but note pale nape patch and dark stripe through eye. Face and throat is whitish, grading to buff yellow on rest of underparts, apart from grayish wash on flanks. Legs and bill are dark. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but less colorful. Subspecies variation exists in contrast between cap and eyestripe, and intensity of buffy wash on underparts.
Dimensions Length: 3 3/4-4 1/2" (10-11 cm)
Habitat Common resident of pine forests.
Observation Tips Easiest to detect by call.
Range California, Western Canada, Northwest, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Texas
Voice Utters various sharp, rapid calls including kip-kipkip. Song comprises disyllabic phrases, similar in tone to call.
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BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University's Department of German and Russian Studies and the Department of Cinema, will jointly host the annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum, July 9-12, at the Appalachian Collegiate Center in Mountainview Community.
The conference, which meets alternately in Dublin (United Kingdom) and at a North American university, will feature film screenings, panel presentations, and roundtable discussions. Topics include movements and aesthetics that might be considered "art house." Speakers will explore whether art house films function within European mainstream cinema and examine border crossings between European and other cinemas.
Other topics will analyze the intersections of national identities, (trans)gendered sexualities, ethnicity, and race in European film. Visiting European filmmakers and members of the Binghamton University Cinema Department will screen and talk about their work, production, and funding vehicles.
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