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...having spent several years in the Goofer state, who'd a thunk I'd be cheering for the badgers and cheeseheads. But for the Wisconsin Republicans rejection of the union fatcats, I'm cheering strongly and loudly.
All we get to watch from the MSP lefties would lead us outsiders to think all those unionistas are the huge majority of the citizens of Wisconsin.
While not a Right to Work state, there are a lot of sane thinking Americans that live in Wisconsin that pulled the lever for their country last election. With all the bluster and name calling from the liberal/socialists we watch violating their own state capitol building, how can we outsiders not see this as a form of well taught thuggery by the union bosses, to save their unearned income.
A couple of teacher friends of mine in Wisconsin, out of fear, can't express their displeasure with the way the unions have them under their thumb. But they are secretly cheering what's happening in Madison. They are tired of watching inept teachers being kept on the payroll, only because of their tenure, and NOT for their talent and abilities.
And the most hilarious part of this entire exercise, is the Democrat weenies calling what the Republicans did 'unconstitutional', while they are hiding out in the neighboring state. And here I thought the biggest hypocrites were those posting on RTF. Now I see where you all got your training.
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Catch up for Advo readers, my full blog for the last few months is of course at swamprat.
Did I already mention that I'm going to see Kill Bill tonight? :)
After work yesterday, I was heading towards Hitchin, where I was supposed to be meeting with a retired priest to talk about some theological stuff. En route on the A1, just out of Borehamwood, I was involved in a Road Traffic Accident, first time in my life (either as the driver, or a passenger).
I was driving at about 60 in the left hand lane, observed that the van ahead was going a lot slower than I was, so checked my mirror & blind spot in order to overtake. When I looked forward again, I realised the van was a) stationary and b) just about right in front of me. I applied the brakes, but the road was wet, and I skidded, glancing the rear-right of it with the front-left of my car.
Thankfully I wasn't badly hurt, just a slight pain in my side, which has pretty well passed by this morning, but I was rather shaken by it. Now waiting to see what happens with the insurance. Hoping that it's going to be repairable, because of the finance on the car, if it's written off, I could end up out of pocket.
The police who attended the scene (from Hatfield station, in Hertfordshire) were very professional, did their job with the utmost consideration for the people involved, and I cannot commend them enough.
BT engineer is coming tomorrow, hopefully, I might have a phone service, and more importantly DSL back by the end of the day. I dread to think how much mail is queued for the various domains that swamprat deals with.
Kill Bill tonight, nearly three hours of Uma Thurman kicking ass should help me unwind, and take my mind off the accident for a bit.
It's a very strange thing. Once I'd left Chez Dave on Saturday night, his DSL stopped working under Linux. now, I suspect it might be related to the kernel update that APT sucked down for him, but I'll check it out on Wednesday ahead of cell group.
One thing I didn't mention on Saturday, because I was hoping to have photos for the gallery was the fact that I've had a haircut. The ponytail has gone, it is no more. It's been replaced with a rather nice short hair do which apparently makes me look "younger and slimmer" (not my words, nor those of the hairdresser). The photos should be in the gallery tomorrow - I forgot to bring my USB lead for the camera with me to work today, so in the meantime, here's one I took with my webcam (the online version of which is offline along with the DSL). Compare with what it looked like beforehand.
Have had curry and risk with Dave & Catherine this evening (and am now using their DSL), it's been a great evening. Regular readers of my regular (hosted on the DSL alas) blog will know Dave as the owner of the Binatone DSL500. Have been ironing out a few issues with my insserv headers to bring up the line, and will now get around to publishing it real soon on Rubber Turnip.
In other news, Kill Bill Vol II tickets should be booked this evening, to go see it on Tuesday.
Nnnng, looks like I spoke too soon about my DSL working again, it was up and down all last night, and is currently down. have to run some tests this evening, and get back to Pipex. How annoying...
Went home at lunchtime, and tested the router with BT's test account, it still lost the sync with the exchange, so it's now been escalated to BT. Meanwhile I'm going to contact Netgear to see if they have any solutions up their sleeve, given that it was they, not Pipex or BT who sorted it last time I had problems.
Update 2
Netgear not a huge amount of help, although they did mention that since I'd upgraded the firmware (anyone else using a DG814 - 4.10 is out now - go get it), I ought to do a full hardware reset, which involves holding the hidden reset button for about 40 seconds. Well, you never know, it could make a difference(!)
In other news, I've had a really productive afternoon, I've been knocking problems and issues off like there's no tomorrow, whittled my INBOX down from over forty emails to a mere seven, which is a real result. There is a tomorrow of course, in case anyone was wondering, and that tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!
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Orton started playing guitar as a child and eventually studied composition at the Peabody Conservatory and the Hart School of Music. Also a professional recording and sound engineer, Orton worked on sessions with Bill Frisell, John Zorn, and the Lounge Lizards, and engineered the sound at the Knitting Factory for two years. Orton plays banjo, lute, dobro, lap steel, and electric guitar with his other group, San Francisco's Old Joe Clarks, and has composed scores for independent films like Beverly Wachtel's Just Noticeable Difference.
Burger studied classical piano at Juilliard and explored different improvisational styles at the University of Massachusetts with Max Roach, Archie Stepp, and Yusef Lateef. He broadened his range to include Hammond organ and vintage keyboards like the Optigan and Chamberlin, toy pianos and keyboards, and the accordion. Burger has toured with Bill Frisell, Don Byron, and Joey Baron, and appeared on Frisell's Tales from the Far Side soundtrack. Since moving to the Bay Area, Burger has worked with artists as diverse as Tipsy and Mix Master Mike; he is also a member of the Oranj Symphonette, as well as his bandmate Orton's other project, Old Joe Clarks. As the Tin Hat Trio, they released their debut album, Memory Is an Elephant, on Angel Records in early 1999; Helium followed in spring 2000, boasting appearances from Tom Waits and an uncredited Mike Patton. Two years later, the ambitious The Rodeo Eroded showcased their own unique music as well as guest appearances from Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Willie Nelson. 2004's Book of Silk went in a more abstract direction; that year, Burger left the band, while frequent collaborators Ara Anderson and clarinetist Ben Goldberg joined the fold. Reflecting their new status, the group rechristened themselves Tin Hat for 2007's The Sad Machinery of Spring. ~ Heather Phares
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We feel compelled to add our comments about Bono's recent New York Times column, in which he appeared to express a strange hope that ISPs would start spying on their users in the name of protecting America's intellectual property. "We know," says Bono, "from America's noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China's ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it's perfectly possible to track content." He continues by hoping that "movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product."
But Bono's new-found embrace of tracking Internet activity is in direct conflict with his own positions (expressed in the same article) about global freedom and equity.
The Internet is global, and so are threats to digital freedom. Over the past year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has fought Internet censorship, oppressive copyright laws and privacy violations wherever they've been under threat around the world.
With the help of our global partners and supporters like you, EFF has been able to achieve great things over the past year:
The ACTA juggernaut continues to roll ahead, despite public indignation about an agreement supposedly about counterfeiting that has turned into a regime for global Internet regulation. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has already announced that the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations will take place in January — with the aim of concluding the deal "as soon as possible in 2010."
Last year the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted a set of 45 ground-breaking proposals on how WIPO should reorient its operations to foster economic and social development within its 182 Member States. The Development Agenda proposals are intended to require WIPO to take a broader approach to promoting creativity and innovation, instead of focusing exclusively on maximizing intellectual property rights.
As we reported last Friday, the public interest won a big victory at WIPO's latest meeting on the Broadcasting Treaty. The contentious provisions creating unjustified rights for webcasters and simulcasters will be removed from the treaty. While this is good news, the battle isn't over yet. The remainder of the treaty draft covering "traditional" broadcasters and cablecasters still poses significant problems, and the webcasting and simulcasing proposals are still in play, as a separate draft treaty moving through a slower process. Drafts of the revised broadcasting/ cablecasting and new webcasting/ simulcasting treaties are due by August 1.
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Globally, 382 million people have diabetes. Of these, 175 million are unaware of their condition and over 80% are living in low- and middle-income countries. One important strategy for tackling the diabetes burden is to screen for undiagnosed diabetes and for the future risk of developing diabetes.
Diabetes risk scores are a cheap and simple way of assessing an individual's risk of having undiagnosed diabetes and their risk of future diabetes. With limited resources in low- and middle-income countries, diabetes risk scores can be a simple and cost effective way to identify people with undiagnosed diabetes or at risk of developing diabetes. However, most currently available diabetes risk scores only work well in populations in which the risk scores were developed. Many low- and middle-income countries do not have the data required to develop diabetes risk prediction scores for their populations.
The risk prediction tools for identifying people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes (PREDICT-2) project, an initiative of the International Diabetes Federation, has been formed to establish and validate a methodology for adapting diabetes risk prediction scores for populations with locally available demographic data. This will allow countries without longitudinal data to develop their own country specific diabetes prediction score based on a set of instructions from PREDICT-2 and local diabetes risk factor variables that are easily obtainable within their countries. The PREDICT-2 dataset currently includes eight longitudinal and 14 cross-sectional studies from ten countries. Caucasians comprise 60% of participants and 75% of the remaining participants are mostly migrants or descendents of migrants. For this project to be globally relevant, PREDICT-2 will require data from other ethnic populations to modify, develop and validate risk scores that will be suitable for use in most populations.
The PREDICT-2 analysis team is, therefore, calling for researchers to assist with the project through the contribution of datasets. Researchers interested in the PREDICT-2 project should contact Dr. Crystal Lee at [email protected] [2].


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Covering an area of 800 square meters north of Sahebqaraniyeh Palace, this two-storied pavilion was built in the closing days of the Qajar period, as a private resting retreat for Ahmad Shah with brick facades and decoration The brick facades have various designs and are in buff color. The entrance of the pavilion is situated in the southern side of the building, which is joined to the pavilion by various stairs which pass aside a pond covered with tiles.
The Ahmad Shahi pavilion after a restoration and interior additions was utilized as the residence and office of Reza Pahlavi by completely changing its furniture during the Pahlavi II.
The ground floor of this building consists of a hall with a pond made of marble stone in its center with six rooms and two corridors around. Decorative items made of silver, bronze, ivory, wood and souvenirs from different countries such as India, paintings, medals, etc. have been exhibited in this place. Also other items including decorative mineral stones, a stone from Moon, various plant and animal fossils are kept in this building.
The second floor of this building consists of a central hall and a four sided veranda. All around the main hall which was used as the music room, wooden shelves have been installed. All around the veranda is covered by six square brick columns and 26 round gypsum columns. The gypsum work pattern of lion and sun can be seen on the northern wall of the veranda.
Following the Islamic Revolution during the restoration and renovation stages the lower parts of its walls were also renovated and concurrent with the Cultural Heritage Week (2000) this place was also opened to public visit.
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A Riverside man accused of murder has received a reduced bond. Bond for 70 year old Thomas Lee Hansen was initially set at two million dollars after a May 1st incident where he is accused of shooting 54 year old Sharon Kay Gerot while she was riding on a lawnmower in rural Riverside.
If Hansen posts the cash bond of one point four million dollars he will be supervised by the Department of Corrections. Washington County Attorney Larry Brock says that a criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the person charged is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.
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If by effective you mean preventing another terrorist attack on the CONUS, then you may be right, or wrong. Truth of the matter is we don't know for sure what was prevented or disrupted and what role the folks at GITMO had or didn't have in the prevention or disruption, if it did or did not happen.
If by effective you mean IAW the Constitution that he was sworn to uphold, protect and defend against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic, maybe, maybe not, depending on how you look at it.
Few, even the arch-neo-more-to-the-right-than-Barry-Goldwater types on this board, would willingly point to what we have done at GITMO as a shining example of what is known and revered around the world as American justice. GITMO is a great stain on the National morality. We are expected to be, and should be, better than that. Keeping people behind bars for years on end without the benefit of counsel or charges are things authorized by two-bit, tin-horn dictators, not the President of the United States of America. The greatest example of the level of justice present in a society is the justice it provides to those that would seek to destroy it.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:33 PM GMT on June 03, 2011
The tropical disturbance (Invest 93L) that crossed over Florida on Wednesday, bringing welcome rains of 1 - 3 inches, is now a naked swirl of low clouds over the central Gulf of Mexico. The disturbance is embedded in a large area of dry air associated with an upper level low pressure system, and this dry air is discouraging development. 93L is also moving into a region of moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots, and NHC is giving 93L a 0% chance of developing into a tropical depression before the storm makes landfall in Mexico south of Brownsville on Saturday. There are a few heavy thunderstorms trying to fire up near the center of 93L's fairly well-formed circulation, but I don't think this storm is going to bring more than 1 - 2 inches of rain to the coast on Saturday.
Figure 1. Morning satellite image of the Central Caribbean disturbance.
Central Caribbean disturbance 94L
Disorganized heavy thunderstorm activity continues in the region between Central America and Jamaica. Wind shear has fallen to the moderate range, 10 - 20 knots, and is predicted to continue to fall over the next two days. This should allow the disturbance, dubbed Invest 94L by NHC on Friday afternoon, to increase in organization, though it will take many days for it to approach tropical depression status, since it is so large and poorly organized. The last two runs of the NOGAPS model have developed the disturbance into a tropical depression or storm by early next week, with the system moving northwards into Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and eastern Cuba. The other major models do not show the disturbance developing during the coming week. NHC is giving the disturbance a 10% of developing into a tropical depression by Sunday. A surge of moisture accompanying a tropical wave may aid development when the wave arrives in the Western Caribbean on Sunday. Water temperatures in the Central Caribbean are about 1°C above average, 29°C, which is plenty warm enough to support development of a tropical storm. Residents of Jamaica, eastern Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic should anticipate the possibility that heavy rains of 2 - 4 inches may affect them today through Sunday.
Five EF-5 tornadoes confirmed in 2011
The National Weather Service in Oklahoma City announced Wednesday that the violent tornado that hit Binger, El Reno, Peidmont, and Guthrie, Oklahoma on May 24, killing nine people, was an EF-5 with winds greater than 210 mph. The rating was given based on measurements made by a University of Oklahoma portable "Doppler on wheels" radar. The long track, large wedge tornado caused extensive damage, with well built houses cleanly swept from their foundation and trees debarked. This tornado brings the total number of EF-5 tornadoes this year to five, tying 2011 with 1953 for 2nd place for greatest number of these top-end tornadoes in one year. Only 1974 (six) had more. The EF-5 tornadoes of 2011:
1) The April 27, 2011 Neshoba/Kemper/Winston/Noxubee Counties, Mississippi tornado (3 killed, 29 mile path length.)
2) The April 27, 2011 Smithville, Mississippi tornado (22 killed, 15 mile path length.)
3) The April 27, 2011 Hackleburg, Alabama tornado (71 killed, 25 mile path length.)
4) The May 22, 2011 Joplin Missouri tornado (138 killed, 14 mile path length.)
5) The May 24, 2011 Binger-El Reno-Peidmont-Guthrie, Oklahoma tornado. (9 killed, 75 mile path length.)
Figure 2. Aerial view of damage from the May 22, 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado. Image credit: Wikipedia.
A few other remarkable statistics on the tornado season of 2011, compiled from NOAA's official press release and Wikipedia's excellent tornado pages:
- The April 25 - 28 tornado outbreak, with 330 tornadoes, was the largest tornado outbreak of three days or less duration on record. The previous record was 148 tornadoes, set during the April 3 - 4, 1974 Super Outbreak.
- For April 27, 186 tornadoes have been confirmed. This is the largest 1-day tornado total on record, beating the 148 recorded in 24 hours on April 3 - 4, 1974.
- The April 14 - 16 tornado outbreak, with 162 confirmed tornadoes, ranks as the fourth largest tornado outbreak of three days or less duration on record.
- The May 21 - 26 tornado outbreak, with 158 confirmed tornadoes, ranks as the 5th largest 6-day or shorter tornado outbreak on record. A May 2003 6-day outbreak had 289 tornadoes, and a May 2004 6-day outbreak had 229 tornadoes. The year 2011 now has three of the top five tornado outbreaks on record.
- April confirmed tornado total was 683, making it the busiest tornado month on record. The previous record was 542 tornadoes, set in May 2003. The previous April record was 267 tornadoes, which occurred in April 1974. The 30-year average for April tornadoes is 135.
- If the three deaths in Massachusetts from Wednesday's tornadoes are confirmed, this year's tornado death toll will be 522, beating 1953 as the deadliest tornado year since modern tornado records began. That year, 519 people died, and three heavily populated cities received direct hits by violent tornadoes. Waco, Texas (114 killed), Flint, Michigan (115 killed), and Worcester, Massachusetts (90 killed) all were hit by violent F-4 or F-5 tornadoes. A similar bad tornado year occurred in 1936, when violent tornadoes hit Tupelo Mississippi (216 killed), and Gainesville, Georgia (203 killed.) During that time period, the tornado death rate per million people was 60 - 70 times as great as in the year 2000 (Figure 4), implying that this year's tornadoes would have killed many thousands of people had we not had our modern tornado modern warning system.
- The May 22, 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado killed 138 people and injured 1150, making it the deadliest U.S. tornado since 1947, and 8th deadliest in history. The $1 - $3 billion estimate of insured damage makes it the most expensive tornado in history.
- Damage from the April 25 - 28 super tornado outbreak was estimated at $3.5 - $6 billion, making it the most expensive tornado outbreak of all-time.
- The tornado that hit Springfield, Massachusetts on June 1 was at least an EF-3 with 136 - 165 mph winds. It was only the 9th EF-3 or stronger tornado to hit Massachusetts since 1950, and the third deadliest, with three deaths.
- The year 2011 now ranks in 3rd place behind 1974 and 1965 for highest number of strong to violent EF-3, EF-4, and EF-5 tornadoes (Figure 3.)
Figure 3. Number of strong to violent EF-3, EF-4 and EF-5 tornadoes from 1950 to 2011. The year 2011 now ranks in 3rd place behind 1974 and 1965. There is not a decades-long increasing trend in the numbers of these most dangerous of tornadoes. Image credit: NOAA/National Climatic Data Center (updated using stats for 2008 - 2011 from Wikipedia.)
Figure 4. Death rate per million people per year in U.S., 1875-2000. Thin line with dots is raw rate, curved thick line is death rate, filtered by 3-point median and 5-point running mean filter, and straight solid lines are least squares fit to filtered death rate for 1875-1925 and 1925-2000. Dashed lines are estimates of 10th and 90th percentile death rates from 1925-2000. The death rate fell from 8 per million to .12 per million between 1940 and 2000. Image credit: A Brief History of Deaths from Tornadoes in the United States, Harold Brooks and Charles Doswell III.
Joplin tornado the 7th U.S. billion-dollar weather disaster of 2011
The Joplin tornado is the 7th U.S. weather disaster of 2011 costing more than a billion dollars. With a major flooding disaster coming on the Missouri River, and hurricane season still to come, 2011 has an excellent chance of beating 2008's record of nine billion-dollar weather disasters. The billion dollar weather disasters of 2011 so far:
1) 2011 Groundhog Day's blizzard ($1- $4 billion)
2) April 3 -5 Southeast U.S. severe weather outbreak ($2 billion)
3) April 8 - 11 severe weather outbreak ($2.25 billion)
4) April 25 - 28 super tornado outbreak ($3.5 - $6 billion)
5) Mississippi River flood of 2011 ($9 billion)
6) Texas drought ($1.2 billion)
7) Joplin tornado ($1 - $3 billion)
Figure 5. River flood outlook for the U.S. Image credit: NOAA.
The next U.S. billion-dollar weather disaster: a Missouri River flood?
A great 100-year flood has arrived along the Missouri River and its tributaries from Montana to Nebraska. Record spring rains, combined with snow melt from record or near-record winter and spring snows, brought the Missouri River at Williston, North Dakota to 27.9' yesterday, just an inch short of the highest crest on record (28.0' on 4/01/1912.) Tributaries to the Missouri, such as the Souris River in North Dakota and the North Platte River in Nebraska, are already flooding at all-time record heights. With warm summer temperatures and additional rainfall expected over much of the area during the coming week, snow melt and rain runoff will swell area rivers even further, creating a damaging 100-year flood. Wunderground weather historian Christopher C. Burt has the details in his latest post, and I will be writing more on this latest epic flood next week.
I'll have a new post on Monday, or earlier if the Caribbean disturbance shows significant development.
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Publishing and game development giant Blizzard has announced that it will be cutting 600 staff worldwide – though none of those involved with the World of Warcraft MMO have been affected.
"Constant evaluation of teams and processes is necessary for the long-term health of any business," said CEO of Blizzard Mike Morhaime in a public statement.
"Over the last several years, we've grown our organisation tremendously and made large investments in our infrastructure in order to better serve our global community. However, as Blizzard and the industry have evolved we've also had to make some difficult decisions in order to address the changing needs of our company."
"Knowing that, it still does not make letting go of some of our team members any easier. We're grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the people impacted by today's announcement, we're proud of the contributions they made here at Blizzard, and we wish them well as they move forward."
Blizzard has said that on top of WoW not being touched, internal development teams won't be affected by 90 per cent of the cuts – so some of the company's main games would be affected. Perhaps Diablo III? That seems unlikely since that game is now in beta, but the only other announced projects that could see staff cuts are two Starcraft II expansions and an untitled MMO codenamed "Titan."


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Still 5 teams better.
Just kidding.
Excerpt: "When you look at the arrest rate in the NFL, it's incredible, and to be quite honest, a shame how many professional players get themselves in trouble with the law. But, according to a recent study which was published shortly after former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested for murder the New York Giants have the sixth lowest arrest total in the NFL since the 2000 season.
They have had 13 total arrests in that 13 year span; some of which include Plaxico Burress back in 2009 for his self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Manhattan night club which lead to him serving two years in prison, David Diehl back in 2012 for DUI (driving under the influence) and Kareem McKenzie back in 2008 for DWI (driving while intoxicated). One of the worst cases may have been Jeremiah Parker, who was only on the team for four games in 2000, but was released by the Giants after he was arrested for physical abuse of a child.
Parker was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter, but was sentenced to 10 years for abuse of the child, who eventually died from the abuse suffered from Parker and his ex-girlfriend." Read more...
Woah! this Parker guy! WHAT!?!?!?!?
Who's number 1?
In my opinion, that is a testament to the staff/player relationships our organization has. Seems as if we have quality mentors on our staff. Folks that can help young players stay on the right track and reach the level of maturity they need to survive in the NFL. So many of these players come from isolated lives; years of training and practicing, training and practicing, training and practicing. Such a life can potentially lead you to not mature in other areas. As such, having quality mentors to help you navigate changes as a professional is essential. The New York Giants know that they can't sit back and hope that those mentors organically exist in the players lives, they are proactive about initiating and supporting the relationships. Kudos to our staff for taking a holistic view point on this issue!
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Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
All this chatter about Joes and not one good word about the Pit? I find this disturbing. The Pit is an awesome vehicle ,better than any Starwars product ever made. I wish Hasbro would drop the entire starwars line and focus entirely on making more vehicles of the same quality and play value as the Pit.
I really hope the sarcasm in that last post is evident, because I have never seen an uglier toy than the Pit...... ever.
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It is out of the box and now my kids are playing more with the box.
The Pitt box is awesome. It's got a great likeness of Dennis Quaid on it.
So has this line officially tanked yet? I see pegs full of these figures everywhere I go and no one seems to be buying them. I really don't think the movie release is going to improve things either. I'm going to wait and see if the figs don't drop below $5 each like Star Trek stuff.
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Wow, pegs full of Simon Pegg and Dennis Quaid, what a nightmare.
I actually find myself wanting to buy multiples of some of the Cobra troops, though I'm trying not to. The new Eel looks fairly cool, though I'm still steamed that I couldn't find enough of the classic Eel on store shelves. I finally saw the Elite Viper, but I walked away without getting it. I might grab Helix if I see her just to add another female figure.
As for the PIT, I don't like the railing on it when it's folded up. It looks like the Joes ran a butt-ugly yacht aground. I'm waiting to spend my money on a Turbo Tank at my local TRU anyway.
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Hi Jen I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed and appreciated your FaceBook coverage of the National. You did an outstanding job! Janet Olson (dog command)
Dr. Brown -- Thank you very much. I guess I am going to hang in there. There is really nothing else I can do. The only comment I can make is that some of the responders to my question also seem to have or have had very tiny Labs. At 51# as of 2 days ago thats small. Although she did gain 1 # in a month. Late last year she started out at 49. Thank you very much for your input and comments. By the way your lab in the picture is beautiful. What a coat... Jeff


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Alternate name: Spotted Touch-me-not
Family: Balsaminaceae, Touch-me-not view all from this family
Description Tall, leafy plant with succulent translucent stems and pendent golden-orange flowers splotched with reddish-brown.
Habit: native annual herb; erect, branched, smooth stems; fibrous roots.
Height: to 8 ft (2.4 m)
Leaf: soft, alternate, triangular to elliptic, toothed, pointed, long-stalked, 1-5 in (3-12 cm) long; stalks sometimes longer than leaf blades.
Flower: orange, yellow or red, spotted, funnel-shaped, 0.75-1.25 in (2-3 cm) long; with 3 visible petals and curved spur at tip; from leaf axil, on slender drooping stalk.
Fruit: capsule to 1 in (2.5 cm) long; splitting open when ripe to expel seeds.
Flower May to October.
Habitat Shaded wetlands, wet meadows, streambanks, wet forests, roadsides; at low elevations.
Range Found throughout North America; except not found in northernmost Canada, Montana, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, or New Mexico.
Discussion Also known as jewelweed, common jewelweed, spotted jewelweed, orange balsam, spotted touch-me-not. An annual that often occurs in dense stands, it is especially adapted to hummingbird visitation; but bees and butterflies are also important pollinators. If the leaves are submerged, they have a silvery look. The stem juice is said to relieve itching from poison ivy and has also been used to treat athletes foot. Scientific data confirm the fungicidal qualities.


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Research on Effectiveness of the PREPARE/ENRICH Program
Effectiveness of Adapted PREPARE-ENRICH Program in Hungary (click here)
Gabor Mihalec
This study evaluated the impact of a marital enrichment program called CONNECT that was based conceptually on the PREPARE/ENRICH Program and couple exercises. The program significantly improved the couples' relationship on the 12 PREPARE-ENRICH scales while the control group decreased their scores.
PREPARE Outcome Study: Feedback vs Only Assessment
Complete Study published in Marriage & Family Journal - 2003 (click here)
Luke Knutson & David H. Olson
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the PREPARE Program (Version 2000) for couples receiving premarital counseling by professionals and clergy trained in the standard 1-day training workshop. There were 153 premarital couples in three groups: the PREPARE Program group (59 couples who received an average of four feedback sessions), the PREPARE No Feedback group (46 couples who received feedback after the post-test), and the Waiting List Control Group (48 couples who received PREPARE and feedback after the post-test).
Results found that only the PREPARE Program group significantly increased their couple satisfaction, while there was no change in the PREPARE No Feedback or the Waiting List Control groups. Couples in the PREPARE Program improved in 10 out of 13 relationship categories, while those in the PREPARE No Feedback group increased in 4 of the 13 categories.
Significant changes were made in the couple types only in the PREPARE Program group, demonstrating a significant impact on 90% of these couples. In the PREPARE Program group, the number of Vitalized couples (the most satisfied type) increased by 52% from pre to post-test. Over half (55%) of the three other couple types (Harmonious, Traditional, and Conflicted) increased one or more levels. For the highest risk couples, the Conflicted types, 83% moved to a more positive couple type.
Reference: Marriage & Family: 2003, Vol.6, No. 4, 529-546.
PREPARE/ENRICH and Couple Communication Program - 2007 (click here)
David H. Olson & Sherod Miller
This longitudinal study followed up on 25 married couples one to five years after marriage who had taken both the PREPARE/ENRICH and the Couple Communication programs before marriage. Overall, the results demonstrated the couples were very satisfied with both programs and also found the combination of two programs very valuable. The couples significantly improved their communication, conflict resolution skills and marital satisfaction. Couples reported they found it helpful to their marriage to coach other couples on communication skills.
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You sure seem to be doing good with your injury, eggshell. Those thigh injuries can be bad in that you can have a lot of internal bleeding with them and not know it. You seem to be doing well. Be sure and take care of it.
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Chapter 1: What is Science?
Science is Different from Other Ways of Understanding the World
If someone asks you "what is science?" you might say that it's a bunch of facts and explanations. But that's only part of the story. Science is a knowledge base. But science is also a way of learning about the world. Earth science is about our planet and its environs. Earth scientists study Earth's surface and interior. They study why volcanoes erupt and why some places are mountainous and some are entirely flat. Some Earth scientists are interested in the weather. Others want to know about the oceans. There are even Earth scientists who apply what they know about Earth to learning about space. Some Earth scientists do a lot of their work in the field, as seen above.
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Science is different from other ways of understanding the world. Science has a rigorous method of getting information. A scientific idea must be testable; it must be falsifiable. Scientific ideas are not the result of opinion, gut feelings, or faith. Ideas that are not supported by observations and data are revised or thrown out. Scientists use the scientific method to answer questions about the natural world. The scientific method is not linear. A step may need to be revised or thrown out. New data send the scientist back to the beginning. Still scientific inquiry takes on this basic structure: Ask a question. Do background research. Propose a hypothesis. Test the hypothesis using data from observations and experiments. Continue testing the hypothesis if it holds up or find a new hypothesis if it does not. Eventually create a theory. A theory is an explanation of a complicated set of phenomena. A theory fits virtually all of the available data. The theories of evolution, plate tectonics, and climate change are crucial to understanding Earth. These theories may be revised, but they will almost certainly hold up. Earth scientists learn about the world by using a lot of amazing tools and scientific principles. To understand things that are small or far away, scientists use a microscope or a telescope. To learn about things on the ground, they use a map. Rocks and other earth materials are analyzed in the lab. Technology allows us to learn more about the oceans and space. One of the most important principles - and the most important for understanding Earth history - is "the present is the key to the past."


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I've seen a lot of fun videos of cameras mounted on dogs retrieving, etc. and they're pretty entertaining. However, I've stumbled onto a way to educate the human component of the team using one (if somebody has already done this, my apologies ).
I have a client just learning to handle on blinds, and he's struggling. I came up with this to help him see what his dog sees when he is handling. And I'm thinking I'll use this myself as well at some point, just to get the perspective, and I know I'll learn something every time. I mounted the camera on the dog, and while it does make me a little dizzy to watch when the dog spins around on the whistle sit it also gives a really cool perspective of what the dog sees when you handle. Everything from what you look like against the background to how your movements are seen by the dog to how the cover and terrain changes things...and it looks a lot different than I thought it would.
Unfortunately, I can't share the video...client is a little shy about going public. But I'm thinking it's worth a try, and will report back as time permits.


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South Korean firm beats Samsung to market, fulfills long-standing promise
With a five-figure price point, LG Electronics, Inc.'s (
) latest television set is a bold gamble, testing whether a recovering consumer electronics market is willing to pay an extreme premium for the best technology.
I. Meet the First Big OLED TV
LG has enjoyed a relatively good track record in the LCD television market and looks to leverage its reputation for reliability with a
$10,300 USD 55-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) set
, which just went on sale this week.
The new set is a mere 4 millimeters thin and features LG's
new SmartTV technology
and on-board Wi-Fi. A "Magic Remote" is included with purchase.
The release marks the realization of a long standing promise -- Samsung and LG had been
off OLED
prototypes at trade shows since at least 2008.
The move is somewhat of a surprise given the unicorn-like status of commercially available large OLED TV sets in recent years. For example, Toshiba Corp. (
) had
vowed in 2009
to release a 30+ inch OLED model, only to
abruptly bail on the launch
and OLED efforts in general.
OLED TVs are more power efficient than traditional LCD TVs, but that's somewhat a moot point given that they cost nearly twice as much as their LCD brethren. More relevantly, OLED sets feature much more vivid and accurate color reproduction than LCD models. For consumers obsessed with picture quality, OLEDs deliver a clear edge over their less expensive predecessors.
But some are not convinced that the advantage will be enough to convince consumers to pony up $10.3K for the LG set.
Seo Won Seok, an analyst at Korea Investment & Securities in Seoul, to
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II. LG Gets a Head Start
For better or worse, LG seems committed to testing the waters and Samsung will likely follow close behind. Samsung had previously committed to selling OLED sets before the end of 2012, but on Dec. 21 backed off those claims, punting its launch to sometime in 2013. Samsung cited weak demand and high prices as reasons for the delay.
LG shares rose on the launch of the OLED model. Despite skepticism regarding sales in the short term, investors appear to view LG's head-start on Samsung in this growing sector as a good thing. Market research firm IHS Inc.'s (
) ISuppli unit labels the OLED sector as
the fasting growing part
of the $100B USD TV industry. It predicts that sales will rise from 34,000 units in 2012 to 2.1m units by 2015. Given
continued process improvements
OLED panels are predicted by some analysts
to be cheaper than LCD units by 2016
OLED TV shipments are predicted to rise to to 2.1m units in 2015. [Image Source: iSuppli]
In an email LG boasted to
, "LG is prepared to ramp up quickly to take the lead in the OLED segment."
LG's new set gives it a head start on rival Samsung Display [Image Source: Flickr]
Sony Corp. (
) was the first to sell an OLED TV debuting the
11-inch XEL-1
in Japan for roughly $2,000 USD back in 2007. Sold
exclusively in Japan
at low volume
, the tiny, expensive set was viewed as somewhat of a flop. Sony eventually
pulled the plug on XEL-1 sales in 2010
. Regardless, Sony continued to
pour money into
its OLED offerings.
Struggling with profitability
, Sony latest move was to
partner with domestic display rival Panasonic
Corp. (
). The pair will look to produce technology for new OLED display sets to be launched sometime in 2013 or 2014.
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5-20-13. Ocala, FL- The professionals all have huge events this week-end (The Grand Prix of Monaco, The Indianapolis 500, and the World 600) but Bubba Raceway Park has a huge night of racing to challenge. The Bubba Army 360 Sprint Cars return while the Scorpion Racing Products UMP DirtCar Modifieds, the Bubba Army Hobby Stocks who will race for $750, the 1-800-ASK GARY Thunder Stocks, and the Rent-N-Roll Gladiators defend their turf.
The Bubba Army Sprint Cars have a shocker a top the standings- Danny Martin, Jr. is the leader. Okay, "The Hammer" has been here plenty of times but he does have Robbie Smith and "The Captain" Tony Agin on his tail. While Smith and Agin have been quite succesful at the 3/8 mile, neither has won in quite some time. Johnny Gilbertson made his first trip to Bubba Raceway Park in the Bubba Era and found himself P4 in the standings. Rookie driver Andy Cobb rounds out the top five after an impressive debut so far. It's hammer down if they're to beat "The Hammer".
The Scorpion Modifieds see experience on top as the top two have won all four features this season. Buzzie Reutimann is the points leader and has been all year long; however, Jeff Mathews is just forty-four points behind. Mathews has won three-consecutive and is currently undefeated in Modified competition at the 3/8 mile. Mathews has his team-mate, Bryan Bernhardt, right behind him. Bernhardt has been learning and speed is in the car- he just needs to find a way to beat his car owner! Charlie O'Neill slipped to fourth last week but could lose more with "The Wellsville Wheelman" Paul Snyder right behind him. Who can stop "The Repo Man"?
The Bubba Army Hobby Stocks saw a shake up at the top with Brian Shea going from fourth to first after a big week. With Shea the points leader for the first time since his 2011 Thunder Stock championship, he has a target upon his back again. "Young Guns" Devin Walker and Hunter Gustafson will have to be smart and chase Shea down for a championship. Matt Kramer remains within a night's worth of points but Alvin Adkison is chasing him down for the fourth position. Last week's top five now has a combined one Hobby Stock win in the Modern Era, but that $750 prize may bring the heavy hitters out in force.
The 1-800-ASK GARY Thunder Stocks had four non-winners in the top five, including first-timer William Gillam. Gillam took "MAX POINTS" and now has the points lead for the first time in his career. Tony Campbell hopes to do what Gillam just did and regain his championship lead. Brandon Elwood, also a winner in 2013, sits just twenty-two back in third. A career run didn't end like it should've for Brandon Tillander but so many positives will come from a brilliant performance for driver #73. Tillander jumped to fourth and he brought Melvin Fockler with him. Fockler took a career-best second place and feels that his time in Victory Lane is nearing. Will it be reunion or new friends visiting Coors Light Winner's Circle?
The Rent-N-Roll Gladiators have an exciting battle for the championship with just three points separating the top two. Josh Fincher is still the leader, but Stephen Frankland's record-tying fourth consecutive win is making defense tough. Behind those two is Bill Southard, who is hoping for an error from the top two. Southard, however, can't slip or Jerry Taylor will strike! Taylor has already won this season and hopes to get his second and prevent history for Frankland. Rounding out the top five is Tom Sheehan. Sheehan is all alone as he's well behind Taylor and he has a massive gap over the rest of the pack. Does history await or does it wait longer?
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Anna Marie Kern, 71, passed away peacefully in her home on Jan. 2, 2013. Anna was a longtime resident of the Twin Cities but spent her last several years in Hackensack, Minn., with her husband, Bertram Kern.
Anna is survived by her children, Michael (Karmen) Bungert and Laura (Richard) Cope; stepchildren, Shane Kern, Shawn Kern and Heidi (Owen) Kern; grandchildren, Ashley Cope and Sherry Kern; and sisters, Mary (Ron) Dennis and Nancy (Tom) Clark.
Anna was preceded in death by her parents, Lawrence and Margaret Tchida, and husband, Bertram.
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Trying to parse the situation with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his sexual-assault allegations, one comes to some interesting conclusions. The strategy pursued by law enforcement in this case speaks volumes.
Normally, when a genuinely innocent person is accused of rape, you don't see reams of hideous witness testimony pouring out to the press after it's been announced that no indictment would be forthcoming.
But in this case, if you read between the lines, it seems clear that authorities have some very strong feelings about Roethlisberger, who — in case you've been out of the country for the past month — had an incident with a 20-year-old college student at a Milledgeville, Georgia, nightclub on March 5. The would-be prosecutor in this case, Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorney Fred Bright, practically held his nose as he announced that he wouldn't be filing charges. "We do not prosecute morals," he said. "We prosecute crimes."
Some ugly details subsequently were made public. It seems that Roethlisberger encouraged the young woman to pound shots. While intoxicated, she was led down a hallway by one of Roethlisberger's bodyguards, an off-duty cop from the Pittsburgh suburbs named Anthony Barravecchio, who sat her down on a stool. Roethlisberger, according to the woman's statement, then came down the hallway pulling his penis out of his pants.
"I told him it wasn't okay, no, we don't need to do this and I proceeded to get up and try to leave," the woman wrote in her statement. "I went to the first door I saw, which happened to be a bathroom."
The girl then found herself in the bathroom with Roethlisberger, who shut the door behind him. "I still said no, this is not okay, and he then had sex with me," the statement continued. "He said it was okay. He then left without saying anything."
It gets worse. While Ben was waving his wang at this poor girl and humping her in a bathroom, he had another off-duty-cop bodyguard, a state trooper named Ed Joyner, standing lookout. The woman's girlfriends were trying to get to her to see if she was okay, and Joyner just looked away and pretended he didn't know what they were talking about. These two guys are cops!
Late last week, another incident surfaced. According to Linc Boyer, who works with the Milledgeville Police Department's Explorer program, Roethlisberger allegedly got grabby with an employee of Great Waters, a golf course near his Georgia home. Roethlisberger apparently had this 21- or 22-year-old woman be his designated driver one night. When they got to his house, he wouldn't let her leave, slamming the door behind him.
At that point, the police report reads, "Roethlisberger allegedly pulled his pants down and told [the girl] that she could do what she wants."
She managed to get away, but a week later, Roethlisberger asked her to come back to the house for a party. He took the woman to show her his new bed, and asked her to lie down on it. She did and Roethlisberger got on top of her and shoved his hand up her skirt. The report says that Roethlisberger was "forceful" with her and that, when she eventually was able to leave, he was very upset. The woman did not file charges, and asked police to keep her name confidential.
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Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban, who was a healthy scratch for Team Canada's 3-1 win over Norway in its Olympic opener Thursday, was in the lineup Friday when Canada beat Austria 6-0.
Dan Hamhuis sat out to make room for Subban on the blue line. Forward Matt Duchene, who was a healthy scratch against Norway, was in the lineup against Austria, while Patrick Sharp sat out. Subban had 11:41 of ice time, the least of Canada's seven defencemen, and didn't pick up any points.
Canadiens goalie Carey Price, who earned the victory against Norway, was a healthy scratch against Austria, with Roberto Luongo posting the shutout and Mike Smith filling the backup role.
Canada led 2-0 after the first period on goals from defencemen Drew Doughty and Shea Weber. Jeff Carter scored three goals in the second period for a natural hat-trick, followed by a goal from Ryan Getzlaf. There were no goals in the third period. Canada outshot Austria 46-23.
The Postmedia News live game blog was up and running with HIO's Mike Boone joining other hockey writers from the chain. Boone will be blogging live during every Team Canada game at the Olympics. Canada's final preliminary-round game is at noon ET Sunday against Finland.
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DRC: A call for collective action in troubled east
The Emergency Directors of eight the world's largest humanitarian organizations have begun a four-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where they will assess firsthand one of the world's most protracted and complex humanitarian crises.
The group is being led by OCHA's Operations Director, John Ging, and features the emergency directors of seven other UN agencies and one NGO: the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and Mercy Corps.
They will travel to the eastern provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu where aid organizations have been toiling for years to assist millions of people affected by conflict, violence and chronic underdevelopment.
The Kivus are home to more than 1.6 million internally displaced people – almost 60 per cent of the 2.7 million Congolese who have been made homeless by persistent violence that has plagued the country for decades.
Violence, mining, and more than a million displaced
The DRC represents one of the largest operations for each of the organizations represented on this mission.
"The complex, multi-layered crisis in the DRC can only be resolved through collective action," said Barbara Shenstone, the Head of OCHA in DRC. "This visit is to re-affirm that we believe that together we can alleviate human suffering, save lives, and restore peace and dignity."
The visit comes as North Kivu has been caught in a fresh cycle of violence dating back to May 2012 when a new armed group – the M23 – surfaced. Since then, 700,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, swelling the number of people displaced in North Kivu to beyond 1 million.
Violence and allegations of gross human rights abuses have plagued the province for more than two decades. Different groups have battled each other for use of its rich mines and the years of instability have almost entirely undermined its socio-economic development.
South Kivu mirrors its northern neighbor. Armed groups crisscross the province as they battle for territorial control or flee from the national army. Almost 600,000 people there have been displaced by conflict. Cholera and other water-borne diseases are major public health concerns. As in the north, humanitarian organizations are forced to overcome insecurity and poor roads to ensure that aid gets delivered.
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DRC's crisis is not constrained to the Kivus. Other parts of this vast central African country are also faced with severe and serious humanitarian concerns. In September, the north-eastern Orientale Province experienced a flare-up in hostilities between armed groups and national forces. This fighting sent over 80,000 people fleeing for their lives.
Orientale shares borders with the Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan and Uganda. It is the Congolese home of the feared Lord's Resistance Army. According to a recent OCHA report there were 30 presumed LRA attacks in the first half of 2013. At least four people were killed and seven abducted. Today, there are 500,000 displaced people living in LRA-affected areas in north-eastern DRC.
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The visit of the directors is a sign of the continued commitment of the international community, says OCHA's Shenstone.
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In January, aid organizations appealed for US$892 million to assist people across the country. So far, $557 million have been received.


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I heard about those MOTU pieces at Big Lots from Maradona, but I've not seen any except Megator at my local Big Lots. I kind of want Mo-Larr and Skeletor.
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.
I went back today to try and snag some for folks. They had one Orko, a couple of Mo-Larrs, and a few Megators left. I got the Orko, since I'd learned he's a 2-pack with Adam.
That's my jacket!
To me, Black Series is far, far better executed than the Ghostbusters line and I can't envision you enjoying the quasi realistic quasi animated hybrid look of that line. I completed the core group but they're all stored away in a box.
I was reading the post on Rebelscum about the Big Boba's Slave-One shipping mishaps and I was just surprised - by the lack of civility some posters exhibit in their community.
While I do some posting over there from time to time, I have personally met and have enjoyed my relationships I've built here on SirStevesGuide. Heck, I'm even the one who got a life-saving kidney transplant completely unexpectedly and directly from my participation here.
I just wanted to post this and let the members of our community know they should give themselves a pat on the back. I think I've now met a majority of those still posting in our smaller Star Wars community here.
Just read the "hate speech" going on over there in RS' news comments on Slave-One and you'll realize how completely ridiculous some of the infighting over there is. The topics range from chastising someone who bought 2 Slave-Ones to suit their buy-one-to-open / one-to-keep-in-the-box collecting pattern that resulted in insults being hurled over people's income and purchasing power expectancies to others getting mad that they can't get RS members as a group to boycott Slave-One.
Really? Now I like RS' site but I'm so much prouder that I'm one of the longest time members of this community on SSG.
I posted this in the LA Just Found group because many of my best acquaintances from this site can be found here.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
I don't want to get into any peeing matches, but the lack of civility is why I don't go there, and don't post on any of the Joe or TF sites I know of.
That's my jacket!
I stop by from time to time just to catch other news, I haven't posted on their forums or even read them in YEARS, though I am registered.
May the force be with you.
I went over to read some of those comments and it looks like the worst of them have been deleted.
If I recall,I've had gunships delivered from Amazon and they came without any packing box.