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Project name:
Alteria Online (In the past there has been a small 3D 'remake' of Ragnarok Online called Alteria Online. As hard to believe as this may seem, we did not copy them. Alteria Online is a name based of a d20 I designed a few years ago. Also, the 3D Alteria Online is no longer active, and we believe it will be fine to use this name.
Brief description:
The idea for AO has been around for a year or so, with the other head of the project and I researching the best way to go about it. We have experimented with Torque, Realm Crafter, and Eclipse Origins, but we decided that the former two would cause too much lag and problem on older computers. The latter, still being in an early stage, proved difficult to work with.
Presently, we are using Xtremeworlds. It will be a 2D MMO with as good-quality graphics as we can produce, and good music for a 2D MMO. Also, we are attempting a few other small features to set AO apart from most random 2D MMO's made with engines. At least, we will try! Nothing ever goes exactly according to plan.
Target aim:
Alteria Online will be free to download and play, but with a 'premium shop' where players can purchase in-game items for a small amount of money. One of our main goals is to keep AO as free as possible, although still being able to produce a backup fund just in case.
Our goal here is not to make money. If you are seeking a paid position, please check somewhere else. If we do make any profits, you will of course be paid, but do not expect much at all.
That said, we are willing to offer a moderator position for anyone doing work for us. This includes access to all items in the game, unique personalized equipment, and other such perks. Basically, everything in the game is immediately accessible to a mod.
Alteria Online will most likely be run on Windows only, although we may create a Mac or Linux version in the future.
Our 2D work is being done in Paint, Photoshop, Gimp, and Blender.
Talent needed:
We mainly need pixel artists. We need someone who can create great scenery (outdoors and indoors), someone who can handle sprite bases, and sprite accessories (hair, clothes, armor, and basically anything paperdolled onto the sprite).
We also are looking for musicians. We need a theme track, ambient tracks (background music), and sound effects.
A certain amount of experience is not needed. However, we do ask that you provide sample work. A sample speaks for itself.
Team structure:
Project Heads:
Cyberkyd (me): I generally hold everything together. :P More specifically, I manage the forum and am currently wrestling with creating Alteria Online's economy. For lack of a better pixel artist, I also create a bit of that when I need to.
Hawkfriend: Hawk is our main (and only) coder. He works alone, by choice, and does a fantastic job with it. He also does his fair share of pixel art as well. Finally, he creates some ambient music.
Regular Staff:
Reno: He really is awesome. He is our head of advertising, our main flash artist (even though the graphics aren't in flash...) and musician. Basically, if you need something done, Reno can do it.
Kenichi daPuppy: Kenichi laboriously is creating our basic storyline so that we will actually have something to work with once we have the engine's coding all finished.
Zavvie: Zavvie is a flash artist, assistant to Reno and Kenichi, and the general sweet person that keeps us all from going insane when the work seems never-ending. You can always walk away from a discussion with her and have a smile on your face.
Shonen32: This guy laboriously makes the signatures and other random stuff like that which we use to prove our dedication to AO on other forums. Oh yeah, he also makes great concept art as well.
Anasburghed: Anasburghed does a great job getting the word out about AO to his buddies on other games an forums. He also does 'odd jobs' as it were for us.
We also have a few more people that, sadly, are more or less inactive.
Right now we pretty much just have a forum, but a website will most likely come soon. http://www.alteriaonline.forumotion.com
You can contact me at cyberkyd @ chaoscreatures.com (without the spaces, obviously :P)
Additional Info:
The storyline so far... For many years, the Royalists and Outsiders have been in war. There is also a third faction, the Returners. The Returners want the war to stop at all costs. The fighting mostly takes place in far-off battlefields, so none of the people of Alteria really pay much attention. However, when the yearly festival renewing the barrier of protection around the land is interrupted by an attack from the Outsiders, the entire world experiences something of a whole new power. Things come to light that never should have, and the Enemy will rise again.
Cyberkyd's definition of encouraging: Anything that allows us to do a better job.


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Liriano had quite the year in 2010. After the Joe Nathan injury there was speculation that he could become the next closer for the Twins. The Twins decided that it was best to leave Liriano in the starting rotation and by the time the postseason came around Liriano had emerged as the ace of the staff.
Liriano is 27 and will be under the Twins control for the next few seasons. His first year of free agency would be the after the 2013 season. He has seen is salary increase significantly over the last few seasons. In his second year of being eligible for arbitration he made $1.6 million. This year's arbitration numbers have the Twins coming in at $3.6 million and Liriano asking for $5.0 million.
Either one of those values would be a steal for the production that the Twins got out of Liriano in 2010. He pitched a career high 191.2 innings, struck-out 201 batters, and finished with a solid 14 wins. His wins above replacement for last season was 4.6 (which was even higher than his All-Star season of 2006).
The Twins should lock-up the Franchise by giving him a three-year contract with a club option for a fourth year. This will buy-out his remaining arbitration years and set the Twins up with their number one starter for the foreseeable future. I can see the contract breaking down like this with the arbitration figures that were released last week:
This would be a very similar contract to the one that was given to Zach Greinke by the Kansas City Royals before the 2009 season. The first year of the contract he was given $3.75 million, the second year $7.25 million, and the third and fourth years were worth $13.5 million each. There have been many that have compared the career paths of Greinke and Liriano. Liriano has had to recover from elbow surgery to regain his dominant form. Greinke has had to recover from depression issues to regain his dominant form.
In recent memory the Twins have given some long-term contracts that haven't worked the way that they have liked. Denard Span and Nick Blackburn were locked in to long-term deals during last offseason and both of them came out to have below average years in 2010. The year before that the Twins signed Scott Baker to a long-term deal and Baker has failed to become a top of the rotation hurler for the organization. It seems that in the Bill Smith Era the Twins have been very gracious when it comes to offering contracts to players to buy out their arbitration eligible years.
Will Bill Smith look at some of these contracts in the past as being failures? Or will he offer Liriano a contract that will make him worthy of the ace that he is becoming?
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A Week in Limbo, Days 5 and 6: Get with the program
Forgive me, folks: Blame the holidays for the delay. What normally would have been a simple and easy week leading up to Christmas — the end of the week leading up to Sunday, actually — became somewhat complicated, as only the end of the week leading up to Christmas can. And we'll leave it at that, except with an apology to anyone who was at the edge of their seat waiting for this next installment (thanks, Mom), which should have immediately followed Day 4 on, well, the actual Day 5.
During those opportunities over the last few days when I wasn't doubling and tripling up on my work shift thanks to vacations and when I was not taking care of holiday business at home — you know, I move that next year no one buy any gifts until after New Year's Day — I remained transfixed behind the monitor connected to the ZaReason Limbo 5440 while putting it through its paces. Before I outline what I used, I should mention that I worked on my SCALE 10X presentation as well as the SCALE 10X UpSCALE talk that I will be doing with darling daughter Mimi (hint: It involves music and lab coats — and that's all I'm going to say about that). So the primarly lineup involved GIMP, LibreOffice Impress and Audacity.
[As an aside on the latter, author Carla Schroder and I conspired to give Mimi a great Christmas gift: a signed copy of "The Book of Audacity." Thank you, Carla!]
In short (which will become "in long" in later pargraphs), all three programs ran flawlessly and quickly on the desktop box that, had I enough money, would stay in the household. There's nothing yet that I've thrown at this hardware that it hasn't handled without breaking a sweat, and to be honest, after a few days I've truly given up on trying to trip it up.
Meanwhile, LibreOffice's suite of software ran with aplomb — with as much aplomb as an inanimate object can run, for the nit-pickers out there — on this hardware. Switching back and forth from the LibreOffice Draw to LibreOffice Impress to LibreOffice Writer was a breeze, and the benefit of having a larger monitor to move windows around was a treat (how I made all those presentations on a laptop is a mystery).
Audacity? I'm the quintessential newb at it, though the far more Audacity-adept (does that make her Audacious?) Mimi zoomed her way around it quickly and can show the old man a thing or two. Audacity 1.3.13 beta ran and sounded perfect, though I think there could be a lot less bass in this presentation — an easy fix.
Finally, processing photos on GIMP was also a snap. Before I start, let me stike a Tebow-like pose and pray to all diety that will listen to my begging for the the single-window GIMP (2.7, I think) to come soon. Amen. With the multiple windows, using GIMP 2.6 was also a breeze and with the larger screen on the desktop monitor, multitasking was a lot easier than the same exercise — performed by yours truly for years on this old ThinkPad T30 — has been.
Note to self: Do more stuff on the desktops you have.
Before we go off to the next installment which wraps up this series, I should say that for the entire week, I have never had a negative "aha!" moment, nor have I uttered a brow-furrowing "hmmm" over the ZaReason Limbo 5440's performance. Some software hiccups which were clearly the result of PEBCAK errors ocurred, but these were few and far between (of course) and were not a reflection on the machine's abilities or performance. But we'll leave the rest of that for the next installment, coming to you tomorrow.
Tomorrow wraps up the series with A Week in Limbo, Epilogue: The final review
"A Week in Limbo Series" (for those of you keeping track)
A Week in Limbo, Day 0
A Week in Limbo, Day 1: Under the hood
A Week in Limbo, Day 2: Fedora 16
A Week in Limbo, Day 3: Fedora 16 KDE
A Week in Limbo, Day 4: On second thought . . .
A Week in Limbo, Days 5 and 6: Get with the program
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started testing and developing software in his new home office, which is the development side of Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, United States.)
Must reads for a Wednesday
Now that LinuxCon North America is over, and it was quite a show, I think they've got the publicity thing covered, especially with the gangster-themed gala and all the great presentations that were given at the event. But if you're going to the next show, make it the Ohio LinuxFest in September. Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting, so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!)
Larry the Free Software Guy — there he goes again with the third-person reference (sorry, but I have a strict rule about starting off a blog with "I") — is grateful that there are folks out there that can articulate what he's thinking far, far better than he could. Frankly, I'm at peace with that because, for starters, it means that I can just put a link here and say, "Yeah, what $NAME said."
So it's with great thanks offered to all the dieties one can come up with that there are folks like Bruce Byfield and Carla Schroder around to write such great stuff that allows me the laziness of pointing a finger to it and saying, "See? I agree. I wish I had written that."
Bruce Byfield wrote an article last week, "The GNOME 3 Meltdown" was the over-the-top (literally and figuratively) headline, about how Linus Torvalds' opinion of GNOME 3 may have set off an avalance of GNOME 3 criticism, and the article goes into detail about how we arrived there and what may follow. It's pure Bruce — an essay which goes beyond the mere provoking of thought and should cause wide discussion.
As usual, Bruce nailed it.
This article was followed by another by Bruce after receiving an e-mail from Aaron Seigo of KDE, where Aaron points out to Bruce that the FOSS press could stand to be a little more positive, or lacking that, offer solutions (or ways to for others to find solutions). Under the headline "I've Got Some Good News and Some Bad News," Bruce points out the start of there discussion — a discussion that has yet to have an ending.
Along the same lines on this particular topic, Carla Schroder writes an outstanding piece entitled, "Linux Desktop Flamewars: Is The News Media Too Negative?" Carla — author and editor par excellence — aptly points out that the problem isn't with the media coverage. It's not the FOSS media's job to be advocates or cheerleaders, which is true — its job is to present the truth, beautiful or blemished as it might be.
Grab some coffee or other beverage, set aside some time and read these well-written pieces, if you haven't already. It's well worth the time.
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(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
The far and the wide
Next up: OSCON. Get there if you can, and give them my regards because I can't make it this year 😦
A wide assortment of issues and items have cropped up in the last several days, all of which are newsworthy and most of which cry out for comment. On the latter, that's what I do. After all, they don't call it "commentary" for nothing.
So let's take a look at some of these digital news blurbs, like
RMS: Just say no to the Cloud: For once, I am completely and unequivocally behind the man behind the GNU. Richard Stallman wrote an article appearing in the electronic version of Der Speigel outlining the dangers of so-called cloud computing. It's fairly simple — your data, held remotely, is not really your data since you don't have possession of the drive that physically holds it. Yep, call me "old school" about this, and I'll thank you for it.
But why is it in Orlando? The release schedule for Ubuntu 12.04 is out and it looks like the UDS — that Ubuntu Developer Summit to the unenlightened — will take place at the end of October or early November, in Orlando, Fla., as usual. Why? Disney World? Who knows?
Who's on first? Though not a news item per se, Carla Schroder wrote an excellent piece on Linux.com about how to find out who and what is on your network. The Linux.com tutorials and "weekend projects" are generally top notch and very educational, and this one in particular takes one through how to go about doing some router spelunking.
Meanwhile back in the Sunshine State . . .: Florida is getting a lot of attention. Red Hat is holding its North America Partner Conference on Oct. 25-27 in Miami. That's about 240 miles south of Orlando, where the UDS will be taking place about the same time, possibly. It's a straight shot down the Florida Turnpike, if you're interested. According to the VAR Guy, "the event signals a shift for Red Hat, which previously lumped partners and customers together at the annual Red Hat Summit."
Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment to fiddle with a newly installed version of CrunchBang.
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Loyal opposition: What it means
Linux for the GNU South — it's coming up so attend if you can.
More than one person — several actually, none of whom will be named here, to protect the innocent — asked me recently, "Did you see Carla Schroder's article in LXer.com on Ubuntu?"
I did. In fact, all ego aside (and we'll wait a few minutes until we've had a chance to move that large thing aside), I may have had a hand in this through my contribution to a LXer.com forum item where I said:
"If you'll permit me a tangent, is Ubuntu "ashamed" to call itself Linux? If you go to their Web page, on the main page you won't find the word "Linux" anywhere. I finally found it on an "About Ubuntu" page in the second or third paragraph. If you go to the openSUSE main page, Linux is there; same with Fedora and Debian (though Debian goes the GNU/Linux route).
Just wondering aloud . . . ."
Later, if you're reading along with us on this forum, Carla Schroder (a.k.a., tuxchick) says:
"Ubuntu has many good points, not the least of which are kick-starting serious effort in making a really good desktop Linux, making inroads into the commercial computer market, genuinely welcoming new contributors, and inspiring hosts of respins and derivatives. Think back to the pre-Ubuntu days– Debian releases were stretching out ever longer (over three years!), Mandriva is perennially in crisis, Red Hat is uninterested in the consumer market….hmmm, methinks I spy an article in this subject." (emphasis added)
So I'll take a bow for contributing to the inspiration behind Carla writing this article, which is outstanding. Its outstanding nature outshines the fact that there are a couple of minuscule glitches in the article itself — one is that while Red Hat may not care about the desktop market, it established Fedora Core and the Fedora Project at the same time it "went enterprise" (not terribly clear in the article), and Fedora started roughly a year before Ubuntu came along. Also, for all the great things it rightfully says about Ubuntu — let me repeat that, for all the great things it rightfully says about Ubuntu — it still doesn't address the community's lack of technical contributions back to the greater FOSS community, for starters.
But let's not go there now.
Let's talk instead about how being respectfully critical or showing calm and reasoned dissent contributes to the greater good of all — for those being criticized as well as for those making the observations. Let's talk about taking what's being said at face value rather than looking into a subtext that more than likely doesn't exist.
Bear in mind: When done for the greater good, dissent is not disloyalty.
I'm an Ubuntu user; though it's not my primary distro of choice, I still use it on a variety of machines. My daughter is an Ubuntu user, and it is her distro of choice, as outlined in our UpSCALE talk (Mimi and I are at the 27:23) at the Southern California Linux Expo this year.
As noted here and elsewhere, I have had differences of opinion regarding how Ubuntu does things, and I have been critical of the credit Ubuntu wrongfully gets for technical contributions made by others. Until this changes, I will continue to be critical of Ubuntu, just as I am critical of Fedora — which is my distro of choice, though I am no longer officially a part of that community — and openSUSE and any other distro or community when criticism is warranted.
My purpose in bringing up shortcomings is to have those in a position to do so correct them — and if I can, I will correct them myself — rather than to berate those doing what I think is misguided or just wrong.
Also, it should be noted that I have also been known to heap praise on those communities that deserve it, bearing in mind that a distro that gets praise one day for doing something good for FOSS may get criticism on another for doing something not-so-good.
The fact of the matter is I don't expect Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian or any other distro or FOSS program, to be perfect. I do, however, demand distros and communities to live up to the higher standards that we as FOSS users and advocates have set — the most basic of which is that everyone contributes and everyone benefits — and I don't find this an unreasonable position.
So next time you find someone being critical, ask yourself whether the criticism is valid and if there is a solution to this criticism, other than an ad hominem response (yes, I'm looking at you, Mark Shuttleworth).
Oh, and critics: It's good to have a solution to go along with your critique. Admittedly, I should do this better, and promise to do so going forward.
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That's a moot point Ken seeing as how the world will end on 12.21.12 anyway :-DScott
I will be worrying about how much work I will have lined up to do and trying to find enough help to get those jobs done since Mitt is elected and everyone started spending money on long awaited projects again. With the economy running again, I will probably have to buy another truck or two.
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I am sitting back wondering where our topics of conversation will meander to after the election. Sure,we'll have the arm chair analyzing afterwards,but the topics meander off in other directions more often. I may start on a list of discussions to debate and analyze in the lulls.This is enjoyable to me,although I will probably work on a non political list if that is at all possible!!! :shock:


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typo I would say,got bike on 10 29 2011,my Butt was sore after 1538 miles 1n 36hr.Imagine 10,000 in 3 days LOL.
All good points. I wasn't inferring that thr ones who ride the most have the most fun. That of course is a purely perdonal and subjective opinion to each individual ridI was making reference to the riders that I may randomly encounter that are all decked out in thier well-worn pirate outfits, scraggly hair, 2-day beard-lets, and several skull rings and such that espouse the the "true biker" ethos that they "live to ride" or "ride or die", insinuating that they practically live on the bike.To then find out that they put around 1000 miles a year on thier bikes in a place like Floridajust seems funny to me. I guess I would classify those guys as "posers". Mostly I've seen these types at Bikeweek and Biketoberfest.
One of my fully decked out Harwee owners at work has a 2000 Dyna Wide Glide that he bought when I bout my 2000 Drifter. Since then Ive ridden, according to the odos on that and my 2 big Yamahas, a total of 191,000 miles. He has a whole whopping 5,000 on his now and is almost ready for his second oil change.
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I just would like to know if the Boba used the US Divers scuba belt in ESB ??? Simply that...
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I just would like to know if the Boba used the US Divers scuba belt in ESB ??? Simply that...
Nope! Here's a pics for your reference.:thumbsup
Ops... Bad done.. :(, I guess I will have to sale the one I have now :( (I though he used it on all films).
BTW, what is that wire that goes from the vet to the ammo belt ???
The ESB Blaster has a rifle sling.
The US Divers belt was the only buckle type used for the original trilogy jet pack harness. Keep it. The wire going down from the vest on the right hand side of the screen is the power cable for the chest display.
the belt is supposed to be hidden under the vest, so it's possible in the esb shots it's not showing.
in rotj he moved around more, which could explain it slipping out.
my guess is that the wire you see is from the chest display, and going to a battery in the belt. i can't confirm that, but it is logical. it's also what i do with my battery :)
You can't see it, but I think the idea was that it wasn't supposed to be visible.
I would imagine it's on the ESB suit, but it is only visible depending on how it was put on.
Exactly....I wouldn't sell it, but I also wouldn't have it showing if I had one to put on my ESB suit....one of those strange things that you'll know is there.;)Quote:
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Well, its in there folks!!!!!!! It's very hard to spot, but its definately there. If I could get my stupid screen capture to work, I'd show ya, but everytime I try it, I get an entire black screen. So anyway, look very carefully at the scene where Vader says, "we would be honored if you would join us" Fett comes around the corner, & you can see it as he's lowering his gun. If that ain't a us divers buckle, then I'm a monkeys uncle!!!
edit: If I'm not mistake, it isn't JB in that particular scene, but the guy who was lukes snowspeeder gunner, Dak. For those of you who don't know, JB had to be gone for a few days during filming, and they needed to keep rolling with the film, so they got this guy, (who's name I can't remember) to wear the suit during those few days. perhaps he put the suit on a bit differently than JB????? That would maybe explain why we don't see it in any other pics etc. I know I can easily hide mine by just tightening it up a bit!!!! So maybe this guy didn't tighten up his belt:lol Not to mention, the guy who played Dak, was apparently a bit different build than JB.
BTW: You'll have to watch the actuall movie so see it. I've never seen a still pic where it is visible.
Well was Bulloch wearing boxers or briefs during the filming of ESB, because if we want to be totally screen worn parts accurate, we should know that too, right? I think the point here is, if you can't see it in pretty much 100% of the movie and PR shots, it's visually not part of the ESB suit!8)
I think the point is that he wants to know if he should keep the buckle or not. Pretty much goes along with the "purist" decision to go with real metal vs painted, vacuformed styrene vs fibreglass, found parts vs resin castings, and so forth. It may not be visible in the majority of the film and photos, but it's a personal decision on whether to include it or not, regardless if it's visible to others ;)
I couldnt explain it better than you JFJr.
You (GBH) say that the point is... Well, more than that... YOUR POINT is... !!! Not my point !!!
If you want to match a picture, it up to you, great, I respect that... but that is not my point... neither what I want to do. I want to make a screen accurate costume, the most accurate I can, and if I can get a found item, I will get it !!! if not, I will go for a copy.
You say is not visible, so is not part of the costume ??? What do you tell me about the harness... is not visible, so is not part of the costume ?? (I will try to get the same harness... am I stupid for that ??? maybe, but is my point).
What do you tell me about the led system of the RF ??? Have you ever seen it working on the films ??? so, as you didnt see it in the film, means that the led secuence are not part of the costume ???.
Once again, I respect your point, but is only that, Your point.
Thanks everybody for helping me and solving my doubts ;) Much appreciated !!!
P.S. if the belt is on the Pre-pro, and is on the ROTJ... I guess is more than sure that it had to be on the ESB as well ;).
Wheres that picture with all the Fett stuff laying on the floor before esb was made? I think that shows the harness.
You mean this one ???
(linked from a harness thread here in TDH... if the owner dont want me to link it, please, let me know and I Will remove it.)
yes, that is the harness, and we can see the best there as well.. ;)
There is another shot in the movie where Luke looks around the corner and Boba Fett is waiting for Luke and fires at him. When Boba lifts up his arms to fire the blaster the buckle is shown.:skull Takemetoyourfett
Ok, Thanks !! I will try to get some Screencaps when I get back home and post it here.
Thanks guys !
Here is a screen capture from the banquet room:
And here is the "warning shot" he gives to Luke in the corridor:
(It's a little harder to see in this shot, but you can see it.)
Yeah!!!! Thats the one I was talkin about. Can see it pretty well there!. thanx xao;)Quote:
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Well, that's settled. Dang it, another part to buy.
You said it:lol And I thought I was finally done after 6 years of parts gathering, painting, buying, sewing, FGlassing, bondoing....you get the idea.Quote:
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I guess it could be a worse part to be had or something super expensive.
Well, I guess that NOW there is no more rows about it... it seen, so is part of the costume :D:D:D isnt it ?? xDDDDD
Really great those screen caps, thanks !!!
what was seen??....hey Benkenove, do you still want to sell that buckle you asked about:lol
Steve:fettesb :thumbsup
hehehehe.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO xDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I think I will make a GREAT use of it !!! ;).
Once again, THANKS ALL !!!
I think the ROTJ armor is just a repainted ESB, and they used almost every single peice even the harness. Jeremy just did a good job of hiding the buckle I guess.


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I am the worst queen spotter I know. The newie is marked!Lone
Hello You are all correct. I found the queen then lost her!!!She was on about the 4th frame I looked at. Neil, I thought about not inspecting consecutive frames also, and it did make it much faI do not want to risk losing the new queen, as good ones are hard to get around here. So to be certain, I might have to make up a new hive tomorrow with the bought queen. It doesn't solve the problem of the aggressive hive, though. I might have to take egg frames from the hive I usually split, because if there is no queen and they requeen themselves from the existing brood, I tell you they will kill me! :'(
So lemme get this right you want to requeen but want to make sure old queen is dead?
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I think Murray went to Dallas and missed a P.O. game winner. Money no longer.
Looks like the Raiders gave up a 3rd rounder for him.
he's 6'5.5" and runs 4.3s @ 235 lb. I'd find a place for him. Raiders lose a 3rd pick next year.
I don't often say this, but I agree!!
The best players in the league are able to think quickly. He has yet to master that skill. It'll be interesting for him to go from a "me first" environment to one of no coddling. He'll struggle...especially with that group...
You guys have a must win road game in week #4. GO LIONS!!
Easy game...those guys are weak. I'd hate to be Philly for week #2. My fantasy team will have many of your opponent players that week...
Lions just stifled Pats 34-10 They hit the Pat QBs ~6 times. Nice nice pressure. Pats didn't get any calls. Our house !!!
The team is gaining more and more confidence, in a good way.
Well...at least nobody is predicting a 10 win season yet. I didn't see most of the game as I was busy doing the fantasy draft, but the numbers, and comments I heard during the 4th quarter certainly sounded good. Drew Stanton seems to be doing well in his time out on the field. I always did like him...
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The Lions will finish 10-6 and make the playoffs as a wild-card team, veteran Sports Illustrated writer Peter King predicts in the magazine's NFL preview issue. King says the Lions will lose to the Eagles in the wild-card round of the playoffs. He predicts that the Packers will win the NFC North with an 11-5, and that the Falcons will beat the Chargers in the SuperBowl. From The Detroit News: Detroit Lions - NFL | Lions will go 10-6, make playoffs, SI's Peter King predicts | The Detroit News "Somebody is drinking some pre-season Kool-Aid" - Nemo
Ironic. I just typed a minute ago that I hope the Lions and Eagles don't meet in the Super Bowl. King doesn't know anything as far as predicting. Here were his 2010 predictions (last season). Carolina as the surprise team??? Carson Palmer returns with a vengeance?? He did have Pittsburg in the Super Bowl but said they would win. Peter King's predictions for the 2010 NFL season - Peter King - SI.com
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We must not forget the recent history of the Detroit Lions... 2010 - fourth place 2009 - fourth place 2008 - fourth place 2007 - fourth place 2006 - fourth place 2005 - third place (5-11 record...Packers were 4-12) 2004 - third place (6-10 record...Bears were 5-11) 2003 - fourth place 2002 - fourth place 2001 - fourth place The last time the Lions finished above .500 was when Tampa Bay was still part of our division... I have promised not to forget history until the Lions force me to...by winning.
How many teams can brag of that many consecutive top 4 finishes?
Agreed. I read Killer's articles every day. I couldn't believe it when I checked out MLive after work yesterday and saw the news. Very sad.
Hahaha. My eyes are playing tricks on me. I checked out the Lions box score a couple minutes into the game and I saw the names, Best, Stafford, and C. Johnson all over the place. 4th preseason game. Playing your most valuable starters? What? Are they tempting fate.
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Probate records — court records that deal with the distribution of a deceased person's estate — provide a lot of good genealogical information, such as a date of death, the names of surviving relatives and insight into the family's economic status.
The English and Welsh kept two types of probate records: wills and administrations (also known as letters of administration or just admons). If someone dies without a will, an administration appoints supervisors for the distribution of the estate. These documents provide much less information than wills do.


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Hello all,
as asked by a Venerable I tried to contact other local Buddhist groups (Thich Nhat Hanh, Kagyü, Niyngma, Soto and Shambala) to ask them if they would like to celebrate Vesakh all together.
Up to now there has been no answer, so I will go there personally and ask people.
Do you have any experience with organizing events cross - traditionally?
some things I should be aware of? Any ideas about how to do it in a way everyone can be confortable with?
I would be grateful for your input.
Thanks for being out there
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A biopsy is the removal of a sample of tissue or cells. The sample is examined under a microscope.
A biopsy may be taken from any part of the body.
Reasons for Procedure
A biopsy is used to see if the cells from a sample of tissue are abnormal. A biopsy is done to rule out cancer and/or to specify its type and level of aggressiveness.
Biopsies are sometimes taken to find out the cause of an unexplained:
- Infection
- Swelling
- Growth
Common interpretations of biopsies include:
- Normal tissue, no abnormalities
- Irritated tissue
- Not normal, but difficult to interpret
- Not normal, not cancerous, but a precancerous condition
- Cancer
- Inconclusive
Possible Complications
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
- Excessive bleeding
- Pain
- Infection
- Scarring
- Results that are difficult to interpret
Smoking may increase the risk of complications.
Be sure to discuss these risks with your doctor before the surgery.
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Talk to your doctor about your medication. You may be asked to stop taking some medications up to one week before the procedure.
Avoid eating or drinking after midnight if you are going to have general anesthesia.
The type of anesthesia used depends on what you are having biopsied:
- General anesthesia is given through an IV to block pain and keep you asleep through the procedure.
- Local anesthesia is given as an injection to numb the area being operated on.
Description of the Procedure
For a simple biopsy, the area will be cleaned. A numbing medication will be injected into the area so that you will not feel pain. A piece of tissue will then be removed. The opening may need to be closed.
The procedure that your doctor uses will depend on the type of biopsy that you are having. For example:
- Needle biopsy —cells are removed using a thin needle
- Aspiration biopsy —cells are drawn out with a hollow needle that uses suction
- Core needle biopsy —a sample of tissue is removed using a hollow core needle that has a special cutting edge
- Vacuum-assisted biopsy —a number of samples of tissue are taken using a special rotating probe
- Endoscopic biopsy —the area is viewed with a long, thin tube that has a lighted camera on one end; a tool is passed through the tube to take the biopsy sample
- Incisional biopsy —a portion of a mass is removed by cutting it out
- Excisional biopsy —a mass is completely removed, such as a breast lump
- Punch biopsy —a core of skin is removed with a special biopsy tool
- Skin biopsy —a small piece of skin is cut off with a scalpel
- Shave biopsy —top layers of skin are shaved off with a special blade
- Bone marrow biopsy —a long needle is inserted into the bone marrow to collect cells
How Long Will It Take?
A simple biopsy usually takes a few minutes. A biopsy involving surgery takes longer.
How Much Will It Hurt?
You may have pain in the area where the sample was removed. Ask your doctor about medication to help with the pain.
Average Hospital Stay
You will be able to go home after a simple biopsy. If your biopsy involved surgery, you may need to stay in the hospital for 1-2 days.
Post-procedure Care
Be sure to follow your doctor's instructions on wound care to avoid infection. If you have stitches, have them removed when instructed.
Call Your Doctor
Contact your doctor if your recovery is not progressing as expected or you develop complications, such as:
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge from the biopsy site
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Pain that you cannot control with the medication you have been given
- New or worsening symptoms
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Donald Buck, MD
- Review Date: 03/2016 -
- Update Date: 03/18/2013 -


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Inspiration: Mason Jar Lights, Y'All
If you drink homemade iced tea from a mason jar, you may be from the south. Or you may just be visiting me, since a good portion of our drinking glasses actually started out as pasta sauce jars. Surely, mason jars aren't everyone's cup… of tea? But I like the way they feel: not delicate, but not particularly heavy, either. Substantial, you might say. And that heft is precisely what makes them good for using in DIY projects. Like mason jar centerpieces, for example. Or how about lights!
Well, y'all, what do you think? Oh so awesome, or way too rustic?


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What I would do is set up a Trap Out.close off all entrances but one, set the cone in place and setup the box where the landing board is touching the wall close to the base of the funnel.Within a week you'll have 95% of the old bees trapped out and in the boxes.You can move them to a beeyard and let them settle in.Then merge them with an established hive that is on the weak side using the sheet of newspaper.I've done this to 2 nest of bees so far this fall.
The only problem with that plan is it will do nothing to save the genetics of the hive, and he said that is what he would most like to do. :(
Drew how was Australia? Did you get to visit any of Perth's wonderfully g(o)(o)d beaches?


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"Behind the cone" is a great teaching tool. It forces you in closer. Heed this advice. It is also an advantage in a FWD car. you can get out faster because you are PULLING yourself through the corner and can draw more direct lines to the next gate. It also keeps the car stable and happy. Happy cars are fast cars.
If you intend to continue running in GS. Buy tires. They are the best investment that you can make. i know its easy to spend other people's money, and then there is the issue of storage, but they will buy you a minimum of 3 seconds over your street shod competition. However, WAIT until next year before investing. Learn the car as it is now and then make the plunge so that you can better adjust.
Traction control remains active all the time (even when turned off) at speeds less than 30MPH - if I remember correctly.
Shuffle steering is a big help. Keep at it!
As for the tire PSI. 45 is too much. You are overheating the tire and reducing the overall footprint. This causes a slide and puts you off line. In a stock SVT, I would not go above 40PSI, regardless of tire manufacturer. Adjustments to your driving style will help keep the tires at optimum temperature.
The CG lock is a good investment if you don't want to install harnesses.
You are doing well though. Keep it up!
A couple notes - think of setting the car up so that the rear tire is the closest to the cone as you pass.
45PSI! Wow - I can run my fronts at 36-38 without excessive rollover, but I do have camber plates. That may be a symptom of over-driving - you don't setup your line, then work the front too hard to make your turns. Think of driving a line that lets you get on the gas as soon as possible, which may mean giving up some speed on entry.
I run a Schroth harness and really like it - I have a CG-Lock for the passenger seat, but an instructor showed me a trick that works just as well - twist the seatbelt one turn before you buckle it, and you get the same effect of a CG-Lock.
Good luck + have fun!
Thanks for the tips, I truly appreciate them!!! I'm waiting for our results to be posted from this weekend's event, but I learned a lot and got a lot of seat time. We had a two day event called "the cone killer classic" and it consisted of two days of racing. I had my buddy Mike ride with me to critique my driving as he's be doing it for a few years. He noted right away that i was turning too late, which is something I had noticed on my videos. I was waiting until I was on top of the cone to turn and then I frantically turned the wheel and "shocked" the car. He kept telling me to be "behind the cone" and it was a hard concept for me to grab, but I did and it paid off. I've consistently been .5-1 second behind the GS leader who drives an Acura RSX type S. I managed to beat him on Saturday, and I lost to him by .04 seconds on sunday... overall for the weekend I beat his times by something like .06-.08 seconds which made me very happy. I have the runs on video and I'll post them up later.
Michlong- I am running Dunlop direzza star specs on my car in a 215-40-17 size. I like them a lot, but they get greasy for me. Our runs are a bit on the long side and I'm definitely over-driving them as shown in the video. I bought a sprayer and I spray them at least two times between runs and they stay way more consistent.
Weeasp- Right now I'm running STN (street tire novice) since this is my first year, but so far all of the others running in GS are running street tires and not slicks. There was a celica running slicks but the owner just traded it for a 350Z. I believe my clutch is slipping on the launch so that is the only reason I'm taking it a little easy on it. I make all of my runs with the traction control turned off, but even with it turned off it is still on at low speeds it seems. I know exactly what you are talking about in regards to the hand shuffle and I'm trying to break the habit of crossing my arms. that was one of the first things I was told when I started autocrossing, its just such a hard habit to break for me but I'm trying! :) I'll pay more attention to the shifting aspect of the runs too for now on. As for the seat, I ended up moving closer to the steering wheel this week and raised the steering wheel height as well as I too noticed that I was sitting up in the seat at times. What do you think about a CG lock? I sat in a RX8 at the event with a CG lock and I was quite impressed at how well it did in fact hold me int he seat.
As for the air pressure, a few people expressed concerns with how much tire roll I was experiencing on the front. I ran them at 45lbs this weekend and they still rolled enough that the letters "DUNLOP" were making contact with the pavement. I too worry about this but I'm not sure that I want to go any higher with the pressures. i thought that with the 215-40-17 that the short sidewall wouldn't roll much at all... that is not the case. I'll try to get a few pics of the tires when I put the videos up. I haven't considered STS or STX, to be honest I haven't looked into what I can or can't add to be in those classes. Thanks again for all the help!
First of all great runs!
The first question I have is if you are running in GS, is your competition running DOT race tires. If the answer is "yes", you will have a VERY difficult time keeping pace.
Putting that aside, a few thoughts:
1. Your launch. Given the SVT propensity to bog in first gear, let it hang out. Any time you lose spinning tires is still faster than the bog.
2. Hand position. While not easy to master, shuffle steering is your friend. on a couple of occasions, you crossed up your arms. That minor delay was enough to put you off the race line.
3. Shifting. By in large, the shifting was crisp. however, a couple of times, you either moved your hand to the shifter and then back to the wheel or left your hand on the shifter in the middle of the corner. While only a fraction of a second, you lost some turn in ability from a physical standpoint of not having the rest of your body assist you.
4. Seating position. For the most part it was very good. On a couple of occasions, you were "leaning into" the turns. This disrupts your perspective. Try cinching the belts as tight as possible to keep you planted in the seat.
As for air pressure, based on what I HEARD, you were driving the tires at the absolute ragged edge. I don't think that adding or reducing the pressure set up you have will gain you a whole lot.
Back to the issue of classification. Have you considered running in STS or STX? Either of those would be more competitive and earn you a better overall index than GS.
|are you running the dunlop direzza sports? the new star spec versions? i am just debating which tires to go for?
|Just read in Grassroots Motorsports mag about high pressure in the front and low in the rear to make the rear loosen up a bit. Helps with turn in.
|Also, in your quick run you were a lot tighter on the cones. I don't know what your setup looks like, but I would recommend trying to setup the car with more oversteer, I picked up over a second a run by loosening up the car. Tire pressures are tricky because unless everyone is on the same tires we don't know whether dropping the air pressure 2 psi in front will make it sloppy or help pick up some more grip in the front. I run about 32 front and 34 rear with pirelli p-zero nero m+s's and score pretty well, however with my continentals I ran 42 front 38 rear. The pirelli's pick up grip as the pressure drops, where as the conti's pick up grip as the pressure increases (til 42 psi). So, just try and get creative with the setup and see what happens, change one variable at a time until you know what different things will do, then adjust your car to the course during the event.
There are guys that come out to our events from Pittsburgh all the time. I can't remember where else they race at, but I feel there is another place in the 'burgh that has events.
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text: I've been collecting props for a couple of years, mostly limited to Indiana Jones and National Treasure. One of my prized possessions is a prop of the Book Of Secrets from National treasure 2. Thought I never would start collecting Star Wars but recently got the Boba bug. I also enjoy the 1:6 scale figures and have been creating some accessories for the 1:6 Sideshow indy figure, i.e. grail diaries, journals and a 1:6 scale pulpit bible. I am now looking at purchasing a finished helmet so I have been trying to educate myself about these and which one is right for me. Thanks for reading.


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that are my fave barrels for DYI top end projects--
there not the cheapest barrels and there not gold-plated mall-ninja specials.
they are also in stock--none of that order and we ship in 6months or a year- type of BS.
they shoot good, work perfectly from all i have seen.
for m-16a1 & a2 retro projects
20" 5.56mm M16 A2 A/R Barrel, 1:7 twist
these seem very good , they are stripped. i think i like the 1-8" twist better --the 1-8" is all ways OOS. this barrel is not correct for an A1 so if the look is all-important to finish an A-1
Del-Ton 20" 5.56 Lightweight Barrel 1X9 Moly with Sight Tower
the del-ton 20" LW is a very nice barrel and looks correct for an A1 retro. the big problem is getting one chrome lined. went ahead and got the no-chrome version for my cheapo-a1 retro so far so good. the del-ton is .750 gas block the old time a1s were .625 nothing visible that will indicate this is a new barrel with 1-9" twist. so far a fine shooter.