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Milwaukee's Vacant Building Code
For many years, Milwaukee's code allowed an owner to keep a building vacant and boarded as long as it was reasonably well maintained. However, a boarded building sends a negative signal about a community. These buildings can attract criminal activity. Often the buildings must be re-boarded at city expense and can make it difficult for neighbors next door to get fire insurance. The presence of a boarded building can bring down the value of other properties in the area.
On January 1, 2010, the City's new Vacant Building Registration (VBR) ordinance Chapter 200-33-64 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances (MCO) took effect. The new VBR ordinance requires owner(s) of residential and commercial property left vacant for 30 days or more to register the property with the Department of Neighborhood Services (DNS) and take steps toward assuring the property is secure, properly maintained and not creating a hazard for the surrounding community.
Vacant Building Registration Application (DNS-18A)This is the form to be filed 30 days after a building goes vacant unless exempt as described in the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances (200-51.7) The cost to register is free and covers a 6 month period. If the building remains vacant an inspection will be made and a fee will be charged. Each subsequent 6 month period of vacancy will trigger an inspection and fee. Owners are required to maintain the interior and exterior in a safe and sanitary manner. For more details see the Vacant Building Registration brochure DNS-29A. WARNING-This is a LEGAL size brochure.
Vacant Building Frequently Asked Questions-Got a question? We've got answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Vacant Building Ownership Registration Ordinance- 200-51.7 - Read the details of the ordinance in Chapter 200-51.7 Subchapter 8 of the City of Milwaukee Code of Ordinances. Ordinance 200-51.7 begins on page 56 of this PDF document.
What buildings are impacted?
This code applies to all residential and commercial buildings that have been vacant for more than 30 days. The following properties are exempt from the VBR requirements:
• A residential property currently in foreclosure and subject to the requirements of the City's Preforeclosure Ordinance Chapter 200-22.5 MCO. Note: Properties which have cleared the foreclosure process and are still vacant are required to comply with the VBR ordinance and register the building with DNS.
• A property that is undergoing an active renovation or rehabilitation and all required permits have been obtained.
• A property that is vacant as a result of a natural disaster and covered by emergency response requirements issued by the commissioner.
• A residential single family home or owner-occupied 2-family property that has been used as a residence by the owner for a period of at least 3 months within the previous 9 months and the owner intends to resume residing at the property.
• Residential condominium and rental units in buildings whose vacancy rate does not exceed 95%.
• A property that is currently part of an estate that is in probate and is not subject to bankruptcy provided the personal representative or executor resides in one of the 7 county areas as defined in Chapter 200-51.5-2-j MCO.
What do property owners need to do?
If your property is vacant and meets the vacant building registration requirements, you must:
• Enclose and secure the building. See maintenance and board-up requirements.
• Maintain the building in a secure and closed condition until the building is again occupied or demolished.
• The owner of any vacant building shall within 30 days after the building becomes vacant or within 30 days after assuming ownership, whichever is later, file a registration statement for each such building with the department on forms provided by the department. There is no registration fee for the first 6 months. Registrations must be renewed every 6-months until the building is reoccupied.
• The owner shall renew the registration every 6 months as long as the building remains vacant and shall pay a registration renewal fee as prescribed in Chapter 200-33-64 MCO for each registered building.
• Acquire or otherwise maintain liability insurance in an amount not less than $300,000 for buildings designed primarily for residential use and not less than $1,000,000 for any other building, including, but not limited to, buildings designed for manufacturing, industrial, storage or commercial uses. The liability insurance shall provide covering for any damage to any person or any property caused by any physical condition of or in the building. Evidence of this insurance shall be available at the request of the commissioner.
What Does it Cost to Register?
Each vacant building registration certificate shall be issued and shall be valid for 6 months from the date the certificate is issued. There is no fee for the first 6 month registration period. If the building remains vacant longer than 6 months, the owner must renew their vacant building registration and pay a renewal fee of $253.50*. Each subsequent registration renewal will cost $253.50* provided the owner has properly maintained the property and there are no outstanding code violations. Properties with outstanding code violations will be subject to an escalating renewal fee of $507*. Registration fees for properties in violation of the requirements of this ordinance at subsequent renewals will be charged a fee in increasing increments of $253.50 up to $1014*. Vacant building inspection fees shall be charged against the real estate and shall be assessed and collected as a special charge.
How do I register my vacant property?
The registration information can be found here. Any questions regarding this program or building related issues can be answered by calling (414) 286-2268 or visiting the DNS offices at 841 N. Broadway, RM 105 or 4001 S. 6th St., First Floor.
Owner must provide access for an inspection
Following reasonable notice, the department of Neighborhood Services inspector will conduct an interior and exterior inspection of the vacant building to determine compliance with this ordinance. A minimum of one inspection will be conducted during the initial registration period and each subsequent rental period. Owners are required to provide access to the interior of the building for these inspections. Maintenance is required after registration is filed. In addition to any other applicable requirements, vacant buildings shall comply with the following requirements;
Building Security Standards
All vacant building openings shall be closed and secured, using methods and materials so as to comply with the requirements of Chapter 275-32-7 MCO.
• If a building has been vacant for 6 months or longer, or upon any renewal of the registration statement, the building owner shall implement and provide proof satisfactory to the department that in addition to complying with the security standards, the building remains secured. If the building fails to be secured as determined by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee, then the building shall be boarded in accordance with Chapter 275-32-7 MCO.
• If the owner has provided proof that a building is secured and based on an inspection by the department the building is found to be in violation, the commissioner shall send by first class mail a written notice of the violation to the person responsible for day-to-day supervision and management of the building or to the authorized agent for service of process or to the owner of record.
• Within 30 days of the mailing of the notice of violation, the owner shall be required to either comply with the board up requirements in Chapter 275-32-7 MCO or restore the building to a secured state and also install and maintain a working alarm system. The alarm system shall connect to all areas of the building subject to unauthorized human entry, including but not limited to, all exterior doors, windows or other readily accessible openings. The alarm system shall, upon detecting unauthorized entry, send an automatic signal to a licensed alarm business that has 24-hour live operators who will monitor the system and contact the building owner or designated agent.
Lot Maintenance Standards
Lot standards include the lot the building stands on and the surrounding public way and shall meet the following:
• All grass and weeds on the premises including abutting sidewalks, gutters and alleys shall be kept below 9 inches in height and all dead or broken trees, tree limbs or shrubbery shall be cut and removed from the premises.
• Any public sidewalk adjoining the lot shall be shoveled clear of snow so as to comply with Chapter 79-13 MCO.
• Junk, rubbish, waste and any material that creates a health, safety or fire hazard, including but not limited to any mail or flyers that have been delivered to the building, shall not be permitted to accumulate on any portion of the exterior lot of the building.
• No portion of the lot nor any structure, vehicle, receptacle or object on the premises shall be maintained or operated in any manner that causes or produces any health or safety hazard or permits the premises to become a rodent harborage or is conducive to rodent harborage.
• The lot shall be maintained so that water does not accumulate or stand on the ground.
• All fences and gates shall be maintained in sound condition and in good repair.
Exterior Maintenance Standards
The exterior of the building shall be enclosed, secured and maintained to meet the following:
• Foundations, basements, cellars and crawlspaces shall be maintained in sound and watertight condition adequate to support the building and protected against the entry of rodents or other animals.
• Exterior walls shall be free of holes, breaks, loose or rotting boards or timbers, and any other conditions which might admit rain or dampness to the interior portions of the walls or the interior spaces and shall be protected against the entry of rodents or other animals.
• Exterior windows and doors shall be maintained in sound condition and good repair and prevent rain from entering the building, or the opening shall be secured in accordance with Chapter 275-32-7 MCO. The windows and doors shall be equipped with hardware for locking and the locking mechanism shall be maintained in properly functioning condition. All points of possible ingress and egress shall be secured to prevent unauthorized entry.
• The roof shall be adequately supported and maintained in weathertight condition; the gutters, downspouts, scuppers and appropriate flashing shall be in good repair and adequate to remove the water from the building.
• Chimneys and flues shall be kept in sound, functional, weathertight condition and in good repair.
• Every outside stair or step shall be maintained in sound condition and in good repair; every porch, stoop, deck, veranda, balcony and walk shall be maintained in sound condition for its purpose.
Interior Maintenance Standards
Interior of any building shall be maintained in accordance with the following:
• It is prohibited to accumulate or permit the accumulation of junk, trash, debris, boxes, lumber, scrap metal or any other materials that may produce any health, fire or safety hazard, or provide harborage for rodents or other animals.
• Every foundation, roof, floor, wall, stair, ceiling or other structural support shall be safe and capable of supporting the loads associated with normal usage and shall be kept in sound condition and repair.
• Any plumbing fixtures shall be maintained with no leaking pipes, and all pipes for water shall either be completely drained or heated to resist being frozen.
• Every exit door shall be secured with an internal deadbolt lock, or with a locking mechanism deemed equivalent or better by the department, and every exit door shall be capable of being opened from the inside easily and without the use of a key or special knowledge.
• Interior stairs shall have treads and risers that have uniform dimensions, are sound, securely fastened and have no rotting, loose or deteriorating supports.
• Every owner shall be responsible for the extermination of insects, rodents and other vermin in or about the premises.
Can I Suggest an Alternate Plan?
Upon written application by an owner or an owner's agent, the commissioner may approve a modification of any provision of this section, including the requirement for inspections and fees, provided the spirit and functional intent of the section will be observed and the public health, welfare and safety will be assured. The decision of the commissioner concerning a modification shall be made in writing and the application for a modification and the decision of the commissioner concerning such modification shall be retained in the permanent records of the department.
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We embraced passive-house design principles early in the project, and this set the stage for many of our performative decisions. Through the careful placement of triple-pane windows, an airtight and super-insulated envelope, and a compact volume, we were able to minimize the size of the costly solar panel array—now verified as the smallest photovoltaic array in the competition.
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Our design emerged over the course of two years during which we worked closely with the Washington, D.C. chapter of Habitat for Humanity to create a new model for sustainable housing. We defined our project not only by the constraints of the Solar Decathlon, but also by the constraints set by a real site in the historic D.C. community of Deanwood. The neighborhood has evolved to include a diverse range of approaches to residential design, and we viewed our addition as the next step in that process. The design is contemporary—but this is not to say it's foreign to the context. The scale and proportion of the neighboring houses running both east and west of our narrow lot helped set reasonable parameters for the massing of our project. Additionally, the composition of the windows and doors on the street façade reference many of the surrounding two-story homes. In keeping with the desires of the community to emphasize the importance of interaction and openness, the front porch emerged as one of the most prominent features in our design. It is a space for communal gathering, family interaction, and also a conceptual extension of our thickened building envelope.
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The house is being donated to the Washington, D.C. chapter of Habitat for Humanity immediately following the competition. It will be moved to its site on Gault Place in Deanwood, where it will undergo an expansion that will include the addition of two bedrooms to the second floor. The solar panels will move to the top of the second-story addition, thereby freeing the south portion of the accessible rooftop for a garden. A mirror version of the Empowerhouse will be built to create a duplex unit for two Habitat for Humanity families. The joining of the two homes along the east wall will enable them to perform more efficiently. Once complete, the homes will be the first site net-zero residences built in Washington, D.C.


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No. 3 seed Canisius College (39-15, 15-9 MAAC)
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- The Canisius baseball team will be the No. 3 seed in the 2013 MAAC Championship, taking part at ARM & HAMMER Park in Trenton, N.J. (May 23-26).
- Canisius is making its seventh consecutive appearance in the MAAC Championship and is looking to win the first postseason championship in program history.
- The winner of the four-team, double-elimination tournament receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
- Canisius now has the longest active streak in the MAAC with its seven straight appearances in the conference tournament.
- Canisius is the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament for the first time in program history.
- Canisius has qualified for the championship round of the MAAC Championship in three of the past four years, the most of any team in the conference.
- Canisius has won 39 games this season, which ties for the third-highest total in MAAC history. It is the fourth time in conference history that a MAAC team has won 39 or more games, with Canisius having three of those teams (2008 and 2009).
- Since starting the season 4-4, Canisius is 35-11 (.761) in its last 46 games.
- Canisius is 19th in the country in winning percentage (.722).
- Canisius is 35-13 in MAAC series during the past six seasons, including 15 three-game sweeps and one two-game sweep.
- Canisius is 25-9 in road games. The Griffs have the most road wins of any Division I team in the country, two ahead of the 23 road wins by Cal-State Fullerton.
- Sophomore Devon Stewart was named the MAAC Pitcher of the Week on Monday. Canisius has now had nine different players win 12 weekly honors from the MAAC this season, both the highest number in the conference.
- Canisius leads the MAAC in eight offensive categories, including batting average (.306), on-base percentage (.412), slugging percentage (.427), stolen bases (99) and runs per game (6.9).
- The Canisius pitching staff leads the MAAC in strikeouts per nine innings (6.7), fewest walks allowed per nine innings (2.95) and hits allowed per nine innings (8.27). The Griffs rank second in ERA (3.93).
- The Griffs also lead the MAAC in fielding percentage (.968).
- Canisius set a program record with an 11-game winning streak, ranging from April 10 to April 27. The Griffs saw that winning streak come to an end in an 11-6 loss to Marist in 10 innings on April 28.
- Canisius has had four winning streaks of five games or longer this season. The Griffs have had 15 winning streaks of five or more games since 2008, the highest total in the conference.
- Junior Jesse Kelso was named to the Capital One Academic All-District First Team on May 3, and is the eighth Golden Griffin to earn All-District honors in the last five seasons. Kelso is now eligible to be named a Capital One Academic-All American on May 31.
- Three Canisius pitchers combined to throw the program's first nine-inning no-hitter at the Division I level in an 8-0 win at Iona on March 29.
- Canisius has 13 Canadians on its roster, the most at the NCAA Division I level.
- Coach Mike McRae won his 300th career game in a 16-8 win over Ohio University on March 16. McRae, the only Canadian head coach in Division I baseball, coached in 500th career game with the Golden Griffins in the regular-season finale against Fairfield
- Canisius is making its seventh straight appearance in the MAAC Championship and eighth appearance overall.
- The Griffs won their postseason game in 2008 and have appeared in the championship round of the MAAC Championship in three of the last four years.
- Canisius is the No. 3 seed in the MAAC Championship for the first time in program history. The No. 3 seed won the conference title in 2008 (Siena), 2009 (Marist) and 2010 (Rider).
- Canisius was the No. 1 seed in 2008 and 2010, the No. 2 seed in 2009 and 2012 and the No. 4 seed in 2007 and 2011.
- The Griffs also appeared in the MAAC Championship in 1994 after posting a 17-1 record in conference play.


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Birth of a century.
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|text by Jim Hughes ; photographs by William Henry Jackson and the Detroit Photographic Company.
The final decades of the nineteenth century and the birth of the twentieth in America are illustrated as never before in this book of unique color images that actually predate the invention of color photography. The secret process which produced them combines the delicacy of watercolors with the look and feel of modern color photographs. The pictures are largely the work of the legendary William Henry Jackson, the pioneer photographer who explored the frontiers of the old American west with huge wet-plate cameras and a portable darktent strapped to the back of his trusty mule. Jackson's name is synonymous with high adventure, and Jim Hughes' richly detailed introduction tells a gripping story. Jackson was born in 1843 in New York, and by the 1860s he was on his first trip west, working as a bullwhacker on a wagon train when the nation's unfinished rail lines would take him no further. Finally, on the edge of the western frontier, he began photographing the wild and often spectacularly beautiful landscape of a wilderness soon to be forced into submission by the advancing railroads. Over the next three decades Jackson became the most celebrated of a small and hardy band of pioneer photographers, creating a striking photographic record of the rapidly changing face of America. When his photographs of Yellowstone were credited with helping to persuade Congress to make the region the first National Park, his place in history was secure. From the Rockies to California, from the Great Lakes to the deep South, from teeming New York City to forested New Hampshire these photographs capture both urban and rural landscapes to provide a unique picture of the social and physical evolution of the United States. The book is arranged as a visual tour of the country, and is written with fascinating insights into America's places and politics at the turn of the century. In 1897 Jackson sold the bulk of his enormous archive of photographs to the Detroit Photographic Company, which he joined as a partner. The firm had recently licensed Photochrom, a secret Swiss process for turning black-and-white photographs into color. Completely distinct from today's four-color reproduction, Photochrom is a continuous-tone color rendition of a black-and-white photograph that uses multiple impressions from lithographic stones. The color produced was astonishingly naturalistic, and it was to this process that Jackson devoted his final years of active photography. Gone now was the mule, as he traveled North America in a specially equipped railroad car in search of images to tell the story of the closing of one epoch and the dawning of another. William Henry Jackson died in 1942 after a lifetime that spanned almost the entire history of photography. In recent years, thousands of never distributed Photochrom prints were discovered in a Montana warehouse. This book offers an ample selection of the finest, all published for the first time.
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I was starting Rappelz (like the only game I havnt played more then 5 mins on) and was wondering how the OnRPG Community is or if there even is one o.O?
If there isnt, I would like to start one sience OnRPG is my favorite Community site and dun want to leave xD lol.
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LXM 619 in Coronado, CA is a wrap. The day of lacrosse started early with the Coronado Classic which featured over 80 teams across five age divisions and on seven fields throughout the island. Saturday night concluded with an exciting LXM Pro game where Team STX took down Team Sole 17-14.
The high scoring pro event saw 15 different players cash in goals, including game MVP Kyle Harrison banging home 6 goals and 1 assist to bring home the MVP Sole bike (yes, a bike).
I was quite impressed with the intensity and physicality of the game. Fans were treated to several big hits, flashy takeaway checks, and ripped corners. Here is an unofficial scoring recap from LXM 619:
Team STX 17 - Team Sole 14
Team STX:
Harrison-6g, 1a
S. Bratton-3g,1a
Nick Tintle -2g
Erik Krum -2g
Max Ritz-1g,1a
Ben Defelice-1g
Geoff Worley-2a
R. Bratton-1a
Mike Von Kamecke-1a
Brian Kelly-1a
Team Sole:
B. Corp-4g
J. Christmas-4g
Whit McCarthy -2g,1a
J.R, Oreskovich-2a
S. Lindsay-2g,1a
B. Porter-1g,1a
Chas Gessner-1g
3-3: 1st quarter
8-6: halftime (STX over Sole)
13-8: 3rd quarter (STX over Sole)
17-14: Final (STX over Sole
View of the fields for Coronado Classic
After an hour of driving and three potential Rubio's locations later, we finally got our fish tacos.
Lax on the beach
Food Trucks on-hand
Coronado Classic scoreboard
Adrenaline President, Alex Cade, showing off his CoroNADO tank
SKLZ warm-up for Team STX
Peter Dante getting loose before the game
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Brett Moyer and his game face
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Although it devolved from an EPA-touted panacea in the 1970s to a nearly defunct model in the 1990s, recent developments indicate incineration is returning to the mix as an acceptable form of solid waste management.
Less than a year ago Ft. Myers, Fla., opened a 600-ton/day (TPD) facility that converts municipal solid waste into energy through combustion. Tampa, Fla., is building a 600-TPD incinerator that's expected to open next summer. Rochester, Minn., has a 200-TPD incinerator under construction at its existing 200-TPD facility. And York, Pa., is adding a 600-TPD incinerator to its existing solid waste program.
Modern incineration with energy recovery has become the choice for solid waste management throughout the modern world, except for the United States, where misconceptions still linger. Most cities undergoing expansions to their combustion programs already have proven to their communities that incineration can be both clean and effective, despite critics who argue that incineration undermines recycling efforts.
The 86 communities nationwide that have been home to incinerators for the last 15 years commonly achieve recycling rates that exceed the average, according to studies by the Earth Science Center at Columbia University in New York City. Those communities are simply burning the leftovers after very intensive recycling efforts, supporters say.
The advanced technology in solid waste burning is the mandatory air pollution control system: Waste-to-energy (WTE) plants do not use an open fire. Modern incineration must use a combustion process in a carefully controlled furnace that includes an automatic combustion control system for maintaining consistent high temperatures and pressures that generate low levels of air emissions. All flue gasses are directed through a series of air pollution control devices for thorough cleaning.
Those special emission controls respond quickly and automatically to changes in the fuel and conditions in the furnace. Computer-controlled monitors sample the air continuously at several places in the furnace, the air pollution control system, and in the stack. The computers adjust the rate at which the waste is burned, the combustion air for the fire, and even auxiliary fuel. The monitors also adjust the addition of lime, activated carbon, and other chemicals used to remove pollutants.
Another common element among those communities is that they all recover the energy released by the combustion process.
If all the solid waste in America were to be burned in modern plants, it could produce approximately 4% of the nation's electric energy while reducing highway traffic and eliminating the consumption of millions of gallons of diesel fuel used to transport millions of tons of solid waste — much of it not recyclable — to distant landfills. In San Francisco, for example, recycling leftovers are hauled at least 70 miles, the equivalent of more than 2,000 TPD produced by 100 semitrailers.
Incineration was banned for a short time in Denmark and Sweden in the 1980s, until university studies concluded that modern incineration with energy recovery was the only good choice for solid waste management. The European Union has adopted statutes that encourage WTE and ban the burial of any waste containing more than 2% combustible materials.
Burning of almost any material can be done so that emissions are as clean as the burners on a gas stove. Special furnaces with modern computerized controls burn matter cleanly, and pollution control devices such as scrubbers, baghouses, and electrostatic precipitators neutralize or remove various components of the flue gases before they reach the smoke stack.
The emissions from a modern central waste combustion plant are as clean as a natural gas-fired home furnace, based on a comparison of published EPA emission factors for sources of equivalent energy input.
In many plants today, the computer monitors send their automatically observed information about the operating incinerators over data lines directly to local environmental protection authorities. Every plant must report its pollution control data to environmental regulators, and waste-to-energy plants are among the most closely regulated power plants in the country.
Like coal, oil, and natural gas, burning trash produces various gases that must be controlled to protect human health and the environment (such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, acid gases, solid particulates, and other trace matter such as mercury and dioxins), which are all controlled in a modern incinerator. Waste-to-energy plants meet or exceed the strictest federal standards set by the EPA, which were further tightened May 2006.
As is also required by their operating permits, the 86 U.S. WTE plants also have demonstrated that recycling is compatible with modern WTE and central incineration plants. Solid waste combustion programs take what is left after thorough curbside and drop-off recycling has been accomplished. Peer-reviewed papers, such as those presented at various American Society of Mechanical Engineers Solid Waste Processing Division conferences and at North American Waste to Energy Conferences, show that the waste left over after very thorough recycling has a very similar energy content to trash without recycling, roughly half the energy pound-for-pound as coal.
Further, computer modeling of modern solid waste management choices by the EPA and recent studies in Hawaii have shown that recycling is not always the best choice for the environment or for human health: Trucking causes accidents; trucking and shipping have environmental costs, too.
State and federal transportation departments and the insurance industry thoroughly document highway accidents and the millions of miles driven by trucks. Trucking solid waste long distances to landfills causes accidents and burns up immense quantities of diesel fuel. Semitrailers hauling solid waste average about 2 miles/gallon.
Advocates of incineration argue that no clean energy source should be excluded from the total mix of energy available in the United States. The EPA has stated that modern incineration with energy recovery is one of the cleanest sources of new electricity, second only, perhaps, to wind turbines.
— John Norton, PE, DEE, is chair of the Solid Waste Processing Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the Board of Directors of Green Energy Ohio, and the owner of the Norton Engineering Co. in Dayton, Ohio.


text: I used Rafal Fett's template. I had some nice sized, scrap, 3/32 of an inch thick styrene sheet I bought for little or nothing from a sign shop, but I had to join two pieces together. I used a wood burning tool to score the lines and make those bends. For the shoulders, I simply used a blow dryer. I then build a jig from scrap wood, screwed it down, and added shims and more heat to get the shape comfortable. I partially fiber glassed the inside, avoiding all the screws. When it was cured, I removed the screws and added the final fiberglass layer. It did not bond as well as expected, so I shot in super glue along the edges. It needed a little Bondo asd glazing putty. WOF's template in at least to inches longer and 2 inches wider at the bottom. I think Rafal Fett's is more accurateI will update as I go.Thanks Rafal Fett. The helmet is based on his templates too.


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Thank you guys! It's so awesome to hear from such experienced owners! Thanks for not making me feel too silly about not knowing the obvious...
David Winners - I'll certainly review Mr. Ellis' Youtube videos! I've seen them before, but it was awhile ago and they're no longer fresh in my mind. I will also check out The Power of Playing Tug with Your Dog (I'm already eyeing The Power of Training Dogs with Food). TRAINING VIDEO SHOPPING SPREE!!!
Lilie - great ideas! You may be right about looking at him. I picked Red up as a stray and can be a bit skittish in the outside world, so I could see that eye contact could have an effect.
Onyx'girl - that reasoning makes perfect sense. Do you think putting whatever tug I plan on using at the end of the flirt pole may help when it comes time to try and tug at a closer distance?
Thanks again, guys (and ladies). I really hope to be able to engage him more with tug and have him wanting more and wanting to play WITH me instead of just wanting to plop down and chomp on the toy like a silly-head. I'm just as interesting as a chew toy!!
|That is one reason why flirtpoles are so effective, it keeps distance from the handler and dog so the dog won't feel inhibited.
|You might try a little experiment. When tugging with your pup, don't look directly at him, nor stand directly over him. Sometimes a pup might read your body langauge to mean that you are serious in wanting the toy back. Your pup just reads too much into it. Try putting a toy on a rope and dragging it behind you.
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Check out Michael Ellis tug videos on YouTube.
I strongly recommend his video The Power of Playing Tug.
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Toys represent prey. Chewing on a toy - means killing a prey. A wolf, or a fox does chewing otions with his jaws to "finish" a mouse or a bird, so does your dog when catches his toy. Your trouble is that nothing comes after, he doesn't know what else to do with it, that's why he continues to chew. Or - he doesn't want to compete with you.
A decoy is a big and dangerous bull, who doesn't want to allow the dog to rip meat off his bones so easily. But, the dog happens to be stronger and always wins, getting his piece of meat (that is the sleeve, decoy sheds it for him as a reward). Some people look at the prey work (bite work) as it is a combat between two beasts - man and dog - want to be in posession of prey object (sleeve). I wouldn't say anything about defence here, because it introduced in training after the main interest was ignited. In all of this one thing should be important to you - the dog wants to deprive someone from something and that someone doesn't want to give it away.
Start teasing your dog, running away from him with the toy, hang it on a tree, throw it and fetch it yourself, continue to run, don't make it easy to grab for him. He would enjoy more to be in posession of it. Then, you need another person in order to break already established chain of actions, i.e. fetching and chewing. You and your dog should be on one end, and that person on the other. Have your dog on lead, throw the toy, and ask that person to fetch the toy befor your dog gets it, tease him and play tug, but not for long and not really tugging, just holding to it. With the next throw let your dog fetch the toy, and that person to try removing it from him by holding and pulling gently. The next time he or she shold pull the toy with one hand and stroke your dog with the second as a distraction, your dog should hold. Try to be inactive yourself, as your dog is on the lead, during this game of three, except introducing a new command to hold the prey toy. As for the command, it should sound intriguing, you can simply choose some hissing sounds for it "Sh-shoosh-sh-sh!" or some abstract hissing word of your choice. Play this game of three with a ball-on-rope and train outing with immediate reengagement.
|I was thinking about a 2-hander or a ball on a rope, and I suppose I'll pick one or both up. Thank you so much for the links! Good point about the hardness of the object and the grip - I feel like a goof for not realizing that! You guys are the best!!
I'd rather use a two handle tug or a ball on a string. The control for the handler is easier and the plushy toys aren't very strong in comparison. The harder the dog has to try to hold it, the stronger the grip will be and the need to possess it.
Gappay Synthetic 2 handle tug 5x25cm
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Thanks, MRL! I'll keep using the flirt pole for now, I'm really just hoping it will soon transfer to a hand-held tug for my own convenience. Hehehe. We're working on "out" and he's getting better each time, so I'll keep it up and keep my fingers crossed we can tug "for real" someday! Thanks again!!
Thanks onyx'girl, as well! I do my best to keep it tight - can be a bit hard to keep hold when he's using those beefy legs to try and get it. At that point, I usually try to lift up so he can't use his legs to "take down" his prize. Hopefully this is the right way to go about it... His grip isn't super great yet and he has trouble hanging on, so "losing" the tug like that sometimes helps him stay interested, it seems. I love the idea of a long line to keep him moving! I suppose I'll keep the sessions super short and not let him get hold of it for a bit to maybe build his drive, as well.
Do you guys have any suggestions on what tug to use? He likes the furry bungee one best, I'm guessing because he used to chase/catch furry things in his former street dog life.
Tease him up with it....don't even let him catch it which will build drive. Once he does get it, keep tension on the tug, and don't allow him to lay down or chew it. The lack of tension is what is allowing him to chew it.
After he does win and you keep that tension(keep him on a line) run him in a circle so he can parade around with his prize, if you keep him moving, he won't chew/hold firm instead. Then lift him by his collar for the out(keeps the dog in higher drive) and start the game again.
Just use the flirt pole and tugging with it when he catches the toy. Soon as he lays and starts to chew, get him to 'out' and then chase/tug again....
They can LEARN to tug and play, and many dogs have to learn. So if you've got a good start with the flirt pole keep using it.
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Hello my fellow TDH board members , I haven't posted much on this board in a long time nor have I been working on any SW props for a while and I just want to drop in here to show you guys the progress on my new commitment to this project wich began a week ago. So far I am done with my ROTJ Boba Fett for now:) ...so now my new passion is the ROTS 501st Clone trooper. Of course wich better way to begin if its not with the helmet and then later on with the armor. I tried posting pics here but for some reason its not uploading my images , so here is a link to my photbucket.
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need some advice on buying LSD boards
Hey everyone, I've been snowboarding on and off for a couple years now, and I decided its time to buy my first real board.
I'd say I'm intermediate, I can link turns, do some intermediate hills and get up some speed. I'm 5'7" about 120 lbs & want a quality board that doesn't wreck my pocketbook. I went to play it again sports to check sizes and tried on some 143, 147 and 150 boards and I think I like the 147 the best. I also want to try a rocker board, because I eventually want to try some park, and mess around a bit but I do, by default, go mostly all mountain when I go because everyone I go with does that. Also I'm from the midwest so theres not really any powder. Northern, Illinois and lower Wisconsin to be specific. Also about the rocker, I really got sick of catching weird edges with my friends camber board, which was a guys board and I think a little too big for me. So after doing a lot of online research I'm stuck between 3 boards. The Ride Rapture, Ride Compact and DC Biddy. I'm definately leaning towards the Compact because it seems like the most for my money. It has lowrize rocker which seems good because I dont want to be sliding all over the mountain on ice that sometimes happens here. I can't really find much difference between the Compact and Rapture other then Rapture claims to be a bit more beginner, is 30$ cheaper, doesn't have slimewalls and has one point less flex. The ones I'm looking at are the 2012 models. The DC Biddy has great reviews also, cool graphics and a weird anti camber core which seems to get good praise also.
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I found the compact listed on some top 10 womens snowboards lists and I believe all 3 of these won some kind of award. If anyone has any experience with these or advice in general that would be fantastic. Thanks!
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hello i am looking for someone who can make me a grievous mask or helmet
Chceck out this link. http://images.google.pl/imgres?imgur...%3D63%26um%3D1
nice thanx i have the program to open this but i cant dowload the design
any tips
i had another idea
why not take the grievous bust from master replicas and cast that for personal mask making
is this possibel and wil it damage the bust
and how can i do this the best way
Couple of problems:
First, MR stuff is NOT cheap. If anything goes wrong with the casting process, you're going to be out some moo-lah.
Second, it's an officially licensed product. If you're going to cast it, you better make sure it's for you own personal use. If you get caught selling a cast of someone elses product, you could get it real trouble.
That being said, if you spent the money on one and don't plan on reselling anything that you cast, yeah I'm sure you could do that.
Just watchin your back-
i was not planning to resel so nothing ilegal
just make the front for a mask
thnx for the info
and what should i use for the mold it has to be something that wont eat away at the paint of the statue
I would imagine regular vaseline would work fine. Just take a paper towel and make sure you get in every nook and cranny. Use the search engine for casting a mold.
While I am TOTALLY against recasting on any level, if youre going to do this, get a trial kit from Smooth-On of their Rebound 25
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i am not gowing to recast
i wil try to make one myself thanx
Hey can you make a progress thread if you end up making this.. ..please.
Hmm... A Grievous bust would probably be one of the hardest things to take a cast of, what with all the nooks and crannies and its overall skeletal struction.
Although it would take adecent bit of work, you could try to sculpt your own bust (example below), and then take a cast of that. This would be relatively cheap, and you don't have to worry too much about preserving the original model.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/4...5edab2.jpg?v=0 (PS this is NOT mine:lol)
This would take a LOT of work though, so this is just my 2 cents worth:p.
I'm curious though; you say you were planning to make a Grievous mask. Does this mean your going to make a full Grievous costume?
Best of luck,
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Hey, all. I thought I'd reap the wisdom of the crowds as I narrow down my search for a sailboat. Basically, I'm looking for a versatile boat. I want something that I can single-hand in the Puget Sound for day and some overnight trips without too much hassle, but that can also be used offshore when time and my sailing ability allow.
After a lot of reading and visiting boats on the market, I've narrowed down my search to the Tartan 27 and the Tartan 30. Both boats have the beautiful lines of the classics from that era, but without a full keel. The headroom is decent for smaller boats, which is important to me (being over 6 ft). I especially like the versatility of both boats, that I could possibly use them in the Sound, and make decent speed, and also use them in blue water.
My difficulty is in deciding between the two.
In the Tartan 30's favor is the longer LWL, which could result in greater speed. The 30 also has a roomier cabin, of course. Unlike the 27, there is no centerboard to worry about. If I do ever get offshore, the greater length may make for a slightly more comfortable ride.
On the other hand, a functional centerboard makes the 27 a versatile boat. The shorter length of the 27 (and the shorter mast) will reduce winter storage costs, which are exorbitant in Island.
Forgive me for thinking out loud. I'm sure most of my conflicting ideas about these boats will be resolved as I see more 27s and 30s in person, as the condition of the particular 27 or 30 I end up purchasing will likely be the deciding factor anyway. But I figured it wouldn't hurt to solicit the opinions of sailors who have more experience with these two models.
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We sail the same waters as I will have my 24' in the sound this summer as I look for a 27-30' boat. What changed my dream for an off shore boat was going on a delivery of a 40' from the sound to Astoria over Memorial weekend. It was rougher than I had dreamed and even though the weather could have been much worse it wasn't just a little more intense than the sound... It was the way more intense and it cured me of PNW offshore dreams. I'm going to do the sound and then head up north to the inside passage next year. Off shore in Washington/Oregon makes the Caribbean seem like kindergarten. We arguably have some of the best summer sailing in the country here in protected waters but with the intense tides and roughed shorelines I think wise Washington sailers first use an airplane before getting on the boat to enjoy blue water
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After 10 years of co-owning a T27 in the NY area all I can say is that it is a great boat. It sails great, looks great, turns heads and the shoal draft is nearly perfect for the LI Sound or Chessy areas. It was built like a Cadillac in it's day but is a much older lady now.
Our T27 has taught me a lot about boat maintenance. This past winter we replaced the entire drive train on our boat with a new SS shaft, hose, Cutless bearing and whatnot. I now know how to debug an Atomic 4 engine and get it running and tuned.
I haven't had to tackle the one soft spot we have on our deck yet. It seems to be a perennial problem with these older boats where hardware was installed and not properly bedded or re-bedded but the decks can get a bit soft. Several T27 owners have undertaken this project (not me) and have photos of their projects on our T27Owners Yahoo group: T27Owners : Tartan 27 Owners Yahoo Group
if you are interested.
A T27 will cost you only marginally less then a T30 to finance yearly but you will likely make up for that with projects you want/need or should do. Once the projects are done it is just a slightly cheaper but prettier boat - I find that the projects are never done though.
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I thought I'd check in with an update. Since I lasted posted, I visited a few more Tartans in my area. I saw a 27 today that was being offered for a low price, but had a lot of issues. Parts of the deck were bouncy and would need a recore and the cabin would need a good amount of work to bring it up to date. I could sail it this season with the deck as is, but it is something that I'd have to have taken care of. I've heard recoring isn't the most difficult job in the world, but I really lack the experience in fiberglass work to feel comfortable tackling it myself.
Anyway, I'm still looking for boats, and now leaning more towards the 27 than I had been before.
Re: Tartan 27 or Tartan 30
I have a cousin with a 1976 T-30 and a friend with a T-27. The 27 will definitely feel small compared to the 30 but is still a viable offshore boat properly equiped. The 30 will be a more responsive, faster boat and perhaps mroe fun. One thing to consider is the tankage. Both were originally equiped with the Atomic 4, but as an option on the 30, a UNiversal diesel was offered. There are two layout for the 30, one with a mid-ship galley on the starboard and the other with an aft galley. My cousin has the midship version and it's OK, but I think I personally like the aft version.
Just like most S&S designed boats of that era, both will heel to a point, settle in then start Smokin'
Oh, by the way, I just rebuilt my cousin's rudder which the inner metal tabbing broke (corroded) away from the rudder post, so this may be an issue to look for. I fabricated the new skeleton out of a better grade stainless than what Tartan used.
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Both are very good boats, depending on individual condition as both may be somewhat long in the tooth. I'd go for the T30 for all the reasons mentioned by other posters plus one more: the T27 has a cross member under the mast that I always bumped my head on.
Re: Tartan 27 or Tartan 30
Like most posters I agree the T30 is a good choice. I have a T30 but have not sailed a T27. As already mentioned the T30, Yankee 30 and S&S 30 are almost identical boats.
One consideration relates to offshore sailing. The boat is very sturdy, but the cockpit is big, the scuppers are small and there is no bridgedeck. Adding or enlarging the scuppers and glassing in the lower part of the companionway would not be too big a job and would be a good idea to avoid downflooding if you get swamped.
Re: Tartan 27 or Tartan 30
I researched both extensively while searching for my boat and came to the same conclusion as most. The T-30 is the better choice by far.
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It is a rare race day that we beat the competition over the finish line boat for boat.
There was one light wind race we sailed in when our center board was stuck in the up position. Normally we play with the damn thing, raising it on downwind and reaches and lowering it for upwind legs. That race we couldn't fiddle with it and ended up in 1st place. Learned something that day. We race on a river with almost 2 knots of current and sometimes the extra slippage or leeway can be an advantage over deeper keeled boats.
Another of our top competitors is a 90+ year old captain who sails a Ranger 23' with his sons. I'll be damned if that old silver fox does not find a way to beat us outright half of the time. Our boats have the same PHRF so it is always an interesting finish.
It goes to show that it is not always the boat's design but more likely the captain and his/her tactics that gets them across the finish line first.
Without even looking back, I guess he heard the hiss of water against my hull and once we were overlapping him, he began luffing us up. He drove me too far away from my desired course, so I gave up and dove below him, but by then it was too late.
The final leg was downwind in 5kts or less. From there, we simply maintained our relative positions.
I'm going to see if I can scround a whisker pole from Bacon Sails this week. It definitely would have helped.
Re: Tartan 27 or Tartan 30
Not sure how far along you are on choosing one boat over another...
but since I have a friend that has owned both the S&S Tartan 30 and a S&S Yankee 30, it might be worth noting that he liked them both as offshore boats -- both for racing and cruising.
They have quite a bit in common - general look, seaworthiness, and design. You might want to consider both rather than only the Tartan.
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Winning championships at every level is at the core of the fabric of the Carolina women's soccer program. Let's check the bucket list. Twenty-two national championships since 1981. Twenty ACC regular-season championships since 1987. Twenty ACC Tournament championships since 1988. The numbers are staggering indeed. It's hard to imagine any team being able to dominate a sport the way Carolina has in women's soccer.
But as the 2013 season is at hand, there remains one nagging, yet unfair question that might have haunted the Tar Heels as they prepare to open the campaign against Santa Clara August 23.
Were it not for a remarkable post-season run that turned the 2012 season from rags to riches and resulted in the 22nd national championship in school history, the question might be, "Hey, what's wrong with North Carolina?"
Of course that question is absurd on its face but for a program with the expectations that Carolina women's soccer carries with it the fact remains that had the Tar Heels not won the title a year ago, it would have marked the first time in history UNC had gone three straight seasons without earning the title.
That question is no longer the elephant in the room because through a succession of heart-stopping finishes the Heels were the Cinderella champions of 2012, a role they rarely ever have the opportunity to embrace.
The heroic moments of 2012 have been well chronicled. Carolina entered the NCAA Tournament coming off an ACC Tournament quarterfinal loss to Virginia in a game where the Tar Heels did not take a shot on goal, the first time that had happened in school history.
After that loss, coach Anson Dorrance had 13 days to retool his team and over the final four weekends of the season the Tar Heels went on their own version of a magical mystery tour, ending the trip with a complete performance in the national championship game against Penn State, a 4-1 win highlighted by a dominant 3-0 margin in the second half. Along the way, UNC had to eliminate a trio of No. 1 seeds. It had to become the first champion to prevail three times in overtime. It had to win a penalty kick shootout for only the second time in UNC lore. And it had to rely on the never-say-die hustle of reserve Brooke Elby to make a near impossible defensive save against BYU, allowing the Heels to advance to the College Cup when Crystal Dunn scored the winner in the succeeding overtime period.
Dorrance and his team now sit on the threshold of the 2013 campaign and an almost certain-to-be preseason No. 1 ranking. The Tar Heels certainly have the makings of another national championship team. Twenty-one of 32 letter winners return from 2012 and eight of 11 starters are back. The key questions going into the season will be who will replace Amber Brooks, the four-year starter at playmaking center midfield, and Adelaide Gay, the two-year starter at goalkeeper.
But the core that returns excites Dorrance and the nation's No. 1-ranked recruiting class according to Top Drawer Soccer Magazine adds to the depth and talent the Heels can call upon. Dorrance has indicated that he has the makings of a team where he can play 19 or more players a game. That gives the Heels the chance to play the game the way it's meant to be played - with a mentality of 90 minutes of attacking and exciting soccer. Substitution patterns should allow Carolina to play the high-pressure style it thrives in.
Let's briefly review the Tar Heel personnel. Back up top are the team's two leading scorers a year ago - senior Kealia Ohai (most valuable player of the NCAA College Cup) and sophomore Summer Green (U20 National Team) with 23 and 22 points, respectively. The midfield is headed up by 2012 consensus national player of the year Crystal Dunn at the attacking center midfield spot. Dunn won the Hermann Trophy, the first Tar Heel to do so in nine years, and went on to start on defense for the U.S. National team in the spring. On the midfield wings are four-year starter Meg Morris on the left side and sophomore New Zealand international Katie Bowen on the right side.
The entire defensive flat back three returns in the persons of sophomore Hanna Gardner (U20 National Team), junior Caitlin Ball (2012 Elite 89 Award recipient) and junior Satara Murray (2012 NCAA College Cup defensive MVP). Murray and Gardner ranked 1 and 2 on the team in minutes played last year. Also back is senior Megan Brigman, a defensive starter in 2010 and 2011, who broke a leg four minutes into the 2012 campaign and was red-shirted.
The goalkeeping position will be fought over by a deep group that includes senior Anna Sieloff, a former starter in her own right, sophomore Bryane Heaberlin (2012 U20 world champion starting goalkeeper) and redshirt freshman Lindsey Harris.
Carolina also returns players with starting experience like senior midfielder Kelly McFarlane, junior all-everything Brooke Elby, sophomore forward Paige Nielsen, sophomore midfielder Kat Nigro and sophomore forward/midfielder Reilly Parker.
The 13-member recruiting class includes 12 freshmen and Georgia transfer Alexa Newfield, an All-SEC choice with the Bulldogs in 2010 and 2011 before she red-shirted last year. Dorrance has praised the freshman class as a unique blend of depth, quality, talent and athleticism. It is a class with several players who will help right away while also paving the way for the post-Dunn, Ohai and Morris era that begins in a year.
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This is an experiment with FOAM. After a friend showed me a Pete Mander vid of him working on his Elite Halo costume, making the helmet out of foam. I wanted to try something that I could experiment on, to gain the experience of attempting to build armor out of foam. CRASH and BURN so to speak hands on training.
So far, I would not recommend this for trying to capture high detail (real life canon stuff). But I am still in the noob area of experience when it comes to working on armor period. Foam seems to be hard to shape and carve but who knows, maybe it will turn into something the more I experiment with it.
The biggest obstacle is getting the foam coated with something that will flex and yet have a hard glossy surface to be able to Rub and Buff.
After I saw CRUZER's CW Death Watch of Pre Viszla bucket thread, which is a super sweet job BTW. Cruzer!! I decided to take on the CW Mando armor.
I printed off the WOF (I think every guy who builds a custom Mando is thankful for these), THANKS WOF. I printed off the plans and modified them as best I could (prior to the episode coming out) but I did pick up #115 SW Insider (pic reference) and after two weeks of messing around here is what I have so far.
My templates in paper.
First foam piece, I actually only had one internet reference for this two weeks ago. I didn't follow this shape exactly, I actually made it bigger and then trimmed it down to fit.
Thighs and gun in foam stage. I need to build the holster still.
Painted, and then Rub and Buff the right shin, guantlet, and shoulder. Rub and Buff both knees, as well. All other parts only have been painted with Plasit Dip (black) from Home Depot and then with Silver Vinyl paint from Auto Zone. They have not been RNB'd yet.
Shin on the left and both knees are RNB'd, the shin on the right is not.
Gauntlet on left is not RNB, right one is.
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