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So true. Go to any highend car lot, and they will tell you MOST people lease that come on the lot. From the responses it seems like roughly 50% have paid in cash, 40% finance, and 10% lease. The paid in cash seems a bit high. Even when I glance in the forsale forum, most people are selling their cars for what they owe on this board.
I call BS on a lot of the posts in here. Everyone on here that is
18-21 seems to have bought their car cash, people are paying their houses off in 5 years, blah blah blah. People who buy cars cash are people with extreme amounts of money or people who buy less expensive cars, for the most part. This thread sucks (*then don't post here*, "Foff, I'm just trying to add some commentary and enlightenment").
Why don't we just start a "How much money did you make last month" or "How much money do you have in the bank" or more relevant for a lot of people on here "How much money do you parents make or have in the bank".
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so Im selling just about all the exterior parts Ive picked up over the last few months because I decided not to add much in the way of exterior add-ons to my bugeye.
head lights and tail lights are SOLD.
$900 for all 3 pieces: the lip kit is a Liberal, says Sport Wagon but its for a sedan. no cracks or anything. very solid. The splitter is CF and attached to the lip already.
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James Kunstler to Speak Today
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, among other works, will speak on Tuesday the 22nd, thanks to the Deerfield View. In his 2005 book, Kunstler argued that declining oil production will cause the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian communities.
"As brilliant as it is baleful . . . and we disregard it at our peril," The Washington Post said of The Long Emergency.
"What sets The Long Emergency apart…is its comprehensive sweep—its powerful integration of science, technology, economics, finance, international politics and social change, along with a fascinating attempt to peer into a chaotic future. Kunstler is such a compelling and sometimes eloquent writer that the book is hard to put down," said American Scientist.
To read more about Kunstler, visit his blog at http://www.kunstler.com/blog/ and attend his presentation tonight, from 6:45 to 8:30 in the Garonzik.


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Pretoria - Bulls coach Frans Ludeke says the three-week hiatus from Super Rugby, during the inbound England tour, provided an opportunity to regroup before they restart their campaign against the Cheetahs at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
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While the majority of Ludeke's players were on duty with the Springboks, not all of them were used in the series, and it gave the other players time to rest.
The holiday, however, was over, according to Ludeke, and the Bulls, lying fifth on the overall log, needed to hit the ground running against the Cheetahs after losing their three previous matches.
"It was small margins and we were competitive till the end," Ludeke said at the team announcement on Wednesday.
"It is more important how we kick-on from here, because that is in the past.
"We want to be more accurate and we need an all-round game going into the Cheetahs match."
Ludeke made only one change to his run-on side to face the Cheetahs with newly capped Springbok Jacques Potgieter replacing CJ Stander at blindside flank.
With Potgieter and lock Juandré Kruger having made their debuts for the national side, the Bulls now have a full complement of Springboks in their starting forward pack.
Stander - who has announced his departure from the Bulls at the end of the season to pursue a lucrative contract with Irish club side Munster - replaces Arno Botha on the bench.
"He [Stander] still needs to play a big role in our campaign," Ludeke said.
"Obviously Jacques was the starting blind-sider. He is fit and ready to go and he also had his first Test last weekend.
Fit-again Frik Kirsten is the other change, replacing Rayno Gerber on the bench.
The versatile prop has recovered from a broken hand, which he sustained on the Australian leg of their overseas tour.
Ludeke, however, said they would continue to back the Bulls pivot and believed Steyn would find his form on Saturday.
"Morne is very comfortable with himself and he knows what is going on there and keen to rectify that," said the Bulls mentor.
"We are positive and we believe in him. It is times like these that you need to back players and show faith.
"We know what he can do and we are confident that he will be back on his game this weekend."
Teams:Bulls:15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies (captain), 7 Jacques Potgieter, 6 Dewald Potgieter, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Dean GreylingSubstitutes: 16 Willie Wepener, 17 Frik Kirsten, 18 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 19 CJ Stander, 20 Jano Vermaak, 21 Louis Fouché, 22 Francois VenterCheetahs:15. Willie le Roux, 14. Philip Snyman, 13. Robert Ebersohn, 12. Andries Strauss, 11. Rocco Jansen, 10. Riaan Smit, 9. Piet van Zyl, 8. Ashley Johnson, 7. Pieter Labuschagne, 6. Heinrich Brussow, 5. Izak van der Merwe, 4. Andries Ferreira, 3. Marcel van der Merwe, 2. Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1. Trevor NyakaneSubstitutes: 16. Hercu Liebenberg, 17. WP Nel, 18. George Earl, 19. Justin Downey 20. Tewis de Bruyn, 21. Sias Ebersohn, 22. Nico Scheepers
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No Rooney, no Higuain but a French kid to take the Capital One Cup by storm... You Can't Always Get What You Want, Arsene
A little aside on the difficulties Arsenal face in the transfer market this summer provoked the biggest debate response this week. I compared them to Blackburn Rovers under Jack Walker, needing to convince the top players that they meant business by getting in Kenny Dalglish as manager. Arsenal have the manager but recent years of under-investment may have left potential targets equally sceptical about their ambitions. You can read the piece HERE.
Basically, You Can't Always Get What You Want. And to celebrate that massively shoehorned link, now, for your listening pleasure, two blokes from Ghent will drag the Rolling Stones into the 21st century more successfully than appearing at Glastonbury could ever do. (And yes, it is sacrilege, and no I'm not sure they had permission, and yes I do actually prefer it. Sorry – but if they sounded like this now, I might actually have watched it.)
Yaya Sanogo is the French Wilfried Zaha and, besides, the last player to get plucked from Ligue 2 by Arsenal was Laurent Koscielny. Let's wait and see how he this young lad does before writing him off. Nero, UK
Nobody wrote him off, Nero. He could be an outstanding player, a real find. As Ligue 1 is inferior to our own Premier League, however, and Ligue 2 inferior to Ligue 1, it can be presumed that a period of adjustment will be needed. Next season, at least, Sanogo is largely a Capital One Cup and dead-rubber Champions League man. The rhetoric of chief executive Ivan Gazidis promised major, marquee signings. Sanogo is another for the future. Yes, he could prove the buy of the summer someday – but he has not been bought for first-team duty immediately. As for Koscielny, he wasn't a Ligue 2 player. Lorient had won promotion and played a season in Ligue 1 when he joined Arsenal on July 7, 2010.
Stepping up... and up: French striker Yaya Sanogo has made the move from Ligue 2 to Arsenal
The last month or so has been notable for the number of players in which Arsenal have expressed interest without an agreement in place. Gonzalo Higuain and Wayne Rooney apart, see also Marouane Fellaini, Ashley Williams, David Villa and Stevan Jovetic. Jovetic is typical of these flirtations; his selling price has long been publicised, with Arsenal involved only until they were asked to pay it. Bizarrely, Wenger periodically allows his detractors to reload by divulging other players he has failed to sign over the years – Gareth Bale, Villa again, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Didier Drogba among them. He seems almost proud. Scottms, Waltham Cross
I think this all fits the pattern I described with nobody wishing to be first to jump. Ashley Williams, sure, because Arsenal would be a step up from Swansea City, but a player who is already at a major European club, or has multiple suitors – like Rooney – would not wish to risk being stranded. I wasn't being critical of Arsenal in the original piece – merely pointing out the difficulties, having stood still for so long.
Who wouldn't want them? Gonzalo Higuain (left) and Wayne Rooney have been linked with a move to Arsenal
Arsene Wenger is keeping Arsenal in the top four of the toughest league in the world, then he's not doing a bad job so who are you clowns to second guess him? For Arsenal fans, I would urge caution regarding what you wish for because you just might get it. Remember Bruce Rioch? He bought stars and won nothing. Original Koppite, Batley
As far as I recall Rioch bought a bloke called Dennis Bergkamp, who did quite well after his departure. Maybe Wenger even benefitted from his presence in some way during the trophy-winning years. Also, what is so special about not buying big names and winning nothing and buying big names and winning nothing? You still end up with nothing but at least with investment comes hope.
Original top Gunner: Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp became a legend during his time in north London
Too soon. The Arsenal story needs a month to cook, really. Nobody has got going with the squad building yet, plenty of targets for all the buying clubs have been away playing in competitions and those that weren't have been on holiday. If Arsenal have done nothing in the next month, then there might be a story, but I expect them to get a few headliners and a few for the future, as will Tottenham Hotspur and everyone else. Nogbad T Bad, Aberdeen
Fair point, but I wasn't saying Arsenal's summer is a disaster. Of course, there is plenty of time – but the fact remains the club has a certain reputation now, and it will not be easy to shift until one player makes the first move.
Neither have I seen Isco, Jovetic, Edinson Cavani, Cristiano Ronaldo, Hulk, Fred, Cesc Fabregas, Robert Lewandowski and a host of others linked with different clubs on these pages signed up. Aloyka, Kampala
True. Transfers take time. But I wasn't writing about a shopping list of speculative signings or rumours cobbled together based on information from agents and various sources. Higuain and Rooney are two players in which Arsenal have stated interest. We thought Higuain's transfer was as good as done. Why the delay?
I need one at least this big: Arsene Wenger could do with a chunky transfer kitty to play with
Sorry but the transfer window shuts at the end of August not at the end of this week. The season doesn't start till August 17, and everyone expects Arsenal to have signed all their targets by now? Gooner Caerdydd, Cardiff
No, but until the first one gets done, there will always be the fear that this is going to be another summer of frustration. It isn't like that at the other elite clubs, who have a recent history of substantial investment.
I truly believe Arsenal would be much better off without Arsene Wenger, this just isn't his style and is why the whole 'we're going to buy awesome players' thing isn't going anywhere. For whatever reason he doesn't like signing world-class talent, even though Arsenal are one of the only clubs in England that can do so and remain financially stable. Quite frankly it is a basket-case club at the moment, the board is at war, Wenger still wants to sign youngsters, it is a selling club trying to be a buying club and the process isn't going well at all. Not to mention the fact that no matter what they say, I find it hard to believe that they'll match Wayne Rooney's £250,000 when they took six months to agree Theo Walcott's £100,000 last season. TDSC, Scarborough
I completely agree with your last point – and would add that meeting Rooney's wages might also spark unrest through the rest of the squad, if the disparity is so great – but I think you are being a bit harsh on Wenger here, TDSC (are you, by any chance, a bank?). He is not an idiot. I think he works with what the board gives him, and they consistently let him down by then trying to curry favour with the fans by claiming he has this huge budget. Some summers he has to sell before he can buy, which is rarely helpful in attracting the best players once they see a talent like Cesc Fabregas leave the club. A few years ago I sat with Wenger and asked him about the unrealistic expectations fostered by the board and he said they had agreed not to do this to him in future; a pledge that would appear to have been broken several times.
Every pound a prisoner: Arsenal took an age to agree a new deal for England international Theo Walcott
Move Thomas Vermaelen to holding midfield. He can do that. He gets forward well and can tackle. Delman666, London
Interesting idea, Del. I'd be intrigued to see that experiment. And talking of famous Belgians, here's Soulwax doing Robbie Williams a favour, by mixing him out of his own record.
Arsenal should change Wenger's title to Finance Director. In the Quinta, Portugal
If Wenger was your finance minister, Portugal wouldn't be in so much debt that parents have to send their children to orphanages because they can't feed them. Only real football fans appreciate what he has achieved. Mpharm, London
Bit harsh that. For all you know our friend from Portugal might be seriously successful with a first class economics degree, and a season ticket at the Emirates Stadium. I am always slightly suspicious when people start presuming their support more real, too. It's not a contest.
We all know the Rooney signing won't happen, it gathered pace because of what Alisher Usmanov said and we all know what we think of his statements, too. Goonter, London
He doesn't seem entirely helpful, no.
It just takes one: Arsenal's position is like Blackburn under Jack Walker (left) more than 20 years ago
Why on earth would Rooney want to join Arsenal? He wouldn't suit their style of play and it would be a massive step down for him. Matt1986, Kent
Rooney won't sign for Arsenal – he wants a realistic shot at the big trophies, not just a big salary. Only Chelsea will attract him in England. Phil the Bean, Bexhill-on-Sea
Rooney, fit and in full flow, suits any style of play, Matt. As for the step down, I genuinely think that is his concern. Suppose he joins, the great leap forward fails to materialise, and he is trapped within another Arsenal work in progress. I reckon he wants both the big salary and the trophies that Phil mentioned and sees Chelsea as a more realistic way of achieving both.
Higuain is clearly waiting for a better offer, more money or an A list club. He will sign if one doesn't come along soon but this is how it is for Arsenal, I'm afraid. They are seen as second tier and a club of last resort for the big names. Steve, Maidstone
I fear that may be correct right now. To some extent it doesn't even matter if the marquee name signing is successful immediately – they just need to change the narrative so that they are seen as major players again.
Samba star: Arsenal's fierce rivals Tottenham have splashed out £17m on Brazilian Paulinho
We all know Arsenal won't sign big players. It's just a smoke screen. They look interested then start offering ridiculously low bids. Mista Chris, Midlands
If the rumours about a £20m offer for Rooney are true, that isn't a basis for negotiation. That's a bid that's intended to fail, like the first of the night at a charity auction. 'So, an authentic 1966 England football shirt, signed by the entire World Cup-winning England team, and the Russian linesman, who admits in a separate handwritten letter that the ball wasn't really over the line but he gave the goal because he really doesn't like Germans. Who wants to start?' Bloke on table 10, just trying to impress his girlfriend: '15 quid.'
What difference does it make if Arsenal have only signed a kid from Ligue 2 on a free, yet Spurs have signed a £17m player from the Brazilian league? Both could be flops for all we know. If that's the case, I know which I would prefer. Gogomobile, North London
Using that logic, you would make all your signings from the Conference just in case they stuff up, so money isn't wasted. Clubs do not buy players to fail.
Higuain isn't the only transfer that appears to be dragging this summer. What about Isco, Cavani and Thiago? Let's wait a month before castigating. Richard, Barnet
I wasn't castigating. If anything, I was sympathetic to Arsenal's problems with transition.
Tottenham have made the signing of Pauliniho easy by offering way too much. That's a good chunk of their money spent and where is the striker they desperately need? RichRoberts44, Worcester
I'd be surprised if they're done, Rich. Although I am. Until next time, anyway.
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- Not to be confused with Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme or the LCD game Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme Boarding.
Sonic X-treme is an unreleased platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It was originally developed by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis but was moved to the Sega 32X and eventually to the Sega Saturn and intended to be released around Christmas of 1996, but after many problems it was finally cancelled in 1997. Had it been finished, it would have been the first fully 3D Sonic game and the first original Sonic title developed for the Sega Saturn. This was the second Sonic game to be cancelled on the Sega Saturn, the other being Sonic Saturn.
Multiple storylines were considered during the game's production. The most known storyline involved the new character Professor Gazebo Boobowski and his daughter, Tiara, who are the keepers of the six magical Rings of Order, as well as the ancient art of Ring Smithing. Gazebo and Tiara fear that Dr. Robotnik is after the six Rings of Order, and call on Sonic to get the Rings before Robotnik can.
The final storyline that made it into the game itself was that Dr. Robotnik rebuilt his Death Egg larger than Sonic's planet, and it's gravity was so powerful that it can rip planets from their orbits, but when Sonic was telported, he found himself on a Jungle planet surrounding the Death Egg, called "Jade Gully", with its residents, the "Mips", turning into badniks. Sonic must free the captive Mips and destroy the Death Egg quickly.
Other storylines considered for the game included Sonic contacting Robotnik's "Doom" virus and being forced to find a cure for them both, Robotnik sidetracking Sonic during his attempted date with Tiara, a virtual world, and the shattering of the Master Emerald and the unleashing deadly six creatures.
Artwork of Tiara and her father have been released by the game's director Chris Senn along with various other details based on the game.
To further the traditional Sonic "go-anywhere-or-run-through" formula, every level was designed in a tube-like fashion; Sonic would be able to Spindash onto walls, thus changing the direction of gravity and the rotation of the level itself, much like the special stages in Knuckles' Chaotix. In addition, a fish-eye lens-styled camera was put into place so players could see more of their surroundings at any given time.
It is now known that at one point in the development process, there was a possibility for four playable characters.[1] The characters planned were Knuckles the Echidna, Tiara Boobowski, Miles "Tails" Prower and Sonic the Hedgehog. Each character would also have had a unique gameplay style. Knuckles and Tiara would have had traditional-style play, having top-down and side-scrolling views respectively. Sonic had the fish-eye style levels, and Tails would play in first-person flight mode.
There were eight planned Zones: Jade Gully Zone (as pictured above), Crysal Frost Zone, Red Sands Zone, Galaxy Fortress Zone, Metal Blade Zone, Death Egg Zone, Candy Mountain, and Blue Ocean (became a test level). Sonic himself was to be equipped with a large set of new moves, including a spin slash, a ring throwing ability (early at development), a ring powered shield, a sonic boom attack and a power ball. The spin slash move would have been cut out of the final version of the game due to being too similar to the spin dash move to attack.
Other characters intended to be included in the game were Fang the Sniper and Metal Sonic, who would have been bosses in the final game and whose design and programming was actually finished by the time Sonic X-treme was cancelled.
Sonic X-treme was originally intended to be developed for several other game systems prior to the Sega Saturn. In its earliest conception, the game was set to be released on the Sega Genesis and later on the 32X, under the name Sonic Mars (based on the codename for the 32X, Sega Mars). However, it was quickly decided that the game would require much more powerful hardware to cope with the new engine, and for commercial reasons, the release of a Sonic game on the new Sega Saturn console was a necessity.
Sonic X-treme was eventually cancelled because of many internal problems. The game was being developed by Sega Technical Institute (STI), a U.S.-based developer that had worked on games such as Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Spinball and Comix Zone.
Game designer Christina "Chris" Coffin was hired by Sega and tasked with creating the separate boss level portions of the game that was suggested to use a different viewpoint from the main game. Ofer Alon and Chris Senn continued their work on the main game in parallel with Coffin's Sonic X-treme boss engine. Coffin developed all boss engine work on the Sonic Mars hardware prototype initially before it was decided that Sega needed to make a Sonic game for the Sega Saturn.
For the boss level engine, several modes such as top-down and side scrolling views were prototyped to create a more interesting view of the boss battle areas while still using the pre-rendered Sonic sprite assets used in the main game engine developed by Ofer. Ofer continued developing the main game editor tools and engine code on the Mac and PC. Development picked up again and it seemed the game's deadline for release would be met after all. From a code standpoint the boss engine and main game were basically two games developing at the same time that shared some global memory to remember game state and use a process called "executable chaining" to switch from the main game to boss levels and back.
The boss engine never used the NiGHTS engine, and never saw any code, tools or assistance from Sonic Team. Even one of AM1's own arcade teams from Japan that was transplanted to the offices of STI and developed Dynamite Deka (known as Die Hard Arcade) was not privileged with any such knowledge or special support. Teams had to pretty much fend for themselves, which was evidenced by almost nonexistent third-party tools and support network for Saturn at that time. A few months into Coffin's involvement in Sonic X-treme, the studio director Roger Hector showed Coffin a playable pre-release level of NiGHTS. Coffin fell in love with the game's look and feel of NiGHTS for Sonic X-treme's boss levels, which may be why Yuji Naka himself threatened to quit Sega several months later because he assumed the Sonic X-treme team had been given access to his game's source code and art; this was not the case (Naka is very well known to have had an extreme passion toward NiGHTS, one time claiming that one of the game endings had induced tears in his eyes). The boss level engine began to evolve into a game of its own using this new source of inspiration, trying to stay closer to its 2D roots by adopting a 3D but side-scrolling viewpoint seen in games like Klonoa, Pandemonium, and NiGHTS, which was more fluid and lent itself to the fast moving gameplay of previous Sonic titles. The new boss engine gameplay prototype adopted a more pastel color scheme and organic flow of the inspirational NiGHTS game, and this caused some divided opinions amongst team members that felt originality was being sacrificed.
At one point, Christina Coffin was briefy toyed with the idea of Amy Rose as a playable character, so she modified all the sprites of Sonic to look like Amy, except for Spin Dash, Spin Slash, Spin Jump and running sprites. The music and sound effects used in the boss engine came from the Japanese version of Sonic CD.
While Chris Senn and Ofer Alon tried porting the game to the Saturn, they encountered some problems, like the game running in 3-4 FPS with 4 colors and crashes. Point of View studio was recruited to continue technical development of the game, porting an older version of the game to the Saturn (now known as build v40) but encountering the same problems that Senn & Alon encountered. Some time after this, Ofer Alon was taken off the project. According to Senn, STI management viewed Alon as a maverick who did not follow company politics and did little to direct the other programmers. POV became the main developers, and to demonstrate to Ofer and Senn the reason for the drastic action, technical director Robert Morgan showed them a demo created by Point of View. Senn recalled, "They showed us the Sonic sprite we were already using floating in the upper-right of the screen, a checkerboard ground, a rotating shaded polygonal shape floating in the air and maybe a ring sprite animating. For all that we had created, to throw all that away for such nonsense. Amazing." After seeing this, Alon and Senn separated from POV & continued developing Sonic X-treme as a PC game. As known from the last leak of Sonic X-treme, POV made their own engine, with a completely different source code.
Sega of Japan meddled once again, as representatives came over to check on the game's progress. They were disappointed by the progress on the main game engine, as POV showed them a broken effort to port an older version of the engine (which is known now as v40), but were so impressed by the boss engine that they requested the entire game be made on that instead, as "Project Condor". By now the team was running short on men, and as Point of View had not gotten much farther than their initial demo, it all had fallen on the Sonic Xtreme Project Team to finish it up before the Christmas deadline so as to go up against both Super Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot alongside NiGHTS. A major change in this project is replacing the pre-rendered Sonic sprite with a 3D model, made by Kunitake Aoki from Sega of Japan. Coffin, who had been working nonstop to get this project out, came down with pneumonia. Since Coffin was leading the technology end and creating the engine, the loss caused the project to be indefinitely delayed and Mike Wallis informed management that the team could not continue and the game would not be released in time for Christmas. The project was officially cancelled. Sega of America decided to discontinue both the Saturn and PC versions and switched to an alternative project: a Saturn port of Sonic 3D Blast.
Present day
The first contribution related to Sonic X-treme was in 1999, when Ross Harris contributed almost every sprite of Sonic used in X-treme.
A disc of a test engine of X-treme exists. A copy was sold at auction to an anonymous collector in September 2005, and a high-quality gameplay video was expected to be released by the end of the year. An animated GIF image of the gameplay was released to the community. The disk image was finally leaked on 17 July 2007. This prototype is actually Sonic X-treme early in it's conversion to Project Condor. An exclusive feature in this prototypes (and all other versions of Chris Coffin's boss engine) were blue crystals that throw you to the sky when touched. This prototype is often called "the 718 prototype", since "SONIC J.G 7.18" was written on its disk (which imply that the prototype was made in 18 July 1996). The music played in the prototype is "Quartz Quadrant Good Future" from the Japanese version of Sonic CD.
In early January 2006, the game's director Chris Senn opened a forum based on the game on his own message board, and began revealing large amounts of the game's development history to the public, including videos of early attempts, a mockup of Tiara's gameplay, concept art of Tiara, and more. Furthermore, he posted a large amount of previously unreleased concept music related to the title, and was given permission by Hirokazu Yasuhara (the level designer for the majority of the original 16-bit Sonic titles, including the first one) to post level designs that were going to be put in the game. Most of this information was posted on the Sonic X-treme Compendium website (SXC), which officially went online 5 April 2006.
The same year, a Sega Saturn SDK was leaked online, and contained models from the Sega Saturn version of Wipeout, a Saturn tech demo of Virtua Fighter 3 (which was released on arcades and Dreamcast eventually) and models from the Project Condor (the entire Sonic X-treme rebuilt with the boss engine) era of the Sonic X-treme, which are a Green Hill Zone Ground model (basically it's the same model from the 718 prototype with a different texture), a monitor model with a picture of Sonic and Amy on it, the Sonic model from the Project Condor era & the 3D model for Metal Sonic that was used in the boss battle.
In 2009, a big package called PackageX was released. The package included textures and levels from Sonic X-treme, along with a level viewer to see and explore the levels in an unplayable format. There were two exclusive characters in this package: Chaz and Gabby, but Chris Senn confirmed they were used as test art in a personal side project that was using Sonic X-treme's engine.
In November 2014, a member from ASSEMbler Games called "Jollyroger" found material of Point of View studio, which included some unreleased betas for their games. In the material, there were two prototypes of Sonic X-treme, along with their levels that were used in the E3 trailer, both made by Chris Senn and Ofer Alon. The first one, v37, doesn't have fisheye and was played on the PC, while the second one is a both a PC game and a Saturn ISO that has fisheye. The Saturn version of v40 is a working continuation of POV's broken effort to port an older engine of the game, which previously ran at 3-4 FPS, and has only 2 frames of animation for each sprite, unlike the PC version. Jollyroger also found their level ediors as well. The prototypes require a nVidia NV1 video card & SDK & Windows 95 to work, so Jollyroger is converting them to render in OpenGL. Meanwhile, only one level of build v37 was released. The level is the Jade Gully level from the E3 trailer. Another level that was released, is a fisheye-lens level from v40. An exclusive feature in these betas is that Sonic could do an infinite jump, maybe for debugging the level. Exclusively for v37, the player can use the "World Rotation" gameplay mechanic, by spinning into walls and slopes. Jollyroger also has the level editor for v53 (the New Worlds Demo version), but not the engine itself. In October 2015, all the v37 levels were release.
Another prototype that was found and released by Jollyroger is POV's version, dated 14 July 1996, which uses a completely different source code and has physics similar to the first three Sonic games. In this version, Sonic explores Jade Gully Zone act 2, and the player can go to Debug Mode by pressing Start+C buttons on the Saturn. Unlike the previous prototypes, the player can collect rings and defeat enemies, but you can also get hurt by enemies and Rings will fly out.
Currently, the only Saturn emulators that can run Sonic X-treme v40 are "SSF" and "Satourne", when the latter is the only one that managed to run it in 30-60 FPS, unlike SSF, which runs it in 30 FPS and real hardware, which can run it in 15-20 FPS. The POV build runs perfectly on Satourne, SSF and real hardware, but has graphical glitches on Yabause.
Project S
Senn later started Project S, an effort to complete the game unofficially. However, he later stated that it will be an original fan game heavily inspired by Sonic X-treme, rather than a straight resumption of the unfinished project. On 12 January 2010, Senn announced that Project S was cancelled.
"Many people worked very hard throughout the project's three-year and three-month life cycle. Making any product is extremely difficult, and Project S was no exception. Working for free and online with a wide range of experience, skillsets, availability and dedication just didn't work out for the team responsible for Project S. The hope is that the successes the team earned along the way are complemented by lessons learned that, unfortunately, led to our collective inability to reach a public release."[2] At one point, there was an article on the gaming site GameSpot referring to a possible release of a "Project S" for the PSP; however, the released game turned out to be Sonic Rivals.
- Sonic X-treme's level editor, engine and internal name are called SonicBoom and SONCBOOM.
- The game was originally based on the Saturday morning cartoon series[3] while it was still under the title Sonic Mars and was going to include the Freedom Fighters. However, they and all other elements from the TV series were dropped when the project became Sonic X-Treme.
- The 1996 Christmas television special Sonic Christmas Blast was originally titled An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas, apparently with the intention of promoting Sonic X-Treme. The delay of X-Treme forced the special to be given a new title similar to Sonic 3D Blast, which came out on time.
- If this game was released, it would've been Fang the Sniper's second 3D appearance, the first being Sonic the Fighters.
- In the 718 prototype, there are two easter eggs: The first one is if you disable some layers, you can see the ground texture from the Metal Sonic boss battle from Metal Blade. The second one is that if you pause the game and press "C" button, you get a game over screen, and then, the game resets. The game over screen uses the game over theme from the Japanese version of Sonic CD.
- An ice cream bar was made to promote the game, but was discontinued due to its cancellation. However, it was later released in normal Sonic the Hedgehog packaging.
- Despite the fact Sonic X-treme was cancelled, many elements were later carried over to other games such as Sonic Adventure, Sonic Colors, and most noticeably Sonic Lost World which reuses some gameplay mechanics from Sonic X-treme, as well as the level structures looking quite similar to each other.[1][2][3]
- ↑ http://www.senntient.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000013.html
- ↑ http://www.senntient.com/cgi-local/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=Xtreme&number=13
- ↑ Davis, Ashley (2008-11-19). What could have been: Sonic X-treme. Destructoid. Retrieved on 2012-07-23.
External links
- Sonic X-treme Compendium (SXC), a website by Chris Senn that includes detailed looks of what Sonic X-Treme would have been
- Details of the game's development
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPk2rGgg7s
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePIWmjV4bg
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIP6GlmyXuI
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It is a common claim among those who believe Muslims are engaged in a war against the West that the Koran provides a religious rationale for establishing a global Caliphate that enables Muslims to control the world. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim nation and one of its prominent Muslim associations, the influential Bathsul Masail, issued a statement to clarify this issue. After carefully examining the concept of a Caliphate, it found no "nash"(argument and reasoning) in books which provide the idea of an Islamic state. "The Khilafah state therefore is a form of "ijtihadiyyah"(interpretation)." In terms of Indonesia, any effort to replace the country's secular system was prohibited. The Commission warned "the government, religious and community leaders must be veery vigilant toward this trans-national ideology that has threatened the national ideology and unity."
Hopefully, the ideas of Indonesia's religious leaders can further the idea that those espousing the concept of a world Caliphate can be challenged on religious ideas. There is too much hysteria about Muslims which allows demagogues and those hating Muslim to frighten people with the fear there is a world-wide conspiracy.


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Originally written on Start 'N' Park Blog | Last updated 9/12/14
Greg Biffle comes into the Texas Motor Speedway as the most recent winner at the track. In April he led 90 laps on route to the victory after starting in the third position. That was his second career win at the Texas track, first since 2005. His record in the spring event are slightly better than his fall record, having 9 starts, those 2 wins, 4 top 5s, and 6 top 10s compared to 8 fall starts, 3 top 5s, and 4 top 10s. He'll look to get the sweep in Sunday's AAA Texas 500. Team: No. 16 3M Ford Fusion Crew Chief: Matt Puccia Chassis: Primary: RK-809 Last ran Dover – finished 16th Backup: RK-803 Last ran Pocono – finished 15th The car: Chassis RK-809 is the same car that won the spring race at Texas and also won at Michigan. Texas Stats: Biffle has led a total of 732 laps in 17 starts at Texas Motor Speedway, making Texas his number one track for total laps led on the Sprint Cup circuit and he ranks second in laps led at TMS. Point Standings: Biffle is currently ninth the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver point standings. Follow: On Twitter fans can follow @163MTeam and @3MRacing for the latest info on Biffle and the No. 16 Pit Bulls. Greg Biffle on racing at Texas Motor Speedway: "I'm excited about heading to Texas this weekend and hopefully we can make it a sweep. We tested the 2013 car there about a month ago and feel good about Texas, but to win there you have to have everything right. You've got to drive hard like we did in the spring and there will always be four or five guys to contend with at the end. You can run up the track, down the track, pit stops are important and the track really flattens off the corner. You have really got to watch what you do or that thing will sneak up and bite you, kind of like what happened to me in Chicago." Crew chief Matt Puccia on racing at Texas Motor Speedway: "Texas has always been one of our stronger tracks on the circuit and we had some success earlier in the year there with a win. The spring race is a little different than this race temperature wise and this time around we race more in the day. Texas is one of the more unique tracks in that it's getting more worn out and much bumpier, making it a little bit harder to get a handle on then some of the more recent tracks like Charlotte and Kansas. Tires mean a lot there so pit strategy will come into play."
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Linda Reeves, Member
This is a great question, and one which is being asked with more frequency as foreclosures and short sales continue to flood the real estate market.
The mortgage agreement that you signed at the closing of your property probably has a clause that protects the lender in the case of abandonment. The idea here is that an abandoned property is a natural target for vandalism, damage and theft. Most agreements contain language similar to the sample below from a Florida mortgage.
"9. Protection of Lender's Interest in the Property and Rights Under this Security
Instrument. If (a) Borrower fails to perform the covenants and agreements contained in this Security Instrument, (b) there is a legal proceeding that might significantly affect Lender's interest in the Property and/or rights under this Security Instrument (such as a proceeding in bankruptcy, probate, for condemnation or forfeiture, for enforcement of a lien which may attain priority over this Security Instrument or to enforce laws or regulations), or (c) Borrower has abandoned the Property, then Lender may do and pay for whatever is reasonable or appropriate to protect Lender's interest in the Property and rights under this Security Instrument, including protecting and/or assessing the value of...
Dan, Member
The answer to this question is a somewhat tricky one but it is evident, in certain situations stipulated by the nature of the mortgage contract signed, that a mortgage company is allowed to change the locks. But it takes a particular set of circumstances to activate such a chain of events.
According to various real estate and foreclosure attorneys, one's house is considered the collateral for the mortgage debt. Thus, mortgage companies have the right to protect that collateral in situations where the homeowner has:
A) fallen behind in making regular mortgage payments, AND
B) visibly abandoned the property in question.
As long as a homeowner is up to date on making their mortgage payments, they will not run into any situation whereby the mortgage company can change their locks. If, however, the homeowner falls behind on payments, mortgage companies employ third-party property managers who patrol regions to see if such properties have been abandoned or otherwise endangered. If, in the view of the property manager, the property has been abandoned or endangered, they have the right to change locks and secure the property in order to protect the collateral. This can be especially tricky because sometimes it is not...


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The race to be named the 1000th UK number one album has begun, with Lady Gaga, Robbie Williams, Jake Bugg and JLS all in the running for the landmark title.
Yesterday saw Lady Gaga score her third consecutive chart-topper with Artpop, but whether she will hold her reign long enough to make history in the 57-and-a-half years of the UK's Official Albums Chart remains to be seen.
Click here or'view gallery' to see the artists with the most UK number ones
Almost 3,000 different album charts have been published since Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers became the very first number one album in July 1956.
The 1971 postal strike prevented a rundown being published for a few weeks, but George Harrison was retrospectively crowned for his only solo studio album to reach the top, All Things Must Pass.
The Beatles are the undefeated kings of six decades of the official chart, with 15 number ones and 174 weeks at the summit.
Elvis Presley has totted up 63 weeks in the top slot while Madonna has notched up the second biggest albums tally with 12 records spanning 30 weeks in total.
The number of albums to top the chart each decade has risen, from just 17 in the 50s to 56 in the 60s, 147 in the 70s, 182 in the 80s, 215 in the 90s and 269 in the 00s. The 1000th number one of all time will be the 114th of the current decade.
"This is a hugely significant landmark in the history of the music industry," said Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company.
"While the Official Singles Chart is the fast-moving, barometer of pop music tastes, the Official Albums Chart reflects the broader tastes of British music fans and their attachment to outstanding song collections."
Iconic albums to have topped the chart over the years include The Beatles' Revolver (1966), Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982), Queen's A Night At The Opera (1975), and Adele's 21 (2011).
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> a) what Mathematica version, since version 4.2 Mathematica
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> Regards
> Jens
I managed to fix my problem by including \usepackage{mathptmx} after
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Our campaigns
We will be using this page to preserve a history of our online campaigns which we have been running since 2002.
To see all current campaigns with a breakdown of supporters by langauge, click here.
For campaigns from before 2011, please click here and for 2011 campaigns, click here.
Campaigns with more than 10,000 supporters will appear in red.
- USA: Stop Siemens union-busting [United Steelworkers] – closed 7 September 2012 – 6,816 supporters. The union lost the election and issued this statement, thanking LabourStart among others.
- Turkey: New law aims to ban strikes in aviation sector [Hava-Is] – closed 3 September 2012 – 8,419 supporters. Kemal Ulker from the union wrote as follows: On behalf of Hava-Is family, I thank the LabourStart for your welcome assistance during our most hectic and difficult days of our ongoing struggle.
As you know, quite well Turkey already has draconian laws that virtually outlaw what other countries regard as normal democratic trade union activities. This includes a prohibition on strikes in a number of transport sectors, including land, sea, and rail, where these services are operated by state-owned companies and institutions.
Despite this, an amendment to the Turkish legislation on collective bargaining, strikes and lock-outs was signed into law in June 2012 adding the aviation sector to those sectors where strikes are banned.
Wanting to demonstrate against the attack on their legitimate trade union rights, aviation workers who are members of our union went on a day's sick leave. 305 of them were sacked by text, email or phone in an extreme reaction by Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic.
Our members and leaders of our union –including our president Atilay Ayçin- have not left the Atatürk Airport's International Flights Terminal since then.
And on June 14 we received the 23rd period Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for Turkish Airlines covering the years 2011 and 2012 from the High Court of Arbitration (YHK). As we don't have the right to strike anti-democratic and government + employers controlled YHK has the final say. As it was expected this is the worst CBA imposed upon our members. From the very beginning, it was clear that the ban would have a devastating impact on effective collective bargaining in the aviation industry.
Moreover, in the weeks following the sackings, a vast police operation was directed against the Turkish confederation of public workers' unions, KESK, and the ITF affiliated BTS union among others. 71 trade unionists were arrested on as yet unsubstantiated terrorism-related charges. 43 were released, but 28 remain in detention. The LabourStart is campaigning for our brothers and sisters from the KESK as well.
Again, our heartfelt thanks to the LabourStart for the successful campaign.
- Spain: Striking coal miners on the front line of austerity fight [IndustriALL] – closed 23 August 2012 – over 5,000 supporters.
- Iraq: End harassment of oil union activists – closed 7 August 2012 – 3,951 supporters.We're still waiting to hear from the union what the outcome of this dispute was.
- Algeria: Union leaders on hunger strike since 6 May – closed 31 July 2012 – 3,308 supporters. We're still waiting to hear from the union what the outcome of this dispute was. The hunger strike was suspended after 6 weeks on 25th August.
- UK: First employer lock-out in over 50 years [Unite the union] – closed 26 July 2012 – 6,729 supporters. We're still waiting to hear from the union what the outcome of this dispute was.
- UK: Support London bus workers [ITF] – closed 24 July 2012 – 965 supporters – workers won a huge victory. Bobby Morton, Acting National Passenger Officer for Unite, writes: "On behalf of Unite the Union I wish to offer my heartfelt thanks to all of you who sent messages of support through Labourstart to the London Busworkers who achieved a great victory in the Olympic solidarity campaign. I am convinced that if there was a gold medal for solidarity you would all be recipients. Thanks also to the International Transport Workers' Federation, ITF, for their unstinting support and efforts during this campaign." The ITF statement on the end of the campaign is here.
- Thailand: Free Somyot [ICEM] – closed 2 July 2012 – 5,533 supporters. Somyot's trial has been postponed until 19th December 2012.
- Bahrain: Free jailed trade union leader Mahdi 'Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb [EI] – closed 25 June 2012 – 8,525 supporters
- Colombia: End harassment of trade unionists [PSI] – closed 25 June 2012 – 7,898 supporters.
- Mexico: Human rights defender kidnapped and tortured [Los Mineros] – closed 25 June 2012 – 5,948 supporters – workers' advice centre was shut down as violence intensified; a new campaign is likely. This was our smallest campaign in 2012 and was live for only a month.
- Iran: Stop the execution of Abdolreza Ghanbari [Education International] – closed 8 June 2012 – 17,214 supporters – waiting to hear from the EI about results on the ground; our largest campaign ever with nearly 5,000 messages sent in languages other than English. Ghanbari is still alive but still awaiting execution.
- Egypt: Drop the charges against Kamal Abbas [ITUC] – closed 5 June 2012 – 7,448 supporters – In October 2012, Abbas was sentenced to six months in absentia for insulting a public official.
- Italy: Stop victimization of anti-fascist trade union leader Matteo Parlati [FIOM] – closed 22 May 2012 – 8,357 supporters – trial begins 25 May
- Canada: Get Rio Tinto Off the Podium [USW] – closed 17 May 2012. 6,111 supporters – in combination with the earlier campaign brought the IOC into meetings with the union.
- Greece: Trade union leaders arrested following protests [GSEE] – closed 30 April 2012 – 9,916 supporters – inconclusive result
- Netherlands: Support striking cleaners [UNI] – closed 25 April 2012 – 10,984 supporters – Victory – read this
- Peru: Stop union-busting, reinstate sacked union leaders [CGTP / Solidarity Center] – closed 23 April 2012 – 6,624 supporters
- Serbia: Free jailed Kosovar union leader Hasan Abazi [IMF] – closed 22 April 2012 – 7,585 supporters -Hasan was released on bail and returned home 17 days after the launch of the campaign.
- Canada: End the lockout at Acadian Coach Lines [ATU] – closed 21 April 2012 – 6,756 supporters – Negotiations start April 29, according to the union.
- New Zealand: Support locked-out port workers [ITF] – closed 23 March 2012 – 6,868 supporters -According to the International Transport Workers Federation, "The news out of Auckland today is positive with the lockout notice from Ports of Auckland Limited withdrawn so that wharfies can head back to work in the port where they belong. Following an Employment Court hearing, management has called a halt to the contracting out plans which would have seen 300 workers made redundant and they are set to return to the negotiating table with the Maritime Union of New Zealand." The online campaign lasted just seven days.
- Turkey: 69 trade union leaders to be tried for 'terrorism' [ITUC] According to the EPSU, 6 of women were released on 4th October, but only pending trial. Of the 58 trade unionists arrested in the second wave, no other information seems to be available.
- Morocco: Free Said Elhairech [ITF] Said El Hairech, General Secretary of the Moroccan Merchant Mariners, was arrested in June 2012 on trumped-up charges relating to national security. His real crime had been to organise and win better conditions for dockers and seafarers in the western Mediterranean.
Our online campaign gained over 5600 supporters, alongside solidarity actions that the ITF organised around the world. Said was freed on 1st October. Said said of the ITF's campaign: "'When I was in jail I knew the whole world was behind me. I thought, they cannot resist such a campaign."
- Swaziland: Stop the Crackdown on Public Workers [EI, PSI, ITF] Public sector workers in Swaziland went on strike in June 2012 for a modest 4.5% pay rise. The government responded by using riot police to attack workers' protests, and sacking hundreds of teaching union members. The strike lasted for seven weeks and was known as the waya waya ('ongoing') strike.
In September, the government removed sanctions on over 100 members of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers who had been sacked illegally during the strike.
- Peru: Union leader sacked for speaking out [CGTP] Agricultural workers' leader Fidel Polo Sanchez was fired for speaking out against terrible working conditions at Agricola Viru. Unfortunately, I can't find any further updates.
- Turkey: Togo Footwear workers sacked for forming a union [IndustriALL] – over 5,000 supporters. In May 2012, 35 Togo Footwear workers were sacked for union organising in Ankara, Turkey. The workers held portests outside the factory which led to repeated arrests. As well as our online campaign, workers in Ankara itself collected 12,000 signatures to present to the Labour Ministry, demanding reinstatement and collective bargaining rights. There has been nothing from IndustriALL about how the campaign turned out.
- UK: London Transport cleaners deserve decent wages and Olympic payments [RMT] – over 5,000 supporters. Cleaners, most of whom are on the minimum wage, were the only workers not to get an Olympic bonus from Transport for London. RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: "RMT is delighted to have linked up with our friends at Labour Start to launch this important global campaign in support of the tube cleaners fight for workplace justice while London is the centre of world-wide media attention. No doubt it will help us apply maximum pressure to the Mayor, TFL and the cleaning companies to end this scandal of poverty pay on London Underground."
Cleaners did not win an Olympic bonus, but the RMT's campaign for better conditions for cleaners is ongoing, and they are now focusing on winning the London Living Wage from contractors like Carlisle.
- Turkey: Free jailed trade unionists now [ITUC] – 6859 supporters. 71 KESK-affiliated trade unionists were arrested on 25th June 2012 across 20 cities. 43 were released within a few days but 28 remained in detention.
- Kazakhstan: Justice for oil workers! [CFTUK, CLR, ITUC, IndustriALL] – 6632 supporters. A long running and bitter dispute in Kazakhstan's oilfields led to the deaths of 17 people when police opened fire on strikers in Zhanaozen in December 2011. The state's response was to arrest unionists themselves on fitted up charges. Although these trials have led to many incarcerations, they have focussed a spotlight internationally on workers' rights abuses in Kazakhstan.
- China: Who killed Li Wangyang? [HKCTU] – 6312 supporters. Veteran worker activist Li Wangyang was found dead in a hospital on June 6th 2012. His body was immediately removed by police who claimed he had committed suicide. Public anger over the death in Hong Kong and around the world, including LabourStart's online campaign launched at the request of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, led to an official investigation. The official line on Li's death was changed from suicide to "accidental death."
- Turkey: DHL must recognise union, reinstate sacked workers. – 12235 supporters in 11 languages. No breakthrough in talks between the local union, TUTMIS, and management as yet. The ITF are holding an international day of solidarity with DHL workers on 12/12.
- China: Stop the crackdown on labour NGOs [HKCTU]– closed 16th January 2013. No word as yet from the HKCTU on what the effects have been.
- Mexico: Violent eviction at La Platosa mine [IndustriALL, Amnesty, and PRODESC]– closed 16th January 2013. There was some bad press in English language media about the behaviour of Canadian mine companies across America. IndustriALL told us that "That campaign did a good job in bringing us together under a joint banner. On 10 January there was an agreement between the various groups involved to work toward a settlement. I think it is fair to say that the online petition probably played a contributing factor in that."
- Cameroon: Musicians' Union march attacked by police [IFM] – Closed 22nd February 2013. Over 8,000 supporters in 12 languages. Nothing yet from the IFM about results.
- Bahrain: Free Mahdi Abu Dheeb and Jalila al-Salman [EI]– Closed 27th February 2013. 11,399 supporters. Jalila was released on 25th November 2012 but Mahdi remains detained, his appeal hearing has been pushed back again.
- Netherlands: Union organisers and MP arrested [FNV] – Closed 6th March 2013. 8,312 supporters. The FNV campaign in the care sector is ongoing, and they are considering lodging an ILO complaint about the incident. FNV said: "Members at Pleyade were very encouraged by the support and strengthened in their believe that their union did nothing illegal. ABVAKABO is very gratefull to all repondents and Labourstart. Although the case is not settled yet, LS encouraged the workers and contributed to a diiscussion on trade union rights in the Netherlands. It opened up new avenues to ensure basic trade union rights in NL."
- El Salvador: Airport workers sacked for joining a union [ITF] – Closed 22nd March 2013. 4,093 supporters in 13 languages. No word yet on how the campaign turned out on the ground.
- Nissan USA's union busting is a global shame [UAW] – Closed 15th April 2013. 5,995 supporters in 13 languages.
- Philippines: Drop the Charges against union leaders [KMU] – Closed 3rd May 2013. 4,454 supporters in 14 languages. The KMU gave us their own considered view of the online campaign, which is published here.
- UK: London Underground is lying about the service on the Bakerloo Line [RMT] – UK only campaign.Closed 22nd April 2013 with 1793 supporters. Awaiting a write up.
- Korea: Union leader on indefinite hunger strike [KGEU] – Closed 24th April 2013. 10,541 supporters in 23 languages.
- Hong Kong: Defend dockworkers' right to strike [ITF] – Closed 7th May 2013. 8,510 supporters in 15 languages. The strike was spreading with new workers joining just a few days before the final settlement. The dockers came to an agreement with the four main contractors after 40 days on strike. This included a 9.8% pay rise and written guarantees of lunch and toilet breaks. The full details are in an ITF statement here, which also says: "The passionate support and generous donations of the Hong Kong community, the international trade unions and organizations have helped us to sustain the strike for forty days. On behalf of our members, UHKD is thankful to all of you who have been giving us unwavering support. Together with you, we have demonstrated again the importance of workers' unity in fighting not only for reasonable pay, but also our dignity and our future."
- Mexico: Let PKC workers choose their own union [IndustriALL] – Closed 22nd May 2013. 9,578 supporters in 15 languages. The campaign is ongoing and the union will inform us if a new campaign is needed.
- Make textile factories in Bangladesh safe [IndustriALL] – Closed 22nd May 2013. 14,306 supporters in 14 languages. Our second biggest campaign ever, we closed it after just 26 days, announcing a win. The Rana Plaza tragedy received significant news coverage around the world, as did the various responses to it. We were helped by a viral image produced by the British TUC in response to the prevailing "ethical consumerist" attitude – this generation aver 1,500 extra messages for us and is a good example of what can happen when partner organisations help to promote our campaigns properly.
The Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord drawn up by IndustriALL and UNI was signed up to by numerous international brands including Benetton, H&M, Primark and Tesco – WalMart being the notable exception. According to IndustriALL: "The new Accord is an historic victory and will immediately cover over 1,000 Bangladeshi garment factories, certainly a critical mass to be a game-changer. The LabourStart campaign was one of the important components in a powerful alliance of trade unions and leading NGOs which worked together to achieve this success. Unprecedented global anger and pressure built in the days after the Rana Plaza disaster and leading up to the 15 May deadline, and that pressure now continues on Gap, Walmart and other companies that disappointingly failed to commit."
- Turkey: 100 public sector trade unionists arrested [ITUC, PSI, EI] – Closed 28th May 2013. 12,706 supporters in 16 languages. No word yet on an outcome – it seems all the defendants were either released soon after arrest, or will stand trial.
- Thailand: Drop the charges against labour rights activist Andy Hall [BWI, UNI] – Closed 1st July 2013. 9,105 supporters in 16 languages. Andy's trial date has been consistently postponed as he was served with the required papers originally. The issue generated a fair bit of global media coverage which may have made the company back off slightly. We are awaiting word from BWI or UNI.
- Bangladesh: Change labour law – guarantee workers' rights [ITUC] – Closed 16th July 2013. 6,472 supporters in 10 languages. This was a short follow-up campaign to the larger campaign after the Rana Plaza disaster. The country's labour law was amended on 15th July, giving workers the rights to form a union but only if they had greater than a 30% density in the workplace. The law supposedly prevents the practice of transferring union organisers to other factories after labour unrest. It obliges employers to set 5% of their annual profits into welfare funds. However, HRW criticised the law for falling short – strikes are still severely restricted in foreign-owned companies. The ITUC are not happy with the new law either but Jeffrey Vogt did say: "we had a good showing, and the labour minister himself mentioned to me how many emails he had received when I saw him last week."
- USA: End the port workers lockout in Vancouver [ITF] – Closed 16th July 2013. 9,231 supporters in 13 languages. The lock-out continues and has grown increasingly bitter. No word from the unions on what effect the online campaign had.
- Canada ONLY: Send you solidarity to locked out funeral home workers [SEIU] – Closed 5th August 2013. 1,011 supporters in 2 languages. We received this message from a SEIU member:
Thank you to our supporters!!!!SCI (Delmoro Funeral Home) employees and members of SEIU would like to send a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you that supported us in such a difficult process, because of you, THE SUPPORTERS you made it easier knowing we had the following of such a great bunch of people. It's nice to know that there are still people that care. We would have never made it through this whole ordeal without you and for that WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SEIU makes me proud to be a member!!!!SincerelyAma Gallucci
and the members of SEIU!!!!!
- Turkey: Stop police violence – allow the protests! [DISK, ITUC] – Closed 14th August 2013. 21,793 supporters in 23 languages, making this our biggest campaign ever.The 'Occupy Gezi' protest movement was, unlike most of our campaigns, a major world news story for weeks. While we were quick off the mark, eventually we were competing with other campaigns run on the likes of change.org. However, ours was the only one to foreground the demands of the country's independent unions and explain the centrality of DISK in the formation of the Taksim Solidarity Platform. This campaign was the first in which we tried to use Twitter in a co-ordinated way, asking our English mailing list to tweet to PM Erdogan directly using some of the movement's popular hashtags. This saw a slight uptake of the campaign in Turkish, although it wasn't as big within Turkey as we would have hoped. We didn't manage to get picked up by any of the movement's largest supporters (some Twitter accounts had followings of 500,000+). Nevertheless, it was a way of further engaging supporters who had already sent their email. The campaign led to our Dutch list growing by over 50%, probably because someone did a mass mailing – another example of the difference it makes when unions take up and promote our campaigns themselves. The Dutch response, just short of a thousand, was comparable to the French and German. The movement ended when the government backed down, at least temporarily, over the redevelopment of Gezi Park.
- Philippines: Transport union leader murdered – demand justice and an end to impugnity [Alliance of Progressive Labor] – Closed on 12th September 2013. 11,717 supporters in 18 languages. Broke the 10,000 mark despite being a relatively low-key campaign with little information available. It was a partial victory, and helped them as part of a longer process. We received the following from the APL: "Please let everyone know that their letters have helped us in pressuring the Office of the President to direct the NBI, our pale version of the FBI, and the LTFRB to look into the matter immediately. We are far from receiving justice in these cases, and we might not even get it, but please let them know we will not stop until justice is served. We will continue with the campaign at the ground level. Currently, we are using the ongoing hearings for the national budget for 2014 to put pressure on government agencies to resolve the case. We will continue to dig up more information and use them as leverages to get the justice that Dodong Petalcorin and Kagi Lucman deserves."
- USA: Tell GE to keep good union jobs in Erie [UE] – Closed on 18th September 2013. 8,803 supporters in 13 languages. The union's 'decision bargaining' approach has not been successful and GE is still determined to move 950 jobs to Texas, beginning in October 2013 – the process will take up to two years.
- Justice for outsourced workers at the University of London [3 Cosas, SOAS Unison, Birkbeck Unison] – Closed on 23rd September 2013. 1,486 supporters in 3 languages. This UK-only campaign struggled after a decent start – we didn't get the involvement of students we wanted, and we didn't get an uptake in Spanish or Portuguese from the workers and their communities. However, the campaign was very much appreciated by the workers themselves, and we were told on several occasions that it had made a difference to morale. The "3 Cosas" campaign is set to continue into the new academic year following the arrest of one of its supporters for chalking slogans on a pavement.


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Posted - 06/20/2004 : 7:33:04 PM
Pic's , well yes, I got one or two.
First Pic is two 10 round mags , they are 12 round that have been blocked to 10 rounds.
I'm not 100% ( Just 99.9% ) on this , but I'm pretty sure all Hi cap's are either 12 round or 12 blocked to 10.
Two methods were used, The one on the left has the block on the bottom locking plate ( off white plastic or nylon ), the right one has the block as an extended tower on the middle follower ( with a flat metal bottom lock plate ).
Pic of a 12 round mag , short middle follower and metal bottom lock plate.
While we're on it , a pic of the two different types of OEM Russian 12 round mag's, The one on the left is the newer style that we are more use to seeing as they are more common, The right one is what came in with the early import hi cap IJ70's. They have what I call a welded ( spot ) single stack tower, some online sites describe them as aftermarket, They ARE NOT. Looking at them apart, side by side, It's easy to see their Russian origins.
Close up of the two piece OEM 12 round Hi cap mag
The rib's on the side of all mag's are nothing more than creases to increase strength, they don't come any where close to touching the follower's.
Study close and read between the lines.
I hope that answers a lot of question's.