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This is NOT your mother's women's magazine
Oh, wait a minute... yes it is! I have a confession to make: back in the early seventies when I was ten or eleven, I might have snuck the occasional peek at my mom's Cosmopolitan magazines.
There were ladies in their underwear in there!
Of course by 1974 the sexual revolution was well under way. Halter tops were getting shorter and mustaches were getting longer, people were streaking and Playboy bunny logos were multiplying like, well, bunnies on t-shirts, keychains and even mudflaps. Nudity was not exactly a big deal. But I had regular access to that great teacher of popular cultural history, the television rerun, and therefore had a very thorough understanding of what life had been like for mankind during the decades before my birth: from Ward and June to Rob and Laura to Fred and Wilma, it was pretty clear that men and women slept in separate beds, never went to the bathroom and kept their clothes on 24 hours a day.
Or did they?
Did young boys of the forties and fifties ever flip through their mom's icky ladies magazines and find themselves suddenly confronted by something like this? Just what the heck were those straight-laced, God-fearin' folks in America's heartland looking at in filthy rags like Good Housekeeping and The Saturday Evening Post?
This week we'll, ahem, take a closer look.
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Great post, Leif. I love the way that so many great illustrators for women's magazines (such as Al Parker and Coby Whitmore) were prurient guys salivating to paint nude women-- a topic that must have been of little or no interest to the magazine's female readership. I find these suggestive paintings, prepared under great restraint and snuck into the marketplace, far more interesting than the overt pin up work that talented illustrators like Al Moore were doing over at men's magazines like Esquire around the same time.ReplyDelete
By the way, this isn't a new phenomenon. Tolstoy used to get upset that artists hired by the church to paint religious themes would dwell lovingly on some naked concubine over in the corner, while neglecting Jesus or John the Baptist. The temptation of St. Anthony was a very popular subject for the same reason. The artists didn't give a damn about St. Anthony but oh, how they loved that temptress!
As with your posting, it was really just a question of how much they could get away with and still get paid.
From personal experience, I can tell you nothing's changed - I guess its a law of human nature - there's a little purient in every guy. ;-)ReplyDelete
What's interesting to me is the role the AD played in this: someone had to give the final ok to Stan Klimley to include the curve of that bare breast ( only an eighth of a turn away from exposing nipple ) and it would have been the AD, I'd think.
I think the AD's incentive was that he got to take home a semi-nude picture after the illustration was photographed for publication.ReplyDelete
Yup. I know that would be my incentive too! Still, that bible-belt readership could certainly be vociferous when presented with scandalous imagery. This sort of thing must have taken some courage to print...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:22 PM
My dad, who was a boy in the 1940s, skipped school to go skinny-dipping with his friends in the creek. When their teacher (a woman) caught them sunbathing naked afterwards, she just told them to get back to school. Nudity wasn't the big deal; skipping school was. Do kids skinny-dip anymore.ReplyDelete
Nudity seems like a bigger deal now than it was when I was growing up. I can't believe the fuss people make about a nipple.
Yup, good point, anonymous, but I think the distinction would be that your dad was akid at the time and society has always tolerated childhood nudity much better than adult nudity.ReplyDelete
The nipple thing is a weird modern backlash I still don't quite comprehend... I can go down to the variety store and rent a Disney DVD from a shelf right next to which is a row of "Girls Gone Wild" movies.
Turn on regular tv and every ad or music video shows girls in next to nothing gyrating like strippers, but one nipple exposed and the wrath of the Great American Taliban is unleashed on the nation! Bizarre...
- Lyberty5:57 PM
Sex sells. Now, then, and forever. Advertising is about tricking people into paying attention to you.ReplyDelete
Can't argue with that, lyberty. What struck me about these examples was how overtly the use of sexualized imagery was for the times. :-)ReplyDelete


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OCEANSIDE, NY -- Coinstar Inc. (Bellevue, WA), a nationwide operator of vending, amusement and coin-counting equipment, has dramatically reduced the staff and functions of its Folz Vending Co. manufacturing plant and offices, located here on Long Island.
According to company officials, many of Folz Vending's route management and warehouse operations have already shifted to other Coinstar facilities. Approximately 200 employees from the factory, warehouse and office of the former Folz headquarters are expected to lose their jobs as the facility is turned into a small regional sales and supply chain office.
The longtime corporate headquarters of Folz Vending, a 40,000-sq.ft. building, has been sold. This location served as a central hub for what was at one time the nation's largest bulk vending concern, with an estimated 140,000 machines in 14,000 locations across 48 states and Canada.
At its peak, Folz Vending was said to have grossed about $55 million a year. Although supported by a network of smaller, satellite facilities located in key regions, the Long Island headquarters was the company's main location, with personnel at the facility refurbishing some 40,000 machines a year, creating the firm's distinctive display cards and shipping product nationwide.
"Coinstar has made a strong commitment to the entertainment vending industry and we are aggressively working to strengthen our position in this business," said Mike Skinner, Coinstar's senior vice-president of entertainment services. "The work that has historically been done in the Oceanside facility will be consolidated into our Lecanto, FL, and Van Nuys, CA, facilities. We will maintain a regional office in the Long Island area, which will continue to provide support to the entertainment business. The Oceanside employees have been important contributors to the success of the bulk business, and we wish them only the best as they take on new challenges and opportunities."
Founded by Roger Folz in 1949 with the placement of a single Northwestern nut vender set on a nickel vend in a local tavern, Folz and his brother, Harold, grew the business for some five decades. Roger headed the company and became a legendary figure in the bulk vending industry as newcomers to the industry attempted to duplicate his success.
Folz was among the first bulk vending operators to integrate sophisticated computer software into route management, with a system that allowed managers to track sales of every product vended through his firm's machines. He was also a central figure in National Bulk Vendors Association's lobbying efforts, winning tax exemptions for vended products in multiple states over the years.
Coinstar's reorganization follows what many in the industry have deemed a strategy of integrating the Folz operation, along with other acquisitions, into the Coinstar corporate structure. This process includes the removal of the familiar confection-themed Folz logo that appeared on all venders.
"It's the end of Folz Vending, that's for sure," said Folz. "It's now Coinstar. And they did what they wanted to do."
According to Folz, who will turn 80 in February, he will continue to stay on with the company, though is presently unsure of the role he will play.
Folz sold the business in 2003 to American Coin Merchandising Inc., which was acquired by Coinstar a year later. Founded in 1991 to provide self-service coin counting machines to retail establishments, the company has since grown to become the largest bulk vending and skill crane operator in the country.
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Those buying S-Class luxury do so not to feel the road but to own it. For many, the model line is synonymous with big business luxury and cutting-edge technology. After the recent release of the four-door 2015 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe, German competitor Mercedes-Benz retaliated with a sedan-sized VIP tourer qualified to battle a next-gen M6. The new S-Class Coupe will first premiere at the Geneva International Motor Show from March 6-16th before the S550 Coupe 4Matic becomes available in the US later this fall.
The US will be receiving only the S550 Coupe with 4Matic and a 4.7L V8 biturbo engine that outputs a total of 449hp and 516 lb-ft of torque. While first drive performance numbers are to be determined, consider the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 featured a similar 4.7L V8 biturbo that reached 0-60mph in 4.8sec, as claimed by the manufacturer.
Driver aid technology is at the forefront of the latest S-Class Coupe design. A new curve tilting function allows the vehicle to lean into a corner in similar fashion as a motorcyclist. This is the first time this technology has been seen in a series-production car. Its goal is to enhance comfort and decrease lateral force felt by occupants when entering a fast bend – not increase cornering speed.
"The world premiere of the active curve tilting function demonstrates the possibilities offered by Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive," said Prof Dr Thomas Weber, member of the board of management of Daimler AG with responsibility for corporate research and Mercedes-Benz Cars development. "The vehicle leans into bends much like a motorcyclist, thereby reducing the lateral acceleration acting on the vehicle's occupants. On country roads in particular, this means greater driving pleasure and ride comfort."
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A Tale of Two Kerrys: The Fractured Logic of America's Left on Libya
"We came, we saw, he died." This was the gleeful announcement of our previous Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, after hearing that Libya's longtime strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had been killed in the NATO-supported rebellion then surging throughout that country. This was a rather novel statement. Chief diplomats of leading powers seldom publicly celebrate the killing of foreign heads of state, no matter how repugnant, especially when the U.S. had been maintaining regular diplomatic relations with their government. But we need not have been too surprised by her remark. After all, altering the domestic political composition of the various Arab states had been a core feature of the Obama Administration's orchestration of Middle East policy.
If the reader will indulge me, let us step back in time to 1986. Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in a West Berlin nightclub bombing traced to Libyan agents. Acting on intelligence intercepts, President Reagan ordered airstrikes against Gaddafi regime targets in Benghazi and Tripoli. Disappointingly, America's allies in NATO acknowledged no obligation to respond to attacks that killed citizens of two member states on the soil of a third. France famously denied permission for U.S. warplanes to transit its airspace en route to Libyan targets. And Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, apparently believing there was ample time to reach an understanding with Colonel Gaddafi, criticized the Administration's actions as disproportionate.
Ironically, the Bush II Administration reached such an understanding with the Libyan regime in the Post-9/11 Era. Gaddafi obviously sensed the direction of the wind when he agreed to dismantle his nuclear weapon development program and share intelligence on Al Qaeda-linked groups with the U.S. Government. The deal made sense for both sides. The flamboyant Gaddafi was never among the Arab world's more pious leaders and was not particularly respected by the leading figures of Al Qaeda (which had maintained links to anti-Gaddafi elements in Libya). And by partnering with the Libyan intelligence apparatus, composed though it may have been of rather unsavory characters, the Administration excluded them from the business of state-sanctioned terror operations against U.S. targets.
I will be frank in saying that I did not wholeheartedly embrace this deal when it became known. Like many veterans, I regarded the death of my brother servicemen in 1986 as sufficient cause to have Gaddafi killed at a time and place of our choosing. But the deal was made and Gaddafi played his part. Thus, I felt we should stick to the bargain lest future attempts to bribe, coerce or cajole degenerate heads of state be hindered by the failure of the U.S. to live up to its promises. I reconciled myself to Gaddafi's continued existence, satisfied that with the sword of Damocles hanging over him, we could use the Colonel as a source of leverage in the region. As long as we allowed Gaddafi to exist, as put by the Diplomad, "[h]e was like an old repentant Mafia chieftain who sought to make points with the FBI." (http://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2013/01/consequences-of-obama-foreign-policy.html) Taking steps I admittedly never would have imagined a few years before, the U.S. established full diplomatic relations with the Gaddafi regime.
Though in perhaps a more subtle and nuanced fashion than his predecessor Secretary Clinton, John Kerry has expressed emphatic approval for our latest campaign in Libya. In the Senate hearing prior to his confirmation as Secretary of State, Kerry was asked by Senator Rand Paul why President Obama was justified in using U.S. force in Libya without Congressional authorization. Kerry replied, "The problem is, it just doesn't work in some instances when 10,000 people are about to be wiped out by a brutal dictator and need to make a quick judgment about engagement, you can't rely on a Congress that has proven itself unwilling to move after weeks and months."
What a fascinating formula for action John Kerry has promulgated! If we accept this as precedent, in the future the Chief Executive can give Congress a chance to act appropriately, then simply overrule that body once it has "proven itself unwilling" to do what he desires. And notice that Kerry makes clear that he is now comfortable with the idea of striking on behalf of "people about to be wiped out," thereby embracing the concept of preemptive action which so many liberals openly decried in the days leading to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now, in accordance with the Kerry Doctrine, the President can strike who we wants, where he wants and when he wants, without need of Congressional authorization, so long as he thinks something is about to happen to somebody.
By his words and deeds John Kerry has become a visible symbol of the most harmful ideas of the American left. On the domestic front, he has advocated a Presidential war power for any Whitehouse occupant who believes he is better informed than the Congress. I would assume that this would include every single man to have held—and who will ever hold—the office. Kerry's contradictory stance on our two Libyan interventions shows badly misplaced priorities. With his criticism of Reagan's retaliatory action and rubber stamp endorsement of Obama's multilateral adventure, Kerry shows he prioritizes support to projects of the U.N. and "international community" over action taken in direct response to attacks on U.S. personnel.
During intense debates on security matters, I am always amused to find liberals shocked that we dare label their deferential approach to international affairs as "anti-American."
Throughout his career, John Kerry has done more to cement that label in place than our side ever could.


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Ron Paul is the choice of the troops for president in 2012
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Marking President's day today, February 20th, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of active duty troops and veterans will descend on Washington DC and the White House to show support for Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign.
Organized by the group, Veterans for Ron Paul 2012, the march will see military personnel march from the Washington Monument to the White House in an effort to generate media coverage of Paul's ongoing campaign, and highlight the fact that Paul has received more donations from active duty military than all other GOP candidates combined, as well as Obama.
Veterans and active troops intend to coalesce at the Washington monument at noon, with scheduled speakers filling a two hour slot. The group will then march as close to the White House as they can get, before saluting a folded American flag for as many seconds as the number of solders who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan during the incumbent President's term.
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Veteran For Ron Paul founder members Nathan Cox and Adam Kokesh wrote on their Facebook page "It seems now, that we will at least have hundreds marching with us," the Facebook page reads. "Can you imagine if we had 1,000 in formation? How many will join us in demanding that Ron Paul be recognized as the choice of the troops?"
In addition to conducting an interview with the Washington Times, Kokesh took to YouTube yesterday to give a final update on today's activities. Watch the video below:
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Rams dominate early in 31-17 win over Ravens
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher ended up giving his starters plenty of playing time.
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh got what he wanted - a really long look at his backups.
Sam Bradford threw three touchdown passes in 11/2 quarters, giving the Rams an early lead in a 31-17 win on Thursday night.
Fisher, overseeing a franchise that has totaled 15 wins in the past five seasons, called for the second stringers after a 9-yard catch by Mike Hoomanawanui made it 21-0 with 6:59 to go in the half.
"I took them out because we got some production, made some plays," Fisher said. "It's a good way to finish up."
Bradford threw five touchdown passes in the preseason, all of them at home for the Rams (2-2).
"It's very satisfying," Bradford said. "The way we finished definitely shows that we're comfortable out there. I think we're moving into the regular season in a very nice way."
Harbaugh, gearing up for a Super Bowl run after losing in the AFC title game last season, started just a handful of his regulars as he does every year in the preseason finale.
The Ravens committed four turnovers and Tyrod Taylor started at quarterback for Joe Flacco, and they also rested running back Ray Rice and linebacker Ray Lewis.
Most of the regulars didn't even dress.
"Every team does what they have to do in this game," Harbaugh said. "We didn't play a lot of our guys at all. It was a great opportunity from that perspective, to see how some of our backups match up."
Curtis Painter, the third-string QB for Baltimore (2-2), threw three interceptions and added touchdown passes to Billy Bajema and Deonte Thompson.
Harbaugh said he hasn't decided whether to go with two or three quarterbacks, leaving Painter and Taylor, a sixth-round pick last year, on the roster bubble.
"All that's been done has been done to this point, so I'm not going to worry too much about it," said Painter, who started last year for Indianapolis after Peyton Manning was injured. "It's out of my hands, so I'll just keep rolling until they tell me not to."
Rookie Janoris Jenkins was a rare Rams starter who played into the third quarter, and made it 28-0 with a 76-yard interception return for a touchdown off a pass by Painter that deflected off Bobby Rainey's hands.
"Most definitely, I want to take it to the house," Jenkins said. "I always think that."
The Rams intercepted Painter on the previous play, too, but Craig Dahl fumbled it back.
Robert Quinn had a sack, forced fumble and fumble recovery while stripping Taylor to set up Danny Amendola's 7-yard score late in the first quarter. He also deflected a punt in the second quarter.
The Rams played well in both home games despite sparse attendance. The Edward Jones Dome, which holds 66,000, was probably about one-third full for the opening kickoff and all but empty at the end.
Fisher's plan to play his starters backfired once when first-round pick Michael Brockers injured his right ankle after getting tangled up with Jah Reid near the end of the first quarter and did not return.
Brockers was helped off the field by two trainers, but was able to put weight on the leg, then was carted off the field.
X-rays were negative and an MRI was scheduled for Friday for Brockers, who was in a walking boot but didn't think it was a serious injury.
Bradford was 11 for 16 for 175 yards and spread the ball to eight receivers, with Austin Pettis starting the scoring with a 14-yard catch capped by a dive inside the pylon.
Bradford recovered his own fumble off a center snap for a 5-yard loss the play before throwing the touchdown pass to Hoomanawanui.
Rookie kickers for both teams showed plenty of leg.
The Ravens' Justin Tucker, who beat out Billy Cundiff, made a 49-yard field goal in the second half after barely missing from 57 yards near the end of the half. That was the lone miss in eight preseason attempts, including a pair from 50 yards or longer for the undrafted Tucker.
The Rams' Greg Zuerlein hit his fourth field goal from 50 yards-plus in the preseason with a 59-yarder that scraped the crossbar early in the fourth quarter.
He was just short on a 62-yard attempt in the third quarter that was caught by the Ravens' Asa Jackson just under the crossbar.
Notes: Ravens backup OLB Courtney Upshaw (shoulder) will undergo an MRI Friday. "Yeah, we're concerned," Harbaugh said. OL Justin Boren (right foot sprain) also will have an MRI, and TEs Bruce Figgins (right knee sprain) and Matt Balasavage (high left ankle sprain) were injured. ... The Rams are 3-0 against the Ravens in the preseason.


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Two careers, twenty years in the Air Force as a navigator in cargo planes and twenty years at a Technology School as a teacher of computers, repair, programming and use. When I retired for the second time, I decided to make my third career World Traveler. I've been to a lot of places in the Air Force and more as a tourist, and I plan to continue for as long as I can. My next tours, Insha' Allah, will be Eastern Europe and Southern Africa, followed by the Carribean, Italy and Dalmatia, and Chile. I enjoy taking pictures and working with them on my Mac. Bookmaking is fun for me; my first was in 1958!


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I'm going to preface this post with this: It worries me that in today's society we are so quick to pass judgment and that we collectively group our problems and cast them off on other people. I've been very guilty of this in and it's extremely unhealthy and unfair not only to yourself, but to other people. I was once married and was not a good husband in that marriage, but God changed who I was and I am no longer that person. This isn't to say that people should go running back to unhealthy relationships, that's not at all what I mean. In fact, I think it's a good thing that God gets us out of some relationships especially before marriage. I simply mean to say God can change anyone if they allow Him. My only hope is for everyone to recognize that through Christ we can all have victory over who we once were and over any situation.
I recently came across an inspirational quote online that stirred something within me. The quote comes from Heather Lindsey. I'll admit that I am unfamiliar with who she is or her ministry, but that didn't mean that I was passing any manner of judgment on her. I simply disagreed with the ambiguity the message behind the quote could derive in some people. The quote is as follows:
At first glance you're probably wondering what I could find wrong with what she is saying. When I first read it, it made me feel very unsettled on the inside, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Was I taking it too personally having gone through a marriage and a handful of relationships that didn't work out, or was there something deeper poking at my heart? I took some time this evening to look at it further and tried to biblically find the answers to the questions it posed. I decided to write Mrs. Lindsey to express these concerns and ultimately ask her what her opinion of my questions were. Here is the email I sent to her:
Dear Mrs. Lindsey,
I recently came across an inspirational graphic online attributed to you as a quote about relationships that has left me a bit shaken. The quote I am referring to is this: "If your ex was so amazing, you would still be together. Isn't crazy how the illusion of a person is amplified when you leave a unhealthy relationship? Then you run back to them out of loneliness & find out.. they are EXACTLY the same. Fill those voids with Jesus, not exes."
There is so much about this quote that I both agree and disagree with. My first agreement, of course, is that Jesus is the only one fully capable of filling any void left no matter the circumstance. I also agree that far too often people do run back to unhealthy relationships out of desperation over feelings of loneliness or abandonment. I cannot disagree with any of that. Where my concern comes from is the connotation which this quote may be given due to certain ambiguities it has about the definition of an unhealthy relationship. Upon my first reading of the quote, I found it to be very unilaterally biased. Given that not every relationship that comes to an end shares the same cause-and-effect, I feel the quote could provoke a misguided sense of unity for one half and could project feelings of judgment on the other half. The root of what I am getting at is that I do not see any grace within the message you are sending.
In my experience I have known many couples, even myself, that have been in relationships that were considered to be unhealthy for many reasons. In today's society, when someone hears the phrase 'unhealthy relationship', more often than not it will elicit feelings of abuse or neglect. That's not to say this is the case every time, but we live in a very sinful world and these a very prominent problems that Satan uses to attack relationships, among many others. I realize I may be in the minority by disagreeing with your message, but coming from my own personal experience of having been in relationships that ultimately God did not want for either of us, I felt a sense of judgment wash over me when I read your quote. I asked myself why. Why would I feel judgment? This is the answer I came up with that I wanted to share with you.
As I mentioned before, I strongly feel that the quote lacks a message of grace. When you say: 'If your ex was so amazing, you would still be together.' To me, this is pronouncing a sense of false ego that says 'I'm better than they are'. Romans 3:23 teaches us "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". None of us are 'amazing' people. Asking 'If your ex was so amazing' immediately indicates that we are attributing the 'amazing' category for ourselves and should therefore be looked at as such. Two God-fearing, healthy people can both be in an unhealthy relationship, both equally contributing to a problem that is not within the will of God. The only amazing person that has ever walked the earth was Jesus. This isn't to say that we're worthless, on the contrary, Romans 3:22 says "We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done.
This is also in tune with the part of the quote that reads: 'they are EXACTLY the same' when you run back to them. Saying this prevents us from doing two things: 1. forgiving them, and 2. acknowledging that Christ has victory over the situation. When a breakup occurs, if it's done properly, both sides should take that time alone with God and with themselves to reflect upon who they are as individuals and allow God to show them what it was that wasn't right and why it was not in God's will for them to be together. We should be thankful that God has gotten us out of an unhealthy relationship, regardless of the circumstance, but we should also spend that time in prayer and ask for forgiveness and forgiving the other person and not assuming they are the same, in effect, creating judgement in our own hearts. It's true, that some situations call for an immediate release from relationships because of potential dangers or exhaustive efforts to keep it going which hinders the other person, but that is why I feel it is so vital to reevaluate your quote so that it broadens the message that not every relationship is equal. Surely if I am one person that felt judgement from what I read, there has to be many more that might feel the same way and could potentially have wounds that were once healed be reopened, making them believe they are less than what they truly are in God's sight.
Please know that I am not passing judgement upon you or your ministry. I am simply a fellow believer in Jesus that wanted to share with you my feelings on something I read that caused a stir within my spirit. I would love to hear back from you and to know what your thoughts are.
Have a very blessed day.
Travis Lickey
Like I said in my email to her, perhaps I am very much in a minority with my reasoning behind my concerns, but that's why I felt it was important to reach out and voice them. We're all students in God's world and we're each taught lessons very differently. We need to be bold enough to ask questions and humble enough to accept the answers. I'm ready to accept that my concerns might not be valid, or that perhaps I should look at them from a different view. Either way, I'm hoping for an email back and I will update this as soon as I receive one back.


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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Lily Allen Rocks my Socks
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- Saranga said...
Oh I adore that song.
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I only just started listening to Lily Allen a few weeks ago. I can't believe i've ignored her for so long.
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This is one of my favorite Lily Allen songs. Whenever I introduce people to her music, I start with this song, and it has always gotten people hooked.
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With a $100 million estimated cost - first advocated for by the councilwoman and Los Sures, El Puente and the St. Nicks Alliance six years ago – the project would extend the neighborhood's existing park space across the BQE between Marcy Avenue and Rodney Street, from South 3rd to South 5th streets.
Recently, stakeholders met with the mayor's office, Department of Transportation (DOT) and dozens of local and federal elected officials to discuss an application for a $20 million USDOT Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant in hopes of getting the project off the ground.
"We're asking them to partner with us, to go after the TIGER funding to do the initial schematic design and the environmental permitting that would be involved in the process," explained Susannah Drake, a principal with dlandstudio. "If we do that process, then it puts us in a better position for grant funding, and puts us in better position for other funding as well."
Following the meeting, Drake said both city and federal officials seemed receptive of the program, a project she says could create more than 200 construction jobs and result in nearly $245 million in economic activity.
"What they wanted was outdoor recreation space, and there really wasn't that kind of place for teenagers to run around," Drake said of the call by the local advocacy groups. "The BQE is just this line of smog running through Queens and Brooklyn and if you live there, and you're going to school there, you're going to be affected."
With a projected 30 percent increase in park space and 250 percent increase in tree coverage, Drake explained that the project would not only create an annual $50,000 in overall financial benefits, but it could potentially reduce asthma rates by nearly 25 percent and save $1 million in asthma-related hospital visits.
One of the major undertakings of the capping project includes the reparation of a decades-old bridges, a project that Reyna, now Brooklyn's deputy borough president, said is integral in creating a safer and healthier future for the region.
"This would have federal dollars to invest on the streets and bring them up to code," Reyna said.
She added that while the project creates an affordable plan to repair the bridges along the BQE, some of which she said were built in the 1950s, it would also allow an opportunity to create an innovative way to reduce greenhouse gases and add some much-needed park space.
"If we could cap them, we would have a much healthier environment," Reyna said. "There would be better ventilation using updated technology to recycle carbon emissions and disperse from a dense residential area and from schools."
In addition to both the economic and environmental benefits of the project, Reyna believes the project would also unite notoriously dangerous gang-ridden sections of the borough and address the region's growing poverty rate, which is now at roughly 30 percent according to the dlandstudio study.
"This is a tool that would unite our community that is right now divided by a highway," Reyna said.
According to the study, which cites an October 2010 New York Magazine article, the BQE in South Williamsburg divides notorious Brooklyn gangs like the Crips and the Trinitarios.
Borough President Eric Adams, also a key part of the grant proposal meeting with the de Blasio Administration last week, said he too is hopeful that the plan would one day become reality.
"Reyna has a dynamic vision for transforming and uniting the Southside of Williamsburg," Adams said. "I am excited to join her in this effort to see how we can make this community a healthier and safer place."


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Greg Hildebrandt is really getting into creating final pieces on BLACK BOARD these days. Of course this is not surprising as he loves GOTH-PULP and PINUP. This is Greg's new PINUP piece. It is on black board. Greg had a lot of fun doing this art. This would make a great addition to any Hildebrandt collection! Any of these would make a great gift for yourself or someone that you love. Created by Greg Hildebrandt in April 2008 SIGNED by GREG HILDEBRANDT


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Friday, January 13, 2012
This week sees the release of the new Transformers Ongoing, MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE #1. Wroted by James Roberts and colourded by Josh Burcham, it's a comic I'm immensely proud of, and something that i think would catch they eye of the casual TF-browser, as well as comic fans in general. That's always how I approach anything I work on: make it a good comic first and foremost, and it's something to strive for when tackling Transformers. if you have any resistance to robo-comics or you've been burned before, I beg of you, for your own good, check out this (and its sister title, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, out in two weeks) little peach and then make up your mind. Previews are on the web, but below is the un-coloured line-art for the first few pages. Love to hear what you think.
(Incidentally, Josh Burcham put in one of my favourite ever jobs from him on this issue. He's my go-to guy when I wanna look slick, and man, he nails it in this issue. Give it a Whirl...)
Sadly, this is my last interior work on TFs for the foreseeable, but I'm sure our paths will cross again. I love telling stories in that universe as it's easily as rich as any other franchise-fiction doing the rounds, and IDW have played a massive part in making it so. MTMTE & RID is good comics, folks. Don't be robotist: buy 'em.
I'd say you'd love to meet me, wouldn't you? I'd say you'd like nothing more than to scrutinise me from every conceivable angle and blow on my ear-hairs. Well tomorrow, 14th January 2012, you can flippin' well do that. I'm doing an in-store signing session from 2pm onwards in Dublin City Comics. All the factlets are here: http://www.facebook.com/DublinCityComics and I'd love to see you and your faces. I'll be flogging Wreckers prints too, so bring moolah! What larks, Pip.
If you're the sort of person who likes to avoid me, then go there anyhow, only not when I'm there. Ridiculous range of collectible toys and amazing service with your American comics. I recommend 'em, and that should be enough for you.
I think this ol' blog will get more of an airing in the next few weeks, mainly as I drum up interest in upcoming appearances; I'm at the Heroes and Legends Con in Belfast in February, so please pop along and say hi to me there. Sketch sessions and prints ahoy.
Oh, and also, there's a recent Q&A with me on the IDW Message boards. Head here for a mirthsome read. Any other Qs you'd like me to A, send 'em to this blog! It might keep me regular!
I tolerate most of you.
10 comments:
- David said...
How do I buy some of those pages?
- January 15, 2012 at 4:47 AM
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- January 22, 2012 at 12:39 AM
- redconvoy said...
Hi Nick! I am glad to see that you are drawing professionally. You do a great job :D Do you still do acting in the theatre?
Camille M.
- January 22, 2012 at 12:40 AM
- Nick said...
David! I'm afraid these pages were all done digitally - sorry sir, but thanks hugely for the interest. Might be making some pages from Death of Optimus Prime available later in the year though, so keep 'em peeled. I'll be using this husk of a blog to make it known if I am. Ta!
Camille M! (I think I know you you are...90s Fanzines and penpallery, I'm guessing...?!)No time to trad the boards these days, I'm afraid. Had to give it up when I turned pro at the ol' scrawling, and moved out of the small pond I was an acting fish in. Nowhere else would indulge me, I fear! Love to get back to it some day though. I enjoy being a ham almost as much as I enjoy eating the stuff. Good to hear from you though! Hope you're well.
More soon? Who knows...
- February 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM
- Botch the Crab said...
I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so I thought I'd ask: why no more Transformers for the foreseeable future?
- February 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM
- Nick said...
Ah, Botch, you amazing collection of resources, you. The obvious question that has yet been unasked. And now here you are...
Why? I just felt it was time. I had thought I'd have had a chance to write more TFs as well as dabbling in other properties as an artist in the time since turning pro. It seemed to me - and intimated as such by others - that being seen as a TF artist was hindering a lot of my opportunities to expand in other ways, so I deliberately took a step back, rather than grow to resent what everyone will agree is a kick-arse gig.
That's the thing with foreseeable futures...they come and go. I know what the end of the year holds for me, for example, and it features large shape-changing robots. It was never an 'I quit'. Merely 'I'm stepping out for some air'. In the meantime, I'm getting to do some concept art for a large toy company and am having a range of collectible Doctor Who vinyl figures released based on my style/designs. I should also be able to get a few months to start building up some of my own ideas and see if any of them are as ball-blazing as my cheese-infused dreams make them seem.
But good question, Botch! Keep up the great work!
- February 17, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- Botch the Crab said...
Well, best of luck with branching out and expanding your professional résumé!
That said, your various contributions to TF comics over the last several years have easily been among my most favorite TF works ever, both art *and* writing. I hope you'll keep us abreast of your non-TF work, but I also hope we haven't seen the very last of Nick Roche in the TF universe. ;)
- February 17, 2012 at 11:19 PM
- Nick said...
Wow, high praise indeed, man. I'm really touched. Thank you.
Once I can talk about stuff, I'll trumpet it for all to hear.
- February 18, 2012 at 12:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
A tf related question: your design of Whirl in Death of Op Prime and the first issue of MTMTE shares some stylistic cues from a recent transformers toy, Tomahawk.
Was this intentional on your part or was it due to input from Hasbro?
- February 24, 2012 at 8:16 PM
- Nick said...
mHey RSmith: No input from Hasbro at all on that one, and nor was it intentional on my behalf. Just one of those things, I guess.
- February 29, 2012 at 3:28 AM


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Carl Powell needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Design of a simple, yet attractive logo for http://www.mynetsalez.com.
We need a logo designed that will help us kick start our website design around it. The logo will be for http://www.mynetsalez.com. Use of MNS may also acceptable, but the logo needs the web address in it as well for added recognition and to highlight the "z" in the name.
- Clean, Attractive, Professional Logo
- Include mynetsalez.com in it
- possibly "ebay-ish" but not necessarily since we may connect to other services in the future as well.
- Highlight the "z" somehow to help users remember it
- Winner will supply the art in a vector format for Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator as well as a high quality JPG.
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Dough Bees necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Dough Bees
We are a start up company looking for a logo for a Laundromat. We will be servicing our local community in the East Village, Manhattan and are looking to differentiate ourselves from the Laundromats in the area. We are looking for the logo to incorporate the name 'Dough Bees' as well as a visual of a bee associated with laundry.
People who live in East Village New York who are too busy to do their own laundry or who do not have washing machines in their buildings.
The Overall feel:
Think country bakery or coffee shop with a warm inviting feeling; large plank wooden floors; slate counter tops. We are looking to provide a comforting feeling that they can trust their laundry to be taken care of in a timely and environmentally friendly manner.
The color direction:
Please use this as a direction, as we are open to suggestions. Also feel free to use either color as the dominant color, or to take out a color.
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The bee: The bee should be friendly, approachable, happy, doing something with laundry. An example is holding a hamper with folded laundry in it.
Framing of the logo: we would prefer a soft framing of the logo, either round or oval framing, but are also open to suggestions.
- We like the feel of this bakery's design: http://www.financierpastries.com/index.cfm
What we like about it is that it has a clean feel to it while providing a sense of warmth and welcoming. If you are in New York, we particularly like the feel of the 1st avenue and 54th street store.
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1. What is adherence?
Although most research has focused on adherence to medication, adherence also encompasses numerous health-related behaviours that extend beyond taking prescribed pharmaceuticals. The participants at the WHO Adherence meeting in June 2001 (1) concluded that defining adherence as "the extent to which the patient follows medical instructions" was a helpful starting point. However, the term "medical" was felt to be insufficient in describing the range of interventions used to treat chronic diseases. Furthermore, the term "instructions" implies that the patient is a passive, acquiescent recipient of expert advice as opposed to an active collaborator in the treatment process.
In particular, it was recognized during the meeting that adherence to any regimen reflects behaviour of one type or another. Seeking medical attention, filling prescriptions, taking medication appropriately, obtaining immunizations, attending follow-up appointments, and executing behavioural modifications that address personal hygiene, self-management of asthma or diabetes, smoking, contraception, risky sexual behaviours, unhealthy diet and insufficient levels of physical activity are all examples of therapeutic behaviours.
The participants at the meeting also noted that the relationship between the patient and the health care provider (be it physician, nurse or other health practitioner) must be a partnership that draws on the abilities of each. The literature has identified the quality of the treatment relationship as being an important determinant of adherence. Effective treatment relationships are characterized by an atmosphere in which alternative therapeutic means are explored, the regimen is negotiated, adherence is discussed, and follow-up is planned.
The adherence project has adopted the following definition of adherence to long-term therapy, a merged version of the definitions of Haynes (2) and Rand (3):
the extent to which a person's behaviour - taking medication, following a diet, and/or executing lifestyle changes, corresponds with agreed recommendations from a health care provider.
Strong emphasis was placed on the need to differentiate adherence from compliance. The main difference is that adherence requires the patient's agreement to the recommendations. We believe that patients should be active partners with health professionals in their own care and that good communication between patient and health professional is a must for an effective clinical practice.
In most of the studies reviewed here, it was not clear whether or not the "patient's previous agreement to recommendations" was taken into consideration. Therefore, the terms used by the original authors for describing compliance or adherence behaviours have been reported here.
A clear distinction between the concepts of acute as opposed to chronic, and communicable (infectious) as opposed to noncommunicable, diseases must also be established in order to understand the type of care needed. Chronic conditions, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis, may be infectious in origin and will need the same kind of care as many other chronic noncommunicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and depression.
The adherence project has adopted the following definition of chronic diseases:
"Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation or care" (4).


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A Starbase, Player Owned Starbase, or most commonly POS, is a collection of structures that player Corporations may Anchor in the orbit of Moons. Starbases are not to be confused with the large 'dock-capable' Stations that orbit planets. A player cannot dock with a starbase, only make use of the external modules.
More confusion stems from the use of the acronym 'POS', which is sometimes elucidated as 'Player Owned Station', or 'Player Owned Structure'. No component of the starbase is a station. Player Owned Structure technically refers to the individual structures that make up a starbase. Worse still, players often refer to the central structure, the Control Tower as the POS on its own.
Officially, the term 'Player Owned Starbase' refers to the entire group of structures that make up a starbase.
A starbase fulfills many of the functions of stations, but externally. It is possible to store and refit ships, refine ore, or manufacture modules, ships and other items. A starbase plays an important role in the in-game economy, as they are the sole source of materials for Tech 2 ship manufacture. They are also required to build Motherships and Titans, and to process Combat Booster materials.
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- To claim space for a Corporation or Alliance
- To mine resources from Moons
- To hold goods and materials in a time of war or for transportation
- To give players a safe place to go when under fire
- To provide an exclusive manufacturing or research center
Starbases are primarily used in security 0.3 and below systems for moon mining and reactions, for Sovereignty, for guarded Safespots, and for ore refining. A starbase may also be run in security 0.4 to 0.7 systems with the moon mining and material reaction functionality disabled. Their effective use is limited to guarded Safespots or manufacturing/R&D. starbase ship manufacturing capabilities are also limited, in 0.5 or higher systems, to Large Assembly Arrays. This disallows the starbase from making anything larger than a Battleship in 0.5 or higher security.
As items cannot be Anchored in space marked 0.8 or higher security, starbases can only be placed in 0.7 or less.
Skills Needed
You need the Anchoring skill to be able to anchor different starbase structures, you will also need the starbase role from your corporation to manage the control tower and operate structures like Refining Arrays and Ship Maintenance Array.
Additional Requirements
In addition to the anchoring skill a corporation wishing to place a starbase in a high security system will also need faction standing with the faction owning sovereignty (ex. Gallente Federation in Essence systems). Corporation standing can be figured using all non-zero active member standings. Characters on inactive accounts don't count towards the total. In case you just created your corporation, it will take a few days to get correct faction standing for your corporation. Every DT the faction standing raises to the correct standing value. Be patient.
For empire space your corporation needs to have the following standing to be able to deploy a starbase in a certain solarsystem:
0.4 needs 4.0 faction standing
0.5 needs 5.0 faction standing
0.6 needs 6.0 faction standing
0.7 needs 7.0 faction standing
BUG (04-08-08): When looking at the faction standing for your corporation it will not show the correct value. Ask somebody else, that is not in your corporation, to check for the real faction standing OR (10-15-08) right click on your corporations standings and select 'Show Compositions'. This bug is due to the client caching the value of the standing for too long.
Common methods of quickly raising factional standing for this purpose are doing COSMOS missions and turning in certain tags to datacenter agents.
There are many structures available to build and customize a starbase. Each structure has a specific purpose and plays an important part of your base's operation and enhances its capabilities. Structures must be Anchored at you starbase and brought online via your Control Tower before they are operational. These structures must be bought on the market and transported into the orbit of a moon. As they are very large, they are often moved using an industrial hauler or (in lower security space) capital ship.
Control Tower
- Main article: Control Tower
The Control Tower (or CT for short) is the central structure of any starbase -- no other starbase structures can operate unless the Control Tower is online. The control tower is used to Anchor structures around it and manage their operation. The control tower also governs the rules of how your starbase defends itself against other corporations and determines who is allowed within its shields.
Control towers provide energy (Power Grid) and control (CPU), which is used by the other structures anchored by the tower.
Anchoring your Control Tower
- Jettison your tower (for your corp)
- Right-click on the tower
- Click 'Anchor Structure'
- position the tower by holding and dragging the arrows
- Right-click on an arrow once you're happy with the position
- Click 'Anchor Here'
Anchoring takes time, bear that in mind if in a potentially hostile system.
Once Anchored, a tower should be set with an access password. That starbase password will also need to entered on your ship. The password option is mainly used to allow non-corp/alliance members to pass through the shield.
Note: There are two checkbox options, "Allow corp members" and "Allow alliance members". This will allow both to pass freely through the shield without the need for a password.
Setting a Password on Control Towers and Ships
- Right-click on the Tower
- Click 'Set Password'
- Right-click on your ship
- Click 'Enter starbase Password'
After you have a password set, you should add fuel to your tower (next section). You can begin the onlining process once you have fuel.
Onlining the tower:
- Right-click on the tower
- Click 'Put Online'
- Wait patiently for 30 minutes
Fuel Requirement
- Main article: Fueling a Control Tower
A Control Tower runs on fuel. The fuels needed to keep a Control Tower online are trade goods and ice products. Your Control Tower has limited space for you to place these fuels in. The fuel units are consumed every hour for a Large tower, every 2 hours for a Medium tower, and every 4 hours for a Small tower.
Adding fuel to your control tower
- Right-click on the tower
- Click 'Access Resources'
- Drag and drop the Isotopes, Heavy Water, Liquid Ozone, and Strontium Clathrate you purchased along with the other necessary Robotics, Enriched Uranium, Mechanical Parts, Coolant and Oxygen.
starbases do not refuel themselves: they only take what's available inside the resource storage part of the CT. If a specific fuel like Liquid Ozone has run out, then your structures will start to go offline. Don't just shove tons of fuel in there, balance it out so everything has roughly the same amount of days supply.
If you run out of Isotopes, your whole Control Tower will go offline, shields will drop and you will be a sitting duck. This is precisely the reason why fuel is such a critical issue and should be the most important thing to take into consideration when planning your base. Ask yourself if your corp can mine/buy the required fuel regularly, how many members can have mining barges? Do you have easy access to ice belts?
Always mine in advance, have 1 months supply stored in your Corporate Hangar Array at the starbase. If you mine on the spur of the moment whenever you need fuel you will fall behind and risk leaving your base open to attack.
Refining Arrays
Refining Arrays (better known as Mobile Refineries) allow you to reprocess ore at a starbase. You must load the Refinery with the ore (only one ore type is allowed in the refinery at a time). Once loaded, right-click the Refinery and start the process. Unlike stations, the process is not immediate. You have to wait between 1 and 3 hours before the contents of the Refinery are changed into minerals.
There are three types of Mobile Refinery:
- Refining Array: 35% yield, one hour cycle time.
- Medium Intensive Refining Array: 75% yield, one and a half hour cycle time.
- Intensive Refining Array: 75% yield, three hour cycle time.
Corporation Hangar Array
The Corporation Hangar Array allows you to store anything you want. When opened, the layout and naming of the hangars is exactly the same as your corporation office or HQ hangars. Although limited in space, there is more than enough to store ore, modules and loot.
Ship Maintenance Array
The Ship Maintenance Array structure allows you to store assembled ships. When you store your ship inside the Array, you will be ejected outside in your pod. You are relatively safe because you are still within the shield of your starbase, and cannot be targeted while it is up. Capital Ships must be stored in a Capital Ship Maintenance Array (all Capitals, even Titans, may be stored in one).
The Array also allows you to change your modules in space. To do this, move within 3000m of the Array (ensure no other ships are near). Have the modules you wish to change already in your cargo hold. Simply drag the module out from your low/mid/hi slot panels into your cargo bay and drag the modules you do want from your cargo hold into the slots. You may not see the empty low/mid/high showing by default; to change this, click the white arrow at the bottom of your screen pointing to the right. In the pop-up menu select the, "show empty modules slots", entry. Now you should be able to drop them in the shown empty slots.
Alternatively, you can open the fitting window (default hotkey command is Ctrl + Shift + F), and fit as if you were inside an station with a fitting service.
This function used to cost Capacitor, but no longer does.
Moon Harvesting Arrays
Moon Harvesting Arrays are structures for Moon Mining. When set up correctly, they will extract raw materials from the moon you starbase is Anchored at. Depending on your configuration, the Harvester Array will pass the materials onto a Reactor Array for reaction or will store them in a Silo.
Silos are used to store Raw Materials, Processed Materials, Advanced Materials or Minerals. A Silo can only hold one type of material at a time and must be put offline to change type or to empty it.
Coupling Array
Coupling Arrays act as an intermediary holding pipe between two structures. Take for instance the Moon Harvesting Array and Silo. Since you must offline your Silo before emptying it, you may lose a cycle of raw materials. By placing a Coupling Array between the Harvester and Silo, you can safely offline the Silo while you empty it and any Raw Materials that arrive will temporarily be stored in the Coupler Array.
The Coupling Array is also useful for when the Harvesters and a Reactor are running/processing at different speeds. For instance, two Harvesters may produce 100 units each an hour. The Reactor may only be able to process the said units every 2 hours. This leaves you with a surplus of 100 units that will be lost in the process. A Coupling Array acts as a buffer to temporarily hold the surplus materials until the Reactor is free.
Shield Hardening Array
Similar to shield hardener modules, Shield Hardening Arrays increase your Control Tower's shield resistance to certain damage types. There are 4 types of Shield Hardening Arrays covering each type, Kinetic, Explosive, EM and Thermal.
Electronic Warfare Structures
You can have Warp Scrambler, Warp Disruptor, Sensor Dampening, Stasis Webifing and ECM batteries Anchored at your starbase. They work automatically in conjunction with your Control Tower's security settings.
The difference between a dangerous starbase and a lethal one is all in its ability to spank anyone that comes close. starbase weaponry is very, very mean and go right up to the extra-large size. Projectile Turret Batteries, for instance, have a 85x damage modifier and can hit up to 400km on a Minmatar Tower.
Ammunition sizes of starbase turrets are a little different from those on normal ship weapons:
- Small starbase turrets take Medium ammunition.
- Medium starbase turrets take Large ammunition.
- Large starbase turrets take Extra-Large ammo (requires you to buy a blueprint).
Turret batteries have limited cargo space for you to put ammo into. You may mix ammo type but not ammo size. Lasers are a little different, the focusing crystals degrade with use and must eventually be replaced.
Mobile Laboratories
There are three types of Mobile Labs available in the game; Mobile Laboratory, Advanced Mobile Laboratory, and Drug Lab. Both Mobile lab types allow corporations to research blueprints while the drug lab allows a corporation to produce boosters.
- Mobile Laboratory: 3 ME, 3 PE, 1 Copy, 5 Invention slots
- Advanced Mobile Laboratory: 3 Copy, 2 ME, 2 Invention slots
- Drug Lab: 1 booster manufacturing slot
It is starbasesible to have your BPO/BPC's in a station with a office and use those in your starbase labs. If you want to install jobs from a different place then at your starbase you will need the skill Scientific Networking. In case you don't have it, you need to go to the starbase and select the office where your BPO/BPC's are. Those need to be in the same system.
- Main article: Assembly Array
There are a number of different assembly arrays available, each of which permits the construction of some variety of item. (A Drug Lab could be considered a type of assembly array.)
There are arrays of different sizes for each type of ship: small (frigate equivalents), medium (cruiser and battlecruiser equivalents), and large (battleship, carrier, and dreadnought equivalents), as well as a separate one for Capital Ships (titans, Rorqual, etc). Tech II ships require advanced versions of these arrays.
Large ship arrays cannot be anchored at stations in high security space (0.5+), and capital ship arrays can only be anchored in systems where the station has sovereignty.
Other assembly arrays exist for modules, for drones, and for ammunition.
Moon Mining
- Main article: Moon Mining
A moon contains a certain configuration of minerals, and this does not change. They appear to be distributed randomly within regions, with high variance in mineral type from one region to another. They are broken down into Gasses and Metals, and in the database they have numerical rarity values. The 'abundance' of a mineral was planned to be used to harvest more than 100 units of ore per cycle, but that feature is not in-game yet and does not appear to be planned anymore, so effectively abundance (Promethium 2, for example) doesn't matter.
Rarity 2 - Nonmetals
- Atmospheric Gasses
- Silicates
- Evaporite Destarbaseits
- Hydrocarbons
Rarity 8 - Racial Carbide-making metals
- Tungsten
- Titanium
- Cobalt
- Scandium
Rarity 16
- Platinum
- Vanadium
- Chromium
- Cadmium
Rarity 32
- Hafnium
- Caesium
- Technetium
- Mercury
Rarity 64
- Dysprosium
- Promethium
- Thulium
- Neodymium
The progression from moon mineral to tech 2 ship looks something like this:
- Ice is mined, trade goods are either bought or received as mission rewards
- Refined ice products and trade goods fuel a starbase
- A starbase mines raw materials at a Harvesting Array
- A starbase does a simple Reaction at a Medium Reactor Array or Reactor Array and turns two raw materials a processed material
- A starbase does an advanced reaction at a Reactor Array and turns two to four processed materials into an advanced material
- A player builds a construction component out of 2-3 advanced materials at a factory
- A player builds a tech 2 item at a factory out of minerals and a trivial number of construction components, or a tech 2 ship out of minerals, a tech 1 ship, and many construction components.
The full component tree is available here
Every hour, the starbase cycles. Fuel is consumed based on the fuel tab of the starbase info. Heavy water is consumed based on the fraction of total CPU used by modules onlined at the tower, Liquid Ozone is consumed based on the amount of Power Grid used. Strontium is only consumed if the starbase is in reinforced mode, in a situation where it is near death. When the tower cycles, every harvester, silo, or coupler moves 100 units down the line to whatever it's linked to. Every reactor consumes 100 units of reactants, and outputs into whatever it's linked to.
Sovereignty grants a -25% bonus to fuel consumption, rounded up to the next highest unit.
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