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What generates the In/Out CellLabels and how do I change them?
When Mathematica evaluates a cell, it gives the Input cell and Output
cell the CellLabels In[$Line]:= and Out[$Line]= where $Line is a
counter that gets incremented on each evaluated input.
If you input something like TraditionalForm[expr] or TeXForm[expr] (or
any other *Form from $OutputForms) then the name of the form also gets
added to the Output cell's label. eg Out[1]//TraditionalForm=.
I can't find any way of customising these labels.
* They can be disabled in the Preferences dialog.
* They don't seem to be in the StyleSheet options for Input and
Output cells - although the options pertaining to the CellLabel
behaviour are there.
* Nor in the Notebook options - although Notebook Options >
Evaluation Options > EvaluationCompletionAction can modify the
* Nor any of the init.m type configuration files.
So, does anyone know where these CellLabels are generated?
(Note: This question was also asked at http://stackoverflow.com/q/3938827/421225
I have a feeling that this has been discussed here before - but I
could not find the thread)


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'"Whether we can pull it together this year or not, when you look around, the core of the guys getting experience here are 22, 23 years old," Miller said. "It's pretty amazing when you think about it. We've got a lot of potential here."'
Keeping hope alive
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by S.J., Aug 7, 2010.
Well you know, to some people around here, that's retirement age.
I'd take it. Too bad my employer thinks otherwise...
But can you explain the contents? Some big press about water. Go here: PISTONS: True Blue Pistons Arnie knows his anatomy and physiology. He has been exposed to the psychology of expectations on a big business level. A level that is ruthless about quick adaptation. The easy part is technique. The latter is a refinement of anatomical research. The information is out there...but, whether the method of communication as association? Perception says pick a subject taken for granted...the live blood of soup, called liquid. The key here to take mundane and expose associative life lines out of smallness. This smallness of little things all have their tension. They also have their tension upon tensions. This can be a big discovery. To look closely at complex behaviors like smoking or suicide or crime is to appreciate how suggestible we are in the face of what we see and hear, and how acutely sensitive we are to even the smallest details of everyday life. That's why social change is so volatile and so often inexplicable. Malcolm Gladwell
Today's Bleacherreport On T-Mac/Piston collision Tracy McGrady: Top 10 Reasons Signing With the Pistons Is a Bad Idea | Bleacher Report This is just reason # 5
That's unfair. Not that I like the CV signing, but we weren't going to get any of the big names this year anyways. If Joe did nothing last year, after two years of inactivity our roster would've been: Stuckey-Rip-Tay-Amir-Wallace Bynum-Afflalo-JJ/Daye-JMAX-Monroe Wilcox/White plus some other crap player we'd have had to overpay this summer. That team would've been a decent defensive team, but it would also struggle mightily to put up points on the board. All the other team has to do is defend one player; Rip or Stuckey. Neither task is that hard. 27 wins would've been an overachievement for that team. I truly believe Gordon signing will payoff. CV, meeh. T-Mac. Low-risk. Better days are ahead overall.
What an idiotic article. It reminded me why I never read Bleacherreport. Here are a few other gems of insight: So Dumars is a horrible GM that bought himself time by reaching the highest achievement you can possibly get in his position? That's like saying Bill Gates is a horrible businessman who bought himself some time by starting Microsoft. This pretty much sums up one of his reasons why this was a bad idea. Real insightful, buddy. You sure you're not just grasping at straws to fill out a "Top Ten list"? Wow. Shoot me in the head.
Based on what I've read, CV should get another chance here. He's a major talent. The question is how much does he want it. Last season wasn't totally fair, since he was crippled virtually all of it. But he wasn't in the kind of BB condition he supposedly is after a year working with Kandor - and supposedly his work ethic and progress are substantial. He might be a ton better than we're thinking.
Are you saying it was Joe's plan to trade for cap space so he could sign non-big time players? If your not going to get big time players, maybe trading for cap space isn't the move to make? I would rather have your proposed roster + the cap space instead of what they have now.
Can't assume that the '10 draft woulda played out as it stands today. We might have picked a little higher in the '10 draft and had cap space + a "franchise" rookie to build around. ...of course, we also could have won 32 games instead of 27 and picked a little lower. A lot of people like to label the CV & BG signings as Joe's biggest blunder of his "rebuilding effort". I kinda feel like RE-signing Rip to that contract after sending Chauncey home was his biggest ef-up.
The Nets. What did they get for playing their cards "right."
or Knicks
Couldn't agree more. That was the second biggest mistake of Joe's run (drafting he who shall not be named being the first).
Cateen Mleaves?
Tracy McGrady on Going to Detroit: 'My Game Will Do the Talking' -- NBA FanHouse
and he signed here for $1.35 mill??....talking about a real demotion
Yea only one team really made out. One could say the Bulls also did but Boozer would probably have signed with anyone willing to give him a huge contract.
His injuries did the talking.
Re: WHAT??? MCGRADY TO DETROIT? Ha ha nice!
Oh...I don't know. The scale might be proportional. Look and more importantly, feel what is around you.
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Fond Memories Of Bognor
My Parents George and Phyllis Stroud ran the Hotham Club in Waterloo Place, noe the RAFA Bognor HQ. On leaving National Service I woked as a welder at Lec Refrigeration and then as a Theatre Porter at the War Memorial Hospital. Had a flat above the Hydrotherapy Pool and was in charge of the Mortuary as well. So ...Read full memory
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I was looking after two elderly residents and well known personage locally when alive, Mr Bert Munday and a "young" lady Mrs Hargreaves chatting away about their holidays when they used to catch shrimp and cockles off the Felpham beach. How it was all spoilt when the preaprations for ...Read full memory
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My parents George and Phyllis Stroud ran the Hotham Club in Waterloo Square - now the HQ of the RAFA Bognor branch. After National Service I worked first for Lec Refrigeration as a welder and then as a porter at the War Memorial Hospital. I had a flat over the hydrotherapy pool and was also in charge of the mortuary. When ...Read full memory


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I-Ride Trolley
Choose I-Ride Trolleys to get from here to there and in between. Whether you're cruising down International Drive to catch a show or you're moving along Universal Boulevard, to grab a bite to eat.
Right there is a restaurant. Next door is a can't-be-missed amusement park. Or, you could ride the rollercoaster just once and then move along to this seafood house (if that's what tickles your taste buds.)
Explore at your own pace—the more than 100 stops along International Drive and Universal Boulevard. Skip the car rental and quit the hassles of parking. The I-Ride Trolley is a great way to navigate the bustling Orlando and its busy roads. All the top attractions and shops appear conveniently at your fingertips. The unlimited pass allows you to make unlimited transfers between both the red line and green line trolley paths.
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Travels along a majority of International Drive with 82 convenient Stops. Trollies arrive at each stop approximately every 20 minutes.
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Travels along Universal Boulevard with 22 convenient stops. Trollies arrive at each stop approximately every 30 minutes.
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This review will go over numerous new features of iOS 5.
Perhaps one of the most underappreciated and misconstrued features of iOS 5 will be iCloud. iCloud is Apple's response to being able to store media away from your device while still having admittance to it from your device. iCloud is fundamentally a server on Apple's end that holds your information so that you can access it on the go from any of your devices, that includes PC's and Macs.
iCloud will permit you to store your Mail accounts, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari Bookmarks, Notes, Photos in Photo Stream, and iWork Documents. iCloud offers 5GB of storage for free, 15GB of storage for $20/year, 25GB of storage for $40/year, and 55GB of storage for $100/year. These prices are on par, if not somewhat cheap for a lot of its competition. But, aside from storing data, (because that's boring), iCloud does a lot more.
iCloud is also your iDevice restore center. If you plan on taking advantage of iOS 5's PC-Free option (explained below) then iCloud will allow you to back up all of your iDevices on iCloud instead of using iTunes to make backups. This means that you can restore your devices from iCloud backups. These backups will eat into your data space.
To begin, the app that we all know and love Find My iPhone is now fully controlled by iCloud. iCloud has taken the stage away from MobileMe and now all MobileMe services are on iCloud. Given this tidbit of information, Find My iPod and Find My iPad also work off of the iCloud service. A newfangled feature, Find My Mac, will now allow you to see your Mac on a Google Map from your iDevice running iOS 5 as well – thanks to iCloud being integrated into Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2.
Alternatively, the new Application Find My Friends will permit you to use iCloud to discover the location of any of your family or friends that are choosing to share their location with you. Say, for instance, you are at Disney World with your family and you choose to take your son on one ride while your wife takes your daughter to another side of the park to gaze at animals. Well, using this app, you will be able to see where on a Google Map your family is so that you can find them more easily. Don't worry; you can turn off the location services on demand. The Apple police won't pursue you.
As an added bonus, imagine taking a photo on one device and it suddenly becomes available on all of them. It is usually a very annoying hassle to get photos to your computer from your iPhone. Either you have to tether it up with the USB cable and drag it over, or you have to Email it to yourself and bother with signing into your Email on your computer and then saving it. With iCloud, when you take a photo on your iDevice, the photo will automatically appear in your Pictures folder on your PC or your Mac. This means easy and fast access to all of your photos for editing and sharing. This is called Photo Stream, and iCloud will push up to 1,000 streamed photos at a time to all of your devices. You have a choice from Settings>iCloud as to which devices will have access to the photo stream, so you don't have to worry about unwanted eyes seeing your precious photographs.
Notification Center
Notification center is a widget-based system that can be accessed by pulling down on your status bar. It encompasses pre-installed widgets that show you the stocks of your chosen stocks in the stocks app (swipe left or right to view or just watch as they pan through) and the weather widget uses your current location to give you a weather summary and a 6-day forecast (swipe to the right or left). Along with widgets, all of your notifications will appear here. As revealed in the image above – any text messages, Facebook notifications, Words With Friends moves, and notifications of this nature will appear there too with a small preview of what the notification is about.
As well as the widget pull-down menu, the lock screen acquires a major renovation too. Now, instead of those annoying blue popups, you get an elegant Lock-Info style notification feed on your lock screen. To act on one of your notifications, you can slide the small app icon to the right and the iPhone will unlock and present the app, which you had the notification in. At the same time, you also could have unlocked the iPhone and pulled down the notification center and opened the app from there, too.
The last and greatest feature of the new notifications in iOS 5, is that no longer will you get an annoying blue popup in the middle of your screen when you're playing an important game. Instead, a banner will flip up at the top of your screen, leaving the screen accessible for you to play your game without having to pause at an imperative part. Imagine being in the middle of a game of fruit ninja and getting a text message. It used to be that the game would pause and the popup would appear, breaking your concentration. Now, instead of breaking your concentration, you can leave the text alone and finish your sixty-second game before replying to the message. Now of course – what would innovation be if it didn't give you the alternative to go old school if you didn't like it? That's right folks. You can go into the Settings app and switch back to iOS 4 popup notifications if you prefer them. I have a feeling however, that the iOS 5 notifications will catch on faster.
Another astounding new feature of iOS 5 encompasses iMessage. iMessage is a text messaging system that works among iOS devices. In other words, you can text your friend's iPod touch from your iPhone. Or you can text your friend's iPad from your iPod touch. It works in any mishmash of the three. The iPhone will still be able to text other phones as usual, and the iPad and iPod touch cannot use iMessage to text any phone other than an iPhone. iMessage works over any Wi-Fi or cellular network and can send both text messages and picture/video messages. You can also commence a text message on one device and pick up on another. Imagine commencing a text message on your iPod touch and then your mom calls you into the living room to vacuum the carpet – well you just happen to see an iPad laying there, so you can pick it up and finish your text message before you begin vacuuming. iMessage is worked seamlessly into the iPhone's Messages application. iMessages blend in with your text messages. They are discernible because blue chat bubbles indicate iMessages while text messages are still indicated by the usual green chat bubbles. There are settings for iMessage that allows you to hide or show when you or a friend is typing. It will show the ellipses, "..." when either of you are typing. For privacy, you can turn this on or off depending on your mood. We are really enthusiastic about iMessage because it will bring communications to more iOS owners without any kind of monthly costs.
iOS 5 also touts a newspaper and magazine subscription service. Some are free, and some are paid, but from here you can read everything that you subscribe to. The newsstand app is comparable to a folder. When you tap on it, it will not appear as an app, it will open in a folder-like manner with an iBooks look to it. From that menu will be your newspapers and magazines on the shelves. The subscriptions that you subscribe to will update automatically if you are connected to the Internet. This means that while you are sleeping, your iDevice can automatically renew your newspapers and magazines. After doing so, a little label will emerge over the newly downloaded newspapers and magazines that reads, "New."
Subscribing to newspapers and magazines is very laid-back. In the newsstand app there is a store button at the top right. Tapping on that transports you to an App Store-like interface where you can select companies to subscribe to. Subscribing to a magazine will make sure that that magazine is downloaded every time a fresh issue is discharged. You will be capable of accessing these new issues directly from the newsstand app at any time that you wish to.
Reminders is a new app that functions a lot like notes does. The only thing that is distinctive between Notes and reminders is that while in Notes you can jot things down, Reminders will go beyond that and furthermore send you a notification constructed on what you jot down. For instance, if you want to remind yourself in twenty minutes to take out the trash, then you can input that data into the Reminders app and it will present a push notification in twenty minutes telling you to take out the trash. Reminders works for setting daily reminders too. You can assist in reminding your kids to brush their teeth every night. Moreover, Reminders has a calendar view that lets you set Reminders throughout the entire month. This way you can plan out your doctor's appointments and prioritize your life.
Reminders not only allows you to set notifications based on time but also based on location. You can use location services to tell Reminders to remind you to get dinner after departure from work. Now when you get into your car, Reminders will detect that you are no longer within GPS location of your workplace and it will inform you to drive to the local burger joint to grab some quick dinner for your family. Location services can be disabled – so there is no worry that Apple will be scrutinizing you. This is a very convenient feature that could replace using Notes to remind you of things. Notes doesn't even remind you of anything, it's so stone age!
Twitter Integration
iOS 5 has Twitter baked right into many of its features. The first thing you should do after installing iOS 5, if you have a Twitter account, is go into your settings app and under Twitter; sign in. iOS 5 will make use of your username and password every time that you tweet something from the device outside of the actual Twitter app. The Settings app will also prompt you to install the Twitter app right above where you sign in. It's always good to install the app too, so that not only can you double check that your tweet made it to Twitter, but also so that you can read other tweets by other people that you follow.
Directly from your camera roll, you can tweet your photos and videos to Twitter by tapping the action button and then selecting, "Tweet." A window that looks like a piece of loose-leaf paper will appear like the picture above and you will be able to add any commentary along with your media to be tweeted. It doesn't end with media. You are also able to access Twitter from the following apps: Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps. The Contacts app in iOS 5 even takes your friends' Twitter Handles and profile pictures and applies them to your contacts so that when you want to mention someone or @reply to someone, iOS will automatically be able to add their name to the tweet granted you begin typing their name. The Tweeting system in iOS runs very deep. You can add location to your tweets from any app that you choose to.
When Apple says that iOS 5 allows you to tweet from numerous apps, they aren't lying. You can tweet an awesome video that you find on Youtube, a special location from Maps, or even URL's from Mobile Safari. Here is an example of how tweets are composed from apps outside of your Camera roll:
As far as tweeting photos and videos is concerned; it's a straightforward process. Open up your Camera roll, find a picture you want to tweet, tap the action button > Tweet > add your comments > Send; as shown below:
The stock Camera app gets a substantial refurbishment in iOS 5. New features have been added that many of us have wanted from the beginning. The first major thing to cover is in the photo above. It used to be that when you sought to use your camera on your iPhone that you had to input any passcodes you had, then struggle with finding your Camera app on your Springboard, then finally locate and open your Camera app. This is no longer a free-for-all. When on your lock screen, you can merely double-tap your home button and a camera button will appear. Tapping that button will launch the Camera app directly from your lock screen – completely bypassing any passcodes necessary. There isn't a need to worry about security though, immediately closing the Camera app the user will be prompted to input the passcode to enter the device. In this case, you get full controls of the camera directly from your lock screen without ever having to unlock your device. Even more beautifully; the iPhone 4S, which will be shipped with iOS 5, takes photos almost a third faster than the iPhone 4 which means point to shoot photos are now faster than ever.
Additionally, another feature that has been added to the Camera app is the ability to use the hardware volume buttons to take your photo. No longer do you have to use the touch controls. Granted, the touch control to take a photo is still there and fully utilizable, but now you have the choice between the two. This was a greatly sought after feature as it was added to Cydia for more functionality and downloaded numerous times back in the days of iOS 4.
It doesn't stop there. The auto-focus and auto-exposure abilities of the iPhone 4's camera have been enhanced, offering more user control than ever before. Now, instead of just tapping and letting the camera do all of the work, you can actually go into the action yourself by touching and holding a subject in the photo for a few seconds to lock the auto-focus and auto-exposure on that subject. Even while moving the camera around, the iPhone will continue to lock onto that subject. By tapping on the screen once, you can unlock the auto-focus and auto-exposure. You can still use the tap method, however the tap and hold to lock method works great for video or super clear shots.
The final major reinvigoration of the Camera app involves composing your shots. First off, you might notice right off the bat that they 'removed the ability to zoom in.' Well this is not the case. The new command for zooming in is to pinch in and to pinch out. Tapping on the screen will no longer bring up the zoom bar. As far as composition goes, in the 'options' button at the top of the Camera app, you can facilitate a new feature, which puts grid lines over your screen. The grid lines will not show up in the final photograph, however they will aid you in applying the rule of thirds to your photography. This is an extremely important composition rule for photography – with the iPhone 4S boasting an impressive 8 megapixel camera capable of macro shots, this is an important feature. In the option menu there will also be the usual HDR option. Another thing that you can do now is swipe to the right to pull up your camera roll, directly from the camera without tapping on the camera roll button near the 'take picture/record video' button.
The Photos app for the iPhone used to be completely inadequate. What good was it except for observing your pictures? Now, with iOS 5, it actually does something! The picture above shows the new photo editing options that are built into the Photos app. The options are rotate, auto-enhance, remove red-eye, and crop. After indicating one of the editing options and saving it, the original photo will be deleted. The iPhone will only save the recently edited version of the image.
As shown by the first image above, tapping on one of the options brings up a save button. The auto enhance is named as such because tapping it will automatically change the photo. The settings will not be adopted until you save the photo. After tapping the auto-enhance button, an auto-enhance indicator will appear in the bottom left. The second image above shows the before and after effects of auto-enhancing a photo. As shown, it corrects some lighting and makes the photo look more lively.
Above we have a before and after visual of the red-eye removal tool. Despite today's technology, we still have immense problems with red eye in photos that we take all the time. The LED flash on the back of the iPhone is very bright and will cause vast numbers of red-eye problems if the flash is enabled. With this new tool, you can simply tap on the eyes once each to remove the red-eye. Moreover, you can tap again to undo if you make a mistake. It works beautifully from experience. Parents who adore taking photos of their children during birthday parties will appreciate this new editing feature.
Last but not least, we have the ability to crop and rotate the photos we take. Now you have the ability to shrink a photo instead of zooming in and reliquishing quality in order to do away with the overwhelmingly large background compared to the subject. This is a feature that caught on in the App Store as there are many free apps that offer this functionality. It's very nice that it's now baked right into iOS 5. With the rotate function, you can take a screenshot in landscape mode and rotate it into portrait mode without having to crook your neck over at a 90º angle. It's also great if you want to switch landscape orientation over to portrait orientation or vice-versa. Both of these features will probably be the most widely used amongst the new Photos app features.
Safari comes packed with another new feature entitled the reading list. Sometimes there is a time when you are trying to look something up. Imagine that you find precisely what you are looking for – however the bell for next class rings, or the traffic light turns green. Reading list makes it so that you can add a specific web page to a list that you can go back and read later.
The best part is, Reading list is sent to all of your devices. It's basically a to-do list for Safari that you can pick up from any device, any time.
Safari even comes with tabbed browsing for the iPad in iOS 5. It brings a true browser experience to the big screen.
Perhaps one of my favorite features of Safari in iOS 5 comes from a famous jailbreak tweak called Covert. By going into the Settings app, under Safari, you can enable private browsing natively in iOS 5. This feature allows you to browse the internet without any history of where you have been being stored. Shown above, private browsing is indicated by a black Safari browser window.
PC Free
The PC-Free feature of iOS 5 means that you don't need to own a computer anymore to own an iOS device. Everything you can think of: restores, updates, syncing, setting up your iDevice, all of these things can be accomplished without ever using a wired connection to a computer ever again. Moreover, you can still use iTunes if you want to.
Above, I have included screenshots of PC-Free's most amazing features.
- Top Left: When you get iOS 5 right out of the box you'll never need to set your device up with iTunes again. The iPhone is capable of settings itself up independently with some help from the user, that is. You will be guided through the steps necessary to set up iCloud, Find my iPhone, Apple ID, Internet, and the iPhone itself. The graphical interface is very nice as well.
- Top Right: Using a cable to sync to your computer is so iOS 4. With iOS 5 you can go into your Settings>General>iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and sync over your Wi-Fi network. This feature will not work over 3G; so don't ask. This feature looks for your computer on your local area network. Obviously your computer isn't on a local 3G network. 3G networks are wide area networks. You can set up your computer to sync with the iPhone over Wi-Fi from iTunes. All you do is click the check mark that says, "Sync iPhone over Wi-Fi." This will be one of the only times you ever have to connect to a computer. Once you do that you will be able to sync from the Settings app as stated earlier.
- Bottom Left: When an update for iOS 5 is released, you will be notified via a badge on your Settings app. You can now update your iDevice over an Internet connection instead of updating through iTunes. You can also check manually. This function is found under Settings>General>Software Update. Unfortunately, those of you who use iOS 4 will not be able to update over the air to iOS 5. You will only be able to update over the air once you are running iOS 5 as it is an iOS 5-only function. Updates are considerably smaller this way because it's easier to release updates as patches this way versus re-flashing your device with a new firmware through iTunes every time an update comes out. We are pleased to have gained this feature.
- Bottom Right: This feature has been in iOS for a long time, although it plays a large role in being PC-Free. This feature allows you to restore your device from the device itself without having to connect to iTunes to do so. This can be found under Settings>General>Reset.
Several Miscellaneous Features/Changes
The Mail app has been fine-tuned a little; bringing you threaded Emails – when emails of the same subject and sender are stacked on top of each other to save room, in this case to reduce scrolling. It also features the new ability to format text with effects such as bold, italics, underline, and more. All you need to do to format text is highlight it by selecting it and navigating through the Action Menu-like copy/paste UI. Mail also supports Microsoft Hotmail now, whereas it did not in iOS 4 (you could still use it but there wasn't support built into Mail for it specifically, where you will find in iOS 5.) As well as being able to search through your inbox with a dedicated search bar for specific Emails, iCloud comes into the picture to keep all of your Mail accounts synced amongst devices so that you don't have to erase and read all of the identical messages over and over on each device.
The Calendar app realizes a ton of revamping as well. A new view – year view, has been added to the app permitting you to see all twelve months and anything planned in them all at once instead of independently by month, week, or day. Now, to create an event, simply tap – and you can drag to adjust the duration and time that the event will go on for. The power of iCloud lets you sync your calendars amongst your iDevices for a lustrous experience.
Game Center sees its largest update to date in iOS 5. Now, you can add profile pictures to your Game Center account to help your friends recognize you. Game Center in iOS 5 even recommends players to you based on the friends that you already have and the games that you play, similar to the 'people you may know' function on FaceBook. Game Center is an underappreciated app for iDevices, but with iOS being the world's leading gaming platform, users should really learn to tap into its power. It can be used to share scores, achievements, and even play multiplayer games online. This is a really cool update to check out.
Has it ever been your wish to be able to take advantage of the massive mutlitouch screen on the iPad instead of relying on buttons to input your commands? Those beloved gestures that can be used to navigate throughout iOS have finally been realized. Using four or five fingers, swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps.
This new feature allows you to mirror what is on your iDevice screen to a larger display. Airplay now supports video mirroring – in HDTV quality. You can rotate your screen to any orientation that you like, the larger display will follow suit. This could be good for casual home users to want to stream Netflix, or play games on iOS using the big screen. It also seems to brighten the opportunities for educational institutions because now they have a more interesting way to teach kids. This feature is pretty cool, although I must admit that I've never tried it.
The Weather app ended up with a nice addition as well. Not only can you set it to use your location instead of manually punching in your location for weather each time you set up your iDevice or go somewhere dissimilar; but, it even gives you a nice hourly summary of the day in extreme detail.
The Maps app seems to have gained some quiet features. It now lists more than one route when you ask for directions. It usually routes between one and three different ways to get somewhere but the one that always defaults is the fastest way to get there. This feature allows you dodge traffic in one way and go another way, but it also shows that there is more than one way to get places. The walking feature seems to have been updated to be better with calculating how long it takes to get form point A to point B at walking speed.
The general consensus appears to be that iOS 5 is an awesome and worthy upgrade from iOS 4. It comes with security improvements, speed enhancements, and overall speed increases. The Springboard moves around and opens apps much more fluently. On the iPhone, the unified iPod app has been broken apart into Music and Videos just like we are used to on the iPod Touch. You now have the ability to delete songs from your iDevice without having to delete them from iTunes and then syncing. You can also delete photos from your iDevice that you have synced via iTunes. With over 200 new features – and a suspected untethered jailbreak on its way, this update is well worth it the free download. Developers are porting numerous Cydia tweaks over to iOS 5 and this is going to be one heck of a change for all of us!
What do you think about iOS 5? Will you be upgrading? Leave a comment below!
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With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.
Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial. What they don't know is that Meir was in New York to recruit Dewey Andreas for a secret operation.
Meir had been tipped off that Iran had finally succeeded in building their first nuclear weapon, one they were planning to use to attack Israel. His source was a high-level Iranian government official and his proof was a photo of the bomb itself. Dewey Andreas, a former Army Ranger and Delta, owes his life to Meir and his team of Israeli commandos. Now, to repay his debt, Dewey has to attempt the impossible - to both rescue Meir from one of the world's most secure prisons and to find and eliminate Iran's nuclear bomb before it's deployed - all without the help or sanction of Israel or America (at the near certain risk of detection by Iran).
Unfortunately, Dewey's first moves have caught the attention of Abu Paria, the brutal and brilliant head of VEVAK, the Iranian secret service. Now Dewey has to face off against, outwit, and outfight an opponent with equal cunning, skill, and determination, with the fate of millions hanging in the balance.
©2012 Ben Coes (P)2012 Macmillan Audio
"Last Refuge but hopefully not the last of Dewey!"
Wow! These Dewey Andreas adventures just keep getting better and better. Narration was great, plot was awesome and the pace of action was perfect. I know there's not a real person named Dewey Andreas but this book seems so REAL! Love the way the author structures his plots and brings all the thread in the book to neat and satisfying conclusions. Highly recommend this listen to anyone who enjoys thrillers. Great listen! Solid 5 ***** stars all the way.
"Excellent Listen"
Glad they returned to the original narrator from the first book. He captures the inner voice and nuances of Andreas, Jessica and Calabreze well.
I found this series after listening to Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. I like to find an author who can develop characters and then take them through various plots. In addition to the previous mentioned two, DeMille's John Corey and John Sanford's Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport come to mind.
When an author can create such a realistic character...well the reading/listening audience is in his palm so to say. Excellent and relevant plot lines by Coes...I hope he keeps Andreas going for some time to come.
"Wow! What an ending to a fantastic series-"
Make sure you read all three books in order- War against terrorism seems to be the plot of the day for authors these days but this one goes outside the box with realism and very believable attacks. I can only hope we have a lot of Dewey's out there to watch our backs!
"Don't know why I waited so long"
Yes. I will probably listen to the whole series again. This is so well written with a very well developed plot including many fine details that I'm sure a second time around wouldn't be boring.
It's obviously Dewey Andreas.
I listened to this in two days.
It took me months to decide to try this series. I finally took a chance and am now on the third in a row. My next purchase will be the forth in the series and I'm looking forward to the next one to be written.
"The Best of Ben Coes so far"
I have listened to all 3 of his books and this is the best by far. What I found in the first was the entire story was marginal at best. The second book was a good story but for some reason he introduced a 36 hour time line to get from Australia to Pakistan and then overthrow the President of Pakistan. Not very realistic. This book was again a good story but again strayed into the unrealistic catagory. I won't give the story away but I think you will see my point when Dewey finally accomplishes his mission. I like Coes and think there is some good reading potential here but he needs to work on his realism a bit more.
The narrator was excellent. His ability to change tones in his voice was very enjoyable.
Cole in the Iranian prison.
Unrealistic conclusion.
You must to start with book 1 and read all 3 like i did, so we can pray for a book 4
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"Intensely Captivating!"
This third entry in the Dewey Andreas series will keep you on the edge of your seat. Coes starts the action quickly and it never slows. Andreas must rescue a man who saved his life and also stop insane Iranian Mullah's from detonating a nuclear bomb in Tel Aviv. The story is perfectly narrated by Peter Hermann, who manages to keep the tempo steady from start to finish. If you are looking for an exciting thriller similar, but in my opinion superior, to Vince Flynn, this is for you. Grab it now!
"Another good one from Ben Coes"
I listen to audible in bed at night, and this kept me awake listening. Some titles and readers put me to sleep, which isn't too bad either, but I do like a good exciting book.
"Not as fast paced as the last, but a solid gallop"
The premise of a Dewey being around to make the difference makes for a fun read.
Peter expressed emotion (especially anger) with more force than the usual readers
"Great Listen, Enjoyed story"
Yes, The story captures you, found myself wanting to drive just to get to the next part. There is always something that was mentioned ealier in the story that makes you try to piece together how the story will play out. It was enjoyable as there were action scenes as well as personal moments that you can visualize with great detail.
Logical progression of events. Like the way the action scenes were intertwind with the discussions. For example when Dewey tells the CIA director not to tell Jessica that he is going to help his friend, then Jessica finds out. Many scenes like that were in the story and it gets you thinking "how is this charater going to respond".
All, Each charaters have their uniqueness and Peter does a great job with each one.
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If you track it, they don't seem to really have enough cooling (And I am not referring to the brake fiasco, which could be fixed with track pads).
If you track it, they don't seem to really have enough cooling (And I am not referring to the brake fiasco, which could be fixed with track pads).
Originally Posted by Ducky TSX
very competitive in C-Stock autocross, just check last week's results: http://autox4u.com/results/2012/nnjr_20121006_fin.htm
may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but it gets the job done pretty damn well.
Originally Posted by Ducky TSX
Nissan said, "Welp, we really kicked the crap out of the 2010 Mustang GT, I guess we can rest on our laurels now."
That was a mistake.
It's a nice sports car. I was seriously thinking about buying one but it was just too impractical as a daily driver. I couldn't imagine driving one in everyday DC commute. Two seats don't help neither. Clutch and engine noise were not great. But as a weekend or track ride, I think it's great. It has plenty of power and handles great. I'm sure next Z will be even better.
This car would be on my radar if it were a four seater.
Does not make a car any more practical.
And that's all you'd get in the 370z without making it look like a 280z 2+2 (eww).
I'd actually consider it a downside as in many carpool lanes, they require 3 persons unless your car has 2 seats only.
Originally Posted by Ducky TSX
All I know is that I love them in blue.
And that the wheels sit so far out into the corners that it makes the car look like it's hunched over, ready to pounce.
I am not a fan of the fangs.
I REALLY like this.
My first car love was the 300ZX TT, but I couldn't afford one, so my first car was a '71 240Z (username QWKDTSN is the license plate). I haven't paid much attention to the new Z cars. There are some things that really annoy me about the 350Z, but the 370Z is pretty cool. I will admit I never think about them when I think about sports cars, they sort of fly under the radar.
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Which is a shame because it did seem like a pretty sweet track car wen it came out.
Originally Posted by Ducky TSX
Clutch is horrible.
The Mustang GT has 100 more HP for the same price and V8 soundtrack and two seats more.
Middle of the road car does nothing really good, nothing really bad. Fair weather fans died with the economy, only hardcore sports car guys left and they want used Porsches, not new Nissans.
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I don't think it's enough of an improvement vs 350Z.
Yes, it's lighter. But it is also smaller, so it should've been more than 100lbs lighter (Base vs Base)
Engine doesn't sound as good as VQ35HR. It makes almost the same amount of torque. They could've stuck with 3.5L, thus adding lightness.
Looks... well, I think it's pretty ugly compared to the 350Z. That was, actually, the major deciding factor for me
The interior is the only thing I congratulate Nissan on with this car. I don't particularly like the design but it is much better put together with superior materials
I've heard a few people say that it was just disappointing given the progression of Z cars up to the latest one. I can't comment on that, as I don't have experience with older Nissans and Datsuns but there has to be some truth in that.
I looked at g37's but Infiniti's fit and finish does not justify the premium for me.
I think they are great cars for the money, they just lack in the NVH department and their brakes are not track worthy.
The arrival of the Genesis coupe, Mustang, and Camaro ate away from their market share dramatically.
The current crop of V8 muscle cars will absolutely decimate the Z in acceleration and are also quite a bit quicker than the Z around the track (according to Lightning Lap times at VIR). When car and driver had their "best drivers car under $40k" issue, the Mustang GT also had lap times that were a fair amount faster than the Z and it was also judged to be a better drivers car. And for the price of a base Z with the sport package, you're right around the price of a Camaro SS with the 1LE package, which would decimate a Z around the track.
The Z is a very nice package that does nicely against other 6-cyl options, but it's about $4k too much. The V8 pony cars are vastly better performance cars than a similarly priced Z.
The problem was oil cooling.
Originally Posted by Ducky TSX
Not a fan of the styling- bulbous and overdone. Wish they would trim it down, make it more lithe.
Also have heard about how bad the engine sounds at high rpm, definitely a problem in my book.


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A new free after-school program will fill a void for parents, and get elementary school kids moving in the process. The CATCH Kids Club, a program designed to promote healthy physical activity and eating behavior in children, will be held in hour-long after-school sessions at Silverthorne, Dillon Valley and Summit Cove Elementaries five days a week beginning this coming school year. CATCH, which stands for "a coordinated approach to child health," is an evidence-based curriculum in place across America and Canada. The program provides coordinators with equipment like hula hoops, basketballs, flags and cones, and "recipes" for daily activities and snacks. Robin Albert, director of Summit County Youth and Family Services, which is running the club at Silverthorne, said there's a recipe box coordinators pull cards from to plan the day's activities. There might be hula-hoop challenges or games involving beach balls, but everything is non-competitive, she said. Afterward, children learn about healthy eating and get a free, nutritious snack. There is existing after-school program transportation at Silverthorne for children, and a possibility for the same at DVE and Summit Cove if parents express a need, according to Family & Intercultural Resource Center executive director Tamara Drangstveit. CATCH is being funded through a grant FIRC obtained through the Colorado Health Foundation, and will be run in the schools by youth services and Keystone Science School. The grant goes through the next two school years. As far as expanding to other schools in the future, Breckenridge already has a strong program run by the Town of Breckenridge Recreation Department and they wouldn't want to duplicate offerings, but if Frisco Elementary expresses interest, it would certainly be something FIRC would want to figure out how to offer, Drangstveit said. "As we strive to get our youth active and eating well it is also great that we are able to provide additional enriching out-of-school activities for the students within the county," said Dave Miller, school programs director at Keystone Science School, which is running the programs at Dillon Valley and Summit Cove. "As a division of The Keystone Center, we have learned the importance of working to improve the health and nutrition of our community through a collaborative approach."
The new club comes after the decline, and eventual closure of the Summit School District day camps program, which some parents counted on as affordable and convenient after-school care. "I think it's a great program, and it's going to make a lot of difference to parents and kids in the three schools that it's in," said Lee Zimmerman, director of The Summit Foundation.Following numerous grant requests for day care-type activities, the foundation organized a group of community leaders last September to examine Summit's needs. The new club is one of the results of those discussions, according to Drangstveit. Another result is a community survey of parents asking about their needs and barriers in after-school programs, and an ongoing strategic plan for the county, including implementable solutions, Zimmerman said. That plan is due Oct. 31. But for now, the organizations running the program hope CATCH is a hit with children – and for parents who need that extra hour or so of care before they get out of work. "I think we're going to have a good response," Albert said.


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The following are wars under subdivisions (o), (p), (q), and (r) of Section 3 of Article XIII of the Constitution:
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(c) Black Hawk War, April 6, 1832–August 2, 1832.
(d) War With Mexico, April 24, 1846–May 30, 1848.
(e) Civil War, April 18, 1861–August 20, 1866.
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(k) Campaign against the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, and Comanches in Kansas, Colorado, and Indian Territory, 1867–1869.
(l) Modoc War, 1872–1873.
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(n) Campaign against the Kiowas, Comanches, and Cheyennes in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Indian Territory, and New Mexico, 1874–1875.
(o) Campaign against the Northern Cheyennes and Sioux, 1876–1877.
(p) Nez Percé War, 1877.
(q) Bannock War, 1878.
(r) Campaign against the Northern Cheyennes, 1878–1879.
(s) Campaign against the Ute Indians in Colorado and Utah, September, 1879–November, 1880.
(t) Campaign against the Apache Indians in Arizona, 1885–1886.
(u) Campaign against the Sioux Indians in South Dakota, November, 1890–January, 1891.
(v) War With Germany-Austria, April 6, 1917–November 11, 1918.
(w) Campaign against the Apache Indians in Arizona, 1895–1896.
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(c) Yangtze River campaign in China.
(d) All other campaigns for service in which a medal has been issued by the Congress of the United States.
History.—Stats. 1941, p. 1193, in effect September 13, 1941, added subsection (w). Stats. 1947 (First Extra Session 1946), p. 157, in effect May 21, 1946, added subsection (x). Stats. 1951, p. 1792, in effect May 24, 1951, added subsection (y) with the provision that it was declaratory of existing law. Stats. 1953, p. 1713, in effect September 9, 1953, substituted "January 1, 1947" for "May 16, 1946" in subsection (x). Stats. 1955, p. 1457, substituted "January 31, 1955" for provision authorizing a date to be fixed by the Governor in subsection (y). Stats. 1967, p. 3180, added subsection (z). Stats. 1974, Ch. 311, p. 591, in effect January 1, 1975, substituted "subdivisions (o), (p), (q), and (r) of Section 3" for "Section 11/4" in the first sentences of the first, second, and third paragraphs. Stats. 1976, Ch. 1092, p. 4937, in effect January 1, 1977, substituted "May 8, 1975" for provision authorizing a date to be fixed by the Governor in subsection (z).
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About the AC not working on 4, this means that the dual pressure switch is not working?
|thanks everybody for the messages! so finally my fans work...I cleaned the head temperature sensor that was filled with oil with some electrical cleaner from CRC. I put it back in then i plugged my scan tool. I checked for the temperature to go to 225 F to see if my fans would blow, and sure it did! the fans kicked in and the temperature on the scan tool started to drop...I do believe that the head cylinder temperature was throwing bad signals to the fans....could that be a possibility?
|Will be interested to see the final outcome of this.
|OH, if you can't hear the compressor click on, then go look at the face of the compressor. If the face of the pulley is still, then the compressor is not turning. If the compressor is turning, then the face of the compressor pulley will be turning with everything else.
In order for you to test the engine cooling fans using the AC- the AC must be working. That's all the AC, not just the blower inside, but the compressor must be turning also. If you have low refrigerant in the AC system, then the compressor won't turn, and the engine cooling fans won't come on.
The engine cooling fans won't come on due to engine temps until your engine temps are much higher than you would think. That's why we suggest the AC method to test the fans. You can use the electronic odometer trick to monitor the temps that the temp sensor is reporting to the ECU, and the fans should come on at 115C. All temps reported in there are in C. High speed fans come on at like 118C. There's not much of a spread.
Likewise, if the engine cooling fan doesn't come on, and the blower fan in the cabin doesn't come on, then the AC won't come on- if that AC light isn't lit up, then that control circuit isn't complete. You can still test the engine cooling fans with the AC on normal and the blower on 2 or whatever fan speed works. As Sailor wrote, if the cabin air blower doesn't work on any speed except 4, then the fix is typically the blower resistor. If the blower doesn't work on any speed, then you should test the fan motor using a simple continuity test, or test for resistance between the pins. If you get resistance, the motor probably works, so replace the switch. I'm not going to get into how to test the switch. 99% of the time, in the situation I mentioned above with no blower speeds working, the culprit is the blower motor itself. If the blower works on some speeds but not others, like in your case it works on 1, 2, but not 3, or 4, then the culprit is the switch itself.
Now, back to your engine cooling fan problem- right? Isn't that what we're supposed to be fixing? You have another thread about pressure testing your cooling system for a leak. You also mentioned a clicking relay under the dash. This relay has been identified before in low voltage situations. Can you use that electronic odometer trick to tell us what your voltage is with the engine off, and then with the engine running, and then with the engine running and the lights on high beam. That might help with some diagnosis. Your whole problem might be a weak battery connection, bad battery, or bad alternator.
Now, once that is done, I can tell you how to force the fans to come on another way, and somewhere in here there is a method of bridging the low speed and high speed circuits so that your fan runs on high speed when it should be on low speed. All that does it make the engine cool off quicker- maybe lose a tiny bit of fuel economy- that's it. Here we get into "I'm not there" like was mentioned by others before. I have to go look up the thread because I don't know the exact wire colors to tell you. If I was there, I could figure it out by looking. I also don't know the exact relays to tell you to go to- if I was there, the information is in your owner's manual.
Anyway, try the stuff I mentioned. Make sure that AC light is on before you check the engine cooling fans. It is entirely possible that you need new fans, however, the problem is typically in the plug-in connector, engine cooling fan resistor, wiring, or something else. You'll want to be thorough because cooling fans cost like $200, but a diode would cost like $5 or less.
I guess it's time for this old joke, my apologies to those who have seen it before:
A guy's commercial freezer full of meat stops running. In a panic he calls a repair guy.
The repair guy shows up, overalls, cap, chewing on a grass blade, covered with dirt and grease and looking like he just walked off the farm. He looks at the freezer for a minute, unplugs it, pulls an access panel off the side, replaces a fuse, puts the panel back on, and plugs it back in and the freezer starts up.
he then hands the guy a bill for $202.00
The owner looks at the bill and goes ballistic. He yells at the repair guy
"Dammit you were only here for 5 minutes! And $202, what the hell is the $2 for?!?!"
The repair guys says:
"It's $2.00 for the fuse. It's $200.00 for knowing what fuse to replace!!"
An Indy with generic experience will hunt and peck around at half the hourly rate. They will either learn how to troubleshoot the system on your dime or they will replace a bunch of good parts after guessing, charging you labor for each. Then they will brag how they found so much bad stuff and say they gave you a parts discount.
The Indy job works OK for certain mechanical and body work, but seldom on electrical systems. You will be charged for trial and error plus time they spend learning about your car.
I fix computer networks for a living and only do car repairs as a hobby - I must echo what others are saying - unless you have a couple weeks you can park this vehicle that you can learn electrical troubleshooting on, and following a wiring diagram - your asking for trouble.
If you simply don't have the money at all then go to a wrecker and cut the fan plug off an existing fan harness, unplug the fans on your car, plug in the wrecking fan plug and wire it directly to the battery with a switch, you can run the wires into the passenger compartment for the switch. then manually turn the fan on when you start the car and turn it off when you stop. Hopefully your diagram will show + and - on the fan.
It will probably reduce your gas mileage with the parasitic drain but it will keep the car engine from melting down while you screw around with it.
You need more than the wiring diagram you also need the diagrams that say where the wires are located in the engine compartment and what harnesses they are run inside of. Hopefully your wiring diagram you bought includes that.
I am very familiar with troubleshooting automotive wiring from a tech manual and going in cold this would be at least a 2-3 hour job for me if it wasn't the fan resistor (which of course I would check first). If I was a mechanic doing these all day long in a dealership it would be a 20 minute job because I would know exactly where all the failure points are. And yes I know that if it does take the mechanic 20 minutes to find it your still going to be charged book time of an hour or two or whatever it is - that is how service departments make money - it may seem unfair - but they do have to warranty their work and it is not uncommon for electrical problem fixes like this to fail again.
Most of the time when I've done these things if it's not an easy fix (like the resistor) I end up starting off by following all wiring carefully - about half the time the wiring is chafed, or melted on a header or some such, and even if you know a particular circuit segment is dead by testing with a multimeter, it still takes ages to find the physical wire and follow it through from the diagram.
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Racer Scott Pruett led an all-Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates charge to the front of the grid for the Rolex 24 at Daytona as BMW Power swept the top-three starting positions in todays qualifying session for Saturdays 51st annual twice-around-the-clock endurance classic.
Pruett, the defending GRAND-AM drivers co-champion, drove the No. 01 TELMEX/Target BMW Riley to the pole position with a 1:40.553-minute lap around the 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway road course. Pruett will share the No. 01 machine this weekend with his season-long co-driver Memo Rojas, Juan Pablo Montoya and Charlie Kimball.
Only .093 seconds behind Pruett, Scott Dixon followed with a 1:40.646-minute lap to place the No. 02 Target/TELMEX BMW Riley on the outside of the front row. Dixon will co-drive with Dario Franchitti, Jamie McMurray and Joey Hand.
Dane Cameron, driving the No. 42 Team Sahlen BMW Riley, qualified third with a 1:41.213-minute lap in the teams debut Daytona Prototype weekend. Cameron will co-drive with Simon Pagenaud, Wayne Nonnamaker and Bruno Junqueira.
Scott Pruett (first) - I dont think we could have written a better opening chapter to this weekends story than to qualify our cars 1-2 and have BMW go 1-2-3. I want to dedicate this pole to one of our crew members, Sammy Gonzales, who lost his battle with cancer just prior to this qualifying session.
Scott Dixon (second) - This is a great result for the team. We struggled with a few steering issues in the No. 02 car this morning that limited our time to make more improvements, but overall both cars are quick.
Dane Cameron (third) - It is a long race, but third on the grid is a great way to reward the team for all their hard work and investment. We are new to this class so we really did not have any expectations today. We have just focused on learning what the car likes and I am pleasantly surprised to be so near the front.
The Rolex 24 at Daytona will start at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Saturday, January, 26th. The race will be televised live on SPEED from green flag to 11 p.m and again from 9 a.m. to the checkered flag.
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My question is... Do we know what costume is the RotJ Hero one?
I have been studying the screen caps and in about 75% of the scenes I see the MoM armor (except Cod/Butt). The AoSW armor (except Cod/Butt) can only be seen at one scene. Which one then?!?! POST YOUR OPINION PLEASE!
I also know that the AoSW jet pack is a stunt jet pack used when Boba jumps into the Luke's boat. The Hero jet pack should be the MoM one. That explains why it has another kind of beacon at the bottom of the jet pack, because it was a hole.
About the Ankle Spats I don't know which ones were used, both are equal, but I have seen that on the MoM costume one spat was lost and they (LFL) remplaced it with one of the PrePro #2 (the left one I think, I can't remember). That can be seen because they are diferent fabrics, also diferent colours (the PP2 is pinky).
The Hero Cod is the one from AoSW. It can be seen with the MoM armor at the Hutt "house" scene.
The Hero helmet... well, just one helmet, the MoM one :D I have done a list with the Humbrol colors. Some where posted here by micke and evan4218, but I have done my own research and I have found some diferent colors for mandibles, grey over all the helmet (yes, IMO it was the same grey on mandibles, just light applied).
The Hero blaster is with the MoM exhibit.
About the soft parts, there's no diference between both. Well, for purists, I'm sure there's diference, but I haven't studied the pics that much :)
When filming, the gloves still had a greyish ESB tone on them.
Post! :cheers
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I'll jump ahead to the good part:
The paintup is almost done, and the RF is only temporary. I also still need to attach the little detail bits inside the cheeks. But, it's coming along really well I think :)
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If you're only getting Azurite, then you're not in the right areas yet. But, you will be soon. You'll be swimming in master and flawless raw materials, and there will be a ton of high end/top end weaponry for you to break down.
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I gotta admit that the I'm the RNG's bitch right now. Holy hell I can't find anything good and I've been using the same crap for many levels now. I don't know what people mean by making better gear through Blacksmithing. The best blade I've found has been made of Azurite and that won't make anything remotely better than the drops I've found already. I wonder if there's just a lot of hyperbole going on, because my experience is so completely different than what I'm reading here. I've died tons of times to damn everything, my gear is crappy, blacksmithing isn't helping any since I can't get any decent parts to make anything good. So frustrating. I'm level 21 (60 hours in) and I had to buy a blue sword from the store because nothing I've found anywhere was even remotely as good. <sniff, sniff>
Even without perfect materials it's still very possible to break the game, though. Craft a couple sets that have + to hp/mana regen, and bolster up your phys/crit/magic damage %, and you're set.
Definitely not hyperbole. I crafted a full set of armor (still using purple drops I've found for weapons - which I have found a ton of, all very good weapons at that) and it takes 3 mages pounding me with whirlwinds/fireballs to get me to use a potion as I regen through everything else.
I'm level 39 at the moment and I'm just tearing stuff up as finesse/might. I think that once I hit 40, though, I'm going to respec to universalist (37 points in might/finesse/sorcery) for kicks.


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51235. Annexation, detachment, incorporation or disincorporation of land within preserve. An agricultural preserve shall continue in full effect following annexation, detachment, incorporation or disincorporation of land within the preserve.
Any city or county acquiring jurisdiction over land in a preserve by annexation, detachment, incorporation or disincorporation shall have all the rights and responsibilities specified in this act for cities or counties including the right to enlarge, diminish or disestablish an agricultural preserve within its jurisdiction.
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Glenda and Buster Bass celebrated their 50th anniversary on June 8 of this year. What makes this story special is that Glenda was just 15 in 1962 when she married Buster, and he was just 17.
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According to the National Eye Institute, eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in children in America, and most injuries occurring in school-aged children are sports-related.
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Fall is the perfect time to help your lawn recover from the stressors of summer and prepare for winter. The warm soil and cooler temperatures promote root growth and thickening of the lawn.
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Good morning, Just A Pinch-ers! Today is going to be great day. How do I know?
Because a good breakfast leads to good times and to cheery outlooks all around.
Starting the day off right is as easy as pie. Well, make that quiche. Flavorful and fluffy, the perfect egg-y quiche doesn't have to be difficult. In fact, on justapinch.com, Barbara Miller of Oakdale, Minn. has it down to a delectable science.
1- 8 ounce tube of refrigerated crescent rolls
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1 and 1/2 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into half-inch pieces
1 medium onion, chopped
Fresh sliced mushrooms, 8 ounces
1/4 cup cubed butter
2 eggs lightly beaten
2 cups shredded cheese such as mozzarella
1/4 cup fresh parsley, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon each of basil, oregano and rubbed sage
Melanie Helm is a Lancaster native who graduated from Anderson College in May. She was hired by the Lancaster County School District to teach fourth grade at North Elementary School.
Helm says it was an experience in a country thousands of miles away that inspired her to be a teacher.
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