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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Monster Memory
Here is my submission for the latest Sketchoholic interview, this time with the legendary Dice Tsutsumi. The topic was "You favorite childhood anime". I was OBSESSED with digimon and pokemon as an 8-11 year old, and the creature in the painting is based on a specific drawing I remember doing as a kid of one of my very own made up digimon. I ended up making it a pokemon cause I didn't think people would recognize the digivice, so it got turned into the iconic pokeball. If I ever find that drawing I'll post it.
7 comments:
- Gyimah said...
haha nice one
- August 9, 2010 at 4:34 AM
- Nicole Kozak said...
awww nice!
- August 9, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- Klaas Op De Beéck said...
dang that's nice!
- August 9, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Nic said...
This is pure awesome.
Also, because Digimon and Pokemon rock(ed).
- August 9, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Skim said...
- August 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Kirsten Whiteley said...
This is really beautiful! I didn't watch Pokemon or Digimon so the initial referece went over my head but this stands alone very well! Good Job!
- August 15, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- The Animachine said...
The colors are really well done. TEACH ME! I actually preferred the feathers in the black and white sketch though, I liked that they overlapped and were a little messier. It made me feel like they were exploding out of his ass. Anyways I assume you changed them for the sake of readability, but I thought they read fine the other way.
Anyways it's really gay! I mean cute!!
- August 23, 2010 at 12:28 PM
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They do not get certified as a lifeguard due to age requirements, but Ostermyer said the course mimics the actual lifeguard certification course.


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HaHaHa, so from burning platform to Damp squid.. good article
One oddity of Nokia's bet-the-farm decision to move to Windows Phone is how much work needs to be done to bring Microsoft's software up to par with Nokia's existing platform. You remember, the Burning One. Today, developers are finding out. With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft took the Window CE kernel and built a tightly …
HaHaHa, so from burning platform to Damp squid.. good article
That would be "damp squib."
Now what was that icon you used?
Most squid are damp already, living in the seas. You mean 'squib', which is a broken firework, adding the dampness makes it even more useless.
... clearly, it should've stated "FALL".
And now, please everyone abandon the platform !
A squib is not a broken firework. It's a (non-recreational) firework, so dampness or not is a significant quality.
Yawn, my own online spell checker. Sorry Sir won't do it again.
Why dont you get a life and i'll get a dictionary.
I thought damp squid was more appropriate as he was jumping of a platform into the sea.
...is that font that Nokia's smart phones have. Not sure what it is, but it's something special. But who knows, maybe MS will hire some of the workers that Nokia's will lay off to tailor WP7 to Nokias. A little fragmentation to save a much-loved brand image.
AFAIK WP7 has a set of compulsory requirements that are intended to eliminate fragmentation. All WP7 phones must be the same, though some extras can be added.
If Nokia is allowed to differentiate (as Elop claims this is about) then this will piss off the other WP7 makers and they will dump the product. That is, if they don't dump it for other reasons, such as having shipped a couple of million and few have actually sold.
The next problem is that now many who actually wanted to buy a WP7 will wait to see what Nokia offer. This will reduce sales until Nokia has one in the market, which may be 6 months, or may be next year. Meanwhile sales will stall (even from the current low point) making it more likely that current makers will drop the product. This will have the effect of reducing developers.
In a year's time Nokia may have the whole WP7 field to itself, with a 4% market share that declines.
I think it is very clear that both Ballmer and Elop work for Microsoft.
It is certain that Microsoft needs Nokia. Not the other way around.
Nokia had (and still has) the option to bring out an Android based phone if they no longer want to develop their own platform. Android is ready to go. WP7 is not even competitive. Certainly not from a technology standpoint.
If Nokia wants to sell phones there is nothing to stop them from offering both an Android phone and a Microsoft phone when it gets up to speed.
Focusing only on Microsoft now is the kiss of death. In tablets and in phones.
Why not just claim you are going to take over the world with a Microsoft tablet. It is just as beleivable.
The truth is that Microsoft is not ready to compete with phones. Baller knows that. Elop claims to be blind.
...that Nokia will release an Android phone with a MS bod in charge?
You're right in that it would be a good option for Nokia - but common sense doesn't prevail with this type of person.
This all seems to have been forgotten in the universal US centric Symbian-Bash (which really is just bitching over the UI- S60 - which is indeed in need of replacement) and Android bonk that pervades the US based press (I know El Reg is co.uk - but that's another story)
Symbian is way way more efficient, has a smaller footprint, higher performance and simply requires less expensive hardware to run. Subsequently NOKIA can cut sosts on the CPU and provide a better camera (for example). Nokia have options that the Android handset makers dop not really have. The hardest part of owning the iPhone is keeping it charged - it is worse for Android machines according to my colleagues who carry them.
NOKIA generates 100's of millions of dollars (maybe billions - I do not know exactly) of sales on Symbian based handsets, and exactly zero on Windows7. It seems somewhat utopian to believe that the balance will shift in a short timeframe, especially as windows7 is missing all the things mentioned in the title. Follow the money, this deal is not about technology or market, it is about the consumption by MSFT of a very big fish.
If Nokia are joining with MS then MS should take Symbian and put the windows phone features on to that rather than vice versa! It'd be quicker and better in the end.
But I guess the politics of it all will mean we end up with the worse of everything :(
Didn't you tell Nokia all this before they *bought* into the damned thing.
I can just hear the groans and the slapped foreheads...
Well... too late now...
Just put in more processors, and they can each run WM7 and run a separate task. Seamless!
You know, ever since last Friday I keep expecting to wake up and find out this was all a silly dream. "Of course", I picture myself thinking, "there was no way Nokia would dump years of investment in Qt (and lately MeeGo), just as it was all months away from paying up, and go back to square one with a half-baked platform from Microsoft!"
It's not even that I am particularly influenced by Nokia's about-turn; it's just that the whole thing fails so badly to add up, and is getting so much more surreal so fast as it trudges on – I might as well question the reality of a world where such an absurd is purported to be the outcome of ponderous, lenghty consideration by competent professionals who know what they're doing.
Just like in the words of Traudl Junge's character in Downfall, it all feels like a dream, only that we don't wake up, and instead it keeps going on and on...
Saying Elop is a trojan is (I think) short-sighted. So is calling it an about turn by Nokia.
It smells of careful planning that started way before Elop's appointment.
Think about it - Nokia's board is less than 25% Finnish. In fact it looks like many are American, and have MIcrosoft connections. My guess is that the board left Nokia with no choice. Once Elop was appointed I imagine the game had already changed. Elop's appointment was the challenge, WP7 was a forgone conclusion.
If my thinking is right then this is a very, very clever play by Microsoft. And whoever thunk that one up has my respect. Sun Tzu couldn't have finnessed that one better.
Hey, hey, you're setting the bar quite high ...
Surely somebody must have done the obligatory twitchy-glass-removal Downfall mashup on this by now?
Until last week Nokia invested heavily in R&D, owned its software platforms, and was betting its future on a Linux-based platform.
Now Nokia is cutting down its R&D investments, flushing its own platforms down the toilet, and betting its future on an OEM partnership with Microsoft.
I don't know about you, but that sounds like an about-turn to me – whether it was long in the making or decided on a whim is another matter entirely.
It was pretty funny this morning at MWC with developers repeatedly asking for Java on Windows mobile 7. There are 100's of thousands of apps that won't be able to run on the new Nokia Windows phones because Microsoft has banned any non-Microsoft languages.
Maybe they will be forced to give in and allow Java back on Windows mobile
Given the way that Oracle has been going around randomly demanding money with menaces from anyone using Sun-created technology since it bought them, I'd certainly think twice about using Java for anything new at the moment.
My favorite phone still happens to be my unlocked N-80 Nokia. Not only was it light years ahead of its time, (3MP camera in the back with Macro, VGA in the front), VoIP, SIP, WiFi, and more. It also had two-way video conferencing. This was five years ago. I utimately upgraded to the iPhone after the N-80 (and am on my 3rd one now) because I had $5,000 worth of iTunes music, and to me, the syncing capability was worth it.
If I recall, Nokia had trouble developing it's own CDMA chipsets. I think they had one phone, the Nokia 6185 that used it's own chips. Because it was so bad, they ultimately tied up with Qualcomm for CDMA spec SOC chips, and focused solely on the GSM standard.
Nonetheless, it's a trip watching this play out.
So there's an imperial assload of work waiting to be done to get this shiny new rocking horse up to competing level with the freshly written off nokia hobby horses. Which is going to be boatloads of fun, "[...] for there's surely no company as inefficient as the Nokia engineering bureaucracy today".
And to fix it, is up to the same people who made it a mess in the first place: "[...] don't expect there to be further tranches of executive exits." -- from the "not a trojan horse" article.
So it's the minions that're going to bear the brunt again. You do know who walk first, don't you? I don't think Elop is making good progress with attracting or even retaining the people that can. He probably should make clear in the very near future how he's planning to try and pull that off, or it's a big fat sell on the stock exchange, and a flood of soon-to-be-ex-nokia CVs with the recruiters.
A few months (days ago) ago, it would be hard to imagine Nokia's management being any more incompetent than they have been over the past decade or so.
Developing / using what they've got: Symbian, Meego, Qt, Navteq etc and NOT pissing off partners would seem to be the way to go. Skinned, the N8 is a cool phone. Meego has lots of promise. Ovi isn't half bad now and has some very good stuff on it, without the 5000 iPhone fart apps. Symbian is a good OS. Just develop the UI Nokia - you don't need to sell your soul to MS!
However, it just goes to show what a poor imagination I must have!
Nice article by the way.
It doesn't matter how good the product was (though I've read many articles confirming my experience about the difficulty of programming with S60) if it doesn't sell while at the same time costing a fortune. Throwing good money after bad is not a viable proposition. Were you going to write an S60 app? No, probably not - and nor are many other developers.
1. Aquire the Symbian platform
2. Drop the Symbian platform to work on Moblin (which needs work to be competitive: ~1year away)
3. Wait until Moblin is nearing completion
4. Drop Moblin for MeeGo (which needs work to be competitive: ~1year away)
5. Wait until MeeGo is maturing and nearing initial revision
6. Drop MeeGo for Windows Mobile 7 (which needs work to be competitive: ~1year away)
Net result: Symbian is acting as life support while Nokia spends years not having a viable replacement.
7. Wait until Windows Mobile 7 is nearing completion
8. Drop Windows Mobile 7 for Android
It seems that the Nokia board was pressured into taking on Elop by some alleged investors. Elop may have made this decision by himself so it is not 'Nokia' that decided to go to WP7 but Ballmer+Elop.
What are the chances of the Nokia board firing Elop and stopping this nonsense before they fail completely ?
a team in San Diego are working one now. It'll be crap.
As for the font, the Nokia font was universally derided internally and externally, but it would have taken too long to change. Yes, you read that right.
I can't figure it out at all and can't help but jump to the conclusion that it's all some crazy corporate conspiracy. It seems like Microsoft want everything Nokia have; telco partners and R&D patents. Oops, I mean 'partnership'.
1. Allow ex-Microsoft, but loyal, employee join a potential victim.
2. Partner with Microsoft.
3. ???
4. Profit.
What exactly do Microsoft have to do to get a positive article written about them on The Reg?
Having owned an Android and now a WinPho7 phone, I've got to say MS have done a good job.
Just sayin'.
Besides, what exactly is it about this story that you think makes Microsoft look deserving of a positive article?
The handbag brigades are out in force, lots of shouting but nothing substantial - mere speculation pandering to the crowd that want to see MS burn.
I'm with you, WP7 working nicely for me. Could do with a few refinements (some things involve one-too-many taps) but overall it's a nice change from my previous phones. Bunch of improvements demo'd at MWC that we can look forward to I guess. Watch out, I see a crowd with their down-voting pitchforks at the ready!
The phone doesn't support , multi-tasking, copy and paste, VoIP, ... and you're upset about how many taps it takes. Have your every thought about investing in a bridge?
Come up with a really good system? Windows 7 has not had a bad reception here, compared to Vista. Do things right and people will appreciate it.
Stop anti-competitive and voracious business practices?
Stop over-charging for development environments?
Produce programmer's interfaces that remain stable through version upgrades?
Stop behaving as though they own the world?
Developing for Symbian (prior to Qt) may make coders want to stab their own eyes out with flaming chop sticks covered in red hot chilli sauce, but the fact of the matter is that it will take years of MS development time to bring WP up to parity with the features that are available on Symbian NOW, and for some features it will never get there (real time? Battery friendly? CPU friendly?). The only thing WP has in competition (apart from, prior to Qt, not causing developers to self immolate in frustration at the tortuous feats they must perform to get a simple "Hello World" to appear in a little window) is a fancy UI, that in the long term the majority of people might not even like.
Now I understand that Symbian is not nice to develop, or develop on, in comparison to WP, and makes programmers kill their favourite cute puppies by stuffing semtex up their arses, half drowning them in sulphuric acid and then detonating the whimpering corroded doglets whilst feeding them into a wood chipper, but Nokia have just $X billion aquiring and developing Qt on Symbian.
Alledgedly developing on Qt is serene like milk and honey, increases virility, reverses male pattern premature baldness, increases your attractiveness to the gender appropriate for your sexual orientation, increases stamina well past multiple sexual satisfactions and improves the milk yield in goats. Also you can make lovely UIs and applications with it for which your users will forever give you their love, devotion and hard earnt cash unto your wallet, not unlike being an Apple developer (but with less competition in the App marketplace right now).
So: Nokia are continuing on the path of Qt on Symbian for the near term, and there is some risk unto their WP7 plans, not only from competitors such as Android, Apple and Blackberry, but from the very platform they have just killed off -- although note it will only be Nokia employed developers who are suave and hirsute, since all the third party lot will have buggered off for pastures that are not about to be napalmed and paved over to construct the WP7 Mega Mart to which no customers will come. And eventually the goats will stop making milk.
Are the current Nokia plans coherent and deeply considered? Rather less than my own insane gibberings I fear.
I have spotted today. For many phone-shops, they have absence of Nokia top - phones.
Are they to give up sell the self-declared rubbush?
oh the irony, Nokia is supposedly sorting out its problem - that of falling behind the curve - by lurching at - sorry - "adopting" another platform that seems to be a bodged mess with crucial omissions and significant flaws. It seems what they really needed was an OS that was designed from the ground-up to run in resource and power constrained environments. Kind of like Symbian really ... oh noes ...
...I don't think they deserve a positive article written about them for this one, Paul 117.
Assuming that you're not one of the astroturfers who have been working hard across Nokia Conversations and the tech blogs since Friday, what exactly is it that you like about "WinPho 7"? If it's noodle soup, I'm in. Otherwise, I remain to be convinced.
@thdunn: Moblin was Intel's. Maemo is what Nokia promoted, mostly developed and then abandoned before merging with Moblin to form Meego (which they have now abandoned).
@Mark Jan: I'm with you on this. Until Black Friday, I also couldn't imagine how Nokia's management could do more to prevent their own innovators from delivering a world-beating phone (N900 slipping through the cracks and onto the market notwithstanding). Now, thanks to Elop and Big Daddy Ballmer, I don't have to imagine it any more.
Finally, for anyone who hasn't read it: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-beware-stephen-elop-is-a-flight-risk/
People get over it. Nokia had no choice, the packaged chipsets from qualcomm,metrotek etc were the disruptive technology circa 2005 and changed the game entirely, symbian instead of being a benefit became a liability, before these chipsets were available symbian was used to provide alot of the signal stack in software - thats why nokia was able to release a 3G phone 6 years(!) before apple, but this came with a large downside in that base porting symbian to diferent hardware was hugely expensive and difficult and also due to the nature of the OS being RT signal stack focussed made it difficult to focus on the UX.
WIth these chipsets - you can run any OS, the chipset now takes care of all the difficult details but you are also constrained to what it can do. An easy analogy is is GPU acceleration of graphics, graphics were generated by the cpu before, now the cpu just passes details of what to do rather than how to complete this, so the cpu can focus on maintaining a great UX.
Its the cost ratio as well - this was going down the toilet, symbian was becoming more expensive due to its complexity, whereas the chipset hw as all hw eventually - is coming down in price.
Nokia has spent $10B at least over the last 4 years trying to update symbian\meego. so much cheaper and less complicated to buy a chipset now. And a cheaper OS designed to run with one.
The cost for Nokia to keep symbian is mind blowing, $2.5B per year for what maybe 5 separate phone classes at most?
As one who still uses a Psion 5MX and N95-8GB, its sad they kept flogging it really, they should have stopped 2007, and gone for linux\chipsets hell for leather.
Sure Symbian was horrible to maintain and horrible to develop on (until Qt), but it was not the cause of the $2.5B spend... That's how much it cost Nokia to do anything at all, and it is not apparent that Stephen Elop has actually fixed that problem... (and he still has to make Windows Phone work, as well as struggling to keep Symbian on life support after publicly pulling the trigger on it, all whilst his best brains flee the sinking ship leaving behind only those who can't get a job anywhere else, like the middle managers who were costing the company $2.5B in R&D a year. Only there will be less of them, so maybe they will cost less, and perhaps some of them can learn some engineering to take over from all of the talented engineers who will have left?)
Symbian is Nokia's Apple II. Hopefully it'll generate enough cash to keep the lights on whilst Maemo^W MeeGo^W WinMo7 matures.
Nokia's E series are still decent handsets, specialised for what they do best, but how can Windows Phone 7 work on such devices. It's hard to see how Nokia's portfolio can avoid a radical cull in the transition to MS, they can't release 40 models a year that all have a plain black touchscreen and 3 buttons.
Apple work by releasing one handset every 2 years.
Nokia work by releasing 1 handset every 2 weeks.
There should be room for both strategies, but I can't see how windows mobile lets them do it.
I know it's very sad seeing Nokia going the way of all Microsoft partners, but they did appoint an ex-microsoft exec.
What did he say at his interview? What did they expect him to do?
Why did they appoint an ex Microsoft exec?
Have you got any dynamic ideas on strategic development that may draw upon your previous experience Mr Elop?
Why is everyone so surprized/ What did anyone expect him to do?
Still crap tho, Win Phone 7 and the end of Nokia as a strategic force in mobilephones
But first!
Dear Andrew:
Why no discussion on "Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen Elop"?
I am surprised Nokia jumped the way it did - it seems to cut across the grain and how the Nokia got where it was. It seems to be an organisation that wants to lead rather than follow even if that means and has meant it lead for a time rather badly?
Meego, Android, ... all of these seem better tuned to Nokia's way of doing thangs in the past.
From Nokia to Mok-ia?
From leader to usurped leader to follower in two easy steps?
I can't imagine that going down too well at all really as it seems the kind of organisation that would rather succeed or fail by doing its own thang than being a crowd follower.
I see no comments are allowed on this.
Then I read: They write that Nokia must "avoid at all cost becoming a poorly differentiated OEM with only low margin, commodity products that is unable to attract top software talent and cannot create shareholder value though innovation."
And I thought "I bet they said that in 2007 or earlier "
I don't know about you, but when this XP desktop bites the dust...
They said to say hi.
I just bought a Nokia cell to use as a prepay while traveling in Mexico.
It's stunning to see how difficult to do simple contact backup, or get a largish digital clock onto the home screen.
It'll go in the garbage as soon as I get a tablet.
So I guess this is the end then.
By the way, why aren't comments allowed on the newest Nokia posts? It isn't as if readers have been particularly mutinous on this or anything.
A technical cock-up: Comments should have been enabled on both. Once it's gone live there's no way we can restore commenting, unfortunately.
I like explanations like that!
Should we forgive or ... ?
(Andre I mean)


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For six months a year the rumbling of his stomach, not the movement of the sun, is Frank Calvin's clock.
''If they serve eggs and toast instead of hamburgers and French fries, I know it's morning,'' says the sonar technician assigned to the ballistic-missile submarine USS George Washington Carver. ''It's the only way you can tell,'' he chuckles. ''You can't pull back the curtains to see what time of day it is or what the weather is like.''
Both he and 130 mates not only go down to the sea in ships, they go under it - three months at sea, three months on shore. And if any of us topside wonder what the ''climate'' is like 200 to 750 feet below the ocean's surface on one of the US Navy's 123 nuclear submarines, it's not like in the movies.
Cinema images of horns blasting, enemy ships in the cross hairs of periscopes , orders barked to ''fire torpedo No. 1,'' the strained faces of men listening for depth charges just don't fit.
Looking through the other end of the periscope into a nuclear sub shows a far less glamorous, a tediously routine, and a decidedly more technical picture than the movies suggest. It is a world of computers vectoring (positioning) the ship toward a target; men who live, sleep, and eat applied physics, electronics, and mechanical engineering; sonar bleeps; silence and stealth.
Submariners are at ease living on auditory scraps of information. Their environment is a sonar puzzle constantly changing, constantly being put together. Acoustic soundings, not the sun or stars, provide the information to determine where their ship is, where it is going - and who else is out there.
Submariners are elitist and make no bones about their contention that the wave of the Navy's future is under, not on, the water. Talk to one and he will tell you the dominant and technologically superior seaborne weapon system of World War I was the battleship; of World War II, the aircraft carrier. Today, the naval torch has passed to them.
It wasn't a carrier pilot who said, ''There are two kinds of ships: submarines and targets.''
All nuclear submarines are capable of operating independently of the earth's atmosphere for long periods of time.
Usually, the reason a nuclear sub has to surface is to get more food for its crew. It produces its own oxygen, and up to 8,000 gallons of fresh water a day. The reactor propels the ship and drives auxiliary generators for light and electricity.
The pressurized water reactor and associated steam plant need no oxygen. Neither is there any gaseous exhaust. In fact, not only does a nuclear sub make its own oxygen from seawater, it also ''scrubs'' stale air (removes carbon dioxide) then burns the waste gas in a catalytic converter at 600 degrees F. so that no bubbles are released to give away the sub's position.
''We know that our ships are quieter and can 'hear' better,'' that is, have better radar ''than the other guys,'' says Capt. David H. Boyd, an instructor at the US Naval War College in Newport, R.I. ''These are the two most important factors for a submarine.''
There is no shyness among submariners in advertising that their academic records and the rank and technical competence of their enlisted men are among the highest in the Navy.
Those in the US submarine force point out that although the submarine community of 33,000 men makes up little more than 7 percent of the Navy's 480, 000 uniformed personnel, they sail more than 35 percent of its combat ships. Standards are tougher here, too: One drug offense and you're off the sub.
How about the submarines' fighting prowess? The Falklands crisis provides some strong indications of this. Britain's nuclear attack subs were the first ships sent to the war zone. Though out of sight throughout the conflict, the subs were never out of mind. Reliable reports now indicate that the British might not have as many nuclear submarines in the area as reported to the press. It turns out that just the threat of a nuclear submarine served to bottle up the Argentinian fleet.
But what is it like to be on one for any length of time?
Some obvious questions come to mind: How do the men cope with the confinement , the lack of mobility, the boredom? How do they get along?
''We take a lot of professional pride in the work we do,'' says Lt. Comdr. William L. Stockho, executive officer on the attack submarine USS Haddock.
''When at sea it is an 18, rather than a 24-hour day. Six hours are spent at a duty station. The remaining 12 are set aside to repair equipment, study to qualify for operation of other systems on board, and'' - almost as an afterthought - ''eat and sleep,'' Commander Stockho said.
''With only 130 men on board it isn't long before everyone gets to know everyone else,'' said the executive officer, ''and you must have confidence in each man's ability to do his job. If you make a mistake on the surface, you can just float around until you fix it. If you make a mistake when you're 400 feet deep, well, it could be your last one.
''We take qualifying a man for a duty station very seriously. It's a one-on-one teaching situation, but in the final result no one gets passed who can't do the job. The people who are successful on submarines are good managers of their own time,'' he said.
''Making repairs on a submarine is like repairing a watch through the stem,'' says Rear Adm. Lawrence Burkhardt III, commander of Submarine Group 5 in San Diego. ''Our training qualifications are so high because the task demands it.''
Some of these tasks range from fire control, which everyone from the cook to the captain must learn, to weapons control, sonar, navigation, communication specialist, and nuclear engineer.
This is where onshore training comes in. At the Navy's submarine school in Groton, Conn., all new enlistees receive at least 12 weeks' training. At the San Diego Submarine Training Facility, sailors already in the fleet receive continuing instruction in all the major support systems on a sub as well as any new systems. A major new system is introduced almost every two years.
Every member of the crew will have been tested in a flood chamber. Every possible valve that could leak, every pipe that could burst, does in practice. Repairs must be made before the room fills with water. Each man is evaluated on his individual performance as well as his teamwork.
''There is always something to do, and everyone has an important role, everyone knows this,'' says Comdr. Gerald Davis, captain of the attack submarine USS Haddock. ''Seeing that the ratio of my 'non-quals' to 'quals' goes down (men unqualified to operate specific systems and those qualified) from what it was at the beginning of a sea patrol is one of my major responsibilities,'' he said. ''In a way, I run a floating school.
''The crew's morale is another important responsibility. Should a fire break out or the ship spring a leak, each man must know where the the hoses, ventilation fans, and valves are in any part of the ship. Everyone on board must know that everyone else is equal to the emergency,'' Commander Davis said.
One area of concern to skipper Davis is any bad news a man might receive while underway. Except for very extreme circumstances, a sub's position will not be compromised by coming to the surface and offloading a sailor.
''My mother still doesn't understand why I couldn't come to my father's funeral,'' he said, ''and I had been in the Navy 12 years. Many men tell me at the start of a sea patrol that they don't want to hear anything bad until just before we dock.''
Each man receives four 50-word radio messages from family or friends during his time at sea.
The most demanding job, outside of being commanding officer or executive officer, is that of nuclear-propulsion engineer. It takes a minimum of 2 1/2 years of training to become one. Not surprisingly, this is the job most sought after by the civilian sector, and the area where retention of personnel is most difficult.
When talking about US nuclear submarines, there are two separate classes of ships: fleet ballistic-missile (SSBN) and attack submarines (SSN). Each has very different missions.
According to most military planners, the United States's 33 ballistic-missile submarines are the most secure of its strategic triad for nuclear deterrence (the other two are land-based missiles and bombers).
Just one of these ships, called ''boomers,'' carries more than the equivalent of all the explosives used in combat in World War II. The new Ohio class Trident , the largest sub in the Navy's inventory, packs more explosive power in its 24 missiles (each with nine independently targeted nuclear warheads) than all the gunpowder expended in all the wars man has fought to date.
Looking for a ballistic missile sub, when it is determined to remain undetected, is an exercise in futility. To date, more than 2,000 ballistic missile patrols have gone undetected.
There is little or no possibility that a missile could be launched without authorization. Four separate keys, each with a different set of coded instructions, must be turned by four different men before a nuclear-tipped missile can be fired. Both the ship's captain and the weapons-control officer on duty act autonomously and receive separate code-written orders. (This is the only place in the Navy where a captain's orders can be refused without threat of court-martial.)
Nuclear attack submarines fit the more conventional cinematic image: They seek out and destroy enemy ships, including other enemy submarines. With the introduction of Harpoon cruise missiles to their inventory of torpedoes and mines, they have the capability to attack land targets with conventional or nuclear explosives.
A new role for them is to serve as antisubmarine escorts for aircraft carriers. It places a demand on a branch of the Navy that is used to going it alone. Submariners are concerned that contact with surface ships being escorted means someone else can be listening, and fixing on their positions as well.
Inertial guidance, satellite, and radio navigation systems provide precise information regarding a submarine's position. Communications systems on subs include two-way satellite connections and low-frequency receivers which allow radio reception under water.
At any given time, 70 to 90 submarines are at sea on patrol. Their missions and positions are highly classified information.
Yet this high-technology underwater world has its lighter side. Don't underestimate the importance of a properly running ice-cream machine. Food is taken very seriously by submariners and it is a rare skipper who takes his men out on a patrol without complete confidence that his ice-cream cones will not be used as drinking cups because the ice cream won't freeze.
At the start of each patrol, the 300-foot-long tubular-shaped attack subs must be crammed with enough food for the entire cruise. (Ballistic-missile subs and the new Ohio class Tridents are even bigger - 425 feet and 560 feet long, respectively.) ''It breaks down to about 480 pounds per day for a crew of 130 men,'' explained the information officer, Lt. Gene Eliot.
Unlike the movie ''Das Boot,'' in which one of the two heads on a Nazi U-boat is stacked with food, the SSN Haddock's seven heads are left free. ''But the men end up walking on some boxes of food for the first week or so,'' said Lieutenant Eliot. ''You more or less eat your way down.'' The first decks that are cleared of food are the crew's mess; the last are the bunking areas.
It takes planning to position the food so that a good variety is available at each layer. Otherwise, you may have three straight days of margarine followed by two days of tapioca pudding.
Keeping fit is also a problem. Room for exercise is at a premium. But after the ship has been at sea for a while, crew members naturally cut down to one or two meals a day and need only four hours of sleep per 18-hour shift.
''Privacy is always a problem,'' said Seaman Calvin. ''It's the one thing you really can't get enough of no matter how busy you are. When you're in your own bunk, that's your home and the other men know this and respect it.''
For the men on the SSN Haddock, berthing is a little more complicated. Their attack sub is smaller than the ballistic-missile ship Calvin is assigned to. There are only 79 bunks for 130 men. This results in using a bunk in shifts - ''hot racking,'' as it's called. Since at least one-third of the crew will always be on duty, there are always empty bunks.
Commander Davis has the biggest suite on board (the only single room). It's not even as large as a king-size mattress. Personal space declines with decline in rank.
Camaraderie is a given in such close quarters. Officers will sit at their single mess table and conduct most of the ship's affairs. Walking between two men having a conversation is normal.
Bob Schuelke, a former officer and nuclear engineer who left the Navy recollected: ''In any of the tours I made, there never was any time where we didn't get along, do our jobs, and have a real sense of accomplishment. My main reason for leaving the Navy was the burden such long separations were placing on my family. Otherwise, I enjoyed it and found myself challenged continually.''
Chief Warrant Officer Max Alexander has spent 5 1/2 years of his 21 years in the Navy under water. ''I came to subs from the surface community,'' he said. ''Let me tell you, the improvement in morale and technical competence stood out. Just let a cook prepare a meal that's good - or bad - and everyone knows it. I'd see the captain daily. On an aircraft carrier, with upwards of 5,000 men, you could go for an entire cruise and not see anybody with rank. And you never knew who prepared the food.''
''Pay helps morale too,'' said Admiral Burkhardt. ''The raises in the last two years have been good and our retention rates, especially among officers, show it.''
For commanding officers on submarines, top pay will be in the $35,000 to $40, 000 range. All submariners get at-sea bonus pay in addition to their regular wages.
But as Bob Schuelke says, ''How do you pay someone for all the time he's away from his home and family? You can't. They have to be down there for other reasons.''


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Apparently you linked "Rum" correct, my bad.
But Rum is not the right item name, so the page is wrong xD (changed it to [[Rum| Bottle Of Rum]])
on another note. Advising the "newer players" to have an 8 man crew is somewhat counterintuïtive as the easier way to learn the mechanics of the game would be by building a crew of 3 or 4 really strong pirates. But that's just a matter of opinion I suppose. Good job with this guide.
I'm just gonna edit this to fix the links and stuff for you, some of them weren't typed in right or didn't link to the right item ( [[Rum]] and [[Bottle_Of_Rum]] are different things).
Not all of them work yet. I can confirm that Old man, Fat belly - needs 50% more food(which needs to be added to this list), and poop machine - poops 50% more (also needs adding) work as ive had them on my own games :)
Definitly. Vitali and Alex have confirmed in chat that the code for this is present, the pieces are ready to be put together.
this bug is not 100% though...
thank you sir! i'll write that down incase I fuck up again.


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CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA — For nearly 300 years, the wreck of the Spanish galleon San Jose has tantalized archaeologists and salvagers alike. When it sank in 800-foot-deep waters off this fortified Spanish colonial city, it was carrying gold, silver and precious jewels that a group of treasure hunters believes are now worth $2 billion.
But a quarter of a century after the U.S. group, which originally included a Hollywood actor, a professional golfer and a convicted Watergate felon, staked its claim, exploration and retrieval of the wreck seem as distant as the sinking sun at dusk over this historic walled city.
The stalemate over the claim by Seattle-based Sea Search Armada is partly the result of sweeping changes in international marine law and judicial interpretations during the last two decades that have made business more difficult for shipwreck salvagers. Colombia is loath to give a private foreign group access to a valuable historical site, though exploration permits it issued nearly 30 years ago seemed to do just that.
Legal experts say the new rules are a reaction to the access that salvagers got to the Titanic and 17th century Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in the 1970s and 1980s, which earned them tens of millions of dollars. The rules include a 2001 international UNESCO pact signed by 16 countries, not including the United States or Colombia, that converted shipwrecks into a new class of protected historical landmarks, giving archaeological and historical preservation precedence over profit-driven salvage.


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All my life I have ridden horses, and fell in love when I first stepped into a stirrup. However, horseback ridding wasn't my first passion of choice. Since I was five I did competitive gymnastics. Gymnastics was my whole world, and all I did until I was twelve years old. I immediately gave up this sport when I started taking horseback ridding more seriously. I first started in taking lessons for a whole year until I was ready to have a horse of my own. As I child I never thought horseback ridding could take me anywhere such as gymnastics could of have. It was always just a fun hobby that I shared with my mom and friends, but now I look at horseback ridding as my ticket to college.
For the past few years I compete in this thing called rodeo. Rodeo has given me several open doors to a new life agenda. I now have the opportunity to compete on a college rodeo team and travel the country. Several friends of mine laugh when they hear I want to pursue rodeo in college. They assume that rodeo isn't a sport nor has no competitive drive. Ever since I was a kid my peers have told me that rodeo isn't something I can follow. Hearing this from kids and adults only makes me try and practice harder. The bruised knees, bloody rope burns, scraped arms and bucks off I gotten will never stop me from making it to the top.
I believe that a passion you have for something that is so strong should never be ignored. Rodeo has given me the opportunity to pursue a career as a professional barrel racer. This event I compete in shows everyone that this is where I belong. The crowd can see it every time I race. Barrel racing is the one true love that God gave to me. It was sincerely meant to be for me to climb onto a 1,200 pound animal and run as fast as this horse will go. It's a thrill I get every time I step into the area. Although this sport comes with a lot a fun, t also comes with a ton of work. I must practice everyday working on the barrel pattern to get that perfect run. It's a lot of slow work at home, but when its race time…….ITS RACE TIME!
Nothing in this world is more exiting when the announcer calls your name in front of hundreds of people in the stands. The music is cranked up once I start my run and the weird thing is I can never hear it. I am in such deep concentration that the only thing I hear is my and the horse communicating as one. We are a team and when one makes a mistake we both fall apart. Having a special bond with your horse is crucial. You must be "one with the horse" to understand them, and I by far have past that corny saying. My horse is my team mate, and if I don't respect her she won't respect me. It's mostly a love or hate relationship.
So you must be wondering what I believe in. I believe that you can have a strong passion for anything and prove to anyone that this is where you belong. I believe in standing up for something you love, and won't let anyone tell you it's not important. They say it's not a real passion to have, but it's only real when you spend all your life working up to this such as me. I proved to several people that rodeo will take somewhere and it gave me a full ride scholarship to Feather River. I truly believe in my passion for rodeo.
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Prevalence of cyber bullying
The prevalence of cyberbullying is revealed in the report on www.offalyexpress.ie on the survey of first years in Coláiste Íosagáin, Portarlington. (See links at bottom of this article)
The survey shows the frequency of use of social networking sites among younger students, and how many of them witness cyber bullying firsthand.
The use of social network sites is very common now as one of the principal means of communication for young teens, and even younger.
The popularity of anonymous websites has also been highlighted in the survey, with a high percentage of use amongst young people. None of this is hardly fresh news, only to confirm the dominance of social media.
That cyber bullying is an offshoot of these forms of communication is an ugly manifestation of what should be a positive force.
One in three of the students surveyed said that they witness cyber bullying 'very often.'
Tacking this problem is a huge challenge for schools and all who work with young people.
For teens, many of whom are at a vulnerable stage of their lives, it needs to be dealt with in a sensitive, yet robust, manner.


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The Ultimate Laser "Printer"
you probably already know that i'm a sucker for unusual peripherals to attach to my pcs. and if they manipulate or measure something in the real world, so much the better. my latest discovery is the universal laser systems versalaser, a desktop cutting/engraving/etching system. we're testing one at pc magazine labs right now, and it's a blast.
the versalaser looks like an oversize printer without feed or output trays. it accepts paper, wood, a variety of plastics, leather, some coated metals, and even stone and marble.
the built-in 25w laser is powerful enough to burn quickly through paper and cardboard without leaving so much as a charred edge. it can cut through wood 1/4 inch thick or more. the thin beam barely discolors the edges of the top surface but leaves the sides of the cut a rich, dark brown. acrylic plastics such as plexiglas cut easily, too. the beam moves with surprising speed for wood and paper but slower and at lower power for plastics, so the heat from the beam can melt the plastic edge and leave a smooth, polished surface.
in engraving/etching mode, the beam sweeps back and forth across the workpiece, burning a raster image of your artwork into its surface. or in the case of anodized aluminum, it bleaches the color out of the anodized layer, leaving the aluminum protected but with the wording or images of your choice shining through in the areas struck by the beam.
when you open the heavy, clear plastic cover, you see a large aluminum platen that rises up and down to adjust to the thickness of the stock, so you can engrave thick blocks of wood and cut thin paper with equal ease. the laser is buried inside the printer; mirrors and lenses guide the beam to the "printhead" and down onto the workpiece.
lasers on x,y carriages, even relatively small ones, have been around for more than a decade, so you might wonder what's so special about the versalaser. it's all in the implementation.
instead of treating the laser as a machine tool driven by cad/cam software, universal has engineered the versalaser from the ground up as a pc peripheral. to your system, it's a usb printer. through the included driver, you can print from microsoft word, adobe illustrator, visio, or any application. but one of the most laser-friendly applications is coreldraw. you can easily set up a page the same size as the versalaser's platen, and coreldraw's on-screen rulers correspond exactly to the rulers on the platen's left and top edges.
the printer driver understands color: black engraves, red cuts, and blue scores. so if you create black text, put a red hairline box around it, and insert a sheet of plastic, the versalaser will create an instant name tag. if you use multilayer plastic, the engraving process will burn through the top layer and leave the contrasting underlayer clearly visible. you can also make rubber stamps by creating a black background and using white reversed type or images. the rasterizing process understands gray scale and image density and does a nice job with photographs, too.
the driver has entries for many common materials and adjusts the power and cutting speed accordingly. many of the materials have numbers that correspond to universal's catalog of laserable materials: pop a number into the driver window and it sets the machine automatically.
this level of simplicity makes precision laser cutting and engraving accessible to anyone. but customers have already come up with some amazing and innovative applications beyond universal's imagination, including custom logos on chocolate bars. there's no setting for chocolate in the driver; a separate custom driver gives you complete control over power levels and cutting speeds yet lets you assign custom levels to colors. creating artwork remains simple. customers have also come up with some notably bad ideas, including engraving plastic butane lighters.
depending on your point of view, the versalaser is high-priced or ridiculously cheap, at a shade under $10,000. everyone with a shred of entrepreneurial spirit takes one look at it and starts doing the math on building a business around one. everyone can think of an application or a market that's ripe for a new intersection between custom manufacturing and mass production.
the versalaser is an enabler. i like that.


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